The evening world. Newspaper, January 19, 1904, Page 5

’ ra ojala ila < iat oth as ad SS SVEN NOVELTIES INTHE THEATRE Six Are New Plays with Wel- Known Stars, and One Is the Production of “Siegfried” Un- der Conrad’s Management. any Ys ‘OLYMPE” IS QUITE A DISMAL EFFORT. “Ranson’s Folly” Catches on : Well—Virginia Earl as Ser- geant Kitty Gets a Fine Wel- come Back to Broadway. il i fe Mil ui! There were seven openings tn | the ¢) trical district last night, Proving that the managers have taken @ new hold on the discour- aging dramatic situation. Five of the resented were new to New York. Twe old favorites were evived. The five new pre - tions were “Olym: starring | Amelia Bingham at the Knicker. booker; “An English Daisy” at the Casino; “Ranson’s Folly,” atar- wring Rovert Edeson at the Hud- sony! “Serge Kitty,” starring Virginia Barl at Daly's, and | Lieut. Ranson (Robert Edeson) ring THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY’ 19, '190a\.° ing for the waiter, Jeff Cahil] (Harry Harwood), and Mary Cahill (Sando! Milliken). Right of Sword,” starring Ralph Atuart, at the Amerte: The re- ‘ a decided hit. Indeed it is safe to say vivals were “The Taming of the|that it bids to be one of the few profit. Shrew” at the Lyric, with Ada Re-|“ble attractions in this overplayed h town, jam and Otis Skinner leading the|. Virginia Earl, always a Broad satu iane “slepfrted” at the Met-| favorite, was, enthusiastically “grec ropolitan—the’ when she made her appearance in the mevetien ae frat performance title ole. She was as winsome 1s ever, @ Conreid regime. us clever and sparkling “as when she panenees " forced her, way to the front in musical : comedy. She sang many songs, two o} COSTUMES ARE SILENT fraich “Lover” nnd, On Kitty will ‘ i - sung and whistled as widely as "e- = AND “OLYMPE” Is sap, | delin” Tn‘ tow days, : Ane ” ‘ e production was well staged an Mik aie ue new offering of the cast fairly 1 Dalaneed, Junie , iS a costu ,. ;|McCree us Cupt. Jonguiniere wwas ¢s- me play. ie Sylvan Langlois as the pecially good. General, and Harmon Anderson as the private ‘also bore some of the fonor: The chorus was effective und han somely. equipped. . The plot was som what impossible, but it was amusing, aml from the first entry of Kitty until the fine military chorus in the last scene there, was not ‘a dull moment. ~ eee ADA REHAN GIVES FINE PERFORMANCE OF “TAMING OF THE SHREW." With Ada Rehan and Otis Skinner, of the costumes could Speak as they move, “Olympe” would stand a better show of remaining at the Knickerbocker until the balmy days of Spring. Gas had rather a hard last night trom frozen pipes, we Of It “O-Lamp" (spelled ‘Olympe") had much the same experience at the Knick- erbocker Theatre, though none of the| actors seemed to have frogen pipes | Some spectators might have | iamed the lamp, ot! fc “ y ” yoor qu Vi: | a cou! Ye me in| jut nitied, = sponsibility—it you ae fuss walt Nit Recicrean Miss ed and enjoyable \ performance. Gold letters over the inner door of the Rese os pia ieieae MIL oe oisee: Nee theatre complacently throughout her engagement. Hii pera announced “Amelia 8 Bag , i48 Bingham inay have been at home vo lurthe ‘Knlekerbocker, but. ohn eee ge Linke eta LA GR eUn inne Coreoreen sourset. “It you pata ‘ydur nis: hud the right'to take your choice: san awful long way fi Glympe. ng Way from home in| none of her art. Supported py thie ster he programme said “Olympe" was “a | Unk, ctor, Otis Skinner, she gaye as de- ‘of Katherine the heatre lust night lighttul a ‘performanc: durew at the Lyric as ever fired thy emotions of her parti- sans in her old Daly days. Shikexpeare’s great comedy, romantic drama by Plerre Decourselle, dt turned out to be a" y by Amelia’ Bingham, soatumme comedy ‘Miss Hingham, however, (UW understand, of course, that seers are important fuctors of an Amelia Bingham production) in which she ap-|an Unusually strong supporting com- peared to handsome advantage. it was, pany, delighted a large audience last 4 Li38 Street sult, long velvet coat, and | MIKUL And here at least for a time may all that, With a staff to show that the| she Jaded theatre-goer tind an oases in Walking was bad sn those days, the gruat desert of bua plays und poorer fe the ‘Then-there was another gown which | actors. . exhtbited Miss Binghum & strong-| Missy Rehan's Katherine is the same armed actress. This enabled her to, old Katherine. This great artist throw one of her ample arms across a| evoked the enthuslsam: of her audience og and iar, OU a small army of sol; | by her skilful handling of the part of die le larry, Woodruff | escaped | shakespeare’s hussy during the amusing in the direction of Thirty-eighth street. transition worked by Petruchio's taming ‘Mr, Woodruft displayed great versa: | bn : Uy. He ‘started Gut is a novices In a Phew Kee enaneh Sig loister, hopped over into the star's ~ " r sk ‘dress! -room of a theatre and be- days to say that ne ft her skill has left her, und that ‘or th we Un- came a leading man at a moment _ Hotice, then joined the army, and finally, | enable sions of as an is after standing three acts of “Olvmpe, perhaps a beseeched a squad of sympathetle sol- | dlers to take him away snd shoot him --which they promptly did, The only real hit of the performa was made by Louise Galloway, who is ‘pert and pretty laundre was on the age bnt a short U "roo much cannot be sald pf Otis Skin- It was one of. the of this uctor's actor tu shure the rs_of a Shakespear- Remaining interest ti the women of , tan reviva Miss Rohan there Is no the cast ended with BiUov Fernandes, reason why this venture of Liebler & who was her cuatomary breezy self, }.Co, should not be a grea 8, Only relatives or immediate friends of | ting company last night the family were able to solve the puzzle: , was strong. Seenically’ the perfor find Dorothy Russel {ance wae not much to boast of, If Lillian’s daughter looks like her) some of the costunics looked as mother, the impractised eye couldn't! they had been dug out of the Daly cel- notice it from in front. lars and used without-renoyation; but J. H. Gilmour, as was to be expected, | one forgot these trifles under the influ- *was admirable as an actor turned priest. ence of Mies Rehan's and Mr. Skinner's W. L. Abingdon played the Chevalier | artistic work. a roles! Peay he were concerned in a eae. envy (rage ; WEST SIDERS TURN OUT IN Still—on second thought—Mr. Abing-| 320 FORCE TO SEE don may have been right, cD. “BY RIGHT OF SWORD.” ——_ REACIMENIAND WOMEN FEA: The American Theatre was jammed to | the fire limits by the Eighth avenue cli- TURES OF “RANSON’S FOLLY.” The portrayal of manliness, on the| ontele of Ralph Stuart and Jessaline Rog- Stage always appeals to theatre-goers, | ors, who appeared in the melodrafha “By and “Ranson's Folly” at the €x-| Right of Sword.” These performers ploits manly men and womanly women, have a following that insures them a The play is a dramatization of Richard] stay in New York as long as they want Harding Davis's book and could not be | to remain, better suited to the star were it built to Ralph Stuart in “BY Right of Swor his order, Le cab [assisted DS" i capable company, had Hirst Might at the American Theatre lest Hichurd Harding Davis has writteh al night, Mr, Stuart went through fou stirtiig play of the prairie army post: act ‘of heroles in more thai heroic in “Rangon's Folly,” which) brought | Style Bon Una Actes ties Hubert Kdewon to Me Hudson Theatre! ie-took to tirowing ‘the mantic Found just night, It was full of heart interest, are S oun teliows In khakis, simple, whole: | 1% shoulder us If he were @ Spanish some how a who, on ne nee to the hgro- ine's brother, finds himself drawn into a duel. the centre of: a Niiilistic plot, the suspect in a murder case und tie girls In white lawn, punctuated | "°, aed and again’ with a miuddy-booted | fs the young Ame Vitfain with a drooping black muctache ond a wicked-looking derringer just for iimosphere, Here and there Davis, the war correspondent. obtruded, but unob-| savior of the great White Czar, Mr, Honally, He has written a clever| Stuart was kept busy enough tor seycral play, much smarter in dramatic con-| men, Miss Jessaline Rodgers as) the struction and with better climaxes than! none too good countess came in for her he has offered heretofore. Robert Rde-| share of the applause. fon (war Just as magnetic as ever. eee s Milliken, ‘the. post trader's setter “truly: shared the honors with, REAL LIONS ADD TO GAYETIES much as the y the sweet, iim, Her personality, OF “AN ENGLISH DAISY.” Ines, brought into the pure touch of Innocent Western nature] From the musical comedy factory Peat aed at ee ie atteat vow of Seymour Hicks and Walter Slaugh- to tne rolling aaa: the plains with | ter in London comes “An Englisi tken is deserving of aise, The | Daisy” to the Casino, under the man- mole “cart wat 1% 004. | agement of Weber & Fields, The “Ranson's Folly + Broad- way needs just such a | troduction of a cage Of lions is a noy- os) ‘elty in the piece, It is the type of en- URL Aedes ne ALN Ye tertainment that the Casino. has shel- NER IN “SERGEANT KITTY.” | tered with profit for many moons Virginia Earl brought one of the real! agone. ( successes of the season to Daly's in} -- “ ’ ” i I resent An English Dat to Sergeant Kitty.” The standard of| , 1) prexenting “An nella Balad” wo musical plays presented at that play- Hiside, Have shown te fame thorqugh that characterize the excellen' house in the past two years has been | metady that characterise the oxrelcht extremely high and Miss Earl's offering “does not suffer by comparison. hey have employed in the piece the best actors available, have surrounded | these ‘actors with the prettiest chorus New York has seen in the recaliect:on of many old-timers and bave done the heat they could by Interpolations with the more or less atodgy Little Christie ‘Tuneful, brilliant, full of snap anal “Bergeant Kitty,” who came sing: . to Dye Theatro last night and made inglish book. pry hands of Miss Rehan, Mr. Skinner ano! in- | | starred, but she carries much of the performance. Her charming personality land her sweet, fresh voice distinguish her most dellgitfulky from the average donua, smothered "wo of ler songe gems, ly Shattuck, Jean Newcomb aut Clara Bello Jerome lead the singing and | beauty forces next to Miss MacDonald. Charles Ei. Bigelow does the Bigelay | comedy turns and makes fun of hi | lack of hair, and Louis Wesley, after. a | long absence from Broadway,’ returhs with his characteristic acrobatle bell boy part, The supporting cast is excel= lent, the stage management of Ben Te: makes for harmonious pictures and ti | introduction of a cage of Hons adda spice of novelty unusual to productions | | of this character, — | OPENINGS ELSEWHERE. Andrew Mack, with a number of new | and pretty songs, came back to. the | Wourteenth Street Theatre in "The Bold | Soger Boy.” | Frank | Tanguay and ali, the other origi | the cast started’ "The Office Boy" on a | week of big business at the Grand | | t House. little. Katle Barry repeated at the Harlem Opera-House her Casino hit as the slavey in “A Chinese Houes Fischer, at the West End ‘The- began her last: week's appearance in “What's the Matter with Susan?” * } Richard Buhler in the stirring drama “Paul Revere” began & week's engake: | ment at the Murray Hitt. | ‘Our New Minister,” after its succe ful run at the American, moved to the Motropolis, Joo Welch in ‘"The Peddler” delivered the goods at the Star. i "The Stain of Guilt” was washed out at Proctor's Fifty-elghth Street Theatre, “The Hleventh Hour,” at the ‘Third was filled with thrilling #ur- Avenue, Penne bn hos je ‘Tiger Ljly Buriesquers" bloomed ; lat the Dever f a ESTABLISHED ATTRACTIONS. souvenirs of the one hundredth perform- + ance of “Rafes’’-at the Princess, i Mary | Mannering's engugement In| “Harriet's Honeymoon,’ at the Garrick, will end Saturday night and will be fol- lowed by Annie Russell in “The Younger Mrs, Parling. : “The Girl trom Kay! lively run toward the the Herald Square. “Little Mary.” with the aid of Jessie Busley and others, continues to cure) dyspepsia and th Dustin Farnum the cowboy in” Manhattan, ts rth sectng: auncey Olcott, playlng "Terence; at the New York. js bringing a: new? ‘hiss of theatregoers to Broadway. * vr Girl: Augustus Thomas's! preacher-and-pugilist. comedy, at the! Criterion, has caught the popular fancy, It looks as if-"The County Chairman would remain at Wallack’s until the!’ vobin’s nest again. lad of It” will leave the Savéy this week to be succeeded by Robert Hilliard in Trances “Hodxson “Burnett's play. : “That Man ond 1" anor Robson has scored a sure suc- | sin “Merely Mary ann” at the arden, Large and delighted audiences con- nie to see Henrietta Crosman in Sweet Kitty Bellaira” at Bel Theatre. : In the matter of splendor, the “Mother Goose" extravaganza at the New Am- sterdam is the plece de resistance of the town. \ ‘There ix no sign that people are'tiring of William Gillette in ‘The Admirable Crichton’ at the Lyceu Mabel Barrison. “In “Babes in Tos at the Majestic, is singing a ni He Won't be Satisfled Until He “Whoop-DeeDoo" and“ Waffles’ is making # ntury mark at | | | ‘he Virginian,”” at the of acting weil Jana’ son, Gew it wi remain the bill at Weber & Flelds's until the funmakers take ¢o the road. Jame: Powers and Ruth Vincent Polen meee Medal and the Maid” at the Broudwa {athe last week of “Way Down at the Academy of Music, theekers’ next, Arnold Daly and his excellent com- pany co nanue to play “Candida” at the ¥ je le. fn Vaudeville. catader and his minstrels; will umuse audiences at the Victoria for mnother week after this. = VAUDEVILLE OFFERINGS. | Mme, Caserini's orchestra of lady | barpists formed an enjoyable feature of ’ » Circle, Mme, Adelaide Herrmanne in’ her beautiful, illusions; va Williams and Juc cker, {nt ‘Skinny'’s Finish,” and Frank Busb, v ‘4 remarkable collection of dia- Charles. M. Ernest's monologue kept rge audience at Keith's in laughter, | And other pleasing acts were Edmund Day and company in ‘'Shipmates, Mame Remington and her pickaninnies, nd the Bas war 197 Broutor’s ‘reen rd Street The- re the Four tts, I od x ood DIT. tors Fifth AY tat Smart Set, Street ppetizing in ‘Theatre Mranita= methine i ator bill included Charles H. ony. Busta ne varlos H, Fone Toten LaRue and. the. Inkey Hovn, nn Vaudeville,” the Provost ‘Acrobits, the Heavenly Twins and the Big Three Minstrels, capital show Was given at Hurtig & Scumon's. Among the .good vies Were Charles Iyekson and company-in Heart-to-Heart Talks,” Billy Van und Rose Benumont in “Patsy's Debo the oy Bards apd the Adonis ‘Trio. Ni'w wax-work groups were placed on exhibition at the Eden Musee. ‘The Corean question wax emphasized pt Heher'a be the Korean Twiis, IN BROOKLYN. A jurge and brilliant audience a ‘mat qi uded Maude Pear in “The Prett * tra supported him loy i friends of the organization Dy, 270020 Mile. Olympe de Cleve (Amelia Bing- ham) saves her imonk-actor admirer (Harry Woodruff) from arrest by holding a door against a company of soldiers. ANOTHER FEATHER IN CONRIED'S CAP Spirited Performance of “Sieg- fried” at the Opera-House—- Kraus as the Youthful Hero and Gadski as Brunnhilde. “Stegtried.”” nrewented at the Metro- politan Opera-ITouse last night for the first-time this. season, set feather in Mr. Conrled’s cap, It was well sung, adequately staged and, all in all, a performance of great beauty and spirit, . Kraus was the youthful hero; no longer {deal to the eye, but agile und lusty, and with voice a-plenty, that he | poured forth in a torrent. Gadski, for the first time, was the awakened Brunnhilde,. She sahg beau- tifully,- but her impersonation of this! | complex charucter was not convincing. Reins Homer Van Rooy's Wanderer and Mime were sutisfying os ever. was Erda; Goritz, Alberich: Blass, Fafner, and Marguerite Lemon the Voice of the Birds. Motrl's reading, of the score was a delight, and the orches- ily. The dragon was a wonderful bea: ‘eathing steam that hissed end lashing . | 4 his tall with fury, while hin head and money Ike water. Silver-plated jimmlies were given’ ab Saws fairly blased with jewels. LIQUOR MEN READY FOR THEIR BALL’ Men Prominent in Politics and Businéss Will Attend the An- “nual Affair, to Be Held: on Feb. 2. . The annual ball will he of neither the “high” nor “low” variety, but very | awell, say members of the Wine, Liquor and Beer Dealers’ Association of New York County, TM will be held Feb. 2 In Grafia ntral Palace, Forty locals are interested in the ball, and forty locals of the Liquor Dealers’ Association means a full representation of the lquor dealers of Greater New York. Never before in the iilstory of the organization has much interest been manifested by th¢ rank and file of th association in its annual “blow out, and never before havaxthe officers and dinplayed for the such activity in annual feativity, If Madinon Square Garden had been avallaiie on the night.of Feb. 2 the ball would have been held th but It was not, so the’Grand Central Palace was engaged. Grover Cleveland {¢ going to be among the distinguished quests—at least he went a letter to Barnard Courtney, chairman of the Reception Committee, saying: “Unless exixencles arive 1 shall be pleased to uccept your pressing in- vitation and respond th person.” CONCERT FOR PYTHIANS. Eutertainment Occar at Gra? Central ‘The organization of the order of Knights of’ Pythias represented in the city of New York will give a promenade cert and ball in the Grand Central 2», preparation Great 60 Palace on Wednesday evening, Jan, Promenade music will be furnished by the Old Band under the leader j ship of Fred W. Bent. The dance music will, be by Friedlander's Orchestra, This order tas a membership in Greater New York of nearly 4,000, dis- tributed In seventy-nine lodge: a frater and beneficial character There fs also connected with the order a military branch known as the Uniform Rank, which will give 4, dillon the above occasion. . ‘The Committee of Arrangements gon- ists of Williara Ladew, Chairman James C, De La Mare, Vice-Chatr- man; Frank J. Martin, Secretary; Alex- ander F) ankenstein, ‘Treasure ‘robert Frank H, Palmer lor- Fa As Dricke ‘The direction of affairs Sounder the care of Mr, William Se, ( Sond hase yourself, Le Cfock another | CHARACTERS IN “OLYMPE” AND “RANSON’S FOLLY,’ NEW TO ; NEW YORK, SEEN LAST NIGHT, AS VIEWED BY ARTIST HARMONY. 15 (10 [N07TE) Whel @ Was WHE), CALLS HIS WIFE CIGARETTE FIEND Broker Oliver Evans Vroom,| | Sued for Separation, Says His Spouse Spent Nearly Ali His Income, $10,000 a Year. i Oliver Evans Vroom, whose wife. Mabel Florence Vroom, is suing him for | Separation, and’ who declared in her application to Justice Leventritt for allinony that: he was a stock broker, making not less than $5,000 a year and spending at least $10,000 a year in high Uving, admitted that he made $10,000 jor $15,000 In 1011 in Wall street, but that pe gave most of it to hi wife and is |now dependént upon shis father for sup- bport a tice Leventritt thought.$8 weekly allmony and $49 counsel fee would about (ft w case Hke this, but did not #ay Whether it was.to come out of Vroom's M® Income or the $10,000 he spends, or out of the father upon whom he saya {he is now dependent. ! | Mra, Vroom says in the amdavit pre- | serited by Hobert J. Robeson that she | and Mr. Vrooin were married Jan, 5, | 11, and lived in Port Richmond it she had to xo to an infirmary at ‘omp- | klhaviite, Sho alleges that he began to abuse her |three months after their marriag | showed a pletol a little later, which he aid he was going to use on her mother, [ard did other undealtoble things; that j ance ca CUM, LY 1. her brother sated. her from his violer and that he refused to pay for ler at the t- frmary, became an habitual drunkard, | nd finally deserted and refused to sup- | 1 her. Hor brothers, Cecil Louls Seymour and | Paul L. Seymour, nfade supporting am-| davite: | Mr. Vroom denies it all in replying. aMiavite fled by Prederiok W. Clifford. | He says Mabel Florence wi chorus girl when he married her, After mar- Ylaje de found that xhe ‘was addicted | torclgurettcs and strong drink anu had xtrange men for callers, receiving them }in dress that was vulgar and disgrace- ul. + Ho avera that she, not he, was addict- ed to intoxicating drink and spent his ‘The case will be tri¢d next month. TOWNSEND HEIRS. “AGREE TO SETTLE Contestants of Will of Eccentric’ , Woman Will Receive Substan- | i AMAZING THEFTS BY GIRL AND BOY Efeven-Year-Old Florence Mo- Cutcheon and Her Chubby- Faced Brother, Accused of a Series of Robbeties. STOLE MONEY. SPECTACLES, WATCHES ‘AND HANDBAGS. | The Girl Stoutly Denied the Charges in the Face of Identi fication and Demanded the, Services of a Lawyer. | A remarkable story of criminal pre- vocity was unravelled before Magis- trate Wilkins, fn the Children's Court, Brooklyn, to-duy when Florence Me- Catcheon, a blue-eyed, fair-haired little beauty of eleven, and her brother, Wille, a chubby-faced Mtte urchin of elght,, who sald they lived at No. Linden street, were arraigned on charge of larceny, In the face of positive identification and conclusive circumstantial evidence, this amazing little miss main ined ready wit and slirewd deflance that made the Court gasp. (t was only after | the eight-year-vld boy had been sub-| Jected to @ sort of third degree that any | sort of‘ confession ‘was obtained trom | him, | For the last inonth complaints of my terious robberies have been pouring in| on Cupt. “Murphy.-of the Grand avenue , station, A dozen women have reported the theft of urtiel and money from their homes, ‘The Only clue they could suggest Was that the robberies were discovered immediately after two little children had called At the house to well | pin lions and ire holders, jer Watch Was Stolen. Mra, Walter Sackmian, of No: #4 Mad-} jgon street, reported that on Dec. 10 a} Uttle golden-baired girl, leading a ros, cheeked youngster in’ knickeroycker: alled at the house and offered for sale Pincushions and ironholders for five sind ten cents each, After having sold a} Pincushion, the little girl asked demurely | if she might..be allowed to wash her Uittle brother's hands. The request wus granted. A few minutes later Mrs, Sack-| ‘hah discovered that a $35 allveér waton | ‘had disuppeared: On Dee, Uo Mra.:Mary diarshall, of N { MB Gates avenue, nad a similar expert. | ence With the children, miasing a band- | bag and tH after they) hud bidden her, goud-by and thanked her for’ buying »| pincushion and two ironhotders. ' airs, Hlizubern Carew, ui Au. 4 Rog- Ye avenue, bought’ threw dron-holders ‘om the children on Dees 12, After | thelr departure ghe discovere the loss Of $7 und a pair of gold spectacles. Mrs. Fanule erfort, ot No. (9 Third avenue. ‘lust $10 and ae hoa of 25, a her daughter through a visit by the two attractive youngators.. The police say they found the photograph In the little boy's pocket. : Many Other Complain A halt score other complaints were! made to Capt, Murphy, und he detalled every man of his command to watch out for the children. . Policeman Cornelfus Cuthrell, of 1 Garfeld place, wag eating hls sup- per inst nignt when Miss ‘and Muster McCutcheon jed at the frgnt door to; sell pincushions ami Ironholders. Cuthrell did not have on his uniform. Ae bought a pincushion, and then told the chigren ne knew his mother wanted one, too, and asked them to go\to her house with’ htm, 2 He took the youngsters to the Grand Avenue station and from Yhere to the Children’s Society. They were arraigned in the Children’s Court to-day, and both ntoutly denied the robberies, though halt a dozen women declared that they were ingenious litte thievet ‘ilkin asked the | When Magistrite boy how old he was, he repli "Tam ulneteen years old. | tial Share of Her Estate Val- | | ued at $600,000. ; | ! The contest before Justice Hurrett and a jury, in the Supreme Court, over! | the will of Adaline Darrow Townsend ‘came to ap abrupt end to-d The testatrix left the greater part of her | estate of $500,000 to Joseph H, Mahan, | who was forty-five years associated ; |with her husband, the late Henry P. | | Townsend, and members of his famil, ‘to the exclusion of a half-dozen | nephews and niec | | At the opening of the trial to-day | | District-Attorney John Clarke, of | Brooklyn, counsel for Mr. Mnhan, an- |nounced that an amicable adjustment of the claims of all parties in the estate had been reached. Neither Mr. Clarke nor Henry 1 Schuerman, counsel for the contestant would disclose the terms of the settle- ment. Mr. Scheurman sald’ that the parties had decided that it was wasting the en: | tate to fight through the courts, and a aatisfactory arrangement had been ar- ‘rived at | "T cannot give the terms, but the con- testants will recelve a shbstantial share in the extate,” ‘Mrs, ‘Townsend was eighty-six years old when she died, a few weeks after making her will, It was alleged by the contesting nephew and nieces thac she was senile, demented, incapable of making « will and unduly influenced in making’ the paper offered as her will. ‘Testimony Was adduced to show that the old lady had been kept alive for months by the use of alcoholic stimu: lants; that she was a spiritualist and held communteation -/th her dead rel tives, and that she & kleptomantac, stealing trifling things of little value rying & big bag sewed inside he t for the purpose of concealing | stolen article | BIG DINNER TO NEWSBOYS. nhetmer Will Entertain xton'n Birthday. Guggenheimer will give a | Randolph ' It Inof | dinner to the newaboys at the Newsboy’ | 'y Home. in New Chambers atreet, on | Washington's Birthday. He exp to| have at least eight hundred boys from Mandattan and half as many more from Brooklyn. In addition to the dinner for the news- boy's especially, and which Mr. Guggen- helmer has given every yeur for tour years, he will Invite this year many of the poor boys of the Cherry Hill netgh- borhood. Mayor MoClellan fas promised to make @ speech, if he can arrange the to conform to.thas executlye “Shut pp,” retorted Miss McCutcheon, tossing her golden brain, “you ate only etght.”” When the women who had been rohbed pointed her out she stamped | Tor font: and exclaimed tn’ a volow of injured Innocence: "What a fib! 1 never aw any of you before In my life.” She Wanted a Lawyer. “Phen she’ turned calmly to the Magis- trate gund .sald: “Please, Mr. Judge, 4 want‘a lawyer.” When the Gourt ri covered .from his amazement he ap- H. O'Hanlon to defend the ket thelr examination over | Later Detective Seward took the little | boy’ Intora- room and questioned lim closely. for nearly an hour before. the ehild lis ped: “Well, I deth if you go to the pawnbroker men on Myrtle avenui you may: find: thomething.” > BRUTAL DRIVER IN COURT. Police Magistrate Zeller, standing at the corner of Third avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-second street, last night, saw Inaac Karman, of No. 242! Madison street, unmercifully beating his horse with a heavy whip, and the sight so enraged him that he chased Karman clear over to Lexington avenue, where he Jumped up on the tub of the wheel and hauled the brute from his seat. The | Magistrate was about to mix tt up with | the driver when a policem:n appeared, As soon as he learned the ‘acts he ar-| rested Karman and locke. him up. This morning Karman was arraigned in Harlem Court before Magistrate Baker, Magistrate Zeller appearing as complainant. Karman promised nevor to touch a whip to a horse again, and Magistrate Zeller agreed to let him off. Karman {s a driver for the Greenberg Sulphur Company, of No. 31 Delancey atreet. et | KERRY MEN TO DANCE, | Their Anndal Ball Will Be Held, eo Jan, 30. ‘The annual ball of the Kerry Men's Association will be held at Sulzer’s Har- lem River Casino, on Saturday evening, an. 3 Dantel O'Connell, one of the greatest Inshmen that ever lived, was born in the county of erry, and his grandson who bears the same neme, will be tl guest of honor, Among the other prom Inent men who havo been Invited and have promised to attend are Police Com- missto: Wiliam McAdoo, Corpora- tion Counsel John J. Delany, Charles F. Morphy and ex-Sheriff Thomas J. Dunn ‘The chairman of the committee of ar- Tengements le leaving no stone unturned in order to make affair me most SANDOL MILLIKEN, WHO SAYS SHE ‘ IS NOT ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED awd! SHE SAYS PASTOR SANOOL MILKEN SNOT TO MARRY Vivacious Actress of the “Ran- son's Folly” Company Stout- ly Denies the Report of Her Engagement to Mr. Stoddard. WANTED TO FLIRT Mrs. Mabel Springhorn Accuses! the Rev. Benjamin Q. Denham of Annoying Her with Atten- tions at Different Times. _ Rey, Bepjamin,Q. Denham, pastor of the First Church of tie Disciples! of Christ, at No 23 West Pifty-sixth street, was arrdigned before Mugisirate Mayo, in the West Side Pelice Court. to-day on # summons issued at the re- quest of Mrs, Mabel Springhorn, of No ~ 442 Amsterdam avenue Mre. Spring horn visited the court yesterday an@ asked for a warrant, but Magistrate Mayo told her that he thought a iin mons would be sufficlent, inasmuch as Mr, Denham 1s a regularly, ordained pastor and is attached to a ehuroh. ” ‘The charge made by Mrs, Spriighorm is that the minister bas been annexing her by what might be termed.u long-dis ‘tance fiiriatin, Ue lives at No OS age. He roe Dry otidonsine tet TW ent yatinst etroet, “The back wie 7 PF am not engaged to Air, Stoddard. (am4 43) iaehiord not.engaged to anxbody. J said so when | there view tt I came back from (he country: this year, | of the minister Miss Sundol Milliken = not to We mar- fed and leave the stage, At least, Miss Milliken, who made a pronounced hit as the post trader's daughter in “Ran- son's Folly,” produced at the Hudson ‘Theatre last night, says she isn’t, right in the face of a telegraphic announce- | ment from New Haven, where Carlos French Stoddard, son of K. G. Stod- Gard, President of the New Haven County National Bank, her reputed flance, resides. £ { The engagement is also denied by Miss Milliicen's press agent, wlio, lio ever, put special emphasis into his di nial of that part of the report dealing | with the young woman's retirement. | while Miss Milliken, on the contrary, | dwells particularly on the silliness of any rumor involving her name and mat- rimony. “1am tred + and I haven't changed my mind. Leave] gays ot | . the stage? Well, Ushould think not Bis. Gorihgunen lie hae eae she is hi wag vut clothes in the yard q ™ 1b uppers at bis windows: is to her, Her testimony was nd mot DUKE'S LOVE STIRS. AUSTRIAN COUR i by her husband, Charles, cr, and by Mrs, Schroeder, of 4 I No. oO West Bighty-first street.) § vt Alter hing court tne minister ree a | tate “1 } after jfer an ad, ent in’ oI 4 tinight ha 1 look inté the ber > ae oie a pearl as todued wn a Nephew of Emperor Francis Jo- 37.‘ “yey “ae pennam, Ce ; {ha m fi vith long halr, redut ” seph Determined to Marry) ty incu tne carge agsiast him fs) Daughter’ of Professor and (yy ee, THE WAY OUT, What to'Do Wnen Food Don’t A_rie. May Renounce His Title. VIENNA, Jan, 19.—Aceording to Die Zett Archduke Ferdinand nephew of Emperor Francis Jo! folks make a change. i brother of the heir nresumptive to the| Where all others fail, Grape-Nuts, throne, Archduke Francis Ferdinand being predigested and all nourish- js about to marry the daughter of Herr ment, succeeds, usually from |the first. ( Emanuel Caubor, professor of mathe- trials matics at Vienna University A Indy of Washington says: “My The Archduke became acquainted’ baby, 19 months old, bad never seem with the proj daughter at a well Gay in her iife. She had suf+ Prague, where the Archduke was com-' fered from indigestion from the time mander of an infantry brigade. oi her birth, and it seemed impossi-+ relatives of both purties are said to be| ble to find any food to agree w th making strenuous endeavors to induce her. She could keep almost nothing the Archduke to abandon his intention, on her stomach, and her bowels were but he is of a decisive character and it in such @ constipated condition she is diMcult to move him from a position | suffered a great deal. ; he has once adopted. | stv was then that T tried Grapes 33 steeping It thorougaly When food don’t agree sensible ssor's ( ae The intended bride is twenty-titee Nuts for her, years old ‘ and straining ft, putting a small por= “The Archduke bas Been prominent in tion in each feeding, and it worked Viennese society, is very cultured and like a charm. She began to Improve fs a clever amateur actor, and it Is immediately and gained half a pound the first. week, Heved that if he marries hie will fol : “Baby got her indigestion ‘rom me, Ww the example of Leopold Woelfling : (formerly Archduke Leopold of Tus- for my digestive organs have alwaya cany, who married Mile, Adamovich, a been Weak. I rely on Grape-Nuts for most of my food, for there ave times when | can eat nothing else at all put Grape-Nuts. i am steadily ime | proving and know it will entirely |cure me in time. I never have ‘thet ‘tired feeling’ any more, I eat Grape. rer, near Paris, July 2 mee the dignity of Arch- dancer, at V last) and ren quke. ood .» HUSBAND AND WIFE DEAD. GLENS FAI N.Y.. Jun, 1—Mr. NUN and I feel its effects in improved and Mrs, Edmund Loveland, of Glens Dental strength very. foralblys" Falls, are both dj the cause, Jt !§ Nome given by Postum Co, Battle being diseased pork, eaten Greek, Mich. is thought y, Mrs, Loveland was taken sick ht and died Monday morn- husband ‘died to-day, The dovesticating Look in each package for a copy oft the famous little book, “The Road! to Wellville”