The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1911, Page 9

HOME MADE TOYS PROVE GENUS OF THE NEW YORK BOY Many Marvellous “Creations” From Cheap Materials at Home Thrift Exhibit. Alma Gluck, the Popular Young American So- prano at the Metropoli- tan Opera House, De- plores the Fact That She Has Missed the Ex- perience—All Her Training Received Here. | | | TAUGHT TO USE TOOLS. The Great Singers of the World Who Come Here Have No Relish for Company Rehearsals With Beginners, and the New York Public Doesn’t Bother With Debutantes, She Says. How Idea Young College Woman Got Abroad Has Worked Out Here. 1 you want to see some of the most Wonderful Christmas toys in New York Bo to the headquarters of the Home Thrift Association and study the mar- Vele made by small boy workmen. The Home Thrift Association began in New York last June, when the city turned over the old Gracie mansion in Carl Sohure Park, st Kighty-ninth atreet, to Miss Louise Brigham, Miss Brigham is 4 clever young college Woman who, while abroad, became In- “M an American girl terested in the ingenious playthings made by peasant children, Later, in seeking a career on the operatic stage go abroad Cleveland, she attempted to show her Study? Of course she must!” said neighbors what she had seen, Tuen| Alma Gluck, the young American so- others became interested, and now the/prano of the Metropolitan Opera Mome Thrift Association {s natfonal and Company, w! if Hams to establish centres in many cities. ong tenie and nS i. penetra oe “All youngsters are invited to come eat te beautiful, It was as here and teurn, free of charge, 10 make | the Happy Shade in the revival of ‘aings with tools,’ Miss Brigham ex-'“Orpheus and Eurydice’ two years Stained yeeterday. “We use nothing ago that she came into prominence tut packing-cases and other cheap inaterial, and the boys do ail the work, |PY Feason of her unique voice and Since They have only the s#tmplest tools, | her charming impersonation. We have had one hundred and fifteen boys since houre was opened, | Im the summer they come at any time during the day. Since schools opened ‘he hours here are from 3 unttl 10 %. M, All the Instruction 1s given by mayeelf and one assitant. WEVELOPS NATURAL OF BOYS. BY SYLVESTER RAWLIN cluding Nedda.in “Pagilacci” and Mimi in “La Bohem and as a Neder singer she is become one of the most popular. | “How elée can a gir! learn to find GENIUS herself, to stand, to sit, to walk, to “Phe idea ix, of course, to develop ‘OVO in the scenes in which she is the natural ingenulty of the boys and to take part?” Miss Gluck continued. to teach them what really fine thin: The writer had called upon her to ask an be constructed cheaply, Children What she thought of Putnam Griswol @ught to make their own toys. They plea for the establishment of a re bappler when they can do more Conservatory of Music in New York for themselves, and {t {s much better “Fine! she sald; “admirabl for their future development. ‘They | we should have one. jlearn the possibilities of common ma- {ca teachers of singing as excellent as terial and their economic and artistic are to be found anywhere No girl need tendencies are trained together. Ko abroad for voice training: “As our work progresses, wo may she learn the te bring the girls into it and stage? Not at th them weaving and spinning. Other fouse, because, oranches of home thrift will be takea! no company ‘up with the parents. T t to inelnde cipal sir make the home 41 ut where traditions of the Metropolitan Opera Practically, there ar: rehearsals, ML the prin mers are of established reputa en gleaned from the of the world, Taney are famfitar with al! the stage business and are’ not expected to rehearse with A debutante, who has only a few bars to sing at intervals and for the rest of | the time has to be a lay figure, feeling want teach And then Miss Brigham showed soya. There ts a large room full them. In the middle Is a wooden play- | house big enough for two, with a sloping roof, a chimney and gables. There @ wooden shutters at the windows, Inside is @ fireplace, with andirons. WONDERS MADE BY BOYS OUT| OF PACKING CASES. | Im another corner {s a doll's dining: | oom set, on square Morris lines, per- fectly proportioned and painted white It includes a table, two chairs and an ‘open cupboard for dishes. There {s a miniature grocery store, with counter end weights and w stocked shelves. There is a moat mar- | Met, 00, awt a good-sized barn, with | ladder, watering trough and sleish. ‘Then there is a most correct wooden Ycomotive, painted black, with smoke stack, boiler, cab and coal-tender, ‘There are ever so many dump cart ith springs and hinges working per- tly, and there is an express car with Miding door of elther side, There wagons and wheel-barrows galore, the ot | » Overhead trolley and all. + On @ bench facing the East River ts a big @and derrick, modelled after one (working out in the river. A pile driver yatanda ni In the opposite corner ts a theatre for Punch and Judy show, an African hand boat with a big sail, and a Ger- man bobsled. Also there 1s a marvellous two-wheeled charlot, cushioned, too, on which one small boy has been working since last summer, In it is a shield an@ & wooden sword, the hilt cleverly on ited from @ tin can. ‘The toy vill with the real well- sweep must not be overlooked, nor the soological garden, with a barred ca! on wheels, a lon, an clephant, a hippo, @ dear, alpenguin, a camel, a giraffe and gome mild-looking horses, all carved and painted hy the boy The room beyond the exhibition room ts thelr workshop, and each boy's bench fe ately a big packing case. Se, CARUSO GIVES $2,000 TO THE FAMILY .OF MISSIANO. Caruso will give to the wife and three ehildren of his friend, the late Edouardo Miasiano, the $2,000 he earned for ap- pearing at the Metropolitan on Thurs- day night in ‘La Glovonda.” The tenor had decided he could nov eing until he realized that he might be of denefit in extending assistance to the family of his baritone friend. Then he consented to forego his feelings, but all the evening there were tear Trouble and a Cape Cod Uncle Tame Two Spoiled Kids of Gotham, (‘CAP'N WARREN'S WARD,” by Joseph C, Lincoln.) IY does A’ Rodgers Warren, pol- ished man of Wall streef and reputed millionaire, choose for his jexecutor and the guardian of his two children his unpolished brother, Elisha Warren, ex-skipper of the Cape Cod region? sha wonders about that. So do the ew York lawyers, So do the orphan | cifldren. So will any reader who beging and therefore will finish "Cap'n War- |ren's Ward’ (D, Appleton & Co), & Rew story by Joseph ©, Lincoln, 1 course the book explains, but while ft ls doing so it exhibits Capt. Elisha in the ‘dig cit, with his mind and hands full of business, Lucky that he ts an honest ‘and big-hearted old chap and a shrewd judge of men, Caroline, aged twenty, and Stephen, a year youn certainly make |tor the € e Cod uncle. They are a pair of spoiled kids, to say it as they jdo in the street, and Steve ts saucy enough to spank, However, before tribulation has removed its heavy hand and before the Warren millions have stopped shrinking the boy {% well tamed and the natural sweet womaniiness of {the girl comes out. A, Rodgers, it ap- pears, has not been all that he should | have been in high finance Among those who wonder over the state of affairs are the masterful Mrs, Corcoran Dunn and her hopeful son, Malcolm. This interesting pair have had thelr eyes on Caroline and her possible dowry. Matrimony for revenue only Malcolm's idea. And he needs the mone He {8 not least among the evils averted by Caroline's sturdy guardian. Finally, Unele 'Lisha ts all to the good. James 0; e-Tenths,”* believes 12 But also in women voting. any joyous ‘fp them it haa all ftirat love, oF @ ‘There's a new one for to conside {iret cat be bluse Love and Young Wits Defeat a Brace of Plotters Mid Nevada Mincs, c’Wally,” by Guy Steely.) ‘ST as old Parson Palmer and young ‘Tom Bishop are feeling the pressure of the magnate's heel young Wally Edson, sitting with his feet on the rail at the Hotel Vesuy!, in Naples, gets the |letter which starts him off tor Nevada | and the reset | Edson does not know he is going to | the rescue, He knows only that he has J overdrawn bis allowance and that he ‘haw @ sudden impulse to sail across and see his moter, ‘The fletion writer moves in a mysterious way when It comes to providential coincidences, In the present instance he makes Wally | travel westward through the United States on the same train which car- ries the fair young daughter of the [RBRE fa a man in New York City who has probably the atrangest job on carth. It is possi- bly the only job of its kind on this earth, His name is Mr. Barnes. I @ man wants to make peace with his mother-in-law he goes to Mr. Barnes, I there are differ: ences to be patched up between husdand and wife between frtends, they go to Mr. Barnes, That is only part of his business, You will find all about him in the magazine Section of tomorrow's junday World, or Bishop. ” then she has had many parts, in-' There are in Amer- | it spicy | HE EVENI nervous, belng awkward, what to do, TO BE REHEARSED ALONE I8 A VERY DIFFERENT THING. “It's all very well to be rehearsed alone and to be told to stand here and to move there and to sit in some other place, but when tho performance is on you find the situation altogether differ ent, The tenor ts much further in front, and, horrors! your back 1s turned upon the prima donna, and you stumble over the baritone, who Is on your left instead of on your right, in trying to remedy the situation. ‘oW in the countless Opera Houses Europe, the beginner is respected Jenouzh to be Schooled with the com- ‘pany, and so to learn the routine with knowing not the principals, and to gain polse and| ~ confidence. It seems to me that two} yeabs of such training {# not too long. | ‘The experience will be of lasting bene- | fit to anyone no matter what great suce| ss he or she may afterward achieve. Begides, the opera goers of Europe take kn interest in debutantes. They are glad of an opportunity to find a new volce and to be the first to claim a great singer. What would ha ‘pen here if Mr. Gattl ehould announce Miss Jane Smith for Lucia, for instance Nobody outside of the subscription would go to hear her, and most of the subscribers, probably, would give their tickets away. ‘Deplorable,’ you say, j but @ fact, isn't it? ASKED GATTI FOR TWO YEARS’ LEAVE OF ABSENCE. “You have been good enoug. to write very nice things about me, from time to time, for which I thank you, but I know better than you my weakness NU WUSRLY, BAL American Girls Need Two Years Abroad To Study Operatic Stage Traditions And Acquire Dramatic Deportment, IN THE ROLE OF nTIM | York girl, for although I was born in Roumanta I was brought here a child and have lived my Ife here. My one and only singing teacher has been Buzzi-Pecela of New York, and you may judge of his work by the product. I, at least, am futly content. But two years of training abroad in dramatic work and in stage routine would have helped me much. “Once I made a hurried ttip to Europe and begged Mr. Gatt! to give me a two | years’ leave of absence for the purpose. He was very kind and gracious, but he only smiled and didn't consent, saying that there was plenty of work for me to do at the Metropolitan. I was back tn New York inside of three weeks. Then my song singing attracted attention, for which I am truly grateful, but the greater success I aclifeve in the recital field serves only to take me more away trom operatic work. “It's all very well for you to say, UBUVAY, VEY foven, and f just do want to make a career in opera, say for ten years any- how. I should be only thirty-seven then and probably with my votce unim- paired { MUSICIANS MASTERS OF THEIR SOULS, SHE SAYS. The conversation was Interrupted by visitors and It was not easy to get Miss Gluck back again to the personal equ tion. sang a little ballad, unat- fectedly and with great charm. Then there Was @ general talk about the supe- rior intelligence of Americans which permitted them in every walk of life to accomplish so much more than people of other nationalities, Somebody aid something about souls, and Miss Gluck Propounded @ novel theory that, unlike other people, musicians made thelr souls serve, not master, the: Rut Mins Gluck's metaphysics were too deep for the writer and he bowed himself out CONCERTS AND OPERA OF YESTERDAY, DAY AND NIGHT. Leonard Borwick, an English planiat, returning from an Austratian tour, ins | cldentally, just in passing, gave « recital at Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon and made his audience sit up and take notice, Mr, Borwick plays with such power and taste and understanding that he may be assured of a warm welcome when he shall choose to come again, Walter Damrosch and the Symphony | Orchestra repeated yesterday afternoon at the Century Theatre the second sym- phony of Rachmaninoff, which they had presented last month, to the delight of a critical audience. Mr, Damrosch Was even more than usually pertinent and happy in his Introductory remarks. ‘The Gisela Weber trio last evening, at the first of a series of concerts at the Hotel Astor, played compositions by Mendelssohn, Cesar Franck and Schutt before a large audience. ‘The members are Gisela Weber, violinist; Cecile Beh- rena, pianist, and Leo Schults, ‘cellist. Antotnette. Boudereau, soprano, and Frederick Wemple, baritone, gave a recital in Carnegie Lyceum yesterday afternoon before a fairly large audience. Both were well recelved, Mr Wemple's ging of “The Pipes of Gordon's Men” being especially effective, “Sadama Butterfly," with the famile tar cast of Geraldine Farrar, Rita For- nia, Riccardo Martin and Scott!, de- lighted a large audience at the Metro- pollitan Opera-House last nist The singers were all In good voice and the performance, under Toseanint, moved smoothly from first to last. ELGAR’S SECOND SYMPHONY TO BE PRESENTED TO-MORROW Sir Edward Elgar's second symphony, dedicated to Edward VIL, seemingly haking necessary the use of hia title, will get a first presentation in New York to-morrow afternoon at the Cen- tury Theatre by Walter Damrosch and the Symphony Orchestra. It was pDro- duced in London on Sept. 2% and has been played already in Cincinnati and in Boston. The sololet will be Arth Shattuck, the American pianist who will be heard in kachmantnoff's con- certo in F sharp minor. Josef Stransky announces a_ special “popular” concert by the monic Soclety for to-morrow afternoo! rnegie Hall when Paolo Ga ist, In the Schubert-Liszt “Wanderer! fantasie, At concerts on Thursday eventi day afternoon Lillian Nordica will stu the immolation scene from daemmerung,” and Bruckner’s fifth sym in New York. . why not make my reputation in that I am to all intents and purposes a New tinues to practice oppression he find Miss Marion Camper presently arrayed with the opposition. And daughter helps beat Dad a good and plenty. The story hich is “Wall, by Guy Steely (Dodd, Mead @& Co.) deala with a lost mine which has been dis- covered by Tom Bighop's father. This mine, it is learned by Camper's sec tary, Halleck, is located under the |v house from which Camper has forced the preacher and Tom, and Hal- leck sets out to beat out of the prize his unknowing employer, who has al- ready beaten the other fellows, Upon this interesting situation dawns Miss) Marion, in whose name Camper has registered the property. At the same | time arrives Wally, to whom Palmer is an old friend and Tom a dear one, A pretty contest follows, in which love and sharp wits combine against the! | resources of villainy, Ineidents of mining camp Ife help to enliven the; tale. ~— Golett Burgess confenses that once he took it iuto his head to be ® Freach count, Says he “There was a time when you could Yuy tiles marked down fn San Marino, in Portugal and in Italy, A thousand dol- Jars procured a decent title of count, and ralier” could be had for the modest sum of $25 And you didn’t buy your title, after Burgess looked sad, “1 I bought a nice ittle inatead."* | | | Mr, | With Crown Jewels Found, Love and a Prince Win Out. ‘(The Steet Crown,” by Fergua | Hume.) ‘ HINGS come to this pass in \tlon a fow da line? That can wait. I am only twenty- ends happily. It 1s ‘The Steel Crown’ (G, W. Dillingham Company), by Fer- ence of plagiarism, It was when as a mere girl in Tennes. eee she sent to New York so true a of English Life that the favored publiat feared she had borrowed from ‘en Bad Ush source, Everything came out right when the {ome euthor explained edout ber Britiau Miss Fish Solves a Mystery and Helps Out Several True Loves “THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF LETITIA CARBERRY,” By Mary Roberts Rhinehart. AVING died Ungeringly in @ hos- pital bed, at midnight, and hav- ing been duly conveyed to @ marble slab in the mortuary, Mr. | Johnson ta found an hour later sus- ended by the neck from the chande- Mer in a private room, down the cor- | tidor, Thus gruesomely, and with some | account of hysterics among the night | nurses, the story opens which Is called “The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry” (Bobbs-Merrill Company), and which is the largest work of Mary Roberts Rhinehart, Sarherry, colloquially known as is on the Hospital Ladies’ Com- She ts staying at the institu to favor a strained Aventures begin when, customary energy, she sets about investigating the mystery of Mr, Johnson. There are queer footprints on the walls of the hospital. The guinea pigs | in the laboratory are strangely killed. | mittee. T | Balkan kingdom of Darra: King Eszek has been murdered , by his affectionate subjects, Hts twin |nephews are next of kin, one having fit-| |teen minutes the advantage fn birth.| But no new king can be throned, because) | Queen Zoe, formerly an opera singer,| | |to a coronation. | a) Mrs. £ jin a London boar ance, Who 1s murdered ing house, turns out | to have been the mivsing queen. A fel- | low boarder, known as the Money Wolf, | has learned her secret and is moved by gratitude to ¢ » Catherine Weston, 4 girl Who has been kind to him, to find the crown and the Jewele and receive | the reward offered in Darr: | Unfortunately one of the is brought upon the ne b, | mous letter, He finds the note in @ rose wreath which Mra, | Brance has given to Miss V ton, Buti |the Money Wolf gets the Jewels out! of an old castle, succeeds in playing a trick of substitution on the searching | }Prinee Michael, and is himself killeg | in an automobile wreck, along | Prince Jeckle, in the chase wilh fol lows the discovery of his ruse Michel, having the crown, succeeds Having also | richly Miss | king's heirs an anony- | rown and a | to the throne in Darra thd Jewels, he rewards Cathe; and her lover, a young | has yun away with the royal jowela and! & {with the steel crown which 18 DeCeSSAry| Waters beyond, and is barely rescued, | this. A night attendant is crushed to death, ‘The elevator cuts up queer tricks, The Theodore Thomas Orch Chicago, now conducted of wild honeysuckle. The green in her cheap muslin dress gives @ gray tone to her eyes and exercise has lent fr color to her cheeks. But walking with Rutledge she is taking the wast to de- eption, despair, deprivation and « fear- | ful world knowledge. It is all in the story "A Far Triumph" (Lippincotts), {the latest and most elaborate work of ed child of the city, Wooes rawhly and makes a promise the fulfilment of which 1s long delayed by clreumstance And the girl's trouble takes her to New York, where speedily ‘her ence, though not her inmost truthfulness, is destroyed. Unknowing- ly, she and her lover are the victims of the boy's mother, an unscrupulous worn- an who hag ved her husband for years and who encourages her son to his undoing that she may have the family mililons to herself. 4 long time before Esther comes er own right, In the love of a man honest and responsible. Meanwhile she kathers painful experience as a morbid artist's companion and model, as an ac- tress in minor roles and an Slustra- tor, Ter far triumph {fs in the proof of nselfishness out of which she trea- passes for her child's sake, ww jalaworthy ha: bw 9 Mey writes in atry i aquire Cr hla days af ane John G: mp Gi 04 the What is the answer? Misa Carber finds out in due season and promotes thereby the romance of Dr, Tommy Andrews and the youngest nurse. In subsequent adventures Tish drives red automobile the straight length of jake ferryboat into the waiting a on the same lake, from @ borrowed and sinking rowboat. Yet in both these af. he extends a helping hand to young lo’ and in one case she thwarts a grafting politician. Tisn is a | epinster of a certain age and a dofinite | turn of mind, wae Maurice Leblanc, author of “Arsene Lapin” ‘and other mystery fs a brotherst-law of Muster pends iis summers aud gath- vata Norman Chateau nearville, on the banks of the Seine, fifteen uniles from the Abbey of St. Wan- ditile, eee Love Calls a Mountain Girlto Double Sacrifice of Sell, “THE FAR TRIUMPH," By Elizabeth Dejeane. IKE a troubled child Esther walks ‘vy Mutledge's stde among the Cumberland hills, She {* a9 simply « |running after rin his arms hut jot ‘gan for many y soos "Af thting’ ded rarhagte’ gine and 1 would go to a wore not for the i jer the imprewsion Uf as a thoroughh omee, ~~ Love of Mere Man and the Baby “THE BAUBLE,” By Richard Barry. “O* Robert!" she cries in happy up and be just Ike your father." Then, with a roruish look into her husband's eyes, she adda; “With all It Is Constance Rudd who crtes all She {9 once more a happy wife and mother after the storm and str an “advanced woman"—t. @, a militant suffragette—in New York. The baby has been crying at just the point where found the rubber ball too big for him to swallow—and Constance has picked him up and turned to present @ pretty father, Before things come to this satistac- tory point, a long story has worked trigues, sex championship and a @epara- tion of wife from husband, with neril to baby, ide ively ‘and timely be sure, when Artaur might lave stopped all the trouble hy just simply Constance and taking off a { so0d story material which Richard Barry tas worked akil- fully into “Phe Banble,” (Moffat, Yara nating because it got on my mn race Hal there de noting alive uty #0 beau Wins Back a Suffragett content, "I want you to grow his mean, manly ways." of @ period during which she has be the foregoing quotation beging—he has picture of motherhood to onlooking itself out in which conventions, in- chapters. ‘Tucre’ has been a time, to But that would ha & Co.) and the moral in the safe and magnate who oppresses Palmer and yer n@med Hale, who has been @ great and frank as the rusticity about heru#ane climax of the tale would have as Horage Camper con- help to royalty, A crasy etory, but @he te young, soft and lovely as @ bud been jess polmed, Philhare Beethoven's symphony will be played and lico, pianist, will be the solo~ sy the regular subscription and Fri- “Goetter= phony will be played for the first time ra of by Frederick v, avad | stock, wilt give a concert in Carnente Hall next Wednesday afternoon, its feat appearance here nce 1808, when Mr. Thomas led it. The symphony will be Brahme's second and the soloist will be Albert Spalding, the accomplished young American violinist, who will be heard ina new concerto by Elgar. Liszt's “Legend of St. Ellzabeth’ will be presented for the first time in New York at Carnegie Hall on Monday even- ing by the MacDowell Chorus of 20 voices, Kurt Schindler conductor; a boy choir, the Phitharmonic Orche: and | Gertrude Rewnyson, Rosalle Wirthle | Clarence Whitehall and Robert Bla: | soloists, The Diocesan Auxtiiary to the Cathe- ral of St. John tho Divine will give a concert in Carnegie Hall next Thurs day afternoon, Modest —Altschuler's Russian Symphony Orchestta and Miss Preston, soprano, and Zimbalist, the Russian violinist, taking part. Christmas muste of many countries will be played at the second Symphony Concert for Young Veople at Carnegie Hall next Saturday afternoon by Walter Damroseh and the Symphony Orchestra, agalsted by a quartet from the choir of the Musical Art Soctety. John Philip Sousa and his band will give a concert at the Hippodrome to- morrow night, thelr first appearance ) here since last December, when they | started on a tour of the world, | The Commonwealth Symphony fo clety, Leon M. Kramer conductor, an- nounces a third concert In the audito- rium of the Educational Alliance for to- morrow night. The Kneisel Quartet will have the se sistance of Harold Bauer, the English planist, at Its concert at the Hotel Astor on Tuesday evening. Prof, Samuel A. Baldwin will give his usual free organ recitals at the City Ci lege to-morrow and Wednesday afte: noons at 4 o'clock. Clifford. Lott, baritone, announces a song recital at the Belasco Theatre for Monday afternoon, Harot! Rauer, the English pianist, will give @ recital at Carnegie Hall next Tuesday afternoon. Francis Rogers is to give a song re- cital at the Institute of Musical Art on Monday morning. Oddities In the News Of To-Day William 8. Brown, a transient, being fined $3 at Bast Hartford, Conn., rolled up the sleeves of his shirt and under- shirt, while the court officers watched to see what he was up toe From his armptt, where it had been panned to the undershirt, he pulled out &@ compactly rolled $1,000 bill. another tn the other slee Bank Clerk Used Burglar Tactics Get I wi The night watchman of the Atlantic City National Bank went outside to pol- {sh a sign and the door blew shut and locked. He couldn't find the key and the om- Dloyees were arriving. Craig Taylor, note clerk, got @ chisel and hammer and “jimmied" bis way through @ back win- dow, letting the others in to work while a locksmith wa trying to get the door open, Silver Plates on Lew Bone to Per- mit Mas to Walk. Edmund Turner, No. 157 West One Hundred and Twenty-third street, both of whose legs were broken in an elo- vator accident, had to submit to an un- usual operation, In order to enable him to walk two silver plates had to be screwed into the bones of the right leg, one plate on either side, Mistook Trench Lan Walted Two Hours, George W. Ferris of Kent, Conn,, agent for a potato bug exterminator, has sued the clty of Danbury, Conn., for $20 for loss of time when he was there recently on busines: He was in a hurry to caten a car and Car, BEDROOM SETS ALL OF CONCRETE EDISON'S LATEST Inventor Says He’ll Be Able to Equip Each Newlywed for $5 or $6, Concrete furniture ts the newest 1 duct of Thomas A, Edison, It's to carry, Dut the idea of his concrete houses, out It answers just as well, the inventor | says, in ordinary houses, Newly-weds, j he says, can install $20 worth of his | unbreakable snd solid furniture ant make @ display that will turn old-fash+ foned netghbora green with env; A shipment of the new furniture now belng knoc around from Orange, N. J., to Chicago and back, If it stands that, Mr, Edison believes, it will stand anything, One of the arti- cles de luxe is a concrete phonograph cabinet, white and gold, surfaced like enameled wood. The stuff can be fin- fahed, he explains, to imitate any wood destred. “I am going to hage concrete fural- ture on the market soon,” he sald day, “that will make it possible for the laboring man to put furniture tn his home that will be more artistic and more durable than is now to be found {n the most palatial residences {n Paris long the Rhine. It's going to be cheap, too, If I couldn't put out my concrete furniture cheaper than the oak that comes from Grand Rapida I wound Ko out of busi- ness, I'll be able to put out a whole bedroom set for % or $6." Mr, Edison's anoouacement was made to @ party of one oundred and fifty visi. tora from the New York convention of the American Mechantcal Engineers. The inventor also told the visitors about his new home moving-picture outfit, to be on sale .n three months at from $0 to The pictures are only three-sixteenths of an inch square, and seventy-olght feet of the film equal to 1,000 feet of the old kind. 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Be sure to get the ‘Fenuine in sealed wooden cartons. BANKING AND FINANCIAL. Report of tho Condition of The National Nassau Bank of New York , At the close of business December 5, 1911, RESOURCES, Loans and Disconuts. Due from Banks and Bankers, Foreign Exebange. we Exchanges for next day's clearings, Vault Redemption Fund with U, 8. Tron Capital Stock. Cireulation .. Reserved for Taxes. Cashier's Checks. Deposits... DIRECTORS: EERE: Eawant Bart FOR SALE PALE. RIPE RHEINCOLD Sriyel in Broskiyn by by all dealers, w the red light of one ap- For two hours he waited, then discovered that the light he had watched was a red lantern hung over a atreet excavation, REAL ESTATE FOR SALE— BROOKLYN. 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The ing day in the ‘Take Brighton Beach Elevated, Reid Avenue or Chu Avenu y Avenues, Or take Keld Avenue Trolley wooD and the other fleor rented, is admitted the best investment that can be made in home buying, but most people, being netur:lly conservative, hesitate for fear thet they may not obtain sufficient income from the rentel of one of the apartments to enable them to carry out their purchase, and it is natural that they should ing to eliminate all this danger by a Lpeink house, that if for any month or period of months (during the first three yeors) you may feil to obtain a tenant for the floor which you do not occupy yourself, is the largest monthly payment that you will be the apartment unoccupied by yourself to close out quickly these attractive two-family brick houses, which store within thirty-five minutes of New York City Hall, we sea prior to December 19th, and ma! dance with the terms of the contract, providé a supply of furnace coal for one gear for five years, World Wants Work Wonders EAL ESTATE FOR SALE— BROOKLYN, ee ments by the amount of rent, ad the floor been rented. Tnese month at least. Therefore, #30 uired to pa: ver 4 period of three years from Free Heat for 5 Years and in a desirable neighborhood, ll, to everyone who s the monthly paywents in accor- id also one round trip carfare to year, $00 days until January 1, 1917 price is from $6,000 to $6,750, varying according to the size of the house and the monthly payment includes all interest charges. 1 free transfer at Church Avenue Station to ing Kast. Got off ot Ohureh and Utica y Street. t trom Delance: 170 BROADWAY ‘OR, MINDEN LA iB. OTH FLOOR DIANUNDS UN CeEvh WATCHES 2ysr2,220‘rens ity, del Jewel pled fi bow we Mente, Mihorolihaw, Dpen evenings. VREK buys diamonds jewelry, ® STORE, 1086 Set pear 10Tih. ci pe FURNITURE LOANS At Lowest Possible Rates Loans in any amount day appited for in tyn’and New York on household 1 str Norse. and trucks, without remot tions. free: longest time: easy H confidential; loans on real estate and routs, Acme Security Co. (Inc,) ATU FLOOR, COMMERCIAL TRUST BI 1451 B’way., N. ¥.,N.W. Cor. 41st, NOS AND ORGANS, sem Dig Cargaing 1) tops, $2 monthly, Brookiya, liogers aprigat plago, many other ime paren Tiddie organ monthly until Bei a 1_Conrt st WELP \.ANTEC-—MAL 4, WASTED, TOW TS TINY, married ' wen between “ages citizens of the United Stater, of good of and temperate abit, whe cin speak, write the English languag Bor is vbly to Recruiting Of e r i +e New York City, ul ¥.; 47 Montgomery any’ recruiting “st LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS, é Jab dar bebe paid for allver cup. rand taken will be ‘aked om Cost Reward wilt | trophy by Prank Broadwers nO question: All lost or found, articl verttved in ‘The Wi sted The We mag Coto ort h Woe f