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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-15
BRIDGEPORT - BROUGHT LUCK
 TO MISS HANEY
PRETTY STAR OF MUSICAL COM. EDY LEAPED INTO FAME
 SUDDENLY.
''The Leading Lady, Soon to Appear at Great Parisian Variety Theatre at Enormous Salary-Rolfe's Lat est Production Has Fine Future.

Bridgeport Is the first city and the last in which Miss Marguerite Haney, the clever and beautiful leading lady in the remarkable musical comedy week. appeared in the part of a chorus girl
 This city witnessed the virtual be- ginning of Miss Haney's stage career. She came to this city and joined the ranks of the chorus; she left it, hold DOW playing, "The Leading Lady,"
 Since that time Miss Haney has been overwhelmingly successful as. a star, so much so that she Is to be one of the principals in the. Folies Berger. season of 1s10-1e11. having been booked at very large salary to appear for six months a very high honor indeed.
 Miss Haney's first appearance in Bridgeport was about a year and a half ago when she joined the chorus of the Paradise Alley company.
 One week in the chorus was just enough for this vivacious' star. B.. A. Rolfe. owner of the company. decided that Miss Haney was far too good to keep in the chorus At the end of the week she became the leading lady and has been so in every production in which she has since taken part
 Miss Haney Is under the mana ge- ment of B. A RoIfe. one of the most successful producers of big vaudeville acts. MT. Rolfe is in Bridgeport this week. attending to the production of The Leading Lady" He personally conducts the orchestra for his act At the end of the week he will leave the company to superintend another of his many big productions. more of which will be seen here at Polls
 T always look upon Bridgeport as my lucky city, said Miss Haney. flor my success dates from my first ap-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-15

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-15
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after the warship had sailed away the
Turkish authorities snooped around for
some means of getting square with Davis.
Finally they discovered that he had falled
to fly our flag over the consulate on the
day of the celebration of the sultan's ac-
cession This oversight the Turkish gov
ernment pretended to be a matter so Sc
rious that it could not be overlooked. and
the State Department had to transfer
Davis to another post.
And IL has not been all wild locusts and
honey for Gabriel Bic Ravndal our con-
sui at Beirut, some 200 miles below, on
the Syrian coast He is man of forty
four, born in Norway, but educated at
the University of Minnesota and nat
uralized in this country. Having run
newspaper at Sioux Falls for eight years
and having served in the South Dakota
legislature he is thoroughly Americanized.
President Mckinley sent him to Beirut
eleven years ago. and Mr.. Roosevelt kept
him there throughout his entire term
This post demands man of great tact,
like the incumbant. for even in norman
times the Turkish officials there are apt
to go about with chips on their shoulders
A few years ago young William Mage!s-
sen of Minnesota, then vice consul under
Mr. Ravndal, while returning to his office
through the consulate grounds. was set
upon by two natives. whom he gave a
thrashing. Mr.. Ravndal thereupon had
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GOd-fOrSaken Persian town and Woe
bevy of others of the same cloth sweat
ing away in Syria, Armenia and Asia
Minor, surrounded by massacre and car
mage and the shrill shrieks of women and
infants put to the heather scimitar.
He who has been bottled up in the
awful siege of Tabriz is our young
preacher-consul. the Rev. William r.
Doty. A little while ago when as consul
to Tahiti he was basking in the peace
and quiet of the Society Islands and
reading his Testament to the grinning
heather, he little dreamed that he would
now be shut in stinking Persian city
with a lot Of revolutionists who were
being starved into submission by the
armies of the shah.
Doty was a Brooklyn, n. Y, boy, and
he and his elder brother. Lamb. came to
Washington in the early eighties. the
latter working as a page in both House
and Senate William went through
Princeton with all sorts of honors, and
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cred. This. the most famous city of Mr..
Jackson's district, was the ancient capital
of Syria, both under the Seleucid kings
and under the Romans. 1t. too. has
been an earthquake victim, quarter
million of It's then vast population having
been killed In 526 AID. and many others
being swallowed up in 1872. While Tar
sus was Paups birthplace, Antioch was
the scene of his early labors and was
the starting point of his missionary jour
neys. The disciples of Christ were first
called "Chrstians' in this ill-fated city.
And here. on the same soil just stained
by the blood of Christians put to the
scimetar by Mohammedans. Christian
crusaders were putting Mohammedans to
the sword eight centuries ago.
Our consuls have had considerable trou
Bile in this district. Mr. Jackson's prede-
cessor. Consul Davis. was assaulted by
some police and soldiers at Alexandretta
while he was placing aboard a vessel
there an American citizen accused Of
being a revolutionist. But this man
wasn't taken away from Mr.. Davis until
the latter had thrashed few policemen.
Next the military governor insuted him.
and finally some bricks were thrown at
the consulate. Then things got so threat
ening for the consul that a warship had to
be sent to his rescue. 1t carried him off
to Beirut for safety. but soon our Ad-
miral Cotton brought him back to Alex
andretta and made the military governor
do some bowling and scraping. Then
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Two Of our cruisers were sent to the
scene and Mr.. Ravndal reported to the
State Department that the local govern
ment appeared to be implicated with
law-breakers (smugglers, brigands. etc."
and that Christians as well as Moslems
were forced to desperate acts to obtain
money and satisfy demands from above"
Mr.. Leishman, our minister (now our
ambassador) at Constantinople. vainly
haggled for months with Tewfik Pasha
over the Magelssen incident and finally,
at Tewfik's assertion, that Magelssen
was under the impression of an IL
lusion." our minister replied with heat.
calling Tewfik's attitude 'discourteous."
and expressing surprise at the character
and tone of his note. The turbulent ele-
ment continued to murder and pillage
at random In this district, and a year fol-
lowing an American lady and her son,
while on the balcony of their own house.
were fired upon by four young Moslems.
Down at Jerusalem our consul. Thomas
r. Wallace of Philadelphia, has been
having a comparatively peaceful ii ne.
although sanitary conditions in this
ancient capital of Palestone have long
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The Sn0bS Rebuked.

MRS. WILLIAM ELLIS COREY was
ASA describing at a luncheon at the
Plaza. the Paris school where, with the
help of Isadora Duncan and Jean de
Reszke, she trains little children for the
stage.
II think such work." said Mrs. Corey,
'is better than a life of mere social friv-
olity. American society, you know. even
the best of it, is so apt to be snobbish.
So often. after listening to the twaddle at
tea or a reception, / feel like getting
up to go with old Omar Fitzgerald's re-
mark.
"Fitzgerald, the translator of the Rubai-
yat, called one night at a house where a
very snobbish conversation was going on.
He sat an hour in an uncomfortable 81
lence. He wanted to talk about poetry
and music, plays and pictures but instead
ne had to listen to snobbish boasting
about what the duke had said. and the
baron had apswereu. and how gracious
the princess had been.
Finally Fitzgerald rose to go. He
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signed post in time So he will be sent
somewhere in Greece instead.
It hasn't been a bed of roses these
past few bloody weeks for Jesse B. Jack
son. our consul at Aleppo, in whose dis
tric. the worst Syrian massacres occurred
He is young Ohio veteran of the Spanish
war who, four years ago, became consul
at Alexandretta, Syria. When, recently,
the consulate was removed from Alexan-
dretta to Aleppo in the same district. but
some sixty miles inland, he went with 1t.
Directly between these two cities lies
kirikan, where the other day all the
Christians were massacred to the last
babe. Indeed, Mr.. Jackson had some
anxious hours when the red wave of
blood came washing down upon his dis
trict from that OF the Mersine consulate.
adjoining on the north, and things began
to be truly strenuous when Aleppo itself
broke into a panic, endanEering every
American there. And Aleppo is no
heaven in the best OF times. The $50. 600
people no sooner recover from very
severe winter than a very hot summer
is upon, them. Over 10000 of the popu-
lation were killed by an earthquake in
1872
Almost due west. and near the sea- lies
what is left of Antioch the Beautiful"
whose Armenian quarter has just been
burned and pillaged, and part Of whose
Christian population has just been massa-
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went back there for theology. Then the
Presbyterians sent him as missionary
up among the heather of the Adirondack
and after he had done GOOD
work there the government sent him as
teacher among the ESkimos up In ST.
Lawrence Island. Bering sea. Next his
brother. Lamb. was appointed consul to
Tahiti. and he went along as clerk, sue
ceeding to the consulship seven years ago.
Tahriz his present post. lies up in that
northwesternmost neck of Persia which
wedges in between Turkey and the south
ern point of Russia. Doty saw siren
uous time in this old Persian town the
other day when the consulates there were
threatened by the starving mobs who had
heard of the shah's order to let through
the lines the provisions of the consuls.
And even in the best of times this is
had country. ND around TabriZ 1t was
in this consular district, at Khoi, hun
dred miles to the northeast, almost In the
shadow of Father Noah's landing place,
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to look straight at any time. He's the
fellow you've been hearing about that
put all the bookmakers in the poor
house"
81 amt heard of no bookmakers goin'
to the poorhouse," said the House De-
tective.
"Well maybe they haven't started yet"
said the Hotel Clerk. But they'll be
on their way as soon as Honest Johnny
Grafton and his worthy associates In the
winner picking line can get enough con-
fidential clerks and receiving tellers suf-
ficiently interested in the movement. The
only trouble SO far has been that so
many of the patrons fail to stick until
the system has been thoroughly worked
out. They start uptown on Broadway
car with a bunch of negotiable soap
wrappers In their pockets. and absent
mindedly drop off at Toronto, Canada;
or they stay in Jail for seven or eight
years; or they excuse themselves some
morning when the bank examiner drops
in Unexpectedly and go down into the
vaults with a revolver and shoot them
selves in such a manner as to make q
very mussy job for the janitor.
'Then there's the aluring prospectus
of the benevolent party who drops you
a cordial line in print to say that be-
the money in the world he'd be willing
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A Worker.

MARY GARDEN. apropos of her re-
AVA ported betrothal to a prince, praised
the plain. untitled American mtn.
II remember an American at a ball in
Monte Carlo she said. His sturdy.
self-reliant Americanism stood out well
amid the elegance of the counts and earls
and grand dukes who were there.
Il overheard a Russian princess talking
to him on the moonlit terrace.
do you dancer she said.
NO; he didn't dance.
DO you speak French?'
NO: he only spoke American.
Do you play bridge?
mo
'Balloor?
mo.
1.-The princess raised her arlstocra-u
eyebrows.
MAY I ask she said, what you DO
do?'
Il earn my own living said the Amer
lean
1.-The princess laughed gayly and ap-
provingly. He was and she knew it, the
only man there who did,
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Give and Take.

COUNCILMAN HENRY BOLTE OF
Atlantic City is pushing a bill to pro-
hfbit cameras on Atlantic City's incompa-
rable white beaches
There are cameras and cameras" said
MI. Bette the other day, land some Of
them do nothing but good. Yet l am con-
vihced that all must go, though 1 can see
the other side of the question. too. Every
question has its two sides. 1t is like the
dialogue of Diogenes and Aristippus.
Aristippus one day passed by Diogenes,
the cyn1c, where he sat before his tub,
eating cabbage.
Dlogenes saluted with a snear the
splendldly clad Aristippus at the head OF
his glitterfng retinue
Oh. Aristippus, he said, sourly, IL you
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the same line of business ever since. And
look at some of the bargains there've
been In this country Manhattan Island
was bought from the Indians for $24 and
now the cheapest election district in
town costs more than that every time
there's democratic primary. A hun
dred years ago you could get a county
in almost any state east of the Ale
ghenies for considerably less than its
present member In the legislature would
cost you, and the county stayed bought.
"But I think it's the generous, disin-
terested way that the developers have of
putting up a realty proposition that lures
so many into going into those just-like-
findingit companies. I've known men
who couldn't ride in a taxicab without
giving a convusive start every time the
meter added another dimes worth on,
and they always bit their small change
to see If it was good. Yet they couldn't
pass up any deal where the noble hearted
n
ing only for the personal satisfa ction of
bestowing large profits upon total
strangers.
"You recall what was said by the lover
of mankind who engineered last months
little corner in wheat, don't you? Nat
urally we felt a mite peevish when wheat
went up so high that leaders Of society
began to talk about wearing it for jewel
ry to the grand opera instead of diamonds.
When you bought half dozen rolls for
the family the baker handed you out
something that looked like a set Of collar
buttons, and when you tried to eat one
1t slipped up into the side of your mouth
and reminded you of a new gumboil. 1t
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The Hotel Clerk on the Acquisition Of Wealth.

to let a few nice people in on a PROPOSE
tion that looks like a thousand dollars
profit on every share inside of ninety
days. but will be sold for limited period
35 for the preferred, parties taking more
than $8 worth at a time being advised to
buy a wheelbarrow to take the quarterly
dividends home In, or words to that effect,
Yet some people are still SO benighted
and narrowminded in their ideas as to
insinuate that the average Wall street
promoter is kind of financial Luther
Burbank who devotes his life to the de-
velopment Of water blisters''
did you say water blisters?" asked
the House Detective.
Sure said the Hotel Clerk. water
blisters, with the promoters furnishing
the water and the public furnishing the
skin. And when somebody sticks a pin
in one 1t blows up. But that's only what
envious people say. 1 don't see how any
body can read the statements of those
generous mine owners and investment
brokers and bucket shoppers and still
have the heart to question the purity Of
their motives. If you can't trust the
man who's willing, without knowing any
thing about you. to take your money and
treat it just as though twas his own, who
In heavens name can you trust?
"And we mustn't overlook some Of the
real estate bargains that are literally
thrown at us from. time to time, either
This thing Of being able for dollar down
to secure title to a magnificent seaside
bungalow that has running water in every
downstairs room-when the tides in
happened, / never saw the time when I
had the dollar to spare. I guess it's in
our blood to seek these desirable treas
ure troves in real estate that are being
literally given away because the owner
of the land loves his fellowman thus
deeply. Columbus and Cortez and Bal
boa and all those other early discoverers
were the first real estate operators we
had, and they were hits at 1t, too. One
Of those old boys would load up a ship
with q crew of merry men who'd gone to
sea because they didn't want to go to
jail, and he'd sail west until he came to
a noticeable body Of land. such as
continent, and he'd say I take possession
of all this territory and any other terri.
tory there may be in this section in the
name of her gracious majesty, Queen
Isabella of Spain,' and then declare an
open season on the original inhabitants
and let it go at that. There was gem
erosity and a broadness about their way
Of stating realty proposition that's been
used with great success by the people in
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TROUBLES of Our Con-
i suls During These Days
of Siege and Massacre-Who
Our Consuls Are in These
Lands of Blood and Death
Their Many Trials and Tribu-
lations Insulted and As
saulted by Moslem Officials
Looking Out for Mission
aries Some Bright Young
Men Recently Sent to the
Field = Investigating Out
RACES Against Americans.
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took two Vienna loaves to equal one five
grain capsule and the hole in the dough-
nut grew until there wasn't much differ
ence between swallowing doughnut and
taking deep breathing exercises. But
when people chided the gentleman who
planned that he wasn't doing it on his
own account. Any such small matter as
the eight or ten millions that he might
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D, it's not all beer
and skittleS and
siestas in the shade
of the sheltering
palms. this Yankee
consul business, in
the balmy old orr
ent.
Here In this fort
night we have had
one of these near
diplomats bottled
up by siege in a
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By Irwin S. Cobb.

WISH'T I'd been
born rich,' said the
House Detective OF
the st. Reckless.
"The time for you
to begin wishing
I h a t wis h w a S
about the time your
parents first got ac-
quainted with each
other said the
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Up at Trehizond on the Black Sea, -
our northernmost consulate in Asiatic
Turkey. In this district lies a part OF
northern Armenia, including the recently
troubled city of Erzerum, Armenia's
principal center of population. Milo a.
Jewett, our consul at Trebizond. was born
of American parents at Sivas, Armenia,
1I5 miles to the southwest He was
brought back TO America and went
through the public schools of Milwaukee,:
also being graduated frcm Harvard aud
studying medicine He is fifty years old
and was assistant superintendent of the
Massachusetts State Insane Asylum for
ten years. before entering the service as
consul at Sivas his birthplace under Har-
rison. seventeen years ago. lie had been
at Sivas nearly fourteen years when pro-
NOTED to Trebezond. which berth pays
$500 more a year. The Sivas post is now
vacant. 1t being in Armenia. the man de-
tailed there may see a little excitement.
All of these posts of Asiatic Turkey
are under our consulate general at
Smyrna, the chief city Of Turkey in Asia.
Ernest L. Harris, the consul general
here. is a young Iowan. still in his
thirties. who went through Heidelburg
University. taking all sorts of high de-
grees. including two doctorates. Before
entering the consular service, eleven
years ago. he was lecturer on Roman
law at the Iowa University. He is an
authority on International law. and was
sent from Chemnitz to the ever troubled
near east three years ago. Yankee
consul in even this city OF Smyrna Is
not without anxietes for his fellow citi-
zens. 1t was here, a few summers back.
that DR.. H. c. Shipley an American. was
knocked down, wounded and robbed. in
broad daylight by Turkish police, while
walking through the ruins OF the ancient
castle at the back of Smyrna, but within
the city limits.
JOHN ELFRETH wATKINa
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COnCel11inU
Well-knoWn ppODlp

shook hands with his hostess, and then he
turned to the assembled guests and said
sadly, shaking his head
once knew a lord, too; but he's
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Hotel Clerk. You're trifie late with IT.,
now After a man gets to be forty years
old and has mustache like pair of
epaulettes it doesn't do him very much
good to go around wishing he'd been born
under a different set of plans and specifica-
tions. But II it's wealth you crave, or
dross. as the pure in mind call /. when
they haven't got any of it, that's easy
enough. This town is all gummed up with
philanthropists just palpitating with ca
gerness to enrich their fellow-men."
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and mine. This great. warm-hearted, loV-
ing world of ours. that's round like ball
except at both ends where it's fiat like
an orange-although some people think
'twould be better to compare it to lemon
is full of people actuated solely by the
desire to make every one of US independ-
entity we'll off at comparatively no ex-
pense whatever. If you don't believe me
look at some of the advertisements.
There's the fellow who's worked out
a sure system for beating the races, only
he's too generous by nature to want TO
hog it all for himself and is slipping
small card irto the sporting page advising
everybody to send all their spare money
right away to Honest Johnny Grafton
for investment in little pippin that's
scheduled to start at Oakland the day
after tomorrow and can't lose unless
they should cut off all four of her legs
and hide them where she can't find
them.
"There's small picture of Honest
Johnny Grafton that goes along with this
cordial invitation, to inspire added con-
fdence on the part of the general pub
lie He has a frank, open countenance,
something like can-opener, and you
can tell by the way his eyes are set in
his head that he's so busy looking every
which-a-way to find good things for his
customers that he hasn't had a chance
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Show 'em to NE" said the House De-
tective. That's all ask-just show 'em
to me oncet"
IN be glad to-, said The Hotel Clerk
"All you've got to do is to buy paper
and you'll find their benevolent impulses
springing at you from every other page.
It's a mistake to think that the world is
trying to get rich at your expense, Larry,
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knew how to live on cabbage you would
not have to flatter kings
"Aristippus waved his hand airily to
the pessimistic philosopher.
oh, Diogenes,' he retorted. smiling, if
you knew how to fiatter kings you would
not have to live on cabbage"
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been a menace to the health of foreigners.
The filth is unbearable" here. according
to report to the State Department
Mr.. Wallace, a man of siXty-one. was a
schoolmaster for ten years. then a lawyer
for sixteen and circuit court clerk for
eight years. before President Mckinley
put him in the consular service. He has
been at Jerusalem two years.
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JOHN ELFRETH wATKINa

accumulate would be purely incidental to
his real motive, which was to help the
worthy farmer along"
'WeIl, did he help the worthy farmer
along?" asked the House Detective.
about the time he uttered those
taking off his winter clothes and lend
ing them to a scarecrow," said the
Hotel Clerk.
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Copyright 1909. by John Elfreth watkins)