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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

first speaker, and radical editor Of a
''Zeitung," did not earn any partic-
uIar need of enthusiasm. A. r.
Parsons, an equal enthusiast for the
new emancipation, Jared only a
little better.
Then it was the turn of Sam
Fielding. For infammatory utter
ance and ibellous diction he was
easily the winner. He called on the
blind goddess of Revolution; he
called on his companions to arm and
assert their rights. He called SO
loud that officers of the waiting
squad of police decided it was time
To call halt to the procedure. Re-
serves reinforced those already on
cuty until some two hundred police
men advanced into the crowd.
The Challenge
In the name of the State Of Ill
nois, I order you to dispersei"
shouted the officer in charge.
For answer suffering arc Of
light cut the darkness Of the square,
followed by a violent decoration.
Some one had thrown the much
talkedof bomb, thrown it with
tiendish accuracy. 1t landed be-
tween the first and second ranks Of
the bluecoats. 1t left twenty-niae
mangled officers on the ground.
To tie eternal credit of the Chi
cago police force, the men. after
suffering casualties which might
easily have shaken a company of in
fantry. held their ground. drew
their revolvers and fred into the
dark mass Of agitators in front of
them. TIE latter quickly proved
that F.elding's exhortation for then.
to arm themselves was quite unnec-
essary. They returned the fire
orlskly and with effect, and then me
police charged. Clubbing their
empty revolvers or using their
nightstlcks, they drove straight for.
ward. Their compact mass took eff.
feet Those who resisted droprsc
beneath their blows and the crow.
broke. leaving their wounded in tn.
deserted square.
The Haymarket riot was over
Two dead policemen and fcrtl
wounded attested tire benehcent ru;,
OF UtopiT and law and order stil
remained CT top il Chicago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

the strikers at the employees, and
suddenly the mob surged forward.
The Mccormick men retreated into
the factory yard under a hail of
missiles and succeeded in closing the
gates. The mob diverted itself by
beating one Mccormick straggler
almost to death until patrol wagons
arrived, when the crowd turned on
the police. The locust clubs fell
heavily and the strikers fell back,
finally dispensing. Thus the day
closed on May 8 with merely a
minor disturbance and few bro
midic words by an impromptu
leader.
But the next NIGHT IN editor at a
New York telegraph desk was
stirred sufficiently to write the fol
lowing headline:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

to court to show that they were
badly torn from the effects of the
explosion. He was uncertain as to
whether the holes in the coat and
trousers We're due to moths or dyna-
mite. On the pretext of examining
Mr.. Sage's memory, Mr.. Choate
demonstrated the number Of COM
panies which Mr.. Sage owned and
the number of which he was d d.
rector, IN order that the jury might
see that he was a very rich man.
He brought out that Mr.. Sage owned
twenty-seven companies, and Mr..
Sage S lawyers could not object, be-
cause Mr.. Choate vigorously main
tanned that he was testing the ex-
tent Of Mr.. Sage's injuries by trying
out his memory.
Mr.. Choate: "You then held
some Missouri Pacific collateral
trust bonds?"
NJ. Sage: YES"
Glow many?"
"Cannot say"
Cant you tell within a limit
of ten to one thousand?"
"No."
mo, within one hundred to two
hundrdd?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

with various managers to appear N
vaudeville in Paris and elsewhere On
the Continent Bit there was on.
thing she hadn't counted on. and that
was falling IN love, which sometimes
dlsarranges the best laid plans It
disarranged hers Miss Janis sudden
~ found herself deeply enanrored
Of the whole american army, and she
proved as faithful and true a sweet
heart as any army could ask Her
managers sought her out in Paris
whenever she happened TO go Up and
wanted to know, What about your
contracts with u.s."
"My contracts with you" said Miss
Janis, "are dated from the day my
last bean is gone and not before"
That day came all too soon. and
saw Miss Janis up in London max
ing arrangements for part-time ap-
| pearances, so that she could con-
tinue with the army entertainment
After about four months in London
she found she had earned sufficient
to carry her through while longer
So she took the first boat back to
France.
Miss Janis's mother was with her
throughout the entire trip. We've
never been separated a day in cur
lives, you know" she smiled. Mother
wasn't bored single bit. When she
wasn't looking after Elsie and pro.
tecting her from adoring admirers
she was mothering sick and wounded
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
NO"
SIS 1t because you have too lit.
tie memory or too many bonds?"

tie memory or too many bonds?"
The Court of Appeals finally re-
versed judgment which Laidlaw
received for $4,000, on the ground
that the examination was an
abuse OF cross-examination into
which, through their zeal, even emf
nent counsel are sometimes led"
An interesting point in the mat
ter of Russell Sage's reaction to
the explosion:
Mr.. Choate: Were you not
very excited?"
Mr.. Sage: Il was thoughtful.
was self-poised. I did not believe
his dynamite would do much dam
age, or that he would sacrifice
himself"
Mr.. Choate: "Never heard of q
man killing himself?"
Mr.. Sage: Not in that wav."
We have another proof that mer
do kill themselves in that wav If
the case of the plot against the life
OF A. Mitchell Palmer. although
nothing to prove that, in the present
instance, the killing was not shee,
accident.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

tangle of ten-cent lodging houses
and cheap drinking places in the
middle of a thickly populated dis
trict made up principally Of Boheri-
ans, Germans and Poles. On the
night of May energetic Socialists
determined to hold a mass meeting
in this rather unprepossessing
neighborhood.
1t did not bear the earmarks of a
very interesting evening. The police,
warned probably by the previous
day, we're expecting trouble, and a
couple Of patrol wagons stood INIT
ingly near the empty cart which
the leaders were planning to use as
pulpit of freedom. The crowd was
quiet and orderly and drifted about
the square almost listlessly. The
burning words Of August Spies, the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
soldiers IN the hospitals and rest

soldiers IN the hospitals and rest
camps.
Now that so many Of fer A. E. r.
friends are hack in New York Miss
Janis thinks It would he an oppor-
tune time 20 have g. grand reun,nn.
She IS planning to send ont cards
for an @at home" at the Hippo
drome some Sunday night very soon,
perhaps next week The cards will
read something ike this: ~Elze's
on the job again Please re port Sun
day neutrality-suspicious.. Full equip
ment"
1T viii he wonderful TO get EN-
all IN a bunch and hear EN- sing
again." she sighed of you'd ever
heard them; six or seven hundred
strong, you'd never forget it in YOUR
whole life,'
Miss Janis is tired But she is
Of the opinion that's merelyra tenn
porary mental depression After
months and months of playing under
the most highly stimulating coadi-
tions, to homcsick, wiIling-to-he-
amused doughboys, playing 10 blaze
Broadway, she thinks, is something
Of an anti-climax.
What are you going to DO now"
we asked.
She snuggled more comfortably
into the pillows on the divan and
grinned.
"Nothin'."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
By John Marquard

T SOME of our exuitant revo-
z lutionists who see the crude
solecisms of present society
crumbling into chaos and ready
to give way to new Utopia indulge
their memories in a sufficient num-
Der Of backward revolutions they
may come to the conclusion that the
Modern Era Of Bombing isn't such
q glorious era, after all.
They don't have to go back any
further than May 4, 1885, to find
there is nothing new under the sun,
even bloody anarchy directed and
led by foreign-born zealots. 1t was
another generation Of broad-minded
liberals who made the Haymarket in
Chicago run with the blood Of limo
cent men.
They were made Of sterner stuff
then and threw their bombs by
hand, instead Of sending them by
mail. Their methods were refresh
'asly open. They stood up and
fought the police, and, incidentally,
caused more damage in loss Of life
than any Of the latter-day theorists.
But one distressing fact remains
or reassurng, II you don't happen
- A L revolutionist) The CHICAGO
Fl,t Old not get anywhere. It failed
" reach first base" just as com
p.ele!y al the Seattle Soviet. II ia
hard to draw anything except one
eonclueion, namely, that the bearers
Z" me flaming monochrome banner
VIA nave N do lot better than thev
ere doing II they are going to start
theoretical millennium On any
piece OF ground that flies the Amer.
scan flag.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
elsie Janis, Idol of the A. E. F., Is Home Again

which ought to prove lively enough
reading. This much, however, she
tells without hesitation:
at was the happiest time of my
Life, and I wouldn't have taken five
million dollars for it. I am as glad
as anybody that the war is over, but
I'm sorry my part couldn't have
lasted longer. It was a good war
every fellow I know who
was in it says that. It's only the
people who vocalized about it who
called it horrible" She hesitated.
But if it aoas horrible, it was won-
derfully horrible"
However, if size wouldn't talk of
the horrors, there were other things
the decoration pinned to her
blouse, for instance, which she dis
played proudly. "They used to cali
me captain" she said, "but now I'm
a Lieutenant general" The insignia,
consisting Of three silver stars and
the silver decoration Of the flying
squadron, had been presented to her
the night before by members of the
Oath Aero Squadron at the Aero
Club dinner, at which Miss Janis
and her mother, the only women
present, were the guests Of honor.
1t seems she was sort Of godmother
to the cath, having arrived at Toul
the same day as the famous SQUAD
ron. Lieutenant General Janis is
now it's honorary commanding off,
Ger.
Miss Janis gave no interviews,
there were no official stories about
her and, so far as she knows, no
pictures sent home during her year
and three months on the other side.
But stories have come to our ears,
ess-though quite unmys-
teriously-and no official sanction
was needed to brand them as true:
they carried their own conviction.
More than that, Miss Janis denies
none Of them. There is one that
everybody heard-about how she
came riding into an improvised
theatre IN a railway repair shop on
the cowcatcher of a locomotive.
That's about what happened, the
principal participant in the esca-
pade admits. And she did give a
private show for General Pershing
at headquarters at Chaumont: she
did go broke while she was in
England and had to play for
few months to paying audiences in
order to continue to entertain the
audiences that couldn't pay. Also, it
is true that she is the only woman to
have been given the white pass, is
sued by the British High Command,
permitting her to enter the front
line zone. That was arranged by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
DYNAMITE AND BLOOD
Wholesale Murder in the
Streets of Chicago
POLICEMEN SLAUGHTERED
Anarchist Savages Hurl Bombs
Into Their Ranks

Chicago had met it's first expert
ence of practical anarchy. The city
and the country stood stunned at
the sudden outbreak Of brutality
and violence.
1t happened at the old Haymarket
in the city, and hence the name of
the Hayznarket riot. Leading off
this area, capable Of holding fifteen
or twenty thousand persons, was a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

THERE'S only one person, SO
far as we know. who doesn't
b. think Elsie Janis is a hero
iae. and that's Elsie herself.
She eot so much fun out of her sew
er.sen months active service with
The 4. T. T. that the whole advent
tire. TO her, seems not particularly
heroic. what is there" she wants
to know, IN singing few songs
and doing an occasional hand
spring.
And if you didn't happen to know
.ha. Miss Janis had been taking
pretty close chances with shelfre,
that her spirit and energy had done
more than anything else to sustain
what they call army morale" you
wouldn't be able to prove anything
at all about her bravery. For that
is one thing she refuses to talk about
her contact with danger. But, of
course, you do know, for you've
heard about her from every dough-
boy you ever talked to; and the uni
versal Judgment that she's "a dead
game sport is the last word. Her
opinion doesn't matter.
1t only matters that she's home
again and that New York has
grasped her hand in prideful, eager
welcome and has given her three
rousing cheers. So many celebra-
tons were being given in her honor
last week that she came into the
city for few days from her home
in Phillips Manor to be able to at
tend them more conveniently. We
sought her out at the Algonquin
Hotel, where she was staying with
her mother.
She hasn't changed bit. The
small, vivid face, bright eyes-per-
haps brighter than ever-the quick
srile-who could forget them? She
was curling her hair and apologized
while she finished the JOB, explaining
that she was to be Mr.. Dillingham; 5
guest at the Globe Theatre that
evening, where General Organ was
to speak. Then she settled herself
comfortably on the divan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Hip-P ocL,et Bona bs

Results proved that the crowd
was not critical. They did not even
debate whether a bomb in the hip
pocket was more useful as weapon
or as a ticket ITO the next world.
Turbulent, excited by that illogical
and contagious thing that psycholo-
gists call mob spirit, they started of
for the Mccormick Reaper Works,
about half a mile away, where a
number of non-strikers were work.
ing: Vile epithets were flung by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
I There's q Book Coming

Miss Janis has colorful story to
pour forth, and that is what we
wanted much to listen to; but it is to
be reserved. it seems, for future tell
ing, few months hence, when the
comedienne makes her debut as an
author. In other words, she is writ
ing a book about her experiences,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

A estn1inster County court
"A before Judge Lush recently,
an action to recover Sc l5s
for fried eggs supplied at breakfast
was brought by Faulkner's Hotels
against Frederick Thorold Dickson.
The defendant set up a counter claim
for not receiving proper notice to
leave, says "The London Times"
Mr.. Sharp, for the plaintiffs, said
that the defendant was a barrister
who had been employed in a govern
ment department, and had stayed at
Faulkner's Hotel in Villiers Street,
Charing Cross, from May 81 last
year as a daily guest until January
II. There were two tariffs-one
at IS Cd. for bed and plain break
fast, and the other at IS for bed and
breakfast on anything one liked. The
defendant took the 5s Sd tariff.
While the manager was absent
through illness for six weeks a
waiter for some reason put fried
egg each morning before defendant,
who ate it without question. When
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

chains of slavery in which they are
bound by the capitalists. With re-
volver in one hand and your knife
in the other and bombs in your
pockets, march on to revolution and
freedom"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Law and Eggs

the manager returned the defendant
was asked to pay a reasonable sum
for all the eggs he had eaten, and he
refused Correspondence followed in
which the defendant wrote, Regard
ing the conversation about the egg
wish to settle in q reasonable man.
ner. / did not order it, but it was
welcome to me because I work long
hours every day in & government
office" (Laughter.) He also wrote
Re fried egg. Please inform your
employers that I regard the sum 8
outrageous. ! did not order the egg.
and am under no legal obligation
to pay"
Judge Lush said that the supply
ing of the egg went on for a con-
siderable time before the defendant
was spoken to, and he might there
fore have considered he was justified
In accepting it as part of the meal.
The defendant, on the other hand.
could not succeed in his counter
claim, and therefore both claim and
counter claim would be dismissed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
A Regular Strike

" all started the way Socialist
trouble always ntarts----with "a ner-
ises'g legal, sincere and probably
sss'nmsss strike Of organizsd labor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

only one person, SO
3 far as we know. who doesn't
b. think Elsie Janis is a hero
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-13
VICE ADMIRAL OF
GERMANY DESCRIBES
FLEET BREAK DOWN

Berlin. July THE former German
emperor is termed superficial, gamb-
Ter. "a dilettante of the worst kind
and the worst enemy Germany has had
since 1902" by Vice Admiral Foss in
his revelations entitled. disclosures
about the Breakdown" The Vice Ad-
mira1 char that the emperor let
things drop that he had espoused pas
sionately. after he had lost interest in
them. In his conviction that he un-
derstood everything the former emp
error, he says, went so far as to par
ticipate in a contest arranged by the
navy department for plans to construct
an armored cruiser.
The vice admiral ascribes the break
down of the fleet to lack of decision
and civilian courage among the Off
GERS. lack of discipline and forgetf full
ness Of duty, even undeniable coward
ice.
Eice-Adniral Foss gives as the
causes Of war, first, the "peculia rity OF
the emperor and third, the huge power
in the hands of the emperor. He takes
the leaders to task and says Admiral
Won TripitZ was not a proper leader,
that Won Scheer carried out the Skeg-
crak fight with faulty tactics. that
Won Hoetzendorff was incompetent but
was made chief of staff because of his
relG tionship and frienship with Ad-
miraI Won Mueller and Herr Balm.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-13
RUSSIAN GIRL
IS HEROINE IN
TRAIN ACCIDENT

From far away Vladivostok at the
neck of Siberia comes a story of hero
ism to the headquarters of the South
ern division of the American Red Cross
in Atlanta that has few equals In the
history of the war.
The story, written 20 Atlanta by
southern nurses serving in Siberia, is
of little Fedora Hurtat, a Russian girl
of fourteen. She was walking with
her small brother and sister near the
railroad at Sedanka, a station about
20 versts from Vladivostok when 4
train roared down upon them. The
younger children were on the track
Fedora rushed up the embankment
and flung them off. saving their lives:
but she herself was dragged beneath
the wheels of the engine.
1--WE did our best to save her., writes
one of the nurses. THE Red Cross
hospital sent an ambulance and at
the hospital her leg was amputated. a
special nurse was put on the case day
and night and every member of the
unit, from the head doctor to the
poorest sanitar. took a personal inter-
est in the case. But it was no use.
For five days she lay fighting for life,
with all of US fighting with her. AT
2 o'clock on the morning of Deco-a-
ton Day. she died-as big a heroine.
to my mind, as any Of the war"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-13
CHINA GAVE
Big sum FOR
U.S.WAR WORK

| Chinese men. women and children con-
| tributed s1.200.00O in gofd in the course
| Of the United War Work Campaign in the
! United States last November II is shown
| in a private letter received yesterday by
| n member of sEe War Camp Community
Service. The contribution showed the
keeness OF the Chinese 10 back up the
allies in their war against the central
powers. because II was exactly 81, loo. 900
over the sum the citizens or the Celestial
Republic were asked TO raise.
When plans for the United War Work
Campaign had been made. Myron T. Her
rick. chairman of the National Finance
committee of the War Camp Community
Service at tho time, ana formerly am
bsssador 20 France, suggested appeal for
financial help to the people of China
At his request. the American minister
to China urged the authorities OF that
nation TO give their people the chance 70
line themselves up in support OF the war
work campaign IL was waged In behalf
of seven organizations which had been
entrusted with the task or attending 10
the welfare OF allied soldiers and sailors
overseas and in the United States.
Response of the Chinese officials was
immediate and appeal was made TO the
population for 100000. The people
showed instant enthusiasm and the cam
paign extended throughout the republic.
Professions held and meetings as
sembled. One procession OF Chinese stu
dents extended over a distance of three
or four miles. The psraders carried gay
l. decorated banners. lanterns and trans
rarencies and marched to music furnish
ed by many bands.
School children showed particular in.
terest in the campaign. The schools as
units were enlisted in the campaign but
most of the children indicated a prefer
ence to contribute as individuals. In Pc
kin. offerings were received from but ono
school as unit. In ALL $1,000 receipts
were given for offerings in Pekin. IN
that city, $4,000 copper coins were Of
fered. Banks were swamped.
When the excitement was over &c was
found that the total of $1,000, 900 in Of
ferings had been reached.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-13
FAMOUS ACTOR
TAKESPARTI IN
MISSION PLAY

Frederick Warde, the eminent actor
; OF Shakespeare and the classics, cele-
: DRAFTED his 50th year on the stage this
season, achieving a signal success as
| Father Junipero Sierra in the mission
Play" which is produced annually at
Los Angeles by the author, John Nc
Groarty. and is such delightfully."-
conceived poetic and historic drama
Of the early days of California IL has
! become one of the important events
of the regular California tourist sea
son.
During the fourteen weeks run Of
the play, Warde contributed a series
of reminiscent articles 10 one of the
local newspapers that contained a
fund of interesting matter concerning
himself and the host of English and
American actors with whom he has
been associated during his lorg ca
reer. The success of these articles
was so pronounced that Mr. Warde
has been repeatedly urged to elaborate
them and put them in book form.
/ The veterans actor still possesses
that remarkable vitality and vigor
both physical and mental, that has
characterized his whole life. He is
now spending the summer at his home
in Sullivan county, y. Y, writing and
making plans for a busy season com
mencing in the fall.
Mr.. Warde spent As of his so acting
years on the American stage. He is
a man OF ideas and ideals and his
career has been marked by a stead
fast adherence to only the best and
most elevating forms of the drama,
whether in pictures or on the spoken
stage. AS an orator and public speak
err. he has few equals in this country.
Mr.. Warde talked most enthusiastic
ally of the mission plan.
TT was really a great inspiration"
he said, ito meet and play with peo-
pie who are so far removed from the
ordinary ways of life and of the thea
ter. 1t was like another world. Mr.
McGroarty is one of those rare souls
that one meets only once or twice in
a lifetime. He IS wrapped up IN the
Mission Play and each season he gets
ready for its presentation with more
reverence and more interest than the
year before
Il shall look back on the weeks
spent with him and his charming
company as among the very happiest
of my life. 1t is really hard TO leave
such an atmosphere and face again
the realities of the work day world