The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1897. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by cyrrier. .§0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, oue year,by mail.... 6.00 Datly and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CaL, three months by mail 1.60 Dally snd Sunday CaLL, one month, by mail.. .65 Sunday CaLi, one year, by mail.... 1.60 W AxXLY CaLL, one year, by mall.....es 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Merk San Francisco, Californla. Telephone....... EDITORIAL ROOMS: B17 Clay Street. Telephone.. BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montromery eirees, coruer Clay; cpen untll ©:30 o'clock. £39 Haves street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 616 {arkin sireet: open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open 9 o'clock. 518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. Ninth strect; open unil 9 0'ciock. 1305 Poli street; open untll 8:30 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFIC] Rooms 51 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Fastern Manager. ~ THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. | —_— | . ......FEBRUARY 18, 1897 THE FAKE AND THE FACT. —THE FAKE— ‘The Eraminer pul top of its t1tle pug hed for several days at the tollowing fa-e: THE EXAMINER PUELISHED | 249,757 Inches ’ Of Ads During 1896. 5964 More Than werz published by anyi other San Francisco newspaper. In the publication of this fake the Eraminer | record was was probal belng Key sdverd hat a carefu amou confrouted with the following fact. —THE FACT— | THE EXAMINER FUELISHED | 236,528 Inches | Of Ads During 1896, | That is one fact and here is an« other: THE CALL PUBLISHED 239,551 Inches| Of Ads During 1896, 3,023 More Inches were published in THE CALL than in the Examiner during 1896, It s 10 be re: et vt red tha: daring 1895 ths roximuiely B)0 fnches of ments, of waich THE CALL publisa one. of the faxers has doubtless suc- ceeded in securing thousands of inches of adver- | tising during the past year by dupin - aud deceiv- | ing advertisers through false and arrogan: as tions of the charecter of the foregoing fake. It vould seem, from the facts that the merchants a3 & role have not been misled by iis rsudulent pretenses. 1he Erxaminer boasts (hat its books are open to however, fnspectlon, but we suggest th inspect 1is own | tooks before res uoon the publication of another £ We co o the public on the fact that the exrosure of this fake led the Examiner todrop L. Tn this the Eraminer wis discreet, and if 1t 1s wise | will make 1o more such bold auempis to — e Tie Cuban committee is strong. 1f there is anything that can baste Tur- key it is Greece. Chanuler's speech for bimetallism was a good warning for the goldbues. Up in Oregen they care no more for a Senator than for eny old thing. San Francisco can now work as effectu- ally as her sister cities for {ree Cuba. Work for the unemployed is a request that should be responded to quickly. 1t rezlly seems more trouble in Earope to avoid a war than it would be to fight it out. McKinley has bad a rest for a day or two, but he had to take the influenza to getin There is evidently a Groek fire in the Pan-Hellenic spirit which cannot be ex- tinguished. Cioverdale is in full bloom and San Diego is yetting ready. The carnival days are approaching. The Greeks having occupied Crete are ina good position to arbitrate and leave the thing to diplomacy. Surely the big world is strong and wise enough to see justice done to two little islands like Crete and Cuba. As Victoria has ordered a new steam yacht it is evident she still feels sporty enough to hold the throne down. There is still some opposition in the country to an extra session, but it is hardly audible and cannot be falt. In the Cretan quarrel, as weil as in that of Armenia, the Suitan is in a position to let the other fellows do all the worrying. General Weyler has made very good use of his typewriter and telegraph, but if he wishes to keep up with the times he must get a cartoonist. The University of California is about to enter upon a new era in its history, and in a few years we will not have to brag about it, for the world will know it. In a community where there is so much wealth and &0 much work that needs to be done it ought not to be difficult to pro- vido profitable employment for all who want i *Ouida” has risen to protest against the immigration biliand declares that Italians who cannot read are better than those who can; but thea “Ouida” is always sensational. Cecil Rhodes admits he had no right to place Jameson with an armed force on the borders of the Transvaal, but he implied that if he did wrong he was proud of it and intends some day to do it again. 1 THE PAN-HELLENIC SPIRIT. Because the people of Crete have of late suffered no great indignities from Turkish rule there is a tendency on the part of some Americans to hold them guilty of an une justifiabte war in their present insurrectiol claim to see in the outbreak evidence of of Great Britain to force the Turkish questi war, while others argue that diplomatists outside the countries named have been instrumental in getting up the agitation as a bold play to force the hands of both Russia and Great Britain and compel them to take action. There is no suificient reason on which to base any of these assertions of secret conspiracies and diplomatic intrigues. Th eration past shown an earnest desire to be nation with their feliow Greeks of the mainland. This spirit of race patriotism is suf- ficient to account for all that has taken place in the island. Men who are devoted to liberty and to the idea of a great nationality need no conspirators from the outside to urge them on. They are ever ready and promises success to their arms and the accomplishment of their patriotic dreams. The inhabitants of the Greek islands now under Turkish rule are as eager for a united Greek nation as were the Germans t many was simply & geographical expres: moved the Italians to incessant insurrections until a united ltaly was established. They are animated by the same motive which inspired the patriots of these colonies to revolt against the Government of King George in order to erect a free, separate, sovereign and independent Government of The grievances of which the Cretes complain under Turkish rule are of a kind that are sometimes derided as sentimental. the most leniently governed province of th been inflicted upon the people of that country as upon those of Armenia. been aliowed a large liberty of self-government and their property and their lives have been secure from any outbreak of Moslem misrule or fanaticism. see no cause for war except when wron patriots appear as willlul and lawless disturbers of the peace of Earope. this class of men are few. The great ma | patriotism and sympathizes with all who revolt against any form of domination by an alien race or a foreign power no matter how lenient it ma It is the old issue of the eternal battle the most benevolent despotism or the most trivial injustice. revolt against the imposition of ship mone: ment of twenty shillings would ruin his estate, but that the payment of half twenty shiil gs would have made him a slavi the money payments involved in the stamp tax, but against the principle of taxation without representation. These questions capable of understanding liberty and law such principles are incapable of establishingz a seif-governing nation. The uprising in Crete is in the fullest and truest sense a patriotic outbreak. an evidence of the power of that Pan-Helle all the Greek and the Germans has made those cour lar movements are mightier than the tists. Itis as impossible to crash them as ries deed the one cannot be achieved without the other. | Crete so long will it cherish Greek aspirations, and until those as gloriously realized tho peace of the worl together in one nation as surely as a similar spirit among the Italians ns of statesmen or the intrigues of diploma- will be disordered and disturbed. n against the Turkish power. Some critics & conspiracy on the part erther of Russia or ion to a settlement by the outbreak of a e people of Crete have for more than a gen- rid of Turkish rule and to be united in one willing to seize every opportunity which o form a nation in the old days when Ger- sion. Theirs is the same impulse which their own. It is conceded that Crete has been by far e Turkish empire. No great atrocities have They have To those men who g is done 0 person or property the Cretan Fortunately jority of mankind shares in sentiments of be. for liberty and independence against even As Hampden said of his y by Charles I: “It was not that the pay- Our forefathers in 1776 fcught not against of principle affect every people who are and those who are unwilling to fight for It s nic spirit which will sooner or later bring | great and powerful nations. These popu- | it is impossible to exterminate a race. In- } 8o long as the Greek race lives in ations have been AN EXTRAORDINARY BILL. Among the min r measures submitted 10 the Legislature which ere of a nature sufficiently extraordinary to provoke more than ordinary comment is Senate bill 28 which proposes the appoiniment in this City of an official to be known as “*Special- ist in Sociological E fucation.” The proposed official is to be appointed in any city or connuty where the daily at- tendance at schools exceeds 25000 or where the inmates of prisons, reforma- tories, almshouses and hospitals exceed 1000. He is to receive the same pay as the Superintendent of Schools in the county where he is appointed, and i San Fran- cisco would get $1000 a year. The Super- visors are required to furnish rooms for Lis offices. He is to have $500 a year for stationery and office expenses, is to be | lowed to employ a shorthand reporter, | whose compensation shall be one-half the | amount now allowed official reporters in the Superior courts, and such clerical and other assistance as th The employment of the ‘“Specialist in | Sociological Education” isto be made by the Superintendent of Schools, Sheriff and Recorder. He is to continue in office for t e same period that the regular class of teachers of the primary and grammar schools are now appointed. This means a virtual tenancy of the office for life,« since there will be no power to try the specialist for unprofessional conduct or neglect of duty, as there is in the case of teachers. | The duties which are to be expected of this extraordinary official are many. He | is to study crime and pauperism with | reference to drunkenness and the use of opium; to inquire into the causes which produce eriminals and paupers and sug- | gest remedies. He is to prepare for cir- culation among the mothers of school children and teachers sociological litera- ture containing suggestions for eradicat- ing evil tendencies in mind and body. He is to collect and report upon the details relating to the different branches of soci- ology and the several subdivisions of crim- inal anthropology, copies of which reports | are to be filed with the Superintendent of Schools, Recorder, Sneriff, Le.isisture, Governor and the principals of normal school His privileges are to be almost asnumer- ous as his duties. He is to have free ac- cess to »11 institutions for the purpose of investigating social pathology and may be permitted to perform autopsies upon the bodies of decsased persons. He may act as counsel in criminal trials where the defense is insanity, and any person who impedas or prevents him in the full and free performance of his office is to be held guilly of a misdemeanor. The bi!l hardly needs comment. The creation of an official of this kind is cer- tainly one of the luxuries which San Fran- cisco can do witbout. It will cost at ieast $10,000 a year to pay his salary and run his office. He comes too high. We do not need him in our educarional system healf as much as we need some new rare animal in the zoological zardens at the perk. The biil is a good one to be dropped in the wastebasket. The constitutional convention now in ses- sion in Delawars hasadopted a proposition to punish bribe-takers by fine and impris- onment, and try them belore & board of judges instead of by jury. It isalso de- clared a witness shall not have a right to decline to give evidence on :he ground that he might be incriminated. Thus are two of the most venerable precedents of our law set aside in order to try another experiment at making people honest by statute, A man rushed into the oflice of a doctor m Louisville and declared he had swal- lowed a glass of cider into which arsenic had been dropped by mistake. The doctor madea bee-line for the kitchen to get some hot water, and when he returned he founa the man had gone and taken with him every portable thing of value he could lay his hands on. The suffering victim was a soeak thief and his trick is the latest. Itis announced that McKinley will ex- ercise great care in selecting men for the consular service, as he wishes to have in those offices men who will be of use in de- veloping our commerce with foreign na- tions. That means busines: All the statesmen of Europe seem to be greatly worried lest the Turks should whip Greece, but the Greeksare not show- ing any worry, They continue to sail away for Crete with a gleam of victory in their eyes. pervi-ors may | | deem reasonanle. | State | , THE OONSULAR SERVICE. | In his efforts to restors the prosperity of | the country, Major McKinley intends to make his term of office a business admin- | istration in every respect. All reports that come to us from those who are close |to him and can speak with authority make it certain that there is no pari of our | industrial o commercial life to which he | will not give close attention and every | belp which lies in his power. Among the features of the administra- | tion which will mark its devotion to the business welfare of the country will be the | setections made for the consular service. | F. B. Loomis, who has been the Canton correspondent of the New York Tribune ever since the St. Louis convention, and who has had full oy portunities for seeing the President-eiect and learning his opin- ions, has recently written to his paper an article setting forth the careful considera- tion which Mr. McKinley will give to the selection of men for foreign appointments. Mr. Loomis sa It s the ambition of the President-elect, above all other tnings, to advance the busi- ness interests of this country, to expand for- elgn markets and to contribute to thesub- stantial restoration of abundant, normal pros- perity. No man w be considered for an ap- pointment of the slightest consequence who s not beifeved 10 be willing and avle to do something to increase the demand for Ameri- can products abroad. Major McK nley wants gentlemen in the foreign service and wants men of education, culture and ideas, who their beariog, their acts, official deeds and utterances, exemplify the best, truest and highest type of American cit! will have no use whatsoever for drones or for rich alers who hope to become sumptuous loungers sbout foreign capitals, The importance of the proposed new de- perture in our consular service cannot be overrated. It has long been known that the management of our foreign commer- cial relations has been the weak point in our Government. While the Consuls of other countries have been chosen for their fitness to advance the commerce of | their merchants, and find new markets | for the produce of the industriesof the | people, our Consuls have been to a consid- erable extent either negligent of these duties or iucapabie of rightly performing | them. No one has spoken more severely of the | defects in our consular service than some of the more earnest members of that ser- vice themselves. It is in fact a well- known truth that we lose a large propor- | tion of the trade of foreizn countries | simply because our Consuls abroad are not sufficiently well informed concerning the ¢commerce of their own country to know how to promote it in the markets of the ports at which they are stationed. Theneel of a patriotic and intelligent consular service is everywhere recognized. The imporiance of improvement in this department of the Government is hardly less great than a revision of the tariff. We must have not only revived industries, but wider and broader markets for their products, and the McKinley administra- tion will deserve well of the country if it carries out succesafully the policy which { it promises to undertake. | GALVESTON'S IMPROVED HARBOR One of the greatest achievements of modern engineering skill is the deepening | of Galveston's harbor from fifteen to twenty-five feet by the building of the immense jetties which have just been completed. The work is a triumph for the engineers and a striking exampie of | the advance of human power over the forces of nature. The jetty far surpasses in magnitude any ever constructed before. ‘The problem involved in the exploit was a puzzling one to the most experienced engineers. The success hes been signal and the results to the commerce and gen- eral development of the Southwestern States will constitute a new era for that section. There are two of these jetties—one four miles long and the other six. Each is fifty feet wide at the base and from twelve to fifteen feet wids on top. The founda- tion is a wide layer of sandstono thirty feet wide and three feet thick. The main | body of the structure consists of a mass of broken rock aumped into the water from a railway built oa piles, and over all is a layer of immense granite blocks weighing from two to ten tons placed =o close together that they make almost a solid | granite wall. The two jetties are a mile apart. The expectation is that they will endure as long as the earth keeps the even tenor of its way. The Government ex- pended $6,400.000 on them, and the harbor can now be entered by the great ocean- going vessels of the world. The men who planned this vast con- struction had to contend with the dis- couragement of the aaverse criticism of some of the most authoritative engineers. It was said that the distance of a mile was 100 far apart to place the jetties, and as a consequence the waters would not be sufficiently concentrated to cut out the harbor bers. The United States engineers had the courage of conviction and per- sisted in their plan. For four years, as the work progressed and the millions of doilars were being dumped into the sea, the prophets of failure had promise of being able to say, “I told vou s0,” for the obstructing sand persistently stayed on the harbor bars. Toward the end of the construction, however, the bars began to make frequent shifts of their position. They did not go away, but they showed that the work of man’s hands was having some tremendous influence upon the doings of that mighty sea wnich is so calculated to impress him with the puniness of his powers. Human skill pushed the great granite arms a mile or so further out in the sea, and then the obedient waves performed man’s biading swiftly and perfectly. ‘I'he lamp of Alad- din to summon the genii of the deep to toil at human command could scarcely have furnished romance with a more marvelously executed feat. The force of the contined water opened a channel twenty-five feet deep and a mile wide. Vast as the work is, it cost usasa Nation a trifle less than 9 centsapiece. It was for the able-bodied people of this country considered collectively about an hour’s As the thrifty farmer said to his job. barvest hands, we might do like that while we are resting. It was practically the same thing es if we all got up an hour earlier some tine morning and finished the work before breakfast. PER ONAL R. M. Aldridge of Arizona is at the Baldwin. Senator D. A. Ostrom of Yuba is at the nd. liam O. Lee of Detroit is at the Occi- le johs w denta! Mrs. Dr. Leonard of Merced is at the Cosmo- politan. Edward Germain of Los Angeles arrived here yesterday. A. Moore, a large land-owner of Pescadero, is in the City, D. A. Russell, 8 mining man of Iowa Hill, is at the Rus H.W.Lane and J. Parker, of Carson, Nev., are in the City. W. A. G. McKenzie, a railroad man of Santa Maria, is in town. Bert Finning, general-store owner of Forest Hill, is in the City. F. D. McCord, a business man of Hanford, is at the Cosmopolitan. Henry Clay, owner of & general store at Modesto, is at the Russ. J. H. Thomas and A. Egbert, extensive farm- ers of Rio Vista, are at the Russ. J. W. Skinner, for many years a leading business man of Salt Lake, is at the Palace. D. B. Smith, an extensive merchant of Hono- lu, arrived here yesterday on the Australia. J. D. Thompson, & business man of Salt Lake City, is here, accompanied by Mrs. Thompson. C. R. Gilbert and A. T. Collins, mining men of Butte, Mont., were among yesterday’s ar- rivals. Lewis A. Hicks of Bakersficld, engineer for the Kern County Land Company, is at the Occidental. R. C. Sargent, the great land-owner snd ploneer settler of Stockton, Is among the re- cent arrivals here. Ex-Congressman Louttit came down yester- ey from his home in Stockton for a few days’ stay. He isat the Lick. A. 8. Cooper of Santa Barba: the wealthy owner of the extensive quarries of bituminous rock near that city, is in town. Mrs. D. Swaln, & muste-tescher of Fresno, Is in the City for her heaith. She has taken apartments at the Cosmopolitan. E. K. Cuthbert, a business man and coffee- grower of Guatemals, is among the arrivals here. He is accompanied by his wife and child. W.D. Keyser, an old-time stage-line owner of Catifornia und now proprietor of the stages running between Picta end Blue Lake and neighboring points, is on a visit here. E. A. McDonsla of Tacoma, who has come | down from the State of Washington on a com- mission for the newlyelected Governor Rogers, is among the latest arrivals here. W. J. Hotchiss, who is largely interested in the fruit-canning business at Healdsburg, has arrived here alter several weeks’ absence in New York, where he went to make contracts for California fruit. Dr. Ottiwell W. Jones, who has been travel- ng in Europe for the past year and visiting hospitals, particularly Martin's at Berlin, has returned with his wife, and will resume the practice of his profession in this City. H. 0. Bell-Irving of Vancouver, the British Columbia agent of Anglo-British Colum- bia Packing Company of London, England, Is her>. His company is one of the greatestin the world avd owns canneries on the Fraser, Skeena and Nass rivers. It has agencies in New York and elsewhere over the country. H. Bratnober, the widely known Pacific Coast mining man, who has operated exten- sively for a number of years in Montana, Ari- zona, 1daho, and other sections of the country in gold and silver mines, has ar- rived here after several months in Colorado. While absent he succerded in selling the famous Tomboy ¢old mine, which was pur- chased by the British Investment Company. It is said that the price paid was $1.500.000. The heavy men of the company are the Roths- childsof England, who bought the Douglass Island mines in Alaska and who are now operating on the mother lode in California. CAL FORNIAN> (N NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb.17.—At the Plaza, G. B. Fraser; Park Avenue, J. D. Hammond; Warwick, D. Austman; Holland, P. S. and Mrs. L. L. Beke, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Whitty; Gilsey, W. 8. Mendalbali; Astor, W. Linden; Everett, Mrs. J. Coughlan. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Cohn and Mrs. Levy of Stockion left the Plaza to sall on the Havel. NEWSPAPE PLcASANTRY. “Do you cail that a veal cutiet, walter?” said a Loudon exquisite, one of the most delicate type. ““Why, sir, such a veal cutlet as thatis an insuit to every self-respecting calf in the British empire. The waiter hung his head in very shame for amomentand then replied, in s language of humblest apology: “I really didn’t intend to fnsult you, sir.'— Tit-Bits. Lawyer—I must know the whole truth be- fore I can successfully defend you. Have you toid me everythirg? Pritoner—Except where I hid the money. I want that for myself.—Tit-Bits. Sunday-school teacher—And what did David do to Goliath? Newest pupil—Aw, say! ving to him.—Truth. He didn’t do a “Now, little boy,’ said the kinaly old woman to the youth with a Kite, “if you wiil Tun this errend for me I will buy you & new ball of twine.” The lad did not move, but stood as if of stone. The package was (0 be delivered seven blocks away, and, besides, he had & vague suspicion that she was stringing him.—Grand Rapids Press, ’m glad to know,” remarked Miss Cayenne, “that Mr. and Mrs. Jinkle are living far more Lappily than they were formerly.” “Indeed?” Yes. I am informed that they haven't spoken to each other for weeks.”—Washington Star. ROBBIE BURNS IN GEORGIA. La Grange Reporter. A Georgia editos And would some power the giftie gle us To see our creditors before they see us. ARE YOU A LOVER OF NATURE? Then you cannot fail to find interest in the contribation of th Sunday’s CALL. The title is ¢‘Bird, Tree and Hedgerow."” Somebody has written somewhere recently That statement has a huudred times been proved false, and reminds the scientifically accurate article by Protessor vinced. e Naturalist at Large in next “Cali no indigenous song-birds.” b e o?e of the assertion de in an Eastern paper some time ago that m‘n‘l(omin has only one tree, and thatis the scrub oak.” You went to familisrize yourself with the facts in the premisas, especially when some of the glories of our Golden State are brought into question. To do this you should not miss any of that delightful and valuable serles of erticles en- titled *Idyls of the Field,” and particu arly shouid you reed the one bearing the sub-title ~Bird, Tree and Hedgerow” in THE SUNDAY LL. C;‘.sn storles are always in order—that is, good fish stor es. 3 One of th- very best of the latter kind will appear in THE CALL next Sunday. Perhaps vou don’t know that fish are not the same color at night as during the day. Itis e fact, though. Sometimes fish can change color at Will. This seems hard to believe; but if you read Verrill in THE SUNDAY CALL you will be con- that Most remerkable is the story told, and everybody who has ever gone fishing will read it and Profit by tne perusal. Van Dyek Brown wilt have one of his sple naid reviews of British art, and other writers Will tell of new departures among artists of the West. The children will have a page appropriate His Country.” trations will be of a rare order. It will bea Wal to the approaching birthday of the “Father of It will be full of excellent reading, entertaining and instructive, and the illus- shingtonfan pege, and every child will want to heer all the s'ories that will appearin the young people’s realm of THE SUNDAY CALL. Some highly humorous sketches will add variety to the pages, but space is too limited to enable us to call attention to the numerous special features. Suffice it tosay that THE SUNDAY CALL will be crowded with good things, calculated to bring pleasure to every home. MUSIC AND Mme. Carreno said in a recent interview Wwith Channing Ellery that if she were offered & palace and millions of doilars to give up being a professional planist she would refuse itall in order to cling to her art. There is scarcely an artist before the public who has | more originality in conception aud technique than Cerreno. Conventionality is entirely foreign to her naiure, and she has grieved and pained New York by seying that she would prefer being known as *Tkhe Wild In- dien Pisnist” to being aubbed “The Society Pianist.” When asked if she did not enjoy Ber recital at the gorgeous Waldorf the other day she answered: “A veautiful paiace fora ball or adinner, but nothing could be worse for a piano recital. The fdea of being planted there on & low stage, invisible to nine-tenths of your audience, with a low ceiling above you and palms all round. Every time Icame out to bow 1 scratched my nose against one of those wretched palm leaves. I felt like an idiot, too, when I had to bow, because the room being twice as broad as it is deep my audiencs seemed to spread out interminably MUSICIANS. his rights had been infringed the prima donna’s admirer carried the case to the Gov | ernment of the Canton and thence it was appealed to the Federal Council, which has rendered a final decision that the Municipal Council had no right to forbid enfrance to any spectator who was not noisy and disorderly during the performance. | The fairy opera entitled “The Royal Chil- | aren,” Ethelbert Humperdin which has | been anticipated for montns past, has just been played for the first time at the Royal Theater, | Munich. The work was received with such {rantic enthusiasm as to recall the legendary successes of Richard Wugner’s later operas, which were produced under the patronage of | bis friend d protector, King Louis II of Bavaria. he fortunate composer of “Hansel | and G etel” was present at the performence of “The Rovel Children,” and was greeted with | acclamations by the audience. It was what | the Italians call a successone, and the composer | was called before the curtain slmost &s often | asif the performance had been taking place MME. TERESA CARRENO, Who Refuses to Be Gushed Over by Society. right and left, and Ididn’t know in what di- rection I ought to look. I hope to goodness I shan't have to play there again. The Waidors 18 gll very well for a debutante who needs s friendly isunching from society friends, but as for me I want to be brought face to face with the great public and not depend upon any one class for support. When my manager met me at the steamer and informed me I was to pla at the Waldorf I was aghast, and did not hesi tate 1o teil bim so. ‘Butmy dear Mme. Car- reno we must have society with us,’ he remon- strated. ‘Bother soclety,’ I replied. ‘Soclety is all very well of itsclf, but it is best notto mix it up with art.’ "’ There was a time when the Royal Theater of Madrid wes one of the most flourishing opera- houses in Europe, but lately it bas fallen into astate of utter decadence. A Madrid news- (paper, EL Campenon, asks: ‘‘What would the managers of former times say if they could come from their gravesand see thestate of things going on at the opera-house? The management has sent away Mme. Adalgisa Gabbi, whom the public wanted and insisted on having; it could not pay Mme. Teresa A kel, and it was not ashamed to offer M. Russi- tano a reduction of salary immediately aiter e had obtaiued great success in ‘The Hugue- nots; ‘Le Prophets’ etc. Russitano pre- ferred to leave Madrid. The celebrated artist, Mme. Pasqua, soon went also, refusing all overtures for & re-engagement asshe was worn outwith the state of disorder and the scandals which resulted from the aversion of the pub- lic for an enterprise witnout management, without tact and without brains.” It may be added that Mme. Gabdi and Mme. Arkel are two of the best dramatic sopranos in Europe: they would either of them have little Qifii- culty in putting into the shade Mme. Litvinne, Nordica's successor at the Metropolitan Opera- house. In fact, their voices are younger and more beautiful than Nordica's. Arkel is & Jewess of great beauty, and is possessed of remarkable dramatic ability,and Gabbi isa Nespolitan, with all the fire and verve of her race. Charles Frohman has gone on record as re- tusing admission at his theater to & New York critic who had bought his tickets. Mr. Froh- man’'s reason was that the ecritic is gen- erally acknowledgsd to be actuated by envy, hatred, malice and all unchari- tableness. In Switzerland the question of whether & person can be refused ad- mission to a theater has just been brought before the highest tribunal in tho country, and the decision there brought the Supervisors of Gemeva into a good deal of trouble. It seems that & popular singer inlight opera had an admirer, whom she said could call upor her occasionally behind the scenes at the Municipal Theater. The mauager did not dare expostulate, as the singer was very capri- clous and her presence in the cast always caused a sensible increase in the box-office receipts, but to outsiders he expressed his opinion that it was a nuisance to have strangers coming behind the scenes when the performance was in progress. These words came to the admirer's ears, and he imme- diately sought out the manager, with the re- sult that a quarrel ensued and the manager's fnce was slapped. He at once complained to the Municipal Council of the city of Geneva, which owns the Municipal Theater. The council forbid the young man entering its theater, even as & spectator. Believing that in Naples. The public enthusiasm was aug. mented by a surprise which the composer had in store. The programmes announced as the writer of the libretto a certain Ernest Rosner, whom 1o one had ever heard of. The first time he was called before the curtain, Hum- perdinck presented himself with his poet, who Proved to be s blonde and beautiful young woman named Elsa Bernstein. The Munich press preaicts as much suceess for “The Chil- dren of the King” as “Hansel and Gretel” has achieved. Apropos of the hundredth anniversary of Franz Schubert's birth, the musical papers in Austria, France, Germany and England have given an interesting flood of anecdotes of the Viennese master. The following is from Le Menesirel: *“A hundred years ago, in the home of & poor teacher in Vienne, there was born one of the musicians whom Germany hes honored most—Franz Schubert. Thirty years after this memorable event,on the 29th of ; March, 1827, the city of Vienna was rendering. | itslast homage to Ludwig von Beethoven. | Surrounded by & populace in mourning, the remains of the composer of the nine sym- phonies had been laid to rest in the cemetery of Waehring, and accoraing to the custom of the country the musical societies which formed the escort were returning nome to the strains of a triumphal march to express joy at the liberation of the dead man’s soul, when Schubert with some companious eatered a Welinhaus. After the glasses had been filled Schubert named the following toast: *To the oue who will follow him first’ Alas! It was to himself that he drank, for the following year he died. People talk of the high prices charged for grand opera in New York, but the charges at the Meiropolitan are nothing to the rates which are being charged at La Scala in Milan for the first performance of the new bal.et, “Lo Sport,” composed by Manzotti. Orchestra chairs are 80 francs (¥16), $12 is charged for back seats downstairs, and for the top gallery, which is on the second tier, the prices are $3, and $2 extra for the seat being reserved. As for boxes, of which the seating capacity of La Scala is principally composed, they cost a small fortune. The management is under heavy expenses, however, for in spite ot the fact that it is the fashion 10 sueer at the pau- city of stage applisnces in Italy, the Scala ballets are produced with a magnificence Pprobably unparalleled on any stage in the world, and as the balet follows the regular performance of the opera it is necessary to hire two orchestras for the same evening. The members of the Scala Grand Opera Orchestra, about a hundred in number, are all professors. and would consider themsalves degraded if they played for a ballet d'sction. The Roman newspaper L'talie gives the fol- lowing rather curious piece of information: ““We are glaa to be the first to aunounce a srand artistic and fashionable event which will take place {n Rome aiter Easter. Five English composers, the flower of musical ar: in the United Kingdom, wiil give two grand hearings of their best worksat the Costanzi Theater here, with solorsts brought expressly from London. The composers are: Sir Arthur Sullivan, A. C. Mackenzie, F. H. Cowen, Hu- bert Perry and V. C. Stanford. 1he pro- grammes will consist of ‘The Goiden Legend.’ Sullivan’s chef d’ceuvre; ‘Britannia,’ by Mac- kenzie, and the ‘Irish Symphony,’ by Stan- ford. The British court and the Prince of Wales are taking a deep interest in the Roman debut of these British composers.” Franz Schubert left no children, but the de scendants of bis brothers and sisters (he had eighteen of them) are very numerous. At the time of his death five brothers and two sist were stil living. The last survivor was the Rev. Father Andre Schubert, who died in Vi €nna about ten years ago. The other brothers Wwere for the most part teachers in primary schools. The eldest, Ferdinand Schubert, wita Whom Franz lived for some time, was director of the Primary Normal School in Vienna, and died in 1859, leaving twenty-six childr His granddaughter, Mrs. Geissler-Schutert, is an excellent pt . and lives in London. Most of his grandsons are officers or professors. So the name of Schubert is not by any means extinct. A feature of the French Grand Opera Com- pany’s repertoire when that organization ap- pears at the California Theaier next month will be the new opers, “Le Voyage de Suzett which was successiully proauced for the first time in America on the 31st of last month. The music is by Leon Vasseur and the libreito by Messrs. Duru and Chivot. The opera is specteculsar, aud calls for the presence of over 115 people on the stage. An interesting plot runs its course througt 1 tab- leaux, and tells of Suze pe to Persia, and her endeavors to escape one ad- mirer in Spain £0 a8 to meet and marry the other iu Persia, in which she succe: t Milan, one of the most torical instruments in ex: nteresting his- o has een sold by public auction. It was the harpst chord which belonged to Paisieilo, the compo- ser of “La Molinara,” “La Frascatans,” “Ls Due Contesse,” and =0 many other delightiully gracetul and sentimental operas of the oid Italian school. The ding for the iustru- ment was very lively, and it was finally knocked down to a Mrs. Arrigoni for the sum of 1050 francs. ot b A number of European musical papers stato authoritatively that the well-known com- poser Johannes Brabm is attacked with an terual disease, from which he suffers cruell and that & surgical operation will probably bo necessary. Brahms, whom Schumann rath pompously called *The Mozart of the Ni } teenth Century,” will soon complete his sixty fourth year. S Pietro Mascagni has received §10,000 (50, « 000 francs) from the management of the Co- vent Garden Theater, London, for the right of producing for the first time on any stage his new Japanese opera “Iride.”” At least thatis what tne Italian papers say A new opera in two acts, entitled “The Rajah’s Widow,” has Leen played with ruccess at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. The com- poser bears the illustrous name of Bach, but we are ignorant if Christopher Bach isa de- scendant of the great cantor of Leipsic.—Le Menestrel. An unpublished opera entitled “Gernot,” of which Eugene a’Albert has written both the words and music, is about to be produced at the principal theater in Mannheim. Tie com- poser will conduct and his wife will sing the principal role. A new operetta has just been produced in Rome. Itis by Giovanni Lelost and is called “Tuttl in America.” (All in America.) The theater An der Wien in Vienna is pre- paring the first performance of a new operetta by Jobann Strauss called “The Goddess of Reason.” OFENING THE MILLS. Detroi Journal. There is certainly encouragement in the re- ports of the weekly trade journals showing irom week to week & large net increase in the number of manufacturing establishments In operation. This means a correspondingly in- creasea demand for lubor and increased de- mand for the things manufactured. 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