& BECOND sroTION, | Che YEAR 75. - Son ec 003 NEN YORX LETTER THE FREE LUNCH HABIT REFERRED TO. Present, in New York, Over Four Thousand Free Lunch ' Counters--The Barbers Have Grievance. New York, March 13 peculiar habit growing upon the peo ple of this ety which a few years ago, would have been looked There Are at Therd is a upon ate means; 1 refer to the free luncheon habit. Men worth their milfions are seen at these free luncheon counters, and not only are not ashamed, but give good reasons jor it. Oné habitus of these places, which are becoming more and more numerous in our cits says it is bocause he can get the kind of food that "mother used to cook, and another wellknown moneyed man said it was hedause he "didn't have to wait for it," and one man even ad nits that he is so infatuated with the "free luncheon, that he "just imagines" that everything he gets on the free lnncheon counter, "tastes better" than it does in the regular dining-room, although he says he "knows" that the twig dim ghon) dish' "iw served at both 'places. Lis oxtimated that there are now over four thousand free lanch counters ih Greater New York, and the mumber * is increasing dm because they are so popular, and they pay handsomely, too, for rich men give big tips and patronize their re gular dining rooms when they have ladies with them. Very few cafes are today without this adjunct. Strange as it may. seam, very. poor people can not afford to lunch at these free luncheon counters, That even madérn school buildings ard not always sufficiently fireproof to allow of the emptying of the school rooms of their precious little ones, hy means of the fire drill, is too sarily evident to need comment whet" one. reads the horible Jdtails of the fire at North Collingwood on last Thurs day, where 172 children and teachers, in a paniestricken effort to | escape, were penned in behind the locked doors, trampling ench other to death, and living and dead burning up just beyond the reach of help. The harrowing details have (heen reported ia all their frightiul particulars, =o | hasten on to express admiration for ---- two a viieed enough, and the -childven LITTLE Daily Brit KINGSTON, ONTARIO, R IN INDIA WA LT en of A Sowber wis heroic Miss Weller, whose bravery in attempting to stop the rush of her pupils when they left the fire dill, and plinged into the others ahead of thems, resulted in her be we carried to death with them, and the sympathy we all feel for the stricken parents and who many of them are mourning the loss of more than one loved one, some of them not even being granted the satisfaction of being able identify the remains Every mother in the land down whose homes are desolated, to must dure some degree of Sirain as she sSOes her ol for ~ al of other dren start for school, know there is a possibility | such ecatastrophies unless fire-drills are with scorn, even by people of moder: more more more often practiced, inspectors carciul, and the fully enforced. In the Collingwood schodl we note that the drills had led the childred only to the stairs, never to. the . outs side idon fire In this case, | note, as in the Boyertown theatre five, they they went in, and thought of way; not even a teacher thought of the unused fire escapes As 1 sug gested in the Boyertown disaster, fo 1 would again call the attention of renders to the fact that in times of peril by fire, when a quick exit is the one thought ju every mind, both young and old will instinctively seek to got out by the way they have been ae- oustomed to go in, Mi the Colling- wood teachers had been accustoméd to empty their rooms, not only by means building laws scapes. no other out-side fire escapes, they would have dove so on Thursday, and, taking out the childeen from the sétond storey that way, would probably have saved all of them by preventing the frenzied rush down the inner stairs, and con- sequent pack of struggling and = help less oneg cut the closed lower doors. Probably the lower floors could have escaped but this panicstricken avertlow from above. MM the children had had any praetice in going out by the outside fire'sscapes, both they and the teachers would have thought - of them as a means of safety. HH floors and walls are fireproof, built of eopn- crete and metals, aml five drills prac made for accustomed to going out-hy the side fire escapes, no fire in a school building ought to endanger the lives of those within, because the inflam: able material would furnish so little fuel for fire, and retard its spread, that all could easily escape before even the smokes would be dense ' Kiso so opough to blind . or suffocate them. of the fire drills, but Ly means of the! all attempted to go oui the way, my | { out- | } | building, and each SCENES OF English and native Indian troc tive expedition' against hostile tribes, Hos Sng Th crcTRy RBI THE CONFLICT. ps are again engaged in a "puni- The cause of the expedition is the turbulent behavior of the Zakka Khels, villages having been | looted, posts attacked, Sepoys and villagers killed apd British sub- | jects carried across the frontier. The resources of political officers | have long been exhausted, and the government has been compelled | to send a military force. The Zakka Khels have not succeeded in | causing the other Afridi tribes to jein them. i The commander of the British troops is Major General Sir James | Willcocks, the second column being controlled by Lieutemant-Col- onel Ross-Keppel, who is the political officer in charge of the Khy- | ber pass. The actual number of 008 ; natives, 8,622. The British landers, the Royal Munster Fusiliers;-and the Royal Regiment. the force engaged ares British, 2., regiments are the Seaforth High- Warwickshire The country into which the expeditionary force is now penetrat- ing lies due west from Peshawar pass. known fort situated in the eastern portion of Two rivers flow westward from the Afghan hills toward the of the Indus. The northerly one is the Bara. The two streams are separated -ains known as the Surghap. The expeditionary force has | and south of the famous os The final advance has been made from Ali Musjid, the waell- the Khyber pass. plain is the Bazar and the southerly one | by a range of mount- | entered the Bazar valley and has advanced toward Chinar and is attacking the Zakka Khel country, which is Fara: valleys, Often the simplest remedies are the most efficient, That all in the buildings sought one exit, bath in this, and the Bovertown fire, aud with fatal results, ought¥te make those who control the means taken for safety in crowded buildings think why. As I said at the time of the theatre disaster, that which is in stinctive, guides action when of mind is In abeyance, make all the many exits equally miliar to those who constantly wit sock the exit he knows is in ease of fire. Pardon my repetition of this idea in these, letters, but it is forcefully impressed upon my mind, that I ean not help repeating it, in the hope that some one of those interested in seek ing a means of safety for human life in cases of fice in crowded buildings. will be influenced to act upon it The superintendent of in New York city assures us that such u catastrophe is impossible here, beeause of the fireproof construction of = our school houses, amd the perfection of our fire-drills. sible here, it can be attained schools. The barbers of New York are con- siderably disgruntled gver the matter of tipping. They say that according to present fashions, the owner of the shop does not carn as miuech as the man be employs, because the master: barber would be disgraced in his pro- fession, if he lowered bis dignity en- ough 10 accept of a tip. Why not turn the shop over to a corporation, and then. as all would be employees, nobody's dignity would he hurt by the tip. Something certainly ought to be tone to relieve the situation, as it's a mast shocking state of affairs that any man should suffer the loss of his dig- nity "just becattse he hankers to get something for nothing. Possibly the do not suspect how mach eom- pany they have in their distress. Mare cases of sick hondache, hitious- therefore, fa Use a instinctively the nearest #0 scho.u.s in all mess, constipation, can be cured in Jess tithe, with less medicine, and for less money, by using Carter's Little Liver Pills, than bv: any other means. Mustard sters made with white not. blister the skin. + Daily exercise with light dumbbells sventually cures round shoulder presence | MH such security is pos-| { dency. at the heads of the Bazar and | = IN THE PUBLIC EYE. pi a Man Roogevelt, | | Has Been Who Booms { i { | | { JACOB BUS. i Jacob Riis, - Iscturer, author and | | worker in general for the uplift of | | bumanity, has been very prominently { ln the public eye of late through his | persistent. booming of Theodore Roose- | { velt for the position of mayor of New | York after fe vehinguishes the pres | Me. Riis, who is: necounted a) neighbor of the president when Mr. | Roosevelt is at his Long lstand home, | has been "friends of the present chief magisteate aver since the days when Roosevelt was police commissioner in New York and Riis was dorking as a reporter on | a New York nmowspaper.. In a letter written only a low weeks ago to a mutual friend President Roosevelt gave Riis the warmest possible praise and characterizes hits as a "trump." The president bas wot, however, publicly indorsed his friend's pet project aneat the New York mayoraity. Betrayed By A Bark. London, March 14 -Fouis Onis, ul 01@ of the élosest personal | i Path, was fined $15 at Dover, on Sa- turday. for sttempting 10 smuccle ao Pomeranien Puppy into England in ; the pocket of hws overcoat. The dog ET ------ IS PRACTIC | Feohman for {| Marie Doro, ey | have not apparent! | i DOINGS IN STAGELAND ABOUT PLAYS, PLAYERS AND PLAYHOUSES. Mrs. Campbell Sent Her Under- study to Play---Martin Harvey to Play "The Bride of Lam- mermoor" in Glasgow. Arthur Van to and Violet offer Bourchier brugh are considering an make an American tour. "Samson," the new play by Henry Bernstein, will be produced at the Ly cetm Theatre on September Sth, It is said that Mrs Leshic Carter | may appear in a dramatization of Efi- i nor Glyn's "Three Weeks." Garden," written by and just produced by is criticized as being novel, "The Byron Ongley, Dustin Faroum, far too talky. George Ade left New York, last Thursday, on a tour of Papama. Ve nezuela and Sother South American countries Rector"s Henry Arthur Josies has el the manuscript of a new play a duction at- the Hudson Theatre on August 25th Charles Frohman has arranged with Seymour Hicks awd FEllaline Terriss to visit America next sesson in musical play, "The Gav Gordons." The New York Casino now housing Sam Bernard and his new "Nearly A Hero" ap pretty h sort ad iT It the usual show, is parently mu Sathern has commissioned ' Huntly McCarthy to write new play {or him around the charag ter of Gil far produttion next a Blas, { season. May the month set by Charles the arrival in London of who will have then com tour "The Morals of is pleted her in Marcus." Charles. Frohman, who don, is in cable with Otis Skinter with a view to present ing Mr. Skinner in Sbakespearean te pertoire next season, Martin Harvey, scen hese some sea sons ago An The Unly Way,~ will produce Stephen Phillips' version of Sir Walter Scott's Lasataermoor,"" on Glasgow, Seotland. Owing mainly Wing Pinero was not. representod 'on the London stage last vear by pew work. Two original plays and revival of "Trelawny 'of the Wells'" are expected in the near future. Maxine Filiott is pot altogs ther isin Lon conference by Maveh pleated with the way the public re' fases to get excited aver "Myself Bet tina," and she wil probably turn again to some of her earlier pieces. "The New Mys, Loting," the comedy by Jessie Trimble, in whith Miss Crosman appears, will soon. be turn ol into a novel. This is yuite a re versal of the wsual procedure. Marzticet Tlington has teturned to the New York cast of "The fel" at the Lyveums, after a few weeks rest at Atlantic City. The play is now run ning toward ite eighth month e "House Of Thousand Capsdlen,"" which for a very brief spell was seem 'in New York, was finally snuffed out last week at Norristown: Pa, Thit ledves E. MN. Holland at liberty. April 18th produce in Le Churks Frohman wl t rural classic "Way Bown He will give it ex- eotly as played hers, and not give it that toning down which proved fatal to "8 ¢ and Henry Stanford, Laure *ho played recently at toy Grand, ish SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1908, N---- ALLY PICTURED; IR. pro- | the | es a ---- _-- Whig " - = -- PAGES § TO 1%, 7 prasmm-- NO. 63. w Bo Eo M1 ydcrm' made a financial ss of the 'Walls Of Jericho." In Pittsburg matters very gloomy, and the At week Terry Gladys Sue were lwo actresses quit Nottingham last produced ompany Ellen | Of | much Henry with Unger's new Lancaster. title role, beth of honors Charles Frohman has securd th English rights of the Fronch play "Qui Perd Gagne." which is rehearsed hy Mme, Reiane theatre. "He Who 1. {is a dramatized version by ther of a story In ! Charles Frobma i London, J. NM "The Admiralle Crichton," with great success. Its reception suggests that | the play may become as immortal ax | "Peter Pan." It was given with | strong cast and magnificently Miss Maud Adams ended her York engagement, last Saturday opened. her out-of-town tour « day in Philadelphia. Miss visit cities as far west as pla James the Miss I shared' Eliza acting and York,' new now ke at her Gains," Pierre Ve Alfred] Capu ved ing {own S08 § in masterpiece has rey Jarrie's an staged Ne and Mon Adams will Omaha. and she expects to be away from the glare of Broadway for least, three | months w i at John Drew will play the longest senson of any of the Charles Frohman stars. Last vear Maude Ad ams traveled the farthest and plaved the latest The tour of 'My Wile" company straight west to San close with the end of June. 'Lady Barbarity," as-dramatizes by Carton, | don the other night play is original, nor gue remarkable, iit it is picturesque and thrilling throughout, Marie. Tem pest played the title role in her inimi table Judging from the ity" cess This year will continue Francisco and will only The plot of the nat ils thado fashior "Lady lity amd bewitching first night in all probal Barimr will be a su wk n publisher for cessful De Of Vi Bela hit David Belasco last received an well-kno to the i "The Warrer now. playing at offer from a the book right Mille drama ginia,"" theatre. The offer js for turn the pla rRnRpemen Mr. Helusco fers 16 well Music Ma clined David matinee the thito a + practical tor Belasco idols talking he wie Strange | the yea t was produced in Lon- | the 'other thist were ver read Shakes Lost 7° said the the second bali best, girl to rave all ihe leading girls. |} nteragy ropos. i bald 'Id you « Love first No, i GAR overheard lay a coMversation 5 men cons versin peare s bor hend akon my heard her toot han through thw iow man's } Mme, Tetraz this week alten! ini was ta have Crispino e la Comare," American cold eanolled, This amusing old Malian opera Loofle is a groat faveriu with the prima fonna we A to be at her } sh bhaelore the pobilie rol of Patti will be re of optra goers of twenty vears avo, especially as the Sir Benedict variations in "The Carnival of Yoiille ™ "which wha sings at the finale, makes unusual de upon a Patriesk sung m but owing to her first the most periormance was xn ts besi w BOI In a membered in wh by seor ou Julew Fino Campbell has nte of the She beon- of wouth ina plaved ting the ighal ome the one-night stands in rather Cwinber shabby mander Md, » personal m alter the the and ta theatre and would appear that sent. her understudy to of "Mrs. Tanguerav." the Cumberland news. management the thea + peonle who paid 82 each and were and ntly giving her management of the pre i evening promise AL whe she enact the The Tee papers and part 8 of of tre, to Campbell 'stung,"' can be butter imagined than described 1,804,710 Childléss Families. Paris, March 14.-OF the 11 315.000 holds in France, says the Varig I. 8M. 710 children. . have ong 2.661.074 childyer 2 have | It addy wix teen hots have no child Lauded 2.966.171 have two UST have fi familie i 1 thai seventy-nine thirty {our three and J POLIS toes, and forty-six have eightecs hidren Dandruff Or Not? Wade s Olltment | other gealy bu raj he Jing pyr er uned | keeps Jiktle sMIOUe Obs ire Eazema, Belt dd Boren, Fry: big boxes, Bou ii chose Vou e { Deconmung poi, Vijés, ete tn Wegde's Pruy Steve: 'Fhe Bride of | 23d, at to Hihealth, Arthu: j anv ¢ i al residence. he 4 Count ' Michagl, # Sn rd J a A RUSSIAN DUCAL FAMILY. # his is the latest photograph of the Grand Duke Michael the Countess Torby and their children, takes at Keels Hall, theis left to right ares + Cosutesy Wada and LFF leben bid did