The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 25, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 189 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editer and Propristor. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 per year by mail; by earrier, 15¢ | per week. s [ CALL—#1.50 per sear. LY CALL—#1.50 per ye: astern office of the CALL (Da tising Bureau, N FRANCISCO and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- Rhinelander building, Rose and APRIL 25, 1895 THURSDAY Turn the rascals out. Let us investigate the combine. There is a chance for a local Lexow. You approve virtue when you condemn iniquity. No community ever yet avoided an issue by trying to dodge it. The fiesta series appear to have just sbout got well started. One can almost hear the fruit grow in this splendid weather. San Francisco is entitled to good govern- ment and must have it. Mayor Sutro now holds the balance be- tween boodle and decency. When an official becomes a rascal he ceases to be a Repub The man who cannot keep even with the | | best fitted to administer the affairs of the TRUE REPUBLICANISM. The CavLv is 2 Republican newspaper in season and out of season. In a broad sense, of course, Republicanism is never out of season, but conventionally speaking | the season of politics lasts during a cam- paign, or during a session of Congress or the Legisiature, and closes when they close. It is with reference to this conven- tional meaning of the word that we say the | CaLL is Republican in season and out; and we mean by it that our political vigi- lance does not relax at any time, but that we are ever alert to guard every interest of | that great party which we believe to be the Nation, the State and the City. Events now occurring render this ex- planation necessary in order that even the most casnal and careless reader may not mistake the attitude of the CaLL toward the majority of the Board of Supervisors. Itis true that five members of the combine that constitutes this mongrel majority were nominated by 2 Republican conven- tion, supported by the Republican organ- ization and elected by Republican vote | and it is true also that we have been severe in denouncing their conduct. This does not mean, however, that we are opposed to Republicanism or to a Republican ad- ministration of the City. On the contrary, | it means that we are advocating Republi- | can principles and the Republican party | by denouncing those who have broken its pledges, ignored its platform and are seek ing to disgrace 0 represent it. The Repub can press fulfil people wh it while pretex world always think it odd. in for the competing forward. Every lick you road helps the wo: Even if they regarded boodle as an fn-| © | sult, some men would pocket it. Are honorable men ever anxious to be known as boodlers renegades? to the City, but Supervisor Scul! ma the Board In the face o ment the boldest The best v those which they ning of a new enterprise in some part the Btate. The average ¢ murder case o the something else. police and attend t The Native So may profitably reflect | that the best way to honor the pastisto | brighten the | gh theories are common enough | Altho these days, nobody hasone that can jus- ; sht. tify the Solid Ex cult to imagine an honest pub- 2 a joke of being called a nd renegade. boodler No man sincerely upholds Republican principles who hesitates to denounce every traitor who denies them. Most men, when charged with being coats and rascals, would either fight, reform or drown themselves, = | No offici he platform on | which he was elected can have any stand- ? L honorable men. | mal pictured on the 2 never growls when the Native Sons show a d to be familiar with it. | er metro- San Francisco regards the | ireater West as her province. politan whole of th The ity in the Board of Supervisors afford to be puni ht" for beingtrue tothe and the people. Until we elect men to office who do jokingly apply such epithets to thems as only scoundrels an honest administration of City aff; not | Ives bear, we cannot expect | w it is bad enough to have a “solid | eight Board of Supervisors, there is ca: for gratitude that there is not a “‘solid nine” to override the Mayor’s veto. The CarL supperts the Republican party bec the stainless record of that party, and is the foe of any man who at- tempts to sully it while claiming to repre- sent it. se of No one need have the slightest fear that one of the sterling four in the Board of Supervisors can be won over to the “solid eight”’ to complete a scheme for looting the city. Supervisor Scully cannot retrieve him- self by retiring from the “solid eight” un- less he exposes the schemes which they have concocted and exerts his energies to punish them. How does Supervisor Scully like being spoken of as unnecessary to the schemes of the “solid eight,” and hear it remarked that therefore inducements sufficient to retain him in the board are withheld ? i sl il Mr. A. Page Brown may be too lofty to submit to an interview with a newspaper reporter, but very likely he will conde- scend to passa few words with some ven- erable editor—Harbor Commissioner Col- non, for instance, It is a sorry state of affairs when public officers care so little for their own reputa- tion as not only to refuse to resent charges that they have betrayed a trust, but actu- ally accept the charges, laugh over them, and ask uswhat arewe going to do about it. It is conceivable that the President of the United States might ignore a charge of treachery and of betraying his trust, but when a small-fry politician who has done a notoriously disreputable act assumes such an attitude and then destroys the force which its dignity might lend by mak- ing a coarse joke of it and applying to him- self the epithets which his duplicity has invited, we have the most ridiculous of all possible spectacles. i AL A The Spirit of the Times bas had the good fortune to reach in full vigor the beginning of the eighty-first volume and forty-first year of its history. Thisis anotable age for a California journal, and its success is a just cause of pride to the editor, Marcus D. Boruck, who has been connected with the paper since the first issue. During the forty years he has been in the editorial chair, Mr. Boruck has fought many good battles for the State and has made himself | the whole contract for foundations and | | true R fore, the sentiment of the taxpayers and | of all honest men in denouncing them, and thereby give the surest proof of our devo- tion t« nuine Republicanism. MR. BROWN'S SILENCE. Before taking editorial cognizance of the very serious charges which Harbor Com- missioner Colnon has made against A. Page Brown, architect of the new ferry building and foundations, the Cary, de- sirous of giving Mr. Brown fair treatment and anxious to know the whole truth, sent a reporter to him to secure an explanation. His extraordinary conduct on that occa- sion—first in attempting to conceal his identity from the reporter and then in de- clining to give an explanation until after he had seen the Cemmissioners and pre- pared a statement for them—was set forth in yesterday’s issue of the CaLL. We respectfully suggest to this eminent architect that in preparing his statement to the Commissioners he imagine himself standing at the bar of public judgment and required by that dignified authority to embody in his statement clear answers to the following question: At whose suggestion and for what reason was the extraordinary provision inserted in your contract with the State, authoriz- ing you to draw half your commission on building in case the work of construction should not be commenced within a year? Is this a customary feature of contracts between builders and architects? Is it likely that t scandal concerning the character of the material used and work done on the foundation and the great delay and expense that have ensued would have occurred if yon had attended dili- gently and faithfully to your duty? Is it not the custom for architeets to give close attention to work which they are paid to periorm? Knowing, as you must know, that scan- dals often arise out of contracts for public construction, and that such rascality is comparatively rare in private building enterprises, did you not—assuming that you are an honest and faithful architect— have all the more reason for extreme dili- gence and care in the matter of the ferry improvements? If the foundations should prove to have been improperly constructed as a result of your negligence, do you not think it would be proper” for you to return the money which you have received from the State? Suppose that you regard yourself as a citizen, not interested in the contract, would you not only expect such an architect to return the money without hesitation but would you not also think that he ought to be sued for heavy damages? You gave a bond in the sum of $15,000 for the faithful performance of your con- tract. Ifyou were a citizen not interested in this contract would you not be in favor of suing these bondsmen in case it should be shown that the architect had violated his contract by neglecting his duty, had re- ceived payment for services which he did not perform. and had brought expense, de- lay and scandal upon the State? These questions involve ethical as well as practical considerations, but as Mr. Brown’s relations with the State involve both these elements, he woull make a mistake—except possibly on the score of his own safety—in answering them freely in his statement to the Commissioners. ‘We should be glad to see him completely exonerate himself from the charges which Commissioner Colnon has made, and we regret that his singular conduct to our re- porter was not that which we should have expected from a sensible and experienced man, who at the same time had nothing of his conduct that he desired to conceal, much less his own identity. NO TIME FOR LEVITY. One of the oldest devices to which con- victed guilt resorts is a humorous treat- ment of its predicament and a jovial ban- tering of its discoverer. It is a trick as old as the use of the human tongue in speech, and it is manifested in various forms known as one of the ablest writersand most powerful editors on the Pacific Coast. He begins his new volume with assurances of success, and the Spirit of the Times will con- tinue to show all of its pristine vigor. known to the rhetoricians. The greatest living master of this weapon of defense, in one of its higher forms, is Robert G. Inger- soll, who drove the doughty Jere Black out of the field of religious controversy by its employment. A man caught in & wicked act, if he is shrewd (and shrewd- ness belongs to the highest forms of ras- cality), knows that a humorous tongue is far more efficacious than serious denial or resentment, for the reason that the average human being, who is apt to thinl_( more with his feelings than his brain, is most easily swayed by such an appeal, and espe- cially an appeal to the sunny side of his nature. s 1t is upon this hypothesis, and this only, that we are able to explain the jovial mood of the “solid eight” in the Board of Super- visors, as it was so felicitously set forth in the local columns of yesterday’s Chronicle. We are assured by that paper that “‘the majority of the Board of Supervisors were in a jovial mood yesterday."” _ We are told by that paper that “the atti- tude of Police Judge Conlan in announcing that he will refuse to recognize theappoint- ment of Supervisor Morgenstern's son as clerk of his court is & subject of much amusement to the majorit The character of conscience possessed by the ™ is thus set forth by the onicie: *The attacks upon the majority to have much the same effect upon as the water upon the historical « that are applied daily intercourse, rence for one Sup- ollow-member with ich the other re- I'll take you them posed that men capable ty, disgracing the terests they are sworn to tal upon their reputa- ! the efforts of the ean honest muni- d feel either shame rmen or compunc- sclence through a self-knowl- But there are not many wunity who so cheerfully tions of “boodler’ and \d who bandy these epithets among themselves. If an had been charged with part of the things which rged agsinst the ‘‘solid f-pride and his regard for his x honorable men would m, if he was innocent, either rom before the eyes of men or conduct on lines whose high pur- ¢ could not be questioned. not do for the “solid eight’’ to d call themselves boodlers and They are now on the defensive rious matter, and if the Repub- arty is what we believe it to be they et bitter fruit to eat. They are not s now with men who are prepared to eachery to party and betrayal of a ¢ trust as a joke. The time is gone 1 the people at large will submit to al plundering manipulated by politi- s working through unscrupulous who wield cfficial power. There is active and abroad in this City a stern, rong and determined sentiment of de- cency. Its presence has been seen and its pressure felt in various ways that should prove a warning to such knaves as may be tempted to shield their rascalities under the cap and bells of a clown. sxenice of O esence of © « PEOPLE TALEED ABOUT. Cardinel Gibbons has been summoned to Rome and will sail in May. The Shah of Persia has a pipe valued at £230,000. This is the most costly smoker on record. Santley, “the emperor of barytones” has pushed into authorship with “Santley’s Sing- ing Master.” ALondon woman, Mrs, Weston, has been sent 10 jail for two months for cruelly overworking her omnibus horses. The head of Bismarck will adorn the next issue of German coinage. Everybody will be glad to have the old warrior in his pocket. The Rigby medal of the Roval Geographical Society has been conferred upon Charles D. Walcott of the United States Geological Survey. Baron Henry de Rothschild of Paris, one of the family of the world’s money kings, is a last year’s medical student in the Hospital de la Charities. M. Guzmen, a musical enthasfast, has left 50,000 francs to the city of Paris to pay for musical entertainments for the sick poor in hospitals and asylums. Emperor William has requested Professor Lindner to write a popular history of the war of 1870. He wishes to have it ready for publication on Sedan dey nextSeptember. Nantucket has suffered a greatloss in the death of U.S. Kimball, the tobacco man, who had a pretty estate on the island and spent much time and money in making it attractive. Two little American girls, the daughters of G. M. Fairchild Jr. of New York, secured funds enough for the erection of a tablet in Quebec over the body of brave General Montgomery, who was killed when leading the sssault on the citadel in the revolutionary days. General Sommer, commanding an Austrian brigade in Bosnia, has been experimenting successully with dogs for war pusposes. One hundred and fifty dogs have been taught to cerry the mails into the mountains to dis- tances that occupy them three or four hours. Comte de Chambrun has given property yielding £14,000 a year to found a musee social in Paris as a memorial of his wife, which is to be a center of information for persons inter- ested in the condicon of artisanseand a place to supplement the general and technical educa- tion of workingmen. It will be sbmething like Toynbee Hall in London. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. It {sn’t the best cat that receives the largest number of gifts from her listeners.—Boston Courier. In spiteof her bonsa;ndependance in nine cases out of ten the new woman couldn’t get along without the old man.--Boston Globe. ‘We have given up trying to determine which is the most aggravating, the deaf man who woun't see, or the blind man who won't hear.— Boston Courier. Boy—Papa, what is an unknown quan- tity? Father—What your mother expects to find when she searches my pockets.—Phila- delphia Inguirer. Jeweler—There's no money in handling plain gold rings any more. Visitor—Oh, 1 think there is. Iam a minister. I usually get & 10-dollar bill for slipping them on the bride’s finger.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Desk Editor—You say that Miss Uppanote responded with a “merry ditto.” I presume you meant to write “merry ditty.” Critic—Not at all. “Ditto” is all right. It was an encore, you know. She sang the same thing over again.—Exehange. Smallwort—O0ld man Gripe, the chattel mort- gage man, got a needle in his hand this morn- ing and the doctors had to cut it out. Ford—Nothing strange In that. They would have to do the same thing had it been a nickel. ~Indianapolis Journal. Philanthropic Merchant—A poor fellow came to me this morning asking for food, as he said he was starving. I sent him down to your restaurant and told him to get a good square meal and I would pay you for it. How much is the bill? Restaurant-keeper—Fifty- five cents, sir. “What are the items?” ‘Nine beers and a cigar.”—New York World. “I am told,” said the Royal Bengal Tiger, haughtily, “that I am generally considered the handsomest person in the room.” “Shucks!” exclaimed the Performing Pig, in his slangy way. “Looks cut no ice. Now, if you only had & voice like mine—" But the ironical comments of the others interrupted the conversation.—New York Recorder. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Colonel T. V. Eddy, a politician and lawyer from the State of Washington, was sitting in the lobby of the Baldwin Hotel talkingof the great Northwest yesterday afternoon, when Lee Fairchild, who supplied fun for M. M. Estee’s audiences during the campaign, walked in, surrounded by his overcoat, as a further precantion against the grip, from which he has been asufferer ever since the election. “Well, the world is small after all,’ ol_nerved the colonel, who is himself one of the triedand solid stump orators of the north. “There is Lee Fairchild. I hear he has blossomed out into & political talker, with a regular three- plume standing. Iremember quite well how he got into it in our State. He was pretty well known as a writer of humor, but no one ever dreamed of him as an orator. In fact, very few people knew him by sight. He was very re- ticent and modest when I knew him there. It was under such circumstances that he came COLONEL EDDY RECALLS AN INCIDENT IN LEB : FAIRCHILD'S RECORD. [Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nanktvell.] into the convention of the Republican State League of Clubs, then in session at Olympia, and without introduction walked leisurely down the aisle of the crowded theater. When he reached the center of the hall and addressed the chair, he was recognized as the ‘gentle- man who has the floor’ He raised his hand, and proceeded to place himself in nomination for one of the principal offices in the league. In a few moments he had the house in a roar, but no one in the audience knew whether or not he was in earnest. The chairman ap- pealed to the audience for the gentleman’s name, and the audience in turn appealed to the chair. “Fairchild not only nominated himself, but added to the excitement by then and there sec- onding his nomination, and proceeded to tell the audience how well he knew himself and what a valuable addition he would be to the league. He reviewed his political record and repeated the fact that no one knew him so well as the gentleman now addressing the chair. He wound up his speech with the statement that he believed he was the most desirable can- didate before the convention, and that so faras he was concerned he was willing that the nomi- nations should then close and that the nominee be elected by acclamation. “When he took his seat the delegates were bursting with laughter, and on a vote of the members present Fairchild was elected without opposition. The newspapers took up the story and made a sensation out of it. Fraunklyn Lane, the editor of the Tacoma News, but now connected with Arthur McEwen's Letter, con- tinued the story for several days, and within a short time after the incident Fairchild wasone of the best known politicians in Washington. I believe, however, that since he came to Cali- fornia he has got over his Washington modesty and has forgotten how to blush.” Alexander Goodfellow, a mining man who is stopping at the Russ House, is interested in some gravel mining property in the Golder district, over which there has been consider- able excitement lately. Speaking of the mines he said: “There can no question that there is an immense amount of rich gravel in the Golder, Red Rock and Black Mountain dis- tricts in Kern County, but little can be done without the expenditure of a lot of capital to take in water. I believe that considerable water can be obtained not over seven miles away by sinking weils, but a ditch from run- ning water would be over thirty miles long. ‘The placers are so rich in places that they pay even for dry washing. There would be no trouble over the debris question there for the sluices would run out toward the Mojave desert and the extent of the gravel beds is so large that they would warrant the expenditure of all the money that would be necessary to bring in water. However, until thatis done the mining that will be done there will be in a primitive way and, of course, only in the richest spots.” PERSONAL. E. May, a merchant of Portland, is atthe Lick. 8. Blum, a leading merchant of Martinez, is a guest at the Grand. C. O. Bennett, a merchant of Stockton, is staying at the Grand. Frank J. Solinsky, a prominent attorney of San Andreas, is registered at the Grand. George Brandt, a capitalis of Pacific Grove, came up yesterday and registered at the Lick. H. C. Hopkinson, manager of the Stockton Pottery Works, registered yesterday at the Grand. Samuel K. Long, an orchardisc of Penryn, Placer County, and Mrs. Long are at the Occi- dental. A. L. Levingky, a prominent attorney of Stockwon, {s among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. Dr. E. 8. Bogert, medical director of the navy, and Mrs. Bogert are among yesterday’s arrivale at the Palace. G. W. Elkins, s Philadelphia capitalist largely interested in street railways, and his family arrived here yesterday, and are stopping at the Palace. THE SIGNALS DID NOT WORK. Bince the new board came into power, says the Ezaminer, a rumor has been circulated around the City Hall to the effect that Lanigan was never at a loss to know how Beully, Hirsch and Wagner would vote, even before the roll was called. In sup- port of this statement the fact was noted that Hirsch and Lanigan were brothers-in-law, and on account of this family relation it was argued that the Supervisor from the Fourth Ward naturally heeds the advice of his relative on account of his superior knowledge of polities. The board had not held many meetings be- fore another development came, which tended to prove the truth of the assertion made rela- tive to Lanigan’s control of three Democratic votes. When the roll was being called on any important question it was observed that Wag- ner always shook his head or nodded, as occa- sion demanded, to let Scully know how he should vote. A signof this kind became neces- sary from the fact that Scully’s name is second on the list, as he is from the Second Ward. Scully always hecded Wagner's nods and headshakes until Monday. On that occasion Wagner gave the usual sign, but Scully weak- ened. For a moment the calling of the roll was interrupted, while Scully asked to be ex- cused from voting. The desired permisefon was granted, and the regular order of business was resumed. As a matter of fact, it makes but little differ- ence to the solid eight whether Scully re- mains with them or not. With seven votes they will be powerful enough to fix water rates as they please, regardless ot the Mayor and the remaining members of the board. The majority will also be able to grant street rail- way franchises and do a great deal of other business in which the Mayor is not permitted to interpose & veto. With regard to the system of signals by means of which Wagner has been accustomed to inform Scully how to vote, the subject has been a matter of common discussion &mong the members of the board. Only a few days ago Supervisor Hobbs told Wagner in a jocular way that his signal system was getting old, and ad- vised him to get & new code and change his signs. CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYES, A Special Agent Here Investi- gating Charges Sent to Washington. Officlal Leadley Arranging for an Examination of Applicants in July. The tactics of the “solid elght” of the Board of Supervisors cannot be used in the naming of employes of the Federal Gov- ernment in S8an Francisco. Attempts have been made to do so, but the much-deeried civil service has been somewhat of a check. Charges were made some time ago that removals had been made which could not have been accomplished had the civil ser- vice law been obeyed. In fact, these charges were forwarded to Washington, with the request that ‘an investigation be made. The document sent to the seat of Government was deemed of sufficient im- portance to carry with it several private letters regarding the charges embodied in the communication. As a result a special officer of the Civil Service Department was ordered to visit S8an Francisco and make a thorough investigation. It has been known for some time that an inspector was coming, but until yesterday it was not known that he was in town. Collector Wise was closeted with Special Officer Hobbs of the department for hours. Just what matters were considered or what evidence the Collector had to offer in de- nial or aflirmation of the charges could not be learned. The actions of the officials were as secret as the examinations of appli- cants for positions. Right on the heels of this investigation comes the selection of a board of examin- | ers, which will meet some time in July ! for the purpose of passing on the qualifica- i tions of applicants for positions in the | revenue department. George W. Leadley | is here from Washington with authority to appoint the board and arrange for the examination. Who will comprise the body for ex- amination has not been officlally an- | nounced, but from Mr. Leadley’s actions it is thoul‘sht Bert M. Thomas will be chair- man, F. A, Fletcher secretary, and E. Lennon and J. Wampelmier examiners. The applicants to come before the board desire to work for Uncle Sam in the reve- nue department. Heretofore the civil service rule has not applied to all the branches of the Government, but all ap- pointees will now have to undergo an ex- amination. TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY The W. C. T. U. Will Prosecute Those Who Sell Liquor to Minors. Central Union, the first Woman’s Chris- tian Temperance Union formed in Califor- nia and the parent stem from which all unions in this city branched, celebrated the twentieth anniversary of its institu- tion and held its regular annual election of officers yesterday afternoon. The following officers were President, Mrs. H. H. Luse; recording secretary, Mrs. Dr. Nevins; corresponding secretary, Mrs. F. S. Vaslit; auditor, Mrs. L. M. Carver. A general discussion was entered into concerning the open violation of the laws framed for the protection of boys and girls, and at the conclusion of the discussion it was decided by vote to enter upon an ac- tive, aggressive enforcement of such laws and prosecution of cases arising under them in the courts. A complaint was re- ceived by the union from Mrs. Charles Monck concerning a saloon on Cortland avenue, conducted by Mrs. R. Stirrat, in which, it is said, Mrs. Monck’s son, Joseph Richardson, with other minors of the neighborhood, have drunk till they were in a beastly state of intoxication. Mrs. Rose M. French, State enforcer of laws of the W. C. T. U., was instructed to institute roceedings against Mrs. Stirrat. Mrs. | Monck will swear to a complaint against | Mrs. Stirrat this morning charging her with selling liquors to minors, and she will bearrested and prosecuted by the W.C.T.U. AN EVENTFUL LIFE ENDS. Captain Jerome B. Cox Dies After a Brief Illness. A most picturesque figure passed out of the commercial world with Captain Jerome B. Cox, who died Tuesday evening after an illness of two months at his home, 2740 Devisadero street. He was 67 years of age and a native of Lee County, Va. He leaves two daughters, Mrs. W. B. Ban- croft of New York and Mrs. Ada N. Martin of this city. After the war Captain Cox came to Cali- fornia. He undertook many large con- tracts, one of them being the building of that section of the Western Pacific Rail- road between Niles and San Jose. This work was appropriated by Charles McLaughlin, the then millionaire. Cap- tain Cox began suit againt McLaughlin in 1897, but the case was not brought to an end for twenty years. The exasperation caused by the delay led to a quarrel, in which Cox shot and killed McLaughlin in 1883. For this be was acquitted, however. The litigation was eventually ended in Cox’s favor. SARAH ALTHEA TERRY'S REALTX It Is Ordered Sold for the Benefit of the Insane Woman. Another scene in the long public drama of Sarah Althea Terry, the famous claim- ant of half the community property of the late Senator Sharon on the ground that she was his widow, was played yester- day in Judge Slack’s court. The woman is now an inmate of the Stockton Asylum for the Insane. Yesterday Judge glack ordered some realty in her name, consist- ing of a block of land in Fresno County, to be sold for her benefit. The order was flmwd in pursance of an application b Terry’s guardian, Thomas H. Williams, who recently took the place of her former guardian, Ashe. elected: ———————————— British] Consul-General Appointed. Joseph W. Warberton, British Consul-Gen- eral at Valparaiso, has been appointed British Consulin San Francisco, vice Denis Donohoe resigned. Mr. Warberton is expected to assume the duties of his office in aboutl two weeks. In Mme. Emma Eemes has just shown a re- markable amount of pluck on the stage and a power of acting that ought to confound the people who so persistently say that she has no histrionic talent. She is touring in the East- ern States as one of the chief attractions in the Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau company, and re- cently in the journey from St. Louis to Boston two of the fingers of her leit hand were seri- ously crushed in a door. The doctor declared that an operation would be necessary, but Mme. Eames was billed to sing the Countess in the “Marriage of Figaro” tnat night, and she would not hear of the opera being changed ana the public disappointed on account of her accident. The audience noticed that her hand was bandaged and in & sling, but she sang as well as ever and appeared £0 smiling and un- concerned that no one guessed she was suffer- ing great pain and was looking forward to & painful operation the next day which might maim her hand for life. It was not till after- MME. EMMA EAMES, ward that the story leaked out. Mme. Eames’ popularity as a singer has been so great this season that it would be hard even for an in- cident like this to add to it. Last year she was overshadowed by the gitted and jealous Calve, but this season felba hasbeen Eames’ only real rival, and Nellie Melba and Emma Eames ere fast friends. How much Wagner, Berlioz and their imi- tators have changed musical taste is shown by the {act that what, thirty years ago, was rap- ing is now denounced by edvanced people as “tight-rope vocalization.” Recently Mme. Patti sang in London for the Philharmonic So- ciety. She was decorated by one of the direc- tors with a medal and this is the comment of & leading critic: “Mme. Patti wept, we under- stand, and well she might. We had difficulty in restraining our own tears, so excruciatingly pathetie, so painfully ludicrous was the scene. When Mr. Cummins began a list of Patti's ‘services to music,’ by telling how she sang at an early age in ‘La Sonambula,’ we mar- veled av the unnecessary bitterness of the frony. It was hard to imagine how many could help entering into the extravagant fun of the farce. The period to which she rightly belongs ended not a month later than 1860 She was brought up in the days and by the, school that knows nothing of the artistic con- science, and you might talk to her a yearwith- out making her understand what you meant. Artistically she is in a state of innocence and does not know evil from good.” It was Bizet who said, bitterly, “To succeed now in France a composer must be either dead ora German.” Of Bizet himself this remark proved true in a sense, and people are recall- ing it now, epropos of poor Benjamin Godard, who was snatched away a few months ago, be- fore enjoying the success which was his due. Every one remembers the unexpected appre- ciation “Carmen” met with when Bizet was dead. Without going so far as to predictas glorious a fate for Godard’s posthumous opera, “La Vivandiere,” which has just been pro- duced at the Opera Comique, & pertof the French press considers it far the best and most inspired of Godard’s works. He seems to have let his genius loose in the opers, and delight- ful melodies flow through every page of the score. “The Vivanaiere” cannot be called a lyric-comedy in the modern ecceptation of the term, it is simply an opera comique of the old form, but this form is modernized by so much true emotion, grace and freshness, as well as byso many plcturesque details, that the dis- ciples of the most modern school do not dis- pute over the form, but let themselves be con- quered by the sincerity of the musie, which is full of Godard's own charming personality. “One understands now,” says Le Monde Illus- tre, “how hard it must have been for the poor composer to die, knowing that the hour had at last struck for him to receive his compensa- tion. His relatives and friends, at least, can enjoy the success of his posthumous work.” The libretto of “La Vivandiere” is by Henry Cain, and has succeeded in contenting the most carping critics. Although the poem is framed 1n a sanguinary period, that of the war of La Vandee, and although battles and combats are telked of all through the poem, there is nothing to shock the sensibilities of the audience, and thanks to a decree of the Convention, which arrivesin the nick of time, the tragic denouement, which appears in- evitable, is avoided. Briefly, the plot is that Marion, the vivandiere, interests herself in the love-making between Sergeant George, for- merly Count de Rieul, now enrolled in the army of the Tepublic, and Jeanne, a simple peasant girl. It wason account of this love affeir that the proud old Marquis de Rieul had disowned his son, who had in consequence espoused the cause of the republic and the people against the nobility and their efiort to restore the old regime. The chances of war meke the Marquis the prisoner of .the Blues, He is to be shot that night, but Marion deliv- ers him, and out of humanity betrays her own side. Thecrime is flagrant, and she is about to expiate it with her life when the decree above mentioned arrives. Round this story a plot has been built which made the pulses of the spectators quicken. It was very simple—a few soldiers, a floating flag, but it touched those sentiments which lie sleeping, even in blase hearts. “Let unknown composers come unto me,” is what M. Franck-Valery has said ina throb of artistic enthusiasm, and the initial fuccess of his Theatre-Mondain—for unsuceess- ful composers only—which opened the other day in Paris, proves that there really was genius lying about unappreciated, which Valery had been able to pick up. The first per- formance was composed of three unpublished works. “The Gray Overcoat” was a rustic sketch, with alert and unpretentions musie by Le Rey, one of the late Leo Delibes’ best pupils. “The Hermit” was a sort of psychological can- tata, which proved that when the composer, M. Le Tourneux, succeeds in finding a good libretto he will be recognized by the public as a very gifted musician. The evening termin- ated with a clever aperetta by Louis Geegh, Who is already well known as a song and planoforte composer. 1If a few other musical writers had a M. Valery to bring out their works the way of the young composer would not be so hard as it often is at present. A special meeting of the Royal Institution of Music was held recently in Florence, Italy, in rather tardy commemoration of the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of opera. It Wwas in 1594, at Florence, that Peri’s “Dafne’” was produced, and that little work is considered the germ from which the modern lyric drama has evolved. At the meeting an interesting paper, ‘‘Sull’ Opera in Musica,” was read by Professor Gandolfi, and according to the latest fashion among musical lecturers his remarks were illustrated by excerpts from some of the works he discussed. Capellmeister Levi is giving Munich some the meantime Vice-Consul Moore will di charge the duties of the ofice. % rare operatic treats. As well as Berlioz’ “Les 4 Troyens,” he has revived Mozart's “The Mar- turously applauded as the acme of good sing- | Music and Musicians, e | riage of Figaro,” and in the latter per: | the exquisite Louis XV furniture and bric- | brac in the rocoeo style, which originally v made for the late King Ludwig’s solitar formances, for the first time pul used. The effect of these regal stag said to have been superb, pe A new ballet, called “A Wedding in H mia,” is proving a great attraction at tional Theater in Prague. The compos Bendl, has availed himsel, with " of a number of the characteristic e dances of the country, while the repr of the picturesque and time-honored of the Bohemian peasantry serves to con the national character of the piece. There seems to be no doubt about the s of Brune Oscar Klein's opera “Kenil which was recently brought out at the S Theater, Hamburg. The more it is performed the more it seems to please, so that the United States can mow boast of having sent a com- poser, as well as successful prima donnas, over 10 Europe. Gl A committee has been formed in Halle for the purpose of erecting a monument to the late Robert Franz. The eightieth ann Franz’ birth will be celebrated on it is intended to honor the great song on that day by unveiling a comme tablet in the house where he was born. A fashionable long-haired pianist had bee playing at a fashionable reception, and the hostess afterward went to the piano toth him for his efforts. The artist listened calmly and answered: “It is not I, madame, whom you must thank, but heaven, which gave me my genius.” 3 Melbourne now possesses & Municipal School of Music. The Senate of the Melbou Uni- versity formulated the scheme last December, and it has already been put into execution. This is & departure which promises much for the future of music in Australia. Mme. Marcella Sembrich is meeting witha series of triumphs in her favorite part at the Italian Opera at St. Petersburg. Her expected assumption of the character of Tamara, in Ru- binstein’s “I1 Demonio,” is looked forward to with keen interest. Wagner's “Rienzi” has been revived at the Royal Opera, Berlin, after many years’ neglect. The performance was under the personal super- vision of Frau Cosima Wagner. ki, a young pianist, has almost ski in Paris. Raoul Koezals eclipsed Padere’ A TFLUOTUATING MINE. Monroe Thompson Accuses His Ex- Partners of Serious Fraud. Monroe Thomovson has sued Thomas Clark and Wallace C. Stratton, his part- ners in an El Dorado County gold mine, for an accounting. He says that he has been defrauded out of $78,000 by his part- ners. 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