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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-17
At the Lyric.

AZ inc Lyric.
Too good for nrst position on such n
pill. the Kuma Family OF Japanese fol-
lows the next best feature on the
Lyrics program for the first part of the
week-thc Hearst-Selig motion pic
lures. showing war scenes. The family
consists OF man, woman and Il little
bit OF girl. the last of whom catches
the house with her very sophisticated
songs and dances, while the woman
does some mild risley work, and the
man contributes some clever Juggling.
Two versatile comedians," a man
End another man. billed as Budd and
Clare, present an act IN which clown
ing liz much more conspicuous thar
versatility. They have even turned "A
fan into 4 slap-stick. Rosa Crouch
and George WEIGH, who have been seen
here before. appear in their unchanged
turn; the man is an .acrobatic come
dian out of the ordinary, and the wo-
man can stand 10. OF throwing
Marion Shirley sings IL little. dances
little less and plays the banjo least
OF all. BY closing with Dixie how
ever, she got Il big hand from vest err
day afternoons audience.
The SIX Military Dancers round OUT
the bill-using the quoted phrase az
with a dance sextet. Modern dances in
ehorus-if six people can be q chorus
k-and-wtng, and clog dancing,
elaborated into a sort of Zouave drill,
conclude the performance. y. c.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-17
netxsen Bnrle.aue and Musical Com

The Girls From Joyland," which is
the weeks offering at the Dijou The
atre: stands about halfway between
foot on each. II isn't strictly musical
comedy. because there isn't even a pre-
tense OF story, and because there is
the characters. Yet 1t isn't typical
burlesque. because there is no olio;
because there are some moments of
straight comedy. some lines that are
genuinely humorous. and correspond
insly less amount of slap-stick com
coy: because there are several COM
the list of singing principals includes
ono real singer
Frank l. Wakefield. who is respon-
sihle for the book and who also works
constantly throughout the perform
anco. after having staged the whole
rhing. has provided himself with most
Of the good lines-and who shall blame
him? If he can write them, he is Ger
tainly entitled to them. Drank W.
iiartin. who is negligible in the frs;
Characterization in the afterpiece. n
second act. and Jack Miller IL fair
u good German comedian-when he
isn't speaking.
Dolly Sweet. the souhrette. or lead
Ing woman, or star. works nearly as
hard as Mr.. Wakefield. singing about a
nozen songs. more or less: In a man
applaud her uproariously. Rene Cooper.
also soubrette and possessed of
much more ginger than the star, made
more than good with the audience too
The real star of the company. how
ever. from the musical standpoint, is
Maisie l. Estransc-the real singer re-
ferred u Her voice is mezzo- soprano
Of an extremely pretty quality. and
she never shouts. as do most bur-
lesquers. but always sings. and with
understand why she is doing this kind
OF work.
Again last night. the audience tried
to rough house the show. bat found
after n while that IL was dealing with
man in Mr.. Wakefield, who stood pa
ticntly and waited for the rowdyism
10 come to an end, and then went on
with the piece.
The only two bits of utter indecency
in the performance were noted by Man
ager Briggs for elimination. Unfor-
tunately, he cannot eliminate from his
audiences the callow element whose
conduct so disgusts grown men.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-17

stock Companies Reviewed To-sIorrow.
Mary James Pa" as played by the
Grayce Scott Company al the Colonial
Theatre. and The Man of the Hour"
az presented by the Lucille La Verne
Company at the Empire Theatre, will
be reviewed in this column tO-mOrroM.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-13

second bombardment by the Germans in
l914-15, is under the control Of Miss
Annie B!oomfontain and her troupe of
blonds. Variety show on the grand
October The crumbling interior over
grown with wild vegetation. is unsafe.
(Ihe wild dogs of the opera. which for
meriy made it their lair, were extermi-
mated by the Roosevelt expedition of
Market of the Madeleine-Chief place
OF barter of the natives, among the
broken columns. (See Bombardment of
Paris in the Historical Chapter.) Twice a
week this picturesque spot is the scene
tinent. the native women here exchang-
ing finery which sets the fashion among
the simple populations in far-distant
Berlin. Antwerp. Marseille and Bucha-
gust, traders by dog team carrying back
with them the Partisan products (See
Artic es de Paris and Recrudescence of
Big Game in Europe)
Avenue de rOpera. The Jungle of Paris
Unsafe for any but armed parties of ex-
plorers. but visitors can buy protection
from Boss Balao. Monsieur Solomon
Bobownikoff. Syndic of the Bourgeois
Tribes, or Miss Annie Bloomfontain. (See
Trout Fishing.) Inhabited by the Bour-
geois Tribes and Hungry Mouths. esee
Ethnographical Note.) The Avenue de
rOpera is considered the most grandiose
example of twentieth century destruction.
in which the German artillery marked
its zenith In no one section of the
ruins of Berlin or Vienna are the raw
ages of French or Russian artillery SO
complete Inter den Linden. 1t Is to be
noted. crumbled as a mass only after the
Eiffel Tower.-Originally 1t stood up
right Overthrow in the first German
bombardment Of 1914. II is constructed
entirely Of steel. and contains 2.543. $50
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separate pieces and 9.456.s24 rivets. Be-
meath 1t flows the Seine. with the Troca-
dero marshes, inhabited by fishing tribes.
90 per cent of whose catches are claimed
by the republic. (See Dried F'ish.)
Salmon began coming up the Seine in
the year 1878. shad AID. zoos. 1t was
feared at first that they might mutually
and reciprocal!y exterm;nate each other.
but the shoals of fish proved to be of too
high an order of intelligence to commit
such a suicidal act.
So run certain pages Of the chapter
paris" Of the Guide to the Ruins of
Europe which was prepared to warn
the nations against the great war. It
was not issued in time. The great war
broke out too soon.
They still hope to put leaders and peo-
Piles on their guard. but, now that the
elements of destruction are unclaimed. 1t
is the very thesis of the brochure that
1t will be difficult for any human power
to arrest them.
City after city risks destruction. Some
100000 combatants are teing thrown
on the battlefields of Europe, and TO-
$4,000 more reservists and territorials
are being armed to follow them. In
France every valid male from sixteen to
sixty is being called out Never was the
machinery of death SO gigantic. OF its
materia. so wholesale.
Some sso,Ooo,O0o per day Is being spent
in transports. equipments ornaments,
soldiers food, etc. Superhuman efforts
are being made to prevent the bases of
finance from crumb!ing, but this brochure
foresees a time when gold itself will be
worthless in Europe.
IAN factories will be closed" its pref
ace runs, "all railroads will stop. all
commerce will be paralyzed. and the
countrysides. ravaged by war and neg
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-13
HE @GUE TO THE RUINS OF EUROPE" FOR FUTURE TOURISTS

tves-perhaps $50 souls-that had settled
down to the new condition OF things after
the panic, the famine and the pestilence
that followed in the wake OF the great
war.
They had come back from strange ref
uges and h ding places and had squatted
down among the familiar localities and
begun that hard struggle against nature
and food which was now the chief in
terest of their lives. They had returned
to what. no doubt, had been the normal
life of humanity for immemorial ages-a
life of homely economies in the most in
patches Of ground: a rfe that breathes
and exhales the scent of stables and finds
the need for st mulants satisfied by the
activity of the bacteria and vermin which
it engenders.
Such had been the life Of the European
peasant from the dawn Of history to tl.A
beginning of the scientific era. And with
the smash of the high. dangerous and
splendid ediice of mechanical civilization
back to the land came man, back to the
manure.
x 4.
THE little communities. still haunted
by ten thousand memories Of q create
state. gathered and developed customary
law and fell under the guidance or O
medicine man and a priest. The world
reoiscovered religion. The men came TO
church in frock coats and high hats,
though they had no boots; the women In
embroidered Jackets and immense hats
gorgeous with artificial flowers. of which
there were abundant supplies in the dis
mantled shops of the north. As every
where II was an urban commun ~ SUM-
back to the state of a barbaric peasantry,
and so without any of the simple arts
which barbara peasantry would pos
sess. They had lost any idea of making
textiles. could hardly make up clothes
when they had material and were forced
to plumber the continually dwindling sup
plies Of the ruins about them"
London was an empty desert OF bleach
ing skeletons. to which they made rare
excursions to hunt wine and spirits n
the cellars of the west end. You don't
hardly find a man. SAID Old Tom to his
nephew. till you get round by Bromley
and Beckenham, and there you find the
kent.sh men herding swine. Nice rough
lot they are, too
STERLING HELLO.
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much as their whole annual expenditure
upon advanced education. They accumu-
lated explosives and machinery of de-
struction: they allowed their national
trad tons and jealousies to pile up: they
contemplated a steady enhane ement of
race hostility as the races drew closer
together without concern or understand
ing. and they permitted the growth in
their midst of evil-spirited war propa-
ganda and propa anda of conquest The
the collapse of civilizations, and the dan
gers of the time were manifest"
~
The swiftness of the collapse Is repre-
sented as its most terrible feature.
The older civilizations rotted and
crumbled down. but this civilization of
modern Europe was. as it. were. blown
up. Within the space of five years IL
was altogether disintegrated and de-
stroyed Up to the very eve of the ex-
plosion one sees a spacious spectacle OF
incessant advance, worldwide security.
enormous areas of highly organized m
dustry and settled populations. gigantic
cities spreading g.gantically, the seas and
oceans dotted with shipping, the iand
netted with rails and open ways. Then.
suddenly, the German cannon are heard,
and We are in the beginning of the end!
Already the financial fabric staggered
with those first sounds. With the oe-
struction of the American fleet in the
north Atlantic, and the smashing connict
which ended the naval ex stence OF err
many in the North sea. with the burning
and wreckage of billions of pounds worth
of property in the four cardinal cities OF
Europe. the hopeless costliness OF war
came home for the first time to the
consciousness of mankind Credit went
down in a whirl of selling. money van
tshed. and at its disappearance TRADE
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and industry came to an end. The eco
nomic word ten dead.
Wherever there were great popu a
tons. great masses found themselve.
without work, without money and un
able to get food. Famine was in every
working-class quarter within three weeks
Of the beginning Of the war. Within 9
month there was not a city in VIII e!
ordinary law and social procedure had
not been replaced bv some form of emer-
gency control. And swiftly. the famine
spread to the rich
And the last phase follows famine.
Il
Through the struggle against chaos.
in the wake of famine. came now another
old enemy of humanity-the pestilence or
purple death-brought by Russian SOL
diers from the orient. But the war does
not pause. The flags still fly Fresh aero
planes arise. Fresh cities are bombarded
till the very artillerymen sicken and die
like flies.
1.-The great nations and empires become
but names. Everywhere are ruins and
unburied dead and shrunken. yellow-faced
survivors in mortal apa ny
America will keep out of it:
On America may be laid the gigantic
task of sustaining the financial-economic
system of the world!
ne eplloSue u WciiS pooh 6Ases q
terrible picture.
Zone bright summers morning exactly
thirty years after the breaking out of
the great war an old man took a small
boy to look for miss ng hen through
the ruins of Bun Hill and out toward the
splintered pinnacles of the Crystal Pal
ace.
TN face and expression he was curl
ously like that old Thomas Smallways
who had been coachman to Sir Peter
Bone: and this was as it should be- be-
cause he was Tom Smallways the son.
who formerly kept a green grocer's shop
under the High street v-aduct of Bun
Hill. But now there were no green gro
GERS shops. and Tom was living in one OF
the derelict villas upstairs. In the draw
ing and dining rooms, which had French
windows opening on the lawn, his old
wife. Jessica, lean, lined and baldish.
kept her three cows and multitude OF
gawky hens.
These two We're part of little COM
munity of stragglers and returned fugi-
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lect, will no longer have food for their
own populations. In the cities. piles Of
ruins decimated by bombardments old
men. women and children will riot in
with the armies, and the armies will con-
tinue fghting-to Kill each other off and
get possession of the precious food
stuffs!
Such is the black picture Of the bro
chure It quotes freely from THE War
in the Air." by H. G. Wells. published
as long ago as 1859. In 1t. the English
philosopher brinss America into the uni
versaI mix-up as a result of which the
fine order and welfare of society crum-
pied like an exploded bladder. In five
short years the world and the scope Of
human life underwent retrogressive
CHANGE as great as that between the age
of the Antoinnes and the Europe of the
ninth century,"
Wells book makes passionately inter-
esting reading at this moment. It shows
how. up to the very beginning of the
great war, the movement of the word
seemed wholly beneficial to mankind
Sustaining and constructive forces
seemed to more than balance the malign
drift of chance and the natural ignorance
prejudice. blind passion and wicked self
seeking Of mankind Men said. indeed,
that moral organization was not keeping
pace with physical progress, but few at
tached any meaning to the phrases Few
realized that the accidental balance on
the side of progress was far siehter and
Infinitely more complex and delicate in
its adjustments than the masses sus-
pected.
They saw their armies and navies
grow larger and more portentous: some
Of their ironclads. at the last, cost as
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the explorer neglect these ruins. They
are more accessible than the ruins of
Berlin or Vienna and better preserved
than those OF London. The natives still
hold pathetic pretensions to constitute a
city Of light for the vast and desolate ter
ritory. dotted by the laIrs Of savage shep-
herds and the strongholds Of primitive
cu'tivators. that stretches from the ruins
Of St Petersburg to the ruins Of Rome
and Madrid. and called the wastes of
Europe. (See willie L.umiere'' in the his
torical chapter.)
A printing press. even. exists in the
Chailler Catacombs connected with the
ancient subway which is the winter habi-
tatlon of the better portion of the Paris
ian natives. c'Paris- Apres- Midi" pfen-
igs-cuir. sold In the Bosquets of the OPP
era and the Pantheon Cockpit (see pam
theon, Ruins OF by the slaves Of Mon
sieur Balao. anthropopithecus of Java
and Boss Of Chaf1lot is not a newspaper,
but mere weekly program of the So
called Pleasures of Paris. "Pfenie-cuir."
see Leather Money and Barter System.
Slaves" see Hungry Mouths. The slav-
cry is Voluntary
The fact that four books have been pub
ltshed in Paris in the past decade dis
closes an intellectual effort unequaled
elsewhere on the dark continent They
are Our Fathers Culture" words Of one
or two syllables, 100 reproductions of pen
drawings processed in New York and
gratuitously distributed in all the resorts
of pleasure). by Monsieur Isaac Blumchen,
president Of the republic: Hair Growing
as Good as Clothing brochure. Al pp),
by Monsieur Samuel Ricehendatate Of
Bucharest. minister of foot ball; THE
Paris Song Book and New Dances" by
Vicomte Raoul de Sancy {new edition pre-
paring): and my Pets" by Miss Annie
Bloomfonta!n. the beautiful young South
African dancer. who has had the conces-
sion of the opera since the year 2OOl.
(Expiorers regularly purchase these
unique works in quantity, to encourage
the natives. See Pfenig-cuir and Barter
System. Any useful object. such as
fne-tooth comb or cake of soap. or arti-
Gle of adornment, like a single eyeglass.
string Of beads. or pair of eight-ounce
boxing gloves, will provide the visitor
with abundant supplies of leather money!
Great Hunts.-Mons:eur Won Hunds-
pfote. minister of war. Marquis de Mont
morency, Trapper and Pe}ter: guides,
porters. dog-trains. The Cascar-Blanc,
Boss Of the Northern Shepherds, is =
useful person to fee.
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the work In charge, counts on making its
general publication Immediately. If still
possible.
It is entitled Guide to the Ruins Of
Europe" and is supposed to be compiled
In America, hundred years from now.
for the use Of American. Australian and
oriental explorers in the style of Macau-
lays New Zealander. DESTROYS ito visit
the piles of ruins that were once proud
capitals. and cities blessed with art in
dustry and commerce before the great
war destroyed alike the populations and
their centers. and left Europe a waste
sparsely Inhabited by scattered communi-
ties of survivors without strength or am
bttion to reCtore civilization
We give herewith selections from the
chapter entitled Paris:
Darts Ruins Of. ancient capital Of
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september = 1914.
U S T before the
breaking out Of the
present great war
a brochure calling
attention to its
dangers to Euro
p e a n civilization
was on the point
of appearing SIM
ultaneously in all
the capitals.
A wealthy peace
society. which has
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The opera.-This grandiose monument
Of the past. destroyed along with the
Church of the Madeleine and the entire
opera quarter tsee Avenue de - in the
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Darts Ruins Of. ancient capital Of
France. Under no pretext should
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-13
Guidebook Supposed
to Be Written One Hun
bred Years From Now
for Americans, Australia
ans and Others-Threat-
ened Destruction of
Cities and Populations
Remarkable Brochure to
Appear in Capitals.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
GENEVA, Switzerland,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-21
REPUBLICAN CLUB
PICNIC TOMORROW
Fully a Thousand Expected to At
tend, Weather Permitting,
Say Committeeman

All that at least a thousand anxious
folks are begging of the weather man
to-day is that he'll hand out some
nice weather tomorrow.
The thousands are the members and
friends and families of the Harrisburg
Republican Club who have in mind
the annual picnic of the club. To-
morrow and Boiling Springs Park are
the time and place. Plans for handling
at least a thousand picnickers have
been completed by committee con-
sisting of Deputy Sheriff William
Hoffman. Joseph Bomgardner, Charles
Tress, Frank Hoffman and Ashton D.
Peace, secretary of the club.
The program includes baseball
games, races of various kinds, dane
ing, music, boating and so on. Some
thirty odd prizes ranging from hand
some umbrellas to Teddy bears and
dolls will be awarded for the various
events. Four or five special Valley
Traction Comuany cars will leave
Market Square at o'clock tomorrow
morning bound to Boiling Springs In
addition to these, regular cars will
carry many up to the springs during
the day. The members of the COM
mittee will be on hand at the Square
to dispose Of tickets to those who have
not yet purchased theirs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-21
Switzerland May Buy
Coal and Many Other
Supplies From U. S.
By Associated Press

New York, Aug. elf the Ameri-
can wheat bought by Switzerland
reaches its destination safely, the
Swiss government. it was learned to-
day, probably will purchase all it's
coal and other supplies in the United
States during the hostilities in Europe.
DIR. Ritter the Swiss minister who
came to New York from Washington
at the outbreak of the war, announced
that a meeting would be held in the
Swiss home here to arrange an ap-
peal to Swiss-born residents of the
United States numbering about 16o,-
900 to contribute to the general Red
Cross fund of Switzerland
The Swiss government has practic-
ally offered to turn the country into
one great hospital to care for the
wounded of Europe, regardless of their
neutrality. AS yet no notice of the at
titude of the European governments
toward this proposal has been re-,
ceived here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-21
THE MARKETS
PHILADELPHIA PRODUCE

Philadelphia. Aug. 81. - Wheat =
s$c; No i, Northern. DllSth. export,
Corn - Firm; No 2. yellow. local,
94@ csc.
Oats - Higher; No. 2, white. 4Sh q
Bran : Steady; winter. per ton,
$22SS;0o92s.5o; spring, per ton. $4,000
Refined RsfnsS Sugars Dsslinsa S e points. gss
7.05c.
Butter The market Is hrm;
western; arSr r creamery extras Sl@SlAe'
Eggs, - The market is higher;
pennsylvania and other nearby frsts,
free cases, $50 per case; do:,. current
ern, extras, firsta free cases, ss.10i per
case; do, firsts. free cases, $7.20@75O
per case.
Live Poultry - Firm; fowls, II
sprnas 9hteESsns. ESGang gs7Ssae faisfsnS 6Toing
dd9asks due! old 1SS1$S; ducks yoTsng ade ls@
western, fancy. heavy. 17@2OScj a do. 10.
average receipts, 1870 15c; small. 1S@
old fsSSz sSSSt'rs 1885, 1sS ESastinFb Saifn
@iss;? eaPeni PearOSi SiaFgs$. rs % S%sSe; ao
do. fair, 2O9Ssc; ducks 119isc; geese.
Potatoes = Steady; new. per barrel,
b0Q3.b0; do, Southern, per barrel.
75c@ S2.00: Jersey. per basket 35 Q 4Oc.
,Flour-The market is firm; winter
clear, $S.S5@4.1O: straights. Pennsyl-
vania, new. $425@4.75; spring straights
$500 Q5.25; do, patents. $5.26@ 5.76;
western. $4.25@4.46; patents. s4:60Q
475; Kansas straight, tute sacks $4:1b
gRaiSp; spring, lrssts clear; S4'OOY 5lSS; akG
4.60.
Hay = The market is firm: tim
oothy, No. ]. large bales. 5000 g 90;
2, do, $1s.00@19.00; No. 3. do. $4,000
Clover mixed: Light, mixed, s1s.5oQ
1900: No l.. do. $17.b0@1sOO; NO. =.
do. $15.00@16.00.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-21
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVA.
MA,

SEALED BIDS OR PROPOSALS for
new building known as the WEST
WING for the State Sanatorium for
tuberculosis near Cresson, Cambria
County, Pennsylvania, will be received
by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, Commissioner
OF Health. at his Philadelphia Office
G900 Race Street, until noon, Wednes-
day, September 2. 1914.
These specifications are for the build
ing only. The electrical work, plumb
ing and heating specifications will be
advertised later.
plans and specifications may be OBJ
tained at the Office of the State De-
at the Philadelphia Office. upon deposit
of $500, which will be returned on
receipt of plans and specifications in
good condition. The right is reserved
to reject any or all bids.
SAMUEL G. DIXON,
Commissioner of Health.