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The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-09-16

PLAN TO MEET YOUR FRIENDS
this summer at Chippewa Lake Park
where the finest music will be heard
ct all times; fine fishing and boating
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-09-16

HAVE A REFRESHING SODA IN
any one Of the delightful fiavors we
offer IN combination with our ice
cream. ]. w. FUTILE. Rexall Store.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-09-16

POULTRY WANTED WE PAY the
highest prices for poultry. Our ship
ping day is Wednesday. Phone or
call Louis Weisberg. Phone 42O5.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-09-16

ALBERT ACETYLENE WELDING.
guarantee all metals and reinforce
weak parts. Talk it over with me at
Marsh's Garage or cal 4O77 or 3O8O. .
AUTO TIRES REPAIRED. ALL
work guaranteed at HUNTLEY'S
GAS ENGINE SHOP.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-09-16

SEE OUR DISPLAY AT THE FAIR.
Many useful things you ought to-
have. They don't cost much either.
OATMAN'S HARDWARE.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-09-16

BACKWARD SHAMPOOING AND
QUICK ELECTRIC DRYING AT
MRS. MILLER'S HAIRDRESSING G
PARLORS.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-09-16
Weather, Books and Roads Contribute
Largely to the Influence Of Rural
Life.

POULTRY WANTED WE PAY the
highest prices for poultry. Our ship
ping day is Wednesday. Phone o.
call Louis Weisberg. Phone 42O5.
HAVE A REFRESHING SODA in
any one Of the delightful havors we
offer IN combination with our Ice
cream. ]. w. TUTTLE. Rexall Store
PLAN TO MEET YOUR FRIENDS
this summer at Chippewa Lake Park
where the finest music will be heard
at all times; fine fishing and boating
GET YOUR SEED OATS AND 9TH.
er needs Of Miller & Collin; investi.
gate our great grain drill; guaranteed
to be the best made; we save you cash
BALL BEARING LAWN MOWER 81
$3.50, End mowers, 81 to $3; 5-ply
lawn hose, &c per foot. Washing ma
chimes, $40 to Sis. Roy B. OATMAN.
RUNAWAY JUNE AT THE PRIN.
cess Theatre the most thrilling
story Of love and adventure ever put
on a screen.
FARMERS-WE WANT TO BUY
your ne~ wheat. Phone for price
The Medina Farmers Exchange Co.
SATURDAY SPECIAL McINTOSH'S
News Stand, 25c chocolate creams
1Sc. DO not fail to take advantage q
great bargains advertised in sale.
CHIPPEWA LAKE PARK Will
open for the season Decoration Dal
and will be more popular than ever
fine fishing, boating and bathing.
WEARERs OF FISHERS SHOES
are comfortably, tastefully ant
economically shod.
GARDEN PEAS. WE CAN SUG
gest a variety of peas to you whicl
is the best thing you ever saw. Se'
us. o. G. SHEPARD co. Medina, o..
CREAM SEPARATOR -DeLAVAL--
the Worlds Standard. Auto sup
plies. Bicycle Tires. III w. Wash
ington street, E. 7. PIERCE.
sPALDTNGS BASEBALL GOOD,
are sold exclusively at WALLS. G
there and get the genuine reliabl
Epalding's Bats, Balls and Supplies.
ALL THE BIG PiCNICS AROUNI
here will be held at Chippewa LAX
Park this summer; have you got
date for yours; good boating, bathinI
J.E. REM & SONS HAVE A FULL
line Of fly nets, lap busters, ant
robes and gloves at reasonable prices
Call and see them.
DUFCHESS TROUSERS GIVE TIL
style, comfort and service at mod
crate cost. 10c button, 81 rip. Sol
only by Thos. Ferriman & Son.
CHOICE GLADIOLT-A LIMITEI
number of fine blossoms for sale
also bulbs Of same for fall delivery
Wright's Book Store.
TRY FOOTE'S BEST BAKING
powder--15 cents per pound. Foot
& Hartman.
DATES FOR PICNILs FOR TIL
coming summer are Delng rapidI
taken up at Chippewa Lake Park thi
summer; better get busy and get on
TRY OUR NEW HOME-MADl
Bread and Cookies. C. r. HOBART
THE GROCER.
WHERE IA DOLLAR GOES Earth
est and brings you satisfaction
F0OTE CHAIRMAN.
IA. N. ROBINSON, MANUFACTURE
er Of galvanized iron corn cribs
Medina, Ohio. Cali or write for prices
SIXTEEN NEW COTTAGES VIII
be built at Chippewa Lake Par
this summer, and everything will b
cleanup" and "paint-up."
II \
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-10

reared up in anger the swollen giant
laughs at wing-dams, undermines rip
raped banks, brushes aside Ievees
and wreaks its will over a vast terri
tory and a terror-striCken population.
But it was not of these things we
talked when once more back in the
pilot house, with Captain Blair again
at the wheel but of the better side Of
the river, its people a1oat and ashore,
and of other days when steamboating
was good" Here was a town site long
deserted. there q railroad had tried
again and again TO cross; yonder is
land, once a great farm. is now over
grown with willows. On this one right
breast an old hermit lives Who by
George! there he is now! Wait a min
ute, and you'll hear something"
Some distance ahead there was d
lantern, and by it a man dtmly seen
on the bank The captain crossed
over to the other side of she pilot house
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-10

Roughly speaking, the difference be
tween d river and the sea is that If
you keep off the latter you are reason
ably safe from its dangers. Not SO the
Mississippi, which at times breaks all
restraints. beats down every barrier,
and turns a peaceful valley into a wa
terry wilderness for hundreds of miles,
Overwhelming with disaster families
who had never been within a score of
miles Of its banks and drowning cat
tie by the thousands.
The record Of disaster is appalling,
the rage of the stream unbounded, the
devastation truly terrible. Millions
have been spent to redeem it, to coax
it in the way it should 90, to keep it
in any channel it chose to follow, but
in vain. The federal government and
a dozen states have Joined forces to
fight it. Every bale Of cotton, every
piece Of land, pays its tax, but the river
is as untamed as ever. and when once
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-10
THE WORLD DO MOVIE

Charles Frohman to expect his stage
director to write the plays for John
Drew or Naudc Adams, or Tor the own
ers of great newspapers to expect
their printers to compose the articles
for which they are setting the type.
The so-cailed technique OF t1e pho
t0pIay' means nothing but ahbTeYia-
tons and jarg0n. The men OF devel-
0ped Imagination, whose names are
foremost in fiction writing, are now
called upon to supply the moving pic
ture screen with stories for reel life
from real life, or convincing couu-
terfeit presentment Of the same. They
do it by simply describing the charac-
ters. the plot, and the action Yet
great as has been the development of
the moving picture art in America. it
has been greater in Italy AS France
led all the world in the development
Of the automobile, so Italy, with its
notable productions in ciuematC graphy,
such as Quo Vadis?" and "Cabiria. So
has led all the world in spectacular
moving picture artistry.
In Germany, too. there was a deveI-
opment of the art that was putting
American producers on their mettle.
The world war in Europe. however.
put an end to this dangerous rivalry.
L also causeda cessation in the max
ing Of great moving picture produc-
tons Ia Italy. But as / said, the
movies" give and take. and take all
over the world. If Italy surpassed us
in splendid and spectacular moving
picture productions. American has led
the world ia wholesome, heart inter
est" dramas and joviaI, inoIfensive
screen comedies.
IN the matter of the drama, nothing
taken abroad could vie in popularity
with American western India and
Cowboy" picture dramas. These = re
appreciated and called for not only in
enlightened Europe but in darkest
Africa and the mystic Orient as we'll
John Bunny and Flora Finch were
laughed at and with in every land be-
meath the sun. The rough-aud tumble
'slapstick' Keystone comedies caused
sides to shake under the fur coverings
Of Kamchatka herdsmen as they caused
the dress shirts of the Partisan
fianeurs and London Johnnies 10 crum-
pie from the cachinnations OF their
wearers.
The world war, which has wrought
such havoc in lives and fortunes, has
not left the motion picture Industry
OF America unseathed. It was an axiom
Of the motion picture producers OF the
United States that this country paid
the expenses but Europe paid the
profits
The war has almost wholly stopped
the expectation Of American films 10
the countries at conflict. with the ex-
eeption Of England, and here the de-
mand has been cut in half
Il was only the great, costly, and
artistic foreign moving picture pro
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-10

piece OF freight was being stored IN
der the direction 81 the mate. The
big bell forward tolled the parting
the eugine-room bell tangled and
with a gentle, wheezy cough the
steamer backed out and we were of.
We had not gone far when the
whistle sounded again, and we paused
to take on the "Hoosier Girl COM
panv. and some more passengers and
freight. including a piano and an aris-
tocratic equine family OF three.
The sire came aboard as though he
rather fancied trip on the river,
hut the mare came up TO the point ~
putting her foot on the stage and
baked. Farther she would not 60
not she. They c0axed and petted and
cajoIed 10 no purpose. Soon she was
surrounded by all hands. with the
captain in charge The other horse
was brought back 10 show her now
easily it could be done; she was led
around and mp to it smartly, as though
the momentum would carry her past
the dread spot But the stalking
horse stalked in vain the reluctant
one would 60 anywhere else gladly,
the New York metropolitan junior cha
but put her foot on that stage she
would not Finally blindfolded and
completely surrounded by darkies,
they got her aboard. while the little
colt came tr0tting after.
Barring the loss overheard Of d
key of beer out Of consignment
billed to q dry town in Iowa. nothing
further happened, and soon, with
whistle blowing and bell tolling, we
were again backing ont to the ac-
compartment Of ragtime pounded out
on the piano down among the freight
where our bIack-skinned virtuoso
pulled joyfully at pipe while his
mates lolled about IuEuriously In true
African enjoyment
Through an idyllic landscape we
iourneyed on. pausing briefly now and
then at either bank in the hazy mellow
light Of warm September day. which
deepened as the afternoon waued. until
the setting sun found us headed dt-
rectIy toward it down d path Of beaten
gold.
Looks pretty, doesn't it?" said a
pleasant voice from the pilot house.
where a man in shirt sleeves smoked
a cigar and spun the big wheel that
kept the steamer in the channel 1t
did, I had 10 admit and just then a
blue beron's Ianguid fight gave
japanese touch to the whole as the
bird drifted slowly across the big red
disk now about to dip below the hori-
on.
Come on up if you like" was an
invitation not to be overlooked, and,
climbing into the glass house. I met
Captain Blair, acting pilot and mauag-
ing owner OF the line, a rudy, clean
cut man of erect, athletic figure, close
cropped white mustache and hair
Taking the place of Brown Had
a good chance for 3 steady Job for the
winter if he took it now" he briefly
explained and from the vantage OF the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-10

The Art ematographique colo
quially the movies. - EeemiugIy inspir-
cd by the trademark motto of a great
international steamship company, has
made its field the warld."
The ubiquitous moving picture show,
first endured. then pited. and then en-
braced, delights the hearts and aches
the eyes Of all nations. and all races
around the world,
The movies" giya as well as take,
for they are showing abe savage tribes
Of remote lands tine things we DO, and,
in turn, repeat to our eyes what primal
man is doing in hiE primal habitat.
There is no village 40 small ia civil
lied countries bat that il. at least oc-
casionalIv. sees the nlaving pictures
There is no kraaI n African wIlds or
wigwam settlement in any other will
derness but that has seen the moving
picture man display his magic. For
the Kurds on the steppes Of Siberia
and the tree dweller@ of Borneo alike
the miracle Of life-mntion photography
has been materialized. The untutored
savage not only sees the movies but,
bless youl he acts IN them. In fact,
the wild men Of Borneo took to acting
in the movies" more readily than an
enlightened Irish peaaautry. For when
the Kalern company Of America sent a
band OF actors TO Ireland TO reproduce
Boucicault's Irish dramas in their act
ual locations. the actors were at times
compelled to ask for police protection
the Irish in ireland in this genera
ton not being wholly Sn sympathy with
the idea OF Americans thus again de-
picting Irish life-as Boucicault mag
ined it some 40 years ago.
The number of moving picture exhI-
billions given all around the earth
would be impossible to conjecture.
They have them in the Danish settle
ments within the Arctic circle. Doubt
less the sign In front Of the "Bijou
Dream Moving Picture IgIoo" In Uper
nfvsk reads. "The Night Is SixsMonths
Long. Enjoy It by Seeing the Smash
ing Sensational Filn-Feature Success,
lemon Eared Sal. the Scouts Bride.
and Passionl"
In New York City alone there are
ever 1900 moving picture theatres; 500
OF these are large. beautiful. and up
to-date theatres. Sixty of them were
originally designed for legitimate stage
production. Seyentssn were regular
Broadway theatres. II which the fore
most stage stars hare appeared and
the greatest dramatic successes Of our
generation have been enacted. Within
the last three or four months six more
leading Broadway tFsatres have gone
ever to the movies" making more
than 20 first class thaatres now show
ing motion photography between Four
teenth street and Columbus Circle
This condition of Affairs IS not peril
nent to New York alone. From Bada-
pest to Kansas City the same coadi-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-10

publication with 10000 900 American
readeTs-if we may call lockers read
ers-of the famous "Pathe Weekly"
There are several others of these
news picture moving picture compan-
les, and it is safe to prophesy that the
next great development OF the moving
pictures win be along the lines of
these animated news-picture services
look to see within the next few
years a daily news service of news
pictures in every town in the world.
It would seem that the newspaper has
gone as far as it can go, owing to the
cost of white paper and owing to the
fact that only one person can see one
copy of a newspaper at a time, and
that no person, save the marooned or
isolated cares to look at old newspa-
peTs. But the news picture will be Of
interest until it has been seen, and
thousands can see it at a time.
The cost of taking news pictures
will be no more than the cost of gath
eriug the news as it is today for news
papers. Printing q film is a cheap pro-
cess compared to printing a newspa-
per. Distribution and displaying of
film is done at a moiety of the cost Of
distributing newspapers and display
ing them fore sale.
Therefore, moving pictures of the
news are surely destined to cover the
world as moving pictures for pasttme,
amusement, and educational uses now
cover it. Instead of there being pic
lures TO thrill, amuse, and instruct
alone, the added function Of showing
US what is happening all over the
world, day by day. viii augment the
widespread showing of the movies"
II is the lack of distributive facili-
ties that holds back the development
of the news moving pictures. Anyone
can secure film and moving picture
camera and take moving pictures, but
the question is how TO sell them at a
profit. The great moving picture pro-
ducing companies of the world have
their distribution facilities we'll in
their own control, and an outside man
ufacturer cannot use these means of
distribution. He is compelled TO ped
die or hire out his films as best he
may
Contrary to the general opinion that
still believes There are millions in
it," the moving picture business is one
Of quick sales and small profits No
great sum is ever made on any one
film unless it be some sensational or
very popular multiple-reel feature, for
which there ifs demand at q higher
price as a special"
Pictured News in the Future.
The great producing companies in
the United States are divided into
three great distributive groups, as has
been said. Each company in each
group knows almost to a CERTAINTY
how many prints from the original
negative they can rent through their
general exchanges. They must figure
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-10

The authorities of Elberfeld, Ger
many, are confronted with the most
puzzung problem that they have had
to solve since the bread card became
in institution in Germany-and Al!
because of a show bear that is so
fussy about his food that he will cal
nothing but bread. The owner OF the
animal recently was hailed before the
lower court and fined and sentenced
to prison because he had shared ms
weekly portion Of bread with the ami
nal. With two months Incarceration
staring him in the face he appealed
alleging that the bear was his oniy
means Of support A hnd-hearted
Judge changed the sentence to a hne
OF 100 marks, and advised the owner
to apply 10 the president Of the gov
eminent In which Elberfeld lies 10
issue Bruin bread card just like any
regular human being.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-10

on THIS income, as against the cost Of
taking their pictures, for their prof
its. This system is what is called
regular weekly releases"
The various moving picture theatres
stick more or less closely to one Of the
manufacturing and exchange groups
either the General Film companies. the
Universal companies, the Paramount
or the Mutual companies, getting their
regular program, either daily or tri-
weekly. from the exchange that
handles the program" they use. All
these devote themselves almost ey-
clusively TO taking and distributing
feature flIms-multiple-ree produc-
tons: generally the adaptations from
famous books and plays
The business is wholly. cash. the ez-
hibitor paying from $50 to 500 per
week for a regular release program
service. He goes to the exchange Of
the combination of companies he pa
trontzes and gets and pays for the new
releases and returns the reels shown
at his theatre the previous night
A higher rate is paid for "frst-run'
pictures. That means the new film just
released by the manufacturer The
"second-run" exhibitor gets a reduced
rate, and so it goes till the films are
scratched and worn with service, and
are then sold at some very cheap rate
to itinersnt travelling showmeu, who
project them by calcium light Ia back
woods schoolhouses or crossroads
town halls"
The field of the moving picture Is
the world. The demand made the pic
lures and now the pictures are aug
menting the demand But vitality. over
all and under all. is the bugbear Of
distribution When distribution Is
cheapened and simplifed. the news
pictures viii in great measure usurp
the present functions Of the newspa-
per. We will see pictures for a penny
and the field of the world viii be COW
cred in manner we do not dream Of
today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-10

much to astonish the mind in the
present They are no longer astound-
ed to behold upon their streets and
upon their lawns and in the lanes the
old ContinentaIs in their ragged regt-
mentals, lords. ladies', cowboys, In
dams. pirates, peasants, and knights
in armor. Off City Island, \. Y, in
midwinter, scenes in the Arctic ice
are taken. AT Saranac Lake, in snow
time. phases Of the strenuous life in
the klondike are portrayed with dog
sledges, reindeer and all. The Jersey
Flats. near Newark, are often used for
Mexican desert scenes, with some half
a hundred artificial giant cacti scat
tered about in the vision field OF the
lens TO give local color.
Abandoned iron mines in the Orange
mountains serve as robber caverns,
while, though You may doubt it, NOV
ing picture directors and camera men
have decided that certain hills on
Staten Island viii look Just like Mon
tana and Colorado" in the picture
On Long Island scenes in Holland
are taken; in Westchester county,
New York, old English old Colonial,
and rural Irish landscapes are 10
Gated with appropriate backgrounds
Of mansions Of the period. or matched
cottages Of the days being depicted
Care is taken by the camera man,
however, to cut out telegraph poles,
and all concerned swear loud and
long when they must pause in the
taking of the picture because some
incongruOus vehicle. such as automo-
bile, bicycle or delivery wagon butts
in" upon the scene.
Yet, for all this, alien scenes are
honestly taken in actual alien places.
The big moving picture concerns Of
America maintain in California, Okla
homa and Florida permanent troupes
Of enactOrs of outdoor scenes of the
strenuous life in these regions. Com
panies are sent to the remotest quar-
ters Of the globe TO take pictures in
the appropriate milieu Thus THE
Life of Christ" has been taken in Pal
estine. and Egyptian stories in Egypt,
and Japanese stories in Japan Expe-
ditions have gone to the Arctic to take
scenes and stories of Arctic life. The
wonderful hunting scenes, taken in the
big-game countries in Africa by Buf~
falo Jones and his cowboys, and by
Paul J. Rainey. are well known to
every schooIboy
The American moving picture man
moves. like Satan, up and down the
EARTH finding interesting work for his
busy hands TO do
Some French companies have taken
pictures in outer lands, but, mainly
and mostly. it is the American who
makes the world his field in the tax
ing OF moving pictures.
Cheaper Than Newspapers.
The Pathe company. through its
American branch, takes pictures of
American news events for its pictorial
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-10

'aThe Waterway 70 Dixie" is the title
of most interesting article. prof8seIy
illustrated. appearing Ia the July issue
Of Harper's Magazine It ia from the
pen OF 81 J Aylwar6 a scenic painter
as well as writer fuasmueh as NJ.
Awkward devOtes considerable space in
his article 20 his visit with Capt Wal
ter A. Blair ana his 5curney On the lat
ters steamer. HeisR blair, the article
is Of more than passing interest to
tri-city people Tbs matter Of local
interest follows
Quite unexpectedly an opportunity
came to pursue my downstream jour
ney afoat. 1t go happened that On en-
tering a go0d-sized t1wu I saw from
the car window tWo steamers OH the
opposite bank Theirs was nothing un-
usual IN this. but tho smoke was pour
ing out OF the giiigraea stacks % one
OF them II needed no Sherlock Holmes
10 fdthom such q cirr. And so. at q
little past one that same afternoon. /
made my way down eae bank. happily
aware that I was aoout b embark on
my first trip in q mississippi river
packet.
A negro roustah0u1 lauguidly roll
ing a cigaret, paused in the operation
long enough TO remark that the land
ing was on the other side. meaning the
other side ri an empty coal cart with
its off wheels in tbs water Here d
greasy plank lei 10 10 the stage,
monopolized for tbs time being by
wagons unloading fraigbt in a steady
stream of boxes and barrels and crates.
With a breathless ola lady leading and
a blue barrel of kerasene following, /
made my entry upon the lower deck
of the Helen Blair There was coal
dust underfoot. the heat 0f the boilers
full in our faces, innpmerabIe darkies
racing past with package freight, and
yelling "MuscaJiue-" ''Nauvoo,' or
\ ''Keokuk
n But in the cabin, on the deck above.
FAN was as it should he the long, mar
row interior flooded with light from
above. aud fanked Uith white state
room doors on which which were
painted sentimental landscapes and
horseshoes grouped "a water lilies;
hunting scenes and - Laudseer dog
watching with approving eye children
romping about a May-pole. At the far
end of the art collection was the La
dies cabin" with carpeted deck and
rattan furniture INSTEAD Of red plush.
and above the piano stretched boldly
across the fun width Of the bulkhead
the name of the ship en- gold. Close at
hand was the purser's Office He as
signed me a room and carried nay bag
thither,
Here was the rarz luxury of space
on shipboard, with running water and
a eommodious bunk and a screened
door opening directly upon the prom
enade-deck. through Vhich you could
watch the shores and shining river
rejecting the sunny s}ly.
The steamers sof2 whistle admon-
ished belated ones 70 hurry. the last