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The daily sentinel., 1914-01-03
ECHOES OF THE
ELkS GRAND BALL

peted with the softest of velvet, and
as / strolled | felt transformed.
felt tall and beautiful and imagined
looked like Queen Louise, or who
ever II is who is always pictured de-
scending a broad. velvet carpeted
stairway. | met many white-shirted,
black coated men, but they failed to
see any resemblance in me to the
beautiful queen, for they glanced at
me indifferently. and then away, or
glanced not at all. | met n tall, June
like woman, the wife OF well known
local hotel man. and she wore a gown
surely not created this side of Paris.
1t was the color of champagne (the
memory OF the punch still fingered
with mel with a hint of turquoise
and then champagne again until it
melted away into the soft blonde of
her hair. Dainty. bronze slippers
glimpsed through the slashed skirt.
Further on came the wife of another
hotel man. Gracious and queenly,
robed in royal velvet outlined with
soft fur. dog collar of pearls en-
braoed her white throat and more of
them shone in her crown of wonder
full snowy hair. Behind her was a
beautiful little creature whose pink
silk gown and roses at her waist fall
ed to outrival the bloom in her
cheeks. Her brown velvet eyes peep
ed provokingly through a tangle of
chestnut hair ! thought she must
be a young girl, but found later that
she was a matron in the early thirties
with two children in school. Near
the foot OF the stair | met a slender
creature with her hair, the color of
molasses taffy. She wore a gown as
golden as her hair, with pansy col
ored velvet here and there. In some
vague way this golden creature made
me think of the red and green bottles
used to admire in the drug store
windows when | was child, but see
no more. | do not exactly understand
the connection, but IL was surely
there. In the hall below sweet
voice inquired. Has anyone here
seen Kelly?" and there in group OF
merry, laughing people | saw beau
tiful woman in a gown that looked
like snow crystals on white velvet
She wore string of pearls in her
brown hair and other about her love
| ly throat. Her radiance dazzled me,
and / looked above at the softened
light in the wonderful chandelier at
the entrance. A huge, white ball sur
mounted by bronze elks and on its
sides watch dials with slender black
pointers touching the Elks' mystical
hour of II. went on into a perfect
ly appointed card room, where con-
tented loking men sat and played
with the fascinating pasteboards. and
then on into the billiard room, where
more men were joyously pushing lit
tie balls about. One tall Elk nodded
at me in friendly fashion and asked
me IL | wanted to play. ! thanked
him with smiling shake of my head
and went back the way | had come,
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through the hall and then past the
smoking and reading room, and
through the haze of smoke | saw
huge easy chairs, filled with more
men, the men filled with good cheer,
and perhaps some of that lovely
punch. My gaze was caught and held
by the splendid fireplace outlined
with Christmas greens and scarlet
blooms. | was not invited in and so
| passed on into the music room, and
there | stopped and stayed a while,
and whenever / was tempted away
for while from that beautiful room
always found my way back again
In this room were the colors of the
woodland. The velvet green of the
grass under foot, and the rich, mel
lowed wood of the trees in the furni-
ture and woodwork. In the center.
on beautiful mahogany table stood
tall vase filled with coral hued
roses, heavy-headed with their own
loveliness. A woman's silvery sing
ing voice stole out from a Victrola
The wide and luxurious green velvet
chairs and davenports held one in
caressing embraces. At the far end
pretty girl sat ut a grand piano,
playing tango music while another
graceful young thing in a pink gown
with pointed lace over dress tan
COED just enough to tantalize. Look
ing through wide openings | was fl
nally lured into the palm room and
there my beauty loving soul drank
its fill. The woodland green was in
this room also, and numerous vases
of pink carnations lifted the perfume
of their crinkled beauty. In the cen
fr- ..r tf.. ..F. HI.
basin filled with crystal clear wa
ter, where mountain trout made their
home and in which waxen lilies and
emerald MOSES found their beauties
reflected. After a while | went with
the rest down into the banqueting
hall and for time forgot the allur-
ing charm of everything else in the
material delights of cold turkey, cold
pink ham, french pease and endless
other good things, topped off with
ice cream in the Elks' colors of pur-
pie and white. over and above and
through all the banqueting voice
from far corner commanded over
and over to everyone to be "On with
the dance; let joy be unconfined,"
and we were on with the dance in
good earnest, Pearly teeth. decrepit
teeth. store teeth, all dancing a de-
lightful gastronomic turkey trot and
on through the whole enticing bill
of fare. Deft and skillful service
helped to make the banquet perfect
one. AT the hour of II the room
was darkened and Father O'Farrell
in rich, melodious voice gave a
toast to the absent brothers." Then
once more on with the lights and
again the voice "On with the dance"
and again and again at intervals,
and with maddening persistency "On
with the dance" until felt like bonn
harding the joyful offender with lob
ster salad. and then found myself
chuckling at his nonsense in spite of
myself. / write this as though all the
time | walked alone, unattended and
uneared for, but himself was with
me. Himself" perfectly groomed,
but somewhat fused because an acci-
dent to his evening coat had forced
him into Tuxedo instead "Him-
self" an Elk of long standing. stalk
ed among his fellows, perfectly at
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-03
by Adeline H. Sperry.

A tall, elderly man was dancing
with a little women with white al
grette in her hair. The tail elderly
man bit at the aigrette, chewed IL,
found 1t tasteless and spat IL out. In
revenge 1t poked him in the eye and
made tear steal down his furrowed
cheek. II tickled his nose and made
him sneeze. II was a deyilish thing.
But still he danced on with a dis
gusted, world-weary look in his tired
face. Everybody danced. Fat wives
and fat husbands danced and pranc-
ed. The former with careful curls
Strengthening out under the unaccus-
toned exercise, the latter with bald
pate shining with perspiration, do
cr-die expression on their faces.
Romping onward toward remorse-
full. reckoning morrow of sore mus
cles and disillusion. Graceful girls
in the embrace of earnest looking
men glided by. keeping perfect step
in that crowded crush. One wee girl
in fluffy black gown, with ruches of
black tulle outlining snowy neck and
arms, was one OF the prettiest dane
ers on the floor. Another, who shar-
ed the honors with her, was tall.
willowy young woman with dazzling
smile. One OF the most popular girls
in Grand Junction society, she wore
a soft. clinging gown of pale silvery
blue, with shimmering overdress
trimmed in tiny pink rosebuds and
on one graceful shoulder a bunch of
pink sweet peas. In the dancing
throng there was slim young per-
son with blonde hair. She wore a
green velvet sheath. SO snugly fitting
that she must have used shoe horn
to get into 1t. She danced in an &C.
centric fashion, bowed In and out.
like letter IS" Serene, untrou-
bled. perfectly satisfied Moynahan
of Montrose, ex-football champion,
was there, dancing with all the pret-
ty girls and towering above the
other men like young Joye. The
music was divine. the floor in perfect
condition. The stained glass dome
I'm that beautiful room caught and
held the light, mellowed and tinted
1t and sent 1t shining down on every
one, old and young alike, softenine
their deficiencies and emphasizing
their beauty. Reluctantly, | left the
radiant scene and, finding my way to
the hall | begged glass of punch
from a chocolate colored "gemmun.
/ drank 1t and begged another.
was on the point of asking for more,
but the chocolate gentleman looked
at me suspiciously and | thought II
best to wander away for while and
give him a chance to forget me. You
remember that old jingle of Mark
Twain's that gets in the memory and
sticks there, Punch, punch, punch
with care; punch in the presence of
the psssengaire.' l paraphrased II
to be, Punch. punch, punch SO rare
teasing and tantalizing snare"
strolled down the broad stairway car.
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BIG ATTENDANCE EXPECTED
AT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

The annual meeting of the cham
Der of commerce will be held Mon
day night at the court house and a
general attendance is anticipated.
Plans have been worked out by a
number of the directors to maintain
the office of assistant secretary and
place the executive work in the
hands of committee of three who
will transact the duties of the secre-
tary without pay.
The present quarters. however,
will not be available after the new
fire house is constructed as in that
case Mayor Cherrington expects to
utilize the room for his court.
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THE LANGUAGE ENRICHED.

Dear Mr.. Editor:
A learned and facile writer in
your morning contemporary very
happily wrote, a few days ago, that,
at the conclusion of their exercises,
the EllIs sang 'postliminary ode
] feel that such pointed stroke as
this, which added SO much to our
language, ought not to go without
public recognition. The Ellxs, be-
fore entering upon their program,
had sung a preliminary ode," and
after concluding their program, why
did they not have right to lift their
voices together in a "postliminary'
hymn? If they may sing ..pre" may
they not also chant post"
The chronological fact that "lim-
mary carries the significance of
threshold" is too unimportant to
deter an inventive genius from en-
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riching his mother tongue with a
word of new and apt meaning, and
that scholar must be pedantic indeed
who would have the effrontery to
suggest that If the Elks really did
sing that 'postliminary ode,' they
devoted to singing the time which is
usually appropriated by such bodies
to more substantial business. But
then. we know that the Elks are a
gieeful people.
Respectfully,
POSTSCRIPT.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-03
CUP RACE
GOES TO CALIFORNIA

Los Angeles, Jan. 3.-The Van
derbilt cup race, the annual automo-
bile event, will be decided on the
Santa Monica road course, skirting
the ocean in 1914. February 81 has
been selected as the date, and the
Grand Prix will be run on the follow
ing day. The Western Association,
in charge of the affairs, will distrib-
ute prizes aggregating $4,000.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-03
CONCRETE WORK BEGINS SOON

A load of concrete cars arrived to-
days from Provo for use ON the di-
version dam of the high line. En-
gineer o. T. Reedy expects to begin
work on concreting the dam within
a sort time now. The reclamation
service has laid off number of men.
because 1t was impossible to use the
fun force to advantage during the
winter season. The force will be in
creased however as the men can be
used to advantage.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-03
TOPE HpS NEW PLAN
TO TEACH CHEMISTRY
uBy J. HENRY ALLEN.)

Richard Z. Tope. our efficient
high school principal. has recently
obtained some unusually fine results
in his chemistry classes. Leaving the
choice of experiments to the stu
dents. he has had them select eight
experiments in review and write
them up with neat drawings of the
apparatus used in each experiment.
The students having selected the ex-
periments which seemed to them the
most interesting, have presented pa
pers which would do credit to any
high school. They are neatly writ
ten in clear. concise English, state
the important steps in the expert
ments. The arrangement of the
work is given in the following order:
Statement of experiment to be per-
formed; statement of apparatus to be
used; drawing of apparatus with for
mulas relating to each part of appar-
atus; discussion of experiment in the
first person to show that they did it
themselves. These papers are to be
kept On file as sample and exhibition
papers of work in chemistry during
the first part of the school year.
Ward johnson, an alumnus of our
high school, was a pleasant visitor
yesterday. He enjoyed visiting the
high school work, and seemed thor
oughly at home. Ward is teaching
school in the Glade Park section.
Judging from his work with us, we
are confident that he is making a
success in his chosen profession.
I The last part of the fall term and
the beginning of this term the super
Z fys hag xsf-fffnr hfph
school recitations. He finds high
tgrade of work in the various depart
ments. When pupils fail. as few are
falling, a careful investigation of in
dividual cases shows that the cause
/ is usually found outside of the
school room. We solicit the help of
parents, requesting them to see that
their boys and girls in high school
have plenty of time to prepare some
of their work at home. This-is nee
essary to the success of high school
work. Sometimes high school stu
dents work late at night, occasionally
till IL o'clock. and 1t is easy to un-
derstand why they do not do good
work in high school the following
day. Again the young people in our
high school as in other high schools,
often attempt to do too. much in a
social way. We wish the young folks
to enjoy life in the highest sense OF
the term. but we feel that social
gatherings should be carefully plan
ned to come some other time rather
than on Monday. Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday evenings.
Mr.. Tope has been highly honored
by being offered two teachers insti-
tutes in Oklahoma for next summer.
One of them is the largest institute
in that state.
The teachers sympathize with
Miss Ada b. Copeland. who is sick
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in st. Mary's hospital. and also with
Miss Sadie Daniel. who is quite i'll
at her home on Gunnison avenue. We
sincerely hope that they will before
long be able to assume their school
duties.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-03
VIII Get New Supplies.

In short time now the local Rio
Grande shops will be equipped with
full stock of repairs. With this new
stock they can repair all kinds of air
pumps. lubricators, headlights and
injectors without sending to Denver.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-03
Latter Leaves.

THIITHr IeNVCS.
Al w. Latter leaves this evening
for Boulder, where he will resume
his studies in pharmacy, after hol-
iday visit with friends here.
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home He treated me as though he
were my courteous host and an hon
ored guest Finally in the midst of
everything a genial fellow rushed in
and shouted, "Happy New Year" and
my country was shocked into the re-
alization that it was just about three
and one-half hours past my regular
bedtime, and l sternly upbraided my
common sense, which had been de-
bauohing itself with beauty and
sleeping itself with luxury, and asked
to be taken home.
Then the next morning | went back
to the beautiful home of the Elks
and found them feeding little boys
and poor little girls. Sending word
out into the streets for everyone who
was hungry and thirsty to come in
and be fed and refreshed. And they
came, and were filled to the burst
ing point, hundreds of them, filled
with the abundance of good things
left over from the night before, and
besides all this, packages of food were
sent out to the poor who could not
come. The Elks who had this affair
in hand beamed with happiness in
their task and 1t seemed to me they
fairly radiated Illuminated texts,
Happy New Year. Good will to-
ward everybody" Suffer the little
children
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in datpesh at lmtaeayo NopHes
n m Ee guaaneeto
ChifasC Rugs Lndeum
tdei in ~M ~M d offered GratyRe eaced Prices
a dyh in le any Lbughdm ghHa letntn
ar snd eannto
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The teachers sympathize witt
Miss Ada B. Copeland. who is sicl
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-03

Mr.. Tope has been highly honored
by being offered two teachers insti-
tutes in Oklahoma for next summer.
One of them is the largest institute
in that state
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-01-11
Prussia Is Disturbed.

BERLIN, Jan. 1O.--Couut Yorck
Won Wartenburg, a conservative mem
Der OF the Prussian house Of lords,
was alternately indignant and pa
thetic today at the attempts OF what
he called the ruling democracy" in
the imperial parliament to curtail pre-
negatives Of the PrussIan king.
Imperial Chancellor Won Rontham-
Holwcc, as Prussian premier, assured
the Prussian house Of lords that the
ministers Of Prussia were on their
guard against permitting the introduc-
ton Of parliamentary control of the
army. He spoke on a resolution de-
manding that the governemnt take
steps to check the undermining OF
Prussla's position by the German en-
pire through the shifting OF consti-
tutional guarantees to the dlsadvan-
tage Of the individual states"
The resolution was adopted by the
house which, however, assured theh
chancellor that its passage did not
imply a vote Of want Of confidence.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-01-11
BIC SPEAKERS FOR BANQUET
Program for Lincoln Day Banquet Ia
Tulsa February - 1, All
Completed.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Jan 10
--l Special EeNteusive preparations
are being made for tine Lincoln Day
banquet 10 bc given by the Republ,
can editors OF the state al Tulsa on
the occasion Of the Republican CON
yuuuou February 2. A number of
prominent Republicans in the state
will respond at tho banquet. United
States Senator B0ruh Of Idaho. Con-
gresham Dick r. Morgan and Con.
gresham Bird 5. Mcclure will deliver
addresses AS Will also George g.
puesly, Bartles,ille. Arthur IA. Gels
lpr Oklahoma city city. John Colo
bite. Guthrie. John Fields oklahoma
city. Tom Ferguson. Watonga, Roy
Johnson. Ardmore' Clarence Douglas.
Nuslogec. James Dennis Flynn, Sa-
pulpa Charles +. Creagcr. Muskogee.
George O Foster Wagner. Jesse
'urd Hugo. I'D Leach. Bartlesilie,
B. NJ Parmcnter Lawton. +. J.. Gre
gury Lawtor
Eugene Lortou OF the Tulsa World
has been selected as master of cere.
monies aud Peter Deichmau viii
welcome the guests while j. W Kay
ser u Chickasha. will respond TO tho
welcome. II is announced that n
anything should happen 20 prevent
holding the banquet ON the evening ~
February - b. viii be held the eveu-
n- preceding
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-01-11
Violated Two Cent
law; HEAVY FINE
k.lTN- DRAWS FOUR FINES OF
$500 EACH AND MUST
PAY COSTS
AIl Gases VIII Probably BE Appealed
to Settle Legal Points That
.tre Invoked

OKLAHOMA CITY. Jan. l0.-(Spe-
1ial. )-The corporation commission
today imposed fine OF $500 and
costs each I'm four cases against the
Katy railroad for violation Of the q
cent fare law. Law points in Two
other cases with be investigated by
he commission and If proceeding If
proper the same fine will be imposed
ds stated by the commission. All
cases probably will be appealed. An,
other case against the Frisco, where
ing the conductor Of local freight
train refused to accept cash fare when
r. C. Zilch and J. w. Pemberton
boarded the train, not having Dur-
chased tickets because the office was
not open, WAS dismissed az retHhu-
lion had been made The conductor
n the case, after service Il long
standing, was discharged by the com
pany. It is said he misunderstood hi
Instructions
The action Of the commission today
vas prompt and decisive after tho
evidence had been beard.
What constitutes an int rstatc pas
senger is one Of the questions that
viii probably enter into the appeals
thar may be taken by the railroads.
The first case was that on com
, 'aint of John Il. Rose OF Oklahoma
city against the Katy lie was In
Coffeyville, Kans., and started to Ok
l,homa CITY He purchased a ticket
to South Coffcyyille. okla, with the
intention Of stopping there and buy
ing ticket at the two-cent rate to
oklahoma He was compelled 10 pay
the fun three cents to destination.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-01-11
SHOT BY HNlD-UP MEN
Refused to Put Up His Hands and Got
n Suot In the Left
Arm.

About . o'clock last night when w.
j. Fisk refused TO heed the command
Of two hold-up men to stick up his
hands" and whirled around and start
ed to run away, one of the men who
later escaped shot at him, the bullet
striking HIM in the upper right arm.
The attempted hold-up and shooting
occurred directly in front of the FISK
home, glS East Third.
A few minutes later Fisk told HE
story to police officers and the arrest
of two-suspects found i'm the red light
district followed shortly afterward
However after Fisk returned to the
police station from the Tulsa hospital
where he had his wound dressed, The
men were discharged when Fisk said
they were not the right parties.
Fisk said just as he was entering
his yard two men appeared from
around the corner of another house
and walking directly toward him. COM
manded him to halt and put up his
hands. Fisk said you roughnecks
don't put stunt like that over on me-
and turned and ran away when the
gunner fired.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-01-11
ACQUTTTNL OF BRUTAL ARMY
OFFICERS AROUSFS NATION
TO PROTEST.
IT WILL Be AN AFTERMATH
Znbcrn Annir May Mean a Defeat Of
the Parry In Power IN
thc Empire,

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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-01-11
REACHES PEACEFUL DISSOLu-
TION AGREEMENT WITH
DEPARTMENT..
TO DISPOSE OF HOLDINGS
Road VIII BE Divorced From Conn
pcting Lines, Trolley lines and
some steamship Lines.


NASHiNGToN, Jan. lO.-The New
York. New Haven and Hartford rail-
road. ana tho department OF Justice
tonight announced A preliminary
agreement had been reached. design
,d 10 effect a reorganIzation of the
Ncw Haven and to prevent a suit for
lts dissolution under the Sherman
law.
I'm compliance with tho depart
m,urs demands. the Now Haven will
dispose OF It's holdings u the Boston
A. Maine Railroad. cancel lts Joint
agreement controlling the Roston d.
Albany. give up lbs trolley lines and
several Of lts steamship lines. The
question uf it's retention Of the so-
called Sound Inc ut steamships win
lr left o the Interstate commerce
commission.
Under th. p0u9Iua canal act tho
road is required to give up am steam
shin holdings by mly I unless the
commission finds their continued op-
Grafton hy the railroad is To- the COM
merclaI advantage Of the public and
not I'm restraint NJ competition.
II was conceded tonight that the de-
partmeut NJ Justice gained virtually
every point demanded Announcement
~ tho agreement was made In the
following statement from Chairman
Howard Elliott and President A. II.
Iladley. IA member Of the New Haven
board
Chairman Elliott issucd the follow
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-01-11
JAPAN TO retain TROOPS
only Russia l. in Favor Of Withdraw
ing Foreign Troops from
China.

WASHINGTON IAN. lO-The de-
clsIon OF the japanese government 20
maintain troops in the Chinese prov
lnco Of Chill is lu line with tn.
already announced policy of the
United States aud leaves Russia yIr-
tuaIIy alone iu mH1rng tha with
drawt of foreign troops Even
France declined Co follow Russia $
lead. agreeing with other powers that
conditions iu China were st.ll too uu-
settled TO- warrant the exposure ~ tine
lives of their subjects and citizens tu
thr risk OF further revolutionary out
breaks