Walking onto the playing field, umpires had the third new ball for the Sri Lankan innings in their pocket. It was available to Dhoni and his bowlers right away after the 160th over completed last evening. There was hope but then there were Mahela and Prasanna too, riding on their double century and half century respectively. The Indian skipper took the new red cherry from the second ball of the day.

The Sri Lankan lead was 165, with five more batsmen available to lengthen it. The plan for the islanders was the same. Preserve wickets for the first hour and then take it from there. The wicket was still good for batting, with nothing in it for the bowlers even on the fourth day. Must say that’s the last thing Test cricket needs, as it leads to dreary draws. Sri Lanka hoped otherwise and the Jayawardenes kept on adding to the Lankan run bank.

En route, Prasanna completed his second Test century and Mahela went past the milestone of 250. Will he score a triple? That was the question on everyone’s mind. However, Sangakkara did need to think about declaration at some stage because time too was getting lesser by the minute. Taking 10 Indian wickets on a batting track won’t be easy.

Talking of Indian bowlers, Mishra continued to be a big disappointment. He looked pedestrian at whatever he tried and seemed to be left with no more questions to ask from the Lankan willow-wielders. Frustratingly, Harbhajan looked the same and that’s where it was hurting India. He was supposed to hold the key to India bowling out Sri Lanka twice but it remained a distant possibility. The Indian bowlers could blame it on the wicket but not completely, after all the skills they honed – in particular Harbhajan – over the years should have come in handy.

The body language suggested that India was waiting for a wicket instead of trying for it. Finally, a little lapse in concentration from Mahela (275) got Mishra his first wicket when he bowled the top run-getter of the match. By then, Sri Lanka had already registered their highest total in a Test in India, which stood at 726/6 at the stroke of Mahela’s dismissal. The partnership of 351 for the sixth wicket between the two Jayawardenes was also a new world record.

The crowd was hoping for Sangakkara to call his men back at that time, but it didn’t happen, possibly because Prasanna was getting close to 150. It’s a norm that is now seen with only subcontinent teams. Whenever personal landmarks are within arm’s reach, it seems to supersede the team’s need. Ideally, Mahela’s wicket should have brought the declaration but then again Prasanna’s personal landmark came in team’s way. Sadly, that’s the kind of thinking that has got associated with India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and should be wiped off from our players’ minds.

As it turned out to be the case, Prasanna’s feat of 154 and Prasad’s (21) wicket brought out the comeback signal from Sangakkara an hour after lunch, with his team’s scorecard reading a mammoth 760/7, which calculates to a lead of 324 runs for Sri Lanka. The Indian bowling card didn’t have too much talking points and showed Zaheer, Ishant and Harbhajan taking a couple of wickets each and a Mishra a solitary one.

It didn’t require rocket science to make out that India had their backs to the wall. Behind 324 runs and a prospect of Muralidharan on a wearing fourth and fifth day pitch were reasons enough for India’s top brass to buckle down. The best a team can muster from this situation is a draw and that’s what the whole of cricket-mad India hoped for.  

The first requisite for India was a solid opening stand from Sehwag and Gambhir. Although the situation warranted risk-free approach, we knew Sehwag doesn’t endorse that thought whatever the situation may be. But then, he too knew the situation and needed to curb some of his aggressive instincts. He didn’t disappoint and got to his half century quickly and that’s when Sehwag should have planned a long inning instead of the heave-ho he played against Herath. It went straight up and was easily caught by Mathews in the circle. India: 81/1.

India’s first-inning hero, Rahul Dravid, was welcomed to the crease with cheers of hope that he would do it for the second time in a row. He began from where he left, fluent in his drives, cuts and flicks. Gambhir kept the other end pretty secure while picking up ones and twos to complete the 50-run partnership with ‘The Wall’. He also got to his half century along the way, as India looked certain to go into the fifth day just one wicket down.

Lightning struck when the clouds seemed to be clearing and Welegedara accounted for Dravid (38) in the second inning as well, trapping him in front. However, the replays showed that it was too marginal a call and batsmen should have got the benefit of doubt. Mr. Dependable’s dismissal raised questions whether Indian would be able to save the match or Sri Lanka would register a historic win. To help do the former, Dhoni decided to shield Sachin Tendulkar and others and sent Mishra in as night watchman. This reminded us of a trend that has got outdated but came out as a relieving surprise for Indian fans, especially those who were planning to come to ground on the final day.

Mishra (12 not out) negotiated the remaining few overs safely along with Gambhir (74 not out) and two made their way to the pavilion with 190 on board and eight wickets in hand.

Considering the good state of wicket for the batsmen, an out-of-form Murali and the core of Indian batting to come, it seems safe to say that this match is heading towards a draw, unless this game of glorious uncertainties has another one in store for us.

Hello my name is Sasha Morgan, And welcome to the new members we picked up from the station. Thats why I couldn’t trasmit last night our group needed every available hand to get out new members here safely. We had to sneek by some patroling airships that was focusing thier spotlight between the buildings. The new recruits started training. The first step is to figure out what services they can provide. What skills do the bring to the tabel. In this new batch we got another scientist, her name is Elizabeth. She was employed to make faster means of transportation. She brought some great ideas with her that we may use to get back at the steam driven monstars I created. And thief evil master Windum. Are numbers are growing and soon we shall up to our previous speed in no time. I sketched out some more weapons to submit for aporval. One invoves a type of bomb made of brass that we launch and explodes on impact. We are thriving and will soon be on top again my brothers and sisters.

You are not alone.

Hello my name is Sasha Morgan, Today has been a very good day. Something about the air of today just felt like today was a day of great acomplishments. Our electricty is up and running, we have enough water, we have a lush food source. So much that we have enough to last for a long time. So I am proud to say that we can welcome new memebers to “The Storm”. We have scouted out the building close to us and can use them as to house new members. We are building a small training facility for the new recruits. I welcome all who are out ther to find us. The train situation to get newmember to the compound worked so well the first time we are doing it again. Only one for the time being. So there is a train station is outside Alegrain and be there by midnight tomorrow. I welcome one and all. Also bring any raw materials: brass and other metals, food, spare clothing, and anything else you can think of. A new member today brought a trumpet, hopefully to give it to us as spare metal, and one of or other member Benjamin played and played. It brings light to this dark place to have some music again.

You are not alone

Hello my name is Sasha Morgan, Again I apologize, for not updating yesturday. We had an expolsion of our new boiler we just crafted. So we had manage that situation, but we are still on the up. It was just a minor set back. We had to manage another little problem earlier this morning. A rover machines cranked it’s way in to find our location. It opperated by ever tick it passed was how far away it was from the base. And the ticks set off a feequency. The way it knows our location is when the ticks stop you can assume it’s our location. Lucklly I was the one who desingned it so insteed of destroying it we have it turned upside down. So by know it should say we are a good twenty miles away. Other than those updates we are still rebuilding, and are almost operational. I will keep updating everyone out there just be still my kinesmen.

You are not Alone

Hello my name is Sasha Morgan. I first off need to apologize again for not transmitting yesturday. These past two days have been the longest i have ever known. We managed to find wanted in a flowing canal near by, and there is a large amount of water. So much so we were able today to yet the boiler up and running. We were up into the late hours of the night getting water for our group, so that’s why no transmition was sent out yesturday. I colapsed on the area where I was sleeping. I’m sharing a matresses with 40 other people at a time, but we are soon going to work on expanding. Just right now we are all together as a saftey precaution. Incase any of my rouge machines happen by. Which i don’t beleive they will find this place, it’s very out of the way. We are not ready to accept any more members just yet, but soon I assure you. Once we rebuild Windum better be ready for the fury of our storm. I admit times look tough right now, I haven’t been able to loom at the moon the same after that giant crack down the center appeared. That was our fault. Us humans cannot let nature lay where it should be we have to alter it to fit our twisted fantasies. We will take our world back, but it will be one of peace no more experimentation. Well at least from me. I will try and be more dilliagent in updating you all.

We will have our world back.

Hello my name is Sasha Morgan. I must apologize first of for not sending out a buliten yesturday. In “The Storms” atempts to find a no base of operartions, well it took us longer than expected. However we now have a new location and are somewhat operational. Our last base was at it’s peek potential, and now having it destroyed is a major setback to our resistance. We must rebuild again, and that is going to take time. We managed to save a couple things from the disaster. We had enough space on the steam driven cart to fit our main boiler, our precious weapons, a large amount of our food supply, lots of water which is very precious to us, and many of our drawings for our advanced weapons. Our location has enough electricty to send out this message, it runs on coal, and there is only a small amount left. We must find a sustainble water supply so we may get our boiler up and running. Right now we are just trying to survive. Our scientist our working day and night to find suitable ways to rebuild. We cannot handle more members at this point. Once we have rebuilt and run effectivly on our own. We will welcome you, but right now just like yourselves we are jut trying to live. So stay safe my bretheren we will have our day. I say to all of you we are one, and will stay strong.

Stay safe

Hello my name is Sasah Morgan, and yesturday was a catastraphy to our base. One of my creations, “The Ant” it surprised us with an attack. Apparently Windum has found our location. It was awful… The any tore through our compund like it was nothing. The ant took his shiny metal talons and ripped people in half while his attena which I equipped with an lighting rod, generated blow after blow. Striking anything down, woman, children. Just taken down by this steaming curse of my past. I stay behind to bury the bodies and I intend to regroup with the rest of “The Storm” at the new location. So i know I advise for you to join us, but I must insist that this time wait for us to regroup. I had no idea at them time what I was creating would cause so much destructions. I weep at the feet of the giant beast. While the rest of our group managed to take it down. Well scare it off. It is still out the somewhere. With their steam engines they must recharge after a long assult. On of our spears punctured it’s tank, and forced it into retreat. I will try to keep everyone updated, becuase I must leave and join the rest of the group. We are so alone.

Hello my name is Sasha Morgan, and welcome to all our new members. Our train transport worked beautifully, we have risen in numbers and now are the more stronger to take back our world. I will descirbe a little about the Induction of new members. Each must prepare, and we each submit items for discussion that is reviewed by the panel of scientist we have, including myself. We get together every mourning in the meeting area I described. We discuss plans for the day such as: attack plans, areas for foriging, plans for obtaining epuipment and resources, excetera. Like today for example when we gathered in our meeting hall today we discused developement of new weapons, Professor Archbrook discussed his new Idea which describes a new way to shoot projectiles. It is a double banded bow and arrow, but each arrow contain a wire attached to it. The wire is connected to a portable steam engine, when it sticks it shocks, in our case the machines, and the electric surges it out. But I digress, the main discussion was new places to forage in the area, we send teams every day to scour for more food. But the time is coming where we can’t get enough to survive in the closest proxcimities. So we have to branch out to the country side where we can raid local farms. That is if Windum hasn’t gotten to the first. But we are on the… We are on the up and… Sorry I thought I herd some sort of noise. It probally the boilers acting up again. But we have much…

Hello my name is Sasha Morgan, i am sending out another message to celebrate our victory over one of the rouge machines. Yesturday, I talked about our mission to take down “The Fly” needless to say we were sucessful. I was part of a base group that montered tge flies daiy route. We decided to head it off downtown near the market district. Our division leader, John Masterson stained his team under the bridge next to market square. When the fly flew overhead Masterson lead his team on an asault like no ever imagined. It was gurella warfare at it’s finest. From the story he shared he talked about one of the members distracting the machine by throwing Fire bottels at it. Then Masterson took the rest of his group to the very top of the local apartments and assailed it with one of my new inventions called “Deadly Nightshade” it’s a take on the carnival spining wheel ride. It throws it quick sucession five gunpowder bombs. Hooked to the portable steam generator I sent with them. It takes three people to operate, but it is the rapid surprise that took down this brass giant. Their were a few casulties, that’s why I urge if you can locate us do so. We need your help. We are running a train threw our closest districts. They will only be there for five minuets. At Kinsington at 8:03, Florentine at 9:35, and St Jacks at 11:52. I urge everyone to get to these trains.

You are not alone

Hello this is Sasha Morgan, the day has been very tiresome for me as well as the other members of “The Storm”. A member of one of our scavenging parties, stumbled into one of the mine feilds that Windum has been using to try and stop any form of escape from our base. Be dosent know where are central hub is located so when ever a land mine goes off he gets a closer idea. We have been avoiding the mines by traveling through buildings. But we have to move between them quickly because of the hundreds of airships that Windum has scouring to find us. I alert any surviovrs to locate us becuase we need your help. Our group is planning an attack on one of my machines that has been giving us a lot of trouble. I call it “The Fly” it is one of my insect based steam driven war machines that have been bombs all around. I must go there is a meeting, Being held in the the main plotting area of the address hall. Please locate us.

You are not alone.

One of the first great film images: the rocket landing in the eye of the Moon in George Méliès' A Voyage to the Moon (1902)

Back in January, I decided to write a several part series on the history of the Academy Awards which turned out quite nicely for the blog.  The final post, my personal ranking of the Best Picture nominees is far and away the most successful post we’ve ever had on the blog.  But the main reason I wrote it (aside from a plethora of Oscar knowledge and the desire to write about it) was that most places that talk about the Academy Awards do it in terms of years instead of categories.  I felt there was a space to be filled in providing for context in terms of each category.  I feel there’s a kind of gap there as well when it comes to talking about film, year by year.

Sure, there are books that talk about individual film years.  There is the great DK book, Cinema Year by Year, which has gone through several iterations or DK’s equally wonderful (but not as heavy) The American Film Institute Desk Reference.  There are also books like Inside Oscar or Tom O’Neill’s Movie Awards.  But those latter two focus more on the actual award winning films at the time and the former two give you a lot of context (and pictures – the Year by Year is a wonderful coffee table book and the AFI a great reference book), but not a lot of depth.  My hope is to talk a bit about each year and try to capture the kind of details you won’t find in any particular book (the same way I tried to do in my last series – the top 100 directors – namely the fact that I ranked each director and assigned a point structure).

To that end, I’m going to try and include things in each year, some of which I have gathered from other sources, some of which are my own thoughts, and some of which are unique collations – ways in which I have chosen to interpret and define certain data.

So, what exactly does that mean?  Well, here are the things which I try to include in these various entries:

• My Top 10 of the year
• The Academy Award winners (the major awards – Picture / Director / Acting / Writing)
• The “consensus” award winners for the major categories (based on awards from all the major groups) – these won’t start until 1932 because before 1932 there were only the Oscars
• The “consensus” Top 5 of the year (from TSPDT top 1000 list)
• Top 5 of the year based on Awards points (not just the Oscars, but also critics, BAFTA, guilds, Globes, BFCA)
• any AFI Top 100 films or Ebert Great Movies
• a capsulized review of the film year
• one film I feel is particularly overlooked

Because so much of what I write is in comparison with how the Academy Awards viewed things, I keep things aligned with the Academy Awards years.  What this means is that the first post will encompass the years after feature films began (I start with 1912) but before the Oscars began (1927).  Then, there will be several combined years, until the Oscar began aligning with the calendar year in 1934.  I do this for a few reasons, but the most prominent is that the Oscars are the oldest, and still the most distinguished, of all the film awards groups and people talk about things in reference to the Oscars.  Also, that way, I can keep films locked in one calendar year and while I might mention a film like The Third Man in the year it was released (1949), for the purpose of all the lists, it will only appear on those in the year it was Oscar eligible (1950).  For films that were never Oscar eligible due to various Academy rules, I talk about them in the year they were released in the United States.

So what else does that leave to talk about here?  Well, the very early years, before the advent of feature films (I use 1912 as the starting point because Richard III, the oldest surviving feature film was released in 1912), there were a remarkable number of developments.  For all intents and purposes, film began in 1891 with the invention of the Kinetoscope but really, more specifically on January 7, 1894, when Edison Kinetoscope Record of a Sneeze was filmed, the first film to ever be lodged for copyright at the Library of Congress (on January 9, 1894).  But film didn’t remain simply the purvey of Edison for long and the French, specifically Antoine Lumiere and Georges Méliès, were quick to leap on the technology.  By the end of the next year, Lumiere had opened a paying Cinématographe in Paris.  In 1897, Méliès, opened his own studio and the Pathé brothers were not far behind.  Things were the same in America with the start of Biograph and Vitagraph.

But it was in September of 1902, that Méliès released his greatest achievement: A Voyage to the Moon, a film that tested the boundaries of everything about the new film industry.  It was 13 minutes long, had numerous special effects had taken three months to shoot and had cost 10,000 francs.  But it was a major achievement and it is still studied and revered today (just see the Smashing Pumpkins video to “Tonight Tonight”).

The next year came Edwin Porter’s The Great Train Robbery, which is the essential starting point for narrative American film and is also still studied today (I first saw both films in class in college).  Porter, Méliès and Pathé continued to be the major players for the next decade.

The big innovation came in 1906 with the premiere in Australia of the first ever feature film, the 70 minute long The Story of the Kelly Gang, which sadly no longer survives except for a few short clips.  Ned Kelly also made use of real props as the filmmakers borrowed Kelly’s actual armor from a museum to be used in the film.

By 1911 we had the beginnings of the industry that people would recognize today.  D.W. Griffith had gone to Hollywood and begun filming short films for Biograph there and the studios had begun to form.

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MR. FRANK HARALSON ARRESTED

And Mr. Fry Don’t Wish to be Held Accountable for It.

Mr. Frank L. Haralson the state librarian, was arrested yesterday morning by Patrolmen Thompson and Nolan, and carried to the station house.

The charge entered up the state docket is larceny.

The whole thing seems to have been a blunder, and one of those blunders for which nobody is particularly anxious to be held accountable.

The following statement explains the affair:

The first is that of Mr. Wil Roberts, a son of Mr. W.J. Roberts, the Peachtree street grocer. He says:

“Saturday afternoon last Colonel Frank L. Haralson called at my father’s store, on Peach tree street for some goods. While he was standing in the door with his back to the street, talking to me and laughing, Mr. Abe Fry slapped him on the back and said:

“Frank, I want that colt you won, and I will give you a sixty five dollar watch — gold watch — for him, and you can select it from my show cases.”

“Colonel Haralson said:

“Well, this is a trade is it?

“Mr. Fry said it was and for him to call Monday morning and select his watch.

“Colonel Haralson said:

“I will call Monday morning.

“Mr. Fry went down Peachtree street and Colonel Haralson took his articles and went towards his home.’

Mr. Haralson read this statement last night and says it is a fair statement. He said further:

‘Fry just wanted to back out of the trade I believe I beat him on his own proposition and he just intended to jew out of it. I thought the best way to make him keep his word was to take the watch. But this thing is an outrage. I was arrested in my office for larceny — just think of that. Its a disgrace that such a thing should happen in Atlanta.’

The following is Mr. Abe Fry’s statement:

‘I met Mr. Frank Haralson last Saturday afternoon and he told me that he had a fine colt which he wished to sell. I said, ‘Come around to my store some time and perhaps I’ll trade you a watch for him.’ Yesterday about three o’clock Mr. Haralson called at my store. I was engaged in talking to a friend in a buggy in front of the store. Mr. Haralson went in the store and after looking at the watches in the show case, asked Fritz Allbright, my clerk, to let him look at one. Fritz handed him the watch, when he said, “This suits me I’ll take it –’ and with the watch he walked out of the store. Fritz tried in vain to get the watch away from him, but he refused to give it up, Fritz told me what had happened, when I said to him “I will hold you responsible if you don’t get that watch.’

Fritz then went before Justice Tanner and swore out a possessory warrant for the watch. I am at a loss to see what right Mr. Haralson had to come in my store and take my property in that manner. We certainly had made no trade. How could I trade with him when I was talking to my friend in the buggy while he was getting the watch from my clerk?”

Judge Tanner said yesterday afternoon:

“This clerk of Abe Fry’s came to my office and said that Mr. Frank Haralson had taken a watch from the store. I made him explain what he meant, and after he did so refused to issue the warrant. The clerk went off and came back presently, insisting upon his request for a warrant. I didn’t want to make myself ridiculous and flatly refused to give him the warrant, explaining to him that his only course was to take out a possessory warrant. He did so.”

The possessory warrant will probably be tried today before Judge Tanner. Mr. Tom Corrigan, acting as the clerk’s attorney, advised this course, and the property was given up at the station house, though against the urgent remonstrances of Mr. Haralson.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Apr 3, 1888

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A RED COWHIDE

Will be Produced in Police Court This Morning.

Colonel Frank Haralson Assaults Mr. Abe Fry With a Cowhide — Mr. Fry Says “Never Touched Me.”

The Hon. Frank Haralson, state librarian, and Abe Fry, pawn shop man and jeweler in the National hotel building on Peachtree street, will appear in police court this morning. The one charged with disorderly conduct and quarreling and the other with using profane language in the station house.

A small cowhide will put in an appearance too.

Early yesterday morning Colonel Haralson was seen walking restlessly up and down Peachtree street between the railroad and Decatur street. Two or three times he passed through the block apparently buried in study so deep that he took no notice of friends who passed him. None of the colonel’s friends, however, who saw him imagined that he was brooding over his arrest Monday, and was contemplating a revenge.

But such was the case.

About 9 o’clock the colonel entered a store on the block, and in a few minutes came out, carrying in his hand a bright silver-mounted pistol. The gentleman was cool, and attracted no particular attention as he passed along to Fry’s pawn shop and jewelry store, in front of which he stopped. For a second he gazed into the store, and then with a firm, slow step walked into the door. Mr. Fry was standing behind the counter, talking to a young gentleman on the outside, and approaching them, the colonel said:

“Abe Fry, you have told a d–n dirty lie on me, and I have come for my revenge.”

As he spoke Colonel Haralson shoved his left hand under the waist band of his breeches and jerking out an ordinary red cowhide raised it above his head. The raw hide cut through the air with a whistling sound and came down toward Mr. Fry, but whether it struck the jeweler or not only Judge Anderson will be able to decide after he has heard the testimony this morning. However, the cowhide went up a second time and a second time it came down, but its second descent is just as uncertain as the first, likewise the third.

The scene was not accompanied by any boisterous or disorderly conduct and was over with before any one knew it. Colonel Haralson walked out of Mr. Fry’s and re-entering the store where he secured the pistol left it. He then appeared upon the street again and seeing Patrolman Anderson on Alabama street walked across the railroad and up to him, saying:

“I have cow hided Abe Fry and want to give myself up.”

The patrolman then heard Colonel Haralson’s story through, and deciding to make a case against him, asked him to go to police head quarters. The colonel readily consented to do so. At the city prison Colonel Haralson reported to Chief Connolly what he had said to Patrolman Anderson. The chief instructed the station house keeper, Mr. Joyner, to make a case against Colonel Haralson, charging him with disorderly conduct and quarreling, and at the same time requested Mr. Fry, who came in just then, to appear as a witness against him. During the conversation Colonel Haralson was standing on one side of the big counter in the office and Mr. Fry on the other side. Both men were anxious to talk and both talked at the same time, but Mr. Fry’s hardest talk came immediately after Colonel Haralson informed the chief that he had cowhided Mr. Fry.

“That is a lie,” yelled Mr. Fry.

Chief Connolly requested the jeweler to remain quiet, but his blood was up to a boiling pitch and in the severest and profanest language he abused the state librarian. The language used was a violation of a city ordinance, and Chief Connolly turned to the stationhouse keeper, saying:

“Mr. Joyner, make a case against Mr. Fry for using profane language in the station-house.”

The case was booked and Mr. Fry made a bond for his appearance in police court — just like the bond Colonel Haralson made. After the bonds were made the two gentlemen walked away, and all along the street they were asked about he affair.

But their answer was very unlike.

To all who asked him about it, Mr. Haralson said:

“Yes, I cowhided him, and I cowhided him well. I hit him three times, and here is the cowhide.”

The cowhide was concealed down the librarian’s left breeches leg, and only the butt end was drawn out.

To all who asked Mr. Fry about it, he answered:

“No, he did not cowhide me. The coward came into my store and putting a cocked pistol in my face struck over the counter at me with a cowhide but he didn’t strike me.”

The two stories, so unlike, soon became general talk, and everybody wanted to know which one to believe. Mr. Fry was at his store when called upon. He was standing in the door looking quietly up and down the street. He was in his shirt sleeves, and a half smoked cigar was between his lips. As he spied a reporter approaching he removed the cigar, saying:

“I know what you are going to ask me. You are going to ask me if Frank Haralson hit me with a cowhide.”

“You have just saved me the trouble.”

“Well he didn’t. He says he did, but he’s a d–m liar.”

“He says he struck you three times.”

“Well, he is a liar, and here is a young man who saw it all.”

Just then a young gentleman attired in a light-colored spring suit came up. The young gentleman was D.M. Davidson, a grocer at 110 Peachtree, and as he was near Mr. Fry that gentleman said:

“Here, Mr. Davidson, wasn’t you in here when Frank Haralson came in?”

“Yes,” answered the gentleman calmly.

“Now, he says he hit me with that cowhide. Did he do it? Didn’t he just strike at me over the counter?”

“Yes.”

“You see, he came in here with a pistol in one hand, and a cowhide in the other, and struck at me across the counter, and he didn’t hit me. Why the cowhide wasn’t long enough. When he struck he had a pistol in my face and I wheeled around and picked up an ink bottle to throw at him. See, here is the ink on my hand. Ain’t that so?” he concluded, turning to Mr. Davidson.

“It all transpired so quick,” answered Mr. Davidson, “that I can hardly tell what did take place.”

“Well, you know he did not hit me, don’t you?”

“I don’t think he did,” answered the gentleman.

“Then when I’d move he would push the pistol in my face. He is a dirty coward and I can whip him, and told him so down at the stationhouse. Why he just wants to bulldoze me like he did, out of that watch yesterday, but the coward can’t do that. He never touched me.”

Colonel Haralson was standing near the New Era saloon talking to Captain Ed Cox.

The raw hide was pulled from its hiding place, as the gentleman remarked:

“Yes I did cowhide the d–n Jew and here is the cowhide and I’ll have it in court in the morning.”

“But he says you never touched him.”

“He’s a liar and I’ll go back and do it over.”

“No, you won’t,” said Captain Cox, “leave him alone.”

“You see,” said the colonel “I said yesterday that I would avenge the insult he heaped upon me in less than twenty-four hours and I have done it.”

“And you are satisfied?”

“Thoroughly. I gave him three good blows.”

“But the young man who was in there says you didn’t.”

“That young man ran out. You see I got a pistol and walked with it in my hand into the store and struck him once with the cowhide. He turned to get a pistol and I raised mine, saying:

“Just stop where you are.”

“Then I put the pistol close to him and struck him twice more and walked out.”

“And you think you hit him?”

“If Fry will look at his back he will find where I put three of them on him, and I will show him the cowhide in court in the morning and dare him to show his back.”

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Apr 4, 1888

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CAPITOL AND CUSTOMHOUSE

The News in the Various Departments Yesterday.

GOVERNOR GORDON’S ORDER suspending Mr. Frank Haralson, state librarian, was the sensation at the capitol yesterday. It will be found written up in detail in this issue.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Apr 7, 1888

THE STATE LIBRARIAN

Governor Gordon Issues an Order Suspending Mr. Haralson.

The Library Placed in Charge of Captain John Milledge — The Law Authorizing the Order.

Yesterday Governor Gordon issued an order suspending Mr. Frank L. Haralson from the office of state librarian.

This action on the part of the governor was not a surprise to the public.
Thursday afternoon, a lively rumor was current on the streets, that Governor Gordon had requested the resignation of Mr. Haralson and that that gentleman had declined to accede to the request. A reporter of THE CONSTITUTION interviewed Governor Gordon on the subject Thursday afternoon, when he merely stated that Mr. Haralson had not declined to resign, but was considering the subject.

The following correspondence, which explains itself, was made public yesterday:

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, April 5th, 1888 — Mr. Frank Haralson, State Librarian — Dear Sir: I regret that a sense of public duty compels me to request your resignation of the off of state librarian. I shall hope to receive it by 12 m. tomorrow (Friday).

Very respectfully, J.B. GORDON.

Thursday night Mr. Haralson held a consultation with a number of his friends at the Kimball house which was strictly private, and on yesterday morning sent the following reply to the governor’s request:

STATE LIBRARY, April 6. — Dear Governor: Your letter of the 5th instant, has been received and after careful consideration I would ask that you state in writing the reason for your action; and in the meantime withdraw your request, that I may be heard in reply.

Yours very respectfully,
FRANK L. HARALSON, Librarian.

Then Governor Gordon made immediate response:

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, April 6th, 1888 — Mr. Frank Haralson, Librarian — Dear Sir: My sense of duty will not permit a withdrawal of my request for your resignation, nor do I consider that a statement of my reasons for such request would be of service to you, or is demanded by the circumstances. I repeat my request for your resignation, and if I do not receive it by 1 p.m. today, I shall place someone in charge of the library.

Respectfully,
J.B. GORDON.

To this last communication, Mr. Haralson did not reply.

Shortly after one o’clock the following executive order was recorded:

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, April 6, 1888 — Frequent complaints having been received at this department that Frank L. Haralson, state librarian, has been neglecting the duties of his office for months past, and the complaints having been recently renewed and enlarged, and having satisfied myself that there is ample cause for them, it is therefore, in the discharge of my duty under the statue, ordered.

That John Milledge and W.R. Rankin, Jr., both of the county of Fulton, he or they, are hereby appointed as agents of the state to examine into and report the condition of the state library to the executive department.

It is further ordered that the said Frank L. Haralson be, and he is hereby suspended from the said office until further order from this department, and that in the meantime the official duties of librarian be discharged by the said John Milledge.

J.B. GORDON, Governor.
By order of the Governor
J.W. WARREN, Secretary Executive Department.

The sections of the code upon which the above order is based are 74 and 122.

Section 74 says, in relation to the powers of the governor:

“He has power to engage the services of any competent person for the discharge of any duty required by the laws, and essential to the interests of the state, or necessary, in an emergency, to preserve the property or funds of the state.”

Section 122 says:

The office of the state librarian is under the general supervision of the governor who may at any time appoint a competent person to examine into and report its condition to him.

As section 114 of the code confers upon the governor power to suspend the state treasurer or comptroller general, for neglect of duty, upon trustworthy information, it is tolerably clear that he has power to suspend the state librarian, a much smaller functionary.

Captain Milledge took charge of the state library yesterday afternoon. What further order Governor Gordon will issue remains to be seen.

Mr. Haralson was approached by a CONSTITUTION man yesterday afternoon, but declined to be interviewed. What Mr. Haralson will do remains to be seen. He received a dispatch from a prominent Georgia lawyer yesterday afternoon to this effect: “Stand firm, act rightly.”

The indications are that Mr. Haralson contemplates making a fight for re-installment — but upon what particular time has not yet developed. The probability is that Mr. Haralson will contend that under the act of 1881 the governor has not the power to remove him. Section 72 of the code of 1882 authorizes the governor to remove the state librarian at his pleasure.

An astute legal gentleman, said yesterday:

“What do I think about it? Well, the governor has not removed Mr. Haralson. He has simply suspended him. Captain Milledge is in, Mr. Haralson is out. To a man up a tree, in the light of that executive order, it looks very much as if a suspension, in this case, amounts to a removal.”

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Apr 7, 1888

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MR. FRANK L. HARLASON

Says That He is in the Hands of His Friends.

An Interesting Interview Showing How He Turned Over the Office to Captain Milledge – The Act of 1881.

Yesterday afternoon just before dusk a reporter of THE CONSTITUTION caught Colonel Frank Haralson on the wing at the corner of Marietta and Broad streets. When first seen Mr. Haralson was in the act of picking up a crutch, which had been dropped by an old gentleman — a cripple — who happened to be passing at the moment. He gracefully handed the crutch to the old gentleman, who thank him most warmly for the kindly act.

Colonel Haralson was all smiles, in the best possible humor, and greeted the reporter with his old-time cordiality.

“Hello, old boy; glad to see you!”

“Howdye, colonel; happy to meet you; very man I want to see. Want to get a little talk with you for THE CONSTITUTION.”

“All right; wait one minute,” said Mr. Haralson, as he turned to shake hands with Mr. J.S. Clarke, the lawyer, who said:

“Well, Frank, Milledge is an old schoolmate of mine and a mighty nice man; but I want to say to you that I am sorry you are out. You were always kind, accommodating and attentive to me when I called at the library, and I am really sorry that you have stepped down and out.”

“I appreciate that,” said Mr. Haralson, as returned the warm pressure of his friend’s hand.

“What are you going to do, Frank — practice law?” asked Mr. Clark.

“Yes, I shall open an office without delay, and I think that I will do well. I was retained today in a case which will give me a $200 fee — pretty good start, ain’t it?”

“It certainly is,” replied Mr. Clark. “I hope that you will get many such fees, and larger ones, too. I wish you all prosperity in your profession,” and the lawyer passed on.

“You may say,” said Colonel Haralson, addressing himself pleasantly to the news man, “You may say that I am under obligations to await the action of my friends in this matter. A number of them will come to Atlanta on Monday and talk it over. I have nothing to say until after they meet. But, by the way, I wish that you would print the act of ‘81, authorizing my appointment as librarian. It may be of some interest to the public just at this time. You can say, too, that I bear no hard feelings toward anybody connected with my removal.”

“Tell me about turning over the office to Captain Milledge.”

“Oh, yes. Well, after the order suspending me had been issued yesterday, I walked into the library and said: ‘Captain Milledge, old boy, you are a full-fledged state librarian now (I said this laughingly). I want you to understand, captain, that I do not deliver to you these keys as the librarian of the state, but as a man who wishes to do nothing to stain his honor. Governor Gordon is a gentleman. I like him — but I am willing to leave it all to Hopkins and Glenn. I have some private papers and books in the basement. But Willie Rankin and Jim, the porter, know them as well as I do, and they can deliver them to me.’ I then showed Captain Milledge some valuable books, which I told him would bear watching. I said, ‘Good-bye, Willie; look after everything; stay if you please I have nothing to do with that.’ Just before I walked out Willie Rankin, who is one of the best boys in the world, said: ‘Goodbye, Frank old fellow. I want to say before you go that during all the time we have been together in the library you have never spoken one harsh word to me.”

Here is the act of 1881, and to which Mr. Haralson referred:

Section 1. It shall be the duty of the governor of this state to select and present for confirmation by the senate some fit and competent person (who shall be a citizen of this state) to serve as state librarian, whose term of office shall be four years and until his successor shall have been chosen and confirmed in like manner as herein provided and declared.

Section 2. And be it further enacted that so much of section 72 of the code of 1873 as relates to the appointment and removal from office of the state librarian be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Section 72 of the code of ‘73, before the passage of the above law, empowered the governor to remove the state librarian at pleasure.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Apr 8, 1888

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That Possessory Warrant.

An interesting case will be heard in Justice Tanner’s court this morning at 8:30 o’clock. It will be remembered that Mr. Fred Allbright, the clerk at Mr. Abe Fry’s, swore out a possessory warrant for a watch which it is alleged that Mr. Frank Haralson took out of the store. That watch is in possession of Justice Tanner, and he will decide this morning whether it belongs to Mr. Fry or Mr. Haralson.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Apr 16, 1888

THROUGH THE CITY.

Yesterday morning Judge Tanner delivered to Mr. Abe Fry that watch. Mr Frank Haralson concluded not to resist the possessory warrant which was sworn out by Fred Albright, Mr. Fry’s clerk.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Apr 22, 1888

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A MISTRIAL.

Frank Harralson Tried in the City Court for Pointing a Pistol at Abe Fry.

A good deal of interest was shown in the case of hte state against Frank Harralson, indicted for pointing a pistol at Abe Fry, which was tried yesterday morning in the city court.

The defendant was in the court with his attorneys, Messrs Sibley and Newman, and Abe Fry was present as prosecutor.

It was proved that the defendant, with a cowhide in one hand and a pistol in the other, went into Abe Fry’s establishment and that he pointed the weapon at Mr. Fry’s head. The prosecutor did not charge the defendant with striking him with the whip, in fact, he stated distinctly that Harralson did not strike him.

Several witnesses explained how the difficulty happened, and they gave the details which were published in THE CONSTITUTION the morning after the row.

Mr. Haralson was permitted to make his statement. He admitted having sought Fry for the purpose of chastising him with a rawhide, and confessed having carried a pistol in one hand and a cowhide in the other. He also admitted that it was his purpose to lash Fry and if he resisted to kill him.

After all the evidence was in it seemed doubtful whether Haralson had actually pointed the pistol at Fry, and this was the rock upon which the jury split.

The jury stayed out two hours, and decided that it was impossible to agree upon a verdict. Thereupon Judge Van Epps ordered that a mistrial be marked on the docket.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) May 23, 1888

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SAYINGS ON THE SIDEWALK

Frank Harralson, lawyer and ex-state librarian, wears a heavy, long ulster. One night about a week ago he lost that overcoat, and the next day began hunting for it.

For three or four days he kept up the search, but without any success.

All of his friends knew that he had lost the ulster, and every one had an eye open for it.

Yesterday morning the colonel turned up with the big, warm ulster on his back.

Of course his friends were surprised.

“Where did you find it?” he was asked.

“Well, last night,” he replied, “I dreamed I had left it at Snook’s furniture store and early this morning I went there. Sure enough, I found my coat. Mr. Snook had picked it up the day I left it there and put it in one of the magnificent wardrobes of his.”

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Jan 9, 1889

PECULIAR WORD BLINDNESS ATTACKS FRANK HARALSON

Frank L. Haralson, at one time a prominent attorney in the city, and a man who let the tempter wreck what would have been a good and useful life, was taken from a saloon at the corner of Decatur and Ive streets last night in an unconscious condition and carried to the Grady hospital in the ambulance.

He was suddenly stricken down and now lies at the hospital afflicted with the strange disease known to some physicians as “word blindness.” Some nerve tissue of the brain has given away and when he talks he uses the wrong words to express himself, the same mental disease which it was said had attacked Admiral Sampson. He seems to know what he wishes to say, but when he tried to talk his tongue refuses to articulate the words he wishes to use.

Some fifteen years ago Frank Haralson was state librarian and a man with an education and in intellect bright enough to have made himself a leader in the legal profession. He was warm-hearted and numbered his friends by the hundreds. His convivial nature led him to indulge in drink to excess. He fought for a while against the habit, but it slowly worked his ruin. During his gradual downfall and even now he has never lost his innate goodness of heart, and however he may have harmed himself, he was never known to harm a fellow man. Those who knew him in his better days and those who know him now never express aught save a sincere pity that his life should have been what it is, that his life should be as it has been.

At times he would throw off the habit which had been his ruin, but old associations, and perhaps, a memory of the life he had sacrificed, drove him back into dissipation.

Last night he was standing in a saloon, but was not drinking. He was seen to reel and fall heavily to the floor. There he lay in violent convulsions until the ambulance bore him to the hospital.

The physicians say he is seriously ill and may die. His brain is affected, the mind having given away under the long strain which had been placed upon it. He seems to realize his condition, but when he tries to speak to those about him he utters words entirely, foreign to what his mind would have him say. It is a peculiar malady and one that is rarely ever known. He may recover and he may regain his mental power, but the physician think the chances are against him.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Jan 14, 1902

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It seems Mr. Haralson did survive, and evidently recovered from his episode of “word blindness.” He continued to work as a lawyer, and it seems, over time, regained the respect (maybe he quit drinking?) of the people. I found several references to him as a divorce lawyer and other “domestic” type cases.

LAWYER CALLS “COP” A LIAR.

Attorney Haralson Imprisoned One Hour for Contempt of Court.
Gunn and Negro Fined.

Frank Haralson, an attorney, called Policeman Dobbins a liar in the recorder’s court yesterday morning and he was imprisoned an hour in a cell for contempt of court. He was given the alternative of either serving the sentence or paying $5.

H. Percy Gunn, of Petersburg, was on trial for writing an insulting note to a young woman, and Dave Dorsey, a negro who delivered the note, was also on trial.
Attorney Haralson was defending Gunn.

“I would like to know how you came to be retained in this case?” remarked Policeman Dobbins, who had made the arrests. He was speaking to Attorney Haralson.

“That’s none of your business,” replied the lawyer.

“I understand that you have been hanging about he police barracks,” continued the officer, “trying to pick up just such cases as this.”

“You are a liar,” snapped out the attorney.

Before the policeman could reply, the recorder interfered and find Lawyer Haralson $5 for contempt of court. Later he said he would either collect the fine or imprison the lawyer for one hour. Attorney Haralson decided to stay in a cell one hour and make $5.

The cases against Gunn and the negro were again called in the afternoon. Gunn claimed he was a stranger and the negro got him to write the note. The negro said he only obeyed the white man’s order. The recorder fined each of them $10.75.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Nov 23, 1902

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UNDERWOOD RALLY HELD AT THE CHASTAIN HALL

An enthusiastic Underwood [Oscar Wilder Underwood] rally was held at Chastain hall, at Tenth street and Hemuphill avenue, last night.

Frank Haralson, a well-known Atlanta lawyer, with offices in the Kiser building, was the principal speaker at the meeting. The crowd was a most enthusiastic one.
The meeting was presided over by Hon. James L. Hollowell, who introduced the speaker.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) May 1, 1912

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MASS MEETING HELD IN DORSEY’S INTEREST

A mass meeting was held last night in Norman’s hall, at Lakewood Heights, in the interest of the candidacy of Hugh M. Dorsey for solicitor general of the Atlanta circuit. About 100 citizens of this section were present.

Judge P.B. Hopkins presided and addresses were made by Colonel Frank L. Haralson, Captain Thomas B. Brown, W.C. Mundy, E.G. Nable, president of the Machinist’s union, and H.L. Watts and Mr. Dorsey.

The meeting was most enthusiastic.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Aug 8, 1912

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From:

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MEN NOW IN PUBLIC LIFE
BY H.W.J. HAM
SAVANNAH: MORNING NEWS PRINT. 1887

HON. FRANK L. HARALSON,
STATE LIBRARIAN.

FRANK L. HARALSON, the present efficient State Librarian, a son of Hon. T. J. HARALSON, of Union county, his mother having been before marriage Miss MARY A. LOGAN, of White county, was born in Union county, Georgia, January 8,1853.

He received the rudiments of an education in the common schools of the county, and subsequently attended the North Georgia Agricultural College, at Dahlonega, being the first student enrolled when that institution was established. He subsequently graduated at the University, Athens, Georgia, in 1875.

Mr. HARALSON, after completing his education, entered upon the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1875, and entered upon the practice at Cleveland, White county.

In January, 1877, when Gov. COLQUITT came into office, Mr. HARALSON was appointed by him to the office of State Librarian, and has held the position continuously since that time, having been reappointed by Gov. COLQUITT, again by Gov. McDANIEL, and lastly by Gov. GORDON.

On March 26,1883, Mr. HARALSON was married to Miss LULA SMALL, sister of Rev. SAM W. SMALL, the evangelist, a most lovely and accomplished lady. No man who has ever held the position has given more general satisfaction to those having business with the department over which he presides.

Ég á eftir að sjá nákvæmlega hvaða tilgangi það þjónar eða hvaða áhrif það mun hafa á ritgerðarvinnuna, en hef ákveðið að vinna fyrirhugaða rannsókn, heimspekiritgerð, um tjáningarfrelsi, opinberlega, hér á blogginu. Allar athugasemdir eru vel þegnar.

Þessi opna vinna mun áreiðanlega hafa áhrif á ferlið, hver þau eru verður metið eftir á. Það má verja þessa sýnihneigð í bili með því að heimspeki sé, í það minnsta að einhverju leyti, nokkuð sem fer fram upphátt. Ef ekki samræða – því ljóst er að hér hefur einn maður orðið, þó aðrir geti gripið inn í, lagt til málanna, þá engu að síður upphátt og frammi fyrir öðrum.

Ég tek það, mín sjálfs vegna, fram strax í upphafi að mér er ekki ljóst hvort úr þessu verður í reynd sú ritgerð sem hugsanlegt er, og sem ég hef lofað stjórnsýslu Háskóla Íslands. Eitt er að lofa einhverju stjórnsýslulega – börn eru fermd 13 ára gömul beinlínis til að læra að lofa upp í ermina á sér og svíkja það sem þau segja við stofnanir og embættismenn – annað er að skuldbindast gagnvart sjálfum sér og öðru fólki berum orðum. Ég er haldinn óþoli gagnvart loforðum og veit að ef ég tilkynni nú að ég ætli að skrifa masters-ritgerð í heimspeki um tjáningarfrelsi, þá eru minni líkur á að hún verði til en ella. Svo ég lofa engu, nema því sem þegar hefur átt sér stað, einum pósti í einu.

Hendi hér fyrst inn athugasemd sem ég setti inn á bloggsíðu Jóns Magnússonar, fyrrverandi þingmanns Frjálslynda flokksins, þar sem hann kallaði mótmæli við heimili dómsmálaráðherra vegna brottvikningar hælisleitenda „ógeðfellda aðför“. Færslan er hér.

Það sem máli skiptir eða getur skipt er þessi síðari athugasemd mín og heimildin sem þar er vísað til:

Sæll aftur, Jón.
Fyrir það fyrsta: Ef hefð fyrir árangursmiðuðum mótmælum væri ekki til, þá þyrfti augljóslega að finna hana upp.

Hins vegar hefurðu rangt fyrir þér um að ekki sé hefð á Vesturlöndum fyrir mótmælum við heimili embættismanna. Cambridge University Press gaf einmitt í fyrra út bók eftir lagaprófessorinn Timothy Zick, þar sem hann rekur meðal annars sögu slíkra mótmæla og deilur sem hafa sprottið um þau fyrir dómstólum í Bandaríkjunum, samfara yfirstandandi átökum um hvað teljast opinber rými, og hvar megi takmarka tjáningarfrelsi fólks. Bókin heitir ‘Speech out of Doors’. Höfundur rekur meðal annars hvernig Hæstiréttur Bandaríkjanna varði réttinn til friðsælla mótmæla við heimili ráðamanna í Chicago á 7. áratugnum, í krafti tjáningarfrelsis. Sú afstaða er þó alls ekki einhliða og enn deilt um þennan rétt. Á sumum svæðum, segir höfundur líka, hafa yfirvöld velt fyrir sér að banna mótmæli alfarið á íbúðarsvæðum. Í hinum ungu Bandaríkjum eiga slík mótmæli sér hins vegar hefð og sögu aftur til átjándu aldar, og færast nú í aukana, skv. Zick: „The residence has become a rather frequently targeted contested place. During recent years, antiabortion, animal rights, gun control, civil rights, and other activists have focused contests over matters of public concern on both private and official residences.“ (121).

Í tilfellinu í gær, þegar búið er að handtaka menn sem vitað er að verður flogið með úr landi næstu stundirnar, og mótmælendur ætla aðgerðum sínum hugsanlega að hafa áhrif, þá myndi þetta staðarval fyrir mótmæli, það er utan við heimili ráðherra, líklega flokkast sem ’síðasta úrræði’ eða ‘place of last resort’, í máli Zick.

Að mótmæla við heimili ráðherra með hrópum er bæði hefðbundið og vel innan borgaralegra velsæmismarka. Þú verður að sitja aðeins á þér.

HMH.

It was a short walk to the Edmon Low Library from Eskimo Joe’s, but the climb to the top of the library was a more strenuous trek. The Uglysuit, an OKC sextet, was in Stillwater on an August evening for a show.

Library employees couldn’t help but stare as The Uglysuit, five members strong at the time, climbed into the east-wing elevator.

The band’s family members and friends crunched inside the elevator too. It was a tight fit, but it was a good day because no one surpassed the 2,000-pound weight limit.

Andrew Arterbery, Edmon Low Library security guard and the first guest of “on.”, led the band upstairs to the roof access.

The room leading to the roof is painted sky blue and is filled with dust, a dated piano organs and a computer half the size of a refrigerator. The computer plays the bells heard on campus. The Uglysuit filled the silence between bells with two new songs.

It might be breaking the rules to make noise in the library, but a little noise never hurt anyone.

• INTERVIEW with The Uglysuit (from left is Dustin Maynord, Colin Bray, Kyle Mayfield, Jonathan Martin and Israel Hindman)

• SONG ONE – “Pen and Self”

• SONG TWO – “1902, Deep Ocean”

A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French black and white silent science fiction film. It is based loosely on two popular novels of the time: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells.

The film was written and directed by Georges Méliès, assisted by his brother Gaston. The film runs 14 minutes if projected at 16 frames per second, which was the standard frame rate at the time the film was produced. It was extremely popular at the time of its release and is the best-known of the hundreds of fantasy films made by Méliès. A Trip to the Moon is the first science fiction film, and utilizes innovative animation and special effects, including the well-known image of the rocketship landing in the moon’s eye.

It was named one of the 100 greatest films of the 20th century by The Village Voice, ranking in at #84.

When originally screened, the film featured a final scene depicting a celebratory parade in honor of the travelers’ return. Until recently, this scene was considered lost, and did not appear on any commercially available editions. However, a complete cut of the film was discovered in a French barn in 2002. Not only is it the most complete cut of the movie, but it is also entirely hand-colored. It was restored and premiered in 2003 at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. The complete film is now available on the extensive new box set.

Melies the Magician DVD

Film and special effects pioneer Georges Melies laid the groundwork for fantasy film as we know it today. This collection celebrates the innovations of the magician entrepreneur and filmmaker with 15 restored Melies shorts including some of the earliest film experiments in history. Also featured is Jacques Meny’s fine documentary The Magic of Melies (1997 55 mins.). Films: The Four Troublesome Heads (1898) Fat and Lean Wrestling Match (1900) The One-Man Band (1900) The Man with the Rubber Head (1901) Bluebeard (1901) A Trip to the Moon (1902) The Infernal Boiling Pot (1903) The Infernal Cakewalk (1903) The Music Lover (1903) The Living Playing Cards (1904) Hilarious Posters (1904) Imperceptible Transmutations (1904) Untameable Whiskers (1904) The Scheming Gambler’s Paradise (1905) and The Devilish Tenant (1909). The Melies shorts are silent with original music by Eric Le Guen. The Magic of Melies is in French and English with English subtitles.

In Popular Culture:

In the second episode of Futurama, Bender shoves a beer bottle through a moon-faced mascot’s eye, making it look like the moon in the film.

The film serves as a basis for the music video for The Smashing Pumpkins 1996 single, “Tonight, Tonight.” Also Queen used it for one of the Heaven For Everyone videos.

Julian Barratt, Chris Halliday and Noel Fielding’s Television show “The Mighty Boosh” uses the moon as a character (played by Fielding), who holds much similarity to the “man in the moon” in the film. The moon is infrequently shown each episode(except the 1st season), sometimes commenting vaguely on the events or subjects of the episode.

The film features prominently in the final episode of the HBO miniseries From The Earth to the Moon. The episode which is also entitled Le Voyage dans la Lune, inter-cuts between the last Apollo mission (Apollo 17) and the making of the film. Tom Hanks not only narrates the episode but also stars in it as Jean-Luc Despont. Georges Méliès is played by Tchéky Karyo.

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Mark Twain once reported that his great desire in life was to be a Presbyterian minister, but he always lacked the faith requisite to the office.  When he returned to Missouri for his last visit in 1902, he addressed the congregation of First Presbyterian Church in Hannibal and reported on the trip:

“Many and many a time in my boyhood days….I desired earnestly to stand in that Presbyterian pulpit and give instructions – but I was never asked until today. My ambition of two generations ago has been satisfied at last!….I noticed in the Presbyterian Church this afternoon that the style of oratory has changed. In my day the speakers made more noise. Their oratory was bombastic, full of gesticulation, pounding the pulpit, and all sorts of exterior suggestions of sense, combined with the utter absence of that quality.”

Cartel del Teatro Principal del 16 de octubre de 1902

Cartel del Teatro Principal del jueves 16 de octubre de 1902

LUGAR:  Teatro Principal

CIUDAD:   Toluca

EMPRESARIO:  EMPRESA BECERRIL HERMANOS

PRECIOS:   ”Luneta, $0.50; Plateas con 6 entradas, $3.00; Palcos primeros, $0.30; Palcos segundos, $0.20; Números de segundos, $0.05; Galería, $0.15″

IMPRESOR:   Of. Tip. del Gob.– Toluca

TÍTULO DE LA FUNCIÓN:  Gran Cinematógrafo Lumière. ¡ESTRENO! ¡ESTRENO! de nuevas vistas fotografiadas por esta empresa, en las principales Ciudades de la República, así como también las últimas novedades en vistas extranjeras. ESPECTÁCULO MORAL INSTRUCTIVO Y RECREATIVO. ¡MAGNIFICA FUNCION! LOS FUNERALES DE LA REINA VICTORIA. EL GENERAL PORFIRIO DÍAZ. El último Carnaval de Mazatlán. Gran desfile militar. LA CENICIENTA

• PRIMERA PARTE:                           
• Obertura por la orquesta
• Bailarina del Teatro Chatelet
• París, imitando la primavera y el Estío
• Plaza de armas y Catedral de México
• Patinadores en el Parque Central, París
• Los fieles saliendo de misa de la Parroquia de Mazatlán
• FUNERALES DE LA REINA VICTORIA
• Húsares y dragones, Regimiento Real de Artillería, la carrosa fúnebre, carroza de la corte y del Rey de Bélgica
• Llegada del tren á la estación, París
• Vista del mar agitado durante un norte en el Puerto de Veracruz
• Pleito de mujeres interrumpido por un perro
• Percance á un tocinero de fin de siglo
• El diablo predicando en un convento, invocación de los espíritus por Satanás y el exorcismo

• SEGUNDA PARTE:                          
• Intermedio por la Orquesta
• Danza española en la Feria de Sevilla
• Club “Mitla” de los ciclistas de Oaxaca
• Vista panorámica circular del Puerto de Mazatlán
• CARROS ALEGÓRICOS en el gran Carnaval del 2 de febrero de 1902 en el Puerto de Mazatlán
• Elefantes en el jardín de aclimatación, París
• Regatas en el puerto de San Blas el 5 de mayo de 1902
• Sombreros y equilibrios, repetición de la misma el revés, de gran efecto
• La fuerza en la ley, muy cómica
• Gran desfile del 11o. Batallón al mando del Coronel de la Rosa, haciendo los honores al Gral. F. Cañedo el 5 de febrero de 1902 en Mazatlán
• Magia diabólica por G. Melies, de transformaciones 

• TERCERA PARTE:                            
• Intermedio por la Orquesta
• Serpentina el sol, la luna y las estrellas, en colores
• Plaza de la República, París
• Un buen charro jineteando un toro en la Plaza de Toros de Colima
• Carros alegóricos y batalla de confetti en el carnavla de París
• Efectos de olas en las rocas en el Puerto Viejo, Mazatlán
• Defensa de la bandera en columna contra caballería por el 7o. Batallón
• Jugadores de baraja regados, cómica
• GRAL. PORFIRIO DÍAZ paseando á caballo en el bosque de Chapultepec
• Foot y Chocolat, célebres clowns, representando á la policía y la muerte de Chocolat, París
• LA CENICIENTA, de gran duración

HORARIO: PARA LA NOCHE A LAS NUEVE EN PUNTO

NOTA:  El programa es susceptible de variación en caso de fuerza mayor. No se pueden repetir las vistas de gran duración                                                            

PUBLICIDAD:  Ninguna

FUENTE:  Cartel en el Archivo Histórico Municipal de Toluca, Ramo “diversiones públicas”, Sección 4, Caja 5, 1892-1902

Cartel del Teatro Principal del domingo 19 de octubre de 1902

Cartel del Teatro Principal del 19 de octubre de 1902

LUGAR:   Teatro Principal

CIUDAD:   Toluca

EMPRESARIO:   EMPRESA BECERRIL HERMANOS

PRECIOS:   “Luneta, $0.50; Plateas con 6 entradas, $3.00; Palcos primeros, $0.30; Palcos segundos, $0.20; Números de segundos, $0.05; Galería, $0.15″

IMPRESOR:  Of. Tip. del Gob.– Toluca

TÍTULO DE LA FUNCIÓN:  Gran Cinematógrafo Lumière. SIGUEN LOS ESTRENOS DE NUEVAS VISTAS. Espectáculo moral, instructivo, recreativo y al alcance de todas las familias. ¡DOS GRANDES Y ESCOJIDAS FUNCIONES! GUERRA NAVAL EN EL PUERTO DE TAKU. LA GUERA DEL TRANSVAAL. Los carros alegóricos en las fiestas presidenciales. EL C. GENERAL PORFIRIO DÍAZ

• PRIMERA PARTE:                           
• Obertura por la orquesta
• Baile representando EL OTOÑO Y EL INVIERNO por una bailarina del Teatro Chatelet, París
• Salida de los bomberos y atacando el fuego      
• CARROS ALEGORICOS en las fiestas presidenciales del 1o. de Diciembre de 1900
• Bañadores en la bahía de San Blas
• Paso de un túnel tomado desde un tren en marcha
• Mal resultado de una mudanza de casa
• Escena de un establo, Suiza
• Carreras en sacos
• El cochero dormido
• MAGNITIZADOR FIN DE SIGLO

• SEGUNDA PARTE:                          
• Intermedio por la Orquesta
• ESTRELLA DE ANDALUCÍA, baile español
• Plaza de armas y Centro Mercantil, México
•  Entrevista de Napoleón y S.S. el Papa
• Negros bañándose en el mar, y repetición de la misma al revés
• Mal charro jineteando un toro
• Clowns en sus saltos peligrosos
• GRAN DESFILE MILITAR POR EL 11 BATALLON (MAZATLAN)
• El gesticulador inimitable
• Percance á un tocinero, muy cómico
• EL GRAL. PORFIRIO DÍAZ  y sus ministros llegando al cerro de San Juan, Puebla
• LA CENICIENTA, de gran duración

• TERCERA PARTE:                            
• Intermedio por la Orquesta
• Serpentina flor de lis en colores
• Los jardines del campo de Marte, París
• Las gaviotas en la bahía de Mazatlán, fotografiadas desde el vapor “Álamos”
• Salida de tropas para el Transvaal
• Los bóxers quemando el último refugio de una misión católica
• ATAQUE POR LOS ACORAZADOS EL PUERTO DE TAKU Y DESTRUCCION DEL MISMO
• Instalación de un cañón inglés y ataque por los Boeros
• EL COMEDOR HECHIZADO
• El cigarro inhallable
•  FAUSTO Y MARGARITA, de transformaciones                                                             

HORARIO:   Por la tarde a las 4 y media. Por la noche a las 9 en punto

NOTA:   El programa es susceptible de variación en caso de fuerza mayor. No se pueden repetir las vistas de gran duración                                                           

PUBLICIDAD:   Ninguna

FUENTE:  Cartel en el Archivo Histórico Municipal de Toluca, Ramo “diversiones públicas”, Sección 4, Caja 5, 1892-1902

Cartel del Teatro Principal del martes 21 de octubre de 1902

Cartel del Teatro Principal del 21 de octubre de 1902

LUGAR:   Teatro Principal

CIUDAD:    Toluca

EMPRESARIO:    EMPRESA BECERRIL HERMANOS

PRECIOS:   ”Luneta, $0.50; Plateas con 6 entradas, $3.00; Palcos primeros, $0.30; Palcos segundos, $0.20; Números de segundos, $0.05; Galería, $0.15″

IMPRESOR:   Of. Tip. del Gob.—Toluca

TÍTULO DE LA FUNCIÓN:  Gran Cinematógrafo Lumière. ¡MAGNÍFICA FUNCION! ESTRENO DE NUEVAS Y HERMOSAS VISTAS. ¡LA GRAN CORRIDA DE TOROS! ALADINO ó la LAMPARA MARAVILLOSA. LA DEFENSA DE LA BANDERA. EL GENERAL PORFIRIO DIAZ EN COCHE Y OTRAS MUCHAS BAJO EL SIGUIENTE PROGRAMA

• PRIMERA PARTE:                           
• Obertura por la orquesta                                                           
• EL JARABE TAPATIO que termina en pleito                                                           
• Ejercicios en las barras paralelas                                                             
• Caballo saltando obstáculos                                                              
• Bañadores en el mar, Cuyutlán                                                          
• Desfile del cuerpo de bomberos, México                                                            
• El hombre perro                                                             
• Carnaval en Niza                                                          
• El sombrero cómico                                                            
• Cremación de una señorita                                                              
• ALADINO O LA LAMPARA MARAVILLOSA

• SEGUNDA PARTE:                          
• Intermedio por la Orquesta
• Las Peteneras, baile español
• La calle del empedradillo, México
• Una caravana de árabes en camellos, llegando á Jerusalén
• Indios Zapotecas pasando el río del Atoyac, Oaxaca
• GRAN DESFILE DE INFANTERÍA, México
• Pescador en un torrente
• Pleito de niños con las almohadas
• El barbero fin de siglo
• EL DIABLO PREDICANDO EN UN CONVENTO

• TERCERA PARTE:                           
• Intermedio por la Orquesta
• Danza serpentina en colores
• Nerón ensayando venenos con sus esclavos
• Patinadores en el lago Eighien
• Mar agitado en el puerto de Veracruz
• Saltos á la cuerda
• EL GRAL. PORFIRIO DIAZ llegando en coche á palacio
• DEFENSA DE LA BANDERA. Episodio de la guerra Franco-Prusiana
• El soldado y la nodriza
• Ilusionista fin de siglo
• Gran Corrida de toros por Mazzantini desde la presentación de la cuadrilla hasta el arrastre del toro, de gran duración

HORARIO:  PARA LA NOCHE A LAS OCHO Y TRES CUARTOS EN PUNTO

NOTA:  El programa es susceptible de variación en caso de fuerza mayor. No se pueden repetir las vistas de gran duración                                                            

PUBLICIDAD:   Ninguna

FUENTE:  Cartel en el Archivo Histórico Municipal de Toluca, Ramo “diversiones públicas”, Sección 4, Caja 5, 1892-1902

Cartel del Teatro Principal domingo 26 de octubre de 1902

Cartel del Teatro Principal del 26 de octubre de 1902

LUGAR:   Teatro Principal

CIUDAD:    Toluca

EMPRESARIO:  EMPRESA BECERRIL HERMANOS

PRECIOS:   ”Luneta, $0.50; Plateas con 6 entradas, $3.00; Palcos primeros, $0.30; Palcos segundos, $0.20; Números de segundos, $0.05; Galería, $0.15″

IMPRESOR:  Of. Tip. del Gob.– Toluca

TÍTULO DE LA FUNCIÓN:  Gran Cinematógrafo Lumière. ¡DOS ESCOGIDAS FUNCIONES! ESTRENO DE NUEVOS CUADROS. Inauguración de la Exposición de Toluca. EJERCICIOS MILITARES ejecutados por los alumnos de la Escuela Correccional. GRAN CORRIDA DE TOROS. Los funerales de la Reina Victoria. General Porfirio Díaz. Carnaval de Mazatlán

• PRIMERA PARTE:                           
• Obertura por la orquesta
• Danza española en la feria de Sevilla
• EL ESPEJO DE CAGLIOSTRO , MAGIA
• Escena de un establo, Suiza
• BAILE LIBELLA, hermoso baile iluminado
• La llegada de un trasatlántico á Veracruz
• Alquimista prestidigitador
• Juan que llora y Juan que ríe
• CORTEJO DEL PRINCIPE DE NAPOLES
• El cigarro inhallable
• Carnaval de Niza
• GRAN CORRIDA DE TOROS desde la salida de la cuadrilla hasta el arrastre del toro; de gran duración

• SEGUNDA PARTE:                          
• Intermedio por la Orquesta
• El jarabe tapatío
• Ronda de niñas
• Calle de los Inválidos desde el puente de Alejandro III, París
• FUNERALES DE LA REINA VICTORIA
• Húsares y dragones, Regimiento Real de Artillería, la carrosa fúnebre, carroza de la corte y del Rey de Bélgica
• Vista del mar en el puerto de Manzanillo
• Elefantes en el jardin de aclimatación, París
• Escena de pugilato
• Muerte de Robespierre
• Mala suerte de un cochero
• Ilusionista fin de siglo Ilusionista fin de siglo
• MANIOBRAS MILITARES por los alumnos de la Escuela Correccional, de esta Ciudad, tomada el 22 de octubre de 1902. Ejercicios de esgrima, ejercicios al marrazo y gran desfile

• TERCERA PARTE:                            
• Intermedio por la Orquesta
• Danza, serpentina en colores
• Ciclistas de Oaxaca del club “Mitla”
• Los jardines del Campo de Marte, París
• General Porfirio Díaz paseando á caballo en el Bosque de Chapultepec
• Efectos de olas en las rocas, en el puerto viejo, Mazatlán
• DEFENSA DE LA BANDERA en columna contra caballería por el 7o. Batallón
• Llegada de un tren á la estación de San Lázaro, París
• INAUGURACION DE LA EXPOSICION DE TOLUCA. El Sr. Gobernador del Estado acompañado del Sr. Ministro de Fomento entrando á la Exposición el 15 de octubre de 1902
• La fuerza en la ley
• Magia diabólica
• Carnaval de Mazatlán. Los carros alegóricos

HORARIO:  Por la tarde á las 4 y media. Por la noche á las 9 en punto

NOTA:  El programa es susceptible de variación en caso de fuerza mayor. No se pueden repetir las vistas de gran duración                                                           

PUBLICIDAD:   Ninguna

FUENTE:   Cartel en el Archivo Histórico Municipal de Toluca, Ramo “diversiones públicas”, Sección 4, Caja 5, 1892-1902

Cartel del Teatro Principal jueves 30 de octubre de 1902

Cartel del Teatro Principal del 30 de octubre de 1902

LUGAR:   Teatro Principal

CIUDAD:   Toluca

EMPRESARIO:  EMPRESA BECERRIL HERMANOS

PRECIOS:  “Luneta, $0.50; Plateas con 6 entradas, $3.00; Palcos primeros, $0.30; Palcos segundos, $0.20; Números de segundos, $0.05; Galería, $0.15″

IMPRESOR:  Of. Tip. del Gob.– Toluca

TÍTULO DE LA FUNCIÓN: Gran Cinematógrafo Lumière. LA CENICIENTA. El Rey Víctor Manuel. El Gral. Porfirio Díaz. EL DIABLO PREDICANDO EN UN CONVENTO. La defensa de la Bandera. Gran desfile. FUNERALES DE FELIX FAURE

• PRIMERA PARTE:                           
•  Obertura por la orquesta
• LAS PETENERAS, BAILE ESPAÑOL
• Calle del empedradillo, México
• Jugadores en un jardín
•  CARROS ALEGÓRICOS y batalla de confeti, París
• Los funerales de Félix Faure, Presidente de Francia
• El hombre perro
• Retrato misterioso
• El célebre transformista MESMERIS
• El cochero dormido
• Fausto y Margarita, de magia
• Quemada del Judas el Sábado de Gloria, México
• Paseo por el Canal de la Viga, México
• Jugadores en un jardín

• SEGUNDA PARTE:   
•  Intermedio por la Orquesta
•  Negros Ashantis danzando
•  Concurso de coches automóviles, París
•  Paseo en el jardín de Álamos y los fieles saliendo de misa
•  EL REY VICTOR MANUEL en los funerales de Humberto I, Italia
•  Regata en la bahía de San Blas
•  Concurso de pintura
•  Desfile de infantería el 16 de Septiembre, México
•  El policía y el ladrón
•  La cremación de una Señorita
•  Carreras en sacos
•  EL DIABLO PREDICANDO en un convento, de magia y gran duración

• TERCERA PARTE:                            
•  Intermedio por la Orquesta
• Danza, serpentina en colores
• Patinadores en el Parque Central
• La cucaña ó Palo Ensebado en el puerto de Guaymas el 5 de mayo
•  Bañadores en la bahía de San Blas
• Ejercicios al marrazo por el 7o. Batallón
• El Gral. Porfirio Díaz se dirige á las tribunas el 2 de Abril
•  El pescador en un torrente
•  La defensa de la bandera, de gran efecto
•  El comedor hechizado
•  Pleito de mujeres interrumpido por un perro
•  LA CENICIENTA,  de gran duración

HORARIO:  Escogida función para la noche á las 9 en punto

NOTA: El programa es susceptible de variación en caso de fuerza mayor. No se pueden repetir las vistas de gran duración

PUBLICIDAD:  Ninguna

FUENTE: Cartel en el Archivo Histórico Municipal de Toluca, Ramo “diversiones públicas”, Sección 4, Caja 5, 1892-1902

Cartel del Teatro Principal del miércoles 1 de enero de 1902

LUGAR:  Teatro Principal

CIUDAD:    Toluca

EMPRESARIO:   Por la Empresa CARLOS MONGRAND

PRECIOS:    “Luneta, $0.50; Plateas con 6 entradas, $3.00; Palcos primeros, $0.30; Palcos segundos, $0.20; Números de segundos, $0.05; Galería, $0.15″

IMPRESOR:   Sin información

TÍTULO DE LA FUNCIÓN:  Cinematógrafo Lumière. Gran premio en la exposición de París. La empresa desea un feliz año nuevo á los habitantes de esta ciudad. ¡Función de tarde dedicada a los niños! Los niños hasta de 10 años de edad GRATIS, siempre que sean acompañados de una persona mayor, podrá entrar uno, sin pagar. ¡Empezar bien el año a divertirse!

• PRIMERA PARTE:                           
• Obertura por la orquesta
• ¡¡GRANDES CORRIDAS DE TOROS!! Salida de la cuadrilla de Mazzantini, al redondel de la plaza
• Corrida en la Plaza de Madrid
• Corrida en la Plaza de Tacubaya, México
• Corrida por Fuentes en la Plaza “México” y banderillas por Minuto, Plaza “México“
• Estocada por el célebre Luis Mazzantini y muerte del toro, Plaza de Madrid
• Rosita Tejera, la Perla de Sevilla, hermoso baile español (iluminada)
• Los últimos cartuchos (histórico)
• Boxeadores en barriles
• Jugadores de baraja, refrescados
• El célebre Claudius en sus mejores transformaciones en el teatro Olimpia, de París, vencedor del renombrado Frégoli
• Sueño del artista pintor Rafael Sanzio, ilusión de óptica, hermosa vista
• David Devand, ilusionista del Edén Musée de New York
• Terrible percance á un enamorado en el cementerio de Dolores, México
• Una boda interrumpida en Santa Anita, México
• La torre maldita. Gran vista de magia de muchas transformaciones, última novedad de París
• Gran panorama de 15 kilómetros de largo, tomado desde el aventador de la maquina en marcha, paso de un túnel
• Llegada de un tren á la estación de Toluca

• SEGUNDA PARTE:                          
• Intermedio por la Orquesta
• La guerra del Transvaal. Un viaje en tramway eléctrica al interior de la ciudad del Cabo, África del Sur
• Asalto y toma de una posición boera por los Imperiales
• Arresto de un espía boero por los imperiales
• Ejecución del espía en un Kopje, muere como valiente
•  Asalto de una batería inglesa por boeros y toma de un cañón
• Una escaramuza cerca de Glencoe, victoria inglesa y Gran combate de Tujela, los boeros se apoderan de todos los cañones ingleses
• Terrible episodio de la batalla de Moder River
• La heroica mujer boera, Pelea
• El General Cronje entregando su espada á Lord Roberts haciéndole éste con sus tropas, los honores que mereció como valiente
• Terrible desastre de los ingleses en Spión Koop donde perdieron las tropas imperiales sus cañones y gran número de prisioneros
• Grandes festejos del jubileo en Londres, en honor de la Reina Victoria. Grand desfile de Loores, Pares, Príncipes, Virreyes de las Indias y caballeros del cabo, representantes de todas las potencias
• La reina del sol, de la luna y las estrellas (iluminada)
• CHARROS MEXICANOS lazando caballos
• CHARROS domando caballos
• CHARROS bañando caballos
• CHARROS bailando el jarabe tapatío en la Hacienda de Atequiza (Jalisco)
• Un espiritista apurado, vista muy chistosa

• TERCERA PARTE:                            
• Intermedio por la Orquesta
• Batalla de nieve en Francia
• Bailarinas de la gran Opera de París
• Bote en alta mar, hermoso efecto
•  Titirilina, célebre bailarina del siglo pasado
• La Corona fantástica por el Célebre Blanchard, París
• LA CAPERUZA COLORADA. Grandiosa vista de magia de muchísimas transformaciones, última creación en París, acabada de recibir en esta ciudad, vista de gran duración, 15 minutos (iluminada). 1a y 2a PASTELERIA DEL PADRE LATOURTE, interior y el horno en actividad, percances cómicos á los pasteleros
• 3a y 4a VISTA DEL MOLINO DE LA GALETTE y la casucha de Madre Grande. La Caperuza hace su adiós á sus padres
• 5a y 6a LA SELVA, Llegada del Lobo y susto de la Caperuza, el Lobo explica su visita y sale corriendo, vienen las amigas de la Caperuza y bailan, etc., etc.
• 7a EL MOLINO DE LA GALETTE, el molinero Sans-Souci, llegada de éste acompañado de su burro cargado de trigo. Escenas muy cómicas
• 8a y 9a LA CASUCHA DE MADRE GRANDE, llegada del Lobo, éste entra y se ve el interior de la casucha, hermoso efecto de maquinaria teatral
• 10a EL CUARTO DE MADRE GRANDE, esta está en cama, el Lobo salta a la cama y éste se la come y se viste de su camisa y gorra de dormir, muy cómica
• 11a y 12a LLEGADA DE LA CAPERUZA, escenas entre el Lobo y la Caperuza, llegan los amigos pasteleros y corren al Lobo y lo persiguen
• 13a LAS GARGANTAS ROCALLOSAS y el torrente, soberbio cuadro pintoresco, muerte del Lobo por el Guardamonte. Varias escenas muy interesantes
• 14a LA VUELTA A LA ALDEA, grandiosos festejos, desfile de las principales autoridades de la Aldea y el cortejo cómico del Lobo, etc., etc.
• 15a y 16a GRANDIOSO APOTEOSIS, la Caperuza en actitud de San Miguel aplastando el dragón y ensarta al Lobo y final salida de un grupo del suelo, grandioso efecto    

Cartel del Teatro Principal del 1 de enero de 1902

HORARIO:   Dos funciones. Tarde á las 4 y 30. Noche á las 8 y 45, con el mismo programa

NOTA:  1. Único aparato que trabajó en la Gran Sala Oficial de fiestas al interior del local de la Exposición, cuya sala todas las noches estaba concurrida por más de treinta mil personas    2. Espectáculo moral, instructivo, recreativo y el más económico y el más concurrido de la buena sociedad                                                            

PUBLICIDAD:  Ninguna 

FUENTE:  Cartel en el Archivo Histórico Municipal de Toluca, Ramo “diversiones públicas”, Sección 4, Caja 5, 1892-1902

Vistas exhibidas en Toluca durante 1902

(las vistas en negritas son filmadas en México)

1. Aladino o la lámpara maravillosa
2. Alquimista prestidigitador
3. Arresto de un espía boero por los imperiales
4. Asalto de una batería inglesa por boeros y toma de un cañón
5. Asalto de una batería inglesa por boeros y toma de un cañón
6. Ataque por los acorazados en el puerto de Taku y destrucción del mismo
7. Bailarinas de la gran Opera de París
8. Baile Libella (iluminado)
9. Baile representando el otoño y el invierno por una bailarina del Teatro Chatelet, París
10. Bañadores en el mar, Cuyutlán
11. Bañadores en la bahía de San Blas
12. Barbero fin de siglo, el
13. Batalla de nieve en Francia
14. Boda interrumpida en Santa Anita, México, un
15. Bote en alta mar
16. Boxeadores en barriles
17. Bóxers quemando el último refugio de una misión católica, los
18. Buen charro jineteando un toro en la Plaza de Toros de Colima, un
19. Bailarina del Teatro Chatelet 
20. Caballo saltando obstáculos
21. Calle de los Inválidos desde el puente de Alejandro III, París
22. Calle del empedradillo, México
23. Caperuza colorada, la
24. Caravana de árabes en camellos, llegando á Jerusalén, un
25. Carnaval de Mazatlán. Los carros alegóricos
26. Carnaval en Niza
27. Carreras en sacos
28. Carros alegóricos en el gran Carnaval del 2 de febrero de 1902 en el Puerto de Mazatlán
29. Carros alegóricos en las fiestas presidenciales del 1o. de Diciembre de 1900
30. Carros alegóricos y batalla de confeti en el carnaval de París
31. Célebre Claudius en sus mejores transformaciones en el teatro Olimpia, de París, vencedor del renombrado Frégoli, el
32. Célebre transformista Mesmeris, el
33. Cenicienta, la
34. Charros bailando el jarabe tapatío en la Hacienda de Atequiza (Jalisco)
35. Charros bañando caballos
36. Charros domando caballos
37. Charros mexicanos lazando caballos
38. Cigarro inhallable, el
39. Clowns en sus saltos peligrosos
40. Club “Mitla” de los ciclistas de Oaxaca
41. Cochero dormido, el
42. Concurso de coches automóviles, París
43. Concurso de pintura
44. Corona fantástica por el Célebre Blanchard, París, la
45. Corrida en la Plaza de Madrid
46. Corrida en la Plaza de Tacubaya, México
47. Corrida por Fuentes en la Plaza “México” y banderillas por Minuto, Plaza “México”
48. Cortejo del Príncipe de Nápoles
49. Cremación de una señorita
50. Cucaña ó palo Encebado en el puerto de Guaymas el 5 de Mayo, la
51. Danza española en la Feria de Sevilla
52. Danza, serpentina en colores
53. David Devand, ilusionista del Edén Musée de New York
54. Defensa de la bandera en columna contra caballería por el 7o. Batallón
55. Defensa de la bandera. Episodio de la guerra Franco-Prusiana
56. Desfile de infantería el 16 de Septiembre, México
57. Desfile del cuerpo de bomberos, México
58. Diablo predicando en un convento, el
59. Efectos de olas en las rocas en el Puerto Viejo, Mazatlán
60. Ejecución del espía en un Kopje, muere como valiente
61. Ejercicio de reclutas
62. Ejercicios al marrazo por el 7o. Batallón
63. Ejercicios en las barras paralelas
64. El comedor hechizado
65. Elefantes en el jardín de aclimatación, París
66. Entrevista de Napoleón y S.S. el Papa
67. Escaramuza cerca de Glencoe, victoria inglesa y Gran combate de Tujela, los boeros se apoderan de todos los cañones ingleses
68. Escena de pugilato
69. Escena de un establo, Suiza
70. Espejo de Cagliostro, el (magia)
71. Espiritista apurado, vista muy chistosa, un
72. Estocada por el célebre Luis Mazzantini y muerte del toro, Plaza de Madrid
73. Estrella de Andalucía, baile español
74. Fausto y Margarita
75. Fieles saliendo de misa de la Parroquia de Mazatlán, los
76. Foot y Chocolat, célebres clowns, representando á la policía y la muerte de Chocolat, París
77. Fuerza en la ley, la
78. Funerales de Félix Fauré, Presidente de Francia, los
79. Funerales de la Reina Victoria
80. Gaviotas en la bahía de Mazatlán, fotografiadas desde el vapor Álamos, las
81. General Cronje entregando su espada á Lord Roberts haciéndole éste con sus tropas, los honores que mereció como valiente, el
82. General Porfirio Díaz  y sus ministros llegando al cerro de San Juan, Puebla, el
83. General Porfirio Díaz paseando á caballo en el Bosque de Chapultepec, el
84. Gesticulador inimitable, el
85. Gral. Porfirio Díaz llegando en coche á palacio, el
86. Gral. Porfirio Díaz se dirige á las tribunas el 2 de Abril, el
87. Gran corrida de toros desde la salida de la cuadrilla hasta el arrastre del toro; de gran duración
88. Gran corrida de toros por Mazzantini desde la presentación de la cuadrilla hasta el arrastre del toro, de gran duración
89. Gran desfile de infantería, México
90. Gran desfile del 11o. Batallón al mando del Coronel de la Rosa, haciendo los honores al Gral. F. Cañedo el 5 de febrero de 1902 en Mazatlán
91. Gran panorama de 15 kilómetros de largo, tomado desde el aventador de la maquina en marcha, paso de un túnel
92. Grandes festejos del jubileo en Londres, en honor de la Reina Victoria. Grand desfile de Loores, Pares, Príncipes, Virreyes de las Indias y caballeros del cabo, representantes de todas las potencias
93. Guerra del Transvaal, la
94. Heroica mujer boera, la
95. Hombre perro, el
96. Húsares y dragones, Regimiento Real de Artillería, la carrosa fúnebre, carroza de la corte y del Rey de Bélgica
97. Ilusionista fin de siglo
98. Inauguración de la Exposición de Toluca. El Sr. Gobernador del Estado acompañado del Sr. Ministro de Fomento entrando á la Exposición el 15 de octubre de 1902
99. Indios Zapotecas pasando el río del Atoyac, Oaxaca
100. Instalación de un cañón inglés y ataque por los Boeros
101. Jarabe tapatío que termina en pleito, el
102. Jarabe tapatío, el
103. Jardines del campo de Marte, París, los
104. Juan que llora y Juan que ríe
105. Jugadores de baraja regados
106. Jugadores en un jardín
107. Llegada de un trasatlántico á Veracruz, la
108. Llegada de un tren á la estación de San Lázaro, París
109. Llegada de un tren á la estación de Toluca
110. Magia diabólica por G. Méliès, de transformaciones
111. Magnetizador fin de siglo
112. Mal charro jineteando un toro
113. Mal resultado de una mudanza de casa
114. Mala suerte de un cochero
115. Maniobras militares por los alumnos de la Escuela Correccional, de esta Ciudad, tomada el 22 de octubre de 1902. Ejercicios de esgrima, ejercicios al marrazo y gran desfile
116. Mar agitado en el puerto de Veracruz
117. Muerte de Robespierre
118. Negros Ashantis danzando
119. Negros bañándose en el mar, y repetición de la misma al revés
120. Nerón ensayando venenos con sus esclavos 
121. París, imitando la primavera y el estío
122. Paseo en el jardín de Álamos y los fieles saliendo de misa
123. Paseo por el Canal de la Viga, México
124. Paso de un túnel tomado desde un tren en marcha
125. Patinadores en el lago Eighien
126. Patinadores en el Parque Central
127. Percance á un tocinero, muy cómica
128. Pescador en un torrente
129. Pescador en un torrente, el
130. Peteneras, las, baile español
131. Plaza de armas y Catedral de México
132. Plaza de armas y Centro Mercantil, México
133. Plaza de la República, París
134. Pleito de mujeres interrumpido por un perro
135. Pleito de niños con las almohadas
136. Policía y el ladrón, el
137. Quemada del Judas el Sábado de Gloria, México
138. Regatas en el puerto de San Blas el 5 de mayo de 1902
139. Reina del sol, de la luna y las estrellas, la (iluminada)
140. Retrato misterioso
141. Rey Víctor Manuel en los funerales de Humberto I, Italia, el
142. Ronda de niñas
143. Rosita Tejera, la Perla de Sevilla, hermoso baile español (iluminada)
144. Salida de la cuadrilla de Mazzantini, al redondel de la plaza
145. Salida de los bomberos y atacando el fuego
146. Salida de tropas para el Transvaal
147. Saltos á la cuerda
148. Serpentina el sol, la luna y las estrellas, en colores
149. Serpentina flor de lis en colores
150. Soldado y la nodriza, el
151. Sombrero cómico, el
152. Sombreros y equilibrios, repetición de la misma el revés, de gran efecto
153. Sueño del artista pintor Rafael Sanzio, ilusión de óptica, hermosa vista
154. Terrible desastre de los ingleses en Spión Koop donde perdieron las tropas imperiales sus cañones y gran número de prisioneros
155. Terrible episodio de la batalla de Moder River
156. Terrible percance á un enamorado en el cementerio de Dolores, México
157. Titirilina, célebre bailarina del siglo pasado
158. Torre maldita, la
159. Últimos cartuchos, los (histórico)
160. Vista del mar agitado durante un norte en el Puerto de Veracruz
161. Vista del mar en el puerto de Manzanillo
162. Vista panorámica circular del Puerto de Mazatlán

For this Illustration Friday, I decided to download some images from the vintage public domain book, From the Book “Ways of Wood Folk” By William J. Long, Copyright 1899, Ginn & Company Publishers, The Athenaeum Press, 1902.

The image above is from Page 67. It an illustration for the story, “A Wild Duck”.

The image above is on page 74.  It’s a black and white drawing illustrating the story “An Oriole’s Nest.”

This image appears between pages 118 and 119.  It is from the story, “One Touch of Nature”.  It’s a drawing of a family of Quail.

This drawing of a chickadee on a hand is from page 135.  The illustration is at the beginning of the story, “Ch’GeeGee-Lokh-Sis” (the name the Northern Native Americans gave to the chickadee).

The images above are from a pre-1923 book that should be in the public domain.  The images from the book should be copyright free.  I have uploaded the 300 dpi images to my flickr account and attributed them to Creative Commons.  To download the images, click on them.  This will take you to the image in my flickr account where you may chose a size of file to download.