The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 9, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editer nndVPravrleln SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Fatiy snd Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail months, by md BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San ¥rancisco, Californis. Celepbone........ ....Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Celephone........ . Main—187¢ BRANCH OFFICES §30 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open Bl #:30 o'clock. B ¥ 839 Hayes street; open unti! 8:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open nntll 8:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission sireets; open snttl 9 o'clock. : 2618 Mission street: open until 8 o'clock. 4 116 Mibih streec; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : OFFICI Bz rk Row, Ni New Yerk Clty. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. — e The 3-cent fare would be more fair than the nicks If painting the Soudan red can make it British, Lord Salisbury will do it. The Valley Railroad reports progress every day and good progress at that. “'Tis Greece and living Greece again 4s the way we shall have to sing it now. Spanish victories in Cuba are followed up by despaiches and not with despatch. In every Alaska gold mine there is sure to be & freeze-out for the average worker. Cleveland will take time on his Cuban message, but he will not take it by the forelock. In figh for a free harbor Los Angeles is fighting for the whole State and every industry in it Olney’s foreign po. exhausted all of its vigor in the Venezuelan dash and has been out of breath ever since. The Greeks have revived the Olympic games to provide more prizes for Amer- icans, and we are taking them. About every other day now we hear that the Koentgen ray has been used as evi- dence in court for the first time. In getting Port Arthur Russia will sim- ply get hersel! into position to get some- thing else before the vear is over. So long as Santa Monica is in the hands of the monopoly no improvement of the harbor would i the situation. my We are about crisis, anyhow. coming home, and w to Ex-Consul see the end ot one Waller is 1let France alone. The death roll of a great battle in the Cuban war hardly equals thatof a mid- dling-size railway accidentin this country. The Italians have decided to abandon Kassala, and if the British wish it more than the dervishes they can go and take it. From the nce that prevails in the Democratic camp it would seem all the jaws have been locked and the tongues tied. Bear in mind that THE WEERLY CALL is & good thing and that sending it to East- ern friends would be & good way to push italong. One way to help the good roads move- ment in the interior would be to get the tramps interested in it nunder the direction of a Sheriff. ———e If Los Angeles expects to have a harbor that is to be of any use to her she must have one that is accessible to more than one railroad. There are signs in Washington that the funding bill boomers have grown weary of the job and are eager to lay it aside until next session. The municipal elections throughout the country show that the Republican gidal wave 1s still at the flood. There will be no ebb this year. The boodle gang of Chicago local poli- tics has been downed, and a zo0d lead has been given for municipal elections to fol- low all through the year. It is generally believed in the East that Harrison has not retired from politics too far for him to come into sight again if things should bappen to go his way. By rallying their forces from all parts of the Union the singie-taxers may succeed in carrying little Delaware this year, but let us hope they won't carry it too far. Not being able to start a cannery of her own, Fresno will take one from San Fran- cisco, and, of course, she is welcome to it. Anything that helps the interlor suits us. Poems in praise of spring must have whiskers on them in the East, for the wind- storms continue to play around that sec- tion as if they found something to enjoy. If the Senate cannot get the bond deals investigated it can at least-put the Demo- crats on record in opposition to tne in- quiry and that is something in the way of &N expose. There have been many refunding bills brought forward, but every one of them Jooks less like a plan to recover the money due the Government than a scheme to give it away. The Democrats have it in their power to make the campaign picturesque, at least, by putting up a ticket composed of Till- man and Altgeld and running them on their records for a platform. It is a waste of time for Congress to go to work to enact any new laws for dealing with the Pacific roads debts. The Thur- man Jaw, now on the statute-books, is good enough for all purposes. The Populists are in as bard way as the Democrats in getting a candidate for the Presidency. Whenever they tind a man they like they find he bas objections to sacrificing himseif for a whoop up. The appropriation bill, as it passed the House, makes fair enough provisions for our rivers; but Los Angeles needs a harbor, and the entire Californa delega- tion should make a strong fight for it in the Senate. . MUH TR e et P M A DN A - POSTAL SUBSIDIES. By a vote of the Senate on Tuesday the postoftice bill was amended by an appro- priation of §80,000 as an additional com- pensation to the Oceanic Steamship Com- pany for mail service betweea San Frap- ¢iséo and Australia. This amendment is a step forward in a direction that the Gov- ernment can follow much farther without exceeding the limits of a true economy. The success.achieved by Great Britain in building up -her merchant ‘marine by means of subsidies is a proof of the value of such grants to shipping, and if.we hope to hold our own on the sea with our rivals we must follow the example they have set. The annual subsidies to her ocean ships which Great Britain grants under the form of payment for mail service exceeds $3,750,000. The other great nations of the world also give large grants of the same nature to their ;shipping and thus man- age to maintain them in the face of Brit- ish competition. OQur Government has for too long a time neglected to meet the conditions which have been thus brought about in the ocean carrying trade, and as a consequence our merchant marine has languished while that of our rivals has rapidly increased. The neea of a more liberal policy in this regurd is particularly felt by the shipping interests of the States on the Pacific Coast, The Governments of Great Britain, of Can- ada and of Australia have combined to sub- sidize ships of their empire to carry on the Pacific Ocean trade, and, in the face of the rivalry thus established, the un- aided ships of our ports could not long maintain themselves. Mail subsidies are, therefore, imperatively demanded in the interests of American shipping, American commerce and American ports. We can- not operate our steamship lines under a *‘free-trade’’ policy so to speak, while those of England are substantially protected against competition by heavy bounties in the form of postal subsidies. The appropriation voted by the Senate will in ell probability be accepted as an amendment by the House when the post- office bill is returned to it for concurrence. It is well understood, of course, that the present Congress intends to maintain a strict economy of expenditure to save the country as much as possible from the evil effects of the Democratic deticit, but none the less it is a Republican Congress and in sympathy with ail forms of National de- velopment. The proposed subsidy tends to exactly that form of development most needed at this time, and the Senate amend- ment merits, therefore, the prompt accept- ance and concurrence of the majority of the House. NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA, In the East there is no word that will more quickly command the attention of the people than the name of the Golden State. It is redolent of freedom and fresh air, fruits, nuts and wine, friendly windsand gentleshowers. Itspeaksofrich mines, big trees, big crops, grand scenery | and great waterfalls. Jt carries with it a charm that commands for those who speak of it an ever-attentive audience. This statement has at this time peculiar force. Recent progress in railroad build- ing and the demonstration of our re- sources have attracted widespread atten- tion, and men of wealth who have hitherto looked upon California as being too far from tke financial centers of the East te warrant their attention have been drawn hither by reports of resources and oppor- tunities that they could not afford to ig- nore. And they have returned to tell their associates whau a.revelaiion their visit brought of climatic advantages, un- paralleled horticultural developments, rapid growth and evidence of the future prosperity of those who dwell here. There are millions of people in the East who are interested in California and desire to learn more concerning its climate, its people, its resources and the opportuni vresented here for profitable investment. The information most sought for is sel- dom found in books, which are, as a rule, guidebooks for hotels, resorts and rail- ways or advertisements of some real estate firm. The practical man wants to know what beefsteak costs; what the farmer re- ceives for his produce; what it costs to send it to market; the advantages offered educationally, religiously and socially. Such knowledze can best be gained by the careful reading of representative news- papers. Along theselines THe WEEKLY CALLis an encyclopedia of information. It treats very largely of the State and its resources, without neglecting any department that may contribute to the information of any member of the household. An entire page is devoted to agriculture and horticulture in all their branches. 1t is not patent matter furnished by Eastern syndicates, but is written in view and with a know edge of the conditions which here prevail. The news of California is given prefer- ence, with news of the Pacific Coast next in order, followed by Eastern and foreign news. Newsof mines and miners occupies a page also, and space is given to the fra- ternal world, the household, music, litera- ture and topics of the day, with other fea- tures equally important. As a paper to send to friends in the East, THE WeEgLY CaLL fills all the re- quirements. It is a weekly letter of more than usual interest. SHORTSIGHTED PURCHASERS. A correspondent of the American Econo- mist, writing from Bradford, England, shows how both the Bradford manufactur- ersand some American purchasers of Brad- ford products overreached themselves in their efforts to make the most out of the opportanity presented by the Wilson- Gorman tariff. He says: “When your American buyers ordered, last summer, so extensively, our manufacturers accepted orders for dellvery in November and De- cember, when they knew distinctly that their looms could not possibly turn out the quantity of pieces that were ordered. But 50 as to collar ail the trade possible, they accepted the orders. Your buyers have canceled, rather than take the stuff when the market has passed. Bat what is the remedy? In orderto prevent Bradford being ‘sold’ again, a writer in one of our town dailies is urging the necessity of working our looms at night, as they do in the heavy districts round Batley and Dewsbury, rather than court canceliation again for non-delivery. He urges Bradford to 'make the most of the windfall they have at present,’*’ That the temptation to make this exibi- tion of greed was particularly strong may beinferred from the increase of exports from Bradford to the United States since the Democratic tariff went into effect. This increase for 1895 over 1894 was $20,- 065,615. Among the items making up this amount were: Stuff goods, $7,034,290; worsted coatings, $6,577,675; wool, $1,946,- 705; woolen goods, $2,252,310. The in- crease even in machinery was $78,300. This, it will be borne in mind, concerns in- crease alone and refers simply to one town in England. Of course, the American merchants who ordered from Bradford manufacturers did not know that it was & physical impossi- bility for their orders to be filled. All that concerned them was to get goodsas cheaply 2 % as possible. It is as strange, however, that they did not take the precaution to ascertain the exact situation as that Brad- ford should have exhibited so inexcusable agreed. The American buyers must have suffered great inconvenience, if nothing more. Perhaps the Bradford manufac- turers depended on the chance of getting other towns to help them out wish the im- possible contracts which they made, but they might have reflected that every other manufacturer in England was similarly overcrowded with American orders, stimu- lated by American free trade. The same correspondent gives the figures of exports from Bradford to the United States for the first two months of this year. The increase for that period over the same time for the last year was $78,300, which goes to show that the total increase for the current year will far sur- pass that of last year, and that the Brad- ford manufacturers have increassd their facilities for meeting the demand. Allof this is being done at the expense of Ameri- can industties. A protective tariff would stop it. UNTRIED POSSIBILITIES. Whether or not there is any truth in the story that two “tenderfoot’’ Englishmen have discovered a wonderfully rich gold deposit in the Mojave Desert, it is true that undiscovered gold in incredible quan- tities exists in California and tbat the old methods of prospecting have been lacking in thoroughness and scientific accuracy. The tale from the Mojave is that the newly discovered ledge stretches 2500 feer, carries a vein two feet thick and will run $5000 to the ton. The only unlikely feature of the account is that free gold exists on the surs face and is plainly visible. If so, it is strange that the deposit had not been found before. Now that the Gold Mining Exchange of San Francisco has been formally opened we may expect great things under the stimulus of its encouragement. Its plans for promoting the industry are wisely de- vised, and great hopes are centered in their intelligent and disinterested operation. Not only is great care to be exercised in listing mines and preventing the insane speculation of twenty years ago, when fortunes were made and lost in an hour and incredible wrongs perpetratea, but the institution proposes to be an exchange in the true sense, where owners and invest- ors may come together under the protec- tion of the exch.:ge, and the transfer and development of new properties be facili- tated. A branch of the gold-mining industry that has bardly yet been touched and that offers wonderful possibilities is that sug- gested by the reported discovery in the Mojave Desert. It is a familiar fact that some of the richest deposits in the State lie in the waterless regions ot Southern California, including the Mojave Desert, Death Valley and the arid stretches of San Bernardino ana San Diego counties. | Some of these have been worked for years | under the greatest disadvantages and been | profitable. The introduction of water would increase tteir value a hundred fold and would lead to additional discoveries. Even prospecting under present condi- tions is carried on only at the serious risk of life. Tt isnot to be supposed that thor- ough work could be done under such cir- cumstances. The Colorado River carries more than sufficient water, not only o irrigate these desert lands and transform them into gardens, but also to supply the gold regions with water. The protfits to be se- cured from the installation of such irriga- | tion systems will be enormous, as no- | where else would they so greatly enhance | the value of land. A part of the work | which the Gold Mining Exchange might undertake would be the promotion of irri- gation schemes in those sections. It is impossible for us to appreciate now the | splendid results which would follgw the | development of that idea. OUR ORCHARD PROSPECTS/ General N. P. Chipmau's annual report on the fruit industry of California has just | been made to the State Board of Trade, | and it showsa by no means discouraging condition of affairs, General Chipman predicted in 1891 that within five years our shipments of fruit would reach 30,000 car- loads a year. As a matter of fact they reached 37,160 carloads iast year. This is astrong advance over the 16,195 carloads shipped in 1880. Our total suipments of orchard products in 1895, including fruit, nuts, wine, brandy and vegetables, were 48,871 carlouds, being a gain of 5346 car- loads over 1894 and 8042 carloads over 1893. This was in spite of the fact that we sent out 2353 less carloads of green fruit last year than the year before, by reason of a short crop. Dried fruits gained 1007 car- loads, and oranges and lemons 5550 car- loads. The shipments of oranges reached 11.446 carloads and of raisins 4600. With a full output of all kinds of fruit we could ship 50,000 carloads, besides 12,000 more of wine, brandy and vegetables. General Chipman estimates that by 1900 we shall be shipping 75,000 carloads. This will probably be found too low an estimate. But profits have not been correspond- ingly large. General Chipman ascribes this to the hard times. It is true that the products of California are luxuries and that in seasons of depression the consump- tion of luxuries is curtailed. Itis in the production and handling of such articles, however, that the best profits are made when times are good. The value of this fact is enhanced by the virtual monopoiy which California could by a protective tariff be made to enjoy of the products peculiar to the State. Itisa ruinous pol- icy for the Government to encourage with a low tariff the importation of articles which California 1s ready and able to sup- ply to the country. For that reason this shouid be the strongest protection State in the Union. It would be more to the ad- vantage of the country at large to keep the money at home by fostering the industries of California than to adopt a low tariff which depresses the State. Much of the hard timesin this country that have prevented FEastern consumers from paying liberal prices for onr products has been due to the general depression re- sulting from a competition with Europe created by a low tariffl. Thust he matter is found to act and react with a doubly evil | effect upon California. Of course the repres- i sive effect of heavy transportation charges made possible by the existence of a rail- road monopoly has been a factor in keep- ing down the profits of California produc- ers, but this was not felt so grievously until Eastern consumers began to econo- mize under the necessities created by the Wilson tariff. Large profits were enjoyed when transportation charges were heavier than at present. A return to better times under the operation of a protective tariff would restore the former comfortable state of things in California. There is a good chance that this Con- gress will give not only a liberal appro- priation for ocean mail service between this City and Australia but also a large subsidy for the proposed Hawaiian cable. Even the Democratic deficit cannot head off Republican enterprise in the way of National development. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. W. F. McLaughlin, for & number of years past United States post trader at Fort Wingate, Wno is also vice-president of the Blue Water Ir- rigation Company at Blue Water, N. M., forty miles from Fort Wingate, is at the Palace. Mr. McLaughlin is the nephew of Attorney- General W. F. Fitzgerald. He is here for both business and pleasure. Mr. McLaughlin, hav- ing been long in New Mexico, is well qualified to speak for that Territory. He tells things of ilntedxe!t. What the peopie desire most is state- 0od. “I don’t know whether we will get it or not,” he said, “‘but there is one thing sure, and that is that it would be very desirable for us. We think it would help us over the country and bring in alot of new people. ‘‘Besides this, it would do away with the law against aliens making certain investments there. Congress passed a law some time since, applying to Territories, keeping out foreign money. “If we were admitted as a State the law would no longer apply, and we could go on the Catholic church. Around the top there are the words, “Ihusus es Minen Naem,” and around the bottom, ‘“Ias Ben Checoten Ing Inr,” and the astonishing date, *1512,” in Roman letters. The workmanship of the bell 18 in accordance with the kind of work done at that time. The bell was evidently modeled in clay and then cast, as there are places where the metal nprem to have chilled. It is three and a half inches wide at the mouth and five inches high. Nothing is known of the éarly history of the Dbell nor the time when it came to this country. It is apparently of German origin and as it was made only twenty years after the discovery of America there is a strong possibility that it was used a long time before it was’ brought here. It was found nearly a century ago in the Tuins of an old mission’ in San Salvador and has been preserved as a relic eversince, A 1arge quantity of Indian pottery was found at the same time. It was all buried several feet beneath the surface of the ground. There is ‘?rmucally no doubt but that the bell is as old as the date signified on it, because the mission where it was found was built so long uio that there is no record of its exist- ence. It wasknown to have been a mission by the number of religious articles found in it and MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Leoncavallo’s opers, “Chatterton,” has re- ceived its first production at the National Theater, Rome, where it was welcomed with ovations by the publie, particularly at the end of the second act. The composer was called twenty-five, times in all before the curtain, which was sufficient to show approval, even in Italy. The leading role was taken by Mme. Gabbi, the Duse of the Italian operatic stage, who is as great an actress as sheis a singer. ‘“Chatterton” is a work written in the com- poser’s first youth, when' he was completely unknown. It has been stated that he lately Tewrote it, but this is incorrect, for Leonca- vallo himself declares: “Judging my work after some years, I have found nothing to change in its Couception as far asexpression and sentiment go. The melodies written under the first inspiration seemed to me the best, and I have lefiin the score the freshness of youth, only correcting the form bere and there and giving more color to the orchestra- the general shape of the building. The inside of the beil, where it was nxuek%y the clapper, W. F. McLaughlin, Post Trader at Fort Wingate, Who Is Extensively Interested in Irrigation in New Mexico. [Sketched from life by a “Call’* artist.] 1 and develop our mines, irrigate our lands and | do many other things which are important in a new country. Itwould give foreign money | a chance to invest and it would help out the | people in many ways. “The company I am in has several thousand | acres of land in and about Blue Water, of which about 2000 acres are under cultivation. | ‘We produce all kinds of cereal and root erops. “We have many Navajos where we are, but they are very peaceable, giving no one any trouble. “The mines thronghout the Territory are | showing up better than usual, I think, and things begin to take on &'thriitier appearance. T. B. Catron, who succeeded Mr. Joseph as del- egate to Congrese, is doing all he can to effect | the admission of the Territory. He is an eat- | torney of Santa Fe b; profession and an able man. | “We have elected our Republican delegates | to the National Convention. There are six, and they were uninstructed and pretty well | divided in sentiment. I don’t believe any one man will get all the six, at least not on the start.” Mr. McLaughlin will be in the City for a week or more. AFTER THE BLOOMING. 0, little rosebud, with petals red, ‘As you uod by'the garden wall And dewdrops drink, Do you ever think That some day your petals will fall? Some day your fragrance will all be gone, Your sweetness a thivg of the past, For it matters not how Much prized you are now, Little rossbuds cannot always last. And 0, little maiden, with eyes 30 blue, As you sing and lauigh and are gay, Does it come to you That some day, Loo, Your roses will pass away? But the little rosebud nods on the wall, Caressed by the winds so free; And the blue-eyed girl Swinging in the mad whirl, Unheeding the song and me. \ ¥ise liitle roscbud an‘ wise little girl, Why turn to the durk ere you mus:? Nod on and laugh on Till your pleasures are gone. Live to-day ! For the morrow—trust! Womankind. ALMOST FOUR CENTURIES OLD. What is very likely the oldest bell on the American continent has just been brought to this City from San Salvador by Mrs. Lopes, whose home at presentisat 928 Pine street. The bell itself isin gooa condition, but the This Bell Was Cast in 1512. [From a sketch.) handle has been broken off and a new clapper has repiaced the original one. Bronze is the material of which the bell is made, and in shape it is much like the bells now in use. It is highly ornamented with groups of figures representing scenes from the crueifixion, so that there is no doubt but that it was intended and used in the ceremonies of is battered and worn away. When the handle wes broken off the original clapper was lost | and the bell cracked. An iron-haudied one | has been soldered in and the crack socleverly | Tepaired that the bell still hasa very good tone. | The present clapper was put in by an Indian & | few vearsago. It is only a pieceof iron that Bas been filed to the proper shape and Leld in piace by & plece of brass wire, PERSONAL. The Rev. Dr. Wakefield of San Jose is in the City. Dr. G. M.{Freeman of Sutter Creek is in the city. W. B. Dunn of Oroville is at the Cosmopol- itan. W. J. Newton of Washington, D. C., is at the Palace. A. Martinez of Guatemala arrived here yes- terday. J. H. Boke, & ranch-owner of Napa County, is here. H. A. Justro, an attorney of Bakersfield, is in the City. Peter Musto, a merchant of Stockton, is at the Grand. C. 0. Johnson of San Luis Obispo is at the Occidental. J. H. Boke, a real estate dealer of Napa, is in the City. Dr.J. W, Stitt of Vacaville is in the City for 8 brief stay. Major A. E. Hay of the United States navy arrived here yesterday. D. McFaul or Nevada City arrived here last night and is at the Lick. J. F. McGreenery of Boston is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. P. H. McDermott, a business man of Carlislet N. Mex., is on a visit here. J. L. Sperry, proprictor of the Big Trees Hotel, is at the Occidental. J. H. Suthoff, s business man of Seattle, is among the arrivals at the Grand. J. C. Charters, & mining man of Downieville, is among the recent arrivals here. D. Curran, one of the Southern Pacific’s depot men at Sacramento, is at the Russ., W. E. Downs, the mining superintendent of Sutter Creek, is here for a few days. George B. Katzenstein, the well-to-do Sacra- mentan, is spending a few days here, Ira H. Mulholland, & mining man of Inde- peudence, luyo County, is at the Grand. J. B. Peakes of Stockton, formerly a hotel proprietor of Santa Cruz, is at the Palace. D. W. Custer and wife and Mrs. 0. 8. Cornish, all of Fort Atkinson, Mo., are at the Grand. E. M. Leader, a wealthy business man of Shamoken, Pa., is here, accompanied by his wife. Thomas A. Buell, a wealthy resident of ‘Woonsocket, is on a visit here, accompanied by Mrs, Buell. Allan Tenney, a wealthy gentleman of Provi- dence, R. L, who is traveling for pleasure, is at the Oceidental. . Charles Erickson, the railroad contractor of the Southern Pacific, came up from San Luis Obispo yesterday. H. W. Patton of Los Angeles, formerly pub- lisner of a weekly paper and now identified with polities, is at the Grand. Mrs, H. Knox, wife of Lieutenant-Commander Knox of the United States navy, is at the Occi- dental, accompanied by her son. J. A. Hayes; proprietor of the Harbin Springs, Lake County, is visiting the City for a few days, and is stopping at the Russ House. Bishpp Nichols of the Episcopal Church for California, came up from his home at San Mateo yesterday and is at the Occidental. Mrs. E. M. Crossman and Mrs. Gracle Pick- ford, delegates to the Degree of Honor Lodge from Fresno, are guests at the Cosmopolitan. L. Thornton, the well-known Postmaster and Justice of the Peace of Tres Pinos, San Benito County, is visiting the City, being & delegate 10 the Grand Lodge of A. 0. U. W. tion.” The general lines of the libretto are based on Alfred de Vigny’s “Chatterton,” which was produced at the Comedie Francaise in 1835. It was Leoncavallo's desire to dedi- cate “Chatterton” to Queen Marguerita, the only one of the nouse of Savoy who really cares for music, but the Queen declined, though she caused her secretary to explain to the composer that her reason for doing so was solely to protect herself from being deluged Wwith a flood of other works dedicated to her. On Sunday last Grace Episcopal Chureh choir gave a grand musical festival, which so de- lighted a musical member of the congregation that he presented a'purse of $400.to be divided, in proportion to the rate of their salaries, among the members who have sung with the male choir since it was first started, on the st of last July. The organist and the choir- master,W. H. Holt,will have his montn’s salary doubled, so will Messrs. Coffin, McDonald and Ward, while it is said tnat other members, both volunteer and professional, will be remem- bered. The donor’s name has been kept & pro- found secret, and now every ome is busy guessing who is musical enough to pay $400 for the improvement in the choir. This anony- mous dilettante is not the only one in Grace Church congregation who places a good round vecuniary value on the improvement in the music, for after the Easter early choral cele- bration, which was sung by some of the ladies in the congregation, & vurse, to which Mrs. Lloyd Tevie, Mrs. Will Crocker and other ladies haa contributed, was presented to W. Holt, the organist. If other churches would hold out a promise of rewarding musical effort in an equally practical way, it is probable that there would be startling improvements in church music during the next six months. A lagy composer has succeeded in perform- ing the miracle of causing a Belgian opera to be received with enthusiasm by the Belgians. As arule the musical provhets in King Leo- pold’s dominions are without honor till they have received recognition abroad, but Mlle. Eva Dell Acqua, w ho is spoken of as “the Bel- gian Chaminade,” has written an opera, “La Bachelette,” which the public recently re- ceived witn open arms at the Theater des Galeries-Saint-Hubert, Brussels. Mlle. Dell Acqua was born in Brussels, of Italian parents, and a poetical correspondent savs ‘her spark- ling and graceful music unites the melancholy of the fogs of the Senne with the vivacity of the Neapolitan sun.” The lady is already well known ia France and Belgium asa composer of songs. Now that nearly every week brings some fresh woman writer of music to the front, it seems time to introduce a new word into the language which is more brief and expressive than ‘‘lady composer.” Mme. Mascagni generally shows her wifely devotion by fainting when her husband pro- duces 8 new opera. The Trovatore, which gives further details of the complete success of “Zanetto” at Pesaro, says: ‘At the end of the performance eight curtain-calls were given to the author, two of which he shared with his interpreters, Collamarini and Pizzagalli, and six of which were for himself alone. Ladies waved their handkerchiefs and mean their hats, and the recalls wouid probably have gone on much longer if a iainting ‘fit of Mme. Mascagni’s, caused by emotion, had not decided the public to trouble the maestro no longer.” “Zauetto” (the passer-by) wilkprob- ably be produced i London this season, with Calve in the title role. In this work-the boy lover, Zanetto—a part allotted to & lady, s mezzo-soprano—pays court on a Florentine balcony, at the period of the Renaissance, to the courtesan, Sylvia, who first encourages him and then, telling the astonished lad her true history, sends him about his business with a white rose in his breast. It is finally settled that young Achille Ri- varde, the youngest of the violinists who vis- ited America this season, is to play here at the end of this month. Rivarde was to have come with the Seidl orchestra, but as that organiza. tion has deterred its visit alocal orchestra will be engaged, and the other soloists will be Aime Lachaume and William Keith, the California barytone. Rivarde is half Spanish and half French by parentage. He was born on the ocean between Hayre and New York, so that America is in a sense his country by adoption, Achille Rivarde, the Franco-Hyspanian Violinist Who Will Play Here on the 27th inst. though he was taken back to Europe while still a young child and never crossed the At. lantic again till & few months ago. He has been claimed as an American, however, and strenuously denied the soit impeachment. Rivarde (whose name, by the way, ispro- CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 8.—Aboard the out- going Furst Bismarck are: Mrs. L E. Cantle, Miss Carrie Callahan, Mr. and Mrs. 8. Hart, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Peterson and Mr. and Mrs, Pierre Tinant. L. Hirsch isin town buying. At the St. Demis, R. Alexander, Miss Alex- ander; Grand Union, 8. W. Fuller, Mrs, W. T. Hovely; Sturtevant, R. Williams, Mr. Everett, H.R. Thorn and wife; Holland, K. Maddox, Mrs. V. K. Maddox, D. Roth and wife and the Misses Roth; Marlborough, Mrs. J. Martin. nounced in three syllables) differs widely in his séhool both from Marsick and Ondricek. There is a good deal ot the Spanish dash and brillianey of Sarasate in his playing. and he belongs more to the school of that violinist than to either the German or the French schools, The famous violin-maker, Jacob Staiber whose iastruments are very celebrated and sought after in the present day, was born at Absam on July 14,1621, end died there in 1683. His remains repose in the modest cemetery of Absam, facing the church, and his tomb, which for two centuries has been ex- posed to wind and weather, is said to have fallen into & deplorable state of neglect. In consequence of this fact, a committee has been formed. in the artisan’s nativs town with e objeét' of taising ‘& subscription in” order to erect-a modest monument worthy of his talents and renown. Stainer-learned his trade at Cremona, under the celedrated Nicolas Amati, whose daughter he married, and later he had as apprentices, in his owa workshop at Absam, the three Klots brothers, who have also left a name in the annals of instrument making. The stringent rules just made by the French Government to regulate paid spplause in State theaters are meeting with & good deal of ridicule from the Parisian® press. Le Men- estrel says: “One can only clap henceforth with the authorization of the Government and in the places which it indicates. That will seem very funny at a future epoch, but to-dsy there is really nothing which need astonish us. At the Opera, M. Sol has been chosen to give the signal for the applauss, and at the Opera Comique a M. Remy. The ‘clappers’ will have to wear black dress suits and white cravats, but gloves are torbld_den, as they muffle spontaneons manifestations. There is nothing like an enlightened Ministry for comprehending things.” The Press Club Quartet, by any other names, will no doubt sing as sweetly, and henceforth theorganization will be known by another name. Messrs. Coffin, Tilton, Warde and Tucker have been bereit of their name on ec- count of a benefit. A shori time ago they decided to hold one for their own personal use and advantage. Itwas soon found that the Press Club quartet benefit was understood by the majority of the publicto mean an enter- tainment the proceeds of which would go to the Press Ciub. As this was not the case the club objected, and the members of the quartet wers given the option of forswearing their name or abandoning their benefit. They chose the beneflt, and now the Press Club has no quartet. The opera-house of Buda Pesth is preparing to ceélebrate the thousandth anniversary of the foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary. The fetes will begin with & revival of the National opers, “King Etienne,” by Franz Erkel; after- ward Goldmark’s new work, “The Cricket oo the Hearth,” will be performed, ‘‘Alar,” an unpublished work by Bela Zichy, and finally an unpublished opera, “The Rose of the Vil- lage,” by Jéno Hubay, the composer of “The Violin Maker of Cremona.” Herr Otto Urbach’s singspiel, “Der Mueller von Sans Souci,” which was to have been pro- duced on the German Emperor’s birthday, is tobe excluded altogether from the German stage, there being a recent ordinance, accord- ing to which no member of the Prussian royal family, past or present, may be broughton the stage in Germany without the Emperor’s espe- c1al permission. The singspiel in question is based on the well-known anecdote of the mil- ler and Frederick the Great. It seems as if the London success of the Irish musical melodrama, “Shamus O'Brien,” had opened up a new idea to managers and come posers, and now one hears of coming operas on “The Peep o’ Day,” the “Shaughran,” “Handy Andy” and the rest of the favorite Irish plots. Mlle. Clotilde Kleeberg, who has mnot been heard in Vienna in twelve years, recently made her reappearance and gave several concerts at the Bosendorfer Hall. She was received with numerous encores, bouquets, wreaths, ovae tions—everything, in fact, which could show her to be still a suceessful artist. A committee has been formed at 8chwerin to erect a morument to Flotow, the composer of “‘Martha.”’ Ellen Beach Yard, the altitudinous soprano, will visit California early in June. LADY'S CAPE. The prevailing mode in capes is the rather short singlecape with flaring collar. Thisshape is chosen both for cloth and satin or silk gare ments. The former are perfectly plain, with ma- chine stitching around the edges, or are strapped in various ways with the same goods. Some have two or three straps down the back. Others have cloth set on to form points. Satin capes of black are fancifully trimmed with rufiles of black chiffon and white, cream or ecru iace. One had a flounce of chiffon half its length gathered into the neck. On this was & ruffle of white lace two inches narrower, and over this agsin a ruffle of chiffon two inches narrower than thelace. A ruche of chiffon finished the neck. g Capes of gay Dresden silk are stylishly trimmed with black chiffon or lace. Jeton net or tulle is much used in the shapes of yokes and collars. Heavy white lace collars are stylish edged with ruffies of black ehiffon on a black silk or satin cape. 3 When made of cloth the cape is seamless, but gnr{aw fabrics have & seam down the cénter ack. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. ¢No, sir!” exclaimed Mr. Meekton, “T will notstand it any more. 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