The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1895, Page 7

“ With one exceptjon the races at the track THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1895 3 @iy 1895 MARCH 19, JUST ABOU THE WEATHER. \-. . Yorecast Official Hammon has 2 had s hard time the past week /| tryving to keep pace ‘with the nges in the weather. There somany chenges every day ven the extensive terminoi- wed by the Department lturé has béen inade- Now that St. Patrick’s day weather mey be expected. The Generally fair; sta- h southerly winds. LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF. The Colima sailed for Panama and way ports yesterday. & tionary temperature Rauer has been given judgment against D. Haskins for $577 43. rick” McPherson, & politician, attempted to commit suicide last night. Manulacturers will meet in convention at the Chamber of Commerce this afternoo T'he charter was discussed by a convention of 1abor unions and reform societies last night. Governor Budd said yesterday that he would £ign the China Basin valley road terminal bill. A students’ class in architecture was organ- ized at the Hopkins Art Institute last evening. Many delegates to the mannfacturers’ con- vention have arrived from interior and toast points, T legality of arres ments will be argued nder Grand Jury pre- in the Supreme Court pril 2 was sentenced to an_additional rs’ imprisonment by Judge Wallace vesterday The schooner Prosper, which Satirday, r went to sea irned to port yesterday in a leak- ing conditior ade drill and reception to General Mer- 5. A., took place at the Presidio yester- he American_ Rail- @ next Tuesday on hicld yesterday by the Congre- uil, Baptist and Episco- H. Freese, late of . will be buried d is suing to recover from H. rent for the premises at cet the executors of the estate ks shows the entire property 1la J. Martin returned from Shasta terdny. She denies having run steal a sack containing s now in jail spector yesterday. ided & tan game last urteen players and the of the game. | h ship Springburn’s men 10 sea yesterday i open boat. d up by two fishe 0 an, an employe at the pumping | 1 Gate Park, was knocked down | d by two young men last night. | h Glootz, of the firm of Fischbeck & 17, died at his residence, 1507 Sacramento strect, last Saturday night of pneumonia. ing on the water front has spread to et, and the [talian fishermen 1 to boycott the “foreign” competitors. | 101 Budd says that the new valley road 000 to ,000 & mil | © dividend on thé inv can be built for $1 will pay & handsoj ment t contested case of Simms vs. Stan mpleted to-day. Simms accuses of plagiarizing his work on physi 1 Governor Budd to offer on that might lead to the | of the murderer of Cor- | vhich arrived_from it by an | escaped | eil, & discharged guard of the of Correction, chagges that A. Cleary pay at that institutidh while engaged in mployment. verstein blackened M. Stein’s eyes on night at a meeting of a secret society, | yesterday Stein swore out a warrant for tein’s & g ruffians attemnp! Mrs n Sunday their arrest. ted to rob and les, 20 Welch of 1 Margaret place > and child yesterday afternoon, cded in wounding 3Mrs. Mergar- 1y suec tha in the right a; £ Buic arged with the murder of ed in Judge Low’s court w out_from Tacoma for | 1 still there are no tid- e yeferred to in { ¢ been taken from the Re etaluma by her brother. is the Jucky winner of the Sevres 1at 1800, ruified forht the fete for of the French Hospital fund, and | : was handed to him yesterday. - United s Marshal Dyer of Salt ning with Alexander = ‘ballot-box conspirator, who week at the racetrack. ! H. W. Hutton has sued the directors of the | neific Bank over $1773 deposit, which | he clzims was deposited because of the false | Tepresentation that the bank was sound. William Milten, alias George Crawford, who | sted here a few days 820, was taken to | csterday to answer 10 the charge of £ & horse belonging to W. L. Lunt. arrants were sworn out_yesterday for the est of Gustay Walters and Mrs. O’Malley for owing the Manley sisters o perform at the Wigwam, Mrs. O'Malley being their mother. The United States will not take any action in the of the schooner H. C. Wahlberg, so nney who came here on behalf of ilan Government will have his trip ‘b iving Hos- . to ied Gruber was arrested yesterday by | United States Marshal on a charge of im- personating Edwud Hilszinger and attempting to draw nis pension. MHilszinger died nine months ago. The guests ot the Sutherland House, corner | of Sutter and Jones streets, caught a burglar in | one of the bedrooms last night and his elo- | quence and tears won his freedom from arrest | by the police. Rev. Father Bradey, the Paulist missionary, | is 100 ill to be removea from his home on Cali- | fornia street to the hospital. , Very little hope | is held out for his recovery, as his physical strength is almost gone. M. R. Higgins has refused to surrender the | office of Insurance Commissioner to Senator Gesford, who was recently appointed to that osition by Governor Budd. The dispute will Do settiea by the courts. Secretary McComb of the Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Children has arrested Manager Walter of the Orpheum for permitting nine-year-old Mildred Ewer, known as La Reg- aloncita, to dance on hisstage. Several collisions took place between bay craft at Folsom-street whari yesterday. The p Jabez Howes caught another schooner on bowsprit, making the third craft impaled re since she reached this port. he Board of Supervisors yesterday rescinded | ordinance preventing the Auditor from gning and the Treasurer {rom paying warrants for demands on appropriations in the general fund, which have been exhausted. Conservative taxpayers fear that an order pessed yesterday by the Board of Supervisors allowing transfers of funds from the general fund of the municipal treasury will result in a speedy depletion of the general fund. vesterday were taken by the favorites. The winners were Seraphin, Ursula, Lizzie Ham| ton _colt, Onkland, Ferrier and’ Tigress.” Oak- land and Tigress were bid up in the races won by them. Governor Budd yesterday made a_personal inspection of the "proposed China in ter- minal of the San Josquin Railroad and ordered a survey madc and a map drawn for the con- sideration of the full board, which meets on Saturday. THE San Jose Mercury is on_sale at the fol- lowing-named places in San Francisco: Palace Hotel newsstand : Occidental Hotel newssund* Baldwin Hotel newsstand; J. K. Cooper, 74! Market street; J. 8. Albro,1000%; Market street; Pierson Bros., 225 Kearny strect. * GOVERNOR BUDD ON THE VALLEY ROAD. HE MAKES A PERSONAL INSPEC- TION OF THE CHINA BASIN TERMINAL. SURE TO SIGN THE BILL THE GOVERNOR SAYS THE RoAD ‘WiLL PAY INTEREST ON THE INVESTMENT. “All the valley road people seem to want is a square deal,and that they will re- ceive.” The speaker was Governor James H. Budd, and he was discussing the merits of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Rail- road. It was at the office of Attorhey George A. Knight that the Governor was found, in consultation with Charles Lewis | with the trunk roads, unless it is to its in- | terest to do so without robbing the farm- | ers of the valley.” | Two meetings of the board of dircctors of the valley road were held yesterday, one in the morning and another in the after- noon. At the former the matter of the rails was taken up and Mr. Whittier's | action in the premises approved. | In the afternoon various questions were considered. The presence of the Governor in the city and the result of his visit to the ground desired by the company were dis- cussed. The matter of the route also brought in some preliminary suggestions, but no definite action was taken. One of the officials of the road said yes- terday that before surveying parties were | sent into the field it will be necessary for a committee from the board to visit the | various cities which are in_a position to | offer inducements to the road and ascertain | the exact nature of the same and whether they were of a character which would be of value to the line. The pooling plan is still in an embyotic state and will probably not be in a condi- tion to present to the board for several days to come. |SHE WAS BRUTALLY BEATEN. | Warrants Out for the Arrest of Four Young Ruffians. Mrs. Mary Hynes, who keeps a grocery | at 20 Welch street, was brutally beaten by | four young men on Sunday evening. They entered the place and attempted to robthe | till. She pulled out a revolver to scare BCEOES FROM THE PLAYHOUSES, ASSEMBLYMAN BRUSIE'S NEw PLAY WAS PRODUCED AT Mo- ROSCO’S LAST NIGHT. MET WITH GREAT SUCCESS. “THE FENCING-MASTER” AT THE BALDWIN— NANON” AND THE “FROTH OF SOCIETY.” One might have selected a whole State government out of the audience that | packed Morosco’s Grand Opera-house to | the doors last night on the first presenta- tion of Judson Brusie’s play, “The Estate of Hannibal Howe.” With Governor Budd in a box and Sen- ators and Assemblymen jostling each other in the audience and lobbies, one BAy of SANFRANc/s., GOVERNOR BUDD'S IDEA IS TO HAVE CHINA BASIN SURVEYED AND SUBDIVIDED AS SHOWN IN THE MAP, BUT ON A LARGER SCALE, IN ORDER TEHAT THE FULL BOARD MAY HAVE A CLEAR CONCEPTION OF THE SITUATION AND BE IN A POSITION TO ACT IN THE MATTER OF LEASING THE TERMINAL AT THE MEETING NEXT SATURDAY. [Drawn from a map by Howard C. Holmes, C. E.) Fair. He had just dismissed Sycamore | Jeter and a delegation from Santa Cruz. “My visit to the city,’” said the Governor, | whose good health has returned, ‘“‘was for | the purpose of personally inspecting China Basin before signing the bill which the Legislature passed granting the new rail- | road a terminal there. The Governor is allowed ten days after the adjournment of | the Legislature for the consideration of all bills. That does not include Sunday, so | that I have until next Thursday to sign: the bill. | “Of course I will sign the measure. With all the patriotic citizens of California I am very much interested in the further- ance of this new enterprise, but we must proceed in the regular way. ‘““‘After looking over the situation I have | ordered Mr. Folmes, the harbor engineer, | to muke a complete survey, showing the | | wharves, channel, the present land line | and the proposed extension of the seawall, together with the approaches. The basin will be subdivided and shown on a large map, which will be ready for a meeting of the full board in this city on Saturday morning next.”’ The Governor was accompanied on his tour of inspection by Harbor Commissioner | Chadbourne, Engineer Holmes and As- sistant Attorney-General Dz The party passed the morning in studying the locality and the aptness the chief executive showed in grasping detail was commented upon by | the experts. He displayed an easy famil- iarity with the territory and las evidently already posted himself on the termina question. But he wants all the informa tion possible on the subject, and the State E next few days making a calculation on the basin and furnishing material for Satur- day’s meeting, which will be attended by Governor Budd, Mayor Sutro and the Harbor_Commissioners, constituting the power that will lease the terminal ground to the railroad. The bill provides for the lease of not more than fifty acres for a | period of fifty years. There are only about twenty acres within the basin lines. <1 think the building of the San Fran- cisco and San Joaquin Railroad,” contin- ued the Governor,as he reviewed in his mind the one great question now agitating the public, “will solve the problem’ of our commercial prosperity. During the cam- paign last fall I had occasion to state my | position on the railroad question, and since my election to the office of G overnor of the State I have had no reason to change my mind on this subject. I stated then, as T state now, that the bane of American insti- tutions is corporation arrogance. “In my canvass thrbugh the San Joaquin Valley ['met many farmers who assured me that they could not continue the culti- vation of their fields at the low price of wheat then prevailing when the cost of transportation was deducted. They said @ | they ‘would have to abandon the country. rich and fertile though it is—yes, as rich and fertile as the far-famed valléy of the Nile—to the gophers and the Southern Pacific. *‘Finally the Southern Pacific reduced the schedule on wheat from the San Joaquin Valley. It was obliged to do $o or in a i very short time it would have had no wheat to haul. Weeds would have grown up where once waved fields of golden wheat and rabbits would have sported where the thrifty farmer pursned his occu- pation. No, the Southern. Pacific is de- serving of no gratitnde from the veomen of the San Joaquin for having reduced the rates, for it has not_abandoned its policy of ‘all the traflic will bear.’ I have always held that California is paying at least twice what it should on products shipped to the Bast for consump- tion. Now, this is a great drawback to our industrial and commercial advance- ment. One way out of the difficulty is to build competing railroads. There is traffic for them all. The keener the competition the better it will be for the whole people. ““The San Joaquin road can be built and eqml;]ped for $15,000 to $18,000 a mile. The Southern Pacific is mortgaged for more than that amount per mile. The men who are putting their money into the new road will, in my opinion, realize zood interest | on an investment of from $15,000 to $18,000 per mile, and, in addition, will be doing a great blessing to the State by reducing ireight rates on our products am{ merchan- dise, a reduction that can only be brought about by competition. Yes, I am deepl concerned in the building of this railroady. Q‘ugte me strong—quote me often in favor of it. “During the campaign,’” continued the Governor after a pause, and pulling him- self together as though in ifie act of ad- dressing the producers of the San Joaquin in mass-meeting, ‘‘the planks in the plat- form on which I stood urged the necessity ofa com(refing railroad south from Stock- ton, and having connection with San Francisco. It is a marvelously productive territory, this San Joaquin Valley. and there is no reason why the }ine cannot be continued south, avoiding the Mojave Desert, and getting a productive country all the way through to Southern California, where transcontinental connection mas be made. In the matter of freight schedule, the local line need have no connection gineer and staff will' be kept busy the | them away when they knocked her down, umped o' her and struck her in the face, s kening*her eyes. Yesterday morning a friend of Mrs. Iynes called upon Judge Low and pre- sented a certificate from Dr. Hawkins that she was too ill to leave the house and swear out tvarrants against the young ruffians. The Judge went to her house and she swore to warrants charging them with burglary and battery. Their names are George Dounelly, Joln Hallinan, Robert Faggart and Peter Owens. e Ix Florida, the land of flowers, Dr. | | Price’s Baking Powder is favorite. It leads | in all the States. MERCY SHOWN A BURGLAR. | HE ENTERS THE SUTHERLAND' HOUSE WHILE THE GUESTS | ARE AT DINNER. 1s EILOQUENCE AND TEARS Suc- | CESSFUL IN KEEPING HIM | FROM ARREST. The guests at the Sutherland House, a | fashionable boarding-house on the south- east corner of Sutter and Jones streets, had n exciting experience about 7 o’clock last | night. They were at dinner when the door bell was rung violently, and a minute later | they were startled by the information that & burglar was in the house. The visitor | had seen him crawling through one of the | side window. | _ There was a general rush from the din- ing-room, the ladies vieing with the sterner sex in their anxiety to capture the daring | burglar. | Meantime messengers had been sent to | find the policemen on the beats in the | neighborhood and a telephone message | was sent to the Central police station for a | posg of men. A careful search was made of the rooms |on the fifst floor, but without success. When the exploring party commenced to | search the bedrooms upstairs there was a | feeling that the end was near, and excite- | ment ran high. | = Sure enough, crouched underneath a bed | in one of the bedrooms the daring burglar | was found. He was deadly pale and | | shaking with fear. When dragged from | { his hiding-place he begged piteously for mercy. He was a young man, about 2 | years of age, smooth faced and neat! He said he was | | overcoat and white tie. | forced to commit a crime to save himself T,irom dying of want. He spoke eloquently, and as he saw that ! his words were making a favorable impres and his eyes filled with tears, which won | | them over completely. They added their entreaties to his and, as usdal, were sue- cessful. The enlprit was searched and evervthing | was taken out of his pockets. He had sev- eral pieces of jewelry which be had t. from the bedrooms he had visited, which | were returned to their owners. All that | belonged to himself were a few Salvation | Army meal tickets and two boxes of salve. | Just as the guests were ready to let him g0 Policeman Herring arrived with the Bntml»wagon and Policemen George ouglass and Duane, who had been run down by the messengers, reached the corner. They found_ the front door locked and when " they rang the bell it was some minutes before any one answered it. They asked to be allowed to search the house for the burglar and were considerably sur- prised and disgusted to be told that there was no need for their services as they had | allowed the “poor fellow” to go after taking the jewelry he had stolen out of his | pockets. They had slipped him out of a side entrance while the police were waiting at the front door. Policeman Herring was handed the Salvation Army meal tickets and two boxes of salve totake with him in the Eatrol-waéon to the Central police station, ut the officers would not leave until they had got a description of the burglar. SRR S SRt She Finds a Home. Mrs. Alexander Ostlin and her boy, whose sad case was referred to in yesterday’s CALL, were taken from the Receiving Hospital yester- day by her brother, Who is a hotel-keeper in Watsonville. He said he would take them to Petaluma, where they would find & comfort- able home with his two brothers there, who are wealthy farmers. T.J. Golden, 4 California street, called at police headquarters last night. He had read the story in the CaLL, and said that Ostlin had ‘hdp d as mate on the schooner Joseph ant enry, which sailed for Suislaw River on Saturday last, and would ot return for over a month. SPURIOUS coin has no ring. Observe the rlnz‘ of the Almighty Dollar (Cigar), » | | dressed in a dark suit of clothes, light | out of work and starving, and had been | | sion upon the ladies his voice trembled ! would think that the legislative halls had been moved from Sacramento. Inter- spersed with these dignitaries were judges, lawyers, editors, even lobbyists—an au- dience the like of which the Grand Opera- house never held before. For a first attempt, the play was deserv- ing of the great applause that it received. Mr. Brusie has never been suspected of more literary guile than framing a bill; so when it was announced that his latest plot was dramatic, people thought hard and then went in a body to see the play. In general structure the play is of the “Jed Prouty” and “Old Homestead"” style. The story is a simple one, well told and dramatically constructed. The story of the little heir to all the Howe weaith, with its plots and counterplots, is one that a: peals to an audience, and when the story is told as well as was done last night the success of Mr. Brusie’s venture should be assured. The central figure, that of honest and sturdy old Amos Howe, as unyielding as the oaks that grew on his farm and as gentle as the doves that cooed among his Worden made a distinct hit in her dance with Mr. Hartman in the last act. 3 The male cast has rarely been approeched in this city. Mr. Hartman was an admirable De Marsillac, and his nephew, Hector, found an e?‘unlly good representative in Mr. Branson. The hero, d’Aubigne, was given to Mr. Raffael, Wwho played it with' the dash and force he al- ways gives romantic roles, and who sang the celebrated waltz song admirably. Mr. Olmi as the abbe and Mr. Wilson com- pleted a good list Ofdvrlncipflls, and the minor perts were well rendered. he next week’s announcement is the old fayorite, “Pinafore,” in which new people are promised. AT THE CALIFORNIA, Miss Emily Bancker Makes a Hit With the Comedy “Our Flat."” There Is & great deal of merit in the comedy ““Our Flat,” which Miss Emily Banckerand her company presented at the California Theater last night. It is amusing and entertaining from beginning te end; it contains a variety of funiy situations which keep the audience in a continued state of merriment; it is full of bright ‘lines; it is terse, interesting and well written. The basic motlve of the plots deals with the yicissitudes of & young couple who live inaflat and are forced to encounter all man- ner of inconveniences in order to dodge the irrepressible installment man, who is always on hand for his money. Miss Bancker, who played the part of Margery Sylvester, has all the gualifications that goto make a successful comedienne. She is grnceiul.{mreuy and attractive and acts with ease and simplicity, Tom Ricketts was par- ticularly good as Nathanial Glover, and Messrs. Seully, Parr and Warren, the employes of the “Royal Moving-van Company,” were very amusing. Miss Bancker and Mr. Ricketts introduced in the third act & burletta entitled “Little Red Riding. Hood.” It was a travesty on the serious side of the stage and it made a big hit. The piece was resented before an audience which filled the ouse completely. S. H. Friedlander retired as manager of the California Theater yesterday and Louis A. Morgenstern was appointed in his place. In conjunction with this position Mr. Morgen- stern will continue his duties as treasurer of the Baldwin. His appointment as manager of the California is looked upon with great avor. AT STOCKWELL'S. Mr, Leonard Grover Brings Out His Latest Comedy-Drama. Mr. Grover's latest drama, “The Remarkable History of Lispet,” was produced at Stockwell's Theater last night. It was a success, both artistically and_financially, and was presented in a careful, puinsmkim{ manner. It is strong in some places and quite amus- ingin others, and it fills the billto amuse an audience very well. Mr. Grover Jr. had the role of Bolingham, moody tragedian, and he played it_with a goodly amount of gusto. Jo- sephine Gassman was a capital Lispet, and May Noble, as Mrs. Willoughby, did admirably. The entire company supported the piece, which will run through the week. De Koven's " Fencing Master.” “The Fencing Master” ceased some time ago to be De Koven’s new opera, “Rob Roy” being the youngest born of the American composer's works, but the “Fencing Master” is a novelty to San Francisco, and its debut at the Baldwin Theater last night was a decided success. The plot is bright and pretty. It would be romantic if it were not for the introduction of some exaggerated comic characters. As for the music, there is not a dull bar in the whole HIBERNIANS ~ CELEBRATE THE MEMBERS OF DIVISION No. 1 ENJOY A SLITERARY ENTER_’I‘AINMENT. GIVEN IN HONOR OF ST. PATRICK'S Day—A BaNQuET FOLLOWED By DANCING. The members of Division No.1 of the An- cient Order of Hibernians and members of other divisions, together with their fami- lies and friends, had an enjoyable time in their hall at 1157 Mission street last night, at an entertainment given in honor of St. Patrick’s day. The hall, dvecon',ed with the American and the Irish flags, was crowded to its full capacity. Patrick Lyons, president of the division, gave a brief history of that body since its organization in 1878, and showed that it had disbursed $125,000 to its mem- bers and to charities. Thomas B. O’Brien, the well - known speaker, was called upon to act as chair- man of the meeting, and he delivered stxrrinlg address. He gave a succinet_his- tory of the Order of Ancient Hibernians, showed the good it had accomplished, and urged the necessity of continued organiza- tion. He then spoke in a patriotic strain of Ireland and her sons and daughters, and touched upon the subject of religion, quot- ing from a speech de’li\'ered the evening previous by Senator Perkins, who had de- clared that “any man who interferes with the rights of conscience is an assassin of human liverty.” He declared that when men of the Senator’s stamp expressed themselves in that manner there need be no fear of trouble on the ground of religion in this country. His address was fre- quently and loudly applauded. Judge J. A. Campbell spoke of the_valor of the Irishmen who fought for the Union during the war of the rebellion, and Joseph F. Coffey delivered a stirring address on sons of Irishmen and descendants of Irish- men, and declared that no man need feel ashamed that he was the one or the other. He then paid a handsome compliment to thg native sons and daughters. . F. O'Donoghue of St. Mary’s Church choir sang several Irish ballads; Patrick Flynn gave popular Irish airs on the [rish bagpipes, and Master John J. Lane recited a patriotic poem with fine effect. he literary entertainment was followed by a banquet and a ball. The committee of arrangements w. composed of: P. Lyons, JamesiMcCurry, J. McMahon, M. Kelly, JohnJ. 0’Kane and J. J. Lane, T. % O'Brien acted as chairman of the reception committee, and J. J. Keating was the floor manager. e G i Verdict of Accidental Death. The inquest on the body of Michael Henry, who was asphyxiated in a room of the lodging- house at 17 Fourth sireet,on the 11th inst., was held last night. The jury brought in a verdict of accidental death. ~ Henry in his life- time was & fireman at the gaswor e Miss Bertha Bayliss. [From a photograph.} | Frank W. Bacon, Who Scored a Well- Deserved Success Last Night. (From a photograph.] eaves, was admirably rendered by F. W. Bacon. Mr. Bacon is comparatively new to the stage, but acted his part with a thorough appreciation of its many oppor- tunities and with the self-possession of a veteran of the stage. Mr. Holden was the { scheming brother Ariel. Mr. Burress, a new comedian, played the part of Stokes, somewhat modeled on the Pickwick fat boy, and did it with good taste and judg- ment. Mr. Brinder was Everett Doolittle, alegal luminary, and the rest of & long male role was in very good hands, The leading female part was that as- signed to Maud Edna Hall, who made a very charming part out of it. Miss Hall is making quite a name for herself at this theater. elen Henry was a'tender and ?’mpathetic Betty Howe, and the Misses lanc, Stevens and Forbes completed an excellent cast. The stage effects were remarkably well done, the second act set particularly being one of the prettiest ever seen in this city. The general success of the play was in- tensified by a clever speech made by Mr. Brusie at the end of the second act, which was capped by a short address by Governor Budd, who was forced to respond to'en- thusiastic applause. With such a first night and with the i trinsic_merit of *‘The Estate of Hannibal Howe,"” it should have a good rut and meet with great success. “Nanon’’ at the Tivoli, The production of Genee’s “Nanon” at the Tivoli last night;was in all respects an admirable performance. This masterpiece of Genee is too well known here to need review at this day, bx the bright, pretty music and the extremely £00d libretto have seldom been heard to better advantage in this eity. The Nanon 6f the cast was the always pop- ular Gracie Plaisted, who made her usua) sue- cess. She acts with so much chic thatshe readily aids in carrying to success any opera in which she is cast, and her Nanon last nifln was a very able piece of work. c part of the famous Ninon de V’Enclos was assigned to Miss Salinger, who made her reappearance last night and whose success was ugestd,ed by the manrner in which she was re- ceived. Miss Liddiard was somewhat out of touch with the character of Maintenon, which is not the kind of work she had been accustomed to doin‘B. Madame de Frontenac was assigned to Miss Belle Emmett, who looked, dressed and acted the part charmingly and daintily. Alicg Neilsen was Nanon’s page Gaston and Helen Jewety Nanon's maid Jacqueline. Miss Vera work, thongh to sy that it is strietly original would be to claim too much for it. When he wrote the first act de Koven was evidently laboring under a sincere admir- ation for Mascagni, with a touch of longing for Bizet, and al] through the other acts he shows that he can appreciate the beauties of other ('muroaor:' musie, though in many places he has let the inspiration and the treatment in- fluence him as much as the actual themes. Miss Dorothy Morton pleased her audience from the moment she came on, in all the glory of a fifteenth-century page’s dress, to the time the curtain went down on the last act, Her entrance song has & good swing to it, and she sang it in & dashing style, which called forth encore after encore. Her singing is a good deal in the style of the variety artist, but it has all the vim’ of the variety artst. In the “Nightingale and the Rose” Miss Morion put in & good deal of vocal embroidery which was not in the orig- inal score. As for her acting, it was graceful and natnral, David Torrence is blessed with & good stage presence and acts the role of the dashing lover naturally and essily. Apparently he has a £00d barytone volce, but he was suffering from hoarseness. E William Stephens as Guido was properly love- sick and sang his barearolle in the second act withall the flourishes of the operatic tenor, though the effort was a little too much for his intonation here and there. The comic duke and his astrologer aroused roars of laughter by their vaudeville performances. ' Miss Bertha Bayliss looked well and sang well as the fascinating Countess Fillipa. Her acting was a little lacking in animation, but in the last act, when her only opportunity for singing came in, she made the most of if, and was warmly encored. # As for the character of the whole music it is nondescript. The choruses are above the level of operetta, &nd they were the part of the opera that was best sung, the body of the voices being most efficient both for volume and artistic qualities. At the Alcazar, The “Froth of Society,” as presented at the Aleizar last night, is a good version of Dumas's celebrated play which created so much of & sensation on its original French production, andat the many productions given in England and this country. Whatever may be the application or apposite- ness of the play and its moral when consider- ing the society which it was intended to repre- sent, it is hardly fair when applied to modern American society. 1f the phrase, ex pede Her- culem, has any application to dramatic con- struction, certainly the picture of modern society is far from the original. The performance ?ven last night at the Alcazar was & very fair one. The dprinclpal arts were well taken by Mr. Henderson as Captain _Northeote, Miss Stillman as Mrs. Chapel, Messrs. Hodges, Alger and Gilbert, and Misses Leonard, Foley and Drosden. “The Froth of Soctety” will run for the balance of this week. The Wigwam's 8pecialty Bill, The Wigwam presents an excellent specialty bill this week, inelnding Frank Lalor, the Dalys and other favorites in this city, and tor- minating with Lester and Williams’ burlesque, “Me nng Jack,” which is full of bright songs and clever dances, and is given by able people. This house always has good audiences, and they are well deserved considering the hard and good work done by the management in selecting the various people. plvidicys i New Faces at the Orphenm. The Orpheum bill last night presented some of last week's favorites and a lot of mew peo- ple, including John A. Coleman, the very clever eccentric dancer; Brown and Harrison, comedy. sketch team; the Spanish dancers, Martinez and Conchite, and others. 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