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a a a a a a a a a a a THE SUN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1909. ACTORS RESIGN SENIOR CLASS AT EDUCATIONAL THEATRE UNHAPPY. Write a Letter to Mark Twain Asking Him to Please Make Miss Herts Let Mrs. Fry Do the Dramatic Directing Visions of Million and a Hair. 10 Mice Alice Minnie Herts, manager and general all round head of the Educational Theatre, will come this morning the resignations of thirty-five active members of the senior class on whose talents they themselves say the productions of the theatre are more or less dependent.

The senior class, according to the insurgents, numbers about fifty really active, live, hard working students, of the stage and the remaining fifteen. the disgruntled ones eay, will resign 88 soon as the performance of "The Little Princess" scheduled for Washington's Birthday in Boston, is given this latter unless there is a satisfactory result from a letter which was sent yesterday Mark Twain, who is president of the association. The board of directors of the theatre includes Mr. Clemens, the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, Robert J.

Collier and Otto H. Kahn. Miss Herts really has charge of the theatre, and leaders of the rebellion say they have been unable to appeal to the directors except through her. Now, however, they have sat right down and have written a letter to Mr. Twain.

The trouble started with the resignation of Mrs. Emma Sheridan Fry, who has been the dramatic director five years. Mre. Fry resigned a fortnight ago because her place had been taken largely by Jacob Heniger. stage manager.

The letter sent to Mr. Clemens follows: DEAR MB. CLEMENS: We beg to present for your consideration unfortunate condition of affairs at the Educational Theatre for Children, in the hope that you, who have taken so genuine and active an interest in the work, may discover some means of readjustment. We are firmly convinced that Miss Herts, the manager of the work, has rendered Mrs. Fry's resignation quite inevitable (through her desire to further the interests of Mr.

Heniger, the stage manager, by officially countenancing his presumptuous act in trespassing upon Mrs. Fry's final authority as dramatic director), and our feeling is one a loss of confidence in management that so blunderingly loses the services of one quite best qualifled, by personality and ability, to carry this work to ultimate suecess, and by a feeling of resentment at an act of grave injustice that renders void through the channels of this movementthe zealous, whole souled and self-sacrificing labors of Mrs. Fry for the last five years, Miss Herts has worked hard for the work in placing it before the public, but it was Mrs. Fry, and she alone, who made the work worthy of through the wonderful production of "The Prince and the Pauper" and the other plays that had preceded it. The good we have derived from the work, we have learned from it, has been through the sole medium of Mrs.

Fry. She has earned our unstinted admiration a teacher and our deep, sincere affection A3 a friend. In losing her the Educational Theatre would be losing its most ardent worker and the one we believe best fitted for its developent, and our lack of confidence in the management, which has brought about this condition of affairs, is so thorough that we have resigned from the work. We earnestly petition you, dear Mr. Clemens, to use your great influence in having Mrs.

Fry restored to her former position dramatic director, as this act, and we believe this act alone, could save the work from being marred by an act of grave sonal injustice and one of serious detriment the final achievemeht of its aims. Should Mrs. Fry be reinstated we would gladly offer our services for future cooperation. With sincere appreciation of your friendly, active interest in us, through the medium of the Children's Theatre, we re; main, very respectfully yours. The letter was signed by a "petition committee" of eight, headed by Joseph Ginsberg.

Francis M. Verdi, one of the insurgents, who played Ingomar and Little Lord Fauntleroy in the theatre's productions, said that the insurgents will organize under the name of the "Comedy-Charity Club," and continue the work of the theatre, with the help of Mrs. Fry, who as yet. he said, had not been approached on the subject. The new club (and it may as well be stated frankly that there won't be any new club if Mr.

Clemens and other diretors do as the signers of the letter want them to do) hopes, if the worst comes, to prove to the world that it is the real organization and that it ought to receive that prospective endowment of a million and a half. It has not been decided yet just who will give the million and a half, but the theatre hopes to have it by spring. the bolters do not succeed in obtaining control of the Educational Theatre they expect to affiliate with the People's Institute. Miss Herts laughed when she read the letter to Mr. Clemens.

The Educational Theatre, she said, was in no trouble. If some of the students were in trouble well, there you were! Mrs. no sense been ousted from the organization, Miss Herts said, and her resignation had not yet been accepted. The only diffculty came, according to Miss Herts, from failure of Mrs. Fry to be satisfied with plan of work as mapped out by Miss Herts as the head of the organization.

these pupils got out, why, it would make no difference the work of the theatre -not even with regard the performance in Boston on the 22d. There were many departments in the organization, and Miss Herts had charge of all and had to map out the work for each. She was sorry if any of the teachers or students was not satisfied -but really it made no great difference. The theatre since its incorporation had declined to exploit any individual, Miss Herts said. even to the printing of names of performers on the programmes.

Perhaps this fact might have something to do with the dissatisfaction--if there were any dissatisfaction. But really the whole thing was entirely unworthy of notice. DANCES OF THE GREEKS. Bacchus and Other Worthles Appear Architectural League Entertainment. Greek gods and goddesses, impersonated by well knows artiste, architects, sculptors and young society women, marched in a bacchanalian procession Inst nizht.

at an entertainment given by the Architectural League in the Vanderbilt Gallery of the Fine Arts Building, 215 West Fifty-seventh street. In the centre of the Vanderbilt Gallery A -toge was erected with Ionic columns. in the background was a large painting revealing the blue waters of the Media terrancan. The artists in their Greek costumes revived the march of Bacchus and with cymbal bearers, harpists, torch bearers, bacchantes and flower girls in Grecian attire paid homage to the god of wine. The costumes were designed after representations of sculpture and ancient pottery by Albert Herter, who also painted and devised the color schemes.

The procession started and at intervals in with Apollo, the march an invocation to the was sung. There were Greek poses and dances by Sirs. Lou Wall Moore, professional dancer, who was assisted by Miss Grace Marchant and Miss Agnes Scott. The music was under the direction of I. Nafford, and the stage manager was Douglas J.

Wood. Members of the McDowell Association Tera cuesta of the Architectural League, SAVED BY A LITTLE FISH And Policeman and Various Human Beings and Others. It was the sardine Don Orsino' Ah, the brave Orsino; the beautiful Orsino. To be sure the evening papers said that it WAS the dog Cesare of Oreste Giolito that ran through the halls of the Hotel d'Europe at 10 and 21 West Ninth street in the dark of the early morning yesterday and barked a warning against the encroaching flames. But always is it in the evening papers the dog awakes his master in time; that the dog does this and does that -never is it a sardine such as the wonderful Orsino.

Conceive of it! Giolito, the proprietor, his family and all of his guests are in their beds, asleep. It is near 3 o'clock. The smoke comes up from the basement, where once the widow Mme. Marie Griffou had stored her excellent wines and cordials Comes comes that smoke. guests.

Still sleep Giolito and his Then does Don Orsino, sleeping in his little tin bed on the shelf where always he has slept since first Giolito bought the Hotel Griffou from Louis Griffou, then does this brave Orsino awake. Paf! He is out of his little tin bed and is hurrying across the floor of the kitchen, propelling himself, stalwart with and those so hasty faithful tail. propulsions Plop, plop, plop, goes Don Orsino down the hall of the dining room. Plam, plam, 'plam, up the stairs, now so thick with the smoke. He pauses at the Giolito's chamber of rest.

He cannot scream through the crack of the door, for that smoke is so suffocating. He cannot beat down the door even with mighty blows of that so faithful tail. What to do? Don Orsino -that worthy Don Orsino of Sardinia -lies upon his right fin and taps against the door of Giolito'e chamber with his tail. Bang, bang, bang! Not an answer Bang, bang, bang! "Ha." calls Giolito. 'What is it?" Giolito is saved, his family is saved.

Saved also are the guests, even though the halls are now 80 suffocating. But what of that sweet Don Orsino? Outside of the chamber door of Giolito he lies, so limp, 80 beautiful, alas, 80 dead! One little sardine who did what always the evening papers credit to the dog -dead. Poor, beautiful Don Orsino. And then, 88 the police slip reads, Policeman Ryan went through the house, assisting the gueeta to reach the sidewalk. Adeah Seth and Adolf Arnesen were found groping through the smoke and were led to the sidewalk.

D. A. White and his daughter, Miss Laura White, who were nearly overcome by the smoke were taken to the house at 17 West Ninth street and were there revived. The blaze was confined to the wine cellar. and wine, as is well known, will not burn.

LOTOS CLUB AUCTION. Odds and Ends at the Old House Sold for $3,500. Everything which the Lotos Club left behind when it moved from ite old house at 558 1 Fifth avenue to the new quarters in Fifty-seventh street was sold at auction yesterday. Only remnants went down under the auctioneer's hammer, things which had seemed ill fitted to the new house or appeared to have served their time of usefulness. There pieces of and mahogany furniture, rugs and draperies, fittings and fixtures of various sorta, and great number of miscellaneous sinall articles.

The bidding was lively for the most part, though some of the lots, particularly chairs and tables long past their prime, were bought in at a very low figure. Most of the bidders were dealers, a few were purchasing agents for places of amusement, and there was a scattering handful of independent buyers. The oriental rugs brought good prices. Two dealers, James Gracie and E. C.

Rich. got each. several of them for from $45 to $60 The purchasing agent for Steeplechase Park at Coney Island bought a lot of some office fixtures. His bill was he little electric fans, two telephone booths and more than $100. Altogether 300 lots were offered and the receipts for the day amounted to $3,500.

The New Apollo Theatre. William H. McElfatrick, architect for the estate of Robert E. Westcott, filed with Building Superintendent Murphy yesterday the plans for the new Apollo The Theatre Seventh the plot and avenue at office and the building northeast Forty-seventh to be corner erected street. of The building is to be of the modern French Renaissance design, of brick and decorated limestone, having an avenue frontage of 88 feet and a depth of 128 feet.

The theatre will be three stories, with two balconies and a seating capacity of 1,334, but the will be ten stories high, office floors surrounding the theatre two sides. The building is to cost $300,000. George Evans Stricken With Appendicitis. UTICA, Feb. Evans of New York, one of the principals in the Cohan and Harris minstrel company performing here to-night, was atticken with acute appendicitis in this city to-day and late this afternoon underwent an operation at Faxton Hospital.

Evans's wife and Henry B. Harris were summoned from New York before Evans gave his consent to the operation. To-night he is resting as comfortably as his condition will permit and the surgeons say he should recover unless complications develop. Tate -Doudge. The marriage of William Tate, a son of the late James E.

Tate of Baltimore, and Miss Edith Doudge, daughter of Mrs. James R. Doudge, was celebrated at 3 o'clock yesterday Afternoon in St. a Bartholomew's Church, Rev. Dr.

Leighton Miss Parks, Doudge, rector of the church, officiating. who was given in marriage by her brother. Barton T. Doudge, wore a gown of white liberty satin trinimed with lace, and her lace veil was caught with a spray of orange blossoms. She carried a bouquet of white roses and orchids.

Mrs. Dorrance Reynolds of Wilkesbarre, A sister of the bride. was matron of and honor. the ushers Alfred Hearn Ran- wAs the best man were J. dolph Robinson, Henry A.

Barclay, J. James Mur- T. ray Mitchell, Rowland C. Thomas and Kelsey W. Malinckrodt.

reception at the home of the bride's mother. the West Forty-ninth street, followed ceremony. Allen- -Wahl. Dutzmann. Rowsey- -Galla chert GREENWICH, Feb.

Christ Church at o'clock to-day Miss Emma Wahl, only daughter of John Wahl, became the wife of Frederick H. Allen, son of the late Warden Samuel Allen of Greenwich. Many guests were present from of New honor York and New Jersey. The matron was Mrs. E.

M. Kingsbury of Cranford, N. J. There were no bridesmaids. The bride was given away by her father.

The best man was Harry W. Allen, a brother of the bridegroom. The ushers were N. Cooke, A Stanley Todd and Benjamin E. Kelly' New of York Greenwich city.

The and Rev. M. George Thompson, rector of Christ cent Lippe of Church, performed a the ceremony. wedding After the wedding special hymn composed by Henry J. Lieppe of New York WAS sung Miss Juliette Lieppe and Max Frank A.

Rowsey of, Philadelphia and Miss Sally Eulalia Gallagher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Gallagher of this city, were married at 11 o'clock yesterday morning in St. Stephen's Church. The ceremony was performed by Archbishop Farley, who is an old friend of the family, and by Bishop Cusack, who celebrated the nuptial mars.

The bride was attended by Mrs. Peter Gallagher, her sister-in-law, Anita and by Jones, the Misses Elia Marguerite Harrity, Morris and Molly Meehan. Armatrong and Piersall the ushers were Frank, Joseph and Neal of Philadelphia was the, best 'man Gallagher and William Fitzpatrick. the A home reof ception the bride's parents, 141 East Thirtyand wedding breakfast at eighth street, toflowed will live the in ceremony. Philadelphia.

Mr. and Mrs. Rowsey WEIRD MUSIC BY MR. JUON SECOND CONCERT OF THE SCHROEDER QUARTET. An Alarming Tonal Disturbance in deissohn Hall Rons Riot and Audience Learns Thinks Some Musto by Max Schillings and Brahms.

The weather cleared up last night when the Hess-Schroeder Quartet came to town and gave its second concert at Mendelasohn Hall. It was fortunate that it did 80, because if there had been a gale of wind outside while the tonal earthquake was going on inside Mendelssohn's walls would certainly have crumbled. The cause of all the trouble was Paul Juon. He is a Russian discomposer and he is tired of music. Some time ago the Adele Margulies Trio played a trio of his and sent people home sad and dejected.

Last night Willy Hess and Alvin Schroeder of the quartet, with the cruel assistance of Ernest Schelling at the piano, played for the first time in this country Mr. Juon's "Trio Caprice," opus 30, and sent an audience away with ringing ears and shattered nerves. Mr. Juon acknowledges that the source his inspiration was the "Gosta Berling" of Selma We have never read the work, but if Mr. Juon's tonal picture of it is a faithful reproduction it be a harrowing tale.

The trio is a direfui concatenation of sounds, few of which seem to have any kindly feeling for one another. The most soul discords are the fruit of the composer's soul. He revels in tonalities which would delight Debussy, but the Frenchman would handle them with consummate skill, whereas the Russian wrestles with them in vain. This trio incited the three musicians to deeds of violence. The two gentlemen with bows whipped their instruments as with knouts, while Mr.

Schelling, rising gloriously to the occasion, went at it with bare hands and pummelled the paino to the ropes in each of the three rounds The instruments vainly cried for mercy. The poor audience had to sit and take it, but men stared at each other in wild surmise, like the men of Cortes on the peak in Darien. Once in a while an image or an eidolon of a theme poked its innocent face through the blood red bars of the polyphony, but Mr. Juon is an iconoclast and he can slay any theme with one stroke of a chord of the infuriated Cossack ninth. In this trio he does it every time.

There were only a few themes, but they all died the death. The three musicians seemed to revel in the chaste and general slaughter. The first number on the programme was a quartet in A minor by Johannes Brahms, a composer who flourished in the nineteenth century. music was decidedly old fashioned and simple in style and doubtless may have been whistled by the people who used to listen to that sort of thing away back in 1895. a As a tion from this mellifluous music to the Simon Pure modernism of Mr.

Juon there were two movements, an andante and an allegro, from minor quartet of Max Schillings, a living but not too utterly up to composer. Mr. Schillings'8 music was delightful to It has thematic substance and beautiful workmanship in the treatment. Some of the harmonies are close and pungent after the manner of the time, but they form part' of a general scheme whose purpose is intelligible and which ultimately makes for eloquence of expression. Especially commendable is the polyphony of this music.

Most of the writing is admirable in its lidity and sonority, achievement part, reached by fine skill in the distribution of the component notes of the chords. It should be added that the members of the Hess-Schroeder Quartet played, the Schillings excerpta much better than the wondrous concoction of Mr. Juon. But then there was something in it to play. At the Two Opera Houses.

"Aida' was heard by a good sized audience at the Manhattan Opera House last night. performance WAS not one of the brightest ornaments of Mr. Hammerstein' interesting season. Mme. Agostinelli sang the title role with generally good tone, but not much else- except Mme.

Doria was a stalwart and vindictive Amneria. Mr. Zenatello 88 Rhadames and Mr. Sammarco A8 Amonaaro appeared to give the largest amount of satisfaction to the audience. At the Metropolitan Opera House was given with the cast heard at the previous performance.

Charles Frohman Engages Mimi Agugila. Charles Frohman signed yesterday a contract with Mme. Mimi Aguglia whereby this young Sicilian actress comes under Mr. Frohman's management for five years in English spoken plays. In the coming twelve months Mme.

Aguglia is to devote herself to the study of the English language, in which she has already made considerable progress. Mr. Frohman will divide Mme. Aguglia's seasons between London and this coun- try. BANKER IN CONTEMPT.

Must Produce Records of GansevoortFourteenth Street Merger. P. Maxwell Sayford, viceof the Fourteenth Street Bank, with which the Gansevoort Bank is associated. was adjudged in contempt court yesterday by Justice Bischoff of the Supreme Court. The order was based on Sayford's failure to produce the books of the Gansevoort Bank before E.

N. Robinson as referee in an action which Lemuel Littlefield, a stockholder. has begun. The books called for would disclose the actual terms by which the Fourteenth Street Bank acquired control of the Gansevoort, and under Justice Bischoff's order Sayford may yet purge himself of contempt by producing the books and paying a fine of $25 and costs. Died in a Railway Car.

HACKENFACK, Feb. E. Breckenridge, a son of the former Republican State committeeman of Maywood, N. died suddenly on a train at Kean, N. this morning following a stroke of apoplexy, The deceased man was 27 years old and was aesociated with the International Silver Company, of which his father is a leading member.

The younger Breckenridge's home had been at Wallingford, where the company's plant is located. He is Burvived by his wife. Franklin MacVeach Hasn't Heard Cabinet Rumors, CHICAGO, Feb. MacVeagh is the latest Chicagoan mentioned by politicians as possible member of the Cabinet, according to despatches from. Mac Washington.

Veagh smiled when the report was repeated to him to-day. have beard nothing of he said. Prunes for New York. SALINA CRUZ, Feb. York will not suffer for lack of prunes this year.

The steamship Nebraska is now in port with 175,000 cases of prunes, consigned to New York city. SEMBRICH SAILS AWAY. Tired and Tearful and Also Very Happy Over Big Hearted America. Mme. Marcella Sembrich, with her busband, Prof.

Stengel, sailed yesterday for Liverpool by Cunarder Campania tired and tearful, bout." as she repeatedly declared herself, also very happy. She said she did not go to bed the night before, because she had to help pack trunks. Prof. Stengel looked as if he had assisted. Andreas Dippel, codirector of the Metropolitan, Sembrich presented and a then big kissed bouquet her to Mme.

on both cheeks. The flowers were from all of Mme. Sembrich's A friends at the Metropolitan and there was letter attached with the autographs of all of them. Before the gangplank was taken down Director Dippel kissed Mme. Sembrich again, and to preserve domestic harmony also saluted Prof.

Stengel. The last gifts for the singer carried aboard the liner were a canary from Signor Campanari and watch and fob studded with diamonds from Mrs. George Gould. She also before sailing a letter of congratulation from President Roosevelt. PUSHING AFFINITY BILL.

Four Kansas State Senators From Artist Earle's County. TOPEKA, Feb. support this bill proposing to bust the "affinity" business in Kansas Senator Travis to-day confessed that his hatred for Phinney Earle, the artist, caused him to introduce and prese the measure. To placate a few members of the Legislature who are fighting the bill Travis said he would be willing to insert: "This aut shall not apply to members of either branch of the Legislature." "The reason why I framed this bill was because I was born in the same county and raised near the town where Earle lived, said Senator Travis. "I was born and raised in a few miles from the home of Earle." It was revealed to-day when Senator Travis was speaking that Senator Fred Robertson and Senator H.

E. Ganse were also former residents of Orange county, Robertson living at Craigsville and Ganse at Turner. All three Senators are for the "affinity" bill. Senator Travis has received more than 100 letters from all parts of the country commending him for introducing this measure. Most of the writers are women.

THROUGH SPITEFUL SEAS. The Hindustan Comes Into Port With Tale of Fertultous Escapes. The British freight steamship Hinduin last night from South American ports, ran into heavy weather before daylight on Tuesday morning in the latitude of Hatteras and shipped many smashing combers. At 4 o'clock, just before the most destructive sea boarded the ship forward, the two East Indian cooks got up on duty under the impression that the eight bells they had heard indicated midnight instead of 4 o'clock. The bunk in which they had slept was destroyed by the sea.

When that happened they were in the galley, which, being of steel, resisted onslaught that carried away nearly everything else forward. The comber swept the length of the ship, demolishing a port lifeboat, breaking rails and ventilators and flooding the engineers' rooms and the stokehold. The ship was hove to and the carpenter and assistanta began patching the broken places forward with three inch plank. Another sea boarded her and the planks were swept away. Later bolts were used to secure planks and the ship went on her course.

EAST RIVER FERRIES. Companies Make Offers Which May Lead te Resumption. Comptroller Metz has prepared a report to the Sinking Fund Commission that the New York Terminal Company is willing to lease to the city such of its East River terminals and ferryboats as would be needed to reopen the Roosevelt and Twenty-third street lines and the operation of a new line between Long leland City and Roosevelt street. Comptroller Metz has estimated that the cost of carrying out this plan would be less than $300.000 a year. The report also states that the Interborough Ferry Company, which is now operating the ferries from Greenpoint to Tenth and Twenty-third streets, Manhattan, will agree to operate such routes as the city may desire established for 25 per cent.

of the net profits above the cost. of operation and would apply for a franchise to continue the Greenpoint ferries if it couid get one on nominal terms. HATTERS GOING TO WORK. Factory Forces Slowly Recruited From Union and Non-U'nion Sources. The force of hatters at the factory of the Samuel Mundheim Company, 1 Carlton avenue, Brooklyn, was increased yesterday from fourteen to about thirty, including some women trimmers.

The factory of the Norwalk Hat Company, 27 New Chambers street, opened for the first time since the strike yesterday morning with a few union trimmers and finishers. President Mundheim of the National Hat Manufacturers Association said last evening that he expected about fifty workers at the Mundheim factory on Monday and considerable all the accession factories to expect their to forces have a on that day. "The news we have received from South Norwalk and Philadelphia." he said, "is that they are getting plenty of applications but are kept back balaneing the departments. Too many come from one department and too few from Washington Society Notes. WASHINGTON, Feb.

and Mrs. N. B. Scott of West Virginia entertained this evening in the New Willard, in honor of the Vice-President and Mrs. Fairbanks.

Owing to the mourning of Mrs. Fairbanks for her brother's recent death guests of honor were not present. Representative and Mrs. Brodhend entertained a company at dinner this evening in honor of house guest, Mra. Sherman Hoar of Massachusetts.

The Danish Minister and Countess Von Moltke entertained at dinner this evening in honor of Miss Ethel Roosevelt. and daughters of the Postmaster Mrs. Meyer and the Misses Meyer, wife went to Boston to-day to be absent the next ten days. Gen. and Mrs.

Sharpe were dinner hosts to-night. Miss Mabel Boardman entertained a small dinner company this evening when the guests of honor were the AttorneyGeneral and Mrs. Bonaparte. Charged With Theft of 10,000 Trading Stamps. Louis Schwartz of 33 Commerce street and Edward Osterhout of 221 West 116th street were held in $500 bail in Jefferson Market court yesterday for examination on a charge of having stolen 10,000 of Sperry Hutchinson's trading stamps, worth $30.

McGuire of 28 Macomb'8 road, who Osterhout said, bought the stamps from him, was held in $500 bail for examination, charged with receiving stolen goods, Supt. Hambro of the trading stamp company the says that in the last two years the stolen loss has company been in giving goods for stamps $50,000. Paul--Mann Engagement Announced. PHILADKLPHIA, Feb engagement of Mary Astor Paul, daughter of the late James W. Paul, and Charles A.

Munn of Washington was announced today. Miss Paul is a sister of Mrs. Paul Denckla Mills and of Mr. A. J.

Drexel Paul, whose marriage to Miss Julia Biddle took place early in the winter. THETAILORSMUSTADVERTISE OR THE READY-MADE MEN WILL, GET 'EM SURE. Tailors In Convention Hear That They Are in a Fair Way to Extinction Unless They Stir Their Stumps tive Advertising Tried in Chicago. The several hundred tailors who are attending the Merchant Tailors National Exohange Convention at the Hotel Astor this week are giving their attention to a lot of things besides style and whether the lapel shall have silk clear to the edge or not. On Tuesday it was politics and the tariff and various other little matters.

Yesterday advertising took up a good deal of the time. The matter put up to the men assembled was how to keep up with the ready made people with their attractive pictures of broad shouldered tackles and fullbacks wearing creaseless garments and dragging along bulldogs by slender chains, talking the while to sweet young things in Parisian millinery on a sunny "You day at merchant the country tailors," clubid Herbert Kaufman, Philadelphia, speaking before the convention yesterday afternoon, "have arrived at a point where you must pay dearly for your refusal to buy advertising protection in time. You have too lone relied upon your trade dignity. For years you have allowed yourselves to. be tried in the court of publio opinion without a counsel.

Even poor suite can compete successfully if no one refutes the overstatements of their manufacturera. "Bit by bit your trade has been taken from you. The tailorong business in this country in the last twenty years and especially in the last decade practically has stood still--in an era of great incomes and of enormous increase in extravagance. But in this generation of spenders you are doing well if you do as well as did the tailor of 1880. You are dealing with a lot of old fellows and with men of odd physiques, and are making clothes for men who learned the advantages of merchant tailoring before the ready maker started to advertise.

"There was a time when no college man could wear ready mades, but now hardly a college man wears tailor mades. And the son is weaning the father away from you. Ninety per cent. of men nowadays go to the ready made stores for their clothes. There was a time when the ready maker told your customer that fifty dollars for a suit of clothes was an imposition and that he could buy as good a suit for twenty.

Now the ready maker is actually getting fifty dollars at retail for suite himself. "You have lowered your prices-in spite of increased to you--to meet the competition at a time when all men are willing to give a higher average price for anything they desire. There is only one way for you to reestablish your strength and that is to meet your opponent in the same court where he is opposing you. must go into the same newspapers that he uses and have your say where he is having his: you must talk to the same people and counteract the influence of what he is telling them. I know of no way in which this can be done except through communal work.

You must get down to the basis of cooperation, or there won't be a merchant tailor in America ten years from now. Remember what happened to the custom shoemakers. You may have a better case than the ready made man, but the customer doesn't hear you. You talk with him only when he comes into your store -the ready -made man talks with him in his own home through the Mr. Kaufman, it may be added, is connected with an advertising firm.

The same or a similar conclusion was presented to the convention by Charles Henry Lee of Lee, Oden a firm of tailors in Providence, who characterized the campaign waged up to the present time by the merchant tailors as "very weak, spasmodic, uncertain, inconsistent and most impracticable." Mr. Lee made various suggestions toward improvements covering the appearance of tailoring establishments, stationery, the keeping of mailing lists and the holding of local garment exhibits, and then took up "educative advertising. which the Chicago tailors, he tells us, have been trying. The experiment of "educative adverlocal tailoring interests as a whole, has tising. the expense being borne by the been a success, he said.

Mr. Lee, however, believed that the national organization was not yet sufficiently strong to attempt a campaign of advertising in the zines. The tailors who are attending the convention, along with their wives, had a dinner at the Astor last night. There were no speeches, a vaudeville entertainment being substituted for them. One hundred and fifty men and women sat down to the dinner.

The Seagoers. Sailing to-day by the North German Lloyd stenmship Grosser Kurfuerst on a cruise to the Mediterranean: Albert Bigelow Paine, Miss Louise Kirby Paine, Mrs. Arthur Turnure, Mrs. Herman Winter, Mr. and Mrs.

H. Pingree, Wesley Ogden, Prof. Theodor Krause, Mrs. J. C.

Havemeyer, Miss A. I. Havemeyer and Miss H. E. Havemever.

Passengers by the French liner La Bretagne for Havre: Paul Dubois, Lieut. and Mrs. T. B. Seigle, Joseph Lherle, Mrs.

Marie A. Hurliman and Mrs. A. 0. Reyner.

Sailing to-day Prince for Bermuda by the I steamship George: Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Archibald, Mr and Mra. George D. Graham, Thomas Fleming Day, Capt.

Peter H. Crowell, Mr. Mrs. R. L.

Julian, Albert H. Storer. Mr. and Mrs. H.

E. Wagner and Mr. and Mrs F. B. Tuttle.

WIll Bequeathing $5,000,000 Probated. MINEOLA, L. Feb. will of the late William G. Parks of Wheatley Hills, who was worth about $5,000,000, was admitted to probate this morning in Surrogate Jackson's court.

Mr. Parks died in Pittsburg, on January 19 of this year. Almost all the estate of Mr. Parka is left to his immediate family. The widow, Elizabeth S.

Parks, is to have $50,000 outright and the estate is to be so invested that she is to receive $60.000 year. The Protestant Episcopal Church of Pittaburg is to get one-tenth of the residuary estate. To an old nurse of the family, Josephine de Szmaceanyi, is left the interest on $15,000. Ninetenths of the residuary estate is left for the benefit of the children, Mary Parks Neilson of Cedarhurst, James Parks, Elizabeth S. Parks and Daragh A.

Parks of Westbury. Stony Wold Corporation Elects Omoers, At a meeting of the board of directors of the Stony, Wold Sanatorium Corporation yesterday at the residence Mrs. Ogden Codman, 15 East Fiftyfirst street, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. James Edward Newcomb; honorary vice-president. Mrs.

George F. Shrady; vice-presidents, Mrs. Sylvan Anson Bier, Mrs. Ogden Codman, Mra. R.

Flower and Miss Blanche Potter; recording secretary, Mrs. John Caldwell Coleman; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Nelson Macy; treasurer, Edgar L. Marston, and assistant treasurer, Mrs. Herbert L.

Setterlee. Read Miss ZONA GALE'S stories of little home town" Friendship Village BECAUSE they are delightfully sympathetic and humorous. As the Bookman says, "The true test of its rare quality is the unmistakable call that it has upon all of us for something that we individually have known and felt." Then, too, "Miss Gale's pictures of village life remind us of Ian Maclaren and J. R. Barrie she performs the miracle of showing us what a wonderful and exquisite thing an ordinary human being is," says The Argonaut, San Francisco.

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PRATT. 161 6th av. BOGUS PRINCETON DAILY. Students Have Fun Burlesquing the U'nt. versity Publication.

PRINCETON, N. Feb. absorbing topic among the students here to-day was the bogus issue of the Daily Princetonian which appeared this morning. A fortnight ago the college daily suspended publication on. account of the midyear examinations, and the first issue after the recess was to have appeared morrow.

But this morning students were surprised to find copies of the paper at their when they glanced through its columns were still more surprised. It is believed that last evening half a they, dozen students who are connected with the college humorous paper got together and concocted the bogus issue. The edition wAs a facsimile of the Princetonian in shape, style of type and general appearance, for the presses and printing force of the paper had been made use of, but the columns were filled with imaginary news and other matter. The top half of the title page was filled with an indistinct and blurred mass of lines purporting to be a picture of the graduate A description of the building declared among other things that vista will open to the westward with a broad flight of steps flanked by bronze memorial lions running down to the proposed new athletic field on the Below was an article headed "Plans for Novice Swimming which began, "Although handicapped by several mien, the university swimming team has opened a fairly successful and declaring that "although freshmen are not allowed represent the university on any of its teams, this is no reason for their reticence in the use of the tank." Typographical errors are a sore point with the Princetonian, and in these crazy edition abounds. On whole paragraph is inverted in a discussion of international chess, and there is hardly a line that does not contain more than one mistake.

The editorial appears in its customary place. The substance of this column and a half is that the paper has decided to turn itself from a into a publication, and for this reason a rebate of 75 cents will be given to all subsoribers. The business office of the paper is given ART SALES AND EXHIBITIONS. AT THE Fifth Ave. Art Galleries, "SILO BUILDING," 546 Fifth Ave Cor.

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The speakers were Coroner Shrady, F. Edge Kavanagh of the Civil Service Commission; A. I. Rorke of the Naturalization Bureau: Dr. M.

B. Feeney of the Board of Health: Ten Eyck Beardsley and Thomas F. Smith. Others who sat at the speakers' table were John J. Delany, who presided; James E.

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