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THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1899. er II A IRYIHC AS ROBESPIERRE A Splendid Reception to the Great Actor in His New Role. SUPERB SPECTACULAR SHOW Ellen Terry In a OomparatiTcly Small Part Description of tha Tlay and It Ferfonnanoa. A new welcome with an old ring-" Blr 51nry Irvine called tha cordial and sincere Tasting- fa and his companions received at the Knickerbocker Theatre last evening- In th modest little speech he made tn response to the general demand after the play.

It was such, a greeting, not In the matter of noise, for the people In the music halls are noisier every night, but In its unmistakable expression of sympathy and admiration, as no other dramatic artist from abroad is likely to get even In this town, where new-comers ere always sure of welcome. The theatre was' simply packed and every seat tn the body of the house had been bought days before, while the gallery seats and standing places were, occupied by enthusiasts who had been on a line stretching from the box office window far up Broadway some hours before the doors of the theatre were opened. At 8 o'clock nearly all of the audience had arrived, but there was some delay on the stage, and the curtain did not rise until ten minutes after the advertised time. Ellen Terry, In the character of Mine, de Malu-con, awaiting the coming of her son In the forest of Montmorency, was then revealed, and the spectators broke forth into a welcome which' was only less hearty and prolonged than that bestowed upon Irving himself a few moments later. There was no sign of age or weakness in the acting of Irving.

He has had better parts In better plays, and we shall see him In some of them In this engagement, but the Bardou "Robespierre." as he and his company do It, la a thing no habitual theatregoer will care to mlas a fine pictorial study of a strange epoch of history, with some passages of striking dramatic quality. The applause was strongest after a splendidly acted scene at the close of the third act. but It was plentiful throughout the evening, and the Interest of the audience wag held by the play and the-actor. After the great scene In the Hall of the Convention, which ends the play, Sir Henry was called again and again, and It was then that he delivered his speech, as follows: It Is Impossible to thank you adequately for such a welcome, an Inspired welcome as you have glve.n us, and I apeak also for my frtand. Mine Terry, when I say that she shares wtth me the deep satisfaction of renewing our old ties with a gracious public whose generous confidences are among our most cherished memories.

I should be a dull man which I may be and an ungrateful man which I am not were I not to feel to-night a sense of delight and happiness In the cordiality and warmth of your greeting. To-night you have given' us a new welcome with an old rlns a welcome In a voice which I well remember, uch a welcome as makes us glad and thankful that life has such delightful pleasures and recompenses. Ladies and gentlemen, with all my heart I thank you for one and all, and am ever your respectful and loving servant. Sir Thomas Upton was among those at the theatre. He was In one of the boxes for a short time, and then took his departure.

Others present were the Chevalier de Martlno, the Earl of Yarmouth, the Countess Naselll, Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Lawrence. Mrs.

Adolf Ladenberg, Clyde Fitch. Mr. and Mrs. John Elderkln, Beverley TU-den, Richard Croker, Bliss Carman. Robert I Reid; J.

S. Hartley, the sculptor; Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Wltherbee, Justice David M.

Leventritt. Justice Justice Beach. Justice Scott. Judge Dugro, Congressman-elect Jefferson M. Levy.

Mr. and Mrs. F. K. Burnham.

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Flagler, Capt Arthur Lee of the British Embassy, Oen. Whlttler.

Parke Godwin, William Beardsley. Mrs. Henry C. Olllig. W.

J. Ross, ex-Mayor Chapln of Brooklyn, Mr. Mrs. Paul D. Cravath, Mr.

rnd Mrs. Chester Oris wold. Richard Watson Gilder, Margaret Mortonz- Mrs. Minna Gale Haynes, Commissioner John- W. Keller, Jose Mora, Dr.

and Mrs. M. L. King, and Thomas P. Ochiltree.

THE PLAY AND THE ACTOR. The time it the early Summer of 1794 and the place Paris and its neighborhood. The Girondists, Dan ton, Desmoulins, and Hebert have fallen, and it seems that the hour of Maxlmillen Robespierre's perfect triumph Is at hand. The play called written by Vlctorlen Sar-dou and rendered into English admirably by Laurence Irving, who fills the small but comparatively Important part of Talllen In the last act, assumes that Robespierre real-' ly yearns for absolute power, which he pictures In words that exhibit the Impracticability as well as the cunning of his nature. There are nine episodes, and each represents some phase of the man's extraordinary and "complex nature.

Some liberties are Inevitably taken with the plain facts of history; but none that does great violence to one's accepted ideas of the epoch. The romance in which Robespierre involved Is, of course, purely fictitious, 'but the play gains what positive dramatic value it possesses from It. It may as well be said plainly, however, that the merit of this piece lies chiefly in the opportunity It gives to a great actor to portray an intelligible idea of a famous personage. Irving has gone directly to history for his study of many of the superficial traits of the character. As the medium of the exhibition of some fine pictures, too, the play serves well, but it Is far from a master-work, and its performance with an aotor less magnetic and Interesting than the great Englishman In the dominating role would be accounted tiresome.

Irving, however, makes the dictator a vital personage every moment he is In sight, and in the three or four strongly dramatic passages holds the audience almost breathless by the force of his art. SUMMARY OF THE INCIDENTS. A summary of the chief Incidents in this play, scene by scene, will best serve to con-. Vry an intelligible idea of Sardou's manner of treating the character of the victim of Therxnldor. At the beginning Robespierre, faultlessly attired and attended by pies, keeps an appointment with Benjamin Vaughan, an agent of In a secluded spot In the forest of Montmorency, the scene, painted by Hawes Craven, being one of the most beautiful and most illusive views ever set on the theatrical stage.

The Interview, in which the. dictator rejects political advances made to him by the Englishman, has some dramatic value. It shows the faith of Robespierre in himself, and his belief in his destiny. It exhibits the weak-Bess as well as the strength of his character. Hut the enlsode is chief! valuable as the atrical preparation." By means of It the spectator learns of the romance of the hero or the play and one or Its nctiuous person- nice of a son.

Olivier, of whom Robespierre knows nothing Claiisse and her niece, both allied with the aristocrats, are dwelling near th forest, and In the climax of the act both are arrested aa enemies of the iiepublM. -Th nr itin.n in the first scene of Act prisoners at Port Libre, with no lack of companions in misfortune. In this episode the doomed royalists and liberals a re reDnntr! mm viminr their situation philo sophically, not to say flippantly. The char-, acters of a dosen or more of them are cleverly individualised. The parting of a mother from her prattling child, quite unconscious of danger, is an affecting incident, and a Khmrul tt mihllo xrputlon With an llB- provised scaffold, to help the condemned to meet their fate gracefully when the hour comes, is a grimly grotesque one.

In the prison Olivier is allowed to visit Clartsse and the cousin to whom he Is devotedly attached, and he vows vengeance on Robespierre. The second scene of this act represents the gorgeous and extravagant pageant of the Feast of the Supreme Being, expressing the revulsion of feeling in the last months of the Terror against the awful blasphemy of Hebert and his crowd, with their libidinous "Goddesses of Reason." The strange fanatic Robespierre is now proclaimed Vice Regent of God. Foppishly dressed, he takes his place beneath the Statue of Liberty a Ad grandiloquently addresses the multitude, and his speech Is Interrupted by Olivier, who from among the crowd denounces the dictator. The youth Is seized by the police. The house of Cltlaen Duplay, Robespierre's landlord.

Is the next scene, and here Is a gathering of Republican beaux and belles, with Robespierre in a mood of poetic reminiscence. He is enjoying himself now, and will not heed a letter from Clartsse In which she tells him of the existence of his son and Implores him to save the lad from the danger which threatens him. But later, when Olivier Is brought before him. the letter, taken with the youth's own utterances, enables him to recognize his son, and to take measures to save him from the guillotine. These measures, however, are not wholly efficacious, as It seems for in the next episode, Robespierre and Clartsse, from the window of a house In the Rue de Martrlo.

watch the passing tumbrils in dread of seeing Olivier in one of them on his way to the guillotine. That danger over and the dramatic suspense of that cleverly contrived series of Incidents having been brought to a climax, the Hall of tne Conclergerle at midnight Is revealed, wherein Robespierre, seeking his son in a sort of frenzy, falls in a fit of horror and remorse and sees the ghosts of some of the victims of the Terror. But his own downfall is close at hand. The incidents encompassing It are compressed Into one highly effective episode. Robespierre is made to shoot himself in the Hall of the Convention after the tumult of bis day of trial.

The management of this great scene of confusion may well be Imagined by persons who remember other Irving firoducttons. It is no hyperbole to say that could not be surpassed. The vast crowd Is composed of individualised units. None of the senseless gesticulating and yelling of ordinary stage crowds is to be noticed. Each human being in the assemblage acts his part.

It is Thermidor brought back again. That the climax of the scene Is not historically correct matters not at alL The dramatic end Is accomplished. THE ACTING. As a whole, Irving's portrayal of Robespierre justifies the lavish production of the play. It may not be ranked with his very best achievements.

The limitations of the character, perhaps even the too-often purely theatric quality of the play, would not permit of so great an artistic triumph. This Robespierre is. first of all. the dominating figure of a spectacle which alms to reflect In stage pictures the tumult and aneuiah. the travail of an epoch which was vastly more important than any Individual belong-.

IV 11. But lrying reproduce the externals of the man Robespierre as he may have been, with his wonderful skill of composition, denotes with sure effect the mingled cunning and fanaticism In his nature, touches those traits (of paternal love, for Instance.) which the dramatist has given to his hero with out historical authority with unfailing skill, and has his splendid moments, as In the scene in which Robespierre recognizes Oli vier, ana in tne soeii or rrenzied horror in the Conclergerle. In the last act, too, probably no other- actor could dominate the scene as he does. The scene with Olivier is an excellent ex ample of Sardou's craftsmanship. If all the play were of thin aualltv it would be Indeed a masterpiece.

The youth Is brought into the nouse ol uupiay tor personal examination by Robespierre. The idea Is to Wring from nun eviaence to convict otnera. out Dy tne merest chance the dictator learns that his own child is before him. His anxiety then Is to learn the whereabouts of the boy's mother, to save her front danger, without revealing nis secret to Olivier. Newly awakened affection, pity, fear, self-distrust, and anxiety conflict In the father's mind.

The succeedinr scene at the window is scarcely less clever though Its sheer theatrical Ism Is more obvious. Irving makes his share of it tell, and Miss Terry finds here ner only gooa opportunity. She lends authority and personal charm to her rale, but cannot make it more interesting than it is. The ghost scene, superbly managed pic-torlally, is clearly Gloster8 dream again, and it would be more effective if it were less Drotr acted. tor the rest, as we have already- Intl.

mated, the ensemble Is all but wrfwt. Few of the principals hsve a chance. Mr. Stanford, the Olivier, hi a handsome young man, and his acting is competent. Messrs.

Dods- wortn, Arcner, Tyars. and Garry play small purts particularly welL Many of the actors carry two or three small parte. THE SCENES AND APPOINTMENTS. Besides the woodland view contributed by Hawes Craven, the picture of the Place de la Revolution in which the fete of the Supreme Being occurs, by'the French art ist, Amable, and the same painter's scene of the Hall of the Convention are notewor- tny. Mr.

Craven painted also the Conclergerle picture in which the ghosts appear. Other sets by James Harker and W. Har ford are equally good In their less ambitious way. The costuming of the small army of principals and the vast and motley crowd Is wonderful in its variety and the harmony of the general effect. Georges Jacobi's incidental music includes the entr'actes, a song in Act and the music for the fete scene, with Its commingling of the Marseillaise and Partant pour la Srrle." It is all appropriate enough and unobtrusive.

Maxlmillen Robespierre Irving Clartaae de Malucun Ellen Terry Olivier Harrv E. Stanford Augustin D. Davtss Benjamin Vaughan W. iMKg Laebaa. Member James Hearn Kuonarottl Leonard Calvert Couton Charles Locke St.

Just H. Tamworth Old Duplay. Clifford Bown fimon j. Arcner Maurice Duplay Hayes IMdier H. Kenney CI w.

Graham Bll laud-Varen nee Charles Garry Jairut J. Hatch Amar v. Rharpe Voulland. G. Barton Rulh W.

Charles Vadler H. Oumey Thurlot; H. Garstin Talllen Irving Fourhe Charles Dods worth Lecolntre F. Fenrumn A. Mortna- Heron Arthur Rovston Count Harday da Hautevllle Junius Booth De Buasey Charles Garry The Torke Haly R.

p. Tabh Collas J. Swain Rarrasln T. Remolds t'rbaln D. Youna- Marechal da Mouchy O.

Kills De Broclle Charles Van De Kersalnt J. Wilson De Pons McKay D' Artnain. Wratherly Cot tan M. Rose Doaaura 8. Parsons Madame d'Avaux.

E. F. Davis Mademoiselle E. Da vies Madame Here Goodwin Little Girl L. Tarvto Fhade of Marie Howson Madame de Lavvnme Foster Mademoiselle de Dig by The Marechal de Mouchy A.

Byron Madame L. Marion Charlotte Maleyssle Hsle Marie Thereae Irwin Madame Crosse Madame. Cromwell Compile Brenda Gibson Vlctolre Grace Hampton Madame de Narboan Milton SPECIXATORS RICH -HARVEST. That MassgesieBt Vnaaceeaafnl fat Its Efforts to Thwart Them. The management of the Knickerbocker Theatre, where Sir Henry Irving made his first appearance last night, was scarcely successful In its efforts to thwart ticket speculators.

The speculators crowded around the Broadway entrance to the theatre, making it almost impossible for the public holding seats to gain an entrance to tbe house. Repeatedly the police drove them back, but they always managed to work their way up to the entrance again. Never in tbe history of great opening attractions within the last five years have so tnanv unknown, but licensed, speculators made their appearance on the sidewalk lx- ore any New tors tneatre. it was said by one of this city's oldest speculators that the new men have come from other cities. as far west as Chicago, and that it is their intention to follow the Irving company to every city which it will visit.

Astonishing prices were asked by these speculators for their seats, and they had no trouble In getting them. Orchestra chairs commanded as high as $10 and Jl'i. while balcony seats brought from to and gallery seats from to 4. 'ina orchestra seats were somewhat limited, be cause most of these seats were disposed of by the management to tne regular, nrst-nirht natrons, but any number of seats could be obtained for tbe other sections of the theatre. An unusual procedure on the part of the management occurred at about 9:45 o'clock.

At that hour three officers were stationed at the storm doors leading into the theatre, mA overv nerson who endeavored to gain entrance to the lobby far the purpose of pure casing seat for other performances was refused admission and Informed by the ofnc on duty that he or she would have to com this morning at 9 o'clock, as the manager ent absolutely refused t- sell any mora tick is for other than last night's perfonn- IL TROVATORE IS ENGLISH. Ver I's Opera, by the Castle Beware Opera Cosapaar. sed to be said by old-fashioned Italian Impresarios of the CoL Mapleson that when business was bad Verdi's ivatore could be relied upon to a good bouse and help an unfortunate mam ger cat of trouble. This is not the case the present day, yet II Trovatore," whe: weu sung, is always welcomed by a erable nart of th mihlir. ni wn cons! prbi bly continue to hold Its own while ele- men plac iry meioojr ana rhythm maintain their in the aeneral ear.

At the American Thutra la.t v. faml ar work was once more brought for- wa and v-aane square upera company, Was heartily innluirlnl hv a 1 a rtwA audi nee. The principal singers were Miss Gold Leonora, miss Lines as Asucena, Luckstone as the Count, and Mr. an as Manrico. vri Oniden im an Shoe esta llshed favorite with American Theatre audi nces.

ana Leonora is one of her most lar rAles. She received many evidences popui or luiar lavor last nignt. Sheehan'S Manrico has a-alnrd much dnesa and authority, and last night he and acted with fine freedom. He had ly thrown aside a device of forcing a sal resonance of hla voice, adorned le beginning of the season, and the re- was that the naturally good quality of Tgan was much more clearly brought aiiss Linca displayed a good voice and imaiic temperament, but her singing nfortunately marred bv a bad tremolo. horus sang vigorously, though not dis-y, and the orchestra was barely toler-The mountings of the oners were liar.

Next week Carmen will be AT THE Hl'RRAY HILL Lard Aadlenee Sees a Revival of Madame Sua Geae." Donnelly Stock Company presented u' comedy, "Madame Sans Gene," yest day at the Murray Hill Theatre be- fore Don large audience. Like all of Manager lly's previous revivals, the comedy 'ell mounted, and the characters were was for ie important roles adequately Imper sona' ii. jorotny Donnelly, who was in the 61e, and Walter Allen, who Dortraved title Na eon, acted their parts admirably. satisfactory work was done bv Ve Thoi Coleman as Lefebvre, William Red- mun as oucne, Kaipn Stuart as Comte de erg. Miss Blanche White as Marie e.

and Miss Fannv Jennlnea as Nelp Loul Mad me de Bulow. The other r61es were clevel ly acted. Next week's attraction will be if Bouchers farce, My Friend from Indl 1 Theatres as-d Masle Halls. ED 5N MUSEE. Unusually.

Interesting attra 'tions are to be seen this week at the Muse The new figure of President Krilger attra -ts much attention. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. After spending a week in Harlem, The Girl from was removed to this house last night for a week. The success of this comedy at the ether two New York houses attracted a lar audience. DE THEATRE.

Last night the Cra -ker Jack Burlesquers made their first Lppearance In a skit entitled Behind the creen." The second portion of the prograunme contained vaudeville attrac tions! and the performance concluded with an efctravaganza entitled The Drummer's) Paradise." HURTia A SEAMON-S MUSIC HALL. A social Maid." a comedy nresented last night for the first time In this city, was receiedrfavorably by a large audience. Tf he olio -hlch preceded the farce contained the Worli Trto, Johnson. Davenport, and Lo-rellaJ Acme Four, Bison City Quartette, ana many omers. KErTH'S UNION SQUARE THEATRE.

"A Blue Grass Widow." a new one-act comely by Milton Nobles, was presented yesieraay wun Air. and Mrs. Nobles ana miss wentworth In the cast. The Mon-lleve sisters. Chlng Ling Foo.

the Edwin Late 11. and Wormwood's trained dogs knade up the bllL PR4CTOR'S PALACE. Edward Harri- gan and his conmanv received their usual cordiil reception when they made their ap- peara ice yesterday in tne new sKlt McSnr-ley's Inflation." The kalagraph displayed new moving pictures, Lizzie Evans and Harri Mills were seen in a farce. La Belle Carm gave an exhibition on the high wire, p.na iiienia gave some ox ner dances. PROCTOR'S THEATRE.

Mounr Toon and lloung Chit. Burmese luralers. were the novelties offered yesterday. Mr. and Mrs.

iPerklns and D. Fisher appeared In ineir prurai piece, me Hair-way House." Horate White, a ventrlloaulst and musi cian, knade his New York debut. The other features were Conroy and McDonald. Irish comedians; new moving photographs of the kalagraph, Les Browns, and many more. HUEBR'S MUSEUM.

The curio halls and theatres this week contain- an almost entirdy new bill, only the star features of the mil last week having been, retained. Scott land Haley, one-armed boxers, and the nair-raan-nair-horse are new attractions. Andree and Reeves, in the Philippine war remits scences: Prof. Dodd and his talkinr dog. Cdary Sousa, woman magician, and the.

Punch and Judy show are in the curio halls. I while a double bill is in the theatre. K03TER AND BIAL'S MUSIC HALL An e5 oellent bill was provided by Manager Brad; for the patrons of this house last niKht. It Included Miss Etta Butler, the mimic who gave imitations of May Irwin, Modji ska, Viola Allen, and others; the bi cycle polo team performed some of its diffi cult acts, Bedinl and Arthur juggled all kinds! of peculiar objects, and the Craggs did sane tumbling. Others on the bill were the life Courcey brothers, Herbert and Wi ley, tl ie streator zouaves.

Mile. Emmy and her ti alned dogs. Mies Artie Hall, and La Sylph Of the vitagraph pictures, many of them were new. They Include a reproduction a Spanish bullfight. HERALD gftCARE THEATRE PLAXS.

Seeking: Attraction, to Sweeeed The Children of the Ghetto." The management of the Herald Square is at present engaged in trying to Theat 8ecur a good attraction for the house to The Children of the Ghetto." which folloi will ti rmlnate its engagement on Nov. 25. It said at the theatre last night that Mr. ann had left town to attend a per-ice which was given for the first time formj last ght. and if he thinks favorably of the produ tion the probabilities are that the ill be secured for the time interven- play lng tion ween the close of the present attrae-id the date for the opening of David Belas o's play.

Naughty Anthony." which is sen duled for early January days. am A. Brady has made a proposition ssrs. Evans and Mann to give him' Willi to the tl Bouci leatre for the production of Aubrey lault's adaptation from the French, whlcf will be known as A court scandal." Not hi upon definite, however, will be decided ntu Jar. Aiann returns.

SOT AN EARL. IN THE BILL. Lord I Vermouth's Family Objects to His Ise of the Nam. larl' of Yarmouth, who was engaged Ties Frohman as a member of one companies, has received Information family In England that they.pro- pose enioin him from using the family name in his career as a Drofessional actor. In co after or this ne nas aeciaea nere- to ue Known as Eric nope, unaer which name ne win appear tor tne nrst time theat this city at one of Mr.

rToaman i on Nov. 20. The iarl will leave this city to-day for Al- lento n. to Join the Frohman's Com- edian witn wnom ne win renearse lor me Juvenile Dart In the farce. "Make leadL Way or the Ladies," which will be pro- duced Nov.

for the first time in this city on MAT IRWIN'S SONG. Maariiter Brady Threatens Legal Ae tata Against the Comedienne. ManLger William A. Brady threatens all kinds I of legal action against Miss May Irwin land her managers If they Insist upon inducing a song in their farce, Sister MarvJ' which is entitled hat Did Alary Do? "I Mr. Brady stated last night that he purchased what he alleges to be the same song In England last' Summer under the title if Mary Was a Housemaid." and which! he Intends to introduce in his new burleiiue under the title of Beckte Was a Hoasematd." and which has been copy righted.

He claim? to have the right to take rrlminal action if Miss Irwin's man-agem nt will persist in allowing her to sing this ng. Mr. Brady also said that he notified ie Irwin management yesterday that thev Must desist from using the song, and as nef understands they will continue it in the play, he will take some action in the matter to-oay. Mlsi Irwin's business representative. E.

RurkJ SfOtt when informed of Mr. Pradv's contemplated action raid that he knew nota- lng whatever about the tatter's song, but ne doea knnw th.t in t. i rjKira. "en especially for her by roiomon, tne woras Dy Louis Harrison. aHHri th.t vi.

in.i nni.i continue to sing It at every performance, despite Mr. Brady's threats. DELLA FOX MrCH IMPROVED. Her Physician. Looks for Na Ckasge far the "Wnrae.

Dr. Constable, who Is attending Miss Delia Fox, the actress, late last night issued this bulletin of her condition: Miss Fox la better to-night than at any time within a week. No change for the worse is ST. LOUIS. Oct.

30. Delia Fox's mother lies at death's door In this city. It was not expected that Mrs. Fox, who is suffering from dropsy and a valvular disease of the heart, could live through the night. It wis stated last nla-ht that nn account of the sudden turn for the worse in the con dition or Mrs.

Fox no member of the family win leave for the East. Living in St, Charles, and her father, Andrew J. Fox. GEORGE C. TYLER A BANKRUPT.

Asks Relief trosa Debts laearred by the Disrby Bell Opera Company. George C. Tyler, a clerk at L402 Broad way, formerly manager of the Digby Bell Opera Company, has filed a petition In bankruptcy. He wishes to get rid of his in dividual debts, and also the liabilities Incurred as a partner tn the Dlgby Bell Opera Company with Jacob Rosenthal. The partnership was dissolved in and there.

ar no assets left. Tyler's total liabilities are $12,165. of which flO.Ktu is on account of the opera company and $1,535 was contracted individually at Asbury Park in 1805 in a production of As You Like It." On the latter account he owes salary to eighteen creditors, among nom are KObert tf. Manteu, skk; Thomas Q. Seabrooke, $200; Marie Walnwrlght, $100; Minnie Sellgman, and James T.

Powers, $175. He owes twenty-nine persons in connection with the Dlgby Bell Opera Com pany, among wnom are uvgoy Bell, S2.000; Laura Joyce Bell, $1,000: Hubert Wilkle. $M00; Josephine Knapp. $800; John McGhle, $600; John McGhle and Josephine Knapp Aicunie, ana Augustus nomas, 4uo. H0PPZB TS A NEW PLAY.

Adds a Travesty ta El Capttaa at the Comedy im London. LONDON, Oct. SO. Do Wolf Hopper suc cessfully removed El Capitan to the Comedy Theatre this evening, supplementing the performance with W. H.

Post's travesty on The Degenerates." styjed The Regenerates. Miss Marlon Giroux scored a marked hit. Charles Hawtrey of airs. Langtry's company added to tbe success of the performance by appearing in a parody of the Duke. The reception given the travesty shows that an English audience realizes that America still produces farce writers as well as clever comedlana Plana of Clsale Lof tna.

It Is more than probable that Miss Clssle Loftus, who signed a contract with Richard Mansfield to play the part of Roxane In his revival of Cyrano de Bergerac." after- wara canceling it. win return to Weber ana Field s's. She plans, it is said, to appear in Mr. Proctor's vaudeville houses, and at the termination of this engagement she will return to the Broadway Music Hall. A Battle-Scarred Hero," WASHINGTON.

Oct. 30. The Cuban- American military farce, A Battle-Scarred Hero," with Bert Coote In the title role, was presented for the first time this evening at the Lafayette Square Theatre. The play was received favorably. Coart Relieves Actor of Debts.

Special it Tk New York Timet. CHICAGO. Oct. 30. Charles A.

Gardner, the actor, received the benefits of the bankruptcy act this morning, when all his debts, amounting to $30,115. were wiped out in tne united states District upurt. THE SAMOA COMTHOVEBSY. It Is Said Great Britain Haa Made aa Offer to Germany. BERLIN.

Oct. 30. The Vossische Zeltung says it understands that Great Britain has offered Germany the Gilbert Islands and the British portion of the Solomon Islands in return for a renunciation of Germany claims In Samoa. EXPBXSS TBAHTS ilOT TO STOP. Property Owners Object to Now Ele voted Station at 7d Street.

The project' of the Manhattan Railway Company to have express trains make stops at Columbus Avenue and Seventy-second Street to be abandoned for the present. The explanation at the office of Vice President Alfred Skitt yesterday was that the plan fell through because the company could not get the necessary consents of property owners. The company, to avoid disturbing the local schedules, had planned to elevate the track at Seventy-second Street, from Sixty-fifth to h-ientietn street, so as to permit or the erection of an overhead platform above the. up and down tracks, for passengers to and irorn tne centre tracau BOY KILLED IN ELEVATOR. Raymond Bawson's Head was Crashed Between Elevator and Celling-.

Raymond Bawson, eight years old, of 275 West Street, was crushed about the head yesterday afternoon while playing with several other boys on a freight elevator at 451 Greenwich Street. He died of his Injuries soon after being taken to. the New York Hospital. Three or four of the boys were on the elevator when It was started upward by some one on an upper floor. All the children but Bawson iumned off In time, but he was caught between the elevator and tbe ceiling of the first floor.

His head was Jammed, 'and of his Jaws rracturea. nia nose was cut nearly off. His playmates were powerless to help him. When he was extricated he was carried to tbe hospital, where he died on the operating DE. VAN DYKE'S SUCCESSOR.

He Declares TJr. Bnbeock Would Fill the Place WelL Judging from an interview with Dr. Henry Van Dyke last night. It appears probable that the pastorate of the Brick Presbyterian Church may be filled by the Rev. Dr.

M. D. Babcock of Baltimore. On Nov. the congregation will meet for the purpose of considering the election of a new pastor," said Dr.

Van Dyke. The published statement that the Rev. Dr. Melanctbon Woolsey Stryker would be a possible candidate Is erroneous, as 'b Is devoted to his duties as President of Hamilton College. I am still serving as pastor of the Brick Church, and have not as yet taken up any "duties at Princeton.

There has been no meeting of the congregation, nor haa any committee been appointed for that purpose. Of course the people of the Brick Church have not been spending the Summer without thought with rvgard to the necessity of finding a man to take charge of the church in the near future, but they have considered it wiser to approach the problem quietly, and, while there was no vacancy In the pulpit, to avoid a public exhibition of candidates." Have you had anything to do with the selection of your successor? Dr. Van Dyke was asked. I have bad nothing more than any other member of the congregation to do with selecting my successor. I have very firm convictiona which th people of the church all share, that the pastor oi inia pansu ougnt to De a man of a certain typeold-fashioned in faith simple Christianity, modern in methods of work, and in touch with the life of to-day He should be a native American.

If the American church cannot raise its own ministers it ts almost time for it to go out of business." The name of Dr. M. D. Babcock of Baltimore has been What do you think of him as your successor? I cannot say wh.at the oeople of the congregation will do. If he is called.

It will give me the areatest satisfaction. He Is a man thoroughly qualified to take care of th church In all Its departments, and to preacn tne wiepei wun power. In religion he ts earnest, and he is a man amona- mn who does not occupy his energies In theological halr-sputUng and controversies." INJURED BY OAS EXPLOSION. Tea Men In the Daejneane Carnearle Works Arc Hart, Two Fatally. PITTSBURG, Oct.

SO. Ten men. two of whom will die, were burned at the Carne gie Steel Works, at Duquesne, to-day. The men were working- in a pit engaged In making connection for a meter for the new gas house being erected. It seems that tbe main had sprung a leak, and when the yard engine passed, hauling a train of hot in gots, ine gas was ignited and a terrino explosion followed, completely shattering the old gas house and burling the workmen In every direction.

P. J. GLEAS0N OUT AGAIN. Ex-Mayor of Lobs; Ialanal City star Now Go Where Ha Plena esw. Ex-Mayor P.

J. Gleason of Long Island City will to-day be a free man. For the last six months he has been In Jail as a Judgment debtor. As tbe Jail limits of Queens County are the same as the limits of the borough and county, he did not spend a minute in the Jail building. He was luiiiruuneo on a judgment obtained by Anthony S.

Woods, ex-Captain of the Long Island City police, for damages for slander. When Mr. Gleaaon th. altnatlnn Vio would he placed in he went to Albany and caused a bill to pass giving Judgment run tne county. then allowed the case to go to trial, and refused to pay the $2,000 damages awarded against UalUe DELAY TN AMBULANCE SERVICE.

One Hoar Before an Injnreel Man Re ceiver MedieaU Attendance. Although Charles Becker waa Injured soon aner o'clock last evening, it was one hour later before he waa placed In an ambulance and taken to' the New York Hospital. Becker is thirty-five years old, and lives at the Standard Lodging- House, at Forty-second Street and Tenth Avenue, Last evening he waa crossing Broadway, when a hansom cab knocked him down and ran over his right leg. fracturing It. The man was carried to the sidewalk by Policeman Duffy of the West Forty-seventh Street Station and some citizens.

The DO lice man called nn RoomvaM Hos pital for an ambulance and was told that tneir only available ambulance was out. He called DO Belle vim Hosmltal and waa in formed that all the ambulances were out. The policeman then called up the New York nospuai. ana alter a delay of more than one hour tbe man was taken to that Institution. A large crowd of theatres-sere saw the unfortunate man lying on the sidewalk and were loud in their denunciations of the ambulance service.

rXRE-PBOOP MATERIAL TRUST. Plttabnrs; Terra Cottn Lnmher Cons. pany ta Control Entire Trade. PITTSBURG, Oct. aa The Dispatch tomorrow will say: Pittsburg men and Pittsburg capital will soon control the fire-proofing cmslness of the entire country; that Is, In the manufacture of fire-proof building material.

The Pittsburg Terra Cotta Lumber Company la about to effect the purchase of three plants now in operation. These are the works of the Boston Fire-Proof Company at Boston, the Hobert Terra Cotta Com nan of nhinurn. and the Cleveland Fire-Proof Company of The Pittsbursr Terra Cotta LnmVr rvwn- pany already has a plant In Pittsburg, one i mr sua nnomer at jast Palestine. Ohio. The canltal of th com pany Is to be Increased to $2,000,000, and the combined output of all its plants wlH be 500 ions per aay.

Tne acquisition of the plants mentioned aives this Fommnt th pnnrrnl of the entire hollow tile fire-proofing busi- ncBs inttea mates. Tne omcera of the Pittsburg Terra Cotta Company are D. F. Henry, President: W. D.

Henry. Secretary, and W. H. Graham. Treasurer." CITIZEN TRAIN'S DIGRESSIONS.

Leetsrc on the Anarloaaanlae Ends In Dlseassles of Warn. Citizen Georser Francis Train aMaa meeting at the industrial Chrlatian Alliance. i iv nieecaer street, last night. He began to speak on "The Anglomanlac," but he became so much Interested In relntlna- hla own experiences that his subject waa quite iorgotten. ana was only alluded to at the close of the lecture, when Citizen Train apologized for his digressions.

The audience, however, anno a rA in Just as well pleased with his chosen sub ject, ana to tne question which he put to them at Intervals as to whether or not he should continue, the answer was unanimous uui ne snouia as rMtlvn Train m.KA V. and the Transvaal wars, censuring the Ad- iiiuiiBLi aiiuii iir na management oi tne ior-mer, and the British In regard to the lat- U. i the Philippines and In South Africa, going into detailed explanations of the most re- At the close of his lecture many pressed forward to greet him. Every one seemed Kiiuw ui viiizru xrain taeas on me subject of handshaking, for no one attempted to grasp his hand. He has promised to firwak U7in noy Mnnlav nlivh tw ai liacce on the subject of The Anglomanlac." BROOKLYN TEACHERS TROUBLES Delegates to Confer with LoenI Board A boat September Salaries.

The Board of ReDresentativea nt h. Brooklyn Teachers' Association met venter. day afternoon in Public School No. 15, at state street ana Third Avenue, to consider what action should be taken with regard to tne hold-up of the teachers' salaries for September. A resolution re lectin ir the Ttrrw posed plan for the payment of the salaries on the basis of the June schedule was Introduced, but after a long discussion it was decided not to adopt it.

Instead," an amendment providing for the appointment of a committee to confer with the Law Committee of the local School Board was passed. This committee will seek to determine whether the teachers' rirhta will jeopardized should they accept their pay on jn.aim vcujo tiuur ana sign tne usual receipts for a full month's pay. v-uiiinijiiec, wnrcn is composed or DUUWl tO Floyd R. Smith. Principal of School No 41 and Channing Stebbins, Principal of School No.

77, will report to a meeting of the teach- v.i tag same place. Miss Granger of School No, 3 will mm kuuiuiiucc.u me representa- A nw ntt nf nav rn). AV. iua crovKim teachers, made out under the schedule in operation in June last, was placed in the hards of Auditor Cook of the Board of Education yesterday. The rolls were signed by Henry W.

Maxwell. Chairman of the Fl- nancA rnmmlttM wlrh thi. iiuiMun aa of the certificate: Without prelu- may accrue lr it be determined that the by-laws of the School Board were lea-allv ntnnrt 5. 1M." The teachers will be asked to aia-n for their checks to the effect that they have received-the amount in full for September salary; provided the salaries sohed- tlltf. tflf th Rhnnl Rnnf nf .1.

Brooklyn adopted July 5, is not legally Both of these provisions were inserted on the advice of Corporation Counsel Whalen. Dies from Overdone of Morphine. NEW HAVEN. Oct. W.

BIs-sell. aged thirty-five, Yale Academic. '89. died at Grace Hospital early this evening from an overdose of whether accidental or with suicidal Intent is not known. His home was In North Stonlng-ton, but he had been stopping in this city several days.

He was discovered In his room at tbe hotel this afternoon in a semiconscious condition. He leaves a widow, also a mother and sister, who are missionaries in India, and two brothers in California. Qoarantlne Against nn Actor." SAVANNAH. Oct. 3a The Savannah Quarantine Board to-day refused to allow Otis Skinner, the actor, to come here and to-morrow night, because he had been New Orleans last ten days.

The board also refused to permit W. O. Stubbs. Director of the Louisiana Experiment Statins, to come. The Fever Situation tn Sew Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 30. The Board of Health's report, covering Sunday and Monday, shows four new cases and one death frum yellow fever. THE COMMERCIAL CONGRESS.

Dijcuaaiona on European Trad and Trade Marks Senor Cuyaa on Spain' Recent Progress, PHILADELPHIA, Oct. The International Commercial Congress, which has been in session here since Oct. 12. to-day entered upon the final week of Its work. The congress will close on Wednesday.

Today's se se ion was devoted first ta papers on European trade. Pletro Tap pari of Florence, Italy, in discussing the question of tariff, said: "Without wishing to enter iato the dla-cuaaion of the merits of protective tariff In general. I will onty say that It has by this tlmA V. a1 1 prohibitive duties are sometimes as injurious wuuiry utiu imiwwi uivra nn to the country against which they are imposed, and this is exactly the case with your Dingley tariff, which, having very high duty on some Italian products, has caused as much damage to American as to Italian interests," J. Monaghan," United States Consul at Chemnitz, Germany, said in part: The fact that almost every foreign delegate has made objection to our tariff will be a splendid argument to pcesent to the greater part of the American people in favor of keeping our restrictive duties.

It Is only a century since England was one of the strongest, if not the strongest, protective country in the world. It imposed not only heavy Import duties, but stringent export duties as well. Now, aa ta well known, England im the greatest exponent of free trade. Nations and conditions have changed. Every new country will have to go through more or less similar experiences to the ones we have gone through." Antonio Cuyaa, delegate from Madrid, gave a resume of the conditions of trade and commerce in Spain, and said In effect that country, was being rejuvenated by reorganization of its commerce and manufactures.

In part he said: "Almost immediately after the recent crisis in our national life, when the Government and people alike seemed dazed and at a loss, commerce came to the rescue. At a congress of delegates from all the Chambers of Commerce in the kingdom held at Baraossa the country's condition was thoroughly examined, and a comprehensive plan for its Improvement was formulated and-recommended to the Government. So PTfcHcable that plan baa been and will be followed. "Other evidences of the same spirit are the creation of a National Board of Export 2. eW complete reorganization of our state Department, reducing the scope of the political service and increasing that of com-mrc.

and the appointment of commercial gattona Ur vartou" Embassies and Le- wnimerclal trade marks wa, at the afternoon session. SI'L United States Preaided. He said In the his address that when foreign iTtrJZ establist-ed on a particular grade can only be. retained by con-" IhaVflU0 a equally as good a. ir7 and, to Prevent others rood" ln tmltation It becomes trrkrPOrter "hOUid LStewart.

of New York spoke on Some manufacturers suppose that thev reSalt Pf0'10" for thelTproducts by registering their currently used names as KttarkSK 8oJme i-lSraasert It Lb7 BUcn r8istratlon they acquire the rlBhto others from eominc In of the same goods? Their doctrine carried to its legtUmate conclusion would have made every word in the language and every act In dvlliaation perpetual monopoly." per v-i 1J ses William C. Barker of k. h45papr on International and Trade Marks was read by Francis Forbes. The paper dealt with the enect of trade marks upon International ffmm5r' nd urged that a uniform system be adopted by all civilized countries. A PILGRIM AND TTP? CENT.

Strajsa-e Qnest ef HeDsy Denoted mr kept leal PoUoesaaen. The police of the Oak Street Sation aay that Charles W. McDay. a prisoner who waa ln their custody la Just a common pan handler." That Is why they arrested him. When he was arraigned In the Centre Street moralng- and beld until rsov.

4, he told a queer story. Losing his Ms Ln Praicisco on Sep" 15. ISMi. be said be found himself with a de war with a rich citizen that he could make his way around withcut spending that, his last cent. The cent was marked and McDay arranged for his trip.

Bt hungry at one point In that nt faad to "Pen his That was wby he ked everybody tori a Penny. He would take noth-J" said. All be wanted was that would nnish his trip. His story is being Investigated. BURGLARS BEAT A WOMAN.

Mr Sadie Hawn of Brooklyn Attacked Sunday Hlsjht. Mrs. Sadie Hawn. an elderly woman, who keeps a store at 1,185 Broadway, Brooklyn, is in a precarious condition at her home aa the result of an experience she bad early Sunday morning with burglars, the facta of which were not made known by the police until yesterday. Mrs.

Hawn lives ln her store. Shortly after 2 o'clock she was awakened by a noise in.he the floor on which she siept- ahe got up and went Into the hall to She hardly time to realize at ZZZZJFi? waa there when her throat hfl. by a tron hand that prevented her making any outcry. She atruggied foaTsce.10 IF" her8eIf aDd cd otner men ran up etairs and caught hold of her. One of them her with some blunt weapon.

As she and dOWn twKIT" was bleeding from a wound lti, be bl7 nad 'nfllcted. but she managed to get down stairs onto the aldewalk. where she cried for help. Her screams men. but she could hardly tell them what had happened before she fell In a faint to the aldewalk.

Word was sent to the Ralph Avenue 8tatIon. and Detectives Becker and Mitchell went to the house. They heard her story, and found that the burglars had entered the bouse through the cellar by breaking a lock on the door. HAD FRIENDS IN POVERTY. End of Mrs.

Roberta. Widow of Rich London Merchant. After living for years in her younger days as the wife of a London silk merchant, in affluence, then earning her living for the last twenty years of her life as a book folder ln a Rose Street establishment, Mrs. Anna Roberts, who had passed the eighty-year mark, died last night on a sofa ln the apartments of Mrs. Pleas, the mother of Policeman Pleas of the Oak Street Station, at 40 Vandewater Street, For a year the woman had been unable on account of her advanced age to earn her living, but her wants were supplied by the man she had labored for all these years.

He is Mr. William Knoepke, a pamphlet hinder, who. when he saw that she was too old to be of service, told her that he would allow her $3 a week for her living and pay her rent of $4 a week. For a. year Mr.

Knoepke had kept his word, but twn mnntk, a V. vi nuauta De- uui sue was taken to The HoPtal. She left her room at 6i Rose 8treet, and in it ail her lwo trunks and a little furnUure, hen she came back last Saturday evening she found that her room had been rented to another tenant and that a kind hearted engineer who knew her, a man named Logan, had stored her effects in a room under a stairway. Then she sat down on the stairs and fell asleep. In this position Logan found her.

and he sought Mrs. Pies who consented to take the woman ln until yesterday, when Loean was to take her his own rooms. Hardly a Sunday had passed for tbe last twenty years that Mrs. Roberts bad not sat in a pew at St. Paul's Church, in Broad-wsy, and she wa well known there by all the regular attenlants.

Her maiden name was Bruce, and she used to tell the youna girls who worked beside her in th book bindery what a grand wedding she had ln London ln her youth. Mrs. Roberts will be decently buried at the expense of Mr Knoepke and her younger friends and shonl mates, and the Public Administrator will have the disposing of her scanty effects. Fire la Mr. Bonne's Bene.

A servant discovered" shortly after fi o'clock last evening that a lace curtain was on fire in the third floor -of the five-storr brownstone residence of Charles Broad waV Rouss. (TJ3 Fifth Avenue-. A nassina. turned in an- alarm, but when the firemen arrived the servants had extinguished the flames, with little damage. The curtain hd imwwh azauisi ugaiea gas jeu THE North American Review NOVEMBER: INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION A Russian Mew.

F. de MARTENS. Delagste from Russia to Ta Hague Coafereace. i From an American Standpoint SETH LOW. United States Dslegate to The Hague Conference.

M. de Martens baa absolutely unrivaled, qualifications for writing upon this subject, as he haa been several times choaon by civilised State to arbitrate disputes, the laar occasion being- the Anglo-Venezuelan controversy and haa had conferred upon him the complimentary title of Lord chief Justice of President Low is known to all American-. France at. the Parting of the Ways.1 BERNARD LEZARE. M- Bernard Lezare.

who waa the -first to demand- a revision of the Dreyf us "verdict, discloses the jnefarlcrus machinations 0f the General Staff and Its tools, and exposes the danger which menaces Franca in consequence of the domination of her military chiefs. The "Open Door" Policy Cf THB Philippines. FRANK D. PAVEY. Hawthorne and Lavender a Soags and Madrigals.

CalUetiom of Tmnfr-flv tonu. W. E. HEBLET. Gvil Service Reform in Peril? Professor Joseph P.

Jo eh sew. Of the Caivomtty of Pcaaaytvaaia. The Dramatic Festivals of Orange. Jules Chareth, Adnilnistratareaoral of the Coroadi. Francs no.

Food VbJcb Fail to Feed. LOOIS WntDMCLUE. Tha Story of a Helpful Queen. CaxKEif Stlta," Ths Qdsob of Kon mania Tbe Picture Gallery of the Hermitage. IL Claude Phillips.

THB ANGLICAN CHURCH CRISIS The Rebellion Against tbe Royal Suprem acy. TIE LUX Oi PORTS MOCTS. How tba Rhualisti Harm tbe Chorcb. Tie Rt. Hon.

aktbur Balfocr. THE NOVEMBER North American Review, WARBIX ST. KEW TORK. 50 cents acopy. $5.00 a year.

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