The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 12, 1901, Page 18

18 "GRAND MUSICAL FEAST AWAITS Thousands of Fortunate BUFFALO EXPOSITION. VISITORS TO BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON. £ b O the extent of one representa- tive, Dr. H. J. Stewart, organ- ist of Trinity Church, San Francisco and California are musically interested in the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo. Not that we are thereby to consider ourselves snubbed. There are other cities as large as ours and lightly apt to regard themselves as of far more importance that have mnot been invited to distinguish themselves even through one musical denizen. Of such is Cincinnati, that, unlike ourselves, has bands to burn, and great has been the wrath thereat. small concern in the matter and even without the famo the cause of mu in the great expo: The Templ: capacity of 4000 tiful of the expos! having a seating e of the most betu- » bufidings. It con- example of the organ- of the foremost The organ, particulars below, g the exposition will st distinguished h I give cost $15,000, ar 1 Saengerfest will ple of Music, in which part. Four thousaud male voices will compose the huge chorus | uld be something to be Another chorus com- sildren will be heard and the child voice in reciate the profoundly eautiful results that ed. Among the solo- the festival will be Mme. Schu- the glorious contralto, and ms. al arrangements are on an scale. Some twenty been engaged, chief which will Victor Herbert’s organi- s been booked for iwo nd, for four weeks. yment has sent its at its own expense, to give a concerts for the musical honor and altoget! the entertain- er at the Pan- hes have bar 3 among them being Sous y four weeks which b and Broc Mexico ment offered the music American Exposition will be very satis- | factory. S Otto Floersheim, the Berlin critic of the Musical Courier, prints the following let- ter interest to us from Muarcella Sem- brich to the German press concerning her alleged loss of voice: Marcella brich, about whom the cable reported that she had completely lost her voice and was going to retire from the operatic and concert for g E a lon With cordial SEMBRICH."” American music has receved a distin- | ed recognition this month in the c he order of the French A our bandmaster, Johr p Sousa nis is said to be an unprecedented honor for an American the musicians of tion is conferred up- r his splendid work at od to ench appreciation of both as conductor and composer. coration consists of a palm leaf de- uspended from a ribbon g ng at Century Hall was given by the Ida B. Diserens. fortunate in having some in her class. v one of the best a good tech- able grasp and poise, and e. Little Miss Dodd whole of the Pathetique Sonata so the Weber and accompaniments to her violin solos. She has, like all one characteristic fault, that ot iting off the phrase endings; and first allegro of the sonata the little some unwarranted altera- po, but it was altogether editable’ performance. student h a strongly marked musical temperament is Anna Jacobs, who gave the Chopin B minor mazurk4 in an amus- ingly mature fashion, considering her not very extended technical acquirements. Others who took part were Florence Conn, iso quite musical; Elva Woodm: udent; Zellah Smith, la Thorp, Bruce Kennedy, Marion Green- wood, May Schluttér, Ellen Gimini, Grace Gimini and Miss Nonie Dodd, a clever young violin pupil of Hother Wismer. All the students have a good tone and play with nice feeling. . Dr. H. J. Stewart’s recital after service at Trinity Church this afternoon will con- sist entirely of selections from the works of Wagner. The interesting programme will inciude: | —Vox Humana, metal o oz e " { CHOIR ORGAN “Das Rheingold,” fantasia. 16 tt.—Double dulciana, metal Song e Rhine Maldens (“Gotterdam-| 8 ft.—Open diapason, metal merung. 8 tt.—Geigen principal, Parsifal, prelude, act 1 $ ft.—Dulciana, metal Funerai march (“Gotterdammerung.”) 'S 55 % | 41 Max Eliot, in his London letter to the | # ft-—Flute d"Amour, wood . New York Dramatic News, has the fol- | § fi'Orenestral oboe, metal lowing Interesting description of Alice ! 8 ft.—Clarinet (with bells), 61 pipes L] 5 0 ® ANSWERS. TO CORRESPONDENTS. RAILROAD RATES-D. E., Oaklapd, Cal. Jf you will step into the railroad office in your city you will be furnished the rates of transpertation between the points named. WAITERS—J. H. R., City. There is no record of the nativity of the waliters em- ployed in San Francisco. For that rea- is department cannot furnish the rg!‘:)mifion desired. RAILROAD INFORMATION-R. C., Sscramento, Cal. formation you seek relative to managers, superintendents, etc., of the various rafl- roads in Poor's Railroad Manual. SHAKESPEARE—Student, Gold Run, Cal. Any first-class bookseller will pro- cure for you “‘Shakespeare, Poet, Drama- tist_and ” e e to destre for paper and binding. STEVENSON STREE;{—!k?-Mdegt The ), Eureka, Cal. The block on Steven- s:: street, San Francisco, on which the houses are numbered 600, is bounded by Seventh, Mission, Bighth and Market streets. IN GERMANT—Subscriber, Petaluma, Cal. To answer the asked, th correspondent should written . The:hnevmulmmun et RIS But in spite of our | merican male cheral | and 1s one of the most coveted | “Invitation to | Another | Lurline Matson, | You will find the in- | The price will vary, ac- | Nielsen's first appearance in London, when the little Californian singer and her country distinctly scored: | The stage tn London is full of mediocrities, | full of beautiful walking ladies and fashion | figures, full of fine-shaped figures whose brains | are all in fheir legs, but whose histrionic abili- ties are so minute they are not to be seen on | many occasions. - It is the ‘“American inva- | sion”” that will make English men and women | of the stage actors and actresses. It is the ““American invasion” of the English stage that will ril England of hundreds of men and women who have no business whatever to tread its boards and whose presence would never be missed were they to sink into oblivion to- morrow. o ol “Of Alice Nielsen and her company of singers in the ‘Fortune-teller’ I have only pleasant things to say. Her success was immediate and pronounced, but not owing to the generous treatment of the gods in the gallery or the lukewarm pa- trons of the pit half crown seats. In fact, it was uphill work for some time after Miss Nielsen's opening number in the first act of the opera. She had an encore, but it swas the insistence of the stalls and the dress circle that earned it for her. As the opera progressed and Miss Nielsen showed her audience that she could sing | as none of her compatriots have yet sung in all the work they have presented in musical pieces the past few years to Lon- don play-goers, the pit began to wake up and the gallery gods began to thaw; but in the closing scene the latter once more grew restless, and when a repetition of the little prima denna’s closing number was demanded there was the cry of ‘time’ | from the gallery, and there were fears on | the part of the Americans present that | there would be another riot again when the curtain fell, and there were called out | the now seldom unheard ‘boos.’ “But they had not reckoned with clever Miss Alice Nielsen, who on the fall of the | curtain after it had been raised once to disclose her whole company at the end } of the opera was next seen standing alone |in the center of an empty stage, with ‘ some beautiful floral tributes lying at her 1!(‘0! and quite filling the middle of the stage, as the curtain again slowly rose, | with her head bent and her modest man- | ner disarming any tendency there might | have been to ‘boo’ the little singer. She actually fought, bit by bit, so to speak, for the success she achieved, not because | it was not deserved, but because there is still this silly feeling among the cheaper priced London theater-goers against the lled ‘American invasion.’ As for the | invasion, it is the happiest and best thing | that ever happened to the London stage. It has made English managers wake up | to the limited capabilities of hundreds of | their own players, and it has made Eng- lish actors and actresses fear their Ameri- |* an fellow artists as they never would have feared and felt the power of the talents of their own compatriots.” Here are the specifications of the Pan- American organ at Buffalo: ,Four manuals, from C. C. to C., 61 notes. Pedals C. C. C, to F., 30 notes, - SOLO ORGAN. abills, metal -61 pipes 61 pipes . (Augmented.) tra bourdon, wood —Double open diapason, Double open diapason, metal ardon, wood iolin, Wood ~Trombone, W t.—Quint, wood . —Violoncello, metal COUPLINGS, ETC. great unison. great super octave. great sub octave. cholr unison. to great unison, Solo to great unison. Great to pedal. Swell to pedal. lo to pedal. 1 tremolo, Choir tremolo, | COMBINATION MOVEMENTS. Three adjustable combinations to act on the | great organ, all double acting. One zero piston. ree adjustable combinations to act on the swell organ, all double acting. Onme zero piston, Two adjustable combinations to act on the r organ, both double acting. One zero on. ree adjustable combinations to act on the pedal organ, all double acting. One zero piston. Two adjustable combinations to act on the solo organ, both double acting. One zero piston. PEDAL MOVEMENTS. swell pedal, Balanced choir pedal. Balanced crescendo pedal. Full organ pedal. Reversing pedal. (Great to pedal.) . GREAT ORGAN, 16 £t.—Open diapason, metal | 8 ft.—Open dia; Balanced 61 pipes 61 pipes 61 pipes 61 pipes 61 pipes 61 pipes 61 pipes 8 ft.—Doppel flote, wood . 61 pipes 3 ft.—Twelfth, metal 61 pipes | 2 ft.—Fifteenth, metal 61 pipes Mixture four ranks, metal......24 pipes rumpet, metal . 1 —Clarion, metal | SWELL ORGAN 16 t.—Lieblich bourdon, wood.. 61 pipes 8 ft.—Open diapason, metal . 61 pipes H Saliclonal, metal 61 pipes. s 61 pipes 8 61 pipes H uintadena, metal 61 pipes | 8 ox celeste, metal 49 pipes 4 te harmonique, metal. 61 pipes i . metal . 8 1t — 3 8 ft.—Oboe Wwith bassoon, 81t | the query are so illegibly written that it |is_impossible to even guess what the | writer means. As the question appears, | it 1s as if it was written, “If the...... in Germany is in one........or two.” Cor- respondents who want information should always write legibly. DRUGS AND CONFECTIONERY-A. 0. £, City. In the classified section of the San Francisco directory, back part of the book, under the proper heading, you will find a list of all the retail druggists and dealers in confectionery in this city. MARKET PRICE OF COINS—H. L, R., Cl!y.hThe lmm‘ke". price, that which deal- ers charge for is, - 1552, Trom 15 to 50 centas Halt dohers of 1828, from 75 cents to $1 75; Columbian half dollars of 1893, having on the reverse ca- x;olz\;llsasxilr_a!; %\;elr :!w'o hemispheres, from . The fly 8ol o Tt 7128 S8 ot o i IRVINGTON TO SANTA ROSA—O. H., Centerville, Cal. To go from Irvington, Alameda County, to Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, by wagon, drive from the start- ing point to Oaklaind, from there to Port Costa, ferry to Vallejo south, thence to Napa and then to Santa Rosa. The dis- tance in an air line from poin ‘would o depend upon the roads t to peint along the places named is ninety miles. Whet the traveled &‘mm.wb. sol:lighasto mke the ot! THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1901 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN_D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY - LiriieSdiozeio MAY 13 3001 Publication Office. ., .Market and Third, S. F. MR. PRESIDENT, THE PIONEERS. - 1 HE President easily sees the physical and industrial features of the State. He sees the out- ward manifestations of human energy and the great work of nature is beneath and above him. The splendid panoramas of flower-dotted plain and mountain uplift impress him everywhere. But, after all, these make only the stage upon which the life of California plays its part and passes in a moving procession that never ends. Much has been said and written about the impression left upon this State by its pioneers, and there is hardly anything in the traditions, romance and reputation of California about which there is abroad as much misinformation. To that we have ourselves contributed. We are in the habit of picturing the pioneer miner with his pockets full of pistals and whisky bottles, his mouth full of blasphemy and his hands full of cards. The lesson taught by this is that those pioneers were a mixture of the buccaneer and conquistador, men of violence, and thirsty for liquor and blood. It is believed outside the State, and by many new comers among us, that these violent men planted the seeds of disorder and lawlessness, and these germs are thought to be still producing condi- tions against which the stranger must arm himself and stand guard. To such an extent is this vain idea held that many tourists, who come now, bring weapons as a necessary part of their out- fit and are watchful and alert as soon as they cross the California line. A few of those mining pioneers survive. They were in life’s bloom and vigor when they came;the sap of their vernal time was in them and care sat lightly on their shoulders. They were thrilled by the spirit of adventure and their courage did not need further proof than was fur- nished by their long march across the plains, their familiarity with cholera and fever on the isth- mus or their battle with the tempests of Cape Horn and their struggle for life in the alternate storms and calms of the tropics. P They are old men now and have the fondness of old men for magnifying their heroic days, but let the visitor interview them and he will be surprised to know how few carried arms other than were needed in the hunt for game. He will be informed in the capacity of man for govern~ ing himself by learning of the infrequency of crime and the iustice of its punishment and of the general security for life and property in the mining camps, where neither statutes nor locks and keys had yet appeared. The rules they made were so at one with natural justice that when the governments of the State and nation had to adopt codes of ownership and procedure concerning mining property and regulating its operation the rules of those pioneers were bodily adopted as the law of the land, and every inch of mining property, clear into cold Alaska, is to-day under the just law voluntarily made by the California pioneers. Those men were not the gold seekers that followed Cortez and Pizarro, snatchirlg the shin- ing metal from the hands of natives who had mined and smelted it. They sought it with their own labor on the bar and in the ledge, and when the lucky miner had filled his buckskin sack with the glittering dust it was as safe in his log cabin as the ashes on his hearth. The remote foundation of the life of California as we see it to-day was partly upon what such men brought in the early and heroic immigration. Partly, too, it is based upon the civilization which pre- ceded them, upon the grandly simple ways of the Spaniards and Mexicans, who were the first civ- ilized occupants of the soil. Their lovely pastoral life survives only in memory and in history. It was not what we call progressive, but there was upon it that ineffable contentment and calm, that simplicity of faith, that expression of reserve power, which garlanded it with charms whose beauty grows with the perspective of time through which we behold them. That hacienda life led by Vallejo, Castro, Del Valle, Estudillo, Peralta, Pico, Pacheco, Galindo, Covarrubias and the other great Dons, who lorded with gentle sway over far-reaching principalities, though far gone now has left its impress upon the life of to-day. The well-known California hospitality, the faculty of our people for hailing the guest with everything that enchants and satisfies, comes to us an inheritance from those baronial gentlemen, whose - honor was as stainless as a star and whose hospitality was as natural as their stature. Let all this be said in jus~ tice to the two classes and the two races which cleared the way for the present life that makes Cal- ifornia what she-is. 5 PERSEVERING SEMPERVIRENS. EMPERVIRENS CLUB, net content with the appropriation obtained from the Legislature to purchase a large tract of the Big Basin in the Santa Cruz Mountains, on which the giant redwoods stand, has set'its face toward a still greater enterprise in the way of forest pres- ervation and has taken the first steps to achieve it. At a meeting of the club on Friday even. ing it was announced by Chairman Reed that it is the intention to appeal to liberal and public- spirited citizens to contribute a fund large enough to purchase the entire 14,000 acres which are necessary to round out the Big Basin Park and make it what it should be. A movement of the kind merits cordial and generous support. It is to be borne in mind that a forest of the kind proposed will not necessarily entail an annual expense to the State for its maintenance. It can easily be made self-supporting, and with good management might yield some- thing of a revenue. - Forest cultivation, while almost unknown in this country, is well established in some parts of Europe and has been found highly profitable. We have repeatedly directed attention to the ex- cellent results obtained from the state forests in France and Germany and lately from the British experiments with tree planting. in India. Those, however, are by no means the only examples of success in such enterprises. A recent report from Europe gives an account of what has been ac- complished by the people of Orsa in Sweden in a work of the kind. That community has a forest district which forty years ago was well nigh denuded of trees and steps were taken at that time to properly care for it. The result has been that in the last thirty years there have been sold from the woods $4,600,000 worth of products and to-day the forest is better than ever. Itis believed the income will not only be permanent but will be an increasing one owing to the diminishing sup- ply of timber and to the better results to be expected fromgreater skill in management. Of course no such results as that are to be expected of the Big Basin reservation, for the redwoods are to be preserved primarily for park purposes and not for profit, but still a consider- able quantity of wood can be sold every year and in the course of time the income derived will be large. It will naturally increase as the woods around this section of the State are cleared away anfl the supply diminishes. That being so the expense of maintaining the Big Basin reservation will hardly be more than that of the first cost. The Sempervirens Club, therefore, is not seeking to impose a burden upon the State for merely sentimental or scientific purposes, but to confer a clear benefit upon this and all future generations. Perseverance in such a cause merits universal support. There is trouble in the town of Homer in the good State of Michigan because a printer in getting out the official ballots for a recent municipal clection transposed thé names of two can- didates and the offices they sought; both were elected, but as their names were printed in the wrong columns neither got the office he was after. The law will not permit them to trade off and there is nothing to do but to swear at the printer. Political experts reviewing the redistricting of the various States under the new apportion- ment for Congress say there has been no hotable gerrymandering this year in any State except Missouri, Illinois and New Jersey, but in those three enough has been done to keep the art from being lost to future generations. o —— et . The fact that Li Hung Chang has expressed a desire to have American troops remain in Peking as a permanent guard for the legations is about the best compliment that has been given to our soldiers. It is a procf they have not been looters and in that respect have distinguished themselves from the armies of Europe. s SRy Various explanations 'have been offered in the East to account for the comparative indif- ference of the public toward the coming contest for the America’s cup, but it 'should bé remem- bered that this year the world has bigger things to attend to than yacht racing. Senator Hanna and Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland are Eupposed to be bitter political enemies, but when they met the other day it was noted they greeted one another with, “Hello, Tom,” “Hello, Mark,” so it appears they are not fighting for blood. Vot . Towa has neither a Dewey, a Funston, nor a Roosevelt, but she is trying to play Conger up 1o—ny-r.-ls, Indigestion, Weak Stom- acl — . ————— WHAT MODERN EUROPE HAS DONE in the Splendidly Fertile DRAMATIC FIELD OF OPERA. BY L. DU PONT SYLE. - . N “The Opera Past and Present” (Scribner’s), W. F. Apthorp has given an admirably clear and succinct ac- count of the evolution of grand opera, from *The Dafne” of Peri, brought out in France in 159, down to the “La Tosca of Puccini (Rome, 1900). During these 300 years there has been a continuous strug- glo between the dramatic principle, which the Florentine Camerata of the seven- teenth century rightly laid down as para- mount, and the musical principle of Ca- rissimi and Cesti, which would subordi- nate both text and action to musical ef- fects. The history of this struggle is the history of the development of opera. To this development only four nations have contributed anything of merit; these in order of importance are Germany, Ttaly, France, England. Indeed, if we look closely at the matter these four are re- ductble to two—Italy and Germany. For England has produced but one musician of the first rank, Purcell, and he (a con- temporary of Newton), though the great- est composer in Europe of his day, left no worthy successors and founded no school. As to France, did you ever notice that of the four men who have made French opera what it is—Lully, Gluck, Meyerbeer and Gounod—of these four only ome is really a Frenchman? Lully was an Ital- ian, born in Florence, his real name be- ing Glovanni Battista Lulli; Gluck’ was a Bavafian, born at Weidenwang (nothing ®ery French about that); Meyerbeer was a Prussian, whose real name was Jakob Meyer Beer. Gotnod, moreover, is the lightest intellectual weight of the quartet; he is, as Mr. Apthorp points out, em- phatically a man of one work, “Faust.” Who can ever forget that dreary ‘‘Romeo and Juliet” evening last year, with Melba cold as a stone and Saleza off the key for the first two acts? Yet their rendition was better than what they were render- ing, for Gouncd—‘‘a small, tenuous voice, not devoid of a certain searching sweet- ness * * ¢ in strenuously developed drama like ‘Romeo and Juliet,” with mul- titudinous dpportunities for drawing char- acter, was out of his element”—and out of his depth. So much for France and England. Turn we now to Italy, where, owing to the im- mensity of the field, we can take a rapid survey of only those names that mean something to us to-day. During the eight- eenth century Itallan opera had conquered Europe, but while doing so was dying of formalism; it was becoming less and less music drama; it was becoming more and more concert in costume. . Rossini (born in 1792) did his best to coptinue the bad traditions he had inherited: “A man of the most fertile melodic inventiveness, of incomparable brilliancy. gifted with a facllity that can fairly be called damna- ble, Rossini enthroned graceful Frivolity in the center of the lyric stage to rule autocratically over singers and orches- tra.” Yet he was awake to the signs of the times; the romantic movement touch- ed him as it had previously touched Au- ber; with infinite pains he produced a masterplece, “Guillaume Tell.” This was in 1829, when he was but 37. He lived thirty-nine years longer ahd wrote—almost nothing! The explanation? Pure laziness, it seems. \ Of his contemporaries, Donizett! and Bellini are the only twe who have accom- plished work that has lived; work that is | full of passion in spite of the undramatic and unscenical forms in which they worked. Donizetti is bes: known outside of Italy by an opera (“Lucia di Lammer- moor’’) that is by no means his best, for there is no musical characterization in this that can compare with that lavished upon the part of Maffeo Orsini in “Lu- crezia Borgia.” Bellini achieved one real success in “Norma,” thanks partly to an admirable libretto, and one sentimental success in “La Sonnambula™: but on the whole I think one must agree with Mr. Apthorp when he declares it to be rather a debilitating business, “this opera of sweet sentiment, beautiful melody and ear-tickling.” Strength was sadly lacking and this strength was supplied by Verdi, ‘“the hottest blooded man of passion the art of music had known since Beethoven.” He was born in 1815 and died, you will remember, only the other day. His eighty-seven years of life gave him time to develop four distinct periods and man- ners: Of the first, the formal Italian “Ernani” (1844) may stand as the type; of the second (at which most men stop), “La Traviata” (1853); of the third or transition period, “Alda’ (1871); of the fourth, “Otello” (1857). By the time “Otello” was written the Wagner ideas, of cofirse, had become the common prop- erty of musical Europe; to deny their influence upon Verdl in his third and fourth periods would be absurd. Yet granting that in the art of dramatic properties Wagner was teacher and Verdi pupil, it must equally be granted, I think, that in two respects the pupil has bet- tered the master—first, lacking Wagner’s enormous conceit, he has not written his own librettos but has found some one really competent to do it; second, he pre- served coplous and fresh to the end his "spring of melody—a spring that in Wag- ner's case dried up many years before his death. great man, Verdi—a great man, indes The Germans. Well, we must credit them, as aforesaid, with Gluck and Mey- erbeer. To these two pre-Wagnerians we must add Mozart. Of this famous trio Gluek, if not intrinsically the greatest, is the greatest in the history of opera. When he went to Paris on Marie Antoinette’s in- vitation in 1773 he found all the stale con- ventions of Itallan opera accepted as gospel; Lulli's antiquated forms regarded as classic models, and Piceinni esteemed a great composer! “Principals, chorus and orchestra (at the Academie de Musique) had fallen into the most deplorable musi- ADVERTISEMENTS. Dr. Humphreys Similia Similibus Curantur, Let likes be treated by likes. The mild power cures. ‘Humphreys' Homeopathic Specifics NO. CURE. PRICES. 1—Fevers, Congestions, tions 2—-Weorms, Worm Fever, Worm Collc.. 3—Teething, Colic, Crying, Wakeful- ness .. capenen . 4-Diarrhoea, of Children or 7—Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis...... - S—Neuralgia, Toothache, Faceache... 9—Headache, Sick Headache, Vertigo.. 11-Suppressed or 12—Whites, Too Profuse Periods... 13—Croup, Laryngitis, Hoarseness... 14—-Salt Rheum, Erysipelas, Eruptions 15—-Rheumatism, Rheumatic Pains... 16—Malaria, Chills, Fever and Ague.... 19 Catarrh, Influenza, Cold'n the Head 20—Whooping-Cough 27-Kidney Diseases 28 Nervous Debility . 3! 30-Urinary Weakness, Wetting Bed 77—Grip, Hay Fever. Sikkiiiikil bikRR bR .25 .25 malled for the asking. Humphreys' Homeopathic Medicine cal habits, it took all his personal force, indomitable Teutonic pertinacity and skill as a conductor to whip them up to the mark.” “Iphigenie en Aulide” came out im 1774 and caused a fearful outery to arise from the Italianists, who tried to prove that “Gluck lacked all power of song and set things to music that were not appro- priate to song.” These are the Invariable charges against operatic performers. The Gluck-Piccinni controversy has no interest them except so far as it stimulated Gluck to produce those masterpieces which fixed the form of French opera for nearly a hundred years. His operas, as Mr. Apthorp points out, are essentially grand operas; “to produce their proper effect they need not only fine acting and singing and a com- petent orchestra, but a vast, well-equipped stage and the most coplous spectacular paraphernalia—especially a superb ballet. They are essentially spectacular, and it is the prominence of this feature in them that has most militated against them in this country.” - In this over-Wagnerized age it is pleas- ant to find a highly trained specialist who can appreciate Mozart. “It is not too much to say,” declares one author, “that «fly Wagner's ‘Tristan und Isolde’ and “fle Mgistersinger’ can rank with ‘Don Glvanni’ (1787) as completely great whrks of art; nothing else in all Lyric Drama maintains itself throughout on quite so high a plane—intellectually, mu- sically, dramatically.” The influence of Meyerbeer on -nine- teenth century opera Mr. Apthorp con- siders greater than that of any composer, except Wagner. His “Robert le Diable™ (Paris, 1831) was the result of four years of careful study; the methods of Auber, Rossinl and Berlioz; the compositions of the old, long neglected contrapuntists; Victor Hugo, Dumas and the strenuous life of the Paris of his day—all these were read, marked, learned and invariably di- gested by this eclectic of eclectics. Every- body'who had anything worth taking was laid under contribution. Yet the result was individual. In his methods of work Meyerbeer was the Gray of his age: In his results he was Dumas set to music. Mr. Apthorp’s interesting remarks on Wagner, “The Art of the Opera Singer and the Present,” I must reserve for a future occasion. Enough has been said, perhaps, to-day to show the method of his vok and the trend of his judgments. —_— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* —_—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend’s.® —————— Townsend's California glace fruits, 50c a pound, in fire-etched boxes ar Jap bas- kets. 639 Market, Palace Hotel bmfdlng.' —_—— Spectal information supplied daily to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_——— Pyrography outfits, sheepskins and fan- cy woods for burning, cameras, albums and books on photography in artists’ ma- terial department. Sanborn, Vail & Co., T41 Market street. - If a man always does his duty on little occasions he will know just how to act on great occasions. —————————— The President’s Good Judgment. President McKinley and party, after visiting California, will go to the Pan-American Expo- sition at Buffalo, and though you cannot travei on the Presidential train the comfortable trains of the Nickel Plate Road enable you to follow his example, Wwith the assurance of an enjoy- able trip. Nickel Plate Dining Cars serve Club Meals from 35 cents to §1 each. Book free showing views of Exposition buildings. Jay W. Adams, P. C. P. A., §7 Crocker building, San Francisco, Cal. A young St. Louis housewife quit her grocer because he tried to sell her cured ham. She informed him that she didn’t want any that had been ill. ADVERTISEMENTS. D.Katschinskif PHILADELPHIA SHOE CO. § THIRD ST. AN FANCISCOf DECIDEDLY THE DICEST things in Ladies footwear for vacations and summer. outings are our new high lace shoes and Oxfords We have a splendid line of Ladies Fine Tan "Canvas Lace Shoes, extra high cut, 11 inches all told, coin toes, with tan kid tips and heel durable - soles and military heels, sizes 224 to 8, widths B to E, our price $2.00 the pair. Fine line of Ladizs’ White or Tan Canvas Oxford Ties, coin toes and tips and turned soles, sizes 3 to 8, widths A to F.,“freduccd to $1,.00 the B The Ten Oxfonts have kid tips and leather heels, The hite Oxfords have French | We are solutely PHILADELPHIA SHOE CO. 10 THIRD ST.-wRaNcisco BAJA CALIFORNIA Damiana Bitters l:é&%;‘gj"mm INVIGORA-