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15 ii 1 A Fact Story of Miss Frances W. Delehanty, a Clever New York Artist Whose Wonderful Toy Stages Delight Many Youngsters and Grown-ups, Told for "Sunday. News" Readers by Janet 'Vale. BUFFALO SUNDAY MORNING NEWS: FEBRUARY 16, "1913. LI very birds have wept for the sweet child.

PRINCE Ah, say no more I love her. Give me this casket. I will bear it to my castle and guard It forever. Oh, beautiful maiden. Snow White, I time I have to keep Interest from raging.

I have written some new plots so as' not to be bothered with such conditions." "Are cardboard actors always in control?" imminf pii put on privately by the Stage society; Sarah Bernhardt as Queen Elizabeth In moving picture glory, Beatrice Har-raden resting at her home in England, while ships of time were passing by, and there were Racket ty-Packetty dances as well. There is individuality abundantly manifest in all this remarkable girl does. She' is so simple about the things she has done and wants to do that it is a joy to see her and talk to her. Small wonder artists, actresses and the cultured world in general find her inspiring, interesting, altogether worth while. She is as modest as she is sincere; she is frank, resolute, and though she resembles at 1 first approach a shrinking violet, the impression is changed by contact with the originality of her brain and the poise of her work.

I "The Racketty Packetty" Dance. The Little Theater Model. YUKON GOLD YIELD NOW DIMINISHING A Discouraging Tale. There was a philanthropic watch Deserving emulation; For each hand Rave with modesty. Devoid of ostentation.

The minute hand gave barV the past, A priceless gift and golden. Production Nearly $60,000 Trevious Year Total Output $4,000,000 More Than $3,000,000 of This Came to the United Slates. ioveyou! Suddenly a creaking is heard as of a lid opening.) THE PRINCE (off stage) Look! look! Sim rises from her coffin! (As the Dwarfs rush forward, enter the Prince and Snow White.) SNOW WHITE Oh, great Prince, you've saved my Jife, When you touched the coffin you shook the poisoned apple out of my PRINCE Beautiful Snow White, will you marry me? SNOW WHITE Yes, if you will Sarah Bernhardt as Elizabeth, in the Motion Pictures. give these dear little Dwarfs seven pots of gold. DWARFS (shrief suddenly) Here comes the Wicked Queen! (Enter the Wicked Queen.

They rush at her.) Ah, we have you at last! You shall dance In red hot iron slippers at Snow White's wedding until you drop dead. (Exit Dwarfs, carrying the Wicked Queen to her doom.) Miss Delehanty is now shaping for miniature purposes "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," "Cinderella," "Cor-sican Brothers," "Miller and His Men," "MaitUand the Magpie," "Jack the Giant Killer," "Sleeping Beauty." She has just finished "Red Riding Hood and others. I can recall how many. "Who Is your stage manager?" I asked. She picked him up a jumping jack.

"He is so constructed nothing escapes huh, said she. "We dis agree frightfully at times, but usually he has his way he thinks he knows the, child mind better than that I am prone to have ideas similar to those possessed by makers of 'Little Theaters' for grown-ups. He gives me impressions, anyway." "What doesn't?" I asked. Surrounding the cardboard "Littlest Theater," which somehow perched in the air as if to accent Its sphere, were many sketches in water color, also book plates and silhouettes. There were impressions of Mrs.

Flske in every thing. Madame SImone in something, Constance Collier in "Nan," the play by John Masefield, 1 "We have to manipulate their temperament and if they have professional jealousy they are forced to keep it as their mystery; their emotion has to be restrained when they do all their work in such little quarters. "In my toy theater, of course, they have more outlet; they slide to better advantage, but the littlest theater is best for the child's imagination. All the children need do is cut and paste and let their minds direct them. The costuming, the eolor-ful settings, all tend to develop their taste." The proscenium arch in each production, it appears, is always different, but all have a high-brow flavor, while the scenery and costuming is as carefully thought out and executed as if she were staging the masterpiece of the century.

It might be Interesting to tell how the Redington Theater in Hoxton to retain its identity. In the old directories of London Redington's address is given at Hoxton Old Town. the writer of Juvenile dramas, was also the builder of toy theaters; the scene designer, the cos-tumer, electrician, conductor in fact, he was all. Men and women were drawn to the magic shop; some to paint, some to cut, some to print, some to bespangle. some to Duua, some to look nice and some to make things look nice.

The one who excelled at this last art was little Miss Redington. She turned, the heads of all the young men who worked for her father. One ad-mirer, however, felt if this sort of thing went on the ancient and noble art of theater making, cutting and ctrfH oring woum me out, so he demanded of Mr. Redington the hand of the daughter. This man was Benjamin Pollock, great school of ancient theatrical art.

He married Miss Redington, changed the name of the shop to Pollock and changed the number to 73 Hoxton street. And there it was Frances Delehanty first became a disciple. Now she, too, is a creator. She will have her own repertoire theatprsoon, and all the children will be subscribers. A Kansas Sunday.

Last Sunday an Atchison man snoozed In bed until 11 a. m. Then he arose, dressed leisurely, had a nice breakfast, read the papers, smoked, loafed, ate a nice dinner, read some more papers, smoked, loafed, took a nap and In the evening ate a lunch, read a little, smoked, loafed and was as agreeable as only a thoroughly worthless man knows how to be. His wife arose early, scrubbed the children and got them off to Sunday school, cooked breakfast, cleaned up the house, cooked dinner, picked up things after her husband the children, did some darning, got a Sunday night livich, washed up the dishes, sorted out the clothes, put on the boiler ready for washing the next day, darned some more stockings In the evening, and that night when the children went to bed one of them said to another: "Isn't it nice to have papa home all day? He is go much pleas-anter mamma." isn't that the way? Worthless people always get the bouquets. Atchison Globe.

abonnement for ten baths. The other baths are cheaper and less luxurious, though they are all fitted up with Reckless tile and marble. The tub baths are of three classes, ranging in price from ten to 20 cents. The third and second-class are alike in every re spect except price, as there are people in Germany who would not have anything called second-class. Prices for the swimming pool run from a little less than four cents on Volksabends to eight cents with private room.

University and gymnasium students have special rates, while anyone may have as many baths as he will by taking a year's subscription at $3.75." Prices for dogs vary according to the length of the dog's hair and each dog is carefully dried in a hot air oven after the bath. The medicinal baths are of every variety. You may be packed in Italian volcanic mud or shut up in a cabinet with blue light turned onto you. Or you may bathe your lungs by Inhaling salt spray flavored with pine needles, a sure- cure for bronchitis. Then there are all kinds of mineral baths and a Swedish gymnasium where any defective spines of Strassburg school children may get straight through special exercises and school teachers may come and learn to recognize and treat any spinal diseases that may exist among their pupils.

'The range of medicinal baths is astounding to the lay mind. The physician in charge gives monthly over 2000 prescriptions and daily about 75 people receive treatment in this department which is barely large enough to accommodate the demand. Here again prices vary. People who are entitled to state aid during Illness, have a reduction of 25 per cent, on all prices and the fact that those In, need of medicinal baths do not have to leave home is a great eavlng for Strassburg. Saturday Is a favorite tub night In StraaRbnrg as in New England, and jthe Saturday before Whitsunday this year, 900 men and BOO women took a plunge in the pools, while 2200 in all got a scrub of some nature In the establishment on that record day.

These figures seem all the more remarkable when one thinks that besides this large bath house the city maintains four smaller bath houses with warm baths, both tub and swimming pool, for both sexes, as well as five absolutely free river bath houses, so that the total number of baths, both hot and cold, taken at tho city expense In mx was i.Qii,m. beauty. Her Magic Mirror tells her you are the fairest in the kingdom. SNOW WHITE She swears to kill me. DWARFS We will protect you.

Will you live with us? SNOW WHITE Yes, yes! DWARFS Will you make our seven beds? SNOW WHITE Yes, yes! DWAKta will you wash our seven porridge bowls? SNOW WHITE Yes, with all my heart. DWAKrS Then stay. Now, we must go out to dig for gold. Be sure and let no enter the cottage. (Exit Dwarfs to right Exit Snow White to left.) (Enter the Wicked Queen; she is disguised as a beggar.) WICKED QUEEN Ah! The borne of the Seven Dwarfs.

Snow White lives here. When I asked My Magic Mirror this morning: Oh. mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest of us all? It answered: TTinu wre fairest, lady Queen Snnw White is fulrest now. I ween, Amid the fnrpst darkly green She lives with the Dwarfs the hills tween.

FalreHt, Indeed! That Huntsman deceived me. He did not kill her. I will sell her this poisoned apple. So long as its core sticks In her throat she will remain dead. (She calls.) Buy my apples red: buy my apples red.

SNOW WfHITE (stands at the little window in the left wing) Gladly I'll buy your dear friend. Here is a piece of gold. Leave one for me on the window sill below. (Exit the Wicked Queen.) (Snow White descends, eats the apple and falls dead.) (Enter the Dwarfs. They all see Snow White dead) Ah, ah, ah! (They cry bitterly.) Some one has killed little Snow White.

Oh, 'tis that Wicked Queen, there are her foot- stops. Ha! Ha! We will hang her by the nose to this tree. Snow White is too beautiful to bury. Let us make a crystal casket and keep her forever. SCENE II.

The woodland with a castle In the distance (remove the right wing). 'DWARFS (moaning as they guard the casket. First group Ah! Ah! Ah! Second group) Oh! Oh! Oh! (Together) Ah! Oh! Ah! (Enter the Prince. He approaches the casket and stands entranced.) PRINCE Who is this beautiful maiden? She is the fairest mortal I jiave ever beheld. DWARFS Alas! she, is our little Snow White.

She is dead. The Wicked Queen poisoned her. The TURKISH Such Is the Luxury Enjoyed by the of Strass-burg Since Building New Public Bath House. TURKISH bath for 38 cents is a luxury that the Strass-burgers enjoy the year round. Unless you are a blind man you cannot stay five minutes in Strassburg without becoming aware that the two most advertised features of the city are its cathedral and its new bath house.

The cathedral towers above everything. All new streets are planned so tnat may form a part of the vista, while one of the handsomest posters ever devised by German industrial art aa-vtirtises in all prominent places the fact that the city has a new natn house, that rates suit all pocketbooks, and that all good citizens and travelers should come and wash and be clean. The house Itself is an ornament to the city. stands in the Nicholas Ring, iust between old Strassburg and the newer quarters to the southeast- around the university, Just outside the central city Island formed by the Rhone-Rhino canal and the in river. It is built mainly of the red Jura sandstone that becomes so familiar to the traveler the upper Rhlna countries and thus harmonizes well with the other red sandstone buildings of the city, mont of which were built under Louis XV.

On each side of a rotunda supported by marble pillars is a large swimming pool, one for each sex, and also 60 private baths and dressing rooms. Back of the rotunda is the office above which are the steam baths. In tho basement is the dog ath, laundry and engine rooms, while off to one side is a large connecting building- in which are situated the now medicinal baths. ThlB part was opened only a year ago last July while the main niulldlng known gene-ally as the schwlminhad, has been running successfully for over three years. Ruch baths are not at all unusual In the large Herman citieH.

Indeed, there Is mnoh rivalry as to whirh city shall give the largnst number of baths yearly per inhabitant. Strasflhurg, largely a residential city, with her 180,000 Inhabitant, ronn8 svenh on tho list, while Crefeld, a larga manufacturing center, leads In this civic administra tion of cleanliness. Slrarnturg hai a1 HE latest thing in little, thea- ters the Littlest theater, created by Frances Washington Delehanty, a New York artist of merit and distinction, and exhibited upon a small volume of fairy tales in the young woman's studio at 3-North -Washington Square. Miss Delehanty got her inspiration in miniature playhouses from a visit of curiosity to Hoxton Old Town, London, in the shop of Benjamin Pollock, the establishment of J. Redington, printer, bookbinder, stationer, tobacconist, jeweler and theatrical print warehouse.

The town doesn't exist any more, but a street exists, and as Mr. Pollock married Miss Redington, the character of the old shop remains the sign only is different. Ellen Terry went to the old place ever so many years ago and took a toy theater home with her. Robert Louis Stevenson went often. It was as much of a delight to him as was the playing with toy soldiers, for Stevenson was never too tall nor too experienced to find genuine enjoyment from the small tin soldiers.

Yeats, too, was a regular patron and absorbed inspiration necessary to produce his own plays on a miniature Btage. Cardboard Theaters. Goethe was prevented from attending by circumstances over which he had no control, otherwise "Mr. Redington, Mr. Pollock and Miss Delehanty would have received specia' mention from him.

As It was, he sort of predicted the importance and significance of littlest theatcrsjwhen he wrote; "He who for the Stage should leave nature in her proper place, and take careful heed not to have recourse to anything but what may be performed by children with puppets upon boards and laths, together with sheets of cardboard and linen." Thus Goethe explains the evolution of Frances Helena nty, who came back to New York with a toy theater Just like Miss Terry's, Mr. Yeats', Gordon Craig's and all the other lovers of big art In condensed form and she placed the theater on her mantel and conjectured its relation to her life work, for somehow she felt a definite call. The revelation came. She would make cardboard theaters for children, simplify the old fairy tales in dramatization, leaving to the child the privilege of cutting and pasting their own playhouses and placing in action the heroes and heroines of the stories, arranging their own forests, footlights, proscenium arches, wings and giving the characters power to advance, retreat and to do all the things expected of them in the telling of the story with careful Instructions as to how the scene should look when the stage is set. For example, she has taken "Snow White," a fairy playlet, written by Catherin Van Dyke, and she has given In the Designer directions for making a fairy playhouse according to her colored illustrations: Take a cardboard box measuring 6x8 Inches and three Inches deep; stand this on its edge for the stags.

Cut out the "back drop" and paste It in the bottom of the box. Paste the "proscenium arch" on the cover and cut out the opening. Cut out the "wings" and paste them on stiff paper, leaving the "flaps" to fold back, as in tho diagram. Stand the "proscenium arch" well in front, leaving a small space between it and the wings for the figures to pass through. Cut out the figures and paste them on stiff paper, leaving a straight narrow strip four or five inches long extending nbove their heads; this is to move them with.

These strips should be black ened with ink or shoe polish, so they will not show; also, blacken the Inside of the box before setting up the scenery. If you have no box of the right size, take a larger one and cut an opening in the cover according to the measures given and set the scenery up behind it. Cut the window (in the left wing) along its heavy black line and bend on the dotted line. The child "puta on" the show and follows the text or plot, which is published in two scenes thus: SCENE 1 A woodland scene. The cottage door is in the left wing.

Enter the Seven Dwarfs. Suddenly they stop and peer forward. DWARFS (first group) Ho! Ho! What's this? Human footprints. Look! They are scattered ait over! There hax. been a great fight! DWARFS (second group) See, they lead to our cottage door! Some one has stolen our gold.

ALL Quick! Forward! To the cottage! (They rush forward. Enter from left wing, Snow White.) DWARFS (angrily) What are you doing here? How dare you enter our house? We will kill SNOW WHITE Oh, good Dwarfs, snare me! I Just ran in for sheltpr. A HuntBman tried to cut my heart out. DWARFS Tried to cut your heart out? By our seven beards, who io this man? KNOW WHITE The Queen, my etoDmother, commanded him to kill me. But 1 begod so bard, he brought her a deer's hoart Instead.

DWARFS (with pity) Poor maiden, who arR you? FNOW WHITE I am Snow Wbltn. DWARFS Jnow White? Why, you Are good little Snow White. The Wicked Quecu Is joaloua of your "I should love to interview you," she said. "How would you go about it?" I begged. "Oh, I know how to get at people.

Didn't I make book plates for years?" "I don't need a book plate." "But making book plates is just like interviewing. I always had to make people talk about themselves before I could work, and some of the experiences I have had would well. they would make good reading. If a book plate means anything it must be built on individuality. "Strange, isn it? she continued.

"I made book plates three inches in dimensions, after I had decorated the theater at Sailors' Snug Harbor, Staten island, with sea horses and dol phins. Since the day of the sea horses my work has been gradually diminishing in size, like Alice in Wonderland "Now I am making the smallest of toy theaters, but I have a secret am bition to be a painter of scenery. Who knows? "I was terribly frightened at the thought of an interview," she went on. "You almost looked it." "Now it is over it makes me think Beatrice Harraden "Ships That Paw'1 of the time when, as a child, I rebelled against having a loose tooth taken out. My mother tried to comfort me, hut I only cried the more.

'I can't I I walled. "You don't have to, said my mother. is out now; I took it while you were "You have no regrets so far?" I persisted, referring to the interview, not the tooth. "Not yet," she responded. The maker of the smallest stage in the world laughed good naturedly.

"Seriously," I asked, "don't you have difficulty in making the plots harmonize with the dimensions?" "I have to perform artistic murder every little while. At the same of Strassburg, Germany. next showered, massaged, showered airaln. steamed for five minutes, and then seated in a largo circular bath of warm water big enough to hold 40. Your sojourn there Is but short as the tepid stage is waiting.

This is called the "Wildbad," and you may linger; there 20 minutes. It takes an intl-i mate knowledge of German psychology to understand just why this Is called a wild bath. It is on the 8am a principle that a German calls tho elevated corner of his garden the mountain. In this case the wild element is contributed by a bed of sand. Otherwise the bath is of the same marble as the others with the same art nouveau electric fixtures.

The bed of sand, however, gives the touch of nature to the bath and Imagination does the rest. After your 20 wild moments on the sand comes a cold plunge, a cold shower and the kindly ministering hand of the attendant nibs you with towels, puts you in a bath robe, slips a ridiculous high-pointed cotton cloth cap on your head, cotton slippers on your fpet, then pulls over these last a pair of thick felt overshoes, such as those In which tourists are wont to scuff about German pafaces. You are now ready for a nap or for dresaing, which your mural indicator reminds you Is the last stage of the game. And all that with an unlimited supply of towels and bath robes for 48 cents. You might have had It ten cents cheaper if you had taken an of Fame BATHS AT THIRTY-EIGHT CENTS.

Nor did it tell its brother hand -How folks were made beholden, The hour hand the future gave, Twas worthy of attention, But never to the other hand Did It make any mention. Ingratitude befell this -watch Of charitable leaning; The sought a jeweler Who said it needed cleaning. -McLandburgh 'Wilson in N. Y. Sua.

Yellow Man Pays Greatest Tribute' to Mincfc-Soldier Lowest in the List. There are five distinct classes of people arnonn the Chinese. The first and hierhest class is that of the scholar. Amonjr-the ranks of the yellow man the Chinaman's intellect and his ability ot mind are considered superior even tn- wealth. This mental power, they argue, enables him to provide food, raiment and shelter for himself.

TWO CUTE LITTLE TOTS OF ELLIC0TT SinttF Elizabeth and Nick Augustine. his family, and frequently many of hU relatives. Ihe second class is the aericulturnl tvpe of Mongolian. The human body cannot exist without food. Likewise the htimnn mind cannot act without (he bvly, and for this reason the job of farmine is considered absolutely es- sentiBl to the existence of man.

Es-! penally is this view taken among the more intelligent of the Chinese. The mechanic accorded the position of third place In the-society of the Celestinla. The man who builds a house forms a shelter for himself and his fumily. Next to food, the eneiter la an absolute necessity, and the Chinaman who earns his bread by me- ehunical means is duly accorded the position next in honorsble rank to the man who provides the food. The fourth class is the Mongolian tradesman.

As the native peoples have increased In numbers, their wants have naturally become multiplied Hnd.this created the neceasily of a buslnenn making of sale and exchange. In view of thin the Celestial merchant hnn me into existence. His omnia uon Is considered as one of miner low prndo because of his hrnkrait fees, wliich fes he derives from shaving the profit of both the buyer and the seller, the producer as well aa the consumer, Uiwest In the of uriincmtci China stands the soldifr. Thi" position is t'rvnnbd him rwrause hp ronsniw-s what otb'TH produce, end prn'io'-fs nolh 'ns. The business of lr is to Octroy, and imt to b'i i I so-cteiy.

Thn military mnn. hn Miwnys bffn iin as a nff-Hirv thouch very now hnlesiinip i'- 1 Jnr-inf flip pi'st twfi bfW'i-A t- yellow I'f'n ruinf to tcr hi iin; i i i ITiiltl.TV TO ill i I i Hi'" has in i -nif by fi n'l'it-n i i hf tT nf jln nxtionnl r)'f rnd its ity l) i'if on imJotT'K His 1 -h vie '1 irO (, fl hn S-lt nrl I fi (1 V3 1 4 Less in 1911 Than in the the trip is five to ten days for passenger stages, but a longer time for freight stages. "The new company proposes to run automobiles all the year over this route and to make the trip from White Horse to Dawson in one day during the summer and In two days during the winter. It will also have a line of steamers on the river during the summer. "It has been thoroughly demonstrated here that, automobiles can be used in a temperaturp as low as 70 degrees below zero, and Dawson has now four automobiles which are bfing used at -all seasons of the', This section of the Yukon will be'greatly benefited bv this new enterprise, as quick trans portation at all seasons of the year will be afforded and hundreds of business people will thereby be induced to come here for investments, as well as hundreds of others for pleasure.

Vancouver a Distributing Point. Writing from Vancouver, States Vice Consul G. C. Woodward says the British Columbia seaport1 is becoming more and more the distributing point for furs from tho Yukon section, and even from Alaska, as well as from British Columbia "It is estimated by a local dealer," Mr. Woodward says, "that the fur business of British Columbia, Including the furs shipped thither from the Yukon territory, amounts to approximate) ly $1,000,000 annually.

As the Dominion government does not publish the exports of the different provinces separately, and as thre are many points from which furs are shipped from the province, It Is difficult to make an accurate estimate of the value of the output. Tho dealer referred to estimates that of the output one-half goes to Great Britain, one-sixth to Eastern Canada, and one-third to the United States. Following the theory that less than one-half of the fur business of the province is done through Vancouver, the fact that the records nf this insulate general for the first three-quarters of 1912 show that furs worth more than Jiu.uuu were snippeu to the United States would indicate that the foregoing figures are a fair estimate. "The principal furs, such as beaver, mink, marten and lynx, show little change in value over 1911. The average value Is brought down considerably In the case of some of the furs on account of there being a number of summer skins Included in the shipments." The Llteralness of Elsie.

Little Kittle i reproved by her mother for larlnx -WhatT" She told that she must never use that expression, but say be your pnrdnn." The lenwm evidently went home, for a little later fhe turned to her mother your pardon time qulrer. la K7 I'lucinuaii A PRETTY MISS OF NEW CASTLE, PA. Iff Dorothy, Dauclit-r of Mr. and Mrs. E.

E. Leary, New Castle, Fa, I Gold production in the Yukon territory fell off considerably in 1911 as with 1910, according to reports made by United States Consul G. C. Cole, stationed at Dawson City, to the department of commerce and labor. Statistics for 1911, the last year for which official data are available, show the Yukon gold production that year to have been $4,024,246, or $57,365 less than in the previous year.

Of the 1911 production Mr. Cole says $3,173,360 was exported to the United States, leaving a balance of $850,886 which was shipped td the Canadian mint at, Ottawa, with the exception of abdut $25,000, "which was utilized: in the manufacture of domestic jewelry. Mr. Cole does not think 1912 reports, yet to be issued, will show any great reduction from the 1911 yield, but that, the present, average production will continue for some years to come unless the present mining companies increase their capacity or other companies install mining plants. 'The individual mining processr the rocker and sluice box," Mr.

Cole asserts, "has been almost entirely superseded in this district by the dredge and hydraulic process. While the Yukon Gold company is the principal producer, yet the Canadian Klondike Mining company has produced a fair share of the gold. This company in 1912 added two more dredges to the two it already had In use. They were built by the Marion Steam Shovel company of Marion, Ohio. This company now has three of the largest dredges in the world with a daily capacity of 10,000 cubic yards each.

"The Granville Power company is preparing to Install a large hydraulic plant for working the benches and higher ground which cannot be worked by the dredge. "The prospect for quartz is quite promising in many parts of the ter ritory. In some of the ledges the ore is very rich and a number of stamp mills are now in operation for the purpose of making a thorough test both as to quality and quantity. "The copper mines around White Horse, In the south end of the terri tory, are now being worked extensive ly, and large quantities of ore are shipped dally to the smelter at Ta- covia. Wash.

"Coal la mined In considerable quantities along the Yukon river for domestic use and for the river steam ers. "The production of furs is gradually diminishing in this consular district, Borne of the better kinds being almost entirety gone. "The imports Into this territory from the United States are diminish ing rapidly, owing to the high customs duties and the fact that Canada Is now prepared to supply the wants of the territory In almost everything ernt machinery. "There were no exports to Porto Rico. Hawaii, or the Philloplnes dur Ing the calendar year 1911." Auto Line to Cole says that an automobile line from White Horse to Dawson, to be operated.

by a new stage company, Is quite probable. "The White Pass and Yukon route he explains, "has used a stage fine tor many years during the closed season of navigation which last about eight months in the year, to convey mails, passengers, express, and freight between these two points. Wagons are used for a few weeks after navigation closes and also before it opens, but for the rest of the time, about six months, sleds are used. The distance overland is 330 miles. During the past summer the road was greatly improved at a heavy expense to the government by euttlng down grades and making it wider, bo any gauged vehicle could be used on it, and the sleds now usd arc of the same gauge as automobiles, The grades are now even; and none of them is so steep but tnat automobiles can climb them with heavy loads "During the past summer automo biles were used on the road from White Horn? to Carmaeks, half the distance to Dawson, making the trip in 10 hours.

Because or tne rocent Im provements the north end of the road Is more suitable for auiomobllos than the south nd. "The White Paws company receives $80,000 a year for conveying malls over its linws to Dawson. Its paawn gcr rates by stage from White Horse to Dawton (on way) vary from $76 to 1123 which includes 25 pounds of bag gage. Us express rates are 25 cents ft pound and freight rats 20 cents pound. The time occuplod in making 1 4 Municipal Bath House bath house which for sise, convenience and beauty far outranks any public bath house outside of Germany.

It is well worthy the visit of the American tourist. You are first ushered Into a room with a low dressing table and electric light fixtures, pretty and convenient enough for my lady's boudoir, and a bed comfortable enough for the angels. In the table is a drawer with key so that you may lock up your valuables. The same paternal care that informs you on the railroad train that "to lean out li dangerous," has also hung on the wall a detailed description of your bath, the first stage of which is described as undressing. You have guessed as much from the nature of the case and the fact that you have been handed an apron, "schuno," which you have been told to put on before issuing from your On your coming out a polite attendant enumerates to you the various stages about which you have already read, and then conducts you to a marble foot bath, puts wooden sandals on your feet and loaves you in the sweat rooms, of which there are two and on the walls of which are signs telling you Just how hot it is and how long It is bpst for you to stay and the awful things that may hr ipt to yovi If your system is not strong enough to Mand the bath and you persist in taking It.

Dripping with perspiration you are.