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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1909)
' 1Q THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. NOVEMBER 21, 1909. j V MEN WHOM VARIOUS CAUSES HAVE ' BROUGHT INTO THE PUBLIC VIEW I . -i.... ill I I TURKEY11 II ' LATE on the evening before Thanks giving, Elizabeth, the minister's daughter, had. as usual, filled a mar. kct basket for their washerwoman and rlaced it in the kitchen entry to be given the small boy who was to call for it. Karly the following morning the market man. rushed" with belated orders, placed a similar basket beside Elizabeth's, con taining their Thankskivlng turkey. It was a wonderful turkey, large, fa and tender. Eliza.beth had chosen it herself and 6he was no mean judge, as the mar ket man could testify. As she had saved and planned for several weeks so as to he able 'to buy it, she now felt Justly proud and important, as any little mother would feci who had provided such a splendid treat for her family. But alas, when the small boy called, what did the housekeeper do but hand over to him the basket containing the turkey, and he, scarce able to believe his senses, staggered away happily un der the solid weight of It. Not until two hours later did the dread ful truth come out. Mrs. Mullen, then quite ready to prepare the turkey for the oven, went to fi tch it and found the only basket there contained a small pot roast, a bunch of celery, some sweet potatoes and a mince pie. Utterly dismayed, she hurried to the library, where Elizabeth was dusting, and exclaimed: "I've given him away! I've given him Not Calamity!" Elizabeth cried. Jump ing up and confronting the distressed woman. "Surely you could not be so heartless, Mrs. Mullen!" Calamity was the Irresponsible, playful and wholly destructive puppy which the harassed housekeeper dally threatened to bestow gratuitously upon the first per son who could be induced to carry him away. Mrs. Mullen sank into the nearest chair and groaned, overcome with honest grief, thougha dab of flour upon the end of X. lier nose lessened the tragedy In her face. If not the distress in her voice. "Do you suppose I'd be moaning about any such good luck. Miss Elizabeth?" she now asked indignantly. "I've given your big turkey away that's what- I've gone and done. And I reckon Mrs. Jameson has him stuffed full of bread rrurr.bs by now and all sewed up and in the oven." And when Elizabeth stared at her unbelievingly, she reiterated al most impatiently: "I give the wrong bas ket to the Jameson boy that's what I done the wrong basket!" Elizabeth swallowed hard and then re marked briefly, but courageously: ""Well, don't take it so hard. Mft. Mul len. If it had to be given away I don't know of a family I'd rather have it than the Jamesons." But despite her calm words, which were spoken to relieve Mrs. Mullen. Elizabeth deeply regretted the mistake although she tried hanl to bring her . self to the minister's complacent view of the matter that the true spirit of giving lay in just such a sacrifice, made willingly, albeit, and cheerfully. Tommy thrust both hands, into his Sunday pockets, and listened to his father gravely, but when the minister had left the room to get his sermon, he spoke his thoughts aloud to Eliza beth: "Sis. it may be all right to eat a plain, every-day dinner on Thanksgiv ing, but I hope I won't see any of the Kids today. I bragged, too, about our big turkey yesterday. I'd feel mighty, small and ashamed with Just a two-bit pot-roast." The twins "were frank in their evi dences of disappointment also, and there ensued a tearful half hour while Eliza beth helped them to get ready for church, and the Orphan Baby, though wholly ignorant as to the why and the wherefore, echoed the lamentation all about her. Altogether it was most dishearten ing. Elizabeth, who remained at home to superintend the dinner In Mrs. Mul len's a bsence, felt like Indulging in a good cry herself after the others were all gone. She could not hear to see unhappiness . in those she loved. The day had begun beautifully: while now, she even asked herself what In the world there was for oie to be thankful OH ! 'RI-EATS. TDPGiVEL MT. for. Truly there are moments in the lives of the bravest, when they no long er desire to be heroes: and Elizabeth curled up in tier mother's chair and suddenly dissolved into tears. "I want my mother!" her heart cried out hungrily. Presently she unlocked a little drawer in an escritoire that stood near, taking therefrom a small volume. Eliza beth went to it for comfort and guid ance as do some to their Bibles. When she grew lonesome, as she sometimes did, even in the midst of the dear ones who loved her so tenderly, yet were so dependent upon her, she took out this little Journal of the last year of her mother's life, found the parallel month and day, and read the lines written there. She now turned to the duplicate date In the book, and found a little prayer for Thanksgiving; written in the deli cate, fine hand she knew so welK As she read it and re-read it. her troubles grew lighter, and finally floated away altogether, while a' sweet exaltation flooded her soul, the radiance of which no earth-born cloud could dim. If more tears fell they were not for the lost basket. The door-bell rang. As she was the only one to answer it. Elizabeth dabbed her eyes hurriedly and opened the door to encounter her neighbor and friend, a young girl who lived on the next square below the parsonage. But instead of the laughing, jolly aspect Helen Burnham usually wore, her eyes were now red and swollen, and she appeared distinctly down hearted. The two girls looked at each other for a comprehensive Instant and then both laughed outright. "Well. Elizabeth Newton!" exclaimed Helen. "I do believe you are the last person I ever expected to see In tears. Why, brother Jack is forever holding you up to me as an example of un changing cheerfulness. Whatever can be the matter, I wonder?" "I I miss my mother so, today!" con fessed Elizabeth, "You could .never under stand, Helen." Helen quickly put her arms about Elizabeth. 'OIi. please forgive me!" she exclaimed contritely. "It makes my own heartache seem so babyish. I was actu ally crying. Just now because my own mother had to leave home upon Thanks giving to visit her sister who is 111. It seems so terribly lonesome why, I should think you would cry!" Elizabeth's lips quivered, but with a brave effort at control, she drew her friend to the fire, and then told her of the turkey episode, and the keen disap pointment felt by her sisters and brother. At the end of this recital Helen was fairly jumping up and down in excite ment. "Oh, hurry!" she cried enigmatical Realism on Stage Carried to Limit in Newspaper Play New York's Latest Thrilling Production, "The Fourth Esfate," by Joseph Medill Patterson, Proves Exciting Star la Recent Discovery , of Liebler & Co., in Charles Waldron. v NEW YORK, Nov. 30. (Special.) A new star has been made In a new play by a new playwright, and New York is today engaged In taking a lot of credit to Itself for the discovery. The actor whose work is thus recognized is a young fellow named Charles Waldron. Very few theater-goers were familiar with his name a Tew weeks ago. Today everybody is talking about nim. There are life-size pictures of him in front of Wallack's Theater the largest reproduc tions of photographs ever made; the New York newspapers ara sending around to "Interview" him and Liebler Sc. Company have agreed to star him in a new play by Hall Calne, the manuscript of which has Just been received from the Shakespeare of the Isle of Man. Newspaper Play Makes Good. Hugh Ford, general stage director for Liebler & Company, engaged Mr. Wal dron for the part of Wheeler Brand, -d-oo 000 -"-oo ly, "come over lo our house with me! Our phon8is out of order and so I just ran over here to use yours, but now I'll not need to tell the Salvation Army anything about it." Then perceiving that Elizabeth was lost in a maze of uncomprehenslon Helen hastened to explain: "You see. mother and Jack and I were going to have a real celebration, and so boucht, a turkey for today. Then mother had to leave so un expectedly and Jack said there seemed no use of a Thanksgiving dinner anyway with auntie ill and mother gone, besides neither of us know one single thing about cooking. So we decided to donate it to a charity and take our meals across the street at Mrs. Potter's boarding-house un til mother returned." Elizabeth's eyes had by now grown very wide and she asked: "Would your brother come over here with you and help us eat it, do you think?" Helen smiled. "Would he!" she re turned. "Oh, just you ask him and see! I was hoping you'd say that, Elizabeth. Now, let's go as fast as we can and ask Jack to carry the turkey over for us. It's a dandy, and It's all ready to roast." "Please wait one moment. Helen, until I see if the firs is all right," Elizabeth replied with a happy thrill in her voice. "And I must set this pot roast back so it will not burn down, and put Calamity out or he'll quarrel with tile rugs. Come. Calamity, be a good fellow and run along and after awhile you may have Just heaps of bones." Later it would have been hard to tell whether the guests, the minister's flock or Calamity were the happiest. Certain it was that the dinner was a perfect suc cess and everyone at the table declared there had never been such a turkey. When the day was over and Elizabeth and her father sat alone, he looked .at Lhe sweet, serious face on the opposite side of the lire and a new thankfulness suddenly sprang up In his heart. For the first time it was borne to his con sciousness that his eldest daughter was the exact picture of her mother. He leaned back In his chair, with half-closed eyes and draamed, while Elizabeth, with chin in hand, repeated softly the little prayer which she, had thatmorning dis covered: "With all the gifts thy lavish hand hath spread - Sun, moon and stars and clouds above my head, Grasses and flowers and dew beneath my feet Love, life and liberty and all things sweet ' With all these countless blessings round mo poured. Grant mo one other gift, a grateful heart, dear Lord!" , when the company to present Joseph Me dill Patterson's newspaper play, "The Fourth Estate," was being made up. Ford said the young man had a credit able past in stock and a brilliant future in more important lines. Today the big town supports Ford. Waldron has made very good. And the play is easily the most talked-about piece of theatrical property In America. It couldn't very well get away from im pressing any one who ever saw it. Its realism is so sharp and uncompromising that, as one commentator says, "It al most hurts." The last scene, showing a composing room a few minutes before the paper goes to press, with real Jinotype machines, operated by real operators from Typographical Union No. 6, and everything else in the mechanical line, from proofreaders to etersotyperg and makeup men. Is startlingly vivid. Wheeler Brand, the managing editor played by Mr. Waldron Is nearing the moment of his triumph. For years he has been working to show up the rot tenness of the big corporations, and the path has. led to the doorstep of Donald Bartelmy, a United States Judge, whose decisions favoring a certain rascally cor poration have been paid for at so much per decision. Brand has himself fol lowed Bartelmy at midnight and seen the judge in conference with the attor neys for the corporation and the. lobby ists. After this Bartelmy has handed down his Infamous decision. To prove to the owner of the Advance, the paper on which Brand Is employed, the corrupt ness of Bartelmy, Brand lays a trap. He charges the Judge with illicit relations with the trust and permits himself to lis ten to the suggestion of a J10.000 bribe for the suppression of the story. When Bar telmy visits the Advance office Brand se cretes stenographers, takes down the In criminating conversation and at the cli max of the passing of the bribe, presses a bulb and a flashlight photograph of the transaction is taken. ( Climax Seen In Last Act. This photograph, reproduced in a four column cut. Is made up in the front page form as the curtain goes up on the last act. Then the Judge begins to squirm. He.sends his daughter, Judith, with whom Brand is In love, to the composing-room to stop the pag. She falls. Then Nolan, the owner of the Advance, appears, and, under pressure of his family, who see In the Bartelmys the open door to social position, the proprietor orders Brand to 'kill" the story. After Nolan leaves. Bartelmy, unaware of the owner's order, comes to make a last plea, and the sight of the man moves Brand to sudden ac tion. In' the presence of Judith the whole evil life of the Judge Is exposed and Brand gives the sharp order to the stere otyper, "Cast.that page," adding to Bar telmy, "You have six hours to get away In before that paper Is on the street." And ttiat is the curtain, with the aud ience understanding the revulsion of Judith for her father and the probability of the lovers coming together. That takes the Advance prertty Tar on its road to press but now Liebler & Com pany have Taken it even further. For, as the audience, still discussing the dra matic ending of the Tllay. file from the playhouse, newsboys in front of the the ater meet them crying "Special extra of the Advance All about the Bartelmy bri bery!" and a copy of the tell-tale cut of the Judge at his bribery is handed to each person. It' Is certainly carrying realism to some lengths. ' Story Is Realistic. In addition, the play's producers have set out systematically to ascertain the attitude" of the press of the country on the relation of the business office of a newspaper to the news columns. In "The Fourth Estate" the first act Is laid in the office of the managing ed itor. The paper 'has printed a story showing up certain corporate iexsts. The lobbyist for these interests calls and demands that no further criticisms be passed. If the paper refuses, out go ads aggregating $30,000 yearly. The Advance, at this stage of its career, needs that $30,000. And the managing editor yields to the pressure. Parenthetically this is where the managing editor. Brand, suc ceeds. Liebler & Company nave sent ito- 22.000 , newspaper owners in the United States and Canada a circular asking what would be the attitude of the paper under like circumstances. The responses have been interesting. The New York Herald de voted three-quarters of a column to an editorial defining its stand, which is un vlolable adherence to principle. The New York Times stated that an advertiser with such A threat would be thrown down 18 stories to the street. , All over the country the question is being taken up. , SCIENTISTS WILL GATHER Oregon Academy to Meet at Forest V Grove November 2 6 and 2 7. PACIFIC; UNIVERSITY, Forest Grove, Or., Nov. 20. (Special.) The Oregon Academy of Sciences will hold Its annual meeting in this city November 26 and 27. The president of th organization is Professor A. L. Kniseley, director of the Government pure food laboratories in Portland, and J. D. Lee .is secretary. Papers will be read ,by members of the faculties of University of Oregon, Oregon Agricultural College, Willamette University and Pacific University, and by leaders in scientific research from Portland and other parts of the state. Friday evening the subject will be "Arc tic Research." Dr. L. J. Wolf and Dr. R. C. Walker will give their experiences in the Far North. Dr. Walker was a member of the expedition headed by Lieu tenant Schwatka, of Salenr. Dr. J. Allen Gilbert will deliver a lec ture on "The Psychological Features of the Harps Case" Saturday evening. This entire session of the society will be given over to a discussion of these phenomena. OLDEST COOS MAN IS 94 David A. Felter Is a Pioneer of Mis souri, Iowa, Kansas. . BANDON. Or., Nov. 20. (Special.) , David A. Felter, the oldest man In Coos County, having recently passed his Wth birthday, is still hale and hearty, with every appearance of rounding out a full century. Mr. Felter was born in Hamil ton County, Ohio, 'September 15, 1815, DaVid A. . Felter, . Coos County's Oldest Resident, Who Attains Age of 84 Years. where he grew to manhood, moving thence to Indiana, from there to Missouri, thence to Iowa and later to Kansas, being a pioneer in all of those states. He Is not a very old resident of Oregon, having been here only about 13 years. He likes the - state, however, and wants to pass Oie rest of his days here. Mr. Felter makes his home with his son. John W. Felter, of this city. At a recent sociable held in his honor at the home of his sort, four generations of the Felter family attended. Brazilian exports in the first three months of 190 totaled a value of $70,762,000. an increase of $24,300,000 over the same months of 1908. Coffee and rubber enjoyed PO per cent of the Increase. Imports . decreased 14.45 per cent. t - i I . ' ; t : - ws v i I f y 5 . t DnVid A. . Felter, . Coos County's i in " t ii i- tmunr g ii i ' I ; n;';; j' i jfeama;.. BjjWttM-"8"" Chummy .yinus 1 - . --lv (?. ' ---T' JX v.v- - - TV. - r:& - 'V ' " r - ;V j ' ' - , f . I I . v- y ,1 , ' N EW YORK, Nov. 20. (Special.) Wil- years appraiser of the Treasury Depart meht'at New York, has supplied a great many of the startling facts about the sugar thefts In theCustora-House. Among other things, Wakeman is quoted as say ing that he presenfed evidences of the frauds to Secretary Lyman .f. Gage and that Gage said he was quite sure his good friend, H. O. Havemeyer, could not know of them and asked Wakeman to tell Havemeyer about them and ask htm to have them stopped. Senator Simon Guggenheim, of Colo rado, is indirectly involved in the coal land scandal In Alaska by ex-Clerk Glavis. The Senator has been interested in mining all his life and is with his brothers a member of the millionaire Gug genheim Exploration Syndicate. He Is a native of Philadelphia, but went in 1S86 to Pueblo and has been a resident of Colorado ever since. He became a United States Senator in 1907. George Bernard Shaw is really coming to this country, it is believed, to attend a meeting of the unemployed. It would be the irony of fate if the unemployed found jobs before" Mr. Shaw arrived. However, It is reasonably certain that a large army of them would not take the jobs if they found them: there will al ways be a certain amount of sociological material to be found on the Bowery. William Loeb, Jr., was the most unpop ular private secretary to a President who ever sat in the White House. When he came to the jumping-oft place at the end of the Roosevelt term. Roosevelt tried to provide a comfortable mat to ease his , fall and President Taft made him Col- Two of Second Generation Play in "The Traveling Salesman Mark Smith and James O'Neill, Jr., Traditions of Their VpHERE'S a situation in "The Trav- ellng Salesman" company that is as interesting as it is unusual. Two prominent members of the second generation of the -stage are playing in one company. And the plot is thick ened' considerably by the fact that the preceding generation is still on the boards. Mark Smith' and James O'Neill, Jr., have the distinction of trying to live up to the reputations which their parents are still preserving faithfully. The first named, who takes .the prin cipal role in his play, is the son of Mirk Smith, whb used to be a member of the famous Boston Museum Com pany. The elder Smith was last seen at the Chicago Opera-Hoase in "Babes in Toyland." James O'Neill. Jr., Is, of course, the son of that other James O'Neill always easily recalled with "Monte Crlsto." Unquestionably the memory of the oldjpt theatergoer of America will need considerable Jogging to bring from his reminiscences a situation as interest ing as this of "The Traveling Sales man." There are two young people in positions of importance in their com pany, each one performs creditably, giving indications aplenty of the talent their elders possess so admirably. Perhap3 the nearest resemblance to such ah interesting situation as the American stage- affords at present has been on such occasions as when Miss Eleanor Robson and her mother. Madge Carr Cooke, have played in America in star roles, within a few weeks of each other. John Drew, too, was followed soon by' his daughter, Louisa Drew, in the supporting cast of Miss Billie kv. .im-n again, two years ago, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, accompanied by her daughter, .Miss Stella Campbell, made a few appearances in an Ibsen repertoire at Symphony Hall. On these two members of a second generation of stage families "the pres ent play leans to no small degree. To the work of Mark Smith much of tha success of the production may be said fairly enough to be due. The young man seems to have inherited consider able talent, which serves to recall easily the work of his father. Perhaps it is in the stage savolr faire that dis plays itself In what he has to do. The Smiths are one or the well-known, families of the American drama. They have the distinction -of going back through three generations. The grand father of the present bearer of the name was Edwin Booth's stage manager. Mark Smith, the second, made his debut with John McCulloushr in "The Three Guards men" in 1864. This younger Mark Smith made his debut in the musical extrava ganza "1492." Later, In Henrietta Cross man's play. "Sweet Kitty Bellairs," he had a minor role, and then for three I sJiii i.. , - 7 i ii . f III f " " "", frs ;' 3 : ill II iy?., " ' I f I y III MJ3 lector of the Port of New York. He has confirmed his former record by making himself the most unpopular collector who Son9 of Actor-Fathers, Uphold Best Families on Stage. seasons was with other David Belasco productions. He was in this city several years ago in support of Mrs'.' Leslie Car ter in "Zaza." Prior to the present year he played In Marie Cahili's company. Perhaps it was design that induced the management to flm4 a place for James O'Neill, Jr.; but there's no doubt about the worth of the name on the play bill, or for that matter of the excellence of the young man's abilities. Young O'Neill ventured on the stage a few years ago against parental judgment. When 1 he left Georgetown University, his father planned for him to go into business. For a few months he played an inconspicuous role in the lumber trade, striving with no fit , J - vff - 1 I -I - : ffrjivtf ? ' i l Jr " - r" ".k , - I i fey , v; ,i J i iH ( 4 t: : -V .. ... : : MIRK SMITH AXD JAMES O'NKILI,. JR- APPEAHIXG TRAVELING SALESMAN," M V4 ever presided over that office. No one could object to his Insistence on collect ing the revenue due the Government: but great objection was made to his method of dolus it. And he has been much criticised for keeping in office confessed rascals who have turned state's evidence for him. Louis Brennan lias demonstrated the practicability of his gyroscope railroad operating a car containing V passengers at 25 miles an hour on a single rail. The car used was built under an appropriation of the Indian government for experi mental purposes. When Mr. Brennan an nounced about two years ago to the scien tific societies of Great Britain his appli cation of the gyroscope to railroading, his discovery was hailed as promising a revolution in railroad operation. The.re was, of course, the. doubt whether a full size car would do what the model car had done: and -this doubt Mr. Brennan has just solved. Equipped with two gy roscopes running in vacuum, the full-sizs car has carried passengers around a curved track with, perfect safety. This railroad will cross a, river on a wire rope. Baron Uchida is the new Japanese Am bassador to the United States. He should not be confused with Mr. Uchida, for merly Janancse Consul-General at New York. Herbert Parsons, according to the re form element In politics, is a reformer gone wrong. He admitted recently that he had had four party workers appointed In the Treasury Service here. " As the Treasury Department has discovered frauds against the Government aggregat ing perhaps $30,000,000 by the sugar trust, of which Mi, Parsons' father was re cently the heaxJhis position is slightly embarrassing. great success to learn the cues of buy ing and selling. In 1901 he disobeyed 'the advice of his actor-father and begged a part in. the production of "Monte Crlsto," making his debut in Boston at the Boston Thea ter. After coming out on the stage and saying a few lines, his instructions called on him to depart. He made his way across the stage, turned at right-center and then to right-left, finally, in his confusion of rights and lefts, bringing up with a Jolt against the wall. Thence he veered off until he encountered the curtain. This gave way affording him tha welcome of getting out of sight. The next year he was around again, looking for a part In Eleanor Robson's company. He played parts with a fair measure of success, gaining confidence. He was now doing so well that when the all-star cast for "Two Orphans'"was made ' up he was given a chance to go on again with his father. After that there were two James O'Neills on the same play bill until last season,-when the son was en--gaged by Henry B. Harris for a part in "The Traveling Salesman" company. " THE
