The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 23, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. i SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Paily and Sunday CALL, one week $0.15 Dally and Sunday CaLL, one year, by mal % | and Sundsy CALL, six months, by ma Daly and Sunday Cars, three months by mail 1.50 | Daily and Sund: lunday CALL, 0n6 yeu WEEKLY CALL, one BUSINESS OFFICE: ke San Francisco, Californ Selepboxe........ ia. Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone......... BRANCH OFFICES: 620 Montgomery street, corner Cla; $:80 o'clock. 539 Hayes stree! 717 Larkin stres ..Maln-1874 | | open untll | 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. i 316 Ninth street; open until o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. | DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. | THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. | 1t is time for the world to drop the war lalk and get ready for the California car- nivals. It now seems the flying squadron was in- tended only to make a holiday parade for | the Queen. | | | seitlement To make a re 1 necessary with Eng liquor first. and it to tramp beggar but the and cusses finance, of work and v The Senate d people are tal demand protec! The storm clouds have blown over and remains of the rain except the ing it brought. as the Clarke gongs come so high they will make more noise in town than the owner intended. | | We mu r n to the reciprocity sys- | tem to make Pan-Americanism mean busi- ness in every respe Towa returns Allison to the Senate, but | it is more than the Nation will call bim to anoth In the Cleveland country will long evil men do lives after them. ar bonds this ader that the If the new poet-lat make his office a sin ate would kindly | ure and take a life- long holiday 2o one would object. another evidence of how | grow in a growing country. | If Salisbury aoes not r ezuelan co on it will be a sure proof he doesn’t know a fact when he sees it. With its funding-bill schemes and its lawsuits the monopoly comes very mear | monopolizing public attention as well as | transportation. The Fresno and Monterey Railroad has | been in the air a long time, but there is a | prospect it will now come down to earth | and get a move on. San Jose is crowding the season in get- ting in a snake story this early in the | vesr, but then the people down there are preparing for a carniva. The crater of Kilauea isa regular world’s | exposition for Hawaii, and the islanders seem to be able to turn it on whenever tourist traveling needs booming, Now that Argentine is reviving her claim against England for the Falkland Islands we might as well revive our old demand of “fifty-four forty or fight.”” Congressmen who believe in protection should remember that a defeat of the funding bill would be one way of protect- ing the industries of the Pacitic Coast. Justice Field says he is willing to resign if he is allowed to name his successor; but what kind of a Supreme Court would we have if that rule for filling vacancies pre- vailed? Professor Totten's idea of a Pan-Ameri- can congress isn’t bad, but the one we have at Washington is Pan-American enough so faras the Monroe doctrine is concerned. Considering that Salisbury began life as a working journalist and achieved success at it, he is taking a very long time to write his stuff in reply to Cleveland’s Vene- zuelan message.. If Huntington and his associates would propose to refund the money of which they heve defrauded the people there would not be so much objection to the very name of a refunding scheme. The National Convention of the Manu- factures Association has formally de- manded a return to the protective system, and in doing so has sounded the keynote of the coming campaign. Chamberlain says the war flurry has done a service to England by enabling her to show her face to the world, but if he knew how that face appears to other na- tions he would change his mind. It was hardly necessary for Goschen to deny the rumor that the British Govern- ment intended to put another squadron in commission, for up to date it doesn’t seem to know what to do with the one it has. The report that the British are increas- ing the coal supply in their ports near Ven- ezuela and have projected a railroad to a point at the mouth of the Orinoco may mean business, but it looks like a war bluff. The request made of the British Govern- ment by the Venezuelan commission for information concerning the British claims is aid by some of the London papers to be fair and reasonable, while others call it an insult, and it goes without saying that if Salisbury is wise he will act with the fair | and reasonable crowd. Amongthe papers of the State that have taken a conspicuous part in the contest | against the railroad refunding scheme none has been more vigorous than the Star nor more emphatic in defending the wel- | fare of the people. Editor Barry has long been known as a man who basnot only the courage of his convictions but the force to sustain them against any opposition and in this fight he bas ably maintained his reputation, THE RISE IN WHEAT. The reports of the shortage in the wheat crop of the worid which have appeared with considerable frequency for some time past have now been so far confirmed as to produce a notable effect on prices. The steady rise which has been going on slowly for a long time became yesterday a swift upward bound. Tuesday there was an advance of 14 cents per cental, but yester- day the rise was 3}4 cents, raising the price from §1 11 to $1 1414, There is every reason to believe the ad- vance is based on substantial considera- tions, and is not due to a mere flurry in the wheat pit. It is pretty well assured that the crops of India and Argentina are below the normal level, while that of | Australia is so short that instead of hav- | ing wheat to export as usual, her people have become buyers, and are drawing from our markets to supply their own. The shortage of the crops, however, is not the only cause of the rise. When wheat went down to 80 cents in 1894 the fall was due, not so much to an oversup- ply as to the financial depression and industrial ruin that drove the whole civil- 1zed world into a forced economy and brought down the prices of all products. With the tendency toward greater confi- dence and a revival of industry prices are generally advancing, and this movement affects the wheat market as well as others. The rise in prices is founded, therefore, upon an increased demand as well as a diminished supply, and the two causes taken together promise that the advance will be steady and sure for some time to come. A considerable advance iun the price of such a staple article of food as wheat ap- pears at first to be something of an injury to men. Itsuggests an increased cost of living, a greater difficulty in obtaining food ard a harder struggle for existence among the poor. The laws of life, how- | ever are full of paradoxes, and this is one of them. Within limits not easily defined a rise in the price of wheat is a distinet gain for all classes. | It carries prosperity in the first place to the farmer, and when that funda- | mental industry is prosperous all other industries begin to flourish. With the in- creased price of wheat farm mortgages will be paid off, more manufactured goods will be purchased, banks will have more money to lend and be readier to lend it, factories will start up, new enterprises will be undertaken and increased work and im- | | proved wages will more than compensate to wage-earners whatever increase they may have to pay in the price of food. It is worth noting that the rise dues not come unexpectedly. The decrease in the crops of the world could not of course be foreseen, but the growing confidence among the people ana the increased con- sumption was foreseen and predicted as the natural result of the overthrow of the free-traders in the late elections. The people see before them an assurance of a speedy return to the protective system and are therefore living better than they could | afford to do under Democratic supremacy. The rise in wheat, therefore, is by no means a flurry. It is a foretaste of the coming of another era of Republican pro- tection and industri COMPETITION IN TRADE. It is not often that a representative of | Los Angeles is heard to complam of any rivalry the people of that vigorous | city are called upon to meet. As a rule all who have any pretensions to represent that enterprising community are them- selves so enterprising that rivalry is rather welcome to them than otherwise, as it gives them an opportunity to show the vigor that is in them and the ability to overcome opposition. The general tenor of all that Los Angeles says through her press being of this self- confident and aggressive tone, it is sur- prising to find a journal of such enterprise as the Trade Review complaining that San Francisco merchants are competing for Los Angeles trade, and even carrying its com- plaints so far as to urge the people of that city not to patronize those whom it calls absentee merchants. Had such a complaint come from a dull and stagnant town in what Poe called *a world of moan,” it would oceasion no com- ment and hardly attract notice. Coming from Los Angeles, however, it ranks among the extraordinary phenomena of the day. The merchants of that far-reaching me- tropoiis of the imperial orange center of | the Golden West have sent their agents into every town of Southern California and Arizona and are planning to send them on wider ventures yet. Some of them, indeed, bave already gained access for their agents into this fair town of ours. The sale of Los Angeles oranges and of Los Angeles orange wood bric-a-brac in San Francisco is well known both to fame and to trade. This being the case, foolish for her people to complain en we return the competition by way of re- ciprocating the compliment of her trade calls on us. There is a wonderful future before Los Angeles if she keeps up the speed she had of old and gives competition the welcome that the life of trade deserves, but there will be nothing before her if she shrinks from it and sits down to complain about it. Of all papers in the world one that calls itself a Trade Review should be the last to call the enterprise of merchants an injury to the community to which they extend their trade. Our complaining con- temporary says of the San Francisco men: “They are parasites these agents sucking the life blood out of the body commercial of Los Angeles.” This is a mistake. They are simply infusing new blood into Los Angeles, and it would seem that it is needed. THE TRANSFER SYSTEM, The spectacle of a large body of digni- fied, useful, influential and public-spirited citizens being compelled to appeal to ihe manager of a street-railway system for a simple act of business justice is not a pleas- ant thing to contemplate. That the Mer- chants’ Association of San Francisco is willing to place itself in such an attitude must be galling to the individual pride of its members, and for such a sacrifice in the interest of the public they deserve the warmest thanks and consideration of the people. Bui we cannot conceal the fact that the necessity for such an attitude isa eonfession that the Market-street Railway Company is stronger than the City; that it has the power of determining whether it shall build up or pull down this or that part of the town, and that it is wholly above and beyond any municipal power or the influence of any consideration that does not spring from a regard for its own convenience and income. Mr. Vining is now asking who it was that promised on behalf of the compsny to iszue transfers interchangeable between Kearny street and Mission, Market, Sacra- mento and Clay streets. There is not a | more notorious fact than that such a pledge was given in consideration of the withdrawal of the injunction suit. that put a temporary stop to the building of the Kearny-street line. But apart from any such pledge and a manifest disposition to ignore it are the two considerations that the veople have a right to the transfers it is | and that a withholding of them has in- jured business and proverty on Kearny street. It is monstrous.that any street- railway company should be permitted to exercise so arbitrary and dangerous a power. z PROTECTION DEMANDED. It is a familiar fact that the people and not Congress make the politics of this country. The course of coming political contests can be better estimated by a men in their annual conventions than by following the debates of the House and the Senate. For that reason the proceed- ings of the two conventions of business men held in Chicago on Tuesday are of more than ordinary interest, as they not only reveal the sentimentsof the delegates present, but afford a basis for determining what the business men of the country re- gard as the supreme issue to be decided in the coming campaign. Of the two conventions, one represented the Textile Manufacturers of the Western and Southern States and the other and larger one represented the National Asso- ciation of Manufacturers. Though they met in separate halls, the addresses were of such similarity in tone and sentiment that virtually they formed but one con- vention. The addresses in each turned upon the disasters brought upon Ameri- can industry by the Wilson tariff, and the demand of both was for a speedy return to the Republican protectiyve system in order that the country might recover its lost prosperity. The proceedings of the convention of Western and Southern Textile Manufac- turers was particularly significant, as it shows how far the prestige of the Demo- cratic party has been broken in the South- ern States by the experiment with free trade. Letters were read from mannfac- turers in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Kentucky, as well as from those of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Oregon and California. Nearly ali of them not only reported injuries done to industry by the free-traders in the last Congress, but deplored the present stagnaiion and urged that the present Congress should do what it can to afford protection. In each convention the growing danger of an Asiatic competition more dangerous | than that of Europe occupied much of the | attention of the speakers. In that of the | Textile Manufacturers the statement of | C. H. Mason of Illinois that with these | new competitors in the field “not only protection but prohibition would be neces- sary, just as the Chinese were shut out be- cause they were not adapted to our civili- zation,” was received with prolonged ap- plause. In the other convention resolu- tions were adopted calling for an inves gation of the extent to which Orieutal | manufactured goods were being imported, | and recommending prompt action against | this new menace to American industry. ; The whole tone of the proceedings of | these two important meetings of represen- tative business men makes it certain that the people understand the real need of the country at this time. Democratic po! ticians may attempt to evade all discu sion of the tariff by talking of w finance, but they will fail. Tariff revisi is the supreme issue. It is the present tariff that causes the deficit in the rev- enues, that makes the drain on the treas- ury, that rolls up an adverse balance of trade, that leads to the export of gold, that paralyzes industry and compels the most | wealthy and enterprising people on earth to face hard times in every home and maintain the Government only by run- ning into debt. THE FIGHT FOR THE STATE. An advocate of a railroad funding scheme will have to show something in justifica- tion besides the fact that an extension of roads of an embarrassing burden. He woula be furthering the ends of justice and the interestsof the people. In addi- tion to this he would have to make this negative showing: that such an exten- sion would not be a perversion of justice, & condonation of a swindle, an encourage- mentof a powerful monopoly and a per- petuation of that monopoly’s wrongs and | power. | This will be impossible. Every argu- | ment in support of a- refunding policy to- | ward the railroads is easily answered by a | dozen that will make it nugatory. The great distance separating the N | tional capital from the tremendous pres- sure that California could bring to bear | on a nearer place gives Mr. Huntington the one hope which he cherishes of defeat- ing any opposition to his scheme. In ad- dition to that he has the advantace of an opportunity to drag up the old sandlot | crusade and show that the present move- ment is similarin character to that. These facts make it necessary for California to put forth a far stronger effert than if Con- gress were assembled at Sacramento. It must be a strong voice and a long arm that can reach across the continent, Pitted against Mr. Huntington, fighting as he is on familiar ground and surrounded by a well-organized body of trained leb- vists (whose remuneration must come out of the industries of California), is a handful of patriotic and fearless Califor- nians, practically without money and forced to contend against a Congressional organization hostile to the canse which they represent. It would be difficult to imagine how men could be more heavily handicapped. They have only the truth and justice as their weapons, and it is due from every Californian to give them every possible assistance and encouragement, HUMOR OF THE HOUR. “It’s & good deal of work to kecp this tail of mine from getting twisted,” said the British lion. “You don’t go about it in the right way,” re- plied the Russian bear. “You ought to quit Jashing it and wag it once in awhile.”—Wash. ington Star, et Mildred—I wouldn’t marry the best man in the world! Mr. Suitor—There is no danger; never gets the best man.—Tid-Bits, | the bride Winks—And so, you say, he had fourteen children. What a family! Biaks—Yes, he named the last one Chest- nut.—Somerville Journal. “Remember, ladies,” says the Manayunk philosopher, “that your husbands are like eggs; if you persist in keeping them in hot water they’ll get hardened.” — Philadelphia Record, A young society belle of Winchester told one of her gentleman callers a few evenings sipce that her health had greatiy improved since taking Delsarte. He wisely asked: “Do you take it internally or rub it on?"'— Paris Republican. He—And did you see Monte Carlo while you Nice? papa called on him, I believe, but, from his disappointed appearance when he re- turned to the hotel, I think Mr. Carlo must have been out.—London News. Mrs, Nouveaa—When we were in Rome we— Miss Nouveau—But, mother, we were not in Rome. Mrs. Nouveau—Why, darling child, we were in Rome. Don't you remember, that is where ;‘ei bought silk stockings so chesp.—Harlem e, study of the meetings of various classes of | the railroad debt would relieve the debtor | would have to show that such a course | AROUKD THE CORRIDORS. “Whew!” Mr. William Hopkins, the gentleman who £ings the best varytone in the Bohemian Club, mopped the perspiration off bis forehead and looked up at the summer sky which showed itself in good shape yesterday. “‘For the last six aays,” said he, “I have been leaving my overcont and umbrella home hop- ing it would clear off—but it didn’t. To-day I puton plenty of thick clothing and took an umbrella which I managed to steal back from the man who stole it from me, and now the sun comes out with a glare that drives a man to celd bottles and shady corners. Whew! “I have alwaysfound it the popular thing with me todo the wrong thing at the right time. If I buy a straw bat it ra and if I stay with a felt hat people ask me why I do not getin iashion and secure a straw. By the time Iget a straw, pursuant to violent solicitation on the part of my iriends, it goes out of fashion and when the summer season comes around | said to be deeply in LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. WHAT THE FUNDING BILL WILL DO. IT WILL IMPOSE A BURDEN OF FIFTY MILLIONS UPON CALIFORNIA. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: C. P. Huntington and his late associetes owe the Government of the United States $70,000,- 000, less some money 1in the sinking fund and claims for transportation against the Govern- ment, amounting in all to 8,000,000 or there- abouts. Mr. Huntington, speaking for himself and his late partners, says that he is not able to pay up just now. Indeed, he manifests some indignation that he should be asked at all to make any settlement. He considers himself and those who operated with him in the light of public benefactors. 1t is pointed out by him triumphantly that whereas once people had to | crossthe plains in wagons they now by the foresighted sagacity of that philanthropist ride in rail coaches. The Government itself is debt to these patriots be- MR. HOPKINS CONFE! (Sketched from life SES THAT HE IS A JONAH. by @ “Call’ artist.] again the style changes and T am a back num- i p with some friends once who told me on ide that the guests were Eng | tlemen and that I was expected to the latest British styles. I got a dic ing coat buttoned tight around me, and erabbing a heavy stick by the ferrule sallied | forth to meet the gentlemen with a briar pipe in my teeth. Of course it all turned out as I feared. What do you suppose they had for costume 2 “I give it up, Hop." alpenstoc with me. I never got things just right on any single occasion of existence. that once I went fishing in the occan with fly hooks. About five vears ago,” when I was | traveiing up in Northern Californis, I found it necessary to make a trip to some mines. There was considerable snow on the ground, sol hired a sleigh and traveled sixty miles in one | day, arriving at my destination about night- | fall. I had the horses put up and went to bed, aiter filling up on & good mountain dinner, to dream of the pleasures of a return trip, which promised to be exceedingly pleasant, as an- other light fall of snow was threatened. When Iawoke in the morning I looked out of the window only to see the bere ground, which had been swept clean of the besutiful white by a warm south wind. T had to walk back. | “About the worst luck I ever had was when I Iwentup to Oregon to huntdeer. Ispenta great deal of time and money preparing things and was sure of a good record. Remember, now, I tell you this in confidence and would net like to have it generally discussed, but just 85 true as my name is Hopkins the State Legis- lature passed a law the day I arrived declaring a c{ose season of two years on deer and elk.” A LOUIS XVI EFFECT. The Louis XVI effects are perhaps most in evidence in handsome gowns for teas, recop- tions and calling. The jacket and skirt, of contrasting materials, is the generally ac- cepted mode, but entire costuthes made of one fabric ate often seen, with reversand vest of other goodsand colors by way of contrast. A | very handsome gown of smooth face black | cloth had skirt and jacket entirely of cloth. The touch of color necessary to a fashionable costume was suppled by linings of rose-col- ored miroir velvet. This was visible at the edges of the skirt portion of the jecket, which through its shape, reveals the lining in the collar and revers lining. The vest was com- roled entirely of pleatings of fine yellowish ace about three inches deep set in rows across it—a irill of the same set out from the top of the crush collar of rose velvet. A very beautiful reception gown was of the new silk showing shadowy rose-colored flowers on black and brown taffetas for the skirt. The jacket was of brown velvet, with vest and revers of white satin elnbouv.elf embroid- ered and s{!angled. The deep, cape-like coilar in tae back was of brown velvet. i Agown of green had a crepon skirt with velvet jacket. The revers and vest were of reenish light blue satin covered with an inch and of mink. A black and green boucle cloth skirt was worn with a green velvet coat. The vest was of Persian lamb fur, the revers of velvet being finished with & narrow band of the same. Handsome gilt buttons end & narrow gilt belt gaye the needed touch of brightness. A tan smooth cloth was made with vest of beaver, the same fur edging the revers and collar. Enameled buttons in bright colors were added. A rich purple cloth had & vest and revers of ivory satin exquisitively braided in black. The fitted-high collar was decked with & ruche of ivory-colored lace, s Same way in all welks of life | “Knickerbockers, loose walking eoats and | It is afact [T | | cause it can transport its supplies and troops ber once more. Iwent on & mountain climb- | much more easily than formerly. But conced- ing something to unreasonable preference in | that belief the railroad magnate is willing to | pay up if he gets time enough and at a less Tate of interest—say 100 years, more or less, |2t 2 per cent. But railroads do no mint- ing. They do not turn out $20 pieces directly. Services are performed for the public and in compensation they receive money. When Mr. Huntington says that he will pay in 100 years ifbe getsachance hedoes not mean thatin that time he will convert his present property and that of his late partners into cash and liquid- ate. Nothing is. perhaps, further from his mind. He will hang on to all he has got. He simply means that he will assess the people of States with whom he deals and make them pay. The bottom question in the funding bujiness | which i3 now the theme of -discussion is whether Mr. Huntington and his late partners shall pay the $70,000,000 in question or be given a chance to make the people of these States, especially of California, do so. But ‘these people have paid this debt once already. The money contributed by them was (m.erce{\ 10 the treesury of the United States by Mr. | Huntington and his partners and converted to their own use. It is more than a mere coinci- dence that their united fortunes, at the lowest | calculation, almost equal in amount the sum due the Government, Paying Mr. Hunting- | ton’s debts duce is bad enough, but to be | called upon to do it twice is more than flesh | and blood can stand. In producing these re- | sults a paradox has been worked out which is | the most interesting that ever puzzled the public. Itis the making of colossal fortunes |out of an enterprise which is confessediy | pankrupt. But the processes were simple enough when they came to be understood. | When you can contract with yourself, be seller | and_buyer at one and the same time, make | the law and interpret it to suit yourself, almost | any result can be produced. It will thus be seen that this proposed fund- ing bill has an enormous significance for us. It means the shifting to California of at least fifty millions oi the debt due the Government by the whole-souled Huntington and his dead asocintes, leaving the remainder to be wrung out of Nevada and Utah. Three generations of us will be loaded down with this enormous obligation. If weshould attempt in any way 10 lessen the burden Mr. Huntington will rush to the courts to make them declare that no matter what happens he must have rates suffi. cient to meet his bonded indebtedness and his running expenses. Fifty millions is a good round sum. If any one should go before the people to induce them to saddle themselves with this burden for the benefit of a small clique of railroad operators he would be yoted insane. But Mr. Huntington proposes to do it without asking their leave. Considering the bad faith which he and his dead asso- ciates have already shown, it would be a stretch of unwarranted benevolence to give him time to convert the property he has to meet the Government demands. But instead of that to give him and his assigns a hundred or any other number of years to tax the people of this coast i8 simply prepos- terous. It is almost unthinkable to suppose that he should have the audscity to attempt it. If the munci he obtained to build the Cen- tral Pacific was borrowed from private cmpital- ists he would have been closea out when the first default was made in interest. But he has curious creditors to deal with. The creditors are only the representatives of the people. They have no money of their own to lend to any one. Mr. Huntington has often, therefore, ready listeners. He has admitted on his testimony before the Pattison com- mission that he pays peoole to ‘ex- plain” his case, whether they be members of Congress or not. ington, on & former occasion he ad- itted, nad a salary from him of 0,000 a year and $50,000 for contingencies, ick Franchet, a former member of Congress, Island grab. He kept open house for members of Congress, in which wine fiowed as rivulets. The legislators who could only be approached by their stomach held bigh carnival there. And when all fails recourse is had to the Federal judiciary, which in these days has be- come the retuge of distressed corporatiens. At a pinch {tcan now condemn & man first amd try him afterward. It seems to be taking up a position between the oppressed people and the new feudalism. Jefferson once called it the thief of jurisdiction, and time seems to be verifying the correctness of the. horoscope which he cast. M. G. UproN. Berkeley, January 22, 1896. KING COLLIS. Lo! I'm theking of the great S. P. ‘With golden scepter 1 hold my sway; 1've subiects over the land and ses, And I'd iike t0 add to my slave array. My steps of power Idon't discuss; About my methods 1'd better be still; The people would kick up a frightful muss If they knew the drugs in my railroad pill, T once on a time ruled courts of law: My checks had once a pelitical weight; T've pulled the string that worked the jaw Of orators sleek in tho halls of state. ©, Justice thinks shebas got me now: But I've fooled her many a time before; The struggle Is bitter, I freely avow, And keeps me thinking & big sight more. JTwould break me flat if I paid the debt Iowe the people, but that's all right! Let the bill run on for a century vet; As a financier T am out of sight. For I am the king of the gieat S. P. The question of justice is not for me:— 8o long as I get what I want, by gee' ‘Why sink the rest to the floor of the sea! C.D. 8, ed in its passage | His agent at Wash- | held the office on the occasion of the Goat | MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Opera-goers during the Tavary season will probably receive a surprise in Thea Dorre's Mignon. Thisgifted young woman only added the part of Goethe's heroine to her repertory 8 {few months ago, but she has already made it &s much her own as she had previously made Carmen, In fact, Dorre owns Mignon more than she can ever own Carmen, for she has been the first diva to play the title role of Ambroise Thomas’ opera along realistic lines. When a prima donna plays Carmen with end- of-the-century naturalism people who do not think for themselves and cannot realize that any one else s capable of doing so murmur the sentence, “She’s imitating Calve.” Dorre does not follow Calve’s lines any more than Frandin does. She had thought out her con- ception of Carmen six years ago, when she was & student in Milan, but in Carmen it is difficult | count of the way in which Calve has over- shadowed the part. . With Mignon, however, it is different. Chris- tine Nilsson, Pauline Lucea, and other great Mignons whom critics can hark back to played the part on the good old conventional lines of prima donnas who were expected only to sing and look pretty. In the first act, for in- | stance, they came on in flawless garments, in- stead of rags. They were shoeless, but wore spotless white hose, which did not pretend to delude the audience into the belief that Mignon was barefooted. Dorre, however, has cast aside all these traditions. She wears rags and tatters during the opening scemes, and also pleys Mignon a la Trilby, with & good ex- panse of bare foot showing. Her interpreta- tion, to judge from Eastern criticisms, is won- derfully realistic and original. The following from the Cleveland Leader is selected from & stack of equally favorable comments: “Thea Dorre’s work was splendid, and served to show her artistic accomplishments well. From the almost malignant witchery of Carmen to the softly sympathetic girl of Goethe’s 1magination is & step which only & great actress could take, but the seemingly limitless resourcess of Thea Dorre made it pos- sible for her to accomplish the task.” The Viennese are preparing to celebrate the centennial of Franz Schubert’s birth, which is near at hand. The municipal council has ae- cided to organize, in honor of the great com- poser, an exposition at the historical museum, which will include portraits of Schubert and autographical scores, as well as other objects attaching to his too short existence. The | Viennese collectors haveall promised to lend their souvenirs of Schubert. The singing so- cieties, Mannergesang-verein and Schubert- bund are organizing musical fetes. At the Im- perial opera it is almost certain that Schubert’s opera-comique, ““Der Hausliche Kreig” (the | Ladies’ Crusade), will be performed. The Wwork tells, in & harmonious manner, about a strike among the wives of crusading knights. Several amateurs intend to have a medal | struck bearing an efligy of Schubert, to com- memorate his centenary. An entirely new way of procuring a famous prima donna has been started by the management of the Imperial Opera- house at Buda - Pesth. This is to ad- vertise in the columns of a daily paper, among the “Wants.” Between an advertise- ment for a plain cook and one for a coachman, one readsin La Bilancie, a Fiume newspaper, the following: “The management of the Buda- Pestk Opera-house wants a dramatic prime donna for leading roles. The budget of this | great theater devotes the sum of 16,000 florins for the position.” The amount is not to be dis- obtained a startling success at the Municipal Theater of Presburg. The music is by Muller- Norden. PERSONAL. Dr. F. Miiler of Carlsbad is at the Palace. Dr. J. F. Stephens of Petaluma ‘is in the city. Viking Breidenbach of St. Louis is at the Grand. Thomas Y. Gendine of Washington, D.C.,is at the Occidental. Dr. R. E. Dixon of Lemoore is among the ar- rivals &t the Grand. { W. H. H. Stonell, & wealthy foundryman of Duluth, 1s in the City. J. Maddox, an attorney of Modesto, was among the arrivals here last night. Ex-Governor L. A. Sheldon of New Mexico, who now resides at Pasadena, is in the City. L. F. Garnson, president of the Redondo Beach Improvement Compsny, is at the Cali- fornia. Hon. Frank H. Gould of Stockton, chairmen of the Democratic State Central Committee, arrived here last night. Professor Loisette of New York, who has been in the Occident for some time,isamong | the arrivals by the Coptic. Professor G. R. Agassiz of Boston, a relative of the late Professor Louis Agassiz, the dis- tinguished scientist, is in the City. George B. Swayne of New York, one of the buyers for Sloan & Co., has returned from China and Jepan, ¢nd is at the Palace. Among the arrivals from Alaska yesterday were William A. Bolar, W. H. McNear, H. W. Wallace, E. Armstrong and H. E. Hoggalt. they are at the Baldwin. James F. Wardner, formerly owner of some of the biggest mines in the Cceur d’Alene country, who lately has been ining at Ken- nedy, Ney., is at the Lick. Otto Mears of Denver, formerly agent of the Ouray Indians, most of whom were of the Ute tribe, and who has since been identified with railroad building in the San Juan country, Colorado, is at the Palace. J. J. Badenach, the Chief of Police of Chi- cago, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife, It is said that he is here on a pleasure trip and may remain several weeks, visiting different parts of the State. M. D. Calkins, editor of the Amador Record, one of the best known editors of the interior, is stopping at the Occidental Hotel. He re- ports the mining industry of Amador to be flourishing &nd predicts great development in the near future. Alex Hill snd Reginald Truman, who are connected with the English compauy which recently purchased the Iron Mouutain mine, Shasta County, are at the Palace. It is stated that there are now 1900 men at work there. A town has been laid out, ealled Kes- wick, roads are being buil{ and extensive im- provements of different kinds are under way. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK. N. Y., Jan. 22.—A. J. Brander fs at the Grend; W. C. Lipman, Westminster; B. D. Holmden, Astor; A. Stern and wife, Holland; Mrs. G. M. Whitney, Warwick; J. F. Wilson, St. James; and J. D. Forrest, St. Cloud. | PEOPLE WORTH READING ABOUT. Sir Augustus Hemming, the new Governor of British Guiana, though 54 years old, 1s an | active cricketer. Professor B. L. Giidersleeve of the Johns MME. THEA DORRE, IN HER NEW ROLE OF MIGNON, datned, ana no doubt by this time the manage- ment nas been suited with & prima donna. They must be going ehead in an advertising way over in Austria, for even irf America the Metropolitan Opera-house, Walter Damrosch, etc., do not yet find their divas through the “Want” columns of the daily newspapers. Ttaly is literally deluged just now with new operettas, and it is said that the number of those which have not been produced is legion. At the Quirino Theater in Rome ‘‘Eve,” by Mascoiti, has just won some success, and at the Politeama at Naples “The Hunt of the Shoe,” by G. Bossa, has proved a fiasco. In Palermo “Frine,” by Gustavo Tofani, has been produced; Florence has just heard the first performance of “The Temptation of St. An- tony,” by Orefice, and to judge from the fiasco it is said to have made no other city is likely to hear it in a hurry. At the Communal The: ter at Lodi “Toi-Ko,” an operetta based on a Chinese subject, has won a most brilliant success. Sir Charles Halle, who died recently, has left an autobiography which unforiunstely ends with 1866. The years that the artist passed in Paris are treated very minutely, and the biography contains interesting details re- specting Berlioz, Alfred de Musset aud Rich- ard Wagner, all of whom were Halle's asso- ciates in Paris. The blography is soon to be published in London. Italian architects and sculptors were recently invited to send in designs for a monument to Donizetti, to be erected at Bergamo. Over sixty models have been sent in, some of them being of great beauty. Before deciding the competi- tion the judges have placed the whale collec- tion on exhibition at Bergamo, ““Tokay Wine,” & new opera in one act, has been accepted at the Opera in Vienns. The music 1S by Raoul Mader, who has been ap- pointed Nikisch's successor at Buda-Pesth. It is probable that he will pour out his “Tokay Wine" in the Hungarian capital before Vienna gets it. A new Chilean composer has appeared at Santiago, whose work is said to be very remark- able. His name is Ortiz de Zarate, and the opera he has just produced is called “Floraia di Ligano.” 8 Joseph Hoffman, who eight years ago was a famous ‘‘child” pianist, is beginning, accord- ing to the Russian press, to loom up as & rival to Paderewski. 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