The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 5, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1898 THURSDAY. MAY s, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. = e e e Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ;U\‘b?l?l‘CATION OFFICE . .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Main 1868, Telephol EDITORIAL ROOM 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per manth 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. ..One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertisi ¢ Representative, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE --Rigge Houee C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGC OFFICE.... -Marquette Building C.CEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 287 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open uptil 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Baldwin—“The Purser.” A Texas Steer." e Gay Parisians.” Hearts of New York.” Tivoli—"Wang."” Tivoli—Concert this atternoon, Orpheum—Vaudeville. Sherman, Clay Hall—Paloma Schramm, Friday night Metropolitan Temple—* Spaln As It fs.” The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville. and “African Lion Hunt” Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Central Park—Dog and Pony Show. Sutro Baths—Swimming. El Campo—Music, dancing boating, 8shing,every Sunday, California Jockey Ciub, Oakland—Races. AUCTION SALES. Frank W. Butterfield—This day, May 6, Groceries, at s street, at 11 o'clock G. H. Umbsen & Co.—Monday, May 9, Real Estate. at 14 Montgon street, at 12 o' clock. l ed 1612 COURTESIES ACKNOWLEDGED. T is with more than ordinary gratification The Call acknowledges the courtesies shown by the Chronicle and Examiner in holding back their ions of yesterday morning so that The Call, de- spite the burning of the building in which its press- rooms are located, was able to appear as early as any of them. s was stated yesterday, all of our contemporaries offered the use of their pr ities t exar in other professions and trades might do well to | emulate. The Call presses are now in working order and no further trouble in the issue of the paper is expected. J In a time comparatively short the press-rooms will be | located in the fire-proof apartments provided in the Cl Spreckels building, and with the new press | now on the way from New York the printing equip- | ment of the paper wiil be unsurpassed and almost be- | age of despots and tyrants. CALIFORNIA'S RESPONSE. yond the reach of accident. HILE in many of the larger States of the \/\/ East the call for the National Guard to enlist in the Volunteer Army for the war with Spain has been met by more or less wrangling, the response of California was prompt, direct and patriotic. Ar- rangements for enlistment were made at once, and | at his pleasure. In fact, in his hands have been placed | es, and that of the Cliron- | icle was accepted. Such acts are amon; the amen- | of government. t dignify the calling of journalism and set an | ple of mutual helpfulness which business rivals | for restraints and checks, without which every gov- | ernment on earth has proved a failure. | THE POWERFUL MAYOR. | HE history of the world proves that whenever | Tpolitical power is lodged in the hands of an in- | dividual without check or restraint it is gene- | rally abused. For ages the people have been strug- gling to wrest from individual potentates power that has been used to oppress and plunder them. The Bill of Rights, Magna Charta, the writ of habeas corpus, trial by jury, an independent judiciary and the separation of the legislative, judicial and execu- | | tive functions of government, all signalize triumphs | of the common people over individual tyranny and what is known in these times as “personal responsi- | bility.” The work of centuries in behalf of human | | liberty is condensed in the American constitution. | The fathers of the great republic justly feared the power of an unrestrained executive, for they had felt | it and known what it was. The American President is the British King strip- | ped of some of his prerogatives and hedged in by 2 popular Legislature. In these days we are accus- tomed to point to the long line of great men whohave ruled over the people for justification of our belief | that it is now safe to trust to the executive arm of the | government powers which were wrested from it only | after years of bloody struggle. The “thinkers” who in their ignorance do this never stop to ask them- | selves why the Presidents and Governors of these days are mostly honorable men anxious to faithfully serve their fellows. | might change their opinions. Are not the executives of the nineteenth centurythe productof restraint? Are not their moderation and unselfishness due to the circumstance that they have been unable to abuse the powers conferred upon them? Is the record they have made attributable to a change in human nature? We propound these inquiries, not for the purpose of making a point against the charter, which is to be | submitted to the people of this city on the 26th of | this month, but for the purpose of precipitating a | thoughtful controversy. Victor Hugo remarked that the chief safety of communities consisted in their | disposition to pause, scratch their heads and think. | The proposed charter creates a powerful official | called Mayor. He is invested with authority to ap- | point a Police and Fire Commission, a Board of | Health, a Board of Education, a Board of Public Works, a Civil Service Commission and an Election | Commission, and remove them at pleasure. These | | boards and commissions will expend two-thirds oi; | all the money that will be appropriated for conduct- | | ing the government of this city. No check has been | | provided either upon the abuse of this appointing | ipower or upon the wasteful expenditure of this money, except the conscience of the man who may be elected Mayor. Not only may the Mayor remove his | own appointees, but he may suspend elected officials without possible restraint practically all the functions The question we desire to see discussed is this: Are we prepared at this juncture to cast aside the experience of centuries and create this uncrowned king to rule over us? Is it possible that the people | of San Francisco have reached a state of political de- | crepitude which justifies tiiem in abdicating self- government? If they have it ought to be somebody’s duty to lay the facts before them for consideration. The proposed charter marks a complete swing of the pendulum of political power. It is a return to the It is a confession of re- | publican weakness, and if the people adopt it they 1 will declare their trust in conscience as a substitute We say all this because there is a disposition in the Were they to do so perhaps they | prevails. When once a thing has been started it either advances or retires—dies or grows. Spain’s colonial power is dying; that of the United States stands waiting the decision of the people in this crisis. What shall we do with the Philippines? is 2 ques- | tion whose answer involves not only present condi- tions and American interests, but the whole course of our future history and the affairs of the world. It is an issue not to be settled lightly, and it is even pos- sible that the settlement may not be left to our un- trammeled will. It not infrequently happens that even the greatest and strongest nations are sometimes compelled by circumstances to go forward when they would prefer to stand still. R ——— ENCOURAGING HUNTINGTON'S EVA- SION. OR three days C. P. Huntington, president of l::the Southern Pacific, has been testifying before the Board of Railroad Commissioners. The three days have been wasted. The witness has not revealed a fact. The questions asked him have been for the most part wholly irrelevant or concerning matters already of record and ascertainable by the | opening of a book. If some query bordered on practical investigation Huntington has professed the greatest willingness to answer it, has used it as a text to illustrate the gen- erosity which he frankly acknowledges to have been | his lifelong inspiration, has taken excursions into the realm of his own boyhood, and ended by ignoring the question altogether. Hethas simply told the Commis- sioners nothing, has played with them and made their | session a spectacle suggesting comedy. The officials have listened patiently to Huntington’s assertion, oft- | repeated, that he never made money out of California roads, that he built the transcontinental line at a loss never yet made good, that he and his associates are poor men, continually growing poorer. With all reasonable pity for Mr. Huntington's poverty, the subject has been exhausted. The public wants to know how much money the Southern Pacific has expended in the corruption of legislatures, courts, individuals, newspapers; particu- larly newspapers. There is a burning desire to find | out why for a period of months the Examiner was on the payroll of the corporation for $1000 monthly. It is no idle feeling of curiosity which makes the public yearn for details as to a running account with that paper amounting to $36,000 and never closed. Was the sum charged up to loss? Who bore the loss? The public suspects itself of being the victim. Mr. Huntington should be asked if the Examiner was paid by his philanthropic band a trifle of $70e0 for the printing of a speech delivered by Creed Haymond,‘ and if when the Pattison committee was here the dis- creet silence of Hearst's journal was not purchased | for $3000? Such are a few of the things Huntington can tell | about fully, and he has expressed a wish to tell all he knows. Surely the commission does not intend to | deny him the opportunity he craves. Surely it must | be tired of asking him questions which he declines | to answer and to which the answer would be of no value. So far he has handled them with the ease he | handles his walking-stick. It is their duty, as it| should be their joy, to put to him interrogatories which cannot be evaded, to bar quibbling, anecdote, | reminiscence, prophecy, and get down to business. | THE OPPOSITION IN CONGRESS. EVERAL silver Senators have requested the | President to appoint Mr. William J. Bryan to | charter discussion so far to ignore the theory upon which the instrument is framed. Undoubtedly the charter contains many good things. It would be dif- | ficult to frame a municipal organic law which did not contemplate many necessary reforms. But what“ S : | a major-generalcy. The President had already | decided to appoint Lee, a Cleveland Democrat and gold standard man, and General Wheeler, a Bryan | and silver man, to two of the four major-generalcies, | because they are both men of thorough military train- : yesterday a considerable portion of our guard passed | about the theory of individual responsibility which |ing and experience. Only trained soldiers should be formally into the service of the nation. By this action California has won a new distinction in the sisterhood of States. Her star in this crisis shines among the brightest in the brilliant galaxy that illumines the flag of the republic. She has given the st striking proof of the ardent patriotism of her people and has shown that when the call to arms is heard her volunteers wait not to decide little ques- tions of minor moment, but rally at once to the stan- | dard and hasten among the foremost to the front, no matter in what part of the globe the sound of battle is heard. In times gone by there has been much jesting at the expense of the National Guard. The men who com- pose it have been called “holiday soldiers,” and hab- itual satirists have made them the target of whatever shafts their flagging wit or unflagging mockery could | fashion for use. This raillery is now a thing of the past. The conduct of the members of the guard re- vealed in the fierce light of war has proven them to be men of the true heroic breed—worthy descendants of the generations who won the freedom of the land from Great Britain and maintained it through the perilous years of Civil War. It is time now for Californians who are to remain at home to manifest their honor for the boys of the guard who are going to the front. It is no holiday task for which they have volunteered. They have up- held the credit of the State by the alacrity with which they have responded to the call of war, and they will gallantly uphold the nation’s honor and cause in the field. The voices of the old-time satirists will now be changed to voices of praise or silenced amid the general acclamations of the people. A grateful na- tion and a proud State will speed the volunteers of the guard on their march to battle and victory. Tt is pleasant to read in a contemporary that its dispatch boat, the McCulloch, has reached Hong- kong. Here Uncle Sam has been acting just as though he owned that boat! With all respect for Uncle, he must be rebuked for such presumption. Doubtless the contemporary will soon permit us to know whom it will send on its transport, the Peking, and how fared its flagship, the Olympia, which its Special Commissioner Dewey is understood to have taken recently into a place of danger. An intelligent jury at Sacramento has exonerated one Griffo from blame for the death of another pugil- jst in the ring. Probably the fact that the man died immediately after having been beaten by Griffo was a mere coincidence. and counseled to abet Providence in the killing off of a few more of his kind. It is strange that Greeks should want to volunteer to fight Spain. They must have an idea that war is always a sprinting match. The old Greek who caught the Turk at midnight in a guarded tent made the situation warm for the Turk, but the present Greek is different. It is very considerate of Turkey to declare neu- trality, and yet in case of necessity we might have struzgled along, anyway, —— I Griffo is hereby congratulated | runs through it from end to end? Is that to be ig- | nored while a spirited debate is conducted upon im- | material issues? We are occasionally pointed to the example of New York. But the charter of that city may be repealed | by the Legislature any day, and the Legislature meets annually to consider its abuses. Moreover, | Tammany captured New York’s Mayor at the first | election, and the vast revenues of that city are now | being expended under the personal direction of Boss Croker. With them he is rapidly building up a political oligarchy more powerful than any that has | ever been seen in this country. It seems to us that | it would be well to discuss the “Lord Mayor” of the charter from the standpoint of experience. | THE CAPTURED COLONIES. N an address delivered on the presentation of a | Ibattlc flag to a company of Indiana volunteers on | ® Tuesday ex-President Harrison said: “We may | justly, I think, in the West Indies and in the Far East- ern seas, where our gallant navy has won so splendid a victory, hold some little unpeopled harbors where our cruising warships may coal and find a refuge when in stress.” Mr. Harrison, while not in office, holds so high a position in the politics of the country that this state- ment may be regarded as a tentative expression de- signed to feel the pulse of the people on the important and far-reaching question as to what is to ‘e done by the United States with the Spanish colonies in the West Indies and in the Orient. Cuba will of course pass into the hands of the Cubans themselves as soon | as they can organize a government capable of main- taining itself and establishing law, but what shall be done with Porto Rico and the Philippines? The latter group involves the more serious ques- tion of the two. In the Philippine archipelago there are upward of 1200 islands, of which about 400 are large enough to sustain permanent populations. The total number of inhabitants of the group is in round numbers 7,000,000. Of these the greater number are Malays. There are a few Spanish, hardly more in- dustrious or enterprising than the natives, and the in- dustry and commerce of the group is mainly in the hands of Chinese. In 1804 the total imports of the group amounted in both measured in Mexican coin, which is the prevail- ing standard of the country. The real wealth of the islands has, however, never been developed. It is known that gold and coal exist in the mountains of some of the larger islands, but they have not been mined or extensively exploited by reason of a lack of transportation. In the hands of an energetic race the group could be made one of the richest colonial possessions on the globe. The occupation of a port of refuge and coaling station in the archipelago by our Government would inevitably imply an American protectorate over the whole. Our responsibilities would increase from J of major. put in such commands, for they have the issue of bat- tles and the fate of thousands in their hands, and no man inexperienced in tactics should be put in such a place. It is probable that the application was made | in Bryan's behali to create a grievance for use as water on his political wheel. If such is its purpose, it will fail. The President’s perfect impartiality and non-partisanship in these four appointments will grat- ify the country, and Mr. Bryan’s effort to pose as the Neglected One will fail. I he burn with ardor to serve his country the ranks are, open to him. President McKinley enlisted in the Civil War as a private and fought his way to the post He supplemented this military service be- ginning in the ranks with thirty years of public serv- ice to his country in civil life before he achieved the Presidency. The American people are very conserva- tive. They try a man thoroughly before they make him President. That has been Mr Bryan’s mistake. He thought that one speech repeated many times gave him title to the Presidency. Neither that nor a major-general’s commission will translate him to that high seat. If he burn with military zeal let him start as a private as McKinley did, and if in thirty years from his enlistment he show qualities deserving such reward, his countrymen may consider his claims. While Mr. Bryan is trying to keep up with the band-wagon and make himself an object of interest, it is evident that his party in Congress is getting ready to abandon him. It proposes to seek issues arising in the preparations for war and the means for carrying it on. Mr. J. Hamilton Lewis, who parts his name in the middle to make up for not parting his hair at all, and who divides with Bailey, McMillin, Champ Clark and Bland the preposterous leadership of the House minority, has made his share of the issue. He pro- poses to read out of the party the six Democrats who voted for the war revenue bill- because that bill per- mits the issue of bonds as a popular loan if the ne- cessities of the war require it. The six men who pre- ferred to stand by their country rather than by Mr. Lewis have calmly requested that gentleman to go to! It is evident that these five leaders of the House minority will each submit an issue. Of course Mc- Millin’s will be free trade, except in such staples as value to $28,530,000, and the exports to \333,250.000/[ Tennessee produces. Bland will offer free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, and Champ Clark will simply pro- pose that denunciation of Mr. Cleveland is the way to bring the Democratic party into power, while Mr. Bailey will antagonize dress suits. The new platform will read: “Resolved, That we support the war, but oppose all means for carrying it on. Resolved, That under the present administration the country is going to the devil in a dress suit. Re- solved, That free trade in everything that is not pro- duced by our deestrick is the true American policy. Resolved, That free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 will bring peace by leaving us nothing to fight with. “D—-n Cleveland.” year to year, and our exercise of power would have to increase with them. In colonial affairs as well as in all other matters in this world the law of evolution ) On this the five-headed party can go into battle, but— any smLE g "The'boy, oh, where was he?® MUSIC AND The people of Madrid are a theater- going race, and when money was wanted recently to buy a new warship, with all the modern appliances, for war against the United States, It was unanimously re- solved to raise the sum by a big musical and dramatic performance at the Theater Royal. The continental papers have since announced that the receipts of this performance surpassed the record even of Patti or Melba's big receipts. People vied with one another in giving high prices for the seats. The Queen Regent set the pace by giving $10,000 for her box and each of her Ministers gave $1000 for his seat, while the banker Larois paid $20,000 for one chalir In theorchestra stalls. Wealthy Countess Cornos paid $20,000 for her seat, the Marquis Laguna $000 and the Bank of Spain bought a box for MUSICIANS. | above her ear, in the fashion of yonder. | Suddenly I take her seriously. What pro- | founa artist, then, is this young girl, who is not yet 20, to have composed for her- gelf this indescribable exotic atmosphere, this vell of mystery and languor! * ¢ ¢ | And the orchestra continues her faraway | incantation, which, little by little and | more by more, transforms these painted | canvases into the visions of a dream.” Saint-Saens, the Wandering Jew of | musicians, is coming to America. It is not the United States, however, that the composer of “Samson and Delila” f{sj about to visit, but the Argentine Republi | Professors Gomi and Marchal and Pro- | fessor Williams, director of the Buenos | Ayres Conservatory. have invited the composer to visit their city, and Saint- THE_QUEEN REGENT OF SPAIN. | once the cabin furniture, oft In great shape when Wwe onco started. The hottest fight, however, [ ever did see was one that history has never recorded nor bards sung about. It was one of the revenue cutters coming down from the Arctic with a wrecked crew, and while it lasted it made hell fairly pop in a little space. “On board the cutter there was a dog by the mame of Taska and a thre quarter grown black bear. The reigned supreme from the break of t poop aft, while the bear consider everything on the main deck as his par ticular propefty. As long as each animal aid not encroach on the territory of the other everything would go along ple antly, but as soon as the border w passed then the trouble would commer “The dog was accustomed to sleep u the cabin table, while along the t on each side four men slept—the captain of the wrecked whaler, the pilgt, the ca tain of the cutter, who given up lLis own p; e stateroom to a minister w was aboard, and myself. One night as tha inging and tossing K . lying on the transom half awake, heard the dog under the tal uttering low gre ar in an uneasy ma At the sam: ner. > something came softly pattering down tha brass shod steps of the companfon way stopping at every few steps. I was wo dering what could be the matter, wh suddenly something black, emitting a h rible growl, shot up on top of the tabl smashing the swinging lamp to atoms ar immediat fterward pandemoni eemed to have broken loose in the cabir The other gentlemen of the tran sprang out in their naked feet and rushed around in the darkness, falling over each other and being continually trodden upon by the heavy sea boots of the watch on deck, who, hearing the row, had come down below. The minister stuck his head out of the door and asked what the matter was. The chorus of sulphurous answers he received sent him back strangling to the privacy of his chamber. “Finally a light was procured and there, amidst the wreckage of what was the bear and dog were discovered fighting like a couple of things possessed of the devil. The dog was a monster and game, but the bear was proving a little too much for him, though the blood and hair scattered over everything showed that neither was hav- ing any walkover. They were finally $100000. A number of army officers clubbed together for a box and so did a similar number of navy officers, and in each case the price pald was $1000. The Madrid Cycling Club and the Bourse each paid the price of $1000 a stall. The Ca- | sino of Madrid took two seats at $200 | each, The Marquis of Villamejor and Don | Esteban each gave $0,000 for their seats and other spectators paid In the same | manner. The total receipts were more | than a million and a half francs. The an- | nihilation of Spain's fleet in the Philip- pines, however, has shown the Madrid | public that musical performances, how- ever enthuslastically conducted, are not sufficient to provide a country with a avy. | General Lord Wolseley, the hero of Tel- | el-Kebir, follows the gentle art of music in his leisure moments. It appears that | this fllustrious warrior, whom some of his | compatriots regard as a fin-de-siecle Wel- lington, has an extremely sensitive ear, and flinches before inharmonious sounds as he has never flinched before the ene- mies’ bullets. It is a well-known fact! that the English soldiers have a habit of singing when on the march, and it now transpires that the vanquisher of Arabi has suffered unknown tortures from the fact that these amateur vocalists are in the habit of singing out of tune in the most laméntable fashion. Often on the burning sands of the Soudan have the brave generalissimo’s ears ached with the discords thrust upon them, and often has he meditated over a remedy. Not for the | world would Lord Wolseley have deprived | his soldlers of the joy of lifting up their | voices in song. At last he hit upon a rem- edy, which he has just carried Into ef- fect. Singing classes are being organized | in connection with the British army schools, and so much interest has been shown in them by the soldiers that Lord | ‘Wolseley’s friends have now no fear that when some of his men are singing a | chorus in G major the others will be warbling in A flat minor. For the future all will be harmonious. There is something very touching in a letter by the late A. Ponchielli, which has just been published for the first time. The letter, which was dated *‘Milan, 1883,” | was written to the mother of Giacomo Puceini, now the successful composer of a number of operas, but at that time a young student, just graduated from the Milan Conservatory, where the great Ponchielli had been his master, as he was the master of Mascagni, Leoncavallo and most of the composers of “Young Italy.” | After congratulating Signora Puccini on | the talent possessed by her Giacomo and saying, modestly, “I have done little or almost nothing for your son, for I be- lieve that he owes and will owe every- thing to his own genius,” the composer of “La Gloconda” continues: ‘‘When I myself left the conservatory with medals, dip- lomas, applause and honors I had to ap- ply to friends at Cremona in order to obtain a few pupils for the piano. And one of my chief resources in that town was to hold the position of organist at Sant’ Imero at a salary of a hundred Aus- trian francs a year ($20). It was not till later that I obtained the post of director of the municipal music at Piacenzia and finally at Cremona; @fid I exercised this trade (for I could not call it otherwise) for about eight or nine years. Then, when the Eternal Father willed, I was able, after all those years, to give ‘I Promessi Sposi’ at the Dal Verme Theater, Milan, and from that time my career commenced. It is necessary, then, to have patfence and hope. When true merit exists sooner or Jater it is recompensed. As your Giacomo has talent and merit, I live in the confi- dence that the way will be opened for him.” The letter concludes with expres- sions of good will. Poor Ponchielli did not live to see all his predictions fulfilled, but the letter partly explains the influence which this noble-hearted man exercised over all his pupils. Pierre Lot attended the Opera Comique and occupled the box of Queen Natalie of Servia at a performance recently of “I'lle du Reve,” the opera which is based on his novel, “Loti's Marriage.” He has been persuaded to write his impressions of the performance for the Revue de Paris. The following are some fragments of what he says: “It begins—in the dying away of the noise of the crowd—the orchestral prelude. Something sweet and strange escapes from the bows, music of ‘else- where,’ one would say, egveloped in mists, in the past and in the faraway. * ¢ ¢ But the curtain is rising—the banal red curtain—and suddenly for me a charm, which seemed to be increasing, faints and dies away. Still the scenery is fine; it is even the best that could be done with the miserable appliances of a theater; a little canvas, a little painting and lamps to represent the sun and the moon. Now 1 smile on seeing the people of Tahiti, who ;ia repeating his London - triumphs. Saens has accepted the invitation. He will remain for some months at Buenos Ayres, where he will occupy himself with reorganizing the Conservatory of Music. He will also conduct the coming season of Italian opera, which includes his “Sam- on.” Tamagno will be the Samson. nt-Saens has just sought safety from war's alarms by hurrying home from the Canary Isles, where he has wintered for several years. He was met at Marseilles by a large crowd of admiring friends. Without any delay he hurried on _to Beziers, In thearena of whichtown the first performance of his new opera “Dejanire” is to be given, if the war does not inter- vene. The composer expressed himself as delighted with the vast and grandiose amphitheater in which the opera is to re- | ceive its initial performance. Don Lorenzo Perosi. the priest-compos- er whose oratorio, “The Transfiguration,” met with such success at Venice, is not | going to rest satisfied with his one tri- | umph. He {s now busy writing another | work of the same kind, “The Ralsing of Lazarus,” the words for which he has taken from the Secriptures. The work Is already well advanced and the composer hopes to have it ready for production by July. | Another South American composer 1s | signalized, this time at Pernambuco. His | name is L. Smido, and for some years he | has been the chef d’orchestre of the Santa | Isabella Theater. Smido’s taste runs to- ward sacred music, and he has just had a mass for four voices, with orchestral | accompaniment, executed. The mass has | covered the composer with glory, and th Brazilian papers hail Smido as a great composer. i The Ysave concerts fn Brussels go on merrily without & murmur that the con certs are Ysaye only in name. The time may come when Ysaye may be able to{ concertize in America, and at the same time send home violin solos to be played | by phonograph to his Brussels admirers. Ossip Loew, a young Russian composer, is beginning to make a name in Paris. | The critics speak very highly of his de scriptive orchestral work, “The Death of Ophelia.”” Isidore de Lara's opera, “Molna,” is about to be mounted at the Hof Theater, at Dresden. The work has already been successful in France and at Monte Carlo. E. Zuldenrust, the pianist, who had so much success in London with the violin- ist Joachim, has gone to Paris, where he Puccini is rehearsing his “La Vie de Bo- heme” at the Paris Opera Comique. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS 1. P. Faby Is registered at the California/ from Portland, Or. Joseph Rankin and wife of Martinez are staying at the Lick. John.Hood, a wealthy merchant of Santa Rosa, is at the Lick. John Waterhouse, the Honolulu capital- ist, is at the Occidental. Cyrus Macke, a large stock raiser of Napa, is a guest at the Grand. ‘W. L. Walden, & pronfinent business man of Fresno, is at the Baldwin. M. F. Mahew, a prominent merchant of Seattle, is a guest at the Occidental. J. L. Copeland has come up from Los Angeles and is staying at the Palace. _Mason N. Mather, manager of the Plum- | bago mine, is staying at the Occidental. Fy N. Kneeland of Northampton, Mass., is at the Palace, accompanted by his wife. | R. L. Howell, a wealthy cattleman of ?"%rth Dakota, is at the Palace with his e. C. J. Martin and Isaac Martin, two cattle men of Sonora, are registered at the Russ, F. M. Chitenden, a fruit and wine man of Fresno, 18 among the late arrivals at the Grand. Sheriff 8. D. Ballou of San Luis Oblispo County was one of the arrivals last night | at the Grand. 0000000000 “That was a ° O great fight of o AN 0 Dewey's out there 0 UNRECORDED o o Manlla. said e Ol ellow at o SEA FIGHT. 0 1o head of the © table around °°°°°°°°°°Wh|ch =l clent Mariners were sitting, as he toyed with his spoon and watched the lump of sugar in his glass slowly dissolve. “I have seen a little scrapping myself downin that part of the world as well as around at the first glance gave me the impression of a chance masquerade. But here is the young girl who represents Rarahu. She trains her light robe and wears in her hayr a flower of the red hibiscus, styck Mobile Bay. It is nearly forty-five years since I was one of the crew on a little brig that took the contract of cleaning up a few pirates down around the Malay Teniuanls, aud yow bet we fuisned thim| separated with the help of a red hot poker brought from the galley. The dog retired to lick his wounds, while the bear, making a rush, in the course of which he managed to take about five inches of skin off the cutter captaln’s leg, got Into the pantry, where he started to demolish the Various plans were s dislodgment, but was decided to lasso him and drag him out. The rope was thrown ‘over his neck and an Irishman by the name of Duffy, mounting to the top of the com- panion way, tried to pull the beast up him. The bear however would not until the pilot drove the point of a into him, when he moved so v that Du W unable to get out vay, and consequently passed the next three weeks under the care of the ship's surgeon. ““When everything had quleted down the minister, emerging from his stateroom, said in the calmest manner possible: “Was there not something unusual going on?" He received such an explicit a r from the cutter captain, whose leg was bel d, that he never asked another n until the vessel reached port, and ted to know what street car would ke him to his destination.”, Among the late arrivals at the Grand is T. B. Dillena, mine owner of Jackson, Amador County. Mr. and Mrs. Willam Bollard arrived v erday in the city and are to be found at the Occidental. Miles Wallace, the Yosemite Commis- sloner, is one of those who registered at the Grand yesterday. E. A. Middleton, one of the big men of Watsonville, 18 a guest at the Grand, where he arrived last night. manufacturer lental, accom- of Chicago, is at the Occ panied by his wife. Y. Brithjenboth, a traveler from Am- sterdam, Holland, one of those who ar- rived at the Palace yvesterday. George H. Maitland of Healdsburg has come down to the city on a short business trip, and is registered at the California. *. Stubbs and Freight 7illlam Sproule of the Southern Pacific Company leave to-mor- row night for Cleveland, Ohio, to attend the meeting of the Transcontinental Freight Bureau, which will be held in that city on the 10th of the month. The meeting is a continuation of the one recently held at Hotel Del Monte,at which the fight over carload and less-than-carload lots was the most interesting feature, and which re- sulted in a temporary victory for our merchants over those of the East. e gy e Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_———— Giving up busin, specs, 15¢ up. Sunds Finest eyeglasses, vs till 2 p. m. 65 4th. * Special information supplied dafly business houses and public men b; Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. Telephone Main 1v42. to the ont- Special Notice. Those troubled with dandruff and ftch- ing scalp mail this to Smith Bros. for frea sample of Smiths' Dandruff Pomade. 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