Show z r HACKETT TELLS HOW HE LOST L f 1 LONG FIGHT WITH THE SYNDICATE J jj l EB K 1 will leave 1 the J ln In JM and forces with lh the syndicate Announce But to this wn mado In III Now by b Mr Ir JIll kett who In III Ini IIII i tI ment given various rea Ihl h led to Ills action olIon moo rno o withdraw V throe thre actual and several p from tanks of ot tho Iha and leave lie Hold to 10 Mrs Fl ke and David CO COIn In the long tight hl Nagel by the Inde y against t th Ih ui ten first and foremost Not NOl only exclusively In III 1 tilt ule houses hOUltS but JUI on nearly every eler occa t n when tic he nun hUH been called on nn for a I epee h he hI ban ostentatiously the methods of the syndicate lIb Ith Amazing regularity Ills ultimate therefore Is all tha moro more Sir r Hackett tays the tho Independent Booking Agency hns haa outlived Its use wn but bUI adds that ll Il hns not lit la In vain Tho blow to HH t p a was given Rh n when with tho Iho syndicate This nn controls nearly bonnes about Hot which Merc ere at the disposal of tho th Wp nil offering them a years booking These Thue theaters are now lend to 10 any hut hili attractions Mr Ir Harkett Hays practically an IM to 10 his bis hopIs hopes F tho i between Blair i and the syndicate the pro tnt ent out by W ber I MM anti and that firm disposed of Its theaters In Harlem and VII to HalIn thus clos cloR closing cloRIn ing In the Independents out of at three moro houses to this Maurice Campbell manager er of ot Henrietta Cros Crosman rol man one of ot the tho earliest to Institute tute warfare against tho trust Joined Interests with David Tho lilt lat latter ter ler Mr Harkett Hackett says refused to t thim him In maintaining the Iho Independent Hooking Agency BO 80 In tho Iho face of ot all these Hackett as All star and manager haa accepted defeat after more than two yearn of earnest work the expenditure of ot a n vast amount of ot money The withdrawal of 0 leaves the Independent Held much tho Iho name as asIt It witH gome sarno yeara ago David I position Is rather a n onu to 10 un understand He han hM not associated him himself self Relt with the tho Independent Hooking Agency neither Is 18 he n a member of the Bo Ho Mrs I IH III practically the only star playing strictly Indo Inde Independent pendent theaters Roma months ago It looked nit fill If It half n dozen would add their names to the roller Jut but for some unknown rea 1111 reanon non which Mr Hackett defines dennell as Q a 1 breach of or faith plana not rom com completed and 1111 the tho bottom fell out of ot tho whole thInK thing Sir Mr Hackett lays down dOn the tho Independent dent scheme with much Brace 11 touching that those who ho have been and still Interested In him and Ills hili car er or will wll give him the Iho same re ro Ill it nn man should receive who lias struggled honestly and who has been tod through no fault of or his own |