The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 18, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18 & JOHN E SVPVRELKEIE,‘ }’ropriztor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. T Market and Tnird streets, San Telephone Main 1 EDITORIAL RCOMS....... L Telephone Mai THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DA'LY AND SUNDAY) is served by n this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. | $6 per year; per month 65 cents. -Pl'Bl,ICFATlO\ ‘OFFICE rancisco 517 Clay street THE WEEKLY CALL.. ...One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. ... 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE...... cee -Room 188, World Building = Riggs House Correspondent. street, corner Clay; open until 3) o'clock. 615 SW. er Sixteenth and 111 9 o'cloc 518 Mission street; open Ninth sireet; open until 9 o’clock. 1505 9130 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second onen 1iil9 ‘cloc ; open u BUYING PUBLIC UTILITIES. CHAPTER submitted to the Charter Convention of One Hondred by the Committee on Pablic Utilities provides t whenever a petition, signed by a number of the A tegistered electors of the municipality equal to 20 per cent of the total vote east at the last preceding municipal election shell be presented to the Board of Supervisors, suggesting the acquisition of any specific public utility which the city is un. able to purchase out of its ordinary revenues, the board shall within ninety days submit to a vote of the people the ques- tion of incurring a bonded ‘indebtedness for the purpose of rals’ng the money. Little or no machinery is provided for bandling the funds or purchasing the jroperty after the vote, and eviden the intention of the committee is to submit for consideration the naked proposition of public ownership of local utilities. This question, outside of its relation to the charter, is worthy of discussion. Tue CALy has on principle no objection to San Francisco owning its streetcar lines, its water works, its electric-light plants or its telephone systems. On the contrary, if anybody can show us that the service now rendered by these “‘utilities” can be cheepened or made more efficient by public ownership, we do not know but we could be induced to join with the reformers in the Charter Convention of One Hundred and advocate the change. But we respectfully submit that if the convention is going to bring the matter up for critical con- ideration it should provide us with a complete system of acquiring the properties. If the report of the committee is adopted as proposed it will produce some such result as th Whenever a public utility in San Francisco ceases to pay dividends its stockhold- ers will at once orgsnz» to sell it to the city. A petition con- taining the names of 12,000 electors may be obtained at any time without difficulty. The average man will sign his own deatl warrant in the form of a petition, Nor, in the event of an election being called, 1s it easy to see how the sale of 2 non- paying utility to the city could be prevented. Doubtless the volitical bosses would see to it that all utilities incapable of paving dividends, or which had defanlted in their interest, were promptiy sold to the people, and that all propositions 10 sell those earning dividends and interest were defeated. The prime obj=ct of the reformers in the Charter Conven- tion of One Hundred is to thwart the political bosses. The burden of all their work is an attempt to create a governmental svsiem which will baffls the ineenuity of those individuals. ‘Why, then, leave the door open for them to transact a profit- able business in selling streetcar, telephone, water, gas and electr c-light stock to the citv? Ii we were asked to suggest an amendment to the report of the committee on public utilities we would insert somewhere inita proviso thata condition precedent to the sale of any corporation plant to the city should bea statement of the president that it is paying dividends on its stock, or at least interest on its bonded indebtedness.. As we understand it, the people have no objection to owning rublic utilities which pay, but we dount whether they would care to run the risk of adopt- ing a law which would enable the political bosses to at any time foist upon them 2 “‘busted” corporation enterprize. We have a tremendous lot of confidence in municipal human na- ture, but it is so certain that the city would never think of buy- ing anything except a non-paying public utility that we sre convinced our amendment wou!d be a wiss addition to the committee’s report. We say thisnotwithstanding we entertain less fear of the malign influence of the political bosses than many of the meinbers of the Charter Convention of One Hundred. A GENTLE éRITICBMiFROM YUMA. UR bright Arizona contemporary, the Yuma Sun, in the course of what it cails ‘“A Gentle Criticism,” lets its light shine upon a certain scheme of Tacoma merchants with a degree of effulgence that must be felt by the victims as something of a roast, though it may not te counted hot in Ar zona. The Tacoms men, it seems, have engaged writers to pre- pare what are calied “Klondike letters,” the object of which is 1o convince people that Klondike is tle place 10 go to and Ta ccma is the place to outfit for the trir. They are, in fact, trade circular- rather than news letters from the gold regions, and the Sun admits that in circulating them Tacoma has shown an “'enterprise that is commendable.”” It adds, however: These letters, two or more columas in length, absolutely unfnter. esting except to tnose whom they will directly benefit, the merchants of Tacome, are being sent broedcast to weekly newspapers of the Uuited States. znd the publisher who accepts mustin payment for tiie matter insert a four-inch advertisement of the Tacoma Mercantile Union, under whose auspices the letters are being sent out. That a publisher shculd piate so little valus upon his columns as to ace pt these letters, or for such a consideration publish the adyer- tisement referred to, Is & shame. The Sun isright. Itis commendable for the merchants of any locelity to advertise their city and attract to it all the trace they can, but it is the opposite of commendable to induce an overworked country editor to give adveriisinz space for what he supposes w:1l be news of cirrent interest for his readers and then palm off on him f:ke letters, .~hich are themselyes ad- vertisements. The Sun, of course, was bright enough to pene- trate the transparent trick at the first gleam, and now that it has exposed the scheme it is to be hoped no Western paper will be made a victim of it. Country papers can get all the Klondike news straight and accurate from the columns of THE CALL without having to give advertising for fake letters. Moreover, there is no reason why any miner in California, Arizona or Nevada should go to Alaska to se k gold. If one intends to do sb, however, he should bear in mind that the place to outfit for the trip is San Francisco. Yellow journalism never does an apparent kindness frcm auy proper motive. O:dinarily its object is cheap advertising, its medium a series of brass binds, and the resnlt a substantial rake-off. Now that it has gone into a :cheme in which the rake-off is 1mpossible, it is known to bs inspired solely by Ineanness. Cnicago is losing its cheracter for atilitarianism and becom- ing esthetic. When we read that the stalls at the recent horse show were sprinkled with cologne it becomes easy to imagine the stockyard of the near future equipped with music boxes to drown the dying refrain of the stiicken porker. Roosevelt has been saying some interesting things abont the needs of the navy; butany thoughtful erson knows that a navy with a Roosevelt on active duty cannot be in need of much. HIGH-PRICED STRATEGY THIS. HE strategic argument for annexation has been used with vain and various reiterations. Our Pacific Coast is repre- sented as defenseless unless we have Hawaii, 2000 miles away. Senator Perkins disposed of this argument after the manner of its prior treatment in THE CALL, in his speech in Oakland last week. He said that sending coal 2000 miles across the water qnd th=n sending our warships thers to getit in orderto defend San Francisco was strategy incomprehensible to the common mind, and so it is. He also disposed of the argument that the islands stand rightin the path of commerce between this port and Asia, by proving that the shortest path for ships to Japan and China leaves Hawaii 1600 miles to the southward. The pending annexation treaty proposes that the United States shall assume the §4,000,000 debt of the Dole oligarchy and pay it. That is a high price to pay for such strategy as th: Senator describes for a stepping-stone in the path of com- merce that lies 1600 miles out of that path. : Itis in the day’s news that Great Britain is making a show of her war fleet at Esquimalt, to demonstrate the anchor- age and maneuvering capacity in the shelter of that Gibraltar of the North. There she is in touch with the mainland, with coal at hand, with open water and a way to deep water even without using the strait of San Juan de Fuca for an exit. Her power is within striking distance of the coast from San Diego to the passes of the Aleutian Archipelago. She is within steaming distance, out and back, without recoaling, of the real path of our Asiatic com.aerce. The proper answer of this country to Esquimalt is San Francisco, an impregnable foothold on the mainland, within easier striking distance of ths whole coast. The $4,000,000 of Dole’s debts we undertake to pay should instead be spznt here to plant on the heights overlooking Golden Gate and the sea a system of offensive and defensive works that can keep all fleets beyond shelling distance of our shores and protect al- ways the exit of our own men-of-war to sweep the open water clear of an enemy. To protect our position in Hawaii will cost £4,000,000 at least, added to paying for Dole’s dead horse, and when the whole $8,000,000 is taken from our people the coast, as far as protection is concerned, will be just where it is now. The shadow of Esquimalt will be upon it all, and we will be shivering in its shade. It may be said that there will be no war with England. Let us hope not, but of our four great wars two have been with her. It is neighboring nations that go to war. A war that would at all disturb us must be one in which we can be invaded by land. The invasion would come from Mexico or the Dominion of Canada, and in either case an invading force would have the co-operation of a fleet. The Goths were safe in Carthage until Belisarius marched an army along the south shore of the Mediterranean Sea, with a fleet keeping step with his legions. With these tactics in action against us what protection would we get from Hawaii 2000 miles away ? Itis plainly the duty ot the members of Congress from these coast States to defeat annexation. Let Dole keep his dead horse ; indeed, compel him to keep it by warning him that he is within the Monroe hemisphere, and will not be permitted to unload upon any foreign nation. Itis to our highest interest that Hawaii shail be independent and neutralized, so that this Switzerland of the seas will not have to be defended at our cost, nor become a point of vantage to a possible enemy. THE PIONEERS AND THE JUBILEE, ALIFORNIA'S golden jubilee, whose anniversary day falls on January 24, 1s tc be celebrated in this city under the direction of the California Society of Pioneers. The simple announcement of the fact will awaken not cnly an eager expectancy, but a spirlt of co-operation throughout the com- musity. All who fe:l the glow of State pride will gladly join in commemorating so notable an evenl in the history of the commonwealth, and all who have respect for veteran survivors of great deeds and great days will proudly unite 10 make this festival of the pioneers an occasion so glorious that its jame will be continental. ‘While the Society of Pioneers will have the place of honor in the celebration, it will not work alone in preparing for it. It has been already determined that in an active and cfficial way the Pioneers will have the co-operatim of the Californid Miners’ Association and the Native Sons and Native Daughters of the Golden West. Such a combinaticn would succeed in making a notable festival even if it had no aid from the -eneral pubiic, and with such aid we have a righit to look forward to a celebration which, while it may have its climax on a particu- lar day, will fill a week with its glory. It is altogether right and fitiing the day should be cele- brated, for while the discovery of gold was an event small in it- self, it set in motion forces that were among the most moment- ousof the centurv. The results of that discovery affected the economic condition of the whole world, started ovne of the largest migrations of men on record, and bad a profound influ- ence on the politics of ourrepublic. The event, thereiore, is not to be huddled over among slight and transient things. It was a potent force in determining the courss of history and was followed and accompan.ed by deedsof daring and adventure that make the epoch of the pioneers ot California the most romantic in American annals. Over and above the significance of the gold discovery itsels whica will be the chief feature in the meaning of the celebra- tion for the ou side world, there will be for Californians an op- portunity in theday to show once more their veneration for the vioneers who still survive among us. As Pioneer day, it wil! appeal not only to the Native Sons and Daughters, but to the whole of the Greater West. It will be something more than a San Francisco celebration. The State and all the region of mines and miners can be counted on to take part in it. It will be a great occasion il we choose to make itso, and who can doubt that such will be our choice? % —_— When a pervert, guilty of horribie crimes, writes a novel the only decent treatment to be accorded it wouid be to drop it into the fire. Yellow journalism does not take this view of th - matter, but seizes with avidity upon the unclean and unwhole- some stuff, even glorying in the triumpn of its own l}nsrnncl to gatuer garbage and insulting the pub ic by summoning it to a teast of offal. T Considerable is being said about a young woman who is turning the headas of such notabies as the young sprig who married Anna Gould’s money. She is said, among other things, to have royal blood in her veins. As the femals in question is the wifz of a San Francisco cigar-drummer it is safe to say that the quality of her blood is a recent discovery, When the murderous hatchetmen invade the more or less holy precincts of & josshouse to do their xilling, they have reached a stage of desperation suggesting the advisability of calching a few of them. The haichetmen presume too much on their immuuity, and show clearly that they are treated with & consideration they do not deserve. It would appear that the veople of North Dakots in their impatience at judicial detay have hanged an innocent man, a mistake for which there can be no excuse. Hhowever, the blame must rest partly upon the coarts, for by occasionally banging a guilty man they could prevent this sort of error. The Fresno wooer who made a test case when refused a license to marry a woman divorced less than a year has received from the court an adverse decision. There :eems nothing for him to do but bow respeotfuily to the law, go three miles from shore and mar:y the iady where there is no faw. The people of this country wiil be glad to learn that Count Casteliane still has money to burn or employ in any equally sensibie fashion and is engaged In doing so. The report that Le was getting vulgarly poor had cccasioned widespread re- gret. NOVEMBER METEORS. Probably on nccount of the presence of the gibbous moon, which glided each night nearer and nearer to the radiant point, the meteors have not been seen in unusual num- METEOR WITH LONG TRAIL. bers between the 10th and 17th of this month, the timo generally allotted to the earth to Cross the meteoric orbit. The smaller Leonids were invisible and only the largest were con” Serpentine Form of Meteor. spicuous, several of these leaving streaks of lumirosity in their track which lested some second«. It is not yet fully understood by what means the ashes of the fireball retains its light, as on some rare occasions it leaves & trall that lingers in the upper air for a quar- ter of an hour or more, meanwhile taking fan- tastic forms according to the aerial currents in its vicinity. Pnospnorescence of the par- ticles has been suggested, but this is not supported as yet by experimental evidence. As such bodies, which may be hundreds of feet in diameter, speed overhead at the rate of twenty miles per secona, the sound of the alr rushing into the vacuum created by their swift flight often follows their appearance; also, when rent to fragments by the force ot contact with the atmosphere, the noi e of the explosion is distinctly heard, according to the testimony of many ooservers. One of these detonating meteors was seen by some early-morning pedestrians in this city at about 1 ¢’clock on the 16th inst. Mr. Welker of the Postal Telegraph Company deseribes it #s rendering the sireet almost as bright as in the duytime, and tne illustrations show the stranve serpentine form it gradually assumed before disappearing. As a hissing sound came simulitaneonsly it iudicates that the fire- ball was not very distant, as sound takes quite a measurable time to travel over a few miles. “Atabout 1 o'clock Tuesday morning,”’ said while homeward bound, Mr. Welker, Rounded Form. Serpentine Form. the street on which I was waiking, dark in the shadow of tall buildings which shutout the raysof the moon, was suddenly rendered for a moment almost as brignt as day. Simuliune. ously there came a hissing sound, quite simi. lar to that made when an elec ric arc-light current s applied. “The flash, of course, was momentary, and I turned and gezed in the aireetion whence it proceeded. A star had snot from east 10 west, und in itswake s long fiery taii, as it were, was described. I stood charmed by the signt, and marked the changes ciosely. “Gradun!ly the long line of flame assumed a wavy shape, like & wrinkie on the brow of lafiuity. Then both ends of the meteoric stretch of light curled upward in what may be termed a scrpentine movement, until the whole was transiormed into a golden disk which grew more aud more contracted and dim till it vanished in the azure deep of night. Several minutes must have been consumed rom the flash to the disappesrance. Later I saw another display of the same kind, though not so luminous as the first, and between 1 and 2 A M. shooting stars were observed at rather close intervals, although I could not y that I witnessed a real ‘shower’ of stars.” There aetonating meteors are sometimes found intensely heated from friction with the air, but more geverally are dissipated in the higher regions of the stmosphere. No doubt the meteors described were Leo- nids, as they passed from an easterly di ec- Rounded Form of Meteor. .lon, and the swift motion, the briliiant irail and the frequency of fireballs or meteors of large size are characteristic of thisswarm. RoSE O'HALLORAN. PER ONALS E. B. Yerington of Carson, Nev., 1 in town. Timothy Hopkins of Menlo Park is at the Palace. General Robert M. Clark of Carson, Nev., is staying at the Grand. tiglinvaccs, & wine merchant of Napa, is staying at the Baldwin. A. H. Ducker and wife of San Jose are stay- ing at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. M. E. Grossman, a leading physician of Honolulu, is now at the Palace. L. pitzer ol San Jose, Assessor of Santa Ciara County, is now at the Grand. Frank E. Corbett of Butte, Mont., is at the Palace. Hels a prominent mining man. J.E. and G. L. Farnum, two leading mer- chants of Philadelphia, are at the Palace. Judge Alfred 8. Hartwell of Honoluiu ar- rived on a late steamer and is now at the Occi- dental. R. Harris and Louis Parker of Sacramento are among the receat arrivals at the Cosmo- politan. Dr. D. M. Livingston of San Jose is staying at the Russ House while on ashort sojourn in | this city. F. M. Nickell of Los Angelss, division super- intendent of the Southern Pacific Company, isin this city. J. T. Hawke of Ceylon is at the Baldwin. S. Pye, who is on his way East from China, is at the same place. F. 0. H'hn of Santa Cruz is now at the Ocel- dentsl. He Is extensively engaged in thereal- estate business. F. H. Olyphant of Pittsburg and H. C. Reeser of 01l City, Pa., are staying at the Palace while here or business ventures. H. Tanaka, an official of the Yokohama Specie Bank of London, is at the Occidental, on h's way to London from Japan, Attorney J. R. Ciark and R. Grey, & mer- chant, both of Los Angeles, are making the Palace their headquarters while in this city. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Nichllson are at the Cal- tfornia and will soon ieave for their home in Eric, Pa. They have just returned from a tour ot the Orient. H. Stain of St. Louis is staying at the same hotel. He is on his way to Japan as corre- spondent for the Phiiadeiphia Record and the Louisville Oourier-Journal. The Misses Hannah and Kate C. Woodhull of New York are at the Oceidental. Both are members of the American Board Congrega- tional Mission and are now on their way to Foochow, Ci . CALIFORNIANS> IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—At the St. Cloud—C L. Sawyer; Metropole—M. Kirschhoft; Stuari— 8. Goidstein; Murray Hili—L. D. Jacks; Albe- marle—J. G. Oxnard; Albert—>Miss Oxnard; 8t Denis—Mr, and Mr-. R. Hector. R. L. Top. litz eft the St. Cloud and sailed on the St Paul for Bouihampton. CALIFORNIAN > IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—At the Great North- ern—J. J. Curey, Sun Francisco. At the Wel- lington—W. . Bowers, San Francisco. At the Auditorium—J. B. staniord and wlfe, San Francisco; Wi.liam Stauton. Pasadena. CALIFORNIANS .N AoHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-L. D. Radgesky and wife, M. E. Pation and Mrs. M. J. Healy of S8an Franci:c) are at the Riggs House. Thomas Viucent of €an Francisco is at tue National. Mr. and Mrs. Boomer of San Francisco are making & visit in Washington and are at the Coenran A S1UDY IN =YMBOLS. From blue to 1 d, +rom red 10 goi From goid to gray: So turns the sky, N0 fxd s the 1ight, 20 ends the day. From easa to strife, From str fe 1o pain, From pain to peace; 8o life shall wax, 80 grief decline =0 toll shall cense, CLARENCE URM' in Munsey’s. JOrN RUSKIN. Very littie is heard nowadays of John Rus- kin, but the venerable sage is still living in retircment at Brantwood. He recelves no vis- itors excepting a few old frienar, and these come but rareiv. His hair and loug beard ars white, but his features scarcely show his greot age. —_———— £T0P that cough with Low’s horehound cough syrup, price 10c, 417 S8anscme st.* MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE. Editor Call: The title of your article in Monday’s issue, “Millions for Defense,” sug- *| gests that tnere are more lines of defanse than one. The defence of our industries well de- serves an exvenditure of som: inillions just now. The chief local industry of Californis is | the fruit industry. The aefense it requires at present is some easier and cheaper means of iransport to Eu ropean markets. California’s dispiny at the Hamburg exposition has weil advertised our £00ds. and were cheap sea transport availabie | an almost indefinite expansign of this in- | dusiry wou:d be vossible. The construction of the Nicirazua cacal would insure this cheap Sea transport. It would also largely increase the cffective- ness of our “White Navy.” It would be, in Admiral Beardslee’s words, “the making of California.” Let the citizens of the Pacific Coastrise as one man aud demand thatany | millions srent for defense be spent in ihis double defense. EDWARD BERWICK. “Unser Karl,” Bret Harte’s lat- est story, will appear in *“The Sunday Call.” FLASHE> Or FUN. I you weu'd know the vast unknown, It necd but to your (0t bof.l To meet and talk an hour with I'he man who thinks he knows it all. Richmond Dispatch. What can heal a wounded heart? 1s there sught to smooth that smart? Yes—though sadly we may rue it— Nice uew clothes wiil sometimes do it. —Chicago Record. The beautiful young lady looked earnestly atthe middle-aged man to whom she haa just been introduced and said: “How strange! Your name has a familiar sound, and when I gaze Into your face it seems as it I must have seen it somewhere, in the dim past.” : “Yes,” he replied, for neasly a year, once.” “Farewelll” he sobbed. The beautiful Mirands, the light of his lite, was, alas, auother's, However, the sume thing was true of the umbrella he managed to grab in the hall as he leit her forever.—Detroit Journal. was your stepfather Chicago News. The Sberiff—The boys were all in favor of makin’ that reward for you ‘“‘dead or alive,” but I talked 'em out of it. Pizen Bill—Jake, that was mighty kind of you. The Sheriff—Oh, I dono as they was any pert.ckler kindness about it. You see, Bill, if you was brought in derd I wouldn't git to churge the county nothin’ fer your board and wo 1ldn tgitno fee ter hangiu’ you—Iudian- volis Journal. ANSWERS .0 LO~hE>FONDENTS C1vIL SERVICE — Oregonian, Portland, Or. To enter the posial eervice of the Uuited States under the provisions of the eclivil ser- vice rules the appliciut should address the postoflice in his disirict if there is a civil ser- vice commission there; i1 there is not he should send his application to the neares: 08 offics wiiere there is such & commission. Fhe applicant will be furnished with the neecessary bianks. CONCRETE—P. C., Oakland, Cal. The follow- ing are the component partsof concrete used on Goverument work: One barrel cement (Rosendele), thres of sand and five of broken s one or brick or gravel or oysicr-shells or a mixture of two or more of them. Another formula is: One barrel of cement, one-third barrei of commou lime and from three and a hali to four barrels ol sand, lvosely mensurad, Still another is for what ia known as Portland concrete: One barrel cement (Portland), one | barr.l of powdered slacked lime, ten burrels of sand and sixteex barrels of broken stone. CIRCULATION—J. M. M., Pescadero, Cal. Ag to the meiuod of estimating the amonunt of goid in citculation the Director of the United Siates Mint in one of hisreports on finance says: As hss been stated In previous reports of the Dirccior of the Mint in deteriaiiing the stok. of gold coin_in the treasury and e 10 A ban<s un June 80, 1872, and $20.000.000 estimuted at that date as the amount of circu ation 1n he States of the Pucific Cont-a to.a. of $185,000,000 was taken us toe Dasis Sice tuat iime the official e timaies have been corapiled by udding to the Initial stocs the coinage of the miuts (et ciud- 1ng res oinagr) and the gain (o 168+) by fmuo ¢ - ¢ export as regisiered at the Cos.om-houses. An FIUAl WVCrage aliowsoce, however, of $3,000,. 0.0 has been egumared s the amount of gold coins Lsed iu the industrial arts. The method of estimating the outstandin silver is described by the Director of the Mlu‘l as follows: | Schikaneder, who loved to take a'l the merit The colnage of silver dollars slace March 1, 1878, uud the subsidiary siiver colnage sinc - 1878, ac which tme ihe " estimatca wmount was £5.000,000. tozetner with :he annual gain or loss b. conuge or import—afier an annuai deduction of $200,000 for use in the indusirial arts—is taken 81 tbe estimated 5:0Ck of sliver coin In the United | States, MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Here opinions of the critics scoff at, but itwould b more reason- able toscoff at the interpreters. Patlsays: “How many times in my carcer my thoughts bave turned in gratitude toward the author Are l | | of the opera in which I achieved my fl:szi I a few of the greatest artists’ “Lueia,’”” which our callow success! 1Itfs with all my heart I write my name with those who to-day fete the immortal author of ‘Lucia’” Mme. S2mbrich; who is now creating the greatest excitement in New York, says: “Having obtained, in London, at the debut of my career in ‘Lucia’ s success which decided my fortune as an artist I ac- quired a blind faith in theroie. M talisman ix ‘Lucia,” and wherever I am making my de- but Iappear as the mad bride of Lammer- moor.” Sigror Ravelli, writing of the Doni- expressing their recognition of his servlcest. and they are going to present him witha cn'!d re;resenting the menument of the opers m“ a crown of laurels, each leaf of which w! bear the title of one of tne operas that M. Jabn has produced at Vienna for the first time. Not & very agreeable souvenir, for the greater part of the works have disappeared long whils ago. Very few of them have had the vitality of “Manon” and “Werther,” two of the wors which M. Jaha can pride himsell on having enriched the repertory of the opera with, Among the artists who have been heard latele at the Queen’s Hall, London, Mll:. Weingaertner, the young Parisian pianist, bas signa.ly distinguisned herself. Her suc- cess was so complete In the carnival of GAETANO DONIZETTIL. zetti centennial celebration, adds: “How easy itis to retaln in your heart those giorious melodies which the Wagnerian system 1s striviog to dethrone. So powerful in this world are money, force and human stupid- ity!” From S gnor Campanari: “In regard to writing something about Donizetti what can I say? Idon’t know. I only say that slmost any one can sing we'l the modern music, but Donizett’s music very few. Itreguires someshing that in our days no longer exists. Once upon & time people talied of but one method of singin g and they sang Donizettl. Now they chatter about all sorts of different methods and they can’t sing Doniz3ttl’’ The late cel:brations at Bergamo honor of Doniz:tti have drawn the greatest musicians from all parts of the worid together to pay homage to the memory of the great composer. The festivities lasted several daysand music reigned supreme. Moiba sang the mad scene from “Lucia” as only she’ can sing it, and Joachim plared a Brahms rhapsody, and for encore the famous Bach “‘Chaconne.” At the Vienna Opera-house M. Mahler has iust presented to the pubic “The Magic | Flute” in the otd version, as it was given in the Theater Anderwein, directed by Mozart himself and mounted by the director-librettist of the suceass to himself. Itisthus they bave reinstated the entire score without any cut- ungand without the usual changes. They have even renewed the ancient scenes. Schikaneder had the thrie genii to arrive in a kind of flying machine, an invention which he claimed, although in the operas of the elghteanth and even the seventeenth centuries similar machines had ben seen even more compiicated, aud M. Mahler had this machine 1econstrucied. As regards the distribution, the new director did not hesitate toconfide even the smallest paria to the first artists of his theater; thus the charming tenor, Schroiter, had to play the role of the comic blackman; M. Ritter, the first barytone, the man bird, Papageno, and the falcon, Mile. Sedlmair, one of the ladies of the Queen of | the Nignt. The success of Mozart was sur- prising. Itlooksas if he soon would become the tavorite of the public and as if he might become & serfous oppoaent to Richard Wag- ner. If the revival of “Fidelio,” which M. Mahler is actively preparing, obtains a suc- cess equal to thatof “The Magic Flute the Viennese Wagnerians will havs real cause to disturb themselves. Nothing more will be wanting than the succass of “DerF ischuiz,” which M. Mahier has also put on the list of his productions. The Musical Standard says that in the south walk of the old cloister of Westminster Ab- bey in London there isan old simple grave- stone lying flat on the ground, bearing this inscription: “Muzio Clementi, called the father of the pianoforte; his fame asa mu- sician and comphser, ack nowledged through- out Europe, procured him the honor of a pub- lic interment in this cloister. Born at Rome, 1752. Died at Evesham, 1832.” The wr.ter goes on to say that this tomb, which shouid be heid dear and sacred by every musician, is s0 worn and dilapidated that the inscription is difficult to aecipher. Thus runs.the world awey. The best man living, let him die to- day, to-morrow msy be forgoiten and his tombstone soon be cracked and covered with maoss. A very regrettable event is announced from Vienna. It appears that M. Vau Dyck is going i0 quit the Imperial Opera on account of his frequent inaispositions, which bave had the effectof rousing tho anger of the court and the city against him. Tae crisis, long latent, culminaied a weck ago when Van Dyck shou have sung “Manon” with Mile, Renara, Having renewed his asser ion that it would be impo-sib.e for nim to sing, an altercation with M. Mahler ensued which endid vy Van Dyck tendering his resignation. Nothing official nas been communicatad, b it the direc. tor of the opera has made tne extraordinary announcement that the promised “Manon® | couid uot be given, fuor privats reasons. Such aunouncement has never yet been made by the Imperial Opera and all’ Vieasa Is talking aboutit. | | | | Signor de Vivo, the veteran opera and con- cert manager, 15 busy fl1ishisg off ais book of operatic reminiscences, which will Probabiy be publish-d some time next winter. The volume ought t0 be highly interesting, for there is no man living who has had a wider exgerience of overa aud opera singers than Signor de Vivo, and he knows the wheat from the chaff, oo, which is more than can be as. serted of many of our present musical man. agers. Signor de Vivo's memory of singers runs back flity years and his book is likely 1o be eagerly read by every oae atall interested in the operatic history of America, Among recent musical publications {n France 1s & book entitled “Le Voyage Artis. tique & Bayrouin,” by Albert Lasignac, pro. fessor of harmony at the Paris Coaservatory. Iiisat once a guide to Bayrenth.and to Wag- ner’s music. Sixicen of its 584 pages are de- voted 0 a description of the trip to Bay reuth via Nuremberg. Then Bayreuth and its sur- roundings are described, and the story of Wag- ner’s life is told briefly. The remainder of the book analyz-s the poems and the music of the operas with French acumen and clearness and with an ins.ght into the structure of the scores such as only a professor of harmo: would be likely to have. Bat M Lavignac errs when he says that “‘The Fuirles” has never been produced on any stage. It has ofien been sung at Munich and elsewhere, The artis's of the Vienua Opo ra have pre. sented 10 their retiring director an address Schumann that she was at once engaged for a concert at the Crystal Paiace, where the pub- lic again showed its warm appreciation. Another young girl who triumphed at the same promenade concert is a violoncellist named Elsa Ruegger. Frequently recalled after the execution of “Kol Nidrei” of Max Bruch she played, as an encore, the “El- fentanz” ot Popper, in which she showed an astounding virtuosity for a child of 14 years. The Parson was the adjudicator of the recent Welsh Eistedfodd at Granville, N. Y., the one hundred and fortieth time he has acted in this capacity at the musical festivals of Ameri- can-Welsh competitions. That the Parson administered exsct justice can be learned from this complimentin the Sentinel: Pro- fessor Parson Price, 2s musical adjudicator, is believed to have treated all competilors fai He is numbered among the most noted and best musicians, and is known to all the Welsh citizens from the Atlantic to the Pacific const aad is a very popular adjudi- cator. Saint-Saens has addressed to & French morning paper ths following note: *“My dear friend, toe history of the lyric ‘Theodora’ is, as far as I am concerned, j1st as true as thet of my half blindaess which has run through the press in these Istter days. Salnt-Saens.” Thus talls to tne ground the legend that M. Saint. Saens was going to andertake the composition of & lyric Theodorn after the beauttful drama of Victorien Sardou, a transformation that would be operated with the assistance of M. Phillippe G M. Meussenet's ngme is also mentioned in advance for the same Theodora. When the drama was given at the Porte St.- Martin, M. Massenet was supposed to have ready a small score on this suvj:et, but he has already the three scores of “‘Sapho,’’ “Grise- 1idis” and “Cinderelia” competely finished, without counting the new version of “Thais,” and it seems thathe now thinks of taking a much needed rest. The Menestrel says: “These Itallans are truly charming, and each day they make new and'intelligent efforts to d-aw near to France, which the political measures of M. Crispi have quite alienated. Itisthusa young composer, M. Alfred Domizetti, has just executed with great succ:ss, at the Social Theater at Varese, a symphonic composition which bears the amiable title, ‘The Battle of Sedan.’ It would be interesting to hear wLat our neigh- bors would say on the day that M. Colomne should offer to his public a musical poem called The Bittle of Custozza,’ or again, ‘The Rout of the Italians in Abyssinia.’”’ “The Boheme’ of Leoncavallo has met with a grand suceess at the Lyric Theater of Milan. During the evening there were counted threo encores and thirty-six recails. The distribu. tion included Isnardon and the tenor Delmas, Miles. Storcuio and Santareili. The represen tations wi.l aiternate with those of “Werther" and “The Cid.” CALIFORNIA glace iruits, Sdeatdal e GUILLET'S rotato, mushroom, filbert caky 905 Larkin street. . Townsend's.” . 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