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Polls.

Headed by Harden, the handcuff king
the bill at Polls Theater this week is ex-
ceptionally good. Harden escapes from
numerous handouts and leg irons, and
gets out of a regulation straight jacket in
full view of the audience. The act con-
cludes with the milk can escape" which,
thought doubtless seen before by great
many Washingtonians. still remains a
mystery.
John T. Murray. a thin and very funny
eccentric comedian, was big hit from
the moment he stepped on the stage. He
was encored repeatedly. The Oriole trio,
a good singing act, loses much of its eff
fectiveness. because. when it is offered, in
the ears of the audience the music is still
ring1ng from the Four Luciers. who per-
form on SaxOphoneS. flutes, comets and
various other wind instruments. The
Oriole trio follows the Four Luciers 1t
would seem both acts would gain if the
order in which they appear were re-
versed.
David Higgins and Company take part
in clever comedy playlet Mary Kelly S
Beaux." which gives Higgins many
chances to demonstrate his ability as a
character actor, and he takes ADVANTAGE
Of 1t to the fullest extent. Princeton and
Yale entertained the audience for fifteen
minutes with a rapid fire talking act
Their command over the English tongue
as it should not be spoken is nothing
short of marvellous.
Mile. Espey. on the program as the
Essome queen of the slack WIRE" gives
q pretty spectacular performance, and
manages to furnish the audience some
thrills by her daring especially when
on one foot on the wire. with all the
lights in the theater dimmed. Motion
pictures before and after the vaudeville
rounded out the bill.
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self. and its lines fairly bristle with hui
NOR of the Collieresque type, each tipped
with laughter.
Violet Stevenson is in love with Hector
Walters, an artist in need of money.
Her mother has just lost all she has by
an Indian bank failure and Violet, to
save the family fortune, is about to
marry rich nobleman. when in steps
Dionysius. pitiful picture of blighted
manhood, who has untold wealth, but a
sentence from his doctors that he posi-
lively is certain to die within three
weeks. Dionysius has an annual idea.
This time 1t develops itself into a propo-
sition. He will marry Violet. Hector will
go to Italy to resume his art studies and
both will be united in marriage when
Dionysius sinks to eternal sleep three
weeks hence. 1t sounds good to the
lovers and the compact is carried out.
to keep faith. discards the delicate diet
prescribed by his doctors and at once
piunges into the ''eat. drink and be merry"
stage to hasten his death. 1t doesn't.
weeks are up he not only finds himself
In robust health instead of dead. but ac-
tuaiIy sizzling with love for the other
| Ieiiow,s girl. his own wife. Happily for
| the sake of satisfactory ending, the
young artist proves to be unworthy the
girl and she settles the complications by
connrm1ng her marriage with Dionysius.
Tor whom his name no longer has any
terrors.
The play is early in its career and will
doubtless be improved by the authors
with little necessary culling and reshap-
ing; but that it is thoroughly enjoyable
the audience last evening testified in nc
uncertain way. Mr.. Collier was himself
at his best. throughout and his support
ing company adequate assistants, fnclud-
ing William Collier. jr.. who gives much
promise of following in the footsteps OF
his father Paula MARI is a pleasing
E.y11yl
Mrs. Stevenson Grant Stewart. as
| Griggs. the Indispensable valet. gives q
| fine character impersonation, and the
doctors roles are well cared for by John
Gluiow and Charles Dow Clark. Nicholas
Judels and Eileen Nfrol also shine in the
| competent cast.
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Cosmos.

At the Cosmos this week not head
liner is featured. yet at least three of the
numbers are good enough to deserve
prominence. 'It Pays to Be Polite" a
laughable light comedy offering. present
ed by Edward Lindsey and company. was
heartily applauded by four laughing au-
diences yesterday afternoon and last
evening Quite as entertaining, but diff
ferent in style, is the sketch of Jere Nc
Auliffe and company. THE Days of '61 y
with its blend of low comedy. pathos and
song The Three Maynettes, real artists
with the violin. flute and piano, won an
ovation with an offering Of instrumental
selections exQuisitely played and few
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Stansbury Rohr. sixty-nine years old
an ex-Confederate' soldier and a retired
merchant, died Sunday.
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Gayety.

The 'Gayety Girls" headed by Gus Fay,
Clara Racket and corps Of well trained
singers and dancers. played at the Gayety
yesterday and last night before packed
houses. The show is full of catchy mu-
sic, lively dancing and amusing comedy
from start to finish. Although Gus Fay
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Lyceum.

William j. Dunn presented the Stars
of Stageland" company, with Blanche
Baird. before two large audiences yester-
day at the Lyceum. The show has two
burlettas. the opening one entitled 1.-The
Regatta" and the other "A Trip to the
Catskills.' in which AL Lpman, Charles
Relyea, Mike Mcdonald. Louise Pearson,
Ernest O'Fasher. Anna Kelly, LaBelle
Helene, Geoi gia Hall and Edward Dale
are the leading principals. A boat race
at the close of the first act is realistic
The lines Of the show are clean and of
the kind devotees of burlesque are sup
posed to enjoy. There are four vaude-
vile acts between the two burlettas, in
which Blanca Baird. 1.-The tailor-made
girl" proved to be the headliner. Miss
, Baird's OCH and original songs with her
piano playing, seemed well appreciated by
all. She was recalled several times.
Charles Relyea, Al Ipman and Anna
Kelly. songsters. and the LaBelle Helene
and company in Escaped From the
Harerh," are the other vaudeville num-
bers. The company has a large bevy of
pretty girls who dance and sing we'll.
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Columbia,

Madame Sherry liked Washington SO
we'll the first week of last March that
she loaned her name and the greater
part, If not all, of her old clothes and
furniture to her relatives by marriage"
and sent them back again last night,
this time to the Columbia Theater She
did not make mistake, for Washington
liked her so well when last she came that
1t cordially received her relatives, al
though frankness would compel the ad-
mission that, with few exceptions, those
relatives did not make the impression
that was expected of mo. 1" company
With such wealth of catchy melody,
and dashing specialties that can always
be changed to suit the times and taste
1t is small wonder the musical comedy is
so popular. They all came with 1.-THE
relatives last night and will doubtless
remain throughout the week. The plot.
too, Is the same. with the old story of
the young nephew who lied to his rich
uncle who. by the way, is also the same.
with the notion that he is married and
has two children. unit! he finally falls in
love with his charming cousin Yvonne
The striking feature in the cast is
George A. Schiller, as the uncle. His
methods are legitimate and his comedy
as droll as it is original. Flo Irwin sis
ter of the famous May, is also there
with the goods" as Catherine, the Irish
who, for a dollar a day
and fifty cents extra for the children
to pose as Mrs. Edward Sherry,
a Swede. Ann Tasker, who replaces Miss
Abarbanell. is pretty. demure. dainty and
some more nice things, but she isn't Miss
Abarbanell. Virginia Foltz made a some
what breezy Pepita and her acrobatfc
dance with PHILIPPE. the janitor, well
played by William Cameron, was warm
ly recalled for an encore. The remainder
of the cast contributed in especial lines
the various talents that are required to
keep a musical entertainment moving
briskly and attractively
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Belasco.

Like the kind-hearted elephant that
tried to supply the place of the mother
hen which he had unwittingly trodden
upon and then sat upon the eggs she
was hatching-a story he loved to tell
acknowledgements Woodbury., which he
pleaded heart-feelingly to have pro-
nounced 'Dee-onicias Woodbury." who
was prodigiously rich and yet doomed to
die within three weeks. found himself in
Never Say DE- which William Col
lier, in his inimitable manner, presented
for the first tine in this city at the Be-
lasco Theater last evening.
Banned with a death sentence, Diony-
sius. in the goodness of his heart, tried
to help a poor young girl who was in
love with another man, that she might
enjoy his fortune when he was gone, and
them with the very best Intentions found
himself quickly recovering life and health
by doing what he believed would hasten
his end and what still more complicated
matters by falling in love with his wife,
Such is the plausible and yet ridiculous
conglOmeratiOn OF circumstances that
kept large and representative audience
wreathed in smiles that persistently broke
out into roarS of laughter during the en-
tire evening. 1t is just such an offering
as one might expect from Mr.. Collier and
none has ever served better to give op-
portunity to his droll. dry humor and
clever art as comedian. It is the joint
work of w. H. Post and Mr.. Collier him.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-08-30

strung together When last heard Of
by DR.. Gill this "sea serpent" was
sold By Koch to the museum of Dres-
den. The accompanying photograph
of the skeleton of zeuglodon proper
ly mounted has been furnished me by
DR.. Gill. and was made from the UNI
equaled specimen obtained by the
Smithsonian some time ago from our
southern coast.
The federal bureau Of fisheries has
been hunting the sea serpent ever
since it was founded. It's second off,
Ger in command. DR.. Hugh M. Smith,
United States deputy commissioner of
Fisheries, told me yesterday how he
has personally followed to their lairs
two or three of the most horrible of
these creatures.
While scientists are not in accord
on the question. DR.. Smith thinks that
some circumstantial evidence recently
gathered will perhaps weaken the
belief of some intelligent persons, who
have heretofore denied the possibility
of the existence at this day of marine
monsters comparable to those of geo.
logical times"
A Jealous champion of the sea SER
pent's reality is DR.. A. c. Oudemans,
the well-known zoologist. After col
lecting all obtainable reports of sea
serpent visitations along our eastern
coast and throwing out palpable
cheats and hoaxes," he has obtained
evidence of Sc such monsters reported
between Newfoundland and Florida
within a period of 139 years.
These monsters, he says, are migra-
tory, and that they do not like cold
water is shown by the fact that none
has been reported along our coasts be-
tween November and January, inclu-
sive, while only two have been seen
during February. March and April.
Their return with warm weather. how
ever, is shown by the record of three
In May, nine in June, seven in July
and finally round couple of dozen in
August, which. as stated, is our sea
serpent month par excellence. After
this the visitations taper off-four in
September, two in October and none
in November The fact that compare
lively few of these monsters have
been reported from our Pacific coast
is, according to DR.. Oudemans. due to
the fact that the greater ocean is far
less freouented by ocean passengers
rather than to the probable absence
of such creatures from it's waters.
The sea serpent is great mammal
most nearly related to the sea bear.
according to this naturalist In view
of some biologists the great zeuglodon
was closely related to this same
species, but its greatest known length.
20 feet, is far surpassed by the $50
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DON'T JOSH The SEA SERPENT

some examples. Let us dispose of
one of the most conspicuous pictures
OF the sea serpent yet printed. This
is given in work of Erik Pontoppi-
dan, bishop of Bergen, Norway, who
wrote more than century and half
ago describing giant sea serpents and
mermaids, which he believed really
existed. He being cody man should
not be distrusted entirely.
This monster was represented with
its front portion out of water and as
having large frill about its neck. Its
tail was long and tapering, and ended
In spiral curve From it's mouth is
sued a jet of water or vapor Now,
certainly, such a form does not exist,
but what was it.?
well, now let's look at the cutie
fish or squid. Some of these have been
found as long as so feet. The tail of
such giant cuttlefish may have been
taken for the head of this monster
serpent, the fins of the tail CORE
spending to the frills described. The
spiral tail might easily have been one
of the great cuttlefish's curved arms
appearing out of the water, and the
jet of water might have been the
siphon of the cuttlef1sh, by which it
propels itself in the water How much
Imagination would be required to add
the unreasonable features of this pic
ture?"
What proved for a time to be the
most successful sea serpent hoax on
record, according to DR.. Gill, was per-
petrated in New York by a pseudo-sci-
enlist, DR.. Albert c. Koch, in 1S45. He
exhibited on Broadway the skeleton of
an alleged fossil monster which he
named the "hydrarchos" or "sea king"
The remains, incluiing the head and
vertebrae, measured no less than ia
feet over all, and the people of New
York, as well as of other American
cities visited, were greatly excited
over the discovery of tangible proof
that the long-suspec.ed sea serpent ex-
listed. But finally Prof. Wyman, nat
uralist of considerable circumspection,
examined the skeleton and discov-
cred 1t to be composite, including
the bones Of several zeuglodons
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DETECTIVE HIcKEY's STORY.

"The murder of Chris Berry" said
Detective Hickey. twas one Of the
greatest mysteries that ever came out
of the Bowery When at last 1t began
to clear, the crime was fastened SO
conclusively upon one man, that. had
not developments outside OF the reg
ular investigation interfered, an in
nOcent man certainly you'd have been
executed. 81
when the body of Chris Berry, who
was known to everybody in the I'M
derworld, was found lying In the gut
ter at Fifth street at an hour which
was early candle lighting on the Bow
cry, there was not the slightest evil
dence as to the identity OF the muir
derer, although the street at that
time was usually crowded.
"The body was first seen by a
young man who had just left the old
Cooper Institute. He gave the alarm,
but nothing had been done up to the
time arrived. / had the body taken
to the Fifth street police station.
knew Chris well, myself, and hun
dreds of his friends came to the sta
ton house, and also identified him.
They constituted themselves special
detectives to find out, il possible, who
had murdered the king of the Card
Sharps' A dozen or more theories
were advanced by Chris friends. to
explain the butchery. as he had been
In trouble many times after his return
from the west, but they were theories.
with no evidence to back them up.
THAT which gained the most
weight with me for q time was that
Chris had been killed for some quar-
rel concerning a woman.
Zone of the girls that / heard Chris
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he saw crawling over the bottom an
extraordinary lizard-like monster, with
long, serpent-like neck, short tail, and
four flippers, like those of turtle.
The naturalist regards it as remark
able, to say the least, that this skip
per, who doubtless had never heard
of a plesiosaur, should thus describe
one with amazing accuracy, both as to
form and probable habit. The director
regards 1t as just as possible for the
plesiosaur to survive as for some OF
our sharks, which date back to the
same geologic period.
In the accompanying group of three
gigantic sea lizards you will perceive
In the left foreground the terrible
elasmosaur. the most colossal and
most serpent-like of all that ancient
group. With its whale-like body long
and flexible neck short paddles and
serpentine tail it would answer well
to popular descriptions of the sea
serpent. It's tremendous size Is at
tested by its vertebrae, some OF
which, now preserved, are nearly as
large as those of the elephant. In the
right background of the picture is its
cousin. the mosasaur, of which no
fewer than ten species are known to
have inhabited this part of the world,
six having been found in New Jersey.
This terrible sea lizard attained a
length of 40 feet. Its head was nat
and pointed and its lower jaw was pro-
vided with an attachment of cartilage
by which it could open its mouth to
enormous extent in the same manner
as the modern snake. The central
figure I'm this group Is another of these
creatures known as the laelops, a
great kangaroo-like lizard which fire.
quented the land.
There are no monster sea SER
pents," was the emphatic reply of DR..
rheodore N. Gill, the distinguished
Ichthyologist of the Smithsonian In
stitution. There is no animal of gil
gantic size now living In the sea
which could be properly classed as
serpent or even reptile
1T is possible that great selachian
related to the frilied shark OF Japan
may be found in the seas. This would
have an eel-like body, fin back of the
head and, if very long. would agree to
some extent with descriptions OF the
great sea serpent AS a matter or
fact there was discovered not many
years ago a small snake-like shark, re-
sembling the crap sharks found In the
Pacific"
do you regard all reports of mon
ster sea serpents as pure Pigments OF
the imagination?" I asked DR.. Gill.
Most of the wonderful creatures
made the subject of sea serpent
stories doubtless are living animals OF
some sort" he replied. Il will give
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AN the sea serpent be longer
denied?
Is 1t the remnant of a mon

HAN the sea serpent be longer
M denied?
Is 1t the remnant of a mon
~ strous species supposedly ex-
tlnct, or some adventurer from
the deep sea lair of modern race of
ieviathans as yet undiscovered by
science?
Such queries have been fiinging at
some distinguished naturalists, with
widely varying results, which I shall
proceed to report at once, especially
inasmuch as my investigation brings
10 light the scientifically established
ract that August is our sea serpent
month par excellence.
Incline rather to belief than to un-
Deilef Ia the moster," Director Fred
erlck A. Lucas of the American Mu-
scum OF Natural History told me. "The
biggest sea serpents we know of lived
In the eocene period" says he "Take,
for instance. The zeuglodon. He would
tally perfectly with some of the most
sensational sea serpent descriptions
which we hear year after year. The
zeuglodon grew as large as 20 feet in
length and eight feet In diameter. His
head was small and pointed His Jaws
were we'll armed with grasping and
cutting teeth. Just back of his head
he carried pair of short paddles, not
unlike those of fur seal
be must have reared at least a
third of his great length out of the
water. to take comprehensive view
Of the surroundings. His tail must
have propelled him at speed of from
~ to 30 miles an hour.
"Zeuglodons were once very numer-
GUS in the Gulf of Mexico, also the old
seas Of southern Europe. They have
been called 'whalelike king lizards,
but in reality were mammals, not
reptiles. The zeuglodon is usually
thought to be the ancestor of the
whale, but think he died without is
sue"
One recent sea-serpent story in
which Director Lucas takes some
stock is that of the captain Of the
British ship Fly, who states that while
becalmed In the Gulf of California, in
IL fathoms of remarkably clear water,