Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 363, 17 February 1907 — Page 3
Page Three. DR. FEIST IS COiral VENTS ON WATER PLAN 10 EXHIBIT WATER MONSTERS AT HAMPTON ROADS ON CHARGE OF MURDER Woman Who Was Taking Treatment Whales May Disport Themselves in Presence of Visitors at Jamestown Show. With Nashville Physician was Found Will be Yacht Racing, Motor in River and i,tuu one Had could Boat Racing and Swimming Not be Located. Contests at Expo.
The Richmond Palladium, Sunday, February 17, 1907.'
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At the Coliseum Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, Feb. 18, 19 and 20. Tuesday and Wednesday matinees. Admission 15c. School children will be admitted Tuesday matinee for 10c. Instructions eiven in
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(By V. H. Bright.)
Only a short distance out in the
Atlantic ocean from Cape Charles and Cape Henry that guard the entrance
to Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay, schools or whales may be seen by passengers on almost any Atlantic liner or other ship that passes. They are of the Atlantic or Biscay, or right
whale species, and often venture so
close to a vessel that they could easily be harpooned. They grow to an
enormous size, some 01 mem ueing
fully sixty feet long. Once upon a time there was a man who said, "There is nothing new under the sun," but that was a long time ago, and the old gentleman had no idea of the modern genius," and many new things which have appeared since then or have appeared for the
first time as everything, has to do, 1 PubliC Ooftlion
wnicn amounts to me tamo iuiu&. And, now comes the latest thing in the form of an application for a con
cession at the Jamestown exposition, to exhibit two or three large whales. This latter day Barnum proposes to build a stockade in Hampton Roads abutting on the exposition grounds that will inclose about ten acres, build
a Troad walk on the top of the heavy
Publishers Press.J
Nashville, ivaa., t-eb. - 16. Dr. J.
Herman Feist, charged with the mur
der of Mrs. Rosa Mangrum, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree.
The verdict carries with it the death
penalty.
Mrs. Mangrum was under the care
cf Dr. Feist, disappeared Dec. 18, 1905, and her body was found in the Ohio river at Cairo, 111., Jan. 23, 1906.
A few days before the disappear
ance of Mrs. Mangrum she drew something like $1,400 from a local bank and announced that she was going
to Chicago. The evidence against Dr.
Feist was purely circumstantial, the
most salient feature being that he de
posited in a local bank the sum of
$500 a few days after the disappear
ance of Mrs. Mangrum.
PLACE FOR SPECTATORS
BOULEVARD ALONG THE SHORE
WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR THOUSANDS TO WATCH THE AQUATIC SPORT.
JAPS 00 NOT FAVOR
EXCLUDING COOLIES
in lokyo is
Against Settling Frisco Question that Way.
( By John T. Maginnis.) Norfolk, Va. February The in
terest aroused among the amateur
oarsmen of the country embuded perhaps as much from a desire to see the exposition and the great naval and military spectacles as by sporting enthusiasm promises a place to aquatic events not second to any feature
of the exposition.
Despite some opposition to the selection of the Hampton Roads course the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen will row at the Jamestown expo
sition and tho throngs of visitors will
learn to feel an interest in something
they see talked or written about, but
have known nothing of In the way
that personal observation excites.
There will also be on the water.
yacht racing, motor boat racing and swimming contests. The courses selected by a committee, which recently
went over the waters near the exposition in a steam launch, are two in number a short course. Ivine alons-
FEW ARE REALLY POSTED side. Inside Wllloughby Spit and paral
lei to the spit; the other at right angles to it, along the exposition
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nilintr that visitors may enter at one SAN FRANCISCO JAPS CABLE TO 4,44ueiu "vv piling, max -visitors may tuici anj extending from the government
THEIR GOVERNMENT, ASKING nipr at
HELP IN THE PRESENT SITUA- Craney Island light.
These courses, within the protected
road and additionally protected, the first by the spit and lying entirely
within Willoughby bay, and the other
gate, walk around tne corrai. anu pass out at another gate. In this stockade he proposes to imprison two or three large whales for the edification of the visitors as they pass around the semi-circle. This is certainly something that has
never been attempted before at any
TION.
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with the long government double pier
Tokyo, l eD. io. Public opinion is acting as a break-water, will afford at
exposition. First, because the whales decidedly opposed to the solution of nearly all times smooth rowing, while could not have been taken to previ- lhe gan Francisco 8chool problem on the magnificent boulevard, making the ous expositions alive if they bad been the basig of restric,d admission of water front of the Jamestown p.
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Theatrical Calendar. GENNETT. Monday, Feb. 18 Blanche Walsh. Wednesday, Feb. 20 "The Corner Grocery." Thursday, Feb. 21 -Virginia Harned. Saturday, Feb. 23 "Pair of Country Lads." . i ' ' PHILLIPS. Entire Week High class vaudeville.
tried to emphasize the fact tliat it has
been written to entertain.' It is a straight-forward story in which one woman works on another in an earnest effort for good. The whole story of
caught, and if they had Deen caugni and taken to the exposition alive they could not have been kept alive for
want of their native salt water. In
this case, however, the leviathan of
the deep can not only be landed in
the stockade in Hampton Roads, con
taining about 10 acres of their accustomed salt water, but may disport themselves in plain view of visitors without any serious inconvenience to
thpmsplvPS
When asked how he 'was going to get the whales, the promoter glibly k(vl: "That's easy. I shall sim-
lue ,s n mese woras: "'inei'V' . .llo tt.,-n of the
rig up u in uiii
.vuu.piiuu tn a woman. u is a connect it with a donkey (en-
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luutu anu ana temptation, but ' thousand or twe feet of JVt?? ha,3 f 8 8ted ,thif temi,t" i lit besT rol led in harpooning
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tion in society by
I will then run out into a shoal
ou , ,uu,ea io a mgner posi-i;- . - ... instGad of a har-
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and then bv a noble Karrifir savp tlil Pn ou lut " . . .
fashionable mission worker from a miserable marriage. The company surrounding Miss Walsh will include Charles Dalton, Holden Lowell, William Travers, Jessie Ralph, William Wadsworth, Beulah Thompson and Lida McMillen.
lasso.
or school of whales, select the one I want and dally with him till I get the vessel close enough and swish will go he larriat over the whala's ,&ead. and
tighten up. ' Of course. he whale at
this new sensation will start to run
Japanese laborers fhto the United sition grounds, will afford advantage
States. No official statement was to the crowds of onlookers unexcel-
made on this subject, but it is gener- led by any course in the country, not
ally admitted that a solution on the excepting those at New London and basis mentioned will arouse strong op- Poughkeepsie," while the straight away
position throughout the Japanese em- is incalculably better than the Har-
pire. The relations between the fed- lem river, with its turns, bridges and eral administration at Washington traffic. and of the various states of the Union, The events must of necessity have are not well understood here, and re- enormously larger crowds of spectastrlction in the admission of laborers tors that are continually drawn to rewould be looked on as an unwarrant- gattes, and the sport must inevitably ed concession in the face of the treat- give a great spur to rowing among nvent of which Japanese in San Fran- people who have not had Iheir inter-
cisco complain. The limited few, who I est surficently aroused to take it up
are well posted on the actual state of and in the same proportion are the affairs, are not excited, and they do boat makers likely to profit, not see why the San Francisco school The exposition boulevard along the difficulty could not be solved apart shore of Hampton Roads is more than
from the labor question. An appeal teet wide and on its front the couched in strong words was cabled many beautiful state buildings with here by Japanese in San Francisco their colonial pallared verandas, from asking for national support in solving which thousands of visitors may view the San Francisco controversy by re- races. strlcting the admission of laborers A veiy large number drawn to the into the United States. In view of exposition by rowing will find especial the state of public feeling here it interest in the round of athletics un-
or tne American
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Miss Walsh has this to say about toeW' a " iw ut
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Vaudeville at the Phillips. Somo features entirely new to the
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; 2 V- .1 .Tii u prot 1 ; 7, u." B" " .eP asKea I nn the brake making the pull for him
"u 111 " Jiauuser hurray " ut-x cuutsiuer ine oiraignt uoaa . . , , tt, tirprl nf has Secured for this WPpk anrl this -Jn.'a distinptlv American rl
,: "; ".," ;::" ;: , ;t ; r " : . .r th snort and slacks uP or
this style bf entertainment for so makes much difference. What the-iabout- As f tit ur bv the many weeks, will not decrease in the atre-goers desire are plays that deal in le ropf .3 " Ti" ,iLaiPfi to least. There will bo an nh,,ndann with ereat naRinn inv ravantra i donkey and the tug will oe sigiiaieu to
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would not be surprising if the Japan
ese government refused to agree to a settlement on the basis of restricted
immigration of Japanese to the Unit
ed States.
If the whale comes
Her Death is Sad.
Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Barnes of North
Sixth street have just received word
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or comedy as three of the acts call jealousy and hate. This play appeals ' " , " J" if of the death at San Francisco of their
di l iiqui., " - - ' utrniTiiiQ onrl stips to run
largely a story of ne s , T,., , . him nn,,9n(i slack I circumstance in connection with the Jamestown exposition.
away cigdni, " .. . - f
for a feature of this kind. Boyd & to the heart because It Is absolutely alonS aa riani, w dauerhter. Miss Ethel Barnes. A sad collece men are sroTne: to
3 said to human. While it is largely a story of he gets . ,T, . .,.i iiJ circumstance in connection with the Jamestown exDosition.
lovely are comedians who are
nave a line of new stuff and to be low life, it yet has scenes placed able to entertain. An Irish comedy among the higher classes and there
der the auspices Athletic union.
On the aquatics, the inter-city races
will be looked to with great interest,
Boston, New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore will undoubtedly have pick
ed eights. President Pilkington has
taken up this matter with vim and is
pushing it to what must be a , suc
cessful conclusion.
That the "Varsity" regattas are to
be held, means that generations of
see the
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mm ut lady wag to haye been married this the exposition companj-, and the oars
Ult'U uul. uv ..... , I ; alona quietly into Hampton sP"Do-
Roads and into the stockade where he
win he turned loose and the entrance! 'Phone or wrrte a cartf to the Palla
closed, the larriat removed, and there dium of the little piece of news your vou have it." I ne'2hhor told you and get your name
Tt -ci-tninlv would be a novelty mail in me new up snnuii mr inia
rnr ru-citirm visitors would miss I ween.
Boat houses are being erected by
will be provided by Louise Arnot & Co., under the title of "Regan's Luck." This will give a glimpse of life in an east side tenement. New York City. The third bit of comedy will come
is practically an even division of atmosphere in this respect." Mr. Fitch says concerning the play: "It is because real life Is so much stranger than fiction that I endeavor to
from Homer & Potter, comediennes, set forth real life in plays. For ex-
and who are also contraltoes. Mardo Bros, will supply the comedy acrobat work and the usual illustrated songs and motion pictures will be provided- There will Te no variation in the program for the week, which calls for a souvenir matinee on Wednesday, a special matinee for children on Saturday and a double performance Saturday night. Virginia Harned Gennett. The acting version of "Camilla" in
ample, in this present play I have tried to put stage license aside and create people as they really exist. I believe I have succeeded." During the long run of the play at the Astor Theatre, New York, in commenting on the play, the New York Press said: "One of the most remarkable plays Broadway has seen in many years." The Herald said: "It is a stirring play of human emotions." The Sun said: 'Powerful
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seeing. It now seems mat iuo umy
thine in the way of this unique at
traction is securing the proper site, and it is thought that may be arranged in time for the opening of the expo
sition, April 26.
PLAYS AND PlXYERS.
Robert Loralne is preparing to pro- boat races.
auce ueorge Bernard Shaw's play, -The Philanderer." George C. Tyler announces that Eleanor Robson is to appear in a new Ros
tand play in the near future.
Comyns Carr is making a Dickens
men can find the best accommodations
on the grounds. The Inside Inn is one of the finest shore hostelries on the coast. The government's . double
pier will be one of the attractions of
the expesition. 1,600 feet long, its two arms, 800 feet apart, are connected at the center end, forming a basin, the walk around which will be 3,200 feet. From this pier, which will be the naval landing, visitors may also see the
The committee from the National as
sociation, while in Norfolk, were cared for by the Portsmouth and the Eliza
beth River Boat clubs.
The canoe trail, several miles long.
the Japanese and Philippine reserva
me with its inspiration as I was once
gazing at the picture of "The Magdalen
o Vi Pmcc " Tt- sppm to me there
which Virginia Harned is to be seen and convincing throughout, intensely : ls something comforting in that idea. Play from the much discussed and mrd- tions and the Indian and Wild West hero with her specially selected sup- dramatic situations." The Telegraph , For tnis woman to whom life had been deningly mysterious "Edwin Drood. Shows, the reproduction of "Old
porting company, at tne uennett eo. said: fcmart, brilliant and daringly i c T,arw nr. to n-hnm it could Edward Knoblanrh ntw r "Ti, Jamestown " the battle of the Mon!
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ior ana iiernmac, reproduced on
Hampton Roads, under the direction
GEMMETT THEATRE aSff" MONDAY NIGHT, FEBRUARY 10th w"f Kmpr Co- Blanche Walsh And her Astor Theater Company In Clyde Fitch's tremendous realistlo Drama, , THE STRAIGHT ROAD A story of New York life of today. Original company and production direct from the Astor Theater, New York city. New York Press Comments: "It was successful. Strong play or human emotions." Herald. "One of the most remarkable plays N. Y. has seen in years." Press. "Effective. Powerful. Convinc Ing." Sun. '"The Straight Road' is Straight Goods." World. Prices: 50c to $1.50. Seats on sale at Westcott pharmacy.
uj in- u.,wu- unSIuui. me r um. saia: ine real-: offer no hope this death scene sug- Ebulamite," has written a new play
guinea aciress nerseu. ii aiuers in ism or .Miss Aalsh was undeniable." cested something of a hope beyond for H. B. Irving, entitled "A Ltrra)
several notable places irom tne ac-The World said: "It is a live throb- lhe grave 'of a greater spirit of mercy Rebel." of
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favorite stage character and has long made the part her deepest study. She and her husband. E. H. Sothern, have
mille. It is because of this spirit that
I feel the play is still worthy of be-
the navy, the countless congresses S II A . aw v . . mm mm m -
Potter has msde ana nnaiiy me war rata' wm make
a success In her revival of "Charlotte Jamestown by that is meant the ex-
ERHETT THEATRE... IRA SWISHER. Leasee and Manager.
THURSDAY NIGHT, FED. 21 A Brilliant revival of the greatest play of the past half century. VIRGINIA HARNED III "JOOLLE " With a Specially selected cast and sumptuous production. (William Courtenay as Armand.) The greatest American Camille of this generation. Prices: 25c to $1.50. Seats at Westcott Pharmacy.
Virginia Harned's Idea of Camille.
The character of Camille has always ing presented., It seems to me to have appealed to me as the most sympt- ir, r h,, ohnrir that ic tw
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tosfuicr ana )t-u uu tiauui a, yu u , xneuc m tne moaern arama. Her sac-, without its appeal to our hearts and
portrayal wmennas won lor Mrgima nfice Is sublime and saintlike. The that makes Camille, after all this Iv.lf
xxwrneu uie piaie oi otu.8 u.e uest usual iasnion nas Deen to treat this ceptury of phenomenal popularity,
Va,u" . ' j ..TT VL aux Amelias as . seeminglv still desdned to be an a;-
it iw uu u.ut-u vvunur me mere love romance or a courtesan, (pealing figure of modern pity and famous play presented by this and even when the more noble hints ' .mmthT
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oi cnaracier nave oeen glimpsed, tne emphasis of the actress has been rather more bestowed upon tie demimondaine nature of Camille and her
day,
this
brilliant actress at the Gennett.
Blanche Walsh in "The Straight Road." Blanche Walsh, acknowledged as the
foremost tragic-emotional actress of ; environment than upon the less pasAmerica, has created a sensation as ; sionate aspect of her character, her Moll O'Hara. In Clyde Fitch's new- j real soul awakening through the powest play. "The Straight Road", in i er of a redeeming love. I spflk tn nnr.
which she will be seen at the Gennett j tray her as a more spirituelle creature
tomorrow, anss walsn comes direct
Corday." It is now being given in
suburban theaters near London.
It Is reported that Harold MacGrath
the novelist, is writing a new play, in
which Max Figman will appear next
season, tn addition to "The Man on the
Box."
Edith Wynne Mattheson. who was
the brilliant feature of Ben Greet's first American tour and created the
position on Sewell's Point, some fifty miles from Jamestown proper, the island, where once stood the little vil
lage of the first settlers, a memorable year to the oarsmen who have their regattas this year in Virginia waters.
Petrified Oak Post.
Rushville, Ind., Feb. 16. fSpl.) Ol-
n.irt nf Pvorrinnn 1 n hA " f I iver Swain. Of POSeV townshin. has a
The funeral of a noted Welsh agri-l rn5i, kh- i ... T , I i,trified oak nost nn his fa, c,-
i a uli iv. sk .auiULnrii a tuic k 1a tuc lAlUUtU I -" a' w - -
culturist, William Jones, of Plasmadoc. producrj0n of "The Bondman."
nas just iiib.tu piace ui ituaDon. wis grand-mother, Mrs. Randies, of Fach
Farm, claimed the unique distinction
of having thrashed the Duke of Well
ington, who, as a schoolboy, spent his
holidays at Chirk. The future "Iron
The new theater that has been open
ed in Utica, N. Y., by Jacob and Lee
Shubert has been named the Sam Shnbert theater by the lessees in mem
ory of their brother, who was killed Jn
from1 her home playhouse, the Astor Theatre, New York, and Managers Wagenhals and Kemper have kept intact the company and the production as seen during tho long metropolitan l-un.
The story that "The Straight Road"
than is commonly depicted before the Duke" quarreled while playing with
ioowigius. Him Armana. tne nrst Mrs. Randies young brother, and she
reai love, nas enierea into ner lire. It does not matter how much she may have sinned; this is the genuine love, and by this pure love she is purified in spirit, I try to convey this nobler lesson of the play, this moro uplift-
a railroad wreck two years ago.
Ethel Barrymore and perhaps
her
thereupon attacked him and inflicted a bretherS' JaCk Rnd Uonel are SlnS
tens is inax or tn reaemption or aing emotion of a woman who has won woman not a lost woman, but the the meed of forgiveness through suBimple Jlfhistory of a girl of the ! preme suffering and self renunciation, slums. It is not a problem play, and In the last act I have her die at the ioJj Mr.r Fitch and Miss Walsh have J foot of the cross, an idea which struck
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to appear in London next spring in
Rachel Crothers western play, "The
Three of Us. which has been one of
the unexpected hits of the season in
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eral years ago Mr. Swain put in green oak posts while building a fence. A few weeks ago, as he was replacing the old posts that had decayed he
found one that had turned into stone. The stone is about four inches square and more than twenty inches in length. The marks of the ax in making the lower end of the post wedgs-sraped, are still visible on the petrified post-
The New Phillips Vaudeville Theatre O. G. MURRAY, LESSEE. F. A. BROOKS, BUSINESS MANAGER. PROGRAM WEEK FEB. 18, 1907. Saturday 3, 7:4a and 9:15 p. m.
A OVERTURE. Miss Cabler. B BOYD & LOVEV. Comedians. C ILLUSTRATED SONGS. D LOUISE ARNOT t COMPANY.
Cast Cordelia Regan, Louise Arnot, Andy Regan, her husband, Tom Gunn. E HOMER & POTTER, Contraltoes. High-class comedinnes. F MAR DO BROTHERS,
Comedy Acrobats.
Sarah D. Farmer is suing Fred 0!er on a note for 60.
If a woman spends more than ten minutes in arranging her hair La result ls a coiffure. Atchison Globe.
Use artificial gas for light and heat 10-tf
In her natural Irish comedy, "Re- G THE PHILOSCOPE. tement, New York City. Time, Presen Latest Motion Pictures, gan's Luck." Place. East-side tene- ment, New York City. Time. Present. Special marmee eacn Saturday; children 5 cents. All other matinees lOc, except to children under 5 years. Souvenirs Wednesday scatlnee.
"ROLLER SKATING - COLISEUMOpen Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. morning, afternoon and evening. Music by the Richmond City Band. Admission, Gents, 15c; Ladies free. Skates 10c.