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New-York tribune., 1912-03-31
News of Past Week Here
Repeated for Busy Man

sustained his title to his seat Sixteen
Republicans and eighteen Democrats voted
against the motion of Senator Hepburn ana
the adoption Of the majority report OF the
Committee on Privileges and Elections
Twenty-eight Republicans and twelve Dem
ocrats voted for II.
The eighth Senatorial ballot at santa
Fe y. NJ resulted in the election of A B.
Fall and f. 3. CatrOn, Republicans as
United States Senators.
The legislative session Of 1912 at Albany
came 10 an end. It was an end desired no
less by the people here than the people
around the state. who have looked with
disgust on a shftless, drifting. resuluess
three months Of iobbery and dickering be
tween the Governor and his TammarS
colleagues and petty partisan fighting he
tween the Democratic Senate ana the he-
publican Assembly on the last day OF
the session the Assembly passed the Mur-
raw woman suffrage constitutional amend
ment. Then later owing to the consterna-
ton Of somebody mp aloft 1t was decided
that this had to be undonc. BY rccOnsid-
cring the vote by which the bill was passed
on a motion Of Assemblyman Cuvillier the
whole proposition was put on the table,
where it stayed
THE Wagnes subway ill for New YORK
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31
ure passed the second reading last May

ure passed the second reading last May by
a majority of 1s7
Apparently trustworthy messages report
a federal rout at Jiminez Mexico. Generai
Gonzalez Salas, the federal commander, ls
reported to have committed suicide 'on-
zales Salas, who resigned as Minister OF
War TO take active charge of the campaign
against Orozco, killed himself at BerJe-
milo by shooting himself through the head
while with a part OF his army he was re-
treating to Torreon after the reverse at
corralitos. twenty miles south Of Jiminez.
General Victoriano Huerta, formerly IN
command of federal forces in Morelos, mas
been named to succeed him.
THE British Governments minimum
wage bill became a law, receiving the royal
assent simultaneously balloting by the
coal miners throughout the British Isles
was proceeding TO settle the question
whether the strikers should return to work
or let the mines lie idle pending decision
by the district boards. provided for IN the
bill, as to what the rates Of wages shall
be IN the various coal mine districts While
the result Of the ballotng will not be
known Officially until next Thursday
lnelH "dE prev dltIll N't' > Nil'i' ~ '''''''''
of optimism that the vote would favor
resumption of work and that meantime
thousands of miners would return TO work
in anticipation of such a decision.
Three Americans, Messrs. Hicks, Hoh-
man and Sheldon. presumed to be mis-
sionaries. are said 10 have been attacked
while exploring the sorges in the Yang-tse
River. China. In boat. and all three
robbed and wounded"
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31

either. and that Lucy was his daughter, on
whom Sammy was sweet"
AS soon as the plot is exhibited as far
as prudent. the orchestra plays barrel
motif, and Sammy runs and climbs with
squirre-like agility into prune barrel up
left Just in time, for the door opens and
two villains cnter-DoC Allen and Glue
Melch
Not two minutes OF conversation from
these two before your suspicion that Edgar
Moore amt dead after all is verified They
pull up a trapdoor in the floor a light
flares up through the hole and there he is
secreted in the cellar working 20 perfect
a machine for seeding prunes. only one
defect in the macnine-n the lever is re-
versed It puts all the pits back in their
skins
Doc Allen quietly closes the trapdoor.
lie smells dollars Why couldn't he and
Glue steal the old mans invention and
make money selling seeded prunes?
why hasn't Edgar Moore thought Of
that" muses. Glue.
mo" says the wiser Doc, when man
hates prunes he can't see any money in
'em. All he wants to do IS to get EN- of
his plate
Act II. The artificial flower shop in Bos-
ton. where Lucy Moore, the supposed
orphan, IS cking out a piuful existence
making Happy Home wreaths Lucy :
great innocent eyes are like twin stars
(you can sec the rays from the farthest
back corner Of the auditorium. She wears
a black dress. poor little orphan, and on
her poor feet are white silk stockings and
black, high heeled suede shoes, with a dia-
nond buckle in front. on her poor fingers
are several diamond rings, willie her soft
curls are done up into a Golf that reaches
far up into the ether above her head. The
little dear bends over a rough table, max
ing a Rest in Heaven piece out OF
daisies while the vindictive forelady. Miss
Wasp, willows UP and down keeping an
eye on her.
But II must be remembered that this Is
q twelve-act drama and rhough it is con-
densed into four acts It Is nightly con-
densed So that the detailed story would
trail into the infinite even II one could re-
call g.
The excellent part Of Lucy Moore" was
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31

upon which to hang our expectations oe-
sides mj,a miscellaneous information or
various kinds.
As 10 Mr.. Bennett himself. He has skill
fully drawn between the lines Of this brief
article a character sketch of himself that
will be valuable to his future biosraphers.
He. like all Of us, will have centenary
of his birth some day, and there Is a
greater chance Of its being observed by
posterity than that of most OF the rest OF
US To his portrait then, as drawn by
himself,
Arnold Bennett is a man In the best
period Of life, somewhat sensitive, not I"
say touchy about his personal appear
ance, inclined TO taciturnity, OF delicate
nerves. modest both as an individual and
as a Briton. yet typical representative Of
his race Also, he is a poor sailor.
DO not look astonished. Watson. Listen
10 your Uncle Sherlock and see how simple
it IS. We will take the last statement first.
We know that Mr. Bennett is a poor
sailor because lie begins his article IN mid
ocean, sitting at breakfast, or dinner or
supper. which consists OF an Ice and u
rusk He does not tell us whether th.S
was on the first, the second or the thlId
day out, and what had gone before he dis
creetly wells in silence. Furthermore, he
remembers with unmistakabe aversion 4
discussion of the dgestibilty Of buck
wheat cakes in the lounge Of the steamer,
and never once mentions tobacco. Last oI
all when on the night Of his arrival IN
New York his hosts invited him TO par
take OF the free lunch In a Broadway catt
he declined with mental reflections which
he reserved for utterance until the appear
ance Of the April "Harper's."
That he is a typical Briton is proved by
his aston'shment AT the behavior Of the
American girls on board:
Those muscular. strding girls in caps ana
shavls would not yield an men 10 me li'
their promenade: they brushed strongly
and Carelessly past me; had been ghost
thev would have walked through me.
Most XTRord'nry behavior indeed!
There is, also Mr. Benefits scorn Of the
Scandlnavians in the steerage, appla Iding
Home Sweet Home" as II they lad a
right 70 1t. No doubt most OF these Morse
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31
PACKERS ARE ACQUITTED.

Any n,Ys of interest In the business
world" asked Busy Man.
Chicago packers ended ten years lesal
battle with the government when jury In
United States District Judge Carpenters 8
court found them not guilty of violating the
criminal section of the Sherman antitrust
law Whether further investigations into
the beef packing industry will be made Dis
trct Attorney Wilkerson refused TO say.
The Interstate Commerce Commission IN
an opinion made public at Washington
esta bished the farreaching principle that
railroad must so adjust its rates that JUS
tice will be done between communities, re-
gardless of the state lines. If a railroad
makes low rate on traffic wholly within a
state. even when forced to do so by state
commission, II must accord the same rate
to Interstate traffic moving under substan-
TALLY similar conditions. The principle was
laid down by vote OF TO 8. The minority
held that the powers Of Congress were
usurped by the majority opinion and that
the remedy for such a situation should be
applied through additional legislation.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31
DEATH LIST OF THE WEEK..

What well known persons have died IN
the last seven days." asked Busy Man.
John Arbuckle, coffee importer and phi
lanthropist died at his home, No. Sl5 Cin-
ton avenue. Brooklyn, from general break
down. Mr. Arbuckle was seventy-three
years old. Hezekiah Kohn, who had de-
voted the greater part of his life TO char
liable work, died from heart disease at his
home No West seth street. He was
ninety years old. Stephen r. Bassett for
merly secretary OF the National Editorial
Association, died from heart disease at his
home. No. 5l2 West 156th street.
Bishop Yoich Honda Of the Methodist
Church of Japan. died at Nagasak from
tvphoid fever. Christian Gottfried Albert
TraeRer. member of the Reichstag from
Oldenburg and Father Of the House died
in Berlin in his eighty-second year. Lady
Elizabeth Drummond, the widow OF Sir
Arthur Victor Arthur Wellington Drum
mond K. c. NJ. G., c. B., died in Paris.
Robert F. Wynne, formerly captain In
the United States Marine Corps and known
I'm the navy as The Fighting Marine died
at the home of his father, ex-Postmaster
General Robert J. Wynne, in Washington.
Mrs. Anna Potter, once candidate for
Mayor of Kansas City, died at her home
there. Mrs. Potter was pioneer In the
womans suffrage movement. Robert Samp-
son Ianier fourth son of the Southern
poet, Sidney Lanier, died at his home NO.
CPS West Hath street, this city William
McAlIister, a retired yacht builder Of city
Island. New York, died at Washington.
Robert Reid. founder of the Reid Ice Cream
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31
Epic of the Willy Prune
Is Shinn's Latest 'Drammer''

There YOU have the Wayerley Place
drama cradle What could be better?
The orchestra arrives, sits on the piano
stool and dreams off into the Venetian glide
sometimes known as the barcarolle from
THE Tales Of HoffmannD. She f probably
the most sympathetic orchestra in New
York, for she not only interprets your own
mood but translates the intent Of the
drama throughout its course, INTERVENING
explanatory tunes in an arboreal unity OF
music that is as invaluable a "trot' 70 the
play as the orchestral part Of Wagner
opera is 10 the action.
The curtains part, ana a perfect stage
scene in miniature is revealed. II IS the
interior of the old Mil. The music bushes
down TO a mere tremolo as the crcakins
door swings open and red-hcaded hang
jawed Sammy stumblcs in with q bag Of
prunes, which he throws on the floor with
a heavy thud. The orchestra Immediately
sounds the prune motif "a bass chord 10
suggest the color, with a trickng treble
TO imply the tasteJ, and the great twelve
act drama in four acts IS on.
Sammy is PLAYED by MIR. James Preston,
and Mr. Preston whereas he is spirited
pantomimist, finds II practically Impossible
TO remember the words Of his part. The
playwright always gives him as few as
possible and makes them as simple as the
language permits. II was rash thing,
therefore TO give Mr.. Preston the opening
lines Of the play And Mr.. Preston looked
piteously across the little row OF footlights
into the unsympathetc smiles that cleaned
at him catlike from the dark auditorium
Oh, yes. At last they came to him!
"Prunes, VISIT folks would get horses
to haul their prunes for them. Wonder
why old Edgar Moore drowned im5eIf.
Lucy amt been the same since"
Short clear and precise. The next few
lines reveal that Edgar Moore was a phi
lanthropist who tried 10 rid the world Of
prunes, that maybe he wasn't drowned,
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31

that II had no consecutive story, II was
merely composed OF notable scenes. There
was the scene where Doc Allen and Glue
Melch gsmbled for the possession OF Lucy
letting the erratic moves of an enormous
black spider determine TO which Of them
she would belong. There was the scene In
the Eureka flower shop, where Doc orders
a wreath. provided that Lucy be appointed
TO deliver It. There rs the old inventor
chained to the floor working over his prune
machine. And IT is safe TO assert post
lively that Wilfrid Buckland had a red
eyed white-checked, wild-haired makeup
on such as had never before been imagined
on the stage or off il, except In the final
stage of the d. is.
Ny Shinns great American drama al
though totally indescribable as 20 actual
happening, is rich in suggestions to the
dramatist and most happy in its results on
the audience From il the dramatist may
discover that the play is not the thing. The
thing" is the scenery plus the makeup
plus the acting. He may discover that
play has TO have neither n purpose nor
plot, that the dramatist does not have to Dc
lieve in his art. but that the actors, al
though they do not have TO know their lres
must act with intensity and have their
hearts in their work. Two other impor-
tant observations for the dramatist are
first that he need not account for the in
c!dents in a play nor the actions OF char
actcrs They can drop in the door NO
explanations necessary. The audience asks
no questions while It is offered tense and
thrilling incident. performed on the stage
The other Is that bright lines, rather than
plot. are the order Of the day.
In other words, the Shinn drama is
miniature. high powered burlesque OF the
drama our forebcars loved and wept over
Go on, Mr. Shnn. look around at the plays
that are appealing to our hearts" to-day
and get US up one OF your interpretations
Of those
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31
BENNETT ON AMERICA
First Article in Series by the
English Novelist.

We have lost the sensitive self-conscious-
ness with which, in our rawer and at the
same time more cOmplaceut days, we re-
received the criticisms OF Mrs. Trolope
and Charles Dickens Indeed, We have
turned the tables with a vengeance, for no
college girl, no teacher. now adays returns
from her trip to TO Europe without writing
book about It, filled with the fr8Dkee'
criticism of all things transatlantic. And
generally their structures on foreign ways
customs and people are about as accurate
as are those Of the average foreign tour
ist who, returned home from a six weeks
visit TO us. slangs us our past. our pres
ent and our future, our manners and our
cuisine In book or periodical.
still. we remain interested in what dis
tingished foreign visitors men and women
who have earned the right 10 speak, have
TO say about us. We welcome them, we
make much OF them We show them all
that We prize most and all that they wish
10 see, bid them EoOdby and then await
the result. There was Paul Bourget for
instance twenty years ago. II. q. Wells
more recently, end Arnold Bennett only
the other day.
Mr.. Bennett has returned home, and be-
gins to show Us to ourselves as lie secs Us
in the April number of "Harpers Maga-
zine" "Regin' IS perhaps not the right
word. He Is only Just getting ready. In
fact, this first instament Of Your United
States" as this series OF articles viii be
called, Yields but little to the hasty or
superficial reader. But that is just the
point Haste is most unbecomlng in him
who would read Arnold Bennett, and Su-
perticlal!ty serious handicap.
This first paper. indeed. must be read
with the scrutiny Of a detective looking
for clews-ln the Sherlock Holmesian man
ner. And when read in this way 1t will
be found to contain great many pegs
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31

"The fastey Drcadnought in the Amefi-
can navy, and probably in the world, IS the
title claimed for the government built oat-
tleship Florida, which made Za KNOTS on
her Standardization trial over the course
of Rockand, Me. The British Dreahnousht
Vanguard. with a record Of 22.5O knots hah
been considered previously the fleetest pat
tleship OF the world, and the Floridas s SIS
ter ship, the Utah. built at private yaro,
made a record Of q. 657 knots on her fastest
trial run.
Claude Swanson Allen, the twenty-five
year-old son OF Floyd Allen and one OF
those indicted for the courthouse murders
in Hnlsville. Va, gave himself up. Friei
Allen was also captured. Sidna Allen and
Wesley Edwards are so closely pressed on
the south side Of the Blue Ridge that they
probably will be captured within fe"
days This information comes from lead
crs Of the hunt for the gang which on
March II swooped down on the Carrol
County Court. killed Judge Massie. Prose-
cutor Foster. Sheriff Webb, Fowler.
juror, and Miss Nancy Ayres, and wounded
two bystanders
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31
CAST OF "1.UCY MOORE"
THE BOSS.

Three Finger Sam, he used to be as bold
as any one.
He spoke up quick They said he had
four notches on his gun
And never took no back talk from
stranger or d friend.
Whenever trouble started he was there 10
suporintend.
We stood and gazed respectful as he
drained the tovial cup.
He never went to bed. but used to sleep
a-standin' up.
lie was the roughest, toughest man that
ever hit the place
And now YOU ought 10 see him. He's COM
pletely feii from grace.
lie met "A gal, not FIVE feet high and wispy-
Ike anu pale. -
she married him an now he's hit the
water wagon trad
He wears coat an collar and he even
combs his hair
An hesitate. ~ tslkin' cause ne knows
An Mrs sam. she says she wouldn't be
no Suffrag
She's satisfied to boss one able-bodicd man.
YOU bet
That's ready to break loose like water
from a busted dam
An clean up the community If she says
Sick 'em. Sam. Washington s'ar'
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31

Part of the brain of an Ill man was
extracted and replaced with that taken
from a stil-born infant at Johns Hopkins
HospitaI, Baltimore. by DR.. Harvey Cush-
ing II is said to be the first operation OF
its kind ever performed, and 1t is thought
# will be successful. The patient. William
Buckner, had suffered for some time from
q peculiar affection OF the brain, which
caused him to be continually drowsy.
Lexington avenue, between Gth and Sth
streets, suddenly collapsed from curb to
curb and plunged downward forty feet into
the bedrock tunnel of the new subway after
an unusually heavy blast that had been set
off by men employed by the Bradley Con-
,ractlng Company. For a few minutes after
the explosion the scene was similar to the
confusion following an earthquake.
Max Freeman, the godfather of comic
opera ended long career as an actor.
manager and producer by hanging himself
with a fire escape rope In his room at the
Hotel Grcnoble, this city.
In the New castle County Superior
Court At Wilmington. Del, John Bancroft
jr., obtained a divorce from his wife. Made
lcIne Du Pont Bancroft. The male infant
whose paternity Bancroft disowned and
whom he named Max Helbler, jr., In
making the child q codefendant in the suit,
i declared to be illegtimate.
~ Photographic map Of the entire sky,
showing about $4,000 stars, has been pre-
pared in sections by the Harvard Univer-
sity astronomers. Placed together. the
map sections would cover more than five
acres"
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31

THE great Lawrence strike, "h!c"
brought IN It's train increased wages lo'
275. 900 textile workers In New England, WAS
officially declared of at all the mii'S III
Lawrence, having accomplished It's purpose
in the opinion OF the leaders
The first step toward stoppage III coal
production In the United States as result
Of the miners wage disputes was taken
when the union ordered 10000 miners IN
the anthracite regions Of Pennsylvania 10
quit work tonight at midnight. The sus-
pension was ordered because Of the opera
tors refusal to grant the union demands
for Increased pay. The shutting down OF
the mines, union officials say. will cause
a loss in the coal production OF the coun-
try OF 7,Os3,OOo tons of anthracite month
and will entail loss in pay 10 the miners
of not less than $4,000 for every day they
remain out. Measures TO induce miners
and operators to renew negotiations
broken of in New York several weeks ago
already are talked Of.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31
HOW SHE WAS MENTIONED.

II met Miss Knox to-day said MISS
Blupdrlu. "Ry the way she asked me II
knew YOU"
is that So" said Miss Gigglcs.
yes, We had quite an argument. | hap
rened TO remark that Mary Shippers was the
slliest girl | knew, and she-er-she sim
ply wouldn't agree with me."-The Catholic
STANDARD and Timcf
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31
FRENCH BANDITS CAUSE TERROR.

What's been going on in foreign lands:''
inquired Busy Man.
The most recent exploit Of the band of
automobile road pirates who have put rural
France in a state of terror by their swift
ness ana rclentlcssness has created tre-
mendous impression. An automobile was
stolen and the chauffeur killed as the car
was passing through the historical forest of
Senart. about twenty-five miles from Paris,
10 the southeast. The machine was traced
rortnwafd through Nillaneuve-St. Georges
to rsris whe-e the bandits picked up two
confederates, and thence TO Chantilly,
twcnty-three miles to the northeast Of the
capital. They Immediately stormed tho
bank at ChantIly, shot two employees dead,
returned TO the suburb Of Asnleres and
made good their escape. All trace OF them
was lost.
The window smashing campaign OF the
militant suffragettes had an unexpected Sc
quel in the rejection in Parliament OF the
women's enfranchisement bill by fourteen
votes. The result Is all the more remarka-
bic in view of the fact that similar meas
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31

City was passed by the Senate at Albany
by a vote Of IS to g. under an emergency
message from the Governor. An emergency
message on the measure was also sent TO
the Assembly and that body later passed
the measure. which is now in,the hands Of
the Governor for Signature
What have you in the way Of general
news in YOUR mental storehouse?' asked
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31
NO CONSPIRACY IN BRANDT CASE

The grand jury investigating the Brandt
case brought in report finding no evil
dence Of conspiracy, and was discharged
by Judge Grain. So ended the case that
has occupied the time of the grand jury
for nearly two months and has entailed the
hearing Of forty-one witnesses, Including
Folke. T. Brandt, Mortimer l.. Schin ana
Mrs. Schiff and the examination Of great
mass Of documentary evidence.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31

Philip S Hichborn, d young lawyer and
son Of the late Rear Admiral Philip Hich-
born. killed himself at Washington in de-
spondency and humiliation over the elope-
ment more than Il year ago Of his wife,
Elenore Hoyt Hichborn, with Horace L.
Wylie, a prominent Washington attorney.
He shot himself IN the head with an auto
matte army revolver and died almost in
C,a
New-York tribune., 1912-03-31
HIS SPECIALITY.

DO YOU speak several languages father
No. my son" replied Mr.. Henpeck, gag
ing sadly at his wife; but ! do know tba
mother gue."-Judge.