Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 16, 1890, Page 3

THE OMAHA DAIL: BEE. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1800.-SIXTEEN PAGES OMAHA SONS OF ISRAEL. History of the Hebrew Ohurch in This City. PIONEER SCIONS OF LEVL Rise of the Temple of lsrael ~-Rabbis Who Have Ministered to Our Jewish Congregations— Church Notes, Hebrow Temples. The history of the Hebrews as a religious body in this city must be traced back to the year 1808, Although there had been He brew residents in Omaha yedrs before, yet it was iu that year that tho first religious services were held in the old Masoaic hall on Farnam street, The chief spirits fu this organization were Messrs. M. Hellman, E. Simon, B, Gladstone, M. Goldsmith, M, El- gutter, Ph, Gottheimer and several others. For four years divine services were held in this hall on the Jewish holidays, speakers bemg chosen from the attendance, no minis- ter being then available. There was no Sabbatn school maintained at the time, as thore was not a sufficient number of Jewish children in the city to warrant such an in- stitution, In 1872 another step was taken by the few leading Hebrews then here to make their or- ganization more permancnt. 1t was the pur- chase of five acres on Pleasant hill to be con- secrated as the Hobrew cemotery, Meanwhile the only religious services held were during the holidays at the Max Meyer building on Farnam and Eleventh strects. Mr. L. Abraham, now dead, was the eflicient. reader of the congregation during these 574, the congregation, now fully organ- ized, though not yet incorporated, purchased apioce of property on Cass, betweon Six- toenth and Seventeenth, for $1,200. This property was soid several yoars lator and the present site of the templé on Harney street was bought for $4,400, In 1875 Rev. David Stern was called to take charge of the pulpit, the congregation “having about twenty members. Mr. Stern, now ceceased, was a young man of considerable education and liberal views. He occupied the pulpit for about eight months and left for a new fleld in the enst. In 1853 Rev. Mr. Saft was called to take charge of this pulpit and teach the Sabbath school, He was conservative in his views not at all adapted to the reform element which largely controlled the affairs of the congregation, and bis charge of the pulpit ended at the expiration of his first term of office, During the years which intervened Dbetween 1875 and 1888 the congregation, not having the expense of paying a spiritual guide, a sinking fund of several thousand dollars was accumulated for the purpose of erecting a synugogue, The proper executive ability to successfully carry through such a project was selected from the members of the congregation and the synagogue on Har- ney street was the resuit, It was erected at an expense of between $4,000 and $5,000 and was dedicated in the fall of 1856 by the Rev. H. Harfeld. n the erection of this synagogue it must be noted that there were many and willing hands to further the undertaking. At the expiration of Rev, Harfeld's term ot office the congregation resolved to select for their pulpit a raboi who would not only be competent in the pulpit and school room, but also who would build up the association and place it on a standard of importance in this section of the country. A remunerative sa'ary was appropriated for that purpose and npgucnlon! from candi- dates were solicited, Out of quite s number of offers the Rev. N. I Benson of Owens- boro, Ky., was unanimously chosen, the con- gregauon numbering nearly sixty members, bbi Benson took charge of his new fleld of labors in the fall of 1875, and during the four years of bis pastorate tLe membership of his congregation nearly doubled. When he changed his profession for the study of law, the affairs of the congregation were in @ prosperous condition nand the society now ranki mong the leading con- gregations of the west. The present incumbent,Rev. William Rose- nay, 18 & groduate of the Hebrew union college of Cincinnati and is in the first year of his pustoral care. He exercises the same energy as Jid his predecessor in furthering the interests of the society. 1n addition to the Congregation of fsrael there 18 another Jewish body in this city named Chebra Bikur Cholim. This was nrflnhad about four years 0 and was originally intended as a society for relieving the sick and burying the dead. Hut the scope of its usefulness did not end there as ever since its organization religious services have been held_every year during the holi dnys of the Unitarian church. Recently, this society rented the Garneau church ana furnished it. [t is intended to have regular Subbath service und establish a Sabbath school for poor Jewish youth, which will be opened for the admission of pupils on Sun- day, February 23. The Bnai Israel, or Sons of Israel church ‘was started ten years ago, the first place of worship being at a house rented for that purpose on ‘Thirteenth street, between Dodge and Capitol avenue. Mr. Cohen was the first rabbi and he remained until the latter art of 1852, Rabbi Leeveen succeeded him, ut _remained only a few montl In 1833 Rabbi Bramsan took charge of the congrega- tion, and still ministers to its spiritual wants, Last September the members of the con: i_reznlun purchased a building on South hirteenth near Willaws as a place for hold- lni services. 'he ttussian Bnai Israel congregation was organized six years ugo. The society has Klllufl through various vicissitudes, but has ecome quite strong within the last two years, Last year o lflmrlu ‘was built on Capi- 10l avenue, between Thirteenth and Four- teenth, at a cost of $6,000. Mex Berlin is reader for the congregation at present aud L. Catlin 18 president, ‘The Bnai Jucob congregation was organized a year 8go and M. Goldstein secured as rabbl, Profouna dissensions arose in the church concerning the doctrines advocated by the rabbi, and the result was the solution of the congregation. A large nu ber of the wembers then joined the Russian Boai Israel, A New Oburch Dedicated at 8t, Paul, The new Methodist Episcopal church at St. Paul, Neb,, was dedicated on Sunday, Feb- ruary 9, by Bishop Newman, who preached 10 a crowded house at 10:45 a. w. a sermon which for depth of thought, beauty of dic- tion, and persuasive eloquence exceeded all discourses ever beard in this part of the state, After the sermon the bishop asked the con- gregation for subscriptions to clear the church of indebteduess, and over $2,000 was subscribed, Presiding Elder Shank preached 10 a full house in the evening from psalm 84- 11, The bhm then asked for the balance of the indebt scribed, making $2,800 durin, full emount asked for. hop then ded- jcuted the ehurch, aasistea by the pastor aud r)ruldlnn elder and by the pastors of the resbyterian and Baplist churches. ‘The church is a beautiful structure ele- gantly finished and furnished., It is built after plan 54, Church Extension Catalogue. It is cruciform in shaps with & tower at the intersection of the transcept with the main building. It has a lecture room and a class room ana will seat over five hundred people. T'he coat is over §6,000. The pastor, Rev. J. E. Moore, the building committee and concerned are 1o be congratulated on the si nal success of the enterprise. Oastellar Street Presbyterians, Rev. J. M, Wiison of the Castellar Strect Presbyterian church, has issued a pamphlet of thirty-four pages containing s directory of the church members, a description of the various societies of the organization, the church officers and other watters of interest to the society. The directory shows 105 members 0 standing. Amoung the g pasbins ettt 1 8 oul 5 unvvr -m.hp thirty-two members; the Ladies' ery sociely, thirfy-eight wembers; the Boy‘o{rua. il members; the Bright {::-h. urunun memoers; the Pansy d the Hawthorne club, fourteen *>ewbers; and the Sunday school which has pupils, There are two missions which been established by the church-—the Ontario Street chapel, Twentieth and Vinton streets, and the Grace church mission, Fifth and Williams streets, both of which are in & flourishing conaition. ors s United Presbyterian Presbytery. The latter part of next month the United Presbyterians of the district of Omaha, which includes the Dakotas and that part of Nebraska lying nortn of the Platte river, will hold their annual presbytery in this city. Among the questions to be discussed is the following: ‘“Shall students of tneology be licensed at the end of the second year dn- stead of at the end of the third year as now required!” 'The occasion for this 18 that there is at present greater demand for ministers in the west than can be met. The feasibility of adding to the book of govern- ment and discipline the following rules will also be discussed : *No student who is aadicted to the use of tobacco in avy form shall be admitted to license,” “‘No one shall be eligile to the office of ruling elder in the church who is addicted to the use of tob y form."” State Sunday School Association. The report of the secrotary of the Ne- braska State Sunday school association for the six months ending January 1 shows the foliowing figures: Number of countios in the state...... Number of counties having associations Volunteer sccretaries in unorganized counties. .. Counties yet to hear from. Total amount subscribed 178, :;3 81 Total amount received. Total expenses to date, Deficiency........... 18! The next annual session will be held at Hastings June 3 to 5, inolusive. Proposed Methodist Consolidation. Bishow Newman is making arrangements to consolidate the congragations of the New- man M. E. church and Slaughter Memorial M. E. church in one body and to build a splendid place of worship for the consoli- dated churches i the vicinity of Thirty-firat and Leavenworth. The two congregatious now have the bishop's suggestiona under consideration. 'I'he bishop has been inves ing in real estate in Dundee Place, purchas- ing ten lots therc It is his purpose to re- lots as asite for a Method- serve one of thes ist church, CHUR Rev. Willard Scott will preach in the St Mary’s Avenue Congregational church both morning and evening. The evening topic will be to the young people on ‘‘Economy and Profit.” First Baptist church, Strangers' Sabbath Home, corner Fifteénth and Davouport streets—Preaching at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., A. W, Lamar, pastor. Morning theme, “God’s Plan of Salvation versus Law.” In the evening revival services and at_close, baptisms. Sabbath achool at 12_m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30. Y. P. 5. G, praver mooting Friday evening ut 7 r B All are cordially invited, Seats At the Southwestoran Lutheran chureh, ‘I'wenty-sixth street between Poppleton and ‘Woolworth avenues, Rev. Luther M. Kuhns, will preach at 11 a. m.. on “What Makes the Christian,” and uv P m. on “*Nebucnadnezzar's Astonishment.” All Saints' church, Twenty-sixth and Howard streets, Quinquagesima Sunday, February 16. The music at the 11 o'clock service at All Saints’ will be: “‘Te Deum” in C, Florio; *‘Jubilate” in D, Sullivan, and the anthem, “Sweet is Thy Mercy, Lord,"” Barnby. At the 4 o'clock service the ‘“Mag- d “Nunc Dimittis” in A, and the nificat” anthem, “The Radient Morn Hath Passed Away,” Woodward. The Ministerial union of the city will meet at’Y. M. C. A. building next Monday, Feb- ruary 20, at 10:80 a. m. Cullis and Sargent will preach and sing every night except Saturday at the Beth. Eden Baptist church, Park avenue and Leavenworth street. Bible readings Tues- day, Wednesday und Friday afternoons at 8 o'clock. “Not Ashamed of Jesus,” will be the sub- ject at the South Tenth Street M. E. church. No evening service. At the Central United Presbyterian church, on Seventeenth street, between Capitol avenue and Doage.—Preaching by the pastor, morrow at 10:30 a. m. Subject, Keformation.” And at7:30 p. m., subject. “Shall We Believe the Miraclesi” Sabbath school at 12 m,, and young people's meeting at 6 30 p. m, All are welcome, at Walout Hill Christian church, corner Nichol; streets. Morning theme, of Jesus;" evening theme, he Worst Si ner Converted.” Sunday school at 11 a. m. Young People's Society of Christiun En- deavor at 6:45 p. m. . Rev, Newton M. Mann will preach at Unity church in the morning. The evening lecture (8 o’clock), will be given by Prof. C. Chandler. Subject: “First Steps World Making.” Dr. Cullis_will preach and Mr. Sargent will llllg at 10:45 a. 1., and 7:30 p, m,, in the Beth-Eden Baptist church, Park avenue and Leavenworth, An urgent invitation is ex- tended to all. Universalist—Rev. Q. H. Shinn, pas! will preach tomorrow at 10:30 a. m. and 30 p. m. in G. A. R. hall, 116 North Fifteenth street, half block north of postoffice. The Theosophical society meets every Sun- day afternoon at room 203, Sheely block, All are welcome. ‘Wednesday and Saturday evenings the library is open to the public. ‘Irinity cathedral—Capitol avenue and Bighteenth street, Very Rev. C. H, Gardner, deau, Holy communion, 8 a. m. prayer, litany and sermon, 11 . m. sohool, 8:15 p. w.; childrén’ m.; evening prayer and sermon, 7:80 9. m. Dean Gardner will preach morning and evening. rvice, 8:45 p. Rev, J. W. Jones of the Southwest Pres- byterian church and Rev. Willam R. Hen- derson of the Second church will exchange pulpits at both services. el i RESOLUFIONS OF RESPECT, Two Labor Organizations Express Their Sympathy in Bereavement. The following resolutions bearing upon the death of Fred Challis, who was killed by falling from a scaffold, were passed at the last meeting of the Central Labor union : Whereas, A kind Providence bas seeu fit to remove from our midst our kind friend and brother, Fred Challis, therefore, be it Resolved, That through his death Central TLabor union loses a good member, & kind {riend and brother. Resolved, That a eo»g of these resolutions e sent to Tue. DALy Bee for publication and thut a copy be sent to the widow. Jurius MyERs, W. B. MusseR, GeorGe KLEKNER, Committee. The bricklayers, plasters and stone ma- sons tenders passed the following resolu- tiol s at their last meeting: ‘Whereas, Our brother, Fred Challis, has been removed from our wudst by ae therofore be it Resolved, That we, the members of the B, P, and 8. M., Lenders assembly No, 720, caunot refrain from feeling that his family has lost a loving husband and father and we an honored and esteemed brother. Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with his bereaved family. Res olved, That our charter be draped in mourning for thirty days. Resolved, That a copy ot these resolu- tions be sent to the widow of the deceased aod that they be spread upon our minutes, and also that a copy be sent to the dady papers. Cuanves RosexquisT, . A. J. GOODEN, Crank Horoomns, Com mittee. e ——— Marriage Licensos. Licenses were issued yesterday to the following parties by Judge Shields: Nawe and Residence, Axel R, Carlson, Omaha. ... Christine Persin, Omaha { Wilam Putte, Florence. .. Bertha Arcold, Omaha { Frank H. Mitcheil, Denver. 1 Eatly Taylor, Bt. Louls. in-rnru Boyle, Omaha. Anuie O'Hoyle, Omaba Frauk N, Warn Josie A. Munger, ), Omaba, Omala. Rev. John Williamson, D, D., to- 'he True and Dale 'The Temptation morning Sunday NEW YORK'S TEMPLE OF SONG A Pen Picture of an Architectural Marvel, FAMOUS VOICES IT HAS HEARD, History of Its Incegition and Build- ing-~01d and.New Patrons and Their eculiarities — German supplanting Ltalian Opera. The Metropolitan Opera Roase, swW YORK, Feb. 1 [Spécial to T Bie.]—Here we are again in the Metr: politan opera house of New York. And metropolitan it 15 today, a great deal more so than when it was opened on that memorable November night in 1883, when Christine Nilsson sang Margeurite to an audience representing over $600,- 000,000 in che first tier of twenty-five boxes alone. Today, ns then, it issevery inch metropolitan, Metropolitan 18 the maguificent, far spreading room, a real Salle d’ opera, not to be eclipsed in magnificence even by the Chicago Auditoriun Metropolitan are the five beautiful galleries of boxes, reserved and unre- sorved seats, osing this vast hemis- vhore, and ascending one over the other in truly grand opera house style, evolved in Europe from the antique theater to such homes of the human nightingales known today as the San Carlo, ~Naples; Il Apollo, Rome; La Pergola, Florence; La Scala, Milan; and the Grand opera houses of Vienna, London and Paris. The audiences themselves are thor- oughly metropolitan in outward appear- ance, at least. The decollete silk gowns, the diamonds and the evening dress of the men. But it is also metropolitan in the art exhalation of the audiences, which in a run of seven seasons of musical pleasure aud education has transported itself from that of the poor, though refined, music and art student and enthusiast of the region of the top gallery to the mil- lionaire crowd of the two lower tiers of stockholder boxes. These are generally well behaved, are not any more that chattering, laughing, gilded and be- diamonded lot of old, and do, though stockholders not altogether any more, pretend that the Lhouse is a private ex- hibition for their Worth toilets and un- worthy manners. Still more metropolitan is that grand orchestra of eighty choice troups of strings and brass before the footlights, and beyond them that performance of grand overa by grand singers and in a style never witnessed before on this side of the ocean, and not dreamed of outside of this palatial housing of musi- cal drama even by the lucky ones, who for four consécutive ckling throat-jugggle- ries and excessive prices of the Patti- Albani-Tamagno revival of dear old, sweet, thin Beillini Donizetti and Rossiny, in the opening season of the Chicago Auditorum. Yes, metropolitan every inch— and the most metropolitan thing to feel onme’s self sitting again in one of these broad orchestra choruses, to listen again to these revelations of the creative power of Wagner, that remodeler and rebuilder of the world of sound during the acts and to dream during the entreacts—they are too short to go ‘‘home and to taxe there a restorative rvest, but too long to do otherwise than to doze and to dream a little meanwhile of so many Omaha friends who would just be the right and most deserving ones to enjoy and to ap- preciate all these metropolitan things most thoroughly. To be sure, the Metropolitan opera house was not the first real and genuine opera house, the metropolis of the west- ern world could boast of. Asit was in- augurated in 1883, the old Academy of Music on Fourteenth street had been alrendy a quarter of a century in the full blast of music and fashion, shelter- ing for vhat time under its roof the most celebrated operatic. sovereigns and humbugs of the periods. But with the exception ofia few well meant attempts at opera in German and glish, it had been always Italina lunguage and Italian opera, which fur- sned there the musical, and do not forget it, the social attraction. and this notwithstanding anda in - spite of 50 thoroughly non-Italian interpret- ors as Tiotzens, the last sing: dienne of the grand old Pasta school, and Lucea, the blessed one with as much full blood in voice as in dram- atic power, together with Wachtel, the tenor of tenors, hailing from Germany; Nilsson, the Norwegian possessor of notes like Arctic sun rays reflect ing from virgin snow; Parepa, born in Scotland and married first to o Roumanian captain and then to a German fiddler with the fragrant name of [Rose; Gerster the Hungarian lark, doomed to drop wings and voice s0 soon; Albani the French Canadienne with the beauviful but alas no more uqyronr[nm name of ‘“‘La Jeunesse;” Minnie Hauck the German- American who made the Spanish stage art of Carmen a living carmen; and ust but not least our own American Clara Louwwse Kellogg who, following two years ugo one of the youngest Strakoshes notonly on a new rural fare- woll tournee but also to the altar, proved herself still more everlasting as asinger than as a maiden. ‘When in the beginning of the last decade ‘it became suddenly and pain- {fully apparent that the old Academy of Music was too much down town snd high life and uptownish millionairdom couldn’t reach it any longer without more and more steadily growing dis- comfort, the said two potential factors concluded to have grand opera follow them to their own quarters above Mad- ison square. It was high time. Even the lasi of the once celebrated Flora McFlimseys from Madison square had given up this once, like herseif, celebrated residence~ sanctuary of New Year upper tendom to milliners, dentists and art .dealers, fleeing 1o the higherlatitude of Central park neighborhood. For the whole exclusive ring of the McFlimseys the new opera house had become a necessity, a kind of a ‘give-us-our-daily- bread’ prayer. This fact once recog- nized, 1ts realization was only a ques- tion of time and money; that is, as itis becoming for this gilded ring, a ques- tion of very mucn money and very lit- tle time, Before two years and a half had elapsed, in the summer of the year of grace 1883, the Metropolitan opera house, with the Vanderbilts, the As- tors, the Gaelets, the Goulds, the Rock: efellers, the Whitneys, etc., ete., as stockholders and box proprietors, was a fixed monumentul fact, covering the whole area between West Thirty-ninth and Fortieth streets and Broadway and Seventh nue, There wasat that time still another -tm-,“uflont. why the question of the building of a new opera house had rown up to be one of life-importance or the most blue-blooded and thin- skinned elite of the MoFiimseys, the McFonlands and the jMcFoulaid: The interior of the old Academy, fine as it was in ite way, was nevertheless suffering from a very uMcient ar- [ rangement of boxes. e there were iwofl'e proscenium boxes, and these really royal ones, there were from sixty to seventy compartments] for four or six persons more which, under the samo ambitious name of boxes imade up the otherwise quite beautiful balconytencir- cling the house between the two mag- nificent prosceniums. Now as we Jive, to speak with MecAllister, the great prophet of all the Naw York Allahs of the McFlimsdy Jdenomina- tion, in a country demdératic up to the very top of its social ladder, it became one of the splendid proscenium bowers, soon o very painful thing to be out- shone almost to annihilation by the beatified holders of the latter in point of sitting amenities and especially of chance for dress show and other per- sonal exposure. The evil grew with every season till no other way could be found out of such a state of "injustice, monopoly and absolutely un-Ameri discrimination in favor of a few against the many than todo away entirely with the Academy. The prompt consequence of this con= viction was the formation of the Mot~ ropolitan Opera House company and the erection of the Metropolitan opern house in a surprisiogly short time and in the exact style of the Milanese la Scala, in the three or four box tiers, of which one box is just as big, just as richly furnished and just as conspicuous as tho other. And, ndeed,in this respect the new opera house had been simply pertection from the first day of its existence had this state of absolute cemocratic equality of the seventy private boxes not induced their millionaire holders, or at least some of them. to make (hemselves con- spicuous by means not furnished by the house itself. The laughing, chatting and otherwise loud and unruly behavior during the performances on the sideof the daisies of New York uppertendom, which was as characteristic as odious a feature of the first two or three Metropolitan sea- sons, was the outcropof this new demo- cratic order of things and of the noble ambition to outdo, to outshine and es- pecially to outnoise each other even in a perfectly uniform sewting of surround- ings. But then also this lovely fad of New York highest life was at lust doomed to disappear. The humbler portion of the opera putrons soon asserted itself like- wise by stepping in aguinst this noisy nuisance. Paying their high admission prices they believed themselves to be here to enjoy Lehmann’s, Brandt's and Nicoman’s singing and not the vulgar and unmusical outbreaks of Fifth avenue insolence. Sothey simply revolted and after half a dozen, more or less, stormy episodes of protest from the parquet and the galleries, and once from the orchestra_leader, accompanied by a complete suproar of the whole house, the work of education had its way. And what an untramineled way If you witness today a “Goetterdaemerung®night youwill even after the most serupulots, review at the boxes concede that dozens of these beautiful peacebreakers of old ave at present advanced cnongh in mu; 1cal understanding as’ well asin well bred behavior to sit high up among the poor music teachers and music students of the fifth gallery, 'who, the painted scenes hefore them, are following in breathless rapture the revelations of the performance! If T spoke above of the finished new opera house as a fixed' monumental fact I certainly did not mefii to have applied the word *‘monumentil” in the sense of European theatres, with their classic outside@plendorand architectural glory, as shown by the Grande Opera at Paris, the Vienna “Kaiserlich Koenigliche the Opernhaus,” or that delightful Ber- lin ‘‘Schauspielhaus,” looking down with its Corinthic columps, architraves and statuary on the Schillerplatz of today like a stone dream of Praxitel’s time. Not that, to be sure. But the Metro- politan opera building is monumental enough for this country, where govern- ment and public purse” have not to do anything yet with the erection of art temples and therefore confine them- selves to building city halls, treasuries, asylums for the deaf and dumb, cap- itols and even _jails in the style of Iuropean theatres, and still more movumentul 1t rises in our esti- mation if compared to such American theater buildings as the old New York academy of music, the sight of which once [rightened Pauline Lucea nearly to fits, because it reminded the super- stitious but otherwise divine little woman so much of the Vicana smallpox hospi al. Or grand old Niblo’s on Broadway, looking with its street front like a brown stone ragout of restau- rants, drug stores, barber shops, billiard cellars und livery stables; not to speak at all of sucn abodes of Apollo and his nine divine damsels as our own New Grand ip dear Omaba, which long be- fore it advanced to the dignity of an opera house, i. e., when it was nothing but an exhibition barn, already showed all the beauties of a real barn! Yes, it was a memorable night in the history of New York’sart and society, that opeuning nighv ol the Metropolitan opera house in November, 1883, Around the big, detached building was a genuine stockade of carriages, surrounding it, and moving and shifting along on all sides. Inside a flood of light. In the boxes the most be-diamonded array of femule elegance and good laoks, with the in- evitable fair sprinkling of still more be- diamond ugliness, Evening toilets and evening dress everywhere, and the whole overflowing house pervaded by an atmosphere of rustling silk, curi- osity, pride to be there, mutual criti- cism, General Jacqueminet roses and general happiness. Then on the stage Gounod’s ‘‘Faust,” with Nilsson and Campanini, with a casket of genuine jewels for Marguer- ite’s jewel song, and among other scenic extravaganzas an 1nflamable Hower bed in Martha's garden, which, directly ordered from Paris, had:cost with cus- tom dues, $1,000 alon Nilsson and Cumpamni, then already in their decline, but, like all stars in the decline only 80 miore pretentious and exacting. It wasimot much less than 83,000 a night, %This Manager Abbey had to pay® | the half gone couple during this mbl memorable and still more ruinous first and last Italian season the Metro] 0 opera house had to witness, Forithese two were only a small fractiodiof the singing army he had imported“from Europe not only to open the new ‘great American opera house in as superb a wayas possi- ble, but also to fight Mapieson from* London, who at the same time still held the academy and that with no lesser attractions than Patti, then having just passed only her first twent&-fllth anni- versary as a singer, and Gerster just then hnvinf passed her first twenty-five years of life, and thercfore in the sweetest bloom of that voice of hers, the sweetest of them Hero a little list of Abbey's singing | Office S.E. farces—singing and drawing, if not im- mense house, at least immense salaries. Besides Christina Nilsson there was Lembrock, Valleria, Fursh-Madi and the two greatest Italian contraltos of the period, Trebelli and Salchi, Be- sides Campanii, and eclipsing him a good deal, the tenor Staguo, the bari- tone and basso Delpuente,. Raschman Mirabella and Castelmary, first-class and prized singers, whom had his share in tho artistic suc- cess and final crash, involving $250,000, of that memorable, even in its financial | failure, truly season of the new house. It is unnecessary to say that attersuch brilliant disaster the | the Metropolitan Opera House company were encountering a good barrassment when they b the question of the arr | second season. They entered into (DY AND THE COLISEUM i A London Contemporary on Buffalo metropolitan v directory of new directory of | o\ ye US FROM THE SACRILEGE d to confront ngement of the They tried everything. negotiations with uccessful Hamburg mana- sye in London and even with This Editor is Thorg for all box people who gould not_secure months before such keen op Cork, and then York with all his Patti’s and had broken down nearly as thoroughly as Abbey in New York. Everything in vain! The summer of “The engineers A. Marchesi and Carlo Stacchini have imag ned of or- ganizing some great festivals in the Coliseum next May. construct in the Coliseum a number of souts for every board over the center to its proper level. Then to arrange horse races, Roman representations, and performe ances with Buffalo Bill's company,which is to be 1n Rome by that time. As will be seen the style of English employed on that journal of the City of | incongruity would be extreme. If Buf- the Cwmsars is somewhat unigue. ) Commenting on ihe proposed exhibi- | seum, what a vista of possit tion in the Coliseum the London Tele- gravh says: “‘Itis, we are told, the ‘cherished | historic edifices, from Stonehengo to wish’ of Buffalo Bill to appear with his } Westminster Abbey troupt in the Colisoum. As far as can [ indeed. It is, however, to be hoped that be gathered, this chorished wish mains still in the stage of a pious aspir- | not be allowed thus to get the start of ation which has as yet received no | his rivals, and toi t promise of fulfilment; but the London | ambition, to use a phrase with which correspondent of a proviucial contem- | his countrymen have generously on- porary who gives currency to the revort riched our lang is unable to say anything more definite | ter.” The author of the report from to the contrary than that ‘he trusts it | which we have just quoted concludes will not be realized.” statoment of the case would almost sug- | Rome must prevent this s X gest the belief that Colonel Cody is act- | the statement that ‘Buffalo Bill aud his ually in treaty for t 1884 had meanwhile “Luockenbuesser” German opera, or to put it more exact with Wagner, who, Wagner fostival in the spring of 1884, Thomas, and with such interpreters of Beyreuth—full in blood as Materna, Siaria and Winkelman, the most unheard of triumphs Philadelphia, Cincin- nati and Chicago. At the last moment the directors took hold of Dr. Lrlmld of the great Wagner prophets in country, and equally famed in Germany as in America, as a music ical tender of the yery first ovder. was August the fatherland to get together all the obtainable material to a season, journe ch, another out the gap ying before them with as good German opera as could be furnished and meanwhile to give them ample time to make their preparations for a new Italian deemed it then, to a glorious return to the only style of operatic ment worthy of their money and of ical standard. man opera took possession of the great Metropolitan and American opera house, victorious, imperious.irre- its first dashing eounds, not to give up its hold neither.upon the cal evidences of great millionaire stock- their low mu municipality 18 wa ! $ ;: ceptance and refusal of some glittering ~ tion, and receive the latter with v_(}mm— offer on the part of their temp i “Our age is perhaps not spe markable for rey ] v the great American people are conspic- | trust that he will fail to obtnin the one uous for that quality among all the na- | that he is trying for in Rome. The tions of the earth. Thore have,before | Western cowb sistible from most refined musi New York nor these holders, and to preserve it until now the sixth glorious German season of the Metropolitan, of which I hove to be al- lowed to speak 1n a secoud letter. ing the disastrous project of holding the- | seum is not exactly the place for him, atrical representations of the Roman | 88 we hope he will be promptly and very games on the sacred spot in question. | decidedly told.” Nevertheless, we can hardly imagine - that the correspondents’ anticipatory protest against the indecent proposals of which he has notitied us will go un- echoed. A pretty general response ought to be given to the declaration that an arena ‘saturated with the blood of Christian martyrs is toc an exhibition of this class. ‘the bare idea of the Old Kentucky | cellent interpretation of the play may be coach careering round the is enough to fill one with horror. only cause of anxiety we is to be found in the possibility that the municipal authorities may have already become so demoralized by their own past deaiings with the sucred spot in uestion us to be indifferent to the slender remains of sanctity which they have left to it. ‘*‘Antiquarian investi- gation,’ so called, hasaiready done so much to desecrate it that it may per- haps be regarded as a not un- fitting field by this time for the evolutions of the colonel’s troupe. The cowboy,afterall,might not be much worse than the archwological ‘sapper’ who has been allowed to work his will for years past upon this seed plot of Christianity watered with the blood of the faithful. Excavations, by which antiquarian science has added little if anything of novelty to its already accu- mulated stores of knowledge, have ef- fected changes in the external uspect of A ) ax the venerable arena which those famil- GHILDREN s iar with the appearance that it pre- sented for centuries to the pious pil- grim from every quarter of Christen- dom can never cease to regret. The motive, however, with which these changes have been made was, if & mis- take, a respectable one, and the descent from it to the instinct to which Buffalo Bill is appealing, apparently 1n expec- tation of success, would be deplorabie indeed. No doubt the municipality of Rome might make a ‘good thing’ - — KING ALOOHOL. The School Children Have a Foor Opinion of Him. It 18 the practice of the principals of the Omaba public schools during periodical ex aminations to call for .written answers to questions propounded alike to pupils in any given grade. young idea to shoot without aid, orto cause them to exercise ndependent thought upon a given subject. Recently a question was given out asking pupils to state the cffects of alcokiol upon the human system. Frow the replies made the following have been picked at random: It is a very bad habit to get into, to drink any kind of liquor, because there is alcohol 1f you zet a drop of alcohol 1 your eye it o4 and smart, and if you driuk alcohol it will have the same cffect on the When you drink through the lining of the blood ‘vessels and come out in the skin, -and_the skin will look d. If you drink alcohol it will muke extra work for the heart, and at last it cannot do even what it aid at first and will fail to do hat. Q.—Give three evil effects of alcohol. It makes pimples and blotches all over the nose and lungs. The peovle who drink all the time, thewr stomach is not like ours. You can tell a man who drinks by looking which is always red. be a vagabond, People drink slconol to keep from using It makes a man fightable, It makes him lose his sole. Q.—Tell something that may bappen to us besides drunkennes if we use alcohol. Alcohol affects the brain, It will hurt our nerves. If we drink alcohql it will nurt our bFain; 1t is just as bud as drunkennass, It will make you dizzy and sick. It will give you te neadache, will eat your insides u takes the blood from your heart. you. A man’s mouth gets lathery and it gets showman’s proposal. The *Wild Wes the Coliseum’ would form a most attrac- tive announcement on a ‘poste entertainment could hardly fail to ‘draw.” To a cer deed, the notion of the ‘Old Kentucky’ coach careering around the grand old ruin jwould have a piguanc; The admivers of a recent effort of Transatlantic ‘humor’ who have heen tickled by the adventures of the *Yankee at the court of King Arthur’ wouid doubtless enjoy the association of the cowboy and the Christian martyr; and the services of Mark lately handled with such exqusite face- tiousness the noblest legend of chivalry ore. You will be arrested and put in jail, Q.—How does alconol affect the nerves? "L'ie eficct alcohol does to the nerves is maukes us nervous ana you will get sick and dream that burglars are in the house und they are murdering you. Tt will birn the stomels up, It causes treamers and by and by you ean’t hold anything. 1t cooks the brain, It makes people nervous, weok and lazy. It cooks the nerv Almost equally dire seem to be the effects ome of which are thus set forth: Tobacco hurts the lungs and teeth wrotten. Makes your breath smell, Pobaceo is & mean thing: peoplo and some it don’t, Tobacco rots your tecth insides out. Tobacco is for men to chew; we should It hurts some appropriatel all, however, we may hope that the vul- gar Simuginations and childish under- standings which can be amused by such brutal high-jinks are even in this era limited in number, and beyond that comparatively restricted circle they could provoke nothing but disgust. *The new experiment in sensational- ism which the ingenious Colonel Cody is said to be attempting is capable, it will be at once perceived, of extended application. He had aimed high at the outget, it iy true; and, if he had his way in this instance, he could perhaps score no subsequent success which would not How does tobacco affect the braint 1t makes 1t weak aud you don’t hardly re- member anything. . 1t stuns the brain. When & person uses tobacco it affects their brain because their jaws are always moving. A speciman of the species of acacia com- monly called the -angry tree was brought from Australia and set out at Vireina, Nev. When the sun sets the leaves fold up and the tender twigs coil tightly, like a little pig's hoots are handled rustle and move uneasily for a time, queor plant 18 moved from one pot to another itseems nnery and the leaves stand out in all directions like quills on a porcupine. most pungent and sickening od: 1 savour somewhat of an anti-climax. The rlm‘n which ho covets for his new ‘piteh’ is no doubt uni i We mignt look in ¥ Land—which, moreover, has bven npe propriated as a ‘pitch’ by Dr, Talmage “for any spot 8o signally hailowed at once by secular and by religious nsso- ciations as the Colisoum. Still there are many other places in the world which are held sacred in their several deogrees by the reverence of humanitvy and the showman with an eye to busi- ness will soon bave that eye upon them all. [n Greeco and Egypt, in many of the seats of ancient Rome power, in our own country, and scattered here and there over the continent of Furope an abundance of such spots are 10 be found, Temples of an extinct wor- Bil's Latest Projaot. hiv Aroused by the Audacious Irreverence of A ricans and the Witd West Snow. Thinks Americans Irreverent, Tiie BEE is in receipt of a copy of the | ship, cathedrals of a living faith, time- Rome Herald containing the following { worn palaces and fortrosses of vanished 10amy orof still ‘enduring empiros oxist in goodly number throughout the civilized world, and might with great advantage to the ‘bosses’ of various shows be hired for the class of entertainments to which they are bost suited—here for the per= formance of a popular pulpit orator, there for the display of ‘daving eques- trian acts, and thece again for the ex hibition of the wondersof the ‘traveling museum.’” The takings in the way of A gate-money would in each onse be evitably large, and the satisfaction af« forded to the modern love of profane Their idea is to y class of spectators and to falo Bill succeeds in hiring the Coli- lities will open before the emulous gaze of Mr, Barnum. The competition for our own eligible outdoor sites,or commodious should become keen the master of the Wild West show will nspire them with the age, of ‘going ono bot- own suko lege,’ and So guarded a | with the remurk that ‘for he © hire of the Fla- | troupe will probably appear in London and that the Rowan | tnis season once more.” We gladly ac- vering between ac- | cept the omen of the former anticipa- 1 amphitheate imity. Buffalo Bill may return, he ally re- | likes, and can sccure it, to his old rence, any more than [ ‘pitch’ at Earl’s court; but we sincerely y is an interosting public moreover, been ominous broach- | performer, and may be in many cases from time to . time of | worthy man in private life; but the Coli~ The Clio Dramatic Club. The Clio Dramatic club, tho leading insti- tution of the kind in the ci will give its secona theatrical entertainment at Washicg- 101 hall next W ednesday evening at 8 o'clock. 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