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The San Francisco call., 1909-09-05
Household Chores

uVOU needn't wait for me- explained the head
of the house; u have dinner engagement, an
important business affair, and doubt | shall be
kept busy quite late.
At breakfast morning ominous silence had
fallen upon all. The head of the house had appe
tite and was evidently far from feeling we'll After
painful silence the husband without meeting his
wifes eye essayed to start conversation.
Its funny about that clock" he said Its
stopped and I'm sure I wound it last night"
You are mistaken" said his wife icily; you wound
up Willie's music box instead and it played Home,
Sweet Home, till daylight The clock in the hall
has also stopped, but I find that you screwed your
corkscrcw into the barometer"
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Tourists BAGGAGE

| 1t is question of baggage for the European
trip the wise word from all experienced wander
ers is Cut it down" ,The traveller who has sui
fered the painful delay. expense and Inconvenience
of collection of trunks and valses during cont-
mental journey takes just as few personal effects with
him as possible next time
Something depends. OF course upon the individual
There is we'll known writer OF society novels who
goes abroad regularly every summer with compile
ment OF 10 trunks. But he does it deliberately and
with open eyes According to MS own admission lie
expects it cost him exactly as much to drag his
outfit about Europe with him as it would to pay all
the expenses OF companion. His defense IS that
he simply must have different suit for each dav Of
the month. SO there you are
man from an inland city went to New York re-
Gently 70 embark on an extended He iell IN
with friend who had trotted the globe and obtained
from him many valuable bits of advice On the ,lav
before the steamer to leave The green tr1veler
busy with packing and asked the friend to sit in
his room and chat while the operation was un.'
way. When they entered the friend counted three
large square trunks, steamer trunks, esrryall
four valises and two suit eassS.
Heavens, man., he said What do you cxpect 70
do with this; start in the faberdashery lne.~
why, no." said the other This seemed Ike
. enough for eight months trip
Thereupon the friend painted a horrifving pict,re
OF the torments in prospect for any man with such
enormous TO transport and the man from
the interior began to glimpse the magnitude OF his
~But what can I do?' he asked in dismav. ~If I
start to deliberate each separate article and
whether to take il or leave It I'll miss the boat
Dump all the truck out the floor and grab at
random" suggested the friend
The prospective tourist followed his advice made
mountainous heap of his belongings and then
hshed out the necessary to Ill two valises
The rest he left in storage
On his return he met the friend again
Did you fnd was right" asked the latter
You certainly were' was the reply But the
next time the only thing m going to carry is tin
lunch box and tooth brush"
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black and yellow bill to the end of the tail, is from
20 to u inches whereas the egret is from 81 to Al
inches. These dimensions are exclusive of the
aigrettes, which in the of the egret straight
and extend from their base at the top of the birds
back just below the neck to far the tail.
The aigrettes appear at mating time the male
and female adult birds alike. The millinery say
the feathers are gathered off the ground by South
American or Australian hunters where they have
fallen in moltng and that the birds left alive
to grow feathers. The followers of Audubon
declare that the plumes lost by the BIRDS pract-
cally vaueless, by the time the birds are ready to
part with them they have become frayed and stained
Hence the hunters slay the adult birds when the eath
at their best and this is in the breeding
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season. the young herons and cgrets left in the
nests to starve drown in the marshes
Each of the snowy herons and egrets in It's prime
bears about so of the aceke feathers and this is
of the almost identical varieties found in Africa South
Europe, China, japan, Burmah Ceylon, India, the
Philippines, the Malay peninsula and Australia The
birds feed shrimp. small fish, crawsh, aquatic in
sects and other forms of life found along shores and
swamps-
That the work of plumage hunting is going on
wherever the birds found is shown by the fact
that the largest aigrette house in New York uses
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smuggled into New York from Brazil, ought, under
the laws, TO be sold at auction destroyed Uncle
Sa referee in the debate has decreed that these
particular aigrettes shall be sold and Marshal Viii
liam Henkel is preside at that function time
this fall when society will have chance to
bid against Fifth milners for about $1,000
worth
These plumes have occasioned far more attention
than their weight and bulk would seem to justify, for
they the lightest of lightweights Yet like all
feathers for the millinery trade, they bought
wholesale by weight, and New York dealers who pur-
chase plumage at the bimonthly auctions pay high
S55 an for them. And this isn't much
when you consider that it takes about 200 of the
feathers to weigh
By the time the retail milliners get them the profits
of several middemen have been tackled and duties
sssessed-and under the tariff there is respect
able addition the rates-and the agrettes finally
placed mlady's hat usually bring whatever the
seller DEGREES and the ladys husband father is per-
suaded to pay.
From the swamps along the tributaries of the ANA
zon TO the Market street window is something of a
journey, but nearly every agrette you nowadays
has travelled at least that far The business of hunt
ing for agrettes, so far North America is con-
oerned, is no longer profitable occupation. 1t was
immensely prohtable-and plume hunter who
had shot the birds in all parts of the United States
once ooasteo that he repeatedly gathered $3.50 worth
OF the plumes in day. and that if he didn't gather
Sl2o worth before o'clock IN the morning he would
deem that particular rookery not worth while and
elsewhere
Passing of the Snowy Heron
Now the snowy heron (egretta candidissma) and
the American egret (ardea egreta, herodas egret-
tai practically extinct along the Atlantic and gulf
coasts and also along the Pacific in Oregon, where
20 years ago thousands of the beautiful birds
fourished.
There was time-say up to about 80 years ago
when the snowy heron frequented swamps and
marshy lands in New York state. Never too plenti-
full, their numbers decreased year after year the
value of the plumage appreciated, and finally
though too late the game laws made to include a
provision that the pumage of the white heron should
not be sold had in possession for sale in that state
This law, undoubtedly framed for domestic birds
brought up recently by the National Association
Of Audubon Societies legal bar to the sale of inn
ported plumage but the milners contention is that
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blood fairly boil with Indignation There strewn on
water weed and adjacent logs were so carcasses Of
large white and smaller plumed egrets-nearly one
third of the rookery perhaps more-the birds having
been shot off their nests containing young What
holocaust Plundered for their pumesl What a
monument of human callousness Two hundred
young left to die of starvation Seventy least OF
the nestngs had fallen into the below and been
miserably drowned"
Similar accounts given by William l. Finley.
who IS the northwestern field agent Of the societies
of ravages by hunters Lake Malheur, Oregon.
And Prof T. Gilbert Pearson, secretary of the North
Carolina Audubon society, gives this account:
Il had expected to see of the beautiful herons
about their nests or standing on the trees near BY
but not living one could be found, while here and
there in the mud lay the feess forms of eight birds
They had been shot down and the skin bearing the
plumes stripped from their backs In four nests
young orphan birds clamoring peously for food
The next spring visited this SITE but found only the
old nests falling into decay. When man comes,
slaughers and exterminates nature does restore
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$4,000 worth annually. In England, where the hunt
send their spoils to be auctioned. aigrettes
called spreys, and this is the current commercial
for agretes in bulk Naturalists say this term
is misleading, osprey, fshhawk, is far diff
ferent bird
When the customs officers seized the agrettes last
spring it was at first decided sell them auction,
in the of other smuggled goods. The Audubon
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gxIThAUGHTERED fsr WoMAN'S VANITY

societies protested arguing that this would De against
tbe nubic interest" The treasury department. later
decreed that the plurnes should be destroyed where
unon the Feather Importers ASSOCIATION OF Ne"
York protested, arguing that dangerous preeedent
would be set involving all imported plumage and cit
ing a ruling made by the secretary OF the treasury
IN 100, that no law restricted importation Of agrettes
and another by John Cunneen, attorney general OF
New York to the effect that he knew of no law pro-
b;btng the sale of imported agrettes that state
Mr.. Cunneen undoubtedly construed the existing
statute as applying only to the domestic birds In
the treasury departments latest decision it is merely
stated that the plurnage be sold, as there have
been no prosecutions under the state law for several
years.
Don't Regret the Agitation
Although the Audubon societies have not been VIC
torious they do not regret the agitation The gen
era trend is forward. and public sentiment against
the inds1rininate slaughter 81 these BIRDS Is increas
ing says B. S Bowdsh who acts IN the dual eaPac-
ity of special Inspector of wild birds and animals
for the department. of agriculture and chief clerk OF
the National Association OF Audubon Societies
.Woman's vanity is at the root of it all. You can
touch woman's heart anything that doesn't con-
Germ personal adornment, but when you ask her to
sacrifice fashion you asking about the greatest
sacrifice that be asked of her.
The Audubon societies records TEEN with accounts
of the ruthless slaughter by plume hunters A H. Z
Mattingly of Melbourne who visited a rookery IN
New South Wales to obtain picture of egret
white crane" as the birds styled there feeding
its young, draws this picture, and presents photo
graphs to prove his statements
Il could see large patches of white floating in the
water or reclining on fallen the rookery-
AS l drew sight met my gaze that made my
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IGRETTES, those hlmy white plumes
priced by women of fashion as hat adorn-
ments, have been accorded considerable pub
Ecity recently through the arguments ad-
vanced by wholesale milliners and the Au-
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Populous Rookery


In the large South Carolina rookery 100 snowy
Louisiana herons several hundred of the small green
herons about 100 blue herons and about so of the
black crowned herons. The last named variety is
regarded a great decacy by the poor whites and
negroes, who manage to make many meal off the
birds, which must be shot surrepttously, they
protected by the game laws of South Carolina and in
fractions vigorously prosecuted.
In an effort to preserve few specimens the Louis
lana Audubon society is watching rookery
butchers island, named after William butcher,
president of the National Association of Audubon So
cieties, where six eight pairs OF snowy herons
constantly guarded by warden The island is in the
gulf and is within the Breton island reservation.
The society hopes to largely increase the colony
Naturalists say there is real reason why the
snowy heron and American egret should not be com
mon if accorded protection in all the coast states
south of Al degrees north latitude the Atlantic
coast and south of 45 degrees the Pacific coast
After the breeding straggers have been known
to wander as far north Nova Scotia and Ontario
The birds insist upon solitude, and their colonies
are usually we'll away from and railroads. The
wholesale plumage dealers this argument the
for the birds scarcity, asserting that the in
roads of civilization in Florida, for instance, have
driven the birds South America The birds select
bay bushes sparkleberry bushes in narshy ground
for their which they build of rough twigs,
from two to twelve feet above the marsh They lay
from three to FIVE eggs.
The snowy heron is smaller bird than the Amer
egret and its plumes, shorter and recurved.
valuable The herons length, from the tip of its
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it applies only the native birds. Efforts to have
the last legislature pass measure which provided
that the feathers pumage commonly known
agrettes the feathers plumage of any species of
the heron family, whether obtained within without
the state, shall be bought sold, offered exposed
for sale at any time failed by narrow margin.
AS recently 20 years ago snowy herons
found near Stone Harbor, Cape May, n J.,
but the Jersey coast is .bereft. Recent in
vestigations of the Audubon societies disclosed
rookery, containing few snowy herons, Beau
fort, n c. three rookeries, containing five different
species of herons, not great many miles from
Charleston, S. c., and rookery in Florida. There
no rookeries so far as the Audubon societies
aware, in Georgia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-14
FLIES ACROSS COUNTRY
Willard. en- Cartiss Machine, Does 12
\ Miles. Then Shaft Breaks.

1t is no trouble at all. apparently for Charles F.
Willard TO fly over telegraph wires and churches
and around the villages that skirt the Hampstead
Plains. foggy dawn suits him II clear daybreaks
are lacking. 'cross-cOuntry flight made by
him in the Curtiss aeropane from Mneoa. Long
Island. at daw yesterday. In nineteen and
half minutes tine distance covered estimated
at twelve miles willard said In this city last night
that he would make a 12O-mie flight as soon as he
got a new cam shaft and favorable weather.
i felt little Eighty" he said. but am new at
the game The Golden Flyer go like yellow
streak. and the next time go up in 1t from Min
eoia. II go in a straight line. expect TO be l2O
miles from the goodhy point when l land No.
IZo miles Is Sothing at which TO marvel You can
hsure 1t out yourself The Curtiss machine can
carry three hours supply of fuel, and there Is
no reason why 1 shouldn't stay with 1t long
II Is willing to carry me-"
wizard comes as surprise TO the well read
aeronauts of Mneoa. Long Island and New York
lie was not looked upon by them as TO the airship
porh' although his grit was mentioned simultane-
ouSiy with his name He was entirely unknown
TO professional aviatOrs less than two weeks ago
but now his friends say that il the cam shaft on
the Curtiss aeropane had not broken yesterday
morning the Aeronautic Societys operator would
have flown thirty miles across country instead oF
the approximate twelve
The machine was brought bor,a In n WAGON not
because the Golden FLYER was damaged except for
the cam shaft, but because the ground where il
allehted was rough and two miles from the tent.
Inc early morning was foggy, but when the air
mad been cleared by light wind that sprang UP
Willard was cheered by small group of friends
as he started off toward Garden city from the
plains near MIneola- He arrived at Garden CITY
and proceeded as far the Meadow Brook Hunt
club. thence across 10 Westbury and around TO
Hicksville- From HicksvilIe the flying machine
took the homeward trail by skirting the opposite
side Of Westbury
When about two miles f-or, NTt,.oIa tho con,
shaft broke and Willard gided TO earth from a.
heighth Of about 80 feet. The 12O-nile flight VIII
be made on next Tuesday. Willard said last night
II the machine be fixed in that time Mem
beers OF the Aeronautic Society expressed them
selves as hopeful that Wizards enthusiasm and
forecasts would continue to run high and that he
might fulfil the latter. 1t is intended by the So
ciety that Willard shall exhibit the aeroplane at
many towns where the residents interested in
the gentle art OF mastering the air.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-14
BELISCOiS PLAY PLANS.
Manager VII Strike the 1merican
Note IN His Productions.

on the OF his departure last night for Allan
tic city, where. on Monday evening he will pro-
duce the comedy. is Matrimony a Failure
David Belasco told ~ his plans for the current
theatrical season. Beginning with his first produc-
tion his aim Is 10 bring together strong orgauza-
ton OF players. upon which he draw at will
for any OF his companies. BeascO plays players.
themes and settings this year Will all be American.
The managers second important production will
be Eugene Walters drama. Just "a Wife" In
which Miss Charlotte Walker will appear. Mr. BE
lascO said:
In his latest production Mr.. Walter has e<cceef-
ed In catching and transhxlng with that sureness
OF technique characteristic Of him. "a certain ele-
mental ratonalism OF ersbton which has thus far
been deemed too elusive FOR dramatic treatment at
least by any native author
Il shall also produce plays this season by Clyde
Fitch. William DE Mile. Avery Hopwood. Austin
Strong and Miss Alice Bradley l hope to produce
play of my own. the first 1 have written since
The Girl OF the Golden West l shall also present
Miss Bates In a play after she has completed
hen with The Fighting Hope company. and /
also preparing Miss Bates FOR early appear
ance I'm Twelfth Night and AS You Like 1t"
Finally. Mr. Belascos plans for David WarfieId in
clude the continuation OF The Music Master on
tour. a modern play In the spring. and The Mer-
chant OF Venice at no distant date. with Mr. War
field Shylock The manager says he will avoid
the horid and ornate in this Shakespearian produc-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-14
MIlLIAM e. INGERSOLL.

Word received here-sesterday OF the death
Of William r. Ingersoll second vice-president and
genSal manager for Europe of the New York Life
Insurance Company. I'm Paris Thursday. Mr..
lugersoH born In Springfield, Mass. Sep
TENDER %. 1912. and educated In the public
schools. During the Civil War he served special
ordnance messenger. In May. 1874. he accepted a
position bookkeper in the Aondon office of tae
New York Life Insurance Company. and in the
following September he was sent to the Paris
office where he subsequently promoted to
cashier. then sub-manager, and on the death Of
II. :. Hymans, in 1852, TO general manager for
Europe. He was elected a trustee of the company
in ISa and in May, 1893. became second vice-pres-
dent
In 1929 Mr., inEersoll was nominated by the Com
missioner General OF the United States, Depart
ment Of the Paris Exhibition as Of the United
States jury In this position he rendered such good
service 10 Denmark that he was rewarded with the
Danish order of DanhurE. In 1870 .he APP
pointed Cheva'ier Of the Portuguese order OF
Christ by the King of Portugal. and in 1892 hs was
made member Icy right OF inheritance OF the
Military order Of the Loyal Legion Of the United
States. ON July o. 1913 he was gazetted Chevalier
Of the Legion Of Honor 10y France.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-14
FUNERAL oE c. c. cuAIER

The funeral Of Cornelius G. CuyIer VINO died IN
EiaTrltz. France Oh July Il. the result OF an
automobile accident. held yesterday afternoon,
lu the Brick Presbyterian Church. the Rev Iy
William r. Richards officiating. Many representa-
tv.s Of concerns Mr. cuyler had been connected
with present. we'll as a large DELEGATION
from Princeton. his alma mater. Among these
who attended the services Attorney General
WlckeTsham and these other college classmates of
Mr. Cuyler: Or O. + Wilbur. Robert NcCarter.
the Rev. Or A ". Halsey, Robert Bridges. a l..
Dennis. +. o. Roessle William Isham. Dr. Samuel
Alexander and Frank Presbrey
Many floral pieces were sent, including those
from the New York Stock Exchange j. +. Morgan
Mrs. Norris X Jesup, the United States Mortgage
and Trust Company and from the steamship Adri-
attic The honorary pallbeaTers were DR.. Woodrow
WILSON, president OF Princeton University. Moses
T Pyne Junius S. Morgan. J. Cleveland Dodge.
Henry T Osborn Bayard Henry. Mortimer Schn.
Robert MCCarter. William 7. Blodgett and 7.
Hutchinson. The burial will BE- at Princeton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-14
HIGHER EDUCATION OF NEGRO.
Endorsed at Dinner of A. M. E. Council-Edi-
tor Favors Republican Party

About sixty negroes. cergymen and laymen'
members Of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church. who have been attending the meetings OF
the annual council OF the Church In this city. at
tended a dinner last night at the church in S9th
street between Columbus and Amster lam avenues
Professor S. c.. Atkins. of Winston Salem. N G,
who is general secretary OF education Of the
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Of the
United States. the only speaker. He said
that I'm the last year 5000 had been raised among
negroes for the forwarding OF the plan OF the
Education Board. which called for the education
young and women not only in industrial
branches but in general educational braches. Pro-
fessor Atkins expressed himself Savoring rot
only industrial education but educations in the
classics. theology and kindred subjects.
The Rev. John Dancy. OF Washington. editor Of
The Quarterly Review aroused considerable
discussion AT the morning session of the council
when he said that the negro owed permanent al
legiance TO the Republican party. Bishop Clinton.
who was presiding, ruled such discussion out of
order, declaring that the matter wholly
political and that every man had right 10 his
personal opinion
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-14
THEATRICAL INCIDENTS.

Charles Frohman has decided upon the Hudson
Theatre for the first American performance of Sir
Arthur Conan Doyirts The Fires OF Fate" which
has just closed long season at the Lyric Theatre
London The author IS expected come to New
York for the opening
Lew Fields announced yesterday that he had
signed a long term contract with Andrew Mack
by which the latter will be starred In "A new must
cal comedy being written for him After a
brief the road. the production will prob
ably be brought into Broadway theatre before
December !.
Lee Kohlmar. who created the part of the love
sick German youth with David Warneld in The
Music Master" has been engaged by Lew Fields
for "a similar part in the forthcoming production
Of THE Yankee Girl" with Miss Blanche Ring
Edwin Arden. who has been playing with Miss
Marie Doro. has been engaged by Charles Froh-
man for an important part In Israel" the new
Bernstein play. The cast will include Miss Con-
stance Collier, who direct from an engage
ment In Sir Beerbohm Trees company. His
Majesty's Theatre, London
From the Offices of Percy G. Williams comes the
announcement that Yvette GuiIbert and Albert
Chevalier have been engaged for the Williams
circuit
For the production of "Springtime." In which
his new star Nell. Will appear. Frederic Thomp-
son has engaged Howard Pyle. the artist. to de
sign the costumes and superintend the building of
them Mr. Pyle has never assisted in a theatrical
production.
Yellow will be the prevailing color at Palisades
Amusement Park to-day when the park will be
tver over TO both factions OF those interested in
the emancipation Of women, the suffragists and
suffragettes
The shuberts announce that they will give prize
of a silver reproduction of the yacht Nomadic.
which furnishes the second scene OF The Ring
master now running at Maxine Elliott's Theatre.
10 the broker who will write the best essay on the
drama
new Shubert musical production, The Paradise
of Mahomet" is now in rehearsal under the dlrsc-
ton OF Frank Smithson. Prominent in the cast win
be Miss Adele Richie and Miss Eva Davenport.