The evening world. Newspaper, June 28, 1913, Page 9

THE EVENING WORLD, BATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1913, “Rally Round the Flag, Boys, Rally |A Ballet of American Girls Round the Flag,” Says JULIUS “TWAS BORN ow EBRUARY 28a THE GREAT PATRIOTS DAY” For the Metropolitan Operal a "T CONGRATULATE THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA ANO THE PEOPLE OF ROSTON ON THEER Love FOR THE FLAG. “To DRESS IN RED IS TREASONABLE OBJECTIONABLE AND SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED.” Hear Ye! Hear Ye! ‘Citizens of the Greatest, the Most Humane City of All the Cosmopolitan . Agglomeraiions of This Habitable Globe. You Are Inoculated and Inculcated With the Initial Preparations for a Patriotic Life, and if You Do} Not Love the Flag You Are an Anarchist, a Non- Citizen.” By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free, The shrine of Harburger'’s devotion— On, bring back my bonnic to me! At his order stern sheriff assemble, With the proud form of Liberty in view, Marburger makes miscreants tremble— Three cheers for the red, white and blue? Tum-te-tum, tum-te-tum, tum-te-tum! tam! The Army and Navy forever! aad Blue! And now, I am sure, we are all in a proper mood for an Interview with Julius Harburger, Sheriff of New York. Of course you have read the letter, brimming over with patriot- ism, which our doughty Sheriff ad- Tum-te-tum, tum-+tctum, tum-te- Three cheers for the Red, White dressed this week to a citizen of the South whose head was full of vice and crime and who asked him about the gunmen of this city, After ex-! plaining that the gunman is as de-| funct as the ichthyosaurus, Mr. Har-| burger announced that we all love: our country like the hunter loves hin| faithful spaniel, and expressed the; wish to be buried wrapped in the Stars and Stripes, with his face, turned toward the Statue of Liberty. | After reading this nodle utterance | 1 felt both Mr. Harburger and the) times were ripe for an interview in} which he might teach us all to be-| come patriots like himself. And so it proved, 1 found the little Shertff in bis office, at No, 299 Broadway, exuding patriotisin from every pore. He immediately fell in with my suggestion that he say a few words--Harburger'a words are long and large and would average perhaps three to a line--on the love of country and home and mother, Alva, Mr. Harburger @ls- broad as that"—of mar coursed on what he would do to militant and other forma of viole And of suffragettes {f there were any In New course he spoke of the Fl | York. He talked of women who can't * “I have always loved the Flag," he! live on $75,000 a year, of “men who find began “and holding the big office of! \ treason, of piracy, of Berkman, of fame! gorve aby Iv seems DIS GUSTING THAT WOMEN CAN NOT LIVE Ov$76.000 ARS. HAR BURGER ANDI Couted LIVE OW $ i500 AND MAINTAIN THE O1QNITY OF Tits HIGH OFFICE.” “T ORDERED 4OO LETTERS BVANED" say that every one of New York's 3,600,000 inhabitants who are Under Me, also love the Flag. I believe that New York is the best, the greatest, the most humane city of all the cosmopolitan Agglomerations of this habitable globe.” Mr. Harburger paused, I gasped and humbly asked for tho pencil and the plece of paper which he had offered me| iw. wig, encourage men, women and I had refused upon my entrance.| children to wear red? To enunciate it After that rush of sesquipedatian elo-| more clearly, they appear dressed in red quence ! realized that no human memory! i: their habliaments. This is treason- could de trusted to record the Sheriff's) anie, objectionable, unconstitutional and views. Bo meekly and for the first time) gnouid not be allowed.” I took notes and Mr, Harburser paused] "4s. rrarburgeg paused for breath or graciously after every sentence so that : Mee Where ie no Aauet I might not miss anything. “If any body in ti. cosmopolitan city) Cott Np Beet oes not love the flax and does not de-| 7" an eo wana, pass aire to be buricd wrapped in thé stars) and stripes and wits bie thos toward) ioe quite exelted: T tried to lure Bim the Status of Liberiy'lé la tiecause he{ {2 she PunwentON (Helge GF ABtae | éhe | biography. But he refused to leave the is a member of the WwW. W., an an archist, a non-citixen,” Mr, Harburger | fed fag without « parting hot, 1 announced, “and if IT had my way ! would deport him and ali the others Uke him, I would drive them from the, country.” I shivered, M. the corner wh Sheriff's featu bearing the words ‘No God—No Master’ T sald no, not while I am Sheriff of New York, with 3,500,000 UNDER ME and looking to ME for protection. | will not permit blasphemous, treasdnable, plratical, sedit arpear. And they did not ap, you know that those people, those words to Do 1 wate the State of Penn- sylvania, I present my compliments to the city of Boston, both.of which have recently passed laws forbidding that any flag except the red, white and blue s that. he might. limn{ that we ull love shall be carried in pro- them later on for posterity or at any|ceasions or displayed in public, At the rate for the ? 5 of The Eves! t session of the Lewisiature tn 19 World, There we were both of us not! apparently Mr. Harburger, Mk caring whether we have the Statue of| sood Tammany man he ts, len't count Litorty for a foot stone or a headatone| ing on any Little extra sessions which when we dic, There was T cherishing) may be held in the Interest of direct & secret passion for cremation and yet) primaries—"l will Introduce @ bill for. the Sheriff of New York who could. bidding the carrying of any flag save arrest either of us or any of you at, the Stars and pes, In fact, making sight beleves that persons who do not! it a misdem or to carry any other wish to be buried with the flag and flag. facing the Statue of Liberty are mem-| “I was born In New York City in bers of the I. W. W. and fit only for|1851, on Fe, 2%, birthday of the treasons, stratagems and spollk and de-| father of our country, the great pa- portation, But luckily M. Harburger,,triot's day." I observed that Mr. Har- being a rheriff, suspected nothing, burger had mwung egpily into hi» Wash. G Mayor of New York," Mr,|ington’s Birthday speech, “The home inued—it's about only of iny parents was In the old wy he hasn't had—"E would allow) Ward, © was then a wild one to mares Within the city limits with, the city’ these ‘here were then he ced flag unfurled. It In the flag of no hug ‘avansarien auch as we ob- tus to-day. T attended the ma Goldman, of Haywood, of Etter, of public schoolr, where I wax inoculated Gtovanitt At the Madison Square ana inculcated with the initial prepara. pageant which I aupervised In my capac-' tions for a patriotic life, ity as holder of the high office of Sheriff were in humble circumstances de Zayas cowered in} he was studying the, Won, THe “Gans? “Next Season the Corps de Ballet at the Opera Will Consist Almost Entirely of American Girls, Says Mme. Cavalazzi, Famous Teacher—“The American Girl a Fine Daneer Because of Her Intelligence.” ° By Charles Darnton. \ HO wouldn't go to graduat- ' ing exercises, with all the sweet girl graduates wear- ing white tarlatan skirts and pink tights? ‘ That's the way it was at Madame Cavallazsi’s school yesterday after- noon. Pretty? It beat anything ever seen at the Evanston High School or the Sentinel City Business College. If inatitutions of learning generally would only adopt this charming dress for its young la—— But to get back to Madame Caval- | 1azai's school, I should explain without further delay that these graduating lexercises were physical rather than mental. You see, it was a batlet achool, T say “was” becaure Madame, whom all the giris love in spite of the big atick with which she thumps time, Is going back to Itally to “end ‘her days,” as she puts it, In Ravenna, So yester- day was her goodby to the fairy world of tripping feet and swaying arma and flitting amiles, To a clumey, heavy-footed stranger it was incongruously mixed scene up there un what is known as “the roof stage” of to dance @ little ghe flies off seeking the Metropolitan Opera House. All about were just the sort of people you always see at commencement exercises— doting mothere and other more or less fond relatives, some with fowers to oe Mrs. H, will be here in a few minutes and I would ike you to meet her. We kept @ little trimining atore in Fi treet, the Bowery. One night 1873 there was a big German-Ameri- can meeting im Cooper Union to cele brate the nomination of Horace Greeley for the Preal 1 wes @ great ad- mirer of Greeley, and that night when I was behind the counter ® friend of mini in and said that some of speakers had not shown up, and that if I went over to Cooper Union I might get a chance to speak. “Mrs, H, aald could spare me from tending the store, so I jumped over the counter and ran to Cooper Union, Carl Schurs wae there and Mr, Greeloy, I got a chance to apeak, and I degen, but the audte Jeered with » J, you unde: Cheered with a C. They ‘Hail to the new-found Dante! Web- ster!’ ‘Hurrah for the second Henry Clay! But T went on with my speech and next morning in the Tribune there were three sticks—you nee, I speak your newspaper languages-three aticks of laudation for Harburger, I have been In politics ever ain Mra, H. and I were poor in those days, We had @ large family and we lived on $15 a week, and we lived well and got along. These women who ay they can't live on $74,000 @ year are dia- gusting. to-day on $1,500 and maintain all the dignity of this high office of Sherif.” "To what do you attribute the claime of women that they cannot live on sums 1 will teil you,” replied the Sheriff. “One evening recently I attended quet at the Rite-Cariton and I \the elite of New York. ather odd, a bit fantastic, that | bad! Fven with the advance in| prices Mra, Harburger and I could live! | displayed there and at other hotels are what cost so much money. Millions of dollars are spent to maintain rich fam- them together, carried forward af the proper others glancing any at and all fanning rs) Wor, you may happen » typical gradu- ating day weather led. It pre- vaied against every! ful grace of the dancers, That worked ite own spell, On to a bare stage with bare walls ‘zipped Medame's pink-and-white chil- dren—her “girls,” as ghe calle them. And, mind you, they are ail American girls. Curiously enough, Madame ie very American girls, undisguised aati can girl maki she {o intelligent. It is her intbdligrence not to the legs, that 3 give my, tion. If the brain is quick to’ riggestion the feet will follow fast Of natural grace and beauty Pereeverance. The moment she learns to dance a little she. files off seeking an engagement. Twenty-four of my girls are away now ruining their chases of artistic success simply to make & Uttle money. And really o girl stay in the school for four least. Dancing ie by no learn. This is not e game; It iene art” Budding artiats. popped { ‘athelstical.| twenty I married to Mrs. Harburger—| go to the race track to fila affinities exouse me, can I speak as broaé as that? Well, all right! Women spen@ milions on clothes and the Grat thing we know are the many regrettahié, an-| fortu neible, eensurabie éi- vorces that hear of. ‘Now that we are on the subject of hotels, I want to give my opinion of sabotage,” Mr. Hardurger rather to my consternation. J denounce the stopping of machinery, the’ placing of deleterious matter in food. Hotel men have complained to me ai it, It te abominable, inde- fensible and unconstitutional.” By thie time I had begun to wonder M there were any adjectives left, to I Put the question to the test by asking Mr. Harburger if he te In favor of woman suffrage. “I favor votes for American women,” he responded with astonishing m!iénens, “But as for t militants in Bngiand, if I had them I'd break them T'@ drive them out; I'd treat them the same as if they were malefactors of the worst kind! Those militants gre as bad as dynamiters and bomb throwe: I would drive every last one of of this country along with 8, I. W. W.'s and other miscre- So there we were, after all my diplomacy, back at these “miscreants” again, and I could see the fag waving in the distance, F “Buch teachings are'against, the Con-| titution,”” Mr. Harburger continued, | “They are contrary to the patrictian inculcated and inoculated tn our public school system, which permeates y family, They are an inault to the ous flag of our country, the beautiful, ned to me we hud good stopping place. Yet before we bid the Sheriff goodby, let us sing with Jullus—once more and altogether, boys: me to @ My parents | ilies, but even these dollars cannot keep fally round the flag, boys, Rally round the flag— @oluta, no less, for the Again and again the danced ly and she also performed « litte tomjme rather neatly. ‘Three other solo dancers of less ex- Derience appeared in the thipd number. The first of these was Queenie Smith, elit apianiog and whirling about he seemed. Mise Ashby real alr of the dancer, and an ‘ i i H i F Ld i ; f zey if i il ¥ H FI i 3 i Hi § i : i i 8 errr ili ith i ili ts i I sf i i af Being a Revised Version of the Rollo Books Which = Were Originally Written by the Brother of a Well Known Drinker. UMMA. or eTony Ko. tore at Play with the Contributing Hirea Man. Respect for Wisdom and Age The Nut Trap, Way le o Nut? The Virtue of Gratitude Little Harold Howland walked to the bench of Theodore, the Contributing Hired Man in the Outlook shop, and aid: “L saw you talking politice to @ newspaper reporter in the hall just now, le that not against tae rules which you inade for us when you came here?” fo Theodore dropped him down the elevator mbaft and threw the reat of the Howland family after him, “Dear Theodore,” said Lorro, who had taken @ languid interest in what was going on, “do you think my popper will be pleased when he hears how roughly you have treated Harold and the reat?” “Uncle Lyman,” sald Theodore, hitch Ing up bis khaki o “Ukes every- thing I do. He'd bette: pull out his whfskers with hie fingers and save the price of a lawn mower. ‘Then maybe he could raise my wages. Robbie Collier once offered me as much as J am getting here—40,000 a year—and sometimes I wish I had taken the job One ‘gets action around that place; when one Js not going in he ls goin; out.” So saying Theodore took from the ele- vator man the hatchet which that kind woul had brought back to him after .t had been thrown down on the wreck of the Howland family and set about building & nut trap. He had no squirrel with which to bait the trap, 20 he tied Larro to the trigger and then waited Sinitcs at racetracks—con 1 speak aa Sheri of Now York 1 feel thas 5 eam ih was pisempied bo diamlay © benner| less auneed Of thisioen Yo aid them 44 "ahen ooo ite of thelr emp aves gad Shouting the battle cry of Harburgel to see who would come along next, Is LY ’ B—| the next chapter we shall if t att a it will be Bill Kent, Suspender Jack Mee Gee, Tim Woodruff or Col, Cedil Lym * right; what he teils is the only trui what he does not Ike Is a ee crune and that he will mever cor vi rm iv a. oT x wag to meddle tn a local election further S95 than to write the platiorm, name candidates and make all the speeches; =< he does not think any more strenuous course reasons the Howlands went down that shaft; Lorro understands this better aa than any other human being, young @@ decent, ‘That’ old; maybe that is why Theodore loves jen him 0 and Little thin, Thatcher’s Come Back. George Thatcher, who was burie® yesterday, was one of the merriest the minstrel men, He hed a ‘ready and was always on deck with a goed tory. Not infrequently did he new joke on the stage, thereby dig © concerting his fellow minstrels to me. Uttle degree. : One night he was playing in the olf” in Frisco, He ha@4 his voles aa: Away up in “nigger vbhore the price of seats waa 2% cents, velce was heard to ery: * “Louder!” - “Pay two vite more and come. dewa where you can hear,” Was the premge, rejoinder, # At that the man in “nigger heave might have been a plant, but Thagehep © sored the bit of the evening, fe 1 ‘