The evening world. Newspaper, April 4, 1912, Page 22

ay pee . ™ TAFT GUTS INTO ~ SINECURES TO SAVE $1,000 000AYEAR In Message to Congress Presi- dent Asks Lopping Off of | Political Appointees, , HITS PATRONAGE HARD. | A . Wants Army of Government | Men Under Civil Service and Bureaus Abolished. " WASHINGTON, April 4. -- President Taft to-day sent to Congress his mess ‘Mushroom’ Theatres Will Become Ga rages; Too Many of Them Here, Says William Harris sage of the present year on economy and eMotency in the Government ser-| vice. He recommended the passage of legislation designed to save more than $11,000,000 annually to the people of the United st | Probably his two most atriking pros | posalx Were that the local Government | offices in the Treasury, Post-OMlee, | Justice, Interior and Commerce ~ Labor Departments ve placed in th cclaseifed service and that the Revenue Cutter Service be consolidated with the | Lighthouse Service in the Department of Commerce and Labor, By the first change the President said Congress could effect a saving of at. least $10,900,000 annually and al- though in this message he gave no figures for the consolidation of the two services of the sea, in a previous men- sage on the same subject early last year he preditted economies that would total about $1,000,000 yearly. POLITICAL APPOINTEES HIT BY SAVING METHOD. ‘The President concluded his moseage with an appeal to Congress to appro- priate the $200,000 necessary to support the Economy ¥ffictency Commission for another year, with $50,000 additional for the publicatton of the commission's findings. President Taft's principal eecommen- dations for economies were as follows: Placing of pension agents in classified service; estimated saving, $62,000 an- nual, Abolition of office of receiver of dis- trict land offices and transer of duties to register; amsiated by bonded clerk, estimated saving, $200,000 annually. _ Transfer of “political appointees” in Internal Revenue and Customs Services to classified service; estimate of saving net elven, Consolidation of Lighthouse and Life- Raving Service into Bureau of Light- to-day aeroplane, WL ] i AUADAAARULAIINIIN aeRO LALLA | THEATRES BUILT IN ae Veteran Manager Says) the City Is Already Overbuilt and if There Were More Writers of Good Plays the Houses Could Be Filled. He Believes a Reaction Will Come Within the Next Five Years and End Frantic Construc- tion, When Some One}tne «oo pia Will Get Hurt. BY CHARLES DARNTON. W ITH all due apology to the LS late “Charlie” Hoyt it must be said that almost every hole in the ground along Broadway ests a new theatre. Occasionally, of course, there may be other things going up, but the tises |theatre, like the more conservative above aspiring apartment hotels and other sordid flights of houses; estimated saving, $100,000, {solid rock of demand, Transfer of vessels and equipment of Revenue Cutter Service from Treasury to Commerce and Labor Department Vi Ghat saving would be about ‘$1,000,000 | a @ year. WILL SAVE MANY MILLIONS OF PUBLIC FUNDS. Consofidation of auditing offices of the Government under one auditory, Eati- ‘mated saving $200,000 annually. Discontinuance of mileage allowances for Government trave! and a per diem allowance for officets and employees in place of ‘‘subsistence,” which includes i travelling, No esti- vi of handling cor- Estimate of saving not Teapondence. @tven but predicted shat labor can be Feduced 50 per cent. ‘Contralization of the distribution of Government documents, Estimated sav- dng $242,000 a yoar. Discontinuance of publication of the official register. ennually. “Directly and indiroctly,” reads the message, “the changes proposed will re- agit in the saving of many millions of doflars of public funda’ —— IRISH MUSIC FESTIVAL, Estimated saving $45,- Mise Alice Nielsen to | jo Be the Par- tleular Star of the Fels, ‘The sale of boxes and tickets will be al Festival, or Feis Ceoll, of the G Boclety of this city, to take plac Carnegie Hall next Sunday evening. Among the members of the soclety are Cardinal Farley, Dr. Thomas Addin Hmmet, Bourke Cockran, Morgan J. O'Brien, Col. Louis D, Conley, Herbert, Join PD, Crimmins, Joseph F. Mooney, Mgr, Brann and James Byrne. ‘The festival last year was given by Vieter Herbert, a member of the s0- clety, and his orchestra, This year Migg Alice Nielsen, one of the leading sopranos of the Metropolitan and Bos- ton Opera Companies, will be the prin- cipal soloist, and she will render several Irish melodies acquired by her through ithe inflyence of her Irish mother. Miss Mary Loulse Wallace, mezzo- soprano, will sing “Sweet Harp of the fayy that Are Gon @ words of hich were n by Samuel Lover, the music composed expecially for the Gaelic Society by Victor Herbert, Samuel Lover's grandson, Wilmot Goodwin, one of the greatest ‘Darltones in America, has been en- waged to sing Irish songs, including “The West's Awake” and “Avenging and Bright.” Other artists who will appear are Mra, Helen O'Donnell and Fdward O'Mahoney, A band of Irish harpists will accom: pany Mis Nielsen and the other solo- | ims and will also play medieys of Irish airs, And #0 we come, haps, to facta, we to find them? B reluctantly, What are they—where the commercial fancy. |For years {t has been built upon the jut now the supply seems to make that tock a bit shaky, pere The best answer comes from William Harris &r, eye can hold, try Here ts a mia If this {9 more than your plain ‘Bill’ jer who keeps himself Harris, in #mall type, or no type at all, but whose experience dates back fifty yeara, What he doesn't know about theatres isn't worth, knowing, “BUI Harris has grown up with Broadway, and he can turn any corner of it with his eyes shut. In plain Jani whole story. And, this ts what Mr. e, that's in the nto @ comer, tis says about the Present craze cf theatre building: ent situation in York, e, That's the prese Speaking from experience—an experience of ffty yeare—I don't hesitate to say that we theatre-mad, a When started, nine ‘years ago, New York had tits crase twenty-two theatres of the so-called ‘legitimate’ class vaudeville houses, In I'm leaving out the the past yeare thirteen theatres have been built. ‘At tho present time ten are either planned or building. This ‘Mr, Harris paused at this overwhelm- ing prospect and then wi drunk with money, that we became reckless, before the time of speculators who were not theatrical men mind: There t on to speak syndicate.” t the time we built the Hudson, and Liberty Bear this in is not a man in the syndi- acte Who was not brought up in the theatre, Moreover, the ie known as the started without @ ce: speak personally, tervative, on jumpli were a Were filed with the Secretary of State here’ to-day .merging the Mine Hill Ratiroaa Company. the South Haston ‘ Phfilipsburg Railroad Company of Now Jersey wer: fhe Bouth Easton and Phillipsburg road Company of yivania with the Lehigh and Railway Company under the hi \d Hudeon Rive: nd Hudson un. combined cup. imbecility, mental From his boyhood, I might say, he has known no other training men Who compose what theatrical Asa result, to we have all been con. We realized at the begin ning how far we could go. es in New York a few years ago because we bad i do #0 to pro- lect ourselves against oers who Were We thought we ea matter of ayndieate The Effects of Opiates, bet) INFANTS are peculigely susceptible to | alsiprevy tov reparations, all of which are narcotic, is well doses, if continued, these opiates cause ions np poke of the cells which are become 1» & craving 4 for alcohol or narcotics in as intractable nervous dyspepsia and |; ir of waring pore aro.a result of dosing with opiates oF naroueiee to kee p obtlaren qule | infancy. The rule among physielans is that children should never rerei in the t a8 ifunaveld ea « thagythonale 4 time, and nistration nodynes, Drops, Co! Soothing to br any bots ph Hirer age ee Georles, and the crtggiet bes, pasty to. tt who are Eee attention a a aaa is ‘nothing lees than a crime to | contains no if it bears the fy im narcotics | Genuino Castoria always bears the signature - 4|* Mghter one around the Times Butla- But this was We built fact we were doing a very foolish thing. The metropolis grows, and it is only reasonable to suppose that everything krows decordingly. But authors haven't! grown with the metropolis, In this fact, more than in any other, may be found the explanation of tho theatrical | situation. If we had more authors writ- | could fill our thea’ to build « theatre | | It 48 much e1 | Kk statement stamped “BII" | Harris as a man worth knowing, theatrical manager may count hi in to count at all, | MEN RUN THEATRES, ! FOOLS BUILD THEM.” “I'm in a position to sell theatres,” continued Mr. Harris, lowering his eye- | brows, “If any one wants a theatre let | him come to me, 1 can offer hin a house for much less than it would cost ‘him to build one, In my younger days I deaged three theatres in Boston, At! that time I said to myself: ‘Wiso men tun theatres and fools build them.’ 1 am atill of the same opinion, There isn't an owner of a theatre in New York to-day who could get for his house 6 per cent. of what it cost him, The ullding of w theatre ts not a good) speculation, for tho reason phat it can't | ‘ve used for anything else but a theatre. In apite of this fact, however, theatres are being built almost every day in New York, I don't know how It's all going to end, but I can make a fair guess. ‘The whole matter reduces itself +o the question of successful plays. If we can fet the plays we needn't worry about the theatre. But even now the number of first-class playe falls far below that of the first-class houses, And {U's not merely @ matter of successful plays. Tho even mote important fact remains thet we have very few successiul pro- ductions, Theatres can be built with the ald of capital, but who's going to stage the productions? If the plays fail, What will be the result?” Mr. # of ihe fit Mardly a week passes,” he udded, t doesn't bring a letter fror one offering to build a theatre. Frohman alwaya turns over letters of this eort to me. And all 1 can aay is that in this frantic theatre-bullding scheme somebody's going to get hurt. ‘There ia bound to be w reaction. Within the next five years, I belteve, a great many of the New York theatres will be urned into garage: — > REVOLVING DOOR A TRAP, Man Purened Around Times Build. fing Ie Fi y Caught, Persons in Times Square at midnight Jast night heard #houts of “Stop thief!" and aaw @ stout inan chasing ing. After one lap hundreds Joined tn the chase, The fugitive darted into the drug store | in the building. He made several cir-| cuits of the Various revolving doors in| an effort to throw off his pursuers, but was finally pocketed in one door and | captured, Patrolman Walter took him to | the West Forty-seventh street station, | where he was locked up charged with grand larceny, He ald he was Jolm Culbert of No, 6 Broadway, Fred J. Brick ufaeturer of No. 12) Ras Street, sald Culvert had stolen his wal- Jlet on a Forty-second street car and jumped off. ‘The wallet was not fount on the prisoner | nown, ges on i the permuanen fcantng ent, later lite lum and ite various | | ly to TOME sister-in-law, Mrs. Sauer, went down to breakfast yesterday after hav-| Ing Wragped the Kems in a hundkerchier | jand placed them in a shoe When she; returned twenty minutes later. she Teached into the shoe, but the Jewels Were not there. On the of he dreaning table were a diamond bracelet | “The Man on the Box," in which play HER JEWELS VANISHED #he claims to have a half interest. Miss ON PITTSBURGH VISIT. | Niison aecturea she bought her inter- ae est in the plece from Walter N. Law- rence in 15, and that the American Brooklyn Woman Hid Them in Her Shoe While She Went half interest, her since M WS, to Breakfast. Sveclal to The Bvening Word), PITTSBURG, April 4—From a shoe which Mrs, George A, Amos of No. 159 Hawthorne street, Brooklyn, used as a safety deposit box $200) worth of dia- inonds ul Jewelry was stolen at the! horne No, 443| South id. Mra. Ame week.han been visiting | her @ diamond pin and gold wateh, whieh, had lain in ‘ull view of any one emterins | the room, Mrs. Souer when notified tmmediate' suspected a Pollsh a tves arrested her, St By Freeman Hall, M. D. knew anything about « inealbat book 4 fiuane. we admits she moved the shoe fy if you where {t had been left to Mrs. Amos’ from “Consumption, room, Mrs, Amos will remain here ur the mystery 4s ‘cleared up. ‘The police’ (un are certain that the theft was an Inaide| advanc Jobo, because the Jewelry on the dressing table wus not disturbed, Actre: Miss Carlotta Nilson, an actr day filed a suit in the Supre fainst the American Play for an accounting of the profits from i your 4 THE NEW SPRING MODELS IN from among “Kuppenheimer” Cloth- ing. values, satisfy his highest ideals in fine fabrics, prove for himself every detail of tailoring and fit, You want to see the brand new Suits and Overcoats that “Kup- penheimer” has sent us unquestionably .t h e most complete assort- ments of good clothes in New York—models for every type of man, The price range is $15, $18, $20, $22.50, $25, and up to $38 ~~whichever you select, you'll find the price right. 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