The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1901, Page 27

26 TR EVERYTHING PROMISES FOR SUCCESS OF THE SYMPHONY SEASON By Blanche Partington. & - do in symphon next. il of the acceptedly | 2l quickening pera season er field of » rs fifty-five Minetti as con- ing programme the first concert: major, d Spanigh ite, “Aus Volkmann's 2, F major, ard resurrection of the ic Society Orchestra, also intentions. | gv the Philharmonic Society was of zonsidera prominence in the muUsic world here, Lelping materially to ADVERTISEMENTS. | ({4 7,,”” | PREVENTS ANC ZREAKS UP GRIP wili y read notice | each week, and be guided by its precepts, you will keep free irom sickness, because the advice pertains to the preven- tion and treatment of Grip and Colds. Twenty per cent, one person in five, die ot pulmonary diszase; and Colds | are the seat of nearly all‘\ sickness; something elss may develop, but a Cold is usuelly | at the bottom of the malady. The use of *“77” checks a Cold et the star:, and “breaks up” Coids thgt “hang on.” At a1l Druggists’ 25 cents, or malfled on receipt of price. DOCTOR'E BOOK MAILED FREE. | Humphreys' Homecpathic Medicine Co., Cor- Ber William and John Streets, New York. | explains Mr. Van Dyck | persvade him that uothing is better for a | | ¥atherland, and soon ail the antique eggs | einger and his frierds, with an army of | had o take to their heels at last, and it T S S e —— e com—————— .. | GENIAL AND TALE | DUCTOR OF THE P! CISCO SYMPHON l e e — | raise the musical standard. But for some | time it has done nothing and the once famous amateur organization seemed to | e been relegated to the usefulness of yesterday. It appears not wever, but has taken on a new lease of life and is now in a flourishing and most honeful on. The secretary, E. M. Hecht, membership of f« widiy - ng attendance at rehearsals and a high of capacity among the pl orchestra fe under the capable direc of Giulio Minett, and its directorate i retary, E. M Hochstadter; librarian, The society has for its chief object the education of the amateur in the appreci- ation of orchestral music, for which pur- pose symphonies, as well as lighter or- | chestral fare will be the programme of study. Concerts are to be given from time to time. Beethovens First Sym- | has already been chosen for the rning programme. The rehearsais are held cn Monday evenings at Arion Hall. It diess to insist on the value of this kind of thing for the amateur musi cian, and Mr. Minetti's name in the con nection at once stamps the high order of sefuiness promised by the organization The scene: Mme. Calve's apartments at the Crocker. The time: One day I The characters: Van Dyck, «small audience of admirers. Dyck tells the story on himself. as in some music-mad German tow Zed to sing “Loh p d during the had dev hroat.”” It was not serfous, but enough to com him to give up the idea of singing., at least for that! evening. He accordingly notified the man- agement to that effect. *“So far 8o good,” in his voluble French. But two or three good friends of | his wander in during the evening and | sore throat than a certain dish and vint- age to be had at a classic restaurant not too far away. He ylelds imprudently but jostully to their blandishments. They reach the restaurant. and the trouble begins. It is needless to say that Lohen- grin’s non-appearance had caused a-con- siderable diszppointment, and unfortu- nately some of the disappointees spieq out the recreant knight in the restaurant. Now they take such things seriously in the and vegetables in the neighborhood wera careening around the heads of the truant wild young students in full pursuit. They is an frresistible picture—the stately I.o- hengrin and his friends sprinting for dear life down alieys And back streets to es- cape thie jil-smelling bombardment. “Malx, c’est gueri'”—the oold 1s cured— concluded Van Dyck, with a mischievous glance for Calve. but the delicately throated lady smilingly declined to ac- cept this latest of all the cold cures of- fered for her consideration. The second of the concerts given hy Mr. H. B. Pasmore and the clever Pas- more children willdake place in the Maple Hall, Palace Hotel, Tuesaay evening, lg,. cember 10. During the evening the chil- dren will give some of the Brahms’ “Hun- garian Dances” and a “Petite Suite” com- posed by their father, l.lla.lmhmnrw'x setting of the “Ru- baiyat” wil) be sung by Mrs. Gardner, Mre. Basford, Mr. Nowlan and Mr. Pas. more. The soloists will be: Miss Adelaide Birchler, contralto, who will sing two songs by jrthur ickenscher. accompa- nied by the author; Dorothy Pasmore, cellist, will ")I.y Mendelssohn's “Son, Without Words,”” and Mary, violinist, 'fl‘l ve two movements from the “Concerto mantigue” by Godard. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1901. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. SUNDAY Publication Offies. ... .. oo a s anes s ot asensnnys 0.. INDIAN EDUCATION. - HE Call has frequently condemned the inutility of Indian education as fostered and car- ried on by the Federal Government, either directly or indirectly, whether in the schools at Hampton, Carlisle or elsewhere. The Indians so educated are returned to the reserva- tions occupied by their tribes, where they aré fed in idleness by the ‘Government, and their education is worse than useless. Heretofore the Indian Bureau at Washington has been a strong supporter of this scheme of culture for the red youth. The system involves much patronage and the expenditure of a large amount of money, and its permanency seemed secure because it appez.lls to a large class of Eastern philanthropists, who never- saw an Indian, and who fancy that raglal traits fade out when the alphabet is acquircd, and that a red savage is changed into “a Christian gentleman by memorizing the catechism. Now, however, thére is in Mr. Jones an Indian Commissioner whose ideas rise above pat- ronage, and who is superior to the small tactics required to hold the misdirected philanthropists in line. In his current report he condemns the Indian schools and the whole misguided scheme of. which they are a part. Of these boarding schools there are :16, with an average gttendance of 16,000 pupils between the ages of 5 and z1. These come from the shack, tepee and wickiup, taken promiscuously from their parents, without sclection according to natural brightness or quality above their fellows. The Commissioner says that from the squalor and vermin of the res- ervation they are taken to the boarding school, well fed and clothed, with matrons to * wait on them in health and doctors and nurses whei: sick. Their clothes are washed in the laundry. They have access to a library, gymnasium and music. Al of the necessities and many of the luxuries of life are theirs without effort on their part. re sent back to the shack, the tcpecb and the md vermin of the reservation, and to its vice and . When their education is finished they & wickiup of their fathers, back to the squalos idleness. Their education costs them nothing and its value is not appreciated. Its use is impossible. Its benefit is nowhere apparent. In this futiie, y injurious cffort the Government foolish and really has spent $45,000,000 in twenty vears in educating 20,000 Indians, who have survived the opera- tion and returned to their tribes, and there is no record of a single individual in that score of thou- sands putting to the least use the training ch cost so much : The Commissioner points out a similar resuit of our policy on the reservations. The Gov- ernment furnishes to the Indian, farmers to plow land for him and raise crops while he Jlooks on indifferently. He is not becoming a farmer nor a mechagic. He is simply walking pigeon-toed, looking through his eyebrows, wearing a Government blanket and waiting for the Government dinner-bell. But it is not his fault. It is the fauit of the zealous iolk who make a fad out of philan- thropy. They have attempted to give the Indian the last stage of civilization first. They are people who would build houses by beginning with the roof, and plant orchards by putting the tree-tops in the air instead of the roets in the ground. If they would go among the Zunis, Mogquis and Navajoes of New Mexico, the Pueblo Indians, and: study their ways they would be wiser. 5 It is education in this question to travel across Arizona and New Mexico by the Santa Fe line and have contact with the reservation Indians and the Pueblo tribes and note the differ- ence. “The reservation people, lazy, squalid. hideous with the diseases of white vice, which are put- ting out the eyes of their iafants and threateifing to make them a blind race, are objects of aver- sion and pity. But note th. difference in the Pueblos. They tend flocks, spin and weave. turn the potter’s wheel and burn carthenware. They build houses, have firesides, raise grain and grind it, and are well advanced in that next stage of progress that follows subsistence by the chase. No white man taught them these arts. They learned to draw a thread and make a loom and weave without his help. The Pueblo women make their own clothing and dress in a«most neat and attractive fashion. They are not stolid and dirty, but clean and - vivacious, virtitous -and orderly. They are helping themselves up the slow path to civilization, and support themselves on the way. Once they followed game in the chase, then bzcame flock owners and nomads; then with their power over . food supply increased by their increasing acquirement of arts, they gathered in pueblos and built houses suited to their needs. .Thcy are not going to require algebra and the catechism, or even Christianity, for many generations. The old religion is good enough for them, and in their industry, self-respect, loy- aity and cheerfulness they are an example to their white neighbors. Instead of studying them, the Government has taken his hunting grounds away from the reservation Indian and given him no flocks and herds in their place, and is attempting to make him self-supporting on differential calculus, logarithms and the “ higher criticism.” Supplementing the report of the Indian Commissioner comes that oi Governor McConnell of Idaho, indian Inspector, on the physical harm done in the Indian boarding schools. He says that children afflicted with scrofula, consumption and more lpathsome diseases are put in the same room and frequently in the same bed with the healthy. Last summer, in speaking to the Indian Service Institute at Detroit, he said: “In your efforts to civilize and christianize the In- dian, if that is your motive, pause to consider whether the Inlian mother would not prefer an un- educated living child to an cdueated dead one. 1 have in mind one reservation from which three lots of children were takei. to training and boarding schools. Out of the first lot of fifteen eleven died at school or shortly after being sent home in the last stages of disease. Out of ancther lot of four three died, and of the third company of fifty-four twenty-three died in school, twelve were permanent invalids and only nineteen survived in good health. From another reservation in one company of twenty-six twenty-one died, and in a second lot of twenty-one sixteen died. Have we the moral right to take from these poor untutored maothers 'thelr ofispn’ng and place them inethese charnel houses?” , 4 It is to be hoped that with the solid foundation of fact furnished by the Commissione- and Inspector, and with the help of the example of the Pueblo Indians, there may soon come a com- plete revolution in the treatment of our Indian problem. A FIGHT F HEN the recent reports came of riots in Athens caused by a protest of the univer- sity students against the proposed translation of the New Testament into mo. Greek, the affair séemed to the American public a little more unreasonable than any- thing ever before committed by a university man. Various efforts were made to ex- plain the situation, with but little success. It was known that many priests were on the Side of the students, and from this fact the conclusion was drawn that the riots were the outcome of kind of religious conservatism revolting against progress, muzh in the same way as many people in”this country protested: against the revision of the New Testament when tha was first undertaken. dern come sincere t work It now appears by reports from Athens that the riots were in no way prompted by rel:gion and that the priests were only incidentally associated with it. The contest is one of literature and of language. During the many years that Greece was subject to Turkish rule there were intro- duced into the language many foreign words and idioms. Most of the innovations were of Slavonic origin, and as a consequence the common language of the Greeks is now largely intermixed with Slav. Ever since the establishment of the independence of Greece it has been the aim of the cultured Greeks to restore the puity of their tongue. To achieve that end they have relied -.lpofi the universities and the church. In those centers of learning and of education pure Greek has been taugit, and it has been the hope of the patriots that the peasants- and lower classes would also eventually acquire the pure language. It will be seen that the proposal to tianslate the Testament into ‘the vernacular, semi-bar- ‘baric Greek would interfere with the plans of the higher classes, who wish to preserve the Testa-. ment as an instruction book in classic Greek., Hence the outcry' that the translation would tend to subordinate Greece to the Slavs. In their eyes the proposed translation appears very much as it would appear to uis if the United States Government should propose to translate the Testa- ment into some sort of dialect story. The student riots then were parts of a struggle for the preservation of the classic pririty of their language, and consequently the outbreak is not alto- gether beyond the reach of intelligent sympathy. ! Seth Low, Mayor-elect.of New- Yori, has given-notice that. all aspirants for c:)fiicial posi- . tions must make their applications in writing, which sounds very much as if Mr. Low were de- sirous of having a rest between now and Christmas. ¥ . = Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager .DECEMBER 1. 1901 arket and Third, S. F. GRANDAMES WILL POINT ' IN YEARS TO CQME TO ARTISTS IN THE “DON”" By Guisard. T is opera, nothing but opera and | again opera here this week and until Thursday night next the programme will continue to remain the same. The particular triumph of the week at present writing is the “Don Paequale” of last Wednesday night. with individual successes of exultant kind for Sembrich and hardly less for Scotti and,Tavecchla. The performance of “Don Pasquale” Is one to which grandames will point backi in years to come to wondering children | | a8 when they heard Sembrich and Scottl | | #ing this duet or that arfa, or Tavecchia revel in the fat fun and quaint pathos of | | the bedeviled old bachelor's part. It is | already classic, and with “Le Nozze di Figaro” ranks as the chief gift of the season. If one did not always feel the last the best with Mme. Sembrich one | would be persuaded to imagine her Norina her most luscious effort. But those other | coquettish damsels, Rosina and Susanna, | also clamor for precedence and who can | choose among them? The Marguerite | stands by itself, and thoygh beautifully | sung is not in tune with the singer’s key- | note somehow. Melba's Marguerite, | | strangely enough, is markedly its super- | for, both In vocal accord and emotional essence. | But to return to the “Don.” All singers love to sing its sprightly measures. It is among the most becoming of vocal music, and not least among the charms of the Wedneaday night performance was the evident enjoyment of the artists in their roles. I can concelve no better Dottore Malatesta than that of Mr. Scott!, whose distinguished vocal and histrionic gifts were never more in evidence. He | has a superb technique, using his big ! volee with an amazing freedom and light- ness. Tavecchia has an even rarer gift, he if the best singer and actor of buffo roles that has been heard here for many | years and his Don Pasquale could not be bettered on ahy side. It was a perform- ance all round that would have amazed and delighted Donizetti, though the man who knows tells me that the opera loses appreciably by being given In so iarge a house, It was not particularly noticeable the other night lhD\ll’h.. . . “The Girl From Maxim's,” a French farce with a reputation, comes to the ! Columbia to-morrow night. With comes Miss Lena Merville, PR - it With the pa of Colonel James Henry Mapleson, who died in London on November 14 of Bright's disease, one of the most genial and impressive figures among operatic managers has gone from view. The Dramatic Mirror of the 23d ult. has the following sketch of his life that will be of Interest to all opera-goers, more especially to the older generation: Colonel Mapleson was born In London on May 4, 18%. In his boyhood he became a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he learned sing- ing and violin playing. While still in his teens he made several appearances as a vocalist and In 1843 he became a mem- ber. of the orchestra at Her Majesty's Theater. Between seagons, in 1849, he ventured upon his first managerial enter- prise by taking a concert company on a tour of the provinces. In the following year he made another concert tour. Upon returning to London he became the musi- cal eritic of a publication called The At- In 1851 he gave up his managerial and critical work and went to Italy to com- tinue his studies in vocal music. He re- mained A pupll of Mazaucal | ment in London | who bad now hecome LEADING . LADY IN “THE GIRL FROM MAXIM'S,” WHICH COMES TO THE COLUMBIA TO-NIGHT. | became an assistant to E. T. Smith, man- ager of the opera at the Haymarket The- ater. When Mr. Smith retired, in 1361, Mr. Mapleson took over the management of the Lyceum Theater and for a year produced Italian opera there. From 1862 to 1868 Mr. Mapleson managed Her Majesty’s Theater, where duced many Italian operas. - Majesty’s was destroyed b Mr. Mapleson took the Theater Roy: J whi¢h he managed almost umnterrugled until 1877 Im that year he o Her Majesty’s, which had been rebuilt, and enjoyed there operatic success. of Mr. Mapleso: a_ season .of brillant During the fifteen years 's continuous manage- e had among the mem- ral companies Tietjens, . Delle Sedie, Trebelli, sisters, Bochardt. Bettini, Santley, Minnie Hauk. Del Puente, Frapoli, D! Murska, Marto. Grisi, Christine Nilsson, Cam- pvaninl and Galassi. In the autumn of 1577 Mr. Mapleson— “Colonel” l&&l_: son—crossed the Atlantic for the time, bringing to New York an opera com- pany such _ad had never been seen hers before. At the Academy of Music, in De- cember, 1877, he opened his first American season. Colonel Mapleson brought the organization to the Academy in the sea- sons of 1578, 1880, 1881, 1884, 1885 and 1SS6. Besides the singers already mentioned. he had under his direction d\lflng‘:h Ameri- can seasons Adellna Pattl, ma Juch, Zelle de Lussan. Marle Van Zandt. Kal- logg. Ravelli, Scalchi, Nordica, Emma Nevada, Cary and Marie Engle. The opening of the Metropolitan Opera- house in 133 proved a severe blow to Col- onel Mapleson's enterprises in New York. He battled courageously against the op- position that it presented, but in the end was_conquered. - He returned to London sev Albani. Ginglin Marchisio | in 1388 and teok a part of his_company | on a concert tour of England. In 139 he organized the New Imperial Com- pany, which. in England and in America. But the day of Italian opera. of which Colonel Mapleson was a life- long disciple, passed by. and in recent v | years the great impresario found no fleld for the utilization of his distinguished abllities. Colonel Mapleson is survived by his twn sons. Henry and Arthur. of whom the lat- ter is a resident of New York. Lionel | Mapleson, who is assoclated ~ with the Maurice Grau Onera Company, s a nephew of the dead imnresario. Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. * # Cholce candles. Townsend's. Palace Hotel® Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont. gomery street. Telephone Main 102 * f i f It isn't what a man says that counts: ft is his ability to make others belleve him. * Guillet's Christmas extra mince ples, fce cream and cake. %05 Larkin st. ; phone East 198, * f Good-natured citizens should not bulld houses on cross streets. ADVERTISEMENTS. What CALVE Says of WEBER PIANOS “Among all the Instruments of the renowned makers, here and abroad, I to-day prefer the Weber, because of its sympathetic tons quality.” . 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