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a Dakland Cribune BE SEPTEMBER 28, 1916. THURSDAY EVENING Save the Babies. INFANT the MORTALITY children is born in something civilized frightful. countries, We can twenty-two hardly per realize that per or more one than one-third, before they are five, or nearly die before they reach one year thirty -seven and one-half before they are fifteen We do not hesitate to say that a timely use of Castoria would, save a majority of these precious, lives. Neither do we hesitate to many of these infantile occasioned by the use of narcotic preparations.

Drops, tinctures and soothing syrups sold for children's complaints contain more or less opium. or morphine. They are, in considerable quantities, deadly poisons. any quantity, they stupefy, retard circulation and lead to congestions, sickness, death. Castoria operates, exactly the reverse, but you must see chat, it bears the signature H.

Fletcher. Castoria causes the blood circulate properly, opens the pores of the skin and allays fever. Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of ha V. a a a JEWISH NEW YEAR CEREMONY BEGINS Ancient Service of Temple Is Read Before Members of Congregations. A celebration of the year 5677's beginning is in progress today among Jewish residents, and services were held in all of the synagogues on this side of the bay.

At Temple Sinai, Twenty-eighth and Webster streets, Otto Irving Wise, attorney, and himself son of a great rabbi, spoke on Is Next for Israel?" Special choir music was rendered. The second day's ceremony will be held tomorrow, with special service and music. The hour for the service is 9:30 o'clock in the morning. At Congregation Beth Jacob, Ninth and Castro streets, services were held under the direction of the Rev I. A.

Goldberg. Professor M. J. Jacob of the Perkeley high school occupied the pulpit and spoke on the general topic of Israel. In Berkeley the First HeCongregation pulpit there was filled by Jacob S.

Jonas of San Ben. nardino, who acted as cantor. Rosh Hashana or New Year's services always begin on the evening before, with the setting sun. Special choir music was given last night in honor of the New Year's eve at all of the temples. Abraham Jonas read the service.

Day of Atonement services will be held Friday, 6, when Nidre or the everof the holy day, will be celebrated. Colonel Harris Weinstock will speak to the Temple Sinai congregation on that night. The subject will be "The Contribution of the Jew to Civilization." The service begins at 7 o'clock. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, will be a day of fast. It is celebrated on Saturday, October 7.

Special speakers have been obtained for the day. Holiday Club to Give Play and A one -act playlet and vaudeville will be given tomorrow night by members of the Holiday Club, with danca finale. entertainment, which is a benefit one, will be given in the Garfield school auditorium, under the direction of Miss Anne Engelhardt, Garfield playground supervisor. The title of the playlet is "The Nine Pin Club." It includes fifteen parts and has drawn upon the dramatic talent in the Holiday Club as well as outside material. A new cur'tain and stage settings are desired the organization, which is fosterling the art of the stage at the playground.

The cast of the playlet is as follows: Alice, Esther Madson; Miss Foster, Beatrice Sousa; Felicia, Cecile Gartland; Morna, Esther Brant; Christabel, Blanche Walker; Lucile, Madeline Heine; Annette, Doris Hoskng; Helen, Oleif Gerner: Agnes, Johanna Arsen; Blanche, Helen naro; birds, Grunhilde Garner, Bertha Madson, Ruby Hart, Florence Heine, Tiny Antoinette and Hazel Carter. Glove Display Is of Local Factory Milady, In making her glove purchase's, isn't always so fastidious in regard to their make and whether they come from Paris, London, or other fashion centers as she would be in the case of a new hat or the latest style in costume. Gloves look pretty much alike where ever they come from except in quality and workmanship, and purchasers are rarely exercised over their origin. An arresting "Try Oakland First" placard in a windowful of gloves of Oakland manufacture is therefore timely. The glove display occupies one of the windows of H.

M. Sanborn Company, florists, at. 1325 Broadway, and 1 sthat of the Oakland Glove Factory of 306 2'welfth street. Here are a variety of different of gloves, all manufactured by the concern, from French mocha and French kid to tan and black, large staff of glove experts is ployed and it is planned to find large markets for their products in this state and in Washington. Officers of the reorganized firm are: President, J.

W. Phillips; general manager, Paul Schafer; factory manager, J. Sharman, Wealthy 'Speed Cops' to Show No Favorites SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28. San Mateo county's new traffic squad of millionaire, clubmen will begin work next Sunday.

Odorned with embossed badges of silver with a dash of aristocratic blue, the Citizens Committee of Fifty, appointed recently by District Attorney Franklin Swart, will patrol the highways looking for violators the law. They are instructed play favorites. If they do their work effectively, It is predicted that San Mateo county will. become a peculiarly unpleasant place for speed artists. Instructions to the committee were sent out yesterday by the district attorney.

Among the millionaire clubmen who have volunteered to assist the county authorities by actively eserving on the committee are: G. E. McFarland, E. J. Tobin, Francis J.

Carolan, William H. Crocker, Angel Walter Stettheimer, Herbert Fleishacker, George C. Holberson, J. S. W.

P. Fuller W. C. Graves Jr. and E.

S. Haller. Divorced Because He Criticised Her Dance SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. of his wife's method of dancing, in which he accused her of lifting her skirt too high caused trouble in the household of Philander M. Pray, proprietor of the Iroquois hotel, 835 'Farrell street and led to Mrs.

Pray obtaining a divorce at. the hands of Superior Judge Flood today. It was during a party that Mrs. Pray says her spouse took her to task for her manner of dancing. She agreed, in the property settlement, to pay him $1,000, he to relinquish to her his interest in the hotel.

a a a WHAT IS DOING a TO NIGHT Walnut Creek Day, Try Oakland First week. Civic ball, Northbrae Improvement Club, Twentieth Century Clubhouse, Berkeley. Oakland Institute No. 15, Y. L.

holds whist tournament, Columbus hall. of C. extension classes, 7 and 8, Technical High School. Dr. Walton Hubbard lectures Christian Science, Native Sons' hall, Hayward.

Alameda County Chorus, Auditorium, m. Macdonough-'Mission Play." Orpheum-Alan Brooks and vaudeville. My Horse," and vaudeville. Oakland-Edna Goodrich in "The House of Lies." Franklin--Louise Glaum in "The Wolf Woman." the Family Name." Velvet Paw." Idora-Inland Bathing Beach, Vaudeville. Columbia Will King in "Whirly Girly" show.

WHAT IS DOING TOMORROW Industrial Exposition, Civic Audito. rium. Oakland Fine Arts Galleries open 12 to 12 and 1 to 5. Try Oakland First week. Rev.

William Day Simonds speaks, Clauson school, evening. Hebrew New Year services, Temple Sinai, 9:30 a. m. Hayward Council, No. 1615, K.

of give ball, Native Sons' hall, Hayward, evening. University meeting, Harmon gymnaslum, Berkeley, 11 a. m. Vesper organ recital, Channing Club, First Unitarian, church, Berkeley, 5:10. U.

C. extension class, Technical High School, 7 p. m. Pro. Henry Morse Stephens lectures, Plymouth Center, evening.

Hon. Henry A. Melvin lectures, Callfornia hall, Berkeley, 4 p. m. Oakland Center of the California Civic League meets, Auditorium, 2:30 p.

m. 'Hope' Bountiful" given' in Calvary Baptist church, 8 p. m. Public Utility League meets, Judge Samuels' courtroom, City Hall, evening. Funeral Awaits Word From Brother in East Funeral arrangements for William B.

McGerry, widely known realty operator who died here following a heart attack, will not be made until word from James G. McGerry, brother, of New Hampshire, 1s received. McGerry is on his way to the coast, it is thought, but until definite word is received from him the date of the service will be unnamed. McGerry was a real estate man of the bay cities, well known especially in San Francisco. He had recently moved to the Castle Apartments, 4154 Piedmont avenue, from San Francisco.

The deceased was 55 years old, a native of New York, and resided in California for the last 18 years. He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Nellie McGerry, daughter Ellen, a brother James G. McGerry of Manchester, New Hampshire, and a sister, Mrs. M.

J. Mallen, 579 Walsworth avenue, this city. He was 8 graduate of the St. Lawrence University in New York state. Funeral services will be held at the home of his sister, 579 Walsworth street, at a date to be announced later.

Can't Play Football Because Neck BroKen PITTSBURG, Sept. Maston, all-round athlete of the University of Pittsburg, has had his neck broken since last fall, but he did not know it until today, when, after vainly trying to play with the football team, he consulted a physician. An X-ray photograph disclosed that the reason Maston is not dead is the fracture is between the second and third vertebra and the spinal column is not affected. The accident occurred in a scrimmage. WASHINGTON MARKEI Fish MARKET A strictly shipments, large fresh received fish assortment in daily- direct of the reason for our low prices, which means a saving to you.

tial list of our selling prices We quote herewith a par- LIMHVA for tomorrow: No. 1 Lb. Extra Large Sole, SanBROS. dabs, Black Cod and Chubs, per LESSER per Small pound Sole, White Fish- Fresh Boiled Lobsterper pound Fancy New Pack Finnan Haddies, per Kippered Smoked Codper pound Oysters and Shell Fish WASHINGTON Now in Washington Market Season. "The Market of Quality.

LESSER BROTHERS Cor. 9th Wash. Sts. Oakland. WASHINGTON MARKET CAR OF EXPRESS 15 LOOTED Engineer Held Up and Forced to Stop by Men, Who Climb From Baggage Car; Fireman Beaten When He Resists Threat to Use Nitroglycerine Forces Clerks to Open Doors and Give Up the Registered Pouches; Posses Clewless DETROIT, Sept.

the outskirts of Detroit masked bandits last midnight, held up and robbed I Michigan passenger train No. 14, Chicago to New York express, and escaped with the contents of two registered mail pouches. Half a hundred deputy sheriffs who patrolled the vicinity of the hold-up for hours after the robbery are without any clew as to the whereabouts of the bandits. Passengers were not molested. Value of the loot obtained was undetermined early today.

Only two men participated in the hold-up. They are thought to have boarded the train at Ypsilanti. Descending into the engine from the tender, where they had been hidden, bandits covered Engineer Harry Palmer with a gun and forced a sudden stop at a point a mile and half east of Dearborn, a Detroit suburb. They disposed of the fireman, John Doherty of Jackson, who almost into insensibility reshowed signs of fight, by beating, him volver butt. One of the bandits uncoupled the mail car from rest of the train and then forced the engineer to pull the detached section down the track for a distance of about 200 yards.

They obtained entrance to the mail car by threatening to blow it to bits with nitroglycerine and by the same tactics obtained the registered mail pouches from the clerks. Leaving the engineer and clerks in the mail car, the bandits returned to the engine, opened the throttle and sped in the direction of Detroit. Later the abandoned engine was found with fires dumped at. a point a mile distant from the mail car. The robbers are believed to have escaped into Detroit by automobile.

STRICTLY PERSONAL Allan Wheelen, Los Angeles capitalist, and Mrs. Wheelen arrived today for a brief stay at the Hotel Oakland. Edward C. Compton, of Fresno, 1s a visitor at the Hotel Touraine. While in Oakland he will visit the Industrial Expostion.

Duncan W. Stewart, noted New York theatrical man, arrived at the Hotel Oakland today, to hold a conference with Alexander Pantages, vaudeville magnate, now staying at the hotel. The nature of the conference was not made public. Arthur C. Hanson, of San Luis Obispo, and A.

L. Leam of the Hotel St. Mark will leave tomorrow on hunting trip Into Butte county. They will hunt in the hflls near Oroville, Joseph Makin returned today to the Touraine after a business trip to several cities in Marin and San Mateo counties. BAKER TO JAPAN.

Walter J. Baker, for some time past assistant manager at the Hotel Oakland, is to leave shortly for Yokohama, to become assistant manager of the Hotel Yokohama, the principal hotel under white management in Japan. He has taken out his passport for trip, and plans to line leave as 8000 as a successor can be found to take his place. LIVING-ROOM TABLES DESKS Many Tempting Values in the Displays of L. Kreiss Sons' FURNITURE SALE ATTRACTIVE Oak designs and Mahogany.

Discounts range from to Following are typical values: Mahogany $49.50 (Formerly. $55) Former Sale Price Price Mahogany Table $16.00 8.00 Jacobean Oak Table. 47.00 35.75 Adam Mah. 62.50 56.25 Italian Renaissance Oak. Table.

180.00 120.00 Round Mahogany Library -Table 105.00 45.00. Oak Tilt-top Table, Cane 37.50 28.00 Jacobean Oak 65.00 48.75 Mahogany open Desk 32.50 29.50 Reed Desk in Fumed finish 25.00 18.75 Ivory Enamel Desk, decorated 54.00 27.00 Adam Mahogany open Desk .200.00 100.00 Oak Desk, Silver Gray 27.50 18.35 Sheraton Mah. Desk. 264.00 132.00 Ivory drop lid Enamel 20.00 18.00 (Formerly Oak $42 5 $83) U.Kreiss Sons Furniture, Carpets Draperies Oriental Rugs Butter and Stockton Sta. SAN FRANCISCO 1 brew comedian seems to be monarch of all The realm of pictures finds excellent he surveys.

bills on the celluloid menu. The Reliance, with House Peters and Gall Kane in "'The Velvet a.Pw," is holding breathless audiences. The picture is a vivid story of Washington official life. with "'The Emmy Prea serio-comedy, Whelan, also Edna Goodrich in "The House of Lies" at the Oakland T. and la proving a great drawing card.

Billie Burke in the last chapter "Gloria's known a "Love's Reward" 1s just what the name implies. A Pathe News and animal comedy complete the bill. The Franklin, with "The Wolf Woman" of Louise Glaum, 1s fascinating record houses. Juno Caprice is on the same bill in "'Little Miss and the reel is making for Joy rather than the sad opposite. The Broadway has "Saving the Family Name" a five-reel romance of stage life, dealing with things of the stage and behind the scenes.

DOLLARS AND SENSE IS ORPHEUM. VEHICLE. Four slices out of a man'se life are handed out to Orpheum audiences this week, and the name of the man with the platter 18 Alan Brooks. He is the man who wrote "Dollars and Sense," conceived the idea of three settings on the stage curtain without lowering the big theater and is assuming the leading role in the more than clever playlet. It is an act so far away from the usual, that it Is worth anyone's most valuable time to see it.

He has a capable company, Al and Fanny Stedman are increasing their local popularity as the week rolls along, and their combination of musicowhich gratesque comedy seems to be the one applause. opens the Oakland safe containing They do a little of everything to make people laugh and the audiences are dolng what most of the time the Stedmans are before the footlights. Willard, the man who STOWS right while his audiences are looking at him, is another act of merit. One can see him and grow larger and smaller- arms increasing decreasing in length--as well as his nether limbs and general Dunbar's Old Time Darkies are giving Northerners a chance to hear what Southerners have always been familiar with--plantation music of high order. The rich voices of these colored singers are augmented by a wholesome idea of harmony and an ability to convey the thought of a song into the hearing of their auditors.

The Orpheum Players are scoring a decided which hit in "The Ghost New a play goes from a York hotel to sunny Spain--only in this case its's a gloomy castle in the land of King Alphonse. There the mystery, which has eaten at the heart of the princess or countess for a long time is brushed away by the clever American and his negro P. servant Webster. as portrayed by the clever George The roles are well fille by clever peopie. Moving pictures of high order close the bill.

OAKLAND PHOTO THEATER HAS "HOUSE OF LIES." A stepmother, cold and 11808 her dead husband's insurance calculating, money to create a market for the beauty and charm of a daughter and stepdaughter, Edna Goodrich, as the stepdaughter, terization furnishes an exquisite charachood who of the type of American girlreveres decency and intelligence above luxury and pretty clothes. Her charming personality is reflected in some of its most alluring phases in "The House of Lies," playing at Oakland T. this Photo theater for the rest of week, particularly when she purposely mars her own beauty that her market value may be ruined, that she man she by love and not by beauty the might win loves. Billie Burke in the last "Gloria's Romance," written chapter especially of for her by Mr. and Mrs.

does some of her best work, Rupert Hughes, ported Carelton. by Henry Kolker and William T. ably In this chapter, entitled enact Reward," she and the doctor for a scene from "Romeo and Juliet" a Red Cross society benefit; tor convinces the doctected her that she should be pro1co by him when she goes into Mexas a nurse, also as his Lois, Gloria's sister-in-law, realizes that and wife: David 1s a better husband than she thought for. With the engagement of of Lols and the doctor, and the reunion Gloria and David, the story ends most happily, To complete the News, showing the latest program, current a Pathe and the ever-welcome Napolean events, and Sally Napoleon in a and rip-roaring comedy are offered. vaudeville Sally, the world-famous stars, are chimpanzees -the rarest of Anthropoid apes.

natives of Africa, where, because They of their are shrewdness and ferocity, the natives regard them with superstition and fear. "WOLF WOMAN" AT FRANKLIN. "The Wolf Woman," Glaum, and "Little Miss featuring Loulse with June Caprice in the leading two feature productions offered role, the the patrons mainder of the Franklin for the reof the week. In "The Wolf Woman" Miss Glaum reaches the height of her dramatio ability, and those who have seen her in other plays in which she was cast In "vampire" roles' know that she excels in the these parts. groatest This "vampire" play is unquestionably produced, not only from the fact that picture the settings are elaborate and the best that the Triangle people have turned out so far, nor that the acting is all that could be desired, but from the delicate way By in which of the subject is handled.

way contrast, the other picture on with the June program, Caprice, "Little is Miss with a very charming I story, an unusually refreshing atmosphere. The theme treats of the experiences of a girl who has passed her field days surrounded by the flowers of the and God's pure air, and who 1s happy when helping other people. most Miss Caprice, as Lucy White, is delightful: her playing is harmonious and natural. KING DRAWS BIG AT COLUMBIA. At the newly renovated Columbia theater this week the crowds are still being tickled with the popular Hebrew comedian, Will King, and his fascinating chorus in another one of Director Alphin's frolicking entertainments that win the affections.

if not the respect, of the theater-goers. This second cessful week's show can be accurately, described as a lively and amusing comedy in three parts, with good fun and bright musle and pretty girls. The musical numbers are wonderfully catchy, while the costumes are superb and the girls of the chorus very attractive. Tomorrow night the usual chorus girls' contest will take place and Nellie Harding, chorus directoress, promises a series of fresh novelties by all the girls. JudgIng from the capacity attendance last Friday night, the chorus girls' contests have apparently come into the same favor as before.

WATER POLO MAGNET AT IDORA PARK. Owing to ideal weather conditions, the Inland Beach at Idora Park has attracted an usually large crowd from both sides of the bay. Water polo is proving a strong magnet for the younger set and two teams composed of girls from Berkeley and Oakland and San Francisco have been formed within the past week. Miss Yhyllis Tebbets of Berkeley is captain of one, while Miss Vally Mahn of San Francisco will captain the other team. The most Interesting water championship of the season will be held in the pool at the Inland Beach Sunday afternoon.

The first annual Idora championship open meet is to begin at 3 o'clock with entries from Stanford University, the Olympio Club, The Sacramento Riverside Swimming Club, Piedmont Athletic Club and Idora Swimming Club. All foremost divers and swimmers of the coast have signifled their intention of competing for the prizes. On October 8th the management for the park have taken steps to give a Ukulele Festival. modeled after the one recently held in Honolulu. Ah open contest for the best ukulele playing will be held for both clubs and individuals.

A magnificent loving cup is to be awarded the lucky contestant. Anyone playing the ukulele at all well is eligible for entranca USURY IS BASIS OF LOAN APPEAL Money Lender's Judgment on Note to Be Carried to Higher Court. Holding that the practice of personal property loan brokers in taking notes of greater face value than the amount loaned secured by mortgages is merely a subterfuge to evade the laws which have established a maximum interest of 2 per cent a month, Attorney Raymond Salisbury is preparing an appeal in the case of Fdwin S. Schloss of the Reliance Investment Company to foreclose a mortgage given by Carrie Crane Ingalls. A decree in foreclosure has been awarded by Superior Judge F.

B. Ogden, According to the testimony in the case defendant borrowed $200 from the plaintiff last December, giving a note for the face value of $225, the $25 being "withheld" for the costs of the transaction. Interest was charged on the faco of the note at the rate of 2 per cent a month which she paid for three months when, upon consulting Attorney Salisbury, Miss Ingalls refused to make further payments holding that the loan company had forfeited all rights to recover through alleged violation of the statues fixing the interest charges. As the result Schloss commenced suit to recover, not the note, but the $200 actually paid over to Miss Ingalls. He was represented by Attorneys Rose and Silverstein and was given judgment for the $200 loaned, $1.30 actual cost of recording the mortgage, $22.73 Interest up to time of filing suit a and attorney's fees.

According to Attorney Salisbury, the final determination in the suit will have a state-wide effect. upon the methods em-, ployed by personal property brokers. "The situation is this," said Attorney Salisbury. "In making loans the brokers pay less to the borrower than the face value of the note calls for, claiming that the extra amount is to defray costs. It is merely a subterfuge to exact usurious the laws.

Generally Do the borrower is in interest from the borrower contrary to need and unable to hire an attorney. In is seized under provisions under of the mortgage transthat case the property action, without foreclosure proceedings and the face value of the note is collect- ed. In this case where there was opposition at law the loan company merely sued to recover on the amount actually paid the borrower. "It is my contention that the loan company forfeited all rights to collect even the amount loaned. The court held differently, however, confusing personal loan brokers with pawn brokers, in my opinion and for that reason I shall ask for a new trial.

In event it is denied I will take an appeal, basing it on a bill of The case has attracted considerable attention among attorneys, as it has practically the effect of a test case. Blackmail Plot Net Not Spread to Coast SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. officers in the various departments denied today that they were making any investigation locally into the sensational blacymailing plot. Robert Griffin's court for in wife Superior abandonment, 'Judge der indictment was supposed to be the center of the local angle of the conspiracy, but he absolutely denied this morning any connection with the obtainig of $9500 from a wealthy Iowan in Chicago. John S.

Rathun, special agent of the department of justice, who was mentioned as conducting a local inquiry, denied today that he had any conection with it an did also Secret Service Agent Harry Moffitt. The case would be entirely a state one confined to Illinois were it not for the fact that the ring leader is said to have impersonated a government officer when he surprised the Iowan in the Chicago flat of a young woman. Blackmail followed, and in all the victim paid over nearly $10,000 before he decided he was the victim of a conspiracy. Robert Garrick declared today that he had heard of the operations the gang and had wired a Chicago attorney, believing that his own wife, who is his present accuser, might be implicated. Bogus $5 Pieces Flood Treasurer SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.

San Francisco and the bay cities are flooded with spurious $5 gold pieces to the amount of approximately 000 1s the belief of Treasurer John McDonald, who today declared he was in the habit of receiving' a half dozen of the bogus coins every 24 hours. According to the official the I counterfeits are exceedingly cleverly conceived and would pass muster in general circulation. He has warned his tellers to be careful, but in spite of this fact he declares that never a day passes but a piece of the coin slips through. Ballot Fight Is Argued to Court SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. were heard this morning in the supreme court in connection with an alternative writ of mandate issued last Saturday directSecretary of State Frank Jordan not to certify the name of Henry Stanley Benedict, on the Progressive ticket for Congressman of Los Angeles.

H. Z. Osborne is the Republican nominee and it is claimed Benedict's name was written in on the ballot in violation of the law. The court is expected to render a decision today. TO STUDY RUGS.

G. L. Najarian Just left for New York, where he will spend a few weeks examining some of the best collections of Oriental rugs to be found in America. Najarlan will then return to the Pacific Coast, where he. will deliver several lectures on "Rugs" before audiences of interested housewives.

PLANS FOR WARD AT INFIRMARY FILED, Right along in keeping with "Try Oakland First" le the slogan "Try Oakland Amusement First," and the fact that the publio on side of bay is doing Just that means "value received." At the Sense," is heading real vaudeville bill, Orpheum, Alan Brooks, In "Dollars and "The Ghost Breaker." augmented by the do Orpheum Players in Pantages, with nine acts of popular variety, is breaking attendance records. Max Bloom is the headliner, with act known as My which doesn't apply, of course, to any of the chorus girls. At the Macdonough, early Californian days have come into the spotlight of favor, legitimate "The attraction Mission Play" Oakland being the only all the rest in is vaudeville at pres- and entpictures. Will King and hie band of merry crowded are doing frolice before houses at the Columbia. It is as "King if the Air," and the HeBIG LAUGH IS SCORED PANTAGES.

Record crowds are laughing this week at what 1s, without the shadow of 8 doubt, the most screamingly funny show presented this season at the Pantages. The bill is just one laugh after another, from the time Van Cello, the barrel juggler, performs his tricks with barrels and risibilities to the time "My Horse" cavorts onto the stage, winks his eyes, kicks his owner and dances the tango. Between these two extremes are more laughs. Imperial Caesar has not turned to Clay. He has turned to laughs--and any one who does not believe it need only see him at the Pantages this week.

Feet can express anything. A glance at "Feet Flirtology" will prove it, at the Pantages, and, incidentally, the proof involves more laughs than can be counted. George Morton, the "Black Dot," adds further to the collection of laughter, and then there is Alice Hamilton, whose quaint character monologue is fraught with comedy, and the rest of an interesting bill to further beguile the vaudeville palate. Manager Alexander Pantages started out to pick a "laughing show." His success is attested by the crowds attending this week at the Oakland house. "That's My Horse" is one of the most comical offerings Boyle Woolfolk has ever turned out.

From end to end, it is a continual scream. There are pretty girls, of course, snappy dances, new songs-but, best of all, there are George Bloom and the "horse." The equine wonder is composed of two men, clever dancers. The sight of a horse dancing the tango on the stage, or flirting with a girl, would make even real horse laugh. The clever work of Alice Sher, Helen Lynn Schafer, Bloom and Bobby Barrington and the rest of the company make the act one long to be remembered. "When Caesar' C's Her," a broad travesty on Shakespeare, is presented by Leonard, Anderson and company.

Caesar is made to be a rather modern old gent with many laughable tricks. Antony has a few more. Cleopatra 1s very pretty, and talks with a French accent. The act 1s impossible to describe, but from the time Caesar commands the storm to stop, and gets by with it, the act 1s a riot. George M.

Morton, in black face, has "stopped the show" several times. Dan Maley and Mildred Woods in "Feet Flirtology" have a neat bit of' foolishness with music attached. "'The Crimson Stain" and "The Yellow Menace" are the picture features. MISSION PLAY MAKES STRONG IMPRESSION. The Mission Play by John Steven McGroarty holds the boards Macdonough this week, and is playing to good business.

The Mission Play has never before been presented in Oakland, and is now making its farewell appearance here before starting on a long tour of the eastern cities which will keep the production away from home for two yearsand may mean even a longer absence than that as there is a growing demand tor extensions of time from cities already booked, and a demand for the production from many cities where it has not been booked at all. The Mission Play is the greatest American pageant drama, and the only pageant play on the stage depicting scenes from the history of California. It 1s not a motion picture, being presented by a cast of nearly one hundred living actors, all of whom are seen on the stage at one time in the great Fiesta scene in the second act of the play. The chief parts are in the hands of very capable people. Wilfrid Roger, who plays the part Ox Fray Junipero Serra, the Franciscan to' whose labor was due the creation of civilization in California, is an actor well known in Oakland, where he has in the past made several appearances, always with entire satisfaction in the parts that he filled.

Another very capable man in the cast is Robert Lawlor, who plays the part of the Corporal Jose in the first two acts, and in the last act takes the important role of Ubaldo, custodian of the Mission San Juan Capistrano. The leading woman, Lucretia Del Valle, give a very strong Josefa Yorba, a lady the blood of presentation of the character of Senora Castile. Being of the blood of one of the cidest Castilian families in California, Miss Del Valle is naturally very much at home in the part. "CANARY COTTAGE" RETURN "Canary Cottage," the brightest and merriest musical comedy entertainment that Oakland has seen in years, is coming to the Macdonough theater for a special return engagement of one week, beginning Monday evening, October 2. Matinees will be given Wednesday and Saturday, and there is no possibility of an extension of the engagement.

The same clever cast will come back to the Maodonough, including Trixie Friganza, Charles Ruggles, Herbert Corthell, Ellsworth, Dorothy Leola McCullough, Lucey, the Edwards brothers, Elsie' Gordon, Olga Marwig, and the other favorites. DOUBLE BILL AT. RELIANCE THEATER. gressman. SAVING FAMILY NAME IS AT THE BROADWAY.

The plan of running a double feature bill on each program has been an em phatie hit with the patrons of the Reliance theater as is evidenced by the capacity houses which characterize every performance. Starting with the matinee yesterday, the headliner was House Peters and Kail Kane in "The Velvet Paw" a wonderfully realistic story of life in the National Capitol. It concerns the activities of a woman lobbyist and her wiles during the passage of the Child Labor Bill. Among the many Interesting scenes reproduced 18 one showing the House of Representatives in session. For this a complete copy of the house was built and hundreds of actors take part in the scene, Many of the nation's foremost men are impersonated and this makes the production doubly interesting.

Throughout the picture there is a clever love story woven. Another episode of the Beatrice Fairfax series, "The Forbidden tells a thrilling story of newspaper life with Grace Darling and Harry Fox in the leading roles, the latest International Pictorial and one of the humorous Bray Cartoons are also shown. The nal feature of the bill 1s one of the best Metro productions with Harold Lockwood and May Allison in the leading parts. It is called "The River of Romance," and most of the settings are in and around the picturesque Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence river.

It 1s a thrilling story with many beautiful water scenes and was written by E. J. Rath, which is understood to be the non de plume of the wife of A well known Con- The distressed heroine of "Shoes" is still fresh in memory of those who were fortunate enough to witness that engaging production, and the news that Mary MacLaren 1s now playing at the Broadway today, Friday and Saturday in another Lois Weber production will be hailed as assurance, in advance, that "Saving the Family Name" will be production worthy of the best Bluebird tradition. Charley Chaplin will arrive Sunday in still bigger and funnier one, "The Shop." This picture with the inImitable half -million dollar funny man in of the pawnbroker's assistant. will be the sixth of the comedies made by Mr.

Chaplin for the Mutual "The Pawnshop" 1g a typical Chaplin picture, and he is in the makeup that the public like the most. Supervisors Receive Detail Data for Improvements at County Institution. Construction of a new ward for contagious diseases at the county infirmary at a cost of $20,000 will be commenced shortly, the plans and specifications for the building having been turned over to the board of supervisors today. Bids will be called for next Monday and as soon as the legal formalities can be accomplished dirt will fly. The new ward will be fitted with all modern improvements for handling contagious cases and will be of sufficient size to accommodate the needs of the infirmary for many years, it is estimated by Architect Charles Peter Weeks.

The supervisors, meeting in committee today, also received plans from Architect Weeks for the consolidation the domestic and the service buildings at the infirmary. The two buildings, which will now be included under one roof, will constitute the unit of the institution to be constructed this year. Through the combination a net saving of $18.000 will be made from the original plans of the infirmary, Too Many Families Caused This Divorce SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. R. A Andrews, An engineer of 4901 Mission street, shook hands heartily with his wife Annie Andrews and "God speed" this morning after Superior Judge Graham had liberated from his marltalities which bound him not cnly to his spouse, but marriage.

her It seven was children Mrs. by a Andrews forwho was given the decree on cruelty charges but her husband declared that the trouble in the household arose through his having to provide for her seven children. He didn't mind this, he said, but when the two older boys marred and brought their wives home he thought that it was too much. He declared himself friendly to his wife and the parting was amicable. WOMAN DIES OF BURNS.

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