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The New York herald., 1922-07-02

parity lost upon the au0lenCe.
"The manager was referred to DR..
John McGaw Woodbury.. Superin-
tendent Of Street Cleaning. DIR.
Woodbury. was out and the plan was
unfolded to his assistant, Capt. Glib
son. 1t sounded real reasonable to
the Captain. and he said: All right,
the tanbark goes down.
"Dr. woodbury. was back in his
Office this morning.
"'How about that tanbark?' asked
an Evening World reporter.
} What tanbark?' asked the doc
tor.
"Tn front of the Theater Repub-
lic.'
"T don't know what you're talk
ing about said the doctor.
'Then the secretary explained
matters. Did Gibson give permits.
sion to the theater to spread the tan
bark?' the doctor queried.
"'He did, said the secretary.
"'Ahr said the doctor. I pass the
whole matter up to the Commissioner
of Public Works. There is where it
should have gone first. My business
is to clean the streets, not litter
them
George Livingstone, Commits
sioner of Public Works. listened pa
tiently.
eff the Street Department has lit
tered up the streets, why, it will have
to clean them up again. said the
Commissioner.
az have nothing to do with it
1 don't just see why the whole town
should sleep while Mrs. Campbell
acts. We might just as well put tan
bark in front of the other theatres.
If Mrs. Campbell Is looking for quiet
why doesn't she wait until she gets
to Philadelphia?
"If find the tanbark around the
theater an obstruction in the street
shall order the superintendent of
Encumbrances to remove it, said
President Cantor.
Mr.. Cantor does not actually say
he will order the tanbark TO be re-
moved, but he intimates that such a
step may be taken.
"'Capt. Gibson had the right to
grant such a request, but 1 do not
propose to get into any fight over
the matter. but the tanOark may
be scattered all over the adjacent
blocks and become a nuisance
"But Mrs. Campbell's manager did
not rest content with getting the
tanbark. He made a request to the
Metropolitan Street Car Company to
instruct it's motormen to abstain
from jangling the gongs. and to slow
up when the cars on the crosstown
lines pass the theater. This was
granted.
Then the manager requested that
Fire Chief Croker order his firemen
to mufiie the bells of the fire engines
if they should be called upon to
run by the theater. The chief said
he would have to refer the matter to
the Fire Commissioners and would
get a decision from them.
Noting the success of Mrs. Camp
bell to obtain quiet. the other ac
tresses in the city began to-day to
flood the Street Cleaning Depart
ment with letters asking for similar
favors. These letters just began to
come in at noon.
Among them were these epistles:
Dear Doctor:
~ know you are a real nice man
and are always willing to help on
poor girl. The pushcart man makes
so much noise in front of the Bijou
Theater that l cannot hear my own
jokes and am apt TO spring a chest
nut on the public. Please send seven
cars of tanbark to me by return mail.
Yours for health,
MAY IRWIN
" DIR. Woodbury.:
al think it awful mean that Mrs.
Campbell is getting all the tanbark.
Won't you please sent me 10 or Is
cents worth? l am very fond of
rest myself. Yours truly,
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
III.

There is peculiar gayety about
American women not usual in Eng
lish women. 1t may be explained by
the electricity in the air or the diff
ference in the clock-it is day here
when 1t is night there.
At a party every one is buoyant
It would be infinitely Ill hammered
to be morose. critical. silent, self-ab-
sOrbed or to appear "out of it." You
are there to be happy and TO make
others happy.
And then how they dance-and
how well they dress!
Mrs. Dana Gibson's silver legs and
her little feet-this lady always wore
silver stockings-how they twinkIed
as she tangoed or cake walked
whatever the fashionable dance was
then. Her irresistible fun. too; the
gayety of her passion when she sang
French love songs; her gravity when
she initiated an Englishwoman and
the British accent"
And the kindness of American
men!-people would have me think
American women have taught them
that: do not believe it
1 must not write all the admiration
have for the American Poppa: it
might be thought I was hard on the
American mother and daughter. {.
remember at luncheon party a
distinguished American. sitting next
TO me. suddenly looked me straight
In the eye and said: Some man has
made you unhappy: it is an insult to
your sex to allow it. and It shows a
lack of sense of humor." an
swered: do you know why God
withheld the sense OF humor from
women?" He said he could not
imagine. / Ireplied winningly: THAT
we may love you instead of laughing
at you" made the remark-it was
not original. but 1 have the credit
for it-because I disliked what I
thought his impertinent curiosity:
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
In Last Chapter
of Memoirs Eng
lish Actress De-
clares Din and
Rush ofLife Here
Are Demoniacal.

~ N my arrival in New York;
II had with me my faithful
Julia, my little griffon. and a
maid-two or three hotels refused to
take my dog. At last we settled at
the Murray Hill Hotel.
- When 1 arrived 1 found twelve
men with notebooks waiting for me
In the reception room-'Interview
ers."
The fool felt was beyond words
to describe-and 1 am afraid I said
something like this: How perfectly
dreadful. why do you do 1t? Is 1t
for your living? 1t seems to me so
Insulting"
But they wrote kindly of me, and
I grew to like their sharp cut fea-
lures and intelligent faces and their
eager outlook for something to write
about-in their parlance, "a new
viewpoint"-"an original stunt"
: zsAs every one knows. New York is
built upon a rock. During this visit
of mine they were building the sub
way. and every inch of the tunnel
had to be blasted with dynamite.
was playing eight and nine per-
formances a week of a repertory of
six plays. all tragic, emotional parts.
The din of New York-the rush,
the tall buildings and the strange
colored people: Italians. Russians
Chinese-all sorts everywhere-the
noise of the elevators, the nasal
twang boys. bellboys, and the
noise of the street car@I do not
want to be unl0ind, but to me it was
demoniacal.
Then there We're all my trunks
those that couldn't fit in the room
were in the passage outside-and
never a 'cup of English tea" for
my maids-an this. to the accom-
paniment of underground explo-
sions.
I tried to bear it. but some un-
known voice whispered in my ear,
'Get out of this hotel" After a week
I said to Julia, "Pack up. must
CO." She looked more than miser-
ble-demented-she thought of the
three hotels that had refused to take
me because of "Pinkie."
She packed up and we went
Twenty-four hours afterward the
hotel was blown to smithereens-
comic pictures in the papers of
headleSs bodies running searching
for their heads. and heads with
eyes searching for the rest of their
bodies. noses and ears and fingers
scattered about to help
cheer the public up. I suppose, who
had shares in the enterprise.
In the next hOtel-the Majestic, /
belicve-there was sometimes
shuffling outside my bedroom door.
My only companion was my little
griffon. and to her l would talk my
special dog language. The following
Is what appeared in the newspapers:
Those who have listened outside
the great actresses bedroom door will
have heard the words spoken to her
by her deceased husband on the pho
nograph she carries with her always.
She turns on the phonosraph every
night before she goes to sleep
New York.
Darling Uncle:
1 work. work. work all
the tine-you get the papers. and
from them you will know what it is
like. Mr.. Hawksley makes out my
debts at nearly ft2. 200: this includes
all the money I want TO repay.
Expenses are so heavy here It
means my coming home without a
farthing. however hard work. :,
The audiences are not so large
now. it is so warm, and l believe I
am In the wrong theater.
II have to play Pelleas and Nell
sande' in the theater next door. as
the orchestra in our theater only
holds seven and is above the pro-
The New York herald., 1922-07-02

But I feel now as if I had told
enough-that in my memoirs. bs
jumping here and there, I have told
all that there is of interest about
my life.
1t is not want of gratitude or
grace on my part that names of some
loved friends are omitted from these
pages.
1 have no diary to help me, and SO
the daily sequences of events is lost:
and with this loss has gone the
names of friends, kindly deeds. fun
and happy hours.
They will come to my mind by and
bye and l know the omission will fill
me with regret.
THE END
The New York herald., 1922-07-02

" DIR. Woodbury.:
"'I think it awful mean that Mrs.
Campbell is getting all the tanbark.
Won't you please sent me 10 or Is
cents worth? 1 am very fond of
rest myself. Yours truly.
ANNA HELD
"'Dear. dear DR.. Woodbury.:
"'Ois! I should SO love to have
some genuine tanbark. L haven't
seen any since l played in the back
counties of Michigan, when they
used to put it on the floor of the
Town Hall so that you couldn't hear
the lumber men when they came in.
Yours hopefully.
"'VIRGINIA HARMED
Dear Doctor:
az always did like tanbark. ex-
cept I hear IL makes the skin tough.
II you can send me four or five car
loads C. o. ID. shall be so grateful.
"'Yours respectfully.
GILLIAN RUSSELL
"'Dear Doctor:
-sWe do want a lot of tanbark 80
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-25
BOOKS FOR INMATES OF
REFORM SCHOOL WANTED

Rev. T. T. Frazier. pastor of the
local Methodist Church is in receipt
Of request from the Warden of the
State School of Reform, for books for
the inmates, and that he take steps
to procure same.
Rev. Frazier has procured and
authorized the following committee
Mesdames John A. Duke, Ollie Bar
nett and Messrs e. Fl. Foster and
Mcdowell A. Fogle, to assist in the
work of collecting and forwarding
the books for use Of the unfortunates
confined within the reformatory. This
is a laudable undertaking and merits
the attention Of all parties possessing
good books and other such matter
which can reasonably be given up.
Parties will please leave books for
shipment at the church during first
week in September.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-25
MRS. BLANCHE HIPSLEY

Mrs. Blanche Hipsley, wife of Mr..
Mansfield Hipsley, aged 81 years and
6 months. died Thursday afternoon,
August IT, at their home in lower
Heflin, near Pleasant Hill church, of
asthma and other complications.
The deceased lady was originally
Miss Blanche Turner and united in
marriage with Mr.. Hipsley in the
year 1881. She was a member of
the Woodward's Valley Baptist
Church and held in high esteem by
a large circle of friends. Funeral
services were conducted by the Rev.
John A. Bennett at the Pleasant Hill
M. T.. church in the afternoon of Fri
day, last, where burial of the remains
took place in the presence of large
gathering of friends and relatives.
Besides her husband she is surviv-
ed by one daughter. Mrs. Wilbur CAL
houn of Livermore. and one son. Yer
non Hipsley, who has always resld-
ed with his parents.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-25
HENRY Y. TAYLOR
YIELDS TO CANCER

Mr.. Henry Y. Taylor, aged IS
years, died Wednesday morning,
August 23rd. of cancer of the stom-
ach, at the City Hospital, greensboro,
where he had been during the past
several weeks.
Mr.. Taylor form: rly resided ada
cent to Maceo, but during the great
er portion of the past two or three
years had been in Hartford with his
daughter, Mrs. Howard Ellis and
Mr.. Ellis. He was a splendid citi-
zen, Of an unassuming and quiet ma
ture, but very highly esteemed by all
who knew him.
Burial of the remains took place
yesterday afternoon at 1880 o'clock
at Habit, beside his wife who pre-
coded him in death some Is years.
The deceased is survived by two
daughters and six sons: Mrs. How
ard Ellis, Hartford; Mrs. Albro Dun
can, Maceo and Messrs. Herman, of
Owensboro; Lindsay, of Maceo; Char
lie, of Whitesville; Clyde, of Liver
more; John, attending school in
Bowling Green and Coakley Taylor,
of Smithland.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-25
SOS NEW MEMBERS
ARE ADDED TO POOL
One Hundred and Eighty-Five In
West Virginia-POrter Speaks
In Home State.

Lexington, KY, August 21.-New
contracts to the number of 585 were
reported as having been received
the past week at the office of the
Field Service Division of the Burnley
Tobacco Growers Cooperative AS
sociation. OF this number 165 were
sent in by James A. Kehoe of Mays
Vile, and were secured by him and
the county workers in the eastern
Kentucky and Ohio districts.
From the West Virginia field 1876
were turned in. In Bath county
that was signed practically solid last
year a short drive was made by J.
X. Crock It and other voluntary
workers and 50 new members were
added. other counties that signed
a good number were Estill. 81;
Taylor, 26; Barren, IS; Garrard, 25;
Franklin, 25; Switzerlan, Indiana, 20.
This report does not include the
contracts signed at number of
meetings held Saturday. At Irving
ton where a barbecue was given a
crowd of several thousand growers
from Breckenridge and Meade coun
ties was addressed by Director j. d.
Craddock, of Munfordville. At Gal
lipolis. Ohio, Colonel J. Sherman Por-
ter. publicity chief and editor of the
Burley Tobacco Grower. spoke to
large and enthusiastic audience. At
Wayne. w. Va. C. f. Marvin, prom
inent farmer of Scott county was the
principal speaker. At Glenwood, w.
Va, a growers meeting was address
ed by Clifton Rodes and U. S. Dis
trict Attorney Elliott Northcutt, Of
Huntington.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-25
HARLAN POTTS DIES OF ~
ACCIDENTAL INJURIES

Harlan Potts, 81 years and 6
months of age. who had been resid-
ing at Funk's Grove, Illinois, during
the past three years, died Sunday,
Aug. 13, as the result of injuries sus-
tanned by the running away of team
which he was driving during the day
previous. The remains were con-
veyed to his former home and buried
in the cemetery at Mt Vernon
Church, Ohio County. where funeral
services were conducted by the Rev.
Wilcox. Thursday, Aug. IT. at IL
o'clock.
Mr.. Potts was industrious and well
beliked by all who knew him. In ad-
dition 10 his father. Mr.. VIM. Potts.
he is survived by his wife and two
children, also four sisters and one
brother.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-25
JAZZ SONG GETS NEGRO
COMEDIAN HIS FREEDOM

Cincinnati, o., Aug. 19.-"The Jail
House Blues" sung in Police Court
the other day before Judge Yeatman
and Congressman A. f. b. Stephens,
the judges guest. won freedom for
William M. Ford. negro comedian
and director of the "string Bean Jazz
Babies" troupe consisting of seven
dusky chorus girls and the leader. He
was arrested for stealing yellow
dress, which he said he meant to use
as a costume for one Of his gals"
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-25
SUCCESS IN SIGHT
Daviess county and Green River Dis
trict Signing Up.

Owensboro, KY. Aug. 22-The
confident prediction is made by
Chairman william Haycraft, that
within ten days the Dark Tobacco
Growers Cooperative Marketing AS
ISOLATION will announce that the quo
ia for Daviess county of two-thirds of
the acreage has been pledged to the
association and it is prepared to form
a permanent organization. This is
based on the number OF contracts
now in the office headquarters and
solicitors hands with conservative
estimate made of the amount that
would come in.
Other counties in the district have
virtually pledged their quotas and
the Green River district will soon
have started it's big job of perfecting
it's business organization. This has
been the cause for urging tobacco
growers to get into line and get the
organization work out of the way.
The organization committee and
county chairman are merely for the
purpose of getting the tobacco grow
ers signed into the association, when
they take seats down with the crowd
manent officers of the association.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-25
SURPRISE BIRTHDAY
FOR MRS. Il. j. FIELDEN

Friends and neighbors of Mrs. T. j.
Fielden of Bishnor, gave her a sur
prise birthday dinner at her home,
Friday, August IS, in honor of her
fiftieth birthday. A bountiful feast
prepared by those in attendance,
was spread at the MONDAY hour,
which all enjoyed very much.
Ice cream freezers were set to
work in the afternoon and TIE even
ing was spent in eating cream and
pleasant conversation, such as may
only be attained in neighborhood.
gatherings of this character.
Quite a large number was present
to enjoy the occasion.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-25
MARRIED IN HARTFORD

Mr.. j. f. knight Jra a farmer. OF
the Beaver Dam country, and Miss
Dora Williams. of Rockport, came
to Hartford Saturday August 10, pro-
cured marriage license and were
married in this city. Judge r. r.
Wedding performed the nuptial cere-
mpny. The bride is a daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. James Williams, of
Rockport, while the groom is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. knight, Sr.,
of Beaver Dam. They have the best
wishes of their many friends for a
long and happy married life.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-25
MRS. N0LIA LANG.

On August 10Th, at 1880 O'Clock
a. m, a beautiful life passed out at
Rosine to a rich eternal reward in
Christ. Nolia J. Cummings was
born Nov. 18th, 1871. She was a
daughter of Harrison and Mary Cum
mings. She was married to Edward
T. Lang on February 20, 1898.
Mrs. Lang was a christian from
early girlhopd; was sanctified in
1921, and received the experience of
Acts ga more commonly known in
late years as the Pentecostal Baptism.
The funeral took place from the
residence, interment was in the
pretty Rosine cemetery, the little
mound was made mass of flowers in
many designs, carefully arranged by
friends, of Rosine, Beaver Dam, and
elsewhere. An unusually large crowd
heard the funeral sermon by state
overseer, Rev Chas. H. Randall, of
the Church of God, from Job 6:6;
Mat. 24;44 and Mat. 25:10.
Rev. Sylvester Autry had charge
of the singing and the selections were
from the Church of God songs No. 8
and beautifully rendered. Rev. G..
B. Edwards lead in prayer.
Mrs. Lang was 81 years, months
and IL days old. She has passed
out but a testimony remains, an
influence for good in our lives that
time cannot efface.
REV. WILBERT E. HALLE.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-25
LARGE PER CENT
Signup of Weed In Henderson COun-
~ Predicted For Pool.

Henderson, Ky, Aug. 22-Seven'
ty-five per cent of Henderson coun-
ty growers will be signed up in the
movement to organize a dark tobac-
co growers cooperative marketing
association.
S. S. Stitt. in charge of the drive
in Henderson county. voiced this OPP
tomistic prediction A number of
speeches have been made here and
still more are to be made. The
growers are showing increased in
terast and pledges are coming more
rapidly.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-25

Alvin Rowe, Cashier of the Farm
er's Bank. Centertown. r. r. Riley.
Cashier of the Citizens Bank. Hart
ford. S. A. Bratcher. Mcdowell A.
Fogle, Louis Fulkerson, city. left
Hartford early Wednesday morning
for a motor trip to West Baden, Ind.
where Messrs. Rowe and Riley were
In attendance at thu annual meeting
OF the Kentucky Bankers Assscia-
ton. which was in session wednes-
day and Thursday. En- route homo
they will attend the Rockport. Ind.
Fair.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-25
U. S. GOAL INQUIRY
MEASURE Is PASSED
House Denies Operators
And Miners Repre- -.
sentation.

Washington, Aug. 23.-The ad-
ministration bill for creation of a
federal commission to obtain all
facts possible relating to the coal in
dustry and on which miners and op-
orators were denied representation,
was passed tonight by the House. 219
to SIS.
Three separate attempts were made
by Representative Bland, Republi-
can, Indiana, to amend the bill so as
to put representatives of the miners
and mine owners on the commission,
but all of them failed.
The House voted down a proposal
by Representative Denison, Republi-
can, Illinois. to reduce the commits
sion membership from nine to five,
but the next moment, by an over
whelming vote, adopted an amend
ment by Representative Rankhead,
Democrat, Alabama, cutting the SAL
airy Of commissioners from $4,000
to $500.
1t then put thru virtually without
objection, an amendment by Repre-
sentative Moore. Democrat, Virginia.
reducing the appropriation for the
cost and upkeep of the commission
from 100000 to $4,000. Chair
man Winslow of the Interstate Com
merce Committee, who handled the
bill thru the House, announces that
the committee was not opposed to
the smaller amount.
Four Republicans voted against the
bill and twenty-four Democrats sup
ported it, 1t now goes to the Sem
ate, where the Borah commission bill,
slightly different in some provision,
is pending. e. y
For a time today, Republican
leaders were thrown off their feet by
action of the Rules Committee in
voting to present the Bland bill. with
its provision for miners and operators
representation, as a substitute for the
Winslow measure. :
The committee failed on tie vote
to reconsider its action, but later it
reported a rule giving the. Winslow
bill the right of way, and opening 1t
to amendment
In the end leaders found no rea-
son for the furry, for under par
liamentary situation the bill was cali
ed up by Mr.. Winslow in regular
form and was considered without
rule.
There was no pronounced opposi-'
ton to the bill as finally whipped in
shape for passage. Mr.. Winslow
declared that the fact-finding com
mission was desired by the President,
as the leader of the American peo-
pie.
This measure simply provides"
he said, "for commission which will
put its nose in the business, and il 1t
has the wit and ability, bring forth
report and suggestions which will
tell the world, particularly the Presi-
dent and Congress, just what it
thinks is the trouble with the thing
and what the facts are"
OPPOSING the bill Representative
Garrett, Tennessee, the Democratic
leader, argud that it offered no re-
lief for the present or a similar sit
uation.