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WATTERS PROTEST | AGAINST PLAN TO RECORD PEDIGREES 3,000 Say They Will Strike if | Headwaiters’ Proposition Is Adopted. SYSTEM.” | { | | | “BERTILLON Hotel and Restaurant Owners Not Very Enthusiastic About Scheme Themselves. nd walters in Broadway Fifth avenue hotels are prepared to hand fn their check-books, fold up thelr aprons and leave the vast num- ber of out-of-town patrons who always od New York hotels at this time. of he year to scramble for thelr food as they may, | This decis THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, ‘DECEMBER 8, 1 Opera of the Future, Declares Hum perdinck, Will Be the Opera of Realism; No More Fairies \NQIHE $60, His “Konigskinder,’ Soon to Be Produced Here, Much} More Realistic in Treatment Than “Hansel and : Aon : Gretel’—Plot of New Opera. 5 Russo-Chines Fable of the Son of a King Who Goes in Search of Ad-'+ Also Explai venture and Has His Wish—Suggestion of Ing Sprites Is in the Music. | Kerwin J. Wile BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. ! ee If the queen of the fairies were to appear suddenly} sh and tell you that fairies are a fake, you’ would not] Walinen be more surprised than | was yesterday afternoon} be let The. te: when Engelbert Humperdinck, composer of fairy}! ; an nd operas, declared to me that the opera of the future] ”, wiich up will be the opera of realism Prof. Humperdinck arrived yesterday on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse to direct the production of his new opera “Konigskinder,” which will be given this season for the first tine at the Metropolitan Opera House. he Districe Att “The present generation knows three kinds of opera,” he sald, “the the first that Wk heroic, the fairy and the realistic, but the tendency is now away from the th wome | heroic and toward the musical expression of modern life. Puccini has Wider's attorne talen an American story for his newest opera, ‘The Girl of the Golden 910. WIDER CONFESSES RAIDED IN 000 THEFT sii e Bank * Cashic ns About Miss- $240,000, Was reached to-day by | i wa he waiters’ club, the Geneva Asso-| West,’ and ‘Konigskinder’ is much more realistic in treatment than} lation, 128 West Twenty-eighth | ‘Hansel and Gretel.’ ” bi aud “Has it any fairies?" I asked, hope as = t * action of tully. « Associntic in inaugu-ating @ new sys- ; n for establishing the record of every Fairies in the Music. ' waiter. A protest has been signed “On Herr HW diclidats Two week ako me n ‘ ‘ee th against t dinck re sugge Ju thar fe wa nger id if tt 18 e- | Hut thes inected with 1 tosda walk ou I haa ) thinking that the midd Lawyer James W. Osborne told Dist was originated Y \ . end walter | aed nan professor whom his wi te Attorney Whitman that he, Mr © t a Pres. | had Introduced proudly as “Mein M 1 Wider now and tha va Club, as @ | 41d not look like the captor of fairies. at » ie re to make « une te rtillon system," because it provides | appearance he ix #0 good-humored, pro. ee iva devon ie each waiter be obliged to pur-/fessorial and matter of ta at tie a thieneyé eit ase a book containing his photograph | only theory by which I can account fo F uid a record of thé date of his grth, | ow Jong he has been a walter, where « has worked, the reasons for ats | caving each place, and a minute des- , giving height, weight, color of alr and eyes’ and all distinguishing | uarka, | Must Show Good Record. | Dashner's plan, which he and a com- mittee from the Elite Association have vesented to nearly every hotel manager jy the city, is for the managers tu co- | operate with the head waiters so that 4 man applies for a job and is unable | to show a satisfactory record in one of | these books employment will be refused itm, At the Geneva Club an Evening World orter found everybody in a great state of excitement to-tay. \ “This book they want to force us to use and charge us a dollar for Is the Kind of @ thing that is oniy fit for Police iieadquarters,” said President Matson. | ‘The idea Wf wanting to take our mea- surements! T suppose they'll be want- | € to take our thumb-prints next.” It was suggested that it was already @ istom among some walters to impress thelr thumb-prints on a glaes or in ide the rim of a soup-bowl, but the re- , nark was ignored as not pertinent, No men with any self-respect wil! fubmit to it,” continued Matson, "I nderstand they are going to start it t Bretton Hall, the Breslin and the Majestic,» Just so sure ax they lo very waiter who ls a member of ou ss#octatfon will leave his job. Won't Cail Strike Vet. , Af such @ power is given the ne of t can keep Job as long as he and can work off i's or his prejudice by preventing a wi ‘oun earning’ his bread and but with bot call a strike, but are Waiting to hear what the hotel nagers will do, J have heard that ail of the hotels ex- epting he three I mentioned have re- fused to treat with Dashner.” Osear Tschirky, manager of the Wal- dorf, who was a waiter himself and is au member of the ¢ would not entertain system. “It ds nonsense," he satd, hot have men dere who would’ s suet a degrading thing. Anyw an hire our men tn our own way with. Out outside suxgestior M. Grisch, maitre d'hotel for Louls Martin's new restaurant, which started | aa the Cafe de l'Opera, sald he would uot enter Into such an agreement. Against Law of Land. Tt would be against the law of this country said, “because tt would 4!v@ one man power to prevent another fram earning fis living. Suppose a walter spilis the soup or brings in the ‘id a ttle too hot or the wine a litte too coll—these are terrible crimes for a aaiter, if Is true, and they often pre- e'a headwaiter against a man, but \n error of this kind—should it keep Nuiter from @edting another Job in New | % Certainly not. All headwaiters beon plain Whiter# once on @ tim sud some of us may be plain waiters to- norrow, so We should take these things “We would o the realistic character of his elfin music a that the fairtes got tangled In hls) p14, PE: Shifters Eject | a e¥ s s c luxurious German beard. | But Herr Humperdinck has not put ih y Pitse yout into nis} PUgilist When He Tries to See Actor, JUDGE GIES $5 “tl LINER: TRES IN COLLECTION TO ia 2 = mo si” THIS all the fairies he knows operas. He has brought with him to| America a slim daughter of sixteen | with two long blond pigtalls that the) fairies must reach out and pull oc sionally in the woods of Grunewald, where Herr Humperdinck lives and @omposes music all day long in a sun chamber at the top af the house. say yee (Suecial to The Evening World.) CHICAGO, Dee. 8.—Jack peel heavyweight champion pugilist, was eJected from the La Salle Theatre last night, and when he was prevented from heen $426,000, | the sum of $ Gibraltar and Is, Det Hatha su buted, of which I asked Herr Humperdinck why he!re-entering the theatre caused a com-| (> 4fac. 5 a | ee | » Be Reside 4 Bd had chosen New York for the premiere | motion which drew a crowd of 500 per. “. Confessed ‘Hesiod s Story of May Be Resident of Buffalo. mani m0 pert. of his new opera, | sons about the entrance, So great w Starving Family F ac ermeetan | geabertion No Mystery at Ail. ek crowd which watched the dispute Starving Family Found When the Prin from ; The na Hberay sum wilt be given to “Because the directors of the Metro- | between the pugilist and the attendants to Be True Mediterranean port arrived at her! the poor and a bal © of $108,700 will ‘politan Opera House were the first to| Of the theatre that the Madison street } . North German Lloyd ple Hovoken remain in the vill treasury for Ask me to do’ so," lie replted. “There is | CAFS Were blocked for twenty minutes. - today, Mos. ¥, Wow Keood ook, | SoMMUBAL HuFpoKe no other, reason than that. Iam glad, Johnson's ejectment from the theatre) \tugistrate Harrls in the Adama, i0® Young woman yut twenty, a to be in New York, however, and to nee | Was caused by his attempts to go be-! street Poliee Court took fip a eollection | first cabin passonge: your city again.’ I was in America for {hind the scenes to see Alex. Cart, a! ioday to relieve the distrons of a hiwie pm in the the first. time .five years ago with my Member of the “Sweetest Girl in Paris | wayman's starving fami ontributing | wife, but this is the first time my |COMPAany, who Johnson declared was ag. jin seit : ‘ f Fae Gil eles pees Sacer close personal friend. Johnson and his ©, Anat ene eae y y wife were occupying a stage box. shay hide db 4 lam © Clark, with every Dr. Scott's El Herr . Humperdinck looked at the ‘The pugilist, accompanied. by his wife, Jgned before Magistrate H trie Hair Brosh sold. Black, owner of the long blond braids, who drove to the theatre shortly § Pay Seat Sonics before § o'clock and went to the box wh. cents. was standing in another room of his} iy suite at the Hotel Astor, and remarked h had 216 West One Hundred and Tw been reserved for them, At the end of iy he A slowly and with less compunction tha: the first act Johnson sent his ca:d Steet Manhattan, on ‘Tuesd ik hair one expécts a German to feel at such an) “back stage” to Carr asking that he ‘Hocking her down in the ed ¢ You cap invigor aunouncenent, “She has talent. come to the Johnson box for a momen ig NOE: OFAMRE putea I ‘ At vgs pemsestg Ais “Kor musle, you mean?" Phe actor, sent back word’ that, he servation and the pitiable condition) | cy Herr Humperdinck nodded, and after was (oo busy to leave the stage. This 0% hi wife and tw Area WAR Tae \ pause added, “For the vidlin.” was told Johnson, who apparentiy de- | SPonstble for lls act “ples Kena Sh and ve © the converwation turned again to that he would go behind the, , The footpad said his wife and ch ; BEEK Coit, ope nd in a few words of his de- waee Garr When te reached |. Ce Could ba found gt No. 212" Ada nie oe eek ashing toward | Eitttu Rabie ene en nposer told the door he was siopped by the | “treet. and the court probationary oi pall t st day story of “Kontgskinde: Jer, but I his way on the Ch Miss Anna Con y, Was order the ral entorn ral Jt Is the fable of the son of a klug There he was met by severa! ‘2 investigate. * She found. two bare rad Conlis { Psi Who goes ki search of adventures, He employees who odered giim to depart, | Toms and a woman and two young {' : : “7 PALL MALL in the Hella forest, in the hut of a He refused and stage hands who were lildren shivering on a pallet WL Cay Abe Uecat When t fy evaeag wise witeh, @ goosegir! who is an Making ready for the second act were Was only one chair in the room in, taciean bee iinaalaena's H Now tone a ed princess, He falis in love, called to the assistance of the man-| oman had not a penn See ta Sag with her and offers her his golden crown 8's of the company, Protesting vig- pialben..6 Jone Madan Pea ince cor idone and they wish to run away, but the OYously, Johnson was thrown th whieh MRVAGc BLEU REAR AlBEeltaTh.< Witch prevents her, and the Prince de-| the ‘oor and into the alley behind th Hh aye Buifalo, She was held parts in anger, The citizens of Hella. | theatre. they saved for to-day Tee GUoAN 1a AW eTRe ye brun send out @ fiddler, a woodchopper He then went to the lobby of the rhe jan's story He in Mm he ey lati ik awe * and a broommaker to ask the witel ‘etre and attempted to re-enter, tbut , resp reported M Connelly, b ae where they may find @ king. Only the Wa* refused a Johnson began | wife and children were starvin 9 wie fiddler understands her answer, He rec. ‘2 Protest Vellemently and a large crowd | haw been out of work for weeks, Amoug q ognizes In the goosegirl the daughter of Ra are 1 babe fled the theatre | his neighbors and friends he bears “ ¢ for whieh the tmmis seings and takes her to Hellabrun, | 000Y ahd Pressed outward until the | good reputarion alti laarecties ae dilli tiaend ‘This closes Act 1. one street cars were unable (0! ‘The prisoner had been sent to Ray-| ways on the lookout ix “favus,”” aes. dd Street 1, tec ally charged ; affects scalp, ‘To-day Dominica Royalty in Humbie Garb. His wife was notified of the occur- | A tabetha Ban efort will be ane tee ' ; pa the Pttincess Ire: In Act Il. the people of Hellabrun rence by an usher and Joined her hus the vic his attack | oe th man Lloyd, a Up ¢ await, putting confdence in the witeh's band. Both drove away in the boxer's| to withdraw vie , and Magis-! the a ; An Inspegior | ‘I ashi A eee. oe jauleent ey fe automobile, Feed salt ane wy , % t ‘ fin iH Im shag ai nandlis win Along 6th son is living among them as a despised ames sn PBRiky Mlae Con MIMiae hel tata. a: beggar, who serves aaa swinenerd. Only TWO SULTANS KILLED tira ang i i eahantase teen nelly. the child of the broommaker knows he fs a Prince. “The belts peal, the city AND ANOTHER WOUNDED. door ts thrown wide open, and sundeams -p : - tee burst through the clouds. ‘The goose-, /N¢Y Led “5,000 Senggambians in| gil enters, accompanied by the fiddler. Attack on 500 French Troops | ie people stare in dumb surprise. But 4 7 the King’s son rushes wildly toward her and Were Routed. and hatls her a# his Queen, Head-Work PARIS, Dee, 8.~-Lieut.-Col, Mo)}, Liew seals: Sei PASSION PLAY NETTED 000 v0 yourshair You can cure dandsott ond prevent faltiog YEAR $324,000. Players Get $195,000, Poor Benefit and Over $1 Commu 00,000 Goes Into ne ‘Treasury. car's Passion Play at er defraying expense will be divid the prit adinrahe it Ing, ‘ate your aca neuralgia Electric DR. SCOTT'S Hale Brushes Hy mall the ie ith Ave Ave. at 9th, D4th 19th, 23d and 2kth Streets are stations of the HUDSON RIVER nto consideration and give a Man @) ‘There ix derisive laughter, and Prince! Joly, Lieut. Brulo, two adjutants, three} hance,” a + the resin #24 Princess are driven out of the city sergeants and twenty privates were e Head-watter Cabot of the Breslin wien clus and atones, killed. in the engagement. between -a sMuonal with the waiter, and that Just; 18 the third act there tx discord in| French column and tribesmen in ‘the veh ihe aystem would keep a man with | Hellabrun, but the fidd and @ crowd Qualai region of Senegal, French West sa it bad record out of work, so it would | of children, among them the broom- Africa, according an official report ‘ A ; A Tube station platforms are clp a man with a good record, He said | maker's danghter, search the forest for | wade public 3 ay. One officer, t Just as the soil requires enrichment to yield abundant warm and bright, ‘and fast He ONAN AAT Ten Cee ihe Ranlaned Das te pay if commissioned officers and sxty- It ‘crops, so the Brain requires proper food, including the trains run every minute or two ‘epared te J shed, earryin, he pengeda in Ine ir ‘ounded and twe : . 7 : _ — There point on which every | gins, reaches the hut Siig tion | tae Ms ee gas | Phosphate of Potash and other vital tissue salts grown by to 88d St. Travel by the ‘Pubes: Waiters and head-wait. | Arins reaches ule h ; nid . , —the new system will not | One® lived Anil Bivos he aps hOph el 1 | Nature in the field grains. t in reducing the size who happens to be t ere, his crow on n a lonf of bread, The lout Is a polsoned ' arrives with the children ne finds te . As parece. Te ies EN serrate rine kaa mien WS and the fiddler tells thom they must t Population be RE Re ists caval iad soa crave on 4 bad Real Estate Values tie inountainsiae tor the Prince ad - Princess; that he wil then play # las if who advertised in) | piel . rhe Wor ‘ast month should buy a qa: an il Bale, eak jt and 7 f IS A BRAIN FOOD suild ng lot ma new suburb, the little | 't on their grave \ i Furniture pholstered te would jump at once to . > aed my F bs POW EST PRICES IN NDW YORK, Y i the Wo Hires, h col scientifically made of wheat and barley, perfected by a » A City of 123,592 Landowners. ON, Dec. 8.--Widerpread ity velar phi ; ‘ Bae $ prevale of diseases among : 8 food expert to meet the requirements of brain-workers. a how those realty values would! z ages among aly inicenshed; ‘The pin 4 i i . What enormous profits would| ees in the United states cau It well garrisoned. Grape-Nuts food is concentrated, partially pre-digest- r of $1,000,000 annually to the beeke \ ' rly ' ; TECH BARLOW StLDES e! Baris yep TT f rete I ed and quickly assimilated. It contains the essential ele- bist erud Ane ae ee aT + No other New York new : ’ s oi) frat paper printed with 5,000 as many ads, dur ing November as The World. Hosts of World Readers Buy Sub- urban Home Sites Every Week. To Sell Yours’ Advertise in Next) Sunday World. | tes Department of Ag ments in right form to replace the daily losses from Brain duce this loss to a minim for tot benefit of boekeepers the dopart eet and body activity. has just issued a publication ’ ® , N. Manchu ‘OMmelats “Th R & discussion of the nature of these dis: | 416 ‘hurrying doctors Agora There’s a Reason ewses and thelr treatment. ‘The honey | , Akt) : all points in Siberia to fi plag bee in the United States annually pre- ihe Chinese have been warned thit re-\ duces a crop of honey valued at about $20,000,000, and there are vast opportuni- ties for increasing thie output strictions will be p! of wheat and beans market, Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich. to 7 West 14th St. Phone Chesles 1765 | mains to be dis- a ipals 1 the others tn od Thirty-fourth Street (j THE LARGEST WAIST I Specials FRIDAY Black and Colored \ Chiffon Waists { Exquisite Assortment Lingerie Waists Black Silk Semi-Dress Waists Vwitt PLACE ON SALE won-—strictly Including duroys Velvets Value $ A Large Variety of English Ulsters PhWeinber 290 FIFTH AVE. We can and do under- sell all department stores and most fur houses because we are manufacturers. It has always been the ru one to undersell us. We are therefore in a posit house in Am DEPARTMENT STORE. MUFFS, $30.00 and $45.00 17.50 and 32.50 30.00 and 35.00 87.50 and 120.00 Mi 25.00 and 30.00 10.00.and 20. 32.50 and 35,00 Natyral Raccoon 20.00 and 25.00 20.00 and 30.00 Australian Opo: 17.50 and 20.00 27.50 and 35.00 Black Fox 15.00 and 25.00" 25.00 and 27.50 Skunk 15.00 and 27.50 65.00 Black Lynx 40.00 and 60.00 30.00 Black Lynx Cat 30.00 700.00 Russian Sable 500.00 Raccoon Sets — special value $120.00. value $200.00, reduced to $150.00. AND To-Morrow 185 Tailored :Suits The smartest models high ane and Top Coats "s Son & Co. A VERY SPECIAL SALE We buy our skins in the leading markets of the world and make them up on the premises. icg, and SURELY CHEAPER THAN ANY’ Shop in every good fur house or department store where you think good furs are sold and then come here and look over our offerings. Pointed Sitka Fox White Fox Fisher Hudson Seal (Muskrat) worth $40.00, now $25.00. Imported neckpiece and muff of Mole, value $170.00, reduced te! Imported neckpiece and muff of Mele, trimmed with Black Lyn, Natural and blended Cross Fox Sets. q COATS Was Now Broadtail, very handsome garment . $1,250.00 $900.00 Broadtail Persian, beautiful toga coat. 900.00 750.00 Persian, very finest quality, Leipzig dyed, trimmed with Skunk.......... 640.00 500.00 Persian, very finest quality, Leipzig dyed, trimm pst by: ‘ 700.00 550.00 Per: ian, c jualit conventional model . Ayn # ‘i eerie ys racul.. ‘ i . ” bila 250.00 185.00 300.00 225.00 Hudson Seal Be era ‘ 175.00 150.00 210.00 165.00 Brown Dyed Squirrel. ... 135,00 100.00 White Coney, trimmed with White Fox, 85. Venies co GIR 47: 85.00 60.00 95.00 72.50 Near Seal........ssescerreees nite 85.00 75.00 116,00 90.00 125.00 100.00 Men’s Fur Lined Coats.. . $30.00, $50.00, $70.00 Chauffeurs’ Coats. SRleiace aeons $23.00, $40.00, $50.00 ust West of Waldorf), IOUSE IN THE WORLD. SATURDAY. 5.75 VALUE $8.00 | $3.85 J VALUE 55.75 VALUE $7.50) $5.50. \ ‘ Of the clas | 1 Cor ‘29.50 $22.50 VALUE $385.00. Bet ‘ween SOth 8 31st Streets If any article bought here can be bought for | elsewhere, we ask you to return it. le of this house to allow no. ion to sell as cheap as any NECKPIECES, $45.00 and $55.00, 15.00 and 30.00' 30.00 and 32.50’ 90.00 and oe ak THRILLING! ARSENE LUPIN AGAIN! The Hollow Needle An Absorbing Detective Story By Maurice Le Blane Begins December 12 in the EVENING WORLD.