The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 7, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. e SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mafl Dafly and Sunday CALL, six months, by m: Daily and Sunday CAL, three months by Dally and Sunday CarL, one month, by mail Bunday CaLx, one year, by mal WEEKLY CaLL, Obe year, by mall THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation ? If 90, 1t is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will fiss it. Onders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attentions NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Felephone... Maln—1888 EDITORIAL ROOMS 517 Clay Street. Felephone. Maln—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay: epen until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkia street; open until 9:30 o’clock. €W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wntil 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslion street: open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THURSDAY. MAY 7, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e All hail! McKinley. The platform suits the people. Harmony is the watchword now. The convention did its work well, As goes California so goes THE CALL. It was a victory for straight politics. The delegation is one the Statecan be proud of. We asked for a stem-winder platform and we got it. Sacramento was a storm center, but San Jose is an aurora borealis. There isno uncertainty about the money plank. It means business. There are no complaints heard in these days of “nothing in the papers.” McKinley, protection and free silver coinage make a good combination. Martin Kelly has been dropped intoa cavity, but he never will be missed. Every step toward woman suffrage isa step toward purity at the ballot-box. The platform is broad enongh and strong enough for all loyal Republicans to stand on. The woman’s suffrage plank is first in the platiorm, and will not be last in the campaign. The voice of the Senate is the firstin peace, the first for war and the last for coast defenses. San Jose might us well make Queemr Lilian’s reign a permanent thingand be a paradise forever. Indiana is evidently willing to give Har- rison a chance to guess again on the Presi- dential conundrnm. The full report of California’s gold prod- uct has never been told. We are richer than the records show. The action of tHe convention will uncork Republican enthusiasm, but it will prove & corker to Democrac; The campaign for protection shonld make Californians more earnest in sup- porting California industries. Politics and festivals make a combina- tion sufficiently stimulating to give the whole State a cocktail atmosphere. The second Mrs. Harrison knows no reason why she should not be the lady of the White House as well as the first one. Cleveland has already become somathing of a back number, and public attention turns away from him for the coming man. Neither those who see the Healdsburg fete, nor those who see the San Jose rose carnival will envy any other crowd in the State. . Auburn is not straining herself for a car- nival, but she has gladdened her people with one of the best flower shows of the season. We can count on the delegation to ad- vance the interests of California at St. Louis, and maintain the cause of the Greater West. Kruger is making the British telegraph lines not only score diplomatic victories for him, but furnish him with evidence for gaining more. Judging from the comparative degree of public interest in the two events the Chi- cago convention will hardly be a sideshow to that at St. Louis. ‘What each nation would like most just now is to see two other nationsgetintoa naval war and put the modern battle-ship to a test before any more are built. The motion for an investigation of the bond deals moves slowly, but it may yet reach the White House in time to find Cleveland out by finding him at home. There was, of course, a good deal of seeming discord at Sacramento while the party instruments were getting into tune, but now comes the triumpbant harmony. Senator Pettigrew expressed a wide- epread public sentiment in saying the bond deals seem ‘‘rotten, dishonest and corrupt to the core, and therefore ought to be investigated.”” Really we might as well arrange & mid- summer festival in San Francisco, just to return our compliments to the interior and show a willingness to get into the State procession and be 8 good fellow. —— g Between silver monometallism and gold monometallism, there is a broad safe road along which the Republican marches, but the Democrats of both fac- tions have become bewildered and taken to the woods, It should need no argument to convince anybody that the ferry depot which is to be the grand entrance gate to the metropo- lis of Califormia should be constructed of Califotnia stone and be a monument to her resources and her workmanship, WORK WELL DONE. The Sacramento convention has done its work weil. While the action taken may not as a whole be in accord with the wishes of any particular individual, it will be in the highest degree satisfactory to the party generally. The platform is a strong, ringing declaration of principles, dealing courageously with every issue before the people. The delegation to St. Louis is made up of able, earnest and loyal men, and while we believe they could. accom- plish more effective work hed they been left unpledged, yet they are men of such eminent ability and influence that even with the restrictions uvon them there is no doubt they will be able to do much to advance the interests of California and maintain the great cause of bimetallism. The marked -characteristic of the con- vention was the earnestness with which the members engaged in the work before it and the orderly manner in which all was accomplished. Differences of opinion existed among the delegates on many sub- jects, and there were many contests for seats to be decided. These, under man- agement of less skillful leaders and organ- izers, or left to the arbitration of men less devoted to the great principles or less loyal to the welfare of the party, might easily have occasioned excitements that would bave resulted in antagonisms and bitterness. They were, however, dealt with in the right spirit and settled with a true political wisdom. Every step taken tended to the establishment of a satisfac- tory basis of agreement, and the resultis a harmony in which the whole party is united. The instructions given will place the California delegation among the support- ers of McKinley as long as there is & chance for his nomination. In taking this action the convention un- doubtedly intended to voice the gen- eral sentiment of the Republicans of the State, and none can question its right and its ability to declare what that senti- ment is. To the expression thus made all California Republicans should give a will- ing approval. There must be harmony and unity of action in this as in all things else. The highest authority of the party in the State has spoken, and while there is a pros- pect of his nomination at the National Convention California will cast her vote for McKinley. Out of the proceedings of the conven- tion, as out of -every other political event in these times, auguries can be drawn bright with promise that the -Republican party will achieve in the coming campaign the greatest political victory of this gen- eration. There is harmony in the party everywhere. There is energy, enthusiasm and unity in the rank and file. The ery of patriotism, protection and prosperity thrills every heart, and itis with ardor the grand old party waits the day when it shall overwhelm 1ts foes at the ballot-box. THE PLATFORM. The Sacrameuto platform vindicates the claim of the Republican party to be not only the party of the people, but the party of liberal ideas, oi progress and of reform. It does not content itself with re- affirming the principles of the past, but it goes forward to new things. It asserts with an undiminished fidelity its devotion to the policy of protection and bimetallism and then proceeds to carry the cause of American advancement further yet by declaring for woman’s suffrage and the direct assistance by the Government of the great interests of shipping, mining, dairy- ing and farming. The strong declarations in favor of pro- tection to all forms of American industry were of course expected. This will consti- tute the chief issue of the campaign, ana the attitude of the Republican party toward it is too well known for any great interest to be feit in the renewal of its declarations of loyalty to the principles of complete protection. he salient features of the Sacrameato platform therefore will be found in the planks supporting woman’s suffrage, the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, the restriction of pauper, criminal and con- tract immigration, Government aid for the transportation of agricnltural products, the encouragement of hydraulic mining where it can be carried on without injury to other interests, ard the commendation given to the efforts made by our delegation in Congress to defeat the funding schemes of the Pacific companies. Itis not to be expected that the Na- tional Convention will adopt or accept all of these.California ideas. Nevertheless their presentation at St. Louis will have a marked influence upon the platform to be adopted there. It is the progressive and courageous States that in the end rule the coun- try. Itis because there were such things as New England ideas and Southern ideas that those two sections for so long a time divided with one another the control of the Government. It is time now for West- ern ideas to be put forward and California is charged with the duty of asserting them. Our State platform, therefore, is none too radical. It is suited to the time and the problems of the time and should be sup- ported with vim and vigor. THE NAPA VINEYARDS. Every grape-grower in the State is deeply interested in the new vine disease that has appeared among the vineyards of Napa Valley. Intelligent growers who bave in- spected the affected vines are of the opin- ion that the trouble arose from the fact that the Riparia, a native vine immune from phylloxera, has a habit bf keeping its roots near the surface, and that the long hot spell of last summer in the Napa Valley, combined with the porosity of the loamy soil, caused the heat to injure the roots. This seems to be a rational con- clusion, as the Lenoir. another resistant stock, sends its roots deeper and escaped injury. Thisistrue also with non-resist- ant vines which are perfectly healthy. The assumption is strengthened by the fact that in those parts of the State where the climatic and soil conditions were un- like those at Napa, the Riparia was unin- jured. The value of these considerations is ap- parent when it is reflected that they point away from any assumption that the Riparia has developed a specific disease. If it has done so the situation might be regarded as serious. It is difficult to imagine how sucb could be the case, as the vine is growing in its native habitat, and the rule in the domestication of wild plants is that care and cultivation im- prove their quality and strengthen their vigor. It cannot be expected, however, that a wild plant will thrive if the condi- tions which heredity have fixed upon it are’ severely . strained. A plant accus- tomed in a wild state to a moist soil will have difficulty in growing in a dry situa- tion. If the theory advanced to explain the damage at Napa is correct the simple rem- edy is surface irrigation in the case of vineyards already grafted to Riparia stock when a long, hot stretch of weather oc- curs, or, in the case of new plantings, the use of vines which send their roots deeper. As the Ripariais an excellent stock, it may be expected to thrive in soils and climates Iwhich approximate those to which it is accustomed inits native state. Of course the vineyards of Napa repre- sent but a very small proportion of the area in the State d&oted to vines, and hence the damage to the State is too smail for consideration. At the same time the condition of affairs there demands the most careful study. No threat to any of the vineyard and orchard interests of Cali- fornia has ever arisen but that means were promptly found to avert it. This will be the case with the Napa vineyards. A GREAT VIOTORY. The Republican party of California i convention assembled at Sacramento did a mighty work for itself when it wheeled upon Martin Kelly and the would-be bosses of the party and routed them horse, foot and dragoons. Those men traveled to Sacramento for the one pur- pose of carrying away the district ma-* chinery of the party in their pockets, but they did not carry it away. In fact, they ‘were not permitted to touch it. And the squelching of them was undertaken with so much determination and the work was s0 thoroughly done that the party may be assured that no little or big rings will at- tempt to put on the robe of dictator for awhile. It was a great victory for the party over an element that has no loftier purpose than what ‘‘boss’’ and “the spoils of office’’ stand for. Although this good work was accom- plished by the splendid generalship of John D. Spreckels, it must not be forgot- ten that he was seconded and loyally sus- tained by men as determined as himself to save the party from the ward boss and the for-revenue-only politician. ‘The professionals were sanguine of vic- tory an hour before they were vanquished. Their plans had been carefully and adroitly laid and they already had begun to strut about and with condescension permit sug- gestions to be made to them. But their self-sufficiency so blinded them that they did not see the hostof indignantand deter- mined Republicans moving down upon them to smite them hip and thigh, and when they were struck they fell like autumn leaves all withered. It was agreat victory for Republicanism in California, and it is the kind of a purification that will make the party healthier and stronger every way. Besides, the fact has been emphasized that there is no room anywhere in the Republi. can party of this State for ‘dictator,” “boss™ or office broker. THE TRANSFER NUISANCE. The transfer system at the junction of Market and Powell streets has been in operation sufficiently long for an estimate of its value to be made. In all fairness, it should be considered that as yet the peo- ple are not thorougkly used to it; that the bardships and inconveniences arising from it may be mollified by time, and that the human family has a happy disposition to submit to evils which there is no earthly power to correct. Under no circumstances of babit or custom, however, can the system be otherwise than exceedingly annoying. This is how the matter must always be regardea from the citizen's point of view. There is another side to the story--that of the street railway company. The sys- tem was established for the alleged reason that passengers approaching the junction with no intention of pursuing their jour- ney beyond it took transfers and gave them outright to the newsboys assembled at the junction. The boys then gave away the transfersto purchasers of papers, 50 that two persons were enabled to travel over the company’s roads on one fare. The company vretended to have made a careful estimate of the number of trans- ters thus fraudulently imposed upon it, and arrived at the conclusion thatit would be cheaper to maintain four or five trans- fer agents at the junction and compel the City to furnish a number of policemen at its own expense to prevent outbursts of anger over the impossibility of the transfer agents to handle the business. It will be observed that the main point in the mat- ter was not taken into account for a mo- ment by the company. That was the con- venience of the public. The scenes of crowding, scrambling, swearing, hustling and bruising of women and the tearing of their clothes, to say nothing of the confu- sion and errors and loss of money on the part of the people who bad not mastered the intricacies of the system, found no place in the consideration of the company. That the revenues of the company have been largely increased by the new arrange- ment cannot be doubted. Aside from the extra nickels it secures through errors and misconceptions on the part of the passen- gers, there are undoubtedly many who would rather pay an extra fare than enter the scramble for a transfer ticket at the junction. That is the whole case as it stands at present. The one great. princi- ple involved in it is that the people, either individually or in maunicipal organization, have not the least word to say in the prem- ises. That is the one serious feature of the matter. USE HOME MATERIAL, In holding up the hands of the Harbor Commssioners in their purpose to use Colusa stone for the new ferry depot, the Manufacturers’ Association indorse the sentiment of the people of California gener- ally. It is freely admitted on all sides that Colusa rock is as well adapted for that use as any foreign stone; besides, the ferry depot is a State work, and certainly ma- terial that is the product of California should be used when it is as good as the best that could be obtsined elsewhere. There is another aspect of the guestion of where the stone shall be procured that is to be considered. If Colusa stone used the money paid for it will immedi- ately enter our own channels of trade and be carried to home dealersin merchandise, provisions and other articles of commerce, while on the other hand if the money is paid to an outside stone company it will be carried beyond our own trade circles, and California would then be a party to puilding up foreign quarries and mer- chants st the expense of her own people. It is not the business of a commonwealth to do anything of the kind with money it expends on publicimprovements for which the people are taxed. On general principles, therefore, home stone quarries, home merchants and home wage-earners should have all the benefit possible from the construction of this public work. In fact, it would be a reflec- tion upon our business sense and capacity to do business to go away from home for material that is no better, at least, than we have at our door. Besides, the ferry depot is an enterprise of the State and at the expense of the State, and in all reason the people of the State ought to have the benefits accruing from this expenditure of their own money. The Detroit Tribune in defending the funding bill and Huntington’s reputation for honesty says: “The courts in Califor- nia are open for business every day in the year. They stand ready at all timesto try criminals of all sorts who come within their jurisdiction.” Exactly so, but the Tribune forgets that Huntington has been wary enongh to get a Kentucky franchise and escape California’s jurisdiction, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. George A. Stesle of Portland, who for years has occupied a high place in the politics and finances of Oregon, is at the Grand. He is one of the alternates to the Repub- lican National Convention at St. Louis, has been Treasurer of Multnomsh County, Post- master at Portland, Deputy Collector of the Port, member of the State Senate, and was chairman of the Republican State Central Committee which went out of office at the time of the State Conventiom just held. He had been chairman of the Republican State Central Committee before. Mr. Steele has lived in Oregon thirty-three years. He went there by way of San Francisco, from Ohio, when but 16 yearsold. Since then he has acquired large property. He is president and superintendent of the East Side Electric Railway, & road which he twenty-two inches at the widest part. Itisa delightfully graceful skirt. and looks equally ‘well in any’ ric, and never gets out of shape, as the e cut ‘with a straight edge to meet & bias one at all the seams, excepting in the back, where the gores are straight through the center, with a stay at each seam. A skirt of Dresden silk in reseda green with bright colored flowers and leaves in shadowy outlines, and narrow stripes of black satin at intervals of two inches, was worn with a black satin coat of the Louis XVIstyle. Thishada vest of chiffon which harmonized with the skirt, haying the same design of roses and leaves woven in. A bright greem satin stock with four larger loops at the back finished the g%ek, with a belt of the same at the fuil vest nt. A skirt of whita taffetas with narrow black stripes had two-inch bands of black satin ribbon down each seam. This was overlaid with a heavy white band of lace not quite so wide. The effect was chic in the extreme, this being worn with a waist to mateh. A skirt of black grenadine lined with tender- George A. Stecle, the Noted Republican and Financier of Oregon, Now Here: Who 1s One of the Alternates to St. Louis. [Sketched from life by a “Call’’ artist.] thinks is the best and longest on the Pacific Coast. It reaches from Portland proper, over the Willamette River and through what used to be East Portland, to Oregon City, and it also has a line to Mount Tabor, the entire length being twenty-two miles. Said Mr. Steele: “Ithink it is the finest electric road on the Pacific Coast, and we take a good deal of pride init. It is very solidly buiit, and alto- gether it is a splendid electric system. “In regard to business in Oregon it is fair. It is picking up a little, It can’t be any worse than it was for a time, and 1 think now that it will gradually improve till we get back ou tne good basis we were a few yearsago. It has been a delightiul winter there, except in April, when it got quite unpleasant. “In Oregon we are for what is called sound money. We are not for free silver coinage, or approaching it, as the Republicans are here. Only the Populists are for that there. We want protection there more than anything else, and unless the country gets it, in my judgment, we are going to see very hard times. With it we will gradually come out of our financial difficulties. “1only came down for a brief stay. Imust get beck soon to fix np the road between Ore- gon City amd Gladstone, the latter being a mile and a half from Oregon City. There is a magnificent grove of fir and other trees there, capable of accommoaating 50,000 people. Itis there that the Chautauqua Asso- ciation meets. Anegg-shaped auditorium has been built there which holds 3000 people aloue, and besides this there is an enormous platform capable of accommodating large numbers.” Mr. Steele was Postmaster of Portland for nine years and'served in the State Senate four years. Heis one of the solid representative men of Oregon, and is known to almost every one in the three or four Northwestern States. THE X RAY. 11 you can penetrate a purse And “take” the cofns within it resting; 1t you can phoiograph one's bones Inside the flesh that’s them investing; Forebodings must perforce arise, st as sour wondrous skill advances, 'ou may be able to expose Views of our inmost thoughts and fancies! *Tis bad when rude “snap-shottists” take Our features, all compiaints deriding: "Twill be much worse when they can The motive woich our breast is hiding; And when some new developmeni— For, doubtiess, you in time wili score it— Wil make our neact as visible / As though npon our sleeve we wore It. Should politicians then display For crypiic speeches any leaning, A Roenigen negative or two Would soon elucidate their meaning. Vain would their special pleadings be, Vhich candor rules 5o oft iransgresses, Unless "twas found their words agreed With *photos” of their minds’ recesses. —London Trath. AN ELEVEN.GORED SKIRT FOR SILKS. The most satisfactory way of making the handsome skirts of silk and satin now so much ‘Worn 1s with several gores, 8o that each gore can be cut out of one breadth of the material in one piece. Where fewer gores are used they are of necessity wider, aud the silk or satin must be pieced out to get the width. A skirt which is six and a balf yards round the foot and has eleven gores is shown above. It is designed especially for silks and narrow fabrics, none of the gores measuring more than leaf green silk, had a piping of the silk at each seam. A black satin skirt had a h andsome applique design_in jet and green spangles, which crossed the foot of the front breadth, and Teached to the waist {n e graceful tapering design over the seams of the front breadth. Some of the new skirts are trimmed with narrow braid at the foot, set on in straight rows, or forming a small design at each seam. Four of the eleven gores in this skirtare gathered at the back, or may be lsid in box pleats. " PERSONAL. J. M. Bruwley of Fresno is in the City. A. K. Smith of Juneau, Alaska, is at the Russ. L. E. Mosher of Los Angeles is at the Palace. Hekra Isono of Japan was among yesterday’s arrivals. Thomes R. Minturn of Minturn is at the Occidental. L. E. Hunt, & business man of El Paso, ison & visit here. George V. Studd of Macon, Georgia, is at the RCosmopolitan. H. L. Pickett, a mining man of Silver City, N. Mex,, is in town. E. F. Hill, a Bodie mine-owner, is registered at the Cosmopolitan, George D. McLean, the mining man, of Grass Valley, is at the Lick. Rear-Admiral L. A. Beardslee of the United States navy is in iown. Philip L. Abbott of Cambridge, Mass., isa re- cent arrival at the Palace. M. M. Griggs, a wealthy cattle man of Mon- terey, reached here yesterday. Tom F. Lene of Angels, superintendent of the Utics gold mine, is in the City. E. T. Albert, trainmaster of Prescott, Ari- zona, is staying at the Cosmopolitan. T. G. Shaughnessy and G.-0. Macdonald, rail- road men of Toronto, are at the Palace. Louis Dean, & wealthy cattle-owner of Reno, Ney., is among recent arrivals at the Russ. W. W. Irish, a business man of Fresno, is at the Russ. He is accompanied by Mrs. Irish, Eugene de Gabla Jr.. the mining man, of Nevada City, has arrived here for a short stay. George L. Arnold of Los Angeles, member of the State Board of Equalization, is in the City. Count A. M. Merkhoff of Austria is here on a tour of the interesting places on the Pacific Coast. Mayor W. H. Carlson of San Diego was among yesterday’s arrivals nere. He isat the Grand. George T. Rives, & mining man of Inyo County, is st the Grand, having arrived yes- terday. A. C. Buell, the contractor, of Eureka, who built the jetty at the mouth of the harbor, is at the Lick. Matthew Gage, an orange-grower of River- side and & widely known capitalist, is at the Occidental, Alexander Ballantyne, a wealthy resident of Lead City, South Dakots, is among the arrivals &t the Russ. Judge Belcher is yet confined to his home by illness, Heissald to be threatened with an attack of the grip. W. E. Rogers of Amalie, and who is exten- sively engaged in mining there, is among the arrivals at the Lick. H. M. Larue ot Sacramento, State Railway Commissioner, is among those who are regis- tered at the Occidental. W. H. Avery, ticket agent of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, is ill with pneu- monia and is confined to one of the hospitals. Ex-Governor John H. Kinkead of Nevada {sin the City. Mr. Kinkead was Governor of Alaska after serving his term as Governor of Nevada. Ellwood Cooper, the olive-grower of Ell- wood, Santa Barbara County, long one of¢the leading ofticers of the State Horticultural So- ciety, is among recent arrivals here. J. M. Baltimore, & well-known newspaper man, formerly city editor of the Portland Ore- gonian, is in the City. Mr. Baltimore has been making an extended tour through some of the most important cities of California. CALIFORNIANS IN _NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 6.—Sailed per & - ship New York for Southampton: .Voupm Mrs. Bee, Mrs, Florence Cavell, Miss Sibyl Cavell, George A. Pope, Mrs. Pope, Mrs. Caro- line Taylor, F. R. Webster. At the Hoffman, J. P. Cladius, J. Trounson; Imperial, A. A. Grant, I 8. Aubry; Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. i Belvedere, A. Neschraity: St. Cloud, Metr, o Astor, B, O, Willamn, o pguee; Astor, 03 MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Early in June San Francisco will have an op- portunity of judging whether Ellen Beach Yaw is one of the most remarkable singers of this or any other age, or whether she is only a vocal freak. Papers all over the country have de- voted columns and columns to Miss Yaw. The immense range of her voice has been heralded from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and there is no disputing the fact that musical history does not record anywhere a range that equals Miss Yaw’s, for she can sing E above the high E. ‘This girl, who hails from Los Angeles, is said to possess a unique persovality. She is slen- der, graceful, a decided blonde, with a classic face and clear blue eyes. There is something spirituelle in both her appearance and her voice. She is said by those who know her to be unassuming, and not anxious for the many “puffs” which her press agents have thrust upon her. At the close of her present tour Miss Yaw will probably make a long visit to her mother in Los Angeles. A Florentine newspaper tells of an exploit achieved by a pisnist which is remarkable, though the virtuoso might have devised better means for employing his time and talent. It says: “Camillo Baucia of Cuneo proposed to play forty-six hours consecutively, only taking three rests of ten minutes each. A jury was con- vened to mount guard over him, and on Satur- day at 4 o'clock M. Baucia commenced his feat by playing the ‘Royal March,’ after which he gave selections from ‘Faust,’ ‘Carmen,’” “Mignon,’ etc., as well as sonatas by Schubert, and a number of ballabilli, all the time talking to visitors without any apparent preoccups. tion. During the whole of his tour de force, he took nothing more solid than the yolks of eggs, though he drank a good deal of Marsala and coffee. On Sunday morning he felt out of sorts and was twice obliged to take ten min- utes’ rest, but he set to work again, confident that he would accomplish his task. The citi- zens crowded to see him, espeeially in the afternoom of Monday, when at 4 o’clock Baucia completed his forty-eight hours’ record. -His health was good and his pulse regular.” The pienist has succeeded in getting himself a good deal talked of, but art has certainly not benefited by his feat. German singing, and German singers seem to have peen getiing thé cold shoulder lately. The Damrosch Opera Company, brought into sharp contrast, as it was, with the Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau Company in New York, called down the maledictions of the critics on the s.nging of the principals, for their “school’’ contrasted very poorly with the finished vocal- ization of the singers of the French and Ital- ian schools, and now a wail is heard from Ger- many that even Bayreuth, the temple of Wag- nerian opera, is rapidly being invaded by for- eigners whose school of singing is not of the German variety. Nordica reaped s good many laurels there, and it looks as if the De Reszke brothers were going to take more glory from acknowledged Wagnerian singers. Some of ihe German newspapers are Waxing wrathy and pathetic over this invasion of foreigners into the very citadel of German art. There is & very simple remedy, however. If the rising Alvarys, Klafskys, etc., would study the art of singing, instead of relying on their megnifi- cent natural voices and their acting, there would be no need of foreigners at Bayreuth, Under the titte of “Music in Prison,” Le Menestrel is giving an interesting series of articles showing how many distinguished pris- oners have whiled away the weary hours of imprisonment by singing and playing. “In the study which we have given to this sub- ject, which was before the Napoleonic craze has been going on in England in favor of the adoption of & lower pitch. The agitation has been lost in England, as to adopt & lower pitch would mean & great outlay in purchas- ing new wind instruments for the bands. In private homes, however, there is no need to adopt a vitch which makes vocalists sing the music of some of the older masters a semi- tone higher than it was written. A society has been formed in London for the suppression of useless noises in the street. It aims especially at “tne most costly and the most useless of noises,” which is, according to the well-known definition, the noise of musie. The strains of hand organs and German bands which infest the United Kingdom are to be regulated or suppressed by act of Parliament, if, the society can get its way. A law to that effect 1s now being framed, and it will be pre- sented next session. A Florentine newspaper, Lo Staffale, tells the following rather extraordinary piece of musi- cal news: “An original idea of the maestro Giordano has been carried out in his opera ‘Andre Chenier,’ which has met with a fayor- able reception in Milan. The work from the first to the last note is all written in the same key.” Ii Lo Staffale is correct in its informa- tion ‘‘Andre Chenier’’ must be a very monoto- nous cpera. EIGHTY THOUSAND FRIENDS. ThatIs the Number Gained by “‘The Call” on Woman Suffrage. " To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIr: In saying that THE CALL has gained eighty thoussnd iriends among the Populists of Cali- fornia by openly and earnestly declaring for woman suffrage I am certain it is a conservative statement, and I shall refer to the Populist votes polled next November, every one of which will be for the proposed amendment to grant the elective franchise t» woman, as proof that my statementis conservative. Populists themselves believe that their whole conten- tion as a party is based on simple justice; and no argument is needed to convince them that justice demands the right of the elective fran- chise for women as well as men and on exactly the same terms. There is no other party, there has never been another party, that has at once accepted woman suffrage as & matter of course, and the explanation is found in the factal- ready intimated that the whole plea, pirpose and Spirit of the People’s party find expression in tne demand for social justice. ._The bitter experience of the People’s party in Colorado on the suffrage question was naturally & good deal taken to heart by Popu- lists all over the country. It is assumed that the readers of THE CALL and especially Miss Anthony, Miss shaw, Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, Miss Severance and other noble women who are especially enlisted in the advocacy of this lain measure of justice, are familiar with the act that the Populists of Colorado gave women the right to vote and that noble old Roman, Governor Waite, affirmed the aetion of the Legislature with his official signature. It is equelly certain that it could be demonstrated, if this were the place for it, that the women thusenfranchised “turned down” the Populists at the next succeeding election and returned the party to power which for thirty years have refused the ballot to women. While this is a bitter experience and is somewhat exasperat- ing, Ithink I am safe in saying that it has not changed a single Populist vote in opposition to woman’s c?slm 1o political equality with man at the ballot-box. If this should seem incredible to some readers, they may find a basis for credulity in the intense feeling ever gre!enl in_the heart of a true Populist that there is no hope for the fature of the Re- public except in a return to the rule and actual practice of social justice by the Govern- ment of this country. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, San Francisco. | popular of Thomas’ Miss Ellen Beach Yaw, the Los Angeles Singer Who Will Be Heard Here Next June. broke out in the libraries and the magazines,” says Le Menestrel, ‘‘we have found by investi- gation that the First Napoleon enjoyed a dilet- tantism for music which has generally been denied him. During his captivity at Saint- Helena he devoted a small portion of each day to the study of music, but could not spare much more, for he had to defend his glory, and death did noteven leave him time to do that. When his health began to give way he suffered from attacks of delirium, but during these attacks he sang incessantly a number of arias, and always in the Italian language, for before the end he turned again to the language of his youth.” It seems that the Third Na- poleon was helped to support the incarceration which followed the disaster of Sedan by listen- ing to the music of Offenbach, of whom in his days of prosperity he had been one of the Warmest patrons. The day following the death of Ambroise Thomas the directors of the Paris Grand Opega resolved to raise & monument to his memo; at their own cost. The work was entrusted to the sculptor, M. Falguieres, and that gentle- man has just submitted his model. Itrepre- sents Ambrojse Thomas seated on & rock, no doubt in memory of his great affection for his rocky island of Iliec, where he composed so much of his music. At the foot of the rock Ophelis, in white marble, i holding him s bunch of flowers. The work is effective and artistic, but one would like to see Mignon figure there, too, for if “Hamlet” is the most works with artists, “Mignon” is the opera which made him popu- lar with the masses. Catulle Mendez, a well-known writer of French stories, many of which are seasoned with vice, recently gave a lecture in Paris at one ot the Colonne concerts on Berlioz and Wagner. He commenced by wandering off to en address on the Apochrypha, and the sudience, which was waiting to hear about Berlioz, made such a disturbance that the police forbade him to eontinue till after the concert. A great many people stayed, and in & relative calm Mendez talked about Wagner, whom he compared, without mincing matters, to the Divinity. This gave great offense to the listeners, particularly as most of the audience were impatient to hear Berlioz praised. American pianos are generally supposed to be the most brilliant in the world, snd it is partly to intensify this brilliancy that they are frequently pitched so high. If singers realized the strain that the very high pitch puts on their voices we should hear some- thing in this country of the agitation which ALLEGED HUMOR. ‘‘Hannah,”” sa1d the mistress to the new girl, “everything is eaten now with forks. Here are the strawberry forks, the ice-cream forks, ~ the orange forks and the bread forks.” “Yes'm,” said the girl attentively. A few days later, when & company dinner was in progress, the first course came near be- ing a failure. Hannah explained: “I hunted everywhere, ma’am, but I couldn’t find the soup forks,”—Detroit Free Press. 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