The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-13
NEWS OF THE DAY ON GREAT ''WHlTE WAY".
The McCann Case Recalls That Of Dorothy Arnold Whose
 Fate Remains Mystery.

was just three years ago to-day If1dC Dorothy Arnold disappeared, the po- lice and private dectectives and news paper sleuths are apparently no near CT a solution of the mystery than they have ever been. Many theories nave been advanced to account for the strange case, but the one that appar- ently meets with widest acceptance Is thaf the young woman was kidnap- ped by agents of the traff1ckers Tn vice. Miss. Arnold was tWenty-slx years of age, a college graduate ana her parents possessed wealth ana SO cial standing. Rumors that the glrl had returned to her home have been circulated at various times, but nave always been met with absolute den3als by the heartbroken parents.
 stay-at-homes may now make tour of the world while comfortaply seated in a theatre, and that' #loo' without spending more than two hours of their valuable time in the pleasant task of globe-gird1ng. fhe
 movies are, of course, responslole for this feat A moving picture .op- orator was among the passengers on a vessel which recently cruised around this mundane spheroid, and the result is a film a mile long, showing the
 most interesting sights along the s25,- 900 mile route. The film had JUS first public showing at the Carnegie Lyceum this week.
 With the launching of the Colum- bus at Danzig next week, another giant of the seas will be added to the fleet plying between German ports and New York The Columbus has a gross tonnage of 37,O0o. and is 815 feet long A sister ship of the Go Iumbus is also being built. The SO lunbus is larger than the Mauretan1a or Lusitania, but is surpassed in size by the Imperator and it's sister: ship, now building, and by two English lin CTS now in course of construction
 According to Dr. Lederle, New York's health commissioner, the pres ent year promises to be the healthiest in the entire history of New York. If the decrease in the mortality rate shown so far is maintained, pr. Led erie estimates that the final report for the year 1913 will show nearly 2,- 900 fewer deaths than in 1912. Musical comedies are sometimes
 musical and comic operas are occa- sionaIly comic, but Victor Herberts
 ''The Madcap Duchess comes very near to being both. Ann Swinburne heads the cast, and makes a charm ing Seraphina, t'The Madcap Duchess while the stage setting reproduces the splendiferous grandeur of the royal court of Louis XV-
 A female barytone" has been dis covered in a Bowery box factory, and is now singing in New York theatres
 Instrumental musicians who. were dis covered in boiler factories are all too prevalent in metropolitan p1ayhouses. | The "Iegless lady, who has been ap- bearing at the New York two-a-day houses, displaying her paucity of neither limbs before delighted specta- Sr1 which she is charged with jumping"
 a contract.
 Charles M. Fray, the phflosophic
 rat-catcher whose familiarity with the
 ancient classics won the friendship | and admiration of the late Mayor l Gaynor, has transferred his vermin- 1 exterminating activities to California.
 MT. Fray declared to the late Mayor | that the wisdom of the ages had been l compressed into twenty-five words in the following aphorisns of ancient Know thy opportunity. ."-Pittacus-
 Consider the end''-Chilon. Most men are bad."-Bias. There is noth- l ing impossible to industry. .''-Perian- i der. Avoid excesses. s.-Cleobulus. l Surety is the precursor of ruin.''-
 Thales
 A recent distinguished visitor to | New York was Hon. Neil Primrose,
 youngest son of the fifth Earl of Rose
 -bery. The Hon. Neil will celebrate his thirty-first birthday tomorrow. He is one of the wealthiest bachelors in England, and a famous sportsman.
 The son of the great statesman visit ed .New York last April one of the l members of an English committee United States and Canada committees
 on a program for celebrating the cen tenary of peace. On that occasion Lord Rosebery's son gave vent to some harsh opinions of English suffra gists,
 and was threatened with. a "horse-
 whipping upon his return to Eng land.
 Chicago capitalists who are plan ming a pIayh ouse along the lines of the
 New York Hippodrome will need a mint of money to successfully initiate
 the enterprise. More than 1,5OO per I.sons, who, with their families, would lmake neat little city, are employed | in the production of 'tAmerica,'' this years attraction at the Hip There Itare 24 principal men and 20 principal
 women, 36 speciality artists, 500 sing ing and dancing girls and 400 male singers and dancers, 50 real Injuns, 130 grips and "clearers,'" 51 cleo tricians, 34 machinfsts; carpenters, en- g1neers and assorted mechanics, 21 l wardrobe men and women, 15 proper ty men, 80 musicians, 33 grooms, host Iers and harness men, and veterin- 1 ary The executives, ushers, at ] taches, cleaners and other employees
 bring the total over the 1,50O mark l The live stock include 200 horses, 15O
 chickens, 14 dogs, 2 cows and pigs
 elephants and "sich"4 which have
 been used in past Hip productions find no place in America
 A new hands across the sea- movement has heen lannchad la,r las