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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
mrs. VANDERBILT
BEFRIENDS INSANE
Gives S44,500 for Mental
Hygiene, and Mrs. E. NJ.
Anderson $4,000.

Two large gifts for the general work
Of the National Committee for Mental
Hygiene were announced yesterday at
the seventh annual meeting Of the com
mIttee in the Hotel Manhattan.
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt has con-
tributed S44,5O0 and Mrs. Elizabeth
Milbank Anderson $4,000. a few
months ago, it was announced, Mrs.
Anderson gave $4,000 toward this
years budget. The services OF Dr..
Thomas W Salmon, medical director
OF the national committee, have been
contributed for number Of years by
the Rockefeller Foundation.
Professor Russell II. Chittenden,
chairman of the finance committee, sald
that the interest Of Mrs. Vanderbilt
and Mrs. Anderson had been drawn to
the work bv reading "A Mind That
Found Itself" by Clifford W. Beers,
secretary of the organization, the pub
LEGATION Of which in 1908 led to the
founding Of the committee and TO the
first state society in Connecticut.
The report Of the work during 1914,
dealing largely with surveys OF condl-
tions among the insane OF this coun-
try. indicates that study Of the situa-
ton by the committee Will put an END
TO harmful legislative Investigations OF
conditions among tie insane by substi-
tuting a constructive system Of better
ment. The report shows that conditions
are still very bad in many places.
Conditions almost as bad as those OF
sevcrty-five years ago, when lunatlcs
were chained in filthy, i'll ventilated
cells. were reported. Ii WAS found that
several thousand insane are still con
fined in jails and almshouses.
State societies Tor mental hygiene are
to be organized throughout the coun-
Try. Already seven states have such
organizations, and groups IN twenty
more are preparing 70 establish them.
As part Of the campaign Of educa-
tion the committee will soon issue a
quarterly magazine containing popular
articles on mental hygiene, the proven
ton Of insanity and the care and treat,
ment Of the insane, the feeble-mlnded
and alcoholic and drug victims.
A bill has already passed the House
of Representatives providing for a
Bureau of Mental Hygiene as part OF
the United States Public Health Ser
vice. Surgeon General Rupert Blue,
who attended the meeting, said that
the government bureau would gladly
cooperate with the national commit
tee.
DR.. Lewellys F. Barker was re-
elected president. The other officers
were also retained.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
WOMEN SEEK GOLF HONOR
Draw Palm Beach Visitors to
Championship Games.

Palm Beach, Fla, Feb. l7.-Largc
galleries followed the Qualifying round
Of the women's tournament for the
Championship Of the state on the Palm
Beach links to-day. Miss Lillian Hyde,
cN-metropolitan champion and holder
OF the Florida title. won with "a card
Of s. which ~ higher than her usual
score here, and is accounted for by a
heavy wind. She played with Mrs. {. j.
Smithcrs, Of New York Those follow
ing the players divided attention be-
tween this match and that of Miss
Elaine Rosenthal, Tunner-up in the
last national championship. and Mrs.
Bcrtram G. Work. Of Philadelphia.
The opening Of the Jupiter Island
Golf Club, where nine-holc course
and a clubhouse have just been fin
ished. took several persons from Palm
Beach to Hobe Sound. There was an
invitation tournament and a darsant.
Some Of those attending were Mr., and
Mrs Charles S. Bracket, Miss Nell
Bracket, Miss Lenora Wight, of 81.
Paul: Captain and Mrs. Hugh S. VII
lcughby, Robert Angus, Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Milestone. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Wesley Durham. OF Philadelphia; Mr..
and Mrs. Johnx Tyson. Ny. and Mrs,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. W. Robinson, Of Eoch-
ester.
Mr. and Mrs Frederick FreliHghuy-
sen and Harvey Ladew were among
this mornings arrivals at the Poinci-
ana. The former gave 4 dinner to-
night at the Beach Club, where other
hosts entertaining included Mr.. and
Mrs. William Earl Dodge, Russell Colt,
John B. Kitchen. Hugh Chisholm. Mr..
and Mrs. Robert billiard, H. w. Petit
bone. Michael 7. Grace and c. X. G.
RllInrs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
FIRE SCORCHES PAINTINGS
Small Blaze in Studio Burns
Watrous Landscapes.

Fire paid a visit last night to the
studio of Mrs Elizabeth Wa;roCs. The
artist, in the GainsborouCh, 222 West
Fifty-ninth Street, damaging several OF
her landscapes.
Mrs. Watrous and her husband,
Harry Wilson Watrous, the genre
painter and secretary Of the National
Academy Of Design, were not IN me
studio at the time They live at 40
West Fifty-eighth Street.
Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Gertrude
Nichols. was lying on a couch in the
studio. when she was awakened by
smoke from. a small fire caused by de-
fcctive electric wire. She and Mr.. and
Mrs. Colin Campbell Cooper, artists
from an adjoining studio, doused the
flames with extinguishers, after sor
PAINTINGS had been scorched ana a
couch and some tapestry burned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
TAKES WIRELESS
ON GROUND WIRES
Tufts College Discovers That
Use of Lofty Aerial Anteune
Is Unnecessary.

Mcdford, Mass, FEB. l7.-EXperi-
rncnts conducted by the Wireless So
c,etv OF Tufts College have shown. il
Is unounccd, that radio messages may
he transmitted and received without
The use Of lofty aerial antennG, and
his may cause change IN the use of
wireless apparatus by military signal
Under present methods it is neces-
sary TO raise antenne wires or o pole
100 feet high, an operation that re-
opires considerable time. The ties =
Ser,, il is declared, have shown hat
81 antennR wires may be Teo!ed out
On the ground and the appa, 4tuS made
nd for use within oLo-third OF the
time required for setting up the aerial
equipment. .to rs. 81 Tho
,,rnnnd antenng were obtained when
30 rcceiying wires were LAID IN a.
rect line with the transmitting sta
,;on Two ordinary wires, ninety ie. +,
~ Length. were found, when stretched
-, The ground in this manner to be
snfrcient 70 receive messages from
MONT from Eft. to seventy-hve miles
distant.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
ROCKEFELLER, JR.,
ACCUSES WALSH
Declares He Deliberately
Distorted Testimony
on Foundation.

A hint that Frank P. Walsh. chair
man of the United States Commission
on Industrial Relations, deliberately
distorted his testimony, is contained in
d statements which John D. Rockefeller,
jr., issued yesterday. Mr.. Rockefeller
said:
Newspapers throughout the country
yesterday quoted Mr.. Frank p. Walsh,
chairman of the United states Com
mission on Industrial Relations, as
saying in reference to my testimony in
New York:
al asked him John d. Rockefeller,
jr.) if they (the funds of the Rookie
Teller Foundation) could be used to
establish a strike-breaking agency, If
the Foundation deemed IL to the inter-
est of American workingmen that a
strike should be broken. He stated
they could
This statement, AS reported, is alb
solutely false. The fact is that no
such question was asked me, and not
alone was no such answer given but
any such inference was unwarranted
by either the letter or the spirit Of
my testimony. If such a question had
been asked. | should have answered
unqualitedly that sucn use of its funds
by the foundation would be IN viola
ton of the law granting its charter.
"Mr Walsh is OF course aware that
strike breaking is very sensitive sub
ject with worklngmen. lie well knows
that if | had made such statement
as this it would inhame the minds
of workingmen against the Rockefeller
Foundation, as well az against those
who were trying TO administer It's al
fairs.
1T may be that it is not inconsis-
tent with the purpose OF Congress IN
creating this commission that It's
chairman should from time TO time
publish broadcast his personal Judg-
ment upon the acts and motives or
witnesses who had testified, or who
were expected TO appear
at surely could not have been IN
tended by Congress that the chairman
of this commission should distort the
testimony of witnesses, or put INTO
their mouths testimony which they
never gave, the inevitable result OF
which would be to increase the. very
industrial unrest which the commission
was appointed to allay."
John D. Rockefeller, j., was enter
tanned at dinner last evening at the
Union Club by Senator Everett Colby
of New Jersey. The purpose OF the
gathering was said to be the discussion
of labor conditions throughout the
country. Covers were laid for twenty
tour
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
"I'ORACOLO" SUNG
FOR SECOND TIME
Scott Repeats Success in Leoni'S
One-Act Opera of Chi
neSe Life.

"LOracolo." Franco Leoni's one-act
opera of San Franclsco's Chinatown,
was repeated last night as the first part
of the programme at the Metropolitan
Opera House.
The opera itself. its story, its music,
It's appeal, was fully discussed after its
first performance, and a second hearing
strengthened the impression that the
success il may obtain will be due
largely TO the artists who interpret
its chief protagonists.
Once again Antonio Scott has
placed TO his credit a creation that
long will be remembered. The Italian
baritone has "A host of villains in his
repertory- Scarpia, lago, Don Clio
vanni, Tonic who of US do not know
them, hate them and admire them?
To the number must now be added
Chim-Fen, as veritable a portrait of
diabolical cunning as ever crept upon
the Metropolitan stage. Signor
Scotti's mask is in itself master
niece. and the smile with which he
inveigles the child Just before he steals
il must have come from the lowest
circle of Dante's Inferno. From the
noble De Nevers, through the sot-
fish FalstalF, to the villalnous
keeper Of the opium den, Signor
Scott surely runs nearly the whole
gamut of the human emotions. OF
very few other ARTISTS to-day can this
be said. Mr.. Didur's Win-Shee is an
other admirable impersonation, and one
which vocally lies well within the Rus,
sian basso's compass. Miss BorI and
Mr.. Botta are sweet-voced pair OF
lovers. and Miss Bori a dream OF a
Pekinese Venus in her pink palamas'
Miss Braslau. Mr.. Rossi and MI
Andisio do what they have TO do adj
mirablv. and Mr.. PolaccO infuses the
orchestra with his own enthusiasm.
And. miraculous to state, the Metro
politan has discovered a stage child
Who is all that a child should be. Let
us hope that little Miss Ella Bakos VIII
be as perfect an artist twenty years
from now as she is to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18

Ching Wong. who paints signs res
tsurant decorations and visiting carus
for the burghers Of Chinatown REIN
ouisbed his title Of the Greatest Artist
Living AZ l3 Pell Street for few hout'
last night. and. journeying to the Me',
ropolitan Opera House, took up ine
White mans burden Of muslcal cru
cism Soft-bristled paint orushggFS'
round cakes OF water color and mar
fyisbed frieze Of "A free-tor-al comOaI
between dragons, storks and lmpossiio9iie
fishes were forgotten for a time wh'ie
Wong devoted the energies OF ms olain
20 deciding whether "LOracoio gov
across" from Chinese point OF view
After an interview with SCOUT IN
,yb;cb the erstwhile artist gave the
e,r.s, barytone several points on now
=, opium den keeper really shoul9
loot Wong repaired 10 .he theatre ana
~ about the serious work Of criticism;
Uc was born for that job. 80 apt dld
he nroye himself IN shooting a pro
Juction full Of holes that were ne 20
Continue in his role Of last nignt ne
would doubtless drive his brother CRY
ics to gnawing their typewrItefs WIN
envy. -. ;,ross;o, ~
I'Oracolo":
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
SHE BURIED LOVE NOTES
Carried Out Wish of Friend to
Keep Romance Secret.

That she carried out her friends
wish. to bury a package, said to con
tain love letters, the relics OF an earlv
romance. was the affidavit h'ed al
White Plains yesterday by MISS
Louisa Bradford, of $50 West End ave
nue.. al the probat.ug Of the VIII OF
Miss Mary Ashton Wade. seventy-iour'
or YonkcIs Miss Bradford tod sur
rogate Sawyer that she did not know
the character Of the contents OF ING
package, but Garrett +. smith coun't..
Tor Miss Wade's brother, admitted ~
contained letters which MISS "ade h"d
jealousy guarded. ,.,ooo
Miss Wade's viii disposed OF FII'VoV'
all Of which went 20 relatives.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
DOMINO GIRLS ON HIKE
Dozen Parade to Advertise
Congressional Union Meeting

Did you see the domino girls
Dressed in long, close robes of white
and gold, with purple caps upon their
heads, twelve of them marched down
Fifth Avenue from Forty-frst Street
yesterday at noon; advertising the
meeting the Congressional Union VIII
hold at Cooper Union Monday night.
The mysterious figures attracted
good deal of attention, though they
weren't as mvsterioa, as they might
have been if there didn't happen to be
city ordinance agaInse the wearing
Of facemasks on the street. Only TINS
ordinance prevented the TIVE sc girls
from donning masks and making the
illusion complete.
The twelve girls we're Miss Doris
Stevens, Miss Elisabeth Freeman, Miss
Agnes Morgenthau, Miss Anna Living
ston, Miss Dorothy Schick, Miss Mary
Ruff, Mrs. William Colt, Mrs. Howard
Hipkins Schneider, Miss Ella Reeve
Boor, Miss Christine Merriman, Miss
Elisabeth Meyer and Miss Mildred
Schlosser. They started from the union
headquarters, at 10 West Forty-hrst
Street, going down Fifth Avenue to
Thirty-fourth Street and back up
Broadway, giving out posters all the
WaV
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
wEIHNACHTES IN FELDE.
PAPER TRADE DINNERS
National Associations Last
Night: Retailers This Evening

The members of the National Paper
Trades Association held their eleventh
annual dinner and entertainment last
night at the Hotel Knickerbocker.
More than four hundred guests, in
GLIDING Governor and Mrs. James F.
Fielder, of New Jersey, were present.
This evening, at the Hotel knlcker-
booker, the American Paper and Pulp
Association, representing the retail
paper trades, will have dinner FOL
lowing the afternoon meeting of their
annual convention, which begins to-
dav. Job Hedges. Nehemiah Boynton
and Senator Reed, of Missouri, have
been invited to address the associa-
tim
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
Funeral of Mrs. Mcclellan.

Nice, Feb. 1.-THE American colony
headed bv william y. Hunter, the
American Consul. attended to-day
funeral rervices for Mrs. Ellen Mary
Mcclellan. widow Of Major General
George b. Mcclellan and mother OF
George X. Mcclellan, ex-Mayor OF New
York. The principal mourners were
Paul Desprez and Nine. Desprez, SON
jn-law and daughter Of Mrs. Mcclellan.
The body will be taken 70 New York
OF, the steamer Madonna, which will
sail from Marseilles on February %.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
JOSEPH C. HACKER DEAD
Retired Head of Leather
House, Born in Bavaria.

Joseph c. Hacker, retired head Of
the J. C. Hacker Company, Inc, manu-
facturers of leather products, at sol
West Broadway, died last night at his
home, 20O9 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn.
Mr.. Hacker came in his youth TO Will
iamsburg from Bavaria, where he was
born in 1899. He was Republican
and for many years was Alderman from
the Twcnty-first District.
In 1893 he was appointed Excise
Commissioner serving two terms.
lie was vice president of the Ger
mania Club, for many years president
of the German Hospital Society Of
Brooklyn, and Of the Alien Society.
He married Miss Marie Forster in 1869,
who, with four daughters and two sons,
survives him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
WINDOW BRINGS $3.50
Opening Session Of Estates
Sale Realizes S2,453.

? cathedral window brought $3.50, the
W price paid yesterday, az the open
"a; session Of the Estates sale IN $40 =
fnth Avenue Art Galleries. It's sub.
3eei was Christ in the Garden" and
rs purchaser was W. Hubert.
small antique engraving Of Broad
~ bali century ago OF more was me
.soleet Of lively competition. IL was sold
. =. Bernardo FOR $l4. w. Z. Taylor was
Nt successful bidder at 81 90 for al
shuque chair Of mahogany. Among
siher purchasers were Mrs. Carroll ,.
eR,tb, Mrs b. L. Mott, Mrs. Mason, =
q ZIP, Murray Hubert, W. /. Caldwell,
l. Timmins, Ralph Dewey and r.
Aoodgaf
n ne total for the session was $2,453.
opseh marqueterie, Venetian and eigh-
Ntnih century English cabinetry, sal,
,ff and brie-a-brac will be dispersed
'as afternoon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
Jofre Favors osler Theory.

Paris, Feb. H. General Jofrc, the
French commander in chief. continues
70 carry cut his settled poiley OF weed.
inc out those in the higher ranks Of
the army in fsvof Of younger and more
active men. To-day's appointment list,
made public by General Joifre, con-
tains the names Of nine generals of
divisions who have been placed on tho
reserve list and succeeded by men pro-
NOTED 10 brigadier generalships.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
TRJRTINES CHINESE CRITIC
REVIEWS FIRST OPERA
Gould Not Tell What People Were Singing but
Very Good Play" He Says OF LOracolo'
New Franco Leon Piece.

thing for play-people to remember:
Again. the pipe which Mr.. Scott
smokes is not a good Chinese pipe. IL
should be longer, and thicker.
Il is the same with some OF the
ladies in the play. Their dress was not
right. The hair which they wear should
be fixed differently. This Is hard to
explain in writing.
In Chinese play everything would be
more natural and there would be more
things. Suppose a man die in a
Chinese play, then there is funeral
on the stage. Our plays are longer
and better. / have been in Chinatown
in San Francisco. The scenery was
pretty good, and looked like that town.
Only the signboards in Chinese did not
mean ANYTHING. Some of the letters
on them were Chinese, and the others
were not. Night and day came very
fast in this American play. We had
sunrise and then a little later sunset
again. There were lanterns in front
Of the houses on the stage. They were
not Lighted at night. In Chinatown at
San Francisco every doorway would
have a bright lanterL.
Mr.. Scott was the best. He was
very good where he steals the little
boy. He walked like opium smoker.
Most of the people on the stage took
too long steps for Chinese. Chinese do
not lift their feet high. or their
slippers would fall off. -,
When the woman saw the man dead
on the stage, she would have hollered
out very loud if she was real Chinese.
Then every orc would have come quick.
Where the oracle in the plays burns
papers, after his son is dead, that
means that ne is paying money 10 the
devil TO make him go away. This IS
Chinese custom. So was the procession
that went on. All the time in China
we have professions. =,
The music was not Chinese at all.
could not tell what the people were
singing, but | think IL is very good
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
Rv CHING WONG.

do not understand American plays
I do not understand American operas
Tonight | went 10 the theatre 70
an American opera was Iu ,n,. >,
The play this night was oraeolo,
chinatown in San Francisco. Ihey
sine il in Italian. which do not un-
Jnrs,and Mr. Scott is the bad man
~ this Chinese opera. lie keeps a
ooium house and steals children. lie
IaoEs unite like a ChinamAn, only his
face is too dark. We have a proVero
thst saws: THE Chinamsn.i Is gold the
white man silver" Ths. IS sooa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
Bundle Day for Brooklyn.

Bundle Day distribution in Brooklyn
begins to-day at the headquarters OF the
BROOKLYN Bundle Day Committee Of the
Mayor's Committee on Unemployment az
M Fulton Street. Under the super
vision OF committees from the various
charitable organizations Of Brooklyn
Mrs. John William Tumbridge, chair
man of the Bundle Day Committee, has
had collected and sorted out thousands
Of bundles in Loft 8 Of the Bush Ter
uinal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
School Girls to Aid Poor.

The girls of Washington Irving High
School will hold a moving picture car.
nival and dance in the auditorium OF
the school on Friday and Saturday,
February 20 and p, to raise 81 900 for
destitute children. The moving pct
ure firms have given feature films for
the occasion. Tickets can be procured
from Miss Gittoe, 40 Irving Place.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
Film Stars TO Act at Benefit,

Edith Storey and Antonio Moreno,
who took the leading characters in
sTbe Island Of Regeneration appear
to.night at the Vitagraph Theatre in
. ,ableau. Other moving picture stars
,yilI also lend their aid 10 the save
a Home Fund" benefit
Among them will be Mr.. and Mrs.
sidney Drew in Wanted. a Nurse:
WaiIy Van, Flora Finch and Hughie
Mack in "The New Stenographer' and
Onita Stewart and Earle Williams IN
"The Woodlawn Fantasy"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
"CHARLIE" TAFT LEADS
Wins Freshman Scholarship
Honors at Yale. -
tBy Telegraph 70 The Tribuns

10y iefsrApn W lne ifionnfl
New Haven, Feb. l7.-Charles y.
Taft. I'd, was announced to-day as
scholarship leader of the Yale fresh
man class, as a result OF the seminar
nual examinations. His father, eX-
President Taft. was second in the class
of '7s, and his grandfather, Alphonso
Taft. led his class sixty years ago.
Charlie" Taft's activities are more
general than any other Of his mates.
He represented Yale in the Yale-Syra-
cuse freshman debate, and is guard on
the varsity basketball team.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
by TeIearaph % Tie Trlbune.l

Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. 17.-Frank ?.
Walsh was told tonight over the tele-
phone of the statement issued by John
ID. Rockefeller, jr. He said Mr.. Rookie
Teller had picked out the one paragraph
in the interview, as published, that
there was a chance to bubble about:
"As matter of fact" said MI
Walsh. 81 did not say who testihed to
the subject and | do not remember now
whose testimony it was. do know, oil
course, that it was not Mr.. Rockefeller
The point is that the testimony was
brought out and the witnesses were all
competent"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
DIED.

BARKER At Yonkers. y. Y. o.
Wednesday, February II. 1919, kath-
airline A. Barker, wife Of William II:
Barker. in her Slst year. Funeral
service at her late residence, Fair
field Place, Yonkers, on Friday after
noon at 2 o'clock.
BOWDOIN-On February l6, 1915, at
her residence, 80 Park sv., Julia Grin
nell, wife of the late George ). Bow
dom. Funeral services at Grace
Church, Broadway and 10th ST., on
thursday morning at 10 o'clock.
BROWN-Entered into rest at Yonker.,
n. Y, on February IL, 1913. Clemen-
tine Wolcott, widow of David n.
Brown. of Brooklyn, in her s5tb year.
Funeral from the home of her daugh.
ter Mrs. Charles A. Youngs, 1886
North Broadway, Yonkers, on Friday.
February 10. 1915, at 1880 a. m. Au-
tomobiles will be at Greystone sta
ton on arrival of n. Y. Central train
leaving New York at f0:45. Inter
ment at convenience OF family.
EBELTOFT-On February IS, johannes
Ebeltoft, aged 81 years. Funeral
Chapel Ste ,Jhen Merritt Burial snt
Cremation Co., Eighth av., 10th at,
Thursday afternoon, o'clock. Nor
wegian papers please coy.
HUSTACE-On February II, 1915, DR..
Francis Hustace, in the 65th year OF
his age. Funeral service at his late
residence, 3l6 West 10Th ST., on FRI
day morning. at 10 o'clock. Inter
ment at the convenience Of the
family.