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s OFFERS A STAGE CAREER 10 DOZEN » PRETTY GIRLS elif Mr. Frohman Will Give Con- tracts to Those Selected by Evening World Readers. ‘A CHANCE FOR ALL. With Such a Start, Future of Any Girl With Ability | Would Seem Assured. This is Mr, Frohman’s offer to, ‘American girls who aspire to stage | careers and who have had no oppor- tunity to get a hearing. The offer is made only to those who wish to take up the work seriously. To each of the twelve pretty girls selected by the readers of The Evening World he will hand a contract for forty | weeks’ employment on the stage, at a| salary of $% a week (making a total] outlay of $12,000). | This contract will include a trip to | Europe and a chance to appear at a/ ; London theatre. If r applicant j Fucceeds, she will receive another con- tract for a two o ment in the Froh Six Months’ Tuition. \ of the dozen luck in The Evening World ca ceive in addition six mo! tion In singing, dance are ler engage- an co st are very e competition hyiliietoventrorithe next three weeks During that time all applicants are ted to send thelr ographs to | ng World, nest | | > competit color of her hair an these details are for of the applicant's f The Evening Wor to return any photographs. Hat AbirioUmt ini nuiaaalellllive Vestray ed and the entire « arted as confi- Gential, as far as they are concerned. \ Twenty-four in Final Test. At the close of the three weeks’ dura tion of the contest, all photographs will be carefully looked over by a con of competent judges selected Frohman. These judges will select the twenty-four which in thelr opinion are the most beautiful. The twenty-four photographs will be Printed in The Evening World, and readers will be asked to decide by vote | as to which ts the prettiest girl of the | entire two dozen. The twelve girls re- ceiving the largest number of votes will at once begin their course of train- ing under Mr. Frohman’s direction. The list of successful competitors, as published in The Evening W must be accepted as final. Any contestant writing direct to Mr. Froliman on the isqualified. en to women | is the produc- ton in which ers will make their debut. This was to have opened York next February. But Mr. the first per- tember in order velve full fession un- | aking their TAMMANY SOCIL SEASON OPENED County’ Clerk Dooling’s Or- ganization, Ninth District, Has Reception To-Night. County Clerk Peter J. Dooling will be the host of the first Tammany social gathering of the winter season to-night at Amsterdam Opera-House, Forty- fourth street and Ninth avenue. The | Ninth Assembly district braves plan to | wake it a record-breaker in, attend- arice, and there will be a Mberal distri- ulin of prizes for the ladies. Incidentally there will be a little po- it'nal importance tn the affair, as it will be the first chance the boom-makers have had to trot out the names of can- @idates for city, county and borough of- fives, to be filled at the next election, The committee, with Jay Finn as ehairman, have announced a splendid | vaudeville programme for the early avent, to be followed by dancing till { the Thanksgiving breakfast Is ready, } More than, $1,500 was reallzea fr auction sale of boxes at the clu last evening, among the buyers being Leader Dooling, Assemblyman Sohnne Hackett, “Little ‘fim’ Sullivan, Con- = gfeesmen Fornes and Harrison, Justice F ck, of the City Court; ‘Senator ’ MeManus, Commissioner William » Dalton, James J, Hagan, John Murphy, fie Tammany, boss's vrother: Deputy Sounty Clerk John F, Curty ahd Ate, man John Callahan, ow ——— BROKER MINNICK A SUICIDE. Drinks Acid im Glens Fi fice Following ip in Stocks, GLENS FALLS, N. Y., Noy. James H. Minnick, a prominent broker, i committed suicide la yesterday with wbelle aol acid in RY ‘lose He dis- ri operator, ches was, found? dead ours ‘later ‘His act ie arrnies avy slum; in the market, whi i i) ompbarrasced many of of bla Sent hana ver a widow, formerly Mise Rose ren] nT “a [Cerra society at the t parr nt in ry polixica Hi ft Ae tips proviseied ena ia ale] ORS RT — alms Actress «> SMART SET MEETS MISS BILLIE BURKE Actress Gees of Honor at Martin Tea Given at the Fre derick T Plaza. at a tea yesterday the Pl more The “Altho cordial in honor of Miss E a r. Martin's desire is to br fter anding between s well represented gh there are about 150 of ms jinvited fr ISS nds who re not present, vay @ ey Guest of Honor at Tea Party to Meet “ Society’ accurate service. known practices, The Telephone Company should charge and receive FAIR RATES for the service rendered—rates which Will megt necessary operating expenses; Will provide. adequate reserves for replacing worn-out Will give a return on the money actually invested in . the business that shall be reasonable and sufficient to invite new capital as required for expansion, Earnings over and above those so required should be used for the benefit of the public, either to reduce charges, or to further increase the efficiency and reliability of the service, Individual patrons should be accorded the same equitable and considerate treatment as is accorded its customers by every well managed and successful private enterprise. Employees should be efficient and courteous; they should be faithful net tothe public and the Company. In turn they should be paid at least the average rates paid for similar ability in other ae industries, and their proper welfare should be promoted in lea Our Responsibilities To the Public. IHE TELEPHONE, COMPANY is a servant of the pub- lic, and should endeavor to discharge its duties as such, honestly and effici The City of N territory having close com w York, together with all contributory rcial and social relations with it, requires an adequate telephone development and an exceptionally quick and To give such a service, the construction, equipment and operation of the system as a whole should keonform to the best or obsolete plant, and every reasonable way. The management should do its utmost, by standardizing the system, by improving methods, and by the heartiest co-operation ‘with the public and with associated telephone and telegraph come panies, to create and develop a system of intercommunication, of national scope and of the highest attainable degree of efficiency. uwiNG WORLD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 265, 1908. “BLESS YOU, MY , GHILDREN! HERE'S ee $00,000! BLOW IT” and His Bride and All Are Happy. JAWAY ON HONEYMOON. ing Son Contractor Is Proud of Boy Who Ignored His Advice and Wed Girl He Loved. John J. Fleming and his bride speeding South on a $50,000 honeymoon That 1s Xo say they have that much money to spend, but they seemed so happy in each other's soctety they left it 1s not Mkely they will need it all. The bridegroom is the son of Capt. John J. Fleming, one of the pillars of Tammany Hall, formerly a partner in the contracting firm of Brown & Flem- when to the emergency stead of Pe creaeh argeney: Instead of)" One hour's catch last night consisted ng a grouch this is the “bless-you-| o¢ fourteen, flounders, twelve = hildrer e@ gave: yn tia at dozen a , four devilled No “Grouch” for Him. ‘and two cans of \ $50,000, my boy. I'm proud of m you went right ahead and , of Married the girl you love. Now go was Where you like and don’t come back satin, | until you have spent it.” ynder | Te was a boy and girl romance. When with a {they Were sixteen years old—that was years ago—they met at Schroon , in the Adirondacks, and at first fell head oyer heels in love. y sumr ve then they have been toget chroon Lake and in the winter young Mr. Fleming has been Wisitor at the home of Miss d k. She was |Joinea le ‘Treanor, a joolgirl friend, and Mr. Fleming called cousin, Alfred Fleming, to his aid. quartet then called on Mgr. La- and a few minutes later, at the 1, they were made one. With retion which proved thelr wis- dom they broke the news to thei arents by telegraph, and still more euly remained in town until dt. Fleming Surprises Elop-| are, ing, and several times a millionatre. The bride was Miss Claire O'Neill, of | Yonkers ming, who lives at could learn was recelved Surprised the Father. how their announcement To say that Capt, Fleming was sur- prised is putting it too mildly, | Mrs Fleming died when the boy who ts WW trying to spend. §50,000°0n a wed- trip Was only six months old and father had tried to be both mother father to him. After all these years of care and devotion it seemed mighty hard to Capt. Fleming that his son should run away and get married without his consent But after a fe hours’ reflection tt dawned on Capt. Fleming that the boy, after all, was "a chip of the old block," covith his wrath entirely cooled, he this message to Mrs, Frances \o Neill, at Yonkers, the bride's mother “The' news of the marriage of your ughter Claire to my son Jobn was a se to me this evening, eat happiness to know that took place. “Tt Ia extremely satisfactory to me to | ealize that John has taken as a life partner the young woman whom he! ves, and I am proud because he mar- d the gitl he loves.” Through the cousin who had acted as best man a meeting was arranged yes- terday between the elopers and Capt Fleming. They. were ready to fall on thelr knees In the acceptec | wasn't necessary. Mr. and Mrs, Fleming started for Lake- wood and hefo ey return to make their home in New York they will take Ja long Southern trip, a FISH AT CONEY HAVE AN OLD HOME WEEK. yle, but tt Begging to Be Caught and Are Killed With Canes, Coney Island is suffering from a rush of fish to the beach. The remarkable increnee was noticed about a week ago and since that time rod artists ‘have been flocking to the shore. Catching them with lines and nets grew too tame, and last night they were killing them with | walking sticke, No. 1 ston avenue, had no ob-| “You never saw anything like the Jection to the girl, but he wanted his|strings of fish they have been bringing son to wait until he was a little older.| home nights," sald a motorman on the |He knew they were sweet s, but|B. R. T. “Most of the fish are of the| advised them to wait until they knew| ling variety, but every class, with the their own minds, The young folk al-|exception of whales, is represented. It ready knew their own minds, so they|makes an awful mess for us fellows. ped away and married, and notified|Some of those tough guys dress the leap Fleming by telegraph. He was|®8h on the way home and leave heads and tails on the car seat They Swarm Up to the Beach, | + | She was loquacious and impetuous, and mi from the tone ‘MRS, HUNT WEEPS OVER OLD PHOTOS rights, ich sh ise of irs, moon and Husband De- mands Them. WANTS WE! sDDING GIFTS Eye | Spouse Fights the Suit, and Her Lawyer Tells of “Another | Woman.” mother, LONDON, Nov. %.— After the law- yers had argued all day in the trial of | |the sult tn which Herbert Leavitt | ‘Ttunt, son of the late Richard Morris Hunt, a New York architect and friend of the Vanderbiite, Joseph H. Choate 4mm and J. P. Morgan, ts claiming from his | case, 2nglish wife certain articles which, he | £20 | broke down and wept. that she did not wish to surrender pho- | tographs taken in thetr honeymoon in | st whi “It Is so cruel of Bertie to ask for them,” she ania; and . a her counsel added that it was scandal- | v |Were Taken During Honey-|ous that Hunt should ask for them in |are | Jorder that he might flaunt them in the | Whom he lett his wife te Pinchon, 0} said th three y: household arrangements {t was evident that she was accustomed to assert her | Just at the close of her testimony she can relatives and Aaey cut Lets his She was saying |lowanice from'$1,000 to $500 © appeared. his mistress, Hunt contends that the wedding sents were given to them Jointly by rican and [english friends and that her husband had no individual right to them, although some of the donors were sonal frie! mother the came over from New vork frequonlig bnd bought, various ar. | icles for the house, tne wife said, and these, she claimed, belonged to her as|Stellwagen, a Washington banker, has |much as to her Husband linen, she said, was all presented by his He also claims this as well as a large number of articles bought with a check given as a wedding present by |the late Alfred Belt, the Soutt | mining magnate, and all the h furniture presented by her fa acknowledged that her husband had a right to certain prints given by George Vanderbitt | Tells of Another Woman. Regarding akettle 1, formerly w York, Mrs, Hunt is perfectly useless to me, and | may have it if he choose Hunt's counsel, tn stating her y lived happily untll another woman ence with Mr. came on the scene, whore f hot disclosed, and’ then Hunt I fe and absolutely refused She mae representations to his to | finally to $250, He now has lit erage what he makes as commission in t kbroking business. Mrs. Hunt was about to begin ceedings for restitution of her con shits, preliminary to a divorce sult as dissuaded by Hunt's people, desperately anxious that he shi be able to marry the womem) #82 30 MANAGE INAUGURATION. Banker Stellwagen Chosen as Head of Committee. WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Edward J, The house | been chosen chairman of the committee which will have charge of the inaugura- tion of W. H. Taft as President. The | tickets for the ball will be $5 and the [seats on the grand stands will be $1 each for the common ones and $2 for |the favored places. The returns are expected to be a little more than $50,000, which will be enough to pay the @x- \penses of the inauguration. The annotincement of the se Mr, Stellwagen was made by jairman Hitchcock after a visit to the ; White House. The selection of a vit chairman and other offic mittee will not be made until after M Filtehcock pays a Visit to. Hot Spri together whither he went to-night for a confers African sehold She given by Antoi- alleges, were given him as weddiny presents, the official recetver discovered, | what no one had thought of, that Hunt | {s an American citizen and consequent: ly go 1s his wife; so he has deferred de. cision until it shall be determined how this affects the issue. The Hunts were married in New York in 1901, and separated in 1907, | Both Hunt and his wife were on the | witness stand yesterday. Mr. Hunt, very | |tall and thin, clean shaven, witi black {hair brushed back and with an !m- mobile face, showed no traces of feel- Ing when his wife's counse) called him a “cad.” In appearance he {s years younger than his wife. He was \immaculately attired and sported a sprig of white heather in his button. hole. some Weeps Over Photos. Mrs. Hunt, who {8 inclined to stout |ness, was dressed very quictly in black of her voice and the masterful way she spoke of their 15c., each— 2 for 25c. New York Telephone Company The N. Y.& N. J. Telephone Company Does Most good collar ideas are found first in ARROW COLLARS Cluett, Peabody & Co., Makers Prejudice ow O Your Milk Dishes? Do you cook with a half milk—such as you get from-your milkman— while your‘neighbors are using Van Camp’s? Are you losing ici and flavor that others get, solely because.of a prejudice? You wouldiuse ‘Vari Camp's ‘Milk a> ways: if’ youzused’ but .2.singleican} Make, but onezmilt. dish avithy ie? (Userit (for candy once: Know the ‘flavor thar ‘comes fromithe uses ofawhole, milk, “Don't think” that™ ‘Van’ Camp's is pecu- liar? .It is simply the,richest sof amily. with- out an atom of anything added) And it;meansta cow Jin: your kitchem Rich imille and, cream! alwaysi on hand when youcwant i [Don't ‘let a prejiidice=not (based on facts—ceter. you, from learning the: facts: Half the homes'in vour citvzare now:using Van Camp's. Té’s Whole Milk Van Camp's fs whole milk—and’ you neves”get-that from yourrmilkmany Milk from the top of* your, milktnan’s (can has’ an excess of butter fat, ‘for ithe butwer fot _rises:, Milk from below ithe top has‘an excess of “solids; for the solids fall. And it lacks the butter fat., ‘Thus; the! milk from your smillkman fs’ never: twice. alike ‘Van Camp's is is. always~the) ‘same=-ale pivstthe whole, rich, milk. All of ‘the That*is:{he=xeason for thersuperlative flavor which an Camp's gives to a mill dish; Not ‘because of! ‘anything added} There is no artificial flavor. “You simply iget the richness that belongs to mil Use: Van Camps once in your cooking Learn the flavor that it gives to dish, ‘Then ‘decide ‘for’ yourself if want to: go, back, to:raw:milte Nothing But But Milk Van) Camp's i) simply rich Holstein eit» swith) two-thirds, ‘the, water cevap= > Ww addecanoitiing wibtracted ‘saveawater) a Please, remember, (thi) fact. Van Camp's i is.not’like condensed milk, which is half'sugar—a ‘milk that youican’tause inicooking, We take’ therFichest'of’ milk, frésh from thercow; and. evaporate part of the water: Then we seal’ it’ and, sterilize) it,.so! it comes to you' just ‘as! fresh as it, was’on the day we milked ity That’ 1s: all) We add! no sugar) no starch), no. preservative: ‘Nothing what= ever'is\altered: Analysis. shows*about 30 per cent’ ot solids,,cf-which.8,pergcent!. is butter fat. A Germless Milk ‘Int five; states Nevery<day,we?milki 20, 000"cows: Each of these cows is ‘inspected. So are the men who milk them. No tubers cular jeows=-no diseased milkmen—con; wey, their, infections to. Van, Camp’s Mille (Our (dairies’ are, ‘sanitary: Cleanliness everywhere. is, carried to thé extreme., Our. 1 buildings; where. the mil is evap? orated, are. built without weod Thenvthe milk is, sterilized after (the can‘is sealed\ This makes jt certain‘that\ fot.a germ canzexist ‘in its ‘Science’guardszevery step; {Not so with’ your milkman’s milk: Ta every drop there’ are myriads of germs; ‘and ‘you’ never, know, what! germs) they, ‘are> {In Washington, D. C., it was recently, found that 11 per cent of the dealers sold tubercular milk--milk with Consumption in, it, Milk that ‘caused guinea’ pigs to die of tuberculosis when, they, were fed with i ‘Wet that ig But one of thie fisks, To it ndt\folly:to take them when they can be wholly, avoided ? Six Cents Per ee eee | A pint, can of) Van Camp's): ‘costs tess, than ten cents {when} you bay the) canal by thezcase; Piit ‘back tle two parts: water—which we eVaporate—and you have our, original milk, The cost is,abour six cents per. quart, Think of that=-riGh Holstein] mille, ‘withoutTa™germ: of any, kind in it} {for six’ cents perlquart: ‘And _no:waste: Van‘Camp’s"i8vas“thick7as thickYcream So ithick that you! add one) part) jvatenx for, coffee, YetiitYcosts half whattcream) costs:, sThis-richest’ of ‘milk costs youitessthan, athalf milk—less:than! a milk that’s im pure. And it’can be. always. on:hand. For Children Two-thirds the mortality of children ig due to the germs in milk; Vani Camp'sTavoids those dangers) ’ Raw-milk is 'fust as unfit as raw'meat) Itcarries! more danger of germ ‘infection: Give your children. milk :that is safe: | like Van Camp's better than raw. milk. For that. slight almond ‘flavor, due to sterilization, is itself a, delicious, taste. And the fact that Van Camp's is fnot germ-laden| makes) it] seem] doubly “Van. Camp’s Milk comes’ in’ § and 108 cent ‘cans—at your grocer’s. Try one/cany and you will want it always) Then ft is) cheaper to buy by the case—also. more) convenient, Produced in five states by the: dairlen of the Van Camp. Packing Con. Indians apolis, Ind! Van Camp’s Milk Evaporated—Sterilized—Unsweetened My Hemet oy Naa SUNDAY WORLD WANTS WORK MONDAY MORNING, WONDERS.