Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 18, 1891, Page 10

THE ————————————————————————————————————— ILLUMINATING CITY STREETS, | Comparison Made Between American and European Systems, QUESTION OF MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. Victor Roscwater Presents § In- From Pers Abroad-— teresting Facts Drawn wonal Obscrvations Water Works Monopoly, te. Oct. 15, Br.| Special - Corro It the dirty condi York utbract pat- sstomed to the an cities, provents New Youk, spondence of T tion of the streots of Now tloular notice of a traveler ac much cleaner pavements of Eurof the fact that poor street lighting him frem sceing the filth at nignt will not bave a tendency to change his impressious for the botter. While the city government pays out vast sums annually to the gas and electric lighting corporations, enabling them to pay hugh dividends upon stock watered to several times the original investment, these companies manage to furnish the stipulated number of lights, but to furnish them in such quality as toleave the city 1n a condi- tion of dusky darkness, Tho lamps are s0 dirty that rays from alight of much better quality would still have great difficulty in penetrating the glass, On thosc streets which are illumined by electricity, the stato 8% affairs is little better. Instoad of having adiffused dimness from pumerous gas lamps, the infrequency and the distance between the electric lights gives alternating intervals of dense darkuess separated by short spaces of passable i lumination. 1t must be said that London is not illumin- ated at nights as weli as it might be, although beside it New York would be but & shadow. Loudon is supplied with gas by private cc porations, Many companies formerly com peted for tho trade, but they have in recent vears veen consolidated into three companies which divide territory. In this London is an exception to the usual rule among British citles which have for the most part retained the gas mononoly under direct controlof tho municipal _suthorities, Kverywhere the change to the system of public ownership is considered a greatimprovement and in Birm- ingham a monument has been erected to Hon..Joseph Chamberlain, pledging bim tho overiasting gratefulnesss of the peoplo for his efforts in the acquisition of the city gas works. Llectric Lights aro scarce London. Some ascribe the dolay i their in- troduction to unfavorable legislation com- pelling the companies to sell their piant at an appraised valuation after the expiration of a limited number of years, to comply with strict regulations and to lay all wires under ground and weil insulated. ~ Whatever be the cnuse, electricity as a means of ilumination is just beginning to enter tho field. C tracts have been made for public street light- ing and the construction of the plautis well under way. When completod, quite a change is expected in the mocturnal aspects of London streets. Here as in tho other large cities of Kurope, the employ- ment of incandescent lamps in private build- ing and houses is rapidly gaining headway, The St. Pancras vestry, a thickly settlod rosudence district of London, is now complet- ing its electric lighting installation. It bas taken advantage of the electric lighting act allowing municipalities to conduct their own plauts and promises to furnish its residents with the best existing light at prices cover- ing only the cost of production, Paris is very well lighted. On the boule- vards, the business thoroughfares and in the most 'frequented districts. little more could bo aesired. The sureots are lined on both sides with thickly planted lamp posts. And these lamp posts aro tipped with transparent globes, constantly kept clean. Some have three arms and few are supplied with less than two jots each, in most cises with three and four lights apiece. But there are many out-of-the-way places in Pars which are dimly lighted by a few scattering lamps. “There is little illumination by electricity. T'o be sure, the first practical exporiment in street lighting by arc lamps was made in Paris at the timeof the exposition in 18759, but the increase in the number of elec- tric lights since then has becu ex- tremely slow. The few arc lamps cmployed are found wainly in the “hotel district.” "~ [n street illuminations, as in many other things, the Parisians content themselves with mak- ing a greut display in a limited oxtent of ter- ritory. The companies furnishing gas and electricity are keptunder strict regulation by the municipal authorities, ‘Lho streots of Vienna are fairly lighted, Sowme use of electric are_lamps is made, but the chief illumination is by meaus of gas lamps. Berlin is probably the best lighted motropo- lis in the world. The authorities do not con- fine their efforts to the districts occupied by the higher classes, but devote particular at- tention to tue less favored portions of the city. Tho municipality owns and conducts its own gas works and is not atall sparing in the use of the product for public purposes. The frequency of the lamps with mwultiple jots shows that thorough illumination is the main point kept in view. This does not mean that the works ure not economically man- aged. Quite the opposite is true; for while the private consumers are supplied at u very low price, it is chiefly from the profits on tho sale of gas und water that the large annual surplus accrues to the city. Eleotricity is more extensively employed for street lighting in Berlin than in_other European caj Yet, being supplied by privat companies, the electric lamps are comparauvely wore ex- pensive than as, wud consequently fined in use to the points of great- est trafic. In Berlin the candescent lamp is rapidly gaining ground and its introduction into private residences is groatly promoted by the artistic forms in which it 1s being adapted for chandeliors and various decorations, Of other brauches of municipal administra- tion the supoly of water is genoraliy through- out Burope 1u the hands of the city authori- ties. Here again London forms an oxcoption and its mhabitants suffer the incouvenience o high charges by eight unaccommodating pri- vato companies. The quality is exceedingly Foor and the supply always short. The num- ©erous companics refuse to sell out to the city except at an exorbitant price, much higher than would be the cost of duplicating the present plant. Paris, on the other hand, owns its water works, but leases tho opera- tion to a private corporation under conditions favorable to the city. The purity und abund- arco of the public water supply of Vienna has spread the fame of that city as one of the fow places where such liquid is fit to drink, In Berlin, too, under its effective muunicipal government, the water works leave nothing of which to complain. Iu the Unitea States the watersupply alone the various monopolistic sorvicos has been directly assumod to any con- siderablo extent by the municivalities. 9'nat field i New York was fora long time given over to private parties out the city was forced by necessity to itselt undertako the work. And of the various branches of this corrupt city government, the water de- partment is loast subject to public condemna- tion. New York is not alone in the municl- pal ownership of waterwork; the same pro- cess of acquisition has taken' place with per- haps two exceptions, in every other Ameri can city of any importance and the move- ment is continually spreading to the smaller population conters. n one thing, it must knowledged, Now York lea the other side. 'T'his is in the the members of its police force. For size and general atbleto build, the motropolitan “finest” are unsurpassed. As to efMiciency, 1 unable to judge except from au exhibi- ton of the ambulance service viewed in Hamburg which reflected no credit upon its organization in chat city. The police in Europe are differontly equipped from those lere. In London the only sign of authority 15 ® striped band on the coat sleeve; on the coutinent the men carry either loug sabres, pointod swords or short daggers. The American elub 1s nowhere to bo seen, The parks of New York are very credit- able but for a city of its size the number is Mltogother too limited. Abroad as here, svery city as one large park, the resorto the elite where gaily dressed riders and stuu- ning veblcles daily “make their appearance before an admiriug crowd of spectators. But London, Parisand Berlin aro also dotted with nutmerous smaller paris, affordiug frosh of be tairly ac- s the citles on appearanco of vorking people and play grounds e te ehiidren.: Tho various monuments to respected royalty, fallen heroes, or to pub- lie benefactors are usually placed in these parks or in frout of public bulldings. New York may not have occasion to ereot as many monuments s other cities, but thoso which sho has, are sadly deficient in point of oratene wali us in artistic besuty. we consider the rate at which the Wasking: ton arch is rising, or at which the funds for the Grant memorial are being eathered, a long time wil elapse beforo this city can in- vite comparison on this point But this side of the Atlantic has still a few objects from which the Earopean may learn something, Our public buildings may be fewer and simpler, but our private buildings for offices and stores are not yet equailed elsewhero. For sulidity of construction and adaptabiiity to the purposes intended, for- cigners must look to this country. The buildings erected by American lifo insurance companies in Vienna, Berlin and other cities have led the way and are now the finest private structures in those lnoe Few buildings in Europo b i scarcely any more nlors vi not been ally introdu 1 and are available oul s largest hotels and most recently built structures. The construction and height of buildings abroad aro under the strictest reg ulatio in Austria every liouse in the coun. tey is rogistered and numbered, even to the allest villages and no alteration or new coustruction of any importance is allowed until the plans have been approved by public authority. In Berlin tho height of buiidings apsolutely rostricted to 70 feet or less, gri d arcording to the width of the stre ‘There are somo advantages in this inasmich as tho streots prosent & more uni- form and solid appearance nor aro structures of ordinary heightovers lowed and dwarfed by neighboring sky-seraping towers. Wheu 1t comes to stores and window displays those here are ally more elaborate and at tractive. Tho business of Europe is for tho most part carried on in small shops which exhibit their ontire stocks in_the show win- dows, Yet a beginning is being made in the larger cities whero the great institutions of Sixth avenue and of 1'wenty-third street are boing copied in the grand magazinos many of which have branches in all the leading cities of the countrics in which they are located. “The people of Europo may b slow in copy- ing American customs but the charge cannot well bo reversed. The numver of storesin New Yorks elling exciusively imported articles 18 constantly increasing. The length of time required for London and Paris fashions to reach this side of the Atlantic is becoming shorter and shorter. | was surprised on walking up Fifth avenue the other day to hear repeated blasts of atrumphet, to seo a box coach drawn by four horses tear down the street, to gaze upon the footman his portiy form clothed in the same red coat, his hair cutin the same English style as may hourly uo seen upon similar vehicles 1 the neighborhood of Trafalgar square in London. Most assuredly the tide of cosmopolitanism in fast flowing westward ! Vicror Rosewa HONEY FOK THE LADIES. Feather toques are shown with & muff to match. Many brown and greon offects appearin fancy featbers. Wings are medium 1 favor and breasts aro ignored. Spangles ara intel and fancy feathers. Nover beforo has jet boen so extensively used for milliery. With the oxception of hat pins, gilded jew- elry is not much in demand. Jet aigrottes, caboctons, fah-top pins, flies, butterflios, wings and tiny birds appear. t'ancy beaded side piccesand crowns shuw bonutiful designs carried out in beads and spangles. Fancy foathers aro shown in_largo quanti- ties and can safely be promisod as good through the fall and winter. I"ine short heads in ostrich tips are used in elegant trimming offects. Buckle effects are noticed in jet and steel, also in Rhinestones and _broochies of moon-~ stones are set in apparent diamonds. White satin or repped silk is suitable for tho wedding dress of a bride of twenty years. A prospective bride should use the initial of her maiden name on household linen. A tulle_veil envelopes a bride so becom- ingly that 1t is often preferred to the shorter veil of lace, Gathored flounces, rose ruches, cabbage pleatings and battlemented edges trim the foot of many dress skirts, though some of the richest gowns are quite plain. Mrs. Cowley: But what is woman? one of nature's agreeable blunders, Very protty are some of tho spum wool shawls in finest laco patterns, which, though amole in sizo, weigh next to nothing, their warmth, however, being out of all proportion to their ' lightness. These shawls are hardly less gossauier-like than a cobweb, and might, irom their marvelous delicacy, have been manufactured by fairy fingers. ‘The fashion journals say that a new shode of green is a favorite in Paris. [t probably will not match the shade of green in the en- vious eyes of the woman who can’t afford to have any of it. The new Venetian brown of a deep reddish tint_ appears among the handsome dress fabrics of silk velvetand ladies’ cloth this season. Picturesquo and pretty sleeves of silk or velvet again appear upon imported dresses of India_cashmere, camel's hair and silk of varied sorts. Buttons are considerably used as garni- ture. On tho skirt thoy are put on as obyious fastonings to some joining or overlappiug of seams, and on tho basques and coats in noat rows with a uniforia offect. Breid is arranged in a single row or a suc- cession of festoons or bunches like loops of ribbon, or in the daring “*bowkno¥" pattern which ' dominates overything. ‘“These bow- knots are spaced with a connecting undulat- ing row of braid, apparenty to bola them tozether. New mixed with embroideries Only princesse dresses for youthiul wearers are made with the waist-portion closely fitted and veaching ouly half the lougth of the ordiuary bodice, the corsago boing very much liko a” peasant-waist, with guimpo and full sleeves of somo other mu- orial. In trimming protty house dresses this season, modistes aro using velvet ribbon as flat borderings, in the form of Greek kovs, squares, blocks, points in graduated leugths, and in plain rows. Silk braid the samo color as tho dress, plain or mixed with metal threads or dotted with cabochons, are inex- pensive and effective trimmings, 'ho oil of white birch bark, which gives to Russia leather its poculiar aromatic and lasting qualities, when dissolved in alcohol, issaid to boexcellent for preserving and waterproofing vavious fabries. [t renders them both acid and insect proof, and in no way destroys their pliability, otticoats for winter use are handsomer than usual. Very rich stuffs in plain and figured satin, black, cream, gray aud Indian ved brocade, also sill and wool materials,are utilized. Black satin or surah skirts, linod with fancy strived fannels, are Jull in the back, closely gored on the front and sides, and trimmed in rows of rose pleating in plain ruches, or mixed with black lace. Ribbons of all kinds are n high favor wide or narrow, satin, silk or velvet, the lat- tor being tho nd west and most proferred. A favorite way of arranging ribbon on a waist is in what is called an X. A ribbon about two or two and a half inches wide is brought round tho waist to the front, whero it is crossod, brought back again undor the arms, and up 1o the conter of the neck, where the two sides meet and aro fastenod down by littie ohou, being fluatly brousht round to the front of tho ueck, where they finish in a knot according to taste. e e RELIGIOUS, The hymn ‘‘Coronation” was writton by Oliver Holden at Charleston, Mass., nearly 100 years ago. Mr. Spurgeon is spending his period of convilescence at Eastbourne, ou the const of Sussex, Kngland The [udianapolis minister who has beon predicting the end of the world in ten years has boen asked to rosign bis charge. Iudiana peoplo wish to postpono the hereafter as long as possible. According to statistics propared by Rev. Frank Russell, secrotary of the Presbyterian Sunday School association of New York, there are i the Sunday schiools of the world 20,073,505 mombers, and more than half of these are in the United States. The Moraviaus are actively engaged in mission work, having had in the field sinco 172 about 2,500 missionaries. At present they have 400 missionaries in active servico. Ac dine to the Moravian manual thore wre 2 members of that church. Thero are about 3,200,000 Presbyterians in tand. There are 1,630 places of worstip ction with the Church of Scotland, in connection with the OMAHA DAILY United Presbyterian church more thun ono church for each 1,000 of popu lation, Now that the Georgin Episcopalians must try again to securo a bishop, it is thought that Dr. Cailor of Tennesseo will azain be chosen, though the Rev. Chauncey Williams of Augusta is also much talked of. The diocesan convention meets at Macon on November 11 The Episcopai bishop of Delaware took a walk of 3i5 miles, roughly clad aud with no insigmia of his business about him. Some people took him for the advance agent of w circus, others for a moonshine detective, others thought him a crook, and some drove him from their promises with dogs. 'I'he bishop thinks he has found several things out, chief among which is that o man isn't ssarily bad if he doesn't wear good clothes, The first woman ordained in America was a gradunte of theology at Oberlin forty years ago, Tho statistios as to the full nutiber of women ministers aro somewhat defective The Soctety of Friend has about 350, the Universalists_about the Disciples of Christ 43, ne Free-Will Baptists, the Primitive Methodists and the Protestant Meothodists have ordained women on a small scale. Amone the Unitarians several women proachers have already become quite famous, e CONNUBIALITLE Let him be dark as Iithiops are, The not impossible He, Or fair as Norseman from afar, This son of Destiny. Let him be monstrous tail and spare, Who shall my heart control, Or even short and somewhat square, He yot shall own my soul. But, O sweet Cupid ! him b No titled foreign man, But ono of our nobilicy '~ A straight Americ A “tough’ tonder—The offer of a slugeer's hand in marriage. A feature of tho Portland (Ore.) exposition was the marriaze of two coupies in the p 1co of 12,000, Tio parties aro popular eve where. Saturday evening Kugene Hector of the Chicago Tribune and Miss Alta McNorton of Greencastle, Lud., wero united in marriage in Chicago. She—You say that my consenting to marr you has made vou verv happy. He—Yos You see whut a simple thing it takes to make me happy. ‘Tho warriage of Miss Bossic Webb, tha daugzhter of General and Mrs. Alexander S. Webb, to Mr. (ieorge Parsons, will bo ono of the importaut of the Novembar coramonios in New York. At the old-fashioned. homelike residence of x-Governor Bedle, fronting on Van Vorst park, Jersey City, on the evening of October 14, Miss Althca Randolph Bedle and M Adoipho Rusch were married. One of the attractions at the Ottumwa (Towa) coal palace a night or Lo ago was a wedding. A marriage ceremony in a coal palace would scem to be unpleasautly sux gostive of coal bills—not ono of the least of The annoyances of domestic existence. She—You are not half as interesting as thought you before we married. He—And you are not balf as beautiful as I thougnt you. She—It's a good thing that neither of u1s hias mouey enough to live apart, isn't it} Ho—Yes; we ought to congrawulato our- selves. Novelists and poets will have to revise their rhapsodies on “the leafy month of June' ns the season wben lovers build boy ers und woo the hymeneal deity. The crown that Juno has so long worn_as the wedding month has been transferred to autumn-hued October. The columns of the newspapers are filled with accounts of society events in which aring, two young people and a clerzyman are the predominating foatures. A marriago and the death occurred in a Somerville (Mass.) home on Tuesday last. The groom_wns Mr. Louis P. Rollins of Brooklyn, N. Y., and_his brido was Miss Kate 1. Norcross. Sho was on her death bed at tho time, and ton hours afterward sho was a corpse. Miss Norcross had been sick a week with pneumonia, and when 1t was known that she had not long live, her lover was summoned by tolegraph and reached her vedside that night. ~When told that she could not_recover, Miss Norcross insisted upon an immediate marriage. A marriage license was procurad and as the church bells tolled the hour of 3 thu brief servico was onded, and tho bonds were sealed which were Soon to bo broken. Then her will was drawn, ond, though sho was growing weaker she signod it with a mind pertectly clear and a hand which seemed to gain strength and steadiness for that special purpose. Tho will was witnessea by the clergyman, the physician and an_attondant. [t ‘mves the most of hor prsperty, reported to be worth not far from $100,000, to- Mr. Rollins. Tho remaimdor goes to Charlston (Me.) academy. Dr. Birney curos catarch Bee bl - SOMIZNOT£D MEN. As Colonel William R. Morrison's terw of servico on the imterstate Commerce Commis- sion expires in December, the president will soon need to make three appolntments to that board. Governor Boies of Towa is a broad shouldered man of 64 years. He has a ruday, smooth shaven face, a hearty manuer and a leasing voice. He is a native of the stato of New York, und like the regulation poo boy in_search of fortune started west with ouly a few cents i his pocket, Ten years ago Bernard Forst was a_olerk in o mon’s furnishing goods store in Bradford, Pa. He dabbled in oil speculation, gavo him: self up to it, threw aside his_logitimato bus ness and is today o millionaire. Forst 1s one of the owners of the “McDonald gushor,” which produces, it 15 said, $4,500 worth of il a day. Webster Planagan, who grew famous by asking one simple littie question, and is now the collector of the port of EL Paso, is a small wan of florid faco, blue eyes and brown hair. He is an excellent lawyer, a shrewd busiuess- man and possessed of very engaging manyers. His father was a republican senator from ‘Lexas, Charles H. Allen, the republican candidato for governor of Massachusetts, isa youug man who affects oye-glasses and dressos in the height_ of fushion. Ho is a favorito in society. His business is thatof a lumber dealer. President Dill, in_jail Cloarfield, Pu., bank, preacher, but he left the mi try to go into financial matters on his mau ing a wealth woman. ke should have stuck to his text. Parucll, it ono may believe the Boston obo correspondent, loved and sought in morriage a Providence girl twenty years ugo, but her stern father, a millionaire by the way, would not approve of the match, as th suitor was withouta calling. The Irishman affeetion wus reciprocated and the separation Drought SOrrow Lo two hearts. Secretary Blaine is very proud of the suc coss achioved by his eldest son, Bmmons, who has just been appointed assistant to the president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, with general chargo of tho wostern depari ment of the road. Secretary Blaine has never overed from the shock of his son Walker's death, but bis pride now enters in his eldest son. Rubsnstein, the composer, is a man of strik- ing apperance. He has & massive head, brond brain, aud heavy hair, in whien there is not a single gray thread, aespite bis uge— 62 years, Asagood foeder ho has few su poriors, He speaks English fluently, and is always happy to meet Americans. Osman Pasba, the hoe) of Plevna, has been located as u seuler in tho kiteten of the sul tan of Turkey. His peculiar business is to seal all the disties for the sultau’s table as soon us they are propared, und thus, secure aguinst poison, they arc carried inta the royal dining roow and tho seals broken only in the sultan’s presence Dr. Hayes Agnew of Philadelphia und Dr. Robert Reyburn of Washington are the only two physicians surviviog of the notable staff of modical men who tried to save Garfield's life. Dr. Reyburn took voluminous notes of the caso und is preparing to publish them. eneral Booth, the Salvation v com wander, whoso authority extends over 1,000, 000 soldiers, 1s a loose jolnted and rather awk ward wan of mediam height. Ho is angular and narrow chested, but the possessor, neyer- theless, of great physical vigor. His oyes are dark and piercing, and au iron gray beard falls in profusion over bis chest. His hauds are large and remind the observer of the ty pi- cal horny hands of the soun of toil. General Booth is now 62 years old, sod for forty yoars ho has been preaching the gospal. Ho is & man of great earuestuess aud forco, aud sooms outirely devold of sham and proten- tiousuess for wrecking tho wus formerly - - Dr. Birney cures catarrh. Bee bldg. BEE., SUNDAY. OCTOBER 18, THW T HEATERS, 1<umm~..~ln.uu17 till Tuesday ovéhih will present her comody, Boyd's uow thoater. A modern piay that runs four years prist have something in its especlally a farce_comedy of the kind “‘Star- light'" 1, The “tMaunce that farce comedy offers is in the variaty of forms the attractive features may assume, Other plays hav been carried” by a constant change of the business: sometimns one character has been the best, sometimes anothor, and tho skeleton s romained the semo. With frequenv changes of Miss ‘Jirbeau’s spoecialties the in- troduction of notw music and the addition of nev business to suit o new comedian, “‘Star- ght'" has gone oh'Tor four years, still stead ily adding to MiesrJarbeau’s popularity and fortune. A good deal of the success has ome from the pleasant relations that have e maintained between the star and her company, Miss Jarbeau herself is hard working and_entuusiastic, and she is most liberal in affording opportunitios to any mom ber of her company of special avility, has always kept her peoplo up to tho samo point of interest in their work, which is more than half the battle in maintaining pubiic favor, Tuose who remember ‘Starlight” last season will scarcely be ablo to recognizo it now. evening and continuing g, Miss Vernona Jarbeuu “Starlight,” at The ways of tho theatrical managor are many and devious, but the method hit the management of A, W, Fremont in advertise the presontation of that num cally named play at the Farnam street tho: ter just about reaches the apex aimed at by all lntter-day theatrical boome: The scheme is this: Noext Monday at4 p. m. ten mam- moth balloons will ascend from the roof of the theater. Attuched to each balloon will be an order culling for two box soats at any per formance during the engagement. Of cour: those who get next to the batloon when it strikos earth will bo bappy. The play is the story of Conviet No. 7i7, wrongfully nccused of crime, and convicted on his sweetheart's testimony, the girl being duped by the de signine villamn. Thore is a realistic scone in a gambling house wi a very startling wind- up, and a prison scene that 15 well staged aud | wall work out. It is just sensational enough to please, and the story is well told, while the plot 1s complicated nnough for the most fas tidious lover of deep, durk plotting Churles Hoyt's most legitimate success, *A Midnight Bell,” which bis wou great praise of mauy conservative erities whoare not given the autnor's farce-comedies, returns to Boyd's new theater next T'hu e ing for three mights with the or groat cast and new and claborate scenery. s tho play has not been seen bere since its t presentation, carly iast seasou, the fol- lowing chavacteristic” exvlination by Mr. Hoyt, which ne styles “some_desuitocy talk from an unpreju 1 source,” way prove in- teresting 1o readers: +T'he author begs to te that this is a legitimate comedy. It is e comedy b 15e it is in four acts, omedies are always in three. 1t esontation will doubtless result in crip. 4s nany per night as does the ave furcc-comedy, but remember that it is in four acts and that it has a piot. It may be argued that it is not a strong plot; that it has not a particutarly interesting plot; but, on th o.her hand, it is a modern und unassuming plot_and it may serve the purpose of giving slight coherence to the proceedings. the author is not strenuous on the subject of s vlot. If, when the agouy is over, it has been founa that tho charactirs, scenes and_incidents have been presented in an amusing fashior, the author will be satis- fied and have no feeling regarding anything that may be sarl about the plot. “I'he story of tho play is laid in rural New England, aud the charactors and scenes aro tyical of the country. ‘TLe vlot deals with a bank robbery and the search for and capture of the thief, who turns out to be the cashicr, and who is caught through the innocent ef: forts of a church, deacon to extricate himself from the belfry fn which ne has been acci- dently imprisoned.” A recent eastern Gxchange says: “[ifteen thousand persons, one-third of them conviets, the rest the wives ov the children who are to accompany them, are now in Moscow await- 1 transportation 1o Siberia. As none have been sent since the new year, the number has beceme large. Dhey will g0 in parties of from 300 to 500. and il probably reach thoir destinution soon:?! - ('his news creasea interest in viaw of Mr. Georg nan’s Siberian lecture at the Grand opera house ono week from ext Tuesday eveuing, Mr. Kennan offors the choice of his two most popular lectures, *An Eastern Siberian Con- vict Mine,” and ' “Rassian Political Exile: In the former lecture he wears the. convict dress, and puts on the log-fetters, chains, etc., used in the punishment of political o tenders. The latter lecture is iilustrated with stercoptician views. Those proposing attending the lecture can oxpross their ferenco by addressing a postal card to W. I, Byrne, treasurer Grand opera house, ““The Dad Alive™ is a malodrama depict ing sceues from Kussinu life in a reahstic manuer. It will be preseuted this evening Germania hall by the Hebrew Europe Dramatic company. This will be the only nerformance. Popular prices will prev The doors will be open at 7 o'clock and the play will begin at s, Omaha music lovers aro familiar with the matchless nusic of Gilmore's band, ‘The an- nual visits of this great music-making organ- ization are looked forward to with pleasur This season Mr. Gilmore's band uumbers fifty musicians, including sixteen soloists, Musical ritics who have heavd all the great bauds of Europe, ciaim that Gilmore's band is cqual to thuse woroad. Mr. Giimore will givea programue of classic music and also of popular music. Besido the vand Mr. Gil- more brings with him 1 vocal 1sts, including Mr. Kronberg, celcbrated baritone of ~Boston. A ton newspaper is quoted to have recently made the following comment: “The prine pal features of the prozramme were notahly the vocal repertoiro contributed by Mr. S. Kronberg. Mr. Kronberg's seloctions werc ‘But Once Can Come the Hour, by Rob an aria, ‘Salve tezina, by Iayrs, and a song by Rooder. In these selections his superb baritono was heard at the delightiui advantage of his most musical mood, and_he frequently aroused the audicuce to a high pitch of enthusissm. ‘The artistic intelli- gence and expressive feeling of his delivery, bis unfailing trueness of tone, the refinenent and finish of his phrasing, and his distinet enunciation, were all greatly admired.” Gilmore's band will appear at the Coliseum Mon v, October 26, afternoon and evenin Reserved seats now on sale at Max Meyer's., Chatter ot the Stage. Buffalo Bill comes home in Januar “Puxedo” has made a bit in New York. Joo Jefferson will go buck to Rip Vau Winkle in 92, The Kondails have practic company as last year, Manager Sutchffe of the Grand opera house has returned from thy L. Miss Emma Vaggrs tas been engaged by H. T. Taylor for a term of five years Business has improved perceptibly with tho theaters the pist week, owing to” colder weather. k Tho “Abrabam Laicoln” company has re- coived the two weeks' notica which means another failure, /! Etta Hawldns dud William Morris of the original “Men und Women' company have been married. Henry irving hils/docided to come to this country next season.” Can’t ho be induced to come to Omahat | ¢ Fred Wright, who is here ahead of the “Midnight Boll" 1 bastiog about for a play and has eyes on \“Fhe Old, Old Story. Blancho Marsden; the daughter of the late Frederic Marsden, has sold 4 comedy to Mat thews & Smyth fof next season’s produc- tion, Fry Leander Richardson is about to pfulish the Coicago Dramatie News. a sort of aux illiary to the Now York paper of the same name George . Ulmer's wal Volunteer,” after a brief two nights, has given up the ghost 10 its ashes. “Jave! will Square theater, vember, when it will Trip o Chivatown,’ & run, Hoyt's atrical att ally the same play called ““T'he but exeiting run of Peace remain _at Hoyv's Madison ew York, until late in No bo withdrawn for tidnight Bell” is one of the the actions that is gIving the greatest satisfaction wherever pisved this season. “'A Midnight Boll” is booked at Boyd's New Theatre for Thursaay, Friday and Saturday Paolo Pavesich, the fresco artist who dec orated Boyd's theater, returued from a trip to the Pacitic coast last week. Ho is hesi tating as to whethor ho will make Chicago or Portiand bis home, Both places, he says, bold out big Inducoments. “A Country Circus,” another of the home She | which will be put on for™ 1891-SIXTEEN PAGES dramas, will be first made known tomorrow night at the Walnut Stroet theater, I’hila- delphia. The piece 15 owned by Jerome | Eddy, editor ot Eddy's Squib, Maro Klaw, . B. Jofforson, A. L. Erlanger. | Dunlop's Stage News, an invaluable jour- { nal to the manager and dramatic editor, has | outered upon & now volume and seemiugly neyw lease of life. Dunlov has been wonde fully succossful with his petite journal of { dramatio doings, and what is still more to the pdint, desorves it. Jobn F. Hurloy, genoral agont for Rich & and Harris, who control the tours of Jamos | . Powers'in “A Straight Tin," *I'ixedo,” | and George Thatcher's minstrels and *‘Boys | and Girs,” was in tho city Thursday to | make the Pacitic const railroad arrangements | for Mr. Powers and **A Straight Tip” com- | pany. Thoy go west via the Union Pacific, | retirning to Omaha in D ecomber to fill an | engagement. | TIhe theater used to be the resort of think- { ing peoplo when there were no newspapers, | no magazines and few books. Then it “was an intellectual conter. Posts produced thoir poetry; philosophors mado plays the nedium for their noblost thoughts. But now that thinking peoplo have & hundro other intellectuul resorts, tha theater has become mainly a place of amusement, and, if the public is ot amused by a play, they will 1ot o to 500 it. The new theater in Pittsburg has tiled with onyx and a gallery containing 600 pictures, Tho nowel posts at the stairways are surmounted with bouquets of electric flowers, A reception parlor is completoly covered with decorations, furnished with satin, plush, gold and vevoled plate, tiled with onyx and hung with remarque etchings. There ave 1,22 eloctric lignts on the stige, and seats for 2,500 people in frontof it lvery soat is two feet wide, and the rows ro @ yard apart, The ushers are ten boys in Ppages’ costumo. An evert occurred at Portland theat says the Press, Saturday might that was not >wi on the bills. Tho unfortunate vietim, innocent of the crime, is wrestiing with his emotions prior to the horrible end he ex- pects. The prison doors are thrown open of a sudden and_the officors appenr to load bim to the guillotine. In the agony of his approaching fate the prisoncr cries out, “You shall’ not lead me to my death,” or s to thav effect. The audiénce on'this sion was spollbound, but as tho actor shrieled out, these words' o spectator in the lery, wro up to the highest tension sang out in_toues that_echood through the theater: “No! I'll be d—d if they shall ! “The following American dramatic author uvited by Sydnoy Rosenfeld to attend and Read’s” performance of Mr. Losen felds comody, “The Club Friend,” at tho Star theator, New York, the other night Bronson Howava, Augustus Thomus, David Belasco, Henry C. DoMille, Wiltiam Gillette, Clay Greene, Bill- Nve, Kdward E. Kidde A, C. Gunter, Charles Barnard, Henry Guy Carleton, Brander Matthews, Cleever Goodwin, Charlos Hoyt, Cnarles (aylor, Edgar Paweet, Clinton Stuart, Vaul Potter, Grattan Dounelly, Charles A, Byrne,Martha Morton, Ciyde Fiten, William Gill, Horace Townsend, Archibald Gordon, Leandor Richarason, Harry B. Smith, Josoph Artho ssen Woolff, James Roche, Frederick Maeder, Howard 1, Taytor, Cuandos ulton, A. C. Wheeler, Scott Martin, Charles I\ Vincent, teel Mackaye, Mrs, Burnett, Stephen iskce, I'ranklin ' Fyles and (ieorgo Jessop. Wo have a fow playwrights, haven't we! Augustin Daly is paying protty dearly for nis Pavisian “suceess.” The cat’s out of the ag in earnest this time, and the more ven- tilation the facts receive the more disastrous the Daly season is proved to be at the French Dramatic experts are scoring the espondence very severely for the news which was_telegraphed over here con- ceraing the Daly season in Paris. The IPrench papers, tho corresvoncents of En- ghish papers and private letters prove bevona question that Mr. Daly’s season i Paris isa complete and dire failure, artistically and financially. There is not & gleam of lizht suywhere. Amorican residents are perhaps excusable for their desire to give Mr. Daly a nelping hand, but it is rather questionable whether any substantial good is gained by claiming a success which 15 5o easily dis- proved. The most amiable Parisian critics said thut Mr. Daly could serve tho caus art moro effectually by staying away f rance than by going there, 2 e Dr. Birney cures cataveh. ot 2 EDUCATION AL a lobby The money gifts to Columbia college last year amounied to 31 I'wenty-five thousand children are without schoolroom it New York city. A law school has been opened in connec- tion with the University of Pennsylvania. The students of Lehigh university bave passed resolutions recommending the dis continunnce of the cane-rushing practice. ). Homer Wade, jr, of Cleveland has given land valued at 25,000, near the paric bearing his name, to the womans' college of the Westera Reserve university. Phe new Cornell tibrary vuilding, costing ,000, was dedicated last week. The library s un ‘endowment of 310,000, the revenue of which is used in purehasing books. Sevoral of the professors of tho depart- ments of history, mathematics, philosophy and Bnglish literature at the University of California have decided to_introduce uni- versity oxtusion loctaves in San Fraucise) A scholarship of $200 is offered by tho Vassar Students' Aid society to a student who passes without conditions all the re quirements for admission to the feeshman class of Vassar colloge at the examination to be held n June, 1392, ‘Chis scholarship, liko that awarded by the society last June, is offered as a loan, and_covers one-halft of all charges mado by Vassar college for ono year's board and tuition. Iixaminatious will be neld in Chicuzo. 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