The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 24, 1901, Page 12

large number of emi- leght no ent with thi us sum ¢ ed by Emp! made near Green. the K i made her ented wit rthusiastic = me back 1 second se w m This extrem ake a f: Department on 3 new French Theater « 2 Kearny b finis ned by Mme. F French drama ried to 1. B. Hull at Mission Dolores July 2 Musical Hall, a handsomely appointed temple of amusement, located on Bush tre Sansome and Montgom- Smith, s conductor. This a long time devoted exclu- and lectures. a Franciseo appreciated all deserving tists and was notoricusly g Loder ert On the fit at lady was er's bene 1 silver service ah’s benefit oc- st app rican, for whic was the mc ar- h t of the year back to th but Edwin, af- embracing the 1 the city. Mur- n ten ays later estined to be- vorite thi mpdest As an instance which eminent actefs arity in those ke t star wing ra Company, the of its present- ation ' September 18 reet, ement up tc and con- De- cemt ousset Family, ex- cellent ballet company been giving remark f pr tations at the Americ short intervals during nd this clever company ntom! he M 2 se October 1, on which date the name of Armory Hall was temp- orarily ‘changed to the Olympic. Old tim- ers should not get this confused with the h was on the north- ind Clay streets, her names Curing . variety theater. t this time Donnelly's Mir s, which organizati had been playing at the changed the title to the San Adelphi Francisco Minstreis. Under an appropri- ilar pione wiil be The t summe resor it was ca s located on the corner of cth and Har- rison streets and was called Russ Gar- dens. The price of admission was $1, and regular fare by carriage from the Plaza s to the gardens was 7 F you would enjoy good heaith you must strictly refrain from kissing the motto of a new league the act of opt under Not on the the founders of the g be prohibited, but now nditions und that osculation as nabitually indulged in, i= a constant menace 1o the public health. . persor writes Maurice Spronch, “want reveat parents from kissing their chiidren and chiidren from kissing their parents, and, If they have all those who were wont to a few = daily among their friends and relatives will in future be de- barred from testifying to their love and this old-fashioned and de- manner. sthed couples -will be permitted to affection in ghtful “Bet kiss each other only once before mar- riage it is feared that, if they kiss more often, one of them may transmit to the other some germs of an infectious disease. How often they will be permit- kiss after marriage the founders of the league do not inform us; neither they say how they propose to find out er married couples, who are really ¢ with each other, strictly obey the ted to ~ Seem to Be Dreaded. anti-kissing law. Will- they employ agents nd thus ascertain whether the th is being endangeréd by mar- ried people kissing each other? “If kissing goes out of fashion, those who cesire to give evidence of conjugal and material affection. will be obliged to themselves with shaking hands after the English fashion, and in such an event it may be asked whether it would not be well to pass a law ordaining that no one shall indulge in this form of greet- ing whose hands have not been first thor- oughly purified by means of a solution of phenie aeid or of bichloride of mercury. In any case it looks now as though a bot- tle of disinfectants would be the most ac- ceptable present that any young man could make to his sweetheart,” Of course it is dread of the ublquitous microbe which caused this singular league to start on its novel crusade, and from the indefatigable manner in which its founders are going to work there is rea- | son_to hope that the microbe of kissing, which would doubtless be styled by sei- entists “‘bacillus osculatoriu will be discovered at an early date. If so, young persons may be so inoculated that kissing will do them no harm. Meanwhile .the general opinion of unsclentific persons throughout France is that the league, no matter what it does, will be utterly pow- erless to prevent parents, children and sweethearts from Kissing each other whenever and wherever they please, microbes or no microbes, or sples, public content 320 aplece. THE SUNDAY CALL. Theatricals m JARTILDA HEROW AS MEDEA also + dollar. The place was opened in Qc- tober, 1853, and became a popular resort at once. Carriage fare cut a very important fig- ure with amusement s ers in those days and, from one of the irliest carriage owners of'the city, Coionel Charles Kelly, the writer has teceived much valuable in- formatior. It this genial veteran's proudest boast that he never let a man in or out of a hack for less than $2.50. On Christmas opening night Theater, lo gomery 4 is eve there was a grand at the new Metropolitan ated on (he west side of Mont- street, betwzen Washington and Jackson. The lesse= months was Mrs. C Mrs. Edwin Forres for the fitst six Sinclair, formerly » who had been lessce \ of San Francisco Hall a short time and tcok the company irom the last named house to support James E. Murdoch. During 1854 many eminent artists ap- peared at the new theater, the most noted of whem were Auna Thillon, Laura Keene, Ole Buil, Mme. Anna Bishop, th Bateman {amily, W. Leach, A. 8. Neafie, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Willlams and Robert Bochsa. Opera: came thick and fast in the fir<t half of the year ‘and musical attractions of all kinds were consplcuously prosper- ous during the last -half. Anna Thillon's corps of artists included Julia Gould, S. W. Leach, Messrs. Roncovieri and Hud- G you'fiHa\)e a well known O . says goldfish can easily ot alive for years pro- vided the aquarium is supplied with a sufficient number of aquatic plants, so that the impurities exhiled by the fish are inhaled by the plants, and vice versa. One should counterbalance the other, thus keeping the water fresh and pure. To fllustrate his remarks Mr. Eggeling showed a large aquarium in his room in which there were about 200 fish of differ- ent varieties, besides turtles and frogs. Among these were some valuable Japa- nese goldfish, costing, he sald, from $2 to “Now here,” said Mr. Eggeling., *“are fish that I have had for seven years, and they are easily good for seven more. You see the aquarfum is well filled with GoldFish Here Ts the Way Carg For Them. aquatie plants, and so thick is the growth at the bottom that it Is almost totally dark there. That fs the great point to be observed ‘in aquariums. People come to me-constantly and complain that their fish are dying off-one by one. When I ‘see their aquariums and note the weak plant$ they have in them I can see the reason at once. J o “But there, is another point equally im- portant, and that is, too much. food. Most lovers of goldtish want to make sure that the fish do not starve, and consequently they give them more than enough of food. “Fish suffer from indigestion as well as we do, and a great many of them die from it. If the fish aye fed three times a week it is enough and then only a few pinches of food should be placed on the surface cf the water. If they come up for the food at once and eat it eagerly they are hungry, and a little more food wen't hurt them.” 1 asked Mr. Eggeling if it was neces- sary to refiil the aquarium every day with fresh water. “Not at all,” he said. “Once a month is enough if the aquarfum is well filled with' sand and vlants. To put in fresh water every day would chill the fish and bring on sickness. It is the easiest thing in the world to keep an aquarium, and another thing not Yo be lost sight of Is that it fs healthy to keep one in your rooms. You know there are always im- puritfes in the alr. The water in the aquarium attracts these impurities, and the fish thrive on them as well as the plants. Hence the air in the room is kept purified thereby.” Now They Find That the Arc kamp Is Inclined to Be Musical. our cities will be furnished with mu- sic at every corner. A curious dis~ covery, which results from much electrical research and experiment at the central technical college of the city and guilds of London Institute, is reported by W. Duddell. The are, of course, is the blaze of lizht which exist between twe sticks of carbon placed end én and be- tween which the electric current flows. Two different kinds of carbon are em- ployed in the arc lamps. In the one kind the carbon stick is made hollow and is filled with a powdery material, while in the other kind the carbon is homogeneous. The former type of carbon is called *‘cored,” the latter “solid.” Now, the cored carbon are possesses no musical soul. It s deaf to all persuasion, TIIE time may not be far distant when ‘whereas the solid carbon arc, he finds, is. bke the mouthpiece of a flute, ready to emit anv note. The note ©of the flute de- pends, of course, on the length of the pipe, as determined by the position of the fin- gers and the raising of the keys, whereas the note given out by the solid carbon arc depends on the nature of a bypass or “shunt” that fs put across the carbons. Mr. Duddell, having evolved these facts, arranged a.kevboard of two octaves, S0 that be could play tunes, In demonstrat- ing this before the scientific body referred to be arranged four arcs in series to in- crease the loudness of the sound, and by varying the self-induction and capacity in the “shunt” circuit he-played the national anthem upon the electric light. “Now, this keyboard,” he explained, light, just as the current itself supplied to an arc lamp Is in most cases generated by a machine at a considerable distance. “Hence,” said the sclentist, “‘we have this great possibility—namely, that the or- dinary arc lamps at present used in light- ing a hall can be played on not merely by a performer who is in the hall itself, but who may be outside it somewhere else. Conséquently an audience which is paying ne more attention to the arc lamps hung up above it than it would to a gaso- ller may be suddenly astonished to hea a tune coming from the e around it Mr. Duddell has also shown that the electric light arc can be used as a tele- phone receiver. for the recelving of telephone currents from a transmitter spoken into In another part of the building. * som, with George Loder as director. They Rave a season of English opera up.t) April 5 then with the substitution of Mme. Racine, Messrs. Laglaise, Coulon Bornet, Gamini and Roncovieri, Mm Thillon gave a short French season of five nights, and a secqnd English seas of two wecks: Kate Haves in the mean- time orgAnized an Itallan company, but her season was clesed ‘owing to her ill ness. Madame Anna Bishop, however. tool® the same artists with a few rein- forcements and played six short seasons betore she joined forces with Mme. S\OTER S Barili Thorn ini the beginning of 155. All of the companies mentioned above ap- peared at the Metropolitan, but Mme Callly with the Planet Company gave a ¥rench opera season beginning May 4 at th Unlon. .The prices of affairs, camiszion for all mausical apcratic particularly (he enter- iness up to the arrival of Ole Bu!l and Maurice akosch ar long after pearance July ot »ws that the r lar dramat tr got consi the worst cf the competition. In fact, lack of p scd the closing of the first American Theater, which, aft 1 sorts of speculative ve: fi 1s torn down soon Vinson's ahd I M. McClos- Julv 2, 1554 Work was im- H. ky's benefit mediately cothmenced on the new Ameri- can, which was ovened j e months later by J. A. Neafie. Prices were raised a little too high “nd seducel a short tim= after the o Notable vear were Charles Burke, a I brother of Joseph Jeffer- #on, and . the orlg Sysan and Kate Denin, George Ryer, the Ballet Troupe, Laura Keene ang the Bateman children, who, of all the atfractions mentioned, made the best re- *cord against the operatic boom. Mr. and Mrs. Bartey Willlams arrived in September, when Walter Leman made his first appearance at the Metropolitan. Christy’s Minstrels appeared first at Mu- Hall October 22 and left for the East December leaving Dan Bryant, Eph Horn and S. C. Campbell here. Montplaisir There are some interesting incidents to_ bout the artists who found San Fran \ little wild and woolly. Papa Bateman, incénsed at a criticism #f his ren, which appeared in the Chron- icle, got His little gun and fired several shots at Frank Soule on June 30, and on July 6 the unsuccessful gunner was fined $390 for being such a bad shot. BEdwin Bgoth. Laura Keene, D. C. And- erson, James Milne, Kate Hayes, Kate Denin, C. R. Thorne and family and other notable players sailed for Australia in the summer of 1855 and Signora Barili Thorn, with Miss M. Patti, Signors Scola, Lan- 26ni and Bassani, arrived October 31 ‘They opened in “Ernan{” at the Metro- politan November 14, 184. Mme. Barili Thorn made ariong stay In the city, and it was with this company at the Metropoli- reldte co [ 1555, that Car- v stage tan on the 2d of March lotta Patti ma‘de her de as a planiste. Her allst was made at when she sang Schubert’s that Adelina anc first S8 will be remembered was a sister of of Carlo Parti, about twenty ye s ing this . Thorn ther bled Carlot ning around this was Adelin artiste. then 12 years of made her de a corcert vears befo It is bardly poss that this is true, at this time A a is record as touring the Wes s with Gottschalk, the 2 she been with t Bari n it is very like at &he 1 heard in public her dghat in the Pritish provinces ftrakesch, who, by a pe finished their o coments n F cisco a few weeks bef the Farili Thorn ¢ A comtination f the E. January, 1855, and £ Christy & Backus a parti ¢ pany ovened at S T all on the 2d. A great dramatic event oc: n February he 12 ~ - ard III" was pla by fiv s follows: First Sedley; sec 1 act, A, J. Neafie® third t. T. R A fourth act J w i £ k act, Charles Fheatleigh. The artists, whe the summer of 1% in March and appeared at win Booth makir 2 at the Metronc A e and Aprf! o forbidding S s passed Z1th of Ma amusements on J nd went and Dr American w lap &nd Dow were arrested for viol On t 25th’of July the eases w San Franeisco's first s he aters was a disma were n Daven; > Metropolitan Mar t engs w her 1 and John Smith m Mr. and Mrs. I Gougenheim MeKean Buchanan, Schultz, the gre troupe, Sam Wells Tozer. Ed Deave ry, Marie Duret and J. H. Leroy There is no record of new theaters in 1555, and the Am season until the briel Ravel, B the great Martin 1 a rather miid clever ar Union was it ani a ple's was name was cizuged ba Negro minstrelsy see: call on heavy patron there wars sume fi Francisco Hall. by’ engaging Julia Gould to black-fac and there were two tional | festivals tendered to each oth by this company and the Backm strels, which organization saile tra'ia August 8. There was evidently a brisk competi- tion for business at the Metropolitan and the American in the fall of 'S, for then occurred the first reduction of prices to the scale of 25 ce: the last named theater and also at the Union, Booth, Louise Paullin and, Susfe Rob son appeared in September, and the first mentlon of Lizzie Gordon was made at that time. to a dollar at Tight-rope ascensions were made from Jackson street to the top of the national Hotel nightl cations between Inter- alter- managers and ry players, musicians were published in the daily papers, but business was -only fair all around. Everything brightened ever, about holiday time off with great promise. HE grandest bridges of the Romans Tweu aquediicts, but, after centuries of unrest, the noblest conceptions of architecture were realized in the Gothic churches. There was littie demand for roads and bridges, and still less for aqueducts. Yet the monks did not bulid cathedrals and monasteries only. T¢ them we owe the introduction of flat arches. The Romans had. preferred semicircle arches, which rarely exceeded seventy feet in span. The founder of the Brothers of the Bridge, St. Benezet, adopted for his Rhone bridge of 1178, at Avignon, elliptical arches, which had. their smaller radius of elevation at the crown instead of at the haunches. The famous Ponte Vecchoi at Florence and the original Augustus bridge at Dresden date from the tweifth cen- tury. The aqueduct of Spoleto, which looks as if many high and narrow win- dows had- been cut out of a massive wall, is thirteenth-century Gothic work. So is the Devil's bridge, near Matorell, in the province of Barcelona, with its apparently reckless pointed arch, which Is crowned at its Weakest part by a heavy toll-house. The builders, no doubt, understood that the load did not endanger the structure. The springings of this arch are certalnly of antique origin, Roman or Carthaginian. He has already used it | An inscription of the year 1760, when the bridge was restored, ascribes the founda- tion to Hannibal. The span of the stone aarch over the Adda, near Trezzo, 236 feet, Ecme OfF the Oldest an - Most Famous Bridges. a. bullt under Barnato Viscont! of Milan in 1370 to 1377 (destroyed again in war time in 1416), has not been surpassed yet. the plers were In general made un "3 sarfly heavy, and many a b ige falled because the Ro art laying con- crete foundations between piles had not been rediscovered from Vitruvius' forgot- ten architecture. French engineers first used caissons and suggested iron bridges. ‘The first cast iron bridge, really cb pleted in 1779, however, and still standing, But - is, according to Engineering, the well- known Coaibrookdale bridge over the Severn. The arch consists of five ribs. It found many imitators. The Pont des Arts at Paris, with nine ovenings, and the Southwark bridge of 1514, with a center arch of 214 feet and a rise of 24 feet, are fine examples. Failure of some of these briges, however, brought another ma- terfal to the front—puddled iron—which helped us to suspension bridges. The first s$pecimens—the Tees bridge at Middleton of 1741; Telford’s Menai Straits bridge: fur- ther, the bridge over the Danube at Buda- pest, the handsomest of its type prob- ably, supported by two rows of chains on each side, were link bridges. Wire cables came from the United Statese about 1815. Some of these bridges collapsed, al- most all, e. g:: the Sardine bridge at Fri- bourg, Switzerland, with a span of 205 meters (70 feet) had to be reinforced— Boston Transcript,