The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 27, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, i Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DATLY CALL—#6 per year by mail; by carrler, 15¢ per week. DAY CALL LY CALL- n office of the SAN FRANCISCO 1y), Pacific States Adver- rder bullding, Rose and CAI tis Duane stre THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacation ? If g0, it 15 no trouble for us to forward THE your address. Do not let it miss you for miss it. Orders given to the carTier, or left ai Business Office, 710 Markei street, will receive prompta shop. Help the celebration of the glorious Fourth. Uk Democrats can neither agree nor consent ee. ¢ dollar spent for lottery tickets is lost to industry. Every one of San Francisco’s hillsisa splenaid observatory. It is a poor cobble that can’t find some silurian to befriend it. The Kentuc buzzsaw to wo Democrats started the t once A lottery ticket is a league with avarice and a covenant with fraud. Stockton is peculiarly fortunate in secur- ing two new railroads this summer, About the only real conflict in Cuba is that between the reports that come from there, Many a man wears shabby shoes in order to heel himself with a worthless lottery ticket. Having driven the lottery into a corner, public opinion must now drag it out and Kill it. The man who is compelled to spend his summer in San Francisco has no reason to regret it. —_— There appear to be more peoplein this country talking economics than studying economy. Thos2 who oppose opposition to the lot- tery defend one of the most injurious vices of the day. The cause of international bimetallism continues to gain adherents on both sides of the ocean. It looks now as if it would be a Populist rer and a Democratic lamb that will get her in 1896. 5 tog The city that is not an applicant for the next Republican National Convention is yet io be heard from." It is about as hard for the Supervisors to fix the tax levy as for the average citizen to pay his share of it. The socialist who is willing to put him- self in another man’s place always has a richer than himself in view. Judging from the course of lectures an- nounced, the Grange outing at Wrights will be an encamped university. The route which bids most generously for the Valley road will be the one which will secure it and enjoy its benefits. Brice is reported to have captured the Democratic State Committee in Ohio, but the convention is yet to be heard from. There is no other news-gathering in the world equal to that of The United Press, and the CaLn readers get the benefit of it all. Santa Rosa’s permanent exhibits of her fairest products will be incomplete unless some of the pretty girls of the place are in- cluded. By making a proper celebration of the Fourth of July we can prove that civic patriotism is a stimulus to National pa- triotism. The Republican Congress will have to provide a revenue for the Democratic administration and save Cleveland from his friends, Since the recent discovery of photo- graphing the colors of an object, those afflicted with the blues should keep away from the camera. AT ‘What at first seemed only a whimsy of chance has since deyeloped into the handi- work of fate in the fact that the presiding genius-of Hawaii is Dole. So long as there is a deficiency in the revenue or an American industry un- protected, so long will the tariff be a vital issue in American politics. A short time ago it was reported the frost had killed all the grapes in the New York vineyards, and now we are told a two-thirds crop is expected. The women of Santa Rosa who made a winning fight for the preservation of the shade trees of the city have a right to bask in the sunshine of public favor. Recognizing the impossibility of attain- ing success in the next National election, each Democrat is trying to win something of a victory by downing another Democrat. One of the strangest of modern anoma- lies is the failure of California to do such missionary work with Mr. Huntington’s tariff sheets as will make it possible to send our products to Mexico, The programme arranged for the Press Club benefit at the Columbia Theater this afternoon will be rendered by artists of ex- ceptional merit from first to last, and de- serves the patronage of all who delight in artistic work and hayve a right appreciation of the good fellowship of the Press Club. Lest there be some truth in the pub- lished rumor that some of the San Joaquin land-owners are demanding payment for a right of way for the Valley road their names should be published as a vindica-| tion of those who have been more enter- prising and may suffer unjustly from being confounded with the recalcitrants. e The proposal of the Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation to work up the observance of a “California day,” on which all the retail tores throughout the City shall show none but California products in their windows, ig a good one, and may have the effect of convincing the merchants of the advantage of keeping such goods in their windows . every day. THE RIGHT MOVE. The announcement that Governor Budd will call a convention of county Supervis- ors to take action on the proposed exhibit of California products and resources at the Atlanta Exposition will be received with general satisfaction. It seems that only through such a convention will it be pos- sible to obtain sufficient means to make a display adequate to the occasion or of value to the State. Each county has a right under the law to devote a certain amount of money every year to advertis- ing purposes, and if the counties of the State can devise some means of co-ope- rating the money needed for an effective exhibit can be readily obtained in this wa, There can be no doubt the Atlanta E: position offers the best chance of the year for making a good advertisement of our products. The exposition is to be no or- dinary affair. Even if we discount the re- ports sent out by the managers as adver- tisements there would still remain suffi- cient proof of the genuine greatness of the undertaking. The leading journals of the Eastern States have had special corre- spondents in Atlanta, and their reports agree in confirming the statements of the managers that the exposition will in al- most every respect compare favorably with that in Philadelphia in 1876, and surpass it, of course, in everything in the way of in- dustrial improvement that has been ac- complished since that time. It should be borne in mind the special object of the Atlanta undertaking is to at- tract immigration to the South. In this design the promoters of the exposition have the co-operation of the great railways from the North to that section, and also of several societies which are trying to en- courage immigration from crowded por- tions of the Eastto the sparsely settled South. Every inducement will therefore be giver to home-seekers to go to Atlanta and what the different States can offer to intending settlers. California ought to meet ii:is class of people with a full dis- vlay of her products and resources, thus giving them reason to come West instead of going South. The benefits likely to be gained will accrue to all the counties, and it would seem therefore that when the Su- pervisors meet in convention they ought readily to agree upon a plan of action that will give the State the money needed to meet the demands of the occasion. MARCUS D. BORUCK. The State of California has had no jour- nalist more thoroughly known at home or more widely known abroad than Marcus D. Boruck, He was one of those editors whose personal force and influence are too great to be merged and lost even in so0 ab- sorbing a creation as a great jourral. There are not many such editors in the Union. The great majority of American weeklies and dailies are to the public purely impersonal things, and very few people either know or care to know who stands back of them. The exceptions to this will hardly exceed half a dozen, and it is an evidence of the strength, originality and vigor of Mr. Boruck’s character that he was one of them. Marcus D. Boruck came to this State in 1850, ana at once began to take an active partin journalism and politics. He was one of the earliest organizers of the Re- publican party on this coast, and from its foundation continued to be down to his death a stalwart supporter of all its prin- ciples, and one of the most active and aggressive among its leaders. Journalism and politics is a combination in which no American has ever achieved a double dis- tinction. Each of them is sufficient to tax the energies of even the greatest minds and most vigorous frames, and sooner or later every one who undertakes both comes to a point where he must choose between them. Mr. Boruck chose jour- nalism. He held but few political offices, and these were not of a rank equal to his abilities or proporticn- ate to his political services. It is by his work as a journalist, there- fore, that he has been mainly known to the people, and through which his influ- ence in the upbuilding of the State and the advancement of its prosperity has been chiefly exerted. The Spirit of the Times, created by his en- terprise, maintained by his energies, directed by his judgment and owing a large part of its prestige and popularity to his forcey fluency and versatility as a writer, remains as the chief monument and memorial of the arduous labors of his life. He made it one of the greatest week- lies on the Pacific Coast and gained for it a wide repute throughout the Union. It was no ordinary man who achieved so im- portant a success as this and yet won a personal reputation not inferior to that of his journal, and his name will be long re- membered. In the career of journalistic and political warfare waged by him with so much aggressiveness and incessant activity Mr. Boruck of course made many foes, but it is doubtful if any of them ever became pri- vate enemies. His battles were fought openly and honorably. None disputed the sincerity of his convictions or the honesty of his methods, and in his death many of those who were classed as his life-long opponents will be found among those who mourn him most. WHEN WOMEN WILL, In two recent instances have California women stepped forth to exercise their power in the promotion and protection of local attractions. One was that in which the women of Los Gatos organized with the men an improvement club, and the other is the firm and successful stand which the women of Santa Rosa have just taken to prevent the destruction of shade trees by the contractors who are engaged in laying new sidewalks. Santa Rosa is one of the very few interior towns in this part of the State that appre- ciate the value of shade trees. This is partly because it is old for a California town and partly because the residents are possessed of a superior order of refinement and intelligence. With a desire to protect the shade trees one would expect to find excellent. streets, a good sewage sys- tem, a perfect street-lighting system, tasteful homes and beautiful flower gar- dens, and it is just these and many more indications of taste and pride thatone finds at Santa Rosa and misses in so many places capable of maintaining attractions s0 inviting to strangers. One of the first impressions experienced by a resident of the East who visits Cali- fornia in the summer is one of depression at the unaccustomed aspect of barrenness which the larger features of the plains and valleys present. At his home, from what- ever place he may hail, he has been used to an abundant and refreshing greenness, expressed in forests, grass and flowers. In- stead of these exquisite charms he finds in the plains of California a broad treeless ex- panse of russet, with never a brook and rarely a shrub or tree to relieve the dreari- ness of the scene. It wonld be unreasona- ble to expect of him that he should under- stand that the absence of summer rains with us constitutes one of the unique ex- cellencies upon which the superiority of the State is based, and that the artificial application of water can be made to pro- duce a luxuriance of vegetation surpassing hsi experiences at home. He] is accns- tomed to an environment of greenness, and its absence in California deprives him of a pleasure which from his birth has been a constant and wholesome influence. To him and to the more refined Califor- nians themselves such a spot as Santa Rosa appears exceedingly attractive by reason of the beauty and luxuriance of its flowers and foliage, and the fine intrinsic charm of »these attractions receives an added value by contrast with places whose residents have not exhibited a similar pride and understanding. The women of the California towns should be the ones best to understand the value of these at- tractions and the wisdom of promoting them, and we trust that the example set y the women of Los Gatos in the promo- tion of new attractions and by those of Santa Rosa in protecting those which their city already has will be heeded by the women of all the State. OOST OF GOVERNMENT. The current number of Harper's Weekly contains an elaborate article by Edward Atkinson on “The Cost of Our Govern- ment,” which affordsa good illustration of the author’s ability to make a compilation of statistics interesting to the general reader and his apparent inability to draw a conclusion from them that is justified by any fair and unbiased study of them. In the present instance he points out that the political cbarges and counter- charges about ‘‘billion-dollar appropria- tions” for the maintenance of the Govern- ment, while in one sense true, give an utterly false impression. Both in the case of the Republican and of the Democratic Congress that have been charged with this large expenditure, the ‘“billion dollars” was made to include the gross cost of the postal service, the greater part of which is recovered from the sale of stampsy and large appropriations for warships, river and harbor improvementsand other public works, the expenditures for which are to be paid out over a long series of years, and therefore do not rightly come under the head of the cost of overnment for a single year. Eliminating these expenditures, the true annual cost of supporting the Govern- ment, including civil, naval and military service, the construction of public works and improvements, miscellaneous expendi- tures, interest, pensions, sugar bounties and other charges has been from 1880 to 1894 inclusive, on the average, a fraction over $282,000,000. The average revenue during the same period has been a little more than $365,000,000, and the surplus, mainly applied to the reduction of our National debt, has averaged $83,000,000. This estimate gives us a per capita tax of about §5. The expenditures for pensions and for interest may be expected to de- crease, and assuming that the population will continue to increase with a ratio equal to that of the past decade, atthe end of fifteen years the cost of the United States Government will not exceed $2 50 per capita. From this very satisfactory array of figures Mr. Atkinson concludes the coun- try needs nothing to maintain its pros- verity except the silencing of the agitation for bimetallism and the firm establishment of the gold standard. The relation be- tween the statistics and the conclusion is not clear. The bimetallists point to the fact that in the midst of our prosperity our gold was shipped to Europe, and, as our whole financial system was based upon that metal, a-panic followed. What has happened once may happen again. We may agree with Mr. Atkinson that the cost of government is not excessive, that the people are not overtaxed, and at the same time remain unshaken in the belief that to maintain our prosperity we need a broader and securer base for our monetary system. PERSONAL. R. B. Saffold, an attorney of Napa, is at the Lick. J. M. McGee, an attorney of Oroville, is atthe Grand. Congressman Charles F. Joy of 8t. Louis and Mrs. Joy are at the Palace. A. C. McLean, g railroad contractor of Monte- rey, is a guest at the Lick. Fred Erickson, a railroad contractor of San Luis Obispo, is at the Grand. F. G. Menifee, an attorney of Santa Cruz, reg- istered at the Lick yesterday. George 8. Patton, & big lumberman of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Palace. F.S. Wickersham, a banker of Fresno, was registered yesterday at the Lick. John Thomann, & wine man of St. Helena, registered yesterday at the Grand. Bryant Howard, & well-known capitalist of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Grand. Drury Melone came down from Oak Knoll yesterday and isstaying at the Palace. W. Murray, & stock trader of Pleasanton, came in yesterday and is a guest at the Grand, Police Commissioner M. A.Gunst will leave to-day for & protracted visit to the Eastern Btates. Professor B. L. Ryder of the State Normal School at San Jose regisiered yesterday at the Grand. Warden Charles Aull of the State Prison at Folsom came down yesterday and is registered at the Grand. A. 8. Smith of Marysville, who is about to resurrect the Standard of that city, is in the City and staying st the Lick. H. M. La Rue, president of the Board of Rail- road Commissioners, came down from Sacrs- mento yesterday and registered at the Occi- aental. W. H. Alford, a leading attorney of Visalia, who was the Democratic candidate for Con- gress at the last election, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. L. F. Dick and D. P. Turner of Galyeston, Tex., are at the Palace end will remain in the City about two weeks, after which they wili go on to British Coumbia. Baron and Baroness von Schroeder, with their children, arrived from Europe yesterday and went direct to the Hotel Rafael, where they will make their headguarters this sum. mer, SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Pasadena finds itself with a good many or- enges that are unsalable this year. Why? One reason is that the tariff on oranges is so low that the Mediterranean ports have no dif- ficulty in filling the Eastern market with a poor quality of fruit, selling it for almost nothing, and the other is that our fruit men held their fruit too long. There is, however, a demand for oranges and other productions if ‘we can be protected. Itisa question whether the country is to be run for Americans or for- eigners.—Pasadena News. The new departure of the Salvation Army in chartering electric-cars and going over the lines with brass bandsand a crowd of Salvation soldiers, stopping at convenient points to hold brief services, shows the possibility of the elec- tric railway in a new direction. It not only serves us wonderfully well in the material af- fairs of the world, but on occasion it performs aconspicuous part in helping along toward the world to come,—Alameds Argus, . Let freedom reign. Let Americens stand shoulder to shoulder for free institutions. Give your neighbor the right to do as he pleases, to worship as he pleases, to labor as he pleases, to rest as he pleases, to enjoy him- seli as he pleases. Only and always bearing in mind that the other fellow has as much right to work, rest, enjoy himself and worship as he pleases as you have to do these things.—Red- lands Citrograph. When we remember that the number of pleasure-seekers who use the bicycle is rapidly increasing the wisdom of providing good roads by people of pleasure resorts like Santa Cruz becomes very apparent. It will not be long before the success or failure of the season at Tesorts of pleasure will depend upon whether or not there are good roads for wheelmen in the loclu.tx.—Snnt- Cruz Sentinel. The Stockton and Lodi Terminal Railway Company has done a clever thing in giving the farmers along its right of way an oppor- tunity to use their spare horses in grading and preparing for track-laying. Horsesarea drag on the market at present, and & man who has several head to feed will be glad of the chance tomake them earn him a little something.— Lodi Review-Budget. The American Republic, by reason of its resources, its wealth and its strength, is the one big nation to take the lead in the money question. When Uncle Sam declares his finan- cial independence of John Bull, then and not till then will his greatness be recognized ;;nong the natjons of the earth,—Escondido mes, Yes, the man with a start will outrun his fellows, but the start that is wanted is not & cash start, though the first thousand dollars does come hard, but habits of industry, fru- gality, patience and the “know how’ to do some useful thing which the world wants done and do that one thing well.—Tulare Register, If the New Jersey man who claims to have discovered a method of producing light with- out heat wishes to put it to an extreme test he had better try it on the money question.—Rose- burg (Or.) Plaindealer. The San Francisco CALL says the bicycle is creating a revolution in clothes and highways. 1t is also creating a revolution among the vie- tims of reckless and inexperienced wheelmen. —Berkeley Dispatch. The man who would vote to repudiate a pub- lic debt would as readily repudiate a private obligation, which is to say, in plain words, that the repudiator is a thief.—Spokane (Wash.) Times. Some men cultivate the whisky habit; others have worse vices, but the most incorrigible sinner is he who persists in going to law with or without cause.—Albuguerque (N. M.) Citizen. Some one has said that the stepping-stone to wealth is economy. Tuolumne can certify that a stepping-stone to wealth is a Tuolumne quartz mine.—Sonora Democrat. Pittsburg journalism is now leading in sen- sationalism—the papers there annonnce thata local reporter was robbed of $500.—Salt Lake Herald, It costs considerable money to build first- class roads, but it costs considerable more to get along without them.—Benicia New Era. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS, The pretty girl was lavishing a wealth of af- fection on her mastiff and the very soft young man was watching her. “Iwish I were a dog,” he said languish- ingly. “Don’t worry,” she replied, “you’ll grow.”— Detroit Free Press, Jinks—You don’t mean to say your wife wants to sell that prize midget canine you bought her? Winks—Yes, she does. “Why, that dog is noted. It's the smallest dog in the city.” ‘‘That’s the trouble. It's so small she keeps mistaking it for a mouse.”—New York Weekly. “Does your sister know that I have called to see her?” the young man inquired, after wait- ing uneasily for an hour. I guess she does,” replied the small brother. “She doesn’t generally take more than five min- utes to come down when she has a caller.”— Washington Star, Her husband—What's the matter now? Comic Opera Singer (sobbing)—1 lostmy dia- monds and the mean clerk found them before I could notify the newspapers!—Syracuse Post. Fogg—Riches, alter all, are but a relative matter. There's Squeezepenny, for instance— Figg—Surely, you don’t call him a rich man! He hasn’t more than $10 to his name. Fogg—Very likely; but just think now high- 1y he values it!—Boston Transeript. “Young man,” said the fond father, “in giy- | passengers and freight for hire. private house entered the apartment of the lady of the house with his apprentice. “May,” the lady called to her servant, ‘‘see that my jewel-case is locked at once!” The carpenter understood. He removed his watch and chain from his vest with a signifi- cant air and gave them to his apprentice. “John,” said he. “‘take these right back to the shop. It seems that the house isn't safe.”— Youth’s Companion. —— PEOFLE TALEED ABOUT. Perhaps one of the most constant patrons of the pawnshop was the late King of Naples, who died a short time ago, and whose silver plate and jewelry have, during the past twenty years, spent much more time in the vaults of Messrs. Attenbrough in London than on the table of the central figure of Daudet's “Kings in Exile.” General Rengifo, Charge d’Affaires of Colom- bia, has received official information from his country stating that complete tranquillity existed, and that the Government troops as- sembled to put down the recent rebellion were now disbanding, as there was no further need of them, Consul-General Karel, at St. Petersburg, in a dispatch to the State Department, says the Russian Goyernment has granted a concession for seal-catching on the coasts of Saghalien, St. Johns Island and other parts of the Sea of Okhotsk to a Russian company. Alired de Musset's sister refuses to have any of his works in her possession published, as she says they will not add to his fame as a poet, She likewise refuses to let his letters be seen, among which is tho correspondence between the poet and George Sand. Itis a fact well known in his village that Governor Morton can pitch a decent curve at baseball and manage rather frisky horses, and is e fine bowler. With gun and rod he has al- ways been and is quite expert, unless his duties have resulted in loss of practice of late. The Rev. Dr. W.T. Moore, the editor of the Christian Commonyealth of London, England, ‘who is now making a tour of this country, was born in Kentucky, in 1832, and was for a num- ber of years pastor of churches in Kentucky and Ohio. D. K. Bearson of Chicago, who has already given Beloit College $200,000, announced at the close of the commencement exercises yes- terday that he would give another $50.000, provided $200,000 could be raised for endow- ment. Onehunga, in New Zealand, had a woman Mayor last year. She wiped out. the floating debt of the town and added to the sinking fund, but was not re-elected. RATILROAD COMMISSION, The Oakland and Haywards Electric Company Protests That It Is Exempt From Supervision. The Board of Railroad Commissioners met yesterday in this City but had little of general interest before it for consideration this month. A letter from A. L. Stone, secretary of the Oakland, S8an Leandro and Haywards electric line, in a reply to a request from the commission to submit a financial state- men,t was read. The board held that this company was a transportation company and not a street railway concern, and as such should have come under the control of the State Board of Railroad Commis- sioners. Attorneys Reed & Nusbaumer for the company gave an opinion that the company was strictly a street railway com- pany, as all the ordinances and franchises under which it has been operating de- scribe it as a street railway and operat- ing under the street railway laws of the State of California. The franchises without exception gave the company the right to use the streets along the route of the road and to carry The first subdivision of section 14 of the act defin- ing the powers of the Railroad Commis- sioners ‘especially exempted street rail- ways. The attorneys, therefore, could not see ‘What & charming surprise it is to a'man who has looked to his bicycle for two hours’ peace and lib- erty a day to come down on his birthday and find that his wife and his mother-in-law have taken les- sons In secret, and will henceforth go with him always and everywhere, [From Londen Punch.) Morton—What do you intend doing with that mouse 7 Baldwin—Use it for bait. Morton (astonished)—For bait ? Baldwin—Yes. 1 am going to try to catch some catfish.—Truth, ‘Do you think woman will ever successfully fill the pulpit 2 “I see no reason why she should not. It ought to be easy, with the sleeves she wears.”— Indianapolis Journal. *I thought you were going to marry Miss Keanwit,” said one young man. “I've thought better of it. She’s a lovely girl, but her temperament prevented it. I found that she has an obstinate disposition,” “You don’t mean it!" “Yes. I asked her to be mine three months ago. Bhe said ‘No,’ then, and hasn’t given in yet.’—Washington Sta ing you my daughter I have intrusted you with the dearest treasure of my life.” The young man was duly impressed. Then he looked at his watch. ‘“Really,” he remarked, “Ihad no idea it was solate., The cars have stopped. Could I berrow your wheel toget downtown.” “Young man, I would not trust anybody on earth with that wheel."—Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. Bizkit—My husband never refers to his mother’s cooking; he seems perfectly satisfied with mine. Mrs. Cookzer—That's strange, isn’t 1t? Mrs. Bizkit—Not to me. You see his mother used to keep the boarding-house I was stopping at when I married him.—Roxbury Gazette. Mrs, de Ruffie—If you ever did any good in this wide world I'd like to know what it is? Mr. de Ruffile—Well, for one thing I saved you from being an old maid. —New York Weekly. Adelaide—Don’t you think Miss Van Waffles is a very handsome young woman? Poppington—Well-er-really. I have not been able to form an opinion. & Adelaide—Why, you have met her & dozen times. > Poppington—Yes, but she was always chew- ing gum.—Brooklyn Eagle. A hopeless case,—Visitor—What is his pecu. 1iar form of insanity? Warden of insane asylum—He thinks he can find the man who stole his umbrella.—Judge. Hotel clerk (suspiciously)—Your bundle has come apart, May I ask what that queer thing is? Guest—This is a new patent fire-escape. Ial- Ways carry it, so in case of fire I can let myself dawn from the hotel window. See? Clerk (thoughtfully)—I see. Our terms for guests with fire-escapes, sir, are inyariably cash in advance.~New York Dispatch. A carpenter sent to make gome repsirs in 8 by what authority the Railroad Commis- sioners claimed that the company was a g,rans;:ortatmn company within the mean- ing of the act, and they adyised that it was not subject to the jurisdiction and control of the Railroad Commissioners, The matter was referred to the Attorney- General for his opinion. On aceount of its bearing on a question now before the commission involving dif- ferent electrig street railways in California that operate beyond corporate limits and carry freight and passengers, the Attorney- General’s decision is awaited by railway men with much interest. The Commis- sioners believe that they should have the Ecwer to adjust rates on all freight carried y such companies, and are desirous of ob- taining control over them. A complaint that rates on freight and senger tickets on the San Francisco and orth Pacific line beyond Santa Rosa are too high and do not seem equitable in Com- parison with those of other local lines was taken up for investigation. The commis- sioners made some comparisons, but as they did not have the necessary data, the matter was postponed until the next meet- ing. THE ORDER OF WORKMEN, Peculiar Suit Brought Against It by Ono of Xts Members to Prevent Legislation. A rather peculiar suit, which involves the right and power of beneficial socie- ties to change their minds oftener than once, was filed yesterday by Theodore Growney against Unity Lodge No. 27, A. 0.U. W.,and against J. Block, Peter A. Smith and A. Montgomery, irustees of the exempt fund of the lodge. The suit is to have the lodge enjoined from passing any by-law which will ‘divert the fund from its recognized uses, and to prevent the trus tees from obeying any such order shounld it be passed, The exempt fund of the lodge was one formed by a by-law adopted in June, 1885, and its object is to pay the assessments of those members of the lodge who are over the age of 60. The complainant is 62 years of age, and is entitled to have the fund pay assess- ments levied against him. e alleges, however, that, incited by younger mem- bers, the otficers and members of the lodge threaten to pass another rule by which the exempt fund, now amounting to $4300, will be abolished and the money distributed equally among the members. It is the passing of the rule or by-law which Grow- ney wishes to prevent, and hence his suit. ——————— Mlle, Lucie Faure, daughter of the French President, writes the Paris art critirisms for the Journal du Havre, Music and Musicians. No.man in the world has been more idolized than Jean de Reszke, the great Polish tenor. The mere announcement last winter that he would sing was always sufficient to crowd the Metropolitan Opera-house, and he shared with Madame Melba the honor of being the drawing card of the Abbey and Grau management. The news came from Chicago only a few weeks ago that Jean de Reszke had contracted with an architect there for a palatial residence in Poland, which was to be named “The American Cottage” out of compliment to American ad- mirers and friends. This bit of information started a good many of the great tenor’s friends speculating as to what was on the tapis that Monsieur Jean should want such a beauti- ful birdcage built when he already had a fine castle on his country-seat. Thev knew that the great singer was a confirmed bachelor, although 42 years old, and sought after by the cream of two continents, but the luxurious JEAN DE RESZKE. villa seemed to point to prospective matri- mony. “Will Jean de Reszke marry an Amer- ican?” was the next thought that suggested itself to his friends. They knew that there was scarcely & city in the United States that did not possess admirers of the great singer, and it Wwas an open secret that ambitious mammas had lured him to teas and tete-a-tetesin the hope of capturing him as a son-in-law. If the statement of those who know Jean best 18 o be believed, however, the tenor's prospec- tive bride is a beautiful Parisienne. She is known in society as the Countess Maille, and has had more or less romance {n her life. She and Jean have loved one another for years, but fate prevented their union up to the present time, It is not known yet whether the wed- ding will take place at once or be postponed till the American cottage is completed. All the correspondents, says Le Temps, agree in announcing the perfect success of Rubinstein’s “Christ,” at Bremen. One musi- cian writes: “I have just returned from the performance, and the impression 1 have brought away with me is grandiose. The work is stamped with an inexpressible nobility, Tableaux 1 and 3 and 5 are the finest, the third, with its sublime ‘Sermon on the Mount,’ being best of all. The aspect of the theater was most imposing. It was draped in violet, and above the stage was a white cross adorned with gold laurels. The bust of Rubjinstein, crowned with laurels, stood in the foyer, which was a mass of flows The programme re- quested the audience to refrain from all ap- plause, and the fulfillment of this desire, which had been & wish of the deed composer, gave the assemblage a grave and almost reli- gious aspect, Dr, Munck, the capeilmaster of the Imperial chapel at Berlin, was the condue- tor, Thechorus consisted of 350 singers—all amateurs,” The Newest Opera. “Guernica,” the long-talked-of opera by Gailhard, the director of the Opera Comique, and Paul Vidal, the youngest of French com- posers, has at last been produced at the Opera Comique, and its success was instantaneous. 1t is the fashion to-day to write operas with local coloring—Spanish, Russian, Bohemian— any nationality, in fact, which gives the com- poserachance of tingeing his work with themes taken from foik songs and characteristic peas- ant dances. “Guernica” exploits the local coloring of that wind-swept strip of seaboard on the Bay of Biscay known as the Basque country. The Basques are & peculiar people, the only true Spaniards, they say, for if one can take their word for it, never has a drop of Gothic or Arab blood entered their veins. Guernica is the holy city where for more than 500 years these ancient Basques have assembled when there was question of sattacking their constitution, their “fueros,” which Spain has never been able to induce them to change. Even to-day no Basque can be made to do military service against his will. For five cen- turies these people have preserved their ancient customs, kept their language, and have always marchea out and fought for their rights and liberiies to the strains of the “Hymn of Guernica.” It is this odd composi- tion, which is written in five-four time, that is the dominating theme in the new opera. The period of Gailhard and Vidal's opera is laid twenty yearsago, during the Carlist war, ana the scene opens outside the dwelling of the rich farmer Mareo, in the outskirts of Guernica. Serenades are heard in the distance, and flow- ers thrown from the balconies fall at the feet of beautiful Nella, the farmer’s daughter, whose betrothal is being celebrated with a brilliant captain in the Spanish army. There is the ecaptain, loving and ardent, beside his tender and dreamy flancee, there is also Juan, Nella’s brother—Juan, the patriot, who is de- voured by somberthoughts because he is the secret chief of & brewing insurrection which 8ims at arming the Carlists and the Basques against the Spanish domination, and Juan shudders at the thought that perhaps the war will bring him face to face with his sister's fiance. Nells, who is alarmed at her brother's absent-mindedness, tries to argue him out of his preoccupation, which the joyous songs of her companions fail to dissipate. The second act is the sensation of the new opera. Itissupposed to take place on the pub- lic square of Guernica, between the City Hall and the convent of Santa Clara, where the nuns are heard reciting the rosary. The Carlist mob surrounds Juan, who, from a rostrum, harangues the Basques assembled round the tree of liberty,and tries to goad them on to join the Carlists in the insurrec- tion. The litanies from the convent are dom- inated by the sound of Juan's voice, but at the end of each of his periods the crowd takes up the refrain of the rosary, and sings, with the voices of the sisters, to the accompaniment of the organ. At last the people, electrified by Juan's oratory, break out into chanting the ‘‘Guernica.” The voices from the chapel also join in the grand chorus of the naii wmn, and, with cries of “Our country!” and Iy y!"” the call to urms igdeclared. - e Unfortunately the last act is not on & par with the superb second act. Civil war has commenced, and Juan and his partisans occu- Py an elevated plateau in the mountain of “Elarrio. Most of the dramatis personw begin to put in their appearance and then the termi- nation, which the audiencé has foreseen, happens. The Spanish troops, commanded by Captain Mariano, find themselves face to face with the Basques and the Carlists. A dls- charge of rifies follows, which lays Juan low. Nella and her father rush on, at the sound of shooting, in time to see Juan die. Mariano thereupon swears that he will seek death in the next skirmish, and Nella declares that she will end her days in & convent. Pedro Gailhard, the librettist of “Guernica,” is as wellknown as the Opera Comique of which he is director. Vidal, the composer, has not been many years out of the Conseryatary, Less than a decade ago he won the Prix de Rome, and it is six years since he sent *Joan of Are” home to Paris, as the fruit of his tudies in the Italian capitals, His ballet “La Maladetta,” which was played last winter at Lo SRR the Scala, won him Italian popularity, and he recently shed the orchestration of the “Vivandiere,” which poor Benjamin Godard had died without completing. It is sometimes hinted that Vidal deserves a share of the laurels for that last work, which were all laid on the dead composer's grayve. He claimed none, however, and after the success of “Guernica” he does not need them. The first act contains delicious serenades with accompaniments by mandolinists, tam- bourinists and flute-players. The duet be- tween Mariano and Nella is full of penetrating melody. As for the liymn to “Guernica” in five-four time, the composer has shown great originality in varying it harmonically accord- ing to the situations. The whole second act is & masterpiece of realistic music, where Juan's inflammatory stanzas contrast with the monot- onous litany of the nuns, the two finally blend- ing in the grandiose chorus of the hymn, “Guernica” was splendidly interpreted on its first production at the Opera Comique. Emma Calve had resigned the role of Nella because of her English engagement in July and the Amer- icau contract to tollow, but the Grand Opera lent a magnificent substifute in Mile. Lafargue, a young and beautiful woman and a superb singer. An odd fact is that the composer, the librettist and Mlle. Lafargue herself come from the shores of the Bay of Biscay.—Translated from Le Figaro. VALLEY ROAD WORK. P. A. 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