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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01
Notice to Property Owners.

Notice is hereby given to all persons
interested that the board Of local i'm
provements of the city of Rock Island,
Ill, having let contract for the paw
ing of Tenth avenue, from Eleventh
street to Nineteenth street, and the
same having been completed and &C.
copied by said board on the 10Th day
of June A. d. 1914, and the said board
having filed In the county court of
Rock Island county, Illinois, on the
Both day of June, A. d. 1914, certifi-
cate showing that the said improve
ment conforms substantially to the re-
quirements of the original ordinance
for the construction of the same, the
cost thereof, the amount estimated by
them to be required to pay the accru-
ing interest on bonds and vouchers, is
sued to anticipate collection of the as
sessment on said improvement, hear
ing will be had on said certificate, as
to the truth of the facts therein stated,
at the county court house. in the city
Of Rock Island. on the goth day of
July, A D. 1914, at the hour of 9
o'clock a. m. or as soon thereafter as
the business of the court will permit.
All persons desiring may file objec-
tons on the hearing and may appear
On the hearing and make their defense.
Dated at Rock Island, H., this 29th
lay of June, A. D. 1914.
H. NJ. SCHRivER.
r. r. REYNOLDS,
WALLACE TREICHLER,
Board of Local improvements.
Adv
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01
Drift of the Weather.

Enthusiastically fair tonight and
tomorrow, except possibly local show
ers in south tonight; no important
change.
Internationally fair tonight and
tomorrow, except showers southeast;
no important change.
Wisconsin, MINI Iowa, North
Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska
Generally fair tonight and tomorrow;
not much change.
Kansas.-Unsettled tonight; tomor-
row fair; no important change.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01
TODAY'S MARKET QUOTATIONS

Onicaso and New York markets fur
nished by E. W. Wagner & Co, mem
bers Chicago Board of Trade: grain.
provisions, stocks and cotton: private
wires 20 all financial centers. CORE
sponoents on the New York Stock and
Ccuon Exchanges. Tri-City office in
suite sos. Best building. Phone Rock
Island $50.
P. J. MCCORMICK, Manager.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01
Local and Foreio,1-
Chicago Live Stock
OPENING Market

Hogs. $4,000; left over, 1850; opened
&c to 1Oc lower; mixed, sS1O6S.40;
good, Ss.2OG s.37; rough, ss.O0@S.15;
light, sS.1O@S.37.
Cattle, $4,000; steady
Sheep, 10000; steady.
Nine O'clock Market.
Hogs 561Oc lower than yesterdays
average.
Quality fair, clearances fair.
Mixed, ss.05Gs.45; good, sS.209s42;
rough, SS.009S15; light, ss10@S4O.
Pigs. S7.3OGS1O; bulk, sS.15@s.4o.
Estimates tomorrow-hogs, $4,000;
cattle, 5000; sheep, $4,000.
Cattle, $4,000. steady to 10c lower;
beeves, S7.50G9.4O; cows, s3.50@s.25;
stockers, s6.6O6S15; Texans, 1880
SIS; calves, SS.2569.50.
Sheep. 10000. steady, s4.00@6.OO;
lambs, S6406S.25.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01
Morning Grain Letter.

Chicago, Ill, July Ito p. m
Tuesday rains fell in about Is states
and some of the drouth sections re-
ceived relief. Canada and the north
west were again cool. Oklahoma and
a few southern states were not, but
there is not enough heat on tap to bull
corn. A pointer has been passed
around to avoid short side of wheat
for a few days. There is practically
no wheat at Chicago. Bradstreets
worlds visible is under 100000
The worlds visible stocks are about
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01
Southwest Receipts.
Local Markets
Market Square Sales.

June 30.
Three loads of corn at...... soc
Two loads of oats 43c
Two loads of timothy hay at s15-s1S
July Following are the whole
sale quotations on the local market
today:
Butter, Eggs and Cheese.
Eggs, per dozen ...........2 zoe
Butter, dairy, pound .-...... 22c
Butter, creamery. pound ....271z
Butter. packing stock, pound. .... .15c
Vegetables.
Parsleys, dozen tdncncs- .30c
Cucumbers, hot house, doz., 55c-75c
Lettuce, pound &c
Potatoes, bushel 81. 10
New potatoes, bushel 81 35
Home grown cabbage, doz. .46c
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01
Chicago Cash Grain.

Chicago Cash Grain.
wheat-INo. =. 7ss4 9sOlh; No. T,
796 1919: No 2 NV, 7924 @S2; No. 3
hw, 1881; No. rs. ss11 q 90; No. 2
rs, s76s9: No. rs. s4qs7; No. rs,
sed 81; No. $. s6Gss; No. 8 S. SEA
SIS; No 4 S. 790s2; No. VIC, S76
$50; No. vc, s6Gs71z; No. vc. IS
6s511; No l durum, s49S5; 40. 2
durum, so9s3; No. 8 durum, 76679.
Corn-No. 8 Y, 6s14 a 6Saz: No. Y,
sT1z a 6s&; No. Y, 6s1k; No. ', 81
ass: No. . ", 20; No. mixed, 67G
S.; No. 6 mixed, 66a4 G671k; SO, esq
e75k.
No. 2 ". S7s4 G3s14 No. ;. Sc; No.
3w, 36i4 637i4; No. I W, 351A q 3612;
standard, 3754 ass; sg, $50.
Liverpool Cables.
Wheat opened Is TO Il up; closed q
TO q up.
Corn opened i off; closed Is up.
Chicago Receipts.
Today. Contract.
wheat ------ 10 50
corn SO
OatS .-..-..-......-20 %
Northwest Cars.
To- Last Last
day. week year.
Minneapolis .... IS 81 1S4
Duluth ..........197 112 134
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01
Notice to Property Owners.

Notice is hereby given to all per-
sons interested that the Board of
Local Improvements of the City of Rock
Island. Illinois, having let a contract
for the paving of Second avenue from
Ninth street to Fourteenth street, and
the same having been completed and
accepted by said board on the 29th
day of June A. D. 1914, and the said
board having filed in the county court
OF Rock Island county, Illinois. on the
goth day of June A. ID. 1914, a certifi-
cate showing that the said improve
ment conforms substantially TO the
requirements of the original ordinance
Tor the construction of the same, the
cost thereof, the amount estimated
oy them 10 be required to pay the ac-
cruing interest on bonds and vouchers.
issued to anticipate collection of the
assessment for said improvement, a
nearing Will be had on said certificate.
as TO the truth OF the facts therein
s. ted, at the county court house, In
the city of Rock Island, on the goth
day of July A. d. 1914. at the hour OF
S'Vo O'Clock a, m. or as soon there
the business of the court Will
All persons desir1n& MAY
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01
CITY CHAT
advertiser ents.)
ama nf Pofdu prna
For express, call William Trefz.

For express, call William Trefz.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
Soda in the Green room. Harper
House pharmacy.
Independent Express & Storage.
R. I. 9S1.
Soda in the Green room. Harper
House pharmacy.
Blaschke's Cleaning works, 1912
Fourth avenue, for blocking hats OF
all kinds
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01
Notice to Property owners.

Notice is hereby given TO all persons
interested that the Board of Local I'm.
provements of the City of Rock Island.
Illinois, having let contract for the
laying of sidewalks on Thirty-second
street from Fourteenth to Fifteenth
avenue. and the same having been
completed and accepted by said board
on the 22th day of June A D. 1914, ana
the board having filed in
co Furt of Rock Island CO..
~ b the Goth day of june
esrtifcafo showing tn
rovefn-nt conroffnS
the requirements or 81
finance for re constr
ne. the coe>thereor nc
al nv I'm The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-01
DAILY RIVER BULLETIN.

River esreeast:
For the next hcX
sissippi Will conf
below Dubuque
prevail AZ sSsr fso1
satE -
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the mis- .akes III the motives OF their
characters as are shown in the play of
the brilliant MIR. Hastings. And no
amount of brilliancy is going to com
pcnsatc for the lack of logic which the
dramatist cheerfully overlooks in order
that he may carry out his play as he
planned it, There are, of course, means
by which an apparent lack of proba-
bility in the motives of men and women
may be overcome, but that is the power
of only the skilful playwright. Even
he is bold To depart altogether from
the motives which ara usually sup
posed from experience to govern human
conduct. But there are cases i'll which
the skin of the Playwright may be made
or AT all events may seem, to over
come such departures from reasonable
human experience.
There is similar defiance from the
rules of life in 'rhe Marriage of Column
binc," the little play which Harold
Chaplin wrote and Mr.. Hopkins has so
artisticolly produced at the little Punch
and Judy Theatre. When the Puritani-
cal sneak tells the heroine that she Is
living in sin because she is not right
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and contains seven scenes. The piece
is to be richly mounted and the scenery
Jerusalem and Rome at the time
Of Christ is said to be- historically COR
rect. pilates Daughter" is the near
est approach 10 the Passion Play that
has ever been produced in this or any
other country outside of OberammcrGau
All the $50 persons that appear on the
stage are women Another feature viii
be the ballet led by Domino Marini, late
of the La Scala Opera House. Milan. The
story of the play relates TO Claudio. the
little daughter of Pontius Piidic The first
scene shows "A room in Pilates home. As
Cid ddiu goes to the window she secs
the mob leading the Christus through
the streets on the way 10 her fathers
court, As He passes she throws Him
IA rose which strikes His garment and
then falls To the ground 60 be- troddrn
upon by hundreds of feet. After the
crowd has passed she sees the rose lying
IN the dust Picking il up, she find :
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fully married to her clown she does not
appeal as any wife would to her hus-
band nor even mention the matter to
him. She might at least have given
ing as faithfully as she is made 10 in
tho play, committed an act contrary to
her own wishes, 70 her character and
TO al common sense as to marry
stranger merely because he asked her.
1t may not be right to have mere COM
mon sense in fairy story. 1t must be
an advantage to any play, however, To
be founded on common sense. however
it may stray in the way of extravaganza
afterWard.
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lesson some actresses seem never 10
learn, and indeed frequently never do
learn. While legs do not, ! suppose,
pay the important role they useG to
play in comic opera, nevertheless we
still have them, and a green actress
may be just as conscious of them un-
der perfectly proper skirt as though
she were stalking across the stage in
pair of fieshinGs with a whole hippo
drome full OF people watching her.
"Unfortunately we do not, either in
England or America regard this de-
partment OF the stage with tho same
respect, either moral or artistic, as do
the French. For instance We speak
here of one graduating from the mu-
steal comedy stage and going into the
Legitimate" the inference being that
the artist has thereby risen in artistic
and social status and that there Is
something meretrcidus about comedy
sung which comedy spoken does not
possess, In France all this is different,
and therein lies the secret Of the great
ness of the French stage. The French
value this school of entertainment at
its fun worth, not only as an insttu-
ton OF the supremest art but as a train
Ing school for French actresses and one
from which those actresses never
graduate but to which they return
again and again. The result Is that the
greatest living French actresses may he
seen to-day creating distinguished
dramatic roles specially written for
them by the greatest living French
dramatists. whereas next season they
will be performing, singing ana dancing
perhaps. for all they are worth with
the same gusto in some comparatively
inconsequential musical farce Nivc IA
France, Is It any wonder her stage
leads the world? Why, no French as
tress ever gets n chance 10 grow old or
her joints creaky."
on tho subject Of dancing Miss Tenn
pest spoke with equal conviction. Next
tn singing" she said, as she applied a
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-15

that 1t has not been destroyed. neither
has it lost its fragrance She never loses
the sacred flower and in after years she
accomplishes many miracles with its
aid in behalf Of Christianity.
Those in the cast are Marion Barney.
Constance Molincaux. Sara Biala. Agnes
Mapcs. Margaret Nryling. Eleanor Rus
sci. Violet de Biccari and others
what it Means to Woman" is the title
of new modern play in four acts which
H. II. Frazee Will present for the first
| time in New York in his Longacre Theatre
Thursday evening 1t was written 10y
L. II. Gould and +. Whitehouse. The
principal role will be interpreted by Rita
Jolivet. who heads the cast of unusually
notable players including Frank Mills
Joseph kilgour. Laura Nelson Hall. Alice
John. Catharine Calhoun. Jean New
combc, Juliet Shelby, Marion Lord
Florence ST Leonard Royden Keith.
Arthur Lyman and others The play has
been staged under the direction of Edgar
MacGrcgor
Josef Urban. whose scenic achieve
meDts at the Boston Opera House hive
made him famous in that city. wiz prepare
the spectacular scenery for The Garden
Of Paradise" which III" LieJler company
will produce next Friday at the Park
Theatre. This Is a spectacle founded hy
Edward Sheldon on Hans Christian Amber
sens story The Little Mermaid" The
plot of the fairy tale is used but the
language * that of MIR Sheldon Alcs-
sandro Sapell of Milan has supplied the
costumes while o y. Heggic will transfer
the drama to the stage In the company
are Emily Stevens. George Ralph, Lionel
Braham and large company of players
The Licbler company promises that thi,
will be lis most Important spectacle.
f. Ray Cumstoci,s Princess Theatre
under the direction of Holbroot Blnn
will reopen on Saturday evening An
entirely new programme Of one act plays
will be- presented. Although these will
make a full evening entertainment there
will be but three plays. The most impor-
tant of these plays 10 in four scenes, TIA,
changes of which will be made without
lowering the curtain This play vii
occupy about one hour. There will Toe d
new comedy 10y world famous author
land tense drama. To represent tho
four scene play much larger number OF
players will I've required than has appeared
SO far at the Princess Theatre Most o
the Princess players as known 10 New
| Work audiences will Tcmain
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Ia u weak epoJ endeavor 70 strengthen
II. ! hold my own character secondary
to tho scene on II whole, playing Youth,
have never let 40 10 Use oollequisl.
ism. us | would have done few sea
SONS ago Whom | was on motor who
had not been manager or u producer
| had delightful sense Of irresponsl-
bility everywhere savo where | and my
own dramatic interests were concerned,
| played my scenes for william Elliott
actor Now ! play thcm with the In
tercsts of William Elliott. manager, upper
mos, in my mind
4 am glad to be acting again. every
thing considered II lie the profession
| chose II is what called forth my fret
enthusiasmS it is my best means Of per
, sonal expression Many man finds II
with 4 typewriter some find IL In mu-
sic. some find it In building bridges some
in driving Il tunnel through mountains;
other men find 1t in directing the amuse-
mcnt- Of nation from behind their
desks enjoyed management. en-
ioycd finding plays and shaping pro
duciions with my own hands; but after
all acting was my original, Simon pure
enthusiasm.
what | found most Objectionable upon
my return To Il play in which | had TO
appear every ught and at two matinees
each week was the sense of confinement
may be- dining with an author who is
| bringing the most wonderful play to M
attention vet at ~ o clock. in the midst
of the third act. / must be up and away.
Inthc various seasons of production which
have passed over my head my time has
been at my own disporal. have worked
harder but have had none Of this clock
punching This feature. it seems to me,
makes the task OF an actor-manager more
difficult than any other theatrical task
which might bc assigned.
NV role. Youth. calls for u great diver
sitv of enterprise. if not of talent. I've got
to do a lot Of things, and the thin that
I've done before help me u do the collec-
tive thing that I'm doing now. began lif,
as Il minstrel IN "A singing company sent
out bv my uncle, one Alexander Weemys
| have played in stock. have played
character parts. Juvenile character parts
with David Warfied have played il
a klaw 4 ErlanGer musical comedy. In
Experience have to sing song, do II bit
of a society dance in the Primrose Path
scene. he a very real character in The
HOUSE of Last Resort and The House o.
Lost Souls and convey considerable
bit Of drama IN Their places. Experience
is a comuendum OF verifying that I've
! .l,Y,.,
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To hear me, l suppose, to hear me pant
ing, was enough. Anyway, what did he
do but tell me in the most brutal
fashion to 20 down stairs and take on
those corsets, and that when / had done
so and recovered my breath To return
and he would hear me sing.
Il made the most of my Opportuni-
ties with the great master, and as l
look back now ] realize more and more
how valuable his training has been and
is TO ME up to this very minute. /
Leaned from Garcia what every stu
dent OF singing learns or ought to learn
and what every stage artist must pos
sess as the very Keystone or his art,
the mastery and control OF the human
voice. not as an aesthetic accomplish
ment, though the whole includes the
part, but as physical, bodily func-
ton. To succeed on the dramatic stage
or in the pulpit or on the platform II
Is essential that one be able to project
ones personality into the auditorium,
and there is only one way of doing that,
through the human voice. No amount
of genius, of charm or of physical
beauty will avail in the absence of a
flexible speaking voice under perfect
control
Taught 20 sing properly one learns
how to speak properly; for to speak
properly from behind the foOtliGhts into
the auditorium implies four great es-
| sentials, breadth of voice, poise, pres
ence, ease. One season in musical
comedy will do wonders for any ordi-
narily conscientious YOUNG actor oi
| actress in the way OF developing these
necessary points but three or four sea-
sons is still better. Indeed, I woulc
advise the cleverest of them to try Z
course in this drastic school even Il
they can land no better job than carry
| Ing a spear and Joining in the chorus
A mighty lot of tho essentials of actinl
can be learned by girl In pair o
tights with a spear In her hand. Fo
one thing she'll learn 10 forget herself
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oest Tells About Comedy With Music and Wit

beauty spot OF black courtplaster south
by-west of Mary Whichellos Tiquant'
tip-tilted nose MARY WhicheIo ~ the
role she plays In the Henry Arthur Jones
drama). next To singing ! place dane
ing as the most important factor in the
art of acting. While specifically dane
ing, like singing, has nothing necessarily
to do with acting, the principle upon
which the art of dancing is based IS
inalienably allied to the histronic art
Indeed YOU cannot tell where one he
gins aud the other leaves of.
Just as the great dcsideratum ac-
cruing to the actor from his knowledge
of singing and music is proportion Cby
the way, ! forgot 10 say thaD, and pro-
portion, or Il sense of proportion is the
very backbone of all art, 50 will he de-
rive from his knowledge of and skill
in dancing the second great imperative
of art, any art, grace. And with grace,
Of course. it is a foregone conclusion
that he has ease of carriage ana ticNi-
bility of movement.
you Will notice / say he hut | use
the masculinc prOnoun only out of re-
spect for the rules of English grammar"
laughed Miss Tempest, rising in an
sw,r to tap on the door warning her
that her cue was drawing near For
the sake Of the Kins'. English | hlVe
been saying he but | mean she
Curiousy enough we need talented
young actresses a great deal more than
young actors. | don't know how It is
over here, but In England there Is 8
positive dcarth of any kind of desirable
Young women recruits for the stage,
whereas it used e. he a tradition that
English actresses spoke better and were
better prepared for their duties than
Americans, II cannot br said Of the rise
ing generation. They need most Of all
to set into tights, grab a spear, dance
down TO the footlghts and sing aud
| sing and sins
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dancing first and singing last, / did
so because the latter is the big factor.
The great lack of our English speaking
stage, and this applies to America as
well as England, is women who have
good voices and know how TO use them
speaking voices / mean. 1t Is I'M
possible to make young women under
stand the necessity for voice culture
and that they have NJ business apply
ing at any stage door unless they have
had the benefit Of a thorough coarse
in singing under the tuition OF a first
class singing teacher.
"As for myself, | spent years with
Manuel Garcia. lie was the greatest
singing teacher Of his generation, and
when I first came under his instruction
1t was to prepare for concert work.
Little did | dream when | went to him
that | should never see the concert
stage but would make my debut In the
comparatively humble role Of Fidmettd
in revival OF 'Boccaccio.'
Here Miss Tempest turned grease
daubed face In the process of "mak-
ing up" and smiled the hooking Temp
est smile. n living mask of the Comic
Spirit.
Imagine me- she said, bringing into
service that sly inimtable little gut
tural which in Marie Tempests throat
II half laugh, half tear and altogether
infectious. Imagine ME tightly
laced girl of sixteen, fresh from school
in Paris. Good lord how we did lace IN
| those days, ! was frightened to death
| of course, because an English girl Is
very shy at sixteen, and ] more than
| most of them. ] was dreadfully out OF
breath. due partly to my tight corset'
and partly to having climbed Ions
flight of stairs to reach the Garcis
quarters, and of course 10 pernicion'
breathing. about which l knew no mor'
than any other well brought up Ems
lish girl.
well, when at last l stood befor'
the great Garcia he never looked at me
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To the younger generation OF theatre
poers who from their orchestra chairs
at the Comedy Theatre follow delight
edly the cheerfully corrupt career or the
heroine OF MARY Goes First and JOY
ously egg" her on 10 the very last
ditch of moral turpitude, 70 these
beardless youths and gigglinG debn-
tantes Marie Tempest Is merely the
finished and delicious coincidence that
she is Most of them would be sur
prised, some OF them perhaps indignant
If YOU told them that years ago. when
they were babies, this dear, funny Miss
TEMPEST in the chic Bond street frocks
was wearing tights and adding TO the
Joy of nations by singing and dancing
in comic opera.
Nor is Miss Tempest. DISTINGUISHED
English Comedienne, the leas- bit
ashamed of Marie Temples, comic opera
queen. On the contrary, as she eH-
planned to a reporter for THE Sun, she
is deeply grateful for every day of
those Years of the sos, and would
recommend other aspiring actresses to
take z course IN musical comedy as a
preparation for the legitimate stage,
There Is no training In the world
like that which one gets by having ia
put on q pair OF tights, dancing down
to the foOtlqhs and singing, singing
singng. whether a girl aspires to play
Lam Macbeth or ingenue roles | would
prescribe the same training.
| Indeed, 30 great an advocate am
| of the musical comedy school that ] vii
90 so far as to say that It IL an excel
| lent substitute for the now moribunc
stock company system, the passing o
which is being lamented quite as mucl
in England az il is here. In certain
respects musical comedy ofers greater
and better opportunities In season o.
so 10 master technique, or rather
should say the big essentials OF teen
nique, which might require years
stock company apprenticeship,
while 1 have mentioned tights nm