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CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL E
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o IN G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTS, SUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Serbians capture town Of Velyeselo,
near Brod, in drive toward Monastir.
Russians repulse Teuton attack near
the Narayuvka on the Galician front.
British gains on Somme admitted by
Berlin, but Eat reckless sacrifice of
human lives"
Bucharest reports repulse by bay
onet of Teutonic attacks in Transyl-
vanian passes.
Teutonic troops driven towards Ru-
manian frontier on the Brosteni Sec
tor and in the Bistritza valley.
German military critic estimates al
lied losses on all fronts since June /
at more than 100000 men.
Important German victory claimed
by Berlin as result of weeks fighting
in Galicia. Battle still raging says
Petrograd.
The situation in Greece still is tense.
More entente soldiers have been land
ed at Athens and Piraeus to maintain
order in the country.
RuSSO-Rumanlan army retreats De-
fore smashing blows of Won Macken-
sens army in Dobrudja. Three more
towns captured by Teuton forces.
London claims an advance of from
800 to 500 yards on front of 5000
yards in the Somme sector. German
trench occupied and many prisoners
taken.
Serbians continue drive northward
against the Bulgars, capturing several
villages along the Cerna, according to
the Paris report of fighting on the
Macedonian 'front.'
French score important new ad-
vance in campaign for Peronne, push
ing forward on front mile wide
between Biaches and La Maisonette.
Germans repulsed in violent counter
attack near Sailly-Saillisel.
The entente allies have taken over
the Greek battleship Kilkis (former-
ly the United States battleship Idaho),
the Lemnos formerly the Mississippi
and the Averoff On Oct. II the allies
took over the entire Greek fleet ex-
cept the Kilkis, Lemnos and Averoff.
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FIFTY PERISH IN LAKE.
Steamer Merida Added to List OF
Boats That Went Down on
Black Friday.

Detroit, Mich.-Great lakes vessels
passing here Monday from Lake Erie
ports brought no more bodies of We
tins of the terrific gale of the goth or
word to indicate that any other YES
sells than those already reported had
gone down in the storm, which took a
toll of more than fifty lives and four
steamers.
All hope that the steamer Merida,
long overdue at Buffalo, had escaped
the storm, was dispelled when it was
learned that several bodies, some of
them wearing lifebelts stamped
Merida" were picked up in Lake Erie
by the steamers w. B. Mathews and
Charlotte G.. Brietung.
The Merida was commanded by
Capt. H. L. Jones of Buffalo,, She car
ried a crew of twenty-three men, all
of whom are believed to have per-
ished Twenty-one lives were lost
with the Waleback steamer James B..
Colgate and six when the d. l.. Filler
foundered. All thirteen of the crew
of the Marshal F. Buffers were res
cued when that vessel was caught in
the gale and sank.
Three bodies picked up by the
Mathews were taken in to Toledo.
Early Monday five bodies were TAX
en- to Sandwich, Ont, across the De-
troit river from this point by the
steamer Charlotte G.. Breitung. They
were picked up by the Breitung in
Lake Erie.
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New Fish Bait Declared Good.

The United States bureau of fish
cries reports that on the last cruise
of the Fish Hawk in Chesapeake bay
samples of crayfish meat, put up in
brine, were distributed among crab
fishermen and dealers, to test it's value
and the possibility of introducing it as
a substitute for some of the baits now
on the market. Fishermen who have
tried the crayfish say that it is a very
good bait s
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When the Home Team Lost.

Charley, DEAR" said young Mrs.
Torkins, 'do you believe in going ac-
cording to the will of the majority?"
"Of course. Everybody does"
'Then why doesn't the baseball nm
pire try to make his decisions that way
Oftener? s
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HAY AND GRAIN MARKET.
F. o. B. Denver, Carload Price.

Hay.
Buying Prices.
Colorado upland, d,per ton. $14.OO@l5.OO
Nebraska upland, per ton. l2.OOQl3.00
Second bottom Colorado
and Nebraska, per ton. lO.50@ 1l.5O
Timothy, per ton .16.5O@17.5
Alfalfa, per ton ......... l0.OOQ11.5o
South Park, choice, per
IOu .s...... AI.OVW low
San Luis Valley, per ton. 1450W15.50
Gunnison Valley, per ton 16.OO@l7OO
Straw, per ton .......... 4.oO
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l. ATE
MAR K E T
UOT ALTON 6
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DENVER MARKETS.

Cattle.
Steers (pulp and grain fed),
good to choice ...... .$S.5OQ9.OO
Steers (pulp and grain fed),
fair to good S.OO@S.5O
Steers, grassers, good to
choice. 49,. S.oO@S.5O
good ........ .... 7.25@s.oO
Heifers, prime ............ 7.00@7.50
Cows (pulp and grain fed)
good to choice .......... 6.75G7 80
Cows (pulp and grain fed),
fair to good ........... 6.OO@e.75
Cows, grassers (good) -. 6.25@6.75
Cows, grassers (fair). ...... 5.5O@6.25
Cows, Gamers ............ 4.75@5.25
Veal calves ............. 8.O0@1O.5O
Bulls ........ .......... 4.75@5.5O
Feeders and stOckers, good
to choice ............... :. 6.5O@7.25
Feeders and stockers fair
to good ................. 5.5OQ6.l5
Hogs.
Good hogs ................9. .9.15W9.So
Sheep.
Wethers ................$6 .$6.75@ 7.25
YearlingS ................ 7.OO@ 7.5O
Lambs 9.5O010.0O
Ewes ........ ........... $3.50 6.75
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Boulder-Tungster concentrates, 60
per cent, $1SOO@2o.OO per unit Crude
ores, 60 per cent, $17.50@2O.O0; rs
per cent, $94O@12.O0; 10 per cent,
$7.80@10.00 per unit.
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Ask Board to Relieve Car Shortage

ASK Board to RELIEVE Car Shortage.
Denver.-An appeal to the Inter
state Commerce Commission to come
to the aid of the shippers of Colorado
who are losing thousands of dollars
daily through the continued shortage
Of cars was made by wire by the
State Public Utilities Commission.
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Clara KeIloqq's Husband Dies.

Hartford, Conn.-Karl Strakosch,
noted composer, husband of the late
Clara Louise Kellogg, opera singer,
died suddenly at hotel here.
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GRAIN.

Grain.
Wheat, ch. mill, 100 lbs, buying $2.32
Rye, Colo, bulk, 100 lbs, buying. 1.6O
Idaho oats, bulk, buying. ....... 1.5O
Colorado oats, bulk, buying. -. lab
Corn chop. sack. selling ........ 1.80
Corn in sack, selling .......... LIT
Bran, Colorado, per 100 lbs, SELL
ing .. 125
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Metal Market Prices.

Bar silver .....9 OLA
Spelter, per 100 lbs, st. Louis $50
Lead, per 100 lbs, New York. 700
Copper. casting ............ 26.87k
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Butter, Eggs and Poultry.

Chicago.-Butter - Creamery, 300
34hc. Eggs-Firsts, 30k@31c; ordi-
nary firsts, 28h@29hc; at mnrk,
cases included, 22h@29hc. Potatoes
Minnesota and Dakota Ohios, $1.2O
@1.3O; Minnesota and Dakota white,
$1.2OQ1.30; Wisconsin and Michigan
white, $1.0501.20. Poultry-Fowls,
a7c; springsy 17c.
Chicago Grain and Provision Prices.
Chicago-Wheat-N 2 red, $1.67A
@1.69; No. red, $1.57Q1.66A; No. 2
hard, $1.7O% @1.741A; No. hard,
s1.65K@1.69.
Corn-No. 2 yellow, 96hc.
Oats-No. 8 white, 48A@48%c;
standard, 48%@49Ac.
Rye-No. 2, $1.39.
Barley-75c@$1.18.
C}over-$11@15.
2ork-$28.50.
Lard-$15.75.
Ribs-a13.75014.25.
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C0NSTANzA FORT
TAKEN ByTEUTONS
ENTENTE ROUTED IN DOBRUDJA
AND IMPORTANT NAVAL BASE
IN MACKENSENS HANDS.
DROP BOMBS AT METZ
FRENCH FLEET OF "a AERO
PLANES BOMBARD NUM-
TIONS FACTORIES.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, Oct. 25.-The Dobruja re-
gion of Rumania apparently is being
overrun by the forces of the Teutonlc
allies.
Constanza, Rumania's chief seaport
and fortress on the Black sea, already
has fallen into the hands Of the troops
of the right wing of Field Marshal Won
Mackensens army, while the left wing
is nearing the town of Tchernavoda,
where the Danube is spanned by the
bridge of the railroad running from
Constanza to Bucharest.
Near the center of their front, which
extends across the Dobrudja from the
sea to the Danube, the invaders have
cut the railroad near Murfatlar and
pushed their troops "far beyond" the
railway line, according to Berlin.
Before the rapid advance of the
Germans, Bulgarians and Turks-rap1d
despite heavy rains and soggy ground
the Russians and Rumanians are in
retreat along the entire front, but ac-
cording to Petrograd are offering
stubborn resistance.
Aside from the operations in Do
brudia, another British smash at the
German line in the Somme region OF
France, which netted them more than
1000 yards of trenches east OF Gueu-
decourt and Les Boeufs, and carried
their front step nearer the Bapaume-
Peronne road, is the most notable in
cident of the fighting on any OF the
| fronts.
A gain, described by Paris as ZAP
| preciable,' also is recorded for the
French northeast of Morval, just to
| the south of the region where the
British and Germans were in contact.
The Russians having been cleared
from the Narayuvka river region OF
Galicia, the Austro-Germans have
hurled a violent attack against other
forces of Emperor Nicholas north of
Brody, near the Volhynia-Galicia bor-
der. The attack was repulsed, accord
| ing to Petrograd.
Paris. = Four tons of projectiles
have been dropped by a French air
squadron of twenty-four machines on
blast furnaces north of Metz and on
the Metz and Thionville stations, the
| war office announced in it's report OF
aviation activities. Hits were secured
on all objectives, it is declared.
Another French flotilla bombarded
| factories at ROmbach.
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Berlin.-Capt. Boelke, the famous
German aviator, shot down two more
aeroplanes, bringing up the total to
thirty-eight, the war office announced.
Twenty-Five allied airships were de-
stroyed during the day.
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Ex-President Roosevelt in Denver
Denver.-Col. Theo. Roosevelt was
here Tuesday, and delivered two ad-
dresses at the Auditorium.
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vmportan% 70 Mothers
His Desire.

Aviator-You're up in the air where
you wanted to go, you've got more
than the worth of your money. What
more do you want? t 6Af
Scared Passenger want the earth.
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ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Tucson.
Nov, 1s-1s-Arizona State Fair at Phoe :
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Old Gotrox-But, my dear sir, she is
only a schoolgirl of twelve.
Young Cheekly-Yes, am aware Of
that. But 1 came early to avoid the
rush.
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Safety First.

Young Cheekly-Sir, I have come to
ask for the hand of your daughter in
marriage.
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The man of business is born, not
made.
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Live Poultry.
The following prices on live poultry
Eggs.

Eggs, graded No. l net, F.
o. B. Denver .......... az
Eggs, graded No. 2 net, F.
o. B. Denver. ........ IL
Eggs, case count, misc.
cases, less commission. .7.25@9.2
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ElOIIr

Flour.
Selling Prices.
Standard Colorado, net ........$3.7O
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Butter.

Butter.
Creameries, ex. 1st grade, Id 35
Creameries, I'd grade, lb. 81 @32
ETOC0SS .oA NUoH
Packing stock ............26 OPT
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Fruit.
Vegetables.

Apples, Colo, fancy, box. s., ,00@2.00
Pears, Colo, box .......... 2.25@2.75
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

on the whole. September Morn is
to be commended for those who like
exactly this sort of thing-"exactly
this sort of thing" being an evening
of eXtravagant farce and travesty,
music that slips along in riotous
tumble of melody as does all the tan
go tunes, out of which it is made. and
dancing that is spirited and expert.
"a Pair of Skies"
The Grand will have an attraction
Thursday, January 27, in "A Pair of
Skies" which has been anticipated
with much interest. for it is now &C
knowledeged the world over as one of
the funniest farces ever seen on the
English speaking stage. 1t has been
running for nearly a year at the
Longacre theater, New York, and it is
the reigning success in the West. No
play ever received more unstinted
praise for its bright and amusing
story, clever dialogue and skillfully
conceived situations. 1t is in three
acts and is by Edward Peple, the we'll
known author of 1.-The Littlest Rebel
and The Prince Chap"
The curtain rises on the offices of
the Eureka Digestive Pill company. It
appears to be a nice orderly office
with the attractive gum-chewing
typist, until the two partners enter
and begin to quarrel. The one. T.
Boggs John, who runs too fat in fig
ure, claims he is the blood and brains
of the pill business and the other
George b. Nettleton. iterates and reit-
crates that he is by no means the
bone and fat" of the organization.
Hyams and Mcintyre, stars of mu-
steal comedy and headliners of vaude-
vile, will return to the Grand in the
latest and most promising musical
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

chew. He had been waiting for weeks
for chance to make the slide when
every fireman and even the horses
were looking the other way And when
the opportunity finally came the six
teen feet of pole began to stretch out.
Looking down from the hole in the
ceiling it appeared to be fully fifty
feet to the concrete. His nerve failed.
then pride came to his rescue.
When No Ono Was Looking.
At the moment when it appeared that
every fireman was otherwise occupied
ne grabbed the brass pole with a grip
that made his knuckles show white.
shut his eyes and waited. Nothing
happened. Certainly not. He hadn't
made any dents in the pole with his
grip but he had made himself per-
fectly fast. Releasing the brakes
sllghtly-very slghtly-he began TO
move downward. The thought struck
him That he had neglected to put ii
pale or hay or even a soft pine board
at the foot of the pole and because of
the oversight he tried to put on the
am. But il was too late. He was on
a down grade with a slick track ahead.
A combination of arms, hands, feet,
legs, neck and body. also a certain
amount of desperation enabled the re-
porter TO retard his progress to some
extent. Contrary to his sincere belief
at the moment he did not spread out
over the concrete floor when he
struck, his heels didn't bore any holes
IN it. But on the other hand there was
nothing light and feathery about his
landing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
A TOPEKA MYSTERY
FACE At 4 WINDOW
Seen Every Morning at Sam
Time and Place.
At No Other Time of Day Is 1t
Ever Noticed.

Morning after morning for weeks a
downtown worker has caught the
same street car, watched the same
people take the car at their respective
corners and smoked and talked with
the same bunch of fellows on the
back end. There is a ready explana-
pie ride. down on the same car each
morning. Their jobs are waiting for
them when the eight o'clock whistle
blows.
But there is one thing about that
morning car ride that puzzles him and
which he has not attempted to unrav-
ell except in imagination. The car
passes an apartment house. Each
morning for weeks, since one morning
he just happened to look, he has
glanced at 4 window on the third
floor. He has come to know that
there will be an aged gray-haired
woman at that window. He knows
at that corner she will part the cur
tains and gaze out before all the pas
sengcrs are on.
Why does the gray-haired woman
go to the window and watch that par
ticular car? The passenger has kept
tab on the people taken on at that
corner and there is no one passenger
who boards the car at that point every
morning. Hence it cannot be some
members of the family she wants to
see start to the days work. He has
watched the conductor and the motor
neer. They are not next" They do
not even glance at the window. Take
the car at any other hour and the
Sray-haired woman is not visible at
the window.
Topeka is not so large nor its life
SO complicated but that a little inves-
tigation would throw light upon this
unimportant mystery. But what's the
use? There would be an end to the
mystery and all the interest attached
to that morning ride would be gone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
SLIDE, KELLY, SLIDE!
1T LOOKS EASY
How Fireman Slides Down
the Brass Pole.
New Men Meet With Numerous
Unpleasant Experiences.
SORE HEELS AND STIFF LIMBS
Result From Hitting the Con-
crete Floor Too Hard.
The Hardest Lesson Is to Learn
How to Stop.
SORE HEELS and STIFF Limbs

Imagine sliding down creased pole
with a solid concrete floor rushing up
to meet you at the rate of LOU feet
minute, and you carrying orders not to
use your hands until you were three
feet from the concrete You'd sort OF
forget your orders, wouldn't you.
The new firemen who went to work
under the double platoon system the
first of the year forgot their orders at
first, too. They didn't have to slide
down a creased pole but the poles
might as well be creased. They would
be no smoother. They are highly
polished brass and when a fireman
jumps at one of them he shoots down.
ward like a bomb from an aeroplane-
To the casual onlooker nothing
looks more simple than the slide
fireman makes down one of the poles
He shoots through hole in the cell
ing like a streak of blue, then just
before he reaches the floor, he checks
his speed and calmly steps away from
the pole as he might leav the last
step of a stairway. An experienced
fireman does all that. Not so the
novice.
The First Few Days.
The first few days after the new
firemen were put on duty there were
sore heels, stiff limbs, burned wrists
and almost every other minor injury
q man could get by falling out of a
hay NOW or off a house. In spite
OF most careful lIlStructlOhS some u
the men found it difficult to learn how
TO stop. They are always sure of
stopping but it makes wonderful diff
ference whether the fireman stops
himself or allows the concrete floor to
stop him. To fall sixteen feet and
come to a dead stop standing on con-
crete isn't recommended highly by any
of the new men.
The pole stunt looks so easy it is
fascinating. One reporter stood
around watching the veteran firemen
shoot down through the floor appar-
emily giving it as little thought as thty
would striking a match or taking a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

the tone of the letters the pupils were
impressed with the great amount of
machinery used by the state in print
Ing school books.
The word thing is used by Her
bert Abmeyer to name each piece of
machinery. II saw them make the
covers of our histories the youth
writes They put them on big
thing that pressed it up against a
thing that had the pictures on it,"
Herbert Abmeyer is a cripple and in
order to make the trip Two OF his
school mates aided him.
The method used in putting gold
letters on the backs of books seemed
to interest them most. Il saw a man
putting gold letters on the books
writes Isabel Smith. 1T is called
sheet gold and is about the size of a
two inch square. 1t takes 1901 600
sheets of this to make an inch in
thickness. The man gave me some
and [ rubbed it with my fingers and
it disappeared it was so thin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

Tonight the last performance of
Traffic in Souls" will be given. Start
ing Monday night the Oliver Players
will present the first western play of
their engagement, The Girl and the
Bandit" This play has been compar-
ed favorab bly, to The Virginian" and
THE Squawman." The two latter
plays have heretofore been supposed
to be the last words when it comes to
western plays. The play will run the
first half of the week with a matinee
Wednesday afternoon.
The divers seem to be well in
trenched here in the favor of the the
atergoers as their audiences are con-
stantly increa@ing in size, a sure sign
that they are pleasing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
CHARGED own TRENCH
Rhyme Tells How "Greel< Met Greek"
in Battle Between Canadians.

After the Fifth had made their charge
And won themselves much fame.
The ''Maconniche Horse who were Jealous,
of course,
Were avid to get in the game"
London, Jan. 22.-England today is
reading in rhyme the grim, yet laugh
able story of the charge after Festu-
bert of the 'Strathcona Horse" the
Canadian unit whose members don't
ride horses at all. The charge was
carefully planned and smashingly ex-
ecuted. The troops swept forward
and plunged into the trench. bayonets
up. The only drawback to the charge
was the fact that it was unwittingly
directed against one of their own
trenches. in which d party of Cana
dian engineers was "sapping." AS the
rhymster sings it:
They defended themselves with pick and
spde;
Some one had blundered, hey said;
Thy wen after the men who'd made the
mistake
And battered many a head.
Long will the nam of Maconniche live
And their great and glorius charge;
But our engineers swear they'll work no
more
If such roops are left at large"
The significance of the corruption
of ''Strathcona Horse to "Machon-
inches Dismounted Horse lies in the
fact that MachOnniche is a London
meat packer whose corned beef is
eaten in the trenches. Soldiers call
all meat horse
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
CAN'T find A WAY
Mayor House Still Hunts for Loophoi
to Increase Parsons's Salary. +

No way has been found by Mayor
j. Z. House or George Hayden. city
attorney. to increase the salary of =.
G. Parsons, chief of police. The ciy
ordinances have been gone over with
a fine-tooth comb. Court decisions ~
Kansas have been looked up. but an-
parently there is no way the commits
sion can increase the salary without
evadinE the law.
apparently there is no way outi
said Mayor House today. Il doift
know of anything | can do. | wait
to grant an increase and I believe
most people would like to see it done"
Chief Parsons has not yet begun his
vacation in order to look for a job.
He stated several days ago that he
would like to have such q vacation.
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he PLAYED WITH BOOTH See WHEELS GO ROUND
A Leaf From the Life History of Dean
Kaye.

Probably the most noted member of
the theatrical profession in Topeka
coming down from the days of Booth
and Barrett is James Philip de Bevers
Kaye, dean of Grace Cathedral.
A program tucked away in an old
book was found recc1tly by Mayor
House giving the ''Dramatis Per-
sorae" of a play acted in 1888 in To-
peka. Madame Ristori, the TRACE
dienne was the star of the bill and
among the names on the yellowed
sheet was that of Dean Kaye, then
stage manager for the famous TRACE
dienne.
When asked about his dramatic
career. Dean Kaye refused to say any
thing except that he was on the stage
six years, leaving it to study for the
ministry.
During his six years he was with
Salvini. the tragedian. Madame Ris-
tori and Edwin Booth. Dean Kaye
refused to say whether he was stage
manager or an actor with these COM
panies which toured the country in
the eighties. Topeka was considered
a 'tanl, town" in those days and the
dean says that he cannot even re-
member playing here.
The pinnacle of his glory came
when he was with Edwin Booth. The
dean admits that he knows many in
teresting anecdotes about the personal
eccentricities of the great actors of the
past who played before the gas foot
lights Stage managing was a much
rougher job than now because of the
varied types of theaters.
Dean Kaye was born in SHROPSHIRE
England. of 4 clerical family. He
came to the United States when a boy
and was educated here, being or
dained in 1891.