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THE WASHINGTON POST THURSDAY DECEMBER 26 1907 Oat MAY CLOSE GUBS PARK Politicians Threaten Murphy for Opposing Invasion COOK HOSPITAL THE CAUSE Claim It Is Too Close to Ball Grounds and as Prominent Men Are Behind American Association Vigorous Meas ures Will Be Resorted To Comiskey Says Longer Worlds Series Is Bad Special to Tte Wiihlarten Post New Tork Dec 25 Baseball war talk Is coming out of Chicago in chunks The latest is a yarn to the effect thatll Murphy the owner of the champion Cuos continues to oppose the placing of an American Association clnb In the Windy City an effort will be made to close up Murphys baseball park on the grovnd that lta location is a violation of a State law in that it Is too close to the Cook County Hospital It is said that prominent politicians are behind the association men in their efforts to place a club in Chicago and that vigorous marmres will be resorted to Wh le tbe stewards of the Jockey Club ha discussed tha allotment of dates for next year In an Informal way it Is an nounced that no definite decision will be arrived at until January 3 when the stewards are expected to take final action The entrance of the Empire City track Into tle MrtropoJKan Circuit Is the jam of th present delay in making up thp schedule but the Jockey Club steward will undoubtedly make room for the Vonkers course In the arrangements of raring days Jju Joyner bs eighteen coming two iT oidi in his care at Sheepshead Bay Seen of them are bis own property while the ethers belong to August Bel mmt Perry Belmont and James Keene At the recent meeting of the Amer League Comiskey opposed a longer worlds series and gave these reasons It would be a bad thing for the American League My vote has always beeu cast with a Mew to tbe best Interests of my league and not the Chi ago club It is not fair to the Amer i an League to have one of its clubs ompelled to light right down to the end of a long hard schedule and without any rest to have to go into a long ueUing eeries with a club which has had Its pennant won for thirty days and has therefore had plenty of time to rest up If they want a longer worlds series let them go back to the 140 game schedule and then lengthen the worlds series proportionately but at that it would riot be fair to the clubs which are not in tbe race to make them lose two weeks of playing lust to swell the income of the winning clubs tnele Cy Toung has signed a Boston American League contract for next season Young sent his contract to John Taylor the other day With a letter saying that his arm was as strong as ever In view of the fact that Young pitched his first major league game for Cleveland eighteen years ago he may Justly be looked upon as a veritable baseball wonder Me has always used plenty of speei yet lls arm has never gone back on him The old fellow has often said that when lie feTt Ms wing was weakening ne would not wait for his manager to ten mm ne was at uie ena 01 nis diamond career but would quit voluntarily Young has always taken care of himself He never drinks or smokes and seldom stays up late He spends his winters splitting rails and Is always as strong as an or Incidentally he Is said to be worth nearly J1OOO00 one to investing his savings in real es tate President Charles Carpenter of the Tri etate League says the recently organisedorganised Union League which Intends to place clubs In Philadelphia Baltimore Brooklyn and other Eastern cities is a Joke pure and simple Carpenter declares that the Union League would not be able ta furnish a good skirmish for the Tri Stat which gained much experience In baseball warfare in its recent struggle with organized ball Frank Gotch who says he is the real American wrestling champion Is hot under the collar because of the match Just made between Hackenschmldt and Joe Rogers the American Apollo who also declares he is the champion of this countri Gotch threatens to go to England and show Rogers up as a fraud inasmuch as he has beaten the latter to a standstill Wrestling experts who have seen Hackenschmldt on the mat say that Rogers will have to be a phenomenon to beat the Russian lion Gotch wants to meet Hackenschmldt or any man In the world catch as catch can and states that he will VAKDERBHTS SAUTA CLAUS Small Army of Employes Remembered at Oakland and Sandy Point Special to The WasMnrton Post Newport Dec 25v Mr and Mrs Alfred 0 Vanderbilt played Santa Clans to a small army of their servants and farm hands at Oakland this morning as slster by their son Master William and by Miss Pauline French every one receiv ing one or morexfts even the farmers children Master William received many specially constructed mechanical toys bis favorites and later Mr Vanderbilt In his touring car called at the telephone exchange the car barns of the electric railroads ahd other places to leave presents from Mrs Vanderbilt and himself Handsome gifts were exchanged by Mr and Mrs Vanderbilt and Miss Gladys Vanderbilt and Count Szcebenyl la New York Mr and Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt Invited ail the servants and farm hands to the training ring at Sandy Point farm Christmas Eve and from an Immense tree every one was presented with a useful gift from the hands of Mr and Mrs Vanderbilt and Miss Catherine Vanderbilt with the assistance of Mrs Frederick eilon who is here for the holidays This afternoon Mrs Alfred Vanderbilt entertained Mr and Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt Mrs Frederick Nellson William Fltihugh Whltehouse Jr Miss Pauline French Samuel Wagstaff and others at luncheon This evening Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt entertained the same party at dinner CHRISTMAS AT BILTM0RE Almost a Thousand Employes Receive Gifts from the Vanderbilts Ashevllle Dec Blltmore House the home of Mr and Mrs George Vanderbilt was the scene of Christmas gayety to day The annual Christmas tree for employes was attended by al most one thousand persons every one of whom were handsomely remembered The trivia rftdfllirnl ukaAa MnAB fln1 the boys were given suits of clothes and toys and candies while older persons received articles of clothing gloves blankets More than five hundred pounds of candy was distributed and many wagon loads of oranges applet and fruits Scores of wagons of holly and mistletoe were used in the decora tions A Tausical concert and recital fol lowed Mrs Vanderbilt gave a tea In the after noon and to night there was a dinner party for members of the Blltmore Christmas house party among whom were Mr and Mrs Mackay Twombly and Miss Ruth Twombly Mr and Mrs A Burden and others of New York COMING TO THE THEATERS VETERANS WIFE STARVING Mrs Sillowaye Wife of Friend of Lincoln In Bellevue Her Husband a Brigadier General in War Between the States in Poor Health Unable to Get Work challenge the winner of the coming match in London After much backing and filling Tommy Burns has finally Induced Jem Roche the alleged Irish champion to meet him In a glove fight to be held In Dublin on March 17 for a 7500 purse and a side bet of 12600 This means that Burns will not even talk of fighting Jack Johnson In this country for the next six months The betting on tbe fight between Hugo Kelly nd Bill Ifepke to be decided in Milwaukee next Monday has shifted in favor of RUy Who now rules the choice at 10 to 7 Lut by the time the men enter the ring tt believed that even money will prevail with heavy backing for both pugilist Rube WaddeU in a New Role Rube Waddell who Is now In Mobil Ala Js down with the Lawson fever He wants to form an outlaw league In the South WaddeU refers to present day ball players as slaves and to the game as me Diggesi trust ever organised Louisiana 56 Havana a Havana Dec 25 In a game of foot ball to day between the Universities of Louisiana and Havana tbe Loulslanlans won by the score of S6 to 0 New York Dec 25 Mrs A Sillowaye seventy six years old Is In Bellevue Hospital a result of old age according to the surgeons Her husband says she is starving to death She is the wife of William A Sillowaye who with Mrs Sillowaye lived at No 178 Waverley place Mr Sillowaye says he was a friend of President Lincoln and a former brigadier general in tbe Federal army during the civil war Sillowaye gives his own age as ninety five 3reara and says that both he and his wife bad been In dire want for many weeks In speaking of his wife the old man was greatly moved He said that she had formerly been a practicing physician about twenty five years ago in Boston and had been In better days president of the Ladies Aid Society of Boston and also president of the Ladles Relief Corps of the Boston branch of the A Auxiliary The aged man declares he was discharged from the United States army with the rank of brigadier general at Galveston Tex on December 28 186S He had served throughout the civil war fighting In the battles of the Wilderness and Antietam In 1864 he said he was commissioned a lieutenant colonel by President Lincop After the war the veteran worked for Harper Bros and also as a reporter on New York papers he declared For the last twelve years his health has been failing and he has not been able to obtain steady work He related his efforts to get a pension saying he had been examined last August Relatives in Berlin VL he said had written for him to go to them but he declared that would never leave his wife in this city 111 In a hospital while he sought shelter ciacvt ucrc Belasco Holland in The House of a Thousand Candles Holland who will play the leading role In The House pf a Thousand Candles at the Belasco Theater next week stands prominent In his profession as one of the best character actors on the stage to day His family have lent luster to dramatic art and Holland has kept alive the Holland tradition During his careeY he has flayed so many parts with such easy grace and intellectual vigor that It results in rather a difficulty should one attempt to estimate which role is his best Mr Hollands last appearance In this city was made with Kyrle Bellew In hU production of Raffles a little over a year ago The story of The House of a Thousand Candles unlike most dramatizations has not been altered for the stage version National Sam Bernard in The Rich jot uoggenneimer Sam Bernard will come to the National next week In his musical farce The Rich Mr Hoggenhelmer one of last seasons big New York successes It was played six months at Wallaces The ater and of the many conspicuous successes last season It was well to tle fore The Rich Mr Hoggenhelmer Is a sequel to The Girl From Kays All playgoers who saw the former play will remember Piggy Hoggenhelmer who thought that being rich was a sufficient excuse for doing anything and everything The character of Piggy was then declared to be one of the funniest ever seen on the American stage In the continuation of this character Sam Bernard finds ample ecope for the display of his unique talents as a comedian Columbia Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Amusementfoyers have naught but the pleasantest recollections of Mrs wlggs of the Cabbage Patch and will no doubt give her and her coterie of Kentucky folk a very cordial and enthusiastic greeting on their return to Washington when they will hold receptions at the Columbia Theater for one weeks engagement commencing next Monday night The cast which Lelbler Co have provided for the play this season differs but lltue from that of last year and includes such favorites as Blanche Chapman as Mrs Wlggs Vivia Ogden as Mis Hasy Charles Carter as Mr Stubbins and Elsa Buerger as Lovey Mary Chases Carrie De Mar in American Girls Chases will next week begin the New Year with a standard setting polite vaudeville programme composed of Carrie Mar decree Abel and Company Kitty Traney Collins and Brown the iAbakans the Astrellas Keeley Bcoth uid the vitaeraoh Dlctures of The Kitchen Maids Dream Carrie De Mar is the fascinating ltartrin comedienne lon with Joseph Hart and recently starred In The Land of Nod Mamas Papas Miss Mar was In The Follies of 1907 New York jevue last summer and her per scnal hit was so pronounced that she was induced to re enter vaudeville in the same novelty Iff FASHIONS BEALH OONTINCED TROM SEVENTH 1101 SWIMMERS WIN BET Special to The Washington Poet Chlcago Dec 25 Two Illinois Athletic Club swimmers Nails Jaeger and Sophu Jensen won the second Installment of their three cornered bet to day by taking a plunge In the Icy waters of the lake The dive was taken from the dock of the Chicago Yacht Club the two swimmers fit abbreviated bathing suits plunging from the dock among the cakes of Ice that were floating In the basin Jaeger and Jensen made a bet they would dive into the lake en Thanksgiving Day Christmas and New Years and to day they won the second part of the bet If they complete the series with a swim on New Years Day they will be the guests of honor a fa dinner to the water polo squed of the I A to be paid for the other member of the team i HATCHETITES ENTEB SHOOT Send Team to National Rifle Association Range Special to The WaaMnston Pott zew York Dec 25 The National KMe Association range at the snorts mens show at the Grand Central Pal ace was well patronized to day by school ooys and girls Several of the latter en deavored to win the junior marksman qualification decoration One of the girl contestants managed to secure a 21 at the 200 yard range but fell back at 500 yards and failed to secure the coveted score of 42 The disappointed candidate said she would return to morrow and endeavor to qualify A number of other girls also took part In the practice and Lieut Jones who has charge of the range expects many girl contestants during the show A remarkable record was made by Dlmmlck of Pingry School with two possible scores making 60 In SO twice then two 49 scores a 47 and a 46 Thm foam fit Genrs Washins tnn TTnl versity of Washington arrived In the city to day and Immediately re ported at the rifle association rooms They were then assigned to two of the shooting ports where the team had sev eral hours of good practice The entry of Yale was received to night for the Intercollegiate match This latest entrant brings tbe total up to five Michigan not dictator Only Wants Three Concessions from Western Conference Special to The Washington Poet Ann Arbor Mich Dec 25 The Western conference meets In Chicago hi less than two weeks and It will be Important as to the future makeup of that body Michigan Is not going to the meeting with any idea of trying to dictate or de liver any ultimatum says Prof George Patterson the chairman of the athletic board of control here There are certain pdllcles that Michigan wants and we will try to get them Michigan will leavo the conference only as a last resort and if withdrawal Is the light thing for Michigan to do It will be done and tbe withdrawal will be from Ann Arbor and not at Chicago Michigan wants the following legisla tion which is not Incorporated In the present Big Eight First A seven game schedule Second A training table Third Retroactive feature of recent regulations repealed 1L these matters cannot be agreed to the same will be referred back for the Instructions of their universities of tha differences of opinions Academy The Russell Brothers in The Hired Girls Millions The attraction at the New Academy for New Years week will be the famous Russell brothers in their new musical comedy drama The Hired Girls Millions This piece was written expressly for them by that well known writer Charles Blaney and is considered by press and public pike to afford the famous comedians yvlte the best opportunity they have had in some years to show to full advantage their peculiar talents In this line of work Majestic A Child Shall Lead Them Miss Belle Jeanette one of the most versatile child actresses on the American stage to day will appear in the leading role of Hal Relds latest melodramatic success A Child Shan Lead Them at the Majestic next week The scenic effects and costumes of this production have excited favorable comment In all the large cities and a most enjoyable entertainment is assured the patrons of this popular family playhouse Lyceum The Miss New York Jr Bur lesquers Bright sparkling spicy crisp captivating and funny in the Atreme exactly describes the show which Is gelng given this season by the Miss New York Jr Burlesque Company which comes to the New Lyceum starting Monday Gayety Fred Irwins Big Show Thjf attraction at the Gayety Theater fcr next week will be Fred Irwins Big Show This company Is not entirely new to local playgoers but this season Is bigger and better than ever in ract it is new from top to toe and nothing but the title will be recognized by those who have seen it In the past AT THE HOTELS BOSTON Sheffield and wife Ebbitt CHICAGO Dyer Nitonal PHILADELPHIA Hertert White Ebbitt Mrs WMker Miss Walker St Jamu NEW TORK CITT Campbell and Witt Campbell jr ArllDrton Roderick MacllT Pcrklna Mlaa Roth Battle Bartle New Wlllard Maka and wife Edward Mirks wife and children Skinner Mlaa Harriet Flint Ralcith Laurence I Conn A Hanna and wile Vohn Croker Metropolitan Sautelaa SWaa DreTtua National PITTSBURG Relnrder National CALIFORNIA fl a McMullen San Francisco National IOWA Rattan Nolan Rnaton St Jamea KENTUCKT Morris Bernhelm Lonlarllle New Wlllard Padgett and wile Ludlow St Jamea MASSACHUSETTS Howard Tracy Cambrldje New WUlard MICHIGAN A Rockwell Detroit Bf Jamea NEW TORK STATE 8 Wright Syracuse Ra lelfh Cnarlea Thomas and wife Buffalo Met ropolltan NORTH CAROLINA Laird Charlotte National OHIO Alex BaUey and wile WMouihby Rlggs Clarence Mayer and wife Cincinnati New Wlllard VIRGINIA Newell Narcollns and wife Norfolk Sarace Fredericksburg Kaletsb Mary Force Lexington Soherty Jr Lynchburj Wodson Staunton St James WEST VIRGINIA Frank Morgan Fairmont New Wlllard WASHINGTON Watson Squire Miss Squire Seattle New WUlard i FOREIGN MaUumura Tokyo Arlington Pedro Crispi Havana New WUlard Miss Latham Mlaa 8 A Latham Harana Mra Breseoby Miss Lena MUloy Toronto a Cuther Cologne Germany St James fifty two miles during the summer and will not take his stable of horses over He expects to get together some good four ln handa in the spring as he will take eighty American bred trotters to England for his coaching plans Should he succeed In developing come good fours he will enter them in the show Irellmlnary prize lists for the Olympla show have been received In this country The show is scheduled to open at Olympla on Thursday June IV and to end Saturday June 27 One hundred and forty six classes are to be Judged against 124 last year while the prise list has been Increased from J36000 to over J40000 Heavy harness classes have been increased In number from 65 to 73 saddle classes from I to the appointment classes rrom is to 23 Two gold challenge cups costing 500 each In addition to the U000 Mackay Gold Cup have been offered for park and road four in hand teams the trophies to be won twice be fore becoming the property of the successful exhibitor Entries to show close on May 20 Mrs Cobden Sanderson the famous English woman suffragist has not such a high opinion of womens institutions since her visit to the Martha Washington Hotel New York on Tuesday Neither has Mrs Cobden Sandersons husband Mr add Mrs Cobden Sanderon went to the hotel to call on a friend They entered the lift and were taken to the parlor floor There Mrs Cobden Sandersons husband was Informed by the liftboy that he could go no higher without a pass He sought further Information and learned that It was a rule of the hotel Mrs Cobden Sandersons husband asked to whoni he should apply for a pass and was told that the captain of the bellboys was empowered to grant one If he deemed It advisable The lift took Mrs Cobden Sanderson and her husband down to the office again There the clerk was made a confidant by Mrs Cobden Sanderson For a woman who professes that her sex should enjoy equal rights with men because they are equal intellectually her remarks were rather strong She waxed sarcastic about womens hotels In general and the Martha Washington in particular The clerk regretted but what could he doT Rules were rules Not even for Mrs Cobden Sanderson and Mrs Cobden Sandersons husband could they be broken So Mrs Cobden Sandersons husband sought the captain of the bellboys and with proper humility requested a pass that would allow him to go above the parlor floor It was granted Up to this time Mrs Cobden Sanderson had sustained the burden of the conversation Fortified with the pass however Mrs Cobden Sandersons husband permitted himself to deliver one Parthian dart Ap proacmng the clerk he displayed the paper which was the open sesame to me upper noors and asked with withering sarcasm Is this a guarantee of my harmless nessr1 I The clerk was not sure so he did not reply and Mrs Cobden Sanderson and Mrs Cobden Sandersons husband once more entered the lift and went up Harvey to Lecture at Harvard New Haven Conn Dec 25 George Harvey editor various publications of tbe Harpers LS been appointed to the Bromley lectureship for the year 1908 The appointee or 1909 is Hart Lyman editor of the New York Tribune who is a member of the Yale class of 1873 The lectureship Is endowed by the widow of the late Isaac Bromley and Its sub ject Is Journalism Literature or Public Affairs The lectures on JournaliMn must be arranged for at least as often as once In four years Insurance Ghats The poller loans of the Eialtable Life New Tork averaged mare than tlOO 000 per day for October and November aad the total policy loans now ont atanllng amount to more than 145000 WOO Men who not ions ago were under the Impression that they vera millionaires are bow thankful that at least they hae some life Insurance left to keep their families from actual want It anrtnun should happen to them before they hare time to recoup themselves and that they can borrow money on their pollclee as a reasonable rat of Interest without delay For tall lafennatloa address CEORCE JORDAN Manager X10 Bend Building Dispatches from London announce that Jane Van Bushkirk the actress of Hoch Der Kaiser and Pawtucket fame was married there on December 17 to Percl val Mitchell a wealthy London clubman The announcement of the marriage came hard upon the announcement of the engagement of the actress to Robert Vernon Harcourt son of the late Sir Vernon Harcourt Some little furore In the London club set was created on that account But the cableVsays there is even a bit of the Arabian Nights also injected Into the romance How Miss Van Buskirks husband Francis Sedgwick Wilson the actor brought suit against her for divorce at me neignt or her staea fam in lam paming Felix Isman the millionaire Phll ueipma4 realty man as her Intimate Is well remembered In local theatrical circles How a London hotel porter naVed Wood was Imported by the plainUffTto testify to their alleged Intimacy and how the evidence he gave won the case for ilson and gave him the custody of their child has been gossip in New York ever since The latter details the flight of the divorced wife to England whh the child the pursuit by Wilson and his dramatic seizure of the babe In a Ilondon hotel are equally well known Now it appears that Miss Van Bus kirk having lost her child determined to quit America the scene of her scandal forever and so became a member of Sir tnanes wyndhams company playing jim nitus oi jericno in London Mitchell the clubman she has now married became infatuated with her tnege arter young Harcourt had begun to woo her She held them both at arms length for months then accepted Harcourt though Mitchell still continued to woo Meanwhile she had Interested herself In London charities One night she held the hand of a man dying In a ward of a London hospital He made a death bed confession It is said admitting to her and to his nurses that he was the Evelyn Wood who had furnished the testimony that won her husband his divorce in New York Then he admitted the evidence he bad given was perjured and that he had been brought over from England to show an Intimacy between Miss Van Busklrk and Isman that never existed This confession and the alleged proof of her innocence it contained is said to have determined Miss Van Busklrk to make her next marriage with the man she had come to love since her engagement with young Harcourt was announced Hence the casting aside of Harcourt and the marriage with Mitchelb announced in yesterdays cable Litigation is now well under way in this country for the purpose of restoring to her and to Isman their good names Meanwhile London society having taken her up Mrs Mitchell has deserted the stage forever and will become a mere social matron In one of the select sots of the British metropolis The vounsr Queen of Holland has Inti mated to her minister in Washington that she will appreciate the appearance or himself and his American wife at the winter court Jonkheer van Swindefen married about three years ago Mls Elizabeth Glover only daughter of Charles Glover a prominent banker of Washington Rumor has It that on a recent brief visit to the land of her adoption Mme van Swlnderen was not enthusiastic over conditions In fact It appeared to her a fine thing that her lord and master being in the diplomatic service would pass his life away from the dykes and the wooden shoes But Wllhelmina la jealous of the prestige of her land She purposes to make the American matron a lady in waiting and to show her what enjoyment may be found at court when one is in royal favor Mme van Swlnderen is however devoted to her own home and to her patents and kin Of all tbe courts In Europe tt is said one may undergo the dullest time at The Hague The Queen Is punctlllious to a fault about tbe routine and tbe unfortunates in attendance on her spend their time carrying out details of etiquette and court formula In the ball room of the St Regis on Christmas Eve Mrs Daniel Guggenheim gave a small dance for her niece Miss Nettie Oerstle a debutante of this winter Tbe floral decorations appropriate to the season were brought from Mr Guggenheims conservatories in Elberon and were oulte elaborate says a New York writer Mrs Guggenheim who received the guests In the Louts XVI salon wore a gown of white satin embellished with Venetian point lace Her ornaments were emeralds and diamonds Mrs Robert Guggenheim assisting was in a white chiffon satin princess gown and Miss Gerstle was la white chiffon satin com bined with tulle and silver embroidery During the early part of the evening there was informal dancing followed by a cotillion which was led by Robert Guggenheim and Miss Gerstle Several novel figured were Introduced The favotaj inciuaea Japanese umDreuas wanus wltn dusters of holly attached dlabolo sets roller skates which were used In a skating figure and for the last figure a Santa Claus distributed from a Christmas tree many trinkets appropriate to the season The guests included several young married people some of them attending from Washington and Philadelphia Mrs Smith of Vermont who to spending her winters In New Yorksays that the dogs of the Red Brook Kennels were not the only society dogs remembered on the Christmas trees Mrs Smith has a section of her tree reserved for her fox terriers They received between them eleven hard rubber balls Ellsha Dyers bulldog got a new cowboy collar and Mra Storr Wells Japanese sleeve dog got a brand new house fitted up In Louis XIV style Silver mounted combs and grooming brushes have been popular gifts for society dogs The Chinese know a lot They know how to make tea and above all how to keep It hot without resorting to setting the pot on the stove and poisoning the drinker with tannin But it Is doubtful if they know how to serve It any more at tractively than do many American society women There are so many novel accessories for the afternoon tea table these days that it is bard to keep track of them but every now and then some Httle notion attracts ones notice One woman in town is serving tiny Egyptian lemons with each Individual cup of tea The lemon with one slice off the end to left on Its stem with a single leaf It Is so tiny tbat its Juice to hardly more than enough for one cup of tea Next Saturday Alfred Vanderbilt will have his private car Wayfarer at the Grand Central Station in New York to take to his camp in the Adirondack members of the Growlers a social organization composed of his classmates at Yale At times the Growlers have met in Nev York Philadelphia Boston and Newport Some of the members are De Lancey Kountze Davies Bradlsh Johnson Robert Gerry William Fitz hugh Whltehouse Jr of New York Willing Spencer of Philadelphia and Lawrence Rumsey of Boston Many women would rather spend their money on dainty china than Invest It in vanity bags that tempt the street thief or In shell combs Inlaid with diamonds and pearls for the way in which such combs can tumble out of the best laid hair gives warning even to the notoriously rich Among the lovers of old china there Is an unusual demand Just now for tobies of old English china Jugs representing celebrated persons or familiar rustic figures of a century ago A hundred dollars says a collector is not a high price for a rare toby of a certain make Mra Ulysses Grant did not wear her wedding gown as was hOped at the assembly In the ball room of the Congress Hotel Chicago but was dressed In a beautiful creation of pale Diue chinron and lace She danced un tlringly was vivacious and greatly admired and everybody who met her during her brief stay in Chicago was impressed with her unaffected manner She was most graceful In the cotillion which was led by Howard Gillette and Morris Johnstone and for which Mrs Franklin MacVeagh distributed the favors These were principally paper parasols and garlands with Christmas wreaths appropriate to the season The large room had no floral decorations old clambered UP a wheel of the auto mobile and succeeded in struggling on to the roof where he could see better Not having noticed this the chauffeur started the motor with a Jerk to go to the garage Lord Ivor who was clinging to the slippery top slid backward and fell to the ground behind the car on ms right arm His ten year old brother Lord Blandford and two servants who were In the hall picked Lord Ivor ua and It found that he had sprained the arm and bruised one side of his head He waa In bed for two days but now is compara tively well again The young Marquis of Blandford to an enthusiastic collector of postage stamps One of his ambitions has been to see the Prince of Wale collection which la said to be the largest and most valuable in the world Recently he received an Invitation to inspect this collection and with his younger brother spent an afternoon at the princes town residence Marlbor ough House the prince himself displaying the stamps and spending nearly two hours with the boy going through and pointing out the merits of each stamp Lord Blandford 1 has a fine collection of his own One ofhls chief treasure now Is a stamp given him by the prince which to one of the only six In existence GOES TO MEET GEANDSON Senator Off for Pittsburg to See Philander Chase Knox Third Senator Knox left for Pittsburg last night to make the acquaintance of his new grandson Philander Chase Knox third son of Mr and Mrs Reed Knox J3ince the arrival of the baby three weeks ago tha Senator has been trying to find an opportunity of vlsitlnlg him but has been prevented by the press of public duties herev Mr and Mrs Bert Tlndle son in law and daughter of Senator Knox and Philander Knox Jr are spending the holidays at the Senators residence on street F0EGETS CASES OF STATE PUrAJTCIAL FINANCIAL Established October 19 1904 Capital 50000000 Surplus and Undivided Profits 23187507 Soundest Banking Methods Combined With Progressiveness Officers President Roosevelt Spends Quiet Day at White House Absolut freedom from executtre cares marked President Roosevelts Christmas Most of the morning In company with Theodore Jr and Mrs Roosevelt the President spent In horseback riding returning to the White House about half turning to tbe White House about Ida At 730 dinner was served in the White House and later a few of the Presidents friends called Thes President leaves to day for Pine Knot Mrs Roosevelts country home where he expects to remain until New Years Day SOCIETY AT BARN DANCE Mrs Edward Morrell Leads Grand March with Coachman Frederick StevensPres A Chester lst Vice Pres SheaJ2d Vice Pres Geo White Cashier Deyber Secretary Directors Bnaaaa Walter A Brora Jamas Ju CaMH Robt A CfctaUr Myr Coaaa Nonaaa Oatt Wn Ham Rudolph ICauffmana Ralph Lh armor Mora Win A Chorea Wm A Moaras Samuel Cornwall Joha Ntwteld Colbert Claravt Rfc Bradley Darldsoa Pradarlck Stsrsos Darllastea Shea Victor Drbr Charles Schneider OeOk WhJM And uniformly courteous treatment of depositors constitute the basis of this banks success Depositors appreciate our continuous efforts to make their connection with this bank thoroughly agreeable and advantageous to them We shall be pleased to have the opportunity of demonstrating to you how thoroughly we can meet YOUR banking requirements The COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK Cor 14th and Streets Mra Potter Palmer followed her usual custom of havina a family dinner on Chrigtmas Day It was preceded by La celebration for her grandson Potter Palmer 3d son of Mr and Mrs Hon ore Palmer and her small niece and namesake Bertha daughter of Mr and Mrs Lockwood Honore Mra Palmers brother Adrian Honore acted the role of Santa Claus and the gifts were distributed from a tree in the large hall of the lake shore home Mrs Palmer took great Interest In the dressing and lighting of the tree and purchased many of the toys and other presents herself Little Bertha Honore has always been a great favorite with her aunt and Mra Palmer dotes on her small grandson who has made more than one Journey across the continent with her and has proved an agreeable companion Althcugh Queen Helena of Italy is now the mother of a good sized family three girls and a bey she seems to enjoy pre paring the most elaborate layettes for eacn new arrival The wardrobe for the latest little daughter Princeas Oioyanna born November 13 Is even more elaborate than the one made for the first child whom the whole naUon devouUy prayed might be tne son and heir but who bears the name of Princess Yolanda Many of the litUe garments were made by the Queen herself who Is an expert needlewoman like several other European queens She designed some of the embroidery and monograms which mark each piece In the layette The crown Is always In the monogram Sometimes it is embroidered on the hem of the little dress or petticoat sometimes under the coat collar and In other Inconspicuous places Queen Helena also made the soft ex quUlte pillow on which the babe was placed soon after birth and presented by the ministers to the member nf th Miss Harriet Biddle and Miss Amory Hare Among the Christmas Guests at TorrestiaL court Queen Margherita followed her usual custom In having many of the garments in the layette embroidered mittine unnn them the eldelwelss the flower of the nouse or savoy and numerous designs of her personal flower the Marguerita dainv which the Italians love so welk She has given her new granddaughter a solid gold toilet set made with the greatest secrecv and safely stowed away In the palace before the public knew of Its existence The new babe will live In the nursery prepared for the first child the historical apartment In the Qulrinal occupied by Emperor William of Germany when he visited Italy It Is in the Qulrinal proper and communicates with the Queens apartments by a flight of four steps down Tne King and queen do not live In tbe Qulrinal proper but In an addition built shortly before their marriage there being an old superstition In the house of Savoy that It Is unlucky for a son or a grandson to occupy the rooms of a dead ruler of the house The nursery consists of four rooms with inlaid floors white enameled walls and white enameled furniture The head nurse Is an English woman prim and severe but highly educated In everything relating to children The wet nurse Is an Italian peasant Both women must sleep in the babes apartment TJje little princess will be rooked in the cradle used by Queen Margherita ror her father a present from the city of Naples The Duchess of Marlborough was out in an automoDiie wiin ner two sons one afternoon last week On returning home she went indoors but the boyav stayed outside to watch a Punch and Judy show Lord Ivor the younger son nine years Special to The Washington Fast Philadelphia Dec 25 Leading the grand march with her head coachman William Deering Mra Edward Morrell to day opened the barn dance which has been the feature of Christmas at Torres tlal for the last fifteen years Although CoL and Mra Morrells barn dance did not start until 3 oclock the guests began to arrive at 1 oclock so as to be in plenty good time and all were on band by 3 oclock when the orchestra began the march Servants from the Morrell estate San Jose were the gdests of honor and all the young people of Torrestlal and farmers families from the vicinity were invited guests CoL MorrelL with his niece Miss Margaret Hunt formed tha second couple in the grand march and others partlclpaUng were Miss Amory Hare Mrs Hobart A Hare Miss Marguerite Pat teron a debutante of this season Miss Annabelle Esler Miss Harriet Biddle Miss Lila Fisher Joseph Patterson third Henry Patterson Logan Bullitt Jr and Thomas Kllby Smith It was 7 oclock before the guests filed past Col and Mrs MorrelL telling them what a good time they had Many poor families in the Torrestlal district were the recipients of Mrs Morrells charity and every cellar IS stocked with coal and wood for the entire winter Mrs Morrell goes about this work very quietly and little Is known of her many Kindnesses At St Francis Industrial School at Ed dlngton a school for poor boys founded and maintained by Col and Mrs Morrell 350 boys were made happy by the presents which every one received from Mra Morrell A large turkey dinner waa served to the boys who each received also a box of candy Washington Railway Electric Co 5 Preferred Stock AT A PRICE TO Ilttf 7 95 1 share costs tO to dlrldena SSM I Shares cost J11S00 SlTldeod tM04 19 share eeet HW0O dlTldend SK0 This compear owes and operates 144 miles of the street ear line of Waahlnf ton and the entire electrle llfbt serrloa tarwe buy aad sell the share stock HIBBS CO 1419 St New Tork Stock Exchange Washington Stock Exchange Chicago Board of Trade ColdsColds Atkyour doctor If Ayttt CJierry PecUrcI Is ttoltutlhcTiihltntdicintfornchcutMc know all about It That follotO his adoU Cold after cold cougtf after coujh One cold no sooner cured than another one comes ItUi bad habit this taling cold habit Vhaf you want is a medicine thatwUi break up this habit heal inflamed membranes and strengthen weak tissues iSiftlZ PLENTY OP BUILDING HELP New York Contractors Can Have Their Pick of Workmen Special to The Washington Post New York Dec 25 For the first time In several years no building mechanics were at work to day on any buildings throughout the city earning double wages by working on a holiday Last year many men In various building trades were at work on Christmas Day on buildings which were being rushed tp completion all but a few housesmlths being employed In finishing buildings which were closed to day Double time Is paid for all work which thrifty men thought made It worth while This year half the building mechanics are Idle The contractors can get all the men they need for any contracts they have In hand and pick out tha best and most rapid workera The trades under the arbitration plan whose agreements as to wages expire at the end of this month will try to renew their agreements at the present scale of wages The only trades which have come to terms are the bricklayers and elevator constructors both of which have made agreements by which the present wages of 70 cents an hour for the bricklayers and HO a day for the elevator constructors will continue for another year About ten other trades whose agreements expire at the end of this month are yet to be heard from It was announced to day that pending the final conference In a few days between committees of the master carpenters association ttnd the Brotherhood of Car penters over tne proposition of tne employers to reduce wages SO cents a day when the trade agreement expires the present wages of to a day will rule The other unions believe that If the employers establish a lower rate of wages for the carpenters It will mean that they will nave to ngm to Keep weir present pay JOIN TO FIGHT WELLS FAEG0 Other Express Companies Resent Its Entrance Into Pittsburz Special to The Washington Post Pittsburg Dec 25 Efforts will be made by a combination of express companies to force the Wells Fargo Express Company out of Pittsburg As a result there Is a fight In prospect which will affect every company In the country The Wells Fargo Company however la said to have an advantage In the fight that will compel tbe other companies to let it aione in mis cixy The trouble is largely local but 1 as tbe old established companies here are losing thousands of dollars of business monthly they are kicking Agents of the Adams American United States and other companies say the matter will be considered at a meeting in New Tork to be held early In the new year The Wells Fargo Company by using the electric cars from Butler to Etna and then hauling Its business In wagons has recently established a foothold here A certain financier when asked recently what he consideredconsidered the best business deal he ever made answered When I was a young man I deposited 10 in a bank one day It was my start Theres a moral in this that every young man who has ambition ought to profit by 3 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