The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1903, Page 6

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UNHAPPY NEW ZEALAND. { few years ago New Zealand cnjoyed a | tion beyond that of any other land on So o ny philosophical ideas of i society were being put into ised to be an ideal land, and fir gov- | pract all om parts of the world sanguine reformers looked to it for | demonstration of the practicability of their plans | redemption of the human race from the m;is' a Aicted it in times past | New Zealand no longer enjoys that high repute. | er experiments have passed the stage of first en- | 1siasms and have reached the period of stress and It e possible of course that wise r agement may carry them through to a successiul nclusion and establish most of them at any rate as | permanent titutions, but it is not to be denied| at they have now reached a very critical stage and | ve produced social results quite different from s expected | Chief among the institutions threatened by the bad | 1 operation is that of compulsory ar- on as a means of settling disputes between | abor and capital. The Call has already directed at- | tention to reports that the interference with industry by the courts has led to the closing of many indus nd to a considerable shifting of the popula- | tion m the cities to the country because manufac- turing enterprises are no longer profitable A report adds another illustration of the de fects of the system. The story goes that a difference over wages which arose some time ago between :hel, cabinet-makers of Auckland and their employers was Court of the wages were ordered raised to 1s 3d an the themselves to do business at the new rates, and they Arbitration favor the in Thereupon masters declared locked o men. Proceedings were undertaken against the masters for breach of award, but now the A m Court, after a full hearing, has dismissed the case agains t -the employers ent of facts one of two conclusions the he first instance or else the court is pow it t state either decision of the court was ree That is to say, the law either or else it is an unworkable law. The attempted to raise wages, but failed to do s would seem that the result can hardly | factery to either party | A still graver charge is brought against the coun-| try. It is said that the various social and political experiments among the people have so unsettled so- | ciety that moral laws are losing their force. The tatement is based upon statistics showing that the birth rate of the population has fallen from 37.32 per in 1882 to less than 25 per thousand in 1901, while during the same period the illegitimate births increased from 546 to 93; that is to say, that while in 1882 there was but one illegitimate to every 35 births, there was one in 1901 to every 22 births. The ratio of illegitimates is larger than that England or Wales. It shows that some cause of is | operating to weaken the moral fiber of the New Zealanders, and sociologists will be interested to study anew the forces that are working out such re- sults among a people representing one of the most moral races on earth and living under conditions of exceptional prosperity and comfort. Many were the State representatives at the dedica- tion of the St. Louis Exposition, and among them all the staff of the Governor of Nebraska was con- spicuous for the brightness of its uniforms and the amount of gold braid displayed on coat and trousers. It would seem that there is a chance for Bryan to get in some work at home by taking the stump and insisting on silver braid. New York doctors have discovered in that city a new disease which y call “myalgia,” and which they assert is a species of rheumatism of the fingers; caused by handling too much money. Evidently the | disease is limited to a narrow class of people, fori with most folks money burns their fingers so much[ that they cannot handle it long enough to get a good | grip, much less a rheumatism. { | tics. | knows the straight path. | trolled thousands of votes, depleting seriously | making | tion of last | claiming California for 1904 takes the vote on Gov- | erno CALIFORNIA IN 1904. N enthusiastic Bryanite is favoring the Eastern A press with an estimate and prophecy of the vote of the States in the Presidential election of next year. He begins with the Solid §outh as a foundation, adds to it New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and supplies the thirty or forty votes rieeded for a majority in the Electoral College by counting in Indiana and California. Of the South there need be no doubt. That sec- tion shows many signs of falling in with the assumed trust programme against President Roosevelt. The trust press of the East created the negro issue against the President. Large numbers of Southern men are interested in various combinations of capital. They can safely talk anti-negro while meaning pro-trust, and look to Southern control of the party, if it win, to touch the trusts with carefully mittened fingers. But the South is the field of purely artificial poli- It has so long abandoned principle to chase is- sues of mere temporary expediency that it no longer The North considers is- sues of principle and does not care to incur the risk of a financial panic in 1805 by going astray in 1904. The best business judgment of the North affirms that there is no sign of a change in the rising tide of business and prosperity, and that the ebb will not appear soon unless a political change in the Gov- ernment shall imply a change that business will find unendurable. Throughout the North the Bryan es- timates are carefully scanned, and the reason in them | is sought for. They cause but little anxiety, for it cannot be said that they rest upon the slightest foun- dation, or even probability. Taking the Bryan forecast of California as an ex- ample of inaccuracy, the whole scheme to stampede the country by a forecast falls to the ground. - The last risk of California was passed in 1806. The silver Republican organization in this State con- the regular party strength. But this was offset by more thousands of votes cast by the gold Democracy. In that year the vote of the State was: McKinley, 146,- 472, against 144,766 for Bryan, 1730 for Palmer, 2562 for Levering (Prohibitionist), 931 for Bentley (Na- tionalist), and 1611 for Matchett (Socialist), Mec- Kinley's plurality over Bryan was 1706. But the ag- gregate opposition vote was 151,600, making an anti- 72, | Republican majority of 5128 In 1000 McKinley had 164,755, Bryan 124,085, and all others 14,129, making the total anti-Republican vote 130,114, and turning the Republican minority of 2\3 Republican majority over all of 25,641, and McKinley's majority over Bryan 40,626. The next test of the State was at the general elec- vear. The Eastern Bryanite who is 5128 int. the basis of his calculation, and starts with the statement that the Republican candidate had only 1500 majority! If that were true as a criterion of the shifting politics of the State he would have some 3ut men of all parties here last year ex- reason for his forecast know that the Republican majority ceeded McKinley's last majority over Bryan. The Democratic candidate for Governor ran away ahead of his ticket for the sole reason that the Examiner opposed him. TIn politics that paper’s opposition is so much more valuable than its support that the Re- publican vote on Governor was cut down to a plu- rality of 1550. But the average Republican majority on the State ticket was 47,700, and was the true index of the party’s strength in the State, The political statistics in the current almanacs and year books give only the vote on Governor, and the Bryan prophet takes that as indicating the strength of the party, when here and elsewhere the strength of the head of a State ticket is affected greatly by per- sonal considerations. The Republican vote in California has grown from a minority of 5128 in 1896 to a major- ity of 47,700 in 1902, a gain in six years of 52,828, and there is every reason to believe that we will next year give President Roosevelt a majority of 75,000. The Bryan estimates on New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are equally faulty, because they as- sume that, as in the case of California, the vote on Governor showed the full party strength. But the Bry- anites may take the Solid South and those three Northern States, by an alliance with the trusts, and the party yet remain in outer darkness, trying to soothe itself to sleep by the gnashing of its own teeth. A New York man wrote to the Sun that he couldn’t get along on $09 a week, and thereupon another man wrote to the Sun that if the first fellow ever lost his job he wouid soon’ find out that he can live in New York on 10 cents a day. now we are Thus does one man con- FOREST FIRES RAGING. H of floods along all the rivers from the lakes to sweeping over large areas of country from Canada to sole another in this vale of tears and render him sat- ARDLY hali a month has passed since the dis- the gulf, but already the current of the story has Maryland. isfied with his sorry lot. patches from the East were filled with reports changed and learning of forest fires A single issue of the New York Times, that of May . 2, contains reports of fires in the Adirondacks, in Connecticut, in Pennsylvania and in Canada.” Each of these fires was extensive. Those in Pennsylvania were exceptionally so. The damage was by no means confined to forests. Farmhouses, mining settlements and railway bridges were burned. A report from Nor- folk, Conn,, told of a fire sweeping a country two miles wide and ten miles long, and still burning at the time of the report. In the Adirondacks the fires had been burning for a aveek before they were extin- gux'shed by a heavy snowstorm. A fire near Williams- port, Pa., swept over a wide region, destroying saw- mills and lumber valued at more than $2,000,000, be- sides the homes of lumbermen and a number of farm- houses. A report from Oil City tells of a fire de- vastating farm lands as well as forests and burning a number of oil plants and sawmills, That is the record of a single day. We may infer from it what is going to happen when the summer sets in and theforests become thoroughly dry and liable to catch fire from any stray spark that may reach the leaves or the underbrush. We are going to have an- other series of disastrous lessons upon the importance of adopting something in the way of an efficient sys- tem of protecting forests. The lessons will be given first in the East, but they will rapidly move west- ward. In due time we shall have them all along the Pacific Coast from Washington to Southern Cali- fornia. (B4 dictates that we begin the task at once. The cost of such protection would be nothing like so great as the annual loss that follows neglect of it. By and by we shall act. In the meantime the fires will keep the subject in the public mind. — A Massachusetts Judge has decided that an Ameri- can citizen who pays for admission to a theater has a right to hiss if the play doesn’t suit him. By the same reasoning a man who does not like his _butter has a right to hiss the grocer who sold it to him. There is liable to be lots of trouble and a strenuous time in Boston this summer. - R — SUICIDE AND S''RAWBERRIES. S has been the custom of poet and essayist tc praise the strawberry. No matter how fond a man might be of that delectable fruit his fondness was never spoken of as gluttony. The lover of the strawberry was ever deemed an epicure, even if he devoured a quart at a sitting. We have fallen, how- ever, upon evil times. In our age men delight in condemning about everything that is sweet in life and satisfactory to the appetite. No dainty excellence of nature has escaped, not even the strawberry, for a man has arisen in Washington to declare that the cating of strawberries in early spring is the cause of suicide. That we may do the author of the horrible doc- trine no wrong we give his statement in his own language as it comes to us in our Eastern exchanges. He is quoted as saying: “Suicides are more frequent in the spring than at any other time. There must he some reason for it, and some time ago I suggested that strawberries were to blame. Investigations I have made have confirmed me in my opinion. Eating strawberries out of season invariably produces men- tal depression, and it is when people are in low spirits that they think of suicide and kill themselves. I do not believe there would be so many suicides if peo- ple would not eat strawberries until they are ripe at home.” The theory thus propounded has given rise to much discussion and various attempts have been made to explain how a man could be tempted to suicide by purchasing and eating strawberries about a week before the berries ripened in his own garden. The most valuable contribution to that phase of the subject was made by a sociologist, who, after mocking at all physiological explanations, said the cause of the ill effects of the early berry is the price. He adds: “The young man who begins to supply his best girl with strawberries at 50 cents a plate, or at $1 25 a pint box, naturally finds his contact with the alluring vegetable conducive to mental depression, and this may easily assume the form of suicidal mania, if the girl is inconsiderate.” It appears to have escaped the attention of the philosophers who are trying so hard to explain the relation between suicide and strawberries that the theory may be false; that the Washington man may be addicted to the habit of lying by too close an as- sociation with Congressmen when they are off duty. It will be noted that the theory Eloes not impute evil effects to any strawberry grown at home. It is only the imported strawberry that is charged with con- taining germs of suicidal mania. It is therefore as plain as a pike staff that the author of the diabolical report is a grower of strawberries at Washington and is seeking to destroy the market for those of Califor- nia or Florida. It is to be hoped the question will not be permitted to go over the silly season without settlement. The strawberry is a most beautiful and innocent creature. Did not Izaak Walton quote with approval the saying of Dr. William Butler, “Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless he never did”? That statement has been confirmed by the experience of ages. If there be too much suicide in the East during the spring of the year let the cause be sought not in the generous strawberry of California and the South, but in the excessive eating of beans all winter. e ——— e, Tt is said that Germany’s course toward Venezuela has been damaging to her trade in South America, but Germany will not fret about that. She knows it is better to have a small trade with sure pay than a big trade with no pay at all. B A LANSDOWNE DOCTRINE. RISCOM, United States Minister to Persia, some time ago informed this Government G that Russia holds all concessions for th| building of railroads in Persia, and that this exclu- sive contract has yet six years to run. All Russian railroads are constructed with a view to their use for military purposes. If roads are built in Persia across two mountain ranges to tap the lit- toral of the Persian Gulf or the Gulf of Oman Rus- sia would be within easy striking distance of the Brit- ish empire in Beluchistan and cast of the Indus, Such construction could have no other object than to menace Great Britain, for Russia has no commercial interests in the Indian Ocean which require it. On the other hand, Great Britain's are enormous. Her control of the Suez canal and the Mediterranean will be minimized in value if a rival get fortified on | the Persian littoral. Sir Edwin Arnold has named the all water route to India, via the Suez canal, “the King’s highway,” but such a highway must be under the King's control. Therefore the Persian railway concession is a serious emergency, and to meet it Lord Lansdowne ap- pears as the English Monroe, declaring that for an- | other European power to plant itself on the gulf wiil | be more than an unfriendly act, for it will amount | to a declaration of war. This is an immediate counter | to Russia’s schemes in Manchuria, and reveals the | strained relations that are growing between the two empires. If Russia meet .Lansdowne’s challenge and run her rails to the gulf, connecting there with a naval station, the Indian Ocean would immediately become the scene of naval warfare. Russia must get to and through the strait of Ormuz to connect with the terminus of a railway, and England would make that feat rather perilous, and Oman's green water could be dyed red in the effort. It is rather interesting to Americans that the es- | sential principle of the Monroe doctrine is asserted | by England and by Japan against the same power, | Russia. Perhaps by and by enough nations will feel | the need of judging who their neighbors shall be to make the principle such a necessity that the Monroe doctrine will be written into international law. The | English press recognizes the-analogy in Lord Lans-! downe’s statement, and the doctrine that was so un- popular about the time of Mr. Cleveland’s Venezuela | message bids fair to become a part of the permanent | INCE ever the English language was written it | FILCHER FAVORS TWO .EXHIBITS AT ST. LOUIS —_— J. A. Filcher, commissioner for Califor- nia to the Louislana Purchase Exposi- tion at St. Louls, declares that this State | should have a collective exhibit of its| produets, agricultural, horticultural and | mineral, at St. Louis. The rules of the ! exposition prevent the exhibition of such | a collection in a State building on the grounds of the exposition. The State| buildings will be merely headquarters for the commissioners representing the sev- eral States and Territories and for the ac- commodation of visitors. From this it appears that, to have the representative exhibit of California all in one place, it will be necessary to secure exhibition quarters outside of the exposition's of- ficial confines. ‘Whether it will be necessary to erect an outside building must depend upon the ability to secure adequate accommo- dations for a State exhibit of large size. “The world looks to California to do something exceptional,” said Commis- sioner Filcher. “It is expected that Cali- fornia will make a good showing, as it | has on previous occasions. Where the | exhibits are scattered among the several | departnients of an exposition they make little definite impression upen spectators. Of course, California will be well repre- sented in all the departments of the ex- | position at St. Louis, but there should ! also be a composite exhibit, made in the name of California, at some place, ovel which should be a sign showing that | California is holding a free show. All the’| forces in this State should combine to make such a collective or composite ex- hibit possible.” | BETTER SITE DESIRED. | The California commissioners have not | met since their appointment. Commis sioner Filcher says that he will meet with | Commissioner Wiggins soon. Governor | Pardee has expressed the desire to keep in close touch with the commissioners. The preliminary step will probably be the forming of an outline of the general plan that suggests itself to the commissioners as being calculated to have the best re- sults in behalf of the State. This will be presented to Governor FPardee. An at- tempt will be made early to have a bet- ter site allotted to California for State headquarters than has been assigned. The State headquarters will form one | of the first problems to be considered. | Some States are expending large sums on their headquarters. Missouri will have a building costing $300,000. olorado has a | costly structure in view for headquarters. The total of California’s appropriation is | only $130,000. The California St head-: quarters will be far less expensive than scme others. Nevertheless, says Commis- sioner Filcher, it is desirable to make a | shcwing that will be entirely creditable to | this State. He has already written to St. | Louis to get estimates concerning the co: of building materials, the cost of labor, cte, that some basis of understanding may be had before a call is made for plans for a State building. MANY WANT PLACES. | Commissioner Filcher yesterd: ex- | hibited a large bunch of applications that he has already received for positions un- der the commission. The applicants are | not losing any time in making thelr wishes known. “One thing I think I ecan say,” re- niarked Commissioner Filcher, “which 1s that no puil or anything except merit and akility to perform special work wiil have any power to secure employment by the cormamission. Every dollar of the appro- | priation has to be accounted for. It will be spent only in the direct line of getting | the best possible results for the State.” While the direct appropriation by ths State is only $130,000, the expenditures of California at St. Louis will be very| largely in excess of that sum, counting | in the cost to the counties on their indi- vidual account. This is {llustrated by the fact that while the direct appropriation of this State for the exposition at Chi- cagc was $300,000, the counties of Califo. nix expended an additional $203,500 for ex- hibition purposes. At the first meeting of the commissioners headquarters in this | ity will probably be selected. A serre-| tary for the commission will also very likely be chosen at that time. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. Herbert Nichols of Portland is the Palace. v W. L. Ecker, a at the Grand. Lee L. Gray, a fruit man of Fresno, is at the Palace. . €. Moltzen, a dairyman of Point Reyes, is at the Grand. A. B. Lemmon, a publisher Rosa, is at the Grand. B. Dickinson, proprietor of a hotel at Ben Lomond, is at the Grand. L. Kuhn, a hardware merchant of Col- fax, Wash., is at the California. S. Mitchell, cashier of the Visalia Bank, and wife are registered at the California. | J. Warren Dickson, who is promoting a | raflroad in Alaska, is at the Occidental, | having arrived from New York yesterday. William Jessup, a steel manufacturer | of Sheffield, and his family are registered at the Palace. They arrived from China | | { i | at merchant of Reno, is of Santa yesterday. | John Washington, formerly well known in San Francisco political circles, but now a mining man of Virginia, Nev., i8 in the city for a month’s vacation. Dr. Joseph Panquard of Kansas City arrived on yesterday's steamer from tne Orient. He is on his way to Washington with a number of young Chinese, who are to enter the colleges of this country. K. F. Crawford, retiring member of the English firm of Lane, Crawford & Co., | which owns general merchandise stores in all the large cities of Japan and China, is at the Palace. He is on his way to London. | Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, president of the Grand Trunk lines, is expected to ar- | rive here from the East to-day. He is| coming to the coast to look into the rail- road situation and inspect several insur- ance corporations in which he is inter- ested. Algernon Sartoris, grandson’ of the late | General U. S. Grant, who served a few months in the American army in the | Philippines and was discharged through | the influence of his mother, arrived from Manila yesterday and is registered at the | Palace. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, May T7.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—H. Coward, at the Gregoridn; E. B. Rogers and wife, at the Murray Hill; W. H. Toepke, at the Grand | Union; W. C. McCarthy, J. Meulds, W. Riley, E. Woody and wife, at the Ross- more; A. Goldberg, at the Hoffman; J. Henschler and wife, at the Criterion; C.| H. von Gerichton, at the Manhattan. From Los Angeles—M. H. Wells, at the | Hoffman House; J. Kanst, at the St Denis; E. Knight, at the Earl. ——————————— 1 Petition to Improve Park. i Residents and property owners in the vicinity of Buena Vista Park will present a largely signed petition to the Super- | visors to-day asking that the sum of $35,000 be set aside for the improvement of Buena Vista Park. The petitioners state that they think it possible to make | Buena Vista the most beautiful rural | | } accomplish this. STRATTON TALKS OF CONDITIONS IN THE ORIENT Frederick §. Stratton, Collector of the Port, who, with his wife has been mak- ing a tour of the Orient, returned with Mrs. Stratton yesterday on the Nippon Maru. He was met in the quarantine grounds by Deputy Collector Hamilton and a number of Federal officials, who boarded the liner and accompanied the Collector to the Pacific Mail dock. Mr. Stratton kept his observation facul- ties busy during his vacation, and in dis- cussing his trip said: The Boxer movement in China has been Breatly exaggerated, although the dissatisfac- tion certainly exists and may break into flame at any moment. I visited some of the interior points of China where trouble Is sup- | posed to exist, accompanied by my wife and without guards other than friends, and we were never molested. American interests are very large in the Orient, although our flag is nct seen as much as Is supposed. On April 1 last I counted forty-nine vessels in Hongkeng harbor. these twenty-four were British steamers, eleven German, six Ameriean, six Japanese and two French. This is probably a fair estimate of the carrying trade in the far, East. The use of American products as well as imports irto the United States are both on the in- Crease, but our commerce is being largely car- ried both ways on foreign battoms, CHINA SLOWLY AWAKENING. I went out opposed to the missionary move- ment in China; at least I had no sympathy | with it. I, however, have been converted by what 1 have seen. America leads all others in philanthropic and religious work in the Jrient and the results. while slow, are, in my pinion, sure, and the foundation is -being splendidly laid. Commereially speaking. the misslonaries are the advance agents for Amer- fcan commercial enterprises. If business men only understood this better they would assist rather than discourage evangelistic work in the East. The Chinese know nothing about Admiral Kempff's refusal to fire on the Taku fort, but they know all about the eleemosynary ork of the missionaries and are grateful to merica, Tne awakening of .China Is slowly taking place. The pation has been asleep for over 4000 years. Railroads, newspapers and the telegraph, with education, will in the end By breaking down provineial. ism it will awaken patriotism in the Chinese, where but little exists to-day. Just now the most progressive nation in the East is Japan. Her people are industrious, in- telligent and cleanly. Her emissaries are all over the world, sending in reports as to the most advanced methods In every phase of the world's life. Japan's fleet is really a powerful armament, while her mercnant spreading out everywhere, RAISING FILIPINO STANDARD. I return a_very strong advocate of Chinese exclusion. The Chinese, if granted the right to enter, would speedily displace the skilled American mechanic. In all of the cities of the Orfent that I visited, mainly throughout Chi- pa, Japan and the Philippines and the Ha- waiian Islands, I saw not a single skilled American or Buropean laborer or mechanic. All work, such as construction, building, car- pentering. turning. plumbing. lathing, brick- laving, plastering and the like was dene by Chinese and other Asiatics, to the exclusion of all else. Such skilled iaborers receive in China from 10 cents to 25 cents gold per day, marire is | and their proficiency in these various callings is marked. In the Philippines, business is depressed and times are somewhat hard. This is only nat- ural. when conditions are taken into con- sideration. The monetary system has been uncertain, the rhinderpest has destroyed nearly all the beasts of burden and for two years there has been considerable drought. Ame can commercial enterprise demands the ad mission of Chinese into the Philippine Isiands. The question in this regard is a The Americans would get rich and ry would prosper, but the Fili be the sufferers. Since we | islands for the purpose of bel pino our duty in this matter is American Government s slowly but _surely raising the standard of Filipino intelligence and civillzation, and through wise adminis- tration is accomplshing the object of Amercan occupation. The task is not an easy one, but we are succeeding. American enterprise fis bringing capital to the islands and its re- sources are being developed and its opportu- nities grasped PREPARING TO HONOR SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME Graduates and Former Pupils Will Meet Sunday to Plan for Cen- tennial Celebration. At o'clock next Sunday afternoon there will be held in this city a meeting to which unusual interest attaches. The centennial celebration of the Sisters of Notre Dame in San Jose will soon be held, and preparations are being made in various parts of the State, notably in this city, to make the event memorable. On Sunday at the hour mentioned all of the graduates and former pupils of the insti- tution are invited to attend a meeting at the College of Notre Dame, Mission Do- lores. At this session plans for the ap- proaching celebration will be discussed. A large attendance is earnestly desired that nothing may be left undone to honor the institution to which so many memories, dear to women of California, cling. ———————— Irving Club Elects Officers. Members of the Irving Club held an an- nual meeting yesterday afternoon at Uto- pia Hall, during which the following of- - ficers and directors were chosen: Pres- ident, Mrs. C. J. Bauer; vice president, Miss Juliet Greninger; secretary, Mrs. M. P. Cole; corresponding secretary, Miss. Helen Speyer; treasurer, Mrs. R. L. Tut- tle; directors, Miss Ethelwyn Marrack, Mrs. C. J. Wohlander, Miss Mabel Gale, Mrs. F. 1. Bateman. After the business meeting Miss Hettle Corlett entertained the Jadies with a few recitations, e e More society women's pletures in the Wasp this week. ot | BRAVOS RING AFTER' BATON OF CAMPANARI Brave. Campanari, brave! Yesterday :fternoon the last of the | quartet of symphony luders_ that have [uppenred here this season, Signor Lean- | dro Campanari, lifted his baton to the | tune of almost unqualified success. Ths | Grand Opera-heuse was the place, and, | though there was perhaps only a third of the people wha should have been there, the enthusiasm was of most flattering sort. And amply, indeed, was that en- thusiasm deserved. From the opening measures of “Les Pre- ludes” of Lisst that began the concert it was quite evident that here was a con- ductor of ripe experience, eminent mu- siclanship and large temperamental gifts. ! One was even before prepared so to nm: it from the very intelligent massing o the orchestra, no small facter im the rounded and homogeneous tone obtained. In tonal quality and finesse, indeed, yes- terday's concert must be set down as the most successful of the symphony efforts of the season, Mascagni's not excepted. It must be remembered. however, that the orchestra is fresh from the eloquent hands of Maestro Pietro, and further that to his two rehearsals a concert Cam- panari was able to count five. Still, the work was extrgordinarily good, even reck- | ening in these advantages, scholarly. le- gitimate and delightfully spirited. Like his countryman, Creatore, Campanari does not at all mind how he “gets there. but “get there’ he certainly does. At one moment he will be darting a rapier- like baton at the woodwind, the next picking up the brass with an eleetric wand lifited to high heaven—carrying Campanari himself to the tips of his ex- cited toes. Then he will pirouette a step or two a la Strauss, then pat the violins tenderly and with his swaying head lull them to a planissimo, and his climaxes find him apparently quite a yard taller. But he “arrives,” which is. after all, the point, and no doubt with a more prac- ticed hand would not have to work so hard. The symphony of the afternoon was the Beethoven No. 1, not very frequeat'y heard here. Its reading was most cc fortably accurate, sympathetic and cor servative, yet spirited; Its rendering marked by conspicuous finish and toual beauty. Best of the movements was the “Menuetto,” in which the requisite light- ness and speed were admirably attained. The andante was taken a little Lur- riedly, and lost therefore in breadth. The finale again was charmingly satisfying. and the whole symphony was received by the audience with loud signals of satis- faction. Flowers there were after it for the conductor, received by him with rath- er less than the usual awkwardness of receiving these awkward tributes. The rest of the programme included the “La Vierge” of Massenet, its sustained themes broadly handled by the conductor; the delicate “Danse des Sylphes” of Ber- Hoz, in which the vanishing point of the planissimo’s close was not quite obtaine, though neared—this was encored and re- | peated, by the way. Bizet's delightiul suite, the piquant “L’Arlesienne,” fol | lowed, and was vigorously and deftly n- terpreted. Wagner closed the varied pro- gramme, and Signor Campanari here again showed himself thoroughly at home in a fine reading of the Charfreitag-Zauber of “Parsifal” and the prelude of the third act of “Lohengrin."” It must be gratefully remembered that it Is to the local Council of Women, under whose auspices the concert was given, that we owe the pleasure of hearing Signor Cafipanari. Now only remains for them, or some one else, to permit us to hear Walter Handel Thorley, now the only “dark horse” in the local conduetors’ stall. BLANCHE PARTINGTONT Many Little Ones Are Aided. At the meeting of the directors of the Soelety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children held yesterday, Secretary White reported that during the last month 198 children had been involved in the offi- cer's investigations. The children sent to institutions numbered thirty-three and those placed in private families, two. E. Coleman, F. J. Koster, W. A. Magee, R- B. Hale, A. J. McNicoll, Andrew M. Da- vis, W. G. Dean, A. H. Vail, R. H. Swayne, F. P. Cole and F. J. Symmes were unanimously elected to membership in the society. —_———— Preparing Tax Budget. [ The Supervisors’ Finance Committes re- sumed consideration yesterday of the municipal budget for the next fiscal year. All salaries and other appropriations pro vided for by the charter were checked off and ailowed. The clerk was directed to arrange a programme for the various de- partments and this morning the estimates of the Police Department will be taken up. 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