The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1903, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. COMMANDERIES T0 BE HOSTS, 5 Gl Continued From Page 6, Column 4. them at me depot ith and escort them, with ights and flying col- tive nia Com ery has undertaken and e duriy e weeck, and show spe- such commande: edi gly hospjtable visited tk Commandery, ory for acce Since the present sumed the reins, t has s to confer The in- rders @ GATE COMMANDERY. GOLDEN A mbers making the most . ' int: £x en appoint- s active s ion and en- ry of the siting S hts, to sustain Cali- f s for hospit TO EEEP OPEN HOUSE. re the at its the Chinese for the One boid on with th it would e as 250 charac- times the number ary machine), but d be about three and the price was of t empire, neither the the British capi- anything to do nture. Li Hung 1 probably the which writes Chinese ttsburg Prese. . aracters.—F \ Curious change. transaction was recently when transferred to Garrett a fifteen- County for a con- es of bread. vered in quan- d to supply at Grocer phia Record. Leba Another shipment will arrive about January 21, 1904. In order to satisfy the demand for this premium we have ordered another carload of these books, and all persons sending to The Cook Book Depart- ment of this paper a six headquarters. | { the entertaining | ! exceptional | most | | The Original Little Beneficencia Pub- FRIDAY LEAVE LONDON - FOR HOLIDAYS CENERAL 00D WRITES DENIAL Former Surgeon, in Letter to a Friend, Replies to the Ac- cusations Made Against Him L AN Emulating the Royal Example, Britain’s Aristocratic Folks | Go to Their Country Homes | i | e —_— | BUT FEW REMAIN BEHIND | BELLAIRS NOT A PROTEGE AL Christmas Will Be Celebrated Press Correspondent, Afterward | in Old-Fashioned English| Discredited, Is Described, as | Style by Edward and Court| No More Than Acquaintance LONDON, Dec. 24.—Britain's metrop- NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—The Commer- olis presents the deserted appearance |cial Advertiser to-day prints a letter usual on the eve of Christmas. King |signed by General Leonard Wood and Edward, Queen Alexandra, the Prince addressed to Dr. Horace Flétcher of | and Princess of Wales and the members | Yale University, in which the wrlter; have gone to the country. | tells of his acquaintance with Edgar G. | . the aris- | Bellairs. In the letter, which was writ- | ten at Cairo on May 12 last, General Wood, referring to Bellairs, said: “In the spring of 1899 he was pro- moted to' Havana (from Santiago), nculI at my request or suggestion, direct or | indirect, as I remember it. He asked | absolutely no favors of me, or so far as I know from any one. After my trans- week- | condi- | gone their | here Christmas will be 1d fashioned English | prominent ar. Em- | and his family are at s the have this 3 Brocket Hall, Hatfleld, Hertfordshire, | fer to Havana as Governor of the whole where they will enjoy their Christmas | island, in December, 1899, Bellairs con- dinner as the guests of Lord Mount- | tinued on duty I should say about five | steph John R arter, second, sec- \ months, and was then sent to China ret of the United States Embassy, | and the Philippines—not at my sugges- | in London in charge of the, tion or request, directly or indirectly. | I was sorry to have him go, as we all liked him and found him reliable. In the Philippines Bellalrs was a belfever {in military government instead of civil, and apparently wrote accordingly, and, ndon homelk: | of course, trouble with the civil govern- i ment in the way of loss of friendly re- the interesting features of the | neh® ' he WE¥ cason is the enormous quan-| “.pger Bellairs left Havana ugly ru- merican and Canadian apples | .5 ahout him began to be circulated. | idence. These apples are S0 Tphey came almost entirely from a num- that they are used as Window | per of men who did not like him, and | Stockton, United | attache, and Major John , the military attache, will r first Christmas in England “harles H. orations. Owing to the scarcity of on investigation nothing definite was European crop tk Smerican | found. I heard from him very seldom. duct has been imported in unprece- | Finally some one published what pur- ted quantities. ported to be a story of Bellairs' past, and pointed out that he was my partic- | ular friend, that I sent him to China, that his attitude toward the civil gov- ROME Rome Dec. pent —Christmas eve in in the gayest man- whole town was given up t s ptuous of fish din- ernment was at my suggestion and that aggregating | I was working to relieve Taft, etc., con- 1e Pope received | clusions as false as they are childish | from Venice as a d silly. Who started the thing no one | mer parish. knows, but doubtless some of the peo- | \l everybody was busy | ple I had to handle without gloves dur- | the many presents which | ing my stay in Cuba. It was far-| Queen, th Queen fetched and dishonest and intended to | royal Princes sent to | create trouble. | ““This is the whole story. Bellairs was in no way cially intimate with me 6r my family—that is to say, I do not think that in all his Cuban service he | was at my table more than three or at ! most four times. I saw him daily, as I did the Sun man, and gave them such news as I could. They were treated ex- | actly alike." her during the ered with the Early Days of Rallroading. ary of Thomas '\ nd during the early 3 following is t over y that the upon at v to ride iting this house of course, we carriage e hour ap PLANS ISLAND FORTIFICATIONS Root Asks for Ap- as to be thre semen, th secretary propriation to Be Used in the Construction of Defenses great ob} Syt 1d at star as it had a | Root has forwarded to the House of Representatives, through the Treasury Department, supplemental estimate of $2,526,100 for the defenses of the in- sular possessions of the United States. ew I could not be de- so turned out there was econd between or and myself. a these flv miles ‘ occasion: made to | In his request the Secretary says: | out or go it, and then we | “Defenses for Porto Rico, the Ha- ate of twenty-three miles hour, d just with the same eat s to motion or absence of friction as er normal pa But the quick- ion is to me htful; it is real- and it impossible to dive of instant death ccident happen- waiian Islands, Guam and the Philip- pines are urgently needed to protect the newly acquired territory of the United States and Government prop- erty to be stored there; also to pre- vent interruption of cable communica- tions between San Francisco, the terri- | tory of Hawaii and Manila. | “This estimate is submitted with the . object of beginning the construction of these defenses at once at such in- servative Mrs. Overton. Mrs erton, o lives 4 '.A u"hurfnk“wn‘m ;‘r‘hw“:“‘: ":‘i‘:: sular localities as are now the prop- RICRBEN, EE, B A erty of the United States, or may be- da for the purpose of seeing a pas- . come so before the appropriation is ex- senge She is 90 yea senger train. She is 90 years old and |, . .3 203 of acquiring additional a4 within fifteen miles of the lands needed as sites for defenses of nearly all ber life, but had| 3978 neeced Se sites for d en the track up to that time. v e | 1 ——l e ng the train approaching she i became very much excited and refused | A Holiday Trip. - | 2 care To Mill Valley. Mount Tamalpais, Ross Val- | to go near the track, thinking the train a great monster capable of doing her | woy *thid ron mrcrn Sausalito Perry and the new third harm if it desired. She returned home ; {1? s‘m | greatly worked up over her adventure. [ 11345 p.-mr. Fares for round trip 25c to $1 90, Y { —_— | —New York Commercial. el it i Ut | Company of San | | Woman's Proper Place in Sport. The lwnoflm": Only a few years ago we used to [ Francieco. 3 | hear vague whispers from the seats | 3 zZD i‘{g\‘\_;]‘:;‘ oF coun. | ©f learning of the gentler sex about s ne tickets of this com- | Sécret athletics and wonderful feats pany have initialé “R. 6. Co." on faces and | Slyly performed. To-day common | monogram “'R. G. C." on backs thereof. | sense rules, and our young ladies have ire the capital prizes as decided ica Company, lowing the Heneficencia F their regular athletic' meetings and | play their interschool matches at suit- able games very much in the fashion | of their brothers. Now, what will be ! the result of these sweeping changes” Speaking as an ex-athlete who has en- joyed ample facilities for observing the effects of judicious exercise upon n- | School fellows, I unhesitatingly say that the exercises and games now so | eagerly followed by women cannot fall to be productive of great and last- ing good. The benefits of scientific training of the muscles are well-nigh invaluable, the possible.evils so few as to be unimportant. In these days the importance of a sound mind and a healthy body can hardly be over- estimated, and only a deeply preju- diced person dare say that a vigorous, healthy outdoor girl is not the queen of her sex. That we, to-day, Kave so | many of them is a blessing, the real | worth of which will surely be proved | later on. The outdoor girl of to-day | is to be the mother of a race of stal- | warts of the future, so surely as the race is to be perpetuated. { Woman's place in sport is right be- side her brother. Should she, in some particular branch of it, move slightly by $7500 for t 26, 1903, m Lewls, 18 First street, San Fr ¢in Portand, Or.. $625, for one- 0. 45803, same date. t are paid in full n at the office of the to any person who prizes at our of- | lica Company of San Francisco. Organized September, 1893. SPECIAL NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Owing to the fact that numerous schemes are placed before the public from time t0 time, we | respe ctfully call the attention’ of pur- ckets to buy only from responsible | 5 see that their tickets read as foi- | IGINAL LITTLE BENEFICENCIA A COMPANY OF SAN FRANCIS. ORGANIZED SEPTEMBER, 1583. the initlals M. & F. on the the ticket. owing are the capital prizes THE BENEFICENCIA PUBLICA as de- | cided_ by £ COMPANY of the City of Mexico, December 24, | T :.'Zifé"'i(;?‘".f?f;i ahead, or fall a trifie behind, it mat- | Francisco. 13500 soid in ers not so lo A b:nniirhnc 18725, 15205, 30281, | 2 o ug =s ahe kespi i Joysn Then her magical influence will re- fine and elevate without detracting from the value of his favorite pas- times, while she in return will learn many delightful things and find that priceless reward of outdoor folk—ro- bust health.—Illustrated Sporting Francisco, Cal. The 1ol -r1n¢ capital prizes were the above M. & F. Co. for November *Md by | that of each of its acts being heralded, | used the long intermission fble Parsifal. | manz was not altogether satisfactory: | or your money returned. Price, News, STRONG CAST IN “PARSIFAL” Brilliant Audience in New York Views Presentation of Wag- ner's Sacred Music Drama AT BAYREUTH IS SURPASSED ——— Herr Burgstaller in Title Role and Van Rooy as Amfortas Share First Night’s Triumph _—— NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—In spite of successive legal complications, a small storm of public protest and some enor- mous practical difficulties, Richard ‘Wagner’s sacred music drama, ‘‘Parsi- fal” was produced in the Metropolitan Opera-house to-night before an im- | niense audience. The production was | the first performance of the drama out | of Bayreuth. To give the work the Metropolitan | stage was rebuilt, elaborate mechani- cal appliances and lighting-apparatus | were purchased, and the musical cen- | ters of Europe were ransacked to en- | gage a corps of experts for every de- partment. To-night's performance | amounted to a triumph for Director | Conried. In the opinion of every one‘ who has made the “Parsifal pilgrim- | age” to Bayreuth, to-night's perform- | ance surpassed all those previously | given. The audience was brilliant, and many persons came from Boston, Phil- adelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Chi- cago and other cities. - The performapce was begun at 5 o'clock, the opening of the drama and after Bayreuth custom, by trumpeters on the main staircases. The first act, ending at 7 o'clock, was followed by a |, recess for dinner. The performance was resumed at 8:45 o’clock and con- cluded at 11:30 o'clock. While some to drive home, a rule dinner was taken in restaurants. Much annoyance was caused by the fact that the play began too soon for evening dress and ended long after the time for donning evening garb. The cast at all important points was strong, three at least of the principal actors having learned their parts un- der the tutorage of Frau Wagner. These were Herr Alois Burgstaller as Parsifal; Frau Milka Ternina as Kun- dry, and Herr Blass as Gurnemanz. Anton Van Rooy was Amfortas; P. M. Marcellos, Titurel, and Herr Otto Go- ritz, Klingsor. Herr Burgstaller made an admira- Herr Blass as Gurne- His embodiment lacked th and the benignity which Scaria and | Wiegand gave to the part at Bay- reuth. Measured praise must go to Herr Goritz, for his Klingsor was but a mild-mannered magician. Van | Rooy’s Amfortas was the bast thing he has ever done. He pictured admir- exaltation ably the wounded King of the Grail and in the great scene where, forced to perform his office, he uncovers the sacred cup, his acting and singing both splendid level. arose to a DECEMBER 25, 1903. STOLEN RICHES ARE LOCATED { Government Alleges That Car-, ter, Green and Gaynor Are’ Owners of Railroad Shares pllec R PR s BRINGS SUIT TO RECOVER, —_—— Spoils of the Conspirators Are Held, It Is Claimed, in Name| of a New York Attorney| Bl R LYNCHBURG, Va., Dec. 24.—A suit | in equity has been instituted in the | United States Court to subject the‘ stock of the Norfolk and Western Rall- | way Company, standing in the name of | L. Laflin Kellogg of New York, who ll alleged to be in reality the attorney | for and trustee of Benjamin D. Green, | “a citizen of Connecticut temporarily | residing in the city of Quebec,” to the payment of demands alleged to be due} the Government of the United States. The allegation is that O. M. Carter, M. Carter, Benjamin *D. Green and John F. Gaynor conspired to defraud | and digd defraud the United States, and that a portion of Green's share of the spoils was invested in the name of Kel- logg in 400 shares of common stock of the Norfolk and Western Railway | | Company. The object of the suit is to enjoin the | transfer of the stock and to sequestrate it for the benefit of the Government. A temporary injunction has been granted. S LA B 0 COMBINE GRIPS THREE NATIONS International 0il Trust to Regulate Sales in the United | States, Austria and Russia T BERLIN, Dee. 25.—The Frankfurteri Zeitung says that an international pe- | troleum pool has been arranged be- tween the United States, Austrian and | Russian interests. The arrangement | embraces a plan for increasing the ex- | port of Galician oil to Germany. The Austrian cartel has secured per- mission to ship half of its surplus of refined oil to Germany, which, under the agreement, will be taken by the German-American Petroleum Company' and the German-Russian Naphtha | Company at 4 marks per hectoliter be- | low the current Hamburg quotations. | It is also agreed that the Austrian car- | tel can sell half of its remaining sur- | plus in the open markets of Germany, | but that it must pay the United States and Russian companies 25 per cent of the profits derived therefrom. ———— " Zanardell’s Condition Is Worse. ROME, Dec. 24.—The condition of former Premier Zanardelli is growing worse. He is suffering from acute anemia. | | ADVERTISEMENTS. F“fi’ié?i" a Time Payments” [ The J. Noonan Furniture Co. 1017-1023 MISSION STREET, ORISR0 | 22 | | China Closets, Sideboards Ruifels Combination Book Cases and Wriling DeskKs Combination. 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MATINEES TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW. “Unusually versatile company.” —Call. 4 Benefits in Aid of the win s e e BLUE: E. J. Carpenter Presents the Sensational Melo- | Never rama, . | ear aurrLeourcast JEANS 353 The Performance Will Conclude With the One- Act Drama, HOW TO FIGHT A FIRE. Characters by Members of the San_Francisco Fire Department and Police Force. Beginning Sunday Matinee, “ the GREAT CAST—WONDERFUL REALISM. The Brass Band. The Pet Bull. The Barbe= cue. The Santa Claus Scene. The Thrilling Buzzsaw Sensation, Order Seats in Advance, Evenings, 25c to 75¢; Matinees, 15c to 30c. Monday, Jan. 4—A LADY OF QUALITY. GENTRAL=E2 Market Street. Near Eighth. Phon- South 533, TO-NIGHT—LAST THREE NIGHTS. MATINEES 'mvung, ‘_'nr-a.mnm)w, SUN- A B. PATTON, “THE MINIS- _Poculiar Comedian, in ONLY TWO MORE NIGHTS. Biggest Hit of the Season! FOXY GRANDPA The Musical Extravaganza, ALPHONSE and GASTON Richest, Ractest, Cle\'eres( of All Grea ville in Every Act, Frories Joseph Hart COMEDIAN TONY WEST Than H MISS VIRGINIA AINSWORTH Ever. Carrie de Mar ‘ | And Chorus of Forty ~Birdie” Girls. Sunday, “ARE YOU A MASON?" !mlcE Evenings - .10c to 8Os Funniest Farce in Years. | Matinees. -10e, 18c, 25e | New Year's Week— \\\\‘\\\ THE DAIRY FARM. COLUMBI A SAN FRANCISCO'S LEADING THEATRE ——MATINEE TO-DAY—— AND !ATD’BDLY ! MATINEE TO- DAY CHARISTMAS, AT 2 SHARP. Parquet, any seat. 25¢; Baleony, 10c; Chil- dren, any part except reserved, llc. | | | Great Orpheum Road Show. | Merian’s Dog Pantomime and “Cae« sar,” the Mind-Reading Poodle; Elizabeth Murray; 4 Nightons; Ed. F: Reynard; Eckhoff and Gordonj Melani Trio: Albertus and Millar; Henry Humberty, and Ernest Ho= gan, Mattie Wilkes and Company. LULU GLASER In Stange & Edwards' Dainty Comic Opera, DOLLY VARDEN. Beginning Next Monday—Charles Frohman Pregents Clyde Fitch's Best Play, THE GIRL WITH | sl THE. GREEN. EYES. Strong Cast of Favorites. Seats Ready. TIVOLIgze HOUSE. MATINEE TO-DAY FOR YOUNG AND OLD CHILDREN! Magnificent Production of the Holiday Spec- tacle, IXION Or “THE WEHEELMAN.” A Mythoiogical Musical Extravaganza Three Acts. See Bothwell Browne's Beautiful Ballets. USUAL POPULAR PRICES...28¢, 50c and T3¢ Proscenium and Mezzanine Box feats....$1 00 Seats on sale two weeks in advance. BIG CHRISTMAS SPECTACLE, THE BRITTONS. And a Great Show Every Afterncon aand Evening in the Heated Theater. | TWIN SISTERS IN THE INFANT INCUBA- TORS, | n | PRESENTS FROM THE CHRISTMAS TREE FOR ALL CHILDREN THIS AFTERNOON. Admission, 10c. Children, Bo. DON'T FAIL TO EXTRA MATINEE TO-DAY. Christmas Greetings we extend WINFIELD BLAKE, BE 3 MAUDE AMBER, | GEORGIA 0. RAHF\' the ALTHEA TWIN and Our Chorus of Fifty Beautiful Volces. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. POPULAR PRICES. ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT! FOR THE BLOOD.LIVER.LUNG w. T. HESS. Notary Public and Attorney-at-: Tenth Floor. Room 1015, Claus Spreckeis bldg. Telephone Main 083, Residence, 821 California st. below Powell, Residence Telephone James 1501 The world's greatest songstress, will appear in | San Francisco, her banner city. on the night of January 7 and the afterncon of the 1ith. Popular Prices, One, two, three, four and five dollars, will pre. | vail. Full particulars regarding sale of seats will | be annownced later. ?Weak Men and Women HOULD USE DAMIANA BITTERS, 'l':!': Great Mezican Remedy; gives health rength to sexual organs. Depot. 323 Market DIRECTORY OF RESPONSIBLE HOUSES. atalogue and Price Lists Mailed on Appllea.uon. "?‘ffi? Jeaves Th nhx:a and “;r"o’ - aND sanz -:“A'II. % - PP chers. Xo smoking in laxc tva JAS.I“ESCC& 5. Tel, Main 1204, EVERY WEEK DAY, RAIN OR SHINE NEW CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB. 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