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AMERICAN STAGE MOURNS FAMO Continued From Page 1, Column 3. first real acting, however, may e said to have been in the company of ho a8 Jim Crow about this vulsing Washington with impersonations of negro , then a novelty on the stage. “Joe” imitated Rice so perfectly the comedian took him on the blacked and dressed as 2 minia- te FIRST STAR Ix X am a tour which th the Mrs. Jeffer- Jefferson and 2t with a company on uthern _towns into engage- of which and married Miss nder en Theater, ther frerson played Marrall to the h in y AT opolitan stock partnership with nt of theaters Then he manager in manager es, dn 1 t's Theater ir to Richmcnd, Va., T. Ford's the Th 1 as those of herr Jeffer- Trenchard. ce of the Trenchard, e character i him. and ; stage drive that ran more continued ever since. Before its ended Jefferson acknowl- Sothern had made Lord the most taking character iece, but those who saw the their respective parts know n's performan of Asa men ir vas the essential factor in making Sothern’s “Lord Dundreary” D s engagement at Laura e's heater played in Jefferson h Pangloss Acres in “The doubtful whether - ever plaved any rs with the care- “The Poor ful excellence erson, and, with »r two exceptions, no English an ever excelled him in any of '‘Our American Cousin” was children at play, with t where the clock tick can be hour after bour in the dull silence? But thepe ny who would the sflent house the children that fate has refused them. Fate is often in this case only another word for ignoranca. lad mother dates A weakness and the establishing of the deji- cate womanly organs in sound health, the way is opened for the joy of motherhood. «Favorite Prescription” is a specific for the chronic ailments peculiar to women. It cures them perfectly and permanently. No other ine can good.” “Favorite Prescri| contains Do .1%3,“:& cotic. It is strictly s temperance medicine. recbirg Ontario, Ciada, e pey o e Sares. . Whea elong with the last 5Tk some Bedicine 1o eass thoee terribie ‘i:‘.""m,u.hsu souid give e hrl k< fi'}gm > goareme L Shvisad m it ess of himself, producing him | e eyes of the astonished audi- from the mouth of a bag turned down. The effect was startling reat hit weeks_after | Mexico, | to | { J/ he t t o | l‘. Favorite Prescription. | % 1t often happens that female | EOS5S OF US VETERAN taken off “A Midsummer Night's Dream” was produced. Jefferson was to have played the part of Bottom, but after one rehearsal he felt that he would make a failure of the part and resigned the character. Soon after this he took “Our Amer- ican Cousin” on a starring tour, with the understanding that he would give the management half of the profits for the use of the pilay. | ginning of financial success for Jef- ferson, as he reaped the full benefit | than for his managers as before. | after a most successful season in this |city and other places in the State, went on to Australia, where like suc- | cess greeted him. At Hobart Town, Tasmania, the capital of the penal | colony, he played “The Ticket-of- Leave Man"” before a large audience, which comprised among other per- sons over 100 ticket-of-leave men. These took a great liking for Mr. Jef- | e | ferson on account of his rendering of character, Bob Brierly, and they could not but believe that he was one L of themselv: In May, 1865, Jefferson sailed from Melbourne for England via Callao and Meeting Dion Boucicault in he s ested to the latter that he work up the play which later be- | came so indissoluly linked with Jef- ferson’s name, “Rip Van Winkie.” account of how he hap- upon this part is quite During the summer of was boarding with his family at an old Dutch farmhouse in Penn- sylvania. and while there came upon the “Life and Letters of Washington | Irving” and was greatly pleased to | find therein a reference to himself by | Irving, who had seen him play Gold- | inch in “The Road to Ruin” at Laura | Keene's Theater. This brought to his | mind Irving's “Sketch Book™ and then “Rip Van Winkle.” The story had al- | ready been dramatized two or three tim and had been acted in London nd elsewhere, but with not much suc- cess. Jefferson got together the various dramatizations and out of them con- | cocted one which he played in Wash- ington under the management of John T. Raymond. The results were not satisfac v: but, still believing In the | possibilities of the play, he offered it | as a_theme to Boucicault on his arrival London. Baucicault rewrote the drama to about the condition it was played later with such success and for 80 great a time. Its first performance was at the Adelphi Theater, where Jefferson then ad an e ement, on Monday, Sep- na. mber 5. . The piay ran 170 nights, d at the ‘lusion of his engage- rent_Jeffer: cted it in Manchester h like success for a then sailed for New and Li t g York ITS SUCCESS IN AMERICA. On September 6, 1866, Jefferson pro- duced for the first time in America the Boucicault version of “Rip Van Win- kle” at the Olympic ., Theater, New York, with a support that included many names that later achieved high i trionic sky. The play *# Jefferson were in the hearts of American playgoers, and became thereafter the most taking. card in Jefferson’s col- ction. He became so thoroughly iden- tified with “Rip Van Winkle” that he even thought and talked as “Rip” off the stage at times. Going once to a bank in Louisville, Ky., to cash a check that he had re- ceived, tht teller to whom he was a it he at o es- unless one near by who knew him. on said no and added: “If my Schneider, was here he would me.” The money was handed The teller know over without further demur. had seen “Rip” a day or two before and ! heard that memorable plaint of the old man. ‘Rip Van Winkle” Jefterson during a period of thirt was played by r-six y2ars in evi city and large town in | the United States and in many of the | cities of England and Scotiand, and some in Ireland, always drawing large audiences. It is said that Boucicault received in purchase money and royal- ties for his work on “Rip Van Winkle” over $25,000. In 1871 Jefferson purchased a planta- tion on Bayou Teche, Lousiana, where he spent a good part of his time during the winter season: going in the sum- mer to a farm which he had purchased in New Jersey. Of later years he spent most of his time on one or the other places, caring little for the exactions and excitements of city life, but always glad to see his friends, whom he enter- tained in the old-fashioned really hospitable manner. ! HIS GREAT CAPABILITIES. Besides his remarkable ability as an actor, Jefferson had quite a talent as |a painter. His work was of the im- pressionist school and a pleasing re- minder of that of the celebrated French artist ot In 1867 Jefferson married his second | wife, Sarah Warren, in Chicago. In [ 1889-90 Jefferson’s autobiography was published in the Century Magazine and | the pilain, modest manner in which he | told the story of his life was very characteristic of the man. As an actor Jefferson was remark- |able for having departed from the | traditions of the stage, even in the | performance of such well-known char- acters as Bob Acres, Dr. Pangloss and others of the old English comedies, and rendering them according to his { own interpretation. This was at first | regarded as a kind of audacious egot- ism by the critics, but it took well with the people, who saw in his im- personations new and pleasing revela- tions that had entirely escaped former | renderers of the parts. His absolute | truth to nature was always his most | marked quality. His Asa Trenchard was a character whose simplicity was { only equaled. by its absolute verity as a transcription of a certain Amer- {ican type. His Rip Van Winkle stood | out as one of the most brilliant and beautiful creations of the stage. Deep- ly pathetic, and at the same time vivant with a humor peculiarly its own, this character, as made by Jef- ferson, claimed the attention and | touched the heart of the American i people more than any other outside the range of the Shakespearean drama. Joe Jefferson was a great actor, and, more than that, a great man. He : had a great heart in his breast. { fpomdbienmd B < fan o i ] DEATH OF CAPTAIN O’SHEA. LONDON, April {O’Shea, whose divorced wife became Mrs. Charles Stewart Parnell, died at Brighton Saturday night. Charles Stewart Parnell, the foun- der of the Irish National Land League and for many years the leader of the Irish Parliamentary party, was named as co-respondent in the divorce suit of lg- orr(end. Captain O'Shea, early in 90. The scandal led Gladstone to declare Parnell unfit for the leadership of the Irish party and undoubtedly was an effective factor in the reverses which befell the Irish Home Rule party in December, 1890. In the following June, Parnell married Mrs. O’Shea. Dr. kerce’s Peliets Cure Constipation. | He died in October, 1891 This was the be- | of his great acting for himself ralher‘ In 1860 he came to Califorma, and, | 24. — Captain THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 19053. PROMPT REFORM Unyielding in His Determin- ation to Convoke Repre- sentatives of the People TREPOFF'S IRON RULE { Widespread Evidences of a Return to the Methods of the Late Von Plehwe ST. PETERSBURG, April 23.—Re- ceiving the marshal of nobility of Kos- troma recently, Emperor Nicholas or- dered him to communicate the follow- ing message to the nobles: “My will regarding the convocation of representatives of the people is un- swerving and the Minister of the In- terior is devoting all his efforts to its prompt execution.” Not only the future of the war in the Far East, but the fate of the whole programme of international reform to | which Emperor Nicholas stands com- umitted, however, appears to await the sue of the approaching sea battle between Rojestvensky and Togo. | Practically, the interior administra- { tion is being conducted through a po- | lice regime. Already there are every- | where evidences of return to Von | Plehwe methods. Domiciliary visits and arrests by scores and hundreds are reported in every part of the em- | | pire and meetings of all classes of the people are forbidden and broken up by the police under the direction of the local Governors. The Government argues that it cannot fold its arms and see the flames of revolution fanned by agitators. The revolutionaries seem to have plenty of funds, furnished from both ‘abroad and by wealthy sympathizers | in Russia. | Large reinforcements | especially of Cossacks, rbrought to St. Petersburg. of have troops, been —_————— SHIP BRINGS 13 STOWAWATS i | Special Dispatch to The Call PORTLAND, April.23.—The transport Sheridan arrived in this afternoon from Manila, via Nagasaki and Honolulu, with the Fourteenth Infantry on board. She will reach Portland about 9:30 to- morrow morning. The Sheridan sailed . from Honolulu April 15 and had a very pleasant trip across. | On board the vessel are 417 en- listed men of the Fourteenth In- fantry and thirty-three officers, under command of Major John S. Parks, six men on sick leave and eight dis- charged men, one bluejacket twen service in Government cable work. There are on the vessel thirtean stow- aways, who came aboard at Honolulu. The regiment will be stationed at Vancouver. CARELESS BoY MEETS DEATH SALINAS, April 23. — Alfred, the thirteen-year-old son of John Fontes, & wealthy Portuguese rancher of San Miguel Canyon, met a horrible death last night while rabbit hunting with feveral boy acquaintances. Young Fontes, while resting, laid his gun on a pile of stumps. After a few minutes the boy’s dog started a rabbit and young Fontes seized his shotgun and pulled it, the muzzle forward, toward him. The gun was discharged, the load entering the youth's left side, causing | instant death. : : | —_———— BATTLES WITH 4 POLICENA | | William Monahan made a desperate effort last night to free his brother Thomas, who was under arrest, await- ing the arrival of the patrol wagon. Policeman Sullivan, who had Thomas Monahan and another man under ar- rest at the time, alleges that Monahan struck him, and during the fight that ensued one .of the prisoners escaped. Monahan was charged with interfering | with a policeman. His brother was charged with disorderly conduct. The affair was the culmination of a fight which took place in the early part of the evening between William, and Harry McKenna in Dennis McMa- hon’s saloon at Third and Harrison ! streets. Monahan alleges that McKen- na made insuiting remarks about a girl friend of Monahan’s. Monahan says he resented the insult, and a fight ensued. Several others took part in the affair. During the combat Mona- han’s clothes were ripped by a knife. He alleged that McKenha tried to cut him. While the fight was on a police- man came on the scene and arrested William Monahan for disturbing the peace, and he was taken to the South- ern Police Station. Shortly afterward a friend furnished bail and Monahan was released. It was ; while on his way back to his home that he had the trouble with the policeman. | Morahan says he did not strike the po- liceman, but simply inquired from the official why he was arresting his brother. He says the policeman made an effort to push him aside and it was then the unknown man, who was alsoy under arrest, pulled away from the policeman and made his escape. e e S FIND BURGLARS AT WORK ON RETURNING HOME | Housebreakers Iscape Through a 1 Rear Window With Small Quan- tity of Jewelry. When Thomas Cushing and wife re- turned to their home at 3646 Twentieth street last evening at 8:30 o'clock they surprised two burglars who were at work in the house. The-housebreakers escaped through a rear window. They had found a small quantity of jewelry become compelled to flee. The house is occupied by the Cush- ing family and J. Matthew Wheelans, and, had the burglars been given suf- ticient time for a thorough search, they would have found many valuables. ——— R. H. Pease, president of the Good- year Rubber Company, and his son, R. H. Pease Jr,, who have been spend- ing the last two months in New York, will start for home next Saturday. n and | ¥ Filipinos, who are coming for | |CZAR PROMISES [CROWDED AUTO IN FATAL CRASH Two Women Badly Injured in Accident in New York MACHINE HITS A FENCE Victim of the Catastrophe Was Engaged to Wed the i Young Lady Who Was Hurt NEW YORK, April 23.—One man was killed and two women were badly | hurt when a big tourist automobile, crowded with passengers, crashed into !a high board fence at Eighth avenue !and Fifty-seventh street to-day. The | streets were thronged with Easter ' promenaders at the time of the acci- {dent and police reserves had to be | called out to keep the crowd in check. ! The chauffeur of the machine asserts |it was struck by an Eighth avenue | trolley car and that he temporarily 'lost control of .the brakes. The big automobile plunged across the sidewalk and into the fence with great force. | Charles P. Koster, 21 years of age, a ! business man of this city, was killed, |and Miss Anna Finnexman, 18 years !old, and Mrs. Angela Romanoff, 45 years old, were injured. | Koster and Miss Finnerman, who were on the front seat of the auto- | mobile, were to be married next week. Mrs. Romanoff was seated in a little fruit stand near the corner of the ! fence and when both stand and fence i were demolished she was caught and !crushed beneath the falling timbers. | More than forty persons were on the heavy vehicle when the accident took place. { PLAN 4 JUINT CELEBRATION Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA CRUZ, April 23.—The Odd i Fellows of this part of the State have 'planned a big anniversary celebration | for next Wednesday. The lodges of | Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz, Soquel and Watsonville will celebrate joingly at Capitola. The programme includes ‘drills by the Patriarchs Militant of | Santa Cruz and Watsonville, a basket picnic, an oration by W. C. Nether- ton, a dance in the pavilion and games. —_—————————— j WOULD U GOVERNMENT DIKE AS A BOULEVARD | San Diego Officials and Army Engin- | eer Inspect Ancient Dam Above Old Town SAN DIEGO, April 23.—Captain C. H. McKinstry of the United States En- gineer Corps, accompanied by several city officials, made an investigation to- { day of the Government dike above Old | Town, which was built long years ago to turn the waters of San Diego River into False Bay. The ecity has asked the Government for permission to use | the dike as a boulevard and Captain McKinstry represents the Government in the investigation. —_———— | WILL BUILD OPERA-HOUSE l IN THE TOWN OF SELMA | Progressive Citizens of Prosperous | Fresne+*County City Will Erect l a Fine Theater. { SELMA, April 23.—Selma is to have an opera-house. The theater will be { built by a company formed last night by a number of progressive citizens. . Work on the structure will be com- | menced at once. The company will in- The building | corporate for $20,000. | will cost half of this sum. § NATIVES HOLD land Fair Celebrate Safel Arrival With Big Powwow BOLD ROBBERS [MONTEREY DONS A DOG FEAST) [SE DNAMITE One Man Loses His Life and |Igorrotes Bound for Port-|Early Morning Thieves Make an Attempt to Blow Open a Safe in the Garden City DEVOUR FOUR CANINES!RIFLE CASH REGISTERS Savages Chant and Dance|Fire Alarm Frightens Bur- for Four Hours After Eat- ing Carcasses of Puppies Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, April 23.—In celebration of their safe arrival from the land of their birth fifty Igorrotes from the in- terior of Luzon en route to the Lewis and Clark exposition at Portland went to-day to Blake Island, an uninhabited waste in the sound, two hours’ journey from Seattle, where they held a canao nay or “dog feast,” attended with all the religious rites and ceremonies of the tribe. Before leaving the city the chief of the band selected four young dogs ! which were taken with the party. Ar- riving at the island, in the native fash- ion and with religious pomp the brutes were slaughtered. Half of their blood | was drawn and while still alive they were strung on a tripod over blazing faggots until the hair was scorched so that it would scrape off. While the men were engaged in preparing the food the women began the canao nay dance, accompanied with a chant. After half an hour half of the men were relieved of their labors and joined in the-dance which, with the native chants, were kept up until the meal of boiled dog was ready to serve. Follow- ing the meal, for four hours, the time of the band was given over to dances and chants. WOMAN TIRES - OFLONELY LIFE Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, April 23.—Mrs. W. H. Morrell, formerly city librarian of Riverside, killed herself at the City Hospital in Riverside this afternoon. Mrs. Morrell was the widow of a well-known citizen, who died last No- vember, after a long struggle with con- sumption.” Since his death she was very despondent and of late the victim of acute melancholia. ‘While her nurses’s attention was distracted she slipped into a medicine closet, procured some nitric acid and swallowed it. dying in great agony. She was a resi- dent of Riverside for eighteen years. o NAN PATTERSON ATTENDS | SERVICES IN THE TOMBS Third Trial of the Show Girl on Charge of Murder to Begin To-Day. YORK, April NEW 23.—"“Nan” | Pdtterson’s third trial on the charge of having murdered “Ceasar” Young will be commenced to-morrow. The jury was completed last Wednesday, when the court ordered an adjourn- ment over the holidays. In the Tombs to-day Miss Patterson attended both the Presbyterian and the Episcopal services. She was accompanied to the latter by her sister, Mrs. J. Morgan Smith. —_——ee Special Easter Service for Kaiser. MESSINA, Italy, April 23.—The German Imperial yacht Hohenzollern was beautifully decorated with flow- ers and plants to-day in celebration of Easter. Dr. Goens, the German Court Chaplain, came from Berlin es- pecially to perform service chapel of the yacht. glars Before They Can Use a Third Charge of Powder ———— Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, April 23.—An attempt was made to dynamite the safe of the Smith Meat and Grocery Company, on First and San Antonio streets, in the heart of the city, early this morning. A half-inch hole was drilled in the door{ and two charges exploded. This failed to open the safe and jammed the com- bination. An alarm for a fire a block away is believed to have frightened the cracksmen away before they could piace another charge. A number of sacks of barley were piled around and over the safe to dead- en the sound of the explosion. Four cash registers in the store were rifled and about $20 secured. BOULDER CREEK GETS SCHOOL Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA CRUZ, April 23.—The new Union High School, which was recent- ly voted for by the citizens of Boulder Creek and vicinity, will be built in Boulder Creek on a site overlooking the magnificent San Lorenzo Canyon. The site was selected by a board com- posed of the following: S. Bishop of Alba_district, J. Franklin of Ben Lo- mond district, J. H. Aram of Boulder Creek district, D. Moncreif of Sequoia district, Garret Kéefe of Dougherty district and W. Horstman of Bear Creek aistrict. LABOR FAMINE 1N THE SOUTH Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN DIEGO, April 23.—With near- ly every acre of plowed land in the county promising a big crop, this county is on the verge of a famine, not of water or of food, but a famine of labor. H&y harvesting has already commenced and it will not be long be- fore the hay bailing crews will be out and at work. Barley and wheat will be harvested soon. W. A. Doran of San Marcos says that there are not half enough men in the county to handle the crops. SANTA CRUZ FORESTERS PLAN A DAY'S OUTING Members of Order and Azalea Circle Will Attend Grand Court at ‘Watsonville. SANTA CRUZ, April 23.—The For- esters of Santa Cruz are making great preparations for Foresters’ day dur- ing the session of the Grand Court at Watsonville next week. The entire Court, and Azalea Circle, Companions of the Forest, will participate in the parade at Watsonville, attend the in the |grand bail in the evening and return on a special train. | HER GALA GARB Pretty Little Town Gayly Decorated in Honor of the Grand Parlor of Native Sons MANY VISITORS ARRIVE Delegates and Their Friemds Will Be Tendered a Pub- lic Recepticn This Evening Special Dispatch to The Call. MONTEREY, April 23.—Monterey is ablaze with lights and the white and gold of the Native Sons of the Golden West adorns every business house Trom the old Custom-house to the plaza. A special train arrived from the north at 6:30 o'clock to-night with more than 200 delegates to the Grand Parlor and several hundred of their friends aboard. The Monterey band and Monterey Parlor, Native Sons of* the Golden West, escorted the visitors to quarters previously assigned them. A second special, bearing the delegates from the southern part of the State, arrived at 8:40 p. m. More than 1000 visitors are already provided for, so perfect are the arrangements of the committee. The Grand Parlor will convene at 11 a. m. Ménday and continue in session until 2:30 p. m. The delegates and their friends will be tendered a publie reception in the evening. SEASON'S YIELD 1S $20,000,000 Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, April 23. — An unusually early spring has started sluicing in all Yukon camps from the Klondike to Nome. Estimates received by wire to- day say the total cleanup along the Yukon will reach $20,000,000. The out- put of the Klondike is placed at $10,- 000,000. The Tanana district will pro- duce $5,000,000. The output of Nome and the other districts along the Bering Sea will reach $4,000,000. Atlin, Koyu- kuk, Forty Mile and Circle City will easily add another million. Yukon traffic promises to be heavier this year than ever before. Onme of the richest strikes in Alaska history has been made on the Portland benches at Nome. Bedrock there consists of al- most pure gold. Dirt runs $1 50 a pan and one bucket yielded $1000. KEMPFF AFTER ‘SHIP MASTERS Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, April 23 Admiral Kempff is vigorously carrying out President Roosevelt's instructions by carefully inspecting every steamship en Puget Sound that carries passen- gers. The admiral’s plan is to step aboard a vessel unannounced, reveal his identity and request the captain to call a fire drill without delay. Often members of the crew are trucking freight in a warehouse when the fire signal is sounded. The life preservers are inspected. the boats lowered, the fire pumps started and the men ordered to their stations. For lack of discipline at the fire drill on the steamship Sarah M. Renton, when the admiral was present, Captain Lermond lost his license for thirty days. uncalled-for garments. Think it question on our part. If the suit is not to your entire satisfaction, money\' will be refunded without a ADVERTISEMENTS We near meeting our prices. Order Your New Spring Suit Here Instead of Paying More Elsewhere You probably have some place where you buy all your clothes—just happened to order a suit there and have kept it up-ever since as a sort of habit. If the price doesn’t make any difference to you, keep on going to ‘your favorite tailor and pay him $50.00, $60.00 or maybe more for your suit. on every suit simply because he calls you by name and gives _you credit. 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