Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 January 1896 — Page 1

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ON THE QUI VIVE.

It is announced that the city commissioners will submit their first report in the matter of the proposed opening of Ohio street to the city councilat the meeting next Tuesday night. They have decided that the property benefitted by the proposed opening will be included in the territory from the river east to Nineteenth street, from Ohio south to Poplar and north to Main street. East of Thir* teenth street, however,-the south line of the benefitted territory will be Orchard street. It is to be hoped that the eftort to open the street will meet with greater success than did the last one, made in the latter part of 1888 and early in 1889. The commissioners went through the regular proceedings at that time, and made a report to the council that the damages to the E. & T. H. road would amount to $100,000 and that the benefits to the property would amount to $10,965.00, leaving "a iittle balance," as the report said, for the oity to pay of $89,035— but the report paralyzed the council, and was «*»nt b*«k to the commissioners, with instructions, given in a resolution offered by Attorney Tom Donham, then a member of the counoil, to fix the damages to the railroad company at a figure not to exceed $5,000 and the beuefits to tbe city and the property owners at the same figure. The commissioners held another meeting in

March, 1889, and reported to the council again, to the effect that they had examined witnesses and in consequence thereof had reduced the benefits to prop erty owners and the oity at just onehalf the former fi?urea, viz.: $5,432,20. But they reported that they had thor oughly Investigated the matter in regard to the railroad compaay, and could not reduce the figures given in the first case as to the damages to the railroad company, $100,000, and therefore by the second report they found that the oity would have to pay,in the neighborhood of $93,000 for the privilege of opening and maintaining a thoroughfare over Ohio street. In support of their report they submitted an estimate prepared by Capt. A. B. Fitch, who had been before that, and was afterwards, oity engineer, as to the actual damage the railroad company would sustain by the opening of the street as desired. In the 0001*86 of

the street as aesireu. iu

his report he said, and It is of interest „f

now, when it is proposed to again en deavor to open the street: "This yard extends from Wabash avenue to Poplar street, and is substantially 1300 feet long bj.m of ground to the railroad company can not be manured by the value of adjoining property,' or in fact by any other property in the city. Its value is ia its unbroken length, in its convenience to the business center of the oity, and in its location affording easy and intimate connection for exchange of business with all the roads centering here. The line of the road entering tbe ctty is adjusted to reach this espeoial plot of ground. So advantageously situated, and without either buildings or tracks this ground is easily worth more than one hundred thousand dollars. In a vital or essential part to its usefulness you appropriate six per oent. of the whole area of this grouud. You also appropriate, or destroy, the use of 1,040 feet of traoks fsr the railroad in order to have the same storage oapaoity for oars would be obliged to prooure a location and build that amount of additional traok, and maintain both the old and new traoks. You would require the railroad to oover with planks the roadway and sidewalks of Ohio street across their thirteen trackb. You would oreate the most dangerous death trap in the city, and leave the railroad company to pay the bills. To reduce this dauger and expense to the minimum they would be obliged to erect g*tes and signals that oould be operated by one man from a high •oabin,' alternately shutting out the publio and the railroad from the use of this crossing. With the growth of the city and tbe business of the railroad this hindrance

Id finally nearly deuble to the railcompany the present oost of doing work in this yard. Slnoe the oity is this death trap, from which it J»e impossible to eliminate all the er, it is proper to consider and estiae well as possible the additional this will entail upon the raljroad rompany." From the increased force „,' neoessary to handle the business of the railroad oompany, under the proposed new condition, Mr. Fitch prepared an estimate of the damage the company would sustain should the street be opened. Here are his figures: :mm

ores will

For cost ot switching service, increased, per year

7,462

For litigation and payment* to people injured, per year 8,000 For day and night watchmen to operat« gates aud signals, per year ... 900 For maintenance and renewal of 1,WQ feet of traoks (10 per cent of cost), per year '208 For maintenance and renewal of gates and signals (5 per cent), per year 100 For maintenance and renewal of plank crossings and sldewalks( 15 per cent), 4§| ||per year .Vi V-*5'* lotal additional cost per annum 111,788 Which capitalized at 6 per eent amounts to 1195.550 Add for land taken ®»000 Add for 1,040 feet of tracks at 12... 2,080 Add for cost of board crossings .... «20 Add for gates and signals 2,000

Total damage. ......... .#306,050 Jilt is needless to say that when this report was made to the council the members fell over in a trance, and when they came to they immediately proceeded to

is "where I "found it. \nd there is where it Is likely to forever lay, if it is going to cost the oity any suoh sum as this to open Ohio street, Ohio street should be

opened beyond all question, and the oity should make some effort to have it opened, but before the subject is scone into very deeply, or muotf expense undertaken, the subject should be thoroughly Investigated. The railroad company will fight every Inch of the way against theopeningof the thoroughfare, and this means an endless expense. It must be fpught through the lower courts, through thesupreme court of the state, and then on some question of constitutional law through the supreme court of the United States. Just what this will cost no man can prepare a reliable estimate. When the other board of oity commissioners agreed on the territory that would be benefitted by the opening of the street they fixed it within the following boundaries: All property abutting Ohio street from Eighth street to Fourteenth and running one-half square north and south from Ohto. They fixed the benefits at $2 75 per foot on the Ohio street property from Eighth to the railroad, and east of the latter to Fourteenth at $2.50 pei lineal foot. The board of commissioners at that time consisted of James H. Turner, Marcus Schomehl, Joseph Frisz, J. T. S-ovel and J. L. Humaston. Of these, Mr. Frisz is still a member of the board, while three members are dead—J. H. Turner, Marcos Solio.ua eh I and John Humaston.

vauiv mm, ut&uor px-moi rogtwo uo »m lay the report on the table. And there allowed only actual time, but even this L. IFT IVT/T KAMI LA HTKAM A must be reformed. Qui VIVE.

In this connection it is interesting to note that on Thursday morning last, for the first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, Ohio street was opened across the traoks. It just happpened that all the cars had been switched out of the yards, and there was a clear, thoroughfaie across the traoks. A great many residents in the immediate neighborhood who had never before witnessed such a condition made a note of it, and January 16th will hereafter be a red-let-ter day in the annals of E. fc T. H.-Ohio street controversy.

The latest gossip in political circles is that Levi G. Hughes,ex-county recorder, is an aggressive candidate for the Democratic nomination for shoritt this year. This has heretofore been conceded to Louis Seebureer ou account ot the bard fight he made two years ago, and the entrance o{ another candidate in the field may lead to complications. It is also reportod that Samuel H. Smith, better

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as tbe chairman of the Democratic com mittee this year, a position for which some of the friends of Chas. R. Duffin have been pushing him.

& e- News of the outhfetfk of actual hostilities in Venezuela, or of the renewal of the war In the Transvaal would not have created one ten-thousandth part of the excitement on Wall street this week as did tbe rumor that tbe "Lexow committee" of the bar association was ready to make its report. Th» rumor went sailing down Printing House Square, turned into Ohio street with a rush and a whirl that made pedestrians believe that the much-heralded blizzard had arrived on time. Up the stairways it went, filling every nook and cranny with the reverberations of the dreadful news. Finally when it reaohed the oourt house it struck the building so hard that the bell in the olook rang out loud and clear. Then it was investigated, and the report was found to be untrue. The Lexow committee is not ready to report just yet. It is neocessarily obliged to "take some more test! mony" before it can report to Judge

Taylor that everything is, as beautiful and serene as a summer morn. When the joyous bells ring out ushering in a new century, the Lexow oommittee will probably be still engaged in taking some more testimony to establish the faot that the ethics of the profession have never, no never, been violated, donoher know.

The selection of committeemen and chairmen is not the only evidenoe that an election is approaching. The attack that has been made^ by the Demooratio organ, the Gazette, on Sheriff Butler and the Republican county commissioners for the allowance of bills for feeding tramps at tbe jail emphasizes that faot. The Gazette is as sincere in its belief in reform—in the other fellows—as it was when it attaoked tbe sheriff for not putting a stop to the sparring contest between Tommy White and Johnny VanHeest some time ago. These sparring contests had taken place during Sheriff Stout's term, and the paper was wonderfully quiet abotit the violation of tbe law, but as soon as one took place during tbe term of a Republican sheriff a demand was made on him to suppress the fight, which, if not sanctioned, at least was not ordered stopped by the Democratic police commissioners. Uncle Jimmy Cor, the looal "wateti dog of the treasury," assisted in making political capital out of the sheriff's bill by entering a protest to Its allowance. The records of the proceedings of the county oommis sioners do not show that Mr. Cox ever entered any protest on the records against the allowance of the bills of Sheriff Stout, although he claims that he always objected to them. One of the peculiarities of politics is that we are always dead set for reform in the methods of our friends, the enemy. During Sheriff Stout's incumberioy of the sheriff's office he was allowed two,

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days for

every prisontr who was entered one day and discharged the next for instance, in the case of a man who was entered at eleven o'clock one night and discharged at seven tbe next morning, the sheriff would be allowed two days time for him. Under the present regime he is

sees many a harrow-

Tttfj very minute I saw the picture I said/to marself, in that confidential way in whichone does talk to one's self, "I must see that woipnan!" Arid by this I dfiln't mean simply seeing her on tbe stage, or seeing her after the fashion of reporters, but as one woman sees another. Tbe picture? Well, she was standing in front of a gpirror with her faoe turned partly toward you, and drawing the laces of her stays. And she had done it so correotly that ray admiration was hers and my ouriosity to see her, personally, was quite as great as Lombroso says curiosity is developed in a woman with fair hair and dark eyes. (Bye-the-bye, though, he says this isn't a mean curiosity it is an intellectual one). In the pioture her stays were drawn in properly at'the waistline and spread out broadly and beautifully about the bust and the hips. Said I: "The woman who draws her laces in that fashion has brains" the average woman pulls ber laces up and down just as closely as she oan, so that neither bust nor hips have an opportunity to develop, sbe oan't laugh with enjoyment, and her poor arms have no. opportunity to ex press themselves. And Yvette Guilbert certainly manages to express very much with those long, slender arms and wonderful hands of hers

THE FRENCH ARTISTS IDEAL. Dumas, tbe master of the heart of wo man, and the art of the stage, said there were only two things worth considering in a play or a book, woman aud love Believe me. Yvette Guilbert is worth studying. It makes no difference whether she speaks or not, and yet it does. For centuries" poets have said there was a fascination in the silence of the Sphinx. Take my word for it, there is more fascination in the speech of yroman, especially when you realize that her speech conceals h«r thoughts. Here is a woman, not beautiful, as we reckon I beauty, and yet the greatest artists in

France have thought it worth while to paint her, while that artist who draws the designs, the finest ones, for th.e Sevres vases took Yvette Guilbert as a model, and gave tfianks for the permission to pioture her. Sbe belittles ordinary beauty. The pink and white, the blue eyes, the small mouth, the dimpled figure with its eighteen inch waist becomes as nothing beside this woman, whose figure is natural, whose eyes 4re-^ .what colttf^ai^^heyX^I-^^yjM^Mfe^bjteu about them—since they first looked on the world, humanity has been theiir book, and they have read it well. Her hair is red, a peifeot red, with not a dash of crimson in it, ber skin is white, her mouth is large, her teeth are exquisite, and in ten minutes speech with her, that mouth assumes hundreds of curves that each mean something.

Sarah Bernhardt becomes nothing of a riddle before Yvette Guilbert. She says how kind the world has been to her. I look at her, and she isGavroohe. The poor little street boy, well acquainted with the slang of the day, clever, sympathetic, keen and yet willing, because somebody else is oold, to wrap his ooat about it. Somebody, some reporter, wrote a story whioh was said to tell of the

LOVE OP YVETTE GILBERT'S LIFE. Bah! Women with eyes like hers don't tell of their loves they suffer them 1 they live in them, and sometimes they die of them. Somebody else, meaning to be polite and remembering her fondness for the white gown and black gloves, compared her to a bird. Never. Unless she was a dove who sat on one of the trees in Paradise and cooed and wondered, as she heard the serpent tempting Eve. Sbe looks as if she might carry out the theory of transmigration—as if she had known the history of every woman's heart since the world began. And men see her, and call her ohio, which she is, and call her peculiar, whioh she is, but it takes always a woman to discover what she really is—the Sphinx of the Nineteenth Century. "I say to her what costume do you like?"

There is a iightin the eyes, those wonderful eyes, that suggest femininity and its love for chiffons. And sbe says, "I like a very quiet dress. I like a blaok dress, and one in which while I loo, well I am not noticeable."

There is a toss of the head, a s^ftig of the shoulders, a movement of those beautiful hands, and I realize that it is not Gavroche, the gamin, up to all the argot and all tbe tricks of the street) to whom I am talking, but the grand dame. 44•'But for the evening?" The bands give a kind of a whirl as if tbey compassed all the lilies in the world, and she answers "^hite before everything else. White in beautiful dinging stuflh, aud no jewels." Then I remember what Balzac says abotit oo'.ora. "Black apparently subdues, but it has an inexpressible fascination, while white, although it looks virgin-like is powerful in its intensity to draw out."

WITH A WDKAN'8 CURIOSITY

I asked another question, "What de you oonsider a beautiful woman?" She looked at me, and then she seemed to look far off in the distance before sbe answered, "What is beauty in one climate Is not beanty in another. I do not admire the English wotaen they are too regular and too lacking in expression. Your American women come nearer tbe Frenoh women than any other people, but then yon awe new race, and from yoti should come the most beautiful women in the world. And time and time only will prove whether yon have them, although I have seen many beautiful

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18,1896.

LETTER!

^Copyright, 1896,] sw YORK, Jan. 16,1890.

American women, and I must say for them that they dress elegantly and have that Indefinable something whioh we call 'chfa Bat A beautiful woman to me and to my people, is a woman of expression} ft woman whose eyes not only tell tlieifr story, but whose body In. its lltheness is most artistic. No fat—fat is not beautiful. No dimples—dimples are insipid but expression, that is what makes a woman charming and that Is what maies her fascinating to men. I have be£n told that your American men are generous—that they work, work, and are satisfied if their women are happy. Ah! what superb husbands tbey must make. What do I love beBt to read? Old poetry. I like some of the modern no|h»Bts^partioularly de Maupassant, Isejmse he wrote first about this, then ablbt that, was universal, and an artist td his finger „tips. I love beautiful lipgerie. How do you oall it here—undtoWear. Ah! I can imagine a lady wearing a plain gown, but I cannot imagine a gentlewoman who did not wish her'imderwear, so you call it dainty and exquisitely made and trimmed with lace a'ftd ribbons."

I hear it all. I hear the words, but before everything else there comest THE MTJSIO OF THAT WONDERFUL VOICE I|call it fine, I can think of no other wbrd for it. It has strength, it is clear, ilnging, distinot, and there is never a i^te too high, or too low. Every syllable has its value, and I have only heard o|»e other woman, whose French compared with that of Yvette Guilbert, and

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it was Sara Bernhardt. Her work— you have beard enough about her Wbrk, and yett I wish instead of teaching *faer plantation melodies, so she may have some English songs in her repertoire, fat some one would make her underand the meaning of the words, and ojnee she did that, neither you nor I need ubt her ability to draw the pictnre of

St wonderful poem of Dante, Gabriel osetti's, which begins, "Lazy, laughing, languishing Jenny, flFqnd of a kiss and fond of a guinea." I have paid the usual fashionable oall on Mademoiselle, and it is time to say "Adieu." Alas! that ber time here is so short that it cannot be "Amrevoir," and yet I think, as a people, we are suffi ciently clever to appreciate what is good, and to say to this wonderful woman, ,«Come back to us and be welcomed ^heartily." Ift my card case I carry a little card, which I value very, much it was written as a jest, but it was the expression of the likes and dislikqp. of this Clever woman, put as she proudly said,

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"I like the green. I like very much the lilac and the roses. I don't like the birds and selfish people. I believe in God. The quality I prefer in a human being is goodness for a girl, and honesty for a man.

YVETTE GTJTLBBRT."

THE SIN OF THOUGHTLESSNESS. Last nigbt I saw a wonderful playstop Mr. Critlo, I am not going to infringe on your grounds. It was called "T{ie Benefit of the Doubt," and it was the judgement given in the divorce oourt when the only sin a woman had committed had been that of sympathizing with an unhappy husband and letting him find in her home a resting place from his wife's jealous temper, the sin of thoughtlessness. It was written by that wonderful playwright who seems to read a woman's heart as you might a fashion page, Pinero, and it showed what suoh a verdict meant to a woman. I do not know where this writer has gotten all his knowledge qf womankind. There was the flippant mother, who found great relief, as many a woman does, in taking off her stays she took advantage of this relief when her husband died, .38h| now again when het daughter was dishonored. The p? is good and well acted, but it is thk J^lerful moral in it that appeals to and yet, how many women in the audienoe thought of it! It told of the misery certain to result from Platonic friendships. It told, oh! so well, that a married woman and a married man oannot be friends unless tbe other wife and the other hus band share in the friendship. I oall that a worse verdict than guilty—that whioh only gives the woman the benefit of tbe doubt.

Little Mrs. Snowflake, who has known Tom Wildrake ever since they were children, lets him drop In at afternoon tea, lets him come to dinner with them when pleases, and llsteus sympathetically his story of tbe unhappy ny %||. and of the wife made a fiend by jV^il|sy Some day, and it may not go as fa», mJl did in the play, to the divorce cK.^ little Mrs. Suowfiake finds that her friends are dropping away from ber, that she i&n't invited to quite as many conservative houses as she used to be, and if by any chance she speaks to her husband about it he looks at her in a curious way that she doesn't understand. But in time she does. And she realizes, too sadly, that all that the world has offered her is the benefit of the doubt. And if it were not that Snowflake him self gives suoh good dinners and had suoh a pleasant oountry plaoe, even this would not be the verdict.

WOMAN AS JUDOK.

Miss Vere de Yere, in her early life, lost the love of her heart. But she has a good friend ill Jack Fin de Sleole, who knew her sweetheart, who was with him when he died, and who oan talk over her happy days with her. Everybody knows his character. That is everybody who is anybody. Suddenly Miss Vere de Vere finds that the elderly flowers of society are not anxious to have her associate with their buds, and she has to face the question, "Shall I give up this man friend, to whom I am really a helper and from whom I gain much that Is comforting, and with whom there Is nothing that the angles In Heaven might not see or hear, or shall I suAr from the

benefit of the doubt." This is always a feminine verdiot. I don't care who the judge may be that gives it. No matter bow much be may consider himself a man, at heart he is a woman, for it is tbe woman who give to that other woman nothing* more than the benefit of the doubt. One question is asked in the play, it is this: "Must a wotrian lose h#r character and paint her face before she can have a man as a friend?" As the world goes, I am tempted to answer "Yes," but one of the people in the play says, "This is a damnable world." There he is wrong.

THE WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL It is the people who are^Jt brave enough to give verdiots of^'Guilty" or "Innocent" who are damnable. How many are there in this big town who are only given the benefit of the doubt? Some of them are as innocent as the girl child that you hold up olosely to you but when all womankind shrank from them, they got so they didn't Cire And then there could be no doubt of tbe ver diet. Others—and there are no m*rtyr» who suffer as they do—have k«pt their own self-respect and gone out of this wicked world with that intangible verdict hanging over tbem.

It was a harlot who oame to Ciirinl, and His verdiot was different from tbat of the judge of to-day. He only asked of her that sh9 sin no more, and He forgave her because she loved too muoh And there are human beings who sit upon the judgment seat and only give women the benefit of the doubt. What are their own lives? And what are the lives of these women in sooiety who throw about innocent women that in tangible atmosphere tbat means, while it does not say, "Keep away from her, she is evil?" If it wereou your soul or mine to have done this, what can we hope for? Do you believe THAT GREAT JUDGE WILL AT THE LAST

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give anybody the benefit of the doubt? Oh, no. He will sdy-"Guilty" or "Innocent," and he will consider all of the temptations. To-day^ as I tore the page off my Dickens' calendar I read this:

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May I tell you why it is a good thing for us to remember the wrong that has been done to us? That we may forgive it." And that I believe is tbe judgment that will be given to many a woman who has not sinned, but who has been judged .by the Vehmgericbt of the world and re ceived from it as her verdict "The Benefit of the Doubt." God help her who receives this judgment! I do not need to ask God to punish them who give it upon her, and yet you and your neighliiaf WbiriwK ift At? in your innocence, tbe verdiot of tbe world's, tbat damnable verdiot, "tbe benefit of the doubt," may never be given to your child, or her child, or to

BAB.

A NORTH DAKOTA INDUSTRY. The divorce business has frequently been referred to as a North Dakota industry, 'and is really to be regarded as such. A canvass of the hotels and private boarding houses in Fargo, shows that there are about 150 members in the local divorce oolony. This means from $3,000 to $5,000 per mouth for the hotel men of the city. It means from $5,000 to $10,000 for the local attorneys. In ad dition to these expenditures the stores receive directly, perhaps, $2,000 per month in the way of divoroe trade. The sentiment of the citizens is entirely in favor of the "industry." The matter is looked at purely from a business standpoint and is advocated on all sides. Another noticeable feature is the haste with which some of tbe plaintiffs again rush headlong into matrimony after having been granted a divorce. One case is ou reoord where a trip was made directly from tbe judge's chambers to the license room and return, and the second marriage performed by the kindly court in fifteen minutes after the deoree had been granted and before tbe ink used in signing the divorce papers had time to dry. Indeed, the majority marry again within six months after being di vorced. All kinds of scheme* are worked to avoid publicity. Members of tbe colony often live there under assumed names, and do everything possible to keep correspondents of eastern papers from learning their history. To deceive their friends, the contingent sometimes rent boxes in tbe Moorhead postoffice across the'river in Minnesota, so eastern friends won't know what they are doing out west.

The Canadian Pacific railway, after many months of labor, has constructed at an enormous cost two special military or war trains, comprising fourteen cars for men, two cars for cooking, two Pullman oars for officers, two cars for arms and stores, and two dining cars. The officers cars are luxuriously fitted out and contain staterooms, lavatory, smoking room,' etc. Each train is composed of eleven cars and engine, and gives ample sleeping accommodations for 306 men and fifteen officers, although over 100 more men could find room. The men's cars are well finished and furnished with modern improvements. The kitchen oar has all the utensils of a large-sized hotel, and requires six cooks and two helpers. The one car can turn out over 1,500 meals a day. During a trip from Halifax to Vancouver on the war train 5,500 meals for officers and men were prepared. The Canadian Pacific railway expeets to cover the distance from the Atlantic to the Pacific In five and a half daye*fe'? _______________

Now the gossips say that Willie K. Vanderbilt will marry again. For some time his name has been linked with that of Miss Amy Bend, a beautiful yonng woman who made her debut'about six yean ago, and has been quite a belle ever

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Twenty-sixth Year

-AMUSEMENTS.

THE KIRMKS8.

Professor Oskar Duenweg is a monument to patience. Any man who can take half a hundred or so little boys and girls—and big boys and girls—and in a few weeks drill tbem until they are able to give suoh an entertainment as the Kirmess is indeed a wonder. In many respects the entertainment now in progress at the opera house, under the auspices of the ladies of St. Stephen's Guild, is equal to a professional performance, and when all things are considered, it is far superior to many professional performances of a similar character. The first performance was given Thursday nigut, there was a change of programme last nigbt, and this will be the rule throughout the series of performances, which Will be given to-night, and on Monday, Tuesday aud Wednesday evenings of next week.

The opera house has been beautifully decorated for the occasion by tbe Kleeman Dry Goods Co., and various other firms are represented in the equipment and decorations of tbe stage. In the center of the stage, to the rear, is a beautiful cascade, lighted by electrioity, the scenio effects being the work of the Hughes Decorating Co., and tbe electrical effects by Frank B. Miller. A. Herz furnishes a beautifully decorated National booth, adorned with national I colors, Hoberg, Root fc Co., a Spanish booth, Espenhain fc Albrecht a booth for the Snow Maidens, and John G, Heinl a Flower booth. The eleotricity for the different effeots is furnished by tbe Terre Haute Electric Light fe Power Co. and the Terre Haute Electric Railway Co.

After each performance the curtain is raised and the audienoe is invited on the stage where refreshments are served by the ladies of the Guild. You can have your fortune told by a beautiful gypsy, buy ice cream, and cake, or coftee and sandwiches, all of the very best, and It doesn't cost you more to get out than it did to get in. This is the usual complaint made of the ohurch fair, but it is unjust in this case, for it isn't true.

There is a grand maroh incidental to every evening's entertainment, whioh is led by Miss Henrietta Strong, as Queen of tbe Kirmess, and participated in by tbose on the programme for the evening. To-night the programme will be as follows:

Grand March. Tyrolean Dance—Blanche Gundelfinger, May Stein, Anna Kolsem, Cora, DaVisi* Cecelia Baur, Nora RappTTSffie 5 Miller, Gertrude Sfcein, Mabel Cooke, Elsie Crawford, Mrs. Cummings, Mayme Rapp.#

Brownies' Dance—Webb Beggs, Henry Gilbert, George Hager, Frank McKeen, George Hebb, Alfred Darlow, George Darlow, Ford Reynolds, Stanley Adams, Leon Wiliien, Howard Townley, Carl Stahl, Burch Ijams, Harry Fisbeck, George Nicholson, Carl Eppert.

Tambourine Dance—Louise Kleiser, Blanche Baur, Ida Donnelly, Alma Miller, Bessie Townley, Rose Braman, Anna Wheeler, Bertha Durtiweg.

Spanish Dance—Virginia Somes, Bessie Fitch, Sidonia Bauermeister, Laura Cox, Grace Jenokes, Aimee Bindley, Delia White.

Polish Dance—Mamie Grey, Cora White, Helen Benbridge, Mabel Cooke, Rose Farrington, Blanohe Barnes, Martha Royse, Jessie Havens, Sherburne Jenckes, Fritz Reiman, Ernest Alden, Norman McGee, Allen Williams, James Farrington, Charles Braman, Will Crawford.

Drill—Fannie O'Boyle, Fannie Buntin, Helen Arnold, Venle Richardson, Laura Cox, Maud Crippen, Elizabeth Stanley, Julia Voges, Alice Hammerstein, Hallie Ladd, Norma VanDuzer, Mrs. George Westfall, Mrs. Garrell, Mary Foster, Lottie Preston.

Essence of "Ole Virginny"—Adolph Gagg, Charles Braman, Albert Einecke, Gabe Davis.

Pas Seul—Rose Braman. Sailors' Dance—Alioe Nicholson, Bertha Kern, Gertrude Stein, Blanche Gundlefinger, Bessie Fitch, Elsie Crawford, Vinetta Riddle, Daisy Howard, Will Rippetoe, James Sankey, Fred McKnlght, Robert Craig, Moses Craig, Leslie Helmer, Sherburne Jenckes, Charles Stewart

Besides these the following dances will be repeated during the performances of next week:

Rosebuds—Ruth Adamson, Ea telle Lucky, Alice Ijams, Gertrude Jenkins, Carrie Belle Greiner, Anna Davis, Kate Braman, Delphine Bindley, Norma Bauermeister, Anna Bigelow, Mabel Johnson, Margaret Grey, Lottie Dahlen, Celia Alvey.

Sea Nymphs—Blanche Barnes, Vinetta Riddle, Lillian Jones, Carrie Hendricks, Anita Bauermeister, Celia Baur, Mabel Phillips, Madeline J^toh, Elsie Crawford, Kate Braman.

Snow Maidens—Rose Farrington, Jessie Havens, Cora Davis, Mamie Baker, Effle Miller, EmmaBuntin, AnnaSurrell, Mary Blake, Bessie King, Annie King, Blanche Barnes, Carrie Hendricks, Perdlta Pence, Anna Duenweg, Emma Gilbert, Mrs. S. Butler.

Nursery Dance—Esther Adamson, Mary Reagin, Helen Beggs, Liliian Brorlus, Rosalie Reimold, Ruth Duddleston, Frances Brown, Carrie Newhart, Anna Schluer, Paula Beauobamp, Frances Gulick, Fayelle Fisbeck, Jean Reynolds,? Mary Alvey.

Flag Dance—Anita Baurmeister, Marief Vewhart, Agnes Grey, Hilda Nicholson? Helen Jenkins, Nannie Brosiui), Hehfn Duddleston, Grace Griffith, Margaret Ladley, Anna Thomas.

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