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Katherine Goodson Recital.

The recital OF Miss Katherine Good
son. the young English pianist. at the
Masonic Auditorium next Saturday even
ing will bring the Charlton Smith con-
certs to a successful close.
In private life the young artist is Mrs.
Arthur Hinton. wife of the English COM
poser. She Is favorite pupil OF Lesche-
tizky. to whose instruction many great
pianists are partly indebted for their
fame. She has recently returned from .
tour Of the world. Both in recital and as
a soloist with the greatest orchestras OF
the country. Miss Goodson's success has
been phenomenal.
The assisting soloist at the recital will
be Nine. Flav'a Van Den Hende. the Bel
gan violoncellist.
Miss Goodson's program will he:
1. (a) Pastorale. + minor, Scarlatti: %,
minuet, E fat. Beethoven: tc) Song with
out words in F. Mendelssohn; (d) Minuet.
minor. Schubert; sonata. e sharp MI
nor ("Moonlight''). Beethoven (by re-
quesO. .. Two preludes. G major. b mi
nor, nocturne, two valses. a fiat opus "a.
Chopin; D fiat, opus CA: scherzo. g. Ro-
nance. Sibelius: Humoresque. Tschaikow-
sky; Aeolus. Gernheim; Rigaudon. Raff
Capricieuse, Hinton: Polonaise. MacDow
ell
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New National.

With Miss Nora Bayes as the special
feature in cast of one hundred fun
makers Fiorenz Ziesfeld's "Follies OF
1905" will begin a weeks engagement at
the New National tomorrow night.
1t will be remembered that The Follies
of 1907" last seasons extravaganza,
broke it's New York records during the
engagement at the New National. and
had to be brought back to Washington
for second weeks stay before the close
of the season. 1.-The Foilies of 1902 is
described as a sort of sequel to the old
"Follies'' production, with new bur-
lesques, new scenery. new players, new
songs and new costumes and effects.
Some idea of the many "revues'' may be
gained by the following: The Soul Kiss"
in which all the presidential candidates
are satirized-Taft. Bryan. Fairbanks.
Cannon, Hughes and Roosevelt: THE
Devil" with Nora Bayes as Satanette:
"A Waltz Dream with that funny fell
low. Arthur DEACON. as Prince Consort:
the big ocean liner: The New Jersey
Tunnel interior Of the White House,
'Beaux Arts" Neil Brinkley's Studio"
q review of the famous drawings posed
by Annabelle Whitford. and The Smart
Set Athletic Club" with Billie Reeves as
son of Bickel and Watson as "the Pitts
burg Smoke" Nibsy Hooligan.
This latest Ziegfeld concoction was writ
ten by Harry B. Smith. with music by
Maurice Levi. Among the prominent fa-
vorites. in addition to those named above.
liam Powers, William Schrode, Billie
Reeves, Seymour Brown. Aline Boley.
Pauline Thorne and a score or more Of
those famous Ziegfeld dancing dolls.
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kindly. that I am going to- venture to do
something that is. seldom advisable. 1
am going to give you a little unasked ad-
vice. 1t Is very simply and very aptly
expressed in the homely and we'll known
saying. Make hay while the sun Shines ;
You will remember. am sure. the days
when you were obliged to count every
penny, when dollar seemed quite a
sum of money. and the spending OF it a
serious matter. Now. when you have
reached a position that will insure an
abundance Of the once elusive dollars. do
not forget the past, or. what is more to
the point. think Of the future. 1t is the
failure to do this that has been so sadly
disastrous to many a once famous ac-
tress. You are now possessed of one of
Gods greatest gifts-youth. Talent is
something that lasts lifetime. but youth
is SO fieeting that one hardly appreciates
its value until it is gone. Remember my
dear child. no matter how great your
success may be. that there is a simple
but substantial beauty about a bank ac-
count that is more desirable than the
fash OF jewels or the rustic of silken
GOWNS"
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"The Van Dyke"

Chase's next week will offer The Van
Dyke" a one-act comedy drama adapted
by the great English playwright. Cosmo
Gordon I.ennox. from the French Of Eu-
gene Fournier Perinque. 1t will be play
ed by the Harrison Hunter Company.
the star having appeared in the Irving.
Waller and Sothern- -Marowe companies.
Among the other attractions viii be the
great continental spectacular novelty
Furnished by the Willy Painter Company:
the cartoonist and raconteur. Bert Levy:
Augusta Close, pianologist and enter
tainer: Wilbur Mack and Nella Walker.
in 1.-The Girl and the PEARL" Robert
Henry Hodge and Company In "Bill
Blithers, Bachelor" and the Tom Jack
Trio will give their musical diversion.
The vitagraph subject is THE Jealous
Fisherman.
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tisements. and thereby preventing trouble
with the authorities in so far as adver-
tising and presenting four members Of
the Hunting family at each performance.
In other words, they are playing almost
d certainty.
Down in the republic of Mexico a rep
resentative of the government attends
each performance, and with program and
advertisements in hand sees that every
thing announced tn take place does ap-
pear OH the stage. If the management
should fail 10 have just what is pictured
or claimed either verbally or In print 1t is
liable TO fine. which is always admins
tered. because Mexican laws are rigidly
enforced and the authorities are particu-
larly severe with managers of entertain
ments
The rea son the Four Huntings are
practically immune from punishment on
the ground that they might not have the
advertised four is because they are actu-
ally five Huntings. Lew Tony, Mollie
and John Hunting are best known to
the public. but there is also small
Hunting. Bob. who delights the children
and many OF their elders. If through ILL
ness one Hunting cannot appear Bob is
always on hand. and hence four Huntings
Will always be found on the stage.
MARY MANNERING'S ADVICE.-Thst
Mary Mannering is the possessor of un-
usual common sense, as well as unusual
dramatic talent. is shown in the following
letter written by her to young actress
who recently became famous. 1t con-
tains advice that it would be well for
most professionals. both men and women
to follow:
MY Dear Girl" wrote Miss Mannering:
II want. to be one among the many who
will send you today a message of con-
graduation. You know how deeply in
terested | have been in you and in your
really heroic struggle against the many
obstacles that beset the path of a young
girl who begins with determination to
succeed and to do so in an honorable and
conscientious manner. You have battled
bravely. and you have won the fight
And yet it Is now, in the hour of your
| success. that one of the greatest dan
gers that beset young actress will be-
gin.
"You have asked my advice so often
and you have taken my suggestions so
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"When Knights Were Bold.o

Though Francis Wilson. the inimitablA
comedian. has abandoned musical farce
for the time being. there is music in
When knights Were Bold" for Mr.
Wilson carries a large chorus, and the
end of the first act OF the play and the
beginning OF the second are devoted 10
twelfth century song of welcome. Mr.
Wilson typifies a young Englishman who
is essentially up to date in everything, yet
in a very vivid dream goes back full of
his modern ideas some seven hundred
odd years The twelfth century stilted
speech of those about him he himself is
at a loss to understand, but his slang OF
today. which is full of rich humor, puzzles
them a great deal more. Charles Froh-
man Is, to present Mr.. Wilson in When
knights Were Bold at the New National
Theater for an engagement of a weeks
duration beginning week from tomorrow
evening.
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ter in that. city. THE Boys and Betty
is an adaptation from a French farce
and was madesby George V. Hobart. VINO
supplied book and lyrics, and was set to
music by Silvio Helm. The plot deals
with the marriage of an American girl
and a musical genius. and the end Is -nod
all that the genius could hope for or wish
to happen. Betty, the girl is the loving
wife and does all that could be expected
of any woman until the genius does the
one thing that no real woman Will per-
nit, that OF making her feel that she Is
beneath him and she naturally rebels
After leaving him. she establishes her-
self in novelty shop in Paris. in which
she succeeds beyond her expectations,
when the husband again shows UP. but
is politely shown the door. There are
other numerous complications.
Miss Cahill Is supported by Eugene
Cowles. formerly with the Bostonians;
Harriet Burt, Sam B. Hardy, Wallace
McCutcheon. jr., James 3. Carson, w. G..
Stewart. Macy Harlan. Edward Earle,
Anna Mooney and Marguerite Binford.
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world is indebted for the dainty Misses
Hengler. Flo and May his daughters,
as well known in London, Paris and ST.
Petersburg snSg as they are ,r & along Broad, .
and first claimed public attention as
vocalists. They were only nine years
old and Newport. r. l.. was the scene
of their first performance. Since those
in the musical comedy world, and be-
ginning with 1892" dozen years
back. they have appeared in "Beauty
The Cingalee. "Glittering Gloria
The Runaways." and recently as
ers in Panama" and others of those
comedians series Once they appeared
here privately. dancing before Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland Then they
went abroad and Sir Augustus Harris
of Covent Garden took them under his
managerial wing They were command
ed four times before King Edward then
Prince of Wales. They were at the
Beau Rivage Hotel in Geneva. at the
time the Empress Elizabeth OF Austria
season they are bent on starring and
have had a musical play. The Twin
Detectives. prepared for them. the
manager being Mr.. ]. j. Murdoch. al
active figure in the Vaudeville Man.
ayers Association.
BENEFIT FOR A YOUNG SINGER
Edward A. Hines nineteen-year-ol
pupil. will leave Washington Tuesday.
April -, for Milan. where he will fur
ther his vocal studies under Maestro de
Falco. to whom he has been sent by
no less a parsonage than Alessandro
Bonci. the famous tenor of the Metro
politan Grand Opera COMPANY. Little
Eddie Hines has been we'll known
around the theaters of Washington for
the past four years. where he has Oer-
formed all manner of odd jobs in card
writing, sign painting. ETC., for the
purpose of raising money to further
his musical education. Mr.. L. Stoddard
Taylor. manager OF the Belasco Thea
tomorrow night. when Mary Manner
ing's receipts from THE Truants" will
be shared with the youthful aspirant
Air. Eddie has been busy for the past
tickets tor The Truants" at his home.
or at the studio of Mrs. Oldberg. in the
Beiasco Theater building.
DAUGHTER OF THE PLAINs.-Miss
Harriet Burt. who is with Marie Cahill
in The Boys and Betty" is the daugh-
ter of an army officer. Much Of her
childhood was spent where she could OBJ
serve the North American Indian, and
she has devoted much study to the SUBJ
1ect. Sne can converse In several Indian
dialects. Miss Burt is the possessor Of
many Indian curios and relics.
DAMROSCH'S PRIVATE LIFE.-Wai-
ter Damrosch off the concert platform is
an interesting figure in American life
today. Whatever time Mr.Damrosch does
not spend with his four children and
his wife. the daughter of the late James
G. Blaine. the great American statesman,
is devoted to music. conducting rehears-
ing. reading new scores or preparing lee
lures on musical subjects. His summers
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Mr.. z. n. Sothern.

The Belasco Theater has secured one OF
its greatest attractions of the season for
the week beginning April 2S in the en-
gagement of Mr. E. II. Sothern. Mr..
Sothern will present four of the most i'm
portant plays in his repertoire, which will
be Hamlet" "Richelieu," Lord Dun
dreary" and "If l Were King" These
four plays evidence the fact that Nj.
Sothern is a versatile dramatic artist. as
they embrace romantic drama. eccentric
comedy and Shakespearean tragedy. The
company includes Gladys Han
son as leading lady, Rowland Blackstone.
Frederick Lewis. Sydney Mather, Nir-
ginia Hammond, William Harris and Mai
colin Bradley
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Philippine Constabulary Band.

At the Belasco Theater tonight the
celebrated Philippine Constabulary Band
will give an Easter concert. This band
was invited to journey from Manila by
President ELECT Taft tat that time) to take
part in the inauguration ceremonies. 1t
is now making a farewell tour of the
country at the wish of the President. in
order to correct false impressions of the
F'lipinos. The leader OF the band is
Capt Walter II. Loving. who led the
band to victory at the ST. Louis exposi-
tion. Capt. Loving is native of st. Paul,
Mimi. and graduated in music from the
New England Conservatory of Music. He
organized two army bands before going
to the Philippines During his seven years
there he mastered the Spanish, Tagalog
and Ilocano languages.
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Academy.

The four Huntings present The Fool
House." a musical comedy in two acts,
at the Academy for the week beginning
tomorrow night.
The story centers around Tommy Rob-
bins, a college boy who is of a wandering
nature. While away from home Robbins
father dies, leaving him a million dollars
in the hands of Col Ipswich Jones, SUI
perintendent OF an insane asylum called
''The Quick Cure There is one stipu-
lation in the will that Tommy Is to marry
Daisy Jones, the colonel's daughter and
the money and estate is intrusted to the
colonel to see that this provision Is car
ried out. The colonel proves unfaithfui
and plots with Dinkelspiel, his body
guard, to marry his daughter off to some
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one else, thus preventing Robbins from
carrying out the provision of the will.
Col. Jones wishes to spend the money
on his sanitarium.
Robbins happens along at this moment.
discovers the plot and passes himseif OF
as Billy Buttons, an expected patient
The daughter. Daisy Jones. has in the
meantime traded places with the stenog-
rapher. and Tommy proceeds to pass up
the girl introduced to him as the heiress
and falls in love with Daisy as the stem
ogra plier. The complications wind them
selves into an almost impenetrable tangle
until just before the curtain falls, when
everything ends happily.
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William Shakespeare Lecture.

Mr.. William Shakespeare, the famous
vocal teacher and instructor, will arrive
in Washington this morning to I'LL a
weeks engagement in the Washington
College of Music and to give a lecture in
the New Masonic Temple Auditorium to-
morrow evening at half-past on the
"Art of Singing and Breathing" He will
pupil, Mr. Sydney Lloyd Wrightson.
The program is as follows: Lecture. 1,
Relations Between Master and Pupil: 2.
.'The Voice; 3, Breathing" Mr.. Shake
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speare. Songs. l. Eyes that Used to
Gaze in Nine" Lohr: ,. Mother O. Nine .
Frank Tours: 3. THE Templar's Song
Qvanhoe), Sullivan, Mr.. Wrightson. Miss
Donna Elizabeth Riegel at the piano.
Lecture continued, 4, Placing the Voice
). Necessity of Starting Accurately in
the Very Eye of the Note; 6. "Legato
Singing Mr.. Shakespeare. Songs. 1.
Longing" Strauss: ., Il Hear You Call
ing Me-" Marshall: 3. 1.-The Prologue
CT Pagliacc.'D. Leoncavallo. Mr.. Wright
son, Mr.. Shakespeare at the piano. Lee
ture. continued. |, .'Registers": 2. style"
=, Expression" etc. Mr.. Shakespeare
Reserved seats now on sale at T. Arthur
Smiths III F street northwest: at the
Auditorium box office. and at the Wash
ington College of Mu-.c, 1918 + street
northwest.
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see how much talent the stage director.
Mr. r. w. Evans. has brought to the
front. TIE book. lyrics and music OF "Col-
lege Days" were written by Mr.. Philip
Lee Scantling. law 0o. The officers of the
Calcium Club are Philip Lee Scantlng
business manager: w. T. Coburn. stage
manager: Robert Won Ezdorf. musical di-
rector.
The regular Columbia Theater orchestra
augmented to fourteen pieces and under
the direction OF Robert Won Ezdorf will
be an additional feature
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Niblo Lecture.

For the last of the series of his zigza g
journeys round the world, Fred Niblo will
conduct his audience on a journey
through London at the Columbia Theater
this evening. The journey will be a
wandering one. showing everything of
interest in the great metropolis OF the
world. Mr.. NibIo will show hundreds Of
beautifully colored dissolving views and
motion pictures that, in conjunction with
his very clever travel talk" form an en-
tertainment, both educational and anus
ing
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Calcium Club.

George Washington University will pre-
sent an original minstrel first part and
one-act musical vehicle entitled "Col-
lege Days at the Columbia Theater the
nights of April 10 and 20. This will be
the initial appearance of the members Of
the Calcium Club. and it is expected to
build foundation for much more pre-
tentious productions in years to come
productions that will compare favorably
with those presented by the Princeton
Triangle Club and the Mask and Wig
Club When the curtain rises at s:15
April 10 the audience will be surprised to
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sons will also be seen again in the va
rious casts. The artists so far sched-
uled to appear during the coming Aborn
season at the New National are Helen
Bertram. Edna Reming. Agnes Finlay,
Hattie Arnold. Fritzie Won Busing. Sabrey
D'Orsell. Florence Burdett, Blanche Nor
rison. Violet Colby. George w. Leslie,
Forrest HUFF. John Phillips, Phil Branson.
William Schuster. George 3. Frothing 7
ham. Clarence Harvey. Sol Solomon,
Howard Chambers, William Herman
West. H. W. Ire Denick and others.
THE HENGLER S1STERS.-In their
day Delehanty and Hengler were noted
variety performers. To the latter the
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New Lyceun.

The Avenue Girls this weeks attrac-
tien at the New Lyceum Theater, is an
nounced as one of the best equipped bur-
lesQue productions on the road this sea-
son. A pony ballet OF twenty is among
its attractions. The first part is mrsi-
cal fantasy in one act, entitled. "The
ol!o is composed of several vaudeville
favorites such as Stevens and Moore.
Chapman Sisters and Picks. Arlington
and Delmore, Allan Wightman and the
Two Macks. The musical extravaganza
1T Happened in SPAIN is the concluding
skit. 1t is laid in three scenes with un-
usual electric and scenic effects.
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four acts of live vaudeville include
Hampton's goose. monkey. cat and dog
circus; Boyd and Moran. with a comedy
singing and dancing sketch, entitled, ION
the Battlefield: Whitley and Bell. COM
edy entertainers and Helen Murry. the
little girl with the big voice. New travel
ogues. new illustrated songs and the lat
est motion pictures are among the other
features.
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Miss Wilson in Concert.

Miss Flora Wilson. soprano. who has
just returned to America after four years
of study with Jean de Reszke in Paris.
will make her appearance in a song re-
cital in this city at the Columbia Theater
Friday afternoon. April 16. She will be
assisted by Mr.. Waterous, basso OF the
Metropolitan Grand Opera. Miss Wilson
is making her New York debut April Il
at the Plaza.
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Chase's.

Chase's presents in It's bill for this COM
ing week a number of novelties. Joseph
E. Howard and Anna Laughlin arc typi-
cal Broadway specialists in music and
mirth Hal Davis and Company will
present Edmund Days play of life called
Pals" Mr.. and Mrs Frederic Voelker
will be seen in Twilight in the Studio"
musical exposition of the evolution of
a musician. The Misses Hengler will give
for the last time in vaudeville a roper
toire of their characteristically novel
songs and dances.
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,Amies-Horton Recital.

Roberta Hope Amies. pianiste. and
Charlie Horton, boy soprano soloist. will
be heard at joint recital in the ballroom
at Rauscher's at 4:3O pm, April 20.
Charlie Horton is attached to the choir OF
st. Johns Church, and has been engaged
in several private recitals. Miss Arnies
is very talented pianiste.
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Columbia.

At the Columbia Theater tomorrow
night Marie Cahill begins a weeks en-,
gagement, presenting her latest musical
play. THE Boys and Betty" with which
earlier in the season she succeeded In
pleasing New Workers, run of four
months being scored at Wallack's Thea
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"The Whirlpool" !"

Following the engagement of Marie Ca
hill in 1.-The Boys and Bette the Coium-
bia Theater will be turned over 10 10 al
entertainments and commencements, 10 be
succeeded in turn by the first production
on any stage of The Whirlpool" The
company is headed by Katherine Grey
and includes Dorothy Dorr. Alma Kruger.
Charles Dalton. William McVay and many
n hers
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Academy Concert.

An augmented program is announced
for the Easter Concert at the Academy
tonight, consisting Of the Montrose Quar-
tet Harvey and Bayliss. Master Peter
Becker and Walter Sondhemer in new
comic songs. The motion pictures will
present the latest comedy creations and
dramatic playlets.
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"McFadden's Flats"

"McFadden's Flats" will be the atirac-
ton at the Academy week OF April 10.
This season the farce is funnier than ever
and thirty show girls in stunning gowns
lend a charm to the performance.
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are generally spent in Maine swimmin 6
and playing tennis. when he is not plan
ming two or three hundred programs for
the next year. directing negotiations for
the various tours, engaging new artists
and carrying on his voluminous cor
respondence with prominent men and
artists of many countries.
All of this is of little interest for those
craving sensation. but very Illuminating
to those who appreciate achievements and
positive results in the great world Of
music.
MEXICAN THEATRICAL SYSTEM
If the Four Huntings ever go to Mexico
to play an engagement they are reason
ably certain of living up to their adver-
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Majestic.

Another attractive bill is promised for
the Majestic Tneater this week. The
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Chetwood. Years before she wrote a
book that contained many so-called "ad-
vanced' ideas and "free-thinl,ing" doc
trines. AS a result of reading this book
Pamela Gray a nineteen-year-Old girl,
who is member of the household at
Nethercote Hall. the Chetwood country
place, plans to elope with Dicks brother
Bill, and accompany him to America with
out the formality of marriage cere-
mony. Freda discovers the contemplated
flight and. after failing to induce the girl
to abandon 1t demands that Bill marry
Pamela. This he refuses to do. and in
order to insure Freda's silence tells her
that he knows the secret OF her life.
which is that the little boy she has
brought home from Afghanstan and who
is supposed to be the child of a friend is
really her own son by a man who. al
though she married him in good faith.
had wife at the time. Fredas wish to
save the girl whose foolish act has, in
directly, been prompted by her, and her
dread of letting the man she loves know
of her past, bring about series of dra
matte and emotional incidents.
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-20
BOARD OF TRADE
OPENS NEW YEAR
Starts Up Twenty-frst With
Gen. George Harries
as President.

With Gen, George n. Harries. presi-
dent: Thomas G Noyes, first vice presi-
dent, and Arthur C. Moses. second vice
president. the Board Of Trade this morn
ting entered upon its twenty-first year.
But one new member distinguishes the
personnel Of its board OF OFFICERS from
that OF the old administration, which
retired yesterday. This member is Mr..
Moses.
With abt olute harmony prevailing the
directors OF the board yesterday after
noon elected Officers TO ser~e through
out the year. each candidate nominated
being elected unanimously and without
opposition
Besides the selection Of the president,
FIRST, and second vice presidents. Dan
y. Callahan was reelected secretary
Edward J. DrOOp. treasurer: John B.
1-STner. general counsel, and William NJ
Shuster, assistant secretary.
John Joy Edscp nominated M Har-
r1eE, Mr.. Callahan, Mr. Laruer. and Mr..
ShCster, Capt. James = Oyster nomi-
mated Mr.. NOyes. and CUnO IL Rudolph
nominated Mr. Moses There were
speeches SsCOnding ali the nominations.
II was announced the meetings of the
board of directors will be held al 4.3O
O'Clock on the first Monday Of each
month.