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New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Forest Hills Women
Wunt Hearst Ousfed:
Protest to HyluYl

The Womans Club of Forest Hills,
Long Island, at meeting yesterday
adopted a resolution protesting against
Mayor Hylans appointment of William
Randolph Hearst to the committee of
welcome to returning soldiers, in which
the women characterized the Mayors
action as offensive to all loyal citi-
zens" The resolution reads as fol-
lows:
"The members of the Woman's Club
of Forest Hills, Long Island, believe
that no person even suspected of dis
loyalty to this country during the
period of the great war should be ap-
pointed upon committee to welcome
our returning soldiers.
1--WE emphatically protest against the
appointment of William Randolph
Hearst as a member of such commit
tee, and we respectfully call upon the
Mayor of the City of New York to re
scind an appointment offensive to all
loyal citizens''
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Daniel w. McWiIliams.
Railway Financier, Dies

Daniel Wilkin McWilliams, for many
years prominent in railroad and trac-
ton affairs, and active in the financial
civic and church life of Brooklyn, died
tuesday night at his home, 80 South
Portland Avenue, Brooklyn.
He was eighty ore years old and was
born in Hamptonburg, Orange County,
N. Y. He was educated in Montgomery
and Elmira academies. At the age of
eighteen he entered the employ of the
New York & Eric Railroad, and later
became connected with the Chemung
Canal Bank at Elmira. In 1861 he was
elected secretary and treasurer Of the
Toledo, Peoria d Warsaw Railroad,
and for the next five years had his
office and home in Peoria, H.
He then returned East and entered
the banking, house OF Henry Q. Mar
Quand, and later was treasurer of the
Consolidated st. Louis, Iron Mountain
& Southern Railroad, which position
he held until 1881, when he resigned
and was elected secretary and treas
urer of the Manhattan Railway Com
pany.
In 1904 he became treasurer of the
Intcrborough Rapid Transit Company.
He resigned this position in 1908 but
continued as secretary and treasurer
OF the Manhattan Railway Company.
ne was MEMBER OF the lrSI Doard
of directors of the Kings County Trust
Company and one of its first vice-pres-
idents, and was q director of the Stand
ard Coupler Company and the Under
wood Typewriter Company. In 1896 he
was appointed by Mayor Wurster to
the post of Chief Magistrate of Brook
lyn, and was the last man to hold that
position.
He was prominent in Y. M c. A.
work and was trustee of the Brooklyn
Polytechnic Institute, as we'll as drec-
tor and trustee in many other organ
izations and institutions in different
parts of the country.
Mr. McWilliams leaves five children.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Opera
La Boheme," With Caruso
Draws Big Matinee Audi
ence at Metropolitan

While the subscribers at the Metro
politan Opera House undoubtedly need
Mr.. Enrico Caruso, Mr.. Caruso's need
is by no means the same. Let the
great tenor's name go up on the bill
board, and, subscription or no subscrip-
ton, the house is filled This was the
case at the special matinee Of LA Bo-
heme' yesterday, when Mr. Caruso
sang Rodolfo. He has sung better and
he has sung worse, but, the worst of
Mr.. Caruso being something which any
other tenor would be happy to attain,
every one was satisfied Rodolfo's
three musketeers were on this occa-
sion Mr.. Montewanto, Mr. Seguroa
and Mr.. Didur. Owing to Miss Ro-
names illness, Miss Leonora Sparkes
was the Musetta. Nine Aida sang
Mimi and Mr.. Papi was in the con
ductOr's stand
The evening opera was ola Traviata," ;"
given in place of "Crispino la Comare." ;"
which had to be postponed because Of
the illness of Mr.. Scott. Nine. Hempel
was the Violetta, Mr.. Crimi the AL
fredo and Mr.. De Luca the Germont
Mr. Moranzoni conducted.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Memorial Planned
To Roosevelt by
New York Women

Women of New York City are plan
ming to erect here, in the town OF his
birth, worthy memorial TO Theodore
Roosevelt in appreciation of what he
dia for womanhood and the cause of
woman, and as recognition for his dis
tingushed citizenry. This was decided
yesterday at meeting of representa-
tive women at the home of Mrs. Will
lam Curtiss Demarest, 18 East Ninety
fourth Street, who formed themselves
into body called the Women's Roose-
yelt Memorial Committee.
After this meeting Mrs. Henry A.
Wise Wood, who was elected vice
chairman of committee of one hun
dred now in the process of formation,
said:
mo man in the history Of this re-
public has done go much for the women
Of America as has Theodore Roosevelt
That he has championed their cause
in true American fashion cannot be
denied. Women have been ennobled and
motherhood and ties of home recon
secrated through his lifelong crusade
IN their behalf. Thus it seems but fit
ting that the women of America, who
owe him 80 much, should express their
grateful appreciation in a manner
worthy of the man"
Ars. Demaraest was elected chair
man Of the committee and all the
women could be reached yesterday ac-
cepted membership, among them: Mrs.
George w. Perkins, Mrs. George Haven
Putnam, Mrs. John Henry Hammond,
Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Mrs. William X.
Wilcox, Mrs. Samuel Fairchild, Mrs.
William Fellowes Morgan, Mrs James
Russell Parsons, Miss Cora Is. Spence,
ars. Benjamin Prince and Mrs. Andrew
Carnegie. AZ soon az the entire com
mittec has accepted, a meeting will be
held TO make more definite plans, after
which Mrs. Roosevelt will be officially
notified Of the Intention Of New York
City's women to honor her husband.
Funds for this memorial will be
raised entirely by voluntary contribu-
ton
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Obituary
War Wound Causes Death
Of Rev. John B. Voorhees,

The Rev. Or. John Brownlee Voor-
hees, pastor of the Asylum Hill Con-
gregational Church, of Hartford. Conn,
dled yesterday in st. Luke's Hospital
Death was due to pneumonia and
septic poisoning resulting from wounds
received IN France last June while Dr.
voorhees, was serving as Y. M G. A
worker with the 26th Division.
DR.. Voorhees, was born in Rlawen-
burg. n. J. He was within a few davs
OF being forty-four years old He was
CIRCULATED from Rutgers College in
dS9o and from the New Brunswick
lheological Seminary in 1899. He was
ordained IN 1899 and was pastor of
the Reformed Church at High Bridge
~ Y, until 1907, when he became cor
responding secretary Of the board of
domestic missions of the Reformed
Church, serving until 1912, when he
was chosen as pastor of the ASYLUM
Hlll Congre gational Church. in Hart
tord, to susceed the Rev DIR. Joseph
Il. Twichell. who died recently.
When the United States entered the
war DR.. Voorhees, obtained leave of
absence from his church to 90 to
France as Y. M. c.. A. worker. On
June 10 last in the Toul sector q shell
struck the Y. NJ. c. A. hut where he
was helping the wounded and he was
severely wounded. He reached New
York on Christmas Eve.
Fuheral services Will be held at the
Asylum Hin Congregational Church, in
HARTFORD Friday afternoon at 1:45
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Samuel Rothapfel to Join
Ranks of Film Producers
Resigns Management of Rialto
and Rivoli; May Enter
Goldwyn CORPORATION

The name of Samuel L. Rothapfel,
who holds the distinction of having in
troduced the motion picture show de
luXe-palms, orchestra and everything
to New York, will soon be seen in
the space which follows "Produced by'
on the products of large film corpora
tion
This statement was gathered from Il
reliable source yesterday following the
resignation of Mr. Rothapfel as man
ager of the Rialto and Rivoli and the
appointment in his place of Hugo RE
senfeld, who has been acting as mu-
slcal director Of the two theatres.
Exactly what company is going to
have Mr.. Rothapfel's services has not
yet been revealed The prevalent ru-
NOR, however, is that it is the Gold
wyn corporation, Mr.. Rothapfel only
recently having returned from circuit
tour with the owner of that organiza-
ton.
Mr.. Rothapfel's introduction to mo-
tlon pictures came when a saloon in
Forest City, Penn, in which he was
cnployed as DarKeeper, found 1t neceS-
sary to install movies in the place OF
certain cabaret features. This made
him an operator. Afterward he became
manager; then an owner. His advent
to New York followed the success he
had made in the last named capacity
in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
The appointment Of Mr.. Riesenfeld as
Mr.. Rothapfel's successor shows the
value now placed upon the idea to
which the former manager attributed
the success of the theatres he created
the combination of better class pict-
ures with better class music.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
''Blue Sky" Law for
New York Proposed
By Senator Black
Investigation of Activities of
Crooked Brokers in Lib
erty Bond Deals Con-
vinces Him of Its Need

A blue sky" law to curb the ac-
uvitles of dishonest brokers and pro-
moters of wildcat corporations is a
possibility for New York State as 8
result of Investigations by District At
torney Swami into the activities of
crooked brokers in forcing down the
price of Liberty bonds. Such bill
will be introduced in the Legislature
by State Senator Loring NJ. Black, of
12O Broadway. Mr.. Black in letter
written yesterday to Assistant District
Attorney Brogan, of the Bureau of
Commercial Frauds, said he believed
the time ripe for the right kind of
law to put stop to these practices.
Union have such laws, and 1 have read
a large number of them" Senator
Black wrote. "Some of them seem
very drastic and appear to be a him
drance to legitimate business. This is
situation | wish to avoid, as | de-
sire to help legitimate business
From reading of these acts
thought that the proper course would
be to provide for some sort of state
department which would have to be
self-supporting, due TO the heavy bur
den of taxation under which the state
IS now .aboring. Such department
should have something Of the functions
OF the present Federal Capital Issues
Committee.
81 would be pleased to have your
suggestions concerning the present
business laws of the State of New
York, as we'll as the penal sections re-
1errlng to commercial frauds and
cheats. which seem to me to be in need
OF reinforcement. | know YOUR ex-
perience in the State Banking Depart
ment and as head of the Bureau Of
Commercial Frauds in this county has
brought to your attention the weak
POINTS in our present laws, which seem
to permit a great prevalence of com
mercial frauds and cheats. all of which
discourage honest men and divert
necessary capital from legitimate in
dustry."
Regarding the need in this state of
q blue sky law, Assistant District
Attorney Brogan said:
"Thirty-one states have such lcgisla-
tion. 1t is high time that New York
followed suit. Probably from 80 per
cent to Is per cent of the fake concerns
which might be reached by blue
sky law either have their main office
or a branch office in New York City,
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Bryan Would Be Vaudeville
Star, but He Can i Get lob
Ready to Sign Up for $500 or So Per Week.
but Managers Agree Famous Grape Juice Adj
vocate Couldn't Draw Like First-Class Acrobat

artists who look upon Mr. Bryan as a
dangerous rival.
Mysterious Stranger Miss Weed
this plan to book Mr.. Bryan must be
dropped at once. | represent the Pro
hlbitlon party We have decided that
Mr.. Bryan's appearance on the stage
would do the cause ar irreparable
harm.
Office of Mr.. Hodgdon, 1854 Broad
eighty-fve of the leading vaudeville
houses of the country assembled.
First Manager What's this? Will
lam Jennings Bryan, former Secretary
OF State, Didn't know he could sing
Second Manager-Will he appear in
costume?
Third Manage What is his stunt
dove trainer?
Mr.. Hodgdon- Monologue.
"Never Do" Is Verdict
First Manager - Monologu evening
dress-no music Never do! People
come to be entertained We must have
something colorful and lively.
Managers in Chorus down,
Miss Weed This will disappont Mr..
Bryan. told him it was possible his
salary might be from $1,000 to $4,000
per week
Mysterious Stranger (strokine mus
tache) )-Ha! ha. ha! Fooled! Grape
juice,
at is true that we considered Mr.
Bryan" said MIR. Hodgdon yesterday.
1.-THE proposal was placed before the
managers and they rejected it. 1t took
about two minutes to decide. We
simply decided that Mr. Bryan was not
vaudeville. We have rejected persons
even more prominent than Mr.. Bryan.
Explaining how she induced Mr.
Bryan to consent to the plan, Miss
Weed said; 81 am friend of Mr.
Bryan's. About year ago at dinner
IN hotel in Boston | suggested that
might go to New York and open a
vaudeville agency. | then asked him
Tor an option on his services in 1919
He consented to consider it. Last week
| wired him, and received his telegram
saying he would consider contract and
would be in New York.
81 wanted to keep it all quiet until
had signed him up, but the report
kilograms. One telegram sent to Ash
land, N. c., and that had to be for
warded to Baltimore. A short time
later the rumor was on Broadway
Then d man, whose card have, came to
me and said he represented the Pro
hibition party. He protested against
Mr.. Bryan going into vaudeville, be
cause, he said, it would harm the cause
81 am much disappointed that the re-
port of Mr. Bryan being turned down
has become public. But l still have
other hopes"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Music

Vahrah Hanbury, young singer
unknown to New York audiences, gave
a recital yesterday afternoon at Aeo
han Hall Miss Hanbury has d voice
and temperament, but of neither is
she yet a mistress. Her voice is Of
excellent metal and in the upper por-
tion of her scale powerful and we'll de-
veloped. Her middle register is by no
means the equal of her upper and her
breath support was often insufficient.
Her best singing was perhaps in
Staub's "L'Heure Delicieuse" and in
Faure's "Flcur Jetee," the latter of
which she gave with real power She
is a singer of evident possibilities, but
one who has yet to learn much in the
art of song-to equalize her voice, to
learn the secrets of nuance and tone
color. G.. V.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Colonial Danes
Ask Mayor to
Replace Hearst
Patriotic Women's Resolu-
ton Demands Resignation
of Publisher as Creeter
of Soldiers Be Requested

Opposition to the presence of Will
lam Randolph Hearst as member of
the Mayors welcoming committee for
soldiers was expressed yesterday in
resolutions adopted unanimously by the
Colonial Danes at meeting held at
the home of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
l West Fifty-seventh Street. Referring
to the resolutions Mrs. Hamilton r.
Fairfax. president of the society, re-
minded the members that loyalty was
their watchword. The resolutions fol-
low:
Whereas, The Mayor of the City
of New York having appointed Mr..
William Randolph Hearst member
of the Committee on Military AT
fairs, to which is assigned the duty
of welcoming our Homecoming Amer
lcan troops; and,
Whereas, MIR. Hearst's attitude
toward our enemies during the pc
rod of the late war has revealed
an un-American spirit; therefore,
be it
Resolved, That the Society Of
Colonial Danes of the State of New
York does hereby make protest, and
requests the Mayor to revoke this
improper appointment and call for
the resignation of Mr.. Hearst from
the committee.
Resolved further, That a copy of
these resolutions be forwarded to his
honor John F. Hylan, Mayor of New
York, by the president of the society.
Miss Elisabeth Marbury discussed
Democracy, Reconstruction and Amer
icanism." emphasizing the influence
that such q representative and patriotic
body of American women possesses.
Miss Marbury urged fighting the Ger
man propaganda now taking the form
of sowing discord between the United
Colonial Danes to be on the alert to
detect and crush this new form Of war
fare against this country
Danes of Pennsylvania, spoke on the
question of boycotting German toys
She said this should be a national mat
ter, taken up by the various societies
of Colonial DANES throughout the
United States.
Among those present were Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Hamilton R
Fairfax, Miss Julia McCallister. Mrs
William Thorne, Mrs. Edwin Thorne
Mrs. Robert Low Pierrepont. Miss
Maud A. Leland, Miss Ethel Wickham
Miss Alice Lounsberry, Miss Esther
Singleton, Mrs. Charles F. Roe, Miss
Julia Chester Wells, Miss Velasquez
Mrs Atterbury, Mrs. Howard Townsend
Martin, Mrs. Walter Jennings, Mrs
Kilian Van Rensselaer,, Mrs. Richard
Worsam Meade and Mrs. Charles Scrib-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
Film Shows Care of Babies
Work of Spence AIumnae So
ciety To Be illustrated

In the Garden Theatre tonight the
first of three performances of motion
picture showing the work carried on by
the Spence Alumnp Society in caring
for orphan babies will be given under
the auspices Of the society The show
ing will be repeated tomorrow after
noon and evening. The picture is
called Home Fires" and shows the
care given to each baby from the time
it is taken by the nurses of the Spence
Home and Nursery until it is adopted
by its foster parents
In addition to this picture there will
be news pictures showing Miss Mary
J. Schieffelin's library at Camp Upton.
Mrs. Walter S. Lambert's Junior War
RELIEF, Mrs Lorenzo Armstrong; Red
Cross surgical dressing class, Miss
Caramai Carroll and Miss Alice A. De
Lamar as member of the Red Cross
Motor Corps and the Paul Jones Club
under direction of Mrs. Charles Dana
Gibson.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09

Vaudeville has considered William
Jennings Bryan as a possible star but
has decided to reject him.
S. K. Hodgdon, manager of the B. F
Keith Vaudeville Exchange. said YES.
tcrday that the proposal to place Mr.
Bryan on the circuit had been con
sidered by the managers of the leading
vaudeville houses of the country, with
the result that they concluded it woule
not be good financial venture.
The proposal came from Evangeline
Weed, vaudeville agent, who said the
rlan had been pending for a year. She
said that Mr.. Bryan consented to go
into vaudeville and only last FRIDAY
telegraphed her that he would "con-
slder contract"
The objection of the vaudeville man
ayers was that Mr. Bryan, appearing
before the footlights in an evenino
dress and delivering a twentv-minute
Cration, would not appeal to an au-
dence which came to enjoy acrobatics
prestldlgltation and songs and dances
ara that the mere presence of the
name of the former Secretary of State
as "top-liner" on the billboards
would not warrant their paying $1,000
q week salary.
Comedy in Proposal
The proposal to "book" Mr.. BRYAN
and his rejection by the managers
form comedy, which, according to the
principals in the negotiations. was
something like this:
Dining room in a Boston hotel a vear
ago. Mr.. Bryan and Miss Weed seated
at table.
Miss Weed Mr.. Bryan, am plan
n'ng to open vaudeville agency in
New York. How would you like to give
me an option on your services for
1919?
Mr.. Bryan-Well, I've been in al
most everything else, suppose
might as we'll go into that. Let me
know about it.
One year later. Scene, Miss Weeds
office at 1902 Broadway. Miss Weec
sends the following telegram to Mr.
Bryan, who is in Baltimore:
"Wll you still consider my proposal
to go on the vaudeville circuit"
Mr. Bryan's reply: "Will consider
contract. Will be in New York within
i fortnght.'
Rumor spreads on Broadway that Mr.
Bryan Is going to enter vaudeville.
Even "Drys" Protest
Mysterious stranger, stroking a long
dark, villanous looking mustachc
enters Miss Weeds office. He is i'm
medlately suspected of being secret
representative of established vaudeville
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
MISS DAISY ADAMS

Word of the death of Miss Daisy
Adams, while on her way to serve
American troops abroad as Y. NJ. C. A
canteen worker, was received yesterday
at the Offices of the Women's Canteen
Division of the Y. M. C. A. at West
Forty-third Street. Miss Adams was
the sister of Mrs. Henry Atterbury, OF
80 West Seventeen Street, this city
and came from Jessup, Md, where she
had been leader in church and COM
munity work. She volunteered as a
\. NJ. G. A. canteen worker and left
New York on December 81. A cable
gram from Liverpool announced her
death.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
SAMUEL w. MEEK

Samuel w. Meek, assistant treasurer
Of the New York Times Company, died
yesterday at his home. 239 Central
Park West, after years illness, Of in
testinal trouble. He was born in
Montrosc, Ark on November 23 1864.
He was graduated from Southwestern
University, jackson, Tenn, and went
into the publishing business in Nash
Vile, Tenn, issuing "The Baptist and
Reflector" and "The Confederate Vet
cram" He entered the daily field in
1905 in Cleveland az business manager
Of "The Plain Dealer" and later Of "The
Leader" In 1906 he became manager
Of "Thc Richmond (Va) 2Times- Dis
patch" and in 1908 became manager Of
"The Washington Herald" For several
years he engaged in the real estate
business. In 1912 he launched "The
Richmond Virginian." Three years
later he became business manager of
"Tle Philadelphia Press" He came to
"Thc Times" in 1917. He leaves a
widow, two daughters and three sons.
The sons are Lieutenant Wilson Meek,
10Th Artillery, overseas; Lieutenant
Samuel w. Meek, jr., 9th Regiment Of
Marines, and Robert l.. Meek, gunner's
mate in tho United States navy The
body will be taken to Nashville.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
CHARLES T. DENNIN

Charles P. DENIM, president Of O..
DENIM Sons, of Troy, N. Y, one Of
the largest brush manufacturing con-
Germs IN the United States, died yester-
day IN his apartments at the Hotel
W oodstock, 1877 West Forty third
street. He was forty-seven years old.
Mr. DENIM was born in Troy, son
of the late Owen DENIM, pioneer
manufacturer Of brushes, and early
went into business with his father. The
local offices of the company are at
4s7 Broadway. Mr.. Dennin's home in
l roy was at 722 Fifth Avenue. He
leaves wife. a son and a daughter,
a sister, Mrs. Thomas Kent, of 26 Rus
sell Place, Brooklyn, and e brother,
William D. DENIM, formerly City Con-
troller of Troy
The body was shipped last night to
Troy, where the funeral will take
place.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
ROBERT A COOK

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Jan. s.
Robert Anderson Cook, a mining en-
gineer, died at his home here to- day
after short illness. He was fifty
seven years old. He was a member of
the Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa
fraternities, the Engineers Club of
Of Mining Engineers. He leaves wife,
Mrs. Margaret Seabury Cook; a SON
Lieutenant Seabury Cook, U. S. n, and
two daughters, Mrs. j. Claude Thomp-
son, of Marking, China, and Miss Sid
rcy Cook, of New Brunswick. Funeral
services will be held Friday afternoon
New-York tribune., 1919-01-09
GEORGE RIGBY

George Rigby. retired contracting
decorator and more recently real es-
tate operator, died yesterday at his
home, 412 West End Avenue, after
short illness. He was siXty-four years
old He was born in this city and had
lived here all mis- life. AS the head Of
George Rightly & Co. he had ex-
ecuted the decorating work in many of
the larger hotels and private residences
Of New York. He leaves a wife, two
sons and three daughters. Funeral SER
vices will be held this evening at the
Campbell Funeral Church, Broadway
and SiXty-Xihth Street.