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'HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 29 1897. APRIL 29, 1897 ChAilLEs M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. \ RATES—Postage Free: SUBSCRIPTION Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .§0.15 Daily end Sunday CALL, one year,by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mall.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALs, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunduy CALL, one month, by mail. 68 Bunday CaLr, one year, by matl....... 1.50 3 P 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: %10 Marke: Stroet, £an Fruncisco, Californta. Telephone .. ~Maln—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: D17 Ulay Streen Telephone......... creeeen Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 7 Montgomery sireet, coraer Clay; open uutll 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 15 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenta and Mission streets, Open il 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open unti 167 Ninth strees 9 1505 Polk sirect; open uniil 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuty-second and Kentuoky streats; open till 90 OAKLAND OFFICE 908 Broadway. STERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 ana 22, 24 Park Row. New York Cltye DAVID M. FOLTZ, Kastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. McKiuley is a good holiday speaker. He cuts it short. A park in the Mission is one of the things that come bigh but we must have. The European concert will nmever be called upon to repeat its performance by request. Eastern investors in mining stock will take notice that there has been no slump in the California cutput. Now that the New York demonstration is over Phijadelphia tes attention to her monument to Washington. The Greeks have vet a fighting chance, as well as a chance to fight, provided they seck it at the front instead of at Athens. The tariff topic is dull, but all the same nearly every Californian has some inter- est in it and had better keep watching it. King George will have to face the mob as King Humbert faced tae attempt of the essassin. It is “‘an incident of the trade.” There will be more glory for our wheel- men in completing the fund necessary to construct Bulbos avenue than in making forty centurie: Our carnival is abead of that of Los Angeles, for hersis now behind the times, while ours is 'ill to the front and vanish- ing in the distance. It is just as well to remember that Beat- rice Harraden’s California s is avow- edly a work of fiction. he w: not writing a guidebook. The Athenian mob is not the Greek people by any mears, and Attic fickleness may be more than counterbalanced at this juncture by Spartan resolution. Let us cet Balboa avenue completed and then we can go forward to other things, and have a good and pleasant road on which to recreate ourselves as we go. The reports of the California mines for 1896 show an increase of gold and a de- crease of silver in the output, so we are right in it with the demand of the age. 1t is now feared at Washineton that the Democrats may prove obstinate after all when the tariff bill comes upin the Sen- ate. Theonly way to make sure thata donkey won’( kick is to kiil him. The Napa Daily Journal gravely informs its readers that the north wind raised wheat 3 cents in San Francisco recently. That's nothing — the north wind hers raises other things besides wheat. The tioods in the Mississippi are becom- ing mors and more serious, and the dan- gers have not vet passed. It wou'd be better for those veonle tostrike out for the arid districts and irricste as they need it. According to reports from New York the wind on Grant day was full of pneu- monia, and many & man who took part in the parade and marched bare headed past the monument may vet prove to have lit- erally followed Grant tothe tomb. According to the Riverside Press there are now en route from Mediterranean ports for the Atiantic Coast cities 275,600 boxes of lemons. What a fine large basin of lemonade those tired Greek soldiers would have if the ship should sink. Adlai Stevenson and a party of capital- 1sts have started for Georgia to look at the gold fields in the mountainy of that State, and if they wish a junketing tour they are going to the right place; but when they get ready for businessin gold-mining they had better come to California. Politicians who take an interest in co- nundrums are irying 1o guess what the Populists will do when they assemble in the proposed convention at Nashville next July. It is believed that none but the middle-of-the-road men will be present and this adds to the uncertainty of the result. There is nobody quita so likely to bolt as a Populist who starts out to stick to the road. The Tulare Register observes that the pure food investigation made in San Francisco disclosed the fact that there is very little pure food to investigate. Itis the opinion of a large and roving part of the community that there is very little food anywhere or of any kind, but suct: as we have in San Francisco is pretty good, what there is of it, and there is plenty ot it such as it is. According to reports from Washington those people who thought that Justice Field woula retire as soon as Cleveland was out ot office are very much mistaken in the man, Field did not hold on simply to spite Cleveland. He likes the place and has an ambition to estabiish a record for length of service which no one will break. He will stay on the bench, it is believed, until he dies, and candidates for his seat will have to wait for a funeral. The Oroville Mercury, in announcing the opening of a local creamery this week, de- clares that in order for it to succeed a preference must be given its product over any imported article, Weshould szy that 1t the people of that section fail to show this preference the only way that the creamery can geteven will be to send its saperior productabroad. It will be them- selves and not the creamery that the Orovilleans will injure by their failure to take advantage of the home production. The movement for the establishment of vanced to a position where it may be fairly politics. The promoters of the improvemen ation of latga bodies of influential citizens, That there shouid be a park of laige ex pleasure ground for health and recreation. accounted sufficient for a large city. accordingly in all progressive cities new par them without being competied to go great d early to prepare for the future. chase and conversion to the propossd use The organization which has undertaken believe, devised a plan for the purchase. Th: ought not to contain less than 500 acres press and the public generally. kind in London and Paris. This scheme i sufficient reasonableness to afford a foundat the park and will no doubt do tauch to gain Whatever may be the details adopted th that & means may be found of accomplishin wouid still add much to the attractions of t | of its people. proposition which is not likely to be disputed by any well-informed person. residents of that vortion of the community ought to have within easy range a large is large enough to need two parks and is rich enough to afford them. Mis-ion would bein many respects pleasanter even than Golden Gate, sincs it would be freer from winds and fogs, and even if it were not laid out on such a costly scale it THE MISSION PARK MOVEMENT. a large park in the Mission has now ad- considered a practical issue of municipal t have organized, have secured the co-oper- have suggested a scheme for the proposed park, which merits popular favor, and, in short, have put their plans into such a | shape as to compel immediate consideration. tent in the Mission district of the City is a The The time has gone by when one park was At the present stage of civilization park areas | are regarded less as municipal ornaments than as matters of public necessity, and ks are being opened in all quarters so that the people of every section can derive the benefits to health and bodily vigor from istances in order to reach them. It is certain that if we are to have a park for the Mission we cannot begin too . Land can be obtsined more cheaply now than at any time in At present there is an abundance of vacant land well located in the Mis- sion and beautifully diversified for park purposes, the price of which is certainly as low now as it will ever be, and this therefore is the best time to arrange for its pur- to advence the enterprise has not yet, we at important question ought to be settled as | speedily as possivle. The sum required will be considerable, for the proposed park and 1000 acres wouid be better. large a tract will require s large expenditure of purchase money, but the cost wilt not be creater than what such a park will be worth to the City, and any well-devised | scheme for raising the money may be counted on to receive the cordial support of the To obtain so An important feature of the movement in its present form is the proposal to make | the park a great zoological garden, surpassing in extent the famed gardens of that s ambitious and yet seems to have in it ion for the hopes of its promoters. Itiscer; tainly sufficiently attractive to give an added interest to the scheme for establishing public favor for the enterprise. e plan in itself is a good one and we trust g it within the near future. San Francisco The park in the he City and to the health and enjoyment THE OITRUS;GROWEBS. The citrus-growers of California have | set & gooa example to men engagea in | other indnstries in the State by the man- | ner in which they are conducting their | | contest for a full and complete protection | | to their industry in the new tariff. They | | have formed a strong crganization, out- |lined an excellent plan of work and en- | trusted it to competent and energetic men. | The chances of their success are therefore good, and even if they shoula fail they | | will bave the satisfaction of knowing they | | have made a zood fight and have done | | everything in their power to achieve as well as to merit success. The tariff committes of the association support of the claim for a duty of 1 cent | into this country and forwarded it to our representatives in Congress. They have not rested, however, with that, out have gone forward in an endeavor to bring the | full force of public opinion to sustamn | them in their contention. They have wiaely circulated a copy of their pstition to Congress, with a full statement of all the arguments to support it, and accom- panied it with a request that the citizens of California generally shall urge upon their representatives in Congress the i portance of granting this protection to the citrus indastry. It wouid be difficult to give too much praise to the committee that drew up | the arguments for the proposed in-| |crease of duties. It covers the sub- | ject thoroughly, but does not contam a | single superfiuous word. Every position is sustained by statistics of the most ex- | act nature, and the snowing is oae that | cannot be refuted in any particular. The press of California and all commerciat and indastrial bodies can well afford to in- dorse such & petition, backed by argu- ments so cogently stated, and there can | be no question that the desired support | will be given. It is to be regretted that all California | industries requiring protection from the | new tariff have not been as well supported and advocatd as that of the citrus-grow- ers. If an equal capacity for organization and an equal energy 1n the performance of work we:e shown in all the departments of our industry, California would have comparatively little to fear from the re- vision of the tariff by the Senate. The example of the citrus-growers is thereiore one which can be well commended to the people generally, and as it is not yet too late to act, all indus:ries of California hav- ing claims to be presented during the tanff iegisiation should take steps at once to present them as effectively and as forcibly as have been the claims of the growers of citrus fruits. SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. “If there isa doubting Thomas in the community,’” says the Visalia Delta, “who has taken a pessimistic view regarding the building of the Valley road, that indi- | vidual may now visit a point a short dis- tance beyond the outskirts of Visalia and see a largce number of men and teams busily employed in constructing the road- bed of said railway.”” Oune doesnot have | to be a doubting Thomas to see that. In | fact those of us who are not b.essed with a coincidental endowment of doubt and the name of Tom may see it far more readily. In the bustle and hurry of ordinary life we are apt to forzet the great extensions of transpor tation facilities whicn are being made in southern parts of the State, but with our attention once called to them we immediately return to our original appreciation of them. They are proposi- tions which any one may grasp without argument, and the only thing that keeps allof us from being constantly jubilant over the prospect whici they hoid out is the circumstance that we foryet them. There are always several remeaies for hard times and several conditions that are responsible for them, the common notion that any one certain prominent remedy that may be brought up can alleviate all the evils at one fell swoop being nothing more than a campaign delusion. Of the several remedies now in sight for tne various ills which afflict California, each remedy according to the ill which it is to treat, the building of more railroads for the transportation of products is one of {the most effective. The need tor that particular remedy is more noticeable in the Sun Joaquin Valley for the reason that that section’s resources have been devel- oped recently, and subsequent to the original arrangement and construction of the State’s system of railroad transporta- uon, and this subsequent devolopment bas left- that section without adequate facilities. S For a number of seasons past the prin- cipal complaint in the ery of hard times in the San Joaquin Valley has been on account of insufficient arrangements for shipping products to market. Fruit has rotted upon the ground, hay and grain have been snld for less than the cost of production, and many a farm in the most fertile part of the valley has failed to pay a sufficient per cent upon the investment lm offset the interest of the mortgage upon it. Growers of rich and abundant fruit have groaned in spirit when seeing their orchard littered with decaying fruit and bave realized that if they could have sent the fruit to market they could have pros- pered. Nothing but a line of railroad within reach of them can bring them re- lief. The people of California have only to realize the vital part of the proposition, leaving out merely the advisable par:, to know how absolutely necessary the new | railroads are and what a great benefit they will be. CALIFORNTA MINES. The report of the statistician of the mint on the gold and silver production of Cali- highest degree enciuraging. It shows the far-famed mining districts of South Africa there has been an increase in the gold output in Californta, and this shos- ing can hardly fail to havean eff-ctin attracting the capital of gold-miners to our State, According to the report the mines of California in the vpast year yielded $17.- 181962 in gold and $422,463 in silver, ora total of $17.6040%6. Compared with the output of 1895 there was an increased pro- duction of gold of $1,847,245 and adecrease in the vaiue of silver produced of $177,326, leaving a net gain of $1,669,918. This showing, good in itself, would un- doubiediy formation from ail the mines, nounced, however, by the statistician that some of the miners seem to have a repug- nance to furnishing the mint with the de- sired information, and many cannot be induced to do so at all. The statements given, therefore, can be confidently relied upon as the minimum of State productive- ness, inasmuch as the output wasin no case estimated or calculatea from insuffi- cient data, but was compiled from the actual reports of such mines as gave them. Until we have a statute making it obli- gatory for all mining companies to make | sworn returns of the output of the gold and silver of their mines we can never muke a full and complete showing of the | productiveness of the mining districts of the State. What has been accomplished, bowever, is sufficient to make clear the fact that California still ranks among tbe most prolitic gold-bearing regions of the world and 1s steadily increasing in the amount of its output of precious metals. Considered in detail, the report shows that the number of counties producine gold and silver to the value cf $1,000,000 or more has increased during the past year from five to seven, the new counties being Siskiyou and Tuolumne. The be.t | showing of the year was mate by Nevada County, whose product of $2,359.340 not only maintains that county in the first rank but shows an increase over last year of $599,124. The second place is held by Piacer, with Calaveras third and Ama- dor, Trinity, Biskiyou and Taolumne fol- lowing in the order name., As it has been reported from Europe that the disturbances in the Transvaal have caused an immense slump in the mining interests in that portion of the zlobe, it is not unlikely that this excel- lent showing for California will have the effect of calling to this State much money which otherwise would have been used in the development of South African prop- erties. The good results of the past year, therefore, furnish a basis for expecting better results in the future, and the mining interests of the State have in every respect a bright outlook before them. ALL FOR Nu H NG Sweet Mamle was a fair young thing, Buther papa was camey ; And when be heard tbe doorbell ring He soful; “Now, Niamie, He's got Lo leave by haif-past ten !” (ure, he was noi to biame: he ettiug rather tir d by thei,) “Yes, paps, dear!” said Mumie. Eu: when 1t €ot' (0 half-past ten ‘IT'he cool young man who came, he Stayed on, jast like the other men, And pale and wan grew Mamie. There came a voice chock full of She .hought It said, ~bey me #h3 up and to d the young man and— He 53id g00d-by L0 Mamic. nd— Now, Mamle. as she went (0 bed (She went, though. all the samee 1) Bhe soboed and wished iha: e were dead— So mortified was Mamie. Then she 80 € Up 10 prpa’s door Before she said her lay-me— Alss! That nolse was pa; And, ob, how mad was New Vork Press. “THE TELEFHONE .N LAW.” A PRECEDENT MADE IN FERDINAND WARD'S TRIAL IN 1886, Communieation in New York Sun. In regard to the admission of telephone messazes as evidence, permit me to add to your article printed on Sunday, headed “The Telephone in Law. The first instance of such admission was in no less 1amous a case than that of Ferdinand Werd, of Grant & Ward, This was in October, 1885. On October 26 James D. Fish, then serving ten years in Sing Sing for wrecking tue Marine Nstional Bank, of which he had been president, took the stand sgainst Ward, and swore thet he had taiked to Ward overs private telephone running from the bank to Grant & Ward's private office, and t=at Ward | | hasdrawn up an elaborate argument in | fornia for the calendar year 1896 is in the | ver pound on all citrus frui's imjorted | that while thers hus been a depression in | | 15 at the Grand. | have been much better if it | Deer Loage, Mont., is among the arrivals here. bad been possible to obtain exact in-| He will probably be in California for several 1t is an- | Weeks | cons sting of Charles S March, Sam B. Wateki, | had instructed him_what to do with two checks—one for §71,800 on the Marine Na- | tional Bank, and one for $75,000 on the First National Bank. He swore positively that | Ward was the person with whom he had had | the conversation. Benjamin F. Iracy and Bourke Cochran, lawsers for Ward, protested against this tes' © mony. declsring that it was iucompet nt. Justice Barrett, trial judge, decided agrin,. them, however, and admitied the telephune conversation as evidence. _Ou the following day, October 27, Benjamin Fish, & brother of the preceding withess, swore he had been standing with his head within elzhieen inches of the telephone at the time hisbrother and Ward had talked about the checks, and that he heard Ward's voice dis- tinctly'come over the teiephoue aithough his brother had the receiver to hisear. The law- yers for the defence declared that such a state- meut was ridiculous, but tue prosecution showed nletter thatWard, had writien Fish. complaining about the fact that every one in the room where (nat telephone was could hear | what was being saia. | Ward vas found guilty and was sentenced 1o ten years a» Sing Sing. On appesl Justice Barret's decision admitting the felephouc message was sustained. This was the first case on record and is a precedent eight years older than that of Judge Benedict, spoken of by you on Sunday. Yours, ete. PERSON - L. Dr. F. B. Ives of Chicago is in the City. Thomas R. Minturn of Minturn is in town. W. 8 Ross of Visalia is here for a short stay. W. M. Cross of Chicago is one of the visitors here. W nere H. C. Davey of the Corona mine is at the Russ. Louis Stade of Chicego is at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel. William Ash and Mrs. Ash of Beriin are at | the Grand. F. M. Whiting of Santa Barbara arrived here yesterday. Dr. H. C. Brown of San Jose is a late arrival in the City. John A. Blythe and Mrs. Blythe of Salt Leke are in town. G. K. Burton, a hardware-dealer of Portland, is in the City. Edward Gillispie of Prescott, Ariz.,1s on a visit 1o the eity. L. D. Shrimberg, a business man of Denver, is at the Palece. A. B. Paxton of Redlands, Cal, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. E. La Chappell of Pacific Grove is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. < C. W. Coryl, & business mar of Denver, ar- rived here yesterday. R. & Kitrick and J. McKay Smith, of Oro- ville, are at the Russ. C. M. Hartley, a fruit grower and packer of Vecaville, is in town. Dr. Edward B. Bowkes of Australa is regis- tered at the Occidental. Librarian H. C.Nash of the Stanford Uni- versity is at the California. A.E. Carter of Reading, Shasta County, is | at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. E. P. Stacy, a well-to-do resident of Minne- apolis, is a Iate arrival here. District Attorney L. L. Chamberlain of Piacer County is a visitor here. Robert Granam, the fruit grower and dealer of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. Ernest Sevier of Eureks, Humboldt Covnty, has arrived here on s business trip. H. W. Parker, & business man of Port Towa- send, is among the arrivals at the Russ. Mr. and Mrs. H. Livingston Center and Miss Inez Center, of New York, are at the Palace. | A. Bettens, manager of the Byron Hot Springs Hotel, is among the arrivals at the Baldwin, E. Dusterdeick, one of the leading business men of Apia, Samoa, is registered at the Russ, R. P. Lathrop, who is identified with the banking and commission business at Hanford, is in the City. Brad Barnes, a mining man of London who | s interested in gold prospects in the Slerras, | Lorentzen of Braunschweig, Germany, is Conrad Kohrs, a millionaire cattle-grower of A prominent party from Cincinnati, Ohio, Isac Isept and John F. Hayer arc at the Palace. Charles K. Hall, a mining man of England, who islargely interested in the development of the Iron Mountain mines, Shasta County, is 1 the City. Telfair Creizhton, an attorney of Los Ange- | les, and unti! recently for some little time one | of the owners and editors of the Los Angeles Herald, is here on a brief visit and is at the Oceidental. K. Nakayama, for the past six years an a tache of the Japanese Embassy at Washington, D. C., arrived here Jast night on his way home to Tokio, his conmection with the embassy having been severed. Right Rev. George Montgomery, Bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles, has arrived here from the latter city o attend the competitive drill of the Learue of the Cross Cadets at the Pavilion to-night. The Bishop was the founder of the lesgue. Si Huntley, owner of an extensive horse ranch near Helena. Mont., and who some two | vears since sold mining properties in New | Mexico to an English syndicate, is in the City. | He 1s accompanted by Harry Childs, also of a big ranch in Montans. Both have jus:ar. rived from Coronado, where they have been | Suint-sae for over & week. A. 8. Gurretson of Sloux City, Towa, who pro- jected the great bridge across the Missour: River at tnat place and who was interested in | the building of an elevated railroad and | meny other enterpris-s there, is in the City. Mr. Garretson was here over a year ago. For a time he was interested in the stockyards en- terprise at Rodeo. CALIFOEN.ANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., April 28.—At the St. Cloud—W. W. Ball, E. E. Colell. Marlborough— | E. M. Boyd, C. H. Crocker. New Amsterdam— | Mr.gad Mrs.S. W. Cowles. Imperial—C. H.| Crocker, J. Theband. Broadway Central—J. 8. | Howell. Westminisier—C. R. Page. Murray Hill—H. E. Safford. Holland—Miss Scott. Al- bemarle—Miss Wallace., Manhattan—C. Wil linms. Arthur Castle, Juan Gasser and W. Osborse left the St. Cloud and saiied on the Trave for Bremen. A. Nagelschmidtand Carlos Muur alco sailed. C. Greathead and A. H. Mar- tin left the St. Cloud and sailed on the. Paris for Southampton. Rev. J. Adam, V. G., of Los Angeles and Mr. and Mrs. John F. Francis also safied. N. McLeod is here buying. WIii. YOUR (OFFEE, Husband—I see that our locpl baseball club advertises for a catcher, with the offer of a good salary. Iwasno slouch of a ball player a few years ago, ana I think I'liturn rightin and train for tuat position. Wife—Don't, dear. You have been s sub- urbanite 1o years and you haven’t learned LoW to catch a (rain yet.—Richmond Dis- patch. Ashort time ago an old iady went on board | Nelson's fiagship, the Victory. The different objects of interest were duly shown to her, and on reaching the spot where the great naval hero was wounded (which is marked by a raised brass piate) the officer remarked: “Here Nelson tel. I “And no wonder!” exclaimed the old lady. “I nearly fell there myself’—London Ane svers. The very loquacious man had come to s pause in his dlscourse, and an admirer took advan- tage of the lull to say: “Hasn't he a splendid command of lsn- guage?” “It doesn’t seem so to me,” replied the weary-looking lady. *‘He has plenty of it. Ivs like riding a bicycle down hill. He can start easily enough, but he can’t stop himself. Washington Star. My love is laughing in her slee 1 know it, but I do not care, For I can readily perceive There’s room for arm and lsughter there. —The Jester. Tillinghast—Why did your friend frown when I told him that he oughtto embrace the 80lden opporiunity? Glildersleeve—He is prominent free silyer {ludes fn C, ¥ and B ilat major and one in ¥ MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, No American prima donna is winning so much success in Europe just st presentas | Miss Della Rogers of Denver, Colorado. She was takea to Paris by her parents when a child and placed in a convent, where she ob- tained a complete mastery over the langusge. Her vocal teacher was Mme. de Iz Grange, and nelther money nor pains were spared by her family to give her every artistic opportunity. Deila Rogers is one of the very few Americans who have won applause at the Scela in M lan. Another Western prima donna has appeared there in recent years—Sarah Paima of this Cliy—but she only sang a minor role, whereas Miss Regers was singing prima donna roles there several years ago. During the last few months she has been touring in Turkey and | Roumanis, and {mmediately on her return to | Della Rogers of Denver, Colo. Italy was snapped up by Sorzogno to sing the prima doana roles in “Carmen” ana *Wer- ther” in Turin. Massenet has coached her in | “Werther.” One feature of her appearatces is | In the ac- is represented as mson et Dalila. the magnificence of her gowns. she companying pi Dalils in Saint-Saens’ In England dramatic or operatic works founded on Biblical subjects cannot be put on the stage. In order to overcome this custom | managers have sometimes changed the titles wud the names of the personages in works that have obtained a great success elsewhere. For instance, Rossini’s “Moses” was given 1n London under the mname of “Peter the Hermit," d Verdi's “Nebuchadnezzar” was called “Ninus.”” 1t seems that Grau wanted to mount Saint-Saens’ “Samson et Dalils” at Covent Garden this season and sent to the composer to know if he might change the names of the characters and vary the inci- dents in order to obliterato their resemblance to the Bible story. For instance, he wished to make lightning strike the Philistine temple | instead of letting Samson pull it down. | s received the request at Las Palmas, in the Canary Isles, where he is win- | tering, and immediately telegraphed back, | ““The changes demanded for ‘Ssmson’ are im- possible”; so “Semson et Daia” will con- tnue 1o be performed on (he coucert platiorm as an oratorio in England, but it will not | figure on the bills of Covent Garden. German papers are printing very kindly notices of Miss Marion Bear of this City, who | is abioad studying music. Of a concertshe | geve in Berlin on March 10 last a Dresden | musical journal says: Miss Marion Bear’s concert, which was an- nounced in these columns some iime ago, took plece in Berlin March 10, 1897, with | most gratifying end successful results. Miss Bear's appoarance was a signal for an out- | burst of applause which the Saal Bechstein has not heard for some time. Her programme was well chosen aud throughout she gave great pleasure by her artistic and refined render- ‘ngs. Her rapid progress under Professor Jediiezka will be the means of assuring her & front rank among pianists. On the programme was the trying and difficult 8 minor Scherzo | of Chopin, whicn had & dash and brilliancy about it that gave her full opporiunity of dis- plaving her admirable icchnic. The four pre- sharp minor by Chop'n were piayed with grace and poetry. Beethoven’s K flat sonate, op. 27, | was rendered in a most praiseworthy maner. | The remaining numbers on the programme, Tschaikowsky's variations, op. 19; Schumann’s “Bride von Lied"” and Liszt’s Ruapsodie 2 and 13, were all given with dash and spirit. Miss Bear's performance met with enthusiastic ap- | plause, and after repeated recalls she re- | sponded with one of the dainty Chopin pre- ludes. Castelmary's death on the stage of the Metro- politan Opera-house is anoid story, but Emma | Cal s account of the tragedy, written toa iriend in Paris, has now been published in the French papersand her comments are worth reading. Calve says: *‘Casteinary was labort- ously playing Tristan when hLe was overcome with a choking sensation and fell on hisknees The public thought it was & comic effect and applauded the last momentsof thedying artist. No sooner was the curtain lowered than he ex pired. He wastoo old, 100 worn out to continue | Ppiaying, but he died on the field of honor like a valisut so dier. Poor Castelmary! They left him all nightin bis dressing-room, and at the dawn of day they change his stage cos- tume for his street dress that he had worn to come to the theater and his remeins were taken toan undertaker's. On his person was found 10,000 francs, all his savings, and a will. 0d was gool to take him thus, without pain, stihe very moment when old age was prepariog much suffering for him. His pride, his nonesty were proverbial at the theater; we all talk of them with tears.” In Londona quaint compiaint has been raised by the gentlemen of the orchestrs, particularly the drums, who being placed at the wings of theater bands, are usuaily the unwilling recip- ients o opera-glassesand other trifles dropped down from the boxes. Oue of the drummers was recently bombarded, first with a packet of candy, which he forthwith disiributed among his immediate neighbors, and shortiy after- ward by a packet of tobacco tightly screwed up ina piece of tinfoil. As this dropved on his drum at the down-beat of a bar ‘and when he was about 10 thwack the instrument with his drumstick, it causd a premature effe ct,which sstonished the drammer and elicited & frown from the conductor. Competitions to discover mute inglorions opera composers do not always succeed as well as the one inaugurated by Sonzogno, which brought 1o light the “Cavalleria Rusticana.” The Prince Regent of Bavaria recently opened a competition ‘or an opers, and the prize was won by a professor at the Munich Conserva. tory named Ludwig Thuille. The successfal opera,which is cailed “Theuerdank,” describes in three acts an episode in the life of the Em- peror Maximilian of Austria. It was recently given & magnificent production under the suspices of the Prince Regent and scarcely achieved asuccess of esteem. The composer was called before the curtain, and his friends offered him a few wreaths, but the demonstra- tion was interrupted by very persistent hissing | orchestra | arrangements composed of F | resentatives irom gri | Pa on the partof many peopie present. The critics complain that “Theuerdank” has no Inspira- tion, and what little good there is in it is bor- rowed from Wagner. The German papers announce that the ten- ors for the tetralogy at the coming Bayreuth festival will be Henry Vogl, W. Gruening and A. Burgstaller. The last named is a greduate of ine lyric-dramatic rchool of Bayreuth, which was founded for the purpose of manufacturing singers for the festivals. The Conservatory of Brussels has received an original enough request from the Chamber of Representatives. Tne request is thatJ. S. Bach’s “Passion According to St. Matthew” be performed for the lzboring classes, in order to elevate popular musical taste. The idea ema- nates from two Deputies, one of whom, Van- dervilde, i3 the leader of the socislists, and the other (Eeman) belongs to the Catholic party. Paderewski and Mme, Sazah Barnhardt were the stars yesterday ata grand concert given in Paris to raise funds to erect a monument to Henry Litolff. Bernhardvs contribution was | the recitation of some poetry, dedicated to Litoiff by Armand Silvetre. Massenet organ- ized the affair. Miss Lottfe Siegel and Miss Ernestine Gold- mann will give a concert in Golden Gate Hall | on the 30th inst. The last of the Bacon-Minetti concerts takes | place in the Association Auditorium on Satur- | day afternoon. The Itallan Philharmonic Society an- nounces its intention of giving “La Traviata” on May 23, with Ida Valerga in the title role. The part of Aliredo will be sustained by Frank Valerga, if he has returned by that date from his tournee in toe East. F. H, Cowan will be the successor of Sir | Joseph Barnby as conduetor at the next Cor- diff festival. A new chorsl work from bis pen, probably a secular cantats, will be pre- sented on the oceasion. Tamagno is singing the title role in Verdi's “Otelio”” at the Peris Grand Opers. As he refused (o sing in French, all the other ertists have had to learn their roles in Italian. Miss Elsie Hall, a pianiste from Australia, has made & very successful debut in London. Josefty may appear in concert in Chicago | shortiy. |FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. Niantic Parlor of the Native Sons Cele- bra:es Its Tenth Anniversary by an Entertainment. Niantic Parlor No. 105, Native Sons of the Golden West, which was instituted in April, 1887, celebrated its tenth anniversary by an There was a large number of the friends of members of the patlor present and they were, as well 85 the members of the parlor, well enterteined with the choice programme that was presented. There was an overture by the after which Will M. Ogi.vie, a youns man with a good tenor voice, sang & Vucal'soio; Master Arnold Grazer gaven de- lightful quarter of an hour of specialiies and Tommy FEggert also presented spe cisities. Then followed the event oi the everic ing, ““A Virginia Romance,” a one-act play of lite' in Virgina iu 1891. There were tive characters in tne play and the production was far above the average of amateur theatrica The particijants were ietter-perfect and not one of them seemed for & moment at a loss for words or action while on the stage. Alred Borlini appeared in the churacter of a lieutenznt o1 the United States army, just graduated from West Point; Miiss Mabel ize, bis sweetheart, a haughiy Virginta girl, gave an_exceilent conception of a descendant of one of (he firdt famil Eiste Duncan, as her conservative aunt, was as good & personation as is oflen seen of the pro essional stage; Will M. Ogilvie, as u cow- ardly sneak who tried to win the hand of the fair Virginian, was quite natural, while Miss Etia But.er us'a darkey whoiwould not beiieve that some men were 1ot born to be mesters, was as good a representatiog of an uneducated durkey of the Topsy type as any one could wish 10 see. Alier the curtain went down the performers were calied to the footiights and esch of the indies was presented with a bunch of beauti- 1ul la Frunce roses. The ball that followed was a very preasant portion of the evening's celebration. cvent wes well managed by the committee of Mordccai, F Euler, J. R. Hay, W. MeQuaid. Drury, Carroll, Kaufman, G . Claraty, 1 The Grand Patriarch’s Visits, Grand Patriarch Doran of the Grand En- campment of the Independent Order of Odd Feliows of tne State of California announces the following official visits: April 30, 10 En- terprize £/ campment at Los Angeles; May 5, Pasadena Eucampment; May 15, Oriental En’ campment, San_Franci May 18, Pacitic Encampment, Sacramento: May 21, Oro En- camument, Ooville; May 22, Union Encamp- ment, Grass Valley; May 24, Visiletoe Eucamp- meut, Nevada City; Mav 25, Ulatis Eicemp- ment, Vacaville; May 26, Marysyille Encam - ment; May 28, Mount Moriah Encampment, Vallejo; Juue ‘ompromise Encampment, Salinus; June 4 Cruz Encampment; June 4, Santa Crliz Encampment. The Rohrbacher Funeral, The {uneral of the late Phillip Rohrbacher, who at the time of his death wes the Supreme Arch of the Druids of the United Stutes and past noble grand arch of California, whose sudden death in Stockton last Monday has already been annonnced in THE CALL will take place at 1 o'clock this aftcruoon from his late residence, 310 Fulton street. The remains wi l be taken {0 Druids’ Hall, on Sutier sireet, where the ceremouies of the order will be held, under the auspices of the Grand Grove of Califo James A. Devoto, noble grand arch. There will be present in the hail dur- ing the ceremonies, ail the local groves, tne members of the clrcie of Druidesses and rep- ves outside of the City. Harmony’s Smoker and Joker. On Thursday evening Harmouny Lodge No. 9,A.0.U. W., will give its first invitation smoker ana juker, in the Social Hall of the Al- cazar building. The committee on entertain- ment has prepared & progrumme wiich it suys will equal if not surpass auy peesented by any other iodge of the order. Morse Lodge Auniversary. The commitiee of arrangements, J. J. Rich- ards chairman, having charge of the enter tainment to be given by Morse Lodge No. 257, . 0. 0. F., on the evening of next Wednesday, in Memorial Hall, 0dd Fellows’ buiiding, in celebraijon of the twentieth anuiversary of the ins fution of the lodge, announces (hat 1t has secured all 1ts talent for ibe evening and that the programme to be presented will be one of unusual excellence. From the number | of applications thai have been made for tiek. |eis it is safe to say that the hall will be crowded. +NSWERS .0 COxc:SPONDENTS LIBERTY BELL MARCH—K., Soulsbyville, Cal. Soues’s Liberty Be.i march was first perfq in1898. 1t was published that year O o0 THE PALACE HOTEL—K., City. Work on the e Hotel in San Fraicisco was commenced fi_bs'.‘z aud the hotel was opened in October, 75. BARBERS' SCHOOL—C. G., Empire, Coos County, Or. There 1s & barbers’ school in this City, located near the cormer of Tenth and Howard sireets. GOVERNMENT WORK—J. Humbo.di County, Cal. An inaividual desir- ing 10 obtain work at Mure Isiand that is being done under authority of the Govern- ment should make appication to the bead of ihedepartment in which he might wish to be employed. A1e—C. E, City. This department is always Wwilling to answer questions to which answers are obtainable, but the questions should be presented in intelligible language. The ques- tlon asked is 8o unintelligible that it is im- possible to determine what the writer wants 10 kuow about eir. W. M, Ferndale DrserTION—J. F. 8., Stockton. Cal. If aman deserted from the United States volunieer army durizg the war of the rebellion, and, never having been pardoned, now wishes to have some action (aken in regard (o the mat- ter, he should write to the Secretary of War at Weshington, D C. If there is no redress, in theopinion of the sppiicant, from that de- .rtment, he can_draw. the attention of the resident of the United States to the matter by a petition. 'WHITE SQUADRON—S., Oakland, Cal. Itwes in 1886 when some of the vessels of the new nayy appeared painted white that a writer for a New York paper catled the vessels ‘The White Squadron.” Tae Cnic go, the keel of whicn wa- Iaid in 1883, was the first vessel of what afterward became popularly known as the white squadron. The first battie-suip of the new navy was the Indiana. Her keel was laid May 7. 1891, and she was launched February 28, 1893 The keels of the Msea- husetts and tie Oregon, 8lso battle-ships, were laid in 189 GipING—2M. M., as & preparation for ¢ City. The following isgiven aning gilding: Quick- lime, one ounce; sprinkie with a littie hot water to slack it, then gradually add one pin of boiling water 50 88 to form a milk; dissoly two ounces of pearl ash in one and a hulf pints of boiling Water, mixX the two solut cover, agitate occa: for an hour, & it to setile, decant the ciear 1quid, put in half-pint bottles and cork well. Tneé liguid may be used alone or diluted with waier, applicd with & soit sponge and then washed off with clean water. Of the value «f this p paration this department does not know sny 1f through the carelessuess of a pe son gilding has been rubbed off a frame the defect might be remedied by the aj pl.cation of gold paint if the defect to be covered is not t00 inrge. CHURCH OFFICERS ELECTED Vestrymen and Delegates to the D cesan Convention for St. John's Chosen. The following vestrymen have been elected for St. John’s Episcopai Church end parish: Judge F. W. Van Reynegom, David Brown, E. D. Builard, J. A. Ca eron, F. H. Eichbaum, Joseph L. King, Major B. McKinne, James Rolpn Jz., F. L. Southack, H. F. Williams, Dr. George S. Baker and A. Spencer. S From this body the follow ng officers were chosen: Judge F, W. Van Reyne- gom, senior warden; F. H. Eichbaum, junior warden; F. L ‘Southack, treasurer, and David Brown, secreta ry 3 Delegates to the diocesan convention, which will be heid at St. Luke’s Church, in this City, May Judge F. W. Van Reynegom, F. H. Eichbaum, H. F. Wil- liams, Major B. McK.nne, F. L. Southack and E. D. Bullard. STREET ASSESSMENT WORK. City Councils May K- ject All Bids Made by Irresponsible Contractors. The Supreme Court yesterday reversed the judgment and order of the lower court in the case of the contracting firm of Gervin, Baldwin & Eyre agamst J. Simon, all of Stockton. This was an action to foreclose the lien of a street assessment levied by virtue of a contract for grading and paving a street in Stockton. The contract was let to F. J. Owen, who as- signed it to the plaintifls, bv whom' the work was performed. The case was tried and the lower court gave judgment in favor of Simon. Two questions were involved in the ap- peal. ‘Uhe first relates to the validity of the City Council in awarding the contract to Owens, and the second is whether, con- ceding that the work was not performed in accordance with the specifications of the contract, the defendant is in a con tion to take advantage thereof. Iu seems that the contract was taken away from one McCarthy, by the Council, who declared him to be unfaithful and The | dehnqueat. Upon tnis the Supremec Court say. The City Council may reject any and all pro- posals or bids should it deem this for the pub- lic good, and aiso the bid of any party wh has been delinquent and unfaithful in any former contract with the municipality, and shall reject il proposals or bids other than the lowest regular proposal or bid of any re- sponsible bidder, end may award the coniract for sald work Or improvement 1o the lowest responsible bidder. The higher court also decided the lower court was correct in decreeing that ali the steps in the contract work are regular and the assessment legal. The delendant had the rizht to object to the work within thirty days, but he failed to do so, hence the decision stated. CAL glace fruit 50c per 1b., at Townsend's. S e £PECIAL information daily to manufacturars business houses and public men by the Pres: Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * S Though an order in council hasrecently been issued permitting Archbishops of Canter- bury to be burfed in the erypt of the cathe- drai, the late Archbishop” Benson’s family re- fuse to aliow his body to be piaced there, as they cannot have it buried in “Beciet's Crown.” —_———— | Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, The spring exhibition s now opea daily |1rom 9 A. M. 105 P. M. and gra d concert every Thursday evening. . e Walther von der Vogelweide’s burial place in the Neumunster at Wurzburg has been dis- | covered by Dr. Kerler of the university in that | town. The tombstone, with the four cavities initfor food and drink for the birds, which the poet directed should be placed over him, has disappeared, thougn it was in existence sixty years ago Faster Time on the Santa Fe Routs. Three and One-half D.ys to Chicago or St. Louis—Four and One-half Days to New York. Leaving San Francisco Mondays and Thursdays, At 6 P. 3., connection is made at Barstow with tha famous Santa Fe limited train. Dining-car, buftet | smoking-car, vestibuled Pullman, palace drawing- room, sleepers. ‘Ihe handsomest train on earth— equipment and appoiutments faultless. Daiis through sleeping-cars, bo.h palace and tourls Vakland pler to Chicago. Tickets also soid via | Oscen, Portland, Mojave, Los Angeles, Deming or El Paso, 10 all points in the United States, Canada, Mexico or Europe. Ticket office 644 Markot street, Chronicle Sullaing. Telephone Main 1631 —— ... — Rallroad lickets to the t via Rle ! Grande Western and Denver and Rio Grande Railways, At lowest possible rates, with through Pullmaz buffet and tourist sleeping car service every day. Personally conducted excursions leaving Tussday, Wednesaay and Thursday. Only line permiiting stop-over at Salt Lake City on all clusses of tiokais Dezatled Information and ti furnished ac 1k Montgomery street, or 314 California siress AGETObS us 0f the locks that graced our youth. Toget them b their youthiul color and | life, use PARKER'S HAT: BALSAM. NO SAFER OR MORE EFFICACIOUS REMEDY can be had for Coughs, Or any trouble of the turoat, than “ Browi's Bronchial Troches.” —— BE sure and supply your tollet with a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor. It keeps the hair soft and | glossy, and the sealp cool and ciean . A woman attending service in the Park-ave- nue Church, Syracuse, removed her pretty spring hat and sst with uncovered head throughout the sermon. Some of the Syracuse papers are commending her highly, and say that the custom of removing hats i church shoutd be just as much of an item for pubiic comfortas it ix in the theaters NEW TO-DAY The Royal—White and Pure as the Driven Suow. Absolutely Pure ROVAL BAKING POWDER €0., NEW YORK,