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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
NEW ENGLAND
Miss Henderson Has Written
of Her Loiterings There

As though the New Englanders did
not exploit their part of the world
enough, Helen W. Henderson, Phila
delphian, has turned her facilc pen to
the subject. She has produced in "a
Loiterers in New England book
which every New Englander will find
most entertaining. 1t does not COM
pare with her "Loiterer in New York."
which was one of the best descriptions
of that city produced by any one, but
yet it is very much worth while.
Miss Henderson confines her lettering
to Cape Cod, Plymouth, Boston and
Salem, but she finds enough there to
fill volume of nearly 450 pages. If
one chose to be hypercritical one might
say that she had padded it out with a
rewriting of much ancient history, but
book about eastern Massachusetts
without ancient history would fail to
satisfy any one. We want the old
story of the Pilgrim fathers retold. 1t
must be confessed that Miss Henderson
tells it most gracefully. She even goes
as far afield as Turkey TO get the story
about Captain John Smith and the
Turks heads. According to her, the
fighting between an English and Turk
ish army was stopped in order that
the troops might be entertained by a
combat between chosen Turkish and
British warrior. The victor was to
have the head of the vanquished. Cap
tain Smith was chosen to represent the
British. lie got the head of the Turk,
and in two succeeding combats, ar
ranged as sequels to the first, he got
two more heads. When he explored
the New England coast he named n
group of islands the Turks Heads,
after his memorable combat
The story of Salem is retold with
much Informed comment on the archi-
lecture of the old town, and Miss Hen
dersOn also celebrates the glories of
Bullfinch, the architect of the state
house in Boston, and regrets the OBJ.
scuring of the famous front by the mod =
crn wings which have been added to
the original structure. While the book
will entertain New Englanders, it will
also interest those so fortunate as to
live in other parts of the country where
history was also made, and where archi-
tects and painters have produced mas %
| terpieces.
A LoITERER IN NEW ENGLAND BY
Helen w. Henderson. New York: George
H. Doran Co.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
How a Poet Makes Poetry

John Hall Wheelock, whose new book
"Dust and Light" (Scribners) has been
called the most significant poetry of the
year, was asked why he never wrote
down a poem until he had completely
composed and polished it in his mind.
Mr.. Whee!ock explained that the poet
in writing a good poem must go back
over it several hundred times revising
and changing, and that when the poem
was written down the poets fexibility
was hampered as the lines he had writ :
ten became stamped in his mind by see :
! ing them in fixed forms ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
EVIDENCE THAT
POETS MUST BE BORN
Dickey's Story Of Riley's
Youth Shows How Genius
Finds Itself

IL in the middle seventies of the last
century any one had said that young
man of central Indiana. who was trav.
cling about the country singing songs
and painting signs for q patent medi-
cine vender, with never enough money
to keep himself out of rags. would in
1913 stand on the platform at the Co
lumbian Fair in Chicago and share
honors with President Harrison as QUO
OF the distinguished men of the state.
he would have been laughed at: and If
any one had prophesied that a 400 page
book would be written about the expert
ences OF this Young man as an itinerant
vender no one would have taken the
pains to contradict him. The whole
idea was preposterous. But you never
can tell
These things happened and James
Whltcomb Riley is now admitted to be
one OF the most human and musical
poets that America has produced. He
was the obscurest of the obscure In
1879 and in 1890 he was famous. He
was honored at the Chicago Fair,
along with President Harrison in 1893,
and this fall Marcus Dickey has pub
lished the story of his youth in a vol
ume containing more than 400 pages and
Illustrated with numerous portraits and
scenes in the life of the man. Mr..
Dickey is a hero worshiper and Riley is
ms hero. AS so many other people agree
with him, his point of view is pardon
able, even IL at times it is little too
unso,phisticated and suggests the village
gossip praising man who has gone to
a larger town and won fame "in his
chosen profession
The book, however, is an important
contribution to literary history, for it
shows the beginnings Of poet and out
or what apparently unpromising soil
genius springs. The rhyming instinct
was born in Riley, for he was de.
scended on his mothers side from a long
line of verse makers. His father, born
in Bedford, in this state, was lawyer
noted as one Of the most brilliant ora
tors in Indiana. The father tried to
make lawyer out of the boy, but
failed. He was good for nothing at any
thing save at painting signs, playing the
violin. singing popular songs and play
ing the comic fool; that is, until he
found himself, when he began seriously
to write verse. Mr.. Dickey tells the
story of his pathetic attempt to prove
that he could write poetry by pro-
ducing something in imitation of Poe
and palming it off on an unsuspecting
public, through the collusion of group
of friends, as a hitherto unknown poem
of that gifted man. Mr.. Dickey's YER
sion differs in many particulars from
that which has gained currency, but it
must be accepted as the true story.
THE YOUTH OF JAMES wHITCOMB
RILEY. BY Marcus DickeS. with illus
tratons. painted under the poets direction
by VIII Vawter and reproductions from
photographs dagrerreotypes. letters and
rare documents. Indianapolis: Bobbs Mer-
rlll Company. So, 30.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
MorIey chained 70 q Post

Out in the public library of Detroit,
they have just fitted up room with
all the volumes mentioned in Christie
pher Morley's latest novel, 1.-THE
Haunted BOokshop." For circulation
purposes, in an effort to keep up with
growing demands, the Detroit library
has just added twenty more copies of
"The Haunted Bookshop" to its supply,
while In its reference room one copy Is
kept chained TO post, where II may
always be- available for consultation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
The Story of a Story
al "Slippy McGee"

l 9NE day three years ago there into the
Office of the Century Gu. through the mails
the manuscript of a novel by Southern woman
virtually unknown to the reading public. II
was "Slippy McGce" by Marie Conway Oen,ler
We published "Slppy McGee" in March,
I 1917. The novel turned out to be one of those
extraordinary self-advertisers known in the
publishing world a mouth.to-esr book. BY
others about it, and these still others, until pres
emily its publisher finds that this book which
has been out longer than the average novel lives
is not only not dead but is calling for larger
and larger editions with increasing rapidity.sava
We have just sent to the press a seventh edi-
ton Of "Slppy McGee" three times as
large the edition printed when it was brand
new. Booksellers ordering larger quanti-
ties of this two-year-old novel than when it was
being reviewed all over the country
And of course long ago "Slippy McGee'
discovered by alert theatrical managers ON the
hunt for stories with powerful situations, wide
human appeal and the gift of laughter. con-
tract has been signed calling for the presenta-
ton of "Slppy McGee" in New York soon
as possible.
"Slippy McGee,' do go buy a copy and give
yourself a treat. And buy another copy for
some else who is entitled to a treat. 1t is
/ sold at all bookstores for $1.6
the sale bookstores for $3.50
request to The Century Co.. Fourth Avenue New York
City bring illustrated holiday catalogue OF books
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-01-08
QUOTES ROOSEVELT
As SUFFRAGE FRIEND
Ida Hustled Harper Says He Wrote
Her Last Saturday: at
Is Coming"

Ida Hustled Harper OF the Leslie
Woman Suffrage Commission an
nounccd here to-day that last Satur-
day she had received from Col. Roose-
welt a letter 'inclosing a copy OF n
most important one he had written the
preceding day TO obtain the one
needed vote" for the adoption OF the
Federal Suffrage Amendment by the
United States Senate. Mrs. Harper
says that she was asked by him not
TO make the letter public, but, declar-
ing that "it cannot fail TO show a
favorable result when the Senate
takes action on this measure" she
quotes Col, Roosevelt as having writ
ten in 1t:
1T Is coming, and II ought 10 come
When States like New York and IL
linois adopt II u cannot be called a
wildcat experiment very ear
nestly hope that you can see your
way clear 70 support this amend
ment."
The New York State Woman SUI
fraEe Party last night at No. 81
Fifth Avenue adopted resolutions re
| cordlng grateful recognition OF Col
ROoseVelt's advocacy OF It's cause ant
his invaluable assistance in further
ing the passage OF the Federal SUI
| frage Amendment"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-01-08
AN OBJECT LESSON (
IN HEARST -HyLAN CITY
R. R. PLAN IN BOSTON
CONTINUED from First Pagc)

n pca-shooter against the onrush OF n
dreadnought.
"The cost OF service for the entire
year 1917, including operating ex-
pcnses. fixed charges and taxes, was
in round figures s19.i0oOOO. Based on
the FIRST four months. the cost OF SER
vice for the first year under public
management viii he s2s,2OO,00o, an in
crease Of S9.10O.OoO.
Gross passenger revenue Tor 1917
was $l9.OOo.OOO In order to break
even for this year. 1t is necessary to
Increase the revenue from car riders.
approximately 80 per cent After be-
ing In charge FOR one month. the pub
lie management raised ta:es 10 per
cent. Crom ) cents 10 : cents This
actually Increased revenues only Q per
cent.
The Influenza epidemic 'tnterfered
with n fair test ~ the 7-cent fare,
and under normal cond lions this fare
increase OF 40 per cent. has produced
i an increase in revenue Of but 20 per
/ cent
( ~ no shrinkagc in riding results
/ from the Scent fare. now instituted.
/ cost OF service for the current eight
months will exceed revenue by over
st.00ooOo. without considering the
5000 900 guaranteed in diyidends.
Every one knows. however. that
F. the increase in fare will reduce riding.
II an increased fare Of 40 per cent.
increased revenue but 20 per cent, an
increase OF so per cent. Is not likely TO
increase revenue more than 80 per
cent on this basis. cost Of service
for the current eight months will en-
cecd revenues by nearly S?,ooo.ooo. and
total deficit for the eight months viii
be nearly s2,9OOO0O.
adding to this the $2,74l,000 lost In
the hrst four months the total indi-
Gated deficit for the year to be made
up from the State Treasury will be al
least ,j.GOo.OoO on the basis OF an s.
cent fare"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-01-08

Capture of the spandau Arsenal
probably gives the extremists A
plentiful supply OF arms and ammu-
rition, as Spandau, just outside Ber-
lin. Is military centre for the
capital. II is probable that large mil-
tnry stores were gathered there under
the Kaiser with n view Of meeting q
revolt. Capture OF the arsenal would
Indicate detection by important troops
relied on by the Ebert Government.
for such an important centre would
hardly have been left unguarded)
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-01-08
GERMANY IS READY
FOR PEACE COUNCIL
Every Ministry to Be Represented
Prince LichnowSky May Lead
Delegation.

LONDON, Jan. s. - Preparations
for the Peace Conference are being
concluded by the German Ministers
and an enormous number OF docu-
ments have been made ready. ac-
cording to the Amsterdam corre-
spondent Of the Daily Express.
II has been arranged. says the cor.
respondent, that every Ministry shall
be represented by at least one official
OF first rank. Count Won Brockdorff-
Rantzau. Foreign Minister, will rep
resent the Foreign Oh1ce, and pos
sibly with Carl Kautsky and DR..
Eduard David. Socialists. and Eduard
Bernstein, Independent Socialist, as
First Advisers.
Colonial experts who may be sent
are DR.. Solf and DIR. Dernburg. while
the Ministry OF Mercantile Marine
will be represented by Herr Hei-
necken: the Ministry OF Commerce by
DR.. Rathenau. Count Won Roedern,
| former Governor OF Alsace Lorraine
/ may attend for the Ministry OF
/ Finance, while Matthias Erzberser
one OF the delegates to the armistice
| conference, is likely 10 Join as ex.
| pert on the League OF Nations.
The name of Germany's first plenl
potentiary has not been divIlged, buI
many believe he will be Prince Lich
nowsky. former Ambassador at Lon
don, although his appointment woulC
be distasteful TO the Red" Govern
ment.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-01-08
EBERT GOVERNMENT
READY FOR TROUBLE
Defense Hurriedly Modified Mon
day While Spartacans Were
Aiming Themselves.

BERLIN. Monday. Jan. 6 tAsso-
ciated Press).-A Government official
has informed the correspondent that
the Cabinet has rallied all agencies
TO the support OF law and order and
defense OF the Government.
"If the Spartacans attack u.s." said
the official. they will find us pre-
pared. We have all the troops needed
70 assert our authority. Naturally
We are anxious to avoid a conflict,
but II IL comes II will not be o. our
choosing"
The correspondent has been in
formed in competent quarters that
the Government is hurriedly mobil-
iZing all available defensive forces
The Spartacans also are arming and
making the royal stables their head
quarters. A spacious apartment in
the former Chancelior's palace has
been equipped as a Red Cross room.
The streets leading TO the Chan
cellor's palace and ths Tiergarten
this afternoon were full OF crowds
hurrying to the respective demons;ra-
tions--the Spartacans in the Sieges-
alice and the Government supporters
at the Chancellor's palace In Will
helmstrasse. The guards in front Of
the Foreign Office and the other Gov
ernment buildings are equipped with
hand Brenades. The Government has
issued an appeal to all its supporters
| for demonstrations against the Spar
tacans. The factories in the city dre
deserted.
A rumor that the Bolsheviki had
seized the central telegraph office and
! the Reichsbank proved to be un-
founded, but the situation Is most
| tense.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-01-08
)PLD PAYS TRIBUTE AS ROOSEVELT IS LAID AT REST

Talmagc. will read the Coloneis Ia
vorite hymn. How Firm Foundu-
zion" II will not be sung.
The preacher will recite H. For i
seems the Colonel In laying out the
programme for his burial tand hc
laid It out long. long ago, when nc
was in the princ OF his lifo) decided
that there should be no music. no
culogy. no lying In state, and no
flowers
There was one thing neither he nor
his family could prcycnt--the flowers.
Hundreds OF boxes Of blooms reached
Sagamore Hill. Hlltd all It's rooms
and ovesfowed into the little church
and filled that too. And day they
were still piled deep about the village
Post Once. no ono knowing Just what
to do with them.
The fourth verse Of How Firm
a Foundation" perhaps might be
considered applicable TO the career
Of Theodore Roosevelt. II runs thus:
"when through fiery trials thy pathway
shall lie,
My Grace all suficlent shall be thy
supply;
The flame snail no, hurt thee, only
design
Thy dross 20 consume and thy gold %
refine"
There will be nothing else 10 dis.
tinguish tho funeral ceremony from
that which might be performed for
the lowliest OF the little church's
parishioners. There will simply be a
few prayers for the dead, at Saga
more IIill. where only the family and
n single newspaper correspondent will
he present. then the regular Episcopal
service at the church. and finally the
prescribed commitment prisons at the
graveyard
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-01-08
JERSEY CITY REVOKES
FRANCHISES OF IS LINES
City Commission Decides 7-Cent
Fare Violates Charters, but
Courts Are Awaited.

The fifteen street railway fran
chises granted by Jersey City to the
Public Service Corporation and its
subsidiary companies were "rescind-
ed and revoked" by an ordinance
adopted by the city Commission yes
terday. The revocation is on the
ground that the franchises were
granted on the condition that not
more than FIVE cents should be
charged Tor n continuous ride,
Seven cents and an extra cent g."
a transfer have been charged by the
Public Service Railway since early
last october. The authority OF the
Public Utility Commission 10 sane
tion the increase has been upheld by
the Supreme Court and awaits dec -
sion of the Court OF Errors and APP
peals. The Jersey City Law Depart
mcnt will serve a notice of the re %
scindinG Of the franchises on tho
Public Service Corporation, which
will take an appeal, II is expected. in
certiorari proceedings. Meantime, the
trolley cars will run as usual and
seven-ce cent fares will be collected.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-01-08
WILSON In PROCLAMATION
PRAISES COL. ROOSEVELT

WASHINGTON. SThe foHowng proclamation on nc ded
Theodoe Roosere from Parts by President Wt
I'd issued last night al the state Departments
WOODROW WILSON PRESIDENT Of THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
PROCLAMATION TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
sad duty officially the death OF
Theodore Roosevelt President Of United Sept
H n " at 415 o'clock In the morning OF
death the United States has lost OF Its
and patriotic citizens. who had endeared
himself the people his devotion to their inter
and the public interests Of his country
President OF the Police Board OF his native city,
the Legislature and Governor OF his State Civil Ser
Commissioner Assistant Secretary of the Navy Vice
Of the United he displayed
administrative OF signal order and conducted the
oces with concentration OF effort and
which permitted divergence from the line OF
DUTY he had definitely for himself
in the with Spain he displayed singular initiative aud
energy distinguished himself the
private which urked financial
Industrial 1t by thus arresting the attention
stimulating purpose the country he the
way subsequent necessary and benehcent reforms.
His private life characterized by a simplicity a virtue
and an affection worthy all admiration emulation by the
people Of America
In testimony OF the respect in which his memory held
Government and United
that the flags Of the White House
mental buildings be displayed half star for a period OF
thirty that suitable military
orders Secretaries OF War Navy rendered
the day Of the funeral.
January In the year o, Our Lord
hundred and nineteen Independence
OF America the hundred forty-thrd
WOODROW WILSON
BY the President:
FRANK L. POLK Acting Secretary OF State.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-01-08
THOSE INVITED TO THE CHURCH
SERVICES FOR COL. ROOSEVELT
Holders of Tickets Will Go to Oyster Bay
by Special Train Just Before Funeral

terday by the Board OF Education,
which ordered tho fags on all public
schools to be nown at half stan for the
next thirty days; the Tammany So
ciety. the directors of the Educational
Alliance, the League OF Foreign Born
Citizens, the American Defense So
ciety and the Executive Committee
Of the American Committee for Relief
in the Near East.
Colin II. Livingston. President, and
James +. West. Chief Scout ENecu-
tive, OF the Boy Scouts OF America
sent directions TO the 10000 troops in
tho United states TO hold memorial
services for Col. Roosevelt, who was a
Vice President and Chief Scout Ctti-
zen OF the organization, and 10 plant
one or more sturdy trees. with suit
able inscription and ceremonial. In
memory OF the great leader they all
honored and loved.
Memorial notices were published by
the New York State Society OF the
Cincinnati, the American Seaman's
Friend Society, the New York His
torical Society and the American Irish
Historical Society.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-01-08
SLAIN WITH A KNIFE BY
HER BOARDER, WHO FlEES
They Quarrelled at Dinner Table
Over Something She Told Her
Husband About Him.

Mrs, Ellen Ilirschman. forty y-on,. o,
No. 2OSi Eighth Avenue was stable.
through the heart and killed In tho
hallway of her home last night BY
Charles De Courcy, thirty-hve, /.
boarder. who escaped.
The husband Of Mrs Hirschmap n.
Thomas. is an engineer on board 4
White star liner. Mrs. H!rschman m,
De Courcy at an inhrmary In Manhat .
tan whore he was employed as engi-
neer and she as laundress. She too'S
him 20 her home 1s a boarder. Her
husband, who has been home for the
last five weeks. left yesterday morn
ing.
While at dinner last evening an argu- 70
ment began over something the woman
had told her husband regarding De
Courcy, He drew n knife and chased
her about the room Miss Helen Tynik,
another Of Mrs. Hirschman's boarders'
caught his arm. lie broke away, puT-
sued Mrs, Hirschman and stabbed her.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-01-08

II was their intention that those
who actually carried the Coloners
body should he either employees or
his estate or the regular pallbcarers
for the undertaken william Johnson
of East Norwich.
There may bc 4 matter OF difficulty
In caring for the number OF ofiicial
mourners who will arrive In addition
TO those for whom places originally
were provided. Christ Church has
only siXty-three pews. with a normal
seating capacity OF hve persons TO
the pew. although perhaps six or
even seven may be squeezed In.
But precautions have been taken
against undue crowding No one may
enter the church without a card, and
there will be Oyster Bay oonstab-
ulary and twenty-four New York po-
licemen sent out by courtesy OF Com
missioner Enright to enforce this
rule.
The same force will guard tsh en-
trance to the cemetery and see that
there Is no rush to enter the confines
OF that place. Also there will be sir
patrolmen OF Traffic Squad c. CON-
manded by Capt. Edward Burke. who
was made roundsman when the Col
onel was Police Commissioner.
Capt Archibald last evening re-
ceived cablegram signed by his
brother, Lieut.. Col. Theodore Roose-
Welt jr. OF the 26th Infantry. u. 8. A..
that he and Capt. Kermit, his broth
er, were together and had received
word OF their fathers death. and that
their brother-in-law. Lieut.. Col. Rich.
ard Derby husband OF Ethel Roose-
velO, would return to the Unitet
states as soon as possible, perhaps
sailing within a few days.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-01-08
JAM THEM ON PLATFORM
AND THEN ARREST THEM
Pity the B. R, 7. Can't Take
Care Of It's Crowds, Says
Magistrate.

For riding on the rear platform Of
an IL" train. twelve high school boys
were arraigned before Magistrate
McClusky yesterday IN the Gates
Avenue Court BrooKIyn, charged
with violating city ordinance.
Louis Goldstcin appeared for four OF
the boys and obtained their d discharge.
The eight others received suspended
sentences,
These boys were arrested by a
special policeman OF the B, X. 7, at
the Franklin Avenue station OF the
FULTON street Line" said Mr., Gold
stein, "and taken in patrol wagons 60
III" police station. because they had
been forced onto the rear platform
when a crowd tried 10 get aboard tn,
train at Franklin Avenue. 1t is u
shame that the B. II. 7, can't provide
some means ot taxing care or ~
! crowds, instead OF hraping the in
' dignity Of arrest upon young boy
such as these