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? que NVILUAN ESS PROM THE REAR WINDING ve THe SCewenRy “The Whip” Is i ‘T was like a prayer she murnured as | side the track { at the mouth of the bls drooped disconsolately With these words ca% of steam, the shrick of ‘umbdiing menace of the rat ing glare of disa the hard-maple road spectal en, into the wandering 1 ang! went a to a second in helping the ne of A simple En. sirl from the East Side dre her ant threw pi Te was uj be numbered among who didn’ the inconsisten been hurled completely motiv order to reac Hd heir best to kee nel, “I hope I ri She wes a simple glist girl from the East Sie, head, like her Dp 8 More Bewildering on Stage From Out Front, With a Hundred itfen Rushing Noiselessiy to Arrange 3ioving Train, Wreck, Auto Smash. Horse Race. BY CHARLES DARNTO} “My Gaws!* and ber lin dress he “My right ‘leg’s al! black-and b! hissing stle, the s, the Mnzy- wn all cannon. je the curtain 1k w tmonent now to 1 dy the loco- the centre o | the staze. BEWILDERING TO SEE “T¥E WHIP” FROM SACK STAGE. I'm trying to give you an ingide tip on “The Whip.” vie Drury Lane melodrama “that {st ¢ capacity of the M , ‘ th Ite thrilling sve he thea the stage is even more exciting baa Beelng it from “the front.” Also, ite more bewildering of all it was necessar os 12 hundint or #0 slug Site Wke om men. * from the “iv Vike unhappy 9 others glided + through the dar of stage and with the admor oft Sepeh on scanty on thelr I ya id (0 the con. fuaion countless ited back and forth Usten ng an tor a word, 4 strained at leashes, and Aer the oventt ere led into the 8 Wabied in tae eif vue, (When the wea ' colder they've going into Winter quarters ut the back of the stage.) An autowobite made of wool painted bla own an ficline, Was cau and turned over acco » pro Feamme. It was no Jo tor ituze hero, who s of the 1 landed—ugh!—on a mattress Nothing coing for a minute or non, ye downstacrs,” pr ae Man Who Know All About 1] WILLIE NUTT LIKES CELERY \ TONIC “CHAMPAGNE,” ‘ ther th note huge hate \, g.el cavern Was a motor that gave ) formance 18 laws ; na warm, ei eed W y assumest boy, delights “in the + yamber of Horrors, But his gveal iw the W vin, ) otberly soul with a pi Celery Tonic.” This beverage, oxitilavates while It does not Gung lke champagne und Ie sory intoxicate, The DOOR Nas AGO SUPPORT e the hunt dinner in remains In the ve uch at the play. that dottles after scene ts consumed by Willie heart. She sat at a ‘ing machine, he in a chetr at one with a bottle of “Celery Tonle” reach. King “The Whip" a thing of informed me, ho was the in “Jack and the the world art firs e him wheg he was open: | at r even thous’ And now that he Ista wastly has escaped ole that for ghter t and the wantrobe mi and Willie were the plet {ness as wo left them and cd back to the stag All seemed unreasonably quiet for ! B the villainess, a stucy black-and-white, ng to ralse a mpus. Sud- se swept upon the stages A Ss silence awaited her words: everley, pray fo this—er— : unhappily, I worts that have rom your ilps. ““lerefore? though et the pain I may cause, It is due seit to gay (at f AM LORD | BRANCASTER'S WIFE | MARIE ILLINGTON MAKES NINE CHANGES. | What a woman yeautiful and yet vo falee! Shuddering 1 from her tou a good gort-joly 3 ‘ton, who looks even ‘Tempes: at close range yas the footiights drama is an old stor just Sow much every word of tt ts wo Bustling ao in performing the es of Mrs. Peamish she paused to say: This IS a part to keep woman usy! I make nlne changes more jthan [ used to moke at Drury Lane. Bur f feel th T can't do too much for New e WwW Boek as ell fi re than it did in La a ae e the other da, 1 - answered y the parts her shoulder: jta later the serlo-comic Imprisoned in beating n from stage me finding ney of Lluvt the door, and to preven it down halt do: some with poles in the vere racing themselves against hat door had good support Meanwhile skiled laborers were be- rinning to lay the railroad tracks that { trainer | | hands, it Than' life is one long dream of | handa, | arclage for ymour | the Aldy Theatre. One ght Hicks took W! along with him until now had been piled about the | wooden locomotive, making It look shored up.” ‘The track was in wooden seetions, each section with Its own ring. To make the tiv more diMcult re Was a gwitch to be put In work= order, but the whole job was done Nekly and nolselesely, EASY TO GET THE TRAIN UNDER WAY. ‘& It was a comparatively easy matter to Ket ghe train for the race-couse started, A pipe rising from a small Doller sent steam over the coach to Wreer AND THE WARDROSE MISTRESS Nwurr cl Ea hija which the box-car with the horse was vupled, “Che motor in tie basement, OF cellar, or whatever it's called, made the eels go round. High up in galleries coatiess men in an ecstacy of industry ruined huge cranks that caused the painted landscape to slip quickly past. Wut when the coach and box-car parted company, thanks to the villain who car- ried his nerve with him, willing stage . ousy and snove tne coach off the stage. ‘A larger force was needed to get up speed for the locomotive, which stood on an incline ready to dash upon the scene. The tunnel was built of black plush, and the men ‘who worked in it THE EVENING WAITING FOR THEIR Cue cla GETTING UP SPeaD WOMAN COMPANION OF ALBERT WOLTER S HAPPY MARRED Asst. District-Attorney Moss, Who Aided Her, Tells of “Social Rehabilitation.” The “social rehabilitation” and mar- riage of Kate Mueller, woman com- Panion of Albert Wolter, slayer of Ruth Wheeler, was announced by Asajetani District-Attorney Frank Moss at the St. Nicholas Soctety dinner at Delmon- {co's last night. Mr. and Mrs, Moss cared for the girl after Wolter’s arrest for murder, “Bhe came to me shortly after Wol- ver's execution,” sald Mr. Moss, “and like *o many demons wore black dom!- he audience, These men— seemed to be fifty of them— brought that locomotive down-grade th neatnesa and despateh, «Talk about your flyers! There was @ moment more ense on the stage than In the audience, hen the collision, and with it the firing of the cannon. The rescued horse jumped, everyboly shouted, and the sta director took a hitch in his suspenders—beg pardon, braces! Only the villain was unhappy. Look at th he complained, holt up @ badly-damaged coat. “That's the ond coat T've torn crawling along at {nfernal coach! But the next mo- ment he was chatting pleasantly with the heroine—who happens to he his wife. A wrecking crew of one hundred men cleared the stage {1 a jiffy, Then the crowd gathered for the race, The horses were brought In from the street and petted by. the beauteous walking Indies, who stroked thelr noses, curled their forelocks and fed them candy. The lucky beasts seemed to enjoy it all Im- mensely. Tt was their turn to take the centre of the stage, and they acted Ilke actors. Real jockeys were there to ride them and to see they were properly harnessed to their treadmilis. “treads” might move forwant as the race grew more those horses had with thelr gallopping fe me, they did! At the fintsh, curtain caine down with cheers, they looked at one another as !f to say: “We had ‘em golng—what! VINCENT ASTOR TO PICK POLICE HEROES FOR HONOR ‘o keep them spinning And, belleve Succeeds His as Member of Memorial Tablet Committee. ent Astor, helr to the Astor Tilllons, taken up his first civic futy in accepting membership on the committee which Is selecting the nameg of police heroes to be inscribed on the tablets in Police Mr. "Astor tak ttee made vaca: Col. memorial Your wreat bronze Headquarters. hep on the the death of his father, Mt John ‘ob Asto Col, Astor, R. A. C. Smith and Philip Ri ander were the members of the original coinmittee. search through Poltce tho mu of twentyea! cir lives In. meri- n who lost patice serv nd these nar have already ben placed on tha tablets. The death of Col, Astor in the Tit ter halted the work of the com- tee. Comm oner Waldo thought it would to thing vit he Astor youn, seeful pl and wi 8% short to | woner celved the ‘My Dear Mr. Waido—It will give great pleasure to serve for selection of 1 bed on the menor! Headquarters, 1 apprectate of men in connection with thie ee, of which my fatier wae a Yours t > Rayner Left, $1,000 BALTIMORE, ihe estate of ibe Thay ne $1,000,000, ty bet » William B. Raye ‘ in trust. The left to th . and son the io make such char. {table bequests os they see At yes so as to be Invisible to the search- | ing | The | nd more exciting, but | when the | announced that she was to be married to an honest man. She brought him to my house to see if I thought he was a proper husband for her, He was and they are now happily married. She has become @ respectable member of s0- . Moas mentioned this case as an Mustration that crime migh: be kept down If there was a more general in- terest in unfortunates and willingness to help them, John Temple Graves, one of the other speakers, praised —_District-Attorney Whitman, Mr, Moss and Justice Goff for thelr recent work in securing the con- victions of dangerous criminals, “The country owes them a debt of aratitude,” he said, ‘New York has been vindicated." ARRESTED AS BURGLAR, SAYS HE’S GIRL’S HUSBAND. She Tells of Two Men With Masks, Gags and Chloro- form. Yetta Figarsk!, seventeen, of No. 79 Chrystie street and Jennie Cohen, twent,, of No. 41 Henry streot, went to Clinton street police station early to-day and told how two men had made an at- tempt them. Yetta said her parents went to Brook- lyn to spend the night and she had her friend Jennie come stay with her. About 1 o'clock, she said, they were awakened by two masked men coming in from the fire escape. One choked Yetta, poured iquid on a rag and held it over face’ and gagged her with bed clothing. The other man the mattress and some of the bedding on Jennie to keep her screams from being heard. Yetta said she struggled until she freed her hands e the mask from one of the men, her puiied out the gag and shouted some more. The men ran down the tive escape, but Yetta said she had recog. nized the one from whom she tore the mask, Nothing was taken Detectives De Cantillon and Capone wrrested Max Frank, twenty-two, in bed at No, 192 Monroe st t. They | he agmitted having heen tn the apartment, but claime? he was married jto Yetta ‘by Alderman genith Jan. 2 Iw He said he had be arrested twico for annoying her, Yetta dented she had ever married him, WORLD, SATURDAY, Behind the Scenes at This Melodrama HINDLE WAKES” There’s Action Every Second of the Time, ONLY NEW PLAY OF COMING WEEK English Company Is to Pre- "sent Drama Dealing With Factory Girl. oS etal WAKES," an Engliee play by Stanley Houghton, Will be @roduced at Maxine Elliott's Theatre on Monday night. The story concerns itself with a rich mill owner's son and a girl weaver in his father's factory who have been on @ Spree together, prompted by no deeper purpose than having a good time. The fact in discovered by the parents of both, who insist there shall be a mar- riage by way of restoring the good namo of the girl. To tine the young man consents, although the carrying out of the plan involves breaking his engagement to a young woman of his own station, It {# at this point that the mili girl herself refuses to be a party to her own proposed moral re- generation. She does not wish to be « hindrance to a husband born above her. She was equally to blame, and will be fully able to earn her own living as long as there ts a mill in Lancashire, The man who would break off his en- gagement to anoth wpon the mere command of his father {s not the kind of man for her, They have had their good time together—and farewell. The English company that acts the play in- cludes Dulcte Conry, Kathleen MaoPher- fon, Alice O'Dea, Alice Chapin, Emelte Polini, Herbert Lomas, James C. Tay- lor, Charles F, Lloyd and Roland Young. cons Annie Russell's Old Engilsh Comedy Company, at the Thirty-ninth Street Theatre, will revive “She Stoops to Conquer." There will be @ professional matinee of "The Yellow Jacket” at the Fulton Theatre on Friday. On Monday John F. Kellerd will gtv a professional matinee of “Hamlet” at the Garden Theatre. “A Scrape o’ the Pen,” Graham Mot- fat’s Scotch comedy, will be the at- traction at the Grand Opera House. “Mutt and Jeff’ will be seen at the West End Theatre. The Academy of Music atock company will revive “The Count of Monte Cristo, “Salome Jane” will be the offering of the stock company at the Harlem Opera H he Knickerbocker Burlesquers” will be at the Columbia Theatre. “The Midnight Matdens" come to the Murray Hill Theatr At Hurtig & Seamon's will’ be “The Merry-Go-Rounders, The Olympic Theat! Bowery Burlesquers.”* Billy Watson's will have ‘The Beef Trust’ will be Theatre. ollies of the Day’? will be seen at the People's Theatre. ‘Jardin de Paris Girls" come to Miner's The- atre in the Bronx. VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS. At Hammerstein's wil! be Ching Ling Foo, Chinese magician; Grace Hazard in comle opera selections, ‘The Seal with the Human Brain,” “The Guy That Put the Tone in other attractions, The bill at the Colonial Theatre will Include Grace La Rue in a musical nedy called “The Record Breake! urtis Burnley in songs and stories, \ctor Moore and Emma Littlefield in ‘Change Your Act,” and Valerie Ber- gere in “His Japanese Wife.” Among the offerings at the Alhambra will be ‘The Drums of Oude,” Lee White and George Perry in songs, Ray- mond and Caverly, Linden Beckwith, and Madden and Fitzpatrick in ‘The Wanderer. The Bronx Theatre will ence Roberts in venes,” the melodramatic — burl “More Sinned Against Than Usual,’ Gertrude Barnes in a singing and danc- ing number, and Williams, Thompson and Copeland in The Burglar’s Union." “Ol Timers’ Week" at the Union Square Theatre will be celebrated with Maggie Cline, Ward and Curran, Lydia Yeamans, Gus Williams, Mr. and Mrs, Mark Murphy and other The bill at Proctor’ Theatre will include Irene Franklin, with Burt Green; Stuart Barnes, and May Tully and Ed, Wynn In “The Bat tle Cry of Freedom.” At the Twenty- third Street Theatre “The Ten Musical Rough Riders’ will take first place, “The Telephone Girls" will be the chiet novelty at the Fifty-elghth Street T! atre. The Russell Brothers will head the bill for the first half of the week at the Mne Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Theatre, Among others at the American The- atre will be Jock Mills, Harry Leander and company, Weber and Wilson, Ber- hand and Jones, Wilson and Pearson, Baritone,” and have Flor- “The Woman Inter- Fifth Avenue ani Nat Carr and company, William Fox will offer ten new vaude- of ville acts at the Academy and eight at the Audubon Rooney ‘To-Morrow Aftern Theodore Roosevelt and 150 to 20 other Progressives will start for Chicago to-morrow afternoon at 1 o'clock to a tend the meeting of the Progressive National Committee. 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E. Oleott, Who Escorts Fifty Titian Crowned | Maids to Attend the Launching of the Wash- ington Irving. “As for Girls With Red Hair,” She Says, “There’s No Reason WhyThey ShouldNot Be AS Lucky as Their Dark! Haired or Golden Curled Sistere.’’ Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ‘Why's a red-haired girl lucky? Becanse she’s « girl, and youth fe the most elusi: the happiest and the luckiest thing in all the world, Whiloh ta the entirely sensible and un- superstitious answer of Mrs. HB, EB, Ol- ovtt to the question of why she has ob- tained the services of ff.y red-haired” girls to help launch her husband’ new) Hudeon River steamer, the Washington Irving. ‘The launching takes place to- day in Camden, N. J. The girls with Titian locks are all members of the Red-Halred Girls’ Club! at the Washington Irving High School. | And it wae reported that Mra. Olcott herself had suggested the selection | from this particular club, because of her firm belief in the good fortune at- tendant on what are vulgarly known as “carrot-tops.” “Oh, but I'm not eo superstitious as all that! whe laughed, when I talked to her. And I didn’t wonder, becaus Mes, Olcott's own abundant locks are a very pretty light brown, I think It) must take a red-haired person to ' ‘e—or attempt to belleve—that really te lucky. think,” Mra. smile still lingering, my @uburn-haired escort must have come from Dr. McAndrews, the prin- Olcott went on, a “thet the idea of cipal of the Washington Irving High School, He's an exceedingly clever I agreed, “and his own hal or at least his beard, Is —er—sunehiny. COULDN'T TAKE ALL HANDS TO THE LAUNCHING. “Well, of course some method of choice had to be observed," Mrs, Olcott resumed. ‘We couldn't take everybody | fn the school to the launching, mucit as we should have enjoyed doing so. | cand personally 1 am delighted with the plan of taking at least « reprosentae ltive body of public school girl. Of |course, no enlightened person believes | in bad luck or good luck or omens. Buch bellefs are relics of an ignorant | paxan past. “Red: Haired Girls Lucky Because They Are Girls, absolutely no reason why they shouldn't any more 40,’ But we are all believers in | tl ae CE ttt apy roms: arateti ™ Hat Co eal tok ‘thee, saltring,” Hail! So name bnt thine blend and bind mich memories tre; him long eenturics entwine \e Mighlanda bold and Catskills bine, Suppy side to tajp stream, a phi PT eae, ced net And crown the jand with laurel bays, “The girls and 1 will beth pay @ tribute to Washington Irv'ng,” Mra Olcott continued. “They aro to wear Ivy chapletw made from the vine at Irving's home, Sunnyside, which grew from @ cutting given to Mim by sin Walter Scott. And I myvelf went up to Sunnyside to draw the water from the well there, with which I shall christen the boat at Camden.” Which little fact shows Mrs, Olcott's lack of superstition, as there is an old saying that it fe Mi luck tor a ship not he christened with @ bottle of wine. “With tier loving and reveront hts of the great man for whom ne the boat, with the hopefulness ner) fo good will that are the natural endowments of all young per- fons, these Washington Irving girls are surely the most satisfactory and de- sirable guests for the birthday of any new undertakin charm to come to their ald, of ours, oo Mies Sousa to Wed on Dee. 17. Miss Helen Sousa, danghter of John Phiitp Sousa, the “March King,’ and her flance, Hamiiton Abert, a broker, went to the City Hall yesterday and ob- tained a marriage license. The wedding will take place at %. Thomas's Eplaco- pal Church Dec. 17, The Rev. Dr. Btires will perform the ceremony. The \nride-to-be gave her age ae twenty-five. The Sousas live at No, 9 East Thirty- ninth street. Mr. Abert is twenty-seven years of age, the son of Willlam Stone Abert. He lives at No, 122 East Eighty- be AS lucky as thetr dark-haired OF second street. gBollen-curled sisters—even if they aren't Ts All Luck’’ MRS.EBEN ERSKINE OLCOT.T youth, and we feel that it gives the finest sanction to any enterprise, “As for girls with red hatr, ther “But they are more #o In this 1 observed, “because they get the chance to « the launching and the others must stay at home.” RED DANGER SIGNAL FOR THE GIRLS’ CLUB. “Yes,” admitted Mra, Olcott, “but there's such @ thing as the law of com- pensation, you know, Amd unl eiris and boys have changed from what they were when I went to school that Red- Matred Club in the Washington Irving High Schoo! has its troubles. “I hope the girls will enjoy the trip, because I recognize that many of them travel on the Hudson, and 1 do think that thelr visit to Cainden, the scene of so many important historical events, will have an educational value, 1 know that I shail enjoy their company, as 1| am very fond of young girls, And I've been told that they recite beautifully the poem written by Wallace Brucesfor the launching. VERSES TO BE RECITED BY THE TITIAN-CROWNED GIRLS. ‘Have you seen it?" added Mrs, Ol- cott, handing me a copy, Which has not yet been published. flere It Is, as the girls will repeat it In unison to-day, on the launching platform, just before the actual christenin, ape. your hea Iready failing, Fi ts etith goo, the added bi wing that thee Nolves are ipa it has at Heat ba ey Ing Deatnens whist the of the Focomotive dot not plainer ‘approach of the train, than Heed Noles indi- ite the approach of Y may only have the Noises tm the head jonally, ot when you have a cold, but you ein danger all the same, You weed tmme- ‘ate treatment, Deafness Speciaiist Sproule has stuftied aod h pertected @ method of treetnent which haa untold joy to many, many people troubled Heal Noises, ‘This treetment has, in hundreds of casce, stopped the sounds and eft the Bead lear aso be!l, GIVEN AWAY welcome thee, f Ph an, being otforea Free. per ar “an teh yO etbed of this [- A "Yin lloce It in acter, 4 | cures, wmmete, otneee o . veciarivt, Bprowle wants wie eatifet fiom Use Hares Heed Notease ‘wafuried, hat intense misery those sounds of ‘ sat eit nana te carta OF Aneete aetine Sustinae-the, distant toa hvonblng-menge. proud steamer fair, eh with an 10 ah Fputment ng Bo td re In idace, of " + 0 love, eve, 18. 4 te " on oveay sue, found is heard quickly and dietinetiy, ‘ate sail 'Melease the De Just nik down and Write a postcard oF our Hodeon'sDrean™ wud rpauert “asking for a. treatmen Vree—tor jt name aod address, ond Nolet ae Manhation, greet Mi 'NOW The treatment. wil-come to thy portal ‘now: Som malls and. wilt othing. 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