The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1902, Page 24

SPLENDID IS l 1 AND RAPID THE PROGRESS ' OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA By Blanche Partington. S THE WORK - | T]“‘ second sy nd g friends of Friday nothing e, and the happy g e first concert of vthing like the same is kept up we shall have - inside of a twelve- t quite that, perhaps, but the shows that a rapidly grow: ir T de corps. The 2 n nobly, too. There were many m atténdance and it was a b nd appreciative audience t h gree th t concert. ened to with com- ast note, and lowed every num round after the finale eloguently testified to t felt by the audience. amme to arouse plendid C minor Beethoven, the delicate “Midsummer Night's Scherzo, the “Fest™ d the W: But it wa: not alone the ity of the numbers, but the vement in the work of the compelled recognition, the slor, andethat very very real quantity we call mag- ven symphony this > noted. The sym- in places, drawing audience under that ythmic spell in which man e pulse of the infinite. 2 won. lly well given ed very careful " The opening was also admirably rried out. The andante pleasing. Though seemingly bout metronome time, it lag- considerably at the beginning and in- of being leisurely became lazy. o reason why the tempo should st the infinitesimal shade quick- ugh it was hardly speed but im- that was wanting at the opening), w down later when the double basses begin climbing up and down stairs. Of course there was much to cavil at if one had a mind that way, but the good so far outweighs the deficiencies, and the sincerity and earnestness of purpose both of leader and men 80 surely promise their conquering, that they may reasonably be left unchronicled. It is a privilege of no mean moment to watch the growth of an hestra and ‘twill be a pleasant tale he pioneers to tell some day when the Francisco Symphony Orchestra shall the way in the symphonic proces- Next Priday afternoon is the last con- cert of the series, and the following pro- g ime has been arranged: “Donna Diana” (first time),.... E. N. von Reznicek -R. Wagner han_Svendsen.) --..J. Massenet ged for orchestr: nes Pittoresques’ Marche, . Angelus. Air de Ballet. 4. Fete Boheme. Symphony (“Jupiter”) C major..W. A. Mozart ©90€260000000000000000 @ The Liver Is Seldom Healthy While coffee is the daily drink. DOCTORS RECOMMEND POSTUM. mphony concert has | ry in its ad- | on safe lines, | | oP APP; RA SINGER AR IN THIS XT MONTH. WHO WILL CITY DURING > Lok as Mme. Lilian Nordica the important musical are to appear this is the first of attractions that ason under the man- agement of Alf Bouvier and William L. Greenbaum. Mme. Nordica comes in the beginning of February, three song recitals that Metropolitan Temple. 1 ble to note on the distingui pleasu ed singer’s | programmes the names of many Americ: composers. Oscar Well of our own citv | |among them. Mr. Weil's charmmg | | “Spring Song” is a favorite with Mme. | | Nordica, and it will be a distinct pleasure | | to hear it interpreted as it will be Ly | the famous artist. ‘ | i | The names of MacDowell, Allitsen. Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Schlesinger and Rogers are also to be seen. Then there is a Rich- ard Strauss song, “Serenade,” that shouid | be heard with much pleasure, as about | the only work by this new musical giant | that we are to havs present opportunity | {of hearing. But here is the first fro- | gramme, for Tuesday evening, Febru- ary 4; “The Robin g<" y Beaming Eyes” (MacDowell); (c) | For You (D'Hardelot): (@) is:ivlnz" (Allitsen); “*Voi Che Sapete (Nozze de (@) “Arfette” (Vidal); (b) * (MacDowell); (h) | sl | i “Song of “Than Figaro) (Mozart): “'Si Mes Vers Avaient des Ailes” (If My Son | Had Wings) (Hahm);' () “Filles de | (Maids of Cadiz) (Delibes): poionaise (C | minor) (Chopin). Mr, Stmmons; (a) “Ich Liebe | Dich”” (I Love Thee) (Grieg): (b) “Im Kahn'" | (boat song) (Grieg); (c) “'Lotusblume’ (Schu- | mann; (1) “Es Blinkt der Thau’ (The Glis- tening Dew) (Rubinsteln); (c) ‘‘Serenade” (Richard Strauss); *‘Brunnhilde's Call” (Die | Walkure) (Wagner). arp A plan is afoot to give a benefit con- cert to.the veteran singer and teacher, Mme. Fabbri-Mueller. on her seventieth birthday, and the anniversary of her first public appearance half a century ago. Mme. Mueller's claim to sympathy is a | very valid one. She looks back upon a long career of wide usefulness in the | musical community, and of generous ser- | vice to every musical cause. She is justly ‘famed for her unfailing kindness to her | confreres, and now needs some tangible { return of that generous aid. She is poor and old, and this last appeal for help should meet with hearty response. The following ladies and gentlemen are con- cerning themselves actively in the mat- ter, and any one wishing to help can con- { sult with them: Henry Heyman, Robert Tolmie, Mme. de Seminario, Paul Stein- dorff, Cantor E. G. Stark, William L. Greenbaum, James Hamilton Howe, Mrs. Lillie Birmingham, J. Louis von der Meh- den Jr., Mrs. Louise M. Campbell, H. B. | Pasmore, Harry H. Barnhart, A. Spa- | dina, Cecilia Samuels, Ernestine Goldman, | Mrs. Annie Catching, H. S. Stedman, Algernon 8. Asnland, Frederick Zech Jr., Arthur Fickensher. -Following are the programmes that Josef Hoffman will play on the afternoons and January 28 and 31 at the Columbia Theater: (a} Varlations. F minor (Haydn), (b) Sonate Appassionata, F minor, Op. 57 (Beethoven), | () Impromptu, G major, (d)’Soiree de Vienne | (Schubert); (a) Ballade, A flat major, (b) Pre- lude, No. 25, (c) Valse, A flat (Chopin), (d) | Gnomenreigen (Liszt), (e) Nachtstuck (Schu- mann), () Jongleur (Moszkowskl), (g) Over- ture, “Tannhauser” (Wagner). (a) Fugue, A minor (Bach-Liszt), ¢b) Sonate, A flat major, Op: 39 (Weber), (c) Scherzo a Capriccio (Mendelssohn), (d) Berceuse, (e) | Durch die Wolken (Josef Hofmann). (f) Danse | Macebre (Saint-Szens); (a) Ballade, G minor, (b) Two Polish Songs, G flat major and G ma- Jor (Chopin), (c) Liebestraum, (d) Valfe, ‘‘Me- | phisto” (Liszt). PERSONAL MENTION. E. P. Colger, State Controller, is at the Lick. . Joseph D. Sproul, an attorney of Chico, is at the Palace. E. C. Bradley, a young capitalist of New York, 1= at the Palace. E. 8. Churchill, a banker of 'Napa, is registered at the Palace. Thomas H. Lynch, a well-known resi- dent of Fresno, is at the Occldental. Raliroad Commissioner E. B. Edson is :l:rn from Gazelle and is at the Occiden- F. A. Coakley, a stockbroker of Sacra- mento, is among the arrivals at the Cali- | fornta. Dr. T. J/Patterson, a prominent physi- cian of Visalla, registered at the Lick yes- terday. H. 1. Seymour, an official of the South- ,ern Pacific. Company at Sacramento, is i at the Palace. 4 Secretary of State Charles F. Curry is down from Sacramento and has made the Lick his headquarters, THE SA il o e S Ko S JANUARY 1%, 19va. B atie de R e i R T N FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDA) THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager e e e e e e e A e e s . e Publication Office RAILROAD CAPITAL. HERE is ground for the complaint that American railroads are overcapitalized, not all of them, but many of them. The stock watering, which was taught to Wall street by the company of Ohio farmers that built what is now the Lake Shore road, has been cften used. In other cases the increase in stock has been justified as the only means of repre- senting the increased value of lines that have been enhanced by development. When the country is pinched by hard times the rates made necessary to sustain this advanced valuation call atten- tion to it, and it is criticized as the special odium of American railway management. The London Economist in dealing with a comparative statement of American and Eng- lish railways gives facts that put our American roads in a much more favorable light. By this it appears that the average capitalization of American railways is $61,884 per mile, while that of the English roads is $270,000 per mile. Comparing the London and Northwestern with the Pennsylvania Central, the Economist finds that the operating expenses of theé American road are 65.62 per cent of its revenues, and of the English road 65.3 per cent—about equal. But the cost charged against transportation alone was 42.4 on the English road and 35.4 on the Ameri- can, and for general expenses the percentage was 9.2 and 2.22. The Pennsylvania road showed a much higher expenditure for equipment. In earnings the English road showed more than four times as much per ton mile as the American road, the English freight charge being more than three times as high as the American. 2 It is also shown that the character of construction in this country is much superior to the English, and the railroad wages are much higher here than there. At the same time the cost of operating is continually decreasing here and increasing in England. In the last ten years Eng- lish mileage has increased 8 per cent and capitalization 38 per cent, while here the increase in mileage and in capitalization. have kept more nearly neck and neck. ~ N The showing is highly flattering to American roads, and seems to indicate that many com- plaints made against them are not based in good reason. It is surely a conspicuous triumph for American administration that with much higher wages we enjoy the use of our roads for less than one-third the English rate, and that at a capitalization per mile $208,116 less than in England we show superior quality in construction and spend more upon equipment. All this may seem like a riddle to our English friends. But it must be caused by the great superiority in our operating methods, a higher class of employes and a closer study of economy in the adaptation of means to ends. American railroading has certain features that go to the training of employes that are not known abroad. All of our great systems maintain schools of instruction. An American engineer does not handle his locomotive by routine. He,is learned in the application of steam to power; in the laws of vapor expansion and knows the mechanism of his machine. In like manner train erews are instructed in the laws of friction and traction. Professors in our universities are employed in their vacation to visit railway division headquarters and lecture to the crews on the nature of colors, on lubrication, heat, the curve thrust of trains, and all the natural and mechan- ical laws that enter into the operation of a railway. Instruction is also given in the philosophy of transportation, its relation to the development of tonnage, and of its cost to the profit of handling. ‘ Railroading here is something more than common labor. It is treated as a great industrial specialty in which every employe is given the chance to know why he does everything pertaining to the overation of a train. . This must in great measure account for the ability of American roads to pay interest and earn dividends while their rates are so much less than those of Europe and their wages are so much more. TUNSINKABLE SHIPS. XPERIMENTS were recently made in New York with . a newly invented system of clos- ing bulkhead doors in ships by hydraulic power, and according to the reports that come to us the result of the test gives promise that the adoption of the system will render ships well nigh unsinkable by collisions or any other accident at sea. The experiments were made upon the steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm of the North German Lloyd, and it is said that company has obtained fromthe inventor, Herr- Doerr, the exclu- sive control of the invention. It is claimed that by the new system the bulkhead doors can be closed at will from the bridge within a minute. In the tests made they were closed in one minute and a half by the simple operation of a lever from the officers’ bridge. As zpplied upon the Kronprinz the patent doors were fitted into the bulkheads of the two lower decks, and formed the entrance and exit into thirty-four compartments. The two decks thus protected are below the water line and extend completely fore and aft. They thus comprise what may be called the vital part of the ship, being that part which is liable to be filled by the inrushing sea in case of a collision that would break through the hull. The doors of the apart- ments of the upper decks are operated by hand. In describing the system the New York Mail and Express says: “By means of an electric circuit which gives warning to the workmen of each compartment of the intention of those in charge of the bridge to close the bulkhead doors, a period of about thirty seconds is afforded to the ship’s hands to leave a compartment by getting through under the door. The lat- “ter weighs zbout 1200 pounds, and even if the hydraulics did not achieve their purpose it would be possible for the door to descend properly into place through its weight alone.” The doors do not affect in any way the movements of passengers on the upper decks. The Dbulkheads are so arranged as to give special security to the compartments containing engines and boilers, and it is so provided that in the event of any member of the engineering or other depart- ments getting caught in a water-tight compartment after the doors are closed escape could be had to the upper deck by means of a stationary ladder. For the purpose of operating the mechanism there is a table in the wheelhouse that - indi- cates the time that each compartment door closes. Each door is numbered, and as it closes an electric bulb flashes a bright light. The doors are worked on a cog turned by means of a_piston which forces each into position. It is caid that shipping men who watched the experiments regard the invention as the most important yet madé for providing safety on the sea. Here then is a promise that such accidents as that which wrecked the Walla Walla will no longer be so destructive of life. Had that ill-fated ship been provided with such a system of water-tight compartments separated by doors which could be so easily dropped into place at a minute’s notice, the ship would have floated in safety even after the accident that happened to her. In fact it is said that if as many as four separate compartments of the Kronprinz were now to be filled by the sea, the ship would still be free from danger of sinking. The invention there- fore merits the attention of ship-builders and ship-owners; and if 1t be found to realize all that is ciaimed for it its adoption should be general. 7/ 2 Governor Crane has suggested to the Massachusetts Legislature that the public docu- ments published every year are too voluminous and too costly for their worth, and recommends that an editor be appointed to cut down the bulky reportsand condense them before printing. The recommendation is one that other Governors might put on file for future use. There is hardly a State in the Union that does not waste money in printing reports that could be easily ‘reduced one-half withoyt losing anything of value. By way of explaining the unexpected development of Siberia in recent years a traveler says that for a long time the more energetic and ambitious young men in Russia have been ar- rested by the police and many of them have been sentenced to Siberian exile. The result is that Siberia has a more progressive population than any other Russian province, and the building of the railroad has enabled the people to show what they can do. Von Bu]ow'_s speech against Great Britain seems to havé stirred up as much fuss in Eng- land as Chamberlain’s speech stirred up in Germgmy; but by and by somebody else will make a speech that will stir up both nations and then all will be forgiven. ] A Senator Tillman’s latest assertion is that President Roosevelt can’t fly except when he has a high wind; but the country will take notice he is soaring well just now, so there must be pretty steady breezes around Washington. It is stated that Mrs. Chauncey De{pew is herself an after-dinner speaker and an orator of ability; so Chauncey may babble in the Senate, but she will do the talking for the family. NEW YORK CRITIC BELIEVES WE ERR IN NOT DEEMING CALVE'S CARMEN WICKED, By Guisard. o, AnITRRRRY Vae J. HENDERSON, the New York Times critic, has a pret- ty slap at San Francisco in a recent article on Calve's Car- ® men. I don’t mind quoting, as I am not among the guilty. It is of Mme. Calve's appearance on December 30 at the Metropolitan Opera-house that Mr. Henderson is speaking: In San Francisco, for Instance. it was promptly discovered that Mme. Calve's Carmen was altogether too chaste. The real thing was the Carmen of Miss Zelle de Lussan. This extraordinary discovery was followed by the collapse of Mme. Calve. She caught a serious cold, which developed into acute bronchitis. She had to leave the company and go to Los Angeles to tecuperate. The “glorious climate of €alifornia” failed to work a cure, and she departed for Florida. That also failed, and Mme. Calve hastened to Lakewood. Thence it was not far to New York, and in this famous sanitarfum for bronchial troubles Mme. Calve recovered and was able to sing Carmen last night, The question naturally arises whether any- thing has happened to this Carmen that San Francisco found “the fair, the chaste, the un- expressive.”” If we are to believe what our ‘Western cousins discovered, our familiar Car- men fs the cousin, if not the very_sister of Diana, panoplied in virtue and treading the arrowy path of rectitude. On the other hand the Carmen of Miss de Lussan has always been riotous of blood, incontinent in thought and deed, and blazoned on the fropt of time In eloquence of song and action. * + * We poor anaemies of the effete East have never perceived the wonders of our Zelle, whom indeed we have loved, but decorously, and in all seemliness of fancy. On the other hand, when Mme. Calve first revealed her Carmen to us we gasped for breath and thought that the” mysteries of Paphos "had ‘come to disclose themselves upon the operatic stage. Is all this fled, like “the baseless fabric of a vision?’ Has Carmen re- formed? Shall there be no more cakes and als and shall not ginger be hot in the mouth? These are truly vital questions, for if our Car- men have lost her savor wherewith shall the opera season be spiced? * ¢ ¢ But let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad. Our Carmen has not reformed. Too chaste, indeed. for wicked San Francisco, she is bad enough for us. And last night she had an added abandon, which affected her heels. These became elo- quent—eloquent of a coarseness which our Carmen, unruly as she was, did not have in the brazen days of old. Otherwise our Car- men has not changed. She has a new gown for her first act and a new fan, and she kisses her hapds at the gallery. Our Carmen has her vagaries of - demonstration, sometimes er, sometimes more sober, but she is al- ways the same Carmen, full of diablerie and as fascinating as the basilisk. And the veice? That, too, Is the same, a strangely scintillant, penetrating voice, shot through with many colors, like a prism in the sunlight. Polish and finesse you shall vairly seek in the art of this Carmen, but there is witchery that may not be denied. In short, while cold eriticism can by analysis find a hundred faults in thisg fmpersonation, its potency ' canmot be con- cealed, and in the end it evades critical sum- mary. An English play with an Irish hero, written by an American with a Welsh name, and new at that, will be the Alca- zar’s bill for this week. “For the White Rose” {s the play’s name, made by one Owen Davls, sometime student of Har- vard and later a writer of plays that have not yet found much fame. But he is young yet, and at least two manage- ments, the Lieblers of New York, who wanted to buy “For the White Rose” for the purpose of starring Boucicault in ths leading role, and Belasco & ThaM's, who produce it to-morrow night, think there is good stuff in the play. It was first given in Rochester, N. Y., for one week last season and met with immediate suc- cess. Then it was that the Lieblers wanted to acquire the rights of the %rnnm. but Davis was too well satisfled ith the work of the young actor who layed his Irish hero's part to let it out of his hands. The actor was M. L. Alsop, now the leading man at the Alcazar, and through him the popular stock house gets the use of the play. ; “For the White Rose” is a drama of the time of the Wars of the Roses, with four acts and five scemes. It is purely ro- mantic, the historical interest being only of secondary importance. One character only, that of the Earl of Warwick, can claim an actual existence; the rest, to Larry Kavanaugh, whose doughty deeds in love and war form the central interest of the story, are purely fictional. “But, 'tis a clane and pretty play,” Mr. Alsop assures me, with a becoming Larry L e e ) Marsh Mallow Kisses at Townsend's. * ———— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend’s.* —— Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_—— information supplied daily to business houses and public men bi the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. . o e One million miles is the “length” AR Iotomotive's e, (NStR” of an — Guillet's New Year's extra mince tea eream and cake. 905 Lasking ohone Eert 106 - | L < POPULAR ACTOR WHO IS DE- t LIGHTING THEATER-GOERS ’ l AT THE ALCAZAR. |+ 3 Kavanaugh brogue, “an’ I think ye'll lika it sl Gabriele D’Annunzio’s tragedy, “Fran- cesca da Rimini,” produced at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome, December 9, with some success, has been prohibited by the Roman censor on the ground of immor- ality. The New York Times says of the production: The event had been eagerly awaited by the literary and artistic world of Rome, and the house was crowded. The reception sccorded to the play was of a mixed character. Some scenes were applauded, but the gemeral opin- fon of the critics was that the oroductiom, if mot a fallure, was far from being the great success that had been anticipated. The leading roles were taken by Signora Eleanora Duse and Sigpor Salvini, and thers was little but praise fof their work. The play Wwas superbly staged, under the personal supere vision of D’Annunate. A recent dispatch from Rome stated that (Francesca da Rimini” would be produced in this country next year, with Duse and Salvint in the princtpal characters. —_— Drawing a Distinction—“T was South Afritan war,” said one E!:cufs:: man. “General?’ asked the other. “No, Journalist.” “Oh, I see. You were a re- porter; not a regretter.”—Washington Star. ———— A Swell Time: Nobb—And I bumblebee’s nest while I was (;lo‘mhyn:: catlon. Nebb—Say, you must have had a dreadful time.. Nobb—Oh, it was a swell time.—Ohio State Journal. ADVERTISEMENTS. 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