The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: Daily and Sunday Cax Sunday CALL, one year, by mall. 180 W EEKLY CaLL, one year, by mail .50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 10 Market Street, ‘rapcisco, Callfornis. Toiephane.o- T v Maln=1088 EDITORIAL ROOMS: B17 Clay Streec Telephone. ..Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES 527 Montzomery s:reet, coraor Clay; open untll o'clock ® Hayes street; open until oclock. 815 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. WV, corner Sixteenta and Aission streets, open | 11 8 o'clock. 518 Mission street, open until 8 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 9 o'clock 1505 Polk street: open until 8:80 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky atreets; open LIl 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway, EASTERN OFFICE: Booms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Cltye DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL- —_— s oo THE SU MONTHS. Are you going tot ona vacation® It #6, 1t 18 10 trouble for us to forward THE CALL to | your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given 1o the carrier or left ac There are many things to think about, but Balboa avenue should not be forgot- ten. Crete has the satisfaction of knowing her question still Temains and somebody must answer it. The powers have everything in their bands and we shall see before long what they are going to put their hands on. Weyler may have beex right in saying the Cuban provinces are pacified, as Gomez seems to be doing it all right. Now that the war is about over the lurid correspondents are getting in their flash work and treating the thing as a chromo. Honduras did not manage to get a revo- lution thistime. The movement was only a pendulum swing and has gone back where it started. The Greeks seems to have gone to war just to make a salary and a holiday for Rudyard Kipling, and perhaps we owe them thanXks for it. In rejecting the Pearl harbor appro- priation the House probably acted upon the belief that we have harbors nearer nome that should be improved before we start in at Hawaii If all reports are true the tariff debate in the Senate will be anything but short and sweet, and we may as well make up our minds to see it turn ont to be a circus instead of a picnic. The new liguor license law of Pomona allows the sale of liquors to men, but not to women, and now the equal-righters have another issue on which to raise the banner of freedom and shout the battle- cry of progress. It took Philadelphia eighty-five vears to raise a monument to Washington, but when we consider tho rate at which the work is being done on the new municipal building we must admit that we have no right to criticize. Bulgaria is now rejoicing in the fact that she took no part in the war against Turkey further ‘than to ask for the ap- pointment of a few more bishops. She can refer to that request as being strictly peaceable in every way. The settlement of the Greek question is for the present in the hands of the Em- perors of Austria, Germany and Kussia, but sooner or later the people will have their way and then it will be settled per- manently by being settled right. The Fzaminer said yesterday that we are notto have a prompt beginning of the work of constructing the new Federal building in this City, and wWe certainly will not 1f the Ezaminer has any influence lett, either at home or at Washington. Out of an income from the city of $230,- 000 the Boston Public Library was able to spend this year only $25,000 for books. The rest was required for maintenance. It will be seen, therefore, that to the tax- payers a free library is free in nume only. The statement of Prince Constangine that the Turks lost during the war twelve times as mauy men as the Greeks may be true enough, but the Prince overlooks the fact that the Groeks also lost the battles, the cities, the war and the cause they were fighting for. Now that a scientist in New York has risen up to say that the rosy bloom upon s woman’s cheek is only a collection of microbes, it is time for legislators to be getting after the whole scientific tribe with an assortment of suppression and prevention laws. The report that the fortune of the late Theodore Havemeyer has shrunk from $20,000,000 to $4,000.000 may be true, but possibly the probate fees and taxes on be- quests may have a great deal to do with the sbrinking, 1t will swell again when those proceedings are over, all the same as the Gould fortune did. The Greeks are reported to have cap- tured an American a2nd an Austrian war correspondent, and if they are wise they will let the captives go on condition that they will write up the affair as s great Greek victory. Such aversion of the in- cident would be at once & scoop for the papers and an advertisement for the cap- tors. One of the gratifying features of the new administration is the reappointment of Union veterans to offices from which they were removed by Clevelaud. The Republic owes much to these brave old soldiers of the war, and the Republican party is always well pleased whenever it car repay any part of that debt of honor and gratitude. The story that the dispatches from Gen- eral Les concerning affairs in Cuba have been smothered in the State Office will not be so readily believed of this admin- istration as of the last one, but all the same the dispatches should be published so that the people can learn what they contain. The only way to head off a lie is to publish the truth, M | THE PREVAILING POWERS. Greece has asked tbe allied powers of Europe for mediation in Ler war with the Turk, and has submitted to them all her interests in the terms of peace that are to be arranged. Nominally the alliance which is to deal with the problem is come posed of Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Russia and Italy. Unless all the portents of the time are deceptive, how- ever, the alliance which wiil sctually de- termine the conditions of peace is that of Austria, Germany and Russia. These seem 1o be firmly agreed upon a certain cefinite policy, while the others aredivided and will have little or no weight in the council which is to fix the course to be pursued. . In this alliance of the three Emperors we have what is virtually a revival of the so-calied “Holy Alliance,” which was organized in Europe early in the century. Now, as then, the aim of ihe contracting parties is to maintain existing conditions in Europe und perpetuate despotism by sternly repressing every attempt at free- dom wherever it may be made. The first “‘Holy Allisnce’” failed utterly, partly be- cause England was at that time under the control of young and resolute men who were vrepared to go to war rather than to submit to its domination, and partly be- cause the peopie of France were then eager to throw off the Bourbon ycke which had been imposed upon them after the fall of Napoleon. The rising spirit of freedom in Western Europe was then too strong to be repressed, and almost every- thing which liberalism aimed for at that time has now become an accomplished fact. The new alliance of the Emperors will make a second attempt to set limitsto the growth of European freedom. It cannot undertake to restore the Bourbons to France nor to dismember Italy, but it does propose to continue the Sultan in power at Constantinople and to keep the Greeks and the Slavs as divided and sep- arated peoples. The policy which failed | in Italy is to be tried in the Balkan reninsula, and the present despotisms are to be supported against every effort which | may be made by the Slavs or the Greeks | to erect themselves into independent na. | tionalities. i The new alliance is stronger than the | old. It has larger armies and is more closely compact than that which made a vain effort to establish itself in a former generation. It does not follow, however, that the Holy Alliance of to-day will be any more successful in the end than its predecessor. It triumphs for a moment, not so much because of its own strength as because of the temporary weakness of opposing liberalism. Sooner or later, however, there will arise in Western Eu- rope men who will not bes content to see the great free peoples of England, France and Italy made subordinate to the banded despotisms of Northern and Eastern Eu- rope. When that time comes the Greeks and all the people of the Balkan Yenin- | sula will have strong friends to sustain them in a war for independence, and the outcome of the new struggle will be widely different from that which has befallen the Greeks to-aay. DELAYED WORK. An investication made by THE CArn into the work on the new municipal build- ing disclosed the fact that on Tuesday there were seven men employed, only two being engaged in the bricklaying. The work of conmstruction, therefore, is virtually stationary. Only enough is being done to afford a color of justifica- tion for the employment of a superin- tendent of construction and the payment to him of a salary of $250 a month. It goes without saying such a condition of affairs is unjustifiable. That much is recognized even by those who bave any authority in the matter, and each of them when questioned on the subject made ex- cuses for himself by shifting the blame upon some one else. The contractors allege the delay is caused by the neglect of certain property-owners to have the walls of treir property adjoining the site properly underpinned, while the owners of the property declare they are most | eager to have the work of construction go on, and have not been in any way re- sponsible for the slow progress which has Leen made up to this time. It is the duty of the City government to see toit that these various excuses are investigated and their true value deter- mined. Whatever may be the cause ol the delay it should be promptly removed. There is now in the Cily treasury an ample appropriation for the completion of the building. The contract for the work has been let and there is a large number of unemployed men 1n the City who are looking for work. It is certain, therefore, that no valid and sufficient rea- son cam exist for letting the construction drag at the present slow rate. Tne delay in the work on the building | is an injury to the Oity in many ways. it keeps locked up in the City treasury a large sum of money which should be put into circulation. It leaves without work and wages a large number of men who ought to have employment. It interferes with the business of property-owners near the site, while leaving a large plat of ground vacant and idle. Moreover, it en- tails the monthly payment of a salary of $250 to a superintendent of construction who has nothing to do except to watch a few men shovel earth and two men lay brick. Tue CArr does not undertake to decide who is to blame in the matter. It is suffi- cient to point out that there must be blame somewhere, and to call the atten- tion of the authorities and of the people to the fact. The longer the construction of the work is delayed, the greater will bs the cost, and it is bad business both for the City and for the property-owners in the neighborhood of the proposed build- ing to permit the construction to lagin the way it has done for some time past. POETIC JUSTIOE. It is reported from Washington that Secretary Gage intends to perform an act of poetic justice by replacing in the Phila- delphia Mint some thirty veterans of the war who were dismissed Irom their posi- tions by the Cleveland administration. An investigation has shown that the veterans were removed on Decoration day four years ago, and Mr. Gage will replace tiiem on the coming Decoration day. The justice of their reinstatement will there- fore have the element of postic retribu- tion by taking place on what will be not only the anniversary of their removal, but the day set apart a solemn festival for the commemoration of the services to the Republic of that grand army of which they are members. The reinstatement of these veterans will be gratifying to all patriots through- out the country. No feature of the Cleve- land administration zave more offense to public sentiment than did those acts which disclosed a hostility to the veterans of the war simply because they wers vet- erans. The country noted with profound indignation the removal of competent officials from office by the Democratic ad- ministration, against whom no charge of misconduct or brought. Had these removals been made frankly, under the spoils system of turning out Republicans to make way for Democrats, the people would have regarded it with less hostility., Cleveland, however, made such loud claims as s civil-service re- former, and %o ostentatiously posed as an opponent of the spoils system, that no conclusion was possible except that these removals were made simply because the men were grand army veterans and had taken a patriot's part in the war to which Cleveland had sent a substitute. & . The people of the United States recog- nize the full value of the debt which they owe to the grand apmy of the Republic. They take pride in showing their grati- tude and loyalty to the brave men who defended the Union in its hour of danger and preserved it from those who sough’ to destroy it. They gladly avail them- selves of every opportunity to do honor to the veterans. They favor liberal pen- sions to all who need them, and are glad when the Government can give employ- ment in its service during times of peace to those who did not shrink from that ser- vice in times of war. The McKinley administration is strengthening itsel! with the country when it restores to office the veterans whom Cleveland turned out. The people can appreciate the poetic significance of the action of Secretary Gage in reinstat- ing on the coming Decoration day the soldiers whom Cleveland dismissed from office on Decoration day four years ago, and will applaud it with a genuine enth: siasm. inefficiency could be THE WRONG WAY. In commenting upon the pood results accomplished by the united efforts of the commercial and industrial bodies of the City to bring about the speedy beginning of the work of construction on the new Federal building THE CALL has frequently pointed cut that this upity of effort is the right way to achieve success. The FEz- aminer of yesterday offered an illustration of the wrong way, which is worth study- ing as a contrast to the courss advocated and adopted by THE CALL. The Examiner beaded its editorial “Our Elusive Postoffice” and went on to say: *‘The news from Washington is not of a kind to encourage San Francisco with the belief that its new Postoffice building will be on view in tLe near future.” To main- tain this statement it argued that as the Government is hard up for money and the current deficit is ligely to be about $33,000,- 000 it would be the policy of the adminis- tration not to undertake any work of public improvement. It concluded with the assertion: “If the San Francisco Post- office is to be excepted from this policy it will require a good deal of smooth talking and a very liberal use of Congressional shoe leather about the Treasury Depart- ment.” It goes without saying that if the senti- ment of the Eraminer finds much sym- pathy among the people of San Francisco the prophecy of no work on the Postoffice buiiding will accomplish itself. If we make up our minds that we are not to have the building it is certain we will not geiit. If we decide that the notice to quit served to tenants on the site of the pro- posed structure means nothing and that the promises of the officials at Washing- ton to let contracts for the work in time to begin early in the coming fiscal year are valueless, then it is quite likely that those officials will feel no particular in- terest in the work and will accommodate themselves to our indifference by being equaily indifferent and permitting the whole thing to go over for another year. Fortunately the people do not share the sentiments of the Ezaminer, and are not likely to adopt its tone of cynical disbelief in the promises made at Washington, nor its policy of haif-hidden opposition to the enterprise. Under the lead of THE CALL some of the most influential associations of the City have engaged vigorously in the task of urging on the work of con- structing the building, and they have abundant reasons for confidence in the promises that have been made by the Washington officials. They are aware that much has already been achieved by thelr united efforts, and have assurances that if an equal energy and harmony among the people of San Francisco con- tinue to be manifest we shall see those promises fulfilled and the work on the building begun early in the coming sum- mer. Too much has been already gained by the right way of dealing with this prob- lem for any considerable number of people to be tempted to turn again to the wrong way. Despite the forebodings of the Ex- aminer the outlook is encouraging. We shall see the work of construction begun before long, and ail that will be left for the Ezaminer to do will be to carp, criti- cize, condemn and whine that the build- ing is being put up m the wrong place, that the work is being done in the wronz way, and that it won’t be much of a build- ing anyhow. ANCIENT HABITS She's a graduate of Vassar And ner knowledge s immense, And. though besutiful and styli Sbe is full of common sen She can talk in Freuch and German, She reads her Homer in the reek, And 'tis worth your while to listen ‘When it pleases her to speak. She can read the hieroglyphles On the 1ombs along the Nile; She can 10id discourse on physics In an Interesting style, But, in spite of all her learning She steps backward from the car, Aud sbe always s10ps and wi When she sel ARCUND 1HE CORRILORS. “I was in the famine districts of Indis re- peatedly,” said Dr. J. H. Barrows, president of the Parliament of Religions at the Chicago Exposition, at the Palace yesterday, who has just returned from India. “What Isaw filled me with sadness, the scenes were so harrow- ing. “European residents have their homes out. side most Indian cities, and in almost ail our explorations of the native bazaars we drive o considerable distance through English can- tonments, by the side of tho bungalows in- habited by missionaries and civil and military officers, befoze we reach the town. Delni, though it has a population of neariy 200,000, snd, aithough iis bazasrs are rich with enameled jewelry, exquisite. miniatures, en- graved gems, cashmere shswls, embroideries, potteries and carved ivery, has the usual squalid look of Indian cities. § “:As 1 sat on the marble dais where all this splendor ouce glesmed, and summoned before my imagination the gorgeous scencs on which the proad Emperor gazed, and as I thought of the Persian inscrintion op the north and south arches of the hall— 12 on earth be an Eden of bliss, 1t fs this, it is this, none but this, I felt anew not only tne transitoriness, but the moral unworthiness, of the glories which were made possible by the spoliation of mii- lons and by the practical enslavement of a whole people. There 15 N0 Teason to believe that the condition of the Indisn nations was better in the time of Shan Jehan than in the time of the Queen-Empress Victorls. Indeed, it must have been far worse. There are native patriots to-day who imagine that the ‘simple life of Indla’ is preferable to the ‘luxurious and enervating civilization’ of the west. I have even been asked if I wonld like to live the ‘simple life of Indin.' Ii by this expres- sion is meant the half-clothed distress, the pitiful hunger of the many millions who, not merely in years of famine, but generslly, live in mud hov ‘without the comforts that are enjoyed by some of the aboriginal tribes of North Americs, I ‘should neither like it for myself nor for the poorest and most abject pec- ble of Europe. ‘One foels almost hopeless for & people living in such material conditious. Of course, the general distress is aggravaled in this year of plagge and famine. Thousands, we are told, have died of hunger. The British Government was altogether 100 slow in bringing relief, and it seems that it was finally almost driven to take decisive action by the indignantclamors of those who would not disbelieve what their own eyes saw. I myself have seen pitiful wretches, lean and haggard, gathered at the stations. I have been told of deaths from famive by those who knew the special circum- stances. 1am credibly informed that mothers have offered to eell thefr children for onegood meal. The camera does not lie,and Isend plotures of some of the subjscts of the British Empire taken o December at Jubbulpore, when Lord George Hamiiton wes dissusding the English people from aiding the sufferers because the ‘situation had not fully declared fiselfl » — PERSONAL 1 Hirata of Tokio, Japan, is in town. N. H. Lattimer of Seattle is at the Palace. Dr. Louis Michael of Ferndale is in the City. Dr. E. & 0'Brien of Merced is on a visit here. Colonel £, C. Madden of Honolulu is a visitor nere. James O'Neil of Seattle is at the Cosmo- politan. Francis A. Fee, a business man of Maders, is in the City. Mrs. D. Callahan of Seattle, Wash., 18 at the Cosmopoiitan, E. M. Cheadle of San Luis Obispo is at the Cosmopolitan. Henry Doble of Fresno Was among yester- day’s arrivals. H. G. Hart, merchant of the West Indies, 1s at the Cosmopolitan. State Senator Chadbourne of El County isat the Grand. 8. T. St. George Cary of London, Who is fre- quently here, is at the Palace. F. H. Muliord, a business man of Everett, Wach., arrived here yesterday. W. D. Tobey, the lumber-dealer and capi- talist, of Carson, is a Iate arrival in the City. Professor J. M. Schaberle of the Lick Ob- servatory arrived here yesterday and is at the Lic L. W. Eldridge, a business men of Fairburg, Nebr., is at the Russ, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Dr. M. E. Grossman, a dentist of Honolulu, who formerly resided in San Frapcisco, is at the Occidental. General W. R. Shafter has returned from the East and is preparing to leave for his new post at Fort Vancouver on the Columbia. *Thomas E. Hughes, proprietor of the Hughes Hotel at Fresno and one of the early. residents there, Is at the Grand, He is accompanied by Mrs. Hughes. A. Vissayon, Consul and special Commis- sioner of France at Honolulu, arrived here yesterday, en route to Paris, He is on afour months’ leave of absence. F. D. Fraser, & mining superintendent of who has recently feturned here from New York, left yesterday for Auourn on mining business, to be gone several asys. General Thomas J. Clunle returned yeste: day from & prolonged trip to Esstern cities. While in Washington he paid his respects to President McKinley, with whom he served in Congress. s. M. Damon, Minister of Finance for Hawati and special commissioner appointed by President Dole to attend the Queen’s jubi- lee, arrived here yesterdey on tue Australia, accompaniea by C. N. Iaukes, an attache of the commission, who is also one of the Land Commissioners. They left for the East and Loudon last night. Minister Damon said he would not visit Washington and asked to be excused from talking on annexation, the pro- posed abrogation of the sugar treaty or Jap- anese labor, as he said he believed there was nothing to say that had not already been told. J. B. Castle, Collector-General for Hawaif, also arrived on the Australia and left for Washing- ton, D. C. His visit is conceded to be in refer- ance to annexation and other matters of in- erest to the island republic. Dorado CALIFORNIsNs IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y. May 12.—At the Plaza, C. H. Crocker; Grand Uuion, W. J. Helmquist, P. F. Saunders; Metropole, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Morse; Continental, Mrs. F. L. Pea- body, J. Svivester Albemarle, Miss Wallace; Holland, D.Jordan, Miss Jordan; Broadway Central, E. L. Allen; Cosmopolitan, T. Harris. W. H. Crocker and Miss Katharine M. Dillon leftthe Plaza and sailed on the St. Louis for Southampton. C. Drosso, J. Elliott, M. Hara- lamb, J. Hubert Mee, Prince Pontatowsk! and Mrs. Louls Webb and two children also sailed for Southampton. MEN AND WOMEN. M. Bertinot of Paris, who has made a spectal study of the best method of executing crim- inels has pronounced in favor of a lethal chamber filled with ordinary coal gas. Sadie Tettemer of Tinicum, Bucks County, Pa., not yet 9 years old, pieced a quilt herself last winter. 7 The fund for the maintenancs and educe- tion of Helen Keller, the blind and deafgirl, has already reached $25,000. The citizens of Belfast, Ireland, are to erect a statue of Queen Victoria, to cost $25,000, in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of her reign. Lord Roberts, commander-in-chiet of the army in Ireland, is an indefatigable cyclist, He may be scen any day pushing through Dublin streets. Sarah Bernhardt has always had a morbid dread of fire and this has led her to direct that all her stage dresses shall be made of fire- proof material. A Bath (Me.) boy is the proud passessor of an autograph letter from the Queen of Holland. His interest in collecting foreign postage stamps won him the royai favor. —l ANSWERS TO .ORRESPONDENTS. LARGEST C111Es—F. J. §,, City. According to the best authorities the population of the five largest cities of the world is s follows: Lon- don, 4,231,431, Paris, 2.447,957; New York, 1,801,729;' Beriin, 1,677,351; Canton (esti: mated), 1,600,000, JsIDORE—Subseriber, City. According to the best authorities the proper spelling of the name i3 “Isidore,” although it 1s written Isi- dor, Isador and Isadore. The earliest mention of the names that this department has been able to discover is Isidore, 8 Greek poet who lived in the first century of the Christian era, WATER RATES—S,, City. Companies furnish- ing water to the inhabitants of San Francisco havo the power 1o apply meters for the pur. Pose of discovering waste, and_When waste is ound to charge for water so wasted. When melers are put on the companies charge at tne ln::unl fixea by the Supervisors for méter rates. THE PACIFIC OCEAN—Subscriber, City. The greatest length ot the Pacific Ocean from.the Arctic at Bering Straits to the Antarctic cir- cle is 9200 miles, and its greatest breadth, along the parsilel of latitude 5 degrees north, is about 10,300 miles. The area {8 approxi- mately estimated at 80,000,000 English squsre Rllui o‘;"-hmn two-thirds the whole surface of o globe. - HONORARY MExBERsHIP—H. G., Bodie, Cal. Each company of the National Guard of the State of California may have not {0 exceed ten bonorary members, who shall pay $50 per snuum into the company treasury and snall thereafter be entitled 10 all the exemptions to which men on the active list are entilled, and shall not be required to drill or perorm any military duty by reason of such mem bership, HoNGKONG—School Girl, Lower Lake, Lake County, Cal. Hongkong, properly Hiang- Kiang (fragrant strecams) is a British island off the southeast coast of China in the estuary of Chu-Kiang, abo: ¢ seventy-five miles east of Canion. It is nine miles long, from two to six broad. its is about twenty-nine uare mi The eapital is Victorla, datitade 22 deg. 16} min. north, longitude 114 deg. 84 east. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.. Alice Nielsen, formerly of the Tivoli, who hi made such a hit with-the Bostonians in “Ihe Serenade,” has made up her mind to goto Paris and study seriously for opers comique, probably with Mme, Marchesl. Her success as Yvonne, in ‘“The Serenade,” has becn so grest that it is refreshing tofind thather pretty little head has not been at ail turned by all the praise the critics have given her in New York. Inan interview published in the Concert Goer, Alice Nielsen says: I know my voice is not yet perfectly placed, and I am going to work at it tll Tget it right. I shall not do as some foolish American girls do when they go to Paris, and glve myself up to having a ‘good time,’ frequenting balls, cafes, and such reprehensi- bl things. I shall buckle right down to herd, systematic work, studying my voice, taking lessons in diction, in fencing and all other branches which enter into s thorough train- ing for the stage. My only dissipation will be 0ing 1o the opera. Iconfess to being ambi- solos, Mrs. Wratten. The concert will con- clude with the ‘Hallelujah' Chorus” sung by the combined choral societies. At the Bayreuth festival this year the three Tepresentations of the ““Ring of the Niebelun- gen” and the eight performances of “Parsifai’ will be directed Ly Siegtried Wagner, Hans Richter, Anioine Beidl and Felix Mottl, Seidl isalso to conduct German opera in London this season and things begin to look as if ne might follow in the footsteps of Nikisch and remain permenently on the other side of the Atlantic. Although less gifted artistically than Seidl Walter Damrosch seems to be taking most of the laurels from Seidl’s brow in New York. Letters received from London by friends of that operatic phenix Colonel Mapleson say that the impresario is rising from the ashes of his recent American experience and pre- paring for new managerial flights. He is try- ALICE [ELSEN as°Yvonne in “ The Serenad tious. Iwant to beable totakea position in the upper circles of opera comique, to sing such parts as Zerlina, in ‘Fra Diavolo’ and ‘Don Giovanni’; Marie, in ‘La Fille du Regi- ment,’ and Rosina, in ‘Il Barbiere.’ " Any one who was present on the opening night of “The Serenade” in New York will en- oy a reminiscent smile on seeing Alice Niel- sen in the trim little suit of knickerbockers here disclosed, for it was this very costume which caused the heartiest of all hearty laughs on that suspicious occasion. It hap- pened thus: Jessie Bartlett Davis, who is not as slender as a reed, is on the convent side of the'wall, and Alice Nielsen on the monastery side. The former chmbing up a ladder and looking over the barrier discovers the latter. They parley, and Miss Davis, dressed as a girl, proposes, the better to furtner her schemes, an exchange of garments, whereat a loud guffaw broke out in the audience as & vivid picture of the results of the plan flashed over their men- 1al vision. Since then there has been a differ- ent adjustment of garments. A great many people scoff at the Shakes- pearean doctrine that “music hath charms to sooth the savage breast,” but however true it may b of the savage breast, music certainly seems to have charms to soothe the civilized breast when it is ruffied by patriotism. For some time past musical prophets have been predicting that if anything could make France and Germany love one another it wouid be the mutual love of music, and current events seem to be fulfilling the prophecy. Itisnot very long since French painters were bitterly accused of unpatriotism when they talked of exhibiting in German galleries, and many actors and actresses, incinding Sarah Bern- hardt, refuse on the score of patriotism to act across the Rhine,” as they say in France. Music, however, especially a mutual Wagner worship, is rapidly changing all that. Not long ago Felix Mottl’s orchestra, “from across the Rhine,” was rapturously received in Paris, and as an exchange of compliments the Pa- risian Philnarmonic Orchestra, conducted by Edwarl Colonne, has been rapturously re- ceived in Berlin. A correspondent says: “A wreath tied with the French colors was ten- dered Monsieur Colonne, and he was recalled five times.” What would they have said in Paris before the Wagner cult began to a French conducior being tendered a wreath “tied with the French colors” in Berlin ? Mme. Estrells Belintante, the blind con- trelto, who made her American debut here a little over & yeer sgo, has sung very little since her romantic marriage, which took place in this City. She has, however, just resumed her professional career by singing at a musi- cale at the White House, which took place on the 5th inst. The Washington Times gives the following account of the affair: “In the programme of last evening, which was principally selected by Mrs. McKinley, Mme. Belinfante gave ‘Quando a te Lieta, from ‘Faust,’” which was supplemented by & cadence of her own composition, which de- lighted all and won enthusiastic applause. ‘Habaners,’ from ‘Carmen’; ‘Romance, from ‘Miguon’; Che Faro Seuza Eurydice,’ by Giuck, and ‘In Cuerpo Ytu Alma,’ by her accom- panist, Sig. 8. Giannini, the well-known com- poser, who came over from New York for the evening. “In response to the zequest of the President the charming English ballad, ‘Daddy,’ by Behrend, was given. It is seldom that Amer- fcans show the enthusiasm which was mani- fested last evening. The audience was com- pletely carried away with the singer, recall- 1g her again snd again, ““The President and Mrs, McKinley welcomed their guests in the blus room, which was dec- orated with growing plants only. “Mrs. McKinley was gowned in a handsome brocade of s:ashell pink, with diamond orna- ments.” Legrand Hawland, a young American com- poser, has hit upon & very successful way of bringing his two-act opera to the attention of the public. Despairing at the difficulty of se- curing recognition at home, he managed to interest the American and Engilsh colonfes in Parisin the work, which he called “Nita,” and under the patronage of these 1wo colo- nies, and a number of other foreigners resi- dent In Paris, the overture and the first act of ita” were recently given one hearing at the Nouveau Thesater. S0 great was the success obtained by these fragments that it has veen decided to give the young American’s opers, baliet and all, in Paris at the end of the pres- ent month. The French critics speak in the highest terms of “Nita.” The very successful concert given at Stan- ford University last Saturday night will be repeated next Saturday evening at Metropoli- tan Temple. The chorus consists of the com- bined forces of the Stanford Chorsl Soctety and the Apollo Choral Society, conducted by H. B. Pasmore. The programme will be as follows : Chorys. “Hsil, Bright Abode,” from “Tann- hauser”; “The Moonlight Sonata’’ (Beethoven), Otto Bendix; chorus from *“The Messiah” (Handel); selections from the “Elijah” (Men- delssohn)—sololsts in the *‘Elijah,” Mrs. Frank L. Wratten, Mrs. Edith Scott Basford, W.S. Edgerton, H. E. Medley; chorus and quartet, “Forth to the Meadows” (Schubert)—quartet, Miss M. P. Little, Miss M. G. Ferrel, D. H. Campbell and Dr. G. B. Little; air from “La Cavalleria Rusticana,” Mrs. Basford; part song, “The Linden Trees'’ (by Hauptmann), and s “Summer Song” (by H. B. Pasmore), the Stanford phoral Society and the Apollo Choral Society; Yiolin solo, N. Landsberger; vocal ing to arrange for a season of opera at Drury Lane and if he succeeds in his plans he wants to open toward the end of May with what the colonel calls his “American company. with three star prima donnas added, who must be nameless for a short time.” Atagrand “‘at home” recently given by Marquis Guerrieri-Gonzaga at Mantus, Italy, Mascagni entertained the guests by playing s number of selections irom the new Japanese opera that he is writing, and which he has already named “Iride.” Every one expressed greatdelight at the musie, which is said to be in Mascagni's best vein; but great surprise was expressed that the Italian composer has not departed at all from his Italian style of writing. There are no attempts at Japanese coloring in the music; indeed itis probable that Mascagni has never heard either a Jap- anese or a Chinese band, and knows nothing about the music of the far Orient. If he does he has carefully kept his knowledge out of “Iride.” The French Chauvinists have been wailing and gnashing their teeth over the fact that, in order ‘to please Tamagno, Verdi's “Otello” bas been given in Italian at the Paris Grand Opera. “W.iat,” they cried, “‘sing in a foreign language in our national the- ater—a theater endowed by tne French Gov- ernment and supported out of the pockets of the French taxpayerst” In spite of this profanation of the national theater by a for- eign tongue “Otello” has made & furor at the Grand Opera, and Tamagno is the operatic hero of the bour in Paris, Slegfried Wagner, the Heir to the Name as he is facetiously called, is at'Wicsbaden taking the cure. In the intervals of drinking the waters he occupfes his time in writiug an opera comique, the first act of which is al- ready completed. Mme. Nordice is in Paris, where she has sung with success, for the first time at the Grand Opers, the role of Elsa in “Lohengrin.” “The March of the Stars,” Miss Gertrude Spellan’s pretty composition, which was pub- lished in last Sunday’s CALL, Will soon be ar- ranged for orchestra, and will, no doubt, be in great request by conductors, The work is copyrighted. Della Rogers, the Denver prima donna, is creating quite a furor in Turin, where she is singing in Massenet's ‘“Werther."” A grand monument isto be erected to Henry Vieuxtemps in Paris. The violinist Marsick is one of the promoters of the scheme. On Saturdey afternoon next the Saturday Morning Orchestra will give a grand concert in Golden Gate Hall for the benefit of the Episcopsl 0ld Ladies’ Home. The celebrated temor, Albert Stagno, has died at Genon. FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. Pacific Parlor, Native Sons, Tenders a Banquet to Grand President Clark and Grand Trustee Hawkins. At the recently held session of the Grand Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West, Paelfic Parlor No. 10 succeeded in capturing two choice prizes. These were the election of £wo of 1is members 1o two of the highest offices in the order. The office of grand president went to George D. Ciark, and one of the grand trustees chosen was Joseph K. Hawkius. On Tuesday night the members of this parlor held & brief business meeting and then adjourned to the St. Germain, where a banquet was pre- pared in honor of the two oflicials named. The affair wes well got up under the super- vision of Frank R. Neville, W. H. Hazell and Paul McDonald, the commitiee of arrange- ments who provided a feast of good things, gastronomical, oratorical and musical. both in the vocal and instrumental iine. There was present almost the entire membership of the parlor and a number of invited guests, and it s not often that s more jolly set of native sons ever gathered uuder one ceiling. When the proper time came J. E. Manning, the toastmaster, asserted himself and offered the first toast of the evening, which was *The Grand Presidency,” which was responded 1o tn & happy manner 'by Mr. Clark, and then fol- lowed “Our Grand Trustee,” which was re- sponded to by Mr. Hawkins. Then foliowed the following programme: “The Celebration,” Frank L. Coombs, grand trustee; insiramental selections, Messts. Quast and Rosenberg; “Pacific Parlor,” Wiliiam H. Miller, past grand resident; “Our Hail Association,” Muyor ames D.'Phelan; some storles well told by Dr. Rottanzi of the Board of Supervisors; “The PastGrand Presidente,”” A. F. Janes, past grand president”’; “Our Mother Parior,” John H. Grady; “Any Old Thing,” John T. Greaney, ast granc president; “Tue Has Been,” Heury . Gesford, junior past grand président; “The Pioneers of the Order.” John A. Steinbach, past grana_presiden Witliam J. Hawkins; “OQur Discrict Deput: ‘The County Deiegates,” . McCreery. . Fitzgeraid; Henry ~Lunsiedr, grand secretary; South melodies, Johu Jolly of Ei Dorado Par. lor; “One Dollar a Year and How [t Is Doney C. A, Boldemann; “The Raw Delegate,” 5. V. Costello, senlor past president. Letters of regrel at inability to be present were read from Grand Trustee Cutler of Eureka; Henry S. Marin, grand treasurer; R. C. Rust of Amador, grand orator, and John A. Davis of the sme place. - The Rebekshs’' Beautiful Work. At the conclusion of the rendering of the ritualistic work by a degree staff from the San Jose district in Assembly Hall in the Odd Fellows’ building before the assembly of the Rebekahs and Odd Fellows who are repre- sentatives to the Grand Lodge, the doors of the hall were thrown open to the eral public and Grand Master Warboys delivered a short mddress. The grand master declared that he haa during his official term witnessed {he work perfo-med a_great many times, but thiat he had never seen it performed in so per- fect a manner and with so much impressive- ness as he had during that evening. His opinion was shared by & number of very prominent members of the craft. The tollow- fog named are those who, performing the work in the robes of Josephine Lodge No. 14 of San Jose, were the recipients of the pleasing Words of ¢ommendation: Alex P. Murgot- {on, captain, San Jose, Cal; noble grand, Miss _ Florence Lewis,” No. 14, San Jose: vice grand, Miss Carrie Hirsch, No. 34, Santa Clara: past noble grand, Miss Mianie Pheips, No. 05 an Jose; chaplain, Mrs. G. E. More- 1and, No. 22, San Jose; conductor, Miss May A:bogast, No. 14, San Jose; warden, Miss Edith Murgotten, No. 14, San Jose; Miriam, Miss Della Lord, No. 14, San Jose; Rutn, Mrs’ D. E. Nasn, No. 22, San Jose; Naomi, M Nt Esther, Mrs. H. V. Morehouse, No. 14. San Jose: mother of Samson, Mrs. A. P. Murgotten I\y. 14, San Jose; Rebekah, Miss Myrtie Beck, No. 14, San Jose; Deborah, Mrs. Wiiliem Gusseield, No. 14, San Jose; Hannah, Mrs. A.C. Shoup, No. 14, San Jose; Hebrew women—Miss Mattis Billings, No. 34, Santa Clara; Mrs. J. K Kershner, No. 14, San Jose; banner bearers— Mrs. C. W. Ward, No. 22,8:n Jose; Mrs. A. A Armstrong, No.'14, san_Jose: Miss May Can- fleld, No. 22, San Jose; Mrs. E. Gummer, No, 14, San Jos During the course of his remarks the grand master took occasion todwell upon the good work of the degree of Rebekah and strongly urged the lodges to open their doors to thoso ladies who are not related to members of the order of Odd Fellows. He commended the Sovereign Grand Lodge for having granted the right to all reputable women, though not re- lated to 0dd Fellows, to become members of the Rebekahs. Triumph Lodge, A. O. U. W. On the eveningof the 15th of June, at the meeting 0 be held by Triumph Lodge No. 180 of the Aneient Order of United Workmen, Grand Recelver Samuel Booth will be present and deliver an interesting lecture. Daughters of Judah. Last Tuesday evening, at & meeting of the Past Presidents’ Association of the Indepen- dent Order of B'ne B'rith _held in B'nai B'rith was decided to take sieps to organize & branch of the order to be known s the Daughters of Judsh. The matter was referred 0 & committee, and it is probable that the organization will take place on the evening of the 13th of June. WITH YOUR COFFEE. “What do you intend to make of that boy when he grows up?” don’t think he will need any making. He seems to be cu: out for a financier. Every time I get him & toy bank he goes after it with & hammer,”"—Indianapolis Journal, “What is heredity, mamma?"’ asked the little &irl, spelling the word out through her falling tears, and walting to write down the meaning. “It is—'m, how shall Iexplain 1i? Oh,” said the mother, “something you get from your father or me.” And the small child wrote down on her paper of home lessons: ‘“Heredity—spanking.” Illustrated Bits. “You dor’t mean to tell me you have gone and got engaged to two women at once?” “Yes; but it really amounts to only one engagement—half an engagement for each giri?” “Will you please explain?” 'Why, certainly. Each one of 'em is en- gaged 10 another fellow.”’~Indianapolis Jour- nal. A burglar who was doing & neat job on & large safe was horrified on looking up to see & man standing quictly beside him. He was about to retire when the man said: Go ahead, I am interested in tnis job.” “Why?” asked the astonished burglar. “Because I have lost the combination. It you can get the safe open I will make it worth your while.”—Tid-Bi “Do you remember,” asked the young law- ver and company promoter, “that you once said I should never be rich? I rather think I am on the Toad to riches at last.” “Inever said you would not be rich,” an- swered the elderly cynic. “I only said you would never have any money of your own, and Istill say so.”—Dublin World. CAL glace Truit 506 per Ib., at Townsend's. * e e ErECTAL information daily to manufasturers, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Buresu (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * S eietmen Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, The spring exhibition is now open daily trom 9 A. M. t0 5 P. M. and grand concert every Thursday evening. Open Sundays. . —————— The Truckee Republican is authority for the news that the Meadow Leke mining district will soon be worked again. 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