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ENGLISH PAGEANTS. of Overproduction Dover and Winchester. London. January 11. The pageant industry becomes less artistic as It Is popularized.

introduced or revived three years ago at Sherborne it bore the impress of a single mind. Mr. Louis N. Parker. out of loyalty for his old school, wrote the play, df-signed the costumes, rehearsed the performers and was stage manager and master of the pageant.

So successful as this historical fete that he was readily induced to conduct another pageant at Warwick, with a salary of £1.000 and a percentage of the gate money guaranteed, and this was followed by a third last year at Hury St. Edmunds, which was the most beautiful and effective of the series. The popularity of these pageants invited imitations in other historical towns. Romsey celebrated la.st June the completion of a circuit of a thousand years at tradition and authentic history, and in place of the one-man show, with unity of design and direction, there was a combination of talents, with a canon and a vicar to supply dialogue and lyrics, with the abbey organist to compose the music, with local designers of costumes and metal work sad with Mr. F.

R. Benson to rehearse the actors and to stage manage the spectacle. At Oxford there was a similar pageant, under the direction of a large consultative committee, with Mr. Frank Lascelles as the master, coached by stage managers as efficient and experienced as Mr. Becrbohm Tree.

Mr. Arthur Bourchier and Mr. H. B. Irving; and at St.

AAsbBI there was another town show under local direction. All these pageants were picturesque and Impressive, and were witnessed by Immense crowds, but they lacked the simplicity and unity of Mr. Parker's spectacles. As responsibility for them was shared by large committees and as preparations for them were hurried, there was a decline quality. eland Is a country where "cadging" for charities and public enterprises goes on all the year round.

Money has to be raised on a large aie for hospitals, orphanages, benevolent societies, church restorations and charitable undertakings of all kinds, and the services of titled and wealthy patrons are constantly in demand for banquets, bazaars, concerts, theatricals and other functions for providing ways and means for financing public undertakings. Naturally the pageant has been upon as a new resource for obtaining money for hospitals and other philanthropic purposes in a country where the levies of direct taxation are steadily increasing and the tolls at Somerset House for inheriting estates are already ruinous. At "Winchester, "where prix-ate subscriptions have been exhausted In underpinning the choir and portions of the transepts of a cathedral built upon a treacherous bog. a pageant has been planned for the last week in June for the benefit of the restoration fund in order that the work of saving the transepts and the save may go on. In London a general committee has been formed for organizing a metropolitan pageant during the summer on behalf of King Edward's Hospital Fund.

Mr. Benson has been chosen as master of the "Winchester pageant, and the general arrangements adopted at Bosnaey srHl be repealed, with larger accommodations for spectators, twice as many performances and leas wasteful exper.ditures. In London Mr. Frank LasceJles will be the master, and the plan of operatic ns followed sit Oxford will be carried out on a larger scale, ten thousand performers and Feats for twelve thousand spectators at each production, and with the co-operation of the principal artists, musicians and actor-managers. With these two money making enterprises already In progress, and with additional pageants at Dover and other ancient towns in the kingdom, there Is practical evidence of the establishment of a View Banal of public entertainment which is highly remunerative end.

Incidentally, artistic tad educational. The Dover folk-play to be enacted on the abbey or college ground? during the last week of July will be without doubt the most homogeneous and delightful of these summer shows. Mr. Parker, the inventor of the modern pageant, will be the master, and will pupervise every detail, from the preparation of the book of the play to the designing of the costumes and the drilling of masses of performers. The castle grounds, with the Roman pharos and the oldest Saxon church in the kingdom, would be an ideal site for a pageant in which the coast fortress, sea power and close relations with France are dominating themes; but Mr Parker and the local committees have preferred the college grounds, with trie early English gateway and the ruins of the Benedictine abbey an open air theatre similar to the one at Bury St.

Edmunds. There will be stage space for a narrative chorus of eighty knights of the Round Table, a large mixed chorus, an orchestra of one hundred mv- Eldacs and two thousand performers, and there will be seats for five thousand spectators. The story cf Dover open with King Arthur's victory over Mordred after tribute has been demanded by the Romans; there be submission to William the Conqueror without ignominious surrender; the priory, now in ruins, will founded; King John will punish the hermit, Trier of 1 tret, and abase himself before the Papal the barons will rise and Hub' de Burgh will hold them at bay, and found the liaison Dieu for poor pilgrims when be has leisure for charity; a ship will be built to resist foreign attack; Edward I will return from the crusades with Queen Eleanor: Edward 111 ride by in triumph: Henry will be the ardent of Shakespeare's Kate; Henry VIII will corae In state with Anne Boleyn and Mary Tudor, and Charles will set foot on land for the festivities of the Field of the Cloth of Gold; a Warden of the Cinque Ports will be installed, and Charles I will welcome his bride, Henrietta Maria, at samel sixteen, when she comes with her French courtiers and graceful dancers. With processions, dances and ceaseless vivacity and movement It will he a merry rout, with more comedy than tragedy; and with Mr. James Rhoades to weave the Ftrands of the story together In his lyrics there will be a consistent design; and with a scene written by a French poet and enacted by artists from Calais and Paris there wfll be a anal illustration of the entente cordlale.

The theatre for the Winchester pageant next the American bishops attending the Pan-Anglican Congress will be in time for- Ittan be reached from the. cathedral by and College street, beyond the warden's houpe. It is on the of the water meads sloping toward the sluggish Itchen, where Wnlvesey palace Is in ruin. This was the Norman Palace built by Bishop Henri de Blois during the twelfth century, and so sumptuous was It in Its best estate that the Empress Matilda was entertained there, and subsequently the Emperor Charles was the guest of Henry VIII Trtlfaic Its walls. It was there that Mary resided when she was married to Philip II In the cathedral, and its walla were shattered and apartments pillaged when Cromwell took the town by rtorm.

All these scenes will be the pageant on the site of the palace, and the marriage celebration and the defence of the college during the siege? will be among the stirring passages. There will be dramatic representations of earlier and later events, the Proclamation of Cerdlc and Egbert as overlords, the Roman occupation, the coming of asflfcwr. the return of Alfred after the defeat of Ike Danes, the triumphal progress of Canute Jroia the coast, the passage of Edward the Confessor. Godwyn and Harold; the martial pomp William the Conqueror, the visits of Henry Henry 11. Stephen and Richard 1.

the founding the college by William of Wykeham. the trial Sir Walter Raleigh, and the welcome of II after storm stress, with Bishop Xea and Walton in bis train. It will be a NEW PUBLIC POOL BATH, AT 23D STREET AND AVENUE A. Opened by Borough President Ahearn last night. varied series of brilliant episodes in a long circuit of English history, and as pome of the most experienced actors In Mr.

Benson's provincial companies will be cast for the principal parts there will be no lack of declamation and action. When the hurly-burly of the fete is over the pood jieoplo of somnolent Winchester will have learned to love their Ftoried traditions and to regard their noble cathedral with Increased reverence. The London pageant will be a more hazardous experiment than either of these provincial Strenuous effort? win be made to Interest the boroughs and suburban hives of population in the enterprise, but the metropolis Is too big and unmanageable for a (nation of artistic talents or the creation of public enthusiasm for historical pictures. In provincial towns all classes work together ho effectively that a series splendid spectacles can be produced, but in London there is a lack of local patriotism, and in place of a compact, highly organized community, held together by common interests, there is a confederacy of cities indifferent to what has been done in the storied past There is no 'convenient site outside of Regent's Park, and this Is a long way from the Thames, which ought to be the background for a characteristic pageant: and while there can be no lack of histrionic talent for the principal characters, it may not be easy to recruit ten thousand volunteers for walking parts, nor to train them systematically, if they are found. Nor are the historians and the chorus writers to be envied when they are called upon to produce a folk-play which will be worthy of the greatness of imperial London.

Suggestions for episodes are found in King Lud. Gog and Magog, the Roman occupation. Dick Whittington. the return of Henry from Aglncourt and an Elizabethan masque, but the quest for material is abandoned as hopeless when one remembers that Sir Walter Besant was convinced that an of a score or more of bulky vol. umes could be written about London.

If Mr. Frank Lascelles. with the help of musicians, painters, actor-managers, landscape gardeners and titled patrons, succeeds In the course of six months in organizing a truly representative and artistic pageant, be will be a master of revels In good training for a world's show in illustration of every stage of human progress. 1. N.

MAY UTCEEASE MRS. POST'S ALIMONY. Ultimate Amount Depends Upon Settlement of Estate of James Brady. Mrs HatUe O'Brien Post was awarded 100 a Moth alimony by Justice Gtegericn. In the Supreme Court, yesterday, and a counsel fee of $250.

In action for an absolute divorce from James Brady W. Post. James Brady Post's brother, has an action pending the Surrogates Court. Brooklyn, for an accounting of the estate of their grandfather. James Brady, and it is said that the share of the defendant will bo at least J200.000.

Mrs Post may renew her application to have the alimony Increased should the payment of her husband's share be directed by the Brooklyn court. MBS. PELL GETS ABSOLUTE DIVOP-CE. Supreme Court Also Awards London Hotel Manager Custody of Son. Mrs.

A Mercer KB sot en absolute dfvnrce. from her bnsband. alearsnder at Pen. on Saturday. The aeetatsa hand, down In ttie Supreme Court awards Mrs.

the custody of her eight-year-old son. Leslie Hyde Pett Mrs. PeH brought Butt for divorce In March of list year. Justlee trGormsn, in the Supreme Court. Charles P.

Bliss aa referee. Mr. Bliss reported to court favor of Mrs. Pell and revived an rlocutory decree. Mr.

PA who la a brother of "Archie" and Duncan Pell, married Miss Man' Hutton Kcclestinr- ten years Bffn. In Mrs. Pell instituted dlvorc; proceedings against husband, but finally dropped the euit. In Mrs. Pell went to Ixmdon to manage a hotel there, to which her husband object d.

Previous to that ehe had kept a blp dairy farm, which her husband also opposed. BO Y'S BODY MAY BE UNDER THE ICE. Charles Ben Ing. eight fears, old, of No. 7C Gals street, is supposed to be under the lee in a small pond not far from his home, near Calvary Cemelery He wa3 sliding on the pond on Sunday afternoon, and later his cap was found near a hole about three feet in r.

MRS. WERNER'S MOTHER SERIOUSLY ILL. In explaining why the search for missing Mrs. Frederick A. Werner, wife of the Boston shoe manufacturer, had been stopped.

H. Wellington Wack, attorney for the family, said yesterday: Werner ordered the police here to etas the search for Mrs. Werner on account of her mother, who is dangerously IU at her homo in New Dorchester, Mass." XEW-YORK DAILY TRTXirXE, TUESDAY, JAXTA-RT 190 S. ARMY A.ND NAVY Keen Competition for Contracts for Navy Supplies. Tribune Washington, January 30.

TO OPEN' HIPS One of the largest openings of bids which has taken jiliica In the Navy Department will occur tn-mnrrow when the paymaster general will open the- proposals for a variety of material which been scheduled Into more- than seven hundred clasps. The contracts which will be awarded will amount to more than $1,000,000, and St is expected that competition will be keen, Bnd fully five hundred will be represented. The supplies are such an are ordinarily purchased 1-. May. but which ere to be acquired earlier this year on account of the depletion of stock at the navy yard, at Brooklyn, and other placea in the lining out of the ships of the Atlantic fleet for the cruise to the Pacific Coast.

A large part of the supplies, fully one-half of the classes included in the schedule, is for the navy yards at Mure Island and Bremerton, in anticipation of demand! from the ships for on their arrival on the west coast. There will have to be special arrangements to-morrow In the bureau of supplies and accounts or the and recording of the It will be nearly a month before all the contracts are awarded. ORDERS following orders have Issued: Captain BERNARD BHAKP. frOM 22d to 3d Infantry. Captain hknky a.

HA.M'iAN. from 3d to 23d FRANCIS M. WALL, from Kort thortM to Fort Monroe. First 1.1. JEIIOME I IL.I OW 13th Cavarj; detailed ns f'' Military Academy.

ArUnpK.fi. T. vice Kirn KKLTON i. PEPPER. Infantry, to tfAMES E.

ABBOTT, plcnal corps, to take chart-e of signal of Is-nlclu. Barracks, vlca First IJoutenant PAUL. W. BECK. stKiinl corps.

NAVY. Commander SIMPSON. detached the Navy nt 10 command M'intKoinf ry. Comnmmler T. C.

CARTER, detached navy yard. Jvusacola: homo and await Lieutenant Commander W. HERBERT, from Cam- Lieutenant R. L- BERRY, detached the Chicago: home VnMlm A. TODD! I the Colornrio: homo.

BARKER and DICHMAN. detached the Nebraska; to South Dakota. AMtMant Surgeon H. F. STRIKE, detached naval hospital.

Annapolla; to IMlef. Vaval Constructor T. O. ROBERTS, detached naval lon. Now (Means: to tho navy yard.

New Tork. MOVEMENTS OF The following movements of vessels have been reported to the Navy Department: ARRIVED Jan The Hopkins, the Hull, the St-wart. the WhlPl.l- "the L.awr-neo and the Truxtun at Rio de ro; tho Sioux at Newport; tho the Tarantula, the Viper and IS I st hV Triv. n- S'vS-hUUJ the at Ouanta.mmo; th. Arethuaa at Rio da Janeiro: the Charl.Bton.

the Kerry and the at mV SAILED. Ja 'navr ll MaKdaUa Bay for Island: the California, from Sun Francisco for final trial (rip. Jan The Supply, from Ouam Manila the from Ouantanamo for St. Marc. Haytl: the Chicago, from Acapulco for Callao.

INaTJIRY INTO DEATH OF HAETNET. Newport. It. T. San.

A board of officers began an Investigation to-day of the death of Naval Apprentice Hartnet. of Philadelphia, who died on Saturday after several days' Illness, following fistic with IX M. Manning, of attddletowv. The Investigating hoard consists of Commander James H. Oliver.

Assistant Surgeon Harry Hull and Gunner Edward T. Austin, V. S. with Major William McKelvey. of the United States marine corps.

OnVers and naval apprentices who were on board the Cumberland when the quarrel between Hartnft and Manning occurred were among the witnesses examined. Manning, who la under the charge of a sentry, pending the outcome of the Investigation, was also a witness. He Is said to be much depressed over me death of Hartnet. Falling to receive any word from Philadelphia, where Ha 1 1 art's father is supposed to be living, the authorities to-day had the body of Hartnet buried, following a funeral service in which officers and men participated. COLLECTIONS AT BROOKLYN NAVY YARD Washington, Jan.

Some inquiry has been made by the Navy Department into the collection of funds from the employes of the Brooklyn navy yard which, it is said, to be spent in further- Ing a movement for the government construction of battleships and other vessels in the navy yards hi to construction by private contracts. It was pointed out that the battleship Connecticut, now the flagship of Admiral Evans, was built at the Brooklyn yard and that she comes up In all requirements to the needs of the government. There not being any evidence of improper motives in the collodion of the money, and the object sought to be attained being a desirable one, it in not believed that any action will be taken by the government toward estoppins the collection or use of tlie i PUBLIC BATH OPEN Borough President Ahearn Presides at the Formal Ceremony. The public bathhouse at 23d street and Avenue A. said to be the finest of tts kind in the world, was formally opened last evening by Borough President Ahearn.

Among those present were Charles P. Murphy, Alderman Kenneally. P. J. Scully.

James Fol-y, William J- ThotnsM Robert De W'itte, J. Henry FUimpf. Michael J. Cruise and J. Bennett There will be no charge for baths The build- Ing can accommodatM 1f.6 persons, and It will be open every day In the year.

Shower baths have been provided for men and women at all times, but the swimming pool will bo reserved on Monday. Wednesday and Friday for women. A warm shower bath before entering tho pool will be compulsory. The liltored water in the swimming tank will, be frequently renewed Sixtyeight feel long by thirty- feet wide, the tank, which la floored with white tile, holds nixty thousand gallons, and its deepest point is seven feet. The Soon and walla of the building are of white stone and tile, and the woodwork is of.

heavy oak. There are two filters, with an hourly capacity of fourteen thousand gallons, and throughout the engine and boiler rooms the apparatus is of the best. John Sweeney, who win be the chief pwid medals fi Congress, the States Volunteers and the United States Benevolent Association for rescuing from drowsing in the Bast River during the last fifteen yean The was erected by the Luke A. Burke Company, and the architects were William Alken Arnold Brunner. REGULARS AND NATIONAL GUARD.

Work at Camps of Instruction Outlined by General Bell. Washington. Jan. General Bell, chief of staff, lias Issued orders prescribing the character and toope of the insU ictlon to given to the troops of the regular army and the organized militia at the campa of Instruction this year. The tro the regular army will be assembled at the camps by marches over such routes aa will Insure the covering of approximately SO mllea by mounted troops miles by troops, preferably in tnarcta from their permanent peata to the it la Hi" of the President that the exerciset for all the regular army troops bo laid out in a progressive manner, beginning with those of small bodies of troops and ending wltb those of the entire command.

As the organised militia will Dot be available for more than six days for each organization and as the organisations win report at different times, Gen Bell saya It is not practicable to prescribe the same a of Instruction us for the regular troops. The exerctoea of the mllltla In regimental and battalion drills, be says. should therefore be assigned to the forenoon and the Held exercises to the afternoon of each day. In aaoroinga tactical rid. and walks are rreacribed for such of the offlcera of the rmliMa as can spared from regtmental and battalion drills.

WAR COLLEGE PRESIDENT HEARD. Washington, Jan- President Wotherspoos Army War College talked conadentlally for an hour to-day to the Boiise Committee on Naval Affairs about the phuia and pnrposea of the War College In the accomplishtneni of a scheme whereby the United States may be transformed from a peace to a war footing a' instant notice. The Wur C'olieKc asks Congress for an aggregate appropiiattos afabool IMMBO, chiefly on tins Mare, and was to explain this Item in the army appropriation bill that General Wotberspooa appeared. Experiences and posHblHtlca in the peace and war attitudes the powats wen caased by him witb such fraakness that before quitting the eommlttea room lie made a special -st that (ietalls of the conf. -rence be heid In strict if appropriation for is given the War College purposes to frame a military course which will allow the throwing of an araq ol into the Id at short notice, should a grave necessity arise.

LEFORT'S SENTENCE CONFIRMED. Washington, Jan. The Preskleni to-day eonnrmed the bnpesed by court martial on First Lieutenant Allan Latest, af the coast artillery, recently stationed at Fort Jay. New Yerfc. That officer was oa various charges et obtaining money under fahw pretences by means of forged checks and fraudulent 1 tattons, and was asntaneed be dismissed from the army and bnprl oned Bsr five years in the military penJNntlary at ort Kan.

Leiort is a native ol Tennessee, LITTLE TIMS PROTEST. Raps Women Smokers Before Alderme A Few Opponents. The "distinguished purist of the aldermanic chamber." to use Alderman Doull's new name for "Little Tim" Sullivan, got it on all sides yesterday at the public hearing on his latest pet ordinance for the protection of New York's morals. Stripped of its legal verbiage, the ordinance, which at its present Stage la not really an ordinance, but a resolution, saj-s that "females" must not smoke In public places. Outside public places -Little Tim." being liberal, would not try to control them.

not one." he began his speech yesterday, "to forbid any woman shmoktn', if she so desires. In the privacy of her own private 'room." opponents of the resolution took various grounds. "What'is law for the goose should be law for the gander." was the way Alderman Douil summed up his feeling. A long, thin Irishman, with an impassioned temperament, who said his name was John Henry Smith, appeared to express the sense of the opposition most adequately. "Tell a woman not to do a thing and she's bound to do it," he warned his hearers.

"if the newspapers came out and told the women of New York that they hadn't ought to read a certain book, lv'ry woman in this city would be payin' a messenger boy a dollar to climb down the chimney and get it." Everybody applauded except the women and the author of the resolution. "Is the gentleman married?" asked Chairman Redmond, pointedly. "Ol am," said John Henry Smith. Alderman Sullivan, when he rose to launch his resolution, announced thai he represented the Bowery, and was proud of it. "It', the most moral part of this city," he said.

"But as regards to this resolution," he went on, "it was introduced In good faith. Some people says different parts of the city should be treated different. I'm not that believea that way," "TIM'S" HEAVY MAIL. "Little Tim" declared that he was being overwhelmed with letters from women who favored the ordinance. "Good women don't want to sea other women smoking In public.

It may be a European don't know. I've never been there," said "Little Tim." "but I don't believe the people wants it here. I know of no stronger effort to make to do public good than for the Board of Aldermen to go on record against women smoking in public. Why. when the police was raiding disorderly houses the strongest affidavit they could make was that they found women in then smoking.

And If that's bad in one part of the city, why not net on Fifth avenue, with all Its flno houses?" Then "Little Tim" said he wanted everybody to take note that his ordinance was not directed against women, but against the men who owned or ran places of entertainment. "Most of these men would be glad of this ordinance," he said. "It would save them in such embarrassing positions as when, not long ago, a woman who had been to Europe lighted a cigarette in a New York restaurant, and some other good American the proprietor they objected." Then the speaker wound up with what was going to be a grand climax, but unfortunately he got his words a bit mixed. "Pass thai ordinance," he- ended, "and all that proprietors of places of amusement will have to do will be to say: 'Smoking here Is not prohibited ty Then a man with a Vandyke beard arose. "Faaaa." be Introduced himself.

"Dr. Charles O. Pease. I concur in the resolution, and I desire to offer an amendment. I would insert after the word female' the words 'or any person or It is an outrage that women should have to sit in smoke polluted places, having nicotine puffed in their faces with no chance to retaliate.

It Is an outrage!" the doctor cried, stepping out into the aisle, "a shame to the manhood of this country." Ha sat down amid loud applause. Alderman Brown paid be believed the proposed ordinance was unconstitutional, and cited precedents to prove It. "Also. I believe In womanhood." he eaid. "No true woman will assail in public.

But It Is not within the Jurisdiction of this board to tell them that they shall not." "Any one desire to for the opposition?" demanded Chairman Redmond. "John Henry Smith." said that Individual, coming forward. "It's a plain name, and I've a few plain things to say. Ip to the tifth century men believed that women had no souls. Then they pot a littio better, and allowed they had souls, maybe.

"I'm sorry to see bo monny sthrlngs of superstition hanging 'round the neck of the aldermen. There's more important points of morality to bo regulated than women shmokin' in public. I can tako Alderman Sullivan to houses in this city where th.re's mon and wife and boarders, too living and sleeping in one room. "One law for men and worn-n. I say.

If you atop women shmokin' why not stop the hundreds of boys that's killing themselves with cigarettes?" "Would you like your daughter to smoke?" demanded a Sullivan supporter. "No, r. my son, nayther." aBBBBed John Henry. Alderman I arose to say that you couldn't make people good by legislation. "When old Peter ninjuesaiil was Governor of New Amsii lam be said, "he proposed to have a law paased compelling wvaaea to wear deep flounces on tlio bottoms of their petticoats.

Some determined women watted on him and told him that If ho attempted to rale them In that way they would, ixi ar in the stieetl with no petticoats on at all. The law Shelved. "I am at the audacity of Alderman Sullivan. It aimost makes me drop into poetry and aay: "Backward, backward time turns in his flight, Sullivan's old Peter Stuyvesant to-night." Though a number of women attended the hearing, only one, to the great disappointment of the curious, got up and spoke. She fluttered in with a bevy of girls in fluffy veils, and whispered her name to the chairman.

"Miss Bobby Roberts." he announced. "Bobby Roberts?" the aldermen repeated. look- Ing at one another. "Representing' a Chicago theatrical company." elucidated the chairman. Miss Bob! Roberts said, in brief, that the proposed ordinance was "tommy rot." "Though wo don't want to smoke." she hastened to explain, "we Chicago girls think an anti-Jump ordinance is more needed.

"We're getting St. Vitus's dance jumping out of the way of automobiles. Pass an ordinance regulating the of automobiles." "Little Tim" seemed grieved at the merriment his resolution seemed at times excite. "1 wish the board would take this as serious I do," he complained. SUFFRAGETTE SLIPS.

Astonisher 1 Shoppers Showered with Notices by Militant Sisterhood. a dosen women, wearing Mg yellow huttOU bearing the "Votes for Womfn" in black letters, Unwagh the aJwejejsag dba Met day morniag, thrustintr into the hands of the small slips of white paptr as foil' VOTKS FOH WOMEN. Open air VMM nuffr.ii.-e will be held every Tuesday weather at 3 p. MaJlson avenup 23d street. New York City.

For further information call on M. Malaae, No. -HI Waal street. The public seeaaed to be quite anxious to acquire peculiar literature, anil as B. Borrmann Wei la and Miss Maude Malone went flown Broadway, from Z3d to 14th street, and then up Sixth avenue, they found their way blocked half a dozen times by persons who wanted the slips.

having read the announcement threw the paper on the ground, and in nearly every instance some one else Immediately rushed to pick it up. eager to see what kind of. literature two well dressed women. who were not identified evidently with the Salvation Army, could be distributing. The suffragettes now call themselves Pro- gressive Woman Suffrage Union, but the name and organization are caly provisional.

The meeting this afternoon will probably be addressed by Miss Henrietta A. Keyser and Mrs. LUlle Devereux Blake. CHILD LABOR FiriZATION. Society Organized for Protection of Little Dues.

The organization of a metropolitan auxiliary of the Hew York Child Labor Committee, which wan begun at a meeting held In the Hudson Theatre last was completed yesterday afternoon at the Charities BullJing when the Rev. Anna Garlln was elected president. The vice-presidents are the U. v. Ma St.

Crolx Wrljrht. Mrs. Homer Irvin Ostrom and the Rev. Fercy Stlckney Grant. secretary is Mrs.

Francis Hal.m an and 'treasurer Edward W. Ordway. The auxiliary is a federation of the various societies an: committees interested in child labor. an! its objects include the education and physical development of children, ro that they may meet the requirements -of industrial efficiency and the) demands of citizenship. After the work of organisation had been pieted Owen J.

of the National Labor Committee, told of the difficulties experienced by the frign'l-; of children In getting; thai laws enforced. He said that the first impulse of the magistrate in the case of violations of child labor law was to take the part of the little law-breaker, and that the representatives of the) Commissioner of bee were often sent on way sadder and wiser men. Dr. K.lward B. Shallow, of the truancy department of the public schools, spoke of a similar difficulty a truancy cases.

think it a hardship to fine parents who neglect to send their children to school." satt Dr. Shallow, "but they are beginning: to see thai HaM Dr. James P. Haney, director of manual training in the public schools, said that truants ware) a by-product of inefficient schools. The boy 'la interested in concrete things, and he leaves scbocX because he doesn't find them there.

Dr. Kaaey protested against the democratic ideal of e-Jncating every boy to be President of the United States. Be believes there would be less child labor IS children had an opportunity to labor at the right. things in school, for they would stay there if they paw any use in it. George A.

Hall, of the New Tork Child Committee, made a plea for more money for scioN arships. to be paid to families that need tlMOt children's earnings. "We have given scholarships to about a and seventy-five children in the last two years, he said, "and each case is carefully investigated. The claim that a child's earnings are needed to keep the family from starvation la not always to be depended on. In one case the investigator the mother nut.

and a child said: 'Mamma's to Brownsville to buy a But there will be more cases of need this year than in, previous) on- on account of the hard times, for a child can get employment when a man cannot." Mr Hall said that several child labor bills would be Introduced in the Legislature this season, itseluding one that had been defeated by marcar.tile houses last year. Arthur M. Dodge. 5.3 Tederatlon at Nurseries, wrote that the would herj? by keeping track of children iiter they left the) nurseries and furnishing proof of their asres. Mrs.

Clarence Bums told how the Little ers' Aid Association was trying to take tha baby out of the arms of the little girl and let her gal to school. We think, we feel, we are; And light, as of a star, Gropes through the mist a light Is And aye from life and death strive, with Indrawn breatn. To somehow wrest the truth, and long have Nor pause, though book and star and clod Reply. Canst thou by searching nod out As from the hollow deep The soul's strong tide most keep Its purpose still. We rest not.

though we hear No voice from heaven let fall. No chant antiphonal Boon i through sunlit clefts that open near; We look not outward, but -within. And think not to end as we begin. Edmund Clarence Stedmank MONEY RECEIVED. Mary P.

Wilcox. of Philadelphia, has sent check for $10 as a thank offering 1 and a birthday gift for the good work of the T. 3. Mrs. J.

St. of Manhattan. Jfi for the emergency fund, B. O. of Pennsylania, J.

for same needfcl fund: Mrs. fl for express fund. MAGAZINES WANTED. A "shut-In" member who Is doing reading ahMnn special lines asks If any one has the Atlantic) Monthly for May. June.

July. and September. to pass on. She would greatly predate any one or all of these copies. The dresa ia Mrs.

J. L. Godfrey. No. 837 North Flax mont avenue.

Baltimore. MAKING GARMENTS. The Young Sunshine Club, of N. has begun the work of helping a. poo? mother in Manhattan by making garments for has? two little girls.

Unity branch, of Abbott's. N. always busy In neighborly acts of kindness, and the members also find opportunities to help outside their Immediate localities. FOR EASTER GIFTS. Miss Annie M.

Miller, of No. 333 Park Plalnfleld. N. writes that if wools are sent sat her she and Mrs. Lane will make up articles fosr Easter gifts, to be distributed through the CHEER IN DARKENED LIVES.

Miss Fannie Losee. one of the blind members, in) acknowledging a T. S. S. gift from the office, says: "It gives me a great deal of pleasure to be by my Sunshine friends.

It Is a bright spot in my darkened life, but God has blessed mat with many friends, and I hope there are manjf others that enjoy sunshine as much as I Another blind member in Manhattan writes: "I know by feeling how dainty and pretty the set of cuffs and collar you sent me is. and I am grateful that with all the kind deeds you are doing others you do not forget us who sit in dark places. The president of the Ever Ready branch sent asa a lovely comb with little stones in it. so I shall feel real dressed up in my Sunshine gifts." RESPONSE. Mr.

Rlckert. of Indiana, has kindly offered to send wheel chair for the crippled young man. Thl3 is Indeed a Sunshine act, and one that wlO be greatly appreciated. CONTRIBUTIONS. Two boxes of clothing have been received from N.

8.. of Brooklyn; five pairs of new mittens, for the children in Michigan, from S. C. of Manhattan: two pretty new without a name, also mittens and wristlets; quilt from Julia Bennett; reading matter came from New Milford. a copy of the Zlegler blind magasira ana unfinished work, from C.

L. and two new afghans for babies, from Mrs. K. WEDNESDAY PRAYER The weekly prayer meeting of the Christian Union will be held in the chapel of the Coir- leglate Church. Fifth avenue and 48th" street, tomorrow norning at 11 o'clock.

Women are invUedi a.