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"NEW THEATER," DEVOTED TO PLAYS OF
MERIT, IS DEDICATED IN NEW YORK CITY
Founders and Promoters Do Not Contemplate Profit, but Hope to Advance
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EW YORK. Die. (Srx-Oial.)
Mayor Mi:.'lellan was the chief
flrure In the d. dilation of the
t:ev theater whicli oceurrcd in the
Theater building Tuesday. The exteri
or of the building Is now rapidly P
pruavhing completion and from the pic
ture of the mod-l herewith sorfte idea
may be Rained uf the appearance of the
interior as the architects have planned
It. It Is expected that the building
will be ready for occupancy in less
than n year and already the artistic
and lUerary bure.uis are busy making:
preparations for the event.
Not long ai;o John Corbln sent out
notices throuch the .public press that
manuscripts of plays would be exam
ined and the readers are now going
through the large number offered since
that notice was published. Meantime,
Mr. Wlnthrop Ames, whose home Is In
Boston, hca opened an office in ihis
city.
The responsibility for the success of
the enterprise from an artistic view
point will rest on the shoulders of
Messrs. Ames, Corbin and Lee Shubert.
Mr. Ames U the director of the Insti
tution, Mr. Corbln its literary man
ager and Mr. Shubert its business man
ager. The plan of the new theater does not
contemplate proiit for its founders and
supporters. The money with which It
is beintr built has been contributed by
wealthy men and women for the ad
vancement of the art. Like the Co
medie Krancaise of I'aris. it. is to pro
duce plays which are meritorious with
out regard to their popular qualities
that Is. the possible "drawing power"
of a play is to be no consideration
with the management. Literary merit
Is to have great weight In the selection
of plays.
Of the three managers. Mr. Ames is
the least known to the sencral public
outside of Boston. In that city he is
known as the man who with little ex
perience took hold of the Castle Square
Theater and established in it a model
stock company. Mr. Corbin was for
some time the dramatic critic of the
New York Sun and his dramatic re
views were widely read. Iee Shubert
Is one of the Shubert Brothers, who
have several theaters in New York and
others scattered through the United
States, and who have made fortunes In
theatrical management.
Architecturally the new building will
be nearly perfect. It will be built for
comfort both before and behind the
scenes. In front there will be a foyer.
Krand staircase, retiring rooms, cloak
rooms, smoking rooms, restaurant, buf
fet, roof garden, etc. The auditorium
will be elliptical, the long axis being
parallel to the stage. There will be
two tiers of 24 boxes each communica
ting through private halls. The first
tier of boxes will be only four feet
above ;':: orchestra floor. The house
MODEL. Of .INTERIOR HEW
will seat 2318 comfortably. Behind,
there will be 23 dressing rooms and 16
rooms for storage and scenery. In ad
dition will be quarters for the school
of dramatic art which is a part of t.he
scheme of the theater. The school will
have 12 rooms and a concert hall. In
Space has been allotted In the Oriental building for the exhibits of automobiles and sporting goods that will be shown at Portland's firsf automobile show next J-"-.
per cent of the space has beep, spoken for. and l-oui racts have been closed for three-fourths of' the show room. Motor cars and sundries to the value of over half a million dollais win lie
shown, illustrating the extent to which the industry has reached in Portland. All the prominent makes of cars manufactured in America will be on display.
Dramatic Art in the United States.
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addition to plays, the new theater will
give light operas.
Cities in I lie Slindow.
Kansas City Times.
Conies now an appeal for xthe Cities
PERSPECTIVE VEEW SHOWING HOW INTERIOR OF ARMORY WILL BE
That Never Have Been Known. Great
they may be. driving a roaring trade. Im
portant In their own eyes, perhaps even
beautiful. But unknown. It has been
their misfortune to be overshadowed by
some monster neighbor which .has ab
sorbed the attention of the country.
The list has never been completed. But
It should Include Brooklyn. Jersey City,
Newark. Rochester. Syracuse. Buffalo,
Worcester. Ij'iin. and heaven only knows
how many more. Each of these cities has
a population of at least 100.00P. and
Brooklyn has considerable more than 1.
O.O0. But to trie outside world they
are mere names and nothing more. New
York and Boston obscure them so that
they are lost to vie-.
A man from Atlanta, traveling for the
first time In New York and New England,
came back dared. "When I left home."
he confided. "I supposed Atlanta was one
of the big cities of the country. But I've
found a doz?n cities blgser than Atlanta
that I'd never heard of before."
Using Ferns for Packing. ,
The fern plant, which grows almost
everywhere, is an excellent preservative
.for packing article of food, fruit, etc.
' People who have lived in England kDOW
that the English have used it successfully
for many years. Fine fruit, fresh but
ter, etc., are no longer seen lr. the Eng
lish markets packed in grapevine leaves,
but almost always In fresh fern leaves,
which keep the articles excellently. This
In done even where grapevine leaves sr
to bs had In abundance. Every one post
ed' well In botany knows the high pre
servative power of fern leaves with
reference to vegetable and animal sub
stances. On the Is'.e of Man fresh herrings are
packed in ferns and arrive on the mar
ket in as fresh a condition as when they
were shipped. Potatoes packed In ferns
keep many months longer than others
packed only In ftraw. Experiments made
with both straw nad fern leaves In the
sajne cellar showed surprising results In
favor of ferns. While the potatoes
packed In straw m-istly showed signs of
rotting In the Spring, those in ferns were
ae fresh as if they had Just been dug.
Fresh meat is also well preserved by
fern leaves. It would seem as if the
highly preservative qualities of fern
K-aves are due to their high percentage
of salt. No larvae, maggots, etc.. ap
proach ferns, as the strong odor keeps
them awa.
New Diamond Drill.
Consul-General John P. Bray reports
that 'a trial was recently held at Mel
bourne in the presence of representative
Australian mining men of a- new di
ninnd drill, the Invention of the officers
of the Department of Mines of Victoria.
The leading feature of the new drHI
is its portability, the total weight of the
machine being only 400 pounds, as com
pared with three or four tons-the weight
of the machines now in use. The Pio
neer diamond drill can be worked either
bv hand or motive power, being caPa
of boring 300 feet by the former and 600
hv the atter process. n ouic
two-Inch hole, producing a c
Inches in diameter.
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Xo Women in the Mine.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
From Culican, Mexico, it Is reported
that because a woman entered the Jesus
Maria y Annexae mines sei-eral hundred
miners went on strike and refused to
return to work until the parish priest
went Into the mines and sprinkled all
shafts and tunnels with consecrated
water. Is an old superstition amtmg
Mexican miners thst if a woman enters
a mine a catastrophe will follow. ,
Kippered Kipling.
St Mollis Post-Dispatch.
A fool there was and he made his dream
1 Bven a you and I ! )
To a nine-day wonder baseball team
It never vbi worthy of his esteem).
But the fool would holler, and root ana
cream
(Even as you and I')
Oh. the hopes we waste and tha cheers we
waste.
And the confidence we misplace
I'pnti our team when the begin
(And now know they never can win)
In the yearly pennant chase !
A fool there was In the claih of clubs
(Even as you and 1!)
And a bear never rooted so hard for eruba
(And this in the end is the thing that rubs)
He found he had followed a bunch of dubs
(Even as you and I!)
Oh. the toll we loat and the bets we lost
And the beautiful thing's we'd dream
Because of the faith that was in us that
(Thank heaven we now know where we'ra
at)
We'd a pennant-winning team!
The fool hat grieved till hi aoul la aore
(Even as you and I!
And he hasn't the heart to ak the score
(You know you flon't care any morel
And he'll be relieved when the season's o'er
(Even as you and I!)
And it isn't the shame and It isn't tbe
blame
Thar.t stings like a poisoned lance.
It's the conviction latterly growing- strong
(iiomethiiig they told us nil along)
That we never did stand a chance!
SCIENTIST BELIEVES INHABITANTS OF
PLANET MARS ARE INTELLIGENT TREES
Dr. Robinson Declares Conditions Such on Planet That Lung Capacity Would Distort Being
jRTIANS, if they exist at all, aro
1 I Intelligent trees rather than
human beings. The real genus homo
can be grown in but one place In the
universe, and that place Is the earth.
Thus says one learned Dr. Robinson,
of London, who seeks to convert his
erudite brothers to his way of think
ing by Innumerable proofs of the In
evitable and literal worldllness of the
human race. Whatever the Inhabitants
of Mars may be like, he argues. It
would be impossible for us. If we met
one of them, to recognize -him as a
man and a brother. How could we?
Beings who are equal to gigantic la
bors such as the digging of 'canals."
BUILDS FINK OPERA HOUSE FOR
BOSTON.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 2. (Special.)
Boston is fortunate in having; two
such publlc-iplrlted citizens as Eben
D. Jordan and Henry Higginson. Mr.
HlKginson contributed a amall for
tune to the maintenance of the Bos
ton Symphony Orchestra In the In
terest of good music; Mr. Jordan has
Juat supplied the capital necessary to
assure to .Boston a fine opera house.
It Is Intended to have an opera com
pany In Boston Independent of those
In New York, and yet strengthened
by an exchange of artlata with the
Metropolitan Company. The corner
stone of the opera house was laid
this week. '
compared with which the Mississippi
Is the veriest gutter, with not more
than one eighth of ouf atmosphere to
breathe meanwhile, must have a chest
development which would distort them
out of all resemblance to humanity,
while the low force of gravity in Mars
would enable people of average weight
to get about on legs not much stouter
than those of a collie dog.
Little Atmosphere There.
According to soinn, observers, like
Professor Campbell, of the Lick Obser
vatory, it Is even an open question
whether Mars has any more atmos
phere than the moon. Leading physi
cians have declared that no oxygen,
hydrogen or water could exist on so
small a world without being dissipated
Into space and sucked up by ourselves
and the sun. Hence It hag been sug
gested that the polar snow caps of
Mars may consist of solid carbonic acid
gas.
From this point of view our Martian
neighbors must subsist on an atmos
pheric diet of carbonic acid instead of
upon one of air. and hence would be
more likely to resemble trees in their
physical constitution than the higher
animals. Here below we Irrigate and
cultivate a passive and helpless vege
table populace. There above. In Mars,
perhaps an alert and enterprising
vegetable race Is watering and fertiliz
ing the soil on Its own initiative and
for its own private ends.
Dr. Robinson finds that in tracing
man's pedigree up from the lowest or
ganisms to his present proud estate, it
becomes clear that conditions abso
lutely peculiar to the earth gradually
determlned the course of his evolution
into the being with the characteristic
man traits: that man is literally of the
ARRANGED FOR THE MOTOR
earth earthy, and that In all his parts,
mental and bodily, he is as much a
product of the complex conditions of
life on this planet as the features of a
bronze Image, are a 'product of the
mold In which It has been cast.
If the Influence on the earth had
been different, man would have been
different. Gravity, air pressure. tem
perature, moisture and light are only
a few of these. All along man s his
tory there must have been, on innum
erable occasions, a dividing of the
ways. In which conditions absolutely
peculiar to this planet determined the
Issue as to which path should Had up
ward to humanity.
The items which have directed the
plastic life stream along this or that
channel of evolution were often as In
considerable and as fortuitous as the
utterly trlvjal events which In every
day life fatally determine our future.
Often In treading life's numberless
cross roads the main procession of liv
ing things goes one way. ending no
where In particular, while a few in
dividuals drift off through some casual
influent- along an obscure bypath,
which In the end proves the only t;ack
lending upward to the goali '
Division of Animals.
A glance at some of these controll
ing conditions pictures for the Doctor
how and why he Is. and proves (hat
he could not exist elsewhere. Karly
In organic evolution some of the prim
itive forces divided into those that
drew carbonic acid. Those that took
the carbonic acid shut themselves oft
forever from all earthly channels of
becoming active and versatile beings
of the nature of man.
Then came the division into verte
brate and invertebrate, or, as Pro
fessor Lloyd Morgan puts it. into flesh
and bone animals and skin and squash
animals. Some of the skin and squash
animals, like spiders, bees and ants,
In a sense are much more highly de
veloped, both physically and socially,
than the vertebrates. Nevertheless, by
dispensing with a backbone their an
cestors took a fatal step, so far as
ever evolving into human beings is
concerned. By depending too much on
their skin for protection they became
literally hidebound, and' when they de
sire to grow large. like certain crabs
and lobsters, they are obliged to pe
riodically burst off their outer cover
ing and remain dormant long before
the new skin is ready for service.
Another orlsls came when it was to
be decided whether land or water
should be the scene of future activity.
A momentous question this. For none
of the creatures that remained purely
water animals ever acquired much
brain. Their environment always was
cold and wet. and hence too uniform,
and the forces which controlled their
lives were too rigid and too mighty to
give them much chance of versatility
or choice of action. It was only the
waterborn vertebrates who succeeded
in adapting themselves to land life
that entered, upon the narrow path
which led upward to humanity.
Moon Was Nearer.
In ancient times, as now, It was
the shallow seas which abounded with
animal life. Those creatures that
were near a sloping shore were liable
to be left high and dry twice in the
24 hours at low tide.
Long ago. Sir George Darwin shows
the moon was much nearer the earth
than It Is now, and its attraction was
much stronger. Hence vast areas were
alternately flooded and dry. and my
riads of creatures which originally ex
tracted a little air from the water by
means of gills found themselves
obliged to take their air undiluted or
die for want of it. Those who tri
umphed in the ordeal were on their
way to genus homo.
It becomes clear that unless some
earthlike planet possessed vast shallow
oceans and a' moon closely resembling
our own, upward progress of this crit
ical epoch would depend on entirely
different circumstances, and the results
would have to be wholly different. As
Darwin pointed out. man still retains
in fils physical framework, and in the
functions of his body, traces not only
of gills for obtaining air from wa
ter, but also at the regular periodic
recurrence of lunar influence.
The next set of crossroads is a maze
wherein the devious but ever upward
way is hard to trace. Huge popula
tions of cold-blooded amphibia and
reptiles swarm over the land. Some
how from among these there developed
certain sets of creatures with a great
ly improved breathing apparatus and
a more rapid circulation. These crea
tures eventually became I he birds and
the mammals. It was the birds that
first took the right turning. Their
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hearts had four chambers instead of
two. and their lungs had larger ca
pacity for gelling oxygen from the air.
So their tissues were supplied with
blood. In which the carbonic acid had
been eliminated much better than un
der the old system of circulation.
Advantages of Warm Blood.
Owing to the more rapid and com
plete oxidizing of the waste products
in, their bodies, their blood became
warmer. This was an enormous up
ward step. These beings were no
longer dependent, like their rivals, on
external heat. Their hot. re! blood
"made Summer in their vein?."
This gave them a stupendous advan
tage over-other animals. Even the
baby mammals, feeble and not much
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Professor Ernest Rutherford.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20. (Special.)
It has been stated unofficially that
Professor Ernest Rutherford will re
ceive the Nubel prize for chemistry.
rrorVssor Rutherfard was formerly
of McGil! University. Montreal, lie
is now of Manchester University. He
was well known when In 1!03 he ad
vanced the theory cf radio-activity.
This was based on his research work
Into the properties of thorium. Two
years later, when he published the
complete results of his researches,
he received the Rumford medal.
Professor Rutherford Is only .".K. He
was born in New Zealand, of Scot
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bigger than rats, could escape the
swarms of enormous reptiles because
of their warm blood full of oxygen.
Although wanting In brute force, they
were capable of a more rapid and more
sustained motion than their reptile
foes. And they had brain cells nour
ished by fast flowing, warm blood in
stead of the sluggish and chilly fluid
which fed the reptilllan brain. Thus
they became quicker of perception and
more fertile in schemes for attack and
defense. They were Tom Thumbs, who
hested their giapt adversaries by
quickness and cunning.
One of the great dividing of the
ways had come when It became the
rule, and not the exception, for the
III tie mammals to be born alive. Since
the young warm bloods were, born in
a helpless state they had to bo suckled
and tared for during long periods. Ed
ucation came Into play, a great up
ward step. For the first time in tlin
world's history experience gathered
during the .lifetime of one generation
was put at the disposal of the next.
Hence a capacity for brain growth
and a power of learning on the, part
of the young became more and more
important if they were to profit by
the experience of their elders.
The first mammals are supposed to
have been opossumliko creatures,
which were arboreal In their habits.
Now most creatures that leave the
solid ground and take to the trees do
so to avoid their enemies. And con
sidering the swarms of various rep
tiles, the presumption Is that the first
weak mammals wero no exception to
the rule. At all events the trees
soon had a big refugee population.
Up in the trees tliey evolved two
distinct methods of getting a hold.
I!y far the greater number developed
claws and with them clung to the
bark. A smaller number developed
long digits, which can securo a good
grip on the branches.
The choice between the two was
vitally critical as regards the future.
A foot merely armed with sharp claws
remains almost entirely a means of
climbing, and can do little else. But
when the flexible digits are lengthened
snd arc regulated by groups of strong
and complex muscles all the wonder
ful powers of the human hand at once
became possible.
The Stone Age.
Throughout the immeasurable stone ngs,
man was continually in peril of death by
hunger. Those successful in exercising
their reasoning faculties in the chase sur
vived. In the matter of clothes, dwell
ings and weapons the long life in the
trees probably is responsible for the phy
sical helplessness which obliged man to
resort to art in their manufacture.
When at least part of what man owes
to t he trees is considered, Dr. Robinson
thinks it no longer a surprise that tree
worship has become a cult among many,,
different branches of the human family.
And yet how slight a difference In condi
tions on the earth would have prevented
the development of trees. It is all duo
to the avidity of the vegetable world for
carbonic acid.
For what is a tree? It is a long-lived
plant that lias acquired woody liber and
jjrown upward. Why doirs it grow up
ward? Everybody on a plantation knows
that the young trees at first arc set close
together "to draw them up." It is this
competition of plant with plant for light
and for carbonic acid which makes each
of them seek to tower above its fellow.
The plant or tree which is able to over
top its rivals and expose the greatest sur
face of chlorophyll charged leaves to the
air and sunlight extracts the most car
bonic acid from the atmosphere to use in
building up its own tissues.
Given slightly different conditions as to
atmosphere, moisture and soil .and this
kind of vegetable competition, with Its
fruitful and far-reaching influence, could
not occur. It is not every part of the
world that bars forest trees without hu
man help. Vast regions like the steppes
of Russia and the prairies of the United
States are thickly covered with grasses
and small herbage which get their light
and carbonic acid without ever aspiring
to be trees. Suppose the creeping grasses
had been evolved earlier, and suppose the
whole planet had beeii covered with
prairie land during t he- critical tertiary
epoch. How different the fate of genus
homo.
Anyone who understands physics, as
tronomy and geology probably can bring
forward numerous other Instances where)
conditions peculiar to the earth have di
rected the upward march of that slender
procession f living creatures which has
culminated in man. Chicago Tribune.