Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1877, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, CCTOBER .2R, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. i ’ AMUSEMENTS. The Passing Show of the Week---A Sugges- tion. Fvangeline, Pink Dominoes, The Foolish Wife, and Sing Sing. Boston’s Estimate of the *“Dan- ites,” and of Mary An- derson. Joaquin Carries the Palm of Sen- sation---Bret Harte and Howells. The Rive-King Testimonial—College of Music Soiree—~Hershey Hall, Ete. TOAE PLAY-BILL. LAST WLEK'S BUSINESS. The theatrical business of the past week has peen on the whole abont as good as the per- formances merited. Mr. Raymond played afairly remunerative engazement, begioning with the Insursnce Agent aud ending with Sellers, in both of which parts he is equally diverting, because in both he presents the very same cecentricities. Mr. Bartiey Cawpbell bas occupied the New Chicago with his comedy company, which ap- pears to be daily growing in public estimation a5 a well-selected orgaization, full of capable, conscientious actors. It might be desirable, from the standpoint of the auditor, of caurse, to test the abilities of the company—just fora chanze—in some other direction than the interpretation of Mr. Campbetl’s hizbly-respecta- Uledrawmas. We think it would prove advantaze- ous in manyways. But Mr. Campbell is running {his concern to suit himself, and, being a play- wrizht with any number of picees of his own on Iand, it mizht be asking too much of him to mive the use of his theatre to the productions of rivals. If every writer of plays could only doas Bartley hias done, and become his own manager, whata. field of dramatic literature would be thrown open. Chicazo is just mow swarming with plarwrights, male and female, to say noth- ing of Otto Peltzer, who translates from three tofive dramas from the German every week. The resular managers are generally unapproach- sble on this subject. They receive manu- sripts by the ton, but they cruelly lay them on tbe table, often without reading It would, theréfore, scem au appropriate thing to start a playwrights’ association (backed by capitsl, to be sure), the object of which should be to lift the down-trodden, neelecied com- pasers of dramas ub to their rightful pedestal of fame. Bartley Campbeli is a worthy pioneer in tl work. lHe has hired a hall, and be pro- esto_vompel 2 bearing for himself. “ How. ‘omen Love ™ has hiad a'run of two weeks, and ihe author is now preparing something else. In he fnterests of the play-producing public ove hepes that the venture” may coutinue to Le suc- cessful. Hooley has finally got rid of “Sardanapatus,” much to his own private satisfaction no doudt, anl also_ 1o the satisfaction of his patrons. The truth is, Mr. Hooley was deceived into the production of this dreary mass of dizlogme by managerial misrep- resentation. He was given to understand that 1he piece was 2 grand success somewhere, and be did nof scover the fraud until it was too Jarrett & Palmer act very un- upon an_iateliizent public a company of this kKind. The efect of sucha course they will doubtless appreciate when they undertzke” to come_before tac people with another veutore. The people will be slow to take their word forit. Tpe * {lumpty Dunpty™ party at the Adelphi Lus miet with reasonable suecess the last week. NEXT WEEK’S PROGRAMME. At McVicker's Theatre “ Pink Dominoes " will be produced on Monday evening with the following cast: Cliaries Greythorn, a Manchester DETCHIDL. o sranaeeeaee n ne Joseph Wheelock Sir Perey Wagetaff. man sbout town..G. F. Le rock Joseph Stubbs, with » weaknesa. .. Henry Pearson ltenry Gounlan, 1 good young max... Reland Reed rieket. head waiter at Cremorne. First warter at Czemorae. g Second waiter at Cremorne . Lads Mawne Wazstafl. . Sophie Greythorn (her first 2p- S5 Mies Annie Grabam - Mre.” Clara Stoneall Miss Alice Hastings . Miss Laura Don B . & modest servant. 3.5 Garron, a downright inge- nge. o ... Miss Agmes Elliott The Evanceline Combination will open at Hooley’s to-torrow evening with the same cast s appeared biere on their Jast visit. The piece Las undergone several alterations, including.a number of new songs, duets, ete. Eliza Weath® ersby plavs Gavriel, and Harry Hunter will ap- vear as The Lone Fisherman. On the following weels *Conrad the Corsair” will be bLrought out. At the Adelphi Dominick Murray begins an engagement to-morrow eveasing in lis well- known sensational drama, * Eseaped from Sing Sing,” which made quite a bit bere about a artley Campbell will produce his new “My Foolish Wife,” at the New Chi: @go to-morrow micht. It has been well re- ceived in Philadelpbia. Tt belongs to the mod- ¢m type ot farce comedics, and is said to be full of comical situations and sprigntly dia- lozue. The performance by Mr. Wurster's Germsn Dramatic Company at the New Chicazo Theatre 1his evening will be of more thau usual interest. The new leading lady, Miss Theodora Mundt Muehibach, a daugh of the great German Buthoress, Mrs. Louise Muelilbach, makes her first appearance, and as she comes heralded as obe of the best Germran actresses that have come tothis country, there is_much anxiety to see Yer. “She is youne and handsome. and has a £ood wardrobe, and if her acting is ouly near us £ood g it is said 10 be, she will be quitc an ac- Quisition to Mr. Warster’s company. She ap- Pears this evening in two plays,—a comedy and asingipge farce. The former is from the able Ten “of Carl Blum, and is _entitled ** Erziehung's-resultate ' (Results of Educa- tion). and affurds the young actress a wood opportuuity to show her abiiities as juvenile lady. Tne farce has been written by G, Von Moserand A. L. L' Arronee,aud is entitled, “Plga Lais erlaubt ¥ (Papa bas riven permission). In his play Miss Muelilbach appears as a soubrette, iu which line she is also eaid to excel, and but littie inferior to Miss Cottrell At Wasserman’s West Tweith Street Theatre will Le given Charlotte Birch-Pleitfer’s drama- tization of Bulwer's realistic novel. * Nignt and Morning.” "Great preparations in the way of Dew sceneries and new effects have been made Jor the production of this play, and nearly all Lave been laviched upon the third act represent- fuz the counmterfeiter's den. The excellent Company bas also been greatly strenuthened for the oceasion. LOCAL ISCELLANY. Bronson Howard's domestic emotional drama, “Liliisn, or Woman's Last Love,” is in prep- azation at McVicker's. AMiss Annie M. R. Barvett, a pupil of the cele- brated Vanouceioi, who has been studying and teazhing singing for several years in Florence, Ltaly, bas arrived in this city, which she intends maling her home. Jobn Habberton, author of * Helen's Babies” 2od ~The Jericho Road,” is announced to lect- ure at Farwell Hall next Thursday mght. Mr. abberton's subject is *The Small Boy,” a charzcter whom he ousht to be able to delineate Pertinently and happily. Five minutes of Mr. William Arlington was in Old times considered a reasonable dose of burnt- ©Ork humor, so«alled. An homr of it is @ 20od deal more—tliat is, just ifty-five minutes Inore than human patience can bear. “lecture * Friday eveuing was a string _of dis- mal twaddle, which the audicnce felt” disposed 0 resent, onlr they didn't know exactly how to doit. They paid tbeir money and they had themselves to blame. The readings riven by Lydia Hastings, of New York, at the Conrecational Chureh in Hyde Park on Tuesday evening, were a mark tess. Her sulections included the * Before and Arter the Murder of Duncay,” from Macbeth, with the * Dagyer Scene,” “Love- Scene from Ivgomar,” * Closet-Scene from Liamlet,” + Execution of Monirose,” * Uncle Reuben’s Baptism,” ete. They were rendered in a wanuer which reflected the greatest possibie credit on the fair reader. Her delineations ‘were vivid in the extreme, and many expressed themselves as never having heard her cqual. Mrs, Hastings starts on a reading tour through the South nest_month, and the best wishes of lier many friends fu Chicago will follow.her. It is highly creditable to Tony Denier, who Jost a considerable amount by the burning of the Museum, that he did not take advantaze of his misfortune to swinidle the poor performers out of their ducs, as has been the case too often | in similar disasters. ‘Tony acted like an honest ‘man and manager on this occasion, and *divided even,”—that is,he paid up the last shilling owed by lim to the people enmaged. Which made them all feel tolerably happy, LOVE AMONG THE ROSES. The New York Dramatic News of last week contsins the following paragraph: A member of Gayler's Love R Company writes thst that. gantiemen® abucopaes from the Company at Forest,0)., a liztle ont-of-the way place, whence they bad 1o puy their own fare on, Mr. Gayler, who has been in Chicazo for o few days, has anotnier version of this to tell. He says he has been very shabbily used by Miss Jennie Hughes, who absconded from him, carryinz With her the whole outfit, company and all. We understand that Mr. Gayler brought Miss Hughes, and a dramatic company supporting her in his play of “Love Among the Koses,” from New York as far as Kenton, Ohio., at 2 loss of over §2,000, and had arranzed 1o 0 into Michizan, the prospects were better than in Olio.’ When be went to Forest, for the purpose of faking Lis company ou, he found a part of the company in rebellion, the disaffected members refusin 1o go on, one of them having “absconded 1l day previouslv from Kenton. so thal be was oblized to cancel all the enzazements he had made, and ston, He laid the state of affairs before Miss Hughes, who expressed great in- dignation at the conduct of the compai and the largq sympathy for i, promising to rejoin him.” after a briel visit to Boston, 1w Chicave, and wo on with a reorzanized company. - The next dny Miss Gayler learned that Miss Mughes bad. weeks before, eutered with other members of the company into a plot to leave him with- out notice and travel on their own secount. and on coming to Chicaco this was confirmed by the fact that one of the company—the same person who had “absconded ” at Kenton—had been here euraging a company on the strength of a written guarantee from Miss ughes that she would be responsivle for their saluries for four weeks, and that she hud ordered printing, cte., from the Journa! oflice, for a trip over the very eanie youte in Michigan over which Mr. Gavler had armuged o take her himsclf. " He also discovered that in copjunction with other members of the company Miss I{ughes had been working against his intercst from the start, hoping to cause him to lose so much maney that he would mve up the enierprise, and thus allow Tier and her feflow plotters to<o on on theirown account as goou as he had taken them through Ohio. Finding him, however, too plucky and hopeful of ultimate profit to mive it up, she re- sorted to the means spoken of, and abandoned him, taking with her the majority of the com- pany, and leaving Mr. Gayler to bear his losses with such philosophy as he could must Miss Jennie [fughes will be remembered by our theatre-zoers as the person wiro made herap- pearance as & variety performer at the Adelphi some time ago. She left Mr. Gayler in the company af a man pamed Fisher, with whom ghe is now traveling through Michizan with the debris of a company in a disreputable version of +Pink Dominoes' and a highlv-spiced seusa- tiopal drama known as *¢ Wrestling Joe.” STAGE GOSSIP. NEW YORK NOTES. The voungest daughter of John C. Duff has taken the black veil in a convent of Carmelites near Albany. The old man feels rather badly aboat it. Little Mabel Leonard, whose name hasbecome s0 familiar in the court reports, will shortly ap- pear in Tony Pastor’s pretty theatre in a pro- tean comedy. Ada Dyas has determined not to go to Cali- forma with the portion of the Union Square Company which Maguire has engaged. She re- Jused 3200 2 week. An original four-act American comedy ca- titled * The Heiress”’ has been aceepted and will nest month be produced at the Chestnut Street Theatre, in Philadelphia. The author is Alr. Frederie Clark. a gentleman well known in sovial circles as a polished zentleman, writer of ability, and an actor of no meun gifts. Tennyson's “Queen Mary,” as adanted by Mr. S. Fiske, was_brought out last week at the Brooklyn Park Theatre, Miss Aucusta Dargon taking the principal role. In spite of the Laureate’s name, and Miss Dargon’s acting, however, the piece proved a failure. Tennyson's judgment, atter all, was sound when he said this drama should never be put ou the sta; Sothern bas been cuught fibbing. In a recent interview published i the ferald he staied that he wrote the love seenc in_““ Home™ at the request of Tom Robertson. To this Mr. T. W. 8. Robertson, son of the author of * ilome,” ives an ungualified denial. [le say: s My othern’s fwazination has been Knoi him away at times. and in_this ea ably. It would not be just tom memory to allow Mr. Sothern’s remark to pa: unnoticed. All that he can claim for his own, rds ‘Home,’ is an unlimited and un- ry number of gags” Mr. Jeferson will effect bis re-entrance on the rk stage to-morrow at Booth's Theatre in his renowued character of Kip Van Wikde, He bas intrusted the manazement of bis en- gagement. there to the active and camncious Mr. Daly, late of the Fifth Avenue Theatre. It will receive, it i3 said. the finest sctting it has ever had in this country. The mountain set in the second act will be especially novel and weird, being an exact reproduction of the London scenc used. during Mr. Jefierson’s Jong cnzaccment there, when he played un- interruptedly for nearly seven mohths. DEATIL OF HUMPTY DUMPTY, « fumpty Dumpty * is dead. The children’s friend, the most comical of clowns, the genial, amusing mimic has forever stepped from the stageof life. Hedied at the residence of his brother-in-law, George C. Howard, 26 Main street, Cambridge, Mass,, aged 52 years 3 nouths and 21 days. His death was very peace- ful,and be recognized bis friends a siort time ‘previous. 2 George L. Fox was horn in Boston in the yea 1525, and at the early age of five years made nis first appearance on the etaze of the Trcinont Street Theatre of his vative city, asone of the children in - The Hunter of the Alps.? Mr. Charles Kean was playing an enragement there me, aud it was on the on of that ishad actor’s benefit that tue future i alduge pantoy tertained the idea of undes characters. The fanous French pantomimist. the Ravel brothers, Antoine, Jerome, and bricl,—ho Lad returned to this couutr: 1519, werc amusing the New Yorkers at Niblo’s Garden. at that time one of the wmost pooulir places of amusement in the city. Mr, Fox be- came an attentive student of their methods and a close observer of the way in which they put subjects on the stage. When the war broke out and President Lincoln called for the three months’ volunteers, Mr. Fox, who was then a Tieutenant in the Eighth Regiment, gave up the stace for the time and went with his rezi- mecna tothe seat of war. In 1361 be appeared at the New Bowery, and after Qnsuccesstul ventures lie became mana the Old Bowery. He retired from it **as poor as a church mouse,” and weut to the Olvmpic, where e achicved a marked suce Here he played a number of burlesque characters. which ghowed bun in 2 vew light. His performance of Hamlet and Richelien, in both of which characters he closely followed the “make-up” of Edwin Booth, were remarkable efforts. The likeness between Mr. Booth =ud Mr. Fox in Hamict was exvraordinary. _His sppearance i that character always won for him enthusiastic ind instantaneous recoguition. *Humpty Dumpty.” in_the general form which won for Fox the popularity awarded Lim throughout the country. was first produced at the Olympie, and although the pautomime has undergone many minor changes siuce thea it is in the main the same old " Hompty Dumpty” with which G~ 1o Fox’s name will be associated as is Joe Jef- ferson's with * Rip Van Winkle.” After Jeav- joe the Oivmpic Mr. Fox wisited a_few of the ‘Drincipsl cities East and West. His next en- Buzement wasat the Grand Opers-House, where he opened in Hottum at the tune ** A Jidsum- mer-Night's Dream™ was produced at that house. - He also plased a number of other wgpeaking _parts* during the engagement. “Buumpl)' Dumpty " rearranged was then pro- duved at the Graod Opera-House, followed by X ther pantomimes. ";\e‘gnozuc eg'.'il;'umtn: was concluded at this Thouse, which, by the war, was sudden and un- expected, Mr. For resolved to ewbark orfhis own dccount in a venture at the Globe Theatre. The eaterprise proved unfortunate, and he left it to star throuzhout the country.. For the last w0 years of Lis life uu the starre, cousiunt trav- qave cling, the continual wear and tear of his profes- sion, together with the Joss of his brothers Charles, to whom he was much attached, had told upon a_coustitution neither robust nor strong, helped to hasten that sud illness which afllicted him duriug bis Jast engagement at Buooth’s Theatre. From the first nizit that he appeared there fn *Humbty Dumpty in Many Climes " it was painfuily apparent to those who had known him in days Zone by that the poor actor whose actine had dehizhted thousands was ing his last engagements and fast passing ¢ way to dusty death.” GENERAL AMERICAN NOTES. Lydia Thompson returns to England in Janu- ary, and will then take her farewell of the stage. Robson and Crane, in *Forbidden Fruit,” suceeedd Lydia Thompson at the Philadelphia Walnut. Minnie L. Cummings, of Chicago, opens this week as leading lady at the Philadelphia Museum. Miss Mary Anderson won the admiration of the Bostonians by her playing of Parthenla in * Ingomar.” Mr. J. Cheever Goodwin is writing a comedy for Mr. Jolin C. Cowper, to be brought out at the latter’s new theatre. ‘The Danites with the Ranking made a most decisive hit in Boston, the reccipts of the week at the Globe Theatre being over $8,000. “ Catherine IL” will be the initial play of the Janans: hek engazement at the Broadway, New York, Nov. 5. Fred Warde and Jeffreys-Lewis will then make their first appearance. Miss Mahon was excellent as Lady Jane Gray. and the same way be said of Mr. McManus, —New York Dramatic News. . Didn't know that Mac had taken to fmper- sonating female character. He was playing male Jjuveuile parts the last time we suw him. Ar. Charles Wathen Chase has recently com- leted a four-act drama illustrative of railroad- Ek‘c‘ entitled “Our Railroad Men,” the right of which he has disposed of to Mr. E. T. Stetson, avd which will shortly be produced at a theatre i thiscity. The Spirit of the Times declares that Sothern iutcndcd to make a burlesque of hiz Othello at the Adamns benefit, but Florence wonld unot let hita, beingrunder the nupression he would make a hit as fage, and not being willing to allow the opportunity to slip. ‘The play in which Max Adeler (Charles Heber Clarke), the Phjladelphia bumorist, is to make hiis maiden dramatic effort, is called * Her Sec- ond Husband.” It is to be produced shortly by Messrs. Gemnill, Svott & Co., at the Chestout Street Theatre, Philadelpbia. The Washington Star says: “Hundreds of neople are_going about to~lay sneezing with colds, cateht from getting their feet wet at the theatre last night. During the pathetic scenes in Clara Morris' ‘Miss Multon® “everybody was crying, and the floors were covered with puddles of brine.” Mr. Tom Maguire is negotiating with the ement of the Union Square Theatre, New 'k, o take Charles R. Thorne, Ida Vernon, Bijou Heron, and Maud Harrison to Frisco, to play 2 six weeks' engagement in “ Pink_Domi- 108, *TheDanichefls,” and * Smike,” witi Fred B. Warde and Ada Dyas. Teviewing the recent cozazement of Miss Elizabeth von Stamwitz at “Washington, the Capital sz There wis some rare fine acting at the Natfonal Theatre tast week. Von Stamwitz came to W: inzton heralded by clever criticiem, and by her acting evidences that it was not undeserved.- On the contrary, she hasmot yet rece a proper tribute. Ste'is to-duy one of the greatest geniuses outhe stage. Her natural strengih. strongly de- ined and poweriul, the grace of education. und that art which conceals itself by its sxilifulness, combine to render her remarkable in her profess fou. Her facial inelligence of expresion is the most_startfing we have ever seen fn any woman. Her knowledgeof the English lanwuage and pro- nunciation is very fair. In less than two vesrs, with etudy, she Wwill beay_complete u master in both respects s Fechter, Von Stamwitz has been compared to danauschek. s being next after her. In a brief time she swill bold a station on the stac that Janauschek never could uttain, . Mlle. Venturoti, the dancer, who it will be re- memb:red made her first appearance in Ameri- cain the Crosby Opera-House, is Iving ill in New York. havivg been stricken with paralysis some time 2o, The other day she was made the victim of a heartless swindler. who spoke Ttalian fluently, besides French and Engiish, and nted himsell as the agent of St. Antonia in association organized for the ef of the Italian poor. He said_he was also a visiting member of several charitable socie- ties, aud connected with the Young Men's Christian Association. He gave Mlle. Vi acheeli on the Chemical Bank of this city for rned Martin Tripoli.” e further wave card of the Young Men’s Christian Asso- ciation, on the back of which he wrote en order for $1€, signed * Shark,” and said he wonld also send thiem coal and flour, and demanded 31 tor cartage. All the money Mlle. Venturoli pos- sessed was o §2 bill, which she g him. "He took the bill and went out, promising to return the change. He has not been seen since. The cheek, of course, was spurious. The Rev. William Wilberforce Newton and George B. Watson have been telline a Boston reporter about a_Theatre-Reform Association they have organiged. Edwin Booth and Dion Boucicault are said to have written their ap- proval of the scheme. Mr. Newton says that the time has come for a wise discrimination be- tween good and bad plays, aud asan intelli- gent person diseriminates between a good and an unwholesome novel, 50 _persons should dis- iminate between rood and bad dramatic pro- ‘A similar soviety is at present at { which the Bishop of Man- teris the President. In bis interview Mr. Watson said: _**While we intend to be alwazs fricndly towards the drama, we shall never dic- tate to the managers of theatres. But this we do intend to do: Printed cireulars_ will he distributed at _the various railway depots warning the people of the un- wholesome Iays running at any certain theatre, and if they witness such plazs, then it is their own fanit.” This Is decidediy a new departure, as orthodox divines have generally arsued that the influencs of the stage was intrinsically bad, folly to attempt to m: it bet~ ter. The results of the experiment will be awaited with interest both by theatre-gaers and those who have opposed dramatic representa- tions. m; T Joaquin Miller is in Boston, where his play, “Tlie Danites.”is very successful. Ie told a Boston Heratd reporter that he bad never been happier in bis life, his “bit 7 with his drama Deing his first zood fortune in America. “T never had any show in this country until this, and it scems good,” he_continued. He thinks that the acting of the play in Boston, although by the same company, is better than it was this city. **New York wauted a Numidian roar all the time. but that will not go down in Bos- ton.” 1Iv Miller’s estimation thé play is not great, but is an honest represenzation of life in tue Sierr: ‘a2 phutozraph of my life in the cs, goed, bad, and indillerent, just us I lived *" He gave the following account of first his worl on the stage: 1 was in Boston when it was brougbt out in New York. I dared not o on, so [ stayed here awaiting the result. The next worning the telearams came an- nouncing its suceéss, and 1 was so happy. I remained here, however, two or three days betore Lwent to secit. Finally I slipped down to New York. Lhad never been in that tlicatre before, so I captured a small boy, and told the little fetlow I'd @ive him 50 cents if he would get a 25-cent ticket tor me, and we'd go into tne gallery together. He was astonished and de- Turhted, and taking my dollar bill he went and bouglit me a Z-cent ticket; then be got one for himscli, and we went in. I'met a couple of men zoing there, and 1 absorbed them and took them along with me. 1 found an old man in there, too, whom I had kuown before. And 1 sat there aud cried. And, do you know, this old feliow turned and saw me erying. e says, “What are you d erying atL your own picced And he was crying himself.”” FOREIGN NOTES. Mr. W. 8. Gilbert’s new comedy, which has just been produced at the Haymarket Theatre, in London, is called *Engaged.” The Zelegraph describes it as a cruel but very amusing satire, ru;x it appears to have been thoroughly success- ul. Sig. Cosimo Cajani, director of a theatre of Florence, offered a briltiant engagement to the celebrated Italfan tragedians, Ernesto Rossi and Tommaso Salvini, to play together ina number ol representatfons, and 1o alernate the parts of Othelto and lago, ilacbeth sud Macduff. ~Salvini accepted the offer at once, as he did in London, but Kossi declined on account of his health, THE RIVE-KIXG TESTIMONIAL. ‘The arrangements for the testimonial concert to Mme. Rive-King on the 12th proximo are rapidly being completed, and already promise ons of the most remarkable concerts ever given in the city. The array of talent, both from abroid snd from the city, is aa. unusual one, and mizht, indeed, have been extended almost ‘without limit, so gencrous have been the offers of musical taleut to help make the testimonial attractive. Miss Thursby. who is unquestion- ably the best concert soprano in the country, has been secured—an announcement which will La o welcome one to that artist’s crowds of ad- -~ mirers in this cify. An engagement, has also Dboen effected with Miss Drasdil, whose phe~ nomenal voice bas not yet received the recog- nitfon it deserves in this city. It will also bea pleasant announcement to concert-goers that Mrs. Jenny Kempton, an artist in everysense of the word, who has come here to reside, and has already made her mark in private musical cireles, will make her first public appearance on this oceasion. It is safe to predict that she will confirm the excellent reputation that preceded ber coming as 2 dramatic singer of ex- traordinary ubility. In_nddition to the three artists we haye named, Mr. Wolfsohn will play with Mme. King in a concerto, and Mr. Tomlins wiil appear at - the heat of 2 choras from the Apollo Club, The combination is a very strong one, and _indicates one of the fincst concerts that we shall have this season. UERSHEY HALL. The regular organ secital at this hall was largely attended yesterday. Mr. Eddy played Handel’s overture to *“Porus”; Buck’s * Im- promptu Pastorate,”” op. 275 Bich's Fugue in & flat; Piutti's ¢ Organ Ilymn,” op. 5: Best's “Fantasie Etude,” op. 15; and;Mendelssohn’s “ Athalia. March”; and Miss Emma M. Shaw sang Thruw's *Thou art gone, far, far away,” and Schubert’s © Miznon Song ™ and * Hedwe Roses.” The programme for next Satur- day s ome of the most remark- able Mr. Eddy has ever played. It includes the overture to Spohr’s ““Jessonda ”’; the Vorspicl to the filth act.of Reinicke’s “King Maufred,” transcribed by F. G. Gleason; Bach’s Prussian six- Merkel’s Sona- ta in D minor, Mr. Eddy will be assisted by Miss Carrie T. Kingman; Gufl- mant’s “Allézro” fn F sharp minor, op. 1S; and ' Nicolai’s overture on the chorale, Ein Feste Burg.” ‘The second of the Hershey Popular Concerts will be given at Hershey Llall to-morrow even- ing, with a prozramme’ including Meyerbeer's “ Coronation Mareh” and the overturc to “William Tell,” for organ, by Mr. Eddy; Beethoven's Concerto fn G, No. 4, by Mrar Clarn Von Klenze, accomnaniment by Mr. Eddy; and Duncla’s Symphonies iu C, op. 103, No. 3, and in G, op. 100, No. 2, for two vio- , by the Mistes Iugrins and Rowlands. The voeal numbers will e Tours' song “1Villic’s Ship,” by Mrs. Clara D. Staey; Blu- meuthal’s “Message,” by Mr. C. A, Knorr; and Arditi's “Night in Venice,” by Mrs. Stacy and Alr. Knorr. - THE SWEDISH LADY QUARTETTE. The Swedish Lady Vocal Quartette, compris- ing the Misses Amanda Carlson and Ingeborg Lofgren, first and sccond sopranos, and the Misses Inga Ekstrom sud Bertha Erikson, first and second altos, will give a scries of concerts at McCormick’s Hall, commencing Nov. 5, with programmes composed mainly of Swedish pop- Rlar songs, which are so rarely heard upon our concert stage. The ladies will be assisted by Mr. Aptommas, the Welsh barpist, who has been celebrated for years as a virtuoso, and who will receive 1 warm welcome. The Jadics ar- rived in this country in September, 1876, and have miven numerous successful concerts since that time in Canada and the Esstern cities. We believe this is their first trip West. ; THE COLLEGE OF MUSIC SOIREE. The pupils of the Chicago Musfeal College gave the first soiree of the scason last week to an audience that testified to the popularity with which thesc soirees will be reccived. in the future. The College parlors were crowded, and mauny who would have entered went home dis- appointed because they were unable to procure standing-roomn inside, all of which goes to show that hereafter more commodious quarters mu. be provided. The soirce was a devided success,, Miss 1dz Buschwah played a transeription of ‘< Migmon,” the first number, in a manuer that placed her in the favor of the sudience. Excel- leut in performance also was De Beriot’s Sixth Concerto for the violin, by Mr. A. Buisseret. ““When the Vesper Bells,” a quartette and chorus, came next, with a lack of expression in some portions of the chorus. Another fustru- mental solo, a prelude and_fugue of Bach, was finely_executed by Miss Mary Wishard. The “Shadow Dance,” from * Dinorah,” by Miss: her _Butler, was_ enthusiastically re- ceived. Miss Claudie Buel did nicely with the * Schiller March,” avd her performance manifested great §nprovemert within the past year. A slight nerwusness that exhibited it- scf will be overcome by practice. The trio, *Hope,” by the Misscs Butler, Somers, and Bensley, was well given. The performance of Chopin's © Fantasie,” op. 49, by Miss Mary ‘Wishard, was well received, and sustained her reputation as_one of Chicago’s best pianists. The *Casta Diva” was well sunz by Miss Somers. The “Inlammatus,” from the ** Stabat Mater,” ended the programme, and in this num- ber the melodious effect of MissLansden’s voice in the solo was manifest. LOCAL MISCELLANT. Mr. C. E. R. Mueller, #ssisted by Dr. C. E. Martin and Mr. Heman Allen, will give a con- cert at Temperance Hall, Ok Park, on Satur- day, Nov. 3. Musicians ecem to be flocking to Chicago. Among the latest comers is Miss Fanny Dan- ziger, a pianist, who bas attained considerable celebrity ot the East as a concert-player. The more the better. There is room for all. The Chicago Concert Party is now completely organized. It includes Mrs. Louis Falk, so- prano: Mrs. W. S. Watrous, contralto; Mr. Ed- ward Schulize, tenor; Mr. Frank A.' Bowen, basso; Mr. William Lewis, violinist; and Mr. Louis Falk, pianist and dircetor. A private letter from Malta says that Miss Hope Gleun, of this city, is about to make Ler debutin opera there. She hus chosen the role of Pierotto in * Linda” for the occasien, and itis said that the impresario Zimelll has taoken a special interest in the debutante. Mr. Goldbeck has written a quartet for the Whituey Quartette troupe, which will be given time at Iartford, Nov. G, Mr. Whitney writes that he is delighted with it. We understand tbat Mr. Goldbeck is also at work upon a quartet for the Apollo Ciub of this Mr. Ledochowski will give two piano recitals this season, at which be will play, among other numbers, Schumanu’s Concerio in A mivor and a number of Chopin’s compositions, He will also resume his courses on wusical composers from Bach to Schumann during the winter, commencing the first Saturday in November. A parlor entertainment will be given by the ladics of St. Mark’s Church on Thursday even- ing next, at the residence of A. M. Waterbury, Esq., 5 Lake avenue. Mrs. Melvano Marey, a sovrano who hus recently come to this city from Boston, where she has been studying with Mme. TRudersdorf, will sing, and Miss Henrictta Mon- Toe, an clocutionist of extraordinary talent, will read several selections. The Choral Union has chanzed the date of its first concert, &0 that it will not be miven on next Friday evening. ‘The dates of their three con- certs will soon be announced. They are now studyinz 2 “May Song,” by Hauptmani S ng.” by Sullivan; “Stars of the S mer Nigal,” by Henry Smart: and * Hear My Prayer,”" by Mendelssohn. Miss Jessic Hardy will sing the solo in the last number. Mr. H. S. Perkins, .the. well-known music- teacher, has just issued purt first of his “ Graded Music eader,” an admirable text-book, de- signed for the primary arades of graded schools. 1t will be followed by tiwo others for intermedi- ate and higher grades. The work Is verv prac- tical, and will_commend Itsell to chers on account of its directuess and_simplicity, and to schiolars on account of the uttractive manner in which it teaches vocalization. Cardsof invitation have been issued by Mrs. Eurenic de Roode Rice for four musical recen- tions, to be given at her residence, 9 North Throop strect, on Wednestay _evenings, Oct 31, Nov. 14, 23, and Dee 12. ~ The selections for next Wednesday willl be the Sonata quasi una fantasia, No. 2, of Beethoven; Ciiopin's Polo- naise in A flat; and Gottschulk’s +* Eolian Mur- murs.” Mrs. Rice will introduce for the first time some Mexican sonzs by native Mexican omposers, 1nd Miss Alice E. Hutchins will play ‘Thalbery’s *Sonnambula Fantasia." There will be a special rehearsal for the Haydn Society, at 211 State street. to-morrow evening, for ‘the first concert, which will be given Nov. 15, at McCormick’s Hall. The pro- pramme on that oceasion will include: Over- ture to the ** Bohemian Girl:? Kollings® * Sou- penblick * (for violin and French norn); arfa by Centemeri, Miss Jeunic Dutton; Haydn's - Symphony in D;” Mercadante’s arrangement of the overture to Rossini’s ** Stabat Mater;” march tempo. from Rafl’s- Leonore Sympho- nyi” song by Benedict (wuh flute oblizato), Miss Jennie Dutton: Kolling’s Galop * Chasse Infernale.” Mr. Pratt, so well known in Chicago, made his debut_in New York City in a piauo recital given at Chickering Hall last Thursday after- 100N, With what suceess we are not vet informed. 1n addition to three numbers of his own com- position, he played Chopin's Etude in I sharp, op. 10, No. 5; Liszt's ‘- Gnommeareizen” ; one of Lfle Fielanocturnes; Schumann’s * Kreis- Jeriana,”and Chopin’s ** Berceuse ’and * Baliad,"” G minor. He was assisted by Miss Henrietta ‘Beebe, who made on this occasion her first ap- earance since her return from avroad. Mr. Pratt announces 2 second recital for the 8th of November, when he will be assisted by Mr, Bischoft. It Is rather amusing to notice in this | rezion of medioerity. connection that the New York FErvening. Post announces these recitals as the occasion of Mr. Pratv’s first appearances in America. It strikes us he has appeared in Chicago. Miss Faunic A. and Frederick W, Root’s are about to inauzurate a series of pupils’ rehears- uls on the plan of the matinees miven by Mr. Root last_senson. They will be held every alternate Wednesday afternoon at Miss Root’s music room, American Express Building, 76 Monroc street. commencing on Wednesday of this week. Upon these oceasions pupils will rehearse in the presence of others of the class and some invited guests some of the musie they lave been -studyine. We are informed that members of the musical profession who may choose to look in at these rehiearsals will always be welcome. Miss Anns M. R. Barnette, who has been a student anil teacher of singing in Europe for the past eleven years, has refurned to her na- tive land, and “will Iocate in Chicago for the practice of her profession. Miss Baructte is fawiliar with the tacthodsof all the great teach- ers of Europe, having studied in Germany, Paris, aud Florence, ut which latter place she has principally resided. She fs a pupll aod disciple of the very celebrated teacher Vannuecing of that city and taught largely in his class. Miss Barnette will make a specialty of dramatie singing and prepa- ration for the stage, but will also receive pupils in concert and parlor vocalism. MUSICAL NOTES. . Mlle. Bianca Donadio bas made an immense success in the ** Barber_of Seville® at the Pag- liano, Florence. “Master Peter ™ is to be the title of Gounod's new opera, the subject of which is taken from the lives of Abelard and Heloise. Herr Rheinberger, the composer, has been nominated chefl d’orchestre to the Court of Buvaria at Munfch, vice Herr Wullner. Von Bulow has been appointed, by Imperial decree, conductor of the Royal Opera of Hano- ver. He takes the place of Herr Jean Joseph Bott. M. Henri Vicuxtemps bas entirely recovered from his recent illness, and is now actively cn- gazed in the annual examination of his pupils at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. The manager of the Bayreuth Theatre has sued thé Sultan of Turkey for the pavment of stock subscribed by the late Sultan, Abdul A7z, for representations at the Bagreuth The- atre. A cable dispatch from Loudon informs Mr. Max Strakosch that Muwe. Marie Roze has ac- cepted his proposals for an American tour, and will guu for New York at the beginning of De- cember. The Italian papers give us the startling piece of informatiun that *‘ex-President Grant_has been elected an_honorary member of the Phil- barmonic Socicty of Scotland, in quality of first trumpet-player. Anton Rubinstein will conduct the next Rhen- ish Pentecost Musical Festival to be lield in Dusseldorf_in 187 Oncof his matorios and his drawatic symphony witl be performed, He conducted the festival of 1572, at which his “Tower of Babel " was sung. Te Enropcan journals are entertaining their readers with an auccdote fo the effcct that re- cently at o performance of * Faust ™ in Boston, thesoianing wheel in the vision was replaced with an clegant sewine machiine, while at the sume time g shower of handbills was thrown from the allerics announcing the marvelous virtues. of the new machine and its double lock-stiten. The New York Zribune of Iast Thursday says: * Theodore Thomas started yes through the western part of th plays this week in Utica, Syracuse, Albany. Next week he returns to this rehearsals, and in the latter part of the week he goes south, and will probubly play in Phila- delphia, Baltimore, and Washineton. Miss Thursby goes with the orcliestra on the trip through this State.” Lucy Hooper writes to the Graphic: “The crop of American prime donne is small in Paris this season. There arc, Iam told, some 400 young American girls—onc account says T09— now studving singing in Milan. Out of this number there are fonr that promise well. One ol the four, I am glad to learn, is Miss Blanche Davenport, the davghter of the lamented E. L. Davenport. Another is Miss Glenn, of Chicazo, in whose progress Mlle. Albani fo kindly inter- ested herself. As to the other two, their names shall remain unspoken.” * Mr. Strakosch's season of opera is expested to open at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, on Jan. 7, 157, The company will consist of Prima donnas, Miss Clara Louise Ketloge, Mme. Marie Roze, and possibly Tlma de Murska; contralto, Miss Aunje Louise Cary; tenors, Graff and Tom Karl (negotiations are also pending for_anntiier new tenor): baritones, Verdi and Tacliapictra: - basso, Carliz. The be as follow Phila- ;. Washinzion, Jan, 14 to 21 to 203 Pittsburg, Jan, Feb. 1and 20 19: Baltimore, Jan. 55, 29, 30; Cleveland, Jan.” 31, Chicazo, . 410 165 St. Louis, Feb. 18 to 23; Indiapapolis, Feb. 25, 26, and 27; Louisville, Feb. 23, March 1and 2; Cincinunati, March 4 to 9; Detroit, March 11, 13, and 13 New York March 18 to April 7; Boston, April 8to 21. BOSTON. THE HUD'S ESTIMATE OF ‘‘THE DANTTES.? From Our Own Correspondent. BosToy, Oct. 22.—The sensations in the way of amusements now are Joaquin Miller’s play of “The Danites,”” and Mary Anderson. The opera, with Pappeniicim for the prima donna, holds Its owp, but every night the Boston and the Globe show cnthusiastic audicnces. Every night people grow tumultuous with applause over the scenes in the miners’ camp, the Howl- ing Wilderness saloon, and before the cabiu- door of Billy Piper. Or,at the Boston, they yield surpriscd tribute to the surprising per- Tormances of Mary Anderson iu her rofes of Juliet, Meg Merrities, Parthenia, ete. Ol course Miller’s play creates the most scusation, for several very obvious reasons. [u the first place, Boston people were immensely amazed when they read the New York criticisms of the play after its representation in that city. They had no faith io the play before. They couldn’t con- cieve in it possibilities of even moderate suc- cess. They had heard enough of thesc tyros trying their hand at writing plays. THERE WAS BRET HARTE. & ‘Not all his fame could carry bis play out of the And Howells, whose ugjtuations? were so clever and amusing in the pages of the Atiantic, thinned out awlully on the boards. No,no; let the pocts and the story- tellers stick to the magazines and books, and let the stage alone; and Joaquin especially. "Three, or four, or five years azo Joaquin cai to Boston, anu Boston, h great curiosity, got on its eye-zlasses and, taking a long look at tie Poet of the Sierras, a look which took in the (then) floating curls, the dazzling finger-rives, eic., shouk its proper old_head in disapproval, and cane to the final conclusion thst, though they saw nosigns of the red shirt and top- boots, they were all there, remiy o spring upon them without a_momeut’s notice, and _that the owner, with such wild, uncivilized, 2 Bostonian peculiaritics, couldu't, you Kknow, be anything great. A gemius! Ob, no. Toston believes fiat ~the very babics have a “ligh w:e i and ~ come into the world With' an _inburn _sense of the small rules ulations of “soviety” and “cultur,” o ber sost of thing. * And o the Poct of tie Sierras came and went, and bis name did not appear in the Atlantic Monthly, and_Harvard did not invite him to reada pocm efore the Phi Kappa Society, au glc:'i:l(]\.:‘;;’ll.h DlD?\‘"'l FALL PDWR' BEFORE NIM, AND CAMBEIDGE DIDS'T ADORE HIM, 2nd thus the whole matter appeared settled for the woole world, aud Mr. Joaquin might retire to obseurity, or to the rate piace assizned to those *persous™ on whom Boston did not Javish ber sinfles and extend her suave fuvita- tion to enter its kingdom of heave He had eitten some striking lines. O, ves: but Swin- burne bad been his master, and be had o ~cul- tur,” and took unpardonable hiberties witit chie Fuedich language, ete., el ete. This was the rdict. Andwhen the dear devizensoi the Hub heard of the coming play they were *prepared.” Tt was of no use. You couldn't fool them. Could any good come out of Nazareths By and by they read the New York papers, and a feeling of uneasiness bezan to come over them, for big little Boston, after all, has A VERY LITTLE PEELING OF DEPERENCE TO- WARDS THE MIGHTY METHEPDL!}'A.\' PRESS. And by and by, when the New York company broueht the play to the Globe, the Hub rubbed up its eve-glasses and prepared to sit 1o jude- ment. They were sure before they went that Mr. McKee Rankin and others had doctored the play, and made it what it was, But the cartsin Polls up at the Globe. The house is packed. The New York success has doue that. The scenery s perfect. Nothing more nmque],inoth- ine more beautiful, has been seen at any Boston theatre. The play opens well, every onc ad- mits. As it goes on,as Sandy warms to hi3 part, yet never overdoes it, and The Judqe dis- piays bis humor and wisdom, and The Farson “Livs out” and ‘‘bets his bottom dollar” “a feehng of entbusiasm berins to bud and beat, and'after a time, wbea the school-teacher appears, and Sandy and Z7e Pareon deliver their telling sentences, strong and tothe point, and when the plot ‘deepens and the *situations” with it, the enthusiasm that had begun to bud and 'beat all ag once bursts into full flower, AND THE HOUSE RINGS WITH APPLAUSE. It was a “good house.” too,—thiat is, it was a house well represented by the *cultur’ and reinement of the city; and yet yesterday I heard of one of the Bostou dames saying that it was a vulgar. play, and that the audiences were those “thitone sces at a Variety show. ‘falking with oue of the strongest and most cul- tivated of Boston divines on_ this very point, I ot this opinion and information: that the play was pronounced by everyone who had been in California, and seen anything of California life, to be simply a perfcet copy of. that life with _as little of . the coarser elements emphasized as was consistent with truth- fulness. The gentleman himself had been a resident of California, and declared the play a very clever realistic work. 1n the scene where the schoolmistress arrives, —the scene that some New-Euglanders of the masculine gender who, living in a part of the country where Women are redundant, pronounce overdone,—I have the testimony of a clergv- man’s wife that, in *34, when she went with her busband to Nevada, A THOUSAND MINERS WIlO HAD HEARD OF OER EXPECTED ARRIVAL Teft their work and crowded round the stage to greet her appearance. And a little later they would beg tbe privilege of coming to see her baby, aud would look af the little thing as if it were something out of Heaven,— nfiadeed it was to these men self-banished from home and fricnds for years. This lady did not find anything repulsive In the play, but tender touches that sent the tears to her eyes, as they have to tbe cyes of hundreds of “old '4%ers. For myself, though 1 did not look upon the play with the memorizing vision of experience, through the lens of observation and with the various accounts of all that early history of our Western country in my mind, the scénes and the plot seemed” like something that one had walked through as in a dreawn. It was the keen effect of truth,~the eflect that is always Indis- putable. That there are a few points that are objectionable to our Eustern reserve, I admit, but they are nol immoral poiats. They are sim- ply the” outrizht, downright points of frank pature, without the cloak of conventionality. For immorality we'll g0 to the elegant * Pink Dominoes and others of that ilk; for healthy human life where 5 A SPADE IS CALLED A SPADE, and virtue, and purity, and honor are reverenced with a trae and hearty revereuce, we may take this play of *The Danites.” It is not a perfect play. * Tt wants cutting here and there considerably, even now. Notably the part of itly Piper, whose lachrymose wall is altogether too continuous and persistent,—links of bitter- ness lonz drawn out. Sandy. as played by Mrs McKec Rankin, Is pretty nearly perfect. There i3 nothing overdone in voice or action, but a lit- tle too much repetition in the scene before the school-teacher’s cabin. But it has one great merit: it is an evenly-balanced play.. With the cexeeption of Bitly Liper’s lonz-drawn out wail- ings there is a perfect balance. The emotions of love and hate are brought into equal prom- inence, one evolving in and from another. Mr. Miller is greatly pleased with the success of his play here, as he may well be, for IT WAS MEARD UNDER A CLOUD OF PRESUDICE AT FIRST. Now there is a general acceptance and acknowl- edement that it has one great quality—that of streogth. The feeling here yas that it would turn out to bea wild, sensational thing; across between * Kit Carson’s Ride » and “ Tle Shij 1 the Desert.” Asone gentleman said, ** ft will have a lot of sound and fury in it, but net an atom of common sense.” And the result is it is neitber wild uor sensational, but 2 realistic picturing whose cominon sense has seldom been surpassed. It is very funny to listen to the acknowledgments from people who have beenon the * other side,” who have scen in 3r. Miller only the ‘““uncivilized” poet, who confessed that he couldn’t spell, and who affected soft slouch hats and military cloaks. Like one of Bret Harte's characters, they bad set him down as * suthin’ of 4 fool,” and here he is disap- pointing them all by producing the cleverest play of the day. - Certainly, if one may trast the verdict of some of the best judges of the theetre-going people and their tastes, Boston nas never scen a more_cnthusiastic audience thau that that so persistently called for the author of “The Danites™ on the night of its iirst prescatation here. But the author did not respond. Mr. McKee Rankn, coming_forward, made a neat little apology, where modesty wus urged as the resson for the poet’s nou-appear- ance. And now, the play being fuily lauached and fully accepted fr.m orchestra to gallery, we waif with sume curiosity for the * Baroness,” which Mr. Miller is said to be p!cpnflng\l(orlfhn stage. ————— THE OLD STORY. O Ellen wsa fair, and Ellen was young— Tler besuty the theme of many a tongue; With 1ips of caral, and brow of now, Aud cheek where the blushes cowe and g With locis of jet. and lauchinz eyee That rivaled the flash of ber native skies. Purc as the snow that, failing ligit, Covers the carth on a Winter-night, Must she be macked for a villain's game, And a blight be cast on her spotless name? Innocent Ellen, bewsre, beware! In the stranger's words there lurks a gnare. e would win thy steps from the path of Right, Change Life's bright morn iute dreary night. Turn, turn, ere ae claim thee for bis prey ! Heed'not his vows! Away. away! But Ellen was weak, and "Ellen wvas vain, And he spoke in the Hatterer's honeyed strain; So she staked herafl on_his truth alone, And ded with um from ber parents howe. Thice Summers sped, and returned again, Ere Ellen back to the villaze came. Too soon her trusting, fond heart learned Te Jesson of love betrayed and spurned. Ter brow was pslc. and her step was slow, In her eye a settied look of wo. She wet not pity, but scorn from ail Who once woula haxte at her lightest call; The cutting sliznt and the encering tove. Were the weary wanderer's welcome home. Rlack was the night, nor one £tar on high Lizhrened the xloom of that midnight-sky, liome, Then straight_plun n Cannted a dirge for hef passing soul. Al? Ziers w3s the nain, the shame, the grief, That gladly in death bid found relief; But A is the life-long, hannting wo Tlat blackens lis life tehers or be yo Iie fecly, though he smiles in cold disdatn, A dread and fear that he caunot names; Well knows hie, thoug men may call him free, "Fore God 10 less & murderer he, Ocr. 21, 1877. Uris R. AKERSTEOM. MY HICKORY-TREE, TTowering close at my cottage-door, il and royal, and grind to see, (with broad arms reaching the greensward o'er— 0 a mighty King is my hickory-tree! Changing i« smise with the changing scene, "As the wheels of the yeur are onward rolled; Clad all the Summer ia deepest green, Now resplendent In robes of gold. Tere gather the catlicst birds of Spring, When the Earth awakes from its frozon rest— The tiny blucbird with sapphire wing, ‘The robin sweet Wil its glowing breast. When vineq are green at the window-frame, ‘Tne brown-thrush sinzy, and the dove coos low, And the oriole comes like 3 Gash of Game, And haugs its nest trom the outmost bough. On tne velset grass, in the gratefu! sbade, The workmen lie as they rest at noon, Checred by the bird-songs overhead, . Lulled by the honey-bee's drowsy ‘tune, And here, with friends. on Summer-eves, We sit in the sunset's mellow glow— Sit till the night-winds toss the ledves, ‘And moonbeams sift to the sward below. 0 happy scenes! But now no more We seek the shade: the wind blows cold; The frost comes creeping about the door; The dead flowers rot on the sodden moia. Splendid yet is my hickory-tree, "As the gorgeons leaves come duttering down Like fakes of gold: but I soon ehall sec Ouly sightless heaps, all serc and brown. Shooks by the winds that go harrying by, Down to the tarf the ripe nuts fall; Ana the ooughs shall scon stretch towand the sky, Stripped of their nuts and leaves and all. ‘When deep drifts lie on the frozen farms, The naked giant, in ecornful giee, Shall toss in the storm his strons, bare arms— 0 a mighty King is my hickory-tree! Laxe Muis, Wi Ercex P, h L — A Boy's Mistake. Detroic Free Press. A gentleman living in the eastern part of the city yesterday purchaged tive pounds of grapes at a dowa-town store and carried them home in atasket. As he was walking along he enconn- tered a boy with a basket of matches onhis arm, aod the lad called out: “Hello! but Il be blowed!”” “What do Eou mean?” asked the man. #1 ruean that if you expect tosella boxof matches per duy you'd. better zet those zood duds off and it sour old duds on! Why, the women willthink you are uspy forthe burgiars!”? » “You saucy young rascal! Do Ilook likea ERTON. 1, and the wave's.dull toll match-peddler?” indignantly exclained the gentleman. ‘The boy retreated o step or two, looked the man over, and smiled kindly as he replied: ‘Scuse me, pard, but mistakes will happen ;b?'\:-'s the demand for shoe-strings and black- THE GAME OF CHESS CHESS DIRECTORY. Ciicaco Cress CrLus—Nos. 63 and 65 Wash- ington street. Crmicavo Cnixss Assocutioy—Henrici's Cafe, 174 East Madison street. Chess players meet daily at the Tremont House (Exchange) and the Sherman House (Basement). All commauncations intended forthis department sho:ld be addressed to Tiux Trisuxe, and fndorsed “eCheas,™ ENIGMA NO. 100. BT 4 B OF mRIDTORT. e R g 2 Quetnarane Knizhtat K8 Kalghtat K 4 ‘White to play And mate in thrae moves, Kingat K B4 King xt Pawnat K3 . PROBLEM NO. 100. SHINKMAN. '7/;;{« 4 4, 9 Wy 7 fn five moves. Blac) BloKez Moves *, Correct solation to Problem No. 98 recetved trom W, IL- ovingtan, O. Tt Beajamin. E. Barbe, C. A. Perry, J. i1 Campbeil, C. W. Clark, and E. R. B.. city; L G, E., Joliet, Iil.t E. C. Thelrs, Kenosha, Wit.: 6. H. Calleader, Lawrence, 1115 Kt., Torner, 1L SOLUTION TO ENIGMA NO. 98 White, RBiack. 1.Ktioli8 1..K moves 20 QtoKkB 8 2 Moves 3..Q mates *,* Correct solation to Enigma No. 98 received from W. H. Ovington, O. R. Benjamin, E. Barbe, and C. W. Clack, city; B. C. Thiers, Kenosha, Wis. ; J. A. Greenhill, Clinton, Ia. : S. H. Calicn- der, Lawrence, Iil.; Kt., Tarner, IiL N CHESS IN ENGLAND. Played in the late Birmingham Tournsment. i z = 5 ProK4 PwKBY KitoK B3 P K ke KitoKrs Pl Q4 ProR s BloK 2 tto Casties WKR Kt tazes P toBg B takes B (d) tto B takes K KUP € ta K takes & takes 4 takes R to Ke 2 1P 1o K Kt. Lto Bl K QY Btoli5ch tqes KtioB 3 1o KeS QtoQI+ 0Q+ R wkes P Ry Q::E"&‘h 'l‘{"sfi‘ s Q ol ake: BT takes B Lo QBsq 1KLL I takes P el w0z PloK6 Resigus. (2) Etto Kt 5 can only be met advantazcously by PtoR3. Of course Col. Minchin was afraid of JMr. Thorold then going in for his own attack, but it would seem better to decline the gumbit aito- gether than shiri uny of ita consequences. (b) 6..Pto Q +4 ecems to me required by the principle of the position and by the necessity of the case. (c) His last move, unless intended to be followed np by the capture of the Kt, had all the dwadyan- tages of reckleseness and timidity combined. {d) Exceedingly well played, (e) It 11..P takes B, then 12..Et tekes R, B takes Kt. 13..Q takes P, Ktto Kt 2, 14..B takes P, and White has a won gnme. (f) 1t the game were worth continning be onght surely té have taken the K R P. With two Pawns mians, and 2 most dolorous position, what chance can he haver—Westminster Papers. NATIONAL CIIESS ASSOCIATION. The following prospectus of the First Grand Problem Tourney of the American Chess and Prob- lem Association has been issned: In offering its Hrst Problem Tourncy to the world the Americsn Chess and_ Problem Associa- tion addresses the chess public with great confi- dence, feeling sure that any contest in this branch of our beautiful art is certain to be warmly wel- comed aud cacerly entered into by composers. Tho honors to be striven for in this tilt, depending as they do upon the liberality of competitors in join~ ing the Assoclatlos, promise 10 be wreab, a3 we anticipate such a roll of membership as snall enable the Associativn to announce the largest %flzes ever before competed for 1 & Problem ‘ourney. THE PRIZES. Six prizes are offercd, to beapportioned from the n 2 or 3 or 4 moves. For the second best wet of three Original problems in or 3 or 4 moves. For tie tuird best setof tiree o CONDITIONS. 1. Competition open to the world, and will be free. But 2s the amount of the prizes will de- pend apon the receipts of the Assucintion, com- petitors are iuslted o subscrive a4 members, thus ccoming entitled tovote on ull Important ques- tions, and to receive due notice of all meetings aud tonrnaments of the Association. Fee, S1. 2, No composcr ehall enter for competition more than one sct of problems, 3. Each set must be cntered under a motto, and may be seni to any chess editorin the United States, who will forwsrd a correct copy to the Sec- retary. Bolitis suzsested that composers send each problem of theirwel toa diflerent chess pub- lication. This will enable competition to begin ut once, as it will not be necessary to wait until a set is completed. 1t will alsomore fatrly distnbute tae honors of puhlication. 4. Problems will be compared and rated upon the following basia: c: Difticuity of solution. ‘Total for best posatbl s 5. 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