The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 19, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 1897, 8, .o oo TEEENTEINEIORELNUE G A o Bl e _AUGUST 18, 1897 THURSDAY JOI‘;N D. SPRECKELS, Proprieior. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postag Dafly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .§0.15 Daily and Sunday CALY, One year, X Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by m: Daily and Sunday Cari, three 3 Daily and Sunday CaLz, one month, by mall Bunday CaLL, one year, by mail.... WERRLY CaLy, 0 BUSINESS OFFICE: | %10 Market Street, £an Francisco, Californta. Telephone ... 2 : EDITORIAL ROOMS: | 517 llay reet. Main—1874 | | Telephone BRANCH OFFICE! 527 Montgomery s:reet, coraer 9:80 o'clock. 359 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. | 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. £W. corner Sixteenth and Missiou streets, open Tt 8 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 1243 Mission street, open until 8 o'clock. | 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky wireets; open till 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 998 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 52, #4 Park Row. New York City DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. | Areyon goin; | £, 1t 18 no trouble for us to forward THE xouraddress. Do not let it miss yon for y miss it. Crders given to the carrier or I Business Office will receive prompt atter A PUBLIC DUTY. Non-resident journalism, as practiced by the Examiner, has made it necessary of California courts. | for some one to test the law and determine if there is an exception to the rule that | there is a remedy for every wrong. Mr. Hearst confers upon New York tne discredit | of his citizanship, with the purpose, as now disclosed, of protecting his person and | his fortune from legal reprisal and punishment for acts done within the jurisdiction It is by no means granted that he would feel the ignominy of a penal judgment. | The man who will stand for the offenses against decency committed by his paper has | no shame ta'be stung by conviction of the crime which he commits. ‘The nasty immoralities wiich made him a stench, even in our local siums, give him standing with the boodlums who glory in a lack of shame. His paper has libeled, lied about, oppressed and injured people in all conditions of life. It has rendered public station almost unbearable to sensitive men of honor, and has broken down all distinction between bona fides and mala fides in official ad- minisirations. Mr. Hearst, sequestered in New York, proposes to hold for ransom | the reputations of men and women in California, as a Greek bandit, safe in the la a_186s | Mmountains, holds the traveler captive in his midnight raid. = | When his local representatives are brought to bar they have always pieaded irre- “confidential communication.” tense of honest journalism. | sponsibility or hidden behind that newly discovered ambush of cowardly malice, Their course is entirely inconsistent with any pre- If the truth has been told exposing a dishonest legis- lay; open until | Jator, why should not its discovery and its source be given up that the law may inflict | proper punishment? If the truth has been published about a financial transaction so | dishonest as to bring it within the statute of trauds, why should its publisher hire a procession of attorneys, intimidate Sheriffs, menace Judges and threaten juries rather plause? There are those in every community who relish a libel on their neighbor. | than openly defend an act which, if true and honest, will secure him honor and ap- But such an unnatural feeling is usually found only in men who are the most stricken end anxious for sympathy when libelea themselves. | community, however, are people who abhor the criminal use of publicity by a news- | Free spesch and freedom of the press are principles never intended to shelter ces, any more than legal protection of the person paper. I journalism as Mr. Hoarst pra is intended to sanction the filth in which he wallowed while here. The great majority of every The necessity for a free press in a free Government does not cover journalistic assassination of reputa- tion auy more than the right of a man to keep a carving-knife protects him in using it to cut the throat of his neighbor. Mr. Hearst’s paper has bacome a plague, a pest, an injury, and when the law is invoked to curb its vices and touch him on the only plexus that has feeling, bis on’ | pocket, ho voluntarily pleads outlawry and trusts to the glamour of his wealth and NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fitty cents per mouth | criminal use of his paper to paralyze the courts and even b2numb the public sense of for summer monthe. | See the Mechanics’ Fair early and often. Study the pure-food exhibit and profit by ite In making the trip to the Klondike it is not the first step that costs most. t is safer to try California diggings than those of Alaska, and the chances are just as good. | { i Home industry will supply sufficient wages for home people if home peopte will ypatronize it. Hidden under the soil of Oalifornia | there is many a gold pocket that hasn’t been opened yef. From the frequency with which the | Utica mine gets itself on fire it seems to consider it Las money to burn, | Railroad building in Alaska and the | Yukon Valley will be the rext big enter- | prise and snowplows will be in demand. | In a short time the rush for Alaska will | be over for this season and then we can attend to home affairs and get ready for the bigzer rush nex i The rush of people to the Yukon w soon overstock the labor market and be- | fore long Dawson will be confronted with the problem of the unemployed. Dyea and Skaguay are about even on port privileges and advantages, so the cne which first gets a zood road oper to the Yukon Valley will be the metropolis. The rapidity with which the British are driving the wa: e tribesmen out of the hills of Chitral is a good object lessor Weyler if he knows how to profit by it. The international duel between Henry of Orleans and the Count of Turin will be | the cause of at least forty other duels of a similar character. Such things are conia- gious. Santa Rosa is never so lovely as when | displaying her hospitality, and just now | she is showing herseif to the Young Men’s | Institute as one of the most beautiful | places on eartb. '\ — | Populists who are searching for a plat- form and gold Democrats who are search- | ing for voters will do well to drop their | pursuit of those things and begin to hunt | holes before frost comes. | = i ‘We do not hear much of the civil dis- | turbances in Brazil, but as the Govern- | ment is negotiating for a loan of $40,000,900 it is evident the war is flaming upenough to burn money very livel Free-traders may assert as vehemently | as they please that the new tariff has had | nothing to do with the new prosperity, but the people having tried a free-trade tariff once will not try it again. | o | | The Klondike gold deposited in the Mint at this City does not appesr in the statement of the Treasury Department and as this signifies that it has been with- | drawn in the shape of coin and vluzced in ‘ the banks it will be seen it isalready in circulation and helping business along. Eastern papers are making fun of an officer of the National Guard of Massachu- setts who on retiring from command closed a farewell address to his men by saying: “May God preserve the militia of | the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By command of Brigadier-General Peach.” e | Some discontented men of the People’s party in Onio are protesting against the nomination of Coxey for Governor on the ground that he is nota Populist. Asa | matter of fact in these days no office- seeker is a Populist in the eyes of any ! other Populist who thinks the office is | seeking himself. Commenting on ihe advantagas of pleas- ure trips on Lake Michigan the Inter Ocean says, “Thelake, either in calm or in storm, is as grand as the ocean.”” After that we | may expect some self-sufficlent citizen of Chicago to rise and assert that the gas Jamps of the city, either flaring or flicker- ing, are as grand as the sta: The latest New York notion has been advanced by a genius who proposes to| connect the upper stories of the various sky-scrapers by means of cables, along which are to run aerial cars, so that per- sons living in the tall structures can pass from their homes and offices to roof- | gardens and high restaurants without having to descend to hot stree at all during the sammer season. Itisa crank’s romance to-day. To-morrow it may be a business reality. On the heels of tne completion of the organization of the whisky trust comes from the Blue Grass| State a story of the destruction, after g hair-raising battle, of a rattlesnake . eighteen feet long. When the whisky barons ring in crooked drinks on the colonels they are ringing the deathknell of the red-liquor trust in Kentucky. The colonels won’t stand it. They will go to | and, beginning | The war egainst spurious and deleterious justice. The situation he has created has made it a serious public duty to find a lega 1 | remedy for the wrongs of which he is the author. | one to find out whether a man of criminal purpose can maintain in California the It has become necessary for somes means of its execution and escape punishment by non-residencs and the transfer of | his citizenship, which is the only brnefit he has confarrad upon California. OUR INTERNAL REVENUES. According to the report of the Commis- | sioner of Internsl Revenue whisky drink- | ing has fallen during the past yeartoa remarkable extent, but he ascribes the | fact to hard times rather than to reform | | garb in honor of her guests, and the insti- influences. Perhaps our temperance friends will entertain a different view; butin any event the Government figures show a decrease in the consumption of al- | coholic beverages. | The bulk of our intérnal revenue | comes from whisky, beer and tobacco; with whisky, we find that the increase in the liquor out- put for the vear was 1,793,335 gallons. Usuaily there is an annua! increase of 8,000,000 gallons, and, therefore, the pres- ent year’s record is nearly 6,000,000 galions | | below the average. I this be figured down to quarts, pints and tne small iractions of pints represented by whisky glasses the industrious arithmetical student may be led to exclaim, in the words of Mark An- ton ©'0, what a falling off was there t there is stiil further indisputable that King Barleycorn’s army nas | been very materially reduced by deser- tions. The revenues derived from the special tax levied on rectifiers during the year ended June 30 were $20,000 less than for the preceding year, while the tax from retail liquor-dealers decreased The tax on wholesale liguor-dealers de- creased $35,756; ‘hat on the manufacture of stills dropped $200, and the tax on man red stills and worms fell $900. Many a still remained true 1o its name during the year, while not a few wholesale deal- | ers went to the wall, and a multitude cf saloons throughout the country were forced to close. But the decrease has not been confined to whisky; for beer-brewing shows even a | greater decline. The tax from beer-stamps is $1,2 8 less than the receipis of last year, showing that the number of barrels | of fermented liquor withdrawn for con- sumption was 1,403,004 ander the figures for the preceding tweivemonth. The wine-growers of California will be gratified to learn that there has been a | slight increase in the demand for domestic i light wines. This, however, does not off- | set the decrease in beer and whisky drink- ing. The Revenue Commissioner inclines to the beliet that while hard times is the main cause for decrease in the drinking of intoxicants, there is a general ten- dency, on the whole, to drink less in this country, and in a few of the States stringent laws that smack of prohibition have been | passed. | The report shows that, in regard to to- | bacco, less smoking and more chewing is being indulged in. The tax on cigars fell off $523,760, and the receipts on chewing tobacco increased about half a million. Pipe-smeking is becoming popular, and soon the pive may be as commo! in use | here as in England. We are using more | snuff than ever before in this country, the | receipts from this source increasing $43,232, We arz throwing off on strong drinks to a considerable extent, lettingup on the beer habit likewise and cutting down our cigar allowances. On the other hand, we are | | B chewing-tobceceo, OPENING OF THE BIG FAIB. The thirtieth annual fair of the Me. chanics’ Institute opened auspiciously the inaugural night the attendance was far greater than was ever before recorded on a like occssion is unmistakable evi- dence of the increasing popular interest in the exposition. The exhibit of pure foods, as was to have been expected, is a strong attraction. foods never gave better promise of suc. cess than to-day, when the potent in- flnence of this great industrial fair is being exercised in the interest of strictly pure goods, even to the extent of demonstrat- ing their genuineness or adulteration by analyses, As the president of the institute ob- served in his opening address, the pros- perity of this State depends largely upon the merits of the articles produced here for sale at home and abroad, and we want to perfect our processes so that the words, “Made in California,” shall be, all the world over, a guaranty of high quality, absolute purity and general excellence. Therefore should every movement be heartily and enthusiastically encouraged which has for its aim tne earliest possible realization of a condition wherein every- body may resflassured that the goods he purchases are éxactly what they purport to be—honest zoods under honest labels. It is estimated the farmers of the United States will receive for their wheat this season about $80,000,000 more than last cultivating a taste for healthful Californ:a | wines and taking somewhat to snuff and | Tuesday evening, and the fact that upon E $ war—they will see the trust in New Jersey—tirst. year. Prasperity it will be seen comes in large chunks when it comes at all, SANTA ROSA'S GUESTS. Santa Rosa is this week entertaining the Grand Council of the Young Men's Insti- tute of California, and doing it in that elaborate style for which the city of roses is famous. She is decked out in festal tute colors of red, white and blue waving everywhere along her business streets lena to the time and place the semblance | of a patriotic jubilee. The Y. M. L. wes organized in 8an Fran- cisco fifteen years ago, and is to-day a large ana growing order. The organiza- tion in this State 1s progressive; it is com- posed largely of natives of California, and embraces many young men of talent and promise. Among its leaders are some of the most influential men in the State. It is devoted to the moral as well as the | material improvement of our social condi- tions, and has done much to advance the welfare of the people. The motto of the society, *Pro Deo pro Patria,” embodies the aspirations of the institute, and right | wortnily have the members lived up to it. The Grand Courcil was happy in its se- lection of Santa Rosa for its gathering. The people of that beautiful vlace of shady avenues, bowered waiks and per- fumed breezes are thoroughly imbued with the true spiric of California hospi- , and will find the members of the I. truly appreciative of its at- s and the charms of its society. Hosts and guests are worthy of one another, and the occasion will be ona of pleasant memories on both sides. MODEL OITY GOVEKNMENT. At a time when our own City is carnest- Iy discussing the subject of a new charter and when the thinking mind of the Nation is bent largely on the solution of the problem of municipal government, such an article as that contributed to the cur- rent number of the Forum by Professor Frank W. Blackmar on ‘“‘The Municipal Government of Berlin” has a peculiar interest. The learned gentleman occupies the chair of history and sociology in the University of Kansas, and it is noteworthy that Professor Blackmar is a product of our California schools. According to the description given by that scholar Berlin is a model European city, and its growth has been as wonder- ful as its municipal government has been progressively “‘wise and admirable.”’ From 1800 to 1870 its population increased from 172,000 to 800,000, while at present the city contains nearly 2,000,000 souls. | From 1870 to 1890 it grew more rapialy than New York and kept pace with Chicago. As Mr. Blackmar observes, while attempting to solve the problem of city government in the United States it may not be wise to think of imitating the government of Berlin, which has the im- press of imperialism npon it, though the methods which prevail there in every de- partment yield some useful lesto The military discipline which pervades the Prussian system of administration has had its effect on city government. “The power of concentrated action, the thor- oughness of social institutions, the serious- ness with which all the governmental acts are regarded, the scientifc management of public works, the patient and exhaus- tive treatment of every subject 1n hand,” says the writer, “all have contributed to the perfection of the great German | capital.” The city expends yearly more than 20,000,000 for the government, part of the | revenue being derived from the proceeds of public works. “Everything is closely accounted for, and the records are so fully published that a ratepayer may obtain at any time a true statement of the business condition of the municipality.’” Public constructions and the mainten- ance of streets are carried on with like thoroughness. As much care is exercised in the building of a sireet as by a carpen- ter in making a table or a watchmaker in making a watch. Nearly ail the streets are of first-class asphalt, and they are kept in proper repair and remarkably clean. Rigid rules are enforced with reference to garbage and sewage, and large quan- titizs of disinfectants and deodorizers are used by the city ana furnished by private individuals free of charge. The sewage of thecity is used to fertilize lands below the city by means of irrigation pipes. At the corners of the parks and intersection of public thoroughfares public lavatories are established, being well built and scrapulously kept by women. These fea- tures of the sanitary system are there con- idered indispensable to health and com- fort. It seems rather odd, however, to Ameri- cans to hear that the cbairs in the small parks of Berlin are veritable nickel-in- the-slot machines, an individual being re- quired to drop in 2 piece of money to un- lock a chair that he mav sit down ana rest. Such a thing would never be toler- ated in this land of the free. Itissaid that there are more than a thousand aif- ferent institutions for the care of the poor, which makes it evident that there is vast room for improvement in the conditions which, while they may serve to make a grand city, necessitate such a multitude of establishments for the aid of paupers. Itis one of Berlin’s boasts that there is “little poverty in sicht.” Many things are possible under an ab- solute monarchy that would be impossi- ble and intolerable in a republic, but it is quite practicable for an American city, under popular laws and regulations, to at- taln a perfection in regard to sanitation, education, public construction, streets, police, etc,, equal to any European city. PERSONAL. « F. W. Blake of the Gilroy Advocate is at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan isa guestat the Grand Hotel. Judge S. . Geil of Salinas 1s stopping st the Occidental Hotel, R. E. Cobb, accompanied by C. W, Cobb, is at the Cosmopolitan. T. C. Marsha }, a rancher of Capay Valley, is aguest at the Baldwin Hotel. Rev. W. M. Jones and wife of St. Charles, Mo., are at the Cosmopoli tan. T. J. Field, a banker of Monterey, registered at the Palace Hotel yesterday. Rev. David Wall of Ven couver is in the City, & guest at the Occidental Hotel. General John Hewston Jr. of Alameda regis- tered at'the Occidental yesterday. A. B. Butler, a vinegrower of Fresno, regis- tered at the Palace Hotel yesterday. W. E. Veazie, a hotel man of Ben Lomond, is in town, stopping at the Occidental. J. M. Shawhan has resigned his position as one of the tenor soloists of Grace Church €hoir to accept a more lucrative offer. Douglas 8. Cone, a merchant of Red Bluff, is in town, stopping at the Palece Hotel. H. A. Jastro, & lawyer of Bakersfield, regis- tered at the Grand Hotel last uveuing.‘ T. L Reed, H. N. Reed and C.R. Reed of Reed!ey are guests at the Grand Hotel. Dr. Paul Schultze and wile, of San Jose, Teg- istered at the Baldwin Hotel yesterday. R. Battersbee, a prominent business man of Port'and, Or., is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, J. B. Croissant of Washington, D. C., arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Grand Hotel, H. Wolff of New York arrived on the Central | overland iast evening and registered atthe California Hotel. Dr. A. B. Talbot of Philadelphia arrived from the south yesterday and registored at the Palace Hotel. Miss Hyde of Leavenworth, Kans,, registered at the Occidental Hotel last evening. She is en route to Honolulu. Miss M. A. Fahey, principal of the Sonora public schools, has returned from Portland and is visiting the family of Major William Fahey of the Cosmopolitan. Phocion Howard, a newspaper correspondent of Washington, D. C., arrived in town yester- day afternoon from Portland and is stayingat the Baidwin. Mr. Howard is visiting the wesiern country on his vacation and will re- turn to the National capital via Los Angeles, New Orieans and Chicago. Mies May Graham of San Francisco and her guest, Miss Chennery of Srdney, N. 8. W. been spending a most enjoyable forinight in Stockton as the guests of Mrs. H. C. Newman. On September 1 Miss Graham will return to her class in the Normal School, but Miss Chen- nery is so takea up with the capital of San Joaquin County that she has decided to re- main there until the stesmer Alameda again sails for Australia. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 18.—At the St Cloud—D. Avery; Metropole—J. E. Field; Park-avenue—B. . Hoffacker; Astor—J. P. Le- tand; Ashland—J. A. McDonald; Sturtevani— W. 0. N. Morrison; Mariborough—Dr. H. Mor- row, Dr. N. B. Waller. W. Swanton and J. 1. Kelly are here buying. H. M. Ellis left the St. Cloud and salled on the Paris for Southamp- ton. FAMILY PRIDE. Proud of your f mil Proud of your Wel, a1 ancestry | Tora f llow tohu Proud of your famii 3 Back Lo you: great-great-great-granddaay are you, my lad? lent padizree! Proud of your ancestry. ara you, my lad? Proud of your spiendid family tree! £41], there's many a donkey has had Tile longeat kinl of a pedigree! Glad t your family tiee’s so tail? Well, that’s nice—but it {sn’t all! Proud of your forefatbers, eh, my Iaa? Proud of the line yot.'re ablé to trace! But it's nov any batter than others have had Who were lost In the dust at the eud of the race! Proud of your forefathers? Ah, but say, Wouid they be proud of you to-day? = I. KisEr in Cieveland Leader. WITH YOUR COFFEE. Benton—What's the use ot all this athletic business in college life, anyhow ? Fenton—It makes the graduates who can pass the mental examinstion eligible for the police force.—~Trutn. She—Why is it, [ wonder, that litlie men so often marry large women ? He—I don’t know unless it 1s that the little fellows are afraid to back out of engage- ments.—Cleveiand Leader. Editor—That's a most ridiculous blunder you made, jaggerson, in old Soliaman’s obit- uary. Yousay “He leaves an only widow.” Reporter—Well, what's wrong with that? Most of the millionaires who've died seem to have left more than one.—Puck. Bishop Goodfellow—So you think John Got- rox’s will Is a masterpiece of legal ingenuity acd acumen, do you? Judge Suarpley—Sir, I drew it, and I will stake my reputation upon that will’s lasting in the courts us long as the preperty does.— Judge. ¢‘Charlie, your father is calling you.” Charlie—Yes, I hear him. But he is calling “Charlie.”” 1 don’t need to go till he yells “Charles.”—Punch. Mrs. Newlywed—That s our mew burglar alarm. You see, if a burglar should get into the lower part of the house that would ring. Her Mother—On!—and scare him off ? Mrs. Newlywed (dountfully)—Well, it might; but it would give Clarence and me pleaty of time to hide in the attic, anyway.—Fuck. YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION. Hartford Courant. Who is the youngest child of a Revolutionary soldier seems to be a question of interest. This distinction belongs probably to Mrs. Martha June Hollister of East Hartford. Othniel Brown was born at Smithfield, R. I, April 20, 1759, and entered the army trom that State, but he lived during the greater part of his life at Stafford, Conn. When past70 years old, November 3, 1829, he married his third wife, Nancy Lyon. Of this marriage were born thres children—Nancy, September 2, 1830; John Adams, October 22, 1831, and Martha Jane, May 3, 1833. Nancy died few years ago, John Adams is living in Tollan d Martha Jane (Mrs. Hollisier) in East Hartferd. The average age of the two chilarea now liv- ingis 65, and the age of the youngest is 64. Until a better record is produced Connecticut claims the youngest child of a Revolutionary soldier and the youngest two children of the alamie famatly. it S SR REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR, New York Press. Half the kissing in the world is habit. If a man knew why a woman didn’t like him he would lose all respect for her intuition. A girl would a good deal better know what she oughtn't to sav than to say what she oughtn’t to know. When a man s pointed out to agirlasa woman-hater she always tries to look scornful and indignant at him, g The world doesn't want to hear your trou- bles unless you can iell them so as to make iteither laugh or cry. 1f & man wore a feather and a glass hatpin on his hat and a nice pink ribbon around his neck, he wouid look(iun 8s sweet A& woman l‘;?:&l derby hat and a stff collar and shirt- MUSIC AND MUSICIANS Great disappointment is felt by the visitors to the Brussels Exposition at the horrible acoustics of the Exposition Concert Hall. At the first musicale of the exposition series, the violinists Ysaye and Thompson appeazed—one cannot say “were heard,” for only a note here and there was audible, 2nd it immediately lost itself in the echces. Very few people were present, for the admirers of the two great violinists stayed away from seeing them martyred by bad scoustics. The second con- cert was worse still, and more cruel, for it marked the production of & new and impor- tantwork, “Saint Godelive,” by Edgar Tinel, a composer who enjoys great popularity in Germany, Belgium a:d England. The critics have declined to judge the work seriously from hearing it under such unfavorable con- ditions. The general opinion is that the Brus- sels Expositidn is doing more harm than good to the cause of music. It is not generally known on this side of the Atlantic that an American has written the most authentic life of Beethoven that yet appeared. The man to whom this honor be- longs is the late Wheelock Thayer, who died the other day at Trieste, where for years he filled the post of Consnl-General of the United States. Thayer was born 80 years ago in Academy, in recognition of her musical taients. Saint-Saens is spending his holidays in the composition of a grand lyric scene entitled «“Cleopatra at Rume.” — WHEN THE TWINS WERE BROUGHT HOME. An old acquaintance of Jobn Sherman sends the following to the Cnicago Inter Ocean: As most of us know, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman were childless. A time came wheu, l'fle_r much consideration and thought, they decided to adopt & child and heir. Mrs. Sherman re- quested some of her intimate friends to assist in the scarch of a desiraple infant, one honestly and gently born, and without parents to follow ou afterwara and emburrass. A friend in New York subsequently telegraphed her to come &t onde and take her choice of two beautiful babies. There was great ex- citement in the Sherman home pending Mrs. Sherman’s trip to New York aiter the baby. On the next day she telegraphed her husbana: “Wil be home th.s_siterncon. Send carriage to the depot’’ The carrisge went, and the Senator remained at home, \alking the floor, looking at his watch, watching each carriage as it came in sight. Toe train LUDOVICO VIVIANI in the Role of Mephistopheles. N Boston, and, strange to say, although nota musician, he possessed such a strong love for Beethoven that in 1849 he weut to Europe to try tofind data for a biography of the Boun | master. Thayer had remarkably good iuck, | for he met and made friends with-Otto Jahn, the famous biographer of Mozert. Jahn had coliected & number of documents respecting Beethoven also, but he felt himself too 0'1 to attempt to write the biography of the com- poser of the nine symphonies, and he gave all his data into the bands of the American. In 1862 Thayer was made Consnul-General from the United States to Trieste, and there he set- | tled down to write his biography. Tne monu- mental work occupied him from that date tiil | 1880, when the fourth volume was issued. He wrote in English, but had his books irans- lated into German and published in Berlin. Thayer's work 1s more exact than any other biography of Beethoven, and for the first time legend is separated Jrom fact in Beethoven's history. The narrative of the master’s life is extremely touching, and makes tha reader love aud appreciate the man, Beethoven. Viviani, the new basso at the Tivoli, has just come direct from Covent Garden Op:re- house, where he alternated with Edouard de Reszke and made a vivid impression as Meptistopheles in “‘Faust” and Fatner in “Siegiried.” He is of Italian parentage, though born in Odessa in 1857, and there he was educated at the Imperial College. Later he went toItaly, and his first professional ap- pearance was made at Cremona, under the direction of Ponchielli, the composer of “La Gioconda.”” Since that time he has sung for lour seasons in Turin, three at La Scala, two at the Imperial in Tiflis, where the operas are performed in Russian, and for six at the Metropolitan Opera-house, as well as in Rio Janeiro, Buenos Ayres and Cairo. Viviani will be able to contribute his full share to the polyglot nature of the Tivoli performances, for he sings with equalease in Italian, French, German, English, Russian, Spanish and Portu- guese. His Mephistopheles in “Faust” will probably be one of the features in the present grand opera season. Every one will remember the sad end of Castlemary, who died suddenly on the stage of the Metropolitan last winter while playing in “Martha.” He had a fear that he wonld die in Americs, and begged his friend Jean de Reszke to see that he was buried in his home land. Monsieur Jean loyally remembered his friepd’s wisb, and the other day all that was mortal of Castlemary was interred at Pere la Chaise Cemetery, Paris, in the presence of many of *‘Castles” old chums and associates. With great official ceremony Mme. Adelina Patti has laid the foundation stone of the new theater at Swansea, Wales. It was atthe re- questof the city fathers of the pretiy little Welsh town thatPatti presided on the occasion, and the Mayor in hisspeech said that she had not been asked because of herskill as a s:nger, but because of the many benefits she had conferred on the dwellers in the neigh- vorhood of her castie of Craig-y-Nos. The cere- mony wes without music; not even a Welsh bard twanged a harp. The Count of Hochberg, intendant of all the imperial opera-houses of Prussia, has just issued & decree prohibiting artists from arriv- ing at theaters on bicycles or from appearing at the theater at all in cyc!ing costume. Itis expected that this will effectually puta stop to bloomer girls on the Prussian lyric stage. Le Menestrel announces the death of Mme. Lillian Nordica, but the news lacks confirma- tion. Nordica has been very ill in London and has had to put off her American engagements on account of continued weakness. Mme. Emma Eames has mede a record for herself at Covent Garden. Inaddition tosing- ing twenty-three times she was the prima donna on the opening night of the season and on the night which marked the close of & sea- son that has been very prosperous for the new syndicate, and for Maurice Grau. The Queen of Roumania, known to literature | as Carmen Sylva, is the only writer who has composed opera librettos in four languages. She has written books of opera in French, Ger- man, Swedish and Roumanian. A successful rival to the famous Paderewski has aj peared in London. Hisname is Edonard Zeldenrust and he hails irom Holland. Blegiried Wagner, the *‘Heir to the Nam has had considerable success this season Bayreuth tu his conducting of tne “Ring the Nibelung.” The remarkable Italian vioiinist, Mme. Teresina Tua, Countess Franchi-Verney, has just been made an officer of the French ° | Nupoleon had ho | swers to Correspondent; was a little Iate. He was hecoming nervously anxious. Finaily the carriage hovs in sight he marched out 10 meet it et the curb, thre open thed sre were Mrs. Shernan and a nurse, :pping out with a baby in ression £s came over that beiore. door. ench s ce WAS Dever s > described. He was at & loss for words for & minute or two, and fiually was gble to stammer: “Wife, what does this 7 She replicd: ‘‘Husband, they v retty and so much alike that 1 could not and so 1 selected hoth.” were twin girl babies. For the next few dais it was a show to watch Mr, Sherman as he en- joyed and esressed the newcomers. One of the twins sickened and died within a few weeks and the other is now “nis daugnter,’ fcCuliom, with whom he 1s visiting. \WIEN AND WOMEN. The German Emperor 0w 9 carriages for the use of himseit sud his court. The bistoric dessert service which was to heve figured at 2 banquetin Brussels by which ed to celebrate a victory over the allied forces was recentiy sold in Brussels for the sum of §1000. _ Out of about 1200 pictures exhibited this year at the Royal Academy, 180 have been sold for about $82,000. The highest prices ob- tained were about #6000 each for Mr. Brough- ton’s ‘*‘After Midnight Mass” and Napier Henry's “Pilchards.” Mrs. Susan B. Anthony in a recent speech at a dinuer given her by the women of Adams, Mass., said: *If you want to do anything in token of the service I have been permitted to do, the way 1o give that token is to put on your armor and do what you can to secure equality for women—their equal share in goy- ernment.’” The Duchess of Buccleuch, who is “‘mistress of the robes” for Queen Victoria, has prece- dence of every other lady at court, besides re- cetving $2500 a year salary, and has as her as- sistants thirty-nine ladies of rank, ali of wnom are selected from distinguished families, many being the wives or widows of peers. The “mistress of the robes” attends the Queen on all state occasions. The edhefents of the lost cause of the Stuarts are disputing the claim made for Queen Vie- toria of the longest reign in English history. They point out that the reign of King James 111 and VIII lasted from 1701 to 1766, or cver sixty-four years. To be sure he was never rex de facto, but his reign was acknowledged by many subjects who were loyol to him in the field and ou the scaffold. The court of Pope Lzo XIIT comprises 1000 persons. There are twenty valets, 120 cham. berlains, 200 extra honorary chamberlains, 130 superuumerary chamberlains, 30 officers of the noble guard, and 60 guardsmen, 14 offi- cers of the Swiss Guard and Palace Guard, 7 honorary chaplains, 20 private secretaries, 10 stewards and masters of the horse and 60 drorkeepers. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS No PrEMIUM—N. M., City. No premium is offered on United States $5 god oflerecoy #5 god pleces coined NAVAL APPRENTICES—J. W., Redwood City, Cal. Boys are taken on as naval aporentices at Mare Island when tnera js a vacancy. Ap- plication should be made 10 the commandur oithe Independence, Mare Island, Cal, BENCHES IN THE PARK—L. M., City. have any complaint in regard to the in Golden Gaie Park you communication to the setting forth your grieva: If you benches shounld adadress a Park Commissioners, nce. MARRIAGE OF TEACHERS—A. D., Cit; Rul 165 of the rules and regulations of I.h’e Bou:: of Education of §an Franucisco says: *When ever a female teacher marries her position in the department thercby becomes vacant.”” HANDWRITING—A. D., City. Haq ¥you sent your full name and address this department would bave mailed an answer to your ques- tions, as both are of a purely personal nature and 1ot of a class that are answered in An? NEWSPAPER—H. A. ., Walnut Creek, Contr Costa Couunty, C 1f two persons reside l: the connx;y and jointly subscribe for 2 news. aper and one takes it our he cannor En finished reading itreturn it to the S&'x’é&'&i for another subscriber, unless he puts the re- quired umount of postage upon it. RATLWAY POSTAL SERVICE— railway postal service wa Eogland, July 1, 1837, b made to have such & service In the United States until 1860, when an ex train was ran between Hoston and Nen oril 3 lvwm;r;::r- Was regularly established the fol. S. 8, City. The s first introgucea tn ut no attempt was | RUSH OF FRU ON THE FRONT River Steamers Cdnnot Handle All the Freight Offering. Pears and Mushmelons Thrown Overboard in Order to Clear the Wharves, Bids for a Clock in the Tower of the New Ferry Depot Opened and Disoussed. The Harvor Commissioners held ashort session yesterday morning to discuss the bids sent in for the building of a clock in the new ferry tower. The Seth Thomss Clock Company offered to put in the clock for $1750 and wanted $2500 for the dials. The bid of the Howard Watch Company was more complicated. They agreed to put in the clock and the inside dials for $2567, the outside dials for $1600 and an eleciric attachment for $75. They also submitted an ofter to place electric clocks throughout the entire depot at a reasonable price. No action was taken in the matter. There is only a difference of §87 between the two bids and the Com- missioners want to thoroughly examine the matter and take expert testimony be- fore the contract is awarded. The Stockton steamer J. D. Peters came down yesterday with a load of wheat that brought her down to the guarde, She went alongside the British ship Yarana and put the entire cargointo her. This is catled “stiffening”’ for the big Britisher, and from here she will be towea to Port Costa to load for Europe. The fruit trade from the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers has caused almost as great a rush on the Jackson and Wash- ington street wnarves as has the rush to the Klondike at other voints. River | steamers are scarce and men cannot be secured to handle the fruit. Yesterday and the day before pears and mushmelons were cthrown overboard because they were too ripe and the supply exceeded the de- mand. The Sacramento River boats can- not handle the rush and in consequence | the California Transportation Company has been compelled to borrow the A Freese from the California Navigation and Improvement Company. The Kreese will run on the Sacramento River until the glut is over. The British ship Kambria arrived from Tonquin last Tuesday evening and an- chored in the fairway. While making for San Francisco on ier first morning trip yesterday, Captain Wilson of the Sausa- lito nearly ran the ferry-boat into her. Owing to the dense fog the Sausalito was under a slow beil and men wers on the lookout at the bow ol the steamer. The en ines were reversed when the cry *Ship right abead™ came, but it was not a mo- ment too soon. Captain Wilson handled his vessl like & yacht, and in a few mo- | ments all danger as passed. They | | | | Markham The matrer was reported to Chiet Wharfinge r Root, and us soon as the fog 'L lifted he looked into the matter and found i that the Kambria was right in the fairway and a menac: to not only the Sausalito bat also the Tiburon steamers. Captain Brownell was notified to move his vesse!, but failed to doso. The agents were then notifird, and at 4 r. M, when the Kam- bria wes stull at anchor off Powell-street wharf, Chief Root ordered the Governor 10 go and move her. A few minutes after she got under way another tug reached the Kambria, and after the anchor w:s hove up towed her out of Larm’s way. The steamer Santa Rosa for the first time in vears was three hours late in reaching port yesterday. As a rule she is as regular as clockwork, and the day she is due it is a usual thing ior “Johnny’" Hyslop, the lookout man at Point Lobos, to remark to himseif *‘6 o'clock, it’s about time the Santa Rosa was showing up.’” Then he would take his glas-esand in a few minutes would see the pride of the Pacific Uoast Steamship Company poking her nose through the morning haze. Hyslop was disappointed yesterday morn- ing, but then it was no fault of the steamer. She was delayed nearly eight hours taking on an unusually big cargo of wheat at Port Harford. The sailors on the American ship Sin- tram complain that Boatswain Mike Sweeney and Mate Michael Hansen beat them during the voyage here irom Balti- more. Their injuries cannot have been very great, as none of them will swear to a complaint charging the officers with cruelty on the high seas, CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50 1b. Townsend's* . When a woman asks a peach-peddler, “Aro they good?” does she think he is going to say “No?”—Roxbury Gazette. SPECIAL fnformation daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Montgomery. * - British loyalty stops at tne British pocket. A set of original drawings by the royal family, including seven by Qaeen Victoria, six by the | Empress Frederick and many others by the Princess Beatrice and other children of the Queen, brought only §350 at auction in Lone doao. Get Your Tickets to the Klondike. The Nofthern Pacific Steamship Company bas put the magnificen: steamer City of Seattle lu(d service tetwern Tacoms, Seattle, Juneau snd Dyea. Steamer leaves Tacoma and teatle A gust 16 and 26. or tickets and information call at the Northern Pacific Ra'lway Oftice, 368 Mat- ket stree:, S. F. T. K. Stateler, General Agent ————————— Vice-Admiral Makaroif of the Russian navy has started for the Arctic Ocean, north of Stberia, to try the experiment of keeping the ea open to navigation by means of ice-break- ers, which have been nsed with success on tbe Siberian rivers. The attempt is one resultof Captain Wiggins’ endeavors to establ h commercial route by sea from Western Europe 10 the Obi and Yenisei. NEW TYO-DAY. Royal makes the food pure, i wholesome and delicious. Absolutely Pure 'ROVAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.