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The New York herald., 1922-07-23
Authors Works
And Their WAYS

Georges Carpenter is making his
debut on the screen in London in a
dual role as gypsy nobleman hero
of romance of Bath in the heyday
of Beau Nash. The film, called
Loves April" is taken from the
novel my Lady April" by John
Overton. 1t will be published here
in August by Stokes.
Doubleday. Page & Co. have ac-
Quired from Harper & Bros. the
rights to Don Marquis's first book
of poems, Dreams and Dust" which
will now appear on their lists with
Marquis's other books, Poems and
Portraits" 1.-The Old Soak and Hail
and Farewell" and "Sonnets to a
Red Haired Lady and Famous Love,
Affairs"
Anthony Pryde, who has pub.
lished within short period five.
novels, Jenny Essenden," Mar
queray's Duel "Nightfall.' AN
Ordeal of Honour" and "The Purple,
Fearl," is to have new book in
October, the title of which is Clair.
de Lune." Clair de Lune is not the.
name of character in the book but
is the title given to an opera. the
composition of which figures largely
in the story.
new and complete edition of
the writings of Jens Peter Jacobsen,
whose "Niels Lynne" was published
in translation last year by Double
day, Page & Co., is now being pre-
pared by Gyldendals. The edition
is to include all of his letters,
sketches, first drafts aud unpub-
lished poems. individuals who have.
Jacobsen's letters are asked to send,
them in, the guarantee being given
by the Dansk Sp 'og-og- -Literaatur-
selskab that they will be returned,
in perfect condition.
The New York herald., 1922-07-23

Quoting a kind of poll, the result OF
which is presented in the current
issue. The editor of a prominent
London daily asked the editor of
the Digest to write an article on the
subject. The latter decided that
the subject was one likely to inter-
est his own readers, but felt that
the answer should represent the
composite views of many authori-
ties rather than an individual
choice. So QUESTIONABLE was pre-
pared and fifty-six copies of the
letter embodying it sent out
twenty-six to the literary advisers"
of various publishing houses, eight
without specification of the individ-
ual to the editor Of authoritative
publications, twenty-five to specific
individuals whose names occur fire.
quently as contributors to the public
press as literary critics, as column
nists, as reviewers and as editors.
Thirty-three replies were received.
THE response to the question
L naire shows such diversity
of opinion that the matter seems
to be just about as unsettled as it
was before Only one name appears
in majority of the answers, that
Of Joseph Hergesheimer, who re-
ceives twenty-five votes. Following
him is Eugene O'Neill with fourteen
votes; then come Sherwood Ander-
son with thirteen, Villa Sibert
Gather with twelve, and the fifth
place is divided between Robert
Frost and James Branch Cabell,
who each receives eight. That, as
result, is the Literary Digest's
five, or rather six. But there were
forty-five other names mentioned.
Seven votes were cast for Edgar
Lee Masters and six each for Sin
clair Lewis and Edna st. Vincent
Millay. Carl Sandberg, Henry Van
Loon and Edwin Arley Robinson
received five votes apiece, Scott
Fitzgerald and Amy Lowell four
each and John Dos Passos and Don
Marquis three votes each. In the
two ballot list are Ernest Poole,
Sara Teasdale, Mary s. Watts, Dor
othy Garfield, Haywood Broun.
Vachel Lindsay and H. L. Mencken,
and those receiving one vote are
Conrad Aiken, Waldo Frank, Z. T..
Cummings, Zona Gale. T. S. Eliot,
Don Byrne, Melville Davisson Post.
Thomas Beer, Peter B Kyne, Ran
dOlph Bourne, Dorothy Parker,
George Santayana. Ben Ames Will
Jams, Edna Ferber, James Oliver
Curwood, Fannie Hurst, Ring Lard
ner, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Chris
topher Morley, Maxwell Bodenheim.
William Ellery Leonard, r. H.
Holiday. Edward Box, Hugh Wiley,
Ruth Suckow and Ben Hecht.
The New York herald., 1922-07-23
ers" and was about to publish Con
jurer's House."

CIS dHu WdS duOul " PUBLISH OOu-
jurer's House."
CINCLAIR LEWIS was a dodder-
~ ing old man of thirty-odd when
main Street" appeared to take the
country by storm, but before actual
senility had descended upon him
he had published such novels as
"Mr. Wrenn," Free Air" and His
Wife's job" No one could possibly be
SO young as Scott Fitzgerald seems
in This Side of Paradise" and "The
Beautiful and Damned"-the flip
pancy carries no thought of dis
paragement, but is meant in genu-
inc appreciation of Mr.. Fitzgerald's
high talent-and Fitzgerald was
Princeton vintage of 1917. Owen
Johnson's first novel, Arrows of
the Almighty" was written when he
was an undergraduate at Yale. He
really began before that, for while
schoolboy at Lawrenceville, where
he was the editor of the laurence
Uille Literary Magazine, he was
more or less consciously gathering
the material that went to the
making of "The Eternal Boy" "The
varmint," "The Tennessee Shad"
and "The Humming-Bird."
JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER, now
= deservedly ON the high tide of
success, may seem well on in years
to the eyes of extreme youth. AS
a matter of fact he is in his young
middle age. 1t was only yesterday
that he emerged from comparative
obscurity. For seventeen years be-
fore he had been writing fine but
unappreciated novels. Inciden-
tally, have you read the reprints of
"Tubal CAIN" wild Oranges" and
"The Dark Fleece" recently issued
in single volumes by Knopf?) The
other day an English review re-
ferred to Floyd Dell as one of the
American writer's still in his TWEEN
ties. He is not quite as young as
that, but he is still young enough
to be able to regard moon Calf"
and The Briary Bush," excellent
as those books are in quality, as
experimental novels, and to turn
his face resolutely to the building
for the future"
ON the other hand some of the
" books of all time that have
proved most enduring have been
written by men of ripe years. The
fruit of Balzac's literary activity
in his twenties, though abundant,
was practically worthless. Though
burned out by excessive toll and the
inordinate drinking of coffee, when
he died at little past SO he was
just swinging into his literary
stride. Thackeray was practically
literary hack, having his work
slashed ruthlessly to suit editorial
convenience, until, when nearing
40, he found himself, in the pas
sage which told that, after the
battle of Waterloo, mo more firing
was heard in Brussels. the pursuit
rolled miles and miles away; and
Amelia was on her knees, praying
for George, who was lying on his
face, dead. with a bullet through his
heart"
DUT there were others who had
- to wait even later for the full
fillment of their hopes. Samuel
Richardson was past SO before
achieving success. The first part
of Pamela" was written in two
months of the winter of 1739-4O
and published in the latter year.
Boswell had passed so when the
work that made him immortal. his
Life of DR.. Johnson" was written.
(By the way, the very handsome
Temple Bar edition of the famous
Life" in ten volumes has just
come from the press of Gabriel
Wells for Messrs. Doubleday, Page
The New York herald., 1922-07-23
IN those stories the rivers, part.cu-


in quest of booty and the oppor-
tunity for nefarious deeds, to de-
part at break of day for estuaries
of Long Island or New Jersey. In
the vivid imagination of youth,
stimulated by these tales, the lower
East Side loomed up as mys-
terious region inhabited solely by
dangerous and pictl sesque GRIM
inals. The very name Five Points
carried with it the impression Of
gloom. Later the sinister glory of
Five Points in fiction passed on to
the Gas House District and Hell's
Kitchen.
NTHILE no one has ever attrib-
w uted literary style to the
Dime Novel" it certainly possessed
the virtue of the short sentence.
Here, for example, is sample of
the dialogue of that masterpiece of
forty years ago, Ferret, the. Man of
Million Disguises," which prob
ably is not to be found in the col
lection now being shown at the
Public Library:
Hist"
The burglars voice broke the
stiffness of the night.
who goes there?'
T."
"You?"
yes"
"The deed is done"
"Done?"
Yes, DONE"
1.-The swag?"
rs here"
"There?'
"Yes, here"
I'm the bag?"
I'm the bag"
1T is well'
'Ha! Whose voice is that?"
Whose voice."
"Yes. Who are you?"
who am I?'
"Yes, who are you?"
Ferret, the man of a million dis
guises,"
THE recent publication of will
L lam De Morgan and His Wife"
which has been reviewed in the
book section, seems to have stirred
again into life the old discussion
about authorship and age. The
astonishing feature of De Morgan's
achievement was not that in his
eighth decade he was writing
novels of the first order, but that
he began to write when a very old
man, learning a new trade, as it
were, when well along in the six
ties. Ten years before the appear
ance of Joseph Vance" George Du
Maurier had astonisked readers
while delighting them by produc-
ing, at the age of sixty or there
abouts. in quick succession Peter
Ibbetson," '"Trilby' and 1.-The
Marian" But that was not at all
the same thing. Writing the cap
tions for his illustrations in Punch
laboriOusly seeking compression
effect and the mot jusfe. had been
the very best possible training for
his new meter.
A MEXICAN writer's, with few
a exceptions, have been young
beginners. To illustrate by refer
ence to certain names of men now
conspicuously holding the atten-
ton: Booth Harrington had reached
what probably seemed to him then
the advanced age of almost thirty
before he scored, practically sim
ultaneOusly, with 1.-The Gentleman
from Indiana" and Monsieur Beau
caire."~ But before that he had
1 gone through long apprenticeship
of arduOus toll and disappoint-
ment; like his hero, John Harkless
for seven years sitting on a rail
fence in Indiana" Actually he was
The New York herald., 1922-07-23

WI HO was the Erastus Beadle
w whose name has come down
to us so closely associated with the
Dime Novel" of the SOS and '70s?
He vas born OF Revolutionary an
The New York herald., 1922-07-23

WHO are the leading figures in
w American literature who have
come to the front in the last ten
years? For the purpose of having
some light thrown on that question
the Literary Digest has been con-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-07-14
DROWNED IN LAKE.
Uric Menard Changed Seats With
Companion,-Latter Barely Saved.

Grand Island, July 14.-Ulric Me-
nard, 81, was drowned yesterday when
the boat in which he and George Yates
were fishing capsised as the men at
tempted to change seats. Yates strug-
gled desperately TO hold Menard up,
but was finally forced to let go his
hold in order to save his own life. The
body was recovered about six last
evening after men had worked all day
dragging for it.
The men were fishing not far from
the lighthouse at the Grand Isle North
Hero bridge. The water was rough
when the men were seen by DIR. Hillary
and companion, fishing from the bridge,
to attempt to exchange seats The
waves prevented Yates from securing a
firm hold on the boat, which over
turned several times He struggled
fercely to keep himself and Menard up
but was finally so exhausted by his eff
forts that in order to prevent himself
from being drowned he was forced TO
release his hold on his companion.
DIR. Hilary and the bridge keeper
succeeded in reaching the men after
they had TO 60 some distance for a
boat and reached Yates just in time to
save him from going down.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-07-14
SETTLEMENT AT sroNINGroN.
George A. Fuller Co. to Employ onl,
Union Labor.

Stonington, Me-, July IA settle.
ment Wednesday of the strike of the
quarry workers paves the way for car.
rying out the most important granite
contract which has come to this sec
tion for many years, the quarrying OF
granite for the superstructure of tho
New York municipal courthouse
The settlement was made on the part
of the union by Fred W. Suitor, inter
national secretary, with the George A
Fuller company of New York, which
will operate the J. c. Rodgers granite
plant here.
Wednesdays settlement insures un
broken relations between the contract
ors and quarrymen until April |, 1924
The bill provides for an eight hour day
with time and one quarter for over
time, and double pay for Sundays and
holidays. All men. employed in and
about the quarries to be members OF
the union. The minimum wage for
il fixed at s3 cents an hour;
for head derrick men, channel barrun-
ners, etc, 641a cents; for engineers
so, 66h and 6S1a cents; for black
smiths. rs cents; iobbing fires and
machinists, so cents; for
81 cents; for machinists
helpers, 81 cents.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-07-14
VANDALISM CHARGED.
Against the Republican Forces il
Dublin.

Dublin, July IA (By the Associated
Press Charges of vandalism are
made against the republican forces in
official statements from the headquar-
ters of the national army.
'Since the operations by the nation
al army in the south and west began,
says the state, ''the irregulars have
carried on an extensive campaign of
destruction and the seizure of private
property. The effects of this campaign
have not been to hamper materially
the operations of the army, but to in
fiict serious losses and in many in
stances occasion great hardship and
privation to the civilian population.
"The railways have been destroyed,
the roads rendered impossible and the
people driven from 5fneir homes and
vehicles and foodstuffs seized general
ly. The result of this policy in eer-
tain districts has been to wreck havoc
on the economic life of the people and
to bring the social and commercial ac-
tivity OF the community in a state of
disorder and stagnation."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-07-14
MINERS LEADERS PLAN
TO URGE REJECTION OF
THE GOVERNMENT PLAN
KILMALLOCK BARRACKS
SEIZED FROM FREE STATE
Republican Statement Says Garrison
Arms and Equipment Were
Taken.

Cork, July H. (By the Associates
Press Capture of the barracks a
Kilmallock, County Limerick, togethel
with the free state garrison, arms ane
equipment is claimed in b republican
dispatch issued at midnight.
The regular republican military
bulletin from headquarters at Clonmel
last night says the agreement cover
ing Limerick city and the Limerick
bridge area has been broken by the
free state officers who signed it, and
that fighting is progressing. The
republicans are declared TO hold the
initiative and to have reinforcements
on the way.
The bulletin gives the casualties as
six free staters killed and five
wounded republicans one killed. The
government forces are reported to have
deserted to the republican. hTe state-
ment adds:
"Our troops now surround Thurles,
in which the free staters have taken
up positions, and an early attack is
certain. Our columns are also operat-
ing around Kilkenny, the enemy not
moving out. All roads are blocked
and. combinations are now impossible
for the enemy in that area. Their men
are deserting and joining our columns,
bringing their arms. The enemy have
taken over all the banks in Kilkenny.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-07-14
GIGANTIC FRAUD
sen. MOSES ASSERTS
In Sensational Attack on Chemical
Foundation and Other.
Concerns.

Washington, d. c., July l4-chargcs
OF somewhat sensational character
against the Chemical Foundation. Inc
the f. |. DUPONT De Nemonfs com.
pany and the Textile Alliance were
made to-day in the Senate BY Sen
ator Moses, Republican, New Hamp-
shire, in prepared address in cppo-
sition to the dye embargo provision of
the administration tariff bill. He said
these organizations were three of the
factors in the gigantic fraud he was
opposing, and added
These three are significantly inter
locked in their related personnel and
in their activities; and it is they
whose subsidiaries, officers, stockhold-
ers, lobbyists, paid propagandists and
faxed and kept organizations have
been the most aggressive, avaricious
insolent of all the profteering crew
who pertinaciously push this legisls
ture.r
He declared that whatever the out
come of the government proceedings
against the chemical foundation, he
always would believe il was ''con-
ceived in conspiracy and fostsyed by
falsehood.r He charged that the con
spiracy" was formed by Francis r. Gar
van, ats president. his associates in
the Office Of alien properly custodian
and certain of the directors Of the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-07-14
ON TRAIL OF GYPsIEs.
windham County Official Arrests One
for Illegal Fishing.

Brattleboro, July l4.-About so gyp-
sizes in seven automobiles arrived in
town yesterday afternoon and several
officers at once got busy to see that
the party left town, but the gears of
one big car were stripped when the
driver, woman. shifted gears. which
necessitated leaving the car here over
night. The party was driven out
about two miles and several OF the
men began fishing in West river.
Same Warden f. H. Metsalf was
sent for by Sheriff Frank L. Wellman
and one of the men was arrested for
fishing without a license. He was
taken in an automobile to police head
quarters. his wife riding on the run
ming board and hurling cuss words at
the warden all the way. Il was seen
NJ once that the mans presence in
the lookup would mean that some of
the party would be lowering about in
the night. so the man was allowed TO
give cash bail OF $50 to the Sheriff and
was released and ordered to ioin the
rest Of the party.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-07-14
LIABILITIES
in MILLIONS
New England Oil Corpor-
alton Of Boston Is in
Trouble
RECEIVER NAMED
TEMPORARILY
Refineries Of Corporation
Are Largely in Fall
River

Boston, july IA temporary re
ceiyer for the New England Oil oor
poration Of Boston was appointed to
day by Federal Judge Mack Liza
bilities Of the corporation which has
large refineries in Fall River, were
listed at sl0,447,0 900, with ..eon 3ingent
or possible liabilities" placed at ST..
$4,000 Casper g. Bacon Of this city
was named temporary recei ter.
The principal assets are described
as the entire stock of the New Eng.
land Oil Refining company III Fall
River and part Of the stock Of the
New England Oil corporation, ltd, Of
Canada.
The Island Oil Market ompany Of
Virginia claims verdict Df sI,lGl GOO
against the corporation. A hearing as
to whether the receivership shall Le
made permanent will be neld N Jh'y
20. The petitioner was Henry S. Park
er of Maiden.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-07-14
BUILDING TRADES AGREEMENT.
Will Be Signed at Boston To-day for
One Year.

Boston, July l4--An agreement be.
tween the Building Trades Employers
association and the United Building
Trades council was to be signed at
City Hall late to-day The agreement
which was formulated after several
conferences arranged by Mayor Cur
ley, provides wage Of 81 an hour for
most OF the skilled mechanics and
SLIP w for bricklayers and plasterers.
Most Of the trades will have "A
hour week, under the new agreement.
The plasterers however, win sign for a
forty-hour schedule.
Wharf and bridge carpenters and
shop and mill men will receive 90 cents
an hour, an increase of ten cents.
Fifty-fve cents an hour will be paid
for common labor and sixty cents for
skilled labor.
The agreement will expire on April
!, 1928. Open shop conditions have
prevailed in the industry here since
the protracted strike of more than
year ago.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-07-14
EXTENSION OF
RAIL STRIKE
Stationary Firemen, En-
gineers and Oilers Go
Out July IL
"INTEND TO VIM
SAYS THEIR CHIEF
The Strike Vote Is De-
clared to Have Been 1856
Per Cent Favoring

Chicago, July l4.-A strike call t.
the 5000 stationary firemen, engineers
and oilers. Employed on railroads
throughout the United States has beer
issued, Timothy Healy, internationa
president Of the organization, an
nounced to-day.
The strike is effective next Monday
July II, at s a. m. The call was made
in compliance with the recent referen-
dunn which favored walkout, Mr.,
Heaiy said.
The text Of the message TO all lo-
Gals Of the organization follows:
sIn compliance with your strike
vote, which IL ss.6 per cent favoring o
waIkoait, sanction is hereby granted tc
each and every member OF our brother
hood on all railroads, steam plants
roundhouses and terminals, throughout.
the United States TO suspend work at
5 a. m. Monday, July IL, 1922.
s(Signed,
Timothy Heaiey,
international President. !.
Stationary firemen and oilers on sew
eral roads had already Joined in SYM
pathetic walkout with the railway shot
crafts.
I'VE are into the fight and we intend
to win,p Mr.. Healy said.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-07-14
BRINGS INJUNCTION
ON BOSTON & MAINE
Seeking to Prevent New York Central
from Getting Illegal Control Over
the Boston & Maine.

Boston, July 1.-THE annual meet
ling Of the Boston 4 Maine stockhold-
ers was postponed for the third time
to-day, after stockholders and officials
| in attendance had been served with no
tice that injunction proceedings had
been brought against the road by Ed.
mtlnd G. Goldman, a minority share
holder. Adjournment was taken until
Thursday, July "a, pending court de-.
cision on Colman's petition on which a
hearing will be conducted Tuesday in
the supreme court.
The petition seeks to restrain officers
and agents of the New York Central as
operators of the Boston & Albany and
the directors of the Boston & Maine
from carrying out an alleged scheme to
enable the New York Central to OBJ
tain illegal control over the Boston
& Maine 1t asks that certain named
officials and agents Of the two roads
be enjoined from voting at the Boston
& Maine stockholders meeting or count
ing the proxies held by them.
The petition also asks that the bal
lot already cast for the Boston Il Maine
directors by President-Jame Fl. Hustis,
George r. Wallace and Arthur b. Mich
OILS, representing the directors and
Philip Dexter, Charles r. Adam and T..
Sohier Welsh. representing stockhoid
ers Of the Boston & Maine, be declared
illegal and expunged from the records.
In the petition Mr.. Goldman charges
that conspiracy exists to have Alfred
H. Smith, president Of the New York
Central, elected chairman Of the boaid
of directors of the Boston & Maine,
with view to giving the control Of
the Boston & Maine unlawfully to the
New York Central. 1t is further charged
that majority of the directors of the
Boston q Maine have acceded to the
alleged illegal combination and that
they have obtained large numbers of
proxies from stockholders for the pur
pose of re-electing the present board of
directors at the annual meeting.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-07-14
Having Signed Agreement
with Four Unions Last
5ght
BOUGH s QUARRY
$ AT ADAMANT
Agrt g lent Is. the Same AS
1nAt Of Mafr & Cor
don, Inc.

The Steele Granite company, recently
re-organized and about to incorporate
signed bill with the cutters, polishers,
tool sharpeners and Jumpers last night
and plans to reopen its manufacturing
plant off Depot square Monday morn
ing. The company recently bought tns
Robinson q Slayton dark quarry al
Adamant, miles from Barre, and
plans to transport the stone to Barre
by motor truck
The new bill is the same as the agree.
ment made last week by the unions
with Marr 3 Gordon, Inc, and it was
signed by Ernest Carlson for the Steele
Granite company and by the secretaries
of the four unions mentioned above
Mr.. Carlson has associated with him
Alfred Williamson who viii eventually
be in charge of the manufacturing plant
in Barre, as MIR Carlson intends to de
vote much of his time to his retail
monument shop in Saratoga Springs
y. X Angus Smith, formerly employed
ON Milestone hill. is to be foreman o.
the quarry at Adamant. 1t is possible
that few Others may be taken into
the corporation.
Mr.. Carlson stated to-day that he
plans to employ about ten men in the
,utting plant in Barre although tins
,apacity of the plant is from 25 to 30,
md at the quarry he will have ten OF
fifteen men. The quarry has been oper
sted for the past four years, and Mr.
Carlson is enthusiastic about the quail
ty and color of the stone. The Steele
sranite company has been doing bust.
TESS in Barre for some years and the !.
lew owners have had considerable ex
erience in the granite business in Barre
nd elsewhere.