The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 24, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1898. FEBRUARY 24, 180% Proprietor. THURSDAY..... i JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Address All Communications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. AR PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts, S. F. Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS.... ..2I7 to 221 Stevenson sireet Telephone Main 1874 ANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is r“feg;‘:b;zgnrrxars in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year, per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE .. .908 Broadway Eastern Reprecentative, DAVID ALLEN, NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFCE ................ Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. ERANCH OFFICES--52T7 Montgomery street, eorner Clay open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open untll | €30 o'clock. 62! MoAlllster street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets: open untll So'clock. 2518 Misslon street: open until 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st.; open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o’clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—The Bostonians. California—Blacs Patti Troubadonrs. Columbz We Forgive Her." Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Vaudeville. and Klondike Exposition. Ingleside to-day. , February 2, Turkish Rugs, February 2, Turkish By Frank W. B Rugs, at 116 Sutter stre ry 24, Real Estate, at —This dav, Febru 2 0'clock. adison ke—Thursday March 3, Real Estate, at 626 reet. at 12 0'c THE MONUMENTAL BOODLER. g work. Possil the basis the Boodler's statement is correct, but to our minds tes- N its own behalf and on behalf of its yellow partner in New York the Mission Street s that in proposing to erect at the monument to the dead sailors of - ot timony as to the nature of its monument movement | hoped it will have an equal effect among that class | have been excited among the people. is irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial. What the public has a burning desire to know is this: Who is g to handle the monument funds after they are ontributed? In the cases of the dead firemen, for the benefit of whose widows and children the people of this city Bood! aries has been e bene 1led to bring ymp! for a distribution which st g ago. The B advised by an attor: oodler explair ney to keep the money. is true—though in the absence | ble person we are in- why should the Boodler money wa Boodler in trust ed for the immediate ber held by the to die of starvation ere it discovers a d of disposing of the funds. s case before them we do not think the peo- 1 s part of the country at least will feel in- i to give the Boodler much mment for tt If the Boodler 2 10ney toward a Maine. <ed for contributions to enable it s of e martyred sailc the to employ somebody to teach it how to be honest | natter would bear a different phase. | and truthful the As a matter of fact, with which to build a2 monument. If it follows its usual practice after getting the money it will keep it and let the monument whistle. The marvelous feature of the cases of the dead firemen, the monument and the Boodler's explana- tions of its tendency to pocket all the coin that falls | into its hands is the circumstance that the miserable sheet still has an idea that its pretenses of decency are credited by the public. The fact that its pro- prietor and ch editor are still outside of-a jail seems to have convinced the Boodler that it may con- on the people. tinue with impunity to impose arly four years ago the Boodler was convicted of mailing the Southern Pacific Company out of 000. The contract for editorial silence on a basis of $1000 a month has been published and is still in the possession of C. P. Huntington: Since 1894 the sheet has been eonvicted of all sorts of crimes. We have caught it in the act of stealing a paper from we have convicted it of lying and “faking,” garbling news and falsifying telegrams; we have proved that it inaugurates charitable enterprises for the purpose of robbing the public, and, finally, we have shown that when contributions are en- trusted to it for the benefit of widows and orphans it refuses to relinquish the funds. How a criminal, possessed of even the opaque morals of the Boodler, can still imagine that its readers believe it honest passes our comprehension Perhaps somebody will be found foolish enough to entrust the Boodler with money for a monument. But we doubt it. ——————, Spain is said to be trying to mthc countries of South and Central America against the United States, but there is nothing in the report to be scared about. In the first place it is probably not true, in the second place even if true it is not a matter of im- portance, and in the third place if Spain fools around those warm-blooded people too much some 2x4 republic will abandon its internal fights long enough to give her a worse licking than she is getting in Cuba. our press rooms; al —_— As the New York Journal offers wealthy people 10 per cent to collect contributions for a monument to the heroes of the Maine, it is pertinent to ask what percentage the Journal itself intends to keep. Records of disasters in Alaskan waters prove that the sound steamers in that trade are those that start from San Francisco. Those from Puget ports will have to take another name. e The fight for San Pedro harbor seems to have been won at last, and it is now appropriate to ask Mr. Huntington if he knows any game he can play better. There may be no war, but the prevailing opinion is that Spain needs a licking, and Uncle Sam would feel better if he licked somebody. * however, it is begging for money | WEASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY ORATIONS. HE addresses delivered in celebration of the Tannivcrsary of the birthday of Washington af‘! forded a fairly adequate expression to the pa- triotic sentiments and abiding aspirations of the | American people. No speech of the day is likely to live among the immortal orations which humanity treasures from generation to generation, but many | sufficed the needs of the day by serving to recall to| the popular mind the great problems of the rePubhc | and instilling lessons of patriotism exemplified in the | | character and career of him who will be ever remem- | | bered as first in war, first in peace and first in theg | hearts of his countrymen. | The day was worthily celebrated throughout the Union, and notably sp in this city and State. It was | | marked by the appearance among the orators of the | day of the President and anex-President of the repub- } lic. It was inevitable that to their speeches the greater amount of public attention would be given, and | both of them proved equal to the occasion. They | spoke to the nation more than to the audiences before them, and their addresses merit serious consideration from all classes of citizens. > | The address of the President, as befitted the occa- | sion of a university celebration, was of an academic | character and dealt largely with the importance of | education among a people whose government de- fpemls upon the popular vote. Nevertheless it con- | tained some striking passages pertinent to the par- | ticular issues of the time and emphasized by well | chosen quotations from the writings of Washington | the -supreme value to the nation of cherishing the | public credit, observing our just obligations to all | foreign countries and maintaining untarnished the } American name. He is but an unintelligent citizen who cannot per- | ceive the application of these words to the problems | | of the day. “Cherish the public credit” is a good to the national defense. But it must not be forgotten that these same business men will be the most violent critics of the Government if trouble come and our coasts are found to be defenseless. There is no desire to urge the Government into useless war, to nag the administration into a martial response to popular excitement, but there is sense and safety in the method by which popular feeling may be used to compel the country to make defensive preparations, so that if war come, now or ever, our vital points will be ready for it. It is not wise to be too optimistic,to betoo surethat we are safe from war, that nobody wants to attack us, that we are too big a contract for anybody, on land and sea. In less than a century and a quarter we have had three foreign wars, and a fourth was in declaration and narrowly averted, and one civil war of stupendous proportions. When we reflect that this is an actual warlike conflict for each thirty years since the Declaration of Independence, no man can say that another may not be impending. Therefore it is well to discriminate between that journalism whose object is cautionary and that which is merely idle and sensational. We may be far from war with Spain, but the more complete our preparation, though the influence which induces it may be public excitement, the less likely are we to have war with anybody. O accepted the wrong done them by the schemers of the water company with a tame submission. The job put through by a majority of the Council without debate, without warning, in a single night, with the swiftness of assured insolence, will not be soswi(tlyenfor'ced. It will be opposed by an indignan{ people with every resource at their com- OAKLAND @ROUSED. AKLAND is aroused. Her people have not | campaign cry against the foolish advocates of paying {the public debt in so-cent dollars, and the advocates | | of sound money ask no better plank for their platform | | than the words, “From the day our flag was unfurled 1 | to the present hour no stain of a just obligation vio- | lated has yet tarnished the American name. This | must and will be in the future as it has been in the past.” | The speech of ex-President Harrison was of a | very different character from that of the President. | | It was addressed not to academic culture, but to the | | consciences of men engaged in the pursuit of wealth | | and power. It was a solemn warning against the | | evils which will be sure to overtake wealth if it seeks | The impression it will create is certain to be lasting | | and profound among the people, and it is to be | | of people to whom it was expressly addressed. [ There can be no question that the subject upon which the ex-President spoke is one of the most im- | | perative of the time. Other issues come and go, but | issue of the obligations of wealth to the public | | remains with us and increases with the years. It was | this on a day devoted to the memory of Washington, for | and labor and sacrifice, but rather to do more.” ‘ RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS. 1 C()MMENTING upon the difficulty in obtaining! from Congress adequate appropriations for the | improvement of the greater harbors and rivers | of the country while millions of dollars afe wasted | upon works of comparatively little value, the New | | York Times sa; “Senator Edmunds once exposed | | the rottenness of the procedure with river and har- | | bor appropriation bills by procuring the insertion of | an item for the deepening and widening of the chan- nel of the Ompompanoosuc River in Vermont. After ‘ the Senate had solemnly approved the proposed ex- ‘ penditure he explained that the stréeam was navigable only for ‘shiners.”” The story is interesting, but the Times has not | drawn from it the true moral. That Senator Ed- | munds succeeded in getting the Senate to vote an }appropria(ion for a stream of insignificant propor- tions is not an evidence of rottenness in the proced- | | ure of Congress in making such appropriations, but | of the influence of a strong and experienced man over the body in which he serves. The Senators | voted for the improvement of (Jmpompanoosuc | River out of deference to Senator Edmunds. They i would not have been so compliant to the request or | | even the arguments of a new comer in Congress. | The lesson to be drawn from the incident is that | every State should send strong men to represent it | in Congress and maintain them there for a long term of years. The rivers and harbors of California would not have been left all these years unimproved if the people of this State had been as wise as those of some of the older States in that respect. The people of California have been too changeable in politics. Very rarely have they kept a delegate in | Congress long enough to acquire prestige and power | in either house. To them may be applied the warn- | ing spoken of Reuben, “Unstable as water, thou | shalt not excell.” That the great waterways of the { State remain almost unnavigable is mainly dae to the fact that the voters of the State prefer to change a | Congressman every two years. That is the moral for | | us to draw from the story of the appropriation for | the Ompompanoosuc, a Vermont stream navigable i only for shiners. ——— |THE NEED OF DEFENSIVE PREP- t ARATIONS. | HE Spanish complications and their incidents, Tthe actual and not manufactured rumors con- | cerning them and all that body of fact and | opinion which make up the news of each day, serve a | purpose that is not sinister and differs widely from | that method which is the reproach of sensational journalism. The immediate result of aroused public feeling has been to call attention to our defensive needs. The financial and commercial vitals of the country are in its seacoast cities. Of course no one fears that a hostile force can penetrate the country and make anywhere in the interior a costly lodgment or a devastating march. This sense of security in the | interior is known to beget indifference to coast de- fense on the part of members of Congress who rep- resent interior constituencies. They seldom see the coast cities, and. most of their constituents never see them at all. These conditions have caused a state of indifference as to the measure of *protection fur- nished at vital spots. Even insufficient appropria- tions are grudgingly given, and thus from a military point of view the nation is exposed to attack and loss that would require years to repair, in addition to the humiliation and smart of it. Something positive is required 17 call general attention to these things, and that something has been furnished in the widespread excitement that has followed the disaster to the Maine. It is quite the rule in these cases for business men at exposed' points to be called on to deprecate the publications which sting the people into attention widows and children of the dead firemen. The | Boodier, were it susceptible to any feeling of shame, t to perceive that these widows and orphans are | | | 1 B mand, and it will go hard with honesty under our laws if the grab of greed prove successful and the perpetrators escape unwhipped of justice. The raise in water rates by the resolution so sud- denly. sprung, while bad in itself, was made worse by the methods used in accomplishing it and the cir- cumstances under which it was carried out. Never have the plunderers of municipalities acted with a more shameless impudence than in this case. They made no pretense of giving consideration or study to the issue before them. The resolution was sprung abtuptly upon the Council, was referred to a com- mittee, which reported back in about five minutes, and was straightway adopted without an attempt to reply to the indignant protests of the minority. It is by such offenses as these that popular indig- ration has been roused against corporations in this country. It is by these practices thatclass hatreds As Benjamin Harrison said in his address on' “The Obligations of Wealth,” on. Washington’s birthday, “If there is not virility enough left in our laws and in the adminis- tration of justice in our courts to bring to punish- ment those who defraud the State and their neigh- bors; if crimes of fraud may stalk unrebuked and r still holds on to the coin. | also fitting that the address should have been made | unpunistied in our streets; how lopg will it be until crimes of violence make insecure the fortunes that have been made | as the orator said, “His life teaches no lesson more | have refused to contribute ratably to the cost of that it has been | strongly than that the citizen is under obligation to | maintaining social order?” Per- | setve the state, never to shirk his full share of burden | The ex-President was speaking of the practice of rich men of evading taxes, but the words apply with equal force to corporations that seek to enrich them- selves unjustly at the public expense. The question he asked, let it be borne in mind, did not come from a demagogue or professional agitator. It came from one of the most eminent statesmen of the republic, an honored leader of the great conservative party in these times of agitation and social ‘disturbance. It is a question that cannot be put aside with indifference or treated with disdain. By cvery aspect of the thing itself and by every evidence of the attending circumstances, it appears that a gross fraud and wrong has been committed against the welfare and the property of the people of Oakland. If the fraud proves successful and goes unpunished a new means will be furnished to dema- gogues to raise a popular antagonism to corporate ownership of public utilities, and the time may come when the corporations may cry in vain for the fair treatment they now refuse the public. Oakland has a grave issue before her people and it is to be hoped the indignation now aroused will not fail to find means to settle it with justice for her citizens and punishment for the wrongdoers THE LOS ANGELES WATER FIGHT. Y refusing to comply with the demand of the City Council for an inventory of the amount of property it received from the city at the commencement of the lease of water privileges thirty years ago the Los Angeles Water Company has clearly disclosed an intention to make a fight for con- tinued possession of the property by tactics of delay, as The Call predicted when first it directed public attention to the subject and pointed out the wrong that threatened Los Angelés and her people. The company not only refused to file the inventory demanded, but in its contemptuous disregard for pub- lic rights let the subject pass without even assigning a reason for declining to comply with ‘the demand of the Council. Having possession of the water prop- erty of the city the company evidently intends to hold it after the expiration of the lease, and to that end will resort to every means corporate greed can de- vise and cunning execute. No injustice was done to any right or interest of the company by the demand of the Council. Two weeks were allowed the corporation to make up the inventory, and that was ample for the work. It could have been accomplished by willing parties in half the time. The refusal to comply can therefore mean nothing else than a determination to delay and post- pone every step in the way of a recovery of the prop- erty by the city until the lease has expired and then take legal proceedings to hold it still further on the ground that the city has not complied with the re- quirement of the lease and paid for the improvements of the property. This is one of the boldest and most flagrant of- fenses against public rights ever committed in Cali- fornia. It would be a disgrace to the manhood of the people of Los Angeles if it were permitted to succeed. There is in this issue no question of what are fair water rates. It is a plain case of trying to retain for a private corporation property that belongs to the city. If consummated it would be a steal even if carried out under legal forms, and nothing could be pieaded in justification of the grab, for the city has shown a desire to perform all of its obligations under the lease, and has been prevented up to this time only by the machinations and trickery of the com- pany itself. There seems to be but one way to defeat the con- spiracy. The officials of the city should make an offer to arrange for the arbitration the lease calls for. If that is persistently refused the city, when the lease expires, should take possession of its propetty and leave the water company in the plight of a too smart - schemer who has been beaten at his own game. MUSIC AND In t‘he multitude of councilors there is wisdom, and Albert Carre, the new direc- tor of the Paris Opera Comique, is step- ping into his new shoes surrounded by chunks of wisdom from all the leading musiclans of France. When he received his appointment one of the leading French newspapers started a symposium for musiclans to say what Carre ought to do, and what he ought to leave undone. The musicians responded with alacrity, Wwith joy, in fact, for they all seemed to feel that they could run France's light opera theater better than the new diréc- tor. Some of their opinions clashed, some of them were more theoretical than prac- tical and some of them were very val- uable, indeed. In any case, Carre s not wanting for councilors. It is a serlous and awful responsibility to be director of the Paris Opera Comique. The post is in the gift of the Goyernment, and the man Wwho: holds it is supposed to hold aloft the lamp of art—with a capital A. If he passes over works by French composers MUSICIANS. ~—— an amateur might purchase and be found willing to take it away; and the piano was, accordingly, given into the hands of an instrument-maker. On taking it to pieces two rolls of paper were found be- hind the keyboard. One roll contained the title deeds to valuable property and the other was full of banknotes, making a total of 108,000 francs. The heirs think now that Father .iariscalo’s pfano has a very fine tone. The first wail of lamentation against the Franco-Russian alllance comes from Le Menstrel, a rrench paper devoted to the interest of music. Speaking edl- torfally, it says: [he society of Russian authors has just set a salutary example. Several managers of provincial theaters imagined that they could escape the pay- ments of royalties by changing the titles of the pieces performed. The society has entered suit against these unscrupulous arectors, and it is to be hoped that they will not escape t..e punishment they de- serve. A judgment against them, how- . \ ! ALBERT CARRE, Directo r of the Opera Comigque. and produces foreign successes he is| called “unfaithful to French art.” If, on | the other hand, he turns his back on for- | elgn successes and sticks to home talent he fs called “Chauvinistic,” and is ac- cused of having a soul “dead to real art.” He can, it he chooses, produce lyric trag- edies, such as “Garmen” and poor Gad- ard’s “Vivandiere,” and thenceforth they are given to the world ag"operacomique,” though they are about as comic as “Ham- Jet” or “Macbeth.” He can give worthy | singers a chance, and make them famous in a night, or he can be so conservative | that young talent has no chance to shine | in French lyric comedy. Dozens of incip- fent American prima donnas will sing to Albert Carre in the coming by and by, | and on that account, if on no other, his | new policy in managing the Opera Co- | mique has an especlal interest to Ameri- cans. A great Russian nobleman has just made himself a present of an amusement | which has cost the trifle of $6000, but | which fills all his evenings with delight. | This nobleman adores *“Rigoletto” more than all the other operas in the universe, and as he finds that Verdi’s popular work is not often enough performed in the Rus- | sian capital, he has had a mechanical | theater made to give the opera. The art- | ists are big marionettes dressed with | exquisite taste, and their movements | are so regulated by machinery that | they reproduce ‘‘Rigoletto” with admir- | able stage play. It can be easily guessed | that the music is furnished by a phono- graph. Thanks to arrangements with the managers of several well-known opera troupes the Russian nobleman has pro- cured several exact reproductions of the | opera as it has been given by celebrated | artists in America and Europe. Even the | orchestra. is reproduced, and the conduc- | tor with his baton. In this way "ngo»; letto” can be given with several different | casts and with a choice of conductors. | The happy owner presses one of the but- | tons, the performance commences, beau- | tiful scenery is displayed and the artists | g0 through their different parts to the ac- | companiment of the phonograph. After | each act the curtain falls and the music | ceases till another button is pressed. This |° sort of lyric theater for the home might | compete seriously with regular opera | houses were it not for its costliness. Amateurs, however, will think twice be- fore purchasing a lyric repertoire at the | cost of $6000 an opera. They wili| find it a good deal cheaper to buy a box | for the season. M. A. Bungert, who made a great stir | in Germany not long ago with his opera, ‘‘The. Return of Ulysses,” has just nro- duced the second opera of his Homeric | cycle at the Theater Royal, Dresden. | This work is entitled “Circe,” and its | success has been overwhelming, though | the German critics say that the enthu- | siasm of the public is largely owing to | the plcturesqueness of the subject and the superb mounting and execution. Never In Germany have such costumes and such staging been seen jn a theater, | for Bayreuth is entirely eclipsed. The orchestra, under the direction of Von | Schuch, has done marvels, and the exe- cution has been superb, Herr Scheid- mantel especially being above all praise, The Dresden Opera-house is hastening to produce the four other operas which | complete Bungert's ‘‘Homeric World"” series, for the Bungert Theater at Goder- berg on the Rhine is to be completed in 1900, and then the entire cycle will be given, in imitation of the Festspiele at Bayreuth. After this the ‘‘Homeric ‘World” will be exclusively reserved for the Bungert Theater, in hopes that it will become the resort of pilgrims of the Bayreuth variety. It remains to be seen whether international enthusiasts will worship at the shrine of the Homer- Bungert heroes, as they already pros- trate themselves before the gods of the ‘Wagner-Wotan mythology. | | | At San Giuseppe Jato, near Messina, a worthy priest, named Gaetano Maris- calo, died not long ago, and left, among other possessions, an old piano in the last stages of dilapidation. In vain did his heirs seek to get rid of it by offering the damaged instrument to all comers for the miserable sum of 15 francs ($3). The plano was so0 old and emitted such a croaking sound that no one desired to acquire it. At last it struck the heirs that if a few franca were spent on putting it in tune ever, would not help our French authors and composers, who are outrageously pirated in Russia, without any compensa- tion whatever. The Franco-Russian al- liance has neither profited our commerce, our manufactures nor our compatriots who work In the domain of art. George Enesco, a 16-year-old composer and violinist, is the musfeal sensation of the hour in Pafis. He was born in 1882, in a_ little village in' Roumania, and when almost an infant showed a remarkable aptitude for music. In his eleventh year he won first prizes both for violin play- ing and for harmony at the Paris Con- ry. “He is not 12, said Masse- ‘and he orchestrates like an expe- rienced musician”; and Saint-Saens added: “He produces music as an apple tree produces flowers.” At a recent con- cert given at the Chatelet, Paris, where one of his compositions was played, the whole orchestra rose to its feet at the conclusion of the performance and gave an ovation to the young composer. Al- though only 16, Enesco Is sald to look 20. The Ttalian Senate is examining the question of whether the rights of “The Barber of Seville” expire on the 16th inst. or not. The decision is of vital import- ance to the Rossini Musical Lyceum at Pesaro, which inherits the royalties of its founder, under Rossini’s will, and which consequently has every inter- est in the rights being prolonged. Mas- cagni,” director of the Rossini Lyceum, telegraphed the other day to Verdi for his opinion of the matter. The aged master gave by telegram the following answer: “In applylng to me you over- rate the importance of my opinion. I do not hesitate to declare, however, that I sincerely hope the Senate, in its deep wisdom, will see fit to make a decision favorable to art and to the institu- tions that serve it.” The literary Queen of Roumania, bet- ter known under her nom de plume of Carmen Sylva, recently attended a per- formance of “Carmen” given by the pu- pils of a school under her patronage. No doubt it was because of the Queen's psendonym that Bizet's masterpiece was selected, for the subject has nothing in- fantine about it. At the moment the Queen entered her box the children were preparing to sing the first chorus, but the aspect of royalty so disconcerted | them that instead of a burst of harmony there was a dead silence. The Queen, rising to the occasion, bent smiling out of her box, marking the time with her fan as correctly as the best conductor. The children faithfully followed Carmen Syl- va's impromptu baton and the chorus ended amid the frantic applause of those present. Marie Van Zandt, the famous American prima donna, ran a narrow risk of being in a panic the other night. Very soon after the regular performance at the So- lodownikow Theater, Moscow, where she was playing a brilllant engagement, fire broke out in the auditorium, and in spite of herolc efforts on the part of the fire de- partment that part of the opera-house was soon reduced to ashes. The stage was preserved by means of the iron cur- tain which was lowered in. accordance with custom when the performance ended. Luckily all the spectators had gone home, but two firemen were killed and eight others gravely wounded. ‘While Ysaye is cavorting about Europe and America, making fame and money by his violin-playing, the Ysaye concerts (al- ways without Ysaye) continue to draw big houses in Brussels. No wonder that people flock to them, for Felix Mottl is the conductor and Mme. Mottl charms the public with her singing. Py The announcement is made in London that Adelina Patti has expressed her in- tention of making a grand farewell tour of the United States, as well as of Eng- land, in which latter country she appeared for the first time exactly thirty-seven years ago. The question is whether Patti will really retire after these touching adieux. La grippe is finding a number of vic- tims in Italy, as well as in France. At the Fondo Theater, Naples, the other day three prima donnas, attacked simultane- ously, were obliged to suspend their serv- ices while the conductor, Edoardo Vitale, smitten in his turn, was obliged to lay down his baton. Emma Calve is so ill that her physician has ordered her complete rest. She has consequently been compelled to suspend her brilliant series of representations of Massenet’s “‘Sapho” at the Opera Comique and that house is now pfaying ‘“Le Pre aux Clercs” and other revivals. Mme Patti has ordered a commemora- tive plaque, in memory of her husband Nicolini, to be placed in the parish church nearest her castle of Craig-y-Nos, in Wales. : COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS T. Foster, U. §. N., Is staying at the Occidental. F. G. Baker of San Jose is registered at the California. George H. Wigmore of Los Angeles is at the California. John Turner is registered at the Occi- dental from Boston. Professor David Starr Jordan is regis- tered at the Occidental. J. M. Moody, a prominent politiclan of Truckee, is at the Lick. Judge L. D. Chamberlain of Auburn is at the Grand with his wife. . Charlton H. Elrod, a racing man of Louisville, Ky., is at the Palace. H. F. Whitney and wife of Newcastle are registered at the Occidental. Sherift S. D. Bellew of San Luis Obispo arrived at the Grand last evening. George A. Smith, a big orchardist of Courtland, has taken rooms at the Grand. ‘W. G. Stanley, one of the leading mer- chants of Yreka, Is a guest at the Grand. Dr. W. D. Rodgers, a prominent phy- slcian of Watsonville, is at the Occidentel. Henry O. Parker, vice-president of the Chicago Board of Trade, is staying at the Palace. 0000000000 ‘There is stay- o MADE O ing at one of the o downtown hotels SEVERYTH'NG a grain broker PERFECTLY whose wealth is o SAFE estimated to be L 2 well up in the 0000000000 fye if not the six figure column. The other night, feeling rather lonely over the absence of his better half, who is away on a visit to he® mother, he started out to see the sights, under the guidance of a young fellow who | knows the town like a book, but who has not a cent of his own to rattle on the lid of a coffin. They had a beautiful time looking at the city by gaslight until about an hour after midnight, when the supply of ready cash commenced to run short. “Ned,” said the wealthy one, “the ex~ chequer is running low, and we have not even got fairly started. Don’t you know some place where they will cash one of my checks and let us have enough to travel on for an hour or two longer?"” “Sure, Pete,” replied his young com- panion, who was beginning to feel his oats. “Come in here, and Harry, if he is on watch, will do the proper for us.” They accordingly went into the barroom of the obliging Harry, where their wants were made known, and Harry agreed to cash the elderly one's check for a hun- dred. The check was drawn up, the money was paid over, and Harry was about to put the bit of paper in the safe when Ned said: “Hold on a minute. You don't know my friend, and possibly you would want to have my indorsement to that plece of paper.” The proprietor of the saloon said it was a good idea, and the indorsement was accordingly placed thereon, much to the mortification of the drawer of the check, who was well aware that his young friend did not possess a dollar in the world. When they got out- side he demanded an explanation, and he got it. “1t {8 just this way,” said his impecu- nious companion; “I, having no money of my own, have to travel on my reputation. That barkeep knows nothing of my cir- cumstances, but he sees me traveling with a pretty swell crowd. - I know your check s perfectly good and will be paid without question, and the opportunity to run a little bluff and impress that gazaba was too good to be lost, so I took advan- tage of it, and some day when I want a round of drinks put on the slate it will come in mighty handy.” L. M. Chambers, one of the leading at- torneys of Auburn, is a guest at the Grand. Clyde C. Dawson of Canyon City, Colo., is among yesterday's arrivals at the Palace. Dr. R. W. O'Bannen, a rising young* physician of Hollister, is a guest at the Palace. Mrs. Moses Hopking has come up from her home at San Mateo and is at the Palace. H. Jerusalem, a well-known merchant of Visalia, is at the Grand on a business trip to the city. Frank L. Coombs, ex-Minister to Japan and ex-Speaker of the Legislature, was one of yesterday’'s arrivals at the Grand. A dinner was given last evening by Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mills at their home, 2800 Pacific avenue, in honor of Dr. and Mrs, R. A. Rockey, who have been visiting the. city from their home in Portland, Or., where the doctor is one of the most widely recognized authorities on all scien- tific matters. The guests were mostly scientific and medical men, as the object of the dinner was to afford an oppor- tunity for them to meet their distin< guished colleague. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_—————— Genutne eveglasses, specs; 15c up. 33 4tk b e el Rev. Herbert Marston, the new incum- bent of Belgrave Chapel, Pimlico, London, is totally blind, and recites the prayer ‘book service from memory. —_——— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * — e Count Tolstoi, when he has a great work in hand, writes nearly all day, and sometimes far into the night. 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