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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 0, 1907.
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TITLED SOCIALIST
Noted English Woman Visits
New York.
OBJECT OF VISIT UNKNOWN
pountess of Warwick Tries to Hide Her
j Identity by Incognito Without Suc
i cess Court Beauty Thinks 48 Hours
i a Week Good Work.
'arixtoeratic friends. She is a singularly
talented woman, whose varied ability
constantly seek outlet and as constant
ly employs itself in some new enterprise.
Today it is horticultural training for
indigent gentlewomen. Tomorrow it is
technical education for the masses. Yes
terday it was the school for crippled
children ami the needlework guild. A
poor law guardian has Lady Warwick
been, the owner of a shop in Bond street,
the supporter of the beehive industry in
Warwickshire.
Her brilliancy for years has kept her
husband, the earl, in the shade, but it
has not prevented her from becoming
the mother of four of the handsomest
hiklren in England Lord Brooke, born
in 1882, a year after her marriage; Lady
Helmsley, born in 1884, upon whom the
mantle of her mother's beauty has fal
len; Maynard, born in 1898, the most
winsome child in England; and a little
girl who is now about 4 years old.
WILL SELL CURIOS
Lillian Russell's Treasures Are
Under Hammer.
INCOME DROOPS; RACES FAIL
APPEALS IN RATE CASE.
NEW, YORK. Oct. 5. Under the name
f Mrs. Greville the countess of War
jrick is a passenger on the Campania,
Bue here on Friday.
Her presence aboard the Campania
iiras revealed by chance, for so carefully
liad she arranged her plans that few
persons on either side of the Atlantic
(Btere aware of her departure from Great
Britain. '
iExcept for a maid the countess is
traveling alone. Nothing is known here
concerning the object of her visit to
America, although it is inferred her mis
sion has to do with a study 01 tne con- ticketg at t,e 2 1-4 cents a mile rate
iitions of the working classes on this prescribej by the new raiiroad rate law
of North Carolina was filed in the su-
preme court yesterday.
The appeal attacks the jurisdiction
of the fedearl court and alleges errore
by Judge Pritchard in his conclusions.
North Carolian Attacks Writ Releasing
Southern Railwaygent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. The appeal
of the States of North Carolina from
the decision of Judge Pritehard of the
federal court in that state, releasing on
a writ of habeas corpus, Jameta H.
Wood, a Southern Railway ticket agent
who was sentenced by the state court
ta 30 days in jail for failure to sell
tide of the continent.
The countess of Warwick is the most
jemarkable titled woman in England.
Famed since a girl for her great beau
ty, her brilliant wit and serious erudi
tion, she created- a sensation during the
last general election in England by pro
claiming herself a socialist and espous
ing the cause of the labor party. She
iwas dubbed the "democratic countess"
and startled the staid aristocracy of Eng
land by invading the slums and dismal
legions of London to address, from bar
rel or apple cart, her new "friends and
omrades." the laboring men.
When the campaign ended and the
party for which she had fought had won
at became known that, the countess had
wld manv of her famous Warwick
jewels to raise funds.
When the countess became a socialist
she did not cease to be the most blue
Hooded of English aristocrats. She daz
iled the slums with visions of Parisian
toilets such as they never had dreamed
of, and her migrations through the
squalid east end and the dock regions
were performed in a costly automobile
ef the most glaring jed. This little in
eonsistency in her faith, she used to ex
plain on the ground that since red is
the socialist color it was the proper col
or for ber- automobile.
It was not until after her 40th year,
she is now 45 and still beautiful, that
the countess of Warwick plunged into
socialism. All that the opposite phase
of society had to offer had been hers,
from the warm friendship of her king
to the homage of a small kingdom of
her own. comprised in the 23,000 fat
'acres trat make up the estate around
Warwick castle, her home, one of the
stateliest in England. Her conversion to
socialism was sudden and spectacular,
tat it was thorough.
Tie platform with which the "demo
cratic countess" startled her aristo-
eratie friends had for' its planks these
reforms:
Abolition of land monopoly.
Abolition of the house of lords.
' Control of labor and cooperative prin
ciples. Forty-eight hours the maximum of a
week's work.
Of course the countess had to answer
t6 scoffers who pointed to her as being
ne of the biggest landholders in Eng
land. How could she help that, she an
swered. The land was forced upon her.
It was a burden she had to bear until
the great panacea of socialism lifted it
from her shoulders. It was an argument
bfcat always made the dock laborers
hear, but in the clubs and boudoirs of
it -west end they grinned.
But the originality, industry and real
jhilanthrophy always did amuse her
MYSTERIES
Prof. Me.smer produces other mystery
aided bv JSadame Mesmer Mesmer the
Mystic will present a seemingly super
natural exhibition of the black art of
the ancients of India next week at the
Star Theatre. They give you a sort of
a creeping, thrilling seance of spooks
and hobgoblins, appa.entlv so natural,
as to cause wonder and amazement.
Many hundreds of yards of velvet are
used to picture the old sorcerer and his
One Fine Furniture Set Alone Cost
Twenty Thousand Porcelains, Tapes
tries and Numerous Bric-a-Brac Will
Have to go.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5. All the art
treasures, house furnishings, bric-a-brac
and curious that Lillian Russell collected
in the golden days of hep stage fame
are to be sold to the highest bidders by
a public auctioneer.
Within a week the palatial home at
161 West Fifty-seventh street will have
been completely dismantled and the
singer will have left even before upon a
"tour of the road" that her friends say
"simply must be made to pay." Even
the splendid house itself will be sold,
though Miss Russell paid $75,000 for it
and often said she would live there until
her death.
Miss Russell has been touring the
country for several seasons, but her in
come has not been the commanding su;u
it was in the early days. Lust year there
was misfortune, to boot, in the non-success
of her play iu New York.
It has beeu the immemorial custom
of the actress to spend her summers at
the racetracks, and this year she at
tended more races than ever before.
During the earlier meets seldom a day
passed that she was not seen at the
course. Her adviser there in turf spec
ulation was Jessie Lewissohn, himself a
heavy player. For some time Mr. Lew-
ishon has been so ill that the actress has
not been able to consult him with regard
to her affairs.
This season she is starting out on
tour early leaving on Saturday, in fact.
She has been in Cincinnati, where her
daughter Dorothy underwent an opera
tion for appendicitis, and she may be!
absent when Auctioneer James Silo puts
her much-prized art work beneath the
hammer's blows.
The specimens to be sold are said to
be worth between $60,000 and $80,000.
Mr. Silo and the sister of the actress
will be in entire charge of the sale, but
it is known that Miss Russell has given
instructions that everything must be
disposed of if the bidding is at all with
in reason.
Among the furniture that will Ik? sold
is, the famous replica of the Marie An
toinette room in the Petit Trianon at
Versailles. It cost Miss Russell ?20,000
when she was at the height of her for
tune and fame.
The porcelains consist of sever.il rare
specimens of old Minton, Coalport, Daul
ton and Sevres. Venetian glas-ware,
Dutch Delft ware, Gobelin tapestries
Aubusson carpets, a library of the
rama, beautitul embroideries and East
Indian rugs in great number are also to
be sold.
And along with these will be "ham
mered down" the furnishings of Miss
Russell's boudoir, done in Dutch mar
queterie. These magnificent trappings
were once made almost as famous by her
press agent as was her latest popular
song.
daughter at work in -their "dungeon of
darkness'' where most startling manifes
tations take place, aided by mechanical
and electrical effects, showing how the
poor Hindoos of olden times were pre
sumed ujHtn and hel l in abject submis
sion through the weird witchcraft of
the great magis. It is not a little simple
piece of "slight of hand" work produced
by most any magician but . a grand
illusion on a large, scale occupying the
entire stage. The management assures
us that the exhibition would not have
been secured for this place only that Mr.
.Mesmer was remodeling ana improving
upon the act here and kindly consented to
introduce it one week for the benefit of
the Star patrons. Mr. Mesmer is easily
considered an exceptionally clever young
man and anything attempted by him so
far has been thoroughly enjoyed, and
it is safe to say the presentation of the
New Black Art next week will draw ira
men'-sely. Several other splendid acts
on the bill are promised.
INSTALL ENGLISH LOOMS.
SIDNEY, N. Y., Oct. 5. The silk mill
of the Clark Textile Company, which
was recently purchased by Julius Kay
ser & Co., has been turned over and
possession given to the new company.
New looms from Nottingham, England,
have arrived during the past week and
others are on the way.
DIVIDEND RATES MAINTAINED.
BOSTON, Oct. 5. At the regular
quarterly dividend meeting of the di
rectors of the United States Smelting
Refining & Mining Co., held in this city
yesterday, Charles G. Rice was elected
a director of the company to fill the
place of C. A. Hoght, resigned. At a
subsequent meeting of the directorate,
William G. Sharp was elected president;
Mr. Rice, vice-president, and W. F.
Bachelder, secretary and treasurer.
The directors declared the regular
quarterly dividend of 87J cents a share
on both preferred and common stock,
these dividends to be paid Oct, 15 to
shareholders of record Oct. 1. These
declarations were made after a full con
sideration of the earnings of the com
pany, and despite the fact that copper
metal is gelling now at less than 15
cents and lead at 4 3-4 cents a pound.
KNITTING MILLS CHARTERED.
READING, Pa., Oct. v5. Recorder
Bausoher has received from Harrisburg
the charter of the Central Knitting
Mills Co., of this city, which is cap
italized at $15,000,- divided into 150 $100
shares. The incorporators and stock
holders are: Lewis P. Muthard, seven
share; Lewes E. and Philip H. Meyer
and Ben II. Zorr, each six shares.
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THE EMPLOYES LOSE CASTE
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Ignorant Immigrants Efforts to Bring
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Treatment.
PAWTUSKET, R. I., Oct, 5. A move
ment is . about to be inaugurated by
prominent Powtucket textile manufact
urers to make factory work more at
tractive to what they designate as "the
higher class of help." A prominent mill
man said today:
"There is not enough English-speaking
lvelp to operate the increased number
of looms and spindles set up through
reason of the prevailing prosperity ond
consequent demand for manufactured
goods. The young (people gnaduateU
from the schools are inclined to seek
wlork in department stores and offices,
leaving mill work to the Poles, Arme
nians and people of that class, who are
Hooding this section. This was not the
case 30 or 40 years ago, when the fac
tories of New England were operated
in the main by American help. The
people of that time saw nothing repul
sive in mill work, and many educated
persons operated machinery and felt no
loss of caste thereby. But nowadays
the young people aTe inclined to keep
dear of the factory, despite the fact
that factory wages are more attractive
than those paid in ofliees or stores,
"A definite move is no!l on foot in
this section, to make the interior of
the mill more attractive to the rising
generation. We are trying to make mill
surroundings so attractive that only
those boy and girl graduates too dainty
dainty in their tastes to do any kind
of work will prefer wages of $0 and $7
a week for work elsewhere while in our
factories they can tarn twice as much.
"The first ' improvement are being!
made in the sanitary arrangements of
jthle factories. Individual lockers fori
clothing and set bowls with hot and
cold water are being provided. Com-
fortable reading rooms for the opera
tives during the noon hour, the ser
vices of a matron and a relaxation of
some of the obsolete methods of disci
pline are tlso contemplated innovations.
It is the intention to make each opera
tive feel that his position is as digni
fied as that of the worker in any other
field, and to solicit and encourage the
adoption of this pursuit by the gradu
ates of our high schools and colleges."
STRIKE CLOSES COAL MINES.
VANCOUVER, B. C, Oct. 5.-The coal
mines at Nanaimo, operated by the
Western Fuel Company, were practically
closed today because of the strike of
three hundred mule drivers. A new ad
justment of wages was approved last
Saturday by the union, being a ten per
cent advance. But the drivers wefle
dissatisfied. Today the company called
on the union to swing the strikers into
lino according to the terms of the set
tlement. The likelihood is that the men
will return to work tomorrow.
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