The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 10, 1900, Page 7

BRUTAL ASSAULT " N YOUNG WOMAN Miss Jennie Jones Attacked byaRuffian While Going to Her Home. ———— Conductor and Motorman of an Elec- c Car Come to the Rescue as Fiend Is Gagging His Vietim. view. Th Strugg me & few blocks dis- her b me ph ndition - * Miss Jones ornia and walking the garroter 1 before the m, had thrown gagging his vietim he rescuers hove in f t curred outside of the city s brutal as tersen detailed a num- » act with Town Mar- ryville in an effort ed f the heavy black o RECITATIONS CLOSE AT STATE UNIVERSITY | ks, When Christ- ation Begins. Ce-—— DELIBERATE SUICIDE OF ELECTRICAL LINEMAN M Then Engages om That He May Have a Bed to Die Upon. TED Dy J. A. Town- procured a ur this after- then coolly en- hotel so that which to die. ambulance to the hospital counteract the but without success. man died at 10 o'clock Townsend asked a friend him the hospital and He no explanation e a heavily Townsend came here aves a wife at 531 t. Akron, Ohlo, and residing on Chestnut nfa. He was about 35 president of the Inter- ectrical Workers of Akron, - NOT RIDE IN AMERICA. Yet Hopes to Be Restored to Standing in England. Tod Sloan that racing associa- i not prepare to re- ride, as he did not b in this country king mounts until his standing with nd or been abso- Sloan has decided ire reputation ts when he returns & WILL rt that of the California phed to England ormatjon on _the refusing to allow at Oakland if n sald: splendid turfman ngland for in- r »es it sincerely. intend to ride at Oak- f a track. I am r tion. T have T od for the reports that ews from England. A fel- r them. A lot of peo- ar there is more now known. This v settled until the “ngland makes a more or at least give of- will not come probably months, until 1 apply for a li- Lasdi Races at Los Angeles. ANGELES. Dec. 5—The following o-night* Drowning | mile. ’Yh.n. of New York won first two heats, Hoffman secopd. Time—2:06, 2:06. mile, bandicap—A. C. Muft won. Guy West (30 yar) sscond, A clanes (85 yarae) third. Time, 2:12%. hree-mile motor mateh Face— won. Lawson and Turville withdrew at f second mile on aocount of motor break- wr. Time, 4:42. First mile made in 1:31 Levys Wins. 08 ANGELES, Dec. 9.—An enthusi- crowad 2000 strong attended the open- came of the Southern California Base- ague to-day between the Levys Maler & Zobeleins. Both teams llent Levys in the ninth inning by 3t02 GREAT BRITAIN INTERISTED. Watching the Progress of the Sub- sidy Bill in Congress. Call and New York Her- B :h!fl!l:, by Lbo';erlld Pub- ning Sany NDON, Dec. 9.—English shipping in- much interested in the pro- cubsidy legislation in the United It is generally believed here that rica is entering upon an era of ship- prosperity omist this week says America gland for re &1 cignty of the seas and e: ion that bounties are not urage shipbuilding in the States. It nks the tariff should be reduced and ihe navigation laws xpresses the needed to | BLOW AND A FALL MAY CAUSE DEATH Antone Galindo Felled ina Row and His Skull Is Fractured. rested—Row Said to Be Over an Attempt to Abduct a Child. e . but it 15 said that he had been | | throughout the day and evening. At ! on “Chrjstian Endeaver.” President and in such a | York, he indoor blcyele races | yeCN® n 2 e of the ball and the game was | | | | Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Dec. With his skull fractured and his nose broken An Galindo, a tamale ped- I was he Receiving Hospi- his condltion being the re er of Fourt r, a peddier, rents made to the vo- ndo a blow In the face, and knocking him ractured skull was caused by his striking on the back of his hezd on ctured at the base of the and lndo was unconscious and g when taken to the hospital The aff occurrad at €:30 o'clock. John Wright, who resides across the street and whose son witnessed the affair, sent for the police and the injured man w taken to the City Hall. Captain Petel that the prisoner required surgical atten- tion and had him sent post-haste to the en saw | hospital From the information gathered by Chiet lice Hodgkins De < Hamerton ana sever e do’s attempt to abduct of £ shes the following the ¢ the Cunningham Mrs story 1 had been calling on Mrs, Lester, who lives in the rear of the house Galindo was | in. dren, Bernice, was playing c and | was inslde talkir ster, when a child ran i 0 had picked up Bernice ng aw: with her. 1 ran and saw Galindo with Bernice in rms n him ing, my child? “He replied, thickly, * getting her from the hoodlum id here. “But there was nobody round the corner and 1 did not understand what he meant | by such an answer. 1 took the girl, went back and got my other child and returned ‘to my own home across the Btreet. I heard nothing mere about the matter un- tii @ few minutes after I got home. Som. told me Galindo had been hurt and d to use a knife. I did ng of any fight. It is possi- uble 1 had with hi have led to th r corroborated Mrs. Cunning- ment, but she saw nothing of ht, son of the man whe ice, told the officers tk d remarks to ’ to move on 3 iring which Clear knocked the ad wit Cunning A upbraided t and had iking Galindo. ingham denied that she saw | the fight Cléar was arrested at 11 o'clock to-night | by Detectives Kyte and E an. Special Policeman Ford at Ke saloon, | Secon®and Clay streets. He told contra- dictory s s and at last refused to dis- cuss t r s positively identi- I by the boy W | Galindo is middie-aged, and is of the Spanish-Californian family of early set- tiers in Alameda County whose name he bears. He has a sister, Miss Lucy Galin- do, residing on Thirt, street, near Franklig. His condition indicated that he had been drinking considerably. He lay for twenty minutes after he fell before the police were called. BETHEL CHURCH HOLDS quent Speakers and Pleased by Sacred Music. A grand rally, participated in by the congregation of the Bethel A M. E. Church, was held yesterday at the church at 1207 Powell street for the purpose of raising funds to pay ihe interest on the | mortgage which encumbers the church | property. | " Services opened at 6 a. m. with a sun- and continued 11 the Rev. E. T. Cottman and the Rev. Dr. Thompson addressed the con- Tegation and at 3 p. m. the Rev. J. A. B. (\‘nson delivered a sermon, choosing as his text “‘Seed Sowing and Harvest.” At rise prayer-meeting la m 6 p. m. the Rev. E. T. Cottman and the | | met for several yvears, but Major General | FDickinson in an unofficial way has sug- | J. addresses . Bnelson, pastor of the church, delivered the ser- mon at the evening service. The church was crowded during the entire day. In addition to the services the congrega- tion was treated to manv beautiful vocal Rev. H. Pointer deliy, selections by the following named: Mrs. | J. H. Fisher, Mrs. W. B. Powell, J. H. Willlamson, Miss Bearrice Harris, J. H. Wilkersoh and Mrs. Cashin. This evening at 8 o'clock a grand mis- sionary rally will be aeid, which the pub- lic is invited to attend. REV. T. P. McLAUGHLIN WILL GIVE A LECTURE League of the Cross Has Arranged for Coming of the Noted Pastor. The League of the Cross has arranged with the Rev. Thomas P. McLaughlin, pastor of Transfiguration Church, New to deliver his famous lecture, “Ancient Melodies of Ireland.” in Metro- politan Hall on January 16, 1901 Father McLaughlin is distinguished among the Catholic clergy of the United States both as a lecturer and a vocalist. He is an authority on music, especially on nation- al melodies and popular ballads. He has ' a remarkable tenor voice and he inter- {prets the sweetness and charm of the melodies of Erin better than any other wvocalist of the day. In his coming lecture | most famous of | the Irish melodies. The announcement of Father McLaugh- lin's visit has occasioned considerable in- | terest among the lovers of Irish musiec. | Father McLaughiin has been heard by { immense audiences in all the large cities |of the East and at the sessions of the Catholic Summer School. General tick- ots of admission at fifty cents may be had at room 57, Flood bullding. The reserved seat sheet is also open at the same of- fice and those who wish to secure special seats may do so during the week. —_———— | URGES PASSAGE OF ANTI-POLYGAMY LAW WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—A mass meet- ing was held here to-day under the aus- | pices of the Woman's Inter-Denomina- tional Unfon in the Interest of the pro- constitutional amendment prohib- it'ng polygamy In the United States and in all Territgries under its jurisdiction. Dr. Josiah Strong of New York City pre- e an address he recalled the meu:x held a year in the same church to ':gpou the ing of Mr. Rob- erts of U in the House of Representa- tives and the sending of a petition to Congress protesting it seating him, and also asking for legislation prohibit- ing polygamy in all States. No action had been taken on the request for an anti- polyeamvy law, said Dr. Strong, and the meeting was intended to press the issue. A letter was read from ex-Senator Ed- munds. Dr. Saran J. Elliott of Moab, Utah, ex- pressed 1f strongly in to Ttan: P o rations were adopted respect ere et e St e 1 action o Mm 8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1900 UR DECADES HAS DURING FO Thomas Clear, His Assailant, Ar-| H.A.LLY‘!VO_ RAISE FUNDS | Congregation Is Addressed by Elo- | | AKLAND, Dec. 9.—On Sunday, December 9, 1860, the First Cu gregational Church of this city was organized with a membership | of fourteen persons To-day the | 1300 members of that church celebrated | the fortieth anniversary of its birth, and | among those who took part in the inter- esting services were the three pastors who, { bave served the church during its life- time. During the morning services tiie Rev. George Mooar, D. D., who was the first pastor, occupying the pulpiz froin 1861 to 1872, preached a discours:, partly iniscent and partly theological. Rev. Charles R. Brown, the present pastor, troduced the agedl clergyman, wlo has the little band of worshipers e forty years ago to minister unto. The anniversary exercises at many members who had been a with the church for years past. was a special programme of music. Immediat-ly after the conclusion of the mornirg services the Sunday school ¢x- ercises were opened in the chap Th celebration was upenss by Superiniendent F. F. Barbour with a sung by the Sunday school. Thewn followed the reading of the twenty-third psalm. Miss - Hibberd ren- dered a violin solo and there was respou sive reading by the former superinten- ent, C. Z. Merritt. H. L. Taylor gave a solo and prayer was offered by Cary How- B ved to wituess the great growth from came [T PROSPERED IN CHRIST Fortieth Anniversary of First Congregational Church of Oakland, Grown From Fourteen Members, Is Fittingly Celebrated. + THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF OAKLAND, AND ITS FIRST AND SECOND PASTORS. THE COMMEMORATION OF THE FORTIETH ANNI- SERVICES THAT WERE HELD YESTERDAY WERE IN RSARY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHURCH. E. P. Flint, one of the oldest mem- ¢ the church, gave an interesiing : ive, reciting sonie of the develop- Rev. J. K. he Paecific s pastor rmon. the ldeauty of Holy Tem- t teing 1o Behold L > Loxd and to Inquire in H he church was organized by Rev. E. S. “irst Congregational ary meeting having n held a week before the formal or- T tion on December 9, 1860. This meeting was held in a fittle Baptist | church, then on Jefferson street, Fourth The building is now the Sal tion Army barracks on Ninth street, ni Washington Later the young society met in an agricultural pavilion on the preser | site of the county Courthouse. The con- cregation’s first church was erected on Broadway, between Tenth and Eleventh streets. "Rev. George Mooar arrived May, 1861, and was installed as the first pastor. He was selected by Rev. Martin Kellogg, late president of the University of California. A few vears later the church was enlarged and moved to face on Washington street, near Tenth. 1872, when Dr. McLean was Installed, the membership had increased to 247. Beven years later, on January 12, 1879, the first | in | In | | -+ near | services were held in the present imposing edifice, which is the church home. Dr. McLean retired after twenty-three years' pastorate to take charge of the Pacific Theological Seminary. He was succeeded by the present pastor. There will be a reception to-morrow evening at the church in honor of the for- tieth anniversary celebration. of note will be Rev. and The guests George Mooar, Rev, Mrs. J. K. McLean, Rev. W ormerly assistant pastor, and Mry Mr. and Mrs. E. 5. Willlams .. Mrs. Charles R. Brown. The an- v v communion service will be cele- brated on Wednesday evening. The offici- azln( clergymen will be Dr. McLean and Dr. Mooar. L S e e e e e e Y ) | unconscious and bleeding on the sidewalk | LEG |SLA“' l[]N. { iled. | o ———e——— FOR GUARDSMEN | Meeting of Officers Called | to Discuss Ideas for Betterment. Several years ago there existed in this State an organization composed of officers | of the several branches of the National | Guara, which met shortly before each session of the Legisiature and discussed | | measures looking toward the betterment of the guard. This organization has not | gested that it should meet again this year and take some steps to induce legislation | to the end that the guard may in the | near future be placed in such condition as {it. Buch a meeting has been called for | the 15th inst. at division headquarters. Lieutenant Colonel T. J. Hay, assistant adjutant general of the Third Brigade, re- | cently acted as inspector of the brigade who was in Paris. The acting inspector did not gain a very exalted opinion of the brigade as a result of the inspection, for in his report he will say that he did not | find it in the condition’ that it ought to | have been in. He will recommend that several of the companies that are not up to the standard be disbanded. The court-martial that {s to try Captain ¥irman A. Nippert of Company F. First | Regiment, upon a charge of having made | a false parade report will convene to-mor- Page street. The accused has engaged two attorneys to represent him, and it is understood the defemse will be on tech- nical grounds. In view of the fifflmhel that have been made to place the First Infantry Regi- ment in good condition after the holiday | season is over it is probable that the first step to be taken will be to recruit the companies up to a number considerably in excess of the minimum of organization, which is fifty, and then arouse a spirit of enthusiasm from the fleld officers down. One of the former officers of the regiment, now on the retired list, speaking a few days since of the apathy in.the guard in thie city &t this time, sald: “The reason that the First Regiment is not now what it once was is because it has no rival organization here. If as in the days of a few years since, there were two or more regiments located here there would now be that same good natured riv- alry that existed then. for each regiment would seek to excel the other in appear- ance, drill and so on. Now there is none of that spirit. The boys have nothing to be superior to. and the officers and mem- bers seem to be content with going through what has to be done in the mqst perfunctory manner. A good, wide-awake and up-to-date regiment is what we ™ Fhere is some talk of giving the compa- nies some work in the near future aside from the ordinary evolution of the drill room. This, it is said, will include mount _outside of the armory building, field exercise, street parades moon- light and other exercises that will teac! the new men the art of war in a practical manner. “ ‘‘he companies of the First Regiment of Infantry will indulge in el practice and sk{rmuh firing_at t range this month. Companies A, B, C, P. E and ¥ will shoot Sunday, Decem 5, and Companies G, H, 1, J, M on_the following Sunday, commencing at 9 o'clock in the morning. The nder the direction of First Lieutenant be u Willlam H. Tobin, inspector of S, with the following named scorel ers for the first day: leutenants J ; A. Brown, Joseph Ross Jr., Harry g“ McGurren, Walter N. Kelly, Willlam B Wesher ahd Andrew I Irving, and for jae sscond 4oy Lisutsupols Walier TA g fam a, bert Adler, I. F. &uode?.‘ Frank i Youn, Richard Collopy. Sergeant J. H. Prideaux of Company M has been appointed regimental sergeant he First Infantry, vice Otto Schwerdfege r. Corporals Philip L. Bannon of Compan B and Walter J. Roussel of Company have been appointed sergeants, vice Gil- kyson and Seagrave. wPrivate William H. Dusenberry of Company A has been pro- moted corporal, vice Lou;hrey. Privates Seligmann Katz and Wllliam Willlams have been hppointed musiclans of Gom- pany A. Five privates of the First Infantry have been discharged from the service of the State for removal, good of the service, expiration of enlistment, exemption and two-thirds vote, one for emch cause. Tuesday night Company F, First Infan- tr?' will entertain its members and their friends In the Ellis-street Armory. The committee in charge has arranged an in- teresting programme of musical and iit- | will make it a credit to the Btate, which | every year pays a good sum to maintain | in the absence of Major Varney Gasklll, | row night in the regimental armory, on | erary numbers, also a programme of the | up-to-date dan ARMY BAKERS FIGHT AND ONE USES EKNIFE | Disagresing About Proper Way to Make Bread, They Enter Into Pugilistic Argument, | A difference of opinion as to the proper | amount of the ingredients necessary to | make a _good batch of bread led to a stab- bing affray at the Presidio yesterday. | views. based on his long experience, but his ideas did not agree with those of | First Assistant Baker Bastman and | hot argument ensued. The men finally came together and in the melee Eastman stabbed his chief sev- | eral times in the neck and shoulders. The wounds are not serious. The man who used the knife was placed in the house and Cleary was sent to the tal to have his wounds dressed. e Clan Fraser’s Election. An election of officers was held by Clan Fraser No. 78, Order of Scottish Clans, last Thursday evening, resulting as fol- lows: Chief, Willlam Rae; tanist, John W. King; chaplain, Hugh Fraser; secre- tary, Willlam McCcrmick; financlal secre- | tary, Thomas Wiison; treasurer, M. L. Crowe; physician, . George ' Adam; henchmen, Walter Reed and Alexander King; warden, John C. Moore; sentinel, James O/ Fraser: standard-bearer, Thomas A. Munro, pipers, I. S. R. Tevendale and Adam Ross; trustes, Charles Adams. Cottages on Kansas Street Burned. Three cottages on Kansas street were damaged by fire yesterday afternoon. The blaze originated In the cottage of a man named Jorgensen at 1110 Kansas street and spread to two adjoining cottages, occu- pled by Willlam Galvin and George Slo- Vich. Doth of these were gutted and the first cottage was entirely destroyed before the Fire Department arrived on the scene, Operating-Room Modernized. The inside operating room at the City Hall Emergency Hospital has been com- pletely modernized under the immediate Supervision of Chief Emergency Surgeon Bunnell. Before any improvements were attempted Dr. Bunnell had the walls and washed thoroughly cleaned and painted. The floor was con- creted and over this marble tillng was set In cement. 0ld Man Badly Hurt. Joseph Meyers, 57 years of age, living at 104 Seventh street, attempted to get off a Folsom-street car at Twenty-second and Folsom streets. The car started be- fore he alighted. He was taken to the Recelving fio-pu(l. Both thighs were badly bruised, and his back was slightly sprained. Owing to his advanced age his injuries are considered serious. ——————— Taken to German Hospital. BEdward Duggan, who was seriously in- Jure i the glass works t:’;:.aé, n.l. ¢ been from the Receiving . :;:amln Hospital. His oondm‘:gu .ufi serfous, but recovery now seems probable, puilubitit s Lp dalatrnnnina An improved mail service has been in- stalled in Frankf Germa;y,!h‘tnm- recently added seven ort, way com ha Rl syt 1 faler s Chief Baker Tom Cleary advanced his | ONE GOVERNOR SCORES ANOTHER Colorado Executive Will Not Extradite Indiana Swindler. Ly Special Dispatch to The Call. DENVER, Dec. 9.—A requisition for Clinton Oxman, accused of swindling J. Mayer Greene In Valparaiso, Ind., of $10,000, was refused by Governor Thomas yesterday. Attorney Genesal Campbell, in passing upon the requisition sent by Governor Mount of Indiana, called atten- tion to the refusal of the Government to extradite ex-Governor Taylor on the de- mand of the Governor of Kentucky when it was proposed to try Taylor in connec- tion with the murder of William Goebel in the State House yard at Frankfort. Mr. C. bell advised the Governor that ount had established gerous precedent in refusing requisition papers for an indicted prisoner. o said that the Hoosier Governor’s conduct in the Taylor case was a menace to society, but that even though he should continue to carry, it out Governors of other States should not follow any such rule even when the Governor of Indiana asked them for a prisoner. vernor Thomas, however, seemed to take the first and not the last part of the opinion to heart, for on a trifling techni- cality he refused the requisition, saying that it was not in regular form. GOVERNOR MOUNT'S VIEWS. Hints That Politics May Be at the Bottom of the Matter. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 9.—Governor Mount to-day received word that Gover- nor Thomas of Colorado has refused to a dan- honor a requisifion from Indiana for the | return of Clifton Oxman of Princeton, Ind., accused of defrauding in a real es- tate deal J. Mayer Greene of Chicago. A special from Denver says the Indlana Sherift had Attorney General Campbell of Colorado inspect the papers anu they were declared legal. Governor Thomas had a consultation with Mr.” Campbell and then announced that the papers were not made out In techni- cal form and this, taken in connection with the attitud Governor Mount of Indiana in refusidg to honor ernor Beckham's requisition for the return to Kentucky of W. 8. Taylor, who is now llving in Indiana, who was wanted in Kentucky, he said, would cause him to refuse the requisition. Governor Thomas, it is stated, at the same time said thar several oth decided to take similar steps regarding Governor Mount. The matter has cre- ated considerable comment. Governor Mount, when told to-night of Governor Thomas’ he = action, said ‘was surprised at ' may be sorething tical in this mur? said hgh"lmt am_sur- prised th: Tesorts to lomas any so-called precedent In his action on the requisition. He cites my action in the Kentucky case as a precedent, which, he says, he is Inclined to follow. I con- sidered no p: ent when I refused the Kentucky_requisition. 1 did so because T did not belleve the men could get a fair trial in their own State. Governors do not resort acting as a rule to precedents in such questions. Each stands on its :emmrlu' ——— New Class for State Normal. On Monday, January 21, 1801, the San Francisco State Normal School will admit a new class. Applicants holding creden- will admit them to Stai Uity o e el st Senina’ tion. 2 held at the S 'ormal Tues- ‘!.‘Iul? 9:30 o'cl day, Jlllll{¥ . Tefliiesd same BERP B Srafty il be used, | o Y L Afterward, it is stated, | er Governors had, he believed, | PLAYS OF DOUBT XVI Tt is now generally agreed by the best critics that certain of the plays included in the standard editions of Shakespea are not wholly his, but are partly work of other dramatists, some of whom can be identified. The chief plays in this | class are “Titus Andronicus,” the three parts of “Henry VI,” “The Taming of the Shrew,” “Timon of Athens” “‘Peri- cles’”” and “Henry VIIL'™ To these may be added “The Two Noble Kinsmen,” which 1s found in several of the editions. Dowden aptly calls the first perfod of Shakespeare’s dramatic career “In the Workshop.” Genius though he was, nhe had to learn his art iike inferfor men. He appears to have begun with work of a comparatively low grade—such as might be intrusted to an apprentice in dramatic workmanship—the “‘fixing up” not his own that had their “run” | might get a new lease of life on the | boards by partial reconstruction. | One of the first of these plays was probably ‘qitus Andronicus,” which some critics omit from the list of his works. | | I he had anything to do with it (which is | probable from the fact that it s at- | tributed to him by writers of the time. | and is Included in tha folio of 1623, which | was compiled by two of his brother aci- ors and personal friends), it is quite cer- | tain that it was only in this "prentice way. As efirly as 1687 Edward Ravenscroft, in the preface of his aanla.llon of the play, quotes an early tradition that “Ti | tus Andronicus” was the work of “‘a pri- | vate author” and received from Shakes- peare “only some master touches to one or two of the principal parts or charac- ters.” A few editors and critics believe that Shakespeare was the sole author. If he was the play must be Several years earlier than any other of his works and must have been written under the in- fluence of the “blood and thunder” school of tragedy, then happily in its last days, | which Shakespeare ridicules in the ‘“Mid- summer Night's Dream,” itself one of his early plays. As Dowden puts it, “If it 1s of Shakespearean autliorship it may be | viewed as representing the peri of crude and violent youth, before he had found his true seif.” Those who accept it as enurel‘y his lay | much stress on the fact that it is includ- ed in Francis Meres’' List (1598) of twelve plays by Shakespeare; but as it had been revised by him it might be known in the theater as “Shakespeare’'s Titus Andron- fcus” to distinguish it from the original drama, and eight or nine years later, when the original was forgotten, the re- vision might come tg be generally re- | garded as an early production of the re- viser himself. Another play whicn is almost unani- mously believed to have been omly re- | vised or retouched by Shakespeare in his | 'prentice days is “T Henry VL Some critics think that the only part of it which can confidently be ascribed to him Is the Temple Garden scene (li., 4), where Som- | erset and Plantagenet pluck the red and white roses. Others add the scene (v., 3, 45. fol.), where Suffolk wooes Margaret. A few believe that he wrote the whole or the greater part of the play. The question of the authorship of “II and II Henry VL" is more complicated, and to give even an outline of the various attempts to answer it would be impossible here. Suffice it to say that these plays are evidently founded upon two earller plays, jn which Shakespeare may or may not have had a hand and that his share in the revised versions, though apparent- ly much greater than in “I Henry VI | is not easily determined. (For a concise | summary of the discussion I may refer the reader to my edition of “II Henry VI pages 9-15, or to Dowden's “Shakes- peare's Primer,” pages 74-78, a book which | every student in these Record courses should own.) “The Taming of the Shrew” is another and later instance of an old and anony- mous play, “The Taming of the Shrew.” which Shakespeare revised, giving his | attention mainly to the characters of | Katharine and Petruchio. The old play ihad previously been modifled by an un- | known writer. As the hlltorr of this lay was fully tréated In last year's | Stakespeare course, I need not dwell | upon it here. z - | “Timon of Athens” is BShakespeare's only ‘2 part, as the critics almost unan- | imousiy agree, though they differ in their | explanations of the divided authorship. | Knight, the Cambridge editors and a few others believe that the dramatist worked | over an earlier play, parts of which, for 1!oma reason or other, he retained with slight elteration. On the other hand, the majority of editors, including Gollancz and Herford, the very latest, regard it as an original work of Shakespeare's, which he laid aside or left unfinished, and which was completed by an inferior writer. Tuere are difficulties in either theory, but the latter is by far the more probable. There is little difficulty in separating Shakespeare’s part of ‘“Tfmon’ from that of the other writer, and there would be Jess or none were It not that In some gcenes we have the work of the two hands mixed, the finisher of the play having at- tempted to rewrite portions of it~ but blending more or less of the original gold with his own bager metal. We can se2 that the gold is there, but cannot sepa- rate it from the alloy. Mr. F. G. Fleay has edited what he belleves to be Shakes- peare’s_ “Timon” _for the New Shakes- peare Soclety, and it may be found in the | of plays | but | + | mon.” FUL AUTHORSHIP. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. THIRTY SHAKESPEARE EVENINGS. —_— | their “Transactions” for 1874, pages 131- but, as Dr. Furnivall suggests, it seerv better on the whole to print the en play, putting the non-Shakespear parts in smaller type, so that the reade whether k or student may ‘udage for himsei: thing in these portion is peare’'s or not. have adopt course in my edition of the play Pericles” is one of the standing er Shakespearean ecriticism, thoug nvestigation has, in my opinior gone [av— oward solving it. Ut ocosely compares his perplexity cencern ing it to that of the worthy ma wh | said to his wife: “I hear so much ab | the of pericles. My dear, what Shakespears did not write t whole of the play is now quite unanimou: ly conceded; that he did write a part it is alm, agreed. All o lsfi the composi |Uon: some belleve that they recognize ree. We may safely say that the first two | acts are not Shakespeare’s, and that the | offensive prose scen act IV and the | Gower matter are the work of some in- | ferior writer, and perhaps not the same who wrote the first two acts It is to be noted that the last three a (omiting the portions just mention form a complete story of drama in them | selves—an artistic whole, not unworthy of Shakespears In his maturest period This has been separated and edited by Mr Fleay for the New Shakespeare Soclety. and is printed under the title of “The | Birth and Life of Marina” in the “Trans- actions™ for 1574, pages 211-2 The main theories concerning the his- | tory of “Pericles” as it stands are much {like those concerning “Timon.” Some crities suppose that the first two acts are | part of an earller play by another author, and that Shakespeare rewrote, or rath partially rewrote, this for his ow: |in London. According to this vi lowed the opening acts of the « stand, and was content to give ail his labor to the latter part of it. The prose | seenes in act IV may have been inserted subsequently to suit the popular taste or for some ‘“‘stage” reason past our finding | out at this late day. | _ Another theory, so improbable that it is | hardly worth mentioning, is that the plaj | was written by Shakespeare and some other dramatist who worked in partner- ship, or collaboration, a common practice with the playwrights of that perfod. The double authorship of other plays— “Timon,” “Henry VIII” and “The Two Noble Kinsmen”—has sometimes been ex- plained in the same way. But there is no external evidence what- ever that Shakespeare ever entered into any such literary partnership, and, in my opinion, the internal evidence of all these | plays is decidedly agalnst the theor: | This is particularly true of “Pericles. To say nothing of reasons drawn from the dramatic structure of the play, the ques- tion is settled, to my thinking, by metri- cal considerations alone. _Shakespears was eminently a metrist. He was born with the metrical or rythmical ear. His earliest work, whether we suppose it to be “Venus and Adonis” or some of the son- nets or plays like “Love’s Labor's Lost” and “The Two Gentlemen of Verona." shows this artistic metrical skill, which is invariably—naturally and of necessity— combined with extreme sensitiveness to metrical imperfections in others. If Shakespeare wrote “Pericles” or any other play In conjunction with another author he must of course have read what his partner wrote, and it is absolutely in- conceivable that he could have tolerated in the joint produetion such wretched verse as we find in ‘“Pericles” or ““Ti- I doubt whether he would have consented to collaborate with such a man, but if he did he would have insisted upon being allowed to put his partner's har: and halting lines into better shape. I can | imagine him, after reading some of this verse—if verse it can be called—saying to e author, as he made Hotspur say of the “ballad-mongers’ T bad rather hear a brazen canstick turn’d, | Or a dry wheel grate on the axletree: And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as [poetry like this]: “Tis like the forced gait of a shuffiing nag-" I may add what he makes Rosalind say |in eriticism of Orlando’s love verses: “Celia—Didst thou hear these verses? “Rosalind—Oh, ves, I heard them all. and more, too, for some of them had in them more feet than the verses would A “Celia—That's no matter; the feet might bear the verses. “Roealind—Ay, but the feet were lame and could mot bear themselyes without the verse, and therefore stood lamely in the verse.” And Touchstone compares the jingling rhymes to “the right butterwoman's rank to market”—the mere jogtrot of ver: and again he calls it “the very false gal- lop of verse.” These and other passages that I might quote show Shakespeare's critical way of looking at versific The rhymes of the clowns in th summer Night's Dream™ are be than much in “Pericles” and “Timon. The feet are at least all right in the inter- lude of the Athenian artisans, the bur- lesque features being the excess of alliter- ation, the absurd figures, and other rhetorical extravagances. Imperfect rhy- thm the poet seems to have considered too bad ever for Bottom and his crew. Can we suppose that he could have en- dured It in a dramatic composition of which he was to be known as joint au- thor? Note—This studs will be concluded on Dr. W. J. Rolfe, ursday. £AS SUFCATION CHLSE OF DEATH Police Break Into a Room and Find Corpse of Charles Muller. —_— Oakland Office San Franecisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Dec. 9. Whether Charles E. Muiler, a printer, committed suicide or met accidental death from gas suffocation last night in his room at the Huff House, 427 Ninth street, has been left to the Coroner for investigation. When Policeman Curtis broke into the room this afternoon he found Muller dead in bed, the door double-locked and bolted, with window and transom tightly closed. The gas was escaping from a burner, the key of which was turned on tull. That was all the evidence of possible | suictide. The other circumstances sur- the case indicated accldent. 1 ml‘i’l‘x‘l’ll:r‘ reneled the room November 21. He | very regular in his habits, rarely be- l‘x’::'mury later than 9 o'clock. Last night the landlady noticed the gas burning in t midnight. A coup'e of il;xr:wl: T she observed the lllgm. Bt not been exti; shed. GoIng to the room, she aroused Muller and him to turn off the gas. He complied with the re- uest, because the room was immediafely darken ‘the morning the odor of uu{'n’ n‘:n:lv:-‘ detected, but it was not until o'clock that the police were summoned. Curtis responded and traced the trouble to Muller's room, and failing to receive a door, the policeman reply to a rap on the 1A, forced an entrance. Mul lay in , ored had retired lar} covered a8 It e Jothing was core e~ nn:n." on a chair. Deputy Coroner Quellen, who was called to the house as soon as it was ascertained that the man dead, found that Hy direct evidencs of sulcide: gas fixtures were in order, Muller was about 35 years old, a native & D o Seste R R L as is Mn” he was not married. [ghafeinintind™ cousismN Switzerland cultivates 35,000,000 fruft trees. he COST WANTS GRADED RATES Hearing Before the Inter- state Commerce Com- mission To-Day. NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Representatives from commercial interests in various sec- tions of the country. principally from the Pacific Coast, Western and Eastern States, will appear before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington to- day at a hearing to consider the matter of transcontinental rates and the conces- sions in such rates now being sought by Middle Western jobbers, chiefly grocery and hardware firms. For some time past strong.efforts have been made by these interests and several conferences with the rallroads have been held, to have the latter adopt a system of graded rates. If these efforts are sue- cesstul Pacific Coast rates, under the plan roposed, would always be higher from New York and to San Francisco than to San Francisco from any point wi of New York. Eastern jobbing interests are naturally working hard to prevent the establishment of such a system. They will be represented at the hear- ing to-day and J. M. Langley of the Mer. chants’ Assocfation will appear in behaif of the New York shipping interests, rep- Tesented by the members of that organi- zation. The western people are advocating ded rates—that is. If a rate from New ork to San Francisco happens to be $i per 100 pounds, they contend that the rate from Pittsburg on the same goods should be approximately % cents; from Chicago $0 cents; from the Mississippi River i3 cents, and from the Missouri River g pet 100 pounds, gotwithstanding the fact t the rate from New York is a forced rate and not a rate that is the re- sult of normal conditions voluntarily - Mill Operatives Strike. NEW BEDFORD, Mass.. Dec. 9.—To- morrow morning nearly 1000 operatives ‘will remain away from the Acushnet and Hathaway mills, owing to a dis; with their :‘mployen on the subject stop-