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a the THE SUN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1918. 7 R. I. GOVERNOR HOST TO SAILOR LADS Mr. and Mrs.

Beeckman Give Party at Newport--Miss Greig SUPPER FOR U. S. TARS Many Summer Residents Close Their Cottages for the Season. NEWPORT, R. Sept.

Naval Training' 'Station Minstrel Comptny was again entertained this afternoon, this Mime at Lands End by Gov. and Mrs. R. Livingston Beeckman. The sailors were addressed briefly the Governor and there was an entertainment for them, Including song numbers by Miss Evelyn Grieg, formerly with "Oh.

Boy" company. The sailors had a good time about the grounds until supper time, the supper being served by a number of the young women of the summer colony in charge of Mrs. Eugene 8. Reynal. Mrs.

William Woodward had charge of the entertainment that was given under the auspices of the Woman's Cooperating Committee of the Y. M. C. A. at the Drexel Hut this evening.

William E. Benjamin, after visit with his daughter, Mrs. A. D. B.

Pratt, has returned to New York. Mr. and Mrs. William Fahnestock have returned to South Norwalk, Conn. They have again leased Gravel Court on Narragansett avenue for next season.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James have gone to New York for a short visit. Admiral Mrs. Joseph W.

Oman entertained and. dinner at the naval station this evening. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney will close their season later in the week.

Mrs. Burke Roche WAS A luncheon hostess to-day, and Mre. Charles A. Childs also gave a luncheon. H.

C. Morgan, U. S. has registered at the Casino. MRS.

BISHOP AT LENOX. Husband Will Join Her There to Pass the Autumn. Special Despatch to THE SUN. LENOx, Sept. Cortlandt Field Bishop will arrive at the Maples the autumn form early winter.

Bishop will come to Lenox later in week. They passed the summer in California resorts and in motoring. Mrs. John E. Alexandre is visiting Mr.

and Mrs. Frederic Schenck in New York. Mrs. Robert W. Paterson left Blantyre to-day for New York.

At a bridge party at Oldshade, the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Wellington Smith, In Lee, this catternoon $135 was raised for the Lee the Red Cross. R. has Issued invitations for PRILADELPHIA, Sept.

Joseph the marriage of her daughter. Mary Emily, and Clyde Hambright on ber 24. Miss Mary Warburton of Wyncote is visiting C. A. Heckscher Brown, Wetherill at Cape May.

Joseph S. Gibb of Overbrook has announced the engagement of her daughter, Mary Elizabeth, to Joseph F. Clark, also of Overbrook. WEDDING INVITATION OUT. Miss Carpenter, Philadelphia, to Be Bride September 24.

Special Despatch to THE SUN. FLORIDA HOTELS TO OPEN. President Beardsley of East Const R. R. Tells Plans.

Special Despatch to THE Sos. PROFILE HOUSE, N. Sept. and Mrs. William H.

Beardsley of FlorIda, who spent the week end at the Mount Washington Hotel, left for New York by automobile. Mr. Beardsley, who is president of the Florida East Coast Railway, announced it has been decided to open the Ponce de Leon at St. Augustine, the Ormond, the Royal Poinciana at Palm Beach, the Royal Palm at Miami and the Long Key AshIng camps. and that the Railway Administration will arrange for practically the same train service south as that of last season.

The Administration favors travel to MARRIED September 9, at the Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck, N. Elizabeth Montgomery, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Suckley, to Lieut. Littleton C.

F. Hambley, Quartermaster's Department, Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina. DIED. BONAVENTURE. September 10, Edmond F.

Bonaventure, at his residence, 318 West 106th street, in his seventy- fifth year, beloved husband of Genevieve Townsend Bonaventure, father of Henriette Flostroy, Genevieve Ware, Simonne, Yvonne, Alfred and Edmond Bonaventure. Funeral notice later. Boston, Philadelphia, Washington papers and Paris Herald please copy. September 10, in his fiftyninth year, at his residence in Burlington, Edward Grenville Benediet. formerly of New York.

CHATILLON. -Meta beloved wife of F. Chatilion and daughter of the late Thies J. Letens and Marie Lefens. Services and interment private.

CARPENTER at Bar Harbor, Sunday morning, September 8, JosephEvans James Carpenter, widow of Stiles B. Carpenter. Services at Hauterive on Tuesday afternoon, 4 o'clock. DE 27, at Berne, Switzerland, Blanche Barron de Parente, beloved daughter of the late James 8. Barron and widow of Paulo de Parente, who was Secretary of the Italian Commission to America.

London and Paris papers please copy. evening. September 9, at her country home, Salisbury, Elizabeth Leverett (Davenport), wife of David Parks Fackler, Funeral Salisbury 3:30 Thursday afternoon. Bass Rocks, teinber 7. 1918, Mary Rathbone liendrix, widow of Joseph C.

Hendrix. Interment at Greenwood. Services private. Suddenly, on Sunday, September 1918, at Irvington-on-the-Hudson, N. Margaret, daughter of the late Michael O' Day.

Funeral services at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Wednesday, September 11, at 9 A. M. For many years and until day of death faithful friend and servant in the family of the Rev. William Henry Benjamin of Irv- on September Oscar, at his residence, 305 West Fortyfifth atreet. Services "THE FUNERAL CHURCH," Broadway and Sixty -sixth street (Frank E.

Campbell'a), Thursday morning, 11 o'clock. Interment Woodlawn. Florida on account of the large amount of coal released for other essential U868 in the north. The hotel Clarendon at Seabreeze will also open as usual. Miss Richards of Boston has sented $100 to the Intervale Auxiliary of the Red Cross for the purchase of sewing machine and yarn with which to keep knitters busy during the auturn.

Charles H. Ditson of New York gave $50 for devastated France at Mina Carita Spencer's talk at the Jackson town hall and her talk at Wentworth Hall brought $250 additional for the charity. BOYS MAKE STAMP RECORD. Viman Youngsters Sell $3,560 Worth at Hot Springs. Special Despatch to THE SON.

HOT SPRINGS, Sept. local record for the sale of War Savings Stamps by Juvenile teams was ville Ulman, do sons of Mr. and Mra. J. lished here by Barclay and Stevens Ulman of.

New York, who sold stamps to the value of $8,560 in two hours at the Homestead. Mr. and Mrs. John Sloane are here from New York for a week. William Kennard has returned from Montolair with his daughter, Miss Ruth Kennard.

FINE DAYS AT WHITE SULPHUR. Weather Draws Visitors to Outdoor Sports. Special Despatch to THE SUN. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Sept.

weather is attracting many persons to the Greenbrier, and the golf links are filled with players, while tennis and riding have devotees. The mountain trails are daily finding more climbers. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Lehman of New York are here.

Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the National War Garden Commission, has arrived from wood, N. with Mrs. Pack and Mr. and Mrs. Percival S.

Risdale of Washington. They will remain several weeks. MANY GO TO SEASHORE. Large Number of New Yorkers Among Atlantic City Visitors. Despatch to THE SUN.

ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. the New York arrivals to-day were Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Heckler, who are at the Royal Palace. Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Harding, New York, are Alamac visitors. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Beaumont, Brooklyn, are Berkshire Inn guests.

Miss Marion Dickinson, Washington, Is at the Hotel Dennis. Mr. and Mrs. J. L.

Edwards, Brooklyn, are registered at the Bothwell. Mr. and Mrs. L. P.

Painter, Washington, are spending the month at the Chelsea. Miss L. J. Patterson, Baltimore, is a Breakers itor. Mr.

and Mrs. George L. Belcher, New York, are at the Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs.

Leon Jackson, Brooklyn, are guests at the Seaside House. Mr. and Mrs. J. Howard Blackman, New York, are stopping at the Seaside House.

MRS. BAKER PLAYS AT RECITAL War Secretary's Wife Assists Mme. Miura War Camp. WASHINGTON, Sept. Baker, wife of the Secretary of War, with her guest, Mme.

Tanaka Miura, the Japanese prima donna, went to the American University camp this evening, where Mme. Miura, accompanied by Mrs. Baker, gave a recital. Mra. Daniels, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, spent to-day at Quantico, the training camp of the Marine Corps.

Mrne. Ekengren, wife of the Minister from Sweden, will return on Thursday from Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, where she spent the summer. BENSON QUITS SARANAC. Admiral Ends' Week's Visit Guest of Col. C.

Prayn. Special Despatch to THE SUN. SARANAC LAKE, Sept. W. S.

Benson of the U. S. Navy left here by motor for Schenectady to-day after a week at the Harding Cottage on Lower Saranac as the guest of Col. C. Pruyn.

Admiral Benson said it was the first time he had ever visited the Adirondacks and first vacation he had had in more than three years. He was accompanied during his visit by Commander Carter, his aid and mander Belknap. Admiral Benson was greatly benefitted by his stay. He said the Adirondacks were unexcelled as a place of recuperation. Asked as to whether Germany might be expected to make move on the seas he replied that it was anybody's guess.

SEPARATION ENDS MOTT'S ROMANCE Wife of Iron Manufacturer's Son Wins Action. It was learned yesterday: that Supreme Court Justice Scudder at Newburgh on June 28 last wrote "Anis" the record of marital unhappiness piled up between J. Lawrence Mott, heir to the millions of the Mott family of iron manufacturers, and his wife, the former Carolyn W. Pitkin of Braintroe, whom ha married while a student at Harvard seventeen years ago. It became known that Justice Scudder had granted to Mrs.

Mott a decree of separation, allowing her the custody of her fifteen-year-old son and $7,500 a year in monthly instalments. The love affairs of young Mott--he is now only 35-have at various times engaged the interest of three continents. Born of a family distinguished in the industrial and social life of the counMott began during his college career to build an unenviable reputation for himself. Following his marriage to Miles Pitkin, previous to which he had been defendant in a breach of promise suit, the couple spent a honeymoon in a wild section of northern Canada, where Mott gathered material for stories of frontier life. Young Mott broke into the news in 1912 when he sailed from New York on the British freighter Indradeo with Mrs.

Frances Hewitt Bowne, a former actress and wife of Walter Bowne, a wealthy man of Long Island. Then followed a round the world chase for the elopers led by Hector Fuller, war correspondent, who was retained by the Mott family to intercept fleeing couple wherever could. Meantime Mrs. Carolyn Pitkin Mott had left the young millionaire because of his vagaries. The chase led to Gibraltar, through the Mediterranean and finally to Hong Kong, where Fuller overtook the pair, but was unable to induce Mott to return.

In the papers before Justice Scudder was a letter from Mott to his wife saying that a magazine that he was editing Japan was a success. He added: "Everything is lovely and the gOOSe hangs high. Good luck to you and my love to the laddie." Reception for Flier Hitchcock. The citizens of Westbury, are planning a reception for Thomas Hitchcock, the eighteen year old aviator who escaped to Switzerland from a German prison camp. Hitchcock is pected home soon news has been reneived that he is about to leave England.

He was a member of the Lafayette Escadrille and was taken prisoner by the Germans. While being transferred to another camp he slipped away from the guard and tramped 100 miles to the Swiss border, CHILDHOOD DRAMA AT THE PRINCESS Stuart Walker Presents His Own Play, "Jonathan Makes a Wish." STAGING IS EXCELLENT Piece Is Somewhat Lacking in Variety, but Acting Is Excellent. "Jonathan Makes a the Princess, Aunt Elizabeth Patterson Susan Beatrice Maude George Gaul Uncle Arnold Gregory Kelly Mile. Margaret Mower Han Edgar Stehll Whatever credit may lie in achievement of having restored the drama of childhood to present favor should go to Stuart Walker. It was this manager who last year made the amusthe figures, out of Booth Tarkington' "Seventeen" breathe behind the lights.

This year the metropolitan stage is littered with kiddies. They threaten to elbow the German spies out of sight in the great struggle for life which is Just now taking place among the masterpieces of our native drama exposed on the theatre's heights. At all events, it was Mr. Walker who first took these interesting Tarkington young persons by the hand and led them into view. At the little Princess Theatre, in which Mr.

Walker settled for a while with his portmanteau dramas, he showed last night the latest product of his imagination in dealing with the paychological problems of childhood. Three acts, called "Jonathan Makes a Wish," form the play. Gregory Kelly, so 1m- portant in Mr. Walker's successes in the past, had the leading role. Has Toy Theatre.

The Arst act of "Jonathan Makes a Wish" is laid in a lumber room, which serves as a retreat Tor roung Jonathan. Here he has his toy theatre---and at an old piano he and his little playmate, Susan Sample, "make up" songs. Out of sight of etern Uncle John, Jonathan is happy the head of the Clay family no sympathy for his nephew's "nonsense" and plans to give him a business training that will At him to devote his life to the glory of the "Clay Concrete Manufacturing Com- pany." Back to 'his old home wanders Nathaniel Clay, John's younger brother, who has run away seventeen years before because he preferred writing to concrete. As a fellow dreamer. Jonathan interests him: SO they pass A happy half hour in the old lumber room, talking about Jonathan's plays and singing the song he "made up" to Mile.

Perrault, Nathaniel's betrothed. than le thus led to forget the strict rules of his Uncle John's household, so when a stray tramp wanders in and evinces an interest in his toy theatre the owner is too delighted to send him away. Of course Uncle John discovers them, roughly bide the tramp be gone and then punishes Jonathan by throwing on the floor his manuscripts and other treasures before locking him in. Now the Allegory Begins. Jonathan resolves to run away and climbs out of the high window, attempting to let himself down by a rope, but it gives way and he falls on the rocks below.

The second act shows Jonathan's delirium--in which he is a vagabond of twenty. crippled and hopeless, roaming the country with Hank 89 companion. All the persons of the first act pass before him, but fail to recognize him, and he is wretched and despairing. But the last act brings a happy ending. for Jonathan gets well and Uncle Nathaniel helns to freedom.

Mr. Walker's study of the mental suf. ferings of a misunderstood boy of has an imaginative quality and a certain grace in its revelation. The allegory of the second act inevitably sugrests Mrs. Gates's "The Poor Little Rich Girl." although that drama was richer in invention and had no such lack AS occasionally threatened last night to develop into tedium.

The symbalism of Mr. Walker's work, moreover, was not always sufficiently Incisive grip the spectator. The material means by which the story was told showed the author's skill in practical stage illustration. The illusion of the second act. with the children dancing in the sunlight, and the boy's climb to the heights of the green hill was well presented.

But it is altogether concelvable that Mr. Walker, In writing the play, and the actors in interpreting had much 'better opportunity enjoy themselves than the spectators who were witnessing the achievement from the other side footlights. year-old boy the restraint common Gregory Kelly, acted the fourteento him. He acted also with the intelligence that is characteristic of all doe: but it is unfortunate that his mea-8 are so limited and his style lack! in variety. George Gaul read his speeches with a command of the florid style that suited well some of his expansive gestures in the opening act, and Margaret Mower's piquant beauty savored every scene in which she appeared.

Beatrice Maude is as pretty as she was in "Seventeen," and Edgar Stehli as the congenial vagrant has lost none of the humor that he revealed in that same performance. NOTES OF THE THEATRES. Joseph Klaw, will make his New York debut as producing manager on Monday evening, September 16, by presenting "Some Night." a musical comedy by Harry, Deif, at the Harris Theatre, J. E. Cort, son of John Cort, has ferred his theatrical headquarters from Seattle to New York.

He will be company manager of "Fiddlers Three' and riana." Stuart Walker will send on tour nex week two companies to play "Seventeen." The Eastern company has the same cast with one exception as that which played eight months at the Booth. Adolph Philipp has engaged Cecil Kern to play the lead in "Tell That to the Marines," which will open at the Yorkville Theatre on September 24. "The Star Spangled Banner" will be played in ail the Shubert theatres in the the Mayor's Committee on National Decity on the night of September 14, which fence has designated as Star Spangled Banner night. TOURING BY AUTOMOBILE. Special Despatch to TAR SUN.

MANCHESTER, Sept. by automobile at the Equinox House clude Mr. and Mrs. J. Dwight Leggett, John Leggett, Joseph B.

Tiedale, Staten E. Tracey, Island Wellesley (Cadillac): Hills Mr. and (Daniels); Mrs. Mi. H.

G. Torthaker, G. McAvon. Hartford (Packard): Mre. W.

M. K. Walton, Ridgewood; Mrs. George A. Ellis, Miss Jean Ellis, Bayshore (Simplex): Mr.

and Mrs. E. M. Taft, Whitinsville (Cadillac): Mr. and Mrs.

A. Sandt, Easton (Cadillac); Mr. and Mrs. J. G.

Newcomb. New York (Packard): Mr. and Mra. 1am H. Shoemaker, Miss Scott, Philadel(Packard); John H.

McFadden, Philadelphia Miss (Packard); Mr. and Mra. P. Williams, Williams, New Haven (Paige): Mr. and Mra.

J. Clark. Cam. den (Packard): Mr. and R.

C. Hud. son, Buffalo (Cadillac): William W. Reilly, Buffalo: Mr. and Mrs.

Berton C. Hill, New York (Pierce); Mr. and Mre. W. Biscoe, W.

Biscoe, Boston (Cadillac), NOTES OF THE SOCIAL WORLD The marriage of Miss Margaret Baldwin. a daughter of the late Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin, to Emerson McMillin 8d will take place Florence, Italy, on November 9. Miss Baldwin has lived for years in Florence. Mr.

McMillin, who is grandson of Sir. and Mrs. Emerson McMillin of Darlington, Ramsay, N. is private secretary to Thomas Nelson Page, Americas bassador to Rome. Miss Stella M.

Sullivan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Sullivan, will be married in Brookline, to-day to Lieut. Francis Ouimet of the Quartermaster Department, U.

8. stationed in Cambridge, Mass. Lieut. Ouimet has won many golf championships. Mrs.

John A. Hartwell, who has been passing the summer Undercrest Farm, her country place in Portchester, N. is visiting her sister, Mrs. Henry Addison Alexander, in Newport. Dr.

Hartwell is with the American Army in France. Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly has joined her sister, Mrs. William Douglas Sloane, at Elm Court in Lenox.

Mrs. Pembroke Jones will go Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, next week. Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Iselin, who have been in the White Mountains and also the Berkshires, have returned to New Rochelle, where they will remain until the latter part of November.

Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden, who has been visiting her Mrs. Burke Roche, in Newport, has returned to her home in Brookville, L. I. Mr.

and Mrs. William Baylis have come from A Strathspey, their country house in Bedford, to the Plaza. Mra. Luther Kountse has gone from Delbarton, her summer home in Morristown. N.

to pass some time with her daughter, Mrs. J. Gordon Douglas, at the Flint it Cottage in Newport. Mr. and Mrs.

Oliver Gould Jennings are at their country place in Fairfield, they will remain until late in November. Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson and her son, Ensign Langhorne Gibson, U. S. are at the St.

Regis, as is also Miss Ray Slater, who has come from Washington, D. C. Announcement has been made the marriage on September 5 in Newport News, of Miss Beatrice Veronica O'Brien of this city to Lieutenant-Commander John W. Kirschner, U. S.

also of New York. Early next month Lieut. Kirschner and his bride will be at 302 Central Park West. WILLIAM H. LYON TO WED.

Mrs. Jennie F. Ferris to Be Bride of Standard 01l Man. H. Lyon, forty years representative of the Standard Oil Company in Westchester friend of John D.

Rockefeller and one of the wealthiest bachelors In Westchester, surprised his friends yesterday when he announced that next Saturday he would marry Mrs. Jennie Field Ferris, a widow, of Brewster, at the -Carlton Hotel, Manhattan. Mr. Lyon, who is 60 years old, is prominent in Democratic politics. At one time A candidate for Sheriff.

He is known was "Uncle Bill." Mr. and Mrs. Lyon will pass their honeymoon in Florida, and will make their home in White Plains. ALLEN GWYNNE More Details Received of Wedding Performed In France, Detaila have been received by mail and cable of the wedding in Paris August 13 of Miss Alice Gwynne to First Lieut. Horace R.

B. Allen, 369th fantry, A. E. this city, which was announced in THE SUN yesterday. There was first a civil marriage at the Mairie in Sevres, where the bride's mother lives, and this was followed by the religious ceremony in the Amartean Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris.

The bride was given away her brother, Edward Gwynne, and here witnesses were Mrs. Georze Munroe and Henry S. Lehr. Erskine Gwynne, one of the bride's twin brothers, was best man, and the witnesses for the bridegroom were Major Philip M. Lydig and Barclay Warburton.

A small wedding breakfast followed at the Ritz. The bride is the daughter of the late Edward Gwynne of this city, who was a nephew of Mrs. Vanderbilt of 1 West Fifty -seventh street and the Breakers, Newport. Since the death of her father she has lived in or near Paris her mother, who was Miss Helen Steele" of Washington, D. C.

Lieut. Allen is the only son of Ethan Allen of 375 Park avenue. He was graduated from Yale in 1914 and was a member of Squadron going to the Mexican border in 1916. He went to the firet training camp at Plattsburg and was with the Fifteenth Regiment under Col. Hayward.

Early in August he underwent an operation in Paris for appendicitis and he is temporarily at the Liaison headquarters in Paris, where he will remain during his term of convalescence. FREEMAN-WERTENBAKER. Artillery Lieutenant Takes Bride in Washington. Announcement was made yesterday of the marriage of Miss Alicia Giradeau Wertenbaker, daughter of the late Charles P. Wertenbaker, Public Health Service, Lieut.

John C. Freeman, Thirty -seventh Field Artillery, U. S. which place on September 6 in John's Church, Washington, D. C.

Lieut. Freeman was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1916, He was on duty at Fort Myer and Fort Sill and later saw service in France. After a brief wedding trip Lieut. Freeman and his bride will go to Camp Lewis, where he is stationed. WHITE -SELINGER.

Boston Man Weds Daughter of Pottstown Manufacturer. Special Despatch to THE SUN. POTTSTOWN, Sept. Vincent White of Boston, a graduate of Princeton, who two years ago became a member of the HIll School faculty here, married Miss Anna Geraldine Selinger, daughter of John A. Helinger, a local manufacturer, In St.

Aloysius's Catholic Church here to-day. The Rev. John J. Fletcher of Boston performed the ceremony. Mrs.

Henry D. Reed, sister of the bride, matron of honor. The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Dr. David J. White of Boston.

The ushers were Dr. Charles F. Stack, Hyde Park, John A. Brein, Everett, and John A. Selinger, Pottstown.

Miss Isabell McCord Betrothed. Special Despatch to THE SoN. GREENWICH, Sept. engagement of Miss Isabell McCord of Greenwich to Charles Cole of Bridgeport has been announced. Miss McCord 1s the daughter of the late Mr.

and Mrs. William S. McCord. Sara Herman Leaves The appraisal of the estate of the late Sara Herman, who died April 2, WAS fled yesterday. The net estate is valued at $1,237,282, including $276,250 real estate and $821,814 stocks and bonds.

The estate, with the exception of a few articles of jewelry, is left to the decedent's three children, Bernard F. Herman, 24 Pine street; Mrs. Hess, 55 Libstreet, and Mrs. David T. Davis, 66 Broadway.

'OVER HERE' TURNS DRAMA INTO FARCE Oliver D. Bailey's New Play Mixes War and Love, With Dashes of Pacifism. SEEN AT FULTON THEATRE Elaborate Plot Worked Out to Save Slacker From His Own Cowardice. "Over Here" -At the Fulton Theatre. Keever.

George Schaefer Bimer Grandin Sherwood Kenneth Merrill, Jr. Kellard Adolph Von Helier. William Ingersoll Johann W. Peters Kenneth Merrill, Harry Leighton Beth Miss Lily Cahill Mitchell Mra. Kenneth Merrill, Sr.

Miss Evelyn Carter Carrington Karl Von Lindhard An officer of the U. S. Navy Frank E. McDermott "Over Here," a play in four acts by Oliver D. Bailey, presented at the Fulton Theatre last night by Mr.

Bailey and Nathan D. Smith, lessees and managers, lives up to the old time association of the name Fulton with vehicular novelty, and of course it's a war play. "The war, yes," as one of the characters remarked. "Isn't it awful? Our country's in for it now." it proved, and it was dreadful. Horrors never cease, but when it comes to "Over Here" it is sheer frightfulness.

It was late in the spring, but early in the evening. But, hint! Here is some very mysterious stuff right at the start. The lights are out as three plotters enter the home of Kenneth Merrill, Sr. They might have been mist mistaken for crooks if. it were not spirit of the times.

They were spies after very valuable secret papers that happened to be in the possession of Kenneth Merrill, When the spies had a concealed themselves the lights came on, and also several members of the family. Some Pro-German Defectives. The development of the characters was so remarkable that they hardly have been accounted for except as mental defectives. Kenneth. was a slacker of the most advanced type and his mother an impossible pacifist.

Another young man was also apparently half witted, for he had left Germany and wished he was back there again. As a loyal American Mr. Merrill was nearly distracted at this state of affairs, as was also sweet, cherry lipped in little love Beth with the Grayling, boy. for It she may was deeply chivalrous to account for her too as psychopathic, but there is nothing else to do. Ruth had been in bleeding Belgium and had seen France and England "croosuffled." and so she was anxious to bring home to Kenny that there was something to get excited about in a war 3,000 miles away when the U-boat was at the door.

It was all no good, not even when the father ordered his son to pack up and clear out. Villains Have Fall Sway. When Kenny had gone to the club the villains had full sway, and proved themselves to be thorough paced Germans by gagging Mr. Merrill and Beth and dragging them to the next room for torture. There were the makings of a good situation in this when Kenny returned, it was man handled.

Kenny's young friend, "Cupid" Little turned out to be a secret service man. He got drop on the spies, but he tried to keep the audience in suspense so long by not doing anything that it all fell through. Then the spies got the upper hand and worked up a little excitement, only to quash it in the same way. In the third act some promiscuous shooting and stabbing finally aroused Kenny's fighting blood. Then, greatest shock of all, it was divulged that the whole fracas was a put up job to bring Kenny to his senses.

It would have been much to an operation and removed the piece of bone that was pressing on his brain. FARRAR AIDS LIBERTY LOAN. Star In Three Days Makes Film Picture for Campaign. In connection with the Liberty Loan campaign, which opens September 28. according to an announcement made yesterday, a motion picture film in which Geraldine Farrar will appear as Columbia will be shown in all the large cittes of the country.

Miss Farrar was in Wyoming when the film actors of the country were invited to contribute films for use in the campaign and was unable to return to the East until the day the Alms were to have been delivered. She obtained an extension of three days and succeeded by extremely hard work in completing her picture in that time. JEWISH SELECTS GET RESPITE. May Remain With Families Until After Day of Atonement. Gen.

Crowder has ordered that induction of Jewish drafted men into the army be deferred until after the day of Atonement, which begins next Sunday night, 90 they may spend the holy season with their families, according to an announcement made last night by Col. Harry Cutler of Providence, R. chairman of the Jewish Welfare Board. The Provost Marshal General's message said: "Confirming conference to-day this office has ordered no induction during the period from September 10 to September 16, both Inclusive, except individual inductions which are voluntary and may be deferred for seven days at the option the registrant, hence lected men of Jewish faith may remain a with their families until after September 16." RALLIES AT LIBERTY BELL. Paper Trade Committee Pushes War Stamp Drive.

To garner in the $45,000 which it still has to raise to reach its quota of 000 in the War Saving Stamp drive the Paper Trade Committee of the Pioneer Division began a series of rallies at the Liberty Bell City Hall Park yester-1 day, The programme included six attractions furnished by the National Vaudeville Association. Over $7,000 worth of stamps were sold. Similar rallies have been planned for September 17 and 24 and for October 1, 8 and 15. Paul. E.

Vernon, chairman of the Paper Trades Committee, hopes by the end of the series to roll up a total of $200.000. The rallies held at the Liberty Bell during July, he says, netted the committee $106,000. I $300,000 to R. Boy Sconts. PROVIDENCE, Sept.

Boy Scouts of Rhode Island, through the will of the late Capt. George Bucklin, will receive the income from a trust fund amounting to about $300.000. Half the fund may be used for the erection of a headquarters building. SEES CATASTROPHE IN COAL SHORTAGE P. S.

Noyes of Fuel Administration Says Pershing's Needs Are Jeopardized. NOT ENOUGH STEEL MADE Lack of It May Cost Thousands of American Soldiers' Lives. CINCINNATI, Sept. to produce and conserve the coal necessary for the manufacture of vast quantities of munitions needed by Gen. Pershing'8 army in the final drive against the German forces will mean the sacrifice of thousands of American youths on the field of battle, P.

B. Noyes, director of conservation of Fuel Administration, said in an address here to-day before the Association of Stationary Engineers. In such an emergency, with success depending upon steel and steel depending upon coal, Mr. Noyee said he was confident no man would spare himself either labor to save the last of waste or any sacrifice involved in devoting the fuel and material vitally essential in carrying out the army programine overseas. Noyes said if every business interest saw the facts as they are seen in Washington there auld be no need of regulations for conserving the coal supply, only directions.

"We are facing a catastrophe," 88- gerted Noyes. not one of those catastrophes which make such a noise that every one knows when they happen. It is a silent tragedy. We cannot All Pershing'8 orders in full because the United States cannot make sufficient steel this winter. A shortage in steel results almost entirely from lack of coal.

"Keep this in mind and then look forward to the events of the coming spring. We shall have the drive. We shall succeed in it. but some time in February or March, or whenever the time has come, Gen. Pershing will sit down with a pencil in hand, and will figure up the exact deficit in the Alling of his orders for munitions "With military formulas now well recognized, he will figure in place of those munitions how many extra men must be put into the battle to be killed.

This is no fanciful statement. It is now possible to treat, in any aggressive movement, the question of munitions or of casualties as interchangeable quantities. So many thousand American youths must be thrown into the hopper for every thousand tons of munitions which are short." BUTTER BROKERS TO SEEK MORE PROFIT Committee Will Visit Washington to Ask Rule Change. Cyrus C. Miller, director of transportation and distribution of the State Food Commission, conferred yesterday with members of the New York Mercantile Exchange on the buttermen's protest against the margin of profit allowed them on transactions in storage butter.

The merchants argued they could not make a decent living unless the margin is increased. Mr. Miller advised the merchanta it was useless to find fault with the Government and suggested they send a committee Washington with facts and figures to demonstrate to the Food Administration officials the accuracy of their contention that there should be a modification of the rules. Such a committee will join other committees of buttermen from Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago in a trip to the capital to-day. The local butter dealers have taken to the Government's action in commandeering 60 per cent.

of all stocks storage butter in excess of 000 pounds, but there has been no formal protest. An acute situation in the market has been produced because Uncle Sam has reached out for such large supplies of butter for the army and navy and the price has advanced 5 cents a pound in a few days. The handlers are willing to let the Government have all the butter it wishes, but they feel they ought to receive a profit that will permit them "to make 3 a living." When such a large amount is taken out of the market for Government purposes the public demand for the small amount that is left causes the price to jump. With operating expenses at a maximum, the commission men felt they ought to be allowed at least 2 cents a pound on the storage butter they handle. Edward A.

Foley of the Bureau of Enforcement of the National Food Administration and Mr. Ritchie, also of the Food Administration, attended the conference with Mr. Miller. The Federal Food Board received a telegram from Mr. Hoover yesterday asking it to express to each county Food Administrator in New York State "the great appreciation we all have for the fine service they have given to our common task." wish." Mr.

Hoover's telegram read. "you would take opportunity to thank them in my name for their great service to their country and her people at home." The Federal Food Board issued statement reminding deep sea and Great Lakes fishermen that beginning September 15 alien fishermen must have passports and permits and citizen fishermen Identity cards to pursue their calling. THEATRE MEN UNITE ON OVERSEAS PLANS Managers Pledge $150,000 to Entertain Men in France. Theatrical managers representing all branches, of America's amusement Overseas world Theatre at a League at the Knickerbocker Hotel yesterday pledged $150,000 carry out their plans. Lee Shubert was appointed chairman to collect the money.

Also on the committee are. George M. Cohan, E. F. Albee, Marc Klaw, Augustus Thomas, Winthrop Ames, Daniel Frohman and Mrs.

Rachel Crothers, Mr. Ames and Mr. Thomas spoke of the necessity for extending the work. Mr. Ames said the league required the services of fifty entertainers a month at the front.

The plans of the league inelude a series of benefits in every theatre in the country. A Palace Theatre unit, a Shubert Theatre unit and a Hawaiian unit, organized by Richard Walton Tully, will be among the first to go to France. Alf Hayman will organize a "Charles Frohman in memory of his late chief. Each manager at the dinner pledged himself to interview stars under his I management and ask for two or three months of their time to entertain American soldiers. Arthur Hammerstein volunteered to go abroad as a permanent manager, Mr.

Ames announced that some of the units had arrived abroad. was the belief of the diners that this WAs the first occasion on which all of the theatrical managers of New York had united in a single project. 3 PRIESTS CHOSEN ARMY CHAPLAINS Fathers Fahy, Healey and Caruana Commissioned. more priests, two from the Brooklyn diocese and one from the New York archdiocese, have been accepted as chaplains in the army and commissioned Lieutenants. The Rev.

Martin E. Fahy leaves the local archdiocese. For a number of years he has been an assistant at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, West 1424 John J. Healey, who leaves the Brooklyn diocese, has been an 88- sistant at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Fifth avenue and Fiftyninth street. Father Healey has been connected with the church for a number of years and 18 popular because of having organized the Mission Church Band and the parish orchestra, besides doing other good work.

He has gone to the Chaplains' Training Camp at Louisville, Ky. The George Caruana, rector of St. Leo's Church at Corona, 18 the other priest who leaves the Brooklyn diocese. This will be the second time Father Caruana has served as chaplain, having served in that capacity during the Spanish- American war. He has been rector at Corona two years, having succeeded the Rev.

Father O'Toole when the latter was assigned to another parish. E. F. BONAVENTURE, BOOK DEALER, DIES Alsatian, Trained as Engineer, Won Friendship of Collectors of Rare Volumes. Edmond F.

Bonaventure, a dealer in rare books, died yesterday after several years of invalidism in his home, 318 West 106th street, at" the age 74 years. He was born in Alsace pure of French stock, was educated at the School of Engineers, Chalons; was Marechal des Logis-Chef in the Franco-Prussian war, and after the war, refusing to recognize German authority over annexed Alsace, he came to America. The panic of 1873 swept away his savings and he was obliged to part with, a fine collection of rare books. Reminded by this that collecting could be made profitable as well as a hobby, he gave up the engineering profession and opened a book store in Barclay street, under the Astor House, which became a rallying place for bibliophiles. He went of often to Europe, bought private libraries from needy descendants of proud old houses and brought to America some of the rarest treasures now to be found in celebrated private collections.

Among his customers and friends were the late J. P. Morgan and Robert Hoe. He called his shop "Maison Bonaventure." It contained not only precious books, stamped with the arms of sovereigns, but paintings, etchings, engravinge and water colors and other art jects. Mr.

Bonaventure's second wife, who survives him, was Genevieve Townsend, daughter of George Alfred Townsend (Gath). the civil war correspondent. Their living children are Lieut. George Alfred Bonaventure, now in France with the American Army; the Misses Yvonne and Simonne Bonaventure and Mrs. F09- ter Ware.

There are also A son, Edmond C. Bonaventure, a member of the Seventh Regiment, New York Guard, and a daughter, Mrs. Thomas E. Flostroy, by the first marriage. EDWARD E.

EPPS. Edward E. Epps, head of the brokerage Arm of Edward E. Epps 25 Broad street, died early Monday in a Brooklyn sanitarium after an illness of several months. Mr.

Epps was born in Topeka fortyfour years ago. He came to New York as a young man and organized the firm of which he remained the active head until compelled by ill health, brought on by overwork, to retire. He leaves his widow. one son, Edward E. Epps, and a daughter, Elizabeth.

The family formerly lived Great Neck. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at Kensico Cemetery. ARTHUR SINCLAIR TAYLOR. Arthur Sinclair Taylor, years old. of 21 Lawrence street.

Yonkers, died yesterday from injuries received when he was knocked down Monday night by an automobile operated by Dr. Frederick H. Kitson of 373 South Broadway, Yonkers. Mr. Taylor travelled extensively in the Orient a number of years ago and upon his return.

founded two newspapers in New the Chinese Herald and the Japanese Times. The papers are still in existence and are being managed by Orientals. Mr. Taylor was bicycle enthusiast when bicycling was at its height and held a record for the run from Albany to New York. He was a Past Grand Noble of the I.

0. 0. F. and a Regent of Victor Council of the Royal Arcanum. He leaves three daughters and two sons.

MRS. JANE CRAIN. Mra. Jane Crain, aged 87, mother of Edward S. Crain, Boxing Commissioner, died yesterday in her home, in Hawthorne avenue, East Orange, N.

J. She had been 111 since June. Funeral services will be held in the Crain home to-morrow evening. Mrs. Crain was born in Indiana.

Her husband, Judge John C. has been dead many years. Besides the Boxing Commissioner, she leaves two other sons, Alexander B. of Grand Rapids, and Charles of Pennsylvania. Established 1894.

STAKE ELDREDGE 9 EAST 45TH STREET Furs of Quality OPERA GIVEN FOR WAR RELIEF FUND "Jewels of the Madonna" Sung Earnestly by San Carlo Company at Shubert. "The Jewels of the Madonna," a.n opera in three acts by Ermanno WolfFerrari, was given at the Shubert Theatre last evening by the San Carlo Opera Company. The performance was for the beneft of the Stage Women's War Relief and after the Arst act Alma a burgh sang "All for One and One for A11" as a special contribution to the entertainment. Also in the course of the evening Burr McIntosh auctioned autographed cartoons by that celebrated caricuturist Enrico Caruso. Wolf-Ferrari's tragic opera is by no means unfamiliar in this city, but its fortunes have been varied.

It has never enjoyed an adequate representation. It in a dimcult work by reason chiefly of the ensembles of its Arst act. But beyond that the impersonators of Gennaro and Maliela need histrionic gifts and vocal skill of exceptional quality. The story of the work is intensely diswho can set certain revulsions agreeable to people, but, to those mania. caused by Gennaro's sacrilegious act and its shameful reward it is only another of those squalid tragedies which have attracted the interest and absorbed the energies of so many Italian composers In recent years.

In the first act the composer has done some very admirable work. But all of it went for nothing last night because of the general uncertainty prevailing on the stage and in the orchestra. It was a very shaky first act indeed, and there were moments "then disaster seemed imminent. But conductor, Gaetano Merola, succeeded in bringing order out of the confusion and the act came to all effective ending. The singers were all earnest and their sincerity won general favor for them.

But it would not be accurate to say that any of them sang with beauty of tone or finish of style. It was a vigorous but rough performance. Elizabeth Amaden as Maliela, Giuseppe Agostini as Gennaro, Joseph Royer as Rafaele and Stella Demette as Carmela were the principals. HARVARD'S NEW TERM PLANS. will Accept Students for War Training Both Sides of 18, CAMBRIDGE, Sept.

Law. rence Lowell, president of Harvard, said to-night that at the opening of the term on September 23 university would receive as student members of the trainof age who have been graduated from ing corps applicants he more than 18 years any good high school or have had an equivalent education. Students less than 15 years of age. until they reach that age, will have an opportunity to take less intensive milltary training while pursuing the usual college course. Free Airplane Construction Course.

A short, free course in construction of wooden parts of airplanes will begin at Stuyvesant night' trade school Monday night. Robert H. Finkernagle, an expert attached to the New York Navy Yard, will be in charge. Only men with some knowledge of wood turning and cabinet making need apply, as the course will be intensive. Registration may be made to-night and to-morrow night at the school in Fifteenth street.

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