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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-09-29

America opened hostilities with Ger
many, Nolan, 80 years old, tried to en-
list. ) He was refused enlistment be-
cause Of his age, but he went to
Canada and took OH with the Dominion
forces. Following severe service IN
France, he was invaded to d hospital
at Folkestone, England, where ne
suffered from shellshock, influenza and
,,jaundice all at the same time. He was
held there for almost year.
When he reached Seattle in 1919 he
was so weak that he could not lift
his hand to shave himself. He en-
tered the University Of Washington
for vocational education in December
1919.
Nolan's remarkable accomplishments
in J. collegiate intelligence tests have
been announced to the country. Com
;peting with four professors, he
answered. without error GO questions
I'm 90 seconds while the, brightest OF
the professors answered but 81 In 30
minutes. Due to his ability, Nolan Is
finishing q four year complete course
lin 1S months.
The intellectual giant. below the
average physically. is Il native of Wex-
ford, Ireland. He is a member OF
Ralnier-NobIe post, the American
Legion, in Seattle. ,s. =. -:
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BEMlDU TOWNSHIP 1

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f Rasmus Halvorson, who sold his
farm here last spring has gone to
Norway to visit his aged mother.
He sailed from New York via the
orwegian-American line on board
the Bergensfjord on September 8. He
expected to arriv4 in Norway on
September IS.
E. Getchell has installed a modern
water system in his new barn.
MIR. H. Gunsalus is having mod
ern house built on his farm facing
the Babcock highway. This highway
will be completed IA miles south
from Bemidji next year, according to
word of surveyors who worked re-
Gently on the lines.
Alfred Moen and Walter Larson
served on the petit jury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Boyer are re-
joicing over the arrival of a baby
daughter born September Is. Mr..
Boyer is president of the Bemidji
Township Farmers club.
There was considerable excitement
in the neighborhood of the airplanc
disaster Saturday morning. The boys,
especially, found a ,really-truly-
smashed-to-bits flying machine right
at ZONE most interesting.
The Bemidji Township Farmers
club will not meet Saturday.
Several individuals of this township
drew blue ribbons at the Northern
Minnesota Fair for thoroughbred
stock entered and the Better Far
mers' club, many of whose members
reside here, also took prize.
When fella comes home at noon
after the folks have been away from
the. place all mornin' and he finds
that some poor man has run out of
oil and helped himself to yourn and
has left the coin to. pay for it right
on the oilcan, why it makes you for
get all about the berry thieves last
summer and the skunk that took the
chickens and the ones that snoop
around the place and pick up what
ever they can lay hands on and it
makes you stand straight and take
a deep breath and see all the purity
colors outdoors and want to pay youl
church dues and get right after them
spuds and it makes you think it's a
purity good old world to live in after
all with some honest folks in it, 3.
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C. C. Smith and sons, Cleon, Ruel
and Fuel, and daughter attended the
fair at Bemidji Wednesday and re-
ported it the finest ever held at Be-
midi. .a.' -'>.@. ~. <. t'5>'ls ? :
Mr.. and Mrs. Norris and F. Their
iult took in the fair at Bemidji Tues
day and they sure, were more than
paid for their trip. ~ i,
The Up and Go class were enter
tanned at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilson Friday evening. Many games
were played and delicious cake and
coffee were served at late hour.
Mrs. Wilson entertained the Kitichi
Union Sewing Circle Thursday after
noon. Much work was accomplished
and fine lunch Of cake, cream putfs
and coffee was served. -. ~
Johnnie Tombs and family are ex-
pected to move up this week from
Cass Lake. They will move on their
farm at Goodland. We are glad to
welcome them back. among us. w r
Mr.. and Mrs. Houge and two little
sons; Robert ,Wynore and Dora Col
bourn dined on COOS" and cranberries
at the J. F. Mahoney home, Sunday.
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They said the goose and ground
cherry pie went fine together.
Mrs. c.. Mahoney will entertain
the Kitichi Sewing Circle October 8.
Everybody welcome.
Ben Eek, cook at the pickle sta.
ton here, visited the fair at Bemidji
and enjoyed it in every way. 1t was
better than he had expected to see.
Mrs. Clark rturned Monday from
the hospital after very critical oper-
alton nearly three weeks ago. She
looks fine and has gained several
pounds in weight. We are all very
glad.
Cleon Smith expects to leave Oc-
tober 3 for Crookston to attend the
agricultural college at that place
Cleon is,a very fine boy and we wish
him success in his undertaking.
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Il DEER LAKE \

Mrs. l.. Saunders of Three Rivers,
Quebec, is visiting with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Elliott.
Thursday the Deer Lake school
was closed and pupils and teacher
spent the day at the fair.
J. F. Hayes, Mr.. and Mrs. M.
Djonne and family attended the fair
at Bemidji Thursday. .xs .~ sr
Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott and son Mar
vim and Miss Void attended the fair
Thursday. ~ .,.''., 4 <. g.. T." r. '-.1s,
Mrs. Agnes Mckee, former resi-
dent of this vicinity, is visiting Old
friends. S.... 5'@s.'~t,y IT, = = y *
| Mrs. Z. Anderson, Mrs. Katie An
derson, Mass Agnes Mckee, Mrs.
Saunders. ,irs. George w. Elliott
and Mr.. and Mrs. P. Elliott called
at J. Tisdeli's Sunday. 81 H'.r ~
Mrs. Elliott Mrs. Saunders and
Miss Void spent Sunday in Bemidii
Miss Void spent Sunday at the
Church home. ...s.T7 - n tss'
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served as Il yeoman f, first class in
the bureau Of navigation at Washing
ton, where she knew all about salt
water craft, at least from the pictures
and records. 1t may have been there
that she learned the fine points Of
driving the rocky skiffs through the
water fast enough to shame the best
of the gobs who competed against her
In the water carnival.
II believe that a girl can paddle her
own canoe. too, literally and figura-
lively" Miss Meter says. She was
one Of the organizers of the Benton
Harbor post of the American Legion
and in the race the Legion colors flew
from her winning craft.
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ing the birth Of a son, cried:- "Hooray,
I'm another father" H.
/ Chaplain MacLane was wounded
while tssky plotting" the Thirty-seventh
'!!divlsion fn the Meuse-Argonne often
tSsive. Returning to Toledo after the
war he Joined the Harry e. Kern post
;of the American Legion and they at
once elected him chaplain. He also is
chaplain of the Lucas County (Ohio)
council Of the Legion and Of the follow
ling other organizations: Soldiers
class of the Toledo Scottish Rite !;
!!Thirty-seventh Division Veterans as
ISOLATION; Second regiment, Ohio Ma
itional Guard, and Toledo chapter, Dis
'.abled Veterans of the World War.
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MI. and Mrs. Peter Lund and FAM
lily entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Axel
Sorenson and sons Carl Eand Mauritz
last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Holem and chill
dren were callers Sunday at the home
of Mrs. Lars Myre.
Mrs. Rugsvan, who has been work
ing for Mrs. Myre,s left Friday for her
home. ta' Et5
Mrs. G.. Petri and son John were
callers on Mrs. Lars Myre Sunday.
Mrs. Myre is getting along as well as
can be expected, and her many
friends are looking for her recovery.
Peter Lund transacted business in
Bemidji Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Klasen were
callers iii Bemidji Monday ~ +
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To Honor General Ward.

Americans in China will make pill
grimages to the grave Of Gen. Fred
erick Ward, the American, on Memo
rial day hereafter, the custom being in
stituted this year by the American
Legion, post Of Shanghai. While the
Civil war was being fought In Amer
lea, General Ward, under commission
of the Chinese government, organized
what afterwards was known to the
Chinese as the Ever Victorious Army"
and suppressed the great TAPPING re-
bellion. While directing his attack on
the town OF Tsz III, the American, for
merly an officer on a Chinese gunboat,
was killed at the head of his troops.
The Chinese erected monument to
Eita.at Sungklang, where he fell.
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family spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Everett Mills.
Mrs. j. G., Hoglin called on Mrs.
H.. H. Tiara Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. George Gregg called on Mrs.
j. w. Heggie Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. II. Tiara called at
the George Grubbs home Sunday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Stillwell and
children were Bemidji shoppers Fri
day. Xxx. 4. \. ,.@
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IFS a dangerous
contender for the
champion "sky pi-
lot" belt.
d, Every time an
other organization
elects him chap
lain, he says he
feels like Bob
Fitzimmons, the
form err worlds
Heavyweight. who,
after receiving. a
telegram annOunc-
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SHE'S DRY LAND SAILOR ACE
michigan Girl Prize Winner in Canoe
Carnival Served as Woman
F,sEirst Glass.
! The standing joke that the wartime
,Yeomanette could not tell the difference

between n schOon-
err and q ScOw
loses its tan &
when one cOnsid-
ers Miss Ethelyn
Meter, a >sO-called
dry-land sail or,
who won a prize
In the recent
canoe carnival at
Belle Isle, De-
trOit, Mich.
Miss Meter Of
p1~&~ T" -
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! over fifty years ago a young phys
ician practiced widely in Penrsylva.
MIA and became famous for his uni.
form SUCCESS in the curing of disease.
This was Dr.. r. v. Pierce who after
wards established himself in Buffalo,
N. Y. and placed his Golden Med
ical Discovery" in the drug stores of
j the United States. When you feel
rundown, out of sorts, bluo and de-
.spondent try tho encrgizing influence
OF Golden Medical Discovery in tablet
or liquid form. Nearly q million
bottles were sold last year. #:
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LEGION MAN HOLDS RECORD
Former Lumber Jack Who Put Col.
n lege Professors to Flight In
Intelligence Test.
I Positions as instructor in philos.
iophy, bacteriology and English have

been z Oftereu by
several large uni
versities Of the
west to Michael j.
Nolan, S cattle
Wash, before the
war a lumberjack,
during it a sapper
in the Royal En-
gineers and after
it a patient In
army hospitals for
40 weary weeks.
Shortly a ker
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!, LIBERTY

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Liberty was well represented at
the county fair held at Bemidji last
week. l.. O. Myre, received on his
Minnesota No. % corn the first prize
also the sweepstakes. - = E.'s -,
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'How Difficult It Is to Keep Vanity
Under Harness of the Intellect
By GEN. DAWES, in journal of the

One changes his mind as information changes,
provided that information alters the foundation Of
correlated facts upon which opinion must always be
builded. But we must be guided by facts.
1t takes more than reason to bend national pride.
Necessity must also exist, =sass
Now that the pressure Of emergency is over I
have to spur myself to work believe am naturally
inclined to Incidence when off red hot stove. The
merely spectacular in life will lack description.
The history of this war will be written around
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Mr.. and Mrs. John Luschen were
Bemidii callers Friday 4. - & T.
R. +. Wilson was Bemidji shopper
Saturday. H.. .' IT,. .
Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Heggie, daugh=
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SEVERAL JOBS AS CHAPLAIN
Toledo (O.) Divine Is Much in Demand
With Veterans and Other
: Organizations.

Chaplain for six different organiza-
uions. Rev. Fl. r. MacLane. Toledo, O..
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02
wreck WAS TRIED
Two Men Held FOIIowingMichi-
gan Train Crash.
Three SerioufHy Injured-Track
Was Tempered With.

Detroit, Mich, Aug. with one of
the most disastrous, railroad wrecks
and collisions in recent years averted
narrowly, two men were under arrest
today on suspicion of having wrecked
the 12:45 westbound Michigan Cen
trail all-Pullman train at Inkster.
Railroad detectives and police found
that the fish plates" binding together
the tracks. had been removed at the
spot where the engine was derailed.
Officials of the Michigan Central
here stated that they believed that a
malicious attempt had been made to
wreck the train. Spikes had been re-
moved and the rails tempered with,
they said.
Three persons, an engineer and fire
man, and Andrew E. Baumstark, a
passenger of Atlanta, Ca, were in
jured.
One hundred passengers were hurled
from thier perths when the train left
the tracks. The engine toppled over,
pinniug the engineer and fireman be-
meath the wreckage.
The engineer, Robert Block, OF
Jackson, Mich, pinned beneath his
call, laughed and joked with rescuers
as they cut the steel away from him
with acetylene torches. It took more
than three hours to release him.
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KANSAS L1vEsrocK MARKET.

1900: beef steers and yearlings, steady TO
weak Top heavy steers and yearlings,
$3.50; bulls and fat she stock steady to 2oe
medium and good kinds, $4.00@500; good
cutters, S3.0003.25; Gamers steady mostly,
s2,25Q2250; calves steady to soc lover, most
feeders steady to higher; fleshy kinds,
sI.6o4s25; stoekers and other feeders
mostly steady, bulk stockers, $5.0o05.75.
HOGS-Receipts 10000. Market gen.
orally steady to 10c higher than yester-
days average Best lights and mediums to
shippers, $11.25; 240 to 275 Founders, 5000
Clio; bulk of sales, $1O.50@11.15; pack
ers, top, &1:2o; packing, sows steady to
2oe lower; pigs steady, closing weak
SHEEP-Receipts 1000. Sheep market
strong. best light ewes, $500; lambs strong
to 25c higher; natives, $500; Colorado,
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New York. Aug, 2.-STOCKS-Price
were higher on the stock exchange today
when trading was begun at O'Clock after
a postpOnement of three hours on account
of fire. Dealings were diversified and more
active, the market apparently reflocting
more optimistic feeling. Shares which
were conspicuous in yesterdays rise were
again absorbed freely, especially sugar,
equipments, steel and gas groups at ad-
vances of 1 to 11a points. Oils, textiles, tire
and high grade railroads also were in de-
mand. The renewal rate for call money
was marked up to 8 per cent. Quotations
of leading foreign remittances were not
essentially changed from yesterdays final
figures, altho marks exhibited 9 lower
tendency.
Trading became confused later, specu-
lators taking profits hastily in spots
when weakness developed in a half dozen
specialties. Harvester, United Drug, Chand-
Ter Motor and Central Leather fell q point
each. Elsewhere the better class of stocks
were pretty we'll sustained, strength shown
by dividend paying railroads like Northern
Pacific, Great Northern, Louisville & Nash
vile and 500 having a sustaining effect
Minor motors and the high paid tobacco
shares were especially strong.
United Drug extended its loss to four
points but there was an increased demand
for railroads and steels which carried the
list strongly upward. The closing was
strong. Sales Appropriated 100000 shares.
Prices of stocks made good Roadway to-
day as the result of favorable technical
conditions and investment buying Of rail-
roads.
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in which the noted tenor's name fig
ures since he first sang in New York
revealed an amazing versatility In
sixteen years he sang no less than $40
times, in one season, 1907-08 making
fifty-one appearances, a great test OF
sparing. if not reckless, of his vocal
powers. No grand opera tenor in
America, from the days OF Brignoli,
Campanini, Ravelli, Tamagno and Jean
de Reszke, it is recorded, ever reigned
so long In popular favor.
Had Throat Troubles.
Caruso, after his strenuous opera
seasons, sometimes had trouble with
his throat, which he usually overcame
with little rest and care, and at GER
tain intervals rumorS that "Caruso will
printed. In the winter of 1920, how
ever, he suffered a serious affliction
when a small blood vessel in his throat
burst while he was singing in "E'lisis
d'Amore" in the Brooklyn Academy of
Music. Recovered from this mishap,
Caruso was stricken with pleurisy.
During his tndisposition, CarHso was
the object of devoted attention by his
wife. formerly Miss Dorothy Benjamin,
of New York. whom he carried in
1918. One child was born to them.
Caruso had son by former wife,
a singer named Ada Ciachetti, with
whom he had been associated in opera
at Treviso and Bologna.
Caruso's repertoire in America in
cluded the following: (ItalianA sstAida.'
"Rigoletto,' la Boheme," "LAfri-
CAME" la Favorita," La Somnhn-
bulG," la Trayiata,' Les Hugue-
nots," Fedora" "Adrienne Le-
couvreur," 'sCavallieria Rusticana,' q
"PagHacci," '.LAmore del tire Re-
"Un Ballo in Maschera," "Lodoletta,
Marta" ''L'Elisir d'Amore," Manor
Lescaut," Madame Butterfly LA
Fanciulla del West" Lucia di Lam
mermoor." La Gioconda," ''I Trova-
tore" Don Giovanni" "Germania,'
Iris" "Lucrezia Borgia," "Tosca,
La Fora del Destino." (French)
LES Pecheurs de Perles," 'Armide,'
Faust Julien lie Prophetic
rCarmen." Samson ct Della" ane
"Manon."
The famous singer was the guest OF
honor at a silver jubilee celebration
on the twenty-fifth anniversary of hi:
operate debut, in November, 1919, a
the Metropolitan at which prominent
New Workers, including the mayor and
other officials. spoke of his grea'
artistic achievements. He received
an illuminated parchment from thi-
ty-five families holding boxes in tht
100000 Golden Horseshoe" a flae
from the city of New York, severa
mccall, and numerous gifts from hi!
fellow artists.
Ne and Mrs. Caruso resided in New
York City during the opera season
Thev had a summer home on LonE
! Island and another residence, VILE
allie Panche, at Florence, Italy.
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IF WSsxsqaTEa niHsLf PSs eises Is. .oa5.
BEETS-Home grown, per doz. ounenes'
&C ciABBAGE-colorado. crate lots. Per
CARRoTs-Home grown. per oo@-
cAULIFLowER-Per 10 rs
S eTnSGEtNlNBsjEsRsLgg5 b1. basket SITS; Kaw
Valley, per Is Blu. basket 10.
ONfoNs-Red Globe, per y. %; Mhi b
Globe. per ib. o5; Yellow GLOBE per ID
poTAroEs-Kaw Valley, sack lots, per
cwt $l;Go; 10 sack lots per ewt; n S.0o crate
$3.50; per doz. $1-35-
PEPPERs-Red hot, per h. 40.
RHUBARB-Home grown. per 10; o.
roM 6sTss IotH psr b srHwa basket
TURNIPs-Home grown bulk per ID
Ici1pER-Red wing. per case of 8 1-rallon
VSSiINGER GLE-Beech Nut. per case Ss.o5.
GRAPE JUICE-Welch's and Red Wing,
quarts. IL to the case, per case $40; pints.
to to fne c Sase p per case sas ss gallons
the case. per case SO 90 plus i0edwar tax
HORSEAADISH-Per carton. doz bot
ties hef,,s 1 no. per s ssFtpn 0ne-naH CANON
OYSTER SHELL-Per sack. s1.6a.
observation-disclosures assorted. per
doz. 24-I8 or Jars, in case $500: three case
dos s2 ds. sE So case SIS SIS per do'
vINEGAR-Pure cider. approximately 50
gal barrel, per gal "a: distilled. colcred,
approximately. 50 gal. barrel, pei. gal
%; distilled white. approximately 50 gal.
s sGs s2S'' distilled full quarts per 'o'-
POP CoRN-Japanese hull-Iess. $50 Id.
bags, per lb. 90.
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inch and from that place north and
west no rain was reported. Nnl:e fell
as far west as Phillipsburg.
The highest temperature ever re-
corded at Topeka on this date was 102
in 1918 and the 10 est was 54 IN 1889.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon the wind
was blowing at the rate of eight miles
an hour from the north.
Heat Wave Claims Three.
Kansas City, Aug. 2.-The heat
wave claimed three victims here yes
terday, it became known today. Altho
the mercury registered high mark of
only SO during the day, the humidity
was intense. Those stricken were:
Robert Grew, Al, a carriage painter;
William Murra, 81, a city employe, and
Jesse Barber, So years old, a negro.
Good Rain at Hutchinson.
Hutchinson, Kan, Aug. 1.-THE
rainfall for last night measured .7S of
an. inch.
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ENRICO CARUSO'S
tccn.inusd from Page One,

fCcntinned from Page One.I
drift back to this country that he
would not sing again before the
American public in his old voice. Ca
denial of these reports, declaring that
when I want to show have not lost
my voice I shall do SO at the proper
time and place"
Early this month word came from
Italy that Caruso was not recovering
as rapidly as had been expected and
seemed depressed, but friends de-
clared his voice was returning and
that he sang a short time each day.
Made Debut in 1894.
Enrico Caruso, for more than
twenty-five years celebrity in the
world of song, the tenor with 1.-The
golden voice." idolized by millions in
America and abroad, had an artistic
career as well known as that of any
famous statesman or military leader.
He was born in Naples, Italy, Febru-
russo, a mechanic. who detested music
but was persuaded to permit his son,
when IL years old, to sing in the
churches of his native city. An I'M
promising pupil, for three years he
studied under Guglielmo Vergine,
for professional career he should
pay him one-quarter of his earnings
for the following five years
He made his debut in Il AMIGO
francesca" at the Nuovo theater,
Naples, in 1894, later toured Italy and
sons at La Scala, Milan. Subsequently
he sang in St. Petersburg. Moscow,
Warsaw, Rome, Lisbon, Paris, Lon
don and leading cities of Germany.
When he came to the Metropolitan
opera house in New York on Novem-
into ecstacies over him. One of them
wrote, on the opening night: "Signor
Caruso Gas the Duke in 'Rigoletto')
has many of the tiresome Italian vo-
cal affectations and when he neg
lects to cover his tones, as he always
does when he becomes strenuous, his
voice becomes pallid.'
Received PrinceIy Salary.
1t is interesting to observe that
when Caruso made his Naples debut
he sang the title role four times, for
which he received 100 francs, a pair
of stage shoes a suit of fleshings and
a neckerchief. Some years later
Maurice Grau, the impresario, nego-
tiated with him to sing in America
for 500 a month, but Thought the
salary excessive and the deal fell thru.
Grau was quick TO perceive the op-
portunity he had lost and finally en-
gagged Caruso for fifty performances
! at $1,000 a night. But Mr.. Grau be-
came i'll and Caruso, when singing in
Lisbon. received word that again he
must abandon his hope of singing in
America. Heinrich Conried, who fol-
| lowed Mr.. Grau at the Metropolitan,
however, cabled Caruso an offer to
cross the Atlantic and his ambition at
last was realized.
Altho no official statement of his
earnings was ever made public, 1t is
! known that CaruSO. at the height of
| his Metropolitan career, was receiving
an average of $4,000 for each per-
Torrance. On special occasions, such
as his 1920 season in Havana, he was
paid $4,000 a night.
The list of italian and French operas