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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-05-11

Democratic Candidate for Prose
cutting Attorney of Calhoun county.
Cordially Solicits Your Support.
Subject to Genera, Primary,
June 6, 1916
After careful and earnest consld-
GRAFTON, prompted by no desire to
oppose any who may seek the nom
inai IN, but from encouragement
and expressions of good will re-
ceived and of support promised
from different SECTIONS of the Coun-
ty, and that the Democratic Voters
may choose whom they will as their
Candidate for this Office, We place
this announcement.
NV Candidacy is not inspired by
any other motive than a sincere de-
sire to give my best service TO the
public, realizing that "a pubhc
office IS public trust", We are
,G~are by experience and observa-
nioa that the Office of Prosecuting
Attorney is full of important duties
and grave responsibilities and in
connection with the County Court
there are many impOI tant problems
with which to deal, and that they
masf be met face to face, and that
Ehe Pablo is entitled to and de-
Iuands the best personal service and
attention frOa it's officers.
1t might be due TO us and to the
phblic to say that moi wIthstanding
the exception as to residence of
prcs4cnting attorney, provided in
CHIP. Z, sec. IT. of the Code, (my
family located temporarily at the
Chenille Normal SCHOOL, 1T has
never beer my intention to change
my residence and have exercised
NO rights as to citizenship IN any
Other than my Native County. Cal
noun, since 1896. and if elected
promise ard pledge TO situate my
self so as TO give my time and un-
divided attention TO the duties and
work Of the Office with an eaFnes!
enc, eayor to maintain public conf
denee and serve the whole people
~ right shall appear to the best Of
my ability. and strictly as "A bnsi-
ness proposition, and to the up
building and protection OF the Pub
lie interest
We shall endeayoF 30 win by
honorable means and no other this
nomination and with confident hope
10 see the standard Of Democracy
carried to victory in November.
We earnestly solicit your support
and your votes.
Very truly yours
y CHENOWET
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Of Romney. Hampshire county, for
Governor, to the Democratic voters
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ton for Justice of the Peace for
Center district, subject to the June
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w. CHENOWETH

hereby announce nag candidacy
for be Democratic nomination. for
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LORENTZ G HAMILTON
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For Justice of the Peace

l hereby annouce my candidacy
for the Democratic nomination for
Justice of the Peace for Center dis
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ATTORNEY AT-LAW

ATTORNEY AI-IAW
Grantsville, W. Va.
Democratic Candidate for Prose
cutting Attorney of Calhoun county
Cordially Solicits Your Support.
Subject to Genera, Primary,
June 6, 1916
The sun., 1916-08-27
The Pigs knuckle

custom. somewhat as the free lunch
draws trade to the corner saloon. but
not in the dubious free lunch way.
There came the red ink period before
the pubic learned OF the excellence
and small cost of native wines and
when the label on the bottle was held
to he the all sufficient guarantee
of the contents. French and Italians
took up the idea with a twist. and
utilized the drink to foster their BUSH
ncss OF selling food. Bohemia hailed
the table d'hote with enthusiasm and
festivals at so cents per became the
rage. Since half q dollar was then
"A considerable sum to be expended on
one meal, the caterers introduced little
luxuries as provocations to %extrava-
Pance and presently succeeded in fix
ing that amount as the smallest which
any sclf-respecting %adventurcr would
devote to his dinner. one OF the initial
steps in this direction was taken In
South Fifth avenue when aristocracy
still ab!ded in Washington Square. a
single block away. Three oysters on
the half shell were served as the in
PRODUCTION to a dinner. which straight
way drew crowds to the little restau-
rant. Billy Fales, already recog-
niaed as the rcigning prince in the
bohemia Of that day, discovered 1t, as
ho afterward discovered every outre
eating place in this city, and he led
his bodyguard thithcr from the hive
in Eighth street. where they had beds.
After them came the countless aspi-
rants for foothold in the shadowy
Kingdom, till that place, too, was
swamped.
one earlier effort to rccstablish the
vagabond realm. whose capital was
Pfan's. must not be forgotten. Tender
memories remain In many minds OF
tho courtly. gifted. gallant gentleman
The sun., 1916-08-27

spacious apartment OF tho German
Ambassador.
Il have just arrived from Washing
ton. and / would like to order luncheon
IL you will pardon me"
Yes. the reporter would be glad TO
wait while the kaiser's diplomat or
dered a meal from the two liveried SER
wants who had just been admitted by
his secretary. There was a tall person.
beautifully decorated In blue, yellow
and gold lace, who carried an embel-
..shed mcnu which he passed to the
German Count. 4 gayly uniformed
boy in knickerbockers stood two PAGES
to the rear OF his superior. ready to
write the Counts order on u pad.
The Ambassador glanced down the
elaborate wine list and menu card,
printed in French and English. then
passed it back to the tall one who stood
at attention.
Make It IA sandwich and a bottle OF
beer" announced the Count.
The liveried dignitary sldestepped.
staggered and parried.
The sun., 1916-08-27
WHERE BOHEMIA FEASTED IN BYGONE DAYS

one could indeed dine there, and in
worthy company. Henry George came
IN with Charley Sotheran and met Jim
Wight and Walter Quevcdo and Allen
forman and kenward Ih.ip and
Bunny Phelps and Billy Mulioon and
John Foord and many others, mostly
now departed. There was Attic salt
with every dish.
And such dishes, No one ever be-
grudced Emerson the fortune that
grew from hat modest beginning. II
was he who taught us 10 pour a bottle
OF champagne into "A watermelon and
serve II frappe.
Then there was E,tv,s The rank
ana flo of rho uowspaper army stIl
toasted at Oliver HitchcoCk's in the
basement ~ French's Hotel on such
beans as Horace Greeley loved, but II
in William street and learned from her
what real German food was. or If we
wanted beer with our beans we won;
to the hole in the ground AT Fulton
street and Broadway. where Sandy
Spencer kept his Kitchen and bar open
all n!.ht in defiance OF excise law.
.\.v.r,ror ,r,r b,,e IA a,," No
..i, ul,r ,ba ,,i,.. ,r,,o.., :, cl,.a
nm Ills ,l,,, ava moo won, .w,y
pn, -, ,hi. ,.,o wo n,i, ua,nr 20,
hack IA ma vol ink Wh,r N,ct.y
r,u disrny,,,d Marta. no hcp,, -
s.rg puaus in praise of the place. and
Mickey could sing as well as he could
tell Irish stories. Hungry hordes de-
~ - l.-A
The sun., 1916-08-27
The Shanghai Company in . religious picture.
The Introduction of the Photo Plav
Into China a Story of Human
Nature in the Orient

committee consisting Of prominent
merchants Of Shanghai. Canton. Hong
kong and Pekin as follows:
Kim Lou-ey O'Hoy. Daniel Fong.
Ma Yat Chiu. Louie Chui. Fong Flu Yiu,
Fong Flu Gam, U Yau Pull. Lee Hung
Man and 10 Sing PAX. Nc Chung
Wun. a banker Of Honskong. financed
the project in part.
This was only the beginning. Now
the company owns and operates 100
theatres and has its own company Of
actors. numbering 500. One Of the
theatres holds $4,000 persons. Five
thousand Of them sit down and 10000,
standing up. are packed In like sar-
dimes In . box. There are no nre laws
In China AZ regards motion picture
theatres. and there 10 no National
Board Of Censors or any other kind Of
censor. In fact. there 10 hardly m
ofiicial interference In the conduct Of
the industry. for the average China
man knows little about II.
After We got our company or.
ganised." said Mr.. Brodsky to Tbs suN
reporter. land that was . big task in
itself. a. the Chinaman. while willing
to attend the movies by means Of q
bride. could hardly bs persuaded to 20
further). I'VE were faced with the dif.
hculty of making them act. A. I have
said. they did not care for American
stories because they do not seem to
understand the plots. and they desired
to act their own stories for themselves.
Most OF their scenarios were OF q his.
torical or religious nature. A great
many Of our company baked. how.
The sun., 1916-08-27
:. TORIE OF LIFE IN The BIG CITY

"a ham sandwich and "A bottle of
BEER" he Queried.
Yes" smiled tho Count.
zone ham sandwich and "A bottle Of
beer" repeated the tall waiter again,
turning to the boy with the pad.
zone ham sandwich and "A bottle OF
beer said the boy slowly as he wrote
on the pad.
The pair bowed respectfully and
withdrew. The reporter recovered
sufficiently to go on with the interview.
you take my seat" said "A spry
old mar in tho subway to IA tired young
woman who had just come in "a stand
~clinginy TO a strap in front of him.
"Oh. my. No." said the young
woman, smilingly; but she sat down
at the old mans smiling hut unmis-
taxable insistence, and he Was glad she
did. Still. as IA matter of fact, THIS
old man had not always been 50 ready
to give his seat TO a woman; but since
his own daughter had begun going to
business this whole giving up your
The sun., 1916-08-27
S Knucke Joint Recalls City Restaurants Once
and Made Famous by Brill ant Men and Women
Once F%requented

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By DAVID 4. CURTIS.
NE subject only engages the
more or less serious attention
OF every human being Mt least

NNE subject only engages the
more or less serious attention
Of every human being at least
twice every twenty-four hours. for II
there be any who eat only once q day.
II IL beyond reason to suppose that It
10 from lack Of desire.
30. fixing the minimum Of meals for
the normal man or woman at two per
diem. It u plain that one Of these IL
the dinner. II 10 upon his dinner that
man spends more Of his income than
for anything else. unless indeed he has
more Of IN income than 10 really con
ducive to his best welfare.
"watch your mouth" said BenJa-
min Franklin in . violent effort to
rank Lord Bacon u the wisest and the
meanest Of mankind. "for down that
little red lane runs more money than
anywhere else" And why not? What
Is money for?
You may dine for very little money.
sven though you be not invited to
dine a. some ones guest. You may 60.
for example. to the Pigs knuckle
Joint. over by Eighth avenue Here
the high cost of living 10 a fantastic
dream that will not trouble you. since
the indigestion that breeds dreams
turks not in the toothsome morsel
that gives the place It's name. nor even
In the sayory sauerkraut served with
out extra cost.
It IL not compulsory that you shall buy
beer to wash 1t down. though. indeed,
the main industry IL the sale Of beer.
II Is good beer. too. and II you chance
to have a quarter In your pocket you
will not begrudge spending h sur
plus dime for 1t after paying for the
dinner. The proprietor 10 we'll entitled
to make a proht on something, and
the waiter will forego his tip good
naturally enough. He knows the
pinch Of poverty we'll. though he does
not feel Il.
II Is a decorous place. The wallis of
the street that drift in here when the
easy money Of other nights Is not
available enjoy no such latitude Of be-
havior as 10 reckoned regular enough
In more %pretentious places. and the
waiting here IL always watchful. They
behave themselves. or II they hnd that
irksome they 60 elsewhere. Not will
ingly It may be-. but certainly and very
quickly.
The motley gathering In the rough
shed that was nee q back yard IL moi
cxacting In requirements Of costume
49,
ners. for boisterous repartee from the
waiter may be expected and will b<
unrebuked, but v tho we'll to dc
parties that are attracted by the cx-
cellencs OF the v!ands. regardless OF
the price. venture no improperly.
The Pigs Knuckle Joint Is a sur
vival. Doubtless there are many Others
In the byways OF the great city,
known only to tho fortunate few and
nom e xistent even to many who pride
The sun., 1916-08-27

themselves on their knowledge OF out
Of the way places. but in the elder
day like eating places were easy TO
md. The trouble was then. as it is
now. that once they were found
crowds thronged them, ard their
charm disappeared.
There Is still n survivor OF the
notable group that made Pfaf's fam
Gus. though ever willie" Winter
might have trouble in finding it now.
and George Arnold and Harry Clapp.
and ftz-James O'Brien and Ada Glare
and all his other comrades have long
been feasting in Walhalla. Eheu
fugaces!
Since then how many groups OF
brilliant men and women have enjoyed
their brief Immortality. And since
they. no less than others. ate and
drank. they gathered at this and that
resort as Doctor Johnson sat in a
to the place and sometimes enr!ching
the owner Of 1t. There was a base
ment dining room In University place
years ago where three OF tho greatest
men in New York feasted habitually.
Frank Saltus, Gus de Livaudais and
Jim Connelly-Big Jim they called him
collectively weighed half "A ton, but
they carried no fatty deposits in their
heads. Giants they were among the
intellsctuals. acclaimed mighty by the
wits and rhymesters OF the day, who
clustered around the huge table that
ran the length Of the DOR till they
oyarNouad tho pramtses And no man
criticised the fare or quarrclled with
the price thereof. 1t was a German
place like the other two, and beer was
the staple, food being merely a neccs-
sity to be provided casually on the
side, as 1t were. and served tho land
lord only as a OF attracting
The sun., 1916-08-27

seat question Rad appeared to him IN
u new l!ght.
Sometimes, when she came home at
night, she would tell about her expert
crccs coming up in the subway; telling
of these things not C"mplainingly but
rather a. OF something that Interested
her; though sometimes she was moved
10 speak "A little Indignantly. She had
learned many things in her subway
travels; She discovered what car TO
take IN a train ana where to stand in
it with the best chance of getting n
seat when people get of at stations;
and 50 now she is rather more likely
10 get "A seat than when she first began
gong downtown; but still her expert
cuccs have lccn to this old man, to
put it mildly, disturbing; and they set
him thinking.
He'd he always been 10 other mems
daughters as polite AZ he might have
been" lie tx So now. anyway. 1t was
Of his W daughter that he was think
Ing when ne gave up his seat to that
young woman in the train.
The sun., 1916-08-27
Typical movie interior and native actors.
First Audi ences Paid to Come to the
Theatre..Chinese Now Turn Out
Their Own Films

narios. Of murder. poisoning and sud-
den death. And what IL more. they were
Just as well satisfied to act IL out in
reality as to stage the picture. If
you had, for instance. II picture in
which an execution or something OF a
similar nature was the central point.
II was just as casy to get Il picture Of
Il real honest to goodness execution
az To- get Il stage execution. Some
times. in fact, II was easier. And We
had a hard time TO keep the Gov
erno.s Of some OF these uncivil!Zed
States from trotting out a convicted
criminal and cutting his head on on
the spot while the Chinese movie man
ground away on the machine with
every evidence OF delight.
AS FOR pictures depicting duels;
that was the easiest thing imaginable
In every community there were feuis
Galore between numbers of oPpos.n ;
.ac'ions and l. w.s no tisk 1T al, 80
:ct ~ men who were bitter enemies
10 stand up and blaze away q. coca
"t.;cr With reviewers or to fight C nit
ter bate with Chinese knives. But
a. ! nav said, this vas the exception
rather than the rule. and We trlcl our
lest to avoid 1t AS much as possible
Tho headquarters OF the company
was first located N liongkong. There
were branches in pck!n. Shanghai. and
Canton, and from these points the
{ 'ppaG. operated In the many prov
noes. Their" vas a small compNHy In
elch city that tourCl about maxim
pictures IN the ne!shhorhood.
But u return To the movies In
The sun., 1916-08-27

We knew as Algernon $. Sullivan. and
OF the boundless hospitality with which
he entertained the iV%pecunious free
lances OF his time AZ the little r'Stau-
ran in Twelfth street, Just Off Broad
way, I'll some unhappy wight sug-
gested the establishment OF the Serb
blers' club.
Sullivan was rich. \ house was
taken and furnished in Eleventh street
and the roster OF the club was fun in
a single night. Then rcvclry. TheN'
are still survivors. though the club
persisted untimely from Sullivan's
prosperity. and Bohemia looked no
longer for an abiding place, And the
immortality OF that generation was
brief as the one before. who remcm-
bers Sam Mckeever. or Al Tumble.
or jim Mix. or Gale Dunn or Jack
Hamilton? His brother Tody has just
passed, and we fondly dream that hc
Will never he forgotten. but There
were others. too. but no organic
group till one gathered around Idlcs.
His reign began with the red ink era,
and many a r~estaurateur grew rich by
his royal favor, And many another
might have ~prospercd had they had
cash registers.
There was a most capable cook who
had a bare room with tables and
chairs in West Third stree who did
n smashing trade for "A season. If her
mothcrly nature had not inhibited Dis
elimination she might be in business
to-day. In which case there would he
one more place in New York whore
The sun., 1916-08-27
+ course ] have heard the call
OF the old clothes man in the
street and ] have seen him

W@F course j have heard the can
OF the old clothes mar in the
street and ] have seen him
carrying In his right hand the rolled
up newspaper with which he points
at whoever may be looking down from
a window; but" said Lucinda. ut had
never occurred to me that l should
ever encounter personally.
Brother Claude tells me that they
speak TO him In the street, asking him
II he has any old clothes To sell, hut
l had never dreamed any old clothes
man would thus address me; and yet
one did this very morning.
Amy old clothes to sell. lady" he
said to me. and my crisply nodded
MOI in nowise disturbed him.
"'Give you s. for the suit you got
CO. he said. quite calmly.
did you eyes, concluded Lucinda,
"hear Of anything so %impudent?'
Count Won Bcrnstorn will see you
The reporter was ushercd to the
eleventh Moor Of the Ritz and Into the
The sun., 1916-08-27

did not do rs he was told. generally
accomplished the purpose.
Later this difficulty began to Nc-
come less and less exasperating as the
natives came TO realize hat nothing
would hurt them. Then they began 10
take Il decided interest in the work.
They would. in fact, write their own
The sun., 1916-08-27

scenarios under guidance and took
great pleasure N acting them out be-
fore the camera They proved ap.
pupils. and not "A few had decided tall
cL' fDr acting.
There is little trouble To Get reals
d. atmosphere These natives some
t.W'- wrote the most horrible sCc-
The sun., 1916-08-27

ever. when It came to standing up
before the camera.
Dire threats Of instant death and
all kinds OF torture were necessary IL
many cases TO persuade u actors to
act. We had enlisted the cooperation
Of the Governors of the various in
terror Chinese States, and 1t wa
The sun., 1916-08-27

through their action that We were. in
a measure. successful. Whenever we
came across a rehellious member OF
the company. and when all our threats
Of burial alive were futile, an official
communication from the secretary OF
the chief OF the State TO the effect
that his head would he cut on IL he
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