The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 6, 1897, Page 6

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EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Citfe DAVID M. FOLTZ, Fastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on & vacatfon? If s no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to address. Do not let it miss you for you will Orders given 10 the carrier oF left at recelve prompt attention. XTRA CHARGE miss Business Office will No The charity bazaar is as dangerous as the theater. What we have done for Balboa avenue will be largely labor in vain unless we do more. Paris has learned by a fearful lesson that dents will happen in even the best- regulated cities. Mr. Dingley may still recognize nis little bill, but he would never have done it without the label on it, e arbitration treaty goes to the waste- basket. We can settle our difficulties England one by one as they arise. Bryan is expected to visit Califo; ities, but fortunately vacation time is at nd we can take to the mountains. The tariff bill as reported is a true sur- | prise party. It was not only made unex- pectedly, but came in an unexpected shape. Itis said by the Philadelphia Inguirer that we are to have an onion trust, and it is scarcely necessary toadd it will be in bad odor. It is time for us all to be giving consid- eration to the Christian Endeavorers. They will be with us pretty soon in large numbers and fall of enthusiasm. It is not surprising to learn that the Greeks would rather deal with the Turks than with the powers. An open enemy is never so dangerous as a false friend. San Diego may now be expected to join the list of cities that claim to have doubled in population since 1890. There is & con- siderable increase in the school census. We may as well seitle down for a long siege on the tariff question, as it is now evident that the bill in its present form can never be carried through by a storm- ing party. The powers when encouraging the Sul- tan to whip Greece never thought of the possibility that he might get so bold that would become necessary to whirl in and whip him. & no explanation of ex-President Har- rison’s absence from the Grant celebration has been forthcoming We may as well set- tle down to the conclusion that the baby had a tooth. The export of gold is mot altogether a bad thing at this time, as it will have the effect of inducing the Senate to hurry up the tariff and provide the Government with a revenue. It was a wise move to take the Hawalian treaty feature out of the tariff bill. A measure of that importance ought to stand on its own merits and not be mixed up with other things. It was only a little while ago that some neople were declaring that Senator Jones had lost all his prestige, and now he holds alance of power in the Senate and is er man than any With faster fruit trains to Eastern cities we will be able to get better profit in those markets, and the consumers there will get better fruit, €o in this instance we may account the Southern Pacific officials as public benefactors. The correspondents who so forcibly de- scribe the disordered retreat of the Greeks probably went along with the stragglers who led the backward movement, and did not siav to see the troops who held the Turks in check and guarded the retreat, The bonnet which Victoria wears on state occasions is a ponderous affair of black velvet, with huge white plumes, and it is said that the shape has not been changed in twenty-five years. If it de- pended on her Majesty to lead the fash- s milliners would have time to go bieycle riding and become experts. One New England paper declares that a craving for pie is a perverted taste, which is sapping the health of the American people and making them a race of dyspep- tics, while another New England paper s ny man who does not relish pie is a degenerate; so there you have another controversy to disturb the country. It is =aid that at the present time there are eilher building or completing for the British navy fourteen new battle-ships, eight first-class and nine second-class cruisers, two sloops, four gunboats, fifty- two torpedo-boat destroyers and eight light-dranght steamers for special service. Any power, therefore, that aspires to take Britannia’s place as ruler of the sea will have to fight for It is said that over 780 applications have been made for the erection at the Paris Exposition of what are known as ‘‘sen- sational novelties.”” Theyembracealmost every sort of engineering feat imaginable, from revolving towers to g glass tunnel under the Seine. Ouly a few of them of course can be permitted, but it is likely that some among them will make the Eiffel tower and Ferris wheel look like chromos. al FRUIT TRANSEORTATION. The announcement published yesterday that the Southern Pacific Company has made arrangements for establishing a fast service for fruit trains from Sacramento to Chicago, New York, Boston and all the principal shipping centers of the ast will be in the highest degree gratifying not only to our fruit-shippers, but to the people of California generally. Theim- provement is likely to be of immense benefit to the State in many ways, and it is to be hoped the experiment will prove s0 successful as to lead to further improve- ments in the same direction hereafter. The object of the scheme as announced is to stup fruit frow Sacramento between 64 M and midnight and land it in Chi- cago within about 125 hours, so that it will arrive there at 3 A. M., or in New York at the same hour a day later, thus enabling the auctioneers to get it unloaded and catalogued ready for sale ou the day of arrival. This will mesn an immense gain in the value of the fruit, and wilil resuit in securing for our shippers much better prices than they have obtained latel Reports from all parts of the State been largely damaged by frost the chances are that the demand in the Eastern mar- ket for our products of this kind will be exceptionably good. The improved sched- ule of freight service is therefore a most opportune one, both for the California shipper and for the Eastern consumer. It offers to us an opporiunity to makea larger figure than ever in the Eastern fruit market and to obtain there advan- tages which it will be our own fault if we do not make permanent. The season for shipping green fruits to the East will soon begin, and it will not be long before we are realizing some of the benefits which may be expected from tha new service. Fresh California fruit will be in the East in large quantities as soon as the return of warmer weatner there in- clines the people to desire nd ren- ders it an object of universal demand. We have to congratulate ourselves upon obtaining this improvement, which materially widens onr markets, owe thanks to the officials of the South- ern Pacific Company, who have arranged for the service and are prepart 0 successfyl one in every respect and for all concerned, AN APPALLING HORROR. The city which usuaily bear: the title of the gayest capital in is to-day the saddest. Thr | there is a feeling of hor caused by one of the most lamities that has bappened ized country for many a yea nity, the eminenceand the weslt who have fallen victims wiil s sensation of horror, for death never seems more terrible than when appa the best means of enjoying all the Lopes and splendors of life. | The swilt and terrible destruction of the | fire is the more noteworthy because it oc- world have been taught to believe muni- cipal regulations guarding against the pos- sibility of such accidents are most com- prehensive in their nature and most rig- idly enforced. Here, however, it seems that a building was prepared for the re- ception of large numbers of persons which in its nature was but little better than a terial. It appears ifrom all reports that the fire broke out, the root fell, burying beneath its weight in the flaming furnace packed at the doors, were unable to escape. The calamity, however, was not du: wholly to a neglect of proper precautions against the possibilitiesof fire. Flimsy as was the structure in which the bazaar was held, it had eight doors, and had there been anything like reason and good order among those within all couid have escaped in safety. The crowd, however, became panic-stricken, and in their terror | doors of the main entrance, leaving the others unnoticed. Against accidents of that kind there is no vossibility of guarding. Rea- son is gone when panic begins, and the world has had many a fearful evi- dence that terror-stricken men and women will trample one another to death in the fearful rush, no matter how wide open may be the means of escape. 1In fact, it is only a short time ago when in the broad thousands of peasants died in the same sort of panic-stricken rush at the feast attending the coronation of the Czar. Many instances are known where dan. gerous panics have been averted by the presence of mind and coolness of a single dominating intellect. Had such a man or crowded the Parisian bazaar Paris might to-day be celebrating a hero instead of mourning s direful calamity. Possibly, however, not even _the coolest head could have withstood that fearful wreck, and there is no knowing but what some among those who perished made every effort to doso. Inthe presence of such a horror as this humanity will not undertake to criticize, and all the voices that are heard will be those of sympathy and sorrow. IT RISES IN CALIFORNIA. California, with its new factorles, its new industries, its new public enterprises, furnishes a solution to a problem over which New England is gloomily lengthen ing its face. It bas for sevaral days been a matter for solemn foreboding on New England’s part that no wave of prosperity has hove in sight thereabouts according to appointment. By day and by night the waiting community has mounted a hill- top with a telescope and searched the horizon without discerning so much as a prosperous bee in the davtime or an opu- lent firefly at night. Never pausing to reason the thing out according to the laws of cause anad effect, New England has laid the blame for this upon the new sdminis- tration, which hasn’( been in power long enough to catch its breath and light a cigarette after the magnificent race to get there. But tne correction of our misguided brethren of the far East is plain before us, and we lay hold of the duty gladly. The reason why New England cannot yet dis- cern the promised wave of affiuence which is really to overlay the country according to the best calculations within a few months is because it is too far away. The wave has chosen to do its rising in Cali- fornia, and as yet it has not proceeded very far eastward. If afew Chicagoans will take the Yerkes telescope up in a bal- loon and get a focus down this side of the Bierras they will behold a wave of pros- perity that is getting ready to travel over the continent, with factories, railroads, beet ranches and everything else that is vrofitable in the wake of it. Just keep California in view, ye gloomy sons of expectancy. We are acquiring Jnew industries of all kinds, Tobacco and we | d to do | their utmost to make the experimenta | comes sud- | denly and cruelly upon those who have | curred in Paris, where the people of the | barn, and was made and decorated with ‘ the flimsiest and most inflammable ma- | within a comparatively few minutes after | the throngs of men and women who, | crowded and crushed one another at the | open plains on the suberbs of Moscow | woman been present in the throng that | raising, cansigre cultivating, beet-sugar refining—these are examples of the more recent developments from our soil; while the building of new factories all overt he State for the accommadation of the more familiar and older industries, such as blanket-making, shoemaking, etc., etc, is additional evidence of an awakened spirit of confidence and enterprise in the people of this vigorous State. Here the wave of prosperity will have its source. To westward let New England and the middle country peer for the first g'impse of the approaching flood. TRAFFIC AGREEMENTS. The decision of the Railroad Commjs- sioners on the complaint of the Union Transportation Company against the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Rail- road, which was published in THE CALL yesterday, is in thorough accord with pubiic interests, and it can hardly be doubted that it will be sustained by the courts should an appeal be taken by the complainants. In its essential elements, the decision declares traflic agreements between con- show that there is now every pros-|Recting common carrjers are valid and {pect of a good fruit crop, and as|are mattersonly of private concern to the those in the [East seem to have|parties directly interested. In the par- ticular case under review,Chairman Lm Rue said that the contract was ciearly made in | the interest of the public, in so far as it made it possible to establish lower rates to shippers than would otherwise be the case. It might be inferred from this that an arrangement which s not for the public benefit would be overruled, but that inference is one which cannot be re- garded as settled until a case involving the exact point arises for determination. It will be remembered that the Union nsportation Company, ruaning a line of steamboats, alleged that a contract exists betweern the Valley road and the California Navigation and Improvement Company, which controls a competing line of steamers, and it was further alleged that this contract was illezal pecause it ating in the business of the road between an Francisco and points south of Stock- ton. | The defense made was based on the | ground that the contract caused no dis- | erimination to any shipper and therefore was not in any sense a matter which could be reviewed by the Railroad Com- mission, or wasin any way a violation of the law. It was further alleged by the de- fendant that the scontract resulted in a material reduction of throngh rates to all shinpers over ti.e lines and was therefore in the nature of a public benefit, As evidence for the defense the contract submitted to the Commissioners for private examination, and it was after an | investigation of its terms and their ope | tion that the decision was made. The compiainant has asked leave to amend the complaint, and it is understood that the object is to lay the basis for taking an appeal to the courts. The con- clusion of the matter will be awaited with no little interest. The issue is one of con- siderable importance, not only to com- mon carriers, but to the public generally, and a final decision of the points involved a matter of no little concern. As we have stated, the decision of the | Commissioners is well founded from the ‘, point of view ot public interest, as well as | for the transaction of the business of com- mon carriers, and there is every reason to believe that it will be sustained by the Judges should it come before them. PERSONAL J. A ud of Fresno is at the Grand. | R.H.Sequard of Los Gatos 1s in town. R. Emporan of Sonoma is at the Russ, | C.H. Hopkins of Kellogg is at the Russ. Dr.Wakefield of San Jose is at the Occidental. R. P. Morris of San Jose is at the Cosmopoli- tan. | D.L Dominick of Chicago s at the Cosmo- | politan. | A E Reynolds of King City, arrived here vesterday. | E. s Churchill, the banker, of Naps, is nere for a few days. Dr. A.T. Hadson of Stockton is among the vals here. J. ¥. Clute e Cosmop: ge S ton, is is at f El Dorado Canyon, Ne e & general merchant of in town. Manasse, owner of & large tannery at Napa, is in the Cit e Senator Robert M. Bulla of Los Angeles ar- rived here last night. Otto V. Pfister of Munich, Germany, arrived in the City yesterday. . Kingsbury of Nevada City is spending | a few days in the Ci C. C. Carson, a well-known resident of Las- n County, is on a visit here. vns, the mining superintendent, of | Sutter Creek, 15 at the Occidental. George amer, proprictor of a general | store at Davis Creek, is at the Russ. Chaplain J. H. Macomber of the United tates army, Los Angeles, is in town. | | Joma W. Hepburn of Chicago arrived here ou las s train, and is at the Palace. . Hicks, & leading business wan of visiting San Francisco for & | Loui: | Bake | short tim E. Randoloh, a mining and business man of Tucson, Ariz., arrived here yesierday. He Is &t the Palace. R. Lowenburg, & mining man and general merchandize dealer of Tuscarors, Nev., is st the Grand. R. M. Swap, §. 8 Swan, T.T.Swan and J. H. Howland of Gunnison, Colo., are at the Cosmopolitan. E. J. Reynolds, & business man of Priest Valley, is in the City on business and will re- main a few days. Dr. 0. L. Barton of the Harman mine, Placer County, came to the City yesterday, accom- panied by Mrs. Barton, Benjamin Welch ot Sacramento, master car- | builder at the Southern Pacific railway shop n that city, is at the Grand. Colonel W. A. Herron, a banker and real estate dealer of Pittsburg, 18 at the Palac accompanied by Mrs. Herron. Thed Huston of Tacomas, an sttorney and prominent politician and member of the Grand Army, 15 at the Palace, W. H. Shanaban, the “tall sycamore of Shasta,” is"down from his mountain retreat for a few days, and is at the Grand. J. M. Williams, the wealthy owner of & large general store at Newman and of mining prop- i erty in the Tehachapl Mountains, is here on a | business trip. D. H. Bairof Sacramento, road foreman in charge of the engines on the Southern Pacific Dbetween San Francisco and Tucson, Ariz., is among the arrivals. A prominent party of Denver mining men, consisting of William Laurence, M. Fitzgerald, L. V. Caloron and G. B. West, were among last night's arrivals. F. D. Fraser, & mining man of Siskiyou County, wbo has for some time past been in New York, where he went on mining busi- ness, is in the City, on his way to Siskiyou. The Rev. Henry Nagle, the only Episcopal minister in the new gola camp of Randsburg, is here on a brief vacation from his arduous duties among the miners and is at the Occi- dental. Among the arrivals here last night was C. A. Williams, formerly of Californis, now of Jo- hannesburg, who has made a record in the Dark Continent, as he did here,asa skillful engineer. He will remain here for several weeks. 3 Father Jeram, who was drowned in Eel River on Tuesday while trying to swim his horse across tnat stream, was a well-known figure sround the Grand and Russ. He | foundea the Slavonian colony in Mendocino { exciuded the complainants from partici- | County & year ago and had great influence among the colonists who had come from over the ocean on his advice. He was an Austrian and but 39 years old. W. E. Baines of Portland, Or., who recently 80.d out his interest in the Joggins rafts from the mouth of the Columbia to this City, has arrived here from Los Angeles, where he has been for several weeks, and where he Wit- nessed the fiesta. He is at the Lick. Eoard Baln, the millionaire wagon-maker of Kenosha, Wis, the hesdquarters for oak, hickory and ash in that region, is Among the arrivalshere. He has come to California on a protracted vacation from his labors in the toy north, and is accompanied by Mrs. Bain and Mrs. A. R. Gray, the latter of Chicago. Ex-Judge J. D. Bicknell, the wealthy lawyer of Los Angeles, arrived here yesterday with several friends ana is a¢ the Palace. The ex- Judge early acquired a large amount of prop- erty in the southern city, and the possession of this, combined with the rapid_sadvancement of Los Augeles, has caused a big fortune to accrue to him in recent years. He is under- stood” to be here on pusiness in connection with the Los Angeles streetcar lines, Patrick Lyons, a big grain farmer and cattle and horse grower of Walla Walla, is at the Lick, accompanied by Mrs. Lyons and the Misses Kate and Theresa Lyons. They will probably be in the City several days. Mr. Lyons is one of the old residents of Walla Walis. He early acquired a large area of the rich, ashy soil of Walla Walla County, and ever since has been a heavy producer of wheat, barley and other grain. He is repre- sented {0 be one of the wealthiest men in that part of Washington. A. B. Wood, long interested in copper mines in the Lake Superior country, afterward man- ager of the Montana Sapphire Company Lim- ited, and in the early days of Leadville one of the owners of the noted Iron Silver mine, has returned here after making an extended trip through the mining districts of the mother lode. He also went up into the snows of the | Slerras and examined a number of properties. What with his experiences on mountain top and in the bowels of the earth he says he has hed & lively time. Professor T. 8. C. Lowe, the silver-haired builder of the scenic railroad on lofty Mount | Lowe, the picturesque mountain of the Sier- res named for him, the owner of several Botels, residences and other property, and a great promoter of enterprises of different kinds for the past ten years in Southern Cali- fornia, returned from the Eastyesterday, after two months absence, and is at the Paiace. He said he had visited New York and the leading cities, and he thinks things ere brightening & little on that side of the continent. He will be here for several days. CALIFORNI&N> iN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, At the Plaza— J. B. Leach. Baldwin. Ash- land—J. B. Hall St. Denis—S. Menzie. Am- sterdam—B. Jeffery and wife. Holland—Mrs. and Miss Liucoln. Colonnade—r. P. Wilder. Union-square—Dr. Aund. Astor—J. A. Filcher. J. A. Ogilvie, Mrs. Ogilvie and Mr. Smlith teft the Plaza to sail on the St. Paul. WIlIH YOUR COFFEE The merchant must labor and watch every leak, And he seldom can knock of 0 pl But the cook in his kitchen who Wi week— She's ihe lady can quitany day. —Chicago Record. ks by the “Every woman has. a fad,”” saic the obser- vant lady to the one who had buried tnree hus- bands. “Hm! I'dlike to know what mine is.” “Marrisge.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. “My family,” in the Mayflower. “Did they really?” exclaimed Sayso, * interesting! And were you seasic Twinkles. id Miss Antique, “‘came over ““You ought to be ashamed of yourself,” said the Judge to the gentleman who had been | caught picking pocketsata funeral. ‘*Have you no sense of decency “Yes, Judge, but then, you know, people in & place like that are so easily touched.”—In- dianapolis Journal. Nell—Flora going on tho stage. Belle—I didn’t known she had any talent. Nell—She hasn’t; but her aunt, the great actress, has just died and left Flora her entire wardrobe.—Philadelphia Record. ,” said Madge, tfirmly, ‘I would never marry a newspaper man.” “But why?”’ “Why, gracious; you can never scold them | for coming home late.”—Philadelphia North American. «’Scuse me,” said Tommy, as he helped him. | self to another piece of cake. “Why didn’t you ask me, Tommy, if you wanted inore?” smiled the hostess. +'Cause 'tain’t p'lite.”—Detroit Free Press. CRY OF 1nE DISCONSOLATE. My thumbs are bruised, my head aches and Botn of my shin, are raw ! My hair Is full of 500t and sand, And i've a crippled Jaw— We've moved ! The scene that meets my Sends sadness 1o my he The chairs are tangied in a maze, The beds are (TN aprt— We've moved ! eary gaze The stove !s shy alid or two, ‘The mirrors are a'l cracked! My books—cheap, costiy, 0ld and Dew— 1In one big heap are stacked— We've moved! There's nothing but cold stuft Lo eat, I’m nun.ry. sick and sore: My shoes have ceased to fit my feet, ‘There's naugh to sit on but the floor— We've moved —Cleveland Leader. MEN AND WOMEN Prince Ranjitsinhji, the Hindoo Prince, who headed the English batting list at cricket last year, has written & book on the game. Fred Ramsden, a Michigan artist, has had one of his pictures accepted by the Paris | Salon. It wasone of 700 selected from 5000 | presented for admission. The statue of Lord Randolph Churchill, or- dered by his nephew, the Duke of Marl- borough, is almost finished. The statue will be life size, and it will be placed in Benheim palace. A fine bronze statue of the late Sir Richara Owen has jurt been placed in the Natural His- tory Museum, South Kensington, facing the statue of Darwin. The tunds of the statue wers raised by public subscription. The death of Congressman Milliken will oc- casion the first change in the Maine represen- tative delegation for a peroid of sixteen years, all four of the Pine Tree members in the pres- ent House having been colleagues in consecu- tive Congresses. The Methodist Biskiop Thomas Bowman has chosen & home in Evanston, 11, for the re- mainder of his days. Heis 80 years old, was | chaplain of the United States Senate in wac times, has presided over conferencesin four continents and dedicated 1200 churche: Mrs. Clara Fisher Maeder, the once famous actress, has published her memories. She 1s 86 years of age, aud first went on the stage when 6 yearsold. For seventy-two years she scted continuously, and at the age of 78 re- tired. She was at one time considered the best Shakespearean actress of her da; The venerable Gabriel Harrison, actor, man- ager, dramatist, historian of the drama, teacher, daguerreotyper, photographer and painter, and acquainted with the most fam- ous men of forty and fiity years ago, still lives in Brooklyn, on the verge of 80 years, and is et busy in writing, teaching and painting. Engravings from ir Joshua Reynolds col- lected by the third Earl of Bessborough orought very high prices recently in London, 588 pictures selling for $33,400. They had re- mained in the possession of the collector’s family till sold, and many were first states. “Lady Catherine Pelham Clinton” bronght $1500; “Mrs. Pelham Feeding Chickens,” $1020; “Lady Elizabeth Compton,” one copy $1375, another $995; ‘‘Jane, Countess of Har- rington,” $1250; “Lady Catherine Howard,” $700; ‘‘Miss Sarah Campbell,” $800; the “Ladies’ Waldegrave,” second state, $550. An engraving of Gainsborough’s “Georziana, gathering of the clans of music-teachers as never before at the Music-Teachers’ National Convention next month in New York. The affair ‘will teke place from June 24 to 28, at the Grand Central Palace, and the man- agers are already a-sured of an attendance of over 14,000 teachers from all parts of the country. The Metropolitan Permanent Or- chestra will be present at the orening meet- ing, at which proceedings will be inaugurated by speakers representing the State and city governments and the association. The musi- cal features of tne opening meeting will bo under the direction of Arthur Claassen, who will also conduct on another evemng the singing of partsongs by tbe Arion Society of Brooklyn, the society which won the highest Prizes at a recent meeting of the Saengerbund. “The Messiah” will be given by a chorus of nearly 1500 voices, the nucleus of which will be the People’s Singing Societies, organized by Frank Damrosch, who will conduct. The department of women’s work in music promises startling and interesting revelations, Mrs. Theodore Sutro, who is at tne head of work of this sort, being well known for her | MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, It is expected that there will be such a | thet they were rehearsed at Weimar by Liszt, but that the music was 5o crazy that the idea | of producing them was abindoned. I beg you to give me some information on the sub- jeet.” Wagner's more advanced works seem quite unable to meet with popular favor in Italy. The people complain that they prefer the ad- ventures of human beings to the semi-mytho- logical-adyentures of demi-gods and paople of myth and fable. Nevertheless the impresarios continue to produce the advanced Wagner works, probably on the principle that if Italy does not like them it must be made to hear them until it does. “Tristan and Isolde” hes just been coldly received at Turin, but nevertheless the work is to be given at Rome, Milan, Florence and Napl Ins book entitied “A Journeyin China” (Just_published by Dunckler & Co., Leipsic) the Russian traveler, Obrutscheff, speaks ad- miringly of the aerial concerts made by pigeons 1n the Celestial Kingdom. It seems that a sort of olian harp is attached to each pigeon, either to make music or to frighen away birds of prey. “The sound produced MRS. THEODORE SUTRO, a Musiclan of Many Gifts, enthusiasm in the exploiting of women's work, especially in music. Mrs. Sutro is & wonderful woman. She can paint in a way to make artists admire her gift; she isa musi- clan of & broad type, who has made more than one poor struggling men OF WOmAD recog- nized and successful; she has studied law, and actually graduated at the top of alaw class, and she can address or lead a meeting as few men can. The greet idea of the Music-teachers’ Con- vention is to give the musicians of the coun- try an ides of the progress that has been wrade during the last few years. Prizes are offered Dy tho association for Amerizan compositions, full partienlars of which can be obtained by addressing R. H. Woodman, chairman of the exceutive committee, 19 West Fourteenth street, New York. Drofessor Gow’s special committee on music in the college and uni- versity will give a detailed report, and the committee on public-school training and signt-reading, of which Frank Damroscih is chairman, will consider the subject in three sessions. The Amerfcan Guild of Organists will co-operate in the convention. The music critics of Berlin are very much wrought up over an article by Dr. Kerr which appeared in the Frankfort tung. The doc- tor plainly staied that the honesty of some of the Berlin crities was doubtfal; in fact, that very few of them were not open to bribes, and that among artists their veniality was a mat- ter of common comment. No sooner was thelr attention called to this article than the indig- nant music crities called a meeting at their verein, to which they invited thosa writers on music who did not belong to their society. A formal protest was drawn up against Dr. Kerr, and he was branded a liar ana aslanderer. All the leading papers in Berlin printed the pro- test, which wes signed by twenty-nine music critics. A very few writers on music refrained from signing the protest, chief among them being Wilhelm Tappert of the Kleine Journal and Wilhelm Lackowitz of the Lokalanzeiger. Dr. Kerr now says tnat they are the two men whom he meant to brand with disbonesty. Their confreres are now Lrying to egg Tappert and Lackowitz on to sue Dr, Kerr for libel, and it 18 believed that the lawsuit will have some very interesting developments. Max Hirschfeld, formerly musical director of the Tivoli, produced an opera, “Au Clair de !a Lune,” at the Castle Square Thea- ter, Boston, with a very fair measure of suc- cess. Hirschfeld, who is the musical director of the theater, has written both book and music, and the book is said to be much better than the music. He has 1a1d his scene fn Mar- sellles, in 1812, and has imagined a plot that admits of strong dramatic music. His fault seems 10 be that he has tried to bs reslistic, | but at the same time has not had courage to follow in the footsteps of the radical young Itallans, who bow the knee to realism. Philip Hale ‘he fails to be dramatic when drama cries to nim.” Into the score of his opera Hirschfeld has woven tho old French song, “Au Clair de la Lune.” Martin Pache played the leading tenor role, and he does not seem to have added to the success of the perform- ance. Hirschfeld has written two other operas, a romantic comic opera, “The Star of and “Dorcas,” played here by Pauline Hall on her last visit. Lillian Nordica seems to dog the footsteps of the Grau Opera Company and continue to fan the flame of her dispute with Grau and the De Reszkes. The Convent Garden season in London under Grau's mansgement is just about commencing; Nordica is there also and the papers are pathetically. asking “Cannot this dispute be patched up? Nordica is will ing if Jeande Reszke can be compelled to make the emende honorable for having induced Melba to study the part of Brunhilde, so cov- eted by Nordica.”” Poor Melba has come off worst in the dispute, for she has withdrawn entirely from the Grau fold. She is to make a concert tour through the British Isles in_the autumn and next winter will sing in New York with Walter Damrosch's company. A number of letters of the late Emperor Wil- liam I have just been published in Berlin. One of them, dated February 2, 1861, is con- sidered very interesting by Wagnerians, Translated, it runs: “My daughter, the Grand Duchess of Baden, has asked me if it is not possible to produce at Beriin one ot the last works written by Wagner, which, I think, Duchess of Marlborough,” brought $1200. form a cycle. AllIknow about his works is i Reyn, by these winged musicians,” says the traveler, «is sweet, soft and melancholy, and when & band of them pass together it soundslikea concert of wmolian harps. The Chinese seem very fond of these aerial concerts; for at Peking Isaw on all sides bands of winged musicians, each pigeon having its curious little instru- ment attached to it.” In ralitying the lease made with Maurice Grau, the directors of the Metropolitan have decidéd that there will be no grand opera in Italian next sesson, which means that there will be no grand opera of any sortunder Grau's direction. The artists, like tne De Reszkes, will remain abroad next fesson, visiting New York the season after next. Grau will act as manager of the Metropolitan, and will book certsin entertainments, and pos- | sibly a short season of German opers. Itis doubtiul whether Mapleson will again try to become an active factor in New York operatic affairs. A great many people who profess to be well informed believe that Grau will be persuaded to give an opera season aiter all. Sonzogno, the great Italian impresario and publisher, has taken the Fenice Tneater in Venice, where, among other novelties, he will produce Leoncavallo’snew work, ‘La Bohieme.” Wien all the arrangements were completed, another impresario took the Rossini Theater and announced his intention of giving Leon- cavallo’s new opers, “La Boheme,” which has been running with such immense succoss at La Scala. Experts say they seein this move the fine Italian hand of Ricord}, a rival pub- lisher of Sonzogno's. The following programme will be performea at the Biggerstaff testimonial concert in Gold- en Gate Hall to-night: Sonata op. 31, No. 3, E flat major (Beethoven), F. M. Biggerstaff; Rus- slan faotaisie (Popper), Arthur F. Welss; “My Dreams” (Tosti), Dr. Gilbert F. Graham; nov- elette (Schumann) and ballade (Chopin), F. M. Biggerstaff; Barcarolle, G (Rubinstein), “Mem- ories of an Artist” (Seeling) and “Luetzow’s Wild Jagd,” (Weber-Kullak), F. M. Bigger- staff; +0, Don Fatale (Verdi), Mrs. Sedgley s; “Berceuse”” (Weiss) and “‘Spinning Song,” (Popper), Arthur F. Weiss; waltz ca- price (Strauss-Tausig) F. M. Biggerstaff, The Musical Courier speaks in the highest terms of the Calitornia contralto, Mrs. Francis Graham, who is siudying in Pari Her volce has a clear range of three octaves, and she can trill without effort on the high C in spite of 1ts pure contralto quality. She has been with the Carl Ross Company,and made a hit ss Hansel in “Hausel and Grotel.” The tenor, Van Dyck, has received from the Emporor of Austria the cross of knight of the Oraer of Francis Joseph, which shows that in Austria 8 man of merit may aspire to high distinctions, whatever may de the circle of his activity. Insome countries itisa sort of un- written law that actors, singers and journalists shall never receive any but small and trivial decorations. Mme. Adelina Patti has ended season of opers at Monte Carlo and has re- turned to her castle of Craig-y-Nos in South Wales. She is reported to be very much out of health, and so serious is her indisposition that she has canceled all her immediate en- gagements. What is known as the ‘*normal pitch” (diapason normal) 1s making such headway in European countries that foreign musical jour- nals express the hope that it will soon be known as the “international piich.” Most singers would be glad to see the normal pitch accepted in America. The difficulty is that many bands would have to go to great expense in buying & number of wind instruments. The City Fathers of Aix- rohibited the performance of Offenbach’s Orphie aux Enfers” for moral reasons. De Vries of the Metropolitan Opera Com- pany has a queer way of expressing his liking for this glorious country. Hs sa: My de- fect s that Iam fond of America. MRS. McKINLEY KISSED HIM. The Easter holidays brought many school excursion parties to Washington, says the cor- respondent of the Sun. Half a dozen gray uniformed youngsters from a military fnstitu- tion at Montolair, N. J., came in charge of & teacher, ana were in the White House at an early hour when Mrs, McKinley was receiving et e e e e e e e her friends. When the boys heard this they asked and obiained permission to pay their respects. They shook hands gravely and proudly with the sweei-faced lady, all except- iug one—a handsome little fellow by the name of ‘McCutcheon, the smallest of the party, Whose natty gray clothes fitted him to perfec- tion. Mrs, McKinley drew him to her when he held out his hand. “I'think I shall have to kiss yon,” she said, w«you're such & nice-looking boy,” and kiss him she did. While tne cadets were writing their names in the register of visitors kept by Mr. Morgan, the Treasurer of the United States, at his of- fice in the treasury building, the teacher told the story about Mrs. McKinley and the lad, and opposite the signature, “N. McCuteheon, Greenwich, Conn.,” the Treasurer has in scribed, “Mrs. McKinley kissed this boy to- day.” FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. San Francisco Lodge No. 3, B. P. 0. E, Declared to Be the Only Lodge in San Franclsco. Meade D. Detweiler, the grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, published a notice in the advertising department of THE CALL yesierday to theei- fect that under the laws of thebrder there can be but one lodge thereof in a city, and that the only legally existing and recognized one in San Francisco is San Francisco Lodge No. 3, which on lest Friday dedicated its new lodgeroom in Central block. The reason for this publication is the fact that there isanother body in this City—Golden Gate Lodge (lncorporated)—which has set up the claim that it is & lodge of Elks. Prior to last August there arose some trouble in the then existing lodge of Eiks in this Cits, and the matter, coming before the Grand Lodge, was referréd to the grand exalted ruler, who was empowered to iuvestigate the causes of complaint and act. Asa resultof his invi gation, which involved, among other things, the giving of masquerade balis against the wishes of & number of the members of the lodge, he took away the lodge’s charter, and subsequently, upon petition he organized and instituted a new lodge, to be known as San Francisco Lodge No. 3. It had at that time twenty-six members, and the institution was on the 23d of last August. At the time that the grand exalted ruler took away the charter from the then existing lodge there was ou hand certain funds whic the official named ordered turned over to the Grand_Lodge, which was done. To this those of the former” mempership, or, more properly, a certain number of that membership, filed a protestagainst the proceedings and 1aid claim %o the funds. With a view to have the matter passed upon judicially they commenced an action in the Superior Court to have the title 1o the money defined. The case is still pend- ing. In the meantime these and others who sympathized with them organized what is known as “Golden Gate Lodge, B. P. O. E. (Tn- corporated).” Atter San Francisco Todge was instituted & numbver of San Francisco's prominent citizens became members of that organization. In the new body of the twenty-six who became mexm- Ders at the time of institution bpt nine had Dbeen members of the old organization. Since then a hundred of the members of the old Iodge have been admitted to membership, and new members were added until now the lodge numbers 201 and the foilowing named are the officers: Exalted ruier, J. R. Howell; es teemed lending knight, Thomas A. McGowan ; esteemed loyal knight, J. H. Wood; esteemed Jecturing knignt, W. W. Briggs; secreiary, Hurrison Houseworth treasurer, 1. 5. Hagan; tyler, L. G. Weatherly; trustees—D. McMiilan, J. P. Dunne, V. R. Uliman, The newly elected oficers were installed by J. O. Reis, acting as grand exaited ruler, and C. B. Stackpole as grand esquire. The Ben Hur Entertainment. Mizpah Court No. 1 of the order of Ben Hur will hold & social meeting and give an enter- tainment to its friends on the evening of the 13th_inst. in Golden West Hall, Red Men's building, on Postsireet. This i & compara- tively new organizaiion on this coest, and the court named is the first established in this City, but its committee on entertainment is wide awake aud will present a good pro- gramme. Knights and Ladies of Honor. Mrs. Belle W. Conrad, grend protector of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, has made the following appointments for the ensuing term: Standing committees, laws and supervision— H. C. Trephagen, Mistietoe No. 1336- J. J. Cahil) Harmony No. 399; Mrs. Lizzie ison, Pu cific No. 815, e committee. West knd £41: Mrs. Mrs. E. J. Colombet, Yerba Buena Annie Thompson, Aurora No. 202, &and_returns— 1336; Jennle L. Coppage, Magnolia 2o, 1248; 8 3. Hall, Laurel No. 352 Special committees: Forelgn correspondence— Adna_Phelps, Equity No. 1352: Miss E. T. Par ker, Sonora_No. ¥61: Mrs. Susle Pleraon, Har- Cradentiats H. Bourguigno, Mistietos No. mony No. 399. Honored dead—Mrs. E. R. 0’'Don- nell, Empire No.832: J. C. Bernstein, Bay City No.'619: A. B. Hopsins. 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