The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 22, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OVEMBER 22, 1900 AMUSEMENTS. \WAKE UPI THIS AFTERNOON At 1 o’clock sharp. ANNUAL BENEFIT in Al of CHARITY FUND — OF THE — ASSOCIATED THEATRICAL MANAGERS SECONT PATTOSIEN’S. THIS NEW STYLE SMOKELESS OIL HEATER Wil keep your COLD R O O M ecomfortably warm for fc a day—the rice of a clgar. It will ge delivered free to any address in city or coun- ty in California on re- celpt of $5.00 on approv- al, to be returned at our expense if not entirely satisfactory. It Cannot Smoke. AT THE ORPHEUM. From EVERY THEATERI! NUOUS PERFORMANCE! "0°S—Walter Damrosch, David Bisp- ka and other artists from the i Grand Opera Company. A —¥Frank Daniels and f hie company. ht bits from ““The Jolly M amarini, Russo and Castellano The Royal Marine Band leading oCov Sisters and Sem Mar- Hoyt's “A Stranger in New York." UM—The principal stars of the bill ALCAZAR — Act from “The Rallroad of TES—An acrobatic novelty. PRICES (for Reserved Seat.,—Entire Ground icor, Including Box Beats, §2; Baicony Sl D ORE OPEN AT NOON. 1 TMPIA—An up-to-date vaudeville feature. | It is Absolutely Odor- less. We have other styles. Write for Cata- $5.00. logue. PATTOSIEN’S, FURNITURE EXPOSITION BUILDING. | Sixteenth and Mission Streets. BO40404 040004 040404040404 VICHY | ‘ * o L ; CELESTINS § $ 1S A A NEW COMPANY OF UP-TO-| ¢ Natural Wineral Water DATE VAUDEVILLE STARS. g known for centuries and MAX WELDON, STELLING AND REVELLE, CONDITT AND o ONLY IN BOTTLES, MOREY, BROTHERS MARTINE, $ For Disordered Stomach IONE MACLOUTH, + and Indigestion. by ANNA BOYD, MR. and S DAN HIATT Its value has been testi. Q DOLAN AND LENHARR, W. J. fied to by thousands. ¢ HYNES. so.unuuvmx;, in Sy. g = 5’2 : w7 :"“ :"" 3 IS NOT VICHY. Matinees ‘ednesdsy, Saturday and Sunday. I3 Get the Genuine. TU‘MORRUW. FHH] 1? :mu phrfl;:-: 5 g iip;: 1) y H | d A VIGNIER, Distributiag Agent O BI"Y Hy"es nghtl i Mommooooooooooooo: MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. 1 - MAURICE GRAU OPERA CO. | oet & To-nightat8, ‘Romeo et Juliette” e Br ieter; 4. de Reszie, ndon ancon - bert and Saleza. Y ot othich, Ol bkar SOAOTTE” | The Larsest and Oldest Champagne House 1n at 8§ _“FAUST ' —Melba, Homer; ‘Saleza, Campanar, de Reszke Conductor, Sig. AY EVENING st 8—2¢ Grand Populsr Night. n USER." , Maryil Dippel, Vi NEXT WEEK. DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN Vegner) & RHEINGOLD"—Susan Olitzka and Schum lmann, Blass, by request) leza, G FRAN “THE AM X T SUCCESS EER.” ENING Present NIELSEN... | ...ALICE SEN OPERA CO. in SINGING GIRL.” “THE % B. SMITH - > | +TIVOLI> THE € ENFRARSA IS ALL RIGHT!! | THER R B HOUSE LAST| HT For Superb Comic Opera, "0 JOLLY MUSKETEER" MANY .OLD FAVORIT Matin ee Saturday at 2. 25%¢ and 50e Prenings at § ULAR PRIC! | he Oraes ¢ Bogies Will Attend in & Boly the ROYAL MARINE BAND OF ITALY: FROGRAMME—1. March, “Flag of A B2 Overture, “William Tell selected, Fignor Setaro “Sonnambula” (Caval- 11 Trovatore,” selee- ¥ solos Signori DI Girolamo, tore and De Titta II—6. March, ““Eagle’s | (Creatore), dedicated to Aerie No. 5, r solo, selected, Signor Gianmini. | 4 Kentucky Home,” variations (Dalbey > act 1 (Bellini), solos by Sig- 24 Creatore. ¢ Next Sunday Afternoon. “Should | eance Be Forgot? HAVERLY'S | RELS, with GEORGR EON and the Biggest ‘ S, 25 ---Prop. and Manager Breaking All Past Records! HOYT S-FINE AND DANDY "'k STRANGER IN NEW YORK.” Headed by the McCOY SIETERS and SAM MARION, And & Company of Comedians That Are Funny, With Girls That Are Pretty and Who Can Dance and Sing. EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK. MATINEE SATURDAY. Evening—lic, 2%e. %c, 50c and 75c. Matinee— e, e and Be. Afternoon—HERRMANN, the accompanied by the Musical Wonders, ~NOSSES-5. NEVER BEFORE AT OUR ULAR PRICES. Next Sunday cat Wéekly Call, 1 per Year Whitz Seal (Grande Cuvee), of ex- ceptional bouquet and dry dryness. —Court Jonrnal WILLIAM WOLFF & CO., Pacific Coast Agents. 329 Market Bt., 5.7, After-Theater Refreshments. The completeness of the arrangements made for your entertainment in the Sup- per Room can be estimated when it ‘s known that the attributes responsible for the popularity of the Grill Rooms are in evidence here. Delightful music, prompt eervice, moderate charges. Open every evening (Sundays excepted) from 9:30 to 12 o'clock. Entrance from the court and main office. Palace Hotel Supper Room. TONG PO CHY, Successor to Dr. LAI PO TA graduate of Canton Medical College, after a very success- ful practice of China, has I in San ing and effected by rate their skill. These 400 Qifferen ing Bright's Consump- sis, Brain, e and Fa. d with any Francisco. The surprisf marvelous cures Disease, Diabe tion, Asthma, P: p. m.; Sunda grateful tha for effecting a of several years' standing. A. DARLEY, San Rafael. AMUSEMENTS. CARD ‘;‘f‘H EATR For Superb Comic Opera. a decidedly enjovable perform- for the ridiculous sum of fifty cents—a performance better than many you will see in New York for two dollars. L. Du PONT EYLE, * Augustin Daly’s Charming Comedy, THE RAILROAD OF LOVE. MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. Next—SEVEN TWENTY EIGHT. EDDY S OLYMPIA Z2uiZsn THE ONLY FREE VAUDEVILLE SHOW IN THE CITY. MABEL HUDSON, One of America’s Greatest Song Birds. HANLON AND SIKGER, Roman Ring Artists Without Equal. AND OUR CELEBRATED STOCK ' COMPANY. MATINEE EVERY SUNDAY. AMATEUR NIGHT BVERY FRIDAY. CHUTES »» Z0O EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! THE AMATLURS. PSS T SFECIALTIES = AND — A FAT LADIES' TUB-OF-WAR! Telephone for Beats. Park 28. THE SAN FRANCISCO JOCKEY CLUB, TANFORAN PARK. Initial meeting Monday, Nov. 19, to Saturday, Dec. 1, inclusive. Six or more races each week day. Six stake events, one hurdle race and two steeplechases first two weeks. First race of the day at 2:10 p. m. Trains leave Third and Townsend streets for Tanforan Park at 7, 10:40, 11:30 . m., 1, 1:3 and 2 p. m., followed art the last race, intervals of a few min- utes, by several specials. Reer cars ressryer. for ladies and their escorts. Admission to the course, including railroad fare, $1.25. D. LYNCH PRINGLE, Secretary. RALPH H. TOZER, Racing Secretary. NCERT HOUSE. FISCHER’S ©°TIERT oY Vail and Frank Tully: Irene Franklyn; a;mlm Jap; Harry l’i‘ ‘Walton; Helen Stusrt and Claire Fex. RESERVED SEATS 2%¢. MATINEE SUNDAY. After many months of delay the 50-year lease of the China Basin to the San Fran- clsco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad | was executed yesterday. The consumma- tion, following an almost unprecedented amount of painstaking investigation and consideration, was reached at the regular | meeting of the State Board of Harbor | Commissioners. | The merchants of San Francisco, fully | awake to the importance of providing ade- quete terminal facilities for competing | railroads and docks for shipping, were | well represented at the meeting. The | Chamber of Commerce committee, con- sisting of Captain Charles Nelson, C. D. Haven, George A. Newhall, W. H. Mar- ston and H. F. Fortman, was in attend- | ance; also E. Scott, secretary of the | Chamber. The Merchants’ Assoclation | was represented by the following commit- | tee; F. W. Dohrmann, Andrew M. Davis, Frank J. Symmes, E. A. Keil, General R. | H. Warfleld and H. 8. Baldwin. The San | Francisco Board of Trade was represented by the following merchants: William Haas, Gustav Wormser, F, W. Van Sick- len, E. A. Folger, Philip 8. Teller, 5. M. Haslett, A. L. Scott and R. H. Swayne. Irving M. Scott, president of the Union Iron Works; Captain A. H. Payson, vice president of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railrcad; ex-Governor Budd, counsel for the board, and E. B.] | Pillsbury, attorney for the railroad, were in attendance. All the Harbor Commis- eloners and Mayor Phelan, ex officio mem- ber of the board, were present. | { [he lease, if executed,” Paris Kilburn, resident of the board, said upon calling he meeting to order, ‘“will have to go be- fore the Legislature for ratification, and that action will come to Governor Gage | for his approval or disapproval, and for that reason the Governor does not con- | sider it the proper thing for him to act with us to-day. That is why he is not present.” Commissioner Harney offered a resolu- | | | i | | | | tion terminating the former Jease, exe- cuted July 8, 1885, of part off the China Basin to the Valley Railroad. It was stip- | ulated in the resolution tha ‘ tion of the lease should dice against the party of the second part such termina- e without é)reju- aid in the expansion of our trade. Captain Charles Nelson, president of the Chamber of Commerce, sgmkv briefly, ad- vocating the execution of the lease. He said that no man could foresee the ex- tent of frontage and wharfage that would be required twenty years hence to accom- modate the shipping coming into this port. It rested with the Commissioners, he said, to pr@vide docking facilities and to give an impetus to the shipping trade by mak- ing do\'elugmem in that direction possible. Irving M. Scott was called upon. e said: I advocate the execution of the leass for the reason that it §s a means of securing an extension of shipping facilities much needed | by San Franct: You cannot get those ad- ditional wharves as 5001 as they will be needed. They are needed now. Since June of this year vessels aggregating 20000 tons Intendel for use on the Pacific have been contracted for, ana during the year ending June 30 vessels were | finiehed or contracted for aggregating 0,000 | tons. Among these were seventy-six staamo-s, of which ten are of 10,000 tons each Hill is having two monster steamers of 33,000 tons loaded displacement buiit, the Pacidc Mail two of 18,00 tons displacement and {here | are on the ways in this city two steamers of 18,500 tons loaded displacement for the Ameri- can-Hawailan Steamship Company. John D. Spreckels is having three steamers of §000 tons each built, Captain Dollar has a large steamer on the ways and the Pacific Coast Steamship Company is bullding & fast steamer to rua between San Francisco and Seattle. Now these are simply illustrations of the great tonnage that is now being built for the carrying trade of the Pacific. It exceeds many | times the tonnage now in use on the Pacific. The Harbor Commissioners must immediately prepare facilities for these vessels. Thure can be but one possible objection to this leas:. If the rafiroad should not be scting in good faith that would be a reason for rejection of the lease. But when I realize the carefui in- vestigation of these questions made Ly the commissioners and merchants here present I am sure nothing exists In the leass that will | affect public interests injuriously. the seawall south of in his opinion ould need to be built. Mr. Fourth streat Scott replied: It is needed now. All big things in the way | of enterprises are moving toward the Pacific. | The greatest ships the world has ever | are now bullding to plow our seas. I expect to | live to see ships as thick on the Pacific as | seen they are on the Atlantic. San Francisco's wharfage is entirely inadequate, not only in I thing. We had to send the Wisconsin 528 miles to number but in the size of the wharves. would like to call attention to another ‘m securing a new lease. Commissioner Herold seconded the resolution, and on the | call of the roll Messrs. Phelan, Harney, Herold and Kilburn all voted a) Captain Payson then presented the lease, which in its amended form embod- ied the work of months. Former Gover- nor Budd read the document to the board. | When he had concluded Commissioner Herold offered a resolution approving the lease and authorizing its execution. , “The lease as read,” said Mr. Herold, “4s the result of great care and thought. We feel that it is so drawn that the in- terests of the State will be carefully guarded and at the same time the rail- | road company properly protected in its | rights in the premis President Kilburn sald that before al vote was taken the Commissionerg would | like to hear expressions of opinion from the gentlemen present. He called upon General R. H. Warfield, who spoke as follows: | I am here with other gentlemen representing | the Merchants' Assoclation to advocate tho | execution of this lease. We aro satisfi~1 that | such action will be greatly to the interest of San Francisco. It will result in the expendi- | ture of & great deal of money here ani will | Southern Pacific | dock. We cannot dock vessels here that are | bulit here. The Northwest is alive to its op- | portunities and they are moving solidly to- | gether. We must move and work together in | Grder to maintain the advantages our position | gives ue. | F. W. Dohrmann of the Merchants’ As- | sociation said that three parties were to | be congratulated if the lease were exe- | cuted—the public, the Santa Fe Railroad | and the Southern’ Pacific. He safd: There are good commercial reasons why the 1s to be congratulated. It we do not give facllities for terminals and for ehipping our rivals will outstrip us. For years San Franciscans have been pulling and haul- ing, divided into factions, finding fault with corporations, balking the raflroad when it was right and letting it have its way often when | | it should have been belked. Eo when we at last come together and the element of distrust isappears, it is a cause for general congratu- 3 F. W. Van Sicklen, Edward Keil, 8. M. Haslett, E. A. Folger, A. L. Scott and l\\'1llinm Haas spoke briefly in favor of the On the rollcall w the resolution o n the motion to adopt ered by Commissioner Mayor Phelan asked Mr, Scott how soon, | LEASE OF CHINA BASI{N TO VALLEY RO_P:P_CONSUMMATED Merchants, Harbor Commissioners and Railroad Builders Work Together to Secure Much Needed Terminal and Shipping Faeilities. | Herold all four votes were cast in the | affirmative, | E. S. Pillsbury thanked the Commis- sioners for their action. He said: At times we have felt impatient over the delay, but we now recognize that the delay has been beneficlal. We have come to under- | stand the public's needs and our own needs | better. The lease is the result of the best | judgment of the men most interested In the city’s welfare, I assure you that the company is acting in £00d faith.” We need those facilities. We are not here to make war, but to do business and to do it in a legitimate manner. 1 have talked with Governor Gage and know that he feels interested in the increase of ship ping facilitles here. I am confident he will make no objection to its execution. I want to thank Mayor Phelan for the attention'he | has given the matter and_ through him the Board of Supervisors, who I must say seemed to comprehend the importance of the lease sooner than did this board. . You are not to be criticized for belng over- cautlous, perhaps. You have been a little hard on us, but we know that you have been actu- | ated by the best motives and have desired only to protect the public Interests. The lease was then formally signed by the authorized representatives of the two parties to it. Mayor Phelan and Harbor Commissioners Kilburn, Harney and Her- old signed, as constituting the State Board of Harbor Commissioners. Captain A. H. Payson, vice president of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Rall- way Company, signed for the railroad. The lease was taken to the Santa Fe of- fices and Alexander Mackie, secretary of the Valley Railroad, affixed his signature. The lease is valid as it stands. A con- dition of the agreement by which the rail- | road is required to build a seawall for the State is that the Legislature shall ratify the lease. Should the Legislature fail to ratify the lease that part of the agree- ment alone is void. The lease by which the railroad gains possession of China Basin for fifty years stands, whatever the action of the Legislature or of Governor Gage. The area covered by the lease is about thirty-five acres. It is described as fol- | Tow: Commencing at the intersection of the south line of Channel strect with the east line of | Kentucky street, thence east at right angles | with sald line of Kentucky street to the outer line of the seawall and thoroughfare established by act of Legislature March 15, IST8, thence southerly along eaid outer line of the thorough- fare to a point opposite to the Intersection of | the northerly line of Fourth street with the inner line of said seawall, thence across said seawall in a direction perpendicular to its | length, to the intersection of the northerly line of Fourth street with the inner line of the said seawall, thence northwesterly along sald north- erly liné of Fourth street to the easterly line of Kentucky street, thence along said line of Ken- tucky street to the point of beginning. The railroad pays a yearly rental of $1000. The railroad agrees to build a sea- wall along the line of the water front, be- ginning not later than nine months after | six years.and binding itself to expend an- nually $56,000 upon it until it is completed, Whenever the State shall have extende | 1ts seawall from its present end near Mi sion street to the Channel-street line a 100-foot strip on the harbor side of the seawall built by the railroad shall become | the property of the State: also rights of way 70 feet wide at the north and south boundaries of the leased premises. The document is eleven typewritten | pages in length. Every possible safe- guard is thrown around the agreement to protect the rights of the public and of the State. MRRYAMD - PINK BLOSSIMS Miss Emma Lake Hunt and Harry Rice Bostwick Are Made One. In the midst of a wealth of rare pink blossoms and a luxurious riot of ferns | and palms Miss Emma Lake Hunt and | Harry Rice Bostwick were married 1 evening at the residence of the bride's | mother, 1715 Geary street. It was one of the prettiest weddings of the early season. The company, though | ! limited in number, was a magnificent one, | the dress of the fair young bride one of | | the handsomest that maid ever stepped | to the altar in and the presents formed a splendid collection of jewels, rare bric-a- brac, delicate faience and magnificent sil- | ver. At 8:30 o’clock the young couple faced | Rev. Father Jones of the Dominican Church and exchanged the vows that| made them man and wife. The bride was | attended by her sister,” Mrs. J. F. Moro- | ney, who officlated as matron_of honor. | | Frank Somers was best man. The bride’s | gown was a_magnificent confection of | | Duchesse lace. Mrs. Moroney was attired | in blue chiffon trimmed with rare old lace. | About seventy-five guests witnessed the | ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Bostwick will | leave this morning in their private car for | |a three months’ Eastern tour. They will | then proceed to Korea, where the groom : has large railroad interests and will re- | | main there for two years, after which a | | tour of the world is contemplated. | cTROUS MAXIMUS BY | STANFORD PARLOR Splendid Programme Has Been Pre- pared for the Entertainment Next Monday. The circus maximus, which is to be given | next Monday night in the banquet hall of | | the Native Sons’ building under the di- | rection of the good of the order commit- | tee of Stanford Parlor, N. S. G. W., of which Bruce Cornwall is the chairman, | promises to be one of the grandest af- fairs of the kind ever got up by a fra- ternal organization in this city. Stan- ford Parlor, which is recognized for the prgminence of its members, its progres- s{v¥ness and hospitality, never does any- | thing on the half-way principle and ‘it | promises a show that will be one to be enjoyed and remembered with pleasure | by all who have the opportunity to wit- ness it. Following is the programme: Grand entree, Drum Major M. Poole; Ste- venson's famous brass band: cavalcade of knights on Arablan steeds; the largest conglom- eration of untrained animals ever let loose in | the arena; the four-legged elephant, the two- legged ostrich, the one-humped camel, the bucking donkey, etc.; the roming army, the | only one in captivity; Roman gladiators, wrest- lers, sword fighte: fire eate ur OwWn aggre- gation of clowns and our own perambulating calllope; drill of .the knights, mounted; novel- ty jumping, by the wonderful wizard, Professor A. ‘M. Stone, assisted by R. Stone: Roman | sports: ~ Wrestiing, J. Spiro, 'F. P. Harley, G. | A. Hinsley, W. F. King; boxing, W. J. Leon- | ard, D. Carroll, J. W. McCarthy, M. 8. Breen; fencing, Emilio Lastreto, Professor Tronchet; the wonderful rider, Mme. DeVon, in her cele- brated performance with Black Beauty, the eatest educated horse alive; the dashing lle. Smithereens, in her beautiful bareback act, wonderful, weird work; ringmaster, H. B. A. Kugler: carnival of clowns, singing clowns, whistling clowns, dancing clowns, acrobatio clowns; concert and entertainment and the never be forgotten sideshows. | The officers of the parlor are: | Past president, Willlam H. Dick; presi- | dent, Willlam F. Humphreys; first vice | president, William D. Hynes; second vice | president, Bruce Cornwall;’ third vice | president, 8. O. Stanyan; recording sec- retary, Fred H. Jung; financial secretary, Joseph D. Cox: treasurer, Frank H. Eckenroth: marshal, A. T. Schieicher; trustees—E. H. Hammar, Joseph Green- berg, Grant A. Laughlin; inside sentinel, Henry Van_ Valkenburgh; outside sen- tirel, A. C. Troutvetter. Caught Tapping the Register. Nelson Chaffer, an eleven-vear-old boy, was caught in the act of tapping the cash register at the grocery store of H. Stel- b at Twenty-ninth and Noe streets yel"ferdn.y. The youngster went »ehind | Noble, M. the counter whe: Stelbing’s back was turned and succeeded in extractiag $1 50 before he was detected. He was handed over to Police Officer J, J. Nyhan and booked at the Seventeenth street station on the charge of petty larceny. Stelbing declined to prosecute the lad out of con- sideration for his father, Thomas Chaffer, who resides at 318 Day street. —_————— For Galveston Flood Sufferers. An entertalnment for the benefit of the Galveston flood sufferers will be given by the Sensim Circle at the Hamilton Square Baptist Church, Post street, near Steiner, to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. Admis- sion will be twenty-five cents for adults and ten cents for children. the programme: Trio, “'Seguidilla’” (Holst), Misses Marks, Nicholls, ‘Cook: vocal solo, ““A Dream’ (Bart- lett), Miss Alice Puilen; guitar and mandolin duct, Misses Lincoln and Blackaller; violln solo, “Gypsy Dance” (Henrl Ernst), Paul whistling solo (selected), Mies Following is D. Gertrude Judd; vocal solo (selected), Mrs. E. Abramson; trombone solo (selected), Dr. Mauds Soble. S it o e Concert and Picture E\;hiifldon To-night, Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, California and Mason sts. Admission 2 Open daily. e For Seizing a Sailor’s Clothes. John Curtin, sailor boarding house keep- er, was arrested vesterday by United States Marshal Shine on complaint of Louis Nathel, a sailor, who alleges that Curtin seized his clothing for debt. Cur- tin's examination will take lace next Monday before Court Commissloner Hea- coc! A special sale of beautiful river mink fur capes, like cut above— An exceptionally stylish gar- ment, elegantly lined with fine e 81300 BALTIC SEAL FUR CAPES— 16-inch . Baltic seal l1ooks and wears like sealskin. The top collar is of Russian mink—a good cape for winter wear—satin lined—two heads and four tails. 14-Inch 18-inch . 18-inch FRER—Our Autumn Fashion Book s ready. Free for the asking. H.Liebes NEW SCHEDULE FOR SWITCHMEN From the Trainmen’s Association. Manager J. A. Fillmore of the Southern Pacific has agreed to a new schedule of wages and working hours for the yard- men in the company’s employ on the Pa- cific division. The new schedule does not call for any sweeping changes. The docu ment came before Fillmore for his final approval at the session of railroad dele- gates and Grand Officers Clark and Lee vesterday, and it was practically agreed that the schedule as offered shpuld stand. Just how this action will strike the yardmen in this city and Oakland remair s to be seen. Filimore independent of the trainmen’s and conductors’ associations. The yard- men, who include the switchmen and their assistants, decided that their organization Was not getting proper representation at the conference, so tney bolted the train- men’s association, with which they had for years been identified. Manager Fillmore was at first disposed to grant the switchmen a separate hear- ing, but it is said that since the gra oficers came here Fillmore has been made to see that a majority of the switchmen on the coast lines are in harmony with the trainmen's assoclation and are wllllng to accept whatever schedule is prepare under the association’s direction. Fillmore has always believed in the ma- Jority ruling, hence his action yesterday. What action the San Francisco and Oakland yardmen will now take remains to be seen. They may again request an audience with Fillmore, but if the sched- been made up it 1s not likely that a special one would be prepared for the benefit of the local men. and in Oakland are able to enlist the sym- pathy of switchmen all over the division, then serious complications might arise One of the natural results would be a fight for supremacy between the train- men’s association and the National Switchmen’s Union. established, rich organization, with more than 40,000 members, while the latter is only about two years old, with limited financial backing. It is safe to say, however, that if Fill- more is convinced that it is the will of a majority of the yardmen throughout the division that the schedule come before him independent of the trainmen’'s asso- ciation he will reconsider the matter and grant the desired audience. With this exception matters have pro- gressed quite satisfactorily hetween the railroad delegates and the company. The conference will be concluded to-day, pro- vided one little point—a question of ‘mile- age for the conductors—can be settled. General Manager Kruttschnitt, who is in Tos Angeles, was wired last night in re- gard to the matter and an answer is ex- pected this morning. S, SANTA FE'S ANNUAL MEETING. Stockholders Meet Next Month to Ratify Big Purchases. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Raflway Company will be hel@ on Decem- ber 13, when it is expected that the pur- chases of the property and franchises of the San Franclsco and San Joaquin Val- ley and the Santa Fe Pacific lines will be ratified. With but one or two excep- tions the Santa Fe now owns the entire capital_stock of the San Joaquin Vailey road. Since May 1, when this road began to be used as a part of the Santa Fe sys- tem, its_earnings show large increases. The 'stock of the San Joaquin Valley road cost $2,463,800. The last year has been a very profitable one for the Santa Fe, the total earnings having _increased over $6000,00. The State, Territorial, county and 'munici taxes now paid af{tegne 31,502,483, which is 3.23 per cent of the total receipts from all sources and 8.08 per cent of the total et revenue for the vear. In addition to this the company paid $41.118 to the Gov- ernment in internal revenue taxes. han 17 nt of the waiters in Ge“rg:nty and np::rcc'ént of the waitresses receive no wages at all, being expected to subsist on fees. December 1, 1900, and finishing it within | Fillmore Accepts Proposal For the last two weeks they | have been clamoring for an audience with | uie for the coast division has already | In case the yvardmen here | The former is a long | MINOR SCENES OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaten. - THIRTY SHAKESPEARE EVENINGS. —_—— XIT The average reader plays is interested omly in the principal characters; the subordinate characters often interfere with his enjoyment, and considers them only so far as t can- tribute to the general story. So with the scenes; he lingers over the great passages —soliloquies and dialogues that have be- come famous—while the brief scenes, the seemingly trivial remarks of gentlemen, citizens, clowns, etc., go unnoticed. On the stage parts of a play must be omitted | on account of lack of time, and it is the | brigf scenes that the attendant at the the- ater knows nothing about. It would be Interesting to know just how much of one of Shakespeare's long plays was omitted In acting; we know from the prologue to “Romeo and Juliet” that the play was expected to take up two hours; it is hard- Iy vossible that some of his plays could of Shakespeare's | have been acted in that time. Shake- | speare, however, was such a master of theatrical knowledge or technique that there must have been an ideal stage on | which all his characters could a; r and all his scenes be wrought out. There is no character, however insignificant, that does not play his part with the ther characters; no scene that does not find its place in the dramatic structure. | It is only when we have read his plays | over and over again and have seen the co ordination of part with part, noted the blending of minor and major chords we begin to have a proper conception of his dramatic power. The great variety of characters, Incidents and thoughts to be found in the romantic drama has often been noted—truly remarkable when we compare it with the more limited and yet perhaps more finished Greek drama.’ A wealth of characters demands a great | number of scenes. This characteristic | feature of the Shakespearean drama is seen nowhere better than in those scenes that bring in subordinate characters, that serve to increase the complexity of t plot and yet really contribute to the ganic structure. No one can hope to un-| derstand Shakespeare who does not read | carefully every scene, every line in the play; it is in such study that actors have | | been’ able to introduce a new and truer conception of the dramatic movement of | & play. ana crities have found their rea- | som for new interpretation of characters neidents. 25 his article T shall not deal with the | questicn of Shakespeare's S!(burdhh\l"l | characters. ‘This is a subject which | Charles Cowden Clarke has treated full in nis o and _discriminati | book on icter | Tt will not fail within the proy | paper to discu the subordinate | acters that have become attached to the | more important characters of | and can dly be thoug from them—Rodereigo, Autoly stone, the fool in “King Lear,” not mention many others. j We shall rather consider those scenes te characters appear | ¢ a few times in the | <when the stage |is | clear of all the pri pal rh‘-raclusl‘ the | tory is for a moment at a standstill, but | ome citizens meet In the street and talk, Some clowns interpose with their com- mon sense and humorous jargon, soldiers | pass across the stage and interpret cha ters for us, servants talk of thel ter@ in whom we are | scenes are sometimes tandpoint of stage ma | sary to_get the main characters for a following scene, but Shakesp | never introduces a scene for this effect | alone. Whatever character may appear | is treated as if he were the principal character of the play and for a moment he is a marked individuality for whom the dramatist finds a place in the de- velopment of plot and in the movement ot the play. Generally in these scenes are made aware of the general world ou in_which subordin; only once or possi | play—those ne mas- These | that | s | ea that b | b | §de of the characters in whom the play | | centers. No action can be so tragical, | no deed so heroic, no humor so intense no pathos so severe, as to be cut off from | | the world at The laugh of a clow | the _ serious prophecy of a _citiz the honest loyalty of a servant, suddenly | reveal to us & broader humanit arge. | ting' to make & comparison | and his contem- | oraric e of these brief minor | ot say that such | scenes of which I shall speak and the ef- | fects produced by them are peculiar m; | Shakespeare. _The only play of Mar- lowe's has the scenes in which subordinate characters alone appear is that of “Doctor Faustu: in which the | clowns and devils are totally out of har- mony with the play as a whole. The au thor has attempted to produce the eff that comes from the blending of comedy and tragedy, but so ill has he succeeded | that some of his admirers have contended | that the humorous scenes do not be- long to Marlowe, but to an inferior play- | wright, who manufactured them for the | groundlin; ‘Whether this be true or not, one feels the great gulf between such | scenes and those of the clowns in “Ham- let” and the porter in “Macbeth.” Again, | if one compares Marlowe's “Edward IT" with. Shakespeare's “Richard II" or | & 2 " he will | see what a fine effect is produced by the introduction into historical plays in which | | kings and nobles take parts those minor scenes where murderers and _gardeners lanus.” In the former we have.the state- 1y speech of the Roman nobles, but how outside of the world of real life they seem When we compare those short scenes in which citizens talk and officers and ser- | vants are introduced. Not that this is the only difference between the plays of | Marlowe or Jonsan and Shakespeare, but they serve to lllustrate the greater mas. tery of human nature that Shakespeare had—his more thorough grasp of all the | possibilities that lay within the new | drama. If we may use a comparison that has_been so often used before, we find | in Shakespeare the Gothic structure, as | compared with the classic models of an- | tiquity—and in such a structure the | scenes that we shall consider- furnish | | some grotesque bit. some airy frieze, some dim recess—ali adding their effects to_the general structure, The simplest use of the short scene is that in which gentlemen meet and nar- rate certain things that the audienca must know—they may or may not exhibt their indlviduality as they tell the story. | Shakespeare seems to have had to resort to this expedient, especially in his last playe, where there is such a wealth of material_as in the historical play of “Henry VIII” and in the romantic stories of “Cymbeline” and “Winter's Tale.” An. other use of the short scene Is to strike | the keynote of a play at the first. Sub- ordinate characters prepare the way for the principal characters, as in “Romeo and Juliet” and “‘Hamlet.”” In the latter especially the tone of the whole tragedy is struck by the sentinels as they walk | the platform at Elsinore in the deep hour | of midnight. In “King Lear” there is a | little scene in which two servants of | Gloster determine to follow the old eari, and they apply some flax and white of eggs to his bleeding face. This littie scene is like a burst of sunshine in the darkness of this terrible tragedy. Some- times the subordinate characters play the part of a chorus. The keynote of the tragedy of “Corlolanus” is struck by onc of the officers who come to clear away the cushions. After the second officer has told of the great things that Corlolanus has done for the state and gives the best possible defense for his conduct, the first officer says: “If he did not care whether he had their love or no, he waved indif- ferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm; but he seeks their hate with greater devotion than they can render it him, and leaves nothing undone that may fully discover him their oposite. Now, to seem to affect malice and dis- pleasure of the people is as had as that which he dislikes, to flatter them for their love.” This is the very Keynote of the general's character. The people are bet- er than he in that they recognize his eatness and are wllllnF g{o reward him, ut he loses all control himgelf and with ungovernable pride banishes Rome from himself, betrays his country and all but brings ruin upon the im 1 citf. Very impressive and significant is the following little scemc in “Antony and Cleopat: in which the soldiers com- ment on_a rumor the‘ have heard as to battle. It is far in the night-time now: the soldiers meet and exchange greetings, | and shallow wits play their part. Better | still, let him compare the “Sejanus” or | “Catiline”” of Ben Jonson with “Coro- | | | | got | feeling telling of a c air and prophe tle, when suddenly of mu rtaln rumor that is in the of to-morrow’'s bat- hear the sounds at nolse. What should whom re has of a xt day, but wing day bis courage falls him Zues to his doom. It is in all in forceful words of the second soldier. Coleridge, after re scene in “Macbetn," entire_absence of ing whol p right in our general blendi and pathos (no erit this very pecially du we feel after the murder of D of the most tragic scex réach the ror,” Mrs. Siddons 1 ¢n her one chara th pe to th S the herror of the : a that made it impossible for me to go fu ther.” Not that the scene is or; Shakespears has studiously avoid- narra murder of Dun- one of blooc 18 the can, rather than representing it on t stage, but tke awfui stiliness of nature, sken now and 1 by the screa owl or the chirp of a cricket; tw minals, now relating the detail h murder and now showing the that comes with the assertion of con- lence; an bove all the cry that Mac- eth hea Sleep no m eal a world “cut off by - gulph from the ordinar; 1d succes- | sion of human affairs.” “We are made sensible that the world of ordinary life is suddenly arrested—laid p—tranced uddenly we cking at the gate, “and it n audibly the feaction has commenced; the has made its reflex upon the fi pulses of life g to be thus t he knocking : t the knocking is the voice ¢ and so Macbeth interprets it conscienc “Wake Duncan with thy knocking I ouldst thou dst T world in . ve have been moving is suddenly t the kno if immediately the friends of Dun- 1 should be admitted and should realize the crime that had been committed. So in the next scene the porter of castie comes answer the knocking. He is, however, no I 1ctions e has no sense of the that he is playing in a great traged: to true to t ould del cus speech. Hales must laugh or we must die.” Despite the coarseness of his remarks, he takes off the imaginary culprits in a truly comic y. His werds. £ vant; he s not introduced merely a laugh. He imagines himself for a mo- ment the porter«of hell gate, and he is in a sense that he does not realize. T many more such short scene in S re’s plays the importance which t be realized from a ea reading. It is hoped that from the few that have been noted some idea may bhe of the arefulness with which the great dramatist worked out every detail. EDWIN MIMS. y 228 Trinity College. ADVERTISEMENTS. 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