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Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-02-06

It may also be Of interest to learn
that he Chinaman, Tsi Linn. who was
pardoned, after a long and interesting
hearing before Governor Curtis and
Council. on the condition that he
should leave the country never to re-
turn, all the expenses of his trans
portation to be borne by him and his
deportation to be guaranteed by the
Chinese embassy. is still an inmate of
the State prison, the deposit of cash
necessary to cover the expenses not
yet having been made. The delay is
doubtless due, it is thought to the
endless red tape and time required by
diplomats in settling such momentous
questions. especially by those of the
Celestial Kingdom, to whom time is a
mere incident in life.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-02-06
The Bailey Case.

The BaileNcase is somewhat similar
to the power house track case and the
Commission orders the steam and cleo
trio railroad companies TO serve Ccr-
tain territory between Winthrop and
Augusta.
In the Pearson complaint the Com
mission is asked to require the Port :
land and Lewiston Interurban Rail-
way to restore and use a connecting
track between il and the Portland Ter
minal Co. at Deering Junction. Con-
nection was broken and removed he
fore tho complaint was filed with tho
commission and il was decided that
in view of the absence of any author
ity granted by the law. the Commission
is without power to require the com
paries to restore the physical con
neCtiOn
Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-02-06

The Maine Public Utilities Commls-
sion has just harded down decisions III
four matters Which are regarded as OF
great importance to certain people or
the State and which are of special In
terest for the reason that they evidence
for the first timc in this State the be-
lief Of the Commission as to the law
governing matters involved in the de
cisons. These matters are known as
the power house track case at Port
land; the Pearson case which relates
to the Portland and Lewiston Inter
urban; the Bailey case at Winthrop;
and the Bath Box Company case at
Bath.
The first three relate to the matter OF
conn ulsory physical connection be-
tween the tracks Of steam railroads
and electric railroads and the perform
ance by the electric railroads of aux
iliary or cartinE service by means OF
such physical connection or by means
of a transfer of freight from cars
standing on the track of the steam
railroad to car standing on the track
Of the electric railroad and the cartinC
by the latter o. the contents OF such
car to it's destination along the line OF
the electric railroad.
The power house track case was in
stituted by the Commission and relates
to adjoining tracks OF the Portland
Terminal Company and the Cumhcr-
land County Power and Light Com
nany near Forest Ave. in Portland. A.
this point Is an unloading track Of tho
Portland Terminal co. which is with
in a very few feet OF branch track
Of the electric railway of the tumber-
land County Power and Light Co In
1915. the contra otor who built Soc
tion Of the State road between Port
land and Saco vas permitted tn unload
cement from the steam railroad car on
to an electric car and haul tho same
over the electric railroad to tho exact
point where it was to he used in high
way construction. In April 1916, tho
Terminal Co. refused to place cars
upon this track and tho Commission In
Stituted q complaint and investigated
the matter. The Terminal 90. con
tended that it vas not obliged to rem
der this service unless the Cumberland
County Power and Light Go. entered
into written agreement under which
It would be c. mpelled TO contribute
substantially to the operating expenses
Of the Terminal Company's plant and
property.
The Commission calls attention 20
the fact that Under the existing law
no authority is given 20 require phys
ical connection between steam and
electric railroads but holds and decides
that full authority is given the Com
mission to require the Terminal co. to
place cars upon this power house track
and permit the cCnsignee to unload the
same onto electric cars for delivery. II
is understood that the Commission will
present to the Legislature which *
now in session n bill authorizing the
Commission to require physical con
nection between steam and electric
railroads.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

TAN you not hear me, young man in
" the street?
Is it nothing to you who pass by,
Who down the dim-lit ways in thousands
roam?
From here watch you, through the driv-
ing sleet,
Under the evening sky,
Hurrying home.
Home how the word sounds like a bell
I wonder can you know, as / know well,
That in this trench
Of death and stencil
! stand between your home and hell.
| am the roof that shields you from the
weather,
am the gate that keeps the brigand back,
When pllage, fire, and murder come to-
gether,
am the wall that saves your home from
sack.
Man! when you look upon the girl you
prize,
Can you imagine horror in those eyes?
You have not seen, you cannot under
stand,
This trench is England, all this ruined
land
Is where you wander, street, or field, or
strand,
Save for Gods grace, and for the guns
that rest
Upon this dripping mudbank Of the west.
Our blood has stained your Threshold
will you stain
Your soul, give nothing and take all our
gain?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
Star Spangled Banner

with the desired meaning: English is ho'rsl
deficient in short syllables."
Mr.. Crowley concludes by calling alter
ton to the contemporary recruiting Sls
cover There" by that "really great rx-
George M. Conan" This achievens.
which follows, Mr.. Crowley is pleased b
hold up as masterpiece" recently nsa'
by Miss Nora Bayes IAN essential part
of every cultivated New Workers. tsr,
life:
Johnnie get your gun, get your gun, ss'r''
gun,
Take il on the run, on the run, on the m;
Hear them calling you and me,
Every son of liberty;
Hurry right away, no delay, go to-day
Make your daddy glad, TO have such ln
Tell your sweetheart not TO pine,
To be proud her boys in line.
Chorus
Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word, over thm
That the Yanks are coming, the Yann %
coming,
The drums rum-tumming, everywhere
So prepare, say a pray'rt
Send the word, send the word, to bewir
Well be over, we're coming over,
And we won't come back till it's over,
Over there, over there.
Johnnie get your gun, get your gun' ge'T''
gun;
Johnnie show the Hun you're son OF srA
Hoist the flag and let her hy
Yankee Doodle, do or die;
Pack your little kit, show your grit, 30 ~
bit;
Yankees, to the ranks, from the towns ~
the tanks;
Make your mother proud Of you,
And the old Red, White and Blue.
Chorus
Over there, over there, etc.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
The London Theatre

tator who has been moved by performance
Of, say, the 'Gdipus Tyrannus' has simply
been very badly had
"The result is that, quite apart from its
willingness, the actual capacity of the pub
lie for being illusionized is rapidly diminish
ing, and the instructive attitude that is grow
ing up among audiences is the attitude of the
small boy toward the conjurer Of the party
"All this is having marked effect on the
writer's of our Legitimate DRAMA which now
consists almost exclusively Of light COM
edies. Some Of the plays now being acted
in the West End are so uncertainty written
that it is almost impossible to tell whether
the dramatists intend you TO believe in them
or not.
"For example in Mr.. Harold Terry's Gen
eral Post at the Haymarket-a play with
many merits-the author frequently holds
his characters up to ridicule, obviously sug-
costing that you must not really believe all
this'-and you obediently do not; till he
suddenly rounds on you, so to speak, with a
passage in a completely different key which
is intended more or less to bring lump into
YOUR throat, with the result that this con-
tinual tossing from the artificial to the real,
and the real to the artificial, reduces one to
state of limp, submissive bewilderment.
"Mr. Cyril Harcourt's Wanted a Husband
is another comedy Of this description.
The same disconcerting error Of treatment
is to be found, in a subtler but far more I'M
endurable form, in Sir James Barrie's The
Old Lady Shows Her Medals with its sly
passages about wounds and its sentimental
passages about death-the unpleasant taste
of which is happily disspated by Mr.. Mines
charming and uncompromisingly artificial
lesson to all comic
dramatists.
SNET the public now delights in these
plays Actions which in real life
would fill us with indignation pass on the
stage as delicious manifestations Of high
spirits if the heroine who commits them is
pretty enough or the hero sufficiently per-
sonsble.
"And all this, not because our ethical
standpoint has undergone any marked revolu-
ton, not because we have become more lib
eral-minded, but because-well-after all
it's only a play-the actors and actresses are
quite nice people, we have heard, in private
life, and the author a perfect gentleman
and who cares twopence about the fine points
of dramatic art in war time, anyway?
CLEARLY, the public win not take the drama
seriously if dramatists do not take the drama
seriously themselves And if the legitimate
stage begins to pander to the new revue
spirit by throwing up the sponge in full view
of the audience, the serious lover of the
drama may as we'll sit at home and entertain
himself as best he can with a kaleidoscope"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

their appointed parts with no thought for
the strenuous realities which seethe beyond
its boundaries.
"Yet this gentle, restful art was never
wanting in dramatic significance. One of the
best characteristics of Mr.. Warehouses; work
its story persuasvely and one of its finest
qualities was the subtlety with which the
dramatic point of the subject chosen was
brought out. Nor was there any lack of force
in the manner of his pictorial statement. AS
a craftsman in art he was admirably accom-
plshed, and his direct, expressive method of
handling was of the greatest possible assist
ance to him in the working out of his pict-
ures. A bloodless, tentative technique an I'M
decided mode of dealing with executive prob
lens, would have robbed his maginings of
half their authority and would have taken the
meaning out of his art-sureness of touch
and thorough control over the processes of
painting are never more necessary than when
the artist seeks to make credible a delicate
abstraction or to convey to others subtleties
OF sentiment"
In the opinion of Mr.. Baldry, this art
lists claim to be counted among the best
of the modern romanticist painters cannot
be contested, "for he had in very high
degree the capacity to invest his paintings
with the right atmosphere of poetic sug-
gestion, and it was on the strength of his
poetic sense that he rose to the position
which he occupied in British art
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
Next Morning
TODAY the sun shines bright,
l. The skies are fair;

TODAY the sun shines bright,
The skies are fair;
There is a delicate freshness in the air,
Which, like a nimble sprite,
Doth play upon my cheek and lift my hair.
And, as look about me, 10!
l see world do not know!
As though some soft celestial beam,
Some clean and wholesome grace,
Had purged half the horror of the place
To a strange beauty.-Was it, then, a
dream,
That ghostly march but yesternight,
Beneath the moons uncertain light,
When chill at heart tUe picked our lCdy
Through dreadful, silent things, that
lay
About our path on either hand?
Was it dream? Is this the self-same land,
The land we pass'd through then?
How strange it seems!-Yet It's the
same!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
"Artistic Stimulators'

A PLEA for the support OF prss
n day American artists by apprs'
L n tive patronage is made BY 0ssI
de Meyer in vanity Fair" accomps' !,
by the plant that American men OF "''s
spend hundreds of millions OF dollan !
acquiring the art of bygone days W..
does not encourage a truly national An''
can art. He continues: 49,,
"A young artist in this country must o., ~,
face starvation or else consent 70 s''r
art to commercial purposes; when Is 0'D =,
other way of saying that he must low" !,
standards and ideals so as to bring 'a.-
the level on which they are likely !" 'Fr
to the taste of the uninsrired pubic ..,
Hundreds of millions Of dollars a' "
every year by American patrons IN seq. :,
masterpieces of bygone days; paw" !,
Fragonard, or a Duchess Of DsvonsA',' !,
Gainsborough. or landscapes by 0o's . :,
tapestries, or furniture, or oble'S u \
old prints, marbles and slverwsre. =,
is a splendid work TO I'll our galleries
these valuable treasures, but wouis u :" =,
even more splendid il one could in'O. 49,,
art-patron millionaires occasionally 10 WV,
investments in masterpieces Of absolute ;,
intrinsic value and persuade them RAIN"
use such sums for the encouragement
truly American national art!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
Sir Walter Scott

And deep his midnight lair had n,,.
In lone Glenartney's hazel shade.
But when the sun his beacon red
Had kindled on Benvoirlich's head
The deep-mouthed bloodhounds' bs.
Resounded up the rocky way, - 'A'
And faint, from further distance ~
We're heard the changing ,hoof and w..
A S Chief, who hears his warder "a,
~ ITO arms The foeman s,orr. y
WALL" wv
The antlered monarch Of the waste
Sprang from his heathery couch in hast.
But ere his fleeing career he took
The dewdrops from his flanks he ,hooL,
Like crested leader proud and high
Tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky.
A moment gazed adown the dale,
A moment shifted the tainted gale
A moment listened to the cry,
That thickened as the chase drew nigh.
Then, as the headmost foes appeared
With one brave bound the copse he clears
And, stretching forward free and far.
Sought the wild heathS Of Uam.yar
YELLED on the view the opening pacs
i Rock, cleft and cavern paid thsn
back;
To many a mingled sound at once
The awakened mountain gave response.
A hundred dogs bayed deep and strong,
Clattered a hundred steeds along,
Their peal the merry horns rung out
A hundred voices joined the shout;
With bark and whoop and wild halloo,
No rest Benvoirlich's echoes knew.
Far from the tumult fled the roe,
Close in her covert covered the doe,
The falcon, from her cairn on high,
Cast on the rout wandering eye,
Till far beyond her piercing ken
The hurricane had swept the glen.
Faint, and more faint, its failing din
Returned from cavern, cliffs and linn,
And silence settled, wide and still,
On the lone wood and mighty hill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
Observation-Disclosures

URELY of the advenuresome spirits who brave the crc"ds I
smoke and the loveakng to ride the bus these hct
precac the following ypical conversation caught and
by "The Sol':
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dismiss "ZZZMMN"
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
Samuel Butler

I cule of Butler that the ofttimes brazen
literary attack of Shaw seldom presents.
The extent to which the Butler cult has
spread may be evidenced by the number OF
the persons who are beginning to quarre!
about him.
DR.. Phelps is a little shocked by him, by
the Butlerian attack on processing
Christians" but he concludes, although |
firmly believe this is diabolical novel, l
think it will prove to be of good service to
Christianity"
TT is strange therefore to find John But
i Ter Yeats, who went to school with
Butler, saying in "The Seven Arts: ut
/ il not true that Butler had talent. To be
g painter after the manner of John Bellini
vas for years the passion of his life. 1t
was vain; he had no talent" But Yeats is
kinder to his old schoolfehow in the follow
ing picture he has drawn Of him:
"He always occupied one place in the
school chosen so that he could be as close
as possible to the model and might paint
with small brushes his kind of John Bellini
art. There he would stand very intent and
mostly quite silent, intent also on our
casual conversation, watchful for the mo-
ment when he could make some sally of wit
that would crush his victim
"He had thick eyebrows and gray eyes
or were they light hazel? These eyes would
sometimes look tired as he piled his hope
less task Of learning how TO paint. But the
discovery of any mental slavery or insin-
cerity among our band Of students would
bring a dangerous light into them, and he
would say things that perhaps hurt very
much men who were absolutely sincere,
however mistaken.
"Then Butler, who respected, as he often
told me, every kind Of sincerity, would hum
Bile himself and make apologies that were
not always accepted, and in the gray eyes,
/ like little fire on a cold hearth, ! would
see a melting kindness that it must have
! been hard to resist"
1T is Willard Huntington Wright, lit
l. erary editor Of "The New York
Evening Mail" who appears among the
early critics TO throw doubt upon the be.
lieving ones. Mr.. Wright, who views But
Ter from. the vantage point of a standard
lied aesthetic theory, declares:
"He certainly has written nothing to jus
tify the preposterous eulogy which has been
heaped upon him. Butler was a shallow
thinker and an inept novelist, and his posi-
ton in modern literature was merely that OF
pioneer sstirist. Shaw was his arden,
disciple and imitator; and 1t is one Of the
proverbal ironies OF fate that the lesser
man should have achieved the greater glory
/. Judged purely as a work OF art THE
1 Way Of All Flesh is a distinctly second-rsts
performance"
AS against the thumbs down of Mr.
Wright is the Judgment Of Francis
Hackett, expressed in an introduction to q
new edition of "Erewhon." II is OF ERE
whom" that Mr.. Hackett says: at is not
an impeccable work, but so long as vision
opens life and wisdom quickens it, 90 long
az sympathy quickens life and humor cor,
reefs il, 'Erewhon' will have its commits
SION"
As for the reader, he may have his
J choice.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
II A THOUGH it is commonplace
~ of conversation that the war
- has awakened the people of this

has awakened the people OF tHIS
country to reality" observes writer IN
"The Athenaum," "it is occasionally little
difficult to avoid the suspicion that the only
reality to which we have in truth been
awakened may be the reality of war"
And pursuing the tenor of this contem-
PISTON, the writer notes:
ave are in the habit of closing our eyes
so resolutely to all other issues that one
sometimes feels tempted to parry the ques-
ton, DO you know there is a war on -? with
the counter question, DO you know there are
other things on besides war; Because that
is staring reality which must not be
blinked. There is the war-and there are
the home fires; and the song-writer is per-
fectly sound in suggesting that If we suffer
the home fires TO die out, we shall one day
awaken to the shivering reality that, if there
is nothing to live for, there was nothing to
die for either.
"And so, when people declare, as they often
do declare. that serious discussion Of art, Of
music, of literature, of the theatre, is out OF
place in these unhappy times, they lose
sight Of the fact that war is a matter OF
life as well as Of death, and that to have
found ourselves as a nation at last is but
a melancholy discovery II we have found
ourselves only as a nation OF warriors.
Come come they say, 1T will be time
enough to discuss the drama and all that
when peace is signed But will it be time
enough? Sometimes | wonder whether it is
not already too late. Certainly, it is not
going to be easy to work back to beauty
when we have willingly let go her hand and
lost ourselves in such labyrinth Of horror.
tlIN London the theatre has deteriorated
4 with alarming steadiness since the war
broke OUT and though its descent might be
described as a descent not so much from
Avernus as from Primrose Hill, it seems to
have pretty well reached sea-level (Which is
the main point, and may sink beyond recall
if some sort Of lifeboat is not promptly
launched. What we need is a counteraction
to that incorrigible blackleg, the revue, the
chief aim of which appears to be TO hold all
the legitimate expedients of the art Of stage
illusion up TO ridicule.
"The modern revue gives the show away,
laws bare the whole theatrical bag Of tricks
1t tears off the masks of comedy and tragedy,
and reveals lot of silly people admitting
that they are pretending to be something
they are not. It's scenes are laid in the
wings, in actresses dressing-rooms, in man
ayers Offices, outside stage doors. Its jokes
are Hamlet smoking a gold-tipped cigarette
and rain being ratified in box. 1t puts the
public WISE and insinuates that the spec
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
Current War Poetry

Why did I come? l ask not, nor repent;
Something blazed up inside me, and |
went.
The khaki fringe is frayed, and now a
rent
Needs men-needs men, and | am almost
spent.
Night, and the "ready" so sleep
WELL my friend
The guns again are going Unjust
stick it to the end.
james Bernard Pagan, in The Lon
don Daily Telegraph.