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New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
An Audience
Conquers
CarusO

"A n X. P.," in "The Kan
~ M sas City STAR calls
1 4VAS it "the greatest
American audience
rrohably ever assembled for a musi-
,al event" The concert traditions
If Kansas City were curiously re-
versed, for Caruso, who was the
bright particular star of this recent
oocasion-but let's give "M. K. p"
the stage:
"Signor Caruso staggered a bit when
be first appeared or the stage. There
vss Just a little bravado in his bear
ing. as if he would say: 4 am Caruso
The Great For wasn't he away out
West somewhere in the provinces
where he had at last condescended to
sppear? Wasn't he the king of tenors
and the highest Of all singers? His
bearing fairly shouted all this. Those
who whispered, See how he hates him
self, meant something else.
aBut the audience looked ANYTHING
bu. provincial. Caruso scanned it care
fully, and continued to scan it each
time he appeared on the stage. His
expression changed. There was a trace
Of appeal in il, and he began singing
his superb best in order to win. those
miles OF men and women.
"Perhaps it occurred to the tenor
that he was IN the greatest American
city, and thas New York might not have
prepared him to win ten thousand
sturdy Americans who have conquered
the Southwest. Not only was it big
ger audience than he had faced before,
but it represented achievement of a
Kind new in his experience. From the
oil fields of Texas and Oklahoma, from
The wheat and corn countries. the audi
ense had come-a people of large
emancipation. 1t was not impressed by
man who waggered, OR even by that
mans singing.
THE tenor proved his intelligence by
the speed with which he became con-
scious Of the situation The audience
had made conquest of his spirit, robbed
him Of his famous and superior man
ner. He was kissing his hand to it
before the concert was an hour old, and
before it was finished his manner was
saying: You're a better man than
an, Gunga Din or words TO that
effect
THAT was how the greatest American
audience made d bigger man out of En-
Fco Caruso. Il was an achievement of
Which to be proud. for it won some
great singing, resulted finally in tenn
pestuous enthusiasm and established
truer and saner relationship between
artist and audience than often OCCURS"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Not Dead?

Where is the hammer? Hit him,
carpenter Confused voices ring
in my ears. Painfully I strive to
rise. The weight of many bodies
is pressing on ME. Now, it's Frick's
voice! Not dead? I crawl
in the direction of the sound, drag
ging the struggling men with me.
l must get the dagger from my
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
w War's Cost in
Births

WASTAGE of human life in the
war cannot be reckoned solely
by the actual number of dead,
wounded and missing in the mill
tarytary records, according to Miss
Julia c. Lathrop, Of the Children's s
Bureau, United States Department
of Labor, who calls attention also
to the general decrease in the birth
rate. In a speech before the an
ual convention of social workers at
Atlantic City, she declared:
at is inevitable that the warning
world, save the United States and Ja-
pan, should now be concerned with the
sheer physical problem of child welfare.
The war has caused double loss of life.
The War Department estimates that the
war has cost nearly 7,4s2,200 battle
deaths, all suffered by Europeans, save
48,900 charged to the United States,
and most OF these nations lost two or
three times as heavily from disease
deaths as from battle action.
I'm addition, the reduction in the
lowered number of births was a vast
item. Thus the estimate shows that
Hungary, for example, lost 100000 to
the end of June, 1918, by lowered
birth rate, which is as if, in Hungary.
not child had been born for two
years. Great Britain Jared better. Her
lowered birth rate is only as if not
child had been born in the United King
dom for six months. In Germany the
loss was as if not q child had been
born for sixteen months.
against these tremendous figures
the losses of the United States are in
What is Americas duty-a country
rich and strong beyond the dreams OF
avarice? If we are in earnest about
democracy we are in earnest about
giving every citizen a far chance;
that means first of all a fair chance for
every child whatever his race or color
In practice it means vastly increased
expenditures Of public money for The
direct service of childhood.
"llliteracy existed before we went to
war. It existed because children had
gone to work instead Of to school
Adult lIliteracy is the inevitable Sc
ouence of child labor. The census in
1910 warned US, but we did not heed.
that the areas of rural child labor and
of adult illiteracy are largely Identical.
The illiteracy in our draft army
shocked US. Unless we are willing to
spend millions at once on elementary
full term schools for children, we shall
have a doubled adult lliteracy in
few years. The Federal child labor
law protects only children in mines,
quarries and factories We must pro-
tect every child, and the protection of
the school is the surest and sanest. It
is costly in money, but cheap and eff
fective in result
"ln brief, universality is the only
method of protecting children which
Is big enough and democratic enough
to command our respect now. No race.
no section, can be neglected 1t +.
dangerous as we'll as selfish to do less
than give all children a fair chance.
The colored child has been too long
neglected. Negro immigration is fore
ing US to see in a new way the dan
gerous folly of forgetting him. What
of the children of the islands of Porto
Rico and Hawaii? Not one but has a
right to be counted"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

w industry is but fifty
years old, oil has been
known for hundreds of
years, having been used bv the
Egyptians in the art of embalm-
ing and as a mortar in some of
their building projects. A writr
IN The Petroleum Journal saws:
The medicinal properties Of oil have
been known for long time. and the
early development of the industry was
Que to the demand Of these uses. Then
gas was found to be useful as an
Aiuninant, which might have been dis
covered long ago if they had known
'aas the eternal fires of the ancients
we're gas seeps. Then at a compare.
aveiy recent date oil was found to be
aseinl for fuel and other things for
winch it is used to-day; before this
ane most Of the oil in the United
oases had been used for medicine and
"id as Seneca oil and under other
trade names.
one OF the first leases ever granted
vas that BY Peter the Great in 1923
% land in Baku. This was in force
sasa 1872; all rentals were paid up in
'all in advance.
ine real pioneer in oil development
.ss IN the United States. As early as
-s1S the search for oil for medicinal
rs.Poses began. The first oil we'll was
S''lisd in 1854 by E. F. Drake, who had
sssanized the Pennsylvania Rock Oil
s''apany. This was later changed to
- seneca Oil Company. The COM
Ney failed, as many oil companies
ave SINCE that time. This we'll was
s~sed at Titusville, Penn. had a
ss91a Of afty-eight feet and produced
"sa'y-hve barrels per day.
sor years Russia was the leader in
- Production and even as late as
"a one-haif Of the worlds oil came
'n an area OF ten square miles in
rasssa. After 1903, however. the
s@'ee States took the lead and now
- United States produces two-thirds
81 the oil in the world. Russia
mexico are next in the scale Of
,.saae'ion. Up until 1912 Russia pro-
se aii the sensations in oil produc-
"a large quantities. Fifty thou
- ef 10000 barrel wells were not un-
'a taere. Remarkable discoveries
s@~s' oklahoma, Kansas and Cali
sa enabled America 10 take the lead
since which time the lead has
until two~thirdg Of the
sas Production Of petroleum comes
ssa america. The total production Of
s'fid for 1918 was $50 ,00o, 900 bar
VI this the United States pro-
ssSJsooyo 900 barrels, practically
aifds Of the oil produced in the
uklahoma's production for 1918
e''ooo'ooo barrels. is per cent Of
v'r'd production, and 2s per cent
- OIL produced In the United
s. during tbs year"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

however, that he realized he had made
his mark
He knew and recognized his pictures
hanging in the galleries. He even
made some paintings on the banks of
Lake George. but the paintings, though
good, were never Blakelocks.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

ford, who, on learning that he is
talking to the man who sho'
tNlck, turns cold and says, They.
better rot see us together Fall H..
back of me. Then we'll talk
They discuss the Homestead
strike and Berkman learns that the
strikers do not approve of his aci.
Berkman attempts to explain. But
he sees that he has failed when. at
one point, Tinford turns to him and
gives NE a searching look and
smiles at me. As we turn the cor
ner Of the walk he whispers, Too
bad you didn't kill him. Some husi-
ness Misunderstanding chg he adds
aloud.
"Could he be serious, wonder.
Does he only pretend? He faces
straight ahead and I am unable TO
see his expression. begin the
careful explanation had prepared.
Jack, it was for you, for your
people that 7
"Impatiently. angrily h. inter-
rupts me. I'd better be careful not
to talk that way in court, he warns
me. If Frick should die. I'd hang
myself with such CAB And it
would only harm the steel workers,
They don't believe in killing; they
respect the law. OF course, they had
a right to defend their homes and
families against unlawful invaders.
But they welcomed the militia to
Homestead. They showed their re-
spect for authority. But the mill
workers will have nothing to do with
anarchists. What did | want to kill
him for, anyhow? ! did not belong
to the Homestead men. 1t was none
Of my business. had better not say
anything about it in court, Or
Berkman passes a sleepless night
He is not understood" This Tim
ford, of whom he has made a hero"
is actually going TO lie in court about
what he did
"The very thought is appalling"
thinks Berkman. 1T is sacri'ege
to the holy cause. TO the people. To.
myself, too. Not that lying is to be
condemned, provided it is in the in
terest of the cause. All means are
justified in the war of humanity
against its enemies
Berkman tells of tie suffering that
great revolutionists have endured to
accomplish their missions" and
says that he would be proud to suffer
for his cause" which Tinford, "a
veritable Judas" is preparing to-
forswear, absorbed only in the sln-s
gle thought of saving himself.
Attacking Lawyers
An attack on lawyers follows
they are all members of the "bour-s
geoisie." declares Berkman, who has
decided he will accept no legal aid.
for his trial. He has also decided
that he will not talk to the report
ers. They are lying pack" is his
expressive opinion, those Journal
istic hounds of capitalism. They ais
ways misrepresent us. III
have nothing to say to them" =
:
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

neither hampered nor guided by any
particular tradition. He never had the
helping hand of a patron, nor did he
know the advice or the profitable gos-
sip of Paris or any other art school,
The tendency of the times passed by
him almost unheeded. He did not know
conventional methods or conventional
effect. The tools he used would have
surprised many an art teacher. The
brush does not appear to have been
very popular with him. His palette
knife cut and dug. He is even credited
with using skewers while perfecting
his landscapes. The paints and var
nishes he used often became inches
thick on his canvas.
"What shall l do?' collector asked
once. II found two Blakelocks had
fallen on the floor this morning"
"Why not pick them up?" some one
suggested.
But that was difficult, because the
paints in both cases had slipped by
lnelr own weight from the canvas to |
fall on the floor face downward.
There are strange experiments, they
say, among the early Blakelocks that
have been unearthed. There are pict-
ures painted on the covers of cigar
boxes and on muslins and slabs of
wood, crude compared to the final ef-
fects he obtained on his larger can
vases. His recognition is the best
proof of the success Of the art he in
vented, but he excelled in other lines !
as we'll Blakelock has worked on
other things besides the backs of hair
brushes. 1t is said he has been en-
ployed by picture postcard firm and |
he has painted designs on imitation
antique leather.
"There are three great landscape
painters in America" Harry Watrous
said once over thirty years go. they
are Innes, Wyant and Blakelock"
Fabulous Prices
They laughed when he said Blake
lock. They were mistaken, as is best
proved by the fabulous prices for which
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

Blakeock sells to-day The Twenty they
NJ.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
BlakelOCk ThinkS He's W0r1d'c R;cboe+ No,
THE curtain finally failing on
the last act in the tragic drama
- Of Ralnh Albert RiakolocLo IL

THE curtain finally failing on
the last act in the tragic drama
~ of Ralph Albert Blakelock? He
is seventy-two years old now.
His figure is still straight and active.
His eye is still keen, but through his
mind still sweep the illusions that
have been with him since he was car
ried twenty years ago to the State
Hospital for the Insane, at Middle
town, a broken man, his creative
genius gone, his mind reduced to a
state of merciful miscom pre- hension of
his misfortunes.
1t was money that lost for American
art one of its most commanding fig
ures. 1t is money now that wells his
mind from the rational. For Ralph
Albert Blakelock believes he is rich.
fabulously rich.
He was rich once, but never in
worldly goods. He was endowed with
talents as few men have been. A love
of music coupled with a love and ap-
probation of the life and color of the
world he lived in have made him
master of landscape, in his way un.
excelled.
They call a picture of his "a Blake.
lock" to-day; and that greatest Of all
the left-hand compliments an artist
meets-the forger-has been putting
counterfeit Blakelocks on the market.
Twenty years ago the art of Blake
lock went unrecognized, if his few
friends are excepted. When the mind
that conceived and executed "Moon-
light" and "The Pipe Dance" and
'The Indian Encampment" broke under
the strain Of privation and disap-
pointment, the world passed over the |
news thoughtlessly.
Few if any thought of Blakelock as
a rich man of his generation or
mourned the utter bankruptcy of
genius.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
In Jail

We next find "our hero" in jail.
lie tells of his sufferings and tor
menting thirst; how he is taken
before the warden, who asks oues-
tions interminably and threatens
him with many unknown forms of
dire punishment; of his talks with
the different prisoners, who gossip
glibly about their achievements"
and ask each newcomer pertinently
watcher in fer"
Berkman meets in Jail one Jack
Tinford, one of the steel workers,
who is in Jail temporarily for
some trouble arising from the
strike, Tinford being one of the
strikers. He is eager to discuss
with this striker his attempt to kill
Frick. He is certain that Tinford
will be sympathetic. He meets Tin
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

cullar sensation about my eyes.
1--we lost my glasses | remarked,
involuntarily.
You'll be damn lucky if you don t
lose Your head, an officer retorts."
That is Berkman's story of his
attempted murder told in his own
words.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Pickering,

1t is Pickering, ftful light now,
the genius of Blakelock, which his
friends have been struggling to re-
vive during the last three years. The
man himself is back in the State Hos
pital for the Insane, bending wires for
jewelry and sometimes painting pict-
ures which are not and probably never
will be "Blakelocks." His picture of
THE Pipe Dance" however, Is hang
ing in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. His moonlight" has been pur-
chased for $4,000 A room of his
paintings recently on exhibition we're
valued at s350,000. Blakelock became
famous, but Blakelock was no longer
Blakelock. Unprotected, he had strug-
gled in a world that had scant SYM
pathy for struggling artists. He was
worsted, and his wife and his nine
children were left in poverty. Fame
found Blakelock too late to be ap-
preciat-d, too late for him ever to
reap any of fames rewards.
That was the irony of Blakelock's
struggle. His work was crowned with
success, and yet Blakelock was defeat
ed. The son of New York physician,
born in 1847, he decided he would not
follow the profession of medicine. He
had fondness for music. There are
many stories of how he took up paint
ing. One thing, however, is sure.
Blakelock had no teachers. His style
and his methods he taught himself,
as he invented them and worked them
out by experiment. A trip to the West,
they say, launched him into the peril
Gus currents of art. Then there is a
story about his working as a painter
in factory, adorning the backs of
hairbrushes and painting pictures with
his imagination in the colors that were
set before him.
He developed, at any rate, style of
marvellous Individuality. He was
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
S
Doesn't
Pay

4 WRITER in "The Touch
stone" points out that 1t is
"A not economy to buy the
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Fabulous Prices

They laughed when he said Blake
lock. They were mistaken. as is best
proved by the fabulous prices for which
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

an :: :.s ( city " ssas." ar: ss1. ss''.
4VAs it "the greatest
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
OIL old as
the Hills

Y 7HILE the so-called oil
. industry is but fifty
years old, oil has been
known for hrrdroJs of
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-06-03
Do You Need a Periscope7

Don't give up hope, even If YOU are
tiny person In II large crowd. T,
your rescue comes an adaptation OF the
pcriscope, designed specially for use IN
crowds. According to Popular Mechan
les Magazine:
at consists of case, having a mir
ror set at the proper angle at either
end. which can be extended to n length
OF two feet or more by reason OF
Il bellows connecting the two ends
With the device heightened, the mir
rors al2 exposed so that the user car
see over the heads of civwu withou,
difficulty" --.4.A~ ~sA.-siIts.s.ssn4p
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-06-03
Law on Vampires.

Some one has dug up an old anti
vampire law which indicates that
vamping was just as much in vogue In
the seventeenth century as ii is ut tho
present time. The law reads: Female
shams-A law against obtaining hus
bands under false pretense, passed b!
parliament in 17T0, enaCts: That WON
an of whatever age, rank, profession
or degree, who shall after this act i'm
pose upon, seduce and betray into
matrimony any of his majesty's sub
jects by virtue of paints. cosmetic
washes, artificial teeth. false hair. iror
stays, bolstcred hips or hgh-hee
shoes, shall incur the penalty now ir
force again the marriage under such
circumstances upon conviction of the
offending parties shall be null anC
void"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-06-03
DIDN'T SEE MUCH OF FIGHT
Rider on Elephant Attacked by Ieop-
ard Chiefly Occupied In Stick
lnq TO His Seat.

A scene that to the spectator might
have been ludicrous, but that to the
man who took leading part proved
more exciting than amusing. Is de-
scribed by G. f. Gouldsbury.
He was travelling through an Indian
jungle when leopard sprang out and
seized the elephant on which he was
riding by the trunk. Mr.. Gouldsbury
had no time to think-much less to
raise his gun.
what happened Immediately after
ward" he says, II never could quite
tell, for during the next few minutes
i was not in position favorable for
observation. All I can remember is
that our movements were extremely
rapid and Irregular, bringing me mt
times dangerously close to the leopard
which still retained his hold.
"The elephant, In Its efforts to rid
itself of the tenacious brute, was dane
ing about with an agility strangely at
variance with Its otherwise solemn and
dignified appearance. Fortunately. the
tuSsle did not last long, and the next
thing i remembered was seeing the
leopard hurled violently back into the
jungle, where 1t lay, fully exposed to
view, growing savagely, but showing
no intention of renewing the struggle
"The elephant stood quiet for n mo-
ment, and, taking advantage of the
opportunity, put a bullet through
the lcopard's head; then, forcing the
elephant quickly through the scrub,
made good the distance between us.
From life in the Indian Police"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-06-03
Yet Another.

The number Of proposed undersea
tunnels is increasing every day. Al
ready To that undo the Straits of
Dover has been added the suggestion
for one under the Irish channel And
now comes Colonel RubIO Bellve.
who has obtained permission from the
Spanish government to carry out the
preliminary soundings with view to
connecting Spain with Morocco by
tunncling the Straits Of Gibraltar. The
proposal Is that the new tunnel should
sink west Of Tarifa and come to the
surface again east Of Tangier. This
would make IT, roughly, some twenty
miles long, which is within three
miles Of the greatest breadth Of the
straits. a breadth which varies from
eight and half to twenty.three miles
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-06-03
The Man Who Cvercame.

Men with weak eyes will remember
that Theodore Roosevelt had weak
eyes all his life and became success
full hunter, an omnivOrous reader and
a keen naturalist. Men with defec-
tive hearing will remember that Theo-
dOre Roosevelt lost the use of one of
his ears and could still distin-
guiSh the calls of birds and lead
a people magnificently. Men strlck-
en with pain will remember that once
Theodore Roosevelt worked at his
correspondence until he tainted and
the couch on which he lay was
drenched with blood. Cripples will
hear the word that Theodore Roose-
welt spoke when a physician told him
In the last month OF his life that he
might be confined TO his chair the
rest OF his days. "All right! can
live that way. too"
The millions will remember the In
spring leader; but few with ter
rOrs to face will always cherish most
the man who OverCame. Herman
Hagedorn in Carry on.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-06-03
Airplane Prospecting.

The airplane IL destined to be OF
enormous utility In facilitating pros
pccting for and opening up minera
properties in the Andean valleys
Hydroplanes can fly from the Pacifi,
to the upper waters of the Amazor
in few hours, while there are good
landing places for planes on many o,
the snow fields OF the higher Andes
which have never yet been explored
The airplane is almost ideal fol
transporting precious metals, wher,
the value Is high In proportion
to weight and bulk, and the time-sav
ing is so important as well as the safe
ty from robbery. Already plans are
under way TO use planes in Peru aDt
Colombia.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-06-03
~S1S"'''- Spuds.

II Is 10 the land allotment holder,
remarks writer In Popular Mechan-
les magazine, that Great Britain Is
looking for assistance in the food stu
alton, particularly as regards the sup
ply OF potatoes.
at is planned to increase the num-
ber of allotments from 100000 to
2.OOO.OOO by the next planting season.
At the present time there is only about
one allotment to every ten or twelve
families. hut by taking advantage G:
a large amount OF land that has been
growing up in weeds II is hoped to
have this mp TO one allotment for ev-
cry five families. There are, even
now s,-eral cases where there Is a
plot for every three, and in one or
two eases every two households"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-06-03
Guardian of the Royal Mint.

An important guardian of the royal
mint in London, where golden pounds
and silver coins are made, is big.
brown-coated terrier. He was taken
to the mint as puppy. and was well
trained to his work. His duties do not
begin until evening. Then he turns
out with the guard and remains on
patrol throughout the night. He goes
everywhcre-intO the big places where
the officer on duty accompanies him;
into the little places capable Of hid
ing someone. where policeman could
not enter. He knows his time and his
beats, and after n certain hour he
will not permit the presence of any
one In the mint who is not In police
mans uniform.