THE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, .PORTLAND. APRIL 25,
1909.
William Gleason Tells of Old
Days With William Gillette
Vet.r.n Flayer Witl. Bkr Stock Compu,, kS.Us s.. u SUj, Director for "Th. Priv.le Secretary" In
' tll6 East.
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SPEAKIXC of "The Private Secre
tary" the other day. William
Gleason. the veteran actor of
the Baker Stock Company, said he
well remembers the time he was with
the author. William Gillette, playing
t'attermole and Mage director under
the management of Charles Frohman.
"That was 19 years ago," said Mr.
Gleason. "We played only the large
cities. A big run in Boston, then New
York. Philadelphia, Chicago, etc. Gil
lette was a very sick man at the time,
and never played matinees. We car
ried an extra actor for my part, and 1
played the Secretary, whenever Gil
lette didn't play, which was quite
often.
"I had to attend to everything, in
cluding interviews with newspaper
men, as Gillette was too sick. He
used to carry an alcohol lamp to heat
the water that he drank during the
performance. If there wasn't a dressing-room
on the stage big enough, I
' -would rig one up for him. It was an
' effort for him to climb stairs.
"In rpite of all his trouble and sick
nesu, his good humor and good temper
never left him, and a nicer man to his
fompany never lived. Never a com
plaint, never a cross word I tell you
.'it was a pleasure to e with him.
' "After that, Frohman transferred
,me to take charge and rehearse the
two 'Shenandoah' companies, 'Tempus
Fugit and now, after all these years,
jny son, James, is going to play the
Private Secretary.' I hope he makes
Hood. Funny, isn't it?"
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Double Setback to Graft Prosecution
"Higher UpB" in San Francisco Jubilant Government May Recall Burns
' League Opening of New Orpheum,
to Duty Examiner Denounced by
ST HARRY B. SMITH.
SAN FRANCISCO., Cal., April 24. The
graft prosecution, as it is known in
San Francisco and for that matter
over the length and breadth of the United
91 a tee. received two setbacks this last
week and the people who don't care for
the attitude of Francis J. Heney are
chuckling. One of the setbacks wa3 the
acquittal of Samuel Newburgh, a former
attorney of Abe Ruef. who was charged
with having attempted the bribery of a
Juror in one of the Ruef cases. The other
was the action taken by the appellate
court tn settingaside the verdict of guilty
in the case of Louis Glass, vice-president
of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
Oompany, and remanding the case for
trial before the Superior Court. This last
case Is far more important from the graft
prosecution standpoint than was the ac
quittal of Newburgh.
Glass, who was charged with complicity
In the bribery of members of the Ruef
Hoard of Supervisors in order to keep a
competing company out of San Francisco
was tried twic e. The first time the Jury
disagreed. On a second trial, in Septem
ber, mo;. Glass was found g'Jiltv and
j-entenced to a term In the penitentiary
Tv Judge Lawlor. The -;ase wns imm
1iately appealed and the court ha just
inade Its ruling. The judgment of the
lower court is reversed on two points.
The admission of testimony at the trial
ooncernlnar a former attempt of ihe Pa
cific Telephone & Telegraph Company to
Veep a rival company out or the Oakland
field is declared to be a reversible error
and the refusal of Judge Lawlor to in
struct the jury that it must not consider
" Zimnier had refused to testify
that his testimony, had it been given
would have been against the defendant!
I Many Indicted. Few Tried.
The reversals of Judge Lawlor are com
ing so fast that the higher-ups have some
reason to be jubilant. A summary of
wventu since the graft was unearthed,
chows that there have been returned 160
tfnrtictments. Nineteen contracts of immu
nity have been granted by the prosecu
tion. TIrey L Ford was twice acquitted
(on separate indictments. In the cases
wlso of Louis Glass, Tirey L. Ford and
Abe Ruef. the Juries disagreed. The high
er courts reversed the judgments of guil
(ty In the cases of E. E. Sehmitz and
Ixiuis Glass and the only men convicted
and in jail, pending appeal to the higher
courts, are Ruef and ex-Supervisor M W
.CofTey.
The Calhoun case Is now attracting all
attention. The jury having been selected
the case is fairly launched, and the court
room will be well crowded from start
to finish. A peculiar feature .of the Cal
houn trial is the presence of a thirteenth
juror. This Juror, regularly chosen and
worn as were the others, Is very much
like the tall of the kite. He Is to listen
to the evidence and if for any reason,
through sickness or otherwise, a juror
Is unable to maintain his place. Juror Xo.
. 13 will be permitted to step into the box
and render his verdict. The prosecution
fought any such action, but it was ad
mitted over their shoulders. Very likely
the services of the additional juror will
not be required, but he U there to save
time.
Kurns Called to Time.
Chief of Police Jesse Cook is said to be
in bad odor with the prosecution. He has
announced that he intends to break up
the Pacific street crib and other dens of
iniquity. This recalls Blsjry's experience
with the graft prosecution politics. He
was placed under the ban the moment he
refused to allow W. J. Burns to take
charge of Chinatown and the tenderloin.
Shortly before his death, Biggy com
plained to friends that Rudolph Spreckels
had demanded his resignation and that
Mr. Burns was trying to ruin and dis
grace him.
Mention of Detective William J. Burns
by the way, brings to the front .his mys
terious visit to the East. Last week, ac
companied by Benjamin Ide Wheeler,
president of the University of California'
he hurriedly took a train. The connec
tion between Mr. Burns and Mr. Wheeler
was not well established.. It was given
out that Mr. Wheeler was on his wuy
East to pick up some professors of
zoology and romance and that'Mr. Burns
was called to Washington to testify in a
land fraud case. There is another storv
hgwever. Uaat will not down. It is said
that the present administration is de
termined to hew to the line more closelv
as regards the use of civil service opera
tors in the prosecution of graft in the
various cities. If this is the case It is
deemed quite likely that Mr. Burns has
been called to Washington to discuss hi
status. Mr. Wheeler, the known friend
of the prosecution, so It is thought is
going to Washington to insist that Mr
Burns remain where he is until the end
of the chapter.
League Repudiates Examiner.
The Independence League, which was
started in this city in common with other
sections of the country several years ago
ilf,, repud,ated tne local organ owned by
William R. Hearst, the San Francisco
Examiner. Just what has put the Ex
aminer "in bad" with the Independence
League no one seems to know-. However
that may be, the organization recently
adopted resolutions that were sent to
the -various 'papers and also to William
Randolph Hearst. They reiterated theSr
support of Mr.. Hearst, but declared
the present management of the Examiner
Inimical to their interests and that un
iH,JL?re.W'l change they could no
longer give their support to the paper
The people now in charge hall from Chi
cago and if the Independence party can
w.,",,! TbUt f chanBe 11 wln be done
without any sleep being lost.
Orpheum in Old Home.
nnTPIe,nInE f th 0rP"eum Theater
"n'he oI? wste on O'FarreU street last
X ?hi?'fht-WM made a welc8 back
to the old business section and all around
SIL K!ad-hfnd a-Tab". San Francisco
down-town improvement associations
ce?h.Id f the aftair lth a winlnd tS"
celebration was all that could be desired
In fact, the Orpheum on onenln"
resembled the first night at a grand
opera. Society adorned the boxes and
was scattered over the body of the house.
John Morrissey. who has been the man
ager of the local Orpheum for many
years, made a short address and intro
duced Mr. Myerfield. the owner, and Mar
tin Beck, the Eastern booking agent. For
more than two weeks prior to the open
ing there were no seats to be had, and at
the close they were selling at a high
premium.
And the scene on Market street, once
the. show was ended, made one feel glad
and certain, too. that San Francisco will
come hack to its own. The new restau
rant in the basement of the Flood build
ing, where once Tait had his cafe, was
ablaze with light, and the other restau
rants took care of the overflow.
Shuberts Open Theatrical War.
There is to be a right merrv theat
rical war in a few weeks in little old
San Francisco. The Shuberts have ar
rived m town. They have leased the
American Theater. In which they will
handle their shows until they have their
own house. It has been announced that
the Shuberts are considering several
sites and that within a week they will
say where they will build. Once they
get started, they will give the Klaw &
Erlanger people, who have the new Co
lumbia in progress of building, a merrv
old time.
The Valencia-street Theater has an
nounced that it has secured Mrs. Minnie
Maddern Fiske. who will' appear for two
weeks at the stock-house theater in her
new play, "Salvation Nell." Mrs Fiske
as the public knows, is beyond the pale
of the trust, but she is an actress never
theless, and the Valencia ought to do
well during the two weeks she is In the
city. . . -
Blames Man for Woman's Tolly.
Men are responsible for the follv of
the modern woman's attire is the conclu
sion reached by Miss Jessie Pelxotto. as
sistant professor of economics in the Uni
versity of California, six of the brightest
women students and Isaburo Shoda, Jap
anese male student, -who are making
searching investigations of the cost of
living- and are seeking a solution of
startling modern changes in the cost of
living. -
Some astonishing facts have been un
covered. The California college girl is
shown to have expensive tastes. She
wants to live in a palatial residence. She
wants fine clothes. She loves sweets and
would require an income of $5000 to sup
port her according to her tastes.
The class estimate on the cost of liv
ing shows that the soung ladies would
set aside J1000 for the woman's clothing
for a year, while it is estimated that
food for a family of three would cost in
the neighborhood of $1095.
,,AndTffter maklnS ese investigations
Miss Pelxotto declared in solemn lan
guage that man was to blame, that th
male sex encouraged woman In the dis
play of fine clothing and frippery and
but for this fact the girls would be con-
,111 VLdneSS modestI- and far cheaper
than $1000 a year.
RIDES 115 MILES IN ONE DAY
Mr.McComas Uses Two Horses, Against Mr. Roosevelt's Four, and 98 Miles
ELGIN. Or., April 22. (To the Edi
tor) Having read with interest the
communication of William M. Hilleary
in a recent issue of The Oregonian
regarding some of the "rough riding"
of early days before "Teddy" had set
the mark of 98 miles, with a relay of
four horses, as a reasonable day's out
ing on horseback, I am placed in a
reminiscent mood.
I recall that on an October morning
in lSfi3. wlille at Umatilla, on the Co
lumbia River. I received a letter from
I.a Grande notifying me that mv old
partner was very sick at Ladd "-Canyon,
and that if I ever expected to see
him alive It would bo necessary for
me to get there at the earliest possible
moment. 1 at once saddled up a blue
roan oayus- and struck out. I ate
dinner at Meachams, halted In La
Orande long enough for supper and
rode on to l.add place, reaching there
little after sunset, to find my old
friend entirely out of danger. The
distance was called 90 miles to La
Orande. and from there to Ladd nine
miles.
1t-r,,rrlV8rJ t!,,,1 B5"noek campaign "of
ISiS I had taken a contract to furnish
eight four-horse teams to transport
Major Downey's command from Grand
Ronde Valley on a scout through Idaho.
were in Baker City for dinner, and
t 1:30 o'clock General Howard an
nounced that he desired to send a mes
sage to the commandant at the bar
racks, one mile from Boise City but
that the dispatch must be delivered
y noon the next day, and for which
. would pay $100. The stage had
riot been running along Burnt River
for a day or two. and no bidders had
been received. I had just partaken of
a-good dinner at the Western Hotel
7 mn Geneal Howard accosted-me
feVL, m" what he wanted, and flat!
Med .hmeb5' saln- "The way you hus
ned the teams together down in Grand
Ronde convinces me that its you I
wfn 'try SeUled and 1 8aid?
He2?iSr8rer8tafr was at the stable,
and w-as anxious to go up on the Pav-
wi,?eh i J I amous horse ranch , on
anJ k had SOme 150 fin horses,
and he offered to accompany me and
give me my choice of a relay horse
out of his band next morning If "e
arrived at his place safelv . we
We. started at 2 A -M. The ' morning
was very dark and near WeatheX!
station my horse stumbled and pitcJied
40 feet below on a "stake and rider"
fence, on which I broke four finger
of my left hand. As soon as my horse
w .r,f8raJned 11 is wlnd we rde on to
ar.reHh .e WhBre M--Weatherbe
at ted as surgeon and fixed mv crin
pled hand on a shingle. As I had been
up all the night previous. I laid down
in the barnyard and allowed my- crio-
d '? r8t ln a sma11 "ream of
running water, and slept about an hour
and let my horse rest. When the moon
was up we were on our wav.
We passed Miller's ranch, now the
townsite of Huntington then owned
rl KMCmfs. of Santa Monica.
b,out 4 A' M- We "ached the
old ferry" on Snake River about' the
break of day. crossed over, reached
Biggerstaffs and got out the hostler
had him saddle me a fresh horse, and
after a hasty breakfast we again struck
troU8rh,.thf saKebrush of Payette
and Boise Valley, and .reached the
Overland Hotel, then kept bv Hosea
and Manse Eastman. I will not under
take to estimate the distance between
Baker arid Boise via my trail, but if
fryad,er deslres make the ride
I will frnia,CCUray ' my statenent
I will furnish. a diagram of mv trail
as nearly as I can remember. C. E S
Wood, the Portland attorney, will i
Baker rftv'", . mJdePart" from
' J think the distance cov
ered was not less than 115 miles, and
"f rf?;, T-. haV? Tedd-' finished -to a
frazzle and "one horse" on Smith
but, of course, I had the "last say " '
s - R. S. M'COMAS. "
That- Wan Different.
After he'd been to college
He. bragged about his knowledge
Of his mother tongue
But since he hoa been wed .
He lives in fear and dread
Of her mother's tongue.
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