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18 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1901 no ¥ | | i DIVA, BUT PEF SRS = FABBRI CHARMS WOKLD BY BLANCHE PARTINQTON. IS DESTITUTE : J sical event of the by- s been, of course, the volume of the | th & betzer method | a very serviceable | ,teen years of age. For four yvears she san |in g In the smaller towns of Austria and nany, faithfully -studying in the in- als between rehearsals and appear- nee: She then married;the impresarto, Mulder, and made ier first appearance in thusiasm Chile to Boston, in the Argentine Republic, in New York, Chi ago, in the West Indles, where towns illuminated in her honor, vessels tened by her rame, and where she s feted, flattered, courted and caressed as the usual idol of tire populace is adored for her little day. Then came a triumph- ant return to Europe, crowned by her in. stallation as prima donna of the Royal Opera-house in her native city of Vienna 1862. Since that time she has been ACOB MUELLER, A PIONEER MUS: S NOW ILL AN ICIAN OF SAN FRANCISCO AS THE D HELPL: AND WILL BE TEN- | 3 and ac-| ny, is still shows both chnique H , but his = ¥yt 1 but his whol ression of insuffi reverent viewpgint ber of not Snmamu would do well to "hey never would be m teful to speak first . e of a perform- remains to pral The concergied ng short marvelous in =o Her repose is deceptive, E t physical of force If felt she fire. Her h G min. perform- in which fliculties were sur- utmost apparent ease, artist who in wvery will find herself with the real 2. One can under- e end of a long and tist was not g that we deserve the » numbers which ap- r programmes as an apparent to our supposed Western Dear child, we take our “Ring” neisco, and ask for more! more”—that is indeed a char- | r of San Francisco, and some an’ the humor takes me, I will dis- | n the encore nuisance as it ur towr th the spirit of Jackson, encored to . t the Tivoli the Ttalian | will do honor to the at compatriot, Verdi, . This aftern residents of memory of t & in a grand memorial rvice. All of the prominent Ital m jans will lend their essistance, and the musical pro- me will consist entirely of Verdl's The following most interesting programme has been prepared: | -Verat | o Minetti, conductor. | ._Hon. James D. Phelan | pera “’I Lombardt"* verdi monic Club; Professor \2za. Instructor; Professor corduetor. | -Chevaller J. Calegarts | ...Verdi soprano, tenor ... Verdt A. Lucchest, ....Verdl | Sigror | : Signor- a Polletini and 3. Sandi; Pro- ductor. 11 Trovatore™ her pitiful ch; apter In the pa- of those once so prominent | dc cob and Inez Fabbri MueHer, | 1 this week In the hospitg, | T is now 1 on from th of £ his léft leg, which took | st. The histc an old moralit ¥ of life for its wearily fa- | Mrs. Muelier, the Tnez Fab- | ory, was the daughter of a| rich Viennese manufacturer, through the | loss of whose fortune she was thrown on | ving in a very | her own resources at the early age of | sixteen. The youps girl, with only some slight experience of church singing, made her debut as Luerezia Bergla in a small ungarian town, Karkan, when only six- | Honolulu 1= to have a small taste of the | favorite diva’s quality. | Trinity Church at the clo: prima donna at Covent Garden, at the | Imperial Opera-heuse In Berlin, and in | 1572 ended a second triumphant tour of | America in San Francisco, where she ha:, since remained as singer gnd teacher. Her leading role e Valentine in *Les Huguenots,” Elisabeth in “Tannhauser,” Leonora in “Il Trovatore,” Elvira in “Ernani,” Anna in “Don Juan,' Berth in *“Le Prophete,” Alice in “Robert Diable” Agathe in “Der Freischutz," Selika in “L’'Africaine,” Lucrezia Borgia and Recha in “La Julre”—in all of which varied roles, Iyric and dramatic, she seems to have won an equal renown. Jacob Mueller, to whom Mme. Fabbri was married after the death of Herr lder, was a barytone of considerable | listinction, with a rich, cuitivated voice, nd much dramatic abllity. He came vith the artist to San Francisco in 1872, i with her has been working In the cult fleld of ploneer musical endeavor ever since. Many distinguished singers, both European and American, owe their success to the efforts of the Muellers, Mme. Mueller being especlally gifted as a teacher, and many, many artists of all kinds hold Mme. Fabbri in gratefulest memory for unwearying sympathy and services at the disposal of an unfortunate confrere at any and all times. For the last few years she herself has stood in need of help and ' sympathy, making always a worthy fight for her own helping; but now, in face of this crowning misfortune of her husband's mortal sickness, the old artist can no longer stand alone. Many musicians fa- miliar with the story of her life have helped her to the best of their ability, but more 1s needed, and they have now com- bined to give a benefit performance, which, it is hoped, will be of effective financial service. There is yet no pro- gramme, but the performance is dated for March 3, and will take place at Na- tive Sons’ Hall—lest we forget. i Mrs. A. T. King, a representative of the Musical Courier, is In town and will re- main here for some weeks on special busi- ness connected with the journal. LNy Mile. Trebelli-Dolores left San Fran- cisco yesterday on her way to Australia. She will give two concerts there. Her tour will be a very extended one, in unfamiliar ways,and she will not again be heard in California for some years. s 0 Song-lovers will be glad to hear of the return engagement of the Henschels, who will glve four extra vecitals in San Fran- clsco during the coming week at popular prices, The first recitel takes place to- night at Metropolitan Temple, and the other "’"f%“ tde snine_l lace on the aft- erucons of Tuesday, 25, sday, Satarday, March 3’ - | pursday, 2, ang . . . numbers will be pla; Btowart: thia' aptommbin o3 se of the vesper by Dr. H..J. service: Prelude and fugue In C minor (Capocet) | Berceuse (Goltermann); andantino (Guritt): Menuet in G (Mozskowski), % —_— Cholce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* —— Cal. glace fruit %0c per Ib at Townsend's,* —_—— Best eveglasses and specs, 15c. 40c: look out for 81 4th st., frout barber & grocery.s —_———— Specizl information supplied daily to business houses and blic men Press Clipping Burcau (Alen’s). sxob&o‘xfl? gomery st. Telephone Main 1042 . ——— sy, do you bunk down f strcet these cold niznter 0 Clark “Naw! For five per wey £ots a 004 place 1o sieep every night 7000 “Do_you mean to say you pay §5 week for a place to sicep?” Y & per “Naw: they pays.ma that. watchman.”—Chicago Tribune. I'm night Central— Alhambra—Minstrels. Grana Open-h:nne—"sA Hbur::;u'. Honor.» Grand Opera-house—gem| Opbew pany, March 18th, Som- Orpheurm—Vaudeville. Olyrpia, Mason and Eddy streets— Speclaities. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vau afternoon and evening. TS vy Fischer's—Vaudeville. Metropolitan Temple—Henschels, Recital, Mechanics’ Pavilion—Ni s Animal Bhow, Enturday, Masch 347 ® Trainea Californta Jockey Club (Oakland)—Races fo. morrow. Teaforan Park—Races to-morrow. Unlon Coursing Park—Coursing, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. SUNDAY ..... ‘Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager FEBRUARY 24, 1901 A Publication Office ........ e i ADVERTISE THE STATE. TRAVELER in the Eastern States is struck by the persistent advertising of the resources and advantages of the old-settled States, as well as of the newer communities between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. It strikes one as odd that every railway station and hotel reading-room should be flled with literature setting forth the advantages of New York in agriculture and horticulture, as well as in manufacturing, the fisheries and other industries: But not only that, but all of the Middle States follow that policy. The Southern States are copious and costiy advertisers. Their clem- ent climate is especially in evidence, and the great Southern Railway and the Plant system furnish the most charming pictorial matter, and employ writers of the best literary style, to boom the scen- ery, resources and advantages of the Sunny South. This competition for the migrating population is very keen, and the States which are in it find that it pays. The prairie States teem with populatipn, but they are crying for more. One would think that Towa, with a population of two and a half millions on an area of 55,000 square miles, would omit efforts to attract-more people; but that State is as active as it was forty years ago in soliciting new settlers. The same is true of all its neighbors in the upper Mississippi Valley. - Those States get immigrant excursions, and the land arant roads have low fares for intend- ing settlers, to sell their lands, and all of these combined efforts of the people and the railroads keep adding to the population. It is interesting to observe that there is a sort of displacement of population by this process. The roads which carry land buyers and settlers into those States carry land sellers and emigrants out. These have found the climate too rigorous, or they were temporary settlers, intending only to homestead land, improve and sell it to raise a stake with which to suit themselves better. That. class are looking to California, and California should begin to primp and display her gifts and graces to attract and satisfy them. Our overland roads have put on an im- migrant rate that equalizes us with the South and Middle West, as far as the cost of trave! enters into the problem of getting settlers. The railroads have touched the button and we must do the rest. The first note of warning and call to duty comes from the State Board of Trade. That organization is being overwhelmed with requests for literature advertising California. The demand comes from Eastern people who are accustomed to that method of getting the attention of migratory families. California must re- spond. The Board of Trade has literature from only a few counties and its own excelient reports to send out. The counties should wake up, Ina few months the State is going to be on view at the Buffalo- Exposition in the most attractive and practical form of display. There will be vast crowds of people there who will want to know in what kind of land figs, grapes, oranges, pom- egranates, peaches, prunes, wheat, corn, cats ang barley all grow together and at what price it may be had. Probably the greatest opportunity is now open to the counties in the Sierra foothills. They have plenty of good and cheap land, picturesque scenery, fine climate, and great productive capacity. What may be made of all these advantages may be estimated by looking at Placer County on both sides of the railroad from Rocklin to Colfax, or at El Dorado from Folsom to Placerville, or at the region around Porterville, and at that bit of the Orient dropped down like a fairy carpet around Oroville. If every mile of the rich but rough looking land in the foothills were equally improved the State would be immensely advanced in its material resources and popula- tion. The foothil! counties should not drowse and forget their opportunity. They should be moved by the enterprise that thrills the valleys and do their part toward welcoming the home- secker and making him contented and prosperous. SOME NUMISMATICS. TELEGRAM from Port Chester, N. Y., has, through the Chronicle, informed the western world of the discovery of a numismatic treasure. The finder describes it as a copper coin, with Caesar on one side and Cleopatra on the other, with the words “Auctoris Connec” keeping Caesar company, while the daughter of the Ptolemys sits near the legend “Inde et Lib,” and the date 787. Mr. Chard is the finder, and he says with confidence that it is the oldest coin in America, having reached the venerable age of 1113 years. This information is instructive, if not at the same time amusing. The people who have been at such expense to send this coin by telegraph and put it in print should have reflected that Caesar and the Sorceress of the Nile would not be put upon any coin of date A. D. %87. There was no Roman empire to speak of at that time. In the year 476 one Odoacer ruled at Rome, over what had been called the Empire of the West, but. he went out of the Emperor business and called himself simply “King of Ttaly.” The Empire of the East was in business at Constantinople, where in 787 Constantine the Fifth and his mother, Irene, were running it. The era of the iconoclasts, the image-breakers, had just closed, and Irene had won her final canonization as a saint by permitting images of the holy family and of other sacred persons to be put again in the Christian churches. So no one in that part of the worloi\\'here Caesar and Cleopatra had gloried and drank deep was making coins in their honor or to perpetuate their pagan memories. We get the word numismatic from an old Greek root that means to distribute; “nomad” comes from the same root, and it came‘to be applied to coin in the sense of its currency. Mr. Chard’s find is not an important contribution to numismatic science. It is corroded, old Connecticut copper cent, issued in 1787. simply a On the 20th of October, 1785, Connecticut issued a grant to Samuel Bishop, Joseph Hoi:- : kins, James Hillhouse and John Goodrich, authorizing them to coin coppers to an amount not ex- ceeding ten thousand pounds. This grant was for five years, but the mint operated only. three years. The copper coins it made have on the obverse a laureated bust adorned with‘(lrapery and the legend “Auctori Connec.” On the reverse is a female figure, seated, holding in the right hand an olive branch and in the left a staff, legend “Inde et Lib.” The date o€cupies the exergue. So this is only one of Bishop & Co.’s old red cents; a coin that is far from rare. We are glad to furnish this information to quiet the feeling of envy that would swell the hearts of numisn ists like Mr. Chard and'the newspaper men who have published his great discovery. MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE ELECTION. LL San Francisco has an interest in the election of trustees of the Mechanics’ Institute on Tuesday. Thisis the only city of metropolitan pretensions in America that has not adequate to the needs of its people, is the only organization to which we will be speedily provided. Until a new spirit has been infused in the municipal administration it is not likely the Public Library will be provided with a suitable building and amply-supported; nor can we look to the Mercantile Library with much of hope, for that institution for several .vears past has bad a hard struggle even to keep alive. Tn the Mechanics’ Institute then, for the present at least, is centered the hopes of the people for a good library, and it depends-upon the members of that association whether those hopes will be realized or disappointed. 4 Holding its present position of advantage among the libraries of the city, the Mechagics’ Institute has only to go boldly forward to obtain the liberal sipport of ‘the whole .people. Tt is human nature to follow that which progresses and to turn with indifference from that which hesi- tates. If the members of the institute will elect a board of trustees who will provide their’ library and adorn the city with a stately and commodious building, if they will renew the efforts to con- ismat- Prsd 1 alibrary and under existing conditions the Mechanics’ Institute can look with a reasonable expectation that such a library Market and Third, S. F. solidate with the Mercantile and other libraries of the city on lines similar to those followed in the’ consolidation of the great libraries in New York;"if in short they build up a library that puts San Francisco on something like equality in that respect with other large cities of the United States, there will be not only a considerable increase of members, but a liberal support from men of wealth. Tt would then soon be possible for the institution to obtain ‘the Bancroft Library; the Sutro Library and other large collections of books on this coast. Once started, its own momentum would carry it forward. It would grow like a snowball in motion. Let us hope the association will be equal to the opportunity, and that on Tuesday none but live men will be elected to the board. Despite the war in South Africa the British have been pushing forward the great works un- dertaken in that continent, and it is said that in a time comparatively short there will be completed the immense dam on the Upper Nile which is to conserve water for the protection of the country from famine, and the telegraph line from the Cape to Cairo. Thus it appears that while civilization may be barbarous in its methods of aggression, the results are good. | Is the pale sovereign in BY L. DU P! BERNHARDT ONCE MORE | AND FOR THE LAST TIME | A ONT STLE. R. GRAU must have lost money steadily during the first week of the Bernhardt-Coquelin engage- ment, For this he has to thank nothing but his own bad juds- ment: first, in setting the scale of prices an entire week a play which is dramatie- ally hopeless in theme and hopelessly miscast in its leading character. This statement is, of course, in flat contradic- tion to the popular judgment In Paris, nut in Paris Chauvinism is still rampant and it is Chauvinism which made “L’Aiglon™ a success there. o . By far the he;t thing—the only really dramatic thing—in “L’Aiglon” is the mi ror scene between Metternich and the so high; second, in Imposing upon us for | enjoyed for their poetic beaut “L'Alglon,” as an acting pia to ex’st. Not being of the number that desira anything better than the best, T must ¢ . e fess to an unquallfied admiration r Madame Bernhardt’ | formanee of Phedre and to an infinite gret that the. exigencies of the b should have compelled for it on Saturd: | able “La Tos dou—ch, my countrymen, what a fall there! That's one of the disadvantages, | you see, of breaking away from the Maison de Moliere; you get more freedom, to be sure, but every now and 1t to ! what base uses must you ce MME. | g 5 - o EDMOND ROSTAND, THE DRAMATIC AUTHOR, WHO WROTE THE i PLAY OF “L’AIGLON” (THE EAGLET) ESPECIALLY FOR | SARAH BERNHARDT, THE FAMOUS FRENCH ACTRESS. 1 + Duke, which closes the third aet. from Mr. Parker’s translation: METTE You cannot gaze into this all your race will gibber Look—in the gloom—that shad And yonder thing that moves THE DUKE T quote | 2 at your back! mad Joanna, No! 'Tis the radiant pallor of my father! | METTERNICH Yonder, recotling, Rudolph and his lions! THE DUKE The clash of steeds and weapons! Consul! METTERNICH Lo! in a noisome crypt one fashions gold. | 'Tis the ; THE DUKE ! | He fashions glory on the sands of Egypt. METTERNICH Aha! Here's Charles the Fifth, cropped close, Dying for having sought self-buriall with bair Whether Madame Ber worse effect upon M. S dou kas upon M be difficult to dee ter is tru r with all her e and extravagances Madam has a soul capable of great ness her Phedre—while the cleverest stage carper wHo will build provided you Archer (In the New Budget. June & onece aptly described him an e academi 1—most active purveyor tims to Madame Bern : added: ment of the amours which Sardou has ms compilee. It will be notie dora,” the first of the shed does not actuall The Escurial! Grisly phantoms And frowning walls! THE DUKE Ah, hither! smiling visions: legne and Malmaison! oo ‘n- METTERNICH You see them? see them! THE DUKE Roll, drums of Arcola, and drown his voice! METTERNICH ‘s teeming! The mirror's ‘":g e (Twieting his wrists loose, but still holding | the chandelier) | 1 will shatter it! METTERNICH Others, and others yet arrive! THE DUKB (Hurling the cbandelier into the mirror) 'Tis shattered! Not one remains! Not one! METTERNICH “(Pointing- at the Duke with a terrible ges- ture) Yes! Ome! | THE DUKE It is not It Not I! My father! e . Had M. Rostand often written thus, it Had beén vain to blame him, as Johnson said.of Gray, and useless to praise him. > dew Help! Other admirable passages are the de- scription. by Flambeau (act 1D of the | hardships of Napoleon's. soldiers and of his first meeting with.the King of Rome in the gardens of Saint Cloud. The Duke's speech to Prokesch (act 1V, omitted in the renrt:e{lauon) beginning: % Why, If you think of it, dear friend, Napoleon's son, Dom Juan, is strict logie— Is a subtle plece of psychology and con- tains one couplet— And, after all, who knows whether 'tls greater To conquer worlds or be a moment loved— Worthy to rank with the famous No, my dear love, I love you nat, In the fifth act of “Cyrano de Bergerac.” These and other portions of the play {hat might be mentioned will be studied and —_— ADVERTISEMENTS. e e e e 66 77 29 Grip—"77" knocks out tke Grip, while its tonicity sustains ‘the flagging energles. Colds—*77"" breaks up a Cold that hangs on and does not yield to treatment. Influenza—"77" cuts short a Cold in the head and thus prevents Catarrh. Coughs— 77" stops a Cough by aliaying the inflammation and the tickling. 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These [ shall not reprint, but shall content my- self with quoting what he says about her Phedre, the only really fine and worthy role Madame Bernhardt has played dur- ing her engagement here: ‘‘Sarah, again, has a more evenly beautiful voice than Duse. It was never strong emough to carry her to the heights of tragic passion (?). There were always passages in her Phedre, for example, in which she simply ranted.” But within its peculiar range it amply merited and still merits the con- ventional epithet of ‘golden.” Then she had and has an incomparable art of poetic dietion. Tn the aforesaid Phedre, Wwhere she dees not overstrain herself, sha speaks Raeine’s alexandrines with a caressing languorous melody that Is quita Indescribable and within my experience unique. How Duse treats verse we havs no opportunity of judging; but certain it is that she has not anything like Sarah's sustained mellifluousness of delivery, There are sharp and almost harsh notes in her voice, though she can, on occasion, modulate it to the most penetra derness.” B. KATSCHINSKI, PHILADELPHIA SHOE CO. 10 THIRD ST., San Francisco. FOR HOE LADIES! PECIAL Matimesea cloth top foxings with famey perforations, Straight patent leather tips, heels, sewed soles and new o Sizes 23 to 7, widths AA to E. THESE SNOES ARE A DECIDED BARGAIN. earry a full line of LADIES GOLF and TRAMPING SHOES, AND THE PRICES THE LOWEST NOTICE—This store closes at § p. weekdays and 11 p. m. Saturdays, @ will continue to close at these PRO’ ALL OTHER STORES WILL DO THE SAM Free Delivery to Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda. PHILADELPHIA SHOE GO. 10 THIRD ST., San- Francisco. Lo et e e A Iaice. i1 French m a