The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 1, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 1 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprictor SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Iy apd Bunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.15 Daily snd Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily £nd Sunday CALL, six months, by mall. 8.00 Dally snd Sund three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sun one month, by mail. .65 Bunday oue year, by mail 1.50 W REKLY CaLL, one yem 1.60 BUSINESS OFFICE: Marke Street, «an ¥rancisco, California. Telephone Maln—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone.. BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery s:reet, coraer Ci 80 o'clock. 9 Hayes sireet; open until . open until 50 'clock. 518 Mission street, open until 9 0'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 9 o’ 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky streets; open till 9o OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Brosdway. EASTERN OFFICE; Rooms 81 and Park Row. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. They call themselves powers, but they seem 1o be powerles If any European statesman has a Levan- tine policy that will work now is the time for him to put it on exhibition. The Cubans have now lost two com- manders-in-chief, but there are others to ke their placesand the fight for freedom goes on as bravely as ever. Money subscribed to the boulevard fund will carry comfort to the home of many a workingman and aid in opening a grand avenue for pleasure and profit. Sarah Bernhardt advises women to wear mantilias 1o the theater instead of hats. Bhe says they look better in that bLead dress, and perhaps that will settle it. We may yet be called upon to subscrive to a relief fund for the people of the flooded aistricts of the Mississippl. They have had a bad time this year and the river is still rising. When the dweller in the Mississippi Valley crawls into a cellar to escapea cyclone the floods drive him out; when he climbs a tree to escape the flood a cycione blows him off his perch, and there is 0 help for him. The possibility that the Spanish authori- ties in Cuba may determine to treat Rivera as an insurgent bandit and shoot him affords the United States a good opportunity to interfere and insist that he shall be treated as a prisoner of war. Afew days ago a statement made in the House of Commons was greeted with a cry of “Tommy Rot,”” and on Tuesday a statement mads in the House of Repre- sentatives was met with & cry of *rats” 50 between the two bodies parliamentary honors are even. At the coming exposition in Paris the French will take up the Chicago idea of a parliament of religion, but will carry it further by providing for an exhibit as far as possible of the work which has been done by the various religions of the earth for the benefit of humanity. It is believed in some quarters that Cleveland went duck-shooting after leav- ing office simply to escape the trouble of house-moving and laying the carpets in his new place at Princeton. Mrs. Cleve- land having now finished that work, Grover is expected to return soon. There was a fierce prize-fight in New York on Tuesday night despite the efforts of a rival pugilistic club to prevent it by injunction, but the New York papers will continue to turn up their noses at Nevada and talk about the depravity of a com- munity whicn permits such things. The dedication of tne Grant monumert in New York is designed to be one of the greatest and most imposing ceremonies ever held in the United States. The Eastern papers give a large amount of space to the preparations being made for 1t, and everything promises that the ob- servance of the day will be National in its scope. It 1s reported tnat some of the people whose orange groves in Fiorida were de- stroyed by the great frost a few years ago have now come to the conclusion that the frost was a blessing, as it compelled them to devote their lands o the cultivatioa of strawberries, out of which thev are now making twice as much as they ever made on oranges. The proposed pure food congress to be hetd April 30 should be attended by in- fluential delegates from all parts of the State. The business to be considered by the congress concerns every home and it is desirable that the people should work together to put an end to the sale of adulterated food products in any portion of California. ° The first two months of the present year are said to have been more disastrous to marine insurance men than any similar period in twenty vears. Itis estimated that British companies alone have lost orer two millicn sterling on shipwrecks during January and Febrnary. While it promises to by a year of prosperity to land industries it has openea very gloomily for those of the deep sea. An Ohio factory.is said to have received orders from England for 42,000 pairs of shoes, and of course the free-traders will quote it as a proof that protection to the shoe industry is not necessary. The peo- ple will remember, however, it took many years of protection to build up our big shoe factories in opposition to the cheap labor of England, and they will not be inclined to tear itdown now that we are about to beat the British in their own market. ‘A striking illustration of the advan- tages of & protective (ariff was re- cently given by Dalzell of Pennsyl- vania by contrasting the conditions of life for workinzmen in Sheffield and Piusburg—two cities which are rivals in many branches of industry. In the Eng- lish city there are penury, low wage ignorance and lack of culture, while in the American city there are ires schaols, high wages, independence and intelli- gence. If these conditions are to be changed, said Dalzell, it should be by bringing Sneffield up to the standard of Pittsburg and not by bringing Pittsburg down to the level of Sheflield. xieentn and Mission streets, open.| ON TO The House of Representatives has past been for two weeks fluttering on the wings of oratory. VICTORY. sed the Dingley tariff bill 6ver which it has It utihized the very last minute of its time—which was limited to the 31st of March—as THE CALL predicted, but we cannot bring ourselves to find fault now that the great object has been actually at- tained. There is much to be thanktul forin the circumstance that it passed even at the last moment, instead of going over until the regular meeting of Congress next autumn. Mark the difference between a Republican administration’s manner of following up its election issues and pledges and that of a Democratic administration as exem- plified in the one which rode into power on a high wave four years ago. The wran- gling and dailying which ensued over the tariff after Cleveland stepped into office sickened the whole country. The Democra ts had an overwhelming majority in the House and a comfortable majority in the Senate, yet alter months of childish pulling and hauling and filibustering they could only turn outa sickly little bill which their Presi ent was ashamed to sign! of in the legislative history of any country Mr. McKinley came into office on the 4 Nothing more absolutely ridiculous was ever heard in the world. th of March. Within twenty-seven days from that time a special session of Congress has been called, a great and complicated bill vitally affecting the revenues and industries of the whole country has been drawn up and concurred in by all the Republican m~mbers of the Houss, and that bill has been passed and sent on to the Senate as a practical body of business men alone knew how todoit. All thisin less than a month, mind you—the fulfillment ot a Repubtican promise that was not made simply for campa gn purposes. Of course, the Republican Senators will maintain their party’s repute and go sen- sibly to work as soon as the bill reaches them. There will be no wrangling among themselves and they will overcome the wranglings on the other side as speedily as possible. There is a fair prospect that the bill will go before President McKinley in a very short time and that the loyal champion of protection, whose ringing truths have thrilled the hearts of idle snd hungry men for the past ten ye rs will at last have the proud satisfaction of gigning into the law of the land the measure which he has battled for so long. TRUTH ABOUT THE BOULEVARD.| GOING INTO THE COUNTRY. 1t transpires from the report read before the Boulevard Association at its meeting Tuesday evening that the plan of building | a boulevard was under course of diligent incubation long before the question of relieving the *‘unemployed” took iis pres- ent tangible shapé. A good many people bave assumed that the boulevard was ( plannea simply to furnish work for idle men; that it was an expedient rather than an intrinsieally desirable andertak- ing. The fact is that the “unemployed” have been chiefly a means to an end, their | advent upon the scene having been rather a fortuitous coincidence than anything else. It may strike the enlightened reader that this divests the act of bestowing relief upon the needy of its romantic philanthropy and charity. But this is far from being the case. The generous peopie who contributed to the fund out of which the needy are paid did so entirely from | charitable motives. They were not the ones that knew of ‘the previous boulevard plans. They simpiy gave relief to their unfortunate brothers and thought no further one way or the other about it. But the fact that the bouleyard was a thing of previous inception and arrange- ment is none the less gratifying. It adds value to the work. The committee af- firms that “the boulevard, when com- pleted to Ingieside, will form the most important public improvement which has been accomplissedin our City for many vears. Connecting with tie park at one end and at the other wi'h the Ocean House road and ocean highway, it giv opportunity for a splendid drive or bi cycle tour of about fifteen miles through the most picturesque part of the City and County. And the new roadways that will presently follow this one, from the Ingle- side and in a northerly direction, will give the City what it has hitherto lacked but | greatly needed—an agreeablo and direct | route to the southern boundary of the City | and into the body of our peninsula.” | This manifestly adds to our satisfaction 1 of seeing the work go on. It ought to | stimulate us to redoubled efforts to swell the fund. Five hundred men are daily | drawing from it $1 10 apiece, and the com- | mittee tells us that the contributions do not keep pace with these disbursements, As thero are only sixty days required in which to complete the work, the fund ought easily to be made to meet the neces- sary demands, and we have no doubt that | when the liberal citizens fully compre- | head this point they will take particular care that it shall do so.* GENERAL RIVERA'S FATE General Rumiz Rivera may, in the soli- tude of his prison cell, view the taking of | him by the Spaniards as a mishap, the | avoidance of which would have preciuded | much ultimate disadvantage to the cause for which he has been plying the sword. It is quite as probable that his admiring followers are also nurturing the same gloomy conviction. Yet it may turn out | that the general's mistake in getting caught will resuit in exactly the reverse of what be apprehends. 5 To a mind at this distance from the af- fair1t looks as though Mr. Rivera had been selected as a shining mark for God to love, attestation whereof is to be re- vealed in the eventual evolution of him into a martyr whose personal misfortune shall redound to the general good. In their first flush of exultation at the novelty of baving a gentleman close enough for them to examine without fear of getting kicked out of doors (doubtless they had him chained), the Spanish high- waymen naturally conceived the amiable notion of shooting him to see how he would like that. The effect of tortur upon any live thing is an entrancing | study with the ordinary savage. And the safety of getting so inconvenient a person as General Rivera out of their way also appealed to these savages of the Spanish army, as did likewise the military distinz- tion of court-mertialing somebody, which, of course, always fills with pride an army that hasn’( sense enough to feel the lateut gravity of & warrior's death, Hence General Rivera’s position is that of a Cuban insurgent taken as a soldier of war and threatened with execution by the soldiers of the other side, who took him prisoner. Of course his execution under such circumstances would be unwarranta- ble snd sgainst all the conventions of modern war as recognized by interna- tional agreement. Thisp aces martyrdom upon the helpless -risoner, and raises an | issue which may be turned to a salutary | advantage for the ca.sein whose interest the martyrdom is sufteied. Let the Span- ish cut-throats make a move to murder General Rivers and the way is open for the United States to step in and, by pre- venting the outrage, raise the battle upon a plane waere Spain will bave to be decent or retire from the field. Itis inconceiva-. ble that this country could stand passively by and suffer any such crime to be per- petrated, and to our way of thinking it will only be necessary for the Spaniards to attempt it in order to get themselves jerkel up facs to face with a few ship- loads of American sailors. One can fore- see in such an eventa signal changein the Cuban situation, with the advantage all on the side of the insurgents. The House laid aside discussion of the tariff bill long enough to adopt a joint resolution appropriating $250,000 for the ot the flooded districts of the Mis- sissippi, and ior a time men of all parties had an era of good feeling in the com- mon sentiment of charity and patriotic vublic spirit. | apprised | Commission in Washington has its eye | produet | 18¢ The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ As- sociation has become salarmed at the ten- dency of impure food to drift into the interior of the State wben routed vut of San Francisco. Canned adulterated meats and fruits are, it is averred, surreptitious'y { coming off the shelves hereabouts and go- ing forth into the country to try a change of air. That a change of air might do them | zood the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association is not prepared te deny, bat that they will not do the air any good is a conviction upon which every member of the board is ready to take his stand and fight to the bitter end. That is why a Pure Food Congress is shortly to be held in the Chamber of Commerce in this City, with the members of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Associstion as its prime movers, The purpose is to drive sputious victuals out of not only San Francisco, but the whole State. Possibly the reform may not be extended to the banging of every scoundrel who has been adulterating food in these regions, and that of course will be regrettable, but there is hope that the tainted food itself may bs pursued ana exposed so persistently as to discourage the villains from further criminality in that direction. There ure a few stages lefs unrobbed. We suggest the ransacking of them as a compromise between food cor- ruption and honest toil. The congress is to be held on the 30th of thismonth. Governor Budd will be asked to name fifty delegates or representativas from various parts of the State, and tue Supervisors of each county will be requested to select ten more from their respective shires. Evidently the pro- jectors rely largely upon the size of the gathering to impress the evil-doers— they wish to have it virtually a universal pro- test, so general, so conclusive, so sweep- ing, that even a nature capable of adul- terating food may comprehend the verdict and become afraid to continue his vile offenses. FORAKER FAVORS TRUSTS. All of the raiiroad companies whose lines enter Chicago from the east—barring the Chicago and Grand Trunk—have been that the Interstate Commerce on them. They are calmly expected to deliver up before April 10 all biils of lad- ing and ‘‘other evidences of shipment of "’ between the datesof April 1, and March 1, 1897; and also to at. tempt no funny business in the matter of rates in the future. The railroad officials, emerging from the discomfiture into which these uncom- promising refreshments of the memory must have sunk them, hft up reproach ful voices to deprecate any intention to cheat which the Commerce Commission might have imputed to them, and are disposed to regard the summons as a painful reflec- tion upon their honor. But nothing is left for them to do but to put their feol- ings in their pocketsand send the infor- mation which the commission has de- manded; and the United Press corre- spondent ingenuously explains that “‘they are afraid to be caught furnishing false statements.” The Supreme Court decision, as re- viewed in THE CALL a few days ago, was no dream. The railroad companies are being startled into a vivid realization of that every time they lapse in the faintest degree into the old unconsclousness of tne people’s rights. Already the officials of the big Western roads have practically bidden a regretful farewell to the con- demned Western Freight Association. The association will not be literally dis- solved, however, because the officers of it hold contracts for their positions at $10,000 a year each and the contracts will not expire for nearly two years yet. The holders of them will therefore be retained in the employ of the various roads ana act as a bureau of information, furnishing to each road monthly a statement of what all the other roads have been doing, This ingenious plan will effectually discourage rate-catting on the sly and may answer one of the principal purposes of the former combination. The ‘excellent cir- cumstance, however, that the roads will all be jealous of one snother and at smothered warfare instead of dovetailed 1 a cheerful clique to concertedly beat everybody else will remain to solace the pubtic mind. It is to be noted that SBenator Foraker has introduced a bill to license railroad combinations, with 8 commission to look after them and keep them from going wrong. The “orders and tindings” of the commission are to be uccessible to any TUnited States Circnit Court for review, and appeals to the Supreme Court will bs provided for. The gist of the bill seems to be that Senator Foraker believes that recognized agreements between a number olroadsin the matter of preserving uni- form rates are desirable, 1! kept within reasonable limits and subjected to gov- ernmental supervision. If the ‘‘govern- mental supervision’’ could, by some moral miracle, be always depended upon to act for the people instead of for the roads—or rather to actas fairiy for one as for the otbher—this plan might do. Otherwise it has a dubious look abput it. According to a correspondent of the New York Sun many of the smaller towns in Maine have become t0o poor to support their municipal governments. Six towns bave already obtained from the Legisla- ture permission to return to the old form of plantation government and others have applied for the same’ privilege, In many places the enterprising people are moving for the West and abandoned dwellings are common. - That 1s what the Democra:ic tariff has done for Maine, but fortunately for the people of :he brave old Staté¢a change is at hand. PER ONAL M. Refnstein of Poriland is in town. Ex-Congressman’ Caminett! is in tke City. C. D. Brown of Miles City 1s on a visit here. Kirby of London is among the latearri- vals. J. Smith of San Jose is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. H.S. Prendergast of Pokegams has come to the City, Cyrus W: Occidental. George W. Chandler, a rancher of Santa Crus, is in town. E. J. Sweeney, & business man of Seattie, is in the City. H. P. Wrgant of New York is among the late arrivals here. The Rev. W. A. Brewer of Sacramento is at the Oceidental. Louis Sacks of Dry Run, Pa.,1s at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. Charles W. O'N Idaho, is fn town. Paul M. Weymar of Yokohama arrived here on the Rio yesterday. John §. Hawley, 2 wholesale grocer of New York, is at the Palace. Charles Rule of Duncans Milisjcame down to the City iest night. Charles Summers, a lives tock man of Bishop Inyo Countr, is at the Russ. Rober: D. Hemermanu, a business man of San Diego, is ona visit here. Dr. Clennell Frenwick of London is among tbe arrivals at the Baldwin. Henry F. Winnes, proprietor of a general store at Reedley, is at the Grand. The Rev. Thomas Lacy of Brooklyn, N. Y., 18 among the arrivals at the Grand. The Rev. Charles E. Locke, an Episcopal minister of Portland, Or., is in the City. A. E. Fibiger of Denmark wasone of the passengers by the Rio de Janeiro yesterday. J. Butler, a prominent young business man of San Luis Obispo, isat the Cosmopolitan. E. H. Davis, manager of S, Hernsheim Bros, & Co. (Limited) of New Orleans, is in the City. Robert Lewls, a sugar-planter of Hawai, ar- rived here yesterday. He is at the Occidental, D.E. Knight, the banker, manufacturer and steamboat owner of Marysville, is at the Lick. Oswald Miller Robertson of Glasgow, Scot- lana, arrived here yesterdsy. He s at the Palace. B. H. Upham of Martinez, one of the leading wine-growers of California, is here on a busi- ness trip. J. C. Sheenan and wile, who have returned from Vicksburg, Miss., are staying at the Cos- mopolita The Rev. B. B. Masten and Mrs. Masten of Halimoon Bay, are on a visit here. They are at the Occidental. W. H. Morton, Mrs. Morton and Sam J. Mor- ton, of Salmon Falls, N. H., arrived here yes- terday, and are at the Palace. Joseph Ripley and Mrs. Ripley of Boston are at the Palace. They are accompanied by Dr. G. C. Simmons of Sucramento. R. H. Stearns, a mill ionaire merchant of Bos- ton, is at the Palace. He is sccompanied by Mrs. Stearns. They are here on & pleasure trip. A. Wesermann, a German globe-trotter, who has been doing the Orient for some time past, is here for 8 short stay, and will then proceed Enst. J. A. Strowbridge, owner of the Strowbridge block, Portland, and one of the pioneers there, 1s at the Lick, He is oneof the wealthiest property-holders of the Webfoot State. A number of prominent Buffalo (N. Y.) people, forming a party, are at the Palace. They consist of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Packard, Mrs. E. H. Packard, Mrs. A. E. Maytham, Mis: Maytham and Frank Maytham. CALIFORNIANS IN: NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 3L.—At the Bt Cloud, J. A. Brill, T. Brophy, L. W. Brown; Astor, J. B. Lutber, A. C. Hoover; Murray Hill, J. D. Johnson; Grand Unfon, J. M. Ste- venson, Stephen G. Chapman. John Mauners and Miss Clara Rice left the St.Cloud’ and sailed on the New York for Southampton, Mr. and Mrs. W. Brewster Valentine of San Jose, Cal., 2nd Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Walrond of Fresno, Cal, sailed for Europa. eld of Walsfield, Mass., is at the il, an attorney of Wallece, APPRECIALE II. Salinas Index. San Francisco CALL contained another write-up of Salinas city and valley, this time & number of our business houses and several of our prominent citizens receiv- ing attention. A very good likeness of Hon. J. D. Carr and an excellent picture of the Sperry flourmills are given. THE ANTI-1RUST DECISION This decision overrules the famous decision of Justice Shiras approving and upholding such combinations. It upsets the decisions of Judges Lacombe and Wallace last Friday, which held that the anti-trust laws did not apply to ralroads. It begins a new era in the history of the relations of railwaye to the peo- ple. Itopens the way to s mortal blow at those great trusts and monopolies such as the Standard Oil Company, the Dressed Beef Trust, the Grain Elevator Trust, that rob the Deople and grow fat on extortion by means of the rallway associations. This decision de- clares that the men who form the three great railway combinations—the Joint Traflic Asso- ciation, the Western Freight Association and the Southwestern Traffic Association—are law- breakers. It compels them as good citizens to disband. Tt brands them criminals if they do not disband.—New York Y, orld. The important point in the Supreme Court decision in the case of the Trans-Missouri Freight Association against the railroads that enter into a traffic agreement for controlling transportation and maintaining rates in their territory lies in {ts hoiding that the Sherman snti-trust act of 1890 applies to railroad c porations and their traffic agreements. This was the very point upon which the appeal was taken, the court below having held that the act did not apply.—New York Times. The fact that four out of the nine Judges forming the court held with the courts below that the provisions of the anti-trust law do not apply to railroad transportation may en- coursge the railionds to seek a colorable evasion of the iaw with the expectation that on a rehearing of the matter in its new aspect the declsion may be reversed. It is not con- temptof court to recall a omewhat recent n- stance of the second thought of the Supreme Court differing radically from its first judg- ment, tut untii that reconsideration has been had railroad combinations 10 maintain rates must be ranked with other illegal trusts.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. The deciston 1s to t Freight Association rates within a lmited territory was in re- straint of trade and must be abandoned. Asit had already been abandoned, the decision, 8o far as that particuler associstion was con- cerned, was & shot fired into the air. Its ap- plication to any existing traffic or trust asso- clation {syet to be shown. If it applies to all associations ot this natureitiss very impor- tant decision. Ifit appiies only to one whose sgreement had 1ot been drawn by s skillful lawyar it wili prove of smail sccount.—Phila- delphia Times. MEN AND WOMEM Charles W. Fullerton will erect s handsome lecture ball for the Chicago Art Institute in memory of his father, Alexander N. Fuller- ton, William A. Coake of Portsmouth, R. L, who recently celebrated his one hundredth birth- day, says that he has chewed tobacco for eighty years. The German Empress, it is said, has & tes tray that was beaten out of an old Prussian halfpenny, a teapot madeof a Germsn farth- ing and tiny cups made from coin of the sev- eral German principajitios. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Lovers of sacred music will learn with pleas- ure that Clarence Eddy, everywhere acknowl- edged to be the leading American organist, will pay a return visit to this City at the end of Lnt. On Palm Sunday, the 11th Inst.. he will play’on the fine organ at Grace Episcopal Church both for the morning and evening services, and on Easter Sunday be wili play at mass and vespers at ‘St. Ignatius Church on the new organ, the largest and best pipe organ on the Pacific Coast. Eddy has just been con- certizing in Texas, and is at present at Phce- nix, Ariz., where he yesterday inaugurated a new pipe organ, the only pipe instrument in the Territory. The opening of the organ and the recital by the king of American organists were red-letter events in Arizona annals. Last Easter Eddy was in Rome, and, remarkable to say, in the very city of St Cecilis, who is populsrly sithough erroneously believed to have been a great organist, Eddy createda profound impression. For Chicago to send an which Lamoureux has just produced: “The re- ligious and maritime tableaus, chorus of sailors, religious procession for the benedic- tion of the sea, the lamentations of a mother, awaiting the return of the fishermen, etc., are unrolled to melodic motives that our ears have heard a hundred times, whose end We know from the b:ginning. The least grain of me- lodic originality would give us intense satis- factidn.” The lasting success of ‘‘Carmen,” based on one of Merimee’s storles, has tempted another composer to follow Bizet's exampie end go to Merimee for & plot. The new opera, ‘‘Ines Mendo,” has already been accepted for this season at Covent Garden. The composer’s name is Frederic d’Erlanger, but he has taken the pseudonym of F. Regnal. Arthar Coquard, the weli-known French composer, has chosen a very timely period / 4 CLARENCE EDDY, Who Will Make Easter Music in This City. organist to Rome looks at first sight like ship- ping coals to Newcastle, but the Eternal City does not boast an organist of Eddy’s ability, and the American's recital was quite an event. Quile & stir has been made in the musical world by an interview with the celebrated Wag- merian conductor, Felix Mottl, which was published in Le Gaulois. Mottl was quoted as saying that Weber misjudged Beethoven, Rubinstein and Wagner, snd that Wagner wa unjust to Brahms. The interview goes on to say: “There is actually no musical move- ment in Germany at present, 0o young com- posers who promise anything—there is nothing, nothing, nothing, except complete emptiness. With one or two exceptions, such as Humperdinck, the composers of Germany to-day are only mediocrities. It looks as if the genius of Waguer, by its grandeur, dis- courages ail other genius.” When asked his opinion about French music Mottl is quoted a8 giving a very different opinion: ‘‘In France there is a real upward movement. I see the begluning of & school which will make its way. As for Italian mustc, it is ended as far as Germany is concerned. With the exception of ‘La Cavalleria’ and ‘I Pagliacci’ the German public won't listen to Italian operas.”” Natur ally enough this interview creifed a great protest in Germany, whereupon Felix Mottl came out in the Badische Presse and said; *“The statement that I said musical iife is dead in Germany is entirely a dream of Le Gaulois. 1 should have rendered myself torever ridiculous by such a statement. I1did remark that in the field of lyric drama the French have more faciiity than the Germans, who still seem 10 be overshadowed by the genius of Wagner.” Mottl adds that every grand effort 1n the artistic history of & country is followed by a period of relative stagnation, the best forces Leing exhausted. He also says that Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” is the best lyric work that Germany has pro- duced in recent years. Operas based on Irish subjects seem to be gaining in favor dsy by day, just as if com- posers were smitten with a sudden desire to meke up for the long neglect of the rich field for lyrie drama which lies in Irish legend and Irish folksongs. The latest Irish oper: written by sn English Hebrew, by the way, is Isidore de Lara’s “Mofens,” of whoss first pro- duction at Monte Carlo the critics speak in terms of extravagant praise, Gallet, who wrote the libretto, has placed his action in Ireland at the end of the last century, just when Lazare Hoche essayed in vain toland with a little French army to aid the uprising of the Irish, The book is full of the vivid and picturesque coloring which marks the works of Merimee, who aiways reveled in popular petriotism, and the whole story is clear, simple and extremely dramatic. The first tableau is a 1air sample of how vivid the play ot De Lara’s new opera is. Moiens, a young Irish girl, is betrothed to the sailor Patrick, who reiurns home from sea to take part ia the insurrection. Immediately on hislanding he and Moiena are married, but Patrick is 10 leave her at the church door to join the insurgents. While the ceremony 1s going on the English soldiers arrive outside the church looking for the rebel. Tne doors are locked, but the Sheriff breaks them down. At that instant the priest comes out, carrying |- extreme unction to a dying man, and the soldiers let him pass, followed by an assistant bearing alighted candle. As they depart with siow and measured steps the soldiers sud- denly suspect that the candle-bearer is Put- rick, who canno: be found in the church. “Fire,” cries the Sheriff, but the English officer is & Catholic, and refuses to command his soldiers to draw “sur le bon Dieu,” so Patrick escapes. According to the French critics, De Lara has struck a happy medium, 1a ““Moiena,” between the old forms of opera and modern lyric drama. There is none of the old melodia assoluta; he has too much respect for the action of the drama to indulge in that; butat the same time he never sacrifices the volce to the orchestra. In the old operas the orchestra was the sl of the voice, and in modern lyric drama there is & tendency to go to the other.extreme and make the voice the slave of the orchestra. De Lara is said to have liberated both from bondage in “Moiena,” for the voiees and the orcuestra naturally sustain and help one another. He has made his strings sing in a very broad style, and has ob- iained especially beautiful effects from the hautbois aud the English horn. If the first night accounts are to be trusted, ‘Moiena” is an evoch-making opers. It seems as i the modern French composers excell least of all in melodic invention. They can write highly dramatic operss and paint remarkable tone pictures for orchestral con- certs, but they do notseem able to hit upon tunes which catch the public ear, the sort of tunes in which Bizet, Gounod, Ambroise Thomas aud the other famous writers of their day excelled. Theodore Dubois, for instance, 18 one of the most esteemod of modern French writers, and he is Ambroise Thomas' successor ss director of the Paris Conservatory. This is what Le Journal des Debats says about his legendary poem, for the first production of his new “Oriental Episode” and orchestral suite in three move- ments. The composer hasutilized real Greek themes, sung by the peasantry of the Hel- lenes. The “Greek Dance” is said to be as strikingly characierietic and racy of the soi as the Spanish, Polish or Bohemian types of music with which we are so lamiliar, or the Scandinavian music, with which Greig is making us familiar. The Parisian papers have been publishing comforting little brevities, assuring triends and relations of the French opera compeny &t the California that there are neither dead nor wounded in the troupe, as a consequence of the derailment of the train that brought the singers here. Theodore Mabellini, an Italian, well known as the composer of many operas, masses, etc., has just died in Florence. He was bora in 1817, and for many years was maestro df camara e di cappella to the court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. THE MINUETL. Her dainty feet step lightly through The mazes of the minurt: And, oh! the sight of ber sweet face I think I never shall forget. That quaint old dance, the giriish form, Those pretty, Hzhtly tripping feet, ‘Those soft eyes and (he waving halr, I hey form a picture all complete. The sunbeams through the casement peep; The golden network of ber hair Imprisons them, and her bright eyes Seem to have Caught the sparkles there! The summer rippics in her voice, Her cyes are ilke the pans - bicom, The wiid rose tint s in her cheek. ~he brightens up the durk 0.d room. The polished floor, the walls of oak, ‘I he tapestry upon the w. - Form setting quaint for such s face, My love who fairest is of all. She'll dance through 1fe’s duil mazy paths In just toe seif-s-me happy way. Eanh’ Ine is she, and + od grsnt 1n her pure heart love reigns alway. —From the Lady, FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT, The Great Sachem of the Ked Meu Advocates the Observance of “tammany Day. Great Sachem Sims of the Improved Order of Red Men has fssued an official circu- Iar, 4n which he calls attention to the approach of Tammany day. May 12, and grants dispensation 10 all Lribes of the order and 1o councils of the de- gree of Pochahontas to celebrate the day in a nner appropriate to history and tradition. He suggests that all past sachems identify themseivea with the recently organized Past Sachems’ Organ- ization He ciotes with the annonncement of the follow Ing official visitations to be made daring the remalnder of h's term as great sachem : Onelda 'Iribe, Lutch ¥lat, April 12: Tahoe Tribe, Truckee, April 16: Samoset Tribe. Vallejo, Aprit’19; Otonkah ‘Iribe, Naps, Apr121; Chip. wa Tribe, San_Mateo, April 23: Pottowatiomis , Haywards, April 28; Mineola Council, D, of P.. Redwood City, April 26: Metamora Tribe, Red- wood City, April 26: Tecumseh Tribe, Oakiand Avril 27; Grey hagle Tribe, Oakland, April 28 Councils of the Degree of Pccahontas of San Fran cigco fn joint meetng in Red Men’s building, April 20: ~eminole Trive, San Franc sco, May 5t Santana Tribv, Fort Bragg, May 28; An-Wah.Nee Council. D, of F.,Fort Brags, May 28; Kiowa “Tribe, San_Francisco. May 31: Ahwahnee 1ribe, Oakland, June 2: Altatimos Tribe, San Franolsco, Jun: 20;° anwashte Tribe, Sau Francisco, June Mono Tribe has been increasing its membership and is m. King arrangements for the es ablishment of a council o' the degree of Pocahontas. Representativ.s of Miantonomab, Sotoyome, Modoc and Moniezima tribes visited Elmburst yesterday to take notes aud ubtain Information as o the wigwam Comanche i ribe s to have there w iha View toinvesting in the stock of the hail assoclation that bas charge of the coostruction of et Poitawatiomie of Haywards will hy meetlag un the 11th of May, whed there Witk v bubiic reception and an flinstratea lecur order will be delivered. sz O:honee 1r:be wil meeting next Wednesday, 0006 Tribe wiil open the doors of fts wi to iis friends on next Thursdey night, on whjon oceaslon Great Cnief of Kecords C. F. Burgman wil give a “long talk” on ‘s Problems.” In addition there wili be & splendid progrumrme any then there will be ia fine spread of corn and. wen 1800, whici 18 the tribe’s vernacular for a fes, e Breck chiefs wil e great chiefs will pay a visit to T: : within a shor. time. 1 he council Mth:%?‘rza.g‘f FPocahontus is to be institute . (here, posemite Council of siamed: ontas, during the moath 0f Mar. b aqd its membership. e councll has apestsced & commitiee (0 muke arrangements for'ay enten tainment to be given In the near futupe, Pawnee .ribe f sl.meda has also been quite busy o Iate adupting paiefaces. A: s ast hed gouneli two re cived the adoption degree. and two made noplicaion 1o be {be counclis of | awice- e rgg b Annie Oigers has been chosen keeper Tocords of Eonemauh Councl, b or’; of Nevada A rs. Annfe Bisho - Tl o & P, Who resigned oa ac. e Seven Pives Circle, Ladies G. A, R, ‘There was & large and select audience at the open meetiug of Seven Pines Circle, Ladies of the| Grand Army, given In the circle’s uall in Natlve Sone’ buliding Monday might. This circle, of which dirs. Lydia C. Hinckiey s president; Mrs. Mary Waison. senlor vice-president: Mrs. Abbte Powers, junior vice-president: Mrs. Mxrgaret J. Griftiths, secretary, and Mrs. Lena Shoulton, treas- urer, holds an open mee:ing on the :ast Monday ©of every month and a ways has a . 1UID bes R s e mn-mm- ihat s enen Le The first num- adopt six palefaces at its Pr A ©f the programme which bad B the commilicn of arrangemen:s, M. Ly e impson (caairman), Miss Parker, Miss Bush ang Mlss Griffiths, was & song by Misy Cornar, then inster (.ordon executed & piano s0lo, Miss Katle Kennedy and Miss Bow'en sang a dact, L itle Misy Bow en @anced atambourine danc.. Niiss Hatle Grifihs followed with a Spanish dnce. and Mrs. A. J. Budd gave two. rectstions ‘n negro dialect that we:e 30 (horoughly appreciated that she was not atiowe § to rest until she came forward and re- cited “.8 1t Anybody’s Business?’ Mr-. von Li derman was the AC. Ompaniat AUFing be evening. o1 10.10wed dancing. which was kep: up uadi s 1a ¢ hour. Th 1 a s ot Seven Pines Circie have been quite bu y of late in he wor- Of ASS'SUNK (he dis Teased samilies of 0 d soldiers of the war of the rebellion, and they pave aiso had nueh (0 4o iu the circly meetings. During Murch U were initiated seven candida es and there sre (hies mOre Lo be initiated at the next me: ti Loyal R.bekab Lodge. Loyal Rebekah Lodge No. 215, L 0. O. F., gavs an entestaiument to its friends in Odd Fellows' bullding last Monday night. The & fendancs was 1arge and ibe audizors were treated to & very | teres:ing programme. prepared by the committe on entertainaient, composed of Dr. 4. X, Copse LWL W . G. Stmpson, Miss Lil:ia Ncartany and Jo X i erkl ou, and pres %0, & Vioiin duet by Miss M. A. Van D Bodie, vocal solo by Mrs, Haipruper, vocal by D.’A Hodghead, reciiatiou by-¥red W.Jaeg All_were swell r ceived and . ne red. ‘then came what many w waiting fo , dunch and that was kept up unil the orchusra struck the Jast strains of the closing number on the progiamme, ard every one weu away with pieasant recollections of Liie evenin Pocahontas Council. Pocahontas Council No. 3 of the Degree of Poca hontas of the Improved Orler of Red Men gave another of its pleasing socials in St. George's Hal 1ast Mouday right 1o the satisfaction of the maas members and vi-itors present. The affair was no. apurely soclal dance, for between da.ces thers were Incer.parsed music, song and e ocutln. Among those who pariicipated were Miss Roso Conen, who gave a recitation: Professor C. Welsel kclectiors on the piano, John A. Jackscn zav en ertained with a recitaion, Mrs. . ardogan also Tecliod ana Miss Blanche Kramer gave an exhivi- ton (f fancy dancing. 1hiy funciion was under the dire.tian of Miss L. Tilly, Mrs. J. W eisel, Miss J. Walroth, M. Henry and Charies Weisel. This council has been quite active cf late, having Dad severul fnitiations. The members aunounce AuOther eatertainment for April 26. Young Meu’s Institute. There will bo o meeting of the Fourth District Councll in Mission Opera Hall on the 7th 0f April In this aistrict, of which H. C. Hail Is the deputy, there are San Francisco, Ignatisn, Borromean and Phil Sheridan couac District Deputy Rev. ¢ Rosa Couaci r.cently. ‘The next Grand Council, which Is to meet in August, will convene in Santa Hosa. Anthony Schwamm i3 the principsl mover for the establishment of a board of organizérs for Los Angeles and vicinity that sball have the supe Vislon of the soutbern part of the State In the ma ter Gf organizing aud advancing the order. The giand directors, &t the meeting to be held on the 10th of April, will arrauge for u series of officiul Visits to the local councils. Strassmayer Council will give its first entertain- ment on Aprii 27. Under the auspices of Ploneer Council there was seeting last L hursduy night of the members of that council and of Mission, Loyols, Cathedrai, Cooper and Strassmayer .ounclls, when, atier o long discussion, the counclis dec.ared in favor of board of manigement that should have under lts management the headquariers and look after the affars affecting the local couucils. The council a 50 expressed the Ide. of Increasing the numoer of associate members and of escablishing unifor dues for the seme. L uring tne meeiing the me bers of Cuthedral and Strassmayer councils e: tered the meeting hall in a body. E. O’Nelle visited Santa a WITH YUUR CurFEE, “Ever had any experience in the new jour- nalism?” asked the editor. +1got broke out in Denver once,” said the applicant for a job, “and had to drive a gar- bage wagon for two wecks.”’—Indianapolis Journal. “I don’t believe that imported “beer of yours came from Germany at all,” said Mr. Booce to Mr. Schnappsverein. “Ipedt you five tollar.” «Oh, I won’t bet; but it is mignty funny that real German lager should make me want to sing ‘Wearing of the Green.’ "—Cincinnati Ea. quirer. First Hen—Why don’t you revenge yourself on the master for killing and eating your hus; band? Second Hen—Oh, I'm laying for him.—Judge. “What kind of a wife shall & young man marry?” asks a magazine writer. It strikes us that he'd better uot marry say kind of a wife. Let him take a widow or a single young woman.—New York Advertiser. TOWNSEND's California glace fr pound in fire-etched boxes. P a| e EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, Dbusiness houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (llen’s), 510 Montgomery, * SEitien iyl ey ts, 50 cents a Hotel Bldg* BETWEEN Townsend's Glace Fruit—grown. and prepared in California—and all others, comparison is really absurd ; 50¢1b. in elegant fire-ctched bxs. Try them. Palace Hotel bldg.* —————— Gadsby—1 suspect they’ve got & babylup-at Norris’ house. Walkins—What makes you think that? Gadsby—Ob, nmothing in particular; only I haven't heard him brag about his dog fora day or two.—Boston Transcript. Santa Fe Limited From San Francisco Three and a Hulf Days to Chicago Via fanta Fe Route. To accommodate our Northern California pa- trons, on April 2 and each succeeding Monday and Friday the first-class Pullman sleeping-car leav. ing San Fancisco at § P. M. wiil” connect a stow with the Santa Fe vestibule train, carryin dining.car. buffet, smoking-car 2nd Puilmsn pal- ace drawing-room sleeping-cars for both St. Louis and Chicago via Kausas City. This shortens the running time twelve Lours. Send for literatura Cescriptive of our route. San Franclsco ticke: office, 844 Market street, Chronicle buliding; tele- phone main 1681. Oakland, 1118 Broadway. — e Railroad Tickets to the East via Rio Grande Western and Denver and Rio Grande Railways, At lowest possible rates, with through Pullman buffet and tourist sleepiug car service every day. Personally conducied excursions leaving Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Only line permiiting stop-over at Salt Lake City on a'l classes of tickets Detailed Information and ticke:s furnished ar 14 Montgomery street, or 814 California street. = Ariesuit Change of Tims. Taking effect March 28, the Northern Pacific overjand trafn will leave Portland at 1L A . in- stead of 1 ». ., thus making connection at Spo- Kane for all points In the new Kootenal mining district. Tickets at lowest rates to Rossians, Northport and Traill. T. K. Stateler, genersd agent, 638 Market street, San Francisco. —— FoR CouGHS, ASTHMA AND THEOAT DISORDERS “Brown's Bronchial Troches” ave an effectual rem- edy. Sold only In boxes. e L A5 a stomachlc, ‘when the digestive organs ars tnactive and need. stmuiating, especially after dinner, nothing can equal Aser's Pilis. e s Algy—T always said that George Gilders was crazy, and now he’s proved that I was right. Freddie—How’s that ? A gy—Why, you know he merried Horatio Milyun’s only deughter, but in spite of that fact he is holaing on to his old job, and worke ing for a living.—Cleveland Leaser. SEW. TO-DAY! POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for it great leave, iu, healthfuiness. 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