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New-York tribune., 1918-10-26

mot With My Money" Seen
at the 39th Street
Theatre
By Haywood Broun

Edward Clark, who has achieved
something Of reputation as a maker
OF surprise plays. presented new
comedy called "Not With My Money
at the Thirty-ninth Street Theatre last
night. This time the surprise lay
chiefly in the fact that there was no
surprise in the conclusion. Until the
nnal act the story was handled with a
certain degree of skill. There was, to
be sure, some little suggestion of Wal
llngtord. but at the same time there
we're enough new developments to
create workable amount of suspense.
The play concerns the fortunes of
two estranged confidence men who find
themselves associated in the same
swlndle. Each has succeeded in getting
himself hired by young heiress who
wants to spend seven million dollars
IN charity. The more plausible swim
dler of the two proposes a model COM
munity to be called Angel City in honor
or the heiress, whose name is Angelica.
ne makes the suggestion wholly as a
bind to cover his operations, but
everybody makes such fuss about his
speech and his scheme that he decides
TO become honest and carry out the
plan. Ihe rough crook refuses to go
straight and when baked of graft con-
fesses to the heiress and duplicates
his companion. Thereupon the hero
inc decides to let her husband run the
affair and to allow the crooks to con-
tlnuc in the work in less responsible
positions. We are led to infer that
everything turns out happily and to
expect at least another Forest Hills.
The play is more amusing while the
complications are being built up than
when they are unravelling. The dia-
logue is not we'll written, in spite of
occasional good lines. Lowell Sherman,
as the plausible crook, PLAYS Che chief
role and overacts. He brings to the
play a definite authority which is al
ways his, but mars his work by con-
stantly raising and lowering his eye
brows and frequently opening and
shutting his mouth.
1t appeared to US, indeed. that he
opened his mouth rather more often
than he shut it. Sometimes it almost
seemed as if he had forgotten about it.
Possibly he hoped to overcome the in
tiuenza germs by sheer bravado. Even
Il flying fish could have entered during
the more meditative moments of Mr..
Sherman's mugging. But portions Of
his performance were excellent.
A distinctly amusing creation was
that of Walter Wilson as the rough
crook. 1t should be noted that Mr.. Will
son had the good fortune to be en-
trusted with by far the best character
in the piece, but entirely aside from
that his performance indicated a dis
tinct building up and rounding out of
u,
earned by him, and deservedly.
The rest of the cast was adequate
and, perhaps, there might be at least a
line of mention for negro actor
named Dyke Thomas, who showed an
engaging sense of comedy in a very
brief scene at the beginning of the
play.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Bernhardt Says She
Met First Frost"
In a Pullman Car
Actress's Manager Asks
$4,000 for Illness of
Noted French Star
"Very Cold," She Says
Tragedienne Spends 74th
Birthday in Court as
Witness for Conner

Sarah Bernhard spent her seventy
fourth birthday yesterday in combat
of words and wits with an attorney in
the Supreme Court, but the years of
the distinguished actress proved no
handicap, for she fully held her own in
the exchange.
The "Divine Sarah" was witness
for her manager, William T. Connor, in
his suit for $4,000 damages against
the Pullman Company for failing to
properly heat the private car May
flower, used by Nine. Bernhard in her
tour of 1917. Through this, it is al
legged, the actress became i'll and was
compelled to call off her tour. through
which, Mr.. Connor says, he suffered the
sum asked for.
tlon to return to France it was decided
to take her testimony before she sailed
She was referred to in the court pro-
ceedings as Sarah Bernhardt Damala.
The alleged freeze out" took place
at Lawrence, Mass, in March, 1917,
where she opened her tour for that sea-
son. Asked as to the date, Nine. Bern
hardt said, ~ never remember dates or
occasions" She said that her car was
VERY, very cold" and that she became
every sick"
Counsel for the Pullman Company
sought to prove that Nine Bernha ardt
might have acquired her cold outside
of the private car. He asked her the
condition of the theatre at Lawrence on
the night of her appearance there
You might as we'll ask the color of
the managers hair" was the answer.
II do not know that either"
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Gas Lady" Arrives at City's
Front Door to Inspect Meters
Attred IN Poncho Cape and Puttees She Takes Place
Husband Brother in War and Makes
Good From the Start

The "gas lady, in poncho cape and
puttees, has come to the front door
of New York to take the place of her
husband or brother who across the
Atlantic is now reading range finders
instead of gas meters.
For more than n month the "gas
ladies" have been on the job, going
into the kitchens of the city to read
meters, tinker with refractory stoves
and advise housekeepers on the newest
things in pies and the last word in
gas conservation. And because the
new employees have added this note
of first aid to the housekeeper, officials
of the Conso dated Gas Company have
declared the venture a great success
and asked for more.
The women go to the fifteen branches
Of the company for classes in meter
reading and stove and lamp repairing
before they are sent out ION the dis
trict." When they do take up their
beats they do whatever their male
predecessors did, which may entail
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Republican Women
Say Smiths Record
AT Albany Is Bad
Miss Boswell, in Address
to Voters, Points to
Legislative Record

The Republican women district lead
ers of New York County yesterday
through Helen Varick Boswell, seconc
vlce-chairman of the Republican Coun.
~ Committee and chairman of the
womcn's division, issued an address tc
the voters on the political record of
Alfred f. Smith.
After referring to the record of Gov
ernor Whitman as set forth in detail
in the Whitman Campaign White Book
the address says:
unfortunately, the advocates of AL
1red +. Smith, Democratic candidate for
Governor, have not put forth his record
IN any detailed fashion. We believe
that the voters are entitled to a coldly
dlspasslonatc statement as to what Mr.
Smiths training and equipment are
with a resume of his work in the Lcgis-
lature."
The address then covers briefly the
schooling Of Mrf Smith in st. James's
parochial school, in the parish on the
lower East Side where he was born
and says that in 1895 he became 6
clerk in the office Of the Commissioner
o. Jurors, and took part in primary
fight between "Paddy" Diver and
Tom" Foley. After that he was a sub
p9na server.
Cites Legislative Record
"This," says the address, "completes
as far as the obtainable records show
his training and equipment up to the
age OF thirty, when, in 1908. he was
elected to the Assembly, serving there
from 1903 to 1915.
"The Citizens Union, in its yearly
reports from 1905 to 1915, declared thai
ne was active and aggressive, but con-
tlnually condemned him because OF his
subserviency to the Tammany Hal
machine. In 1909 the Citizens Unior
report said that he had made one OF
the worst records of the session, con
stantly voting against public interests
on important issues and misusing his
increased influence.
lin 1913, as Speaker, the report sale
that he was the most influential man il
the Assembly, and largely dominated
the action of the majority, executed or
ders of the machine and opposed pri
mary and election reforms. The analy
sis of Mr.. Smiths votes in the Legis
lature from 1908 to 1910 shows that hi
voted always in the interests of the
racetracks. An analysis OF his reaort
on excise legislation shows that he
voted always for the liquor interests
An analysis of his votes on election re-
forms shows that he always opposed
the direct primary and bills to facili
tate independent and other election re
forms.
Opposed Upstate Measures
"In 1915 his record shows that he votet
against every bill that appropriated
money to be spent in the country and
upState cities (27 times) on the prOunC
that the money will be spent upstate
and New York City must pay 80 pei
cent of the cost
Nothing is said here that is not
part of the official records Of the
State of New York" says Miss Bos-
we'll, in closing the address, which is
signed also by Robert c. Morris, S.
Edward Young, George F. Johnson
Mary Garrett Hay, Katherine Bement
Davis, Mary Wood and Jessie Hoyt
Higgins.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Suffrage Vote i'm
Nebraska Is Halted
Judge Grants an Injunction
Keeping Referendum OFF
the State Ballot

The referendum on q partial suffrage
law enacted by the last session of the
Nebraska Legislature will not be placed
on the ballot at the general election
next month, according to an opinion
just handed down by Judge l.. A.
Flansburg, of the District Court of
that state. By this opinion the suf-
fragists are victorious in an injunction
suit brought by Mrs. Edna M. Barkley
and others, representing the suffrag-
lsts to prevent the Secretary of State
from placing the referendum on the
ballot as asked by petition circu-
Asted by the anti-suffrage forces.
The court was of the opinion that
SHOULD the referendum petition finally
be adjudged to be valid, the PROPOSE
ton should be referred to the people
at the first general election ensuing
after the entry of such judgment"
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Wilson Asks State
To Pass Suffrage Bill
President Sends Appeal to
Both Parties in Oklahoma
Amendment

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Anothe,
move in behalf of woman suffrage was
made to-day by President Wilson. He
addressed the voters of Oklahoma, who
act on the suffrage amendment No.
vember o, reiterating his judgment that
adoption of woman suffrage is a neces-
sary part of the programme of justice
and reconstruction.
In a message to Ben La Fayette and
James j. McGraw, chairmen respective
" Of the Oklahoma Democratic and
Republican state committees, the Pres
ident said:
Il venture to express to the voters
of Oklahoma my very profound inter
est in the constitutional amendment
for woman suffrage, upon which they
VIII act on November 5, and | beg that
they will permit me to express to
them, as | did to the Congress of the
United States, my deliberate judg-
ment that the adoption Of woman suf-
frage is a necessary part of the pro-
gramme of justice and reconstruction
which the war has convinced the ma
tons of the world that they should
undertake in the interest of justice
and peace"
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26

climbing ladders to ceiling hooks for
meters, over coal bins, through trap
doors, down ladders or to garret tops,
wherever the meter may be hidden. And
i. is said that even rats and mice do
not deter them.
Stove inspectors have added the final
feminine touch by making room in
their handbags for their tools and
other essentials for days work that
men used to carry in kit. They take
stoves apart, remedy defects and put
them together again.
Lamp inspectors, fortified with tech
meal knowledge Of the proper mixture
OF gas and air for perfect lighting and
of all other characteristics Of gas fxt-
ure tcmperaments, do like service for
the housekeeper who is trying to keep
the home fires burning without violat-
ing the laws of fuel conservation.
Gas company officials and housekeep-
ers have agreed that such household
affairs as stoves and lamps are woman
to woman propositions and more women
are therefore to be taken into the ser
wee Immediately, first preference being
gwen to relatives of soldiers formerly
employed by the company.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Music
Staccato Studies by a Promis
ing Young Pianist

Mr.. Marvin Maazel, young pianist
who challenged public judgment by
giving recital in Aealan Hall last
night, in the first group of pieces
which he played 1--WE cannot speak
of the remainder of his pro-
gramme), made a fine exhibition of
digital skill and disclosed a nice ap-
probation of clean articulation and
repose. He did this in three compost
tons, the transcription of Bach s
Chaconne, for violin, made by Busoni:
the Brahms transcription of a govotto
by Gluck, and the first book of varia-
tions by Brahms on a theme by Paga-
mini. That there is more in these
works than a lucid and crisp produc-
tion of the sounds which are their
vehicle, that they possess beauties de-
pendent on variety of tone, color and
sustained song, which are within the
capacity of the pianoforte, are truths
which are no doubt part of the knowl-
edge of an artist who has studied as
asslduously and painstakingly as Mr.
Maazel obviously has; but he made
little demonstration of the fact during
the first half-hour Of his recital, whic h
seemed to set the key of his present
strivings. Being able to accomplish SO
much as he did in the three compost.
tions mentioned, it is reasonable to
assume that he will reach out success
fully for the things in music which
are hlgher and better. H. E. K.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Boxers Terrorize China
Missionary Says Christians
Are Threatened by Natives

Unrest in northern China is similar
to that which preceded the Boxer re-
volt, according to a statement received
by the Joint Centenary Committee of
the Methods Episcopal Church, from
the Rev. G. R. Davis. of the Tien-Tsin
Mission
"The countryside in the Tsunhua
district has been terrorized by secret
conspirators, who go about at night
and threatening Christians," declared
Mr.. Davis. LEADERS of the Boxer up
rising in 1900 have returned from ex-
lie and are directing the new move
ment. The local authorities are afraid
to assert themselves"
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Stop "Ti Time" Clocks,
Turn Others Back

g TANDARD time will be resumed
~ all over the United States at 2
o'clock Sunday morning when the
six-month daylight saving period
ends. All clocks will be set back one
hour.
For mechanically construsted
clocks for the recording of employees
time, electric driven clocks con-
trolled by master clocks, and strik-
ing and bell ringing clocks the only
sale method of rcsuming standard
time without damaging them is to
stop them for one hour, according to
>: Il. barnum, district manager of the
New York Office of the Cincinnati
lime Recorder Company
Mr.. Barnum declares that to turn
these time pieces back would cause
them to be thrown out of adjustment
and necessitate repairs. He asserts
that in New York City and vicinity
alone there are approximately 100000
time clocks in use, which, if turned
PACK, would keep every available
clock repair man busy for days.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Loan Drive Over,
Brick Monument
Goes Right On Up
Despite Labor Cost, Pledge
Must Be Kept, Says Mrs.
E. r. Strange
Shaft Not Permanent
After War Tower Will Be De-
molished and Bricks Sold
for "Worthy Cause"

The unadorned and unashamed brick
monument which was begun during the
fourth Liberty Loan campaign in City
Hall Park-a brick for every $50 bond
subscribed at the Liberty Bells
going to keep on rising, according to
Mrs. E. R. Strange, chairman of the
Liberty Loan Committee of the Mayors
Committee. 1t won't stop its leisurely
progress, she said yesterday, until the
bricklayers have caught up with the
bond buyers
After the war, she said yesterday, if
the shaft was finished by then, it would
be torn down and the bricks sold for
some worthy cause" This fate might
overtake the obelisk aftnr the next Lib
erty Loan, Mrs. Strange said, as it was
never intended as a permanent struct-
ure and was being completed simply
because the committed had promised d
that brick should be added for every
$50 bond sold.
Four workmen are employed on the
monument. Bricks command fabulous
prices, construction work of all civilian
descrlptlon is practically at stand
sun, the monument is neither slightly
nor permanent, nor is it now a stimu-
lus to bond buyers, but the committee
intends to keep its promise if all four
workmen get bricklayers' cramp. The
work will continue, Mrs. Strange said
because of the committees pledge to
the oond buyers that every bond bought
should represent 4 brick
Inc work was not done during the
drive because we did not have the
workmen," said Mrs. Strange. Both
the architect and the contractor give
their services free, and we feel that the
expense of labor is justified because of
our promise to the people"
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Women ST ederation
Asks Off cials
Not to Discriminate
Objects to Exclusion of
Married Women by Post
Office Department
State Also Is Accused
Civil Service Commission Said
to Bar Women Persistentlv
without Cause"
State Also Is Accused

The forty seventh convention of the
New York City Federation of Women's
Clubs, of which Mrs. John Francis
Yawger is president, was held yester-
day ct the Hotel Astor.
Among the guests of honor were
Mrs Charles S. Whitman, who said she
was present as q woman and a worker,
not as the wife of the Chief Executive
Of the State.
A protest was entered by the women
against the discrimination made by the
Postotfice Department excluding mar
red women from service. 1t was
stated that this is the only department
by which such discrimination is now
made.
Another protest was also registered
against tie State Civil Service Com
mission for its persistent exclusion of
women in general from filling posi-
tons without just cause for such posi-
clusion." An example was cited in the
case Of the commissions refusal of a
woman for the position of inspector
Of moral hygiene, when her qualifica-
tons. 1T was asserted, made her not
only fit but superior candidate for
the office.
Mrs. Algernon Arthur Brooks intro
duced a resolution urging that proper
proceedings before authorized CITY au-
thorities be taken in the matter of
disinfecting all houses and apartments
where deaths from influenza have oc-
Cured before offering them for rent,
The committee on education urged
that the club women of New York take
as their slogan for this year. Rally
Round the Schools" and that they use
their votes to prevent school children
from being made the victims of mar
rcw-minded politicians whose amb-
tons were only in the direction of
keeping the budget small
The thanks of the federation were
extended to the Municipal Civil Ser
vice Commission of this city for al
lowing women, irrespective of age, to
compete for any and all positions in
the city, provided they prove them
selves worthy.
Great enthusiasm was aroused by
the voting of thanks and appreciation
to Commissioner Enright for granting
the ten-squad system, under which
patrolmen will have a day of thirty
two hours off once a week instead of
thirty-two hours every twenty-seven
darS
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Ensign Phillips to Wed
Miss Katherine Fitch To-day

The first wedding in the new St.
Bartholomew Church, Park Avenue
and Fifty-first street, will be that of
Miss Katherine Elizabeth Fitch, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Winchester Fitch,
of 21 East Eightieth Street, and Green
wich, Conn, to Ensign Elliott Schuyler
Phillips. Flying Corps, U. S. N. which
will take place this afternoon at 4:3O
in the chapel of the church. The bride
will be attended by her two sisters,
Mrs. Horace Leslie Hotchkiss, 3d., a
bride of last December, whose husband
is now abroad in the naval service, and
Miss Dorothy Fitch
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Woman Campaign
Manager, First
Here, Makes Bow
Mrs. Olive Stott Gabriel
Will Line Up Votes for
A. P. Nevin

The only candidate in the New York
State elections who has recognized the
woman voter by giving over his cam
paign into the hands of woman man
ager is A. Parker Nevin, candidate for
Justice of the Supreme Court on the
Republican ticket. Mrs. Olive Stott
Gabriel, suffragist and club woman, has
planned his campaign with special ref
erencc to the women.
81 don't quite understand the gem
eral Indifference to the woman VOTE
said Mr.. Nevin yesterday at his head
quarters in the Hotel McAlpin. "There
are thousands of new voters, the most
uncertain element that has ever come
into New York State election. One
would think that the whole emphasis
of the campaign would be directed tow
ard them. Instead of that, we hear al
most nothing about them.
81 believe the women are important
not only because of their actual votes
and their influence on this election, but
because of very great changes IN our
whole political structure, which are
bound to come about through them.
Women have learned organization
through this war. They have learned
to take an interest in public affairs out
side their homes and to feel a respon-
sibility toward the nation.
ALREADY, however, in my campaign
among the women l have seen signs
which l think are typical. Women
can't be fimflammed. I believe they
will see through the attempt of the
Democratic administration to tie up the
campaign in this state with the patri-
otic issue.
81 see signs, too, that the women
won't stand all the political camoufage
and the grand explosions of egotism
which have characterized political ora
tory in the past. You never hear that
buncombe in women's clubs and they
won't stand it in politics.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Actor Must Support Wife
Who Once Divorced Hin,

Justice Lehman decided yesterday
that George W. Monroe, comedian, is
for the second time the husband of
Mrs. Anna R. Munroe, who divorced
him several years ago. This being so,
the court held the wife IS entitled to
a separation on the ground of aban-
donment, which Justice Lehman grant
ed, with $45 week alimony.
Following the divorce there was n
reconciliation and the Monroe couple
lived together again as husband and
wife. subsequently the actor left Mrs.
Monroe, who sued for a separation,
the comedian setting up the divorce
as defence. Justice Lehman held
that Monroe contracted a common law
marriage with his divorced wife when
he resumed living with her.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
W.S.S. Campaign Goes On

Many Of the booths used for bond
selling during the recent Liberty Loan
campaign have been turned over to
war savings stamp statesmen who in
tend to remind the city daily and
nightly that the chance to invest in
the war is still open. Although no eff
fort was made to press the sale Of
war savings stamps during the loan
amounted to S1,936 ,0OO
Plans are under way for closer CO.
operation between the war savings
organization and the Liberty Loan
committee, which will make both in
tegral parts of the Federal Reserve
system in this district.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
u. S. Takes Trowmart Inn

Trowmart Inn, covering the entire
block on the south side of Twelfth
Street, between Greenwich and Hud-
son Streets. has been leased by the
government to provide acccommoda-
tions for the nurses and men
attendants of the huge base hospital
Tor the army being established in the
former Siegel-Cooper store at
Eighteenth Street and Sixth Avenue
The late w. R. H. Martin erected
Irowmart Inn as working girls
home. The lease was arranged bv
Alfred E. Marling, trustee Of the
Martin estate
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Fog Helps Two Break Prison

WETHERSFIELD, Conn, Oct. 25.-
Claude N. Taylor, alias Charles Tay-
lor, and Thomas Maloney, alias Howard,
the former a desperate thief and
the latter serving sentence for man
slaughter, got out of state prison to-
day and, aided by fog, escaped into
the country. Both were sentenced
last December at Hartford. The
prisoners, on kitchen duty, went
through a coal bin window into the
prison yard and climbed length of
pipe which had been left against the
ward wall
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
10 Educate Country Girls
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Countv
units of the Woman's Committee ~
the Council of National Defence are
making surveys preparatory to heIpinr
country girls get high school educae
ton. he principal object is to enah1a
the girls to become teachers. The.
Campaign" Nei'ooi
According to recent reports of tho
bureau Of Education there are more oe
man 5o'ooo additional school teachers
Heeoed nee IN the United States today
ne largest number of vacancies are
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Women Puzzle War Board
Organization Puts Appoint
ments Up to Labor Federation

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-The Ma
tional War Labor Board announced to-
day that the question of whether one
or more women shall be included in its
membership, as requested in many peti-
tions, had been referred to the National
Industrial Conference Board and the
American Federation of Labor, which
nominated its original members