The evening world. Newspaper, November 18, 1911, Page 5

DUEL TODEATH OVER BIT OF ROPE + FOUGHT OM PIR Bienes Watchman Scott, Wounded Twice, Kills Junkman Scott |» —Surrenders at Station. PLEADS SELF-DEFENSE. With Bullets in Thigh and Shoulder ‘He Refuses to Go { ‘24, to the Hospital. Refusing to go to the hospitel, al- ough severely wounded in a revolver duel jast night, Walter T. Scott, a dock ‘watchman, of No. 115 West Forty-cighth mreet, pleaded self-defense when ar- raigned in tho West Side Court this Morning for killing William Scott, a riv- @ junkman, of No. 1466 St. Nicholas avenue. Tho news of the duel and the Killing had hardly come over the phone to Lieut. Ross, who had ontered Policeman MeKnight and several detectives out on the case, when the watchman entered the West Forty-seventh street station house: *“T have just killed a ma: come here to give myself w “Who are you?” asked Roas. “Tam Walter T. Scott of No. 415 West Forty-cighth strect, a watchman on the docks at the foat of Forty-righth street. I was formerly a chauffeur.” “Are you the man who killed William Goo?’ asked Ross. “Yes; I killed him. He ts no relation f mine though. I had to kill him or he woull have killed me. He came to my dock to-night and asked me if I had eome rope belonging to him. I told him I didn’t know anything about the rope. Then he shot me in the left shoulder and again ‘n the loft hip. I ran into the shanty and got a gun that was left there by some one and returned the fre. Goott shot four times at me and my last het hit him. He fell dead.” SHOT IN SHOULDER AND THIGH, STAYS IN CELL, 4ia@ not believe the man had been shot. He was e: ined by Detective MoGee and two bullet wounds found. He was arrested charged ‘with homicide. fhe prisoner was examined by Dr. MiNer who advised that he be taken to Flower Hospital. “No,” eid Scott, “I don’t want to go the hospital. I want to stay right ere and tell the truth about this mat- ten I can prove I in selt-de- tense.” Halt an hour later the police and de- tectives who had been searching for the slayer of Willlam Scott reported to Ross they had pot found #0 much as @ clue to the man. “Come in,” Ross said. “I have the man here and he has told me all about it.” Beott, questioned by Assistant District- Attorney McDonald, told traight story. It is feared if he persists in stay- ing in @ cell instead of going to the hon- pital that blood poisoning will develop. peered aa aaa WILL REPEAT OLYMPIC- HAWKE COLLISION IN TANK. Court and Its Assessors Will Test Theory of Suction Advanced by the Government. LONDON, Nov. 18.—When the sults arising out of the collision between the Olympic and the British warship Hawke were resumed yesterday it was arranged that the Judge and his as- eessors, together with experts on behalf of the White Star Company, shall wit- ness experiments to-day by which the Admiraity, with models of the two vessels in a tank, will endeavor to sup- port thelr contention that it was suction frem the Olympic which caused the Hawke to swerve into her, ‘ ‘The chief, second, fourth and alxth of- fivers of the Olympic testified yesterday that they had never known the glant liner to exercise any suction power on smaller vesse!s, All agreed that, while the Olympic showed signi indicating her helm changes, no such signals were given b: the Hawke when ehe turned to pass, a the witnesses believed, under the Otym- pic's stern, Tre WATCHMAN WHO SHOT VAGRANT IS CLEARED. Capt. Eaton on His Birthday Is Found Not Guilty of Man- slaughter. Cept. Hiram Eaton of Port Washing- .ton, near Huntington, L. I, is a free man to-day. Late last night a jury in the Nassau County Court found him not guilty of manslaughter. The curl ous part was ‘iat during the trial no- body in the court room except the Prosecuting Attorney—and he only half way—regarded the captain ae in any danger of eing found guilty.) Capt. Eaton is employed | ral wealthy Sands Point people as a watch- men. On July 14 last he shot and killed Benedist Apolsk!, a vagrant, who at- tacked him when the captain ordered him aWay. When Apolski cut the cap- tain'a tace with a rock, the Captain gage, Be began shooting, ‘Te-day is Capt. Eaton's sixty-ninth birtiday. ——_——_—_ 3,000 UNDER RAZED TENT. LAKE PROVIDENCE, La., Nov. 18— While about threo thousand persons were witnessing the performance of a circus yesterday a violent wind storm demolished the main tent, severcly In- furing three spectators and three cireus employees. The performance of several ons and tigers in an iron barred arena had just heen completed and the animals ré- turned to their cages when the collapye ‘of the tent wrecked the arena, A atam- pede of thirtcen elephants was narrowly averted, and have he said. Comic Opera the Present Field For Compo ers, Says De Koven Through It an American School of Opera Can Be Betablished and Thousands of Good Singers Find Proft- able Employment. How the Art Originated, Grew to Great Heights, Declined, Fell Into Obscurity and is Now Rejuvenated. BY SYLVESTER RAWLING. EGINALD DE KOVEN, whose new opera bouffe, “The Wed- ding Trip,” is to get a first Presentation at New Haven on Mon- day, was coming out of the Casino Theatre, where he had been watching & rehearsal of his work, when the writer met him and was invited to luncheon. The prevailing corffiltions ‘at the Metropolitan Opera House and the small chance that grand opera in English has under the present man- agement there having been discussed, the conversation drifted to the poss! bilities for American composers In lighter opera. “Here,” said Mr. de Koven, “is a wide field of opportunity. Mozart Wrote comic opera, so did Rossini and Bizet. Some of their works for long have been included in the repertory of grand opera and will remain there. In recent times comic opera has beery} debased in the popular mind to mean all sorts of musical comedy or but- foonery, or extravaganza; but there {is @ reaction, and not only is the time ripe but the movement has al- ready begun to restore comic opera to its\ proper place, “In je early daya of comic {t Is known to the general publ Offenbach and Audran and Lecocq wrote thelr delightful melodies, began the reign of the wpman comedian. Such artists as Theos Schnelder, Judic and Jeanne Granter were the world’s toasts, Everybody enjoyed the ‘Grand Duchess,” ‘Perlahole,’ ‘Girofle-Girofla,’ ‘Cloches de Corneville’ and ‘Orfee en Enfer,’ It was the day of the aria and the exploitation of @ single singer. Nothing else mat- tered much. Offendach's scoring, for Instance, was indifferent. He had in mind when he wrote only an orchestra of twelve or fourteen, and he didn’t bother. ENTER THE MALE COMEDIAN AND DECADENCE OF ART. “By and by came the era of the male comedian. Johann Stra Suppe and Millocker gave him the opportunity. Through the ‘Merry War,’ the ‘Queen's Lace Handk caclo,' the ‘Black Hussar’ he held his triumphant way. But the inspiration of the com- posers failing, he descended to buffoon- ery. Nothing was too cheap tn horse- play for his indulgence, For a long time the public laughed when it knew it shouldn't, but at last it batked, end miscalled como opera was thrown into the discard. “With Lehar’s Js distinctly comle ope! ‘Merry Widow,’ which and Oscar |THE STORIES IN THE NEW NOVELS Being Jilted for a Duke, Master George Goes Walking and Mends His Heart. “THE MONEY MOON, Farnol. ITH his heart broken, smashet beyond repair if you take his word for It, George Bellew con- sults his good valet Baxter as to his pest course, Sylvia Marchmont, be It understood, has thrown him over for a Duke, Beilew being @ plain American citizen, albeit somewhat prodigtously rich. Baxter is a man of sense and dis- cretion well as long service. He admits our resources for a disappointed lover, the Course Retallatory, which is Marriage, the Army, mere Disap- pearance and Drink, But, “Speaking as your father’s okt servant, Master George, I make bold to say that I don't believe you hav ever been in love or even knew what love 1s, Master George, ar" by Jeffery ‘Whereupon Master George votes to @tsappear. He dresses in tweeds, takes his knapsack and a good stout stick, and goes trampling forth to the ad ventures descrived in “The Mon Moon" (Dodd, Mead & Co.), a romance by Jeffery Farnol, who wrote also The Broad Highway.” He has a wayside fight with a driver in whose load of ha. he has stolen a ride. Then, on Page 35, he sees Her coming toward him through the green of Dapplemere. She !s “one surely, as racious, as proud and beautiful Enld or Guinevere or any of those lovely ladies, for all her simple gown of blue and the sunbonnet that shaded the beauty of her face.” But at a glance George is sure that She ts “handsomer, loveller, statelier and al- together more desirable than all the beautiful ladies of King Arthur's court, or any court soever.” So he forgets quickly Sylvia, who has written saucily in jilting him, that she does not wis! to be forgotten. After this, and after George has en- gaged boanl und lodging at Dapple- mere, where Boauty 1 indeed In dis- tress over @ mortgage and a threatened tall foreclosure. ‘The Money Moon" Is an ldyliic love story, ending as such a story always ought to end, It proves very lucky, in view of tho: mortgage. that Bellew has all that money. And as for other lo well, {t seems that Baxter was right about’ Master George, and that no heart was broken, really, wi “The Call of interpretation of Christ delving deep in and | Btrauss's “Chocolate Soldier,’ which is opera bouffe, has get in a reaction. Again we may hope for ilghter opera that is quite as distinguished in its Way as so-called grand opera, And here Is the chance for the American composer. We have de clans of no mean order, who know our traits and can genlally portray them and e them at will and give us Benuine enjoyment. No need for any one of them to be a Wagner or a Richard Strauss, or even a Puccini, for eloped must- school of American opera. ENSEMBLE TAKES PLACE OF STAR AND COMEDIAN. “A good story well told, I have essential to begin with. Then come the musical development, which 1s In the ensemble. No longer the vue woman whose beauty and chic stood for nearly everything; no longer the one male comedian who swallowed snakes or did any other fool thing, but a fit- ting musical setting of the story that must be told by the orchestra and by the chorus, as well as by the principal singers. This invol the engagement of a company competent at every point. that shall be able to only arias, but duos, trio: and choruses that have ald, is must hroughout the citles of America are thousands of teachers of singing who h 1 more thousands puplla, the latter ever achieve anything a place in the ° much more in accompliat sible. It is only the or the excep wins a place In apy houses of the world Itatia or German men and women in the nun thelr respe there is cans. With the de Oscar Hammerstein eh tn- showed was tha: matter. Only a good story, well told, and a musical setting that 1s com- petent and alluring is necessary, In] this way we may hope to establish @ herent in America an the development of comle opera by American composers, opera houses are sure to be built every- where and in these the American young | wowen and men with voices will find places and fill them worthily. “If you should hear a singer, say at the Broadway Theatre, who pleased you | and you should persuade Mr, Gatti to mive her a hearing at the Metropolitan | Opera House, and you found that she| could not be heard there, would you Want her debaried from singing at the you wouldn't! Carusos are very rare birds Indeed; | but there are singers aplenty with the ability and the mission to charm tn smaller auditoriume than the Carusos and the Destinne fill.” And then the telephone rang and Mr, de Kovon was called away to etiil an- other rehearsal of "The Wedding Trip," “TRISTAN UND ISOLDE” GETS A GREAT PRESENTATION. “Tristan und Isolde” got a most Im- pressive presentation at the Metropolt-| tan Opora House last night, Rarely has this groatost of operas beon performed | with such compelling power, All the constituent elements scemod to work to« gether to project across the footlights an inspired message that appealed to the hearts as well as to the minds of the large audience that heard {t tn a silence profound. ‘To Toscanini, that rare genius of tho baton, who disclosed the majesty and beauty and grace of the score, first hon- ors, Hearcely less tribute ts due to Olive Fremstad, whose Isolde was epio fm the delineation of @ great love, How ehe has grown in the part! No detail has been too small for her study, Tho imperiousness of the Irish Princess, tho scorn for her falthless lover, the e of the moment when the potion has suddenly made her Tristan’s own, ne of the second act, and the gic inspiration of grief in the she deplets in great, broad have tremendous appeal. Laat love se final = Hebestod, lines * year she self whe she reached the immortal it with power as well as with Infinite tenderness, ‘Apoluxy was made for Carl Burrtan on account of hoarseness. He wished at the inst moment not to appear, but rarely has ho sung so Well, and his Tristan was a fitting complement to Fremstad’s Isolde, Behind the acenes, after the first act, Mr, Gatti told a story of constant disappointments and mishaps that had followed all his pre- sentations of * Tristan und Isolde" since 1e first presented it at La Scala, in Milan, For the rest, there was Margarete | Matzenauer, new German contralto (or isn't her voice a mezgo-sopran?), as Braagaene, a most tinposing figure in action wnd in voice, save for a bit of flatnest in the warning from the tower. She f@ valuabl. addition to Mr. Gatt!'s company. Hermann Well, an- other German newcomer, was Ku wenal. He did not wipe out memories of his predecessors, but was very ac ceptable. Herbert Witherspoon wi King Marke and William Hinshaw was Melot, both competent. Albert Reiss as the Shepherd and Jullus Bayer as the Steersman are familar, Lambert Mur- phy, a New Yorker, sang the Voice of the Seamen acceptably, CISNEROS SHARING MELBA’S TRIUMPHS IN AUSTRALIA, Nellie Melba, who is In Australia, her native !and, for the first time with an opena company of her own, naturally is making @ great success, but our own Countess de Cisneros (Bleanor Broad- foot of Brooklyn) 1s sharing the honors Sydney, Australia, newspa- t to hand acclaim her a great Eqrmen. One muse eritie says: "The public, Who have found in Mme. de Cisneros a Delilah of such seductive grace und voice, discovered last nig’ she was equal) irresistible and nating as Carmet Another writes: who were present will in future 's exclaim with satisfaction Mme. de Cisneros as Carmen. geen | Tachatkowsky, including the great ' the tumult and tenderness of the great | med to have exhausted her- | Swan Song, but last night she expressed | Te b * defective electric wire was responsible. 1 another declares that “Mme. de Cisneros, acting with intensely and deep insight into the requirements vt the part, made a profound impression on her audience.” John MeCormack, the Irish tenor, be very popular, His Lieut. Pinkerton in “Madame Hutterfly’ made a great hit. Both Mr. McCormack and Mme. Claneros will return to America early in the new year to sing with Mr. Dip- pel'd Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Com- panys ARTHUR FRIEDHEIM TO PLAY WITH RUSSIAN SYMPHONY. Modest Altschuler announces the first pair of concerts for the season by the Russian Symphony Orchestra to take norrow afternoon. Arthur Friedhelt, the noted pli be the soloist in the composer's C flat concerto, This as part ef the Liant Cen- tenary observance, All the rest of both programmes will be @evoted to thetique" symphony. Josef Stransky and the Philharmonic Society will give the firet concert of the Brooklyn series at the Academy of Mu- sto to-morrow afternoon, with Zimbalist, the Russian violinist, as solotst. The symphony will be Beethoven's elgbth. Next Thureday night's concert at Oar ‘The programme will include the merch from the dead master’ symphony symphony, Walter Damrosch end the Symphony Soctety will present a Dvorak pro- gramme at the Century Theatre to- morrow afternoon thet will Include tho “New World” aymphony. —- Helen | Keusch, @ German soprano, will make her American debut in @ group of Dvorak’s songs, Albert Spaiding, the distinguished American violinist, will be one of the solots | given at the Hippodrome to-morrow night by the Rueelan Symphony Orches- tra, Modest Altschuler — conductor, Others to appear are Alice Nielsen, the soprano fram the Boston Opera Com. pany; Rose Oltzka, Paul Morenzo end Oscar 8 Benoist will be the accompanist at the plano, The first of the season's Symphony Concerts for Young People, Walter Damrosch conductor, will be“given at Carnegie Hall next Saturday afternoon. David Mannes wil be the soloist. Chopurlan, a Angel Agnes young English, French and German with flu- eney, will give a recital at Car Lyceum next Wednesday evening, with Wiiltam J. Falk at the plano. the first of its three concerts thia eason In Carnegie Lyceum next Tues- lay evening. Zimballst, the Russian violinist, will | give his second recital at Carnegie Hall next Tuesday afternoon, Wiltam $C. Carl wit organ concert, assisted by the Von Ende Violin Cholr, ‘n the Old First Pres- byterian Church on Monday evening. Prof. Samuel A. his usual City Colles nesday aft Baldwin will give free organ recitals at the noons, at 4 o'clock, A er Fire Scare for Bacon, country house at Westbury, I, L, was burned recently, would suffer tho lo of his Paris residence. Smoke attracted persons in the street, who summoned the firemen. No flames were found and no damage done. It is thought that @ tary, planned an entertait impartial ens Boxing law, e A fair ee thrve-min. forcement of Now he ts fighting for boxing law, permitting tute rounds, The Love Story of a Son Is Com- plicated by the Dipsomania of a Mother. “THE MOON LADY," Huntington. Ls at first sight comes to Hum- by Helen phrey Wylde as he looks {nto the Arnold, the ex- pretty xirl who has come to worship at his famous mother's shrine —Mrs. Wylde being a successful novel- tet as well as a beautiful woman But true love Is not to h without trouble. Complications arts Jquickly in “The Moon Lady” (Serlb- ners), a new story of New York by Helen (Mrs, Archer) Huntington, Al- most before he realizes how has gone out to Miss Linda he discoyv- ers in his mother, whom he adores, the eyes of Linda mely \{8 to require of him pr jrifice of his business pros and almost his lo Mrs woman with a temperament. As Mrs, Huntington's story develops she ap- pears as the pathetic victim of dipso- mania, The advance of her disease to a point calling for herotc treatment ts traced through chapters in which are |bright glimpses of New York society life, along with the troubled progress of Humphrey's courtship ently the sac s, his time Wylde is a An interesting story, Not altogether a sad one. It takes its title from fact that Mrs, Wylde's husband has, as fa lover, called her his "Moon Lady,” eee When a Benton 1 tried to in: terview Mrs, May elle, author “The Secretary ns Affairs,” the other day, le found ler too bus for words, No, she wasn't writing « new book “Hut yon have one in reporter persisted. “The only thing T have in mind right now,” replied Mrs, Futrelle, “iy that I have twenty people coming to supper and my cook's left,” mind," the Out to Ancient Greece, by EB. PB. Benson) ARGERY is si teen when the book ope: ne has ble gray & that promise much, 8 her to finish grow ing up and to marry Walter Morrison, the cousin, whose mother. has adopt her after hes own mother's death, his heart | first symptoms of that disorder which | Love Marries a Scholar and Loses Perhaps such expectations might be jrealized—for Walter is a nice, chummy oy, and calls Margery in one of her moods, “You queer little animal!'—were It not for thesintervention of Arnold Levevon Arnold is rich, He dotes on Greek and Fegyptian antiquities, and writes books about them, But he is only thirty-two, and he has a tender way with a maid, So Walter goes off to diplomacy in Germany and’ Margery bedomes a young woman, and despite Aunt Morrison's rather tactless scheming for her own |daughter, Olive, there is presently the |marriage of Love to Scholarship. As the story goes on—it Is “Margery,” by E, F. Benson, (Doubleday, Page & | Co.)—one discovers Love asking a good deal in this partnership, and Scholar- ship sometimes a little absorbed In the | be disturbed. The situation adds pathos | to a pretty English story, And certainly j Arnold should carry himself more as a lover and lew as a scholar when Margery, a mother-to-be, whispers her dear secret Into his ear. son permits one to see Margery , @ sudden tragedy open- Then there 1s again the question of Walter, Should Love have preferred him tn the first Instance? At |least, he would not have crushed Tilus Junder a k statue. ara OS antiquities and the books, not Miktng to | mines” (Lippincotts), Ralph Henry Bar- bour's annual Christmas time romance, There are detatis, such as that the young New Yorker ia boundlesaly rich, And that the simple doctor has sald, In persuading his patient to come home with him, ¢hings which cause the brown- eyed girl a prett ment, What, ect that him and his ri But of course love and the very in- nocence of the maid put all suspicion out of question, and all's well with hearts when the story ends, at of butter which w the recent electrical a tasty exhibit caoking show in Nashville, Which seems to afford an mentioniog that Etna Ti of “Honey Sweet, prime for cotton’ ri hand, Susan Glaspel!, author of "Tho Yésion has just been called to the bar, It your tog V for, nism And it cost the author a d the bartender, wee Hearts Taken Wh 1> Health Mended Among the Caro- lina Hills, “JOYCE OF THE JASMINES, Ralph Henry Barbour, IVEN a handsome young New Yorker, college ma athlete, G first-rate good fello recover- jing 1 by from ser hills nan {ous illness among Caro- 1d-fashioned Southern doc. \ps a course of effectiv inviting the young ¢ his place for conval te treatment | to to me a gitp of a girl,” nineteen, with the dearest of brown eyes and the most | | bewitching way with h ‘And there you have the persona and @ bint of the plot in “Joyce of the Jas Given ~_— T# IS drawing shows the great space now occu- pied by the S, Lieb- 's Sons Brew- ery, Brooklyn, 57 years ago it occu- ied but one small uilding. PALE RIPE RHEINGOLD Beeris sold everywhere. Costs but $1 for 24 bot- meneame who {s also wiph the company, seems to | piace at Carnegie Heli to-night and to-| ist exponent of Lisst, w!il) negte Hall will be a Mahler memorial pod | forere report oa and Beethoven's ‘retea" | at the popular concert to be) Armenian soprano, who is sald to eing | ‘The Adelo Margulies Trio will give! kive a free! on to-morrow and Wed-| PARIS, Nov, 18,—For a time Yesterday {t was foared that the American Am- bassador, Mr. Bacon, whose beautiful | ‘WHE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1911, FIND MURDERED MAN’S BODY IN NORTH RIVER. Victim Believed to Be Milwaukee Resident Who Planned Trip to Europe. The body of a man supposed to be Stephen Tima. of (4llwaukeo waa picked up yesterday afternoon in the Hudson Rives the West Shore Ratiro: tracks @t ter's Cove, Weehawken. ‘The body was seen floating In the water by @ track walker employed on the West Shore Raiiroad, who dragge it re and then notifed ihe police Abrasions about the head and a deep wound wader the right lead the Weehawken polive to believe that the man wae murdered and thea thrown in the rive A ateamship ticket made out to Stophen Timar for passage on the Car- pathta was found in one of the pockets Vote dn Ameu@mente Awry. While proceeding with its work of oan- Pas | wnssing the vote in the late election yes- terday the Board of Counts: Canvassors found that in many districts the reports on the ‘on the constituttonal amend. mente had been grossly misrepresented on the tally shests, no returns on some amendments being made in some tn- oes, and all the votes being re- corded against the amendments in others, ee Le the board catied | it, ¥ at noon at the City 3rd Ave. 4.2) 121st St. Open This Evening Cowperthwait @ Sons Cash or Liberal Credit Everything for Housekeeping YOUR VOTE May Decide Who Will Receive Part of the $30,000 for Charity Name YOUR Favorite! No Cost to You. Full particulars at Charity Voting Booth, Fourth Floor, Center, and at Information Bureau, Main Floor, MAIN Building. Also at Information Bureau, in our GREENHUT Building, Main Ftoor. Greenhut-Siegel Cooper Co. J. B. GREENHUT, Pres. Sixth Avenue, 18th and 19th Streets | | Park Row Chatham Sq. . 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