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i BY ROBERT T. SMALI
Copyright. 1922. by The Oreconian.1
WASHINGTON", D. C, May 6. (Spe
cial.) The defeat of Senator New in
Indiana has kindled anew the fires
of opposition to the direct primary
system among those stalwarts of the
republican party who believe that
party government is best conserved
by party discipline. The primary, it
Is admitted, does not make for party
discipline. If Albert J. Beveridge
wins at th polls next November he
will come to Washington beholden
to no national party leader. To all
intents and purposes he will be a
"free lance," and there is no doubt
that he will align himself with a
group of senators who turn deaf ears
to purely party appeals.
In old-line party ranks there is
growing revolt against the primary
system. New York state virtually
has abandoned this method of select
ing party candidates for office. Re
publicans of the old school regard
the direct primary as a heritage from
the progressive party movement and
resent it accordingly.
President Harding is among those
who decry the primary system. His
feelings on the subject have not been
brought about by the defeat of Sena
tor New. The president expressed
himself long ago in no uncertain
terms as to what he regards as the
undesirability of the. primary system.
Striking Example Cited.
Mr. Harding regards himself as
striking example of the fact that the
primary system broke down com
Dletelv In a national sense when it
came to selecting presidential candi
dates in 1920.
If the republicans at Chicago had
been compelled to give the nomina
tion to an aspirant having a majority
of instructed delegates chosen at pri
marles, Mr. Harding would not have
had a chance.
Mr. Harding did not have the means
necessary to make a nation-wide
campaign, and no man in a primary
system can afford to hide hiB light
under a bushel. It is contended by
the anti-primary republicans that the
immense amounts shown to have been
expended in behalf of certain aspir
ants for the nomination in 1920 were
proof in themselves of the undesira
billty of the system as at present un
derstood.
Inasmuch as the primary system
grow up state by state, the fight
against -the primary will have to be
waged in each commonwealth.
rrty Control Affected.
It is President Harding's conten
tion that the convention system of
nomination imposes greater party ob
ligations on the candidate than the
primary system evr can hope to do.
The president believes that the pri
mary system breaks down party con
trol and therefore seriously affects
government by party. The United
States is distinctly a government by
party, he asserts, and therefore gov
ernment is effective only insofar as
party management and party discip
line arc effective. The president
dwelt upon the essentiality of party
government in Ills first formal mes
sage to the present congress.
"CirantinK that we are fundamen-
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C'larence J. Bell Said to Have Been
Accompanied to Place on
Friday by Woman.
SEATTLE, Wash., May 6. The body I
of Clarence J. Bell, prominent Seattle
teal estate dealer, was found late to-j
day in a second-story room of an un
occupied house here.
Hell, who is 62 years old, had been
missing from his home since Friday.
Thcie were no marks on the body.
-hich was found lying on the floor,
face up.
A woman was said to have been
seen entering the Itouse with Bell
Friday afternoon.
Bell left his downtown office Fri
day afternoon, saying he was going
to purchase some accessories for his
automobile. Nothing was heard of
him from that time until his body
was found late today. Patrolman
A. J. Hill found Bell's car this after
noon near the unoccupied house
where his body was later found after
search had been instituted.
Mrs. C. E. Carter, who lives directly
across the street from the house in
which Bell's body was found, told
the police she saw a man answering
his description enter the house late
today with a woman. Employes at
Bell's office said he had given no in
timation he intended to visit the
house.
Coroner W. H. Corson announced a
post-mortem examination would be
held to determine the cause of death.
BAN ON DANCES WANTED
Yakima Church Threatens Split if
Old Law Is Revived.
YAKIMA Wash., May 6. Rev. L. J.
Sawyer, pastor of the First Baptist
church hers today, called a special
meeting1 of his church for Tuesday
night with the announcement that he
would ask the re-enactment of a for
gotten church law, under which mem
bers Indulging1 m dancing, card play
ing or theatergoing would subject
themselves to church discipline.
The congregation appears sharply
divided and a number have stated
they will leave the church If the
stringent ordinance is adopted. The
board of deacons has recomraer.ded
the re-enactment.
DAYLIGHT TO BE SAVED
Government Forces to Begin Work
Hour Earlier in Washington.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 6. Gov
ernment departments and the busi
ness community of Washington will
inaugurate what is in effect daylight
saving, Monday, May 15, by going to
work an hour earlier, but without
moving forward the hands of the
clock.
Secretary Hoover made the an
nouncement today, after a conference
participated in by himself, repre
sentatives of the commercial organi
zations of Washington and President
Harding.
HOLDUPS SING AT WORK
Hymn Given by Masked Men While
They Rob Nine Persons.
OMAHA, Neb.. May S. Tw0 masked
robbers who told their victims they
once were in a church choir, sang the
hymn- which Includes the words, "We
will come rejoicing, bringing !i the
sheaves." as they held up and robbed
nine persons, including a number of
women, in a drug store here last
right.
They escaped with loot amounting
tc more than $300.
PRO-RED FRAUD CHARGED
Notes
Declared Raised to
Aid
Bolshevik Propaganda.
tETROIT. May 6. Seven men.
de
clared by federal officers to have
obtained hundreds of thousands of
dollars for bolshevik propaganda,
through a conspiracy o raise $5 fed
eral reserve notes to higher denomi
nations, were arrested here today.
The arrests were the result of an
investigation by the secret service
that began nearly a year ago.
Incessant Cry of Beggars
Hideously Repellant.
NATIVES INURED TO MISERY
Inhabitants of Comfort Laugh
at Unfortunates.
DEAD LITTER ROADWAYS
Tourists, Surrounded by Starving
Throng, Horrified by Plight.
Price of Uivea Is Cheap.
BY BEN HUP. LAMPMAN.
SHANGHAI, cnina, April 11. (By
Mail.) Near the well pot tea house
and the city temple, in the walled na
tive district of this paunchy and pros
perous port, there is a place of sing
ing birds. From their wicker cages
the hundreds of them chirp and sing
and twitter, until the half shadow of
the street is bright with melody. I
charge you not to go there, when you
have come to Shanghai, for all aDout
and arour.d their caged medley are
loathly things that would be human
in any other land save this. To have
seen is to remember and to wish to
forget. Nevertheless you will enter
thi north crate and China as it was
before the day of Alexander, and as
it is today.
Not far from here, in "West Hunan,
where "amine rules, the Augustinian
fathers write that the starved dead
litter the roadways. Mothers are sell
ing their children into slavery, and
the price of a child is less than the
cost of a good cigar. Beside the
plight of these the lot of the beggars
of Shanghai Is thrice blessed. In con
trast they are both happy and pros
perous, these terrible fortunates who
whine through the native city near
the place of singing birds. The charm
of China, the glint of her dragons
and the sheen of her softest silks, is
smirched by a poverty most hideously
repellent. Here life is always at grips
with the elemental hunger. The cry
of the mendicant never varies. It is
'"Master! Master! Have pity!"
Starvation Always Prevalent.
I know that those who have passed
in ease through this city by the yel
low river,-that those who live in ease
and comfort here, and dance at tea,
an-I flirt and laugh and order wine,
might smile to think that even slight
concern should be expressed for those
whose lives are cheaper than a tallow
dip, and to whom the garbage of a tea
house in a feast. For there have been
beggar& and famine in the land since
its first history was traced, and fam
ine and beggars there will be many
a long vear from now. One cannot
say why or when or how they became
pariah, and no one cares to know.
They are of the nature of preor
dained and objectionable things.
Close to the place of singing birds,
where the cobbles of the dark alley
glisten and sweat, where merchant
jostles coolie, where slim silk-trousered
girls go by demurely, where the
pewtersmiths file and hammer and
the money changer counts his tat
tered bills, there is a ragged quilted
heap in the street. Barefoot and
silken touch it carelessly, this cu
rious texture that has been tossed to
the stones. It lies in the filth as un
regarded as the common muck it
rests upon. Yet from it lifts as you
pass the naked shoulders of a woman,
with a baby at breast, crouched on
the cobbles. Her hair is matted
about the grimy face, her eyes are
dulled with an apathy that is bestial,
an apathy that lifts for the moment
as she cries, "Master!" Of such stuff
are nightmares made.
What fate was it that overtook
this lump that sprawls beyond her?
Legs it has none, nor arms. It
Monday Musical Club Chorus of 35
Women's Voices Will Present
Concert Tomorrow.
Dr. Harold Leonard Bowman, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church, will
deliver a short sermon over the radio
phone in The Oregonian tower to
night, and four members of the choir,
together with the assistant organist,
will render a musical programme of
sacred numbers as the regular Sunday
night radio church service of The
Oregonian.
Dr. Bowman, besides reading his
sermon, will also conduct a scripture
reading and prayers. The four mem
bers of the choir will each, sing one
solo and one quartet number. Otto
Wedemeyer, director of the choir and
baritone soloist, will sing "The Blind
Plowman," by Clark; Blanche "Will
iams Seegersten, soprano, has chosen
"Day Is Dying in the West," by
Speaks; Halfred Young, tenor, will
sing "I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes."
"Guide Us With Thy Heavenly Light,"
Tosti, is the selection to be sung by
Mary Wylie, contralto, and the quar
tet number will be "My Faith Looks
Up to Thee," Schnecker. The service
will open with" an organ solo to be
played by Alice Johnson, assistant
organist at the First Presbyterian
church, who will also accompany o.n
the organ for the singing.
Last night when it was announced
that the radio station of Willard P.
Hawley Jr., was closed temporarily,
owing to the serious illness of a rel
ative. The Oregonian tower set was
pressed into service for sending out
the concert Mr. Hawley had scheduled.
Messages from 3ayor Baker and
(Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.)
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Th Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Highest temperature
degrees; lowest, 44; cloudy.
TODAY'S Showers, southerly winds.
Departments.
Editorial. Section 3. page H.
Dramatic. Section 4, page 6.
92
Moving picture news. Section 4
Real estate and building news
page 10.
Churches. Section 5, page'-2.
Books. Section 5, page 3.
Schools. .Section 5, page 9.
Automobiles. Section C.
Music. Section 4, page 5.
pagre 1.
Section 4,
Garden department. Section 5
page 11.
Radio. Section 5, page 8.
Chess and checkers. Section 4, page 11.
Woman's Features.
Societj-- Section 8, page 3.
Women's activities. Section 4. page 8.
Fashions. Section 5, pages I and 4.
Miss Tingle's column. Section 5. page 1.
Auction bridge. Section S, page 3. i
, Special Features.
"Would make man of monkey. Magazine
section, page 1.
Rebuilding the new from the old. Maga
zine section, page 2.
"The Devil's Hunting Horn." fiction fea
ture. Magazine section, page 3.
News of world as seen by camera. Maga
zine section, page 4.
Hill's cartoons, "Among Us Mortals. Maga
zine section, page 0.
Singers In race to marry Mrs. Caruso.
Magazine section, page 6.
What is to become of Jacqueline and her
millions? Magazine section, page 7.
Follies beauty has briefest honeymoon.
Magazine section, page 8.
Gossip of world centers. Section 3, page 10.
Lady jurors said to have come to stay.
Section 4, page 0.
Nebraska to have new capitol. Section 4,
page 11.
Woman takes active part in embassy. Sec
tion 5, page 6.
Margot Asquith says drink on increase
here. Section 5, page 7.
Darling's cartoons on topics of the day.
Section 5, page 10.
Most beautiful woman victim of handicaps.
Section 5, page 12.
Foreign.
Soviet again makes request for loan. Sec
tion 1, page 3.
English flapper handles herself like mas
culine athlete. Section 1, page 8.
France hesitates and losea opportunity at
Genoa, says Andre Tardlen. Section 1,
page 4.
Strained situation at Genoa not yet re
lieved. Section 1, page S-
Poverty stains charm of China. Section 1,
Page 1.
Genoa conference is termed farce. Section
1, page 5.
Upheaval is begun in Pekin government.
Section 1, page -'.
National.
Polticai interest now turns to coming con
test in Pennsylvania. Section 1, page 4.
Lady Astor meets Alice Robertson. Section
1, page 2.
Envoy from Russia denies graft charge.
Section J, page 1.
New's defeat in Indiana renews opposition
to primary system. Section 1, page 1.
Domestic.
Death decides dispute over hospital waif,
section 1, page 5.
Petitions Are to Be Circulated
Soon; How to Raise Rest
Is Not Yet Decided.
SALEM. Or.. May (I. (Special.) A
proposed constitutional amendment
authorizing the city of Portland to
raise by general taxation the amount
of $3,000,000 and to expend the same
in holding the so-called 1925 expo
sition, was submitted to the secre
tary of state here today. The tax,
if approved, will be distributed over
a period of three years.
The proposed amendment was
sponsored by the Atlantlc-Paelflo
Highway and Electrical Exposition
committee, of which Julius Meier of
Portland is chairman. Other mem
bers of the committee whose names
appear on the amendment are Frank
G Deckebach of Salem, A. H. Lea of
Portland, Franklin T. Griffith of Port
land, William Hanley of Burns, W. W.
Harrah of Pendleton, Emery Olm-
stead of Portland, Guy W. Talbot of
Portland, George L. Baker of Port
land and J. F. Daly of Portland.
The amendment was brought to
Salem by John E. Gratke, assistant to
Mr. Meier.
Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state,
announced tonight that the amend
ment would be referred to the attorney-general
Monday for a ballot title.
The work of obtaining the necessary
signatures to the petitions then will
be undertaken. If successful in the
campaign for signers the amendment
will go on the ballot at the November
election.
Although no definite plan has yet
been outlined by the committee for
(Conclud'ed on Page 2. Column 2.)
Domestic.
Three negroes are burnedi at stake In
Texas. Section 1, page 16.
Music week puts life into Gotham. Section
U page 8.
Pacific Xorttttwest.
Falling prices help state road work. Sec
tion 1, page 7.
Traffic officials of two states confer on
handling tourists this year. Section 1,
page 12.
George H. Stevenson of Seattle withdraws
support of Senator Polndexter. Section
1, page 7.
$3,000,000 fair tax asked for Portland. Sec
tion 1, page 1.
Jury completed in Mount case. Section 1,
page 6,
Prominent Seattle realtor found dead. Sec
tion 1, page 1.
Blossom tourists to visit Salem today. Sec
tion 1, page 6.
Hotelmen score new telephone rates. Sec
tion 1, page 16.
Weather report, data and forecast. Section
1, page 20.
Six men injured in strike battle. Section
1, page 1.
Sports.
Dog bites shark and gets ducking. Section
2, page 5.
Pitching strategy must be revised. Section
2. page 4.
Coast boxers fail In eastern bouts. Section
2. page 4.
Prizes are given for JO anglers. Section 2,
page 3.
Eastmoreland elimination round scheduled
for today. Section 2, page 2.
Princeton beats Yale in track meet. S c
tion 2, page 2.
Pacific Coast league results Portland ? 3,
Seattle 4-8; Oakland 3. Los Angeles 1;
Sacramento 4, Salt Lake 9; San Fri n
cisco 5, Vernon 0. Section 3, page 1.
Work to be done on Seaside links. Section
2, page 2.
Carpentier fights Lewis on Thursday. Sec
tion 2. page 3.
Major league results. Section 2. page 1.
Commercial and Marine.
Norwegian bark Harald chartered for bar
ley. Section 1, page 19.
Stock trading centers on steels. Section
1, page 20.
Government suspension of sinking fund
causes unseasiness in London. Section
1, page 21.
Beacon placed on top of Pillar rock. Sec
tion 1, page 19.
Portland and Vicinity.
Appeal unlikely In Daly will case. Section
3, page 3 6.
Evidence thought Insufficient to warrant
action against alleged blackmailers.
Section 1, page 18.
Colonel Leader and party home from thrill
ing trip. Section 1, page 3 8.
Legion committee authorizes Investigation
of policy of aid commission. Section 1,
page 14.
Homage to he paid to mothers of America
next Sunday. Section 3, page 13.
Eiks' programms to interest young. Section
3, page 3 7.
Pioneers make their annvial pilgrimage
to Champoeg. Section 3, page 12.
Rating of teachers to be recommended.
Section 3, page 9.
J All gubernatorial candidates fear Mr.
Olcott. Section 3, page 33.
Dr. Bowman to deliver radio sermon to
night. Section 1, page 1,
$7,000.00 needed for schools. Section 1,
page 9. I
Dock Workers Attacked in
Downtown District.
RIOT CALL IS SENT POLICE
Gassed War Veteran, Inno
cent of Trouble, Beaten.
YOUNG MAN IS STABBED
Victim. Walking From Work, Is
Slugged by Longshoremen and'
Hit on Head With Iron Pipe.
H. J. Blomberg, 26, 324 Salmon
street, was the victim of an unidenti
fied gang of half a dozen men at Sixth
and Alder streets about 8 :30 last night.
Alighting from a curtained automo
bile, the gang attacked Blomberg, his
brother Edward and R. L. JDayton, 21,
500 East Seventh street North. All
three are employed at the docks as
longshoreman strikebreakers. Three
other men were injured during the
afternoon.
A riot call was sent to police head
quarters that brought a squad of mo
torcycle patrolmen. Upon their ar
rival the supposed strikers had disap
peared into the curious crowd that had
gathered. The elder Blomberg was
treated at the city emergency hospital
for a contusion of the head, where he
apparently had been struck with a
blackjack. The other two were
slightly hurt.
Three Are Arrested.
A riot call to Broadway and Larra
bee street resulted in the arrest of
M. F. Camp, strikebreaker, and two
strikers. Camp told the police that
he went from the dock to that inter
section by taxi to catch a Vancouver
street car and that the strikers fol
lowed him in an automobile. When
they approached him he drew a pocket
knife, he said, and warned them that
if they started anything he "would cut
them into dog meat." The strikers
then called the police. All three were.
turned loose, with instructions to see
the district attorney for warrants If
they desired further action. Before
leaving headquarters Camp told the
strikers that if they troubled him fur
ther they wanted to be sure to make
a good job of it.
Three Attacks Occur.
Within the space bf an hour yes
teday afternoon three men in three
different places were attacked by
striker? and more or Jess seriously in
jured. All attacks were in spots where
no police were near and aid did not
arrive in time for arrests to be made.
The most seriously hurt of the vic
tims was P. J. Kern, 29 years old and
not a strikebreaker.
Mr. Kern was unable to leave the
hospital until last night and said he
had gotten off a train from Seattle at
noon and walked to Fifth and Hoyt
streets, where he was set on by seven
men. They first demanded where he
was working and he said that on tell
ing them he was looking for work,
they pinioned his arms and pulled his
feet from under him, throwing him to
the sidewalk, where he was kicked
and beaten, a rib on his right side
being broken and his right cheek cut.
"I am a timber and mine worker,
and had no thought of looking for a
waterfront job," he said.
Sickness, due to having been gassed
in France, where he says he was a
member of company D, 345th regi
ment of the 9 2d division, has pre
vented him from doing heavy work
and forced him to leave the last two
places where he was employed.
Young; Men Attacked.
George Wagner, 23 years old, re
ceived a hard blow on the head with
a water pitcher and was stabbea in
the left cheek just as he was entering
the St. George hotel. He was attacked
(Concluded on Page 3. Column 1.)
Idaho Senator Declares That Case
Against Bakhmeteff Will Be
Prosecuted.
WASHINGTON. D. C. May . Sug
gestions of a mysterious diversion of
American funds loaned to Russia were
denied flatly today by Boris Bakhme
teff, the Russian ambassador here, and
then promptly renewed on the floor of
the senate.
In a formal statement filed with
the state department, Mr. Bakhmeteff
declared the $187,000,000 advanced by
the United States to the erstwhile
Kerensky government in Russia all
had been properly expended and ac
counted for to the last penny In of
ficial reports mads by the embassy to
the treasury department.
No sooner had the ambassador's
statement been read In the senate,
where it was sent without comment
by Secretary Hughes, than Senator
Borah, republican, Idaho, announced
that he had examined and re-examined
the embassy's reports and still was
unable to decide what had become of
$87,000,000 of the fund. Later, outside
the senate chamber, he intimated that
he planned some further important ac
tion to support the case he originally
presented on the senate floor yes
terday. "The proceeding may be a little un
usual," said Mr. Borah tonight after
he had re-read the statement of the
ambassador, "but the investigation
will be continued."
LARGE HEART BALM ASKED
Millionaire Sergeant's First Wife
Wants $560,000 as Damages.
MARION. O., May 6. Stasia Welsh
Wells of Youngstown, first wife of
Thomas Wells, the "millionaire ser
geant," said to be the only man In
tlie United States who has two legal
wives, filed a suit here today asking
$500,000 damages against Mr. and Mrs
Richard Garlick- of Youngstown
charging alienation of affections. Mrs,
Garlick is a sister of Wells. Mr. Gar-
lick Was treasurer of the Young3tcwn
Sheet & Tube company, until three
months ago when he resigned on ac
count of ill health.
Wells obtained a divorce last year
from his first wife. The appellate
court reversed the decision, but mean
while Wells had married a woman
who nursed him in a New York ranl
tarium. The case is now awaiting de
cision by the Ohio supreme court
OLD-TIMER ENTERS RACE
Ohioan, 87, Years Ago Conspicuous
In Congress, Would Return.
TOLEDO, O., May 6. Isaac R. Sher
wood, fr years a member of congress
from 'che Toledo district, and one of
the most conspicuous figures in Wash
ington life, today took out a nomi
nating petition to enter the demo
cratic primaries ts a candidate to
return to Washington in his former
capacity as a representative in con
gress. Mr. Sherwood will be 87 years old
in August.
SHOWERS ARE PREDICTED
Normal Temperatures Slated for
Week in Oregon and Washington.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May sV
Weather outlook for the week be
ginning Monday: Northern Rocky
Mountain and plateau regions Con
siderable clo'udfnes?, occasional show
ers. Temperature near normal.
Pacific states Generally fair In
California and occasional showers Jn
Washington and Oregon; normal tem
perature. STRIKE CHECKS WEDDINGS
Coal Miners Postpone Marriages
Till Work Js ICesumed.
HAZLKTON, Pa.. May 6. Many
weddings in the anthracite region
have been postponed until work is re
sumed at the mines.
Officials estimated today that li
censes issued this year Jn Iuzerne and
adjacent counties were 1500 below the
average of former years.
New Manager Discharges
Hippodrome Orchestra.
EVA TAN6UAY IS CENSURED
Performer Declared to Have
Called Players Drunk.
"JOKE," ANSWER PLAYERS
Woman. Disgruntled Hue lo I. nek
of Ovation. Complained at
Headquarters, Say t;o!-lWr.
Ed Morris, new manager of Loew'a
Hippodrome, gave the customary two
weeks' notice yesterday to the leader
of the orchestra in that playhouse,
which means that a new leader and
orchestra will be on the job at the
end of the fortnight.
Reasons for the dismissal are not
entirely clear. Manager Morris said
yesterday he took the action off his
own bat for the reason that the
orchestra was not up to the require
ments of the house. His order, he
said, had no other signflcance.
This is not at all in harmony with
the gossip along theater row yester
day. The dressing rooms and back
stage at all the local theaters bussed
with the hiring of a new manager
and the firing of the old orchestra at
the "Hip."
Trouble Laid to En.
According to these wise ones. It
was the cyclonic Eva Tanguay who
"got" the orchestra. She had troublo
with It when she was here recently,
but that was nothing new for the
heavyweight cutup, for she always
has had trouble with orchestras.
Other performers say no orchestra
can follow her because they declaro
she cannot sing, knows nothing of
music, nor can she act, and for her to
criticise an orchestra Is a much bet
ter joke than she ever "pulled" on the
stage.
These gossipers state, however, that
Eva stamped and raged at the orches
tra during her engagement here and
declared the musicians were drunk.
Affidavits can be obtained, however,
to the effect that at least six of the
eight orchestra members do not know
what whisky tastes like.
Orders Declared Itrrri rd.
Also, according to rumor and gos
sip of the vaudeville profession, per
formers being Inordinate tale bear
ers. Instructions came to Manager
Morris from San Francisco to "fire"
the orchestra. Miss Tanguay jour
neyed on to San Francisco, the coast
headquarters of L.oew'8. Inc., upon
the completion of her engagement
here. That she complained bit terly
there of the musicians of the Port
land "Hip" Is believed firmly by many
in the business now talking about the
latest move in Portland.
Moreover, they connect up the res
ignation of W. W. "Bill" Ely. long
manager of the playhouse, with tho
Tanguay incident. She Is said to have
fumed to Mr. Ely about the orchestra
and blamed the musicians for the lack
of that volume of applause so sweet
in the ears of a vaudeville performer,
for her appearances here lacked con
siderably the nature of an ovation.
Manager Ely, say the gossipers,
like the good scout he always pfuved
with them, stood by his orcheetfs,
sensing that the temperamental Kvh,
and not the musicians, was at fault.
Plaehargr Is ReFusrf.
In the stag wings, between arts. It
is blng said that aftr Miss Tanguay
reached San Francisco, orders came to
Manager Ely to "can" the orohi'ftra.
This he declined to do and. being un
able to reconcile his conscience with
h Is plain duty to his employ rs. pr
(Concluded on Page 17. Column 5.