The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 16, 1896, Page 6

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California is opposed o none of the great leaders of the Republican party and should not appear to be so. In scattering all over the country many Democrats are deluded into the belief that they are spreading themselves. People who have us a rule the least sym- pathy with Populist fads would like to get an imperative mandate on Grover. Eastern editors of all shades of political opinion have about agreed thatthe man who wrote of balmy spring was an idiot. Cleveland will not fire the gun of Amer- ican recognition of Cuba until the sun ot independence has got about noon high. The funding scheme is on the teter board in Congress and no one can tell whether it will be taken up or allowed to drop. Eastern weather students have begun to call attention to the fact thatbalmy spring is the season when they have t! eir worst cyclones. A worthy delegate will do his duty with- out & pledge, while an unworthy one would not do it if he were made to take forty pledges. The war agitations in Europe are caused less by a movement among the nations than a desire to keep still without losing their balance. ‘'here may be some doubt of the ability of the Cubans to govern themselves, but there can be no doubt of the fact that the Speniards can’t. The cathode ray excitement is dying out and we are not likely to have another sci- entific sensation until Dr. Nansen discov- ers the pole again. ‘We notice in a good many of our Demo- cratic exchanges from the East an earnes! effort to talk entertainingly about the prospects of baseball instead of politics. The faculty of Yale has ordered the course of novel study discontinued, and the boys will now have to revertto the old way of learning a love story by prac- ticing it. The city of Cleveland will be 100 years old next July and proposes to celebrate the anniversary with a four days’ frolic just to show it can be as frisky as any young thing. ‘With the opening of the festival season it is well to remind our Eastern friends hat there is yoom enough in Caiifornia to accommodate half the population of the United States. The Detroit veople who are backing Mayor Pingree as a candidate for Gover- nor of Michigan are evidently willing to resort to anything to get him out of the Mayor's office. STV It is announced that a man named ‘William Shakespere wishes to run for Con- gress in Michigan, but it is not stated whether the money plank of his platform is a cryptogram or not. California should send to the St. Louis convention a delegation pledged only to the principles of the party 2nd to any man whom the party may name as the next President of the United States. ‘While most people would like to see an early adjournment of Congress they would not like to see it until the Nicaragua canal bill, the immigration restriction bill and the Hawaiian cable bill are duly passed and sent up to Cleveland. The Ohio Legislature has actually passed & law subjecting the managers of a the- ater to a fine of §10 for every hat in the aundience that shuts off the view of the stage from any verson, and it is now in order to subject the manager to a further fine for every fat man that crowds another fellow. Some people say if Quay were seriously 2 candidate he would be at home fixing his fences and not fishingin Floride, while others say if he were not seriously in the fight to a fiaish he would be pulling wires in Washington and not fishing in Florida, In the meantime he continues to cut bait and fish quietly, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 1 , 1896. AN UNPLEDGED DELEGATION. Tre CaLs favors an unpledged delega- tion from California to the St. Louis con- vention. Itis not opposed to McKinley, Reed, Allison, Cullom, Morton or any otlier leader of the party. It hasno can- didate. It seeks to advancenoone Repub- lican leader at the expense of another. It is opposed to none of the great men who have been named for the high office of President of the United States by the Re- publican party. It will support loyally and vigorously anyone of them whomay receive the nomination at St. Louis. For that reason it stands to-day and will stand all the time in favor of California sending an unpledged delegation to that conven- tion. The arguments in favor of an unpledged delegation are many. A Naticnal conven- tion to nominate a President of the United States should be a deliberative body. This is truein all cases and under all circum- stances, but it will be particulerly so at the St. Lonis_convention, since it is evident that the man nominated at that conven- tion will be the next Presidentof the Unpited States. The men who are to take partin his nomination should be left free to weigh the merits of ail the candidates, to consider which is the most available, which is the most likely to serve the inter- ests of the whole people, and in our par- ticular case, which will be the most likely to serve the interests of California and the Pacific Coast. California bas no 1interests opposed to the Nation, but she hasinterests peculiarly ber own which are unknown to the Nation at large, and which must, therefore, be advocated by her own people. It is for that reason that her delegation to the con- vention at St. Louis should be unpledged to any particular candidate and left free to advance her interests as best they can. It is clear that if our delegation should be sent with its hands tied, pledged to some particular man, it would be re- garded as antagonistic to every other can- didate before the convention. California does not wish to appear in that aspect to the Republicans of her sister States. She wishes to appear to stand as she does stand, pledged to any candidate who may be nominated at the convention. Itis to her advantage, therefore, and due to her posi- tion in the Union to send to St. Louis a delegation pledged to nothing beyond the great principles of the party and a cordial support of its chosen leader. California should have a delegation of strong men, men of resource, men of ability, men of brains, men who know her interests and will defend them, and make them recognizea at the National Conven- tion. It is such a delegation as that which TuE CALL supports, and we urge the co- operation of Republicans throughout the State to assist us n the work of sending to the St. Louis convention a delegation pledged only to the Republican party and whichever leader it nominates for the next President of the United States. ENFORCE THE LAW. That the Southern Pacific Company con- tinues to operate its trains through the City of San Francisco in utter disregard of the laws and lives of the people is not to be wondered at. At intervals, frequent enough to have aroused the people of almost any other community to a state of riot long before this, is its list of victims added to. Some are slightly injured, some are made cripples for life, some linger in suffering and agony until death comes as a welcome relief, some *are killed ontright with scarcely a mark to show the canse of their sudden taking off, while others are so0 horribly torn and mangled as to be al- most beyond recognition. In every instance where death 1esults there lie three distinct causes of action— two criminal and one civil. Thereis a vio- lation of the municipal ordinance prohib- iting trains from running faster than eight miles an hour within the City limits; man- slaughter has undoubtedly been commit- ted, as the killing resulted from a willful violation of a law, regardiess of any other circumstances, and damage has resulted to the surviving beirs. An oceasional civil suit for pecuniary damages is brought, but who ever heard of a criminal prosecution of the Southern Pacific Company for vio- lating the eight-mile-an-hour ordinance, when it is a notorious fact that their trains are sent rushing through the- City at a speed exceeding thirty miles an hour a score of times a day; in fact, their pub- lished time-card on the coast division pro- vides for this deliberate violation of the le- gally expressed will of the people. For each such offense there is a prescribed penalty, which, if imposed through the efforts of the regular authorities, would probably put a stop to such sad scenes as the one witnessed by two young girls on Tuesday, when C. H. Green was struck and killed by the San Jose express at Day street. As described by the two witnesses mentioned, ‘“the train came whizzing around the curve,” at a point where the law requires it to move at a pace no faster than eight miles an hour. But should the infliction of the legal penalties for viola- tions of the law prove to b: without suf- ficient deterrent effect, the prosecution on a charge of manslaughter, not of an en- gineer or a conductor, but the highest of- ficials of the Southern Pacific Company, who are really responsibple for the fast run- ning of trains and the conseqnent fatali- ties, might prove more efficacious. Here is a good work for the Grand Jury to take up. A TRICK AND A FRAUD. The people of California are warned that the men claiming to have been elected at the so-called Republican primaries in San Francisco on Tuesday are parading under false pretenses when they set themselves up as representing that element of the Re- publican party of the Fourth District that favors the nemination of ' McKinley. Neitber the men who ciaim to be efected, nor the bosses who arranged the farce, nor the stuffers who stuffed thé ballot-boxes, are in any sense the friends of the Ohio statesman. They are using his well- deserved honor among Republicans to gain a factitious popularity and prestige for themselves. It is the old story of the jackdaw and the peacock’s plumage, the old masquerade of vice trying to shine as virtue, the old effort of corruption seeking to delude honesty by assuming to be in the service of a noble man. In the conduct of pritaaries 1n this City there has been played again and again every form of offensive trick known to American politics. Some have been farces, some have been fraudsand some have been downright outrages. That which was played out on Tuesday under the bossing of Martin Kellv and Jerry Mahoney was about the sum of ull these villainies. The scheme began with a trick sprung in the State Committee, was carried on at a mid- night meeting at which forged proxies and cunning lies were used as a means, and was completed by stuffing ballot-boxes at a farcical primary. To cover the villainy, the indecency and the futility of all this, the great name and honest fame of William McKinley is now used in the hope that under that cloak some loyal Republicans will be deceived into accepting the rascal- ity and giving it support. It has been just such offenses as these verpetrated in the past that have made the primary elections in this City the sources of a thousand forms of evil to the State and to the municipality. If they are to be carried on with impunity it would be well for loyal Republicans of the interior of the State to pay no attention to delegates who go to State conventions from such prim- aries. What kind of men are they who, when the facts have been brought to their knowledge, will accept an election from ballot-boxes manipulated by the push and the pull of Mahoney and Kelly? Whom do these people represent? Does any sane man believe the Republicansaf the Fourtn Congressional District accept Mahoney and Kelly as their leaders? Is any good man willing to afliliate with forgers of proxies, midnight tricksters and- the stuff- ers of ballot-boxes? The vote cast at the general Republican primaries whick took place yesterday is an emphatic answer to the challenge thrown down by the bosses. In them the loyal members of the party found an oppor- tunity to cast an honest vote and have it honestly counted. Against the record of those primaries the Kelly and Mahoney gang will rage in vain, The friends of William McKinley are not going to be de- luded into raking chestnuts out of the fire for such apes as these. Rascality in poli- tics in the Republican party of this City is no longer possible. The true leaders have come to the front and havefound a loyal support from the great mass of the party. The corrupt old district bosses may forge proxies and the petty poli- ticians who follow them may stuff ballot boxes at bogus primaries, but in the end they will gain nothing. Honesty has won the battle, and corruption stripped of its old armor can find no cloak beneath which to hide itself from the scorn of men. THE FIRST QUESTION. Shall Califorma send a pledged or un- pleaged delegation to the St. Louis con- vention? Thatis the first question of the campaign to be decided by the Republi- cans of the State. THE CALL favors an unpledged delegation, because it believes California Republicans are not antagonis- tic to any of the men who are likely to be candidates before the convention, and, therefore, the delegates should not be pledged to one to the exclusion of others. It is the mission of THE CALL, however, to speak for all, and to that end we invite leading Republicans in all parts of the State to make use of our columns in dis- cussing this question, so important to all. We published yesterday among our *‘Let- ters from the People’’ a communication urging a delegation pledged to McKinley. That letter represented one phase of the sentiment of the people. There are other loyal Republicans who would like to see the delegation pledged to feed, or Allison, or Morton, or Cul- lom, or Quay. Each of tihese great leaders has a personal following devoted to him, and in that following there are no doubt many persons who would like to see the California delegation bound to their favorite from first to last against any other candidate whatever, The question there- fore comes: Is that the best way to con- duct Republican politics at this time? It is a question that presses for an immedi- ateanswer, as the State Convention for the election of the delegates will soon assem- ble, and for that reason we invoke an earnest but dispassionate discussion of it at once. It should be clearly understood at the outset that an unpledged delegation would not signify antagonism to any leading candidate. Because some of the friends of McKinley have been aavocating a delega- tion instructed to vote for him exclusively a belief has grown up in some quarters that all who favor an unpledged delega- tion are opposed to him. That belief is founded in error. Many of the stanchest friends of McKinley are in favor of unin- structed delegates, believing that by being free such delegates could have more influ- ence in supporting the man of their choice than they would have if it were known they were bound to him absolutely. To the friends of McKinley therefore, as to the friends of Allison, Reed, Morton and the rest, the question of an instructea or an uninstructed delegation is an open one. Itisan issue that can and must be debated without reference to particular candidates. To that discussion, we repeat, TuE CALL opens its columus and will lay before the people what the earnest men of the party think would be best for Califor- nia Republicans to do in order to make their infiuence most potent at the National Convention. THE CHAMBER'S APPEAL. The letter addressed by the San Fran- cisco Chamber of Commerce to Speaker Reed of the Honse of Representatives is a firm and dignified reminder of that states- man’s duty with respect to the Nicaragua canal bill. It calls the Speaker’s atten- tion to the fact that both political parties have indorsed the canal scheme, that the subject has been before several Congresses and is now thoroughly understood, and that he bears the responsibility of action on the bill pending in the House of Repre- sentatives. He 1s given politely to under- stand that he is expected to give the House an opportunity to vote on the meas- ure. The most interesting part of the let- ter is this: “The development of our commerce, our industries, our international influence, our political and military safety, all demand its prompt construction under control of our Government. It will no more injure vested interests than the Erie canal or the St. Mary’s canal, both connecting the Great Lakes. On the contrary, like them, it will create a rapid development on the west coast of the United States, which will aid inland transportation interests. It will rapidly increase our merchant marine and open the Pacific Ocean 10 the Mississippi Valley and to our Gulf States.” The obvious meaning of this paragraph is that the overland railroads, which con- trol the opposition to the canal bill, are fighting it in fear that by crippling the monopoly which they enjoy the canal will decrease their earning capacity. The fallacy of that fear is clearly indicated in the letter, and the statement therein made has always been the contention of progressive Californians. It stands to reason that a cheap and slow route to the great markets of the world for low-grade products and those in which haste of ship- ment 1s unnecessary would stimulate the production of articles requiring haste in forwarding, Itison these latter that the best profits are made by all connected with them—producers, transporters and dealers. As it is, without any such outlet as the Nicaragua canal, the overland roads have to carry all the grades, and as the freight charges on low-grade products are above a figure that encourages their pro- duction, great industries which would be developed by lower freight charges remain undeveloped, and along with them those which could afford to pay high rates. 1n short, the railroad companies have always fought competition on the sole ground that it would divide the traffic, persistently ignoring the fact that the in- crease of production to which competition gives rise more than offsets the loss com- ing from a division of the traffic. Itisa safe prediction that the Southern Pacific Company will gain more from the stimu- lation of development which the Valley road will create in the San Joaquin than it will lose by competition with 1t. More than that, there are products naturally suited to water transport as there are others best served by railroads; and no country or section having the opportunity to employ both these 1esources can reach its highest developmeni without their employment. OUR NORMAL SCHOOLS. At the joint meeting of the trustees of the three Normal Schools maintained by the State, President Childs of the 8an Jose institution made the surprising assertion that there is a demand for 800 new teachers in California every year. Of this number the Normal Schools furnish 225 and the rest come from county examina- tions and immigration. The importance of this statement lies in the fact that in some quarters opposition toward the Nor- mal Schools exists on the assumption that they are turning out more teachers than are required, and that their presence is an inducement to young men and women to learn a profession which they will not have an opportunity to pursue. The fact is that the Normal Schools, numerous and largely attended as they are, cannot sup- ply the demand. The efliciency of our Normal Schools has been greatly raised within the last decade. Time was when there was a prejudice against teachers turned out by these institutions. This was largely be- cause of their vouth, but lack of confi- dence in the institutions was also a factor. On the occasion of the National conven- tion of teachers held in this City a few years ago the visitors freely expressed their astonishment that mere boys and girls were so largely in evidence as teach- ers, the Eastern idea being that teachers of more mature vears were more efficient. But experience has demonstrated to the country and district boards throughout the State that the enthusiasm of the young teachers produced in California has a special and superior value. As the Normal School authorities tak~ a particular in- terest in the welfare of their graduates, extra exertions are made to secure posi- tions for them, and this gives them a dis- tinct advantage. The fledglings remain fora long time under the moral influence of the Normal Schools, and so a double good is accomplished. A certificate of graduation from any of our three schools for teachers now commands the highest respect. The teachers who come from other States are a sufficient leaven to keep our educa- tional system in close touch with the meth- ods of the outer world. Their influence is observable in the State conventions held every year, and this 1s amplified by the presence of eminent instructors in the Berkeley and Stanford universities. It is difficult for one not intimately associated with the educational machinery of the State to realize the perfection of its work- ing and the importance of its results. In no other part of the country is the move- ment so earnest and virile. -While we are absorbed in contemplation of the indus- trial and commercial achievements and possibilities of the State, we are in danger of overlooking the value of a factor which is silently working for the achievement of those tangible results. Out of such an ed- ucational system, public and private, as that which is nur turing the intelligence of the people will come a solution of the problems that are vexing us. California is becoming as famous for its schools as for its fruits, flowers, climate and gold mines. It is eminently fitting that this engine for the advancement of our fame and prosperity should receive the most generous support of the people. A FAVORITE SONG. James Whitcomb Riley has addressed the following verses to Professor Crouch, the dying author of “Kathleen Mavourneen’: Kathleen Mavourneen, the song s still ringing As fresh and as clear as the trill of the oird, In the world-weary hearts it is sobbing and sing- ing, In pathos too sweet for the tenderest word. Oh, have we forgotten the one who first breathed 1t? And have we forgotten his rapturous art? Our meed to the maser whose genius bequeathed it; b, Why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart? Kathleen Mayourneen, thy lover still lingers, The long night is waning—the stars pale and few. ‘Thy sad sexenader, with tremulous fingers, Ts bound with his tears as the lily with dew. The oid harpstrings quaver, the old voice is shak- e In sighs and in sobs moans the yearning refrain, The old vision dims and the old heart is breaking— Kathleen Mavourneen, inspire us again ! A VERY PRETTY WAIST. The long shoulder seems of the 1830 period have had e decided effect on the modes of this season. One of the most charming models is shown here. The effect is best when two materials are used—one for the sleeves and the under-waist, another for the body. Or the sleeves may be of the goods like the body if preferred, using contrasting goods only for the nder-body, which ls visible at the top in V shape both back and front. If one fabricis used, braiding, embroidering or a design done in braids, spangles, or both, is rich and effec- tive. A very rich waist of royal blue velvet, t0 be worn With a blue erepon skirt, was made in_this way. The embrnigerv was in multi- colors, the design being ficld flowers. A waist of green ‘cloth, on the mignonette shade, had sleeves and under-waist u%n rich China silk to match. An edge of sable finished the edges of the cloth body. A ruff of green ribbon four inel Wwide was gathered into the top of the coller, in & novel and extremely stylish Wl\{i A waist to be worn with black satin skirt had sieeves and V of the black satin, the body of ox-blood red cloth. This was edged with Persian lamb fur, and was well covered b small black spangles sewn on irregularly all over the surface. A ribbon of black and red stripes was used in the same way, as shown in the illustration, over a black satin collar. A brown crepon dress had a plain skirt, the Wwaist being entirely of crepon, excepting the V's, and these were of blue velvet. The trim- ming on the eddgel of the erepon was sable. A;l&lhex(homab “a'? had V": of blu.:kdu:mi W a fancy brai on the upper edges o the cloth bmfice. He. 4 AROUND THE CORRIDORS. W. K. Sullivan of Chicago, ex-United States Consul to Bermuda, and for & number of years on the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Evening Journal, is at the Palace. Mr. Bullivan is receiver for the American Building, Loan and Investment Society of Chicago, which furnished capital to erect many buildings in the West, and which failed some time ago for $832,000. Oniy one build- ing, however, was built by the company in CaMiornis, and that was in Bakersfield. In the erstwhile booming towns of the North, like Portland, Tacoma and Seattle, this com- pany constructed, or aided to construct, a great many buildings of different kinds. It also built many in Minnesota, and in fact throughout many of the Western States. Mr. Sullivan says he has already paid 20 per centin dividends since he took charge, and could pay more now. It is his business to MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. The Italian papers are publishing some in- teresting particulars respecting Leoncavallo’s newly produced opera, ‘‘Chatterton.” It was the first work written by its author, having been composed before “I Pagliacci” and “I Medici.” At that epoch the young musician, as well as being completely unknown, was far from finding himself in a flourishing financial condition. Having no hope of meeting with an impresario willing to produce his opera he sought out & music publisher at Bologna named Trebbi and offered him the score for little more than the price of a few meals. Trebbi was intelligent and honest. Seeing that the composer was pressed by want he re- fused to take advantage of the situation, but on the contrary aided Leoncavallo s much as possible and kept the opera till a good oppor- tunity should present itself for having it per- formed. The opportunity did not come, how- W.K. Sull ven of Chicago, Ex-United States Consul to Bermuda and Receiver of a Great Eastern Trust Company, Now Here. [Sketched from life by a *“ Call” artist.] travel and keep an eye on the trust company’s various interests. Some of them are as far East as Boston, and 3r. Sullivan has made tour trips there during something like a year. The gentleman was a member of the Illinois Legislature thirty years ago, serving with “Horizontal Bill” Morrison. He was also very close to “Black Jack Logan,” as the general was long called, when he was aspiring to the United States Senatorship, to which he was finally elected. Mr. Sullivan has been a mem- ber of the Chicago Board of Education also, and afterward was elected president of the board and filled out that term. He takes pride in being a newspaper man, however, and expects to continue his career as a journalist. He is for Senator Cullom for President, and thinks Cullom will have about eight-tenths of the Illinois vote to starton. Allison would suit the Illinois people, too, he says, as Allison is, beside being a neighbor, a man of high character and ability. Over the West he notes a disposition toward McKinley, at least in certain parts. *I bave been in every Republican and Demo- cratic National Convention for twenty years,” said Mr. Sullivan, “and have heard all the great nominating speeches in that time. I think the St. Louis Convention will be one of rare interest. Iwould not be surprised if we were to see some of the most strategic work there that has happened in many a day. Of course it doesn’t make any difference who is nominated—he will be elected. Thisis whyl would not be surprised if there was a fight for the nomination which will become his- torical.” Mr. Sullivan will be here several days, PERSONAL. 0. F. Paxton of Portland, Or,, is here. Ira-D. Wines of Nevada is in the City. Dr. F. M. Madison of Peoria, IllL,is in the City. James F. Dennis, an attorney of Reno, is in town, Superior Judge A. P. Overton of Santa Rosa isona visit here. W.G. Blain of Colusa is at the Grand, ac- compenied by his wife. E. M. Brattain of Paisley, in Eastern Oregon, is here on & brief visit. Ex-Judge J. M. Fulweiler of Auburn is among the arrivals at the Lick. E. W. Runyon, who 1s identified with a bank at Red Biuff, is in the City. Captain H. K. W. Ayers of Port Angeles, Wash., arrived here yesterday. B. 8. McElhiney, a business men of Fair- field, Towa, is at the Occidental. J. Craig, manager of Highland Springs and the hotel there, is at the Grand. Gabriel Gregoire, a gentleman of Paris, who is interested in California mines, is in town. One of the pioneer merchants of Paisley, Or., Virgil Conn, who has grown wealthy there, is at the Palace. John Flannagan, the leading merchant and wealthy milland timber-land owner of Coos Bay, Or., is at the Lick. E, A. Whittaker, general agent of the Chi- cago, Rock Island and Pacific Kailroad, is among the recent arrivals here. D. E. Knight, owner of the woolen-mills at Marysville, and engaged in banking and vari- ous other large enterprises there, is in town. W. G. Whitney, manager of the Mormon choir, with seventy-five of the members, ar- rived here yesterday and joined the others of their choir. A. L. Cheney, the capitalist, of Boston, who for a long time was interested in the stock of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Raiiroad, is in the City. Mrs. John Sebastian of Chicago, wife of Mr. Sebastian, & prominent official of the Rock Island system, is at the Occidental, accompe- nied by Mrs. L. B. Kendall of Chicago. Judge Adolphus Huvel of Modesto, grand high priest of the Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons for the State of California, came to town yesterday for the purpose of attending the annual convocation which takes place at Masonic Temple in this City next week. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 15.—At the Hoff- man, C. A. Davis; Grand Union, J. B. Eldridge; Coleman, H. H.Lang and wife; Belvedere, H. Bowen, Mrs. W. Bowen; Everett, Mr. Sims; Savoy, A. Galland; Netherland, J. L. Hellman and wife, F. Hellman, Miss Heliman. Sailed on the steamship New York for Southampton— Mrs. Paul Cowles, Miss B. Ursula Green, Mr. and Mrs. Hawber, Miss Heyneman, Mrs. Denis O’Sullivan and infant, Mrs. L. M. Thompson, Miss L. . Thompson, M. J. Thompson and W. H. Wright. Gross Mismanagement. Angels Camp Echo. ‘When the manager of a big business estab- lishment neglects his duties the bad example is quickly followed by those of his subordin- ates who have an o% rtunity to do so. The Government is the biggest business establish- ment on this continent, and the President is its general manager—mismanager he has been since March 4, 13934 ever. Trebbi died and the composer. forgot bis work. Tedeschi, the successor to Trebbi, happened to find the score and remembering the success of “I Pagliacei” and “I Medici” he | thought it only fair that the public should hear “Chatterton.” Leoncavallo was begged to revise the work, and, as already stated in THE CALL, it was recently presented to the critical Roman public with immense success at the National Theater. Everything comes to him who knows how to wait. There is Mozart, who died before Haydn, Schubert or Beethoven, yet these composers have for a long time had their statues in the good town of Vienna, while Mozart has had to content himself with a little, insignificant monument, placed in the honse which he in- habited on the Rauhensteingasse, which, since its reconstruction, has borne his name. At last it has been decided to inaugurate, at Vienna, a monument worthy of the great mas- | ter, and it is the Emperor Francis Joseph who will. preside in person at the ceremony, which is to take place at the end of the present month. The hoikapellmeister of Joseph Il will thus receive a posthumous honor of which no other Austrian musician can boast, for even at the inauguration of Beethoven’s monument the Emperor did not assist in person. After the unveiling the Imperial Overa, for three consecutive nights, will play “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Don Juan” and “The Magic Flute,” and the Vienna Conservatory will give a grand popular concert, devoted exclusively to Mozart’s works. The monument will be placed just outside the Imperial Opera-house. Le Menestrel sa: “We have already told how the dean of militant pianists, Antone de Kontski, leit his home in Buffalo to take a concert tour of the world. We now learn from the Singapore Free Press that De Kontski has been giving concerts av Singapore, and has astonished every or.e by his vigorous and bril- liant playing and his marvelous memory.. Nothing betrayed that the pianist was an octogenarian, even when he played the sonatas of Beethcven by heart. The old man won & marvelous success, and at the end of each con- cert he was obliged to play his celebrated piece, ‘The Awakening of the Lion,” as well as his charming ‘Pompadour Gavotte.’ Our Singapore contemporary states that De Kontski is going to India, after which he will visit Siberia and will tour in Russia and other European countries. De Kontski, the con- temporary of Beethoven, Field, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Thalburg and of Liszt, playing in Paris in 1897 would be an apparition of no mean interest. People are just beginning to realize how much Eduard Grieg owes his wife for making his songs known to the public. If some day it should come to be universally recognized that by the side of the two long-honored kings of song, Schubert and Schumann, Grieg, t0o, is entitled to a throne, to Mrs. Grieg will be largely due the honor of having hastened the advent of his recognition. Nothing is easier than to criticize her singing. Even in its best days her voice must have been of a somewhat uneven quality, lacking in smoothness and sweetness, as in thorough training, yet no Mrs. Nina Grieg, the Singer Who Has Hastened the Advent of Her Hus- band’s Recognition. singing seems to make a greater impression on the hearers. A hysterical actress used to say of a certain scene in a drama where the hero- ine goes mad: “All the other actresses tear their hair, but I tear my soul.” Mrs. Grieg is | anything but hysterical, but of her it might With truth be seid that she sings with her soal. 1t appears that the political administration of Crispi has left the Italian Government very little surplus money for the encouragement of the fine arts. A communication made to the Press by the Minister of the Interior showsa strong/ desire to save in thatdirection. The Minister announces s Government competition for a requiem mass, to Be executed at Turin on the 25th of next July, to celebrate the anni- versary of King Carlo Alberto’s death. The last paragraph runs: #For the said mass the Minister offers a prize of 900 franes, leaving 10 the composer all the cost of performing it, both in duplicating the orchestral and vocal scores and in securing executants.” That is to say, for & -prize of 900 francs expenses to the ex= tent of several thousand irancs will be imposed on the successful composer. Mancinelli is just putting the finishing touches to an opera entitled ““Hero and Lean- der,” for which the well-known poet, Arrigo Boito, has written the libretto. The work will first be played at the coming Norwich festival, and afterward it will be seen at Covent Garden Theater, London, during the season of 1897. At Norwich Mme. Albani and the tenor, Ed- ward Lloyd, will take the leading roles. Emile Sauer, one of the few pianists who can in any way hold his own against Paderewski has discovered a novel way of stilling the en- core fiend. Sauer believes that when people ask too much they should be taughta lesson by receiving encore pieces of such intermin. able lengths that they will have time during the performance to repent of their greed. Itis said that if other performers would follow his example the encore would soon become a thing of the past. For the coming season the Teatre de la Mon- naie, Brussels, has accepted & lyric drama by the Belgian composer, Van den Eeden, which Is said to be very interesting and uncommon. The action is supposed to passin & ity in Spain 133 years betore Chris A precious psalter, printed in 1459, which belonged to the Abbey of St. Vincent at Metz, has just been sold to the British Museum for the sum of £525 The history of the psalter shows that it was sold for a trifling sum in 1790 to a Jew at Metz. 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