The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 11, 1900, Page 26

THEE SAN P MANAGER'S OFFIC PUBLICATION OFFICE.. Market and Third, S. F. Telephone FPress 201. anager ..Telephone Press 204 EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevensonm St. Telephone Press 202. Delfvered br Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. ex. 5 Centm. ncluding Postage: ay), one ye: “ THE TRIUMPHS CF PEACE. T the Lord Mayor's banquet in Guildhall Lorn'i Salisbury took occasion to express serious on the growth of the war spirit in Eng- iming that the Transvaal war could not be at the Chinese situation was forced by , he dep ed, even to satire, a t / { R \ gloom over ing the awf es that war entails. er's evident desire to check the pse th tories of peace be- mphs of war will strike 2 sympathetic v as well as in England. War i tions beware of its becom- 1d cast wing te Let efore it higher and better duties gle it opened, with FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, so far as to gibe at the inventor, calling him | “Macaroni” At that time The Call predicted that ere | long even those unenterprising journals would have | to record the triumphs of wireless telegraphy. That !timc is now near at hand. When the British Govern- | ment ‘establishes 2 postal telegraph on the Marconi stem even the yellowest of journals will have to | turn aside from its fakes for a while in order to give { the news. . e e = @ CONCILIATED BRITON. i | ! ERSONS who give attention to the condescen- | p ions of foreigners who criticize American | morals and manners will recall-that not long ago A. S.Va tart, British Consul at New Orleans. !pcrn‘.itted himseli to indulge in some strictures upon | us that were met with no little indignation. The critic subjected to a vigorous “roasting” for his im- pudence, and there were many suggestions that it NOVEMBER 11, ARCHER'S BY L. DU PONT SYL 1900. In Mr. Archer's recently published “Study and Stage” (Grant Richards) there are some interesting remarks on Ameri- can plays that have found their way to Londor. To epitomize, “The Heart of Maryland' he finds commonplace beside that masterpiece of its class, “‘Secret Ser- vice.” In the latter play the leading sit- uations are almost psychological: in the | former they are merely pictoriai or arse | from sudden revelations or depend upon sheer violence and brutality. THe one ab- solutely despicable scene is that wherein an immense sensation is aimed at by having the heroine hans on the clapper of a bell. The effect is merely ludicrously forcible—feeble. i * | thyough another window XTEEN BEST MODERN PLAYS E it s miraculous. Tf th bers were properly planted he might ra a crop of palaces in a few days.” In Charles Fro Reyal Marriage that the sky be repre: Elue. but the scene pain yellow. In the first ¥ Persia” through the large winds back of the stage you see flecoded withe moonlight; © away you see a landscape pal green. “The Rose of out here before t tury and it's well to be pr ¢ is coming. This must be my _: Javoul d thing for him to go home. He did | The much condemned scene in “The i Gl Sial tion man affairs reaction follows {Wwould be a good thing g 2 e B . h e 3 another (and final) a bae 2 - erors” Mr. Archer finds no worse e rticle 2 ;.(,, fage f‘l‘“:-. SRR peace, furled and apparently | not take that advice, however, but went to spend the e i T of the Fisho'ar sntostaintag seticle: —_ in and men will' cheer them | Summer in the recesses of the mountains of North | Cross” (he might have included Q'—f{ duced,” he says, Mafl subecribers In ordering change of address g e < ol ss relous @ Vadis”), “when Bishops blessed it and terplece of C ts that have made battle stan- :Cam“na and Tennessee. In that marvelous “land | J2C18 ). " Wel 8 00 o of Mr. W! & e PONDENT: .Herald Square STEPHEN B. SMITH, . .36 Trlbnn’e Bullding - = Pr g | 1 Spectal information suppil 2y to NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: % P 4 e 1. | artists in their way and the comedians o oF Mg 28 > wmcre‘:mufu Hotel; A. Brentano, 8 Usion Square ad to take some of the se:n.ungl impregnable “”k:“_ise Americans) are really clever. ?}l;ll;iTDanf‘\;‘:fll\'_ CRITIC ;n_.,_.m_m',pn‘gu.auggu,‘“.,:x:n‘;: 3, ;'_[,,—3? Y J. Fowl. on that battle-field. I don't bélieve the world | “Mud it may be, but the mud is irides- A i gomery st. Telephons gy . CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great g B PR ;i enis these, . Premont House; Auditorfum Hotel e give no chancé for such fighting, and Wholesome Judgments t 2 Translated by Hannah Lynch: published | take to suppose that the - T L 2 I cannot believe that there are any soldiers | What sharp and profitable for guidance, | | T8 Wolffe & Co.. Boston. | of the United St 1s dec WASHINGTON (. C.) OFFIC . W b e ot oy =9 £7= |1£ they will but heed, to those of our play- | P¥ Lageoh, Wol0E F 00 P0S 0 jatea | declared to be s MORTON E. CR e & . y to-day who have the same quality of courage as | Grignts who are bilnded to self-respect | 13—“Mariana” (Echegaray). "Wan<etel | tribal wars are at an that of the soldiers 5i the il War on both sides. the dazzling light reflected from the | ;&;o-zunt;;g:ham. published by Roberts Ei‘a‘.‘*s’.‘;f x;)fito:nx:)\e“ nto -on- | To me the battle-field of Chickamauga is more intei- | “Urface of a dollar. = _ 14—"“The Second Mrs. Tanqueray” |supporting agriculturist. Hereafter, whose though of aggression on is to estab between ha- strength. So it d a better humor than he had at | New Orleans, and has come forth to say a great many | complimentary things. e his strictures upon us were lated to his discredit, it is only fair to the improvement in his opinions. of the sky” he fou so widely circu- to call attention Discussing his | impressions of the battle of Chickamauga, which he ga ed by a visit to the famous field, he says: [ t but marvel at the wonderful courage and e hich the American s e fighting like that again. Modern, meth- esting than the battle-field of Waterloo, and one can- s T did and not ne away with 1endous respect for the Americans who fought ere and the military genius which directed the the people of the mountains Mr. Vansittart brother.” It seems to be the custom 1e another ‘brother. They are primi- n a simple way, but I liked them long-barreled, great-grand- the their carry such as ellent, but we can hardly admit that are the most polite men in America. them had a rifle he treated them po- ned that tongue which was so caustic Being thus kindly disposed him- d with kindness. He would have ame good manners elsewhere had he been ner of greeting the people he equally ut our morals and manners. son Barrett’s exiguous tunic.” - as a whole'is tedlous, unpleasant, deg able, but if it were the censor’s business to veto every similar piay half the the- ate: London would have to close. “The Belle of New York’ is declared to be one long carnival of the joy of living | in {ts coarsest acceptation—garish, un- lovely, reeking of alcohol and redolent of | patchoul. The writing, though, s not | despicable and the music is ingentously | adaptive. The leading (American) ladies | are not only beautiful hut accomplished | cent.” it some- Mr. George Moore, as we learned two | weeks ago, thinks that dramatic and all other kinds of art are dead in England, France and Germany; Norway and Ire- land, according to him, embody our only hope for the future. That is very hard | } on the three nations which, since the de- cline of art in Italy, have been supposed drama and great drama, seems to be | peculiarly favorab! | Archer in an and Mystery” (C ptember). He | | then proceeds to enumerate sixteen mod- | | ern plays which he believes go to prove | his_contention. This list is valuable, giv- | ing, as it does, the deliberate judgment of | an acknowledged speeialist as to the best | | that been accomplished in this genera- tion. ody who wants to keep up with | “Maeterlinck | An | lisher whenever I have been able to find | them. To buy all the books in this list | * would involve a considerable expenditure | irst, but would prove economical in | the long run; for when you know these going 1o the theater to see crdinarily presented. | WILLIAM ARCHER, THE PRE- — 3 i B (Pinero). Published by Heinemann, Lon- don. 15—*Candida” (George Bernard Shaw). Published by Stone, Chicago. 16—"Paolo and Francesco” (Stephen LX;"l’fllllps). Published hy John Lane, Lon- on. e No two cities have ever agreed upon awarding to them of six plays out of sixteen seems as unaccountable as does the omission of Le Gendre de M. Poirfer (by Angler, who began to write about the same time as did Ibsen) and of the Denise and Francillon of Dumas flls (written many years after Brand). Many there be, I know, who will not agree with this judgment; among them an enthusiastic Lady Lecturer from Norway of whom I g T celopment of the dr: ust fa- | o the liking Mr. Vansittart has for | miliarize himself with this ~best”: I |once inquired whether Ibsen holds in Nor- act ther rceived | therefore . reprint the list, adding the | Weglan literature the same relative po- et Shaswien he peroetyed | enstors Tarn he LI o And- pub. | sition that Shakespears holds in our liter- * she scornfully replied, . Let us hope that during the coming grand opera season (at seven dollars a seat) more attention will be paid to scen- ery than was pald two years ago. Mr. , of the Grand Opera-house, is an sished | came into contact with. All the same we are pleased . I hope r:, -r'.n‘ibe? v R note th H is view i h .1 | The sixteen best modern plays, accord- | 8T owed to give nary of law. |to note the change in l'}xs views, and for t‘c cordial ! tng to Archer: | the Wagner operas a proper setting, for | ne are excluded. Indeed they are | praise he has spoken of the heroes of Chickamauga | (The numbers do not signify the order | they need every possible aid to make them | e use he weakswhose righ merits our full forgiveness for all he said of old | of excellence, but are used merely for | 80 off convincingly. Apropos of this subject of scenic deco- te, | So writes Mr x:hm and Maeterlinck as a degenera! | | mantic opera Give Me Back M bave been ups over the cas remind me o he sang the s Cal. glace fruit §0c per ™ at Townsend s+ —_—— Guillet's Thanksgiving mt %5 Larkin st., D e Eas —_——— B e —— According to lats authoritias —————— New Overland Tourlst Car Line. The COLORADO MIDLAND RAILT tion. A French chemist, Raphaal Dub has found a way of nourishing pho: ht as brigt He expects to increase believes that its g entirel heat will give it a sclentific value. stones and tim- 13 i is o 1 & .. « vorld. One is consoled, how- was delighted. He is quoted as saving of them: “The I;zve‘:agn‘!"e';;‘:? O The Hundred Best _Books, and 19 tWO | uene. For further tnformation 5 i B . iy < | ce, I su 3 een NPORT. Gemera San Fran Mr. | mountaineers impressed me as being the most polit2 | thority than Mr. Moore, that *the spirit | ;‘e’:l (;!f;i“ ;:::Dez:u Pfi;’y" o thoce | PAVENPORT, Agent, Franctsco. people I have met in America. They usually ad- |of the age, far from being hostile to | ;0" yq who look upon Ibsen as an an- Microbe light is the latest Paris | 2—"“The Master Builder” ration Stephen Fiske has an amusing and | No English translation, that I instructive article in the Art Amateur for | October, wherein he shows how stupidity | crops out In places where you would least | expect to find it. Thus, the third act of | THE GCOD ROADS MOVEMENT. ITH the electi s to the bar 1 the time when nation gainst nation, neither ustice, and thea | not lift up the | th earn war | (Ibsen). know of, but several in German (Lemcke | | & Buechner, New York). | 3—“Peer Gynt.” 4—"Rosmersholm” | Trans Otis Skinner’ d in Congres ocrats who were as & by the to almost every tion. were oppos re of his admi Senator Caff delegates to the Kan- on the renomination that to be the surest ance of the present tes ty convention Wot because they deemed ing about 2 co administrat Ovwer and be expected to Republ A good that w tion are more Out of that liberalism there would grow a fairer sense of the rights of the colored race. A large part he negroes in the liberalizing in- on the part of o parties, each led by men into of n people would soon be so much like those of the North and the West that unnatural politics would disappear from the country and there would be no longer a “solid South” with its pack of votes to be cast for Democracy. no matter upon what issue the campaign turned. For zll these reasons it is to be hoped the sdministration will give its aid to any well devised plan to build up the Republican party in the South. The descendants of the men who supported Clay ought to be willing to stand firmly by the party that now represents.the great policies of Clay. ARCONT'S system of w es to advance iroi phy con- ent to im- provement with such rag that there are idespread expectations it may vet supersede by e ago it was deemed wonderful that such should be practicable at obtained reports arrival of the Sherman with the Ca from Manila cur contemporarie, but now the system has been so far perfected ing to a rcport from London the Postal 1 of Great Britain has decided to rec tion of the system as a part of 1 phy of the kingdom. The most notable of the recent improvements i ing for secrecy the When first introduced the messages trans- ed through the air could be read by any receiving within the range of the transmitter. That objection led to the conviction that the system would never be of practical value in the general work of It now zppears, however, that Marconi ercome the defect. He has made several tests gland les by a system which presery f the dispatches absolute] e experiments were made wi in Dorsetpand the other at Catherines, in e Isle of Wight. An account of the result says: he other day two operators at St. Catherines were ructed to send simultancously two different wire- messages to Poole, and without delay or mistake the two were correctly recorded and printed down | at the same time in Morse signals on the tapes of the two corresponding receivers at Poole. In this demonstration each receiver was connected to its own pendent aerial wire hung from the same mast. Mr. Marconi then placed the receivers at Poole ons on top of the other and connected them both to one i the same wire, about forty feet in length, attached wire alm st by wirele telegraphy fornia Vol- were incred- po! in the accuracy h one station at P to a mast. Two messages were sent at the same mo- nt by the operators at St. Catherines, one in English dand the other in French. With- tzpe, the message in English perfect on one, and that in French on the other. ceived from a transmitter thirty miles away and re- Jcorded by an instrument in a closed room merely by the aid of a zinc cylinder, four feet high, placed on a chair. While these experiments have been proceed- | ing between Poole and St. Catherines others have been taking place for the British Admiralty between | Portsmouth and Portland, these lines of communica- | tion intersecting each other, yet so perfect is the in- | dependence that nothing done on one circuit now | affects the other, unless desired.” It is to be noted, furthermore, that Marconi claims that in future he will be able to dispense with the tall mast used in transmitting and receiving messages and | substitute for it a cylinder comparatively short and available for use in almost any locality. Thus it will ‘be seen the improvements follow one another rapidly, {and the system is approaching something like perfec- { tion. It will be remembered that when a little more than a year ago The Call obtained reports of the interna- tional yacht race for the America’s cup by wireless telegraphy some of our slowgoing contemporaries mocked at the feat as a “fake” and one went Indeed when | in transmitting messages for a distance oi | lure cach receiver at Poole rolled out its paper | Later on messages were re- | | out of the way, the crops all | Wharveqcrl and marketed, the people of Califor- | nia have now cpportunity of Ieisur_c to take up again the good roads movement of which so much was expected when began the campaign of education subject a f go. The movement was it occurred in a season of ere not in a mood to un- dertake much in the way of improvements that would be costly. We are now prosperous, and the promise is for a greater p: v to come. Consequently if road improvement be devised and may acccmplish great on ti ortunate then by d times. The people plans rightly supported now things in that direction in the near future. wisely we California can find 2 model to pattern after in this respect in Massachusetts President Menden- hal of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, who is a member of the Massachusetts Highway Commission, in a recent address on what is being done in the State is reported to have szid “that during the last six or eight years more money had been spent there in road improve ment than in any other State. The plan now in pro- cess of execution involves a reconstruction of the road system of the commonwealth, embracing about | two thousand n 10 per cent of the whole, to s, or additions. An annual appropriation of $500,000 en- n to complete about fifty miles could *probably obtain $1.000,00¢ every year, and it from the Legislature if it so desired.” California is not so thickly settled as Massachu- setts, nor so rich, and consequently cannot keep pacs with her in road improvement; but California can at least follow in the way Massachusetts is leading. We can improve our highways in all counties where thers is much travel. The construction of good roads is | one of the best investments that can be made by any community. The waste and loss that bad roads en- tail will far more than balance the cost of good ones. | One of the chief causes of the new impulse toward road improvement in Massachusetts and the East | generally is the increasing usefulness of the automo- bile. It is not satisfactory to Americans to note that | in the development of a2 mechanism of that kind the people of this country have to lag behind Europe. In | France the automobile is no longer a novelty con- fined to cities. The machines can be seen everywhere {in the country. The French are thus reaping a ;rich harvest for the work they have done in road- | making. Our Eastern States have intelligence enough to learn the lesson and profit by it, and California should not be laggard in following the example. — A Texas litigant wants $230,000,000 for having been unjustly imprisoned in an insane asylum. 'He is prob- ably convinged that it is worth while proving that his imprisonment was justified or that sound senses are worth fortunes in Texas. Perhaps the promise of President McKinley to visit San Francisco in April made the people of the city rise to-the necessity of the hour and make the city the banner town of Republicanism west of the Rocky Mountains. - The San Franciscan who says he wants to fight a due! with the Count de Castellane ought to be ar- rested on a charge that he displays a poverty of that cherished possession of Americans known as com- mon sense. —_— Oakland has set upon herself the task of trying to soh:re‘ how fo keep the patronage problem out of politics. Why not try the scheme of the Phelanites and make politics all patranage? which local effort will doubtless in time make large | [ (Ibsen). ated by Archer; published | by Scott, London. | i 5—*Sigurd Slembe.” By Bjormson, I| think. Can any reader of this article tell me of a good transiation? 6—"“Pelleas and Melisanda” (Maeter-| linck). Translated by Tadema; published by Scott, London. | i—"Aglaraine and Selysette” (Maeter-| linck). i 8—“The Dominton of Darkness” (Tol- /| | stoi). Translation uhknown; published by Seigel, Chicago. | s—“Gioconda” (D'Annunzio). Trans- | lated by Symons; published by Russell, | New York. 10—"Der Biberpelz.” 11—FuhrmannHen- schel” (Hauptmann). 12“—El Grau Galeoto” (Echegaray), gorgeous production of Prince Ott is supposed to take place in a council chamber that has no window which could cause a variation the shadows; yet some of thess shadows are painted coming from the front and some from the side! Again, in” the farmer's hut of the first act there is a narrow half-doer to the right—a half-door because the hero | requires something over which he can | gracefully loll while talking to the ladies. | The action of the play takes two days, and behold! in these two days the narrow half-door has grown to a large arch, through which we witness a revoit of the peasantry. ‘Farmer Leopold may culti- vate fertile soil, but the growth of a part of his house is more than phenomenal— PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. M. M. Shearer of Santa Rosa Is at| the Lick. | H. Demmick, a Vallejo capitalist, is at | the Grand. D, C. Lewis, a Portland merchant, is at the Palace. | A. C. Bingham, the Marysville banker, | |is at the Lick. Arthur L. Levinsky, a Stockton lawyer, | G. W. . a Reno, Nev., merchant, | is at the Occidental. | William L. Jones, a prominent Milwau- | | kee merchant, is at the Palace. | | M. B. Sweeney, an Oxford. N. J., mer- | chant, is regist:red at the Palace. | J. V. Bell, a prominent merchant of | Houston, Texas, is at the Palace. | Edward W. Smith, a San Diego attor- | ney, is registered at the Occidental. H. Campbell Perry of Sligo, Ireland, 15;1 stopping at the Palace for a fow days. | N. Blackstock of Ventura, member of | the State Board of Rallroad Commis- | sioners, is at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Foote of Detroit | are at the California. Mr. Foote is a prominent Eastern lumberman. A. E. Rigby is at the Occidental. He ar- | rived from the East yesterday and is go- | | ing to Nagasaki, Japan, as a missionary. | | Arthur L. Wyman, formerly chef at the | ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York and now of Chicago, is registered at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. A. Roos of this city are back at the Palace, having returned from their trip to Paris and other forelgn citles. Julius Kruttschnitt, general manager of the Southern Pacific, returned yesterday from an inspection tour which extended as far East as Ogden. A. J. Brander and wife, N. T. Brander and Count Poohorski of Russia- arrived in the city last evening from Nome. They are stopping at the California. Mrs. Charles E. Ladd and two sisters, Miss Failing and Miss Mary Falling of Portland, have taken apartments st the California for a month or six weeks. E. L. Weber cf Napa, an Assemblyman- efect and a member of the law firm of ‘Weber & Gesford of this city and Napa, is stopping at the Grand for a few days. ———e————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—F. H. Bates is at the Ever-| ett, G. Booker and wife are at the Plaza, P. B. Casey is at the Astor, Mrs. A. C. Schuyler is at the Navarre, H. Thomas is at tholctrvp:;ldu;; x:‘. Heran is at the Hoffman g uspacher is Holland. s 1o Averies e Howes 1n 5 the Park Avenue. Lot atoL S LR ANSWERS m__oonnnmnn mc.rlomm VOTE—F. A. G., Oro- was 7,104,779; Mfiiflnv&?fllfi. MARYLAND-L. M. B., Cebu, P. L Maryland is classed as one of the most northern States of the South Atlantic group. DID NOT GO TO MANILA-R. K., City. William J. Bryan as colonel of a Ne- braska regiment did not go to Manila or elsewhere where there was active service. RAISINS-D., Hemmet, Cal. For the information desired in relation to raisins write_to the California Raisin Assocla- tion, Fresno, Cal POPULATION W. P, City. It is not known at this time what the popula- tion of the United States, according to the census of this year is, as the figures Eare not yet been given by the census ureau. MRS. SEARLES—Subscriber, City. The late Mrs. Searles was not the widow of | Timothy Hopkins, but of Mark Hopkins. She subsequently married Mr. Seag&l of Great Barrington, Mass. She died July 23, 18¢1. The property that she was of at her death has since that date in- creased in value. ROOSEVELT-M. E. B, City. To ascer- tain just how long Governor Roosevelt served in the volunteer army of the United States direct a_communication to the Becretary of War, Washington, D. C. He entered the service shortly after the breaking out of the war with Spamn, :_erve(!ll anCuba ‘was at {:eAbnue of En- iago in June, , and ugust of thai year left Sanitago with his regimen Montauk, L. I . S ADVERTISEMENTS. 66 77 ”” A swollen face the charactoristic epidemie symptom of Cold or GRIP Tic-Doloureux—Swelled Fage, The doctors say this year that epldemic Grip has taken on a new phase, the first symptom being a puffiag up of one side of the face, extending even to the closing of the eye. It is accompanied by neuralgic pdnludbvmmotmnldmnm symptoms of Influenza, Catarrh, pains and soremess in the Head and Chest, Cough and Sore Throat, General Prostra- tion and Fever. “TT" meets the epldemlc condition ana cuts it short promptly. If ft should not yield at once alternate with Specific No. 8. At drugzists, 2e. . 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