The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1902, Page 5

That New York, already the Empire City of the Western Hemisphere, is rapidly challenging recognition as the financial and commercial centre of the world, is made manifest by the amazing improvements made and under way. It is estimated that $250,000,000 will be spent on improvements of a semi-private character projected or THE NEW YEAR’S OUTLOOK IN PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. actually begun, while the municipality will spend about $200,000,000 more for improvements already planned. Ld WHAT A SAMPLE BOTTL OF SWAMP-ROOT D To Prove What the Great Kidney Remedy, Swampe Root, Will Do for YOU, Every Reader of Th Evening World May Have a Sample Uy SOtt ‘YANSFIELO HEN WLVELYOANCE Star’s “Personal Representa-| tives” to the Number of Six! or More Tumble Over Each Other Serving Him. . STORY OF A BAD “DRAWFT.” No Sultan of Sulu or King of Ki-Ram vor had a more fearsome set of slaves than the half dozen or so “personal rep- Y resentatives” who dance attendance on Richard Mansfield This was amusingly flustrated the other evening on the stage of the Herald Square Theatre when the mighty and muscular Mansfield suddenly ¢rled out: “I feel a drawft!" Instantly there was energetic commo- Rj tion on the part of the “personal repre- sentatives” who happened to be around, and those who were not there were sent for in all speed, Meanwhile, Sir Richard kept repeatin the distressing line, “I fecl_a drawfts" @ccasionally alternating with a savage: “What a barn of a place!” When all the “personal representa- utives” had excitedly arrived they tmme- diately organized themselves into a tis- sue-paper squad and went reconnoltering | for the “drawtt."" They went at It In regulation comle- opera style, though not following the method of George Ade's monarch, who wets his finger, then sticks it up to find out from what quarter the wind is com- ing. Bach of the “personal representatives" armed himself with a shcet of flimsy tssue, and holding it aloft with nis two | bands, went here, there and everywhere | to see if he could find any clue to the demuition “drawft. Finally, {t 1s sald, the “drawft" was discovered coming gently throu, Peephole of the droprcurtain, ee the Whereupon, it is reported, Richard proclaimed: "Close the peephole for my en; phole BAR. ment. It is an unhealthful and bar- baric relic of an inartistic ag ary oy “Bounting-up hour" {s another time that brings the “personal representa- tives’ into mass play. They gather in| the Ilttle office in the front of the theatre and watch the vulgar. procesd- ing with great solemnity. They were in’ the midst of the sordid rité the other night when Mr. Mansfleld’s valet| @ppeared—like Banquo's ghost—upon the ecene. “Does he “Does he “Does he want me? Thus, in turn, the “personal repre- @Bentatives’ made enger and anxious inquiry of the desires of their illustrious chief, And when the valet silently pointed his finger at one of them, the} “personal representative” designated Qeaped qui to his feet ‘and’ aped Aectly taro he door, Next to Mansileld, the valet is most| feared, for he is “next tc Mansfleld | and a good many other things that| would make good ‘stories. The nervous little foreigner who does the blackboard work for Mme, Kono- Tah, the lightning calculator at ‘Keit has his own troubles with facetious in- dividuals whom he asks to put down figures on smail which he dis- tributes. slates As soon 4s some in eople Ket th taeir handa> the, oid, mischicvous spirit of their schooldays meems to seize them. “What figure Is this?” asked the puz- sled victim of a prank, studying & slate Which was reuirned to him at yesterday afternoon's performance, “It's the figure of a awered the grimming joker. Among the stories Archle Grant is| telling at Keith's is one concerning the tumble from tie water wagon which Sullivan recently took in woman," an- t to vhe jail to see John L, after his arrest,” related Grant, " ‘Come in and make yourself at home,’ sald Sullivan from the other side of the bars. ‘How am I going to get in? ‘Crawi through the bars; I could If I was as mall as you are, you shrimp!" answered the hospitable ex-monologist. Now that Christmas week is past bust- ness at the theatres ls once more boom- ing. Last week the audiences were composed principally of "deadhoads,” fhemrical folk. who were In town. tak- their annual mid-season compulsory oft.'* fw York managers are notoriously enerous in the matter of issuing passes fo members of the profession, and thls, ‘despite the fact that they ‘say they don't like to see stage people in their jouses. “Notwithstanding that they see the phow without Its costing them a cent they're always disposed to ‘knock,’ sald & Broadway manager. “They seem to delight in letting every one hear them hear them criticise the performance, 4 when they leave town they do the game thing on trains and In hotels. ‘They're an ungrateful lot!" ary Ingenious names are those which some of the “Sultan of uu” girls have, Take one of these Jong winter evenings and learn these by heart: Beryl Gomez, Effie Hasty faometimes called “Hasty Effie), Au- fora: Platt and Mamay Kennody FIRST OF TRUST STEAMERS. © Philndelphia Carries Papers ‘of New International Company. The steamer Philadelphia has cleared for Southampton, the firet of the trust steamers to sail with the papers of the International Mercantile Marine Com- pany. In the future the papers of the ‘American, Red Star, White Star and Leyland lines will bear the name of the Wonderfully TO SET FREE MAN WHO SHOT RIVAL, Justice Hale Approves Report Declaring Charles Shapiro Sane After 5 Years in Asylum. e Hall's last act as a Judge of ‘ome Court & r ing the report o 6. and Ralph Waldo and . Austin Lawyer Flint Henry Thompson, as Commissioners to examine and report on the mental condl- tion of Charles Shapiro, who shot his rival to death in Shari Zadek synagogue in Henry strect. He has been tr Mattea- |wan State Hospital for five years. Justice Hall confirmed the repory whic declared Shapiro cured, and Saa- plro has been brought back and is in the Tombs awaiting the formality of @ trial. Justice Hall also ordered Comp- troller Grout to pay $200 each to the Commission, $229.65 to the stenographer, 1el J, Siegel, and $100 to Alex B. the attorney who has fol- Shapiro's case from the beginning. Disirict-Attorney Jerome assented to both orders, Charles Shapiro and Louls Letberman loved the same maiden, Yetta Gordon, Shapiro shot Lieberman on the thresh- old of the synagogue and he and Miss yordon entered, as he thought, for a vedding, Shapiro's Insanity was ap- parent, and he was sent to Matteawan, ‘The girl married another man. | * Shapiro was a Pollsh baker, fresh tn America, No- he 1s not only, cured but he has been taught to speak, rea and write English fluently. POLICE WANT MORE MONEY. Burglaries at Mount Vernon Prompts Call for Larger Force. (Spectal to The Evening World.) MOUNT VERNON, +. Dec, 31— The Police Commissioner, through Pres- ident Murphy, to-day sent a leter to the Common Councll asking for an addi- tional appropriation of $20,000 to run the Police Department. The Commission- ers contend that the present appropria- tion of $3000 19 not enough and that they need ' $50,000 to properly protect Mount Vernon, There have been so many burglaries around that city that the Commission- MRS.LANGTRY’S GORGEOUS NEW GOWNS SOJT an [IKE] TALK OF THEIRHIT, BUT SCORE HERPLAY, Sent Free by Mail. “HAMLET.” Actor’s Sane and Sincere Pre- sentation of Melancholy Dane Is Enthusiastically Re-Wel- comed. CHARACTERIZATION BETTER. After the freakish Brutus of Mansfeld the sane and sincere Hamlet of Sother is a mental pick up. At the Garden Theatre most | sting of latt ¥ (“dest since Booth,” say the old-timers) recelved a re-welcome which gave ' ground for the delightful suspicion that TRAN New York Is in danger of becoming Mes lin “broke to the bard. ‘ HA It seems too gooil to be true, but with Mi what a sigh of reilef poor, drudging Mr. Fitch would accept the indefinite vaca- tion that we would hand him out so cheerfully If we could only be “broke” to Shakespeare! And familiar quotations “go” at the Garden Theatre. Everything with a Fifth Reader flavor about It wins a hearty round of applause from the ‘n-/ W. F. Iohnes, a prominent business man, of Springfield, O., writes When Mrs, Langtry had left her dressing-room, and they were sure that she had gone Jast night, the principal members of her company—tne Gowns—talked itall over. “There Is one thing, dears,” said the White Tulle, slipping gracefully from its hook and settling in graceful folds on the floor, ‘no matter hoy Lily feels, we should feel satisfied.” “Yes, Indeed,” agreed the@Pink Velous, «inking down beside the first speaker, “aM the critics spoke perfectly lovely of us. But, my, weren't they mean to ‘The Cross-Ways!' " “Dreadful,” sighed the pale-blue House Gown. fairly respectable. That's what hurt me most. I feel, being the House Gown, that the burden of proof, eo far as respectability goes, rests on me. You know what 4 delicate position I'm usually placed in. I repeat, that I think it would have been only just for the reviewers to have taken some notice of my respecta bility, espeolally after what my poor sister passed through over there three seasons ago in ‘The Degenerates.’ ” “Please don't speak of the dead," {mplored the Blue Foulard. ‘Well, I guess that's what we're doing when we're discussing “The Cross- * retorted the House Gown, with a show of matronly warmth. “As the man sald who looked at the battered trunk we came in, ‘They didn't do a thing | to it!" | “Do you think it got what it deserved?” asked the little Pink Bolero, looking | down from Its upper berth, noting the fact that the Velours was doubling up its Tuffles for a blow. ; “I Know that It got It and got St good,” replied the House Gown, with the emphasis of conviction. “I certainly hope {t didn’t deserve anything worse."’ “Don't you think the King’s indorsement had something to do with it?" languidly inquired the Mantle, laying {ts mousseline de sole cheek on its pink satin hand. “Do you know," eald the House Gown, lowering #ts voice to a whisper, “I'm inclined to think His Majesty didn't do the play any good. He might make the ‘dest kind of press agent in England, but I'm afraid he couldn't be trusted to get the right kind of stuff in the papers over here. “The trouble is he doesn't exercise the censorship. If he could have wafted himself to a box In the Garrick Monday night and told Lily that she and the play were all right, and then called over the critics and told thern to take thelr cut from him and play a balk-line game, things might Nave turned out differently.” “Now, really,” interposed The Mantle, “what do you think about the play?" “Well, to tell you the truth,” answered the House Gown, “I think half the ‘lame lays on your shoulders. When you went trooping off to the opera you should have seen that something more interesting happened than did happen be- tween your mistress and the gentleman who didn't happen to be your husband, The trouble 1s—to borrow another Amerioanism—'there's nothing doing,’ and the handsome beribboned Point d’Alencon trembled with a sigh of regret. “But don't you think the King's sea! !s worth more than a good plot and lots of action?” asked the White Tulle, thoughtfully tracing the !nes of sllver in its embroidered bodice. “Not in America,” was the decisive answer, Not In a thousand,” added slangy little Bolero, “It may be that the King can do no wrong, but It's nevertheless true that he can do harm—and that's exactly what I think he has done in this case,” declared the House Gown. ‘Do you mean to say you thing that if the King had kept his seal off "The Ways’ it would have gone?" asked Tne Bolero. t might not have gone far, but {t wouldn't have started with a handicap,” sald the House Gown, “Well, I don't care," remarked the vain, self-centred White Tulle, success, any way.” “They didn't even say it was ve were A ers wil ask the Legislature to pass a special act so they can have more money to hire ten extra offices * rejoined the House Gown, “but I'm afraid we may have to be made nother play.” B Sweet, crisp gioraen trust. The Freeman’s Journal Sold. COOPERSTOWN, N.'¥., Dec. 81.—The Breeman’s Journal, the official Demo- eratlo organ of Otsego County, and one of the oldest country weeki! has been bought by who assumes cont ‘M. Shaw, thi ood % % flaiies of wheat and malt. e ay That he'll not change last year's good way But daily dine on Strength’s sure ened oe in-and-brawn-producing “Fore nocents, while the knowing ones—the the following strong endersement of the great kidney remedy, 8 ardened play-tasters—frown Impatient- Root, to the Editor of the Springfeld, Ohio, Republic: ly and reserve their demonstrations for Springfleld, O., Feb. 21, 1901. subtleties of acting that escape the mul- | ttude, The B. 8. B, Hamlet (‘‘best since Booth," you know) has not been stand- ing still, It has gained in height and depth, in knowledge and sureness and fire and meaning. 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