Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 22, 8 March 1908 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TE LEGRA3I, SUNDAY, 3fARCn 8. 190S.

ELKItiS DENIES POPULAR BELIEF

Says the Senate Is Not a Club Of Millionaires As Is Generally Thought. JUST A FEW HOWEVER. GIVES THE SCALE IN WHICH HE TRIES TO SHOW THAT ACTUAL FORTUNES ARE NOT SWELLED TO BURSTING. Thirteen United States Senators have little more than their salaries, $7,500 a year. Thirteen have fortunes of from $20,000 to $50,000 and their salaries. Thirteen may estimate their individual possessions at from $100,000 to $500,000. The remaining fourth, or less, can give assets at from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000. Washington, March 7 That the United States Senate Is not the club of multimillionaires It is advertised to be is asserted on the authority of Senator Stephen B. Elklns, one of the Infected. His schedule of wealth has been placed at $25,000,000. He says it will not Inventory over $2,500,000. Senator Elkina holds that the same rule of shrinkage is applicable to the estimated fortunes of other members. Ills sample list, and he declares the ratio of reduction is applicable to pracSically every other member rated by the many-million scale, runs in this wise: Simon Guggenheim, rated at $60,000,000; invoiced at $6,000,000. Isaac Stephenson, Wisconsin, rated tit $30,000,000; invoiced at $3,000,000. Stephen B. Elkins, West Virginia, rated at $25,000,000; invoiced at 12,500,000. Nelson W. Aldrich, rated at $20,000,000; invoiced at $2,000,000. John Kean, New Jersey, rated at $10,000,000; invoiced at $1,000,000. This system of elimination indicates that the usual method of appraising the fortune of the Senators is by the addition of a cipher to the figures giving their real possessions. In other words, adding nothing to millions and making multi-millions. MAN LIVES LONGER BEH1NDPR1S0N BARS Startling Conclusion Is Propounded in Chicago. Chicago, 111., March 7. People in prison live longer than they would if at liberty, is the startling conclusion to which Health Commissioner Evans lias come, after investigating the vital statistics of the Joliet and Michigan City penitentiaries. To illustrate: The death rate at Joliet for persons between the ages of 'JO and was only 7.73 per cent as compared with 11.22 per cent for people between the tame ages residing in the city. "A titudy of the figures brings me to the conclusion that a man between 20 and 60 years of age living in Chicago, will Improve his chances of living 34.0 per cent 11.22 compared with 7.73 by going to prison at Joliet, he stated recently. Control, food, temperance, kabits, sanitation and plumbing within prison walls, all operate to bring about longer life, and yet no one in Chicago is trying to break in to try It. The prison discipline makes it Impossible for the man to dissipate, the work is so arranged that he will not over exert himself, and regular hours are compulsory the times of retiring and arising always being the same. Irregularity, Dr. Evans concludes, kills men much faster than monotony. The only persons who are 198 likely to find their health benefited by prison life are consumptives. Patrick Kerwin, age 111, died at Johnstown, Pa., on January 4. For Forty years he was a Newfoundland fisherman.

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AMUSEMENTS

THEATRICAL CALENDAR. NEW PHILLIPS. Week of March 9 Vaudeville. GENNETT. March 14 (Matinee and Night) "The Man of the Hour." Week of March 9 Crescent Comedy Company. "The Man of the Hour." That much talked of play, "The Man of the Hour," will be seen here for the first time at the Gennett, matinee and night, March 14. It is safe to say that no play on the American stage today has attained such wide-spread popu-

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ANN HAMILTON, Who Will Be Seen at the New Phillips This

larity. It is a timely play full of dramatic incidents with plenty of comedy and telling a story of human interestDealing with one of the most burning topics of the day. The "grafting" of the political "machine" in many of the great cities of this country is the central theme of the story, the particular delineation being the passage of a bill through the city council giving a perpetual franchise to a street railway. The company presenting the play here is one of the strongest ever assembled for the production of an American play. It includes such well known actors as Orrin Johnson, Robert A. Fischer, Harold Russell, George C. Stanley, Thomas Meighan, William Deming, Samuel C. Hunt. Bennett Southard, Samuel Forrest, Frank Russell, Basil West, Edward Culver and the Misses Frances Ring, Louise Everts and Kate Lester. It is presented under the management of Win. A. Brady and Joseph R. Grismer, whose production of "Way Down East" will be pleasantly remembered. Repertoire at the Gennett. The Crescent Comedy Co., which opens a week's engagement at the Gennett next Monday evening, is certainly receiving the best of press notices wherever the company appears. The company is large and said to be a thoroughly organized one and not a little band of barnstormers. Without doubt it will prove one of the strongest repertoire companies seen here so far this season. Monday night ! the company will present the great! New York comedy drama "The Turn of the Dice." This is a new play and has never been seen here by any other company. The play abounds in pathos, comedy and scenes of excitement so cleverly combined that an audience scarcely recognizes the boundry line between tears, laughter and thrills. Ladies will be admitted free Monday night under the usual conditions. Matinees every day except Monday.

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Vaudeville at the Phillips. Ann Hamilton and Co., in "The Beggars," a Mexican study, with four in the cast, will be the headliners at the New Phillips this week. This act comes with some of the bes press notices of any that has been at the New Phillips in a long time. One of these, from The Press, Grand Rapids, Mich., says: "A notable novelty on the bill is the sketch 'Beggars," which instead of the comedy variety common to vaudeville, is a melodrama, a real thriller, in miniature. Ann Hamilton, who plays the role of Charita in the Mexican study, is an excellent actress." Other than this the bill calls for an overture by Runge's orchestra, which has been made a permanent feature; Week in "Beggars.' Miss Georgia Lewis, singing and talking comedienne; illustrated song, Miss Thompson, "In Dear Old Colorado Where the Hills Caress the Sky", the Great DuBois, with his latest illusion, "Noah's Ark"; Harry Newman, English character comedian and the cameragraph showing "Electric Fluid" Apparently the bill is no ordinary one. The makeup of the Hamilton company includes Charita, a street beggar, Ann Hamilton; Don Martinez, a wealthy Mexican, Percy Herbert; Phillipe, Charlta's father, James S. Hughes; Alphonso, a street musician, Joseph Brandon. The plan of having a single night performance, except on Saturday, has proven popular thus far and will be continued. Wednesday there will be a souvenir matinee and on Saturday a special matinee for the children. The usual invitation for the appearance of amateurs Friday night is extended. WALSH'S ONLY HOPE Asks New Trial Because of Dizzy Mixup of Farmer With Gay Blonde. HE WEARS HER GARTER. Chicago. March 7.-The antics of a farnier" jury and the giddv doings of a cav sobrette. who bestowed unon one of the jurors a silver buckled garter may be made a part of the record of the John It. Walsh case. The story of the chorus girl, described as a "beautiful blonde," became public following the presentation of affidavits by the Walsh attorneys in support of their motion for a new trial. Just which juror is wearing the silver garter may be passed on to the august justices of the supreme court for final adjudication. Meanwhile certain members of the "farmer" panel may be kept busy "explaining" to their respective wives how they were caught in the gay whirl of city life. The scene, according to information in possession of the defense, had its setting in a state street burlesque house. The show had been advertised in a manner to arouse the interest of the most unsophisticated farmer. The "thriller" of the show was a dizzy blonde of marvelous figure, who. after some high kicking that made the jurors sasp. and mop their brows, unsi rapped a gaiter and offered it to the man who would take it from her. Eluding two bailiffs, one of the jurors scrambled in on top of fifty eager candidates and secured the silver memento What effect this haa on the verdict is not clear at this time. HETTY IN $19 FLAT. Richest Woman in America Lives Poorly. New York. March T. "Go away: Stop rinsrins mv heii or I'll scream for the polite. '" was the way .Mrs. Hetty Greeu. the richest woman in America. 'welcomed a taller today, who found her living under an assumed name in a a month flat one block from the ferry in hobokn. Mrs. Green moved to her present hoiu about six wcks a?o. It is on the tourth floor. '

AGENTS DISCOURAGED People Who Offer Affinities at $5 Per, Meet With Obstructions.

A LUCRATIVE BUSINESS. Chicago. 111., March 7. Matrimonial agents who offer to find "affinities" at $3 per, are discouraged at the edict of United States District Attorney Sims and Postoffice Inspector James E. Stuart. The establishment of the guilt of one matrimonial agent, has been followed by grand jury investigations of a number of others, and there have been letters, application blanttj, photographs and affinity literature submitted to the scrutiny of a grand jury. Some of the questions asked in the application were: "What is the value of your property?" "What amount do you expect to inherit?" "What is your disposition?" "Dress stylish or plain?" One picture submitted was of a well-known actress who says she had made no application. Other instances of fradulcnt uses of pictures have been submitted to the grand jurors. In each case the person whose picture had been sent to the applicant denied any correspondence with the bureau. Some of the agencies have advertised extensively in the magazines and papers under such headings as, "Are you unhappy." "Do you want to be married?" "Affinities secured," and tho like. That the matrimonial agency business is a lucrative one is shown by the costly clothing and jewelry worn by the "affinity" finder:?, who have been brought before the United States officers. One recently found guilty maintained a large staff of stenographers, had her motor car, and was sought after socially. WOMAN LIFTED CURSE GIVEN LONG AGO Man Sought Legal Retraction And Got It. Philadelphia, Pa., March 7 A strange legal document by which an aged woman lifts a curse she pronounced thirty-two years ago, has come to light in this city. In 1876, Dennis Comey, a laborer, aged 2S years, who was out of work, quit his boarding house owing the boarding mistress, Mrs. Mary Costello, $90. Mrs. Costello who was then t2 years of age, fell upon her knees and called down the curses of heaven upon him and his. Nothing more was thought of the curses, but neither Mrs. Costello nor Comey forgot the board bill. Some time ago Comey fell heir to money, and Mrs. Costello, who now lives in Atlantic City, ttempted to collect her bill through attorneys. Comey informed the lawyers that he remembered the bill, but would not pay it until Mrs. Costello removed the curses. As he was not satisfied with a verbal retraction, but. wanted legal evidence, Mrs. Costello's representative's for a time were in a quandary. Finally they agreed upon the following retraction and had it signed by Mrs. Costello and attested by witnesses. TARANTULA RATHER THAN NAGGING WIPE Waterbury Doctor Tells Women Few Things in Address. Waterbury, Conn., March 7. "I'd rather live in a soap box with a tar antula than with a nagging wife said Dr. Charles A. Ward in an address before the Martha Washington society. He added: "You are not the whole outfit. Your husband is at least a footman on the rear seat. Do not crush his spirit. You may need a hod of coal or a human back to warm your feet. Do not nag. I'd rather have three mad dogs than a woman angered because her bonnet was out of season. There are. some things in this world besides gaudy clothes and gab. and no amount of style on the exterior will dispel the meaning of an unlaundered interior in the land where soap is king. Remember. I do not 'know it all.' and don't think you do, that's all. I hope god will bless you. but I doubt it. I think He is above blessing some of you."v BELIEVED PARENT DEAD. Ohio Man Finds His Mother After Forty Years. Cleveland. March 7. learning after forty years, during which time he had understood her to be dead, that his mother is living in Brooklyn, N". Y.. as Mrs. Joanna Simons. William P. Hurlburt of this city, a conductor on the Bessemer and Lake Erie railroad, has i left for New York city to join her. The son. born in Norwalk, O.. forty seven years ago. made his home in the Kent. (O.t residence of his father's sister until he was ten years old. When he was .seven the aunt told hiai. in' resj.onse to questions, that his father, a civil war brigadier general, and his mother were dead. A letter from Mrs. Simons, written when nr son wrote to j her on gleaning information of her j v hereabouts from William Morse, a j cousin, whom lie met here, declares the j boy's aunt had let the mofher think for j forty years that the son died a a i child. "Your word ate like h voice from ! the grave." Mrs. Simons wrote. "Come to me."

IRA SWISHER, Manager.

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Wm. A. Brady and Joseph R. Grismer announce the Greatest Play ot Modern Times Tine Mae offline Eomr By George Broadhurst. NOTE The company presenting the play in Richmond, is the same that played two engagements at English's Opera House, Indianapolis, and was personally endorsed by President Roosevelt. It includes: Orrin Johnson, Robert A. Fischer, Harold Russell, Geo. C. Staley, Thomas Meighan, William Deming, Bennett Southard, Samuel Forrest, Samuel C. Hunt, Frank Russell, Basil West, Edward Culver and the Misses Frances Ring, Louise Everts, Kate Lester. PRICES Matinee, 2oc, 50c, 75c, $1.00. Night 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50. Sale of seats will open Thursday at Westcott Pharmacy.

"All Aboard Kiss" On the

This Little Brand Is Original With Richmond and Local Railroad Men Are Responsible for the Novel Name.

Richmond, the railroad center, is al so the headquarters of the "ail-aboard kiss." This type of advanced osculation flourishes in the train sheds of the Pennsylvania depot. For strenuosity and duration the "ail-aboard kiss" can hold its own against any of those frenzied types of osculation which just now are the fad in New York theatric als. The "ail-aboard kiss" has become so ordinary here, however that train announcers, conductors, Pullman porters, trunk wreckers and other railway employes observe it in operation calmly. Here are detailed the workings of the "ail-aboard kiss": Mrs. Jones, newly married, is going to see her mother who lives in -say, Boonoviilc. Mr. Jones accompanies her to the train, possibly rejoicing that it is not mother who is coming here. He arranges all the details of his wife's transportation and baggage, and then escorts her to the sleeping car, wherein a section awaits her. IlavPIE BAD AS WHISKY. Mince Variety Causes Homicidal Brain Storms. New York, March 7. Theodore Sutro, president of the New York branch of the National German- American almost as much crime committed from eating mince pie and mixing ice water with it as through the use of whisky. "Why, then." he asks, "should we not punish the man who sells mince pics, ot winch one man may eat. moderately and healthfully, while another may eat of them immoderately, so that in the pangs of dyspepsia he losses self control and commits acts of violence? The American people drink reservoirs of ice water. The habit is a dangerous one. 'it is impossible to interdict traffic in mince pies and ice water and a hundred other things a person may commit an execs about. It is not only in the krinking of alcoholic liquors that they commit excesses; many ither things that cannit possibly be restrained are abused." TELLS OF ELOPEMENT. Iowa Miss Sorry Because She Married Hired Hand. Tama. Ia!, March 7. Pretty Flossie Dunham, a school teacher of Tama , County, 'JO years old, daughter of Jonas j Dunham, a wealthy farmer near Mon- j tour, eloped with her father's hired j man, Fred Corrick. So years old. The marriage took place at Oskoloosa on December "Jl, but confession has just j been made to the girl's parents. Corrick lives at Bloomfield. and has two grown daughters as old as the bride. The girl now regrets her folly and is with her parents. She was a former student at the State Normal. RABBIT'S FOOT LUCKY. Bridgeport Physician Has Never Had Accident. New York, March 7. "If I hadn't had this I would have been killed," said Dr. Henry Austinger, ajred 60, of Bridgeport, Conn., proudly desplaying a rabbit's foot today at Fifteenth street anil Seventh avenue. The physician had been visiting friends. As he started for a car at the corner he slipped and fell and was badly cut over the left eye. When i a policeman helped him up the phyI slclan pulled the rabbit's foot from his pocket. j "Ive carried this for five years and : have never met with a serious accident or had any hard luck,'' he said. I CHILD WITH TWO TONGUES. Lorain. O.. Match 7. A child with two tongues, which has attained the age of seven years, will he operated upon for the removal of th surplus j member -at St. Joseph's hospital. The child is the son of Fred Myers, of South Lo;ain. While for the time no inconvenience i was suffered, recently it was discovj ered that the child had difficulty in ' breathins as well as swallowing. This i is the first rase known in the world 'and the first in the United States.

Matinee and Night Saturday, March 14

Best Play I Have Ever the Latest Oscillatory Market ing plated her satchel under the seat and hung her effects on various hooks, he gives her a bunch of traveling advice, bestows upon her three tattoo kisses and then leaves the car. In a few moments Mr. Jones is standing under the window of his spouse's section. He smiles at her and she beams back. They wave hands. Mrs. Jones tries to say something through the pane. Mr. Jones pretends he understands. It's a sweet parting. Suddenly Mr. Jones perceives that his wife has left her seat at the window. Ho wanders where she can be. He becomes a wee bit nervous. "Here I am. Charlie." he hears of a sudden. It is shrieked in the shrillest sort, of soprano, and Mr. Jones, on wheeling about, finds that Mrs. Jones has opened the vestibule door and is beckoning to him wiliily. He obeys. "Oh, Charlie. I want to kiss you good-bye just once more," she pleads. The colored porter looks nervously at his watch. "Certainly, dearest," rries Mr. Jones, and he reaches his hand up to hers. "We're ready to start. Ma'am," warns the conductor. Then a series of sibilant explosions sound above the clanging locomotive bell. "A-awl abo-ord!" calls the conductor, vaulting to tho platform. Two smacks follow on the heels of this utterance. The bell clangs, steam hisses, smoke belches, and then the wheels begin to turn. Now will they break away? Not yet. Mr. Jones runs lightly along with the train. Smack: Smack! Narrowly dodging a trunk he projects his face once more ;alas, the pace is too much for him. and he releases his grip. Mrs. Jones, who ha.s almost been dragged off the train, bestows a parting smile ou her fagged husband, then plains the vestibule door. It's all over.

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THE NEW PHILLIPS

G. MURRAY, Lessee. Daily at 3:00 and 8:15; Saturday Night,

A. OVERTURE Runge's Orchestra. and Talking Comedienne. B. MISS GEORGIA LEWIS Singing C. ILLUSTRATED SONG Miss Thompson, "In Dear Old Colorado, Where the Hills Caress the Sky."

Special Matinee each Saturday; children, Z cenU; souvenirs at Wedneg. day's matinee. General admission, 10c. Reserved seats at night, 5c extra. Amateurs Friday night. Those wishing to appear, apply at box oJTicc.

GENNETT THEATRE lntT One Week, Starting Monday, March 9th. The Crescent Comedy Co. In a repertoire of the most euecesKfuI plays, opening with the great comedy drama of New York Iif. THE TURN OF THE DICE. 10 BIG VAUDEVILLE ACTS 10. including the Wilson Children, the Peers of Juvenile Entertainer?, Chiqnita, the dainty little Indian Comedienne. 10c Matinees daily (except Monday), l-adies fre? Monday night under usual conditions. Night pric-es. 10. 20 and CO cents. Seats at Westcott Pharmacy. Tenth year of uninterrupted succss. This Is the best Stock Company of th" kc-jiaoii.

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Skating every Tuesday, Thursday and Satnrflay, morning, afternoon, evening. POLO Look for announcement of BIG GAME, also City League Game Wednesday evening, March 11. Moonlight Souvenir Carnival, Saturday evening, March 7.

VAUDEVILLE .THEATRE WEEK OF MARCH 9. 7:30 to 10:15. D. THE GREAT DUBOIS With bi Latest Illusion. "Noah's Ark." E. HARRY NEWMAN English Character Comedian. F. ANN HAMILTON AND CO. la "Beggars," a Mexican Study. G. THE CAMERAGRAPH "Elec tric Fluid."