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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1908
Page
7
A special matinee of the musical comedy The Flower of the Ranch at the Lyric today stars Joseph E. Howard and Mabel Barrison. All seats on the lower floor are fifty cents. The Lyric claims the theater is ten degrees cooler inside due to an iced air system with pipes introducing cooled air.
The Hengler Sisters now present a pure song and dance act at the Columbia after abandoning the label musicians. Former Cincinnati performers on piano mandolin harp and guitar say social attention in Cincinnati is lacking. The sisters, noted for beauty, may skip Cincinnati in future tours due to the reception and have told their booking agent to remove the city from their route.
Contracts signed with the Coney Island Company for a summer outdoor show titled Darktown Fire Brigade. Four seasons begin in June with a large guarantee, presenting a comedic act featuring about 100 colored performers led by Billy Kersands and a 25-piece pickaninny band.
The Grand plans a four show daily schedule including matinees to suit all, featuring Dixie Dah and his dancing girls among the best acts. The new dancing singing and talking pictures are highlighted as the week’s novelty.
An Island Queen cruise departs Thursday morning with decks filled by passengers. The trip includes a jubilee day with dancing and dinner about seventy-five miles west of Louisville, arrival around 5 30 pm, and a promised evening view of Falls City. Return begins Friday at 8 pm in moonlight.
New York May 12. Andreas Dippel joint manager with Gatti-Casazza sails today on Kron Prinzessin Cecilie to Europe. He will visit London Paris Berlin Bayreuth Munich seeking new voices for German operas next season. Dr Muck and Kyrie Bellew are also booked to sail.
One hundred Carriage Makers' Club members gather at Chester Park tomorrow at 6 o'clock for an elaborate banquet served on east and north balconies. The entertainment includes vocal and instrumental music, speeches, a free vaudeville show, elephants, the Tickler, Flea Circus, Rink, submarine exhaust, Nut College and other amusements.
Miss Mabel Barrison, star of The Flower of the Ranch at the Lyric, was asked recently if she would take the role of Juliet. She laughed at the idea and said she would indeed be ready if the part were offered.
Miss Barrison argues that Canadian girls pursuing theatre should not imitate great Shakespearian stars. She notes artists like Clara Morris and Julia Arthur inspired by Canada, but she prefers her own niche in musical comedy and plans to stay there as long as possible.
The success of Mr Howard s musical play The Flower of the Ranch leads Lyric management to schedule an extra performance Sunday night. Howard and Jones plan an extended Chicago run beginning next Monday night, enabling an additional local show.
London critics split over George B Shaw's Getting Married produced at the Haymarket. The three hour play is praised for staging and wit in the first two hours but deemed wearisome by most reviewers in its concluding portion, seen as a prolonged Socratic dissertation on marriage and a woman's soul.
Two talented vocalists Sig nor G Ariato and Signorita Isabel Morini perform solo and duet pieces at twice daily Zoo concerts led by Chevalier Gargiulo. The soloists and band delight audiences at this popular resort with frequent encores and strong crowd approval.
Della Fox continues to win audience praise at the Columbia venue with multiple encores and a cluster of flowers after every performance.
Good audiences attend nightly at the People's venue as the Dreamland Burlesquers give excellent performances each evening.
Members of the J. O. U. A. M. will meet with the Daughters of America in the Grand Hotel to plan the annual Decoration Day parade and outing. Reinhard Schwald will chair the session. The Immigration Bureau meeting was postponed to next month.
Special Dispatch reports John Broderick of Mt. Sterling fell twenty two feet from Jerry Mason's house and died upon impact in Washington C. H. Ohio on May 12.
Washington May 12. The Senate Finance Committee votes unanimously to report the bill already passed by the House, restoring the motto In God We Trust to United States gold and silver coins.
The sixty fourth annual American Medico Psychological Association meeting opens in Cincinnati with Judge Harmon urging alienists to provide unbiased testimony and push public education to prevent insanity. Attendees include Thaw trial figures and a note on Mrs Belle Gunness as a case study in mental malformation.
Representatives from Ohio Kentucky and Indiana presbyteries attend the final examination of Lane Seminary graduates this morning and later meet to discuss instruction and management. Charles W Caldwell of Wapakoneta delivers the Alumnal Association address this evening. Commencement at First Presbyterian Church Walnut Hills set for tomorrow at 10 80.
Seven mineworkers were instantly killed and more than a dozen injured in an explosion at the Mt Lookout colliery of Temple Coal Company in Wyoming near Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. The blast happened 600 feet underground after a fire boss found a fire and a later explosion followed as crews tried to vent air and extinguish flames.
Charles Tabashnish of 1522 Central Avenue testified before Judge Lueders that after saving $80 he was compelled to surrender $240 to pay his aged parents’ fare to Russia. He contemplated suicide but was advised to urge his younger brother to work, then left the court seemingly relieved.
President Howard of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and M. Treadway, Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor, promote the mail subsidy provision in the Post Office bill. They discussed the issue with Representative Herman P. Goebel after meeting in Washington.
R W Fullerton Cornell graduate and son of H L Fullerton of St Louis president of Chicago Lumber and Coal Co was seized at his Seattle office and placed on the steamship Watson bound for San Francisco. The arrest followed a requisition from Governor Hughes New York. Gladys Hobart accuses him of breach of promise. Hearing set in Frisco before Judge Sewell.
Telegraphs from Washington report Governor Pindall has left the governors conference to contest Allan H. Hamiter, Speaker of the House, for Acting Governor. Hamiter plans to refuse vacating the office, with Attorney General Kirby expected to decide. Morrilton holds a mass meeting condemning Hamiter’s call for a special session, and other towns threaten similar resolutions.
In Columbus on May 12, 11 of 37 Ohio senators declined extra mileage payments totaling above their normal 2 cent per mile rate. The list of refusals includes Atwell 113.28, Beatty 220.80, Brandt 30.72, Gayman 30.72, Carter 122.88, Denman 336, Rathburn 205.34, Rose 220.80, Schmidt 274.56, Sites 61.44, West 101.75.
A car collided with a standing C., H. & D. freight train on Hast Court street. Two women were thrown out and bruised but revived. the car suffered heavy damage and was towed to Miley Motor Car Co. The chauffeur Alden Orput, employed by broker Louis W. Foster, took the car without permission and was later arrested. Foster’s Dayton, Ohio connection noted.
Robert Simpson, an elderly ex soldier robbed and beaten, was found unconscious in his East Ninth Street room and rushed to City Hospital in critical condition with spinal meningitis. He had earlier wandered Walnut Hills hatless and shoeless. a judge remanded him to jail. A negro couple George Dayly and Lillie Hamilton await grand jury action. Simpson once resided at the Dayton Soldiers Home.
In Columbus Ohio May 12 fish dealers and sportsmen react to the revised fish and game laws. The new law forbids sale of black bass and also bans sale or gifting of calico strawberry rock crappie bluegill and sunfish during the May closed season. The change alarms the State Game Warden’s office.
Police investigate a Hyde Park housebreaking at Henry Reckman’s Sherman avenue home near Paxton road. Thieves stole two gold watches rings stickpins revolvers and about 100 dollars with total value around 300. Family was away. possible cellar confederate or duplicate key used.
Dr. Noah E. Brumbaugh mayor of Seven Mile files divorce suit at Hamilton Ohio. He previously sued Samuel Baird and siblings of Mrs Brumbaugh for 10000 damages claiming alienation of his wife s affections. Brumbaugh is 75 years old.
Authorities believe Joseph Rousch killed Charles McCormick then died by his own hand. Rousch was found with a bullet wound and revolver in a hog pasture three weeks earlier. McCormick's body was unearthed from a corn field on Rousch's farm with a crushed skull and a broken left arm.
State Auditor Guilbert appointed Captain Miletes Garner to the excise tax clerk position to succeed Edward F. Brown who moves to the state accountants staff. Garner is Adjutant of the Fourth Regiment and on Governor Harris staff. he hails from Bloomington Clinton County.
David Cook, 34, news seller of 113 East Court Street, was arrested at Fifth and Walnut after a fight with several boys. A crowd formed as the boys fled. Cook was charged with disorderly conduct. At Central Station an extra receptacle held his money and belongings: 34 dollars and 48 cents in pennies and nickels, plus two watches and other jewelry. He was released on bond and to be arraigned in Police Court today.
Washington May 12 The House Committee on Libraries reported a bill to authorize painting portraits of the seventeen Speakers of the House at a cost of 8500 dollars. Debate touched on which speakers to include and the merits of each.
Ben Meeker of 881 Kenyon Avenue was arrested Monday night in front of Philomena Church on East Pearl Street and charged with drunkenness. He carried three bowlders in his pockets claiming they were to ward off footpads. Judge Lueders dismissed the charge yesterday.
Police suspect river pirates took a valuable boat owned by John Morgan of 2231 Eastern Avenue. The vessel was moored when several men in a boat approached, lifted the anchor, and fled downstream after a shot was fired.
Elmer O'Toole, 15, of Covington, fell from the stairway to the Southern Bridge from West Sixth street. He died last night at City Hospital after surgeons trephined his skull and placed plates for a double fracture. The lad's bravery and vitality impressed the medical team than expected.
State Insurance Commissioner Lemert announced three new appointments in Columbus. George W. Spienman of Fairfield County was named warden for the department, succeeding Charles E. Moore. David Jones of Franklin County becomes inspector clerk, and E. P. McCorkle of Trumbull County is appointed inspector of building and loan associations.
Governor Harris signed the Ward automobile law in Columbus today and filed it with the Secretary of State. The act goes into effect thirty days after approval and imposes a five dollar State tax on gasoline cars and a three dollar tax on electric vehicles, with about twenty five thousand cars in the state affected.
Cincinnati physicians will join Hamilton colleagues in speaking at the Butler County Medical Society meeting in Hamilton Ohio on Thursday. Dr David I Wolfstein will discuss brain tumors and Dr J C Oliver will give an address. Several Hamilton doctors will also speak.
Special Dispatch from Manteo North Carolina reports the Wright brothers exceed world records with a flight over two miles and three turns. They aim for longer hops within a week and are testing a new motor while repairing the machine at Kill Devil Hill.
Pittsburg May 12 bank examiner William L Folds raises the defalcation estimate to 1 250 000 from 469 000 and reports Montgomery confessed part of looting. George E Tener bonds Montgomery and Richard R Quay joins on bond as Montgomery discusses the case with witnesses. Folds says bank capital remains intact and politicians named are exonerated.
Fire destroyed the church and school building of the Immaculate Hearts of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cleveland Ohio during afternoon recess. A adjacent residence also burned. The blaze caused about 16000 dollars in damage as the priest saved the blessed sacrament despite the rapid flames.
A subcommittee of the Joint Scale Committee for the Hocking district reports an agreement after two weeks of sessions. The terms are not public but both miners and operators expect the General Committee to accept the report. The decision was conveyed to the General Joint Scale Committee.
Hamilton Ohio May 12 Bert S Bartlow Sergeant at arms of the Ohio Senate announced as a candidate for Clerk of the Courts in Butler County at the Democratic primaries in August He had withdrawn from the race for Auditor of State nominations.
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