The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 27, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: a Sunday CaLL.oneweek, by carrier..$0.16 Car, one year, by mail. . nday CArs, tiree monihs Sunday CALT, oue month, by ma Bunday CaLL, one year, by mall WiEKLY CALL, One year, BUSIN OFFICE : 710 Market San ¥rancisco, Telephone. ... Felephone.... ....Maln—1874 BRANCH . 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until es street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open antil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Minth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Boems 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. v FOLTZ, Special Age THURSDAY. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Honest men do not need a primary elec- tion law to make honest primaries. The resolutions censuring Bayard were a long time coming, but they have lost no strength in waiting. The House tariff bill got into the emer- gency all right, but it does not seem able 10 emerge 1n any shape. It is about time for banks to provide themselves with bullet proof cashiers as well as burglar proof safes. —_— The repeal of the Soutaern Pacific charter in Kentucky would set the joy bells pealing in California. “In the name of heaven let us do some- thing,” said Sherman to the Senate, and the country says, “Amen.’”’ About the only thing any two Demo- crats can agree upon is the urgent neces- sity of fighting one another. If Ballington Booth expects obeyed as a commander he example by obeying his own. to be It would not be a bad thing for Ken- tucky to break the Senatorial deadlock by electing Goebel to the Senate. English law may make 2 criminal of Jameson, but the people have made him a hero and he won’t saffer much, The retirement of Boies leaves Democ- racy without a Presidential candidate of any importance west of Well street. About the time an American correspond- ent in Cuba gets on the inside of the situa- tion he finds himself on the inside of a jail. Oaly one Reput Presidential size has withdrawn from the race, whereus Democracy has not one who has not with- drawn. As Boies is out of office, out for silver and out of the race for the Presidency, he may as well be counted as a typical out- and-outer. We have Paderewski and Marsick while New York has Bernhardt, Duse and Guil- bert, but what bLas Paris got for a high- class show ? In attempting to read the advocates of bimetallism out of the Republican party Senator Morrill made the mistake of not reading the party platform People who wish seals for their musenms had better get them now, for in a short time it will be impossible to find one in the ocean even with a cathode ray. The silver Senators are wrong in de- manding a free-coinage amendment to the tariif bill, for when a thing is a necessity it is folly to insist on having it silyer- plated. There is one thing on which we can all congratulate Mr. Huntington. He has had a wedding in his family, and the groom is an American and a Californian at that. Carlisle told the Manhattan Club, “I am glad to be surrounded by old-fashioned Democrats,” but what would a real old- fashioned Democrat think of the Manhat- tan Club? Sherman was right in saying “the peo- ple will support any tax rather than see the funded debt increased,” and the Sen- ate should take notice of the fact and act’ accordingly. The report that a large number of per- sons are suspected in Turkey of a plot to kill the Sultan may be only an evidence that the Sultan has a plot to kill a large number of persons. In calling Jerry Simpson *a barking cur,” Mrs. Lease shows that while her mind may be running on theology her tongue has a tendency to lapse into the language of politics. For the offense of manslaughter Miss Flagler received three hours’ imprison- ment, and it is probable if she bad con- fined herself 1o assault and batterv the court wonld have given her a chromo. As it appears the Spaniards do not send out reports of battles in Cuba in which they are defeated, the tally lists of victor- ies are useless, and history must find out some way of going behind the returns. “If you wish to bring the name of Eng- land into contempt that is the way to do it,”" is what Justice Bridge told the people who cheered Jameson when he came into court, and the Justice told them the truth. An issue of bonds to the amount of $80,000,000 to provide for coast defenses would be a popular loan in the true sense of the term and in the present condition of the treasury 1t would be worth while trying. “You have lied on the question—if I may speak metaphorically,”” is the way Senator Allen put it in the Senate on Tuesday, and while the phrase is not original it certainly makes a very forcible metaphor. The proposal to arrange the stars of the National flag in alternate rows of eight and seven might have an artistic effect, but it would be unpleasantly suggestive of a certain eight to seven row of which this country is not proud. must set the | THE TARIFF DEBATE. The vote on the emergency tmtiff bill in the Senate on Tuesday, taken in connec- tion with the discussion which followed, may be regarded as an assurance that the measure is virtually dead. It would bea mistake, however, to ume that we are to have no tariff bill at all at this session. On the contrary, it would seem from the course of the debate that it is vet possible for an agreement to be reached in favor of a bill that would give more protection than the one which has been rejected. 3 1t is well known that several of the West- ern Repubiichn denators objected to the | House bill because it afforded no protec- | tion whatever to sugar or to wool. More- | over, some of them did not believe that | the measure was seriously intended even { by its supporters. In fact, Senator Teller is reported as saying in the course of the | debate: “There is a motion made by the | Senator from Montana to recommit this | bill for defects which everybody who has read and examined it concedes. I charge | here, and shall undertake to make the | charge good, that this bill was never in- troduced here nor has it been supported here with any reference to its becoming a law.” | The statement of the Senator from Colo- rado was virtually conceded by Senator | Sherman, who said: “The other IHouse having sent us ever so faulty a bill, let us take it up, and if it is not right let us make 1t right and send 1t back to the House, and we will have a ready concur- { rence.” On this showing there seems no reason why some agreement should not be reached and -a bill devised that would vield an ample revenue for the Govern- ment and at the same ti afford some degree of protection to those industries that now languish for the lack of it. The vrobability of such a resultis in- creased by the tenor of the discussion yes- terday. Senator Allen’s strange offer of six Populist votes for the tariff provided a promise was given for a free-coinage bill will, of course, amount to nothing. Sena- tor Carter’s speech, however, in favor of an amended tariff is decidedly encourag- ing and gives reason for believing that a more thoroughly protective bill would find stronger support than the House emer- gency bill. The probability that Cleveland would veto such a bill should not be allowed in any way to interfere with its passage. In { answer to Peffer’s statement, ““The Presi- | dent asserts we do not need any more revenue,” Sherman said: ‘I do not care what the President says. Every man within the sound of my voice knows that | we need more revenue.”” The spirit of these words is that upon which all Repub- licans in the Senate should act. The cur- rent deficiency already exceeds $20,000,000, | and at the same ratio-of increase the total amount for the fiscal year will be fnly | $30,000,000. This is the condition that con- | fronts che country, and Congress owes it to the people to proyvide a revenue suffi- cient for the needs of the Government, | leaving it to the Democratic President to | reject it if he dares, | — ROAD LEGISLATION. The most jmportant matter to be con- sidered by the good-roads meeting soon to | be held in this City will be the bills pro- posed to the State Legislature by the Bureau of Highways as the result of its thorough study of roadmaking in general and the condition and needs of California in particnlar. Until Commissioner Maude made his address recently before the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce we had not observed that he had given any hint of the legislation which the bureau may pronose, Now that he has done thisit is well that his ideas should be thorouzhly known and fully considered. For general purposes he seems to favor the Massachusetts plan. This makes three classes—State highways, connecting principal cities; district roads and town roads. He scems inclined, however, judg- ing from® farther intimations which he gave, to modify that plan to suit the con- ditions peculjar to California. Thus he would have a State highway starting at Yreka and running through Redding, Sacramento, the San Joaquin Valley, Tejon Pass and Los Angeles to San Ber- | nardino; another starting at San Iran- cisco and ruuning through San Jose, the Salinas Valley and Santa Barbara to Diego, and eight east-and-west roads across the State on routes not mentioned. He sdys that feeders for all these should be built by the counties. Of course this work is not to be done all at once, but something is to be accomplished each year. This is the general plan. If a better can be devised it should be presented to the approaching conveation, at which dele- gates from all parts of the State and repre- sentatives of all interests direc!ly con- cerned . with good roads will be present. Of course the construction of State roads by general taxation will require the cities to bear the greater part of the expense, as three-fourths of the assessed valuation of property lies within the cities. As the cities are all in need of better streets and are heavily taxed for the purpose this proposition is a serious one. At the same time it is true that the welfare of the cities is dependent on the prosperity of the country, and that the country is now for road work. At the same time, by reason of the fact that the roads are still bad and thoroughly inadequate, the country could save 40 per cent of the present cost of wagon-hauling if good roads were made, and this means to say that in addition to the $4,000,000 a year which the interioris expending on roads it is submitting toa arain of $39,000,- 000 = year by reason of its bad roads. Against the certainty of an increase of municipal taxes for country road construc- tion is the assurance of an increased gen- eral prosperity as the result of ‘that taxa- tion. The subject is too elaborate to be discussed fully ina few words, and hence it should be thoroughly studied before the good-roads meeting is held. THE SEAL FISHERIES, By a unanimous vote the House of Rep- resentatives has passed the Dingley bill relating to the fur seal industry, and it is probable therefore that there will be sufli- cient strength to pass it in the Senate. The bill is a peculiar one, and deals with the seal fisheries in a most radical way. It directs the President to enter into ne- gotiations with the governments of Great Britain, Russia and Japan for the purpose of agreeing upon a plan of protecting the fisheries in accordance with the findings of the Paris tribunal, and provides that if this agreement be not concluded in time to govern the season of 1896 the Secretary of the Treasury shall have every seal on the Pribyloff Islands killed and sell the skins for the benefit of the treasury. The bill, it will be seen, cauls for a thor- ough protection of the fisheries or a com- plete extermination of the seals. The alternative seems like one of wanton de- struction, and yet is really 2 well-consid- ered act of legisiation. The present ar- rangement for the protection of the seals is a farce, and a very costly one at that. 1t affords really no protection atall, for the drained annually to the extent of $4,000,000- killing of seals in the open sea includes so many females that the young on the islands die by the thousands of starvation, and the fisheries in this way are in a pro- cess of slow and cruel extinction. According to the reports of American officials there were found on the islands last season over 28,000 seal pups which had died of starvation, their mothers hay- ing been killed at sea while in search of food beyond the sixty-mile zone. This means of course that the herd wili be eventually exterminated if present condi- tions continue. The necessity of the al- ternative of the Dingley bill is therefore apparent.. Either all the nations inter- ested in sealing and bordering on the North Pacific Ocean must unite to prevent not only poaching on the Pribyloff Islands but pelagic sealing as well, or else our Government should exterminate the herd at once. thus putting an end to the cruelty of leaving the young to starve, and at the same time saving the Government the ex- pense of a costly, troublesome and useless patrol of Behring Sea. AN INSTRUCTIVE PARABLE. The Los Angeles Iuvestor, an exception- ally able paper, devoted to financial mat- ters, publishes an ingenious statement of the affairs of a certain great corporation. The concern, whose assets run to $48,000,- 000, called an election of a board of direc- tors in 1894, and as it did an enormous business and employed a large number of persons to manage its affairs there was a strong inducement to secure its positions of trust and profit. Asthere were many thousands of shareholders, each having a private business of his own separate from that of the corporation in which he was interested, the most of these failed to give proper attention to the election of a board of directors. As a consequence a number of unscrupulous manipulators formed an organization to secure control of the direc- tory, and of the hundreds of the Jucrative positions which were under their control. Their machinations, thanks to the lack of organization among the decent and in- telligent shareholders, were successful; the eorrupt ring elected a majority of the board. These men, it may weil be taken for granted, were utterly unfit for the great trust which they had secured. Both in character and ability they came from the lower strata of humanity and would be as | ready to blunder through sheer stupidity and incapacity as to plunder the assets of the corporation and levy burdensome as- sessments on the shareholders. OQur con- temporary then goes on to give figures showing how the trust has been shame- fully mismanaged, and winds up by declar- ing that the corporation in question was the city of Los\Angeles. That is a graphic way of stating a com- mon evil. It is just such occurrences as these that make heedless citizens disgusted ith politics in municipal affairs; but it will be evident to intelligent persons that the fault lies net with politics itself, but with the neglect of politics. Nothing could be clearer, say, than the fact that if the large majority of the Republican party in favor of a clean, able government for San Francisco would properly dis- charge their political duty there would never be any scandalous organizations known as “solid eights,” no disgraceful street work by incompetent or dishonest street departments; in short, there would be none of the evils which flow from organizations effected by corrupt political bosses and flourishing on the apathy of the people. All so-called “independent,” ‘‘non- partisan’ or *citizens’ parties are clearly just as much political organizations as those of older parties, and are just as liable to the manipulation of corrupt bosses as any other. Somelimes they are the direct creation of bosses for the purpose of de- feating a strong regular party that is de- termined to secure decent government, It is easier to rescue the machinery of a party from corrupt managemeut than to found a separate organization, PERSONAL. Dr. F. D. Hull of Illinois is on a visit here. B. W. Noyes of Everett, Wash,, is in the City. Judge O. B. Hoge of Santa Rosa is at the Russ. J.R. Buxton of Centralia, Wash., is at the Grand. X. E. de Yoe, & busifiess man of Modesto, is in town. United States Judge Hawley of Nevadaisin the City. George F. Northey of Sulphur Creek is at the Oceidental. S. H. Babcock of Salt Lake was among yester- AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Samuel Longabaugh, proprietor of & store at Empire, Nev., and for thirty-four years a resident of the Carson River Valley, is at the Russ. He formerly brought large quantities of wood down the river from Alpine County, Cal., and marketed it at Carson, Virginia City, Gold Hill and other places. The Virginia and Truckee Railroad, how- ever, he says, discriminated against him and he had to discontinue it. The road charged him $325 & cord from Empire to Virginia City, a distance of seventeen miles, and $3 55 {from Carson to Virginia City. The road re- bated other shippers, however, and gave them about $2 a cord the advantage. Ho hates rail- road monopolies and uses picturesque lan- guage in reference to them. “Iam pretty well known all over in Storey, Ormsby, Douglas and Lyon counties,” said he the “‘bel canto,” and al¥ closely watched her histrionic development. This is Miss Atkin- son’s third season with Mr. Carleton, and her steady and continued success is a source of great gratification to him. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Premier Badeni ot Austria is the son oi & cook, who was createl a Count by one of the last kings of Polana. A phrenologist recéntly examined George du Maurier's head. He found & new bump thereon thet indicated & growing fondness for royal- ties. With the violin Miss Currie Duke, s dark- eyed Kentueky girl, with all the reputed beauty and grace of the blue-grass region, does such work as few women are able to do. Her tone is as accurate as that of an organ, her ex- Samuel Longabaugh, the Wood-Driver [Sketched from. life and Business Man of the Carson River. by @ “Call ™ artist.] 1of zn ac- ate. vesterday, “and I have &good d quaintance over other parts of th The reason We of her products to ontside places. she doesn’t is that the freight is 100 high. potatoes and apples. We Lave the best beef, butter and apples in the w “There has been almost 0 snow in Nevada this year, and cattle are in fine condition. No loss has oceurred whatever. We never had such a year. We have plenty have 8 lot of hay left over that the stock couldn’t eat. “It will be very dry next year, however, both for cattle and for mills. If we haven’t got snow thirty or forty feet deep in the cau- yons we think we haven’t got any snow worth talking about. from Alpine County, as I did twenty years ago and a long time afterward, I always wanted an abundance of water. It is the same way now with the cattle and mill owners,and in fact with everybody, for everything pretty much depends on these Industries.” Mr. Longabaugh will be here several days. He'isdown on a goods-buying trip, and for a change of scene. Miss Rena Atkinson, the leading lady of the Carleton Opera Company, now playing here, i s Portland (Or.) girl, and Mr. Carleton takes great pride in her and her attainments. At the recent reception at the Press Club, at which Miss Atkinson, as well as Mr. Carleton, appeared end sang, the latter stated thathe day’s arrivals. Dr. J. H. Karsner of Orovillg was among yes- terday’s arrivals. Senator John H. Shine of Sonora is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. W. O. Anderson of Eureka, Humboldt Bay, is at the Grand. J. K. Gries, the ploneer of Vegtura County, arrived here yesterday. ; George H. Bell, postmaster at Carson, Nev., arrived here yesterday. George A.Smith, & well-to-do land-owner of Portland, is at the Grand. Thomas W. Wells, the well-known banker of Sonora, is at the Cosmopolitan, J.J. January, 8 general merchandise dealer of Concord, is here on a business trip. Alvin Robertson of Grafton, Dak., s in the City, accompanied by several friends. E. A. Clarke, one of Tuolumne County’s most sucgessful mining men, is registered at the Cosmopolitan. Capiain George Hansen of Alaska, who is down on & pleasure trip, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. Conrad Weil, Police Surgeon, wes noti- fled yesterday by the trustees of the San Fran- Miss Rena Atkinsom, a Portland Girl With a Carcer of Interest. [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] had discovered her. The lady has had many curious experiences, East as well as West, and also in Europe, but naturally she is much at- tached to her old home in Oregon. Her mother was one of the brave little band of New England women who made the long trip from New York City around the Horn a short time after the clese of the Civil War on the Continental, of which her brother, A.B. cisco Polyclinie that he had been appointed adjunct professor of surgery. F. M. Shaw, passengeér agent of the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway, who has been in San Franeisco for some days, returned to his"home in Denver last evening. Mayor Sutro lefv yesterday for a few days’ stay at his country residence, Areadia, near Calistoga. Several friends went with him. The Mayor felt that he needed s little rest, G. Wharton James of Pasadena, agent of the Southern California Hotel Men’s Association, arrived here yesterday on business iu connec- tion with the meeting of the National Associa- tion here. Ex-Recorder Alex Ruscell returned yesterday from a business trip, which extended as far East as Chicago. He is now manager of a rub. ber company here, having been recently pro- moted from salesman. Hon. Charles W. Friend pf Carson is in the City. Professor Friend is the head weather prophet of Nevada. He has complete tables of meteorological observations covering & period of more than twenty-five years, and his ser- vices to the public are so highly appreciated that the Nevada Leglslature passed a law which makes him chief observer of the entire Sierra Nevada region. He hasan astronomical observatory, which though small, is complete, and i8 & credit to the State in which he lives. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. &., Feb, 26.—J. S. Forrest is at the New Amsterdsm; G, Martin and wife, Metropole; J. Thompson, Imperial; M, P, Richards, Plaza; E. C, Hirst and wife, Park avenue. > CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feh, 26.—Mrs. A. E. Kent and Mrs. Mary Stevens of San Rafael are 8t the Cochrane Hotel, H. W. Flicknight and wife of San Jose at thie Shorenam, Samuel Fos- ter and wife of San Francisco at the Arlington. Mercer, was the owner. She settled in Portland and there married John F. Atkingon, a printer by trade. About 1872 Rena Atkinson, the young woman who is now the prima donna of the Carleton Opera Company, was born. As a mere child she displayed natural musical ability, and her parents did everything in their power to encourage her. soprano voice, and used it well. Itis not hard to see how she became bound up in the never- failing love of musie. Her surroundings were musical, music pervaded the household and every effort was subject to close and scholarly criticism, Unfortunately hier father met with business reverses, and so the family moved to Denver. In that city Rena attracted atten- tion in music, and through kindly influences was given many advantages. & It finally became evident that she would probably make a mark in her chosen sphere; 30 about four years ago her father moved to New York City, where she was given every possible advantage under the most skillful vocal instructors. She has sung such roles in grand opers as “Marguerite,” “Mignon,” “La Traviata,” “Gioconda,” and others all calling for artistic treatment and special vocal ability, and has achieved aistinct success in each opera, and received warm praise. - Her voice is sweet, mellow and pure. Miss Atkinson sings with delightful ease. It atly in her favor that at the outset she avoids artificial methods of expression. She vocalizes not only grace- fully, but naturally. Her debut in the operatic profession was brought about by W: T. Carleton, whose atten- tion was directed to her by John Maguire, years ago manager of the old California Thea- ter and afterward the pioneer manager of Montans, he having known the Atkinsons in Portland. Mr. Maguire's death, it will be re- mem] d, recently occurred. Carleton at once heard her sing and immediately engaged her to sing in & series of operatic perform- ances, and gave her the advantage of his long snd varied experience in the best schoola of ““What Nevada ought to do 1s to send more | ship nothing now but beef, butter and a few | “When Iused to run & wood-drive down | She had a very sweet | ecution smooth and finished and remarkable in its velocity. Loureate Austin’s poem on the death of Prince Henry of Battenberg has reached this. country by mail. 1t wes tov heavy for the cable. Queen Victoria is rarely photographed stand- | ing on account of her short height. When sit- ting she gives the impression of a fairly tall Woman. Senator Davis of Minnesots is a great book- | worm. He and Senator Hoar have fine times | discussing rare editions and forgotien literary | gems. (e | Lard Dufferin, British Embassador toFrance, { Will soon complete his seventieth year, and will be obliged to retire from the service in which he has done so m brilliant work. ! HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Young’'un—Didn’'t you think that the so- prano sang “The Mistakes of My Life Have Been Many” with & good deal of feeling ? Old’un—There is nd reason why she shouldn’t; she’s been married three times.— Spare moments. The man upon the bicycle, The man upon his feet, Collide, and quickly both of them Lie down upon the street. The man upon his feet has gone Unto a rest eternal ; The man who scorched s scorching yet In the reglons called infernal. —Spare Moments. | | | Skidmore—You can distinguish good money from bad ts conversational qualities. | Snooper—What do you mean? dmore—Genyine money talks, but coun- terfeit notes have to be uttered.—Detrolt Free Pr. Mr. Figg—What did you learn at school to-day? Tommy—Teacher told us how the cruel Em- peror Nero used to amuse himself when he was & boy by pulling the legs off the flies. Mr. Figg—Pulled their legs, did he? What became of himy? Did he become & prompter ?— Indianapolis Journal. He was proposing to the Boston girl, and in the fervor of his plea he leaned over her anxiously. “Pardon me,"” she said, “‘are you not getting & trifle too parsimonious 2" “Parsimonious?” he gasped. “Yes,” she said ; *‘or, as the vulgar would put it, ‘close.” "—Philadelphia Press. A BELTED BASQUE. The belted blouse or waist with a basque is one of the latest developraents of the season, and is very stylish. Itis made of various ma- terials, either to mateh the skirt or of contrast- ing goods. Separated waists of silk are very styl One of dull sage green with black- satin lines had a collar of black-silk muslin cdged with & two-ineh knife ploating of the mxfihnl' t of plain he waist of plain house serge was worn wif & skirt of cheviot, in which brown, blue ll?(’i white blended to make a medium-toned fabric. A gilt belt was worn with this and the collar wes made separate, to be worn when a little more dressy effect was desired. It was of em- bl’oideretd bllflisll;!’with a ni-l"ow edge of the same put on with just enough fullness it <et well, not in rufle effect. Bt An exceedingly stylish waist designed to be Worn without & wrap wes of russet suede leather, with sleeves of black velvet. The collar was not used in this instance. For washable fabries this model is delightful, when the gowns are really designed with a view to washing, for it launders weil. A plain skirt and such a waist of brown hollands isa boon to any woman, being stylish and reason- able and suitable to wear on many occasions, A gflt belt of an inch or auinch and a half Wide i8 the proper width. Narrow leather belts lo%lg weh}l with ln%a a (‘osfltume‘ e heavy cotton and the thinner ones as Wwell develop nicely after this model. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Bennett of the London Musical Times is turn= ing his attention to ridiculing the prevailing styles of musical eriticism. The following is what he calls ‘‘the indiscriminately eulo- gistic”: “The initial item—a whistling quartet by the siffleurs Parisians—leit nothing to be desired on the score of purity of éxpression penetration of tone and unanimity of en- semble. After five récalls these talented artists gratified the audience with another ex- quisite exhibition of their sibilatory powes the piece being an arrangement as a four-part song of the familiar ‘Ave Maria’ of Bach- Gounod. Mme. Claudia Popkins, who fol- lowed with Tarley Bindells’ pathetic ballad, ‘Ounly an Oyster-catcher,’ is a prime favorite with the audience, and seldom, if ever, has her luscions portamento been displayed to greater advantage than in the realistic refrain | of this delicious ditty. Here again the demand | for an encore was imperative, and Mme. Pop- kins graciously responded with the ‘Lomely Limpet,’ in which the sorrows of the isolatea crustacean are so tenderly depicted in the lyric of Leonard Potere, and the melody of Beppo Francatelli. The appearance of the veteran tragedian, Mr. Storn-Barmer, who had been especially engaged for this occasion to recite ‘Three Blind Mice,’ was the signal for & wild outburst of enthusiasm lasting for sev- eral minutes. The simple charm of this classic morceau was admirably brought out by Mr. Storn-Barmer’s refined enunciation, and as the audience, like the voracious Oliver, clamored for more, the talented artist good-naturedly gave, with wonderful effect, the whole of the first book of the ‘Paradise Lost.”"” Bennett continues his satire by saying: “At the close of this most impressive performance, which ouly occupied three-qarters of an hour, agreeable relief was afforded by the gratuitous | distribution of a choice assortment of superb sandwiches, thoughtfully provided by the gen- erous 1mpresario, after which the enormous audience, like giants refreshed, turned their | attention to Master Philidor Chantileer’s elec- trifying rendering of the new patriotic song, “Who Dares to Twist the Lion's Tail?’ Master Chantileer, who wore the uniform.of a field marshal and employed one of the new megalo- phonic vocal cord expanders recently iavented by Mr. Edison, excited the most unbridled enthusiasm among his auditors. and after a double encore sent the house into fresh paroxysms of patriotic ecstacy by the clever | performance of a hornpipe, to the accompani- ment of the pipers of the mounted Marines, Some graceful feats of conjuring by Professor Trecardi, planoforte solos by Maxim Krupp, & short sermon by Dr, Barker (1o which the ver- satile divine added a performance on the flying trapeze by way of an encore), and some sensational headers from the organ loft into a | tank on the edge of the platform by Miss Godiva Plunger brought the programme to & close.at a few minutes past 12 o’ clock.” | | | This is an example of the Sartorial style of musical criticism: “You will, I am sure, be dying to hear about the dressesworn at the ‘Creation’—the oretorio, I mean—which was given by the Sacred Philhsrmonic Society at | the Mendelssohn Hall last night. Alpetti’s dress was s perfect dream of delight. Just fancy! The bodice of crushed cape gooseberry satin, veiled 1n sccordion-pleated chiffon—so appropriate to a musician—of an Esterhazy brown tint; you know, of course, that dear old | Heydn was music-master or something or | other to one of the Esterhezys in the fifteenth century—or was it the seventeenth? The skirt | was of very bright pink satin, with a hem of | silver and silyer bands around the bodice, and at the back of the waist two chou bows of earthquake-blue satin gave the whole thing ineffable chic. Miss Hilda Butson, the con- tralto, was gowied in electric-plum velvet, with salmon-colored tabs across the shoulder. I was rather surprised to notice that Edward Davis, the tenor, only wore two diamond studs in his enameled shirt front; but I am told that | it renders the production of his high A’s more | easy. Ihad so much todo in memorizing the dresses and nodding to my friends that I really had no time to listen to the music, which was of course played and sung to perfeetion. “P.8.—On looking casually at my programme Ifind there is no contralto in the ‘Creation,’ so I must have seen Miss Butson somewhers else.” Seidl and his orchestra have arranged to pay San Francisco a visit mext May and give & series of concerts here. Their advent will be & | great musical event, as it is years since San | Francisco has seen a conductor of Seidl's inter- | national reputation. With the orchestra will come Emile Sauret, who, although notnew to | this country, is new to the younger generation | of concert-goers. His virtuosity has proved as } | by Cantain-General which far surpassed ordinary proportions. This marvelous hand and the extraordinary force of the muscles of the arm, accustomed to pignoforte exercise from -earliest infancy, formed the foundation of Liszt’s marvélous playing from the mechanical point of view, though it is true he-had to have mausfeal genius to make use of the remarkable instru- ment with which nature had endowed him. L'Eventail announces that the socialistic section of the City Fathers of the town of Brus- sels has placed a proposition before the Munic- ipal Council demanding that the opera-house of the Monnaie should throw open 1ts gallery gratis three timesa month. They also demand that the theater shall give two popular per- formences entirely gratis during the course of the season. This demand is notso extraor- dinary as it would appear to American read- ers, as the Monnaie is subsidized by the state, | and is consequently supported to a certain ex- tent by the taxpayers. The Boers are beginning to stimulate their patriotism by singing Africo-Dutch melodies. Among the national bymns of the Orange re- public and the Transyaal are “Wijll Tafelberg Za! Staan” (As Long as Table Mountain Stands), and “Komt, Broeders, Komt” (Come, Brothers, Come). What is curious about these hymns is that an English composer, Reginald Statham, has not only written the music, but also words of these patriotic songs of.the Boer and M. Reiiz, president of the Orange republic, translated them into Dutch. The little cestle of Fancy, near Bayreuth, well known to the pilgrims of the Wagnerian Mecca, hes just been sold to a Saxon gentle- man, who intends, it is said, to allow visitors to the Bayreuth Festspiele access to the park. Richard Wagner inhabited this castle during the beginning of his sojourn at Bayrenth, and he composed & portion of “The Dusk of the Gods” there. Anew national Hungarian opefa has just been produced with little success at the Na- tional Opera-house of Buda-Pesth. The work, which is cailed “Balassa Balint,” was com- posed by Edward Farkas of Klausenburg, Tran- sylvania. Hisscore is said to show thet he is little acquainted with the progress of modern orchestration. It is Alexander Glazounoff, the young com- poser who bids fair to becoma the future glory of Russian musical art, who has been charged by the Government to write the cantata which will be performed at Moscow next May on the occasion of the coronation of Czar Nicholas IT, The new opera which Hamish MacCunn has undertaken to write in conjunction with the | Marquis of Lorne is named after the legendary | Celtic hero Diarmid, and deals with the stir-' ring events leading up to the death of that per- sonage. It will be unusually spectacular. Mme. Antoinette Sterling is said to nave told an interviewer that her coming to America was “a psychic necessity,” and had to be obeyed though “thousands of pounds in Eng- lish engagements were sacrificed.” THE COST OF THE CUBAN WAR. Figures showing the cost to Spain of the Cuban insurrection are given by & London newspaper, and they are certainly startling. The Government borrowed $10,000,000 last year from the Bank of Spain to be used in sup- pressing the revolt, and that sum was all ex- pended in three months. English capitalists were next asked to extend their aid, but it is not known whet was the result of the applica- tion. A short time ago the Bank of Spain was asked to make asecond loan and another $10,- 000,000 was secured on Cuban bonds, but the bank intimated that its sccommodations would 20 no further. It is estimated that apart from the destruc- tion of property in Cube the cost of the war to Spain up to the close of 1895 was $60,000,000. Now funds for local use are proposed to be obtained by the Spanish Bank of Cuba issuin currency te the extent of $24,000,000, an that institution’s deposits of coin are to be re- enforced by demands upon Cuban capitalists Weyler. The financial ems 10 be equally as desperate as ry situation. situation is the mili NANSEN AND THE NORTH POLE. According to our cable dispatches Russian geographers and Arctic explorers agree that the probabilities are greatly in favor of Dr. Nansen having been successful in his quest of the North Pole. The vice-president of the st, Petersburg Geographical Society, Senator Semenoff, indorses the views expressed by Baron Toll that the Norwegian explorer is now atoneor other of the New Siberian Islands, where provision depots were established for his use in case he returned by that route. The Russian trader and mammoth ivory hunter who first brought the Nansen rumors to the Emile Sauret, Who Will Play Here in May With the Seidl Orchestra. [From an engraving.] great an atiraction in the East this winter as it did on his three. previous visits. He has been playing principally at the Philharmonic Orchestra concerts, and his performances have exercised as emotional an influence as Anton Seidl’s conducting has done. Sauret, who olaims that his repertory consists of 438 com- positions, was brought to this country by the manager who directed Ysaye's tour last season. The jubilee performance of the Carr-Beel Saturday performance will take place on Sat- urday next. A number of society ladies feel that some appreciation is due to the artists for all that they have accomplished in the cause of music in this City. They state that the Carr- Beel concerts have fostered a taste for classical chamber’ music and have introduced to the San Francisco public many new compositions that otherwise would have been hitherto un- heard here. In token ot appreciation it is proposed that the subscribers and other patrons hold an informal reception after the concert, in the parlors of Golden Gate Hall, to greet Mrs, Carr and her fellow-artists and ex- Ppress appreciation of the promotion of musical interests in this community. The ladies who have the reception in chary re Mrs. Charles Webb Howard, Mrs, David Bixler and Mrs. Oliver Perry Evans. The Liszt Museum at Weimar has just re- ceived an interesting present from a membes® of the great musician’s family. It is the plas- ter cast of Liszt’s right hand, made October 22,1874, 0n the occasion of his sixty-third anniversary. The modeling shows the extra- Siberian_coast is well known, and Senator Semenoft holds the view that he has met a member of the Nansen perty or the Norwegian | explorer himself. It is, of course, impossible to say whether Nansen is returning in the Fram or by sied. But the probabilities ere that he is returning. 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