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The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
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Caused by
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bridging the Cap.

From until the 18th of September there usually "be
gap wen overhead continue 1OO9o
lag utH Fall business catches its stride. WE PROPOSE TO
BRIDGE THIS GAP MEET OUR OVERHEAD COSTS, GET
THE VOLUME OF SALES AND SAVE YOU MONEY BY
MAKINGA A
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The MANS stOre-official Weather Report-Fair.
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Volume of Sales

If did oneha the business do woud haze to charge
for everything sell o meet overhead red eosts)
IT, the other hand do twice the business doing
sell merchandise for less than its accustomed price,
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Overhead Costs

q of this there ctoin of fred cost
RENT, INSURANCE, LIGHT, ADVERTISING, SALARIES
OF EMPLOYEES These all present-at all times.
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ct must have SAFE. 900" said Thomp-
son.
1--WE have just $780," replied Dundy.
Couldn't you get along with s1o.0oO?"
II shall buy $40 trousers" said
Thompson.
your figure is $780," said Dundy.
Thus they played at great and
small while leaping from enterprise
to enterprise. having fun out OF it all
and seeing the public rise ever to their
bait.
How much real residual wealth the
partners owned at any time. even in
the hours Of their highest success, 1t
Is impossible to say. Probably not a
1.-THE OF the estimates Of $3.50, 900 to
100000 that they claimed. But so
much Nancy was in sight, so much
money could be had FOR the asking, that
there seemed no end to 1t. The money
that was had for the asking always
had a string to it that they neve% at
fected to see. A. new fancy came to
Thompson. Down at Luna Park he
had a spectacle he called wireless"
A pirate ship came in; there was
slaughter by the pirates and a rescue
brought by wireless. He would have
a play made on such a theme, and he
did. More. he would become a pro-
Queer, a manager. and he did. He was
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cess and saw them well on their road
to the building Of Luna Park, per-
haps Thompson's greatest conception
Here his fancy. his imagination had
full play. He practically designed 1t
all.
One theory of his was that good
humor abhorred straight lines. 1.-The
straight line means the grim: it is the
frame of the CHASTITY" So every pill
lar had some disturbing, cheering
curve. every summit was rounded or
softened with spirals. Taking a blue
print-and blue prints were his minor
gods-he would demonstrate how inno-
cent OF straight lines 1t all was. At a
cost Of millions Luna Park arose and
its success was instantaneous. Money
flowed in tidal waves. Fred Thomp-
son rode the highest wave, and the
partners, still using their magic shoe
string. began the Hippodrome. Its
erection, Its starting. its huge I'M
exampled productions, throwing all
that the Kiralfys had done into the
shade, are the topnotes Of optimism
in showland's spectacular enterprise.
Stories innumerable are told OF the
lavishness OF Thompson that always
seemed to justify itself alongside the
attempted conservatism of the gently
restrained hand of Dundy.
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most of his fine outings, died. Another
hold on life was gone. but he did not
despair. After Toyland proved to be
no joyland they made a benefit for
him at Coney Island. 1t yielded a
meagre but welcome $4,000. II the
millions his shows had made happy
had sent him q cent apiece II would
have been that score Of times over.
But how many Of the millions that
he served knew Fred Thompson by
hider Of his light under bushel, but
it simply was not his way or his
thought to DO part OF what he ex-
hibited. In his palmiest days at Luna
Park 1t was his wont to go about
alone observing. cap pulled down
| over his eyes. Obvious strangers often
| asked him II Fred Thompson was
about or where could they see him.
II just saw him go around that
corner" was his invariable reply,
pointing in the direction of one Of the
concessions" go quick and you'll
hear him talking" It was one Of his
jokes on the "barkers" of Luna.
Barnum Part of show.
| We knotv that p. T. Barnum, the
| great pioneer Snowman, was always
part of his own show. Who that re-
members his last live days can forget
the barouche with the inevitably
shrewd but bland faced old man in it
driving around the circus ring and
bowling right and left? Who that has
an eye for the picturesque can forget
ii the thirty years of the Wild West
shows the figure of the splendid horse
man with his wide felt sombrero, his
mustachios and his goatee as he rode
around firing his rife or grandly sa-
luting, hat in hand! Well one recalls
the gradual grizzling and whitening at
last of that goatee.
Fred Thompson had deftly indeed
prepared for an inconspicuous parting
from the multitude that he had SO
amused and tickled. There was a
nicely in this that spoke volumes To
be lovable in all striving, playing. bat
thing. winning. losing, suffering, dying
was clearly his gift. and 1t was q great
one and an enviable. Before his cof-
fiji: a Sunday ago four friends walked
as pallbearers. Behind the CONN his
widow, in black and yelled, walked
broken and in tears. Blood relatives
followed-just a few-and then in a
slender, delicate form. in simple black.
one recognized his first wife. Mabel,
tears on her face and grief shaking
II her Vbent shoulders-a touching picture.
The memory OF him could Inspire
: enough devotion to bring that about.
, Small wonder that the old employ
ees of Luna Park who knew him
M fha ynastar fhera had haQ1arad
themselves for a day to send an enor-
nous heart shaped floral piece in red
\ carnations, and across II in white his
own old time motto: 1.-THE Heart Of
) Coney Island" 1t helped something to
r make up for the absence Of many .
man whom he had made when there
! was real red blood beating in that kind
, heart
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are Woodlawn, Shady Lane, Maple
Grove, Pinecroft, Birch Farm. and
so on.
A favorite form OF name is made by
combining the old English words hurst
or croft. which mean homestead, with
the name of the owner. This practice
gives rise to such names as Benson
hurst and Allanscroft Sometimes the
name OF the owner is suggested IN a
fanciful way. as in the case OF farm
once owned by former Dean Bailey Of
Cornell. the farm being known as
Bailiwick. In another instance Stone
Farm denoted the name OF the owner
and the character of the land. In still
another instance a man who had
looked forward all his life TO acquiring
a farm in his own right finally cele-
brated his ownership by naming his
place Iona Farm.
The college points out that name
should not be too fanciful but should
be dignified and descriptive. In a ma
jority OF cases. 1t says. the simpler
and more commonplace the words that
ere used the hotter the result NAV h~
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among showmen, did hold to his rising
riches. but Buffalo Bill could not for the
life Of him, nor could Steele Mackaye,
a great manager of his day. which
closed just before the dawn of Thomp-
son. Mackaye's fortunes rose and fell
with painful regularity through the '70s
and SOS, though his dramatic triumphs
seemed an all but unbroken string.
Like Thompson, the keepers of &C
counts were his enemies to the last.
Thompson's great invention at San
Francisco. "Toyland Grown Up" did
as much for him. 1t was the fine
flower of his thoughts for nearly
three years. Toys made full size of
men and women, toys doing all things
that humans de-, all sorts OF show de-
velopments treated from the. toy stand
point were to astonish the world. He
had one tin soldier $50 feet high. But
the gods of success had not smiled
on the exposition as a whole. Bril-
liant. beautiful, finely related. exquis-
itely situated, it had not the teeming
population to draw upon to make its
success more than nominal. The long
series OF collapses Of fortune that pre-
coded his journey TO the far West
had not chilled his enthusiasm nor
dimmed his imagination, but he had
long been sustaining his nerves in
courses that tended in the end to shat
ter them. The poor showing made
could not damp his spirits, yet It
spelled defeat, II not absolute disaster.
Now disaster registers on the physical
even II It be carried on the mental or
spiritual No doubt 1t registered on
Thompson as surely as 1t upset both
the spirit and the body OF Steele Mac
kaye. Inside the index rubber Of the
toughest and most resilient of US there
Is a heart and a system of subcon-
scious nerves to be hurt by disaster.
| to be shaken into disease and shocked
at last to death.
From these dismal endings one
fain turns back to the glorious days OF
the rollicking partners who came to
New York with their shoestrings tied
to ''The Trip to the Moon" after the
close OF the Buffalo Exposition.
They had made money. but II was
only fraction Of that needed TO break
Into Coney Island. Fred had tive
great things--personality and brains.
EIk boyisif enthusiasm, his eager op-
timism, HIS clear terse explanations
his skill In draueh conquered
Credit was his for the asking. He was
the spender; Skip Dundy was the con-
ltroller. Their "Trip to the Moon" re-
reste5 ana outshoue their punaIo rnc-
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OF at all like that was the
modest funeral procession of
Frederick William Thompson.

n TOT at all like that was the
M modest funeral procession Of
= Y Frederick william Thompson.
which passed down the noble nave Of
st. Bartholomew's on Sunday last
with the Rev. Dr. Percy Gordon lead
ing and in his vestments lending 1t
the sole touch Of color and ritual. In
all there were present perhaps 100.
They were Of the dead mans c..ends
outside his family. and included the
unrelated curious who attend such
gatherings where the socially con-
spicuous may sometimes he seen. At
the door Of the great church on Park
avenue in the Sabbath stiffness Of
the large apartment houses facing II
they melted easily away in twos and
threes leaving slender remainder &c
continue in the little string Of
lmousines following the herrse to
Woodlawn.
A quiet. private funeral Il was. and
beside that OF -just q church mem
Der" on Lexington avenue. q few
blocks away. with fits carloads Of now.
ers and its packed congregation Of
real mourners. the st. bartholomew
gathering seemed what an undertaken
you'd call Exclusive. 20 unhonoped
was it Of the presence II the stirrins
popuious mimic world in which Fred
Thompson had counted for 20 much
We win not blame them. Was no,
the Hippodrome closed until the
fall? Was. not Consy Island oper
wide for. these last Sundays Of Z
thirsty June? Were not the Lamb.
getting ready for their eambol thai
same eveningf And wers not Ill III,
rest on motoring - ma subuvne n
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Recent Death Recalls Picturesque Ca
reer,. of Man Who Made the "Trip
to the Moon" Created Luna Park
and Built the Hippodrome
By J. 1. c. CLARKE.

There tcds no moon, bat a cover
let Of stars oUerhun0 the stiffness
OF the June night. Scarcely
sound arose from the nsdssed
thousands. looking spectral IN the
rforet light Of the electrons. Dotos
the enormous aisle formed By the
double line of 0iOGntic pyfons
stretching back to the chahceI-lfke
majesty of the crystal Laditortnfn
came. on the stroke of nine. the
throb OF the nuDled drums. The
ddrk-red Jl1n,es on the SUBMITS
Of the pylons tlickered on the steel
and slDer OF the sIotcIy n,octn0
files Of the Pictorial Guard. adj
pancin0 toith reversed arms. An
hearts toere heavy, but all scds
done that the arts he Ioued could
do to denote the honor In 1chich;
they held him. the grief toith
phich they saso him 90 upon his
1nreturnino journey.
Models OF his trfupphs. made In
his neto alabdster, mounted on
sooriet-draped platforms and borne
on tcilIin0 shoulders, followed the
Pictorial Guard, and cohen the heed
Of the long professional line had
reached the Jorty-sizth pytOn the
March composed for the Ieavetok-
ing broke forth IN a Ioto, nseiodi-
GUS ,oaH as of trurtpets and horns
from the scireIess resounders
above. Mprmars arose In tchispers
from the dim onIookin0 multitude
az his creations scerc recognized In
the .chite models. Perhaps tho
model OF the moon received most
praise, out all srere recognized.
Again an poices suere silent as the
great catalogue came into vtet1.
however distant tt might be from
any ono behoIder, for the four
heroic male figures at the corners
Of tho oanopy-Forns. Strength.
Color, Sound--stood out In Gttt-
tudes Of conquest o0ore the curl
ING smoke from q hundred sEver
ccnsers. These sccre Swung bJ
beautiful coryphees scho marched
in hoIioto square abottt the car to
the rhythm of tho censer chains.
II .cas nearing wssdaiyht s0hes -"
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they can laugh and cry together as
they do at a melodrama or a good
comedy"
A Brooklyn bank had advanced
$3.50, 900 and the note had been renewed
q couple OF times. 1t cried out for the
money.
Dear me-" said Thompson; II must
quit this construction for an hour and
settle this bank thing" He motored
to the bank, caught the board in ses-
sion and was asked to wait by a clerk.
II cannot wait" he said. 1--WE are
losing money every minute I am away
from the new feature we are building"
and with his bluest smile he cheerfully
hustled his way in.
Shocked dignity. apologies as be-
| fore, a short speech, bold prophecy,
and within the hour he was back in
Coney Island, the note renewed, and
another 100000 tackled to It.
OF course the trail was downward
and such heroic treatment Of bankers
could not be often repeated. The
panic OF 1907 had struck him hard.
Theatrical losses were heavy. other
losses mounted up, and the day OF
bankruptcy came with some $1,000 as
sets against s664 900 on the debit side.
Then too there was a divorce by a
little wife worn out with worry and
the effect on conduct of remedies that
were not remedial for losses falling
from all quarters.
Still the unfailing cheer, the I'M
daunted heart in Fred. Things bright
ened awhile; there was a new wife,
Miss Selome Wheat Pitcher, estimabie,
trusting and able.
In his best moments he was simple,
lboyhearted, reaching for the best and
enjoying 1t all. One notable trait was
that while he sought the elegant and
costly he detested the appearance OF
newness. He would never be satisfied
till a new automobile had its primal
polish dulled down. He would delight
in seeing new high priced furniture
scratched up. He disliked new gloves
He never had more than three suits OF
clothes. He was always buying new
suits and giving the old ones sway
Giving, in fact, was his pleasure. On
Christmas Eve, New Years. Thanks
giving he would go to the bread lines
| ana cheapest iouSllS houSeS pioNiueN
with great bags OF silver for distri'
button. That was clearly not the way
to pay interest on loans gayly Dor
rowed. but 1t gave relief to the almo'
ner, who told life stories for days
that he had heard on his trips to the
Bowery and Cherry Hill.
|. "And people I meet complain o.
life" he would say to his friends a!
tailpiece to these hard luck stories
There's always something more thar
what happens to you. Cheer up'".
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branching out. Now was his top time
of endeavor, all carried blithely. cheer
fully. with sparkling blue eyes open
ing wide or closing with concentration.
1t was so that Polly OF the Circus"
entered his life with charming little
Mabel Taliaferro as the heroine. What?
The conqueror was conquered. 1t was
not a long courtship, and SO they were
married. Play followed play. some
successful, like "Brewster's Millions"
which they say he almost forced
Winchell Smith to write. and some not
at all so.
~ like this theatrical life." he would
say. 1T gives one a chance to battle
with something new every two
months"
With his bride he INDUCED in the
outwards Of high fortunes Just as
Lester wallack, the actor and mana
ger. had bought the yacht Columbia
when she had won the second race
for the Americas Cup in the '70s. SO
Fred Thompson bought Sir Thomas
Lipton's Shamrock after she had lost
to the American boat, turning her
from sloop to schooner. He had, be-
side the 1876 foot steam yacht Elsa for
luxurious cruising. all these Aladdin
wonders, in contrast with the half
starved student Thompson had been
in New York, living in a hall bedroom
and eating anywhere food was pro-
durable short fifteen years earlier
The newly welded pair travelled
In princey style over France
Italy and southern Europe In
their own automobile. They were
important in Paris, solid in London
and noted everywhere. But 1907
year of disaster-was coming up the
sky. John @. Gates, who had stood
by Thompson, told him to sell out Of
everything he could that stood a
risk. Alasl all Thompson had stood
so. Pressure arose from all quarters
| tho strings to the money advance
began to pull. The Hippodrome passet
to the Shuberts. Then in 1907 Dundy
died quite suddenly of pneumonia
Shortening Of sail was perforce, bu
the stiff upper lip Of Thompson exhib
tied no giving way.
Light and shadow.
Luna Park. the great winner. wal
becoming a burden. Why? WASH
It always popular? Yes, but 1t wa
shading and costing horribly all tn
time. You see. every resort in tn,
United States was having its Luni
Park, Initiating, however badly. tn
great original. compelling Thompson
to emphasize Coney Island more thai
ever The old shows had to be tori
out every year and new ones installed
Thompson liked this Job as JOB. blu
withsred under the stress Of payinI
for 1t.
"I must have light and shadow Il
alternate streaks." he would say. 81
people are to weep here they mus
lisueh next door. n T. hsst Of all
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The Long Fight.

All sorts OF internal disorders at
tackled him-the long arm of govt, the
liver, the kidneys. the stomach-poor
chap; he was paying.
His mother. whom he really adored
ana whom he brought with him IN
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-02-03
COLGATE SOAP FACTORY BURNS.
Explosions Drive Out 5000 Employees
Orphan Asylum Stirred.
ated Press 20 Every Evening

by Associated Press TO Every Evening
Jersey City, y j., Feb. 5. Chemicals
explosing in the laboratory of the soap
manufacturing plant of Colgate and
Company this morning started FIRE
which spread to adjoining buildings and
threatened the destruction OF the entire
plant
Continued explosions in the laboratory
made the blaze difficult To fight Am
balances were called when IT was reported
that there had been number Of victims
of the explosions Employees IA other
buildings Of the plant who number about
3 600 were marched out ia safety.
An orphan asylum nearby Was also
threatened and several hundred children
were lcd by Nuns toa dormitory farthcrest
from the fire
nr George Pcirec. research chemist
for Colgate and Company died from burns
in the explosion IN the laboratory where
he was conducting experiments. Walter
Schweiser. another employe was dead
when taken out OF the basement. Robert
Goedert. Or peirce's assistant, was
blown through window and max Gle.
Several other persons, including a fireman
also were inj red.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-02-03
PROBATION OFFICER
". h. WENTztL RESIGNS
His Legal Status Questioned, He
Decides 10 Rsiinuuish
His Position

His legal right 10 hold tho office of
chief probation officer of the Juvenile
Court having been questioned William
III Vented, after service of two months,
has rendered his resignation. effective At
the end of this month Those raising the
point base their contention on the con
stittltlonal prohibition against nun-resi-
dents holding office IN Delaware, Mr..
Ncntzel having been brought here from
New York The point is disputed. how
ever, on the ground that IT il . question
whether tho probation officer comes with
in the prohibited class,
incidentally, CITY Council. which is
obligated to pay hall the salary. has pad
nothing pcnding a legal Interpretation Of
Wcntscls status, while the Levy Court
has paId its share An excess over the
regular salary had been guaranteed by
private individuals. and. presumably, u
hciug paid
Mr.. Vented movrd his family from
New York. hig wife taking charge Of the
Detention Home pon leaving here
MIR Vented will enter Y NJ {. A. work
abroad In justice to him. IT should he
explained that he carnc here innuccnt 81
any possible legal bar also that his ability
to do the work has not been questioned
IL might hc stated also that he has done
his work efficiently and has been cordially
received
Miss Winfred Bach, who resigned e
do reconstruction work III France, salee
for overseas on Friday Her position o
Assistant Probation Officer il untitled, anc
Judge prickett II anxlous that some
Gunaan of exrarienr. slialI apply for th'
Job rs speedily ~ possible.
NESTZEI. STATES his POSITION.
MIR Vented stated his position to-day
as follows
1t seems only reasonable that VII
mlngton citizens and friends of the boy
and tho girl should get m occasional echo
from the Juvenile Court. where real boy
and girl problems predominate and vhcr.
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