The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 20, 1900, Page 9

SENATE AND HOUSE HONOR BOUTELLE Authorize President to Ap- int Him a Oaptain in the Navy. 1. Passed Compelling Pennsylvania 1 Baltimore and Ohio Railroads to Make Extensive Im- Pprovements. Bt i INGTON, Dec. 19.—Congress has ed the President to appoint Rep- | “harles A. Boutelle of Maine | of the United States navy I To-day, without a Oon or even cf comment, sed the resolution authorig- It is expected approve the reso- the author- &S & captain on the re: the n avy. Boutelle is a mem- House of Representa- ¢ of the next. It membership he way for rdance with the Aside from 1 the road ot less than FAVORS REPAYMENT OF MONEY TO MEXICO Foreign Relations Committee Reports on La Abra and Other Claims. mpany, the has been de- Supreme aud. Cullom committee a f \!exho $171.6%0, to Benjamin es L-a'ug similar to ADVEBT ISEIEH’T& POINTS OF EXCELLENCE. { A Few Reasons Which Are Rapidly | Making a New Catarrh Cure | Famous. | s Catarrh Tablets, the new Ca- | has the following advantages | remedies: ain no ecocaine, Being in tab e alr as 1 preparat! e tablet form not only pre- € properties but it is ent to carry and to ¥ @ question department of the s mnd- of the compo- h Tablets; th rinciple of Eucalyptus root and Hydrastin, where ‘e them from e catarrh by lo- nose and throat, local symptoms t possibly reach isease, which C inhalers, out of the sy internal rem- m medy is the only assimilated into the art's "‘u'z”‘ Tablets do this better old of treatment because specific known to septic treatment halers and s \ing t » be had at any Arug store in the | Cnited States and Canada for 6 cents. STATEMENT —OF THE — CONDITION AND AFFAIRS|= —OF THE — New York Plate Glass INSURANGE COMPANY F NEW YORK IN THE STATE OF reEw | ? December, 8, and tor the yesr Sdine on Tt 1 Insurance Commissioner of the ornia, pursuant to the prov! 610 and €11 of the Political sed s per blank furnished by the CAPITAL ount of Capital Stock, paid wp e ASSETS. Joans on Bonds and Mortgages........ 2,500 00 Cash Mazket Value of all Stocks and Bonds owned by Company 344,900 00 | Cash in Comg Llfi " s n Banks 78 28 | ¥ urse of Coliection. n.ul\ 5,154 84 Fiate Giass on band.. Total Assets. 395038 44 | === LIARILITTES. Loeses 1n process of Adjustment or fn Susper sme Gross 7 Jear or B per cent Cest Gividends’ True and pocrued for salaries Fetars premiums Total Liabilities... INCOME. t cash actually received for pre- ume - ov»qrarimn—la.-dalviflufiu nas. B!Mll» Loans an roes. ... ved forpmfln dends to Stockholders.. or allowed for Commission or Paid for State, Tax AX DANZIGER, President. { Subserives wna o to before me this Tist MAY ay of Jgnua #7%2" PISHBRCK, Notary Public. J.D. MAXWELL CO. General Agent T.E. JANES, Asst. General Agent, 421 California 8t., San Francisco | terbalanced by the increase of | cloth men’s suits, worth GROWTH OF THE BALDWIN WORKS iy e John H. Converse Testifies Before Industrial Com- mission. i Says Foreign Trade in Locomotives Has Grown Steadily for the Last Forty Years. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19.—John H. Converse, a member.of the firm of Burn- ham, Williams & Co., which controls the Baldwin Locomotive Works, appeared be- fore the Industrial Commisg§ion to-day. He stated that the industry was esteb- lished in 1881, and has constantly and steadily grown, until to-day the works are the largest in the world. The capacity of the plant is 12 practically four locomotives for each working day. The capital emploved Mr. Converse estimated at not less than $10,- 000,000. About £0 hands are engaged at the works, forelgn trade in locomotives, he s been a steady growth for the it was confined years. At firs < South America, but in the ty-five years it has extended to hemisphere. gave as reasons for intro- motives abroad the v, preference s &8 to type and of prices. Engines i, witness sald, at ght than the ordi- n by Chalrman | e sald the vu:fi1 s of the gher than those paid | locomotives at less an the foreign product?” believed this fact | and intelligence | an workman and the much use of improved machinery than abroad As to the question of speed, Mr. Con- verse stated that the substitution of steel | rai for iron per tted an increase of we ther speed. The increase in speed and cafladh has brought about a reduction in t transportation and operating, Regarding tariff conditions, here Mr. ownérship system existing in most for- eign countries no difficulty was ever en- countered in that respect. The industr: he sald, was at present more prosperous | than at any time from 1893 to 1897, Mr. Kennedy asked the witness if any attempt had been made to combine all the American locomotive works. Mr. verse answered In the affirmativ sald the effort was unsuccessful. firm opposed the project, and he did not believe locomotives could be built at a lower cost, if such an idea were carried out. EASSON REPORTS ON TREATY NEGOTTATIONS | Recommends Ratification of Many Which He Has Thoroughly Investigated. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—John A. Kas- son, who represented the United States Government in negotiating the various re- ciprocity treaties under the Dingley law, | made an argument before the Senate Com. | mittee on Foreign Relations to-day in support of those treaties relating to the West Indian possessions of Great Britain, with the exception of Jamaica, “hlch treaty was nc ached for want of time. He took up explained in detail the prov sions of the treaties covering Bar- badoes, the Bermudas, British Guiana and | Turks Island. Mr. Kasson explained the reduction of revenue which would_result to both the United States and the British poseessions from the ratification of the treaties, and clalmed that this not only would be small but would be fully coun- oel- e an in- ing. He aiso said there would crease of tradé which would be commen- | surate in benefit to the shipping interes GENERAL LEE GUEST OF COMMERCIAL CLUB Responds to Toast “Our Country” at 2 Dinner in Kansas City. KANEBAS CTTY, Dec. 19.—General Fitz- hugh Lee, commander of the Department of the Missouri, was to-night the guest of honor at the annual banquet of the Com- mercial Club, given in commemoration of the signing of the John Jay treaty. Gen- eral Lee, accompanied by his wife and | daughter and his staff, arrived in Kansas City this afternoon over the Burlin road on a special traln in charge of a local reception commiftee that had Omaha to act as escort. A reception fol- lowed, and to-night at the banquet, at which there were 52) plates lald and which was the most elaborate éver given by the club. General Lee responded to the toast, “Gur ‘Couniry.” speaking extemporane: ously. Pictures for Christmas. The annual before Christmas exhibition of framed piotures, showing all th. new effects in Flemish, old Dutch and ebony frames with tinted mats m mnc 5 l- now going on at Sanborn, Val newest ptcmm in Copley prinl.s, pum, lor to be seen You wil (eel fully spent in viewing !he same. ——————— Barbers’ Union Elects Officors. At a meeting of the Journeymen Bar- ben’ Union Tuesday night at Social Tem- Turk street, officers for the ensuing l(x ‘months were elected as follows: 1dcm E. R. Bliely; vice presmem A E. Wray; financial necremry Less; re- | cording secretary, W. éurnar treas- urer, George Rarro&( gulda. E. Walker; guardian, T, enny; {rustees—Van Valkenberg, D. Apguard and C. W. Dor- gorth; finance commity Powell and Frea Smith; delom (o u- bor Counc114 Leu Hfu-d nsf ulon of aby and G. these flmw! will be hald ater d&t& e re——— Be Sure and Attend The greatest assignee sale of clothing. I ‘will sell to-morrow men’s genuine worsted | suits that cost $15 for $5 85; -J-otao oo‘xes;t for Come one. come ‘all, to the Boston, 775 ket st., P. C. Kelly, assignee. e CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL SILVER JUBILEE! DONATION DAYS: December 20th, December 21st, December 22d, December 24th. Donations of money and supplies of all kinds thauk- fully received At 221 SUTTER STREET " (Goulter's Bathan Works,) locomotives a year, or | | d Chairman Clarke, | t in engines, which resulted in fur- | e cost of} Con- | verseé said that owing to-'the Government | one to | 1 the | repald for the ume: THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1900. NEWS OF OVERDUE FLEET BEING ANXIOUSLY SOUGHT Every Vessel W eather From Flattery to Reyes. - Making Port Reports Heavy WRIGHT. | NEW STEAMSHIP HANALEI, BUILT FOR THE ¥NTERISLAND STEAMSHIP COMPANY OF HAWAII BY HAY & | | SHE IS ALMOST READY FOR HER TRIAL TRIP AND IS EXPECTED TO UPHOLD THE HONOR | | OF CALIFORNIA IN SOUTHERN | WATERS. | o HERE are many vessels due from coast ports over which the own- ers and underwriters are very much worried. Every steamship and coaster that has made port bad a hard time of it. Liners that should have made the run In fifty hours have taken from five to six days, and coast- ers that should have come in last Mon- | aay are only now beginning to straggle in. The steamer Jeannie, of the Pacific Steam Whaling Company’s fleet, left Seat- | tle 1ast SBunday week, and has not since ‘bee‘n heard from. The Newsboy went ashore up the coast, but got off without much damage, and the tug Rescue was sent north yesterday to bring her to San Francisco. A fleet of lumber vessels is overdue, [and the owners of some steamers would be.glad to see their vessels showing up. | The Noyo came in yesterday with part of her deckload gone. A big sea swept along her port side and not only took away one f the lifeboats but also part of the lum- ber stored on the main deck. The steam whaler Fearless, that has been out o long from Unalaska, has been | heard from at Marshfield, Or. Captain James McKenna has been nearly five | years in the Arctic, and when he arrives ere he will receive a royal welcome | awatting him. | - | STEAMER FOR ISLAND TRADE. | Another Vessel to Be Added to Fleet Owned in Hawaill. The Hanalel is the last of the vessels that has been built for the Hawalian- owned fleet. She was launched from Hay & Wright's yards a week ago last Sat- urday, and {n a day or,so will be ready | for her trial trip. The new steamer Is in- tended for the r-Island Steamship Company, and Is something like the Kalu- lani, builf for the Wilder Steamship Com- any only larger and more commodious. Rhe Hanalel 18 172 feet long, 36 feet beam = | | and 14 fect deep. She has extra accommo- dation for cabin passengers, and the | builders have been praised on all sides | for the excellent work done on the ship. 1 ol Trouble on Sprlng'b\u'n. I The British ship Springburn, that went | to sea yesterday, had a baker's dozen of her crew in irons for several days before | she left port. During last Friday’s gale the ghip began to drag and the mate at | once piped all hands on deck. The men were very slow In answering the sum- mons, and were called a “lot of old women” by the officer. This epithet they objected to, and demanded to be set ashore. Instead they were put in {rons and locked up in the brig. Four days of bread and water was enough for the gang, | and yesterday they turned to’ and one o he merriest “‘chanties” ever heard in the ay was sung &8 they hauled in the an- chor. RE -l ‘Water Front Notes. Captain I. Martin left for New Orleans last night. He is going to bring out a big four-masted schooner for Byxbee & Clark. The same firm has purchased a five- masted schooner in Thomaston, Me., and a man has gone East to Inspect her. Should the inspection be satisfactory the big schooner will come to California. !flhnny O’Brien ran up against a cir- cular saw in a box rncloryg'rterdny and his hand was badly cut. 5l.|upl fixed him up at the Harbor Hospit sent him home, The Harbor Commiesioners held a short | sesston yesterday. The monthly bills were | all ed, and the chances are “theboys’ | wiif get fheir pay before Xmas. Chief .Whurflnger Henderson made a prolsst | against loose telephone wires bei | lowed to hang along the fron t an en- danger State property and -hér xnxf ef mnnr matter was referred to the Cl with power to act. Buit on Sailors’ Contract. George Waller, H. Hausmann and H. Kawabe fléed a suit in the United States Dll!rlot ‘ourt yesterday against th 1 Gold Mining Col'ny y to reeoves I’Il7 alleged to be due them for wages and transportation as member- n! the crew of the schooner SBeven Siste Matters of Interest to Mariners and Bhipping Merchants. The O. H. Watjen and the Blairhoyle have ball rechartered to load wheat at Portland lor Europe at 42s 84 lnd 428 64 relrl:tlv'ly, Bonaluln' Yols, wheat at Tacoma for Burope. Adflund Manifests. An additional manifest has been reported at the steamer City of the Custom-house - for T al STt e e and provi 10 pkgs bmue{olfl ..V gone adrift on December 4, and will be re- placed as early as practicable. Columbia River, ship channel across the bar as far as Astorfa. Or. Peacock spit buoy No. 1%, page 48, a black, first-class can, recently reported as havh dragged out of position, was placed December 8 in 30 feet of water on the following bearings: Outer end Government Wharf Chinook Point ENE. % E., Point Adams Lighthouse Old Tower ESE., North Head Light- house NNW. % W., and marks the south edge of the spit. Columbia River, channel to Knappton, Wash., page 5. Knappton Channel Buoy No. 1, Black, first-class spar, was changed December 4 to a second-class spar and placed in 17 feet of water on the following bearings: Point near Knappton Mill (8. tangent) NE. i N., Smith Point (W, tangent) S. by E., Clift Pomt (5. tangent) SW. by W. %W, CHit Polnt Spit Buoy No. T, & red, first-class spar, was discontinued December Knappton Channel Buoy No. 4, a red, second- class spar, was established December 4, in 20 feet of water, on the following bearings: Point near Knappton Mills (S. tangent) NE. by N., Smith Point (W, tangent) S. ‘ E., Cliff Point (8. tangent) SW. by W. % W Knappton Channel Buoy No. 6, a red, sec- ond-class spai Wu established December 4, In 16 fest of wi on the following bearings: Point near Knappton Mill (SE. tangent) NNE. E., Smith Point (W. tangent) S. i E., Point (tangent) SSW. % % B Knappton Channel Buoy No. §, a red, second- clabs Spar, was established December’ 4 feet of water, on the following bearings: Smith Point (W. un%nt) 8. i B., Point Ellice !tln- Tl SSW. Clift Point (S. tangent) S' These buoys are intended as guides in the channel to the new Quarantine Statfon Knappton, Bntrance to Grays Harbor, Wnblnnm. yines bey, =% B striped Cember 8, and 1s now mwnc In 37 feet of water on the following bearings: Lone Tree on Damon l’ointEhNE % B, quy “’hl f (inside in 20 the bay) Grays Harbor Lighthouse % S. From this buoy steer so as Sios: o the “Berthuward 3t Trustee Spu ° Rioy No. 0. Point Brown Spit No. 1, a black, first-class con buoy, was moved December 5, and is now in 28 feet < o{ Tater on the following bearings: Ned Rock s Harbor Lighthouse SB. % E: Lone Tree on Damen Bolst N by W. % W. Whitcomb Flats Buoy No. 4, a red, flmzllu nun, was moved December 8, and is now moored in 3 feet of water on the following bearings: Nod Rock N. by & % B Grays Harbor Light. house ee on Damon Point Admiralty Inlet, page 7L Point Hud it Buoy No. red, "sctond-ctase 1oe, it reoris s having gone adrift on December 7, and i be replaced as early as practicable. By order of the Lighthouse Board. ‘iVmP DAY.,(;onflnme‘er U. 8. N, et | 13t (ht ouse 'District. Portland, Or. 1800 Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. ‘Wednesday, Decem 9. Stmr Corona, Glelow, &1 hears from 2 )\y!ew- port, ete. Stmr Umatlla, Cb\-IlIl. 88 hours from Vic- toria_and Puget ports. pmn Al Ahx Du Guthrie, 8 hours from oss Stmr Nm Johnson, $1 hours from Fort B(mr Banta 82 hours from ; bound south pu.t in fo land passen- B:x‘nkr‘chlflal!fdlfln. Andersen, 30 hours from sev;vns“m ‘Wheeling, Coudin, — days from Jupktn 8 N Castle, Nilson, 18 days from Hono- Brlg Consuelo, Page, 19 days from Mahu- Schr Idly, Bottger, 14 days from Umpqua. CLEARED. ‘Wednesday, Decsmber 19. \Stme Pomona, Bhes, Bureka; Goodall, Per- ns g Stmr Geow&fld*. Randall, Astoria; Oregon fiohrlhl.nu. Christiansen, Honolulu; J D nle Wednesday, December 19. Stmr Queen, Thomas, San Diego. Stmr Navarre, Peterson, Bowens Landing. Stmr Sen Pedro, Zaadaxt, Ture %mr W H Kflll‘f Krog, ’Hll‘nmnok. Behr Mary C, Camphell, Fort Ross®" SPOKEN. Nov %, lat 13 8, lon 33 W—Br bark Cambus- doon, h«lll“ "ern for Ban n;‘l'uwuea Dec 5, lat 15 N, lon 3¢ W—Br bark Bowman B Law, from Oregon, for Queenstown. TELEGRAPHIC. POINT LOBOS, Deo 18, 10 ‘enthe: o o e ) P m—We r CELLANEOUS. 18—Br gone to Unfon for survivors of the ill- fated stmr Alpha and bodies of victims SBATTLE, r Coq ver, hi Dec 12, arrived to-day and lost three bude-%f propeiler. Made sall, and during a strong SE Zaie maainsall was blows from the Hac e Stmr Rainier outside the stralts towi: the mr Gen Frisbie, but could make no heads -nn n-.lm.r vu.- mm r'xlm JD"?I 8 Kimball, tm Seattle Dfl mr John § Kimi Honoluiu, returned. leaking, wee Per stmr NWO—“I’( Bf‘“ ‘whistling buoy went adrift [C PORTS. BAN_PEDRO-—Arrived Dec 18—Sohr Meteor, M A Batied Deo 15—Nor or stmr Edsvold, for China; schr Minnie A Caine, for aydneyA iAN PEDRO—Arrived Dec 15—Schr Meteor, from Tacoma. RT Passed ln'lld Dec 19— TOWNSEND—] Stmr Eilhu Thomson, from Honolul Sailed outward Dnun—hrttmral-mdylw “ASTORIA—Safled Dec 19—Stmr Columbla, for | mmn—Am Dec 19—Stmr Eifhu fer, mmm‘&n MD—‘l—nuxcplry i BAY—Barbound Dec 15—8tmr Empire. EASTERN PORT. YORK—Arrived NEW Deo 15—8tmr Advance, mmmn—mmflu—m -E?”ifi“""‘%& u—-&nhh&l- m-mo in m -eo. lech from “._uu&u-. King Bdward, for § Dec 33-Be shin Osday R | CALLAO-Salled Noy — —Br ship Wrath, for Oregon. Nov 9—Chil bark semite, for —. MANILA—Safled Dec 15—U § stmr Sherman, ‘ f?r San Francisco; stmr Grant, for San Fran- clsco. A BEWCASTLE, Au'—Sflled Dee 7—Br ship Arrncll-fl. for San c1800, m»;mxr}}m—umsd Nov -Ger stmr Tot- rom Hamburg, San Francis PO COPILLALBallca Gt 3B ship Seottish lmhm for Portland. OHAMA—Salled Dec 15—Ger ship Alster- dmm for Tacom VICIORIA-Arrived Deo 19—Br stmr Amur, from Alaska. OCEAN STEAMERS. QUEENSTOWN—Sailed Dec 19—8tmr Siiva- nia, from Uv’e‘r{;’_ for Boston. Arrived Stmr Commonwealth, from Boston, for Liverpool. NEW YORK—Sailed Des 16—Stmr Seorgle. for Liverpool; stmr Southwark, for Antwerp, via Southampton; stmr Majestic, for Liver- ool Arrived Dec_19-Stmr Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, from Bremen. | BREMEN—Arrived Dec 19—8tmr Matnz, from N ;‘;'NTA DELGADA—Arrived Dec 13—Stmr | Trier, from Bremen, for New York. KINSALE—Passed Dec 19—Stmr Common- wealth, from Boston, for Liverpool. i HAMBURG—Arrived Dec 18—Stmr Deutschs- | land, from New York, via Plymouth. 1 SOUTHAMPTON _ Sailed Dec 19—Stmr Trave, | trom Bremen, for New York YERPOOL—Arrived Dec 19—Stmr Domin- sobe prour Porliand, AN UMATILLA REEF LIGHT VESSEL NO. 67— COAST OF WASHINGTON. | R | Notice 1s hereby given thet on December 1, | Umntllh Reef Light Vessel No. 67 broke Acirt foom wet statlon ABOUE T miles SW. st 8. ym Umatilla Reef (hntery Rocks), mak- ing off_from Cape Alava, Wash., and about 4% miles WSW. from the cape. She is now at Neah Bay, Wash., and will be replaced on her station as soon as pnfllc‘ble This notice affects th! List of Lights and Fog Blnlh, Pacific t, 1900, page 22, No. 145; | also the List of Beacons and Buoys, Pacifi Coast, 1900, page By order of_the Lighthouse Board. ‘W. P. DAY, Commander, U. 8. N. Lighthouse Inspector. —_—— Sun, Moon and Tide. United States Cosst and Geodetio Survey— Times and Heights of High and Waters "8t Fort Polnt, ehteance to an Francisco Bay. Published by officlal au- thority of the Buperintendent. NOTE—The high and low waters occur at ¢ city front (Mission-street wharf) about twenty- five minutes later than at Fort Point; the height of tide is the same at both places. DECEMBER 20. THURSDAY, Sun rises . Bun sets NOTE—In the above exposition of the tides the early morning tides are given In the left | day, thn third time column gives the last | tide of except when there are but | three ud as sometimes occurs. The heights | given are in addition to the soundings on the | United States Coast Survey charts, excopl.] when & minus sign (—) precedes the ht, then the number given is mblrme:d!‘rvm the depth given by the charts. The plane of refer- ence 13 the mean of TO SATL. Destination. Coquille Ri Coquille R Portland. . sisEiges 2R emeSint 5535553 £ % T HERRRELRBBBRR WL 2R ER SR LY | furniture tremble. | yo MAETERLINCK, THE “BELGIAN SHAKESPEARE” Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. THIRTY SHAKESPEARE EVENINGS. —_— XVIIL Byron, somewhere in “Childe Harold's Piigrimage,” declares that “the beings of the mind, essentially immortal, create and multiply in us a brighter and more be- loved existence.” According to some such principle Maeterlinck might justify the use he makes of certain of Shakespeare's characters in producing most subtle and profound dramatic effects. Maeterlinck has ‘been called “The Belglan Shakes- peare,” mnot that he is comparable with Shakespeare in respect of power and majesty, but simply that he employs for dramatic purposes the assocfations that have grown up in the world's mind about the characters and plays of Shakespeare. As one reads certain of Maeterlinck’s plays an incident of the older playwright is called to mind, and then a characier that is reminiscent of another play, and | as these assoclations, fugitive and dis- | tant, accumulate it Maeterlinck is depending for his dramatic effects upon the memory of the reader and. his familiarity, more or less intimate, with the stage property of the older dramatist. Maeterlinck merely says: “I am trying to write Shakespeare for a the- ater of marfonettes.” understood to mean that he is not trying to imitate the grand action of the Shakes- pearean stage, but that he is stmply tak- ing advantage of the residual conscious- ness of Shakespeare existing in the mind of the present generation after forgetful- ness has dgne its part and so gives us Shakespeare reduced to more impalpable substance, substance refined to atmos | phere, substantial fact become associa- tion of ideas. In place of the splendid objective life which energizes the staga of Shakespeare there appears in Maeter- linck the subjective subtleized results of action. Upon the latter stage things are realized more by suggestion than by im- pression. To illustrate this modern usag ex- periment in dramatic offects never befors lttempled——one of Maeterlinck’'s plays en- titled “‘Princess Maleins" may bepassedin review. In this play the degendenc) upon association is very indeed, the recollection of Shlkeepelr- is a very | part of the play's orgamzation. It in- | volves the memory of so many of the great playwright's characters that there is some justification for the satirical com- ment of Nordau that ** ‘Princess Maleine is a Sha.kespea.ra anthology for Paxago- nians.” “Princess Maleine”” describes the plot- ting of Anne, the Queen of Jutland, to ossess for her daughtier the throne of riolland Becoming the paramour of Klns Hjalmar, she creates an atmosphere intrigue and suspicion in the whole court, and under such conditious the play is con- ducted. Anne first wins the consent of the King to the marriage of his son, | Prince Hjalmar, to her daughter, Princess Uglyayne. But the Priuce is already be- trothed to Princess Maleine, daughter of Marceilus, King of a portion of Holland. In order to effect her will Anne insti- gates war between the two Kings, which results in the defeat of Marcellus and the consequent breaking of_ the engagement between the Prince and Maleine. The lat- | ter, accompanied only by her nurse,iscon- fined in a tower—a tower in which once a Duchess dwelt who “loved a Prince they would not let her love'—but escaping from the prison house Maleine is enabled to enter the palace of Hjalmar as & serv- ing maid. Here the upportunity is given her to meet with Prince Hjalmar and thelr troth is renewed. Anne, foreseeing the fallure of her plofs and finding poi- | 8on too slow in action, persuades the weak King to the murder of the Princess. Ma- lelne is str-ngled in her bedroom at night. Prince Hjalmar, on discovering _he mur- I gerers, kills Anne and at once turns the dagger against himself, leaving the old King raving in ness. The different scenes of the play are lajd in storms. At the beginning the peace of the nations is threatened by the appear- ance of a comet and of showers of stars. Terrible storms rage at Inlorvn.ls. The sky s as “black as the poo fires ht{ver over the = Shddenty: crows croak, swans the sight. At the height of tne Y tragedy such a storm rages that it seems like the break-up of the last day. The moon is then in ecli The very elements share in the tr action. Act 1 contains the incident of the ru ture between the two Kings and the sub- sequent warfare, the burning of the city e% palace of M;rccll and the im- prisonment and escaj niuune and the nurse. When King -.Im-.r from the palace of Marcellus, where he has been entertained, he turns in rage upon his rival, while the shower of stars con- tinues and the comet gleams above the alace: “Ignoble Marcellus! You have e a monstrous thing to-day. Come, horsea. my horse: 1 I am going! your M i Wit e green face and white eyelashes! And I leave you wl(h your old Godeliva. But wait! ou shall 0 on your knees across the marshes. nd I shall comé to celebrate your be- trothal with all my halberdiers and all the ravens in Holland for the funeral feast. Let us be gone! We shall meet again. Ha! Ha! a!" With this overt act of deflance the tragic conflict of the play begins. In act 2 Maleine journeys to the city of Hjalmar and, en ng as a servant in tha pnhoe. meets secretly with the Act discovers Maleine in the palace with Anna plotting her death by -low :z act 4 Maleine is murdered. The central scene of horror Is just previous to the deed of murder, as ‘Maleine, alone in her room, shudders at some unknown doom. Maleine is stretched upon a bed. a large black dog uivenn in a corner. Maleine moans: uto! here, Pluto! They have lelt me all alone on a night like this. Hjalmar has not come to My nurse has not come to see am goin by the ‘Where are you, poor old dog? Are you going to desert me, too? ‘Where are you, my poor Pluto? I cannot see you in the darkness; you are as black s it you I see in the it is your eves that gleam in the corner! Oh, close your eyes. for God's sake! Here, Pluto! Here, Pluto! (Storm begins without.) TIs it you I see trembling in the corner? I never saw such trembling! He is making all the Have you seen some- thing? Answer me, my poor Pluto. Is anybody in this room. Come here, Pluto; come here! Oh, come mmr me, upon my bed. Indeed, you seem as though you would quiver to avath in that corner. and goes toward the dog, who recolls and hides under the furniture.) Where are my poor Pluto? Oh, your eyes are now. But why are you me to-nl ht? am ng back to bed ln down -) If T could s, """ Who is ‘touehing Is anybody In my be some in my com| - shadow be on the tapestry? T believe the crucifix is n) on the wall. Who is touching the crucifix? My God! My God! I can- not lllsr -n{llannr and to the which she tries to open.) ve loc i the door, for the love of God! There is !mntthln in my shall hug alone! Nnm' ou? Imar! G T T not leave nl:g bed I :g!.d the other side. it {8 there on the wall. '8 _on Stitrea by the wind) one { SHieS" Oh? the shadow is discovered that | By this he may be | There are noises In my room! (Rises. 1 must see what is on the priedieu. was afraid of my wedding dress! what is the shadow on the (Pulls the tapestry aside.) t wall now! Let me drink a little wate Oh! how the rughes in my room cry out! And when I walk the whole room begins to speak. I think it is the shadow of | the cypress; there is a cypress in front of | my window. (Goes to the window.) What | a gloomy room they have given me! (Thunder.) I can see nothing but tomb- stones by the flash of the lightning, and I fear leat the dead entor by the w ndows. Oh! wh, zz a storm in the graveyard! What a %. e In the weeping willows! I 2m going back to bed. I can near nothing more now, and tie moonlight has left the room. 'I can hear nothing more now. I would rather hear some sound. (Lis- tena) There are footsteps in the corri- dor; ange footsteps, strange footsteps! T ure whispering about my chamber, "I hear hands cn the door. (The dog ins to hcwl) Pluto! Pl Scme one is coming in! Pluto! Pl Do not howl so! My God! My God! I think my | heart will 4 Outside in the corridors Anne Is per- suadicg the unwilling King to the deed of murder. The King begs postponement, but Anne urges him to action. The girl is strangied, but the King goes mad. In act 5 the aih is inflicted Queen and the King is crazed. Tre play closes with the ravings of the King: King. They will feel coid on the She cried out ““Mamma! and then Ohi" "“Tis a pity, is it not? poor little maid! But ‘twas the wind! Oh! never throw the windows open! It must have been the wind. There were blind vultures in the wind | to-night! Do not let_her little hands hang ioose upon the floor. You are nearly treading on Fer hands. Oh! Oh!. Take care. Nurse. Come away, come away. Let every one go to bed. It is time. Come, come. King. Ym hllp me. I find it a little hard to walk. * am a poor little old man. t h! Oht My legs no Tonger Soeik Tk e Rk & o8 right. Nurse. Come away, King. My God! My Qod' of hell. 3 Come away! Come away! King. Is there any one hers that fears the curse of the dead? Angus. Ay, my lord, I do. King. Well! close their eyes, then, and let us be gone. yes. Bho is waiting Nurae. ¥ Come hence! Come hencet I come: I come. Oh! Oh! How lone !hnll T be now! I stand in Woe Up to my ears. At 77 years! Where are you now? Nurse. Here! Here! €. You will not be angry with me? Let us g0 to breakfast. Will there be saiad for breakfast? I should like a little salad. .‘\(une Yes, yes. There will be some. ing. I do not know why. I am a littls sad to-day. My God! My God! How uabappy the dea: oo In point of characterization the Kin depicted as old and weak, but net buf Leart. Wnen Anne requires the death o( Maleine the King pieads: “Let us not do it”" Anne !s dark, domineering and unscrupulous. ~Prince’ Hjalmar ras ‘girl’s face,” dresses in melancholy blux and is reflective and {rresolute, He haunts the graveyard and is given to soliloquy, as in the following sentence: “It rains: there is a burial in the graveyard. They have dug two graves, and the dies irae ccmes into the house. There is not a win- dow but looks out on the graveyard; it eats Into the very gardens of the castle, 2d the last graves come down as far - Po . They are opening the coffin; shall close the window.” Maleine is b'lll< tiful and spiritual. Her lover remembers the “way she had of casting down her eyes and of holding her hands and her strange white eyelashes! And her look! It was as though one were suddeniy in & xrlea} pool olt Ir;:h water. Sl glyayne is the creature o mother —pretty, and vicious. fo'a Nitle “There kitchen mald’s soul at the bottom of her ?reen eyes."” Angus and nurse are :\llhhll companions of Jalmar and MR ve seen that the general atmos- phere and scope of the play are sugges- tive of “Macbeth.” The weather is the ame in both plays. Crows croak in the environs of Ysselmonde and flames hover above the marshes. Anne s the daring Lady Macbeth, urging the King to deeds of crime. The King is the Thane of Caw- dor grown older and more impotent. The seven nuns intoning their Miserere recall the seven witches in “Macbeth.” When the King, standing at_the open window after the murder of Maleine, whlh the rain is pouring in, exclaims, ““It is rain- ing! Tt is raining on me! It is pouring o my head! I wish I were on the lawn! I wish I were out of doors! It is pouring on my head! It would take all the water of the flood to baptize me now!" we are reminded of the effort of Lady Macbeth to wash away the evidences of crime. But throughout the play there is a curious blending of reminiscence. The King in his old age and remorse and madness s sug- gestive of r; and when he says at Anne’s death, “Have you any black feath- ers? black feathers to Ve and when Angus remarks at the close of the play, “Another night like this and all our heads will be ahite,” the reader is reminded of the wo of Lear and Kent in the earlier play. Anne, on her part, while reminis- cent of Lady Macbeth, calls even more uickly to mind the Quéen of “Cymbe- line.” She has the same daring and mams culine mind and domineers over Hjalmar as the Queen over Cymbeline. And for Cloten and the opposition to the marriage of Posthumus and Imogen we have here Anne's daughter Uglyayne and the denial of the betrothal ween Prince Hjalmar and Princess Maleine. Anne's love of isoning is more characteristic of Cym- line’s Queen than of Lady Macbeth. In both plays, furthermore, the women are thwarted by a Jhyslch.n who substitutes harmless medicines for the intended pois- ons. The confessions of the physician: are almost identical. In lesser parts there runs parallelism with other plays of Shakespeare. The resourceful and ac nurse is the nurse of “Romeo and Jull Maleine herseif is not uniike Juliet in her girlishness, she being 15 to Jullet's 14, Hjalmar, the Prin is_an attenuated Hamlet, the ve names being here sug- gestive. Like Hamlet, he is irresolute, much ,Ivtn o gloom and weags the pale cast of thnu:ht. He has an Horatio in the gflr‘? There is further a grave-digging scens; a graves every ni ht in the orchard. 'l'g‘ incidents of amlet” are also drawn upon for the tremendous exits of the fifth act. As Hamlet convicts his father of crime by means of a prearranged scen 80 does Prince Hjalmar accuse the xm by causing strange nofses and :pe‘llnc fearsome things, { tapestri “The Slaughter of the nnocunll" lnd “The Last Judgment,” until the Kln* he l".tnl!l suddenly a fl.’lul window fllum- oods the King and cries out, “This has been done The nuns are heard singing of the Blessed Virgin light from a eataatl ines the room and murdered Ma- feine recalls also the luckless Ophelia of the former piay. In the matter of const Maeter- linck, departing from his usual custom in this ‘respect, follows in this play the Shakespearean formulas. Five acts form lbeflnon?‘ orlanm;tlc chon;!rn;rflom An intrigue develops t! rog the first act, a counteraction bel ‘myn-d “from D, a mee up the cue nefnfl. It ls a plv rull 3 weird scenes and dreadful terrors. Neme- Testoren 1o the Eingdom by the principis 01 0 e m prine of retribution. In this play Maeter- linck has sch by other centu- modern