The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 4, 1896, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1896 Editor and Proprietor. &'BSCRIP?I&N RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sun: Daily and Sund THE SUMMER MONTH: Are you going 1o the Country ona va #0, it is no trouble for us to forward THE C your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders givem o the carrier Or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, 1 Fateppone s o, O win—1808 | to be desired. By having these things a e city makes itself a desirable place of EpixoRisL R"_O“S: residence. By making itself a de- PP B1% Cluy SICEh Maim—1874 | sirable place of residence it attracts people. As a city without people would be a comical affair, so a city that 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until [E o'clock. 9 Hayes street; open 7 Larkin street: open &W . corner Sixteenth and Mis until 8 o'clock. 518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. open until § o'clock. 113 Ninth street OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 34 Park Row, New York City. ld Democrat must either dodge, e down. Dunham'’s whereabouts may be safely 1 to be in Quien Sabe Valley. After this year Democracy will join Jackson in the grave and stay with him, gest straddle in sight is the e the Cuban ee silver men will never pull the chest- of the fire for any such ape as racy is. Municipal economy and public improve- ment can be made a well-matched team if ght. are handled The Academy of Sciences knows many more than the average citizer, but pot much more about raising an income. | no occasion to make any such charge =i even if it were in part true. The money al Democ think they are | wouid be wasted, if so appropriated, ng i ¢ it is a sure thing they | mainly because there is no scientific plan > pie for their fighting this year. | in pursuance of which to expend it. rm boom on ice until 1900, s a fin de ill never cease to issue of every National turned down again, ness enables bim to ig in that position as d and his party is getting large enough d the carcasses of both, sq the coun- needn’t next municipal election the peo- te for men who are not only s, but can be relied 1 accept tlie Democratic ation it would be the would never have any- movement in the to start a boom ate in the party had h to launch one. v officials show themselves capable of making better use of the rev- enues already raised the people will never avor an increase of taxation for any pur- ) enocugh I'he National election 1l probably end very much like that in Oregon, with the Republicans victorio the Populists owing gains and the Democrats dis- 1ced. g a reward for the capture of a derer has the defect of offering an in- ment to tae officials to wait when the next murder takes place for another re- 1 to be oftered. There is an opportunity now for men of ns to show their publicspirit and their re for the advancement of learning by giving the Academy of Sciences the glad hand of a generous heip. of In kicking Gorman out with one foot land platform the Maryviand Democ- bas succeeded in cutting the most ex- ordinary caper of the campaign. v a Cleveland official who thinks h if safe under civil service rules will be caught in offensive partisanship this summer and be yanked from cover when the time comes to turn the fools out. The festival of the Golden Gate will not be a carnival and should not be advertised ssuch or people outside the State may get the idea it is to be held next spring, and so neglect to make arrangements to come and see it this fall. The presence of the coming Republican National Convention will not wholly com- pensate St. Louls for the damage wrought by the recent cyclone, but it will go far to cheer her people by the stimulating assur- ance of the coming of prosperity. The talk of a commission to take the tariff out of politics is jnst a little bit pre- mature. The yote of the people in Novem- ber will remove it from politics for the rest of the lifetime of this generation, and even after that it will be dangerous for a free-trader to mon Major McLaughlin has done his work wellin the appointment of the sub-com- mittees of the Executive Committee, and the general satisfaction with which it has been received gives assurance that the whole party will work in harmony during the campaign and exert every energy to achieve victory 1n all sections of the State. In 1892, when the United States market was protectea for home producers, there was a deficit in the British budget of over $250,000 and a surplus ‘revenue in tkis country of more than $9,000,000, while under the Democratic tariff this year the British have a surplus of $21,000,000 and we have a deficit that will exceed $25,000,- 000. 1Isitany wonder the American work- Ingman is eager to twrn the fools out? % | believed to have decided to | siecle move- | “ MUNIOIPAL IMPROVEMENTS.” 1t may be laid down as a proposition im- possible of refutation that what is lightly termed “municipal improve- ments”” by manv careless thinkers in this City is the most momentous prob- Jem that can confront any commun- ity. The idea that all the people need do in order to secure beautifully paved streets, perennially green parks, clean and sweet-smelling sewers and the other things which make life in a city s jocund affair, is to appropriate a large sum of money to the various City Hall funds, is unworthy any ma- ture ‘mind. Indeed, it is probably a proposition almost as irrefutable as the one first stated that a good way not to get the blessings referred to is to ap- propriate a large sum of monev without ascertaining in advance exactly how it is going to be spent. Municipal improvement in the sense of clean, well-paved streets, perfect sewers and be autiful parks is undoubtedly-much has a great many people 1s a serious affair- In short, cities are made up of people, and those cities are the healthiest, the great- est and the richest which by affording fine *‘municipal improvements” induce the largest number of people to live in them. There are other reasons for the assertion that a good system of “‘municipal improve- ments’’ ought to be and always is the aim of every civilized community; but the single reason that common prudence and a regard for the welfare of its citizens dictate at every commuuity should give its first attention to those things is sufficient. And this brings us to the point, viz.: Can San Francisco boast of a good system of public improve- ments? Are her streets well paved, are her sewers clean, and do her parks all bask in the beautiful green of our continual summer? The answer is, of course, No. | What, then, shall be done to bring about the municipal millennium upon which those who talk loosely of “improvements”’ are so fond of descanting? Itis not difficult to imagine that the political clubs will shout, with one voic *‘Give us the money and we will arrange | the matter for you instantl And no doubt they would. Ten millions in gold | would not repave the accepted streets were | the work left to the City Hall and politi- cal clubs. Twice ten millions would not | { provide the City with a sewer system if the workmen were to come from the satme quarter. Nor would this be because all the men at the City Hall and in the political clubs are dishonest. There is 1t is not too much to say that until such | a plan is drawn and submitted to the peo- | ple as a basis for future operations, not { one single dollar, except the few that are | necessary to keep the streets passable and the sewers open, should be appropriated. To attack the accepted streets on any other basis than complete regeneration is idle; to attempt to repair sewers which | were never built in accordance with a s tem is a waste of time and money. Baut, it may be asked, How are the people of San Francisco to secure a plan of “‘municipal improvements’” upon which it 11 be safe to ‘risk some of their money? The source from which plans must be devised is, of course, the Board of Supervisors. When it is consid- ered that the accepred streets and sewers cannot go much longer without causinz a mutiny in this City, and also that the Supervisors who are to be elected this year may be finally compelled to under- take a plan of municipal improvement the importance to the taxpayers of Jook- ing after that arm of the City government becomes readily apparent. In fact, there is nothing more important to this City in the coming election than the personnel of the next Board of Supervisors. LEE IN CUBA. Qur new Consul-General to Cuba, Fitz- hugh Lee, has reached Havana, and no doubt we shall know the exact state of affairs on the istand in the near future. He goes with permission from Spain to pass through Weyler’s lines and visit the insurgents at their headquarters. General Lee is himself an old soldier, and hence it would be very foolish of the Spanish au- thorities to attempt to misrepresent the situation to him. It is understood his mission to the rebel camp is to ascertain what the insurgents are relying upon in the way of men and arms to accomplish their purpose, and also to see if they have made or are likely to make enough prog- ress in the direction of establishiag a re- public to warrant President Cleveland in according them belligerent rights. Undoubtedly General Lee is personally in sympathy with the insurgents, but that will not close his eyes to the facts as they are, and when his report is received we may rely upon it that it is correct in every particular. Weyler, it is said, does not rel- ishthe idea of a trained soldier, one who has had a military education, having the freedom of both camps, but if he has not been lying all this time about the sit- | uation, he need not fear anything; but if he has, Consul-General Lee will know it, and so report to the Washington Govern- ment. OLEVELAND TURNED DOWN. In passing the river and harbor bill over the President’s veto, Congress not only saved the country from bhaving great in- justice done to its vast commerce, but it administered a well-deserved. rebuke to Mr. Cleveland. The veto message was more like an after-prayer talk of a coun- try schoolteacher to a class of stupid boys than a state paper; .besides Congress knows better than Mr. Cleveland knows what the country needs, and he presumes when be tells the direct representatives of the people that he is the sole guardian of their constituents. Of the 280 Congressman voting only 60 sustain the veto, and no doubt they are heartily ashamed by this time of their effort to cripple the country’s trade and traffic. It is significant that orfly one Pop- ulist voted for the bill, but it is not sur- prising that a Jarge following of Demo- crats voted forit, for whatever else may be said, there are some Democrats in Con- gress who aiways have an eye single to the good of the materidl welfare of the people, and who have the courage to vote right, whether it is for or against the President. But the bill is now a law, and the work of improving the country’s waterways and harbors should be pushed as rapidly as possible. The portion of the appropria- tion that is designated for California is liberal enough to undertake the work on a large scale, for of course the next Con- gress and White House occupant will be leartily in sympathy with the policy of internal improvements; and hence subse- quent appropriations can be relied upon. | Passing the bill over she vetoisa great victory for the commerce of California, and the whole country too, the more so because it affirms a National policy that will stand for many years to come. And last, though not least, Cleveland is turned down to stay down. WELL DONE, ST. LOUIS. The promptness with which the munici- pal government and the wealthier citizens of St. Louis have set about the task of pre- viding relief for those who sufiered by the recent cyclone is one of those evidences of American generosity and American energy of which, as a nation and as a people, we may be justly proud. Meeting the technicality of the law that the revenues of the city can be expended only for work done for the public benefit, the Municipal Assembly of St. Louis has voted $100,000 to be expended among the cyclone sufferers ‘‘for such service as it is in their power to render.” To the fund thus provided by the city itself large addi- tions have been made by generous men and women. The gifts of these amounted on Tuesday evening to the noble sum of $129,000. Not allof this was given by what are known as capitalists. The poor vied with the rich, the workingman with the millionaire, in making these donations which were to carry help where help is most needed in the stricken city. A feature of the relief work that deserves special mention is the determination of a | number of capitalists. to raise a fund of $250,000 to lend to those whose homes have been destroyed in order that they may raise them again without borrowing money at ruinous rates of interest. The proposal is to lend the needed sums to home-build- ers for twelve months without interest and after thattime at low rates. While this relief will go, of course, to those who are comparatively well to do, it will none the less be a most charitable and generous work. It will enable many a family to save the home that might otherwise be lost, and thus remain in the class of home- owning families of which every American city is proud. St. Louis has iseued no call for aid to her sister cities. Her people have undertaken to provide all the rehef their neighbors need. They have set themselves to the task of proving their city superior to the hard fortune that has fallen upon her and | in this way have shown that genuine American spirit of self-help and inde- vendence, It is pleasing tonote, however, that while this spirit has been duly hon- | ored everywhere it bas not been left to grapple with the calamity unaided. From all parts of the country generous contribu- tions have been sent to the relief fund. Chicago has been prompt to return to St. Louis something of the help St. Louis gave to Chicago at the time of the great fire. Men of wealth in other cities have also shown their sympathy by extending help, although help was not solicited, and there seems every assurance that all which kind hea come the disaster of the great storm will be done without dela BRITISH PROTECTION. Great Britain may be on a “‘free trade” basil so far as custom-house duties are concerned, but no nation extends as much protection to the business of ocean trans- | portation as she does. policies, and how well it pays may be seen in the thousands of water craft flying the Bntish flag. A pretty good idea of Engiand’s protec- tion policy may be gathered from the an- nual subsidy granted to the British Trans- | atlantic steamship line which connects with the eastern terminus of the Canadian Pacific for Europe, and to the Pacific line which connects with the western terminus | for Asia and the more importantislands ot the Pacific Ocean. Four new steamships are about ready to enter the Atlantic trade. They are to cost $6,000,000, or $1,500,000 each, and will be the equal in every way of the best of the ships now running between New York and Europe. But the interesting featureis that England guarantees an annual subsidy to these four ships equal to 20 per cent of their cost. The American line of steamships run- ning between New York and Southampton include four vessels costing substantially the same as those connecting with the Canadian Pacific, but they receive only $624,000 a year for carrying a weekly mail, which is about one-haif the amount of the subsidy of the Britishers. This explains why the English merchant marine pene- trates every harbor in the world. Itis protection to English ships to reach the same end for which we protect our indus- tries, viz.: to shut out destructive compe- tition. Thus it will be seen free-trade England gives about twice as much protection to ship-building and to ships in service as the United Statesdoes, and if England cap grow rich with such a policy, surely this coun- try should profit by the example. But that is not all. Whenever it is possible British subsidized vessels are required to make an English port the destination or initial point, so that English merchants may get a whack, so to speak, at the busi- ness. If San Francisco had a subsidized merchant marine sailing to and from the trade centers of the Orient and intermedi- ate islands, how lopg would it be before we had a population of 1,000,000 and a volume of business second only to New York? With our rivers and harbors put in proper trim and a well-protected ocean transpor- tation aervice, California would soon be an empire in herself. NEARING THE END. Chairman Harrity of the Democratic Nstional Committee declares that Demo- crats everywhuere must stand by the plat- form and nominees of the Chicago Conven- tion in any event. Senators Brice, Hiil and other leaders are saying the same thing, butevery one of them stultifies him- self when he asks the rank and file to sup- port a silverite. The gold Democrats have been declaring right along that no man could be a consistent Democrat and favor the remonetization of silver, except by in- ternational agreement, and they are right, for free trade arnd a single standard of re- demption money are twins, albeit they be twin economic monstrosities, It is conceded by the leaders of the party that the silver wing will be in the majority at Chicago, and that Cleveland and bis gold standard following will be severely rebuked for their alleged depar- ture from the faith; but it icthe silverites and not the Clevelandites who have run off after strange gods, and to follow them or countenance their work would be to give the lie to their own (the Cleveland- ites’) declaration of principles. Not only 80, but the goldites are human beings, and no self-respecting human being would bow in humble submission to the au- thority of men who had been denouncing him as a traitor, especially to such little fellows as Bryan, Altgeld and Tillman, In conceding that the silverites will con- trol the convention the goldites in effect declare that they will not support the ticket, Harrity, Brice and Hill to the con- trary notwithstanding. It would be a great deal more consistent for them to work for the most humilitating overthrow possible of the silverites than to give the rts and generous hands can do to over- | Maritime protec- | tion is one of England's chief economic | most indirect indorsement of the conven- tion’s work. As for Cleveland himself he could not afford to let the Boies or Bland following triumph, nor will he let them. He 15 either a true exponent of Democratic principles or he is a Benedict Arnold to his party, and rather than be branded a traitor, which indorsement of the phicagc platform and nominees by the peopie would amount to, he would and should use his influence secretly or otherwise to make a Republican victory doubly sure. The Democratic party is divided into two factions and the factions have come to the parting of the ways. In times past there have been splits and fights, but there would be a general wheeling into line after the nominations had been made, but now there is disagreement over the fundamental principles of the party, and oue side or the other must renounce its everlasting destruction. The guestion, then, is, Will the Cleveland following admit that they have been wrong all the time, and willingly become pupils at the feet of Bryan, Tillman and Company? Will the Bryan - Tillman faction, while hold- ing the majority of the delegates to the Chicago convention in its whip hand, beg to be permitted to serve under the Cleve- land flag? -Neither side is made of that kind of stuff. The destruction of the Democratic party is complete and thor- ough. The better element wili go over to the Republican party, and the Bryans and Altgelds will join hands with the Popu- lists. The end of the Democratic party is at hand. | IT STILL MOVES ON. | SR Say your say an’ sing your song— Country’s movin’ right along; Spriug or summer, hail or snOW, Country’s always on the go! Say your say by night an’ day— ountry’s happy on the way; Spite o weatuer, spite o’ crops, Always goin'—never stops! Stormy skies or weatner fair. ‘ountry’s got Lhe road way clear; Storms may how! and beils may chime— Country’s goin’ all the time. —Adanta Constitution. PERSONAL. £. Nash of San Juan is on a visit here. Mannon of Ukiah arrived here yester- | Dr.D. | 3 | day. | T.C.RBerry,a mining man of Sonoma, has | arrived here. A.J. McGowan, an attorney of Carson, Nev., | is inthe € James H. Falconer, a business man of Seat- tle, is in town. Charles T. Orr, a business man of St. Louis, is at the Occidental. Poter Kirk, an extensive land-ownsr of Se- attle, is at the Russ. W. E. Rogers, owner of the Amelie mine at Amelie, is at the Lick. Hiram C. Pierce, the Santa Barbara lumber- dealer, is at the Pleasanton with his wife. l Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- | tan Hotel is Professor Keller of Marysville. C. F. McGlashan, long owner of the Truckee Republican, is among the arrivals at the ltuss. A. G. Hart, & leading and wealthy resident of Salt Lake City, is among the arrivals at the John D. Brophy of Cleveland and a party of friends are among the arrivals at the Occi- dental. J. A. Dunnett, one of the international sec- | retaries of the Y. M. C. A., is a guest at the Ramona. Professor D. E. Spencer of Stanford Univer- sify, hias taken rooms at the Ramona during b¥s vacation. The Rev. Dr. Hemphill of the Calvary Pres- byterian church will leave early next week for Europe on & vacation trip. O.R. French and C. H. Hale, prominent business men of Portland, Or., are registered | st the Cosmopolitan Hotel. | Dr. J. Callandreau will leave the City on the 17th inst. for a three months’ stay in Paris and other European cities to study interesting cases in the hospitals. J. B. Taketo, the Japanese electrician, who has been making & tour of inspection tarough the Eastern States, is a guest at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel. He ledves for Japan on the next steamer. Ex-Judge L. E. Payson, who'is practicing lawin Washington, D. C., and who has been coming to California once or twice & year for several years, is at the Palace. He is here in | connection with legal business. Mrs. C. Boettcher, wife of Charies Boettcher, formerly a pioneer of Boulder and afterward of Leadyille, but who for some years has been extensively engaged in business in Denver, is at the Occidental accompanied by her chil- | dren. Ex-President Barillas of Guatemala left here | yesterday accompanied by his family for a few few days’ stay at Mouterey. When they re- | turn they will occupy their residence, on Cali- fornia street, which for some weeks past has been undergoing & rejuvenating process and being refitted and furnished. ———————— | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. EW YORK, Y., June 3.—At the Imperial, 8. J. Hendy; Murray Hill, G. Kahrs, G. Walters; sailed per sieamer St. Louis for Southampton, Dr. Norman Bridge, Mrs. MacM. Bridge, Mrs. Clara B. Baker, William Henry Campbell, Mrs. Campbell, Miss Violet Campbell and maid, Mrs. James Clark, Mrs. Clark, C. P. Dickinson, Mrs. Dickinson, child and maid, George Gri- maux, 8. M. Goodsal, Mrs. William T. Reed, Mies Julia Reed, C. B. Thompson, Misses Wil son, John T. Wright, Mrs. Wright, Miss Mary Wright, Ray B. Wheeler, ADJUSTABLE BRETELLES. A very effective arrangement for making a plain waist dressy is shown here. Itisone of the newest accessories, and is made with a point in the back, and in these examples the straps extend to the waist line only or below as shown in the illustration, Embroidered bands of flax-colored batiste, with ruffles to match, make a charming trim- ming, suitable to wear with waist of silk, wool or_cotton fabrics. is pretty to wear with White embrofde wash dresses. Bands of lace insertion, efther black or white, over 1ibbom the same widin very pretty wit waist. Black chiffon with .p;uque designs or lace braid is used, with & stay of silk or rivbon under the flat band. Plain black chiffon rufiies with a band of the same over silk and studded with spangles is very effective for silk or handsome wool waists. - The short ruffle is set on a cap-shaped pieco at the shoulder, the upper one_being stitched to the bands. 'Both the V and the long back patterns are included. Horace Boles is said to be a very abstemious man who never touches whisky, beer or to- bacco. He is frugal, too, and never wears a suit of clothes that costs more than $30. He has a fortune of from $200,000 to 300,000, partof which is invested in a farm of 2500 ‘acres. Heis & man of fine physique and is usually in robust health, faith and doctrive or Jet the party £o to |- | M USIC & MUSICIANS 7777 \,‘.‘, NSNS SN2 The following is a bit of -ancient history which classical scholars are remembering in connection with the “Hymn to Apollo,” two fragments of which have been discovered within the last two years at Delphos: Socrates has been condemned to death &s a revolution- ary, the doctrineson philosophy and religion which he haa been teaching in the gardens of Athens before Plato and his other disciples being at that epoch cousidered destructive of all authority. The execution of his sentence was retarded a few days 1o prevent it coineid- ing with the fete of Apollo, and according to the law criminals could not drink the fatal hemlock till the rites were ended. Socrates profited by the respite to composen his prison the words and music of a hymn to the god of theday. This is explained in the Phedon, the celebrated dialogue between the condemned maa and his disciples, attributed to Plato. In the interview Cerbes, one of the discipies of the Athenian philosopher, questions him respecting his work, Socrates never having written either verses or music before. The philosopher replies that for a long time he had been haunted by apparitions which continu- ally said, “Socrates, study music.” Having only a few hours to live he hes at last decided to obey, and Apollo being the god of the day, whose festival has retarded his death, itisin honor of the son of Jupiter that he has written the words and music of his poem. On this basis it is now pretended that the “Hymn to Apollo” recently performed at Athensand at Paris is the work of Socrates. The hypothesis is certainly attractive. Lamertine in his poem on the greatest philosopher of antiquity makes Socrates say: ‘‘Je suisun cygne aussi, Je meurs, je puis chanter” (I also am a swan, and in dying I can sing), but Lamertine never guessed that the people of the end of the nine- teenth cemtury would pretend to have found the swan’s song. At the Costanzi Theater in Rome thefirst performance has just been given of & mew opera by a young composer quite unknown as a writer for the stage, named Giacomo Setac- cioli. The work, which is called “The Bister of Marck,” is written to a libretto by Gemma Bellincioni, the well-known prima donna, and a trial performance of it was given some months ago ather villa, “The Sister of Marck” has made & great hit in Rome, the composer receiving no less than twenty recalls. The Roman paper L'Italie gives the following ac- count of the new composer: ‘“When very Carpenter” and “Undine” have all been played for the last half century and hitherto have not brought a cent to the composer’s poverty-stricken daughter. When Signor Foli, the famous basso, said, in a recent interview, published in THE CALL, that San Francisco is still in the woods, mu- sleally speaking, the local musiejans treated the remark as a petulant little ebullition on the part of a man who had been pampered by success and who was talking on asubject on which he was not well informed. Great was their surprise, therefore, when an alleged eritie came heroically out and confessed that he himself was in the woods. In a letter pub- lisbed in & morning contemporary this al- leged critic confesses his ignorance on mat- ters operatic with such refreshing candor that one cannot arrive at any other con- clusion. “Imade researches,” he says, ‘“to find out what sort of a reputation Mr. Foli really en- joys in the musical world, because I confess Inever came across the name of this novel detractor of ours. I then consulted some European artists who have trodden the oper- atic stages of Europe and America for the last fifty years, but none recollect the name of Foli or Folly in connection with operatic events. We have to conclude that Mr. Foli enjoys & rather ambiguous fame. He may have taken afew lessons in Milan, but he never saw the color of an Italian operatic stage, nor the footlights of the Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, St. Petersburg or Brussels theaters; therefore he must be an unimportant oratorio singer of unostentatious local fame.’” Confession is good for the soul and the naivete of the alleged critic’s confession of ig- norance respecting & man who for a quarter of a century was one of the world's greatest operatic singers is positively delicious. It must have required courage to come out and say such things under one’s own signature. Not to know & man like Foli argues a deplora- ble degree of ignorance respecting operatic matters, but perhaps the alleged critic was smitten with remorse for his frequent pretefl- sions when he read the interview in THE CALL and determined to amend the error of hisways by confessing publicly that he at least served the strictures made by the basso. In order to enlighten the ignorance of the al- leged critic and his “‘Europesn artist” iriends it may be stated that few works on contempo- Gemma Bellincioni, the Prima Donna Who Discovered a Young Composer, and Wrote a Libretto for Him. p [From a photograph by Bragi of Florence.] young he obtained a diploma as a flutist and played in an orchestra. He also gave concerts with success, and for some years hasheld a distinguished place as an instrumentalist, though he never ceased to study composition ardently, Indeed, as soon as he was assured of his daily bread he devoted every available mo- ment to it under the direction of De Sanctis. He dreamed of opera, but in awaiting his chance he wrote little songs which have be- come very popular. From the outset his songs atttracted attention. Bellincioni and the tenor Stagno were among those who admired them, and having made the acquaintance of the composer, and heard more of his work, they charged him to write an opera for them. When & Young composer uses Nno money, no pufling, no inutrigue to bring himseli before the public, there must be real merit in him. Artists like Stagno and Bellincioni do not grow enthusiastic for nothing.” *‘The Sister of Marck” was interpreted in Rome by Bellincioni and Stagno, supported by other celebrated artists, The French tenor, Michot, wlo recently died, had one of those checkered careers that are 50 often found in the history of lyrie ar- tists. Born at Lyons, he began singing when quite a youth in a low music hall, namea the Cafe Moka. Adolph Adam was told of his fine voice, and sending for him was so impressed by his organ that he engaged him for the Theater Lyrique, where he made his debut in 1856 in *Richard Cceur de Lion.” Michot never had any musical education, but to a de- licious voice be joined a certain natural sen- timent for music. Unfortunately his appear- ance was hopelessly vulgar and common place, but in spite of this he obtained such success that at the Grand Opera-house, Paris, Gounod selected him to create the role of Romeo on the first production of “Romeo and Juliet.” In 1371 he became such a rabid propagandist for the Commune that he was imprisoned at Versailles,and after his release was never able to make any headway in big theaters, His appearance at the Grand Theater, Marseilles, gave rise to almost a riot; his voice, too, be- gan to abandon him, and he had no artistic training to hide its increasing defects. He was therefore forced to sing in little provin- cial theaters, and finally retired from public view altogether. For the last few years Mi- chot was almost blind. The German theaters, following the initiative of the Berlin Opera-house, have been giving grand revivals to celebrate the jubilee of *‘The Armorer” (Der Waffenschmied), by Lort- zing, which was played for the first timein Vienna the 30th of May, 1846, and which has been ever since in the revertoires of most of the German opera-houses. The receipts of the jubilee performances will be given to the daughter of the composer, who has been living in great poverty in Vienna while her father's works continued to emrich the German thes ters. At the epooh™when Lortzing produced his best works there was no law in Germany io protect author’s works, and in Austria the first law of the kind was introduced in 1846, after the first performance of “The Armorer,” and it had no retrospective effect. Lortzing, who died in 1851, cbtained no profit from his operas. “The Armorer,” “The Czar and the rary singers and musicians omit mention.of Foli. Even the humble song folios give his biography. This is what that standard work, Sir George Grove's musi¢al dictionary, has to say on the subject: Foli, Signor, whose real name is Allen James Foley, was born at Cahir, Tipperary, and in early life went to America. He was taughtsing- ing at Naples by the elder Bisaccia (father of | Gennaro Bisaccia, the pianist), and in Decem- ber, 1862, he made his debut at Catania as El- miro in “Otello.” He played successively at Turin, Modena, Miian, and in 1864 at the Italiens, Paris. On June 17, 1865, Signor Foli made & successiul debut at Her Majesty’s as St. Bris (Huguenots); on July 6,as the second priest on the revival of ‘‘Zauberflote,” and on October 28 as the hermit in “Der Freischutz.” From that time he has sung frequently in Ital- ian and the three “patent” theatersin upwards of 600 operas, Viz., as Sarasteo, Commendatore, Marcel, Casoar, Mephistopheles, Sparafucile, Basilio, Arsur and Oreo (Semiramide), Rudolfo (Sonnambula), Bide the Bent (Lucis), Bertram and Daland on the production of “Der Flie- gende Hollander,” at Drury Lane, July 23, 1870, etc., in addition to the parts previously named, in which his fine voice—a rich, power- ful bass of more than two octaves from E below the line to F—has been heard to fuil advantage. Signor Foli is equally well known as an ora- torio and concert singer atall the important festivals. He made his first appearance at the former on April 25, 1866, in “Israel,” at the Natignal Choral Society, but his success was on February 22, 1867, in ‘“The Creation,” at sthe sacred harmonie. His new parts in this class include Jacob, on the production of Mac- farren’s “Joseph,” at the Leeds festival, Sep- tember 21, 1877, and Herod, on the produc- tion of Berlioz’ “L’Enfance du Christ,” under Halle at Manchester, December 30, 1880, and in London, February 26, 1881. He has played in America, at St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vienna, ete. In Brussels be made a conspicuous suc- cess as Casper Moses (which part he has sung with success at the sacred harmonie) and as Pietro in ‘‘Masaniello.”” And an alleged critic comes out and says under his own signature, “I never heard of Foli"—but if San Francisco has a few alleged musicians still in the woods the City is not to blame for that. The alleged critie’s early edu- cation must have been neglected. — ALONG THE SKIRMISH LINE. 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