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Enormous a fadienc: at First Night of New Man- hattan Opera-House. i | } CAR HAMMERST has) fusic and | pte of New|) 4s monument, for ‘which as he said He muat have nterprise will ted by, the er i ieethe new hatinn Opern House by the audience at the gpening per- formance, there could be, no- further. He was hatied asia benefac- rE vd gs few man ever are f uite @f political campaigns. The first the audience deinunded bim he fan Uterdliy’ dragged on the stage, and, tearing himself free, he tried to push his way through a door that was not made to open, while everybody Ihughed. After the \second act he made his speech, of Which more Inter, At the énd he was ¢alled out again and again, he Uke a prima donna, and long aft had reached lobby on his way home (it was then nvatly midnight) scores of . enthusiasts were still facing the cur-4 tain shouting for him, | Bonci Makes His Way. | Reserving extended comment on the Performance Of the opera to later on fn this article, & word must be sald here as to Bonci, thes new tenor, for) whose entran } tip-toe of exp 6 all present were on the | ectation, and about whom THE EVENING Wor ED, everybody will be talking to-day and for| | eh é ¢ MO DEC? in truth be sald that he {s likely to di place in public admitation Caruso, the | 4dol of Mr. Conried's Wubscribera at the | rival Metropolitun Opota House, he 1s | bound to have a host of adherents. | Much of the praise of him from abroad | will be echoed here, and) Ju : } his yoice not the lud¢jousness and | : @ensuous charm of Caruso's, it ts a| GIVI LIPBCGrle it , Dedutiful voice, and hows how to} i use it to the best advantage, | Joy’ were heard all over. tie house as oF Rush to the Opening, the notion procesded HaayMr. Ham: Goavibcrsteseteaa “Eleni WHAT HAMM BR HE WILL yt ¥ @ome time tc come.\\ While it may ni are . if truth be told, excjAmations of night. Bravin wind) groups | lon, betore 3) thive was ortables, Fif- liter the crush was op. | e standing room wes occhi- 3 haX to figh e aisles to shdw 6, Tho cur- | tain was delayed twenty. minutes { & like order out of tie | Hammerstein originally 1} Later the popular price was {dly accepted. He proposes matinee and evening performance He has secured such eo trouble was due to the |fand Ancona, The list of at door of entr albandon' diving tw opera, There are to ve reglilar perrormances on the s the Metropolltan—Mondays, Wednesdays and Fricays—with q Saturday ' Ancona Gets Bonci Unfamsiiarity with the 1 Of the STEIN SAYS DO FOR THE PUBLIC. lanned to give cheap opere as Met nt artists as Edouant De Res: tutions includes ete,” “Alda,” “Don Giovanni)" pe BOLE H) rival the Metropoiltan and help) supply the demand for opera for all tho | fopera Aiouse. is xplanati or ans people. were rap- an and French me/nights as >politan p y weeks of I . Bonel 1G. Borcs: et Jnii- [3 aa on this eaitrance. i Jmermoor,” Hammerstein promises to He w thit Was ‘painful. Onee mid almost that his t rj ie and other French and Itallan favor! "} the patr chest: Z ant | au people. i — 4 nee foyer wit and watm ) oN % SS RT ‘Another—Nes Cabinet | Formed After Bishop ds Stoned in Street. shield was lifted the curtain disc was of a muddy red and flat as a bo, "The kcene rt the eyes, so sl ing was Its o The costuming of ti chorus was rich tugusnoss, bu ‘There was a cordial grecting of Ci fonte-Campanini, the conductor, be entered, and a roar of a the house rose to the orc ng of the national anthem, a eginning. Lx was close upon 3.) when | 6 opera Kot under way, A Word About the Opera. Bellini’'s “1 Puritan" was the opera, | t hark back two days of xble Col. Mapleson Nd Academy of Muslo to. re: {ous perro! ‘Alfonso Ministry under t eh c s De Arm Weyler reaun ir War, ministry “has been ation ere raysulting } xtraordinary Cabina} cri 1 aa grave. The populace ts “1 and ant cal man}. continued throughout —the| police were compelled to 3, and numbers o: l premiership 0: {in which Gen on» nian would d Vicar of the Bishop of rib by a stone, ) desires the Laberals in power is shown b s the nbw Cabinet yuis De Amigo, who is a) rT the. (A miaate { tenor and 5 posable owlng to the clash of personal and the Jealousies of Ue the foal Moderate which give) the ‘Cloricalx p> portunities to renew thelr pressure 95 the Ki About two. thousand KoT)T runs 0x th d the Kine axalrst jddition to. Weyler, the new Cabl-) 7) net. an announced, Is as follows: er of & n Affe Miniter” of- Just Senor} Minister of inane varto Miniater of Marino, Senor { Minister of the Interior, Senor : Miniater of Publlg Works, Minister of Instruc- punces the "Cath- Al autho GKULL FRACTURED. Mvty ix years : tth, atteet, wau driviix a: hores and-w2xon along > Pifty-peventii vstteet othe sora i pbtost Ini frant-ot No, 16 find. ran, away. Bysnk waa thrown to es his old} if rs, Peron! (tho treat and hy} cat Wea tractdred, do Wo Flower Hoapttal . Mrs. of Ida Wr right While She looks Lins back bing - | rather handsothe wom Among thé Litter | well dressed | Mra. E ds x had ud Tohess da] mente: | In Te Duoher est: police: sti \tives came woman | 92) panaaie et 5 When fonda) Mise Wright Inslate¢ Raat Jaag might when she call attend they WIFE TAKES POISON jin "00s | trate. loss: aga: othe the wht red cloak. hs and not Saturd Avenuo Do Vowms thong TUESDAY, Borenen Trtumphs in Opening His New Temple’ of | | | id | ady retire Pinkert Well Received. nkert. thélElvira, twas’ pain consclouy und upset at fe wopan, wt r = WENLERIS MADE. CHABOES ACTAESS CHURCH IS REFUGE. BR WAR MINSTER AS WT TAG GES fon a0 UMA nee es Causes A’ ne Tomiie for. for the Thi Time Found Sleeping in | Vestibule. doorway of the (el ent befors da hes carried the ch mn 4 arn miriyh totsn of tht West Side!) xy one aid U awalling ; hot cup of eoffes, while At the request of t | boy's halt-tr hardy and ears, | signed to Jud had been mate adjourned the h he jam ‘| hours in order to wou for evidence. Day Wright's bond at $1,50), A to hy My $ a|trail of soti- | i bates protests behitd her, Sho Is al The Bcy a Romancsr. mee n of thirty and | ‘4 { st callod Patrolman Watt the West Bixty-elghth str whore lttly! Tommy MeCabe - Hauptner a story of a cruel rroughs was once jon the 18 some t ommy didn't ¢ mother, not his stepr the trith. His si borhood® lo. Tommy, com one, LT motitied night, Miss Wel » told me rome 10 nd th Ving kept that ous ftreat ne not £0 to brother and sister vaniteh’? on him. Sister Mary by Mttle F the note A Austin cent a note home: wine len. HNen: told ‘Tommy or | A convicted him of ple and Yommy decided, as |! n two former occusions, bat i yi comalning away | AFTER! FAMILY JAR. | hon | On tho: Tomm; Rutledge alag may: > Church his head - uae in tho athedral, from toll hi demonstrative in nst_ Vosse's “allozed F women, alice. cou trl property has been > poleon Levy, .who,w start work i halts] Bee. THe sito ion nile aveavestiotn Gt thelOne Hunbred and Soventy-sivonth s pay Honistd and Seventy-eight apres. crated by L Chi cosece| Days Overdue After En- of West tree dayn ‘ansea. Wales, until ward — life-bonts, From 4 oc Thanksgiving afternoon the! frelgh fought through blinding mists of fre mise not to} oll bags over the bow j At four o'clock rFisay Saw a Whipping Coming to Him. | cneountered heavy rain, hall and sn 5 ¥. falled ‘squalls, which continued with rorlilil school, and! til 8 o'clock in the morning, or | enough to allow they Poor Eyesight NEW THEATRE IN BRONX, | The Bronx ts to Have another theatre in connéstion with a dopa nt-aore vt whioh Will cover itn entire block, ‘Tae | STOLUMR ST HEA ANTE STOR jeagaCityArrives Three: ountering Hurricane. dock at the foot street to-day her funnel nd her d Capt. Will- N. Hunter says that the freighter ld have foundered in m terrific hu rifane encountered on Thanksgiving: solldity t tin nh maintained the proper ballast 6 Chicago Olty had the usual win trip from Bristol, if It had not been for th when she struck q hurric Sable Island, N was the blast that to change southeast and run Away from the er coure ten tho “poll feartul, northeast wind: d, the had been | Tho tramendous seaa carried away the to all the polica s the. Hele; ath ring- gear, the bingac pass and smawied ene st th spray from “the great seas ti the deck awash. At # o'clock night the Bityation was sto peril that the crow! was ordered to get morning tt A shifted to the north, lea Inboring in tho Crough of noon Fyiday th Ahad a yake to conclu comparative. safety, although they! came through heavy feos all the way to ayold al and ware .comoediito/iarriva IACe- may com? from the use of cof- fee, Before getting glasses, quit coffee and use well.made “There's a Reason’? “adds no| ‘when DECEMBER 4, 1508. y “sic | Bonci, Rival of Caruso, oo After an Inauspicious Beginning .\ een” NewlImpresario Dedicates His House to Music- Loving Public. o-firmt act wie ruthlesay % MUTint, altoids 1 Wats anxious to Hie ia# &. good’ bavitodg: Voice uses well. So did Arimonal, Hein a big min with al 1 tune ve richett anaes aKnUR, As Nise wien Is. Intec, Rogue with a moderate amo {ty and reasonableness, sung not badly, and looked better than ) some | opera choruses that are familiar, What Mr. Hammerstein ACh . over ag t an he pruaedl, wis) of nat Lara t opera hd depemlent_ upon mi the people Of this ‘city. Appeals for Support. Supported 1 r spe: great appla HEAOAT AFRE NDS ALITTLE -—GIRLAT PRVER | | E Eddie Schmidt chmidt Climbed ’ Fire Escape and Rescued Madeleine Formes. min was out buy yonday meal to-day apariment: pn the} ory tr Nie Mrs. Ida 5 food for her > Atarted {n be: t floyr of the tw ment ut No, 41 West Pifty-fourth Vateeet aia gutted the bulldiig: 1t was | an ordinary fire to all bat the poor people who were forced Into Ure ing blasts outdoors, but hero in Eddie Schmidt, lived on the second climbed through the Four-yeas-ald Madeline Schmit to the flat, burst open the d ‘The fire had started In some myst ous manner in the bedroom and ¥ s briskly through the whole fi of the door gave phe draft | bulld- | re Schmidt had rushed ae the outing the alarm | and getting out the tena Charles Formos, an in the second floor. His w to the street. In t forgot that thelr I line was sleeping in When th remernt fire ha | cut oft th s/ Formes’ was eer “lunge back inta the hovse! when Eddie 8c! rife py ae up the] Mehacape. to the Formes's. flat bat ou Madeline ownake ond “‘kneel- Hee er inca bedroom, He caugs ete emiid and went down the iaud Pe ei the. engines came dashing up, When the Dlaze we xtin, culshe ‘dd the ob building was rem ih the ane tenanta were take in Dee al they, cova opraln guarters fire had OpreNHEiM, Giuinsz.@ © DAY, DECEN: : ; 5 Men s Hosiery. AN IMPORTANT SHOWING OF GOOD QUALITY. IMPORTED Hcs- JERY SUITABLE FUR HOLIDAY GIFTS (It BOXES). 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BIBS, Imported end of comes- 79¢ to 5 00 tic make, hand embroid:red SACQUES, of cashmere and flannol, in white, pink and blue, all hand smibroiderea MBE | 50 ward frora.....-- Peat Chee pulect eur es tae ° WRAPPERS, In GLCRIRCEC) ‘French tidnnel and albatross; somo silk lined and hand \embroid- ered, or with hand-made 1; 50 to 10. 00 GCANOPS.0 + reverse close vaeees A BEAUTIFUL SHOWING OF RATTLES A\FETYS— PIN DOLLS, PUFF BOXES, COMB AND. © AUSH BOXES, BOOTEES, MITTENS, GARS ond COATS, at very low prices, CHILDREN’S COATS, in navy, red. gray, brown, astrachan and white boar skin; sizes 6 98° 1 to G6 years; value 9.00; fori... eis eres ° Maids’ Apro)s and Caps in great variety; reason- ably priced. Broadway, &th and 9th Sts. Useful Holiday Gifts. The array of Holiday Gifts displayed is bewildering, and the following appropriate presents may be suggested in GLOVES, UMBRELLAS, LEATHER GOODS, JEWELRY, SILVERWAR NECKWEAR, WAISTS, FUR k TERT, MENS TURNTSING MBROID- : Speciais. > s GOLD SILLED BRACELETS, pista; cbased or stone setting. BQ) Value $4.00, for <a . WOMEN’S SULID GOLD SIGNET RINGS, Vr'ue $3.50, for 1 ‘WOMEN'S FINE SWISS EMBROIDERED HANOKER- 4 9, CHIEFS, scal oped and hemstitcned eifects, Va.ue 25c, for 12 Ab; WOMEN'S SHEER SWISS EMBROIDERED HANDKER- 95 KERCHIETS, Value $0¢, for... \C WOMEN'S AND MISSES’ ENVELOPE iD £ gg BAGS, in assorted styles and colors. Value $1.50, for Cc WOMEN'S UNION TAFFETA UMBRELLAS, handts ivory and silver, pearl and silver, ‘Intaid LE Bee Varue $3.00, 10F. 1.98 WEST 125THST.,7TH® 8TH AVES. Extraordinary Values 150 Ladies’ and Misses’ Tailored Suits | Taken from the regular stock, ‘ $30 ' Reduced from $30.00 and $35.00, 1 = 100 Ladies’ Br oadcloth Outer Garments Qn Superior silk lined and interlined, ° $ | 5 Reduced from $27.50, | Sale’ Wednesday and Thursday. | Broadway and 2ist St... —- Fulton and and Bridge Sts., : New York. ) Brooklyn, 4 i | ese (6 to hed fait sch sine sad bow 1) gu tug x0 movie i nave on 3 of rabiaao oF wat ote dno tate csi pats ie ea MESES ERs eee — mince dks