The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 18, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sundsy CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 | Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 | Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 | Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 | Bunday CALL, one year, by mail. 2.50 | WERKLY CALL, one year, by mail. 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou going to the country ona vacation ? 1f 46, 1t is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTKA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, Ean Francisco, California. Telephone.. reeerneeeens. MaID—186 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone... ...Main--1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 30 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 4:30 o’clock. = 339 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street: open until 8:30 o'clock. BW . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wntil 9 o'clock. : 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 118 Minth street; open until 8 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City- DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. 18, 1896 1HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. See the Venetian festival. St. Louis. There is no hurry at The Junta pressed the button and Gould did the rest. All that Daggett feels the need of now is a larger hat. When it is called a Gould victory the Federal brigade smiles. Itis evident that Manager Hannadoesn’t believe in railroading things. The Buckleyites won’t bolt, they can’t. They are cornered. because Buckley’s retirement from politics kas now something compuisory about it. | Thurston’s speech touchea the right chord and awoke & responsive harmony. Cleveland’s letter was evidently intended merely asan expression of his tired feel- ine. The memory of the famous Stockton convention will be invoked by Democrats no more. Now that the Buckleyites are in a hole the thing that grinds them most is that Daggett dug it. As the populous East is not yet ready for the money question we of the West must perforce let it wait. The Buckleyites found to their sorrow that those who take front seats early are liable to be bounced. We may now look for Rainey, Daggett and McNab to give the razzle dazzle by way of a ratification. After the political fretting of the week the Santa Cruz frolic will be the very thing to recreate the State. No one can complain that the St. Louis convention did not give time and oppor- tunity for a full hearing. Protection will establish itself this year, and then will come the campaign of edu- cation on the money question. There is even some talk of Texas going Republican this year just to show a fellow- feeling with the rest of the Union. There are some things which can be learned from words, but the glory of Santa Cruz in her festal array must be seen. If Daggett had only known Low easily he could do it, he wouldn’t have strained himself so much for the last three weeks. It is pleasanter to bein Santa Cruz and read of the conventions than to be in the convention cities and read about the fes- tival. About the only prominent Democrat who could be relied on 1o carry his own State as a Presidential candidate is Sena- tor Tillman. | There may be some people with ]eisure\ enough to read the Sacramento platform, but those who do will regard it merely as killing time. The eloquence of to-day at St. Louis will be re-echoed through the country until the voice of the people responds on election day. The Sacramento convention virtually decided there is no Democracy in this City except the Federal brigade, and’ it wasn't far wrong. 1 Itis evident that Daggett has known how to coin in the Mint some arguments, that are very effective in convincing the | average Democrat. | Our special train to Sacramento broke the speed record to that city, but it kept up the record of THE CALL, and that was what it was designed to do. The early morning service of THE CaLn in Sacramento is legitimate journalism, and shows what can be done by enterprise that does not devote itself to fakes. Mark Hanna may not be much of a politician, but he understands the busi- ness needs of the country, and knows how | to deal with them in a business way. CEIT DS Democracy has done about all the fighting it can do in this campaign, and we may now expect it to keep guiet and avoid disturbing the Republican music. Most of the Democratic bosses who are now denouncing Bnckley were hi$ hench- men once and learned in his service the very tricks by which they have downed him, The test of reporting the two conven- tions and distributing the news early shows that TaE CALL, without resorting to fakes, padcing or sensations, manages to give the public better service and more genuine news than any of its rivals. A fewx extreme silver men may bolt the Republican party in this campaign, but the great mass of bimetallists will stay with it. There is certainly no hope for bi- metallism anywhere else. One must keep | in the road if he expects to reach his des- tination. To take to the woods now is to, be lost. 1 | lations WHY SHOULD THEY BOLT? No doubt there is talk in spots of bolt- ine the St. Louis ticket. There never was a convention of a political party that did not have to listen to threats of bolting. 1t 1s the disappointed man’s refuge. There are always men who see nothing but de- feat for any enterprise that is not built | upon lines. of their planning. There never was a religious association, a horse-racing ¢lub or a political or- ganization that did not have its bolters, but they do not always bolt. They gener- ally have some one handy to hold ihem back, and if one escapes he 1s found wandering about in political camps and longing for the association and flesh-pots of his own party. When the novelty of bolting is worn off the bolter feels home- sick, the more so when he finds that the party continues to do business at the old stand and that very tew of his old political associates have any recollection of his ever belonging to it. man when out in the ocean to start for the shore on foot simply because the officers and crew of the boat do not sail her quite to his liking. The Republican party is composed of very sensible people, and sensible people are never bolters. Without a doubt a goodly number of Republicans are dis- appointed at some of the work of the St. Louis convention, but that was to be ex- pected. The declarations of the con- vention deal with the United States as a whole, and they are intended to work in an equalizing way, 80 to speak, so that every business interest and individual may reap the richest possi- ble harvest without depriving others of their rights. It is an impossible task to adjust a system of government to all the needs of every locality, but thé¢ St. Louis platform stands for the next best thing, which is the advancement of all communi- ties upon the strongest possible lines. It is selfish in a community to want to go ahead at the expense of its neighbors. The growth of wealth in a country like ours shoyld be in a way that every corner of it wouid participate in its distribution. Such a course does not per- mit Peter to be robbed to pay Paul. The foundation of the Republican party’s policy of government is the betterment of the ways of property accumulation for the individual, but there are 70,000,000 people to be benefited, and the purpose o1 the party is to equalize opportunity so that one may not accumulate at the ex- pense of another. The most striking and most perfect system of reciprocal trade re- the world ever saw is that between the people of the United States under protective tariff laws, for it leaves less than 5 per cent of the entire business | transactions of the people to be done with other nations. If thereis a holeanywhere in such a system of trade and traffic .through which a bolter would like to creep, why, let him creep, but there is no | reason under the shining sun why he should want to. THURSTON PLEDGES THE PARTY. The speech of Chairman John M. Thurs- ion was a string of polished sentences woven into groups by masterly oratory. Tts theme was patriotism, and its purpose the cementing of every American interest ! in harmonious relation, the one to the other, under the protecting care of the mighty principlesof the Republican party. In the name of the Republican party the | convention’s chairman promised to give the people of the United Statesa govern- ment that shall strengthen the hands of every business enterprise. Mill, factory and furnace shall resume under conditions that will give them a lease of profitable life to continue for all time. Wagemen shall find opportunity to secure continuous employment at remun- erative pay, and freed entirely from that anxiety which hangs over one when he knows his skill and brawn may be sup- planted at any hour by the introduction of products kindred to those of his own hands from countries where workingmen are held to be the mudsills of the social and business edifice, and who are com- pensated accordingly. The farmer shall no longer have the price of the result of his sowing and reap- ing fixed and determined by the fellahs of Asia, but by the demand of our own con- sumers, which will always equal the supply. The American citizen traveling in foreign lands will have no fear of Weylers, and the worthy industrial and liberty- loving foreigner shall have a welcome to our shore that will inspire him to earn a home of his own. The whole of commerce shall be relieved of the obstructions which the Democracy has placed in their way, and peace and prosperity and giadness shall drive away uncertainty, enforced idleness and gloom. All these things and more Chairman Thurston pledged the Republican party to do for the people, and the Republican party will keep its pledge. NEWSPAPERS AND COURTS. It is not tne province of the newspaper to discuss the merits of a lawsuit during trial, or in any other way try to influence pubtic ! | sentiment for or against either litigant, | except so far as an impartial recital of facis as items ot news may bias public| opinion. When a great crime has been committed, however, the indignation of the public will not permit the newspaper to be silent, whether the offender is on trial or not. The public demands that the newspaper shall explain all the bypaths leading up to and away from the crime. Moreover, the .public 1nsists that it not only have a full report of the egidence and incidents developed during the trial, but that editorial analysis of the testimony shall be made from time to time. The application of a law principle is nothing more nor less than obeying the demand of the result of common-sense, dwelling npon a given point of mental concentration. But the right, the duty, in fact, of a newspaper to criticize the decision of a court or a verdict of a jury cannot be ques- tioned without endangering the liberties of the people. TUntil Judges and juries are clothed with superhuman wisdom, and honesty, too, we might add, the newspaper will be the only protection the people can bave against the tyranny of courts and the dishonesty of juries. Certainly nearly every Judge means to be fair and administer law according to its spirit, as well as its letter, | and for the most part jurors mean to deal | justly between litigants, but Judges and juries are human beings possessing about the same degree of depravity as other pe - ple. Not only so, but the commission which elevates a man to the bench does not impart wisdom or honesty to nim, nor does the jury-box assume to transform a | bribe-taker or an oath-breaker into an honest man, much less a saint. The New York Court of Appeals holds that a court cannot punish for contempc unless the offense was committed in the presence of the court or the offender has purposely disobeyed the orders of the court, and that under no circumstances has a court the right to punish an editor or publisher of a newspaper for criticizing its acts or decisions. The public looks to the newspaper for informatior: concerning It is very foolish for s | the official conduct of its servants. The law provides for ample redress if a Judge, | juror or any one else can prove that a | newspaper has injured his reputation for honesty, sobriety and rectitude of conduct. | Itis not presumption on the part of the newspaper to say that although a Juage may have honestly ruled in accordance with his best and truest interpretation of the law, it knows better than he when his ruling is detrimental to the public's weal, and that it has the right to tell him and | the public that his understanding of the principles of law is weak and faulty. | Were the newspaper denied the right to | analyze the conduct and decisions of our | Judges and comment upon them truly and fully, it would be human nature for our courts to degenerate into verdict bar- gain-counters. The honest newspaper never battles against persons as persons, but 1t does bat- tle for such principles of social and polit- | ical government as will secure to all the people the greatest possible degree of per- sonal liberty, safety, happiness and pros- i perity. The honestly conducted newspa- per keeps its finger, so to speak, on the | public’s pulse all the time. It works to allay undue pablic excitement lest harm to the community snould follow, ana it works to excite concentrated action when by reason of undue apathy danger threat- ens. The newspaper is both the advance and rear guard of civilization in its on- ward march. OUR SACRAMENTO SERVICE. The early delivery of THE CALL at Sacra- mento by special train during the sessions of the Democratic Convention has been met by an approving response from the public, which is the more gratifying inas- much as it shows an appreciation of the enterprise of legitimate journalism. We have not attempted to vie with the sensa- | tional papers of the day in the publication | of fakes or in any form of catchpenny | devices, but where the work of obtaining | news, publishing news and distributing news has required something more than usual energy THE CALy, under its present management, has never failed and will never fail ‘o show a truly Californian vim and vigor. There is in every community a need of a wide-awake, alert, progressive newspaper which is devoted to the domain of true journalism, and within that domain is | equal to every demand of the time and the | public. That requirement of intellizent men and women TrE Cary fulfills in Cali- | fornia. Tts dispatches, whether from the | United Press or from its special corre- | spondents, are by this time well noted for i their accuracy. People know they can rely | upon what they read in THE CaLL. There ! are no fakes in its news columns any more | than in any other part of the paper. It | gives all the news fairly and impartially, {and what is more it sees to it that the news is delivered to the reader as early as | he wishes it. By means of its special trains THE CALL {reached Sacramento earlier than any | other paper. Itstrain on the first morn- ! ing of the convention broke the record for [ speed between San Franciscoand that city. The papers were distributed in time for even the earliest risers to read them be- fore breakfast and for the delegates to study the r-ports of the whole situation carefully before the work of the new day began. This was the kind of enterprise that gives a real news service to the pub- lic, and is therefore the kind the people may count on from THE CaLL. We not only publish the news but we see that the reader gets it on time. THE VENETIAN FESTIVAL. The Venetian festival at Santa Cruz last vear excited the admiration of all who saw it, and was the theme of praise in every part of the State. It was so differ- ent from other festivals that it came into rivalry with none, and gave to visitors who had seen the gorgeous floral fetes of other cities the sensation of a new beauty | and a new pleasure. The success accom- | plished at that time bLas heightened the popular expectations of the festival of this | year, and it was long ago assared the attendance would be much larger and the crowds more joyous than at the first fete. Santa Cruz has many advantages as a festival city. In fac, its charms are such as to render it a iavorite resort for pleasure- seekers at all seasons of the year and every day of the season. It has every grace of { sea and mountain, every delight of climate and sport and every comfort of good hotels and pleasant homes. No place more at- ‘tractive for the general run of tourists and holiday-makers can be tound anywhere in the broad contines of California at this seasou ofthe year, and a festival was hardly needed to advertise its advantages as a summer-time seaside resort. The programme of the festivities includes about everything that goes to make up popular enjoyment. Every day of the festival will be a pleasing one, and there seems no question that every visitor will be made to fcel thoroughly “in the swim.” After the excitement of two political con- ventions this frolic comes as a most de- lightiul means of closing the week, but no one who can afford to do otherwise should content himself with reading of it. Santa Cruz shoald be seen. OLEVELAND'S LETTER | No doubt the Democratic party has plenty of good and sufficient- reasons for regretting that Grover Cleveland ever be- came its recognized leader, but it cannot | be said of him that he ever talks in riddles. He is plain and blunt in the use of language, and there is no mistaking his meaning. In his letter to the New York Herald Mr. Cleveland laid down the law of party allegiance in a way that is sure to make still greater trouble and cause the gap which separates the factions to further broaden and deepen. It was not good politics for him to inti- mate that no self-respecting Democrat could support the Chicago nominee on a Iree silver platform, for such talk will have | 2 tendency to intensify the already bitter | feeling between the factions, but no doubt | he talked as he did for that very purpose. It is a good deal for the leader of his party, especially when he is President of the Nation and is very much in need of the indorsement of his party, to not only | encourage a bolt but to practically recom- mend his following to support the party’s most unrelenting and bitterest antagonist. It is also very far from being good poli- tics to charge members of his party with being unpatriotic and foolish, but that is the way he talks about those who will con- rol the Democratic National Convention. He tells his party that he hopes the free. silver illusion will be dispelled before the time comes to vote, but if it iz not he shall | | expect nothing short of richly deserved de- feat. In view of the fact that the majority of the party will do exactly the most un- patriotic and foolish thing that could be done, as Mr. Cleveland sees it, it is safe to | conclude that it is Mr. Cleveland's desire | that the nominee of his party’s convention | shall be defeated and rejected in the most humiliating way possible, which would be by the abandonment of him by the yery element which the party has al- -ways relied upon to commend it to the confidence of the people. Mr. Cleveland is moved to give this warning against. the silver wing of his party because, as he says, “My attach- ment to true Democracy is so strons that I consider its work identical with the pro- motion of the country’s good.” [f heis sincere he could not do otherwise than recommend the Republican party to all Democrats who consider the country’s good paramount; nor could he do other- wise than point out the danger to the country of electing the Chicago nominee. It is quite natural Mr. Cleveland should say that the unpatriotic and foolish purpose of those who oppose him in the ranks of his party will result in giving the Republican party advantages both in the Ppresent and future which he thinks it does not deserve, but as between a govern- mental policy such as the Bryans and Altgelds of his own party would adopt and the policy of the Republican party, as a well-wisher for his country’s good he is obliged to recommend the latter to his fol- lowing. However, Mr. Cleveland only an- ticipates events. Democratic owners of industrial plants are bound by the ties of personal interest to reject whatever the Chicago convention may offer them, for it has come to this that they must have such protective legislation as the Repuk- lican party wili give them or give up their business enterprises. WHEN THE TIDE IS COMING IN. Somehow, love, our boat sals lighter, Smoother, 1aster, on the bay— Somehow, 1ove, the sun shines brighter, Softer, warmer, thro’ the spray— Somehow, love, the sky is clearer, God and man seem nearer kin— Somehow, even you ere dearer When the tide 1s coming I “’Tis the spring of life, unendling, At the source of motion, Cear! *'Tis the stresm of hope ascendi From the depths of ocean, dear! “"Tis the heart of Nature beating Where the throbs of life begin! ™ “Karth and Heaven gladly meeting, When the tide is coming in!” Somehow, love, vour eyes are brighter, Softer, warmer, thro' the spra; And your laughter ripples lizhu O'er the whitecaps on the bay! In our path no tinge of sadne: In our wake no tinge of si For our hearts are filled with When the tide is coming 1 —Minueapolis Journal. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Tarn McGrew, the Stanford man whose name during the last four years has been associated more than that of any other university stu- dent witn the society events of the San Fran- cisco 400, left yesterday on the Australia on his way to Kores, where he will be secretary for a large English mining syndicate. It is said that this tripto so remote a place has & bit of romance connected with it, and that one of the local belles will change her name when the traveler eventually returns with more worldly experience and some of the esthetic polish of society worn off by contact with less polished surroundings than those of the ballroom with which he has long been most familiar. McGrew is over six feet in height, a graceful dancer, a pianist and a lin- guist. It was this last accomplishment that insured him the position he has gone to fill. During his senior year he sang bass in the Stanford Glee Club, and was accompanist for the glee and mandolin club events. At Palo Alto he was looked upon as a sort of Beau Brummel, but whatever that may signify generally it was not there counted a serious drawback to his popularity, for while he was & member of the swell college societies he spent gladness J. Tarn McGrew. much of his time with the boys in the big hall ‘where the hula-hula and kangaroo dances were festure of impromptu evening programmes. Something of the attitude of his fellow-stud- ents toward him may be inferred from the fol- lowing good-natured josh which appeared in this vear’s Stanford Quad under & caricature representing MeGrew in bloomer attire, golf | stockings and high theater hat: Oh, Lawa, McGrew ! The woman new Is nowhere when compared with you; ‘Those stockings, whew!' * They change her view: She must decline to wear them, too. Society, 1t seems to me, 1s doing things to English b; We'd hate to see You wholly free To seek in town for your degree. So, Tarnie, boy, Though maidens coy Consider you a harmless joy, Your brain employ, Lest Isies of Poi Untimely give you “Ship Anoy.” Tarn McGrew will spend several weeks in Honolulu with his parents before continuing his voyage to the Orient. His father, Dr. Me- Grew, a pioneer of Hawaii, was known as “the father of the revolution” that made Hawaii a republic. McGrew will remain in Corea a year and will then return to America to enter the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, his purpose being to follow the profession that his iather chose before him. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. nought are the first Knights of the new Vie- torian order. ' Joseph P. Voorhees, a son of Senator Voor- hees, is rapidly acquiring fame as a sculptor. Though he has studied in some of the best studios 1n England and Americs, he is to a considerable extent self-taught. His latest production is an admirably executed bust of Charles H. Cramp, the well-known American | shipbuilder. b Sculptor A.von Wouw has just completed designs for a monument to President Kruger of the Boer Republic. The monument is to be erected at Pretoria and will be forty feet in neight. It will consist of a granite column surmounted by a Lronze statue of Oom Paul. Grouped around the pedestal will appesr the figures of four burghers in an attitude of defense.. IT IS THE BEST. Mount Vernon (Wash.) Record. Thé San Francisco DAILY CALL is without doubt the best morning newspaper on the Pacific Coast. Since falling into ‘he hands of Charles M. Shortridge THE CALL has steadily come to the frontas a daily NEWS paper, and to-day has by far the largest circulation of any nfl"?cr published on the coast. here is nothlnf in THE CALL of a sensa. tional nature, but its news is briei and to the point, and always up to date. It is the only morning newspaper in Frisco that does not use machines with which to set type, and as a result gives employment to a large number of men, and for this reason ii should be su SN NSNSP 2N M Mme. Marie Engle, the Chicago prima douna, | has just made another great hit in London. The opera was “Fra Diavolo,”” and sung by grand opera artists, made heavy by recitatives, and accompenied by an orchestra of 100 pieces, it is said to have resembled a little water-color picture, seen through & huge mag- nifying glass. Auber’s fascinating little work lost its freshness and charm in the immense auditorium of Covent Garden. Ferdinand de Lucis is an excellent singer, but he has not the presence nor the style of voice for the role of Fra Diavolo. The celebrated bass, Bisham (Lord Rocburg), was not in sympathy with his part, but Marie Engle sang the role of Zerlina | in the most fascinating fashion. Her voice was declared to be fresh, true, well placed, and her vocalization irreproachable. All she wanted was a little warmth of manner in her acting; but even without it, she has come for- ward, considerably more than she did last year, as one of the great prima donnas of the NS USIC & - MUSICIANS T cuff. It is & wind instrument, whose tones resemble by turns the violin, the organ, the flute, the violoncello, the clarionet and the hautbois.” At the Royal Opera-house of Berlin, a new opera in three acts, entitied ““Ingo’’ has just been played with great success. The libretto is founded on a historical novel, “The An- cestors,” by Gustave Freytag, and the music is by Philip Reufer. The greatcharm of the opera is said to lie in its orchestration, which the composer has treated with consummate art. The city fathers of some of the smaller Italian towns have sometimes an odd ides of the compensation due to the performers in the municipal bands. For instance, the city of Salerno has just advertised acompetition for the position of fluteplayer in the communal band. The municipality offers the sum of §8 & month to the musician who shall be de- PERSONAL. Dr. A. G. Schloesset of Chicago is staying at the Grand. J. Love and family of Indiana are guests at the Cosmopolitan. J.T. Smith, & mining man from Bodie, has arrived at the Grand. J. W. Browning, a mezchant of Grand Island, is a guest at the Grana. A. R. Rayeraft, a journalist from El Paso, Tex., is now at the Russ. G. M. Foote, County Assessor of San Benito, is in town from Hollister. Dr. H. C. Whiting of Burlington, lows, ar. rived at the Grand yesterday. William Beckman, the Sacramento banker, is at the Grand for a brief visit. | L. A. Begbie, a mining man from Nevada City, has a room at the Grand. James W. Abbott and wife of Mexico are among the latest Palace arrivals. M. Marks, the merchant tatlor, of Stockton, is at the Cosmopolitan with his wife. John D. Jackson and wife of Pecatonics, 111., are registered at the Cosmopolitan, H. A. Heilbron, a Vacaville orchardist, is among the latest arrivals at the Grand. Dr. F, M. Reith, a practicing vhysician of Sacramento, is among the Grand's guests. Among the late arrivals at the Occidental is F. M. Huffaker, a mining man of Virginia City, Aug. Baron and M. D. Scribner, mining men from Tombstone, Ariz., are guests at the Russ. W. T. Taylor, superintendent of one of Hag- 8in’s big ranches near Bakersfield, is at the Occidental. W. N. Gillette, an orchardist and ranch man- ager of Palermo, Butte County, isstaying at the Occidental. W. C. Edes, the civil engineer on the Valley Road, is down from Stockton and hasa room at the Grand. John C. Fisher, proprietor of the theater at San Diego, is here on & short business trip. He is at the Palace. Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- tan are Dr. J. W. Ellisand his friend, J. M. Shibles of Hydesville, Cal. L. C. Fletcler, a member of the United States Geological Survey from Washington, D. C., ar- rived at the Occidental last night with his wife. F. N. Shurtliff, United States General Ap= praiser in the revenue service, was a passenger on last night’s overland from New York. He will examine the business of the San Francisco office. Mr. Shurtliff is at the Occidental. Jonn Rosenfeld, the Park Commissioner and coal merchant, returned last night to his home at the Lick after an absence of six months in New York. He is in the best of health and is much improved by the trip. A. Cade Bemrose of Derby, England, a globe- trotter who has been at the California for sev- eral days, left here last night for Los Angeles. This is not his first trip, although he is a young man. He is & nephew of H. H. Bemrose, M.P., whose political victory last | summer over Sir William Harcourt, the Lib- eral ex-leader of the House of Commons and an M.P. for fifteen consecutive years, followed the greatest ‘election held in England during the present century. From Southern California Mr. Bemrose is going to Colorado Springs, thence to points in Canada and to the different. | summer resorts in the East. Major-General R. Blundell of the English army, now on his way to London to be retired because of oid ege, aiter forty vears of service, principally in India, left the Occidental last night with his wife to visit in Riverside the grave of their son, who came to California for his health and died last January. General { Blundell has been in command at Poons, in | the Bombay provinee, for the last five years, with between 8000 and 9000 men under him. { The artillery was all British, the cavalry all | native and the infantry about three-quarters | native soldiers. General Duncsn has suc- Marie Engle, the Chicago Girl Who Has Won Remarkable Success in London. | ceeded to the command. Poona was the season. Ome interesting fact about Marie Engle is that she is one of the very few Ameri- can grand opera singers who has not gone to Europe for her musical edueation. She learned all she knows about music and the arts in New York and at her home. The lingering echoes of the wrath aroused | by Foli’s ill-considered remarks continue to afford entertainment to peopie who take a grim satisfaction in seeing an alleged critic struggling heroicaily to prove that he is even deeper in the woods than people at first sup- posed. When Foli registered his snarl at the absence of oratorio as a permanent feature of | local musical circles, the alleged critic naively wrote to & morning paper to proclaim the fact that he had never heard of the gentleman. The tree of knowledge has sprouted wonder- | fully since then, and he 4s now so intimately acquainted with Foli’s life that he can inform the public not only what he has done, but what he has left undone iu the course of his career. The latest manifesto on the subject ‘is to the effect that if Foli ever sung at- Bologna at all it was not in the rignt sesson. The probability is that he never did sing there; the city is more noted for sausages than for song,and | Foli, who has sung so often in his prime at La | Scals, the San Carlo and the Argentina, would | scarcely be tempted, even by the delicious | sausages, to take an engagement in the little burg of Bologna. The London Electrophone A Company re- cently gave a concert which has aroused great | interest in European musical ecircles. Invita- tions were issued to the British and foreign press to attend the headquarters of the com- pany, in Gerrard street, London, to hear the performances being given at the Grand Opera, and the Opera Comique In Paris, arrangements having previously been entered into with the directors of both those houses. ‘‘However much one may be accustomed to using the telephone,” says one correspondent, “*one feels a singular sensation when one hears Mme. Rose Charon singing from another country. We would not dare to «flirm that every note of | the opera came to us with perfect distinctness. The telephonic communications between Lon- don and Paris depend very much on the state of the sea, and on stormy days one hears ab- solutely nothing. Yesterday evening, fortu- nately, the channel was not much agitated, and many of the passages of ‘Helle’ came across the wires with pertect distinctness. It is the first time that an opera recital has been given at such a great distafce.” A curious concert was recently arranged by Gevaert, Director of the Brussels Conservatory, in honor of the Philological Society. The en- tertainment consisted of a iecture on Greek music, illustrated by the rendering of Greek compositions executed on the original instru- ments, or rather on instruments constructed according to the originals, by Victor Mahillon, Gevaert's lecture was a resume of the Greek part of the history of music, which be has just published after twenty years of labor. The music consisted of a series of little airs and ex- ercises for the ancient zither, taken from an anonymous book of Greek music, collected some time during the Roman empire; then followed a *‘Hymn to the Muse” in.the Doric style,and a “Hymn to Nemesis,” both written in the second century after Christ,and the famous “Hymn to Apollo.” There were a num- ber of instrumental pieces, performed on a tibia and an aulus, and to give local color to the affair all the performers wore the Greek costume. A unique troupe of light opera artists is being organized at Munich. Its object is to give operettas, with all the pomp and finish lavished upon Wagnerian operas at the Bay- reuth Theater, and when the troupe has made the tour of Germany it will go to foreign thea- ters in order to give the outside world an idea of what German light opera is when superbly rendered. There is no speculation in the undertaking, as it is generally understood that the backer of the company is & young and very rich ‘Duke, who is fascinated with & prima donna, and is taking this means of giving her an opportunity to snine in an exceptional fashion. The papers state tnat operettas have never been mounted and sung as those of the Munich troupe will be. Le Menestrel gives an account of & new in. strument, called the eola, which was recently introduced by & Miss Edith Drake at & concert given at the Theater Mondain, in Paris. “This instrument has an equally good effect in pieces requiring expression and in.those of rapid movement, and its trills are of an ex- ried by the laboring class of the Pacific oast, quisite delicacy. Although it hi compass. of four octaves, it is no larger than a sleeve, clared the victor, but if there is no competi- tion and only one flute-player presents him- | self the city fathers announce that they intend to lower the salary to $5 a month. A pretty story is told of the late Clara Schu- mann. When he was about to play any of her husband’s music in public she read over somi of the old love letters that be wrote her dur. ing the days of their courtship, so that, asshe said, she “‘might be better able to do justice to her interpretations of the spirit of his work.” The centenary of the composer, Giovenni Pacini, the old friend of Mercadante, Rossini | and Donizetti, has been celebrated with great | pomp at Pescia. Extracts were performed from his works, “Media,” “Il Saltimbanco,” “La Fidenzata Corsa.” etc Hans Paumgartner, one of the most ardent of Wagner’s disciples in the dags when he was struggling with adversity, has just died in Vienna. He was celebrated s a pisnist, snd excelled particularly as an interpreter of Beethoven. The Frankfort Gazette states that Mme. Clara Schumann has left a diary, full of inter- esting souvenirs of distinguished musicians and of musical events during the last forty years. Massenet has finished his fairy opera ¢Cin- derella,” and is now working on & new Work, “Sappho,” based on Alphonse Daudet's novel. The subscriptions for Sir Augustus Harris’ season of opera at Covent Gerden already amount to £40,000. LADY'S BATHING DRESS WITH FITTED LINING. (WHICH MAY BE OMITTED.) A clever idea in bathing dresses is to have & fitted lining, which makes it possible for @l to appear trim, and still be untrammeled by cor- | sets. Thelining may be made of drill, heavy plain cotton cloth or, in fact, of any fabric. Mohair is mu¢h liked for bathing suits, it never clings to the form as flannels do. One dress seen was of black mohair, with collarand belt of white mohair, trimmed with & single row of black braid. Either the skirt or the bleomers may pe sewn to the waist, but those Who have tried it give preference to joining of skirt and waist, asit &lv & neaten appearance, ;!:c‘l"the skirt can thus not slip or sag at tne In this case the skirt is buttoned over the {ront about three inches to the left of the cen- lt:r, or just at the end of the waist, where it ’R'e trousers are hemmed at the lower edge, and an elastic is run through the hem. e top is hemmed and lupplged with a draw siring; or they may be put on a band opening at one side, and this by the knowing ones is like the waist freferrod, as it prevents sagging at the waist line when the garment is heavy. ‘with water. | ancient seat of the old Mabrattas’ power and is now the seat of the Bombay presidency during | the ramny season of four months. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 17.—At the Wes minster—W. H. Bronson. Holland —W. { Martin. Imperial—W. Heyer, General and Miss Malowansky. Captain C. F. Serrs, Italian Consnl at San Francisco, arrived on the Kaiser Wilhelm from Genoa. Sailed on the steamer Augusta Victoria for Cherbourg: Mrs. Ma- thilda, Misses Betty and Emily Bressier, Armin Graff and L. Marx. Andrew Bogert left the Westminster to sail on the steamer New York for England. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Dobson—Is Robson devoted to any kind of sport? Hobson—Yes; bicycling. Dobson—Good heavens, man, thatisn’t sport; it’s lubor.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Dr. 8quills—Did Potter pay you before he died? 1 Dr. Bills—No; butIgoteven. I senta fun. eral wreath inscribed, “We mourn our loss. New York Commercial Advertiser. “Where are you going on your vacation?” owhere. I'm going to take things easy this year and rest 4 little.”—New York Com- mercial Advertiser. Friend—Your wife seems like a different woman when she is speaking. Tompkins—So? I'm afraid I don’t know the other.—Town Topi “I can’t just understand it,” said the Cheer- ful 1diot. “Can’t understand wnat?" asked the new boarder. “Why bloomers, being undoubtedly plural shouid make a woman 100k so singular.—Phila« delphia Journal. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend’s.” E iy e ey SPECTAL information daily to ‘manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * Watts—Been reading anything about these Cuban atrocities? Potts—No. I've got a box of them at home yet that my wife bought three months ago from an alleged smuggler.—Cincinnati Regis- ira; 899 75 to‘ Washi ngton, turn. The offical excursion to the fifieenth annual convention of the Young People’s Society Chris- tian Endeavor at “Washington. D. C., July 7, will leave Los Angeles Monday, June 29, at 2 p.x. and San Francisco Tuesday, June 50,at 7 A.3. The route will be via the Central Pacific, Union Pacific, Chicago and Northwestern, and Baltimors and Ohio rallways, and the excursion will be made under the personal supervision of G. W. Campbell, president of the Callfornia Christlan Endeavor Unfon, 18 North Second Street, San Jose, and William G. Alexander, ex-president of the Cali- fornia Christian Endeavor Union, 21 Nortn Fourth street, San Jose. For further information and Teservation of berths apply to either of the gentle- men or to D. W. Hitchcock, 1 Montgomery street, San Francisco: C. E. Bray, 2 New Montgomery street, San Francisco; G. F. Herr, 28 South Spring streét, Los Angeles, or to any ticket ageot of the Southern Pacific Company. —— | Excursions to Grand Canyon of the Colorado. An excellent opportunity for seeing this wonder- ful scenery at a mominal expense is afforded through the excursions to leave San Francisco June 20 and July 1 over the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. Fare includes stage trip from Flagstaft, meals en route and hotel expenses at Canyon, $75. For full partici s call on or address Thos. Cook & Son, excursion agents, 621 Market street, under Palace Hotel, or any agent Atlantic and Pacific Eailroad. H. C. Bush, sssistant general passenger agent, 61 Chronicle bullding, S. F. ———————— Yellowstone }ark Excursion. Watch this ad for full particulars regarding our great excursion to the Yellowstone. Party leaves here the 12th of July. Weekly excursions in up- holstered tourist cars. No change. Lowest rates toall points East. T. K. Stateler, agent Northern Pacific Railroad, 638 Markel street, San Franelsco. e FEVERISHNESS of the scalp soon causes bald- ness. 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