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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-20

scopyright. 1911. by the Brentwood Company
FINANCIAL misfortunes. entailing
r. appearances in the London Bank
- ruptcy Court, and transactions
with money lenders, involving unsuc-
Cessful litigation rather than di'satis-
faction with the House Of Lords. In
which he has never occupied seat, con-
stitute the real reasons for the action OF
the ninth Marquis of Queensberry In
abandoning his native land. with the OBJ
)ect of endeavoring TO retrieve his shat
tered fortunes and to begin life anew
on this SIDE of the Atlantic. Provided
he settles down here to some bona-f1de
business, and sticks 10 il, success may
yet crown his efforts. For he is no
stranger to America, having been fire.
Quent visitor TO this country, where he
has many friends, some of them quite
influential, who would be glad TO extend
20 him a helping hand.
His principal defect until now has
been a species Of instability Of charac-
ter. which comes to him perhaps by IN
feritance. For his family has always
been noted for its eccentricity. an &C.
centricity which has led 10 some .trange
romances, 20 some extremely dramatic
episodes and TO large number of trag-
edies. Perhaps the most appalling Of
the latter was one which took place in
the first decade of the eighteenth CEN
fury. at Edirpurgh.
The Lord Queensberry of the day was
Lord High Commissioner Of Scotland,
and Is such had to preside at the cere-
mony Of proclaiming the law. at the
Cross of Edinburgh. by which the union
between England and Scotland was es-
tabushed His entire household, retain
ers and servants. with the exception OF
the heir 10 the title. an idiot lad of
eighteen. and the -year-old child OF
one Of the servants. deserted the family
mansion. near Holyrood Palace. to wit
ness the ceremony. When the inmates
Of the establishment returned az the
close Of the function they found, to their
horror. that the lunatic eldest son and
heir of the Lord High Commissioner had
managed to escape from the room in
which he was confined and had spitted
and roasted in front Of the kitchen fire
and almost completely devourel the I'M
happy infant. This cannibaistic lord
did not live 10 succeed to his fathers
honors. but died a few years after the
tragedy in a Inadhouse.
The present marquis has tried his hand
at many trades He has been in turn a
midehipman in the royal navy and a
lieutenant in the army. He has been
sheep farmer in Australia. but aban-
doned agricultural pursuits for gold min
ing there. returned TO England to squan-
der on the Stock Exchange what he bad
earned with his pick and shovel by con-
Meeting himself with gold mining enter
prises, which failed 10 yield the prom
ised results
Then he became associated with the
late Whitaker Wright. who made abun
dant use of the young peers name and
titles before his arrest in New York. his
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paper for many years, lavishins large
sums Of money on the Land League
When Talbot, the detective and inform
err was assassinated she made hand
some pecuniary donation 10 the family
Of the murderer, in token Of her ap-
proval. All this, Of course. was before
she became a Sister Of Mercy. Her
equally eccentric daughter, Lady Flor
ence Dixie. rabid Unionist, presented
a sum twice as large to the widow and
family Of Talbot. Old Lady Queens
berry was, so far as I am aware, the
only peerless of the realm who was an
avowed and enthusiastic Fenian.
There is one branch Of business which
VIII under no circumstances appeal 70
Lord Queensberry on this side Of the
water and which It viii be useless TO
suggest to him as a means Of livelihood
namely. that automobile business
which has been the refuge FOR so many
men Of birth and education who have
failed In other branches Of trade and in
dustry. For he has repeatedly written
to the English papers, denouncing the
recklessness Of motorists and their viz
tual monopolization Of the streets and
Of the high roads.
Indeed, in one Of his letters, printed
I'm the London Times he mentions a
list of twenty Of his friends manned by
motors, and another list OF twenty of
his acquaintances who have killed their
fellow creatures with their automobiles,
winding up by declaring that revolver
is the only means Of self defence in such
cases. and that should fatal injuries
result to any member OF my family
shall take the law into my own hands"
Violent deaths are not uncommon IN
Lord Queensberry's family. His grand
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which he received under his fathers Will
in spite OF his sensational f1sticuff en-
counter with him I'm Piccadilly at the
time Of the Oscar Wilde lawsuit.
This inheritance enabled Lord Queens
berry to settle all the obligations that he
had incurred up to that date, but did
not leave him much 70 provide for the
future. Since then he has been going
downhill, in a business sense. and at
the present moment has little or nothing
beyond the small annuity settled upon
his wife, who, the daughter Of clergy
man Of the Church Of England. namely.
the Rev. Thomas Walters, vicar OF
Boynton Launceston. has Joined her hus-
band in his conversion to the Roman
Catholic Church.
There lie a great deal OF diversity in
the religious beliefs Of the family of
which the marquis is the chief His sis
ter. Lady Edith Fox Pitt. is, like her
husband. George Lane Fox Pitt, pro-
Tossing Buddhist. One OF the marquis's
brothers. Lord Sholto Douglas, who has
made his home in this country since his
marriage to the Californian vaudeville
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Back Of the footlights they are working
for the manager, and back there 1t is just
about three times as warm as II Is where
the onlooker is sitting.
Up at the Winter Garden. rs all men
know, La Saison des Ballots Russes Is IN
renewed progress Saison des Ballots
Russes transferred into the mother tongue
Of NewlYork means simply season of Rus
sian ballets-it sounds better in print the
other way. Well. anyhow, this sort Of
dancing-toe dancing-means good hard
work for all concerned, and whether 1t be
hot or whether II be hotter yet, the girls
still have TO pull on the interminable white
tights and so through all the mystic fig
ures of the different dances with smiles
that must not come off
The Winter Garden is as cool as any
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as though they had kicked loose from all
laws OF grayitation and had become birds
without the wings. Just the same the
work required to give tho dancers this light
and airy look is so hard that it ranks right
up alongside of repairing the asphalt and
drilling limestone rock.
After ballet il finished they can so to
the dressing rooms al either side OF tho
stage. No sane person over goes to a
dressing room to keep cool-they must have
privacy, and privacy means less ventila-
ton. There are plenty Of electric fans be-
hind the scenes. but even these artificial
friends to painting humanity are barred
after the first ballet. as there IS danger
of catching cold from a fan blast when
one comes limp from dancing toe drama.
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conviction at the Old Bailey in London
for extraordinary frauds. and his dra-
matte suicide Immediately on receiving
sentence. No one for a moment imputed
TO Lord Queensberry any criminal COM
plicity in the swindles Of Whitaker
Wright, but naturally the fact that he
should have associated with the man and
permitted him to use his name was not
regarded as indicating an extraordinary
amount Of business acumen.
Lord Queensberry. who during a visit
over here almost lost his life in that
railroad accident on the New York Cen
trail Railroad when the fast train from
Buffalo to New York toppled into the
Hudson River, drowning several Of its
passengers, has also been in the cement
business. In fact, there is no end to
the undertakings which have engaged
his attention and his energies. But that
none Of them have turned out satisfac-
torily, is perhaps best shown by the fact
that three weeks ago he was the un-
successful defendant in a lawsuit in the
County Court Of London which showed
that he had been borrowing small sums
from money-lenders at the most extrava-
CANT rate Of Understanding in the
nature Of 200 per cent a year.
According TO his sworn testimony on
the occasion Of his first appearance in
the Bankruptcy Court some years ago,
the marquis admitted that at the time
Of his succession 10 his fathers honors
in January, 1900, he owed in the neigh
borhood of a million dollars to money
lenders and insurance companies. He In
sisted that the actual cash which he
had received of this amount was about
100000. the balance representing in
terest and charges.
His father having realized all the
family estates. with the exception Of
small property worth $4,000. left per-
sonalty to the amount Of S1,250OO0,
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LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS.

Brother Of the titled expatrate. He fig
ured in Oscar WiIde's libel suit against
the old marquis, which was boone
rama 10 Wilde, and resulted in the lat
ter's conviction and sentence TO Jail.
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actress. Loretta Mooney, is, like her, a
Baptist Lord Queensberry's eldest
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Ditch Digging Is Almost Play
Compared with Work That
Keeps These Dainty
Sprites eft"

~ VERY NOW and then some one
- who sits'on the audience side Of the
- fascinating footlghts forgets his
own wilted collar long enough TO wonder
how the girls on the stage can stand the
heat.
It's away beyond me-" he murmurs 10
the friend in the adjoining seat. That's
bound 10 be hard work. And think what
q gay, gay life II IS that those chickens
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Marquis Of Queensberry, Ninth
Holder of Noted Title,
Has Tried Hand at
Many Pursuits.

Copyright 1911. by the Brentwood Company
~ FINANCIAL misfortunes, entailing
- appearances in the London Bank
u r,,ntcx, Court and transactions
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the old marquis, which was boome'
rama TO Wilde, and resulted in the lat
ter's conviction and sentence to Jail.
8
brother. who died as Lord Kelhead. was
q Presbyterian.
Lord Archibald Douglas brother Of
the late marquis, Is a Roman Catholic
priest and a member Of the Redemp-
torist Order, while his sister, Lady Ger
trude. married n German journeyman
baker Thomas Stock. who was a Luth-
eran. She died, however, as a Roman
Catholic The late and eighth Marquis
Of Queensberry was a. elf-proclaimed
atheist and on this account, in spite CT
his talents, barred by his fellow peers OF
Scotland from representing them in the
House Of Lords.
The seventh marquis. that is to say.
the grandfather Of the present Lord
Queensberry, was a Presbyterian Of the
strictest type, and his wife. whom he
had welded at Gretna Green after a
typical. old -fashioned, post chaise-a and
four elopement. died in 1904. as a Sister
Of Mercy. She was most eccentric
old lady. and is on record as having
been for a time so devoted to the Fenian
cause that she subsidized Fenian news
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opera chairs, and they have thrown their
rats into the discard or have retired them
until cooler weather makes It possible 10
assume again the hayrlck couture
Then. too, look at the very name OF the
place-The Winter Garden. Doesn't the
sound OF IT suggest large chunks OF hard
ice and shiverlns polar bears with fur
coats?
Now, the audience isn't doing a lick Of
work. All II has to do is sit there and
watch the music Of dancing feet and get
the worth OF its departed money I'm enjoy
ment thereof. But think OF the artists OF
the facile toe who are furnishing that same
entertainment.
They aren't sitting still. They arc float
Ing and lesping about the stage gracefully
The Washington times., 1911-01-11
Will Close Store
To Reduce Prices

The spectacle of a business house
closing for the purpose of keeping Gus
toners out is a new thing in Washing
ton that is scheduled to happen to-
morrow afternoon
The customers are to be shut out of the
stores of Hecht & Co. after 4:3O O'Clock
that the clerks and managers may mark
prices on the goods to be offered Fri
day in the semi-annual ''clean-sweep"
sale
The business of making room for the
new fall goods is one of the most wor-
risome with which a merchant has to
contend, IL is stated, and in a store
that transacts business annually that
runs into the hundreds of thousands, its
customers attracted and held by the
fact that the goods II handles arc al
ways up-to-the-minute in style and
quality, this difficulty becomes burden
some.
1t is the immense volume of business
transacted during the previous months
as well as the necessity for a quick
cleaning out Of the stock that has
caused Hecht & Co. to announce the
closing of the store Thursday afternoon.
The semi-annual clean-sweep sales
are designed for the sole purpose of
reducing the Stock that room may be
found on the shelves for the new goods.
Hecht & Co. have these sales in Jan
uary and July of each year, and
their customers have come to watch
for them.
The details of the sale will be found
in tomorrows Times and other daily
papers.
The Washington times., 1911-01-11
FROM TEN TO NOON
CHARITIES HOURS
Election Follows Demand for
Longer Hours at All (
Eight Stations.

Complying with insistent demands for
longer hours at the stations of the As
ISOLATED Charities. the eight stations
will in the future be open from 10 a. m.
until noon.
The board regrets that the force of as
sistants is not large enough to permit
of the stations being kept open all day.
and hope that in time they can employ
enough persons to keep all stations open
sufficiently long to take care of all calls
made on them. ~
AT a meeting of the board of man
ayers yesterday. the following commit
tees were announced by Prot. Jdniie1'
chairman of the board:
Executive committee-Prof. e. T. jan
ney, chairman; William Fl. Balwin' ".
George NJ. Kober, Cuno H. Rudolph, the
Rev. John Van Schaick. jr., and George
S Wilson. ,,
Finance committee - Col. Archibald
Uo1kins, chairman: A. Lisner, Cuno H.
Rudolph, and S. w. Woodward.
Committee on Provident PiansmDIITI
George NJ. Kober, chairman: Dr. WIFI
lam c. Rives, and George g. Wilson;
Committee on Division Organization
Miss Florence P. Spofford, chairman;
Lacy, and Mrs. Charles. w. Richardson
with chairmen of division conferences)
Auditing committee-B. T. Janney'
chairman. and George 8. Wilson;
Committee on Laws and Legislator
Frederick J.. Siddons, chairman; w.
SpenCer Armstrong, Edward Thomas,
" stanley Willis, Andrew Wilson, Ed
win Allen Swingle, and William w.
Bride.
The Washington times., 1911-01-11

OFFICES: aOI.ao2 COLORADO BUILDING.

1t has often been jokingly remarked
That Mr.. So and So had his money in
a sand bank" Today there are some
both more safely and profitably in
vested than they are in Savings Banks
and Trust Companies.
Very few people are aware Of the fact
that II Is possible to manufacture a
higher class of brick out of a good
bank sand than 1t is out of any other
kind of material. yet this Is a. fact
which Is easily demonstrated. Like ce-
ment, sand is being consumed in fully
fifty times the quantity that it was
twenty years ago.
To own a piece of land underlaid with
a large deposit of clean bank sand, in
close proximity to any large city,
means a very valuable real estate hold
ing. Sand in Washington is selling to-
day at anywhere from 81 to $1.5O per
ton.
Take a bank forty feet deep. covering
one acre of surface, and compute the
deposit att 10 cents per ton: it will yield
over $50. .0O0- to the acre. .-.--
The Capitol Brick Companys property
at Stott, D. c., consists of seventy-one
acres, at least fifty acres of which
consists of the finest quality of sand
found IN this country. Not alone Is 1t
suitable for concrete work and building
purposes, but IT is also the most desir-
abTs -lSnd of material for the manufac-
ture OF brick and stone.
The Washington times., 1911-01-11

During the pas year thousands of
tons of sand from this bank have been
used both In Government and private
building operations. and the Company
today has orders for many thousand
tons more. This IN itself is an irnpor-
tant item in the Company's business,
yet only incidental to that Of manufac-
turing brick and stone.
A large factory with a capacity Of
1000 bricks per day is rapidly nearing
completion, and the Company has suf-
ficient orders on hand to keep the fac
tory running at its full capacity for
many months.
With ample railroad facilities Cthe
Company having its own private siding
and attractive freight rates, they are
in a condition to supply building ma
terial in Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York and successfully compete
with other manufacturers in those
cities.
Their subscription books are open.
and investors can avail themselves of
the opportunity to procure stock at par,
which is SO per share. Those destrous
of arranging payments to 7 cover a
period of time can do so on a Der cent
basis.
While the earning capacity of the
Company is equal or better than that
of any other similar industry, per cent
stock certificates, which Is guarantee
of 6 per cent. with a possibility Of many
times that.
Further particulars and samples of the
product may be had at the Company's
Offices, ,3o1-3o2 COLORADO BUILDING.
The Washington times., 1911-01-11
Floor Gives Way AS Mob
Tries to Rescue Woman

ROME. Jan. IA dispatch today
from Senerchia says that many persons
were injured there by the collapse OF
the floor of the town hall. which had
been stormed by a mob seeking the
rescue of a woman named Donate, VINO
had slain her son with an ak
The mothers crime was due to her
belief that the son had murdered mis-
father and bis wife on account Of their
opposition to his dissolute habits and
infidehty. She killed her son while at
church. The police Immediately rushed
the woman TO the town hall. but the
public, in sympathy with her crime,
rushed to her aid. They swept aside
the police and swarmed into the town
hall in such numbers that the floor gave
way, precipitating the mob into the cell
lar.
The extent of the casualties has not
yet been learned. The mother is still
in custody.
The Washington times., 1911-01-11

Sarsaparina

Makes the blood of the right
quality and quantity-normal
in red and white corpuscles
and all other constituents. 1t
builds up the whole system.
Get # today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs.
The Washington times., 1911-01-11
PUNCHES
A T|PSY MASHER
Margaret Ellington Then Aids
Husband in Fight That
Follows.

CINCINNATI. Jan. I1.-Not only is
Margaret Ellington perfectly capable OF
defending herself, according to her own
story, but if need be she can add a
few timely blows in her husbands de-
fense.
"A fights a fight, and l expect / can
hold my own with any of them" said
the actress today, in recounting an epi-
sode that took place in a Cincinnati
street night before last.
Miss Ellington is here playing at the
Lyric Theater. On her way home with
her husband, a young man who was a
bit :ipsy jostled her and winked at her.
The actress landed several blows on
him before he knew what was happen
ing. BY this time her husband had in
terfered, and the actress went to his
aid.
II won't allow any one TO harm YOU,
Edward" she told him, after hOstillties
had been concluded.
The Washington times., 1911-01-11
WOULD LIMIT TINE
FOR BOY P[DD[ERs
Commissioners Recommend
i Change in the Child
Labor Law.

The Commissioners have recon-
mended that the child labor law be
amended SO as to prohibit the sale of
merchandise on the streets by Juve-
nile vendors after $3.50 p. m. and be-
fore a. m.
The Police Department recently
called to the attention of the Com
missioners the presence on the street
at late hours of youthful chewing
gum merchants and others, who II
was said loiter in front OF bar rooms
and other places and are protected
from police interference by a permit
and badge issued in accordance with
the law. Under the proposed amend
ment these children are subjected to
fine OF IS, and in addition their
permit may be revoked
The Washington times., 1911-01-11
BATTLE OF MINERS
IN DEEP WORKINGS
Men of Rival Companies Use
Powder, Water, and Drills
in Fight for Barrier.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, Jan. u.-With
death momenta7ily threatening, scores
of men are engaged in a battle several
hundred feet under ground. They have
torches only to light their surroundings.
A truce was declared last night after
twenty-four hours of conflict. but both
sides have pickets on guard and hos
tilities may be renewed at any moment.
Powder drills. and water are the weap-
ons used.
The fight is between the employees of
the Dunn and the Kingston coal COM
panies, and the prize is part of large
barrier Of coal which the law requires
shall be permitted to stand between ad-
joining mines. Both sides claim part Of
this barrier. The question of ownership
has been in the courts for some time,
but yesterday employees of the Dunn
company decided to let into the dis
puted workings a quantity of water,
which would prevent the Kingston COM
pany from operating them.
Drive Back Drills.
Kingston men yesterday heard con-
slant hammering on the wall of coal on
the Dunn side of the barrier and real
lied that the enemy was drilling through.
1t was impossible to prevent the drill
ing, but every time the point of a drill
appeared It was driven back with
sledges and the hole plugged.
Both forces worked with all their
might, each side being encouraged by
foremen, who in turn were urged on
from the offices of the companies
When the Dunn forces found their
drills had been checkmated, they de-
cided on new tactics. Boring many
holes only a few feet apart they waited
until all were plugged, and then put
against the plugs charges of powder,
hoping to blow all of the plugs out at
once and remove sufficient coal to al
low the water to food the disputed
property.
Plugs Blown Out.
The plugs were blown out, but the
coal resisted the forces of the explo-
sion, and the plugs were inserted agair.
A second time all were blown out and
hundreds of gallons poured into the
workings on the Kingston side, but the
battling miners stood in water to their
knees and put back the filings.
Feeling that the attack would be re-
newed when the Dunn forces got a rest,
the Kingston men refused to leave the
mine, even when told by officers of
the company 20 rest, and today they
are on guard. getting little snatches
of sleep in turns.
The Washington times., 1911-01-11
READY FOR WORK ON.
HAMILTON STATUE
Association Meets Tonight
to Discuss Selection of
Sculptor

Believing that it now has sufficient
funds in hand or pledged to warrant its
going ahead, the Alexander Hamilton
Memorial Association will meet tonight
at 8 o'clock at the, New Willard to
appoint committee to select a sculp-
tor and to carry on negotiations in re-
gard TO terms. =
The total amount now in hand and
subscribed, together with the appropria-
tIon from Congress is over $l7,0OO, and
as the association desires to raise but
s., 900 or 5000 more, 1t believes the time
is ripe for opening negotiations with one
or more sculptors. -.
Mr. Justice Harlan, who is president
of the association. will attend, as will
Mr.. Justice Hughes. General Porter,
you.
The Washington times., 1911-01-11
Despondent Young Man
Attempts to End Life

Thomas r. Wall. a Iaborer, out of
work, is slowly recovering today in the
Casualty Hospital from the effects Of
swallowing five bichloride of mercury
tablets with alleged suicidal intent at
his home, 1886 E street southwest. The
physicians say his condition is not seri-
GUS.
Wall, VINO Is twenty-four years old,
and unmarried, told DR.. Kilgour that he
was discouraged because of his inabil-
ity to obtain work, and had decided to
end his life. He was found in his room
in an unconscious condition late yester-
day afternoon.