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FLANAGAN-MARZO.
Daughter of Chevalier and Mrs.
/. Mario IL Bride.

Miss Maria Josephine Mario. daughter
OF Chevalier and Mrs. Eduardo Marco
was married 20 William X. Flanagan OF
this city yesterday morning in the
Church OF St. 1gnatius Loyola by the
Rev. Francis Power. The bride wore a
gown OF soft white satin trimmed with
old point lace and a tulle veil
She was attended by her sister. Miss
Rita Elise Mario. who wore a costume
OF lavender orgsnd.e over pink satin
and a hat TO match. carrying bouquet
OF tea roses and larkspur. Edwin Flan-
agan was his brothers best man A
small reception and wedding breakfast
followed at the home OF the brides
parents, 1919 West Eighty-seventh street.
On their return from their wedding
trip Mr. and Mrs. Flanagan will live in
Newark. n. j.
The sun., 1918-08-25
GAYETY IN WHITE MOUNTAINS.
Numerous New Workers Among
the Recent Arrivals.
Specidl Despdfch 10 TIE SrN


WHITE MOUNTAINS. N. H.. Aug "a
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Clarence Davies Of New
York have arrived at the Mount Pleas
ant House. Rush Taggart OF New York
Is also there. Mrs. David Kaime and
Miss Gladys Kaime OF Washington, who
are now in Atlantic City. will arrive at
the Crawford House on September /.
Samuel A. Everitt Of Huntington,
Ia l.. Miss Anna Reed and Miss Emma
Ross of Philadelphia. Mr.. and M. w.
W Shirley OF New York, Mr.. and Mrs
Macmillan Hopes and family OF Will
mington. Del. r. Francis Hyde. Mr.. and
Mrs ]. II. Mott and Mrs. w. s. Bland
OF New York are at the Crawford.
Mr. and Mrs. w. Wallace Lyon OF
Quaker Ridge and their three children
are at the Harris cottage at Maple wood,
which they have taken for the remainder
Of the season. Mr.. Lyon frequently
motors to Breton Woods to play golf
with friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vreeland OF Jer-
ty City have returned to the Maple
wood, where pivot bridge for the
Hed Cross will be given Monday eve
The sun., 1918-08-25
SERVANTS COMFORT GERMANS.
Cook and Nurse Sent to Jail for
Giving Smokes to Prisoners.

Special Correspondence TO THb Sun.
LONDON, Aug. l0.-Two domestic ser
wants. a cook and a nurse. have been
sent to prison for three months for COM
municating with German prisoners.
They made gifts OF cigarettes and to-
bacco to them "for a bit OF devilment"
and because the men said they were
lonely.
They carried out their correspondence
by means OF letters hidden in the sand
where the prisoners were working.
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CARD-vAN COURT.
Lieutenant on FurlouEh Takes
Bride in Montclair.

The marriage of Miss Ida Louise Van
Court. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lam Henry Van Court OF Orange road.
Montclair, and Lieut. Herbert Van Wa
eenen Card, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Van Dyck Card. As Highland avenue.
was solemnized last evening In the home
Of the brides parents. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. DR.. H. r.
Cobb. pastor OF the Collegiate Church.
West End avenue. New York.
The bride was attended by Miss Irene
Sumner Of Brooklyn as maid OF honor
and the best man was a brother OF the
bridegroom. Harry c. Card of Montclair.
A gown OF white satin draped with net
was worn by the bride
Miss Ruth Dunlap OF West Orange
played the wedding march. A recep-
ton followed the ceremony. Lieut.. Card
will return soon to Camp Lee, Peters
burg. Va, and the bride will reside with
her parents.
The sun., 1918-08-25
CARDINAL FARLEY NO WORSE.
Condition Stin Critical, With
signs of SLIGHT Improvemert.

Tho latest bulletin issued last night
indicated that Cardinal Farley's condi-
ton still was critical. His temperature
was about the same, at l0l. respiration
was 20 and pulse 80.
The Cardinal rested fairly well all of
yesterday and in the afternoon his ply
sicians were inclined to believe there
was some slight improvement. They
stated he was no worse. although the
tissues of the lungs had not loosened.
Messages OF sympathy are being re-
ceived from friends of the prelate all
over the country
The sun., 1918-08-25
Pratt-Grignard.
Special Despatch to The SuS.

Special Despatch to The SuS.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 24.-At the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Grignard. Oak
Lane. their daughter, Miss Anne NJ.
Grignard. was married this afternoon TO
Ensign James NJ. Pratt of Chatham,
Mass. The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. f. ]. Humeston Of the Oak
Lane Presbyterian Church.
The bride wore a gown OF silver gray
georgette. Her sister, Miss Vivian Orig
nard. was her only attendant. ]. Dick
son Pratt was his cousins best man.
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MARRIED..

MISREPRESENTATION Saturday. Au-
gust "a. Maria Josephine Mario.
daughter of Chevalier and Mrs.
Eduardo Mario OF New York. to WILL
. lam Kenneth Flanagan Of Newark.
y, ], by the Rev. Francis Powers. in
The Church of st. Ignatius Loyoia.
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In MenoriAm.

"'LLCoS.-ln sad but loving memory OF
e'snns-t Anderson wilcox. who died
august rs, 1918. OF infantils paralysis
- years OF age. the only child OF
a hshry c. and Lucille n. Wilcox
The sun., 1918-08-25

Z, 2, Needs Women StenOGrnphers
Women stenographers. including mar
ried women who have no children. are
urged to apply for Government positions
at the Secretarial Relief Committee, Gil
West l27th street. of which Prof. Charles
Miller of Columbia University is chair
man. More than $50 girls and women
have been enrolled in tho last three
weeks A branch office ;or cnlistments
has been opened at tho Public Library.
100 Amsterdam avenue. Initial salaries
are $l,100 to $1,000 a year for work In
Government offices at Washington.
The sun., 1918-08-25
K. OF G. MOTORIZING
SERVICE AT FRONT
Rapid Advance of Liberty's
Hosts Forces Installation
Of New System.
FLEET OF TRUCKS IS USED
Supplies Carried to Men as
Near Firing Line as Of
ficers Permit.

The steady progress being made to-
ward the Rhine by the allied military
forces has necessitated the motorising OF
the Knights OF Columbus service organi-
zation in France, according to an an
nouncement made yesterday following a
conference OF overseas commissioners
and local Knights In New York.
When the armies OF liberty began
their advance and maintained 1t 90
steadily the distances from supply depots
to the different units In tho field In
creased appreciably. and a feet OF motor
trucks was obtained by the Knights who
are In France.
These trucks are both heavy duty and
lighter vehicles. and are operating In an
express service carrying tobacco. cigar
cites, chocolate and writing materials
between ports OF debarkation and the
firing steps Of the front line trenches, 90
that soldiers who have been In the feld
and exhausted their supplies may get
fresh ones with fair regularity
VIII Maintain Service Huts.
In making the announcement that the
truck service has been inaugurated and
is running smoothly the Knights Of Co.
lumbus In this country want II thor
oughly understood that this work does
discontinued. The knights explain that
every available man who can be spared
has been thrown into the motor service.
This service organisation believes that
the fighting men In front lines need these
supplies moro than any one else. and the
express service has been started to meet
that need.
~. McGraw and Dr. Z. w. Buckley,
who have just returned from France, at
tended the conference and told OF be-
ginning the new service. Others In con-
ference were Supreme Knight James A.
F1aherty, William J. Mulligan, William
P. Larkin and William Mckinley.
When DR.. Buckley and Mr.. McGraw
were studying field service for the
knights in France, the big allied ad-
vance began and they realized the need
Of such a service. Trucks both large
and small were obtained and q system
was laid out.
Final Dash in Light Trucks.
Supply depots were established at de-
barkation ports and heavy duty trucks
carried supplies from these to secondary
depots. which we're located as near the
front as practicable. From these depots
X. of c. secretaries. driving lighter auto
mobile trucks, load with smokes, choco-
late. towels and soap, as we'll as writing
paper and make a final dash TO points
Just behind the fighting front.
These light trucks push as close to the
fighting line as they are permitted and
are there met by details OF soldiers who
carry the supplies to the firing steps
Army officers realize the benefit OF the
service. and the overseas commissioners
report that they do everything they can
to help in speeding up the service.
The motorizing of this supply service
Is being broadened steadily. and as soon
as they can be obtained new trucks are
started over the routes
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PRIESTS BARRED FROM FILMS.
Papal vicar-General Issues De-
cree Against Attendance.

Special Correspondence 10 THE Sun.
ROME. Aug. cardinal Pontili the
Papal Vicar-General. publishes a decree
making the attendance at moving pic
ture theatres by priests and clerics an
offence.
The sun., 1918-08-25
CAWLEY-BARTH.
Massa CHI setts Institute of Tech
nology Instructor WEEDS.
SpecidI Despdfch to TIE Sen.

SpecidI Despdfch TO The SuN,
Boston, Aug. 24.-Miss Erica Barth.
daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Barth.
was married this. evening to DR.. Frank
stanton Cawley OF Cambridge In the
home OF Miss Louisa Loring Dresel
Beacon street The bride was attended
by Mrs. Charles James Cawley Of Bel
mont as matron OF honor and Miss Anna
Lamprecht OF Plandome, l.. l., N. y, a.
trid@smaid. The Rev. D. ID. Addison
n. d. rector of All Saints Church
Brookiine, performed the ceremony.
The bridegroom. is ihs Oldest son OF
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Patrons Of the Opera HouseMade
Victims of Managers and
Middlemen

mcnt with fat denial ''The tickets
were delivered to me in my ogice by
an official Of the opera company and
the check vas passed in the same
place." were his words. He would
not say that the opera company know
that the tickets were to be hypothe
Gated, but Mr.. Cuylcr was present at
the meeting Of the executive committee
of the trust company when the loan
was approved
Tyson Offers 10 Redeem Tickets
Tyson & Co., the centre or the storm
area, were bcstirring themselves to get
the tickets released at least for the
first night. They offcrd to redeem the
tickets for the opening performance,
but the trust company rejected the
offer as unfair to the other subscrib-
ers. An indignation meeting was held
on the forenoon of November IT, open
ing day, and a committee of subscrib-
ers appointed to lay the case before
the prosecuting attorney of the county.
Then 100 indignant victims Of the
swindle descended on the Office Of the
trust company to demand their tickets.
There they learned that Tyson & Co.
had raised $1,000 with which to secure
the release Of the tickets for the first
week. Twenty-six subscribers who had
paid second time received a refund
of their money. Meanwhile two encr-
getic individuals had secured their
tickets by actions in replevin and the
sky became overcast with threats of
legal proceedings Of various kinds
The district attorney now took a hand
in the matter and on November 19.
Hartman, as the head of Tyson & Co.
was hailed before a police magistrate
on a charge of grand larceny. Mr.
Lewis testified to facts like those re-
cited by Mr.. Cuyler with the modifca-
ton that he had made delivery of the
tickets at the opera house on receiving
the check and had accompanied Hart
on his invitation to ride along since
they were going to the same place
There was no evidence in contradiction
and the magistrate held Tyson & Co.
for the grand jury. Then the repre-
sentative of the District Attorney an
nounced that on the evidence the status
of the trust company was that Of d
receiver Of stolen goods. The case
was not pressed to an indictment.
Why? If l were to venture an explana-
ton which is something more than a
shrewd guess it would be this: before
the end of the week the patrons Of
Tyson & Co. received their tickets
without more ado; their rights had
been secured; the prosecuting officer
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did not think himself justified in ssns
ing man to jail on evitlence conc
ing which he was somewhat skent;a',
and the scandal came to an end a.
later day Hartman's rascalitv csroa 80
IN new charge of misappro,r;a. w.
OF clients funds and on tina. bo WI
convicted and sentenced to state 80: .@'
Tor term of seven years. On Jsrn.s
3, 1917, the Metropolitan opera 80
pany, whose only concern in tho 49,.
ter seemed to be to keep It's sl;~.
clean Of everything except tho ss,
Of tickets and their delivery to Tvsns
d Co., announced that thencefor.t
persons subscribing through the v.r;
GUS ticket agencies might tran,f..
their subscriptions to the conn.nr
continue them through the apenc;..
Only 10 per cent of the subsce;bor
availcd themselves Of the inv;t.tion
The old system still prevails taonna
the opera company prohibits ? cbsrra
larger than that of the Office e.
subscription tickets; over salcz 49,.
than subscriptions it exercises M .o~
troll, nor does it attempt to do 50
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The Specializing System Grows
i'm Season of l9ll-'l2, and
Prices Advance

, possible. That outrage of the rights
of subscribers to the opera deserves
not only criticism but reprobation. 1t
will be strange if its echoes do not
now again penetrate the District At
torncy's office. alluded to it in an
early CHAPTER of these memoirs as a
scandal which led up to prison gates
and would have opened them had JUS
ticc received all its due. BY this did
not mean to imply that the Metropoi-
against the penal laws of the State of
New York, but that by its employment
and countenancc of n system in con-
nection with the sale OF subscription
tickets which was and is vicious and
contrary to the good of the public it
made possible y procedure which griev-
ously wronged many of its most gem
erous patrons compelled an appeal to
a court of equity and lea to Grim
NAL inquiry. The procedure was not
only illegal, it was distinctly criminal.
and the fact that the only sufferers
from II were patrons Of the opera who
should have been protected by the
company at all hazards will remain n
''bot in the 'scutcheon" of the com
pany as long as the incident is remem-
bered, or at least until reparation is
made by reform in the methods
which made a gross imposition on the
public possible.
Theatre-going People, Plundered
For many years the theatre going
people of New York have been victims
of system Of plumber at which theat-
rical managers and the spectators in
theatre tickets have connived. In the
case of theatres of the ordinary type
the imposition of large premiums upon
the price has followed only in the case
OF plays which have become estab-
lished in popularity In such cases
the spectators have frequently pur-
chased practically all the desirable
seats in house for weeks in advance
thus compelling the public to buy Of
them and pay whatever premium the
popularity Of the play enabled them
to exact. For the thousands of tran
silent visitors at the cty's hotels the
system works an accommodation when
not forced to the degree of an intol-
cradle exaction. For many regular
habitues of the playhouse it offers a
convenience. since many of them, espe
cially persons OF wealth. are in the
habit of maintaining accounts with the
ticket agents and making periodical
settlements with them, as they do with
ordinary tradesmen. These are the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Calendar for the Current Week

SUNDAY Carnegie Hail. concert of the Philharmonic Society
Aeoian Hall, recital Francis Rogers; metropolitan
Opera House. $3.50 m,
Victory Peace Festival the benefit the
MONDAY-Mcopolan p. n
Boris Godounof"; Aeolian Hail.
cock recital by Edna Blanche Robinson;
p. m, English opereta, "Pinaoc"
TUESDAYAcolian Hail. S:15
Flonaey
Theatre, English "The Mikado"
House,
Bohme Park Theatre, English Thc
Observation-Disclosures
tia LA
del Deno Aeoinn Hail. violoncelo
p. "The Mikado'
FRIDAYCarncgc of Society,"
Aeoan Hall,
polan Opera House, Italian "Aida' Park Theatre
p. m English opereta, "The Pirates O
pianoforte recital by Olive Denton
Helene Romanof Carnegie Hail. 1880
Heife Society,"
m French "Faust"; Frencho
File Regiment" by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Chapter XVI
Bv Fl. f. Krehbiel

"Chdpters of Opera; Second Series
The chief incident in the season OF
t9lt-l2 outside the artistic dosngs OF
the Metropolitan Opera Company pro-
vides the subject for the present chap
ter in the narrative record OF opera
in New York during the decade which
came to conclusion last spring. by
q coincidence as Fortunate as 1t was
foy1uitouss the District Attorney of the
County of New York comes to my aid
at this juncture with mass OF lllunu-
native evidence such as only the ofhclal
power Of an agent of the law could
evoke. The incidents in question was
an increase in the prices OF admission
AZ the metropolitan Opera House.
Antccedent to Il was the growth of
The system of speculation in tickets
Of admission 20 the theatres Of the
ely which had long been encouraged
h. the management Of the opera. and
seoueMt criminal act Of hypotheca-
ton Of subscribers tickets which.
through s miscarriage of justice. went
unpublished under circumstances which
s. becomes the duty Of an historian to
narrate. The three Incidents were
clearly and closely related to each
ether as | believe though | shall leave
to the readers of the narrative the
privilege of drawing their own conclu-
sions touching the elements of cause,
effect. generalization. purpose and COM
phcity in the acts of the individuals
and institutions involved They will
be aided in doing this by the exposure
Of an evil long known to be such and
impatiently tolerated by the public. and
which the District Attorney has re-
solved must be remedied.
The advance in prices of admission
70 the opera made in the season
l9ll-12 was from So to Sc on the seats
which for convenience sake | shall call
fashionable. and was justified by the
management on the score of necessity
growing out of the increased cost of
The performances. It was cheerfully
accepted by the public and | do not
Know. though it invites an investiga
tion which would prove interesting and
which l shall presently undertake. that
il falls within the province of that
kind OF criticism which | have held to
be an essential element of historical
writing, except so far as it enters into
q discussion of the system of ticket
speculation which made the scandal
which followed it in the fall of 1918
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benefits which dealings with ticket
agencies instead Of the box Offices offer
to that portion Of the public, small
fraction, able and willing to pay for
favored location or to avoid tho
labor and discomfort of an advance
visit to the theatre. To tho public in
general it works nothing but hardship,
against which they should be protected
by the laws which license playhouses
and arc supposed to regulate the recip-
rocal duties and privileges of manager
and patron. To managers the system
offers the advantages of an advance
sne which sometimes cnpitalizes new
venture or guarantees a season. In
the degree that it does these things
some managers encourage the ticket
Spectator frequently to the extent of
connving with him in dcfrauding the
public. Ordinarily the ticket agent
acts as a broker, buying for his Gus
toner and charging a commission. In
that capacity he is maybe servant to
society and can be regarded even as
boon or a benefactor; the legitimacy
of his vocation is unQuestionable. 1t
is only when without the assistance
of the manager he becomes an cxtor-
toner that he also becomes nuisance
and an evil; with the assistance Of the
manager in this he sinks to the status
of a brigand, the manager with him,
and the two become proper objects Of
the penal code. 1t is of interest in
these chapters of "reminiscences that
amid the throes of his operate dis
solution Mr.. Hammerstein made an eff
fort to secure a reformation of the
evil 1t is not necessary to credit him
with altruistic motives. but the fact
is that he made an appeal to District
Attorney (now Governor) Whitman
and that at his instigaton a statute
was drafted in the District Attorneys
office (by Mr. Arthur c. Train, l be-
1 ieve) designed to regulate the bust
ness of ticket speculation in some
such manner as does the ordinance
which has now been drawn up by Dis
trict Attorney Swami. A bill embody
ing the law was introduced in tho
/ General Assembly of the State, but
influences, Of which I know nothing.
prevailed in the minds of the states
legislators and the bill failed of pas
/ sage. The utmost that has been done
by the guardians of the public since
has been the enforcement more or less
laxly of a municipal ordinance under
which it has been found to be possible
to prohibit the traffic in tickets on the
! sidewalks in front of the theatre doors.
AS | write the present District At
torney is engaged in an effort to sup
press the evil and the evidence which
he has gathered touching the deal
ings between the theatre managers and
ticket agents discloses to what an
amazing extent the patrons of the
playhouse have been made the victims
of managers and mlddlemen. Practic-
ally so per cent of the tickets to thea.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Park Theatre

The revival Of Gilbert and Sullivan
operas will be continued by the So
ciety of American Singers throurl
December and possibly into the nsv
year. "The Gondoliess' will be pre.
scented during the first week in De-.
cember. The repertory for this vpeE
will be as follows:
Monday and Saturday evenings and
Thanksgiving matinee, H. NJ. S. Pima
fore; Tuesdas' and Thursday even.
ings, "The Mikado"; Wednesday and
Friday evenings, THE Pirates Of Pen.
zance."
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oSS"Vs' DuU VHPy WeTe IOfeStaITed by
an official announcement of the opera
company which was curt and to the
point: THE Metropolitan Opera Com
pany begs to announce that it will
honor only the regular tickets issued
by the opera company"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
MUSICAL INSTRUCTION
IMPORTANT NOTICE!
9,ustltllte of 1aauslcal
art of the Citp of nem Bork
FRANK DAMROSCH, Director.
100 Claremont Ave, Cor, 122d St

Advanced students who have been
prevented by the epidemic or the
draft from entering at the beginning
OF the Schoo! year may still recover
their full years work if they will
enter before December fst. No ad-
dltlona charge will be made for the
coaching required to make up lost
work.
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were adopted.

wide Importance, were adopted.
One of these ~deprecates the sale and
use of fireworks during the period Of
the wa and calls upon the munich
palities to forbid either. The other
urges membersof the county units to
keep on the alert for slackers, for
those who abuse the system of pay,
ing %allotments, and for other ire
gularities.
The Council of Defense appropri-
ated $1,000 to help finance the work
Of the State Illiteracy Commission.
The executive committee of the
Council of Defense has been en-
larged by the addition of three
members, who are Robert Nc
Doughall of Columbia, W. A.. STICKY
IF ishopville, and Horace L. Thigh
man of Marion.
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MEETING OF COUNTY DEM
.cRATIc EXECUTIVE NJ NJ
TEE TO PURGE ROLLS.

Notice is hereby given that
meeting Of the county demosra
executive committee will be held
Abbeville C. H., S. G., on the mo-
ing of August 18th. beginning
10 o'clock for the purpose Of q
recting and purging the rolls Of /
democratic clubs. All persons viii
names are improperly on the =
will on proper complaint be stric1
therefrom and the names Of 1
who have been denied enrollm
will be added, if found entitled
such enrolment. Any and all q
plants will be considered. Par
having complaints to make will
pear in person or submit their q
plants by affidavit.
WIN. P. GREENE,
County Chairman
Aug. 9Th, 1918. S-6-3t.