The evening world. Newspaper, May 2, 1914, Page 5

GLASTINLAUNORY RLS THREE AND WRECKS BLING Dozen Jersey Workers Are in| Peril When Steam Pipe Blows Up. Whree men are dead to-day in Geriet Hospital, Jersey City, as the! ‘reeetl of the explosion of a steam > Washing machine in the laundry of »Ghertes Lehm: saveaus, Jersey City, late yesterday. vt) & @omen women were imperilled by \ @team and much property was dam- aged. The dead are: Caarles Lehmann, who lived at Ni 0 Palisade avenue, and 139 Ogden av- torn off by the blast. The others were scalded te death. ‘The women escaped the clouds of steam because they were working in an adjoining room and had time to » No. 868 Palieade | avenue: William Wal- | Light *THe PRESENT GRAZE THREES me BACK get out. The police velieve the explo- sion was due to a steam guage which did not aets J properly, causing the employees to [et cald water into the @rum. None of the injured men spoke after the accident, hence it has not Deen explained. The explosion broke washer into many pieces. The three men, who were standing near, were knocked down and steam and hot water enveloped them. Dr. Connolly from Christ Hospital, few blocks away, administered to the three men. The room in which the explosion occurred was wrecked. Byms and Walters were put in art ambulance. There was not room for Lebmann, who was lifted into a patrol wagon, which also started for the hospital. The patrol wagon had not gone far before the horses took fright and ran away. Patrolman Werner, the driver, was thrown from the seat and fell under the horses, one of which trampled upon bim. The ‘wagon was dragged under an arched @riveway and the top was torn off. Then the animals were caught. ‘Werner was lifted into the wagon and taken with Lehmann to the hos- pital. NADOO TO VE BRDE ADAMOND NECKLACE HOUSE T GE SLER Pair Will Be Married in Room Where Cleveland Wedding Took Place. the steam WASHINGTON, May 2,—The beat mau and maid of honor at the wed- ding of Miss Eleanor Wilson and Willlam G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, will be Dr. Cary T. Gray- son of the United States Navy and Miss Margaret Wilson, the bride's eldest ter, This information was made public in an official announce- ment froin the White House, It was also announced that the wed- ding would take place at 6 o'clock In the evening, May 7, in the Blue Room of the White House, where President Cleveland was married. There has been no official statement regarding other wedding details. and official circles there is much interest in the wedding pres- ents, Mr, McAdoo, It is rumored, will give bis bride a diamond necklace on their marriage dv y. Several other gifts have already been chosen for the bride-elect, in- cluding a pair of vases to be given by the Auditors of the Treasury De- partment. These, of the celebrated Paul Revero pattern, are of remark- able beauty, about eighteen inches igh and of rigid simplicity. They bear Miss Wilson's monogram, Another of the gifts ts to be a hand. some opal pendant, mounted in n gold, the gift of Mrs, Burleson, Qwife of Postmaster-General Burleson. As yet no present has been chosen by the Senate, although a commit- tee of Senators is said to have the matter under consideration. Their gift to Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson wi silver service, the gift chosen for the present occasion by the House. Gitts from the bride's fam- Hy not living In Washington will in- clude considerable silver, as well as yan chest of wedding linen em- roldered with her initial. Members of the Cubinet are waiting for Miss Wilson's return from New| York in order to send their gifts. Most of the presents will bear some | “ {nseription, which will add to thelr historic value. The gifts in general are expected to be of a less preten- thous nature than those gi: the last Whito House bride, fue Wilson Finishes Shopping; Goes Home To-Morrow, When Miss Eleanor Wilson, whose ‘wedding to Willlam Gibbs McAdoo takes next Thuraday, returns to the te House to-morrow, with her will her trousseau and two modistes from shop of Samuel Kuraman to super- the final arrangements of the finery. Miss Wilson was photo- esterday morning in her bridal ‘after the Anal fitting, all her time until C'oloek ta W SiN Temy MAwIC LANTERY BAYS” ceiipinnenes “Pepper's Ghost’’ Walked on a Screen, and Boy- Manager Spoke a Piece About Poor Little Jim— But He Didn’t Put the Theatres Out of Busi- ness Then, and He Doesn’t Think anActor- Picture Combination Can Do It Now— De- clares Failure of Motion Pictures to Stir the Imagination Is Having a Depressing Effect on Young People. By Charles Darnton. T'S a stunt.” | David Belasco didn’t} waste words over the| latest “movie” scheme to combine actors with pictures in houses where plays are reeled off in short order. “What's more,” he added, “this isn't & new stunt. As every one knows, it has already been dono in musica) shows, the actors starting off in o wild rush to catch a train or a steam-, ship, and the pictures then taking up the chase, so to say, thereby giving the actors a chance to catch their breath. ‘The thing may be done for a time and perhaps appeal to the public 4s @ novelty, but I do not belleve it will last nor do I think it will affect definitely the American theatre as an Instittuion, It is not at all likely that this plan will work any change in the} stage prop Mr. Belasco took a serene view of the situation, Evidently the "Movies," no matter what turn they might take, did not disturb him. “And we managers," he reminded me, with a smile, “are all Indians with our ears to the ground to hear what is coming. In my opinion, the combination of actors and pictures will soon paas. But you may be sure of one thing—the moving picture is here to stay, It ts now approaching its heydey, though that period may not be reached for a year or more, Then it will be the survival of the fittest. 1 should not be at all sur- prised to see motion picture theatres fall off to half their present numb There is already a aurfeit of little places, und these, it seems to me, will have to go, except in the small, far- off towns, where they are like the old- time magic lantern shows. josing his eyes, Mr. Belasco leaned back in his chair and indulged In the luxury of reminiscence. “You didn't know that I was once @ picture show magnate, did you?" he inquired. “The truth is that the present craze takes me buck to my| old magic lantern days. At the age| of twenty-three I entered upon a} managerial career as the producer of| ‘Pepper's Ghost’ and ‘The Egyptia Mystery.’ The ‘Ghost’ walked by the| light of a magic lantern, while the| ‘Mystery’ was a matter of a large! plate glass and an ‘oven’ from which| the actors—there were two of us—re- flected the glory they felt. This was) more or less difficult, as we were| obliged to lie flat on our backs whiie| fighting duels and performing other! heroic deeds to thrill the multitude. “If we had ever broken that sheet of glass ruin and disaster would have descended upon us. But as luck would have it. we got along very well After hiring a store building in San Francisco for $40 a month we put in 66 some benches and managed to fll the. for several weeks, Then wo started off on a triumphal tour, Everywhere managers threw up their ds and cried out against us. host’ and ‘The Egyptian Mys- ery’ were considered a menuce to the theatre. Fear turned to consterna- tion when I recited ‘Little Jim* I don't know whether it was the poem or my manner 0. rendering it that made such 4 terrible impression, but the managers throughout my chosen field of endeavor lifted up their voices | and wailed that they were done for, | But somehow or other they managed | > to worry along, and it so happened that on one very rainy day for which I had made no provision | traded that old magic lantern for an equally old umbrella \d made wet and muddy tracks for home. * didn't put the theatres out of business the d I don't believe for @ moment that a combination of act- ore and pictures could do it now. ‘The one thing the theatre bas to fear 2 ‘ 7 | My only objection to the moving pic- | nothing and deal more and more {with big national characters and events.” THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 2%, 1914. erg wh ARE IVOIAWS WITH OVUM EARS Te THe GhounD's is the manager who has feeling for the artistic side of the stage. In- stead of ti ie to find a play with beauty he is forever looking for one with @ ‘pui ’ He ts interested only in the money a production may bring him, and if he happens to be ‘lucky’ he immediately takes steps to put up his prices, ‘I'l get all I can out of it.’ he says, ‘for God only knows when I'll have another success.’ Then the public, realizing it is not being treat- ed fairly, becomes disgusted with the theatre and turns elsewh for en- tertainment. It isn't the moving pic- ture house that hurts the theatre. On the contrary, It is cultivating au- diences for the theatre, ow, it is a fair estimate to say that per cent, of the public does not go to the thea- tre, But th class is béing drawn to the moving picture house, and there it feel i time, perhap: flected by the acted play on the stage. ture is that it destroys Imagination and astifies emotion. Hearing noth- ing, you feel nothing. Because of its failure to stir the imagination, the moving picture is, I firmly belleve, having a depressing effect on the young people of America. You don't have to bring your intelligence to a motion picture theatre. You simply sit there and use your eyes “1 dropped into a so-called neigh- | borhood theatre one night last week and saw audience of perhaps three hundred people, most of whom | theis mouths as well as thelr open. There are pictures, of that appeal to the intelli- gence. But I doubt whether talk- | ing pictures will ever be perfected. | In the first place they are hopelessly mechanical, and when all is sald/ and done the fact remains that it is Impossible to put heart and soul | into a talking machine. Howeve: as I said before, the moving pictui is Mere to stay and it will be tm-| proved as it goes along. Without | doubt It will in time Ket away from | cheap, tawdry sketches that mean had eyes course, ———> + JUDGE HOLDS COURT IN AN AMBULANCE Takes Plea of Not Guilty From Man Who Couldn't Get Up Steps to Court. MINEOLA, L, I, May 2.~Lying on his back In a Nassau Hospital am- bulance, Joseph Eiderd of Baldwin, L. L, pleaded not guilty to-day to a charge of burglary In the third degree. Coutny Judge Niemann heard that Elderd was outside the court house in an ambulance and that a broken leg prevented him from getting up the steps, the Judge adjourned court and went out to the ambulance to take the man’s plea. The complaint against Elderd was made by Wesley Smith of Baldwin, who alleges that Elderd tried to break into his oyster house on Feb, 5. Smith had been robbed several times und had arranged a trap door at the entrance to the oyster house and fixed it in such a way that the trap would drop under the slightest | pressure, He alleges that Elderd| went through the and broke his | log. : 34 Elderd has since been under the suard of two sheriff's officara at his home tn Baldwin, Sheriff Pettit got tired of paying the men $4 a day for their services, 8o he got an ambulance | from the hospital and had Elderd carried to the court to-day. Elderd was held in $1,500 bail, which he furnished, a eeemecmmesemtacon OR. SHAW SUES FOR INJURIES Anke $25,000 From Railroad as Ke. of Broken Lew. Dr, Anna Howard Shaw, the woman suffrage leader, to d suit in the Supreme Court a Lehigh Vale ley Ratiroad, th Ratiroad of han result of a ahe suf: row in the Jersey City terminal The papers in the suit re Shaw considers her injuries strenuous campaign she started severel ears ago, She adds that her incom, formerly very large, is and will be much mailer now that she is suffering from 2 pe nervous shocks, | | | | Belasco Throws Magic Lantern on Career in “‘Movie’’ Talk THE MOVING PretTv ae SETS HER CLOTHING ON FIRE AND BURNS TO DEATH IN HOME Find Lonely Woman’s Body Still Ablaze. Mrs. Katherine Gregoire, sixty years old, was burned to death in her apart- ment on the second floor of the three- story frame house at No. 431 Wil- loughby avenue, Brooklyn, at 2 A. M. to-day, Charles Malloy and wife, who live on the top floor, were awakened by the cries of their baby and found their rooms filled with smoke. They called Policemen Walsh, Mc- Cormick and Ward, who decided the smoke came from Mrs. Gregoire’s flat and forced a door, The woman was found on the kitchen floor, her cloth- ing still burning. Nothing else about the place had been afire. Mra. Gregoire, who lived alone, auf- fered from insomnia. It is believed she got up to light a lamp and ac- cidentally set her clothing afire, Dr. Pearlman of Williamsburg Hospital aid she had been dead for some time hen she was found, BOY, IN CONVULSIONS, PERISHED IN SWAMPS He Fell From a Railroad Em- bankment and Died From Suffocation, A man walking along the embank- ment of the Long Island Rallroad just west of the village of Rockville Cen- tre, L. 1, to-day saw a coat partly buried in the swampy ground nearby and then saw a leg sticking out of | 1 the muck. The body of a boy was fished out of the bog. The body was that of Richard Met- valfe, thirteen years old, son of George R, Metcalfe of No. 97 Park avenue, Rockville Centre, and editor Institue of Electrical Engineering, No. 33 West Thirty- ninth street, Manhattan. The boy left his home Wednesday afternoon | to go fishing in Smith's pond, near | the place where his body was found, He had been subject to nervous con. vulsions, It is bell from the embankment during a con- | vulsion and could not get out of the swamp, | Richard was a member of the choir of the Church of the Ascension and attended the Kockeville Centre school, which will be closed Mon when the funeral wil! be held ALBANIAN REBELS MASSACRE WOMEN Attack Town With Heavy and After Killing Residents of the Ameri y Guns Set Place Ablaze. DURAZZO, Albania, May 2 ~The Epirope insurgents who have been fighting against the ine Northern Hpirus in the 1 Albania, have suc the town of Kolon of Valona, according to despatches recelved by the Governor of Durazzo ay. ‘The Epirops attacked Kolonia wit's heavy guns and quick firera and the garrison, whieh had been weakened wy thetranster of gendarmes ta re Infevea the Korltsa, was unable ww withstand th onslaught The le. spatche that women and ebil- dren Wore massacred and the town burned, The Insurgents continue their advance. Koritsa, in the valley f Monastir, is also threatened with Neighbors Arrive in Time to|3 ved the lad fell) > eral hour, tn the Rock Isl WALLSTREET Market Closing market was st the demand Deducting nomina to whether stuc day's clone. Opening—There was a littie reac- tionary movement at the beginning, the selling for most part ropresent- ing realization of profits on bull side entered into earlier in week. Volume of business was light In first half hour, but, in tored realising, there was no weak- | hose anywhere, Strength developed| tor April totalled & in American Can which sold up to 21%, there ts a large short interest in| New York Central was strong and active around A number of the best railroad issues were strong, and in demand by in- vestors, rumors of ne; In the latter part of the first hour a decline in which few of th stocks amounted point and market relapsed into a dull After selling at 20 Missouri 18%. ‘There are tations for change of control but if control has not passed, what has been the meaning of thel heavy selling through a couple of te eriod. ifle reacted to teady in for stocks 1 value of ckholders and Despite pronounced weakness in Rock Island issues, gen- second being apparently sufficient to absorb all of- ferings. There was no real pressure, the selling being largely of the nature of realization of profits and as there was @ possibility that might disappear the stocks were not supplied beyond the market's ability to absorb them. these profits the coupon the Rock Island 4" made a new low and doubts were expressed) in the holding companies would be willing to pay such an assessment as would suffice to meet the large retirements of the rallway company. There was some selling of Lehigh Valley in sympathy with the decline id issues, but it was the buying seemed to be of good quality loged around the low point, showing losses from Fri- ite of seat- active ich as @ houses In the past couple of weeks? clined $218,3: N net increased $4,540; net declined $15 Nine months gross increased ‘The Closing Quote YM Tnion Tel Low, ot i oy Be BE t 5am Ba cry 12 BI a ih my B 2% — beef iy 0 P Sod ++ 1. % BB, bet = fy ii = Pad ) ie no a TS + Rt Bf) m4 ————————_. ITEMS FOR | Chesapeake Nine months 75; net declined New Have 4; net ine months gro: decreased $3, Atlantic Coast 1 & Ohio Increased $260,968; net inc: NVESTORS. March aged $ Kross A $13,162 increased $162, ine-Mareh #! net decreased $746,760, Five Free The names of thi GOOD FOR ONE VOTE IN Ritchie & Cornell’s Fre Round FOR THE MOS’ Policeman, Fireman, Letter Car 901 w York ster FER FEES FETE OE eS fer st ee ree Kroan Increased ok Island lines March gross in aay of our 10 FEEEEECEPCEE FF TE Vielde of Leading Stocks Based on Prevent Selling Prices. : Rates 6 Amalgamated Copper 7 American Can pf.. 7 American Car & Found. 4 American Smeltera ... 7 American Smelters pf. Canadian Pacific Consolidated Gas... Grent Northern pf.. Lehigh Valley New York Central Northern Pacific . f Pennsylvania Reading Southern Pacific Union Pacific S. Steel S, Stoel pf 3 3 Et 3 3 aoresae! B creased -42 net increased $201,705. Nine months grossa decti het decreased $930, George J. Gould wants to retire from active management of his rail- foad properties, and will either soll | his stock or place tt in voting trust controlled entirely by the bankers | who have bad John F. Stevens make | a physical examination of Missourt Pacific, Something definite concern- ing the decision of the bankers | should be avatlable arly next week | as Mr. Stevens ts due to arrive to- day in N.Y To date twenty-eight raliroads, operating in United States only, have reported weekly groas earnings for third week of April ax follown: Groxs declined $311,006 or 3 91-100 per cent compared with a year amo. Receipts. from | | tock transfer tax| 690, > CHICAGO WHEAT AND CORN; MARKETS. Net oni wat, OY Priday's trom May gar Aug ort Dee Jan. n opened irregular, Heavy sell. of July led decline to new low in entire lst in first hour, Gen- leral lquidation of both old and new lcrops on favorable weather prospects occurred with some selling from New Orleans brokers, Market closed bare- ly steady 2 to 6 pofnts decline: inal “FRATS” NEAR EXPULSION. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 2.—For- ty-three per cent. of the High School students in thix city flatly declined yesterday to withdraw from school fra- ternities and thus laid themselves liable to expulsion. An official notice by t |echool board that the students either would have to sign a pledge to with- draw from the fraternities or be refused ion at the next school term ex- o'clock. ‘ fficials want the “frate' | abolished becaune, they say, the rules of the organization frequently ai - nized ‘by the students aa auperior to school regulations when they conflict. There in also objection to the “strenu- ous initiation practices. 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The circumstance em-| south of Merrick R phasizen the fact that suburban popu- | Bay and the ocean was a wi Iation on Long Island is increasing > ‘ very rapidly, because the bulk of Long Island Ratlroad trate ix to points within fifty miles of this city ulation on Long Island was not steady as it now id when between cet Points in Nassau County, « prom! official of the road remarked tI rallroad wah not run for the fun but as a money making en' and that when the company saw necessity for tue additional t | asked for it would put them in tion, Singa that time, the ¢ petitioned ‘er have not only placed on the schedule, but times that number. This illustrates more strong: iy. anything else could the remat trend of suburban population to Taland Five years ago the bulk of eubs urban traffic on the Island was fined to Queena bag om to | pointa as Jamaica, Richmond Flushing, Hollis and the Rocka’ Now Nassau County is the keen of Queena in the race for growth j improvement. When the movement to WN County net in strongly the | East, Rockaway, Beach. This bas not growth, On the contrary, been so substantial that the ral company han improved not only railroad service to those points the system of transportation a Hundreds of thousands of have been added to the values of the township of Hempstead, The tax books of southern part of Nassau Count an additional story of growth York han found it necessary to #0} frequently enlarge its terminal ac-| commordations for suburban trains, | TRANSIT KEEPS PACE WITH! GROWTH OF POPULATION. There is no better barometer of growth of permanent population: in ny territory than steady accretions to the running time of traina on the Fallroad that serves it. Railroads are; values, Every new home has hard-headed business propositions. | the Increment of surrounding Five years ago, when growth of pop- | values, %. 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