The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1900, Page 7

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1900. FORCED TO STAY IN THE STEERAGE White Passengers Herde With Asiaties on the Rio de Janeiro. ~— | | for $20,000 to Be Filed | vy Agsinst the Pacific | ail Steamship Com- pany. o it Emperor e purchasine Majesty’s - tarter. They of the Rio, but avail. About > the STATEMENF —oOF TEE— | CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— ¥ uant to d 611 of the Po blank furnished by 354,624 07 1,454 20 ' COME. received for Fire received for Ma- on Bonds and and dividends ks, Loans, and from sale of securi- s (In- vious $854,375 S E o Losses . losses of pre- * 357,633 46 Stockbolders.............. 120,000 00 i for Commission or 3 229,406 35 | Salaries, Fees, and other i s for officers, clerks, etc 226,497 40 State, National and Local . 37,776 40 " 205,163 53 . 52,040,353 37 | Losses incurred during the year.. neurred during the year | Premiums. |Fire Risks, Losse R DUTTON, 566,608 | $151519 32 WM. J Prest BERNARD FAYMONVILLE, Secy. Bubecribed and sworn 1o before me, this 15th day of Junvary, B0 Coopem Deputy Insurance Commissioner. | week realized $510,350. | east of Sanchez, | estate to Willilam McCormack, | two flats, $37 | with improvements, $1400; lot on the west side | of Clayton street, | street, 27x96:10%, $2060; lot on the west side of | Misst i street, 100 feet nmorth of Twenty- SUFFER TORTURES ON BOAT'S BOTTO Lighthouse-Keeper and His Assistants Have Terrib'e Experience. | | | While Trying to Reach Shore Their Craft Is Capsized and They Are Tossed About for Hours. Deec. 16.—The Ma here to-day . H jam McCau- ley, lighthous s on Squaw Island, the bodies of Mrs. Shields and her Mrs oy were Mary picked up Saturday afternoon k. ¥ they were found lashed yawl. They had been thus e Friday, when they by a squall while sailing to the mainland. Lucien Mic another oc- was drowned before d to the overturned craft, ague d men were ily frozen, they will e to suff, lower limbs hey ta where the rrible’ experience e the red to th our hel nd Mrs. Da- Friday for the nt, bound for it only a short boat, cap- 11 into the lake much hard work, “auley and my- in lashing both the and then ocurselves, delirious and refused fell off the boat and d her niece, McCau- yssed about and suf- cold and s About seven hours ppened my wife > 1o longe to wind and seas. Mrs rward also die time we w within tance ¢ he mainland, and would ha washed on the beach when the wind we were Iy drifting again nately. ho n by wind into th which often taken by p the lake. In this man- lay night the pa omir i age, boats ¢ ribly from cold and hung at 1 p. m., when w ing the attention lookout of the steamer Manhattan. | The terrible experience and suffering which we endured can only be imagined those who have had similar expe ences Both men are about 40 years of age. GRAU PLEASED WITH HIS WESTERN VENTURE Company Greeted With Crowded Houses in Every City With Exception of Lincoln. NEW YORK, Dec. urice Grau | arrived to. The satellites of the Me Company wh are strug- h he com- ave fort. and tw we had ses ex- 2 seemed | was not_ big Opera Com- d 1t 000. We vist ) Francisco. Denver, Lin- | nsas City and M pol in none of these cities, with the exception of com- ions in were | expoct | whicn hat is a qu: a good deal of cor of th cen cars d in a spec d most of the time we ran in ng the lé ed the in cars the only crime under | h the thief may be Robbing graves is Chinese law for whi justly killed on the spot by any one find-| s to bring out the talents of Hen- Theater, with a production of “The Heart Msrtinez, Spanish dancers, and Juliet g him out | dricks, who is easily the Lest Swedish of Ma and.”” Seats will be on sale at Chandler, coon shouter. @+ I e e I i o e e S e R S S S G 0 MOV The sales placed on record during the t week make up a total of $349,900. The auction sale in the middle of the Add these together and also include several large sales that | are known to have been effected and the | pa large | week will have a record that looks some- hing ke $1,000,000. It is true that many of the sales were effected earlier. Making lowance for these, ‘he total is sufficient to show that the claims of the broke market is in fine shape rests is of fact. Buckbee & Co. report the fol- Mrs. F. B. Crocker's house, ankiin streets, to Lewis Meyer- stein; 12 3% by 1 feet; price $45,000: 50 to the J. W. Wright Investment Company ock 730 of outside lands and half of block price in the neighborhood of $5000; also the owing: Taylor estate to Jacob Wagner, lot we south line of Fourteenth street, 175 feet { 2 by 12 feet, $1503; De Voe lot and brick south line of Washington 71 feet west of Montgomery, 20 by 46 reenwood Bstate mpany to ro, lot on north line of Jackson bullding_ on the , Heights District), 180 feet west by 122 feet, $5000; Mrs. M. E. to Henry E. Bothin, lot and im- | s on the north line of Natoma street, | feet west of First, 46:6 by 75 feet, $5130: | rt Meyer to Jacob Heyman, lot on north | ackson street (Presidio Heights Dis- | feet west of Walnut, 87% by 127:8% Two fine residences are to be erected on | My. Heyman's daughter and for | apuel, who has just sold her home | The price paid for the lot ver Buckbee & Co. Great Highway, | 5 a lot; also a lot age on west line of Noe street, | 64 feet north of Clipper, 2 by 85 feet, $2400, len B. Miller to Mre. E. L. Perley. n & Hoag report the following recent eek Shainwald, on th. at on the west side of Claytor. street, 133 south of Wal street, size 25x125 feet, with two flats. $5500; lot on the west side of Central avenue, 100 féet north of Waller street, x112:6 feet, with three-flat bullding, $5500; lot | ©on the east line of lowa street, 150 feet south | of Twenty-third street, 75x100 feet; lot on the | south line of Clipper street, 150 feet west Sanchez street, 24:6x114 feet, $2000; lot_on the | northeast corner of & er and Fillmore | streets, with a_frontage of 31:9x120 feet, $1S00: Jot on the south side of Greenwich street, 100 feet west of Steiner stieet, 25x137:6 feet, $850; lot on the east line of Juerrero street, 1i4 feet north of Twenty-third street, 2Ix50 feet, with lot on the south side of Cum- 20 feet west of Church, 50x115, feot berland street, 32 feet morth of Frederick | eet, 25x100, $460; lot on the east line of Stevenson _ street, north of Fourteenth | street, 2x65 feet, $800; lot on the west side Mississippl street, 125 feet north of Twenty- fifth street, 25x100, $400. Lyon & Hoag aiso report a good demand for lots in the block being offered by them, owned by the Pixley estate, between Filimore and Steiner, Union and Green streets, and the fol- lowing sales have been made there: Lot on the east line of Steiner street, 100 feet north of Green street, 25x127:6 feet, $1500, to Dr. Donald McC. Gedge, who will commence the erection of a fine two-story residence to be used by himself as a home immediately: two lots on the west side of Fillmore street, 137:6 feet north to Slepbel;. A. B(:rn. hufflger, vl s aiready begun the erection ol WO ;lmdl::l‘ one nf)'hlch i to contain two mod- ern flate of 6 and 7 rooms each, and on the other ot one two-story residence of § rooms. Bol Getz & Brother report the following sales: 50x125 and improvements on mnorth line Montana street, near Capitol avenue, for $650; 25x1%, west line Ninth avenue, 175 feet south fifth DIVA COLLAMARINI BRINGS AZZALI HOODOO TO ALHAMBRA She Fails to Appear and Boston Lyric Company Closes Engagement—"Ole Olson” at the California. Belie I'rancrs, ARMEN will not sing to-night!" Such was the unwelcome an- nouncement that greeted the patrons of last evening's perform- ance af the Alhambra Theater. It a hard-luck story all round. The en- gagement of the Boston Lyric Opera Com- pany at Manager Ellinghouse's theater called for five performances—three “Car- men” programmes for Sunday, Monday nd Thursd evenings, “‘Sald Pasha’ Tuesday evening and “Il Trovatore” Wednesday night. But instead of a glittering ‘‘Carmen” ‘Said Pasha” shone out from the Alham- bra’s electric sign last night, and a disap- pointed crowd besieged the box office for explanations for a long and busy half- hour before the performance. ‘Collamarini was ill—three doctors’ cer- tificates!” No, the Tivoli had nothing to do with No, she would not be able to sing to- morrow evening or at all during the week,” and so on, ad infinitum. A considerable audien wondering what would I en. Signor 0 happened along first and explained s shing dialéct that she was too very ill to sing. she W ch sorry—per baceo— but it could be 1 not 1ch i ous litile expi now -ted discourteous nisses (rom tne disappointed one: Then a long-legged Turk came out and in unmistakaole kXngush tne doe to the rious i { by L M. A. Rossi, art (doctor ot the act rald J. PFitzgibbon (the A lurther in to nager iilingne Eling- to rerund money WO Were not de- irous of s substituted opera, Said Pasha,’ " caused a general stampeda reeted with loud cheering. After 14 taken their departure n betic crowd listened clever presentation of the , In_which Charles Hunting- slin, Henry Hallam, Jack x Joel well heard. he compa 1l be heard here no more trip. “Said Pasha” would not carry for more than one evening, and the ilable _repertolre— o Tivoll co is con- e will ther: d Josephine Stan main so far Mans fore keep th dark till next Sat- urday evening, when *“Why Smith Left Home” will be put on. Who s :1i,” him of the famous hoodooed Ite Company? . A packed house greeted Ben Herdricks i1 last night “h comed t the i Califor- Ol 3 be is to the ever written ndinavian OF REALTY \Beriie Cornway, | - | | 11 | | | * TWO OF THE LADIES WHO APPEAR WITH BEN HENDRICKS, CELE- ! NOW BE PLAYED AT THR DELINEATOR IN “OLE OLSEN,” i BRATED SWEDISH CHARACTEE CALIFORNIA. ! b 1 B o =S dialect comedian on the American stage. The play | has_a thin plot, around which révolves all the good deeds of Ole Olson. As the hero he comes to the tance of Mrs. Agnes Jordan (M Be! S e e who has trou of own. M rile Conway onds the Hendricks in good stvie and are well rendered. is o Swedish ladies’ quartet, com- posed of Stephanie den Amelia Heden, Miss | Petersc and Eilen Lyden, who are roduced as Ole's sisters in the fourth act. sing several Swedish ballads with well trained voices, which blend much better than the average run of iady quartets. They finished with “Old Kentucky Home,” whose melodicus tones were well brought out. Mis. Bridget O'Flanagan was well done s Sadiec Connolly. Her chase fo is_amusing and created unlimite hands. At the Tivoli Opera-house to-night the “glitte holiday e vaganza * “Cin- ell: arranged by Ferris Hartman, be offe the Christmas attrac- tion. Ail sorts of queer stage furniture will be in evidence. ‘Tiny frogs and toads, electric zirls, and bow- wows wili delight children’s hearts, and a lendid transformation scene, “The Flowery Kingdom.” will end the evening’s entertainment. P Next Saturday evening will see the cpening of Belasco & Thall's new Central IN SAN of H street, for $800; 57:6x100, northeast corner ourth avenue and K street, for 3ou; east line of Sixteenth avenue, 150 feet south of ( for $300; 50x100, northwest line of Edin feet northeast of France avenu south line Montana itol and Plymcuth avenues avenue, Burnham sales: Lot west_line of L street, for Marsh Co, report the foll)wing x60, with good three-story build on street and .Dik:rman and O'Farrell, for J. = £0x75 brick buildin st line of Ho! Sixth, and three of Clay and Leavenworth streets, with iot 30z 94, for L L. Hofmann to Willlam Hencke 101 lot on treet, between Fifth ats on mortheast conner Speck & Co. made the following sales: of the Silverstone estate on the Propert northeast line of Sixth street, 125 feet southwest from Harrison, 75x90, with bulldings thereon, paying an income, for §22,600, the buyer being Dr. Sickles; south line of Geary street, near Van 8 avenue, 97:6x120, with four resi- . to Mre. Goodman, for $22,500; lot 40x and improvements, on the north linc of street, 40 feet east of Jones, with , and improvements on the north line street, between Mason and Taylor, to A. Bond for $9000; lot 48x80, and improve- ments, on the west line of Moss street, between Howard and Folsom, $6000; lot 27:6x55, and flats on the east line of Hampton place, between Folsom and Harrison streets, $3200, and a lot, 2x80, with improvements, at 22 De Boom street, from Mrs. Mary E. Green to Dr. A, J. Mervy for $1400, 1204 8 Twenty-second, 24x121:6x100x21:6x7 F Mississipp! Clara Schna 100 S Twenty- e to Willlam Winkler, N Bro avenue,*105 W Marengo, 27:6x2, $500; John McMencmy to William A. Irvine, W Douglass, i8:6 § Twenty-first, 50x125, $1000; lda Precht to John Pforr, eight lots in Mission-street Land Company’s ‘Tract, §500; Silas and Adelaide Bell to Washington Meeks, W Oxford, 200 S Olm stead, 120x100, W Amherst, 100 N Mansell, fth, 50100, $500: a 120x100, W Bowdoin, 100 S Olmstead, 120x100; Mary C. and Ertk Boes to Willlam R. Gard ner, W Crane, 100 N Salinas avenue, 2x100; amuel 1. ngston to Robert R. Hind, NW K street, 2 . §1000; Marie onferran to R ifams, B Scott, S Fell, S7:6x: 500; John A. and Belle to L. H. Sly, § Fourteenth, 152 E Castro, | §4000; estate of Martin Kerr to Frank | SE York and Twentv-fifth, 140x100x50x90, Frank Dooly, undivided one-half SE Twenty- fifth and York, 50x90, $500; Sarah B. Tazack- erly to Mary " E Guerrero, 114 N Twenty-third, 27x5 San Francisco Sav- ings Union to Herbert W. Witham, E $1350; ; Frank Dooly to Andrew J. Dooly, undi- | vided one-halt E York, 90 § Twenty-fifth, 50x | 100, $800; Andrew J. and Bridget Dooly to | | | | Eugene and Minnie J. O'Donnell to George H. | aston & Eldridge sold the Mammy | Pleasant property on the south line of Sutter street, 2 feet west from Tayior, 2,000 t trustee's sale. Sons sold a lot 33x of Vallejo street. t_from Fillmore, for $5100; als. 157:6 on the north line of Piae street, 1110 feet west from Franklin, for | $5000. Hooker & Lent sold a new house at 2302 Vallejo street, on the north line, 2Ix19), to L. F. Weaver for $11,000, Bovee, Toy & Sonutag secured $54.000 for the property on the south line of M sion street, 8 feet east from Beale, 45:10x157:6. The seller was F. C. Peters and the purchaser N. K. Masten. Raymond, Baldwin & Co. soid for $1350 three lots, 50x100, on College Heights and five lots 'in Ross Valley, in the Sidney Smith tract, for to $500 each. The following transactions have been placed on record: Lucy V., Gertrude H. and Arthur E. Kellom to ‘Sara Gottung, E Folsom, 22 S Twenty- £ifth, 25x112:6, $1500; Charles F. D. and Olivia Hastings and Willlam T. and Romfetta J. Wal- lace to Diederich W. Tietjen, NW Jackson and Drumm, 60x0, $18,500: James E." and Ellen O’Conner to Martha Halje, SW Dikeman place | and Mason, 20x60, $20,000; Benjamin Healey to | James and Katle Hagerty, NW Hunt, Third, 20xi $1500; Harriet P. Cristy to Abra- ham Ruef, ‘W Twenty-fourth avenue, 3%0:4 N B street, 75x120. $1000; Mary E. Seaton to Jacob Goldberg, SW B street and Nineteenth avenue, 240x100, $2000; Frank W. and Emma A. Fuller b George W. and Mary Frink, B Twenty-sixth avenue, 130 N California, 37:6x120, $1000; Paul and Clara Friedman to Victor and Albina Mo- regeia, NE Unlon and Octavia, 85x34:6%, $2500; Hibernia Savings and Loan Socls to_Au- gustus J. Ranken, § Twenty-fifth. 100 E Dolo- res, 50x110, $1600; Hamilton and Flora Otls to James Otis, NW Greenwich and Sansome. 91:5x68:9, $600: Mary B. Perrvman to David Kerr, NBE Fifth, 85 NW Misslon, 25x75, $12,500; 3.°J. Rauer to Mery L. O'Malléy, SE Minna, 125 NE Sixth, 25x75, and W Bleventh avenue, 225 § Point Lobos avenue, 25x12), $350; Anasta. #la Denny to same, same two_pieces, $1000; F!:ry W. and Elsa Frank to Christian Froe- ich, NW Howa: Catherina Hemms and Hattie Drew Twenty-ninth, 250 W Church, 25x114, $1500; American Surety Company | of New York to Sarah J. Mills, W Noe, 101:6 N Elizabeth, 25x100, $500; Jac pany to Charles Kellie, W 47:6, 8 Twenty-third 4x100, $1060; Isaac L. Hoff- man and Pauline Hoffman to William Hehcke, NE Clay and Leavenworth 30x%, $13,000; F. O. b Heyman Com- ‘ i and Marfa Johangon to Elizabeth and Edward | | Hoffman avenue, Walter, NE Stanley place, 124:6 SE Harrison, 5100, '$2000: Charles d_Mary E. Greene to Alpho De Boom, 20 NE Second L. Stoneberger to Anna E. He v First avenue, 150 N Cali- fornla, 47:6x120, $3500; Henry C. and Frances McClure to Amelin M. Petrle, S California street, 92 E Fourth avenu 100, $1000; | P. M¢Mahan to Tillie Cla L street, 57: 3 Twenty-elghth avenue, 00, ~ $160; . and Dells F. Brown to William H. Crocker, SE Sacramento and Webster, 66:414x132:8%, $20,- 000; Owen Kelly and Frederick W. Bridge to William and Emelie Bohle, S Twentieth, 2% W Alabama, 50x104, $1500: W. E. and Delia F. N. Brown to Willlam H. Crocker, SE Pine and ings Union to Herbert W. Witham, E Sanchez O'Leary to Matthew Nuna, NW Market, 200 NE City Hall square, 2%x100; SE City Hall a: n 00 NE City Hall square, 2xi00, SE_C Hall avenue, 227 NE City Hall square, g | $62,500; Helen C. Roach to Pacific States Tele- | | | | | | 240, $5500; Letitia Steuart and Arthur Brandt phone and Telegraph Company, lot on the northwest line of Natoma street, 392:6 north- east of Third, 20x70, $4000; Henry E. and | Jennie Bothen to Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company, lot on southeast line of | Minna street, 391:4% northeast of Third, 80:4%x80, $5500; Wells, Ruseell & Co. to the Emporium and Golden Rule Bazaar. lot on | northwest line of Mission street, 275 north- east of Fifth, 37:6x160, $30,000; L. M. Hoefler to Charies S. Wheeler, all Interest in lot on the east corner of Townsend and Sixth streets, 137:6x137:6, $500; W. E. and Delia F. N. Brown to Willlam H.'Crocker, lot on southwest cor- ner H_street and Thirty-elghth avenue. 600x | to Richard D. Chandler, lot on north line of Turk street, 100 west of Scatt, 68x137:6, $13,000; Willlam and Jennie Helbing to Hans M. Smith, lot on cast line of York street, 122. north of Twenty-second, 25x100, $2500; Sharon Estate Company to Henry E. Bothin, lot on south line of Clay street. 325 east of Drumm. 30x119:6, $8,500; Emily 8. Newell and Henry W. Cadman to George W. H. Patterson, lot on north line of Pine street, 50 west of Taylor, 2x75. $5500; Stella F. Burton to Lena A. Dumouriez, lot on west line of Hyde street, 60 north of Filbert, 77:6x137: $8500; Rachel and Solomon Goldberg to Jacobs, lot on southeast line of Tehama street, 275 northeast of Sixth, 26x80, $2000; estate of John Flynn to John A. McGee, lot on south tina street, 300 east of rick O’Brien to PM"&O’ of Twelfth avenue, ] 3! 3 i 5 | Eldridge & Co. The | Martenstein. SW Battery and Pacifle, n & Clay’s music store, beginning | next. | e | The last week of “Madame Butterfly tegins th nine at the Alcazar 7 ter. and the daint will be preceded | by - announced as the “fu farces.” The Japansse ple of all is becoming quite a ra crowds greeting it every t . The Orpheum ha ive programm Shean and ( “Quo Vadis s an especlally att : for the hoilday season. Al rles L. Warren present | Upside Down,” an original | travesty; Madame Dorla, operatic vocal- | is the singer and comez with a splen- did Furopean repuiation; Mile. Christina hi an excelient animal show, and Truly Shattuck in burlesque the other head- liner. i A production Washington Irving's “Bracebridge H, under the stage di- rection of Leo Cooper. will be given on Wednesday evening at Odd Fellows' Hall | under the auspices of the British-Ameri- | can Union. The music will be in charge of Dr. H. J. Stewart and Wallace A. Sa- | bin. Marquard orchestra will be in | attendance. Cogill and Cooper's comedians will be in *“The Widow O'Brien’’ this week | scher’s Concert House. The comedy | programme is proving a most successful inncvatien at the popular house. | Hunt's dog circus, Mabel Hudson and | the Dulcie sisters are the week's attrac- tions at the Olympla, | The new faces at the Chutes to-day are | Ahern and Patrick, Itish comedians; Rose | Lee Tyler, the creole nightingale; the | of FRANCISCO. Carl G. Larsen, lot on west line of Nineteenth avenue, 152:6 south of Q street, 78:1x: 4, $1000: Jane Martin et al. to Joseoh P. Cassidy, lot on northwest line of Cheney street, 163 north- east of Mateo, 50x100, §1000; Charles Black to | Joseph M. Strauss, lot on south line of Ellis strect. 203:6 east of Buchanan, %x120, $3500; estate of Amelia V. R. Pixley to Stephen A. Born, lot on west line of Fillmore, 137:6 north of Green, 25x118:9, $1400; L. H. and Lizaie Sly | to John A. Hoots, lot on north line of Filbert | strect, 133:9 west of Broderick, Sx137:6, $2000: Crocker Estate Company to Isabella Fraser. haif of lot on the west line of Shrader street. 30 south of Waller, 5x106:3, $500; Albert Meyer | to Jacob Heyman, lot on mnorth iine of Jack- | son street, 127 west of Walnut, S7:6x127:8%, $5000; Maria Hayves and John H. Coulter to| Hibernia Savings and Loan Soclety. S corner | Kisling and Eleventh, 106:6x145:9%, $17,500: | Merchants' Loan Association to Frederici | Fischer, N Twenty-sixth, 106:8 E Noe, 28xil4, $2000; Bank of California to Pacific States Tela- phone and Telegraph Company. N Sacramento, 141 E Montgomery, 40x60. 000; Elizabeth Milloglay to John M. Ivancovich. undivided | a-half E Leavenworth, 70 N Jackson, 2% x70, $1200; Willlam McCullough 'to Peter and Margaretta Hofmeler, NI Moss, plac w | Folsom, 24x75. $2500; John D. Richards to H. L. Miller, E Eighteenth avenue, 155 N B street. 150x120, §1500; George H. Ashton to J. W, Wright & Sons Investment Company, W Forty- sixth avenue, 100 § N street, 125x130, $500; Pat- rick H. and Mary A. Stanton to Max Strau W Florence, 100 N Randolph, 100x100, $500. A probate and miscellaneous auctfon sale will be held Tuesday by Easton, roperties are on the north stde of California street, near Gough; on Baker, near Sutter: on Page near Lyon, on Scott, near Fell; on Bran- nan, near Third; on South Park sireet,| near Third, and 7 Clementina, near Sec- | ond; also on Presidio Heights and in the| Mission. The larger mortgages placed on record during the last week are: Elizabeth T. Joy to the Mutual Savings Bank, E corner Market and Spear, 45:10x137:6, $10,000, five years at 6 per cent; Willlam Wolf to the Security Savings Bank, NE Eills, 27:6 E Octa- via, N Ellis, 168 E Octavia, W Gough, 100 N Ellis, $15,000. More important releases lowing: Mutual Savings Bank to Jacob and Mary | $10,000; | German Savings and Loan Society to Barl C. Roluffs and Henry J. Woebke, SW Fulton and | Webster, $12,500; Hibernia Savings and Loan Society to Lizafe R. Sullivan, NW Market, 218:1% SW Van Ness, $10,000. Contracts have bcen entered into for the following bullding operations Carl Risppert with Paul Mager, for frame cot- tage on line of Army, near Folsom, $1545; | Fiskbeck & Glootz with Robert MeKillican, | fic safijie 5 4 s ot lastoues Sy 0 on nta Clara and De Har), 32619; Herbert F. Law with Malloy & Swenson and C. G. Stubr, for mill work. carpentering. plastering, plumbing, etc., for finishing three two-story e dwellings on E Van Ness avenue, 8 S of Green and for moving old bufld- ing to new posi $14,363;_San Francisco Dry Dock Company with City Street Improvement Company, Charles C. Moore & Co., Henshaw, Buikley & Co. and W. T. Garratt' & Co., for construction of Qfll!:le house and other Hutld- &8 for ps, engines an es, otc . for complete dry dock, $83.040; Union Trust Company (as trustees of the estate of llg'uel ing 198. are the fol- Lachman) with Louls Young, for in bullding SE Brannan, 275 N Fourth, $21 o——————— Tt Is sald thai owing to the mysterious disappearance of relics at the naval mu- seum, Boston, Mass., Rear Admiral S8amp- son has ordered the place closed until suitable arrangements can be made to protect the property on exhibition. | not know and needs to be told. As a mal | SHAKESPEARE'S DOUBLE TRAGEDY. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. THIRTY SHAKESPEARE EVENINGS. (.5 A L complishe¢ wholly when the report of “ EVEE »” \'!}(:P g(her_ messenger is heard The hl:"flpn Antony and Cleopatra. | of his dispatch is that Fulvia is dead There is an essential difference be- | That she was a shrewish wyheflrs |Iu:‘:;v” tween “Antony and Cleopatra” and each | and we assumeh:h.}‘r Antony will welceme of the other dramas having two title | the freedcm, ther KOS TN, tiMier death gharacters. . In “Romeo and Juliet” the ely. S0 far from feeling drawn Baicunn ts Racoliie nerialr tomeilior nent | aste slonaty . e the close of the play. In “Trolius and Cressida,” which is called a tragedy in the follo, there is no death of either, and there is no division in the treatment. While the whole play may truthfully be called a tragedy, it is really not so much a tragedy of the hero and the heroine as of human nature at large. In “Anton and Cleopatra” there are two tragedie fused Into one. It is as if each title char- acter had been treated separately In a drama by itseif, and then, by dropping common scenes, the two products had been condensed to the proportions and form of one. The tragedy of Antony is consummated .at the end of act 4. The tragedy of Cleopatra is developed and compassed almost wholly in act 5. Mcst readers approach the “Antony and Clecpatra” with some misgiving. The relations of the title characters are his- | torically so notorious that they expect | to find Shakes; are’s treatment offensive 1y plain and fre But the most refined analyzers of thegblay, after patient and penetrating stu testify to impressions quite contrary are ardent apologists for Cleopatra no less than Antony. The author holds the sympathies of all dis- cerning inquirers almost from the whereas were the play real and enactec with living figures it would not be pos- sible to comr i even the charity of the reading public. Of course we are less intojerant of “soclal derelictions after death has stopped the defiance to moral law Nevertheless, the play is a marvel of literary dynamics, and deserves study in epecial for the modes by which its art controls the imagination. Perhaps we expect that the author will aliude but gingerly to the relations of hero and heroine at the beginning, or ;\“11‘1 u apologize outright for his project. Shakespeare understands apparently that to excuse IS to accuse, and does just the opposite. He makes Phiuo tell us, over the shoulders of Demetrius and with brutal openness, how things are going. Philo has been living in Egypt as one of Antony's companions, and Kknows: | while Demetrius, an old friend of An- tony’s in Rome, and jusc come over, does ter of fact, Shakespeare introduces bot! personages merely to_impart to us thi information. Neither Philo nor Demetrius {s wanter afterward or appears again. 1t is evident that Demetrius, just before the opening lines, has been objecting to Philo’s unsparing comments; he has prob- ably sald that a man like Antony has earned some liberty and is not likely to abuse it permanently. Philo insists that “leopatra Jase himself from her: Thus did T de- more inclined to release “There's a great spirit gone! sire it. What cur contempt doth often hurl from us, We wish it ours again The present pleasure, By revolution lowering. doth become The opposite of itaelf. She’s good, being gone. The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on. I must from this enchanting queen break off. Ten thousand harms, more than the iils I kaow, My idleness doth hatch.” That th+ scene may not move too rap- fdly, an interview with Encbarbus Is worked in. Enobarbus has caten of the Egyptian lotus ard belleves his master from So is os incapable of breaking awa this land of enchantment as himself. Inobarbus is made to talk to Antony like }t:ztnvnm\n et self. jut the Antony of yesterday the Antony of to-day do not agree. EI rbus is fiippant and make’sgrl!xht of his master's words, but at last is sobered. There is no mistaking the tone of Antony's commands: “No more Iight answers. Let our officers Have notice what. we purpose. There remains the proposed parting from Cleopatra. We do not believe that Antony will accon n it: he will en- counter infiuences to which he will not be equal. A separate scene is given to the interview. Cleopatra shows al the sub- tlety of the serpent that we believe she is les from wrath to tears. Antor ertheless, is firm So in strength and highmindedness, as well as chivalrous feeling, we are begining to have a hero. Antony has been in a meas- ure redeemed. Now the author begins at once to redeem Cleopatra. The whole- souled way in which she gives up her con- t wins us in itself: and “But, sir, forgive me. when they do mot z 3 r calis you hemce; erefore be deaf to my um 1 folly, gods with Upon your el victory! And smooth success ed before your feet.” Before the act ends the author has fas- cinated us with Cleopatra, by her strength and her varlety, much as she fascinated the people of her time. e author has thus provided himself with a true hero and an irresistible hero- ine. By no sort of means could he have made them practicable if he had treated them, as his shes them, together. He now goes on w heir fortunes, dra- matizing Plutarch close till the fourth act is reached. Here he brings out the nobility and generosity of Antony's Miss Janet Church as Cleopatra. . +- his master dotes upon Cleopatra extrava- gantly and fatally: “Nay, e of our general's That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn The office and devotion of their view Tpon a tawny front.” With this testimony of one close to Antony's person the title characters are lnlrodu«ted’j There is all the pomp and ceremony of an Oriental court; there are eunuchs fanning the Egyptian sovereign: there is a great train of bejeweled and unworthy favorites, and Antony is danc- ing attendance in a most un-Roman and compromising fashion. Philo 1s made to serve us as the interpreter of what we see: nature, to prepare for the sublime close. Step by step he idealizes the man, and when the death scene Is passed we feel that we had before us a truly tragic figure, too highminded and chivalrous for | his times, and cut off because he would “Look where they come! | but good note, and you shall seesin him ;:I-:etrlvlc‘vlllnr of the world transformed Into a strumpet’s fool. Behold and see scandalous situation and in th%“l‘m‘;\rct:z';ige of fondness which we in commen with the court followers over- hear we detect evidence that the blame does not pelong equally to Rome and Egypt. and that Antony is not the prin- cipal in the case: Cleopatra—"1f it be love,indeed, tell me how much.” | no | beyond example Antony—"‘There's beggary In love that can be | koned. "’ T Cleopatra—“T'll set a bourn how far beloved.” . A woman who solicits devotion in that unblushing style and in the public ear must bear the brunt of the general de- to be | nunciation. We are ready to give the hero more countenance than we at first suj sed could be won from us. The su: picton that nis fault is chivalrous com- plaisance rather than inherent sensuality Brows upon us when a few lines later Cleopatra gibes him Into denying court audience to the messengers. Cleopatra's fear lest he give sober heed to his vast concerns, and her need to use her utmost control to keep him under, prove that to her mind he is yet un-Egyptianized and will vindicate his Roman nature. In the first part of the second scene the real character of life in Egypt as lived at the court f Cleopatra is painted in fuil colors. A leaf from the record of the days is enacted to us. The general at- Mmosphere 18 deadly, and Enobarbus, once | lived his best stalwart comrade of Antony’s, is suc- :umblng to it. The soothsayer furnishes ihe suggestion of higher standards and nobler lfvlns for the sake of contras Alexas and Iras and Charmian, nearest | oo attendants upon Cleopatra, fix the pitch of the scene. When bids Enobarbus seek out the Emperor of | leopatra_enters and | hody and her Roman master. all the Orient and bring him to her the | lesson is complete and we are ready for the next chapter. tony understands how absurdly he is hen- eeked and will assert his manhood and ris rights. 'i‘he‘moment of change has, in fact, ar- rived. Antony enters with one of the messengers lately refused audience in > tra's presence. foe P and 1s listening to his story with concern. Antony is not unaware of his shortcomings and is ready to take up his imperial tasks again: “Lab Mo Te a0 news—hath, with his Parthian force Extended Asia from Euphrates, Hils conquering banner shook from Syria To Lydia and Ionia: whilst—"" ‘Antony—*Antony. thou wouldst say— Messenger—'‘Ob, my lord Antony—"'Speak to me home, mince not the nnmn:. he is called in Rome. ame s she is called in 3 ol thoa In Fulvia's phrase, and taunt my taul Whh‘umh full lcense as both truth and malice HIV'O Oh, then we bring When our quick minds He still; and our ills told us % 1Is as our earing.” ‘The first device, then, of the author has the he hero- wer to utter. Antony has sent | We are sure that An- | not be niggardly and self-seeking. Had he been less lavish of himself and of his favors destiny would have had much more ado to set him aside from the path appointed for its favorite Augustus With act 4 the tragedy of Antony is finished. We wonder how the author can propose to go on to a climax with Cleo- patra in_act 5. She Is shown to us in the death scene in the act preceding in what we feel is almost her true charac- ter. She will not come down to the dy- ing Antony lest she be taken: she insists on jolting the bleeding body of her lover up to her arms, though she Is aware of the pain At causes. But the author finds difficulties, apparently, in his new task. He needs but show us Cleopatra’s ture in its potencies and possibilities. Reared in another environment she would have been altggether admirable. Bred under the corrupt influences of a decaying civilization, pampered and spoiled almost she Is nevertheless grand in strength and visi The same quali- ties, in some Christian centuries since, have enabled women not much better to wleld power far greater. The fear of death, which has kept her long in bond- age, dissolves in the sublimity of her dying thoughts. She hears Antony, as she thinks, calling to her: ““Husband, 1 come! Now to that name my courage prove my tith She has right ideals and aspirations now; never before has she cared to think of herself as the wife of Antony. She has thought to die beautiful, with her robe and crown upon her. But she forgets her finery and no longer watches herself in the glass while Iras tricks her out: “Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. * * So; have you done? Come, then, and take the last warmth of my lips. Farewell, kind Charmian. Iras, long farewsil™* She is Immeasurably great, now that her better nature Is aroused completely, That she should die when she is just ready to begin to live is of the essence of tragedy. It Involves deeper tragedy than the death of Antony. for Antony had We bow to destiny, which we have felt since Menas failed to move Pompey, and Octavius, shaking off the in- veiglements of drink, In the last scene of act 4, is setting up the empire of the Cae- Delabella, who was her latest con- stands between (leopatra’s dead The play is closed with a few paragraphs of rare dig- nity and beauty. It is a moral lesson of deep earnestness and vision, and makes for righteousness more potently than a thousand sermons. L. U. SHERMAN. University of Nebraska. Richmond Buildings Blown Down. Two buildings were demolished at Ricks mond by Friday's storm—a lvery stabll and a Chinese laundry. A. M. Colem: proprietor of the livery stable, was caugh under the falling structure and almost crushed to death. This building was not quite completed. Coleman was taken to Stockton en the evening train. His in- quest, | Jurfes are in.~rnal. The Chinese ~undry was a two-stol frame structure, not quite complet The Chinaman escape unscathed, but the butlding was strewn all over the hillside. ——————— Shirran Willing to Appear. Edward Shirran, the young attorney, whose blow given to H. Benjamin on the night of November 9 may cause the aged auctioneer's death. has felephoned to the Chief of Police from Modesto testifying his willingness to deliver himself up to justice if wanted. Shirran knocked n- amin down, claiming that the latter_had 2 one u. the other. ’pln ac- | grown steadily worse