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The New York herald., 1922-07-07
Dan Bryant's Benefit.
Tribute Paid by New York Citizens
to the Famous Minstrel.

To The NEW York HERALD: On
Thursday evening, May 10. 1864. a
Grand Complimentary Testimonial
was rendered to Dan Bryant. the min
strel, at the Academy of Music: The
committee Of arrangements was COM
posed OF sixty-six of New York's promi-
nent citizens, among them being c. God
frey Gunther, A. Oakley Hall, Peter B.
Sweeney. James T. Brady. William
wheatley. $. Delmonico. Barney Will
Jams, John K Hackett, ]. W. L:ngard.
Charles e. Loew. Theodore Moss. Henry
w. Genet. Daniel Devlin and Rhine
lander Reed.
The committee wrote tc- the actor, cx-
pressing appreciation of his professional
talents as well as Of his private worth,
and hoped he would repeat his great
performance of Handy Andy" The
Academy was packed to the doors, so
great was the outpouring to Go honor
to this talented artist. The perform
ance commenced with the beautiful lit
tie drama 1.-THE Old Guard with the
following cast:
Haversack. the old Guard Mr.. Mark Smith
Lord Beauville. ........... Mr.. w. II. Norton
Henri LeIepre. ..................... .Mr. Boyd
Haweon. ..............M mt. Hardy
Melaine. ............M Miss Madeline Henriques
This was followed by the comedy en-
titled "a Pretty Piece ,of Business"
which was acted by
Capt. Felix Merryweather. Mr. w. r. Floyd
DR.. Launcelot Shoe. 49,. Mr.. Dan setchell
Fanny Grantley. :. Miss Madeline Henriques
Miss Chariotte shee. ......... Miss G. Adams
Dobson. n....................M Miss lone Burke
The performance concluded with
Handy Andy" acted by the following:
Handy Andy. with song "Lanagan's Ball.
and an irish Jig. ...........M Mr.. Dan Bryant
Squire Egan, Zine old gentleman" (for
this occasion only ...... Mr.. Mark Smith
Mr.. Murphy. Mr.. b. o. Ringgold
Edward O'Connor. ............M MIR. w. Parkes
Dick Dawson. on..............M Mr.. J. w. Collier
Barney. ........... s.......... .Mr. Murphy
ruriong. ................. mt. Eberle
Oonah Rooney. with song. "A Pretty Girl
Milking Her Cow" ....... Miss lone Burke
Mad Nance. Mrs. II. p. Grattan
WILLIAM HARRISON RODGERS.
OAKLAND, N. j., July 6.
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The Unescapable.

Outlines. some unexpected, simple
thing
A pattern on worn chintz. a whiff OF
scent,
The way the wind laden bough has
bent
A sudden rush Of memories will bring
That with old griefs and happinesses
wiring
Ones yearning heart, as long years
1alI away.
And love and mirth and tears OF yes
terday
Back through the mists Of time come
Fastening.
Though one may think to breast ones
fate alone.
Always a flock of eager, wistful ghosts
Wait for a sigh to drift back to their
own,
And prison one amid the shadowing
hosts
OF ancient Influences, that must be
The true controllers of ones destiny.
CHARLOTTE BECKER.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07

BOSTON, July 6.-The cooperation ol
the motion picture producers with the
National Education Association in find'
ing way to make pedagogic pictures
which are scientifically. psychologicaliy
and pedagogically sound" was offered by
VIII H. Hays. president Of the Motion
Picture Producers and Distributors OF
America. in an address tonight before
the convention of the educators organ
ization.
There is already great demand for
pedagogic pictures" Mr.. Hays said. II
propose that we Jointly study that de-
mand and that We Jointly find ways and
means of supplying 1t. Let committee
of this association be appointed. made
UP of the very best talent within your
ranks. Let them meet with the great
producers of the country and find ways
to use our facilities We ask you to
aid us and to let US. aid you in the
study of the whole problem of the use
Of motion pictures as direct pedagogic
instrument" *
Mr. Hays assured the delegates that
the motion picture industry accepted the
challenge 'in the great demand of the
educators that the full instructional
value of motion pictures shall be devel-
oped and used"
The address shared interest on the
days convention program with the ac-
tion of delegates in cmphatically indors-
ing the Towner-Sterling bill. Only two
votes were recorded in opposition to this
measure. The conventions attitude was
made known after the presentation Of
the report of the associations legislative
commission, which declared that crea-
tion of a department of education was
justified on the basis of the present edu-
cational activities Of the national Gov
ernment, as well as by the general well
fare provision of the Constitution and
the historical development Of the ma
tional Government. The report was read
by Prof. George D. Strayer OF Columbia
University. N
Mr.. Hays, taking as his topic I'm
provement of Moving Pictures" declared
that 'the picture frontier has become an
orderely business thoroughfare, and the
picture pioneer sober business man."
''Of it's own weight" he said. 1.-THE
into a sanity and conservatism like
that OF the banking world. 1t has
recognized its responsibility and it's
duty to the public and it proposes to
accept, that responsibility and perform
that duty
Tho motion picture industry Mr..
Hays asserted. objects to political CEN
for 'one great reason-because
the motion picture business is an Amer
ican business"
But there is one place and one only
where the evils can be eliminated and
the good and great advantages Of mo-
tion pictures retained" he continued.
land that Is at the point where and
when the pictures are made. And It
can be done then and there. make no
about that There Is no zone
of twilight in the matter.
1.-THE corrections can be made. real
evil can and must be kept out-the
The New York herald., 1922-07-07

THE NEW YoRx HERALD knows
NATHAN L. MILLER Is the man to carry
on that work so ably begun by him
and SO splendidly maintained by him
through the year and half he has
been in the Executive once at
Albany.
Governor MrLLEE says he has not
made up his mind about taking re-
nomination, IL his party should offer
it to him. But THE NEW YoRK
HERALD does not see how Governor
MILLER can refuse to take the renom-
ination when the Republicans Of New
York ask him to go on with his great
work for this great State.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
The Irish Free States Appeal.

BY issuing its proclamation calling
on the Irish people to defend theil
Government the Free State has done
two things besides opening the way
for increase In its army. 1t has
demonstrated its confidence In ths
attitude OF the population at large
and it has given evidence Of its in
tention to establish peace throughout
the territory under its jurisdiction.
Since the establishment of the Irish
Free State an overwhelming major
ity of the Irish outside of Ulster has
recorded its support of the policy Of
COLLINS and GRIFFITH whenever the
opportunity offered. The Free State
has won over the followers Of DE-
VALERA in the Dali Eireann and at
the polls.
When armed opposition to its au-
thority necessitated force to sustain
it a great number of volunteers ap-
peared. seeking enlistment in its
army. AS yesterdays proclamation
says, the Free State Government
"was confident of the ability Of the
army single handed to meet and de-
feat any. attack made upon 1t in the
way of open warfare" and volunteers
were refused. The army did its part
to the satisfaction of the Govern
ment; now another situation must be
considered by the Government. The
proclamation does not mince words
in describing It.:
Events have shown. however, that
while the present active strength Of
the army has been sufficient to deal
adequately with the recent situation
there is possibility OF continued
sporadic action which makes an in
crease in the army establishment vir-
tually necessary"
The suppression OF the disaffected
element means difficult, perhaps pro-
tracted, campaigns In various parts
of the country. These the present
armed forces are numerically INSULT
cient to maintain. The task Is one
of the most trying soldiers are called
on to do. In spite Of this COLLINS
and GRIFFITH have gone to the coun-
try frankly and without attempt to
deceive, asking the Irish to protect
the Free State and serving notice on
it's enemies that it will be firmly
defended by it's citizens under the
guidance Of the leaders who have
brought it to its present strength.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
A Great Architect.

In comforting upon THOMAS HAST
INGs the Royal Gold Medal for Archi-
lecture King GEORGE has honored an
outstanding figure among the leaders
of the architects in America and a
man who has done splendid things
to build enduring and inspiring
beauty into the life of his country.
BY custom the medal is awarded in
alternate years to British architect
and to a foreign architect. The late
CHARLES f. McKIM, another great
American architect, in whose Office
Mr.. HASTINGS once served, received
it in 1903.
Professor c. H. REILLY, who holds
the chair Of architecture at the Uni
versity of Liverpool. has published
in the English Country Life an ana
lytic and appreciative article on Mr..
HAsTINGs's work, in which he marks
the appropriateness of this success
sion. These two men, in his opinion,
deserve recognition as major con-
tributors in making American archi-
lecture real and vital art.
The honor bestowed by King
GEORGE is not the first accorded Mr..
HASTINGS outside his own country.
France apd Austria have recognized
him. At home the compliment of
selection to design some of the most
priced works projected by his coun-
trymen has been paid to him. Among
these works the American monument
in Paris to the battle Of the Marne
will stand as representative of Amer
lean architecture in city which is
prominently beautiful.
His also were the Victory Arch and
the memorial amphitheater at Ar
lington Cemetery, where the I'm
known Soldier is buried. The firm
of Carrere G. Hastings designed the
New York Public Library and the
New Theater, now the Century. The
Carnegie Institute in Washington
was done by them, and many other
magnificent structures. In all their
work the good taste and sense of
eternal fitness so conspicuous in Mr..
HAsTINGs's conceptions predominant.
In addition to his work on public
buildings and monuments Mr.. HAST
1NGs has designed some Of the most
beautiful private residences in the
country.
1t has been one of Mr.. HAsrrNGs's
distinctions that he recognized the
importance of bestowing upon each
new building its own appropriate
character. That has always been orr
of the first thoughts in his mind in
approaching new problem, and that
is one of the reasons why to-day he
receives the title of Americas most
distinguished architect.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York--rair ana
warmer to-day; tomorrow showers and
thunderstorms; fresh southwest and
south winds. sa
For New Jersey-Fair and warmer to-
day; Tomorrow showers and thunder
storms. Moderate to fresh fouth and
southwest winds.
For Northern New Ensland--Generally
fair to-day: warmer In interior; to-
morrow showers. Moderate to fresh
south and southwest winds.
For Southern New England-Fair and
slightly warmer to-day; tomorrow
showers and probably thundcrstorms.
Fresh south and southwest winds.
For Western New York--Showers to-
day or tonight and tomorrow; some.
what warrner to-day: cooler tomorrow.
Fresh south and southwest winds
WASHINGTON. July 6.--The ternpera-
ture was somewhat higher to-day in the
eastern and Southern States and tho
far Northwest. while cooler weather
overspread Minnesota, the northern and
central plains States land the central
Rocky Mountain and the southern pla
teau region The indications are for
generally fair and somewhat warmer
weather tomorrow In the Atlantic
states, the lower lake region, the Ohio
vahey' tennessee and east gulf States.
followed by local thunder showers late
tomorrow In the lower lake region and
the Ohio Valley. On Saturday the
weather will become unsettled generally
east or the Mississippi River, and
showers and thunderstorms are indi-
Gated for practically all sections, and
the temperature will be somewhat lower
saturday as far east as the Appalachian
Mountains. g-7
The New York herald., 1922-07-07

lice do their utmost. ingenious di-
versions of motor cars and horse
drawn vehicles are devised and en-
forced, but each morning brings new
puzzles and new deadlocks. Perhaps
a Haussmann will one day do for
New York what NAPOLEON Ills fa-
nous modernizer did for Paris and
rebuild the city, though not to suit
an emperor but to serve modern
necessities of its residents.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
The States Fine Fiscal Year.

The State Of New York in the past
fiscal year had the good fortune to
take in larger receipts than had been
expected. The revenue from indirect
sources went beyond the estimates
by some seven and a half millions
But 1t was not mere luck that found
the State at the close of the fiscal
year last week in its sound flnan-
cial position. 1t was strong, vigilant,
able business management which put
IL there.
The States balance is we'll on the
right side of the ledger because the
States business has been in the hands
of a man who has known how to ad
minister the affairs of the public az
great and successful corporation re.
quires Its affairs to be administered; !;
man who has cut out waste and
kept it out; a man who has refused
to let departments spend money just
because they had 1t; man who has
reduced the taxes yet has seen to 1t
that the State lived within it's inS
come.
An example of Governor MIrLER's &
success in putting the State Govern
ment on business basis and hold
ing 1t there Is the Automobile Bu-
reau. This part of the State Admin
istration collected s4,500,00O more
than was collected the year before;
but 1t cost the State 100000 less to
do the work, Getting more work
done, and getting it done better, at
a lower cost to the taxpayer is the
story Of the whole State Administra-
tion under Governor MrLLER-the
story of good business management.
After having watched the State
spendings go up by leaps and bounds
year after year, the people of New
York have now had the rare sensa-
tion Of seeing the State spendings 60
down by millions under Governor
MILLER. THE New YORK HERALD be-
lieves the people of New York want
the State spendings pushed and held
down in the next two years as they
have been pushed and held down in
the past two years. 1t believes they
want to go on with sound business
management of their big business,
the State Government Of New York.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
New York Needs a Haussmann

Only few years ago 1t was pro-
posed that trucks, delivery wagons
and cabs of all kinds not carrying
passengers be excluded from Fifth
avenue to relieve congestion on that
thoroughfare. Vehicles were practi-
cally all horse drawn then. The pro
posal of restriction aroused the pub
lie to anger. There was much talk of
popular privileges on the highways,
special consideration for the rich.
constitutional rights and the like.
Formidable truck drivers defied the
police to exclude them from any
highway not parkway. The excite
ment was as intense as that aroused
by the Spate park chair contract of
vivid memory.
Times change. Yesterday Commits
sioner WHALEN, representing a city
administration pledged to protect the
people, announced that hereafter no
motor driven vehicles will be allowed
on Brooklyn Bridge, and no horse
drawn vehicles on Manhattan Bridge.
There may be some grumbling about
the rule, but nowadays, with the ne
cessity for traffic regulation recog-
nized by everybody alike, there is not
likely to be an eruption of passion
about it. The ordinary citizen ac-
customed to being sent around Robin
Hoods barn through one way streets
to get to tho theater and to 60 home
after the performance is over, will
not inquire whether his rights are
being invaded by this separation OF
vehicles according to their motive
mower. He will ask, "Will it work."
II experience proves it does work he
will gladly accept 1t as a mitigation
OF conditions already deplorable and
fast moving toward the intolerable.
The approaches to Brooklyn Bridge
and to Manhattan Bridge are suffi-
GENTLY close to one another to re-
duce the hardship involved in ex-
cluding any class of vehicles from
either to the minimum. The gain in
speed of movement to be effected by
classification of vehicles is likely to
be considerable. The distribution OF
vehicles at the ends of the bridges
ia q subject for expert opinion and
study in practice. If the new scheme
works we'll for the public in general
Il will be kept in operation. II IL
works badly it may be modified or
abandoned. 1t would seem, for ex-
ample, as IL in certain hours, when
traffic is light, any vehicle might be
pcrmitted on either bridge to every
body's advantage.
This step in the control of traffic
n only one more indication of the
serious straits to which New York
has been brought by the growth of
its population and the multiplication
OF the number Of conveyances Of one
kind and another in its streets. The
inadequacy Of the street system was
admitted years ago; IL is demon
strated every day now. Traffic po-
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
New York's Old Plainsmen.
Men Who Helped to Win the Wes
Now Make Their Home Here.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: From
your editorial page few days ago I
clipped the following observation. cred
tied to the Kansas City Star:
Nothing is more disappointing than q
reunion Of the ''old ganG you used to
know" A good many Of them are not
the fellows they used to be, and the
ones that still are don't come.
The truth Of It IL illustrated among
the survivors Of life in the West be-
tween the civil war and the great
changes which followed the building of
the first transcontinentai railroads.
Strange as 1t may seem, the largest
single group of them will probably be
found within a few miles of the New
York City Hall; some are in Chicago,
st. Louis and Washington. Those who
still livS in the West are separated by
long distances. and seldom more than
one or two are found in place.
Here in New York few OF the old
timers have what they call The Plains
men. an informal club restricted to
those who were actually part of life
in the West fifty or more years ago.
Not one of them has lived beyond the
Mississippi or participated In Western
life for many years; but all cherish the
traditions of the West. and their recol-
lections are remarkably keen. Occa-
sicnally they have meeting where their
pet hobbies are brought out, discussed
and then put back again in memory's
archives.
Major A. b. Ostrander, probably the
oldest of them all, who has been at
different times q telegraph. railroad and
Government official. now holds a place
in the Bureau of Weights and Meas
ures In the Municipal Building. He has
two leading hobbies--his recollections
OF Jim Bridger. the frontiersman, scout
and emigrant guide, and the correct
spelling of the name of General Phil
kearny. and his special aversion Is the
spelling OF that name with an In the
last syllable. Major Ostrander has
pouch given to him by Bridger
at Fort Phil Kearny in 1857 that money
could not buy.
Colonel George w. Stokes is as full
of lore about the Black Hills Of South
Dakota as a cocoanut Is full of meat.
and very naturally So since he trans
ported the first lot of ore out of that
section. beginning the development
which has made that the richest hun
dred square. miles In the world" and
enabled a number OF men to acquire
large fortunes He slipped out a little
too soon to make his pile with them.
but keeps In touch with things out there
Just the same. Colonel Stokes's ambi-
tion Is to march In at least five more
Memorial Day parades along Riverside
Drive.
Albert II. Baisley. who Is just now
retiring after long public service In The
Bronx. doffed his Union soldiers uni
form to drive in an OK train for a Gov
ernment contractor in the West within
a year after the close of the civil war.
His hobbies are ths Grand Army of the
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
FRIDAY. JULY z. 1922.
The Subway Accident.

Perhaps nothing that occurs in this
busy city teeming with it's vast popu-
lation can come home to it's millions
of souls with suggestions more start
ling than a subway mishap. For
who, man, woman or child, does not
travel in the underground trains that
day and night whirl up and down the
). length of the city freighted with
their loads Of densely packed human
beings? Who could not picture what
might befall in there? -
Yet so fnatchless has been the
safety record of these rushing sub
way carriers. so many hundreds Of
millions are the passengers that have
gone back and forth in them with
never hurt or scratch, with never
glimpse Of hazard, that the very
fact of such an accident as occurred
yesterday can serve to remind the
city how rare even such relatively
slight accidents are in the wonder
fully operated and incomparabiy safe
subways.
Surely it will hearten the subway
millions, even as the vivid sugges-
tions Of yesterday flash through their
minds, that the past can be a war;
rant for the future. And it is not
rash to assume that the event of
yesterday, startling, serious, tragic,
will confirm in it's splendid vigilance
the subway transportation genius
and duty which have done so we'll.
through so many years, for so many
millions of our people of New York.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
BY MOTOR AND RAIL; Il
LONDON TO ABERDEEN
Duke Of Leinster Bets He Can
Beat Friend on Train.

Special Cable to THE New YonK Hrrstp.
Copyright, 1899, oy THE New YoRK Herald.
New York Herald bureau,
London, July 9.
From London to Aberdeen in a Rolls
Royce In fifteen hours at 500 an hour.
That will be the record made tonight
by the Duke Of Leinster IL he wins
a wager with member Of another
prominent family. as to which was
quicker, the road or the night express,
which makes 1t In twelve hours. But
1t was decided to allow three hours on
account of the wet going. and the stake
Is $780, Road mileage Is CLIO, and rail
mileage only 5c2.
The Duke said he could make eighty
miles an hour. and would certainly
touch that speed whenever he could.
mindful Of the $780, His opponent
started by train an hour later.
THE NEW YORK HERALD told recently
or the Fitzgerald estate nearly escaping
from the family because the present
Duke OF Leinster had sold his rights
OF succession to Sir II, Mallaby Deeley.
The Duke repurchased the historic prop.
erty. 80
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
BIackbirds' Curious Nesting Place.
From tho MeId

After building five nests In a line on the
head of drag rake in farm building at
Devices, n pair of blackbirds have just
reared brood OF four in the fifth nest. the
only one actually used. The number of half
finished nests may be accounted for by the
position of'thc head OF the rake. Leaning
against the wall with the teeth sloping down.
ward. the nesting material kept slipping off.
until. after four failures. the birds at length
succeeded in getting tho last nest to hold to-
gother. A somewhat similar incident was
reported some time ago from Cambridge
shire. but In that case the nests were placed
between tho rungs of ladder which hung
horizontally against a wall.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
Addressing the Mixed Firm.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Refer
ring to the question laid before you,
why not address a firm of lawyers of
which one member is man and the
other a woman as Dear Attorneys' or
Dear Counselors" or plain Attorneys
or "Counselors," or, indeed, doe and
Roe. Attorneys and Counselors at Law" {?
ANOTHER READER.
HASTINGS ON HUDSON, July G.