The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1906, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1906. Tromben in Title Role of “Lucia” Is Handicapped Her Art Is Weighed Against That of Tetrazzini By James Crawford nerant pr ers of Italian grand V¥ prerzariy nt of the Signorina Tromben's ap- e jn “Luc so soon after the € ng of his season as a ts discernment SUFFERED BY COMPARISON 1 ignorina Trombe! h of a hit last made in any o ) her vocal equipment ce from beginning to the ot whether he considerately be- her part, in other opera last night or reserve > be produced— I have heard, after hearing we be pri g m or something parison w: established idol. TENOR WINS APPLAUSE Salvaneschi was the tenor 2nd acquit- creditably enough. f even range and would have jore sympathetic in tone, per- he bleaty quality of the music stted him had permitted. Like most tenors. of his school he is given to finale shouting when mezzo notes are demanded by the score—but shouting ns handclaps where adherence to the intention might fail to w oser's them Pacini, the barytone, was good look- ing and sang his lines with a gu: that was not always judicious. But h an artist who will do much to make the season a success, for his (voice has depth and power and sensu- ous beauty—and he is good to look upon from & feminine viewpoint Signor Canett! exploited a basso that almost equal in every detail of rm to the big voice of Lambardi, contributed so heavily to the “Aida.” The company seems pe well supplied with vocal robust-| ess . The staging was again more thanl up to the requirements—and that might have had something to do with| the early production of “Lucia.” Thus| far the pictorial side of the Lambardil rings has been adequate, which is| 2il the more refreshing in view of the fact that we were warned to look for| cheap settings and costumery. | SINGS WITH GUSTO, In the matter of the chorus, too, we | sre afforded agreeable surprise. The| Jeast lovely of the feminine contingent ss artfully backgrounded—unlike the| Inquisitive children who are told that they should be seen but not heard— end the men are not such & bad look- i against that of Te- | ring* her into com- | ~ g% | ‘999 FOUR OF THE PRINCIPALS WHO SANG IN (LCCIAY AT THE CENTRAL THEATER T EVENING. — —_— ing coterie. And how all of them sing! ight up from their chests roll the vocal volume that makes the ensembles well worth hearing. Persistent rehearsal was clearly re- flected by the improved work of the orchestra last night. Signor Lebegott trol, and it was needed, as the Doni- zetti music called for more individual execution from strings and lighter woodwinds than was necessitated by Verdl score the preceding night. harpist, Lucia Cimini, played a preliminary to the lifting of the second curtain and was rewarded with an encore almost as insistent as that which compelled a repetition of the sextet. “Faust” is announced for tonight, with this cast: Faust, Signor Patti; Valentine, Signor Pacini; Mephisto, Signor Lambardi; Wagner, Signor Marina; Marguerite, Veila Giorgl; Siebel, Maria Millon; Martha, Fernanda Franceschini. BILLS AT OTHER THEATERS “Yon Yonson” will be the attraction |at the Novelty Theater up to and in- | eluding next Sunday evening, and on Monday comes James O'Nelll, after an absence of ten years. The romantic actor will offer his farewell perform- ances of the Dumas play, “Monte Cristo,” with the success of which he has become so closely identifled, and during the second and last week of his engagement a new play called “The Voice of the Mighty.” - . . Wilfred Roger and Izetta Jewell con- tinue to win plaudits by their clever work in “The Christian” at the Colon- ial Theater. The play is running very smoothly. “The Butterflies,” in which John Drew scored one of his big suc- cesses, is announced for next Monday evening. . . . The Orpheum Road Show is getting a big share of the holiday theater patronage. Hyams and MeclIntyre are in their last appearances, and new peo- ple announced for next Sunday aré May Edouin and Fred Edwards, presenting “A Bachelor's Dream,” and: Emilia Rose in her acrobatic novelty. The entire road show will be retained, of course. . R “Bankers and Brokers” has been whipped into smooth running order by the Kolb and Dill company at the Davis, and will be the attraction there for some time to come. —_— PASSED SPURIOUS CHECK NAPA, Dec. 26.—Constable Dally of Elmira today captured a man who is wanted in Napa for passing several spurious checks on merchants of this city. Description of the man was sent to different counties, which led to his arrest today. had his men under more perfect con- | 74 ) SALINESCELD LYRIE TENCR: by Comparison Ko ¥ ELEGTED AGAIN NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—After a ses- sion lasting two hours the directors ot the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company re-elected Frederick A. Burn- ham president and George D. Eldredge vice president of the company. Nine of the twelve directors were present and | the vote on the election of Burnham and Eldredge is said to have been very close. None of the directors wouid dis- cuss the meeting. George R. Harper, | son of a former president of the com- | pany, was not re-elected treasurer. | Burnham and Eldredge are both un- | der indictment in connection with the | administration of the company's af- fairs. » S ELKS ARE EXONERATED FARGO, N. D,, Dec. 26.—After hear- ing the testimony of several physicians, the Coroner's jury, which has been in- vestigating the death of Calvin Good, a negro, who died after being knocked out during a boxing contest at a recent social . session of the local lodge of Elks, rendered a ver- dict that Good died of pneumonia, and no blame is attached to the Elks. Good went on for a ten-round bout with. Jim Gains, another negro pugilist. In the eighth round Good fell unconscious and remained in that condition until he died, several hours later. Gains fled to Winnipeg. CURES Dyspepsia A Stomach Troubles — ] The vgenuin\ef is al- ways sold in botties “&Rlike this e Beware of Syphons, LOGATED HERE Volna Taut, the 15-year-old daugh- ter of U. 8 Taut of Tulare County, and a recent graduate of the Stockton Busi- ness College, was ‘found in this city yesterday after an absence from home that had greatly alarmed her parents. Policemen C. 'J. - Wade and E. J. Plume, who had:been detailed to work on the case, discovered the missing girl after a search of two days, in a lodging house at’1127 Golden Gate ave- nue, where she had been placed by a chauffeur, whose name she steadfastly refuses to divulge. Immediately after receiving her diploma from the business college the girl came to this city to accept a posi- tion as stenographer for a local auto- mobile agency, and a few days after her arrival she ceased writing to her parents. The father came here two days ago in seach of his daughter and immediately asked the aid of the police department. The wayward girl was locked up at the Bush street station on the technical charge of vagrancy. The broken- hearted father made a strong plea to be allowed to take the girl home with him, but disposition of the case cannot be made until it is taken up in the Police Court today. DEGISION AGAINST PRESS FEEDERS CHICAGO, Dec. 26—By a decision handed down by the Supreme Court of Illinois today four union press feeders, including the president and the sec- retary of Franklin Union, will be obliged to go to jail for periods rang- ing from thirty days to six months. The two officials of the union must also pay ‘fines. + This decision ended a fight in the courts which had lasted for four years. | During the strike in 1902 of the mem- bers of Franklin Union: against the printing shops of the Chicago etae the men violated an injunction forbidding the picketing of the strike- Typoth- | IN BAISIN GiTY Fortieth Annual Convention Attracts Eight Hundred Teachers of the State MANY AT RECEPTION FRESNO, Dec. 2—About 800 edu- cators from all parts of California at- tended the opening today of the for- tieth annual State convention of teachers.” “City Supérintendent James A. Barr of Stockton read a paper today | on “Why Men Teachers are Leaving the Profession,” claiming that the male educators were not sufficiently paid and that there was little opportunity for advancement. He recommended a higher scale of pay and also an ar- rangement whéreby advancement might be held out to men remaining in the profession. C. E. Moore, City Superintendent of Los Angeles, read a paper before the Commercial and Drawing Department, discussing to what extent other sub- jects than strictly trade branches should be introduced in the trade schools. He favored a strictly trade training. This matter will come up again Friday and there promises to be a lively fight between the utilitarians and the advocates of the classics. One of 'the mogt prominent person- ages at the convention is the president of the State Teachers’ Assocfation, C. C. Van Liew of Chico. When inter- viewed this afternoon he said that the | most important business of this year's | session would be the adoption of a new | constitution. This was submitted to | the association during its session at| Berkeley last year, and will come up | for adoption or rejection at the session Friday. : FirSt in importance in the new constitution is the paragraph call- | ing for an incorporation of the asso- clation under the laws of California, which would make the association | much more effective in carrying out| the educational branches under its jur- isdiction. Van Liew. stated that the incorpora- tion would give the body a better busi- | ness standing, ’a more management of ‘finances and a legal | board of directors. | One of the .interesting sessions as| having direct bearing on the education | of the child will be taken up by Judsges | Frank J. Murasky of San Francisco | {and Curtis D. Wilbur of Los Angeles,! | This will be an explanation of juvenile | court work along the lines made famous by Judge Ben B. Lindsay of Denver. At the Hughes Hotel tonight the visiting teachers were given a recep- tion by the residents of the Raisin City, the hostelry being thronged by hosts of guests. NO OVERTURES IN MINERS" aTRIKE GOLDFIELD, Dec. 26.—The report in Goldfleld this morning that the strike had been settled is absolutely unfound- ed. Outside the miners’ union hall is a bulletin board, and written on it this moming was the following: “There is no settlement.” The mine owners claim that no over- tures have been.made to them by the miners and the minérs state that no overtures have been made by the mine owners to them. Matters are at a standstill. It has been denied that a committee has been appointed by either side for the purpose of meeting and settling the strike. There ‘is no doubt, how- ever, but that they will meet each other very soon. Despite everything the feeling is that the mine owners and miners are bound to come to terms within the next few days. United States marshals were station- ed yesterday to guard the mines, but the engineers refuséd to work if they were allowed to stay. This settled the question and the marshals departed. Most of the mines and all the leases are working. Most of the miners on strike are doing assessment work, and every- thing bids fair for a speedy settlement. W VETINS OF FEOD BATILE LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 26.—Herman Mullins and his son were shot and fatally wounded in a feud battle at their home with a gang headed by Charles and Bud Little and John Brewer. - There had been a feud of long standing between the Little and Mullins families. Today the men met and the Littles fired on the Mullinses. The latter made a running fight to thelr home, where they barricaded themselves. The Littles followed, shooting as they ran. They surround- ed Mulling’ home, firing rifles and re- volvers. The battle ceased only when both the Mullinses were shot down. S e ANOTHER FORGERY CHARGE PITTSBURG, Dec. 26;—An additional charge of forgery was today preferred against J. D. F. Rihehart, former cash- fer of the Farme®s' and Drovers’ Na- tional Bank of Waynesburg. Rinehart waived a hearing and gave bail for his appearance at the February term of the Criminal Court. BE PROTECTED AGAINST COLDS By keeping the system strong and hey-lthy and the blood pure. m‘ Bit- ters will do this quicker than anything else you might take. Thousands have U - Hostetter’s Stomach ‘Bitters should therefore en regu- larly during the winter months by OV!I& mem- ber of the fam. It not omly Chills bound establishments. ~Sentencés amd | | fines were imposed by the lowér courts. ' The four xgen who will be committed to jail under the decision are Charles ‘Werner, president; John M. Shea, sec- ' | retary; Harry Brown and Michael Flan- nery. 4 s —_—————— MRS. DENBY PASSES AWAY 'EVANSVILLE, . Ind., Dec. 26.—Mrs. | Martha Fitz Denby, ‘widow of the late || Charles Denby, former T ' Female llis or Try it, also get a :ir::kmyé our 1 your drug: ARMED NEGROES Fear of Being Injured by White Men Causes Blacks to Assemble in Force TROOPS STOP RIOTING SCOOBA. Miss.. Dec. 26.—A newspa- perman who arrived in Scooba tonight about dark found the streets crowded with negroes, who had gathered from towns around. They were armed, but they were not threatening in their de- meanor. According to thelir statements, mont of them had gathered through fear that violence would be dome them if they remained in the surrounding districts, and fear alome had drivea them into the town. MEMPHIS, Dec. 26.—Advices Scooba and Wahalak, Miss, from towns as well as throughout the sur- rounding territory and that the troops and civil authorities are in control of | the situation. According to the most reliable re- | ports, the disturbances of the last few | days in Kemper County were not as serious as at first reported. The trou- ble is attsibuted to the actions of a reckless mob, which, in searching for the negro who attacked Conductor Cooper on a Mobile and Ohio train last Sunday and shot and killed Constab O’'Brien of Wahalak, killed three n groes and wounded several others. The feeling against the blacks w. intensified by the killing by negroes Conductor R. N. Harrison of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at Crawfords on Monday night. and, believing the mob was beyond control, Deputy Sherift Alexander, at Scooba, asked that troops | be sent in order that the people might | be protected. Two companies of State troops are now encamped at Scooba. Late this evening Governor Varda- man, accompanied by twenty-five'mem- bers of the company of State militia stationed at Jackson, left for Scooba Governor Vardaman stated that there he is going to the scene in order that tion. Pl L S Office diaries and endar pads for 1907, now ready at Le Count, Clark & Ormond’s, 220 Market st.* bihe b sl bt iy HARRISON PARKMAN DEAD TOPEKA. Dec. 26.—Harrison Park- man, the man who first brought alfalfa from South America and planted it in the United States, died at Emporia, Kan., today, aged 73 years. tonight | state that quiet prevails at both tha | _calendars, also cal- | EDUCATORS MEET TOWNTHRONGED BY'TWO HURT IN CAR MECIDENT Rusty Rails Responsible for Collision That Sends Inspectors to .Hospital WRECK TIES UP LINE Two men were badly injured last night in a collision between a runaway car on the hill at Haight street ané a Castro street car speeding toward the ferry. The cars met at the intersection of Market and Haight streets. The Castro | street car had no passengers and both { members of its crew saved their lives { by jumping. | Inspectors S. McDermott and T. T Richardson wers on the Haight street car testing the new tracks at the time of the accident. Neither was able to jump owing to the speed at which the car was being driven. McDermott, besides a number | of severe abrasions and contusions. | suffered a probable fracturs of the skull. Richardson's leg was broken and his body bruised. The Castro street car was demolished by the impact. The - wreckage was strewn across the tracks and blocked | traffic on upper Market street for near- | 1y two hours. The accident was due to the rusty rails on the Haight street hill, which made the brakes of the car useless. | > S A A SUPERIOR JUDGE GUILTY OF GROSS IMPROPRIETIES | for Personal Gain CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—The judiclary | committee of the Chicage Bar Associa- tion, which has been investigating | charges against Superior Court Judge Arthur H. Chetlain of having become | interested in various financial transae- | tions which came under the jurisdiction of his court today found the jurist | had been no fresh outbreak, but that | “guilty of grave Infractions and of con- duct unbecoming a Judge and that he businesslike | he might make a personal investiga- | by his rather reckless actions seriously impaired his usefulness as a Judge. ot Brpio v fa v e | e Nefl O'Nell and Karl Eber. the ferry | jewelers, now at 1744 Fillmore. - e o | GUESTS AT GERMAN EMBASSY | WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Mrs. Roose- | velt, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and the Roosevelt children were today guests of Baroness von Sternburg at the Ger- | man Embassy, where a Christmas tres was given for the Roosevelt children. Is Yours a Pianoless Home? P ————} There is no reason why it should be. It takes but. little effort, to own a good See Eilers Music Co. Either store, now. piano 1220 Fillmore or 1130 Van Ness. 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To intro- duce our Fillmore Street, talking machine de- partment. we are now selling a fine $25 talk- ing machine and 10 sixty-cent standard records, (your choice) total value $31, for $16.85 cash, or $17.50 on payments of $1 a week. Four hundred machines will be sacrificed this way. They are going fast. Please hurry if you want one. Eilers [Music Co. Stockton, etc. Van Ness or 1220 Fillmore. Other stores, 1075-27 Clay Sggeet, Oakland; Mail Building, Two city stores, 1130 ~ JUST FOR LADIES To Obtain More Room for My Large New Stock of Ladies’ Wearing Apparel have secured the fine commodious store at the corner of Devisadero and Post Streets, in addition t« : NEW STO! i ew stock for to al t store, 1632 Devisadero Street. my presen RE will be devoted entirely to Ladies’ Toggery. hllandwimermg‘r.mde:dlum:qw—l‘,&d 10 per cent discount on all Cloaks and Suits for one week. L. HEILBRONER, 88 Devigadero St. Cor. Post St. &g