The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 25, 1900, Page 7

[ s THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAIX, suuY 25, 1900, AMUSEMENTS. | Redins ADVERTISEMENTS. ; * § SPECIAL!—Next Monday Begins RAND OPERA SEASON ON SALE SEVEN DAYS AHEAD!| . AIDA" ang Seese2 Corymical UR CREDIT SYSTEM| | 1S SUPERB. ry houses. hotels, flats b Railws with o OF VAUDEVILLE. ND WEBBER: MAZIE K N AND STONE “THE ALLIED FORD SULLIVAN A the BRILLIANT’S, ?38:340-342 POST ST, inge. Near Powell. JESSIE PADGHAM. ETTA BUTLER, Fifth- mi GRAN ?‘i(’)liné No More Dread Walter Orosco. ... e Lessee and Manager nenFRAW =5 | _Chair, TLL -y of the Denta THE GR “THE RE D LAMP. New Yark Dental Parlors, 723 Market Street, SAN FRANCISCO - Py MUNYON'S GUARANTEE. LCRDX THEATRE Evenings ai 8:15. fai. Mat. at 2:15. FLORENCE ROBERTS, . & v the Strong Assertions ms to Just What the Remedies Will Do. THE COLUMBIA TINEE TO-DAY. RY MILLER rday 1 (9 0 A MA HEN ELLENCY THE GOVERHOR. SAME SHAPE JWO QUAUITIES HIS EXC reha 25¢ cach ! 2#sr 254 CLUETT,PEABODY 8 CO:. S - MILLER I FICERS.” PIA “BROTHER OF oLYM HE ONLY . EDDY ST., COR. MASON TLL HOW IN Professor Gonradi's VING STATUARY in Sen Pr: L BASCO AND RICE, MPANT, ANT DAY. Every Aftarzsca ané Evening CHUTES AND Z00. SCENES OF THE GREAT STE SHIP FIRE IN NEW YORK, ent stamp for “BOOKLET £ ELECTRIC CO., am-| PIERC €an Fran 0. R b o e e e o R s = MARKET-STREET VOLIx COMPANY SHOW | Notifies Superviéors That It Will Begin Extensive £an Brunc Avenue Line to Be Built at Once—Electricity on Fifth corporation’s intention to commence work on six important street railways within filed a petition for electricity as the motive power on the with horses. An apology for the string- ing of wires on Bush street without per-| petfiion to the board to permit the com-,| rmal notice of intention to commence | Saturday, July 2%, SMALL BOY APPEARS As HIS OWN COUNSEL AND WINS HIS CASE. GRENT ACTIVITY Troubles of Steamer Charles D. Lane Are Multi- plying. Construction. ow TR Etree;—:pology Naval Transports Nero and Justin T AV Placed in Commission to Carry Sl | . Coal to the Fleet in Vining of the Market-street Chinese Waters. Company filed notice yesterday ! the Board of Supervisors of the — There are some peculiar complications in connection with the affairs of the steamer Charles D. Lane, and just where the matter will end no one seems to know. She is to sail to-day for Nome, but some of her creditors may step {n and make | trouble by holding the vessel: A meeting | of the shareholders in the Wild Goose Mining and Trading Company was held in the Hobart building yesterday, which! lasted for nearly three hours. Some ar-| rangement was reached and the vessel| will probably get away to-day, but if she | | does there will be more trouble at Seattle, | as a number of bills contracted by the vessel on her last visit to the Sound are still unpaid. R. Lewls, the attorney from Seattle, s in San Francisco in connection with this matter, and the chances are | that all may be straightened out and the | four weeks. There was also | permission to use xt treet line, which is now operated n was contained in still another to keep the wires where they were o continue to operate the line on treet. | on the follo g lines at the times was given by the company as fol- at 7 a m., the con-| ¢ thag certain ralircad commencing | of Railroad avenue gnd | line of Sixteenth avenue | ting with the existing tracks | n - - vessel reach ome without any libels Y il | being placed against her. i Y (lon§ Rall | _When the Charles D. Lane does reach e there will be some more straighten- out of affairs, and Captaln Warner lgse his ship. ap Phil Cook, of the steam whaler Thrasher, but more lately of Lane's schooner Vega, here, ready to take the steamer, but Captain Warner refuses to give her up. | He has cleared her and intends to hold his_command until released by Charles D. Lane himself. When the Charles D. Lane was last at Nome the managing owner gave Captain Warner instructions to sail on a certain Thursday at noon. He then went to Golovnin Bay and left his son Louis in charge of affairs. Louis Lane took Cap- 1 Cook out of the Vega and told him to take command of the steamer. At the same time he told Captain Warner not | to sail until Instructions were sent out| from the shore. Cook sent his belongings | | aboard and was all ready to take com- thency t twenty feet dis- ¥ line, authorized 4, 1900, at 7 a. m., the adaptation to electrical ser- double track railroad com- slsom streets, thence et northerly to Market Battery and along Battery . the reconstruction rack ral on Bush Battery, etc., the h was granted to the Central 4 of November 12, 1579 ¢| mand and leave for San Francisco on eag cghcnns Friday. His plans and those of young Louis Lane were spoiled, however, a< aptain Warner took the ship to the day and hour designated by D._ Lane. Cook followed his clothes to San Fran- clsco on & revenue cutter and is now mak- ing a fight for the command of the Charles | D. Lane. He and Captain Warner wer: before the directors of the Wild Goo: Mining and Trading Compan i | not_ yet been decided who w steamer to sea. News From the Transports. Uncle Sam is about to rush coal a on Charles rs of the city and . the comstruction of h the west track the north- to China for the men-of-war. That article is getting very scarce in Chinese waters wanted at once. The naval . the construction o ‘with the east track t Brannan s nd Justin have been put in | motive power on states that the ¢ c on & chise was amended | i that the company has ! al officer, but all the remainder of t crews will be civilians. The first, second, third and fourth officers will all come from the merchant service and the en- operating the line by means of ers will come from the Marine F ne ' Association. Some little work jon to continue | to be done on the Ji 1 but the cha contains 1 the fran- in that of the “mls- ip wires without ing formal apol- are that August 1 will see her on her way o China regard to the transport changed. Instead of | ers at Nagasaki she Taku on a rush or- make a record run will push through der. and_will probabi to the Chinese coast. ‘Water Front Notes. | The Ohlo sailed for Nome last night. | She carried twenty-five passengers and a considerable amount of freight. | J. T. McMillan, the popular employe of the branch hydrographic office, came | back from a ecruise to Catalina yesterday. He received a hearty welcome on 'changa. Ilv advised of its under the mistaken reet line was being h Beach and Mis- ise, and was therefore In- e general and subsequent grant power to v its electric con- to the adjacent buildings, and did so WOUNT AAMNLTON Including Hotel Vendome, in a Two Days’ | Outing. SOTO. a Our bay clties are already favored | rather above the average of large com- munities for cheap and attractive subur- n outings, but now another has been | fixed upon, outstripping all the rest, per- haps, in distinguishing features and rare interest. The managements of the Mt. Hamilton | Stage Co. and the Hotel Vendome of San Jose have put on sale at the railroad of- fices a_round-trip ticket to Lick Observa- tory, covering every expel and many ghtful privileges, for $5, about one- d less than the regular cost. s will be a Saturday and Sunday including rail and stage transpor- < both wavs from San Francisco, Oakland or Alameda. and a day and a quarter at the splendid Hotel Vendome in San Jose. It provides also for a night it “to the Lick servatory and a impse at the worlds and wonders be- vond through the great telescope. | Another ticket is what is known as an open rate, for $850. good an | ing the same privilezes, nger at the Vendome. a day stead of night visit at the observator: Our great stellar spyglass is justly (GET, twelve-year- gratulations on his al preferred by An- old man amed boy admitted on t he threw the stone. had a tent on a vacant house and were r. Casey gained their knocking their tent L R e R R A e e R R or 1145 way, New York City. 4 2 — i ok — — e Poaniod hold mock ous and Mt. Hamiiton shares the honors, | ; be: sent Ixutelil of Sy even though it does not rival Matterhorn | CHICHESTER'S ENGLI - ing there as soldlers. ‘ or Blanc, or similar Alpine crags. It nev-; TO-MORE RS. E"NYRUYA s + ertheless has algranderrhnll lxs”wn, ang‘ | RIS SSTeee. | it is doubtful if any of the world’'s note or b pdd 4 | @4sereies +0 | I aora more supremely pleasing vi | o e x s Alw. - g trouble with most of us is t t FI »q CONCERT HOUSE. | &y — ! Stis Woas Wot s Dorgler | tos1ive too near. ¢ we lived in New York FISCHER’S CoRcERt E- | ES59) s BED ot Geld mowiis Soxe el | Mre. Kate de Costa, who was arrested | or Burope insiead of under fts very —\B¥) with tiue ribbon. Take g a 5 g FETS AND IX bt TC = 3 | Daugerons Subell =t ! 2) on a charge of burglary for|shadow it would have far greater interest | g SEE o e e e e | 1to the house. 17 Chesley street, | for us. and it should no longer be to our | Parei 220 S Telie for L tura Mail. 16,00 imoniais. Sodby | 1 Draggis. Chiehester Chemical Cay | " pu Nindison Squsre, PI1LA.. P. SUTRO g PEN N house DR. WONG FAYORITE RESCRIPTION Gonorrhea | g permatorrhes | V;m.u snnatural dip barges. or sy infiommar E . drritation or uicerss Herb & ) ot & & ould §uotLy vsk great Mexican strensth to sexual organs cam and CAFE ROYAL 27 { and | i Vatiseschecked free. | INJECTION. A PERMANENT CURE of the most ohstinste cases of Goporrhes red The c credit, in view of this very tempting of- | ee cans of coffee, it now. Juage Conian ‘yestecday. | fer, that we do not £0 and see omplaining witness was Mrs, Nellie | e S 4 < nd on her evidence the Judge| The Richmond Locomotive Works has | the case. It was shown that | shipped a second consignment of nine ed to get something to eat. | Wilson line to Helsingfors, Finland. ! Act Quickly— Save Money. To delay means to lose money. If you are in.need of a good made- to-order suit, get it while the PRICES ARE REDUCED. $17.00 SUI § reiuced fo - - - - $13.50 $20.00 SUITS rednced 1o - - - - $15.50 $30.00 SUITS reduced 1o- - - - $25.00 $8.00 PANTS reduced to- ... $6.00 JOE POHEIM, The Tailor, 1110-1112 Market St. 201-203 Montgomery St., S. F. | Red Rock and the TROUPS COMING T0 EMBARK FOf SEAT OF WA Colored Heroes of San Juan Hill Expected to Arrive To-Day. e AR, Detachment of Marines, Four Com- panies of Infantry and a Bat- talion of Engineers Are Due Saturday. e Troop H of the Ninth United States Cavalry, colored, expected to arrive | here to-day. 'This Is part of the “Fight ing Ninth,” the regiment that behaved with such conspicuous gailantry at the attle of San Juan Hill. Troocp H con- sists of three officers and ninety-eight men. Four companies of the Fifteenth Infan- try are now en route here. Three compa- nies are from Governors Island and one from Atlanta, Ga. The battalion of en- gineers left West Point yesterday. These troops should be here Friday. The 500 marines to sail on the Meade have left ‘Washington and are due here Saturday. Lieutenant Eugene T. Artillery, General Shafter's efficient ald, is to perform the duties of Major Gal- lagher, commissary of subsistence, who goes to China on the Hancock, pending the arrival of Major Wood, the new com- missary. The lieutenant will also act as judge advocate. There is no officer on the coast better fitted to perform this triple t Lieutenant Wiison, army of- als / The batteries of the Third Artillery will leave here 130 stron ty recruits were examined yesterday to thelr fitness for this branch service and were as- d to the different batteries. he recruits arriving at the Presidio yesterday numbered eighty-four. ‘The number of co: ing every day. Yesterday seven men were discharged from the hospital. First Lieutenant W. Eighteenth Infantry has been assigned to duty as signal officer, relieving Second | Licutenant H. Clay Evans of Battery O. Corporal John T. Barry of Battery A has been detached and detained at the post to await a commission as second lieutenant. | The bodies of sixteen soldiers were | buried yesterday at 2 p. m. There are | still a large number awalting The quartermaster was notified yester- of the arrival at Port Costa of sixty- x pack mules consigned to him. The following orders w 1 Department of Califor; W. Clark, Eighteenth e of absence for twen- £ t Kk leave of al ith the convales- Acting Assistant Surgeon Hugo A. Wahl assigned to duty at the ral Hospital, Pre , awalting tran n abroad NINTH DAY SEARCH FOR Trace of Kelly or Miss ‘Warren. Yesterday, the ninth day since Miss Bessie Warren and Tobias J. Kelly disap- peared in a boat from Belvedere and were supposedly drowned in Raccoon Stral nches patrolled the bay from early ast night. The efforts were uncrowned with ne launch Norwood, with Fred nd John Kelly, brother of the ng man, on board, cruised around Marin Islands, while Kelly scanned every inch of the water's urface with powerful fleld glasses, The veill patroiled Raccoon Straits and the vicinity of Angel Isiind, the same means bein i on her as on the Norwodd for the on of any floating objects. Sev- eral times the launches approached what Iy a body, oniy to discover on a nearer view that the object was onl a flcating bunch of seaweed or some other flotsam. It is now sald to be improbable that the bodies will ever be found. Old timers declare that the remains of the un- fortunate young couple lie with their boat in some cavernous hole at the bottom of Raccoon Straits. To-day and to-morrow a sharp lookout will be kept for any trace of the victims of the recent Belvedere tragedy. 3 FOUND SAFETY PIN LODGED IN NECK OF FOUR-YEAR-OLD BOY OHN and Amella Cecorla of 521 Green street recently quarreled over their four-year- old son. The child had some- t g the matter with its throat and the mother said it re- quired a surgeon’s attention. The father objected and the quarrel grew so bitter that the husband and wife separated. Mrs. Cecoria took the child to a free medical clinic and the sur- geons, by use of the X-ray, found a large open safety pin in its neck. An operation was performed and the pin removed. The child had evidently partially swallowed the pin, which had lodged in the throat and worked into the neck, the point having almost reached the surface. The Societw for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is investigating the father's action in refusing to let a surgeon examine the child and later failing to contribute to the lit- tle one’s support. AR AR AR A R R R s L R e R R R 3 MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL ARCANUM VICTIMIZED The Police Are Searching for Charles Churchill, Who Came From Minneapolis. The police are searching for Charles Churchill, a suave young man who is ac- cused of obtaining money from members de Costa had entered Mrs. Yorke's | locomotives with six-wheel tenders by th® | of the Royal Arcanum in this city by | false pretenses. Churchill arrived in the city about a 0 and called upon some mem- Tt e A oedSr repeebenting that. he Was 2 member in ood standing from Minneapolis. He worethe order’s badges and buttons and gave the necessary . He bought two suits of clothes from H. D. Hutt, 630 Sutter street, giving | him a check for 39 on the Exchange Na- The checl but tional Bank of Spokane. meantime returned as worthless, Churenill has disappeared. G. E. Carison of the Emporium lost $50 in the same way and there are said to be others. Churchill was such an affabie young man that he was wined and dined extensively members of the order. —ee—————— Chance to Become Letter-Carriers. A civil service examination for those wishing to become letter-carriers will be held August 2. Applicants must be be- tween 21 and 40 years of age and must be sound in wind and limb and be prepared to answer questions in spelling, arithme- tic and geography. They must also show eir ability In letter-writing. penman- IB5Y copying and reading addresses. Al lications must be filed before the hour :?pclu!lng business on August 16. — e M. J. Pearring a Bankrupt. M. J. Pearring of San Jose in bankru in et ea :l:'e!f"m.'v.'flc: (:m‘\rzt lil‘l- liagil? United ijties amount to $6609 23; assets nos Wilson, Third | lescents is increas- | H. Jordan of the | IIL (Coneluded.) A significant difference of temperament | | {and Michael Angelo in these decorations of the Bistine Chapel. Take, for Instance, the picture of “Christ Delivering the Keys to Peter,” by Perugino, the master of Raphael, a work which, though full of grace, beauty and even dignity, is unim- pressive and almost commonplace in its spirit and full of incongruities and ab- surdities. Of altogether different temper was Michael Angelo, who in his decora- tions of the celling and of the space be- | hind the altar speaks of things past and {to come and thunders denunciation upon | sin with all the power of the prophets | whom his mighty brush described. The | work 1s divided in nine unequal spaces, | In which the creation, the flood, etc., are seen. Around these illustrations, between the pointed lunettes above each window, 1s & row of seven prophets and five sibyls. | In the ettes themselves are the ance tors of Christ who are awalting his com- | ing, and on the tops of the pillars between | which each prophet and siby | nude figures, which seem t! f the rees h natural and spiritual world, agitated by the expectation of some event that shail move both Xh?’I?h ical universe and the soul of man. he individual features of this majestic work are too well knc require any elaborate descrip! therefore we will touch upon onl of them a em to possess a beauty, interest or suggestlveness. It s thirty years after the ceiling the Sistine Chapel was painted. and in the reign of another Pope, that Michael An- s manifested between the earlier painters | Dx ot | / FAMOUS ART GALLERIES OF ITALY. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaten. g | IFAMOUS ART GALLERIES OF THE WORLD e id, St. Jerome A_work more beau- and expfession d hes of Parm Correggio, a ave suffered seriously A very pi ot preserved, however, 1" nunnery of St. Paul. of the abbess is ¢ a 3 n 1 vhich, howev m the ravages: 3 m- ical v ¢ Italian art, necessarily much condensed, may well be concluded in Venice. The ducal palace is the chief treasury of Venetian ar it illustrates Paul Veronese, Tintoretto and others of their time by some of their finest exam- , and here better than elsewhere can 1 decorative character of Venetian__painting be satisfactorily ob- served. The halls of state and of counefl are elaborately decorated with splendid paintings framed in the walls and ceilings by richest moldings of heavily plated goid. In the hall of council the frieze is formed by a row of seventy po-traits of Doges, extending around room, and twenty-one large paintings by Tintoretto, Veronese and o nearly every foot of the three-q an acre of space in wall and ceiling. The most remarkable of these works i “Paradise’” of Tintoretto, w the wall over the thre to be the largest ofl pa in the world. 40 by sions and contains at least I fac is faces forms, 1 compo: | lighted, raed by grea [ e ae oo o o e e o o o o e e e o o o e o ol ] { i DD oD et gelo completed his labors here by produc- | ing his great work on “The Last Judg- ment.” He was in his sixtieth year and at the zenith of his rs. ure is of huge dimension: The crowded forms are drawn in eve | conceivable attitude and they are grouped with marvelous effectiveness. is work reveals the mind of a man quite removed | from the eaim indifference of Perugino and the suave elegance of Raphael, a man essentially a prophet and seer, de-| nuneiatory of evil and perceiving the | swift approach of retribution. Raphael's Vatican began in the same year that saw the inauguration of Michael Angelo's la- bors in the Sistine chapel. The great | event of the Pope's relgn was the rebuild- ing of St. ‘s, and the mind of his Holiness turned upon the crea- tion of a > to commemorate it, by showing forth the power of the Christian religion. The so-called “Dispute of the | Sacrament,” or, better, “Theology,” evi- dently presents this idea rather than that | | of a doctrinal controversy. as was former- {1y thought. In the air is seen God the Father, in an attitude of majestic sim- plicity: beneath him Christ. the Virgin and John the Paptist, on either side of whom are patriarchs, prophets and evan gelists. On the earth are the fathers of the church, preachers and religious writ- ers, among whom are Savonarola and Dante. The werk is in Raphael's purest | style, unaffected as yet by the influence of Michgel Angelo. The greatest work of | Raphael's genius in fresco painting is the so-called “School of Athens.” which flils the wall opposite the ‘Theology.” and represents the power of philosophy. It shows the highest powers of composition, draughtsmansiip and expression, present- ing the various schools of reason in their relations to each other in a marvelous way. The general thought moves in a | great circle. Its lower side, upon the floor | beneath the steps, is occupied by the orig- inators of earthly and empirical sciences —Epicurus, Pythagoras, Xenoerates., Eu- clid, Ptolemy and Zoroaster. Diogenes sprawls on the steps and connects the higher and lower orders of thought. | The graceful figure in armor at the left | of the upper group is Xenophon, to whom and some friends Socrates is speaking. and in the center are the commanding forms of Aristotle and Plato, the former appealing to nature, the ground of his studies, the latter to heaven as the source of all lom. The imposing architecture adds much to thebreadth and grandeur of | the work. which stands as the highest achievement of the Italian renaissance. where classic models were followed in all branches of scuipture. painting and liter- ature. The design shows also the fact that in it art breaks forth from eccle- siastical control and enters the service of | other masters. In the “Loggia.” or the gallery of the Vatican, the designs. were made by Ra- hael and the work was done by his pu- pi The mere designing of this corridor was a work of great importance. for ail the ideas came from the one fertile brain | —the seenes from the Old and New Testa- | ments In the ceiling, the decorative sup- ports of figure, architecture and ara- | besque and the original and eharming or- namentation at the sides of the windows. The work upon which Raphael was en- | gaged at the time of his death in 1520 was | the “Transfiguration,” which is now pre- | served in the Vatican gallery. The upper part was finished by his own hand and the | lower portion was completed by Giulio | Romano. One of the great art shrines of Europe is the Church of Santa Maria deile Grazie !in Milan. by reason of its holding In it= | cloisters the immortal work of Leonardo | { da Vinct, the famous “Last Supper. i old work, perhaps the best-known picture | in the weorld, s now a melancholy ruin. Hardly any features can be seen, the | forms are vague and ghostly and in only one or two faces can the quality of the original expression be guessed. Its de- truction is greatly to be deplored. picture was a monument o the movement in art that Leonardo an- | nounced. and we have but to compare it | | as it was in its prime with the master- pleces of the Umbrian and Florentine schools of the same period to see how it | Surpesses them all in balance of desi; expression of emotion. interest in t dramatic force and artistic r | This The new ose. Sled enal versatility has become a byword. | The fruitful fifteenth centur§ produced | not onl*’}hphul. Michael Angelo, Leo- nardo, Titlan. but also the Ariel of the | renaissance, Corregzio. The works of this | master are to be found in all the leading galleries of Europe, but his best pictures are still at Parma, where he lived and There alone can he be studied un- dled. standingly. As Titian is i cotor. Leonardo in flxrre-dpan‘ Angelo In dramatic actlon and in form, so is Co the master of light and shade and emotion. His atmosphere can be inhaled. | and the gélden sunlight that shines in ' PITTI GALLERY, FLORENCE. +iereiete i eiedei e e iebei et eieteiaTieg ork in the decoration of the | D | figure. s ede e @ R R R R R LR S variety and appropriateness of expressi The most beautiful palace is the hall glor! superb canv Over the thre the battle of Lepanto, ceiling are about twenty showing the devotion Jf V ligion and justice, her protection by Nep- tune and Mars and various female figures of gurpassing beauty which typify the rewards and enjoyments that come to a s commonwealth—the whole forming one 5f the most interesting and beautiful set of decoration world. L erior to the college antechamber ca ;! the with it, which is adorned in similarly gor- is connec: geous style and holds some of the fine examples of Tintoretio in existence. Th are far from being of even merit, but the best are of indescribable and stimulating beauty of color, grace charm of exp BAcchus and < Of almost equai perfection is and the Three Graces.” Of the imperial triumvirate of Venetian aintings, Titian is the most remarkable In the church where he is buried, Maria dei Frari, is a worthy me- ¢ his fame in his own great paint- “The Madonna of the Pesaro Fam- y." Here the family is represented kneeling before the Virgin, who looks down upon them kindly. She is clothed in red and blue, and the white veil on her head glistens like a snow wreath in the sun. The Child. peeping oft sportively from under this, is daneing in infantile glee at St. Francis, behind whom is An- thony, in robes of sober russet. St. Peter, a man with splendid head and majestic expression, turns from his reading to re- gard the worshipers, whose glowing robes are shot through with the thread: heavy gold embroidery. Mas: graceful stone pillars shoot up. appa Iy without limit, into the air, and across the sky of deep, luminous blue are spread the folds of a magnificent golden banner, held by a warrior in complete mail. This is the finest votive picture in the whole world. Titian in it said his last word of religious art so far as color, richness and harmony of tone and brilliancy of style are concerned. We shall find a more striking instance of the grasp of his thought in his great “Assumption” at the Academy, but it is here that he appears at the acme of his skill. It may well be that his power as a painter of the figure is illustrated better in Rome, where in the palace of the Borgias hangs his cele- brated “‘Sacred and Profane Love —a rep- resentative example of the work of the greatest painter of the human form that the world has seen. It is a striking proof of the vigor of Titian's art that. however hackneyed his theme may be, he endows it with a force and novelty and beauty of which it was before unsuspected. Hardly any subject has been more generally employed than that which furnishes the subject for his picture of “The Presentation of the Vir- &in." in the Academy at Venice. Titian gives the motive its most sumptuous set- ting, and proves his power over the higher things of art by making the simpler ele- ments of his work excel in effect those that are more grandiose. The modest lit- tie figure of the Virzin easily dominates the whole group. One recognizes a spirit in her which makes her superior to all who surround her. The art that does so much. without resort to facial expression In the main figure or the description of profound emotion in these around her, is a great art, mmhlnlnf in perfset propor- tions naturalness and ldeality. n . ercury Santa morial ing of fiy.” is equally considered Titian's masterpiece, an(f\ it is certainly one of the greatest paintings in Europe. A sublime subject this, and worthy of the highest powers of an artist such as Tit- jan. He rose nobiy to a realization of the theme, and although in some of the tech- nical qualities of good painting it is not as good the “Madonna of the Pesaro Family,” so far as grandeur of concep- tion and force of efpression are con- cerned, it is worthy of all its fame. WM. HOWE DOWNES Boston. _—————————— An Unconstitutional Ordinance. The City Attorney is of the opinion that the proposed ordinance regulating the hours of labor of persons engaged in the Wholesale fish busipess is contrary to the constitution of the United States, and in a facetious communication filed yesterday lains the whole matter. The Patiance Was drawn at the request of a Rumber of wholesale fsh dealers. who were unable to enforce rules made by themselves. No Fees for Stenographers. City Attorney Lane has advised the City Treasurer that Police Court sten- ographers who are paid regular salaries are not entitled to any fees.