Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 96, 4 March 1915 — Page 8
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1915
MASONS ENJOY PROGRAM GIVEN FOR RELATIVES Le Roy Hodge Welcomes Three Hundred Members of Order and Families to
Social by Webb Lodge. The first of a lerles of Masonic soda! erents for the spring; was enjoyed by 850 master Masons and members of their families last night as guests of .Webb lodge. The following program was glrent Selection Welsbrod Saxophone Orchestra. Address of Welcome IRoy Hodge, W. M. Webb Lodge. No. 24. Response Clarence Hunt, W. M. Richmond Lodge. No. 196. Piano Solo C has. Welsbrod. Reading; Miss Harrell. Violin Solo Robert Gentle, assisted by Margaret Oentle. Address Rot. Harry C. Herman. Selection Y. M. C. A. double quartet. Following the program the lodge served a buffet lunch. Card tables were brought In and other means of social enjoyment were opened. A dance was started on the fourth floor and was so well patronized that the large hall was crowded until the closing hour. During the dance, a cabaret i singer was employed. I The guests were the, master Masons j of Webb and Richmond lodge and their families and sojourning and visiting I Masons. i The higher bodies of Masons are I contemplating social events for the i spring season. Soon the Knight Tempf lars will hold an event of a social na- : ture and the Royal Arch Masons are also expecting to entertain. Polo general admission 15c. Reserve Seats 10c extra. 41t ! WEBSTER. I George Paullln spent Sunday with friends and relatives in Dublin. Howard Starr and family spent Sunday with Joe Starr and family of near Richmond. Misses Alta Wilcoxen, Media Brown and Vena Witmer were Sunday guests of their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Lacey are the proud parents of an eleven pound boy, Dudley Leroy. Prlscllla Club Meets. The Prlscllla club met Wednesday afternoon with Miss Mary Williams. Rev. Leslie Bond of Fountain City, preached at the Friends' church Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin were the guests of J. W. Moreland and family Sunday. Clifford Oler, who has been sick for a few days, Is Improving. Several from here attended the lecture at Greensfork Saturday night. James Unthank, Charles Harris and Thomas Moorman, all of Richmond, were In town Monday. A large crowd attended the preaching services at the M. E. church Sunday evening. Henry Bonn and family are moving to their farm near Fountain City. Aid Society Meets. The Friends' Aid society will meet with Mrs. Clinton Commons Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Borton of Richmond, are moving to the George Pitts farm, east of town. Mrs. Luzena Moorman Is seriously 111 with pneumonia at her home, north of here. Arch Knight and family of near Fountain City, are moving to the James Unthank farm, north of town, recently vacated by Henry Bonn. Ml. D. Davis of Richmond, spent the first of the week with her mother, Mrs. Luzena Moorman. City Statistics Marriage Licenses. Samuel Phillip Sellers, 26, C. and O. trackman, Boston, and Classie Ellen 18, city. ntwrence C. Moore, 20, farming, Richmond, and Naomi M. Ford, 18, city. Deaths and Funerals. YOUNG Mary Magdalena Young, 78, died last night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. H. Engelbert, 311 North Ninth street. She was the widow of the late Peter Young and is survived by two sons, John P. Young and Will F. Young of this city, three daughters, Mrs. H. H. Engelbert of this city, Mrs. H. S. Grant and Mrs. T. J. Finn of Chicago, two brothers, John H. Dickman of this city, and Richard Dlckman of New York, and three sisters, Mrs. Louise Tschorging, Mrs. Adle Bicker and Miss Anna Dickman, all of Cincinnati. She was a member of St. Anne's Ladies' society of St. Andrew's church. The funeral will be held Friday morning at 9 o'clock from St. Andrew's church. The burial will be in the parish cemetery. Friends may call this evening at the home of Mrs. H. H. Engelbert, 311 North Ninth street. SMITH Lewis Smith, 79, died this morning at hl3 home two miles west of the city on the Salisbury road. He Is survived by his widow and two children, Mary and Albert, both of whom reside at home. Funeral arrangements will be made later. JONES HARDWARE ARRANGES STOCK Extensive changes are being made In the arrangement of the various departments of the Jones Hardware company with a view to making a more uniform disposition of the stock for the convenience of buyers and salesmen. Heretofore the different lines of stock have been kept on separate floors, but under the new plan a line of stock from each of the more important departments will be displayed on the first floor of the building. The city of San Diego, Cal., has an electric fountain in its largest park. The effect Is produced with colored i lights and an automatic flasher placed behind the water Jets.
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Based on Jack Lalt'e Broadway and Chicago success of the same name, which Is the only play that has satisfied both New York and Chicago in a decade, after first being successfully presented In Chicago. Will be seen here shortly. R. JERROLD R. SCOTT, senior partner of Scott & Son, was In need of a private secretary. When he arrived at his palatial office in one of New York's tallest and handsomest sky scrapers the morning after he advertised in the "Help Wanted" columns of the papers, he . was informed by Crane, his bookkeeper, that quite a crowd of young women were In the outer office waiting to be interviewed by him as to their qualifications for the position. He removed his hat, and seating himself at his flat-topped mahogany de.sk, ordered Crane to send them in, one by one. Mr. Scott was a handsome man of about fifty. His hair was gray; In fact, his gray hair was an obviously well cultivated part of a very distinguished and somewhat handsome personality. He wore tortoise-shell eyeglasses which depended from a broad silk ribbon when he was not using them. Crane brought in the first girl. Scott glanced momentarily at the vacant stenographer's desk across the office from him, then at her. He gave an almost involuntary grimace, and motioned to her to be seated. She sat down in the visitor's chair at the side of his desk. She was very homely, very old maldlsh, with an angular figure and spectacles. Distinctly, she lacked style. Her lack of it amounted to an affectation. "Are you a stenographer?" asked Jerrold R. Scott. "I have been an expert typist for nine years and can take any kind of dictation and have won prizes for rapid operating and " began the young woman rapidly in a nasal, highkeyed voice. "Just a minute," Interrupted Scott, waving his forefinger in languid admonishment "Why did you leave your last position?" "The building burned down." "And the one before that?" "The firm went out of business; the senior partner died." "And the one before that?" "Let me see" The young woman paused a moment and straightened her glasses with a brown-kid-gloved hand. "Oh, yes. That was a lawyer's office. He was arrested for robbing clients and sent to jail." "Merciful Providence!" exclaimed Scott with well-bred irony. "Were you born on the thirteenth?" "No why? Do you think I am unlucky?" snapped out the expert typist. "I'd be afraid of the building falling about my ears." "You're not superst'tious?" There was a note verging on contempt in her practical voice. "No, but I can't take chances." Mr. Scott passed his hand over his handsome gray head. "I'm afraid we're not suited for each other," he added pleasantly. "Am I to understand that you will not employ me?" "I'm afraid that I cannot afford tc court a cataclysm," corrected Mr. Scott mildly. "You will excuse?" He rose and indicated the private door leading from his office to the hall without. The expert typist rose and with a sniff flounced out. He looked after her with a grin, and pressed an ivory button on his desk. When Crane entered he was scrutinized sarcastically by his employer through one of the tortoise-shell-rimmed lenses, held up before one eye like a single-glass lorgnette. It was an affectation of his. "You pick stenographers as you do everything else. Crane. I did give you credit for some sense. Now bring in a human being." Crane retired, and a handsome young woman, with a good, strong chin, clear eyes, and a simple but stylish walking dress, entered and stood before Jerrold R. Scott, who inspected her through his tortoise-shell glasson his nose this time with an expression of returning cheerfulness. "What is your name, please?" he asked politely. Jerrold R. was always and unfailingly, polite. It was due from him to his position in the world. "Catherine Wiggins. Fifteen dollars," she answered. "Do you live at home?" "No, sir," replied Miss Wiggins clearly. "My parents live in a little city In Jersey. I am boarding at the Young Woman's Christian Association's home." "That's an advantage," said Scott pleasantly. "I have been without a secretary for a number of days and considerable work has accumulated. I may want her successor to work with me an evening or two to clean it up." "I'm afraid I couldn't do that." , j ADDS DEPARTMENT TO CHURCH PAPER Beginning this week the American Friend will devote a page In each subsequent issue to the interest of the church In Iowa. This will be known as the "Iowa page." Arrangements for the page have been made by the Evangelistic, Foreign Mission, Bible School, Educational and Young People's Boards of the Iowa Yearly Meeting.
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Honor Against Tremendon Odds "Are your evenings occupied?" "Not especially." replied Miss Catherine Wiggins, looking Mr. Scott over and beginning to smile slightly, "but I have an aversion for night work in office buildings, which I acquired shortly after I began it." "A little unusual," murmured Scott in a meditative tone. "I should fancy your evenings would be tiresome and a bit lonesome a bright young woman like you, all alone." "Sometimes I am lonesome. Most decent girls in a big town are," replied Miss Wiggins pointedly. Scott smiled and twirled his eyeglasses. "No sweethearts?" "Not yet Most of the young fellows are so silly; the older ones appear to be all married." "Does that make much difference if you're real lonesome?" he suggested delicately. "So much difference that I'd rather be lonesome," replied Miss Wiggins crudely. "Ah, come now," pursued Jerrold E. affably, "a harmless flirtation now and then?" "There are no harmless .flirtations." Her prospective employer stiffened visibly in his chair. "I have no especial personal reason for plying you with questions," he explained with dignity, affixing the eyeglasses to the bridge of his nose, "but I always find it interesting to sound the viewpoints of others." Miss Wiggins smiled pleasantly. She was a very pretty and very piquant young woman, all told. Her smile was delicious. "Other people's viewpoints," said she, "come under the head of 'Valuable InformaJon." They so often inconvenience one's best laid plans. Mine along certain lines have, been thrust upon me have not been of my own choosing." (To Be Continued) Another Babel Found at "Y" Modern Babel has been found. It is not in some, metropolis famed as a melting pot for races of the world but right here in Richmond. Men from eight nations in different corners of the world live on the fourth floor of the Y. M. C. A. dormitory. Represented in this cosmopolitan group are men whose homes were at one time in the following countries but who have come to the United States within the last few years: Turkey, Italy, Mexico, England, Ireland, Germany and Austria-Hungary. In addition there are a number of American-born lodgers. Although widely different interests are represented, discussions of the European war never lead to violence. IT'S UP TO WOMAN . TO WIPE OUT SLUMS Progressive cities like 1 New York, Chicago, St. Louis, London, Paris, should have no slums. To eliminate them we need co-operation, consolidation and concentration. Women who have comfortable homes don't realize the danger they Incur in buying cloth ing for the family. It may have been made in a sweatshop. If women would take the trouble they could see that right conditions prevailed for good homes, clean and neat at least, prevailed for everyone. That is the theory of Miss Georgina Roberts, lecturer of the Woman's Political League.
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MILLIONAIRES PLAY WINTER BASEBALL ON CLOSED GROUND Lineups Resemble Clippings From "Who's Who in America" Games Take Place on Million Dollar Lot BY FRANK O. MENKE, Sporting Editor of The International 'Newsservice. Winter league baseball is being played in New York, not behind the old baseburner, nor in the cigar stores and billiard rooms, .but out in the open on a real ball field, no matter what kind of weather afflicts or blesses the country. The league, known as the New York Interclub league, is a very exclusive organization. It is made up . of six clubs and the roster of each looks liko part of "Who's Who in America." Bankers, brokers, judges, lawyers and other business and professional men belong to the different clubs. The majority of the players can sign their checks for one million and more. The games are played on the million-dollar field at Fifth avenue and Seventy-first street. The games are played with an indoor baseball, because of the smallness of the field. The regulation game is seven innings. Season Ends Soon. The season for the crowd of winter leaguers . opened December 5, and it will close May 15. Two games are played every Saturday afternoon. Such a little matter as zero weather or a blizzard never causes a postponement of games. The league was started in the winter of 1912. A grandstand In the field holds about 250 persons and It Is nearly always crowded with fur-covered men and - women spectators. Admission to the games is by Invitation only. "There's all the more fun In it for us when the weather Is bad," said C. P. Duval, president of the league. "You know it's easier for a fellow to make a fadeaway slide when there's alot of ice to slide on. These games gets us out in the open once a week at least, and the exercise we get is a wonderful help to our general health. It puts new life and a new zip into us."
ON TRIP TO JAPAN AS EMPEROR'S GUEST Miss Grace Hemingway, daughter of Anson T. Hemingway, is enroute to Tokio, Japan, to be a guest of the Emperor at the elaborate fete to be given in the Imperial Gardens in April. Because she was known as a close student of Japanese folk 'ore, Miss Hemingway was invited .to be present, along with Dr. Florende Fitch, dean of women in Oberlin college. The wives of the municipal councilors in France have the right to vote in place of their husbands who have gone to war.
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Miss Mary A. Kaufman's Audience Enjoys Blending of Naturalness with Perfect Technique Former Richmond Musician Sings Grand Opera Roles with Eclat of Prima Donna
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. The perfect -ypca art of Mary A. Kaufman, ' the young soprano, native to this city, who is achieving a national reputation as an American singer of the first rank, was demonstrated in the recital given in the high Bchool auditorium last evening. Miss Kaufman is one of the best known and most popular- singers before the public at present and her professional engagements extend from coast to coast. She has appeared with the big orchestras, with famous musical organizations and in individaul recitals all over the country and is everywhere received with enthusiasm. This Is because she unites a voice of natural beauty with a technique which is the result of long years of study. She is not only a singer, she is a musician. Keeps Natural Quality. Unlike many professional vocalists of reputation, Miss Kaufman is not over-trained. . The natural quality of her voice has not been lost in a maze of musical technicalities. It is still fresh and full of brilliant color and hence she makes an appeal to the musician and layman alike. Miss Kaufman's program last evening was arranged to display her virtuosity and versatility and was varied enough to suit every taste, beginning with the famous aria from "Traviata," including lyrlc3 by Schumann, a poetic cycle, and ending with a dramatic exposition from "Madam Butterfly." In Miss Kaufman's bravura numbers, especially in that by Verdi, her command of all the effects possible to a colorature "singer was evident and the volume and range of her vocal organ shown. Indeed, she sings these big operatic numbers with all the eclat of the prima donnes who have made the roles celebrated and does so with a freshness and spontanlety lacking in many of the former. In vivid contrast is her lyrical intemretation as in "A Spirit Flower," an enchanting song, and In the "Joy of the Morning," by Ware, whicn conjured up visions of a radiant land scape painted by some great artist. German Songs Please. The group oi German songs was one of the best things of the evening, especially good being the Sinding and Dvorak numbers and the brief dramatic excerpt by Wolf. It was Miss Kaufman's virtuosity, however, that was most musically interesting, her sustained pianissimo, her perfect phrasing, her nusances of tone, her fine artistic restraint, those Piles Quickly Curod at Homo Pyramid Pile Remedy gives quick relief, stops Itching, bleedJna or protruding plies, hemorrhoids and all rectal troubles, in the privacy of your own home. Pyramid Pile Kemedy Is for sale at all druggists. 60o a box. A single box often cures. A trial treatment will be mailed free It you mall coupon below. FREE SAMPLE COUPON PYRAMID DRTTO COMPANY. 627 Pyramid Bldg.. Marshall, Mich. Kindly send me a Free sample of Pyramid Pil Remy. In plain wrapper. Name Street City...'... State. the Mystery then follow it in the movies. ent Saturday.
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taca, the freedom of her control, if it can anacLonistlcallv so hn nut h.r use of all the legitimate devices of the musical art to gam effects this it was that elicited admiration and ap plause. Miss Kaufman repeatedly bowed her acknowledgements and, in two instances, responded by a repetition of the encored number. . Mr. Edwin W. Glover, Miss Kaufman's accompanist, shared in the applause, Mr. Glover being possessed of undoubted artistic gifts and being a factor in the success of Miss Kaufman's recital. Mr. Glover is a well known choral director and organist whose home is in Cincinnati. NEUTRAL MEASURE GIVES "WHIP" HAND TO CHIEF EXECUTIVE BY LEASED WIRE. WASHINGTON, March 4. President Wilson today held the whip hand in the war situation as the result of the passage by congress last night of the neutrality resolution. This measure gives the president power to deal with any of the shipping complications likely to arise in the near future. It em powers him to stop all ships of Amer ican registry rrom leaving American ports if he thinks that any grave danger of suspicion attaches to their voy age. It Is recognized that the govern ment war risk bureau might suffer heavy losses if American ships were allowed to take hazardous chances In the war zone. The action of the president under the resolution will, of course, depend upon developments of the immediate future In the negotiations now going on between the United States and England.
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