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New-York tribune., 1911-12-03
i'm Will Be the New Yo
Promoter Gets His Idea from
a Noted Educator, and
Thinks Ii Will Prove
Winner.

canter and killed long. tall drink. When
he turned around the charm had been
broken and the procession Of beauty had
been shut off Ever since that he has been
drinking consistently in the hope OF seeing
that rare bunch OF silken chickens again.
1t is a sad case!
well" In addition to the foundation
alcohol course I would have to have a
Chair OF Chance.
"As you may infer, this latter study
would teach the ambitious disciples OF
carefree life how to give UP their money
gracefully to the gamblers. They would
be introduced to all the best sure thing
men in town. Here would be further biz
of profit, because the roulette wheelwrights
would gladly pay over 80 per cent Of their
winnings TO the school In exchange for
continual supply OF untrimmed marks
Every one OF my students would have in
dividual instruction as TO passwords. and
there would be special class In gym
nastics to demonstrate how the frequenter
Of besieged Joint may drop from thA
back caves Of the forty-foot roof to make
his getaway when the plainclothes cops
come with the battering machines. Inc
optional course of sticking for the lineup
and handing out phoney name would also
be elaborated for the benefit OF the useful
wisdom grubbers.
IAN exhaustive study would be made o.
the subject Of dancing as ii is done on
modern Broadway and its feeders. II used
TO be that one could go TO hurry up hot
foot school, plank down s. and have some
stringy maiden without any instep show
you the elevatlng art Of dancing durins
part of his lunch hour
THAT was in the past, when hearts were
true and all nature less complicated shan
now
I'm these advanced times one has 70
have pretty clever set OF shoes before ne
can glide through a programme without
calling forth adverse commmt Tired OF
the slow and dreamy motive that used TO
go all right with the two-step and tho
waltz, Broadway has gone out into tne
ends OF tho earth and brought homo the
fancy steps OF all nations 10 try on the
shiny floors OF the big city.
our dancing course will have 10 extend
over at least two years. have already
secured an option on several foot shakers
who specialize in certain steps and spena
their spare time in doping out foolish
figures with crazy names 10 80 with them
With due regard TO the fact that to-day
a novelty dance Is, and tomorrow IS not
there are many OF the freak foot fai'
going the rounds about now .that are sS''
nine enough to merit permahency. SONS
OF those that | have already decided 70
take up and teach are: The Bunny Hus'
the Gotham Gobbe. the Humpback Ras'
and the Flatfoot Drag.
II have grouped them in, this manner
because the platoon just mentioned -
made up OF dances which are esSenusIS
a form OF standing embrace that may DO
INDUCED in without troubling 10 seek tne
cold shadows that lurk under the trees on
Riverside Drive. These dances invoNe
only perfunctory foot work-juSt enous"
TO entite them TO the name dance. In "n-
other group We have; The Turkey Tro'
the Todao Toddle. the Pussy Foot Prossa-
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03

chairman of the Appropriations Commit
tee of the House some workmen were one
day repairing a skylight over that BODY
when the House was in session.
A workman stumbled, fell through the
skylight and dropped TO the House moor
below. narrowly missing member OF that
body, and injuring himself seriously. The
matter became the subject Of consideration
by the House, and rigid order was hnall!
made that no work should be done over the
House Chamber while that body was III
session, and that the keys and control OF
the stairways should he kept by the Speak
er of the House. There they have re-
mained, Notwithstanding the fact that Con-
gress gives to the superintendent OF the
Capitol control of practically every other
part OF the building.
This year the work done by Superinten-
dent Woods and his force has ranged all
the way from installing new dishwashng
and refrgerating machines in the House
and Senate kitchens to redecorating the
Court rooms and refinishlng the
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03

to sink into the brains OF his hearers while
he bit 10 cents worth off one end of the
cigar through which TO smoke the rest Of
il. Having waited long enough for their
curiosity to ferment a bit, he continues
This scheme ought 10 put me on the best
block in Easy street, with a southern ex-
pOsure for my house. And what's more,
it's the sort Of game that Will allow me
TO live there under my maiden name"
"Ha. ha" twice chuckled one OF the
pdrty-a restless, lean man, whose long
nervous fingers persistently sought his
upper lip to stroke mustache which had
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03

There was a subdued murmur OF pity
from the rest Of the group. They knew
that when X. Slewfoot Dollarford set his
twcnty-One jewelled brain on an idea and
hatched that idea into a concrete scheme
there was certain trouble in store FOR
people with uuinvested cash And although
their hearts were about as soft as vitrihed
paving material 10 victims Of their own,
they could easily afford 10 heave a cnarlta-
bic sigh Of sympathy for those who ran
VI against the fawless games Of j.. Slew
foot
The promoter allowed his first statement
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03

prudently disappeared that morning for
purposes Of disguise.
"Tn admit that there are Il couple OF
laughs I'm such statement coming from
me-" grnned Dollarford between fragrant
puffs But wait till you hear the rest
Ny plan is TO establish great college that
viii give the young man chance to pre-
pare himself scientifically for living the
Faster Life. got the first hunch for the
plan from a recent newspaper story In
which IL was seid that DR.. Elmer Ellsworth
Brown, chancellor OF New York University,
had suggested that d new course be added
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03

This Hammering, Saving,
Painting, Polishing Crew
Will Now Vanish to Sub
terranean Haunts.

foot of the structure and with the constant
changes that are occurring In t. Much os
the old portion Of the building IS over 4
hundred years old. II was built Of vir.
ginia sandstone, and like the large pillars
! OF the United States Treasury. replaced
two years ago when their crumbling threat
ened q serious disaster, the surface shows
signs Of disntegration where Il has suf-
fered from the ravages OF tho weather.
Every three years this older portion NJ
the building gets d heavy coat OF paint.
and the protection thus given to the sur
face has done much to preserve the struct-
ure Architects estimate that 10 keep
large building in repair and In good per-
manent condition, il is necessary eacn year
10 spend at least IL per cent OF the origt-
nal cost Of the building in repairs and
maintenance work. The Capitol cost ap-
proximately ;15OO0,OOo. but much less than
/ per cent OF this is spent annually for re-
pair maintenance. The highly trained or
ganIzation that Is maintained at the Capi-
tol and the development OF experts within
the ranks Of these workmen have dons
much TO keep down this cost
The cornerstone OF the Capitol was lah
in 1893 by George Washington Work was
restricted at first 10 what were designed
10 be the House and Senate wings, but
which have now become the Supreme Court
Chamber. statuary Hall, and the passage
WAYS leading 10 the present senate and
House wings.
! The old Senate wing was completed In
1900 and the House wing In 1871. They
were first connected by wooden passage
way. where the present dome and rotunda
rest The British captured Washington IN
1914 and burned the building, rendering u
uninhabitable for several years In lss
Congress again moved into II. The present
Senate and House wings were begun In
1871 IN provide room for the rapidly grow
ing legislative business OF the government
and were constructed OF white Massa'
chusetts marble, which withstands the ele-
ments better than sandstone and submits
TO an annual bath from fire hose Instead
of the triennial bath OF white paint.
These newer portions OF the building were
completed In 1866, and at the same time the
new dome OF iron and glass. taking the
place OF the small dome that covered the
old building, was completed. The Capitol
building covers three and half acres ana
the terraces that adjoin II on the north.
south and west, under which are many
offices and workshops, cover an additional
two and two-thirds acres
The Capitol grounds cover total or sixty
acres, and contain one OF the rarest and
most complete collections of trees known.
1t is no small part OF the task OF Superin'
tendent Woods and his experts TO keep
these trees and the shrubbery In the big
park free from disease or injury.
The present value Of the Capitol build
ings and grounds is roughly classified as
follows:
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03

1As Of fim-ham industry, approached
the single-legged table in the rear of the
buffet where several Of his professional
friends were busy baptzing their joys and
sorrows in skilfully blended alcoholics. If
you had known the man as they did, you
would not have been surprised had you
noted the general movement the crowd
made TO see that It's respective rolls were
safely slowed away in intimate pockets.
There may be honor among thieves, but X.
Slewfoot was no common thief. Having
exchanged greetings with the bunch, Dol
larford helped himself 10 a chair. said what
10 the portly waiter, and settled himself
comfortably.
Boys" he began cheerfully, as reached
in his inside pocket for a cigar, II got
scheme-a scheme that IS a scheme. I've
been working on It a long time. There's
fat millions in IT, and I'm going to pump
them out of it,"
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03
K. Slewfoot Dollarford De-
|, signs to Fit Young Men
j for Strenuous Life
on Broadway.
sLEwFooT DoLLARFoRD. emf

nent promoter and veteran captain
OF din dom inamsll-N annrna cheA
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03

Total value ........,.......'''''''' 'ss0'o o4o'0''
Few women look like themselves IN
public.
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Mailed anywhere in the United States
for $3.50 a year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21
LITTLE FooTLIGHT NOTES.

Arthur Weld, musical director de
luxe, desires it to be known that the
official list of original "Floradora'
seXtets includes only the Misses Ma
rie Wilson, Vaughn TeXsmith, Mar
jorie Relyea. Daisy Greene. Agnes
Weyburn and Margaret Walker.
Mrs. Julia Wyatt of New Haven,
Conn, aged 81, died recently. Mrs.
Wyatt won fame years ago as
"Topsy' in one of the first Uncle
Tom" shows and played the part
for years.
Some one asked James Forbes,
author of THE Commuters" the
definition of commuter. Answer:
"A commuter is a man who lives in
the suburbs, whose job consists Of
chasing, coin in the city, his wife a
mere acquaintance, his children lit
tie strangers, his best pal a time
piece"
1t is said that DR.. Munyon offered
his wife $25O,OOO if she would
leave the stage. Some facetiously
inclined person has been unkind
enough to say that the doctor must
have seen her act. Mrs. Munyon did
not accept the generous offer and
is rapidly booking time which is now
being offered her.
The Paris correspondent Of the
Record-HeraId says that Vinie DAILY,
who has appeared in George Co
hans plays and on the vaudeville
circuits, has a voice of grand opera
calibre. Professor TrabadellO, a
well-known teacher, so says the cor
respondent, declares Miss Days
voice has a lyric quality which will
make her famous.
Miss Fife Shannon says actresses
should retire at 80 years of age.
4 paragrapher in a western paper
adds as evidence that she is still on
this side of the half-century mark"
Modern plays are responsible for
many of the new fashions in clothes.
1t is claimed that THE Arcadians'
introduced the hObble skirt. But
the ArCadian costume was much
more diaphonous and alluring.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21
$4,000 CURTAIN.

No other theatre in this country
has a drop curtain like the one at
the new Blackstone theatre, Chi
cago, and there are only two or
three in the world. A theatre at
Milan. Italy, has one and there is
another at Moscow in Russia. No
Paris playhouse has such a curtain
and there is none in England. This
curtain at the Blackstone is of tapes
try and was woven especially for the
purpose to which it is to be put at
Aubusson near Paris, one of the old
est and most famous manufactures
of tapestry in Europe. William j.
Sinclair, director of the Hasselgren
studios. conceived the idea several
years ago of having a theatre drop
curtain of tapestry. When the new
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21
ONE OF THE BEST.

Henry w Savages company in
Madame Y" appearing al the Illi-
nois theatre tomorrow evening. is
one of the finest dramatic offerings
that viii be presented in the tri-
cities this season. The seat sale
opened yesterday, and the indica-
tons are for large audience. Rock
Island patrons of the theatre are
beginning TO understand the signifi-
canoe of the name of Henry w. Saw
age when standing sponsor for a
stage production. He has never. yet
failed in fulfilling his promises to
the public Miss Mable MontgOm-
cry. one Of the most finished emo
tional actresses of her time. heads
the company Mr.. Savage is sending
here. and the east is known to be
up to the Savage standard. Madame
X is a powerful drama. You may
not like the text, but if you are fond
Of fine acting. and a handsomely
mounted play. you will make no
mistake going TO the Illinois the
atre tomorrow night. The Argus
recommends d play only when ii
knows what il IS talking about
DRAMATIC EDITOR ARGUS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21
CEDAR RAPIDS
WILL BE ON HAND
Intends Having Representative at
Three-Eye Meeting Ready to
Take Franchise.

Cedar Rapids. Iowa, Jan FL
When the Three-Eye league mag
mates meet next week in Chicago to
discuss the proposition of dropping
Waterloo from the league, as has
been talked. Cedar Rapids will be
represented at the meeting and will
put forth an effort TO get in the
game this year. At meeting of
the baseball committee appointed by
the Ad club. the members reported
that much encouragement was heard
on all sides regarding the PROPOSE
ton of having a team in Cedar Rap
ids. The committee has several good
sites n view that would make suit
able places for ball parks and the
fans are given the assurance that
when Cedar Rapids gets back in me
game, it will be for good.
Business men who have been ap-
preached on the subject are all en-
thusiastic and declare a good ball
team would be one of the best adj
vertisements the city could have.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21
CROSS COUNTRYS
ARE EASY WINNERS
Defeat Picked Team at Patting Al
Ieys Three Straights Last
Evening.

The Cross Country bowling team de-
feated the picked team at the Patting
alleys last night in three straight
games. The Cross Country's who bowl
next week in the national bowling
tournament in st. Louis as the repre-
sentative team of the tri-cities, were
in excellent form last night as their
grand total of 2,757 pins shows. Don
ahue and Captain Salzmann tied for
the high mark with 593 each on the
evenings total while the latter had
the high individual count in any one
game with a score of 207 in the first
game. The scores were as follows:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21

Blackstone theatre was first project
ed he decided that the time had
come to put his scheme into eXecu-
ton and he proposed il to the gen
tlemen interested. They were i'm
mensely impressed at once anG
heartily approved the plan until Mr..
Sinclair happened to mention what
it would cost. His arguments pre-
vailed in the end. however, and the
order was given. The curtain cost
700. It IS the largest single
piece of tapestry ever imported into
this country, measuring so II feet by
AZ. Mr.. Sinclair placed the order
nearly two years ago. The immense,
full sized cartoon had then first to
be printed. This was done in the
studio of NJ. LemaiIle in Mont
martre. Paris. Then, a year ago
last June, the actual work Of weav-
ing began at Aubusson and only a
little more than a month ago the
completed curtained arrived in Chi
Cago. The duty on it was a small
fortune. The tapestry is in part 2
reproduction of one of the famous
tapestries once owned by Napoleon
l. and now hanging in the Louvre.
The scene depicted shows a party
of young people on the green in the
time of Louis XIII.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21

no means. Some of them are very
good. Some of them, If produced
years ago. would have Hsen tremen-
dous successes, but there are too
many plays written. There is too
much bread for the dramatic but
ter to be spread over it. The pub
lie is given too much. Nowadays
the theatrical business remends me
very much of an enormous dry goods
concern. You go into one of the
big department stores quite certain
of what you want. The moment you
enter the door there is spread before
you such an array that you come
out without the thing you wanted.
That is the way IL is in the theatre
You know what you want to see and
hear. but when you attempt to pick
il out you usually get the wrong
thing, and you are dissatisfied.
The public is really confused by
the multitude of ideas that are
thrust before 1t each season. There
will never be enough failures, how
ever, TO destroy the drama. Peo-
pie will continue to go to the the
atre just as surely as they viii con-
tinue to eat
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21
A Strange Story.

Argyle, MiCh.-Mrs William II
Carson, in letter from Argyle, says:
Il was almost wild with pain in my
head and other severe pains. due to
womanly troubles. Cardui gave me
great relief at once. Further use
of Cardui raised me from my bed
of agony. CaTdui saved my life. and
/ can't be thankful enough for what
it did for me" Whether seriously
sick, or simply ailing, take Cardui.
the woman's tonic. As general
tonic for women, to improve the ap-
petite and build up the constitution,
Cardui is in a class by itself Those
who have used It say il does the
work; it relieves. it cures. Try it,
Your druggist has it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21
BOWLERS READY
First Competitors in National
Tournament Roll Tonight
at st. Louis.
LOCAL TEAMS WILL LEAD
More Than 1000 Will Compete for
Prizes Totalling $4,000
Visitors Due Monday.

ST. Louis, Jan. 21.-Sixteen fvemen
teams OF one local league will start IN
the eleventh annual tournament Of the
American Bowling congress here to-
night in the Coliseum. The alleys and
all arrangements have been complet-
ed
The tournament will close Feb. G.,
and before the closing 4I2 f1ve-men
teams and more than 1900 individuals
will nave bowled. The prize list
amounts 10 $25,0oO.
VISITORS CAME MONDAY.
The executive committee will meet
next Tuesday and Wednesday and the
conventions meetings will be held
next Thursday and Friday. The first
visiting teams will appear on the al
leys Monday when representatives OF
Chicago, Dayton, Ohio, and Memphis
will bowl.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21
FLOWERS COMING TO
INTERPRET "HAMLET"
Popular Reader to Pay His Third
Visit Under Auspices of the
Augustana LyCeum.

Montaville Flowers is coming to Au
gustana college He will appear there
in an Interpretation recital Friday ev-
ening, Jan. % The subject Of his in
depreciation will be Hamlet, Prince
of Denmark" Shakespeare's great
masterpiece. This will be Mr.. Flow
ers' third appearance before an Angus
tana audience which we'll evidences
his great popularity. II is doubtful
whether any reader or impersonator
has been better received than MT.
Flowers at Ausustana- He comes IN
der the auspices OF the lyceum of the
college II is said that. although clad
only in plain evening dress. he pre-
sents TO his audience the characters
of Hamlet in such a realistic and vivid
manner as to be only excelled by the
play itself he does not make his au-
dience think of him or sec him. bat 10
think only Of the Story and The cEarac-
tiers in it. He is powerful and be has
dramatic force and intensity Of de-
livery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21
LOCAL TEAM GETS A
DECISIVE TRIMMING
Sterling Downs Rock Island High
School Basketball Five by One
sided Score of 90 to IL.

The Rock Island high school basket
ball team met with diSa strous defeat
last night at the hands of the Sterling
high school team. the final count being
50 to II. The game was played al
Sterling The local boys were out
classed from the start. and were sim
ply bewildered by the tactics employed
by the Sterling aggregation. which
used its square gymnasium to great
advantage The Sterling players
seemed TO be going around the floor in
a circle all the time, and basket after
basket was thrown. Wynn, forward
for the victors. succeeded in making
IS baskets off Hughes, who played
guard on the Rock Island team. No
one in particular starred for the local
boys. as they were never in the run
ming. and their chances for making
points were few and far between. The
teams lined up as follows:
Rock Island-Taylor, center: Behna-
mann and Barker. forwards; Hughes
and Mcintyre. guards.
Sterling - Real, center: Wynn and
Wilger, forwards; Hill and Reiger,
guards.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21
WHERE KLEIN GETS IDEAS.

Charles Klein, the author of The
Lion and the Mouse The Third
/ Degree" and Maggie Pepper" in
which Rose Stahl will star. says
that the daily newspapers offer him
/ the richest field for ideas that he
could want He says that in them
he finds the stories of human emo
tions, told in countless ways. every
day Sometimes there is but hint,
and sometimes in unvarnished rec
/ ord of crime. there is disclosed a
whole gamut of human passion Mr..
Klein says that if he should walk
down the street and pick a man at
random, he would. five times out
of ten. hear a life story that if
dramatized. would prove the sensa-
I ton of the year.
"One need seek no further" SAYS
Mr.. Klein. than the passerby on
the street to find story of ambi-
ton satisfied ambition unsatisfied,
I passion conquered and passion I'M
/ conquered New York is the Mecca
of ambition No one ever hears of
this man or that man declaring it
his intention to settle down in CO.
hoes and fight his fight, if it takes
all his life. Instead. he says: III
go TO New York. and there / viii
fight It out if ii kills me.
The task Of filing the boxofice
with dollars is the greatest handi-
cap the author who wishes TO write
a really great play has to over
come.
1T is easier TO write plays for
ten men :han for one woman. The
reason for il is this: A man can do
ten things that woman can do. Ii
the hero of your drama does an act
for revenge il IS manly. If the heroine
does the same thing it is 'catty.' We
have placed our women on a plane
where they must, unless they sacri-
fee themselves in our esteem, be
massive rather than active. I can't
conceive of any way that one might
write a serious drama about suffra-
get.
You cannot write a strong sue
cessfuI play unless it be founded
upon fundamental truths and emo
tions; but you have got 10 sugar
coat those truths. so that the audi
ence will not suspect them to be
truths at all. The minute you give
your hearers nothing but the truth.
you are accused Of preaching. and
the moment such an accusation is
made against you-weIl. you know
the answer"
Wslen asked If al PLAYS that fail
ed we're bad plays, he replied: BY
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21
CONFERENCE WITH
MCCORMICK is OFF
Meeting With Local Directors to Arr
range Salary Question Postponed
7 Until Thursday.

The conference which had been ar
ranged for between Barry Mccormick.
candidate for the job Of manager of the
Islanders during the coming season and
the directors of the Rock Island base
ball club, did not take place today, due
to a change of plans. Barry was TO
have come down from his home in Chi
cago to meet with the local baseball
men and try to reach an agreement
ON the salary question. However, be
cause of the fact that the Three-Eye
league meeting will take place in Chi
cago next Thursday, il was decided
this morning to have Barry remain at
home and TO hold the conference in
lis own city.