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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
Casino.

A bright and varied bill of entertain
ment is offered at the Casino Theater this
week TO inaugurate the new year. The
Six Abdallahs, an Arabian group of whr-
wind athletes and tumblers, give a dash
ing performance that seems to enthuse
the audience. Through a mistake i'm book
ing, the headliner got astray yesterday
and did not arrive until time for the even
ing performances. A similar mistake
failed to land the Penn Trio at ALL but
prompt work on the part of the manage
ment succeeded in supplying a very clever
substitute in Florence V. Smith comedy
young woman. who sings ballads very
sweetly, and Charles Sumner, i'm COM
ical playlet entitled "A Booking Agent for
an Hour" 1t is genuinely funny, but will
be replaced after Wednesday with an
other act because OF its previous engage
ments.
BlaisdelI. 1.-THE monocycle comedian" al
ternates thrills with laughter and gives
an enjoyable performance. The Ballo
Brothers have a splendid musical act that
serves TO disclose some fine playing OF
classical and popular numbers on the
banjo. banjorine, guitar-harp and mando-
lin. Mile Emerie, 1.-The disrobing Venus"
gives sensational exhibition on the high
trapeZe. but does not violate the pro-
preties in any way. and Eccentric"
Wheeler, the "rube' violinist. is thorough
ly entertaining with his iiddling, stories,
jokes and songs The motion pictures
help TO make a very enjoyable holiday
bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
Polls.

Won Tilzers Honey Girls with School
er and Dickinson, shared first honors in a
splendid holiday bill at Polls yesterday.
The act of the latter is notable for its ex-
cellence and the youthfulness of the per-
formers. Master Schooler showed high
ability as a pianist and Miss Louise Dick
inson sang several songs with a voice of
rare sweetness. Won Tilzer'S Honey
Girls present a tabloid musical comedy.
in which the costuming is an effective ele-
ment. The work of Billy Durham and
Jack Freeman is a feature of the Offering.
Miss Clara Stevens. Washingtonian,
assisted by Martin Howard, gave a dane
ing novelty which won we'll merited APP
plause. At the evening performance Miss
Stevens was presented with a handsome
floral offering.
Patrice. in a playlet entitled "A New
Year Dream i'm which colonial dame
comes back to life to greet her great
grandson, was clever. She was assisted
by Charles Hutchinson. The Harvey-De-
voc Trio and small colored boy con-
tributed songs and dances that were good.
Morris Golden gave mOnologue and
played several selections a violin.
De Marcos animals, billed feature.
did not appear at the performances yes
terday on account OF missing train con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
Academy.

Norman Hackett. supported by a capa-
BILE company, scored a distinct success in
the rendition last night at the Academy
Theater of Kirk AleXanders dramatiza-
ton of Halle Erminie Rive's Satan SAN
derSon.''
Satan Sanderson'' presents a story that
is full. of action and stirring scenes. 1t
gives numerous opportunities for fine act
ing. Mr.. Hackett's Interpretation of the
title role is done in a mastery manner,
his acting being full of dignity and SYM
pathy.
Rev Henry Sanderson, known in col
lege as Satan Sanderson, is a minister in
small Indiana town, the home OF an
old college chum and exact counterpart,
Hugh Stires. After longe absence Hugh
Stires returns from the west, where he
had been living wild life. Both San
derson and Stires are in love with Jessica
Holmes, the ward of the latter's father
David StireS, wealthy parlsnloner
Jessica. who has been blind since birth, is
i'm love With Hugh Stires, who makes her
believe he has repented his former life
and turned over new leaf
! Jessica i4fsa; Hugh are married and
shortly afterward she undergoes an oper-
alton which restores her sight. The elder
Stires soon discovers his sons repentance
was not genuine and that he has forged
his fathers name to a five-thousand-dol-
lar check, with which to pay gambling
debts. Hugh is ordered from the house
SandersDn, hea rtbroken at Jessica's mar
riage tries to help Hugh for her sake.
Hugh appeals to Sanderson for money,
but this the young minister refuses. lie
finally consents to play him game OF
poker on the church altar. stalking his
money against Stire's soul. They are dis
covered in the midst of their game by
the bishop, who denounces Sanderson.
Sandarson is forced to leave the lndi-
ana town and strays to Smoky Mountain
after having met with an accident which
deprives him of his memory. He is mis-
taken for Hugh Stires and accused of
killing old DIR. Moreau, whose murder by
Hugh Is shown in the prologue of the
play. Sanderson is at the mercy of cir
cumstantial evidence when Jessica ar
rives and convinces him he is not Stires
who later appears. Stires is about to
run away and leave Sanderson to face
the murder charge when he is shot by
Prendergast an old companion Before
dying he confesses his guilt. The future
of Sanderson and Jessica is left to the
imagination of the audience.
The part of Hugh Stires is well acted
by Malcolm Blevins. Mr.. Blevins brings
out all the wickedness and malignity of
the character in a most excellent man
ner. The part of Jessica Holmes is play
ed by Geneveve Cliffe i'm pleasing way.
Other members of the company are well
cast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
BelascO.

Time has dealt gently with THE Merry
Widow" whose debut established belle
ship for theatergoers, with "A reign that
is seldom equaled in comedy opera cir
cles. A good sized audience gave warm
reception to the Lehar Niennese operetta
as presented last night at the Belasco
Theater by Henry w. Savage's company.
seeming to find new fun in it's droAlery
and new pleasure in the rich me. odies
of the original score in their original set
ting Even though the gems or the opera
have been worn threadbare by orchestra,
pianola, street piano, whistler and what
not, it was these same gems that were
most warmly encored last night
The return of this vivacious operate
belle enables theate; goers to trace the
source of the charming features OF many
productions which have made their bow
for public favor since The Merry Wild
owl made it's debut and to study the
evolution from the swinging rhythmic
waltz that lifted this opera to popularity
to the more vivacious and more daring
dances of this seasons debutantes. In
no better way can the influence of an
old hit upon present day bidders for
popular favor be traced than by COM
parison with the original.
In the role of dashing Prince Danilo,
which enabled Donald Brian to rise to
stardom, Charles Meakins showed the
same grace anu NINdClty
that characterized his appearance in the
part here before. That droll role Of
Nish. the messenger of the embassy, was
well handled by Arthur Woo.ey. And Os-
car Figman gave a refreshing touch to
his portrayal of Popoff, Marsovian am
baSSador
In the title role, Miss Mabel WILDER
was heard to best advantage in Villa, -
which opens that abundanty attractive
second act. At times her voice seemed
scarcely robust enough for the augment
ed orchestra that helped materially to
make the evening enjoyable Olgar Roller
was a stately Natalie and Vernon Dali
harris singing was in keeping with the
tradition of the role of Camille de Jo-
lidon. The other parts were in capable
hands, although the men seemed to re-
ceive the greater applause. Especially
was that evident after the septets sing
ing of the long-popular Women"
The mountings and costumes of this
production give no signs Of the age OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
ATZENH0LTER NOW DENIES
KILLING MISS MARSHALL
Farmland in New Jersey Regulates
Confession He Is Said
to Have Made.

TRENTON. December 31-Haying adj
mitted while in a deirium, during a
fever. that he killed Miss Luella Mar
shall. the young woman who was attacked
on the Pennington road here December
3. and having later made a confession To
the county authorities that he committed
the crime, William Atzenholter. the
twenty-eight year-old farmland now held
In the county Jail charged with the muir
der. yesterday repudiated his confession.
The charge of murder was made on the
statements he made first to Dr. Joseph
o. Denelsbeck and the nurse, Mrs. J. +.
Capen who attended him recently during
a fever, and later to Prosecutor William
j. Crossley. The prisoner declared to an
attache of the Jail yesterday that he did
not commit the murder and that he knew
nothing about it,
Il didn't do it, he declared. land
what's more. DIR. Denelsbeck knows that
| didn't The man added that he could
establish a perfect alibi. He will pro-
cure counsel.
Friends of the prisoner declared that the
man, while under the care Of the nurse
and physician. was given frequent injec-
tons of morphine to quiet him. In addi-
ton, he had been drinking heavily, and
the belief is gaining ground that he was
not mentally responsible when he made
the statements that led to his arrest.
Many have the theory that the power of
hypnotism was used on the man to draw
the confession from him. A reward of
5000 is offered for the conviction of the
guilty person.
The police are beginning to fall back
on. their former theory that an automo-
bile-sfnfiicted the fatal injuries that re-
suited in Miss Marshalfs" death. They
have found a imam who saw an unlighted
automobile standing by the roadside at
about the time the attack was supposed
to :haye been made, and q woman has
been discovered who says she heard
screams from an automobile party at
about the same time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
BELIEVES HER PET HEN
TRIED TO HANG ITSELF
Conscience Stricken Because It Fail
ed to Lay Its Share of
High-Priced Eggs.

TARRYTOWN. n. Y, December 81
Mary the pet hen of Miss Hannah Mace
70 North Tarrytown. attempted suicide
yesterday. Miss Mace sravely insists
that Mary was conscience stricken, be-
cause, at the high price of eggs. she had
not been able to contribute her share.
The hen flew up on a wire fence, and.
then. sticking her head through one Of
the holes, jumped off. There she was
slowly strangling to death. when her
owner. attracted by the other chickens
'cackling and making great noise in the
yard, ran out and rescued her pet
To reporter Miss Mace said: Mary
was hit by an automobile some months
ago. and since that time she has not been
able to lay any eggs.
MARY became respondent. and for a
week / have noticed a PARKWAY look in
her eyes. She didn't care about her ap-
pearance and her feathers were left I'M
combed. Finally she began to starve
herself. and when she could not stand it
any longer she just tried suicide
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
INCREASE IN APPLICATIONS
Total of 69,236 for Inventions Re-
ceived in Last Fiscal Year.
SEPARATE BUREAU ADVOCATED
Commissioner Edward B. Moore in
Annual Report Also Urges Need
of a New Building.

The marked prosperity of the country
is reflected in the receipts of the United
States patent Office from fees for appli-
cations. according to Edward E. Moore.
commissioner of patents, in his annual
report today to the Secretary of the In
terror. The total receipts of the Office
for the fiscal year ended June 80 were
,O94,0J9. compared with S19S7,77S for
the previous fiscal year. The total ex-
penditures were s2O2o,912 and the net
surplus of receipts over expenditures was
SOS, LAT. The grand total of net surplus
over all expenditures is now S., 132, or 90.
Figures presented by Commissioner
Moore indicate that the volume of busi.
ness of the patent office has materially
increased in the past fiscal year.
Increase in Applications.
The number of applications for patents
for inventions aggregated 1896 against
81. 154 for the fiscal year ended June 10,
1911. The total number of applications
for patents for inventions, for designs.
for reissue of patents, registration of
trade marks, labels, prints. disclaimers to
patents and appeals was 81 .459, compared
with 16.3S' for the fiscal year 1911, an
increase of 5O7i
5:S9 patents granted. including reissues
and designs. and 4 $50 trade marks 62J
labels and 26S prints We're registered dur
ing the last fiscal year. The number of
patents that expired was 500. The
number Of applications for mechanical
patents shows an increase of 4.OS2 over
the previous fiscal year. or 6.26 per cent.
an increase for the ten years since 1903
of 4O.72 per cent.
Urges Separate Bureau.
The establishment of the patent office
as an Independent bureau of the govern
ment is recommended by Commissioner
Moore. In this connection he points out
that since the decisions of the commits
sioner are now final within the office and
that appeals are no longer made to the
Secretary of the Interior. the connec-
ton of the patent office with the depart
ment is SO Slight that it would seem that
its separation and establishment as an
independent bureau is eminently desira-
ble.''
The commissioner also recommended
that a new building be erected for the
patent office. The present quarters, he
says, are insanitary and crowded and
valuable records are in constant danger
of destruction by fire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
FOR OPERA AND FINE ARTS.
Mayor of Boston Proposes That City
Give Subsidies.

BOSTON, December 3l.-The forthcom-
Ing session of the MASSACHUSETTS legisla-
ture has IA new item of business before
II in a petition from Mayor John f. Fitz-
gerald of this city for the substituting of
tn eBoston opera house. The mayor be-
lieves that the institution is responsible
for the attraction of a certain amount OF
business TO Boston. as well as for giving
the city an esthetic standing, and he pro-
poses that the city appropriate for the
use OF the opera house each year an
amount not exceeding that OF. the real
estate tax for which the institution is
ssessed.
The mayor has. also petitioned. for legis-
tion TO enable the city 10 appropriate
pGU annually for the maintenance of
Museum of Fine Arts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
Wife Gets Estate for Life.

BY the terms of the will or James +.
dated June. 1s96. his entire estate
is left to his wife. Mary T.. Turton, for
life or until she remarries On the death
of the widow house 1907 Il street north
west goes to a son. William III. Turton,
and premises 9I4 18th street northwest
to another son. James r.. Turton jr. The
two sons are then to divide equally the
estate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
Fox Herd Starving.

There is another consideration in con-
nection with the suspension of land seal
ing Prof. Jordan says that, animal for
animal, the blue fox herd on the islands
is as valuable as the seal herd. In the
forty years of American possession 10000
pelts have been taken. By the suspension
of legitimate land sealing, the killing
grounds are left bare, and the foxes are
starving to death and killing and eating
one another. He says if this condition
continues for five years the fox herd will
be reduced to the point where 1t will van
ish altogether. or require a. long term of
years to recover.
He says, therefore, that the commission
protests earnestly against the enforce
ment of the suspension law of 1912, and
urges it's immediate repeal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
ADJUSTMENTS

year professional absence so good and
SO popular an actor as James h. Hack
ett' Is described in the program, after
the parenthetical phrase 600 ito 51S''
times), to be "a play of today, in four
acts. founded on David Graham Phillips
most celebrated novel, by Louis Evans
Shipman, author of DARCY of the
Guards On Parole, The Crisis. ETC.
1t has a cast of eleven people. Its first
act shows a study in Frederick Norman
home, New York; its second act. his pri-
vate office in the suite of a corpora ton
law firm, and the other acts take place
where the first act began.
The dialogue reveals that Fred
erick Norman is young lawyer
of wonderful ability and success; that
he has become infatuated with his
typewriter, an inane but pretty miss
who is not sure of anything eX-
cept that she does not love him; that
because of her he has broken his en-
gagement to Josephine Burroughs. daushr
ter of the leading light in the financial
world; that the latter proposes to crush
the young lawyer; that the young lawyer
marries the typewriter; that the magnate
has made a pauper of him; that rival
magnate, ignorant of the Facts. hlreS
the young Iawyer-retaining fee S1O,WU-
and puts him on his feet at the psycho-
logical moment when the young type
writer realizes she has been the cause
of the undoing of her husband and fees
his house. Then the young lawyer crush
es his enemy who comes begging for
mercy; the young wife. discovering she
really loves her husband after all. re-
turns and hopes to be forgiven. She per-
suades the husband not to be hard on
his enemy for her sake He relents after
it has seemed impossible he would do SO.
and the last curtain falls on the re-
united couple convulsively clutching each
other in a love embrace. So much FOR the
story.
The young lawyer is played by Mr..
Hackett with great firmness and force,
but the skeptic constantly feels That il
it were not for Mr.. Hackett he would be
bankrupt indeed. The young wife is
played by Beatrice Beckley.
The young lawyer had sister who was
really human and attractive. and she was
pleasingy impersonated by Margaret
Bourne. One might have forgiven much
for her sake had she not married an
idiotic simpleton who will go down IN
memory as necessarily smoking a ciga-
rette with holder. both combined about
twelve inches long. There was a great
deal of smoking in the play. also some
real profanity that seemed to help out
the interest. William Tetlow, friend OF
the young lawyer. furnished the comedy
through Fred A. Sullivan. Charles Lane,
who will be remembered from the Butt
terrified Players last summer, made a
fairly good rival magnate.
Washington was undoubtedly glad TO
see Mr. Hackett again. The welcome
given him was enthusiastic and sincere.
and the measure of appreciation given the
performance was largely due to his per-
sonal efforts. His engagement In the
near future in an elaborate production of
The Prisoner of Zenda" for moving pic
lures promises a brilliant future in a
novel field that should make his tenn
porary or even permanent REIMBURSEMENT
of THE Grain of Dust as a vehicle a
privation to be borne with philosophy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
Sixteenth Street Highlands
"The Best Suburb of Washington"

The Nmetntwelve SIN
TENTH STREET HIGHLANDS The
splendid suburban
their IS o Washington
They bided and we'll
of knwngt
la andy year
begun The will
OF upwar of oinnew reSde
Golden S for who indispensable thing
NOW
hand strength Delay Regret lndeson
o Excellent
the beautiful detached homes sale The
moderate Absolutely detail Reasonable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31

Gen. Joseph y. Seth of Easton, Md, has
started movement for the erection of
two marble monuments, one at each end
of the Courthouse square, in memory of
the soldiers of the Confederate and Fed
eral armies who went into the civil war
from Talbot county.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
Columbia.

1.-The Grain of Dust which had its
Washington presentation at the Columbia
Theater last evening, and incident
ally served to bring back. after . five
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Effect of New Law.

Prof. Jordan says that this in effect
is a reputation of the treaty. The con-
SideratiOn was that the United States
was to pay Great Britain and Japan Is
per cent of the receipts from the land
catch and if there is no land catch this
payment lapses. Further there are the
surplus bull seals to be considered
There would be $4,000 of these in 1913.
and their presence induces fighting in
the rookeries and leads to the killing
of the young and helpless pups beside
cutting off this government and the
other parties to the treaty from the
legitimate income from the properly
conducted land sealing. Prof Jordan
says he fears that dissatisfaction on
the part of Great Britain and Japan will
lead to their abrogation of the treaty
in which case pelagic sealing would be
Immediately resumed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
Treaty Ends Pelagic Sealing.

After years of effort a treaty was ar
ranged between Great Britain, the United
States, Japan and Russia for the aboli-
ton of pelagic sealing. 1t was also
agreed that the United States and Russia,
as the owners Of the great seal herds,
should pay to Japan and Great Britain
10 per cent of the receipts from their
land sealing operations.
The treaty worked well for a season,
during which time $4,000 females reach
ed the islands and gave birth to
young, animals that all would have
been destroyed had the pelagic sealing
continued.
In 1912 interested parties working
ostensibly in the interests of the herd
managed to get through Congress bill
that prohibited land sealing also This
bill was aimed to operate during the
continuance of the treaty, but a COM
promise finally was reached whereby
the land sealing suspension was to con-
tinue but five years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31

opera and are as lavish as any of the
earlier ones. The vivacity Of principals
and chorus also obliterate the passage
of time since first they won enthusiastic
plaudits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
URGESLAND SEALING
David Starr Jordan Thinks
Congress Erred.
FAVORS REPEAL OF LAW
Reports to Department Of Commerce
and Labor.
GIVES HISTORICAL REVIEW
Fears Great Britain and Japan May
Abrogate Treaty Which Ended
Pelagic Sealing.
FAVORS REPEAL OF LAW
GIVES HISTORICAL
REVIEW

Prof David Starr Jordan, in a report TO
the Department of Commerce and Labor
asserts that the recent prohibition by
five years is political and economic mis-
take that is injuring not only the fur seal
herd, but the blue foxes and other deni-
zens of the Pribilof Islands.
The report on the fur seals is based
primarily on the Investigations Of George
A. Clark, the secretary of the fur seal
commission, and has been passed upon by
Prof Jordan before being submitted to
the Department of Commerce and Labor
Prof Jordan, in going over the history
of the rookery. says the Pribilof herd is
the most important northern fur seal herd
in the world. From 1870 to 1889 the leas-
ing company took 10000 skins annually
and paid the government $6,3JOOOO in
royalties. For a second period Of twenty
years the company took 1900 skins an
nually and paid the government a little
more than $3.OOO.OOO. In the years 1910
and 1911, when the government managed
the sealing itself, it took between L. 600
and 1900 skins annually and got for
them 100000. Thus, Prof. Jordan says,
the herd represents a property that in
f9rty-tWo years has paid none than $1O,-
o00, 900 in dividends.
The habit, of the seal is to breed on the
islands in summer and in winter to go on
a long southern migration as far down
eminent took over the herd it numbered
100000 animals. In 1867 It numbered
100000, and in 1912 it had declined to
215,Oo0 animals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31

nections. but the management announce
the act would be on the bill today and
the remainder of the week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
Evils of Pelagic Sealing.

The pelagic hunters take advantage Of
this habit, and going out in sailing YES
sells meet the migrating herd and follow
it to its summer feeding grounds. where
the slaughter is still kept up. The chief
victims are the females, who are killed
either before the young are born or else
are killed in the water while hunting food
during the summer. so that the mother
less seal pups starve to death.
The pelagic catch in 1879 was 5000
skins. and this rose with the extension
Of the fleet in 1894 to $1,000 skins. OF
these 81 per cent were females, and for
every seal captured in this form of hunt
ing four We're shot and not recovered
Altogether from 1879 to 1911, the pelagic
catch has aggregated million skins, and
this takes no account of the number of
seals killed and lost and the helpless
pups starved to death.