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The Washington herald., 1912-10-24

How often does one see q motorcyclist
who is not in tremendous hurry to get
somewhere?
The Washington herald., 1912-10-24

At any rate that Milwaukee disturbance
made the New York Herald use ''Col.
Roosevelt" in place Of ''the third
termer"
The Washington herald., 1912-10-24

into a wagon IN ten hours. only missing
1t occasionally. 4 man who can do this
is more useful to humanity than the
man who can hurl 200 spit balls per day
before shouting thousands or the dare
devil who can travel 80 miles an hour
on a motorcycle in the last stages Of
hydrophobia- There are i.ooo. 0O0 600 bush
els OF corn to be undressed and hurled
in this country each fall. and only a few
million red-necked and horny fingered
farmer boys stand between us and ruin.
(Coyrtsht lslS by George Mathew Adaunaj
The Washington herald., 1912-10-24
WHISTLE BLOWS;
WATERS STRIKE

Continued from page enc.
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The Washington herald., 1912-10-24
Musical Comedy.

No musical comedy can be a success
without a girl title. We have the Girl
and the Governor" the Girl and the
Judge" and so on. The supply of girl
titles Is nearly exhausted. but there are
few left. We offer these freely.
The Girl and the Grindstone.
The Girl and the Chocolate Fudge.
The Girl and the Tomato Ketchup.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
OBITUARY..
WILLIAM BANHAM.

William Banham, one OF the city's ola
fire fighters, who was battalion chief In
1873 died on Sunday at his home, NO. %
West l25th street In May Of last year
Chief Banham had narrow escape from
death when fire broke out In the apart
ment in which he lived. Since then he had
been steadily failing in health.
Long before firemen were paid for their
work Mr. Banham was a member OF the
engine company known as Jefferson Nd
g." I'm the old 7th Ward. Later he became
CAPTAIN OF Engine Company 10, I'm the York
willie district when the company was
taken on the city's payroll Mr.. Banham
was appointed a battalion chief and served
for many wears. Following his retirement
from the department because Of the age
limit. Chief Banham became customs IN
snector and later was employed in the
postal service Last November Chief Ban
ham and his wife celebrated the sixtleth
ornIversarv of their wedding. Besides his
u,fe he also leaves a son, Frank Banham'
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
EDUCATION VASTLY HELPED
Practically Every State Aiding Cause,
Saws Government Authority.

Washington, Jan. Without question
the year 1911 was productive Of more edu-
cational legislation of value than any pre-
vious year in the history Of the nation" "
said James c. Boykin, editor OF the United
States Bureau OF Education. in telling to-
day Of a forthcoming government mono
graph.
Mr.. Boykin says that the forty-three
state legislatures in session during the year
practically without exception were friend
" TO public education. He notes as one
OF the larger Developments Of the year the
beginning Of a movement TO lengthen the
school term by reducing the number OF hoi-
idays. He also shows that salaries OF
teachers are showing a tendency to rise.
with prospects growing steadily brighter
for retirement on living annuties when use-
fulness is past.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02

lamentable lack Of the latter. But Nine.
Tetrazzini knows how to get her effects
even II at times she does sacrifice a phrase,
and both In the sextet and the mad scene
she reused unlimited enthusiasm.
Her chief associates were Mr.. Constan-
tino and Mr.. Witherspoon. both OF whom
had sung at the previous performance, and
Mr. Campanarl. who at the last moment
took the place Of Mr.. Amato. who was to
sing Ashton, but was taken Ill. Mr.. Con-
stantino's singing OF the aria In the last
act was we'll executed. but in the other acts
his voice appeared to lack power. Mr.
Witherspoon also gave an excellent account
OF himself when 1t is considered that he
had sung Gurnemanz during the afternoon.
AS for Mr.. Campanari. It should suffice to
say that he was veteran who did his best
Mr. Sturani conducted.
The Russian ballet followed the opera.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
AT THE VARIETIES.

On the bill at the Alhambra for New
Years week Is Edmund Breese, whose
achievements need no recounting here. In
newspaper playlet entitled Copy. Behe
Blanche captured her auditors with her d.
verting specially. Another attraction OF
merit is Joe Harts 1.-The Little Stranger.
a playlet that smacks of the racetrack Ihe
Guilty family of musicians; Harry Fox ana
the Millership Sisters and Howard ana
Howard are all entertaining in their re-
spective lines
Chief among the gloom dispellers at the
Colonial this week is George EASTWOOD
who has been retained as the Leading at
traction for a second week and who more
than measures up to the honor by render
ing a repertory of new song characterize
tions which make his performance posi-
tive delight Rube Marquard, the iert
handed twirler of the Giants, In his skit
with Annie Kent covers himself with as
much glory as he did on the diamond.
Other offerings of merit are Mcconnell ana
Simpson. in a new sketch, The Hight
Girl': Lyons and Yosco. the harpist ana
the singer, and Dewitt. Burns and Tor
rance. in THE Awakening Of the Toys
New Years matinee at the Fifth Avenue
was attended by a most appreciative holi-
day audience. Carrie De Mar proved a
fayorite. Jack Wilson repeated his success
of last week, with his satire on vaudeville.
He was assisted by Franklyn Battle and
Ada Lane. Siivers was amusing with his
baseball pantomime.
A bill with a number Of features was seen
last night at Hammerstein's Victoria The
atre. Adele Richie. the singing como
dienne. sang a new repertory Of songs and
was we'll received by the audience. othe'
leading acts were Frank Bush with
new monologue; Belle Baker. the clever
singing coincidence, and Eddie Leonard
the minstrel, assisted by Mabel Russeh IN
their singing and dancing speciality.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
Ar THE oNE.WEEK THEATRES.

Winston Churchills play Of Civil war
times. 'The Crisis" began an auspic,ous
week at the Academy Of Music YESTERDAY
with two large audiences. There Is stu an
enthusiastic public for the war dramas OF
the COS.
The Grand Opera House Is appealing
strongly to the lower West Side audiences
this week with "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook
Farm" in which Edith Taliaferro is play
ing Rebecca. This play had long, sue
cessful run on Broadway q season or two
ago.
"Tbe Hen Pecks." with Lew Fields. has
come back to give New York another week
OF laughs. 1t is one Of Mr.. Ffelds's char
acteristic musical shows and Is drawing
large audiences to the Manhattan Opera
House.
The popular revival of Gilbert and Sulli-
vans operetta, "Pinafore," is entertaining
Harlem this week, at the West Emo
Theatre. DE Wolf Hopper, as Dick Dead
eve. keeps his audiences In CONTINUOUS
Laughter with his individual style OF humor.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
CAST OF Just TO GET MARRIED.
"A GRAIN OF DUST"
Hackett in a New Play at the
Criterion.

Some things, being beyond comprehension.
are put on the stage, where they can be
guessed at by the greatest number OF peo-
pie during their hours Of leisure.
One of the favortte dramatic puzzles is
why wives leave home. No play SO far this
season has driven a wife from the tall
ceilings and tapestries Of luxury and the
appreciative arms Of q husband (more ap-
preciative than usual In last nights act
ing) to the bare comfort OF hall room
and S12 q week as a typewriter girl with
less convincing reasons for the departure
than Mr.. Hacketts new play offers. In
Bought and Paid For there Is at least
the husbands behavior whom In his cups TO
furnish an excuse for the shattering OF the
tie. In "A Grain Of Dust" tho wife mere
ly comes in and says she finds this big. old
house stuffy--worse sitting. So she wishes
her freedom. She runs to the window to
1gain air, and there q long ray Of peculiarly
blue moonlight discovered that her face
seemed quite calm and unmovod.
Yet she leaves home. Now. II she had
been a young woman, with cultivated
taste in the decorative arts, II would be
easily understood how three months spent
amid the surroundings Of her husbands
home would have shaken her reason and
,mpeIled her out into the world. But. as
abe was q typewriter when the successful
lawyer. Frederick Norman. married her
and represented a. q typewriter or no par
,,cular backgrOupd-it could hardly have
been for this sufficient reason that she left.
Another character says. later on, that
.ha deserted her husband through love
for h,m-and that. at least, was an inter-
eating proposition. BY marrying her, 30
,ar beneath his station. her husband had
rr,ned his career. Hence II she left him
the crumpied career might revive. And' odd
90 ro,ate. this is exactly what did happen.
On the very day she left home Norman
who had been ruined by the financial king
whose proud daughter he had been en-
gagged TO and had Tilted In order to marry
his fascinating little typewriter, was Of
fered an opportunity to fight his enemy.
And this opportunity he took advantage OF
and won-won the great legal case and won
hack his career. Then little wanderer'
comes hack. orders her husband to forgive
nd snare the enemy whom now he has In
b,e mower and all ends In reunion and hap
piness.
Th,a pIay. which Mr. Hackett. as lead
ing actor and manager, brought TO the
stage for the first time in New YORK last
night at the Criterion Theatre, is based
on novel Of the same title written by the
late David Graham Phillips. Louis Evan
shipman made the dramatization. No doubt
the playwright has, caught and preserved
tbe spirit OF the book In the play IL
sounds as though the spirit of the original
were there. The details Of the plot are
stacy. In fact. you hear each situation
tnocking at the door before It appears on
en-. stage. The lower edge Of the curtain
has not quite reached the top of the pro-
.cen,um in the first set before you have
d,v,ned that, although Norman LIS engaged
20 purrouRhs's daughter, he is not going
"a marry her. Yet this tact u supposed
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
Is MARRIED AT THE MANSE
Ossining Girl Bride Of an Engineer
Once Engaged to Pastor.

Miss Annie l.. Reitzel. whose engagement
TO the Rev. Joseph A. Blakeley. then In
charge Of the Ossining Union Chapel. was
broken a year ago last November. was
married yesterday TO Herbert A. Fftzsim-
ons, Of Millwood, civil engineer employed
on the aqueduct work in the Catskills.
The ceremony took place in the Presoy-
terian manse. Ossining, and was performed
by the Rev. James A. McWilliams. pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church. The
only attendants were the brides brother.
Charles Reitzel, and her sister. Dora Rcit-
eel.
The conduct OF the Rev. Mr.. Blakeley
caused a lot of talk at the time. He gave
as his reason for breaking his engagement
that he had received a revelation from God
that he must not marry the young woman.
Soon afterward he left here and went to
Rochester
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
LIBERIA CHANGES RULER
President Barclay Retires After
Serving Eight Years.

Monrovia, Liberia, JAN 1.-President
Daniel Howard was inaugurated to-day as
chief Executive Of the Republic Of Liberia,
succeeding Arthur Barclay, who for eight
years had occupied the Presidential office.
The ceremony was markd by much dig
nifty. procession, headed by the members
Of the Legislature, led by the speakers of
the Senate and the House Of Representa-
tives, escorted President Howard to the
Chamber Of Representatives. Here the new
President. after taking the oath, read his
inaugural address, in which ne set forth
his ideas on reform and announced several
schemes for the development OF the coun-
try.
He made special reference to the present
political situation Of Liberia and to its re-
latlons with the great powers. and said
that the uncertainty Of the past had given
way TO the positive assurance that Liberia 8
integrity would remain intact.
The President expressed satisfact ction that
the protracted negotiations in connection
with the finances of the country had been
brought to a conclusion owing to the
sympathetic interest displayed by the
United States. Great Britain and the other
poWSib. All
ties with regard to the boundaries Of the
country had been settled satisfactorily. aId
Liberia now looked forward to a period OF
prosperity.
President Howards remarks as to the
settlement Of the boundaries of the coun-
try had reference to an agreement signed
nearly a year ago between Liberia and
Great Britain transferring the territory OF
Kanre- Lahun to Sierra Leone for strip
OF undeveloped territory of about the same
area on the south side of the Moro River.
which then became the boundary.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
WHAT IS GOING ON TO-DAY.

- admission TO the American Museum OF
,aturaI History, the Metropolitan Museum OF
a. and the New York Geological Park.
Meeting Of tn. Women, Health d, Prssct1y' II west
aSd street, 2:30 p. m.
,.,,r.. an Country, Farm and Garden. Wal
dorf-Astoria AIS p. m.
p.uniou of graduates Of Adelphi Academy
Adelphi Hall. 49,,
Meeting of the Stage chiidren's Fund Hotel
Assor. 2:so p. m.
1910. ~ the New York Theatre Club. Hotel
=, the Society OF Kentucky Women,
,.,,n. m ~ the Knickerbocker Relief Club. Wal
eSnrf-Astoria, g. p. M
u - ,be william Lloyd Garrison Equal
Meeting oi Association. No. $50 Madison avenue
3 p. m. ,, ..,.. ~, xvor,.n
Mss,ins LIS Sso Ss West Dlth street. $50 D. NJ -
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
- 10 . secret from you for little while,

TO be a secret from you for little whiie'
at least -
Is this play, with It's big man. Its Dig
hearted. willed man, with his primi-
five passions and mastering power, reaiiy
q contemporary affair? II may be. 1t seems
70 belong to type already passed. with its
rapid fire Office scenes, It's pollticai taih "''+
IFS machIne-made thinking. There were
novels Of this type a dozen or more years
ago. Peter Stirling was responsible ior
most OF them. perhaps.
AT all events. II is hard not TO WISH Una.
such plays as this belong TO an ephemerd'
period now dead. Crossing the stage !"
three strides, clenching fists ana erasmus
,hsrn down upon all the fiat surfaces OF
furniture, receiving telegrams' dic'a'ils
Ietters. compressing clean-shaven hps III
sudden paroxysms OF strength ana deter
rnina,ion. making angular movements that
are meant to show speed and American t"-
ergy but which succeed in showing ohiS
IaoL ~ imagination and repose-aH these
things. are I'm this play, and are particularly
charac,eristic OF Mr.. Hacketts acting
TIA, no has been an actor In romantic
p,ovs. so called. where the hero speaks IN
tender ca0enOtS, NdSNS W.
ouentIy. etcN etc. is very apparent Tnere
are backwaters OF this in the current OF MS
nervous speed In tho Grain OF Dust
Mr.. r. NJ Holland livened UP the play
xs,b some comedy. that was due 10 MS
ou,et acting. rather than to any WORDS
given him. There we're many attempts az
enigram in the play. but few Of them land
ed fair and square afoot.
or the other actors nothing need be sai''
except that Miss Izetta Jewel. VINO liaNed
Tho wife. has a voice which 1t seems almost
impossible she could have acquired IN this
country. Its rich. deep sympathy played
on the feelings quite independently OF her
acting. which was altogether negative.
With her voice she could express pathos
without fatigue, JOY without pain. How
seldom YOU hear a woman praisng beau
uful object without giving you the I'M
pression that It positively hurts her!
II should only be mentioned In passing
that the grain OF dust refers to the wiie-
ath-his-station who got In Norman
career and in1amed II. even as real gram
often strays In the eye. a new name Tor
a wife. and a horribly gritty idea. some
how
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
Joseph Il. HoRsFALL.

The Grand Lodge Of Masons OF New York
state lost one of It's permanent members
and its oldest past master when Joseph Fl.
Horsfall died yesterday at the age OF
ninety years at his home, No. IS Belmont
Terrace, YoRkers. His death was due to
old age
Mr.. Horsfall. who was born In Schenec-
tady. was one OF the army OF gold seek
ers that focked to California In lAe. He
went into the contracting business in San
Francisco. He returned TO the East in 1863
ana went to Poughksepsie. whore he re-
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
OBITUARY NOTES.

MRS. JANETTE CRIPPEN. FISK. w1fe
of the late Clinton B. Fisk, the Prohibition
ist candidate for President In 1855 died
Yesterday at her house, No. l'5 West Sstn
street. She was eighty years old. The fu-
neral will be held at the Madison Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock.
MRS. ANNA BELLE TArNToR, wife or
Edward NJ. Taintor, died yesterday at her
home No 3575 Broadway. Her husband is
in the book business at No. al Pearl street.
The funeral OF Mrs. Taintor VIII he heid
at her home tomorrow afternoon az
o'clock. The burial will be at colchester
Conn
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
JAMES w. ,M'DANiEL,

Hannibal. Mo. Jan. f.--James W. McDan-
,eI who was the first literary adviser OF
samuel I. Clemens Mark Twain. was
found dead in bed at his home here to-day
In n magazine article published snort
time before the death Of Mark Twain the
author said when he first began to write
humorous stories he always tried them out
on MCDANIEL before he had them puoiished
- the stories got laugh from McDaniel,
49, humorist wrote. he always felt assured
/. ha,, would do.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
HARRY CLAY POTTER.
fBv Telegraph to The Tribune.

[Bv TELEGRAPH TO The IrIbune'
Philadelphia. Jan. l.-Harry Clay Potter
sevepty-cne years old. retired stock bro
ker and years ago a well known financier.
died early this morning after prolonged
illness at his home. No. 1913 Spruce street.
Dur,nc the Civil War Mr. Potter was a
lieutenant In the 18th Pennsylvania Artil-
,orv He IL survived by his wife. who was
Miss Emily Graf spooncr; four sons-Dr.
Edwin s. Potter. Of Bryn Mawr; william
wooaburn Potter, Harry Clay Potter, jr.,
vi w AIbert Potter-and four daughters.
Mrs Howard w. Lewis. Mrs. Emily p.
Noble. Mrs. joseph Knight and Miss Ma
thiide Potter.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
MRS. THOMAS J. HARRIS.

Mrs. Myra Beaumont Harris, wife OF the
late Thomas J. Harris. merchant, or
Claremont, n. H.. died yesterday at her
house. No III East 10th street. She was
seyenty-seven years old. Mrs Harris was
born in Canton. Mass. Her grandfather,
James Beaumont, established the first cot
ton mills In Massachusetts. She had lived
in this city for the last fifteen years and
was active in philagthropic work, espe-
ciaIly that centred about the Judson Me-
mortal Church. son, DR.. Thomas j. Har-
ris, OF Nc. III East 10Th street, survives.
The funeral will be held tomorrow morn'
ing at 10 o'clock at the house.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
TETRAzzINI SINGS AGAIN
Pleases Large Metropolitan Audience as
Lucia di Lammermoor.

Nine. huisa Tetrazzini as Lucia di Lam
mermoor was the attraction at the Metro
politan Opera House last night, to the
great 10Y of the standees who got In and
the unutterable sorrow Of those who were
kent out 1t was Nine. Tetrazzini's second
appearance at the Broadway temple OF
song. and the audience was fully as large
as that OF the night OF her debut
AS for the sopranos singing, IT showed the
same faults and the same excellencies. The
marvellous upper tones were there. the
lower were far less perfect: at times she
showed great skill and taste-at others Q
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
cAsr or "a GRAIN or Dist. .
LIBERTY THEATRE
Modest Suzanne. -

The production OF Modest Suzanne" at
the Liberty Theatre last night came near
at some points to being novelty In its
kind 1t was a presentation here In Eng
lish of a Continental success which had not
been 40 Broadwayized as to raise doubts
as 70 the reasonableness Of the stir created
nv the original. Modest Suzanne Is Die
keusche Susanne," by George Okonski.
which WAS sung last spring for brief
n.riod at the Irving Place Theatre. In its
original form II was not new operetta,
as the programme describes 1t. but rather
q vaudeville farce, in which the farcical
aiament predominated and the musical ele-
ment was somewhat subordinated.
In the production last night the musicai
possibilities of the piece were emphasized
and its character as a purely Galiic DIT Oh
Sun making was somewhat slurred over.
Ru, this was not the fault OF the adapters
as Il was the fault Of the players.
Noth,ng could be more characteristically
r.,oh than the piece In its original dress
its farcicaity being so spontaneous as 10
be practically innocent. Ii taxes great shi'i
IN nreserye the naturalness ana theatrica'
nIausibility Of such play ana IL cannon NC
sa,d of the acting last night that IL WIS
o,ua, IN that feat. SO the farcical demands
were sighted and the pretty airs written
by Jean Gilbert were pushed to the front:
with so charming an interpreter of the
title role as Miss sallie Fisher the per-
formance could not fail 10 De s,r'A,"e
- o,,boueh Miss Fisher fell short
little in bringing out the necessary co"
,ras,s between Suzanne's external eoyness
and her inward roguery. Mr.. Forde' as
par ron Dauyray, was about as far away as
could he from the character drawn by the
farce writer, and Mr.. Laurence Wheat. as
the unsophlsticated son, was also aitose,her
too worldly wise and Broao"ayl'he 70 ue
aon,.inc,ng Mr. Kearney was but feeble
shadow of the Pomeral OF the original
The piece is genuinely clever and highly
amusing asd its music will certainly De
nonular. 1t is pity that 1t is not acted
as satisfactorily as It is staged and sung
CAST OF MODEST SUZANNE"
New-York tribune., 1912-01-02
HAROLD OLIVER HENRY.

washington. Jan. 1-Harold Oliver Henry.
q s,udent Interpreter at the American Le-
CATION at Peking. died there TO-DAY from
He was born IN fars IN leo.
OF American parentage. and was educated
In Paris and Washington. After represent
ing some American exporting firms IN
Enrope for a few years, he was appointed
% tho china post In June, lNs.