The evening world. Newspaper, October 23, 1915, Page 4

ease —— . a a> - - «mayor wonrs Fon CuMRAR.| CF ‘Nereee oF Ce te & ‘ Ge Heery Curren « 2 0 |eseceoees . | | cour « NS in use will feel fine. “Pape’ Diabepsir ” neutral-| « toes ents in a and starts digestion. Take your sour, out-of-order stomach —or maybe you i oF past) Do Good, Make Good,” Has Accomplished Marvels in Penitentiary Reform. ut if al ou are ren! know what 4 thint if : i By Sophie Irene Loeb. I went to Sing Sing. The Warden grain] was away, I did not go to appraise five minutes] the defects nor to establish any de- your former fonse for tho Os- te { = Pi le tl ne. what it means to be oor Pr. houre of the in your cell—a he stone walls of which you ir has nm any time night and find them you imagine what this life and this is what I means, day in and day out, the same observed: old routl you possibly guess I found a emall | what lberty means to a man who city busy in the Xnows he t# locked in and can't got out? curriculum of con-; “Why, any man would rather have ducting its ctric crit of dry bread and water out- wh #0 walls, and feel that he was affairs, a city Of free like all other men, than all the criminals carrying | highest reformed prisons in the world, out rules and regu- rae, you will fill thi nm lations, according| P we leocurige and thi ha to @ constitution which they adopted swith heaieg of fe he woul “Once @ a while you might find a as their “basic, organic 6 hia liberty. Thi constitution is similar to all derelict, a degenerate, who prefers the Prison, but you can count such on Do you bnew counted eve i Hi “4 other constitutions in the outside world of eclf-governing bodies, under undi-| which citizens live, move and have their being. The preamble of this constitution fa “Do good, make good.” Opborne | b: ten). Thia preamble ta found in all parts] "I have known the men. in these of the prison. You see it on buttons,| shops for years, and always before on the breaste of delegates, It is When a Warden went away their dally | prayers were that might break a everywhere you are confronted with it. T sat tn a court of executive officers and heard them discuss the constit! tionality of an action in the loan of a te ti ir fingers. “You can go out and tell the society you came from that the one big thing they ever did in their lives was tq send Tom Brown here (the name Mr. i 2 +4 fit & i lt fof his return, Did yor such @ thing in your life before? I have been seven times, but never | have I felt that anybody in the world ae| cared @ damn wnss became of me in- | side or outside of prison until this man came.” TRIED BY THEIR OWN KIND, MUST OBEY THE RULES. | “Why do you feel so vastly differ- ent, you who have come ao often?” I asked. “Why?” he answered, his eyes bulg- ing with astonishment at iy ques- tioning. “Look at we are treated as human beings, How would you feel if your head was bent and your fingers were busy compelled to make things for the State’s benefit and paying up for what you did on the Outside, and a guard stood right be- hind your machine and if you s0 much as turned your head to look at the fellow next to you, punishment for yours. “Why, you would hear men shriek th nervousness, wouldn't ju? How would you like some- watching every mouthful yeu paired cording to thie 5 1 do not know the crimes these men tartan. ‘When « vote was finally taken a written opinion was then and there We with ly. And in the writing of that opinion every effort seemed to be put forth to con- form with the legality according to their constitution, Bo that it would ‘stand up” just in the same manner as any la in the world at large draws up brief before a judiciary. SEVEN Ti! A PRISONER; NOW HE HAS HOPE. THE MODER NEED ate as they used to do? The of them were afraid te move fe a remedy for the evil effectsof quick | 1 mingled among the men to learn| for the everlasting fear of pun- over-eal and strenuous liv- | what they thought about this constt- lhment. And now when a man this | tution and their government—the| disobeys the rules men of his own Mutual Welfare kind are going to settle hie case. soene e. I selected men at random in vari- the prison, and talked One of was man in the shops whose business it is to handle the thread, He knowe he has to answer for his acts to those right around him. He is going to make as little trou- tle Rnd’ the he has the Warden Germs Grow He told me he had been in prison even times. As I talked with him I looked out through the window on the sunlit hills and the glistening Hud. son. In the foreground a baseball game was in progress, and in the di: tance T heard the practising of a nd. you must lke prison, and won't you want to come back, especially under this bet- to think ut—the Warden with heart—tho ‘regular fellow.’” ‘Has he reformed you?" I asked, “No, I will not say that I am fully ‘reformed’ as you know the word, but I will tell you this, This syatem is sinking in, “They will hever put the old torture pian back. I see men on all sides of me, constantly weighing the scales of what's right and what's wrong, I never saw it in prison before, ibs Growth st Dlosane Germs, Gue™so® all against me, and then, when I see this man standing by us fellows and fighting the outside world for 4s, I just naturally want to stick and not do bim dirt, and be a little credit to Rim. “I have eight months yet to serve, and I feel that when my time comes to go I will be better ready to face things outside than when I left prison seven times before.” In this same shop I found a boy nin in years of age. He was sew- ing on shirts, and as his machine nee- dle went whizzing up one seam and down the other he told me that he had been in for ten months and would be there for eight months more, A splendid looking fellow he was, and when I asked bis views of the “sys. tem” he said: ‘Ine answer is in that bundle right there, Under the old system I used to run up fifteen dozen , and now I sew twenty-five ment y @ Box To-Night, 10¢ and 250 Box,! against this system,” hi Millions Thankfully Praise Carter’s Little Liver Pills vegetable. Imitations are numerous—look out for them. Insist on Carter’s Little Liver Pills if want good health, a clear Sompies nm and feat from dizziness, biliousness, headache and indigestion, Small Pill, Small Dose, Small Price GENUINE must bear signature T asked, “Everybod doing it," he an- awered, “Look at the treatment you got, You got a chance, To-night, a: ter a hard day's work, Iam not shut up in @ coop of a cell too small for my body, to stay there and think and think, but my section of the prison will go in and see stereopticon views and hear a lecture on birds, I love birds. When I was a young boy T used to havegs bird house, and this pro- fessor that is going to talk knows every Kind of a bird—except a jall- | bird.” he answered jokingly. In the office 1 found @ seat-looking gpd 9 Sing Real City Under New System, Where Hope Takes Place ot Brutality oeee . ee | | | | IN SINGSING PRISON SAREE OEE ED ADE EEE AEE EE ET EEE ROD oung man operat typewriter. ie was typing a statement of the Mutual Welfare Committee. I asked him if he would not tell me what he thought about the “system.” By his conversation I realized that be had had a id ponsensed an analytical men that he write out bis opinions o1 the typewriter. on I wish space would allow it all to be printed. Here it ts in part: “It is impossible to conceive that with all the tnformation avaliable here, any one can pre- tend to be #o blind to the true purposes and principles that are being worked out at Bing St and yet dare to presume that the statements attributed to him are those of an enlightened and pro- greaaive person, “The old system which spells naught but brutality, hate, tor- ture and evil, accomplished a frame of mind and feeling in our hearts that cried out for venge- an To those who ¢. “For whom? were responsible for the condl- tion—the like of those hypo- crites who call themselves ‘good public irited citizens, the know- is, the so-called erim- inologists who were themselves criminally responsible for falsely peueany. the public mind as to the proper (?) treatment of the wrong- “They all had some theory or other—and it brought us to the level of the beast. It instilled within us naught but a feeling of hate and revenge for the society that remained so indifferent to ite fatlen brethren. Whatever that was left in us was stified, We couldn't dare express our- welves; if we did, it meant the dungeon with its one gill of wa- ter and one alice of bread once in twenty-four hours, and all the other modes of physical cruelty and torture then in vogue. And that is the way these ‘enlight- ened’ persons would have us treated. God forbid that we should ever be compelled to revert to the old system. “It would be better then for #o- elety and ourselves to place us on a barren island to permit of self- extermination, “Instead of the old system and its destructive principle—loss of manhood and self-respect, ken spirits, bleeding hearts, premature age, hope deferred, rished am- bitions, insanity and suicide—we have the new system with its con- structive principle of making men, and the realization and practice of every essential element em- bodied in true democracy. “We aro learning that love for our fellow man, sincerity, indus- try and fair play are the things that count and tend toward mak- ing the future a happy and con- tented one, We are starting to do foot ane manent pom within the walls an re ny ourselves to shoulder the responat: bilities of life when some day the gates are opened before us. This is the spirit which prevails in gen- eral among the members of the Mutual Welfare League, here and at Auburn, and will prevail where- THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 983, 1015. e THE NEW PLAYS @ “Alone at Las t” a Charming Operetta Finely Sung. BY CHARLES DARNTON ATO ih & One. tnderd’ teas adaptors should hove che . Uined pon, “Alone at Last body with © hove of mumte be grateful to the Mhuberts, whe theatre bearing thelr name in every ritetic production the Menere Mhwh« to aay that throughout the Ubree erie It te « rare pleasure We find « gow to be slangy, “Alone at Last” le a admirably waged. 1 t aay thet popular “stuff.” times to be ampiring heighte or catehing an echo of Grieg, the only fault 1 have to find ta that there te too Mitte music and too much “book,” ae the more tedi- ous portion of a work of this kind is politely called, There are moments at the Bhubert Theatre when you might easily imagine yourself at the Metropolitan Opera House, Por one thing, there ts an orchestra that makes music instead of noise, and this music hae been orchestrated so charm- ingly by the composer that it gives) the ear an added delight Personally, 1 never care a rap for, the story of an operetta or musical) comedy, But this etory tan’t at all) bad. In fact, it runs along very well, or climbs bravely, it should bq sald, perhaps, the mountain peaks of ro- mance, At any rate @ baron dis- guises himacif as a high-stepping guide and takes an American heiress above the clouds, Edgar Smith and Jonoph Herbert are responsible for the fact that the heroine ia an Amert~ can heiress, and they are also respon- sible for other things I'll not mention, However, their industry is not to be questioned. But I must say the last act, music and all, ts commonplace. ‘There is still something much more important to say, All this time I've kept Mme Namara waiting for the praise that is due her, She is like rain to the desert, considering must- cal comedy as a-desolate waste, Her voice is as clear as a bell, and in her use of it abe shows the results of good training, Incidentally, she has realized, perhaps, that diction counts as much with tho singer ae it bes ‘ress, In addition to her eee ee gine ae @ singer shoe has personal charm. But if she doesn't mind @ friendly hint, she will do well to keep away from skirts of the fox- trotting atyle, for they do nothin, less than “kill” her, Otherwise what Broadway delights to hail as “discovery.” ga like hers are not nether” good, natural yolce 18 raised by John Charles Thomas, whose fine baritone is heard to bg red Cointe also takes new artistic strides in the role of a Viennese actress who has all the chorus men at her feet ia an especially etteotive number, Dee Collins has never lege eS ay ae o is at last be- ‘Atwell has every reason to take off his hat himself for his clever song, “Some Little Bug Will Find You Some Day.” This is the funniest song on sad subject I've heard peach in the orchard grew into pop’ larity. It seems like fying in the face of providence for Mr. Atwell to throw in a fow epitaphs, but his strange hu- mor stands the undertak test. "t . h at Last" wit rike you, but I liked it so much that I'm going to try to buy a good seat some night next week and see it—and hear it—again. hibited all his wonted powers as a brilliant player with someth: added of continence. Not that he rid himself of the cocksureness that ever has characterized him, but that ho had learned, in a measure, to cOh- coal it. A story was afloat that at rehearsal he had shown extreme ner- There was not # trace of iin bie p formance. If he were cold at first, soon warmed up, and his cadenza was marvellously well done. He was recalled half a dozen times and he was made the recipient of a huge wreath from “The Bohemtans. Mf. Damrosch presented another ever they atart a similar organiza- cerpt from Ravi “Daphnis and rn. Chloe" into which he had delved las: “Nowhere in the world can you year; this time # war dance nocturne. find such an enviable record |}**") [0 *veira, up-to-date French the men of Sing Sing are |school music, with the swish and as making. The increase in the pro- duction in the industries exceeds by far any like period tn the his- tory of this institution. (The surge of the sea unmistakable an whistling of the wii a ae ind graphic enoug! with cold. It was i |, a8 was Beethoven's fifth rison 1s almost 100 years old.) | Me rt The discipline ie better. ana |*7mRhony, with which the conoe Granite (She SERORIATY condition of the block, which was con- demned eleven years after its con. | ‘The Boston Opera Company, | in struction, the health of the men is | conjunction with Baviowa ont net improved, because we are per- | Russian By grg ee] mitted to remain in the open air | Max. naire ct the Manhatten Oper after working hours, Now that | rand opera tite Marit are wo breathe fresh alr and indulge fn exercise during the recreation period, there is no need of smug- gling in drugs and other imagina- tive stimulants to deaden the ‘The Dumb Girl of Portici,” better nown to an older generation as “Masaniello,” will then be performed with Paviowa in the title part, and Felice Lyne and Zenatello in the mental torture which formerly ; ‘ prevailed while confined in the cpt dogo ll Mi pig-sty cells.” oO . Then I talked with some men who| Tamaki Miura, a Japadese Wyre so: had just received punishment, think-| B89 ‘on Thursday ing they would “knock” the system unwittingly, but I could not find a “sorehoa Mischa Elman Soloist at First By Sylvester Rawling. ISCHA ELMAN, the Russian Symphony Concert M violinist, compelled to a year of professional idleness by the war, made a reappearance at Aeolian Hall yesterday afternoon as soloist a: | the first concert of the Symphony | fy Orchestra, under the direction ‘of Walter Damrosch, He was heard tn the Goldmark concerto in A minor, opus 28, That there had been no slacking in his practice during the juserlude was manifest, Mr, Elman night; and ballet divertisse: day afternoon, and the week's bi ballet will appear at every ance. Among the principal the company are Maggie Teyt Gay, Luisa Villani, Riccardo Martin and George Baklanoff, Peterson, an American soprano, ave for the war, would be sing- ing at the Opera Comique in Par! to give a recital Aeolian Hall Thursday afternoon, She has studied in Italy, Germany and France and as a pupil of Jean de Reszke's, Her programme will comprise songs in Italian, French, German and English, and she will be accompanied piano by Victor Harris, Maud Powell, the distinguished American violinist, is to give ber fret o a ica sas 8 SAL Ao HN OOO Oa 8 act Os ee a seh tea LS lS CRAM a TI: ak RY Hut thie score te by far hie be to Wagnerian?—————— is|The play has been whiten (he Amer need wit frm ptroke fl theur « & View for eich every ard may weil Ht & Deowliful produrtion at the detail, to my mind, Chis te the mont " * made i means « good @ there te a Hinge Jarring mote of thing w charming Vrane Leb ne end 1 dow't mean wretia finely mung and 4 bas pot written mm work, If he seome ot ‘Plays for the Coming Week FARCE by Frank Mande, cated “Sherman Was Right,” will be Presented at the Fulton Thea tre on Tuesday night, The firet act ows & stock broker's office ia the Hotel Waidort in September, 1914 Jobn Smith, (he manager, is in dif- feulties owing to the fact that on a recent visit to Atlantic City he bad photographed two women who were in she surf, The action begins when Smith announces that he has as- eumd the name of Johann Sobmitt for the sake of winning the love of Anita Hitter, Pitteburgb girl with an intense admiration of everything German, The real Johann Schmitt is engaged in an enterprise to produce war munitions for the German Gov- t ports, he and John Smith ming! identities. John's sweetheart forces him, much « his will, to show his loyalty t Fatherland by en- tating inh rman army, and save himself resorts to the ¢: beulent of passing on the name Johann Schmitt to @ German waiter and sends him to the front John Smith learns that his wife, from whom he has been separated for sev- jeral years, has brought suit for d vorue in London, and to defend jie t he embarks for London, Com- plications are aided by a Russian girl in the secret service, with a habit of falling in love with a different man every two days, In the cast will be |Hale Hamilton, Dorothy Dorr, Dod son Mitchell, Jean Shelby, Sam Si man, Georgio Lawrence, Ernest Co: sart, Suzanne Willa, Regine Wallace, and Martin Alsop. . “Mra, Boltay’s Daughters” will be seen to-night at the Comedy Theatre, with Rita Jolivet in the leading role. brought from Budapest. The English adaptation from the original, by Eugen Heltal, ‘ton Fairfax. Miss rred the scene of the play from Budapest to Washing- ton, but the Hungarian atmosphere that surrounis the family group has been preserved. Mra, Boltay, the widow of a former Secretary of the Austro-Hungarian Legation at Wash- ington, has, with her four young daughters, been left in a sad state financially. Jobn Farraday, an old friend of the familly, falls in love with the oldest daughter, Boriska, only seventeen, and affects an arrange- ment whereby she becomes his mis- tress in return for the financial aid he gives the family, Later the girl and a young writer find themselves in love. Besides Miss Jolivet the cast will include Annie Hughe Merle Maddern, Beatrice Miller, Antoinette Walker, Adelyn Westley, Eva Le Gallienne, Forrest Winant, Harrison Hunter, France Benisten and Cyril Raymond. “The Show Shop" moves to the Standard Theatre. Concerts will he New York recital of the season at Aeol Hall on Tuesday evening. Her programme wil! include a reviva! ot de Berlot’s seventh concerto and the d'Indy sonata for violin and piano, in which Arthur Loesser will be her associate, Johanna Gadski, the popular Ger- man soprano of the Metropolitan Op- era Company, ts to give a recital at Acolian I next Friday afternoon, Frederic Martin, basso, will give a recital at Aeolian Hall next Thura- day evening, Sousa at the Hippodrome and Creatore at the Standard Theatre ee band concerts to-morrow nig’ Prof, Samuel A. Baldwin will give free organ recitals at the City Col- ley on to-morrow and Wednesday afternoons, ———— Woman De: 5 She Was Robbed. ‘The screams of a woman in the hall- way of an apartment house at No. 146 South Fourth Street, Williamsburg, shortly after midnight aroused tenants tn the place and they found Mrs, Belle Brown, young wife of a travelling sale: man who lives there, In a semi-hyster- feal condition. She said a man dressed Uke a sailor had attacked and robbed anda pearcning party was formed. Mrs, Brown been visiting @ sick fri e neared her home she rd footsteps behind her, She said was gripped from behind by the man and he choked her and then took fifty dollars from her, Blankets, NTTY ACT I ie a ARMED Ta a SAB A neni > \y she EF, oe eer ond ere of the srirtied cont ane vile Werpeletion: Mt ie Cee Core 4 he ne an Ga Oty oF more nme pore the tenn and deer Vinrd, nena ng orue enn @ ame moe landon those eneeting te bevel ICE SKATERS IN CONCERT | Sees Siar!) Siete "ane bau AT THE HIPPODROME, hundred thousand people have more about Just gets jer of reste we (he ohormous vogue with Charlotte « any sbia-troulde f i } provide the tagpen yo Do ae, “tbe | oa a pod sche see aldhh Set bs ebaned rhe oles Tar, | stare. Wb the rest lrures of ool soap and worm Behmidt, Klien | Water bathe the of rup and Kerner, the Na, | fected parts thorough |onmes, Steele and Winsiow and Toto, |ly, until they Nall the “out-up.” from crusts and the 4 Cy Py shin is sohiened. Dry £ “THE SOCIAL MAIDS” very peatly, spread om a thin layer of the COME TO THE COLUMBIA. resine oimt men + with «Light The Columbia Theatre wili have| clothing. This should ts bee aint “The Becta! Maids.” wo ot |day. Uouslly the distressing itebing burning sep with the first treat and Etta Pillard, who are billed as | ment, the skin soon becomes elear “The Dancing Demons.” The per. , end healthy agein For trial free, le formance is described os including | to Dept. 5K, Hesinol, Baltimore, Md. broad, Hvely comedy, musical num. | Advt My Name Is Coffee I Fool the People All the people can’t be fooled all the time, but I’ve been pretty successful in fooling part of them, although more and more, I am sorry to say, they are getting wise to my pretensions. How do I fool them? I'll tell you. 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When noted authorities say the caffeine in coffee is a poisonous drug and hinders digestion, I bring forward some chaps who say it “is not a poison;” “‘it is an aid, not a hin- drance to digestion.” This fools some. ne But, there’s been such a stir against me, ial: Postum, that I am hard put for arguments, Bays) By ae latest things I am telling is: “Beware of taking coffee with a lot of cream in it.” It is the cream, I try to make it appear, and not the drug, caffeine, that makes a combination that ‘will in time lead to chronic and stomach, heart, and liver troubles.” And some believe me—I hope. 2 But I whisper on the side to people who like cream in their coffee, “Coffee is always improved when cream is f added to it.” You see, I get them coming and going. There’s one safe way with coffee. 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