The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1903, Page 7

i PAWTUEKET EARL ~—ADIVERTING CHAP Both Augustus ati ThOtna Play As and the Actor, Lawrence ‘LuD’Orsay, Who interpreted:the { Character, Made a Hit. : BRIGHT, BREEZY AFFAIR. Wilzabeth Tyree Also Scored In tho 4 New Comedy Which Was Shown Last Night at the Madison Square E Theatre, ¢ @lonors ‘are being thrust on the Wi *Wort-Astoria with a free: and ta ‘Wand these days, \No sooner has Mil- “Monaire Baby Greene selected it as his Birthplace than Augustus Thomas ‘pro- Oeeds to dramatize it With’ “The Earl ef Pawtucket.” Goth, like Lochinvar, came out of the (West, and the Intringic value of the one|- fe equalled by tho dramatic worth of the othor, When the curtain rose at.the Madison Square Theatre, last night tho atmos- Phere was entirely Waldorf-Astorjan. The palm room was hailed and applaud- fed because it was the scenic faétin{le of ,@omething which New York and Elgin, Ql, knew by sight: But tt wasn’t long defore the Waidott, .Gespite the reminder of its electrically- Fegulated clocks and its boxes for hoots, was all but forgotten in the crisply ‘one tertaining play which Mr..Thomas had allt around that, genuinely true -Eog- Ush actor, Lawrence D'Orsay. i Lawrence D!Orsny’s Hit. ‘And why not? ‘The same virile strength which was fn “Arizqna"—why mention “Colorado” or. the other Western States?—was in this Eastern play. “Moreover, {ts sim ple, wholesome sentiment siretched from the metropolis to the plainz-—or at legst to the Chicago prairie. thermore, drety from across the. Atlan- io a chatacter of English manlincss Angtead’ of the exaggerated, distorted, @gawiing dolt which comedy ordinarily Ansists on introducing as our monocled wousin. Bor all of these things thanks are @ue to co-operative influence and ef- forts. Mr, Thomas may shake hands with Mr. D'Orsay, and Mr.. D'Orsay y extend the congratulatory palm to . Thomas. The playwright acknowledged his in: @ebtedness to the actor in a curtain talk refreshing for its unaffected sin+ cerity, and Mr, D'Orsay did Mr. Thomas a service which, so far as ap aaghe of the moment goes, no. other fF would have performed quite so well The ‘debt of the one was balanced ‘by, the debt of the other, and both ac- were pad in full by the appre- clative applause of one of the best- pleased audiences Which has seated {t- welf in a New York playhouse this sea- Plot Simple Enough, The plot was simple enough—trust ‘Thomas for.that!. An English Marl! ts aycinated by an attractive, America! girl travelling. abroad. Of course, he Getermines to follow her., But wast for fomas embeliishments! The ari comes to her side.and her assistance when she finda the trip across the En- giish Channel dit rough on her stom- ech. Next he manages to stop at the game hotel in Paris. And when, as he 4s taking his tub one morning, he heara. feminine screams he rushes out in his path-robe to find taat his. fair fate has fet fire to talpgs with jer curting, tongs. Happy Thomas circumstance: The Earl’ seés. more of her, for she is—well, never mid, she Isn't dressed for callers. “H¢ rushes back, snatches up hig tub and. returning, dashes out the Mire. An Engl'shman sacrificing his tub! Isn't this equivalent to a declaratién? Ask the, Ear) of Rosslyn, or any other|* old Parl, if you are not content to be- Ueve “The Earl of Pawtucket!” 4 Followed, His Charmer. Does the preliminary romance tog, hete? Hardly. Give Mr. Thomas “a run for his money,” as he might-say if-he were dealing in his heretofore favorite ‘Wertern terms. Let him: get beauteous America sky-high in a Ferris wheel at Barl's Court London, and give him a chance ty. have the Earl cause his faithful man Wilkins to drop his jack- Knjfe into the mechanism and be the means of cloxging:ther wheels, jumt at a tine when Collimbla’s carriigé happens Lordship chances to be in the acif-same What could’ ve inore airily romantic, unless one's fancy takes balloon filghts, what could be snore at by a’ sailor chap ts udder and unex urn ied veering of the ‘hes he twriots which “ fives Mio hte ‘plot: Then he stvaightens 1) owt, ‘or tangles: up— ant you pieaséby having: ‘he Karl Moa tis unknown harman te amare ica, whence he comes incognito in order ‘escapes the trial of a fellow-peer,, {a song nd, . Poses as an dimerionn, gain the “resourcefulnéhs ‘of Mr,” amas! au Fart pe taken the name erican Abroad wig thyncel Ta be the flvorced hunband ofthe Amer: tunity ‘op mest -aiverting com ria ip Date pe Rive oppose (ne wellsadver- inks, Waliore® nt hie Incidentally th of po th a it chau 99 kindly a ‘carried bundy eee and rash Sa ey y net Walch at sre Jim tog cies bern ne wee se i oe 80 sO eR. BSD even to his. Dees hel apr i him. ra, THE WORLD: FRIDAY RVENIN SCENE FROM “GUS’' THOMAS’S NEW PLAY, “EARL OF PAWTUCKET,” WHICH HAS MADE A HIT. self. James Ottley. looked ike Chicago and acted like Chicago a bre om George “aoe headquar bur Hudson did a clever Ten: derloinish bit of character work as a disagreeably Important constable. Louise Sydmeth as Jane Putnam deserves. aed Allo 6 Fisher, a monument in Cleve- , and June Van Buskirk as Ella te a closea chapter of theatrical his- and “Gretna Green" may wither Into! the eere and ow without her needing to feel a single pang. She has found “a good thing inthe Earl of Pawtucke! Charles W. Stokes played with blurt honesty Mfr. Fordyce, who orered break- fast as If ho had a grudge against hi Seaford was pretty and pleasing enough for the Earl or any other man fo kiss. It is Wut just to add that the Waldorf- Astoria was very well conducted, with possible exception that the over- zealous prompter Was permitted to stand too olose to the side entrance. ‘Though he was not seen, altogether too much of him was heard. SECOND TRAGEDY ON “CENTRAL” VIADUCT Joseph Capell, Pneumatic Sig- nalman, Killed Just as His Predecessor Was Killed. | DOWN EAST GIRLS IN TROUBLE HERE, Little Wanderers Accused of Pil- fering Finery—One Has a Husband, and He Weeps. Joseph Capell, of Syracuse, repair foreman in charge of pneumatic signal work, was killed to-day on the New York Central (Railroad viaduct at One Hundred and Thirty-second street ex- actly where, and In the same manner Tho world-seeing tour of two little Yankee girls, who left thelr Massa- chusetts homes last Sunday, came to a bitter end to-day, when they were both hel for trial In the West Side Court, charged with grand larceny. One of, them, married last week | 2a predecessor, Thaddeus D. Keeler, of j In clothes alleged to have been stolen,| Danbury, Conn., was run down by an engine on Oct. 20 last and instantly killed. Capell was completing the work started by Keeler. Both men were experts in’the adjust- ment of pneumatic signals. - When Capell started his gang at peacine: out the old signal work yes- he remarked: “It was here that had her young ‘husband in court, he wept bitter tears when they his bride back to @ cell. The two girls were down in the court records as Julla Sullivan, eighteen ‘years old, of Rast Weymouth, and Anna Ferris, seventeen years old, of No, 1s Decatur street, Boston, Julie is, really} t Mrs. Smith, having been married at|.} her home last week. The complainant against them was Mi Florence man, of No. 213 West Forty-thirf street. She alleged that when tho other girls Were boarding in the eame house last October they stole all her fine clothes, which she valued at $266, She further said that they had some of them on, and the girls did not deny it, They just wept. They ran away from heme last summer to/go with the Pain Mount Pelee spectacle, Later they were ~ In Woman's Professional League show at Madison Square Gar- den, and then they got. out of work. That's when Miss Bodman's clothes and they disappeared, They left town, but Miss Bodman got a Warrant for them, and Detectives Cary and Mangin arrested them at their homes yesterday. Husband Smith f lowed his bride down here only to see her go to fall. He refused to talk be- aween his tears. x od “ACTOR HARVEY VERY ILL. Threateied with Pneumonia in onto. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 6—Martin y. the English actor, starring in @ dramatization of ‘ale of Two Cities," and took With hig beck to the south, Capell was directing the labors of his men from the outage. northbound track when emeine 3 ins orem the men thet he did not hear the ap- roach of the engine: He was hurled into nded ‘upon his head, splitting ‘open hia ekull. He died in- stantly. ere ‘his body wes removed to the rded at No. 114 East One ndred eet ‘Twenty-elgnth etreet. He aaa unmarried and recently graduated from an Up-BStale college. MRS. CAMPBELL IS SICK. to Her Buglish Actress Conan Room at Buffalo. BUFFALO, Feb. 6—Mrs. Patrick pbell, who was filling an engage- ment here\at the Star Theatre, 1s con- fined to her hotel with @ severe attack of influenza: Dr. Stockton sald to-day that ehe haa a high fever. He did not think she would b6 able to appear again Guring the week, Mrs, Camobell insisted on appearing last evening, but Dr. Stockton would not allow her to leave her room. ———__ British Diplomat Dead. VIENNA, Feb. 6.-Raiph Milbanke, the British Minister Plenipotentiary here, died suddenly to-day of heart dis- ease. Dickens's nov. iL at. the Great Southern, Hotel: and mnable & proceed Ww! 3 “com~ pany, yesterday, de hae @) of la grippe and rH ahs pneumonia. t | ners. ELSBERG MOVED BY SPITE, SAYS CORONER Goldenkranz Charges that Sen- ator’s Bill to Abolish the Of- fice Followed Dismissal. Coroner Goldenkranz made the direct charge to-day that Senator Wisberg was actuated by spite in introducing @ bill in the Legislature to have the Coroners’ of- fice abolished and a Board of Examiners established. Coroner Golienkranz said: “About a year ago at the request of Senator Elsberg I appointed as a clerk in this office a young man named Wil!- fam Chamberlain. He was a resident of the Twenty-ninth Assembly District, FEBRUARY ARION BALL TO-NIGHT. Aannal Fro! at m Sau: There waa a full dress rehearsal | night of Ball which takes place to-night. It bi soene of unexcelied grandeur. almed to make the event the mi liant in the annals of the socle The internlor of the pbuilding will ablane with electric lights. Featu promised. The Garden will amply heated and beverages will served a lib without Interference. Ice regulations provide cattinges must approach the main trance on Madison avenue from south and pass out by avenue north on ‘Twent Guests on departing will nth throu stre rat carriage at the door. vance regulating charges will Hi Tretly enforced. — The Buffalo Courter Saya: “THE WORLD ALMANAC ts ti best work of its kind published.’ Garden, with Many New Fentare the professional and other features of the big Arion Masquerade The Madison Square Garden will present a that way of Madison pas main Madison avenue exit and ta The city 6, 190%. BARITONE PAULL KILLED BY FALL. Castle Square Opera Singer Drops Six Stories from His ‘Hotel Window to the Pave- ment. ast in rile be res r before introduced in an Arion ball be en- the eat b HE DIED AN HOUR LATER. bel gr. LOUIS, Fed. 6—From thé window of the game room fn which he spent the he | few * | Paull, first @ays of his honeymoon within a! days of two years ago, William baritone in the Castle Square, certs {n America, beginning Nov. 8 next. ‘Company, plunged forward to the pave- wae He died an hour or. No one saw Paull fall from the win- dow and whether he committed suicide or fell by acoldent {a a matter of con- Jecture. Many persons in the street near the Southern Hotel aaw his body shoot downward, It struck the tele- graph wires, breaking several of them. Tt then’ glanced out toward the street. He was unconscious when picked up and never regained conaciousness. Paull came from England, and made ‘his first appearance in Henry W. Sav- age's English Grand? Opera at the Me- tropolitan Opera House, New York. He was married to Miss Bthel Gorton, also A member of the Castle Gquare Opera Company, PATTI SIGNS FOR A TOUR. Diva Will Make Another F. Mere Next Fall. LONDON, Feb, @—Adelina Patti has finally signed a contract for sixty con- poate lactate 2 iy ‘fre, recent damag: dered 10 Loy! at great sacrifice. OPEN EVENINGS, - ewell ——— “© 9 © Tts established tion fer accuracy makes the facturers in the United Stat where Senator Elsberg is @ power. Mr. Chamberlain was of the opinion that a pudlic office was a private snap, therefore he was not Inclined to do any work. He remained away from the office day after day without giving any excuse and without notifying any of the Coro- We stood {t as long as we could and finally removed him for incompe- tency. A few days before we put him out he came to me and said: ‘I understand you people are getting sick ‘of me. But I want to warn you that if I am removed you can bet your Mfe that Eenator Flsberg will remove the whole lot of you. He will wipe out the office.’ “That was not the only threat he meade. Chamberlain is now @ clerk in the Legisiature at Albany.” ———— FRANK PRUETTE IS DEAD. —_——_—— Was Inconsolable Over His Wife's Divorce. % Frank Pruette, an understudy in the production of ‘A Chinese Honeymoon,” and a brother of William Pruette. who sings one of the principal parts in the musical comedy, was “ ~orced from his wife several weeks ago, and since then he had been inconsolable. He failed to appear at the theatre a few nights ago, and last night he died {n his home, at No. 145 West Ninetieth street. Hs friends say he died from a broken heart; the doctors say pneumonia. and delicate mothers begin to thrive take our VINOL. It’s mother says. “I’m afraid ‘ girl out of school, she worries.” Backward children are ailing children. VWINOL seems to 6th AVE, & 23d & py’ serious when ‘ll have to take my She's thin, doesn’t sleep and children ‘new power to eat, digest and grow strong in both mind and body. Money back if you want tf RIKER’S DRUG STORE, when they often just give such Ohe Big SP GUSANDS of — extraor- dinary Shirt bargains. No wonder ; the crowds are buying | 55 so eagerly. Men's and Boys’ Negliges Shirts. Men’s Laundered White Dress Shirts. Every Shirt is new and perfect. There are no “seconds.” The Shirts are superior in construction and material. Each bears the label of one of the best-known manu- tes, Women’s Waists, of Stk or Lace. A bright, clever and ambitious display of new ideas in Silk and Lace Waists. Every Saturday we make the ci mi showing of new styles in the Silk Waist Section a noteworthy spe- ialty. Several of these we enu- erate for to-morrow: NEW CREPE DE CHINE WAISTS, in three different styles, at NEW IRISH eae WAISTS. mie if Nie 10. 00 ent styles, at NEVV_SUMMER SILK WAISTS in solid white, with beautiful work in lace and hemstitching, at NEW PEAU DE SOIE WAISTS in black or white, also in the daintiest pastel shades, i ine tuck- ing and openwork, 5.00 4.50 3.95 acre Floor, Front.) Wisses’ First Showing of Garly Season Styles. To-morrow we place on sale new and Coat blue, Sizes 14, 16 and 18 years. ; Also some’ special designs for] poset pem—evre eon | small-sized women. JAUNTY JACKET AND BLOUSE SUITS, HA Yew Suits. attractively styled Suits for Misses. and Skirt; in black, brown and mixtures, at ia (Secon Pisor, Posot) * 4 ¢ Books wAvew’ Ht Reduced Prices. An Extraordinary List for Saturday. This is a very important lishers’ odds and ends of desirable books at practically the lowest prices ever named. A Fow clearance sale, for it comprises pub: of the Oitles: VACT, YANCY AND FABLE. 4 (mee HORSEMANSHIP. hasdbook of ready reference ”) it vt iedeal “ft sas S READY RECKONER e"QROh FACTS AND PuRases AROUND THE WORLD. R. GRPAT TRUTHS. By great authors LEST ANS RODEN Paulin TAR QUOTATIONS. AGE 01 trated “RRR MAJESYY'a TOWER, W. H Dixon. HYPNOTIBM. | De Lawrence, COOPER'S LEATHER STOCKING TALES; COOPER'S BBA TALES; set of b volumes ach. tilua- BSe' \it-Artivur GEM& OF MODERN ART fyll-vage, iiluatrations 160 RENOH ART AND SORNBRY Full-page illustrations. WiTHOUT DOGMA, It NG TRE MOPPHORE ean Be Wallace Sach. ly Wewics a Shirt Sale’s Great Values. Most 1 ane Guent of Sis Kind in Years, a W1.75, 14.50, | gor |B 47.50 and Aa. 50 NEW NORFOLK An entire new departure in tnt NEGLIGEE SHIRTS are in silk-mixed ¢ ches) fine hha madras cloths and the reales. Cuffs to match. WHITE DRESS SHIRTS are in closed u es fronts; short or oe bosoms; also full dress and many other sty! SIZES in all styles ran efron Hs eH 18. Plenty hirts for big men. of large sizes in the Ne These Shirts ere “Made to Be Sold at Prices Ranging from $1.00 to $2.00. Your Choice of Any Shirt You Like for 69c. Also 1,000 DOZEN MEN'S Rae. BOYS’ NEGLIGEE AND STIFF-BOSOM SHIR « F for S/, eC : in almost any % pastes 12 to Sir Regis Shatin te Main Dist com ip eet Boys’ Fur: Store, Main Floor, East of Escalator. ae & Special Showing To-morrow New and Cleverly Styled Skirts, . Very Attractive Price Features. Melton Skiris AT s 3.90, 5.00 & 6.: Cheviot oe : 4 FANCY a orth Carolina Si EACH, 50c. NCY CANA! Teen ORS THA ar gue td POULTRY — Fancy Bost Geere, Ib. w TORS—Faaey sew Bor. Potatons, Saescrancy juley emant Florida Oranges, thin kis: FANCY Canada WMution, PER LB., Se. H. 0. TM BAL —~I ‘or Cook's Fisted Rice, | pké.. o Balt one DINES~''Fisher Boy" oF avbeo "fancy Oli T Ge, Pur Frek, class, Giants Ooring' tam, Prime RDS. 1 PORK trea myaaraand Ost ‘bean; a8 ry bunches) tubohen Pinsuey, ra BEETS or CARROTS an Buh ik ber car we te or Loug léland Seatie ring and Winter Weights for Wen, Women and Children at Unusual Prices, S i ee ec tata tional values in the early spring weights of U: At the same time we are closing out some odd odd and broken heavy winter weights. MEN'S IMPORTED| MEN'S Ne 3 WEl NITA “ON DEI SANITARY LIGHT LIGHT. \ Ww WOOL | FINE ties; all sizes, Si qui ¢ - at 7 Does bad. MEN'S HEAVY NATURAL ong - ¥ aN in France; $1.7: AND DRAWERS; the shirts are breasted; broken lots; qualities up to to close at MEN'S ODD UNDERSHIRTS, 65c. grade, at WOMEN'S AND pe osiepatil PANT: