The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 189 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, one year, by mail... y CAL s CarL1, six months, by mail 8.00 Sunday CALL, three months, by mafl 1.50 nd Sundsy CALL. one month, by mail .50 50 .50 BUSINESS OFFICE : 710 Market Street. Telephone... Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Stree Telephone. .. Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 30 o'cl 59 Haves street: open until 9:30 g'clock. 717 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; opan until 9:30 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 90& Broadw EASTERN OFFICE: fic States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander Rose and Duane streets, New York City. bu THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacation ? It €0, 1 trouble for us to forwand THE CALL to Do not let it miss you for you will your address. miss it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Busivess Office, 710 Market street, will receive prompt atten _JULY 11, 1895 Now is the time to act. The Solid Eight have forfeited office. 1s defy the law they insult When off be people. The laugh of the boodler has a clear metallic ring. Now is the time for the Civic Federation to show its fist. ve a revival of law as well 11 we not as of business ? The Alaska gold mines promise another coat of gilding for the coast. Civic prosperity depends on good gov- ernment as well as good business. Cither the law has a cinch on the rascal, or the rascal has a cinch on the law. The law is a buzzsaw for iniquity, but the people must put it in motion. Stretching a point for monopoly against the law is now called ‘‘extension.” No people can ever have better laws than those which they are able to put into prac- tice. Wrongdoers begin by putting their hands to iniquity and end by putting their feet in it Since the Governor has the Board of Health off his hands he probably feels tetter. to drown his disappointment in fishing. It will avail the people little to make good laws if they do not compel obedience to them. The Solid Eight may think there is much virtue in ‘‘ extension,” but the people see vice in it. We need an era of greater things with Jarger water mains and bigger brained Supervisors. California must bear all blame of being a partial desert until it wipes all its deserts from the map. The Market-street Railway Company evidently intends to gridiron the City and broil the people on it. The State University will continue to give tuition free and at the same time give the Legislature a lesson. The Solid Eight would do well to imitate their historic progenitors by running down a steep place into the sea. A question has been raised as to whether Supervisor Hirsch increased his value by holding off for a few days. Boodle Supervisors are not worrying themselves about bimetallism, as the gold standard suits them perfectly. Folsom-street property-owners are carry- inga chip on their shoulder and looking for some silurian to knock it off. . San Francisco need not be ashamed of turning out dishonest Supervisors if she turns them out in the right way. Now that we are assured of one competing road, there seems good reasou to believe the Santa Fe will give us another. ST TR It is as sure asshooting that on any com- munity where justice is not done the heavens will fall with a vengeance, 1f the United States co-operates with French and German bimetallists, England will have to join the procession or get left. Every disgraceful surrender of official honor brings the consolation of making the election of rascals more difficult in the future. If the Solid Eight are correct the Legis- lature instead of making a law against monopoly made a law for the benefit of monopoly. There is no finer road which ambition can travel than that which tempts men of brains, spirit and enterprise to become leaders in the development of California. The new plan of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association for enlarging the scope of its work will test the rightofa good many Californians to call themselves worthy citizens. -+ As it has been decided to appeal the Government’s suit against Mrs. Stanford, there is every urgent reason for advancing it on the calendar and securing a decision as soon as possible. We trust that the Native Sons of the Golden West have not lost sight of their opportunity for achieving a unique dis- tinction in the great work of making Cali- fornia what nature intended it to be. R The urgent demand of the Ezaminer that the Democratic party should nominate a Pacific Coast man for Vice-President next year naturally excites an inquiry as to what enemy in the party the paper wishes to slaughter. THE POINT AT ISSUE. What did the Legisiature mean by the act of 1893 providing for the sale of rail- road and other franchises in municipali- ties? Was it the intention of the law- makers to check the power of monopolies and the bribery of dishonest Supervisors, or was it the intention to confirm the grip of monopoly upon public franchises sub- ject only to the necessity of bribing the Supervisors? These questions are not 1dlg, nor, strange to say, do they carry their answers with them. There seems to be a doubt on the subject. Eight men whom the people regarded as sufficiently eminent for intelligence, hon- esty and public spirit among the citizens of San Francisco to be elected to the Board of Supervisors have come to the conclusion that the law was designed and intended not for the benefit of the people but for the benefit of monopoly. The action taken in regard to the petition of the Market-street Railway Company for a franchise covering every street affording an outlet toward Ingleside makes this evident. By this action the monopoly is practically assured of the franchise and everybody else is shut out. There can be no issue raised concerning the facts of the case. All the proceedings in it have been open, public and are be- yond dispute. A petition of the San Fran- cisco and San Mateo Railroad Company for a franchise to runits cars out Ocean House road was ignored by the Supervisors for a time and then peremptorily refused. When a petition came from the Market- street Railway Company, however, the Solid Eight acted asif the petition had been the command of a boss, and with ready obeisance complied at once. The law requires that any and every petition for a franchise of this kind shall be adver- tised, offered publicly for sale and sold to the highest bidder. The Solid Eight in the Board of Supervisors have arranged to dispose of this franchise under terms and conditions that render it impossible for anybody to bid on it except the monopoly. The only issue then is one of law. Itis an issue, moreover, of importance to the people and to the Supervisors. If the law was designed to promote monopoly and bribery, and does by its terms in letter and spirit effect that result, then the citizens must bide their time and elect a better set of lawmakers to the next Legislature. If, on theother hand, the law wasintended for the public good and does expressly pro- vide for granting franchises in municipali- ties under terms that if carried out will prevent any secret and corrupt deals be- tween dishonest cosporations and suscepti- ble Supervisors, then the Solid Eight in this instance have been guilty of a mis- demeanor and a malfeasance, and under the law bave forfeited their offices. It will be admitted this question is both interestingand important. . There remains another question still more important. How will the people deal with the issue before them ? THE LAW AND THE OITIZEN. It is an old saying that every com- munity has as good a government as it de- serves. The law can never be much if any superior to the intelligence and the virtue of the people who live under it. This truth was known even to the ancients, and old Solon said he would have given the Athen- ians better lJaws if they had been a better people. We have in San Francisco exactly the government we deserve, and if we wish it better we must make it betier not by clamoring for the enactment of new.laws but by enforcing those we already possess. We have seen the laws of the City and the State violated again and again by the Market-street Railway Company. The men who control that company are rich, respectable, powerful. What they do be- comes an inducement to others to do like- wise. Their influence is felt everywhere. When they set the example of corruption, other men become corrupt. When they violate the law, other men violate it also. When they stand ready with money, law- yers, political bosses and gangs of merce- nary voters, to uphold little frauds so long as they are permitted fo profit by bigones, so long will the City be ill governed in every respect and in every department. To enforce the law at all, we must enforce it justly, that is we must enforce it every- Where, and the giant corporation that has been the parent of so many civic evils must be fought as earnestly as the evils it fos- ters. ‘We are exulting at this time with more than ordinary gratification in the revival of trade and industry under conditions that promise a new era in California de- velopment. Every material prospect is good. Our agriculture flourishes, mining has been undertaken with renewed vigor, manufacturing feels the impulse of better times, and our commerce looks to an early completion of the Nicaragua canal for an opportunity to expand beyond even the most sanguine dreams of our merchants. So far, therefore, as that prosperity which can be measured by money is concerned, we have a bright outlook before us and a reasonable expectation of realizing our hopes. On this score there is little to com- plain of and much to rejoice over; but how !is it with the prosperity that depends on morality, law, politics and good govern- ment? Last winter we had civic federations, good government clubs, political reform Jeagues and mass-meetings without num- ber; all seeking, striving and demanding honesty in the City government and the enforcement of law. What has become of all these associations? What has become of the impulse that moved them? It is time for a revival of civic patriotism as well asof civic industry. To have a good government we must deserve a good gov- ernment, and the only way to deserve it is to insist upon the enforcement of the law against dishonest corporations and their tools in office, as well as against the thiev- ing hoodiums of the streets. TUITION FREE. The decision of the regents of the State University to continue to givefree tuition will be received with no little gratification by the people generally. The decision will, of course, entail strict economy dur- ing the next year, and there may have to be reductions in expenses somewhere, for it seems that at the end of the year there will be a deficiency in the university ‘ac- countsof about $30,000; but bad as any re- duction in the work may be the people will approve it rather than the proposed plan of charging fees for tuition. The people of California are justly proud of the system of public education they have built up, and particularly so ofethe great university which stands at the head of it. Few universities in the Union are equal to it and none which depends solely upon voluntary taxation of the people is su- perior. Infact, with the possible exceptions of the universities of Michigan and Penn- sylvania, no State maintains out of its reve- nues a university equal {0 ours; and this being one of the best reasons for our State pride the people will always readily and cheerfully approve of all measures neces- sary to enable it to grow with the growth of the State and keep up with the advance of education in any part of the world. .~ Along with this pride in the greatness of the university there has been an equal pride in the fact that it was free; that its advantages and opportunities are open to all without cost, and that no young man or woman eager for the highest education and ardent for intellectual training would be turned away from its doors for lack of money. To keep the tuition free isa popu- lar aspiration, and it is satisfactory to find the regents in full sympathy with that feeling. An enforced economy is not pleasant for institutions any more than for individuals, and the people regret as much as the regents the vexation it will entail upon them and the faculty. In taking to them- selves the lesson in economy they will, however, as Regent Foote said, teach the Legislature a lesson. Certainly the uni- versity will lose nothing by it in the long run, and liberality in tuition will be repaid by liverality in appropriations. FROM FOREIGN PRISONS. Section 24 of the Wilson tariff bill provides that all goods,wares, articles and merchan- dise manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor shall not be entitled to entry at any of the ports of the United States, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary for the en- forcement of the provision. This section,which is one of the few good features in the tariff of “perfidy and dis- honor,” has evidently made buta slight impression upon the mind of Secretary Car- lisle, for he has taken very ineffective steps toenforce it. The American Economist has recently called attention to what appears to be unmistakable proofs of the violation of the law, not in a few isolated cases only, but as an habitual practice; and the fact that the practice obtains while the Secre- tary has power to prevent it shows how indifferent the administration is toward protecting American workingmen from the competition of European criminals. The evidence is found in the minutes of an investigation by the British Board of Trade concerning the importation of prison-made goods into the United King- dom. Testimony was given to the board that mats made in Belgian prisons were sent to England to be shipped to this country. When asked what proportion of the mats sent to England were in- tended for the United States, the witness, who was no less a person than A. E. Bate- man, Deputy Controller-General of Com- merce, Labor and Statistics, said: I tried to find that out, but the concessionaire did not seem to know. He said it was more convenient that the goods should come through this country to the United States. The United States has a law against the importation of foreign-made goods.” It appears from this that goods made in the prisons of Continental Europe are sent to England to be shipped to this country as British-made goods. Secretary Carlisle has consuls in every port in Europe, and he should know whether these statements are true. The Wilson tariff exposes the American workingman to competition enough, even with the strictest enforce- ment of the provision against prison-made goods. It becomes a downright villainy, therefore, for the admin different to that provi Secretary of the Treasury to neglect his duty in regard to it. PERSONAL. Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan is at the Grand. A. E. Miller, an attorney of Sacramento, isat the Lick. F. G. Menefee, an attorney of Santa Cruz, is atthe Lick. Dr.J. L. Asay of San Jose registered at the Lick yesterdey. Dr. M. M. Shearer of Santa Rosa is a guest at the Occidental. R. G. Barton, a big vineyardist of Fresno, is at the Occidental. Edgar Wallace, 2 mining man of Tacoma, is staying at the Palace. Fred J. Kiesel, a big dealer in wines,of Og- den, is staying at the Lick. L.J. Meddox, an attorney of Modesto, regis- tered yesterday at the Grand. §. D. Ballon, Sheri#f of San Luis Obispo, regls- tered yesterday at the Grand. T. G. Rancy, a merchant of Newman, Stanis- laus County, is a guest at the Lick. R. W. Skinner, a commission merchant of Marysville, is a guest at the Grand. R. C. Minon, an attorney of Stockton, was onc of yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick. H. N. Boggs, the Mayor of Stockton, came down yesterday and put up at the Lick. Elbert P. Callender of the American Gas- light Journal of New York is at the Palace, C. L. Ruggles of the Stockton Independent was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. A.McDonald, a large land-owner of Walla Walla, was one of yesterday’s arrivals in the city. H. J. Finger of Santa Barbara, secretary of the State Board of Pharmacy, is staying at the Lick. F. J. Brandon, chief clerk of the Assembly, came up from San Jose yesterday and regis- tered at the Grand. Barney D. Murphy ot San Jose, who is mak- ing Dr. Potts’ fight for a place under the Board of Health, registered at the Palace yesterday. Dr. A. E. Osborne, superintendent of the Home for the Feeble-minded, came down from Eldridge yesterday to attend a meeting of the trustees, and registered at the Grand. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. General Agent D. W. Hitcheock of the Union Pacific Railway Company has made two im- portant enanges in his passenger department for the purpose of getting all the business pos- sible along the railways in California. T.R. Tilley, formerly a ticket agent at the Union Pacific office in this City, was yesterday ap- pointed traveling ticket agent for Northern California from Bakersfield to the Oregon line. G. F. Herr, who had occupied that position, was transferred to Los Angeles as traveling agent for the southern distriet. The exchange editor of THE CALL yesterday received by post the following card Loxpox, ENGLAND, June, 1895. GENTLEMEN: The “Count of Monte Cristo” will shortly tour the United States, i and will no doubt stop over in your City. i He bears a letter of Unlimited Credit i through us on the house of French & Rossi at Rome. Any favours extended this no- i table will be appreciated, ‘Yours very truly, WM. F. CONNOR & CO., Bankers. In view of the fact that the cause of bimetal- Tism appears to be in the ascendant, THE CaLv's exchange editor has announced that he expects to be able to honor all drafts made upon him by the Count, and will endeavor to give him a proper reception to the City of San Francisco. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. With the exception of the King of Denmark, Queen Victoria is the oldest reigning sovereign of Europe. Frederick Law Olmstead, the landscape architect, bears alstriking resemblance to Rud- yard Kipling's father, T. H. Tucker, the conductor who ran the first train between Boston and Worcester, Mass., on July 4,183, is still living at his home, Melrose, Mass. The Empress Frederick has a special scrap- book in which she collects all the current an- ecdotes relating to the members of the Prus- sian and English royal families. Professor Huxley’s face was thin and his complexion so dark as to be almost swarthy. When he shaved off his mustache and beard the skin was quite blue-black. ONLY ONE SCHOOL OF ACTING. Having read several articles since my arrival in 8an Francisco ot the number of young girls who desire to embrace the stage as a profes- sion, and being always deeply interested in the doings of my own sex, I thought perhaps a few words from one who has been on the stage since childhood and had the advantage of studying and pursuing her profession in for- elgn countries as well as in her own might be of some interest or use to the ambitious young girls who may imagine that the road to success is a short one or strewn with roses. During my three seasons’ managementof the Lyceum Theater, New York, I had many appli= HELEN DAUVRAY. cants for advice. ‘Miss Dauvray, I want to be an actress. My friends say I have talent. How would you advise me to begin?”’ My invaria- ble answer was: “You want to act? Well, my aear girl, get an engagement and go and act.” “But I don’t understana you. I mean how would you advise me to learn? What school of acting do you recommend? What lessons would you advise?’ And sgain I would an- swer: “There is only one school of acting— the stage.” And in my opinion this is true. Actors, like poets, are born, not made. I am averse to all so-called “schools of elocu- tion” and am en intense anti-elocutionist. Above all I advise against taking lessons from a professional elocutionist unless there is an opportunity for practical training upon a stage or one 1ntends to be an elocutionist, for I hold that there is not only a distinction but a differ- ence in the art. Ihave observed that lessons in elocution and deportment without proper stage training leave traces of artificiality that years of practical experience cannot efface. Even Mrs. Potter, in spite of her talent and the progress she has made, 18 guilty of stilted and unnatural methods of delivery that come from what girls call “clocution lessons.” By all this 1do not mean to say that there are not a great many things that can be learned sbout the stage that aid. For instance, one can be taught that L. U. E. means left upper entrance; exit C. A. means center arch; that one must turn around with face toward the eudience, and many of the stage details, etc., but learn toact— No! Edwin Booth, Charlotte Cushman, Ellen Terry all had a practical training in a school of acting, but God was the gift-giver and nature the teacher. The artof declaiming isa natural gift, and practical experience polishes and refinesit. Ihave had the privilege of knowing Monsieur Got, dean of the French stage, who lately retired from the Comedie Francaise, and during a conversation a few years ago in reference to our profession I asked him what he considered the most difficult thing to doon the stage. He replied: “The most difficnlt thing to do? To do nothing. The next difi- cult thing? To walk on and off. And the third? To sit down and get up again naturally. Then, again, it is often the case of mistaken con- victions. A girl may shine in a parlor ana yet not have the special talent the stage requires.” The only way to prove all things isto try them. So Isayto all girls who believe they bave talent: Endeavor to get in some position where you can learn the technique of the stage and intoa good stock company; begin with one line if necessary, and if you have ability the manager and the publie will find it out. Perhaps you have not all heard the old story about the super who had one line to say in “Richard III” where Edwin Forrest was playing it. After repeated trials he failed to say it as Forrest instructed him. Finallyin a rage Forrest thundered out, “Good heavens, man! Can’t you say it as Ido?” “No, sir,” re- plied the fellow. “IfIcould I should be Edwin Forrest.” HELEN DAUVRAY. LATEST IN ELECTRIC ENGINEERING. Passenger and freight trains on the new Belt Tunnel line of the Baltimore and Ohio in the city of Baltimore are to be operated by elec- tricity. A plant has been installed and 96-ton electric locomotives have been constructed. ‘The most interesting portion of the installa- tion is, of course, the locomotives. Electric locomotives of such weight and power had never before been conceived, but it has always been a rule in American electric railway prea- 1 equal to all reasonable requirements of trunk line service. It was designed to do very heavy work and to handle trains such as the largest steam locomotives handle. It is, of course, also designed to run in either direction. Each motor is rated at 360 horsepower, and takes a normal current of 900 amperes. The controlling devices and measuring in- struments, ete., occupy the interior of the cab. The controller is erected in half of the cab, and isof the series parallel type. The revers- ing lever projects through the upper plate of the controller cover. The resistances are placed around the frame beneath the floor of the cah. The locomotive is equipped with a 1200 to 8500 auiomatic circuit-breaker and one 2000 ampere magnetic cut-out, & 5000 ampere illu- minated dial Weston ammeter and one illumi- nated dial Weston volvmeter. The compressed air for the whistle and brakes is supplied by an oscillating cylinder electric air-pump, the air tanks being placed at each end of the com plete locomotive. The interior of the cab is illuminated by clusters of incandescent lights. Contact with the overhead conductor is effected by means of a sliding shuttle-like shoe of brass, which is fixéd to a flexible support fastened to the top of the cab. This trolley support is diamond-shaped and compressible, contracting and expanding as the height de- mands, and is arranged to lean on one side or the other as the locomotive runs on one side or the other of the overhead conductor. It is, however, rigid in so far as movement forward or backwerd over the locomotive is concerned. The current is brought to the locomotive by means of cables connected to th shoe and fas- tened to the trolley support. OPINIONS OF EDITORS. The best citizen is the man who always does what he considers his part promptly and per- mits others to do the same without criticism. And the worst bore is the self-constituted critic who always hasalittle sarcasm in re- serve for every act of every man excepthim- sell.—Selma Irrigetor. All large commercial houses have drummers on the road every day in the year. Why? Be- cause it pays. Would it not, then, prove profit- able tothe fruit-growers to copy & business method that has been adopted by all the most successful business menin the country?—San Jose Mercury. It is noticeable that while Democratic news- papers are busy nominating Republican can- didates for President, they have putup very few Democratic candidates. This does credit to their judgment. They know which of the two things is the more important.—Astorian (Oregon.) Why should the quality of pessimism prevail atall in this world? Every man has it within himself, no matter how desperate his condition may be or seem at the moment, to extract more pleasure and happiness from life than misery. —Albuquerque (N. M.) Citizen. THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION. California should take advantage of the op- portunity that will be presented at the Atlanta Exposition to advertise its products, especially its fruits. The exposition will be international in character and will be visited by hundreds of thousands of people.—Santa Barbars Indepen- dent. Since the Atlanta exhibit is apparently des- tined to be one of the greatest had in this country, it behooves this State to be creditably represented. In a late issue of THE CALL there is an appeal to the fruit-growers which ap- plied equally well to miners. California should let the outside world know in no gentle man- ner that all the gold was not mined in the days of '49.—Angels Voice. The people of California are to have a chance to obtain representation at the Atlanta Expo- sition, & convention of the Supervisors of the State having been called to make the necessary preparations. The proposition in- volves the expenditure of a little money, but the cost to each county need not be large ana the benefit to be derived from securing space at the exposition will amply repay the State for all the trouble and expense. The New South is making noble efforts to get to the fore- front as a manufacturer and producer, and is accomplishing this very rapidly. The Atlanta tair will be the first opportunity that section has had for years of showing what it has achieved and is capable of achieving. Califor- nia’s products may well seek a market in the Southern States, and itis to the interest of this State to put her best foot forward in the effort.— Pasadena Star. PROBLEMS OF THE NATION. Tt 12 & gerious problem which these wide-open gates to the land of the free has created, and every year they are leit open that problem is made more difficult of solution. Ofenlightened, honest people from other lands this couniry is not in danger of having too many, but for their ignorant and criminal elements it cannot per- manently be made a dumping ground without inviting certain destruction. A powerful monarchy may exist with vast numbers of the degraded and vicious under its iron rule, but in a free government the people must be en- lightened and patriotic or the fountain-head is poisoned and the whole government will inevitably become contaminated.—Fresno Re- publican. 1f the people will vote for the welfare of the city or Nation by voting for men who will patriotically stand up at all hazards—as did the signers of the Declaration of Independence for instance—for the honor and welfare of our city or our Nation, our ships will sail the seas | and we need have no fear of dry rot of any kind.—Tacoma (Wash.) Union. The continual influx of foreigners keeps the labor market overcrowded and thereby causes much distress. If alarge head tax was im- posed the labor question would settle itse}f in short order. Within a yearafter its enact- g END VIEW OF ELECTRIO LOCOMOTIVE. tice from the beginning to push ahead where improvements were possible and make the re- sults realize the expectations, and there has been no departure from the rule in this case. The 96-ton electric locomotive is a success. The Genersl Elestric Company undertook thetask of building these machines, and the tests made on the one completed, before it left the Schenectady shops, showed that it is fully Sometimes the sacrifice which the country demands is greater than at others. At present all zl;‘at we think is needed is the honest exercise of his franchise by every honest man. Let this be forthcoming and we will soon hear the last of the murmurs about lost liberty, and there will not be a man within the confines of the Ux:’llled Bt;hl l:rrhm b ; will not be an emblem of sect an lom.—Seatt] (Wash.) Times. 2 2 Music and usicians. Adelina Patti is repeating her triumphs of 34 years ago at the Royal Italian Opera-house in London. Ifa lucky opera-goer can get & back seat for $10 he boasts of it as if he had secured the bargain of the season. Even for the matinee of “Il Barbiere,” stalls were sell- ing early in the week for $15, and for some of the evening performances as much as §30 has been paid for a seat. At the gallery doors, on PATTI AS SHE WAS REPRESENTED BY A PHOTO- GRAPH TAKEN THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO. the Patti night, there is & crowd before 10 o'clock in the morning and the people sit patiently allday on orange boxes, for the use of which they pay 12 cents a head. Very few diamonds are worn on Patti nights, for with scarcely an exception, the women know better than to compete with the diva, so retire grdce- fully from the contest. In “The Traviata” Patti had diamonds on head, throat, wrist and down the front of her dress. They were said to be worth $350,000. Those who are old enough to remember say that Patti has improved marvelously as an actress since her debut on the London boards, thirty-four years ago, in “La Sonnambula,” and though her highest notes show a few signs PATTI AS SHE IS REPRESENTED #Y A RECENT PHOTOGRAPH. of wear and tear her middle tones have gained proportionately in richness and fullness. Patti’s durabliity is nothing short of phenome- nal, for the great singers of twenty years ago, such as Titiens, Trebelli, Zarie Talbourg, are passed and gone, and thirty-four years ago even Cnristine Nilsson bhad not begun to study music seriously. Next year the Prench Government willin- augurate the first of an annual series of musi- cal fetes, which will not ouly be superb, but will in many respects surpass the great theater of Bayreuth. The fetes will take place in the ancient Roman amphitheater of Orange, near Avignon, which, considering that it is nearly 2000 years old, is in a marvelous state of preservation. The theater is built against the side of a hill, which is supposed to bestow its unique scoustic properties, for though it seats thousands of people a whisper from the stage can be heard distinetly all over the house. The commission, appointed by the Govern- ment, has reported that it will be im- possible to organize tne fete this year. The tiers upon tiers of seats have fallen into ruins, and it will also be nee- essary to construct an immense velum, for. like all Roman theaters, the vast building at Orange is open to thesky, and ashower of rain auring the performance wounld scatter a modern audi- ence. Some accommodation will have to be provided for the thousands of visitors that will be sure to flock to the fete. The commission has reported that all this work will occupy till next year. Some of the performances for 1896 have already been arranged. The companies from the Grand Opera, the Opera Comique, the Comedie-Francaise and the Odeon will partici- pate, and it has been decided that David's “Herculaneum” and Berlioz's “Les Troyens” shall be among the operas and Sophocles’ “(Edipe Roi” and “Antigone” among the dramas. Siegfried Wagner, “The Heir to a Name” as an angry German professor has dubbed him in a way that will stick, is accused ot never hay- ing loved music. They say that Mrs. Cosima Wagner, who is & very strong-minded lady, sig- nifled her determination that her son Siegfried, instead of taking up architecture, which he liked, should take up music, which he did not especially like, and prepare himself to con- duct the Bayreuth shop to the end that the business might remain in the family, and it1s easy to understand that no one would be bold enough to oppose her. Siegfried meekly fol- lowed his mamma’sdesires, and he has not been much of a’success as & conductor, and & sympho- nic poem, “Sehnsucht,” which he has just pro- duced, is denounced as unworthy of Siegiried’s grandpapa Liszt at his worst and almost as bad as Hubert Perry at his best. It is stated that the heir to the name is coming to San Fran- cisco if the Damrosch Company plays here— Mrs. Cosima Wagner is going to send him to add eclat to the tour as well as to see that the works of his illustrious papa are properly re- spected. If he comes he will probably conduct a few times, perhaps he will let us hear his “Sehnsucht” so that we can judge for our- selves whether it is “Wagner made vulgar,” as they say of it in London. F. A. Gevaert, director of the Brussels conser- vatory and author of “Music of Antiquity,” has just published a very remarkable work en- titled ‘Melodee antique dans le chant de Teglise Latin” (antique chant in the Latin chureh). Nomodern musician doubts that the chants and canticles of the Catholic liturgy are the precious remains of antique art, but up to the present every one has rested content with this superficial ¥nowledge, without, appar- ently, seeking an answer to the question, “What are the elementsof the Grwco-Roman music which the church has appropriated for its own?’ Ten years of patient study, after publishing'his “Music of Antiquity,” have led Gevaert to a satisfactory solution of this prob- lem, and his new work shows how the Graco- Ron_un musie, like the Latin tongue, entered bodilyinto the Catholic church,and continued to be part of its service, with the exception of the suppression of Greco-Roman instrumental elements. Nikisch, the aforetime Boston conductor, has been inviting comparison with the great- est living chefs d’orchestra during the London season and has been severely roasted for his temerity. Only for his picturesque appearance hashe won tome commendation. One critic says: “Mottl's majestic form is rather too burly to delight a fastidious eye, and the main virtues of Richter's conducting are the prinei- pal aefects of his person; Levi is not at all an impressive personage, and Siegfried Wagner hasnot yet grown out of his resemblance fo a caricature of his iather. Of the conductors familiar to us Manns is the only one who looks his part, and Nikisch is even more picturesque than Manns. In the case of the modern musi- cian these things count for much. A head of hair is rather to be chosen than a great tech- nique and a romantic eye than touch or tone.” Wildbrandt, the German poet, has just read an unpublished poem called ‘‘Beethoven,” which has been received with such enthusiasm at Berlin that reciters all over the country are clamoring to perform it. They will only be al- lowed to do soon condition that the proceeds of thelr readings go for the benefit of the Bee- thoven institution. The story of the poem shows where the composer, having learned of the faithlessness of & woman he loves, contem- plates suicide, but finally seeks consolation in work. It is in fact an incident well known in Beethoven's life, when he heard of the mar- riage of Amelia Sebald and, desperate with grief, thought the hour to die had come. In the poem, which is said to be very beautiful, he conquers the morbid longing and writes the “Ninth Symphony.” America has at last sent an opera direct to the Royal Opera-house of Munich, and every one knows that Municn, where the great Levi reigns supreme, is second only to Bayreuth. The accepted work ,was®not written by an American, but ca viendra, and it is a good be- ginning to know that a New York opera is to get its first hearing at one of the greatest of European opera-houses. The fortunate com- poser is Henry Zoellner, who directs the Lie- derkranz, a sort of New York orpheum. The work is really an heroic dialogue recalling some ot the events of the Franco-Prussian war and is entitled “The Unexpected Attack.” Ifitis received with favor the Royal Opera-house of Muuich will produce another opera by Zoell- ner called “Sedan.” The librettist and composer, Richard Genee, who died recently near Vienna, was the writer of & number of books for Johann 8trauss, Suppe, etc. The best known of the operettas for which he wrote words and music is his “Naval Cadet,” though “Nanon,” and “The Last of the Mohicans,” have also been a great deal played. His sense of melody was facile, rather than Miss Adele Laeis Baldwin is the latest addi- tion to the ranks of vocal Tril ‘who transpose the advice given to noisy children to be seen but not heard. Palmer has tsken Miss Bald- win to Chicago, where she is heard but not seen in the familiar song “Ben Bolt.” Her voice is said to appeal very strongly to the audience. ‘When Ernest Guiraud died he left an un- finished opera called ‘‘Fredigonde.” Saint- Saens, who was his warm friend and admirer, has consented to finish the work. and has ar- ranged to have it produced at the Grand Opera in November. ‘Fredigonde” is based on early French history, during the Merovingian dynasty. At the last Philharmonic concert in London an overture, ‘“Melpomene,” by Chadwick, a well-known and respected American composer, was produced for the first time in England. The work was favorably received. The critics said, however, that it showed the influence of Wagner and the modern Germans. Nordau, whose fierce attack on Wagner has aroused so much wrath in musical circles, is described as a handsome, middle-aged man, with Semitic features and decidedly melan- choly eyes. 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