Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 110, 13 March 1912 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1913.

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pimp 01 nno tii v OF CONSOLIDATION Suggestion Made by Y. M. B. C. Directors to Commercial Club Officials at the Banquet Last Night. (Continued from rage One.) Bess club have specialized on, are not to be loat aiKht of In the event of the merger. Kail festivals and all public enterprlaea of that nature will be handled by tbe Commercial club. One of tbe thing touched on last night In the talks by directors was the possibility of a home for the Commercial club. With a membership of 600 or mdre, it was pointed out, and with only one organization, the chance seemed good for such a club being enabled to purchase ground and erect 'an attractive and commodious home with many features for social com 'fort which neither club now enjoyed. The suggestion that should the merJger take place the name of tbe Commercial club might be changed, was discussed, but. the opinion generally "aa expressed that there should be ;jjo change. The Vernons, Skaters Supreme, will be at Coliseum Thursday and Saturday, these 'clever Skatorial artists, apipearing each evening in their fancy and trick acts arranged each with electric lights while the rink is in darkness. Ad(mission, 10c. "2t WIGGAM NOW WITH BLACK JACK Howard "Kid" Wiggam. who has put ton a number of bouts In this city and 'who haa acted as trial horse of the Indianapolis middleweight boxers, yesterday joined Champion Jack Johnson's retinue and made bis first appearance as a sparring partner of the "big smoke" at Indianapolis last night. Wiggam boxed three rounds starting out swift but slowing down when Jack ahoved a right hook to the jaw. Johnson says Wiggam will be all right when he gathers more experience. "Kid" probably will continue with Johnson for the remainder of his trip. Johnson is Interested In the challenge Issued by Charles Olson, the Indianapolis light heavyweight wrestling champion, who has offered to wrestle Johnson for a large side bet. Johnson aaya he will take Olson on whenever the latter la ready. A PROBLEM IN FIGURES. It 'Seared the Mathematician, but the Wmm sUlwul It. One day a teacher of mathematics iwent shopping with bia wife. He tagged along, listlessly from counter to counter until tney came to tbe dress trimmings department, and there he found something In his line. Said bis wlfo to the saleswoman: "How wide la that gold spangled black crape" "Three-eighths of a yard," said the girL "How much Is It a yard?" "Three dollars." "Well," said the professor's wife, "bow much of three-eighth wide material will It take to put four six-Inch strips around a two and three-quarter yard skirt that Is seven Inches narrower lit the knees than It is at tbe bottom, and how much will It cost?" At tbe first mention of those figures the professor's head began to reel, and It reeled tUIl more when bis wife and the girl got out pencils and paper and began to do their sum. Presently bis wife said: "Here, dear; 70a know all about mathematics. Help us solve this problem, won't you?" But the professor said: "Excuse me: , 1 feel faint: 1 must get a little fresh air." and lgnemlnously fled. Ills wife came borne with exactly tbe amount of material required, and tbe professor took her word for it that abe didn't pay a cent too much. Philadelphia Ledger. RECEIVER'S SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, as .Receiver of the Quaker City Printing & Publishing Co., of Richmond. Indiana, by virtue of an order and decree of the Wayne Circuit Court of Indiana,' will offer for sale and sell at public auc tion, subject to the approval of said Court, at the office of said company over numbers 1? and 19 North Eighth street In the City or Richmond. Wayne County, Indiana, at two o'clock P. M. on Saturday, March 30, 1912, the certain personal property of the said company, consisting of one linotype machine, one safe, printing presses, electrical motors, type and cases, typewriters, fixtures, supplies and equipment... Bald property Is to be sold upon the following terms, to-wlt: Where the amount purchased does not exceed Ten Dollars, cash will be required to d paia; on an sums aoove Ten ixm- , lars a credit of six months will be given upon tbe purchaser executing his notes for the amount of the purchase price, waiving valuation and appraisement laws, with security to be approved by the receiver. - In case any or all of the above de- ' scribed property should not be sold at public auction on said day, the same will be held and offered thereafter by the undersigned at private sale on the above terms until sold. Phillip H. Bobbins. Receiver. tuar 1320

HAT I AS TOLD TO. Itasl) S.TW Won By JIM DOYLE. Third Baseman Chicago National League Team, and Who Is Con. sidered the Most Sensational Find of 1911. Tou know we "bushers" come to think after a time in the minor leagues that there isn't much more to learn about baseball. Then we wake up. I saw a play made this season that opened my eyes to how little we young fellows may know, and bow much we have to learn before we are up to some of tbe leaders. Frank Cbanre made the play. It wasn't one of those spectacular plays that catch the crowd, and most of those who saw it slmiy thought it was a fast bit of work on the part of our manager. The fellows on the field and bench saw what he did and realized how fast he must have been thinking to see the play at all, and how rapidly he figured to make it possible. The way he made tbe play opened my eyes .to the possibilities of infield playing I mean, of making plays that count. It was in a game at Pittsburg early in the season, and I was just starting at third base and was a little anxious to get everything. I kicked one that Clarke hit and let him get to first base with no one out, and they Jimmy Doyle. had a chance to tie up the game or win it right there, as we had only one run to the good. The next ball hit was one of those slow high bounders straight to me, so I went running in and grabbed the ball. Clarke and Leach bad been playing hit and run, and when I got the ball Clarke was too near second to try for him. so I cut loose to first. Just as I threw I heard Chance yell: "(let back!" and ran back to third. Theq Chance made the play. lie could have staid on first and retired Leach, but if he stuck to the bag Clarke would reach third before he could get the ball back to me. Chance didn't wait for the ball but ran forward, met it ten feet inside first, and shot it back to me, getting Clarke easily. He made the play to prevent Clarke reaching third with one out. As it turned out, Wagner hit a long fly to Schulte that would have scored Clarke, but left Leach rtlll on first, and he never got any further. (Copyright, 1911, by TV. G. Chapman.) Had a Lively Voyage. Several startling incidents marked the voyage of the Muncaster Castle which put into Boston harbor the other day from Asia. A man-sized ourang outang escaped from its cage, nearly killed its keeper, . and wrecked an officer's cabin. The Chinese guardian, whom the furious animal j tried to claw to pieces, ran screaming j down tbe full length of the liner with j tbe ape In pursuit, and for a while the I utmost consternation reigned on board. The animal was eventually captured while it was devouring a cake of coap. A Japanese bear broke loose from its cage, too, and was with difficulty, decoyed back Into captivity. Tbe cages, which had been purchased in Japan at a bargain, were so frail that they gave constant trouble. A pathetic incident occurred off Sokatra Island in the Indian Ocean. There, while one of the crew was feeding, a number of monkeys, 30 of them escaped. After being chased over the deck by the crew, they threw themselves overboard and were drowned. Childhood's Frankness. The Ladles' Neighborhood club had enjoyed a luncheon at the house of one of Its members. Little Ransom, calling for bis mother after school, was directed by the hostess to slip out. into the kitchen and partake of any goodies that he might see. 614 several other children had been before him, and the kitchen resembled Mother Hubbard's larder. So back went Ransom to his mother, with a disgusted air. "Let's go home and get something to eat. mamma," he remarked, in an audible whipser. "There doesn't seem much to eat here today!" Seats for Bryan Lecture at the Murray. BOOKS TO Y. M. C AT". Thirty books from the library of the late Alvin B. Clark, the violin maker, have been contributed to the Boys' library at tbe Young Men's Christian association, as a memorial to Mr. Clark. The books were contributed through Everard Knollenberg.

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When the Fact Is You Don't Know What .You're Talking About. Appreciation of Art, in Any Phase, Only Follows Ability to Discriminate.

BY E8THER GRIFFIN WHITE. The other day the writer picked up -a city paper and saw conspicuously flaunted the pictures of the principals of "Martha" who appeared in the pro duction of the Aborn Grand Opera J Company here last winter Samaloff, j the tenor, .Jane Abercrombic. the so-j prano, wiuiam snuster, tne oasso, ana De Sellem, the contralto, these under the head of "Aborn Company grand opera stars." Attention is merely called to this be cause much misapprehension seems to j have existed, and to be still current, with reference to various theatrical "offerings" here during the past sea son. J Iff was said that the people who gave 1 "Martha" here were '"understudies," j and much indignation was expressed ; over this, although why, it was diffl-1 cult to understand, since these people , all had excellent voices and interpret-; cd their roles intelligently. Nobody expects a company like the Metropolitan to come to Richmond. But be that as it may. there were no "understudies" performing here. These people were as advertised. Cuts or pictures of them appeared in the daily papers before their appear- i ance. As stated here before the Aborn ! Company, which makes no pretentions to being other than a good touring ! organization of its sort, doesn't carry j "understudies." ; A company of this sort can't afford it. They have this season a repertoire , of six operas and three castes. These j appear alternately. I . It wa3 originally intended to give "Madame Butterfly" here but this was changed to "Martha" at the request of a number of persons. j If the former had been presented J none of the four principals who ap-! peared in the latter would have been seen or heard here Some one said the other day "Isn't it a shame the way they are palming off understudies on Richmond j for the original companies?" ! No doubt the speaker reallv thought ! this to be the case. j But there are other persons who are j determined to give the local theatrical j situation a black eye whether or no. Or else they do not take the trouble to inform themselves. j It is skid that "Naughty Marietta" j as presented here was advertised as ' the original. j This was not the case in any way. Madame Tretini was the original . "Naughty Marietta." But this year Hammerste'n sent out a second company with a number of 1 notable principals and "featured" Flor-' ence Webber, a young and beautiful ' girl who was seen here two seasons ago in the first presentation of "The Climax." t - Florence Webber is not, as stated, j Tretint's "understudy." She never was. And isn't now. And never will be. She is being starred and Fuccessfully so. The reason some people didn't like "Naughty Marietta" was because they were unable to distinguish between genuine comic opera, as is this production, and musical comedy. j The taste of the public has been so ' depraved by the mongrel thing called "musical comedy" a theatrical halfbreed, an illegitimate offspring of the drama that it is incapable of distinguishing the pseudo from the real or j one class of theatrics from another. , "Naughty Marietta," as presented I here, was straight comic opera and ex cellent at that. Victor Herbert, the composer of its score is known to this country and the world as one of the most accomplished of American writers of music, in addition to being a musician and orchestral director. The opera was effectively staged, the principals were all superior, Miss Webber herself is the possessor of a .charming personality and a beautiful voice, and is, what many opera singers are not a clever actress the dancing of the chorus was graceful and artistic and, altogether, it has been many a long day since Richmond has seen anything to equal this production. Musical . comedy, as has been said, has debauched the average theatregoer's taste. It, for one thing, insists , upon the conspicuity of the chorus which dominates in theatrics of this class. On the other hand the chorus is always subsidiary to tbe principals and the dramatic action and the voices of the principals in opera, either comic, light or grand. Notwithstanding the shabbiness of the setting and tbe chorus in "Martha" it was a good thing for the town to have had this opera presented here r for the principals were good and, in two cases, superior. And there was no discounting the advantages of "Naughty Marietta." So far as the chatter about "understudies" is concerned it is meaningless as applied to anything that has appeared in Richmond. Nobody's understudy has been seen here this season. To say that "understudies" appear in Richmond Is to argue yourself the

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atrically unsophisticated- For nothing is easier to know than that such things don't happen in this town. Second companies, third and fourth may hold down the boards and unspeakable theatric sins be committed in the name of some celebrated star but understudies seek other end jucier fields. The trouble is that people want to appear' so horribly sophisticated. They regard it as a mark of distinction and metropolitan elegance to be suspicious of everything that wags up' toward Main street. All you have to do is to-consult a theatrical paper to find out. anything and everything you want to know. In them you will find every company of every production listed and its itinerary mapped out. The matter in Richmond is the mat ter everywhere as to matters theatrical. The managers are beginning to see the handwriting on the wall. And it is writ large that prices must come down. More and more does the taste of the day rv.n to the capsule variety. Its the vaudeville sketch, the moving picture, the one act play, the novelette, the short story. People have neither time nor inclination for prolonged contemplation. The life of the present is hurried, hectic, wandering in its attention vague, skimming the surfaces, licking off the Bugared top. Life burns nowadays like a heated fever. It flames hot and it dies down to ashes in a flash. t Nothing lasts. What is wanted is intelligent comprehension and appreciation based on knowledge. This is an end that is going to be accomplished musically through the Symphony orchestra. An organization which can present the very highest phase of an art, repeat and reiterate, and present it over and over without exhausting its own infinite variety or the artistic patience of its auditors that is the medium through which discrimination is achieved. The most disinterested, altruistic and idealistic movement ever started in Richmond is that of the Symphony orchestra. No art is so persuasive, so universal in appeal, so gripping in its individual influence as the musical. A love of good music in a community argues a spirit of refinement and aestheticism. But music must be understood. Comprehended. .And this cannot be without constant presentation. You must hear it over and over and over you must become intimate with its interpreters, both human and inanimate. . You must have the open mind. You must be ready, willing, anxious to be convinced. It is not at all "what I like." It is what is good. And when you have arrived at the place where you can discriminate, without personal prejudice or predilection, between what is artistically good and artistically bad, and know why you can distinguish, and know that it is good or bad, whether you like it or not can acknowledge its 'excellencies and deplore its defects as an art not as something you do or do not like then you have ar rived at. a point of artistic consciousness which lands you in the "culture" class. Culture is merely an ability to intelligently and fairly discriminate. To know and know why you know. This is what theatre-goers need. It is its lack which makes the theatre what it is today. For, say what you will, it is the people on this side of the foot-lights who decide. They get exactly -what they want and demand. Ths Preacher's Closing Word. The members of the Rev. Dr. Fourttaly's congregation settled themselves resignedly in their seats. He bad Just said, "One word more, and I have done." The doctor looked keenly at them over his glasses for a moment Then he closed tbe book in front of him. "Amen!" be said. Chicago Tribune. Colonist Low Fares In March and April Northwest West' Southwest Full particulars free at any Ticket Office of Pennsylvania (m) Lines Does He Kich? Perhaps the harness or collars Pinches the horse. PINCHING HARNESS is in tbe making not tbe cost. When you drive with harness of onr make you have the satisfaction of knowing that they fit your horse, and feel comfortable and work better. LET. US REPAIR YOUR HARNESS. CUPPER KNIVES sharpened von. tbe latest Improved machine mors Dsrcesa Sre

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MISS ELSIE COE. REV. W. D. McFARLAND. PITTSBURG, Pa., March 13. The Rev. W. D. McFarland, sixty years of age, was arraigned before the bar of justice in the Criminal Court today to answer for the death of his pretty former secretary, Elsie D. Coe. The trial will be replete with sensational incidents, as it is said that detectives have uncovered a very interesting past of the aged Presbyterian minister. Rev. McFarland was implicated in the dying statement of his secretary, and a coroner's jury held the minister responsible for the death. REAL ESTA TE TRANSFERS Willard B. Dye to Gilbert Wright, Feb. 24, 1912. $10,750. Pt. S. E.& S. W. 4 sec. 8, Pt. N. E. sec. 17-17-14. Willard B. Dye to Fred E. Teas, Mar. Jl, 1912. $1.00. Lot 7, Dye & Price add. Richmond.- " David Hawkins to Emeline Elleman, Mar. 11, 1912. $1. Lot 14, Hawkins Springs. Frank J. Hunt to Ed Barton, Feb. 19, 1910. $300. Pt. N. E. 4 sec. 32-14-1. Susan J. Reid to Ulic R. Stanton, Feb. 26, 1912. $1. Pt. Lot 47. J. Cox add. Richmond. Harry B. Watt to Leota Farr, Mar. 9, 1912. $1,225. Pt. S. E. sec. 29-15-1. Fred F. Teas to Willard B. Dye, Mar. 11. 1912. $1,800. Pt. Lots 63, 64, 65. Grand Boulevard sub. Richmond. William Jennings Bryan, Gennett, Thursday, 3 p. m. Easily Ovardona. Don't spend all your spare time taking advantage of tbe right of .free speech. Atchison Globe. The Proportion. Knicker Did he speak at a dinner? Bocker No; be ate at a talk. New York Sun. SOMETHING NEW Crcsel, fiixed IOC vegetaDies lor soup, per caa COOPER'S GROCERY WANTED YOUR MACHINE AND REPAIR WORK ' BALLINGER GIBBS MACHINISTS REAR 220 LINCOLN STREET Phone 3040 or 3158 ' , MAKE NO MISTAKE, BUT USE For tbe blood, and kino. red ails. Noth ing better; try it. At all drug stores Skdlfctfk Ilickcry lints The New Crop, Genuine Shellbark Nuts, per Bushel, $250 MULFORO & SCHAEFER 603 Main Street RAIGHEA1

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SUFFRAGETTES LEAD CAPITOL IHVASIOH Address House Judiciary and Senate Suffrage Committee on Pet Subjects. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, D. C March 13. Led by Jane Addams of Hall House, Chicago. Dr. Anna Shaw and . Mrs. Florence Kelley, more than one hundred advocates of equal suffrage appeared at the capitol today. They addressed the judiciary committee of the house and the woman's suffrage committee of the senate, advocating the equal suffrage bill now pending before congress. The entire board attended the hearing before the committee.

Tbe arrangements for the hearing were made my Mrs. Kent of California, Mrs. Owen of Oklahoma, Mrs. La Foljlette of Wisconsin. Mrs. Stone of Illi nois, Mrs. Burleson of Texas, and Miss Gillette and Mrs. Wiley of the District of Columbia. Addresses were made by the Rev. Anna Shaw, Miss Addams, Mrs. Louis Brandeis. Prof. Sophronla Breckenridge of the University of Chicago, Miss Susie Fitzgerald, Miss Alice Blackwell, Miss Mary Bennett and Miss Jessie Ashley and Mrs. Harriet Laidlaw. Had Fereaignt. "That man Mehltable married has a lot of foresight,' said Farmer Corntossel. "He looked kind of worried and scared at the weddln'," replied his wife. "That's what makes me think be has foresight." Washington Star. Routine Resumed. Master So you have friendly doings with your. brother's people once more? Pat Yls. sir. His family and ourn do be scranpin' again as if they'd niver bin parted -Harper's Bazar. Hia Part. Little Hazel Papa, what did yon say to mamma when you liade np your mind you wanted to marry her? Mr. Meek I said, "Yes. dear." Cas sell's Journal. Home Is tbe seminary of all other in stitutions. Chapin. Prefer diligence to Idleness unless you esteem mat above brightness. - OLIVER VISIBLE TYPEWRITER For Sale Cheap. Perfect condition and does splendid writing. Could ship on' approval and trial. Write to Charles W. Rickart. Rosedale, Kans OUR COFFEE Is Roasted Every Day at the Store It Will Please You H.G.Hadley DR. DYKEMAN (Masonic Temple Building) 4 Nitrus. Oxide and Oxygen (Gas) Administered for Extraction Our

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OH WRECKED TRAIN? Lee B. Nusbaum and Miss Conroy Not Heard From.

Lee B. Nusbaum, proprietor of the Lee B. Nusbaum dry goods store may ' have been on the ill-fated New York Central train wrecked near Poughkeepsie today. He and Miss Margaret Conroy, one of bis buyers, left this city the first of tne week to go to the east to buy goods. Relatives here received a letter from him this morning stating he was getting out of Cleveland last evening. He usually takes this train, and relatives and friends here fear he might bave been injured. No word from Mr. Nusbaum has yet been received and Mrs. Nusbaum is in a very nervous condition. No word has been received from Miss Conroy up to late today and her relatives are very uneasy. . Now You can keep the water-closet bowls as white as new

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