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New-York tribune., 1912-01-28

salary for the job however. With that
list as an asset Bowes got Chicago book
ing. and Davis sped westward in advance.
The list, as II happened. was not used
until "Kinding" left the West End Thea
tire for Brooklyn Mark now the value OF
mouth-to-mouth advertising for play or
book "Klndling" had lost money on
broadway At the West End. a dollar
and q half house, II began TO return
profit. When II moved TO Brooklyn the
"Kindling Association" continued TO work
up attendance. Not only did the play
make money there, but on the first Satur-
day night Bowes had the satisfaction OF
turning people away at the box office.
Now for the play Itself before We come
10 its history. Maggie Schultz was one OF
thousands OF young married women who
try TO make a home where no real home
can be-in "A dark. unhealthy tenement on
New Yorks great lower East Side. She
and her husband. Helnie. had S23 In the
bank II was her ambition 10 get 500
with that she hoped TO get TO Wyoming.
where the life that she was soon to bring
into the world would have an even chance
TO grow up Just decently healthy and
sound She did not even dare tell her hus-
band that she was going TO be a mother.
because he had declared that II was little
better than murder for people like them TO
bring children into being only to pine and
starve and degenerate into animals. as the
children all around them were doing.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-28

have a chance. And right at the last the
passion for beauty and brightness that
has always been struggling humbly up
through the depths Of Maggie's inarticu-
late soul, manages to find a fine and true
happiness Maybe" says Maggie, maybe
they is roses in Wyoming" And the cur
tain falls.
There are other elements In the story
than these. There is a most lifeike thief
and an effective pursuing detective. who
furnish some highly amusing and appro-
priate comedy, and group OF well-to-do
people from uptown" but the vital story
is that OF Maggie and her husband and
the baby that is soon to be. Human It all
is, and most internally true as every well
informed person knows-a vivid, palpitat-
ing human document all a-quiver with
pity and truth, and written with a passion
OF sincerity so ardent as to seem almost
ablaze.
Not until the "Kindling Association"
revealed itself TO the management did j..
NJ. Oskison and the Irwin brothers, all
former students of Stanford University,
in California, remember that they had old
acquaintance with Charles Kenyon, the
author. In the early days of this century
he was an enthusiastic If unassuming
actor OF the student drama. He is best
remembered there as the prosecuted hero
in Seven Dobbers Down" lurid bur-
lesque melodrama which had great col
lege run. BILLY" Erb and Chris Bradley
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he met Samuel Merwin- Good heavens.
Merwin." he said, you've just got TO see
'Eindling' Your sort of stuff. Best new
nlay ever saw, and Margaret Ellington has
improved 800 per cent" Merwin was skep-
tlcal, he usually disagrees with Thomas
about plays "All right" said Thomas,
"here's 81. Go to see 1t on me-" When
playwright does that for another mans
play, he means it. Merwin who is temper
amentally an enthusiast, came away bub-
bling. "Win" Irwin saw II in the same
week with the same effects. He, Thomas
and Merwin began to preach "Kindling'' at
the club where the younger writer's most
congregate in these days The members
were skcptical, but those who could be
dragged to the play came back converted
all but one Ernest Poole, who, being So
cialist, was expected to love IL for its social
doctrine failed miserably to meet eXpecta-
tions. He still promulgates the awful
heresy that "Kindling' is not a great play
Steffens first suggested some concerted
action. 1--WE can save this thing" he said.
ITS a hit with the writer's and should
be with the public If we can start people
going Why not prepare a statement and
sign our names? 1t would be a shame TO
let this thing die" Merwin took the job of
circulating the list. The rest Of the boost
ers" began to drag in skepucal friends
After it opened at the West End COM
mittee took Julian Street to see IT. At the
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Continued from FIRST page.

fundamental tenets OF socialism was not
bound the respect the laws OF property. and
yet Mr.. Haywood was elected TO the ma
tional executive committee.
1t is a pretty quarrel and fundamental
one. Without wishing to take sides-for II
might be stralning the etiquette OF the stu-
ation--I will merely venture 10 remark
that while Mr.. Haywood enjoys the logical
advantage Mr.. Mcmahon clearly appreci-
ates the exigencies OF the socialist propa-
eanda. While we admire the courage and
honesty of Haywood's logic, we fully under
stand the expedency of McMahon's finesse.
Mr.. Mcmahon evidently realizes the en-
barrassments OF a socialist workman who
would refuse 10 abide by "the laws and
ethics Of to-day" when capitalism Ia in the
saddle.
The McNamaras of dynamite fame q do
not know whether they were socialists or
not) are now experiencing, because they
ignored the "ethics of to-day" the despotic
methods OF capitalism at san Quentin, Cal
where. under state supervision they reside
In a community whose regimen is nearer
the ideal OF the social democracy than most
socialists might be willing TO admit; where
the socialist apothegm of MARKHAM fibre Is
impartially practised: From each accord
ing TO his ability. TO each according to his
need
Next 10 the doctrine of class struggle
which grows out of the theory OF economic
determinism. the doctrine OF surplus value
is most important. Mr.. Mcmahon declares
We are told that its pedigree is illustrious
IL was developed by Marx from the theories
of Adam Smith Ricardo and Rodbertus
We shade our eyes before these dazzling
ouarterings but granting the dazzle. we
have still the hardihood to ask the simple
question: But is il true? Not whence IL
comes but what 1t is Is the democratic
test. Surplus value Is the unpaid labor
which the worker involuntarily yields to
his employer" says Mr.. Mcmahon. This Is
a succinct and simple proposition, but un-
deriving Il is an assumption under whose
bulk Atlas himself might stagger. Mr.. NC
Mahon makes no attempt TO prove it, so by
the laws of the game am not bound TO at
tempt 10 disprove IL. ! simply deny II. But
7 do wish TO make remark or two, casual
hints relating to the slippery doctrine OF
economic value.
VaIue Is such an obvious thing to any
hodv thar everybody takes II for granted.
- ,s such an elemental conception and so
Intimately woven into our everyday expert
ences that we no more stop to reflect upon
ard analyze II than We do to reflect upon
and analyze the other simplicities that go
to make lid our lives. such as air, fire, light'
earth and water. These latter are so OBJ
yious that we accept them as matters OF
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And then Heinie lost his job. He and his
fellow stevedores were forced 10 strike.
Maggie saw the worst about to happen.
She was TO have a child, and that child
was 10 starve and suffer along with her
self-and all for a few dollars to get them
10 Wyoming, a place glorified In her
Imagination, sort of paradise Of fresh
air and roses and open skies and sun
shine, place where children might grow
up strong and decent. It is true that
Maggie's informant insisted that there
were no roses In wyoming. That made no
difference. To Maggie Wyoming stood for
life and a fair chance for her baby. And
she could not get that unless she stole.
So she stole.
Caught by detectives and backed into
a corner by Henie, her Indignant hus-
band, who couldn't see why anybody
should steal with t23 I'm the house. she
makes but a bad business OF her denlals.
II never thought you was a t'ief,' says
Heinie "why did you do it?' With a
single dumb. heart broken look she makes
him understand, and in passion Of love
and tenderness he takes her crime on his
own shoulders and denounces himself as
the thief.
But neither Maggie nor Heinle goes to
Jail The people she robbed are made TO
understand her motives and TO comprehend
something of her feeling. So after all IT
is arranged that the pair shall go to that
fabled Wyoming. where little children really
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Canada of ten years duration was signed ir
1854 as a result OF visit OF Commodore
Perry in the Mississippi TO the Newfound-
land fishing banks in 1852 in order TO In
vestigate fishing dispute regarding the
rights OF American fishermen. She was
one of Farraguts feet when It ran tho
gantlet OF Forts Jackson and st. PHILIP
in the Civil War and took New Orleans
suffering severely. Admiral Dewey was a
lieutenant on her at the time. To the
Mississippi is TO be credited the close OF
the career of the celebrated Confederate
ram Manassas. The Mississlppi's fate was
not in keeping with her career While tax
ing part in the run past Port Hudson she
struck bottom, and It was necessary to
abandon her She was set on fire and
finally blew up, presenting a magnificent
spectacle as her decks burst open
The Powhatan "A similar ship, launched
at Gosport in 1850. also member OF
the fleet with which Perry visited Japan In
1854. On leaving Japan an embassy OF
feyenty-onc Japanese bound for Washing
ton became passengers on the Powhatan.
She was detailed early in the Civil War TO
blockade the Mississippi
Inc lrOQuOlS TOOK II HIDlIllb'Ht Udil III 'H'
passage OF Forts Jackson and St. Philip,
suffering severely. while the Albany. first
class sloop of war. launched at New York
in 1876, was lost al sea in tho West Indies
in 1854. with all on board. The brig SOM
ers capsized I'm the Gulf of Mexico in the
course of the Mexican War. She had earlier
been the scene Of tragedy involving the
lives and careers Of a number OF naval APP
prentlces. The brig in December, 1S42.
dropped anchor in New York IIarbor. and
her commander reported that he had hung
at the yardarm three Of the apprentices on
suspicion of mutiny The story created
great stir throughout the country, for two
apprentices alleged to have participated In
It had been hanged while protesting their
innocence and without a hearing.
The big monitor Miantonomoh. the San
Francisco one of the earlier Of the modern
type of cruisers. built prior TO 1890, at
cost OF more than $4,000, 900. and now do
ing service as a mine layer; the battleship
Maine. built at the navy yard and sunk by
a mine in Havana Harbor; the magnificent
battleship Connecticut, for so long the flag
shin of the Atlantic feet; the collier Vestal
and the latest OF all, the Florida, each in
their turn have illustrated the progress
which has been made from time to time In
the history of the navy.
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climax when Miss Ellington, az Maggie,
makes her moving disclosure, Street was
heard saying Damn ~" They turned on
him. "I hate to cry" said Street wiping
his eyes And he signed. Norman Hap
good was persuaded TO attend matinee.
He refused complimentary seat, lest his
Judgment be biassed-and returned TO his
office TO write an editorial I'm It's praise.
William Mailly. began TO exploit II IN his
socialist newspaper Charming Pollock was
discovered in Broadway, swearing with
Armstrong that he jolly well wished he'd
written IT, Finally, Walter Pritchard
Eaton who had gone to Chicago, was
caught by wire. I'm with you for play
and player" he replied
In the mean time the play had moved TO
the West End Mr.. and Mrs. Bowes had
heard nothing OF all this. The business
had mysteriously picked up a little just
at the end OF the Broadway run; but there
wasn't much hope I'm that. As they sat
one afternoon in the depths of discourage
ment the good fairy dropped in upon them
He was disguised as Samuel Merwn. and
for wand he carried that statement and
that list A little later arrived Glenmore
Davis, known on Broadway as "Stuffy.'
He used TO be a press agent; sometimes
missions between his other activities.
I'm press agent this show as labor OF
love" he said lie did take nominal
New-York tribune., 1912-01-28

~HIS circular, mailed last week to
nearly every writer in New York, is
Il the climax Of an episode unique In
the recent history of the stage. Play
boosting" has become common enough in
these days, and Of press agent devices there
Ia no end. But here is a concerted volun-
teer movement to boost" play; and here
are twenty-nine men and women, each an
established parsonage in some branch OF
ntera ture acting as press agents for the
love Of the game. And back of 1t all lies
little story which proves, among other
things. that New York is not entirely cal
lous and hard hearted
When Margaret Ellington brought Kind
ling" 10 New York last December, her hus-
band and manager, E. J. Bowes, proceeded
on the theory that good wine needs no
bush. He had, he felt, a good piece, a
startlingly good piece. by a new man. 1t
was his plan 10 sneak in upon Broadway
and take New York by storm. That plan
is less likely to succeed in the year 1912
than in the good old days when I'D street
was the centre OF the theatrical district
Nowadays, 1t is a poor week in the season
which does not see at least two or three
new plays launched, each one doomed and
backed by the best devices Of the press
agents art. "Kindllng' arrived quietly
and opened in a crowded week. The critics
were almost unanimously kind to 1t, and
most Of them were enthusiastic. But they
had been enthusiastic before this season,
and they were often enthusiastic again,
with varying effect on the attendances.
Somehow, in the case of "Kindling" the
public failed to follow their advice Per-
haps the reason is not difficult to find. New
York is somewhat overfond OF gaud and
glitter and display on the stage. This play,
set through all three acts in one humble
room Of a poor tenement, depended for its
effect solely upon art and sympathy
At anv rate. "Kindling" languished. 1t
dragged into its second week, into its third,
with poor houses. Dalys Theatre. at which
It had been playing. abandoned it, and
hooked a new attraction after the fourth
week. II was the road or nothing, and in
this dull season a play which has not
shown a profit on Broadway stands a poor
chance of getting bookings on the road.
Bowes caught a vacant week in Harlem
the first stage Of "the road" 10 the Broad
way mana ger-two weeks in Brooklyn, and
an odd week in the Manhattan Opera
House There it stuck; it seemed destined
TO the scrap heap of one of the poorest sea-
sons in stage history
1t was for time a matter of dispute in
the "Kindling Association as to who first
saw the play. Lincoln Steffens had one Of
the best claims. with Clayton Hamilton
disputing it. But Paul Armstrong settled
the matter by producing a letter which he
had written to Bowes on the first night
Il blasted well wish I'd written it," said
Armstrong. At any rate, Steffens dropped
in during the third week and began button
holnG his friends to talk in its praise At
about the same time, A. E. Thomas visited
professional matinee The next morning
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Development of Navy Told by Models
Preserved at Brooklyn Navy Yard

in a head sea- she sometimes could not be
controlled with four men at the helm. even
when aided by the usual purchase OF wheel
ropes.
Tho Cumberland, laid down at Boston In
1875. and launched, as we have seen, in
1912. and the Congress, constructed In two
wears at Portsmouth and noated In 1871,
we're OF the same general type as the
Brandywine, first class frigates. Their
names are blazoned firmly on the pages OF
American history, for they had the fortune
good or i'll. as one may look at 1t. to be
the targets upon which the Merrimac
demonstrated in Hampton Roads the in
effectiveness of the old wooden type OF
war vessel. and showed that their day had
passed. The Congress and the Savannah,
another forty-four-gun ship, mentioned al
ready, played an interesting part In the
struggle for possession Of California In
the course Of the Mexican War. Captain
Robert T. Stockton. of the well known
New Jersey family. was in command OF
the Congress and of the Pacific squadron
BY many sklful man9uvres he con-
tributed much to the final result, securing
the territory of the future Pacific State,
and his name is recalled in the name Of
one of Californias cities.
There was a marked prejudice against
the use Of steam in the navy, and when
Captain NJ. c. Perry asserted that sea-
going steam war vessels could be built to
cruise safely at sea for twenty days at
time, his professional brothers laughed
him TO scorn as a visionary and an eccen-
trc person. 81 never will consent to see
our grand old ships supplanted by these
new and ugly Monsters" said James X
Paulding, when Secretary Of the Navy, in
1888 Il am steamed TO death!' he ex-
claimed, when the question was pressed
upon him. Despite his protests, however
he could not stop the building OF such
craft. In 1Sil the sister ships Mississippi
and Missouri. the model of the former Of
which is on the list. entered the water.
The Mississippi was built at Philadelphia
and cost, including her side wheel engines,
1861 40s They were considered the most
efficient war vessels aloat. The Missouri
which was built in New York, was burned
at Gibraltar in 1S43. Her smokestacks were
so designed as to throw her smoke into the
wheehouse, with the idea, doubtless, OF
concealing her approach from an enemy
This device was failure and has not been
used since
The history Of the Mississippi was of par
ticular interest During the Mexican War
she was the flagship of the United States
fleet in the Gulf Of Mexico. which was in
! command OF Commodore NJ. C. Perry. Fol-
lowing the war she cruised for three years
IN the Mediterranean, bringing to- America
/ forty-two Hungarian eXles from Turkey
she was again Perry's flagship when he
opened up Japan reciprocity treaty with
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, Continued from third page.

had an engine for throwing great guam
Titles Of water through port hole OF the
enemy and sinking him. A part Of her
equipment was furnace for the heating
Of shot. Her sea career was not an eX-
tensiye one, for the War Of 1912 having
come to close about the time she was
completed, she was tied up at the Brook
lyn Navy Yard as a receiving ship. In
1929 she came to an untimeIy end She
blew up. killing forty-eight men and in
juring as many more. II was thought
the destruction Of this 1920 900 craft was
brought about through the supersttious
objection Of the seamen to the new tangled
steam devils" They preferred the more
roomy sailing ships IT took a long time
to win the navy to the use Of steam as a
motive power, and the series Of line Of
battle ships and frigates which followed
IS an evidence of this fact.
Another Fulton. however. was built in
1A5T-& 81 for the defence Of New York Har-
Dor. that wideawaEe and progressive naval
ofhcer. Matthew G. Perry being her first
commander. She was almost as unique a YES
sci as the first Fulton. for she had sloping
buwarks five feet thick and four smoke
stacks, which IT IS said, impeded her prog
Tess. The MauretaniG has 10 such diff
Guilty. Hcr sloping sides are believed 10 have
given the Confederate shipbuilders their
cue for the design Of the Merrimac The
third Fulton was launched in 1851. and this
may he the one represented In the collec-
tion OF models Under sail alone, dragging
her motonless wheels, she was not a won
der in the way Of speed. On her trial trip
she managed to reel off five knots an hour
when the circumstances were most favor
able. II was under steam, however, that
she showed 10 advantage. Then she would
clip along at fifteen knots, the average
speed OF a good many high class transat-
lantic liners Of to-day.
Perhaps the oldest vessels represented
among the models are the North Carolina
and the Ohio. In her day the former was
locked upon as the most wonderful battle
snip aGoat. Rated as seventy four-gun
snip, she carried IL is said, 1O2 pieces. Only
the largest OF our modern battleships carry
crew larger than that which flew to the
guns OF this ship at the sound of the signal
ehe was manned By crew of $50. She
came on the ways at Philadelphia I'm 1920,
the same year that the Ohio took TO the
water al New York. the time occupied in
puildlng being two years In 1926, the North
Iarolina entered the Mediterranean. Wher-
ever she went, she attracted attention,
owing to her immense power. European
naval o4eers, looked with intenSe interest
ana respect upon the black muzzles of the
ihrses tiers Of guns poking out Of her ports
whenever they were opened. For all her
New-York tribune., 1912-01-28
Socialism Masquerading in
Garb of Science Is Menace

, this vault OF heaven when nature is In her
final death agony. Socialism. however. re-
fuses TO admit that there is anything wrong
at all in human nature: human institu-
tions are wrong, but human nature is only
wronged Socialism has eyes for the evils
alone. 1t searches the highways and the
byways for the lame and the halt and the
blind. and gathering the motley crowd cries
aloud: Behold what capitalism has done
TO poor humanity" IL frequents the hos
pital the morgue, the slum, the asylum,
and rciterates it's denunciatory wall with
increasing and menacing vehemence. It
shouts aloud from the housetops I'm turbid
rhetoric that socialism is the only panacea
for the ills that afflict us. and that as long
as the present social organization endures
humanity can only go from bad TO worse.
The picture Is immensely overdrawn, IL
lmned with PITCH radically falsifes the
perspective. and is a reckless calumny to
boot. Abuses there have been. abuses there
are, under the present social organization.
but many have been rectifed, others are
being rectihed, and more will be rectifed.
Child labor is one Of the abuses which
socialism is every harping on, but social
ism as constantly forgets TO state that the
abuses OF child labor have within the last
ten years been immensely modified. mini
mized and rectifed. Prostitution is another
favorte socialist point OF Indictment
against capitalism Il use the term capi.
talism here in no invidious sense as the
socialists do but simply to indicate the
present social order), Socialism Is fond OF
predicting its disappearance under social
democracy. This is both innocence abroad
and innocence at home. Sex irregulartty is
as old as human nature and as perennial
There is only one way OF Kidding the world
of it, and that is 10 put millstones about
the necks Of all the females ~ throw
them into the Pacific. and miG1ExB about
the necks of the males and throw them into
the Atlantic II 1t should ever come to q
choice between this course and socialism.
the happier way for the race would be tho
millstones and the deep sea.