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re aT v= - » management will be able SUCCEEDS EVEN IN Gottschalk, Clever and Mod- est, Has Hoodoos Thrust Upon Him. Some actors are born fathures, some achieve faflures, and others have fail- ures thrust upon them. Mr. Ferdinand Gottschalk belongs in |, the third class. He holis the season's record as the success of many fail- ures, Within the past few weeks “The Brateley Diamond,” “The Lucky Miss Dean” and “The Triangle” have been thrust upon him, but they have not crushed him. He bobbed up serenely for the post-mortem. “Do you mind turpentine?" he in- quired solfcitously as his “man” ush- ered me into his uptown rooms. “No? It {s very good of you to say so, The painters have been here. I’m just mov- ing in, you see.” Evidertly Mr. Gottechalk’s home lite ‘Was as unsettled as his stage life I Secretly hoped that his new rooms would be a success and that he would enjoy & long, comfortable run in them. It ls enough for htm to keep theatre- goers guessing where to find him next. But just now the tables were turned. He was kept guessing. “I can't understand why you have come th see me,” he said. “What py @ible interest 26ult there be cn anything I might say? And what can I say?" I suggested a text from any one of the e@iticisms of pluys ‘n which Mr. Gotts- ehalk had recently appeared. “tr, Gottechalk was vapital, ‘out"— ani then the other side of the dismal story. Hoe admitted having seen something of the sort in the papers from «ime to time, but he smiled more in sovmw than in eppreciation. “That kind of praise means nothing .o me,” he sald. ‘Thare is no satisfaction in it, Mere individual success is wo.th nething i€ tho whol Is to be @ failure. T've never gone into @ play with an eye only to my own success. I have atwavs worked with the success the whole performance in mind. I always en- deavor to get under the skin of a cher acter—to begin froin within, as it wers - and work out. I try to be the charac- ter, and on a first night I never a! myself to wonder what the audieaco tliinks of me, or what tha critica will Bay of me the next day. “After the performance, however, I try to find out what the people have eald—the things that ere sald in the lobpy. This criticism may always be deptnded upon to be candid, honest and spouianeous. It Is the mouth-to-mouth advertising that makes or breaks a play. Newspaper criticism, of course, extrts a great influence, but the fate of @ play depends, after all, upon what the person who has seen it tells his neigh- bor, A play may be praised to the skies by the critles and yet fall flat with the public. It Js the bright criticism that is read, and praise can never be ' FERDINAND GOTTSCHALK Ld THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 1h, F906. ~ HIS STAGE FAILURES'S45,600,000 PAID (ure Size) right. Of course, thos of us who happen to be pratsed read the praise very reverently—I know I do—tut I Goubt if the public does, The bright criticism usualiy has a point of view, and a point of view is everything.” Perhaps this was Mr, Gottschalk's del- feate wiy of answering Mr. Brady; per- elge that he 1s right will enable him to keen in the character. An aotor like Warfteld, for instance, can do that. He can gay to himself: ‘A woman out there is gigeling—I wish she would stop —she has stopped.’ and at the same time be ready to shed real tears a moment nftel The actor should know his character.intimately berore he steps on ; the stage, He owes so much to the haps it wasn't—I didn't ask. author ‘Fer myself." he went on, “I look | “Hut what of the author's debt to the to the newspaper criticisms for put | actor?” “I felt that debt very deeply some years ago, when a little play of mine called ‘Nanette’ wae acted at Daly's.” replied Mr. Gottschalk. “It was a gruesome thing, and I loathed it. While ths performance was going on I walked back and forth behind the back drop sorry for the actors and sorry for my- self. I had no hype for tt until I no- ticed the tense silence of the house. Then I knew that the actors had made it Interesting, and I felt that I owed! one thing—I want to know whether I ain right. That is all an actor needs to knew, Praise dotsn't help him, and frequently i spoils him by making him self-conscious. It ts esseotial that he should forget himself—forget every- thing but the character he {8 playing, Ho should throw himself Into a char- noter completely at first. even-Tf he ts unable to do so afterward, when the Inying of the part becomes more or Jess automatic, Even then the knowl. everything to them. Authors are usu- ally grateful. Mr. Fitch, for one, Is very generous. Whenever I have man- Aged to do anything in one of his plays he has always thanked me by ‘word or letter. He is very appreciative.” Mr. Gottschalk was equally generous with the authors of the plays that have been carrying him down with them. “Mr. Hughes showed great promise in "The ‘Triangle,’"’ he said, “and I think he will give us a good ‘play one of these days. He has the literary qual- ity beyond doubt. His stories have proved that. Hut there is the horizontal story and the perpendicular story, The story that is printed may be horizontal, but the story that 1s adfed must be per- pendicuiar—it must be up and doing. Brilllant eplgram js all very well, but emigram and too little action a chap in the gallery to call 'Toh-l to the market. When the official figures came out they were not disappointing. For the first time in several weeks an increase in surplus was shown. Al- though this increase was small (61,454,- $60) {t 1s regarded as breaking the Ice for better things. The decrease in re- Serve of $5.448,300 is more than offset by a decrease of $6,908,290 In the re- serve requirements. New = York | banks now have a surplus of $0,483,700 as compared with 50 last year and $29,987,175 two years ago. Some of the Cincinnati, Dayton security holders are puzzling over the annual reports just tssued for ths system and the Pere Marquette. The net increaso in the fixed charges of | the C. H. & D. for 196 amounts to} more than $1,100,000, equivalent to 6 per) WALL STREET. ——— Saturday, March 10. ‘A pronounced bullish sentiment per- waded the stock market to-day end prices showed an inclination to advance at the opening. Half the brokers tn the exchange, however, hed commissions to take profits on yesterday's pur- chases and an avalanche of selling or- Gers checked a further upward move- ment. The active stocks held up firmly after the first fractional recessions, An aggressively bullish spirit 1s develop- ing in the United Stetes Steel shares. The preferred which lately has sold as out tch-k!’ (he made a_nolse like a cab driver.) ‘Get up with the play CHARLES DARNTON. ‘To-day’s highest, lowest, closing prices and net changes Oc stocks from yesterday's final quotationa are ay ful Net Clos. Ch'es. 2 Hamilton & | 4 +1 i : 1 Woollen’ Go. . Anaconda Min. AL, T. & 8. ei Balt, & Onto. . Brooklyn RP. 22 Centenl Loxthee {1 c l+l+ TI1+l11+ + cent. on $22,000,00) of new capitalization, Detatls of the report indicate that on low as 1045-8 climbed wp to 107. and to- ey stoutly resisted the efforts of the bears t dislodge it. There ts a grow- tng feeling on the part of the conser- vative element in Wall street that the phenomenal railroad earnings thus far this year render futile any sustained Tesented by actual addfitor provements to the property ,ly Increasod capitalization on hand tmposed a severer bur ont {company than its financial rcsouy campaign by the bears, With the ex: tard, ‘ ception of the Reading every important Something tmportant ts expect railroad in the United States reported | happen next week. James J. Hill @ gain tn net earnings for January. A | owas is likely. to mies a mimics of compilation of the returns of eighty-one | jron and steel _men here If Wa healt! rallroate shows an Increase In net for its, Wall Street regards Mr. Hil’ from the South as Indicative the month named amounting to 43.03 per cent. This ts a record-breaking gain not only for January, but for any other month. The Harriman Ines ate conspicuous in this procession of prosperity. Union dy close of ore land ¢ A spe tween the Great Northern and th Stee! Corporation aS GAIN | SURPL IN Pacific's increased earnings for January For Were $643,170 gross and $235,090 net the seven months of the fiscal ended Jan, 31, this system gained $4,920, 885 in gross earnings and $2,217,223 in net. The figures of the Southern Pacific are still more favorable, showing increases for January of $992,273 gross and $152,539 Wall Street was satisfed with weeltly hank statement 1 to- the figures being ‘more favorable t expected and an i | surplus for the first time in some we Nhe gain in this particular was $1, showing ease net, for the seven momths ended Jan.{ os, Loars and d ta were also nud 81, an Increase in gross $5,125,318 and In- \ ; to, Indicating that while the shipment Grease in net $2270.23. This showing] o¢ money South and Wost le idereal of the Union Pacific is unprecedented, sth od supply for local and it naturally plants the seed of hope The as Issued at the ing House in the breasts of the dividend expecting a holders of Southern Pacific shares, Equally interesting is the result of the operation of the Southern Railway s tem for the six months ended Der, al President Spencer is able to report a ;Burplus now in the treasury to $8,724,056. © This is an increase of $234,607 over the corresponding period of Inst year. Out Sef its surplus the Southern Railway to pay the | semi-annual dividend on Sts $60,000,000 of took and have left 18 per cent. ap- to the common stock. tation of a good bank statement Loans, Dens., incre ——————$—. ___ “RK HOPELESS CASE.” This is the title of Charles Dana Gibson's drawing which will be amounting | 1 6. Sunday World, YOu. CASE WILL B! AY LESS" IF YOU DO NoT ORDER TH BONDRT WORLD IN ADVANCE FROM YOUR absut $10,000.00 of this new capltal is rep- |C given free next Sunday with the) 75 Wa gMARERSES CREE RPLAT STE PRE 52 a t —t =i % fr 4 wy ry +H — 4% + % tat —\% rea eS 14g +++] +1 weer Fe Tork Tsinnd FEERS + F + Hag jon Pao FOR AUTOMOBILES Thirty-nine Millions of This for Machines of American Manufacture. ‘The sur of $45,£00,000 was pald our by the American people for 23,99 automo- Diles in 19. Of this amount $39,190,000 went to American manufacturers for 22,970 American-made machines. ‘The total number of automobties of American manufacture in 1905 was 27.540, leaving 4,870 in stock for sale om Jan. 1. The total number of machines made and sold in the United States duriag three years ending Jan. 1 was 41,043, at 8 gross value aff $58.742.907. The average selling price of Ameri- can-made ‘autos’ has increase to $1.- 702, from $1,170 in 1400, while the {m- ported cars, fiuring on all sales for three years, show an average selling price of $6,710. ‘The extraordinary increase In the im- portation of foreign machines !s indi- cated by the fact that in 193 only 375 mere brought in, oosting $1,300,000; in 1904 the number had jumped to 2, at an appraised value of $2,209,492, while in 1906 we imported 1.026 cars, at @ cost of $6,700,000. The increasing demand for commodi- ous cars, with hanisome tops and lux- urlous upholstery, steadily tnoreased the average price of the imported ar ticle trom $3,465 In 1903 to $6,710 in 1905. The average of $1,102 per car for the hemnesmade product does not indicate that the American manufacturer is not Quuilding cars as big and costly es his foreign rivals The difference is caused by the fact that while few smail cars are imported, the Amerikans ure producing great num- bers of sinmall runabouts, & in. which | the purchaser ts getting more for his money every year, An Interesting feature of the year's record {8 that the increase In cost to the manufecturer himeelf is very mucb greater than the Increased cost to the consumer, indicating that the Ameri- cans have at last ‘come to realize that| to hold thetr home trade and to create an export business for the future they must give a higher grade of material and of workmanship. ROCKEFELLER “‘NEAR”’ FOUND ONCE MORE. The frequent meeting of arrivals by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller at the Lake- wood raflroad station has raised the be- lef that Jotin D. ts really quietly in- stalled in his Ocean avenue mansion. Mrs, Rockefeller has used the family automobile to an unusual degree of late, making repeated trips to the railroad station to meet persons from New York and elsewhere, whom she has taken to her home. The {dentity of these per- sons I» got known to the people Lakewout, None of the servants will give any inkling regarding the whereabouts of the ofl magnat —_—_>___. BEARS HAMMER COTTON AS TRADERS SELL. Heavy selling pressure from many quarters weakened cotton prices In the early market to-day. The decline was originally started by reports that the demands of the mills at Manchester had been supplied, indicating a lighter in- quiry for actual cotton from that quar- ter. The bears took full advantage of the situation to hammer the list. | The opening prices were: Mat‘ch, 10.47] offered; April, 10.56 offered; May. 10.60! bid; July, 10.69 to 10,70; August, 10.65 bid; September, 10.90 bid; October, 10.18 to 19.19; December, 10.22 to 10.23; January, 10.27 bid, The closing prices were: March, 10.39 to 49; April, 10.44 to 1048; May, 10.57 to June, 10.62 to 10.€4; July. 10.69 to August September. to Wal8; No- vember. to 10.20: December, 10.22 to 50,000 MEN WILL MARCH IN ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARAD Procession Will Overshadow Any of Its Kind Ever Seen in New York. MAYOR TO TAKE PART. All the Old Sores Are Healed and the Big Delegation Will March in Friendly Order. The St. Patrick's Day parade last year was the greatest ever held in this city since 1852, but the parade next Saturday will overshadow “it. Conservative esti- mates place the number of men who will be in Ine at 50,000. The sixty-two divi- sions of the Ancient Order of Hiberni- ans will turn out In full force. and every Irich Catholic organtzation in the city will be represented. The gradual healing of old sores re- sulting from friction between various factione in the Insh organizations has at last been completed. Ail !s harmony and men will march shoulder to shoul- der in the next parnde who have not been associated in a St. Patrick's Day celebration for many years. Following the parade, which will MARTIN J Fane: drand Marshall Mj move along the time-honored route, up Fifth and Madison avenues to One| Hundred and Twenty-slxth street, a national festival will be held at Sulzer's| Harlem River Park and Casino, at One| Hundred and Twenty-sixth street and Second avenue. The proceeds of the entertainment will be devoted to the) construction of Hibernian Hall and In-| stitute, at One Hundred and Sixteenth | strect and Fifth avenue | Mayor McClellan, Charles F. Murphy. | Herbert Parsons, Street Cleaning Com- missicner Woodbury, Police Commis- eloner Bingham and other city, State} and national officials will appear in the parade. Archbishop Farley will review) the marchers from the veranda of the diocesan house, at Fiftieth street and Madison avenue. There will be fifty brass bands and twenty fife and drum corps in line. | One of the bands, a Long Island City | institution, will led by a real live Irishman. | The parade will move from Forty second street and Fifth avenue at 1. o'clock Saturday afternoon, with th Sixty-ninth Regiment. 1,0 uns | der Col, Edwanl Daity, Regiment Irish, Volun by Major Charles Crowle honor, The order of parade will be substantially as follows: Sixty-ninth R gt N ward Du ‘strong, and the First! command’d | Voluntee 3 Crowley, Regiment, Irish Brooklyn. Third Regiment Irish Volunteers, of West- and ing, ci; Second Volunteers, 150 Pieces. jan Rifles, New York County cers, Ancient Order of Hibernians ions i to 48 of the Hiberntans, ty Sligo Men's Association, Emerald (1 County Westmeath Men's Association. hamrock Club Letiran Men's Association, club Men's Ansoclation. County Tho: Counts Monagh Gaelt Tipperary M County: a Hrian foru Club, County Roscommon Men's Association. Emerald Isle Club, County Kildare Men's A LONDON STOCKS FIRM; AMERICANS STEADY. LONDON, March 10.—Money was in good supply in the market to-day and In less demand, Discounts were quiet. ‘Trading on the Stock Exchange was of a smaller volume but the tone was firm and prices Inclined to harden, part!- evlarly Home Rails, owing to Invest- ment purchases, Consols yielded a fraction on realizations. Americans opened steady at well over | parity and a fair amount of business was transacted, but they. reacted frac PJ: GILROY First tcl ARCH BISHOBY TARLEX COPYRIGHT By AnoERso” Unitea frimh League. erick Men's Assoctation. a Assoctation. y A Count} Le The County Kerry 3 American Irish Iuntst: wry 40 Historical Society. 11 Club, fan Club. Roe Club, Banker Hil Club, aging Pare Greater New ¥ Irish Holy Delegation te Ancient “Order. of Queens . County, LT Anctent Order of iiternians, Suffolk County, | ne Island Hibernian Rifles, Westeh Anciont” Grder’ o Hiberians, county WHEAT STEADY, BUT THE TRADING LIGHT. HP aGe Ont EO ‘ September, 43 ctosing “8 offered tionally near the close and finished steady. Grand Trunk declined owing to the new issue, but Improved toward the | clo 10.23; January, 10.26 to 10,28, DRAWN { ] _ fp Zig By Permiarion COLLIEM'S WEEKLY. Copyrirht, 1908, P. F. Collier & Son. > by This picture supplements and illustrates the fourth article on Pen and Ink Drawing, which will be published in To-Morrow’s Sunday World} Be Sure You Get This Picture FREE with To-Morrow’s Sunday World. ORDER IN ADVANCE TO-DAY. fon Pao ¢ +1 $ hy + 8 x1 1 118% = % ug f Lam Hy 204 an ae toy by = ¥ — Decline. The total sales of stocks to-day were 471,306 shares and of bonds $1,279,000. Next Sunday’s World will also contain among its many special features : 4, Will Women Go Back to Taking Snuff? 5, How to Make Eggless Omelettes, 4 The Girl Who Forgot She Was Married, 2. Greatest Electrical Invention of the Age. 3, A Man Who Can Outrun an oS eli ie iy a Japanese Imperial Sixes of 1904 were | quoted at 104 iy This Is To-Morrow’s Sunday World Picture BY CHARLES DANA GIBSON. pi} f I vi s gy YY A HOPELESS CASE, Drawn by Charles Dana Gibson, Antelope, 6, Harvest of | an | Mid AT COUNTRY HOME Pennsylvania Tunnels and Elec- tric Trains Will Carry You to Massapequa, L. |., in 35 Minutes, Corn—M y 42 Who wouldn't ive out In a beautiful suburb in preference to a stuffy house }in town if he could drop into a train at one of several stations In New York and spin out to his oountry residence in thir- ty-hye minutes? ‘Thousands of families are living in New York to-day tor no other reason than that they cannot live in the suburbs under present. transit conditions. The family heads cannot got to and from their respective pluces of business. Rut with the completion of the trans- Manhattan tunnels of the Pennsylvania Ratlroad and the instalment of the elec- tric train service to Massapeq L. Ly will come a real transit revolution, It will bring this beautiful suburb within thirty-five minutes of Wall street or, in fact, any point in Manhattan between there and One Hundred and Twenty- { fifth street. President Cassatt has prom- Ne ATK \ {sed that the Pennsylvania will instal \ NH \ jthe finest suburban transit system in the \h i NK world as soon as the tunnels to Long Aa Island have been completed, and that . |Means not later than 198, according to the company's plans, Experts are agreed that Massapequa to-day affords the best opportunity to be |had in any of the New York suburbs for the home-seeker and small investor. Boom days have not yet come to that part of Long Island, and 0. the prices jof ground haye not’ become abnormal. 'The man who grasps the chance and puts his savings in building lots there cannot fall to reap a handsome profit out of his timely investment. And that does not mean that he will have to wait until he gets to be an old man befors the profits are realized. His Investment will begin to earn money for him right at the start. The Queens Land and Title Company has made arrangements by which It {s able to put on the market thousands of lots at Massapequa at the extremely low rice of $195 each, The purchaser may have a discount {f he pays cash, but if he wants time he may buy his ‘lots by the payment. of 310 down and $5 a monti, thereafter. No other New York suburb ean offer prices anywhere near these figures, nor can any other suburb rival Massapequa in its general advantages and attractions. The lot purchaser gets a free policy of title guarantee, and will not have a penny of taxes to pay for two years, His iltle deed, too, Is in effect a. life-in- surance policy to the amount of his pur- chase, for in case of his death the pay- ments cease and his heirs will get a clear title to his lots, If he loses his job the company will carry him without payment for a year, and In cage of total disability his payments will cease and he will get a clear title, The offices of EEG Hine Sindee ao ans NN ~— ART SUPPLEMENT THE SUNDAY WORLD New York, March 11, 1906, ave Russia’s Terrorism, - Wheat started stea with prices Practssally unonanged in the market to- aay, rading was light and chiefly = professional, WETEE Lerner Ch. Corn was firm. — York's opening prices were: 7 were: Wheat | to 71 ra—July, ' D GIRL FORGOT THAT SHE WAS MARRIED Anyhow, that Is the Strange Plea She Makes on Second Husband’s Divorce Suit. » “When I married Edwin I had for gotten all about being married to Samuel. But It all comes back to me now.” Th's remarkoble statement, made by a bride of elght2e:, in all eoriousness, has not saved her from the divorce court, for the second husband, who led to the altar a pretty girl whom he never suspected of a previous attachment, has proved obdurate and Is suing to annul the marriage, while the first h a, * whom the girl married when she was only thirteen, refuses with equal per- sistence to take her to his house.) This is one of the strange happenings of this queer world In which we I The plight of the young lady woul be awkward’ enough If she could gp court at her home and have her position fixed. but unfortunately} for her the tangled romance spreads jover a State line, and the authorities of Connecticut and New York must pass upon her case before she can take a place In a home of her own. The dockets of the courts contain many cases of dual marriages which bring the participants within the gange of the law. Usually this is through oversight of the participants in these ventures who scheme to get around the law, but no such element enters into this remarkable cave. Miss Edna's first marriage was scarcely romance, It pare took much more of the character of an innocent frolic at a children’s ‘party, chaperoned by the parents of the youth. ful couple now Involved. Miss ‘dna aia not understand what being . married meant; and whea the young hasband came to take her from her mother's home she protested and refused, even though he proposed to make her ‘the household compaaion of his sister, her ; dearest girl friend, from whom she had | / been almost inscparable. In fact, it was her desire to join Bertie in her party festivities that led her to consent to be married, t Even after her mother was appesied to by the young husband she conti to resist all propositions to leave home, — and in the course of years the incisene. OL her candahood paced out of | only to be revived by the un: coutest of two men, each of wh her his wife. ‘The story js a lot interesting one, and the whol will he found seb Bathe dandy bagatan Vora

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