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‘ WONDERFUL ACTOR COMES HERE TO-DAY ' De Vries, Who Plays Seven! Characters in One Play, Arrives in This City. HE \ASTONISHES CRITICS | » Fortthe Last’Year He Has Been the Tatksof the British \ \ Capltal, Monst| de Votes, who has been aston- Lenton audiences by» hie por, “bury theatres, where (t wes ‘\\the mxcoes of the eenson. ‘The play contatcs nine |p neven of witid ere tatoen by Mn doy ‘Vries. ‘The other two examining mmgestrnte and Me servant) \ ere played by May Vibert and He A. ‘tongue. The magistente’s business iw |\ to ascertain Che case of the fire whieh *\eurned John Amentis ctrur faatory is a’ i |pwoken different witnesses who are €x- amined by the magistrate Wiest he ‘appauts as John Arend. Then he ap- ‘ in the role of Ansing Arpnd, half-imbeatle brother, tpon hom gumptcion et first rests. KS other waineneee of izes, \ymaimer of speech are village gossip, all wr whom ame done so well Sit ‘Vrins that @ London aritio declares had all of these famous actors cam in the role they could not have done better: Charles Warner, Albert * Qhevalier, Cyr Maude, Willlam Moll!- gon Willte EMouln, Jotm Hare and Erynden Thomas. Tie same critlo paye: “Mr. de Vries bas more acting Mm him hee any ,; Lenton company mow othe publia” SREBOKE FR ONE * OTHER OSCHARGED in Nance committees had visited Bon, Nhe Long Js! been unable to LON TROT TIN RIN EF ACTOR AND ROLES IN SINGLE PLAY. ‘if RIBS TUNNEL WORKERS. NOT TOSTRIKE YET Demands of Men Not Met But There is Hope of a Settlement, ‘Whether the 800 workers on tho ‘Pennaylyeria and Long Island tunnel will g0 on etrike by New Year's ‘s un- ‘certain, but Walking Delegate Groen, of the Regkdgiliers’ Union, enti to-day that he polleves thera will be no toouble, He walt the men have ber unable to get an eghtfour day at $, but he hopes by a little patience they . tdatter will be settled, rock drillers mot Inet night {mi eet GREAT BRITAIN NOW immediate eirike unless they seviant danger Ther Ele. Christmas-Gifts May Be Sent woul! get an eight-hour day. They were Gngry because at present they work al- Across the Atlantic at Cheap Rates. the English frm that ts ‘. d_ tunnel work, dad seoure no promise that | only unfon men would be empl | nee with Fart They then contere: gust gy were told ft } Sinha “angered The"fock crlers, but You send: your Cintstmas gifts & y But) may 4 Give Different] i228, “SE se Seay orator” | to Great Britain and Ireland this year yContts neg peasy nt Ih Meonisnt tases wit be ao | and until further notice at the rate of Renalties to Officer and — |weike | twelve conta @ pound, unless you care Enfisted:.Man, Officas and enlisted men on Gover- ors Taland are discussing with omon "Bnterest the findings of two separate ijeourts-martial assembled to dear! narges covering the same acts and nwforred against Capt, Trabor Norman, “Qvartermaster ofthe Eighth Infantry, ‘elanct Arthur R. Alexander, Quartermas-| fmer-Bergeam of the same regiment, ac- i feuse’l of embezzlement falsifying of ac.) Ficouni@ and conduct prejudicial to good yperder. F Gapt. Norman, who jee WeatsPotnter, | ‘as found gailty of conduct to the ejudice of good order and milttary| ecipline, although pleading gutlty to/ another charge, and was sentenced to o eprimand. =, Xn the case of Sergt. Alexander, an | nkisted man, ho waa found guflty of jalaitying hie accounts and sentenced to | o distonorably discharged from the ervave of the United States, forfelting | Ji phy and allowances due him, and 'THE “GIBSON GIRL” safely landed on the other sido at this cheap rate, provided any single parcel does not welgh more than four pounds CAPTURES LONDON _ &« zor weigh BY SONG AND HAT) By a new treaty with Jngiand thts ‘9 mado possible and ft ts good news to the millions of English, Iriwh and Sooteh who live under the American flag but who nave nevertheless, close affiliations with tho British Isles. Last year to send a Christmas pack- age welghing two pounds to Dublin | would have cost $3.20, This year it | costs the sender Just 24 conts. It goes by the “parcels post,” and the rules regarding ‘hig class of mail are as follows Adminsinie Matter—Any article ad- misstble to the domestic madis of the United States may be sent in unsealed packages by “parcels post.” Size and Welght—A package must not measure over two feet in length and must not weigh more than four pounds six ounces, Postage mutt be prepaid in fu stamps affixed at tt » be confined at hard labor for ono| pound or fraction of a pound. ren r other communications in writing f The ghangea against the two officers : rose Gut of the sue of coal, wood, | Pst: NOt De: tBoloees ith Sach pacuages c, by them to olvillans restding upon | Mattor Intended for parcels post must fthe isaod, no acoount of which was t be posted in a letter-box, tut must fignade to the proper authorities, and it ‘a t i Kiwas allesed that the accounts had been me tenes fo the Hoateomios Bn8 pF urposely altered to hide this wrong sented to the simaster, or person fn Oing. charge, for Inspection P'serkeuy. Alexander and his friends A customs declaration, furnished. by >a indig@mant wheo be gg 1 of} Camille Clifford, “the ibson Gril," | the postioestss must be and 6 court-martial were m Own, r r y ts he cover of age In ee tas canon ad te eel has made a remarkable hit in London suger that tt in "The Catch of the Beason” by sing ao ‘that tt an be © 4 personal appeal to President ckege, om ing a ditty called “A Matinee Fiat," pena lent Roosevelt couM order a| Miss Clifford's costume ts a part of her, Parcels must not exce martial to review the case, hit. She wears a hat with a prim Tt would seem t ca Pa ell broad and Pitah as a cucalyse|tion from five conis per halt ub tree, This young woman hag had @ 12 cents for thirtytwo half ounces FIEWD LEFT NO WILL. remarkable career, beginning life In a' would mean a great losx to Uncle Boston laundry, Her graduation from) Sum, but ft has been figured that fssminntrmsr Named for Ewtate of MImost $2,000,000, k CRICAGO, Deo, %—Marwhelf Field, 4» who dtetbrecentiy of wounds caused the acoldental @echarge of a pistol, ft no will, and yesterday letters of stration were granted to Arthur . Jones and Stenley eld. Murshal! eld, Sr, was appointed over {a three grandchildren, Ml Field, U., Henzy Felt, ten years old, and \Gwenlolin Piel, four years. || "The personal éstate fs valued at f1,- |WPie dimoct supervision ot tre estate wil alton Seankey Weld and Mr. Jones, Is were furntshetl to the amount of 900,000 with Marehall Feld and John ea. Shedd as sureti Read: This To-Day | \Profit*by "It To-Morrow ! aa ri prites oe mLocu) for the b est benlttony ‘ob. each werk by advertinors Hi the Situation Wanted || | | ieee nanlay, Worlds Sine? hdvestloars* whe idl Gist ama ildings on ‘uliteer Mant one, : Wagner, that the first performance this within @ few years the reduction will mean an !ncrease!n reventie AT THE OPERB ay 1 é: Aadience Slights Wagner's Oe 2 “Gotterdammerung,” Only Fairly Well Done. Was {t the nearness of Christmas, or fa it that present-day opera-goers are fulling away from the domination of the flatiron to the foouights was a belle) Playing of the familiar funeral maroh destroyed all chance of enjoyment by those who sat still in thelr seats. Per- season of “Gotterdammertng” at the Metropolitan Opera-House last night drew only a small audience? The sub- scription, of course, filled the boxes and the orchestra; but the galleries were wastes of empty benches and the stand- ing room behind the orchestra rail wae & Sparse fringe. One thing:{9 sure: All the traditions of German opera wore flagrantly violated fo far as the audience was concerned At 7,8 o'clock, whon the curtain rose, the boxes were yawning red chasms of vaouney, and only a few persons were scattered through the house, From th until 9 o'oldck, when the firet act ended, people drifted into their seats at will, the house being sufficiently well Lighted | to make unnecesmry the use of the witoh-like electric bulbs in the hands of the ushers to which Wagnerites are ac- custamed. Whispered conversitions were going on all the evening Worse than all, the exodus from all parts of the house during the tain between the two scenes misled the unsophisticated Into thinking the end Was reached, Even that would not ex- cuse their discourtesy, Of the performance it may be said that it was respectable without any magnetizing or uplifting influence, Nor Wea, a* Brunnhilde, atoned for tailing voice by excess of dramatic action, In | tredvcing many iHuminating new bits of business, note, appearing for th Hiret time as’ the mature — Sleg- fried, gureed — his. volee with — un- pleasant results and licked flex! bility, his flirtation with the Rhine Maidens bang — exotptionall Homer was an attractive Waltraute. "| Biase, as Hagen, still jacked th of vouge and futled to wound the extreme note. Muhimann was the san excellent Gunther and Marion Weed tho Gutru Ha Alten, Paula Ralph and Miss Mulford made tuneful Rhine Maidens, and Hertz conducted with fine appre Jation of the orchestral often drownkng the singers by th sealousness. As the complete cycle of the Nibelun- gen Ring Is to be given next week, bo- ginning on Monday’ afternoon, further review i# unnecessary, ainiste | to reshetor tt. Uncle Sam will soe them! haps the lowering of the new gold cur-| hoasy, | y THE WORTD: SATURDAY EVENING, DCE MRER 83, 1905, Members of ‘The Mayor of | Tokio” Company Will Have a Rollicking Time. For the first time in the bistory « Reotor’s, peanuts will be served in o: of the private dintng-rooms upstairs to night, when the “Peanut” ballet, ay pearing at the New York Theatre wit! Riohard Carte in “The Mayor of Tokto,” wil give a “hen panty in celebration of the Christmas season, Men are ab | solutely barred Qnly~Mre, Edna Welch, their ohaperon, and the nine Little girls who compose the ballet wil! be present, The supper wit! fomediiate!y etter “pe Mayor of Tokto” perform pmoe, and last indefinitely under Mrs Welch’e chaperonage. TF ca relishes 1 ree rea met th Wace cluded wi! peanut taf, d taffy, Carle hag promised to meet any phy- in le thas, may Pg 4 capacity oat oe in or Johnnies," Mina Abbie Chorus Girls Get Married?” nae, Merten” God Bless Them!” Bauer, phe th paisa sas “Ctes,” ise ‘Her. Christmas Gifts, fs, Al ” Trene Donne. “Bh Aledo Girl Presents im Men” sisa Beatrice Mack, sandr, 1 Aco om Capttat Crtme?” wisn CUPID ON PRINCE LOUIS’S SQUADRON. | Lieutenant Wisdom, of Crutser Ber- | wick, Is to Wed Miss Brown, of Brooklyn. romance resulting from the | | vist of te British fleet to American | shores te the reported engagement of | Mise Susan Blizapoth Brown, daughter | of Mx, and Mra. Melvin Brown, of No. | Qi5 Greene avenue, Brooklyn, to Lieut.) John ‘Whsdom, of His Massty's ahlp Berwiok. ‘The Meutenant ts now on the Gibral- | tar station, but his ship goes out .of | commission in the summer after thewn- nual manoeuvres, Itis probable that he will then get @ long furlogh to come to this country to be married. ‘The couple first cnet when Lieut. Wisdom was stationed at Bermuda, two | years ago. By correspondence they oon- | | tinued thelr friendship, and when tho | fleet was here the saflor was the guest |of Mr. and re, Brown tn Brooklyn —— FODDER FOR M’CARREN. 38 oi | | | When Santa gets out Brooklyn way Upon the ove of New Year's Day ‘The chimneys stretohing Lit away | Are apt to fill him with di | And as he pulls his whiskers gray | He'll mutter, "What will Long Pat say | If tn his sock ho finds no pay |For what he dtd tion Day?” ren won't get left that way The be a gift In Santa's sleigh A mighty seythe for ma ay At Albony after New Year's Day oo TIM SULLIVAN'S BIG DINNER UNDER WAY. | Met | Mec | —eEE | A whole steer for mince ples, hundreds Jot turkeys, a barge of oysters to stuft them, a carload of pgtatoos and twenty | bakeshope full of eal things have been | made roay to feel the Bowery clans at the Sullivih Christmas dinne | Big Tim and Little Tim, Florrie and Christe Sutvan, Larry Mulligan and all | the near-Guilivans, Mayor Krause, Sen- | ator Fitmgerald and Johnny White and that Ward McAllister of the Bowery Col, Mike Padden—wili entertain the good people from all the region round bout at high noon on Christmas with a) dinner which will equal any past per- | formance, Two hundred gallons of coffee and as many kegs of beer will wash down the | solids, The whole Bowery will be there, | Preparations have been made for 6,000 hungty guests, with fragments to fill many baskets, "Big Tim's" order ts that no one Who comes shatl go away with- out a full basket or a full stomach, Such is the promise of the Sullivans, and how they have kept their promises has deen shown at many Christmas din- jners. Last yenr tickets for shoes were thrown in for good measure. This year tickets will be given for a similar surprise, but. what the tickets will draw will ‘no: be disclosed until the day of distribution comes, along in, February | Big Tim, the Czar of the Clan, is a |J busy man this d. and seems as happy n8 4 BhOOlboy with a new red sled. If anybody can think of anything to add to the | of eatables that will | more joy to the hearts jof “the boys, or to any of hy be added to th n it T , and it will programme. i ‘Between You and Me.” Eaitor of Tho Evening Word. hich ja correct? To say "Between me and you” or "Between you and mer" ’ I R To tho Pretty Ballet Girls at Peanut Banquet.| — ; oy pe hey iy |= Will Feed Derelicts of the Bowery | and Give Food to All Whot | a) i er vonn’s poe STREET CE F NEN EINE ip ‘Tne Bowen, 2 3 Ade7e Hertra/y +O) C Pirie Brandan *Aoiwedcong irene Odonnell t Marre Fes oury, | > Had Four Wives, Police Say. BINGHAMTON, N. Y, DOO. w—| ‘rank Duplioe has been arrested here » the charge of bigamy, it being lalmed that he married four wives. It 8 said that in these marriages he spelled his name differently en time. being known ag Dupulsey, Duplicey, Duplossey and Duplice. His arrest re sulted from the ante-mortem statement of his iy. hy wife No. 4 who died ro-| vently at the City ; Hospital. | | Not For 15-Cent Cotton, | DALLAS, THX. DBC, 2—President Merge Vincenty - s fh an Interview says: “We | have made no change in our qunimum | for cotton, It has not seemed best to | depart U cents, though President | Harvie J m of the Southern Cotton —— B, A. Calvin, of the Farmers’ Union of America, Association haa asked repeatedly that We did not Our farmers know when join him for 16 canta, nk tt best, Only Know Those Who Will, 0 sn." Not Be Reappointed to Woman Not Gullty of Murder. Office, MOUNT PI@QA\SANT, MICH, DEC. | |23.—Mrs, Murgaret Switzer wes to-day |equitted of, the © of murdering | r a a at] Mayor MoCle!lan will spend tho | Leighton Nich» Bopt i a yg Christmas helidays at Princeton. Soon | in charging the jury, Instructed them after the fitet of the week it is ox. (to conaider the possisiity the de- | fendant might have pected that the slate will be announced. | ij a tomporary. fi What Tammany men havo learned in re- | Switzer’s att gard to it concerns those who are not [the theory of to be reappointed rather tha those who are to be named, It 1s considered certain. that the fo! lowing offices are to be filled by others than those now occupying them; Dock Commisstoner Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas | fight to stamp ot |caKo and to. prev To Bar Sick Pupils. CHICAGO, BC, %.—The School Man agement committee of the Board of Fdueation yestemlay took a hand tp the tuberculosis in Chi- ent {ts spread in the and Electricity malty mblie school roams by adopting wit Bridge Commissioner, |dut a dissenting voto. a resolution call Pollee Commissioner, ing for the exclusion from 8 public | Park Commissioner schools of all victims of the disease. C | Park Commissioner in the Bronx | i} Besides these a number of minor changes are slated, ‘Iwo or three mem bers of the Board of ‘Tax Commissjon- | Agree on King’s Wedding, PATUS, DEC, B—The Figaro to-day ers holding $7,000 positions will go, and | declares thot a definite agreement has! it Is reported also that the two Co: been reached between the British and! wlssloners of Accounts are to be & Spanish Governinents regarding the be adrift trothal of King Alfonso aud Princess The members of the present admint Hina of Battenberg, but that the official t w 1 ae announcement will not oe made for Delar several weeks, ner Kennedy, of - = _ Teneme Tomine! oy Lord Strathcona Salls. Hi mond J. 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RI FOUND DYING IN cs New York Hospital, ‘a brown tf The caso in| ip CLL AS “RUA by Ambu A Christmas Greeting by Telephone risoner Rejected lance Surgeon Expires in New York Hospital 4s socond only to @ porsonai call, Let us help you with a e sidewn your Christmas Greetings. ab drunk, and. ho. wis NEW YORK TELEPHONE 00. ation house m 18 Day Stroc! Laat night he was | he was remov Teme pS STORE OPE UNTIL 10.30 TO-NIGH Decided Reductions on All Holiday Goods \4, 4% and Y, Off on Toys, Games and Dolls Another Saturday Night Chance to Buy W. L. Douslas | 95 Shoes at ® The Douglas factories hrand every pair with their actual! worth, The factory terms all these shoes “dame aged,” but the defects in i stance are very All the newest Winter styles are here for you. More than 6,000 pairs. All the new lasts ~in EVERY SIZE WIDTH, We guaraitee every pair to give the sort of service they ought —or a new pair in their, Nothing could be more fair r liberal, a a terd tev The very finest $3.50 Douglas Shoes, $2.49. LS for loys’ Douk- |) Misses' $1.50 Shees tn Box $1.59 tie ie ne | Cae and Kidekin: § to 1, they are sturdy and will give | ii to D and EB widths great servics, No other store | et, And achanel wee! for ices thaw $200 : LOO Women's $1.50 Jutiettes, | ve a nt : black a $1.50 Slip. Men's $2 & =.50 Women's $1 House Children's 65¢ Lesgins, gh button nd-seW Slippers, Viel SUppers, imported Hn ii new 1 1 uiey vd 1.00 150 peebal at w 7 7 ave BusterBrown Legains pifeda F, Rubber Women's $1.25 Julie ettes and A Saturday Night Saving on Men’s Overcoats Regular { $14 to $8 Overcoats, f Paddocks. © dow i; sizes 75.00 950 rer ANE LT TS