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Show I Sarah Bernhardt I Sells Papers To I Aid Victims - I For 56 minutes during mid-day Mad- I amo Sarah Bornhardt hold a monoply I In tho sale of nowspapers. In that tlmo I seated In an automobtlo sho looked I over a vortlable sea ot surging human- R Ity, and dealt out thousands ot papers. " i1t Unslackened by the need ot making "' chango, her street sales ot tho day sur passed In tho period thoso ot any salo ot any combined editions ot tho past. When through necessity sho was obliged ob-liged tq close her "stand" It required a hand satchel ot capacious dimensions dimen-sions to carry away tho proceeds from tho sales. And alt ot this was for the benefit of tho homeless and sufferers In the flooded district of Ohio. Tho proceeds of tho salo wero 1835. 09, according to tho count mado at tho Commercial club Immediately after tho salt. 'f-ttHWt Noontime today In Salt Lake presented pre-sented at tho corner of Second South and main street a picture so raro and so stirring that every onlooker felt within him a strnngo and ever cnang-lng cnang-lng emotion. It had been announced that at 12:15 o'clock Mine. Sarah Born hardt would play the rolo of newsboy tho proceeds of her salo to bo given over to the benefit ot tho victims ot tho floods In tho devasted district of Ohio. Long beforojtho tlmo set crowd began gathering end when Mine. Bern hardt appeared ltircqulrcd tho efforts of tho Hfgh School battalion, a platoon plat-oon of police, mounted and on foot to clear a pathway through tho street for tho arrival of her automobtlo at tho stre'et Intersection. Tho street was a swaying mass of peoplo each crowding In an offort to 0 among tho first to buy a paper from the hands of tho "Dlvluo Sarah" and tho windows and the roots of tho toworng Wnker Bank building and other blocks wero black with ther cur-ous cur-ous onlookers. First Papers sola Tho first three papers to bo sold were copies of tho special edition of The News and they brought In a total of $245. M. M. Warner, exalted ruler of local lodgo No. 85 ot the Elks was on the ground halt an hour boforo the arrival of Mme. Bernhardt and her car had "barely stopped when ho stepped up and handed over a hundred dollar bill and received In return tho first paper ever sold by Mme. Bernhardt. This copy of the Nows Is autographed by Madame Bernhardt and will bo placed among tho treasurer's momentoes ot the Elks club. Mme. Bernhardt had Just mado her first salo of a paper when throwing a second $100 bill on tho Improvised nows stand she bought from herself a copy of the news. Manager Sullivan of tho Bernhardt company bought for the present weeks Orphcum players tho third copy of the Nows for a total of $45 each of the players In tho mil having ""chipped In" to buy tho paper Joe Hatllff, playing at tho Orphcum and a nattvo of Dayton O., was fourth In line for a paper and then tho rush began. Men women nnd children crowded through tho tortous passageway pass-ageway through tho massing crowds that formed swaying banks but barely sufficient for tho slnglo lino that passed pas-sed tho "Nows stand" As each buyer buy-er passed tlio stand the prlco of the paper unfixed and which ranged nnywhero from n dime to tho $100 mark was dropped upon silver Platter Plat-ter Golden pieces, sliver pieces of all denominations Jingled ns thoy fell In a steady stream upon tho platter while tho paper money calling for fives, ton and twenties fluttered In tho stirring of tho coins. It was only n few minutes min-utes until tho platter was heaping with tho money that Is to go to aid the Btrlcken to bring Joy to hearts now heavy with sorrow. Tho sale of tho papers began nt 12: 19 nnd It was 1:15 o'clock beforo mad-amo mad-amo Bernhardt was compelled to ceoso work and return to her ptlvnto car In preparation for tho matlnco performance at the Orphcum. Even after serving thousands It appeared when she left ns If as many more oager buyers were still In lino nnd dlssappolnted. tokening her pleasure In her selflm-posed selflm-posed charltnblo work nnd with n cheery greeting for each ono of her customers, Madame Bernhardt was tho center of the fascinating Bceno. It was notlcablo that In spite of tho ardouB labor of tho three quarters of an hour she never exhibited an Indication Indi-cation ot fatigue. Sho personally folded and handed out to each buyer tho paper. Her graclousncss was markedly shown when nged women and men passed In tho lino when for each of them sho had n cordial hand-shako hand-shako and n pleasant word of greeting Several children carried in nrms will have told to them as a reminiscence-that reminiscence-that ho or she had been kissed by tho Vivacious with glistening oyo be-"Divine be-"Divine Sarah." |