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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-07-24

The Banisma Coal company with
offices in thu SChmulhach building an
this city. holds valuable coal property
near Smithhcld, Ohio. where It is strip
ping tract Of coal.
The covering Of earth is removed
from the vein Of coal by means or a
powerful STAN shovel system. cnaollhg
the operators 10 take up the barred vein
Of coal.
Attorney o. G. Beans, former secre-
tary OF the coal company stated last
night that the money claimed In tina
Columbus suit is a sum remaining I'M
paid on a conditional contract between
the coal company and the South Mil
waukee concern.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-07-24

A FABRIC device that forms webs be-
tween tho fingers when worn on N'e
hand has been invent ed by an Indiana
man to give swimmers additional power.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-07-24

A French inventors smoke consumer
for kitchen ranges admits air. super
heats 1t and combining IT with the coal
gases and dust, causes them to burn.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-07-24
.F||R]PE Nd PLACE FOR TOURISTS;
VAR CONDITIONS STILL PREVAIL

Il. p. SeRE aoR, PROMINENT BUS
TESShAN, TELLS OF 1NTEHh
No TRIP TO ENGLAND.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-07-24
The sensation of the Truck Shows

Republic lNVINCIBLE Model
10, Nv tons capacity, is an
improved motor truck that has
been the center Of interest at every
truck show this year.
Its capacity rating is extremely
conservative. 1t is so sturdy and
powerful that you put it down as
a much heavier truck, on sight.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-16

ilNered into federal control he'
| great port, in order that there might
pe erected an indissOluble union OF
ihdcstructble states.
commissions Ia All Contracts.
| no man or body OF mon. no com .
muhlty or commonwealth, ever yet
| made an honest contract without
Ewing value received. Even the
! blessings OF matrimony (wlth apol-
| oIi"S 10 the ladies present., involve
| their correlatiNc sacrifices. When |
! came to this country some 81 years
ago u was possible for 4 man TO
hrlte NJ viii across the open prairie,
ana take the shortest and most di-
rect route between any two given
points for there were no fences 70
obstfuct By the same token, there
were h"llhrr roads nor bridges, as
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-16


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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-16
StCRtIARY OF STATE SUED
UNDER BLUE SKY PROVISION

,iiI'AGp March l5--A $500 900
p''' against Secretary OF state Louis
. immersion was promised today
~ Joseph Nc.ssrnhach. attorney for
..Luuh'ng stockholders OF tho con
'um'rs Packing company
nus Us m" sum Mr. Wclssenbach
sl'F's was lost by his clients who.
..'.ng on The bluc skv law or M
,ary 'I ny4fh' stock IN the proposed
a. wig company, now IN the hands
o0o NJ, ,LhW"rH'n is bonded for 81.
bo ' secretary OF state and
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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-16
DIGGS CHALLENGES
LEAGUE ARGUMENT
CONTINUED FROM PAGE TWELVE
THIS SECTION.

MIR Taft then singles out seven
vital particulars IN which the cove
nant should be amended, These
| amendments are suggested not by
an enemy. but by nm acknowledged
triend and suggested with the pur-
pose Of making the covenant such a
one aS America should adopt
Speaking from the same platform
with the president at the dramatic
ally arranged meeting in New York,
MIR. Tatt made in effect, the same
criticism OF the covenant as he does
In this newspaper article, but as
sured us that the covenant docs not
Violate the consolation or sOverA
eighty ,of tho United states
Mr. TAFT Is undoubtedly one OF
the ahlcst lawyers and most sane
minded OF men in public life. with q
clarity OF vision and correctness OF
Judgment unsurpassed 10y any man
OF his day. and when he IS driven to
bolster up his construction ~ 10 the
effect OF the covenant on the conSii-
tuition and sovereignty Of the United
Etatos by arguments that Will not
stand the touch Of close CNumina-
ton ~ no does in his New York
speech. Il Is safe 10 assume hat no
sound argument can bo,udvaucod In
It's support In order 10 give the as
AurnnCe that the covenant does not
violate the constitution or the SOW
ereignty OF the United states, Mr..
Taft ia such speech assumes and as
serts that except iu on" Instances the
only power Of 'he league is io rec
ommcnd and the 8.cultOrics thereto
are free to accept or reject This IL
made palmer. II possible, by his
statement I'm tho newspaper articla
above cited. which iE.
The ouy clear. positive ohliga-
ton Of the members OF the league
IS TO levy boycott on the outlaw
nation
Conceding that recommendation
as used iu tho covenant lis not dip
lomatlc euphonism for command,
and only imports counsel ana ad-
vice az assumed by Mr. TAFT I'm his
New York speech then Dr. follows,
that the covenant which We are tolNS
embodlcs the hope " lho world and
the finest aspirations ~ man. and
Is OF such strruSaurt character ns
not TO admit OF amendment Is bat a
rope OF sand. not worth the tim" -.
voted 10 It's discussion n Mr. TAFT
Is correct I'm the above statement, no
obligation exists on the members 20
financially support the league. 30
carry out ita recommendations, on
continue IN rs membership vet In
The newspaper article quoted, Mr.
TAFT WRITES
The covenant should also be |
made more definite us 'o whom It's |
obligations may he terminated.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-16
MRS, GAIT URGES THE
WOMEN TO USE VOTE.
,.,,,p of Ecmalc Forces Makes Pos
siblc Accomplishment, OF
Much Good.
PROTECT WOMAN AND CHILD
,,,tc Money for Suffragists ny
Request Of Mrs. Frank
Leslie.

,.,u. yDpk March More
,... ~ 100000 women in the Unit
,,g oye- q yc1rs of age are
'' a. ,o,o FOR the next preM-
..at .t,fc4 whore women may
,..,rl.ur TO an esima ton by
carrie chapman Cdtt. prosi-
rt. National Woman sur
.-.nrltion and president OF
r.,rrurlnual Suffrage alliance.
estimate vng given In "A cali
.r. women voters Of the United
.. ip,n forces with the Ma
,-.rrIctu Woman Suffrage as
,.r al IFS golden Jubilee con-
,.- fo Der held IN ST Louis.
,,.a. - .. &c. FIFTY dclegntcs
...Y voting state are Invited
...r ...r delegations at st. Louis
,, ... @ GOO 0OO members OF the
st.r.. american Woman Suffrage
..t,.n q
u-reH \avonll American Woman
e.s,r,.. association has invited
.r,a,. voters 10 a national conVou-
,, uy order that thov may organ
G .,t.rongy and unite their forces
n.b rp.-e OF other lands" said Mrs.
N.r
..rhsra t. an ohyiously important
,s,.onuf rrorr,m for women voters
,-,. r..tr diversity or laws which
..,r.rr women nnf children in our
..,.ra. s.1tes tx A continual menace
:, ,rr s,rr,v and welfare OF the un-
,.,,r,at. and iInlnfnrmed
mo Women Must \rrcc.
,,rb. .,Ws OF tho states could be
o,,roc4 and imuroycmcn's added
.yrn In the states more liberal IN
rg- law. il women voters would
syroe upuu a proper constructive
ryegrru II Isa fact so obvious thai
needs no demonstration that II
one section OF the country is much
behind the times In education and
lenI protection 10 women and chill
dron ITS civilization IL bound TO
prove deterrent influence over the
whole nation. Therefore. 1t becomes
the duty of all forward people to
see 'ha' the laws of the whole ma
uor are unified ana mat the stand |
ard by which io measure the proper |
program for each state is the cod" /
Of laws ot ihc most advanced staics |
women voters should contribute |
more IN their nation and to the |
world than they do when acting !
ftom localized viewpoint Those |
who i've in 'ho valley do not know |
what iN To nr seen from the noun |
tam top tn" opportunity 10 climb |
"a" mountain aud 10 view an hu-
manlV IN l'S struggle upward to-
ward permanent democratic institu-
tons and consc1nenba permanent
peace is mere The opportunity 20
extend q helping hand To those who
are ''k'iF 20 ind the path rough /
AMI 'hornN is here. The woman
voter with the vision Of coming free
dom for IN" race In her soul will
nor hesitate To OFFER her service.
continued Mrs Gait
Propaganda Wen Backed.
The higrcs, bureau OF surfr,rc
propaganda In the world has hoen
organized hy Mrs. Catt with funds
she was bcquoathed hv Mrs Frank
leslie widow OF a widely known
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-16
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about him, and after that II was only
u matter of time before / was ex-
hibiting the greatest exhibitor of them
all. Some day it's going to be done
again, In a different way. and l hope
to be on hand to put life in the old
boy once more"
Another theatrical parsonage who
seemed to have made himself part of
Mr.. Wise's artistic cuticle was Phineds
Bennett, the retired sea captain who
did so much to break up the party
In THE Song of Songs" "TIe was
a rough old bird" said Mr.. Wise with
one of his sage chuckles, "but 1 liked
him because in spite of his hard listed
life he belonged in the Ritz or the
Claridge or anywhere else in Broad
way society. He was like Diamond
Jim Brady"
A curious fact. in view Of this sea-
faring role and his present part along
the same lines, is that his father was a
nautical captain who was blown up
ana killed by an explosion of a cargo
OF gunpowder on his vessel shortly be-
fore Mr.. Wise was born In England.
MIR. Wise, who was brought to this
country when he was years old, has
never himself followed the sea for a
calling, about the only trade he hasn't
followed.
Some reviewers have said" Mr..
Wise remarked, that Cdppy Kicks
was too crotchety to he grated on my
character, but he isn't. He's very
lovable, beneath determined exterior,
and the public wouldn't stand for him
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n minute in any other way. In the
magazine stories he was represented
as small man physically, and at first
he was impersonated in Edward Roses
comedy by small man. who played
him in a small way and drew small
houses. Then they called in me to fill
him out"
This marks the fourth broadway
play in which Mr.. Wise has main
tanned the two power standards in the
drama with Mr.. Courtenay. The other
three were "The Lights o. London
with an all star cast: pals First" and
General Post" Their association
dates back to the dark ages of the
stage, for Mr.. Courtenay took to the
footlghts in stock company at Hart
ford under Mr.. Wise's auspices in 1899,
and thereafter for three years they
ran n stock company tandem fashion.
oliver Morosco is planning to present
them both this season in Shake
speare's king Henry "" at a series
of special matinees between ship deals
in "Cappy Kicks" This comes as a
sequel to Mr.. Wise's success as Fdl-
STAFF in 1.-THE Merry Wives of Wind
sor" at the Criterion Theatre, when
without knowing a line Of the play he
was called in and swallowed the part
in four days.
Mr. Morosco is also, considering pre-
senting Mr.. Wise in THE Master
Thief" n dramatization of Richard
Washburn Child's Paymaster stories,
and another version of Peter b.
kyne's stories tentatively called
The sun., 1919-03-16
CAPPY RICKS'S YARNS


the fact that he has always liked to
spend "A large part of his time in the
open, enabling him to acquire rudy
complexion which saved him the
trouble of putting on much makeup.
Until recently he played golf, which
also, by the way. permitted him to
study sudden bursts of Feasibility
such as CdppV Kicks INDUCES in. lie
was brought up on the Pacific coast
at a time when one could go for miles
without humping into a human being,
let alone a movie star. 1t was only
natural that when Mr.. Wise himself
played before the cinema camera he
should have preferred the outdoor
scenes, where there was less of the
talent lying around loose. But to re-
turn to young Tom Wise, IS years old
and bent upon hustling the American
stage along.
"I went into the show business" he
said, ION April i, and I've been cooling
them ever since. Before that l failed
at practically everything. so 1t seemed
quite logical that l should go on the
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actors, and was called in as one of
the stars. We stuck up the towns
by mail. sending the advance matter
and the posters ahead of us. We played
East Lynne The Marble Heart and
anything that four actors could get
away with, and we changed our bill
every night-my, but We were ambi-
tious!
In the three years / was with this
show, ! played In a regular theatre
only twice. On every other occasion we
played in barns, stores, hotels, restau-
rants, schools-any place where we
could hang a curtain and where they
wouldn't chase us away. Then in 1885
William Gillette first brought me East
In The Private Secretary and I've
been hanging on to Broadway pretty
consistently ever since"
Mr.. Wise confesses he has had a
pretty good time playing almost all
his roles, but the character for. which
he has particular fondness Is that of
Senator Lan0don In 1.-THE Gentleman
from Mississippi" who fought evil in
terests with an old fashioned oratory
which, IL II had occurred in actual
life, would have done much to draw
readers even to the Congressional
Record. 1t was In this piece that
Douglas Fairbanks also made a hop,
skip and jump into theatrical dis
tinction.
Fairbanks was an accident" said
Mr.. Wise, explaining how the agile
Douglas happened to crowd himself
into this play. I'D put him on the
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stage Id been SO successful at chang
ing from job to job that can't remem-
Der them all, but l do recall that l
was a shoe clerk, and that later I had
a Job on a railroad at San Francisco
which brought me 800 a month. which
l gave up to go into the theatrical
game at So week.
My mother knew l had a bad case
Of the theatre, but she said Well, II
you want to go on the stage. go ahead
I couldn't stop YOU l got job with
a wagon show; they travelled through
the country and did vaudeville turns,
and it wasn't quite 80 bad as medi-
cine show. But l couldn't even call
myself an actor--l was just an adj
vance agent, and I advanced strictly
On foot. There were no railroads con-
Meeting the towns on the Pacific coast
in those days. and I must have gone to
'em all, entirely under my own power.
Finally the show went bust, leaving
only three actors-and that's how be-
came q real actor. Apparently, it was
against Theatrical custom to put on
a show with anything less than four
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stage in stock company up at Al
bany, so was pretty we'll acquainted
with his Calsthcnic talents for the
drama. When The Gentleman From
Mississippi came along Doug was
tied up by contract to carry another
play on his shoulders.
Fortunately this play fivvered,
even though it had Doug's legs behind
It, The young man we had started
in the part of the Senator's secretary
seemed unlikely to make a good sec
rotary even for three hours a night
on the stage. told Mr.. Brady the
part was written to Doug's measure
ment, Mr.. Brady grabbed him and
that's how Fairbanks was fired into
popularity.
my own part gave me as much
fun as Doug seemed to find in his
role. Usually with me q part loses its
novelty after about two months and
becomes work requiring a little per-
spiration. But after doing Tho Cen
tleman From Mississippi for a couple
Of years the character seemed just
as fresh as ever to me, though / could
have played 1t in my sleep. And
little while ago, when l revived the
play on the road, 1t felt Just like get
ting home and hanging your hat on
the old peg.
Harrison Rhodes wrote the com
edy with me In about four weeks and
1t kept the Senator in session for three
years. The other two plays which
I've written-also in collaboration
with Mr.. Rhodes-took about three
years to put together and lasted about
four weeks. They were An Old New
Yorker and MIR. Barnum,' which [
liked personally but which the public
seemed to think was an attempt to
fool them after the great circus mans
own syle.
1T think the reason that New York
didn't take to Mr.. Barnum' was that it's
not circus town-though It's often
a circus in itself. But 1t doesn't know
what a big tent is like. The nearest
this city comes to n big top is Madi-
son Square Garden-and where's the
sawdust romance in that?
mo. New York knows nothing OF
the fascination of getting up in the
dawn to see the tents go UP and the
rings made ready. and perhaps help
ing out yourself, with a chance to gel
n ticket in return for your work, ant
see the elephants and the other mar
vels that maybe are true but hardly
seem possible, even under your OWL
eyes. Why, out in the country the
kids still believe Phineas T. Barnun
Is alive.
i've lived in country town my
self, so I'm full of the circus. 4
number of years ago somebody sale
to me, why, you look just like Bar
num- Then 1 got hold Of a. bool
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CTHoMAs A. Wise will soon be
celebrating his thirty-sixth
year on the stage in his thirty
sixth Broadway production, "Cappy
Ricks.' at the Morosco Theatre, and
yet William Courtenay's co-star takes
just as keen an interest in his work as
the youngest theatrical fledgling who
sits up all night reading the first
dramatic reviews that let the public
know he's alives
81 was talking the other day with a
very wealthy young man." said Mr..
Wise recently in his dressing room,
''who had made quite a hit in one of
those amateur productions that the
stage doesn't seem able to get along
without. He'd played the part of a
fat girl so we'll they wanted him to
turn professional, and of course he
was speaking about the excitement of
a first night with quite a professional
air I said to him:
Young man, you don't know what
excitement is. You haven't lived long
enough, Maybe if you stay on the
stage as long as 1 have you'll find
when the curtain goes up on a produc-
ton for the first time and You don't
know what the public is going to do
10 YOU
Il love an opening night" Mr.. Wise
continued. IT'S all such a gamble
that's why I like it, You never can
tell what parts of the show the audi
ence will take to--with all my years at
the game 1 don't pretend to know. If
you find they warm up to certain
scenes you can play up to them-ex-
pand the scenes and sneak in business
YOU didn't do at rehearsals. Then on
the second night the hard Job is to
remember what the devil you did at
that point"
The actor stopped to rub some white
streaks of age into his hair, for though
his fifty-three years have tinged his
tonsorial crown with gray they haven't
bleached it sufficiently for the part of
capt. Alden Kicks. In his way, Mr..
Wise is one OF the physical marvels
of the stage. which doesn't refer to the
proportions of his figure. He seems
Just as capable of rolling about the
stage in his bluff way as he was in
Inc GeHllGlDdn from MISSISSIPPI,
which first brought him wide theatrical
fame a decade ago, and his counte-
nance appears to be as unvarying in
its lines as the cartoons of Foxy
Grandpa, which he closely resembles.
His voice has lost none of its hearty
walrus qualities, and his smile-well,
Mr.. Wise needs no makeup for that
smile. which goes spreading over his
face like the bursting Of a dam, and
Is finally lost down his collar.
Yet his vitality continues undated
in face of the fact that 1t hardly seems
possible 10 put on one of the weekly
benefits nat are always breaking out
in stagedom without having Tom Wise
to lend an air of substance to the bill.
And every Saturday night, with Will
lam Courtenay. he is at the Lambs
Club, the Oldest OF the theatrical wait
ers who sling hash at the weekly din
ner to the soldiers. who were wounded
in every place but their appetite.
That he Is able to keep in sound con-
dition has been due, aside to his good
humor off the stage as we'll as on, to
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he was an actor. Maybe that is why
he is 80 hopeful. lie quit the insur-
ance business to go on the stage on u
bct-the bet being that he would be-
cCme a leading Juvenile in Broadway
production in five years And he has
just cashed
Mr.. Gerard comes from Waterville.
Me-. and consequently, as he says, pro
hibition Is nothing new to him. lie is
a graduate of Columbia University and
his professional debut was made in
The Candy shop" on the road. He
has also appeared in vaudeville, in
Oliver Morosco's What Next and
in yours Truly"
Acting, golfing, horseback riding and
motoring are his hobbies. His real
work, as has been said, is finding q
way to exterminate the mosquitoes