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NEWS OF PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
". A. Brady To Have . New Theatre In
West Forty-eishth Street.

According to an announcement made
from the Offices Of William A. Brady last
night another new theatre is to be built.
A representative Of Mr.. Brady said that a
deal was closed yesterday on receipt OF a
cable from Mr.. Brady by which the New
Netherland Theatre Company takes title
toproperty in Forty eighth street between
Broadway and Sixth avenue, The prop
erty is 100 by 50 feet, and work on the new
theatre, to be called the New Netherland,
will be started at once. 1t is to be finished
on January l, 1910. The seating capacity
is to be between 1 400 and 500.
Miss Frances Starr, who recently fin
shed her long season at the Belasco
stuyvesant Theatre in Eugene Walters
play The Easiest Way is sailing on the
Mauretania to-day for a vacation trip to
London and Paris She returns to New
York to open her next season at the
Belasco Stuyvesant Theatre on Septem-
her 4, when she will again appear as Laura
Yurdock
Klaw d Erlanger have leased to John II.
Springer the Grand Opera House in
Brooklyn. MIR. Springer takes possession
ot the playhouse on August under an
agreement with Klaw Il Erlanger. Mr..
Springer will run the theatre along the
lines Of the Grand Opera House of this
borough.
The Yankee baseball players have been
invited to the Astor Theatre this evening
TO see a performance Of THE Man From
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CAME SECOND CABIN TO BE SAFE.
German Guests Thought $500 Was to
Pay All Their Hflls.


A delegation Of representatives Of
American singing societies went to Ho-
boken yesterday to greet Musikdirektor
Matthew Neumann, composer Of the song
4The Warning Of the Rhine" and Choir
neister Gustav Wohlgemuth and Prof.
Meyer Olbersleben. expecting to find them
In the first cabin. Herr Neumann's song
Ia the one that tho rival societies will sing
at the feetiys! IN Madison Square Garden,
and Herren Wohlgemuth and Meyer
Olbersleben are the judges appointed by
the Kaiser to find out which band OF
singers should get the prize.
The three musicians come as guests
Of the United Singing Societies OF New
York. and they are the first second cabin
passen gers who ever have been taken to
select suites at the Plaza. The reception
committee that finally found the dis
tinguished voyagers were a bit put out
that they should not have come as the
United Singing Societies had intended
they should. It was explained that the
three had received $500 each to buy a
first class round trip ticket by the North
German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse, but that they had supposed the
money was to pay all their expenses.
including hotel accommodation here.
so they thought they would eoonomise
and 10 suro of having enough. They were
taken from the ships pier in automobiles.
They will be requested please to 90 back
in the first cabin.
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HENRY b. HARRIS'S PLANS.
New starr and New Plays which He VIII
Produce Next season.

Produce Next season.
Henry B. Harris yesterday announced
his plans for the season OF 1oO9-lo.
The Hudson Theatre will be closed
from July to early in August in order
that it may be renovated. This will
neoessitate the closing OF The Third
Degree which has been running at this
theatre from February !. After the
theatre has bean completely refurnished,
The Third Degree will open again
early in August and remain at this theatre
until September 1, when it & ocs to Chicago.
Robert Edeson will inaugurate his
touring season early in September. OPEN
ing at the Hollis Street Theatre in W..
Somerset Maugham's 8 new comedy, "The
Noble Spaniard.' which is now being
presented in London by Charles Hawtrey.
Gertrude Coghlan who was last seen in
New York in -The Travelling Salesman
will be Mr.. Blossoms leading woman.
Mr.. Harris will bring Mr.. Edeson into the
Hudson Theatre, where he will play his
annual engagement.
Claiming Pollock's new play. -Su ch
Little Queen in which Elsie Ferguson.
Frank Gilmore, Francis Bryne. George
the leading roles. will be the opening at
traction Of the season at the Hackett
Theatre on August 30.
Kellett Chambers's e comedy. AN Amer
ioan Widow for which Mr.. Harris has
engaged Grace Filkins, John Flood.
Grant Mitchell. Thomas Thorne and
Maggie Fielding, for the principal parts.
will open at the Hudson Theatre on Sep
tember Q.
Following this production will be that
Of .On the Eve which opens in Septem-
ber at the Park Theatre, Boston 1t is
by Martha Morton from the German Of
Leopold Kampf and deals with contem-
poraneous Russian life. 1t will be pre-
eented with Hedwig Reieher, Arthur
Byron. Frederick Iewis. Edna Archer
Freeman in the leading roles.
In November Mr.. Harris will present
Edmund Breese in THE Earth a new
play by James Bernard Pagan. Immedi-
ately following this production Mr.. Harris
will present Grace Elliston as a. star in
play by Harriet Ford and Caroline King
The next production Mr.. Harris will
make will be a new play by William An
thony MCGUIRE entitled The Heights
in which Frank Keenan, will star under
Mr.. Harris's management.
Later In the season Mr.. Harris will
present The Commuters.' new comedy
Of suburban lie by James Forbes, and a
new play as yet unnamed by Charles
Klein.
Mr. Harris has also in preparation
Tho Ghost Breaker by Paul Dickey
and Charles W. Goddard THE Bar
barans.' by Edgar Selwyn. and Thomas
Millard. THE Natural Law by Howard
Hall, and THE Children OF Destiny b v
Sydney Rosenield.
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NEW HIGH PRICE THEATRE
LITTLE PLAYHOUSE IN 39TH ST.
WITH SOME NOVEL IDEAS.
II Its Manasers' Plans Go Through the
Boxes VIII Re More Expensive Than
the Metropoiitan's-To Give One Act
Plays and IN Up to Date Burlesque.

Plays and an UP TO Date Burlesaue.
New York Is to have still another
theatre next winter. This new institution,
which is to be opened to the public on
November 8. will be called the little
Theatre. 1t is to be situated in West
Thirty-ninth street opposite the Metro
politan Opera House and will occupy a
garage which Is now In process OF trans
formation into a playhouse. The season
will last for thirty weeks. but In all only
sixty performances will be given for the
subscribers. as there are to be but two
evenings set aside for thein-W Wednesdays
and Thursdays. The other nights will
be for the general public. The general
manager will be @. Mazzaoorati. while
the artistic manager will be the French
dramatist known by nom de plume
as Fred de Gresao and In private life as
Nine. Victor Maurel. wife Of the former
barytone and present teacher Of singing
in this city. The hope that the subscrip-
ton nights are to be fashionable Is shown
by the price OF the boxes. which exceeds
the figure asked at the Metropolitan. A
stage box at the Little Theatre is to cost
$3.50 for one night week, while par
terre box at the Metropolitan costs for
boxes range from 5000 to 5000 q season,
according to the number OF seats they
contain. while single seat costs 500
a season. There are to be only 800 seats
in the theatre altogether.
AThe founders OF the Little Theatre.
the announcement reads, Intend to pre-
sent to their public q series OF one aot
! proAuOtiNpa anIaNfo1 fr0vyo ho m af aonao :
tiond successes OF some Partisan stages
such as the Capucines. the Mathurins
and the Theatre Royal and from the most
artistic American. English and German
sketches. Authors OF known skill will
adapt into English the short foreign
! Ing the favor, character and witticisms
OF the originals while avoiding all license. =
In addition to these one aorplays there
will be musical performances to be Sc
lected from the works OF Gretry. Per-
golesi and other composers who wrote
for such an intimate theatre and whose
works are not adapted for performance
the most characteristic feature OF this
new playhouse will be review to be called
Tell Ne All About It. which will be
changed from night TO night 80 as to in
clude the hurleeque OF the most recent
events Of the day and Is In fact intended
extra dealing with what has just hap
pened. There will be also Sunday CON-
certs OF an entirely novel character.
Every evening there will be at least two
or three one act plays on the programme
with the review. 1t 10 probable that the
performances will not begin until q
O'Clock. There will he novelty produced
every Wednesday night. and the review
is to be changed weekly in important
particulars. The only announcement
concerning the actors is made in these
optimistio words:
@lhe company. composed OF starr Of
ell countries. environod by an ensemble
varied repertoire with unusual ex .
cellence,'
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~ MEMORY OF SLOCCM VICTIMS.
Exercises In the Cemetery on the Fifth
Anniye yersary OF the Disaster.

More than two thousand relatives
friends and sympathizers attended the
memorial services held at the graves Of
victims of the Slocum disaster in the
Lutheran Cemetery, Middle Village. yes
terday. 1t was the fifth anniversary OF
the tragedy Of the burning OF the steam
boat Gen. Slocum while on it's way up
the East River with a Sunday school
excursion party Of St. Marks Lutheran
.hurch in Seventh street, Manhattan.
More than a thousand lives were lost,
most OF them being women and children.
The tragedy fresh in their memory, sus-
vlvors and relatives whose loved ones
perished in the catastrophe appeared at
the exercises yesterday In tears and
mourning,
The programme WAS arranged by the
memorial committee. OF which Charles
narsch is president. Among the speakers
V.r" Charles Aichman OF Elmhurst. presi-
dent ~ the Schwaebischer Sangerbund Of
Brooklyn; the Rev. F. Z. c. Haas OF AM
.t"rdam, y. Y. and Charles Dersch.
Prayers were made by the Rev. DR.. w.
Petersen Of Middle Village. The graves
~ the known victims were visited and
tfCOra ted
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The SeAEOers.

Sailing to-day by the Cunarder Maure-
tania. which will carry to Queenstown
and Liverpool the largest number OF
cabin passengers that ever have left
this port In her, are:
Mr.. and Mrs willard s. Brown. MIR. and
Mrs. Alexander Cochrane. Mr.. and Mrs.
william Guggsnhein,. Judge and Mrs !, II.
Haines, DR.. j. T. NJ. Johnstone, Sir Edward
and Lady Mas. J. r. Milholland and Prof.
and Mrs Henry Fairfield Osborn,
Passengers by the White Star liner
Teutonic, for Plymouth. Cherbourg and
Southampton:
Mrs. W. j. wlllett Bruce. MIR. and Mrs.
Paul Draper, y. W. Kendall. Mrs. n. r
Ketcham. the Rev. Leighton Parks, Mr..
and Mr.. II, \; Prtchsrd, George Ban
Randolph
By the steamship ooeanla, for Naples
and Trieste.
p: Hsrtsrt g 4 Ar.'4sss AseSi.H W NJ sHs aS.y Mf, g.
Buehier and Mrs O. B Gardner
The sun., 1909-06-16
PRESBYTERIANS IN COUNCIL.
si!m Attendance ~ the First session Of
Their Church Alliance.

The first session Of the ninth council
of the Alliance OF Churches holding the
Presbyterian system, held in the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church yesterday
afternoon, did not attract as large an
audience as did the opening session Of
the eighth council, held some years ago
in Liverpool. The general secretary.
the Rev. DR.. @. D. Matthews, was in
olined to he critical OF American lack OF
appreciation and said that in England
there would have been a crowd. The
secretary was also put out to some eS
tent because American speakers did not
appear on time.
The Rev. DR.. J. Campbell Gibson,
Moderator OF the Presbyterian Synod OF
England this year, read the Scripture
lesson and made the prayer. The opening
sermon was delivered by the Rev. DR..
James d. Moffatt, recent American
Moderator.
Upon the organization of the council.
concluding the delivery Of the sermon,
dent. took the chair. and the appointment
OF committees was announced. An
address Of welcome was made by the Rev,
DR.. d. j. Burrell OF the Collegiate Re-
formed Church Last evening there
was an address by President Dykes. fol-
lowed by reception TO the delegates In
the chapel of the church.
Until two years ago DR.. Dykes was at
the head OF the Presbyterian College at
Cambridge where efforts are made to
educate English born young men for pas
torships Of English Presbyterian congre
cations in part in order that English
people may not be dependent upon Scot
land for ministers.
The reports presented to the council,
most OF them by standing committees.
present a picture OF world Presbyterian
ism. The committee on statistics finds
that Presbyterianism is growing at a
healthy rate. The number OF commu-
nicants in the churches OF the world hold
ing that system OF government is now
cent In the last twenty years. The
United States furnishes almost half Of
this number.
The executive committee discusses In
Is report Justice Brewers opinion, given
in a Supreme Court decision, that the
United States is a Christian nation. 1t
adds arguments to those given in the de-
poses to bring TO bear moral influences
whose result will be to maintain vigorously
the Christian character of the American
republic
To-day is to be given up to papers on
Calvin. Tonight Instead Of q session
ministers will visit Presbyterian prayer
meetings in the various churches. and
some 81 them will take part in them.
There arc about sixty delegates from
Europe, but many OF them were not in
attendance at the opening session yester-
day. There are registered some two
hundred and sixty from the various
churches in America. The council will
sit until the end OF next week
The sun., 1909-06-16
ITEM FROM THE EQUITABLE
Travels Of Miss Lillian Browns Hat Re
ported by an Omce Boy.

Travels Of Miss Lillian Browns Hat Re-
ported by an Onlco Boy.
An Office boy Of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society favors The Sun with
the following:
GIRLS PBACH BASKET TAXES FRENCH
LEAVE.
Miss Lillian Brown had just returned
from lunch yesterday afternoon to re-
sumo her work OF fixing up the books In
the application Dept OF the Equitable
Life whose Offices arc in Albany street,
when she looked out the window at some
thing which caught her eye. At that
moment her peach basket hat which was
lying on her deek took wings and the wind
from the north helped IL TO make its
escape through the window to the street
Q stories below.
When Miss Brown reached the street she
found a crowd Of sohoolboys gathered
around the hat playing ring ring arosy.'
Miss Brown blushed up to the ears. sepa
rated the hands Of the boys and got her
hat once more. She then returned to her
deek. The other employees had all after
noon TO laugh about II.
The sun., 1909-06-16
NEW DEPUTY SHERIFF.
Governor Of the Manhattan Club Gets I
Dadse-Pushcarts, Look Out.

Pushcarts, Look Out.
Sheriff Tom Foley appointed David B.
Gilbert yesterday to be q deputy sherih.
Of the New York Stock Exchange. He is
one Of the governors Of the Manhattan
Club. He became a member Of the club
in 1882 and in recent years has lived there
when not running his farm just outside
OF Ogdensburg.
Deputy Sheriff Gilbert after being
sworn In returned to the club sporting a
gold deputy's badge and was greeted
by City Chamberlain formerly Police
Commissioner James j. Martin, Philip
j. Britt. Gen. James B. Burbank. John +.
Carroll, Edward s. Thompson. Col. R. A.
c. Smith, George F. Hartman. Sylvester
j. O'Sullivan. Charles l.. Brodt. Jacob A.
Cantor. Sylvester j. E. Rawling, Macgrane
Coke, Morgan J. o 'Brien. president of the
Club; Supreme Court Justices Mccall.
Bowling. Davis. Guy. Dayton and Truax,
Roger Foster, William M. Ivins. John
Lynn. John Quinn, Edward G. Whitaker,
Edwin Seton. Douglas Taylor and dozens
more. Not mothers son OF them could
toll why Mr.. Gilbert desired the appoint
mert and Mr.. Gilbert wouldn't himself
tell. Mr.. Gilbert is described as 'the
only millionaire on Sheriff Foley's STAFF
For a generation Mr.. Gilbert has been
Uncle Dave to the members OF the club.
Yesterday no was Sheriff Gilbert and
the theory was advanced that when he is
supplied with a policeman's club and
handouts through the influence Of MIR.
Martin the pushoart men and loiterers
who abound in the neighborhood OF
Madison Square Garden will remove
themselves.
The new deputy sheriff is IS. has the
requisite piercing eye, is spry as kitten
and Is said TO be domino player.
The sun., 1909-06-16

together with the intimate picture of
some Of the courts and literary and
musical circles Of Europe, makes up the
substance Of NJ. d'Auvergne's book.
Ideas and hard work are the keys to
all success Such is the motto whic h
hangs over Mary Roberts Rinehart's
desk in her Pittsburg home. Mrs. Rine-
hart herself is an irregular worker. She
can 60 oheerfully for fortnight without
writing at all and then tear off copy
like mad. She wrote the 10000 words Of
sThe Circular Staircase in four weeks.
.The Man in Lower Ten was written
more slowly. Mrs. Rinehart does her
best work in the morning and never
works at night. She cannot dictate.
writes her stories out In long hand and
takes entire care OF her own correspond
enoe, which has grown almost beyo ond
her reaoh. All sorts OF people from all
sorts OF places write letters to her-some
of them anonymously.
The Italian lady inhabiting Salonica
who appeared as .cl aimant' Of the
literary honors OF Nine. biaroelle Tinsyre
il arouslng much discussion in Paris.
While she is ridicuied by some writer's her
biographies are being published in Paris
journals. The lady, whose name is given,
is French Huguenot by paternal de-
scent, but Spanish and Catholic also.
through her father. who is in the consular
service Of Spain. BY marriage she belon gs
to the royal navy Of tho Italian Kingdom.
Salonioa eeems to he much Interested in
her literary powers.
The sun., 1909-06-16
Train Crew suspended on Charge Of Not
Checking Studcnts' Franks.

MoRRIsTowN, N. j., June l5.-Abraham
Ayers. conductor on the train which leaves
Hoboken at ii15 each night, and his
crew have been laid OF for ten days for
an allie ged failure to suppress boisterous
Stevens Institute boys on his train Satur-
day night. Passengers on the train
reported the matter TO the railroad author
tiles. Ayers denies that there was any
disorder on his train.
The sun., 1909-06-16
To Marry Mark Hanna's Grandson.

The engagement is announced Of Miss
Gertrude Jerome Leavitt Of Woodbury..
Conn. TO Carl Harrington Hanna. the son
ct Daniel B. Hanna OF Cleveland and
Mrs Edmund B. Stello OF New York city.
Mr. Hanna 10 grandson Of the late Mark
Hanna. Mas Leavitt 10 the youngest
daughter Of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Leavtt OF Stamford Conn.
The sun., 1909-06-16
'll! Flags at Half Mast FOR Slocuin Dis
aster.

The flags Oh tho City Hall were hall
masted yesterday in commemorution
Of the anniversary OF the burning Of the
General Slocum in 1905 Because Marty
keese, the keeper OF the building. is seri-
olsly i'll there were many callers at the
1ty Hall during the day who thought
that Mr.. Keese had died. but he said he
was feeling a little better yesterday.
The sun., 1909-06-16
state Employees Exempt From Garnishee
Law.

ALBANY, June i5.--state employees are
not affected by the garnishee law. Attor-
ney-G General O'Malley has so notified the
State Comptroller, and hereafter the
Comptroller will not recognize granishee
executions.
The sun., 1909-06-16

5oc.-Psmela. Fielding 5 Am ella, Andrews. Smol-
let's Pickle. Random. Slerne' S Shandy. PRATT.
l6l 9th av.
The sun., 1909-06-16


The life OF Cyrus Hall Mccormick has
been written by Herbert N. Casson.
author OF the Romance OF the Reaper
and will he published In July. The story
is not biography only but cha pter in the
one of the important developments OF
American history. Mr.. Casson pictures
Cyrus Mccormick as the man OF desti n.y.
who by his invention OF the reaper
emancipated the American farmer from
the slavery OF the soil and made him
master of the wheat instead OF its SER
want. Up to Mr.. McCormiok's time no
matter how much wheat was grown
no more was obtainable than human
hands could gather In the few days when
alone the wheat could be harvested.
And that quantity was bare living
quantity; It's export was an impossibility.
The captivating dancer Lola Montez,
who ruled the heart Of the famous Lud.
wig /. and Was for nearly a year the
uncrowned Queen Of Bavaria. is the
subject Of a forthcoming book by Ed
mund r. d'Auvergne. Prof. Johann
Nepomik Sepp, who died recently. was
a deadly enemy Of the Countess Of Lands
field the title King. Ludwig gave his
favorite) and his opposition to her caused
his Punishment for three years from
Munich. Lola Montez caused herself TO
be driven from Munich two years before
the expiration OF Prof. Sepp's hanish-
ment and made her visit TO the United
States In 1851. The story Of this visit,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-06-16
IGORROTE BOX PARTY AT
The PRESS CLUB Benefit

So NH hlkcd for tho filg nunEa.
low and promptly engaged q hux,
I,ill will be there With two lady
lFofrotsf and SIX Of the boys Bit
promises tha. his pfoteKes Will each
and every one appear In ffcsh
creased zee strings on course.
nils bunch will be dressed 30 as
not 10 offend
Bills stunt Of giving a box party
to the Igorfutes is IN Itself worth
the price Of admission, When Mar
garet Moffni, Joseph GHyhill. Sam
wiltse and Claude. the Md, spring
Awake al the Switch, Il slil be up
to hill to do some tall Interpreting
HIli says be will keep a watehful
eye on HE charges. and that no
bolos will be flashed.
And when Harry Armstrong and
Billy CLARK sing their latest CON.
Positions. wonder what that sex
tet Of lRorrptea will thlnkl
Seats for the big show, which
will not only include the classy cur
rent Bill, but which will be augment.
cd By the appearance Of Miss Emma
bunting. T. Daniel Ftawley, Ferris
Hartman and othera, are aeiiing
rapidly.
Better get In on the sure thing.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-06-16
ON TRIAL FOR
MURDER

Charged with deliberately shoot
Ing to death George Caste. an en-.
ployment agent. on March 20,
FatIas CapoulArls this morning
went on trial in Nudge Mitchell
Gilliam's court
Some Of the questions put to the
Jury this morning tend to show
that the plea will be self defense.
The story Of the shooting as told
by Capoulsris after the affair was
that Casto had secured $50 from
himself and nine other Greeks 10
secure them positions In grad
Ing camp. That after the money
had been paid to Caste be refused
TO give the men the promised poet
lions
After waiting in vain for Casio
to make good. Capoularis went in
search Of 4 position for himself
and happened upon the srading
camp where Caste was In charge.
The two men quarFelcd and as
the morning was O stormy one
they retired into q little shop 10
talk matters over
During the quarrel Casio turned
TO walk away and IL Is claimed
that capoularis shot Casio in the
back.
After the shooting the Greeks
who were Interested Ia the case
raised fund TO defend capoalarts
because IT Was claimed Casio had
played the same game on number
OF Greeks before and had been At
one time run out Of California.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-06-16
SOCIETY GIRL WOULD
NOT WEAR TIGHTS

WASHINGTON. June id=MhIle
Miss Almira Sessions, daughter Of
a prominent family In tho national
capital social life, was Princess Ga
lulu In the Abont opera company a
production Of The Sultan Of sniu
stage lie was dream, hue when
Miss Sessions was selected tot the
chorus OF 1T Happened tn Nord
land, and as Lender Of tho soldier
gifliea WAS required To dou tights,
the stage dream faded aud Miss
Sessions woke up
Miss Sessions friday returned to
private life, and rosy flush adorna
her cheek II anyone mentions eho
ruses In her presence Miss eee
slons refused point blank 10 don
tleshinEs, and when urged TO do
80 by the stage manager stalked
from the theatre.