The evening world. Newspaper, November 28, 1906, Page 12

~NEW HOME FOR GRIND OPERAS oe EADY TO OPE Fitting Setting Prepared by. Hammerstein for "Stars. : BONCI AT THE OPENING. - Caruso’s Rival to’Be Attraction Features of New Structure. - ‘The new Manhattan Opera-House, wich Oscar Hammerstein expects to be @ real rival of the Motropolitan, will ‘de opened on Monday. nigit’ It ts at Thirty-fourth stréet and Eighth avenue. ‘Tho first opera will be "I Puritant,” atid will introduce to American music- lovers Boncl, the famous Itatan tenor, @ rival of Caruso, the star tenor of the Conried forces. The completion of the Manhattan Opera-House consummates a project Jong the ambition of Hammerstein. (When the doors of the foyer are thrown pen Monday evening the public will Have an opportunity to judge an enter- prise the magnitude of which might have daunted a less resolute purpose. ‘The interior plans have been worked out along the symmetrical lines of modern nd French architecture. Its approach from the exterlor portico is made through a stately entrance foyer, with Walls of warm-toned Yorkshire stone, Telleved by masstve columns of breche- ‘violet marble, with bronze ornament then through an arcade foyer direct! into the orchestra floor. Great Marble Stairways, Two large Itallan marble staircanen with heavy bronze balustradea in lyric design at tho left and right, lead up to the Louis XV.."Grand Foyer de Luxe,” thence through to the loges and pro- -moenium boxes, Boactous -olevators to the left and right to the foyer and boxes and two. staircases at the extreme ‘ends lead to the second and third balconies. The main auditorium rises from Sts struc: tural base through a peristyle contain- ing forty proscenium boxes, supported by columns, which also act og the sup- porting base for a semi-circle of loges lizid the two balconies abo he entire scheme reacties a climax {a The beautiful main celling, one hundred ‘feet high. with an enormous shallow dome, elliptical in shape, The main electroller is fifteen feat in diameter and. contains one thousand lamps. Twenty- four minor electtolters augment the necessary illumination for the vast au- ditorium and ceiling. Five thousand Mincafdescent lamps are distributed throughout the auditorium. The architectural scheme of decora- tion and color js in the style of Louis XIV. The prevailing colors’are mural Krounds of deep red, with decorations tn contrasting shades of warm buff tint, relieved. with ornaments in gold. The proscentum frame 1s treated in gold ‘throughout to set forth advantageously the stage picture. ‘There are spacious Pompelian smoking rooms below stairs. with parlors, lounging rooms, room for the press, &c. 4 Safe from Fire. The entire building !s fire-proot and the exits have been s0 arranged as to make congestion practically {mpossible. Bix interior staircases in addition to “two élevare afford a means of reach- ing the upper balconies. There are ‘foyers “and corridors for promenade on avery floor, Tho nearness of the pro- mcenium boxes and loges to the stage is‘another practical improvement added to the acoustic properties of the opera- house, which are sald to excel those of any lyric theatre in this country or tthe: proportions of the stage are |80x175 foct.. Mr, Hammerstein delloves he has a in @tore for patrons in the com: \fort of the orchestra chairs, which have been made in a wpe design and are exceptionally handsome, NOTES OF MUSIC Fc ROGERS, baritone, rave fis annual recital at Mende!ssohn jarge apdience, His yolce Was not at Ste bast, but he aang. as hq always dos, with taste and judgment. Besides ofa favorites, several new songs wore on the programme, raving it from be: hackney@s. Isidore Luckstone'’s piano ucciimpaninients were ax delight(ul as ever. : There 1s promise of « great qudion Al the! Metropol{tan Opera-House night. when Caruso and thelr first appearance of i Puccini's “La Bo ution 18 | astintoe as to Ue gr tho Ital- | jan teior, The Wt laving pub-| liely, expressed th in hit, the musicai public probably will give him a wurin reception. In the great hall of Cooper Union to-morrow evening the Maram Quart wilt give ilts a@ond concer: Uf the eeason, Dvorak’ qourtet In major and Mozart's quintet tn A major wi be the principal offerings. et will be assisted iq Hern firat clarinet of the Russian Sy1 phony Society, and Rose O'Brien, con- tralta, Symphony Orchestra. co: Ing of, slighty youn, profession musicians, der Arnold. Volpa, tte founder and conduct odsect-19 to Rive young mits opportunity to partake In. thy an of Works of Boclety will ive th: ring. Victor Herbert give the inst oonce at Daly's Theatre next All the selections will Morks. ‘There ii! these concerts in ovening. hin own A new aerios of spring. Soncert tn honor ‘of Sain @ay eveaine tn the Pir Chureh. Fifth aveav The proeramme will b= fot the ditinguinhed he# in this cotter ie ba Narnes. Rutwin Meg Wern il nana, 4 we: Rey BA none on Fri~ shy tertin 4 to workn neh tmustelan ‘ace W, Sima, mM and Wor- See = tea. First Production—Artistic _ THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER. 28, 1906. Interior Views of New Home for Grand Opera And Leading Tenor Who BSN Sy many, Will Figure at Opening | $8,000 a week, | vass tho fleld for a suitable part. | “Count Bon! does not desire a vaude-| j ville appearance, preferring a role that lor than an ‘attraction.’ My reports to | whore u definite offer may be coi YOUNG POET TAKES | enat sho faced Megistrate Marsh. She |\Save her age as thirty-two. j'by the band her five-year-old. gov. At the police captain's request é without bend for ‘examination to-mor- ‘The woman turned over her child 1 | to some friend as she was Ied to a cel. | She showed no emotion even thin. j “T don't know how my husband got AAU CRAZED WM ENGLISH JAIL BY. “MURDER CHARGE Washington Lawyer Ac-| cused in London Appar- ently Loses Reason. %3,—Karl Hau, alias George Washingon Unjversity, Washing. as been under arrest 7 on tho charge of mur- his mother-in-law eg Badeo brought up mand at the Bow Street Police Court tho presiding magistrate prisoner ‘that papers. containing a masy of evidence in his caso had been recelyed from Germany, but that there was still further tech- nical ovidence necesrary (for which the German authorities had sent) before he could be formally extradited, and asked ton, D. 0., who here since Noy. Hau, wita staring eyes, anawered: | Jured, on! ‘The prisoner has apparently lost bis | necesary to take him to the “hospital confined in| netehborhood, which for years |been noted t. |faborera recelved no warning of thelr neveral days Hall yevterday afternoon to a! Teacher ne 44 not recognize | down on. the: r, Mr, Wilson. {nto court to ty | Of two of the u not or pretended he } las Hau Wag still drossed faut castonally he would ask Mr cll whnt he was th tending to be his @tard, for when a ietter had been rec only answer/Wwas: at call me Hau? Sultan of ‘Tur & fom the prigoner but the repeated s Know what with thé consent of M . the case was again remand n doctor tas ci has become In- | t sorporated \for {ts third Aeauwon, | lew | clans’ the | Hau has bee manner/but he belleves t Bo Extradited, ation of the id beforo the case ts in an Interview to-day n ft it ta show is inaitno It a 'to decide ta Jent evidence Agr a free organ | tg a: alnst Hau has boon care- The ovidenoe includes thi who sweirs he #old.a wix and af beard to the prisoner, that of anoth: helped qu to sand thet of still another, who says be assisted the pris- Sner to take off nig beard and wig. “In fact, Hays eyety step has been follpwed from the the ioe, left Frank. ©: Baden up to the time of dis arrival in London. ‘There is no chance of prevent- lig his extradition. Detectives Watch Him. After the adjournment cf Hau's cas to-day the papers in his case were Placed beform him. At firat he «ald he could not understand what they meant, | but later he proceeded to read them | rnestly ne prisoner ts being watched Ly Ger- man detectives. A represontatiye of the American Embassy was present in court to-day watehing the case, but Hau has Hot yet clalned: the protection of the United States, nor has ‘he produced his turalization’ papers. —<——_—__—— MANY BURIED, TWO ‘EAD QUICKSIND. Twelve Hurt in Collapse: of Tons of Earth at Clare- mont Park. Quicksand, moving rapidly erously late last night in a hi | deep excayation In Claremont Park, at | trouble him whether he had anything to P8¥: | yforria avenue and Ono Humired and | Clot | Seventy-sooond street, the Bronx, killed | heada’ hod y ono #0,serlously that ft was {UX Weeks of About a deset-others-were Great excitement prevailed in quicksamt beds, T danger until large planks which cov- ered the walls of the excayatlo. fer ha-of. and, t Was {mponsib), buried benedth tons of sand, which ted os the survivors of the caye-{o essayed the work of rescue, A third man was caught on & Mg beneath a half-ton bowlder and wifen reached by his com- worked heroloally. tn rades, tace of threatened danger to drag him | When th descended found the co Meh Works and h the suffocating sand. npoasible fo recover tho | dodles of yo laborers, the police ordered the «ang of workers to the surface, a of the excayva- tion’ th break and bury all hands und Tho wero Paots Delsemalo, thirty-four yonre olf, of Arthur avanue and Ono red” and Lutet Glancho of sand. ven years a ave street ahe sewer-exoayation, om. Webster avenue ont Park to Highbri od. under ber, for and burled the (threo m The Jand there ts treachprods, far {rom the tin Webs: avenug | Whore the pit was tong a | ROUrCE Of W + obber was atrei of, but rel. L. balh or Baden-Baden, end the police have traced his movewents from Bacen- followed by an ava-| j# to save tle ives |y fortunates, They were | 0 were killed otitright enth street, | 4 One Hundred and Ho seas-remoyed to the PICKETS. WANT PROTECTION ADM WILLING WORKERS Novel Complaint of Strik-| ers that They Are Be- ing Assaulted. factory at NO, allexed ported had beer returned day 0 that ed and a crowd hus beer tof the time in front of Two polic qt station were assim ing “In responie to advertisements by the have called at the | many F Woe to Bak fora ve persuaded: so he lawyan a AUTO SPEEDER WAS. HURRYING TO SHOW, ed When Motor Ran Into When Cofoner of Vehicles, After Long Chase by Policeman. | Bloycle Po Tramo down street to For and only ised he }him $19 it he Dub the. pe accompany hurt." she said, —_—>____ ELL WITH LAW, TILLMAN DECLAIMS Senator Abuses ‘Negroes, Who Hear Themselves Denounced in Chicago Hall. : WIFE ARRESTED | VictimR efused to the Last | .to Tell Who Inflicted the Fatal Injury. ra bayside tolelkoaper, Ged to-day tn the 8. R. Smith Infirm-| Staten Island, | | refusing to tell to the very Inst who dt was that s James Coops man's address Hospital las for the bonefit night at Orchestra o_senpation of Chi- ed o great w. | = wife Grace, ; Unt pretty, is In the Rich- held as a 7 charge of murder, | t she knowa we of her hus- | * | buxom and rather | mond Cou tated on the rape question w! Grand street, ther than deny shocked some and the majority of 3,000 lsteners. of tho “black One Hundred former waid-to-be-capt 1 tho 20) strikers at Wolf & Abraham's | years. '# clothing, | several mo Second street. the! band, the woman rej ‘The coupis —had—been jo that hanks of the pickets ; | shouted “To hell with the la to the constitutional amend- ch gives negroes the right to king childre 5 they had bean the own- house of the -old R. they jat No, 18 Water streat, 6ta whom hey |didn't have many guests. ce of Income Hisses were common: Some negroes | were in the ‘crowd: nigger down there," ne Genator, pointing to a black “Ho's ay black as to the police ked by a ma ring the | sou was the ba man well up front, the ace of spades. wound in the eye and dd been pummelle: Cooper deserted jness to mike 4 had | saloons. he returned late in the iis wite upbradded him for he couple had a spirited and presence, of wit- whole crowd looked, but the negro sat xmiled and stood the ordeal Nke a has | drinking, was polay was thr GUE deteotly lo° speaking and the employecs Last Saturday clared for the, open shop!and on later Frank. Furback, | 7A fow. minutos an employes of sion to go into a |ing off the bar. nas beer been | creased groans ecltred the Senator, je of ruling a white popufa- They'’—hisses small storeroom open- Ho heard partly, sup- FPurback made a Nght. Cooper was Iving on hls back behind Some ‘barrels with both hands pressed over a ghastly hic ee ee eee aged fre ae hal yt ege was found addressed to his par [more red and mt to bo fair with: the negro,” ho sald. "but wa must protect ourselves In his body, trying | [vainly to stop the blood which’ poured’) Re Purback called for| "The d man. into a | Senator to aut out reference to the race ho ran for the family) question. bist he refused fe ge rae |MANGLED IN PRINTING PRESS, While working {n the. printing room of the Lipsy Publishing Company, at | No. 1890 Seoond avenua, Jest night, John Bilas, forty years old, \of No. 204 West Twenty-second street, was caught in the feed rollers of a la asking mo how I jgayed by his co: pean. seriously Presbyterian Hospital ed there and Invmaln- | nerd and got the Injur Dr. Goodwin. to,.Farback nor to Dr, Good- | win would Cooper tell how he got his raized | wound. but the pickets | eof thesa to turn | ersiand tht noe | shook his head. | where I am,” after he had He Was tiken “and there's no | Sot this Jab in the atomach—I'll net I; jing camp and made moro famous by sorin| COUNT BON! WILL 0 ON STAGE OR $2,000 A WEEK At Least Agent Says So and Offer Is Made to Lew Fields. eabeel, If Count Bont Castellane can get ois willing to go onthe |stage, 1t.44 belleved, and an offer of Gervices-haa been made to Lew Field Tho, offer came through. dH.’ 1, Mart-) }nellf, the vaudaville agent, who has of-| |ficed in this city, London and Paris, Mr, Afaase, the American managet ‘fo: Mr, Marinelli, salls to-morrow da La) Provence for Paris, to thoroughly {n-/ qulre into the matter. have Count Bont In his company at twiee about that 6,000 a week. He {s already paying Peto Daly $26,247.85 a week, Here is an excerpt from the Hotter of Mr, Murtinoll! to Mr, Fields concerning the former husband of Anna | Gould: “Count Bont is not averse to ‘earn- jing’ his living through dramatic art, }but for’ reasons of social fitness will | not accept any of the numerous offers submitted to him by European man- agers, Tho negotiations led, however, to the consideration of an American | appearance, ang I was advised to can- will allow of his being an ‘artist’ rath- and from Paris have reached a point id~ ered, and, I wish to propose your en- gagement of the Count for more rea- sons than the mere drawing power of his name. “[ have gubmitted to the European agent a synopsis of the French comedy character part played by your Mr, Be- Count Bont, From all indications thir will not only be acceptable, but I am assured the Count-can ‘make good in tho part.” HIS LIFEIN DESPAIR Rejected Song Causes Lewis to Kill Himself with Pis- tol Bullet. naieur song of Lawrence Low poet and author, was stilled forever Dy a pistol shot when a note came m a publisher saying that his manuscript was unayallable, and last night the found {n the little room he had the day before engaged at the Barthold! Hotel. Lewis Ived at No, 716 East One-Hun- éred and Forty-second street with his parents, He was about twenty-four years old, Wor some yeats Teas bers writing songs and poems, but had little success in finding publishers who, would accept them, He had read several poema before the Hamilton Literary Society, No. #4 East One Hundred and Thirty-ffth treet, and had been Invited to read a new drama which ho had juyt written, But discouragements came upon him, His talents were not recos: put te leave it all behind With ten feet of rubber hose, the young man went to the Bartholdl. In- Gleations are that he intendedjto dle by the inhalation of gas, but the pipe would not Mt over the jet and the revolver was called into service: Dead Twenty Hours When Found. When tho room was needed last night for a now guest, Lewis's time having expired, bellboy was pent to seo that {t was) in ‘shape. Finding door Joeked, {t was smashed in and the body of Lewis was found undressed on the ped with a bullet hole through his head, He had been dead, Dr, Arnold, of the hotel, thought, ebout twenty hours, A ents. It-was not opened. Tho body was sent to the morgue, where. it was still unclaimed early to-day. | ‘The letter which rejected his song was from the Metropolitan Mustc Company, of thia city, and had evidently been re- ‘celved about the timo he decided to kill himself, The letter spoke highly of th young man's ability. ——————__ FAMOUS CAMP DESTROYED, MARYSVILLE, Cal., Noy. 23,—The ruins of Yuba Dam, once a famous min- While Mr. Fields would be ‘glad to! the Herald Square Theatre ho thinks | | | nized, he felt, and there scomed no way) | Bret Harte's poom, were destroyed by who sald he wae muffering from arvied, nd some ong . and vome ore | contusions of the spin A got Into the | Realizing that the man was in w fair odwip notifed Capt, | fire yesterday. LOTTA ADDS A MILLION TO HER FORT Former Actress Makes# This:Sum ina Single ° Deal. mare, bul 2! little actress To-diy Lotta tsn't en actress. or ' pring chiolien | elther, bit ‘she's just as clever as sie over was. At a Bgo when most women are satisleg with an easy chafr and a bit of knit ding, Lotta 1s figuring largely in the ows aaa business woman, of dtveral fej interests and asthe active head of a string of race horses. 4 ‘A specinl telegram saya that by, reas Bon of Ure sale of the property ‘of the. a Park ‘Theatre jn Boston, Lotta, the owner, Will make on her/ ore stmént a aum approximating, Sho Is #lready a very rich but never before Bes she a single deul, And then on yesterday ‘afternoon at the Old Glory horso sile in Madison Bquare Garden the manager of her: ng stable, Fred Smythe, outbid va for Hal Direct: the moat promising son of Direct Hal. the tne! vineible pacer, Smythe got Hal Direct for $4.00, and he will be a member the Crabtree stables next year, EXPLOSION SETS FIRE 0 BROOKLYN BUILDING§ Young Employee — of Easterm Parquet Company Injured Try- & ing to Put Out Blaze, Following a tremendous explosion tag! the cellar of the building at No, #4 Fule! zan|.qtreet, Brooklyn, occupled by th Eastern Parquet Company, early to-day,: ban as being the best possible role for | Aames burst forth—and for a time threatened a disastrous fire. In the cellar was stored a quantity! of oll, and t Is Relleved that alight cigar or cigarette stump dropped through the sireet grating caused th explosion. Join D, Jackson, twenty-one yeai old, of No. 10% Fulton atrest, an em. sloyee of the Parquet Company, in at tempting to put out the fire’was bad burned. Tenants Uving on the uppe: floor o! the house were 0 badly frightened thaf| many of them ran-to the roof. Cther climbed to the street by the fire ©, capes. The fremen made short work of t flames when they arrived, Se NOTABLES AT THIS DINNER, WASHINGTON, Noy, %8.—The annui ® National Geographio & clety will be given tn- this city = 1 Invitations have been Issued by: Prof, Willis i. 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SITB, New York City, and you. will reosive re i innge trial treatment tree, Hiveteated teow ‘om th ‘und te indorsement from those. who have-taten tits Eroalment at homme and reduced thepnwel ten 13 Sent to. payin form sa eent to pay tn any ‘or form, | Rear ‘from’ you "promptly, aa 0 ub Sect this will be sent police staton. Hayes, of tho St Hayes nent his precinct detectives to | wed | the hotel and they saw Cooper. “They | didn't have any better luck In pum, Hthe.jnjured hotel keeper. than the ph, “No Ante-Mortem Statement. ho was sinking, to tho Infirmary in a coacn. | Cahill arrived at 2 A..3 tm ante mortem atate- he found Cooper sinking Into-«7 Tr was ro wie tr ing to rouse t conscipus words ‘had been: | loerran Kerrigan, there's nothing doing, chased an at m—Fifty-severth-} fth street, last night, ouuRht the cac when a long Tages blocked the way, er of the m omodiie | fellow: 6 -deteottves put Mra. Cooper in a | (A carried her to the inormary, dying nan mighvsre: nd acctise her, de when the nurse | ybally to hin beds ward with the word. | hurried out of the that Coonor ‘was «oad, Tiayes meanwhile had secured! bald would juatity | in arresting Mra, Gooner. on. the | charge of killinx her husband, he had given her the, third degree with- out results. he arr a with him a to Jet him io, evidence which iseman compelled Hoogs to him to the station hou women went on alone to the thea- Stapleton her in the The Discharge. of that-Negro Battalion and. , What It Means to the Men ‘Who Suffer © Al CLEAR. STATEMENT OF THE ENTIRE CASE. - vex SUN DAY'S