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Show lr. iiir. m'npay m niai:i bois, man a lifeboat and push off. The the ship strike uism the rocks men can reach her. After several attempts to gi over the breakers the re.iches the wreck, but now nothing can be seen but tlie mast and the figure of a man. bearing In his arms a hild. which lie holds above his head. Just as the boat reaches the wreck the mast sways to one side, forcing the man to let go his hold on the child, which fells and is caught In the out stretched arms of Jean Dubois. The wreck and the occupant of ths mast disaptiear. The little child, carried by Dubois, is welcomed as a daughter of the sea. Neptune's (laughter, and Dubois and his wife adopt ths little girh In scene 2. showing the name village eighteen year later, we see the villagers assembled to celebrate the approaching marriage of Annette, the little girt cast up by the sea, who has now become a grown woman, and is betrothed to her foster brother and former playmate, Pierre Dubois. When I'terre sings the song of his love adventures In foreign porta, Annette utilizes this excuse to break her loft engagement with him. Plerr alone upon the beach, appeals te the spirit of the ocean, which gave Annette to him, to show him the way that he can again win her leva tp from the sea rises the beautiful Hfrene, queen of the manna Ids- - Birena sings to Pieirs of ths wonders beneath ths sea and pleads with him to plunge beneath the surface and see fur himself the marvels In the realm of King Neptune. Pierre hesitates. But Sirens summons her mermaid a, who rise from tlie water and entice several fishermen to plunge Into the era. They return to the eurfare with wonderful titles of their adventure, and Pierre, casting doubt to the wind, follows the beautiful Sirens beneath the water.' But Annette meanwhile hae repented her rash dismissal of her lover, and, as a daughter ,of ths sea. she appeals to King .Neptune to restore her lover to her. Neptune, In hla berg drawn by mermaids, rises from the water and promises that if Annette will acrom-lian- y Mm beneath the sea he will restore to her arms the luet Pierre. Annette enters the barge, and they sink beneath the water, to the amasemont of tho villagers. Ilfs-bit- Our New York Dramatic spondent.J YEAR ago the writer described the new production at the New York Hippodrome a the k ' greatest of all spectacle and rated that It would never be sur-tbut he now take all bark. The present exhibit goes a Iona eiep ahead of the original Hipimdrome produce tkma In several respects in novelty of conception. In eplendor of color, in gen-erbeauty and In nerve testing thrills. How the management gives such a performance for the low prices of admission and yet pays its board bills 1 cannot imagine. The performance opena with a diverti'From 4 A d. al ng and exciting panoramic display Pioneer Pays, in which phases of early life In the wear are shown. Ths first scene depicts a western town In pioneer days, a small settlement in the mountains, where a crowd Is letting Itself loose In honor of the Fourth of July. entitled Pionser Days Described. Wounded Snake, a half breed Indian, la compelled lo cheer for the flag. Danger lurk on every hand. The red-skl- na ut S Astonishing Water Fasts, deck! They were mere beginners In i The apiwaranco and disappearance daring eomiiared In these two frail of I he various player frem and Into (seemingly so) slim, English girl. tho deep waters of tlw Hippodrome tank are nothing lesa than astonishing. The Brilliant Climax. Kow all la ready for the great and The Invention by which these maneuvers ara mads possible Is the work of extravagant finale, Neptune's Daughter. In which appears ths only flock of H. L. Bowdoin. In the final scene, the most gorgeous real live mermaids now In cspllvlty. The flrsl scene Is laid In a Ashing of all. Is shown the palure of King vlllaV" on the coast of Brittany, and Neptune under the erg. wa see the humble villagers men. w oKing Nrptune Is now seen returnmen and children liclplng to drag the ing through the water with Annette, fishing boats on to the beach, to amply who Immediately comes to Pierra and them of fish, untangle and dry the signlllea her regret at having sent him nets, etc. I'Iom at hand Is the aaa, away. King Neptune warns them and to one eldo, as it la evening, a that time Is fleeting and that they ore lighthouse cssla a beam over the wa- tu be united In marriage. While preters. paring for the ceremony the Ballet of various wonJean Dubole, returning with his crew the Ha Nymphs and the In a fishing boat, la welcomed by hie derful crest urea who 11 ve beneath tho King Neptune gives wife, Margot, and their little son, sea Is seen. Ilerre. An old man, HIImiu (the Pierra and Annette good advice and oracle), predicts a storm. A ship Is seen then In pantomime per: irms the wedto iiass In ths distance, and there are ding ceremony, after which Neptune's ' signs of an Iniiiemllng storm. The barge le prepared for Pierre and Ansailors build a Innflre to warn ths ship nette. They step Into It, and It begins of Its peril, hut the vessel heads direct- to rise, taking thnm back to earth gain. ly toward the shore. The sailors and FREDERICK TREGELLEB. flsliermsn, tinder the lead of Jean Du . risen and are killing men, women and children and stampeding cuttle. The stagecoach, having escaped the attack. reaches the eamp. The women are hastily loaded Into the stagecoach and preparations are made to drive them to the fort, thirty miles away. Suddenly a noise la heurd on the lower trail. Every one expects to be attacked by Indians, but the shrill, shun1 noise of a bugle rings out and proclaims the anivul of the t.'nlted States troops. They are en route to the fort, which Is threatened with attack. The army ambulance, however, hae broken down, and the money chest, with which the soldiers at (lie post are to be paid. Is transferred to the stage have threatened an uprising, and the hills are full of outlaws. The sheriff enters with half a dozen road agents, who hnve been made prisoners after a bloody light. The crowd wants to lynch the outlaws, hut the sheriff locks them up In a temporary prison. coach. Jess Busby, the dispatch bearer, Wounded Snake, the half breed, and ' ruehes pellmell into the camp with his gang release the outlaws, who tho fry that the Sioux Indians liavs stampede the horses and escape to fol low the unprotected stagecoach, kill the Indiana and uutlaws. This bailie the womeli sad obtain possession of ths scene has been well iliscrllied as th treasure chest. greatest scene ever attempted on the The second scene shows the assemstage of any playhouse. After a series of i ficus acts. Includbly of the Sioux Indians, a war council of the chief! and the ghost dance of ing the Herzog performing stallions, the tribe about to go upon the war-pat- the Bowers elephants, tlie llullowuy acrowire experts, the Patty-FranThe third ami dosing acene of Tlo-ne- batic stars, and llrilc Hip. the world's Days eRuws the attack on the smallest trick elephant, the audience stagecoach and the timely arrival of Is given a few genuine scares by the the United States tniupe, who dlsere Curzon sisters lu an extraordinary act. h. k, er Handsome and shniiely young women, t! ey are raised high In llie air, to the top of the great Hippodrome stage, and hang there from a cross liar, holding to It oily, with their teeth. Then round and round they swing, ronlort-lu- g fliclr bodies and straining their pretty: little white necks until ons thinks they will surely be overrunis by dlzzl'iess mid full to certain death. Til Ik about l he heroes of ltulukluvs and the boy who stood on the burning .j IMWARflAWMAAAAWWAfWAAMMANfMAAWyWAAAANMHBMAAMMWAAAMWAAMMlWIWWMAAMAAM Sensational Speeding Qualities of Modern Ice Yachts; Mile a Minute Ordinary Many Dangers of the Pastime 1 the. loud, ado aver automobile rung and boat records one not forget that (here I another branch of sport In which Ice sensational records are made. yachting Is the sport In question, and some of the records made by Ice skimmers make auto racing seem only an ordinary game after all, and as for motor boating, only a decrepit octogenarian would think of patronising It! Several authorities there are who claim that the famous Ice boat Scud, a prize winner on the Shrewsbury (N. J.) and on the Hudson, covered a mile tn thirty-seve- n on the first seconds named speeding stretch. Others there are who maintain that the Scud took forty-fiv- e seconds to cover the mile In question. Bo. that as it may. record tabulators generally concede that the mile under discussion was the fastest ever made by an American Ice boat DURING A Mile a Minute Is Easy,. ' Mile ' u mlnuta express trains that skirt the shores of the Hudson art frequently outeped by Ice hosts. As a matter of fact, a mile a minute to not looked on aa worthy of especial note by exjiert Ice boat men. The middle west, as well aa the east, is passionately fond of Ice yacht racing. Wisconsin boasts of more craft t'f this sort probably than any other state In the Union. On her scores of lakes hundreds of the sensational fliers may be seen at any time In midwinter. Lake Winnebago to one of the great-e- el of Wisconsin racing centers. The Lake Winnebago Ice Yacht association ' Is a highly prosperous organisation a tremendous fleet. Winnebago with thirty-fiv- e miles long and sixteen miles wide In places, and its surface usually remains for three full months In each year, so as to permit practical ly unlimited chances for Ice yacht sailing. Lake Minnetonka, Minn. 'Another famous Ice yachting renter to Lake Minnetonka, In Minnesota, west of Minneapolis. Many record runs have been made on Minnetonka. There are three racing centers In the east the Hudson river, Orange lake, near Xewburg, N. Y and the north and south branches of the Shrewsbury On the Shrewsbury, In the river. past, the lateen style of sail equipment hue been favored, but of late years the sloop rig, popular In New York and the middle west, has received more attention from the New Jersey expert mrnmm ' Ire yacht handlers la extremely limited. They are almost as erarre as airship skipper. Tlie tiller man must have the keenest of eyes, the auolest of heads, the strongest of nerves and the steadiest of hands. The Ire yacht to like no other craft, and so It require a BiieclaJist lo get good results. One of the peculiar phases of Ice yachting to that these rrufl are paver sailed direr) )y before the wind. When going straight before tlie wind they run away from It and toes their speed. Bo to go from one point to another with the wind they sail off at aa angle to the straight course, getting the wind aslant and then veer around and sail to the desired point, again getting the wind aslant. exiert ' The Booster." of Ice boat, railed the scooter, haa become very popular In the United Mates during the last few years. It to a simple craft, decked over, excepting a small cockpit, and having a solid bottom, unlike the Ire boat skeleton, equipped with several long, thin runners. The seooler sails on water as well as on Ice and carries a Jib and mala sail. Sloop Rig Is Beet. A new form The concensus of opinion now to that the sloop rig, Jib and main sail, produces the best all around results. Boms builders. In fact, will not allow a lateen sail to be put on their models. The lateen aail to triangular, with one point protecting beyond the line of the mast, this point thus taking the place of a Jib. I have always believed that much of the popularity of Ice boating waa due to the dRnger that necessarily attends the career of every one of Its followThe American temperament ers. craves the spice of danger. It likes to take chances In everything, from raffles to religion. It will waste away to a shadow If It cannot buy fake mining stock at I cents a share. And no one should underestimate the dangers of Ire yachting. To be upset and thrown Into an airhole or a stretch of open water Is an experience that one crave but once In a lifetime. Sometimes in such a case the unfortunate victim Is swept under the ice by the current, and then rescue to Impossible. Collisions Origin ef the lea Yacht. The general opinion prevails that the Ice ImmI is purely an American Invention. but Europe was Its Mrthplare. The ancient home of the original lea boot was Holland. Its particular habitat being the river Moeze, The old species widely differed In every respect from Its modern descendants. It resembled an ordinary rowboat, and It reeled on two transverse limiters, te which on runners were either side skats-lik- e The boat wen steered by a bolted. rudder of the ordinary kind, the lower edge of whic h was sharpened In order to get sufficient hold on the let tn enable the boat to turn at the helmsman's will, ordinarily. I believe, the rig was that of a sloop and the asils carried were a Jib and a mainsail, tlie mast being supported by shrouds set The up in the transverse timber. to carry used thrifty Dutchmen freight and issengers in these craft, but In America the modern type of Ice yacht is for pleasure and racing only. When an American Ice boat was first taken to Uuasta and placed one windy day on the Neva the Inhabitants of M. wild with delight Petersburg went over It. Now- - there Is quite a fleet at the Russian capital, nil built from the American rn'slel, with no notable Improvements. ARTHUR ROCK WOOD. !W. TWO RACING NEW JERSEY ICE FLIER DRUB LIFTING IN A GALE. BITS OF STAGE NEWS. other Ameri-ra- n The Isa Camille ITArvlHe, who married conservatory. to theonly waa Eddosses admitted retired from the stage three years ward A. MacDowell. the composer. a . reappearance recently made her Mme. Bamaroff was one of twelve suchubert star In a new nnisi cal play cessful candidate out of a cltt of 17. of the authors Kewrark.- N. J. The While touring In Ireland last sum' play are Messrs Stanislaus Stange mer In hla automobile Frank Daniels Julian Edwards. of the Gaiety an old Iks Ramaroff. the pianist. Is said f found Dublin.programme dHtcd Aug. 2. 181. antheater. soever he only American woman the comedian's appearam e In led to the piano classes of the Pai l nouncing SCOOTERS ON GREAT SOUTH BAT, are a frequent source of Injury. When rudder loosens or the mast stisp (I or Ice boat going forty or fifty miles an a stoke or slump Is hit while ging si hour meet something or somebody is top speed the result can icauily be sure to suffer. If a runner breaks or a Imagined. the Irielr capital with a Boston company known as' Atkinson's Jollities,) In a play railed The Electric Bpat k." The Interest manifested In the tour of j Yvette Gullbert and Albert Chevalier i Co., induced the manager. Liebler to make a four weeks extension of the trip In territory west of Duluth. William Musgrove,, the Australian manager, has made a proposal I" Maurice Campliell, manager for Henrietta Urosinan, fur (list at. lies tu go iti Aus i tralis next summer for a tour f the i.il cities In repertory. I will be Impossible for her to go. a per American engagements will prevent. Di.ly's, one of the best knot' n f NeW tlie Yoiks theaters. Is to pasthe ptesent management to that ofweeks Mrer. Bhuhert. After several i - of peg"1 ii lion, which iiroui " fr-u- I e,,r' rumors as lo the proper' y. the Independent iiMniigere have u.a-tby which they will gel pf NEWS. LONG ISLAND. N. Y. Eastern turf critics pronounce the best looking (retting stallion many a year. He Is by Mnko, Freedom from accident can only be seen secured by having a thoroughly com- darn Uongrazla. 2:1',. bv Antevolo, petent man to steer and manage the 2: 19'4, son of Ilcciiom-e-mareand the no'ed Columbine, craft. Unfortunately the number of half thoroughbred HORSE iu fr r about the first matron of her kind te show uniform trotting speed. Her blond In all likelihood liad something to do with giving Mograsla the fine finish that to into of hie chief rliaracterlatlra. A considerable share of the blue rib-boIn the trotting classes at the New York show fell to the get of Mr RobThe tost bins, a son of Mnmboul. named waa a handsome hors although beauty was never a characteristic of his family, the Bultana, a good many of them going low headed and having ton much ear for beauty. The dam of Blr Rolihlns was by Electioneer, and his second dam came of the Black Hawk family, an that he has more than one beauty strain In his pedigree, the Black Hawk family being, aa a nils, handsome, wall net up nags with a showy way of going. ne ft' t . i "V At .. v v v." c V'- V' i V y v 'V'tv CgORfiE K IRVKvH, LEADIVO SKATER George Klrner of Brooklyn la tryina desperately to be reinstated as an amateur skater. Klrner to undoubtedly the ablest figure skater In America today, but enemies tn the skating world succeeded In having him disqualified on charges of professionalism. of "The Belle of Mayfair. It will be control of ths playhouse next May, Jtelasro Invades s field of dramatic acwhen the lease now held by Frank tion which American dram 1 1st have remembered that when Min Clifford overlooked. It Is not the California of sang that song In the London producM Kee ex). Ire. shown In "The Girl of tion Miss Edna May promptly resigned Charles Cartwright. Is being starred (he f'lny-nlne- r. hr the Messrs. Hhuberl In a new play the Golden West." but the California her position at the head of the company. Mr. Cartwright Is of the languid Spaniard anil the coby Paul Wilstsirh. George D. Baker, who interpret the a weil known English actor, who first quettish senorlta the California of the rule of the Rev. John St. John. D. D., attracted attention here by his work in guitar and castanel. in As Te Bow. was for a time a theoVaJet-kKurratt. wb. has been thManhi'lmn company with Mrs. In vaudeville with Billy Gould. logical student, which fat t probably In this play ytske In "lenli Ktenhna. for his splendid portrayal of thr Gibson 1 I- i- has bail the role of Kleslins. singing Camille Cliffurd iu The Ruse of the Rancho David sung in Thomas W. Ity icy's production character of the minister. s |