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Show The Breeze JSfetehouse 'Ra.ised'RocKefeller's Instruc-k Instruc-k lions Z he Decline of Clyde Fttch. (Special Correspondence.) New ork used to talk with just a uash of scorn of the breezy West. There was something so unconventional un-conventional and unceremonious about the persons per-sons who came from the piains and the mountains that the sober, steady persons who composed the lormer ruling classes were quite upset by contact with them. Now there is a bit of the breezy right here for the Western men have come and brought the wind with them. Principal among them in the metropolitan eye just now is "Sam" Newhouse, of Denver and Salt Lake. He picked out a nice quiet corner facing Madison Square where there used to be nothing more exciting than occasional talking matches between be-tween pugilists at the Bartholdi, and Senator Piatt's legislative Sunday school at the Fifth avenue, ave-nue, and put a building on it that lias done more to upset the dignity of the metropolis than any institution of recent years. New York is proud of the "Flatiron" as it is called, because of its shape. Every good Britisher Brit-isher who comes over here filled with the lm- I portance of his homeland, is taken out and stood wTiere he can see the full twenty-one stories of the structure which up Broadway looks like a gigantic gi-gantic steamship coming prow on. But the pranks the winds play aroung the building have been so many and so serious that there is agitation to have about eight of the stories cut off. The wind from the West comes jamming against its side and is bent down into the street with such force that it breaks plate glass windows win-dows in the stores opposite, and what is worse fairly picks up women and carries them along the street until it leaves them in dishevelled heaps on the sidewalks. The East wind ricochets up broadway and the South wind is turned back on . itself. Each, the experienced ones say, is only just a little worse than the others. So it would be well for the West to prepare to surrender its title to breezy, for Mr. Newhouse has brought a quality of wind here that can be backed against anything that the trans-Mississippi can produce and when Colonel Shaughnessy overshadows the Waldorf-Astoria with that twenty-six story hotel he threatens to put up there will be even a better volume. c5 Really what has come over the John D. Rockefellers? Rocke-fellers? Everybody is wondering since the father fa-ther has followed the example of the son who has been interpreting the words of Jesus as ap-( ap-( plied to rich men and other things and has set out to tell the Senate what he wants done with the trusts. It is out of all accord with their whole , family tradition. The practice of the Rockefellers has seemed until the last two years to be to do the work and get the money and let other people J' do the talking. I Of course those who are well informed about I such things are aware that Mr. Rockefeller is '' the really powerful man in America today. J. Plerpont Morgan may be hailed as the great captain cap-tain of industry. He may walk into Wall street and buy a railroad or two or form a steel trust one month, or a steamship trust the next, and have the following that goes with success. But even J. Pierpont Morgan obeys when the order comes from the man who has his office down in the Standard Oil building. They came to an understanding once, when Mr. Morgan was forming his steel trust. Mr. Rockefeller had some iron mines up in the region of the lakes. He had not paid much for them and he had not spent much upon them. There was a lot of iron in sight, and prospects, however, to make a lot of battleships and buildings and bridges and such things. Mr. Rockefeller suggested that the steel trust should buy them he thought they were worth about $75,000,000. Mr. Morgan did not agree with him and neither did any of Mr. Morgan's counselors. coun-selors. Then suddenly Mr. Rockefeller started surveys for a railroad, asked for estimates on a steamship line, set engineers and architects at work to draw plans for great works at the mines and Mr. Morgan suddenly became convinced that they were worth $75,000,000. Wall street has known all about the Rockefeller Rockefel-ler movements for years after they were over. It has known of a great mysterious power which qouIq throw a weight of gold on either side of the market that would fairly swamp the opposition. opposi-tion. Electricity, gas, railroads, steel the Rockefeller Rocke-feller millions are everywhere. It would not be surprising if there were a few of them in Colorado Fuel and Rio Grande, and if a sufficient amount of them were backing George J. Gould in his great activities. However, all these things have been done underneath. un-derneath. So everybody was surprised when the younger John D .Rockefeller came out in the open and began telling his Bible class his interpretation interpreta-tion of the Scriptures. He explained a few Sundays Sun-days ago that the words about the rich man and the camel and the eye of the needle were intended intend-ed not for the man who really had riches, but for the one who valued his riches above his religion. Since then he has interpreted real charity, not to mean the giving of money, but the giving of sympathy. sym-pathy. Now his father has begun to teach congress. con-gress. What next? t t ty So far as things dramatic are concerned Amelia Ame-lia Bingham seems to have been unfortunate in having taken the worst of the four plays which Clyde Fitch has turned out in the last year. That is making a broad statement, too, for the Fitch products of this season are far from satisfactory. Whether it is because he is anxious for money or even with an income that is in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of $100,000 or fearful that the public will grow weary of him, he seems to be possessed with the dea that he must turn out plays as fast as he can write them. It was less than nine months ago that Mr. Fitch was announced to be in grave danger from nervous prostration, complicated with appendicitis. appendici-tis. Yet already "The Stubbornness of Geraldine," "The Girl With the Green Eyes," "The Bird in the Cage" and "The Frisky Mrs. Johnson," have been offered to New York play-goers. Naturally they have suffered Irom the haste with which they were thrown together. Mary Mannering has seriously impaired ner reputation because she was overshadowed to a lamentable extent in the first of these. Mrs. Bloodgood has made a good impression in the second, but the vehicle is weak. The third, adapted from tho German, has met with better success than the other two. The Amelia Bingham play, however, has received general condemnation because of its labored attempts at fun-making. Even the Fitch cleverness does not seem to have sufflcea for the task he set for himself this year. It is too bad that such a writer should have thus placed himself in a class with the hacks. Still the temptation is great for aim. "He can sell ah the plays he writes," said Frank McKee recently. re-cently. "If nobody else will take them Mr. Froh-man Froh-man will put them on." jjj, j y |