The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 17, 1896, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCE 17, 1896. AMUSEMENTS, FALDWIN THEATER.—“A Milk White Fl CALIFORNIA THE, *Mexico.” CO1UMEIA THEATER- EROVER'S AXCAZAR.— Bailey’s Continuous Show, Morosco’s OPERA-Housk— Hoop of Gold,” 11voL1 OPERA-HoOUSE.—“Maritana' ORTRECM.~High-Class Vaudeville. THE AvpIToRIUM—Corner of Jones and Eddy streets—Anns Eva Fay. SHOOT THE CHUT ©ne block enst of the Park. 1 4C1F1CCOAST JOCKEY € Daily at Haight street, Lup.—Races to-day. "TAUCTION SALES. By S. WATKIN&—This day (Tuesday), Horses, Buggies, Derby Stables, corner Geary and Leavenw at 11 o'clock. By Gro F. LaMSoN—Wednesday, March 18, Furniture, af 1 Union street, at 11 o clock. 'hursday, March 26, 513 California street, BY G, Real Estate, H. UMBsEN & Co.—Monday, March 30 siate, at_salesroom, 14 Montgomery street o'clock noon. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. lRend THE CALL this morning for auction sales. The Women’s Federation for Public Good held its annual election. The opponents of the beer syndicate will build a $100,000 brewery. Baptist ministers constdered yesterday how to make conventions more spiritual. A Deputy Fish Commissioner relates his ex- perience with spearmen on Deer Creek. Eureks, Humboldt Bay, hes been conceded | terminal rates on shingles to Eastern points. Eight hundred dollars has been subscribed by Olympic Club members for & new handball | court. | A lunch been opene: Home, Milk Inspector Dockery seized four cows found feeding in the San Bruno marshes yes- terday. | The Congregational Monday Club yesterday discussed unselfishness as the remedy for the world’s ills. | Rev. Anna Shaw last night lectured on “The New Woman” toa fair-sized audience at the | Native Sons’ Hall. The Italian, French and Spanish carpenters | will organize a carpenters’ labor union on Thursday evening. Methodist preachers declared at their meet- | ing yesterday that California must have a £chool of theology. The cooks and waiters organized last night | under the name of Fratermity of Hotel and | Restaurant Employes. | Professor Sanford of Stanford University lec- | tured on “Cathode Radiation” at the Academy of Science last evening. The ordinance prohibiting the building M‘ at ] 3)\!('9 for fashionable visitors has in connection with the Newsboys’ fences in excess of ten feet has been declared | invalid by Judge Seawell. There will be a_ meeting at Pixley Hall, cor- ner of Pacific and Polk streets, under the aus- pices ot the McKinley Club. There have been & number of daring burg- laries within the past week in the neighbor- hood of Mason and Pacific streets. The Republican Executive Council of Cali- fornia declared in _favor of electing delegates | 10 the State conveution at primaries. | J. Ross Jackson, the popnlar retired news- | { paper man, has been very low but is slowly re- covering at his hotel, the St. Nicholas. | . Wheeler, a grocer, will sue C. S, Capp | ,000 damages, alleging that the latter | caused his tenants t0 leave his houses. The feast of St. Patrick was celebrated last night at Sacred Heart College by the class of ’96 in the presence of a large audience. “Fog in the morning: fair during the day,” | is the prediction issued last night for to-day’s | weather by Forecast Official A. G. McAdie. Supervisor Benjamin will try to complete the fund to purchase the Goto Temedy for the | lepers at the Pesthouse by Wednesday evening. | The committee on transfersot the Mérchants’ | Association will hold & special meeting this | morning, 10 consiger Manager E. P. Vining's | Teply. { The Supreme Court has decided an interest- iug point for bidderson franchises. A pe centage of the gross receipts does not make “casn” bid. Leon R. Meyer, one of the North Beach gang, | came before Judge Baker for trial yesterday, upon & charge of felonious sssault. was secured. Five favorites’ finished in front at Ingleside vesterday. The winning horses were: del Tierrs, William Pinkerton, Basso, Service and Charm. The Mission residents want the Supervisors to appropriate sufficient money year's tax levy to purchase the old Mission Ccemeteries for a public park. +Nellie Murphy was held to answer before the Superior Courtin $2000 bonas by Judge Con- lan yesterday for robbing J. Castro of Castro- ville of $700 about & month ago. John Brignoli, & plumber, living at 322 Chestnut street, kicked Mrs. J. Thompson, 12 Tehama street, in the abdomen on Saturday nightand tne lady is in a precarious condi- tion. Rev. P. J. Cummins, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo parish, in the Mission, has bought a The jury ‘ Rey | Sir Vessar, Jot, 245x140 feet, at Seventeenth, Folsom and Shotwell streets, for a site for & handsome parish church. Edward Perkins, a student at the Dental College, says thathe and_s companion named Pearl Stellberg heard the shots fired when McWhirter was killed and that they saw two men running away. The appeal from the order of Judge Reynolds of Santa Clara, revoking the letters of guard- janship granted over James Treadwell, has been gi!ml!sed by stipulation. cally ends the Treadwell case. The report of the Health and Police Commit- tee of the Board of Supervisors recommending that action in the matter of the Bay View hog ranches be postponed for six months was re. Jected by the board yesterday. Frank Adams of this city isat the headof a project for the construction of a forty-mile irri- gating canal in Shasta and Tehama counties. Land-owners expect benefits amounting to hundreds of thousands of dolla Ernest Aitken, who sold for $75 a coffee, tea and liquor route that never existed to Philip J. Potter of Providence, R. 1., was yesterday held to answer before the Superior Court in §5000 bonds by Judge Joachimsen. Lulu Johnson, the 15-year-old child who ran away from Los Angeles with John Leonard Jonnson and married him, has been granted a divorce on the ground of her husband’s infi- delity. They were married in June, 1895. The United States gunboat Bennington ar- rived from Honolulu yesterday with twenty- Three of the crew of the schooner Mattie T. Dyer. The vessel was wrecked on French Fric gate Reef and the men suffered untold hard- ships. The demurrers to the contests of Dr. Marc Levingston and_the Board of Teachers Retire- ment Fund Commissioiers to the probate of the stolen Fair will have been sustained, and testimony on the probate of that will has been taken. The case of W. E.Johns, the athletic young stockbroker, charged with battery upon Con- duotor C.L. Healy, after being ejected from Healy's car on Post and Grove streets Sunday afternoon, was called in Judge Campbell’s court yesterday, and continued till to-morrow. Iner case of Oakland, where Judge Fr’{:-.f s)e‘tm:slde .a verdict of manslaughter on the ground that the evidence sufficient to con- viet of murder was not sufficient for man- Slaughter, is attracting attention of lawyers. Tt may result in freeing Muhlner, who Killed his sweetheart. —_———————— Four Criminals Convicted. Judge Wallace broke the record vesterday by convicting four offenders during the morning session and proceeding weil on his way toward convicting a fifth. Michael McDonald was convicted first of assault to comlm&t rv(l;bory; timidated by his partner’s conviction George ‘\”:::; -\'fllhdrew 2 plea of not guilty and vleaded guilty to the same offense; then John 7. Hare did the same on & charge of grand lar- ceny and John O'Brien followed suit on the Sunie charge. The case of Martin Domingo, charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, was then taken up for the remainder of the asy. This practi- | —e—— Tllegally Selling Opium. Charles A. Bayley and Otto Jackson, the two druggists who are charged with sell(u; opium without a doctor’s prescription to J. W. Hall, a promising young actor, and Mrs. Sarah Me- Conneil, & friend of the young man's mother, appeared in Judge Campbell’s court yesterday moraing, and_their cases were continued tiil to-morrow. The Judge nas intimated that he will inflict the severest penaity upon the fending druggists if convicted. from this | ALONG THE WATER FRONT Arrival of the United States Gunboat Bennington From Honolulu. PORT ENGINE BROKE DOWN. Two Sealing Schooners Lost in Alaskan Waters, One With All Hands. The United States gunboat Bennington arnved from Honolulu yesterday, after a very lengthy passage of eleven days. Her officers are as follows: Commander, George W. Digman; lieutenants—A. B. Speyers, W. P. Elliott, H. T. Mayo, A. G. Winterhalter, C. P. Eaton, Ensign Victor Blue and C. D. Stearns; surgeon, C. T. Hibbett; chief engineer, H. K. Barton; passed assistant ‘engineer, W. H. Allder- dice; passed assistant paymaster, J. S. Phillips; pay clerk, D. M. Addison. The Bennington sailed from Honolulu at 10 A. M. on the 5th inst. and the Ocean ¢ watchful eye was not on the cows the owner released them from the pen where they had been placed and drove them to his ranch. Here they were found by the two officials and confiscated. McDermott will be arrested to-day under the section of the new milk ordinance that makes it a misdemeanor to sell milk taken from uncleanly cows. Inspector Dockery announced yesterday that he would soon begin making arrests of those who have not procured permits to sell milk as provided by the ordinance. Thouih many milkmen, restaurant and hotel-keepers {uve complied with the law there are yet several hundred who have not, and these will be given but a very short time to appear at the office of the Board of Health ana file their applications for permits. SCARED THE CHILDREN. How a Youth of the Latin Quarter Pro- cured for Himself & Sound Beating. The manner in which one small boy threw the Latin quarter intoa ferment and gave rise to a rumor that masked robbers were operating in that section of the City was told in Justice Groezinger’s court yes- terday, in the case of G. Gardi against Fe- lice Feregoni. Paul Gardi,a son of the plaintiff, put on a mask and girls’ clothing on February 4, in anticipation of the com- ing Mardi Gras, and called on a number of families. At the house of the defendant the children screamed at the masked boy, who carried a section of gaspipe that re- sembled a knife in his hand. The defendant, according to his story ' ALL ABOUT THE NEW MAN, The Rev. Anna Shaw Tells How the New Woman’s Mate Should Be. HIS PRESENT SAD LACKINGS. Native Sons’ Hall Crowded With Ad- mirers of the Famous Woman Suffragists. B Nearly every seat in the Native Sons’ Hall was filled last night with the crowd that came to hear Miss Anna Shaw on her return to California. Her audience was composed almost entirely of her own sex, there being only a spriukling of gentlemen present, and these came more from the necessity of acting as escorts to the newer womap, perhaps, than from desire to listen to the reverend lady’s lecture on “The New Man.” Besides Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, who in- troduced the speaker, there were seated on the piatform Mrs. Ellen C. Sargent, widow The United States Gunboat Bennington |Sketched by a “Call” artist.} as She Appeared When Off Sausalito Yesterday, Her Run From Honolulu Was a Long One Owing to a Breakdown in the Port Engine. | Steamship Company’s Alameda left five | hours later. The Bennington Las twenty- three of the crew of the wrecked sealing schooner Mattie T. Dyer aboard, and the men thought they would at least reach San Francisco as quickly as the mailboat. They were disappointed, however. Five days out the port engine broke down, and during the right the air pump struck | work. For three.hours the man-of-war was at the mercy of the wind and waves, | but the engineers were equal to the ccca- sion, and it was not long before she was again plowing her way toward San Fran- | eisco. | _ The long stay insouthern waters has not | improved the Bennington's bull, and in | consequence she will have to goon the dry- dock at Mare Island. She will steam up there this morning and will be put out of commission during the day. Tue officers | say that her long trip was due more to ber foul bottom than to any accident to the Tachinery. A heavy head sea was en- | countered during the run, but the gunboat | rode through it without trouble, and proved | herself to be a thorough seaboat. | The Benmington has been unfortunate | almost ever since she was launched. Time | and again her machinery has broken down, | and when she was on the Asiatic station i she was the laughing stock of the navies of | the world. The chances are that it will be Y many & month before she goes into com* | mission again. Two more sealing schooners are added to the list of lost and missing. The Wan- | derer, owned by the Victoria Sealing and | Trading Company, went ashore in_St. | Josephs Bay and all hands were saved by | the revenue cutter Corwin. She became a | total wreck. The May Belle left Victoria, B. C., early in January for Ucluelete in Alaska to pick up an Indian crew. There were seven white men aboard and neither | vessel nor crew has been heard from since. The May Belle was in the heavy gales of January 26 and 27 and a private letter received in this City yesterday it stated that her owners have given her up as lost. Ross & Hewlett have the sealing schoon- ers Lilly L and Emma and Louisa lying at anchor in Sausalito Bay. They do not know whether to sell them or fit them out for another cruise. The temptation to sell is very great, as at least a dozen men are after the vessels to fit them out fora voyage to Cooks Inlet. Both schooners have accommodations for over hirty men, and it would be no trouble to fit up bunks for twenty more. Now that the Af’uskan min- ing craze is on the would-be purchasers think they would have no trouble in get- ting enough miners who are anxious to reach the new ElDorado to fill the passen- ger list. The owners are not at all anxious to sell, however, and the chances are that Captain Charley Mockler may yet go out on a sealing cruise in the Lilly { The Harbor Commissioners are getting worried over the delay in starting work on the new ferry depot. The Supreme Court is taking its'own time in rendering a de- cision in the Batemsn Brothers’ case, and inthe mean time the State is paying $24,000 a year interest on its bonds, and the con- tractors are out and injured. All of them have bonds upto do the work within a specified time, and they are making the lives of Messrs. Colnon, Cole and Chad- bourne miserable by their importuning. Bome action in the matter will be takenat the meeting of the board to be held to-day. SEIZED FOUR COWS. Milk Inspector Dockery Makes a Haul of Bovines on the San Bruno Marshes. Between Milk Inspector Dockery and the Poundmaster the milk rancters who per- mit their cows to roam and feed in the slime and mud of the San Bruno marshes are having a hard time of it. They have been warned repeatedly to keep their cows off the marsh, and now the officials have begun to make seizures of any uncleanly animals they find. Inspector Dockery had a lively chase for a few hours yesterday, that resulted in four cows, belonging to P. McDermott, being landed inthe Pound. The health officials saw the bovines wandering abont the marsh and set all sail in pursuit. After much trouble he herded them into a corral and went to the nearest telephone to notify the Poundmaster that his services were needed. While his on the stand, rushed out and saw what he thought was a knife in the masker's hand, and after exclaiming “There I am dead,” proceeded to belabor the boy until he had caused injuries that cost $17 in plasters and'doctor’s care to repair. The boy’s father wanted him to pay the bill and enough in damages to make up $299. He refused and Gardi sued. Justice Groezinger gave judgment forithe defend- ant on the ground that the boy had no right to frighten the Feregoni family and should have been at hom BIG IRRIGATING SCHEME Frank Adams to Construct a Canal in Shasta and Tehama. It Will Be Forty Miles Long and Water a Vast and Rich Area. Frank Adams of 1911 McAllister street is at the head of a scheme looking to the irrigation of thousands of acres of land in Shasta and Tehama counties, adjacent to | the great waterway of the central and northern part of the State, the Sacramento River. The proposition is to take water from the river at some point near Cottonwood, Shasta County, and, by means of a canal thirty-five or forty miles in length, distribute it over an area of several thou- sand square acres. Mr. Adams is not a capitalist bimself and owns but a few hundred acres in the district intended to be incorporated with- in the irmgating limits. C. 8. Capp of C. 8. Capp & Co., real estate brokers, 415 Montgomery street’ who owns several hundred acres near the land of Mr. Adams, but over the line in Tehama County, said yesterday: “The construction of such a canal as that pre- osed by Mr. Adams would prove a great on to that part of the State. As every ene who has any knowledge of the topography and climatic conditions of that part of the State knows full well thousands of dollars are lost every year for lack of water. Asin the San Joaquin there is only about one good crop out of every four. = “T"am not speaking from the view point of an interested person as my land is out- sind the boundaries of the area to be bene- fited by the prq(fosed irrigating canal. To be sure I would be benefited indirectly by the ennancing of the land values natur- ally to follow on the heels cf an enterprise of the kind. Therefore I can speak with- out prejudice or predisposition of the prac- ticability of the :scheme. Mr. Adams’ plan is good, He does not ex{:cct to get rich from the enterprise. There is not enough land in his possession to warant such an inference. ) “He proposes that during the dull sea- son of the year the landowners of the dis- trict to be benefited by the canal furnish so many men and teams to excavate a given number of miles of the canal, and to receive in remuneration scrip, which shall be taken in payment for water furnished when the cgnal is built. The surveys have been made and enpineers’ estimates bear out my assertion that the scheme is practi- cable and will be worth hundreds of thou- sands of dollars to that part of Shasta and Tehama counties. 2 “The carrying out of the project hasa very important bearing on the question of relieving the overflow of the river dur- ing freshets, and that has led many to con- found it with the scheme promulgated by Will S. Green of the Colusa Sun, now United States Surveyor-General, of con- structing a canal from Redding to Suisun Bay, to carry off the surplus water in the spring and save the levees. It also was proposed to construct the canal in such a way as to make it navigable and save much time to flat-bottomed river craft. But more of thatanon. The present canal scheme is paramount in landowners’ in- ée‘:est’x,md means much to that part of the te. iy of Senator A. A. Sargent; Mrs. John F. Swift, president of the Century Club, and Miss Susan B. Anthony. Mrs. Cooper in- trcduced the lecturer, who spoke, substan- tially, as follows: Ineed say nothing about the new woman. We know ail about her. The paragrapher has told us all about ner. She has been thoroughiy dissected ever since she first came. We did mnot know that we wanted her and now we know that we could not live without her. We are glad she is here and we hope she will settle down and leave us in peace. She resembles the old woman in one thing. She neverin- tends to go it alone. Butshe needs a new man. We only find her to be an old woman with a few modern improvements. We have come to the conclusion thet the new woman will be | among other things 8 new mother-in-law, but 10 be & mother-in-law there must be a son-in- law. and she is looking for him. We are no longer disturbed to know whether the new woman will dress like her father or her mother, or whether she will dress partly like both. Miss Anthony says she has had more letters regarding the dress of women, and particularly with reference to bloomers, than with reference to any other subject. The fear seems to be that the new woman will re- sort entirely to bloomers. But th ced have 1o fear of that. A woman will always try to look her very best, and no human being can look well in men’s clothes. Consequently we will leave you your clothes. The bloomer woman came; she remained a short time and then she disappeared, because blcomers are contrary to nature. In fact, any kind of garment :s contrary to nature; but if thereis anything under the light of the sun thn: nature ever approached it is a dress coat. How will the new man look? How will he walk and how will hedress? Will he dress like his father or like his mother? Will his ulster trail on the ground? Will his hair be parted in the middle? How will he manage himself anyhow? We don’t know, but this we do know: He will have an easier time than the new women has had, because he will not be made as ridiculous by the new woman as she was by the old man. And in the meantime there will no doubt be & great many sissy men, and if there is &ny- | thing worse than a masculine woman it isa sissy man. The new woman has the same right to criti- | cize the new man that the present man exer- cises in eriticizing the new womau. She has got to tell the new man what kind of a man she is going to marry, because she has always been told what kind of & woman he is going to marry. The one thought that first impresses us is the large size of the men and the handsome women which you have. Your men have ob- | tained to the stature of gladiators. In the East they are smaller and are growing smaller. During the last twenty-five years the stature of women has been increasing and that of men has been de creasing. 8o that unless some- thinfi transpires to change this the new woman will find it impossible to do what it has always been told them it was their duty to do—look up to the new man. ‘When we make an investigation as to the cause of this we find that so far as the women are concerned it is due to the conditions that make it essential for women to take exercise. The day has gone by when awoman can say that she is vulgarly healthy. When I was incollege it was said that women could not bear the physical strain necessary in college. Now I have known something of women in college, and I have never known a young woman to study herself to death. It was really under- exercise that interiered with her course at college. She didn’t go into the campus and u:le the necessary amount of physical exer- cise. The new man will be a better educated man. It is brains that are demanded in every field of labor to-day. Both the man of business apd the woman home-maker and mother requites the best of intelligence. A woman wno is competent to take care of a home is capable of learring and fitting herself for most any kind of profession. Not one woman in ten to-day is fit to marry, and not one man in'a hundred is fit for mar- riage, and consequently men and women will not marry as they did in the past, and the re- sults will be betier, The new man will be more intelligent, and will therefore be more fair and just (o women. 1 believe that the new man will be on & higher plane of morality than he has been in the t. There is no reason why women should not demand of men the same strict virtue that is looked for in women. Man’s motive has never been high enough. His course of conduct has not n based on the high dignity that it should be, and the ideal man cannot sink below that conduct— not because of his relation to women, but simply because he is & man, beceuse the man has too noble & character to degrade him- self. I believe that what the young manhood of to-day needs is to fi:t the consciousness of the dignity of his character, the vast possi- bilities which give every man everywhere not only intellectual and physical but moral possi- bilities which ennoble him. When we have this ideal man the new man will utterly refuse to take ndvantage of woman simply because of his physical strength. In speaking of the acknowledged falsity of the old saying that competition is the life of trade, she said that it had been found that co-operation was the real life of business, and drew the con- clusion from this that the new man would not consider woman asa competitor, but would seek always to co- og)ente with her and thus accomplish the most good for the race. ‘‘Men and women will then be friends and it will not be necessary for them to marry because they aresuch. Woman will be able to go out into the world and work side by side with the new man without arousing antag- onisms.’”’ Miss Shaw prophesied the twentieth cen- tury would be a problem of the soul, say- ing: “It will then be recognized that it is the goodness of soul that is to rule and not sex. When Miss Shaw concluded ber addregs Miss Susan B. Anthony made a few re- 1aarks urging all present to do everything in their power to bring California within the ranks of the woman suffrage States at the next election, calling attention to the opening of the woman’s suffrage amend- ment campaign Monday next. T THE CITY THEVTES “Captain Impudence” Makes Quite a Hit at the Cali- fornia. “A Texas Steer” Comes to the Colum- bia—Continuous Show at the Alcazar. It is some time since San Francisco has seen as good a production of its kind as Milton Royle’s “Captain Impudence,” which opened at the California Theater last night. The drama, which has been playing all along the road by its other name of *‘Mexico,”’ depicts scenes supposed to have happened during the Mexican war. A namber of United States officers, resplendent in full - dress uniforms, as well as many Mexican veterans, con- spicuous by their badges, had turned out to welcome “Captain Impudence.” The latter grew quite enthusiastic over the picturesque scenes, particularly the inter- ior view of the fortress at Chapultepec, but they were heard to murmur that in their experiences they had lighted upon more fig hting and less love-making. “Captain Impudence” does not pretend, however, to be a war drama. It is a pretty and effective story of what niight have happened when the United States troops were in Mexico if the sisters and cousins and aunts of the officers had been part of the impedimenta of the army, and if a dashing and ingenious young captain, in love with his major’s daughter, bad had the somewhat questionable happiness of winning the uncaught affections of a beautiful se- norita, who loved him as tenderly and humbly as the major's daughter loved him pertly and imperiously. 3 Of course in critical moments Miss Lu- cretia Bugg, the major's daughter, as- sumed the command—daughters of officers always do 1 war dramas—but Miss Lu- cretin defied her parent before the privates in a manner that must have {:een very humiliating to the ma- jor. On one occasion, when the downtrodden man had commanded Captain Impudence’s arrest for permittmg the senorita to escape, Lucretia struck an attitude, and—with the whole regiment looking on—commanded the major to refrain. Needless to say, that officer at once recognized the superior wisdom of his daughter’s judgment. It was this audacious young lady that Captain lmsudence tried to subdue by a high-handed method of love-making, which so incensed her that she solemnly vowed not to marry till her parent, who wasa widower,should marry also. The cap- tain,a part which Milton Royle played with plenty of fire, tempered with discretion, finding himself cut off by this bond from all hopes of earthly happiness, entered into a conspiracy with Mrs. General Trigg, a widow, to ensnare the major’s affections. From the fascinating way in which Selina Letter Royle played the part every one saw | from the outset that it was a forezone con- olusion that the major would uitimately be led into the bonds of holy matrimony. The sympathetic iaterestof the play cen- tered round Jovita Talamanca, the poor senorita, whose father had been killed in battle by Captain Shields, otherwise Cap- tain Impudence. The young man tried to atone to the girl, who was held as a hostage, for "the injury he had un- wittingly done her, and in so doing he won her passionate adoration, which resulted in a jealous revenge and repentance, on which the plot of the drama is largely based. Madeline Merli as the senorita was a complete success. Her voice is low and sweet and she played her part caressingly, sadly, and yet with adue admixture of passion and revenge. In spite of her unrequited love the senor- ita never loses her dignity. Gretchen Lyons was becomingly pert and pretty and shallow as the triumphant | Lucretia, and Lucius Henderson made a | villainously wicked part of Mendoza, the Mexican spy, whose fate is left in obscur- ity at the end of thedrama. Ben Johnson was excellent as the colored servant of the captain. Taken altogether “Mexico” is an inter- esting and effective play. The action never lags, and a happy medium is struck between comedy and pathos. The staging is good, and excellent taste is shown in dressing the women in the costumes of | the period, instead of committing the anachronism of wearing end of the century gowns. At the Columbia. “A Texas Steer,” that is, Charles Hoyt's sparkling comedy of that name, makes the Columbia quite as lively as would the animal himself. The piece, while thoroughly amus- ing,1s none the less quite a deep study in certain phases of human nature. The foibles of the nouveau riche are laid bare with & rutn- less, merciless scalpel, while the underlying goodness in the average man Oor woman is made to come to light in spite of whims and idiosyncrasies. One of the most effective scenes, and certainly the noisiest, is in the second act, where three Texan rangers spread dismay amid the guests at a very selectdinner party, becoming so enthused on hearing their State well spoken of that they indulge in the wildest demonstrations of applause and end by firing their revolveis into the air, to everybody’s consternation. The piece is called one of Hoyt’s best, which is no faint praise, and req uires a well-balanced, intelligent cast. A play like “A Texas Steer' may be delightfully amusing or tiresomely coarse, nccordiug to the manner in_which it is acted.” The people now at the Columbia cer- tainly understand their business and sustain their roles most ably. Tim Murphy as Maver- ick Brander, a Texas cattle king, is excellent, of course. People would be surprised if he were not. Messrs. Marlow, Adams and Manley as Major Yell, Colonel Bragg and General Blow, Texan members of the Farmers’ Alliance, are erhaps just a trifle overdrawn, but charm- ngly unconventional. Lizzieau Roias Brand- er's wife and Dorothy Sherrod as Bossy, Brand- er’s pet, are very good. Next week the extravaganza, “‘Sinbad,” will be given. It is understood that several new features have been added to this piece since its firsi presentation here. Grand Opera-House. The Grand has been giving its patrons thrill- ing melodrama lately, sandwiched with mirth- provoking humor of Gilbert and Goldie, and both extremes of the dramatic bill of fare have been applauded to the ecko. Last night, for instance, when thet affecting melodrama, “Hoop of Gold,’” was produced, the sandwich style of entertainment caused the gallery especially to howl and whistle witn delight. No sjoner had the woes of the hero- ine extracted the tributary tear, than Gilbert and Goldie’s humor made people laugh till the cried. The heroine had a terrible scene wufl her brutal, drunken husband, and, goaded to despair, she seized her infant in her arms and rushed out into the cold, cruel world. Asshe did so Gilbert and Goldie came on and did a number of “turns,’’ including a comic hyp- n;mf.;i :;mee. all of which were frantically ap- auded. pThe-seene changed to a street. where the heroine and her babe were almost perishing of cold and hunger. Fred Butier, as the vil- lain, appeared and offered goid as the price of infamy, The heroine spurned him and the NEW TO-DAY. «1 prefer Cleveland’s baking powder because it is pure and wholesome. It takes less for the same baking, it never fails, and bread and cake keep their fresh- ness and flavor.” Miss CorNELIA CAMPBELL BEDFORD, - Supt, New York Cooking Sckool. listeners_trembled for her fate, when Gilbert, disguised as & comic policeman, shuffled on the scene and the audience applauded fran- tically, for they knew that all would now be well. " All through the play the sandwich pro- f,es)ll (wnu continued and it gave unqualitied de- o *‘Hoop of Gold” was well acted by the stock company, and the scenery included a splen- didly realistic representation of Westminster bridge, from the Surrey side, with the clock tower,” the houses of Parliament and the Thames embankment seen by night across the water. Baldwin Theater. There was a great attendance at the second week of Hoyt's “A Milk White Flag,” which began at the Baldwin last night. As usual the sprightly satire and the clever specialties were warmly applauded. At the Alcazar, An innovation has been introduced at the Alcazar which has thus far proven very suc- cessful as an attraction, though, to be sure, it is only twodays old. On Sunday afternoon the first performance of the “continuous show” was given, and has since run day and night to large and appreciative houses. The prices for admission range irom 10 to 25 ceuts, and ‘matinees are given daily. This week’s bill is a high-class vaudeville performance, and many of the numbers are well worth seeing. Miss Josephine Gassman in her serio-comic song specialties is as deserv- edly a fayorite as ever. In the farcica! sketch, “My Wife’s Husbands,” she divided the ap- plause with Leonard Grover, both being ap- plauded to the echo. Messrs, Starkey and Rathbun, on the triple horizontal bars. performed some acrobatic feats which called forth many expressions of wonder and_delight, particularly from the {ounger portion of the house. The other num- ers on the programme were well chosen and effective, while the orchestral interludesem- braced several classic compositions which were admirably rendered. At the Tivoli. Wallace’s tuneful opera *‘Maritana,” though heard so oft, was warmly welcomed at the Tivoli last night. The gems of the composition are sung in neariy every household, but per- haps that very fact made them the more fully appreciated by the large aucience. The cos- tumes, scenery and stage effects are effective and in fioud taste, while the cast is exception- ally well selected. W. H. West makes Charies 11 Jook every inch a king, whie Ferris Hart- man gets what fun can be extracted from the role of the Marquis de Montefiore. Kate Mar- chi as Lazarillo is charmingly piquante, while Carrie Roma makes a beautiful Maritana. “Said Pasha” will be the muext attraction, and *‘Blue Beard” is promised for Easter week. At the Orpheum. There is nothing like a first-class varlety show to draw & crowd, and the Orpheum people know it. This week they have a num- ber of new attractions. The De Filippis in 1 their original dance, “On the Boulevard,” are marvel of fantastic grace, while Al and amie Anderson in their plantation sketeh, m the Old Virginia Shores,” were very good. Rachel Walker’s bell-like tones cnarm all who hear them, and it 1ooks as though her engage- ment would be & long oune. Several good artists add tneir quota to the interesting programme. A LITEfiRARY MILESTONE. Newspaper Readers’ Rare Opportunity in the Offer of the Syndicate Con- trolling the New Encyclopmdic Dic- tionary. A dictionary of dictionaries, a compre- hensive encyclopedia, a systemati¢c and thorough education, all neatly stowed away in the form of four massive columns, superbly bouna, entitled the New Encyclo- pedic Dictionary. This grand work, containing over 5000 pages, elegantly and profusely illustrated, is the unequaled producticn of the master minds of the two great English-speaking nations. It is based upon the encyclopa- dic dictionary published in England under the eaitorialf guidance of a distinguished body of scholars, among whom were Pro- fessor Huxley and Professor Proctor. The revision and additions necessaty to adapt it to American uses have been most care- fully and thoroughly wrought out under the editorial supervision of an extensive corps of eminent scientists and specialists, the work being brought thoroughly up to date in every particular, until it stands to- day the dictionary of dictionaries and an encyclopedia in every respect invalu- able for the home. library, office and study. In order to promote the sale of this marvelous production, the syndicate makes a great special offer of 500 sets of the work at a price so low and on terms so easy as to result in promoting a wide- spread publicity for the enterprise. These few introductory sets will be disiributed to those who are the first to apply. Itis only necessary to send or bring $1 to the headquarters of the Pacific Coast News- paper Syndicate, 36 Montgomery street, and the complete set of four handsome volumes will be delivered at once, the bal- ance to be paid at the rate of $1 25 per month for one year, or at the rate of about 4 cents a day. Promuwt action is, of course, essential, as so few introductory sets at so low a price,and on_such easyterms, will be quickly allotted, for when these are gone the_ cost of the books will be ad- vanced. Inspection of the volumes is in- vited at the headquarters in order to aid you in coming to a quick decision. FAVORS PRIMARIES. Republican Council Declares for That Method of Electing Delegates. The Republican Executive Council of California held an adjourned meeting at Judge Belcher’s chambers last evening. The following resolution, introduced by James E. Field, was adopted : Resolved, That it is the sense of the Republi- can Executive Council of California that the best interests of the party will be subserved by holding primary elections for delegates to the State conventions in all districts that such can be held. The committee appointed to confer with the State Central Committee and other organizations with a view to securing fair primaries reported progress to the extent of a conference with P. B. Cornwall and the filing of resolutions of such import. The report was accepted and the commit- tee continued in service. The committee appointed to consider the advisability of holding a mass-meet- ing soon under the auspices of the coun- cil reported the probable expense of such a meeting. There was a difference of opin- ion as to the wisdom of holding the mass- meeting and the committee’s report was received as progressive. The council adjourned till next month. — e - The deer parks in England exceed 300. The largest in the kingdom is Windi NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. ‘"THIS WEEK—AUDITORIUM. — T RETURN OF ANNA EVA FAY NOTHING Like Her Wonderful Pertormances Ever Before Witnessed in Frisco. 15¢, 25¢ and 50c. | NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS, Lnbio Ghalie, JNCOLANDLR.GOTTLOD & Co- LESSES ATD HANAGLRS -~ NO TO_DRAW LASSO THE REQUIRED PEOPLE! LAST NIGHT TO SEE THE TEXAS STEER With TIM MURTHY and His Great Company. They came in droves! They were delighted ! They never stopped applauding! Do you doubt the success! Then come To-night and see! Monday Next— AMERICAN EXTRAVAGANZA COMPAR I~ “SINBAD, THE SAILOR, Or The Maid of Balsora.” L FAYMAN I AnD Co, INCORP'D HEATRE Y FROPS. SECOND : HoxTs CROWDED : A MILK WHITE FLAG! EVERY NIGHT IN THE WEEK. MATINEE SATURDAY. ¥ Al NAYMAN TO-NIGHT——EVERY EVENING MATINEE SATURDAY! House Crowded to the Doors Last Night A GREAT BIG SUCCESS. The Ficturesque, Original, Romantic Comedy, CAPT. INPUDENCE (MEXI1CO). By Edwin Milton Royle, Author of “Friends.” Management of Artbur C. Alston. ——A Complete Production! NEXT WEEK “FRIEN D§"* TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MES. JNBNESTINE KRELING, Proprietor & Manage? —TEIS EVENING — ‘Wm. Vincent Wallace's Beautiful Ballad Opera, MARITANA! SPLENDID CA New Scenery !—Correct Costumes! “Every Number a Favorite Gem NEXT WEEK Richard Stahl’s Romantic Comic Opers, “SAID PASHA!” Popular Prices—25c and 50c. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater In America. WALTER MOROSCO, Sole Lessee and Manager THIS EVENING AT EIGHT, Mortimer Murdock's Masterpiece. “EXTOOF OF GOLD!?’ SEE | The Mooniight View of the YOU English Houses of Parlin- THAT | ment and Westminster Bridge | SEE Special Re-Engagement of the GILBERT AND GOLD! EVENING PRICAS—25¢ and 5. Femily Circle and Gallerv., 102 Usual Matinees Saturday and Sunday. ° Favorites, 1E. ) ALCAZAR ST. PATRICK’'S DAY! Matinee To-Day! Prices—10c, 15¢, and 25c¢—~Day and Night. Icecream ana Cake Free to All. No Such Show at the Prices on Earth! BAyILFY CONTINUGUS SHOW ! ‘Vaudeville! Specialties! Comedy! Drama! MATINKEE EVERY (AY! Prices day and night, 10c, 15¢ and 25c. That is the limit day and night. ORPHEUM. O'Farrell Street, Between Stockion and Powal. Grand Matinee Today, St. Patrick’s Day! Parquet, any seat, 25c; Balcony, any seat, 10c; Children, 10c, any part. A BRILLTANT VAUDEVILLE COMBINATION ! THE KINS NERS, BASCO AND KOBERTS, THE CORTY BROTHE FRANK LA MONDUE, ALBUK1US and BARTRAM, TH+ ANDERSONS, CHAS. B. WARD, WILLS and COLLINS, And Last Week of the Favorite Creole Soprane, RACHEL WALKER. SHOOT THE CHUTES OPEN TO-DAY ¥ROM 1 TO 11 P. M. «ERIN GO BRAGH!” GRAND CELEBRATION OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY AT 9:15 THIS EVENING. MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY OF FIR WORKS: ADMISSION. ——10 CENTS. Children (including Merry-Go-Round Ride), 100.; SUTRO BATHS. ST. PATRICK’S DAY! | GRAND AQUATIC PROGRAMME!, —Concert by — ’s California Exposition Band! PACIFIC COAST JOCKEY CLUB (Ingleside Track). € FIVE OR MORE RACES DAILY. (RAIN OR SHINE.) FIRST RACE AT 2:00 P. Il. ADMISSION $1.00. Take Southern Pacitic trains at Third and Towne | send strects Depot, leaving a: 12:40 and 1:15 P i, | Fare for round trip, Including admission to grand stand, $1. Take Mission-street elecuric line direcs to track. < A. B. SPRECKELS, ‘resident W.S. LEAKE, P n Secretarn