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CoLoRED MEN IN q. s. DEFENSE.
An Organization known as the Knights
of the Constitution has Organized to
Form a War Reserve in New York
City, With the Hope of Extending
It Over the Country. Preparedness
Is Good for the Colored Man, as Well
as the White.
New York, Oct. 27-A national move
ment to enlist Colored men of the
United States in a reserve force for
use in time of war was launched here
today when the Knights of the Consti-
tuition were organized, with Derby ID.
Shirley of this city as president. The
first step was taken a few days ago,
when resolutions were adopted declar-
ing that "the lessons of history and
trend of human events indicate that
there is possibility that the United
States will be involved in war at no
distant date.'' It was declared to be
the duty of every citizen, regardless
of nationality, to be prepared to re-
spond to the call of his country.
Organizers of the movement, who as
sert that Colored men fought valiantly
in previous American wars, say that
steps have been taken to organize
camps in all states. They hope that
rs, 900 Colored men in New York state
will join the movement-The Daily
News, by The Associated Press.
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THE ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB.

LIZ <244A lila OIL nf116 SaSos
The Suffrage Club was well attended
Wednesday evening at 3005 State st.
Reports were received from the First
Annual Reception Committees, and the
opinion was expressed that while we
failed to make the money we hoped
for, it was a wonderful opportunity to
meet in a social way the members and
friends. 1t has been decided to hold
public meeting at the Reading Room
the first Wednesday in every month,
and for the other meetings in the
month, the members will hold a social
at their homes, for the purpose of in
creasing the treasury. Mrs. Barnett has
offered a prize to the member making
the largest amount of money at their
home between now and February /.
Mrs. Emanuel left Wednesday morning
as a delegate for the Alpha Suffrage
Club to the meeting of the Federation
of Woman s Suffrage held in Peoria.
Mrs. Barnett arrived in Peoria in time
to deliver her address Saturday morn
ing.
IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT,
President.
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Entered - seesnd-Class Matter Aug. ID
Iss1, st the Pest Once ut Chicago ulinsis
under At Of March Q, 1878.
REMOVAL NOTICE.

From on and after this date, all
letters or other mail matter intended
fer Julius F. Taylor or Mrs. Annie E.
Taylsr or The Broad Ak, should be
addressed to 6532 st. Lawrence Ave.,
jackson Park station. Phone Went
wsrth 1897.
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Mrs. Anna Shelby was united in mar
riage to Mr.. Wills Phenox, the 22nd
inst, at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Woodward, 5435 Kimbark Ave.
Rev. w. II. Griffin performed the cere-
mony. A few of her friends were pres
emit, refreshments served and a very
pleasant evening was spent. We wish
the couple much happiness.
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Daniel ]. Summons, 6752 s. Ada
street, after long illness arrived to
the end of life's journey last week. He
was an old and honored member Of
Bethel Church, and he was a charter
member Of Hannibal Lodge, No. 8,
Knights of Pythias.
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Sunday afternoon from to 6 o 'clock
q reception was given in honor Of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph 81. Douglass of Wash
ington, d. C., at the home of Prof. B.
Emmanuel johnson, 3747 vincennes
avenue. Many socially; prominent men
and women were present to meet Mr..
and Ars. Douglass.
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HYDE PARK NEWS.
By w. L. Washington.

Hyde Park was well represented at
the Olivet Monday night, showing their
appreciation of the effort of one of its
citizens, which we appreciate. So well
pleased were they with the 5 act drama
written by the writer, they have asked
for a future date in one of our White
churches out here.
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Mrs. A. NJ. Smith, Mrs. J. G. Snow
den and Mrs. Thomas, the latter part
Of last week attended the State Con-
vention of Probation Officers Of the
Juvenile Court at Danville, Ill, and
they were royalty treated by al. those
who were delegates to the convention.
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Miss Brown, 3247 Forest avenue is
again serving as stenographer for At
torney William G. Anderson, So W.
Randolph street, the Delaware Build
ing.
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Mr.. and Mrs. John Parish, 652s st.
Lawrence avenue, spent Saturday after
noon and Sunday at South Haven,
Mich, where in the near future they
may purchase a small farm.
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Mrs. ]. C. Anderson, 1862 Calumet
avenue, has returned home from attend
ing the Parent Mite Missionary Society,
of the A. NJ. E. Church, which met at
Detroit, Mich.
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THE WEBER COMPANY, THE UP.
To-DATE TAuoRs.

The Weber Company the up-to-date
merchant tailors at 81 West Washing
ton street, bank floor, Max Weber,
manager, make to order all kinds of
fine clothes which they viii turn over
to their regular customers on easy
payments, see their ad in another col
umn Of this paper.
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1t seems so strange that God, who is
represented as being so rich he has the
streets paved with gold up in heaven,
has such large army begging for him
here below.
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The writer desires to thank the edi-
tor Of the Wisconsin Defender, for the
kindly mention in its issue Of October
l6. Of the Goth Anniversary edition Of
The Broad Az.
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Chinese Language.

The Chinese language Is very difficult
to learn, for, although there Is no al
phabet. It Is necessary to master about
10000 syllable characters.
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CHIPS

Mrs. s. ]. Carter, who lately has been
residing in Madam G. j. Walkers home,
1916 Calumet avenue, this week re-
moved to the home of her sister, Miss
Lizzie Knee, 1914 South Park avenue.
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Mrs. Alexander of 5606 Lake Park
Ave-, won the gold watch for selling
the largest number of tickets for DR..
Richerson's movie show, which was
given at st. Paul Baptist church.
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Sure Enouah,

He denies his wife nothing"
~Well, that's one way Of avoiding
troable II you can AFFORD it."-Dstroft
free Press.
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THE BROAD AK
PHONE WENTWORTH a5s7.
YULIsHED WEEKLY.

JULIUS +. rAYLoR. Editor and Publishes
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managers and producers, who like my
self are frankly and avowedly CONNER
cial. why. I'm as commercial as the
Winter Garden. and the Hippodrome
mas nothing on The Critic when It
comes to casting an anxious eve on the
box office receipts at counting up.
This confession was delivered by Mr..
Payne in his dressing room at the
theatre where he was in process OF
making up" for the evenings perform
ance - Iden Payne's physiognomy is
all his own. His nose Is the most amaz-
ing and the most amusing nose since
Socrates. not even excepting Cyrano
de Bergerac's. for Cyrano's was large.
whereas y. Iden Paynes is small, as
your born comedians nose has to be.
Yes. it is a funny nose. I'll admit"
he remarked gravely, just as though
there might he any doubt about its
being so. over in England It has been
caricatured a lot. and l suppose il has
contributed to my success as an actor
great deal more than | would care in
very serious moments TO acknowledge.
When / was little boy at school In
England 1t was absolutely impossible
for the master to preserve discipline
when | grinned. Finally ! had to be
removed entirely and put into the care
of a tutor. lie was a curate. absolutely
devoid Of any sense OF humor for during
the entire three years | was under his
tuition / never saw him smile--no, not
even at my nose. Curlously enough.
though. he did have sense Of the
value which my nose might have for me
on the stage. because when finally he
retired from the job OF teaching me he
suggested TO my father and mother that
II ever / wanted TO 20 on the stage
they would do well to encourage the
ambition. SO here I am"
with the last remark MIR Payne shot
an amiable grin across his shoulder a
grin such as one sees in Timothy Cole
drawings or in old English color prints,
and which involves the entire face.
mouth, teeth. nose and eyes, the latter
small and blue and wide apart, as hon
est eyes ought to be.
But to get back to the 'highbrows'
or TO the intellectuals, az they prefer to
be spoken Of. DO you see that?" and
the actor manager pointed to a pile of
letters heaped on a trunk in the corner
Of the room. DO YOU know what they
are? Well. they are notes Of cOngratu-
lation from your local higlbrows. all
felicitating me upon what one lady from
Orange characterizes az my revival a
the classic drama. The writers OF
those letters. all Of them strangers Ia
me and nearly all OF them women. rep
resent that portion OF the theatregoing
public to whom the words repertoire
and stock company as applied to the
theatre are synonymous with exalted
heights Of culture. You cannot make
them understand that repertoire and
stock company have no more relation tC
culture than the box Office Eself. You
cannot make them understand that the
theatre has no interest whatsoever in
culture as they interpret the term and
that II never did have and never can
have or ought to have. And as for the
intellectual, we'll. you cannot make
these good folk see that by the very
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country. and he certainly Is one " It's
successful producers aud managers
Moreover, he has the good sense to 49,.
preciate the value OF the poN nm.
arbiter as ! remember from an articl.
he wrote for the Century HGDd.iHC scN
eral years ago on this very suhic,,
Now David Bela-CO is n man Of On
theatre II ever there was one. / do n.
know him personally. have never 500.
him. but he has been. ! understand. O..
usher. a call hoy. doorman, a Creu-
performer and an actor.
Il am told he once played Hamlet g..
Western mining camps. aud that he oi-
j1yed varied experience in actin.
long before he became a manager. Nov
given the natural genius Of Mg
lasco. IL was inevitable that lie sauuld
have done for the theatre Of this cour.
try what he has done. He is essential
of the theatre The theatre. take 6,
is Mr. Belasco's great passi n. and Thor
he spends practically all Of h's t.ue
there There used to be a saying tha'
a womans place was at home. a theory
now exploded hut theatrical MAJ.
ayers place has always been the the
atre and always will he He ought 90
be there morning. noon and night =,
Is his business H. see lie and 20 know
men and women through the eyes ~
the theatre and in no other way
And what applies to the manager
applies also to the actor. and. with spe-
cial emphasis, to the actress conclude !
MIR. Payne. who in the powdered poruk.
and eighteenth century small clothes
OF Mr, PHG. was now ready to make
his entrance in the Sheridan tume.l
The actor and the actress have go.
away from the theatre too much one
hears great deal Of nonsense about
the improved social position OF the mot.
ern actor as compared with the hum
bleness and obscurity Of his forebears
and there are people who cite this a.
an evidence of progress. OF what m
portance IL social position to the actor?
What has the actor 80 do with society
Absolutely nothing The acto- belong
to the stage. not u the drawing room
What need IL matter to him IL the bee.
houses are open to him? lie has no bus.
ness being seen anywhere except ON th.
stage. am not a reactionarv "A,
from it, but | am sometimes inclinsI
b. wish back again those DAYS whei
| players were held as Social pariah.
aires or lordlings. with no aspiration,
/ to dine with the best people with n.
! closer association with smart folk thar
I that afforded by the green room an,
| with the certain knowledge that wher
/ the end came their mortal remain,
would not be permitted burial in ha'
| lowed ground. While those outwoi!
! prejudices must have been. and d5ubr
| less were. CALLING 10 the pride OF play
/ folk as men and women. they wer,
magic fillips to the art Of acting in tina
| they made actors and actresses hum
BILE, keeping them close TO the people
] the common people by whom the the
atre lives and for whom the theatr'
exists. All great actors have COM
from the common people, and no acto
/ can AFFORD to get away from then
without loss of his art"
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In The Merchant 81 Venice London
In the days Of Shakespeare shored with
Toulouse the unenviable distinction OF
being the most insolent city In the
world toward foreigners. and the jew in
those days throughout Christendom
was considered foreigner. no matter
what his birthplace. Giordano Bruno.
the Italian philosopher and leoturer,
who had occasion to visit Elizabethan
London. records that the shop people
and artisans on seeing a stranger made
faces. grinned. laughed, hooted, called
him dog. traitor and foreigner, the last
name being the rudest they could think
Of. qualifying him for any other in
suit
When Shakespeare had ShDlock
hoo. ed and baited on the stage the pit
must have howled with delight at rec
, ogntion OF a favorite sport Of theirs"
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terms of their premises they are simply
propourding a huge joke.
80 to all these generous expressions
Of mlsdirected appreciation / can only
make the disappointing reply that their
writer's are in the wrong pew. so to
speak. and that | am. so far from being
philanthropist or uplifter of any sort,
of all managers the most commercial;
that believe implicitly in the CONNER
cial theatre and in no other; that the
box office Is the only criterion by which
we can measure the value of any dra-
matte piece or Of any actors art. Money
talks everywhere and always to the
point. But nowhere does money talk
to such purpose as in the theatre. If
no considerable portion NJ the public
is willing to pay good. hard cash to see
Smith act in Jones's play. then you may
he sure there IL something radically
wrong with either Smiths acting or
Jones's skill as dramatlst.
For whatever else 1t Is or is not the
drama is a popular art. Its very ex-
istence depends upon it's popularity.
Shakespeare was a popularity dramatist
to the point Of vulgarity. He wrote for
stable boys quite as much as. II not
more than. for lords and ladies. but
never did he write a line for the 'hig5-
brows Of the Elizabethan age. The
eyebrows Of the day had their own
pet dramatists. the very names OF whom
are now all but forgotten"
Here Mr. Payne picked up another
letter and smiled as he ran his eye
over its contents. This good lady"
he laughed. expresses the hope that
establish in this country a theatre
along the same lines as that which ]
formed for Miss Horniman in Manches-
ter. We have suffered she says. much
too long in this country from the COM
mercial theatre, with the result that
our public taste IS becoming wholly
vitiated.
BLESS her innocent soul she doesn't
know what she is talking about. and
there are thousands like her. Why,
Miss Horniman's theatre Is literally
built around the box office. II is any
thing but intellectual and the avowed
object Of its existence is the production
Of popular plays. and nothing tickles its
vanity more than long line OF people
scrambing to get to the box Office win
dow. AS to the theatre having become
I Nluated, that is sheer nonsense. The
theatre is as clean and healthy to-day
as i ever has been. In fact perhaps
more So"
But" interposed the interviewer
surely there must be something the
matter to produce all this hullabaloo?'
"Oh. YES. there's something the mat
ter all right enough" was the quick
reply. There's one little thing the mat
ter with the theatre in this country just
as in England, and that Is that its des-
TIMES are for the most part conducted
by men who are not OF the theatre.
/ can best illustrate my meaning by
calling your attention to David
| Belasco. brilliant exception to the rule.
| believe | am safe in assuming that
Mr. Belasco is the chief exponent OF the
beautiful in theatrical production in this
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-OR the benefit of the Downtown
r. Day Nursery and the Netherland
Benevolent Society Fritz Kreisler
Will give \ recital at the Madison Square
Garden Theatre next Tuesday afternoon
at 2:15.
The programme Is of tine violinist's
own selection. II comprises some of
the charming pieces Of the present day
OF clever compositions and some Of the
quaint classics of the seventeenth CEN
fury. lie will play, among others. Vi
ValdHs concerto, "Devips Trill," Tar
tint Melodie Gluck; "Chanson Louis
Treize ct Pavane,' Couperin; 'Sicilenne
ct Rigaudon." Franc~ur. Variation.
Tartini: "Chanson Meditation" COT
tenet. and few OF his own compost
tions--"Caprice Viennoise,' "Tambourin
Chinois," "Liebes Lied and "Liebes
Freud"
Among those who have already re-
served their seats at the Garden Theatre
box office, at Tyson 4 Bros Hote Man
haitian or from Mrs. 4. 81 BOissevain.
635 Park avenue, are; Mrs. Francis G..
Bishop, Mrs. Frederick Kernochan, Mrs.
Beverly Bogert, Miss Ruth King, Miss
Adele Kneeland, Miss Maud sorland,
Mrs John Magee, Mrs, william h. Bris-
tow, Mrs Richard L. Morris, Mrs. sgd
ney Colford il, Miss Marie Louise
Peckham. Mrs. Howard Dickinson, Mrs.
Grafton Pyne, Mrs. Herbert Hartman,
Miss Lydia Redmond, Miss Louise Iselin,
Mrs John Sanford, Miss Dorothca Kane,
Miss Anna Wright Guy Van Amringe,
Henry Sayre Van Duzer, Or, \, Van de
Sande Bakhuiizcn, r. j. Van der Bent,
n. Dan Wolterbeek. Louis l. Dubourcq,
=. J.. +. +. Ridder Van Rappard Mrs
il. Wertheim Van Heukelom, Mrs. Seth
Prague, Mrs w, NJ. Polk, Mrs. Newbold
i, Il. Edgar, Mrs. Edward ~ Glib, Mrs
e Iewisohn, Mrs. II. NJ. Tilford, Miss
hcrnochan, Mrs, James Speyer, Mrs
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Fritz Kreisler to Play for Charity

had managed TO earn but 81 IN two
weeks sewing waists at 10 cents each,
or kimoHos at six cents each, finishing
perhaps one a day. Yet when asking
for higher wages she was told what
she well knew already, that many
women were waiting to snatch at the
chance OF making even this pittance.
Ii is to help this work that the Kreis-
Ter recital Is being given The managers
of the Downtown Day Nursery are Mrs,
Francis G, Bishop Mrs, Beverley
Bogert, Mrs G. Louis Boissevain, Miss
Maud Il, Borland, Mrs. William II. Brls-
tow. Mrs, sydney Colford, Jr., Mrs.
Howard Dickinson, Mrs. Herbert Har-
riman Miss Louise Iselin, Miss Doro.
thea Kane, Mrs. Frederick KernOchan.
Miss Ruth King. Miss Adele Kneeland
Mrs. John Magee. Mrs. Richard l.. Nor
rls, Miss Marie Louise Peckham. Mrs.
Grafton Pyne. Miss Lydia Redmond,
Mrs. John Sanford and Miss Anna
Wright.
The Netherland Benevolent Society
was organized by the late Consul-Gen-
cral of the Netherlands, John r. Plan
ten. 1t maintains a home at 209 West
Twenty second street, where meals and
lodging are furnished to persons Of
Dutch nationality or Dutch parentage
until they have found employment,
which the society's secretary James
Penninck, helps them to procure, If
need be transportation is furnished to
the place where work Is available. Per-
sons totally unable to earn living in
this country are given free passage
back to the Netherlands or to the Duto1
colonies.
The board of directors Of the Neither
land Benevolent Society are Guy Van
Amringe. Dr., A, van de Sande BakhuiI.
zen, T. j, Van der Bent, q. Louis Bots
seyain Louis l. Dubourcq. Henry Sayre
Van Duzer, II. j, Won Hemert, Gustav
Nertheim Van heukeiom ana X Dan
Wolterbeek, o.
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Gustave Werthelm Van Heukelom, Mrs.
II. H. Rogers, Mrs. otto Kahn. Mrs.
Charles steele, Mrs. Edith Whitmore,
Mrs Jacob Schiff and Countess de Lau-
gier- Niliars.
The box office receipts are to be shared
equally by the Downtown Day Nursery
and the Netherland Benevolent Society
of New York.
within a stones throw of Wall street
is district whore some 1000 poop
live IN poverty. Most Of the families
have incomes of less than SIS weekly.
and even such earnings are achieved
only through the eXpedient Of taking
boarders and dodgers. In a single room
inspectors have found as many as eight
and ten dodgers, the man and wife oc-
cupying mattress on the floor. male
dodgers al one end OF the room, girl
dodgers AT the other end and chi dren
sprawlIrg on cots mprovised from
chairs
This is the field Of work OF the Down
town Day Nursery. At 100 and l22
Cedar stree, two century old houses
have been brighter ed and spruced up
by the touch Of modern sanitation,
There at o'clock in the morning the
mothers, before they go to work, leave
their children for the day. The children
are we'll cared for and well fed by the
nurses in attendance and treated by
physician whenever necessary. When
the days work l. dore a. in the
evening the mothers come to cal. for
Their little ones.
The children range in age from
few months old to years The babies
nap in clean comfortable cribs. the
older ones play, and the oldest of all
attend the nursery kindergarten,
When the landlord comes On rent
! day some of the mothers have not the
( money to pacfy him. Then the nursery
! natrou, Miss Ford, helps out, for the
rent must he paid. One woman recently
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THE THEATRES THIS WEEK.
Ballet aud Shakespeare, with Plays
From sweden and England.

Robert Mantell will begin an engage
ment Of four weeks At the Forty fourth
street Theatre on Tuesday evening.
He will present the Shakespearian ana
classic pays of his rich and unusual
repertoire. On Tuesday he will appear
In King John" and ,he same play Will
be repeated D the matinee on Wednes-
day. on Wednesday and Saturday nights
Macbeth will be acted, and on Thurs
day evening. as well as at the Satur-
day matinee. Hamlet" will he played.
The Merchant Of Venice" will he given
on Friday.
Mr. Mantell this season has two lead
ing women GeneVieve Hamper and
Florence Auer Fritz Leiber Is still Mr.
Mantell's leading man, while Miss Ethe.
Manteu the youthful daughter Of the
.ragedian. is a recent addition to the
cast Others of prominence in the COM
pany in lude GeneYieVe Reynolds Nir-
ginia bronson. Bessie James, Georgia
Fox. Ida Lawrence. Guy Lindsey Wa
ter Gibbs Frank Peters john Burke.
Edward Levers and Francis Macleod.
The repertoire FOR the balance OF the
engagement will be as follows: Second
week. Monday King Lear: Tuesday,
Macbeth. Wednesday matinee, The
Merchant OF Venice. Wednesday night,
"Othelo" ,Manteu as Othelio); Thurs
day, "Richelieu"; Friday LlncOln's
Birthday matinee. "Othello"; evening
Richard III" (uuly timeD; saturday
matinee. Macbeth: evening "HGmle,.'
Third week Monday. Louis Nj;
Tuesday. "Thr Merchant Of Venice ;
"wednesday matinee. "Richelieu"; eve
ming. Ham ct: Thursday. "Othello'
/ CMantell as IdDo): Friday. Macbeth"
/ Saturday matinee. The Merchant OF
/ Venice: evening King Lear" Fourth
week. Monday tW1shlng. on's Birthday
matinee and night, Julius Cesar" A.;
/ Tuesday, Macbeth. Wednesday matt
nee. Romeo and Juliet; evening
/ Cgsar": Thursday. Hamlet Friday
King John: Saturday matinee. Julius
/ Cesar; evening. farewell night. one
act from each OF Ave tragedies. Mac
beth" "Hamle,." king Lear THE
Merchant Of Venice and Julius Cesar
/ OOTum sCene).