Las Vegas optic., 1913-10-03

ing school girls, young women and
outof-fown parties in shopping and
helping them in whatever connections
a car might be useful met with imme-
date response arA her services were
in such demand that the very first
month she cleared more than $500
Naturally other lines of service were
found from time to time and now she
has a busy and well paid staff of high
" intelligent young women who can
not only run car but are well in
formed and tactfuL familiar with the
shops, tearooms, hotels and other
places Of interest, and qualified in ey-
ery way to be companions TO women
of culture and means. She has also
developed busy branch Of her busi-
ness in the furnishing of escorts from
the finer class of men for theaters
and the cafes, where she arranges with
the head walters for special tables and
attention for her clients. Thus the
woman living lonely in her apartment
or hotel need no longer feel confined
BY her four walls, for a phone call to
the chaperone-chaffeuse is as potent,
as any words of magic to carry her
into the midst u Gotham's enchant-
inc gayety
"strangest Theater" Established
Probably the only one of its kind
is the busy and prosperous little theat-
er. that is a part-and no unimportant
part-of the Episcopal Church Of the
Ascension over in the Greenport sec
ton Of this city, There is nothing
queer about this church theater, for
it is an outward expression Of an inner
ideal OF the pastor Rev. Walter T..
Bentley, himself formerly a Shakes
pearean actor. Believing that the
theater has such a powerful infiu-
ence for good that the church instead
Of pulling away should work in har-
mony toward common end, the Rev
erend Bentley was the moving spirit
in the organization and extension Of
the Actors Church Alliance, whose
cards may now be found on the "back
stage" walls Of probably every theater
| in America. The Ascension Theater
company is well equipped, having u
real stage, gellerfes, opera chairs, drop
curtains and enough shifting scenery
and settings to stage very effectively
the fifty odd Shakespearean plays
that have been esasyed, besides a
number of old English comedies and
newer plays. The gold cross which
occupies the place of honor in the
| decorations Of the proscenium arch Is
said to be the only cross in the world
which faces an audience above a COM
pany of play actors. This enterprise
is claimed to be a practical solution
of the church entertainment problc,n.
Here the congregation is not bored by
fairy pageants or coaxed to buy nick
nacks they know to be worthless, but
for their dimes and quarters receive
such good return that the soliciting
of patronage is unnecessary.
Soldiers to Guard Money
A most extraordinary call upon the
government is the petition which has
been sent to washington by the bank
ers and brokers Of Wall Street to have
a regiment Of federal infantry station
ed on Governors Island. where it
would be in position to respond in
12 minutes to cry for help in time
of trouble IN the financial district.
This uneasiness is not due to any
prospect of another panic Wall
Street has amply demonstrated it's
ability to take care Of itself in any
such crisis. But they shudder to
think of what would become Of the
billions of money and securities now
safe in their strong boxes, should the
district be visited by a devastating
earthquake or conflagration or, may
hap, an attack from without with high
explosives. Who would control the
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