The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 16, 1895, Page 6

RS S S THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DA_(L{ CALL~$6 per year by mall; by carrier, 15¢ r wee SUNDAY CALL—$1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—$1.50 per year, The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Dally snd Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Buresu, Rbiselander bullding, Rose and Duane streets, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS, Are you going (o the country on & vacatlon ? Tt £0, it 1% 10 trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Business Office, 710 Market street, will recelve prompt attention. THURSDA MAY 16, 1895 New California is the watchword. Hard work overcomes hard times. Healdsburg: dons. its holidey attire to- day. People who make no progress make npthing. The ways of enterprise are always win- ning wa; i R Shutting off the City lights won't keep the deficit dark. L e Until we have better pavements no one can live on Easy street. Economy should illumine our path and not leave us in the dark. Westward the fruit-grower must take his way if he desires a stire thing. The picnic séason seems to have been a dead frost all over the lake region. The best plant to cultivate on the Pacific Coast just now is the factory plant. If Cleveland leaves the Democratic party the only place for him will be a hole in the grbund. Just as soon as we get pleasant pave- ments in the City it will be difficult to find & silurian. A few nights of dark streets will incline everybody to bond the. City and make light of it. o AR TE San Francisco has a good opportunity now to get a public library her people can be proud of. There would not be so many festivals in California if there were not so many reasons ; for rejoici Sooner or later the fruit factories must come where the orchards are and meet the fruit half way. No sort of moral refofm can precede knowledge of how the commonest affairs of life can be managed wisely. It is a foolish man who spends his time mourning over lost opportunities instead of Yooking round for new ones. While we are talking of festivals and progress our Eastern friends are discussing nothing but politics and baseball. Shipping fresh fruit across the continent may be risky, but it is not half so much so as trying to grow it in the frost belt. A sneer is easier than wisdom, and flip- pancy is the slide on which Folly flies down, screaming with laughter, to drown- ing water. If the bicyclists make an earnest fight for good streets the time will soon come when cobblestones will be remeiibered with a shudder. It must be comforting for the residents of the San Joaquin Valley to read of the profits secured by the Southern Pacific Company in 1894. The Sacramento Valley editors are evi- dently determined to supply the valley with a new dress and issue its industriesin an enlarged form. Those who insist that arbitration woula settle all disputes seem to overlook the function of the courtsand the duty to re- frain from disagreeing. The extension of the railway is bringing about the inevitable resnlt in America of localizing the production of all the leading articles of consumption. It is said Tom Reed can speak English, French and Italian and is now studying Spanish, but we notice he always talks straight-out Americanism. The only exultation that would be seemly over the destruction of so mueh of the Eastern fruit by frost is that based on the ability of California to supply the loss. Put your pencil down at random on any part of the map of the Pacific Coast, and you will touch a locality where a new en- terprise is either under way or on the way. According to the latest report the mines of West Australia are in a bad situation, for not only is there very little gold in the region, but there isn’t enough water to ‘water the stock. 1f the report that the Half-million Club is willing to receive advice should induce all who are eager to give it to come to San Francisco it would grow to be a Two- million Club inside of a year. Tariff reformers say the revival in trade is due to the Wilson bill, the . monometal- lists say it is due to the gold standard, but business men know it is due to hard work and energy in the face of obstacles. No mattér how hard the timesand how difficult it has been for California indus- tries to prosper under the Southern Pacific freight charges, the last annuai report of Mr. Huntington’s corporation shows a net profit of nearly $2,000,000. ————— It is no trouble for those who want too much undertaken at once for the devel- opment of the State to be blind to the fact that only one great thing can be doneata time, and that the greatest thing now be- fore the people is the San Joaquin Valley 20ad, As more than 900,000 pounds of overland freights were shipped from San Jose last week as against little more than 600,000 pounds for the corresponding week of 1894, it appears that Santa Clara intends to keep up her anunal practice of breaking her own. records. It was a graceful act of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce to pass resolutions indorsing the efforts of the Half-million Club to bring about a better understanding between the different sections of the State, and certainly if Los Angeles and 8an Fran- eisco continue to work together to that end there can be no doubt of the result. PYBLI0 IMPROVEMENTS. While the condition of the City finances precludes the undertaking of any exten- sive work in the way of improvement at present, the time is nevertheless opportune for considering the subject and impressing its importance upon the public mind. The lull in National and State politics gives oc- casion for an undivided attention to muni- cipal affairs and permits of the fullest and fairest study of the conditions and needs of the City. Itis with more than ordinary satisfaction therefore that every progres- sive citizen can note what is being done by various civic organizations to make a cam- paign of education in street improvement; aided, we are glad to say, by our vigorous contemporary, the Eraminer. Any comprehensive study of the subject will, we believe, lead all intelligént men to the conclusion that the improve- ments needed in the immediate future will require the bonding of the City to raise the money required for the work. It is to this policy that progressive citizens must sooner or later be committed, nor do we know of any reason why they should hesitate to adopt it at once. The affairs of & growing city cannot be administered like those of a town which has ceased to grow and where there is no demand for new streets, new sidewalks, new sewers and new improvements of every kind. The or- dinary revenues of the City are sufficient for its ordinary needs if economically ad- ministered, but they are not sufficient for those great works of permanent utility whose first cost is great simply because they are permanent and are not mere mat- ters of yearly repair and maintenance. Every city noted for the excellence of its municipal work, whether in America or in Europe, has achieved that excellence by borrowing the money to pay for it. Bor- rowed money wisely expended is not a burdensome debt. It soon saves for the community far more than the sum bor- rowed and the interest on it. This is par- ticularly true of money expended in street improvement. -No other work yields a better return to & community. The wear and tear of the vehicles engaged in traffic on the cobblestones of our streets are enor- mous and represent a large expense to merchants every year. The saving in this direction alone would be great, and that saved by the increase in the weight of the loads which could be hauled over better paved streets would be hardly less. The prime object of all discussion of mu- nicipal improvement at this time therefore should be the education of the people on the policy of a bond issue to provide the improvements. We must follow the ex- ample of progressive cities if we expect to achieve equal results. We need improve- ments of all kinds as soon as we can get them, and it is a mere folly to hesitate to borrow the money to pay for them. UNREASONABLE ENCORES, Like most other great artists, Ysaye has responded generously to the enthusiastic encores which his wonderful fiddling has called forth. It is fortunate for him that with his abounding good nature he has so strong a physique. For audiences are often utterly heedless of an artist’s comfort and physical capabilities, and hence often those performers who do not wish to ap- ‘pear ungracious must submit to torture. There is not a true artist, no matter how long he has performed in public, but that must feel a certain swelling of the heart as he listens to the generous applause of his performance and a clamorous demand for a repetition. It is an appreciation which is personal, immediate and spon- taneous, and differs wholly from the praise which &n author, a sculptor or a painter may read in the cold, sharp and severely studied lines that a critic pens. Thisis one of the reasons why the stage, whether | in music -or the drama, has so powerful a hold upon its devotees. 3 Actors do not find extremely enthusi- astic applause unpleasant, but musicians have to face the terrible encore, and that is a very different thing. In most cases the audience intends merely to compliment the performer and show the intensity of its enjoyment; but very often the value of the compliment is lost in the tortures of a repetition. It is very rare that great rausi- cians are physically weak, but it is a fact that even the strongest of them may be temporarily exhausted by a supreme ef- fort in presenting a smasterpiece. There have been many instances of even a strong young woman singing an exhaustive aria, retreating in excellent outward form to the wings, failing ex- bausted on a lounge in her dressing-room and then bursting into hysterical tears when the audience persisted in calling her out for an encore. After the elder Salvini, powerful though he was, had finished the closing scene of “Othello,” the andience has been known to thunder for a curtain bow until the stage manager was forced to come out and explain that it was impossi- ble for the master to appear. Salvini meanwhile was lying in his dressing-room completely exhausted and hali-uncon- scious, his two personal attendants wait~ ing for his comatose condition to pass, and tken reviving him with a vigorous rubbing, to be followed by a hearty supper and a snug tucking into bed. ‘When a great musician shows a positive willingness to respond to an encore it is only kind to reflect that there may be some good reasom for it and 1o cease the demon- stration after a reasonable time. For that matter, when it comes to an inquiry into the philosophy of an encore, we fall upon vague ground. It is an interesting fact that although the word ‘‘encore’” means *“‘again” or “‘repeat,” a repetition even of a part of what has been sung or played is generally a safe plan to prevent anotherre- call. To repeat a part of what already has been given is an absurdity in an artistic sense, and hence most great artists give something different—usually a simple, familiar and inartistic production. They must do this in violation of their own sense of art apd fitness, and either out of weak kindness or througha commercial sense to secure a wider popularity. In any aspect of the case response to an encore is generally a violation of art ethics, and a demand for one—for anything more than a curtain bow—is generally a confessionon the part @f the audience that it has an understanding of art below that of the great artist whom it is blunderingly seek- ing to flatter. TRADE AND THE TARIFF, - Itisone of the marked features of the revival in trade that it has encouraged everybody. Even the tariff reformers who were 80 humiliated by the Wilson-Gorman compromise, and so_utterly routed at the elections last fall, have begun to feel suffi- cieritly encouraged to perk up their heads again. It is not unusnal pow to find tariff reform organs actually claiming the improvement in -business as one of the results of their reforms. Some.of them are even so fully persuaded they can carry off the credit of bringing back better times that they are urging the Demo- cratic party to drop the money question, and make the campaign of 1896 on the argument that business has been im- proving since the Wilson bill was passed. _ Against this presumptuous claim, how- ‘ever, ‘there is arranged a mass of facts -|'which not even the most sophistical rhetorician among the reformers can gloss over sufficiently to delude the people. The revival of the time is an improvement only when compared with the conditions of the last two years. If the comparison is made with the conditions that existed before Cleveland came into office, it will be found we are still living in the low lands of the great Democratic depression. Thereis a long uphill journey yet before we reach the standard of prosperity set up by the Republican system - of protection; apd nothing but a return to that system in its full completeness of protecting every American industry from foreign comple- tion will enable either the capital or the labor of the United States to attain it. The revival will .be of permanent value to-us only if we rightly understand its causes and accurately estimate its extent. It is a revival bronght aboht by American energy, despite the obstacles of bad tariff lawsand a bad system of finance. It is the outcome’ of the restoration of public confidence by the great Republican vic- tories of last fall. ‘In the assurance of a speedy return of the Republican party to power, the business of the country is able to face even the deficit of the National treasury and the diminished revenues re- sulting from the panic tariff without fear. This fact is too well understood for the tariff-thinkers to succeed in deluding. the people into the belief that the Wilson bill is the cause of the revival, and theirefforts in that direction are about as futile as the chattering of jays. FOR SACRAMENTO VALLEY. The meeting of the editors of the Sacra- ‘mento Valley at Woodiand and the organi- tion there of an editorial association may prove to be an occasion from which will date a comparatively new era-in the de- velopment of the valley. This possibility does ‘mot arise from any new. ideas ad- vanced at the meeting, nor from any new enterprise suggested there, but from the fact that it will put a greater force behind the ideas and enterprises already enter- tained, and -thereby will more effectually put them into action and push them for- ward toward a successful realization. Itis in the highest degree creditable to the editors of the valley that they have not only caught the enthusiasm for prog- ress which pervades the State and have expressed it with vigor in their, columns, but that in forming this association among themselves they have set an example in the direction of right action. It may be said of them, they “have allured to brighter things and led the way.” Certainly the first effective step toward material progress which any community can take in these days is that of & co-operative organization among its people; and it is because the editors have set so good an example of this kind that their meeting is likely to prove something of noted consequence in the industrial history of the State. The resolutions adopted at the meeting have the double merit of brevily of ex- pression and concentration of purpose. They express the resolve of the association to work for three things—the improvement of the Sacramento River, the subdivision of large land-holdings and the wide adver- tisement of the industries and resources of the valley. Each of these things is good, but the improvement of the great river is the one of dominant importance. In the arduous task of bringing about.the full ac- complishmenfof that work all Californians can well afford to unite. Certainly San Francisco can easily see how greatly it would be to her advantage to have the river made navigable for large boats as far as Red Bluff all the year round. For this ‘work the assistance of the National Govs ernment will be required and can be ob- tained if all Californians unite in demand- ing it. The Editorial Association can do important service to the whole State, as well as to the Sacramento Valley, in edu- cating public opinion on such great issues 2s this, and for that reason, if for no other, its organization may well be commended and indorsed. THE “ WEEKLY CALL. The WEERLY CALL, issued this morning, commends itself particularly to readers in the rural and mining districts of the Pa- cific Slope. TIts agricultural and mining pages are replete with valuable informa- tion with reference to California’s imperial industries, its commercial quotations are fresh and reliable, and its condensation of coast news is an excellent summary of the week’s happenings in States west of the Rockies. Tt presents a faithful picture of California as it is, and no better advertise- ment of the resources and advantages of this favored Btate could be sent to friends in the frost-bitten East than the WrekLy CaLyn. Among other features in the issne of this date may be mentioned articles descriptive of Lodi and Livermore, two prosperous California towns; a carefully . prepared household column;. queries and answers; news of the various fraternities; a page for children; a scientific department and a review of manufactures, Another install- ment of ‘that deeply interesting serial, “Fort Frayne,” is presented, and, in ad- dition to a page of timely, able editorials, the brilliancy of many coast writers is re- flected in the “‘Spirit of the Press.” The latest and most important telegraphic news is given, and, on the whole, the WEEkLY Carr is just such a newspaper as will be cheerfully welcomed in every home. PERSONAL. R. D. Stephens of Sacramento 1s at the Palace. C. H. Dencil of the Oroville Mercury is at the Grand. Dr. J. J. Stephens of Petaluma is at the Grand. V. C. Richards of the Chico Record is at the rand. W. B. Dunning of the navy is at the Occi- dent: 5 Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juanis at the Grand. Philo Hersey of 8an Jose registered at the Palace yesterday. R. M. Green, a merchant and mine-owner of Oroville, is at the Grand. 0. 0’Connell, a merchant of Coos Bay, regis- tered at the Lick yesterday. Dr. C. W. Chapman and Mrs. Chapman of Nevada City are at the Palace. A. Malpas, & vineyardist from Los Gatos, reg- istered at the Grand yesterday. J.J.0’Brien and wife are making a short visit to the southern part of the State. 5 James D. Hoge Jr,, manager of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, is & guest at the Palace. Allan Towle and nis family of Towles: came in‘on the Australia yesterday from the Ha-' Commander George F. Kutz of the navy and Mrs. Kutz came down from the navy-yard yes- ‘terday, and are &t the Occidental. David Lubin of Sacramento, corresponding secretary of the Equitable Protective League, | i3 at the Grand. He will address the Chamber of Commerce Thursday, of this week on the subject of “Export Bounty for American Agri- cultural Products.” 2 . Colonel Volney V. Ashford, who was accused of participation in the Jale attempt atrevolu- tion in the Hawaiian Is'2ids and sentenced to imprisonment, and was released on condition of leaving the islands, came up by the Austra- lia and is staying at the Occidental. s State Senator E. C. Voorheis of Amador County is a guest at the Baldwin.. He says that the mining: counties of California are remlly prosperous. - Ameador is particularly progres- sive. The mines in the vicinity of Jackson dis- burse about $40,000 monthly and the result is good times in that town. v Ex-Speaker John Lynch of San Bermardino County is at the Baldwin. When he left home the prospects for a large crop of lemons were very gratifying. Julius A." Palmer, who has been -for many _years a correspondent of the Boston Transcript, and who has lately been to the Hawalian Islands as special correspondent for the New York Evening Post, came in on the Austraie yesterday, and is a guest at the California, where he will stay several days. S e e ] PEOFLE. TALEED ABOUT. —_— William Hope Harvey, the author o Financial School,” was born in Buffalo, Vi in August, 1851. .His father was a Virginian of Scotch-English extraction,a descendant of the famous Harvey who discovered the circula- tion of the blood. His mother was a Miss Hope, of Irish descent. He received a slender educa- tion in a country loghouse school and a rustic academy, doing farmwork between times, At 16 he taught school, and later studied law. The French sculptor Jules Roulleau died in Paris the other day at the age of 40. Inthe opinion of many he was at the head of the younger French sculptors. Among his best known works is the statue of Joan of Arc at Chinon, near Tours. At the time of his death he had about finished the monument to the memory of President Carnot for the city of Nolay. The Rev. Charles H. Strong, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Savannah, Ga., has followed the example of the Rev. Dr. R. Heber Newton, and repudiated the doctrine that the physical body of Christ was raised from the grave. Kaiser William has forbidden the officers and men of the Berlin garrison to smokein the principal streets of the city, in consequance of irregularities in the salute offered to his Majesty and the members of the royal family. Mme. Muhling, who has translated many French dramas into German, celebrated the hundredth anniversary of her birth in Berlin on April'l5, She isstill hale and hearty. The Rev. Willlam J. Petrie, who has been pastor of the Church of Qur Savior, Chicago, for twenty years, has resigned, and will travel in Europe. The latest description of the Chinese Empe- ror portrays him as “looking abont 17, & thin- shouldered, narrow-chested, frail, worn-out boy.” Charles Dickens, the younger, has succeeded the late James Sime as a literary adviser to the house of Macmillan & Co., in London. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Sensible people, who are neither radicals, criminals nor agitators, ind out that happi- ness consists in contentment and resolution to make the best of things. There is no greater fallacy, nothing that is more stirring the dregs of dissatisiaction, than the fancy that plenty of means insures to each of us greater pleas- ures and broader satisfaction in life. Let no one run away with the ides that there is not plenty of joy without wealth; that the man of modest means may not be as happy as the rich, and that the very poor man may have reasons of the very best kind for not wishing to ex- change lots with the very rich.—Record-Union. The Watchman suggests that it would be well to call a general railroad meeting of the citizens of Humboldt County to discuss the matter of transcontinental railroad. The thought, the wish, the desire for direct com- munication with the Eastisrapidly geining ground; our people appreciate the fact thats real benefit and tangible advencement can only come from outside connection and through roads. Such meeting could notdo otherwise than to awaken deeper the public interest in an earnest effort to get Humboldt out of the woods.—Blue Lake Advocate. The subdivision of our large ranches is a matter which should not be alleved to slumber. Mendocino needs a large populstion in order that her vast resources may be developed. In comparison with European countries and many of the Eastern States this, county could well support ten times the population it now con- tains. There is scarcely a hillside in the county that 18 not susceptible of cultivation, and its hundreds of fertile valleys only await to be touched into life and prosperity by the magic ‘wand of industry.—Ukiah Republican-Press. Lincoln’s birthday, just as much as George Waskington’s, should be made a legal holiday throughout the country. His memory is en- titled to all the respect a patriotic and grateful people can pay him. We do not believe there would be a dissenting voice to the proposition, certainly not in the Southern States, where he was respected and esteemed for his purity, megnanimity and boundless patriotism.—San Francisco Spirit of the Times. The “Committee on Sound Currency,” which the same is & goldbug outfit, has sent us an offer to furnish supplements free to the Citro- graph if we will use them. The offer is promptly, positively and persistently declined. We have no use for thatkind ot literature. We are for the free coinage of silver on the ratioof 16 to 1 and believe that the people will so decide at the elections next year.—Red- 1ands Citrograph. Take an honest pride in the community you call home. No matter whether some one you may notlove as & brother is holding anim- portant pesition over you. Sustain him in doing his duty and manfully fight for him when you see he is in the right. Be a man and rise above personal bickerings and little jeal- ousies when the welfare of your town is at stake.—Santa Clara Journal. Now that the: California wine trade is get- ting on its feet it is a matter for regret that it should be given & ‘backset by the exportation of inferior wines'by & few vignerons who have rot the business ability to see that that sort of thing will not only injure themselves but the ‘whole boay. of Californid winemakers.—San Jose Mercury. It was a right good' day for California when 8Ban Francisco discovered that she had a “back country”-and concluded to do something with it.—Fresno Republican. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Printers are threatened with a greater danger than they need fear from the introduction of machines. A #3,000,000 hejress of Boston has ineugurated a new fad by marrying a typo tourist. Head for the woods, boys, when you take to the road, for there will not bea ‘“cor- poral’s guard” left of us after the epidemic has taken a good hold of the heiresses. There are many of them and few of us—who would make the sacrifice.—Pacific Union Printer. Fuddy—You say that Cheffery has slain his thousands. Has he been a soldier or are you only joking and mesan that he is a physician? Duddy—My dear fellow, I never was more serious in my life. No, sir, he is neither soldier nor doctor. He is the publisher ot a cook book. | —Boston Transcript. Mrs, Toogood—I don’t see how it is that men find so much pleasure insuch a brutal business s prize-fighting? Broken Face Bili—I don’t see how we kin help it, lady. The women is crowdin’ us men out of all the professions and they ain’t nothin’ else fer us ter do.- ‘That’s the only reason I'm in it; lady.—Roxbury Gazette. She—One can judge the: character of & man by his opinion of women eelh He—Yes? . - : She—Yes. held women in-thé highest esteen? e o G He—A bachelor, I slionld -think.—Detroit Free Press. 5 Sizzer—The Csar of Russia would meke an awful good modern playwriter. & ‘Whizzer—What inakes you think that?: - Bizzer—Because he hates plots.—Philadelphia Inquirer.” . . - : - “Why, she actually cut Mr. Storflington, and E:o?’mmn,;yoq know, is one of the. better rt.” s “Yes; choice cuts come high now, but we must have 'em.”—Boston Transctipt. “Nay,” said the young editress, coldly, to hier penniless lover, “ask me not to break every tradition of my chosen calling. I cannot re- turn. your love, for it fs unaccompanied by stamps.” —Life. Now what kind 6f ‘s man would | -| you say.always Music and _ Musicians,. The following is one of the latest criticisms on the French compaser, Saint-Seens, who isat present wandering- in the Orient to seek in- spiration for his “Brunhilde”: “Saint-Saens is a wonder-working fellow, & spouting vol- cano of new forms, new effects, each more bizarre, less expected than the last. ‘He writes for orchestra as if it alone had been hislifelong study; for organ or piano. or violin or ’cello, as we have hitherto ‘supposed they could only be written for by specialist virtuosos. Appar- ently he is acquainted with and master over the oldest and newest devices in the mechan- ism of composition, and he. certainly knows well how to mix every shade of orchestral color used on ‘the. modern music-painter's palette. He works marvels, yet one cannot Tesist the suspicion that his artistic personality M. CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS. [From an engraving.] is wholly fictitious. This is not merely because extraordinary facility, accomplishment with- out effort, always arouses suspicion. However favorable a first impression of his music may be its charm soon wears shabby; we soon feel that it is entirely without depth, is more uni- formly shallow than any music of the century, except, perhaps, Meyerbeer’s, and we resent haying been cheated by a composer Who never writes an original or sincere bar, and nevera bar that is not & miraculously clever imitation of real music. What sincerity, indeed, beyond the sincerity of the shopkeeper may one expect of an artist who in his maturer years writes a ‘Samson et Dalila’and by the side of figures written after Bach at his sugustest, lays on gorgeous splashes of the voluptuous coloring of Wagner in hismost royal mood? Baint-Saens is slways for the moment some one else; he ks the higher sincerity that keeps the artist true to himself.” It is announced, on what seems excellent anthority, that Abbey and Gran have engaged Anton Seidl to conduct two nights of German opera each week during their next season. Melba has been dropped from the forcesand has signed with Ellis of the Boston Symphony orchestra for a series of concerts. Sembrich, about whose voice there have been all sorts of rumors since she was in America la: secured in Melba’s place. Nordica, Eames, both the Ds Reszkes, Plancon and Maurel re- main, and Tamagno goes. Whether Seidl will have a contingent of German singers for the ‘Wagner works is not yet settled, but it is almost. certain that he will conduet Italian as well as German opera. Walter Damrosch has also en- gaged the Metropolitan for a term of German opera next season, and apparently means to go right ahead in the face of this serious oppo- sition. Next season will be a happy one for the lovers of opera in New York whatever it may be for the managers. Otto Foersheim, writing of the new opera “Kenilworth,” says: ‘“‘Americans may well be proud of the production at Hamburg of Bruno Oscar Klein’s music-drama ‘Kenilworth.’ It means that Poloni, the cleverest of European opera-house intendants, has found sufficient merit in an American opers not only to pro- dnce it at higown opera-house, but, =o to speak, to identify himself with it.” Foersheim, atter seeing the opera, adds: “My anticipations, great as they were, have been far surpassed. The work held me spellbound from first to last. The steigerung was so great, and the interest’ created in the listeners so intense thatin the final and most touching scene—Amy Robsart’s self-destruction by poison—I was so affected that tears streamed from my eyes, and I can assure you that the effect was not brought on merely by the ciever acting and superb singing of Mrs. Klefsky, but in the main by the innate tenderness and sympathet ic character of Oscar Bruno Klein’s music.” Dvorak has gone to Europe to spend the va- cation. Before sailing he is reported to have se1d in regard fo the colored pupils whom he has been instrumental in introducing into the National Conservatory of Music. “The plan has worked very well, though but few of the newstudents have been my immediate puplls. A few weeks ago there was a great ado ‘because I took twa colored pupils into a box with me at one of the concerts of the Philharmonic Bociety. I am gladI took them. Whatl like about our colored pupilsis that they are re- spectful. The Americans, I mean the white Americans, are also respectful and polite.. Of the young men the Americans always are gen- tlemen, and the manners of the girl pupils are charming.” Julien Tiersot, in an article in the Revue Blue, communicates an interesting discovery made with regard to Berlioz. Tiersot has found in the library of the Paris Conservatory the almost complete. music of the famous fanfare of the “Tuba Mirum,” from the “Requiem,” and it was sent by Berlioz from Rome to the conservatory. Now the composition of the Re- quiem dates from 18387, while from Berlioz’ own memoirs we learn that the fragment of & solemn mass, his first work, was sent from Rome fifteen years before. One sees by this how long Berlioz was haunted by the idea of his “Requiem,” and as Mr. Tiersot remarks: “This page représents the dominating idea of his youth, if not of his entire life.” At the present moment works of the modern Russian school are in great favor in Paris, and as British composers ean make no headway in the gay French capital & writer in the Strand ‘Magazine makes the following suggestion: «If some of our leading native eomposers were to adopt Muscovite terminations to their names they might perhaps succeed in obtaining a hearingin Paris. Sullivanski, Cowenkoi, Mac- kenzikoff, Stanfordtscheff, Parrykine, would look very imposing on a programme, and if their music were to achieve any measure of succees it ‘would always.be open to any of the above composers to. throw off his Russian dis- guise” - A 3 Finck, writing-in the New York Evening Post, says: “Franz Betz, who' had the honor of xu. the first Hans Sachs and ‘the first Wotan Wagner's operas, celebrated his sixtieth Dbirthday on March 19. He is still one of the ‘best singers in the Berlin opera, a living proof of the fact that Wagner’s music does not injure the voice.”. Finck, however, has overlooked the fact that to be one of the best singers at the Berlin Opera-houss does not necessarily imply that one is & good singer. nor does the capacity of one artist to sing Wagner prove that Wagner does not injure the voice. When a pupil of the makes his or her debut at the Grana Opera it is done without having had single rehearsal with the chorus'and orchestra, the debutant hias not been on the stage before the perform- ence, does not know how far he is going to find himself from the public, how many steps titwill take to cross the immense stage. mor Paris Conservatory has been, anything of the mysterious problem of strug- glieg for the first time with & powerful orches- tra. In addition to this there is the emotion of finding oneself for the first time the cyno- sure of two thousand pairs of eyes. A Jady whose name is withheld from & euri- ous public is said to have written an opera un- der the inspiration of Beethoven’s ghost. This Work is to be presented in London in the course of the season. Beethoven. it appears, has been distressed for a good while becanse he could not finda mortal capable of executing his ideas. All the music that has been pent up in him since he died will, no . doubt, come out in the opers, which has already been gravely ac- cepted by many spiritualists in London asa serious undertaking. Music says: “It was rather an ill-natured men, who, when asked how he had liked “Iristan and Isolde,’ said he liked it extremely and did not remember ever before having at- tended a grand opera where there was nobody who could sing that he had enjoyed so well. As vocal criticism, this was not quite wide, and ‘as art appreciation, also, it was rather close. Forin ‘Tristan’ it is not a questionof singing, but of orchestral throbbing, singing and soul-stirring.” Cyril Taylor, & boy soprano no longer, ssys that while he was visiting Patti in Wales she promised to sing Juliette to his Romeo when his volce shall have changed to a tenor, as it probably will. As Patti seems truly perennial, perhaps her promise may be fulfilled. An Ttalisn paper, the Carriere della Sers, an- nounces with all seriousness that. Mascagni is about 1o visit Paris—not for musical purposes, but to challenge the French champion, M. Vignaux, to & billard match. Zaltan Dome, the Hungarian tenor who is engaged to marry Mme. Nordica, has been en- gaged by the Paris Grand Opera-house. He will make his debut there in November. The fairy opera, “Hansel and Gretel,” has reached its hundredth performance in London and shows no diminution in popularity. Gilbert’s comic opers, ‘“His Excellency,” is going to Berlin and Vienna. ON 175 TENTH BIRTHOAY, Mission Council of the Young Men’s Institute at Table. An Enjoyable Evening Spent With Toasts and Speeches, Wine and Laughter. Gay with waving palms and banners, filled with music and the sounds of lsughter and revelry, the Mission Parlor Hall was an attractive place Tuesday even- ing, and one where the guests stayed late and drank their wine with the satisfaction born - of a successful event. It was the tenth anniversary of the formation of Mis- sion Council No. 3,Y. M. I., and all the members of the council and all the promi- nent people of the order were there to drink a glass and say a word on the future success of the council of which they were guests. It was a reunion and banquet, a gather- ing of friendsand a time of story-telling, toasts and reminiscences. The tables were set in the form of the capital E, and at the cross-table at the head sat the officers of the banquet and the honored guests of the evening. . James E. Kenny, president of Mission Council, was toastmaster of the evening, and among those who responded were some high in the ranks of the Young Men'’s Institute and others who have been the grand officers. The toast **The Young Men’s Institute” was responded to bi'IFrank J. Kierce, the rand_president. e was followed by %lev. J. Cummins, who responded to “Qur Faith,” Then came ‘‘Our Country,” “Mission Council No. 3, ‘‘Fraternity,” “California,” “Qur Motto—Pro Deo, Pro Patria,” ‘‘Pioneer Council No. 1,” “The Future of the Young Men’s Institute,” “The Press’” and “The Ladies.” In that order they were announced and responded to, the respondents being representative men of the bar, the mercantile circles and the clergy. THE HARBOR COMMISSION, The Conference With the Valley Road Directors Postponed Until Wednesday Next. The Harbor Commissioners met yester- day, and Engineer Holmes submitted plans and specifications for a coal platform for the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Company. The board was unable to decide on the merits of the collision between the General McDowell and the State’s mudscow, on account of the conflict of testimony be- tween the captains of the Mchwcfl and the Markham, and it was finally agreed that the State should pay one-hali the loss, amounting to $60. The board agreed to pay for the damage to the cars of San Francisco and Nor?h Pacific Coast Railroad Company, incurred on the belt railroad. Alex J. Roseborough of Oakland was ap- pointed wharfinger, vice J. F. Thomas, term expired. J. B. Hyslop was reap- pointed. 5 A communication was received from Governor Budd, asking for the postpone- ‘mentof the conference with the Valley road directors from Monday until Wednesday at 10 o’clock A. M. The postponement was agreed upon. ————— , The Check Was Worthless. Heary Bre of Bre & Lewis, clothiers, 111 Sixth street, swore out a warrant in Judge Joachimsen’s court yesterday for the arrest of B. Alexander on the charge of obtaining goods by false pretenses. Alexander had & shoe- store at 113 Sixth street, but sold out on Mon- day. That dniehe bought a $50 suit of clothes from Bre & Lewis and gave theni in payment a check on the London &nd San TFiancises Bank. When' Bre presented the check at the bank he was t0ld that Alexander had no ac- g)um there. Alexander has gone to Victoria, Charges Fraud. Luigi Ghielmetti has sued Mark Levy, J. Ein. stein and Einstein & Levy for $1500, and that defendant, Mark Levy, be imprisoned for frand until the same is paid. The plaintiff ave he lent the sum asked onpthe securig. ;I‘m.t warehouse receipt and fire insurance Ppolicy, 4nd that the receipt was afterward delivered to ander a on the latter's ge_l;nh. = ooy ————— BacoN Printing Company, 508 Clay strest, * ———— CRYSTALLIZED ginger, 25¢ 1b, Townsend’s. * —————a— Frngsr sauternes, haut-sauternes and dessert ‘wines. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market street.* ——————— _Van Dyke's mother was quite an art ent.:fl with a yery correct npy?'eciazion of excellence in drawing and painting. 3 —— Hoon's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood. It gives strength, appetite and refreshing sleep. It cures every form of disease which has its origin in the blood. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla now. 5 —————— THOSE Who seek rellef from pain And weakness should use PARKER'S GINGER TONIC. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns, 15 cenfs ———————— WE recommend the use of Dr. Siegert’s Angos- :’ll.l-’t Bitters to our friends who suffer with dyspep- ———— FOR ALLAYING HOARSUNESS AND IRRITATION OF THE THROAT, use *Brown’s Bronchialj Troches.” | 28¢ a box. Avold imitations. {Tfl ELECT NEW TEACHERS. The School Board Is Divided Over the Method to Be Adopted. TWO EXTREMES ADVOCATED. Buta Compromise Plan Is Likely to Be Finally Agreed Upon. The Board of Education has struck a snag in the work of revising the rules. The snag is concealed in_the rule provid- ing the manner of appointing new teachers. There is a disposition to run to extremes one way or another and as a result the board is all at sixes and sevens, so to speak. . Director McElroy has introduced a reso- Iution providing that where teachers are to be appointed each Director shall nominate his candidate and the lady receiving seven votes shall be called fortunate. No com- petitive examination is required in this plan—nothing but a pull. Director Murdock, on the rther hand, advocates the reference of all appiicants to the Board of Examiners, to secure their appointment only through a competitive examination, followed by actual trial at teaching with approval of methods and ability. This, it is claimed, takes the power of appointment out of the hands of the board entirely, but it is said by the opponents to it that it would place very onerous duties upon the shoulders of the board. ‘The board would have its hands so full that its members could attend to nothing else,” said a mem ber of the board yesterday, 2 Dr. Clinton has-a plan which is midway between these extremes and which he ex- pects will reconcile the champions of both, and be adopted perhaps with some modifi- cations. It provides that the Directors shall nominate the candidates, but that twice the number shall be named that there are va- cancies. For instance, if there is room on the extra substitute list for thirty teachers then each of the twelve Directors shall name five candidates, or sixty in all. These shall go before the Board of Ex- aminers and the thirty be chosen from them upon their merits. “Under this plan,” said Director Clinton yesterday, ‘‘the Board of Examiners will not be thronged with applicants all the time. They will have a certain number, like a class, to deal with, and will know when they are through. Neither is there any element of the one-man power, such as is advocated by someof the members, where the Directors name the teachers without regard to competitive examina- ]tion, but simply take their place in line by ot. “‘On the other hand the members have something to say in the appointments, as I think they should, but theY are compelled by it to place good material in nomination in order that the candidates shall stand any chance at success. For every one of the sixty. !?' so nominated is in compe- tition with fifty-nine others. “The candidates so chosen, yon under- stand, take their place in the extra susti- tute list without pay. They pass into the. substitute ~l{st under pay as vacancies occur, and on this list they stand in line for regular appointments, Ordinarily about sixty teachers are ap pointed every year.” The fixing of this rule, it is expected, will call out the warmest kind of a debate in the board and the advocates of the sev- eral methods are set in their notions. Another meeting of the board in coms mittee of the whole will be held in a few :];a.ys te'give this rule its undivided atten- ion. Conference of German Baptists. The German Baptist churches of California and Oregon will hold their first annual confer- ence, beginning next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. An introductory sermon will be Er\:athed at tne First German Baptist Church, eventcenth and Dehone streets, near Sanchez, by Rey. William Rabe of Portiand, Or. Ses- sions will be held the following days and preaching every evening, including Sunday. 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