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TTTE SUNDAY OltEGOXIAN, P0T11XAND, OCTOBER 8, 191G. r 1 , Ijv'-WM f:.-' ,..V- ..HS 3 p- -r v -j'Lr Jiv-: 1 mm 4PlVva-- 1 SONS of El from near and far will make a Joyous pilgrimage to New Haven October 21 to view the pa geant which Is to commemorate the founding- of Tale University and the glories of its 200 years of existence in New Haven. Eight thousand persons are preparing to take part In the pageant. Town and Qown have Joined hands for this occa sion and all will unite in "breathing praise, to Tale'' with hearty good will. The action will take place within the Tin W 1 flf thA Volo .Stadium I. 1 n In the world, 300 feet longer than the Coliseum In Rome and 200 feet wider. Here 62,000 spectators may be seated to watch the unfolding of the story of the beginnings of Tale, its development ana growth. Here representatives of the city which has grown up around the university and with it registers the progress that has been made In these two centuries will contribute to the beauty of the spectacle and add their voices in songs of laudation. The pageant starts with a lady, a grand dame, the grandmother of Ell Tale. Margaret ap Ienklen. who re ceived a generous dowry and took the good' old WelBh name of Tale. 6he will be seen In the costume of her day heading her wedding procession. It wa from her money that Ell Tale got the start for the fortune with which he was to endow the college that bA.rs his name. The endowment looks small when set alongside those of donors of college funds today, yet It was a great thing In those dayc, when giving was not so much in fashion and when men of fortune were comparatively few. Ell Tale, who was the governor of the East India Company, gave flOO in gold and MOO In wares from the East India Company to the Collegiate Institute of Connecticut. - This Institution had been founded by ten prominent clergymen In Branford in 1701. but the classes had been distributed among several towns, althoAgh the seat, under the charter, was supposed to be in Saybrook. Thriving and ambitious New Haven took over the institution In 1716, com bining all parts under one head. To give New Haven Its due consideration. Incidents connected with lt founding will be set forth In the pageant after the marriage procession of Margaret Tale. The Quinnlplac Indians will be shown chasing the deer when they learn of the arrival of the white men. Their meeting with John Davenport and his company and their purchase of the land from the red men follows. After this Is presented the visible es tablishment of the college In New Haven. Saybrook did not willingly re linquish the honor of having been the seat of the principal Institution of learning In the colony, and there is an expression of victorious achievement' on the faces of the clergymen who en ter with the books which have been forcibly wreeted from the authorities of Saybrook and conveyed to New Haven. Here Is where New Haven and Tale really Join hands, and for better and seldom for worse, they have lived hap pily together ever since. It is & far cry back to the first commencejient of the little Connecticut college, not only In time, but In circumstance and condition. The men who graduated with pomp and ceremony last year will look upon the simple rites which at tended the graduation of those who first claimed Tale a their alma mater. An allegorical Interlude will portray the arts and sciences departing from their home In the old world and coming to the new to take up their homes In Tale College of New Haven. Then will follow the Revolutionary period. Tale's prominent part in the war for Ameri can freedom will be depicted in a series of scenes. The company of the Governor's Foot Guards under Bene dict Arnold will be seen demanding the keys of the powder-house In 1775. Four years later, when the British troops invaded New Haven, an officer pleads successfully with the General to spare the town because of the col lege. One of the proudest memories of Tale Is that of Nathan Hale, the young scholar and teacher, who went bravely to his death uttering no complaint ex cept the lament that he had only one life to give for his country. The presentation of this Incident on such an occasion will thrill the thousands of spectators. Washington tjok com mand of the army In Cambridge, but he passed through New Haven on his way, and thia will be made the most of In the presentation -of the historical high lights. After the heroics of the revolution ary period, some of the college sports and customs prevailing between that time and the Civil "War period will be presented. As evidence that Town and Gown once Indulged, in eport controlled by none of the laws of modern athletics. 1 :mmmr- m III' J--r'&&PiLz a:X j 'I't'-.'-'-'i,s v-V Jy "' ' " ' '-Vi ' . y5fV fri --i" 'i'il';. ' -: a;:"V:.-- '-:X Ju. s: bi E- i li s t '- J .:. iflJIHIilIifII.yi mi i in iiif mif m w-mi Si a at s a i i ajiji o j ... . - --V'i (. Kjf - l oxSECTlft'T tii ; the Music School and well known as & composer of two prize operas, "Monii" and "Fairyland"; Professor David Stan ley Smith, professor of theory In the School of Music, and also well known as a composer; Professor Harry B. Jepson. the university organist; Setb Bingham, organist of the Madison ave nue Church In New Tork; Walter Ituel Cowles and William Edwin Haesche. Instructors In piano and Instrumenta tion respectively in the Music School, and Douglas Moore, a graduate student In the Music School. David Stanley Smith, who bears the Imposing title of Master of Music, will conduct the band of about 150 Instru ments and the chorus of several hun dred voices, formed largely from the Tale Glee Club, the College Choir and the Derby Choral Club. A new method of making even more effective the re markable acoustics of the Bowl will be tried out at this performance. A plat form has been constructed above the level of the beads of the highest audi tor) This will be furnished with an inclined roof equipped with sound shields and deflectors. Mr. Markoe will preside over another cage clamped to the concrete walls of the Bowl, trom which he will convey instructions to the Master of Music and this group leaders stationed at every entrance to the Bowl by means of a colored light and an elaborate sys tem of telephones. As an evidence of the unanimity with which all classes of New Haven's citi zens have taken hold of this project and the combining of various Inter ests the enlistment of the following or ganizations for Its success is slgniH cant There are the Colonial Dames, Army of the Republic and Daughters of the American Revolution; the New Haven Women's Club. International Sunshine Society. Women's Relief Corps and the Association of Collegiate Alumni; the Equal Franchise League, working side by side with the Antl Franchlse League: the Catholic Ladles' Assembly, New Haven Teachers' Asso ciation. Camp Fire Girls and Temple Mishkan Israel: the United Workers' Boys' Club. Tale New Haven Alumni Association and the Tale Battery: the T. M. C A. and the T. W. C. A.; the Improved Order of Red Men. the New Haven fire department, the state mi litia, the Governor's foot guards and the First Church of New Haven. TUB ILLUSTRATIONS. Ton I'nnel From (he Medlevel Kplnode In Paceant, Center Mrs. Kdirinl Bliss Reed, W ife of Professor Reed, am Lady Marsaret.' Kljcht Yale College, From mm lnrly Kngravtns;. lionom 'the tint n. A. -ie 4 Diploma. HANGCHOW IS RARE CITY in nth us gc ci inau(is p itzfentes lecfuri. 7M Hart CqnTdafonitTivmturLM Arlilus oracurn: ? YcothpclcnicTrv;tahxpirop xam ine " futfictzn ral6 approbafum. . bfchis plt cc( 9 iifufo Jfra du Oj Art in rn L (lira I i tint 3acca(aurc t;' externa nr j I i -i 3 it mem bran a ft. firlptum, 'fWrciwm Jit A cimia the Tale men of 1916 scorn this kind of sport, as Plantagenet stands at ease, awaiting his turn in the great pageant preparation. So far he has the honor of being the only horse In the cast, though when the great day comes there will be many. Now and then a lady, looking as If she had stepped out of the pages of history, throws a cloth of gold blanket over Plantagenet and. mounting htm, spreads out her draperies and mantle to see the effect that It will have when she mounts a real horse on the day of the great pageant, or Plantagenet Is only a property horse. The "master of the pageant la Mr. Francis Hartman Markoe, a graduate of the Tale Art School, who, while a stu dent of Magdalen College. Oxford, wrote the masque of the Oxford pageant: wrote and produced the great pageant of South Africa, and wrote the masque for 44.000 school children In London at the time of the coronation of King George. Assisting Mr. Markoe In the staging of the spectacle la Dennis Cleugh, the English actor-manager. In handling his 8000 amateur actors Mr. Cleugh Is confronted with no small difficulty, for, although a pageant la different from a theatrical performance and the partici pants do not have to do very much actual acting, they have to learn a num ber of rudimentary principles of stage deportment. Mr. Cleugh has found this out from his own experiences. At out of the recent rehearsals of the "Town and Gown Riot" In the Bowl the ama teur actors went to it with such whole souled enthusiasm and vim that Mr. Cleugh, who was directing, was caught In the midst of the scrimmage and was badly pummeled before he could dis close his Identity and call a halt. The task of costuming the produc tion Is in the hands of Mrs. Sophia Olivia . Cleugh, the 'wife of Dennis Cleugh, who has Just had a number of THE visitor to Hangchow 600 years ago could well have been sprprlsed. Silk-clad gentry rode through the paved streets In magnificent carriages, drawn by the finest of horses, or float ed on the placid waters of beautiful West Lake In great barges, with beau tiful singers and graceful dancers to while away the hours, and silver and choice napery on tables to which were brought the delicacies of the known world. Thousands of bridges crossed myriad canals and the Em peror's palace was the grandest In the world. Three thousand baths, accom modating 1S0.000 people, catered to the desire for cleanliness. Paper money passsed freely, Ae births of children were recorded by the state, dead bodies were cremated and the wealthy visitor, on arriving at his hotel, was compelled to register his name before being shown to his lux uriously upholstered bedroom. A cen sus of the entire city was kept by the painting of the Dames over the house doors. Today the offlos of a sewing machine company occupies a place oa the once famous Great street; British-American tobacco has taken the place of opium since 6000 opium pipes were burned In a single bonfire, and the Standard OH Company is preparing to sell -motor spirit Instead of kerosene after a short but decisive battle with a globe. I saw the first carriage that modern residents have ever seen In Hangchow. It was very popular for several weeks, but tt was almost Immediately pushed Into second place by the advent of an automobile. From ricksha to car riage and from carriage to motor car was the change of a single month. Both carriage and motor car were shipped tn by rail or canal, for al though one can go from Hangchow to Shanghai In a 30-mlle-an-hour express, he cannot drive in a carriage between the two cities under any circumstances. Foreign goods are appearing In shops, once the Cncst In the world. Many of the men are already wearing Western dress and even a few of the women occasionally wear New World fashions. With Us loss of Oriental character, Hangchow is gaining in wealth and importance. The great fan shop, patronised by pilgrims from the four corners of China's vast domain, bears on Us walls certificates of ex cellence from the expositions of Eu rope and America. The simple but keen-minded Chinese are coming Into constant contact with the foreigner. Last Spring I watched the progress of a party of wealthy foreigners from Shanghai down the newly-paved street Into the newly-built hotel district. One of the ladles not only attracted my at tention, but that of many of the polite Chinese as welt. Her carmlned lips held a cigarette and her crossed legs displayed the latest style of sheer hose. The Chinaman knows his place. He never presumes. But many of them al ready prefer foreign mistresses to women from their own race. Western culture Is pervading this beautiful city, which has so far only been Influenced by the missionary class. Hangchowa beauty threatens to spoil her. May nord Owen Williams In World Outlook. SPEAKS APE LANGUAGE an old-fashioned football game will be not a commonplace presentation of tho interrupted by firemen laying a hose across the ground, after which a free for all rough and tumble fight takes place beween the town boys and the comedies produced in London under the nine acts, comprising 21 scenes, are pseudonym of Urslla Keen. Hera Is required. That the production may be one of the biggest dressmaking Jobs not only complete but artistically rea- on record. In the upper floors of the dered, rehearsing has been going on pageant house are thousand of yards for six months. Most of the rehearsals of brocades and laces, furs and rib- students. The famous "Burial of Eu clid." a custom which runs back to about 1840,. will be presented. In the early days when the sophomore class had finished with Euclid at the middle of the first term a copy of the book was given a fitting funeral and buried with ceremonial rites. Speeches were made and mock ceremonies performed on the steps of the old State House and "prom" of today, but one In the hoop skirt period. The "girls In blue" gave quite an effective addition to the color scheme In those days. A frieze will show In panels the most take place in the "Pageant House." on bons, satins and cloth of gold and all notable moments in Tale's recent hi- of the historic show places of New ver and soft materials for Greek tory and some characteristic college Haven. It la a modest looking, faded draperies In colors borrowed from tho yellow bouse In one of the best rest- rainbow. Ten or 13 needlewomen, with dentlal streets. 150 yearss old and pos- humming sewing machines and flying sesslng an exclusive ghost, which, rf fingers, have been turning out on an It could be captured, would certainly average about 1600 costumes a month make a hit in the pageant. Rehearsing for some time. goes on. Inside the house and on the The colored sketches from which ths lawn. Strangers look with astonish- .nitumn are beinar cooled were made scenes which will warm the hearts of the "grads" of every vintage. The en tire programme will wind up with a great scene showing Tale, surrounded by the colleges her sons have founded, by her contributions to the arts and sciences and by her eminent graduates at the Masonic Temple. The burial took who have helped to shape the policies ment at ladies in costumes dating from by Miss Christine Hrter, Tale, 1915, place tn a vacant lot in Prospect street. From these boyish ceremonies the transition will be made to the serious side' of life. The Nation is facing a crisis. The spectators will see how the momentous news regarding the admis sion of Kansas as a slave state was re ceived at Tale, the equipping of the Kansas Volunteers, and the sending of them to their new home, and the death of Theodore Wlnthrop, the first Union officer in the war to fall. A touch of the Tale militant of today will be given by a drill by the Tale battery, lately returned from the Texas border. This will be followed by a junior "prom," of the Nation, looking forward to any time In the last three centuries b, B. A., and a niece of Albert Herter. greater service, and every one, lnclud- walking about the yard and practising the artist. Miss Herter won a first lng thousands of performers and tho various kinds of dancing steps, but prize at the last Spring Academy Ex other thousands In the audience. Join- New Haven Is well accustomed to the position in New Tork. lng In the singing of the Tale psalm, sight. The Incidents of her past his- Uany prominent New Haven society There will be few spoken passages tory are being delightfully minglsd women who are to take part In ths throughout the presentation. The 'with her present activities, and the production have been helping to make pageant la arranged primarily for the students coming back to college are their own costumes, thus relieving ths eye. A complete libretto has been ar- learning a lot of things about their old stress of work at pageant house, ranged, by means of which the audi- Institution and its town that they never one of the Important features of the ence will bo able to supplement the ,MW neiore. action before them. . As a dramatic On the lawn of Pageant House stands spectacle the pageant will probably ba a horse, Plantagenet by name. In the the greatest that has ever been pre- old days he would havs been kidnapped sented. To cover the period of Tale's and marched up "Prexy'a" steps or been pageant will bs the music, which has been especially composed by seven Tale men. Each episode of the pageant has been turned over to one man to set to music The music Is In the hands history and New Haven's development the victim of some similar prank, but of Professor Horatio Parker, dean of NEXT time you visit a monkey house at the park, try shouting: "Cnu-b. I OurnT "Listen. Where are youT") And seo whether soma sociable chim panzee, hanging by their tails from ths cage roofs, do not answer with a rapid: "Eu-nh! ("Here.") He should. If yon choose an Intelli gent monkey, and If the theory of Pro fessor Richard Lynch Gardner regard ing his new "Monkey Lexicon" Is cor rect. Professor Garner Is the scientist and African explorer who first demon strated that monkeys have a language or rather several languages all their own. , He plans returning to Africa within the next few weeks, but will leave behind him his recently compiled dictionary of the monkey, languages. Hers are some common words he picked up by listening to the ourang outangs and observing what they did when they chattered: Qhul Want. Ourh Whers are you? Khl-in Look out. Eu-nh Here. Khi-lu-hou Retreat. Ch-h Hark. WhatT For more than a quarter of a cen tury Professor Oarner has been making a study of the animals that Darwin de clared were our ancestors. Ten years ago he sailed on his fourth trip to Cape Lopez; in Western Africa, his purpose being to learn the habits of the chimpanzee In Its wild state and to discover whether the ape also Is able to distinguish color and forms. For seven years Professor Garner lived-In a bamboo but In the heart of the Jungle, with only two native serv ants and wild animals for companions. During that time he demonstrated to his entire satisfaction that monkeys can talk, and that the giant gorilla, which walks upright like a man. and tho chimpanzee, also, have a language of their own. "I know of a pineapple plantation that will exactly suit my purposes," Professor Garner said, "and 1 plan to lure to my cage there many gorillas. Tou cannot find a gorilla merely by plunging Into the Jungles after him. Tou must bring him to you by the lure of food, by calls he understands, by scents that are agreeable to him. "I am especially anxious to capture a young chimpanzee that can bo trained as satisfactorily as was Susie, which I presented to the 'Bronx Zoo several years ago. She died about a year ago In an epidemic which swept over tho monkey colony. Susie could do about anything that a 4-year-old child could do. She could assemble geometrical figures, both plane and solid; could count up to three perfect ly and up to four Imperfectly; could select six colors and understand and obey at least 150 commands and about 200 words. Boston Post. Globe Trotters. Outlook. A subscriber asks: "What globe trotter has made the quickest trip around the world?" John Henry Meara, of the New Tork Evening Sun. at pres ent holds the record. Traveling east from New Tork City In 1913. he crossed the Russian empire by the Siberian railway and reached New Tork again tn 35 days 21 hours and 35 minutes. In 1911 Andre Jaeger-Schmidt made tho trip tn 19 days; George Francis Train, in 1890. made It In 67 darys: Nellie Bly. 1889, In 72 days; Captain Seymour, 1876, in 117 days; the Magellan expedi tion, 1519-22, In three years.