The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 28, 1897, Page 6

] | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1897 THURSDAY.. ANUARY 28, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 Dally apd Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Dally snd Sunday CaLL, six months, by mail.. 5.00 Dally and Bunday CaLi, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Suncay CaLx, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CaLL, one year, by ma! . 150 WXEXLY CALL, One year, by mall. Telephone. EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Strest. Telephens... BRANCH OFFICB! 527 Montzomery sireet, corner Cla, treet; open until 9:30 o'clock. treet: open unil 9:30 o'clock. Sixteenth and Mission streets; open 8 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock, Ninth strect; open until § o'clock. 1305 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 82, 3¢ Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. T THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ke e e e o Perhaps Creelman is a myth. After all there is no news but legitimate news. ‘What Willie Hearst lacks most is a ref- eree for news. Somebody has been making & guy of the Ezaminer. With the new journalism any old thing does as a faka. Philadelphia tempered her blizzard with a fire, but it did not comfort any- body. It takes time, work, energy and money to get genuine news, but anybody can write a fake. By and by the fake journals will learn that it is better to know less news than to know so much that ain’t so. People may read fake papers for amuse- ment, but they must turn to legitimate journalism to find cut what the news is. “It is hardly necessary for the Ezaminer to reiterate the statement and add that it was absolutely true.” And yet it did so. Asone of the new British warships ha been named Goliath some tugboat ought to get in and knock it out with a sling shot. 1f the Eraminer managers bad any sense of humor they would see that Creelman and all the other fakers are just playing them for solt thi The rains of this winter are coming just right to suit the orchardists, They could not have arranged the weather better if they had held a convention to do it. In locating Li Yung Yuen in this City, althoueh he has been in Crba for four months, the Ezaminer got the Li all right and that is as much as it ever wishes. The next thing we know, some clever joker will sell Long Green Lawrence a telegram from Mars signed Li Yung Yuen, and Willie Hearst will have to pay for it. If the Ezaminer pays as much as 14 cents for such stuff as its Chinese dis- patches it is not to be wondered that it has to resort to devious methods for raising the long green. Why should the Ezaminer try to induce the public to believe it keeps high-priced liars in various parts of the world when its Chinese dispatches show that its big- gest and rawest lies are dug up in its own office. When a newspaper is roped in by such a raw fake as an alleged dispatch from China to an official in San Francisco when that official has not been here for four months it is time for somebody to make a shake-up in that office. In objecting to the Nicaragua canal under the control of the United Btates the Government of the Greater Republic of Central America is taking a very good way to get the whole country under the august protection of Uncle S8am. It is to be regretted that the Ezaminer, after having enterprise enough to get news to China and back in ten hours, did not have enough sense to get information from Stockton street of the name of the Uhinese Consul-General in this City. The vehement reply of the Ezaminer to our light and amusing skit at its “dis- patches from China” was written in the tone of an editorial, flashed up in the form of a news story and displayed in the advertising columns. WhY were thosg things thus? Not long ago the scgaming faker pub- lished a statement that the President of the United States had entered into a secret treaty with the Spanish Govern- ment to crush the Cubans, and “it is hardly necessary for the Ezaminer to re- iterate the statement and add that it was absolutely true.” The Eraminer says Li Yung Yuen is in this City, that he holds the office of Chinese Consul-General and is in danger of assassination for sending a dispatch of Little Pete’s death to the Chinese Minister at Washington. As Li is not in this City, isnot Consul-General and sent no such dispaich the statements are good ex- amples of what the Ezaminer news service is worth. ' The wild romance of the Emperor of China waking up in the middle of the night to send officers over his empire to arrest men whose names he did not know and then telegraphing at 4 o’clock in the morning the result of his activity to San Francisco for the information of a man in Cuba is surely amusing, and all the more s0 becanse some solemn fellow thought it was serious and paid for it as news. Governor Pingree of Michigan has found 50 many laws in that State either ob- solete or so construed by the courts as to be inoperative that he has offered a re- ward of $25 to the student of the Univer- sity of Michigan who will compile the greatest number of such laws, and hasap- pointed a commission to decide the con- test. The compilation will be not only a rood exercise for the students but it will serve to call attention to the usele: statutes and prepare the way for their abolition. It would not be a bad idea for every State in the Union o have a nimilurrl overhauling. A SAD DEFEQT. The vagaries of the Ezaminer are such that f-w people are surprised by any new antic it may commit. With it anything goes, from extorting money from a rail- road to bunkoing a prize-fight, and it fakes with equal facility scandals atthome and direful sensations abroad. Neverthe- less, 80 far as it was capable of surprising anybody it did so yesterday in a double- column, double-leaded, double-dyed at- tack on THE CALL for giving to one of its most amusing fakes the advantage of free advertising in the homes of intelli: gent peovle. TaE CALL had pointed out that the as- sertions of the Fzaminer concerning the arrest in China of the relatives of persons suspected of the murder of “Litte Pete’” was a fake. It showed that the feat of telegraphing news to China and back again could nov have been performed; that no such telegram as stated by the Ezaminer had been sent from this City by the Chinese Consul-General; that no tele- graph office in this City had received or dispatched such a telegram, and finally, that Li Yung Yuen, whom the Eraminer declared to be the Chinese Consul-General in this City, has been in Cuba for upward of four months. Surely this was a good proof of the pcwers of imagination which exist in the Ezaminer office, and was a good advertisement of its ability to keep pace with the latest developments of the so-called new journalism. So far from being grateful for our aaver- tising, or recognizing the humor of the sit- uation, the Ezaminer took up the matter seriously, It declared that it has great opportunity to know everything that hap- pens because it has correspondents all over the world, from Madrid to Shanghai. The earnestness with which it made these claims showed that in its solemn stupid- ity 1t was not aware of the fact that we had not charged it with alack of corre- spondents elsewhere, but only that it did not send a reporter to the office of the Consul-General on Stockton street in this City. The Ezaminer asserts with a dignity truly pompous that concerning the ‘‘in- carceration,” as it calls it, of the relatives of the fighting See Yups, ‘it is haraly necessary for the Eraminer to reiterate the statement and add that it was abso- lutely true.” Surely we can agree to that proposition. It was entirely unnecessary for the Ezaminer to do so. Nobody thought the statement true when pub- lished, nobody thinks it is true now, and there is certainly no necessity for the Ez- aminer's young men to lie in editorials when they could lie in the !ocal columns at space rates. It is clear the managers of the Eram- iner are lacking in a sense of the ridiculous, as well as of veracity. They cannot see that these clever fakers from Madrid to Shang- hai, and not a few in San Francisco, are simply guying Mr. Hearst and selling nim any old thing for news. They are slyly stabbing Long Green Lawrence to make Willie Hearst bleed. hey send him any sort of a fake, no matter how raw, and he is unable to see that the stuff is absurd. . Long Green cannot even keep posted on local affairs sufficiently to know the name of such an imporiant ofiicial as the Chi- nese Consul-General 1n this City. A faker brings him a dispatch which he alleges to have been written by an official on Stock- ton street when the official has been for four months in Cuba, and the Long Green manager, not knowing the difference, calls it news from China and pays out Mr. Hearst’s money for it. It is a sad defect, this lack of a sense of | the ridiculous. It has led Long Green Lawrence into many an ugly situation and most woefully has Willie Hearst had to bleed for i A TREE MARKET. A bill has been introduced into the Legislature by Senator Hall providing for the establishment and meintenance of a free public market on the water frontof this City, and we have, therefore, a chance to obtain this long-desired and much- needed public improvement. The bill requires that the Harbor Com- missioners shall set apart a sufficient number of docks on the water front, con- tiguous to each other, for the reception of all perishable products, including fruit, vegetables, eggs, poultry, geme, dairy products and fish, coming into San Fran- cisco, and shall permit the sale there of such articles by or for account of the producers only. Other sections of the bill provide the details for carrying out the plan, and seem well adapted for that purpose. The measure is, therefore, one which on its face is deserving the support of the Legis- lature, and, while it ought to have care- ful consideration, so that no mistake may be made 1n the enactment of such im- portant legislation, it should, neverthe- less, be free from merely petty criticism or ill-founded opposition. People of 8an Francisco have for a long time past had the subject of a free market under consideration. It has been fully discussed both in the press and by those who would be interested in.it, and has everywhere received favor and support. It would be an important step in the direction of bringing the producer into close relations with the consumer, and would, therefore, be a benefit to the great majority of the people, both of the City and of the interior of the State. There is no reason apparent why there should be any opposition at all to a measure which promises to be of such public benefit. The bill provides that the Harbor Commissioners shall assign space within the free market to all producers of perishable products, and to all commission merchants and agents of producers who shall make application therefor and agree to transact business within the free market solely for producers’ account, and under such regulations as the Harbor Commis- sioners may prescribe. Commission mer- chants are not to be permitted to occupy space to the exclusion of genuine bpro- ducers, and no rent is to be charged. These provisions seem to cover the essential points desired by the people in the establishment of such a market, and the bill on the whole appears to be a good one. It has been introduced into the Legislature in response to a popular de- mand caused by an urgent need, and is, therefore, one of the measures now before the Legisiature which should receive warm support and be promptly enacted. WORK AT SAORAMENTO. The legislative session at Sacramento has thus far been dull except for the one sensation of the stuffed payroll. This is not a bad sign. Dull sessions are gener- ally business sessions, and from all reports this promises to be one of that kind. The main work of legislation 1s neces- sarily done in committee, where there is no opportunity for oratory and little chance for making reputations. It is this committee work which now occupies the attention of members of both houses, and it is gratifying 10 note that they are devot- ing their time to that instead of making sensational speeches on the floor of the Senate or of the Assembly. ties 1n the Assembly are led with mcre than ordinary pariiamentary skill and business discretion. The actual leader of the Republican majority, and therefore the virtual ieader of the Assembly itself, is Judge Dibble, than whom no abler par- liamentary leader exists in the State. The Democratic and Populist fusion, so far as it is capable of toilowing leadership at all, foliows that of Caminetti, and is, therefore, muca better directed than minorities have been in times past. The people of Cahfornia can well afford to have a dull and strictly business ses- sion of the Legislature this year. The stuffed payroll has furnished more than all the scandal and sensation which there was any demand for. It bas served to attract the attention of the general public to the Legislature, and been a warningto the legislators themselves to be on their guard against extravagance and reckless- ness in the expenditure of public money. From this time on the people will be well satisfied if the Legislature attends closely to its work and furnishes economy in pub- lic business rather than profusion of ora- tory. 1t must be borne in mind that the work in committee is after all the most im- portant work which the legislator per- forms, Itis by committees that bills are drafted and put into proper shape to pro- vide for the welfare of the public, and to guard against the attacks of the courts. When the work has been well done in committee the debate and the vote in the Assembly and the Senate are very little more than acts of ratification, and hardly count in the serious wozk of the session. How important this committee work is may be estimated from the report that up to date there bave been introduced into the Assembly alone as many as nine bills dealing with the subject of road improve- ment. This multiplicity of bills referring to one subject involves the committee in charge of that subject in the difficult task of combining and harmonizing them into one comprehensive measure. Commiitee work, therefore, while dull, is in every re- spect important, and it is to be noted as a good sign of the coming results of the session that the members seem content to perform this dull work with zeal rather than to endeavor to make reputations for themselves by holding long uebates and giving utterance to buncombe oratory. ME, T00.” A number of the leading Democratic newspapers of the country are predicting asplit.in the Republican pariy, stormy times for the McKinley administration, and a general row in the next Congress. Asarule they offer no reason for these predictions, but when they do they assert that Senator Piattof New York is going into the Senate to oppose McKinley, and that he will lead an anti-administration faction of Republicans in that body. The value of these predictions may be estumated from ihe credibility of the sole reason given for them. If any man be- lieves that Senator Platt is going to start or to encourage a faction fight in the Re- publican party, he has been either a very careless reader of current events, and knows little of the character of Mr. Platt, or else he is utterly unfitted to draw con- clusions from the facts that are known to him, Senator Platt long ago received what was then regarded as the disreputable | name of “Me, Too.” The name was not | given him for nothing. It stuck to him because it was characteristic of him. He was a follower of Roscos Conkling, and was loyal in his following. He believed in party discipline and he acted upon it. When the crisis came in the fortunes of | bis great leader and of the organization of | his party in his State he did not hesitate to resien a seat in the Senate rather than to be found false to the discipline which he honored, the leader whom he loved and the organization which he served. By holding steadfastly on his course Mr. Platt has demonstrated his fitness to | "ead as well as to follow. The name ‘Me, Too' has ceased to be one of opprobrium. It is now recognized as the name of a man who can always be counted on to support his party organization whenever his help is needed. He is not one who will break away from the ranksunder the strain or stress of whatever battle may come. He is not only an advocate but an exemplar of discipline. He has shown it in the past, and there can be no question that he will more splendidly illustrate it in the future. . Those Democrats therefore who are hop- ing to gain some advantage for their dis- rupted, disorganized and discredited party by confusion among Republican leaders in the next four years will be disappointed 80 far as their hopes are based upon any lack of fealty and loyaity in Senator Platt. It is an easy and a safe prediction that whenever the Republican party under the leadership of Major McKinley calls upon the Senate for support of any great meas- ure the Senator from New York will be found prempt to sustain it and ready to answer now as he did of old, *Countin me, too.” ARBITRATION TREATY. Some Keasons Why California’s Sena- tors Should Oppose It. M. Cooney, the well-known attorney of this City, has forwarded to United States Senators Perkins and White a communi- cation of which the following is a copy : At the suggestion of many citizens of this Btate 1 ask you to oppose the ratitication of the so-called arbitration treaty between our Gov- ernment and England now pending in the Senate. Many reasons are assigned for oppos- ing it and none in fayor, save the sentimental idea of international peace. Opposed to this comes the suggestion that up to this time we have succeeded fairly well in that respect. I may add, too, that the United States must de- pend upon the Nation’s own strength to main. tain {nternational peace as well as the Monros or any other American doctrine. But if a treaty should be deemed useful why should our people accept any European monarch final arbitrator? Again, What is there to bitrate? 1f any question should arise at any time similar to the Venezuela affair, at home or upon any other part of the western continent, no trouble would be had in securing a commission for that particular purpose, and 1f it could not be arbitrated in 1hat summary way surely it could not be by the terms of a standing treaty, which must uecessarily be more complicated and more difficult of construction. Suppose any of the subjects of England in her many provinces, suco as Canada, Ireland or any Gther pecple, should declare for independence and the Iriends of liberty in this countr should feel it their duty to give them ald an encouragement, would not the United States be likely to be dragged into the affair by rea- son of this treaty? You see England acquired by conquest and holds by force many of her provinces, while the United States scquired none in tnat way and holds none by force. The people of the colonies did. owever, acquire these United States from England b; force and descendents of that people, the citi- 2zons of this Repubiic, are well able (0 maintain the independence and integrity of this Nation witain her own borders and before the world without any alliance with England or any other European power Thus you will see that England has nothing to lose by this treaty, and I am unable 0 see where the United States can gain by it. Very respectfully, 31, coonex. LATE MARTIAN ADVICES, Brooklyn Eagle, If the same thing had happened on our planet that has occurred in Mars, the arctic explorers could probably take their vessels Tight up o the top of the eacth. A big rify has occurred in the Martian ice cap, and an immeuse section of ice is probably moving It happens that at this time both par- | southward, leaving an open sea. A ARE YOU AN EPICURE? 1f you are you will be thoroughly interested and eagerly concerned in the subject of the very newest and latest of all dishes calculated to tempt the paiate. 3 I you are not you will, nevertheless, experience a lively hankering to know just what industry in country places. this rare, new discovery may be. You may be partial to frogs, or snails, or turtle or terrapin; but this dish to which we Tefer is incomparably better than any of those enumerated. It s deciared to be the most delicious food known to man. There is no doubt but that there are dozens of appetites even right here in San Francisco 50 jaded that they are willing to test anything new in the form of something to eat. Butin this instance the epicure will have the remarkable advantage of having forced upon him by {ashion something that is palatable, and will not have to go through his usual punishment when adopting & new dish and in acquiring & new taste. The caterers and those in charge of the cutinary departments of the downtown clubs will be particularly atiracted by the new fad. It will mean & new, useful and healthful And what is this wonderful dish? And what kind of an industry is at the back of it? This you will ind outin Sunday’s CALL. It will tell you all about it, and you may be assured that the story is an extraordinarily good one. ‘We may live without books! Wha: is knowledge but grieving? ‘We may live without hope! ‘What is hope but deceiving? ‘We may live without love! What §s love but repining? But civilized man Cannot live without dinjng. Just 5o, The question of the new dish and its merits is of as much importance almost as the one ‘which relates to the discovery of poetry in the plaint of a Noguchian Snail. THE SUNDAY CALL will tell you about the most marvelous of recent departures in the world of the winged wheel. Everybody wants to know about it. If not because he isa lover of the biking sport, then because his frienas are, and because he wants to keep up with the times on a matter that the multitude 1s certain to discuss. This bicycle invention is zoing to knock all previous records into the middle of ne~t week, or somewhere still further back in the horse-monopolied past. The newest machine, of which & full description will appear in Sunday’s CALL, is uestined to cut the time for a mile down to less than & minute. Think of it! Lightning express locomotives won't be in the race, and the running horse Will be defeated with an ease that will put its rider to biush. Novel things in science, literature and art; treasures of poetry and song. You will have them served up to you to your heart’s delight in THE SUNDAY CALL. WHY THERE WERE NO DEMOCRATS ON THE LIST. Marriot Brosius of Pennsylvania, who is the author of the bill introduced in Congress pro- viding for the retirement of civil service employes of the Government, tells & good story in connection with the recent criticism of Clevelana for extending the civil service over thousands of offices after he had turned the Republicans out and filled the offices with Democrats, says the Washington Post. Brosius maintains that the Republicans have every- thing to galn and nothing to lose by the adop- tion of the merit system, and in substantia- tion of tnis relates an incident told by Major Harlow of the Civil Servicé Commission about B. B. Smalley, the well-known Democrat, Col- lector of Customs in Vermont. One day some of the Democrats came to the Vermont Col- lector and complained: “See here, Mr. Smalley, you have not gotany Democrats in your office. These fellows hold- ing the Government positions are all Repup- licans.” “Well, what do you suggest?” asked Smalley. “We've got a couple of good Democrats and we want you to put out iwo Republicans and give them the places,” was the reply. “All right,” said Smalley, “I am & little hampered just now, but I will see what can be done. You see this list of names es.”* ““Well, run over it and see if you ean find tbe names of your two Democrats on it.” The politicians did as directed, when suddenly one of them blurted out: “Whatis this darned thing anyway, Mr. Smalley?” “That,” answered the Collector, “{s the list of persons who have passea the civil service examination. Ifany vacancies ocour in my office force the law requires me tofill them from the names on that list.” “But these are all Republicans, Mr. Smalley; there is not a Democtat on the “I am afraia not,” said the Collector, regretfully, “The trouble is, our Vermont Democrats don’t go to school as they should do, and until they do there is no way of getting them Goyern- ment positions.” NO HOPE FOR THE MEN. Big sleeves are gotng out. they say, Andyeu we see them every day Wher'er we go. It's plain that the miilennium, ‘Although, perhays. it’s bound to come, Ts coming slow. And when 1t does, and sleeves grow small, What will the women do with al ‘The cloth they've Will all the woolen mills shut dowa, ‘While store men faill and tallors frown? Man knoweth not. One thing Is sure. Men's pockst-books, However lovely woman looks, Will not erow fat. 11 cloth Is plenty, whac they save Each oue to spend at vnce will crave On a new hat. —Somerville Journal. PERSONAL. William Wing of Eureks is in the City. Dr. J. L. Asay of San Jose is at the Lick. W. Woodburn of Carson, Nev., is in town. G. W. Ellis of Japen arrived here yesterday. L. Hirschfield of Tulare got here yesterday. T. R. Kumler of Oxford, Ohio, is at the Russ. D. Burnett of Davisville arrived here yester- day. ];l'. C. W. Kellogg of Lakeport is a late arrival here. Senator G.N. Androus of Pomona is at the Grand. E. H. Beam, a real estate dealer of Sanger, is in town. | Supervizor A. M. Duncan of Mendocino is in the City. E. Dinkelspiel, the business man, of Buisun isin town. L. J. Maddox, the attorney of Modesto isat the Grand. Thomas Bair of Humboldt Bay is at the Occidental. Thomas B. Kay, a business man of Salem, is at the Lick. N. Wines, the stageline owner, of Santa Bar- bara, is here, Thomas Dougall, 8 merchantof Marysville, is at the Lick. J. B. Small, a resident of Sonoms, 18 staying at the Cosmopolitan. T. Musto, a whole: arrived here last night. C. E. Tinkham, the lumber manufacturer, of Chico, is on a visit here. J. H. Flickinger, the extensive frult-grower, of San Jose is in the City. J. Cowan and wife of Glen Ellen are regis- tered at the Cosmopolitan. John T. Sullivan, proprietor of the Sea Beach Hotel, Santa Cruz, is in the City. Charles Sheldon, a business man of Spokane, is registered at the Cosmopolitan. A. F. Abbott, & mining and business man of Marysville, arrived here yesterday. Warden Hale of S8an Quentin ison a visit to Southern California for hig heal:h. . T.J. Field, s banker of Monterey, 18 in the City, and is registered at the Palace. Charles Kreuter, the cornetist, has gone to join the Hawaiian Government band. J. B, Stephens, s mining man of Spokane, is among the late arrivals rom the north. Fred Cox, the banker, ranch-owner and cattle-grower, of Sacramento is at the Grand. . F. B.Bpringer, Western sgont of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, is at the Grand. Robert Duncan of Alaska was one of yester- day's arrivals here. He is down on a business trip. George M, W. Ayers, a wealthy resident of Auckland, New Zealand, 1s quartered at the Palace. W. H. Harris, a mine-owner of Rossland, the new and big camp of Trail Creek, B.C., is at the Russ. M. McCarthy, s buildér and contractor from Stockton, is at the Cosmopolitan accompanied by his son. 3. F. S8anders, a leading mining man of Colo- rado, whose headquarters are now at Delta, arrived yesterday, accompsnied by his family and several friends.. James G. Berryhill, a leading and wealthy attorney of Des s oines, Towa, who is conspicu- ous in Republican politics and who has been £ merchant of Stockton, recently advocated for Congress, is among the arrivals hore. J. C. Bull, the wealthy contractor, of Arcats, who for some years has had contracts for the Hurmboldc breakwater, is in town. He isone of the pioneers of Humboldt County. Bishop Anson R. Graves, late of Kesrney, Nebr., who has been appointed coadjutor to Bishop Wingfield of the northern diocese of California, arrived here yesterday, and is at the Occidental. R. A, Grabarh of Marshfield, Or., & railroad contractor who has been prominent in con- nection with some San Diego contracts and later was known as one of the projectors of a railroad enterprise from Coos Bay, is at the Palace. He has more recently become inter- ested in the development of Important cosl properties near Coos Bay. CALIFORNIANs IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan.27.—At the Plaza, F. B. Millard; Imperial, F. Kingsley; Hoftman, R. E. Brown; Broadway, M. Seminoff; Gilsey, B. B. Dimon; Astor, B. Miller; Union Square, J. J. Leary. Captain and Mrs. Lee left the Plaza to sail for Europe. A SAFE PLACE. Yondon Figaro, Father Hugh Lagan of San Rafael is a plous priest and an excellent raconteur. His rever ence relates that he was called in recently to administer the last rites of Mother Church to adying sinner, who, like himsslf, was & native of the Emerald Isle, t I bave but one request to make, Father,” gasped the dying penitent. “What is it, my son?” inquired the priest. “That when I am dead, Kather, you will put me to rest in the Hebrew cemetary.” *And what for?" asked Father Lagan. “Because, your reverence,” moaned the sick man, “it’s the last place on the face of the globe where the divil wonld look for an Irish- man.” BEYOND THE EXPERIMENT STAGE. Indianapolis Journal. Ithas been demonstrated in Glasgow, Ber- 1in and several English cities that city owner- ship of railroads, tramways, waterworks, gas- works, baths, laundries, Industrial educa- tional schools, etc., not only promotes the pub- lic welfare, but ifcreases the revenues and lowers taxes. The success of the experiment depends on vwise, skillful and honest manage- ment, and it 18 not certain that it would suc- ceed In American cities. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. ““Well, my dear,” said Mr. Proudwite, you have & successful meetingof your club this afternoon ?” “Oh, yes, indeed,” said she, enthusiastically. “We did just like the men—passed resolutions that we were real sorry for Cuba and that the Turks are just as mean and hateful ascan be!"—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, “Waiter, this cnop is done abominably.” Tt's what you ordersd, s What Lordered ? What d'yer mean 1 ‘Why, you ordered a chop mnot too well done.”—London Nllustrated Bits, *What are you crying sbout, Willie 7 “I feel bad.” “Did you eat too much at Charlie’s party 2" “No, sir; that’s the trouble; I feel bad be- cause I didn’t eat more.”—Yonkers States man. “Would you please help me,” said the poor beggar to the pedestrian. “I have s wife and five children at home and an installment to pay on my bicycle to-morrow.— Yonkers Statesman. “Father, are generals brave men?” asked Johnny. “Yes, my son, as & rule,” was the answer. “Then why does artists always make pic- tures lol ’k’l’: standing on a hill three miles away looking at a battle through - glass ?"—Tit-Bits. [ AR ek Bliffers (reading)—Science now condition called “intoxication by':elxl‘:lll':na Many cases of drunkenness are cited in which the victim had touched nothing alcoholic, but bad simply been in the company of drinkers, Whiffers—Cut that out. I want to show it 10 .y wife,.—Pearson’s Weekly., MUSIC AND oinette Trebelli, who has just ar- fl:‘:;el.rx;natrnu- wiil begin her American concert tour at the California Theater on Tuesday, February 9 Gustay Hinrichs will conduct s grand_orchestrs, organized for the occasion. Mlle. Trebelll is & well-known concertsinger, especially in England, Holland, Russia and Germany. A few years ago she came to America for a brief season and sang with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and with Theodore Thomas' orchestra. Special inducements were offered her to make & more extended tour in Americs at the time, but she had made & contract to sing with Hans Richter's orchestra in London, and therefore could not remain in this country. She is p sionately fond of traveling, however, and nearly two years ago setoutona tour of the world under the management of the well- known impressario, Vert. She toured in South Africs, penetrating as far as Zululand, then Went to Zanzibar, and afterward toured all MUSICIANS 8lg0 being very much admired as a pianist ‘ He plays as a composer and notas a virtuoso, buteven from the mechanical point of view his playing is such that few professional planists can compete with him. Antoine Bruckner, the Viennese master who died recently, left by will all his manuscripts to the Imperial Library of Vienna. These manuscripts have been handed over to the library by Dr. Theodore Reisch and Professors Loewe and Schell have been detailed to classify them. They embrace the eight first symphonies, part of the ninth, the mass in D minor, 150 psalms and two choruses for male voices. La Menestrel states that Mlle, Francesoa (Miss Fanny Simondson of San Francisco) has been singing, among Mme. Marchesi’s other pupils, at a recital in the Theatre Mondain be- foreshe goes to Nice for the opera season. In the mad scene from Ambroise Thomas' MLLE. TREBELLI, the Famous Soprano Who Will Sing at the California Theater. [From a photograph by Falk of Melbourne.] over Australia. Mile. Antoinette Trebelll is still quite a young woman. She is the daugh- ter of the famous contralto, Trebelli, though her own achievements in the musical line do not cause her to depend on her mother for fame. Antoinette, however, has never cared to sing in opers,so tnat her name is not 5o widely known as it would have been if she had been appearing at the great opers-hous She 18 & soprano with great flexibility of exe- cution. At her concertshe will confine her- self chiefly to grand operatic arias, with orchestral accompaniment. The admimstration of La Scals, in Milan, has started a new departure in the way of providing facilities for press representatives on the second floor of the great overa-house, alarge and elegantly furnished room having been placed at the disposition of the press. The apartment is provided with every faculity for writing, telegraphing, telephoning, disvateh- ing messages, etc. This s an innovation that would be warmly welcomed in other cities beside Milan, for it is often a great conveni- ence to newspaper men to beable to write, telegraph or telephone between the scts, and in the majority of American theaters not the slightest sccommodation is provided for pen- ningaline. A wail has been going up from some of the New York dramatic critics that in many cases their offices are situsted too far from the theater to go there to write after the performance, and no accommodation being provided by the managements of the theaters, they have to rush toa messenger office and write hastily in the midst of the noise snd claster. A Berlin newspaper, the Gegenwart, pub- lishes the following letter, which Louis II of Bavaria, at that time 20 years of age, ad- dressed to Richard Wagner, after the first per- formance of “Tristan and Yseult,” in which Herr ana Frau Schnorr played the leading roles: “Illustrious and divine friend, I can hardly wait for to-night, so much do I long to see the second performance. You have written to Pfistermeister, you hope that my love for your work will not be decreasad by the some- What faulty conception of the role of Kur- on the part of Mitterwurzer. Beloved Iriend, how can you cherish such & thought? Iam filled with enthusiasm; transported. I burn with the desire tosee a new performance. “This mervelous work ‘that thy spirit cre- ated’ who could see it, who could know 1t without calling it divine? Your work, so mag- nificent, so suave, so. grandiose, has quenched the thirst of my soul. Hail to its creator, my admiration is his. My friend, will you have the kindness to tell the excellent artist couple how much their work has exalted and en- thused me; will you express to them my best thanks? I beg you to give me the joy of hear- ing from you soon. Is it nottrue, my precious friend, that courage to create anew will never abandon you? In the name of those whom you fill with the delight that God slone sc- cords I pray you not to lose courage, you and God. In death and beyond it, 1n the empire of the worlds of darkness, I remain yours faitnfal, Lours, “Berg, 12th June, 1865, “Addressed to the poet of text and of music, Richard Wagner.” At Triebschen, near Lucerne, a plaque bear- ing an inscription has just been placed at the entrance to the villa, on the banks of the Lake of the Four Cantons, which Wagner inhabited during the six years after his departure from Munich, The inscription is in these terms: *In this house Richard Wagner lived from the 1st of April, 1866, till the month of April, 1872. It was here that the master first began the ‘Meistersingers,’ ‘Siegfreid,’ “The Dusk of the Gods', the ‘Imperial March’ and the ‘Blegiried Idyl’ ” This plaque will setat rest & misapprehension on the part of couriers and guides, for the villa s generally pointed out to tourists as -the spot where Wagner wrote ‘“Lohengrin,” perhaps because its proximity to the water and the low green bank recall the scene in “Lohengrin” when the swan first arrives. A rather curious incident happened atthe Paris Opera Comique the other day during the performance of *Mignon.” Mile. Fernande Dubois, who sang the title role, was out of health, but not wishing to disappoint the public she took what she thought were some drops of a calming potion to steady her nerves, but by accident took adrug which caused her to fall in & dead faint soon aiter she had gone on the stage. The curtain was lowered and Mlle. Parentant hastily replaced her comrade and the opera was about to be taken up where the other Mignon had fainted, but the audience pro- tested, orying out that it would have “Mignon” from the commencement, so the opera was be- gun all over again and came to & close nearly an hour later than usual in consequence of the interruptions. Edward Grieg is in Vienns, where his con- certs are creating quite a sensation. Among the pieces that he has conducted is “‘Bergliot," which although not an absolute novelty is not widely known. It is & monologue, which is given without accompaniment, but the or- chestra adds musical illustrations quite inde- pendent of the monologue. This form is abso- lutely new, and it seems the “Bergliot” has met with great success in Vienna. Grieg is “Hamlet"” she made s great fmpression. Some of the other puplls especially mentioned are & young Canadian, Mile. Toronta, Who is said to possess a Umpid voice of wide range; Miss Papayane, a Russian singer, and Mlle. Kirine. Richard Pohl, & well-known writer on musi- cal subfects, has just died at Baden, near Carlsruhe. He passed part of his life at Weimar, where he was an intimate friend of Franz Liszt, and he has published several works on the Weimar master, as well as on Berlioz and Wagner. It was he who wrote the librettos of Schumann’s “Manfred” and Lisst's 2nd healso translated Berlioz's works into German, The Gazette of Cologne publishes a telegram from St. Petersburg stating that that town has just sent four carloads of musical instruments (including pianofortes) to Abyssinia on an order from King Menelik. The dusky monarch has also engaged a troupe of Russian musi- cisns and a conductor to make music for him. This opens up a new fleld for artists and for manufacturers of musical instruments. A grand and very successful musical festival has been given at Gand in honor of Mile, Au- gusta Holmes, the Irish-Frencn composer. Al the music performed was of Miss Holmes’ own composition and was all recelved with en- thusiasm. The duo from the last act of “La Montagne Noire” made the greatest impres- sion. A Vienna publishing-house has just put on the market a waltz entitled “To Thee Alone.” The composer is the Archduke Peter Ferdi- nand, and his waltz bears the dedication “To my Sister Louise.” The foreign papers announce, without giv- ing details, the violent death of the barytone Lipowsky, assassinated at Littau “by ms- take,” Carl Goldmark’s “Cricket on the Hearth, whose first appearance was 80 warmly wel- comed in Germany, hasmade & complete flasco at Munich. The town of Dessau is gomng to erect a grandiose memorial to Richard Wagner. Giordino's opera, “Andrea Chenier,” is not only being produced in all the principal Eu- ropean musical centers, but it is now an- nounced for Alexandria, in Egypt. 1f Maple- son’s company had lived San Francisco would have heard it. THE ROAD TO PROSPERITY. Globe-Democrat. It will be fn vain to look for a permanent or 011 trade revival until after the tariff bill gots on the statute book. As the bill will prob- ably touch all the schedules in some degree, there will be a geod deal of uncertainty in most of the interests until the measure passes into the President’s hands. This will give a speculative character to most of the business one in the larger fields in the interval, and % consequence the forces of industrial re- cuperation will be impeded for the time. A Settlement of the_question is imperatively re- uired at the earliest practioable moment, so That business men can deal with certainties and finalities. The country needs ample rey- enues and adequate protection, snd then 1t Wants long rest from tariff tinKering. 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