The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 2, 1904, Page 37

<+ Pages 37t0 4 3 CALL ] Pages 37 to 48 SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1904. “Hamlet” as Burbage ¥+ ~—fe Scenes From the Production of Hamlet as Given by the Ben Greet Company in the Greek Theater at Berkeley. VALUES MEART [CLAIMS HUTTON [WEEK OF MIRTH AT TIDY SUM| Woodland Girl Seeks Dam- ages for Breach of Prom- ise From Grass Valley Man DS h to The Call. Miss Ber- nd has com- A of breach that the her the coin of her injured fe nds to pay to 1,000 in for 1- tat d gave up her in the ation t she is high- nervous >med Y, h's alleged f mar- jeved and morti- romise She further a in the suit occupies a high social position and moves among men of wealth, and that when they became betrothed he promised when they be- came one to inst her in a beautiful home. As an evidence of his professed affection she avers he presented her with a beautiful and costly diamond ring. uperior Court of | s in her com- | hased a handsome | alleges that the defend- ! CANNOT SERVE { Taxpayer Protests Against the Paying of Any Salary to Police Commissioner | ———— | Peter Orubirn, who signs himself a taxpayer, filed a protest yesterday with City Treasurer McDougald against pay- ing any salary to Police Commissioner H. W. Hutton since September The protest says: “Your official attention is directed lnl the fact that on September 27, 1904, one W, 1904, H. Hutton, a Police Commissioner, v the Superior Court therein con- of an offense involving a willful n of the official duties of his of- d that by virtue of said conv tion and under the provisions of sec- tion 10 of article XVI of the charter of San Francisco the office of Police Com- missigner theretofore held by the said H. W. Hutton is vacant, and you are hereby required to refrain and abstain from paying to the said H. W. Hutton any salary or compensation upon any | claim made by him for services per- formed as said Police Commissioner since September 27, 1904.” The protest was also signed by George D. Collins as attorney for Oru- birn, who 1is credited with having threatened to have Hutton ousted from office. The protest was received by Deputy Treasurer Louis A. Devoto at 12 o'clock, | but too late to be'of any effect on Hut- ton’s September salary of $100, as the money was paid over to him at 10 o'clock. Treasurer McDougald cannot | do anything else but recognize the pro- Clinch’s lawyers say they have no | test, but in order to determine if it has fear as to the outcome of the suit and doc not belie their client is at all hen the case is called for will be prepared aintiff and subse- the county, regrets the un- ed upon him. s Valley a s the guest of i Murderers’ Sentences Postponed. Thomas P. F convicted of rder in the first degree for shoot- | g and kill his appeared for sentence before Judge Lawlor yester- t the request of his attorney a uance was granted till October 8, when a motion for a new trial will be made. Alexander B. Garnett, con- victed of murder in the second de; shooting gree and killing Major J. w. McClung, also appeared for sentence, but continuance was granted till Wednesday, when a similar motion will be argued. ——— A certain species of bean in China and Japan grows a yard long. Efforts to introduce it into this country have failed. a —_———— Creed without Christ is a compass without a needle. gement, he had | ficial use for the ac- [ whether Hutton in ordering the arrest any merit the question will be submit- ted to City Attorney Long for an opin- ion. | Under the charter a municipal office Clinch was really | becomes vacant if the incumbent there- e : of is convicted of a violation of his of- duties. The point at issue is {«f inmates of the resort at 1129 Dupont ne of the substan- | street in violation of Judge Cook’s in- is | junction has willfully violated his of- | ficial Quties, and the City Attorney will |ve asked to look up the law on the point. | e | Shrimp Company, | the i Street. ‘Will Arrest Shrimp Catchers. Deputy Health Officer Louis Levy yesterday directed one of the inspec- tors of the Health Department to swear to warrants for the arrest of John Doe, Richard Roe and Gustave Videau, members of the San Mateo doing business in basement at 708 Sacramento In October, 1899, the Board of Health condemned the shrimp beds | at Butchertown and for more than four years no shrimps were taken from the place. Health Officer Ragan {in his report submitted to the board a few days ago stated that the action of the board was being nullified by certain parties and he recommended their arrest. The board approved this recommendation. It is alleged that the San Mateo Shrimp Company is using shrimps caught at Butchertown in violation of the ordinance, and the members of the firm will be arrested. { | | S PROMISED hool Teachers and Pupils Co-operate in Preparing an Excellent Programme e For five days this week, beginning to-morrow afternoon, the teachers and pupils of the public schools, with their hosts of friends, will make merry at the Chutes. For months preparations have been under way to afford a week of fun for all seeking amusement, and splendid programmes have been pre- pared for each day. The proceeds of the week will go to a worthy cause, the Teachers’ Annuity Fung, and it is ex- pected thgt the friends of the educat- ors of children will come forward with their customary liberality. To-morrow will be Pacific Heights day and the week’s entertainment will be opened with a chorus from that school. In the casino an entertainment will be held from 2 to 3 o’clock in the afternoon, after which the floor be cleared for dancing. Apart from the reguiar programme there will be side entertainments in rlenty and it is suggested that a lib- eral supply of dimes and nickels will be very useful to those who wish to “take in” everything. The grab bag with its wealth of un- known treasures, the fishpond, from which anglers may draw forth prizes unknown to ocean’s depths, the wonder tree, the treasure ship and a host of other amusements will occupy the time and attention of both young and old. Much interest is being taken in the enterprise by citizens who have contri- buted to provide for the comfort of those in whose hands s entrusted the education of the coming generation. The programme in the pavilion to- morrow will be as follows: Song and dance, “Rlooming Lize,” Cathleen Rogers; saliors’ hornpipe, Muriel Cohl, Yrette Mitchell, Elgie Mil- ler; dance, “Volunteer,” Gladys Down- ing; recitation, Miss Eleanor Lazinsky (teacher of elocution); (a) song, “Look Out for the Coon in the Moon,” Norma Wadley; (b) skirt dance, Elgie Miller; solo dance, M. Angie White; Irish jig, Masters Gwynn and Fred Coffey; “La Espanola,” Cathleen Rogers. —————— Divorce Suits Filed. Willlam Hartland sued Adelaide Hartland for divorce on the grounds of intemperance and cruelty. His complaint says that they were mar- ried at Selwyn, New Zealand, in Jan- uary, 1878, and that she has been guilty of drunkenness for the last five years. When intoxicated she made life unbearable for him, frequently hurling dishes and cooking utensils at his head. Other suits for divorce were filed by John Clare against Della Clare for intemperance; Laura Spohn against Charles Spohn, cruelty; J. L. Ervin against Elizabeth L. Ervin, desertion; Mary E. R. Hunt against Eugene F. Hunt, desertion; Mary E. Lewis against Edwin F. Lewis, cruelty; Hen- ry Rubin against Jane Rubin, intem- perance and cruelty. will | CANADA MAKES SIRICT RULES Stringent Law Concerning American Shipments Now in Full Force and Effect Bellingall yesterday Canadian George Probasco of P. W. & Co. received from Canada morning copies of the new law regulating the manner shipments from the United States into Canada shall be certified. The custom hitherto has been to send ordinary shippers’ bills with a stamp, reciting that the values as stated are correct. The new act went into effect yesterday and is very stringent in its provisions. It requires the shipper to state the quantities and description of the goods, the fair market value as sold for home consumption and the selling price to the purchaser in Can- ada. Certification must be made to the following facts: “That the said invoice also exhibits the fair market value of the said goods at the time and place of their direct exportation to Canada and as when sold at the same time and place in like quantity and condition for home consumption, in the principal markets of the country whence exported di- rectly to Canada without any discount or deduction for cash, or on account of any drawback or bounty, or on account of any royalty actually paya- ble thereon when sold for home con- sumption but not payable when ex- ported, or on account of the exporta- tion thereof or for any special consid- eration whatever. “That no different invoice of the goods mentioned in said invoice has been or will be furnished to any one; and that no arrangement or under- standing affecting: the purchase price of the said goods has been or will be made or entered into between the said exporter and purchaser, or by any one on behalf of either of them, either by way of discount, rebate, salary, com- pensation, or .in any manner whatso- ever other than is shown in the said invoice. ° ‘““Whereas, German goods are subject to surtax in Canada, I certify that none of the articles included in this invoice are the produce or manufac- ture of Germany, and that the chief value of none of said articles was produced in Germany—save. and ex- cept all articles opposite which the word ‘Germany’ is written on this invoice.” The price and value of the goods in every case aforesaid are to be stated in which | as in condition packed ready for shlp-J ment at the time when and at the place whence the goods have been exported to Canada. No deduction from the value of goods shall be made on account of charges for packing or straw, twine, paper, cording, wiring or cutting or for any expense incurred in the prep- aration and packing of goods for ship- ment and all such charges and ex- penses shall, in all cases, be included as part of the value for duty. —— . 'There is no reverence without reality A in religion. LOSS 1S FINED AT 1 MILLION Widespread Damage Caused by the Flood That Swept Through City of Trinidad TRINIDAD, Colo., Oct. 1.—Al- though reports continue to be circu- lated to-day that several families have been missing since the flood swept through the city yesterday, no bodies have been recovered, and the police announce that they have no reason to believe that there was any loss of life. The property loss will approximate $1,000,000, being even greater in many instances than at first supposed. The damage to the Colorado and Wyoming Railroad is fully $75,000, in addition to the weakening of the $50,000 bridge at Sopris, which may fall. Two miles of track between Sop- ris and Jansen - are -gone. One thousand feet of Santa Fe track is in the river at Jansen and the bridge at Starkville is gone. The Colorado and Southern roadbed in Riley Canyon is wrecked, twenty-four bridges having been washed away. A special meeting of the City Coun- cil was held to-day to devise measures for the relief of flood sufferers. Con- struction of a temporary water main to the south side to replace the mains that were washed away was begun. The Las Animas River to-day is at its normal stage and can easily be forded at any point. ek i HUNDREDS HOMELESS. \ Rio Grande Breaks Its Banks in New Mexico. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Oct. 1.— The wild sweep of water, raising the Rio Grande to the highest point for more than a year, has made 200 peo- ple in this vicinity homeless. Bare- 1os, a suburb, is under two feet of wa- ter and many homes have been aban- doned. Alamedo is threatened by the terrific pressure upon the dam, which, it is feared, may give way. The railroads have suffered severely in the Rio Grande Valley. The Santa Fe is at a standsill all through New Mexico. On the El Paso branch there are miles of track under water and approaches to two bridges are gone. The branch to Deming is also badly injured. e WILL RESUME TRAFFIC. rrains Will Run Across the Las Ani- mas To-Day. DENVER, Oct. 1.—The Colorado and Southern officials announce that their trains will be running across the Las Animas River at Trinidad by morning. General Superintendent Coughlin of the Denver and Rio Grande, with a competent force of engineers, is at work in Trinidad re- pairing the damage wrought by the flood. The Santa Fe has sent a large force of men to Trinidad to make repairs, All the companies are sending trains to the two sides of the river and pas- > Played It Centuries Ago IGreet’s Company Appears Before Critical Audience in Classic Greek Theater “Opposite ‘Hamlet' in the repertoire that Mr. Greet gave his advance agent he wrote ‘universities only.” The reason I suppose was his appreciation of the fact that only in a university commu- nity could he find many who would be interested in a serious attempt to give the play as it was prepared for the stage by Shakespeare himself, and in some such manner as it was acted dur- ing his lifetime.” Thus spoke Professor W. D. Armes, one of our most serious and scholarly students of the drama, on the ideal of the “Hamlet” performance given at the Greek Theater yesterday by Ben Greet's company of players. Professor Armes quotes also in the afore-quoted leaflet Austin Dobson’s opinion of how it was “when Burbage played . the title role and Shakespeare the ghost in the Globe Theater just 300 years ago.” Mr. Dobson believes that When Burbage played the stage was bare Of fount and temple, tower and stal Two backswords eked a battle out, Two supers made a rabble rout: The throne of Denmark was a chair. And yet, no less the audience there Thrilled' through’ all changes of despair, Hope, anger, fear, delight and doubt, When Burbage played! Further, yesterday's programme rath- er naively informed that “the present performance should not be judged as an ordinary theatrical performance”— though whether to regard it as a Kolb and Dillic or a Mansfield chef-d’oeuvre is left handsomely to one’s discretion. This the programme promised, how- ever: “No new readings will be at- tempted, the whole endeavor being to give the play, with the scenes usually omitted, in a primitive manner as near- ly as possible like that in which it was produced just 300 years ago.” Thus the manager of yesterday’s production — whom I know not. The programme, dellcately reticent cor- cerning the cast, is also alluringly mys- terious here. It is to be admitted that without the aforesaid sign posts the errant critic might have lost his way. He might have been tempted to “judge the per- formance as an ordinary theatrical per- formance.” He might have bothered his head about small matters like correct lines, emphasis and sich, or stubbed his toes upon “new readings.” Being relieved from these necessities, he has only to say how he likes “Hamlet” as it was done “with the Ghost by Mr. Shakespeare” 300 years ago. There were probably 3000 people at the Greek Theater. Fairer’ morning than yesterday's even Shakespeare never hymned—luckily, for “Parsifal” fashion, we took our “Hamlet” in in- stallments, the first at the heartle: hour of half past 11 a. m. The theater itself—but where is George Sterling to immortalize its grave loveliness? 'Twould, yesterday it rose stately into the washed skies and clean green of the trees, turn a Punch and Judy show into an epic! As when Burbage played the bugle summoned us inside. There we found the Elizabethan stage, with its two, three chairs, a table, a small platform with steps and so on, to which Mr. Greet has already accustomed us. You will remember that Bernardo says almost at the outset that “’tis now struck twelve.” The morning laughed at the mimic midnight. But, magically, in a phrase or two, night fell, and the Ghost stalked in amid strange fears lent by the day. Curious, too. He—the programme denies his name—was a rather dapper little ghost. He had a strictly corporal string or two hanging from his ghostly garb, and—nalls in his shoes. Yet the “feel” of the scene was mysteriously there. Horatio Promjfits Prince, But Not as Shakespeare Would Have CoachedHim Comes Hamlet then, Ben Greet him- self. Mr. Greet, Miss Constance Craw- ley and John Sayer Crawley, by the way, are the only members of the last year’s company over here this year. If 'twere not “Hamlet,” as when Bur- bage played, one might take excep- tion to the Greet portrait. But surely Shakespeare tore his hair occasionally? I can imagine him sometimes almost as much annoyed as Mr. J. C. Crawford is about “Miss Mazuma" as Fischer's libel it. I must confess that I person- ally prefer a commonplace accuracy in the lines to begin with to the variety of paraphrase in which Mr. Greet ye: terday indulged. Had I written it s For use almost can change the stamp of n: ture, I should vainly it prefer to the For use almost can break off cultom That Mr. Greet likes better. And scores of such changes might be in- stanced. Bad stage management, Mr. Shakespeare, I should call it. Neither does it conduce to {llusion to have Ho- ratio prompting the melancholy prince from a book hidden under his cloak, nor to hear a silver-voiced person be- hind the arras doing the same. We may be hypercritical these days, but I fear, gentle Willlam, that Mr. Belasco would not give you your salt as a stage manager! As a characterization, Mr. Greet's Hamlet on the comedy side is delight- fully sufficient. Gently cynical, lightly touched in plastic, it is here a witty and eloquent picture. Like those of all his players, Mr. Greet’s voice and enunciation are constantly charming. Every word is clear cut and in absolute emotional tune. Hardly so convincing one finds him on the tragic side. More of a “reading” than a characterization one finds the impersonation here. Hamlet, the tortured accuser of his mother, the Hamlet roused to a spas- modic fire-eating, one hardly gets the spirit of. One finds again a substantial philosophical quality in the portrait. But Mr. Greet is a comedian, and on this side notably satisfies. From the picturesque side he is a better Malvolio. Laertes, spirited, virile, human, was admirably essayed by John sayer Crawley. He struck most gratefully the human quality in his delivery, and to lock at made a lithe and handsome Dane. Constance Crawley was the Ophelia, and with a fragile delicacy of charm in her mad scene. She, however, notably sinned against the integrity of the lines, Mr. Shake- speare. Slightly melodramatic, too, were her emotional moments, but there was a wis girlish quality in the work, poetr arm that lingers gratefully with one To Leonard Shepherd fell the part of the king. Mr. Shepherd evidently felt the responsibility. However, but that it became monotonous one liked not wholly the pompous strut of it. Polonius was good—but who ever saw a bad one?—sage, sententious, oh! the droll humor of him! And the gravedigger! Three hundred years ago they laughed as we laughed yesterday faurice Robinson spouted his ple- n wisdom. Helena Head was the queen, and full stately, with a notable emotional grip. After all, the play’s the thing. “Hamlet” cannot be spolled by any company of players from Petaluma to Tibet. And Mr. Greet's are not of the worst of these. The ‘“curtain fell” splendidly on the cannons of the new King Fortinbras and for the first time one saw the dead carried out. And one will not easily forget it—or the rest. BLANCHE PARTINGTON. AN IR s ) S S sengers will be transferred by means of a footbridge. poo AR DRIVEN TO HOUSETOPS. Residents Near Lamar in Danger From High Water. LAMAR, Colo., Oct. 1.—The flood in the Arkansas River reached here to-day and washed out the north ap- proach of the bridge over the river at this place. The bottomland ‘on the north side is under water. The river is rising rapidly, but no further dam- age is anticipated here. Telephone reports from Prowers, nine miles west of Lamar, show that the water there is at the highest stage known in thirty years. The entire Prowers ranch is under water and the residents were compelled to seek safe- ty on the tops of their houses. ke 2SR AR DIVERTS COAST TRAINS. Rock Island Forced to Switch to Southern Pacific Tracks. TOPEKA, Kans., Oct. 1.—Washouts caused by the high water in New Mexico have made it impossible for through passenger trains of the Rock Island to get over the.line. ‘ Rock Island passenger trains for the Pa- cific Coast are diverted to the south at Herington, Kans,, and turned over to the Southern Pacific at Fort Worth, Tex. Eastbound Pacific Coast trains are coming over the Southern Pa- cific to Fort Worth and from that point over the Rock Island to Her- ington and to the East. ——— New Automobile Record. CHICAGO, Oct. 1.—By driving two miles in 2:02 flat at the Chicago Au- tomobile Club races to-day, Carl Fisher of Indianapolis, Ind., lowered by three- fifths of a second the world’s track record for middle-weight machines for that distance. The best time previously made was 2:02 3-5, by Joseph Tracy at the Empire City track, New York, on September 24, PITTSBURG, Oct. 1.—At the Pitts- burg Automobile Club to-day Barne Oldfield broke the twenty-four horse- power machine ten-mile record by going the distance in 10:50 1-5. Eleven minutes was the-best previous record. ——— Wants Fay for Injuries. Julia S. Lambert, a dressmaker, and her husband, R. L. Lambert, yes- terday sued the United Railroads for damages in the sum of $38,910 for in- juries alleged to have been sustained by Mrs. Lambert on September 3. She says that she was on an overcrowded Mission-street car and was thrown to the street. As a result of the fall her right hip was broken. She wants $25,- 000 for the injuries alone and $13,260 because she will be unable to again follow her business, at which she earned, she says, $65 a month. —_——e— Perhaps truth is stronger than fiction because we don’t get well enough ac- quainted with it