The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1901, Page 18

18 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1901 . — By Blanche ' FOR MUSIC DEVOTEES ~ THE BILL IS VARED Partington. o4 #ood town, artist— be a lit- it | ares you slack market. e famous t Ltl d how fine things of pleasure han I can | ble one™” we are willingly | substance upon them; dull, per- steadily with itcher and baker, s notion | and that d alone, but | y which God has | d eves to see, | s to love, the ndatio t for the 5 terialistic What one can for the good of ersonally to decide | nay best b | pport Henschel concerts, 11 in one week. Mcient three | I in the orld. | we must e'en do ihe best we sbering always that these e have their gift some of emories of a lifetime, an us with all tae ¢ must e | w the world to do their service jus- | if ou power, as it must, falls short | i performance. the Henschel recitals t among musical at- nd fastidiously per- er is the art of these clever g anew admiration of the ained with originally aterial. Mrs. Hen- ade voice,” possessing even | v a thin sweetness of tone, but the | refinement of her method, the her faultless arness of enuncia< artistic inter- to a highly pleas- ithe art that appeals; ice itself has no heart-touching ty, no warmth or resonance, no va- the more remarkabls there- the last week v f nees fore the estioned beauty of the 4 par excellence is Georg Henschel: his accompaniments only, in their exquisite sympathy, as far removed from the colorless servility of one school of accompaniment as from the imperti- e of another, a sufficient at the hands of one man. Every ympaniment is played from memory, for his own and Mrs. Henschel's ary achievement artists’ reper- modulates in fa- n from one song s at need with ut- all ways shows himself In his most c, after the admitted work, is his power | be called the *“local ng, the unique spirit is an extraordinary descriptive faculty, f you in its less | becomes, | s of his voice are for- so clearly painted. s ate people to | r and student of sing- ns alike, their de- | ng the best song | ay and of the ancients. | of the recitals which | ) their enjoyment is the | ns the words of done into English in French or Italian songs. Is are set for | sday afternoon Not least among h . schel re services to music, fact ding no fewer r vocal honors from pi stu undertaking dy of singing. At east, in a short gossip with him the other . that was the fact upon which he emed to mogt stress as his chief claim | use- | | | not yet 18, also plavs well on the piano, | . | | | | KN | LEOPOLD GODOWSKY, THE NOTED POLISH PIANIST AND COMPOSER. - One among those who have been fortunate enough to receive en- couragement at Mr. Henschel's hands Is | a charming_ and only daughter of his, | Miss Helen Henschel, who the other day made a most successful informal debut a vocalist in Boston. Miss Henschel, to consideration. is a worthy pupil of Kneisel on ‘the violin, | speaks two or three languages and is pret- ty as a Dpicture to boot. Emile Barrangon, the young Californian | tenor who has been well heard in many | places about the city of late, and for whom all kinds of good things are proph- | esled, will leave San Francisco shortly to | fulfill a sixteen weeks' engagement in Philadelphie. with the Girard Opera Com- pany. He goes to take leading parts in | “Cavalleria Rusticana,” “The Beggar Student,” “Pagliaccl,” “The Fencing Master,” “Chimes of Normandy" and other standard operas, and besides his traveling expenses will get $300 a month, which might be much worse for a com- parative novice. It is interesting to know that Mr. Barrangon's engagement came | about through his being heard at the | Oberon during the last two weeks by | Maxim de Grosz, the musical manager of | Miss Kathryn . Kidder. De Grosz tele- ed his discovery to the Girard peo- ho immediately engaged the young | > ie And now Godowsky: From the ruck of criticism from all quarters of this plaver's work, from Berlin to Los Angeles, where | he has played during the last week, three features stand out pre-eminently—the profound impression as a technician that Godowsky has made, an equally strong impression as a poet of his instrument | and the apparently perfect equilibrium | maintained between the two. He has been | praised by the critics of Berlin, that city | of critics. Godowsky's first programme three recitals to be given on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday afterncons at | Sherman-Clay Hall is as follows: | of the | Twelve Symphonic Studies .Schumann | Sarabande, op. 12, 1; Courante, op. 12, | No. 3; Mc.o Perpetto, op. 13......Godowsky | Eclogue; At the Spring; Concert Study, F | m SN Liszt | Scherzo, op. 4 (E flat minor) .Brahms | Sonata, op. 53 (B minor) Chopin | Paraphrases on Chopia (a) Op. 19, No. 1 No. 2 (A minor); (c) Op. 10, No. { major); (d) Op. No. § (in sixths); | © Op. 3 M. 7 (C minor transeribed | in G flat); (f)Op. 16, No. 5, and Op. 25, | No. 9, combined in one: (g) Contrapun- tal Para; s on Weber's “‘Invitation to the Dance’ -.Godowsky Another American who returns from tri- umphs in Europe is Sousa, who to-night | begins an engagement at the Alhambra | Theater. The following programme will be given: | Overture, “'Kaiser' . ....Westmeyer Trombone solo, ““The Patriot” (aew).....Pryor | Arthur P | “Capriccio Ttallen” (new) Tschaikowsky | Soprano solo, **Maid of the Meadow” (new). e - ool Boush Miss Blanche Duffield, | Grand scene and ensemble, *“Andrea Che. nier” (new) . --Glordano | Ball scenes -Czibulka | (a) Serenade, Gew). Meyer- Helmund (b) ““Hail to the Spirit of Libert. (new).. ) (Composed for the dedication of the Lafayette monument, Parix, July 4, 1900.) Violin eolo, ““Adagio and Moto Perpetuum’. | bagik o’ ¥ o “Ries | a Bucklin. | man’” Miss B Czardas, “Ritter P: T R Stk | -Johann Strauss | b gty Next week comes Leonora Jackson, the | famous young viclinist, of whom we have more than common right to be proud, as | she is a Californian. Truly, indeed, are | the gods gracious to us just now! | PERSONAL MENTION. Governor Gage is at the Palace. Charles M. Shortridge of San Jose is at | the Lick. | C. R. Sadd and wife of Sacramento are the Grand. 3. Wallace of Stockton is registered . proprietor of Bartlett is at the Grand. | rge Gow, a mining men of Stent, | t the California. company promoter of Port- W. J. Moulte, a merchant D., are at the Palace. Ralph Falk, a merchant of Boise, Idaho, end €. H. Comstock, a planter of Hono- lulu nia. registered yesterday at the Califor- acting general manager, | v, acting general superin- nt of the Santa Fe road west of Al- erque, are in thF city. > Theodore Summerland, a well-known insurance man of Southern California, is a guest at the Lick. Mr. Summerland is attending & meeting of the underwriters | of the Pacific Coast. A farewell party was tendered W. E. McLaughlin last Wednesday night at 1413 Folsom street on the eve of his departure for McAngel, Or., where he has been en- gaged as instructor in penmanship, short- hand and typewriting. —————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—These Califor- nians are in New York: From San Fran- cisco—H. H. Allen, at Imperial; D. Bloom, at Hoffman; G. F. Detrich, at New Am- erdam; J. Herman, at Holland; J. acs, at Sinclair; F. Mayo and wife, at Vendome; E. C. Mueller, at Marlborough; 1 Steinberger, at Imperial: J. 8. Dodge, &t Belvidere; C. N. Felton Jr., J. M. Hoyt, t Holland; I lsaacs, at Morton; P. P. Greenberg, at Cadillac; E. W. Linforth, at Imperial: T. N. Nicklin, at Park Ave- nue; H. Phillips, at Holland; 8. Bern- stein, ai Herald Square; 8. Mann, at Gil- sey. 'rom San Diego—W. Belcher, at Marl- borough. | sugar and then the ANSWERS TO QUERIES, FENIAN RAIDS—A Subscriber, City. Colonel O’'Nell led a Fenian raid into Can- ada May 31, 1866; Spear and others crossed the boundary line near Vermont June 7, the same year, and on October. 22, 1572, there was a Fenian raid into Manitoba. which was suppressed by United States troops. ANTS—M, H. R., San Jose. It {s stated | that a house infested with ants, black or | red, may be cleared of them by using a sponge sprinkled with«dry white sugar; | the sponge being slightly. moist it wii adhere. The ants will go into the cells of the sponge in large numbers to get the pesis can be destroyed by placing the sponge in boiling water. The trap can then be reset until All have been captured. TO OBTAIN A PATENT—J. C., Oak- land, Cal. It is not absolutely necessary to engage the services of a lawyer to obtain a patent for an invention, but ex- perience teaches that it is safer. An in- dividual may on his own account make an npgllcallon and he may make a mis- take, by which some sharper may get in ahead of him, or in other words steal his invention and “knowing the ropes” ob- tain the patent. INVALID—Old Subscriber, Knights Ferry, Cal. A marriage between a white woman and a colored man is void in tie State of Californfa. Such marriages are prohibited by law. If a white woman deceived into marrying a man “who was an emancipated slave.” she has her redress in court. As to her rights she would have to consult an attorney, who upon hearing all the facts, would advise her as to the course to pursue. SHOULD NOT FLIRT—A. O. F., City. This correspondent writes: “If a young lady is keeping company with a gentle- man, would it be improper for her to send a valentine to any other man, friend of the one she is keeping compa v friend of herselt? Woma (het 1313311 cient to cause a row A young lady, uniess she is a flirt and belleves l’f to ge a part of her life's work to trifie with the hearts of men, should be true to the man she is keeping company with and not send valentines to any other man. JIf the man who is keeping company with the young lady thinks anything of her, From Los Angeles—C. C. Gibbons, Herald Square. at such act on her part would be to “cause a row.” Trifling with 3&:}::: is a dangerous THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor, Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. SUNDAY ;.. vesesseeses.. . FEBRUARY 10, 1901 3— PHELAN’S DEALS IN POLITICS. HE police investigation has so far revealed nothing tangible in the way of police corrup- tion, but it has revealed much that is disreputable in political intrigue and of the ways in which political ambition is made to serve the corrupt and improper purposes of men and newspapers. Mayor Phelan is so far the star witness. His admissions throw a strong retroactive light upon his public career, and explain his summary dismissal of Biggy from the Police Commission and many other acts that have excited public wonder. The scene was memorable. The Mayor of the greatest city on the Pacific Coast of the three Americas when asked to explain the motives of the newspaper to which he owes his election answered “they are mialicious.” Then followed the most remarkable revelation that a public officer has ever made to an in- vestigating body. Describing the support given to his ambition by the Examiner he said, “We got along very well together until I was elected Mayor under the charter.” This is entirely credible, because up to that point the Mayor had neither power nor patron- age. His newspaper supporter had directed the charter making so as to give him both. It then advocated the charter from the supposed standpoint of the public interest. The Mayor was sup- posed to advocate it for the same reason. But by his testimony it appears that he had contracted a personal political debt to the Examirer which he could not pay unless a new charter put the means of payment into his hands. So we have the strangely interesting spectacle of a political debtor and creditor combining to change the form of a city’s government, and increase the cost of its administration, in order that the debtor might pay the creditor in public power and patron- age the debt contracted in the gratification of his ambition! We are of the opinion that in all the history of American politics nothing worse than this has appeared. There have heen bargains before, and men ambitious of public distinction have given that well understood promise to pay which goes with such bargains. But never beiore has the scheme involved a costly revolution in the form of government in order that the debtor might seize the public assets needed to satisfy his importunate creditor. The Mayor's admissions are expository of the one-man government provided by the charter, and explain the various “air-tight cinches” made possible under that instrument. The Mayor continued that the Examiner “wanted to run San Francisco”; The arrangement between this political debtor and his creditor was for that purpose. The debt began in 1896, as the Mayor explained, and not only was the interest compounded, but the Jvrincipal was increased in 1898 and 18qq. The Mayor then told in detail the public assets demanded by his creditor in payment of the debt which was the price of his gratified ambition. His creditor wanted control of the Police and Fire departments, and it demanded of him also the defeat of Judge Daingerfield, as notice to Judges not to decide against it. He said: “There is no truth in the story of a compact, but it was understood 1 was to grant favors to the Examiner, and Esola was its candidate for Chiei of Police.” The Mayor then explained that he tried to promote Esola and to carry out the “under- standing” in other ways, but the hostilitv of the other papers made it impossible. As a debtor he refused to pay his creditor out of the assets put into his hands by the new charter which both had advocated under a pretense of public spirit. e left plain that if the other papers had kept silent moral considerations would have restrained him from carrying out the *“under- standing”—a word which he prefers to “compact.” 1f he will go to the dictionary he will find that he has juggled with synonyms in vain, for he will find “compact” defined as “an agreement,” and “an agreement” as “an understanding,” and “understanding” as “mutually understood and agreed upon.” So when he admits that there was an “understanding” with his political creditor, he admits an “agreement,” and when he admits an “agreement” he admits a “compact.” No matter at which end of the labyrinth of terms his reputation enters, it emerges marked with a compact, which causéd a revolution in the system of government in San Francisco and impinged thereon conse- quences of great gravity not vet visible. These admissions explain why this debtor and creditor implored the people to put the char- ter “in the hands of its friends.” Unless the debtor were elected Mayor the whole plan would fail. And when he was elected it failed because his nerve failed and he dared not face the other papers! It is an interesting revelation, and eclipses entirely the original purpose of the in- vestigation. A and why not? « it no OUR CURRENT TOPICS CLUB. PON another page we publish this morning a statement of the arrangements made for a course of reading under the general title of “The Current Topics Club.” All readers are invited to give it careful attention. These papers are to take the place of the “Home Cir- cle Studies” that in the past have been so much appreciated by a wide circle of students. The new series will appeal to an even larger constituency. In fact there is no class of intelligent men and women who will not find the series interesting as well as instructive. It is to be noted the new series will be of current interest. The papers while referring to mat- ters of permanent importance will treat of them in such a way as to make the information perti- nent to events now occurring. Consequently the discussions carried on throughout the series will serve to illustrate the news of the time and will contribute to a clear understanding of the world's progress along the lines with which the papers deal. The plan of the club includes a wide variety of subjects. On Mondays the articles will treat of “The Opportunity and the Man”: on Tuesdays the subject will be “Colonial Governments of To-Day”; on Wednesdays there are to be articles on “The Women’s Club Movement—What It is Doing’’; Thursday’s series will give instruction on “The Art of Living a Hundred Years”; the Friday papers will give an account of “American Life a Century Ago,” and on Saturdays there will be articles on “What the Government Does for the Peopffe.” Each series of the course is under the direction of an established authority on that line of work, and cach paper will be from a writer of eminence. All of the articles will be furnished by practical men, and what they write will be the result of a large experience in a successful career. The prospectus published on another page should be read in full. Do not overlook it. MORE MONTHS OF DELAY. EPORTS from Washington announce that the British Government will not reject the Nic- araguan canal treaty as amended by the Senate. Neither will it accept the treaty. The British will merely offer counter proposals and ask for further negotiations. It goes with- out saying the request will have to be granted and the negotiations undertaken. The Senate will soon adjourn. Nearly a year will pass before it will be ready to resume consideration of the sub- ject; and so the hope of seeing the great enterprise begun this year is balked and baffled. That such would be the outcome of the rejection of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty by the Sen- ate was foreseen at the time it was under consideration. The advocates of speedy work on the canal pointed out again and again that to defeat the treaty was virtually to postpone the under- taking. Senator Morgan, an opponent of the administration who had no partiality for the treaty, nevertheless urged its adoption as the sole means of providing for early work on the canal. The Call and other influential journals repeatedly dirécted attention to the same point. But all was in vain. The treaty was defeated and the work postponed. The victory is for the present that of the railroads and the other forces that oppose the canal. They had the aid of the yellow journals of the country in the fight, and doubtless some of those .journals will display the result as a triumph of their own. It is to be borne in mind that none of these forces dares any longer to openly oppose the enterprise. They are now fighting it by indirection. They kave brought about a delay that gives them a big advantage. Diplomatic negotiations are likely to last a long time, particularly since the Senate has shown an intention to thwart the plans of the administration. Such is the situation now, and instead of seeing work begun this year we are to have nothing but more talk. The Chinese Minister at Washington declined the otiier day to attend a dinner given in honor of General Otis. While this may mean that the Chinese Minister is particular with whom he dines, it shows that General Otis is not. LA The local enthusiast who killed himself the other day because of a family quarrel over five cents certainly was best qualified to place a correct value upon his own worth. — By L. Du ¥ | ' CHANCES AND CHANGES OF THEATRICAL LIFE Pont Syle. < o L3 ! PR Rl s bt JAMES M. BARRIE, WHO FUR- NISHES THE PRESENT TEXT, | “HELPLESSNESS." ¥ R. BARRIE, an authority if | ever there was one on the psy- chology of woman, tells us that when Grizel tried to discover what possible charm Elspéth have for David, she decided after analysis that this charm consi argely in helplessness. If this be true, the woman of the fu- ture in proportion as she grows less help- {less will grow less charming. Is this a ir-mhsummm!nn devoutly to be wished for? | And whether to be wished for or not, who is it that has made the woman of to- | day less helpless than the woman of ves- 1 , and who is it that threatems to | make entirely independent, though per- | not utterly charming, the woman of | to-morrow? It is Man (with a large M, if |you" please, Mr. Printer)—Tyrant Man | | could lon, s who is giving unto woman education and is so making her like unto himself and unto the gods who know both good and i evil. | The woman of yesterday, when her ed- | ucation 1 been “finished” at some pol- ishing school or some “female academy.” as they actually d to call it—the wo- man of yesterday was content to sit at { home or to indulge in that dull di tion known as society, until it ple some yvouthful Ahasuerus to extend 0 her the scepter of his kingly favor. Hav- ing captured him, as Schopenhauer would | say, she todk possession of her (tempor- ary) thrall, deputed her thinking to him, and as a thinking being herself ceased |to exist. Her *dally occupations,” as | Lady Teazle puts it, | make extracts from the family recipe book and comb my Aunt Deborah’'s lap dog.” She had a dozen children and died in a green old age, never having used any but the central lobe of her brain and quite unconscious of the fact that she possessed also a prefrontal, a postfrontal, a parietal, a temporzl and an occipital lobe. a me that the educated young woman of to- day does not propose to pass her life in such manner as the uneducated woman of yesterday passed hers. Education has siven the modern young woman a desire to be independent, to live her life her own to walk in the paths of her own the matrimonial altar. The great major- earn a living fake to teaching as one of the few professions that give them a | chance of earming a return in any way | proportional to the capital they have in- | vested in their education, while some, who | may be gifted with beauty or peculiar | talent or that desire for fame which is the last infirmity of noble minds—some | look to the stage as the only profession in which a woman can earn a wage com- mensurate with what is paid to a man for | similar service. From such I not seldom receive in- | quiries as to the desirability of theatrical | lite, the way to begin and the possibilities of success. A few general remarks may be not useless to them, and to many oth- ers who have longed to climb the ladder of | histrionic fame but have hesitated for fear lest the first round should break un- der them. I am not writing for the ex- tremes—for the rare women of talent like Mary Anderson, or for the numerous ig- norant people now on the boards who ought to be scrubbing kitchen floors in country hotels. I am writing for the edu- | cated girl of fair abilitles who feels a | strong inclination to go on the stage. In the first place, don't go If you can earn $1000 a year in any other respectable calling. For a woman needs a home and friends more than does a man, and one curse of the theatrical profession is that { its members during the long years they are struggling for fame and success are | and must be homeless. Now, if your cul- tivated intelligence is worth $1000 a year ‘to Inspect the dairy, | As a teacher it has been Impressed upon | ng, and not perforce to tread the | primrose path of dalllance that leads unto | ity of such of these women as have to I think, than if will be ten times greater you went upon the stag If you are not wort sum T have name; o the world your drawing to | the stage is too strong to be te think what you must I it ) attain any sue k ta by “success ning” I mear prospect of 000 or 34000 | after five or ars of hard we bined with 1 aration these? take a hand the gr T may i at game | ‘I%Pprn\:u that is constantly be Have you only some or ren stay home. | four thousand a ve sounds like a snug little sum, do | Yes. but when yeu are recelving ary you can hardly spend less tr | quarter of it. and you may have to half of it, on stage dre long do you think you c | tion that pays that much? seded by z | woman. | Well, now, s the qualities gin? Go to New Y | one of the dramat actors will sneer that is becat in and their day Ha ight h grammat correet elo is what many of of your art, in the law profession and fcal school the e Never make th lawye as sc m mistak in San Francisco or in ew York. That is the headq r everything - theatrica there teachers, the authors, the | the people ¥ 4 advance in not I Indeed, as I look rt | talk, as I think of what e exposes you to—dangers by and flood, pe | eve, incessant aries, bad h with uncongenial these things I wo | other sane woman upon the s anything suade you. Bu other hand, that cleverest women actresses, when I charming man I have e | actor, why, then I say | with you, so let it be, | you! at you or any If so it must be and God pros | Grand Overa-house- Alhambra—Sousa’s Alcazar—""Judah. California—"Tess of the D'Urbervilles," morrow nisl lumbla—Benefit of the Charity Fund of tha trical Mecha: Assoclation, this after- mus O'Brien." to- Th | noon [ fa—‘"Macbeth."* Tiv ‘Nell Gwynne." Central— A Daughter of the Millon." Orpheum—Vaudeville. corner Mason and Eddy streets Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every d evening. Hall—Juvenile Exhibition, Sat- . February I8. Hall-Piano Recital, Tuesday afternoon, February 12. Unfon Coursing Park—Coursing to-day. Oakiand Racetrack—Races to-morrow. G. Layng—Monday. February 11, By Wm. Horses and Mules, at 721 Howard street. Cholce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel % ————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_————— Valentines for old and young: the best we have ever shown. Sanborn, Vail & Co, e Best eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ to #c. Look out for 81 4th, front of barber and grocery.* —————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 gomery st. Telephone Main 104d. . —— -0 . There are 16.000 islands between Mada- gascar and Indla. So far as known ag present only 60 of them are Inhabited. —_—— Go to the Inauguration. 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