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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-05-02

erie Of wild animals carried by the
show comprises a complete list OF all
the earth's most curious creatures.
Musicale Friday Evening.
AprOpos to the closing OF the sing
ing school at the Methodist Episcopal
church on Indian run Friday evening,
MAY 3. the entertainment committee
Of The church has issued the follow
ing:
opening song-"some Day"-By
class.
Prayer.
song-"There's a Light at the Riv-
er'-By class.
Address of welcome-Millard IL.
Campbell.
SONG Some Glad Day"-Class.
Song-"Where the Bells Ring
Homc"-Double mixed quartette.
Recitation Mabel Lyons.
Rccitation-Ruth Campbell.
Rccitation-Ardell Wolverton.
Observation-Disclosures Barnes.
observation-disclosures Lyons.
Recitation-Ruth Dennison.
Rccitation-Loxlie Myers.
Recitation-Jennie Morris.
WRecitation-Sa Sadie Grow.
Recitation-Ralph Campbell
Donnie Wolverton.
RecitatiOn-Ezra Dennison.
Song Twill Be Glory Bye and
Bye'-By class.
Observation-Disclosures Lyons.
Recitation-Opal Matthey.
Rccitation-Edna Matthey.
RecitaIion-Wilda Bailey.
observation-disclosures Ritter.
Rocitation-Gac Dennison.
observation-disclosures Wolvertan.
Rccltation-Pearl Dennison.
observation-disclosures Bailey.
Recitation-vadis Bailey.
Song-"When All the Singers Get
Home"-By class.
Soprano solo, with full chorus
Death is Only a Lream"-Norma
Bailey.>
Song-Juvenile class.
Intermission.
Song alilee"-By class.
Male misunderstanding to That
Far. Far Away"-Dorsey Lynch, Har-
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o'oSins we say GOOD Night
icrs"h"Is.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-05-02

NOTICE TO TAKE DISPOSITIONS.
The State Of West Virginia, Harrison
County, to-wit:
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-05-02
A Little Blossom
To Delight the Home

When Il Is known that in the ncs.
future the homo Is 10 be blessed with n
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26

They say, for one thing, that the only
trouble with Lloyd Georges interview
about fighting the war to a knockout Is
that the government does not proceed
toward that knockout with sufficient
what shall say well, sufficient aban-
don. | am convinced that the average
Briton is more recklessly radical about
this war than the average member of
the Cabinet. | have come to the con-
clusion after hundreds of talks with all
sorts of people in their offices and in
their workshops and in their public
houses and in their homes, and am for
tilted in it by what | hear in the two
circles commonly regarded as the great
est potential strongholds of pacificism-
the circle of the trade unionists and the
circle of suffragettes.
listened to Mrs. Pankhurst the
other day. Lloyd George is harmless
little person compared to her. She thinks
that the British government was far
TOO tender with the Bulgarians and is
now far to tender with King Constan-
tine. Viscount Grey should have
chucked Tino off his throne in Athens
long ago. But Viscount Grey quitting
Mrs. PankhurSt's remarks mildly is
weak. In fact, gathered that all men
are bit weak. Mrs Pankhurst noted
the fact that when the government DIS
approved of certain public meeting
which she and her friends were inter.
eSted in the men collapsed and left the
women to stand alone" She had ALREADY
made an indirect offer, in Hyde Park. on
behalf of women in general, to conducC
the war as it should be conducted 1T is
maddening," she said, 'for women TO be
powerless. If men can not and will not
use their powers, they should hand then.
over to those who can" In the mean
time people should watch the govern
ment carefully. There were persons in
it who were on good terms personal
with persons who were quite capable OF
wanting to open peace negotiations with
Germany now What? Discuss terms
with the Kaiser?" did our soldiers
make all their sacrifices simply that we
may sit around table and meet these
Germans on equal terms?" Equal
terms2 Most decidedly not. Britain
must toi,,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26

TN THESE letters am going to try
to say how the British people are
m feeling and thinking and talking at
home about this war, and about war in
general as an institution, and about our
own beloved United States, and about
various other things, but | hasten to
add that shall not concern myself much
with what happens to be said by those
very exceptional Britons who happen to
be sitting on front benches in the
houses of Parliament. Statesmen here
are even more under the thumb Of the
people than they are on our side. If our
government never knows how man.
aeroplanes it ought to have till it hears
from Tom, Dick and Harry, this gov
eminent has to hear from Tom, Dick.
Harry and jim. We have nothing to
teach the British about '1et the people
rule and let the rulers tremblew
For instance. there is a munitions act
here. 1t says explicitly that the govern
ment may lay down rules for the doing
of all work in Controlled" factories
which now number about forty-five
hundred-and that the people in those
factories must by no means impose any
restrictions either on output" or on
employment" Which is to say thai
the government may proceed to run the
whole war work show in Great Britain
Just exactly as it pleases, without any
further palaver. But does it? Not at
all. | was in Liverpool the other day,
and there was a big conference going on
there between men representing the Ad-
miralty and the Ministry of Munitions
and the Board of Trade on the one hand
and men representing certain trade
unions on the other. An agreement was
reached. 1t provided, among other SINH
lar things. that the trade unions in ques-
ton would impose no restrictions on the
introduction of new appliances and new
methods for the increase of output"
and that they would likewise impose no
restrictions on the employment" of UNI
skilled men and of women. 1t provided
in other words, that the munitions act
should be obeyed. The government, hav-
ing gained certain object by statute
goes and gains it all over again by a
treaty with the persons specially con-
cerned.
For nation of supposed "snobs" and
ground down lower classes" this is the
most truculent and unbrOwbeaten ma
ton myself ever saw SO let the states
men in Parliament say what they will.
| am going to try to report what the
people say.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26

Now, it may be said, as it often IS,
that Mrs. Pankhurst is only one person.
That is indeed a statement quite diff
cult to controvert. The Women's So
cal and Political Union, however, is sew
eral persons. see them, numerous
specimens of them, almost every time
venture to approach the Houses of Par
lament. They often carry posters, and
the design Of these posters is not 20
abate the brutality of horrid men, but,
on the contrary, to spur the less dead
ly male sex on to real efforts, worthy of
women, in this war. Save Rumanja I"
Down with King Constantine"
Away with the Foreign Office" Rec
ognize the Venizelos Government If
they are not carrying posters, the ". ).
P. U. ladies are discharging the delicate
task of walking up to Lord Haldane on
his innocent way to his parliamentary
duties and reminding him that his
Spiritual home" is in Germany and
making solicitous inquiries as to the
probable date Of his return thther.
When they are not heckling Haldan2
they are collecting money for their "Vic-
tory Fund" - SIC, 900 SAT 900 -" To
Prevent Compromise Peace" Finally,
their weekly newspaper. Britannia" is
the most fight-it-out-if-it-ta forty
years thing | have seen in Great Britain,
with the possible exception of that other
weekly newspaper, John Bull which
keeps piling up circulation and distanc-
ing its rivals faster and faster in precise
proportion as it strafes the Hun and de-
nounces peace negotiations. The weekly
newspapers John Bull" and Britannia"
are soul-mates. with this difference be-
tween them, that John Bull" has
great deal of humor, and could imagine
him stopping to have beer with a HUI
whom he intended to strafe the next
minute. whereas Britannia is pure, UNI
deviating, absolutely humorless, right
eous wrath, with no time at all for tea.
But the whole Women's Social and
Political Union is extreme. Just so. 1t
is. That is exactly why picked it out
to speak of first. The Women's Social
and Political Union, the training ground
of the suffragette, has always drawn It's
membership from the most advanced
wing Of the feminist movement. How
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26
You May Still Call Wall
ST. a Canyon

Calling Wall Street canyon is allow
able from long usage. If you try a
novelty and speak of it as the golden
chain on which are strung architectural
gems, naming size and cost OF buildings,
without doubt the blue pencil will take
it out. Neither may you call attention
to the fact that though Broadway az
night is painted queen, garishly dia--
demmed in flashing electric signs, yet
she's a slipshod sloven in the morning.
Anecdotes are barred, also. OF
course, | understand that what Aunt
Serena saw in front of the New York
Historical Society Building has nothing
at all to do with that establishment.
The boss was entirely right in cutting
out my story and inserting eight pages
about the paintings in the galleries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26
WHAT I HEAR IN ENGLAND

often have | been told in America that
as women become more and more public
minded they would throw their infu-
ence more and more against wars, just
or unjust. The theory was: The further
toward Feminism the further toward
pacifcism. And then | come over here.
and, from conversations at dinner par
ties, as we'll as from harangues in Hyde
Park, I find that the most advanced
wing of political Feminism is, on The
whole, the most belligerent. Why is
this?
Well, the reason may appear as we
90 on into the other fields of British
opinion. Here | will only say that the
feeling | have found most widespread
in England just now is the one eX-
pressed to me not long ago in certain
home where | have spent several even-
ings. Three brothers have gone from
it to war. The sisters have had to go
to work-had to. One of them is a
widow with a young son. She teaches
in a school for little girls. The other
earns about 80 shillings week in an
office. That is just bit over ST. The
higher posts in offices, in spite Of the
war, are still, on the whole, for men,
Both these women hate war They
speak about it in an almost Quaker
way They loathe it. We were sitting
before their little dining-room CRATE in
which about three inches of csals we're
kept burning They said that the war
was very long. They said it was very
absurd-and very long. They said that
one of their brothers had come back
from the front on leave a short time
ago and there was nothing the matter
with him except that the thumb Of his
left hand would not stay quiet. The
fingers were all right, but the thumb
would move all the time. | sat think
ing about that grOtesque thumb, and
shlvered. neard them again say
long" | reused myself and said some
thing about truce-to talk about
peace. They froze. The flicker from
the fire seemed TO get new life against
the stiffness Of their faces. Then one
of them said: II have suffered all can.
Thinking of my brothers, | have srf-
fered all | can, this time. have
thought about it. This time is done.
Do you know what | mean? This time
Is done. do not rant TO suffer again"
And she said no more,
have been astonlshed ut the terrific
proportion of British belligerency that
flows directly from British Pacifcism.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26
A Single WOman'S Place
IS-Where?

The hotel clerks in the marble and
gilded halls seemed to think that the
single womans place is in the hotel
whatever time she arrives. Some Of
them suppressed smiles at my igno-
rance; some spoke in easy words, care
fully articulated, as if l were feeble
minded; one protested in troubled
voice that if she had no baggage she
would really have to pay in advance
but all assured me that a guest is
guest whatever his-her sex.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26

Others went southeast to search the
land of Brooklyn. They spied out all
the delights in which the residents
glory-churches museums, Prospect
Park and educational haunts. The man
who listed the churches of New York
as a whole can't convince me that he at
tended divine service in all the fourteen
hundred. Some of us made sorties into
Yonkers, Staten Island, Jersey City and
Newark, and found to our surprise that
the world extends beyond the city
boundary line.
Thus by group activities we gath
cred the information as to where to cat
spaghetti; who is the gentleman on the
marble pedestal and why; how to sleep
on 81 a night or less; and other bits of
metropolitan lore necessary to the COM
fort and pleasure of The-Visitor-from-
Out-of-Town and The-Citizen-Who-
s-to-Know-His- City.
Ny first assignment in guidebooking
was TO visit each hotel in the city and
ascertain the price of single room,
single room with BATH double room
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26

Finally, in small family hotel in a
side street, found a manager who be
lieved that woman who comes to a no.
tel at night without man is an aban-
doned creature. And that manager was
a woman She was the old boarding
house keeper type which | supposed
extinct off the stage. | put my ques-
ton carelessly, as matter of routine:
"Are women arriving in the evening,
unaccompanied by men, received at this
hotel?"
Her backbone Strengthened. She
drew a little away from me. She an
swered through her teeth:
81 should think mott | don't want
that kind of a woman in ny house,!
Her hotel does not appear on the lists.
scratched it. I was sure she served
prunes and scrimped on heat.
Lots of things get cut out of your
copy. Colorful descriptions and anec-
dotes, for instance. You may write Of
streets as thoroughfares and put in the
traffic regulations. But you are held
down to two lines when you recommend
a tea-time walk down Fifth Avenue,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26

DUTTING New York into guide
book is as difficult as counting
pigs that won't stand still. Euro
pean guidebooks are different matter.
I've met a tourist "doing" Europe on
fathers old Baedeker, dusty from the
library shelf. She wasn't losing much
either. Petrograd has changed It's
name but not It's buildings Parts OF
London have not altered for genera
tions. Peking changeth never. but
New York.
New York IS changeable, Unstable
transient and impermanent. 1t filters
futters. shufiles, shakes, wavers, wab-
bles and varies. It's a chameleon, It's
quicksilver. it's a Cynthia Of the MN
ute. 1t fugits faster than tempus.
That's my opinion of New York's
temperament. l base it upon my eX-
perience in working on Riders New
York City," just published by Henry
Holt. BY the time we reached the five
hundredth page of information about
transportation. hotels, restaurants,
streets. theatres, shops and other insti-
tutions of our metropolis and environs
we had to go back and rewrite the first
pages. Toward the end it became a
GREATNESS sprint to overtake the city.
The instant we caught up with 1t we
closed the forms and sat down to rest.
Yet while the bindery was stitching on
the green covers two historical build
ings we're pulled down and four sky
scrapers went up. Nothing is perma-
nent except This is the site Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26

and a double room with bath To these
routine questions | quietly added ar
other:
"Are women arriving in the evening,
unescorted by men, received in this no.
tel?"
You see, think that women are no
better than men, and therefore should
be treated as we'll. wanted to chase
down that bugaboo of women, the fear
of being thrown out of hotel on ac-
count of suspicious alone-ness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26
New York Hotels Are Like
the Arabs Tent

Take hotels, now. A bnck-bullt,
steam-heated, elevator-equipped build
ing does not seem a volatile affair. Yet
they disappear overnight. Where is the
old Astor House? The Hoffman House?
The Amsterdam? The Victoria? The
Grand? Where are the hotels Of yes
tervear? Gone with last summers
birds nests. The Arabs tent is not
more fleeting. It's nervous work cata-
loguing hOstleries.
Out in City Island ! saw and loved the
Macedonian Hotel 1t was partly built
of an old frigate, pillared, galleried,
restful-you can read my infatuated
description in the guidebook, but you
can't find the house. Too late to ex-
punge the paragraph. | revisited the
place. 1t had turned into bathing ca
sino. with cement piers and troubled
waters. Young things in blue bathing
costumes and green rubber caps sat
around small tables eating and drink
ing between swims! 1t is a mistake to
revisit Yarrow or Locksley Hall.
Museums are not the stable institu-
tions that they seem. New acquisi-
ton" plays the dickens with the rela-
tive position of objects. Whole wings
are shifted to accommodate loan exhibit
tions. Sometimes the gazetteer has
warning. The subway announces its in
tentions for years in advance. Bellevue
shows on paper its unbuilt pavilions.
But the hills of Harlem skip like lambs.
You write in erudite strain: This oGt-
cropping of rock is a typical exposure
of gneiss stratifed and broken into ley
ers." A month later the stratifed
gneiss has disappeared. In its place
yawns a deep pit. Steel beams are be-
ing swung into place. This is why the
pages of New York guidebook cannot
be printed from electroplates. The
forms cannot be cast. They must re-
main simple type, susceptible to fire.
quent changes for recuTent editions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26
The AneCdOfe of Aunt
Serena

Aunt Serena is an exquisite bit O,
Dresden china. She dresses in layer.
ders and white lace scarfs. Once Yea,
she comes from her upstate village b
the city to shop in the same shOs
where her grandmother shopped sN
hear "the best preachers We yer
sitting on her front veranda at her
home, comfortably cool in the sumne,
breeze. Aunt Serena was knitting a
new and complicated pink bed slipper
that looked like a massage mitten. |
was talking guidebook.
81 saw an extraordinary sight the las
time | was in the city," she commented
in the soft voice that sounds like sleepy
birds and the rustic Of lilac leaves.
"Yes?" | encouraged her, idly wen.
dering if she referred to feeding the
squirrels in the park or the crowd in
the subway.
ut was after the Browning lecture
one afternoon. Wills wife had asked
me to dinner. She sent the car to bring
me, but there had been snowstorm the
day before, and the streets were almost
impossible. 1t took us hours to reach
Central Park West. The snow from The
car tracks was piled in the roadway, and
there were so many motors on the
street that when we were almost to the
Century Theatre | thought would bet.
ter get out and walk the rest of the way
"By that time it was almost dark. |
could see a large crowd Of people around
one of the piles of snow, but l couldn't
see what was the trouble. ! though.
it might be lost child, so I went, too
But it wasn't a lost child"
Aunt Serena counted stitches till |
thought she had forgotten the story
When she had rounded the difficult cal
culation she continued:
Really, it was very curious. A mar
was sitting on the top of that pile Of
snow"
reflected upon how slight a matter
attracts crowd. Aunt Serena contin.
ued meditatively:
THAT wouldn't have been so strange,
but he was stark naked. The snow
must have been so cold to sit on
grew pop-eyed and, gasping, pro-
tested:
Aunt Serena! The policeman should
have arrested himw
They were trying to-" she conceded.
But every time a policeman began to
climb up the pile of snow toward hin
the man on top hit him on the head with
a crowbar Of course, New York ways
are very different from country ways
she unused, but | think, really think
that man must have been crazy"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26

QUITTING New York into guide
book is as difficult as counting
pigs that won't stand still. Euro
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26
The Secref of Mr.. Baedeker'S
knowledge

When | followed the directions of
Baedeker in Europe, in those good old
days before the war, used to wonder
at the omniscient knowledge that as
terisked my path with unerring nicely.
How could one small brain carry all he
knew? He could name soap and candles
in every tongue. He never made the
mistake Of admiring the wrong picture.
His luggage was never lost. He knew
where every streetcar went and the date
of every historical event. All knovl-
edge was revealed to him.
New ! understand One brain does
not carry all that load. Guidebooks are
written by groups Of people. At any
rate, that is how we compiled Our
Guidebook. One man was assigned 10
Arrive in New York" He arrived Via
Ocean Steamship. He arrived Via Long
Island Sound Steamboats,. He arrived
Via Hudson River Steamboat. And b.
six different railroads. Just as Phoebe
Snow is always going, so he was always
coming. Always he arrived as enthlsi-
astic as a freshman coming home from
college on his hrst vacation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26

with its sidewalks full Of tall-hatted
men. short-skirted, high-heeled women
and we'll dressed dogs, and its roadway
congested with motor cars, buses and
one four-in-hand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26

And yet-and yet Here, Ill put
up to you: Would you have been Nor,
interested in what Aunt Serena sss
outside the building or in the perm,
nent collections inside?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26
By VILLAIN HARD

of
he viewpoints
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In he ribuneM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26
Eating Ones Way Is Not
Permitted

Restaurant" sounded like a nice fat
assignment. 1t turned out brain work
instead of stomach work. | was in
structed to remember back and write
my account from meals / had already
eaten. A wide past eating range ap-
pears an experience requisite to writing
guide books. Ny suggestion was re-
fused that make an intensive, personal
investigation Of after-theatre suppers,
Sunday late breakfasts, leisurely lunch
cons, not to mention dinners, in the
various grills, cabarets, cafes and din
ing rooms Of Delmonico's, Sherry's, the
Ritz, and other places we were recon-
mending. Why, If l had been assigned
to eat my way through the ten pages we
listed Of downtown, midtown, uptown
English, French, German, Italian, East
Indian, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, DE-
partment-store, dairy, and tea-roon res
taurants | never would have had to pay
another grocery bill again as long as l
lived
Again group activity came into play
One had eaten here. Another had eaten
there. A friend licked his chops at sacn
place. Every restaurant is somebody's
pet. And so they were catalogued.
Guide-booking has large purple
patches. I've visited the Aquarium ana
Ellis Island. Have you? I've climbed
the Woolworth Tower. / know where
the gingko tree grows, where the Bow
cry got its name, and about the house
that had gold door-knobs. Do you? I've
seen Alexander Munitions duelling
ground and drunk tea in Ishanl PARK
In fact, | am as well acquainted with
New York City as If I were tourist
instead Of resident. Are you?