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10 BED IS CENTRE OF THREE. ACT FARCE Complications Kcop Audience in an Uproar at Eltingo Theatre. ABUNDANCE OF COMEDY uTho Girl in tho Limousino\ Is Pilled With Diverting Dia- logue and Scones. \The Girt In the Limousine\ At the Eltlnre Theatre. Tletty Vvllle Dart Kenyon Sr. Jlmmls Galen. .. .Charles Ruggles Tony Hamilton ...John Cumberland Jilrgi Barnitt Parker Freddie Neville... .... Frank Thomas Barntce Warren Vivian Ruahmore Lucia Oalen Claiborne Foster Aunt Cicely Ztlda Sean It was n, lucky thing that the bed which formed the centre of Attraction for \The Qlrl In the Limousine'' at the Eltlnge Theatre last night was of such suDstantiai arcniteciure, lor it naa 10 stand being put upon a great deal. There\ was. more darting: In and. out of ! that piece of furniture by both men and women during the evening- - than a circus f.tiet encounters In its busiest momenta. i Certainly, as a part of the dramatic structure of the play, that bed was more like a life saving- - net. a This bedroom farco In three acts and two pillows by Wilson Colllson and 1 Avery Hopwood needed something strong- Ilka the four poster to support some S very thin Ice during Its course. In addl- - tlon to the solid mahogany character portrayed by John Cumberland. A. H. J Woods, who aforetime produced \The t Qlrl in the Taxi,\ In presenting the more modern vehicle last night, had I added an up to date Ostermoor accessory '. that was a self-start- so far aa trouble Swas concerned. \girl In the limousine\ actually , only at tho beginning of the piece, as a young women who halls Tony Hamilton In his automobile and igets a lift from him because It Is rain-lin- g though Tony Is a trifle suspicious, because the woman Is veiled and seems 'to have a whiskey tenor. His suspl-- clons ore Justified, for her robber con-- ; federates suddenly pounce upon him. Just r when his machine Is wrecked, and Tony I loses consciousness and pocketbook to- gether. lied Conn Into Play. The banditti strip htm of his valu- ables and all his outer clothlntr. and then leave him under tho piece, de re sistance m a young woman's bedroom. aThus It Is. when the lights go up on Jthe first act of the farce, that John f Cumberland, playing the role of Tony, - Is enabled to make a typical Cumber- land entrance from under the bed. He Is shocked more than he could possl-'bl- y be by the lightning outside to dis- cover that tho boudoir Is Inhabited by a girl, at present sick abed, with whom he had once expected to dwell In a more marital condition. Perforce he must S steal her dressing gown to keep his \former sweetheart from getting tho worst shock of all. Complications set In when It develops 'that Tony\ current fiancee, with whom he has Just had a tlI about this same I girl. Is a guest at her houso party, while 5 jr nuouunu, away temporarily on busi- ness, has a hair trigger Jealousy. By bimwn 4vn nuuiu riSK J catching his death of cold, but by he risks catching his death of Scold lead. Why ho doesn't borrow or steal some clothes from one of the men servants anil escape, la a mystery of bedroom farce ethics, particularly since It seems to be the proper classic mode .for guests at this house' party to wander \Into their hostess's bed chamber unan- nounced. i At all events, Tony sticks by the bed, fcand one of tho personage's who, wnndera I in happens to be Aunt Cicely, a relative ,,of the girl, Betty Nevilla, who has never toeeen her niece's husband, and Immed- iately Jumps to the conclusion that the j man she finds In Betty's room Is the one who ought to bo there by due process of Jaw. Finding that both Tony and Betty 'have colds, alio decides that there Is only one place for them to ward off the ut- - tack, r Plenty of Qnlok Action. Despite the sudden eruption of the irate husband, it la all straightened out In the end, as farces have a habit of doing, though not until there has been vast amount of crawling over and nder the bed. dropping Into a clothes chest, popping Into closets and leaping about like distracted gazelles. All this scurrying, however.has been very adroitly managed by Colllson and Hopwood, so rar as technical arrangement goes, and the play carries tho four poster along so fast with It that only a few minutes pf time elapse between the first two nets, laid on the counterpane In Betty's bedchamber, and the last act, when tho action goes out on the verandah for a little fresh air. The playwrights have sprinkled much diverting dialogue over their dramatlo crazy quilt, and the, audience last night (.laughed so much that It was in almost as continuous an uproar ad the persons fron the stage. The situations are the \'broadeBt seen hero in some time as broad as tho bed. This was extremely commodious, though It should be said In Justice to the authors that they didn't \try to crowd more than two characters on It at one time. ji As a matter of fact the !I funniest sotnes were the rricst Innocuous that In which Zelda Bears, as the amusing \JjutU Cicely, slaps onion poult Iocs on tho chests of the supposed hifsband and svlfe and the moments when a young and Intoxicated doctor pursues Tony from pillar to post, Imagining him a ,'chost In a gray bathrobe and seeking to 'Abolish him with an ax. Mr. Cumber- - and with a capital performance lifted the offenslveness from the principal male role by his characteristic method that tit a scared rabbit. Doris Kenyon, newly recruited from the movies, displayed an unspoiled voice, tut a spoiled habit of \registering\ .everything. Charles Ruggles as tho doc- tor and Harnett Farker as a comic butler elso stood out, but the main credit for \the appeal of the play should go to the bed. The Grand Rapids school of the drama covered Itself with glory last night not to mention the lingerie. j WAR MOTHERS CONFER, Sleet Heads of Other OrirnnlxaUoiia Dealrlnir AllMlntlon. 3ALTiMOiti!. Oct. 0. The executive committee of the War Mothers of Amer- ica, met here y with the presidents of othsr patrlotto bodies desiring affilla-- 4 Jlon with the War Mothers organization. morrow afternoon. These organizations \ consist of women who had blood rela- tives in th great war. If the union 1. accomplished the name rrlll b changed. It u understood, but wnai v not yet been do- - tennuuu. POPULAR PLAYS ARE SEEN ON NEW BOARDS \Oh What a Girl\ Is Now at Central Theatre. There Is still an opportunity to see Frank Fay as a comedian before he puts into execution his threat to become a dramatio actor. In \Oh What a Girl,\ which waa transferred to the Central Theatre last night. Mr. Fay was Just as funny as ever In his original and al together amusing way. His 'style la' unique and affords an excellent contrast to the dry solemnity of Harry Kelly. Lew Cooper, who Is an alert black face comedian, Jumped about In the Al Jol-so- n manner and made himself one of the most popular figures in \Oh What a Girl,\ which Is really a laughable com edy with music which deserves Its long- - stay here. AUco Brady, who has been received everywhere with such favor In Owen Davis's \Forever After,\ brought that play back to New York lost night In spite of Its sojourn of a , year at the Playhouse there was a large uudlenco at the Shubert-Rlvle- ra to welcomo back tho popular actress who is as well liked on tho dramatic stage as on thafpre-vailin- g screen. Miss Brady will con- tinue In the play all tho year. The audlenco last night at the Stand- ard Theatre had the 'rare opportunity of witnessing \King Lear,\ which Is sel. dom offered to the public nowadays, Robert Mante.il Is Indeed the only actor who keeps'the play In his repertoire,- In tho tragedy he is seen at his best. He will .be ' seen during the week at the Standard in such plays at \Richelieu \Hamlet \Macbeth\ and Richard II.\ APPLAUD ffl JAZZ TIME AT PALACE .- - Songs of That Variety Share Honors With Eeo Palmer's Shoulders. Songs, especially of the Jazz variety, flooded the bills In the Palace yester- day until the audience almost .Reached the point of clapping their hands In rhythm. Irene Bordonl and Gltz-Rlc- e, the Canadian composer, sprinkled In- numerable notes over the auditorium In the order arranged by Gltz-Rlc- e, and received the Keith citation for distin- guished service. ., Bee Palmer's shoulders werj retained for a second week, and her six kings of Jxzzapatlon otherwise known as the boy musicians who cut their, .teeth on Jazz Instruments climbed all over the piano to keep her company. Williams and Wolfus bobbed around in their musical clowning act \Hark I HaiXi Hark I,\ and Jimmy Fallon Tand Ruas Brown, doughboy entertainers of the Twenty-sevent- h Division, heaped up the measure so high with songs that finally tho Palace historian, devotco of Jazz harmony though he Is, staggered out with all his feelings reacting and tried to find a woman with whom he could discuss the prose style of Walter' Pater. Two sketches were contributed, one by Vllerle Bergere and company, who presented \The Moth,\ a comedy by Emmet Devoy, and the other by Tony Hunting and Corlnno Francis, who ap- peared In their comedy, \The Flower Shop,\ with which they kept the Army of Occupation occupied. Klass and Ter- mini, W. Horllok and Sarampa Sisters and the Maxlne Brothers, with Bobby, the comedy dog, were others who served as a foil to the topics of the day. In the Riverside Theatre Irving Ber- lin brought his voice back to vaudeville after several seasons In old and new songs, with Harry Akst keeping time at the piano. Messrs. Berlin and Akst were so much In demand they nearly put the piano out of order. Charles King, Bailey and Cowan and Joe Laurie wera the other bright spots Illuminated by the limelight In the Columbia the Jacobs and Her-mo- n extravaganza, \The Golden Crook.\' with a cast topped off by Ed Johnson and Juliette Belmont revived memories of tho golden age of burlesque. LAUNDRY WORKERS QUIT TO BACK UNION Employers Beady to Agree on Preferential Shop and Arbitration. Laundry1 employees struck yester- day. Hand laundry employers have struck. or closed up shop. The Inter- national. Laundry Workers' Union and the State Organization of Laundry Em- -' ployers cannot agree ami the destiny of the soiled shirt looms alarmingly. The whole auestlon boiled Itself down to the closed shop and recognition of the union. C. H. Von Doren, president of the State Organization of Laundry' Em- ployers, said yesterday In the Hotel Pennsylvania he would agree, to a pref- erential shop and an. arbitrating com- mittee, to settlo disputes. The employees, as spoken for yester- day by Vernon B. Smith, labor organ- izer for tho Laundry Workers Union. woul4 be willing to arbitrate All their' demands except the closed shop and recognition of tho union. A 'forty-fou- r hour week la .demanded. wlth-tlm- e and a half for overtime, and the abolition of holiday work. For employees In steam laundries an Increase In wages of 40 rjer cent, for male workers and 29 par cent. lor iemaie worKers is uemanaed. .shirt Jroners want $40 for SOO shirts and a clause limiting work to 400 shirts a week. How many employees wnt out yes- terday was hard to ascertain. Figures from strike officials vary from 7,000 to 9,000. Also strike olllclala said the laundry business was tied up as far as the hand laundry was concerned and that what hard work was being done was by Chinese or steam laundries. The steam laundrymen said yesterday they were breaking off buttons Just about the same as usual, and that the strlko had not affected them enormously. Mr, Smith said yesterday that arbitra- tion negotiations were being conducted between the International Laundry Workors and the laundry employers and that all indications pointed to a general settlement of tho strike A meet- ing of ths two factions was expected last night but at a late hour no infor mation was obtainable as to what was being done. Moose Order to Invnile Europe. Bai.tiUOIU!. Oct. 8. The Loyal Order of Moose to-d- decided to extend Ita organization to Europe, with France and Knrcland as the Immediate objectives. The board of governors and associated otneers. of the orderr meeting here, voted an appropriation of (25.000 for the ea lauusomwu oi a lodge in Paris. ETHEL BARRYMORE WINS NEW TRIUMPH Popular American Player at Her Best in Zoo Akins's Drama \Declassee.\ TIIEME FOUND IN SOCIETY Star Plays Bolo of English Aristocrat \Who Descends to Bo Social Dorolict. \Deelnseee\ At the Empire Theatre. Rudolph Solomon Claude King Edward Thayer ,, .Vernon Steele Harry Charterla .Charles Francti Sir Emmett Wllderlng.... Julian Itoyce Sir Bruce Iladen Harry Dimmer Count Paalo..,.i .Rait Belmont lady Helen .Sla'den. . .Ethel Barrymore Iady Wlldeiing Clare Eamea Charlotte Ashley Beatrice Beckley Mrs. Leslie Katharine Harris Alice Vanoe Madeline Dolmar Kthel Barrymore. the best beloved star of the American stage, was not ap- plauded so rapturously at the Empire Theatre last night Just because she Is beautiful, talented and an artist of the first rank, but possibly becauso in a cer- tain recent struggle in the world of her nrt she distinguished herself by the no- bility and unselfishness of her course. The, world dearly loves a heroine who fights for with such slnglo heart- ed loyalty as Miss' Barrymore showed when sho had tho opportunity on behalf of her,, own people. So there was the warmth of genuine devotion In the sound of tho applause last night tho proclama- tion of the audience's love for the artist who had not disappointed her ndmlrers when she came forth as the champion of her kind. But there waa ample ground for the more usual kind of applause last night for Miss Barrymore has never looked more lovely nor was her bearing more stately. She Is Just now in the golden bloom of her beauty, when every talent Is In Its fullest flower. For the first time In some years she appeared, more- over, as the central figure of a play by an American writer. Zoe Aklns, all but a newcomer In the wbrld of the theatre, although \Papa\ was acted last winter, wrote for her \Declassee.\ It Is a drama of social life here and In London. There has been that the char- acters In the story are portraits, that piqued the interest of the audience last night None of them, however, waa recognizable. But the figures of social Hfo sketched by the dramatist or the writer of magazine fiction sometimes bear a grotesque lack of resemblance to tho originals. i Tho actress, howevtr, did not play the-pa- rt of an American. The woman of title, whose career the story followed, was English and It was her love for sn lncorrlelblo \rotter\ that led her down tho path that she rrfrred to follow In this country. She made her husband apologize to him when accused of cheat- ing at cards although she had reason to suspect this lover guilty. She invited his love and then had the mortification of having a second charge of cheating upheld. She Is bold enough to apologize to her husband now. The blight of her lover Is not, however, at Us end. He gives up her letters and her husband divorces her. Now she Is declassee. Her life In XrTr.YorJt, In New York after two years she Is found only In the society of the Bo- hemians who will receive her and the recognition of her old friends Is cold. A rich American who loves her, finds her at first unwilling to become his bride although she finally consents. Still the shadow of the unworthy man she loved falls over her happiness. He comes back rich to find her betrothod to (an other who Is willing to release her. But happiness Is not to be hers.- - The end makes her career wholly tragic. The first act of \Declassee\ Is laid In Lon don with her ladyship at tho height of her social Importance. Its story passes to New York, where two of the three acts play. The spontaneous outbreak of long continued applause when she appeared, bo unnerved Miss Barrymore that the progress ot tho play at that point seemed problematical. It was Indeed well on In the first act before she recovered her composure. Then her playing of the unloving wife of a brutal husband was touching In Its despair and resignation. Her love scene masked under a parting with the unworthy lover was dollght- - fully spontaneous and natural. Her horror that he had discovered the man as unworthy- - as her husband had called him was represented with a sort of grim hopelessness. And her demand that he, apologize to this husband had the fine air of the aristocratic house of Varlck to which she belonged. It was on this note that her day of grandeur ended. For she was indeed out of her world when the second act showed her In Jfew York. iter companions at tea were a singer In musical comedy, prettily played by Madeline Delmar and a French fortune teller of an easily defined class and they had invited tnree acrobats to be their guests. This trio afforded the audience one of Its Infrequent opportunities to laugh. Her English friends, whom she met by accident, were prepared to receive her w)th some warmth and Miss Barry-more-'s delight at the meeting was pathetically' Indicated. But It was In her reception of the millionaire's offer to make her his wife or stand In some relation of guardianship toward her that Miss 'Barrymore's acting struck the deepest note of feeling. She bared here In. her, look and manner all tho horror that might reside In the soul of a woman who saw the wasted years back of her but felt herself Incapable of roachlng out to save what the future might hold. This Interview Is the best written pas sage In M'sa Aklns play. It has deep sincerity as well as understanding of a woman behind Its words ; so Miss Barry- more was here at her best It was a Buperbly human piece of noting, deeper In Its eloquence than the pnthetlo part- ing with her ring to pay for the cream puffs and milk consumed by the acro- bats, which ended the act The Nature of the Piny. Miss Akin has written few scenes of ccmedy for the character of this omtrched heroine, so there was no opportunity, or at beet but a few speeches In which the actress could reveal her skill In this field.\ Miaa AKln, who has hitherto been fa- mous for her genius In Inventing the bright line, seemed to be restraining her- -' nelf on purpose Thero were occasional smart observations and they were all of the author and not of tho situation nor the character. Indeed this Interesting fiction, al- though It Is divulged on the stage by moans of dialogue. Is not dramatized, Occasionally certain passages, such as the Interview mentioned. Interest by means of their sincerity. But there Is no sense of suspense nor of dramatlo grip of the spectator at an point. In- deed the soul of the theatre Is not In the scenes. Tho character of the woman\ Is more or less engrossing. Then the story, while wholly conventional. Is pic- turesque and full of color in iU deve- lopment It Is, however, never dramatlo for five minutes after the opening scenes o' tho first act. Vernoli Steele played the unscrupulous THE SUN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, l&lu. lover well ahd it wns not. an easy task. Beatrice Beckley was quite the loveliest of the coterie that moved about the hero- ine In her prosperous days. And this group Included Katherlno Harris and Clare Eames. Claudo King as the lov- ing millionaire was so natural and In- telligent In his acting that he was com- pelled to share somo of tho honors, with Miss Barrymore. But she Is the soul of \Declassee\ and the breath of what- ever life It way possess. SOTHERN-MARLOI- E WELCOMED BACK Largo Audicnco at Shnhert Calls Celebrated Stars to Curtain Many Times. E. H. Sothern and Miss Julia Mal-low- e were welcomed back to the stage last night at the Shubert by an andlence which filled the house and which eoomed to havo but ono object In life and that waa to ehow Mr. Sothern nnd his costar how genulnoly welcome they were. After each scene and each act there were from nine to ten curtain calls that were mode to Include every member or tno cast Miss Marlowe was Induced to say smilingly that she never made- a. ppcech, v;hlle Mr. Sothern was led to say briefly but solemnly that he was glad to be back and that Miss Marlowe wns more to blame than he for their return. \Twelfth Night\ was chosen for the first of their four weeks of Shakespeare, with. \Hamlet\ and \Tho Turning of the Shrew\ to follow In the order named and a final week devoted to tho three. Neither Mr. Sothern's Jrt!voI(o nor Miss Marlowe's Viola Is new to New York, but their appearances In these parta have been less frequent than In the other two plays which they are to give. His Jfalvollo Is ono of Mr. Soth- ern's finest pieces of work. Tho make up Is marvellous!. His face seemed an outburst of exclamation points from hair through eyebrows to beard, but still re- tained a sanctimonious gravity that con-tias- ts strikingly with the yellow and black stripes of his doublet and breeches. His pantomime In the garden scene he finds the letter was delightful. His acting In the scene with OUvia when he appears yellow stockinged and cross gartered was egually fine. Time has not altered the charm of Mira Marlowe'a voice nor the skill with which .she suggests tho roguish girl touched at times with sadness. L lie anei scene with Bir Andrew Apuechcek was as rollicking a bit of fun as Mlas Mar-low- o has ever done. Scarcely less noisy was tho , welcome to Rowland Buckstone, who has been In Mr. Sothern's support .for so many years that a Sothern production without his name would seem unnatural, ins Sir Tolw Belch was a fine piece of Jovial comedy. If Falttaff Is the king of Shakespeare's drunkards Sir Tuby Is a crown prince, and every line ot Mr. Bunkstonc s face ana every nolo oi ins voice breathed sack. J. Savre Crawley was a less familiar hut excellent Sir Andrew Aguecheck nnd Miss Norah Lannlson, a comely itaria, completed the trl\ of plotters. Frederick Lowls was a manly Duke whoso diction was a xlellKht to the car. Henry Stan- ford ns Sebastian tried his best to look Ilka Miss Mnrlowe and suggested as well as any mere man could. Charming settings all In gray stone and green and excellent stngo manage- ment made the production a delight to the eye as well as to tho ear. WOOD ALCOHOL KING IN DRY CONNECTICUT Jamaica Ginger and Horse Liniment Also Used as Booze. Special DeipatcA to Tub Sun. HARTFOnD, Oct 6. Statistics an- nounced to-d- by tho Hartford police court officials show a heavy Increase In drunkenness cases for the month of Sep- tember, when there were 177 persons ar- raigned on that charge, as against 71 in August and 60 in July. The police say the vast majority of the drunken ness cases result from wood alcohol concoctions, although cologne, Jamaica ginger and horse liniment have figured In some or the Roarings.- Connecticut Is supposed to be the driest State in the Bast for It has been held Illegal by an United States Court Judge, transferred from Brook lyn to sit at New Haven, to sell even 2.75 beer In the State, and heavy sen- tences havo been given to whiskey tellers In March of this year there were 244 drunkenness cases In the Hartford po lice court and 414 in June. Buy a Post HITCHY-KO- O, 1919, OPENS AT LIBERTY Bayniond Hitchcock Presents Now Version of Bovuo, With Many Features. INDIAN SHIMMY APPEABS .Ethel, a Circns Horso With an Alcoholic Addiction, Adds to tho Fun. Rnymond Hitchcock, who acquired the Hltchy-Ko- o habit several seasons ago, released the 1019 model last night at tho Liberty Theatre without casual- ties and with symptoms of appreciation shown by tho rovuers of his revue. The present show Is principally Hltchy dances, with a few Kooey songs, and Is liberally supplied, as might bo ex- pected of a Hitchcock show, with pretty girls, four of whom he \introduces for tho first time.\ For that matter, Mr. Hitchcock Introduced the whole com pany to the first nlghters early In the first of tho two acts, and was quite talkative-- . In the Hltchcocklan fashion, to some of his friends In the audience. Including BUUe Burko and Ed Wynn. In the sixteen scenes of the revue his audience Is transported from the seven- teenth century to the present and from India to \Hltchy's homo at Great Nock, L. I.,\ which Is surely a wide enough range to please at somo time almost every member of the audience. The en tertainment ranges from (esthetic to \anojsthctlo\ dancing, tho latter very Joyously done by Sylvia Clark, who en- - Joys herself and whom the audience en- - Joys throush most of the entertainment Mr. Hitchcock himself Is also exceed- ingly busy, and hops on In almost every scene but one, described ns \a tempi In India a Jade fantasy,\ where ob viously his straw colored forelock would be out of place. Indiana Are SUorrn. One of the more unusual parts of the revue la a curious mixture ot broad comedy and Indian songs and dances In an effective background. The scene starts most solemnly by an alleged \Song of the Sun\ by Chief Eagle Horse, and some dancing by the Prin- cess White Deer and Eleanor Sinclair. Then II. J. Potchatan (Maurice Black) and his children. Prince OpodlUloo (Charles Howard) nnd the Princess Po- cahontas (Sylvia Clark) como on and Contain Join Smlch (Raymond himself) climbs out of a honow log and the fun Is on. Mr. Hitchcock takes this occa- sion to sot history right on various cir cumstances connected with the capture of Capt John Smith. It was not Poca- hontas but an Indian strlko which saved his necTc, Furthermore, the Captain him- self wns a pirate chief with a very fetching Willis Orovsiig (Ruth Mitchell) as his midshipman. In this scene the Princess White Deer, attired in high heeled moccasins, phows she has lived long enough in the teepees, of the white people to become acquainted with ad- vantages of civilization, including the shimmy. Her vehicle of muscular ex- pression Is an Indian Jazz dance, in which she la assisted by Indian Maidens Bluebird, Moonlight and Chasing Rain-bo- ' Then Chief obliges with a dance of the five senses, which Is really Intense and difficult of per formance. Rthrl Provide Fun Ethel, a retired circus horso now ad- dicted to alcohol and to dancing when so addicted, is a prominent character In another bit of the revue. Both fore f Billy Holbrook) and aft (Henri Lln-ge- Ethel Is diverting. The comedy pa'rt In' which Mr. Hitchcock seems most to please the audience Is as Melville, the barber. In a take off on present day ton- - sorlal parlors, wnicn is sometimes too grimly truo to llfo to be funny. Mr. Moose, tho unfortunate customer (Charles Howard), plays a difficult part with great heroism. It Is not every one who could be shaved by Raymond Hitch cock and recover In time to appear In the flnale. Among tnose appearing In the revue are. Mildred Keats, Eleanor Sinclair, Florence O'Denlshawn, Billy Holbrook, Slmono Cochet, A! eta Dovo, Lillian Kern- - ble Cooper, Elaine Palmer, Maurice Black and Mr. .Hitchcock s four finds. \VVaneta Means, Blanche Qervals, Ursula O'Hace and Betty Braun. ' To-Nig- ht WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE widely known journal- ist, author and student of National problems, is reporting the important INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE For 1m mtaxm M HAZER IN VIRGINIA GETS PRISON TERM Two Others Go to Jail and a Fourth Is Fined. CttRtsTiANsnEBO, Va., Oct S. Four studonts at Virginia Polytechnic Institutfe were found guilty of assault by A Mont- gomery county Jury ht because of participation In a hazing episode at the' school last spring, John Fox, a fresh- man at the institute at tho time, testified during the trial that injuries ho suffered at the hands of the four sophomores re- sulted In paralysis of his spine. Bernard Slogel of Newport News, was' sentenced to a year In the penitentiary?1 The three other students, Robert E. Ware, Dunnovlllo,, Va. George W. Scott, Jr., Richmond, and Albert. O, Copeland, Wyanoko, Va., received roj spectlvely sentences of six months in Jail, thirty days In Jail nnd $60 fine ' Fox said that Slcgel had. pounded him. in the small ot the back with a bed slat, and that the other three did the same, but had not used so much force. Slegel, called to tho stand In defence, denied? using a bed slat but said .he had em- ployed a \regular paddle,\ such as was. commonly used by upper classmen at the. school In disciplining freshmon. All four said they had no idea ot the serious done to Fox, and that they had been moved to tears on learning of it later, COURTS JAMMED WITH RENT CASES Thousands of Families, Facing Dispossess Proceedings, Fight Actions. Thousands of families, facing dispos sess proceedings, fought It out with land- lords in the Municipal Courts yesterday. Calendars were clogged with cases as never before. Court rooms were Jammed to the limit Many dispossess warrants were Issued because tho Justices covlTr't help themselves, but In the majo-cas- es settlements were reached and cjses called off, or else tenants managed to get further delay by paying Into court twen ty days' rent, as permitted by law, thus, giving them time In which to look for the bard to find new home. There were exactly 910 cases on the calendar In the Second District Mu nicipal Court The Bronx, and Juitlco Harry Robltsek had his hands full. The greatest number of cases handled In any previous day In this court was 800. Ninety per cent, ol yesterdays cases were \holdovers.\ Many of the litigants simply couldn't get into the court room when everything\ was in full swing. \Ten years ago .such a situation as Uils was unheard of,\ Justice Robltzek raid. \I cannot conceive of all thews defendants being undesirable tenants. I nm Inclined to think unscrupulous land- lords and rent profiteering are largely responsible tor the situation.\ Justice Frledlander had 600 cases be- fore him in the Seventh District Munic- ipal Court at 360 West 125th street Here many distressed tenants paid twenty days rent In court so they can remain where they aro whllo looking for new apartments. In the Second District Court 264 Mad- ison street Justice Eder .presiding) 400 cases were taken up, mostly actions against East Side \rent strikers.\ Many compromises between landlords and ten- ants were .brougtit about .by the Justice. Justice Thomas F. ftoonan heard 125 cases in tne Third District court, an West Fifty-fourt- h street and JuBtlo Boyle 98 In the Fourth District Court, 207 Bast Thirty-secon- d street Justice Ward, sitting In the Fifth Dis trict Court, Broadway and Nlnety-rJxt- h street, handled 60 caseA. and Justice Marks heard 60 In the Sixth District Court 155 East Eighty-eight- h 'itreet Thero were 60 cases (nil business places) In the Ninth District Court Madison aenuo nnd Fifty-nint- h street; 43 In the First. 146 Grand street and 6 adjourned casta In the Eighth District Court, 170 East 121st street Most of the courts will have equally large calendars Members of the lawyers' committee of the Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteering were stationed at all the, courts) to look after tho Interests of tenants who found themselves In trouble. j. muro iiiet'iiii win uho piuco lu- - morrow night at the Harlem Board of Trado for the purposo of organizing a society to erect barracks In vacant lots' and parks for the temporary housing of families who' will eventually be dis possessed and who cannot find homes. Dally DOUGLAS IS NAMED COLUMBIA TRUSTEE frow Appointments to Faculty of University Aro An- - nonnccd. , \MANY GIFTS RECEIVED E&hools of Business and Mcdi- - cino Aro Aided by Sov-cr- al Donors. Archibald Douglas was elected yester- day to succeed George I Ingraham, for-rji- er Chief Justice of the' Appellate Di- vision, as alumni trustee of Columbia University, and Alfred Marling was chosen in place of 'Gerard Beekman as trustee for life. At the close of the meeting of tho board of trustees new ap pointments to the faculty were an. ndunced. Prof. Arthur 6. Nelsh, who resigned to become head of tho ohemlatry depart- ment at Queen's University, Kingston, Ont, Is succeeded by Clifford D. Car- penter, who has been assistant professor since 1914. He Is a graduate of the University of Chicago and was given Ph: D. there In 1915. M. Anatole Le Braz, professor of French literature In the University of Rennets ahd a well known French scholar and man of letters. Is to take .the same post at Columbia, succeeding Prof. Fernand Baldensperger, who re. signed to aid the French government la the organization of the new French unl versity at Strasbourg. upon tne nomination 01 tne govern, ment of the Netherlands, Dr. A. J. Bar nouw, who has had many years' expe- rience as a university teacher and author In Holland, has been appointed Queen Wllhelmlna lecturer on the his. tory, language and literature of the Netherlands. Arthur F. Taggart until recently as sistant professor of ore dresslm? In ths Sheffield Scientific School of .Tale Uni- versity, has been named as professor of ore dressing. He is a Stanford Univer sity graduate and has had two years of mining experience. Gifts of 16.000 from tho Borden Con densed Milk Company for research work in rood chemistry, and of tho same sum from on anonymous donor to be added to ths fund for surgical research were announced. Another anonymous bene- factor has given 16,000 to be added to the endowment of the School of Busi ness. Gifts totaling 33,000 were an- nounced for additions to the Medical School and one of $3,600 from the Franoe-America- n Society for the mainte- nance- of tho Malson Francalso during the current academio year. Mrs. Walter U. Ldd has given 12,000 to bo added to to photographic fund for the School ot .Moaicine, ana l,J06 has been received from Dr. E.'Allen Starr for tho depart- ment of neurology. Other Klfts announced Include 31,300 from Mrs. Louis McClymonds for the maintenance of the Louis IC McCly- monds scholarships: 31.006 from the Roosevelt Memorial Exhibition commit- tee for the activities of tho Columbia Houso; 31,000 from Archer M. Hunt- ington for additions to tho Medical School; J1.000 from Mrs. S. M. Streeter for the School of Dentistry; $1,000 from V. Everitt Macy for tho photographic fund of the department of neurology; $1,000 from Prof, and Mrs. Frederic S. Lee for BaUuies in tho department of physiology ; $1,000 from ths General Bakellte Company for an Industrial research fellowsntp in the department of chemical engineering; $1,000 from the class of 1909 for the alumni fund, and $1,000 from Prof. Everett J. Hall for the general purposes of the university. SANLEY ADMITS RUM SELLING. Pays Fine of 9100 and Closes Ills Bar for ICerps. John J. Hanley pleaded guilty yeater-da- y in the Federal District Court to a second violation of the war time pro- hibition law and was fined $500 bv wudge Sheppard. Hanley's saloon at Broadway and rt street has been sorelv rjed since the arid era developed. Into e net spread tlrst uy the Department f Justice the dispensary tumbled. Han- - paid a $60 flno. Not loner nfter veral automobile hanilltn rirnnn,ri ln Ind departed with $1,000. It was In a &econd Department of Justice raid that Jie was entrapped for the second offence. Al Ulfti 110 Hiew uiKuuruKCU unu SflUt Up shop for good. Largest Sunday Circulation in the United States. and Sunday the Advertising of Greatest Efficiency in the Metropolitan Field. BIG SIX'S RESOLVE A SCRAP OF PAPER 1,200 Compositors \Who Quit Last Week Bomain Ont nnd GB0 More Join Them. DEMAND MADE ON ROUSE Pressmen and Feeders of Su- spended Unions Continuo A- ttempts at Intimidation. The resolution which \Big Six\ Union adopted Sunday celling upon its members tor fturn to their poj tlons in the book and Job printing plant! of this city was proved yesterday to U but a scrap of paper. Although hundreds of the composltori who had Joined the strike of the outlaw pressmen and foeders attended the mee- ting of their union at which the resolj. tlon was adopted, and although not ona of them voiced the slightest opposition to it. and not a vote was recorded agaliut it, tlie 1,200 compositors who quit last week remained out yesterday and pe- rsuaded 851 more to Join them. The printers demanded of 'Leon H. Rouse, president of \Big Six,\ that hi show good faith l?y replacing immedl. ately the compositors who nave left their Jobs in the plant of the Publishers' Printing Company, the pressmen of whioh are not, on strlko; but It was into last night that he had not done so nnd Mr. Rouse was not to be seen by woull. be Interviewers. While these compositors-thu- s were vlo. latlng their own word given at Sunday'! meeting, pressmen and feeders belongeni to the suspended unions headed by Jmei J. Bagley and Bernard Nolan were try. Ing lawless methods in attempts to I- ntimidate workmen of other unions that are not on strike. A paper handler on his way to work in tho printing plant of E. M. Dlamant at 405 Lexlngtoh avenue was atta-ke- d and beaten by pressmen nnd feeders. Tho assault was of a cowardly nature, several men setting upon the paper handler at once and giving him no o- pportunity to defend himself. At several other printing houses threats were mad to members of Unions at pence with the employers, and only police protection prevented forther violence. The only two shops where compoilton attempted yesterday to go back to their Jobs were those of C. J. O'Brien. 11 North William street, and tho DIamant plant At the former place twenty re- turned, hut onlv two wera nrvnfA haM. .Into their positions, the rest being told that there was no work for them. At the DIamant plant six of seven men who quit last week returned and were nut to work. It waa stated that most of th shops would be able to keep the compet- itors at work for from two to four weeks despite tho walkout of the pressmen and feeders. Some of the Plnnta AiTcctcd. The total number of \Big Six\ men tJ quit yesterday was estimated by Col. Green at 651. Thenrt m.n hnvA ti.f!bw4 out of twenty-fiv- e plants. Some of the places affected and the number of com- - yuauurn wnu leu were stated to do as Department 10J ; Butterlck publlshlnj Company, 90; Pictorial Review. 60: Arbor Press, which prints textbooks for Columbia TTnlversltw SK TJrIrlvn Dally EaKle Job printing department, i 1110 iiiaiii. wnicn prims tne Aatton, Oswald Garrison VIHard's magazine, 1 , the Mall and Express Job plant, H. It was announced that the followmi; magazines will probably be delayed be- cause of thn HtrikA Th. c Xicholas, Collier's Weekly, Life, Scrti-net'- magazines published by the New Fiction Publishing Company and publ- ications printed by the Charles Schweln-ie- r Press, including Oood Housekeeping, JudOB. Harrier Ttn.n rr.m.,J. anA the Cosmopolitan. Dinner for Arirendne Ambntsador. Dr. Thomas A. Tj n.nn .v.. . \ 14HJ 1JOW Ambassador rrnm A ....... ... -- \...tiiiici .win jua L Breton wore guests of honor at s d nner given at the n last night by Octavlo M. Flguero. The other guests included Dr. and Mis. l'reton ttenvh'te. Mrs. Scott Cameron. Mrs. A Ullam Miller nmiam ... ILIU. .iii.. 1. .., ..; .1 utllUU.. Graham, Mrs. Gonzales Moreno. Miss luvrruB, A,uue huh, Mr. and Mrs. J. S, Cosden and Victor Ayeza, Ambassador Le Breton's secretary. Medium A Record Breaker Last Sundays New York American carried a greater volume of advertising than ever before in its history a total of 518 columns. This was a gain of 220 columns over' the same Sunday last year. And there' was no so-call- ed \special edition\ business of any kind in the American's columns. Incidentally, the American carried much more ad- vertising from the merchants of Greater New York than any other newspaper. r. tfi
