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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29
ONLY PERMANENT HOME
OF MINSTREL sly CLOSES
Historic Amusement Place in Philadelphia Goes Out of
Busness-Great Names on Its Programs

Minstrelsy's historic home, the
Eleventh Street Opera house, in Phila-
delphia, has closed forever, and the
burnt cork artist is now without any
place that Is devoted specially to his
particular kind of entertainment.
There is an almost national sig
nificance in the fact, for the minstrel
show, with it's lively part, it's songs,
its dances, it's humor Of the end men,
may be said to represent the only
characteristic form of ytheatrical enter.
tainment that the United States has
produced. '..@
When Dvorak, the Bohemian COM
poser, came to the United States to
get the material for a symphony, he
was so much attracted by the original
songs of the negroes as he heard them
on the plantations that he decided
that they were the only original form
OF melody the new world afforded,
and he incorporated them with most
beautiful effect in his composition
From the New World"
What Dvorak did for these melo-
dies in serious vein the minstrel show
does for them in manner to afford
entertainment to the public, and it is
matter of regret that after two gen.
erations Of continuous minstrelsy, tho
old building on Eleventh street in the
Quaker city is to close its doors for
ever
The entire history of minstrelsy can
be traced through the experiences Of
this house and those who have per-
formed there.
Beginning Of Minstrelsy.
When it was launched the minstrel
show was form of entertainment had
just begun to take definite form, and
and the jokes of those who were the
founders Of the special form of amuse-
ment.
Those who have given study to the
subject name as the first of the min
strels, George Washington Dixon, who
is well known to fame as the Zip
Coon" He began his successful ca
reer in the early 30s. But no more
than one swallow could make a sum-
mer can this lone performer, singing
his negro songs and doing his dances,
be termed minstrel show"
Dan Rice, with his "Jim Crow
song, which was thoroughly in the
vein of the negro minstrel song of the
present day, and which gave him
vogue so extraordinary that others
saw the possibilities of the form of
entertainment as extended to fill a
whole evening.
Rice gave burlesque, something in
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29

DANGERS OF ALPINE
TUNNEL CONSTRUCTION
Avalanches, Exp o,ons, Rivers Falling Through Roof
and Engulfiing Workmen Among the
! ! i. =
Difficulties.

Those engineering difficulties whose
conquering seemed such a marvellous
feature of the boring d the Simplon
tunnel are made to look insignificant
by the obstacles that are being en-
countered in running f1pm the Simp-
lon spur that will connect with
Berne and open convenient means
Of entering, Switzerland, - x
: The toll Of life in boring tEis spur.
which takes the road through the
rocky Lotschberg, has been appalling.
Avalanches have arisen to bury work
men in their ruins, rivers have opened
holes and fallen into the tunnel,
drowning those at worklthere. Minor
accidents have daily added to the
number of the killed and wounded,
and at the present timeE nothing more
than the resolve Of those in charge
of the operation is keeping them to
their gigantic task
The perforation Of the Lotschberg
was an afterthought IF the ;, great
Simplon operation. After the tunnel
was opened it was seen that if it could
be put in touch with Herne, a, great
help would have been Afforded to the
region of that town.
At first sight the project did not
seem to be one of staggering difficult
ties, especially with tie success of
the Simplon tunnel insEmind. The
Simplon tunnel is twelve and a half
miles long. st. Gotharl is nine and
three-quarter miles, Nount Denis
seven and "a half miles, The latter
is about the length required for the
spur from the Simplon to Berne.
Avalanche Is Firsl Blow.
It was decided to make use of the
line that detaches itself from the
Berne-Interlaken line at the station of
Spiez, on the Thun.lake land continue
1t to Frutigen... From there the new
line passes on the right of the Eng
stilegmbach, crossing il a diagonal
direction the Kundergrund Valley, and
continuing down to Bunderbach.
Further it goes through the gallery
Of Mittholz, and comes oft on the high
plain of Kraudersteg.
The part that presented the trouble
was when the engineers sought to
tunnel through the Lotschberg the
seven mile piercements,l
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29
HonorS to Mai, l'Enfant.

1t Is more than century since Mai.
L'Enfant, favorito engineer officer of
Washington, laid out the federal city
which eventually was named for the
Father of his Country. George Wash
ington believed in the young man, but
he was temperamental to degree and
in later years he was secuted as a
dreamer. Washington was called a
city of houses without streets and of
streets without houses. The point was
that the engineer forecasted the fu-
ture. He laid out city for so states
instead of 10. But he was too far ahead
of the wisdom Of his time and left
Washington in disgust and died a dis.
appointed man.
The ceremonies anent the removal
of his bones to Arlington cemetery
were appropriate and impressive. Here
was a young foreigner who cast in his
lot with us during the struggle for in.
dependence and who fought bravely in
peace and war for ideals. He could
imagine things century before they
happened. He was seer and
prophet. Like many other of his kind;
he was dead long before his dream
came true.
The lesson is obvious. Most of US
are coldly material in our views and
lack imaginative quality. But it cannot
be doubted that hundred years hence
our present status will be looked back
upon as crude. We shall fail in our
duty unless we also keep our eyes on
the future and lay our plans in every
way, not for the moment, but for the
situation which posterity is sure to en-
JOY. Washington is rapidly becoming
one of the most beautiful cities in the
world, but it would be now no more
than the average rectangular Ameri-
can city save for the genius and ina
gination of man who was considered
fool by the wfseacres of his genera
.ion.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29

The expectation of those in charge
Of the work had been to see 1t COM
pleted by 1911, thereby making be-
tween Berne and the Simplon tunnel
the ideal entrace to Switzerland
The Inauguration Of the work justi-
ed their optimism. From the first
day, October Is, 1906, until May, 1908,
not a single serious interruption was
encountered, everything going along
In most perfect shape.
The first blow to the prospects came
in the form of an avalanche in the
closing days Of May.
There was no warning of it's arrival.
The mysterious forces of nature that
convulsed to. bring death to thirty
workmen gave no advance indication,
but suddenly near Groppenstein there
came a crash and uproar, and when
rescue parties began their investiga-
tons they found not only dead and
MANNED bodies on all sdes, but they
found the works almost completely
ruined, and fresh start was neces-
sary.
Explosion Comes Next.
Only two months later, July %, 1908,
came the next visitation The boring
had gone to the distance of more than
two miles when an explosion occurred.
One Of its terrible results was that
a great hole was torn In the roof of
the operation, a gaping aperture sew
enty yards square through which fell
the waters Of the river, completely
engulfing the whole operation and
drowning sixty workmen.
So terrible was the damage wrought
that it was decided to be absolutely
out of question to go further at this
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29

Kept pace with the fashions of the &C.
cldent, but her inherent instinct for
the skillful use OF flowers prompted
her to affect a certain style of head
dress. Always on occasions of state,
In lieu of jewel or eoronet nesting
among the smooth masses of her silky
black hair, rested a single crimson
rose.
The whirligig of time brought the
little Japanese lady back to Washing
ton in a more conspicuous role. With
the prestige obtained by the victorious
armies of the emperor Of Japan, diplo-
matte affairs took on new importance
and with the rank of "baron" and the
diplomatic status of ambassador. the
erstwhile minister returned to Amer
lea.
Presiding over one of the most beau
tlfully appointed homes in the city and
seventh in line of precedence, the
Baroness Takahira has an ambitious
place in the life of the community. A
tiny little parsonage, distinctly orien-
tai in type and unusually pretty, Bar
oness Takahira has very effectually
made good" as an embassy chate-
lalne. Her gowns are marvels of ele-
gance and modishness; also her hats
and her jewels. The crimson rose is
replaced by glittering tiara of dia-
monds, fashioned to indicate the rank
OF the wearer, and diamond necklace
and bodice Jewels of great value and
beauty enhance the loneliness of robes
which show the utmost skill of the
Partisan craftswoman.
The only daughter of the house,
dainty little Miss Kiyo, goes about in
the gorgeously colored and embroid-
cred robes Of a young girl of Japan.
Her smooth hair is dressed a la JAP
anese and the beautifully colored orna.
ments which signify her unmarried
estate are duly worn among her shin
ing brafds. Next season, rumor has it,
Miss Kiyo is coming out" and every
body is wondering if she will don Eu-
ropean clothes, such as her sister de-
butantes will wear, or if, true to her
bringing up, she will mingle among
the smartly goWned American girls
picturesque figure in her kimono, san
dals and quaint jeWeled bracelets,
brooches and hair ornaments. Miss
klyo, too, is pretty. She has dark eyes.
which nothing escapes, a serene coun-
tenance and a demure bearing.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29

many of the most noted entertainers
of their day, Cool White, Dick Sitter
Holden J. Williams, G.. Campbell, J.
Paul, O.P. Perry, A. Won Bonhorst
E. F. Dixey, John l.. Carncross, J. W.
H. Lincoln, Sam Sharpley and Master
]. Sanford.
The combination was held together
virtually intact until 1860, when
Carncross and Sharpley left the com.
pany and opened up at another thea,
ter.
The loss of these two favorites was
quite a blow, for .Carncross was a
noted ballad singer, and Sharpley was
a great comedian. Sanford did not
do nearly so we'll without them, and
finally got into financial troubles,
which compelled him to give up the
house.
End Man at Seventy-four.
When he did so, other capital was
quickly Forthcoming to put Carncross
in charge. He returned together with
Sharpley, and the house then became
known as the home of the Carncross
and Dixey company, Dixey being the
most popular of the old members who
had remained loyal to Sanford. ..
In this early company is to be
found on old programs the name of
Hughey Dougherty, and it is point
of special interest that when the cur
tain fell the last time, a few weeks
ago, Dougherty, now seventy-four
years of age, was still filling the place
of end man, and arousing just as
much laughter as of yore.
Lew Simmons and E. l.. Slocum
started a minstrel house in opposition
to that of the older organization, and
it enjoyed ten years Of success, the
Quaker City supporting both houses,
which shows what the minstrel show
meant in popularity then.
About a dozen years ago Mr.. earn.
cross withdrew from the business, and
was succeeded as proprietor by Frank
Dumont (who until the finish Of the
house, few weeks ago, acted as mid
die man, wrote all the burlesques
and conducted the business end.
Many noted singers and comedians
have appeared at the old house In
addition to those already mentioned
were John Diamond, Frank Moran,
Eddie Foy, Press Eldridge, Bobby
Newcomb. Freddy Walz, JEFF De An
gels, Chauncey Olcott, Melcille jan
sen and Vic Richards.
Travelling combinations of min
strels, like Dockstader's and Primrose
and Vests still remain, but it is a
matter for regret that the permanent
home should have found it necessary
to close.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29

1t is said that no other building now
standing was the home of one kind
OF entertainment for SO long period.
The little opera house had been
built as church. The congregation
moved to handsomer building and
vacated their premises. Another
smaller congregation sought to oc-
cupy it, but lacked the funds to COM
plete the purchase after it had been
started, and in order to escape losing
what money had been put in was
forced to sell out to H. S. Cartee, who
aspired 70 run it as a place of amuse-
ment. - :. Z
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29

these are source Of great concern
to the engineers, for they often mean
to encounter. some six hundred gal
Ions of water per minute, which is
throwing off heat of anywhere from
104 to III degrees Fahrenheit.
Man to Fit Every Crisis. ~
At any instance, at the most I'M
expected time, there are likely to
burst into the cuttings springs of
such enormous power and Of such heat
that the entire mountain seems to be
a heated liquid mass. It is nearly
impossible for the workmen to go
ahead with their work. But to aban-
don it is to lose all that the incorpo-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29

tell what malign force Of nature may
next be encountered.
All such work has to be done by
hydraulic pressure, this alone mean
ing the introduction of large volume
of water. In addition there is often
a natural infiltration of $50 gallons a
minute, and over and above this
streams are likely to be encountered
with will make the total of water
from two to three thousand gallons
of water'"per minute.
In building tunnels in this Swiss
section it has been the experience
often to encounter hot springs, and
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29
s.vine Day" in WASHINGTON,

The public schools in Washington
have just observed what is called
wine day" for the first time. 1t came
about through the inspiration of Miss
Susan B. sipe, instructor Of botany in
the Washington Normal school, who
proposed such action, ito beautify all
back fences that abutted on the
streets, and on those alleys which are,
generally used as thoroughfares, by
having vines Of different kinds plant
ed on either SIDE" The project was
promptly Endorsed by the local board
Of education. The climate Of the cap.
ital city is well adapted to promote
the growing Of vines.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29

point, and the scene Of the operation
had to be moved over from the north
mouth to the, south mouth, near Cop
penstein: Not less than one years
time was lost by this crash, and now
the workmen have been intimidated
to point where they will only go
ahead slowly for fear of encountering
Similar experiences at other points.
It is this fear of the unexpected
that makes an operation of this kind
so difficult. 1t is never possible to
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29
Jerseyites and Israelites.

At a university dinner President
Butler of Columbia and President Will
son Of Princeton were present. DR..
Butler took particular delight in scor-
ing Princeton. HeSsaid the town, the
student body, the faculty and the
president were a sleepy lot
DR.. Wilson replied:
81 admit the truth Of DR.. Buffers
charge, but congratulate, i. 6, very
wide awake. in fact. As it is written
in the Bible, He that keepeth Israel
shall neither slumber nor sleep. =
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29

ter from Japan.
AS such, by her
pretty manners
and her cordially,
she won for her.
self an enduring
place in the inter-
est and good will
OF official Wash
ington. Like a
true daughter of
Nippon the baron
ess Tin the old
days plain MA
dam" Takahira)
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29

Cartee only conducted the house for
about ten weeks, but failed so dis
mally that he in turn was glad to
close it out to Sanford
In the combination with which San
ford inaugurated his new policy were
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29
In the Puppv Class.

"And now," asked the teacher at
the end of the church history lesson,
what is dogma?" Up shot little
Willie's hand. He was right at the
bottom of the class, as usual, but no.
body could say he was not trier at
all the time. eyes. Our spaniel"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29
BY Elimination.

Gall the latest popular novelist"
sang out the train boy. Then, holding
out copy Of .'The Guest Of Quesnay"
to prosperous looking passenger, he
urged: sBuy Booth Tarkington's
latest work, sir?'
The man looked annoyed.
mo! am Booth Harrington him
self"
s'Then buy copy Of Three
Weeks" persisted the boy. s.You
amt Elinor Glyn, too. are you ?''
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29
Girl Of Many coiors.

Mrs. Bleakem-G George, this is the
most interesting novel ever read.
Just listen, dear: In the tenth chap
Ater the heroine sees the hero
approaching and she turns pink. He
kisses her and she turns red. A foot
step is heard and she turns white.
Five minutes later the villain arrives
and she turns purple with rage. Now
wouldn't you call such a girl as that
q heroine, George?
Mr.. Bleakem (absently) ~ HIM! I
think should call her a chameleon.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29
Noises Are Deceiying.

Els there stone quarry being
worked in the vicinity?' inquired the
traveller, as he stood waiting to board
his train at the country station. II
thought heard loud reports like the
explosion Of dynamite in the blasting
OF rocks"
a M" rejoined the station employee
with a chuckle;; those noises come
from that little structure on the tick.
ct Office. It's the baggage room. -
Judge.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29

cept that it had not then been elabo-
rated to. such an extent. There was
a first part, with the whole company
in black, end men furnishing the
comedy, interlocutor asking the ques-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29

the form of comic opera, and he
filled it with melodies of the planta-
ton.
Rice and his "Jim Grow" were the
rage for ten years on both sides of
the Atlantic, and then there came
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29
Offended.

Offended.
Married and gone to housekeep-
ing. eh?''
Eyes, indeed; been housekeeping q
week now"
aHow do you like your little fat?"
flush! I won't permit you to
speak that way Of my husband"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29
a poor PrixiIeue.

Landlady--1 give my boarders a
good many privileges.
Stude es. We seem to be getting
in on half fare this trip.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29
is CLEVER HOSTESS
BARONESS TAkAHlRA MOST pop.
ULAR IN WASHINGTON.
Wife Of Japanese Ambassador Has
Won an EnviabIe Place In the
Social Circles of the Ma
tionaI Capital.

The Baroness Takahira first came to
Washington as the wife of the minis
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-29
Vhy. Sure.

Tommy-Paw, what is concentrated
I've?
Mr.. Tucker-It's the short and ugly
word, Tommy. Don't bother me.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-02

senses and the realization of the spirit
ual reality. In that struggle there was
laid out before him, as from the top of
an exceeding high mountain, all the
kingdoms of the world, with the prom
Use of dominion over them. The man,
however, who had~perceived that caus-
alton was spiritual, was too supremely
conscious of Truth, too absolutely hon
est, that is to saw, to be able to be de-
ceived by the evidence of those physi-
cal senses which have their cause in
matter
A few years later when he stood,
silent, in the guise of a criminal in
Pilates judgment hall and heard the
question of the Roman governor,
"Speakest thou not unto me? Knowest
thou not that have power to cruelty
thee and have power to release thee?"
he answered with a true sense of what
power really meant. "Thou couldst
have no power at all against me eX-
cept it were given thee from above
In the whole panorama of the worlds
history there is no equal to that scene.
The proud Roman governor, starting
with fear in his judgment chair at the
cry Of the despised Jewish rabble,
Thou art not Caesars friend" Boast
ing Of his power to dispense life and
death, yet preparing to exercise it by
condemning a man he had already pro-
lOuilCeu lllllOCeHl, III OTueT 10 escape d
charge of disloyalty to Caesar. And
before him the bound and scourged
prisoner-the man who had healed the
sick, stilled the tempest, walked on
the water and raised the dead--listen-
ing to him in the conscious serenity of
the knowledge that power is spiritual,
and that it was no more possible for
the Roman to cruelty him without his
consent than to prevent his demonstra-
ton over death upon the cross.
The lesson of that scene in the judg-
ment hall of PLATE is one of the great
est which it is possible for anyone to
learn. For it teaches that spiritual
power is the outcome of the overcom-
ing of mans materiality, and his con-
sequent grasp of the meaning of spirit
ual causation. This is the true power
which every man may legitimately de-
sire, for the exercise of it can bring
nothing but blessings on mankind. 1t
was this power which Jesus bestowed
on the apostles when he sent them out
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-02
SCIENCE SHOWS
POWER SOURCE
WEAKNESS ONLY DISHONESTY,
SAYS DIVINE HEALER
PERCEPTION OF SPIRITUAL is
BASIS OF TEACHING
Overcoming of Materially Comes with
Grasp of the Real Mean
ing of Causas
ton

1t is probable that there are few hui
man temptations which have enveloped
more people in their meshes than the
lust for power. Even money itself, the
love of which the great apostle to the
Gentiles himself described as the root
of all evil, is frequently sought for the
power the possession of it is supposed
to give, so that it has come to be said
that money is power. This is the focus
of the general opinion of mankind,
which holds firmly to the belief that the
only evidences worth troubling about
are those of the physical senses, and
science to the study of physical
causation. Mrs. Eddy on the other
hand, who, alone of thinkers since the
days of what is termed primitive Chris
tianity, had grasped the fact that the
teachings and demonstrations of Christ
Jesus were based on a perception of
spiritual as distinct from physical caus-
alton, has defined power as honesty, in
the statement on page 453 of Science
and Health, Honesty is spiritual pow
er. Dishonesty is human weakness,
which forfeits divine help" The temp
tations in the wilderness 7, present the
struggle, in the consciousness of Christ
Jesus. between the evidence of the