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Caste" realized all that there is in the
part OF the distressed heroine OF Rob
ertson. But in THE First Lady OF the
Land" there was the flower OF the
talent that had been 80 carefully cul-
tivated. II bloomed again in The
Strange Woman" and 1t is in Its fullest
blossom In "Outcast."
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A''on no" scurrN 10 get the new plays
.N'" Nv York IN 'imo To sell tickets
Tor 'u" cN" Of thc holiday last week and
INC "a" performances that took place
"n that day, there viii lie a week of
CAIN 900 Nh" payhouscs. That the ma
Hr'y the pieces hurricdly put for
"ard Worr not worth the effort Ia the
manager. 10 the public or to anybody
'Isc hut the actors concerned presents,
o' course, nu new point of view. That
10" NJ this uupromising crop will he
On VIC" an the end ~ a month is also
lam. ar event of such feverish in
'ir'' Quantity ana MOI quality is
". 'u''u Of the American manager.
T." now puuch and Judy Theatre
m I'rN-unth street near broadway
'ynn for the first time on next
Th' dizzy evening. when THE Marriage
o. '"umbino.' a comedy in four acts
D. 'lHroId Chaplin, will be acted.
Tie Marriage OF Columbine" has
''.n r'avcd successfully I'm England
ami scotland, but will he seen for tho
h"-' lime on this side OF the Atlantic
now Tuesday evening, Harold Chaplin,
o." 'Dt1or Is VOL known in England as
producer and writer Of plays. He Is
.."Nn 'p have made a study of tho
''.h ..r" Of 'hr English provincial cir
." .0i I'm "Thc Marriage Of Column
'' e.1ws those people with their own
''.' morals He gives an intimate
.' " Tho home lifc Of tho sawduS'
~" attempts to show that their
'.' "'- guided by noble impulses are as
MAN as the country folk for whose
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-08

Wilda Bennett, now appearine i'm the
new Henry blossom and Victor Herbert
musical farCiCal comedy success The
only Girl" playing at the Thirty-ninth
street Theatre, made her professional
debut in the part OF Conscience in the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-08

Because ~ imitators who do not
initiate. Houdlni, the original "H1nd-
cur King" has copyrighted his nam",
and though others may try and do
things that Houdini really aCcomplishes,
thoy cannot without prosecution, use
the nnmc Of "Houdinl'
Houdni. formerly known NJ Harry
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THE EVENTS OF THE WEEK
What Is to Be Seen.

Wndt Is 10 DC oeeu.
SUN D A Y Carnegie Hall -
Dwight Elmendorf will open
his season Of FIVE illustrated
lectures on travel to be given
on Sunday nights and Monday
afternoons
TUESD AY Opening of the
Punch ard Judy Theatre with
The Marriage of Columbine."
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II is interesting to trace the career
of this gifted young woman from her
appearances in musical comedy to her
present place in our theatre. She was
a radiant picture Of glrlsh beauty then
and later in such plays as The Two
schools she need have been nothing
more than merely beautiful so fully
equipped was she for that task She
could confess with GrOSrfuor to being
a trustee OF beauty. Her gradual
progress through more or less unim-
portant roles in drama gave no promise
OF the method which she was so care
fully and successfully preparing. Her
performance of Esther EccIrs in
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grief which possessed her when the !
i'm. mas come for her to part from her
lover has rhastened her beauty and her
manner until the complete reEenera-
tior Of the girl who in the first ACT
walked out OF the streets intu the lie
Of this unhappy man has been accom-
p,sh"d. All thai the authors text has
suggested Of the character Miss FerGu-
son realizes and illustrates with Won
derful vivdness. II IL altogether pos
sible to have another nctption OF
Miriam. She might have been much
moro highly co,ored person than Miss
Ferguson makes her. 1t is even pos
slble with some difficulty to see Ethel
Levey in the character, although tho
task is not pleasant
hut every departure from the re-
Hnemcnt and dclicacy with which Miss
Ferguson acts the parts dim.nishes its
piausbility and its value in the play.
II she IL to- marry the man who saved
her lie it is essential that she should
have raised herself To his station. He
could never have taken up with the
girl with the hcdra Egtcd feather in her
hat that tho audience saw in the iirst
act in any other relation than he re-
ceived her then. She had To develop
in Just the way that the author has
Indicated and Mss Ferguson 50 eio-
aueutly realized But it is her refine
ment and the distinction that she
later acquires that Miss Ferguson con-
tributes to tn" play: and she does that
i'm "A way no other actress could.
II is interesting to trace the career
! of this gifted young woman from her
appearances in musical comedy to her
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u, LAWRENCE RE,MER.

\ TuTlIING In the rurr nj season
NJ b,s proved ~ greater ere dit
l 20 the American theatre than
EIo., Ft"Euspd's exquisite act
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
Swarm to Deck.

Up they swarmed on deck in their
night clothing to find the ship heeling
away to port and the deck slanting at
a degree that made 1t almost impos-
sible to stand even clinging to ratings
Men and women, shrieking, praying,
crying for aid that was fated to arrive
too late, fell over one another in that
last struggle for life on board the
doomed Empress of Ireland.
Frenzied mothers leaped overheard
with their babies in their arms. Others
knelt on deck and tried to pray in the
few moments left to them Some were
flung overheard by the heeling OF the
sinking ship and some broke their legs
or arms in trying to reach the life
boats.
Above the din of the struggle on the
great promenade deck could be heard
Captain Kendall shouting commands
for the launching of the lifeboats Sew.
eral were launched In the 10 minutes
that the ship floated.
There was no time to observe the
rule Women first" in this disaster. for
those nearest the boats scrambled to
places In them.
But even as they we're being
launched. while the wireless still was
calling IS. o. s." there came a terrific
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
Carried to Bottom.

The Empress of ireland recoiled al
most on her starboard beam ends from
the blow of the collier and passengers
were flung from their berths against
the walls Of their staterooms.
Many were stunned and before they
had time to recover were carried to
the bottom with the ship.
The vast torrents pouring into the
great cash on the port side, aft, filled
the corridors and flooded every state
room abaft the midship section in
side Of four minutes.
There was never a chance for the
helpless ones in the after cabins and
staterooms of the liner. With her port
side laid open for half it's length from
the midship section to the stern, a
seive had more chance to float than
the Empress Of ireland. and the
trapped passengers in that after sec
ton were doomed from the moment
the Storstad struck.
Keeling from the blow the ship be-
gan to settle almost Immediately as
the water rushed into the big rent.
From the forward cabins, however
men and women in night attire STUN
bled along the corridors and up the
companion way to the promenade deck
the deck below, the one on which
the boats rested
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
Survivors Tell of Foo.

1t was foggy, according to survivors
when the Empress of ireland, a steel
hulled, steel-btlkheaded ship of more
than eight thousand tons, left Mon
treal at 4:30 Thursday afternoon in
command of II. G. Kendall of the
Royal Naval Reserve, one of the most
skilled of transatlantic navigators
Forest fires also obscured the at
mosphere and the big ship, in charge
of a pilot, proceeded slowly on her
way to sea. At midnight the pilot
aide left near Father Point, shouting
a merry Bon Voyage" as he went
down their ladder to his waiting boat
The darkness at this time was in
tense and the ship under the slowest
speed possible with steerageway held
her course. Her decks were deserted.
The passengers had all sought their
berths with no thought of impending
death
Out of the darkness, on the port
side, soon after 2:30 in the morning
there doomed the little Norwegian col
lier, not half the size of the Empress,
but fated to be her destroyer.
Not until the collier was almost
abeam of the big liner was the danger
known on either ship. The fog had
blotted out the lights as we'll as the
port and starboard lights of both ships.
Quick orders trumpeted on both YES
sells we're heard. But they came all
toe late.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04

10 stand out just below the hips an
then to taper away to nothing at Il
hem. 1t was very short, to show thN
feet, and it was accompanied by a
loose coatee OF the saul on barque"
type.
Taffeta continues to be the most
popular material of the season for aft
ernoon dresses. Taffetas Of all kinds.
striped, plaid, shot and plain. Some
OF the leading dressmakers are still
using a good deal of dull satin for man.
ties and dresses, but for smart after
noon robes it is undoubtedly true that
taffeta is the leading favorite.
Very long plated tunics in plaid tai
feta are very smart, especially when
they are mounted on skinny skirts
which cling in about the ankles, giving
a curiously old-world effect.
Nine. Paquin is fond Of mixing shot
and striped taffotas en- the same gown
and in this way she obtains beautiful
and artistic results. Most of the new
shot silks show a CLEAN OF gold or sill
yer in a strong light.--ldalia de Viii
liers, in the Boston Globe.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
Darkness Is Intense.

ION deck officers of the ship. par
| TALLY dressed, were rushing about
urging passengers to be calm. Sailors
under orders were trying to launch
the lifeboats.
THE darkness was intense and n
few minutes after reached the deck
the electric lights went out At that
time there were still hundreds Of pas
sengers below trying to grope their
way through the darkened corridors to
the companionway and reach the deck.
Most of them went down with the
ship, for the corridors below filled
right after the explosion of the boilers.
81 leaped overheard in despair just
before the ship went down and man
aged to find bit of wreckage to which
| clung."
Intense darkness covered the waters
when the EmpresG of Ireland made
that final plunge, hut the fog lifted n
few minutes later and then came the
first faint streaks of dawn.
1t lighted waters strewed with
wreckage and struggling passengers.
who strove to keep afioat.
The crippled Storstad, which had
wrought this tragedy of the waters.
had lifeboats out picking up as mar.y
survivors as possible.
The gray dawn revealed the govern.
ment steamers Lady Evelyn and Eu-
reka near the scene of the disaster and
Fastening to aid.
Some of those in the water tried 10
swim to the Eureka as she neared the
point where the Empress had gore
down. One woman, wearing only an
undervest, swan to the Lady Evelyn.
and was helped on boar. but died of
exhaustion soon afterwards.
The work of rescue still was going
on when the sun arose In a cloudless
sky.
Men and women were clinging To
spars and bits Of broken pisnks. Many
Of the survivors were Injured. Some
had broken legs. others fractured arms
and still others had been injured inter.
nally in that last mad rush to get away
from the sinking liner.
Women clinging with one hand 10
little ones. while with the other they
tried to keep clutch on pieces of wreck.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
WASHING VelvGtoSn.

The soiled velveteen you wish to
clean and use for hat trimming
should be treated thus: Put II
through two fathers Of warm so2py
water. brushing it with moderately
stiff brush along the grain Of the
pile as it lies stretched on a wash
board. When all the dirt Is removed,
rinse the velyetoen in clean cold wa
ter but do not squeeze or wiring the
material. Hang It to dry out of the
sun. After drying it may be drawn
over hot iron, but this is rot actu
ally necessary.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
Mr.. henpeck Scorer One.

II suppose that when you women In
the East are given the right to vote
you'll be like the woman heard of in
Colorado" said Mr.. Henpeck. rather
sarcastically. why, what did she
do?" inquired Mrs. Henpeck. "Oh, she
just stood In front of the polling place
one afternoon sobbing; What do you
think OF those men? The polls don't
close for two hours yet. and they
won't let me change my VOTE" said
Mr.. Henpeck with a grin.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
AGENT in Narrow Escape.

THE scene on the Eureka was most
distressing, the survivors walking
around their dear shipmates, stretched
out in their last sleep. The Eureka
was sent to Remouski wharf with all
on board and the Canadian Pacific
agent Mr. Weber, who was here. hav-
ing just got off the Inflated vessel with
the pilot, engaged all the cabs he
could find and telephoned for all pos.
sible medical assistance. AS the COM
pany's agent here, I advised all the
survivors that their cables and tele-
grams to their families would be paid
by the Canadian Pacific railroad.
The Lady Evelyn passed into Re-
moush wharf about a. m. with some
more survivors and bodies. Among
the survivors was Captain Kendall,
commander of the Inflated ship. who
was picked up by lifeboat from the
wreckage after the ship had gone
down
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
Scenes at Liverpool.

Liverpool. May SO.-Pathetic scerea
were enacted at the Office of the Cana
dian Pacific railway in this city FIJI
day. Crowds of weeping men arc
women begged for news Of the officers
and crew of the Empress OF Ireland.
the majority of whom were gathered
here. when confirmation OF the dis
aster was received several Of the worn'
on tainted. Fridays scenes were
duplicate Of those Witnessed at the
time the Titanic went - Us s7,;oD
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04

| explosion that almost rent the ship in
twain.
1t was the explosion of the boilers
struck by the cold water. A geyser Of
water shot upward from the midship
section, mingled with fragments of
wreckage, that showered down upon
the passengers still clinging to the
rails forward and upon those strug-
CLING in the water.
The explosion destroyed the last
hope of the ships floating until succor
could arrive, for the shock had
smashed the forward steel bulkhead
walls that had up to then shut out the
torrents invading the after part. The
water rushed forward and the Empress
of Ireland went swiftly to her doom,
carrying down with her hundreds of
passengers who stood on her slanting
deck, their arms stretched upward and
their last cries choked in the engulfng
waters.
One of the survivors, relating that
last tragic scene on the decks of the
liner, said:
Il was asleep like most of the pas
sengers when the collision came.
There was a sickening crunching of
wood and steel and then a grinding,
ripping sound as the Storstad smashed
her way along the port side of oul
ship.
II knew that we had Eeen struck
and | rushed to the staterooms of some
friends and shouted to them to get up,
as the ship was sinking. Stateroom
doors flew open all along the corridor
and men and women began to rush for
the grand companion forward. Those
aft must have been drowned in their
berths.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
Plans New industry f,r Tahiti.

Having acquired 10000 acres in the
Papenoo valley, Island Of Tahiti, Pa
peete banker will clear the land and
devote the greater part Of it to the
production OF vanilla. and the most
interesting part of the transaction is
the announcement that it is hoped to
be able to export 1t at $l.4O per pound,
reduction of about so cents per
pound from the current price. Sandal
wood and rosewood trees will also be
planted
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
Strikes Ship Amidship.

The steel-pointed prov of the Stor-
stad struck the liner amidships and
then forged aft. ripping and tearing its
way through the Empress OF Ireland.
Clear to the stern of the Empress OF
ireland was this great steel shaving
cut from her side. from the top OF the
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
Survivors Almost Naked.

Most of the survivors were almost
naked in the cold morning, with the
temperature at 35 degrees and white
frost on the ground.
at G:10 the Norwegian golfer
Storstad, coal laden, from Sydney. y.
s., for Montreal. came along slo" ~.
When her bow had been smashed in
it became known that she was the
vessel that had struck the Empress
of ireland the fatal blow. The Stors-
tad was too much damaged to allow
her to proceed to Quebec under her
own steam. but before proceeding she
landed few survivors and some dead
bodies, which were taken off by the
steamer Eureka and Lady Evelyn and
landed on the Remouski wharf"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
lryinu. Actor and Author.

New York, May 31.-Laurence S. b.
Irving. drowned on steamship EN-.
press of ireland, is an actor, author
and manager He received his edu-
cation at Marlborough college, College
Rollin. Paris. and spent three years
in Russia studying for foreign office.
His plays are widely known. In 1908
and 1909 he presented sketches of his
own authorship in England and Amer
lea. On May 8, 1910, Mr.. Irving ed
dressed the Equal Suffrage league at
Now York
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
Sjnu God Be With YOU On Ship.

Montreal, Que, May 30.-Wnen the
liner Empress of Ireland steamed away
from here Thursday she carried 165
members of the Salvation army from
the United States and Canada, bound
for the world convention in London.
To the accompaniment OF the army
band, they were singing, God BE
With You Till We Meet Again"
This prelude to the accident in the
st. Lawrence made the disaster near
parallel to the sinking of the Titanic,
whose passengers sang, Nearer, My
God. to Thee" as the White Star liner
went down
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
964 PERISH IN SEA DISASTER
Great Liner Goes to Bottom at Mouth of St. Law
renee River Following Collision
With Collier.

null far below the water line. Into
that rent the water poured with the
force of a Niagara.
The bow of the Storstad smashed it's
way through berths on that side of the
snip killing passengers sleeping in
their berths and grinding bodies to
pieces.
Reaching the stern of the big liner.
the Storstad staggered off in the dark
ness, her bow crumpled by the impact.
Her commander was ready few min
utes later, when he found his ship
would float, ito aid the crippled and
sinking Empress, but he was too late
TO save the majority of those on board
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
Help Rushed to the Scene.

Capt J. b. Belanger Of the Eureka
Immediately rushed to the scene and
Captain Pouliot, with the Lady Eve
Ign, followed later, his ship being
three miles farther away.
Meanwhile daylight broke and
scanning the horizon with telescope
saw the two government steamers,
nine lfeboats and a collier in the vi
cinity going here and there. Later
the Eureka arrived at Father Point
wharf with SO survivors and several
poor drowned bodies, also several OF
the survivors who had been wounded.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04
Waters Quickly EnguIf Ship.

The doomed ones had little time
even to pray. They were engulfel by
the onrushing waters that swallowed
sthe big ship inside of nineteen min
utes from the time she was struck.
The wireless operators on the EN-
press, sticking to their posts to the
last, had time only to send few IS.
o. S." calls for help when the rising
waters silenced their instruments.
That silence told the rescuers miles
away more potently than a bugle that
doom had overtaken the ship.
Only six hours before this fateful
collision the passengers sang as a
goodnight hymn God Be With You
Till Ne Meet Again." played by the
Salvation Army band on board.
The members of that band and most
of the 165 Salvationists were among
the lost.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-06-04

Rimouski, Que, May 31.-Nine hun
dred and sixty-four persons lost their
lives Friday morning when the great
Canadian Pacific twin screw liner EN-
press of Ireland was rammed amid
ships in a thick fog off Father Point
in the st. Lawrence and sunk by the
Norwegian collier Storstad.
Four hundred and three survivors
were picked up from floating wreck
age and two lifeboats.
And only II Of the saved are women.
Gathered piecemeal from survivors
the horror Of this wreck grows with
the telling
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age, were picked up by the lifeboats
and carried on board the rescuing ves-
sells.
Captain Kendall, dazed and unable
to give any coherent account OF the
loss OF his ship, was found ciinging to
broken SPAR
j. w. Longley, rancher, Of Canford
b. c., went down with the ship, but
held his breath, and, coming to the
surface, found piece of wreckage and
chung to it until picked up.
One Of the survivors, in explaining
the quickness with which the Empress
OF Ireland went down, said:
THE collier, being only something
over 5000 tons, did not reach up even
to the upper or topmost deck of our
hull. Her bow cut under the upper
deck and took peeling off the side of
our ship that allowed the water to
rush into the lower decks. Then the
liner heeled over, and even those In
the superstructure deck rooms had no
chance to save themselves. Hundreds
of them must have been dumped out
or their berths and slammed against
the walls with stunning force"
Scenes on Shore.
Father Point, Que, May 29.-"The
Empress of Ireland passed and landed
her pilot here at 1880 this morning"
said an official of the Canadian Pa
ciflc. There was haze at the time.
At 1:50 a. m, was awakened by an
IS. o. S." ring on my door bell and,
rushing down, was informed by Mar
conf operator that the Empress Of Ire
land was sinking. having been struck
by some vessel. In undress started
to help. No other signal could be
got from the doomed vessel. She had
no time to give another, as she sank
ten minutes after being struck.
Mr.. Whiteside, manager of the Mar
conf station, rendered effective serv-
ice by notifying the government
steamer Eureka. at Father Point
wharf, and the Lady Evelyn at RAJ
mouski wharf.