BEVERLY FARMS 
‘he Ladies Sewing circle met last 
evening with Mrs. Howard A. 
Doane at her home, Hale st. 
A pitch tournament is being ar- 
ranged between the members of 
Preston Post, G. A. R., and the 
Andrew Standley camp, S. of V. 
The side which loses is to furnish 
the winners with a clam chowder 
supper and all the fixings. 
During the lental season there 
will be services at St. Margaret’s 
church on Wednesday and Friday 
evenings, commencing at 8 o’clock. 
Among the many improvements 
to the building known as the Bev- 
erly Farms house, is a long two story 
piazza on two sides of the building, 
built during the past week, which 
adds much to the attractiveness of 
the structure. 
Mrs. Willard B. Publicover was 
hostess for the Woman’s Auxiliary 
of St. John’s church at her home on 
Hart st., yesterday afternoon. 
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Chariot Racing Behind the 
Footlights. 
Realistic and exciting as is the 
chariot race in ‘‘Ben Hur’’ with its 
twenty thoroughbred horses driven 
in quadruple teams by the five 
contestants for the blue ribbon of 
victory in the arena of the Anti- 
och circus, as seen by the breathless 
audience in front of the footlights 
at the big Boston Theatre, Boston, 
one gets a new sensation by watch- 
ing this wonderful spectacle from 
behind the scenes. All around, 
towers huge panoramas. At one’s 
feet the stage is transformed from 
the boards trod by buskin and sock 
into a mechanical workshop. Four 
horses stand abreast before each 
chariot, resting upon the heavy 
treadmills, each chariot platform 
weighing, with its involved acces- 
sories, a grand total of 138,000 
pounds. Yet each of these five 
chariots with shouting riders, plung- 
ing steeds and weighty cradles is 
shifted back and forth at will by 
invisible means and by a simple turn 
of the wrist. The subterranean re- 
gion below-stairs, with its constant 
passing through of supernumeraries, 
resembles a timbered dockyard 
bearing as it does this Alantean 
movable mass of thundering tread- 
mills on its crouched shoulders. 
A queer sight it is behind the 
scenes just before the race begins, a 
curious mixture of oriental and mod- 
ern. The first and Twentieth Cen- 
turies seem to be jostling elbows 
Up to date little stable boys stand- 
ing by the horses at the antique 
chariots;-a host of Romans, Jews 
and <Asiatics in trappings of the 
‘‘gorgeous East’’ elbowing by a 
small regiment of stage hands; Ben- 
Hur, in his white tunic, clambers 
cautiously to his perch in one of the 
race-cars, and Messala, with red 
cloak flying and the other contest- 
ants leap into their chariots. The 
red garment is the waited signal. 
. The ..apathetic . demeanor....of . the 
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horses vanishes in an instant, their 
ears are pricked forward for the 
word ‘‘Go!’’, and, as the first rumble 
of the wheels arises, their hoofs 
start flying over the treadmills. One 
nearly stumbles for an instant, but 
promptly rights himself and. strains 
forward with his mates. 
The light has been kept a minute 
to encourage the horses in their 
start. Now darkness falls and the 
sensitive auditor behind the scenes, 
hidden only a few feet from the 
roaring machinery 
steeds, feels a sort of uncanny sen- 
sation, even though it be not dread. 
Then as suddenly, the light is on 
again and he sees the now thorough- 
ly aroused racers seemingly charg- 
ing straight at him with flying leaps 
and never aquiver. The illusory dust 
rises in a cloud from their feet and 
the charioteers with their crackling 
whips appear to be about to dash 
upon the staring spectator. Espec- 
lally is this true when one chariot 
after the other is shifted ahead, and 
the audience in front beholds the 
tragedy of Messala’s overthrow. 
When the scene is over and the 
scenic rabble is cheering the be- 
laureled Ithamar, the smuggled in 
auditor feels that he has truly 
seen a fierce race. +i 
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