The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1900, Page 7

OMKLARD LOSES OHE TAX SUIT Supreme Court Holds That n Increase Was Tilegal ! —_—— Final Decision From the Su- eme Court Upon a Long Line of Railroad Tax Suits. Francisco Call way, De - Assessor nce was modified and now in force as modified. Mayor Pard e removing the gat Flagmen were or- crossings and they he travel many an ve not »pen- aads. of the cor- aw not been f of Bqualisation Instead of lowed by t making the ing the raliroed Propery citl b el X properiy and taking testimony upon the value n’! the property the Supreme -Court holds that the Increase was made arbitrari and without the proper process and te The raflroad paid its taxes upon the ited on of the taxes levied valuetion made by the County Assessor. There are still other suits pending upon dity of the assessments upon the reet local, and er dif- Some of these Court and some | PASADENA AFTER A PASTOR. The Rev. Charles H. Hobart of Oak- land Receives Call From South. daklan fice S8an Francisco Call, Broadway, Dec. 30. t Church of Pasadena imous call to the of the First Bap- nd to become pastor rt said to-night: ot care to say any- | aceived & call | st Church at | under | accept | ge- | not pre- further | Or. Hobart has | rement from nearly four. rprise to his par- stunds as one of s activity of Omk- | = the largest of the n this section. Be- rk. Dr. Hobart has X nterest in the Cal- N an institution on of which Reception and Refreshments in the Afternoon and Programme in the Evening DAKLAND, Dec. 30.—The Young Men's stian Association will keep open house on New Year's day and evening and all are invited. There be an informal re- eeption in the afternoon from 1 until 3 p'olock. Fyom 3 1l § p. m. refreshments will be served Ladies’ Auxiliery the evening the following programme will be rendered: . Knickerbooker Mal: (Gypsy Thoughts) Bernard Walther; humorous selec am Hynes; Dearest Malden Me* (Vogel), Knickerbocker Male e First Unitarian Church Will Be- gin a Unique Series of Sunday Services. AAKLAND, Dec. 3 nique series of sy evening services will be begun at | e Pirst Church beginning January 6. They pices of the Unity | nd wil! be conducted | Fay Mills. Each | a story and based | character. > Old Theol- January 6. and “The Reign | 13 Charles | Redemption of | Unitarian ay ey mder the au ¢ the basis and th Came Himself.” reser A he book used will M Chris by Marie | Core ' Mrs. J. Humphrey | Eleanor” will be the hook chosen o Cr Lucis,” the toplc Mayor Snow at the Y. M. C. A. KLAND, Dec. 30.—Mayor R, W.! 1a | the address written by it fo® delivery before ng Men's Christian As- which is entitied “A rv Message 10 the Young ! wed by ' R. Dille. | Mayor Snow Not a Candidate. 0OA Dec. 3. —Mayor R, W, Srnow announced that he would rot BE a r any office | st the of ? Oakland Sandbagged and Robbed | vorer residing at 611 | s sandbagged and | Fifth and Natoma streets morning. He was on his way to his home from a downtown saloon when he noticed a man following him. As he quickened his pace the man behind him struck him with a sandbag. When Jrady recovered consclousness he told his experience to Policeman Eskew. At the Fereiving Hosnital he was treated for a | damaged ear.and a bruised lip. | ———————— | - irst Enthustactie Golfer—I say, will | you play_another round with me unl ™ ay? - T X “f:?.d Enthusiastic Golfer—Well, I'm | Dooked to be married on that day—but nj ean be postponed.—Funch. | Discharged Soldier Causes a Turmoil | | ixed cash ball at $100. | mervice” an all-day service of pri s, accompanied by an orchestra. | F A e — | controlled extensive interests in that in- 'in the morning. ted knocking, failed to re- ::l‘:: "'ffiu nee from H: on, the SEEKS REVENGE ON FELIK DUGAN Clothing Salesman Threat- ens the Deputy Sheriff With Arrest. PO Which Involves Rival Clothing | Establishments and a Zeal- | ous Officer. | il A discharged soldier's unpaid debt for clothing and the attempt of the creditor to collect by the aid of the strong arm of the law has started a controversy which may result in the arrest of the limb of the law itself. F. L. Heywood of 119 Ninth street declares he will swear to a mplaint to-day charging Deputy Sheriff | Felix Dugan with disturbing the peace, sing profane language, or some such of- | The soldier who was the object of the pursuit of one clothing establishment and f the solicitous protection of another , a guileless Ter the Fourth V., in Cuba during war and afterwa Forty-seventh Volunteer In- | e Philippines. { ish-American try a He reached t pany H of that regiment returne a ant in Com- he was d last Lately man received § allowance bal a ) left of tne | $159 . to his light- hearted, Filipino way of swering | Manana” to the repeated attempts of one | creditor collect $52 50 due for goods | purchased. | Chapman admits that he bought cloth- | Ing to that amount of Brick & C | a firm of soldiers’ outfitters doing business on | Greenwic street He s0 admits that one of the firm was on ch for him at | the foot of the elevator in the Phelan building Wednesday when he came down from the paymaster's office with $159 82 jingling in his pocket “I told him,” Chapman said last_ night “that 1 would come out and pay the bill He wanted me to go right along with him but I told him I didn't need a guide. Then Friday I found that they were watching me for fear I was golng to leave for Tennessee without paying them, and I decided to let them get the mone: best they could.” ““They got the money,” and their way was & rather good way so far as effec- tiveness was concerned, though the forms of the law were somewhat strained. Chapman has a friend in F. L. Heywood, who is an outside salesman for the Golden Gate Tailoring Company. Heywood says that Chapman did him many good turns during his business dealings with the sol- diers. Heywood was dining_the hero of | two wars at his home, 118 Ninth street, | Saturday night, when the deputy Sheriff and an ex-soldier named Thompson, who working for Brick & Co., pushed the | ioor open and entered, and after some | words between Dugan and Heywood, | Chapman was arrested on a warrant chlrg&ng him with embezzlement. The | deputy Eheriff took him to the police sta- tion at the City Hall, and_then started with him on & hunt for a Justice of the Peace to fix bail. Justice of the Peace Dunne was not at home, but Justice of the Peace Cook was, and he accommodatingly Heywood started out to secure amount, but fin y loaned Chapman and the latter added to it his 32 50 and over the $47 50 and was given a re- ceipt in full and released from custody. “Dugan forced his way into my rooms,” Heywood said last night, “without any explanation of his being an officer or hav- ing & warrant. He said he had come for Chapman and was going to have him, and he emphasized What he said with oaths. I told him my wife was present and I would not allow him to insult her. 1 ordered him to show his authority or get out, and was going to put him out | when my wife interfered, and Chapman eaid he would go along. 'Dugan had no right to come into my house after dark to serve the warrant, and his behavior was most insulting. I shall certainly | ewear to a complaint in the morning and | cause his arrest. | “Dugan and Thompson both kept urging | that Chapman to raise the money some | way, so that he would not have to go | to jail. Finally I agreed to let him have | $45, and he has telegraphed to friends in Tennesses for money. Deputy Sheriff Dugan denies that he | used profane language in the Heywood | home. He asserts that he trampled on Do one’s rights in the discharge of his duty, and that he will have no trouble | in proving his innocence if he shall be | arrested. | WATCH MEETINGS IN L CHURCHES AND HALLSi Red Cross Society to Offer an Elabo- | rate Programme at Golden Gate Hall. Dozens of watch meeting will be held to-night to sge the birth of the new year and the new century. The greatest of these will be the Red Cross meeting at Golden Gate Hall, where a programme is to be rendered that wiil be in every sense worthy of the occasion Mme. Camille @’ Arville-Crellin, with the graciousness that has always distin- guighed her, has consented to sing. The famous Third Artillery Band will play a number of selections on the programme and during the intermission will play “La Paloma™ and selections from “Martha The choristers of the Good Samaritan | Mission will =ing. Hother Wismer, the violinist: Miss Marie Wilson, the planist: | Mrs. Walter Fonda, Mrs.' Arnold and | other well-known musicians are on the | ramme. The reading of the greet- | he Red Cross Society from the | urope will be a feature of prog: ings to t 3 celebritice of E he meeting. Mfeetings will be held in many of the churches. Among the-sc a special ser- Vice will be held at Grace Church, com- meneing at 11:15 o'clock. It will ‘con- #ist of a programme of music and an ad- aress by the rector. ~After the new vear > 1 1l choir will sing “Glos Orpheonistes.” T: the Central Methodist Church a ser- vice will be held. beginning 2t 9 o'clock. Rishop John W. Hamilton will preach the sermon. ~ Preceding this = ‘watch-night held. b’)”r-n! #fical high ma g2 will }: relar“(nted v'= Cathedral New Year's . MaT oclock. Mozarts “Twalfth will be sung by an augmented GUEST OF RUSS HOUSE FOUND Dm» IN ROOM John P. Harrington, - Mining Man, Dies of Heart Failure Unex- ly. John P. Harrington, & mining man who Austry in Mexico and also owned much | San Francisco property, was found dead | in his bed at the Russ House yesterday morning when a bellboy went to rouse him. . . who was a middle- i o m?f'u';:d early on s;:urdfiid n.l‘gfilt;‘ i t he be ca 7! o et (V:‘he-‘n the attendant, dcor was broken open., and the occupant of the room was found lylnxain m-,d::‘ jeeping. A bri :‘t‘-:l-‘v‘—: h’lm to"{o dead, evwenflhn.vin‘ early in the night. The body | was ul::-x‘tyo an \ymderuke"l. The cause of Harrington's untimely ise is thought to have been heart failure. Harrington had made his home at the hotel in Mexico. He was unma fd Telatives in the East are distan ::g‘h :{e had many friends herg to whom the news his Xcflh will cope as a shock. 1 7 | 2 o’clock this afternoon. | beautiful THE SAN ®RANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DE CELEBRATE THEIR SILVER 9 . JUBILEE WITH GREAT POMP First Hebrew Congregation Listens to Songs of Israel and | Eloquent Words of Rabbis. O AKLAND, Dec. 30.—Amid a syna- gogue's brilllant decorations the songs of Israel and the eloquent words of learned rabbis mingled to-day in celebration of the First Hebrew Congregation’s twenty-fifth anni- | versary. The silver jubilee of the ploneer Jewish church of Oakland was attended with ceremonial and worship that called out the attendance of hundreds of fol- lowers of the faith. The congregation's ample and elaborate arrangements for the festival were marked by the superb programme of music that-vied w'th the strong appeals from the rabbis to awaken and quicken the hearers In their adher- ence to the faith of their fatherd The exercises were begun promptly at The synagogue, with its symbolical lights glowing from masses of ferns and evergreens and glis- tening upon the golden fringed adorn- ments of altar and candelabra, was a picture of religlous setting. With Mendelssohn's orchestral *‘March of the Priests” (Athalie) for accompani- ment the rabbls and the church officials took their places at the altar. Then the greeting of choir, organ and orchestra in Psalm cxvill. was rendered. After that came the invocation by Rabbi Isidor My- ers of San Francisco. James Coleman gave a ‘cello solo and a solemn Mincha service was read by E. Bernstein, the ven- erable secretary of the congregation. Spohr's Forty-second Psalm wWas chaated by the choir with Miss Mary Chester Willlams as soloist. Rabbi Nieto’s Greeting. Rabbi Jacob Nieto of Congregation Sherith Israel, San Francisco, in his greet- ing from sister congregations said: “It seems fit and proper that 1 should be selected to greet this congregation on this auspicious occasion, because a for- mer rabbi of Congregation Sherith Israel was the one that consecrated this syna- €ogue to God, and Sherith Israel was the first to offer 'assistance and to hold out its hands twenty-five years ago to the struggling men of the faith who founded this synagogue. This congregation is to | be congratulated upon its growth, progress made despite the — small population and despite little = fac. tiona differences and despite its uphill traveling this quarter of a century. If sister congregations greet you they have reason to be proud that your members have been true to the faith. Oakland has been an example in a great many ways for other congregations. In greeting you to-day I say look well to the future gen- erations, strengthen the youth In the faith, that it may not be one of the lips alone, but that actions as well may carry the name of Jew proudly forward in the vanguard of progress.” Handel's "“Hallelujah Chorus” was sung by the choir, and Rabbi M. Friedlander, pastor of the First Hebrew Congregation, gave a brief history of the organization during its twenty-five vears of life. He like Nathan said that men in Judaism, Rosenberg, Jacob Letter, Rahbi Levy, David 8. Hirschberg, Abraham Jonas, Max Marcuse, Sol Kahn, George Samuels, seorge Mersbacher, E. Bernstein, Jacob Rosenberg and many others, had been the firm supporters and upbuilders of the co: gregation. He dwelt upon the differences and troubles which arose about the adoption of the reformed ritual, and de- clared that the story of twenty-flve years was the story of a struggle. Continuing Rabbi Friedlander said: “We want a presentable position in the community. We want in the service of God all_the brothers of our faith. We cannot have these uniess we are united. If that be accomplished we shall stand as one of the leading congregations of the country. The great need is to fill the membership roll of our congregation. The reason you have not orthodoxy is becaus the women want to dress and be among the people of to-day, that our men want to live, that we want cuiture, influence and education. How long are we to mourn over the old forms and symbols, when wé should be bringing the young genera- tion into our congregation? Do not look at the past and say we are going down- ward. Our mission at the beginning of the new century is to build, =0 that our children and our children’'s children shall be of us and with us.” First Pastor’s Kind Words. After an interlude, “Alma Virgo” (Hummel), sung by Miss Mary Chester Williams, with full choir, organ and or- chestral accompaniment. Rabbi M. S. Levy of 8an Francisco. first pastor of the church, delivered an address upon “The Religion of the Future.” He said: “In listening to the appeal of your rabbi, who has seen fit to designate ma as the father of this congregation, I feel that none could have a better right than CHURCHES CLOSING THE CENTURY. Oakland Office S8an Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway. Dec. 30. The end of the century will be obsegved by a number of churches on Monday. There were New Year sermons in most of the churches to-day, but special services will be held to-morrow evening in many places. The mortgage-burning jubiles of the Centennial Presbyterian Church to-morow evening will be an interesting one, for that church will start the new year free from debt. The ceremony will be very interest!ng. There will be speclal services on Mon- day evening at tne First Baptist Church, which will be participated in by a number of prominent divines of ail denominations. The exercises will begin at 8 o'clock and will t _until the new century has dawned. There will be addresses by Rev. J. K. McLean, president of the Pacific TheologlcalSeminary upon *“The Urgency iy M Hill of the Tenth-avenue Baptist Church will speak upon “The Divine Leadership.” Rev. K. R. Bennett of the Twenty-third enue Baptist Church will speak upon Present Duty.” There will be other addresses and music, to which all are invited, The First Congregational Church will hold a “sunrise” communion service in the chapel of thé church on New Year's-day at T38 @clock in the morning, the sun- rise time of that day. | The First Methou.st Church held its New Year's services to-day, when the tor, Rev. E. R. Dille, delivered New ‘ear’s sermons both morning and even- ing. In the evening there was special music in the shape of a Christmas ecantata entitled “The Word Made Flesh," render- ed under the direction of J. M. Robirso The subject of Dr. Dille's morning dis: ationalis: ev, C a Congre; u(e" A THE TWO UPPER PICTURES ARE OF THE FIRST AND PRESENT | CEMBER 31, 1900. i THEATERS OF SHAKESPEARE'S TIME. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. THIRTY SHAKESPEARE EVENINGS. XxX. ‘When Shakespeare came to London in 158 he found the first regular theaters, or, as the Elizabethans called them, playhouses, already established. Com- been in existence for over a century. | Richard III, while Duke of Gloster. is his play; his successor had two distinct | | companies, and with tiie beginning of ihe sixteenth century it became common for noble patrons’ of art and letters to lend the authority of their names to fellow- ships of players and thus rescue them from the clutches of the law, which threatened unlicensed players with flog- ging and imprisonment as “sturdy rogues and vagabonds.” For a long time, how- ever, these companies were content confine themselves to performances 'n private houses and to such public shows | inn. Indeed, the court of the old English inn, with its paved yard open to the sky and its surrounding ghlleries, was the first home of the popuiar romantic drama and thé model of the earliest Bnglish theaters. It was not only on their travels through the provinces that the actors made use of these inn courtyards. Even in London as late as 1 | ances appear to have been given in such | places, and the names of several of these inns have been preserved for us—the Cross Keys In Gracious street, the Bull in Bish- opgate street and the Sell Savage on Lud- gate Hill. But in that year the growing hostility of the munricipal authorities came to a head in an order forbldding all REV. BDR.JACOB NIETO panies of professional actors, indeed, had | known to have had a troupe of actors in | to | all public dramatic perform- | as could be given in the courtyard of an | | Burbage was —_— well as at the Theater: and here his first original tragedy, ‘“Romeo and Juliet,” came out and took the town by storm. Here at Shakespeare's intarcussion Do Jonson's first comedy of manners, ¢ 4 Man in His Humor.” was produced, and it was here, probably, rather than at the Globe, as is usually stated, that Shakes- peare crowned his es with tHe herole play of * apologizing to the spectators for his boldness in dar- ing to bring forth so-great an object “on this unworthy scaffold.” Blackfriars Theater. There was yet another theater in Lon- don at which Shakespeare played and in which he had a certain financial interest. This was the Blackfrairs Theater. It seems to have been built by Bur 3 about the year 159, when his lease of the ground on which the Theater stoSd was threatened. His establishment of a new playhouse on the northern bank of the Thames in the center of a most aristo- cratic quarter was at once at anchor to windward and a thorn in the side of his enemies, tWe civic authorities. For al- though the Blackfriars district lay within the walls of London, it was a “Liberty,” g@:servflnl from the time when it had m the domain of a great monastery a certaln independence of the city govern- ment. The playhotse erected there by on leased out to a chil- dren's coum;;. composed of the boys n the Royal Chapel. and It most fashionable the- ater In London. It is spoken of as a pri- vate theater, and was smaller but more commodious than the large public play- houses: completely roofed over, with seats in the it and on the stage, as wel in the galleries and in the boxes. The bitter attack in *“ on the aerie of children shows how, the older company to which the Fnet belonged re- sented the sudden popularity of these ju- venile performances. In the vear 1610 PASTORS RESPECTIVELY OF THE FIRST HEBREW CONGREGA- TION OF OAKLAND. - S ——Y| myself to appeal to his children to of the Jewish faith. and let the youth have them join heart and soul come to worship in the synagogue in the in sustaining and supporting this institu- tion,which is so deserving of support from the Israelites of Oakland. | trust my few ' words will have effect, ana that Rabbi Friedlander will be able shortly to report to me that there has been a material gain in membership and spirituality. “There has been no such wondrous epoch ae ours of to-day. Illiteracy, bigot- ry and fanaticism flee in dismay ' before us, and our people are better, purer and more progressive. A more tolerant religi- ous spirit is manifesting itself among the people. We should render praise to God that we live in freedom and in so glorious a land, where religion, commerce and education are marking time together in the closing hours of the nineteenth cen- tury. “The knowledge of how to work in the name of God for the good of man is the ideal of the religlon of the future. It is not a new alm or object. Tt has been the purposé of Judaism all through the cen- turfes. When the people understand it they will blot out injustice, intolerance and iniquity. Judaism will bé in the fore- most rank. It will be the religlon of the world. It is in harmony with science— preaching the oneness of universal law. ‘Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us all? Fear God, obey his commandments—that is all the duty left to man. That is my ideal of the religion of the future.” “The Need of the Hour.” Miss Gretchen Bennett sang Mendels- gohn's aria, ““O, Rest In the Lord.” Rabbi Willlam H. Gréenburg of Sacramento de- livered an address on “The Need of the Hour.” He sald: “If Judaism iz to live {t must be forever undergoing change. The reform movement in the Jewish church must be registered as an epoch, and if Judalsm has a mes- sage and a mission {{ w1l be consum- mated by the united action of the re- formed Jews wherever the blessings of freedom and liberty prevail. The cultiva- tion in our daily life of simplicity is es- sential. Too great a proportion of our co- religionists are guided by no other thoughts than those of gain and desires for pleasure. Jewish family life lacks the beauty and simple character of those that Our ideals are sinking went before us. into decay, and 'we must unite nlwmgh'e strength to the faith that is ours fr the centuries of old.” “Israfel” (King) was rendered by Clem- ent Rowlands. Then Rabbi Jacob Voor- eanger of the Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, preached the sermon, from Exodus, xi1i:13. He sald: “All ceremonial is dry rot unless the rabbi teaches his congregation the illu- minating _strength of the symbol. The ideals of Judaism are not straw men, to be threshed out in the pulpit: they are not distant on the mountain tops: they are not worth a snap of vour finger unless they begin among men and women right here under them. 1 will not glorify the achievements of the twentieth century un- less they begin here to-day. Never mind about patting each other on the back over fdeals. They have no value in the orthodox or the liberal point of view un- less that point of view is among us now. Reople of the First Hebrew congregation, u must resolve that there is somethin, in Judaism to keep, or let us dissolve an adjourn. “It Is the fault of the Jews themselves. They have been glorifying the future and ‘forgetting the needs of the hour. We can- not discharge all of the duties of religion, but we each can do something. Let re. liglon be the sign manual of vour own hands. Do not rely on preachers, for some preachers haven't much religion. Do not rely upon the ghosts of your grand- fathers, for they have been dead a long while; and do not rely upon poetic ideals about’ the future. ' An Admonition. “Keep in mind the purity and holiness ————— course was “A Backward Look—An Old- Year Sermon,” and in the evening ne spoke from the topic *At the Threshold of the New Century." The Episcopal churches all repeated their Christmas music te-day. The music at 8t. Paul's was under the direction of Edwin Dunbar Crandall, cholrmaster, and Arthur Fickenscher, organist. At the Church of the Advent Frank H. Mather of London took charge of the mu- sic and repeated the Christmas service. Mr. Mather will increasé the choir of this church to sixty trained voices and wiil make the musical services a special fea- ture. Mr. Mather has a musical reputa- tion of great excellence. Rev. R. Bennett preached his last sermon at the Twenty-third Avenue B: tist Church to-day. e leaves this church to become general missionary of his de- nomination for California. Rev. C. Hobart preached two New Year sermons to-day at the First Baptist Church, in the morning “Crowning Tri- umphs of the Crowning Century " and In the evening “A Century of Evangelism and an Outlook.” v, C. R. Brooks gmched t the Tenth-avenue Baptist Church this even- {\:[ |rl|“exchlnse with the pastor, Rev. C. Hill. Rev. W. J. Spears of Los Angeles preached at the .aarket-street Congrega- tional Church this evening. St. John's Episcopal Church, on the cor- ner of Bighth and Grove streets, will hold services New Year's eve, nning at 11:30 o'clock and lasting into the new year. There will be a long celebration of the holy eucharist. There will be a 'ltch—meefln%fln. Mon- day evening at the First English Luther- an Church, on the corner of Sixteenth and reached upon 1d Year this h-avenue Methodist be a watch-meeting faith of old. Remember that the true re-| liglon is that which brings all of us into touch with Almighty God. whether it be {n eynagogue or in the dally walks of | ‘With musical interludes Rabbl Fried- lander delivered the memorial address, Rabbi Levy the closing prayer and the | benediction was pronounced by Rabbi | Friedlander. Following are the officers, members, committees and auxilfary organizations of the congregation: Officers—President, Sol Kahn: vice president, Julius Abrahamson: trensurer, Abe Jonas: sec- retary, E. Bernstein. Directors—Jacob Rosenberg, Nathan Rosen- berg, Max Marcuse, Dave Magnes, George Sam- uelg, Georze Mosbacher. Rabbi—Rey. Dr. M. Friedlander: assistant realer, E. Bernstein: sexton, D. Barnett | Commitiees: Finance—_George Samuels (chair- | man), Max Marcuse, George Mosbacher. Ceme- tery—George Mosbacher (chairman), A. Jona George Samuels. Choir—Max Marcuse (chai: man), A. Jonas, George Mosbacher. Sabbatl &chool—D. Magnes (chairman), N. Rosenberg, J. Rosenberg, Mrs Alexander. Mrs. Max | | The Hope Theater in 1647. trom the Marcuse, Mrs. Hugo Abrahamson. Mrs. Henry - Kahn. Library—Jull Abrahamson ~(chair- | man), Max Marcuce; N. Rosenbers. | plays within the city limits. It was not ) Shakespeare's company, now known as his Past presicents—Isaac Alexander, 1875: Jacob | altogether a puritanic hatred of art and | Majesty’s servants, returned to this the- Letter. 1876-1579: Aaron Cerf, 1880: M. H. Cof- | pleasure that prompted the Mavor a er. But by this time Shakespeare was ai- ‘ee. 1880-1881; David S. Hirschberg. 1882 Aldermen to such a step. The public per- ady planning to withdraw ;“d “!":8‘45; J'.' M(-, Cohn, l““‘fiy“fiw Jlflnu;‘ formances of the plavers undoubtedly | 'agr, and he can hardly have appeared 3 ob Greenhood, 1889-1801; Josepl v e_most disorderly ele- | often on its hoards. Hareis, 1892-1898; Jullus Abrahamson, 1835.1566: | Orc % together the m | x ments in the city. Pickpockets nited thei profession in the crowded vard, courte sans thronged the galleries and the apprentices of London not Infrequently stormed the stage itself. Worst of all the plague hung like a pall over the city, Jacob Rosenberg. 1897-1899. Sabbath school—Superintendent, Rabbi M. Friedlander: teachers—E. Bernstein, Miss Maa Cohn, Miss Lucie Peres. Miss Ella Rosenbers, Miss Emma Danielowitz, Miss Eva Magnes: post-graduate class, Rabbl M. Friedlander; 1 i brarian, Merwin Samuels: assistant librarian, | {ts cause unknown, but its effects too Miss Josephine Rosenbes library directors— | terribly seen in the closcd houses and-the Mrs. nder. Mrs. Max Marcuse. | swollen death list. And the plague was Willlam B. King: sopranos— | thought to have an Intimate connection Mise Mary Willlams, Mrs. = Martin | with the performances of plavs. 4 hultz: contraltos—Mrs. Carroll Nicholson, | nreacher of the day aptly put it: 188 Gretchen Bennet! A. Redfteld; bassos Melvin, Orchestra—Director, Willlam J. McCo violine—Miss Ida F. Fox, H. Seskam violine—Willlam_Rickey, Roland Oliver; viola, * | cause of plague: of sinne are plays; thercfore the cause of plagues are plays. Quidauid causae est causa causati” N plague time—and there were H ° five great | | | is sinne; and the cause | The Rose and Newington Butts. Long before this time, however, Shakes- eare had crossed the Thames and tried is fortune as an actor and playwright in the theaters of the Bankside. Of this fa- vorite playgrognd of the Londoners in Shakespeare’s day a word must now be said. Londen in Shakespeare's long, narrow city drawn out along the northern bank of the Thames. The river, flowing crystal clear, covered with swans and spanned only by the famous London bridge. was easily reached by a short walk from any part of the eity, and time was a | served as a public highway and the chief | Tham Kugene Colby: flute. Louis Burris: cornet, B. | epidemics in London, not to speak 'of §. Kent: 'cello, James Coleman: clarinet, | minor attacks during Shakespeare's lifo Howard, Baxter: trombone, G. F. Milner. —the.concourse of people at the plays con- AfS Soci to the spread of infection: one iated Soslatise. R firee precantions taken on an out: Daughters of Israel _Rellef Soclety — | burst of the pestilence was to suppress President,. Mrs. M. H. Coffee; treasurer. | not only plays but all similar public as Mrs. H. 'Barrett; recording secretary, Mrs. | semblies until the death rate had faller | H. Marks: financlal secretary. Mrs. D. | again below a certain mark. But the Magnes: trustees, Mrs. R. Hirschberg, Mrs. E. grave Tagistrates of the city desired Berngtein, Mrs. M. Scharman. Mrs. M. Sam- | something more than the mere restriction son Ladies' Auxiliary—President, Mrs. A. Alex- vice president. Mrs. George Samuels; r, Mre. Rosenberg: recording secre wartzbaum: financial secre- tary. Mrs. 8. Eleaser Woman's Council- President, Mrs, Max Mar- cuse; treasurer, Mrs, A. Alexander; secretary, Miss Allce Peres: leader, Miss Esther Frank. Sewing School—Directors, Mrs. J. Letter, Mrs. D. Magnes. Celebration _committee — Sol _Kahn. Julfus Abrahamson. Jacob Rosenberg, Rabbi M. Fried- of dramatic performances. To nlay in plague time. they argued, is to increase the plague by Infection: ‘o play out of plague time is to draw the plague by of- fending God. Ergo. plays should never be performed at all. prohibiting all public performances of the drama within the walls of London. The Theater. But the pleasure-loving Londoners were by no means ready to abandon their fav- lander. Decoration committeeMrs, A. Alex ander, ara. 3. Cohen.” M. Geore Samusl. il rot "Rahn, Teaac. Tenrlvaabaum. | magistrate or Puritan preacher. Lissner. Henry Lissner, Fred Hernstein. Leo. | they would have. if not within the city pold Levy. Members of congregation—Jtul. ‘Abrahamson, Hugo Abrahamson. Henry Abra- hameson, A. Alexander, A. E. Alexander, P. Boas, 1. Hiagolosky, Isaac Bernstein, Jacob Bauml, M. H. Coffee. Jul. Coleman. Jui. Cohn, S A. Cohn, Isidore Cohn.Sam Eleaser, 8. Fischel. Aaron Fibush, Jacob Fibush. Max Greenhood, H then just across the line; and an oppor- tunity was soon afforded them of seelng plays in a better fashion than ever be- fore. James Burbage, a quick-witted and versatile man, an actor in Lord Leicest er's company and the proprietor of a tav. odman. Barny Goldberg. D. 8. Hirshi : 7o Hirenbers. H. A. Hoftman, S. M. Harrls, | ern and livery stable outside of the city Abr. Jonas, Marcus Jonas, Aaron Jacobs. Soi | walls, conceived the original idea of build- Kahn, Henry Kahn, Fred Kahn, Jacob Kirsh- | fng a house which whould be devoted ner. ‘Meyer Levy rt Lissner. | wholly to popular amusements—tumbling, Mra. H. Letter, . George Mos- a He se- v ing. fencing and plays. :E?:ddtn:%c Iease of a bit of Eround opening on Finsbury fields, haif a mile or So north of the city wall. borrowed sufficient money from his father-in-law. and in 1576 bullt the “Theater’” himself. being, among bacher, D. Magnes. Mrs. Harriet Marks, George Newman, Jacob Pantosky, Nathan Rosenberg. Jacob Rosenberg, Morria Rosenberg, Charles Rosenberg. Simon Ringolsky, M. M. Samson. Albert Saliuger. George Samuels. Sam Sam: uels. 8. Silberberg, M. Scheeline, Fll Schwartz- baum. " Jacoh Sil ratein. Mre. M Scharman. | his other occupations. a joiner nrdcl'n:len. eyer teinberg, . Henry rager, rs. Van | he first time an admission Mourick, ‘A N. Wache, M. Weinstein, wil. | ter. Here for t fee was charged; the old appeal to the liberality of the audience was abandoned in favor of this surer and more profitable method. Acertain system of profit-sharing between the owner of the theater on the one hand and the actors on the other was adopted along with this innovation. With our scanty knowledge of detalls it is im- possible to define this system exactly, but We know that all the great Elizabethan s actors made handsome .fortunes—a fact liam Wolfsohn. at this church Monday event - | an t as such. ning at 9 o'clock. : "€, begin- | 85 Ppurbage's company. variously knowy Rev. M. H. Alexander of the Chester. | as Lord Leicester's Tord Stranges ap street’ Methodist Church preached upon | the Lord Chamberlain's men. we find to “What Walt 1 For?" at the evening ser- vice to-night. His gulflt wag filled in the morning by Mrs. 8. M. Woodman, who spoke upon “The Fate of i Torer dod © Fate of Natlons that | tragition Lot ces in front of a thester. Rev, 8. B. McCormick filled t Shakespeare must have ridden up to Lon- of the First Presbyterian Church” thit | on. and his fAirst step on arriving at the morning, and in the evening the Christ- | city would have been to sell his horse. H mas musical programme was repeated. may very well have disposed of it to Bur- ! ;P:lkelpell‘e. His mode of entrance to the ig probably explained by the old Cradition that he began life in London by ev. H. W. Frazer preached at bage, the inn keeper and liveryman, and. Brooklyn Presbyterian Church this morn- | when the money was spent, have accepted ing upon “A Nineteenth Century Retro-|an offer from Burbage. in his capacity of spect.” going over the work of the clos- | theater-owner. to ook after the horses on lna century. which the gentleman patrons of his play- ev. Dwight B. Potter of the Union- | house rode through the fields to its door. C horses without to street’ Preshyterian Church closed his se- | Y s Siehety o - The stap from holdin res of Sunday evening discourses feing ¢ with u waiting on actors “The Workingman and the Church” ("fl(:lmon n’ndg Shakespeare's gentie man- evening. They have attracted a great | fiers, ready wit and adaptability must deal of attention. s soon have attracted their notice. He Rev. Benjamin Fay Mills this morning | joined the company. tradition tells us. as repeated his address upon “The Wonder- |a ‘'servitor.” perhaps a prompter's attend ful Century.” which was originally given ant or cali-boy; but within a few years before the Starr King Fraternity and at-| we find him a le-mngmm\m‘ of the com- tracted so much attention. pany. playing with Richard Burbage, son ————— jown. before emp. the famous cl s“"‘“{ School Teacher—Where did the %'uy.'.:ndm}:-m':n at Greenwich. Some at B o [t cuni S T least of Shal are's early plays must Phil Adelphy (whose family had only have been brought out at the Theater. but tecently moved to Chicago)—They came | we have no record of the fact. Two plavs "5"‘4‘ 2 5::" 1 Teacher—And wh: we know were given there m‘h‘l mu:,‘ h.:; . 0ol Teachgr—And why we interest o him—the o ey falied S e e | e et o which he was fo found the Phil * Adelphv—Because. ma'am, they | most wonderful of all tragedies, and the went back hcme again.—Philadelphia | superb play of ““Dr. Faustus” by - (e %) peare’s cessor and master in tragedy, New Woman—I'm going to lecture on Christopher Marlowe. : ; woman's rights. Husband (plaintively)~And what will | Close to the Theater stood the Curtain, ot the cacand of the English theaters. It {s | mentioned as early as 151i, but when or uilt we do not know. acted here “whom it was Shakespeare’s company as 4 AL T P SRR e yvou alon; L le.— Detroit Free Press. 5 ! which could be predicated of no Elizabeth- | rd the close of 1584 the name lof William | of James and the greatest tragedian of bis Hence the order of 1575 | \ | | e i { { | ; | e'| suggested to S| i means of communication between district and district. The public carriers of the day were the watermen. as they were cailed, an almost incredible number of whom. estimated in 1813 at 40,000, plied their trade along the stream. Thelr most profitable occupation was transporting the crowds of pleasure-seekers across the to the Surrey side. That district was very differnt from the grimy. crowd- ed suburb of to-day. Beyond the little cluster of houses at the end of London bridge, known as Southwark, and already in Shakespeare's day Incorporated with London proper. a thin line of buildings ran westward along the Thames, and then came the gardens and the green flelds. Hither the Londoners flocked on Sundays and holldays for a ramble in the country, a trial of skill in archery at th the more_exciting sports of bull iting. Plays_too, wers fr urre; side. Before the su orite amusement at the bidding of city | under the control of the London autaori- Plays | ties ;huv were given in the inns of wark. afterward in the taverns £ moter suburbs, v those of strip along the river called the Bamk- side, or the Liberty of the Clink. the year 1587 It entered fi.to the mind Philip Henslowe, dyer, lumber merchant and money-lender, to bulld a Pllyhou. n his district and thus divert into his own aclous pockets some of tne golden streams that flowed so freely there. For some reason the building of this theater, the Rose. seems to have been de [ about 1592, but In the meantime H lowe had undertaken, perhaps the construction, certainly the management, of a theater not far away, besida’ the old archery ground, Newington Butts, At thess two heaters Shakespeare made his debut as a =kiliful reviser of old plays and an orig- inal author of the highest drawing power, In 1591 Henslowe seems to have I his theater at Nawinfion Butts to Burbage and his m‘l’;i undHoro lngmh of that year a “King enry . rrvb-b. Shakespeare’'s revision of an ol emz cle play, was given to crowded ho: Ten thousand spectators at least are sal to have seen ‘ts performance, and when we consider the very limited eapaecity of the early theaters we can guess how fre- uently this play must have been given. Some “years later we find an entry Henslowe's diary of another: play Shakespeare's. again apparently a revi- sion of an old favorite, “Titus Androni- cus.” whose performance at Newin, Butts brought in the largest sum rec for a lnn: time by the worthy manager. Among the other plays produced about this time at one or the other of these theaters were a “Lear.” Ha.mh(';rfid a “Taming of the Shrew”; all three - performances enough, but of immense fm- portance to English literature, since they kespears the glorious dramas which now bear those names. Note—This study. by T. M. Parrott, Ph, D., will be concluded next Thursday. Australian Blection. Australia is to hold her first federal election this year, and the old party divi- sions of the several colonies do not ex- actly meet the new conditions ushered in by the consolidatiom For example, fed- eration destroyed the fres trade move- ment of New South Wales, for the need of revenue renders a tariff a matter of course. The varfous free trade elements have accordingly made common cause with the tariff-for-revenue school, to pre- sent a solid front to the protection advo- cates. Though this is the leading fssue in the Impending election, it will not cut much of a figure. In time, no doubt, the federation will call Into existence strong national parties with well-defined pro- grammes and policies. There is room for such under® the constitution recently adopted and the scopo of activity ed to the Federal Government. But first election wili be somewhat chaotic.— Chicago Times-He ald —— ‘The Philippine islands are already cov- ered with a fairly complete telegraphic system. Under Spanish rule this probabdly ‘would not have n 100 years.