The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 5, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGQE,’ Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Paily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..80.15 Daily end Sunday CALL, one year, by mail..... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CaLi, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CaLL, one month, by mail.. .65 Bunday CaLL, one year, by mail.. 1.60 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by maf 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Strest, San Francisco, California. felepbone. . & Maln-1868 EDITORIAL. ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. £ elephon: <ever. Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES : 630 Montgomery sireet, coruer Clay: open uatil $:80 o'clock. 839 Ha) treet; open until 9:30 o'clock. open until 8:30 o'clock. nth and Mission sireets; open witil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open nntil § o'clock- 116 Ninth street; open until § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 9808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Clity. M. THURSDAY THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. What has become of the Railroad Com- missioners’ case? About all of Abyssinia the ltalians have gained so far is the abyss. Dividing Afriea without counting the Africans is where Europe rolled off a log. Affairs in Cuba are critical, but Uncle Sam should do something more than criti- cize. Italy has found that carrying the war into Africa i¢ not the kind of Roman holi- v it used to be. F ssion in New York thereis vork in New York if Grover had only thought of it. Upto date we have said just enough about Cuban independence to nggrnvatel Spain without helping Cuba. To the small boys the snowstorm was as good as a carnival, and to many a dignified citizen they made a circas of it. Now that it is ali over. we can see that the snowstorm saved the fruit a good deal and did not sp climate muci. The nations that have undertaken to open up Africa bave opened up more trou- ble for themselives than anything else. Since the island is to be dignified by a naval training school, we had better drop the goat name and call it Yerba Buena. The Abyssinian may not be up toall sorts of modern war, but he i3 no soft snap when it comes to downright hard fighting. In the drawing-roams of European dip- lomats it is now considered a breach of etiquette for any one to sit on the otto- man. ! According to the postal authorities it is wrong to say Huntington will not steal a red-hot stove and perhaps toe authorities are right. Tome Mission speech is of the opinion that the West is woolly not only on the back but all the way through. This Congress has not done much in the way of politics, but it has broken the record in passing appropriation bills and that's business. The Carson mint case has been opened in court, and we may look for strange things to come out of it if somebody doesn’t put the lid on. The Southern Pacific of Kentucky suf- fered a signal defeat last night, and the vietory of Mr. Spreckels was a victory for decency and purity in politics. If it were not for Armenia, Abyssinis, Transvaal, Formosa, Korea, Venezuela, and a few other disturbing places, the age of peace would have a little peacein its old age. As Spain hasordered re-enforcements to be sent to Cuba from the Balearic, Canary and Philippine islands, it is evident she is vlaying her last cards and the game is drawing to an end. Republicans! The Southern Pacific Com- pany of Kentucky by trickery and chi- canery and by fraud is seeking to get con- trol of our party. Resiet the attempt— stand by the people. Many places in the State had a combina- tion of rain, hail and snow durng the storm, but Santa Barbara is the only one that in addition had a thunder and light- ning display as an annex. A writer for the New York Tribune has made the direful discovery of the existence of a “Presidential trust,” and if his story true the thing is worse than a goldbug syndicate or a hog combine. Before Cleveland talks any more about new communities in the West developing into “‘undesirable States,” he should takea little thought of what an undesirable state he has developed into himself, 1f the postal authorities wish to give Mr. Huntington a real pleasure they will stop the eirculation through the mails of any reports of the evidence he has given under the examination of Senator Morgan. The announcement of Manderson of Ne- braska as a candidate for the Presidency has the advantage of bringing some of the Presidential lightning west of the Missouri River and getting things started our way. The Republican party of California says to the Southern Pacific Company of Ken- tucky, ‘““Hands off.” Tt says to the people of California, “Beware.” It says to the members of its own ranks, “Be on the alert.” —— “If they know in heaven what is done oo earth,” said Dr. Talmadge in his ad- dress at the Home Mission meeting at New York, and while there was doubtless. as much virtue in that if &8 in any other it was certainly not-orthodox.. PRSI AN T The three hnks in the endless chain that depletes the gold ‘reserve are the deficit revenue, the excessive ‘imports and the business depression, and as all of these re- sult from the Wilson tariff, the moment we repeal that we break the chain. The official statement in the Reichstag that, while Germany does not expect to maintain a navy equal to that of England or of France, she does intend to have one that will enable her to control the Baltic, will be interesting news in Russia. .| tion, then we should not intensify the FREE (UBA OR NOTHING. The action of the Senste Committee on Foreign Relations in recommending to the Senate a non-concurrence with the House resolitions on the Cuban guestion seems toimply a determination to do something more for Cuba than can be effected by a simple expression of sympathy. The determination is the more apparent in the appointment “of Senators Sherman, Mor- gan and Lodge as a committee to confer with the Houge for the purpose of reaching an agreement. These Senators are among the strongest and boldest advocates of free Cuba in Congress, and it is not likely either of them will agree to accept the milder resolutions of the House for those already adopted by the Senate. The attitude taken by the House toward the question can hardly be defended. If Congress is to interfere at all between Spain and Cuba, there should be nothing equivocal in its words. A mere expres- sion of sympathy, an ineffective recogni- tion of the insurgents as belligerents, or a suggestion on our part of a willingness to mediate for the independence of the island, would only aggravate Spain without help- ing Cuba. If no more than thatisto be undertaken, it would have. been better for the House to have followed the counsel of Boutelie of Maine and Turner of Georgia, and voted the resolutions down. The affairs of the Cuban people are in a condition too critical to be used simply as a subject for fervent oratory. Property and life are at stake over there, and the torch, the sword and the bullet are doing their feariul work by night and by day. It 1sa most practical question that con- fronts us. Itisanissue for a government and not for a debating society. Are we resolved to hlep Cuba or not? If we are not willing to give the help of resolute ac- wrath of Spain by taunts, nor delude the suffering Cubans by words that awaken vain hopes. If we do intend to help, then we should give Spain plain notice at once and not mislead her into the beiief that she can defy us and reject our mediation. With the approach of spring in Cuba comes the rainy season, and after that the vellow fever. The time for that dread pestilence is, therefore, not far distant. It is estimated that over'20,000 Spanish sol- diers fell a victim to itlast summer. An equal fatality will occur this year if the war continues, and in the horror of it the combatants on both sides will use fire and sword more ruthlessiy than ever, and dev- astations and massacres will be an every- day occurrence. Shall we by the strong power of our National might put an end to this terror ornot? Surely the issueis not one that befits mere jingo speeches. 1f we are to do nothing, let us be silent. 1f we are to promise help, let us give it in actions that are prompt to succor and pow- erful to save A HIGHER PURPOSE. It seems that the Wilmerding School is regarded in some localities more for its value as a possible advertizement or as opportunity for slightly increasing the business of the community which may secure it than as a great institution for equipping the young to make a struggle for existence. This is unfortunate. The motive of the bequest was noble, and to degrade it by giving it a color of commer- cialism would be a great misfortune. Mr. Wilmerding’s idea was solely to provide means foreducating the sons and daughters of the poor in useful trades that would lift them above the harder labors and necessi- ties of life. He mnever dreamed that his generous bequest would be so baaly ap- preciated as to be deemed a convenient advertising or commercial institution. The people owe it to his memory, benevo- lence and patriotism to develop the highest usefulness for his benefaction. By reason of its large population, its great numver of poor residents, its manu- factories and its thousands of boys and girls who wou!d be benefited by such an education as Mr. Wilmerding contem- plated, San Francisce is the proper place for the institution. Here it would serve a larger number of persons than anywhere else in the State. Sites have been offered free for.its location here, but even had this not been done the trustees would be clearly justified in buying a site if none were offered free. To place the school anywhere else would seriously cripple the usefulness of the institution and the op- portunities of the people to enjoy its benefits, and that would ve a direct assault upon the purpose of the bequest. This is not meant as a complaint against the neighboring towns in their efforts to secure the school by offering free-sites. It is proper for them to do all they can to ad- vance their interests. Nor is this argu- ment intended for the commercial benefit of San Francisco. The sole question is one of securing to those whom Mr. Wil- merding sought to aid the highest efficiency of which his bequest is possible. The one simple ruleis to nlace such insti- tutions where they will do the most good for the purpose they are to serve. Viewed in that light the Wilmerding School unquestionably should be estab- lished 1n San Franeisco. UNPARDONABLE DULLNESS. 1f the editorial utterances of the New Yeork Tribune are to be taken as properly indicative of the Eastern knowledge and treatment of the railroad funding matter we are confronted with evidence of Mr. Huntington’s splendid success as a per- verter of truth and wisdom. The Tribune has made a scurrilous attack upon Senator Morgan for his method of examining Mr. Huntington—taking care, however, to ex- in its animus against the Alabaman by ridiculing him for an alleged speech which he required an hour and a half to deliver at some banquet. Hence it charges that Senator Morgan consumed valuable time of the Senate Committee on Pacific Roads in his attempt to make Mr. Huntington divulge some of the hidden rascalities of the Contract and Finance Company, that able machine through which the Central Pacific managers put the funds of the peo- ple in endeavors to place them beyond the possibility of recovery. In speaking of the funding question the Tribune thus displays its hopeless ignor- ance: “It is a simple business proposition. It cannot be affected by any present in- quiry into the conditions under which the roads were built and the obligations in- curred. These conditions have been inves- tigated and reinvestigated time after time by Congress and by special commissions, the last, appointed in 1887, having gone exhaustively into the whole matter at an expenditure of $100,000 and printed a re- port of thousands of pages which left no point in the transactions untouched.” 1t would be impossible to crowd a greater number. of errors into so Smazll a space. There never has been any thorough inves- tigation. The nearest approach made to one was by the commission of 1887, but when the inquiry became too warm the Federal courts were appealed to and they stopned the work. More than that, the ac- counts of ‘the Contract and Finance Com- pany, which, if discovered, would have shown the crookedness of the whole ugly business, were discovered by that inquiry to have been destroyed. Furthermore, the Tribunc misses the whole point by assuming that the obliga, l tions incurred should not be considered. That is so exactly thecry of Mr: Huntington himself in his effortsto eonceal the historv of the past as to constitute a remarkable coincidence. The manper in which the roads were built and the obligations in< eurred are the soul of the case, hecause those matters concern the- history ©f the plunder and pillage which the funding measure is proposed to condone\and re- ward. The Government ig now on a still hunt for stolen property. It is émall credit to a great newspaper not to know that the history of the past is the essénce of the present in this railroad matter. CLEVELAND AND THE WEST. The address delivered by President Cleveland before the Board of Home Mis+ sions of the Presbyterian church at New York on Tuesday evening is curiously illustrative of his méntal attitude toward the new States and growing communities that constitute the great West. He saw n the Home Missions of New York a means to convert not New York but the new States and Territories, and to that theme he devoted, the greater portion of his speech. After declaring he would speak notasa citizen, but as the Chief Executive of the Nation, he went on to urge the impor- tance of religious instruction in the newly settled portions of our vast domain, and proceeded to describe these communities as being largely under the influence of a vicious and eriminal element, and in great danger of developing into ‘‘badly regulatea municipalities, corrupt and unsafe Terri- tories and undesirable States.”” Ordinarily, the assertion of a need of home missionary work in the West would not be offensive, but when this section of the country is distinctly named as a field for Eastern missionary efforts and the in- sinuation made that the builders of our pew commonweals are establishing unsafe Territories and undesirable States, it is certainly time to protest. The assumption of superiority out of which such assertions come is ridiculous. There is no greater need for home missions here than in the East, and New York itself is in as much aanger of developing into a “badly regu- lated municipality” as any community this side of the Missouri River. Cleveland, of course, is not the only offender of this kind. There isa numer- ous class of people in the East whoare persuaded that they have all the honesty, intelligence and righteousness of the coun- try. It is from this class comes the ery that the West is opposed to ‘‘honest’ money; that it is “ignorant” of finance; that it seeks to ‘‘defraud” capital of its rights. It is a class which ignores the salient fact that the West has been settled by the best elements the East couid send forth either from North or South. Those whom the New York Board of Home Mis- sions intend to send out to convert us wiil find it so, however, and after their arrival will have to send back word fhat instead of meeting heathens of the vicious ele- ment they have been met everywhere in the West by men who offer them s cordial co-operation in building up communities that manifest every elementof the best civilization of America. PERSONAL. * J. H. Hough of Eureka is at the Grand. Dr. J. W. Jones of Sausalito 1s at the Lick. Dr. A. B. Carter ot Easton, Pa,, is in the City. General A, W. Barrett of Sacramento 1s in the City. Dr. Lyneh Pringle of New York is in the City. " Hon. Con Breslin of Maders is at the Cosmo- politan. f 2o Lieutenant-Governor W. T. Jeter is at the California. William Campbell, & merchant of Grass Val- ley, is in town. Henri Loechner of Guatemala isregistered at the Cosmopolitan. W. F. Boothe, & piano manufacturer of New York, arrived here yesterday. Dan Barnard, the well-known cattleman of Bakersfield, is at the Cosmopolitan. Frank R. Wehe of Downieville, District At- torney of Sierra County, is at the Lick. E. A, Stent, the owner of mining property in Tuolumne County, is at the California, Railroad Commissioner W. R. Clark ot Stock- ton, formerly Mayor of that city, is at the Baldwin. About fifteen persons from different parts of New England, of the Nason-Durgin excursion party, are at the Baldwin. H.T. Farrar, the well-known capitalist of Worcester, N. Y., is a/guest at the Cosmopoli- tan, accompanied by his wife. Senator E. C. Voorhees of Sutter Creck, who owns the reduction works there and is extenp~ sively interestea in mining, .is at the Palace. Chris Buckley, the astute politician and grape-grower, who has been rusticating for some time at his ranch, is at the Baldwin, accompanied by his wife, Henry M. Kingman Sr., member of the firm of Henry M. Kingman & Co., one of the largest shoe manufacturing establishments of New England, is stopping at the Baldwin. G. Stafford Northcote, an immediate relative of Earl Stafford Northcote, the famous British peer, arrived here yesterday, and is at tha Palace. He is on his way to Hong Kong, China. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 4.—Wager Brad- ford and Mrs. Bradford wereamong the passen- gers who sailed on the:steamship New York for Southampton. E. Holladay is atthe Windsor, P. Dillon at the Plaza, F. W. Vail at the Gilsey, R.1. Thomas at the Imperial and C. H. Wood at the Grand. CURRENT HUMOR. ‘‘That last load of coal you sent,” said Mr. Slopay, with a most impressive manner, ‘‘was more than half slate.” “‘Perhaps you may remember,” retorted the coal man, with much spirit, “that you saidp after you had ordered it, ‘Just slate this, will you? "—Indisnapolis Journal. Hicks—By jove, I'm in hard luck! Wicks—How so? Hicks—Why, here’s & money order I've. just got for $20, ond the only man in town thatcan identify me to the money-order clerk isone that I owe $30 to.—Somerville Jourpsl. Professional Courtesy.—Crowded out to make room for more interesting matter, observed the gailanteditor as he gave his seat in the car to the young woman with soulful eyes.— Detroit News. “I wonder how warm the room is,” said Bloobumper. “Benny, go look at the ther- mometer.” The little boy’s consultation must have heen very unsatisiactory, for he said presentiy: “The thermometer isn’t going.”—Truth. ‘‘Maud Ethel, I am getting awfully tired of waiting up till after midnight for that young man 1o leave.” *Yes, papa; and I think he is getting tired ot waiting till you are asleep before he bids me go0d:by in the hail."—Indianapolis Journsl. Auntie—Ethel, you must not be $0 impatient. Remember that Rome was not made in aday. Ethel—Why, auntie, how camnyou ssy such s thing? It is wicked, really wicked! You know that God made all the world in six days, and he certainly did not spend more than five mihutes on Rome!—Editor's Drawer of Har- | pes's Magazine for March. Mamma—Tommy, I'm ashamed of you. What makes you act so rude to your Uncle Robert? Tommy—Well, mamma, every time he comes here he says, ‘‘Hallo, Tommy, how big you are! You've grown a foot since I saw you last.” And it makesme feel like & centipede.~Har per’s Bazar, AROUND THE CORRIDOR ' “The Maoris of New Zealand,” gaid G. R. Tainter, the mine-owner, of the Coromapdel Peninsula &t the Russ yesterday, ‘‘ste, take them all around, shout the best people I ever saw. I have been all over New Zesland, on the frontier and elsewhere, and wherever I have gone I have found them kind, hospitable end honest. “They will 40 anything for you if you treat them hali way right. 1 havacome o haves high | opinion of them. A many white.men in certsin parts of the country have native wives, and wherever you go you see half-castes, “The Urswera country, about 100 miles from Auckland, which has been held by the blacks from time immemorial, is full of gold, and will soon be thrown open. I am going to be the first in it and try to establish another Cool- gardie. *“The blacks are willing now that the eountry should be opened, but they wouldn't hurt Court in the Stanford case does not inyalidate the California .aw irding the liability of dere. It merel olds that - the ‘law stock BRSSPI o e e e ne LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE STRANDED KILBRANNAN. Mr: BELL TELIS OF THE MEANS ADOPTED 10 GET THE SHIP AFLOAT.: To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: In your issue of the 27th inst. you give an account of the floating of the British ship Kilbrannan, in which it is stated that “with an ease surprising even to those who aceom- wlished it” ahe was hauled into deep water; also that two previous attempts with a full force of a local tugboat company’s tugs had failed to budge her, but that the last and successful attempt required but two tuge. 'here is an explanation of this whieh I feel fsmy due. Iwent to Port Townsend toinvestigate the G. R, Painter, the Bonanza Mine Ownér of the Coromandel Peminsula. [Sketched from life by a “Call”’ artist.] -anybody, suyway. They never shodot or give trouble otherwise. 4 *I think the new country will prove to have some of the greatest of mines. Such informa- tion as I have been able to get leads me to this | sa firmly eonvinced that the ‘conctusion. “And, by the way, with earnestness that if the manufacturers and dealers of Calijornia will interest them- iselves energetically in the matter they can sell many goods to New Zealand and Australia. “I wanted to look at some mining machin- ery myself, but I got delayed by the mistake of the man who sold me my ticket, and I will not be'able to give it the time I desired. I will have to wait tlil next autumn, when I come, “] havé been to Europe and have beena long timp away, so 1 must hurry home. But the trade of New Zealand and Australia, or & good deal of it, properly belongs to California in- stead of to England, and for one I hope Cali- fornis will get it.” I noticed by the papers that Billy Eckoff died in Cripple Creek the other day,” said ‘Colonel K. B. Brown last night in the lobby of the Baldwin Hotel. » Colonel Brown drew & long breath in a re- flective manner as he resumed, “Billywssan 0dd character in more ways than one, but he Was g8 smart as they make 'em in husipess matters and I'm dead sure that Cripple Creek is 8 good camp or he wouldn’t have staked it out for bis share of the trade. He never made & mistake on a mining camp and could look further ahead and tell better what was going to happen a year hemce than anybody- else I ever met. But of course he couldn’t use his judgment on pnetmonia. Nobody could fore- tell the result of a game like that. “Billy Eckoff took a flare at most of. the prowising dlggings of the Pacific Coast and always kept a good ssloon and made money wherever he opened, He struck Virginia City where I used to be chief engineer of the Fire Department, just.as the last big boom was be- ginning to .show itself, and besides cleaning up a handsome pile in the regular course of trade, took a fall or two out of the stock mar- ket that netted him a big fortune. Just be- fore the boom burst Billy sold his mining shares and his saloon. Then he went back to Germany and bought a castle on the Rhine, in which the Von Eckoffy had held: their ances- tral revels in the many years gone by. He [ put in & steam-heating eystem, an electric- light ‘plant, besides other modern improve- ments, and in leds ‘than a year sold the castie to a German Count for double what 1t cost him. “Returning to America Mr. Eckoff started another place, and, after olearing the expense of fitting up, in a very short time sold out, and repeated the operation over and over. ““Then he went to Cripple Creek. “I'sawa letter from Billy less than a week before he died—for he was ick only three days ~—in which he declared Cripple Creek to be the makings of a regular old-fashioned boom camp and advised all his. friends to get in thereas 800N as vossible. Thetis why I pin my faith to the future of Cripple Creek, no matter what the newspapers say sbout the chances of a slump in the mines of that district.” —— FROM- WESTERN SANCTUMS. Another Valley Wante Competition. ‘Woodland. Mail. Work on the Valley road seems to be pro- gmmn( very satisfactorily, and the day is not ar distant when the people of this valley will also have to have a competing road. ‘Will Not Be Colonized. Santa Crus Sentinel. All attempts to colonize American negroes 4n other countries have turned out to be disap- pointing, and that method of settiing the race question might as well be abandoged. Stirred Up the Aunimals. Vantura Free Press. The British have at last decided to accept the st el mpe oy i re ex 81 rre the anlunlsrem Sl 85 Laws With Loopholes. Redlands Citrograph. As far as heard from, and’ many have been attacked, there1s nots single law m—fl by the last Legialature which has stood the test of the 8uj e Court. Verily there is food for thought in this inefficiency. 5 San Franclado to Dose. ' Eurek: The e e’ rates via “u,"’u'&‘nu"fiw Aanother loss of trade to San Fran 4 will the Bouthern Pacific Raflroad. . . ‘What the Trafic Will Bear, " Kiioran arriving ‘called on the ship’s agents in regard to the matter. They told me that all the wreckers on that eoast had been to them and. offered plans, but that they were could pull her off on the next big tide, which would be on chances of floating the there February 17. 1 it’s a good time to say | the 28th inst., thet they accepted no offers. As other wreckers had been expected to give plans and had aone so, I simply.showed them how I could rig a gear that would pull more than tén tugs at not more than one-tenth of the expense of the tugs. 1supposed of course that 1f my plans were made use of 1 would have an opportunity of werking them, but the next morning while on tx wharf I noticed ore of the crew of a tu lying &t the wharf getting together and_ pu! ting on board parts of the gear that I had pro- posed the day beforein the agent’s office. A gentleman standing near me (a !uanfer) asked the ufinm of the tug if those things were gging’ the wrecked ship. The answer was “‘No; they are going up the sound.” T stood there and watched the tug go straight to the wreck, leave the outfit and return. Next day I went out to the wreck and found lhme gear set jusvas [ had shown in the agent's office. 3 Smazll wonder then that they needed but fwo tugs when they could move her forty feet with the use of my plans and that three days before the big tides, which all along had been deemed " MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. The Paris conservatory is finding it very bard to replace the loss of Ambroise Thomas. Although the grand old man had reached the aze of 84, he presided over the musicel compe- titlons almost until the end. Thomas was the only composer who had assisted in the flesh at the one thousandth representation of one of his own works. Gounod died shortly before the mil- lennium of “Faust” was celebrated st the Grand Opera, and even then it was the composer of “Mignon” who wrote a suitable plece for the apotheosis of his old friend on the occasion of the great jubilee of “Faust.”’ Thomas seems to have been fated to live to see celebrations. He was presidentof the French Institute,which in November last celebrated its centennary. Speaking at the time, Thomas said to an inter- ‘viewer: “I have lived too long; not thatI have Teason to complain of my existence, since my life, contrasted with that of many composers, has been pleagant. Fortune has treated me with clemency. The most gratifying emotion that I have experienced during my long career was the free performance of ‘Mignon’ on the day following the gala, which gave an imprint of a national character to my work.” Atthe gala performance of “Mignon” by the artists of the Opera Comique the leading men of France, from the President downward, vied with one another in honoring the veteran composer, and the Minister handed him the cordon of the Grand Cross ot the Legion of dlonor, but it pleased Thomas beiter to see how the masses enjoyed his music. The composer of *“Mig- non,” ‘Hamlet,” etc., was never & rabid disciple of the ‘“‘new” in music. Speaking ol Wagner he recently said: *“A great musician, agreat intellect, but his subjects are puerile, and, I am not afraid to add, tedious—at least all those that are derived from the Scandina- vian mythology. I have never been to Bay- reuth, having had neither the opportunity nor the wish to doso. 1know that from the point of view of mise-en-scene they have discovered some very curious thingsover there; but this manner of staging, although very phantasma- goric, is not great art.” Here is a chance for American composers to go inand astonish the O1d World. A Milanese newspaper, 11 Teatro (The Theater), has opened & competition for the best one-act opera, with- out restriction of age, sex or nationality. The Works must be new, have never been entered for any other competition and must not take longer tkan an hour to perform. The choice of subject and the genre of music (comie, seri- ous, romantic, classic, ete.) are left to the com- petitors; the scores can contain choruses or ballets, but there must be no scenes which de- mand a very complicated amount of scenery. The copyrights of the operas will remain the property of the composers. Four prizes have already been aeposited in a well-known bank; the amounts are 3000, 1500, 1000 and 500 francs. An additional prize of 1000 franes will be given to the best libretto, which must, how- ever, have been written originally in Italian. The originator of the competition is Gagor Steiner, who pledges himse!f to produce at Vienna during the exposition which will take place in October, 1896, the six works consid- ered most deserving by a jury. Composers de- "sirous of obtaining particulars ean apply to 11 Teatro, 3 Via San Refsele, Milan. It wasa competition of this kind, started by the pub- lisher Sonzogno, that brought ¢“Cavalleria Rusticana” to light, and American composers ‘who are ambitious to try their skill against the musicians of “Young Italy” should take the ‘present opportunity of being heard from. Italy is being literallyj deluged with @ series of first performances of newoperas, The most important yet seen this season is ‘La Boheme,” by Puceini, which was produced at the Regio Theater, Turin, and had an immense success, especially in'the first, third and fourth acts. After the first act, Princess Laetitia, step- mother of Priuce Louls of Savoy, called the composer to her box to congratulate him on his music and the splendid interpretation ‘which was being given to it. The public sa- luted Puccini with the most enthusiastic ap- which cannot tolerate the old Ital of thig cfitics were invited to bo France, works, n¢ present. Oaly 1he journalists who were jous'to sed the Work atterided, and in this way 8 g0od dell'of *roasting’" was avoided: The soiety that has been formed ;in Vienns to produce “Gaed,” by Adelbert de Gold- schmidt, has placed its shares at $200 each. So many of them have already been soid that it is expected a magnificent production of the work will be given next season. At Montreal, Canada, a “Biblical Theater” is being built. Nothimg will be represented In the new building bul plays and operas adapted irom Biblical storjes.—Le Menestrel. According to recent statistics taken in Russia, relative to the taxing of theaters, it has been discovered that a number of large governments in the empire do not possess & single place of amusement. Mle. Kleeberg, the French pianist, is win- ning remarkable success in Holland. THE COMING POET. Tie will aing—the coming poet—songs so full of 0y aud gladness That the bearts of those who hear him will be lightened by the strain, And the souls of those who sorrow will rise up from thouxhts of sadness. Find'ng comfort in bis singing such as parched fields fina trom rain. He wili sing 10 sounding measures of the dignity of labor; 0f1ife's high and holy mission, and the brother- hood of man; 0f the good time surely coming when each one will Jove his neighbor And belp bear another’s burdens, a8 the weakest of us can. He will sing to make men better songs of homely truth and beauty, He will take our hearts and make them instru- ments whereon (o play, And each song will rouse and nerve us to a higher nse ot duty, And“wi‘ll seem 2“‘2 fresh winds blowing mists of doub and strife away. He'll not sing, ‘this coming poet, songs of doubt He Rt bracd sier wrong and error il the Bt B e oyt and £00dness, and of brighter Ammc}:gx: 52”2%’31‘. like sunshine that makes bright a sick man’s room. Hallt O poet ofthe future! Speed the day of thine #ppearing! . ing? We e listening for the prelude of the song that thou wilt sing, Whose clear note of truth will tell us that the Golden Time is nearing “When the law of Love will triumph, and man- kind crown Right as king. EBEN E. REXFORD, In New York Ledger. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Lorra CraBTREE—F. W. G., Hueneme, Ven« tura County, Cal. Charlotte Crabtree, known to old Californians as “Our Lotta,” wag born at 750 Broadway, New York City, Novem- ber7,1847. When amere chilG she was brought to California, and when6 years of age made her appearance, “for one night only,” ddring a concert given in Laporte, Sierra County. That was early in 1854, When 11 years of age noma County, in the character of Gertrude in “The Loan of a Lover.” For two after that she starred through the country as “La Petite Lotts, an_infant prodigy.’’ In 1860, when about 13 years of age, she aps peared in San Francisce in song and dance and minstreuf at the which was then on Mission street, between Eighieenth and Nineteenth, and at Bert's Melodeon on the northeast corner of Clay and Kearny, contemporaneously with Joe Murphy, Ben Cotton, Sam Wells and others of minstrel fame in those days. She then sppeared in small plays, her favorite being “Nau_the Good for Nothing.” She first appeared in New York at N:blo's Salon June 1, 1864, She did not ‘prove a success and it was not until the sum- mer of 1867 when C. W, Tayleure presented her at Wallack’s in “Little Nell, the Marchion- ess,”” the first time that was produced, that she won the hearts of the Gothamites. She never was married. Her inseparable com- g;nion ‘was her mother, who d recently. e was with her wherever she performed and = & neceseity for success in floating her. Monterey, March 2, 1896. OHN T. BELL. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Alfred_ Austin reccives a salary of $360 a year as English laureate, and draws datk sal- ary from the time of Tennyson’s death in 1892. Cardinal Perrand, s member of the Ffench Academy, one of the cleverest writers among the French elergy, is about to publish s book on musie, or more properly speaking, the rela- tions between music and morality. The world doesn’t hear much of John Ruskin nowadays, but he still lives, and he has just celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday in his rural home in Engiand. He is able to take loag walks, play chess, read novels and scold oceasionally. Robert Mark Wenley, who has just been ep- pointed to the senior professorship of phil- osophy in the University of Michigan, is & son of the treasurer of the Bank of Scotland, and is a prolific writer on meny subjects, his best- known works being “Socrates and Christ” ana “Aspects of Pessimism.” The vrevailing tint in the trousseau ot ex- President Harrison’s bride. is pale blue, Those who may think that this isa . delicate tribute to the state of the bridegroom’s mind over the Presidential prospects that went glimmering wiil be pleased to léarn that in {he language of the heart pale blue means true love, FOR THE YOUNGEST GIRLS. The hz'monu for little folks are a reflection of those of thelr elders. No matter how young the girl may be, the features of epaulettes, col- larette, full sleeves and extreme widtn of skirt are faithfully reproduced. The attractive de- 5 I 7/11‘ plause. Both music and libretto are said to be full of vivacity and brio. Less fortunate appesrs to have been the per- formance atthe Pal Verme, Milan, of ‘“La Cor- tigiana,” an opera in four acts, with words by Cimino and music by Scontrino. The book is based on a remantic incident which is sup- posed to have occurred during the siege of Ro- chelle, but the story is said to be banal and the score wearisome. The same description seems to apply to “Ettore Fieramosca,” by Ferroni. Indeed, in all the long list of “‘novelties,” “La Boheme” seems to have been the onlystartling suceess, The Leipsic newspapers vouch for the au- thenticity of the following story: At the sta- tion of & little town in the outskirts of Wart- burg there is & porter who is & good amateur on the organ. When the cantor of the Protest- ant church falls sick, which not unirequently happens, the musical porter presides in his place, to the complete satisfaction of the faith- ful. Recently it happened that the porter, at ferr minutes’ notice, had to replace the cantor ats choral service. He played a prelude to Bach, and some liturgical pieces, and was only awsiting the end of the sermon to play the people out, when, fatigued by his work at the station the preceding night, and- dispesed to slumber by the interminable length of the ser- sign shown here is designed for girls of six | months to five years of age. o Saunesowl. . "‘Adnuvo}ltz;‘;oasofindtwdfldigdblul&% The e C ¢ i ‘wool, colls: silk lpeng:" M‘m-‘»-&‘:fi.’u“m‘"’ With Tows ‘of blue HIK braid. Red ribbons than 120 miles) and only $5 from Sam¥ran- % bow with long ends. & from cisco to Portl: s ten times asi the yoke. i of this i1 water competition, | o o e O nd whits chaabray b i u.:,,‘_ - versalic | L3’ the cotlavetio 11 White lawn, edged with Does Not Invalidate the Law. Promof I.‘.m:km tes % take notice t?n: the d“:cm: ol tgbngn#rm vgzofimmm Yaar sott aflks or liberty satins Wi mrn-::m&m ©of batiste or lawn mi . Plowsrod chatiies bre much ased for little tots, with ribbons to match the flowers. mon, hefell asleep. The moment arrived when the organist had to play an “Amen,” and one of the choir, seeing him to be nodding, shook him roughly to awaken him. The poor porter, ‘who had gone to sleep thinking of his werk, woke up confused, and believing himself 0 be still at the station, cried: “Express train for Leipsic. Allaboard!” in stentorian tones. A society has been formed at Leipsic to raise's monument to John Sebastian Bach in 8t. John's Church, in order that the bones and skull of the master, recently found in the -an- cieiit cometery of that church, may be deposited under & fitling memorial. The execution of the monument has been entrusted to the sculp- tor, Charles Seffner, who reconstructed Bach's bust from his skull. Among the members of, the commitiee are Jobannes Brahms, Arthur Nikisch and’ Carl Relnecke,chefs d’orchestre of the Gewandhaus, and the anatomist, Pro- fessor His, who published the remarkable re- port on the bones of Bach, which were discov- - ered about eight months ago. Donizetti’s'good old overa *La Favorita® has beenrevived in some fear and trembling by the management of the Paris Grand Opera. As there s & “new” school of criticism in Ambroise Thomas, Whom the Paris Conservatory Finds It Hard to Replaee. [From an engraving.] froucted her from barm. As_ the mother ovm the daughter, 50 aid the daughter the mother. LAND OFFICES—A. 8., City. In the northern 't of California there are land offices (umboldt, Mendocino Conna; Redding, shng County; Susanville, Lassen County; ana in the southern part of Oregon the land offiees are at Lake View, County; Burns, Harney County, and Roseburg, Douglass County. VETERINARY SURGEON—J. O'B., City, If it fs your desire to become a veterinary surgeon you might make an application to rfenm taghis ‘Pp] one of such 81 City. ‘There is a veteri college connected w{th the University of C“n{ny- :gmzy F. A. Nief is tne secretary of the THE CORBETT DIVORCE—Subscriber, there has not been an order of modificating fo the J. J. Corbett divorce case the divorced wife is still drawing alimony, for the order was that the alimony was for life, but Answers to Corre- spondents Iras no advice on the subject. FT;:xAs RANGER — Subseriber, Stockton, Cal. or answers to the fourteen questions y about the Texas Rangers yoqufll hl:s)iz“w:isl: to the adjutant-general of the State of Texas at Austin.” The infor) obiainabie in this Grry. - 0" 2ked for s not GASWINDT Moror—T. U. B., City. 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