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.'The Christian Pilgrim. which placed
few years ago on the stage, had big
moral uplift as well as the m ntal things
that count Henrietta Crosma PLAYED
in 10 with a support OF 12e people and the
staging, done by Maurice Campbell,
exceeded in mAgnificence and artistic
work anything ! have ever been inter
osted In financially, but the public didn't
want IL and lost 800 600.
Something was lacking. or perhaps
Il had q religious teaching which the
people were not quite ready for. That
they are ready for IL now fr m the stage
10 proved by the two successes The
PassinR OF the Third Floor Back and
The Ser want In the House. both OF them
sermons. not drama.
MY play The Struggle Everlasting
was the pioneer OF these. and while l
made nothing from IL ] have the inner
satisfaction OF believing that paved the
way for the successes l have named.
Next season I intend 10 put on a very
ideal play by Percy Mackaye called The
Scarecrow. and l am putting it on al
though no one will be more surprised
than / ~ Il turns out TO be big box Office
success ..
THAT MIR. Harris has absolutely no
jaundicsd view Of life brought about
by his fAilur he explains in part
by pointing out that taxing n e years
% q basis il would quire ten failures
Anothe explanation Of his cheerfulness ia
temIeramental.
In one season. he says. by and large,
a manager can afford four failures IL he
has one victory. and that means prob
ably that he loses 500. 900 in that time:
so you can approximate what a play
like The Lion and the Mouse The Trav-
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PLAYS UNCERTAIN THINGS
HENRY b. HARRIS CHATS OF
sgCCESSES AND FAILURES.

PronIs From Good Plays Larg0-Llttio
CsHnee for the UnknOwn Playwright
A --SsrubstaIIinw Human Talent aud
\ Educating the Theatre Audience.
henry B. Harris, the theatrical mama
g3r. VINO 10 tiae owner OF tho Hudson and
u Ack syt theatres and n interested In many
cirAnatic enterprises. admits that there
are times when he is little at go in TO-
gard TO the playwriting problems pre-
Gented for his attention His first per-
eonAl venture OF importance was tho
management OF Robert Edeson in The
Soldier OF Fortune by Richard Harding
Davis. the dramati EAtiou OF whioh was
dome by Augustus Thomas. This was q
great success.
up 70 that time. he says. .the one peak
chat stands out in long range Of endeavor
Was . dramatic enterprise called Tho
Widow Jones. which was starred by Miss
Hay Irwin. My father and his partner.
NJ. Rice. had had several controversies
a. relation TO this, Mr.. Rice contending z
that n was perfectly absurd to make a
uxar oG Miss Irwin. and there were moments
when my father appeared to be weaken
me-
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Niagara other yenturesome spirits. most
Of them barrel navigators, Graham and
Hazlett and Potts In the vanguard. All
made the trip through the tumble of
waters without mishap, ons among the
number a woman. Sadie Allen.
About ten years after the first barrel
feet had sailed through a second ieet
came down the river. OF the score that
entered for honors only one was killed.
a woman who was sutfocated In her bar
rel In the whirlpool through slow work
on the part Of her supporters on shore.
II was even declared that Thomas Ken
dali Boston policeman. swan the rapids
In the sos. but his right 70 fame has not
gone unchallenged.
things in Niagara feats. There has al
ready been offered purse Of 81. 900 and .
$500 trophy for motor boat race through
the rapids, the whirlpool and down TO
Lewiston. where the river broadcns TO q
calm commercial stream Fifteen ad-
yenturers have. announoed their lnten-
ton Of trying for fame and fortune ia
the race. lt ts declared that q motor
boat stoutly bAlt and having powerful
engines can make the trip without mis-
adventure. Peter Seissen OF Chicago
Io~ yeIfs ago wens safely through
In a small steel craft, suffering only a
wetting. The only diffloulty that threat
ems Is othcial interference on one side
or the other OF the river.
There won't be anything left TO do
pretty soon but swim up the falls said
old Tom Dillon, the dean OF hackmen.
ben tod OF the projsotsI Tsos.
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This was about 1850. This picture OF
Bossy Simms was taken when she was
standing within 100 feet OF the brink Of
the American fall. Soon after the
public protest her owner withdrew her
TO the quiet OF a country lot, She had no
bovine successors in the park.
But she had an imitator In tho person
OF Amos SchweitzerI q shoemaker of
Toronto. Ont. who on June Q. te0e.
For fully forty-hve minutes he stood IN
the stream. twenty feet or SO from tho
brink and thirty five feet out from Pros
pect Point. his hat cooked over his ear
and a cane In his hands, this Letween
80 and 2:l6 A. NJ, with the tremendous
beauty OF Niagara set forth under a dag
cling moon. He was arrested as he stood
at the brink by a policeman. .,--.t-y .-if
Then there was Mrs. Anna Edison Taylor.
who successfully made a trip over the
Hprsesh0e fall In barrel. T"., s'..
Pretty much the same liberties have
been taken with the rapids and the whirl-
pool. Doubtless many Indiana attempted
the rapids trip In canoes and doubtless
all went 70 their death In the journey. So
there came from their people extravagant
tales of It's terrors.
But in 1881 the romanoes received a
severe jolt when the Maid OF the Mist.
the stream from the foot Of the Falls 20
Lake Ontario with Joel Robinson at the
wheel. to escape levy. suffering no injury
except the loss OF her snokestaok. which
was kicked Oh by O wave.
Then came Capt. Matthew Webb, who
IN 1888 tried 70 swim the rapids and was
killed in the attempt, his head coming
In contact with submerged rock. The
Interest that his feat aroused brought to
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thereabout the running ioe from Lake
Erie helped by a stin wind piled the waters
back on themselves and Niagara went
dry at the cataract. and again in April
OF last year 1t was damned so that men
and women CROSSED from Prospect Park
TO Green Island.
But even before the engineers and the
last Ice dam was Bossy Slmms. To her
more than any other agency credit Ii due
for stripping Niagara OF its romance OF
irresistible power.
9ossy Simms was q nero co ". Dur
ham 70 Judge by her picture. her owner
was the supenntendent o. the inclined
railway in Prospect Park before the days
OF free Niagara and lived within catch OF
the spray from the falls. Bossy came to
the park a. a calf. Uutrammelled with
the prejudloes Of ordinary visitors. she
went 20 the river a. to q trout stream.
Frequently In summer time she went
20 wade In the river from near Prospect
Point with no thought Of danger and
there slake her thirst. greatly to the
ans=oraeat >. .fse pccpIe .ha: gathered
In the park at 80 cents apiece to be stunned
with wonder at the might and majesty
Of tho cataract. Naturally there was a
public protest and many disillusioned
signtseers demanded their money back
Bossy Simns had spoiled the show for
them. POOH they cried. this IL a fakel
Fourteen miles 70 see thisl-
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ala, have just pertinacity enough to
believe that IN spite OF It's initial failure
there Is something in Il that will signify
triumph later on. 1 have several plays
among the non-sucoeSses which hope
to resurrect.
Il like fret OF all TO have a play read
to me by the author. for think thore are
certain 6ne points. certain suggestions
that can Be conveyed only BY him but
afterward u read 1t over In oold blood
two or three times before decide on
acceptance or refusal A good play
reader can fool you. He " hyPno-
notifies you a. well
"Augustna Thomas ls one Of the best
play readsre know. Elmer Harris is
good and 20 N Leo Ditrichsteln. You
have TO lock out for those men. Some
times ask q playwright to read his work
over two or even three times before
am satisfied, and thoee readings may be
supplemented by half a dozen OF my
solitary perusals followed by those with
Mrs. Harris. ~, - -.
-Oftentimes after acceptance hssi-
moment have q play for which have
paid advance royalties and I cannot for
the life OF me- tell whether to go on with
it or not. Its subject is novel and
its lesson and conclusions are OF ethical
value. but in order TO present the lesson
clusion OF the sex problem there must be
certain features Of life depicted. The
problem 70 my mind is whether in the
general summing up the play justifies
that one scene. and have studied over it
for several weeks. This is but one in
stance Of situation which frequently
presents itself. and many play is refused
not because IL has no elements OF success
and a novel theme but because OF just
that tangle Of threads.
Among the theatrical Investments Mr.
Harris makes from time to time are some
IN human talent, grubstaking, as ono OF
his assistants terms it. Mr.. Harris smil-
| ingly admits that while he has done this
| from time TO time 90 far the result has not
| justified the expenditure.
| have taken chances quite q number
| Of times on an unknown playwright maxi
ing good he says. His idea has pleased
| mo, his enthusiasm and his reputation
| for industry. have paid him two or
three hundred dollars on the speculation,
sometimes more. and after a reasona ble
time II find that he Ia not working out
the play to suit me stop. He is under
no Obligation TO me and none 70 him.
We have both quit: that il all.
Il know II got one play out OF twenty
five attempts OF this kind ! should come
out ahead and there is no element OF phil
anthropy involved. The wonder to me Il
that with the millions OF Investments
people make I'm this direction and that.
putting their money In mines with vision
ary prospectuses, in this and that Indus
| trial OF which little II anything 10 actually
known, they should pass by year after
year tho human talent all about them
only needing its opportunity and an in
l vestment in which might nay 100 per
cent. ON the capital used.
sSupposing a manager. for example.
dose lose $4,000 on twenty-four human
| failures, n he ciears 100000 on the
twenty NTH why should he complaint II
he gCe that out Of a mine he would
consider himself tho most astute fnan-
Cier os his acquaintance"
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THE OLD WAY AND THE NEW.
what Happened I'M the Nay % Street Jsms
and How Tranie N Handled Now.

what Happeued IN the nay or street Jams
and How Tranie n Handled Now.
sYou remember. said the old timer
standing on the curb at Broadway and
Canal street and watching the regular
and expeditions movement OF street traffic
over that busy crossing. you remember
what the Frenchman said Of the charge
os the LSh. Brigade as Ralaklava, that
10 was magnificent, but Il wasn't war?
And 20 We might say OF the old time lght-
ing among drivers in the streets OF the
city before the inHtallatlon Of the present
traffic arrangements. that il was red hot
but IL wasn't business.
"You know how the old time jams Hsed
to start. Driver'd bs Doseying4 along
through any busy orosstown street. and
on the crossing OF some busy up and
down street he'd meet a driver corning
down, and then maybe the driver com-
taRe by an inch or two and he'd try to
pass In front OF the crosstown man. this
man keeping right along. though. with
no thought at all OF giving way.
The man coming down would get
the nose OF hie horse just past the nose
OF the crosstowners and push the cross
town driver would keep holding hss course
all he could; but the man coming down
town would keep driving ahead. and the
first thing you knew the forward wheel
on his truck would be locked with the
forward wheel on the othee. and 10 they'd
both be held up and that was all that
was necessary TO start an old time jam. |
On these two trucks. halted, and now
more or less slewed around on the oross-
ing, trucks coming from all four directions |
would,hegin to bank up, and two minutes |
warttk ali
nave walked anywhere around here. from
one side of the street TO the other on top [
Of trucks or over the barrels and bales
and boxes with which they were piled.
An old time jam, thia was. with TRUCKS
and hOrsep wedged in together in tumble
hat il might take half an hour to
,traighten out. while traffic on all the
streets leading to this crossing was COM
Dletely tied up.
See these two steady streams OF trucks
md wagons passing now, one east. the
Jther west. along the cross street. and all
without any cusslng or swearing OF up
oar at all, while north and south, along
traffic calmly halts, waiting
is turn. moment later the crossing
policeman blows his whistle and instantly
he cross currents cease 70 flow and those
n the north and south channel start UP.
Horses as well AZ drivers know the
whistle and there's no delay. and people
standing waiting on either side on the
,urb now confidently pursue their way
lcross the street, for they know that now
heir way will be clear.
-It's great" the old timer said. this
scientific handling Of the traftp in the
streets, II surely Il. ! sometimes wonder
I the doing away with the old time fight
ng. rough and tumble jams will soften /
IA any. make Us tenderer and inclined
% be Aabby. less heroic; but certainly the
present day method does facilitate bust
1ess.'
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these now type racing boats Newell hsaa
Clasper. tho undefeatsd ehampion at His
time. In 1s4e. .->
In 1855 and 1887 DR.. Flirnivall introduosd
In aquatic sports the hrst sculling scur
and soulling eight races. DR.. Furnival
has been for many years tho president Of
the rowing clubs az tho worlringmen's
College; he II presidents OF the National
Amateur Rowing Association and be
founded the Hammersmith Girls Soulling
Club In 1890.
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BooTBLAck nv a TENy
shelter for Customers IN winter Rugged
Up In q Dewntswn street.


shelter for Customers On winter Rugged
Up In q Dowutswu street.
Some bootbiacks having a nxsd place
Of business outside OF stores have their
chairs act up IL . carpenter built shelter
which may be lighted by gas or electric
light and within which they may do
business In winter as well as IN summer
and by night as we'll an by day.
Other bootblaoks having fxed locations
may pc situated In places where such
shelters would not be permitted. and
those In winter may transfer their chairs
inside the building. as In a barroom,
leaving outside one chair Tor trade
sign, In which is' placed the familiar card
lettered 'Bootbiack Lnsids.~
One bootblaok having hin chair In q
downtown business street In front Of q
store within which there would oe 40
place for him and Ia location where he
could not build a permanent shelter
has still managed 70 do business outside
through the winter IN q shelter Of his
own oontrivance. He has set up over
his chair big wagon umbrella which
serves as a roof and then from the back
OF the umbrella and around one side
stun reaching down 70 the sidewalk.
while from the back and around on the
other side he has hung IKE sized sheet
OF striped burlap.
IL Is doe = very unusual shias rSr c.:
| outside bootblack In winter to hang up
on one side Of his chair a strip. Of canvas
for wind break, but this bootblaok has
70 q tent with q doorway opening in
front. and at tho front this bootblaoI,
has placed little portable opsn furnace
| II which 30 keeps coal hre. ELL.
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occupation, she told me. 'Somsthina to
take my mind from tho absorbing work
that gave me nervous prostration.
Why did you select photogrNeA
!Lintingr l ventured when the fourth
lesson was on the wane.
Oh, It was the doctor. He knew
TO sociology.'
We'll. 20 make q long story shor-
the money I received looked mighty Root,
20 me, and until catch up and succeed
in making Gotham recognize that arm
what am. great artist. have made
up my mind TO serve Mammon. am
on the trail Of the occupation doctor
Who will help locate him3
Manhattan 10 infested with women
dying OF ennui. perishing for something
20 take their minds OF Themselves
taahionable physicians will tell YOU haIr
their patients ills arc imaginary. The
modern doctor. unlike his predecessor
to get busy. and knowing the perversi;v
OF Idle femininity he helps sslecf the occr-
patton most likely 70 divert them.
Now, I say the doctor who recon-
mends occupations and aids his patients
20 select them 10 worth oultivsting. Think
20 you. Miss Opera. Can't YOU see the
procession Of women he could put under
your special method at ton a half hour?
And our future Mrs. Pankhurst, dont
waste your time on women's clubs. They
never have money. save FOR foreign hum
bugs or biennial lncheous at Xstor or
waldorf. Cultivate the oooupstiou dootcs
and you will be busy.
Let me tell you the latest. She cans
yesterday and IL going in for the Jspanssy
What drove you 20 Japanf asked
saw two panels at the Architectural
League exhibit-suow and swinging trees
and birds-fascinatinxi poetioal.' shs
replied. and said aloud IL fcouid onb
do something like thati'
You oan, said'a voloe at nv sics.
-'It was my doctor. ! had been IN for
year and was just beginning 10 take
interest In things. and ! said 10 him. i
have always wanted 10 20 to Japan
""The next best thing laughed the
doctor. "ie 70 get as near 70 Il as you oan
on this side. You want something to do
now that you are getting around; why
not paint Japanese subjeots?s You see
he knew I had dabbled littls ln water
color.
"'Let's see whose work this is,s be said
turning the catalogue sOh, tt's a big
one-too big for pupils, but I'll find out
from the secretary a good teachers
I'm few davs I had vour Address.
You see. it was the doctor. should never
have thought OF 10. When his mind is
made up, IL acts Funny, isn't. it7 she
said. utterly spelling the mornings work
with dash OF crimson lake
But concluded the artist, whats
the uae Of being rich n you oant do 40
you please with crimson lake or anv other
old lake. and the needle nose and saucy
hat were on. leaving the hard h1ck party
in suspended animation.
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MEN AND A COW WITHOUT RE-
SPECT FOR THE CATARACT.
Bossy simns Began by Treating t Like
Trout stream-rhe Barrel Naviga-
t0rs-A Motor Boat Race I'm the
Rapids Proposed FOR This summer.

NIAGARA FALLS. Feb. 2s.-People with
practical minds seem bent on stripping
the cataract Of Niagara. it's rapids and the
whirlpool Of some Of the attributes they
have had. There win always be people
who will regard az fact the story Of the
maiden's sacrifice, who win persist In be-
heving that IL was q yearly custom OF the
Indian tribes living In the vicinity Of the
falls to sacrifice the prettiest maidens ot
their tribes 10 the god that was Niagara;
but within the last hftsen years many
things have occurred at Niagara TO dissi-
pate the romance Of the cataract.
Something OF shock was felt when
the engineers got busy aud drove part
OF the river into the factories 70 turn
wheels. People had said IL could not be
done and when it was done the awe that
Niagara inspired was Bit lessened.
Several times natural agencies have
taken liberties with Tho river. have
the mighty current as II IL were
nothing more than q millraos. In is<s or
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home in fifty minutes. Once on the up trip
they were drenohed by n passing shower.
but that made no difference In the quality
OF the scholars rowing.
Though Or. Furnivall's name n best
known In England In connection with his
fifty years work as an editor Of classical
English manuscrtpts. the sporting world
claims him also. His early inte rest In
scullIng led him IN ISts 10 build with John
Beesley the first two narrow souliing
boats In England. In q copy Of one Of
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To keep his bow oar Of q four cared
shell carefully up 20 the tune Of twenty
four strokes to the minute over a course
OF seven miles. and that In his eighty fifth
year. IL no unusual feat for DR., Frederick
James Furnivail. NJ. A. Phi. D.. member
OF the British Academy and for many years
the sole editor OF the great Oxford Die
tionAry. AT least DIR. Furnivall does not
consider that this IL an unusual feat for
a veteran oarsman who has kept himself
In training since the days when he was
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GOWNS MADE IN BRUSSELS.
Thst CITY Turns Out QUANTITIES OF ''par,s
Frocs<s."


'Do you know whore many Of the
frocks are made that American women
buy In PARISH assred q man who has
lived abroad for many years.
I'm Brussels.' he went on. THAT 10
about the greatest dressmaking centre
Of the world. l know one woman who
has dressmaking establishment In which
she employs 600 girls Her output Ia
tremendous, and there are many similar
establishments.
every freight train that lea yes Brus-
sels for Paris carries big consiGnmens
OF dresses. Labor Ia cheaper In Brussels
than IN Paris and conditions OF living
different Then there is no SUNDAY
holiday FOR tho workers In millinery
establishments. The propristors are so
swarnped with orders that they keep
their hands going. Nothing is so tyran-
nical as the demand for dress. The
saying over there ls that she physician
and the undertaken may take their own
time, but the dressmaker never.
my wife tells me that che oan get 10
Brussels an exquisite hand embroidered
gown for 500. and the best turned out
there-a court dress In fact with train
for tlt0. Brussels is fast becoming an
American shopping centre.
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student In Trinity Han. Cambridge.
DR.. Furnivall celebrated his eighty-hfth
birthday on February 4. Two days after
that he went out In a four cared shell
with three younger men az the oars with
him and a woman at the ropes. They
started from the clubhouse on the Thames
at Hammersmith Bridge about noon and
arrived at Richmond. seven miles away
by the river course. In sixty-five minutes.
After a luncheon DIR. FIrnivall again
took his place at the bow. and they sculled
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Bird builds Nest In Drawtng Rsem.

FVUW WN BoMdOW Dot4B MuW
A remarkable story OF blackbird's sasa'
city q sent ~ correspondents from Dud'
bridge. near Stroud. A most Of birds was
female IN the orchard.
She rsturned, however, and entered tbs
house, finally building nest In the draw.
hlRht, but elwRys returua home for food
and slesp. II tho door y closed abe Cutters
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