The evening world. Newspaper, May 7, 1913, Page 21

F IN THE SPRE ‘We may, perhaps, merely Sardou reduced to farce, ELLO YOUNG TELLAH, WANTA GO To WorRK ? Very Light Domestic Comedy. BY CHARLES DARNTON. SG the young wife's fancy lightly turns to thoughts’ of divorce be justified in laying the blame at the dressing-room door uf Mixs Grace George, whoxe capti encouraged those youthful managers, tute “Her First Divorce’ at the Comedy Theatre WRile Miss George cannot be called as a witness in this case, all the cir- umetances over which she has complete control at the Playhouse point to her an wecensory before tho fact that ( vy CasBase’ Laura Hope Crews as Ethel Willmott. Jublan Lestrange as Harry Willmott. Laure Hope Crews has obviously ta the rele iteelf, She ts amusing and istake by falling to follow Honeymoon, critics were asked to remain silent, hat approaches madnevs. actress, imoty or audiences. circumstances tlona) acruple. An introd' sarkly | Does Not Love. woman-lawyer a pink-and-white creat k the performance together aud makes it worth wa’ ober senses, and he makes hik way through the aimless scenes with that dis- tinction whieh always marks his work habit-of putting his hands on jis hips when he is sp ‘S'Matter, Pop?” T3Y Gounys, 1 WAS JUST, LOOKING FOR A Husiry — FARM ting performance of “Divorcons” Messrs, Harris and Selwyn, to W. Bell's “modern American comedy” Mr. Bell it is only fair to holds his own brief, both ® play- Wright and a lawyer of Hamilton, Ont. But in appearing before the night court that passes swift judgment on authors he has failed to produce evi- dence that carries conviction. Although his dialogue ty bright, his play ts an- other story-or no story at all, “Her First Divorce” 4s such very lht do- mestic comedy that it fades into thin | alr for all the world lke an aeronaut who is leaving hie wife. As for the divorcing her dearest friend ae is not onty ridiculous as a lawyer, but im- port The drawing-room proceed- Ings, based upon a dinner at which a anake dancer evidently did her beat to be entertaining, gain their chief intei est from «a servant who “rehearse: the testimony she ta of giving In court, really and human character in this humble in the pla; Anirews wins both sympathy and ho Hur ft is Julian ange, as the} remarkably patient husoand of the! Woman intent upon spreading divorce | and happiness over the land who holds | hing. He, at least, is in his He should, however, correct a very bad aking to a woman. Miss Her Affectations are even sililer than ver at times, but she has made a great | je unusually when that comedy was given a single performance at which the po example she set he: jt in “The that he | ung wife who goes in for law and | in mortal terror Olga is the one role Miss Adora the author too Iterally in making the} ttAND \ A SMOKE Allan Pollock, in the rolesgf the drunken | guarantee nevertheless 4 certain protection, slangy but expressive term For both girls and y frequently fraught with grave peril, husband that ts enough in itwelf to ruin any ings, proves beyond any possible doubt that he has become the victim of a method | = He ts a good actor in imminent peril of going utterly | Peg thd fad through Indulgence in a style of acting that should be changed without | f the wife who finally proves herself to be devoted to the worthless | Miss Ruth Holt Bo... icault is good to look at, but not altogether fascin- | Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers And the reason for iny It is stinply acquaintances made on the street or in the subwa: ion from a friend, while tt does not your new F. M! writes: “There is a youn for me. very ‘T do not ' all, My MUithiks 1 should « him Netw in a position to give Pood home, D5 you advine ime you dowt love. + writ “H, ." writes + olde Ng Would such a marriage prove nvulves ar * writek: “Woat wy Qung man who heard that [ bye him and _injmediateis } of our friendship, w do you th ui exe | “Glan a shit @ veven- ave with @| epeak than my-| rhdiculing her, dee 1 can only reply, edy placed tn decent surround- To get back to the play, “Her First Divorce’ Is too trivial to draw elther tem ein ee ane le An Unbreakable Rule. ETTERS continu I canes-—most u to reach me aski ntly set forth—it we if ne spectal No. Never. answer is not an that danger ten I acquaintance's character, AtT out asking me whether or not the unkind thing me for two y 1 think he generous, {8 unreasons ou 1h writes: “When State of New \ At twenty-one. Unreasonable Parents. L Ae writes: "Tam in love with a | ehaly to her about it, a8 people ar How shall I do it?’ I think that however you attempt 1 a quarrel wil result, \. 1 writes: "I shall have my ples} ture taken shortly, and a young man/ © for mo. mm me to do this? 1 think Id be permissible to apeak to a young man oy woman often met ‘but never introduced. Under no | re conven- sup"'=to une that has no protection of any sort. | ng men such acqualntanceships are T sald} Yet he has known | at his laboratory. and une | dinp: » girl of | fected bi ° hat sa very #ood friend of tnine has} avked,ine to give him one, Would it | TIME MAY = ILL GET A CIGAR AND HAVE~ (S THING HAS NAPRENED “roo OFTEN, (Mm Gone TO FIND OuT WHERE ALL MY ALL RIGHT SiR 1F You CAN FIND ANYTHING To {ceitecotct etn FACT The Evening World Daily Magazine; Wednesday, May .z, 1913 x ea x psf * By C. M. Payne 13, THOUGH. J DONT THINK THER: 1S A SPRINKLING CAN o aPp.aca SPRINT WITH, GO Ri6dt To worn by Dodd, Mead & Co, AYNOVKIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, Mint Venduane at beuulf) ant rch wumas, . ‘e beautitu y been discovered “dsing: im. the Ithrary of her home and died a short Hmo afterward, Her death la viously autrinted 0 lmunier nnd to su 8 believer in Spiritualism, ans Minder" the influence nf Mrs. Poot Hi ima ths meds goce to Ve: Durie ape Sele sr manufactarer of “‘eniritnaliatic the apparatts use th seences CHAPTER V. (Conth ned.) The Seismograph Adventure. IBN you will get the stuff together this morning and have it up to my place afternoon | Yes, Professor, yes, Tt \in a Darain, 1 would do anything for Mrs, Mopper—she is a fine woman,” late that afternoon 1 rejoined Crate Signor Marina had dy arrived with a truck and was ing the puraphernalia about the | Inbor ry. He had first laid a thick black rug. “Mrs, Popper very mueh af- ck carpets, an ndam's room was carpeted in I Suppose black conceals thing that one oughtn’t to see at nee, binet with a black curtain, several a light deal table, several banjo: alr paix, 10) oo | who {# twenty-one, but whose pa-| horns and other Instruments were + doubt it. At any rate, she Yi vents object to my attentions. They | posed about the room, With a few a AYURE So inary fay they may want to Uve with their Seations from me we made a fair auptt- 8 wach @aughter when they grow old, and they | cation of the hangings on the walt SO. GM owrites: A certain YOUN Wouldn't care to have me around. What | Kennedy was manifestly anxious to ge ° Wh anit Nam smays he loves me and das beet) go you ads Ish, und at Inst eed done, ray t ie Arm PS Fs oe tat . After Marina had gone, Kennet Siem me setiontion fhe 4 2s v8) Go shead and marry the girl tf YoU! grotched % a&ctuin over the end of the tave mot seen lin for tives week* two fave each other. Her parents are| room furthest from the cabinet. Re- seo write And) selfish and unreasonaole, hind it he placed on a anit toe appara: tus composed of the pendulu an Mot unlens you have some grounds for] “D, A.” writes: “Tam in love with a) Magnets, The beakers and teet-tubes eemmeing bin i! wirl who Nas started to bleach her| Were Also on this shelf, = |pretty brown hair. I should like to| He had aleo arranged that the cabinet should be #o situated that It was next @ ©) hallway that ran past his laboratory, | “To-night, Jameson," he aid, indi- tf} cating a xpot on the hall wail jurt back Jot the cabmet, "I shall want you to ‘bring my guests ont here and do a Uttle 1 toll yeu Just what to | de ime comes." ‘That night when we gathered in the transformed laboratory, there ware Hen- Dr, Hanson, Inspector And myeslf. At last was heard, and the avbad of wh ) the satisfied. I had noticed ¢ Mrs. Popper drove up in @ haneom, ac- companjed by Farrington. They both inspected the room narrowly and seemed Thad, as I have said, taken @ serious dislike to the man, and watched him oloaely, I did not like his ot calm assurance, The lights were switched off, all ex- cept one sixteen candie-power lamp in the furthest corner, shaded by a deep- Tt was just light enough to © to read very lurge print with dim- culty. Mra. Popper began immediately with the table. Kennedy and 1 eat on her right and left respectively, in the circle, and held her hands and fect. 1 confean to @ real thrill when T ifelt the light tabio rise firmt on two legs, then on one, and finadly remain suspended in the air, whence it dropped with a thud, as if some one had suddenly withdrawn his support. ‘The medium sat with her back to the curtalp of the cabinet, and several times T could’ have sworn that @ hand reached out and passed clone to my lead, At Jeast it seemed wo. ‘The curtain bulyed at times, and a breeze seemed to sweep out from the cabinet. After some time of thin sort of work Cra\g led gradually up to a request for ® matertalization of the control of Vau- dam, but Mra. Popper refused, Sho sald he did not fre) strong enoug!, and bar rington put in a hasty word thet he, too, KI fee) that “there wax something working against m.”" Rut Kennedy war iinportinate and at last whe sented to neo If ‘ohn’ wold do se Tapping, even if he could not matertalize Kennedy asked to be permitted to put ‘John' who apperrs to yonight at 1290 ‘ame the falnt reply ro rather it seemed te me to comm fram, the fiowr maar th cabinet, and perhaps’ to be @ trilie muf- ‘Bt by the black cara “Are you in communteation with Mre Vandam?” Hap! rap! rap! she be made to rap for us?" Craig paused a moment to frame the answer, then shot it out potntblack: “Dora Mra, Vandam know now in the other world whether any one in this room substituted a morphine capaule for one of those omiered by her threa days bufore whe died? Does she know whether the aame person has done the same thing with those later ordered by Mr. Vandam?" “John" reamed onaiderably perturbed “in pi mention of capsules, It was patton of ov a ee _S cr. \aguaut SS ————— RATT ASUS ONLY ONG TH: TIME PLE HAVE Jong time before any answer was forth- coming. Kennedy was about to repeat the queation when a faint sound wae Rap!— Guddenly came a wild scream. It was euch @ scream as 1 had never heard before in my life. It came as though a dagger had been thrust into the heart of Mrs. Popper. ‘Dhe lights flashed up ee Kennedy turned the switch. A man was lying flat on the floor— it was Inspector O'Connor, He had suc- coeded in sipping noiseleasly, like @ snake, velow the curtain into the cabl- net. Cratg had wid him to took out for wiren or threads stretched from Mra. « Popper's clothing to the bulging curtain of the cabinet. Imagine bis aurprise when he saw that she had simply freed her foot from the shoe, which I wae carefully holding down, and with a back- aching her chair Lying on the floor he had grasped her foot and caught her heel with @ firm hand. She had responded with a wild yell that siowed she knew she was trapped. Her secret was out. Hystertcally Mra. Popper began to up the Inspector aw he roxe to his but Farrington quickly Interpom mething was working agi! to-night, gentiemen. Yet you demanded results, And when the spirits will not come, what ts ahe to do? She forget herself in her Srance: she produces, her self, the thing® that you ail could see supernaturally if you were tn sympu- tn I felt tat a man who Hike that cauMht with the as capaole of ont anything. Enough of this fake seance,” ox claimed Crate. "I have let it go on inereiy for the purpose of opening the eyes of @ certain deluded «entieman in this re Now, if yuu will all be nemted [shill have something to say that will finaly establiniy whether Mary Vanda was the victin of accid buicide or murder." With hearts beating rapidiy we silence, Craig took the beakers and teat- tubes from the shelf behind the cur- tain and placed them on the little deal table that had been so merrily dancing about the room. “The increasing frequency with which tales of murder by potson appear in the newspapere, he began formally, Ww rapldjy this new ¢ 2 tauhe on the aspects | THOUGHT 1 WAS THE ONLY ONE IN + By Arthur B. Reeve * come. A of the older civilsations across the seas, Human life te cheap in thie country; but the ways in which human life has been taken among us have usually been direct, almple, aboveboard, in keeping with our democratic and pioneer tra- ditions, “The pistol and the bowie-knife for the individual, the rope and the torch for the mob, have been the usual struments of audden death, But w we begin to use polsuns mont artful compounded in order to hasten an ex- pected bequest remove obatacios in ite way--well, y are practising an ert that calls up all the memories of teenth century Italy. In this beaker,” he continued, "T have some of the contents of the stom: ech of te unfortunate woman. ‘The coroner's physician han fourel that they show traces of morphine, “Was the morphine in such quantities as to be fatal? Without doubt but equally without doubt analysts could not discover and prove It in the face of one Inconsistency. ‘The usual teat which shows morphine poksoning failed in the cane, The pu he yen were not contracted as is usual ch cases, but were normal ‘ow, the murdefter must have known | of thle at This clever eriminal also knew that to be successful tn the of this drug where others had falle!, the drug must be akilfully mixed with somevhing else In that firet box of ¢ were wx. ‘The druggist | correctly according | them time when they cam m the druggists when she took the the time ule, that night, sume one w ; coas to the house emptied one wale of ontent# and refitted it with a d y ‘of morphine—a white powder which lo t like the pow= der alread, Ww 1 puptiy of the ey. i the criminal put a little atropine, or belladonna, with the morphine, My f show abKolutoly the presence of att Dr, Hanson,” aatd Craig, vowing t yet to Aa yesterday \n Vandam, 1 intact, was discover possession of Henry analyzed the capsules. vave One contains 10 quinine at all--it is all morphine and at- without doubt, precisely mule which killed Mrs. dam Another nignt or so and ry Vandam would have dled the same deat.” The old It is, groaned Two much ex posures had soaken hin He looked ig nt vs If not know n whom he could trust, But entire safety and success. | such apparatus mugt not easily get out [is made of ornamental ‘ron By Madison C. Peters, Coprright, 1913, ty The Prem Pubiiding Co, (The New York Evening World), PETER GOELET— From Ironmonger to Fortune Founder. PTBR GORLET, founder of the Goslet fortune, was of Huguenot descent, BH] Hs tomity, for religious consons, took refuge in Holland tn SL Francis Goelet, a bold, adventurous, ambitious man, left Amsterdam | for New Netherlands (as New York was then called) in 1676, Oring ing his eon Jacobus with him. The father eoom determined to ge home, leaving the boy here with friends, Francis was lost on the voyage tack, the ohtp failing to reach ita destination, The orphan son married Jannetje Coesmar, also of a Hirguenct ¢amily, He left atx children. Hie third son, John, died in 1763, whose foruth son, Peter tald the foundation of the $200,000,000 fortune in landed property on Manhattan Island. At No, @& Hanover Square, designated by the sign of the Goléen Key, Peter Goclot was at firat tn a genera! household hardware business, with his orotha tn-law, Peter T, Curtentus. Tn 1768 he went into business by himesif. ‘To his stock of “hardware, brushes, fronmangery and cutlery,” he added “guitars, fiddies, flutes and other musical tm- struments.” His motto was “quick sales and small profits.” He was frugal and abatemious, and punctually met all his obligations, With the profite of the trade he bought land and more land. At the time of the revolution he was a well to-do merchant and a public-spirited citizen. On Gundey mornjng of April 38, 1178, a Gerecback messenger dashed into town and excitedly told of the battle of Lexington, Immediate steps were taken to safeguard the cights of citisena. Among the most prominent men on the Com- mittee of One Hundred was Peter Goslet, and he helped much in the recon- structive work after the Brit evacuation. From this time on his business tnarensed money, During t! than half the city’s population and commerce were jest. And in addition a fire Jal one-fourth of the town in ashea. Peter Goelet’s wise counsel perience helped the work in reconstruction and he General advancement of the community. ‘To hin rapidly increasing business ‘The Goolet fortune, itke th ef business, banking and ownerahip of buying more land and getting control dand once municipally owned; also obtaining water grants and piers under the aotorious administration of City Comptrotier Romaine. Peter Goclet was one of the Sounders of the Chemical National Bank. Al! the profits of Peter Goelet were systematically invested in New York City real eatate and progressively his income from the land increased. In 1763 Petor Goelet married Hilsabeth Ratze, to which union four children Were born. The two sone, Peter B. and Robert R, Goelet married sisters, daughters of Thomes Buchanan, a rich merchant. Hannah, the daughter of old Poter, married Capt. Gerry, the son of Elbridge Gerry, the revolutionary patriot Peter Goslet 34, and his brother Robert, followed the footsteps of their fathers, selling no estate, but buying largely and‘profitably; thus augmenting the wealth of tho family. Peter the 84, was a bachelor who Itved in a brick mansion at Broadway and Nineteenth atreet. In 183 his wealth wan ontimated at stx millions, But this old bachelor attended to all his own wants and on several occasions was found in his office in the Chemical National Bank, eewing his coat. Der stationery he used the blank backs of letters and envelopes which he syatematically saved. Ho kept all kinds of tools in his basement, over which he labored. He med @ law library of 10,000 volumes, for it was a fixed principle with him mever to pay @ lawyer for advice if he could get it himself for the reading, He kept a cow to supely him with fresh milk, and he often milked her himself. is one expensive indulgence was fancy fowls—storks, pheasants, peacodes, &c., which could te seen tu the big yard at Nineteenth pelle and Broaéway. Household Electrics By Stephen L. Coies, ‘Coprright, 1918, by The Pres Publish ing Oo. (The New York Evening World). Residence Elevators. uaually from @ central station, Gere HH development and refinement of pre coe oe eee one Se Se T the electric elevator for residence consfully every day: service hag reached the point) 4 person may atep into the car, pres where it ie as near automatic and “fool-!@ button and be carrind to the flor he proof’ tn action as eseme humanly pos | desiree without interference from =a aibie, In designing apparatue for euch | one tn che halle who may want the eas service the engineer i» confronted firet | Provided the car fe not in motion oF by the fact that no regular elevator benpinyeed yng Se) couse eer tie 6 ooea ee ginploved to run the car. | doore in the halle are eutomatically and controled that women, olf persone | !0°ked while the car te in motion, aad and even children may operate it with | nly after It has stopped at « landing Recondly, | Place can the door at that point de opened. In an emergency the passenger may atop the car positively et any polmt and at any time Ventilated Telephone Booths. HE pubite telephone booths in the T South Station at Hoston recently “ have been equtpped with @ venti- lating system which greatly adds to the comfort of using them, The booths are arranged in groups of seven and each group is provided with an independent motor-driven blower and a system of fibre alr piping placed on top of the booths. of order and its installation must be eo cleverly made us not to inte with the architectural beauty of the house nor the scheme of interlor decoration, The mofern elevator equipment con- sinte of an electric motor-driven winding machine, @ “controller for operating the main circuits to the motor through proper switches and a “floor controller” shone duty It is properly to stop the car at the desired floor. ‘The car tteeif or hard- the supply of current ts wood and Kennedy hurrted on to his next point “Who was it that gave the prescrip: tion to Mrs, Vandam originally? She ‘a dead and cannot tell, The others won't tell, for the person who gave her that preseription was the person who later mubstituted the fatal capsule in place of the harmless. ‘The original prescription ts here, I have been able tah blue to indigo and deep violst, No two give {dentical reactions—at all events not when mixed with the iron tannate to form the pigment in writing. “It {# owing to this difference tn these provisional coloring matters that it is Ponaible to distinguish between writing written with im was able easily tc % to discover from jt nothing at all ®Y inkw used by the 4 exam!ning the handwriting, Nor does Mr. Farrington, and by the { the texture of the paper Indicate an; T have © $ But the ink~ah, the ink, I sup. thing to me riginal prescription with @ eolor ‘Most Inks seein very similar, scale of my own construction, and pose, but to @ person who has nade & hive made chemical tests The arve study of the chemical composition of DEVS a ‘ , Ink they are very different. Ink ix com- St#t'# Ink conforms exactly to the weit ing on the two pili Goxes, but not to the Prescription, One of the other three conforma by test absolutely to the hat prescription signed ‘Dr, C, as 4 blind. In a moment my posed of tron tannate, which on ex posure to alr gives the blac of writing. ‘The original plament—say blue or bine black ink—is placed In the ink, to make the writing visible at first, and xradu- ally fades, giving place to tho biack of the tannate which is formed, The dye- “uffs employed in the commercial inks of to-day vary in color from pale.greem- HY chin of evidence against the rwner e4 Unat bottle of ink will Se complete’ io De Gataveds