davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
EXIT DIRECTOIRE.
Dressmakers VIII Also Try to Abolish
the Waist Line.

Chicago, March 9.-The annual
exhibition of the dressmakers con-
vention, which begins here tomorrow,
will be signaIized by important edicts
booming the directors gown and
kindred styles and endorsing cos
tunes of the tenth, eleventh, twelfth
and fifteenth centuries. The waist
line'' it is announced will be near the
knees which means that there Will
be no such thing as a waistline.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
JACK JOHNSON HOME.
Heavyweight Champion Landed in
Victoria Today.

Victoria, B. C., March SACK
johnson, the worlds heavyweight
champion, arrived here this morning
on the steamer Makura, accompanied
by his wife.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
income Tax Bin Passed.

Paris March 9.-The chamber of
deputies today passed the income tax
bill by 4O7 votes to 166.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

THE Loss is S1,OOO,OOO.
Business Section of the City Is
Demolished.
Eighty Per Cent of Residence
Made Uninhabitable.

Memphis, Tenn. March s.-A dis
patch to the News-Scimitar from
Brinkley. at O'Clock today says Is
white people and more than 20
negroes were killed in last nights tor
nado and it is variously estimated
that there are between so and 100
persons injured. AS the day pro-
gressed relief parties found the dead
bodies of many negroes under debris.
st Louis. Mo-. March "a special
from Brinkley. Ark. says 80 persons
were killed, Is to 40 were injured
and more than s1.oOO.OOO in property
loss was caused by a tornado which
swept that city of 5000 population
last night. The city is total loss.
Memphis. Tenn. March 9.-Advices
from Brinkley, Ark, received here to-
day show that ten white persons and
four negroes were killed in last nights
tornado. Fifteen or twenty people were
injured
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
Weather Indications.

Chicago, March 9.-Forecast for
Kansas: Snow tonight and "Wednesday.
Not much change in temperature.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

We can save you money on that lum-
Der bill J. B. Whelan & Co. Tels. S65
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

Continued on Page Three.)
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05
Growers win be Represented.

"Hood River Apple Growers are
taking deep interest Ia the plans for
the second National Apple show this
year, aud Ken II. Rice, secretary OF
the show, Saturday, when he returned
from short trip to the famous fruit
section. 81 saw number OF apple
growers and talked to several OF the
business men, including the officers
of the Hood River Commercial Club,
and all of them said there was every
probability that their section would
be represented this year in competi-
tion.
"Last year Hood River had an ex-
hihit, but would not enter 1t In COM
petition because the growers felt that
they we're at IA disadvantage under
the system of scoring.
"Ihis year the trustees OF the app le
show have officially adopted the scor
Ing rules CT the American Pathological
society and these rules are acceptable
to the Hood River growers. In fact,
these rules are conceded to be the
broadest aud fairest rules that can be
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05

Ralph E. Ross, representing G. A..
Shaw, the Afiilited Lyceum Bureaus,
was in the city last week and made
arrangements to include Hood River
in the lecture course this season. An
especially good list of attractions
have been secured, and should insure
hlling the Opera House to Its capacity
at ca b entertainment.
The frst number will be given o.
tober 81, and will be the Central
Grand Concert 90. There will be no
entertainment in December
Lee Francis Lyburger, author. hu-
morist and STORY teller, will be here
Novem ber "a.
Clare Vaughan Wales Co., music
and comedy, January %.
Edward Elliott, stories from the
stage, February 10.
Laurant, magician, March 9.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05
Will go TO Salt Lake.

A good delegation from Hood River
will attend the National Encamp-
ment, q. A. r, at Salt Lake, next
week. Those who will join the party
from Hood River are: l.. Silliman,
g. r. Castner, s. +. Blythe, Miss
CLARA Blythe, Miss Florence BI osius,
John A. Wilson and wife, S. Copple
and wife, A. @. Staten and wife, @.
Staten and wife, Miss Alberta Staten,
and o. l.. Stranahan and wife. The
round trip fare is S25. 10. They will
leave here Saturday evening, at 8. %.
Reports from Portland say that res.
ervations have been made for two
cars and there may be possibly three
cars from that city. There will also
be delegations along the line from
here east.
Washington G.. A. X. delegates will
leave Thursday. Had the two states
made arrangements to go on the same
day, a special train could have been
made up from Portland.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05

used anywhere. They are promul-
gated by society which has made a
scientific study of fruits for many
years, and the United States Depart
ment of agriculture has officially pub
lished these rules in the department
bulletins.
"Under this system of scoring there
is absolutely no possible chance OF
favoIitism and the apple show trus-
tees have received many comments of
Endorsement because of accepting this
broad basis of scoring
"Hood River apples will not Ee so
plentiful as they we're last year, but q
fair crop is in sight and the growers
are not complaining. The strawberry
season has about closed, with prices
ruling high and strong all the season.
The strawberry growers union are
both extensive and well organized. -
Spokane Chronicle.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05
Wins Another Prize.

Donald Briggs has received notice
from the publishers OF the Saturday
Evening Post that he has won the
automobile prize, and has the option
of a Ford touring Car or 1850 cash.
he has concluded to take the money
instead of the car.
The pony cart and harness have ar.
rived and the new turnout is the envy
of all the kids In town.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05
Dancing Party,

Mond"y evening number of young
people met at the country residence
OF Murray Kay and enjoyed the even.
ing in dancing and general good
time. Those present we're: Frank
and A. Cutler, Allen Reed, z. b.
Stebblns, j. l.. Roberts, Il. W. Kelly,
Mr.. Moller, Ray Babson; Misses Gut
Ter, Garter, Blinn, Deem, kelsay,
Golf and CoshOw.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05
WATER ELECTION
IS ILLEGAL
so DECLARED BY THE COUNCIL
Names Found on Poll List which DO
Not Appear on List of Prop
erty Owners.

The Council at its regular meeting
Monday evening canvassed the vote
of the special election held Juy %.
The Mayor stated tnat the foreman
of the judges OF election informed
him that there we're votes cast which
he afterwards found out we're not on
the list of property owners, as certi.
fed by the assessor. The Council
then checked the names with the list
and found five names which did not
appear upou the list. The following
resolution was then passed:
Resolved, that the Common Coun-
Oil, sitting as canvassing board,
hnd discrepancy between the poll
books and certified list of free hold
ers in their judgement to vitiate the
results of the election, and they here
by declare said election illegal and
void.
Following the adoption of the re-
solution, the city engineer was In
structed to proceed at once to ICON
Ter with the Fire and Water commit
tea, and eide committee are hereby
instructed to proceed at the earliest
possible date to resurvey and do the
necessary development work to esti-
mate the availability of the city
spring in all details, with reference
to it's availability as a suitable water
supply for city and domestic puIpos-
es, and they are eieby instructed TO
employ such experts and specialists
as in their judgement, while keeping
within the available finances of the
city, they may deem necessary.
The committee to whom was re-
ferred the Woodworth propositions
for the lava bed spring, reported that
there we're no available funds to buy
the spring for sl5, 900. AS to the
proposition to pay sl3l, 200, for the
water after it had been delivered 10
the city limits, the city was not solic-
iting private parties to enter into the
water business In the city, but should
any desire to do so, such applications
would receive consideration. There
was nothing in these offers tn engage
serious attention of the Council at
this time.
A petition from the W. G. L. U. to
the effect that liquor was being sold
in the city and that the Cigar stores
we're not being properly conducted
was received and placed on file.
The recorder was instructed to ad
vertise ior bids for building sidewalks
along portions of streets which the
owners of the adjacent property had
failed to build, where the same had
been ordered bf the council.
Sherman avenue was ordered wild
ened and opened between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets, and the recorder
was ordered to advertise the TACT IN
accordance with the city charter.
This will take a portion of the prop
erty belonging to Frank Chandler and
also Henry Coe, to make the street in
that block the same width as the bal
ance Of Sherman avenue.
A. G. Lofts sent in his resignation
as city marshal, to take effect imme.
diately, and the same was accepted.
K. Il. Lewis was appointed by the
mayor to fill the vacancy and the
same s confirmed by the Council.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05

agIiCuituiihlB w HtCtb III EOIllhuus
Portland, Aug. 2--Conventions of
more than usual interest to the whole
Northwest will be held here the mid
die of August. The American Asso-
citation of Farmers Institute Workers
will gather here for the l4th annual
meeting on August l6 and II. The
Association for the Promotion Of Ag
riculturaI Science will meet here
August II and the Assoc latlon Of
American Agricultural Colleges will
hold the 23rd annual convention here
on August Is, - and 20. The con.
ventions will deal with scientific ag-
riculture and improved farming meth
DDS will be discussed fully. Able au-
thorities on these subjects will speak.
Many will be in attendance from all
parts Of the United States.
The meetings will be held in the
convention ball OF the Commercial
Club. Following the final session on
Friday, the visitors will be taken by
special train on trip through the
Willamette Valley as guests Of the
Commercial Club. The hop, prune,
walnut and other leading crops Of the
district will be seen. Corvallis will
entertain the delegates over night.
On the following day a similar trip
will be made TO Hood River, where
the extensive apple orchards will be
inspected.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05
Rev. 9. f. Perry, Pasor.
Strawberries Net Over $500 an Acre.

W. l.. Carnes has received hnal re-
turns from his stra wberIies which
have netted him satisfactory returns
this season. Mr.. Games sold through
local concern 635 crates which
brought him sl,6l2.40, besides 200
crates of field pick which he sold
locally for 500. This is the yield
from four acres. lie estimates the
cost crates and harvesting Of the 635
crates at 80 cents per crate. netting
him over $500 an acre, besides the
5000 sold locally.
Mr.. Uarnes raised these berries on
his place on the East Side. between
the young trees, and they have been
a great help in giving him an income
from the land while caring for the
young apple trees. He expects to set
out about three acres more OF berries.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05
llnIning.

The people of Hood River are to
have the privilege of hearing Dl.
lyon, OF Spokane, who will assist in
series of Gospel tent meetings to be
given under the aupsioes of the Chris
tian and Missionary Alliance begin
ming August 10Th.
AmiaEle site, May street between
Seventh and Eighth streets. All are
invited.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05

l.. q. and W. A. Morgan, OF Ore
eon City, and Jas. Blake, of Kansas
City, went into camp on the West
Fork Tuesday.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05

HOOD RIVER LODGE NO. los, A. +. and A.
M-Meets Saturday evening on or before
each full moon. L. N. BLOWERS, w. M.
ID. MCDONALD, Secretary.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05

young trees. VIII sell cheap and require no
cash payment from reliable man who will
improve place by building house. Also
have four room house, lot 50xl00, which /
will sell on small monthly payments to re-
liable party, or will trade for vacant lot on
which can build. Adress ?. 0. Box 53
jel0tf Hood River Ore.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05
SOCIETIES.

HOOD RIVER COMMERCIAL CLUB-Meets
every second Monday in each month at p.
m, in the club rooms over Jacksons store.
CHAs. T. EARLY, Pres.
c. ID. NIcKELsEN, Secretary.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05

HOOD RIVER CHAPTER NO. q. r. A. M
Meets first and third Friday nights of each
month. A. G. STATEN, II. p.
GEO. SHARP, Secretary.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-08-05

Continued on Page 81
New-York tribune., 1909-10-31

thirteenth century, and on its water stained
walls, when l visited it. there were still 10
be seen faint traces OF the frescos which
once adorned II and were painted in the
fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centu-
ries: but they were ruined beyond hope of
restoration. In the Germanic Museum I
found a wooden tablet dating back to 1881.
painted by one Franz Helm. 1t preserves
portraits Of four distinguished members of
the Mastersingers' Guild. There is a middle
panel occupied by two pictures, the upper
showing King David, the patron saint OF
the guild. SO forgetful of chronology as to
be praying before a crucfiX; the lower a
meeting of the mastersingers. Over the
heads Of the assemblage is a representative
of the medallion with which the victor in
contest used TO be decorated, we see in
the last scene OF Wagners comedy. One
Of these decorations was given 10 the guild
By Sachs, and was in use for whole CEN
tury. At the end Of that time il had be-
come so worn that Wagenseil replaced it
with another.
Church and tablet are the only relics OF
the mastersingers left In Nuremberg which
may be called personal. 1 had expected to
find autobiographic manuscripts Of Sachs.
but in this was disappointed. There is a
volume Of master songs IN the poet-com-
New-York tribune., 1909-10-31
THE ART OF MILE. sACCHETTo.
Dramatic Dancer, Who Will Apper as
Metropolitan, Tells of Her Aims.

Mile Rita Sacchetto. young dramatic
dancer who has appeared with success IN
Europe, is TO make her New York debut
next month IN the Metropolitan Opera
House at several special nnatinees. In con-
junction with Miss Loie Fuller. Among tho
dances that Mile. Sacchetto win present is
a symbolic oance with Grieg's music to
Peer Gynt." which she has recently writ
ten with the assistance Of Charles Henry
Meltzer. and a taranteIIe which she dances
to the music Of Chopin. Others OF her
dances are given TO the music OF Handel.
Mozart. Glack. Liszt. Brahms. Rubinstein,
Moszkowski and Bizet.
Miss Sacchetto said recently IN an inter-
view that her dances were largely panto-
mimic. and that in them she stroye to ex-
press the spirit Of the time and country IN
which they were supposed to occur.
For my English Dances she said. tn
which I dress after portraits by Gains
borough and Reynolds. use the music OF
Handel and Mozart, the music that best
expresses the spirit OF the epoch In like
manner I use the music OF List and
Brahms IN my Hungarian dances. Of Ru-
binstein and Moszkowski IN my Spanish
dances and OF Bizet in those OF the East.
and always dress In accordance with the
supposed to take place. My dances are all
essentially dramatic. and in them 1 strive
to express a story OF human interest. Above
all. try TO show that the mind can IN the
dance be made to play as important q part
as the muscles-that the dance can be
made a true art IN ITSELF
New-York tribune., 1909-10-31
..Die Meistersinger Nuernberg-its historical ana
SatircaI Eiements-The Vertable Hans Sachs
as a Dramatst-Flis Treatment
of Wagneran Subjects
opera yiEnettes. No. Is.

sing II: the knight complies; the master
singers are delighted and Pogner rewards
the singer with Evas hand. Sachs, at the
request of the presiding officer of the guild,
also offers him the medal as the insignia OF
membership in the guild of mastersingers.
Walther's experience with the pedantry
which had condemned him the day before,
when he had sung impulse, love ana
Youthful ardor had prompted, declines the
distinction, but the old poet discourses Oh
tbe respect due to the masters and thelr,
work as a guarantee of the permanence OF
German art, and persuades him 10 enter the
guild OF mastersingers.
Die Meistersinger'' is Photographic IN
many of its scenes. personages and Incl
dents. but so far as the stage pictures
which we are accustomed to see In the OPP
era houses of New York and the European
capitals are concerned this statement must
be taken with a great deal of allowance
owing to the fact that opera directors
stage managers scene painters and cos
tuners are blithely indifferent to the Nerl-
ties of history. / have never seen repro
duction Of the Church of st. Catherine on
any stage, yet the church stands to-day
with its walls intact as they were at the
time in which the comedy is supposed TO
may This time is fixed by the 1dct tnat
its principal character, Hans Sachs. is rep
resented as widoWer who might himself
be a. suitor for Eva's hand. Now the veri-
table Sachs was a widower in the summer
of the year 1860. I visited Nuremberg IN
1856 in search of relics Of the masterslng-
ers, and had no little difficulty in finding
the church 1t had not been put TO its orig
inal purposes for more than hundred
years, and there seemed to be only few
people in Nuremberg then who knew or It's
existence 1t has been many things since
It became seculariZed: a painters acao-
er7y drawing school. military hospital.
warehouse concert hall, and no doubt
score Of other things. When | found it.
with the aid of the police. 1t was the paint
shop and scenic storeroom OF the munich
pal theatre. II IS small building, utterly
unpretentious of exterior and interior, inno-
cent Of architectural beauty. hidden away
in the middle OF a block Of lowly buildings
used as dwellings. carpenter shops and the
like. That Wagner never visited it is plain
from the fact that. though he makes it the
scene of one act Of his comedy (as he had
to do 10 be historically accurate), his stage
directions could not possibly be accommo-
GATED to its architecture In 1891 Mr.. Louis
Loeb. the American artist, whose early
death IN the summer of 1863 is widely
mourned, visited the spot and made draw
ings for me of the exterior and interior Of
the church as it looked then. The church
was built IN the last half decade OF the
New-York tribune., 1909-10-31
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY

Thursday evening next. In Carnegie Hall.
and at the same place on the afternoon OF
the day following. the first concerts OF tho
reconstructed Philharmonic Society will
take place under the leadership OF Cin.s.v
Mailer Director Mailer declares that 20
Is pleased with the orchestral material he
has selected and that he believes that he
will make the Philharmonic one OF the firss
of Americas symphony orchestras. The
programme for the first concerts is as fol-
lows:
Overture. The consecration\of the House."
Beethoven
SYMPHONY Ne 3, ''Eroica'' ......... Beethoven
Symphonic poem. 'Mazeppa". .......... Lisrt
It'll EulenspteSer' ,---.--..--....R r. Strauss
All past records in the matter Of new
subscriptions have been surpassed says
Secretary Felix Leifels. 10 is his belief
that the increase OF patronage this sea-
son over that of last viii run into tha
thousands
New-York tribune., 1909-10-31

in the dramatic life of his time as wagner
In ours. He was among the earliest OF tho
German poets who took up the miracle
plays and mysteries after they had been
abandoned by the Church, and developed
them on the lines which ran out into the
classic German drama. His immediate pre-
decessors were the writer's of the so-calleo
"Fastnacht" (Mardi-gras) plays, who flour
ished in Nuremberg In the fifteenth CEN
tury. Out Of these plays German comedy
arose, and among those who rocked its
cradle was another Of the mastersingers'
who plays a part In Wagners opera-Hans
Foiz. II was doubtless largely due to the
influence of Hans Sachs that the guild OF
mastersingers built the first German theatre
in Nuremberg in 1850 Before then plays
with religious subjects were performed In
St GATHERINGS church, as we have seen,
the meeting place of the guild. Secular
plays were represented In private houses
Hans Sachs wrote no less than 2oS dramas,
which he divided into carnival plays,
"pJays." comedies" and tragedies" He
dropped the first designation In his later
years. but his first dramatic effort was a
FastndchtSpeiI and treated the subject
of Tannhauser and Venus. 1t bears the
date February q, 1877. and was therefore
written 10 years DelOTe w dSler Wdo pOi H-
or what is now dramatic form and struct-
ure there is not sign In this play. 1t Is
merely dialogue between Venus and vari-
GUS persons who stand for as many classes
of society. The title is: 'Das Hofgesindt
Veneris" or, as 1t might be rendered in
English, 1.-The Court of Venus" The char
acters are a Herald, Faithful Eckhardt,
Danheuser (stc), Dame Venus. knight.
Physician. Citizen, Peasant. Soldier. Gam
bier. Drunkard, Maid and Wife. The
Knight, Citizen, and the others appear In
turn before Venus and express contempt
for her powers-the knight because OF his
bravery, the Physician because of his
learning, the Maid because of her virtue.
the Wife because of her honor. Faithful
Eclshardt, character that figures in many
Thuringian legends. especially In tales Of
the Wild Hunt, warns each person in turn
TO beware of Venus. The latter listens to
each boast and lets loose an arrow. Each
boaster succumbs with short lamentation.
When the play opens Danheuser is already
a prisoner of the goddess. After all tho
New-York tribune., 1909-10-31

Russian composer and pianist will make
his first appearance as soloist In New York
AT each concert Mr.. Fielder will present
novelty. On Thursday evening he viii
play for the first time In New York Max
Rogers Symphonic Prologue to Trag-
edy. Opus 10S. The other orchestral num-
oers will be Brahms's symphony In ID
major, No. 2. and Richard Strauss's tone
poem TIL Eulenspiegel's Merry Franks"
On Saturday afternoon the novelty will
De Granville Bantocks overture. "Pierrot
OF the Minute. which has been played
with great success in Boston. The other
numbers on the programme will be Schu-
mann's second symphony. In C major:
Rachmaninof's concerto No. for piano
forte and orchestra. and Richard Strauss
tone poem Don Juan