The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 14, 1899, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1899 NEW ADVERTISEMENT. More men and women are troubled with weak and imper- fect kidneys than with any other form of disease. There is but one known specific for the kidneys and urinary organs that can always be relied upon---that one is, X7 2 | Benud VWARNER'S AFE URE. Will Accrue to the City | CLAIM THEIR OPPONENTS ARE | : INELIGIBLE. AMUSEMENTS, tzacuers win pance | 1hrough the Proposed Meas- SRR r e | Company D of the Cadets Will Enter- ure of the Board. Brooks Lived in San Rafael, Scott in CAL!FORNL‘( T“EATER };fl?flhr tain Friday Night. San Jose—Charter Requires a E ouse Comps D of the I ue of the Cross 3 & 3 - 5 = G ; o Company £ thes mx e HE Board of Supervisors has mken} Residence in This r Great House Last Night. th a0 S Ta SR the first step toward forcing the tele- | County. The oo Kent % the order to be there phone company to contribute some- 4 nce Kept in Roars of Laughter. e evaritibito Ba hitay thing of its enormous profits to the 3 I A : s ity. The telephone monopoly is en- | Tt i ossibility that Samuel H. a t W. Hall d ev & possi- o mopoly | here is a possibility at Samue 5 Hdr’l’y COX’SOH Clarke lons to/maka it 006 BE thaiso: Joying tremendous Jrivileges in San | @-+-6-+-6-+-0+-¢-+-0—+-6-+-6-+-@ | Brooks, Democrat, will not take his scat | . { the seasc o erald” an t receives for no ng exclu- | - {in the County Treasurer’s chair and ths A g S cial s f the season. Fitzgerald's | Franct 5 h | 4 ounty air and that A‘ ¢ Is EXCELLENT COMPANT Ix ! attendance and a | SI¥e rights which legitmately ought to| SUPERVISOR AIGELTINGER. | joseph H. Scott, Republican. will not . n 0 l t work on the decora- | TetUrn to the municipality a handsome| . ¢, tno monopoly and the customer|Succeed Ed I Sheehan as Tax Collector ila. ;d{][]fii,fi[.[fij{}fles, t e already vearly revenue. It pes, just taxatlon | orumples his ang: }ul this ity and county. Both received - E P J 3 a big demand } and uses its advantages to abuse the | - This petty thicvery has become a public | a majority of votes cast at the last slec- z es, Toc, f0c, %c. Matinees Sa mittec, by the | rights of the people. The gigantic evil of | nulsance, but the monopoly is supremely | yon “but thelr respective titles to office 2 in I D. DWVEr | this condition of affairs has been pointed | unconcerned. An instance of these in- | Lol Dul g N ¢ : ar 00T | o4t by the Mayor and Assessor and now | Bumerable outrages will be remembered | 3¢ to be comtested by the incumbents I ha Kennedy™s o nt i) S PYAYOLAnL SEScaior an |in the case of the Mission butcher who Upon the ground that they are ineligible Swedish Comedy H . Co Supervisors, through a resolution In- |50 hlad s telephone and its nickel-in-the- | inder the provision of the charter To- YONSON.” ed Kle- | troduced vester by Supervisor Aigel- | ot attachment. He had tried in vain | quiring that ‘office-holders shall have . o TR % se | tinger, intend to remedy the iInjustice at|to obtain a certain switch. He had in been qualified electors of the city and least in a measure, ich instance submitted to ‘“‘central’s” de- | b i 2xOT8 29 ClEY & — The resalution, which was presented at | mand to “drop a nickel’ He finally be- | SOURLY for JieofguccaRAlY oYU DRIOL L) he me: of the bos e s ana | came exasperated and refused to pay any 3 2 = s the meeting of the board yesterday and | more. Ie wes told that he comd not have| Mr: Brook dent of this ; i dick fromi vhick: 1s now on its road toward adoption, | the desired switch. He tly retaliated | UP Lo two when he movedc aas’ AP THEASER e S e provides that a quarterly tax of $1 shall | by smashing the telephone and appropri- | {0 San Rafael and lived for year. —— iley from James F be placed upon every telephone in the | ating the money he had paid ;g:“:flle"g":li old-time Jffl{ of thi J\H Y n 1 raab (N | »f willful neglect, and Carrie | ¢ity which has a nickel in the slot at- Thousands of '\,im”"r injustices fons several years ng'u moved to San J« ; ALL HITS AGAIN! ertion. The marriage of | Phone company is commanded to submit | ;%% "0 SO T the Supervisors | County. It is claimed he did not reti'rn Ellen Griswold has been | @ truthful statement of the number of | have determined that some of this money | to this city until four and a half years Bahrs on the j such telephores in use. This measure, | shall come back to the municipality. The | 880, just half a year too late to come ook a wife by which is the result of emphatic public | proposed order which Supervisor Aigel-| Within the five-year requirement ef the Cook Lady. ook | agitation, will fo h 5 ~ | tinger introduced yesterday is in full as | Charter. t & : rce the gigantic corpora & | Tr - 5 : St fon b B e o 7 | follow: reasurer Truman makes no_conceal- Tot ver Maid, L 2 g ay 8 proportion at least o ! ment of his intention to t Brooks if < S its just taxes. 5 An order for the purpose of regulating and | ho gnds that tHe law stands wit:. him. + German Count, Seriht The nickel-in-the-slot telephone as 1t | ImBosing a li ot crporation carrying | 1 contends that i moving to San Ra- band 8 Aunt, wer with try the LAUGH the marriage ¥ will take several days to 25¢ x . T6e, Boe Contests His Father’s Will. -THIRDS GHT. son's i FULL EVERY NI HE ME 1 spectali Payments may be m st of a cure e at our prices. iend Fr oring men for ars. While their they never leave ] J . From India, tive, us results. nsulta at office or by mall. ve outside of San Fran- write ady ALL uid ngagement STOCKW AND SUN R. 731 MARXET ST., S.F. iake Elevator to Third Floor. Daily. 8 to 8. Evenings, 7 to 8. 9 to 1. HOURS. ACKNOWLEDGED THE BILL OF THE SEASGON. ALEXIS, DAVIS, A LEO CARLE, RICAN BIO. n Beauty, CORNILI 25¢; baloony, 10c opera chalrs Ely’s Cream Balm for CATARRH. . Batur WESTERN TURF A v and Sunday. | i | g I Cream B is placed 1 Gstrils, p SSOCIATION: .Sxas Roinp s piaces tnceineaiassnrians RPORATED. immediate and a cure follows. It is not dr. TANFORAN PARK. South S neisco, San Maten Co. AM ENT; ¢ o A, Patace 1?5&_1‘5 F. USEM = F. GR Ty s Ssh " | TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. GRAND AND BENGLISH OPERA SEASON. ting from Nov inclusive. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! Thursday, Saturday, Sunday Evenings, Verdi's fresh listorical Grand Opera, stand and 'THE MASKED BALL (““Un Ballo in Maschera.”) Sung by the Great Cast of Lyric Artists. orina Zelma Politini, the famous d 11:30 a. m. | 0 and 1% p.'m.. cal trains ial race tra ng immediately 40, 12 fter the last race ang | Debut of Sign 1 Contralto. % 3¢ v y § 'S | ction came True! %' JOSE AND WAY STATIONS—Arrive at | The Predictio €an Pruno at 12:456 p. m. Leave San Bruno at | , Thet Demand 1a Sgnv!ynanrgmo‘u- O s, o, Brains icava Valencia stvest| What for? Why, the Ever Favo omic ¢ 12 Third street. Race Opera than y at the entrance to the | “PATIENCE.” “PATIENCE” will be Wednesday and Friday Nights and Saturday of all trains reserved for women | ir escorts. No smoking. | RATE: . Ban Francisco to Tanforan and return, | ling admission to grounds, $12. Singi rip tickets, 40 cents. Holders of Associa- | s may secure a twenty-four ride cou- | Ilimited to thirty days, upon presen- badges at Third or Valencia street ur Seats early by Telepione, Bush, §. POPULAR PRICES, % AND 5 CENTS. CONCERTS AND RESORTS. BT St e gons v | STEEPLECHASE—CENTRAL PARK, rotary and Manager of the Assoclation. | | XD IS HERE AT LAST. ITZSIMMONE fight now ol CONEY ISLA: The JEFFRI ur Captain Beach, the Water King, Just arrive T-— F KLY CALL The jolly RAZZLE-DAZZLE entértains thog- L 2 | sands. PROFESSOR HILL, the high wire marl. And all the noveltles of FAMOUS CONEY 1SLAND In full blast. DON'T MISS TIAEM. 'ADMISSION, 10c., includes 8 ride ‘on the horses. Prasents to winners, /s Open Every Afternoon and Everding. xbGnlarged to 16 Pages $1 per Ycar. i Joseph W. Wood, a son of the late J 1 M. Wood, a Cro contest to the will of the deceased yesterday. The | AYHOT e s in conjunction with his : PHONE S sv contest Instituted b g E in which he * Ty h Mr. Wood ail = E ; ver was unduly in by 4 bie Rose Wood, when he | { sigr e will, and hence that it Is an illeg: trument xce t e Wal . ——— : Theater Succ K 3 L pt Suit Dismissed. ates Circuit Judge Morrow ismissed the bill fn the wase cis Fruit Com vs. C. B tee of the estate of B. How- ruptey, for want of ju i | | A | repeated again on | /s BEEGHARM S ¢ D000 Q Day’s Doings in the City Fall. © © © [ (] 000000ooooo00ooooo00‘000‘000000000000000000000000000000 CRUSADE AGAINST THE ~ THERE MAY 8E A TELEPHONE MONOPOLY FIHT fOR TWO s ] Supervisors Take the First Steps to Tax Nickel-in- the=Slot Attachments. ! @ +H4+046+0-0-0 o 3 Truman and Sheehan to Contest. ~ — BOTH ALLEGE NON-RESIDENCE Handsome Yearly Revenme upen any person, firm or corporation carrying | | exists in this city has been a gross and | on or conducting i the ity and county of | {ael Brooks sacrificed his domicile in this insolent imposition upon the public and a | San Franc the business of telephone u)r—]"“)‘ and be: ne a bona fide resident of source of tremendous revenue to the. tele- | Vice and the use of slot devices therein. Marin County and that although he re- |ohiohe - comipary = Eae e i The people of the city and county of San | turned to this eity a year.ago and again phone company. Many thousands of | prancisco do ordain as follows: | made his residence here, he has not these telephones are in use In homes, som, fim or corporation | a resident for five vears in succe busine houses and all sorts of local es- | carry v]n on or condu um;l J‘m.\' “l‘:u:mfli!. f(le- jand is, of a consequence, not competent tablishments. By extensive advertising | Supation, service or employme atter pro. | 10 hold office under the charter. ntations the tele | f}l:u’:\m shall pay license as herelnafter pro- uHm"}(sl,g"s; hinges solely on ‘the ques- [mm > monopoly has developed its scheme | Section 2. Any person, firm or corporation | 408, O Whether of not he sacrificed his )t double reve: Arbi 8 ve | carryinz on or conducting in the city and |TeSidence in this city when he went over | of double revenue. Arbitrary prices have | : i the business of fur- | t0 San Rafael. Under the law an elector b I »f San Francisco Jusine: - atael, e een upon the telephones and o Colephone: Bhmcine BV eny Laean per- | has not lost his residence if he has re- : have been forced to submit to the | ey have paid and are now exorbitant price for the telephone and then pay an mained in another city or county with the intention of returning to his previous domicile, unless he has become by regis- tration an elector of the county to which he moved. Brooks' name doe: scriber or | telephones for | slot-box or other | f collecting money or | money value, shall firm, firms, bers such vice vice for the purpos ther representative o not appear additional sum for its use. | @ license in the of one dollar 8100) per | upon the kreat rezister of Marin County, Even i feature of the fraud upon | quarter to the city and county cf San Frgn- | and it will devolve upon Treasurer Tri- for each s slot-box or other device the public the monopoly has shown dis criminatiol r what purports to be the same service some patrons have to pay man, {f he contests, to prove that he actu- afly gave up his residence here and moved to San Rafael with no intention of re- 3 Every tioned such person, firm or cor- in secticn 2 of this order i turning. o Hicais Brel fayared naonle wake or cause to be made o the person g B o certain price and more favored people | *holl make or cause co be mads 1 the person | “goott's case: presents more solid grounds have to pay a aller one, Merchants by of Incisco once in every quarter | 1 the allegations made be true. In mov- have been made victims of a necessity, d by the oath of such per- INE to San Jose and ning the great | but they dare not compiain. When they f such firm or general manager | Tegister he actually gave up his residence secure their telephones and pay «tion as to the number of such | here and became a bona fide resident of Sn ofrigbourly RIRI arIbY other devices of like nature o at county. To oust him Tax Collector outra sly h price, ie first statement to be so made shall | Sheehan would have to prove that he has use them without paying five cen nade within ten days after the passage and not lived in and been a qualified elector each switch 11 fon of this ‘f <l o SR o o alling b s of this city and county for five successive ‘nder even worse conditions thousands | Section 4. Evel on falling e the | vears since that time, and prior to the | ofithess ntckelinG A8 | statement mentioned section 3 of this ord- | dayv o T L =2 | of th kel-in-the-slot telephones have | pance shall be gullty of a misdemeangs. | dey of Jis election. "If the contentl n | been introduced in residences, where they j that as been here for four anc romain 4n expensive and usless x| L1 fOregoing order was passed to print | a half prove true, the charter students at : by a unanimous vote of the board. In|the City Hall claim he will be disquali- [ It would 1 that the local monopoly | speaking of the matter last night Super- | fied, and that Shechan will remain in his would ve b content to give some | visor Algeltinger said: | present position until his | service for its yrmous profit from these “I introduced the order because I be- | elected and duly qualified, | nickel-in-the-slot _devices, but the dis. | 1 that the telephone company should | at the next general el [ able experiences of thousands_of | contribute its just proportion of taxes. It| Sheehan will not admit for publication | prove that It has not becn. The | has escaped hitherto and under the char- | that he contemplates such action as set | service rendered through the system Is! ter has received more than fair treatment. | forth, but he has threatened it in the | notoriously insolent and a sham. The By piacing a quarterly tax of §1 on nickel: | presence of his intimates, and it Is known | telephone company has stmply used its t ‘telephones the city will reap | he Is busy 100Ki ng up I1esal potnte ta | devices to descend to petty larceny. It is|a yearly revenue of between $20,000 and | back his case. { it the number of Instances in | $30.000. 1f it is possible T intend also to i e pay a nickel and receive no | force the company to give the people of | = e | Service aggregate many thou every | the city an honest service, The imposi.| GOOD NEWS FOR FARMERS. | day. The agents of the company have!tion which now nets the company an = 3 | fo "exact s Sfivecent Snons |<l "rulr:u:nw;ls_h It is noth- | The Rainfall This Season Promises a | earn whether or not!ing less than robbery and the employes " | may be obtained. If tne of th ja be mads zulite ot First-Class Harvest. 15y or out of order, or if ‘‘cen- in an unamiable mood, no switc Another five-cent plece h a lemeanor without first giving a nickel is paid.” The farmers will have no complaint to make this season if the present indica- tions are an earnest of what the future has in store for them as far as the weath- er is concerned. The rains have been ear- v and In just the right proportion to indi- cate a prosperous year for the men of crops and harvests, According to tne Southern Pacific Com- pany’s daily weather chart, the fall this ar, up to 7 a. m. yesterda .18 inches this time last year. 1 inches of rain this inches at the same % me twelve months ago. : Yesterday the fall was 38 of an inch for Alfred Bouvier, Refreshed by Rest in | the preceding twenty-four hours, and this the Country, Presided at the [lfi about .04 of an inch above the general average throughout the State. The weath- Meeting of the Execu- | er here was cloudy. with the promise of . 3 | 50 remaining for the next twenty-four tive Committee. hour nd the reports from all the in- =2 | terior and coast counties gave the same RS et : 5 R | indications. @ executive committee of the Repub-| That the weather will probably remain n County Committee met at the Bald- | unsettled for the next few days in the in Annex last night and considered | Yicinity of this city was indicated mpaign _expenses. Alfred Bouvier, | barometer, which Teag .70 as agains mewhat retreshed by a briet season of | DOFmal barometer o much-needed rest in the country, pre- sided. accept a nickel | witch for which | the s be is obtained. AFTERMATH IN THE REPUBLICAN CAMP CAMPAIGN MONEY xzcmvznl AND DISBURSED. | |WIDOW OF ROBERT ' LOUIS STEVENSON | RETURNS TO SAN FRANCISCO | AFTER A YEAR'S ABSENCE. grfialer than it w o far we have had season, as against 2.0 E S Has Been in Europe Looking After the Copyrights of the Works of Her Famous Husband. Mrs. Robert Louls Stevenson, widow of 2 the famous novelist, is a guest at the Oc- dental, where she arrived last night after an absence from the city of over a r. In her party is Lloyd Osbourne, well-known writer. who' collaborated with the dead historian of the southern ceral of his most popular works, 9. B Surprised by Friends. | particularly in his famous story “The | The committee talked of campaign ex-| The. ladies of the auxiliary corps of the | Wreckers.” With Mr. Oshourne are his | penses, and the discussion disclosed the | Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Assoclation wite and child, who' have been travelk | fast that: the balince of Gesh I the | ¢ave 4 SsEDiise parey to Mox and Mo | with him. | hands of the purity c e w John Kavanagh at their residence, 2128 e ian's ihne s Tataly Tage |inanas e purity committee would | J¢ @ at ' nce, 212 A fi,f";‘“',!”'l‘,’p_ where she has been at. | Probably be sufficient to Hquidate the out- Fifteenth street, Saturday evening last. | The following ladie nding obligatio) and gentlemen were connected with copy- | S tending to busines X s of the committee, | i rights her husband's works. There | J. H, McCarthy desired that a publig| present: Mrs. J. C. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. were difficulties to be settled which re- | statement should be made of all the|J; Igo. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Day and wife. | quired her ltx_rrsnn:)l :\”::er“;'r::‘r?‘r: A cived and the sources from Uolonel and Mrs. A. Aln\«;lxqwi\'. M:_ and Lok o T o travelod Jaiourdly sest. | Whieh it came and how it was expended. S. Bun and Mrs. L. Selinger, e B € Ve hire —or | A.IB. Truman, chaltman. of the. i nd, BT peelang. Mxano, WALL W 3 gn committee, moved that an itemized | Mvthor My and Mrs. . Lerramorc | “The party will remain in the city for a | be filed of all money re-| [SU'NE: 3 Mhomas, Mr. and Mre W45 2 GavE And then £o to Berkeley. where | i and of every item of disbursement. | §1ficr Mr. and Mre, W. Raubinger. “My T ievenson owns & pretty litile home | He did not care what customs were ob- | Miller, ME and Mry W Bagblnger, Mr e they "will remain’ for some | %erved in the past, but insisted that-a)ang Mos L. Bans i R ane Yo until & trip to Samoa,’ which. can sheet be presented to "the public, | 18 favanagh, Mr. and M - aail Mrs. e ander. contemplation, s~ definitely wing every dollar received, the source| b Kavanagh, Mr. a - Selinger Secided upon. Should Mrs. Stevenson o o t8 SoniRiDutnizenc e iouchEet foy Miss B, Thomas, Miss Burkb erat miig g e possible that she w € : RaR8 % Dot ot M e Cebouriis, has cantinued s liter. of finances should come from the purity | MU' Dam, M g e ¢ work, and has lately contributed | cfpmitte A Rich’rdn. Yo, L & exeallent. things. o, various of the | explained that Mr, Hy- | yL¥s Bro il magazines, and as soon as he be. | the purity committce, | il 3 iss T Zach T I iy mettied. cther heme o | Would soon: have the report teady. There | Snd, Yiae Jh & 0. 00s8 T Zachavias, | i Samon, be will resume I with | IS 4 book showing every dollar received| fqrrell, F. Gowan, C. A, Bunner, Thom: o e s e ‘amoin | and the vouchers properiy numbered | i 2 P atE Thom | tharmed with some romance aficr the | SIOWIng the disbursement. - e . M A | G ot “The Wrecker: urther discussion brought out the | T e R statement that all the bills had not been | } presented for pavment, hence the purity { Committce was not ready 1o report, | o enlighten the committee generally statement was made by the chairman | Moore, Mrs, J. Coleman, Mrs. Ben: The Transfer Trouble., The cases of Frank Chase, W. J. Van- e Card of Thanks. derkaag, H. Blitz and S. J, Riley, ar- | of the campalgn committee that the ase| SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 10 2 | restea Saturday at Powell. nnd Market | Seas andidates produced 00 and | managemest of (he. King's Deghtote streats for giving away taeir tra rs, | 0 was received from other ' = AURY | Fome for, ¥ncurables, 317 Francis desire 19’ o3 their sinc co street, vere called e courts. to which they | were called in the which they re thanks to Joldberg, who controls a bank ai a | 16 R X | were as ed vesterday, and by co 3 quick at figures, announced that $5500 | the 0o med firms in this ecity ‘“_Q.‘,‘g'.; n vsf ,f.’.“ E l“:\.}.',):}l’ldn\h) le 3| was the sum total recsived and no one who fave v contributed to the ‘;sr T e Mg & disputed the mental calculation, Wwelfare and comfort of its inmates by from the § P There will be a meeting of the Republ- | thedr kind and timely donations: H. 8. tlfl{.‘:i o S s \ce decided by the | Can County Committee Wednesday even- | (cocker & Co., stationery; Hicks-Tudd Diiioat cotnt WABABE AR | b5 of next week. A full accounting will | ‘Jo., printing; Baker & Hamiiton, hard- highe t witahut delay. theén be made. Vouchers may be inspect- , Ware: Miller,’ Sloss & Scott, hardware; e ed and questions asked. Alexander-Yost ~ Co., hardware; D, Tea, "Poisoning. A movement to displace from. t'e | N. & B. Walter & Co.. carpets; Joseph Tictlms of tea poisoning are becoming alarm- inty Committee John J. Curry of che | Fredericks & Co., matting: Harry Unna v previ Fomen de 5 ty-third Assembly District ocer, Co.. cutlery, ete.; Fairbanks, Morse e e et omen demand the life and | oyl hour of ~the executive comm. chwy | & Co., scales; W. W. Montagus & Co.. R OB S e o Somg: Mt The subject was considered 4y “ga. | 0il heater; A. Zellerbach & Sons, paper: nummlll: by bullding up their systems they on. The point was rais of that | Charies Brown & Sons. porcelain ware: resort to cea. They should take Hostetter's | Curry was a Democrat and ghoyld he | Fmporium and Golden = Rule Bazaar, | Stomach Tsitters instaad. By strengthening the | removed. but the committes i o | goods. King's Daughters’ Home, Mrs | digestive ‘organs this brings beauty and good | po weneoq Ton : 5 ided that | BI9GT s e 1t tones up the nerves, drives away | bC WS @ Republican. It was {na shonl | GoiCIAME, PIesldEnt ——————— Cited for Contempt. M. W. Rosenblatt, president of the Rosenblatt Company, has been cited to appear next Thursday before Judge Mor- The sult instituted by Colonel F. S.|row in the United States Circuit Court to Chadbourne for the, 'purpose of ousting | show cause why he should not be puns Rudoiph Herold frc,m his seat in the Har- | ished for contemipt for having disregardsd bor Commission v/as dismissed yesterday | &0 injunction of the court restraining him remain noted that the Forlt.v-{mm District | was exceptionally strong in fts support the Republican ficket. RDOYY O Chadbourng’s Su’t Dismissed. regulates the bowels and cures ail VO VRV DODEDID maite i PIL ; o worth %'fi:{'?u?‘;flfl" o finbun:fiy ?en%rnl Ford. fi:‘:d Eoling Diengy ¥uidentn Roatain “Aou smissed was an- L ——— cupe Billous and Nervous Disorders. nounced In T'e Call Sunday morning, as 10 cents and 25 cents, at drug stores. @ | Were the lnffxencu which prompted Gov- Merchants’ Exchange. VO suit. 0 order the dismissal of the mfl:‘?md- is the Merchants’ Exchange f.or PLUMP OFFICES IV. VELASQUEZ. (Concluded.) 595 seldom that a painter emerges did from the ranks of the nd still more seldom when as exclusive a ot repudiate but d This 1sque in superb cos ght v e figure ars as an embodiment of nd refinement, a lover of the pleas- ct ures of court life. The royal favor and the likeral patronage of the court made it possible for him not only to.be inde- pendent of the patronage of the church, but to throw off the yoke of ecclesiastical anny in art and dare to paint whatever se. He was the only great secular artist of Spain. Tt is as weli to frankiy confess from the start the limitations and weaknesses of o pathos; he does not conceive types or ex- press emotions. His drawing is often sadly defective and he seldom shows any sense of the beauty of fline. He often composes weakly, and is crude or ele- mentary in the management sories and backgrounds. He was very slow in reaching mastery in his art and his early work promised nothing remark- able. On the other hand we admire him as a | supreme realist, as a master of quiet dramatic art, as the greatest painter of atmasphere. He is a supreme realist be- cause, tempered by his surroundings, he sloughed off all that was vulgar in his carliest studies and gives us perfect transeripts of the natural man. He is great as a dramatist because he poses his figures perfectly as if for stage rehearsal and is able to give elan without mo- tion, the perfection of repressed vigor And, finally, modern artists worship him as well nigh the greatest of old masters of moderns most of all f his technical supremacy and atmospheric effects. He is un- giving solidity and planes to and in placing them in an at- his figures mosphere palpitating with reality, in dif- | ferentiating between absorbing and re- ct even approaching such perfection from afar, and even the uninitidted are gripped hard, without knoWing why, by the ma- terial artistic truthfulness that the technique expresses. Velasquez made few preliminary artists. He planned and studied but little before the actual beginning of his grouped his figures in a tableau and then to have transferred them to canvas, with the greatest realism even In such elabo- rate scenes as ‘“The Tapestry Weavers” and the “Malds of Honor,” including the reproduction of the atmospheric medium. The resuits that he reached were at- ideals, but through constant preoccupa- tion for realism, assisted by a most deli- cate sense of color. For many years there was not even a sign of his later mastery of planes and of light. It was an uncon- scious growth. In fact, thére is nothing in the work of the first iifteen years of his career as a painter tp indicate great- ness. This slowness w&S naturai in him; it would nave been othierwise had he been an illaminated genjus. Not before the humor and mastedy expression in the “Topers,” painted, in 1629, just before his first Italian trip, could a great career be even suspected fHr him. All his fine work was done after the age of 32. Relying on Lis own ey on traditions, methods or schools, Velas quez does fot reflect strongly the influ- ence of avyy artist. What we do find neve blurs the master's own personality. N man vyas less a mannerist, and natur4l to separate his work into periods —(1), fms juvenile production at Seviile; (2) hi sseriod after his first Italian trip, and () {he perfod after his second Italian trip— it is also true that the changes are due o to the rational development of the artis His increasing perfection of simply enabled him to attempt new effects and any samenes even at any one period in his career, was avoided by h extreme openness to all shades of natural impressions, which led him to adapt hi | means to his ends with endless variety Perhaps one of the most interesting of | his changes was from a reproducer of de- tatled to one of general values, from copy ing the design on a royal gown and the rouge on a royal cheek to giving the dif- ferer between reflecting and absorb- ing shadows, or suggesting the effects of debauchery in the flabbiness of the fl tones. Of course, at times there i evident difference in the quality of his brushwork, especially in some of his mid- dle and later portraits, but this is easily xplicable. In that, for instance, of “Pulido Pareja’’ we know that the coarser and bolder touch was caused simply b the use of longer brushes in order that the painter could stand away from his canvas while painting. If there is a similar and even more decidedly impres- sionistic preoccupation in so much of Titlan's later work we may be sure that in Velasquez it was the result of the master’s own striving for objective truth- fulness. The range of subjects treated by Ve- lasquez is most interesting and charac- teristic. Biblical subjects interested him hardly at all. The “Joseph’s Coat” of his first Italian trip was his only incursion into the Old Testament field. The New Testament subjects he treated “ery sel- dom and slmost entirely during his ear- liest vears, while still in Seville—as in his “*St. John in the Desert,” his “Adora- tion of the Kings” in Madrid, his “Ador- ation of the Shepherds” in London, so like a Ribera, his ““Christ at the Goi- umn,” so Italian in feeling, and his “Christ on the Cross” in Madrid; taese latter were the fruit of Italy’s influence. His very early “Immaculate Conception” and his late “Coronation of the Virgin” were the only concessions he made tothe prevalent cult of the Virgin. lus latest gives an | ned with honors and responsi- | asquez’s ert. He has no imagination or | of acces- | QUEEN ISABELLA OF SPAIN. (From a Painting by Velasquez.) without a trace of the drama of emotion. | flecting surfaces and in reproducing the exact values even in the most elaborate interiors. Artists appreciate the difficulty | sketches, as was customary with most | final work. He appears to have posed or | tained not of set purpose, for he had no | ight rather than | it i is| early court work at Madrid; (3) the | not to the adoption of new methods but | technique | ) THE GREATEST NAME IN SPANISH ART, Copyright, 1899, by Seymour Eaton. . THE WORLD'S GREAT ARTISTS. jreligious subject, the superb “SS. An- thony and Paul in the Desert,” is rather {a picturesque lamdscape enhivened with | figures and corresponds in Velasquez's career to Titian's Peter, Martyr.” Of classic subjects are but few; a weak and bleary cadem- | ic “Forge of Vulean ‘Mer- cury and Argus,” but un- usual “Venfts and beggar studies dubbed “A fenippus” i('um)\] this series, least aracteristic | or Interesting of any. The “Surrender of Breda” was his only historic piece, and, superb as it is, we do not regret that he | so seldom forsook portraiture for such | elaborate compositions. But if we turn to the field of pure observation thers | scems hardly a phase of nature unex- plored by the brush of Velasquez. His incursion into landscape is even more in- teresting historically than for its own sake, and he shows himself here as ac- curate a transposer of nature as in his portraits, though a less familiar one. His views of the “Villa Medici” in Rome are the best authenticated of his pure landscapes, but in a number of his por- traits the landscape is but littl~ second in importance to the figures. His work in still life and in animal life, his tavern interiors and scenes of outdoor common life, are comparable to the best Dutch work. In his favorite field, portraiture, he left | no class in society unreproduced, from | street beggars, urchins and peasants, Morisco slaves and court buffoons and dwarfs, up through village alcades, sol- diers, country mag- istrates and gentle- men, to courtiers, generals, admirals, cardinals and prime ministers, and, finals ly, popes and roy- alty. Few members of the royal house of Spain then living es- caped portrayal, and al were fre- reproduced. s numerous por- traits of his earliest patron, the Prime Minister O 1i.vares, show his gratitude; but most numerous were those of King Philip IV, with al- most the whole of whose refgn he was contemporary, and whose weak and | sensual countenance he has immortalized 'wl!h a virtuo: worthy quite another subject. Most delightful were his por- traits of the younger members of the roy- al family, the infants and infantas, whose fresh, innocent pathetic faces he gives to seve the life. There was the greatest variety in his treatment of portraiture—half lengths, three-quarter lengths, full fig- ures, equestrian portraits. The figures at times stand out against a pure tone, at times against a drapery, and often are in the midst of a delightful landscape in hunting or riding costume, and perhaps with a favorite dog. Aside from a few earller masterpieces, such as the “Don Baltasar Ca /' the “Innocent X,” the “Juan de Parej: and others, the group of his latest portraits, such as those of old “King Philip,” of “Infant Don Pros- per” and *‘Infanta Margarita,” are per- haps his most marvelous reproductions of flesh tones; his most convincing tran- scripts of nature. They show that at the time of his death Velasquez had not ceased to advance in artistic perfection. AT Ditleylo o Princeton’ University. Note—"The Greatest Name in German Art” will be the title of the next study. WEBSTER FOUND A GOLDEN WINDFALL GOOD HARD CASH HE DID NOT EKNOW HE HAD. Back Salary to the Amount of $800 Turned Over to Him by Auditor Wells. | | Webster, Superintendent of dropped Into $300 of good county coin yesterday that was just like money from home. In fact, Mr. Webster has had that money for nearly a year, but did not know it until Auditor Wells informed him of the fact. His windfall represents the profitable result of the suit which he brought in 18% to oust ex-Superintendent Babcock from office. In November of 1886 Mr. elected Superintendent of Schools, but Babcock refused to turn over the office, on the ground that the election was il- legal. Webster instituted suit, and in March of 1887 got a favorable decision. During the two and a hal tion was pending, howe tinuéd to present his salary warran Auditor Broderick honc 1 them, instead of holding .them up until such time as a decision should be handed down. When, in the latter part of March, Web- ster was put in office by the court's decision he presented claims for salary from January 1 to March 25, but Brod- erick held them up on the ground that the salary had already been paid to Bab- | cocis. Webster contended that Babcock had no right to draw it, but Broderick was obdurate, and Webster finally let the matter pas: A few weeks ago the warrants came to fhe attention of Auditor Wells, who looked up the history of the case and then sought the advice of his attorney, John H. Dickingon, who advised him that the claims should be at once paid, and of that fact Mr. Wells yesterday informed the Superintendent. He also signed the war- rants and directed that they be paid out of the general fund. —————— An Official Visit. The past and present officers of the Su- preme Lodge of the Friends of the For- est pald an official visit last night to Lin- coln Lodge for the purpose of making | themselves acquainted with the condition of that subordinate. The officials were received with all the honor due their rank by a goodly number of the members and of visitors. Under good of the order there were offered a number of valuable sug- estions to be discussed in the several odges prior to the next session of the supreme body. Lincoln Lodge will cele- brate the third anniversary of its institu- tion by an entertainment and banquet in its lodge room in the Odd Fellows’ build- ing. . ¥ Schools, Webster was | ——e—— Official Canvass Begun. The Board of Election Commissioners began the official canvass of the election returns yesterday. It was decided to de- vote six hours a day to the work, the Commissioners alternating from day to day. No appreciable differences were found in the first precl‘nc;‘s counted. ng taily clerks were appoint- e;:hngotfinow}.ngt?er Jr. and Robert Mitchell, Republicans; J. H. Zemansky and Francis Sullivan, Democrats. L. J. Weleh, Democrat, and W. W. Bausman, Republican, were appointed to handle the ballots. 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