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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04

In Manhattan it has 142 churches and property
valued at s45,97S 500, and claims total of 49,
697 Pensioners. The largest Roman Catholic
parish is that of Our Lady of Guadalupe,
Spanish church. 1t claims $4,000.
"One-third of the people of Manhattan and The
Bronx are supposed to be affiliated with the
churches; in Brooklyn, approximately one-half,
while in Queens and Richmond the proportion is
smaller than in the so-called wicked Manhattan
and The Bronx. Although there only III more
churches in Manhattan and The Brcnx than there
in Brooklyn, they own property worth three
times much, the valuation of the former being
Sl3S,407737, and that of the latter, S44,448372.
The total value of all church property in the city
is Sl92,SS5,l84. The richest church is Trinity,
Manhattan The one receiving the largest annual
revenue for religious purposes according to pub
lished accounts is st. Thomass Protestant Eps-
copal, on Fifth Avenue, the total being $294,385.
The weathiest congregation in proportion to the
number of its contributing members is the First
Reformed Episcopal, on Madison Avenue, corner of
East Fifty-ffth Street. 1t has 100 members and
property valued at 100000. The assets, therefore,
are $4,000 for each member. The oldest churches
the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas and the
Marble Collegiate, on Fifth Avenue, which are
the heirs of the Church in the Fort, established
by the Dutch in 1928 The oldest church building
is St. Pauls, which erected 1764-66
1T MAY INTEREST LIVE FOLKS-AND MAY
NOT.
"The biggest cemetery in the city is Greenwood
which contains 47s and is only forty eight
smaller than Prospect Park. In Prospect
Park. by the way, there is a cemetery fourteen
acres in extent In Manhattan there are only three
notable cemeteries, all of which the property
OF Trinity Church. Trinity Cemetery in the upper
part OF the island is the largest. 1t contains
thirty-fve There are a few unused grave
yards small that they have been hidden by the
buildings and consequently little known. Prob
ably the smallest is the one in the centre of the
block bounded by the Bowery Second Avenue
and Second and Third Streets. Intended as "a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04

course for two hours on Biblical text with
out once falling into the lingo calisthenics
of the baseball athlete.
He thereupon recites the One Hundredth
Psalm as he has heard it intoned in Scotch
pulpts. 1t is a kind of singing. A man might
do il and say ne was not a musician, but no
man could do it who could not sing 1t helps
YOU understand why Billy Sunday methods
have not been adopted in Scotland. They are
unnecessary 1t would be difficult to imagine
a more effective means for controlling the at
tention of congregation than Mr. Macdou-
CALLS rendering of the One Hundredth Psalm.
THE GENTLEMAN OF THE PERFECTLY QUIET
LEGS
Billy Sunday jumps about considerably. An
aud time Scotch meenister can be successful
in holding the attention taut, Mr.. Macdougal
showed the other day. even when his legs are
perfectly quiet.
It is such finished acting that it paves the way
for appreciation of whatever Mr.. Macdougall may
have to say as to why New York should possess
a Scottish theatre. He has acted many parts IN
many lands He formerly lectured at st. An
drews College, within the University of Sydney,
Australia, and was for some time connected with
the Department OF Public instruction in New
South Wales. Having been a director of an edu-
catonal theatre, he is well fitted to talk on the
subject.
Among Scottish people in this city it is hoped
that so great an interest may be soon aroused
in Mr.. Macdougall's plan that plays under his di-
rection may be given by Scottish actors. They
intend to make such productions as "Roy Roy in
the fall.
We got around to such things after while,
and Mr.. Macdougall, walking about the room in
his overcoat, said:
"a change has come over the theatre. The
conventional manager doesn't know this yet. He
does know that he is at skies and sevens. The
change is simply this: In everything to-day-in
play, as in books, magazines, newspapers and
pictures-the people want information. First
hand and frst-rate. As direct they can bolt It,
"Of course, we want to be entertained. We
roar through an empty farce. Then we step out
into the cool and say, What dye think Of the
boobs that can swallow stuff like that!'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04

At the library having made his errand known,
he was directed to almanac filled with sta
tistica information of all kinds, especially re-
lating to churches and parks. What long list
of churches there was He counted the number
of churches of each denomination in each Dor
ough and noted which were richest, which had
the largest membership and income. 1t took
nearly all day TO get answers to the questions
about the churches alone. lie had worked stead
lily, too. When he reached home just before the
evening meal he prepared TO make his first
entries under the heading Facts About New York
City" And it may be stated they facts.
After eating re lighted his pipe and sat down at
the desk again to make beginning. This
what he wrote:
There are in New York City 1896 churches, of
which 672 in Manhattan and The Bronx, sol
in Brooklyn, 1913 in Queens and 6S in Richmond.
The biggest denomination is the Roman Catholic.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04

Edgar, which connects Trinity Place and Ifesp
witch, just below Exchange Alley. Chestnut J."
shorter on its short side" said the oihca' 0'A
ing at the two streets the map, "but
long on the other that the centre line j .
feet. The centre of Edgar is 50 feet, SO .n1'
is with little doubt the shortest street IN ia"
haitian"
Then a portion of a street map Of all Nsnn1'
tan was unrolled and equipped with a sma n''.
elled registering device. with tiny wheel Oh :.
made in Germany" the official ran u SV.'
Broadway as if it were a taxicab. lie io''V'"
the bends in the street as it worked It's v"
across to the west side of the map HAVE.
reached Kingsbridge by successive unroA'"s'
the chart, he glanced at the record and anho'''''
after a moments calculation, 1885 miles
Mr.. Mutt thanked the official, having nSD,
note of the figures, end descended to the hoO' "a
low. 1t turned out that in the Bureau oil D'''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04

place of nterment for gentlemen no one has
been buried in this private place for century
and the abiding places of few of the heirs of the
original owners are known. So it must so on be-
ing cemetery forever Or, so it seems"
WELL" said the hobby owner. putting down
his pen, "that is enough for night. To-mor-
row will go down to the Bureau of Streets in
the Municipal Building and find on, which is the
longest and which the shortest street in the city.
While am there | can look up some other facts,
too"
1t was $3.50 o'clock, time for a retired foreman
with hobby for preciseness to be in bed. Mr..
Mutt retired
Almost before the public servants had rung up
on the time clocks the next morning he was at
the Municipal Building. In the Municipal Build
ing in Naples owing to the fact that you pay
the equivalent of fifth of a cent for the privi-
lege of using the elevator, the visitor to the
building usually so orders his business that he
rides to the highest floor which he wishes to visit
and walks down, stopping according to his sched-
ule. Mr. Mutt decided to arrange his calling list
in the order, although for another reason.
He was methodicaL He took his place in front
Of the directory board with paper in hand The
information about streets could be had on the
twenty-frst floor. The Bureau of Buildings was
on the twentieth. Just below on the eighteenth
was the Bridge Department. Parks were on the
tenth, ETC. Then he boarded the express car.
THE HOME OF CURIOUS QUESTIONS, YET
NEW ONE IS SPRUNG.
"All sorts Of curious questions are asked u.s."
said gentleman in the Bureau of Streets, when
Friend Mutt asked him about the longest and
shortest streets in Manhattan, "but that question
has never been put up to before. Let's look
it up. It's interesting thing to know"
81 suppose there is no doubt that Broadway 10
the longest. 1t from the Battery to Kings
bridge"
"Yes, it probably is" said the authority on
streets as he pulled out his scale map. "The
shortest is eithe. Chestnut, which runs between
Oak and-Pearl, just of Of New Chambers, or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04
WITH the exception of the mans name this
wv il irnn stnrv

WITH the exception of the mans name this
w is true story.
John H. Mutt had been slightly peculiar all his
life He never played kelly pool or bowled. In
deed he was inclined to stick around home even
inrs Like all sensible persons he had hobby
Curious facts were passion with him. 1t was
his ambition to publish some day book of odd
facts.
Great wealth was not his chief ambition. "Only
enough" he used TO pray, $50 that may keep my
hobby and exercise il little now and then
With a Carnegie library nearby, it was not an
extensive hobby Frugal by nature he saw that
bv the time he was ffty-fve he could give up
everything else and devote his waking hours to
the fulflment Of his hearts desire His chill
dren would be married, or their livelihood other
wise assured. The needs of his wife and himself
would be small, As they owned their home hav-
ing been members of building and loan assoca-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04
JOHN MUTT WAS A PERFECTLY METHODICAL
PERSON.


The following morning the excitement con
nccted with leave taking having moderated, John
sat down at his desk in the dining room and took
a sheet of paper preparatory to leading his hobby
ont of the stable. Being Cf methodicsl turn
of mind he decided 10 set down general plan
Of campaign After thinking awhile, he concluded
that one might as well begin at home. Facts
about New York City" would make good chap
ter heading he thought. SO he set down the fol-
lowing series of questions.
How many churcnes are there in New York!
How many church members there?
Which is the biggest and which the richest de-
nomination?
Which is the largest individual church,
Which is the richest?
Which is housed in the oldest building!
Which business building is the largest?
Which is the longest street?
Where is the shortest street and how long is
it?
How long is our biggest bridge and which is
our smallest?
Which is the largest park?
Which is the smallest?
How large is the biggest cemetery?
Which Is the most highly valued piece of
ground in Manhattan?
These were the questions which first arose in
his mind Where should he find answers TO them?
There was the library down at the corner.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04

isfy every necessity
At last the day of retirement from money max
ing arrived. 1t the thrteth anniversary OF
his employment by the firm. Having been fore
man for a considerable number of years, as always
happens in such cases, those under him bought
an umbrella and engaged the boss to make
presentation speech The boss, of course, told
how faithful John had been and assured him that
if he ever needed job one awaited him. The
pension system had not been introduced into his
shop John had enough anyway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04
STAGE GODS WHO WERE CLUMSY, SHORT
AND SQUATFACED.


an England Richard Burbage brother in art to
Shakespeare was fat and short and scant of
breath Betterton, the paragon of the tragic
stage was a clumsy gawk off it. Plain David
Garrick confessed to feet 4, and probably
less The mighty Edmund Kean even slight
or than Garrck, and suffered from neurosis
Squat-faced Foote acted with but one leg.
"The German theatre tells the same story, with
Ekhof and Kainz as outstanding examples of great
tragedians of small frame. A great German man
ager is reported to have said: If your actor is
sho t and ugly, with everyday sort of voice, by
all means send him to me. If he is tall and graz
cous with a lovely voice, let him stay where
he is
"In theatrical France have the longest line
OF the ugest tragedans and comedians in his
tory. The uger the better.
at is the same in literature. It would be easy
to prove with Lombroso, that Moere's asthmatic
couch, Byrons and SCOTS withered stumps and
Wde's mental hermaphroditism came from the
same root their poetry. Who would have
thought, to look at Robert Louis Stevenson, that
his wing tapped to the eagles of adventure?
What of the abstruse mathenatcians who score
the Alice in Wonderland"
He quoted from Mark Twain, as follows:
Nowadays, when a mood comes which only
Read Shakespeare ourselves, Isn't it pitful? 1t
is playing organ solo on Jews harp. We
can read. None but the Boots do it
The tragedans are dead but think that the taste
and intelligence which made their market are not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04

bospital who is a most extraordinary diagnose
clan. II is a paradoxcal fact, IN spite % -
Sound mind in sound body nonsense ',"'
the abnormal sick men VINO nave '"e
working brains-and the weakest
therefore, to my theatre whistle up al 'ne
despised and rejected Of the commerc,a, ,nea
tres. be they physically sound or unsound, matt OF
lame or blind, go long as they have In their oones
and their brains in one strong way OF a"o'"''
the art and science Of the theatre"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04

drama vocal First of all, without Edison you
newspaper men will help to get it through Tor
YOU have the strategic position. look to America
"The greatest plays in all literature, without
exception, we're written by actors and managers
Also alasl the worst plays!
at is usually taken for granted that the dram
atist arrives before the actors because, they say
the actor cons the words of the dramatist.
great mistake! Things are not so simple, under
analysis.
"The actor comes before, and educates the
dramatist who is a later development. The actor
in Thespis, Shakespeare and Moliere developed
before the dramatst. Wanting to act, they called
for plays They demanded plays with more real
ity than any they saw. Failing to get them, they
sat down and wrote them. And forged ahead. II
is eternay so.
"Old Burbage, the father Of Dick, a carpenter
as well as an actor with his own hands built the
first Shakespearian theatre. Reason to believe,
too that he and Dick gave Shakespeare his first
hints on the writing Of plays All dramatists go
to school to the actor. Let the public be warned!
If can't dig out the lively plays | want shall
sit me down and score them off myself. Some
threat"
Mr. Macdougall asked that word be put in for
the actor. There tranOads, he said of nice,
clever and women making a living on tne
stage-for nice clever men and women
mon-but precious few actors among them. New
ertheless, he added, the managers can't fool all
the people all the time.
Even the born actor who sells his soul to get
through has the life Slapped out of him. For,
bless me! he was chosen for his figure in the
managers office. The conventional manager
hunts for Cherubim and Seraphm, not actors
The actor is expected to do with his legs what
he could do far better with his imagination. And
we ask where the actor has gone He is latent
When we want him we shall find him.
Suppose you invited by card to meet an
actor-what would your imagination expect?
"A tall and handsome, graceful, self-centred
vacant fop, with funkeys best tea-party voice?
"Yet the actor is a living, moving sculptor,
composer of music, and the vocal interpreter of
that music Therefore, he is not plentiful as
wild buds in the spring. This is your managers
one stool of repentance. Let him repent forth
with. Let him find the actor through better
agencies than the present pot-lucky ones, and,
having found him, let him treat him humanity
even the traditions against COM
mercial theatre. The Greek tragedians, being
understood for the conditions of the work in
hand were given hoofs of willow wood; their
heads being small, masks; their voices being lost
in the vast, secreted megaphones.
Evening journal., 1915-10-09

cent and during the fiscal year 1914 nine months of
which under the Democratic tariff law the impor-
tations Of lemons jumped so per centfrom 900
to s6OO0Oo0. Then they turned around and slapped
the domestic manufactures of cric acid on both cheeks
by putting duty of cent pound on his raw ma
eral, citrate of lime and reducing the duty on his
manufactured product about 30 per cent
Twenty thousand of young lemon trees in Cali
fornia will come into bearing and double the
domestic supply The crop for the year ended August
81, 1915, 1872 per cent more than last year The
entrance Of italy into the has seriously curaled
that countrys expectation Of lemons to the United
States and quite unforeseen by the Democrats the duty
which they placed citrate lime together with the
parayzng of that industry in Sicily whence a large
portion Of that product this country has serv-
ed to the undertaking the lime citrate in
dustry in the United States
II is hoped that this industry in California will
meet with which is likely under present
ditions With the cessation of war and the advent of
the Republicans to power in 1917 the California lemons
viii be given the protection and preference they
serve in the American market and the citrate of lime
industry will be accorded such consideration may
firmly establish it legitimate enterprise in this
country.
Evening journal., 1915-10-09
GOOD CREDIT.

The finest thing man can have is
credit at the store: it is balssm and
a salve for every mortal SORE The GUS
toner who pays his debt when due,
has shining fame; 'he is the best Of
all good BETS" the merchants all ex-
claim. And when misfortune dogs his
heels, as it will visit men, and he is
shy of plunks and wheels, Of kopecks,
dough and yen, the merchants say,
Buy what you will, and we will glad
ly wait, till you are fixed to pay the
bill-we know that you are straight"
The man who doesn't promptly pay
the merchants what he owes. on the
appointed settling day. all kinds Of
trouble knows. And when misfortune
takes his trail, and hands him sundry
knocks. and he is shy Of dust and kale.
or rhino, scads and rocks. the mer-
chants say. 1--WE cannot sell to gents
like you on time, for when you're
prospecting quite well. you won't
cough up a dime" Poor credit ali
your virtues queers. and gives a punk
renown. and though you live a hun
dred years, you'll never live it down.
WALT MASON
Evening journal., 1915-10-09
CONSTANTINE AND FERDINAND.

MO one need be surprised If events in the Balkans
result In King Constantine Of Greece and King
Ferdinand OF Bulgaria, losing their crowns.
Public sentiment in Greece is Overwhelmingly in
favor OF the Allies The King and Queen who is the
kaisers sister, strongly pro-German In the pres
ent temper Of the Greek people the pro-German King
and his Hohenzollorn wife go only so far with
safety in their effort to thwart the public will II
revolution to break It would sweep the coun-
try like fame and make short work Of their sover-
eign power.
In Bulgaria where King Ferdinand has actually cast
his lot with Germany Austria and Turkey there is
much criticism OF that policy. In fact before he took
the final step he his face by at least one
powerful Bulgarian Statesman that it might cause him
to lose his head. You had better look to your own
head, the King retorted only be reminded that the
King and not the statesman would be tho target OF
public dsapproval.
Great Britain, France Russia and Italy no doubt
already have King Constantine and King Ferdinand on
their black list be dealt with due time as enc
mics Of the Quadruple Entente. When that time comes
both soveregns viii discover that thrones are exceed
ingy unstable things especially when they are not up
held by public sentiment
Evening journal., 1915-10-09

cheap.
The United States failed to threaten
Germany after the Louvain trag-
edy. after the Belgian infamies.
Why. then should it contemplate dras-
tic rhetorical action against the
Turk? What earthly sense is there in
adding one more to the list of nations
we have assailed with opprobrious
language and then been too proud to
fight?'
We have been to Vera Cruz and
scuttled home without the national sa-
lutte we demanded. We have told
Germany that we would hold her to
strict accountability" and then we
have failed to do it, Must we add to
the dead at Vera Cruz and the muir
dered of the Lusitania the American
missionaries end teachers In Asia
Minor, merely because Mr.. Wilson
cannot refrain from giving formal ex-
preston to academic moral prlnci-
pies?
There is nothing we can do for
Armenia. There is not the smallest
intention in Washington to do any
thing but write one of more of those
notes that have become so ludicrous
to the rest of the world and so humili-
ating TO Americans Such a note may
prove the death warrant for many
American men and women. IN the
name of common sense, in the name
of actual as contrasted with academic
humanity sense, why send it,
Evening journal., 1915-10-09
MUDDLING THE MAILS.

MuDDLlNG the mails seems to be a fayorite pastme
IVA OF Postmaster-General Burleson and his assis-
tants in Washington. Their pet diversion at the pres
ent time that Of demorazing the rural free delivery
service in Delaware and elsewhere. fact the dis
satisfaction that exists along the routes that have
been tempered with is that Democratic sena
tors, Representatives and politicians are protesting
to Bureson Their protests not made in the
name and in the behalf OF the people but in the name
and in the behalf of the Democratic party
Republicans who created and built up the rural free
delivery service quite naturally indignant that the
national Democracy is engaged in the enterprise Of
wrecng IT, They feel however that it is merely fur
Their proof of Democratic incapacy. II is exceedingly
valuable proof because It is brought poinedy
and repeatedly to the voters in the districts and
emphasizes the ofrepeaed Republican charge that the
mails Of nation being made Democratic play
things instead OF being kept nvioate for the public
good.
Evening journal., 1915-10-09
The Exfirpafion of Won Tirpifzism
(From the New York SUM-

Not only the Arabic incident but
also the main controversy between
our government and Germany on sub
marine methods OF warfare is closed
by the Straightforward ana satisfac-
tory note handed yesterday by Count
Won Bernstorif to Mr.. Lansing and
by the Secretary of State made pub
lie last night
The German Government instructs
its Ambassador to disavow complete
ly the attack on the Arabic and to ex-
press deep regret for that attack; to
notify Washington of its readiness to
pay indemnity for the American lives
lost; and to announce that the Kali
ser's orders to submarine command
ers have been made so stringent as to
render out of the question, in the
opinion Of Berlin, another incident of
the sort.
The completeness OF the disavowal
and the unreserved acceptance of re-
sponsibility by Germany are empha-
sized rather than mitigated by the
mention of Commander Schneider's
Evening journal., 1915-10-09
DOUBTLESS A FAKE.

THE American public should take with grain of salt
the story told by passenger who arrived in
New York Thursday from Liverpool that King
George Of England and Premier Asquith have had
stormy interview which eliminated in King George
declaring that he will abdcae the throne unless the
Allies win conclusive victory in the present war 1t
is doubtless fake Of the first water Such stories are
usually put out for effect in certain quarters. AS
rule they turn out to be false.
It has been announced repeatedly that Great Britain
France Russia and Italy have gone into this war With
firm determination to carry it TO a conclusive VIC
tory to stamp out Prussan militarism and to shater
the German dream OF world domination. The British
King, the British Government and the British people
are unit on that sentiment That being true. there
would be cause for quarrel between tho King and
the Premier upon that issue and excuse for the
King to threaten to abdicate