The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 25, 1903, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUAKY 25, 1908. EMPHASIZES THE BANALITY OF RECENT EXTRAVAGANZAS || i REVIVAL OF «THE By Blanche Partington. g MIKADO” i i DISTINGUISHED PIANIST WHO WILL SOON GIVE A SERIES OF THIS CITY. CONCERTS IN n their backs to bite ‘em, tle fleas have lesser er end of the scale one of the big- ese witless mor- How constantly d! How unfailing its How classic the humor McDowell one day when he n th » parod; —-even Bac iculously a uding a millinery show do mnot seem to n comedian, nor the epi- er to let hunger for stick you?' joke k cheek. “Tit Wil- » for their whistling, that Bloom in the ntends for precedence la! Again with every well at ningham; item, one Caro e Annle Myers: item, one as substitute for a single p imported combination of nd. ( And they are naively ie really splendiferous ning make-ups, that deceive even the Bon of Altogether, it would be difficult to persuade this unregenerate crowd that home-brewed opera lacks sught it needs, except a new ball-bearing wolce for er Hartman. Hart iacy in the “Mikado” role is som z of a surprise, by the wa until fine Rip Van Winkle, Gas- Les Cloches de Corneville,” and k is remembered. His ¥ brilliant. 1f only Ferri n fingers for the feet topical songs! Mr s0 deucedly particular. about The interpolated jokes, by happy, Webb " as greeting to the Celes- oming with particular delight. e, is the lord high execu- thought too exuberant in g more simply, for example, Villow” song would be more Makes Skins Lighter, Clearer, Purer ANTIDOTES BLEMISHES The clear, firm complexion of youth is “coaxed back” by Anita Cream. ed at night and removed in morping. thus imparting the full benefits of its medicinal nature. Re- moves Tan. Freckles, Muddiness, Pimples, Moth and Liver S Dircetions with each jar. 6o druggists or of us, prepaid. ANITA CREAM & TOILET COMPANY Los Angeles, Cal which the execution of Nanky-Poo is de- 1 is also a little overdone. Barring his work is entirely pleasing. Pooh- is capitally done by Arthur Cun-| ngham, who looks as if he had just d in off a screen | ro Roma's reappearance at the Tivoll | er for large congratulation, | e role of Katisha hardly affords nce of her life. ging delightfully, and with that d nature that distinguishes her, | herself whole-heartedly into the Our Annie is Pitti-Sing, and v itself as usual. Yum-Yum is me by Bertha Davis. Frances Gib- son is effective as the third little maid and Oscar Lee's Nanky-Poo adds to the | picture. The chorus might save thelr | voices—they are such good ones, too—by | putting on the soft pedal a little more | rently. And Mr. Steindorff should re- | 4 Mr. Colverd that he doesn’t have to fourteen trombones he did in “La | 2" The memory rather seems to [ But these are trifles. “The Mika- should most certainly be heard. one with the music habit should | tely put it “‘on the list.” | . .o | | | | effective, and the action in the trio in | | ck. There is so much useful information in the following letter, received this week, | E: 1 cannot forbear printing it: | e in The Call of yester- thought struck me that it our article | e been all right if | out the entirely false statements | r irt not the ple who t s in & wooden house of two | ine these things. Dut people Chicago and seen the Audito- | ew York and seen the Waldor!- | therlands, the Plaza, the Savoy, | ntoinette and the Ansonia apart- | , which is really a hotel In every e word, know different. At all the ner and winter resorts of the Eastern | are greater hotels than any on this | If the traveler has been to Engiand he g anything in ted little plece of civilization calied The Northwestern Hotel at Liver- Hotel Cecil, the Bt. Pancras, the . ‘etc., at London, all are ahead of our rninn hotels, s to potatoes, there are very few worth eat- ing in this State. It Is the same with our ap- vies, peaches and pears. Other States produce | much superior fruits of these classes to us. And as 10 the beef and pork! Our beef is very | poor. Who ever saw a fine “‘marbled” steak in a San Francisco market. The pork we raise most part on alfalfa and other , and s, in consequence, d lacking in fat. r too much of this provin- d boasting of our products poor and untraveled element v well-off class. I am thank- | t we have a large class that know much and who are very much disgusted with | t of twaddle, As to the “heady atmos. | phere,”” that is & hackneyed expression and | ns nothine. 1In San Francisco we have no phere—only fog and soft coal smoke. In t nterior valleys we have too much heat for | the atmosphere to be “‘heady,” and the only | bracing atmosphere we have is up in the high Sierras. Most sincerely yours, . . States coast. has there seen hotels outrankin s isc ha Now, will you be good, California? But, really, dear correspondent, you are mis- taken in some things—though you have done me the honor to approve in most rart my position. Every little village in California does in truth own one of “the largest hotels in the world.” I have seen their circulars with these, my own eyes, and who be I—or you—tq dispute it? I Pave also had the pleasire of stopping at two of the places you mention and I am very sure that neither of them titled themselves “‘the largest hotel in the uni- verse.” Again, go down south of Mar- ket street and vou will find the place | strewn with “the best dollar shirts on | carth,” though you and I, dear corre- | =pondent, always pay $3 a plece, to meas- | ure, for ours. One deplores, of course, the alfhlfic pork and regrets the “mar- bied” steak—but don’t we do rather well with cur statuesque girls? It is a little | terrifying to learn that, like the moon, | “San Francisco has no atmosphere,” but } gratifying news that there is at least one Californian—to whom it may not be un- —“who has the good luck to get from home once in a while.” I am to Milpitas myself this summer, | sotng | D-V. | . The following people will take part in a concert to be given at Steinway Hall on February 3 with a programme to be entirely made up from the compositions of Dr. H. J. Stewart: Sopranos—Miss Alma Berglund, Mrs. Grace Davis Nerthrup, Mrs. Lily Hoeder Apple, Miss Bowen. Contraltos—Mrs. J. . Birnungham, Miss Ella V. McCloskey, Mrs. C. L. Pare Mrs. M. Fitzgibbon. Tenors—Messrs. J. Veaco, C. Henley, T. G. Elllott and H. M. Fortescue. Bassos—Mers: Homer Henl C. L. Parent, C. B. Stone ‘Walter Knel, Viclinist, Natban Landsberger. | l THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHNMD. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. SN DA . e o e et Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager .JANUARY 25, 1003 : ‘% teteeveseeecesces...Third and Market Streets, §. Bt THE IRRIGATION BILL. Publication Officé.. HE CALL has already noted the defense of the irrigation bill, made by " Judge Works, who was prominent in framing the measure. The attack on the bill was made on a line often used in California politics. Its opponents appealed to prejudice, by alleging that the measure was drawn in the interest of large water corporations. Judge Works ‘shows that at the meeting held for the purpose of organizing the opposition, only one opponent was present who did not represent a big water company. All the others were directors, officers or attorneys of the very corporations in whose favor they charged the bill to be drawn. The sole objector not so connected was Mr. W. E. Smythe. He is described asa genuine, unselfish reformer, who believes that riparian rights should be entirely abolished. But opposing the_ bill is another reformer, Mr, George H. Maxwell, who rushes impulsively to the meeting of the waters wherever they murmur. He has assumed control of all water legislation, -State and na- tional, to such an extent that he has come to be known as Mississippi Maxwell, “the father of waters.” His objection, set forth in the Los Angeles Times, is that the bill will abolish riparian rights by vesting all waters in the State! Now, there you are! One opponent objecting because the bill does not abolish riparian rights, and one, also eminent, objecting because it does. In such a situation the members of the Legislature will see the need of studying the bill on its merits, for themselves, and making up their own minds as to its adaptability to meet the conditions that confront the irrigators, who desire that the waters of the State be not wasted, but put to the great use which so concerns the present development and future welfare of all the peo- ple. California is the greatest irrigator of all the arid States. Here, by reason of clement climatic conditions, irrigation yields its highest profits, and here it can be undertaken, therefore, safely, at a higher cost than elsewhere. An almost constant succession of crops being possible by irrigation, and many of those crops being of the greatest value, California irrigation stands alone. The commission that drew this bill, as stated by Judge Works, did not believe that Mr. Smythe’s plan could be accomplished right off, nor that Mr. Maxwell’s plan for turning all the waters over to the Federal Government could be made immediately effective. Therefore, the bill provides that the State may store flood waters for distribution if it will and that the State may take over at any time water rights and water works, upon payment therefor. It is also provided that all rights to water flowing over, on or across Government land and all flood waters shall be subject to all acts of Congress providing for the storage and distribution-of water. If the oppo- sition of Mr. Maxwell have no ulterior motive, this ought to satisfy his spirit of aqueous fatherhood. The bill expressly provides, furthers, promotes and permits the storage and distribution of water by the State and the United States, and instead of carping at it, and appealing without justi- fication to prejudice against it, these two reformers would better examine and analyze its pro- visions and offer substitute propositions for those provisions which they antagonize. It is a'rule of law and logic that he who attacks a proposition must submit its alternative for judgment. What have these gentlemen to propose? So far they are merely found in associa- tion with large water corporations. Many of these have seized waters they do not need, while the land of farmers remains dry for the need of it. Of course these wateék corporations are organized and can bring a solid influence against the bill, while the people who need the water to make their lands fertile have no other organization than such representation as they have in the Waters and Forests Society. That is a voluntary organization, not formed nor acting in support of any profit to itself as a body, but standing for the economic use by all who need it of the water of the State, and by each according to his necessity. Of course the corporations are fortunate in securing Mr. Smythe as the representative of their interests before the Legislature, but the members of the Senate and” Assembly represent the people. They come'from the localities needful of the water which the bill is intended to secure to them, and they should examine the bill for themselves and know for themselves its purpose and its probable effects, regardless of the objections coming from such a selfishly interested source. TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT. HE bill introduced by Mr. Brown of San Mateo for the creation of a.multitude of town- ship offices, under the plea of providing self-government for townships, should not be- come a law.- What with commissions, boards, agencies, and what not, the State is already overloaded with officialism, to the detriment of the taxpayer and with no corresponding benefit in government. This bill proposes now to set up a separate system of township government, jurisdiction and atithority, as its author admits, instituting duality of government in every county. Each town- ship is to have a clerk at $600 a year. Say there are 1200 townships in the State, this means add- ing nearly three-quarters of 2 mill#®n taxes to the burdens already borne by the people. But this is not all. The bill provides that “other necessary remuneration for services of township officers shall be by fees.” Who ever knew a fee system worked for less than all there is in it? It may be confidently predicted that the stipends, which in the case of township Trustees are put at $3 50 per day, will reach a sum as large as the aggregate salaries of the township clerks. The people do not need more officialdom, but less. They want work on the part of the officers now created by law, and don’t want to be worked by more officers. The bill makes each township a quasi cor- poration, with all the implied possibilities of attorneys to advise and get fees and an official ma- chine to spend the money of the people. The author of the measure says it will not conflict with the county government bill, which is doubtful. The appearance of conflict is so definite that the first waste due to the measure, if it pass, will be long litigation. Interested taxpayers will not submit to be mulcted without an effort to get legal protection, and the courts, already overcrowded, will have this new issue added to their load. If the law be affirmed, we will have in multiplied form the issue that now exists between di- ferent counties. The county government act, being uniform, fits some counties less agreeably than others, with the result that changes therein are constantly sought by the unrest of counties that are chafed by some of its provisions. When to this cause of uneasiness and disturbance of the legal status of counties we add the township complaints of misfits in legislation, there will be furnished the means of perennial agitation for change and a reason for diverting the. attention of the Legislature from great measures of interest to all the people.” It is a good bill to beat and keep beating every time it appears. The Berlin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has started a movement to introduce the use of horseflesh as an article of food, on the ground that if it were so used horses would not be overworked in their old age. Perhaps, however, the horse would prefer a little bad treatment and live rather than to be stall fed for the slaughter-house. i, The latest novelty is a “musical typewriter” which when attached to a piano takes down all the tones of the melody and thus enables a musician to have his improvisations recorded as he goes along. The schemeisa great one, but there is danger it will flood the world with rag- time impromptus. A society reporter after exhausting the vocabulary to find words rich enough to describe Mrs. Astor as she appeared at her recent ball arrayed in diamonds that almost covered her, from her coronet to her belt, closed by saying, “She looked, in short, like one likely to be well supplied with coal.” Thomas A. Edison has appealed to the United States Circuit Court to prevent his son, who bears his full name, from using it in business. It appears that the young man is in the habit of printing the “Jr.” in very small letters when floating a new enterprist, and the old man doesn’t like it. A lecturer before the “Mothers’ and Fathers’ Club” in Boston is reported to have said: “Criminals are the most innocent people in the world.” -If the mothers and fathers believe that they themselves ought to be included among the innocents. It is announced that during the past year Germany exported over 6000 tons of toys tQ the United States and nearly 11,000 tons to Great Britain, so now we know where Santa Claus has his workshog - TO BE HOME CARO ROMA, THOUGH GLAD WE WORK TOO HARD HERE By Guisard. — | AGAIN, SAYS HEW! | I positively blinked as T | climbed down from Caro Ro- | ma’s picturesque eyrie on Web- | ster street last Thursday. Was | I dreaming? Or had I really shaken hands with one to whom the palms of | Duchesses are as naught, to whom his | tmpertal majesty King Edward of Eng- |land is “Teddy.” I really had. Caro Roma is it, the Carrle Northey of East Oakland we used to krow, famed for her beautiful voice and for a roguish propensity to shock the unco guid by go- ing to church in red shoes. | You wouldn't have thought it either— | the Duchess part, I mean. until she told | you. There wasn't a suggestion of du- | cal splendor in her gown. I am rather | used to the piquant peignoir, the cos- tumes of M. Worth, but nothing could be more unlike the unaffected little work Jacket, the stern, unsentimental skirt, In which Mme. Roma received me. But the other things were all there. | Stuck in the pin cushion were brooches innumerable, one from the “dear n:q Queen,” for singing at the private chapel in Windsor. There was a fat-pearled ring from one Duchess, an antique breastpin from another, and from “‘Ted- dy"” was a vastly symbolic and unhappi- ly chromo-lithographic invitation to the coronation dinner. But we anticipate. “Are you glad to be home again— honest?” I asked, as soon as I got | breath enough after climbing the stairs. She pulled out the coziest chair in the room for me and placed herseif opposite, then replied: “Very, for some things, and again, not at all. You work too hard here, ry- body. In London I sing only tw a | week for example, in the opera. Here it | is every night, Sunday, too. That's why | our women all look worried, frowns here, | iines there,” and Roma tapped her own | smooth brow and unlined mouth. She is the very picture of healthful content her- self, her brilliant face brown as ever, her snapping black eyes as full of fire. Stout- er, too, she is, her voice suggesting too the oill and corn and wine of life. “On Friday night there we leave town for a | house party,” she went on, “‘getting back again on Monday. Or there is a meet, or something. You don’'t forget to live as you go along. And the afternoon teas— I adore the afternoon tea,” she vowed. “When did you go to England?” “Six years ago.” “And since then?" “I've been mostly with the Turner com- | pany. It is something like the Tivoll com- pany here, only we have ohly a 15-week season in London. The rest of the time we go touring. We sing in London at the | Shoreditch Theater—it holds 6000 people. Repertoire? Oh! everything from ‘Lohen- grin’ to ‘Lucia’ I've sung Elsa and Lu-; cia both, not to say Carmen.” I was lying in wait for an accent, but beyond “fancying” this and the other, and | finding dinners and such “‘decent,” there | wasn't a suggestion of the singer's six | years' stay in England. Whereat I joyed. | “You have a vacation now?” “For one year—papa’'s health.” «Papa” is Mme. Roma's husband, for in private life the singer 1s Mrs. Jesse Douglas. “I should go back then to create a part | in Audran's ‘L’'Enlevement de la Tole- dad.” " “How is light opera over there? We think it in a parlous state here.” “Just as bad,” decided Roma. “They | are all writing things round one or two | people, usually women, with nothing but their beauty to commend them. Nat- urally both fail. The thing has assumed absurd proportions. People are so an- noyed with the ‘girl show’ fake that they will hardly go to a light opera. And ' 1t will be so until the composers—save the | mark!—go back to the Gilbert and Suili- van methods—write their opera without an eye upon some stockbroker’s petite amie, for the art's sake. Then find the | people to sing it. And the theaters have to come back to the people who can sing in the end. They've got to have you, or | no one will go.” | “There are many Californfans in Lon- | don who do things.” | “Half London is American,” laughed | Roma, “and there are lots of Us.” Then, In her staccato, prestissimo deliv- 1 ery, she told off name after name of Cali- | fornians there. “Sig.”” Beel, who is teach- | ing and concertizing with marked suc- cess; the Withrows, painter and singing mistress, who are prosperous both; Edna Groves, who is singing well, and Dr. Ryan, her husband, prospering as a spe- cialist. Frank Belcher, the singer, is an- other whom London regards with favor, and Miss Buckingham's debut was one of the events of the season. Fannie Lid- diard was another mentioned, and Miss McKee, with two successful young phy- | sicians of local forbears, Dr. McNutt and Dr. Ziegenfuss. “I met Marie Barna, | too,” she concluded. “Marie is just mar- ried again, to a very wealthy stock- broker. She had on the night I met her— | oné evening at the theater—an ermine | coat clear to her feet!" ar old Lunnon isn’t so bad to you.” mighty good.” Then veering off, Mme. Roma asked: “Did you hear here CLEVER CALIFORNIAN SINGING IN “THE MIK/ AT THE TIVOLL g p——— o “But I bhaven't been sin cert,” she corrected. “I've ceptions, though. Mr. Tur t of pull on royalty through a £ his, and through him I've had a number of engagements to sing for Duchesses and Countesses and that sort of thing.’ Superb! t sort of thing!" “You make ney .at that thing?” 1 feit really profane a “Lots of it,” Roma gravely re £0 one evening to a house to before the affair is over the Du this and the other will say X are you engaged for next Th one could see the Duche and point lace s o evening. They There isn't n corner till you thing about it a good word—*“will warmly re first receive ask if you've met this and that person, and you go and sing when things seem to sag a little, just at your pleasure. you Then next day the check comes, £40, £50, £60—pounds, mind you." And then she showed me the aforementioned trink- ets, and acknowledged that she hag bgen presented at court. Much more of interest she had to tell, for the Californian’s bright, keen eyes have been wide open ail the time. It is interesting to learn that the American architect is a-power in London, and that one can now get houses buflt on the American plan. She explained Nance O'Neil's faflure there by the fact that the actress, in opening in “Queen Eliza- beth,” instituted comparisons between herself and an old time idol of the popu- lace, Ristorl. The fact that the English theater or concert goer will not dream of going to his seat during a number elicits her warmest admiration; and the fashion of giving the best seats, the “pit,” to the sixpenny public, seems to her worthy of admiring note. But she ends up with the old Californian yell, that there are more beautiful voices here, more native talent, than anywhere she has yet struck. Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.® —— Townsend's California glace fruit and candles, §c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 649 Market st.. Palace Hotel bullding. * —_——————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by th Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cal fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 ————— The total number of emigrants to Can- ada for the six months ended the 30th of June was 24,530, ——e——— —— Guillett's New Year extra mince vles, lce cream and cake. 505 Larkin st.: tel. East 19ae ADVERTISEMEITTS, THE ART SALLS GALLERIES 230 POST ST. ORIENTAL RUGS st AUCTION To-Morrow, MONODAY, AT 2:30 P, M. Catalogues. A. W. LOUDERBACK, Art Auctioneers. By Order of YUZUK & CO., Importers. NOTE.—The rugs offered at this Sale are acknowledzed by people competent to judge to be the. and ravest ever offered in this city and the prices realized Tidiculously low.