The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1900, Page 5

ARE YOU GOING BLIND? Hold this and . count sight is per- can read the ng paragraph 20 hes 2\\\'3'\': The Reason? Few are taught how to use the eyes, and secondly in the blood strong affinity If c acid % for the optic nerve. your eyesight ing, if you have specks and blurs before your eyes, you are the victim of kidney disease, and no time should be lost in securing and using Warner’'s Safe Cure, which will put over- worked and diseased kidneys in good health, 1d the excess of uric is S acid will be driven s from the system in- stead of passing into and poisoning it. Fail- ing eyesight in eight es out of ten is a signal which e heeded. FHONE SOUTH 770. TO-NIGHT. MATINEE SATURDAY. arce Comedy HIS BETTER HALF. AHAM and Matinee, 1sc, Play “LONDON LIFE.” EX :';'\7 R_ for the ~ RUARY—THE RPAL JEFFRIES-SHARKEY COWTEST PICTURES. CoLU these TH Bvery ni ) Matinee Sat. L 7 MATINEES LouIs KATHRYN CHARLES B. JAMES KIDDER HANFORD and a Company of 37 People. T and Friday, “THE RIVALS.” TO-NIG day NEE WED) ¢ Saturday Nights TALE.” CIAL MA end Thursday THE WINT HOW THEY | CROWD DID INt THE BBGINNING OF THE SECOND WEBK BIGGER THAN THE FIRST. HOW THEY DID YELL! Ever Created Such Continuous Laughter as “IN PARADISE” So Excellently Played by the FRAWLEY COMPANY. Next Su GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. TELEPHONE MAIN 532, THIS EVENING, Rien and Costly Revival of Suppe’s Famous Comic Opera, BOCCACCIO! IN PREPARATION David Henderson's Fa- mous Extravaganza, JR.” “ALADDIN 'SUAL POPULAR PRICES. ved EBeat in Orchestra, Saturday ALCAZAR THEATER. THIS MONDAY NIGHT, SOL SMITH RUSSELL'S Beautitul Pastoral Play, Peaceiul Valley 4 STORY OF XEW ENGLAND LIFE. Isc =< RESERVED SEATS Next Week— FRIENDS t of MARY HAMPTON. COKE! COKE! P. A. McDONALD, ‘Wholessle Dealer and OFFICE, 13 FOI ay Night—"THE CUCK00.” 3sc SOc of Cols T | | | | | | season. The chief topic treated in the| The report says the sofl is productive, | report is the laying out of the great (’ha' \;'RP\';\‘Pilfln{i haf)‘“cng\ b:ngmlahe;]'. ns-, v oxt | that there is plenty of timber A, Y i o, Fort| hardy farmers from Norway and Sweden o, A o Shis work he| ¥ould farm as sucpesstully 1o the Coppet g s work the | River Valley as in their own country. The | | officer was charged to take note of the| | mineral resources of th S POPULAR PLAY HOUSE) | | Phone for Beats.... THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1900. SAFE BREAKERS SHOT BY POLICE BRYAN TO THE LEAD POPULISTS Two Are Killed and One Wounded|Nominated by That Party, He Will Force the Democrats to Indorse Him. While Resisting Arrest in a Quincy Hotel. QUINCY, T, Jan. 28.—Quincy poiice of- | ficers last night killed two expert safe blowers supposed to be from Chicago, and wounded another badly. The tragedy In- cluded a running fight through a hotel, in which the armed burglars were pur- | street, pursued by Chitet of Police Jot}n sued by the oficers. The men are be- | Ahearn He turned o fire and as he did lieved t Vs cently 80 earn sent a bullet throug! s skull. ed to be those who recently operated | 1y, gieq in a few minutes. The third man in Illinois cities, making a speclalty of | wag ghot by Officer Charnhorst as he was cracking safes in bullding and loan of- | running u 1irs and sank to the floor fices. . with a broken hip. He was captured, On January 6 the safe of the Adams |but refused to say who his accomplices County Building and Loan Association [WShe: = . . Conl dressed, had wa. to the hotel at 2 o'clock they learned of the tragedy and found the hotel sur- rounded by officers. They ran into the hotel saloon and loaded their revolvers. Then there was a running fight in the hotel corridors. One man reached the was blown open at the noon hour and | monds and jeweiry and plenty of money. cash and securities amounting to $20,00 | Skeleton keys were found on all of them. taken. Saturday three men came to| When the two men came here Januap they registered as J. M. Burt and H. F. ‘rowley. Saturday Burt was registered Rogers. From letters found on rs that he also has the name nce of Chicago. The wounded to give his name. The men .d to have been three of the s in the country. nd registered from Kan- | rietor recognized their eing the sa who came b he afterward s He warned Hotel a The p xloe lly appeared, .—The Quincy safe star the suspect | cracker: om ted the notable Shukert e station and explain himself. | fur robbery here in August last year. The 1 and pointed it at | two men killed at Quincy were known , but as he did Koch | here as Charles Dennis and Thomas and fired four shots. | Monaghan, The two robbed the store of n fell dead. | Gustave K. Shukert, a dealer in furs, of k Saturday | furs valued at $20,000. The men were tracked to Chicago, where most of the furs were recovered and where Dennis and Monaghan were arrested. They were arraigned, but owing to lack of evidence got off. Prince was never apprehended. had exam- rglar tool: s and nitrogly er two men returned RAILWAY MAY BE BUILT IN ALASKA Route Surveyed by Cap- tain Abercrombie. SN WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—The War De- partment has made public an important | report from Captain W. R. Abercromble, | Second Infantry, who commanded the| Copper River expedition in Alaska last| crossing the mountain range and Thomp- son Pass, 2600 feet high, thence down the Teithell ~River Valley through the swampy pass at the head of the Knata, thence down the Tonsina Into the Copper River Valley. Captain Abercrombie be- lieves that the future for a railroad through this section of Alaska 1is very proinising, owing to the presence of large zones of heavily mineralized copper de- ich, he says, posits, the development of wh 4 Undoubtedly will vield a local tonnage o reat volume. He states that the prox- o mity of tie and bridge timber an absence of any great engineering features would render railroad construction a comparatively easy problem. Edward Gillette, a member of the expe- dition, contributes an important chapter to the report on the feasibility of estab- lishing a practical railroad route up the Copper River Vailey. He draws a com- arison between the route from Seattle to Ekmzun_v with the Valdes route to the ad- vantage of the latter. country also contains coal of good quality its | 573 marble of various colors. country, of adaptability for agricultur stock- | raising and the fuel and food products for | ——— endenimal o S o0 S EApeadentity Dnknow et aptain Abe: at Valdes s 5 % on the 21st of April. The harbor at Val-| ST. JOHNS, N. F., Jan. 28.—The con des, owing to the proximity of the Jap: tinuance of the storm makes it impos- ese current, is accessible at all se sible to obtain definite knowledge as to of the year to ships of any size, except | the identity of the vessel which went ashore Wednesday, January 17, on Fox- tail Point. Much apprehension is_felt The about a mile and a half at its head v feasible site for a railroad terminal only fc a narrow strip of land three-quarters | among the shore folk at Bay Island, as of a mile broad, extending up the Lowe | it is feared that more than one vessel has been lost. of River some five a south a stream flowing from Robe nominal gra through Keystone y canyon work, and £ plain of the point : — Arsenal of Carlists Found. MADRID, Jan. 28.—The gendarmes yes- terday unearthed a st arsenal In a house in Valencia, capital of the province of that name, and seized 100,000 cartridges and a large quant{ f arms. Six Car- lists who are implicated fled across the frontier. asnuna to th her turnin Cop- north, per River the ¢ EXHIBITION TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW, NEW YORK CONSOLIDATED ORIENTAL RUGS. Finest Aggregation Ever Exhibited in San Francisco AT ABSOLUTE AUCTION. 215.217 SUTTER STREET, Between Kearny and Grant Avenue, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3j, And the following THREE DAYS ONLY, at 11 a. m., 2 p. m. and 8 p, m. GEO. H. WEIGERT, FRANK W. BUTTERFIELD, By order of N. HAGOPIAN & CO. of New York City. Auctioneers. S. AMUSEMENTS. TIVOLI OPERA - HOUSE. “HOOT MON, Dinna Miss Fairy Tales!” THIS EVENING BEGINS THE THIRD WEEK Of the Emormous Success, the Comic Opera, THE IDOL’S EYE. THE DEMAND AS BIG AS BEVERI! Evening at 8. Saturday Matinee at 3. POPULAR PRICE:! .25 and 50 cents TELEPHONE, BUSH 9. RACING! RACING! RACING! 1900—CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB—1900 January 22 to February 10, Inclusive. OAKLAND RACE_TRACK. Racing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- day, Friday and Baturday. Raln or ahine. 'ive or more races each day. Races start at 2:15 p. m. eha Ferry-boats leav n 0 at 12 m. 12530, 1, 1:30, %, 2:30 and § . m.. connecting | with trains stopping at the entrance to. the track. Last two cars on train reserved for ia- dies and thelr escorts; no smoking. Buy your ferry tickets to Shell Mound. All trains via Oakland mole connect with San Pablo avenue electric_cars at Seventh and Broadway, Oak- land. Also all trains via Alameda mole con- nect with San Pablo avenue oars at Fourteenth and Broadway, Oakland. These electric cars AMUSEMENT! A SHOW WITHOUT A FLAW! BEST THIS POPULAR HOUSE HAS EVER OFFERED. 7 HOLLOWAYS; BRUET and RIVIERE; ity ARCHIPELA- PARTIE TRIO; GOANS; IH J. 0. BARROWS, AND COMPANY; BTT SHALL AND COMPANY NEWMAN Reserved St %c; Balcony 10c; Opera Chairs and Box Seats S0c. Matinees Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. "SHERMAN, CLAY & CO. HALL, 223 SUTTER STREBT. THE ILLUSTRIOUS SOPRANO, MLLE. ANTOINETTE TREBELLI WILL GIVE TWO SONG RECITALS TO-MORROW EVENING —Ana— SATURDAY AFTERNOON NEXT. ENTIRELY NEW PROGRAMMES. Reserved Beats, §1 and $1 50, At Shermsan, Clay & Co.'s Music Store. CHUTES AND Z00. EVERY AFTERNOON AND BVENING. MAJOR MITE, in New Specialties; BLANCHB LE CLAIR SLOAN, Flying Ring Artiste; ROBERT SBMILAX & CO. and Their Com- edy Bulldogs; MATT KEEFE, Lyric Tenor; the 3 D'ESTELLE SISTERS, Danseuses, THE LBANDOR BROTHERS, Gladiator- jal Acrobats, and a HOST OF NOVEL- AMATEUR NIGHT THURSOAY. CAKEWALK SATURDAY. ..PARK 2 race. R. B. MILROY, Secretary. Fremaest. 100s of Eye-Glasses Are now worn with our new clip because they are thoroughly comfortable. Don't slip, tilt or pinch the skin. 5 Oculists’ prescriptions filled. Quick repairing. Factory on premises. Phone Main 10. . APPARATYS, - SCENTIFIC A Nunath CHONICLE BULOWS | 642 MARKET ST, WsTRuMeNTS |- AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 28.—The Populists of Texas publicly announce that Hon. Willlam Jennings Bryan will accept the nomination of that party for President if it be tendered him. The following circu- lar letter, outlining the plan of action for the coming campaign, was to-day issued by Chairman J. H. Foster of the Twelfth Congressional District, who claims to have obtained his information and the propositions outlined direct from the na- tional headquarters. The circular letter is addressed to all county chairmen: Dear Sir: You are no doubt aware of the fact that if the Bryan Democracy, when they meet in national convention, reaffirm the Chi- | cago platform of 18% with a direct legislation plan as an issus, and it seems probable that they will nominate W. J. Bryan and some irre- proachable Southern man, that -such action will be the death of our party. Should the Democ- racy do this it will be only a repetition of their policy and plans, and, like their advocacy of 16 to 1, be shortlived. In view of such ac- tion on the vart of this new-born Democracy it is the duty of every Populist who loves the principles he advocates to lend his ald to thwart the destruction of his party. A plan has been suggested and is being dls- cussed all over the nation. The detalls of this plan are in part: That when our national convention assembles it reaffirm the Omaba platform, with direct legislation as the paramount {ssue, nominate William J. Bryan (and the assurance has been given by Mr. Bryan's friends that he will ac- cept the nomination) and some Southern Popu- list; that the free silver Republicans will in- dorse the platform and its candidates; that Mr. Bryan's triends will go before the Natiapal De- mocratic convention with a demand for the indorsement of the Populist convention, and, it is argued, they will not refuse. In the event that they do Mr. Bryan may refuse the nomina- tion at the hands of the Democracy. This ac- tion of itself will, by the Democrats, siznal their utter defeat and also that of the Popu- lists, but defeat, will lay at the door of the Democrats, We want discussion, open, fair and full. of these propositions, and when you send dele- gates to the Congressional convention at San Antonlo on February 17 let them be instructed as to the sentiments of the Populists in their respective counties. SUES T0 ENFDRCE 15 COMMANDS New Tactics of Com- merce Commission. TS ST. PAUL, Jan 28.—The Interstate Commerce Commission, in an action brought in the United States Clrcuit Court against the Northern Pacific Rail- road Company, shows a desire to make effective by appeal to the Federal courts those orders of the commission which for months have been to & large extent disre- garded by railroad companies. The Com- missioners are said to have now adopted a procedure that will revolutionize their re- latlons with transportation companies. It the courts grant the assistance that the new procedure demands, the Interstate Commerce Commission will hereafter be a tribunal that can punish instead of a friend that can advise. The bill is a pe- tition that the court compel the Northern Pacific Company to answer the commis- sion’s charge that the company has con- tinued to ignore an order issued by the commission last November relative to the adjustment of rates on certain commodi- tles from the Twin Cities, and other Min- nesota and Wisconsin points and Eastern cities, Tn June, 1899, the George Tilston Milling Company of St. Cloud and the City of St. Cloud filed separate complaints commission, alleging that the Northern Pacitic Company was charging the milling company and various St. Cloud concerns more for transporting property for a shorter distance than for transporting the same property a longer distance along the same line and in the same direction. Such discrimination is a violation of the inter- state commerce act. It was charged that the rate from St. Cloud to Superior and Eastern points was higher than from the Twin Cities, Anoka and Elk River to Su- perior and the same Eastern points. The matter was heard by the commis- sion in this city last August. After con- sideration an order was issued last No- vember, which, it 18 said, the railway company has continuously disregarded. Pending the decisiop of the case the court is petitioned to restrain the railway company from continuing to violate the commission's order. The defendant Is to appear in court March 5. DETAILS OF THE LOSS OF THE WILHELMINA Being Disabled by the Breaking of Her Shaft She Was Towed and Finally Abandoned. LONDON, Jan. 2.—Later reports re- garding the British steamer Queen Wil- helmina, Captain Pinkham, from Rotter- dam for Baltimore, which, as reported yesterday, had been towed by the British steamer Marquette, Captain Gates, arriv- ing at this port yesterday from New York, show that the bied broken her tunnel shaft on January 17 in latitude 51, longitude 27, and was picked up by the Marquette on the 2dth. was towed until the following day, and then after all the tow ropes had been broken in the heavy seas she was flnally abandoned In latitude 49, longitude 16. - Literary Woman Dead. CHICAGO, Jan. 28.—Anna Bowen, dean of the Women’s Hall at Northwestern University, died to-day of heart disease. At Leipsic she was the first woman al- jowed the full privileges of the seminary. For a time she did editorial work for the New York Nation. et B B Ex-Confederate Dead. RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 28.—Major Thomas A. Brander, past grand com- mander of the Virginia Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans, who was an, known through the South for his prodrlnl& e nence in all Confederate reunions, here to-day, aged 60 years. O'C ONNOR BROS 1 Grocerd 122-124 NINTH STREET. TELEPHONE SOUTH 63. QUALITY AND QUANTITY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. Best Family Flour, per sack. 20 pounds of Beans for. . 25¢ 13 pounds of Rice for. . Boe . 20e Best Sugar Corn, 8 cans Good Tomatoes, per can... Se Best Eastern Hams, per poun: . 18%e Best Eastern Cheese, per pound. 15¢ 4 Pork and 4-pound can of Boston bakel Beans ... 10 pounds Rolled Oats for. Best Java Coffes, per poun S > Best Costa Rica Coftee, per pound. 25¢ Best Saivador Coffee, per pound. Z0¢ Good Family Mixed Coffee, 2 Iba for. 250 Best Family Mixed Tea, per pound.. 40c Good Mixed Tea, per pound, 250 Best Cove Oysters, 8 cans for..... Prunes. ‘Whisky, per gallon.. 50 nPort or Sherry Wi " LIQUOR SPECIAL Best 0ld Bourboi Best S$-year-old gallon .o i $1.00 Best 6-year-old Zin o ttle of Bourbon Whis Boe Larse bottle of Baurbor oY er Toi 25¢ GIVE US A TRIAL. Batisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. |CAPE NOME MACHINERY and SUPPLIES, ENGINES, BOILERS, ETC. BAKER & HAMILTOX, Englnes and Boflers; & Davis ste. W, BUCKLET & CO. Pum, & CO. Steam and ‘Gasoline Engines. Boilers. 3 and 2§ Fremont. vith. the | steamer had | She | DISPOSITION 0 CHURCH PROPERTY Left to New Philippine Commission. RS A Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL HEADQUARTERS, WELLIN! TON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.— President McKinley has determined to leave to the new Philippine Commission the question of disposition of church property in the far Eastern archipelago. The commission will consult with the municipalities relative to the action to be taken, as will also be done in connection with the status of the friars who remain in the islands. At the same time the ad- ministration will have to determine what shall done with the church property in the island of Puerto Rico and the claims of the Catholic clergy both here and in the Philippines for the continuation of the Eupé)orl[ ey received from the Gov- ernment of Spain and which they claim is guaranteed them by the treaty of Paris. These questions are very embarrassing to the administration, especially as it is on the eve of the Presidential campalign, and there s no desire on the part of officials to take any action which may be offensive to the Catholic voters of the country. No Instructions have been given to either General Otis or General Davis relative to the disposition to be made of | the property clajmed by the church, and | none will be for the present at least. In the Insular budgets of the Philippines and Puerto Rico expenditures for the support of the Catholic clergy have been carried for some years prior to the American acquisition. DID NOT KNOW HE WAS A TIPPECANOE Senator Mason Replies to the State- ment That He Was Ejected From the Club. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Senator Mason of Illinois in a signed statement concern- ing the published reports that he had been requested to withdraw from the Old Tippecanoe Club of Chicago, said to- night: “I notice by the papers that I was ex pelled from thé Tippecanoe Republica Club in Chicago. I never applied for mem- bership. I heard through the press that charges against me had been preferred by Colonel McWhorter that did not | agree with the President ping and Boer questions.” The Senator then made a personal at- tack upen the integrity of Colonel Me- Whorter, and adds: “This (the reference being to a personal and not a political matter) is the only communication as to any charges against my Republicanism directly or indirectly I have had with Colonel McWhorter, chair- man of the committee on political action | of the Old Tippecanoe Club of Chicago. Had I known that I was a member of the club and that McWhorter was chairman | of any important committee I should have resigned. Meantime, 1 am for liberty and self-government in Cuba, the Philippine islands, South Africa and Chicago, c- ‘Whorter or no McWhorter.” NOT IN HARMONY WITH THE ADMINICTRATION Republican Leaders Oppose the Presi- dent’s Idea of Free Trade With Porto Rico. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—There are prospects of friction between the admin- istration and the Republican leaders in the Senate over the Forto Rican tariff. President McKinley adheres to his recom- mendation for free trade between Porto Rico and the United States, and the bill introduced by Representative Payne, pro- viding for the extension of the revenue laws over the island and its establish ment as a customs district, has the sup- port of the administration. Several of the most influential Repub- lican Senators, including Messrs. Platt of Connecticut, Aldrich and Allison, are dis- posed to support Senator Foraker's plan to impose a small duty on goods shipped between this country and Porto Rico. The House Committee on Ways and Means has not yet acted on Payne’s bill, but it is belleved it will be reported as it was introduced. This disagreement over the Porto Rican tarift and the determi- nation of the Republicans in the Senate to kill the reciprocity treaties show there is a decided lack of harmony between Me- Kinley and some of the leaders of his party. on the Philip- HEFT A WRECKAGE AT SEA. Indications That the British Ship 5 Merrimac Has Been Lost. LONDON, Jan. 28.—It has been learned that the British steamer Malinhead, Cap- tain McKee, which sailed from Ardrossan for St. John, N. B., on January 23, picked up a piece of wood marked ‘Merri—." The board Is supposed to be a part of one of the boats belongigg to the missin, ish steamer Merrimac, which sailed from Quebec October 27 for Belfast in command of Captain Shallis. Nothing has been heard of her since she left Canada. Dt Eve st Trade With China Growing. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—A report pre- pared by Frank H. Hitchcock of the Agricultural Department shows there has been a great development of our trade with China and Japan during the past dec- ade. In the fiscal year 1899 the value of the merchandise exchanged with these two countries, including the port of Hong- kong, reached $87,305,688, against only o 204,167 in 1889. Figures given show that In the decade there was a gain of $28,393,156, or 256 per cent, in exports, while the increase in im- ports amounted to 321,615,365, or 36 per cent. Blizzard in Texas. AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 28.—South and Cen- tral Texas were to-day visited by a very severe blizzard, which inereases in sever- ity a8 the night grows, and from present indications will be the worst blizzard of the winter. The temperature has fallen thirty degrees since noon. ———————— ' If you are framing pictures examine our new mouldings and mat boards in i et | A0 B e B 2 an fnme a&mmm Valil & Co. 741 Market street. Brit- | Contributors to this course: Scudder and others. XL RICHARD IITL. The Play as EMng Drama. playwright. immediate use upan the stage. would His plays were written 1 as acting dramas. Shakespeare tions of English history so far as cerned. character of Shaksspeare's it Is espect: true of his King Richard III. The w in general knows little and cares less Shakespeare drew. When reading “King Richard IIT" take some Interest characters of the play. Queen Elizabeth, Queen Margaret, | | | | | | ; {3 B e e S S e S ] [t it + ° + [t IR 4 RS e A e S e S B S RS O o Sl o | | | I e e s an kS SR o o o o e o g gham, Lord Riv-)Kean's death scene, too, in “King Richard young Princes, | ers, Hastings, thies more or les: | “King Richard IIT Buckin, te., al But when we played our whole It must never be forgotten that Shake- speare as a dramatist was a professional for we think of men as Shakespeare | thought of them we must think of them is usually credited with giving to the world the world's concep- the historical characters ~{ his plays are con- | If this is ‘rue of any historical ally orld for any Richard IIT other_than_ him whom we in the subordinate The Lady Anne, the GEORGE FREDERICK COOKE AS RICHARD IIL 1 enlist our sympa- see in- terest is centered upen the king himself. He then becomes—what he really 15%)!1»1 most astonishing creations in the whole Shake- | Our interest in him | of the greatest, most marvelous, spearean universe. dominates and transcends our Interes everything else. It follows, that” King Richard is a_difficult | play. As in the cases of King Lear, t in therefore, | role to am- | fet,” Shylock and Othello, only the great- est actors can do_justice to it. In one respect King Richard III is most difficult of all the Shakesper | roles. ter of the man himself to sustain, the characters of all the different alia he assumes. Richard does really of people to acts and courses wh}:-h, if he were not so consummat dissembler, they If, then, the part that it appears rea tion of the play beco: ridiculous. The play_was popular in Sh time. As far 1‘1!5 we can learn, opular of its day. gaps the play presented that Burbage, King Richare came in peop) real King Richard. Th: A horse! A horse! ‘Was quit ular min Fleld as wit] Field. It is somewhat remarkable, that subsequent to Shakespeare’s time lay as Shakespeare wrote it fell into 'avor. This was of its inordinats length. sary to revise and condense it, reviser an should say) substitute tion and treatment. that the play, “King the world has seen mos most of is not but a version o ber, the actor, ate (1671-1757). Modern critics can scarcel: strong enough to con the ‘“‘deformation” W] Shakespeare’'s noble production. theless, we must remember that for ab 150 years—indeed, quite down to very cent times—Cibber's version of the pl or some version or other of Cibber’s | sion, was the only “King Richard | be not so well sustal 1 and natural the mes nonsensical le's conceptions almost and | version most three-fifths, of the play as Shal peare left it. Almost all great actors who have sayed Shakesperean parts at all have sayed the part of King Richard 111 was in the part of Garrick made ‘‘his first appearance | any stage man's Fie! wine merchant appeared incognito, the success he won, though it scandal his flmll{ determined his career. Richard IIf soon became the wonder John 1T in his magnificent reportoire Shakespearean characterizations. But art was too versatile for Kemble’s st y talents. The great King Richard of Kemble's era was that unfortunate. ratic genius, George 'h:lm Byl;?n one: a_biograp! Fwo tht him—first, that a biography; an nd, that a much_in hi to write his blography. disappointments of the patrons thronged his house to hear him in hi t part the | ean There is not merely the charac- but ases We must remember that | obtain the consent | of conduct e a would never consent to. | ned ac and akespeare’s the most | So often and so well | the of Shakespeare's age, be-| the at famous line— My kingdom for a horse! e as much associated in the pop- d with Burbage and Bosworth h King Richard and Bosworth however, the dis- erhaps partly because It was neces- the d condenser irreverently (as we d his own concep- | Tt thus happened | Richard III,” which t of and heard | Shakespeare's play at all f it written by Colley Cib- dramatist and poet laure. find words | demn what they call | hich Cibber made of Never- hout Te- lay, ve IIr the world knew. Tt was Sir Henry Irving who, on u- ary 29, 1877, gave to the stage a ng Richard 111" arranged wholly from S| akes- | peare’s text. Shakespeare's play was too | ong to be resorted to in toto. Irving's is not more than a half, or at| kes- | el es- It ¢ King Richard III that on in the little theater of Good- \ds. The stage-infatuated young but 1zed His and talk of the town. And King Richard ever remained one of Garrick's greatest parts. Philip Kemble included Richa rd of the ate- 1T er- Frederick Cooke, of e sald, having heard that of Cooke had been written, ngs were marvelous about man 8o continuously drunk should live long enough to have a . seco! man so is cups as Cooke was should ever have known any one sober enough Cooke’s frequent who his became at last too avnoying 1o be endured. Once, when he had vainly endeavored to remember his lines, he his bands to his breast, and, simula s STAGE HISTORY OF KING RICHARD IIL Copyright, 1800, by Seymour Eaton. POPULAR STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE. Dr. Edward Dowden, Dr. Willlam J. Rolf - W b Do AR Sl Dy, Wi Coracs T Tooas 3 e T sigkness, hiccoughed out the words, My old complaint.” The aptness of his self- description was too ridiculous to remain | unrebuked. was hissed off the stage. And vet it is doubtful If a greater Rich- ard ITI than Cooke has ever been known. | Cooke, it may be said, was the first great actor that ever cros | {o play in the United States. Thia he did in 1810 is principal play, of course, | “King Richard I11." "His success Was Pnnrmi\us But his “old complaint” seon proved too much for him. He di New York, untimely, in 1812, 5 oo King Richard III was one of the prinei- pal roles of that greatest of Shakespercan ed the Atlantic actors, Edmund Kean. Critics differ as to the excellence of Kean's King Rich some other of his Shakes- pere Hazlitt, however, who no doub s the greatest dramatic critic of Kean's day, says that Kean's impersona- tion of the character was the most re- fined and the most appropriately versattle | of any the stage had known. In the scene | with "Anne, he said, no one could have lequaled Kean but “the first tempter.” e e e o e e e aal o o ol e e o ol o 2 [y . "\\\\\\fi D) < D e e e e e e e e o A i e kL S i S S o 2 B ot | III” (death scenes, it may be sald, were Kean’s fortes) was a marvel of appro- priate representation. In the estimation of personal friends Junius Brutus Booth was Kean's great rival. Opinions differ very much as to the quality of Booth's genius as compared with that of Kean's in many ts. But there no difference f opinfon as to the merit of | Booth’s Richard ITL. Almost the only adverse opinion ever pronounced upom it was that/it was an exact imitation of Kean's. This was in England, however. When in 1 Booth came to America he found hi: if supreme, not only in King Richard III, but in every other tragic | part. When he died (In 1852) it seemed or the moment as if the grandeur of the stage had ended. It will always be a regret to the lovers of Edwin Forrest's name and genius that he had not in youth the advantage of fa- miliarity with good stage examples and noble stage ideals. Had this been so, had he not for years been doomed to act amid the demoralizing influences of rough, up- cultured audiences, there is little doubt that Forrest would have ranked with the world’s greatest players—with Garrick, with Mrs. Siddons, with Edmund Kean— for his natural histrionic powers were of the highest. As it was, his Richard III | was a noble production, though far infe- rior to his Lear, his Othello and his Co- riolanus, and especially to his Virginius, his William Tell and his Metamora. King Richard III was the elder Booth's most famous part. and it is an interesting fllustration of the descent of genius that it was in “King Richard IIT" that Booth's reatest son, Edwin Booth, first made- ame. The elder Booth was given to moods. One night in New York, in 1851 being billed for Richard IIT, he announ: to his son, who was attending him, that he was ill and unable to perform. Then the son pleaded that the people wouid be disappointed. “What can they do with- out you, father? he cried. T;Ae only re- ply that he recelved was: “Go_act 0|¥ yourself.” And this at last he did. course he knew the part, for every word and tone and gesture of hic father’s act- ing had long before been absorbed in his very being, o loyal and dutiful a son was he. But it was an anxious night for him. His father’s clothes that he had to wear were far too big for him, and he cogld plainly see that the managers of the | house were on tenterhooks. But his | gentus carried him through. At the end of the play he knew that he had found his vocation. | Note—The study of “King Richard III" | will be concluded on Thursday. The two | concluding papers in the Shakespeare course will be of unusual interest. Dr. Parrott of Princeton will present a paper on “The Schools of Shakespearean Criti- olsm,” and Hamilton W. Mabie will pre- nt a paper on “How to Study Shakes- peare.” St. Ignatius College Pupils in a Dra~ matic Performance. Invitations have been extended for a grand performance of ‘“Macbeth” by the elocution classes of St. Ignatius College in the hall on Van Ness avenue next Wednesday evening. Rehearsals have been held for the past four weeks under the direction of Professor C. B. Newton and a finished production is looked for. Music will be furnished by the college orchestra, consisting of twenty puplls, under the baton of Rev. Father en. The caste, with the classes of the puplls, follows: Duncan, W. Golden (Philosophy); Maleolm, A. Smith (Humanities): Donalbain, C. Sehoen (First Academic): Macbeth, (Rhetoric): Young Macbeth, F. manities); Banquo, D. Murphy (Poet: auff, F. Churchill (Rhetoric): Rosse, (Poetry); Seyton, B. Foley (Rhetoric C. Sehott (Humanities): Porter, L. ond Academic); Fleafce, W. Fol demte); First ever, M. Coffey B ond Murderer, E. Bresnean (Second Academic): Witches, C. Schott (Humanities) and J. Magee (First Academics); soldiers, L twenty-five pupils 8 Carthy urphy (Hu- Mac- W B