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Carillon to Memory of W. J. Bryan a May Have Its Site at Hains Point hwing Appreciation in United States of This Form of Music Makes Proposed Structure Especially Pleasing. frbf-n he soft boll music of a carillon, Hi floating from a majestic tower I rising probably 300 foot from a beautifully designed auditorium is the realization of the Nation's memorial Washington to William Jennings Sryan, for the realisation of which 'Ulcers of the Bryan Memorial Association are now making definite plans. The first of these beautiful bell instruments to be heard In the National Capital will be Installed in a tower modeled closely after the design of he memorial tower of the new library if the University Os Louvain, if tentaive sketches already submitted are in the final plans as memtors of the carillon Kxnmittee now believe will be done.

Phis Is the beautiful structure for chich, as a gift from the American wople to the people of Belgium, the erner stone was laid by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler on July 28. 1921, in the wesence of distinguished persons, rhe oid Louvain library and tower destroyed during the war. Especially because of its ideal loca-9on for a carillon, the type of instrunent which had its origin in Holland tad Belgium centuries ago, and whose perfectly attuned and appealing music now heard from a dozen or more in the New World, the carillon committee believes that he Hains Point section of East Poomac Park offers an excellent site for he Brv-an memorial. The question of oeation, however.

It is explained by Charles A. Douglas, prominent aterney of this city, who Is chairman the carillon committee, Is not to definitely considered until other for the memorial are further advanced. It is understood, however, that the Molding plans as they have taken thape up to this time are viewed Savor ably by the Pine Arts Commission in connection with the suggestion ihat the memorial be in the vicinity fef Hains Point. Officers of the association already have conferred with this commission as to the architectural character of the memorial and fts site. Before any final plans are they will he submitted for Approval to this commission, as well ts to the library committees of Congi and to Maj.

U. 8. Grant. 3rd, tor of the Office of Public Buildand Public Parks of the National The estimated cost of the memorial trill be $1,000,900, with an additional fund of $500,000 for its maintenance. The memorial association, of which Poeephus Daniels, former Secre'tary of the Navy, is president, plane go raise the total amount as soon as possible and contributions already in being received, organisations through which to raise the fund by feopniar subscription havipg been farmed, in each State.

JN suggesting, merely as their indir vidual and personal opinions, at this feme, the advantages offered by Hains Point as a location for the memorial. Ulcers of the association point out that the structure planned not only Would blend with and enhance the tieauty of the surroundings there, Offering a beautiful landmark to be Aeon from the southern approach to She city either by water or rail, but the open character of the site Svould lend itself perfectly to the carmllon feature of the memorial. Indeed, It is in this feature that, Avers the beauties and charm of the carillons more generally known So the people of the New World, the Brreatest popular interest in the pro- KlCted memorial would undoubtedly America Is, to be ears, rapidly discovering the beauty of these Enajestic Instruments, the hell music Kchich Arnold Bennett calls tlif) Eor those who have but a hazy idea the power and beauty of the Perfectly attuned bell music of the Carillon, It should be made clear at She outset that it is not a chime. RWUllam Gorham Rice, enthusiastic of the century-old carillons Mot the low countries of Europe, in jKrhich their music has cheered and 'warned the love of generations of Peasants In the field and city dwellers Ks well, declares the carillon Eiiwrr the chime, or mere ring or Eeal of a hell, much as the cathedral Krgan surpasses the one-finger Soy music, heard softly, under favorable conditions, over miles of Surrounding country, emanates best 4from a tower located apart In open Apace. Hence, it is suggested the Xanglng space of the Potomac Park i Sits would lend Itself perfectly to the Carillon feature of the Bryan me- Arterial, In the installation of which afctr.

nice has as adviser the carillon -committee. What are these majestic instru- Bof which Longfellow sang 80 ago in his of caused Robert Louis Stev, in his "Oise in to ex, on hearing their music In im: thought we had never bells speak so luestlon is still very generally in this country whenever the ment is spoken of. carillon had Its origin in the Sixteenth century in the Iftw countries Belgium, Holland and French through the next 300 Aron i gradually reached a degree of which the present generamion In those countries has brought So perfection. A great group of Perfectly attuned bells, 60 or more, Kind with a range of three and often octaves, with all the tones and of the chromatic scale to them to render music of al- Sgnost any character, hangs in a lofty Kower high above the little chamber is occupied by the keyboard. for special occasions are Silayed by the carillonneur, who sits Kt the keyboard, arranged like that of organ, out of sight of his audience, Ko whom the strains come.

Indeed, as Shough "magic from the There is none of the blurred note of that awing, for the bells do not Ewing, but are to use technical phrase. When the ln- Etrument la played by the carillonneur Ehe sound la produced by the tongue Es the bell striking the inner sound Kow. Chorda of six and even more can be struck on the carillon and the adjustments are (So delicate that sustaining notes on Ehe lighter bells are easily accomplished by The earilflsofineur uses both hands and feet in playing one of the great Instruments. also are played and it la lh this manner that Khey musically toll off the hours and Euarter-hours of the day from the Kinging towers of the old countries. the automatic playing, they are Equipped with a revolving barrel con- Iwiected with a tower clock, this music weing produced after the manner of old-fashioned music box.

Pins, set sin order oh the drum for the notes to be produced, by lifting Metres and trackers which run up into She tower, lift the various hammers £nrhlch strike the hells at outside fifrmnd-box. Thus there is a double jraquipment to provide both for the kflflrboard and the automatic playing. are J'' 'B i 'I til Bill I 1 ill IS. I Mill stit v'" Mppg I 1 111 111 Ij ,11 iliifliiJftiiilil fcia I BH mESBBUs a np t. fl MMSBiir Ts -v "wwiaH HsHMI Jt SMmBEh FREDERICK ROCKE, CARILLONEUR, PLAYING THE BELLS OF ST.

CHURCH, MORRISTOWN, J. are bells, with the lighter bells hung at the top. It is chiefly on the light bells that the automatic playing of simple folk songs, which the traveler constantly hears as he wanders through old towns of Belgium and Holland, is produced, w-ith now and' then a deep base tone sounding in the melody. The carillon has developed from a crude beginning centuries ago, when timepieces were a rarity and the people depended upon the town or village clock. It became the custom, as a premonitory signal, to precede the striking of the hour by a short automatic chiming of three or four small bells hung in the clock tower.

From this beginning, as each town sought to surpass its neighbor in its more bells were added to the towers until the musical scale of tones and became complete. Brief melodies began to float from the towers, and as more hells were added whole tunes were played. Up to this stage, all of the playing was done automatically. With the adoption of the keyboard and expansion of the note range of the bells, the carillon entered upon its development. as a really majestic instrument, responding fully to the art of the accomplished musician.

In the later development were devised for the playing of the heavier bells. In Belgium and Holland the keyboard playing by a carillonneur is reserved for such special occasions as the market day and on Sunday; and during the Summer weeks, in the larger cities, concerts also are generally fixed for a certain evening in each week. On such occasions there is an elaborate concert for perhaps an hour, with a program of the best music of the great composers, such as Beethoven and Schubert, and beautifully arranged Flemish and French folk songs and hymns. For the thousands that gather for these concerts, quiet is usually maintained in the vicinity of the tower by an order of the city heads diverting vehicular traffic from nearby streets. Mr.

Rice has counted 180 carillons In the world today. Os this total 134 are located In Belgium and The Netherlands, with the remainder scattered in other parts of Europe, the United States and Canada. Eleven carillons were destroyed in the World War, but of these, three already have been replaced. The finest Instrument'of the kind In this country is that In the Park Avenue Baptist Church tower, in New York, the gift of John D. Rockefeller, in memory of his mother, which is to be transferred eventually to the commanding tower of the great WkM Wiiwiiii i 1 lihi tiiEOTvijK jm Hp 4 fTffE or'-tC on Riverside Drive, which is to succeed the Park avenue structure.

The chamber for this carillon, comprising 63 bells which are unsurpassed in their accuracy of pitch and with a keyboard and mechanism of perfect responsiveness, will be 800 feet from the ground in the new structure. The concerts which Anton Brees of Antwerp has given upon this carillon have not only been heard by thousands in the streets, hut have taught the ears of multitudes ffUL US vK aifrrVTHsitJflfe AUTOMATIC DRUM OF ONE OF TO BIG CARILLONS. throughout the country tho beauty of tho carillon through radio transmission of the recitals. A YOUNG Canadian. T.

Percival Price of Toronto, is now studying under Josepf Denyn, at Malines, who is known as the Paderewski of the carillon, in preparation to become the player of the Park Avenue Church carillon. Denyn, who has served 85 years as the carillonneur of the most glorious of all the 'singing towers, that which rises above St. Cathedral at Malines, Is the director of a free school of carillon instruction there, which is maintained in part by music-loving Americans. The first municipal singing tower in the United States will be the City Hall tower at Albany, N. where, through public subscription, the sary fund has almost been completed for the installation of a carillon of 42 bells.

The growing discovery in America of the beauties of carillon music is shown in the Increasing number of the instruments, some of them of the finest type. Recitals already hays been given on the carillons at Morris- town, N. and Cohaaaet and Glou- cester, by Anton Brees of Antwarp and Kamiel Lefevre of Malines. The carillon ait Gloucester, in the Church of Our Lady of Good Voyage, teas the flret modern carillon installed In the United States. These bells were Impressively dedicated in 1922 at ceremonies at which Cardinal of Boston officiated.

Other carillons are at Andover. Birmingham. Detroit, Cranbrook, and Plainfield, N. J. An assembly of 43 bells will be dedicated next Christmas at.

St. Chrysostom's Church, In Chicago, and Mercersburg, Academy and Germantown, also are to have carillons ready for dedication next year. A 63-bell carillon is soon to be inaugurated at Ottawa, Canada. In that country the carillon of 23 bells at Torftnto has the distinction of being the first Installed In America. To obtain the precise tone ahd quality in the bells of the truly fine carillons requires the most exact process ahd workmanship In their manufacture.

Contrary to the poetic allusions to and carillon bells of the best Quality are made only of an alloy of the purest copper and tin. In the proportion of three parts copper and one part tin. In his exhaustive study of carillons and their bells, Mr. Rice has found that today the bell manufacturers of England enjoy a monopoly in the production of such bells, all of those of the best modern carillons being products of the skill and craftsmanship of two English firms. Properly made and hung, a carillon bell will retain its perfect attuiiement apparently until the end of time.

Os the 39 bells In the singing tower of St. Church, Rotterdam, most of them were made by Frans Hemony, one of the first of the bell makers, in 1860. To give ah idea of the craftsmanship required in making the bells, one foreign foundry has an equipment consisting in part of 1.500 tuning forks, by means of which the bells are brought into as accurate tune as is a piano. Mr. Rice found in his study that in 1 past generations, when cannon were made of eame bronze ae were carillon belle, ip the Netherlands in time of war the hells were not infre; quently converted into cannon and when peace returned the cannon were reforged into bells.

1 'j'HE bells of a carillon, scaling up in their notes, have a wide range in size. The largest bell of an aasemchurch bljr may be taller than a man and welch four, five or even six or eight tone, while the amplest will be perhaps Id or 12 inches high with a weight of less than 20 pounda Os greater importance, however, than size, weight or number, is the pitch relationship of the bells, the bells of a carillon always progressing by regu: lar semitone or chromatic Intervals. Not only in America alone, but in other parts of the world, particularly English-speaking countries, is there evidence of a general awaken! ing to the beauties of this great instrument of civic music. Mr. Rice has gathered figures showing that in I 1 052,000 has been spent on new lons, of tills amount about 2900,000 having been expended by the English-speaking countries.

The number of carillons is increasing in this country in spite of the 40 per cent tariff duty imposed on the bells and the fact that there is now no bell forging Industry in this country capable of making carillon bells. Writing in a recent issue of the Churchman, Rev. Dr. Milo Hudson Oates of New York says: "No one In the United States can make a carillon. No one in the United States has ever made a carillon.

There is not even the remotest sign of the beginning of an industry here. For some unknown- reason, I suppose we must protect an infant industry, an enormous tariff Is levied upon, any carillon. However, such is the beauty of the instrument and so inspiring is this new art, that I do not believe even the high protective tariff wall around an industry which does not exist will keep out the instrument." Mr. Rice describee one of the Monday evening concerts given by Denyn on the Malines carillon, on which he says, carillon art attains its noblest expression. The hour for the concert had arrived; the town waited for the music in silence.

"So long a silence it seethed," he said, "so absolute, that we wondered if it ever was to be broken. Then, pianissimo, from the highest, lightest bells, as if not to startle us, and from far, far above the- seemed, indeed, if vary gently shaken from the sky trills and runs that were angelic. Rapidly they grew in volume and majesty as they descended the scale, until the entire heavens seemed full of music. "Seated in the garden we watched the little light in the tower, where we knew the unseen cartllonneur sat at his keyboard and drew the music from his keys; and yet. as we watched and listened, we somehow felt that the music came from somewhere far beyond the tower, far higher than that Ught.

and was produced by superhuman bands. Sometimes the sounds were so low that we found ourselves bending forward to hear them. They seemed to corns from, an Infinite so faint and delicate were they. Then, at other times, great Aords. in the D.C.TheaterFans of Former Years, Contribute to Record Tales of Well Known Actors of the Past Throw Light Upon Some of Their Personal Characteristics.

MT null has been very heavy since them rambles on actors wens begun. A letter has come to me almost every day. An unusual thing about these letters Is that they are worth reading. Os course, that ie only my opinion, and if you have read the rambles for 20 years you may feel that the Rambler has no right to an opinion as to what a good letter Is. But I will hand you a few of these letters, and if they are not what 1 say of them you can send them back to me.

Ido not pranise to refund your nickel because I feel sups that among the 700 paged Os a Sunday paper, and with scorm of mere rambles, but genuine artlclee, written by leading authors, who sometimes write quite will find something serious to amuse you. So much mall has come to letter almost every I believe the theater rambljes are Interesting the million readera I recall a talk with a man who followed my trade of writing for the public. He had been at it a long time, contracted cramp and had not more than two or three million dollars. We were dining at the Plate of Stew and. after eating hie dish of beans and folding his napkin, he said: "Harry, as you look Into the fsces of people In automobiles, see the pictures of persons prominent In society and study the features of screen actors you must know that human Intelligence Is not high.

To writer two ways are before you. Write eo that people do not understand what you write, and they will say has an excellent style, very clear and highly They will not have the nerve to say the work is rotten. Give verba aeequlpedatla, or words a foot and a half long, which Horace laughed at. Give the rolling mouthful words which Romans taught the Aduatud, Nervll and flnltlmi and which the Normans further messed up and put Into the English, people will say again has neglect to put In some Latin phrases without any excuse whatever. Nobody knows anything about Latin, especially those persons who 'took it at high School and college, but they hate to be found out.

Throw In. Just as though you knew their meaning, est ipsa 'mentetn non habeo die and abi in malem Put In those words several times and somebody will invite you to dinner. "But, if vou want to be read, give the short, punchy words that came out of the Jaws of the savages of north Europe. to subject; If you of statesmen that are passed a reader will yawn and say yes. I used to read about him once't.

I heard him make a great speech on to Save Our FWr and Native Forget what it was about, but I remember that it was loud and lasted two If you write about good ministers that are rne a few readers will say. Yes, yes, remember the pious soul. Mother used to kill the best chicken when hs came to dinner. He married me. but that was so long ago I ought not to bear any If you write about ancestors you may do fairly well.

Every American who believes In human equality thinks himself superior to anybody else. "Write up poor old Bill Jones, who lived In a cabin on Plseataway Creek, end say that he got a patent from the King of England for 1.000 acres and wore silk stockings and a sword, and a horde of Jones will buy the paper and send marked copies to their neighbors. But If you want to get a hold on a large parcel of people write about old actors. man went to a show in the tewn hall when he was a young fellow. and now, that he wears a gray beard, he believes that 60 years ago he was a dashing patron of the drama, drank with all the great actors In Hancock's and and took lovely actresses to supper at or He will read your stories till he falls asleep, and your stories will help to fall.

Also, the woods and the streets are full of old fellows who want to the theater one or six times a week, and these men love the memory of old players. By writing of old actors you will probably havemore readers than you WILL pass on to you two letters which were not written with the thought that they would be published. The first is from my old friend, Charles T. Harris of Washington. I did not know that Charlie was so Informed about actresses.

He has always talked horse to me. I believe that he knows more about harness racehorses than 'any other man, and he has been writing for the Horse Review longer than I have been writing about old places in Maryland, Virginia and the District. My belief la that Charlie came to the United States with the graft English trotter, ease tiger, in 1781, and has been on speaking terms with that noble trotter's Topgallant, Screwdriver, Dutchman, Lady Suffolk, Flora Temple, Dexter, Goldsmith Maid, Rai-us, Saint Jullen, Maud Jay. Eye See and their successors. Hie letter follows: Dear Rambler: "Your rambles relating to Theater in this city have been of great Interest to me, as I have seen on the stage and knew personally many of the artists mentioned.

Lawrence P. name, a native of Paterson, N. and hie history Is wall known to Old Star readers. Rob Hart, Charles Southerland in private life, was for many years a member of minstrel company of Now York City. Rosy Eytinge was long a favorite leading lady of the New York stage and was the wife of George H.

Butler, once United consul at Cairo, Egypt. A. W. Fenno I knew while he was a member of the company at Theater, then playing old parts and an ardent spiritualist. At that time William Seymour was call boy, afterward Utility man with the Booth company.

Seymour made his first theatrical hit as Francois, the page in by his course upward and onward was rapid. Dramatic talent was inherited by young Seymour, as his mothpr was a noted actress. H. (Dolly) Davenport, a fine actor of the old school, was no relation to E. L.

Davenport. Kate and Susan Denin were sisters and for some seasons wore members of the old Bowery Theater company. New York, under the management of William Whalley, (I think it Is you should have printed the name) The Willie Emerson on the bill of the Canterbury Theater. Washington, was the negro minstrel and song-and-dance man, Billy Emerson of Sun fame. "8..

Davenport I aaw In.almost all of characters. One erf his most memorable ones was his Brutus In the star revival of by The Booth Co, Barrett was the Cas- Sua Mr. Booth aaChesar and Frank Bangs as Mare Antony, I shall never forget Barms in this part. A martial figure In his armor, a Man of noble presence, ami his speech in the Forum wag a masterpiece of oratory. Mr.

Davenport was, ina HELEN WESTERN. Photos from the William Seymour ooUePUon. Eyed played while well in middle age, had all the vim and action of a young man. and he danced Sailors' as gracefully as of old. "Helen and Lucille Western were daughters of Bill English of Boston, an old-time actor.

Helen was the elder, a very handsome woman, but had not the dramatic fire of her sister. I first saw them on the old Bowery stage in Fast classed In those days as a 'popular play' and what one of todav would call a production. The sisters played together for some years, and then Helen married James H. Mead, actor and singer, and died not long after. Ludille.

being the. daughter of a poor actor, hod no educational advantages, but like Rachel and other Illiterate geniuses, won her way to the top, unaided, through hardship and suffering. She was of dusky beauty, with large soulful eyes, a wonderfully expressive countenance, and of fine physique. A pure woman, generous to a fault, and while not having many plays in her repertory every character she undertook to play she made famous. As Lady Isabel in she stood alone and as Nancy Sykes she excelled Charlotte Cushman and others who played the part.

The first Bill Svkes to her Nancy was E. L. Davenport, but the Bill Sykes of all was the late James A. Hearno of Shoro Acres fame and father of Cristal Heame. The late Matt Llngham used to tell a story of hla experience with Miss Western.

The company was billed to play at the Park Theater, Brooklyn, when Mr. Heame was taken ill and Llngham was asked to play Bill Sykes. Matt was one of the quick study sort and soon mastered the lines. At rehearsal, when it came to the murder scene. Llngham started in perfunctorily when Miss Western stopped him.

she said; play tonight and as the murder scene is the climax, Mr. Heame and I have made it very realistic. Now, we will rehearse.it as we will play It tonight. Be as rough as you can and be afraid of hurting she said, after rehearsal, have done fairly well, but there must be more fire In that scene That related Llngham, It came to the murder scene, I grabbed her by her long anl abunaant hair and dragged her about the stage. She gained her feet and fought a tigress.

Again and again I threw her to the floor like a sack ofi grain, while she kept whispering, right but fight Finally I dragged her off stage center where the last blow was supposed to be struck and I was to make my escape. Standing in the wings I saw f': a 7 I JjBK Ln, Jjgl ixrr. Ti 't her crawl out of the room, disheveled, her clothing in rags and bedaubed with red point. I was fairly blown, as she was a strong woman and I am no feather-weight. Old stager as I am.

as I saw her crawling out, for a moment I felt as guilty as Cain. first murderer, forgetting the mimifry of the scene. Presently the call boy came and said that Miss Westmw wished to speak to me after the curtain. I went to her dressing room when she grasped my hands. Mr.

Llngham." she said, "I congratulate you on that scene! It was Mr. Heame never did better." I told her I was very glad the play would not run for a week as I doubted could stand Western died from pneumonia in 1877 in a Brooklyn hotel, lamenting the disappointment of her manager and public. died. In my arms like a said Hoyt, her business manager, 'the best woman 1 ever etas VdY second letter Is from William Seymour, written at his Summer home at South Duxbury, Mass. He writes: mutual friend John B.

Randolph sent me the page from The Star of the 20th. In this ramble the name of my father, James Seymour, appears. The photos reproduced are all familiar, but not always accurate. For Instance that labeled Kate Cl axton is 'not Kate C. (whom I knew well and acted with at the Union Square Theater) but an opera singer in the costume of Marguerite in It looks like Emma Thursjiy.

Which brings me to last page. There on Fanny Davenport Is labelled Marie Walnwright. My wife was delighted to see her picture (E. L. Davenport) and exclaimed, that is my favorite picture of him.

think I am critical. I am deeply Interested In all that pertains to our stage's history. and If I can be of any assistance to you In your rambles I wish to be so. I am sending you two prized photographs Lucille and Helen Western. I knew Meade heard Herne (Jas.

speak often and eulogtottcally of the sisters. Their father was William B. of the old managers. Helen Western was a very beautiful not beautiful, but a wonderful actress. I have all the books you mention.

I appreciate Mrs. desire to up your for many years mine has been held inviolate by wife and children. mention A. W. Fenno.

He was one of my stage managers In New Orleans Just after the Civil War and Tatar at Booth's Theater, New York. He was a very handsome man and had been a line leading actor. His wife Dime, de -Marguerite, was an author and her adaptation of Tennyson's 'Enoch was one of Edwin most popular roles. Isabel Freeman was a beautiful woman and an accomplished actress, was with me in New Orleans (the Old Varieties Stock Co.) and there mfct and married Capt. George W.

Norton of the Cromwell Line of steamers that then late between New York and New Orleans. Norton was for many years editor of the Marine Journal in New York City, where I used to see him a few years ago. He was over 70 then. His wife had died some years previously. A.

H. Davenport was not related to E. L. Davenport. His real name was Hoyt, which he used as the middle initial of his stage name.

His first name was Adolphus, but he was known to his friends as His wife was Lizzie Westin, who became Mrs. Charles Mathews. He. too (Dolly), was with me in New OrltAns. An excellent light comedian and long since dead.

Viola Crocker, a niece of Mrs. D. P. Bowers and Mrs. F.

B. Conway, married Joseph Barrett (Lawrences brother) and they were both in New Orleans when In 1866 the play of was produced by Lawrence Barrett, then one of the managers of the Varieties Theater in association with Dan Setcheil and John Lewis Bakerlater John father-in-law. In the cast of were Lawrence Barrett. Joe Barrett. Dan Setcheil.

J. Lewis Baker, Mrs. Baker, Viola Barrett and myself. "Harry Davenport, E. youngest son, is now playing a stock star engagement at the Fulton Theater.

Oakland, Cal. He opened June 20 in and will next play Music The Encyclopedia is in error when it states that Mrs. E. L. Davenport (Fanny Vining) was a cousin of Mrs.

John Hoey. Mrs. Hoey was the leading lady at Theater, New York, and her husband, John Hoey, the head of Adams Express Jtt was Mrs. John Wood (Matilda vining) who was Mrs. cousin.

Letter Wallaek was her cousin, and his cousin, James W. Wallaek. was thereby related to E. L. Davenport, with whom he was so long associated professionally.

did not see Lucille Western play Nancy Bykes, but in 1865. I did see them (Davenport and Wallaek) play BUI Sykes and Fagin at with Rose Eytinge as Nancy and Jane Burke (daughter of Charles Burke, the half-brother of Joseph Jefferson) as Oliver Twist, and George Holland (father of E. M. and Joe) as Mr. Bumble.

This performance remains vividly in my remembrance. as does the performance of John Wilkes Booth in the year before. Mrs. Seymour always sees Oracle Kramer when in New York City, and they are frequently in correspondence. my desk at which I am writing are photographs of the elder (Junius Brutus) Booth, Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, E.

L. Davenport, Harry Montague. William H. Crane, Sol Smith Russell, A. M.

Palmer. Annie Clarke. Mrs. E. L.

Davenport, Otis Skinner, E. H. Sothem. Maud Adams and Cardinal you see I am in good company. Pardon my rambling on at this length, but I fear we are kindred souls be afraid.

Bill) in that regard. There is so much More to think of hi the past than in the present. It is mall time and I can hear you exclaim, this relief much Our kind regards to you and Mrs. Shannon. and with remembrance to John Randblph should you see him.

lam sincerely yours. "WILLIAM SEYMOUR." Thallk you, William, for writing so much of this ramble for me. It is a great lift and I know our circulation will take a jump. Sixty-Seven-Year Hire. BURNING for 67 years, a fire in the Summit Hill coal mine In Pennsylvania has not yet been extinguished.

Engineers estimate that It has consumed 14,000,000 tons of coal, says Popular Mechanics, involving an area about 1 mile long and 1,600 feet wide. More, than $8,000,000 has been expended in fighting It. The blaze was started in much the same way as many fires in the homes of coal consumers originate, from hot coals mixed with ashes. It was common in the days before the Civil War to have large stoves at the bottom of the slopes for the comfort of the miners. The man who tended the stoves was late one morning and.

in his haste, shoveled out live coals with the ashes and dumped them Into a wooden car which was hauled to one of the unused gangways and forgotten for about two weeks. When repair men were sent to get the car they found the coals had started a blaze that had spread to the mine timbers into piles of loose coal. An open cut was made which isolated the blaze, but instead of burning out, it spread Into the coal areas beyond. Next a barrier was attempted by sinking holes 6 inches In diameter and spaced 25 feet In each direction, and filling them with fine slit or coal dirt mixed with water, but this failed to check the fire. Finally a 12-foot gap was sunk 160 feet Into the earth, lined with concrete, and the intervening space filled with clay, making a fire wall 700 feet long.

The men had to work in short periods of 20 minutes each because of the intense heat from the fire, which spread rapidly and almost gained the barrier before this was finished. The defense halted the fire; but for double security the west face of the wall was cleared and a water seal constructed. Engineers now believe that the blase cannot get across the barrier. Barometer. PLIGHT tiroes as sensitive as a barometer! Such is the claim made for a new Instrument that measures the altitude above sea level, according to Popular Mechanics French physicists have invented this efficient method, which involves heating a wire of resistance by passing an electric current through it.

When a steady temperature has been produced, the wire, if indeed upward, will become cooler owing to the lesser density of the surrounding air. The instrument can be carried by climbers, the drop In temperature giving a more accurate index of the increase In altitude than the ordinary pocket aneroid used by mountaineers Air Mai) Routs Wolves. CHEEP men in Wyoming have mads 15 the discovery that the coyotes and wolves have abandoned the ranges entirely for lees civilised haunts as a result of the powerful besom lights on the transcontinental air mail route. A hew problem has arisen, however. The slumber of the sheep on the ranges is being disturbed by the bright lights and the flocks refuse to bed down but continue feeding during the 3.