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Then came Shoemaker's and Herzoss.
and upstairs WAS Miller & Jones oil.
lard parlor. called billiard saloon
then. Herzog's was at the west side OF
the National Theater entrance. On the
east side of the entrance was Wambold
saloon. Wambold was a brother of Dave
Wambold, the celebrated minstrel. who
sang his way into the hearts Of many
people with Bryant's Minstrels, and Wfth
the San Francisco minstrel troupe, which
for years, In the late seventies and early
eighties. occupied little theater on the
west side of Broadway, just across from
the Sturtevant House. The proprietors
of that troupe were Charlie Backus. Billy
Birch and Dave Wambold. Thatcher was
a member of that company and was a
pioneer in, IL not the originator Of. .the
'tangle talk which has had such. a
vogue. Next to Wambold's saloon was
John Talty's. Then a door or so to the
eastward was another saloon. Then YOU
came to Rapley's stove store and on the
corner stood and stands Greason's Hotel.
historic in many ways, but generally
pointed to- by guides as the place where
Gen. Alfred Pleasonton died. On this
block there were a few years after the
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and talking one of the celebrated theat-
rical boarding houses in Washington was
that kept by Mrs. Rosenberg on the south
side of Pennsylvania avenue, between 10th
and nth streets. She accommodated
mostly the actors from Walls Opera
House and from the Theater Comique."
The Rambler remembers Mrs. Rosen-
berry when later she kept a boarding
house for theatrical people on the south
side of the Avenue between 9Th and 7tf
streets The place was famous for boiled
dinners on Sunday There was plenty Of
boiled cabbage and corned beef, or boiled
bacon and kale or jowl. and green's. The
show troupes came in on Sunday morn
ing or Sunday afternoon, and these Sun
day boiled dinners were merry and large
ly attended well as largely eaten az
fairs. The Rambler preserves many ten
der memories of food and friends at Mrs
or Mother" Rosenberys. But let Mr.
Bruehl continue his story, which runs:
Il remember when Salvini made his
first appearance in Washington. 1t was
at Fords Opera House in the early sew
enties. He played Othello in Italian on
the second night of this engagement. He
came to WASHINGTON, I believe. the last
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EiN
.SAH
Wooden Indians.

MOT often is 1t now that one meets a
~ wooden Indian on the streets of
Washington. One more frequently meets
the real Indian who has come from Okla
homa or Montana or some other far
place to lodge a complaint at Washing
ton against something or somebody. 1t
was not very long ago that a wooden
Indian. or a pair of wooden Indians, was
as important to a tobacco store as red
and green lights IN a drug store window
or pole striped red and white or red.
white and blue in front of barbera
Times have not gone well with the
wooden Indian, and about two years ago
the Rambler made q census of them in
Washington. and after canvassng all the
principal streets from the river front to
the boundary and from Foundry branch
to the Eastern branch. he did not find
enough to furnish fuel for a respectable
council fire They had become yearly
extinct They had not gone to happy
hunting ground. but had been otherwise
disposed Of.
The owner Of the big Indian which
stood for uncounted years at the north
west corner of 9th and d streets north
west told the Rambler that the tobacco
trust slew the wooden Indian. At first
it was believed by men who sold to-
bacco that wooden Indian was a partner
in the business, that he was mascot
and that without him no customers would
enter. About the time that the various
tobacco companies began to merge they
set the fashion Of huge Autographs, and
these were of actresses and actors, and
not of Indians.
Some of the new stores opened without
setting up a wooden Indian. Then the
police regulations began to interfere with
wooden Indians who loitered on the side
walk They seemed to get on the nerves
of the police. In the first place they
INSTRUCTED the pavement. They held out
punches of wooden cigars as though they
would halt passersby. They also carried
knives and tornahawks. and although they
did not carry concealed weapons, they
made a menacing display Of deadly
weapons. There is no record that the
wooden Indian ever hurt anybody, but
the police commanded him to move on.
or get off the earth or something like
that. When the wooden Indians that still
hung about the city began to split and
crack and to lose their paint their own
ers took them in. In some cases 1t is
said that they were thrown in the cellar
and at length split up for kindling to
feed the fire around which men gathered on
winter evenings to discuss base bal
prospects for next season. Nobody SEEM
ed longer to have any faith in the wooden
Indian. few specimens still linger on
in Alexandria, and in passing along one
of the streets there a few days ago the
Rambler met one called Pocahontas, and
took her picture.
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most impossible for young women of the
middle classes who are without money to
marry. In Madrid, where there are 119
women to 100 men, the position is particu-
larly bad
Advocates of wounen's rights in Spain
say King Alfonso got his feminism from
his wife, Queen Victoria. When Queen
Victoria arrived eight years ago she had
persistent quarrels with court ladies
owing to what they considered her i'm
proper notions of feminine freedom.
Up TO that time no young Spanish
queen had ever gone out of doors except
in company Of a much older woman, The.
Spanish men themselves considered this
a law of propriety, and they stared and
almost demonstrated in 1906 when their
queen was seen in the FL Retro Park
with only one young lady and an ofhcef
In attendance. Since then Queen victoria
has been making efforts in feminist
direction. At first Alfonso was not at all
edited by her feninism. Even more than
his polo playing it caused trouble with
the queen.
The queen started in Madrid. Valladolid.
Salamanca and Barcelona intermediate
schools for girls. which have technical
and scientific basis. and aim at reforming
the old Spanish schools, in which religion
and the domestic virtues are the basis OF
all training In 1912 the queen started In
these schools special courses OF ply steal
training on swedish lines. In her Madrid
schools the girls took TO athletics. which
were formerly unknown in Spain. and also
to games Today Madrid has TWO girls
hockey clubs. Alfonso regarded with sus-
picion the technology and the science
but when he discovered that women are
CAPABLE of sport his heart was touched.
Sonora Teresa Villejas. a leading femi-
mist. SAYS that only after this did Alfonso
begin to see that there Is something IN
feminism He attended a girls hockey
match and interviewed the captains OF
the teams. He asked one captain what
she was training Tor
Not the hockey profession said AL
fonso.
profession of engineer.
But you can't become an engineer un-
der Spanish law" said Alfonso.
mot now" said the girl, but, thanks
TO your majesty's advocacy, l may be
able to in four years time.
The discovery that such futile interests
as science and technology could be ex-
allied and consecrated by sport gave AL
fonso some respect for science and tech
noJosv. and this incident finally put him
on the feminist path.
So today Alfonso is the leader OF SPANS
feninists Even his ultra-modern aunt,
FulaiIie, may hope to be forgiven for
her precipitate book writing. But the
nuns of Burgos still disapprove and the
Young women against Sacrificing peace
for the sake of work. Still Spain is
progressing in all that concerns women.
and Alfonso XIII will be remembered
the first feminist king.
Copyright, 1914. BY Curtis BrornD
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One is an actress, who is also fem
mist philanthropist, the other a famous
authoress. The actress is Sonora Tubau,
a leader of the Spanish comic stage.
Sonora Tubau has made successful eff
forts to improve the material and moral
position of women on the Spanish stage.
She founded in 1909 a juristic institute
for actresses defense, and she fought
through three judicial instances. ending
to break the claim of impresarios to
make life contracts at low salaries with
young actresses of talent. who are there
by kept in state of slavery.
Alfonso sent for Sonora Tubau and
congratulated her. saying: Il should like
to have given judgment myself, but I
am not an autocrat." He put down the
actress name on the list of persons to
get the Alfonso XII order next year.
This is the first time a Spanish actress
has ever obtained a Spanish decoration.
The other woman whom Alfonso sin
gled out for distinction is the novel writer
and literary historian, Sonora Emilia
Pardo Bazan, the most talented and in
defatigable of SPANS woman writer's,
whose works fill forty-four volumes. Sem
ora Bazan has also written plays for the
Teatro Espanol. She lectures as pro-
lessor in the school for higher studies of
the Madrid Athenaeum.
When Alfonso was told of the efforts
which are being made by the ministry of
education to improve schools for girls,
he said Why don't you call In Sonora
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Prado without duenna- He made
Eulalie, adopted the feminist occupation
of authorship.
Now, with another aunt, Alfonso has
done Just the opposite. He has actually
changed the statutes of the Alfonso XII
order so as to admit his aunt, the Infanta
Maria de la Paz the second sister of the
late Alfonso XII, who Is married to Prince
Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria and resides
at Munich. Princess Ludwig Ferdinand
has thrown herself boldly into the femi-
mist cause. In particular she aims at
spreading knowledge Of Spain and helping
With this aim she endowed in Munich the
Pedagogium Espanol. At first people said
that Alfonso was much annoyed at his
aunt's feminist propaganda. Later he so
radically changed his mind that he sent
her the gold cross Of the Alfonso XII
order.
This order was founded ten years ago
to distinguish scholars and artists, and
the statutes declare categorically that no
woman may be decorated Alfonso has
changed the statutes. In a rescript, he
says: 1.-The statutes need amendment be-
cause Spain is full of distinguished wom-
en- who are striving, creating and REFORM
ing and these have the same right to
be encouraged by the state as men
have"
Alfonsos next feminist step was to dis
tinguish two famous Spanish women.
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summer is yelled with the vivid green
of the plant called parrot feather
The pretty fountain at the foot of the
marble terrace of the Capitol between
the stairways of the west staircase IS
not SO well known. OF late have been
erected the Mcmillan fountain in McMll-
Ian Park, the Columbus memorial foun-
tain in front of the Union station and the
Butt-Millet memorial fountain south OIL
the White House.
All this brings to mind that fer several
years two of the fine fountains Of WASH
ington have not flowed They are COM
panion fountains and stand on the east
plaza of the Capitol. The water used to
squirt high, fall back into big oval bronze
basins and then overflow into rectangular
basins of red granite in which many a
boy has taken dip. For reasons which
the Rambler does not know these toun-
tains We're cut Off, and the bronze basin
and the granite basins were planted last
summer in flowers and vines. They were
very effective as hanging flower gardens,
but they were not fountains. Last fall
the basins were planted with ornamental
evergreen trees arbor vitae, cedars ana
all that
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time in the late eighties or the early
nineues. playing at Albaugh's Opera
House.
Lincoln Hall was great place of
amusement of an Intellectual order. I
recall that 1 heard Schuyler Colfax lee
ture there a short time before he died.
on The Wonders Cor Beauties) Of the
Yellowstone Proctor. the English as
tronomer, delivered a series Of lectures
there and had charge of the sale of his
lectures in pamphlet form.
"One of the liveliest sections Of the
city in those days was E street between
18th and 14th streets There was Tim
Sullivan's saloon on 14th street, one door
north of the Avenue. Near the corner of
18th street. E street and the Avenue
was Godfrey's saloon and next door was
Fox's saloon, which had been Peter
Schnell's brewery. Next was.John Usher s
saloon and next the Jeanness House bar.
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officials Of a railway. and offered to
pay the expenses Of importing an
Italian teacher of mosaic work.
Alfonso is further squirting into
feminist activity his cabinet. A whole
series of feminist laws has been passed
which bring Spain in this matter up
to the most advanced countries of CEN
trail Europe. The most important Is the
law regulating labor of women in fac
tories. workshops and mines. AS re-
suit of this law the number Of girls
engaged in rough and unhealthy labor
In mines has fallen off by 80 per cent.
Under an administrative change women
have been admitted to nine subdepart-
m$hts Of state ministries. AS some Of
ficials threatened to make trouble, the
minister of the interior issued an order
who show disrespect to their woman
colleagues.
= Two years ago Alfonso signed a law
have a separate specially marked chair
for every woman and girl in their en-
ployment. and it is now a. punishable Of
Tense to prevent female employees making
use Of the chairs. Another reform in the
feminist direction deals with the pro-
vision of marriage portions for widows
and female orphans. Instead of these
being deprived on marriage of such state
pensions as they draw owing to their
husbands or fathers having been state
officials, they will in future have the
pensions capitalized in order to create a
dot This helps to solve one of the
gravest Spanish questions, as It Is al
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RaZan?" Soon afterward the authoress
was appointed a member of the supreme
commission of the ministry. Alfonso has
also interviewed against the academy.
which rejected the candidateship OF Sen
ora Bazan on the ground of her sex.
AS result of the kings Intervention,
Sonora BaZan will next year be elected.
Alfonsos visits to Santander town led
him to make another excursion in fem1n-
ISM Alfonso and Santander are great
friends. Both are active and sport-lov-
ing. Santander's enterprising citizens
lately resolved to boom their town and
the adjacent watering places by capturing
Alfonso They. therefore, built for the
king on an eminence above the town
big chateau.
The idea is that Alfonso will spend
there his summers and draw to San
lander Madrids citizens, to whom the
town is more easily accessible than the
fashionable San Sebastian. When Al
fonso inspected the chateau he found
that some of the designs for wall deco
rations are the work of young women
trained by nuns at Burgos, which IS
not far off. He remarked that the deco
rations executed by men were inferior
to the originals which the men were
working from, and he sent his secretary
to Burgos to bring to Santander the
two young women who made the de-
signs
At Burgos the secretary got warm
reception. The nuns suspected evil de-
signs on the designers and refused to
give them up. The secretary telephoned
to Alfonso and insisted. So four hours
later there arrived in Santander two
heavily yelled maids accompanied by a
miserable, whipped-look secretary
and bodyguard of six stout and
elderly nuns. Alfonso laughed, and or
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out number There are drinking fountains
for man and horse and dog and
bird scattered throughout the city.
There are the fountains in the north and
south gardens of the White House and
the lily fountains at the east entrance
to the White House.
Within the last two three years the
John Paul Jones memorial has been set
up at the foot of 18th street, and this is
a statue with fountain attachment, for
streams gush from the mouths of dolphins
into granite basin at the foot of the
pedestal on which the statue stands.
Then there is the Peace Monument or the
Naval Monument at the Avenue and list
street. 1t has facilities for four streams
of water to gush forth into a basin at
its base, but the Rambler does not re-
member that the water was ever turned
on there until last spring, or it may have
been the spring before that Every body
is familiar with the fountain that stands
in the sunken plaza at the north front
of the Treasury building, and which in
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CAPITOL FOUNTAIN NOW 4 FLOWER BED

that the steeple was secured by guys
on the outside" 1t would probably make
interesting reading to tell how the guys,
no doubt ropes. were put in place and Sc
cured on the swaying steeple.
One of the interesting things which the
Rambler recalls in connection with this
spire matter is that on the evening of
Tuesday, April %. 1876, the Rev. DR..
the advertisement of which ran: From
Washington to Jerusalem-an evening in
the Holy City-scenes, incidents and OBJ
servations in the Holy Land-fspecially
interesting to Psychologists, ministers
and Sunday school teachers. Proceeds
for repairs of the spire.''
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civil war nine open or semi-open games
Of faro, roulette and vino ct un or TWEEN
ty-one.
THE lessees or owners Of the National
Theater since 1868, as I remember them.
were spalding & Rapley. W. E. Spald-
ing, James G. Saville, John T. Ford,
H. G. Ford. John W. Albaugh. and then
the Rapleys, who owned the property,
again took the management of the thea
ter. Some time about 1870 or 1877 there
was a manager there whose name was
Duffleld-I forget his first name. He had
a son, Harry Duf11eld, who was an actor.
and very good one. have lost track
of him.
at was during the management Of
Saville in the early seventies that Bret
Harte was there to supervise the presen-
tation Of All SIM I remember that he
was not overprosperous at that time and
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first theater in Washington. The play
was THE Secret. or Partnership Dis
solved" which was comedy in five acts.
followed by a farce entitled The Sailors
Rendezvous
This brings to mind that the first thea
ter in Washington was the United States
Theater. Plays were presented there in
the fall Of 1900. How long the theater
continued in existence the Rambler does
not know. but MIR. Ignatius Mudd has
gone into the subject of old Washington
theaters more deeply than anybody else,
and no doubt in his writings could be
found all obtainable facts concerning the
United States Theater. The Rambler
belief is that this theater was in the I'M
completed Blodgett Hotel, which stood on
the north side of f street between eth
and Sth streets, the site now being COW
cred by the marble building of the old
Post Office Department.
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talking of Zelda Seguin. news Of whose
death had just been published. Gus
memory of this charming singer, who used
to delight Washington audiences gen.
GRAFTON or SO ago. reached back clearer
and farther than the Ramblers. and what
he said was interesting as conversation
and will no doubt be interesting as a
printed record.
In substance. he said: When ] was a
boy I used to carry Zelda. Seguin's
basket, and 1 will tell you later about
those baskets which theatrical people
carried Or had carried for them in the
olden days. Zelda Seguin, when I knew
her in 1868, was the wife of Edwin Sc
gum, buffo of Caroline Richings' opera
company. A year or so later it was the
opera company of Caroline Richings-
Bernard, Caroline having married a DR..
Bernard, who. as l remember. was quite
talented as a singer There were in
that company a number of excellent
singers. They were highly esteemed at
the time and many of US hold them in
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- - .
/ wn himself
heart and soul into
feminism. That is
his latest sport. He
has been moved to
this by accident
and by his queen,
Victoria. When AL
fonso last month
went to Santander
to talk to the may
or about his new
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Abandoned Fountains at Capital.

THERE is a tendency toward the
! erection of fountains in Washington
For long time the great show fountains
of the capital have been the Bartholdi
fountain in the National Botanic Garden
and the Court of Neptune fountain in
front of the west staircase of the Library
Of Congress. There are little splashing,
spraying park fountains. with gold fish
and pond lilies in summer, almost with
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ANY months agt
the Rambler re-
called the fall of
the tower of the
Church OF the
Covenant, in the
early morning of
August %, 1883.
During one of the
late storms the
Rambler thought 1t
might be interest
ing to review the
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Washington's First Theater.

r HE Rambler has heard that some
where in Washington is an original
copy of playful of performance at the
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Theatrical "reminiscences.

NNE Of the friends Of the Rambler and
~ one who has much to do with getting
this matter in the forms Of The Star Is
August Bruehl. Some time ago we were
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dered the designers to stay in Santander
town and superintend the work, and in
reply to the vow of the nuns that they
paid for the bodyguard's hotel expenses
for three weeks. To the uncomprehend-
ing nuns, Alfonso remarked: There 10
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special Correspondence of The Star.
MADRID, March 49, 1914
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jects.
citizens is sitting for hours at a time up
TO their necks in the neighboring sea
uaths of Sardinero.
cred cause started Loyalty with his own
family. Until lately Alfonso regarded his
hinswomen in true Moorish spirit, and he
made a fuss when even his elderly moth
er. the queen dowager, drove down the
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-06-12
DOORS OF MEDIATION
CLOSED ON CARRANZA
SUFFRAGISTS
Are In Control OF Woman's Clubs
Convention and viii Endorse
Suffrage.

CHICAGO. June l1.-Of the 1.7lf
delegates 10 the biennial session OF
the general Federation of Women's
clubs who are entitled to vote. suf
fragist leaders tonight claimed a ma
jority. Illinois alone has 297 delegates
and other suffrage states are said 10
be well represented
The sufiragists also assert that q
poll OF the SIX members OF the reso.
lutions committee which has in its
power the matter of action on the
suffrage question. shows four Of them
IN favor of the endorsement Of suf
frage.
ne resolutions committee gained
the power 10 decide if suffrage shall
come before the convention when the
report Of the committee on rules and
regulations cOnsigning all resolutions
10 the resolutions committee was adopt
"a az this mornings session. The least
the sufragists expect o. that 4 minor.
ity report of the resolutions commit.
tee will throw the whole question on
Tho floor