San Antonio Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 103, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 13, 1913 Page: 46 of 76
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Id Berlin variety ibowa arc given In the moat extraordinary ceuter.—ei wltneaa
the aboT*.
Dresden Minister, After a Tour of the World, Complains
That the German Capital Is a "City of Shame—A Mo-
dern Babylon"—"Any Swindler With <i Plausible Scheme
for Making Men Happy, Drunk and Debauched Has
Ready Access to the Purse of the Bourgeois"—America and
France Manufacture Special "Berlin" Motion Picture
Films-Films Too Outrageous to Be Tolerated in t lie
Land of Their Origin—Erotic, Ecstatic Dances a Passion.
BBBLTTf, April 12. Berlin has grrown
Babylonian The once roost prndish
and most Aicetlc of Europe'# capitals Is
now the noisiest, vulgarest. most luxurious
•cd moat plaaanrs-loYins; of all the dtlss
of the world. It ■urpaases mongrel New
Tork.
Th1« fart baa Just bepn brought to Ber
lin minds by the ev. Mr. Steinle. The
Rer. Mr. Btelnle is a squarc-faoed Pres-
d#>ner who has made a tour of the world
and has wept over the wickedness of every
city from London to Pekin. And he finds
Berlin worst of all. "It Is n city given
over to shame," he says with severity. "It
Is the modem Babylon.*'
This Is a tragic discovery for elderly
Berliner*, who nigh for the decent times of
old Prussia, when Berlin bad fiv* theaters
and only one hath. In those days men
neither made merry nor washed ftven
Wllbelm 1 when he wanted to feel clean
(which was seldom) used to send to the
Hotel de Rome for the one bath. Today
every banker's clerk has a bath In his
apartment, and there are so many, theaters
that three of them go broke every year,
^et despite this and to the ittsguit of
aseptic Prussians of the vanishing school
theaters, baths, and other Babylonian
sumptuousness are multiplying In every
it reef
fifty million dollars were invested dur-
ing the I sat three years in providing amuse-
menta for insatiable Berlin. That was the
in the Potsdamsfrasse district. Chariot -
tenburg and the "Bavarian district." have
been dotted with bars. Five years ag >
there wero not three in all Berlin Now
there are 20. Probably a year hence there
will be 400. Most, are cabarets rather
than bars, in that they have music and
dancing. The bars after a preliminary,
inevitable bankruptcy flourish. Every
one of them is filled at 4 in the morning
«ith sprawling Prussians, degenerate
children of the heroes of 1870, who drink
mostly exotic drinks, In theory inventions
of America or France.
A curiosity of Berlin's Babylonlanlsm
is an abnormal passion for dancing. There
J.s a "dance local" 1n nearly every street
in the city, and several in some streets.
The popular dance Is the "Sehiebetanr.'
or "push dance." so named because the
de.neers push one another in a tight em
brace. With this motive, various other
erotic ecstatic dances have been invented.
Also in the "Aiisflugsorte" (various
suburban holiday making resorts) danc-
ing s:oe* era7v The Berlin dstioar 00
wise resembles the decorous dancer of
forty years ugo. He dances himseir into
s frenr.y. and the balls of servant girls
and chauffeurs often end in bloody quar-
rels, police intervention and Jail
EXOTIC BABYLON IAN ISM.
Berlin's Babylonlanlsm Is exotic. It in
Fiench, English or American, but never
Berllnese. If German at all. It Is Ba
rarlan or Suabian. Berlin la a mongrel
city with no characteristic clvlliiation. Its
outlay on theaters, restaurants, cafes, beer j amusements, bad copies aa they are
gardens, variety shows, lee and roller
rinks, bars, dancing halls and motion-pic-
ture shows. And the supply hardly meets
the demand. Every month scores of amuse-
ment enterprises go smash, but not because
there Is no public The cause of the
smashes is wildly dishonest finance and
reckless gambling
Berlin's present Buergermeisler. Herr
Wermutli, says that, in investing money
thoughtlessly, Berlin beats the world.
Nearly every amusement enterprise fails
within a few months of opening The
premises and outfit are sold at a low price
to some prudent person, and the show be
fine to pay Berlin has a proverb - "Fools
niid 1 beaten wise men ruo them."
. (rambling in amusement enterprise* is
just now going on here as In no other city
on earth. The finance of the enterprises,
ss examined afterwards by the bankruptcy
officials, is amazing Men without n penny
plan enterprises which they cannot con
duct, make their profits by deals with
builder® and decorators, and then let the
effalrp go to ruin. "The colossal spectrin-
tlou In places of entertainment," says the
financial writer Borchthurdt, "is without
example In the world Thousands of Ber
liners unsatisfied with the prevailing rate
of interest, which is higher than in Lon
don or Paris, rush Into the unknown bust
nesa of providing amusement for s fickle
population, and any swindler with a plaus-
ible scheme for making men happy, drunk
snd debauched, has ready arrow to the
purse of the Berlin bourgeois nnd the of
fleer'* widow with savings. And all a'!
st. Wat of nine-tenths of the money In
vested—is Irrecoverably lost."
CRAZE FOR BAR*
Btrlln's craze for cafes, bars and motion
picture show* has gone so far that every
second private dwelling house has got some
such institution on tbs ground floor. Even
tb# rsllway arches shelter variety shows.
The banks help this by the esay and in
different way in which thoy give credit.
House owner* also make a business of pro
vldlng amusement The cause of this is
tba ainmp in the Berlin housing market
Tha city la badly overbuilt, sixty thou-
sand apartments are vacant whereas. In
normal years, the num!*r in 30.000 Kent*
have fallen and house owners are in trou-
ble to mert the heavy mortgage charges
on their overburdened building plots
In this dilemma thev have had the genial
ides of turninv the ground floors of their
dwelling houses, which are always bard to
let as apartments Into nmusement shows
of various kinds The landlord, when h»-
builds his new house, plans the ground
floor ss a cafe. i»gf, or klentopp, that is.
motion picture show This costs him no
more than arranging It as an apartment,
and he enn always let it to ambitions
rowf men who have no capital, but a high
idea of their tnltnta aa entertainers The
result Is that residential Berlin luta disap
pe ire<| Once qillet squares and lanes on
the edge of the city have come to resemble
Broadway in eelor and b'^w, and to re
■erable the Bowery (old * street
rows violence and conflicts with the p<>
the by which the drowsy-headed honrgeol*
Is kept awnke at night.
Berlin's Wright particular passions are
the kientopn. the artificial lee rink anrt
the bar. It was Americans who first
showed Berlin the speculative possibilities
of the klentopp. and Americans lust now
are opening a vorgeous mot ion picture
show in the once quiet Nolle*)riorfplatr
Berlin's motion pictures are the most
Bnbvlonlan In the world. The offhlal
N"ordd«»t:tscbe Alluetuelne ZHttMs savs that-
Aroerim and France manufacture for ej.
port special Berlin flltaa. By Berlin film*
are meant films too ontrageou* to |m> to!
crated In the land of origin. Of klentopp
shows Berlin and ber suburbs have now
over i.Otm that i# about one to evert ?.(W
inhabitants Berlin's nrtlfMnl b-e rinks
sre the biggest snd lw»«t In Europe The
bar, however. «s th# new ••rase wrtieh hn«
the most markedly Babylonian poaslbill
ties
Half of Berlin's bsra are'called "Amevl
»ae bars" There ■% nothing American
she ft tb«*m ev»**pt the names of a few
rirlnka. and ui<»«t of the*# are wrong A
Berlin bar is anvthlng fhst keeps
rn flight, asd ?1nwa with drinks,
e'ry. night/ <eb red dr*s«cs 8nd high
taftivti ladies tiara its bar craae
ecme from abroad, and they have no links
with Berlin. That la true both of high
class and cheap amusements. The rich,
champagne-drinking Berliner goea to a
pseudo-American "bar." He stays there
all night talking a pseudo-French jar
gon, and next morning he pays a visit
to a pseudo English tailor.
The Berlin working class man spends
lils night in "locals," which are pseudo
Bavarian. Bavaria is a Berlin crare.
There Is more Bavaria in Berlin than
there is In Bavaria. The pale faced ward-
robe attendant. In the "local" wears a
Bavarian green hat. The waiters wear
red Bavarian vests, and the painted city
bsrmalda try to look like cowmalds from
the alopas of Hohsnackwangau. TbH la
Berlin's way. It'a idea Is a fnke mixture
of civilization from all parts of the globe.
In this it recalls New York But Berlin,
unlike New York, borrows only the words,
phrases, drinks, mannerisms and clothes,
it does not lmp?*t the human exotic. The
ninln motive in this is to foster the In
erndlcablc Berlin prejudice that every
thing in the world Is "vornehm" (that is.
Berlin's present buergermeister, Herr
Wermuth, who says that in investing
money thoughtlessly "Berlin beats the
world."
distinguished) if It originates outside
Germany.
According to the Rev Mr. Rtelnle, Ber-
lin his all the characteristics of a de-
cadent city. There is truth here. In no
other metropolitan city Is family life so
despised and ignored Berlin is a city of
l-hyso nl wrecks. It has a reasonably low-
death rate, but a lower ntlll standard of
health, and l.'l per cent of children who
arrive at school age arc put back for
physical or mental unfitness Race suicide
in the form of "Ilie (wo children sys
lem" Is universal.
The birth rate was 45 in 1875. It 1s
only 20 now. The child death rale Is
much higher than it is in London or
Paris. If It. were not for frerh, healthy
blood from Pomorania aud the Pruaso
Polish provinces the population would de-
crease The illegitimacy rate Is four
times higher then London's. "The whole
city," says the wrathful Stelule, "Is
given over to vulgar amusement, and no
one has time for the sacred obligations of
fill her and mother. In (his we sec all
the "harscteristics of the city which has
departed from the simple way of its fnth
era the cllv which has degenerated Into
a modern Babylon.''
A feature of Berlin's Babylonlanlsm 's
the tfre.it increase of crime. Only such
crimes have increased as those which arise
from the growth of Berlin's pleasure craze.
The • liief Increases are In embezzlement
end forgery. In white slave trading and
oilier offenses ngainsl morals and de-
eercy. In Berlin proper, which has a pop
Ulatlon of two millions, forgery lias in-
creased three fold during the Ijisl fifteen
years. Embezzlement has increased two
fcld, nnd offenses against morals nnd de
rency 270 per cent. "Offenses committed
at night nnd In a state of intoxication"
have Increased four-fold since 1000. This
is the result of the riot *»f license and
lioury which has overtaken Babylonian
Berlin.
The cause, the authorities say. Is
wealth Not wealth In Itself, heeni-se Ber
lln is still poorer than London and New
York, but suddenly acquired wealth Ber
IIii'm growth in wealth Is more rapid than
that of any other city. The change from
penury to profusion has gone to the
needs of the once staid nnd solemn burg-
hers. nnd every man competes with every
ether in extravagance and show
Naturally the square-faced parsons
from as<etl« Mresden grow censorious.
They feel they must proclaim that Ber
lln Is the new Babylon, and Is rapidly
marching to the old Babylon's fate
11 of my married life When I
declined to answer some impossible ques-
tions they declared that, if 1 did not
answer, I could not get a divorce
"I then aaked for an Interval for rest,
and for consultation with my lawyer.
Phis was refused. 'The oxamiuatlon,' I
waa told, 'must, under the conslatorlal
law, bo conducted without a brena.' When
the examination was oyer t was imprison
ed from in Id da v till 8 o'clock In the
evening in a wlndowleas room. At fl o'clock
a report of ray examination was brought
to me to sign. I asked If 1 could read It
before signing, and was (old I conid not.
After eighteen hours' waiting, I was told
that ray divorce would he against canon
law,"
The baroness says that she was never
told whether her husband was examined,
or what he had said. .She never heard a
word of the evidence of the chief witness
against her She adds that she and ill
otter witnenses on her side were so terri-
fied bv the Inquisition-like procedure that
they did not Know what evidence they
gave.
Metropolitan Antonlns, Vladimir's prede-
cessor, who lately died, set himself busily
to remedy these Ills. He promised to
allow lawyers to be present at the in
qnlsltlons, and to protect the interests of
the parties. In this he was opposed. The
J>}nod reactionaries stood out for the old
pystem Objection to the lawyers whs
raised by those who profit from the sys
lem of bribery. If publicity wore al-
lowed the consistories would have to de-
cide according to the evidence Thai
would break down the whole system of
corruption.
The consistorlal "pisar," or secretary, is
the real man who decides a divorce. He
Is n layman with, as a rule, a little law,
and with this he entirely bosses the un-
worldly, Incompetent bishops, archiman-
drites, and other essleslusties who sit on
the consistory board. The "pisar" earns
1760 a year In salary, but he usually lives
better than the local millionaire. All men
pay him graft.
Miynr of the bribes are paid to acceler-
sle trials In most cases one of the par-
ties wants the divorce put through with
haste Against this there is no legal ob-
stacle* and as there are no lawyers, cross
examinations, cr legal maneuvers, the
average divorce case ought to be finished
ir a month. Instead, it takes nearly a
year and a half. The "pisnr" delays the
decision, and meantime grows fat on
bribes paid to induce him to hurry up.
t-flon. at the same time, the other party is
paying the "pisar" to delay the trial, ann
in I he end the richer side gets its way.
The "pisar" Arsene Zingine of the Mos-
cow Consistory has this month got into
trouble for extorting 17.000 roubles from
M. .Minkovsky, a relative of Moscow's
former governor. M. .Minkovsky resorted
to bribery because his strong family In-
fluence was not enough to make the con-
sistory set to work, and be was in a great
butry to marry the ballad singer, Elenova,
of the winter garden "Yar." At the cor.t
of 17,000 roubles he was allowed to divorce
his wife in seven weeks. Afterwards he
went bankrupt, and he gave the extortlous
of the consistory as one of the causes of
his financial breakdown.
A favorite device of the consistory of-
ficials Is making incriminating documents
disappear. For this they exact high pay-
ments from Ihe incriminated party. The
fashion was s«t by the Butovitch case. In
I his affair M. Alexis Butovitch, a Kieff
millionaire, waa s.jed for divorce by his
handsome wife The case attracted atten-
tion throughout Russia because the real
lr'fetlgator of the divorce was the Minister
of War, General Sukbomllnoff. who has
since married Madame Butovitch. The con-
sistory refuse.! the divorce, and the Hvnod
confirmed the refusal. Then seme myster-
ious machinery was put in force. A
bundle of original documents on which
butovitch supported his defense mvster-
loiisly disappeared, and In a new trlnl the
vlfe gained a divorce
I his happened two years ngo. Since
then the losing of documents has been a
rim rite way of foiling attempts at divorce.
Moscow Is Ihe center of the lost document
Gorge. A week ago th> courier of Mos-
cow Consistory "lost" In Tver a portfolio
cci.taming the original documents in three
n'toroe cuspf. Tlio document* Included the
dHeftod love Mfprn of two unfaithful
viyes One of the wlvet was the neeond
rlrhesl woman In Moecow. With Door
joople document* are not onlr not iont. hat
practically no dlfnrce I, poaalhle
Ihe bill now hPfore the Duma alma at
ending these scandals. It admits that on
canonical grounds the decision In dltorm
trials must he left to the eonalitorles,
with an appeal to the Synod, hut it pro-
vines that Ihe whole proceeduro of exain-
imtion ind preliminary Inquiry ^hull be
carried on by the ordinary courts Tn-
stead of the "pisar" there shall bo the
juge d Instruction." Instead of the
darkened room, an open court Is to be
provided.
The ant-er of Metropolitan Vladimir la
directed ajinlnst this ''ungodly scheme to
an Inert religion. The Metropolitan Vlad-
imlr is an honest man. but an Intense,
reactionary. He denies flatly that there is
any corruption !n the divorce busings,
and declares that the talk of graft i*
malicious invention of revolutionary
U'lnds.
EASY DIVORCE IN RUSSIA
"With Bribery It la PoMlbl* to Buy
Another Man'* Wife or Any Worn-
an'a Huaband" — Advent urea of a
Baronet* With the Familiar* of the
Inqnlaition—Fixed Rule to Hear the
Hnaband Flint—Highly Placed Rua-
Mian Reaort* to Bribery to Marry a
Ballad .Singer, Disburse* 17,000
Rouble* and Then Become* Bank-
rupt— Myateriou* Machinery Move*
EcclaaUatical I'uppet*.
*pe*lil CtW« Service to The
ST. l'BTERHBt'BO, April 12,-De»plte
hla impressive title, "Yulsokopreo-
■wlas'-ht'hennuyl," St. Petersburg's new
Metropolitan. Vladimir, Is a very sngry
man. He Is sngry becsuse the Kusslan
dlvor.'e law Is about to be reformed. A
bill is before the Duma with this object,
snd It hss made th# Most Consecrated
Vladimir the most irste individual lu the
Holy Kuaslan Kmpire.
The csuse of the projected reform Is the
scandal and bribery which accompany
every Kusshtn divorce and which are due
to the fact that divorce trials take place
under Mdliral cottdltioflfl. Tbf church Is
still In entire control «»f the procedure,
and It pursues an inquisitions! secrecy nnd
mystery Whst takes place during a di-
vorce trial Is not *nade Known even i" Iks
parties, and bribery la universal. With-
out bribery there is no divorce. With
bribery It la possible to buy snother man's
wife or any womsn's husband.
Thrse furta, long known, have been
ti ought before the public by complaints
of the Husso (ifrman Ilumn< 4« oeidMrem
of her treatment by the orthodox divorce
cn.rt. The baroness paid $T,10U for n di
voree. for which the lawful fees are *110
?*he failed to act the divorce She after
wards lenrned that lw»r hu«hand. who did ;
not wain to lie divorced, had paid twlee
ns much a« ahe did. and that the con- |
si^lory. therefore, gate Judgment to hlin. '
The eonalstort Is Ihe divorce authority ]
I* la an orfh»»doi ecclcslasthul board, of
which the president Is the bical bishop
and the nnlv Rppcal against its de» l«buis
Is to the lloljr Ptnori " Appeals to the
Hynod " says th* aari*astic baroness, ' ar*
vert rare, be^auae after ynu have done
«lth the mn«l«tnr> von nefcr ha»e an*
monei left wherewith to brlN* the Kyno«) "
The trial of s dtvofcr is a trnv*«tT of
lc« and eqnftr rt*e ->nslvtorr takes thi*
document* and ciMdlngs. and entrusts
tbtm ts a commutes has the rotnaii
Metropolitan Vladimir who says ttussinn
divorces are never corrupt. He declares
tnlh of graft Is n malicious invention of
revolutionaries.
tec has studied Ihe domtnenta Its Invites
the parties singly, nnd without their
lawyers, nnd ncit It eiamines also In
secrecy the witnesses The rule Is to hesr
the husbsnd first, independently of
whether he or Ihe wife Is pleading for s
divorce Neither party knows whst the
other p:irtv haw said, net even whst the
wliiicves wive aald. There ts no evot
etMmlnalion. nnd the parties are so kept
Ir the dara that serions charges msy be
node acainst them aIt.nut anv enportnn
Its being given for denial
Paron*" «»elc|>irem glte* the following
ac >unt of *hnt «h# calls "The lnr|nlattloii
of the Kieff Consistory":
"I us« orofiiM at a o'clock or a winter's
morning Into an almost dark room o«.
rupled b; three men, isu of tbem gccM
' Ange/s" to Fly at
"Astonishing Parly"
Sprites Will Flit Through the Air
While the Li^hto Are Low and
Uislribute (Jifts to the
Guecta.
Spseisl Cable Hcrvlee to The Express.
LONDON. April 12.—At last smart pco
pie are beginning to be sick of "dressing |
up." There nre now plenty of Indications
that the fancy ball is plsyed ont. Koine
thing more exhilarating and amusing Is J
required. Society Is forever crying, "<»lvf
us something new," and so the festivity I
with incident and adventure is to be the |
popular one of the new season. Of course, !
Its dramatic turns must come aa a sur
prise, and IndecJ the greater shock that
Is given to the guests the better.
It was the late Miss Van Wart, a very
wealthy American, who introduced us to
"treasure-trove parties," which were an
enormous rage here one or two summern
It nas while she was renting the Ink-
Lord Kdward Spencer Churchill's house at
Windaor she brought them Into vogue
Ktery guest went trsroping through th-
gaidens seurchlng for beautiful presents
which were buried sway behind shrubs or
hidden In the trees.
The party of the Immediate future is |
the "astonishing party." In which dm
uiatic locldente. apparently unrehearsed
but In nmllty inoat carefully stsge
manage I, take plat*. These eveuts may
be picturesque or amuaiug. pathetic or ex *
citing, but the great object la to keep the
guests on the qui vlve and interested
Originally Lady (Arthur) Paget thought
of them
At 1 or 2 o'clock in the nioruing, at a
gathering which Is to lake place within
the next few weeks, the lights will he sud-
denly turned off nnd three or four ••an-
gels will fly into the room sfter the
manner of Wendy In "Frter Pan " They
will distribute glfta of n most unniigclic
nature, as they are to Include cigar aud
cigarette cases, powder puffs with boxes
and manicure *et«. which the most Imagl
| native will not be able to regard as
, heaven-sent No expeiine Is beliia spnred
! to carry out th«> Incident to perfection. In
J the Iteantlfill celling a hole Is being cut
to«ndmlt the "angels." and Ihe affair will
be perfectly staaemanaged. with nultabie
lime lights
l.stelv a person who gave the impres
slon of helog an uninvited guest tondeVnj
s«ene at a party, but by snd bv when hla j
disguise wn< reinored he proted to |»e the |
brother of ihe host The «pe«»ehe« mad" ,
by the host and the strange guest no the
Orctalnti **re great fun wnd aent eterv
brdv Into «hrfek« nf laughter
At another fathering the jnest* wrrr J
m-de to think that a number of rather I
weird visitors who sudri*nlv burs* lain J
the room were msllgasut suffragists.
WASHER'S
WASHER'S
&
All Tailor-made Wool Suits
Have Prices Reduced 25%
(But Only for Monday and Tuesday)
Beautiful wool suits in new and correct fabrics and colors—serges, French
flannels, good fancy mixtures and various novelty weaves—every wool suit in
stock at one-fourth off!
Including handsome white and pastel shades in serge and diagonal suits, plain
tailored style or beautifully braid trimmed; some with lace collars.
Besides, there are black suits, and navy, ever so many different shades of
gray, tans, new biscuit and brick tones, novelty suits with skirts of shepherd
checks and coats of flaming crimson—brown, Copenhagen blue, etc.
Such a splendid opportunity for women contemplating the ownership of a new
coat suit—
$15 to $150 Suits
$11.25 to $112.50
Motoring Coats
of Linen $7.50
Fine for traveling or motoring, serviceable
and very good looking. Of heavy linen in nat-
ural color, All sizes.
Khaki Riding
Skirts at $2.98
Of good quality khaki'cloth, made in divided
style in the latest modes. All sizes are here to
begin with.
New $27 to $37.50 (
Wool Coats $24.75
Eponges, serges and diagonals in nivy,
black, tans, black-and-white effects and beau-
tiful novelty mixtures.
Nearly all are three-quarter length, with
gracefully draped fronts and large frogs or
buttons for fastenings; finest quality heavy
satin linings. Ratine and other contrasting ma-
terials for collars, many with Bulgarian em-
broidery; lace collars, etc.
Opportunely reduced.
Silk Wash Shirts
for Women, $5 to
$6.75 Values at
$2.95
The very shirts that women are asking us
for to wear shopping, in stores, offices—for
golfing, riding and for travel.
Handsome late models in satin-striped novel-
ty silks in beautiful colorings; low turned-
down or high tailored collars, some with silk
tics to match. All sizes. Special Monday at
J2.95.
9 to 11 OXlock to-
morrow, $1 and
$1.50 Waists for
59c
Two hundred and fifty tailor-made waists
from our regular stocks to go on sale at
59c for one hour only tomorrow morning.
Linene, voile and lawn, with soft or laun-
dered collars and cuffs—well-made, good-fit-
ting waists that well-groomed women like for
business wear and other uses that women find
for good tailored waists.
The Undermuslin
Sale Continues
with these gowns as the main attraction:
$1 Values at 79c
^Initial Gowns 89c
Extra Values 95c
Three styles in gowns at 79c—slip-over
styles trimmed prettily with good laces and
embroideries,
$1.25 initial embroidered gowns, trimmed
with good laces. Special 89r.
Many different styles in gowns at 95c, well
worth Sl.SO; all beautifully trimmed.
Handsome Eponge
and Ratine Dresses
$25 and $29 Stylos
$17.50
$17.50 to $22 Styles
$15.00
Very beautiful new models in the simple one-
piece styles that women like; lace collars,
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San Antonio Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 103, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 13, 1913, newspaper, April 13, 1913; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth433163/m1/46/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.