The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1895. THE SCHUETZEN'S NEW KAISER, An Unfavorable Day Cuts Short the Shooting Sport. FRED PAPE IS KING. A. Bahrs, the Venerable Secre- tary and Pioneer of the Schuetzens. SHELL MOUND PARK CROWDED. Closing of the Twenty-Seventh Anni- versary of the Schuetzen Verein. The second and lastday of the San Fran- cisco Schuetzen Verein at Shell Mound Park saw no abatement in the attendance of the German pepulation. Over 2500 of the loving out-door, jovial and happy peo- red out to enjoy the hospitality of Siebe, who had made ample prepa- for their reception. The day was just the reverse of lovely. It blew as if it had some grudge against those who were desirous of enjoying the fun ata Mayday picnie. Yet the fun went on all the same, and although the wooden eagle fell at 2:30 o’clock in the afternoon, by the well-aimed shot of King Pape, it marred not the amusement of those who brought their lunch baskets well stocked on the ground for a royal day’s enjoyment. =The not e ened with its usual surroundings, in consequence of the unfavorable wind that b i m the ocean with almost the violence of a gale and the untimely taking of it from on top of the forty-foot pole »on which it was securely made fast. he round of m smen saw end of what to them seemed the be- nning of the day’s s when Henry ck knpcked off wn on his l'l_r*t t prize after Fred Pape, was made king of the in for the year 1896, the venth anniversary in the reign of who afterward t secured the second 10g the apple on the first . Schuster took down the scepter h > third pri for the right leg, doing secured the th prize went to J. H. i the eagle’s head so . The old veteran e his name universal 1 o ain John self with the left the winner of the and ranked as th 5 all of all that was ieft of the e bird ended the day’s sport, o > marksmen were concerned, and r d in placing the crown on the ven- ersble brow of King Fred Pape, who, not- | bis three score and more | 1l wear it with becoming dignity and the honorable society of co Schuetzen Verein. ed on the grounds of Shell terday were some vener- Among them was A. Bahrs, Mo e e able the fat ary of the Vereins for the and one of the pioneer , haying joined it thstanding his 66 vears of h and hearty and can pierce the center of the bullseye at 200 yards as well as he d when he first joined the Schuetzen Verien. aze he to-d T of the prizes to the winners of booting will take place on ey evening at California Hall. next Thur: JAME DAY NOTES, Day in Each Month for Game, Sport and Athletic Con- tests. Contracts for Improvements at Presidic—Oregon to B come the Flagship. the of the Fifth Artillery now tion is, ‘‘Have you packed your trunk for Key West?” There is no definite information on which to base the report that the Fifth Artillery will be sent South, but the troops stationed in the South land would like to exchange sta- tions with the Fifth, and the desire has been discussed in the army journals. Well-informed officers at the Presidio give no credit to the flying rumors. The Fifth Arl y has been here only six years, and they regard it as a sure thing that the regiment will stay four years more. neral Forsyth, commanding the De- partment of California, has issued the fol- lowing instructions (Paragraph 11, Gen- eral Orders No. 4, May 12, 1896): Post commanders will set aside one day in each month, and announce it in orders before- hand, as & recreation day. on which all drills and ordinary fatigue duties will be suspended and the day be devoted to sportsand games and military and athletic contests. These will be conduc-ed systematically, morning and aft- ernoon, and officers cspecially interested will be detalled to prepare programmes and super- t the National bird was | of Superior Judge Babrs, who | e crowning of Kaiser Pape and the vise the exercises. Post exchanges should en- courage these exercises by offeriug prizes and | providing facilities and apparatus. Later in the season an_effort will be made to | prepare a programme of athletic contests, at | which representatives from the different posts will be given an opportunity to compete, 8t the Presidio. | Colonel A. 8. Kimball, chief quarter-, master of this department, has recom- | mended to the Quartermaster-General at | Washington the acceptance of the follow- ing bids: S Silas Carle, Sacramento, for bmlq:ng stable at the Presidio, $16,469; plumbing, $876. { John W. Murphy, Modesto, filling marsh iaz Presidio, 10% cents per cubic yard— | WARM WELCOME FOR ADA REHAN, {An Overflowing Audience Greets the Daly Company. | 336,000 yards, $36,540. The bids are aeemed reasonable an | bidders responsible. A | Colonel Kimball obtained permission to expend an additional sum of §1000 to strengthen the foundation of the stable site. He received bids at short notice for a second fill of about 5000 cubic yards, which the department approved. Subsequently Colonel Kimball reported: “An examination of the stable site shows | that the ditch connecting the two parts of | the slough recently constructed under the | contract of C. A. Warren has had the ef- | fect of still further draining the stable site. “An experiment with forty-five horses | | driven over the stable site showed it to | have less vibration and to be firmer then | it was & month ago. While I consider that there may be some settlement under | the weight of the structure, I believe that | | with the additional filling recommended | in my letter of the 7th inst. the foundation | will be reasonably secure.” Major-General Ruger, commanding the Department of the East, has been the first department eommander to make reply to d the | |SOCIETY AT THE DRAMA. The New Play, “ Countess Gucki” Proves to Be of the Pum- pernickel Order, | IS ALL EXITS AND ENTRANCES. But the Audience Applauded the Even, Excellent Acting and the Smart Lines. Not since “Trilby” was here has the | Baldwin Theater had such an audience as it contamned last night, to welcome the | Daly company, with Ada Rehan as the | bad, about the year 1820 and the atmos- phere is so redolent with small court in- trigue and officialism, ‘that one involun- | tarily thinks of *‘Vanity Fair” and the chapters on Pumpernickel. Most of the action is furnished by exits and entrances, which are added to by the frequent ap- pearance of servants with trays containing light refreshments. 2 If “‘Countess Gucl is an authority, life in Carlsbad in 1820 must have been one long succession of tea, coffee, buitermilk and punch. T The plot, such as it is, runs something in this wi The very charming Countess, Hermance Trachau, knowr to a familiar few by the nickname of’“Gucki,” is a widow who lives with her brother-in-law, Court Councillor von Mittersteig, who has beld for forly vears his court position, when he has only bad to hold up a stove and twirl his thumbs. His wife Clementina rules the roost and pulls wires in court circles to keep her husband from losing his job. Just why James Lewis sud Mrs, G. H, Gilbert should have made up to look like octoge- narians is best known to themselyves. They played the roles of the councilor and bis wife admirably, but it spoiled the the illusion to see them looking like the great-grandparents of their charming daugnter Lilli, who did not seem a day over 18, The court councillor does what is really a very undignified thing for a man in his exalted position outside of comic opera— he lets rooms, with board, though it is but fair to state that the subject of terms is never mentioned between him and his roomers. A fascinatibg Russian officer, Bruno von Nuchoff, who has seen Gucki and Lilli at the theater and fallen in love with them both, takes advantage of the *‘rooms to let” to storm the citadel of the councillor’s home. Lilli_receives his ad- vances with shrinking timidity, for she | has already bestowed her youthful affec- tions on her cousin Frederick, a sort of | Austrian edition of “Cousin Médus,” who | never tells his love, but “lets concealment, ete.” the War Department's circular in regard to the submission of names of officers for retirement. He recommends the exam- ination for retirement of several officers. | The names of the officers have not been made public. | There is great curiosity in this depart- | ment to know the names of the officers | recommended by General Forsyth for re- tirement. The report comes from Washington that | Captain Kempfi or Phillips will be ap- | pointed to succeed Captain Howison as commandant at Mare Island Navy-yard. | Itis announced semi-officially that the Oregon will become the flagship of the Pa- | cific station. The Oolumbia. The presentation at the Columbia Theater | last night of “Miss Harum Scarum,”” a dramatic | comedy by E. J riz, was witnessed by | a good house. The play is based on the deser- | tion of a wife, the abduction of a daughter and | conspiracies to impose a stranger on & dis- | tracted grandfather and induce him to be- | lieve tnat she is the kidnaped child. This | plot was written to display the ability ana versatility of Amy Lee and the power of comedy that is within Frank Doane. | In the development of the plot there are | | many opportunities to introduce specialties in | the way of songs and dances. All this pieased | the audience. Amy Lee, who assumed the | title role, is & vivacious little actr | good voice and pleasing ways, who audience to ber. She had & good support in | Frank Doane, & fakir, who is an _example of | hard luck, but who, on discovering that | Harum Scarum (who was his companion in his | travels) is the abducted girl, does his part to | Testore her to her graudfather. As usual, all the villains in the play (and there are many of them) meet their just deserts. Itisa play that | will attract those who want to see something | light and amusing. | | | | Grand Opera-House. | I The Grand Opera-house was crowded lAst[ | night, the attraction being that hrll-known| historical tragedy, “Jack Cade, or the Bonds- man of Kent.” The leading role was assumed | by Edmund K. Collier, whose rendition of tne | part was enjoyed and applauded by those who | witnessed- it. Lisle Leigh as Merriamne, the | wife of Cade, came in fora good share of the applause. The piece was magnificently staged and the scenery new and very effective. | | The Tivoli Opera-House. | “Uncle Tom's Cabin,’’ as an opers, was the | novelty offered at the Tivoli Opera-house last 1 | | evening and the novelty possesses consider- able merit. The four epochs in which the opera is divided gives Mrs. Stowe's world- renowned story, introducing all_the principal | nts. Some good singing is introduced by , Hartman, Raffael, Carrie Roma and There 'are also several pleasing | ADA REHAN, [From her latest photograph.] choruses, William H. West was a good Uncle Tom, Little Mildred was particularly pleasing star feature of the cast. 1 A BAHRS WHO JCINED IN 1859 HOLDS UP THE- va and Josephine Garsman was acceptable as Topsy, although rather tall for the charac- ter she assumes. A feature was the scene on | the levee, which gave an ovportuaity for the introduction of many negro specialties and a cake walk. The opers is produced with beau. tiful scenery. Orpbenm Musio-Hall, The crowded house at the Orpheum Music- hall last evening is another evidence that peo- ple do mot tire of vaudeville. The sketch artist Carr was true to life in the num- ber he offered, and in which he was assisted by Miss Jordan, who 1s really a clever little artiste. Miss Parry's imitations of celebrities are careful studies, and the ting-a-ling of the musical bells by Mlle. Carrie is interesting and marvelous. The entire programme is one that entertains and much of it amuses. , g s Severed the Arteries. This morning about 1 o’clock Sigmond leihkan, & waiter living &t 163724 Mission street, tried to commit suicide by severing the arteries of his left arm with a knife. He 15 about 25 years of age, married and has two children. He became desperate ihrough inability to obtain work. - He was taken to the Receiving Hospital and his wounds were dressed by Dr. Rinne. Every seat was occupied and chairs were placed wherever | a convenient spot offered for stowing away a few more admirers of the Daly troupe. The audience was not so niggardly of its | applause as a house with many dress suits, | white gloves and demi-toilettes gener- | ally is. People were on the verge of evoning | dress last night, but they did not follow the general rule, which is that the more gorgeously people are arrayed the less | they applaud. On the contrary, they were | lavish with marks of approbation, and at | the end of the second act tried hard to get | a speech from the management, after call- ine Ada Rehan before the curtain twice. | _The play was “Countess Gueki,” by | Franz von Schonthan, adapted from the German by Augustin Daly. It seems al- | most & pity that Mr. Daly took so much trouble, for “Countess Gucki” is not so good asthe average run of American plays, and nothing saved it from becoming abso- | lutely tedious but the clever acting oi the people who presented it. | " The action is supposed to pass at Carls- LEMONADE BorL [EHREN PHORT CLEANING WIS GUN AFTER [1 Aum TELUNG o‘?nm AND mrmenn/ HONTHE Top OF v»% CROWN wrAs KnocKk ED oFF — Noted Sam Francisco Sehuctzen Verein Marksmen at the Eagle Shoot at Shell Mound Range. Gucki, who needless to say i a fascinat- ing creature in the hands of Ada Rehan, | flouts for her part the atientions of young Von Nuchoff. She laughs at him, teases | him, leads him on and bluffs him off, in a way which piques interest, and finally subdues him. And all this time Gucki, who is a widow and should have had her eves wide open, never knows that Von Nuchoff has also been making love to her dear little niece Lilli. In this condition of affairs an addition to the dramatis personm appears in the person of General Suvauscheff of the Rus- sian army, uncle to Von Nuchoff and an old and constant admirer of Gucki's. Edwin Stevens played this part well, | though he made & mistake in talking his English lines with an ltalian accent, | because the general was supposed to be a | Russian-speaking German. That is only | a detail, however. Stevens played the role of the elderly, rheumatic lover without making his constancy ridiculous; indeed, | there was a touch of genuine pathos in his rendering of the role, for, needless to say, he lost and his nephew won in the game for Gucki’s affections. “Countess Gucki”’ affords good oppor- tunities to Ada Rehan, but it does not show her at her best. The rele of the witty, sarcastic, capricious and flirtatious countess is altogether charming as she playsit, but one charming woman is not enough to make a play. None of the other roles show any particular talent for character drawing on the part of the author, though the even excellence of the company’s acting covered a multitude of sins—or rather infirmities—which with an infertor cast would certainly bave been discovered by the audience and laid at Von Schonthan’s door. It was a treat indeed to see such a good all-round cast. Charles Richman, as Von Nuchoff, was dashing, heroic and natural, but he showed too much fondness for exhibiting his teeth. They are beauti- ful teeth, 1t is tirue, but the stage is not a dentist’s showcase. Miss Helma Nelson was refreshing, sweet and graceful as the ingenue Lilli and Sidney Hubert made a good Cousin Leopold, the bashful youth who, with some extraneous assistance, finally suc- ceeded in making hislove known, without, however, telling it. Miss Alethe Craig was winning in the little role of Rosa, the maid, and her father, Commanaer Craig of the Concord, watched the young actress from the audience with justifiable pride. The programmes informed the audience that the costumes were historically cor- rect, and not a few women and all the men who read the note thanked their lucky stars that they did not live in 1819, Fancy wearing such headgear as Ada Rehan wore, and worse still, fancy sitting behind it at the theater. ““Countess Gucki,” in spite of its lack of plot, has some bright lines in the dia- logue, which caused many a lauch last night. The play will be repeated to-night and to-morrow nigh The California Theater, There was a reproduction at the California Theater of Hoyt's musical trifie “A Trip Through Chinetown,” and its many amusing features were witnessed by a fairly good audi- ence. This play is o well known that it is not necessary to describe it. Harry Connor was unusually good 1n the character of Welland Strong, the man with one foot in the grave, and MissSadie McDonald as Flirt, Mrs. Guyer's French maid, was an excellent portrayal of that character. George Beane was very ac- ceptable as Ben Gay, and the other characters were sustained by members of Hoyt’s com- any, who have helped to mak Thatls claimed for it e s PROMIBITION TALK BUT NOT DAY, John G. Woolley's Eloquent Address at Metropoli- tan Temple. WIT, HUMOR AND SATIRE Christian Citizenship Defined by the Great Temperance Orator. STIRRING WORDS OF FAITH. Church People Taken Sharply to Task for Their Alleged Ine consistencies. Though the keynote of the talk of John G. Woolley last night at Metropolitan Hall was upon prohibition, there was not a dry period in his two hours’ discourse. He proved himself a clever master, not only of his subject but of the English lanpuage. When he was not witty or humorous he was scathingly satirical or beseechingly eloguent, and he even made silence impressively answer his needs when he spoke of the crack of a rifle being heard for thousands of yards and silence making itself manifest even to incalcul- able distances, and then dramatically pausing to make his point manifest. He has a distinct Yankee accent which comes out sharply in his pronunciation of “neow,” and his unusual vocabulary of polite English is brought by the use of slang in appropriate places as a clever foil. Dr. Dille in introducing the speaker of the evening said the banner borne by Finch, Fisk and Yough had now fallen into equally noble hands. He compared Mr. Woolley’s part in prohibition to that of Wendell Phillips in emancipation. Mr. Woolley dived right into the heart of his subject, which was ‘‘Christian Citizenship." He «tated that the liquor traffic had to die before any great moral reform could be accomplished. “‘There are good people,” he said, ‘‘even now who would apologize for human slavery, but there is no one prepared to stand up for the liquor traffic. This traffic,” “he continued, “will continue so long as the powers in authority grant the right to engage in it for so much here and a little more there, according to the sup- posed value of what the bribe should he to permit of public morals being debauched, “Power,” he declared, ‘“‘was what was needed and this will come only when you have the spirit of the Holy Ghost with you. This will give you Christian citizen- ship. You will not get Christian citizen- ship when the Republicans again resume the reins of Government, you will not get 1t when the Democrats tarn the Republi- can rascals out. Oh, no. Necr will you get it when the Probibition party secures con- trol of the Government. It will only come as I said, whben you have the spiriv of the Holy Ghost.” A license law he defined asa drop of prohibition in an ocean of permission and said that this team of truth and falsehood was as awkward a one as was ever hitched u . Township prohibition he denounced as a selfish thing, as it allowed the liquor traffic to flourish everywhere else without any attempt to check or eradicate it. “*Ninety-five to ninety-eight per cent of the Christians,” he said, ‘‘were trying to ride the two horses of prohitition-religion and license-politics at the same time, “Whenever the Christian veter begins to use his power as well as to feel it,” he announced,” he will make things hum po- litically. 1 don’t expect that the prohibi- tory party will win as it is now organized. The measure of the power of the church in this cause is best testified to by the num- ber of ballots it casts. “When it comes to voting the politician does not care whether you are a Baptist or & bum, whether you are gifted in elo- | quence or fluent in profanity, whether you | teach a Sunday-school or run a farobank.” | He admonished his hearers and church people generally not to pay heed to what the effect of voting for the probibition of the liquor traffic would have, or any of the political parties, but to vote as they felt they were called upon to do by God. Continuing he said: “The time has come when a Christian must be as true to the church as the liquor man is to the saloon. Ido not mean to ask you to vote the Prohibition ticket, but I want you to vote for a party that will bring about what we desire, and if there is no party for you to vote with let us make one. ‘It is none of your business what your neighbers do—you must vote in the way you know to be right. “‘When a great church meets and says it is going out of dirty politics it should zo out of dirty politics, yet nine-tenths of the church-goers go to the polls and vote the | Republican or Democratic tickets, while | they entirely ignore the question of the liquor traffic.” n an assumed tone of congratulation he said: “I am glad to be able to say that as much as 20 per cent of the Christian min- isters had clean hands in this matter, which is 18 per cent more than the church® going layman can show. It is simply a case of piousinsolvency trying to fight the solvent and united liquor traffic. . ““There are 6,000,000 Christian men who walk straight before God 364 days in the year, but on the three hundred and sixty- fifth they turn their backs on God, that he may be crowned with thorns by the dirt; politicians, and the politician cannot teil the difference between the Christian man and the saloon-keeper on election day.” At the conclusion of his address Judge Thompson spoke a few words exhorting those who called themselves Christians to be consistent and vote as they pray, bnt if they couldr’t do this then he begged them instead of praying to close the saloons and voting to keep them open, to pray to keep them open and vote to keep them closed. Restaurant Employes. The Fraternity of Hotel and Restaurant Employes met last night at the Turk-street Teraple, B. Kreger in the chair. The ball committee through its chairman, C. E. Getz, rteported progress. 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