The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 15, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 15 1897. THU SDAY APRIL 15, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Cav1, 0ne week, by carrler..§0.15 y and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... €.00 Daily and Sun six months, by mail. 3.00 D nd Sun: . three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 Bunday CaLy, one year, by mail 1.50 W RKLY CALL, 0Be year, by mall 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 10 Market Street, Fan Francisco, California. Telephone .Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street Telephoae.... Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery sireet, coraer Ciay; open untfl [ o'clock. 9 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteentt and Mission sireets, open until 9 o'clock. 518 Mission street, open until 9 o’clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk sireet; open un:il 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuty-second and Kemtuoky streets; open uill § o'cloc OAKLAND OFFICB: 98 Brosdway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms S1 ana 32, 34 Park Row. New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. —— e Keep up the fund for the Balboa road. Let us show that we can carry through a local euterprise without a hitch, a haggle or a halt. 1t is Omaha, Nebr., to-day, but it may be Omana, Iowa, to-morrow. The state of life along the banks of the Missouri is very changeable. The story that the Mississippi was sub- siding was altogether premature. The Missouri has begun to contribute to the floods and the rampsge is worse than ever. The Oakland people who are complain- ing of the croaking of frogs must be over- sensitive or whimsical in their dislikes. There are other croakers that are worse than frogs. It is, of course, gratifying to be informed once more by dispatches from Washing- ton that the tariff bill will pass the Senate, but what the people yearn to know is the whenness of the passing. It seems unfair that Europe should co- erce Greece to keep the peace with Tur- key, but suppose Burope should stand aside and it should turn out that the Greeks are unable to whip the Turks, then what? The Randsburg couple who made on Monday the first marriage in the new mining camp seem to have ha the satis faction of accomplishing something like a golden wedding without waitng fifty vears for it. Since the recent victories of the Cubans the Spaniards do not hold entire posses= sion of a single province in the isiand. The Cubans, in fac’, are already free in everything except name and the peaceable possession of their country. The aprointment of a commission to arrange for an international conference on the silver question will please everybody except the extreme gold-standari men, and fortunately there are not enough of them to disturb the harmony of the country. The Palo Alto News remarks ‘that the winners of the baseball game at Stanford the ot er day are entitled to an epicurean diet, in which the oyster is to play a prom- inent part. Is this becanse they succeeded in “crossing the oyster’ more times than their rivals 1id ? Americans in London will contribute largely to the hospital fund to be raised a8 a memorial to the Queen’s grand jubi- lee. They will not only have front seats atthe show, but be a part of the show itselt. That is American style, and while it comes high we must hava it. The Summerland Advance is relating preat tales of copious oilwells that are being discovered and operated in its vicin- ity. Catifornia may yet add another mark of distinction to her crowded escutcheon —tnat of furnishing & natural antidote for the troubled waters of the Mississippi. By reason of the generous gifts of Thomas btanford of Melbourne, Stanford Univer- 8.ty is likely to become one of yhe greatest art centers in the Union. What he has aiready given constitutes a motable con- tribution to the art treasures of the State, and California owes him a grateful vote of thanks. Ttis reporfad from Astoria that the Chi- nese bave aemanded that all white labor be excludeu from the canneries along tne Columbia River, and the demand is not whoily illogical. It seems clear that either the white man or the Chinese must go, and this is as ood a time as any todecide which shall travel. An order from the Postoffice Department at Washington has shortened the mail route from Marysville to Quincy, so as to have it besin at Honcut and leave Marys- ville back along the road a few miles. To put it mildly, the Marysvilie papers are not enamored of this pretty notion, and a ood deal of vociferous Appealing from the decision is being done. Senator Morgan says: “That Cuba will be free is written in the stars that glow in the unfailing light of the Eouthern Cross, to whici her children turn their eyes with bope that grows brighter as the night of their sorrow grows darker. The senti- ment of that is good and the rhetoric is fine, but unfortunately Cuba is is the northern hemisphere and her children cannot see the Southern Cross, There seems to be a boom in the olive industry, as the Pomona nurseries alone are said to have sold over 400,000 trees for orchards, not only in California, but in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. If the Government will now assure the olive- growers against cheap European olives and cheaper cottonseed adulterations we shall soon have a new industry toadd millions to our Western revenues. The failure of the French opera to be seif-supporting in this City for the season may have been due to some extent to the lack of a proper opera-house with suitable number of voxes. It will be worth while to repeat the experiment next year, and it might also be worth while to build an opera-house for future experiments. In the meantime it is to be remembered that opera never pays expenses anywhere. It is one of the luxuries that metropolitan society must have because it comes high. can cattle- | tration tne people must | juncture, and TARIFF REVISION. According to all reports from Washing- ton, there 1s little prospect for speedy action on the tanff bill in the Senate. It seems that the measure as it came from the House will be materially altered in committee before it is reported to the Sen- ate, and there is likely to be considerable difficulty in arranging the rates of duties 50 as to secure a sale majority for it when the vote is taken. Demands for a chanee in the bill as it came from the House are made by oppos- ing forces. On one side there isa desire to reduce the rates levied on raw mate- rials, and on the other a desire to increase them. The Eastinsists that there shall be no duty on imported hides, while a number of Western Senators representing tes where the cattle industry is large ask for a duty on hides sufficient to mate- rially increase tne price which the Ameri- ser will obtain for the product. There is also a strong demand in the East for a reduction of duties on citrus fruits, raisins and other products of the kind. This desire will of course be op- posed by men from the States which grow such fruits. The situation, therefore, is full of uncertainty, and it behooves the veople of California to be watchful of the bill in order that their interests may bs thoroughly protected. The evenly divided condition of parties in the Senate adds to the uncertainty of the comoromise which will have to be ar- ranged in order to bring about the passage of the bill. The majority for it is not ex- pect-d to exceed two or three. This will enable a few men to hold the balance of Ppower when a vote is taken, and it would seem that those who are least regardful of the importance of promptaction and most resolute to have their own way will be in a position to almost dictate the rates of duties on the articles in which they are- interested. The outlook in fact differs very little from that which confronted the Wilson bill when it was sent to the Senate by the Democratic majority in the House. Fortunately for the country, the Repub- lican leaders are men of a different charac- ter from those who had charge of the Democratic measure. They have been accustomed to the administration of business, while the Democrats had been all theirlives in opposition. The Repub- licans, therefore, may be expected to act together with harmony aud vigor instead of wrangling and disputing witn one another as the Democrats did when con- fronted with similar difficulties. It is upon the wisdom of the Republican leaders and upon the tact of the adminis- rely at this fortunately that reliance can be made with confidence. The Dingley bill as it came from the House is fairly satisfactory to the country, and if com- mercial and industrial bodies representing the people and the interests of the various sections of the Union vigorously urge its adoption by the Senate, substantially in the form in which it was adopted by they House, the Senators may be induced to abandon any atiempt to materially aiter it, and by enacting it at once, put an end to the uncertainty wuich now prevails and prepare the way for a speedy resump- tion of commerce and industry. FOOLISH ECONOMY. The accident to the Oregon in Puget -Sound has called attention to the fact that the United States possesses in those waters no arydock sufficiently large to receiva the ship in case it should be found necessary to overhaul her for the purpose of mak- ing repairs on the hull. In every case of serious damage to an American warship in the sound it would be necessary for our Government to apply t6 the British au- thorities for permission to take her to the drydock at Esquimalt in order to put her in proper shape for going to sea again. Tt will be seen from this that the United States Government has practiced a foolish economy in equipping the naval station | of Puget Sound. It is useless to buiia great ships for defense in case of war un- less we build also proper and sufficient vlants for repairing them. It would have been a prettv piece of business if the Ore- zon had proceeded north in a war with England and, then, after touching a rock which our surveyors had not located in the sound, had been compelled to send a flag of truce to the British commander and ask permission to take the ship into the drydock at Esquimalt su that we could repair her and make her fit to continue the battle with the British ships on equal terms. ‘Warships are not built for use in times of peace. They are not designed prima- rily for summer cruizes of pleasure and to take part in water carnivals at San Diego or at Prget Sound. They are designed for use in war, and the Government, therefore, should provide at its naval stations suffi- cient drydocks and all other equipments necessary to repair them promptly during time of war. The experience we have had with the big ships of our new navy, both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, makes it evi- dent that we need now a large extension of our navy-yards. Tue present equip- ments are aitogether inadequate to the needs of the nevy, and while we are build- ing new ships we had beiter begin aiso to construct proper plants for repairing them when necessary. THE RISING MISSOURL The dispatches of the beginning of the week unnouncing that the Mississipoi floods had begun to subside were alto- gether premature. Scarcely had they been pubfished when new dispatches an- nounced the rapid rise of the waters of the Missouri and the appearauce of floods along that stream almost as disasirous as those which had swept the districts along the banks of the Mississippi. The Mis- souri floods will of course augment those of the Lower Mississipp! and the damage in that region, aiready gre greater still before the wate; the danger is over. At the present time Omaha seems to be the seat of the chief menace to property. Years ago the Missouri shifted its chan- nel from the bluifs of Omaba to the Iowa shore, making Council Biuffsa river town and leaving the original Omaba a mile away from the banks of the river. The enercy of the people of Omaha converted the mud and sand flats between them- selves and the river into an annex to the city and proceeded to build it over with railroads, streets, shops, factories, stores and dwelling-houses. This year the Missouri showsa tendency to resume its old c¢hannel and flow once more close to the highiands of Omana, thus washing away a portion of the city on the flat and transferring the remainder of it to Jowa as an annex to the rival city of Council Bluffs, The damage to Omaha, therefore, will be twofold. In the first place she will lose much of her property, and in the second piace she will see a con- siderable portion of it added to the terri- tory of her rival, a predicament which would be as disagreeable to Omahs as it wou!d be to Chicago to have a portion of her incorporaied area trausferred bodily s an annex to St. Louis. The Mississippi problem taken in itself is sufficient to fret the brains of American engineers, but when that of the Missouri is added it becomes so complex as to al- most lead to its abandonment in despair. At the present time it has not been found possible to even devise a plan ot effectively dealing with tue two rivers. It is known, bowever, thatany plan which would be at all efficacious would be anon:nous}y costly. The people along the river dis- tricts could hardly afford to defray the expenditures. The entire people of the Union would have to be taxad to carry 1t out, and possibly we may see che commu- nity known as East Omaha shifted back and forth between Nebraska and Iowa half a dozen times befors the great work is accompiished and the Missouri River made to take one channel and keep it. CUBAN INDEPLNDENOE. The recent victories of the Cubans bring’ the campaign of the. winter to a conclu- sion glorious for the patriots and disas trous in every way to Spain. The Span- ish forces have gained nothingand have lost much. Their only successes have been the killing of Maceo and the capture of Rivers, but these seem in no wise to have weakened the Cubans, who in spite of the loss of their generals have prose- cuted the war for independence as vigor- ously and as successfully as ever. It will pe remembered that President Cisneros of the Cuban Republic in a let- ter addressed to President McKinley stated that Cuba has now virtuslly estab- lished her independence and rightly de- serves recognition, inasmuch as the Span- ish Government in the island consists of a military occupation, and Spanish authority is nowhere recognized outside of cities dominated by Spanish garrisons and such small districts of country asare under the control of the Spanish camps. In proof of this he cited the following specific facts: Every province of Cuba has risen sgainst the tyrannical power of Spain. In over 200 cities, towns and villages Spain hesnot a soldier, and has apperently relin- quished all claim to that territory, Sheno longer has a civil representative in most of the aistricts, while there is not one township in the entire province but what has its prefect or assistent prefect appoinied by the Republic of Cuba. Spain collects to-day but one-elghth the amount of taxes in Puerto Principe, Sants Clars and Santisgo provinces that she did two years ago, while the taxes levied and collected by this Government have in the three proy- inces amounted to more than $380,000. We have established througnout the length and breadth of the island a system of mail and the frank of the republic attached toa parcel insures its delivery at any point. It s true tkat there are many delects in the system and many hindrances to its efliciency, vut the ssme might be true in any country at war, either within itself or with its nelghbprs. These statements of the Cuban Presi- dent are confirmed by the Cuban corre- spondent of the London Times, whoin a letter of which a summary was published in THE CALL yesterday says that during the winter campaign the Spamsh troops had achieved no success calculated to overthrow the rebeilion. The Spaniards do not ho!d a single province effectively and are nowhere in undisputed master- ship, except in some coast towns. This being s the triumph of the patriots is as- sured, and the only question is now how much longer Spain will continue to main- tain even a military occupation of the 1sland. PLR:ON L. W. D. Smith of Tacoms is in town. Jumes Anderson of Fresno is at the Russ. E day. James F. Peck, an attorney of Merced, sat the Lick. Mr.and Mrs. Lovelace of South Australia are in the City. A V. Gassetta, & mine-owner of Tucson, Ariz, isin the City. 1. Lindsay Bennett of London is in the City on his way to Australia. G. A. Webber, a manufacturer of Northamp- ton, Mass,, 1s at the Russ. Jumes D. MeInerny, a general merchant of Honolulu, is at the Occidental, Surveyor-General M. J. Wright is down from Sacramento and is at the Grand: John Cross, an attorney of Los Angeles, is here, accompanied by Mrs. Cross. Albert Evans of Reno, who is engaged in the livestock business, Lias arrived here, W. R. Spalding, the mill and timber owner, of Truckee, is here on a business tri H. J. Pratt of Reno, ex-Surveyor-Gener: Nevaaa, was among yesterday's arrivals. Andrew J. Ogilvie of Perth, West Australia wasoue of the arrivals by yesterday's steamer. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blyth aud Cnarles Biyth of Evanston, Wyo., were among yester- day's arrivals here. Fred G. Buckley, a wealthy and widely known business man of Denver, is in the City, accompanied by Mrs. Buckley. G. F. Parker, who owns a large area of land in Colusa County and who is an exteusive grower of wheat and fruit, is at the Russ. Dr. L. F. Harvey of Buffalo, N. Y., and Mrs, Harvey, are at the Oceidental. They have just returned from a visit to the Hewalian islands, P. A. Buell, the manufactarer, of Stockton, who is one of the praprietors of the ratiroad trom Oakdale, vis Stockjon, to Sonors, is in the City. Among the prominent society people from Portland yesterday who registered at the Pal- aco were Mrs. W. S. Ladd and Mr. and Mrs. B, M. Ladd. J.J. Livernash, editor and proprietor of the Healdsburg Enterprise, 1s among the arrivals here. Mr. Livernash is here merely for a short stay. W. A. Kinney, & prominent attorney of Hon- olulu, who is en route to Washington, D. C., in the interest of annexation, came here on the Australia yesterday. Mrs. H. A. P. Carter, wile of the former Min. ister from Hawali to Washington, Cordelia J. Carter, Miss H. J. Dickson and Mre. C. L. Car- ter and two children are at the Occidental. Al Martin of the Golden Rule Bazaar left on the Central overland last nighten route for Europe. He will be sbsent until Augnst purchasing astock of European novelties for the fall and winter trade. Governor James H. Budd had many esilers yesterday at his rooms at the Palace Hotel. The politicians literally swarmed around the hotel desk for awhile and almost swamped the clerks with their cards. Most of them got for an answer “not in.” Jerome Churchill, the wealthy ploneer set- tler of Yreka, is here, accompanied by ex-Dis- trict Attorney James F, Farraber of that place. Mr. Churchill is president of & bank, owns mines, a large area of land and town prop- erty, and bas other and more varied posses- sions. Jobn Conant, the discoverer of the Uncle €am mine and who soid it a few years since for $150,000, and who has for a long time beon engaged in mining In Shasta and Siski you counties, is at the Russ. He says there is increased activity in the mines of these coun- ties and also in Trinity, to which considerable attention isnow being directed. “There are some good gold developments on Coffee Creek, in that county,” said Mr. Conant. *Ihsve been there and examined the showing, and 1 am going there to do some mining.” Mr. Conant will be here probably a week. CALIFORNIANS iN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., April 13.—At the St. Cloud—@. B. Clark, G.T. Roberts, J. C. Vincent; Astor—C. A. Huit, E. J. Mayers; Amsterdam— Mrs. M. Everett; St. Denis—F, Heggle; Califor- nis-Cosmopolitan—iss E. Aslett; Grand—Mrs. S. B. Emery. Mrs. E. Willlam Creliin a :d Mrs. Delina Crellin ieff the St. Cloud and sailed on the St. Paul for Southampton. James Finney, Miss Marie Finnev ana Miss Elia V. Holman salied on tne 8t, Paul for Europe, . Sh'elds of O.ympls arrived here yester- of A LOCAL WORK OF ART AND LETTERS. The Easter CALL will be the work of Californians from depict Californian scenes, Californian flowers and landscapes. year. for all the 1amily to resd. Wait for itand prepare your homes to rec: first to last, Its decorations will No fresk features gathered from the East and Europe and given an inflated value from the mere conjuring of famous names will be depended on to overcome & dearth of intrin- sically good literature in the home market. THE CALL has secured local gems for every one of its special features, and its Easter number will be a composite California gem in text, 1llustration and general typography. No finer Easter poem than that which will grace THE CALL suppiement’s first page could bave been turned out if we had ordered it months in advance by the sweetest singer of the land. It harmonizes with the season and with the requirements ot THE CALL'S bigh standard of home talent to an exquisite nicety. No better Easter stories could have been gathered from a canvass of New York’s It erary machine-shops znd syndicate ware- houses. The special features inciude accounts of two hitherto unpuplished events that will create sensations throughout the world. We with- hold the nature of them for obvious reksons until the date of publication. Other features of passing interest will be given. THE CALL staff of ertists bave been at work 21l week on the Easter decorations. They will be out of the beaten track and charmingly Sug- gestive of Californis at Eastertide. Humor and pathos will be judiciously intermingled. The children’s page will contain some of the drollest fancies in rabbits and chickens and eggs that any little tot ever dreamed of. There wiil be also Eastec stories, poems and letters. Gertrude Atnerton's latest book will be the subject of the leading book page article. A large portrait of Mrs. Ather.on will accom- pany it These are but a few of the sallent features of tne best California Easter publication of the ve1t. Itwillbe the home peper, as ususl, WITH YOUR COFFEE. Dr. Ende—There’s nothing serious the mat- ter with Patsy, Mrs. Mulcahey. I think a little s08p and water will do him &s much good as anything eise, Mrs. Mulcahey—Yis, docther; an’ will Of give it Vhim befoor or afther his males?— Judge. “Pay as you go, Willlam, men to his assistant. *1 ““Yes, sir.” od, by the way, you meedn’t bother so much about Mr. Jaykins. He aiways pays cash, and when he takes anything he knows he can't get his money back. But be very careful about Mr. Faykins. See that he gets the best of everyining. He owes us $27. Washington Star. said the grocery- a good motto.” He—Watson and his wife were held upby footpads last night. She—Good gracious! their money? He—Notacent. You see, they were coming bome from the ladies’ bazaar.—Ohio State Journal. Did they lose any of She—What is this mineral wool one reads so much about? He—Mineral wool? Why, that's the wool they shear from hydraulic rams.—Chicago Tribune. DO YOU BE..EVE IT? That we should deem that luck’s the thing That will to us onr blessing bring, Aud give us boney without suiog. 16ou't b lieve | But that endeavor well applied, A will that wiil not be deated, Do much life’s provlem to decide, 1do believe it! That our great world, as some folks say, Has still grown worse from day to day, While men and morals out decay, T don't believe | 1 But that, as bistory will show, Tue “g od 0id_imes'” of 1ug AgO Have better grown, wi 1 beiter grov~ 1do believe it That wi re hers to sorro~ born, Are given life 1o live forlorn, Have more Sf night time tuin of Mo, T don t believel ! Bot that a healthy, cheerful mind, And thaokful heart e'en here may find That God means oniy to de kind, 1do believe it GEORGE LIRDSEYE In the Boston Journal. MEN AND CM:N. For many years the Queen has made ita practice to treasure up hanakerchiefs worn by her upon sp:cial occasions as mementos of these events. Mrs. John Sherman 1s exceedingly well read and deeply interested in currentevents. Next year she and Secretary Sherman will be able 10 celebrate their golden wedding. The Hon. Elle Scarleti, the elder sister of young Lord Abinger and daughter of the former Miss Magruder of the United States, has begun to study surgery at the London Hospital. Mre. George Curzon spends such of her time as she epares from listening to her husband's efforts 10 answer harping questions in Parlia. ment on Crete at Lady Heory Somerset’s beau- tiful house at Reigate. which the Curzons have taken. A survivor of the battle of Navarino, an epi- de 0 fateful in the history of Greece, has been found. He is Admiral de Poucque Q'Herbingham, the doyen of French naval officers, who served his country from 1824 to 1879, when he retired, He is 90 years old, and is the sole surviving officer of the com- bined fleets under Codringion, which on Octo- ber 20, 1827, effected the destruction of Turk- ish naval power—+an untoward event," as the Duke of Weliington characterized the enguge- ment. During the Crimean war Admiral Q'Herbingham commanded the Vauban and distinguished himself at the siege of Sebac- topol. ANSWERS 10 COKRRESFUNDENTS. TANNER'S FAsT—W. H., City. It wes on the 7th of August, 1880, that Dr. Tanner com- Dioted his forty-day fast In the elty of New ork. CHURCHES—A., C. 8., City. If you will look in the first part of a directory of this City you will find & comptete list of il the churches in San Francisco, name and denomination. THEATER—M. T. 8, City. An answer to an- other coriespondent in the issue of THE CALL of Sunday, April 11, page 28, is an answer to your question. See “Largest Theater PRYSICIAN — Subscriber, North Bloomfield, Nevada County, Cal. There is no law in the State of California to compel & physician to respond 10 & Call made upon him atauy time 1o act in his capacity as a physician. GEOMETRICAL ProBLENS—B. E. H., City. This depsriment regrets having to refuse furnish- ing the information asked for, but it s & rule of (his deyartment not_to answer problems in geomelry or questions in mathematics. STOLLROAD—M. 8., City. Not having access to the books of the varicus tollroads that led into Virginia City, Nev., this department cannot tell you “in what road Martin Pesante owned & share some eighteen or twenty years ago.” EXERcisi—P. C., Oskland, Cal. Exercise is not one of the causes given in the textbook: s producing costiveness. When an athlete jufters from that trouble he generally places himself under the direction of 8 physician and follows his orders. INTESTATE—J. T. K., Nevada City, Cal Ac- cording 0 the law of this State, if & man die intestate, leaving a widow, but no children or child, one-half of tha estaie goes to the widow, and if neither his father nor mother 1s alive, ihen the other half goes 1o brothers and sisters share and share alike. 7 PRESERVATION oF FLOWERS—M. L. B., City. The foliowing is recommended by R. Hegler in the Doutsche Botanische Monatshefte Dust salicylic acid on the flowersas they lie in the press, and remove it with & soft brush when the flowers are dry. Red colors in parti- cular are well preserved by thisagent. An- other method .? applying the same preserva- tive is to use a solution of one part of salicylic acid in fourteen of alcohol by means of blot- {ing-paper or cotton-wool soeked in it ana piaced above and nelow the flowers. Dr. Schouland, iu_the Gardener's Chrouicle, recommends as an improvement in the method of using sulphurous seid for preserving the color that in the caseof deiicate flowers they might be placed loosely between sheets of yegeiabie parchment before immersing in the Liquid, 50 &5 10 retain the natural form, | George Club was well filled, ot which ti i e |FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT The Ladies of the Dogree of Homor Glve Thelr Friends a Pleasing En- tertainment in Excelsior Hall. Tuesday, April 6, Silver Spray Lodge of the Degree of Honor gave an entertainment to its friends in Excelsior Hall and tnero were present a large number who had accepted fnvi- tations to listen to a good programme. There was a plano solo by Miss Ballard; comic song, Martin Kreling; recitation, Mr. Brooks; whist- ling solo, Miss Cordie Wetjen; mandolin selec- tions, Miss Smith’s mandolin club; violinso.o, Frank Carson; recltadon, Miss Young, and vocal solo, Arthur E. Sugaen, the boy soprano. After this programme there was dancing and asupper. On Wednesday eveninga number of the dele- gates to the Grand Lodge of Workmen paid a t to Ivy Lodge of Oakland. Among the tors were J. M. Collins, F. T. Hilton and T. A. Hoover of Martha Lodge No. 39, Daughters of Honor, of Fresno, who anncunced that on Dehalt of the Fresno lodge they challenged the drill team of Ivy Lodge 1o a contest w.th the drill team of Fresno during the institution of & new lodge at Merced in the near iuture. The Native Sons. Grand Vice-President Clark, accompanied by Grand President Gesford and others, vis- ited Halcyon Parlor of A.ameda last Thurs- day. Seven candidates were initiated, and the officers who performed the work were compli- mented by the visiting offie rs. J. C. Bates and W, F. Chipman will represent Halcyon at tue Grand Parlor session. business there was & banquet and addresses were made by the visiting officials and mem- bers of other parlors who Were among the vis- tors. Grand Lecturer Conley addressed Watson- viile Parlor last Wednesday, and what he said was very much appreciated. A new parlor was instituted at Rio Vista last night by the grand president, the grand vice- president, the grand secretary and other | grand officers, assisied by members of Solano arlor. 3 Santa Rosa has a rival for the Admission-day celebration. San Jose wants the honor. 0. Wednesday next the grand vice-president wiil visit the parlor in Woodland. Smoker of Pickwick Lodge, The “smoker” of Pickwick given last Mon- day was the best ever given by Plckwick | After the close of | 4o, frowe, | Oakland, Alamedas, San Jose, | Temple on th | secretary; W. H. Crocker, Lodge, Sons of St. George. Special efforts had | been put forth, for on this occasion Albion Lodge of Oakland was present in a body as invited guests. The large hall of the St. long “church- | wardens” were handed round, plenty of solids | &na refreshments were on hand, and alto- | gether & most enjoyable time was had. | Amone others, the following contributions were made to'the entertainment: Music by | the Columbia Zither Club, consisting of W. H. | Dolling, H. J. Simmen, W. Schmalzlen, W. H. | Lutz, W. Kaiser, O. Barman_and F. A. Pus piano solo by Mr. Nowlen of Burnaby Lodge; | cornet solo by Mr. Loyde of Pickwick Lodge: | voeal s0lo by Mr. Trow of Aiblon Lodge; vocal #olo by Mr. Rowe of Burnaby Lodge; vocal s0i08 by Messrs. Williamson “Carles, Brown, Munday, West, Sobey and others of Pickwick | Lodge and remarks by Mr. Brandon df Pick- wick Lodge. The Order B'ne B’rith. Grand President Stein of the order of B'ne B'rith, having recovered from the effects of the recent accident he met with in Stockton several weeks ago, was in this City last Tues- | day night and arranged the following visits tions 1o local lodges: To Columbia and Cre. mieux lodges, Apri. 26; to Occidental Lodge, | Aprii 27: to Montifiore Lodge, May 3; to Modin Lodge, May 4; o Ophir and Golden Gate | iodges, May 5, and to California and Pacific lodges, May 13. At meetiug of the Past Presidents’ Asso- ciatlon of District 4, 1. O. 8. B., heid last Tues- day it was decided {0 hoid & meeting open to ali members of the order on the evening of the 11th of next May for the purpose of discussing roposition to estabiish a Indies’ auxiliary of the order. If the idea should prevail, and it is decided to estabiish such a branch, steps | will be taken at ouce to proceed to the organi- zation of one or more ladies’ lodges. Companions of the Foreat. A grand entertainiment is to be given on the evening of the 29th for the purpose of raising a fund to entertain the delegates to the Grand Circle of the Companions of the Forest when it will meet in this City. German-America Circle gave a very enjoy- able bon-bon party on the evening of the 4ih inst. Twin Peaks Circle announces an entertain- ment for the evening of the 234 inst. Knights of Py(hias. Inyo Lodge No. 206 will be instituted about the 201h inst. at Bishop, Cal., by-James Glenn of Bodie as instituting officer. P. C. Henry Newman 1s organising a lodge at Exeler, Tulare County. _Golden Gate Circle. Golden Gute Circle No. 23, Companions of the Forest (F. 0. A.), announce a **high jinks,” | to be given in Social Hall, in the Alcazar, to its friends and acquaintances, on the evening of the 29th inst. WAS A PIONEER WOMAN. Death of Mrs. Eilen McGlue of This City. Mrs. Ellen McGlue, wife of Thomas Mc- Glue, the mining engineer of this City, died on March 21 at her late residence in San Francisco. Mrs. McGlue was almosta pioneer as ahearrived herein 1850 from Newbury- port, Mass., in the brig Arck. She accom- panied her husband to the mines and spent a long time among the camps. She known tothe miners, and she often tended them while sick or injured until they became most devoted to ner. During her residencs here she has been connected with various charitable organi- Zzations, and she was a well-known mem- ber of the Catholic church. ————— Valuable Legal Advice, Judge Hebbard yesterday made an order dis- missing the application of Attorneys Johnson, Linforth and Whitaker, to have George E. White and John A. Wise committed to jail for contempt of court because they proceeded to the transfer of property after they had been forbidden {0 doso. The court found that the attorneys ‘or these gentlemen had told them 1t would not be contempt of court to disobey this particelar order, and so he refused to put the recalcitrant gen-lemen in jail. —_—— Light for AlL Louisde Rome, H.G.Knowles, G. W. West, Frederick Mueller and William F. Gibson have incorporated the Bay City Electric Light and Power Comun‘ Wwilh & capital 5100k of $75. e sum of $250 has been sub- MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, Arrangements are now completed for the ! first festival of the California Musical Festival Association. The management cousiders it- self fortunate in having secured the services of Mme. Genevra Johnstone-Bishop, the lyric and oratorio soprano, who is said 1o be an ad- mirable exponent of classical music. Mme. Bishop will sing in the Denver and Salt Lake festivals and at the Los Angeles Fiesta, and after the festival here will sing in Stockton, Sacramento, Portland, Seattie and Tacoma. Miss Neliie Cook, a graduate of the Leipsicand Vienna conservatories, will render pianoforte s0los, aud uer work is highly recommended. The management has secured Miss Frances Moeller of Sacramento for the contralto role of “The Messiah.” Frank Cofiin will sing the tenor and 8. Homer Henley the bass roles. Bernard Mollenhauer will play at the matinee and concerts and Mrs. Henley will render | songs at the last concert. Mrs. L. J. Murdoch and Mrs, Edith Johnstone Batchelder will | take cnarge of the pianoforte accompeni- | ments. Henry Bretherick will preside at the organ. The conductor will be James Hamil- | country, though ir bears ihe n in & flat and was hard at work, there came sn {mperative request from alady avuve that, would cease Lbumping on the piano. Tig composer bowed to the inevitable and cleieq bis piano; but flais huve knoin him no more, Caryil is the hushand of Geraldine Ulmer, © American prima donna. Alittle clique of writers hasbeen rev the foreign artists at the Metropolitan Ope house a1 season and imp oring the public n to support opera with foreign stars, Itl now as if the difficulty would be to get lead: foreign stars for next svesonm, as many o Grau’s chief attractions are said to have signed elsewhere, At Buda-Pesth the hundredth performance has been piven of Goldmark's “La Reine Saba,” a work absolutely unknown ks his e of & work by Gounod, from which excerpts sre ofien | sung. Tamagno s to be heard in German Early next month he will begin his 800! Mme. Genevra Johnstone Bishop, the Chicago Oratorio Singer, and Miss Nellie Cook. Chorus delegates will attend from ramento snd | towns along the north cosst. The Southern Pacific has granted special conveution rates to | all who wish to attend the festival. The festival will take place in Metropolitan | h and 28th inst., “The M sial’ being the opening bill. | The following gentiemen form the board: | W. Greer Harrison, president; W. C. Statfeld, | treasurer; James Hamilton Howe, conducior; and William von Meyerinck, manager. ‘The practice of presenting fnfant prodigies to the public lesds to abuses where parents | are unfeeling, and a sad case comes {rom Chi- csgo. Little three-and-a-half-year-old Milada | Cerny is to give two pianoforte recitals this week and Wiliam Sherwood’s name has been used as authorily for the statement that the baby’s touzh wes perfect and that her playing was that of an artist. Sherwood indignantly disclayms any such statement. He says that he considers the child exceedingly musical, but that in his opinion she 1s being driven in. sane by bei lorced to practice. A corre- spondent says: “If ever there wasa case re- qniring immediate interference on the part of the humare society for the protection of chil- dren, surely the contemplated outrageous spectacle of a three-and-s-half-year-old baby giving two pianoforte recitals is one. 1 heard this little child sbout four months ago, and 1 then told her father that it was nothing less than shameful to torce her to play the piano. It was evident thatshe had been taught, and | not only taught, but worried into practicing. She was playing & smail Bach air, and of course struck several wrong notes, which had the effect of making Mr. Cerny impa:ient, and he spoke almost roughly to the child. Tnat she is gifted musieally is undoubted, but what she sccomplishes is the result of tuition and practice, and I should say, severe practice. She appeared to have her eyes affected and to be a very dellcate little baby, requiring the tenderest care. Ihear now that she is almost blind and that she cannoteat or sleep, and talks incessantly of the piano. It is now definitely settled that France haveits own “Bayreuth” this summer. Bayreuth Francais” is the name which necians love to apply to the old Roman thea- ter of Orange, which kas such marvelous acoustic properties that modern drams and opera can be given there in the open air be- fore thousands of spectators as successfully as in any of the big opera-houses. The official commission charged with organizing national Tepresentations at Orange, has decided that | the fotes shall take place in August next. As the Roman ampbitheater is considered classic ground it is thought appropriate to give clasic works, and programme will consist of ‘Les translated by Leconte de Lisle, with music by Massenet, and Gluck’s *An. tigone” and “GEdipe Roi” It is aimost set. tled that festivals will be periodically given at Orange every two years. The commission Das advised that the ancient theater of Orange be added to the state-endowed institutions of France. If the acoustics of the smphitheater prove to be all that they are represented | Orapge will be a dangerous rival to Bay- reuth. In addition to the fertility and his- toric interest of the country round and about Aviguon there will be & fascination for the gevernl public in witnessing grand opera in the very arena where the ancient Romans saw gladiatorial combats. Le It is said that Lili Lebmsnn has found a treasure. In New York she stopped a: the Netherland, and ot table was served by a Huvgarien waiter, who, as soon as he could, asked her about her conservatory in Berlin. She teaches only the favored ones—young people of talent and of voice—so she smiled at the eagerness of her aitendant, and asked him if he could sing. He was so bold and confident in his affirmative that Lehmann told Ernst Catbenhusen about it, and the waiter was told to call and have his voice tried. He did, and & short time ago sang for Mme. Lebmann and her husband, Paul Kalisch, at the hotel. Judge of her astonishment when the fellow poured forth the toreaaor’s sorg wi h a voice s Tich a8 oll, as sweet as houey. He hass barytone of range and power, aund goes to Berlin to have it cultivated next season. Catenhusen has him in hand now, and per- haps some day this treasure trove may be heard in grand opers. Ivan Caryll is makiug anopera out of “Mme, Sans Gene,” and Miss Florence St. John is 1o singthe title role. He is the composer of “The Shop Girl” and ‘“The Gay Parisieune,” otc. He isa very rapid writer and is said to have composed “The Circus Girl,” produced under George Kdwardes' management, in eight weeks. Unlike some other English compos- ers—8ir Arthur Suilivan, for instance—Caryll finds 1t quite imposa:ble to get through any serious work on the Continent. He likes to be sthome, in & room that he knows and amid | familiar surroundings. Flats he hns tried and lound waanting. One aay, when he was living | is exceeding even tne popularit in the Fatheriand and will sing in & number of the most important cities. The Bostonians’ new opera, “The Serenade,” of “Robin Hood” in its palmy days. Alice Neilsen, late of the Tivoli, continues to be one of the chiet sttraction of the piec der the auspices of the Leo Society u com- mittee has been formed for the purpose of ner in Vienna. Tne death is announced of Antonio Bazzlni, director ‘of the Conservatory of Mian, Italy. He was very celebrated in Lis prime as a vio- linist, and a5 & composer he was both talented and renowned. He was born at Brescia in 1818, At Hamburg recently on the anniversary of the death of Hans von Bulowa fine bust of the artist was unveiled. | erecting a monument 1o the late Anton Brutk—, The King of Saxony has presented his musi- cal library, said to be of great vaiue, to the Royal Library of Dresden. 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