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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
SCENE OF DISORDER IN THE
THEATRE.

I'm an instant the theatre was in an
uproar. It was crowded TO the top
most gallery, and every one had risen
in his seat. Men were shouting ana
climbing out into the aisles MISS
Keene was making her way up 70
where the President sat wounded, ana
several doctors from the audience were
trying to force a passage through the
crowd. DR.. Charles Taft was lifted up
into the box from the stage. WINE
many persons, some Of them physl-
clans, were crowding into the narrow
aisle which led into the box and were
pounding on the door, demanding ad-
mission.
Lincoln lay back in a rocking char.
DR.. Taft had torn open his shirt an"
was looking for the wound lie found
it finally behind the left ear. Then
they laid the President on shutter
and carried him out of the theatre TO
the house across the street, where ne
died at 100 o'clock the next morning
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
ANCIENT CIVILIZATION OF The
MOUND BUILDERS.

For centuries, perhaps for ages, ac-
cording to Mr.. MacKaye, the mound
builders sustained on this continent
notably on the site and In the vicinity
Of st. Louisa civilization Of COM
paratively high order, contemporary
with the Maya and Aztec civilizations
to the svuth.
To interpret this mound building So
Getty on the scale Of its world mean
ings in the Western Hemisphere he
makes use of a single symbolic figure
Cahokia, who stands for the pinnacle
of the social aspirations of the Indian
race, regarded ethnologically. The fall
of this mound building civilization--as
the pageant indicates-took place
through the invasion, not of human
agencies, but of wild nature forces
the invasion Of the hordes of the bison.
Because of that invasion the Indian
race lapsed, and reverted from stage
Of agriculture and many simple social
arts to the nomad hunting stage OF
man.
The masque, then, opens at that sig
nificant world moment when Cahokia.
a lonely, tragic figure, is discovered
surrounded and threatened by the wild
nature forces, among which his own
kin, now degenerated into nomads for
getful Of their former social empire,
mingle their savage rites with the men
acing powers of chaos.
How, with the coming of the white
man, Mr.. MacKaye's masque deals
with what he terms the hopeful, re-
surgent powers of civilization, it is not
the place for us 10 state here. Az
present it is enough TO say that such
is the theme of the masque, which aims
to set forth its theme in spectacle,
music and dramatic poetry Icy means
Of few large rhythmic mass move
ments OF onward urge, opposition, re-
coil, and again the sweep onward
toward its alluring goal-au harmOni-
Gus socialized state of human society,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
WHEN THE FATAL SHOT WAS
HEARD.

81 was in the green roon1,' says Mrs.
Evans, chatting with Maggie Gour-
lay, the Skillet of the play, and wait
ing for my cue, when 1 heard q shot
ring out. | was dressed in my stage
gown-the crinoline of the period. Miss
Gourlay was making a tidy. / had
just said, using stage expression,
Wake me up when Kirby dies Hawk
had the scene to himself, and the other
players were grouped at the entrances
ready for their turns. | knew when
heard that shot that it couldn't be a
part OF the play. We dropped our work
and ran to the first entrance, where
there was good deal of excitement.
"A moment before young Booth mad
leaped to the stage and had caught his
spur, as you remember, on one Of the
flags that draped the Presidential box.
In falling he had broken a small bone
in his leg, n wound that during his
fight must have given him excruciat-
ing torture. | heard somebody shout,
Stop that man! 1 learned later that
it was Major Lovejoy.
Booth, being an actor, was familiar
with the stage. He ran between Hawk
and Billy Ferguson, struck at Withers,
our orchestra leader, with his knife,
and made his way out through the
stage door into the alley, where Pea
nut johnnie the boy who sold peanuts
in the gallery, was holding his horse.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12

PETERBOROUGH and casually remarked
as he sat down at Mr.. Bryan's desk:
you've got a lunatic up in the power
house. He'll blow you up" This re-
ferred to Mr.. Stott, the chief engineer,
who was not only replacing hand stok-
ing with automatic stokers, but was de-
vising ways Of putting the coal under
the boilers at two or three different
points. There was no explosion. No
new boilers have been added since the
road was opened. The boilers are do
ing three times more than was expected
Of them--thats all.
Behind the water chart at the Grand
Central Palace was a pair of glass
cubes filled with coal. One was twice as
high as the other and looked as If it
might contain as much as four scut-
ties Of coal. This, a label stated, was
the amount of coal burned in 1900 n
running a ten-car train a mile. The
two scuttles of coal in the other cube
beside II show the amount now used
in moving the same train the same dis
lance. But it is woefully small
amount of the coal that actually gets
to the train. 1t is a pile foot square
and two inches high, hardly more than
a shovelful The rest is dissipated as
has been described.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12

production Of THE Pageant and
Masoue of ST. Louis" there is held a
three days conference, at which en-
VOWS from the chief cities of the West
ern Hemisphere meet with others who
are interested to discuss various as
spects of this central issue, namely:
The civic drama: Shall it be recog-
nized and established as the most ef-
fectual means for the art expression
publicity and cooperation of modern
cities?
From such a conference of cities,
said the dramatist. representing states
and nations. vital and permanent reac-
tions may be anticipated. 1t is the
hone OF the ST. Louis committee that
all workers in the cause of sociology
and of art who can will attend 1t.
more than any other feature Of the
city's festival, it lends practically and
prophecy to the theme of this masque
In the cause of war, cities before now
have banded themselves together for
defence or aggression. But never per-
haps, before this have official ENJOYS
convened and acted their parts in SYM
boil and reality, to create for civic art
League of the Cities"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
WHERE THE HEAT UNITS IN
COAL GO.

One Of the exhibits was curious
chart that illustrated where all the heat
units In the coal go. At one end, A
stream Of water flowed into II from an
inch pipe. This represented the coal
pouring from the automatic stokers
into the boilers The water dribbled
out at various points In its horizontal
journey toward a glass tube at the OPP
posite end Of the chart. The water lost
on the way represented heat units that
20 up the chimney that are employed
I'm running auxiliary engines and
pumps and condensers, and are lost in
the operation of the steam turbines.
The water representing what is left in
the form Of electricity WAS a stream
not above a quarter Of an inch In di-
ameter. OF all the heat generated only
IL per cent Of il gets into the third rail
This appears TO be an awful waste OF
coal, bat In 1905. when the subway was
opened, only rs per cent reached the
train motors.
Some years ago q man who thought
he knew all about boilers called on Il.
T.. Bryan, then a vice president Of tho
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
A FASCINATING ARRAY OF QUEER
THINGS.

Near the front of the exhibit was a
metal box with a cover. a pair OF
small rods actuated by an electric
motor slid up and down through the
cover, after the fashion Of a churn. \
Thermometer with a microscope at
tached also passed down through the
cover. Behind it was man who can
lecture on chemistry just as easily as
poet can overflow about Niagara
Falls. The approach Of visitor with
in earshot was the signal for the open
ing sentence. The rest of II sounded
as a sheet labelled "Calorimeter test"
looked. 1t was all figures and symbols
and coefiicients and powers and "B. T..
US He took il for granted that every
one knew what a "B. Il. u" was. The
gist Of the story was that tho sppara-
tus which he displayed was used I'm de-
termining the British thermal units,
the sulphur. the ash. etc, In tho coal
used To run the subway. and that all
the coal was paid for on the basis Of
heat units. The tests determined how
much the coal company was to- get by
following him closely one Learned thai
out OF every bargcload Of coal. weigh
ing 800 tons. "A ton sample fwas auto
maticalIy collected in small amounts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
SAW ASSASSIN LEAP FROM
PRESIDENTS BOX.
SAW

Mrs. Evans tells a vivid story of the
assassination. She heard the shot fired
while she was talking to a friend be-
hind the scenes during the third act.
She ran to the first entrance. Booth
had leaped from the Presidents box.
She saw him staggering toward the
stage door. A glance at the face of
Mrs. Lincoln revealed to her what had
happened, and the white faces Of the
audience confirmed the paralyzing fact.
She had known the assassin. Her
husband, who had had a drink with
Booth few minutes before the rising
OF the curtain. was promptly arrested
as an accomplish. Ned Spangler. who
was sentenced To penal scrvitude in
Dry Tortugas for completely in the
murder but who was pardoned by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12

WOMAN who. was in the cast
~ of "Our American Cousin" on
L \. the night Abraham Lincoln was
assassinated, in Ford's Theatre, in
Washington, d. c., fifty years ago
next Tuesday, is now living In a lit
tie side street on Chicago's West
Side. She is seventy years old, gray
haired, bright and remembers with
Photographic clearness the events of
that tragic night Her name is Mrs.
Katherine NJ. Evans.
On that evening she was appearing
as Sharpe in Tom Taylor's famous
comedy. Her husband, J. II. Evans,
was also a member Of the resident
stock company at Fords. 1t was GUS
tomary in those days to have visiting
stars, and Laura Keene, as will be re-
membered, shared the honors with John
Dyott and Harry Hawk
Mrs. Evans is one of the four mem
bers of the company alive to-day.
Harry Hawk, who was the Asa Trench
ard of the play, retired from profess
sional life many years ago. During the
SOS he was with Laura Dainty in The
Mountain Pink" The Mountain Pink,
VINO is now Mrs. Laura Dainty Pelham,
OF Hull House, remembers him well, and
says that in every town at which they
played his fame rs having been I'm the
company with Laura Keene at that
memorable performance went before
him. II was Mr.. Hawk who was alone
on the stage at the time the shot was
fired.
Billy CW. j. Ferguson, who was cast
as Mr.. Coyle. an attorney. is still be-
fore the public. Jennie Gourlay, who
was the Mary Trenchard of the play. Is
living a retired life In the East.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
CONFERENCE ON THE DRAMA
AND CONSERVATION

The idea Of this conference suggested
Itself to the poet by reason or the
marked success of a conference on the
Drama and Conservation, held i'm con-
nection with the production OF Mr..
MacKaye's Bird Masque in New York
on February "A, 1914. On that occasion
naturalists, museum directors, sci
entists, conservationists, convention
perhaps the first time-with artists Of
the theatre for a common purpose, 70
discuss the civic uses of dramatic art
as a means for giving expression and
publicity to important public causes re-
lated to the conservation Of wild life
and natural resources.
This theme was discussed from many
viewpoints by men and women, notable
in both fields, with enthusiasm and in
sight. It occurred to Mr. MacKaye to
suggest to the committee there the
foregoing plan with reference TO the
theme Of the masque to be presented in
st. Louis
Corporation, which is the human
theme Of the masque, has entered into
it's production from the start, and is
steadily widening to an extension
which hopefully will embrace the whole
of a great modern city. and through
st. Louis to the interested attention of
all American cities, and even across the
seas to those of England and Europe
II think" said Mr.. MacKaye, before
we have completed the large and eX-
hilarating task before us we shall real
lie that we have only begun work OF
civic art and popular expression which
will create splendid national and inter-
national reactions in the years to come.
Best of all, in st. Louis itself are
many thousand uncelebrated and sim
cere fellow Americans-workers in all
fields of industry and human enter
prise, vital with the life which alone
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
LINCOLN WAS UNCONSCIOUS BUT
SMILING.

II looked up and saw President Lin
coin unconscious, his head dropping on
his breast, his eyes closed. but with a
smile still on his face. Mrs. Lincoln
had risen from her seat beside him.
and was stroking his cheeks.
"She wore an old fashioned black
coal scuttle bonnet. the chin bow OF
which had become united. She did
not wear a wreath of red flowers and "a
low-necked gown, as many people still
believe.
Miss Clara Harris. Senator Harris's
Major Henry Rathbonc. who had ac-
companied President and Mrs, Lincoln,
stood beside them. Miss Harris was as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12

"A huge, half-socialiZed, modern null
titude, unused by experience to imag-
lining, is now gathered for the definite
purpose Of imagining and interpreting
the vision of the civic dramatist.
ITO solve this special problem in
crowd psychology what method shall
the dramatist adopt?
"As a pioneer step toward a solution
the method of pageant and masque On
correlated sequence) is being tested In
st. Louis from the more specific and
familiar images Of reality to images
less familiar and more general by a
means of increasing dramatic inten-
sity
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
UNDERLYING NATIONAL AND
UNIVERSAL MEANINGS.

Thus in my masque it is my object
to set forth in symbolic form the ma
tional and universal meanings under
lying the pageant"
In conceiving his masque Mr.. Mac
Kaye has taken the historical material
available to the pageant master. and,
submitting that to drastic eliminations,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
THE LUNcHEoN; AMONG THOSE
PRESENT BEING

The guests were seated, or perhaps
il would be better to say half buried,
in the cushioned chairs and settees
with which the small, dark oak pan
elled anteroom was furnished. The
hosts stood near the entrance. They
included a certain six-footer, with
stubbed mustache andeyes that are al
WAYS half closed, one OF whose chief
functions is dealing with the Public
Service Commission; another gentle
man with iron gray hair and also a
stubbed lip covering. who keeps the
subway running, and a third man. also
a six-footer and also possessed of iron
gray hair and a thin mustache, who
looks after our surface lines. Sudden
~ a section OF the wall, filled with
small plate mirrors, opened like the
leaf OF a book, and a man In full even
Ing dress, although il was only | y. m,
entered noiselessly. bearing q tray. on
II stood score or more OF tiny goblets
each filed 20 the brim with a liquid
that looked like orange Juice. IT II was
orange Juice IL was we'll disguised
Bryan never would have recognized il
for that. Stealing along like d temple
acOlyte, as nOiselessly az he had efs
tered he stopped before each person,
who took one OF the tiny goblets
braced himself on his hind legs, threw
back his head with eyes turned toward
the heavens. and with solemn mien
poured forth in reverse direction H.
baton 10 his god. Then the shining
leaves IN the wall opened again and
the business Of the hour was begun
al o table bedecked with fern leaves
and pinks
II was only r. short distance from this
source Of Inspiration 10 the Grand Cen
trsl Palace and the morycls Of eff
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
"PEANUT JOHNNIE" HELD AS AN
ACCOMPlICE.

After the tragedy | ran upstairs
into the dressing room. The stage was
filled with Secret Service men, VINO
seemed TO have gone crazy. They had
arrested Peanut Johnnie as an ac-
complete. Poor Peanut He dd
nothing more than hold Booths horse
They were looking for Ned Spangler
our stage carpenter. who had inno-
Gently held the door open for the as
sassin. My husband also was under
suspicion.
81 rubbed my makeup of. ana
thought that every moment DETECTIVE
would rap at the door and place me
under arrest. Finally Jimmie Mat
tox. our property man, called me.
What are you doing up there NJ
asked.
I'm waiting
Waiting for what"
ITO be arrested
"Hc assured me that everything was
all right. and | Ventured down. NV
theatre was empty by that time. Ih'
last audience il was ever Ia see had uo
Iarted after witnessing a scene NOR
tragic than ever was played peh'"u
the footlights."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
ST. LOUIS BUILDS A STAGE FOR
HER LIFE DRAMA.

AT a cost of $4,000 st. Louis has
built such a stage-a stage of land and
water, the largest Of its kind in the
world-provided with vast sounding
boards for speech and choral song and
with massing space for ten thousand
actors.
But if people are truly TO imagine
their life drama they must not merely
behold and hear it. Representatively
they must themselves enact and inter
pref it. The -dramatist must be
called in as engineer. but the people
must provide in themselves his creative
material
But now" continued the poet.
ARISES the crux of the engineers prob
lem:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
THE SYMBOLIC INTERPRETATION
OF A CITY.

1t will be the first time in the hlstor!
of the world that drama has been
presented on so large a scale.
OF interest to New Workers is the
fact that Percy MacKaye, the poet
dramatist. will write THE Masque OF
Saint Louis" a symbolic Interpretation
Of the significant world forces which
have made and are still shaping the
city. Another thing that gives the
show its wide appeal is that letter
signed by the Mayor Of st. Louis has
been sent TO the Mayor of the largest
city of each of the states in the Union
and also to the Mayors of important
cities in Canada, South America, Cen
trail America, Hawaii, Alaska, Porto
Rico and the Philippines, requesting
each of them 10 send an envoy TO rep
resent his locality at conference TO
be held during the week of the pageant
and also to take part in the masque.
Mayor Mitchell has appointed CITY
Chamberlain Bruere as special envoy
from New York City.
The brilliant spectacle will, therefore,
involve the Western Hemisphere.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
WOMAN WHO SAW LINCOLN SHOT

pale as a sheet. The major. breathing
heavily from his struggle with the as
sassin, was trying frantically to open
the door which Booth, as you remem-
Der, had closed with a block Of wood.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12

Nr. LOUIS is going to take squln'
at her yesterdays She is goins
~ to interpret them with the ala OF
a poet. Her history is TO be treated
sympathetically, her past is TO be VS.
uaIized. You may have overlooked the
fact hut little old st. Louis is going to
be $50 years old next month. This mas
happened TO other cities before now
without stirring up anything like such
turmoil and excitement.
Everybody in the metropolis or MIS-
souri, is strutting before the mirror I'M
iii long after curfew. Children watch
their parents with undisguised inter-
est No wonder. Fathers arise early
i'm the morning and speak pieces Whlie
taking an autostroppic once-over. FOR
there will be 1900 persons in the cast
of the pageant and masque TO De
plaved in the natural amphitheatre at
the foot of Art Hill, in Forest PARK
the last week in May. And most OF
the troupe will be citizens of ST. LOUIS
No other city has within its borders
an outdoor theatre so large, so beauu-
full and so convenient. dorado Taft
the eminent sculptor of Chicago; Pro-
lessor Burton. of the University OF
Minnesota Alfred Noyes, the Enghsh
poet. and many others well versed IN
the art of pageantry who have recently
seen the Art Hill site are most en-
thusiastic in their praise of it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12

President Johnson, spent the night in
her house.
Mrs. Evans was on the stage when
President Lincoln entered, and she tells
how the scene was interrupted by the
cheering and the music Of the orches-
fra
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
4 PAGEANT OF oVERsHADoWiNe
IMPORTANCE.

1t would be difficult to overstate its
importance. There is nothing official
and perfunctory about the interest and
enthusiasm which are being aroused by
II. II will overshadow all other pag-
sants of whatsoever sort. AS Mark
Twain once said with respect 10 Cup
Day-the Australasian national day
its approach fires the whole land with
a conflagration Of conversation and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12

LUNCHEON at the Ritz-Carl-
n ton is a highly desirable prepa-
"A ration for the study Of efficien-
CIV. Certainly that is the opinion OF
the newspaper men who were guests
last week Of Theodore p. Shonts ana
several others who are interested IN
the technical details OF railroading.
The luncheon at the Ritz was given
solely because OF the National En-
cheney Exposition at the Grand Cen
trail Palace. After this function re-
porters and railroaders visited the ex-
position.
However. before going to the show,
With It's marvellous devices for econo-
MIXING, it may be well TO concern our
selves with the luncheon itself.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
DRAMATIC ENGINEERING-A NEW
PROFESSION.

Not until last autumn was the oppor-
tunity forthcoming for Mr. Mackaye
to hand over" some concrete sample
of his meaning. That opportunity
came in the request from the st. Louis
Pageant Drama Association to create
a dramatic work to be produced out cf
doors by several thousand citizens.
Mr.. MacKaye points out that the plan
of correlated pageant and inasquc
seeks to solve an essential problem in
new professional profession which
he terms dramatic engineering.
The problem is this" said the
dramatist: "A great city seeks to un-
derstand itself as a special organism.
Socially its life has flowed from far
times and places to a present focus,
which again radiates into dimly imagi
nable futurity. A great city, in short,
seeks for the first time to imagine It's
own origins and destiny-its life drama.
What is the best method TO com
pass this imagining?
First, its people must convene in
maximum numbers practicable for see
ing and hearing. The city must, there
fore, possess a great auditorium Of
proper topography and acoustics.
Next. the people must behold their
history past and present. visualized
and hear it's meanings interpreted.
This implies a stage technically adapt-
ed to these needs of eye and ear.