Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1889, Page 10

t « lived 10 RICH HOMES IN WASHINGTON Where Swell Banquets Will be Gliven During the Seasom. SENATOR HENDERSON'S CASTLE A £ty About the Henry Clay Hatin which Mr. Clay Lives—Luxur- fous Hotel Life—Wanamas« Xers' Gorgeons Parlors, Entertainers at the Capital. (Copyrighted 1889 by Frank 6. Carpenter.) WaAsHINGTON, D. C., Dee. £ [Spe- cinl to Tir B ivery one of the noted houses of Washington will be thrown open: next week. On January 1 the pomvous Washington butler wili come out in his glorious livery and for three months there will be nothing but recentions, teas, calling and dinner giv- ing. Year by year the number of statos- men owning houses in Washington in- crenses. During the present scason only 125 representatives will live at hotels and there are now only seventeen hotels. Senators Ber of Arkansas and Ransom of North Carolina, are stopping at the Metropolitan. Fryeis at the Hamilton and Blodgett and pious old Joe Brown of Georgia, arv at the National, Brown has the rooms which were occupied for years by Henry Clay and Alexander H.Stephens. He haslived for tho pust few years in the Nozthwest but he prefers to go back to his old his- toric quarters in this hotel. Room and Hoard st the National and Metropolitan hotel cost from $50 per month upwards per person and the Motropolitan, Na- tional and Hamilton hotels are among s&e good but not dear hotels of Wash- ington. s It cosls more at the hotels near the white house and Frank Hiscock, Gil Pierce, Platt of Connecticut, Wash- burn of Minnesota and Squire of Wash- ington. who are at the Arlington, have board bills which run weil up into the hundreds of dollars a month. Frank Hiscock rattlesaround in the rooms which were so long filled with the greatness of Charles Sumner, and his front windows look out upon the white house toward which his eyes are ambi- tiously turned. Senator ell lives in Morton’s big flat, the Shoreham, where the cheap- est quarters aro 81,200 a year, while Dixon of Rhode Island stops at the Arno flat on Sixteenth street, and Pad- dock of Nebraska hes his old quarters at the Portland, just opposite Bob Schencks residence. Bate of Tennes- see and Joe Blackburn of Kentucky gn\'c comfortable quurters at the Ebbitt ouse, Nearly all of the senators keep house. Senator Hearst is bourding at Welck- ers, but he has bought the big brick house nsar Blaine’s, which Secretary Fairchild occupiea last year, and he is building a big addition to it. Mrs. Hearst is one of the most noted enter- tainers of . Washington and neither ex- pense nor care is being spared in the making of her house a beautiful one. Senator Sawyer, who has for years in the house which Jefferson Davis occupiea when he was here in Washington has stopped puying rent and has builta magnificent brown stone mansion within a stone’s throw of the Dupont circle. It is worth at least $80,000 and Sawyer’s millions wili keep it in fine style. There are fine houses ail around it. In a block near by Sena- tor Edmunds hides his exclusiveness in his iron barred Dungeon Keep. His house is a red pressed brick with a cop- per pluted bay window which has rivets as big around as a trade dollar. Ed- munds’ office is on the ground floor near the butler’s pantry and his library and parlors are above. The house is worth about $50,000 and the lot on which it is built cost the senator $14.000 some years ago. Just above 1t is Blaine’s barn-like palace, for which the rich retired mer- chant, Mr. Leiter, pays him $11,000 a year and does not use it more than four months out of the twelve. Mr. Leister 1s here this winter and his family are making the money fly. Across the street is Senator Stewart’s castle for which the Chinese legation pay him a rent of $10,000 a yeur,and which the Nevada senatorsays he owns but cannot afford to live in. I understand that he would like to sell it and that his price is $125,000 cash. One hundred thousand dollars seems abig thing o pay for a house, but ‘Washington has dozens of such man- sions and big transfors ure made every week. I see advertised today the resi- dence of Stanley Matthews. “The price asked is $87,000, which is less than the value of the ground and the improve- ments. Near by this is the home of the late Senator Yulee, which is _one of the finest houses in Washington and which was decor- ated by the famous painter Lafarge. This 1s for sale at $100,000, and Senator Palmer, now mimster to Spain, is ask- ing $125,000 for his Washington house. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Robeson was ruined by the owning of a big house in ‘Washington, and his mansion on Six- teenth street has been on the market for a long time at somewhere between 75,000 and $100,000. Within the last fow days the “for sale” sign bas been taken down, and I suppose the house has been soid, Just bolow this is the beautiful home of the late Senator Pen- dloton, which will probably be for sale on account of the senator’s death, and Bcross the street is the great red brick which Windom built and in which Blaine wrote the greater part of his book. This has been sold for a good round sum. Next door to Pendleton’s is Senator Cameron’s house, which has enough rooms for a summer hotel and which he sold to Morgan, the New York banker, for $95,000, Morgan expected to cut a swell in it, but he died the same year, and his widow now occu- ples it. Sixteenth street is the wide avenue leading from the white house north to the boundary. It is one of the most fashionable streets of Washington, and lots upon it need a carpet of bank notes in order to puy the sum demanded for them. At the head of it ex-Senator Henderson. of St. Louis has built a grand brown stone castle and this is about ready for occupancy. 1t has tur- rets and towers, baldonys and cosy nooks, and it mast have cost “in the neighbor- hood of $100,000 to build it. It hasa hr!e lot about it ou the side of the hill, and its windows give a view of all of ‘Washington and miles of the Potomuc walley. Just above 1t is Jonquin Miller’s log cabin and within ashort distance of it nearer the white house 1s the modest brick which Breckenridge of Ke tucky has rented for a term of year: On the corner: of Sixteenth aud P streets Senator Teller is living in T, C, Crawford’s house, for which he pays about $100 a month, and on the corner of Sixteenth and- K, in a big red brick, meely furnished, lives Secretary Evarts, Evarts was a great entertaiver while he was secretary of state and it THE- OMAHA DAILY BEE: is said he spent 830,000 more than his salary during the Hayes administra- tion. Senator Wolcott lives in modest quarters near by, and further down still, on the corner of Sixteenth and H, is the beautiful brick mansion of John Hay, Lincolu's biographer, which stands on the ground which cost him $6 a square foot, and_which could not be now got for $10. Mrs. Zach Chandler just bought a big lot on Sixteenth street opposite the Evarts mansion and she will probavly build a house here as a residence for hersell and her son- in<law, Senator Hale of Maine. A number of senators live in historic quarters. nator Cameron paid $67,- 000 some years ago for the old Ogle Tay- lor mansion on Lafayette square. It is a three-story brick of a dirty yellow with an iron portice running along the ond story above an English basement. he front door is painted an olive green and the lower story contains the office of the senator and’ his reception voom. The parlors are on the second floor and the ho s nicely furnished. In this house have been entertained all of the presidents since the days of Androw Jackson and Winfield Scott and Martin Van Buren have often put their legs under the mahogany in its dining room. One day when General Scott was dining here a violent hailstorm oceu smashing the windows and bringing down lumps of ice the size of hickory nuts. These hailstones were broughtin- to the tuble and Scott, as he dropped one of them into his wineglass said: “Ladies we will cool our champ agne with celestial ice.” “Just below this house of Cameron’s is the home of Secretary Blain He rents the house, bus he has refurnished and repainted it. You enter the ground floor from the street through an olive green doorway, and you fiud the par- lors on the second fioor. The drawing room is furnished insalmon tint, and the woodwork and mantles are of pearl white. The dining-room is on the ground floor and its walls are” hung with crimson tapestry, and the chairs are upholstered in red leather. The sideboard is of old oak, and the whole house is adorned with the pictures and bric-a-brac which Secretary Blaine picked up in Europe. This house and lot is worth now at least $100,000 and the lot would bring 350,000 under the hammer. Still it was once sold for a jackass, and it was Henry Clay who sold it. Itis justacross the street from the white house and Clay had often refused to sell it. One day, however, old Commodore Rogers came home from the Mediterranean with his naval vessel full of 1i tock which he picked up abroad. One of Clay’s hob- bies was stock farming and Roger’s cargo included one fine Andelusian jackass. Clay saw it and wanted it. The commodore refused to sell, but at last said laughing] *‘You can have him for your lot oppo- site the white house.” “‘Done,” said Clay, and the animal was shipped off to Kentucky. Commo- dore Rogers built a big four-story brick on the ground. In it Blaine will enter- tain t winter and in it Seward dined the diplomats when he was secretary of state. The Wannamaker front door is also an historical one and this mansion has been a cabinet house for a number of admimstrations. It wasin it that Pres- ident Arthur called on Tillie Freling- huysen and gave rise 1o the report that there was to be soon a marriage 1n the white house. It wasin this that Mrs. Whitney held her grand receptions and the gorgeous paintingsof her bail room have given place to the works of art purchased by the postmaster general This house will beopen during the con ing season aud it has been so refur- nished that it will be graader than ever. The statesman who calls on Secre- tary Noble trots up some steps that Edwin M. Stanton used to mount, every when he came home from the war de- partment, and Stanton’s house has the same flat three-story front and the same unconventional entrance that it had when he occupied it. It now belongs to Senator Sherman, who bought ita few months ago for $35,000, and who has since spent something like 810,000 in putting it in order. It wasa boarding house last season and Senator Hoar lived in it. Sherman has three houses in the same block, and the trio must be worth somewhere between $160,000 and #200,- 000- He bought the first when Frank- lin svuare had no fence “around it, and was used as a bail ground and a cow pasturage. Fasnionable Washing- ton was then near the capitol, and Mrs. Sherman did not like the idea of mov- ing sofar out of the world, Within a few years, however, the rush to the northwest came, and now the senator’s residence is just on the edge of the fashionable section; the best houses of the city being nearly a mile beyond him. Senator Sherman’s residence isa four-story brick with brown stone trim- mings. Ithas a wide hall and generous parlors, over the mantle of one of which rests a fine portrait of the senator, and 1n the bay window there are two very pretty busts which the senator picked up at Florence last summer. The sen- ator’s library 18 on the second floor, and you find lnm here every evening atter 7 o’clock when he is not out dining. Senator Ingalls has just changed his uarters and he will live in rooms near the white house. Senator Spooner re- mains on Capitol Hill and he has rented a house near that of Justice Field where the old capitol prison used to stand. Senator Moody of Dakota has a brick house which fuces the capitol grounds and Senator Pettigrew has furnished a nome in the same neighborhood. Sam Randall owns a house on Capitol Hill and he is now lying sick within it, It is on a back sureet and looks as though it might have been taken from a second- class tenement row in the Quaker cit, and carried bodily to Washington. 1t has white marble steps and is a red brick of three stories and a basement. It would rent for about $40 a month and its interior isas plain as its outside. Randall’s workshop is filled with con- gressional records and reports and there is nothing but the evideuce of hard work in it. Randall has always been a drudge and he has let congres- sional busiuess boss him. He worked at the capitol and at the house and his present condition is partly vhe result of ovemvork. It used to be that none of the south= ern senators owned houses here. They lived at the hotels far down the avenus, or in boarding houses near the capitol. This year quite a number of them have opened establishments in the porth- west, Vest of Missouri, Beck of Ken- tucky, and Reagan of Texas, lived in oneblock on P street near Iowa circle, Their houses are nice red pressed brick, of three stories with big bow windows in frontof them. Vest’s house is filled with fine skins, stuffed birds and other trophies of the far west. Reagan’s par- lors are very plain but comfortable and the senator does his work ina little office on the second floor with his wife as an assistant. Senator Eus- tis of Louisiana has bought a house on Rhode Island avenue, it is a brick with a big library in one of the wings, Vance of North Carolina owns & very pretty house on Massachuseits avenue and General Walthall, who takes La- mar's place in the senate, is keeping house on Rhode Island avenue, just op- posite the big mansion which was pre- sented to General Sheridan and in which Mrs. Sheridan is now living, Seuvator Walthall has a very protty daughter and his accomplighed wife is with him. . b Matt Quay keeps house on I street be- yond Wannamaker's Plumb of Kansas boards, Henry B. Payne occupies a rented house on Vermont avenue aud just next to him Allison of Iowa lives in the house which came to him through the death of his wife, Senator Mitchell of Oregon has rented a fine mansion on Connecticut avenue and Dolph is living in his old quarters near the white house, Manderson of Nebraska has ronted the big double brick which Far- Avell of Chicago had (ast season. He has taken it fora term of yoars and has furnished 1% to the queen's taste. Herotofore he had lived in flats, and he now has one of the best houses in Vvashington and 1n the most fashiona- blo part of the city. Just above him are two fine white stone houses which be- long to Congressman Bayne of Pitts- burg. These houses are worth about 230,000 apiece, and Tom Bayne lives i the bigger of them, while the rented to General Aunson G, M New York. Senator Hoar of Massachu- setts is living near the white house. MecMillan of Michigan has bought an 280,000 mansion on Vermont avenue, orge Gray of Delaware lives just e the Shoreham, where Stewart of Novada boards. All Washington is peppered with the homes of representatives. Roswell P Flower puts his portly legs under his n a big house on 1 street and Nathan Frank of St. Louis,another rich man, has his stomach tickeled by the Paris educated negro cook of Wormley's hotel. Gener- al [Tenderson is at Wormley’s. Gear of Town pays something like $100 per month for a bed at the Shoreham. Hansborough of Dakota is at the Riggs and Allen of the state of Washington lives with his wife in Grant place near the interior department in order that he may the better attend to the land claims of his constituents. John T. Cane of Utah is trying the country air of Tukoma Park and Fred DaBoise ig living on Thirteenth street not far from the white house. Judge Scney of Ohio is plotting how to catch the senatorship at the Riggs,and Judge Kelley, the farmer of the house. hus a room at the same hotel, the walls of which are hung with pictures of Lin- coln and Stanton. George Dorsey of Nebraska is at the Portland. Dalzell of Pittsburg bhas a fine 'house on the corner of Massachusetts avenue near Morton, and George Barnes of Georgia, the fattest man in congress, 18 a walk- ing advertisement for the Metropolitan hotel. Thadeus Stephens’ house on Capitol hill now belongs to William. Walter Phelps. Houck of Tennessee, hastaken quarters in it and he says he hopes that he will get some of Stevens’ inspira- tion from it. He has one attribute of Stevers’ character already and that is in his always being ditferent from the other fellows. This attribute recalls the bon mot made as to Thad Stevens’ con- dition 1n a future state. The story of his enemies was that when he called upon Pluto and asked for his seat in the assembly of the regions below, that his satanic majesty emphatically told him thav there was no seat for him, and kicking a little brimstone out of the fire with his cloven hoof, he smd: ‘‘Here, Mr, Stevens, take this and go off and make a little hell of your own.” Ex-Speaker Carlisle lately bought a house on K street for something like $24,000. Roger Q. Mills boards ata boarding house on G street, and Martin has left the treacherous gas burners of a hotel and lives 1n a private house on Capitol hill. Tom Reed is at the Shoreham, and the other little big bugs und the big ‘little bugs are scattered here and there all over the city. FRANK G. CARPENTER. —_—— Joys of Frison Life. George Francis Train in New York Sun. No bill presented once a week By Hotel Bradley's Boniface, No tips to waiters—ao to speak— No duns allowed 1nside this ptace. You are not stopped by Bunco Steer, You have no fear of new arrest. Where you are Sheriff’s honored guest. No female voice assalls ono here, Never annoyed by drunken‘smell, No chance of being bored by bore, No beggar ever comes to door, No priest or parson comes to coll. No elevator accident, No fire escapes for these stone walls, Fireproof against all fire event, No b—db—gs 'round these granite halls. But—biggest joke—in court contempt, The creditor your board must pay, Colossal game of give away | It does not cost me single cent! Loud cheers for Bastile life, I say! —— PEPFERMINT DROPS. Everything goes with the spendthrift. A cat has nine lives and it throws them all into its voice. The revolution of the hands of an electric clock must be a re-volt. Eyery community has its fools and some are afflicted with fool fools. TLovers can Live on love 1n the parlor all right, but not in the dining room. The three gauges of railroad—Narrow gauge, broad gauge and mortgage. Dogs are very affectionate. We haveeven seen dogs that were attached to tin cans, He who would climb the ladder of fame as an orator must win rougd after round of applause. Thero is a roporter on a New York paper who lost an arm in the war. He's a short- handed reporter. Perhans there 18 nothing 80 touching about a small child as its hands after it has been making mud pies. . In Ireiaud it 18 considered unlucky to meet a barking dog. As far as our experience it is the silent dog that does the mis- Miss Laura—What & remarkably quiet youog man Mr, Timmons is, Yabsley—Do you think so? You ought 1o hear im eat once, ‘There are five B's now occupying the at- tention of Europe, Bismarck, Barnum and Boulanger are three. and Buffalo Bili is the other two, His Honor—What made you steal this gentleman’s door-mat! Prisoner—Sure, yer nonor, ivsaid **Welcome” on it, in letthers as long as your ar-r-rm. Good cufizuuon.—l:‘.niwr—l really don't know whether you intended to oe funny or otherwise, Author—(inspired)—Can't you uso it in your puzzle department then | The weary brain will Elo! and plan Some way of duty shirking. 1t's queer how hard a lazy man Will work to keep from working. There are two social circles in New York city—MecAllister's four hundared and the hand-organ grinder’s thres hundred. The lutter it would seem is the most exclusive of the two. 1f & man is only a ‘‘good fellow™ he can be a frelly bad fellow in many respects, and still got better treatment from the world than is accorded to many wmeu who have more virtue. When Japan was opened to commerce her people picked up western ideas 8o rapidly that they were calloa the Yaukees of As ‘The new Brazl is adopting new. ideas fast that her people may well be called the Jupanese of Awmerica, A cook, who had burned up a viece of veal weighing four pounds, threw it ay. and afterward explained to her mistress that the cat had eaten the meat. “Very well,” sala the lady, “we will see that tly,” So saying, she took the cat, put it on the scales, and found that it weighed exactly four pounds. *There, Frederick,” she"said, "are the four pounds of meat—but where is the cati” e There are many accidents and dis- eases which affect stock and cause se- rious inconvenience and loss to the farmer in his work, which may be auickly remedied by the uge of Dr. J. H, McLean’s Volcanig Oil Liniment. ONE OF THE WEST'S WONDERS 3 a0 The Oity of Salt Lake and Its Won- Qo Growth. SHE HAS ALL THE ELEMENTS. J— Evorything Necessary to Make Utan's Metropolis'a Place of a Hundred Thousand in 1805 to be Found There, Savt Lage City, Utah, Dec. 27.-[Special to ik Bee.|—To say that Salt Lake City is “booming" is, to say the least, putting it very mild, For S00 miles to the north and south and 500 miles to the cast and west Salt Lake City (commercially) stands pre-eminently king of this vast area of rich, productive, agricultural, mineral and stock raising coun- try, second in wealth aud g eneral resources to none in the world, The shipments—or output—ot 200,000 head of cattle, 500,000 head of sheep annually, & distance’ of at loffst & thousand miles to “the nearest maricet is certainly sufficient induce- ment for the establishment of large packing houses, tannerics, and woolen manufactorios at that pomt. Nothing can prevent the natural trena and result in this direction Pockers are already looking for suitable lo- cations aud within~ a period of three years time Salt 1ake City will command the éntire packing and manufacturing inter- csts of the inter-mountain terri- tory above mentioned. Butte, Helena, Portland, westorn Nevada, southern Utah, northern’ Arizona, western Colorado and Wyoming will all bo tributary to her market. 'ho following data of the reporter of tho Sult Lake chamber of commerce will be found of interest. The number and value of live stock is {:ivun by the agricuitural department as fol- ows Horses, 132,701, at $3 Mules, 4,055, at 847, Milch cows, 51,573, Oxen and other ca $15.4L....in . Sheep, 1,468,500, at Hogs, 50,148, ut §3.63.. . $15,808,146 The yearly increase upon this at 30 por cent would be about §5,000.000. Thousauds of carloads of cattle and sheep are yearly shipped to outside markets. The wool clip of the present year will be about 9,000,000 pounds. Fleoces average about six pounds. In no part of the union are all sorts of minerals found in greater variety and abundance than in Utah, Coal is mined on both fronts of the Wasatch and of the High plateaus from the Unitas to the Colorado river. The yearly output exceeds 250,000 tous and might as~ well be ten times that. Our coal beds are suflicient to supply Utah and all the region west to the Pacific for gencrations. That market and even Utah is now largely supplied from Wyomnmg, because the coal lands of the through Pacific roads are in that territory. Utah ¢onl 1s superior in quality to Wyoming coal and‘will be drawn upon long after the Wyoming coal fields are exhausted and forgotten. 'From a vein exposed by Price river withinpne hundred and twenty- five miles of Satt-Lake, a coke is made which 15 scarcely inferior to the best Ing- lish cok Remarkable bodles of iron ores occur in [ron county, and ofdinary deposits in sunday localities, some'of them as analyses indicate Bessemer ores.’ There are vractically illimitable fields of brimstone, ledges of rock salt, autimony and cinnabar ‘mines, and in Great Salv Lake an mexhaustible storehouse of salts and chem- jcals, There are indications of oil and gas in Green River valley, reefs of sandstone sat- urated with asphalt, veins of black pitch (gilsonite), striugers and bunches of natural parafline (0zokerité), mineral resinand other rare and curious h§dro-carbons. The yearly output of our lead-silver mines is about one bundred and sixty-five thou- sand tons of ore, four-fifths of which is re- duced in our own mills aod furnaces; the product is worth at seaboard prices about $10,000,000, All over the territory are found the best of structural, abrasive and fertiliz- ing materials. Nothing but capital is needed to double our mineral output both in value and variety, Park City is one of the most flourishing mining towns Lribu:nri' 0 Salt Luke, The yearly output of the mines about Park City is from 70,000 to 80,000 tons of silven ore, worth in gross $3,000,000, and this out- put with sufficient capital might be doublea. ‘I'wo of the mines have driven drain tunnels 6,000 feet, and 1in 1888 the Ontario broke ground tor a tunnel of three miles, which will arain the mine to a depth of 1,500 feet. Continued two or three miles further as it assuredly will be this tunnel will dram a lim'gc mining district to a depth of 3,000 eet. At Coalville on the Weber river about twenty miles north of Park City, and on Grass creek and Chalk creek, tributaries coming in from the east, there isa coal basin covering fifty square miles, from which Park City and the mines get their fuel. In former times this coal was wogoned over the mountains nearly fifty miles to Salt Lake., A company has been formed to build a railway from these coal measures divecuy ovor vhe Wasatch to the city. There is no great dif- ficulty in doing this and without doubt it will be done. These roads coming into the valley out of Parley’s canon and Emigration canon respectively bring to the city red brick trachyte shales for street nincadam good building and flagging stons in great variety. These articles will be in great demand in the city, during the next five years as it is safely estimated there will be over threo miilions 1n_public improve- ments made in Salt Luke City in that period and the population will unquestionably reach 100,000 by Jauuary. 1, 1S45. Never was there a time in the history of any of the magic cities of the continent when there wus & firmer feeling of futuro greutn: stronger market for realty, 8 greater bul ing activity, and a larger official record of real estate transfers than in Salt Lake City at the present lime, In the month of No- vember lust, the following firms who are considered the heaviest real estate dealers in Salt Lake City recorded be- tween two and three million dollars worth of transfers: Shiley Groshell & Compaoy, A. H. Mayne, C. E. Wantland, The Midland Investment company, . A. Wickinham, Sears & Co., W. H. H. Spafford & Co., Angell & Perkes, L. F. Kalluk and Whittemore & Co. The transactions of the same firms last week alone will améunt to nearly or quite a milllon dollars. ‘The phenomenal advantage offered by Salt Lake City for inygstment or as a place of por- manent resideneamay to a stranger seem a )it- tle overdrawn, but such is not the case. She has all the attractions that go to make up a metropolitan clfy. ;Sne is notably and nat- urally one of the most beautiful cities on the American continent today, and her present progress and prosperity is not due to any ar- tificial conditiohs'but the national demands of a large, prosperous and growing country tributary to héf markets for supply and trade. ons i ‘Watch the box, buy the: genuine Red Cross Cough Drops, 5 cents per box. S T————— THEAURICAL NOTES, B S The Patti adyapce sales in Chicago footed up $120,000. s ‘The German theater at Pesth, Germany, was destroyed by fire Mounday night. R. D. McLean has paid the Jobn McCul- lough estate $6,000 for manuscript and scenes. W. H, Crane will probably claar close to sixty thousand dollars this season with “The Senator.” Joseph Jefferson and W. J. Florence con- tinue to meet with very great success in ‘The Rivals.” Lately the Howara Burlesquers <were rottenegged by sn indignaut audience at Johnstown, Pa, Verdi is stopping for the winter in a hotel at_ Milan, where ho is engaged in making votes for a new opera. Marcus R. Mayer started for Mexico on E‘rmn{ night to complete arraugements for the Abbey-Patti opera troupe. JolePh Anderson, the brother of “Our Mary," and tho sou-in-law of Lawrence Har- rett, has decided to give up the stage. A unew vpera is being composed for 1892, during the Columbus_celebration at Genon the opern 1s 1o ba entitled “‘Christoforo Co- lowbo," Gofihod has promiised to write a mass f the opening of the new orean at St. Peter Four thousand siagors will take part in the ceremotiies. Bizet's “Carmen” is having arun_at the Teatro Rossi, in Vonico. Much of its success is due to tho tenor, Herr Warmuth, a former pupil of the Vienna conservatory. Mrs. Lungtry has engaged Charles Sugden for a loading part in the new play by Haddon Chambera, with which she proposes to re- open the London St. Jamos' theater, Mme. Fursch-Madi has boon singing at the Lamoureux concerts in_Paris and with von Bulow in London: she will probably return to the United States for some winter engage- ments. Manager John Stetson of Boston, will have two “Gondolie®’* companios in New England and Mauager tlenderson of Chicago, will cover the northwestern' territory with the new opera, Mr. F'rank van der Stucken, tho American cemposer and conductor, hns recewved a cable despatch from Paris announcing his nomination as Oficer d'Academio by the I ich government, Mr. Leo Goldmark, who represents in this country the heirs of Wagner, has ncquired from Frau Cosima Wagner the sole right of production of all the composer's works for Groat Britain and its colonies, The intelligence that the surgical tion recentl Mr. Lawrene opora- performed upon the neck of Barrott will result in a_per fect recoy s most welcome, as is the re- port that hu will co-operate’ with Eawin Booth next season. Edwin Booth and Mme, Modjeska are tak- ing a two wocks’ vacation. They resume their tour January 6 in Providen Ty and aro to uppear in Fall River, N Holyoke 14, Springfield 15, New ven 16, Hartford 13-18, reaching the Bos- ton theater January 20. Brandon Thomas' “The Gold Craze," pro- duced at the London Princess's theater, ap- pears to have been a failure of the most ir- redeemable kind, as was “The Soy,” @ story of the American civil war, which was played by George Turner, an American actor, at the London Novelty wheater. The women of New York have a new idol. This time it is Sarasate, a great musician, who is taking the metropolis by storm. The admiration for Kelcey, Dixey, Bellow and other mashers sink iuto_insignificante when compared 1o that showered upon Sarasato. Unliko the mashin stripe of actors, he is in- different to the sensation which he' creates, After the second act of “Faust” at Miner's Newark (N, J.) thoator on Wednesday. con- stables attached tha property of Emma Juch's English opera company at’ the in- stance of Manager H. C. Miner to satisfy a claim of $3,000 loaned by him to organize the company. The matter was subsequently compromised by a transfer of $2,300, amount of advance sales at Pittsburg, where the company will play next woek. Sarah 1ernhardt has made up her mind to Joan of Arc in the play of “Jules Bar- and that play will be produced upon an elaborate scale at Ohristmas in the Porte St. Martin, Paris. The actress rescnts the imputation that her triumphs are due in part to the impropriety of the plays in which she rs, aud she has resolved to demonstrate t her art is equal to the representation of the purest und most clevated characters, A cable despatch from London says that the Australian actress Myra Kemble favorable 1mpression in_Robert, Buo play **Man and the Woman,” which was given at a matinee performance at the Lon- don Criterion. 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READ THE FOLLOWING and write to us for the names and addresses of the patients we have cured who have given us permission to refer to them, CHICAGO, Ill,, Oct, 8, 1889, The Cook Remedy Co., Omnaha, Neb., Gentlemen:—I might very properly question my ability toclearly comprehend the simplest proposition aid I resist the convictions aud practical demonstrations of the use of your remedy, and can discover no reasons other than purely skeptical ones for longer doubting the permanency of my miraculous cure. I have this ns- surance intuitively—supported and confirmed absolutely by every one of my five senses—could the rankest pessimist challenge or insult his reasoning faculties by demanding more? 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