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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
RESCUER OF THREE
DYING FROM FALL
Policeman Slipped After Saving
Two Men and Girl In Fire.

Patrolman F. Rail, of the Miller Ave-
nue. station, swung himself up on the
fire escape at 4SO Blake Avenue, Brook
lyn. when he saw smoke coming from
the tenement early yesterday morn
ing. Climbing from floor TO foor, ne
poked his head in every apartment
window and reused the tenants.
Then he returned TO the street and
adjusted the ladder so that all could
descend safely But two young men
and girl, on the second floor, be-
came dazed and refused 70 come down.
Rail- scrambled up the fire escape
again and brought them down, after
which they gave their names as Jacob,
Sammy and Title Goldy.
AS the policeman started up tho
ladder again 70 see If the house was
empty he slipped and fell. He was
rushed to the Kings County Hospital,
where he is dying.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
MUST BRING DEAD TO LIFE
That Is Actors Task, Says Author.

What is the final end and aim Of
acting? II is not TO repeat the authors
lines. II is not TO give propulsion TO
the events Of the authors story. 1t Is
to bring 70 life the authors characters,
writes Walter Prichard Eaton, in the
August american Magazine" Now, IN
the actual world, the character does
not exist devoid of personality a
quality we need hardly try TO define,
since il eludcs definition, but is per-
fectly we'll recognized by everybody.
The most interesting people are those
with the most Interesting personalities.
A colorless person we say has little
personality. Therefore, on the stage,
the most interesting character in the
play are bound to be those for whom
the author has imagined the most vivid
and interesting personalities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
Practice of Fitting Plays
TO the Players Is
Ancient.
TAPS IS BLOWN
FOR SCARLET ARMY
An Interesting Hypotheti-
cal Question Arrives
from Movie Man.
Bv HAYWOOD BROUN.

prejudice has arisen against the
-,se 70 order play. Only last week
alexander Wolco wrote in The
fines" "These made TO order plays
=. almost always bad, not only be-
.,r.e that is no way TO write a play,
L.. becaus- no dramatist who has
,,v,hinc Of the artist in him would
Undertake such q commission unless
as sheriff was at the door or he had
pme other equally pressing and per
sonsl reason.
Now. as a after Of fact. Shakes
,,,re wrote for a stock company and
vslsre. being burdened with severe
.,s devised q art for himself in
vb,eh be could cough in character.
7. xas "Ma.ads Imaginaire." Unfor-
,srately the playwright overacted and
.,urhel so hard that he broke a blood
,,ssel and Lcd. The mortality to-day
among players who ove-Gct is not
great
Inc tradition Of shaping a play to
meet the abilities, appearance and man
serisms Of particular people has been
maintained IN our time. Shaw had
louis Calvert in mind when he wrote
he part Of Undcrshaft in Major Bar
bsrs." Much of Barrie's best work has
been done 90 IT Maude Adams, and
CLYDE Fitch often shaped his play after
be had assembled the cast.
Probably 10 is not true about any art,
and certainly 1t is not true Of the thea
ne. that the artist should blaze away
With no more definite mark than pos
,sr.ty. The playwright, unlike other
artists. can please no future genera
ion unless De pleases his own. We
know Of no play which has failed on the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23

her cake, however, has been known to
win suffrage convert.
Mrs. Laidlaw reports there is a great
change in the Berkshire sentiment on
the suffrage question since Hughes
came out for the amendment.
Several old fellows we knew to be
ants two years ago, when we were here
last, came up to US and spoke of suf-
frage most cordially" she writes.
"Some have congratulated US on
Hughes and have spoken admiringly of
the way he has come out for suffrage.
I'm going to vote for Hughes now, the
station master in one of the little
towns said to US"
Many literary women and political
celebrities are TO be the guests of the
New York State Woman Suffrage party
at the Atlantic City convention. Among
them will be Mrs. Gertrude Atherton,
Mrs. John Kendrick Bangs, Miss Helen
Varick Boswell, Mrs. +. II. Bethel,
Mrs. Lathrop Brown, wife of Represen
tative Brown; Dean Virginia Glider
sleeve of Barnard College, Mrs Lydig
Hoyt, Miss Elizabeth Jordan, Mrs. Nor
timer Schiff, Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell, Mrs.
Henry Willard and Miss Rose Young.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
EAGER TO ATTEND
SUFFRAGE MEET
Many New Workers Will
Go to Atlantic City
Convention.

Every section Of the state will be
represented by prominent women from
the New York State Suffrage party at
the emergency convention of the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association IN
Atlantic City, September 6 to 10. Only
100 delegates from the state party Will
be sent TO the meeting, but twice as
many were eager to go.
There has never been more general
interest in a convention" Mrs. Norman
De r. Whitehouse, chairman of the New
York State Woman Suffrage party, SAID
yesterday.
Many young mothers have been
chosen as delegates. Among them are
Mrs. Ogden Reid, Mrs. Frank A. van
derlip and Mrs. Ii. Edward Dreler, leader
Of the Brooklyn Borough division.
Another group is that OF the women
who in their work for social recon
struction have come to believe IN the
need for equal suffrage. DR.. Katharine
Bement Davis, head of the Board Of
Parole. will be a speaker. Miss Kate
Gordon, of New Orleans, and Miss julia
Lathrop are two others known through
out the country for their social work.
Mrs Frederick Nathan, Of the Con-
sumers' League, and Miss Mary Dreier,
of the Woman's Trade Union League,
are among the New York City delegates.
Many of the officers have been taken
from among the younger professional
and society women. Miss Alice Morgan
Wright, artist and secretary of the New
York State party. will be at the st.
Charles Hotel. Miss Emily Hooper,
leader of the 18th Assembly District,
will be an alternate delegate to the
convention. Other New York City
women who will attend are Miss Edith
Bayereuther, Miss Eliza Macdonald,
Mrs. Charles +. Simonson, Mrs. Fred
erick Crawford, Mrs. Alice Parker
Hutchins. Miss A. NJ. Wilbur, Mrs.
Townsend Scudder, Mrs. +. Louis Slade,
Mrs. Carl Won Anda. Miss Katherine
d. Blake. Mrs. Florence Woolston, Mrs.
Frances Brewer, Mrs Edward Van Zile
and Mrs. Joel Spingarn.
The MISUNDERSTANDING viii be
the general headquarters, where most
of the state leaders will stay. Among
them will be Miss Mary Garrett Hay,
Miss Annie Doughty, Mrs. Howard
Mansfield and Mrs. William G. Wilcox.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
WOMEN IN BITTER
FIGHT ON WILSON
Democratic Suffragists
Take Stump to Beat
Their Own Party.

Washington, Aug %. - Senator
Thomas's lengthy attack on the Wom-
ans party in the Senate yesterday
shows the great Importance of that
organization in the coming Presidential
campaign" declared Miss Maud Youn-
ger, of California, secretary of the ad-
visory council of the COMPRESSION Union
for Woman Suffrage, who will leave
here Friday to campaign against Presi-
dent Wilson in Colorado, Montana, Ne
vada and Arizona.
senator Thomas" she declared, as
evidently thoroughly aroused over the
opposition of the women of his district
TO the Democratic party on account OF
the hostility of the party to the Federal
suffrage amendment.
Eight pages of the Congressional
Record were devoted yesterday to the
debate in which the Democrats tried t.
prove that the opposition of the Con-
gressional Union amounted to nothing
whatever.
Senator Pittman, of Nevada, who is
facing the opposition of the women of
his state on account Of his party's OPP
position 10 the suffrage amendment
also devotes columns of the Record TO
attack on the Woman's party.
mo amount of Congressional sound
and fury, however, can alter the fact
that the Democratic party has blocked
at every turn the Acknowledgement Of
women. President Wilson has declared
against it, and his party supported him.
only q per cent of the Democratic
party voted for the Federal suffrage
amendment i'm the Senate, against AZ
per cent of the Republicans. Thirty
one per cent of the Democrats in the
House voted for the Suffrage amend
ment, against 81 per cent of the Repub-
licans. In the House the Republicans,
including Progressives and Progressive
Republicans, cast a two-thirds vote in
favor of The measure; while more than
twO-thirds of the Democrats voted
against it.
Most Of the women who are cam
paignlng with me against the Demo-
cratic party" said Miss Younger, ARE
women who have been Democrats, but
who will not support Mr.. Wilson or his
party after their bitter opposition TO
women. Mrs William Kent, Mrs. Sara
Bard Field, Miss Anne Martin, Mrs.
Dora Phelps DUEL, Mrs Harriet Stan
ton Blatch and myself, all are Demo-
Gratis. and are all campaigning against
Mr.. Wilson.
democratic office-holders. like Sen
ator Thomas and Senator Pittman, anx-
ious for the return of their party 10
power, say it is crime for women to
put suffrage before the Fundamental
issues for which the Democratic party
stands.
western women feel that they can
not honorably vote 10 return TO power
man who denies the first principle of
American government"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
Lured Into Evil Life and
Turned Adrift to Starve,
She Says.
GETS PURSE OF $50
AS MAN is INDICTED
David Parish, Ex-Russian
Convict, Accused of
Being Vice Broker.

Tears stood in the eyes OF grand
jurors yesterday when a pale, enact
ated girl concluded a tale Of wrong and
suffering endured, she said, at the
hands of David Parish. alias David
Siberia" former Russian convict, who
has been in this city eighteen years
The grand jury promptly indicted him
on white slave charge.
There were nine other girl witnesses
against the man, but the story which
grpped the emotions Of the jurors and
caused them to take up a purse OF $50
for her was told by Ida Cohen. She
said she was a poorly paid garment
worker in Brooklyn when the strike
came two years ago. She came to the
East Side for assistance and was intro
duced to Parish, who, it is alleged,
started her on a career Of wrongdoing.
Lived in Park, She Says.
Last May, according to her story,
when she had been paying money 10
Parish for about year. she told him
she could work for him no longer,
whereupon, she said, he beat her,
robbed her of all her money and cloth
ing and turned ner into the street bare
footed. She declares she lived for four
days in Delaney Street park and then
tainted from hunger and exhaustion.
A policeman took her TO Bellevue Hos
pital, where a few days later she be-
came q mother. Her baby lived six
hours.
Detectives heard OF her case last
Monday and they borrowed clothes for
her TO 90 down to the Criminal Courts
Building, where she told her story to
James Z. Smith, Assistant District At
torney. He took the girl before the
grand jury yesterday.
Parish, who was in the house OF
detention with his wife. who has been
convicted for attempting 70 brlbe po-
liceman, was arrested and lodged IN
the Tombs.
"This is the most shocking exposure
of the workings of the white slavery
combination that has ever been made
said Mr.. Smith. 1--WE have evidence
that this man destroyed more homes
and lured more factory girls into vice
than any other person discovered IN
this or any other investigation. lie
outranks in some respects Yushe Bot
win, the confessed white SLAYER"
Called Slave Trader.
Parish is ffty-three years old and IL
slovenly in his dress. He spent his
nights gambling in East Side cafes,
according to the District Attorney, and
supplied women for resorts in Orchard.
Suffolk. Allen and adjacent streets. He
lived in East Twenty-second Street.
near Third Avenue.
William d. Bosler. author and for
mer assistant under District Attorney
Jerome, wrote Mayor Mitchell. District
Attorney Swami and other city officials
advocating an ordinance regulating the
licensing of public dance halls. Sucn
permits. he asserts, should be issued
only after thorough investigation by
the MAYORS Commissioner Of Licenses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
TRIANGLE FILM HEAD SUED
Knickerbocker Theatre Rent Said To
BE in Arrears.

Harry A. Aitken, who as president of
the Triangle Film Company took
lease for a year on the Knickerbocker
Theatre, was sued yesterday for $4,000,
representing an instslment of rent due
on August / and not paid.
The plaintiffs are Charles Frohman,
Inc, Al Hayman, Marc Klaw and A. L.
Frlanger, who have a lease on the thea
tire from Robert w. Goelet. They re-
leased the theatre 20 Aitken for one
wear from September /, 1915, at $780,
GOO, payable in instruments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
Six Months Revenue $780,
576,753, Was Sl22,4S1,-
456 in 1915.
STATE TAX COST
$13,35S,412 EXTRA
Payments to BondhOlders
Slightly Less-Debt Mar
gin Is $13,O52,950.

The city's income and its expenses
increased during the six months ended
June 80, 1916, over the first six months
of 1915, as shown in the semi-annual
report of Controller william A.
Prendergast, issued yesterday.
The total revenue receipts during
the six-month period this year
amounted to Sl39, 1853, as compared
with s122,4S1, 456 for similar period
last year. The greatest increase was
in taxes collected, which aggregated
Sl1O,475,722, or s15,254,942 more than
the amount of taxes collected during
the corresponding period Of 1915.
The rentals paid by the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company on the opera
ton of the present subways amounted
to $933,224, which was $6,4O4 more
than the rentals paid for the same
period of last year. The license bureau
receipts were about 100000 more than
last year.
The expenses charged to the city to
June 30, 1916, aggregated s7S,3o5, III
and the similar payments during the
first six months of last year amounted
to s77,426,l96. The city also was
charged with S13,975,O2l of direct
state taxes this year, of which it had
paid up to June 80, $l3,358,412. Last
year the city escaped this burden. The
payments covering OUTLAWS for public
improvements were S27,2S7l6O, com
pared with 1858, 435 for the first six
months Of 1915. u
To the holders of city bonds there
was maid AS interest $21 ,284,20S, slight
ly less than the $2l 1877 465 similarly
paid last year.
transit construction show that the
citv's total investment in the first sub
way. operated by the lnterborougnl
amounted to S56,259,6l6, and
that in the subways now under con-
struction. part of which are already
being operated by the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company, the city's INVESTMENT
TO June 81 dUlOuubth W
with S56,599,511 still to be financed
on the basis of the original estimates
upon which the later rapid transit con
tracts were based on March Is, 1913.
These figures, however, will be ex-
ceeded by several millions of dollars
more.
The Controllers report shows that
the debt-incurring power of the city,
or the debt limit, as Of July l, was
S55IO4.S55. of which Sl2,3l3,161 was
reserved for deck. port and terminal
improvements and $22,367,S78 for
various municipal purposes to which
the city is in part committed. leaving
an unreserved margin of Sl3,O5295O
for such purposes as the Board Of Esti-
mate may authorize.
Some idea Of the magnitude of the
citys financial operations may be
cleaned from the Controllers tables
showing the grand total Of taxes
levied during the seven years. 1910
1916. aggregated sl,063,635,l57 and
that up 70 June 30, of this year, there
had been collected from these levies
1890. 943.012, which equalled STA per
cent of the total of the levies.
The taxes levied against property
in Manhattan during this seven-year
period aggregated S6s4,S97 ,225; in the
Bronx. Ss2,136,163; in Brooklyn, s223,-
5O6. 779: in Queens. S61,7l9,949, and in
Sll,375,O39.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
SWIFT FINED IN MEAT CASE
Yonkers Court Finds Package Charged
for as Ham.

One hundred dollars fine was i'm
posed on Swift & Co. by City Judge
Beall. in Yonkers, yesterday. for count
ing package weight as meat in selling
hams. Attorneys for the packers de-
clared that if Judge Bealls decision
was upheld 1t would cost the packers
100000 a year. An appeal will be
taken and the case carried 20 the
United States Supreme Court, if neces-
sary, the attorneys said.
Some time ago Judge Beall fined
Armour & Co. 500 for a similar Of
fence. The Appellate Division af-
frmed his decision and the case is now
before the Court Of Appeals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23

stage in one century only TO succeed
IN later one.
The more the playwright knows
about the conditions under which his
play is TO be produced the better. The
depth OF the theatre and of the star
are both factors Of Importance, and it
can't do the author bit of harm to
know the width of the stage and the
leading lady before he so much as be-
gins his manuscript.
Certainly one would not write the
same sort OF n play for the Century
and the Little Theatre, nor for Marie
Drossler and Marguerite Clark. There
is not bit of use in conceiving a
character and then finding that there
is no one in New York who can play
the part, The trouble with the bad
plays which come TO town is not that
they 1T the players too snugly, but
that they were never meant to wear
at all.
All Of which means that in artisan
ship, NJ any rate, "His Bridal Night"
is excellent.
Speaking Of Lucille Watson, in re-
viewing His Bridal Night" we used
the infelicitous phrase, "a deserter
from the scarlet army of the stage"
The review was called TO the atten-
tion Of Miss Watson, and she writes:
when you say things like this about
defonceless performers you might en-
deavor TO be little less ambiguous. |
have played one scarlet part in my
entire career, and those people who did
not see me do IL and who read those
few lines of yours, will naturally Won
der from what ranks of scarlet ac-
treSses | am a deserter."
Of course We had in mind the fact
that Miss Watson acted in "The Eter-
nal Magdalene" last season. II is true
that not everybody saw Miss Watson
in that play, but we are under the
impression that her work was so good
that practically everybody heard about
it.
Some queries which come TO this
Office are impossible to answer and
many are difficult. Therefore il is
with real pleasure that we reprint
the following query from a moving
picture press agent and supply what
we are practically certain is the cor
rect solution.
"If you saw your father, mother,
sister and brother and scores Of intl-
mate friends in turn ground beneath
the relentless steam-roller of a CAPT
talist. and you were jibed and insulted
by that capitalist when you went
20 him in behalf of the workers at
q time when he was giving a masque
ball for the benefit Of dogs. would you
be melted to anger"
Answer-No. but we would write him
a note the instant we reached home.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
DEMOCRATS RENAME RIoRDAN
Representative Designated Over Strong
Opposition.

Despite strong opposition from indie
pendent Democrats. Daniel Riordan
was designated for denomination 70
Congress last night at meeting Of the
executive committee OF the Democratic
organization Of Staten Island. Ex-
State Senator Howard r. Bayne has
been designated for the nomination by
the independents.
Opposition 10 Riordan's denomination
comes from those who believe that
their Representative in Congress should
be a resident Of Staten Island. For
twelve years Representative Riordan,
whose district includes the Borough OF
Richmond and the lower part Of Man
haitian, has been nominated without
discord.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
FIRE RECORD.

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS;
MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS
From The Tribune Bureau
Washington. Aug %.
ALAIA

ARMY.
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on expiration 90 leave - absence. TO Fort sam
Houston for examination Tor detail IN aviation
Mai Earl e CARVAHAN. 2sth Inf. on leave of
absence. Is attached 10 lst Inf. 20 san Francisco.
thence on Transport scheduled TO leave sept. 5. TO
MAJ. HARRY y. JORDAN. Ord Dept cav. 10
Eagle Pass for examination for transfer 10 Field
First It. JOSEPH " rNEAL (retircdl. to active
duty as Act. O. NJ. to Fort sam Houston FOR
Leave Of absenc. FOR one month granted Col
GEORGE ; YOUNG. Int
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second r. BAsM. D, EDWARDS Inf.. acting
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