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Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-17
LONG DISTANCE
 WALKER 4 TAI KER
German Pedestrian at Tomb stone Tells Where
 He Has Been

TOMBSTONE April 15-Edward Geist, from Munich, Germany. and his young friend, Jose Dionissia from Guatemala. Central America arrived in Tombstone yesterday.
 Mir. Geist is making a trip over the american continent on foot and with out money Along his trip ne is as sisted by voluntary contributions oi officials and business men
 In July, 1908, he startei from Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic South America, and carried with him eleven books. containing over 19.OOC congratulations and autographs writ ten in twenty different languages, o
Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-17
SAFFORD CANALS
 FULL OF WATER

sAFFORD. Ariz, April 1G.-Canals are running full again and the far. mers are all busy irrigating, although the cold. backward spring will un. dOubtedly delay the first cutting Q! alfalfa at least two weeks. which will be a dead loss, as five or six crops are generally cut every year. and the last one about Thanksgiving or latef will be light and a total loss of thou sands Of dollars in this section alone must occur.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-17
MEX|CANS VIOLATE THE VAGRANCY LAW
Many Arrested and Taken Be fore Judge High Who
 Assessed Penalty

Wholesale arrests for violation Of the Arizona vagrancy law were made yesterday morning by Constable Par ley T. McRae. All of the defend ants are Mexicans, and the com plaints were issued on statements ol Attorney s. K. Williams. who de scribed to the court an almost un believable condition of affairs.
 The complaining witness owns a number of houses on Chihuahua hill and many Of them are vacant at this time. These are used by the lower class of Mexicans as dens. and the houses are abused and misused in
Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-17

-fsl 7r l1r',ilf it
Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-17

the statistics to indicate what the future course of the metal is to be. except in the most general way. IL is clear that there has been a steady gain in the consumption abroad during the last two years and the gain has held long enough 10 indicate that it represents a per manent increase in the use of the red metal. The amount will natur- ally he subject to fluctuations in accordance with business conditions but the average will undoubtedly remain above that of previous years.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-17

problem in Bisbee. They regard a jail term as a boon of beans and ba- con, and officers say it is useless to sentence them to longer tSTms than ten days, as they do not pay for their keep, and to vag them out of town is to foist the problem on Lowell or Douglas, and to have them refGisted back on Bisbee.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-17
EASTERN STARS

All members of Pear Chapter are earnestly requested 10 meet at Ma sonic Temple on Thursday evening. April IS, at o'clock for floor prac tice work and other matters relative to grand matron's visit on April 24.
 ANNIE LEROY. Worthy Matron. KATHERINE HARDY, Secretary.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-17
MASS OF wREcKAGE

HALIFAX, April le-The Sable is land cable ship, Minia, reported this afternoon through the wireless sta tion, that she had sighted great mass of wrckage but no boats or rafts from the Titanic
Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-17
HAWAII FOR TAFT

HONOLULU. April 16.-Six repub- hcan delegates elected yesterday to the national convention were instruct- ed for Taft. The democratic dele-. gates are uninstructed.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25

A LII this Is not to say that
N many popular farces have
not been reared on stories quite as
foolish and unstable; but they at
least proceeded from motives that
were momentarily. credible and
But "Just Like John having
asked US to- believe in It's charac.
ters and their predicament only be-
then proceeded to any scene or
funny, quite irrespective of the
speaker or the situation. In way,
though. this was well; for the two
incidents that aroused and fed
spontaneous and immoderate laugh.
ter had little to do with the play,
being of the sort that are dropped
into that most formless of enter.
tainments. "Weber G. Fields
show" In one, Russian prince,
terrifying in stature and ferocity of
countenance, appears in search of
his rival. Meeting the Slav, Wal
ter Jones asks what he Will do
when he finds his man. 'tDo7" the
Russian roafs. "Jast,, I will kill
himi" To Mr.. Jones's query as
to what he will do first, the tower
ing prince demonstrates by such a
trouncing and choking that the
hefty Jones falls back exhausted.
When his friend. the general hxer
of the plot, appears, Jones puts him
up to asking the same question; to
which that glib young man receives
the same physical reply. So when
an effeminate and fussy little man
appears. the audience is in r roar.
And after he has received his dem
onstration from the unperturbed
Russian and the old gossip. hated
by the cast, emerges into view, the
audience is fairly rollickiug with
glee at all she will find out when
She pokes her snoopy nose into
other peoples affairs just once too
often.
The other funny incident crentes
comical confusion by means Of
three packages that nre almost
identical in their paper wrappers.
They belong. to three women, the
deceived wife. the antique gossip
and the lady bomb.thrower.. and
are a burglar" signal. An alarm
clock and bomb. The men In the
piece, mistakinR the other packages
for the last-named. try to make
away with it. until really it has
been dropped into the ocean, when
they tell the women about 1t and
all rush in terror from the domestic
little alarm-clock, ringing within
its covering,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25

ties. November 81. 1901, Miss
Abott. siill Pickens, placed her
signature 10 a contrict by which
the Paris opera called upon her
services. Ire name of Pickens,
however. WIS clumsy one for
Frenchmen To handle. At the
advice Of II. Gailhard. director OF
the opera, the Young debutante
adop.ed her mother = name OF
Abott. In circulating the an
arnonrcr-rpp.s OF tho Young
Amer cans frst appearance,
careless Orintet rechristci ed her
once moro, omittn~ the superfiu-
ous .'b. - so that Eliza beth Pick
Gus became Bessie Abott for all
tire. Ncr" Iu-erestipq. but the
facts arc that from about seven
'o'r 20 ~ rteeu years ago the
Misses Pickeus were known
ihroughor! the American yaude-
vile world as tie ''Twiu Sisters
Abbott dressing alike IA Italian
waits. strumming on guitars and
singing such ditties OF the day as
'psddv Wouldn't Buv Ne a
Pow Vow having made their
New York debut IN this
srecialty' in Little CHRIS
topher, produced in 1895.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25

tress who causes the manage
ment trouble, if not more
material loss, by marrying at the
height of an engagement and
fitting from the stage; but the
fair-haired WallieO Eddinger
has taken that privilege from the
fair sex. A month ago he mar
ried and went abroad on his
honeymoon, leaving the. role of
the blase millionaire. whose won
derful picture gallery is robbed
aud who disguises himself as a
policeman TO restore the treasures,
to get on as best it could. Truth
to tell, Mr.. Eddinger did nothing
half so selfish; indeed, he all but
kept his bride waiting at the
church while he helped the man
agement to find and coach salts
factory successor to his skillful
self. The search seemed hopeless;
and with the resumption of the
ltrun'' we find the part filled by
Douglas Fairbanks, who played il
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25

Hav fever and asthma make August
a month Of intense suffering 60 maDy
people. Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound gives prompt ease and relief,
ard is soothing and healing 10 ;he in
famed membranes. Wm NJ. Merethev.
y. Searsport. Me-. saws: ga few doses
of Foiey's Honey and Tar Compound
relieved me OF a severe attack OF
asthma and less than a bottle cnased a
complete cure Refuse substitutes.
Scrfa wm,.l ohnson. Drugs
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25

50wEyER, we got nothing of
| that sort from Euripides.
AAer we would have in
IA in Hippancy or not
ssids the subject, lnasmuch as
had been dead over twenty-five
-dfed years wheu a fashionable
4 sppreciative audience gath
d on the stone benches of
: Martha Leonard 8 Brookside
nier 10 sec how much better
zxtra'' wears than 1.-The
rrietta'' or 'The Charity
H. Miss Leonard is a resolute
IA woman who dances in bare
b in the winter and serves hot
|ir the summer. Up in West
oier county. where Washington
Rtt the British in '76 and
.m nowadays 'fold families
a modern fashionables fight off
tzopers not mentioned in the
Iiil Register, Miss Leonard has
laile cottage, hidden from the
|lfoM road by jvy-covered walls.
lhs other side of these and
lie little tea house, one finds
NODDED hill that slopes down to
I,tlysoDian brook. And here,
rsly With her own hands, Miss
eosMa has constructed as en-
Aarsirz Greek theater, in it's
saisaEing way, as the massive
Y Impressive pile with which
p Phoebe Hearst secured the
~ Of Berkeley. Nature has
p much for the Brookside
's1bl. and is made to seem to
" done more. Green cushions
''r an apparently natural semi
Fk OF stone seats. Beneath
g white Doric columns mark a
aE with turf for a 4" floor
sh' low green bushes. rustlinp
= and a little brook as "bo"k
% and the blue sky for
;azdefs " Even the birds col
'a'sted in the memorable effect,
'sga they might well have been
falsned as far as Coney Island
,ae weird and austere music
goussorgsky's Gle Prince
"" which strideutly and
Irsously heralded the dreadful
'Hoy Of matricide and rhetoric.
alShI gasp "Still another
'oeatsr! " But then, I should
! y 70 hold the exclamation for
= months, or keep repeating it;
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25

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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25

"A EISS MAMIE PALMER of Chi
NW cago is an unusually attractive
W young woman who has come
forward in theatrical circles
with gratifying suddenness. She has
lust accepted an offer from the Fiske
company with Otis Skinner for the COM
ing season, and she will begin rehear-
sails for "Kismet early in September.
Miss Palmer was the understudy to
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25
bw Broadhurst Comedy
II n
Els "Just Like john
Bessie Abott Is the Chief Feature Of Inter
est in Revival of Robin Hood
BY VANDERHE YDEN FYLES

+. rv YORK. Aug. 24.-The
latest novelty worth record
| !, 2soo years old. That
,ourse relieved us from
apty cry of '"author, author! "
I is consequent speech, either
-, or pompous, and usually
ss.,,d in such halting gasps of
's..Iboy Consciousness as to be-
H. @ us in wonderment that such
!:fIItv.lookinp n man could write
h'Isddle. .Diddle,' ,, let alone a
J with the vitality for three
1a,sd nights in the metropolis
4 ~ After the second act OF
= like Johu,'' for instance,
.,,at auditorial to-do finally
(, ,Ss the man who has made a
"a G ont of "Bought and Paid
d ~ alone. into view, looking as
',geiic and inconsequential as
q clerk. Mr.. Broadhurst, how.
/. knows his own worth, and
ready with a pat and pithy
. speech, though it hardly
a be said to have come OFF
;fbe sure.shot aim with which
'mthor of "What Happened to
~ and Why Smith Left
a, has shown he can point
Ian, Explaining that his col
,ntor, Mark Swan, could not
'uducsd TO show himself on the
4 Mr. Broadhurst added, with
howing leer at the blase
rnce, ~ begin to wonder
ter his first name really is
~ -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25

ana really have too much else IN
uo. For no less than nine Other
playhouses are far enough advanced
toward completion to assure their
dedlcatlon before Christmas All
are broadway theaters which
10 very different from saying they
are theaters on Broadway.0 One
indeed, actually has an entrance an
broadway. But all the Others are
unanswerably of the side streets
.hat shoot off east and west from
ftne Great White Way. Yet all are
broadway theaters' in the sense
OF playhouses of the frst.class
winch meaning usage has given to
the term. w
'HE name of George Broad
u hurst, signifying the alert
writer who ranks high among those
dramatists whose plays have made
fortunes for them, would be enough
to arouse interest in a new piece
even one so frivolously and fimsilv
n1amed as "Just Like john But
ihrst interest centered in the play-
mousse itself. Take a peep behind
the scenes with me. fTbcre have
been many instances" William A.
brady. manager and chief owner of
The new house, remarked the other
day, where the impatience of a
theater owner has crowded out of
New York plays, which, if per.
mitted to remain for few weeks,
would have worked into substantial
and permanent success. 7 never
shall forget the coaxing, cabling
and storming / had to do in order
to carry Way Down East past the
crucial period of its career. If !
mad not made my point in that in.
STANCE a play would have been lost
to the PUBLIC that has been i'm.
mensely popular and pro6table for
more than seventeen years. The
public does not always respond at
the first minute to a manager
offerings, no matter how meritori-
Gus they may be. Even in the case
OF Bought and Paid For, which is
by far the greatest success I have
ever had, the first week IS receipts
were the smallest in it's history;
and if l had produced this play in
a theater other than MY own, I
might have been asked to get out
and make room for someone else
with a production on his hands. I
know of one case where a produc.
ing management actually was
forced to take 8 successful play
out Of theater in which be was a
minority owner. II is the posi-
blllty Of such a situation as this
that makes it necessary for an &C.
tive producer to own his clearing
house, -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25
ITO which I might add that these
IL very B. BIS Dramatist

Broadhurst and Manager Brady
experienced some strenuous. but
lonesome, weeks with the formers
notably successful drama of "The
Man of the Hour before it caught
on definitely and with grip enough
to assure them Of its subsequent
success. But beyond the manage.
rial desire to create means of
testing his wares thoroughly, one
spies the thrifty dramatist who sees
no reason why he should not play
his entry two ways. For much OF
the money that has made the new
theater possible came from large
authorial winnings of Mr.. Broad
rust and Philip Bartholomae, who
wrote 'tOver Night;' and their
plays will have first call On the
stage,
THE new theater Is decoratively
IL charming and is as nearly
ideal as any in New York in such
important points as comfort, safety
and advantageous arrangement
for the best effect Of the play. It
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25

for Miss Ann Swinburne and Basil
Ruysdael, as AUnapel aud Wiil
Scarlet. George trot1iplDam. vi
the OLD, old daEs-only Ieltc .. toe
original caSt-is AS uuctuously
humorous as ever, as tue sr.asJ
friar luck; ana Miss FLORENCE
Wickham, Waiter Hyde, EdwIn
Stevens, Carl Gautvoort and MISS
Pauline Hall, as .hlau-s-Dale,
koDIn HOOD, the Shcriu Oh .Aot-
tingnam, Lutte Jonu ana Dame
Duruen, are VariOu.iy admiraul-,
as was remarked last sprlng, when
Reginald de koSen assembled as
Nocaily accomplished light opera
company rs has ever Appeared III
America. lie nov announces II
VIII be heiG together, Trans Orm.
ing the iormer New theate.. now
the Century, into an american
Opera Comique, with Miss Abott
as the prlma donna.
THAT Miss Abott could sing
l. Maid Marian beautifully
was to be expected, She and AR.
Hyde, restored the great duet 10
the third act, winch was cut our
last sprlng, presumably TO please
Miss Bella Alten. More than one
rather absurd cxpedient had been
resorted to IL order to scccntuate
the step from the Metropolitan
opera TO a lighter form OF music
which Miss Abott thus takes.
We are informed that twelve
years ago Miss Bessie Abott. then
known by her real name, Bessie
Pickens, was engaged in theS up-
certain but highly lucrative work
of providing entertainment for
men and women Of social distinc-
ton. She and ber twin sister,
Jessie, were singing at private
concerts and exclusive house par
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25
Miss Mamie Palmer, Salt Lake Visitor, Has Posi-
ton With Otis Skinner Company for Season.

Miss Merle Maddern last year in the
Fiske company, and it is the part
played by Miss Madden which is now
to be taken by Miss Palmer. Miss
Palmer, although only young girl,
gives promise of rare ability. She is a
graduate of the dramatic school of the
Chicago College of Music. Miss Palmer
has been spending a few weeks here
with Mr.. and Mrs Eugene B. Palmer.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25

for several months in Chicago last
spring, There is little TO choose
between the very blond Mr.. Ed
dinger and the very dark Mr..
Fairbanks. Either is easily able
to get everything possible out of
the gay, agreeable character.
Augustin McHugh, the author Of
"Oficer $685. who, six months
ago, was having hard pull to
get along on small-salaried on
gagements as minor actor, has,
] understand, been having
Joyous time in the night-world OF
Paris; and the American public is
certainly enjoying bis merry, slap
dash farce at home, and paying
gladly for the fun,
MISS BESSIE ABoTT is the
1vA chief new interest in
"Robin Hood as revived
by the composer himself Miss
Ethel Kaestner and Herbert
Watrous are agreeable substitutes
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25
rHE reopening entertainments

THE reopening entertainments
= IL at the Gsiety and the
Knickcrbocker theaters, might
nass unnoticed in this place,
inagmuch ms my purpose is
N keep you posted only on the
newest plays; but HOfficer $685.
and "Robin Hood d'-ope and
twenty one -year-old favorites -
brought new players for their
chief roles. Ii is usually an ac-
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-29

e:s,..o - Suai st >.Unt els IN or tnu,
IhcncS IN It's greatest dimensions
Inese stones are placed on edge in tl6
subgrade by hand on their ~broadest
bases and al right angles to the line of
the road, and I'LL irregular portions are
broken Off with hammers.
This type Of road was first designed
by French engineer named Tresagu
forty years in advance of Telford. The
roads built by Telford had fiat sub
grades. but those constructed by Ire
saSuet had cambercd subgrades, which
are supposed to have the effect of a
keystone arch. and this is the form in
which they are constructed today. 1t
is rather an interesting fact that in
France practically all of the broken
stone roads are Of the Macadam type.
while in England they are largely OF
the Tresaguet or relford type
Experience has proved that the only
way in which roads can be kept in
good condition and at rcasullahle cost
is b. continuous and intelligent main
tenanre Ii is a mistaken although TN
fortunately general impression that
certain types OF road are permanent
No perm2r,u! road has ever been Coz;
structed CT ov"r r:ln be
Cutters: cat h basins and rulvGrt$
ought by ail means to be k"ut ':.':
and small cu':;n* ii shoulder, SE.,-....3
be filed belorr ihn! become too large
The loose Strur which nearly always
appears on thr Snrf;,;e " Il ma ;;,,u;:
road the first >nrin" after it is bail;
should be ruk"'' up aud sin .kr'l f'; n
ture use. SiI.Il holes and inrlrieEl
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-29

relaliUn - :. -. ,.%u...i,.,,t. $s..,et,.g
best practI. - used this rUn, consists i,
foundation r".rSr OF two and Que
half inch stone of varying thickness
This foundation should be thorough!
rolled with a ste;.nl roller and not more
than a thickness of five or six inches
rolled ut d time. On top of this is
placed Il three or four inch layer Of one
and one-half inch stone, and after thor
oughly rolling a layer Of rock screen
ings below three-quarters of an inch in
size is spread. This layer Of screenings
should be sufficient only to fill the sur
face vOidS of the wearing course and
should not be applied all in one layer
Each application of screenings should
be rolled in before the next application
is made After the surface has been
thoroughly filled with screenings the
road should be we'll sprinkled with a
watering cart and rolled with Il steam
roller until it is thoroughly bonded.
This rolling should continue until the
surface ceases to wave in front of the
roller
Stone should never be dumped on the
road, and if specially devised spread
ing wagons are not used the stone
should be dumped on boards and spread
from them on to the road. The con-
tractor should be required to place
about hundred tons Of No. 2 stone
and screenings at convenient place
for each mile of road built for the pur>
pose of making future repairs.
The telford road Of today varies only
from the macadam road in that it has
2 hand paved foundation course, con
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-29

about 10 per cent. The careful ensl,
neer will set his grade stakes not
more than fifty feet apart. and In nc
case should they be over a hundred. and
these will serve later for the macadam
work. In grading ample material
should be left to form the shoulders.
Care should be used in properly slop.
ing cuts and fills to avoid as far as pos.
sible settlement of material. 4 slope OF
not less than one and one-haf TO one
should be used. Care should also he
taken TO have the gutter grades so fixed
that there will be at least Il f;u Of six
inches in each hundred feet in order to
provide surface drainage.
In general, any stone that is to be
used in road building should be test
ed for hardness, toughness, resistance
to wear and binding or cementing val,
ue. The specific gravity. weight pei
cubic foot and water absorbed are also
determined. With such data as this in
hand and knowledge Of the volume
and character of traffic to which the
road is subjected the engineer can
make an Intelligent selection Of the
best available material. While the dia,
bases, diorites and basalts. all com,
monty known as traprock, in general
meet the conditions where macadam
roads are necessary, yet it is unwise to
select rock by species alone. as they
all vary greatly.
There are two distinct types of bro.
ken stone road in use today, known as
macadam and telford roads. The mac.
adam road of today is so different from
the type specified by Macadam that the
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-29

POORLY CONSTRUCTED MACADAM ROAD
ruts should be filled as soon as they
appear with the same kind and size of
stone us that used in the surface course
If small defects are attended to when
they first appear it will be unnecessary
10 reSurface the road until it is worn
entirely through to the foundation
course. When the surface course is
worn out it ought to be spiked up with
a steam roller or scari6er and this fol
lowed By the spreading Of three inch
layer Of one and one-half inch rock
This is rolled. bonded with screenings
and Sp"ink'ed in the same manner as
the top course was originally construct
! ed, after which the road will be as
good as new.