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Official consulting expert of Paris mana
gers on difficult effects Of stage-lighting
1t is position won by bringing extra
ordinary electrical spectacles to Paris.
Once year. now, he invents a new one
which makes the rich circuit-London
Berlin. st. Petersburg, Vienna, Paris.
The pilgrim Of the ideal is financially sue
cessful.
For pleasure, off he slips to the society
OF American art students. whose sketches
he buys when they are hard UP, and listens
to their dreams. When he led me to the
little Thirion cafe. where Thackeray took
his meals. the ideal lit up in his eye.
Snug. isn't it?" he said Thackeray
owed Nine. Thirion a bill. 1t is her
grandson who continues trusting students
1t sufficed the pilgrim Of the ideal.
~
He pulled an 1896 program of Hammer
STEMS old Olympia from his pocket.
Just $50 days after it opened" he
unused. There is the first appearance of
Harriet Harndin in her new scintilla dance.
with elaborate electrical effects, includ-
ing the cathode rays. I managed to con-
vey a secondary current Of 10000 volts
never before conveyed twelve feet nor
used on a human figure. I found an in
sulaton that would hold that voltage and
Miss Harndin had running over her. to
light the Spangler and Geissler tubes
sewed In her costume. 10000 volts. car
ried a distance Of fifty feet
Has 1t been done since?" asked
only by me. secondary current.
100000 volts. superinduced by Ruhmkorff
coil: 1t could throw q spark Of thirteen
inches; yet the most powerful coils used
to light Crooks tubes for Roentgen rays
throw sparks of only six or eight inches.
They incorporated Miss Harndin's scntilla
dance into Marguerite spectacular opera
and ballet, which will recall pleasant
souvenirs to many"
He unused again.
Time passes,' he said. II had made
first acquaintance with the stage twelve
years before, In San Francisco. Through
the kindness OF Joe Kreling. owner and
boy. who came up from Australia sadder
and wiser, was given a place In the IT.
wolf Opera Company.
He had gone from New York to San
Francisco Francs Co; a cap,tal,st,ardent, youthful.
racers and trick riders to oppose the ia
nous Bob Cook and other California
cracks. Having with him Dan Canary.
W, ": D. Wilmott: the greatest trick riders
Heck. ne found life beautiful and easy in
conducting a record-breaking tournament
in the Mechanics pavilion. under the
=; auspices o, the Bay CITY whsel%sn' So
umphal career to Australia. In the wake
OF Edward Hanion, the greatest rover
that ever lived booked to race William
T saw the race" he says ut was
niserabiy lost by Hanlon. who could not
restrain his desire to play tricks. Being
three lengths ahead he began to paddle
last quarter Suddenly Beach stiffened
his back. and before Hanlon knew what
was happening he was outdistanced, and
never picked 1t up. But the Australians
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picked up my lost dollars On no previous
event had so much money changed hands:
and no greater favorite ever went to the
wall"
Returning TO San Francisco with two
shillings remaining from a little dowry
of $4,000" he discovered that the good
friends he had made at the Mechanics
pavilion were still good. Joe Kreling
took him into the Tivoii company be-
cause he could sing Bit"
In that company were such people as
Harry Gates Maggie Moore, Dick Yer
lerga and the beautiful Helen Dion.
There was Arthur Mesmer, too. q lyric
hero. J tell you-and it was this COM
pany that first produced the Mikado. one
week after the famous caste in Boston
that included Robert Mansfield. What
did do In all that?' says Harndin. IF
! could not do anything else, made fun
for the audience. It lasted two years.
Judge Denny being about to start for
Seoul as counsel to the King Of Korea on
his second appointment by Li-Hung-
Chang. the young opera singer almost
became Q diplomat. As the judges secre-
tary he got as far as Shanghai, In time
for the burning OF the Windsor Hotel
there Escaping in their night clothes
seemed to Harndin - bad omen; and
another American who knew the Ian
guage" wanting the place he let him
take 1t. The ill-omened party reached
Seoul in time for the cholera, 'ths Judge
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whole country, and making a survey
which will show just how to treat them.
He is also testing new seeds and plants.
and his explorers are travelling over
the world seeking new crops. We
have already made millions by his in
PRODUCTION of rice and macaroni wheat,
and are inaugurating tropical agricul-
ture in the irrigated deserts of the
west.
These new crops are of many kinds, and
suggestions may be given Of things out Of
Which any farmer can make money.
Many OF the latest schemes relate to
the mines and the miners. Uncle Sam has
plans for saving our minerals. We have
the greatest coal lands upon earth, and
there are billions of tons left upon gov
eminent property. The amounts are so
vast that they will bring in hundreds Of
millions Of dollars, and they are to be
sold on estimates made as to the amounts
they contain. The geological surveyors
are now prospecting and sizing up these
coal lands, and the government is SELL
ing them in forty-acre tracts at from
fifty to one hundred dollars and up
ward per acre. In connection with this
there are about fifteen billion tons Of
available coal in Alaska, which will soon
be thrown open to those who apply
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non-thinking machine to collect taxes and
keep order. He took in the revenues and
paid the employees, giving no attention to
the conservation or development Of the
country. He allowed himself to be used
by the interests, and our public lands by
the hundreds Of millions Of acres went to
the railroads and individuals and cor
porations got our forests and mines for a
song. At the same time an incalculable
waste went on in every branch OF in
dustry and every condition Of life, maxi
ing a loss so great that it cannot be
counted.
That was the condition until a decade
or so ago, when Uncle Sam had an awak-
ening. He then began to assume the posi-
ton of father to his American children,
and he has now become q great creative
force working for the betterment and
protection of all the people. He is a real
patriarch, devoting himself to the Per-
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tour; the beautiful Jenny Joyce, violette
de Fore. Hartley. and the wonderful con-
tortionist Marinelli. today master of
three Paris amusement houses and con-
sidered the Napoleon of the European
music hall world
Those were the halcyon days of Kos
ter & Balls, when not to have seen the
cork room was not to have seen New
York" unused Harndin. ANY one could
pay for bottle and have his cork put
up; but have seen q man make dec
orative art pattern Of corks on the wall
that cost him $500. When they passed
out and took over Oscar Hammerstein' s
Manhattan Theater and made it a new
Roster & Balls, they gave you q cork in
little coffin. as memento Of dear dead
days and merry nights"
Were you always electrocuting?"
asked.
Elm between. helped write operettas
and interpolated songs" he answered
And 1t will be remembered many q long
day when Fred Solomon sung The Abbe's
Dream in skit on 'Orpheus and Euri-
dice how the grave, serious thing held
that champagne-drinking crowd until he
had got through to the last word. Bal
had said If you go through that, they
will stone you They did not"
Having a big electrical idea unsuited
to Roster & Biars. he gave Klaw & Err
LANCER a word-picture of II. The upshot
was that he produced, In their pantomime
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farms they raise five crops of cabbages
year.
But few people know that the govern
ment has gone into the stock-raising
business. Uncle Sam has recently estab-
lished breeding farms in different parts
of the Union. He is raising Morgan
horses and fine cattle. including Jerseys,
Shorthorns and others. Our farm ami
mails are now bringing us in about
two billion dollars a year, and the govern
ment believes that this amount by careful
breeding can be increased 500 million dol
lars or more. This should bring down the
price Of meats, and it is interesting to
every householder.
In the same connection is the breeding
OF game The government is introducing
cartridges and pheasants. 1t proposes
to open a buffalo farm, and 1t has herds
Of reindeer in Alaska. A curious feature
is the probable Introduction of the hip
popotamuses for the swamps of the
south. I am told also that one man has
made fortune in skunks which he rears
for their skins.
We have thousands of men and women
nursing chickens. Uncle Sam has new
methods of fowl raising, and quite
number Of people are making a living by
breeding guineas for game. Our poultry
crop Is worth as much as the cotton crop,
the hay crop or the wheat crop.
Another interesting work of Uncle Sam
is the care he is now exercising over the
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of Jack and the Beanstalk,' an effect
called THE Birth of the Butterfly" that
won such praise in the newspapers and
profession that it reached the ears Of
London managers and George Edwards.
running over to New York, asked the
young American to do something for his
Gaiety Theater.
1t did not come off.
"Kiaw & Erlanger wanted me to con-
trive something new for their Chris and
the Wonderful Lamp'-on which I pro-
duced a butterfly ballet, again employing
successfully The secondary current as
had done on Miss Harndin, only using
Ave times the quantity, which brings US
to 100000 volts
The crude dangers that threatened
Dorothy Denning were long past. Unlike
the heavy current, the light and elegant
of terrific secondary millions would not
roast, but only kill like a nickel bullet"
Edna Wallace Hopper and the genial
Jerome Sykes were at the head of the
company, but they had no contact with
it. and his next achievement was the
elaborate lighting Of Ben Hur." Play
goers will remember how it's Star OF
Bethlehem. in particular. seemed to CT me
out OF the very atmosphere, supported
by nothing that could be imagined
How was 1T done?'' 1 asked
You cannot make it understandable"
he aaid.
~ want to Try" ] insisted. ''You put
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no principles; they were just blood and
destruction crazy. At the Hotel de
France we had to cook our own food.
SO long as it lasted. 1t was one reign
Of terror. l chung to the count. One
night he took me to the river. and, there
In drinking and meeting place OF ter
rorists. saw a sight
Go on" l said.
"One corner was a restaurant, where
all the walters were girls; and the count
pointed out a beauty. saying: DO not
seem to notice her. She has sold US and
she must be executed tonight What do
you mean? I asked in horror; you are
joking. He paid no attention. l thought
he was guying. But the girl was uneasy,
as IL waiting; and when they let down
the iron curtain to make all dark and
tight in front began to worry"
Go on 1 said.
"In the center there was a small stage.
All gathered round it, and when the cur
tain went up it disclosed a guillotine.'
Go on
'I pulled the counts coat. 1T is some
trick I whispered to him; but he was
listening to two men, who spoke briefly
The two Doctors he said, when. to my
horror. the girl was dragged up, speech
less, crazy with fear. They threw her
down, pushed her head in the hollow, q
man pulled the rope and down 1t came.
Go on ~.
"-Until I saw that beautiful girls
face, transformed to something awful. I
shall never forget IL.
There was a dash to the stage. will
not tell what l did; but in the midst of
the fight there was an explosion outside.
and the lights went out. I had hold of
down a ladder. We went through q
sewer-dra in-as big as that one under
the cellar Of the Grand Cafe in Paris
to gate on the Neva."
81 had gone to Russia to see something.
had seen too much. The count called
me a weakling. but got me on a goods
train for Helsingfors. Finland. as a Red
rived, covered with dirt, without a cent
and, happily, stumbled on Capt. Bode,
who had a ship for Hamburg"
ITO get the taste out of my mouth I
wandered to Buenos Aires and the upper
country as far as Tuckerman," he said.
Returning. to occupy myself, I produced
q large electric ballet, with SUCH matter
as / found to hand. at the Cirque Ar
gentine. 1t was all new to them. and
had six months success"
been there for ten years. ] was too
much q stranger. I would not do.
could not get along in the streets.
seemed to be in everybody's way. felt
the farmland to me the farm was Eu-
rope"
1--WE are farmers here in Paris" ad-
mitted, thoughtfully.
Compared with the gait they kick up
over there, yes, sure"
do you expect to ever leave Parish
asked.
'I hope not" said Harndin.
'tBut you go to London often"
London do not mind" he explained;
lit is so easy to get away from"
STERLING HELLO.
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He has inspectors who go from land
to land studying the pushing of special
crops. and he is also working the army
OF American consuls Our foreign COM
merce now amounts TO about three billion
dollars a year. and our exports alone
are over Is billions. This business is Just
at Its beginning. and nevertheless tt ts
the greatest commerce of any nation.
Sam will do with the forests of the
Union, and whether they should not be
given over to the people. He has still
about 500 billion board feet of stand
ing timber. and in many of the national
forests he Is cutting the trees and saw
ing them into lumber. The forestry
bureau claims that our wood will be
gone within twenty years. and with 1t
will 60 our lumber industry, which now
brings in billion dollars year, and
pays one hundred millions in wages. How
to prevent the loss of this. how to plant
new forests. and how to take care Of those
now standing, are among the special
projects which the government Is study
ing.
Another big thing concerns the roads OF
the United States. The government is
teaching the people how to improve their
highways This Is interesting to the
farmer to the automobiler and to every
man who goes over the road. Twenty
two object lesson roads have already
been built, and over 700 miles of new
roadways are in course of construction.
This also affects the rural mail carriers,
who travel by carriage more IMAM a
million miles every day, and serve more
than twenty millions Of people.
The government is interested In avia-
ton. and is testing all sorts Of balloons
and flying machines for the army and
navy. Some secret experiments. The
dirigible balloon Will we ever carry
mails through the air? These are some
OF the subjects of study.
Connected with this are the new
discoveries which have been made to
to the upper air by means Of box kites.
This work is going on at Mount Weather
In the Blue Ridge, where kites are flown
daily and aerial flights Of various kinds
made. Uncle Sam is now spending mil
lion and a half dollars per annum in
forecasting the weather. and DIR. Willis
Moore claims that he Is saving the
coo 600 a year.
But 1 might fill several columns with
the mere mention of the sTeat enterprises
which our patriarchal uncle has under
way or in contemplation. They mean the
reorganization and development os the
whole Countrywide creation. in fact, OF a
new United States. They mean more
money more business and better condi
tions for every one OF Uncle Sans. chill
dren, and the knowledge of them will, L
believe, make US all better patriots. The
most important schemes will be taken up
in their turn, and with pen and camera
their live features described. The ma
terials for the articles will be gotten from
the fountain head at Washington, and
from various places over the country
where certain work is going on.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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health OF his children. The government
has scores OF scientists investigating
diseases of animal and men. We are
wfping out the mosquitoes and slaughter
ing the flies that bring typhoid fever. We
take the temperatures of the cows to
learn whether they have consumption.
and we tell just how their milk should
be treated. Uncle Sam Is also inspecting
the drugs and meats. He protects you
from bad liquor and tells just how much
alcohol there is in every bottle OF wine
and beer.
He Is also testing foods and food values
and lays down rules by which you may
grow lean or fat He has cooking schools
and vegetables, and tells you just what
to eat to become the best man physically
and mentally.
The government Is now figuring UP
how much we are worth. For the past
several years 1t has had an army Of in
vestigators estimating our crops. animals
and foods, and these figures are now
about ready for use. They show that We
have 10000 factories with q capital Of
10 billion dollars. They give the wages
Of every state Of the Union as well as a
full count of Uncle Sans children. This
has been done by the census, the work
of which includes new facts or great
human interest
One of the interesting phases OF Uncle
Sans work IS the pursuit. OF crime and
his efforts to protect his children from
frauds. This has been inaugurated with
in the past few years, and 1t now forms
a great network which gathers in the
robbers, from the counter feitere to the
trust magnates. There are hundreds OF
these detectives and spies. There are the
corporation detectives who are looking
into the books of the trusts and the rail-
roads. There are detectives who are ex-
an1ining false weights and measures:
custom house spies who are after the
smugglers: internal revenue spies who are
hunting the moonshiners and Treasury
detectives who are chasing the counter
letters. This sphere Of crime is very
extensive, and. the officials are increasing
their work Of prevention. Some Of the
most interesting revelations OF the pres
emit are those which relate to frauds
through the mails, and to the destruction
and plantation schemes OF one kind or
another.
The government is also doing great
deal for the saiIo&s. 1t has a lffe-saving
service with 40 stations. It guards our
coasts by 1000 lighthouses and 1t has
46 lightshps and 1000 buoys. This serv-
ice saved about 16 billion dollars worth of
property last year including vessels worth
twelve millions. 1t saved also 5000 lives
want to tell how the coasts and har-
bors are being surveyed and describe our
enormous shipping interests. including a
carving trade amounting to two or three
What our patriarchal relative is doing
to sell our crops and manufactures
abroad is worth noting. In the past two
system for the development OF our for
eign commerce and he now has his ma
tionai trade drummers and govern
ment agents in almost every country.
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it in a black cavern and allow your
radiations to go through perforations.
cu nas Of the he sesson George s the
asked me to go to London with him
He was about to produce The Casino
Girl there. which followed The
American Beauty the Next Next Pt er af ss
unfortunately The American Beauty
sino Girl for the first six months-al-
though 1t is not generally known-was q
greater box office success than The Belle
of New York and had not regrettable
managerial move been made 1t might be
And now" said Harndin. with a
sigh; now. we are clear OF English
Ten years ago" he mused-you notice
that he muses. often. II came to the con-
tinent Paris-the Folies- Bergere. Ber-
lin-the Winter Garden. st. Petersburg.
back to the Paris Olympia. Now comes,
too. the most elaborate production ever
made. II began at the Alhambra, Lon
don. Really, I did the most wonderful
thing up to date. but 1t will not describe.
AS the Paris Figaro said: Words fail us.
For six months all London ran to 1t. Then
1t was incorporated in the Grande Revue
Of the Olympia under the famous Isola
came up from fair mountebanks along the
River Seine to become the two greatest
theatrical managers and proprietors of
Paris. They just missed getting the
would have made spiendor Of IT, cheer
fully losing money for the honor!'
But your own production" reminded
him.
1T was called Starlight
What was it?'
'Tt was a manipulation Of light, in the
first place, and Of color discovery pris-
matte colors. never before attained. The
scenery was nothing. Movement and
story were nothing. All the light effects
were on the persona IS, and no projected
ight-as far away from Loie Fuller eff
fects as possible. never project light.
He went on q four-year vacation-ltaly,
Sicily. Egypt as far as Khartum, Greece.
Corfu. Smyrna, Constantinople, Rou-
mania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Dem
mark. Norway. Sweden. through Lapland
to Hammerfest, 1.-THE most northern city
in tie world
Behold him back In Vienna again, in
the third year Of his vacation. THE
Japanese Russian war and Russian revo-
luton had come on, and desired to see
something Of that torn-up state Of
Starting with two correspondents. they
got to Riga and stuck. Only troops were
being moved up. but In golden days OF
the Grecian archipelago Re had met
Russian noble who said: IF you ever
happen in Riga look me up"
~ did," says Harndin. HE was pow
erful enough to take me to ct. Peters
burg. En- route he gave the cheerful
intelligence that he was a terroris no
that there would be fun I could not
get away from him-you understand
that?'
I said yes. Harndin fud grown gloomy
1T was the heat Of that internal revo-
luton" he explained slowly. "They had
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the aid Of which are now before Con-
gress. The government scientists are
testing the matter. and they have col
lected a vast deal Of new information.
which the experts say are equal to
sixty million horses, or twice enough
to run every mill, drive every train
and light every house in the country.
hundred millions. Much Of 1t comes
from waterfalls controlled by the gov
eminent, the concession of which the
trusts are trying to get.
A part Of this same scheme Is the
development Of our rivers. We have
295 Of them in the United States, with
navigable waters long enough to en-
circle the globe. The great lakes are
the busiest freight routes upon earth, and
boats can go on the Mississippi for two
thousand miles. We have already built
$500 miles of canals, and we have
schemes which propose the Joining Of the
great lakes with the Mississippi. and also
with the sea. One scheme is a canal
from the great lakes to the gulf.
When our forefathers took possession
Of the United States almost the whole
OF the land belonged to the government.
Year by year these public lands have
been given away. More than fourteen
hundred millions Of acres have been
sold or set aside as reservations. and
there are comparatively few left. Never
theless, Uncle Sam Patriarch is at work
upon schemes which will practically
double our farms. He is testing the
soil and showing how by fertilizing and
proper farming the crops can be in
creased two or more fold. This Is
equal to putting another farm on top
of every farm in the United States.
Much of this work is done by means
would number more than all the people
in the world. Unc.e Sam is setting
these little devils to work. and he shows
you just how and which ones to use.
He is now analyzing the soils Of the
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castle: their life IL an idyl where Tibullus
would hang up his hat. Another was the
middle-aged proprietor Of a great eastern
daily paper: suddenly he quit all. be-
came a reckless Latin quarter student,
and finally married his cook. He. too.
Is very happy.
Some day 1 shall make an album Of
thsee dear expatriates-despite all. ban
ner-bearers Of the generous American
idea Some sought business and found
romance: some sought romance and found
peace. None made a volte-face more
abrupt than Herbert Harndin.