THE SCRANTON TBIBITNE- WEDNESDAY llOBNING, MAY 27, 1896.
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QUEEN
ACHIEVEMENTS OF
THE VICTORIAN AGE
Events Which Make Memorable the
Reign of England's Queen.
LONGEST ONE IN ENGLISH HISTORY
On lite 30th of Next Month Victoria
Will Enter I'pon the Sixtieth Year
of Her Sovereignty, anil tho Fact
Duggeiit a Review of the Record
England Hat Made I'ndcr Her
way.
Apropos of Queen Victoria's seventy
seventh birthday, on Sunday last, the
Chicago Times-Herald says:
On June 30 she will enter on the six
tieth year of her reign, a reign the
longest in the whole period of English
history, the most remarkable of any
age for material progress, and, as one
cynic remarks caustically, for ."Intel
lectual mediocrity." The criticism is
riot true. No Shakespeare has arisen,
but when one considers that
There are but tlva.
That the cenluriPS do survive.
the lack of a Shakespeare is scarcely
enough to condemn the Victorian age
to mediocrity. As to the lesser stars
that lit the court of the great Eliza
beth, they can well be matched.
The special point to be made is that
the two greatest periods of English
history will be distinguished by the
names of two women. No king by the
force of his own personality or the ac
cident of falling upon a fortunate time
has fixed his name indelibly upon an
epoch. Elizabeth had the elements of
greatness with the power of personal
rule; Victoria's virtues are mainly nega
tive, with a capacity of adaptation to
progressive democracy that amounts to
genius. Her non-reiistance and the
material achievements of her time are
sufficient to fasten her name on an
age that otherwise would lack a dis
tinguishing nomenclature. For the
rest, she has established and main
talned probably the only virtuous
court England eve knew, and raised
the whole moral tone of society
throughout the civilized world.
In 18S7 Carlyle, standing in Hyde
Park, lifted his hat to the maiden
queen In her carriage he who took off
his hat to none other but Father
Mathew and Elizabeth Fry saying:
"Like France in her extremity, wo
have got a maid. May she work a
miracle!"
Fifty-nine years ago today the Prin
cess Alexandria Victoria of Kent was
living In almost convent seclusion with
her mother at Kensington Palace. Her
eighteenth birthday was unheralded:
she had not appeared at the court of
her uncle. Willium IV., because In the
opinion of the Duchess of Kent it was
unfit for a young girl. Five weeks
later William IV. was dead at Windsor
Castle, and messengers hurried off at
3 o'clock In the morning to summon Ills
successor. She came down in her
dressing gown and slippers und night
cap, with her long blonde hair In school
girl braids down her back. There were
tears In her eyes, but she was perfectly
self-possessed, simple and dignified. At
11 she met the council at Windsor and
presided over it as If she had been in
the habit of doing It all her life.
She Is described as small of nature.
With no pretense to beauty, but of great
charm of manner and graceful, gracious
bearing. Her austerity and Innocence
Immediately regenerated a court cor
rupt through eight regimes. The mi
racle was worked. For sixty years now
Iondon arlBtocracy has worn a virtuous
front. Irregularities and scandals have
not been tolerated by he court. Her
Influence In this regard is all the more
remarkable because with William IV.
ended the reign of personal government.
With no patronage to bestow or polit
ical power, she has been absolute in the
octal world.
ENGLAND'S RISE.
For other progress she has had noth
ing whatever to do. The Englishman
was on the rise. In two generations
lie has dominated the earth In numbers.
In enterprise, In finance, In politics. In
science, in invention. When the queen
ascended the throne in 18:17 there were
26.U0O.O0O people In Great Britain. There
are now 39,500.000. In addition to the
Increase at home. Great llritain sub
dued Behind In '43, the Punjab in '-18,
Oudh In "66, and later Upper Burmah
and the Shan states. Two hundred
and seventy-five thousand square miles
have thus been added to the Indian
possessions. They have occupied Aden
and the Suez, created Hong Kong and
taken over territory In Siam and adja
cent Islands, aggregating 80,000 square
miles; 300,000 square miles have been
acquired in Africa, and 1,000,000 more
are administered by the charter com
panies. The government occupies
Egypt and Cyprus, and Is advancing on
the Soudan and the Transvaal.
Australia and Canada comprise 6,500,
000 square miles. Canada has Increased
from 1,000,000 to 6,000,000 inhabitants,
and has been transformed from a dis
integrated number of rebellious colon
ies to a compact, loyal dominion. Aus
tralia In 18S7 had 176,000 white inhablt-
ants, of whom a third were transport
td convicts. It now has 4,600,000, a pop
ulation nearly equal to that of the Uni
VICTOR
ted States at the beginning of the cen
tury. The Hi-Hull Empire thus com
prises lo,000,0K) square miles of land,
with riO.000,000 people. One squnre mile
out of nine on the face of the globe ac
knowledges the rule of Britannia, and
one person out of every four owes al
legiance to her majesty.
All this has been made possible by the
remarkable Inventions of the age. The
vcar of her birth. 1S19. It was literally
'true that "man could travel no faster
than the Pharaohs," says an editorial
writer In the Edinburgh Uevlew. The
first of the great Trunk lines from
London to Birmingham was not com
pleted until the yeur after she ascended
the throne. In lSuS the Great Western
and the Sli lus crossed the Atlantic, and
in 1S40 a steamer made the passage of
the Red ecu. The trip across the At
lantic occupied eighteen days, and the
one to Bombay thirty-eight. These
journeys are now made in five and four
teen days. The tonnage of the whole
commercial navy of the empire was less
than 3,000,000 tons. It Is now 900,000,-
In 1851 a telegraphic cable was laid
under the channel, and our civil war
-o un.ie.i before the Atlantic cable was
successfully laid. Now a network of
lines on land and cables under water
connects every part of the empire, so
that a disturbance is felt in uonaon
almost as quickly as a nerve communi
cates with the brain In the human body
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
It has been contended, with some
show of truth, nil these great Inventions
and the substitution of machinery for
hand labor has made the rich richer
and the poor poorer. In England this Is
not true. The vast improvements in
communication and transportation
have lniured land onwers and the agri
cultural classes by bringing to London
the products of the world. Rents are
lower and tho profits of labor less
Much land has been abandoned and the
time Is not far distant when land will
be used for residence purposes; where
Its productiveness will have nothing to
do with its value. Capital will go Into
commerce and the agriculturist will em
igrate to the colonies.
It Is this constant stream of emigre
tlon from the farms and the overcrowd
ed cities that has reduced pauperism In
Great Britain. When Victoria came to
the throne one person out of every doz
er was a pauper. Now one out of forty
five Is supported by the public. The
condition of the poor was horrible. In
the cities they lived In cellars, and
sanitation was unknown. Graveyards
of the towns. The streets were un-
llghted; after a rain the accumulated
filth of the streets drained off Into the
cellnr dwellings of the poor. The mor
tality of the poor was frightful, espe
cially among children.
Until 1850 children under 8 years of
age worked n the factories ton and
twelve hours a day. Human beings for
tho first time were competing with ma
chinery, and for twenty yean human
beings were the cheapest. The vicious
conditions of their lives made for crime.
A man In working clothes could not
enter a nark. There were no free li
braries, free schools, people's Institutes
bath or wash houses. The public-house
was the only refuge of the poor from
the sweatshops uml cellars. The puup
era numbered l.duo.UUU, the crimlnuls
50,000. In IMC, with the population In
creused 50 per cent., crime wus re
duced S7 per cent.
The laboring man Is now enfranchis
ed, the children taken from Industrial
life and put in schools, sanitation and
factory sale-guurds are compulsory
agriculture is largely abandoned for
manufacture and commerce. Water
and sewer systems are universal, the
parks and libraries are open, and the
slums are rapidly being demolished by
wholesome end wholesale condemna
tlon laws. Wages uie actually higher
than sixty years ago and the purchas
ing power of money greater, owing to
rapid transportation and tho removal
of duties. ' The luborlng voter Is large
ly in the majority over all voters, so
much so that the lords are threatened.
The demand for universal franchise
dates with the demand for free schools.
Two years after Victoria came to the
throne parliament made the first ap
propriation for popular education of
the sum of HO.OOO. Now the annual
npropriution Is 9.000.000. The univer
sities are now open to all classes (Mr.
Hardy denies this In "Jude the Ob
scure"), the purchase of commissions In
the army has been stopped and places In
the civil service are open to those who
pass the examination.
FAMOUS NOVELISTS.
In all these three Improvements nov
elists, a practically unknown class of
authors before the Victorian age, have
taken a prominent part. 'Dickens was
Instrumental In rehabilitating the pri
vate schools, In abolishing the Impris
onment for debt, correcting the abuses
and delays of chancery court; Walter
Besant's "All Sorts and Conditions of
Men" hurried tho people's palaces,
museums and schools of science Into
existence; Mrs. Browning released the
factory children; Tom Hood called at
tention to sweating by his "Song of the
Shirt"; Klngsley and Charles Reade
each helped in the regeneration of
the age, and Carlyle was the prophet
of altruism as opposed to the abomin
able political' economical ' system of
Adam smith:
This sentiment' pervades ' English
(lolltlcs, The law interferes to protect
labor In its life, safety and wages; the
model employer; the. "living wage" the
issue or the day. .Factories must be
sanitary, the dwellings on 1
estates must
be healthful, the home of the lord Is no
more the castle than Is that of the
humblest laborer. Readers of Mrs.
Humphrey Ward are Informed that
there la still pauperism and game laws,
overcrowding In the cities, sweating,
defective tenements, too long hours of
labor and no place but the workhouse
for the aged poor.
But w'thout doubt the standard of
comfort is higher and the opportunities
Immeasurably extended for bettering
thler condition. There has been a great
leveling up. The poor man is higher,
and if the rich are no lower they still
seem to be not so high, because the dif
ference Is less. That is the reason the
ago Is subjected to the churge of med
iocrity. The number who on do things
well is increased and the contrast is
but so sharp. It is more and more diffi
cult for a man of intellect to make his
mark; he has a wider audience, if a less
discriminating one. and mere to rival
his pretensions.
The mistake we make Is that we
have not adjusted our estimates to new
conditions. Genius is catering to the
delight of the people of leisure and
learning produced nothiug of Intrinsic
use. Shakespeare's genius was purely
of the Imagination; Herbert Spencer's
of deduction and Industry: Galileo
delved in pure science; George Steven
son In applied science. In this age ev
erything Is utilitarian. But for ad
that and because of that, we lose sight
of the -tremendous advances made.
Geology Is a reconstructed science,
biology a new one; medicine has but
Just boon raised to one. Power is in a
now field, government and political
enconomy work from an opposite bas
is; all life is seen from a new and high
er standard. Science has strung the
beds of oceans and spanned continents
and brought the east and west togeth
er. It Is paltry to say that England Is
dying at the top because a Reynolds Is
not painting portraits, a eumgion
winning buttles, or a Shakespeare
writing plays. Histories ure being
written for the first time not "sad
tales of the death of kings," but his
tories uf peoples, civilization, analysis.
psychological studies that make times
Instructive.
AN AGE OF TALENT.
It is doubtful, too. if any other age
cau show such an array of high talent.
Among Victorian poets Wordsworth at
least had genius; Keats and Shelly und
Tennyson came near It. Browning will
be judged by another age. Beginning
with Scott, there are a half dozen nov
elists who will live beyond their gen
eration. Carlyle wao the greatest re
ligious reformer since Wycliffe. Booth
the greatest evangelist since Wesley.
As a statesman Gladstone Would be
difficult to match In the past. For a
hero there is Gordon at Khartoum.
Whether the creators of poetry and art
will live only posterity can decide, in
the main the genius of the age has ex
pended itself in material things. Tne
typical emblem of the Victorian age
will, perhaps, be a Roentgen ray, pene
trating an opaque body and bringing to
light what had before her time been
concealed.
LITERARY CHAT.
Professor Brvce's work on the "Ameri
can Commonwealth" has been before the
English and American public for several
years, out it nas not nunerio ocen sue
leeted to a thoroueh-Koing criticism. Tak
Inic the latest edition as a text. Professor
James undertakes to crltise the author's
views in a new American Academy of
Political and Social Science monoKrann.
"A Review of Bryce's American Com
monwealth." The paper Is not merely a
review of the book, but Is an elaborate Jls
cussion of certain of the fundamental
orinclules of American constitutional law
in regard to which, In the critic's view,
Mr. Bryce's exposition Is Incorrect. The
author's nresentatlon of the relation be.
tween the federal government and tho
states: or tne nature or tne reaerai judici
ary; of the responsibility of officials to
me people in tne unitca otaies; or tne
i.nn i;ia or constitutional interpretation
of t!ie basis of distribution of powers be
tweent stale and nation, are treated at
Icr.clh. while in manv minor Dolnts. sueh
an the suspension of the privilege of the
writ of habeas corpus, the location of ul
timate sovereignty In our body politic, tho
effect of the eighteenth amendment on the
rlKht to vote, the results of the civil rights
act etc., the views of Mr. Bryce are care-
tuny reviewed anu correcteu.
In one of Stevenson's latest letters be.
fore hts death he declared himself to t3
revolving In his mind the plot of a romance
or "l'rlnce Charlie. Andrew Lamr. nis
companion and compatriot, is now writing
a work called "Pickle, the Spy," a chapter
In the secret history of Prince Charles
Kuwara Detween i,4u ana i.ds. it is touna
ed on the state papers, manuscripts in the
British Museum, and the archives o! the
French Foreian Cilice. Pickle, it should
be explained, was the assumed name of a
great Highland enter. Mr. L.ang nas Deen
for years at work on the book, whlcjh
brlnifs out the complicity of Frederick tho
Great in Jacobite Intrigues, and also
throws light on the adventures In exile of
Prince Charles.
The circumstances In which Harold
Frederic's new novel, "The Damnation of
Theron Ware," came to have one title
here and another in England (as was the
case with Hawthorne. "Marble Faun )
are set forth In the London Chronicle. A
curious accident was the cauae. The writ.
lug of the book was extended over rive
years, and a copy of the first hair was sent
to this country a. long ago as 1WH. For
purpose of I'lentillcatlon It bcre the
'Immnaticn" title, which was one of many
then under consideration. jr;er i lie tinai
choice of "Illumination" hud been made,
no one remembered until It was loo late,
that the American publisher had not been
iniormect or tne decision.
Ex-PreslJent Harrison's articles have
proved such an enormous success with The
l.auici' Home Journal, adding over lov.tiUi)
to the circulation or the magazine, taut
the series will be extended beond the
ciliiinul num. I lie ex-preaideiil lia-s now
leached the treatment of "The President's
:iii:lal Family In his series, describing
the lelultoii whleli earn cabinet mem her
holds to the president. Then he will show
"How Ihe Semite Works and "How Con
gress Legislates" each in a separate ur
tide.
,l,.)in Davidson tins written a book of
Ehcd t stories culled "Alias Armstrong a
ar.il Other Circumstances." which will
fhcrl.y be published by Stone & Kim
ball.
Renders of "Pierre and His People" will
be glad to know that Stone & Kimball ura
about to publish a new volume of short
stories by Gilbert Parker under the title
of "An Adventurer of the North," belnn
the further and nnal adventures of Pierre
and his people.
"Tho Purp'.e East," that little volume nf
poems which cost William Watson the
Laurlatshlp, Is nt last to be Issued by
fitone & jvimcnu. ii is a tiny volume.
Its size being quite out of proportion to
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AN INTERESTING BIT
OF CHURCH HISTORY
The Forty-fourth Aaaiverury of the
Wyoming Methodist Coafcreace.
YEARS OF TRULY NOTABLE GROWTH
Forty-four tears Ago tho First Coa
ference Mas Held in Carbondalc
With Bishop Scott PresidingSome
of the Chaugea That Have Occurred
ia Local Sleihodisai Since.
On July 7 the Wyoming conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church will
be forty-four years of age, says the
Wilkes-Earre Leader, for ou July T.
18S2. at Carbondale, Pa.. Its rim con
ference was held with Blahon Scott
presiding od N. Rounds secretary.
At tta nnenlnsr session sixty-two inein-
Ke rMimniipd to the roll call. Ji
these there aro yet living Revs. O. M.
Peck, H. R. Clark, C. V. Arnold. Asa
Brooks and G. W. Leach. :
At that conference Y. C. Smith was
received on trial, while C. L. Rice and singled cut the Methodist church as ll
Jasper V. Hewitt were admitted into j lustratlve. the sami holds true of
full connection. Three districts con- I others. Religion Is not on the decline,
stltuted the conference Newark, Sus- as that rcligi6n stands for Christianity.
quehanna and Wyoming. Wyoming , t-nnst s irutn is mnrenmg on anu nnu
,iitt,.i..t r.nti..icto,i r-.t . treentv-fnnr Ing Its noblest supporters by life and
charges and embraced a territory ex-1
tending from Newport on the south to i
Beech Pond and Pleasant Mount on the !
north, and from Lackawaxen on the
east to Skinner's Eddy on the west,
being territory now belonging to the
Wyoming, Honesdule and Owego dis
tricts. The presiding elder of this,
then territorially great, district was
Rev. 1). A. Khepard. and his salary was
Sad. Uf this amount Wtlkes-Buire
(whose preacher was N. Rounds) paid
148. and Honesdale (W. Wyatt, pastor)
M8. No- other churges In the confer
ence equulled these amounts. There
was no Scranton forty-four years ago
that Is, as Scranton. Prov ldence.no w
a part of Scranton, had an existence
in Methodism. Henry Brownscombe
was the pastor of its church. Ills sal
ary was $357 and parsonage and the
amount paid by this church to the pre
siding elder's salnry was $.4, while Its
missionary collection amounted to
$4(1.8.. Wllkes-Barre paid its one pas
tor a salary of $550. that being the
largest salary paid any pastor In the
whole conference, the next highest be
ing $500 paid by the First church of
Blnghamton, N. Y. For necessitous
cases and superannuates. Wllkes-
Barre again leads, paying for all $27.08.
Carbondale being next with $24.15.
The amount paid by the entire confer
ence for these stated causes was only
$398.87. Wllkes-Barre's missionary
collection was $143.22. The entire
membership of the conference, includ
ing members, probationers and local
preachers was 12,790. Of these Wllkes
Barre was reported as having 370
members, 6 probationers and 2 local
preachers; Providence 126 members, 15
probationers and 2 local preachers.
OLD-TIME SALARIES.
As no statistics of the value of church
property were, for some years, record
ed, we can give no statement concern
mg church edifices at that time. Par
sonages are given In total as 32 and
their value $28,050. The conference was
re-districted at this time and four dis
tricts were made, "The Honesdale"
being cut out of Wyoming, and the fol
lowing were now the districts and their
presiding ciders, with the amount of
salary paid each:
District. Presiding Elder. Salary.
Wyoming D. A. Sliepard $"!)
Oswego W. H. Pearne WV
Blnghamton. ...K. Paddock 5M
Honesdale Nelcon Rounds M
At the second session of the confer
ence held at Brooklyn, Pa., Bishop
Waugh presiding, on July 27, 1853. Prov
idence had two pastors appointed to
service Charles Perkins and 8. 8.
Kennedy (now the Bible society agent).
The combined salary was to be $582 to
Perkins $407 and to Kennedy $129.90,
while WKlies-Barre, whose pastor was
Dr. George Peck, reported a salary of
$650, and all paid.
At the third session of the confer
ence, held June 21, 1854, at Waverly, N.
Y., Bishop Janes presiding. Scranton
appears In the list of appointments,
headed as "Scranton and Hyde Park
Mission," A. H. Schoonmaker, pastor.
At the close of the year he reports, sal
ary, $400; parsonage, $200; presiding
elder, $20; missions, $5.50, and super
anuates $3.50. Its membership was:
Full membership, 83; probationers, 25;
local preachers, 3. In this report
Providence shows the dismissal of
Scranton from her parish in that her
membership has declined to 66 full
members. Wllkes-Barre this year has
William Wyatt for pastor; his salary
smiu, cai bondale, Canaan and Bingham
ton being the only other charges pay
ing from $500 to $550. Until 1858 the
salary of Wllhos-Barre continued the
same. That year another charge is re
corded In the minutes an belonging to
t iiKes-narrc. namely woodviiie. A?a
Brook?, pastor. Th? fcllowlng year the
salnry is recorded ns Wllkes-Barre,
$4"0,Woo(1 Hie J40. making $'!0 for the
city. Wilkes-Barre was the first charge
to psy a salary of $l,0u0 to a minister.
which occurred In 1865, the pastor being
ur. v. c. smith. Tire following year
the salary was raised to $1,200. VVIIkes-
Barrt v..s Ihe first o pay a salavy of
-',IXiU. In the minutes of 1&70. confer
ence ut Wilkis-Ka: re, piv-Miled over by
uisnup Janes, April n if. tlits city re
ports: Pnstor, T. M. Ketse; sulary,
2,tHW. Woodviiie is now called Uosh
street, pastor, U ('. r loyd. salary $l,0f0,
members 276 und 170 respectively. In
1873 Wllkes-Barre had three churches,
named Kiunklin street, Ross stiv-t and
Mission, which Is now North Wllkes
Barre. In 187-1 Parrish street Is added,
with Henry UrcwnseomVe as pastor. In
1SS7 Ftanklln etveet church commenced
paying a salary of $3,000, A. H. Tntt'e
being the pastor, Rcss stre?t paid
$2,000, G. W. Ml'ler, pnstor. Pnrrinh
street $700, J. Underwood parter. Tho
membership was respectively Wl, 4S5
and 100, combined with 1R1 probationer,
with a church property valued nt $123,
Cn6. The Welsh mlrrlon was added In
1859 with M members and a property
valued at $3,000 the Dtrr Memorial in
1892, which in 1895 had a property val
ued at $20,000, with a membership of
1G0. In the forty-four years of the past
Methodism has Increased from one
smull church to five strong ones, from
375 members and probationers to 2,035
members and probationers, from church
property valued at $11,000 to property
valued at $182,000. These things are
certainly Indicative of Wllkes-Barre's
prosperity In temporal lines, for they
speak of electric railroads, asphalted
streets, magnificent storc-B, newspapers
on the front line of Journalism, fine
bridges and the best of school build
ings. CHANGES IN SCRANTON.
While these things are so of Wllkes
Barre, what of Scranton? Following
1864 Methodism begins to be a factor
In Scranton life. As stated, A. H.
Schoonmaker was its first appointed
pastor, salary $400. In 1855 the salary
paid was $400, and membership was 108.
In 1858 Dr. George Peck was pastor,
salary $650, membership 142, church
property valued at $3,200. In 1863 Hyde
Park was organized. W. J. Judd was
pastor and his salary $400. The preach
er's salary in 1864 for Scranton was yet
but $600, membership 210, church prop
erty worth $l,400. The next year the
salary was raised to $800, John A, Wood
being pastor. In 1868 Scranton In
creased Its salary to $1,000, Its member
ship. being 266, and Its church property
valued ut $20,000. In 1875 Ito salary was
$1,600, membership 424, Church prop
erty valued at ?35.ooo.
Following this Scranton reaches out
I and takes In surrounding boroughs, m
that the next report gives us under the
heading Bcranton "First church,
Hyde Park. Providence and Park
Place."
The salary paid was as follows:
First church (now Elm Park)....l.00
Hyde Park (now Simpson) 1.200
Providence , 1.000
Park Place (now Court street).... 400
Total $,200
In 18S5 Green Ridge church, now As
bury, became a sepo rate society, rever
ing from the Park Piaco.
In 1SS3 appears Hampton street
charged, a r. su.t of purehusa ty t e
Hyde Park society. In lsai Cedar ave
nue, a mission growth from the First
church, was made a separate charge,
making now In the city of Scranton
seven Methodist Eolscopul churches
with a nourishing mission church con
nected with Kim Park, so that from the
feeblest beginnings In 1854 to the pres
ent day we have a wonderful growth
from property valued at W.200 to prop
erty valued at $47y.t'0; from a member
ship of U'6 to a itfccmbershlp of 3.171;
from a salary of $400 to salaries
amounttr? to $11,925. So what we have
said of Wilkes-Barrewe repeat of Scran
ton, with the additional statement that
with greater bounds she has marched
forward earning for herself the titla
cf "The Electric City " These figures
are worth studying. They are object
lessons or growin, ana wnue we nave
giving In our cities of Wilkes-Jorre
and Scranton. In this line we have
much to be thankful for. People of
wealth give of their wealth In the name
of Christ and his church, that the poor
and needy, the wretched, depraved and
outcasts might find practical demon
strations of piety. People cf Intelli
gence give of their intellectual powers
to teach truth concerning the crucified
Redeemer. Long may these cities de
velop In Christ ways to make more
possible yet greater church growth in
all denominations.
DRAMATIC GOSSIP.
Rose Coghlan Is to shortly appear In
Varmen."
"The Passion Play" is to be produced
in Chicago.
"Kleotra" Is the title of a burlesque by
Klchard stahi.
Librettist Cheever Goodwin was former
ly a baso ball Ditcher.
Next season Rose Coghlan will produce
Max U Hell s "Heart s Kase.
Belle Archer will play the widow in "A
Milk White Flag" next season.
John Drew will produce next season a
dramatization of Weyman's "I'nder the
Red Kobe."
Osoir Hammersteln has decided to
hereafter use only newspapers as adver
tising mediums.
"An American Beauty," by Oustave Ker.
ker and Hugh Morton, will be produced by
Lillian Russell next season.
For the first three or four weeks of next
season Evans and Hoey will be seen to
cether in "A Parlor Match."
Wilton Laekaye has accepted a southern
Eastoral comedy from the pen of Robert
irouet, entitled "Colonel Bob."
John R. Rogers says Marie Studholme
will next season be the leading lady in
the "Strange Adventures of Miss Brown.
Henry E. Dlxey's real name Is Dixon,
and his uncle, William Dixon, is the pres
ent stage manager of the Hollis Street
theater, Boston.
The living pictures are now dressmaking
or dancing the ballet. Their occupation is
gone, their glory Is faded, their curves
are eclipsed, their popularity Is a twice
told tale.
Two new theaters are now being built
In New York, und before long the erection
of a music hall will be begun at Pll'ty
ninth street, between tho Boulevard and
Eighth avenue.
De Koven and Smith's "The Mandarin'
Will be Chinese both as to libretto and
music. The scenario and nlot are both
cast in China; every character will be
thoroughly Chmcee.
George W. Lederer, fired by the big
profits of the all-star "Rivals" company,
ha a scheme which embraces the appear,
ance In some opera, not yet decided uuon,
of Lillian Russell, Camllle D'Arville, Del
la Fox, Marie Dressier, Francis Wilson,
Jen ergon ue Angets and r rnng uamcis.
Alexander Salvlnl is showing the res!
dents of Boston what he can do In panto-
mime. "Rohan thu .Silent, a one-act
Slay wrltttn for the actor by Evelyn
reenleaf Sutherland and Emma Sheridan
Frye, two most Imposing names, is a one.
act pantomime In which the hero does not
speak a word until the very end.
Comedian Seabrooke has replaced Henry
E. Dlxey In 'Thoroughbred." Dlxey, who
earned HW a week, demanded I'm. Mr.
Dlxey informed the Dramtlo News last
week that he was seriously considering a
proposition to travel with Herrmann next
season, with a view to regularly entering
the field of legerdemain a year later.
Monday, June 1, will be a gala night at
tne Chestnut street upera House, r-hllu
delphla, when for the fiftieth time "Miss
Philadelphia," with all her odd ways and
characteristics will be presented at that
theater. One of the many features that
have made ".Miss fhlladelphla " the oopu
lar favorite she is. Is the marvelouslv
strong company that portrays its various
parts, including Jonn u. Hensnaw, Nancy
Mcintosh, Florence Wicks, Inez Media,
ker, Frank Cuhman, Charles Bigelow,
Will Armstrong, and a well-trained
chorus of forty.
Miss Camllle d'Arvllle has signed a con.
tract with Oscar HammersU-hi to head
the organization to be known as tne Olym
pla Comic Opera company. He has de
cided to organize a comic opera company
i,nil make productions cf his own m fha
theater of Olyinpia next season. Besld"S
Mis d'Arvllle he Is negotiating with the
hope to secure a number of other weli
known comic oprra f Inters, such rs lltss
Pauline Hall, ills Delia Fox and Tho-.iias
Q. Sabrooke. Tie season will open with
the production of an opera by Mr. Him
n;er:tsfln himself, entiled "Santa Maria."
"There Is no doubt about it, the blcyclo
craze has hurt. the theatrical butineK In
no small degree," said H. Urattau Don
nelly. "The reason for It doesn't lie d';p.
ly mud. n. cm iiuimy moonlight nights u
young swain and Us lasale, who are de
votees of tiie wheel, find great onjoy
inent In a spin on their me.elilnes as In go.
ing to th average play. Then, it's cheap,
er. Perhaps the ycung man la paying for
Ills 'bike' o:i the Installment system, and
It behooves him to save the price to two
tickets to the fcho'. but he gets the !o
irtety of his girl, all the same, und keeps
the cuth."
The successes of this year's armisemeiit
season, rays the New York Sun, have be.-n
garnered In almc: every case by women
who are thin! The record of this years
teaton shows three stars of the first rank
and magnitude Sarah Bernhardt, Gleu
nora Puce and Kllen Terry. Nor haa
this peculiarity been observable this sea.
son only amens actresses from foreign
countries. Mlrs P.ehnn, the leading laciy
of whnt is new In seniority of establish
ment the ol.le't stork company In New
York, wos as thin r.s Mirs Terry, and whin
at both the beginning and end of tho
present season Daly's theater was sur
rendered to a traveling attraction, the
star fenture of that company was Mrs.
Cora putter, willowy and graceful. I pre
sume that this list would not be complete
without the further addition of the namn
of John Drew's leading lady, Miss Maud
Adams.
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