8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XEHSFAPF.R FOR THE HOilß Founded its' Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Butldiaar. Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE. Pres't and Edilerin-Chitf F. R. OVSTER, Business Manager. GCS M. SHEINMETZ, Uanagiat Editor. /Member American Newspaper Pub » llshers' Assocla- Esstern flffice. Has nue Building. Naw ~ C 5 e s°Hull dlng. Chi" " cago. 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Bv carriers, six cents a <BSS!£»2|SBX> week: by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. Siori daltr r.vernc- circulation for the three mouths ending February 211, 11) HI, 7T 22.785 ★ The»e flmirr* are net. All retained, unsold and damaged coplea deducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 2» We ore all imperfect, and the tiro things that make it possible for imper fect people to lire tor/ether in peace and joy are forgiving and forgetting. —FRANK CRANE. PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS CITY COMMISSIONER GROSS, the head of the Department of Parks and Public Property, is being generally commended for his activity in preparing for the active outdoor work of the year. The pur view of this department covers the activities of the open-air resorts of the city during the summer and Com missioner Gross hopes to have every thing in first-class shape for the open ing of the season. There is much planting to be done, including trees and shrubbery, and this is already having the attention of Assistant Sup erintendent Korrer. whose experience under the old park commission ad mirably fits him for the important duties devolving upon the department at this time. Owing to the regrading of large sec tions of the river slope last year to conform to the front steps and lower walk, it will be necessary to do still further planting this season. There is abundant shrubbery in the City Nursery and it is expected the slopes will be covered with green before the season shall have been far advanced. Most of the trees which were plant ed in the river parks last year are be lieved to have escaped the rigorous winter weather of the last few weeks and those which have succumbed will be replaced. Harrisburg is justly proud of the park system and public sentiment heartily supports the de velopment of the open-air spaces. It is encouraging to note the inter est and sympathy of the new head of the Department of Parks in the de velopment of the newer park areas and within the next year or two there ought to be a remarkable improve ment in every direction. THE NEW FREIGHT STATION LETTING of contract for the foundation work of the new Pennsylvania railroad freight station at this point yesterday to the John L. L. Kuhn Company is the first step toward the early completion of a long contemplated and much-needed improvement. Harrisburg should have had this freight station many years ago, and that it is not enjoying the use of it at this time is not due to the railroad company, but rather to the selfishness of private interests. The new freight station means more work for more people ami better transportation facilities for Harrisburg, which is fast becoming the "heart of distribution," not only for all Central Pennsylvania, but for a much wider range of territory than most people know. DELEGATES T<) CHICAGO A CAREFUL, survey of the national political situation will convince almost any student of afTairs that there will be no "road roller" methods at the convention of the Re publican party in Chicago this year. After the first few ballots, when a number of States doubtless will pres ent their "favorite sons" for endorse ment, the convention will settle down to the business of nominating the best man for the place. Delegates are going to Chicago this year to represent their constituents, and not this or that leader or faction or interest. The folks back home demonstrated four years ago that a convention might nominate, but it required the endorsement of a major ity of the voters to elect and there is a pretty definite feeling in the country to-day that if the menace of AVilson ism is not to be continued for another four years the delegates who go to- Chicago must hearken to popular opinion and not be led away by the siren voice of flowery oratory or be forced by circumstances into a posi tion that will not be popular with the voters as a whole. There can be no question about it; a majority of the voters of the coun try are disgusted with the present ad ministration at Washington and want a change, but it will not do to divide this majority and repeat the folly of four years ago. The men who have announced themselves for delegate and those who are at the party helm realize this as well as anybody, so that whoever is named at Chicago to WEDNESDAY EVENING, lead the Republican hosts next Fall, unless some unlooked-for and un called-for condition arises between now and June, will represent the best thought and sentiment of the Repub lican party In the nation at large. READING CHANGES NUMEROUS Chances in the oper ating: department of the Phila delphia and Reading Railway Company, following the election of General Superintendent Dice to the presidency, ought to be encouraging to every man of ambition in the em ploy of that corporation. Without any exception the men who have been advanced have come up from the bot tom of the ladder, Mr. Dice himself from the humble post of trainman. | In the promotion pf Superintendent I R. J. Stackhousc, who becomes gen eral superintendent of material and supplies under an order issued yestei tlay, the Harrisburg division of the > Reading loses a modest but very effi cient executive. When Mr. Stack -1 house came to Harrisburg there were no yards at Rutherford. Under his administration they have been devel oped until at present between three and four thousand cars of freight are being classified there every day. Be fore his coming Harrisburg was a mere branch office on the Reading lines. To-day it is the headquarters !of an important and rapidly growing division. Not only that, but by the opening of a division freight office here the operating and traffic depart ments of the Reading at this point have been co-ordinated in such man ■ ner as to offer Harrisburg better freight facilities by far than the Read ing was ever before able to give its patrons. The work of development here has been very quietly but very efficiently done until now Harrisburg ■is one of the points to be reckoned with on the Philadelphia and Reading system. Such is the situation as R. Boone Abbott, recently elevated from the su pervisorship of the Reading here to the superintendency of the Shamokln division and now transferred to suc ceed Mr. Stackhouse as superintendent of the Harrisburg division, finds it. Doubtless under his energetic manage ment the Reading in Harrisburg will continue to grow and prosper. He j knows the division thoroughly, is well known and well liked here and will not only find himself among friends, but with a working force at his back whose chief stock in trade has always been co-operation. ANOTHER REVERSAL THE Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of Com merce declares that there is some doubt whether President Wilson • would welcome any further burden imposed through an increase in the income tax. and it is understood that Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo will support the President in this." The writer believes that the reason Is that • politically the rich are the men who contribute so generously to the coffers ot the political campaigns." If his information is correct it indi cates another change of mind on the part of the President and Secretary McAdoo. In his message to Congress of December 7 last, President Wilson said: By somewhat lowering the pres ent ' limits of exemption and the figures at which the surtax shall begin to he imposed, and by In creasing, step by step throughout the present graduation, the surtax itself, the income taxes as at pres ent apportioned would yield sums sufficient to balance the hooks of the Treasury at the end of the fiscal year 191". In his annual report for the fiscal year 1916 Secretary McAdoo said: It is respectfully suggested that consideration may well be "iven to an increase In the rates of taxation on individual and cor-- —te incomes a nteans of raising in whole or in part the additional revenues re quired to meet the new expendi tures. If the Journal's correspondent is giving us the right dope it must be that the administration has seen the pucker of its campaign purse strings. AN AX M AI- EVENT GALLEO and his San Carlo Opera Company came to Harrisburg during one of the most persistent rainstorms the city has had this Spring, but it is to be hoped that they will not be so much discouraged thereby as to cut out their contem plated visit next year. The San Carlo company proved itself last night all that was promised for it, and more. It gave us a taste of the kind of music the community needs. Consid ering the weather the attendance was very good and it is to be hoped that the music-loving people of the city have thereby proved their readiness to patronize really good music when it is offered. An annual grand opera event for Harrisburg would be an other step in the artistic growth of the municipality. A ONE-MAN GOVERNMENT WHEN he changed his mind on the subject of a tariff commis sion, President Wilson said: T wish that it were not necessary that it should fall to my lot to < hoose the men who are to compose it. Then, in a couple of weeks he changed his mind again and let it be known that he wo\ild not consent to a tariff commission law that provided for selection of the members by any one except himself. The plan proposed by those who desired a commission as nearly fair as possible was that the commission should consist of live members, one selected by the Presi dent, one by the Democrats of the Senate, one by the Democrats of the House, one by the Republicans of the Senate and one by the Republicans of the House. That would give the Democrats three of the five members. But the President won't permit any one but himself a voice in selecting the commission. Just because the Bethlehem Steel Com pany can sell the Government armor plate at lower prices than the Govern ment can make It. seems no good argu ment to a Democratic Congress, which talks much of business, but can't think business. | THE FRESH OFFICE BOY AGAIN By BRJGGS | v / SBS pNOW MOLD YOOR - rut- BE | . fct, THERE - IVE'GOT A VIHAT illllF' little important I V/ I Business • WTV* / fel&ct U *"P MKOiilva.>ua By the Ex-Committecman Reports of a definite refusal by Col. Theodore Roosevelt to permit the use of his name as a presidential candi date by Republicans of either the Penrose or State administration per suasion make the colonel the most im portant factor in the Keystone State situation to-day. For weeks there have been rumors that Senator Pen rose planned to beat the State admin istration by use of the colonel's name and then there were reports that Gov ernor Brumbaugh's friends were ready to withdraw him in favor of the colonel. The Philadelphia Public I.edger to day prints a dispatch from its Wash ington correspondent to the effect that the colonel said that he would remain a Progressive. The Philadel phia Inquirer prints a dispatch that E. A. VanValkenburg visited the col onel and told him the Pennsvlvania Progressives were with him. Mr. \ an\ alkenburg is said to have prom ised the colonel a quarter million votes, but as it was early in the week these figures may be subject to revi sion. The North American does not print much about the above matters to-day. The Philadelphia Press does not talk harmony, but says that the Brumbaugh campaign is to be pushed vigorously. The Philadelphia Record expresses the opinion that there will be a real fight and that Penrose will go after the administration forces vig orously. —ln its article the I-edger savs that Its informant said that the "colonel sought unity in the Republican party. Summed up the colonel's position, and viewed in the light of the resolutions of the recent State conference of (he Progressives here it becomes in teresting, is as follows: "To remain in the Progressive par ty and become its nominee at Chicago. To be in a position to become the compromise candidate of the Republi can party if there is a deadlock in the convention after he has been nomin ated by the Progressives. Efforts will be made by progressive Republicans to force the nomination of Roosevelt by the Republican convention, and failing in that, the plan is to combine to nominate a candidate acceptable to ihe radical wing of the party. Roose velt will accept the Republican can didate if he represents progressive tendencies. Ex-Senator Knox. ex- Governor Hadley and Justice Hughes would be acceptable. If any of these three is named the colonel will with draw from the Progressive party and unite with the Republicans. In its comments the ledger says: "Colonel Roosevelt's standing is look ed on as having a decisive bearing upon the Republican troubles in Pennsylvania. The information here is that Colonel Roosevelt's visitor sought to have him run in Pennsylva nia in the Republican primaries at the suggestion of the Vare-Brunibaugh- Smith faction. It is reported that Governor Brumbaugh is willing to re tire in favor of Colonel Roosevelt. The refusal of Roosevelt to be considered in this connection further complicates the Pennsylvania situation, and may mean that the light for supremacy be tween Penrose and the Vare faction will be continued in all its bitterness, with Brumbaugh as the presidential aspirant supported by the Vare lead ers. Gloom has descended upon the Vare faction as the result of the news from Oyster Bay. Just what the next move will be is uncertain. Friends of Penrose here are waiting for his re turn before deciding., A conference is scheduled here for to-morrow which may lead to open warfare on the Vare faction." "A plan of campaign under which national and State questions will lie made separate and distinct issues in the contests at the May primaries has been decided upon by Governor Brum baugh in his program for Republican and Progressive unity in Pennsylva nia," says the Philadelphia North American to-day. "It was announced yesterday that the local option issue Which will be pressed by the Gover nor's friends will not be confused with the light for Republican delegates to the party national convention at Chi cago. The Governor regards local op tion as a purely State as well as non partisan issue, it was said." "Penn." in the Philadelphia Bulletin discusses Mayor Smith and regarding politics as related to him says: "Vet ,it may be doubted whether the vast HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH majority of the people of Philadelphia who are not in active political life are much concerned about these hostilities or, in fact, understand much about them. They may be dragged into them later on in the primary election campaign, but it is not from among them that the causes of this belliger ent factionalism have had their origin. On the contrary, the causes are wholly personal: they have originated in per sonal differences of several years' standing, and they represent Jealous ies. resentments and rivalries, and not issues of public principle or policy." The Inquirer gives this version ot the VanValkenburg visit: "Edward A. VanValkenburg, in charge of the light in Eastern Pennsylvania, against Senator Penrose, was ushered to Saga more Hill this afternoon by George AV. Perkins, and he gave to Mr. Roose velt an hour of the pleasantest kind of political news. "The tight in Penn sylvania is not between the Progres sive party and the Republican party," Mr. VanValkenburg said later. 'lt is a fight between two factions of the Republican party, one headed by Gov ernor Brumbaugh and the other by Senator Penrose. And the interesting feature of this fight is that the balance of power is held by 200,000 Progressives who will vote this year unchallenged at the Republican primaries.' Then Mr. VanValkenburg smiled and add ed: "Of course, every one of those 250.000 Progressive votes is a Roose velt vote, and they will see that noth ing but Roosevelt delegates are sent to the Republican convention.' " —Ex-Congressmen Logue and Donahoe, of Philadelphia, are candi dates for Democratic nomination again. —L. P. Holcombe and ex-Judge B. R. Jones are candidates for Repub lican national delegate in but some of the Brumbaugh men do not like them. Brumbaugh headquarters last night gave out a number of endorse ments of the Governor from Cambria county people. —The Philadelphia Transit plans have been revised and sent to Mayor Smith. They are against a subway under City Hall. —Congressman R. D. Heaton, of Schuylkill county, tiled papers to run for Republican renominntion. —E. P. Young, of Bradford county, who will run as a Brumbaugh dele gate, was at the Capitot yesterday. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE" —England Is much interested about what the United States will do in the Sussex case. We don't know, but we've an idea what our navy would do under the same circumstances as now con front the British. —We wonder if it would be proper now to call him William Penn Jen nings? —The Wilsonian motto is: "Be sure you're right, and then don't do any thing." —Congress is going to investigate the shortage in newsprint paper. High time! What would a presidential cam paign be without newspapers? —"May take months to capture Villa," says a Washington dispatch, a bit of news that most people had in advance. —From being the "Yankees of the East," the Japanese have como to be known as the "Prussians of the. East." Oh, very well, if the kaiser can stand it, we can. THE STYI.ES By Wl»it Dinger The skirts this Spring, says Fashion, Shall somewhat shorter be. But how short, is the question That's now a-puzzllng me. | Each day some new creation I see, that's cut away A wee bit more than that one That I law yesterday. If folks get much more daring 'Twill not be long ere we See women wear a ruffle Where onre a skirt would be. i And prices will be lower At polite burlesque shows, ; For there will be no patrons [ For first and second rows. FEDERAL AID FOR ROMANCE By Frederic J. Haskin CUPID puts on many guises, but few people know that he gets in some of his most effective work when he wears a government, uniform. There are hundreds of happy families in the United States for whose bliss Uncle Sam, through his Immigration Bureau, is directly responsible. Kapid-lire affairs of the heart run ning over with sentiment, humor and pathos are commonplaces to the im migration agents. The other day a shy Italian girl landed at Ellis Island. Three years before, the man she was engaged to had left sunny Italy to seek his fortune in America. Now a part of that fortune was made, and Oulwppi had sent for his tiancee. The three years' engagement was to be happily capped by an American mar riage. Guiseppi was waiting at the dock, with a license ana Ills brother tor a witness. The course of true love seemed for once to be running smooth—but tragedy impended. Guiseppi had lived in the land of the too long, lie had taken too many walks up Broadway, looked too often on dazzling visions of American femininity. He surveyed his bride to-be and calmly announced that she did not come up to his new standard of good looks. He opined that she had deteriorated in the Three years since they parted. At any rate, he refused to marry her. The authorities argued in vain. The girl had no other friends, and deportation stared her in the face after three years of waiting and the long steerage voyage. But here the brother took a hand —he who had come along to act as witness. His chivalrous blood boiled at such conduct toward a lady. In good, round Italian he told Guiseppi what he thought of him. To em phasize his point of view, he hauled off and knocked the bridegroom down. Then he proposed to the girl himself. She accepted. So the marriage was solemnized after all, groom and wit ness exchanging places, and the im migration authorities, with one more knotty problem off their hands, de voutly hope they will live happily ever after. Hundreds of immigrant girls have to return to Europe every year be cause the men who were to marry them fail to appear, and they have not enough money to permit them to enter the United States. A pathetic case was that of a certain Hungarian girl. The same day she landed, the man who planned to meet and marry her was being taken from the emergency hospital to the burial ground in potter's field. He had been fatally injured on the construction work of the famous Hell Gate bridge. This particular girl was not sent back to Hungary. The case was brought to the attention of some THE STATE FROM DAi TO DAY Marjoric Sierrett, who for her age has probably had her name and pic ture in the papers more often than any other girl of the present time, is being popularly received wherever she is appearing. In Erie, her former home, the contributions are not as large as might be expected, and some how Oic concerted action seems to be lacking ihr.t will bring the dimes and quarters roiling in. Human nature is a funny thing; a person will be glad to do something if only it Is made easy for him or her, but there seems to be a premium on voluntary action In an altruistic cause. The Chester police force is rapidly dwindling by reason of the fact that higher pay and shorter hours are available in the munition factories. The request for more pay from Coun cil* met with no response, so the cops have taken the hull by the horns, fig uratively speaking, and quit work In large numbers. The Lehigh Valley Coal Company is figuring on the running of a SIOO,OOO tunnel from the Hazleton basin through the Butler mountain to the Nescopeck creek. Aption will not be taken until an agreement is reached between the miners and operators that is satisfactory. Graduates and students of the Reading High school for boys will make a strenuous effort to raise $lO,- 000 during this week to be used for paying off the remaining debt on George Field, which is the athletic field of that institution. The current opinion in the region MARCH 20, 1915. philanthropic women, WHO made themselves responsible for her. .She worked as a kitchen maid for several months and then married the man who had been working next to her flnnce at the time of the accident. The government's work as a matri monial promoter in cases such as this comes when the whereabouts of the man are a mystery, Uncle Sam prosecutes a vigorous search for the missing bridegroom. In the meantime the girl is lodged at the expense of the steamship company that brought her over, always under the kindly supervision of women agenrs who look to her moral and physical welfare generally. A German girl of this class recently arrived in Boston utterly alone. Iter father and all her brothers had been killed in the trenches. A distant cousin had sent her passage money, and promised to marry her on her arrival. Her vessel had been badly delayed in crossing, and there was no sign of the man. The immigration authorities took charge of the girl, finally locating her cousin in a Lowell shoe factory. There was nothing unwilling in his attitude, but the fact that he could not leave his work kept him away from the dock, while his lack of English prevented him from making any arrangements to inform the girl of his whereabouts. The im migration officers got interpreters and a German clergyman, and the couple were quickly married. It has already become evident that the war will eventually cause a boom in immigrant marriages. The Eu ropean peasant woman takes a mat ter-of-fact view of the question. She regards marriage as her destiny, and now that the men in her home land are being killed oIT by hundreds of thousands and her charges corre spondingly decreased, s e turns to America, where men are more plenti ful. summer a little company of five German girls all from the , same village, arrived at Ellis Island. Their homes had been destroyed, and the affianced husbands of three of them had been killed. Each had managed to accumulate enough money to permit her to land here: and each told the woman immigrant officer that she was going to work tempor arily until she found a husband. One of the three went out to a Jersey farm, one found work in a bakery, and the other three were placed in domestic service. Once they were settled the responsibility of the Immigration Bureau was over, but the | girls were full of gratitude for the : friendly way the authorities treated ; them. Three have found husbands already, and in every case the proud damsel has brought her blushing bridegroom around to exhibit him to i the women agents of the bureau. where the New Haven railroad holds sway is that the only way to make reasonable time Is to have livestock sure of getting freight through in a represented thereamong. So a. wise old gentleman up at Farm School, Pa., desiring to change his place of resi dence to a Connecticut city, made shift to purchase an old nag who was on its last legs and shipped the more dead than alive animal with his fur niture. Whereupon the railroad made haste to get the poor old beast through to its destination before It passed out, and thus did the professor outwit the railroad. I OUR DAILY LAUGH CAME NAT- <^l 6ug you 1 should say not. I'm a kiss- £, 'ng bug. I've' wTwft t 1 kissed all my life. OH! MY—YES. ! *" • m In d me of ™WV"' How's that? ' Mr. Wr a 11: I You're "chicken feed," ain't youl Announcement of the discovery of manganese Iron ore Along the Blue Kidge mountains In Cumberland county and that some traces have been found In Franklin, Pulton and Adams counties has attracted nome attention here because of the possi bilities of revival of iron making '*> the Cumberland Valley. Kor manjv years the ore beds ,of Cumberland county were operated, but It has been a quarter of a century since the fires were put out in the furnaces nbout Boiling Springs, which were the last survivors of some notable stacks. The i presence of manganese ore has been known in Cumberland county for a century or more, it is known as "Wad" and some fine specimens have been analysed. Its manufacture into iron, however, was too expensive for this country in competition with Eu rope and the beds were not highly de veloped. Now, however, when there is a great demand in this country some of the manganese beds may be worked and this city may become a center of iron making again. This manganese is generally found in the bottom of the beds of a henvltito ore which gave the Cumberland Valley land Dauphin county, too, a reputa tion for fine iron ore of that type, lit is sometimes found with kaolin. | Outcroppings of manganese have been : been found in some places In Pauph- I in. Perry nnd I„ebnnon counties, i while the hemitlte beds on the east side of the Susquehanna are well I known. If the Cunmberland mangan | ese ores can be worked at a profit now jit will mean much for the valley and |an almost forgotten industry may be revived. • • • An attorney who was defending a client in an assault and battery case objected to the admission of the tes timony of woman witness in March quarter sessions the other day be cause she wouldn't tell her reasons for advancing Tier theory as stated on tho witness stand. The girl declared she had seen the act as she was pass ing an open door and happened to "look in." "Why did she look in?" demanded the attorney half peevishly. "What was her reason ?" "Why, In order to test her credibility. Can't she ex plain why she looked in?" "Oh, I suppose it's the woman's reason." suggested President Judge Kunkel." "What does your Honor mean?" "Curiosity." * • • Some folks have good memories. They remember both names and faces. Others recall faces and know where they have met before but forget »ntimes. Among the delegates to the I William Penn Highway Conference I was a representative from Newport He gets into Harrisburg quite often, and there are acquaintances he meets every time he comes to the city. While I standing in a hotel corridor the oth- J er day this gentleman was introduced |to a wel-known Harrisburger. "I \ have not seen you for thirty years," i said the stranger, but I know your name." He repeated the name and said "1 remember yon because you bought j one dollar's worth of cigars three I times each week at a certain store in this city. I do not recal what busi i ncss you were in. nor do T know your i occupation now. but I will never for- I get your visits to that store, and tb ' one brand of cigars you asked for." : The Harrisburger recalled his pur chases and explained that while Tie was not a smoker, he bought cigars for a friend who has been dead these twenty years. * • * H. E. Bodine, of Clearfield, form erly connected with the Bureau ot Industrial Statistics and who made I studies of Harrisburg and other Penn sylvania cities, was here to-day. He is | connected with several progressive | commercial organizations up the State. Whether it is because so many cat tleliave been bought up by dealers ow inK to the heavy demand for beef not only in this country but from abroad there is a noticeable lack of cows in the vicinity of llarrisburg. For years this section, notably the Cumberland- Lebanon valleys, raised a,fair number of steers for market, but there are not nearly as many as in years gone by. And this, too, in the face of the high prices of beef. Country butchers say that they have their own troubles setting cattle and some say that cat tle are actually bought up months be fore they mature. • • • Kx-Senator George M. Wertz, of Cambria county, who was here yester day on business at the Capitol, served as president pro tem of the Senate in 1912 and was then county controller of Cambria. He is well known to many residents of this city. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —George W. Kirchwey, the warden of Sing Sing, has been delivering lec tures at Pittsburgh. —D. R. Durbin, of Pittsburgh, has been elected as president of the Southwestern State Merchants Asso j elation. —J. G. Trees, son of a prominent 1 Pittaburgher and an experienced flier, has volunteered for the United States •aviation work. ! —Dr. 11. 11. Harte, Philadelphia phy jsician. is chairman of the executive committee of the lied Cross in east ern counties. —Joseph Moore. Jr., Philadelphia manufacturer, has gone to Michigan to look after some extension of plants. -—E. M. C. Africa, one of the vice presidents of the William Penn High way is one of the prominent engin ers of the State. | DO YOU KNOW Tliat HarrJsburg tools liavc been used oil the Panama canal locks? HISTORIC HAURISIU HG The (irst iron is believed to have been made here about 1826. | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR' POINTS OUT AN ERROR •To the Editor of the Telegraph: Thinking a winner may have thu privilege of criticising the answers given to the various interesting quee tions asked by your enterprising I should like to call attention to an error on your part to the answer to question No. 14. Name three operas that had their premier In New York City. Your answer was: Konigskinder. Girl of the Golden West and Natorna. The first two are correct but the last opera was sung first in Phila delphia February 25, 1911 , by the Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Company —Campininni conducting and on the 28th of the same month had ita first performance in New York. The correct answer should be: Puccini's Girl of the Golden West- December 10, 1910. Humperdink's Konigskinder De cember 28, 1910. Giordano's Mme. Sans-Gene Jan. 25, 1915. J. WESLEY AWL, Jr. [ March 28, 1916.
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