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May 21, 2025 ~ JESUS NOT "SISSY," SAYS BILLY SUNDAY.

May 21, 2025

JESUS NOT "SISSY," SAYS BILLY SUNDAY.

Evangelist Declares Christ Was Vigorous Preacher, After His Own Heart.

A new Jesus -- a Christ militant -- was preached by Billy Sunday at the tabernacle last night.

"Away with those effeminate pictures of bowed humility and those stories of a sissy Messiah -- Christ was a man," Sunday declared. "When He stood in the presence of hypocrisy He bawled it out with a tongue that cut their thick hides like a lash.

"Jesus shot His preaching into the biggest guns of the synagogue of His day. When you read what He said in the Bible you read it in a sanctimonious tone that takes all the fire out of it.

"There's a lesson for the preachers in the way He preached. He said, 'Oh you scribes of Pharisees! You lobsters, you false alarms, you folly-flushers, you excess baggage, you vipers! You are little white sepulchers, all nice without but all rottenness and dead men's bones within. You're a fine bunch of guys! You rob the widows and the orphans and the whole bunch of you ought to be in jail.'

"Every Inch a Man," He Says.

"That's the way Jesus preached, declared Sunday, shooting out his clenched fist over teh audience. "Don't you think He was a sissy, because some old granny of a religious pussy-foot told you He was. He was a man, every inch of Him, and you will recall how He stood with dauntless face when the mob crowned Him with thorns and spat in His face."

In spite of the rain, which fell continuously through the evening, 16,000 persons attended the night services. There were several hundred members of the Association of Post Office Employees and about 4,000 members of the Patriotic and Protective Order of Stags. Other delegations were from the Cochrane Packing Company, Social Outlook Club, Gillpatrick's laundry and the St. James hotel.

The Stags brought a brass band, which formed near the platform and played "Brighten Up the Corner" and other hymns.

"I am glad to welcome you Stags. I understand that you have the only club in town that won't allow a bar in your club house. I hope you will establish a second, too, in all coming to Christ at this meeting."

"We will!" shouted a member. And when the invitation was extended, 100 members of the Stags marched down the aisles.

May 18, 2025 MUEHLEBACH CELEBRATES.

May 18, 2025

MUEHLEBACH CELEBRATES.

First Anniversary Is Occasion for Many Congratulations.

Flowers, a profusion of palms, extra musical programmes and entertainment and dancing marked the first anniversary yesterday of the Hotel Muehlebach. Fireworks in the evening from the roof formed the outdoor display. The lobby and all the cafes were decorated with flowers. Kelly's orchestra played a promenade concert in the lobby from 12 until 2 p.m. A Dansant followed in the Trianon cafe from 4 until 5, and a dinner dance from 6:30 until 9:30.

Vaudeville, dancing and a concert in the Plantation grill was continuous from 6 until 1 a.m. A de luxe dinner also was served in both Trianon cafe and grill. S. J. Whitmore and Joseph Reichi received many congratulations during the day and evening upon the success of the first year of the Hotel Muehlebach.

May 12, 2025 ~ LIBERATI, FAMOUS BANDMASTER, HERE.

May 12, 2025

LIBERATI, FAMOUS BANDMASTER, HERE.

Martial Notes of Italian Bugle Calls Stir Him to Patriotic Words.

The bugle notes of the Italian army assembly call rang through the fourth floor of the Hotel Baltimore yesterday afternoon, awaking strange echos. Perfect each note, clear and true, only a master could have produced such tones. Then followed the Italian army reveille, gracefully slurred a stirring call to arise. Again it was played, piercing strong, then delicately soft. The player paused. Standing in Room 435, he held a horn aloft in one hand and gesticulated with the other.

"Fifty years ago today, my friend, a half century ago this very day, I played that call. Played it in the Tryol in the ranks of Garibaldi's army to the music of the retreating Austrians. I, Alessandro Liberati, played it in Bezzecca, where only two months ago the brave Italian army, after fifty years, again made the Austrians flee. So I play the bugle call again, ta-ta, ta-ta, ta-ta, while the victorious Italian army marches over the same ground that I, Liberati, did so many years ago with Garibaldi.

"It is like a dream, almost, my friend. Fifty years ago with Garibaldi, and today the brave Italian army again is conquering the Austrian Tyrol. Few are left of Garibaldi's army. Fifty years is a long time, but I, Liberati, I still play."

April 15, 2025 ~ CONDUCTOR BUSCH IN SAD PREDICAMENT.

April 15, 2025

CONDUCTOR BUSCH IN SAD PREDICAMENT.

Symphony Leader Forgot to Change Cream Colored "Pants" for Black.

When Carl Busch, conductor of the Symphony orchestra, arrived in the dressing room section of Convention hall last night preparatory to the big concert of the orchestra and the symphony chorus, his musician associates looked at their leader in absolute bewilderment.

Conductor Busch, as far as the top section of his anatomy was concerned, appeared to be dressed in a manner befitting that of the conductor of a symphony orchestra. He had on his spike-tail coat, his evening waistcoat, and his boiled shirt, but there the symphonic nature of Mr. Busch's martorial decorations ended.

A glance at Mr. Busch's lower extremities revealed the horrifying fact that the symphony conductor had forgotten to put on his full-dress trousers. He had on, instead, a pair of cream-colored "pants" that evidenced the artistic atmosphere of a brass band or a minstrel show.

"For the love of Mike," H. O. Wheeler, violinist, said, "what is the big idea?"

Why, Here It Is.
Mr. Busch looked down and beheld the cream-colored "pants." His anatomical frame shook with feverish emotion. Within fifteen minutes the concert should begin. With the concert beginning Mr. Busch should be on the conductor's pedestal, ready to do business with his trusty baton. But with cream-colored trousers on! Horrors, no! It couldn't be done!

There was a hurried inspection of the various members of the orchestra. The conductor was looking for someone with whom he might trade trousers. But Mr. Busch has a waistband that measures 50 inches and there were no fits in the ranks of the orchestra.

"I believe Frank Hudson wears my size," Mr. Busch said: "If I could find Hudson I could trade with him.

There was a hurried call for Franklin D. Hudson, but Mr. Hudson could not be found. The minutes went on and Mr. Busch's cream-colored "pants" were still the central figure in a great tragedy.

Could Mr. Busch make it to his home, 6017 Main street, and change trousers and get back in time? No, that seemed impossible. Without conductor Busch there would be no symphony convert. As leave say Hamlet without Hamlet or a burlesque show without an Irish comedian, wearing red whiskers.

Better Than No "Pants"

The situation, at all times desperate, becoming annoyingly vexing. The time for the concert was fast approaching. And Mr. Busch was still walking about in his cream-colored trousers. He hated those trousers, but he had to wear them for the time being, anyway. Cream-colored "pants" are better than no "pants," this was agreed.

Finally a friend came to the rescue and agreed to rush to Mr. Busch's home and there get the so-called conventional or strictly orchestra black trousers and return with them. Mr. Busch could make the change when the automobile returned. It meant a wait, but there was no chance in the world or Mr. Busch showing those minstrel trousers to a symphony audience.

The automobile made a hurricane trip of it and returned in due time with the highly essential black trousers. The concert was saved. It began a trifle late, but Conductor Busch was wearing his black trousers when it did begin. That much is certain

Mr. Busch dressed in a hurry last evening and the failure to change his trousers from cream-color to black was due to the well known lapsis memory. Mr. Busch thinks there is no singer in all the world like Alice Nielsen and her return last night under symphony auspices upset him a bit.

As a rule, most everyone forgets his watch when he puts on a dress suit and frequently gentlemen leave their bank roll in the working clothes, but the incident relative to Mr. Busch is believed to be the first case where a man has forgotten to change trousers in his preparations for a evening's soiree.

April 6, 2025 ~ PENNANT CAFE

April 6, 2025

April 5, 2025 BAND TELLS OF VICTORY.

April 5, 2025

BAND TELLS OF VICTORY.

Musical Celebration Packs Streets When Result Is Known.

When it became definitely, positively, absolutely certain, about 9:30 o'clock last night, that Edwards and the entire Republican ticket had been elected by one of the most sweeping majorities ever recorded in the history of Kansas City, the Republican city committee called out the band, that's all.

For an ideal celebration in honor of a great victory a band is a most necessary adjunct and Dr. Ed Hiner of the Third Regiment band instantly responded to the summons.

When the band started up its first notes in front of Republican headquarters on Grand avenue, near Twelfth street, the clans began to gather. The parade, which started, soon gathered in a score of automobiles, while thousands of persons joined in the procession.

Thousands of others listened to the music and watched the paraders, and on Twelfth street, between Grand avenue and Main street, traffic quit business for the time being while the victors celebrated.

The band and its accompanying marchers stopped in front of The Journal office and thousands cheered as Dr. Hiner and his associates rendered most appropriately "There is No Place Like Home."

"It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" and other popular numbers followed, and meanwhile the cars on Eighth street were blocked by the crowds, and the passengers in the blocked cars didn't seem to mind it.

Many of the paraders picked up torches and colored lights as the parade continued on its journey, and the closing jollification was held at the city hall, which is due for a thorough house cleaning under the new order of things, as voted at yesterday's election.

At the city hall the Republican celebrants picked up a live goat and this symbolic animal was taken by the crowd to the Jefferson hotel, where it was marched through the lobby and from the back to the central part of the town, the last remnant of the parade finally disbanding at Fourteenth street and Grand avenue.

FAMOUS SINGER TO BE HERE TOMORROW. ~ George Hamlin to Perform at the Willis Wood.

February 10, 2026

FAMOUS SINGER TO BE

HERE TOMORROW.

George Hamlin to Perform

at the Willis Wood.

GEO. HAMLIN.

The George Hamlin concert at the Willis Wood theater tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock will be the fifth regular attraction in the W. M. series. Mr. Hamlin is one of the famous concert singers in the country and is specially noted for his success as a lieder singer. He was the introducer of the songs of Richard Strauss to American music lovers and the programme he has arranged for tomorrow's concert is excellently chosen to illustrate his gifts as a concert recital and oratorio singer. Schubert and Schumann are represented with two numbers each; Liszt and Brahms and two Handel numbers represent the other masters. Of special local interest is Carl Busch's "The Last Tschastas," dedicated to Mr. Hamlin. Edward Schneider, the gifted accompanist, has two places on the programme and there are other interesting features.

The students' seats are placed on sale the morning of the concert. All inquiries should be addressed to Miss Myrtle Irene Mitchell at the Willis Wood theater.

EVEN THE BABIES HEAR THE BAND. ~ Battery B Musicians Please Large Audience in Convention Hall

February 7, 2026

EVEN THE BABIES

HEAR THE BAND.

Battery B Musicians Please

Large Audience in Con-

vention Hall.

Yesterday afternoon's concert at Convention hall by Battery B band will not be the last, according to an announcement from the stage. There was no question of the success of the event, every number being vigorously applauded, "Lohengrin" proving fully as popular as the one ragtime selection of the afternoon.

The size of the audience was a surprise to the management, nearly 1,500 people being present. It was distictly a family gathering of fathers, mothers and the children. Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed and the baby were on hand and Papa Newlywed did a pedestrian "stunt" up in the balcony when the baby showed a disposition to rial the best efforts of the musicians.

Director Berry ha arranged an excellent programme, comprising seven instrumental and two vocal numbers, which was more than doubled by the insistent encores of the audience. Miss Mildred Langworthy was the soprano soloist and Ross Dale the tenor. Both pleased and were compelled to respond to encores.

The feature numbers by the band were a fantasie from Wagner's "Lohengrin," the overture from Offenbach's "Orpheus," and exquisite number beautifully rendered; a euphonium solo, "Evening Star" from "Tannhauser"' Nevin's dainty "Narcissus." The closing number was called the "Congress of Nations" and comprised the national airs of various countries. To give a spectacular touch, members of Battery B entered, one at a time, with the flag of the country as the band played the national air, closing with "The Star Spangled Banner" and Old Glory brought a storm of applause.

Yesterday's concert demonstrated that Kansas City has a large class of music lovers who do not require the stimulus of a great name to induce them to turn out. The classic selections on yesterday's programme were equally enjoyed with the lighter numbers. Director Berry had the courage to omit "ragtime" save in one single instance, and no one, apparently, felt very badly over it.

DRUMMER RECOVERS OUTFIT. ~ Detectives Looking for "Good Fellows" Who Pawned It.

January 28, 2026

DRUMMER RECOVERS OUTFIT.

Detectives Looking for "Good Fel-

lows" Who Pawned It.

The detective department is looking for four "good fellows" who appropriated the drummer's outfit of William G. Viquesney, a member of H. O. Wheeler's band, during the automobile show in Convention hall. The date on which the drums, tambourines, whistle, etc., were supposed to have been taken was January 19. It was on that night that four well dressed white men, half intoxicated, took the instruments to a pawn broker on Grand avenue and realized about $25 on them. The more valuable of the collections were recovered by Mr. Viquesney yesterday.

BLESSES WATERS OF KAW. ~ Custom of Greek Catholics Carried Out by Priest.

January 24, 2026

BLESSES WATERS OF KAW.

Custom of Greek Catholics Carried

Out by Priest.

Clad in the rich silken robes of his office and surrounded by a number of vested altar boys, the Rev. John Markowitch, pastor of the Servian Greek Catholic church of St. George, at First street and Lyons in Kansas City, Kas., knelt before an improvised alter near the middle of the Central avenue bridge yesterday morning and invoked a blessing on the Kaw river. One thousand parishioners attended the ceremony. After blessing the river the priest sprinkled each one of the church members present with water drawn from the river and administered the sacrament to them.

The congregation met in the church yesterday morning and marched from there to the bridge. The procession was led by six vested altar boys, who carried candles. They were followed by the priest, who was dressed in rich robes and carried a crucifix. Following the priest was a brass band which led a column of about 600 men. After the ceremony, which lasted about one hour, the participants marched back to the church.

Later the priest visited the homes of each of his parishioners and sprinkled their door posts with the blessed water. The custom of blessing rivers, while comparatively new in Kansas City, is an old one in Servia. The rivers are blessed there once a year, and the water used for baptisms taken from them.

Father Markowitch, who conducted the ceremony yesterday, is 52 years old. He came to Kansas City, Kas., two years ago, and in January, 1908, performed a ceremony similar to that performed yesterday, which was the first of the kind in Kansas City. The parish has grown from 800 to more than 2,000 communicants since he took charge.

A YIDDISH THEATER HERE. ~ First Playhouse of This Character to Be Opened Here Tonight.

January 23, 2026

A YIDDISH THEATER HERE.

First Playhouse of This Character

to Be Opened Here Tonight.

Kansas City's first Yiddish theater will be opened tonight in the Hippodrome annex, Twelfth and Charlotte streets. Manager Jacobs has fitted up a snug home for Yiddish drama here, the annex being cut off entirely from the Hippodrome proper by an outside entrance, though there is, of course, an entrance from the inside as well. M. B. Samuylow, who was seen here at the Shubert this season, will head a strong Yiddish company playing "Kol Nidre," a four-act opera with book by Charansky and music by Friedsel. Other Yiddish companies will be seen here from time to time and it is hoped to make the Hippodrome Annex theater the home of permanent Yiddish attractions, as there is a large clientele from which to draw.

WHEN ELMAN WAS POOR. ~ Charles Grossman Was a Childhood Playmate of the Violinist.

January 21, 2026

WHEN ELMAN WAS POOR.

Charles Grossman Was a Childhood

Playmate of the Violinist.

CHARLES GROSSMAN.

There is one person in Kansas City who is awaiting with unusual interest the coming of Mischa Elman, the violinist who will be heard here in concert for the first time at the Willis Wood next Friday afternoon. He is Charles Grossman of 3212 Charlotte street, a young sketch writer, who was a childhood playmate of Elman and shared his clothes and even meals with the infant prodigy, destined to be one of the world's greatest violinists. Elman's father was a man of brilliant education but desperately poor and lived next door to the Grossmans. The younger Grossman is eagerly awaiting the violinist's coming to exchange reminiscences with him. They have not met for a dozen years and in the meantime the 7-year-old concertist of the parting has become at 19 one of the wonderful players of all time.

"I am two years older than Elman," said Mr. Grossman yesterday. "I well recall the time when I first heard little Mischa play his father's violin at the age of 4 years. In my childish way I thought to have him punished and I told his father he was playing the instrument, which was about the only thing of value in the Elman home. The father was at first angry, but soon recognized the hitherto unsuspected skill of his son. He had no means to educate him, however, but my father gave him his first start by placing him under teachers in our home town of Tolnoe. Later he was sent to Schapola where a Jewish millionaire named Bodsky became interested in him and sent him to Odessa, where Professor Auer of the St. Petersburg conservatory took him up. the story of his phenomenal rise is history, but I know that he will be glad to see his playmate of the old days. He was the guest of my brothers in New York, one of whom is a rabbi and the other an attorney. I hope to have Elman as my guest next week.

"Incidentally I do not see why Elman should be called the Russian violinist. He is a Jew and though the czar himself has given him a medal and other honors Russia is the prosecutor of this race, and Elman himself was not allowed by law to live in St. Petersburg until he had secured the august permission of the czar."

Young Grossman himself bids fair to attain a high degree of success in his chosen profession and may yet be a dramatist who will shed luster on the Jewish race, as he is already the author of many successful plays.

IRON BAR IN MIDDLE OF SONG. ~ Warrant Is Issued for Arrest of Painter Who Used It.

January 12, 2026

IRON BAR IN MIDDLE OF SONG.

Warrant Is Issued for Arrest of

Painter Who Used It.

Music hath charms, but not for Henry Ray. Ray is a house painter employed at 1212 East Forty-forth street. Complaint was issued by the prosecuting attorney yesterday, charging him with felonious assault. Jesse Helm was the prosecuting witness.

Helm was musically inclined. He broke the monotony occasionally with a few verses of popular song.

"I was singing this morning," he told Edward J. Curtin, an assistant prosecutor, "when Ray came down from the scaffolding and struck me in the back with an iron bar."

"What were you singing?"

"Oh, simply 'I Love My Wife, But Oh, You Painter,' " said Helm. "He told me I sang as though I had a busted reed in my organ. I can't imagine why it made him sore when I refused to stop."

"I can guess," said Mr. Curtin, and he issued the complaint.

TETRAZZINI HERE FEB. 1. ~ Great Coloratura Will Sing in Concert in Convention Hall.

January 4, 2026

TETRAZZINI HERE FEB. 1.

Great Coloratura Will Sing in Con-

cert in Convention Hall.

MME. LUISA TETRAZZINI.
(Copyright, 1909, E. F. Foley, N. Y.)

Arrangements were completed yesterday by Manager Louis W. Shouse for the appearance at Convention hall on February 1 of Mme. Luisa Tetrazzini. It will be her only appearance outside of St. Louis and Chicago in this part of the West.

Mme Luisa Tetrazzini is today the recognised queen of colorature sopranos, both on the concert and operatic stages. She is the leading exponent of that now almost lost art -- the Art of Bel Canto. She is in the prime of her life and at the zenith of her career. Indeed, as a bravura singer, Mme Tetrazzini may be said to have no living rival. The characterizations applied to her by the London critics when she took the British capital by storm in the autumn of 1906 -- "The New Patti" and the "Florentine Nightingale" -- have been fully justified by the opinions of all the leading American critics who have heard her since Mr. Oscar Hammerstein brought her to this country as a member of his Manhattan opera company.

MAYOR'S CHRISTMAS TREE IS ALL READY. ~ CANDY AND TOYS FOR THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN.

December 24, 2025

MAYOR'S CHRISTMAS

TREE IS ALL READY.

CANDY AND TOYS FOR THOU-

SANDS OF CHILDREN.

Convention Hall Doors Will Swing

Open at 1 o'clock Today to

Admit the Eager

Youngsters.

Nimble fingers, hastened and made dexterous by kind hearts, effected a transformation in Convention hall yesterday, and today the great auditorium is a Santa Claus land for the poor children of Kansas City. At 1 o'clock this afternoon the doors of the hall will swing open for the mayor's Christmas tree, and at 2:30 they will close, while Santa Claus distributes Christmas presents to at least 7,000 little boys and girls who, by force of circumstances, might otherwise have had no Christmas.

Notwithstanding unceasing efforts, the committees of the Mayor's Christmas Tree Association have been unable to locate all the poor children in the city to give them the tickets which are necessary to entitle them to gifts, and these children who have been overlooked are asked to apply at Convention hall this morning from 8 o'clock until noon. Tickets will be supplied these children any time between those hours.

The Fraternal Order of Moose caught the Christmas spirit in earnest yesterday and notified the Mayor's Christmas Tree Association that it would have twenty-five wagon loads of coal at Convention hall at noon today for distribution among poor families. Each wagon will contain two tons of coal.

WORKED ALL DAY.

Poor families who need fuel are requested to notify the mayor's office by 'phone or in person up to 11 o'clock this morning. These cases will be investigated and if the applicants be found worthy the coal will be delivered at their homes at noon. The offer from the Order of Moose was made by W. A. McGowan, secretary of the local lodge.

That the Convention hall association is heart and soul in the Christmas tree project was shown when Manager Louis W. Shouse and the directors placed the whole Convention hall force at the disposal of the Christmas Tree Association. As soon as the railroad ball was over Wednesday night, Manager Shouse put a force of men to work taking up the dance floor and before 6 o'clock yesterday morning the building was ready for the decorating committees of the Christmas tree.

Steve Sedweek was the first of the association workers to appear on the scene. He arrived at 6 o'clock and within a short time a large force was at work, setting up the Christmas trees, decorating them and packing the gifts into sacks ready for distribution. The committees worked all day and this morning they will have the hall ready for the great event.

That the people of Kansas City may inspect the work of the "best fellows" a general invitation is extended to any who care to do so to stop into the hall during the morning hours, up to noon today.

THE GIFTS IN SACKS.

Among the busy people at the hall yesterday were Captain John F. Pelletier, A. E. Hutchings, Steve Sedweek, Captain W. A. O'Leary, Hank C. Mank, the Rev. Thomas Watts, Gus Zorn and a Mr. Bennett of Wichita, who is here to gain ideas for a similar event to be inaugurated in his city next year.

Among the most valued workers were the members of the committee of twenty. Their duties consisted of the packing and arranging of the gifts in sacks. They worked from early morning till late at night and ate luncheon and dinner in the hall. Mayor T. T. Crittenden was present at the luncheon and sat at the head of the table, commending the women for their work.

The workers were assisted by seven men from No. 6 hook and ladder company, Thirty-first and Holmes, detailed for the duty by Fire Chief John C. Egner. Chief Egner had intended detailing twenty men, but the fire in the Rialto building made it impossible for him to do so.

The giant Christmas trees, which will be among the objects of chief interest to the children, were decorated in magnificent fashion by the employes of the Kansas City Electric Light Company and the Webb-Freyschlag Mercantile Company.

The presents for the children will be arranged in sacks bearing the inscription, "Mayor's Christmas Tree, 1909." The sacks for the boys will be placed on the east side of the arena and those of the girls on the west side. The sacks for children up to 8 years of age are printed in blue and those of children from 8 to 12 are printed in red.

Each child will receive two suitable toys and candy, nuts and fruit, all arranged in Christmas style.

A CLOWN BAND, TOO.

The programme for the mayor's Christmas tree will be a simple one. The doors will open at 1 o'clock, when the children can come in to feast their eyes upon the great Christmas trees and enjoy a fine musical entertainment. The doors will close at 2:30, so that it will be necessary for the tots to be in the hall by that time.

Preceding the distribution of the presents, the Eagles' clown band will give a dress concert on the arena and a large electrical organ will also furnish music. Old Santa Claus, who, it is said, resembles very much in appearance Captain John F. Pelletier, will be present and he will have six assistants with him to mingle among the children. At 2:30 o'clock Santa will introduce Mayor T. T. Crittenden, who will make a short talk, and the presents will then be distributed.

"We have plenty of funds and plenty of gifts for all the city's poor children," said A. E. Hutchings, "and if they do not come and get their share it will not be the fault of the committees, which have labored incessantly to get in touch with every child entitled to the pleasures of the tree."

Although it was announced that no more funds were needed, and that no further cash donations would be received, the financial committee of the association was forced to decline donations yesterday to the amount of several hundred dollars.

HURRIES FROM GRAVE TO LAUGH ON STAGE. ~ GIRL WIFE SINGS SCOTTISH DITTIES, CHOKING SOBS.

December 19, 2025

HURRIES FROM GRAVE

TO LAUGH ON STAGE.

GIRL WIFE SINGS SCOTTISH DIT-

TIES, CHOKING SOBS.

As Orchestra Plays "Hearts and

Flowers" for Next Sketch the

"Two Macks" Mourn Death of

"Danny," Their First Born.

Unknown to the audience of the Gayety theater yesterday afternoon, while the orchestra playing the gladsome tunes suggestive of love and happiness, a drama was being enacted in the dressing rooms behind the scenes. In her room sat a wife of one year, her head buried in her arms and tears streaming down her face. Between sobs she could be heard to say: "My baby, my little boy."

Beside this woman sat a young man, barely out of his teens, trying in his way to console the heartbroken girl. Tears glistened in his eyes. His face was contorted with pain and anguish. He was the picture of despair.

The young man was Douglas McKenzie, 20 years old, of Dundee, Scotland. The girl was Mabel McKenzie, 18 years of age, his wife. The two are known to the stage world as the "Two Macks," and they have been playing a comic sketch in Scotch the last week at the Gayety. The two sat in the dressing room in their plaids and kilts, the same that they had appeared in a few minutes before on the stage.

The orchestra suddenly ceased its playing. The lights were turned low. The next sketch was a love scene and the orchestra in a low key softly began, "Hearts and Flowers." The young wife raised her head and listened. With her sleeve she brushed away the tears.

"I wonder if Danny is in heaven -- I know he is," she said, smiling. "I suppose the angels are now playing the same tune."

Danny was the name of their little boy, only a few weeks old, whom they had buried but two hours before. One year ago Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie were married in Scotland. They came to this country on their honeymoon trip and got a place on the vaudeville stage. They made a tour of Texas and Oklahoma. Two months ago they reached Kansas City.

A baby was born, Danny, they called him. There were doctor bills to pay and room rent. Last Thursday the little boy died. They had no money to pay for its burial. for two days the little body was kept in their rooms at the Wyandotte hotel, the undertakers refusing to take it until the burial expenses were advanced.

Yesterday morning Mr. McKenzie told Tom Hodgeman, manager of the Gayety, of his plight. Mr. Hodgeman immediately went to all the playhouses in the city. He told the young man's story to the actors. When he returned from his trip Mr. Hodgeman had $80, enough to pay the funeral expenses.

HURRY TO THEATER.

Yesterday afternoon the little body was buried. From the cemetery where they had laid to rest their first born the young pair hurried to the theater. They arrived barely in time to dress in Scotch costume for their sketch. The "Two Macks" came out on the stage. They danced the Scotch dances and sang the light and frivolous Scotch ditties. They smiled, they laughed and they joked. Little did the audience realize that behind the mask of happiness were two bleeding hearts, a man and wife who had just come from the cemetery after burying their baby boy.

The curtain was rung down and the two went to their rooms. Mrs. McKenzie broke down in tears. During the long minutes she had been on the stage playing the part of a Scotch lassie the minutes had been torture. "Danny" was dead. He was her first born.

CLOWN BAND AND ORGAN FOR CHILDREN. ~ LOTS OF MUSIC AND FUN AT MAYOR'S CHRISTMAS TREE.

December 18, 2025

CLOWN BAND AND

ORGAN FOR CHILDREN.

LOTS OF MUSIC AND FUN AT

MAYOR'S CHRISTMAS TREE.

A. Judah, Manager of the Grand,

Has a Surprise in Store and It

May Be City's Poor Good Boys

and Girls Will See Theater.

A mammoth organ is to be installed in Convention hall to furnish music for the thousands of little children who will be given presents from the mayor's Christmas tree. The Clown band of the Eagles also will furnish instrumental cheer. The musicians will be dressed in grotesque costumes. A. Judah, manager of the Grand, also has a surprise in the amusement line in store for the tots, and he might repeat this year his generosity of last year by inviting the children who seldom see the inside of a place of amusement to his theater for a performance and a liberal candy distribution.

"I'm always the happiest when I am doing something for girls and boys that the sun of plenty does not shine upon," said Mr. Judah at yesterday's meeting of the Mayor's Christmas Tree Association. Then he chipped in $25 to the fund, which has now reached the encouraging sum of $3,124.10.

"We'll double that amount when we hear from the people we have asked subscriptions from," declared A. E. Hutchings, who, with other warm-hearted and self-sacrificing men and women, are giving their time and means to provide Christmas cheer and joy for the thousands of poor children in Kansas City. And these faithful workers are going right ahead with their commendable work, regardless of envious and malicious ones who belittle the association by referring to it as the "Public Tree."

FUNERAL OF CHRISMAN SWOPE. ~ Services Yesterday at Presbyterian Church in Independence.

December 9, 2025

FUNERAL OF CHRISMAN SWOPE.

Services Yesterday at Presbyterian

Church in Independence.

The funeral of Chrisman Swope, eldest son of Mrs. Logan O. Swope, took place yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the First Presbyterian church, Independence. Rev. C. C. McGinley, pastor of the church, conducted the service. Mis McGilveray of Kansas City rendered a solo, "Ye Shall Know." Burial was in Mount Washington cemetery.

Miss Lucy Lee Swope, who was in Paris, started home upon receipt of the news of the death of her brother and of the illness of other members of the family.

15,000 SAW TIGERS WALLOP KANSANS. ~ LARGEST CROWD IN HISTORY OF BIG ANNUAL GAME.

November 26, 2025

15,000 SAW TIGERS

WALLOP KANSANS.

LARGEST CROWD IN HISTORY

OF BIG ANNUAL GAME.

Defeat Jayhawkers In a

Great Battle 12 to 6.

IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE HE HAS TASTED ANYTHING AS GOOD AS THAT.

Bitterly, even heroically, contesting every inch of the Tigers' invasion the Kansas Jayhawkers went down to defeat before Missouri, by a score of 12 to 6. The biggest crowd that ever witnessed a football game in Kansas City passed through the gates yesterday at Association park. Long before the park opened at 12:30, large lines of rooters were headed for the different entrances and by 1 o'clock the 200 ushers were more than busy. Many persons who were unable to get seats took advantage of the buildings in the vicinity and trees, roofs and telegraph poles were crowded. The yelling was probably the best that was ever given by the rival universities.

Even when the Jayhawkers realized that they were beaten, their spirit was not broken. With the cheer leaders who were placed in the center of the field, 2,000 students echoed their famous war cry when they knew it was of no avail.

EVERY SEAT WAS TAKEN.

By 2 o'clock, a half hour before the game started, the seats were all taken .. It was one mass of color. On the south side the crimson and blue of Kansas flaunted saucily in the light breeze, while the somber yellow and black of Missouri floated in the north bleachers. Across the high board fence in the rear of the Missouri section, the Tiger enthusiasts had stretched a long canvas on which was painted "Missouri Tigers." It was unnecessary work, for any stranger in the city could have told from the yelling that the Missouri rooters were seated in that particular section.

The K. U. contingent was the first to open hostilities in the matter of yelling. The band, twenty-four in number, gayly dressed in crimson and blue suits, marched out on the field, and commenced to play the "Boola, Boola," which brought the Kansas rooters to their feet. For fully five minutes the Kansans had their inning. The cheer leaders with frantic gestures signalled for the famous "Rock Chalk," which echoed across the field for five more minutes.

BOTH TEAMS WERE CHEERED.

The Tigers a few minutes later had their chance. Out on the Belt Line tracks on the north side of the park a snorting engine pushed a Pullman and from the entrance twenty-two men in football uniform emerged and stealthily crept toward the park. The springy step told that ten weeks' training had not been for nothing. Before the roots were hardly aware of their presence they had filed into the park through the north entrance. A cheer that could have been heard for a mile greeted the Missouri players. The military band commenced on "Dixie" and for a moment the air was one mass of yellow and black. The cheering only stopped when the team lined up for a signal practice.

The Kansas team arrived on the field at 1:45. They came through the southwest entrance and their red blankets were more than conspicuous as they raced across the gridiron. A cheer that rivaled the Tigers' greeting arose from thousands of Kansas admirers, and lasted fully as long as that given their rivals. Until the game started, promptly at 2:30 o 'clock, the two sections vied with each other in giving the yells of their respective schools. The Missouri band, to demonstrate its ability to play, marched in front of the Kansan stands and played a funeral dirge.

With this great victory goes the championship of the Missouri valley conference for 1909 and the honor of having an undefeated team for the season, the first Missouri ever had. Not only this, but it shows how superior Roper is as a coach over Kennedy, winning with an eleven lighter, no faster, but so thoroughly trained in football that it outclassed the Kansas team, especially in kicking.

This is the first battle the Missouri Tigers have won from Kansas since 1901. It is the first time Missouri has crossed the red and blue goal line since 1902. This is the fourth win for Missouri in the past nineteen years and so great was this victory that all Missouri is celebrating.

On straight football Kansas made 298 yards during the game while Missouri made but 190. On punting Missouri was the victor, making 780 yards in 21 attempts, for an average of over 37 yards to the punt, while Kansas made 465 yards in twelve attempts for an average of over 38 yards to the punt. Punting really won the game for Missouri.

STONG AND HILL MEET.

Chancellor Strong's visit to President Hill of Missouri in a neighboring box was watched with interest.

"It's too bad; you will lose," the tall Kansas chief executive greeted President Hill. Both smiled and shook hands.

"Just watch," was President Hill's rejoiner.

Mayor Crittenden occupied a box in the center of the field in front of the Missouri section. When the first score was made a few minutes after the game started the mayor threw his had in the air and yelled like a collegian. Frank Howe, who sat in the same box, was equally as demonstrative.

When the second band of rooters arrived in the city yesterday morning they maintained the same confidence that existed until the kickoff. At Thirteenth and Central streets the Missouri band started a procession which was several blocks long. Up the principal streets of the city the crowd wended its way, giving the Tiger yell. In front of the Coates, the headquarters of the Jayhawkers, the long line stopped and gave a serenade. Even the "Rock Chalk" yell wasn't able to drown out the "Tiger, Tiger, M. S. U."

TIGERS WANTED BETTING ODDS.

Though the Tigers were confident that they would win, the demanded odds and were generally successful in getting 2 to 1 money. It is thought that the boarding houses in Lawrence will have to wait for board for many weeks, for most of the K. U. students considered the proposition a joke that Missouri would win.

"Just putting your money out at good interest," was the way one K. U. man characterized it.

The crowd was especially well handled at the game. The twelve entrances provided enough room to admit ticket holders as fast as they applied for admission. After conclusion of the game there were jams at the gates, but no one was injured.

FIREMEN REALIZE $5,000. ~ As Many as 1,500 Couples Dance at Once at Ball.

November 25, 2025

FIREMEN REALIZE $5,000.

As Many as 1,500 Couples Dance at

Once at Ball.

Over $5,000 was raised for the Fireman's pension fund at the Firemen's annual ball in Convention hall last night, which was attended by nearly 6,000 people. The actual ticket sales amounted to over $5,600, and the checking stands furnished considerable additional revenue. This fund is in charge of a committee of firemen, and is disbursed under their direction to provide for the firemen's families in cases of sickness and death.

The grand march, led by Chief John Egner and Mrs. Egner, started at 9 o'clock. From then until the early morning the dancing continued, there being twenty-four numbers on the programme. As many as 1,500 couples were on the floor at one time. Deveny's orchestra of twenty pieces furnished the music.