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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-21
KNIGHTS,
Commanders of the Court of
Honor Are Several West
Virginians.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21,-At meet
ing of the supreme council of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
of Freemasonry for the southern tur-
isdiction, held here announcement "as
made of the following persons ia
West Virginia to be knights command
ers of the Court of Honor:
Robert Miller Browne, wheeling;
Charles Edgar CarriEan, Moundsvillei
John William Davis. CIarksburg;
william Emil Krupp and Henri
Philip Linsz, wheeling; Charles Fred
erick Schultpe, .Warwood; and Lloyd
Ellsworth smith, Charleston,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-21
PATENTS
Are Issued by the Govern
ment to Several West
Virginians.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 21.-Patents
have been granted West .virginians
as follows;
Edward S. Bottomly, assignor 20
the Walk Auto Tire Company, Martins
burg, vehicle wheel; Commodore +.
Brown, Ronceverte, wrench; Ira w.
Burgess, Minden, rail bond; Louis F.
Hess, assignor of one half to ID.
Boone, Hawks Nest, mining machine;
John Hoyer, Baxter, safety stop for
elevators; Robert Johns. Fairmont,
neck growing attachment for Bottle
moulding machine; Franklin A.
Pierce, wheeling, circuit closer;
George G. Stout, Parkersburg. switch;
John j. Tague, Bolton, pipe or tubs
ing wrench; and Harry C. Werner
Wheeling, gas burner.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-21
MASONIC
Building is Pictured on Post Cards
mt NUsbaum's Bookstore.

In connection with the Masonic
corner stone laying tomorrow after
noon, it is announced that the mem
bers of the order and others will be
interested to learn that post cards
with pictures OF the building can be
obtained at the Nusbaum book
store as souvenirs of the occasion
tomorrow afternoon.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-21
Council BY 4 Big Vote. Re
fuses the Application Of
Charles F. Dye.

Not being fully apprIzed as to
whether the city of CIarksburg needs
q man to operate the new filtration
plant, the city council at a regular
meeting Friday night laid on the table
until It's next meeting the water and
sewerage boards request for the con-
hrmation Of its action in employing
w. IA. streeter, of Katonah, N. T., at
S125 a month. The council directed
that D. D. Britt. city engineer, order
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany to lower it's track to street grade
across West Pike street, and to induce
the company, II possible, to pave be-
tween its track at that point. A few
matters were referred to the street
committee and other routine business
was transacted. AS license court
the council rejected the application Of
Charles L. Dye for saloon in the
Latstetter building at S27 West Pike
street, the vote being eight against
and one for with Councilman Charles
L. Patton absent and not voting and
Councilman Johnson being the only
cne to vote to grant the license.
The application OF J. P. Hynman
for permission to erect a two-story
frame house on Elliott street to cost
81, 400 as well as that OF ]. F. Mayer
to erect a two-story house on High
and Preston streets to cost $1,7oO
was referred to the building COM
mittee.
1t was ordered that the street CONF
nittee and street superintendent have
power to lay a sidewalk $50 feet in
an alley running south from the
brewery.
The street pay roll amounting to
$317 so was allowed.
d. D. Britt, city engineer, was di-
rected to report whether the railroad.
company is using part of, Linden
avenue without permission He was
directed to get measurements there
with a view of the erection of a"fire
station at that point. on
The request of Patrick III. Shields
and others for crossings at Park
avenue was referred 4 to ethea street
committee and street superintendent
with power to act a's
The street committee was@ asked to
Law sidewalk forty feet In distances
near the old fair ground bridge.
Mrs. Ella Wade's petition for
sidewalk sixty feet in length on Hewes
street was referred to the street COM
mittee.
The question OF the railroad grade
IN vest Pike street was then taken
up and D. D. Britt, city engineer, was
directed as previously, stated.
The street committee was asked to
Iook after bad street conditions on
Lee street and Councilman Boehm
was appointed by the mayor to con-
fer with the water works and sewer
age board concerning depression in
Virginia street eight feet long two
feet wide and four feet deep caused by
the laying of water line there.
+ An order was passed to the effect
that Patrick j. CLANCY be notified 20
abate pond on West Pike street, the
same being a nuisance.
The council then adjourned to i'm
medtately reconvene to take up the
application of charles L. Dye for
saloon license. The vote stood rs
stated on tho application and upon
motion of Councilman Tierney the
council adjourned as allicense court
without day
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-21
GOVERNOR HERE.

Governor william E. GlasscocE and
James S. Lalsin, president of the
Board of Control, passed through the
city on No. SO Friday evening enroute
from the eastern part OF the state 20
Charleston.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-21
SMALL BLAZE.

A shanty in the rear OF the
Church Of the Immaculate Concep-
ton was damaged by hre at
1918 o'clock FRIDAY night. The
fire department made run but the
firemen did not need to use the
hose as they put it out without that.
The origin is unknown.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-21
FUNERAL
or Rudolph PassocIs is Held in tho
Slavonic Church,

The funeral of Rudolph Passock.
infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Isadoro
Passock. of Columbia mines. who
died Friday morning of cholera in
fantum, was held at II o'clock Sat
urday morning in the slavonic
church, the Rev. Father F. J. Privyi
having charge OF the services. The
burial was in Holy Gross cemetery
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-21
STAR SERVICE.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21-star SER
vide has been established from RAIDER
to Twin Mountain and back. dis
tance of five miles each way. six
times a week E. d. High. Of RAIDER.
is the contractor.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-21
MARRIAGES LICENSE.

4 marriage license has been is
sued to Marshall w. Lymer and
Ida Goodwin.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-21
Old LAND MARKS
ABOUT ALL GOAE

the laboring man has full dinner
pail. His children, have every rea-
on to believe, should be happy.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-21
All Evening Echo.

Nothing Is - tirmly believed as
We least know. 1loSTAIGCIE.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27

FINALLY, may the outof-towners the
host OF bourgeois visitors the metropolis This class
is Of particular significance. family in New York
for only short stay will attend the theatre three
four times often will the ge resident Of the
same financial status during the period of time.
considerable proportion of these visitors unat-
taced who spend money freely. All such visitors
are in holiday mood; they here for n good time.
Whatever their educational artistic and moral standards
when their residences, the visitors characteristic
attitude while here is Let tonight laugh and he
merry for tomorrow go home Thus the farce, the
fitting comedy above all the musical comedy, what
the outof-towner wants.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27

&<eT1 He marked influence of the outof-towner upon
the high-prccd theatres is also suggested by
the concentration of all theatres about the hotel
sands are mostly sheltered aud by the weIorganized
system of selling tickets specially hotel guests with
out troubling them go to the box Offices Ii has cv
deny paid organize this rather elaborate system for
this special group of thcatregocrs'
The amount of money invested TO satisfy the crav-
ing for amusement which pervades the nation is in
credible. 1t s if possible harder believe Than the
which the people spend for pleasure. There are
2600 theatres in the United States with
cost of 100000. If this seems impossible look at
the Metropolitan Opera House which represents in
vestment of S3OOC.O0o, The New York the Criterion
and the New Amsterdam hcatrcs ate up $200OoO0
there is S300oOoo01 invested in payhoscs of The first
class in this conutry
This, OF course, is only small part of the money
is spent provide amusement for weary brains
snd bodies. There is the mere item of service. such
Ms rsIers, ETC. which from 5000 $4,000 ac-
,urdng TO of the house. Then. large
,f money are used up nightly provide heat aud light
The equipment of companies in New York alone nt The
beginning of the amounts SJoo,oJU. and
as there are usually twice many more companies
fitted ont during the of the season, the total
for the year reaches high Sl,50n00O New York
is the largest producing in this respect hut the
companies which it cquips When all these items
taken into consideration the total scm paid out TO
provide theatrical amusement is found to be S5O0O0oU0
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27

Consequently twenty eight million represents ou'
'uall item IN the total pleasure bill of the nation
ahe theatregoers Of New York spend Sl2'9fo'oo"
soh at the various box Offices. Chicago pays 'n'o
.aeatres s50OO00O during the thirty-hve weeks
-~adephu, upward of S30o00Oo; St Louis, s2'ooo'-
= washington. Pittsburg and Cincinnati, more than
E"'ooO; San Francisco, 81, ,250,00o while Baltimore
New Orlenns make up another S1,250oo0 All the
u'ies follow along behind these leaders IN hoou'
ame proportion to their population II seems au
s1'o'e sum. but the figures were very carefully COM
~ tfom the books Of the theatres. in the different
( II IRIS S2S,0o0,000 which represents but a sma"
*ioon Of the money which the people of only ten OF
~'eest cities spend for high-class theatres is mucn
<hla
1 80 u these figures were not staggering enough IL
'' oeen computed that the city of New. YORK alone
. Utmost $3o.00O,0oO on oil its forms OF amuse-
mat is. more than the ten largest cities OF the
8 'aken together spend at the standard theatres'
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27

a ID impossible to obtain anything like correct figures
for the amount Of money which NIL the people Of
United States spend for pleasure in the course of
y year. But ii is easy to see how enormous it must
theu realize that the gross receipts of the stand
theatres in the ten largest cities of the country
1unt to $2SO00O00 during the season of thirty
h weeks This figure does not include the number
n moving picture shows which sprnkled about
y cities the circuses which are always playing
Gormous crowds, In fact, the standard theatres
only about IS per cent of the total theatre attend
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27
NEW YORK, Aug. 2e.

rsIME was when the actors of this country starved
in earrets for want Of audiences TO watch them
At present the average weekly attendance ut
the theatres of New York City alone is 176O
q These people pay into the Golfers OF the play
80 s58o0O0 per week, for the satisfaction of their
,sstic hunger. AS can readily be seen, the change
An has taken place in the last fifty years is enor
Us
What contrast with the time Of the PurItans!
fose days not only the theatre but almost all forms
nsasure were under ban. No one thought of
ming himself Mt play unless he wished to Incur
dupleasure Of all his neighbors and felowcitizeus
4 socIsl position of theatregoer was not thing
Xk envied An actor was literally pariah Variety
M and vaudeville were unknown,> and the moving
rpe show had not been dreamed Of It hns been
mated that the amount Of money which the Pnritans
tat for their own amusement In year would not
ID 4 normal man alive for week. To-day 1,500
4 could easily live for year the sum which is
N for pleasure In one week in the city of New
n alone
Il took a long time for the Americans 10 become
DIessureoving nation. 1t centuries before they
get away from the traditions of their stern old
fahers. It Is only in the last ten years that they
I've become willing to spend money for pleasures and
hxues Twenty-Five years ago a with new
musement device got more encouragement in this
rntry than he would to-day in the Fiji Islands. Be
a an actor in those days synonymous with being
7ovn and out"
Even Waack, the pet and delight of New York.
"a gone down in bankruptcy. Augustin DAILY
tugging to keep the sheriff's wolf from the door
|An Brougham had been given, some time before,
nrdt to keep him from hunger In these latter days,
kreyer the box Office receipts for Maude Adams
! a Richard Mansfield have gone high as $4,000
d single week,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27
Average Weekly Receipts of New Yorks Theatres Is
$56e.ooo; the Gross Receipts for Year in the Ten
Largest Cities Is $4,000 ,ooo-What Difference Com
mercialzng the Theatrical Profession Has Made!
By ALMER c. SANBORN.

new York which Satisfy the dramatic hunger of the
people, These include 400 moving picture shows, 10
vaudeville theatres 10 burlesque houses, 16 low
priced theatres and 81 hiehprced standard theatres
The average weekly attendance at the moving picture
shows is 100000 at the high-priced theatres 15s33s
and at the 750. The average weekly receipts
OF these paces of anu aggregate S56S, 1910
What is true of New York is true in the same
proportion of all the other cities of country Chi
cago's total pleasure bill is more than S14,oO0o0o n
year. and that of Philadelphia over S1oooOoou Con-
sequenty, it is well within the mark say that the
fifteen largest cities Of the United States spend about
S1O0000,000 for pleasure in year.
The quest of amusement has almost
mania with Americans No other country the world
spends SO much money for pleasure. Even England
and France which the greatest theatre going
countries after the United States. far behind
the sums they spend for their amusements. Neither
Paris, which Is famous the city Of pleasure, nor
London, with its many playhouses, is willing to lay
anything like the for simple enjoyment that both
New York aand Chicago 10 regularly. And yet those
cities have been noted for their theatres since
the time of Shakespeare and Moliere We Americans,
who fifty years scarcely knew what theatre was
already gratifying taste for pleasure scale
that the luxury-loving Romans would have envied.
IN this connection it is interesting to roe what Mr.
Davis has to say with regard to the audiences at
the standard theatres By far the greater portion of
them people who seeking madly Tor amusement.
Men who have worked all day long have imperious
need of rest and relaxation They must laugh and be
amused in order completely forget the of the
day. Mr. Davis says:
"The segment of the citys population which sup
ports the standard theatres includes several widely diff
ferent types of people, though it is not possible to
estimate numerically the relative proportions of those
types There are the fashionable, the literary and the
professional SETS There is the body of middle class
persons of moderate MEANS who cannot go frequently
hghprced houses and rarely to the hghpriced seats
who take the theatre frankly and seriously
means of enjoyment and education for themselves and
their older children
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27

TT HE Romans spent their money lavish!y trying
get all the pleasure possible owt of life, but
never in the whole of their existence did taey
succeed in paying such enormous sums for simple
amusement Nero managed by Il happy thought 10 eN'
coed the amount by having Rome burned for his enjoy
ncnt, but that was simply wasteu!ness Our theatres
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27

department OF child hygiene of
~e Russell Sage Foundation has
! tyapiished n monograph on the "ES-
Ia OF Pleasure" by Michael
we Jr,. which reveals the vnst
uni New Workers pay for cn'
I, "e According 10 Mr.. Davis re-
'Aere are i've hundred pluces in
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27
THE PRICE OF PLEASURE

Nero's stunt must be ruled out and the record which
America Is establishing daily viii stand No other ma.
ton. ancient modern has ever equaed IT,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27

L is a muchmooted question as 10 which has the
or the play in other words. just which is that gives
the public the pleasure il is seeking Some managers
insist that the star has nothing TO do with the
The audiences pleasure entirely from the play
Others declare that viii always draw a bigger
crowd than would be got ne she not in the
cast.
1t is difficult matter 10 decide. for tle reason
that facts bear both sides There been
many plays which produced without a star whicl,
great successes. "Ben-IIur' and more recently
The Pink Lady" may be mentioned shows of this
type. The receipts Ben Ifur" reached the
phenomenal figure of $4,000 in one week Then too
there have been shows which failures, in spite
OF the fact that there n in the cast
On the other hand however, shows Of the type OF
Smith and Suzanne would have been fat failures
had it not been for the fact that John Drew Billie
Burke was playing in them. In these the public
got little pleasure from seeing perfoma nee.
but II willing 10 spend its pleasure money simply
play failure at the beginning OF its presenta-
ton, but the star in the kept ii going until the
lines could be worked and successful show made
of it.
Both Maude Adams and Richard Mansfield played
TO receipts Of $4,000 in week This a record
which has seldom, if ever. been equaled by show
which did not have star playing in H. In ST Louis,
David Harum" attained $4,000 in gross receipts in
week, but in that William Ii. Crane was play.
ing in the title role.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27

have both educational and aesthetic value. We profit
by most of the performances In way another
Those which not of positive value least
harmful. Besides, get relaxation and rest which
of great physical benefit AS n form of amusement
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27

IT HERE can be little doubt that the public gets great
pleasure from seeing star, if its chief
pleasure and that it is willing pay its money for
that purpose. 1t is safe TO say that matter what
the play may be, Sothern and Marowe will in the
future draw crowds, the combination has
done In the past Anna Held will always play full
houses account Of the reputation which has been
made for her. The people kind Of pleasure
from seeing her, which they get whatever
the show is. Elsie Janis has created her public which
is always anxious to her whether the show is just
to their taste not. There many who
always money makers for their managers, and il takes
extremely bad show 10 prevent their drawing the
crowds
The people bound to be amused That is
given quantity The only thing which the managers
are called upon TO settle is what will them the
most2 OF different people want TO be amused
in different ways The result is that managers
stick TO the star system the best method, while
others try to present shows which will in them
selves.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-31

The Wide World stands a-welcominR be.
side the sunny way.
FOR page and squire and knight and dame
to halt and ride away:
And crimson sweet the roses named that
lay upon my breast.
When all the world was but an inn, and
. welcome guest.
The knights were l~ion-hearted and their
ladies' lily fair:
The silver armor Klsttcrsd bright upon
the roadway there.
When each fair distant turnine held the
promise Of . quest.
And all the world was hut nn inn, and /
welcome guest.
No knock was there or Misery nor step
OF grimy Toll.
But bold Adventure raised the laAnh. hi.
palftSy heaped with spoil;
wait on his behest,
When all the world wa hut IN INN, and
. Welcome guest.
And what cars | that youth must ~
and love locks turn to gray!
Forsooth q svesy Inn thsrs lies ON
I've warned my lsart beside thelr nr..
paftalon Of thelr bet.
When Al u World was but IN I'm, al
- weseeMe euest.
= Why sheul1 I conpIaia ana ours Il
eplteful aeeente ehf4l
sss .oss.d ss ~ !. ~ ~ - ~
Dut srs Old ~ ths sapsr takss : ,teae
III drew his .sahsif ana dr.ak ~ ham.
-IsnSs tissIsii cisTs. c'sna.t ~
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-31
Lucy GRAY.

lSome teachers who protest against
some OF the questions asked in teachers
exaninations as for example, who
wrote Lucy Gray?' are forming LUCE
Gray clubs.
OFT ! heard OF Lucy GRAY
AND when / crossed the wild.
! chanced 20 see at break of day
The solitary child.
No mate. no comrade, Lucy knew:
She dWelt on 4 wild moor:
The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside u cottage door,
You may spy the fawn at play.
lhe hare upon the green:
But me sweet face OF Lucy Gray
VIII never more be seen.
Tonight will be a stormy night.
You to the town must go;
ana take q lantern. child. to light
your mother through the snow."
That father. l will gladly do:
Ills scarcely afternoon
me minister clock has just struck two
And yonder is the moon"
AT this the father raised the hook,
And snapped Il fagot band:
rte pied his work, and Lucy took
h lantern In her hand
Not blither II the mountain roe.
WIN many = wanton stroke.
Her feet dispense the pOwdery snow.
That rises up like smoke.
The storm came on before it's time:
she wandered up and down..
And many q hill did Lucy climb,
But never reached the town.
The wretched parents all that night
Went shouting far and wide;
But there was neither sound nor sixht
To serve them for a guide
At ~daybreak on a hill they stood.
That overlooked the moor:
And thence they saw the ridge OF wood.
A furlOnG from the door.
They wept. and, coming homeward, cried.
In heaven We shall meet
When in the snow the mother spied
The print of Lucy's feet.
Half treathless, from the steep hilrs
They traced the footmarks small;
And throaEL the broken hawthorne hedge.
And by the long stone wall.
Ard then an open field they crossed
The marks were still the same:
They tracked them on. nor ever lost.
And to the bridge they came.
They followed from the snowy bank
Those footmarks. one by one,
Into the middle OF the plank
And further there were none.
You may yet spy the fawn at play.
The hare upon the green:
But the sweet face OF Lucy GRAY
Will never more be seen,
William Wadsworth
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-31

Z. ?. rHoRNE. Publisher.
FOREST CITY. SOUTH DAKOTA

DR.. James Craik. who was Wash.
ington's family physician. was with the
father of his country in the expedition
against the French and Indians IL
1854. and the text yea he attended
General Braddock in his fatal cam.
paign. Fifteen years later, while ex-
ploring Wild lands in the western dis
trtcts Of Virginia, DR.. Craik encount-
cred a band OF Indians led by an aged
chief. who informed the physician
through an interpreter, that he had
made a long journey to see Colonel
Washington, at whom in the battle OF
MonOnRahelR he had fred his rifle Ii
times and ordered all his. young men
to do the same. In fact, Washington
hAd two horses killed under him that
day and his coat was pierced with four
bullets. yet he left the battlefield I'M
scratched.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-31

Mourning the loss Of old-time man.
ners. an aged Englishman said the
other day: Boys are not like they used
to be-. II they do not like a schools
master they show 1t nowadays by
treating him with studiously cold po-
likeness. Why. remember when I was
at Elton a lot Of us getting hold Of a
master who taught us mathematics and
whom we all cordially detested. and
holding him by his heels over Barnes
pool bridge until we saw In the distance
another master coming in our direction
when we gently loosed our victim and
let him slide headforemost into the