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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-16

theaters and the Empress circuit.
Considine actually owns 20 thea
tiers of the latter circuit, and con-
trolls the remaining two. These
cover the West and Middle West,
from Cincinnati to the Pacific
coast.
If Considine wins this last bout
with Fate, it will be partly be-
cause the hundreds of men who
work for him love him. He's a
bad enemy, but a good friend.
Once Considine's auditor came
to him and said that one of his
managers had stolen large sum
of money. The manager confess
ed.
Considine gave him a tongue
lashing, and wound up with: IF
you stole, It must be because
don't pay you enough"
AND HE RAISED HIS SAIL
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-16
CONSIDINE'S BROKE
BUT STILL FIGHTING

AIRY $25 A WEEK AND SENT
HIM BACK TO WORK.
In court, Considine said he was
responsible for Sullivan & Consi-
dine, Inc, debts amounting to be-
tween 100000 and 100000
and that he personally owed
about $4,000.
He has sold his automobile aud
made | do not know what other
sacrifices.
He said that when he borro we'd
money, he had to sign notes, but
that when he loaned money he
did not take notes.
No one will ever know the ex-
tent of his secret philanthropl ss,
He has given generously to pub
lie charities, but always secretly.
And as for the times he :,as
staked derelicts with bed-and-
breakfast money and loaned"
money to men whom he knew
would never repay, they are With
out number.
IL was when Marcus Loew
bought the Empress circuit, con-
ditlonally, Johnny" Considlne
made what he thought was asure-
thing bet. 1t was big mistake.
There was a cunning clause In
the bill of sale.
Loew gave the west the kind OF
vaudeville 1t didn't want and
wouldn't have. The business fell
off. Public confidence in the
Empress theaters evaporated. The
organization got rusty, cracked,
rasped and broke down.
Johnny" Considine had
thought to spend his declining
years in retirement, fooling
around with his blooded horses
and dogs, which are his hobby.
But Leow, by virtue of the cum
ming clause. loaded the theaters
back on Considine, who, though
hampered for capital, has oiled
and FURNISHED the machinery, and
is now hanging on like grim
death until public confidence In
him and his theaters shall have
been restored.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-16
LOOKS LIKE THE MOTHER IN
THIS CASE is A FAMILY
HOODCOf

I(From the Aurora, III, Beacon
News.)
Mrs. Maxwell of Sycamore, Wis
tied her daughter, Mrs. w. ii.
Smith, last week. Mrs. Smith
ran a nail in her foot. Mr.. Smith
cut his eye ball with piece or
steel, and their son, Horace,
broke his arm.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-16
By Fred L. Boalt.

One day recently tommy
Considine, owner of the Empress
theaters in Tacoma and else
where and vaudeville magnate In
general, not long ago rated as a
multimililonaire, was asked in Su-
perior Judge Frater's court at
Seattle why he could not satisfy
q judgment obtained against MN
on an overdue note for $2,50O'
I'm broke" said johnny
Considine. -,
But he held his head up when
he said 1t.
Men close to Johnny" Consi-
dine say that, though "broke, he
is still fighting, and they
prophesy that he who has won and
lost many fortunes will win an
other before he dies.
owned a bulldog once. Oddly
enough, my dog, like Johnny
Considine, was an Irish bulldog.
He was an amiable dog. most OF
the time, and he was q staunch
friend, but, gosh, how he loved
to fight!
The brewer in our town had a
dog that was part bull, part New
foundland, and part yellow. The
dogs met one day. The brewers
dog got my dog by the throat. My
dog got the brewers dog by an
ear.
My dog tore the brewer dogs
ear clean off. But the brewers
dog chewed hole In the throat
of my dog that you could have
put your fist in. And he wouldn't
let go.
My dog lay very still, without
whimpering, q long time. The
brewers dog was working his
fangs deeper and deeper into my
dogs throat. Then, all of sud-
den, my dog gave a heave and
a twist, and for a minute there
wasn't anything to be seen but a
whirling mass of dogs.
When the mass stopped revolv-
ing my dog was on top.
From what l know and have
ben told of Johnny Considine,
though fate has him by the
throat, he isn't whimpering and
he isn't whipped.
Johnny" Considine fitted cas-
lily into the life of the West of
the older days. They were rough
days, and he was a rough man
big, bold, reckless, two-fisted
man. He's a big man now, and
straight as ever he was. His
eyes are Irish eyes, of a pleasant
blue. His cheeks are still ruddy.
But his hair is snow-white, and
his lips are grim.
Considine has had tempestu-
GUS career. He was a gambler.
He was political boss. He ran
variety shows. He made money
hand over fist.
In all he did he was gambler.
He would bet on the turn Of a
card, on a business venture, or
on a mans word.
Once a young society girl, the
daughter of q Judge, in fear and
trembling, yentured into that UNI
known region below Yesler way,
where Johnny" Considine ran q
variety show in basement.
She was collecting money to
buy a silver service for a warship
Just put in commission at Brem-
erton. Considine's manager gave
her check for SIS.
Considine, when he learned OF
this, was angry--because the
check was too small. He sent
for the girl, tore the check up,
and gave her another---for $500.
Just one condition went with
the donation-THAT 1T SHOULD
NOT BE MADE PUBLIC.
Johnny" Considine and big
Tim" Sullivan of New York, his
partner. wer much alike. 9oth
we're gamblers and political
bosses.
Between them they acquires
the Northwest Orpheum circuit 0
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NOW YOU CAN NEVER SAY
AGAIN THAT ALL rRAMPS
AnE AVJKE-Nn gURf

(From the Paris, Mo-, Appeal J
A few mornings ago a tramp
was given good breakfast by thu
wife of DR.. Oscar Stuart. The
man went to the river and ia n
secluded spot took off his clothes
and washed them in the stream.
He.had set out fishing hooks, and
during the time he was washing
and drying his clothes caught a
nice string of fish. which he car
ried back to the house and pre-
scented to Mrs. Stuart, proving
that he was grateful for his
breakfast.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-16

Johnny" Considine and big
Tim" Sullivan of New York, his
partner, wer much alike. 9oth
we're gamblers and political
bosses.
Between them they acquired
the Northwest orpheum circuit Of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-16

"Is that dog of yours smart"
"Sure. The other day / stopped
and said / had forgotten some
thing and the beast sat down and
began to scratch mrs nead!"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-16

Dear Miss Grey: AS there to controversy among
sole of fair readers the method concocng
the Chill "Chle
ways of spein git permit to suggest that have in
most the principal hotels the
ico and have enjoyed the cooking
and Mexican housewives mothers having brought
that kind of food beg permitted guilty.
behalf of already sory counymen hey have
already to this much), and to
add that call beans roes and do cook them any
such babarous manner We do have dish called Carne
Chilli" This is stew favored with chile.
"Che Carne," Chilly Carney etc. with its
spelling mercess methods preparation
is strictly American delicacy innocent
readers that navebon citizen hyphenaedso
please do not blame your por neighbors for It,
MEXICANO.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
8 A NSWERS.... e
= / "A By Cynthia Grey s.
WlllvrIIuIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIlIIuuIIXlVW

Because of slight illness Miss Cynthia Grey will
be unable to observe her usual Wednesday receiving
hours this week She will continue to answer all
her correspondence usual, however, and hopes by
next Wednesday be able to meet her friends at The
Times office ACCUMULATION.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-16

Q-Why are kissing games and also dancing consid-
cred harmfu think, and Others will
think Just much of respectable
dances as If you were to sit all day in church with hands
Folded The only harm in kissing Danger
different diseases the
BABE
Amy fair-mnded intelligent
crate dancing respectable the hand
cred excellent
otherwise would not be
the
games ceapens
token of Is
duged In In other spirit 1t invariably leads HARM
.-Q-Woud please print a possible how to
clean dark blue silk popn skirt that coffee spilled
on? MRS A. M
A-You will find that the silk popn will wash beautifully in
warm water with Ivory good white
to wet the material doubt the
gasoline, benzine mehylated spirit.
Q-Pease print good formula for enlarged pores?
A good wash is made of
phor water no spirits camphor)
other excellent preparation consists of
ounces of witch hazel, to be applied after washing.
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Mll8asMMs1M>%

Geraldine Farrar, the famous
singer, once gave concert for
charity in San Francisco. She
asked a wealthy but stingy social
leader to subscribe for box.
sorry" said the social leader,
ST can't be there. But I'll be with
you in spirit
"Splendid!" replied Miss Far
rar, 1.-The boxes are $20-where
would you like to have your spirit
sit?"
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-08-28

brother rushed breathiessiy upstairs and
said Won't you meet friend OF miner
Certainly" she answered. Presently he
returned and presented a stout. di7ident
youth. who looked At the tall young wo-
man with the Russian accent and the
gracious manner AZ though she we're a
being from higher and better world
Why dwell upon the successive stages
OF the obsession? We all know Ia. First
puzzling interest a growing need Of the
others presence; Al last a world In which
they two lived alone They mot in No.
Vember In March the dinldent youth
stammered the question and the tar
gracious woman made the answer that
constitute an engagement On the an.
niversary Of the day they met they we're
married.
They went 10 Paris. and then ID bera,
me absorption OF the woman bv ana
IN me man she loves Hugh Wbtaoid
Martin. the discovery Of biz voice havinv
been made BY Dr HolbrOoE Curfis Anon,
ne assisted. and Milka Ternina. whom he
Copvrfrhf rafr DE- A. CO.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-08-28

OF her brother. the famous composer. VIII.
ireo hlamroth. TO begin all over AGAIN
as she puts a.
for Il was IN her brothers studio that
sne hrst met the destined grand opera
tenor To that studio she went BACK 10
I've out her part Of the trial separation.
a TIN? jealousy Alienation u was
none OF these. she asserts. Beside the
actually these we're commonplace. The
singers wife had separated from him for
his own good
We are spending the Summer apart
Tor the first time" she said. that he NAV
learn TO stand upon HIS own legs and
that may use my wings" In these few
simple words 10 whole world OF 70.
nance and truly unique tragedy.
Before her marriage Mrs. Martin vas
hirida klamroth. a musician. q painter
and what she stir is-a beauty. In Paris
she vas doing figure pieces that won the
praise % her masters and the public
Sne played the violin veil She SANG In
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legato' staccato and altissimo fortissimc
TO the extent Of his power. This might
be any time in the morning. or 2 or
O'Clock. The neighbors might stir
restvely. but not the devoted wife. She
would come at his call, examine his
throat. calm his fears and lead him back
to sleep.
Nor we're her efforts confined 10 these
things alone. She learned twenty operas
that she might sing the bars that were
ms cues and so facilitate his studies.
When he attempted rigorous diet and
severe exercise-being considerably over.
weight and Caruso being practically the
only tenor who can be fat and romantic
at the same ume-she accompanied him
into the realm OF abstinence. Twas n
severe test for at no time was Mrs. Mar.
tin plump. For sixteen years they were
more truly one than are even the ma.
jority OF single opera singers. Il was on
May % that for the first time they
separated.
We had but just returned from
Europe in February. II seemed fool,sh
and useless TO go back again in May.
have stayed with my brother. and Bli
is with me.
NO did not mind the crossing. But
IN very truth ! wanted my husband 10
learn TO stand on HIS own legs. Il was
better that he should learn TO do with.
out me
y want to try my wings again. Nv
voice j. crying to be let out I can sine
IN sii languages. Ny husband and ike
diherent music. lie likes grand opera.
the dramatic. prefer lyrics. love
simple folk songs. Ny husband dis not
wish me to sing. he thought one singer
IN the family was enough. Wish 20 sur.
prise him. And shall"
She viii, indeed. for she has arranged
with Charles Wagner. her husbands FOR.
mer manager. TO make concert tour.
singing foil songs She will follow the
route OF John Mccormack and Of Alice
NIELSEN. She hopes the tour. which viii
nesin IN october. VIII be successful Rut
mere ~ Tar more than that at stake A.
nave great ambitions for nv hus.
nand,' she viii tcn you with kirdlirg
eyes. want him % 20 a. far In tho
dramatic az he has In the operate feid
want him 70 give great interpretations
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taught, began the struggles OF the young
singer for recognition, and his brilliant
wife helped him.
He sang in Italy and was Kissed. She
comforted him by explaining the rage Of
the unpaid claque. Managers we're cold
to him. She assured him that was the
Inevitable way at first.
lie suffered from agonizing accessIons
OF umidity. 81 cannot sing tonight. Il
Is impossible to face that audience" he
would say. and sitting down shunle the
cards and gloomily begin a game OF
solitaire.
Then did the woman show her might
In woman's way.
Come. Hugh: come. my baby. Your
voice is excellent. That aria in'Trova-
tore brought tears TO my eyes. See. they
are there still. And what n you we're
not In as good voice as usual. Just to-
night. we know the real beauty OF your
voice. We know what power Il has 10
search the heart And you may not dis
appoint Mr.. Russell Come"
She would bring mis- great coat and hat
and lead him TO the opera house. he fol-
lowing as would a child.
SO Il was while be was a member OF
the San Carlo Opera Company. singing
with Lillian Nordica and Alice Nielsen:
and so It was when. fortune relaxing her
rigid visagc he was engaged 10 alternate
with Caruso at the Metropolitan Opera
House IN New York
Who r. she7" one sonebird OF harm
ike voice and brilliant plumaee asked
OF another.
That r. Ricardo Martins wife"
But she dresses him"
- know. lie viii allow no one else
10 DO H.
"And she frowns al him when he doe.
not put enough forvor into his stage love
making
y have seen her"
And she always sit In the winre
because ne must have her near him %
When the tenor Earricd his throat Mrs
Martin supervised tho operation. In.
deed. sometimes. oftimes. Ricardo would
wake in the night with the fear that
something was wrong with hla vocal
chords We would 20 into one Of he
rooms. stand before the mirror ana Moor
anHiously down his throat while he
emitted HE notes pianlssimo. fortiasimo.
Great Britain Rights Uersrvea
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OF his roles, to become a great actor as
well as singer"
With Roman stoicism then. Mrs. Martin
Is teaching her husband to get on without
her. Is 1t wise? Is It ever wise to leave
poor. erring. vain. emotional man TO His
own devices? II is a test to which few
women would put their husbands. But
II this wonder-wife's wings" droop with
loneliness her confident smile gives no
sign Of the fact
1T Is better so"she insists, and It would
be hard to quarrel with Nine. Elfrida
Martin.
Mrs. Martins loving and self.sacrihc.
ing treatment OF artistic temperament IA
directly counter TO that prescribed nv
Dr. Rappold. the former husband OF the
great Wagnerian singer. whose wife. AZ.
ter getting a divorce from him, recently
married Rudolph Berger. the Emperor
Franz Josers favorite tenor. AT the
time OF the divorce proceedings DR. Ran
pold assured the court that what "artis.
tic temperament" needed 10 bring Il back
to common sense was an occasional
good spanking. Dr. Rappold at that time
unburdened himself also OF a number of
thoughts derived from living eighteen
years with a genius"
"Our married life was a rosy dream
said he. until my wife achieved her sue.
cess on the operate stage. Marrying a
genius is like going to war. Geniuses
ought not marry. A. for marrying one
who has already achieved success In a
professionalism has grown 10 believe
that nature has endowed with powers
beyond the ordinary ought 20 be
law against a. Usually when soldiers
90 70 battle they count more or less upon
an unknown foe. Spies and scouts have
estimated The strength OF the other side.
but they cannot always be relied upon.
and it Is the unknown. uncertain quan.
tiiy that "a really faced Just 20 when a
genius is picked out a. life mate.
And therefore my advice a. that
while love and marriage are moi ouite
the same sanruinary affair AZ war h..
ware the L-nius when selecting a ufe
partner"
Au or which. ~ course. has notbt,g
whatever 10 DO with the interoefing W.r
ON experiment but o. vaInabio - -,
expert opinion upon the whole matter
OF artistic temperament"
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-08-28

NNE of the most unusual and er-
traordinary cases of wifely hero
ism is that OF Mrs. Ricardo Mar
TN the beautiful wife OF the famous tenor
who is known as the American Caruso."
She has insisted upon and brought about
trial separation from the husband che
mas literally waited upon as a mother
her babe for seventeen years.
And all because. she says, "He may
learn 10 stand upon his own legs and
that ] may use my wings"
Thus has ended-temporarily, at least
"a romance that has been the delight
and wonder OF music lovers the world
over. and that has seemed to refute the
belief that all great singers are tickle
slaves OF passion and temperament who
could not possibly live normal. humdrum
but loyalty domestic lives-slaves. in
deed. Of their vocal chords and impulses.
Thus. too. are set at rest the many
rumors that have been floating about in
musical circles since It became known
that for practically the first summer in
their idyilic married life the Martins were
not with each other. II Mr.. Martin cannot
ind HIS legs" before October. the time
may be extended. In the meantime, Il Is
said. the tenor. before setting out on his
trial. made over all the money he had
accumulated BY his wonderful voice
about $50 .OO0-to Mrs. Martin. and
PLEDGED himself 70 finance the education
Of their little hfteen-year-oid girl Mrs.
Martin. herself a singer Of unusual abfi.
ity and very great painter indeed. win
allow her own talents. long kept IN sub
servance BY her devotion 20 her husband.
70 blossom a. they VIII.
In May the successful young tenor
sailed Tor italy. Tie has visited Rome.
Naples. Lake Como. Florence When last
his wife received a letter from him he
was preparing TO 80 to salz MaFgiore.
the Carlsbad OF singers There he was
20 stay and take the cure OF the vocaiists
the rest and waters that tone M the
strained tonsils and the woaried vocal
chords. He was 70 return In October a.
as Mrs. Martin puts Il. he found his
iegs" by that ime-that g.. learned 70
do without heri
The day he sailed MIRA Martin. win
tner hfteeu-year-oid daughter, whom
they can Bill waved adicu 10 her me
band IRON the DOCK and went 10 the home
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Q soprano voice
that had range,
power. richness.
In that city Of
genuiness she
was accounted a
genius who had
before her a great
future. Then she
m ct Ricardo
Martin. and her
future began to
make its way to
the shelf prepare
tory to her devot-
ing az Ter efforts
to making his.
He wasn't Rlc-
c ard o. then
{ h gh - h e
was Hugh Whit
field Martin. sing
ing teacher. OF
Hopkinsville. Ky.
Brilliant Elfrida
Klamroth, come
for a brief visit TO
her brother IN
New York. was
unpacking er
FruuEa whrw Hrr
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-12-27
WALTER KERMEEN WILL
HANG NEXT MONTH

PHOENIX. Ariz., Dec. 24.-Ari-
Zona's funny laws have shown an
other kink. Over at Florence, which
lies hard by the penitentiary walls,
juries picked off the street and decid.
edly non-eXpert in composition, have
found Murder Walter Kermeen form
crly of Carson, sane, and Murderer
Fatlin insane. Most of the evidence
in both cases was furnished By peni-
tentiary employees. who, very natural
ly, took the side of the antf-capital
punishment state administration. II
they had not, they might have been
considered unsympathetic if not actu-
ally disloyal.
The Fatlin verdict is a clear victory
Tor Governor Hunt, the more import
ant in that ii sustains Warden Sims
in his action in refusing 10 execute
the prisoner. And there is deep
pleasure in all circles of the peniten-
tiary. where. according to Atty-Gen.
Jones. Kermecn greeted Faltin with
well If you aren't the damndest
luckiest insane man l ever saw!"
kermeen Is to hang January 7. If
he does hang that will leave nine in
the penitentiary under sentence of
death
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-12-27
HERvEY HoSkINS WAKES
UP TOTALLY BLIND

Thursday morning VIXEN Heryey
Ho5kins, fifteen-year-old son of Mrs.
M. Hoskins, matron of the Austin hos
pital, awoke he discovered he was
totally blind. He was overcome by
his dreadful misfortune that he fell
back in bed and began to cry. His
mother ran in to find out what was the
matter.
Hervey said: Both my eyes are
gone"
The departure of the motor on the
Nevada Central was detained two
hours to enable the boy to leave for
Salt Lake City, where he will be pIac-
ed in hospital in the hope of having
sight restored to one eye at least. He
was accompanied by his sister, Mrs.
Louis Dyer.
The loss Of sight by young Hoskins
Is the elimination of an accident that
occurred last June, when one eye was
injured by silver of glass from a
soda water bottle which struck him
on the forehead and broke into frag-
ments. At that time he was taken
to Salt Lake. He was treated, but
the eye-ball was left in the socket.
1t is hoped that the removal of the
injured eye-ball may result in the res
toration of sight to the other eye
Austin Reveille.