The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 22, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 22 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. nd Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .$0.18 d Sunday CALL, one year,by mall..... 6.00 d Sunday CALL, six months, by mall. d Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 and Sunday Carz, one month, by muil.. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail . 1.50 W EMKLY CALL, One year, by mal . 150 BUSIN OFFICE: 710 Marke: Street, £an ¥rancisco, Californin. Telephone -Main-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: b17 Clay Sireew Telephone .Maln—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery s.reet, coraer Clay; open until o'clack 530 Hayes street; open nntil 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until §:80 o'clock. £W. corner Sixieenta and Mission streets, Open ot} 9 o'cloct 518 Misxion street, open until 9 0'clock. 167 Ni reet, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open unill 9:80 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuiy-second sod Kentucky streets; open till § o'cloc: OAKLAND OFFICB 98 Broadway. FASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and &2, 34 Park How. New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Fasiern Manager. 1HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. It is interestin to watch the Greek war, but it wiil pay better to watch the tariff ight. It Is not certain yet whether the silence of Boy Bailey is a sign of wisdom or only an evidence that h A clam. The Los Angeles fiesta may be good for business, but after all the Balboa avenue will be the better drive of the two. The Democratic successes in the Eastern cities have already had bad effects. They have started the Bryanite tongue miils again. Our new Minieter to Turkey will soon be referred to as a ministering Angell, and hs will have plenty of opportunity to deserve the title. Ex-Senator Sawyer says he did the best work o his life between the ages of 45 and 65, s0 theie is a chance yet for Bryan to become a statesman. The New York Reform Club banguet to Cleveland is coming off very soon end the country might as well get it ready to stand the shock of a roo If there is any virtue in persistence Senator Morgan will get his Cuban reso- Iutions adopted even if ne has to talk the Senators 10 death and pass them by his own vote, The fires of war in Earope may not epread far, b a1l the seme it isa good thine for the United States :hat there is plenty of water between her and the con- flagration. Some veople sry Russia is backing Greece and some say she is backing Turkey, all of which goes to show that some peovle will say anything so long as they do not have to bet on it. We have many interests at stake in the tariff legislation and some of them are of a nature which we cannot consent to com- promise, $0 now is the-time for California 10 hoist her standard and stay with it, Si ce the appearance of the Servian peoples as claimants to the heritage of the Turk in Earope, the Russian bear seems to have concluded tha: Constantinoplé is a sour grape and not ready for picking, It is believed that when the Finance Committes reports the Dingley bill to the Senate it will have to be introduced to that bedy by somebody who can vouch for it, as it will never be recognized by its face. ““The position taken by the Democratic party in 189 will never be surrendered,” says Mr. Bryan, so itseems to be the in- tention of the party to occuny the head- waters of Salt River as a permanent pos- session. That the foreign trade of Hamburg should surpass that of Liverpool is some- thing of a novelty, and yet it isas ex- asperating to the free-traders as if it were 8 chestnut with a burr on it made of barbed wire. Predictions are being freely made in Washington that as soon as the House resumes business and party troubie begins dland will come to the front as the Dem- ocratic leader and Bailey of Texas will take a back seat. It is a foregone conclusion that Europe will not allow the Turks to go too far toward Athens. The Turks may acquire glory and the Greeks get wisdom, but neither party will be allowed to take any spotls, for the big nations reserve those for themselves. 1t is reported that Lord Burford, eldest gon and heir of the Duke of St. Albans, is on his way around the world and will arrive in this country before long, so all persons having heiresses in charge will take notice and be ready to move them out of danger. David Bennett Hill is reported to be amusing his enforced retirement by try- ing to reorganize tho Democratic party in New York, but be is careful to confine his efforis to the task of framing a State plat- form, and lets the National buzzsaw severely alone. When the floods go down in the Missis- sippi Valley, when the new tariff has be- come a law, when the harvests are ripen- ing in the fields, we shall have prosperity glowing with the summer. Now is the time to get on the right side of the ma; ket and profit by the revival. An Oklshoma Fopul is quoted as having said that his party by reason of the incompetency and treachery of its leaders has been a failure and a disgrace,” and now those people who think that no Populist ever talks sensibly have a good reason for revising their opinion. The new Minister to Mexico, Powell Cleyton, has been visiting Eastern cities to ascertain how he can best assist their merchants and manufacrurers to build up atrade with that country, and now it would only be the fair thing for him to come to San Francisco and study our con- ditions a litile. According to reports from the seat of war the Greeks are winning in Epirus and the Turks are winning 1n Thessaly. The Turks will capture Athens from the east and the Greeks will take Constantinople from the west. After that the powers will come down the middle and rearrange tBings as they were. ENGLAND AND RUSSIA. The relation of England and Russia to one another ana to the war in the Levant is the feature of the situation which is undoubtedly more generally interesting than any other. A large part of this interest is due to the fact that no one clearly under- stands the policy of the two powers, and it is doubtful il the Governments of those nations themselves have fully determined either what it is or what they would make it if they could. In this condition of uncertainty the guesses at the problem are innumerable, and are as varied as the various sympathtes of Russia is supporting Turkey, while others the guessers. We are told by some that venture the opinion that she is secretly encouraging Greece. We are informed at one time that England refused to follow the Russian lead and make direct war upon Greece to compel her to evacuate Crete, and we are told again that as all her interests are on the side of the Turks she is really playing s double game and has pretended to favor Greece only the more effectively to support the Ottoman empire. Amid all these contradictions it is difficult to obtain any information which is suf- ficiently reliable to furnish a basis for a conclusive opinion. The best information we have on the subject is that which has cof me from Mr. Gladstone. While thediplo- matists and statesmen in cffize have spoken in a confusion of tongues and seem to have sought rather to mistead than to Instruct the peopl clear voice. and has been eviden tly sincere Gladstone hi in ail that he has said. peken in a Assuming the truth of Mr. Gladstone’s statements znd the accuracy of his knowl- edge of the siiuation, Rus: in this contes! t is on the side of the Turk, and the English Government, with the best will in the world to help the Greek, hesitates to do so for fear of involving all Europe in & general war. To this hesitation on the part of Great Britain, as much as to the Turkish sympat attribute the outbreak of hostilities, hies of the Russian Czar, we may perhaps The lack of resolution in London has weakened the councils of the nations who would otherwise have supported Greece, and has thus rendered them 1mpotent to prevent the Turks from declaring war and precipi- tating the conflict. If it seems strange that Russia should depart from her immemorial policy of hostility to the Turks and come forth now as the champion of the Ottoman empire, it must be remembered that the conditions of Eastern polities have materially changed since the days of the Crimean believe she could banished by the swift uprising of a nation: rians. expect to maintain a peaceable possession succeed the Turk in Constantinople. war. At tbat time Russia had reason 10 This hope has been al spirit among the Servlans and Bulga- Russia can hardly hope to absorb those peoples in her empire, nor could she of Con-«tantinople against their will It is the infasion of this new factor into the Levantine problem which has thrown the long-settled policies of Englana and Russia into confusion. Itis this which renders it doubtful what will be the new relations of the two powers toward one Europe capable of seeing his way clearly t { another and toward the Ottoman empire, and there seems to be no statesman in oward a solution of the problem so long as this new factor remains an uncertain power. All that can be hoped for at the present time is soms sort of a compromise, and no one can foresee what form the compromise will take. The situation is one on which it is easy to speculate, but risky to hazard prediction. England and Russia bave to work out their relations toward one another on a basis widely aiffereat from that which prevailed in & former generation, and the fortune which directs the events of thé present war will probably huve more to do with the ultimate decision of both powers than anything which their statesmen may desire or undertake to accomplish. TARIFF-MAKING. To the average citizen it seems that the Senate ought to be able to arrange the tariff in a much shorter time than it evi- dently intends to take. It is not a new issue to the Senators. Nearly all of th leading men in that body have taken part in discussing the Mills tariff, the McKin- ley tariff and the Wi son tariff. They have been talking of tariffs and duties for more than tweive years, and by this time, 1t seems, ought to have arrived at some con- clusion concerning tha dezree of duties which are necessary to provide & revenue for the Government and an adequate pro- tection to American industry. This view of the case. however, does not take into consideration that tariff-making is by no means the comparaiively easy task of applying general principles to a particular condition of affa In the making of every new tariff a thousand conflicting interests are excited. The men who are charged with the duty of fixing the rates are confronted on every side by importunities to adopt rates which will be of advantage to one or the other of these opposing interests. A multiplicity of de- tail is, thérefore, involved in their work, and it requires time and careful considera- tion on their part in order to accomplish anything that will be fairly satisfactory to private interests and at the same time beneticial to the public. Senator Allison, who has bhad as much experience as any member of the Senate in the conduct of our tariff legislation, and who is as well versed asany in the best means of proviling at once for reve- nue and protection, is of the opinion that it will take the Senate st least two months longer to 8o amend the Dingley bill as to make it acceptable to evena bare majorizy of the Senators, He does not even venture to deciare that two months' time will be sufficient, but while asserting confidence in the ultimate pas- sage of the measure leaves it doubtful when it will be done. The difficulty of devising a tariff empha- s'zes the importance of taking this sub- ject out of politics as speedily as possible. That of course can be accomplished only by the adoption of a tariff which wilt be 50 satisfactory to the people that there will be no further agitation for a change. The Senatorz are aware of this fact and will undoubtedly act on the present bill with the intention of making it permanent if possible, For that resson if for mone other, some basis of general agreement will be sought for and adopted even if it can be ootained only by compromise. The country, as the Republican platform says, wants this question settled right ana then wants rest. The Republican leaders seek to accomplish that which the pl form calls for, and while the deliberations may be long and the processes of making the tariff may seem slow, it will be best for the country in the end that sufficient time should be taken to make a tariff which will give the country in the future that rest from changes of duties which is needed by industry and commerce. THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY. Reports from Washin gton of yesterday announce that the alleged discovery of a clause in the treaty with Great Britain for establishing the Alaskan boundary which would virtustly surrender the American claim has proved to be only a mare's nest. The clause in question, which makes Mount 8t. Elias the starting point of the boundary line, does not affect the issue of the line down to Dixon entrance, which is to determine the width of our strip of coast land, but is to serve only for the purpose of a starting point for the boun- aary which runs through the gold dis- tricts of Alaska. The boundary in the gold districts is not a matter of international dispute. It is fixed by treaty at the 14ist meridian of longitude, It has not been thoroustly surveyed, however, and as a meridian is not a visible line the settlers of the dis- trict do not know where it is. It is the intention of the Government now to seud a survey to Alaska providing for the loca- tion and marking by permanent monu. ments of the boundary line north of Mount Bt. Elias so that the gold miners and other settiers will know where our jurisdiction ends and that of Canada begins., The boundary line which is in dispute is fully 500 mil away from the gold fieids. It will require a goud deal of diplomacy to settle that point to the satisfaction of both nations, but as no important interests are at present at stake in that part of the country, there is no particular need for hurry in the work. The selection of Mount St. Elias as a starting point for the boundary, so far from injuring us, is said to be one t.at on the whole is favora. ble to this country. It is reported that should the commissioners elect to start | the line from the summit of the moun- tain, the United States would gain an area of thirteen square mi'es in extent. | Jtincertainly time the Government at | Washington should show more interest in | Alaskan affairs. The Territory may yet | prove to b far richer even than the most sanguine expect. Every exploration re- veals new natural resources of greatex- tent, and it is believed that nothing is needed except better communication and | better government to bring about a rapid | development of the wealth of the country. asked for a Representative in Congress in order that their interests may be more | despite the smallness of the American population of the Territory, the claim for such a Representative seems to be well founded. The whole Pacific Coast ought to act together in supporting this petition of the Alaskans, for it cannot be doubted that the advancement of that Territory would materially benefit all the States on this side of the continent. COMPASS CORREOTION. The March number of *‘Notice to Mar- iners” issued by the Unite! BStates Coast and Geodetic Survey announces that it is proposed to ascertain the true and mag- netic tearings of natural and permanent ranges wherever possible in the barbors and along the coasts of the United States with a vi-w to their use by mariners to check the compensation of their com- passes and also the table of residual devi- ations.” Itis further announced that “as it is believed this work will be of grest benefit to all classes of seamen their co- operation is invited.” Last February through an interview with Alfred McNevin THE CaLn directed attention to the importance of establish- ing the provosed transit marks on this coast from Puget Sound tc San Diego. It was pointed out that many, if not most, of the shipwrecks on this coast are due to variations of the compass by which sail- ing masters are misled. When the com- pass Isout of order the ship isin danger 883000 as she approaches tue coast line, and it is imperative to the safety of ship- ping that some means should be devised by which shipmasters could determine the accuracy of their compasses and the ex- tent of the variations by which they may be affected. Itisto accomplish this that the pro- posed survey of the true and magnetic bearings of permanent landmarks along the coast is to be mad. When these bave been marked the shipmaster can adjust his compass by them and thereafter ai- rect his course with certainty and safety. bas begun a movement to have a compass swinging station established at this port. | This of course will further the good work and Lelp to rid our sallors of the dangers resulting from delective com passes. THE CALL is gratified by the prospect ment in navigation, to the need of which it called attention. The one daty of all concerned is now to hasten the establish- ment of the marks as rapidaly as possible. The notice issued by the Coast and Geo- detic Survey says: *‘It is desired that aariners will send to this office the loca- tion of any and all ranges with names and description of objects which they think will be suitable for the purpose, Thess will ke examined, and those se- lected will have their positions determined a8 500N as opportunity offers.” The mar- iners of the coast should promptly re- spond to this invitation. This danger to ourshipping should be removed as quickly as human energy can 4o it. RUSSIA COLLEC.ING GOLD. Philadelphia Inquirer. It any Minister in Europe can regard with equanimity the gathering war clouds it is the Russian Minister ot Finance. The policy of the Czar’s Government in regard to its treas. ury has been the wonder of Eurcpe for years. For neariy a decade it has been drawing to 8t. Petersburg the gold of the world, retaining notonly the immense snnual production of the empire, but meking periodical drafts upon its bankers in Beriin, Paris and London, until now the Imperial Bsuk ot Russia holds the largest atock of gold that is collected any- Where in the worid. In the last few years the hosrding process has been pushed with energy, and in the iast twelvemonth 0o lass tnen §73,000,000 g Teady immense stock. 8- gering total ot 000,000 beld at St. Peters- bure the $150,000,000 owned by the United States Government and the $200,000,000 held by the Bank of Ei d , and the 83,000,000 held by the Bank of France ap- pears merely respectable. European economisis have long speculated 5 10 the reasons that prompied the Russian Government to aceumulate such an {mmense sum of go.d, which has been suffered to lie absolutely idle in the vauits of the St Pelers. The American seitlers in Alaska have | | Mr. Gulis is one of thi The Chamber of Commerce in this City | of the accomplishiaent of this improve- | burg Bank. It wns clearly not to retire the paper currency, for there is only $315,000,000 of paper money afloat, and this couid have been taken care of long' #g0 had it been de- termined to do so. Moreover, the premium on gold has not fallen materiaily while the hoarding process was woing on, as it surely would have done had it been the intention 10 pay it out in redeeming papen But one purposs can be discovered, and that is 10 prepare for war. No other country h made Anything like such extensive prepar tions. Germauy laid aside $30,000,000 ot the French indemnity, which is locked up in the fortress of Spandau, bat this sum would jmerely euflice to pay the exponses of mobiliz- o ¢ ing the troo ssia has its expenses for a year in hand in gold. It is probably this circumstance which ac- counts in part for the imperative tone that marked Russia’s diplomsey in the pres. Grecian crisis. Prinve Bismarck said seve: years ago that the next great Euro flict would be begun in the bourse. Russia knows she is prepared as no other couniry is and can push matters nearer the breaking point than any of her allies in the European concert. PLRsUNAL T. J. Kirk of Fresno s i town. M. J. O'Brien of Grass Valiey is in the City. Robert Harte of zacramento is on & visit here. George Nunamaker of Visaliais a late arrival here. R. McDonald of Red Bluff is here on a busi- ness trip. Mrs. Carlke of Germany is at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel. County Assessor John T. Jones of Riverside isin town. W. W. Douglas,a merchant of Sacramento, is in town, Mr. and Mrs. D. N, Muir of Los Angeles are at the Palace. W. Notman and wife of Chicago, IlL, areat the Cosmopoiitan. General Thomas B, Bunting of Santa Cruz is at the Occidental. E. P. Myers, a rancher of Visalla, is at the Cosmopoiitan Hotel, Colonel R. Cranston of Edinburgh, Scotland, is registered at the Paiace. J. M, McCurdy, a capitalist of Santa Rosa, 18 at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. A. N. Briggs, a wealthy business man of Sag- inaw, Micl., is at the Palace. August Peterson of Tahitiisone of tne ar- Tivels here. He isat the Russ. Dr.G. A. Hare of Fresno is smong the ar rivals here, He is at the Lick. T. H. Ward of Oakland, Clerk of the Supreme Court, 18 a guest of the Palace. John Garwood ot Stockton is among the arrivals here. He is at the Palace. L. J. Maddox of Modesto, well known in po- litical and legal circles, is in the Clty. T. W. Sbeehan, editor and_proprietor of the Bacramento News, is at the Occidental. Nicholas Bowden, a well-xuown attorney of San Jose, is here ou & short business trip. A. J. Waterhouse, city editor of the Fresno Daily Repubiican, is here on a short stay. E. N. Bore, manager of the Humbolat Times, is down from Eureka and is regisiered at the Grand. F. W. Thayer of Boston, who has many ac- quainiances in San Francisco, arrived here yesterday. John Farrel, A. W. Markley and T. W. Mark- ley, of New York, were amoug yesterday's ar- rivals at the Palace. H. H. Durrea, a millionaire starch-manu- facturer of New York, is on & sight-seeing trip to California, and is at the Palace. F. H. Page, who has for many years been en- gaged in the wholesale fruit and commission business in Portiand, is registered at the Lick. Dr. C. A. Ruggles of Stockton, one of the of the Stats Board of Health, is among the arrivals here. He isat the Grand. H. B. Gillis of Yreka, ex-District Attorney of Siskiyou, is among the arrivals in the City. best known attorneys o1 Northern Californis. He is interested in mining and other enterprises. H. D. dixsen, the well-known ship- builder of Eureka, Cal, Is at tne Grand. A three-masted schooner, for San Francisco par- tes, s on the stocks at his yard on Humboldt Bay, replacing the mew steamer Humboldt, recently leunched from there. A FUNNY LIiiLc FELLOW. Funniest little fe ler You'd mee: as the davs g0 by— Teil him the good Lord made him, Certain to ask you **Why " ¢ "em shine for Him, Ceriain 10 ask you «Why ?'* Hearin’ the song birds callin’, Heariu’ the night w Watcnin' the spring rains fuliin’, Ap’ aiways sskin' ~Way?? Tell him that heaven's above him— All floored roun’ with tne sk: Teil him the folks all love Cer_ain to as< you “W WITH YOUR LOFFEE. “Twas in the {ront row at the theater the other evenin, {d the Cheerful Idiot, “‘and the bass violinist's instrument got fast in the door when he tried to come out.’ “Did he swear?” asked the shoe-clerk boarder. “No; he only raid ‘fiddle sticks,’’’ said the Cheerfu! 1diot,—Indianapolis Journal. *'There is nodoubt,” said Mr. Meekton, “that the bicycle has done much to promote the happiness of mankind.” “In what way? “It makes people more sympathetic. It was not until she had s bicycle that my wife ever expressed any sympathy with me when I lost 2 collar button.”—Washington Star. Hostess (at informal) —Have they found something to taik about at last? Host—No, I be'ieve ness.—Detroit Journal. Little Willie—Maw, I think I know why there are 5o many cattails growing down be- ide that pond near the mill. Mamma—Why, my dear? Little Willie—' Cos so many kittens havebeen drowned there.—Pittsburg News. ivs somebody’s bad- “Maw, ain’t a man and his boy two per- sons 7" “Certainly, Willie, Why do you ask such a | question as that?” “’Cause I bet Rob Hicks my knife agin his bag of marbles that it's right to say ‘Dombey & Son are a very interesting book,’ an’ if he doesn’t pay it I'm a-goin’ to lek *im!"~Chl. cago Tribune. MoN aN. WOMEN. Lord Rosebery’s maiden speech was deliv- ered when he was only 14 years of age. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir appar- ent to the Austro-Hungarian crown, intends to bulld a magnificent palace in Vienna, which fact is taken ns an indication that he con- templates matrimony. Lilinokalani objects to being called “Mrs. Dominis.” Asa name it is fully as ugly as the “Mrs. Wettin,” which certain radicais claim to which Vietoria has any right. dded to the last days of Marie Antoinette in that she was referred to only as “the Widow Capet.” Mrs. Sarah Francis Dick s cashier of the First National Bank of 8t. Louis and Mrs. Fredericka Drover is one of the directors. Mrs. Dick was assistant cashier for a long time, but on her father becoming president she was made chief cashier. She is also s director. Bhe has been chief cashier since 1881. Mr. Ruskin spends seversl hours & day gardening 1u little green cuitivated place in the middle of & nut wood, which in spring is full of daffodils and cherry blossoms. Here the professor permits no other tofl but his own, and is as proud of his garden as of the great books which bear hls name on the title page. Apropos of the fact, recontly disclosed, that John A. Cockeriil was separated from his wife for*some time before his death, it wiil be re- membered how she *took on” when the body nrrived in New York. She laid a huge floral decoration on the coffin to **My Deat John,” ;n:i:.bmn iwo weeks lster she was married L3 MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. There must have been sad memories for Carl Goldmark in the hundreath performances of his opers, “The Queen of Sheba,” which have taken place almost simultaneously at Vienna and Buds-Pesth. His librettist, S. H. von Mosenthal, and most of the artists who cre- ated the various roles wnen the work was first performed in 1875 at tho Imperial Opera of Vienna are all dead,and the few survivors 8mong the original singers have all retired from the stage. S Goldmark fs, 50 10 speak, the sole survivor, for the conductor and man. ager who helped to produce the work sre dead. At Dresden and several other large German towns “The Queen of Shebs” is also on the eve of its hundredth performance. Goldmark was first attracied toward the su Ject of his most successful opers by seeing di Pleyed in a Viennese artstore Kaulbach’s fa- mous. piinting of the entrance of the Queen of Sheba Into Jerusalem. ““What a spiendid subject for a romantic opera,” he exclaimed, | and immediately sought the poet Mosenthal. which took place last Friday in the Saile Erard Was the occasion of a very warm and personal success for the eminent pianistes.” Speaking of the performance of Raff’s “Gavotte Musette’’ the paper adds: “The Mlles. Sutro executed it with impeccable method, combined with perfect art, and they recefved the enthusiastio applause of the public.” Quite a history 1s attached to the suto- graphic fragment of an opera by Richard Wagner, dated March 1, 1833, and containing thirty-six pages in folio, which was dedicated and given to the Musical Society of Wurz- bourg. The master must often have regretted | having made this present, for in 1879 he made atiempts to regain possession of the fragment, and asits owners demanded an exsggerated sum for it Wagner sued for its recovery. He lost his case and had to pay the costs, which amounted to $160. This relic, which has never been published, has just been sold at Wurzbourg to & brs. Burreil of London, who The latter developed the idea into the present libretto, and then Goldmark set to work. But the opera was finished long before it was offered to the public. This was the result of a peculiar complication. The Vienna Municipal Council offered _an an- nual stipend to encourage th- efforts of young composers. One year the siipend was awarded to Goldmark. A jealous compeiitor subse- quentiy bacame airector of the Vienna Court Overa, and stubbornly refused to consider the production of the opera. So the “Queen of Sneba’” was shelved with little hope of a pub- lic hearing. One evening, however, aL soiree in the house of the Austrian Prime Minister, two of Vienna’s weil-known musi- ciens happened to play some parts of the opera. The wifeol the Prince became inter- ested, instituted {nquiries as to the work and its composer, and was finally fnstrumental in bringing about its produc.ion, despite the continued ill-will of the director of the opera- nouse. Goldmark’s latest opers, “The Cricket onthe Hearth,”” has yet 1o be heard in this country. “The Queen of Sheba” was producea by Anton Seidl in 1887. Though entering in his sixiy-seventh year, Goldmark is still hale and strong, and promisss to go on composing for many a year to come. The mistakes committed by architcots of theaters are more than can be counted, but the mistakes made in the Imperial Theater of Vienna, the famous Burgtheater, surpass im- agination. After having expended a respect- able numbsr of years, and a still more re- spectable number of millions, the hitect, Von Hasenauer, at last declared his work, loaded with gilding and marifle, ready to be fnsugurated. The luxury of the building, which, to say the truth, is rather loud, was admired, but it was soon discovered that many of the boxes ware useless, because the occu- pants could hear little and sce less. Even the acoustics of the orchestra seatsleft much to bedesired. Attheend of a week complaints were general from subscribers, who had (aken their boxes from the architect's plan. A Vien- nese critic, colebrated jor his indepeadence and trankness, advised a reconstruction of the building, to the great indignation of most of his contemporarirs. Fifieen years have passed, and very disastrous years they have been to the management, in spite of the imperial sub- sidy. Atthis late date it has been decided to partisily reconstruct the Bergtheater, with an e especially to improving its acoustic prop- erties. The changes willbe made during the summer. Morganatic marriages belwsen suthentic princes and princesses of the theater have Teen numerous enough during the nineteenth century, as the Almanach de Gotha shows, but it is a novelty to seo the marriage of the nicce of an Empressand s singer. This has just taken place in Germany, however. A niece of the Empress of Austrla, the daughter of her brother, Louis of Bavaria,who is divorced from ber first busband, Count von Larisch, has just married Brueks, the barytone of the Munich Opera-house. Brucks has had s checkered enough career. He begen his professional lileasa cornet-playar in the orchestra of a little German theater. By chance Nenmann discovered that he possessed a very fine bary- tone voice and engazed him for tho opera- bouse at Prague, where he remained a popu- lar favorite for some years. Afterward Brucks went 10 the Theatre Royal at Munich, where he also obtained an appolntment as court singer (Koen. Kammersaenger). Now that Brucks has become the husband of a near rela- tive of the Prince Regent it is very unlikely that he will remain at the Royal Opers-house. A comic side sometimes presents itself in the most serious affairs, as the following which happened the other day shows: A .ightopera troupe of French singers is giving per- formances in Constantinople and among other works has presented the familiar operetta “La Belle Helene.” It s a Turkish custom that the censor shall be present at the dress rehearsel to stop anything objectionable in the performance. At the last rehearsal of “La Belle Helene” all went well till the moment when the grand ensemble was attacked, ¢‘Pars pour ia Crete! Pars pour la Crete! (Away 1o Cretel Away toCrete!) These words produced the effect of the ancient * Mene, Mene, Thocel, Upharsin” on the censor. At one bound he was on the stage to put his veto on an expression which, under existing conditions, seemed to I deep political significance. All was soon arranged, however. Instead of the ob- noxious “Pars pour la Crete” the company substituted “Pars pour la Chine!” (Awsy to Chinal), which had no meaning, but the Turk- ish empire was saved and the censor slso. ‘The Council of State of Madrid has just ren- dered a very curious decision. Toe singer Don Fernando Disz de Menaoza, Count of Lalaing, grandee of Spain, son of the Count of Balazote, Marquis of Fontanar, brother of the Countess San Luis and brother-in-law of the Duchess de Ia Tarre, applied to the Council for suthorization to put his family name and titles on the theatrical posters. The Council of State has not only refused his request, but has decreed once for all that tities of nobility shall never appear in theatrical announce- ments. The Count Fernando de Diaz is 26 years of age and is the possessor ofa very beautiful voice. The Sutro girls, two American pisnists, are meeting with warm appreciation in Paris. Le Figaro says: “The comcers of Miles. Sutro, | posers paid a vers high price forit. Wagnerians are hoping that the new owner will publish the fragment. There will soon be two new “Bohemias” in the field in Italy. The “Bohemia” of Puccini wili begiven first at Rome and afterward at the Lyric Theater in Milan, and the *Bohe- mia” composed by Leoncavallo will make its first appearance at the Venice Th-ater, Venice, during_the coming exposition of fine arts. Mme. Elise Frandin, the great Italian Carmen, will create the role of Musette in the latter and Mme. Storchio will be the Mimi. idedly “Bohemia” is in vogue, for Masse- net’s Bohem:a” has been popular in Italy for several seasons. It is said that a great success has been achieved at the Grand Ducal Theater of Olden- burg by an urpud.ish d opera. the words of which were writien by Prince Emile Schanaich- Carolath and the music by the Landgrave of The composer of the opers is blind, as wus the late King of Hanover, and one can imagine what immense industry the Land- grave has shown in writing the score of the opera, which is called “Fathme,” for he arranged it for orchestra himself. A veritable epidemic seems to reign among the ohefs d’orchestra of the Grand Ducal Theater of Weimar, for they all resign the butou afier a month or two of service. Com- suco as Richard Strauss, Eugene Q’Albertand Reznicek succeeded one another rapidly last season, and the present con- ductor, Herr Wolfram, s preparing to quit his post. This state of things will not augment the prestige of the theater, formerly rendered £0 celebrated by Franz Liszt. The latest recruit to the variety ranks is Hayden Coffin, who was here some vears ago as Lillian Russeli’s leading man, and made a bigger hit than the prima donna. He is sing- ing at Daly’s Theater in London at present, but he is 10 go to the Oxford Music Hall in s few weeks. At Bordeaux a new lyric drama entitled “Zanuha” has been played with great suc- cess. The composer, Charles Nougues, is only 22 years of age. FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. Buena Vista Parlor of the Native Daugh- ters of the Golden West Gives an Anniversary Ball. Last Tuesday Buena Vista Parlor, Native Daughters of the Golden West, was five years ol@, and it celebrated the event by a grand ball in Native Sons’ Hall. As this parlor is noted for giving entertainments that are of the highest oraer there is not one of its fune- tions that has not in the pest been attended by its friends, that number legion, and the hall is always filled to its capacity. On the evening of the wooden anniversary, the hall which had been most tasteiully decorated with the colorsof the order and a stage set- ting appropriate to the season, lilies and ever- greens, had every seat in the gallery occupiea, while on the floor there were n& many couples as could find room to iudulge in ihe fasei- nating mazes of the waliz and other dances. The toilets of many o!f the ladies were most exquisite, and added much to the brilliancy of the scene as the throng moved in the glow of the incandescent lights, The grand march was !ed by Past President Miss Anna Hahn and President Miss Annie Westhouse, and they were followed by more than buudred couples. The souvenirs of the occusion were the dance programmes, printed on thin oblong sheets of white cedar, and tied with a small bow of Nile green baby £bbon in such a manner that the leaves could be geparated and formed in the slape of a 1an and used as such. 1t was & novel ides, and it was useful as well as pretty. The ladies of the parlor have remson to feel proud of the function they gave, and much of the credit of its successis due to the arrangement committee, composed of M ss Emma Brauer, Miss B. O’Brien, Mrs. J. Spicker, Mzs. C.' Levy, Mre. F. Huribert, Mrs. F. Ryan, Miss 8. Grote, Miss M. Co page. The others who assisted in tge function were: The reception commil tee. Mra. H. M. Green, Mrs. S. Baker, Mrs. C. 0'Donnell, Mrs. O. J. Rader, Mrs. A, J Simpson, Mrs. O. H. Bell, Miss M. Higgins, Miss Mae Tower, Miss Westhouse. ~ Kloor direcior—Miss Annie Westhouse; assistant, Miss Anna Hahn. Fgoor committee—\iss Til fe Braver, Miss nie Worth, Miss F. P. Weihe, Miss Roea Murray, Miss Bertha Belau, Miss Etta 0'Brien. The Argonaut Degree. There was an immense crowd in Native Sons building last night to witness the officers of California Camp No. 4 of the Degree of the Argonautsconfer the degrees on about forty- one candici There was a great deal of impressiveness at the first-degree ceremonies and much sport when tne second was con- ferred. Sons of St. George. The Sons and Daughters of St. George will give a grand entertainment and dance to- morrow evening in St. George’s Hall in com. memoration of St. George'siday. Elsborate ar- rangements have been made for the entertain- ment of the many who will no doubt be Ppresent to enjoy the programme thaiis to be Presented. ——————— 014 Ladies’ Home. The annual meeting of the board of trustees and the board of Iady managers of the Prot ant Episcopal Old Ladies’ Home was heid in the parlors of the home, on Golden Gate ave- nue; last cvening. Annnal reports were read M. Long, Miss M. Wells, Miss L. Hemme, Miss |- and the financial condition of the institution was shown 1o be good. There is & balance on account of about $18,000. The guestion of raising the admi-siou fee, at present §500, and piacing it upon a life insuranc: basis, was dis- Cussed, but nothing definite was done in the matter, After eiecting officers for the ensuing year recepilon tendered by Mrs, Sanchez to friends of the institution was enjoyed. The officers are: Mrs. R. B. Sanchez, pr 3Mre. C. E. Gibbs, vice-president; Mrs. Thorp, seeretary; Mrs. . L. Foster, treasurer. THE KNIGHTS AND LADIES 0:ficers of the Grand Lodze Wha Were Elected for the En- suing Year. Fix'ng the Per C:pita Tax at $150 Presentation ‘o th: Retiring Prc- tector and Grand Secrctary. At the session of the Grand Lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor yester- day morning the first business that came up for consideration was the election of the officers. The following Were chosen for the ensuing year: T. A. Lauder of Sacramento, past protector; Mrs. Belle Wingfield Conrad, protector; adi of Los Angeles, grand vice-protector; . B. Carleton of San Francisco, grand sec tary (eleventh term); J. A. Coiquhoun of Onk- land, treasurer; Mrs. Dayzwiler of S Francisco, grana chaplain; Mrs. B. Oppen heimer, grand guide: Mrs, L. A. Bigler of Alameda, grand guardian; Mrs. Ida J. Kidder of Sacramento, grand sentinel; H. W.Quil- 20w, Mrs. L. B. Holcomb and A. Gompertz, all of an Franci grand trustees; supreme representative, Mrs. L. J. Wheelock of Francisco; J. J. Groom and C.C.0'Don alternaie supreme representatives. The grand secrelary was instructed to request the Supreme Lodge to confer the past grand protector’s degree on the fol- lowing named: Adna Phelps, Eliza A. Lauder and J. P. Couniz of Sacramento, J. Ay Magagnos and Mrs. Sarah Beversen of San Francis.o and Mary McDonald and C. F. Colombat of San Jose. During thé afternoon session the salary of the grand secretary was fixed at the amount paid him last year, being the amount to which be voluntarily reduced it and a sum of §100 was set aside for con- tingent expenses. he per capita tax was fixed at $150, payable in two instaliments, one-half every six months. On behalfof the Grand Lodge the grand vice-protecior presented to the retiring protector a Landsome dia- mond shiristud. Atter that Grand Becretary S. B. Carle- ton, who for ten years has hlled the office to the utmost satisfaction of the entire order and has given much time to the advancement of the Knights and Ladies of Honor in the State of California, was pre- sented with an evidence of an apprecia- tion of hia efforts in the shape of an el gant fob chain, with a seal, appropriatels engraved. The present was well bestowed, for there are but few who are more pains- taking and energetic 1n the cause of the order than Mr. Carleton. At the evening session a number of mat- ters of interest to members of the order only, and which will be communicated through the medium of the lodges, were disposed of. e e New Companies Incorporated. Articles of incorporation have been filed in the office of the County Cierk as follows: Jupiter Mining Company, by J. C. Wendt, A. 0. Wendt, Blanche Wendt, Irma 0. Cantour and Viewr Fonclet. Capiial stock, $10,000,- 0. Behemoth Consolidated Gold Miniug Co any, by D. A Donelson, A. T. Sherwood, J. F Whitney. Charles Willinms and George T. Emery. Canitol stock, $600,000. Central Qunrr: by F. M. Smith, William H. Mackinnon, E.H. Herom, F. C. Hsvens, Wiliiam J. Dingee. Capital stock, §50,000. Cali ornia Desiccated Food Co; Werthle, W. R. P. Werthle, Daniel Nager, S. Nager. 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