The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISOO CALL, THUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Propris SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Posiage Free: Telly and Sunday CALL, one weelk, by carrier..$0.15. Dafly and Sunday CALL, One year, by mal. Deily and Sunday CALL, 8ix months, by mail. Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .85 Bunday CaLy, one year, by ma 1.50 WEEKLY CaLy, one year, by mail. 1.60 BUSINESS OFFICE T10 Market Street, San Francisco, California. felephone. = R Main—18 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ....Maln-1874 BRANCH OFFICE! 630 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open until #:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 8:50 o'clock. 713 Larkin street: open until 8:30 o'clock. SW . corner Sixteenth and Mission stree entil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 0'clock. 116 Ninih sireet; open until 9 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE Rooms 31 snd 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. FOLTZ, Special Agent. felephone open THURSDAY PRIL 2, 1896 ‘"TE CAl LV SPEAKS FOR ALL. The cry of the people: *‘Kill the funding bill.” Foreclosure is the law; funding is a 10rs in Burope sound more like a roar. iots of fools 1 the world yes- v and just about as many to-day. California counts on all her delegates to ¥izht the monopoly from start to finish. The protest of the people against the louder as the final fight According to the official showing Uncle Sam’s National banks are rich enough to H a farm. Che best we can do for our Minneapolis visitors is to give them a lot of sunshine to take home with them. Free ting i coinage an tion are dis- ssues, of course, but they have suffi- ity 1o mix w a The bond issues must be investigated. The syndicate got the money and the people:must have the facts. To the German suxar-growers the Cuban war is a_providential dispensation, and they are praying for a continuance. This is not & yellow-dog year, for the very sufficing reason that there are no such animals in the Republican ranks. The Interstate Conimerce Commission hasits hands full, but seems to lack it catches. alw: sufficient power to handle al For all refunding schemes each house of C ss- should resolve itself into a slaug| house and get ready for work. Rain, hail, sleet, snow, thunder, light- ning and wind is the kind of weather Minneapolis gets when the Mayor is away. As Weyler demands more troops from Spain, the Cubans will soon be calling for a census to show the increase of pooula- tion. As Max O’'Rell has announced his retire- ment from the lecture stage we may ex- pect him next year on his first farewell tour. New Hampshire Republicans declare for a Presidential candidate who be *‘a platiorm in himself,” and so say we all of us. The European situnation is made more interesting by the fact that France has be- gun to talk of peace and get her navy ready. Having stirred up wars in Abyssima, the Soudan and Matabeletand, Europe still in- sists she 15 keeping the peace and civilizing Africa. It is not certain yet whether the British are really enforcing a vigorous foreign policy or only going through a series of spasms. In abstaining from coming forward as Presidential candidates Democratic lead- ers have the good excuse that no one has called for them. The recent statement that the blizzards in the East were over was slightly mi leading. It should have been that they were over the:whole country. The City of Paris, like the St, Paul, has escaped from the mud flats uninjured, and it seems it doesn’t ‘hurt any kind of a ship to run over New Jers In their present situation the Demo- crats are exactly in the mood of the farmer who upset his apple cart and had no lan- guage to do justice to the occasion. As the treasury deficit for March is less than that of ‘the previous months of the fiscal year, we may expect to see the Dem- ocrats trying to figure it out as a surplus. There are signs that Hoke Smith in- tends to set up asa humorist, for in his debate with ex-Speaker Crisp he said he - was in favor of silver but opposed to coin- ing it. Even if there were nothing wrong in the bond deals there is ‘certainly something wrong in trying to conceal the means by which such important public business was carried out. President Kruger is willing that British residents in the Transvaal should be re- cruited to make war against the Mata- bele Anything goes with him that gets the British to go. The rrench Ministry has" assured the Chamber of Deputies that France and Russia are co-operating in regard to Egypt, #nd perhaps we shall hear the buzzsaw running before long. e T A London paper says the Democrats may win this year if they are wisely led, and the saying is true enough provided a sufficient emphasis is put on the if to do justice to the subject: The friends of Senator Davis of Minne- * sota will now call attention to the fact that the nipping of his Presidential boom was followed by one of the biggest snow- storms that ever struck the State. It:is said the action of the Turkish Gov- ernor at Bitlis; in arresting two American _missionaries, was intended only to test the American pulse. It is scarcely necessary to sey that he found it at a fighting heat. . ENFOROE THE LAW. It is reported from Washington that Eastern people are asking what policy Californians favor in regard to the settlement of the deuts of the Pa- cific roaas. If this be true 1t would seem that our campaign of education against the funding scheme has . been waged almost in vain. Over and over again has it been declared that at this juncture the people of California have no other policy than that of enforcing the ex- isting law. No other policy is needed. The issue is a plain matter of business. The debtor refuses to pay and the Gov- ernment should proceed in the regular order of established law to foreclose the | mortgage, take the property and get a de- ficiency judgment for the balance due. There is no reason why the people of | California should undertake to formulate any policy different from tbat pursued up to this time, There are people in this | State who favor the possession and opera- | tion of the roads by the Government it- self, and there are people who are opposed | to that plan. There are some who would like to see the roads sold to a strong com- pany that would give us a competitive transcontinental system, and there are others who have objections to that. All are agreed, however, that almost any plan is better than that of refunding the debt and that the law should be enforced and the mortgage foreclosed. Any refunding measure whether for a hundred years or forty years, whether for 2 per cent or for 3 per cent, would involye many things of evil import to California. It would continue the power of the monop- oly and leave us exposed as now to exac- tions that hamper every industry, check every form of development and restrict all our encrgles. It would prolong that con- test between the people and th e monopoly which has been so fruitful a source of po- litical evils and kept the State incessantly disturbed by antagonisms and distrust. It would surrender the dignity of law by conceding favors to the demands of a rich corporation that would not be granted to the pleadings of the needy. It would be in fact a concession to corruption and a measure of measureless evils. The policy of the people of California is the fulfillment of the law as it stands. Not long ago a single message from the Presi- dent was shown to be all that was sufficient to enforce the Monroe doctrine against the antagonism of England in the face of an unwilling world. A single declaration from Congress in favor of a resolute enforcement of the law will bring the monopoly to terms. A nation that can stand against the world can certainly stand againsta defaulting corporation, and shoald not be alarmed by any threat that the corporation won’t pay. Enforce the law. THE TARIFF REVIEWED. One of the ablest, fairest and most searching inqguiries into the tariff question that has yet been made has been written by T. B. Walker of Minneapolis. Its key- note is expressed in the following postu- lat “A nation dependent upon agriculture only may possess a large population and produce a superabundant food supply, but will always be loaded with foreign debt and subject to panic and hard times. ‘“‘Where manafactures, commerce and minmg are abundantly encouraged and protected the nation may, with a limited ability to compete in agriculture, stand in the front rank. “This Nation, with its incomparable ad- vantages, can lead all others in wealth, power, independence and continuous prosperity, if its labor and capital are suf- ficiently encouraged and protected.” There are some nations in a position to profit by a high tariff and others that would suffer by the adoption of such a pol- icy. Thus England would only further impoverish 1ts millions of laborers by im- posing a tariff on provisions, and a pro- tective tariff on manufactured goods would be idle in view of the fact that Eng- land not only supplies her own needs in that regard, but secures much of her pros- perity by exporting them in large quanti- ties. Hence, ae the author says, “A tariff on imported manufactured goods would produce no reventies and a tariff on pro- visions would destroy their supremacy.” In the United States we find an exactly opposite condition of things. While tae necessary policy of England in extending her commerce requires low wages, America has unlimited resources sufficient for the people and capable of producing high wages if they are jotelligently fostered and a wholly unnecessary competition with the industrial conditions of Europe prevented. A low tariff manifestly tends to create such a competition and thus re- duce the state'of our people to that of the poverty-stricken hordes of the Old.World, Not only is this the tendency, but it must be expected that a low tariff will tend to bring on panics by inducing large importations of foreign goods, a heavy drain on the gold of the country, aepres- sion of manufactures and a consequent demand for settlements that cannot be met. The contention of Mr. Carlisle and his followers that these results of the Democratic tariff are chargeable to the National monetary system cannot be maintained in view of the plain proposi- tion that heavy imports mean a large out- flow of gold, and that it means just the same to the country whether the gold is sent to Europe by an importer or is re- moved directly from the National treasury for export in the settlement of trade bal- ances. Discontent, with resulting strikes, ap- pears among the laboring classes only when times are hagd and poverty pinches. Such movements as these are.a natural and inevitable protest againsta tendency to fall into the poverty, hopelessness and helplessness o conspicuous among the laborers of Europe. THE GROWING DEFICIT. As was foreseen and predicted the treas- ury statements for March show expendi- tures in excess of revenues for that month, and the total deficit for the nine months that bave elapsed of the current fiscal year is now about $19,000,000. During tnis month there are large amounts of interest o be paid, and as there is little hope of increased revenues the monthly shortcom- ing will be much greater than that for March, so that all hope of keeping the de- ficit for the year below .$25,000,000 must now be abandoned even by that sangume estimator Mr. Carlisle himself. Ever since the income tax was declared unconstitutional it has been known to statesmen and students of our financial system that under the existing laws the revenues would not equal the Necessary expenditures of the country. Even with the income that might have been derivea from that tax there would have been little to spare as the customs duties under the Wilson tariff had been cut down to suit the policy of parsimony which Democrats call economy. Under the circumstances, therefore, had there been any sagacious leaders in the Democratic party they would have co-operated with Republicans of Congress to pass any kind of emergency bill to obtain the needed revenues. They preferred, however, to obstruct every bill ot the kind, and as a consequence they have now to meet the people as the advo- cates of a revenue system which is running the country into debt every month. The man mainly responsible for this blunder of the Democratic party is Secre- tary Carlisle. He has been their evil counselor at every step in the fatuous policy they have pursued on this subject. He has again and again prepared estimates for them, showing that there would be a surplus revenue ‘next month.” With each succeeding month there hasbeen a new boom estimate sent out for the use of the administration speakers in the House and the Senate. At first they were em- ployed with great courage and confidence, and it was clear that some of tne orators at any rate sincerely believed in them. Now, however, they are used no more. Successive disappointments have chilled the faith, even of the cuckoos, and Car- lisle is left to defend his position for him- self by juggling figures as best he can. It is not wholly bad for the country that this silly policy of bluster and folly has been pursued. It is just as well that the people should see the results of the Demo- cratic tariff workea out to the full. The deficis stands there for all to see, and it will increase with the months untii the fools have been turned outof office and statesmen returned to power. TARMING IN CITIES. The New York Association for Improv- ing the Condition of the Poor has been in- spired by the remarkable success of Mayor Pingree of Detroit, the originator of the pian for farming vacant lots in cities. Al- though the Pingree idea was put in opera- tion as late as 1894 and had only two years of demonstration, it has proved successful beyond all calculation and may be re- garded as the most promising of modern philanthropic movements. It mightseem strange that a great and crowded city like New York, with its uncounted thousands of suffering poor, could produce a sufficient number ot accessible vacant lots with which to try the Detroit experiment in the hope of ameliorating the sufferings of an appreciable number of peor people, but the association has gone earnestly to work and has already made some important dis- coveries. It has issued a reportshowing that there are17,329 vacant lots (more than 1400 acres) in the city below West One Hundred and Forty-fifth street and the Harlem, and announces that if the vacant land be within three miles of the homes of the poor they will use it. If the land is sterile it can be enriched from excavations AROUND THE CORRIDORS, Andrew Young, chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Story County, Nevada, and acting Mayor of Virginia City, 1s at the Russ. Since the famous camp of the Comstock lode disincorporated no Mayor has been elected, and the dutles requisite in such cases have devolved on the chairman of the Supervisors. Mr. Young is one of the best-known men in that part of the country. He has lived for thirty-seven years st Virginia and worked, as he expresses it, ‘‘“for fifteen years under- ground,” for he is a practical miner and knows all the ins and outs of a miner’s life. He was for several years secretary and for several years. more treasurer of the Miners’ Union, one of the largest organizations in the country. He believes that the troubles of Tangerman with the miners will soon be adjusted by the 1 will be forced to try a remedy that will surely cure him, although he hates this, because Tom i8 too old and tough to make good eating. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE TUOLUMNE RIVER. PROJECT TO HAVE IT DECLARED A PUBLIC HIGHWAY. T the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: My attention was this day called to an edito- rialin yourissue of March 24 on the subject of the Supervisors of Tuolumne County declar- ing that portion of Tuolumne River now un- navigable a public highway. As my interests are probably greater than those of any onme individual I desire to make some explanation concerning the facts in the case. In the first place there isno lumber company or Eastern parties interested in or connected with itat CHAIRMAN ANDREW YOUNG OF THE VIRGINIA CITY SUPERVISORS. [From a sketch made by a *“Call’ artist.] officials here of the Hale & Norcross mine and street refuse. It is confidently ex- pected that New York will make the ven- ture successful, If it be true of that city, where the obstacles are greater than in any other, every city in the country will have any easy task. New York is not alone in adopting the Detroit plan. Bui- falo, Omaha and Seattle have assailed the problem of relieving the unemployed by the same means. The lessons already learned are these: 1. A large number of the destitute are willing to work if they have the oppor- tunity. 2. A very small piece of ground will fur- nish a family sufficient food. 3. “The needy are thereby assisted with- out creating the demoralization in the habits of the people that gratuitous help always entails.” As much of the future greatness of Cali- fornia will come from a more thorough de- velopment of its agricultural resources, the subject has a peculiar interest for the cities of this State. The immediate relief which it brings to th2 poor is by no means the sum of its benefits. Beyond that con- sideration lie others of lasting vaiue. This | is indicated in the following report by F. B. Dickerson, superintendent of poor of Detroit: “The poor, hard-working people see that upon a little patch of half an acre they can produce enough to half support themselves, and it sets them to thinking. They reason thus, ‘If I can almost live on half an acre 1 could make a comfortable living on a few acres,’ and they begin to fizure on getting into the country. In answer to a gnestion asked me, 1 asserted that at least 100 families had sought and found homes in the country as a direct re- sult of their experience of last year. I fell far short of the mark, however, for one gentleman, the Hon. Joseph Waltz of Waltz, Mich. (a small village in this coun- ty), writes: ‘I see in the papers whatyou say about city farming, and think you are right in the matter, as twenty-five fa milies from the city have located hereabouts. If twenty-five families have located in the vicinity of one little village, the number of families who have located in other sec- tions of the State must far exceed 100.” CURRENT HUMOR. Ehe fell. Love of finery turned her head. Her head was turned to enable her to see the other girl’s finery, and she did not observe the coal scuttle somebody had left upon the side- walk.—Detroit Tribune. They pressed forward and closely examined the Roentgen photograph. | “His liver,” they said, “is the image of his father’s, but he gets his lungs from his mother’s folks.”—Detroit Tribune. Shakespeare—If I nad it all to do again I'd try my hand &t comic opera. Ben Jonson—Don’t get a big head, William. You had & great run of luck as it was, but you were never cut out to write topical songs.— Puck. He—Oh, dear! I wish 1 could get hold of some good biscuits like mother used to bake for me. She—And T wish I could get some good clothes like father used to buy for me.—Indian- apolis Journal. “Blykins is doing some good dialect work.” “Blykins? I didn’t know he wrote. I thought he was an artist.” S0 he s, but he is making a specialty of dialect work—he draws posters.”—Washington Times. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Elnathan Corrington Gavitt, who died the other day in Toledo, Ohio, at the age of 88 years, was & noted pioneer of Methodism in Ohio, and the suthor of “Crumbs From My Saddle-bag,” & book that bad a wide Ppopu- larity some years ago. William E. Gladstone recently remarked that he was proud of the fact that he had never been addicted to tobacco, wine or any other stimulant. He acknowledged, however, thatthe had Dbeen, under stress of work, sometimes tempted to give nature an artificial ally, “Senator Cannon of Utah, ington Times, “'is by all odds the handsomest man in the Upper House. Thatisnotall. He is the youngest man in that body and one of its cleverest and ablest debaters. - Modesty is one of his chief characteristics.” Mme. Modjeska is an admirer of a London fog, and the first time she happened to see one she ordered her carriage and went for a drive in the park, that she might have the pleasure of seeing the weird eftect of people and ve- hicles emcrging from the mist which en- 3 shrouded them, coming to understand that Tangerman is not the right man under the circumstances for superintendent. What has ofiended the miners is that Tangerman took two positions for less than the previous pay of oneof them. There are, Mr. Young states, between 400 | and 500 members of the union in Virginia | City, not to speak of Gold Hill. They have a large hall and also & library of some 4000 vol- um zines and daily papers,so that in many re- spects the headquarters of the union is likea club. ‘It has been of much velue to the min- ers. The initiation is but 5 and the dues but 50 cents a month, but there have been at times thousands of dollars on hand to relieve sick or injured members, or to pay ex- penses of burial, “Inever saw in all the time I have resided at Virginia,” said Mr. Young, “such freedom from snow as during this winter. There 18 no snow whatever at Virginia. The day before I leftit rained all day. The streets have beeh so clear for the winter that instead of five or six feet of snow, the customary thing, we have bi- cyclists going to and fro. Oftentimes you may look down the street and see 8s many as ten or fifteen persons on bicycles.” The gentleman is here partly for business and partly for pleasure. He is & brother of Colonel Young, proprietor of the Russ House, who was Mayor of Virginia: City in the ola finsh days. A REIGN OF TERROR. ‘There Is horror too prolific in the jargon scientific which disturbs the mood pacific Of the ordinary man; In these awful tales that thrill us of a bugaboo ba- cillus that is hiding near to kill us It by any chance it can. Not a single chance it misses; jt is Jurzing in our blisses: it is even in the kjsses ‘That delight a leap-year dream ; In the air are microbes floating; in the water they are gloating, fiendish vigilance devoting T'o their wefrd, malicious scheme. Oh, ye phil osophic sages, we were happy all these ages, while these animals ontrageous Unsuspected flourished here; And al though, just for the present, we withstand their siege Incessant, we run other risks un- pleasant, For we're almost dead with fear. —W ashington Star. A DUCK'S STRANGE FREAK. One of the oldest ducks in San Francisco is named Tom, and he belongs to Charles Young, who lives in the Potrero, about two blocks back from the shores of the bay. Tom is nearly six years old and up 1o a few months ago was always dignified and as correct in his demeanor as the ordinary duck. About that time, how- ever, he became possessed of a strange desire to accumulate all the old shoes on the water front. Early every morning he starts out by himself and is often gone for several hours. When he returns he is sure to bring an old shoe and store it away in the poultry-house. As soon as Tom Bringing Home One of His Treas. ures. [From & sketeh.] he feels satisfied that nobody will interfere with it, he starts out again and soon returns with another. He will keep this up all day and if shoes are plentiful will have sever: dozens in places stored away by nightfall. Tom had been at this peculiar business for several days before he was discovered, and when his owner went to the poultry-house and saw the piles of old footwear, he thought that he was_being made the victim of a practical joke. He dumped_the old shoes out and was more than surprised tosee Tom deuberule\x start to carry them back again. Young carries the shoes as'far away as he could, but in a few hours the duck had them where he wanted them and started out for more. Since Tom has been in the shoe business he has forsaken the other ducks altogether and teems to have but the one desire in life. People who have seen him think that it is a case of the duck going crazy, Mr. Young has given Tom his own way the last six months and made it s business to throw the shoes out every few days, 50 85 to ‘::l!‘zln.l‘ ; c?‘i“e :‘o carry them back .dnl:n' o 8ays 1t I8 getting monotonous that 11 Tom don’t get over his foolishne: In the library are the current maga- | soon he all. Imade the application over a year ago. I know of nocompany or indfvidual who has immediate interest in the petition or applica- tion except my two associates who reside in | Sonora, Tuolumne County, and myself. Ilive in 8un Francisco and intend to reside here the remainder of my da, I have timberinterests on the Tuolumne River and have made the proposition to clear out the obstructions of the unnavigable portions of the middle and south forks of the Tuolumne, without expense to the county, and make it navigable for logs .and lumber, if the | Supervisors will give me the protection which they alone have the power to grant. I have no desire to control the water and woula only wish to drive logs from four to six weeks in the spring when the water is at its height, and ten times more water than the miners and farmers canuse. Ishould notin any way divert the water from the stream or interfere with irriga- tion facilities or the generation of electrical energy for industrial uses. On the contrary, the more damns built on the streams the better I shall be pleased. What Up{)bsition I have met with has come principally from people who have no interest in Tuolumne or any other county, but delight in opposing everything in | the liné of progression. A petition® recently circulated in favor of my proposition has met with the approval and signature of most of the reliable and tax-paying residents of the county, and I earnestly hope that the Supervisors will see their way Cleur to comply with my request, as it seems to me an nfipununi()’ to have their river improved, which the county cannot af- ford to lose. ELWOOD BROWN. San Francisco, April 1, 1896. PERSONAL. J. Menson of Lincoln is at the Palace. . D. Rogers of Watsonville is in town. Dr. John C. Outhet of Chicago has arrived here. Dr. F. Walton Wood of Stockton arrived here vesterday. Alva E. Snow of Fresno is among recent vis- 1stors here. T. B. Miller, a business man of Helena, Mont., 1s in the City. IL B. Smith, a merchant of Redondo Beach, is at the Grand. ‘W. A. Holabird, the real-estate dealer of Los Angeles, is in town. F. H. Buck, the fruit-grower of Vacaville, is among the guests at the Lick. George H. Day, a wealthy manufacturer of Hartford, Conn.. is in the City. Dr. W. M. Airich of Phlladelphia is in the City, accompanied by several friends. William M. Gillespie and wife of Lincoln, Nebr., are stopping at the Cosmopolitan. Joseph T. Waddaell, the passenger conductor of Tucson, Ariz., is a guest at the Cosmopoli- tan, H. McMurtrie pf Syracuse, N. Y., one of the crack rifle shots of the United States, is in the City. Francis A. Cundill, a business man of Yoko- hama, arrived here yesterday. He is at the Palace. Dr. Charles T. Poore, one of the leading phy- sicians connected with Bellevue Hospital, New York, is at the Palace. Colonel M. D. Bristol of the United States army, New York, isat the Occidental, accom- panied by & party of friends. D. E. Knight, the wealthy pioneer of Marys- viile, owner of the woolen-mills there and heavily interested in other enterprises, is on a visit here. W.Bayard Cutting, the New York business man, who is several times a millionaire, is at the Palace, accompanied by his son,W. Bayard CuttingJr. ° General A.L. Hart of Sacramento, who was Attorney-General during Governor Perkins’ administration, arrived here yesterday and is at the Grand. J. C. Shaw, a prominent newspaper man ot Ottawa, Canada, is on a visit to San Francisco. He will probably be here and at other points in the State for several weeks. Field Marshal and Marquis Yamagata, the hero of the Japan-China war, was taken in charge by General Forsyth yesterday and shown some of our defenses. The Marquls and his friends were out some hours with the gen- eral. J. B. Edward, editer and proprietor of the Mount Vernon' Post of Mount Vernon, Wash- ington, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan, Mr. Edward has just returned from a trip through Arizons, Mexico and New Mexico and is now on his way home. James O'Neill, the tragedian, on his west- ward trip to this City, played every night in some town or other after he left Denver. It was the first time it has ever been done and Mr. O’Neill feels himself a pathfinder in this regard. Mr.O'Neill played in Leadville, Aspen and other camps in Colorado and did not for- get to buy a mine in Cripple Creek as he came along in order that he might catch on in the boom. He says Leadville, Aspen and other old camps are quite dull, cwing to 80 many of the people having left for the new gold fields. Smiles Are Cheap. Escondido Times, It isn’t every one that can always weara new coat, but everybody, with a little effort, may wear a smile every «hy in the day inclu week, Sun-| foreign circulation. Mme. von Palmay, as the MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Ever since the production of “Cavalleria Rusticana,” which occurred nearly six years 8g0, Mascagni has continued to complete new operas, not one of which has met with the startling success of the prize work from which little or mothing was expected. _‘‘L’Amico Fritz" scarcely met with a success of esteem; “Ratcliffe” was lauded to the skies by the Italian press, and then it dropped almost out of sight. As for “Silvano,” even Mascagni's ‘warmest friends owned that it was nothing but a pendant to ‘‘La Cavalleria Rusticana.” Ifit ‘were not for the “Cavalleria” we should not be able to hum a bar of Mascagni’'s music to-day in America. The young composer has just pro- duced another work, howevyer, which seems likely to eclipse his first opera in popularity. Itis called “Zanetto,” and has just been pro- duced at Pessaro, where Mascagni is director of the Musical Lyceum. The first performance of “Zanetto” was awaited with great impa- tience all over Italy, and all the large towns sent special correspondents to telegraph de- tailed accounts of the work. Mascagni's native city of Florence was represented by a large delegation of iriends and admirers. Everyone is unanimous in stating that the success of “‘Cavalleria Rusticana’” is more than repeated in “Zanetto.” The opera plays for scarcely an hour and the traditional intermezzo is con- spicuous by its absence. There is also no over- ture and the work begins with an invisible chorus, sung behind the scenes. The music of this chorus so delighted the public that it was found to be useless to raise the curtain and proceed with the periormance till it had been repeated. One enthusiastic critic says that “Zanetto” gives a complete idea of the rena sance of Italian operatic art. In spite of the great success of “Zanetto,” Mascagni is being a good deal gibed at by the European press. It was in connection with the celebration of Rossini’s centenary at Pesaro that *Zanetto” was produced, and many news- papers are remarking that under such circum- stances he would have shown better taste by completely effacing his own personality before that of the illustrious master whom the cen- tenary was to glorify. These papers recall the fact that a few years ago, when Verdi directed the orchestra for some fetesat Milan in Ros- sini’s honor, he carefully abstained from ac- cepting any applause on his own account and “forgot his own personality to honor that of the great Rossini.” This was certainly an exquisite proof of Verdi's tact, and one in which Mascagni has shown himself to be lack- ing. His Rossini centenary at Pesaro be- gan with a concert, the programme of which was somewhat strange, as a tribute to the “Swan of Pesaro.” It began with two over- tures by Rossini, that of “William Tell” and “La Cambiale di Matrimonio.” Beethoven’s “Eroica” symphony and thelargo by Handel fol- lowed. Then came excerpts from ‘‘Lohengrin” and “Tannhauser.” The coupling of Rossini’s name with that of Wagner at a Rossini festival is considered by many critics to have been an almost grotesque bit of comedy on Mascagni’s part. It is evident, however, that Mascagn{ has set- tled down seriously to work since accepting the musical directorship of Pesaro. For a time after the success of ‘‘Cavalleria Rusticana” the young composer posed as a man about town, frequented the races and was noted for the large sums he lost at the gambling-tables. Celebrations of composers’ centenaries are becoming as popular in Europe as flestas are in Californis and unhappy indeed is the eity thatcannot boast of having given birth to at least one writer on music who came on the scene of life about a century ago. The town of Peseia, in Italy, which is an enterprising little community, wanted to have its centenary along with the rest, but the dusty city regis- ters were seerched in vain for indications that a musician of note had had the good taste to be born in Pescia during the year of grace 1796. At last some genius recalled the fact that G'ovanni Pacini, Rossini’s old friend, had Mascagni as a Sport. died at Pescia, and that it was just a century since he had first seen the light of day at Cataneo. A committee wasat once formed to celebrate Pacini’s centenary, and neither money nor pains are being gpared for a grand celebration on the 12th of .this month, which would be Pacini’s hundredth birthday if he was still alive. Rival cities are asking indig- nantly what right Pescia has to celebrate the centenary of a composer who showed his con- tempt for the town by dying there, but the people of Pescia say they took the imitiative, and they would like to see Cataneo, or any other city, that could rob them oi their cen- tenary. Pacini was certainly a monumental enough composer to arouse local pride. When he was only 17 his first opera, was presented at Milan, and during the hali-century of his working life he wrote and caused to be pro- duced no less than seventy-one operas. At his death Pacini left sixteen more partly written operas, which he had not time to complete. “The Grand Duke,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s new opers, is giving great satisfaction to the Londoners, though the general verdict seems 10 be that age has robbed Gilbert of some of his wit as a librettist, while it has mellowed Sulh- ‘van’s powers as a composer. It would be inter- esting to know the particular Grand Duke that Gilbert had in mind when he devised the lead- ing character in his new opers, for one thing that has made this Iibrettist’s wit lose its flavor in crossing the Atlantic is that most of his leading roles are satires on well-known and prominent people in Great Britain. Itis pos- sible that the Grand Duke is a combination of many characters, though it would be easy to point to the hero of the lines: By a pushing young monarch, of turn energetic, A very great deal may be done in & day. (Gilbert calls his potentate the Gri Duke of Pfenning-Halbpfenning; he is supposed to have flourished in the last century, and Pass- more, who plays the role, depicts him as a cow- ardly fellow, wearing a dusty coat covered with orders, and alternating.between ridicu- lously assumed dignity and amusing low buf- foonery. The extraordinary melange of theat- rical and court' life is no doubt intended for Grand Duchess, is the “hit” of the whole per- formance. Albert Kauders’ opera, *“Walther von der Vo- gelweide,” which has already been played with success at the German Theater of Prague, has just met with an enthusiastie reception at the Tmperial Opera of Vienna. The celebrated minnesinger, Walther von der Vogelweide, plays a role in the opera that i more remark- able for its romantic development than for its fidelity to history. An enterprising dilanese editor, Carlo Ali- prandi, has done his best to_canonize Giuseppe Verdi. On Giuseppe’s day (St. Joseph’s Day) he published a special edition of his paper, La Farfalla, in honor of Giuseppe Verdi. Com- posers, singers, poets, dramatic authors, etc., were all specially invited to collaborate in the St. Joseph's day edition. The San Carlos Theater, Lisbon, has just pro- duced “Irene,” the opera by the Portuguese composer, Alired Keil, which was played for the first time some years ago at the Royal The- ater, Turin. The Lisbon public received their compatriot’s work with enthusiasm, and he was called before the curtain twenty times. A new opera by the Czech composer, Zdenko Fiebich, has been played with success at Prague. The subject is drawn from Byron's “Don Juan,” and, like Auber’s work, is en. titled “Haydee.” The second act and the bal. let of the last act were especially applauded. On St. Agnes’ day & new solemn mass was produced at the cathedral of Cataneo, Italy, which is spoken of in terms of the highest praise. The mass is by Domenico Cambria, young maestro who has only just reached his eighteenth year. To-day and on Friday the Paris Grand Opera will give what are known as its two “spiritual concerts.” The chief feature this year will be Alired Bruneau’s new requiem. 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