The evening world. Newspaper, June 6, 1919, Page 16

16! THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1919, Ask Witson to Lad Recognition of BOSTON, suse 6.—A_ message by thi Democratic mem- ot tie lature. calling upon ent Wilson to demand reo ‘of the Irish Repuvite wan led President yesterday by Francis Finneran, of Maneachawetts Demo- PROMPT RELIEF for the acid-distressed stomach—try two or three ‘KI-MOIDS after meals, dissolved on the tongue—keep your stomach sweet— BRILLIANT AMUSEMENT PROMOTER, WHO DIED |FRED THOMPSON'S 7TH OPERATION ~ CAUSES HIS DEAT Aarnlebens, Cll Genius, Pi Bravely Faced Knife Many Times, Succumbs at Last. ‘ Frederic Thompson, known tho) world ovet as a theatrical ‘promoter and as the founder of Luna Park and | the New York Hippodrome, died at! 5.30 this morning in St. Vincent's! Hospital after his seventeenth opera-! tion in the last few years, His sister Ida, who is Mre, T, W. Hamlin, and ber husband were with him when he died, He had been} hovering between life and death for! several days, after having well stood the operation more than a week ago. Last night his condition became steadily worse and he began to sink at 3 o'clock. He lapsed into a coma ‘at 4 and the end came peacefully at 5.80, | Mr. Thompson wan a member of Pacific Lodge, No, 283, F. and A. M., FREDERIC THOMPSON, | farious plans for great amvusement en- terprises and financial rehabilitation. His recent operation at St. Vincent's Hospital was the seventeenth he had nouncements in which he called it his “annual opening.” Thompson's father was a contractor AFTER MANY OPERATIONS |i cs wim vo lowe omeravea nas ‘at Naabville, He learned engineering ‘no his father’s plant and at eighteen years of age was making $1, a month in the building materials brok- erage business, He studied art and practical furniture designing and fret became a showman when enterprises he had constructed for others came back’on his hands in satisfaction for debts, [lis latest dream was a na- tional toy factory and permanent ex- position which would furnish emplov- ment for wounded soldiers as well as entertain paying visitors. Mr. Thompson was married in_1906 to Mabel Taliaferro, the actress, Tney were divorced, and in 1918 ho was married to Miss Selene Wheat Pilchor, who had been his boyhood friend in Nashville. In his more prosperous days Thomp- json was a eget J enthusiast. He was the donor of the Atlantic Yacht Club's $5,000 prize for an ocean race to Bermuda. —— Jersey Peach Crop 021,000 Bashels. TRENTON, N. J., June 6.—Peaches will exceed last year's crop by 116,000 bush- ols in this State, according to the New Jersey Agricultural Department. The outlook June 1, the report says, peints to a yield of 2,507,000 bushels of ap- ples, 921,000 bushels of peaches and 575,000 bushels of pears in the State, Rain delayed the planting of corn in the central and northern counties. 8 By two girls patting their hair into place at the office mirror turned to look after Elsa Cleveland as she walked toward her desk. ‘How does site do it, Marion?” asked the younger, a rather color- leas blonde. Her companion, a Jolly, rosy-cheeked girl laughed andasked “How does she do what?” ‘Dress as she does,” the other re- plied. ‘She doesn't spend so much money on clothes as I do—in fact a she doesn’t have it to spend, be- cause she has to support her little and the funeral arrangementg prob- ably will be in the hands of this | Brewster's Millions,” Masonic body, knowledge in ing persons big and small to New) York in 1902, He was then twenty- eight years old, but had lived a life. | time of experience and had unbounded vonfidence in himself and the busi-) neas of amusing people by milligns.| — ‘He brought with him Elmer Dundy, a lean, keon showman of the rough and tumble school, who was as cyni- cal and conservative (about anything and everything except Kred Thomp- | son) as Thompson was extravagant | and improvident, The two came from the Pan-Ameri- can Expbsition at Buffalo, where they had made @ lot of money out of ‘Thompson's panoramic show, “A Trip to the Moon,” in which his patrons sat in an airship which tectered on a fixed cradle while New York rolled away beneath them, the clouds boiled about them and the crust of the moon unrolled beneath them before they en- tered the mazes of an underground grotto peopled by dwarfs and squeak- ing skeletons and other bizarre enter- tainers, at San Francisco, ud Baiortant Offering: PIANOS $545 ial T Special Terms), 2-2 2 somes Complete with ‘i layer Dundy that New Yorkers would spend 4 beautiful P quarters and half dollars as quickly as nickels if they were not afraid of being swindled, Within two years the two borrowed more than $500,000 in Wall Street and had founded Luna Park. From that they advanced to the Hippodrome, their biggest theatri- eal enterprise, combining a theatre - and a circus, PLANNED PERMANENT EXPO- SITION FOR MANHATTAN. ‘They planned @ great permanent exposition to cover the upper heights of Manhattan in the Fort George neighborhood. Financial misfortunes overcame them. They lost the Hip- podrome. Dundy died. Without his shrewd guidance Thompson lost Luna Park, going bankrupt for $600,000. He went into theatrical producing, utiliz- ing his genius for realistic mechani- cal effects in “Via Wireless” and aed a) Brooklyn © OppenHeIM, GLUNS & ‘ Fulton Street, Brooklyn Extraordinary Sale Saturday White Reignskin Oxfords For Women and Misses and his circus “Polly of the Circus,” Other theatrical adventures were less NEW YORK BROOKLYN EARLY PROVED A GENIUS IN| * * 53 Enst Mth St. 55 Flatbush Ave. SHOW WORLD. successful. ie prsinee to Luna te —— — Frederle ‘Thompson brought bis) 0° on Cmboyee tx years oe oe JERSEY CITY ake We boyish emile and his gentus tor amus- sinking @ million dollars in “Toyland, 134 Newark Ave. 903 Broad us! mammoth entertainment connected with the Panama Pacific Exposition For the past ten years wretched health has interfered with his multi- jow eorgette, de Chine, specially priced at Richness of fabric and ori of Tricolette, Georgette, C! brother; and yet that’s the third new blouse she’s worn this week!’ Marion chuckled. “I'm glad you're puzzled, too. She had me so cu- rious that finally I couldn't stand it any longer and I asked her whether she made her owngglothes, and if that was why sh ad so many changes. What do, you suppose? Those very blouses you mention are waists we've seen her wear dozens of times. She changes the color, - Between Puffs of Powder my dear, with Tintex. Whenever her clothes fade or she gets tired of them we see her with a new peach colored waist, an ecru collar or a bright blue sweater. “T bought a box of it myself Iast | night and just wait till you see the | faded crépe de chine waist that I tinted Nile green! It’s the easiest thing in the world to use Tintex. All you do ts dissolve the powder in luke-warm water and use it as you would bluing. You don’t have to rub anything on the garment at all—there's no boiling~you don’t even stain your fingers! “It's the only way I know that | you can i really fashionable shades! Tintex never gives that heavy ‘‘dyed"’ look—it comes jn | 10c packages and I’m Ing to get some pink for my underwear and soMe other shades tonight—you'll never see me with anything faded on again!” Have you tried Tintex? Ady. =BROOKLYN=—= STORE HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5.30 P.M. 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