The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1906, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MO} California’s Greatest Piano House The purchase of the Southern California Houses —as mentioned in the main body of this advertise- ment—gives us an unbroken chain of retail piano stores from the British line on the north to the Mexican border on the south. The Allen Houses now numfer more than twenty, the larger being lo- cated in Seattle, Tacoma, Walla Walla and Spo- kane, Wash.; Portland, Salem and Ashland, Ore.; Sacramento, Santa Rosa, San Fran- cisco, San Jose, Santa Paula, Whittier, Los An- geles and San Diego, Cal.;; Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz. All of these branches are under the direct control of our main * store at 931 Market street, though the local management of each is in the hands of men who have, largely, been in our ser- vice for years and are in full accord with our aims and our methods. Our equipment for business is the best, our line the strongest, our output the greatest on the whole, Pacific Coast. Reno, Nev.; OF DAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1906. Big Merger Sale OS Entire Stock of Large Los Angeles Music House to Be Sacrificed. @ As announced in the news columns of the daily papers, we have bought out, Our Modern Methods of Piano Selling The consolidation of our immense interests der one hegad, one management, means much piano purchasers. By controlling the policy every branch house, fixing the selling prices of goods handled by them, we make it possible for the man who buys 2 piano in Phoenix, Ariz., to get it at exactly the same figure at which it might be bought in Los Angeles, San Francisco or Portland. It is our endeavor always to improve methods, to make it possible to sell goods at less figures and on better terms, to help purchasers to the greatest ex- tent, to make piano prices lower, qualities higher. This is our-aim in the move just made. By our ad- vanced methods we eliminate, largely, the expense of doing business, cutting down piano prices corre- spondingly. This is the saving of the customer. Every piano sold by us is positively guaranteed, every contract made scrupulously lived up to. This is our method of doing business, the secret of our great success, and, also, the guarantee of our future. un- to of all root and branch, the Metropolitan Music Co. of Los Angeles, together with its branch stores at Long Beach, Whittier and Santa Paula, also the San Diego Music Co. and its branches. ¢ Four Hundred Pianos were purchased by us in this deal—Fischers, Mehlins, Haddorffs, Clarendons and many others not in our regular line. Many of these were in transit from Eastern Factories. We have diverted several cars to our San Francisco House in order to dispose of them more quickly. time at prices $100 to $ 150 below t.heir value. known Eastern Factories. Many of them arrived dutring last week, These we are showing today for the first Every one is a standard piano from the best Every piano in the lot new and fully guaranteed by its makers, which guarantee we back up fully. We are going to make this the biggest, piano sacrifice in the hist.ory of our house—the greatest in the history of San Francisco. New pianos in splendid 1 aho O iany cases, fancy carvings, as low as $200—they are worth $300 and ought to bring thers proportionately low in price and high in quality. @ See them today and select your piano. Save $100to $150. Easiest possible payments. THE HNABE PIANOS (Wlere & _93!-933 MarKeT ST SanFrancisco.CaL. BRANCHES = Oaklund, Sacranmcnto, Sn Jose, Santa Rosa, Los ngeles, san Diego, Rene, ev.; Phoenix, Ariz. | Cornwall putting tbe finishing touches to seven mew novels, has returned to his hdme mnear London, energetic as | ever and ready for seven.more ROMANCE AMONG WRITERS. There have been so many (ragedies of late In_connection with books—so many suicides committed 10 call atten- tion to-books and so many distresstul LITERARY WEN WIN AT POLLS (AL MINERS NOT T0 STRIE P i 08 | | {happenings over books that failed to v | attract attention to themselves—that it X X 3 ks e A is pleasant to be able to tell of a Decision of Bituminous Oper- | Five Novelists Eleeted 10| charming romance that never would > e s | have happened if it had not been for a ators to Restore Wage| the House of Commons in | ¢ published volume of essays. 1 | oy . { Perhaps, on the whole, it would be Schedule Insures Peace| Recent British Balloting |more correct to say. it a certain news- iyuqur article had not been published, for this it was that really started the business. - | Eustace Miles wrote the arti - ! : uestion. He is the expert on exe s e T {ohd Giet and In his sroitle e Geclared cord. With the single exceptlon | .o papov "and sald much more on i - Conan Doyle the entire col- | 1y "oy e subject t article was read by the who offered themselves |, = ypioq Halite Killick,” a_young au- P s ¥ The were triumphantl thor who belongs to the little coterfe s - +peioioi 2 of lterary folk at Westgate, and it in- - R If with what proved to spired her to write the book of essays < » ARTS 4 above referred to, which she called ar side. As It was, hOW- | .y iro Orchestra” and of which she s undly beaten by an emi-| .4+ oopy to Mr. Miles, explaining at I B s i the same time how it came to be writ- - r : % i en. . | ke ictention 6 h A As it happened, the little work made ; ers | the sutBier of “Miviisde i the B a big hit. Among others to whom it . A B W, M Who w3 Queen Alexandra, who o *| clected to Parliament as the representa- Dot With. D svers Wi - - . | five ot Coventry. Both novelists are keen | and read some parts of it to one of il wi of Coventry. Both novelists are keeh | ;o v oung English Princesses who was the beginning of Mason's . i accompanied his friend | . ¢ district and remained il through the fight, even’stop- { the votes counted and to hear | n announced. . Barrie his moral | ke a8 ) ‘every wa He drew - » u * it s true | . o + *h too retiring by temperament | » election “‘worker’—but he form at practically every s meetings and gen llow novelist up fr Probably he thorc . for his interest in politi said 0 be almost as keen as tbat which he takes in fairies, and it has been rumored several times that he would come for- ward as a candidate for Parliament. So perhaps Mason will be able to reciprocate r on. hile it seems that besides the | velists—Parker, Mason, Churchill, | d Vivien—who will sit in Parlia- | the publishing trade will salso be ented, another victor in the election Newnes, who has heen re- Jottinghamshire. A Liberal, on of Sir George Newnes a director in the famous publishing | which issues the Strapd and Wide 1 magazines, Tit-Bits and countless | other publicatio | AUTHOR MUCH ALIVE. MAYOR OUSTS POLICE CHIEF | WWalter Bmanuel, author of “A Dog WITH AID OF HICKORY CLUB| ngy,” which set all Engiand laughing, and wbo among other things writes that | notable Charivaria column in Punch, has a grievance. One of the society publica~ | tions In New York recently reported him as being dead, but In telling about it re- cently he appeared very much allve, in- | deed. Emagnuel has written the editor of the perfodical & letter, which he was kind oy was rewarded with office | enough to let me see. Here it is: n the day he sald range Fractures Skull of Official Whe Refused to Comsider Himself De- two years ago for helping to| "p . g: 1n your tmus.of the S0t Sifime | you refer to my book. A Dog Day,” as being wing sutocratic, ruled |y “‘tbe late Walter Emanuel.”” As this inti- lice domaina with | mation of my death is B to calse Gmpeoes- n t r . ieasure to my s, W ou kine e 1"?“""’ - '<h°|d:?_\~ ST T am still alive—some Deople have of Mayor Hale's political | ;) sense of duty, Excuse more, but I am just off to join the Anti-Premature Burial Boeclety. Yours truly, WALTER EMANUEL. Emanuel tells me that he is now writing another book on dogs, which, like the first, will be illustrated by Cecll Aldin. It is probable that it will be published in Englend and America simultaneously. Fergus Hume, who has been down in tered Hale's private office s letter contained. Hale did. Conroy drew a re- t before he could pull the Hale struck him on the head with a singletree, fracturing his skull. Hale has not been arrested. trigger | book oung author- il ess was encouraged to write another Needless to say, the was finished she asking for his and when it wrote to Eustace Miles, | 2dvice regarding a publisher. A short correspondence followed, with the re- sult that the athletic expert took a |trip down to Westgate to see Miss Killick, and now, as the lady novelists say, “there are to be wedding bells.” Meanwhile Miss Killick’s new book is ¢ ready, and, I understand, is to be nes a ted to her flance he American admirers of Rem- | brandt who are coming abroad this vear should arrange to do so before the end of June. in which case they will be In time for the celebration of the tercentenary of- the great artist's birth, which takes place in Holland in July. Leyden, where Rembrandt was born end spent nearly all his life, will be the scene of the chief ceremonfes, which will include the unvelling of a statue close to. the house in which he first saw the light. —_—— A Word Fromt Josh Wise. Any one that has more money than he knows what to do with, let him buy his clothing wherever he pleases, Those who wani to save a few dollars, let them buy their clothing today at the Alte on Sale that sells regular $12.50 men's stylish, nobby suits for $7.50, be- nning today and ending this Satur. ay night at Herman Lesser's, 1057 Market street, opposite Jone * Pass Gilded Nickels Clerks, Beveral cigar stands.in the vicinity of Third and Market streets have been duped recently by mistaking gilded nick- elg- for § gold. pieces. The trickster's method is to fix the giided coin so that it will cateh in the machine. Then he informs the clerk that he has deposited § by mistake. As only the edge of the nickel can be seen the clerk usually mis- takes it for $5 and returns the operator $4.95. O e S Try the United States Laundry. 1004 Market street. Telephone South 420, ¢ Rt aEE e P et Beer is spoken of by Xenophon in jhis history of the retreat of the ten thoun- sand. It was well known to the Ro- mans as the beverage of Northern Eu- rope. PHILLIPS NEW PLAY SCORES “Nero” Said to Be One of the Finest of Recent Pieces Seen on English Stage i Special Dispatc to The Call. LONDON, Feb. 2.—*Nero" as produced some weeks ago at His Majesty’s Theater proved to be something worth remember- ing. After Stephen Phillips’ “Paolo and | Francesca,” “Herod™ and “Ulysses” one knew, of course, that the new play would be on a higher plane than the ordinary stage production—that it would be a sin- cere and capable effort to present @ big subject in verse worthy of the best tra- ditions of the modern stage. But circum- stances conspired in favor of “Nero,” and the result is from several viewpoints one of the finest new works that have been submitted for the approval of the present generation of playgoers, Recent historians have brought out evi- dence modifying the 6ld notion of Nero as the personification of the pig, utterly glven over to all that was degrading and disgusting, and have pictured him as a vietim of his own imagination, in whom sensibility and sensualty, good will and lust for new aensgtion, artistry and swineishness, good blood and bad, had perpetual combat. And this was the Nero Phillips chose to portray. putting in hig month at times words that rose to noth- ing short of magnificence, and making him at all times interesting and often sympathetic—a poseur on a-colossal scale, a megalamaniac, & ‘dreamer of vast and terrible dreams. Such a subject would stimuldte a large-minded poet if anything wonld—and it has Then, too, the voluptuous Rome of Nero's day makes a gorgeouS opportu- nity for a stage manager, and in that di- rection—however dividéd opinion may be concerning his acting—Tree is a consum- mate genius. With the assitance of Percy Macquoid, the artist and decorator, the stage pietures of the palace of the Caegars and of Nero's palace at Balae are marvels of beauty without tawdriness; the ¢rowds that throng the stage at times are models of their kind, and the cos- tumes are wholly admirable. CHARACTER FITS TREE. Also the character fits Tree in many ‘ways. Nero's very artificiality, his con- stant: striving for effect, his continual self-analysis, his genulne love of what is artistic, are all qualities with which the famous proprietor of His Majesty’s The- ater avould be in sympathy. The result is & characterizsation so fine in conception and ‘so consclentious in detail that it would be narrow-minded to call it other- ‘wisg ‘than great. All' of these reasons combined to make the performance one of the most notable within the present writer's twenty years' experience of plavgoing. One little mat- ter remains to be mentioned—the play itself, considered as a drama. There is little to be sald on that score, for “Nero"” is a spectacle rather than a drama. The curtain rises at the moment the Emperor Claudius breathes his last, po! soned by his wife, Agrippina, ' Nero mother, that Nero may come to the throne. After the youth is proclaimed Emperor of the world our next glimpse of him is five years later, when his lower quailties have begun to get the better of his other gelf. He s worn out with dissi- pation, tired of the business of empire and especially tired of his mother's dom- ination. He tells her to leave Rome. She turns upon him and proclaims Britan- nicus, the son of Claudius, as the rightfu heir to the throne and fiies with the lad. Nero's counselors advise him to entice her back and to get rid of the boy, and in tde third act we have a banquet of unparalleled gorgeousness, at which Britannicus Is invited to sing to the com- pany and falls dead from poisoned wine at the end of his song, while Nero exuits the | take his vacation in “the States.” | WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—At State Department it is said that Alvin Smith was dismissed from the Consul- ship at Port of Spain, Trinldad. because REESE T AL f repeated Iirregularities in his ac- ounts. Furthermore. the department admits that scurrilous stories regard- ing Smith have been received at the department, but it is expressly stated that these stories did not come direc S }||n the s;‘ng;‘ man;.gu:er;‘t of lmemar- ly to the department from Hanal :9;; Q(ma\ 1:;‘;].@ act that he has ri Amerwan Repmsentatl\e in Smith's successer, according to e record in the Consular Bureau. Hand- ley has an absolutely clean record. —— . PRESIDENT DIAZ STRONG AND BENEFICENT REGIME rmed Political, Soectal, dustrial and Finaneinl Conditions of Mexico In Three Decades. I was not long in Mexico before I discovered that, for all practical pur- poses, Diaz was Mexico and Mexico was Diaz. President in name only; abso- lute dictator in reality. General Diaz was first efected in 1876. With a break ONE DRAMATIC MOVEMENT. ‘Thereafter the Poppaea theme is intro- duced. Fascinateds by Otho’s tempting wife, Nero at last consents to murder his mother that the enchantress may have full sway. Almost the only genuine dra- matic moments in the play come when the Emperor takes leave of Agrippina and watches her on what he knows will be her last journey out over the purple waters of the Mediterranean, waiting in terror, remorse and eagerness to hear her cry out when the blow falls. All that xemains is the final scene, when Trinidad Ousted Following Reports of Ugly Stories WSS Special Cable to The Tall PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb. 2 There is unpleasant friction in the con- sular office here, with rumers of scandal, charges and counter-charges of wring- doing and of conspiracy In the recent re- | moval of Alvin Smith as United States Censul and the appointment of William Nero, driven glmost wholly mad by his [ W. Handley, once vice-consul,’ to take 3 own vices an®by the calamities brought | his place. So acute is the tension now | Of fOUT Years (1880-84) he has ruled i upan him, as he believes, by his mother's | that Smith has ordered an expensive | Dince cvor, poce ool flection takes angry spirit, rejoices to hear that the | “black snake” whip from a California | Pioce eVery four years, but hardly any one goes to the polls, d a unanimeous vote in favor of Diaz is recorded. On every hand one is confronted with Christians have set fire to Rome, and sways back and forth on his palace roof, maker and has announced his intentfon of publicly thrashing Handley for circu- stories of Smith's playing upon a lyre and chanting in wild ecstacy at the sight of Rome blazing. Aside from Mr. Tree the men in the play cut a rather sorry figure. His counselors, Burrus, Tigellius, Seneca and Anicetas, were evidently rather a bore. But in the part of the grim, impassioned and ambi- tious Agrippina, Mrs. Tree rose to un- wonted heights. Constance Colller as Poppaea and the beautiful Dorothea Baird as Acte also won deserved ap- plause. —————— In trying to rent a house a placard is “better than nothin and a want ad. is “better than anything.” —_———————— SPLENDID PROGRAMME 1§ ARRANGED FOR CONCERT Selections of Masters to Be Played at Holmes Benefit Tounight at §leln!1.y Hall, The Henry Holmes memorial concert, the proceeds from which will ve given to the family of the c(eceased composer, symphony ‘conductor and violinist, wiil take place at Steinway Hall tonight, and there is every assurance that a large au- dience will be in attendance. The participants include Mrs. John Dar- win Gish (nee Millle Flynn), Mrs. Milton E. Blanchard, l.rs. Oscar Mansfeldt, Mr. John Carrington, Mr. Arthur Weiss; the Kopta quartet, composed of Wenzel Kopta, Hans hoenig, A. Verdier and W. Vallalpando; the Brahms quintet, com- posed of Mrs. Gisb, Mrs. Cecilla Decker Cox, Miss Julia Rapier Tharp, Mr. A. A. Macurda and Mr. Henry L. Perry. The accompanists will be Miss Mabel Frances Hill, Mr. Frederick Maurer and Mr. Gyula Ormay. The members of the Twentieth Century Club chorus, forty-five in number, under the direction of Mr. Wallace Sabin, will aiso participate in the programme, which is as follows: Theme and variations from “Trio” in A minor (Tschatkowsky), . Oscar Mansfeldt, Mr. Wenzel Kopta and Mr. W. Villalpando; (a) “A Song of the Four Seasons” (Foote), (b) “The Sea" (Mac- Dowell), (c) “May Morning” (Manney), Mrs. Milton E. Blanchard; (a) “Baca- rolle’” (Spohr), (b) “Eilfentanz” (Sples), Mr. Wenzel Kopta; “Homeward"” (Rhein- en), -an- « ven), the Kopta quartet; “Haymaking" (Needham), Mrs. John Darwin Gish; an- dante from the Concerto (Schumann), Mr. Arthur Feiss; (a) “A Song of Faith” (Chaminade). (b) “When Dull Care” {old English), arranged by H. Lane Wilson, Mr. John Carrington; (a) “Ave Maria” (Raff). (b) “The Imprisoned Nightingale'’ (Henschel), the Brahms quintet, - lating, as he alleges, relaticns with certain well-known soclety women of this place. The reason for Smith's removal, as given at the State Department at Washington, was irregu- larities in his accounts, /but the stories now broadcast here are said to have been partly the cause. Smith is the son of former Mayor Smith of Cincinnatl and was appointed through the efforts of Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Ohie. He was a personal friend of the late President McKinley, and it was | easy for him to get the Trinidad consul- ship. Handley is well connected and is said to have influential backers in the State Department. Former Consul Smith's story is.that there has been a conspiracy in the State Department to bring about his removal. He submits affidavits from Paul Gransault, owner of the Consulate building at this place, who says that Smith paid him the rent for the quar- ter ending December 31;-1903, and then borrowed $120, as Smith wished to evidences of the cleverness and re- sources of this man, who holds Mexico in the hollow of his hand. There is con- fidence throughout the whole financial world in the integrity of Mexico. Mone is pouring in to develop the wonderful | resources of the country, and all Dbe- cause Diaz is there. ‘When he first came to power robbery and corruption were rife. Now a held- up train is unknown, and any one e trayel without fear throughout the length and breadth of the land. Not the least of his achievements was the formation of the Rurales. These are the country pelice, well-mounted, well- bullt men, well organized. Former! they were bandits, who kept the coun- try in terror. Diaz offered them two alternatives—amnesty and enrollment in a corps of the army, with higher- pay than any cavalryman receives anywhere else in the world, or that for every person robbed any bandit caught should promptly be shot. The amnesty was accepted.—Review of Reviews. Enjoy Yourself B3 Bl e At i Bl s 4 Yk i it You don’t have to -worry about anything. All your wants are anticipated when you travel on the CALIFORNIA LIMITED