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1 ny , ‘SUBWAY SUICIDE “ANNOUNCED HIS ~WTENDED PLUNGE “Charles B. Williams Gave tw, Mysterious Warning to 4 Trainmaster. HAD MEMO. OF RACES. Slip of Paper Aids Identifica- tion of Desperate Sui- cide at Station. in front from w himself spr the the Seventy-second t wns !entifier t B. Williams, of No. 65 » Hundred and Twenty-second jon was made by dy was picked up from iat was found in the was a s! paper on names of two and “Helen e dvad made a good about the sulcide. e that the et had an at- made at his sok= word hat a at when wire elved ined vad puch aowarn James M gyenue, sas @he steps hour | an ex: ing the the tracks n hen man Was 1oand a work s ins, He wou a oy Carry Off 815,000 Worth | jAmondn in New Orle NEW ORLEANS. @an robbery in the heart of New Or ‘of persons pass: was per- petraed ia t the jew @iry establishment jorn & @o., Cont! and R Two men drove in front of the @tore in a bu ghted fend smasiv plate | @lass windows in the front of the stor He quickly Ned with | amon k Into the bussy large crowd] started in p man. buggy | and horse w lost to sight ina Cloud of dust in the old French quarter. ‘The trays contained 112 d —___ TAFT BACK IN WASHINGTON; OFF AGAIN IN DAY OR TWO. 'WASHIN ond ring! 20.—Secretary wf War Taft, who for the past twelve | ays has been on a tour through the | IWest, North and t, reached here to-day in time to appear before the morning session of the House Commit- tee on Insular Affairs. A canal con- tere engaged the attention of the jecretary later in the day at the White fouse accumulation of official matters then considered by Mr. Taft at sidenc The 5 ry has an engagement to Gelive at Buffalo, N. Y., Bautr and will leave Wash- ing! ay night or Saturday morn- fag to be gone until Sunday night, ed 250 GIRLS RUN FROM FIRE, 20 OVERCOME BY SMOKE. jal to The Evening World.) XLPHTA, Feb. Qundred and fifty girls employed in nthe hosiery and cotton yarn mill of Whomas Henry sons, of this city, fled 4n panic from fluanes and in ‘thelr Wight about twenty were overcome by emoke. ‘They dragged out by other emplo. carried into near- iby drug st they were re- wived. Phe mill building, a five-story struc- ture, was badly damaged, oo “FOUR CRUISERS AT ’FRISCO FROM MAGDALENA BAY. @AN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20.—The ‘armored cruisers West Virginia, Mary- lend, ‘Tennessee and Washington ar- rived here this morning from Mag- elena Bay. The cruisers Clorado and Pennsylvania, which accompanied them uy the coast, did not enter the harbor, But proceeded northward to the Brem: @rton Navy Yard. The four big ves- gels are anchored near the battleship Nebraska r (8p PHILAL two re s and where A POPULAR SONG HIT. hind the Counter,” Lew comedy, at the Herald sing “If You'll Walk hit of the show. end muse, Order THE*EVENING WORUWD, ‘THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1908. Mr. Hammerstein Gives Famous Work a Spiendid Setting and Produces It with a Fine Cast. | MARY GARDEN APPEARS A Actor— Four of the Cast Creators of Their Characters. By Sylvester Rawling. ELLEAS ET MELISANDE,” Debussy’s opera founded on Maet- erlinck’s drama, which Mr. Hammerstein presented at the Man- hattan Opera-House last night for the first time in America, will be the talk of New York music lovers for some time to come, Only “Parsifal” and “Salome,” in recent years, have equalled it as a sensation, and it is far more revolutionary than either. Everybody was asking him- self and his neighbor last night: “Is this the foundation of a new school of opera?” Those who remember the earlier struggles to convince people that Wag- ner Was anything but noise and fury and have lived to see his works be- (come classics in every country will be chary of answering an emphatic t the temptation is strong. In this work of the revolutionary Frenchman are shown the possibilities of present'ng poetic dramas with musi- cal settings; but {f this ia opera, w 4s Melisande’s Hair Scene Rivals Balcony Scene shall we call “Lucia,” or ‘‘Rigolet! or "Alda" or “I ger” oF in “Romeo and Juliet’ | "Tristan und Isold ‘Pagilaccl, or Lovers of the old bel From“ i ” cantoiand of the now dramatic singing | (120% Pellens and Meltsande.") ailke must subject themselves toa new | PELLEAS—I cannot reach thy hand ecvétabn: with my lips, © * # Singers Practically Chant. HEEB NCES Gunes JE) Ge eee ; he poin Debussy’s characters practically chant || of falling, © * * Oh! Ohi My [thelr nes, ‘There is not a single tune | hair js falling down the tower! * * in the whole a—searcely even a melody. Would it not be better that paar hasees far eu eaeny the words should be spoken naturally Migoueris ie vies Ne lean ith the ore! ‘alas mpaniment, Pe NM stream over, merely a suggestive influence and a sus- e/e 08s) twining power? PELLEAS—Oh! Oh! What is. it? doubt as * * * Thy hair, thy hair js fall. nains that Debus: ing down to met * * * All thy usic grips and stirs one strangely. locks, Melisande, all locks have ° adent. It surel: fallen down the tower! * * * athes the spirit ' hold them in my hands; I hold them edie oa cuenta e in my mouth, * * * JI hold them caverns, of the decaying houses, of the | '” my arms; I put them about my 11 and ol! people of the story. Maeter- || 76k. 1 will not open my ik himself if he were a musician, J ‘ands again to-night. * * * have composed it. Almost one MELISANDE—Let me go! Let me 1 t say it Js Maeteriinck, not De- co! * * * Thou wilt make me pussy, th through the my: fall 8) cal, ha 1 orchestratio: PELLEAS—No, no,no; * * * J that 8 have never Melisande! ven such hair as thine, * * © See, see, see; it comes from so high and yet it floods me to the heart! * * * And yet it floods me to the knees! * * And it is sweet, sweet as Melisande Brutally Shaken. identical in origin ca di Rimini," only earlier ts 1 to an Le period, placed in Ne n wilds and J if it fell from heaven! * * * 1 imbued with the weird fancifulne see the sky no longer through thy Maeterlinck, was told briefly by locks Thou seest, thou sees nd in full by Mr World's series Tuesday ad I can no longer hold them with both hands; there are some on the boughs of the willow. * * * They are alive like birds in my hands, writer last Satur Terhune in The of “Stories of the Operas It is divided into five acts and scones, Perhaps the most dramatic is | * * © ‘and they love me. They that in which Golaud, gnawed wi lnvelmermorethanihoal mow ne fa Jealousy of which he js half ashamed, MELISANDE—Let me go: let_me exercises the ri of primeval man and | go) ® * © Some one might mauls his wife, Melsande, Mke 9) ] Come 9 # # drunken longshoreman, He did not last} ht drag her about the floor by her one would think, would be at the death- | hed of her daughter-n-law? Fine Impersonations All, Mary Garden's Melisande was beau- titul to look upon and superbly acted. ‘Dufranne disclosed a splendid voice And fine histrionic qualities as Gou- land. Perler impersonated Pelleas most convincingly. Gervitle-Reache was a eatisfactory Genevieve. These four were in the original cast at the first | production of the opera in Paris in| 1902, Arimondi made King Arkel seem very real. Sigrist was good as Go- ‘s little son, Yniold, and Crabbe was capable, as he always 1s, in the small part of the Doctor, Mr. Hammerstein's Good Work. Mr. Hammerstein has earned the thanks of every opera-goer In New York by permitting us to hear this music- drama. The audience was the most distinguished ever gathered in his op- All the scenes are well set. The/era-house, It included men and women first, where Golaud surprises Mel!-| prominent in all the arts, leaders in inde at the spring in the forest, both|soclety and music-lovers from every ng lost, looks very natural. She|walk of life. All were intent to hear nakes a beautiful picture and the timid/the last word and the last note. Changes and frightened way in which she fol-|of scene with the orchestra still playing lows him, filtting from tree to tree, 18| were permitted to be made in silence. far more attractive than one would | There was no applause until the end of expect from the text. each act, when there was plenty of It The Fatal Fountain. All the principals were recalled many times, Melisande's first flirtation with Pel- 5 leas, at the fountain, when she loses The Impresario's Speech. the ring Golaud gave her, Is very pic-|, When Campanini entered the orches- turesque. It ts at this moment that the| ‘T@ Pit before the fourth act, the whole horse of Golaud, who is far away,|0USe applauded him in recognition of suddenly bolts and throws him, one of} the Inderatigable energy in rehearsing the many strange things that happen |‘® work, and the admirable manner in eile store. de is at this sume foun-| Which he conducted it, After it was sm jov--. both he and Mr. Ham: tain later on that, Melisande and Pel- ammersteln ain late were called before the curtain with the for which the text calls, He con-| d himself with selzing her by the ders, throwing her to the ground and shaking her as a terrier would a rat. The odd thing ja that King Arkel, who was present, never stirred a finger to help Melisande, although he is a gentleman as well as @ King and Js fond of her. Not Covered by Her Hair. Phat hair, five feet four inches long, taken from the head of a peasant of Brittany for the use of Melisande in this opera, was in braids at the time. In an earlier scene, when Pelleas sur- prises her at her window letting her | hair down for the night, it is supposed to fall down all over him. But it doesn't; for, if it did, how could he sing? Pelleas contents himself with fondling strands of it while he tells her how she has enmeshed him. hair, te sho this is what he said; has sent Mellsande to find the ring she| “te @ work of such sublime poet joetry falsely said she: had lost there, with x the three blind men sleeping inside, | SP4 muotcal grandeur meets with your typitying something (who knows | |? : ‘es your support, it will place New York at the head of cities of musical culture throughout the world, As for myself, I have had but one object in presenting this opera —to endear myself to you and perpet- uate myself In your memories,” Compared with Tuesday's final re hearsal, the action was astonishingly briek. The first note of the prelude was sounded at exactly 8 o'clock. ‘The last ourtain fell at 11.30 o'clock. Few people left before the end, and there was hearty applause after the last cur taln. what?), and the bojtomless, foul-smell- ing, deathdeating well in the vault of the castle to which Golaud leads Pel- leas, apparently to terrorize him, are also plcturesquely effective; but they might be omitted without loss. Melisande Dies Alone. ‘The last scene, with Golaud's fran- tle and brutal insistence that Mell- sande, dying, shall tell him the truth as to her relations with the dead Pel- leas, {6 most effective. It Is marred by one jarring note, Everybody, including tie the Doctor, for some minutes before BEAUTIFUL MELISANDE ‘Dufranne Charms, Both as Singer and leas having mutually declared their singers: For the | love within his hearing, Golaud kilis}T7RCT™ | Far the ie there was | Pellens. The grotto, where Golaud ope Som MONIC 8 sspeech; and | Where Mary Garden Got, That Five Feet Four Wig $6 TQ ELLEAS ET MELISANDE" was P first produced in Paris In April, 1902. Mary Garden was the| 66 yy original impersonator of the heroine. Outside of Paris until last night the | opera has been presented on z fort and Brussels, and Mary ss) Was always the heroine. Nobody else has portrayed her. The American prima donna his declared the part “seems to | —.— belong to me. Maeteriinck in the drama and Debus: n the opera had ‘nsisted upon the wonderful red evld hair which the elfin maiden wore, and Mary Garden would not consent to any wig of shreds and patches. Consequently, a search was nade for natural hair like Melisande's. After six months of fruitless endeavor n Germany, Switze a and southern France, a girl was found in a hamlet Secret Service After Officials, Means to Wipe Out All jmear St. Malo, Brittany, who had the . [requisite natural locks. Marriage Bureaus. For ) francs, it ls said, she co sented to give up the treasure. ¥ that dor she was married and made! ey Caco, Feb. —A gigantic matrl- nappy. and her hair was the fanz |monial trust, embracing all “ouptd meshed at the Man pera-House | hunter’ agencies, similar to the Marian Hein te lGrey Searchlight Club of Elicin, was unearthed in the Federal Grand Jury room vesterday. Information leaked out | had red “Siegfried” Well Sung at the Metropoliian. that evidence heen s positively proving HE season's first performance of tii: the hundreds of ulemate' I Wagner's ‘Siegfried’ was Ist! bureaus operated in every section of| night's offering at the Metropoll-! tne country were controlled by a Chi-| tan Opers-House. Despite vile weather | and the premier of “Pelleas and Me! jsande” at the rival house, a more than average audience had turned out, and most of It remained to the end of the long evening. The production was de- sonducting cago and a New York man and possl- bly two other men. Secret Service men, headed by Col. Stuart and Walter S. Mayer, Chief Post Office Inspector of New York, | were called as witnesses before the Grand Jury and gave valuable test! cldedly creditable, Mahler ‘vith authority and rare interpretation.| mony in regard to the matrimonial Curtain calls were many, and merited. | trust. The Government attorneys expect to break up “traffic in marriages'’ in one | swoop by the arrest und conviction of | the officials of the combination. Secret Service men, given the lead by infor | Burgstaller's Siegfried, though merred repeatedly by hoarseness, was well up to the bie tenor’s vigorous, robust standard. If he docs not wholly bring | out the buoyant, effervescent youth-| fulness of the role, he at least lends to|mation secured in the Marian Grey {t a strength and fervor that are thor-| trial, have shown all matrimontal e tue sg agencies in the country testimonial as sent out by Miss Grey, as well as the same Stock pictures. —————~——— “STAATS” BUILDING oughly convincing. The part 1s one of Burgstaller's best, not only from a yooal standpoint, but visually and histrionic- ally as well. 1 There {s a minor detail of stage t which in this later day aeeegerincreasing operatic reallem IS SOLD FOR $6,000. ! could be vastly improved on, That ts NOT NICE, SHE SAYS, TO BE CALLED A CAT Blonde Mrs. McIntosh Says Brunette Mrs. Shive Applied Other Epithets. Magistrate House, !n Harlem Court to-day, was unable t determine the merits of a complaint made by Mrs James McIntosh, of No. 31% Broadway. against Mra, John Shive, who Itves actoss the court at No, 3187, He ad journed the case and told his probation 'Debussy’s “Pelleas et Melisande,’’ Upsetting All Old Theories of Opera, Holds the Attention of a Distinguished Audience at the Manhattan SAVES BOY ONLY TO DIE HIMSELF O'Rourke Carries Lad from Gas-Filled Room, Then Succumbs. An investigation {s being made to-day of the death of Richard O'Rourke, care- taker of the Cassayuna Club, No. 138 West Ninoty-seventh street, who rescued Francis Lawson, a sixteen-year-old boy, of No. 134 Went Ninety-seventh street, ary officer to investigate, It ts Ike that many of the persons lving in the five-story apartment may be called a witnesses Mrs. Shive is a widow and lives o: the fourth floor. Her windows look down {nto those of Mrs. McIntosh on the third floor. Mrs. Molntosh declared that the widow had called her ‘mos- quite,” “cat,” “benched blond," ‘g!- raffe,’ “painted t!mage’ and other names from an apparently I'mitless repetoire, Shoe also stated that Mrs. Shive shook rugs and carpets into hor windows and over her laundry, ruining her Hngerie. Complaint No. 3 set forth that Mrs. McIntosh was forced to in- ial red windows to pre Shive from peeping Into her rooms Mrs, Molntosh radiant blonde hair. She dresses splendidly, and is thirty, The defendant ts about the same age and is a brunette, As Mrs. McIntosh concluded her complaint she turned to Magistrate House and sald: “And, Judge, don't I look Ike a nat- ns. zr. the battle between Fafner and Sieg- fried. A quarter century ago the spec- tacle of the fur-clad youth rhythmet!- cally slapping with his sword the papler-mache scales of an asthmatic property dragon may have been all- satisfying, To the “Perfect Wagner- ite’ it may still appeal. But to the | average spectator the combat verges perilously close to the ludicrous. It would seem that a more impressive. less machine-like stage straggle might be evolved. Eomptroller Metz Disposes of | Structure that City Paid $1,- | 650,000 to Acquire. | Comptroller Metz sold for the city the Staats Zeitung Building on Tryon row to-day, It brought $6,000. He tried to sell it a few weeks ago, but could only wet a bid of ), and as he had deen offered $5,000 for It at private sale, he withdrew it He heard a syndicate had been made Retss ia probably the best Mime this |UP of house wreckers to get the build: | country has ever known. His art a ee te on a delpila and otier without fault and stands upon a dra-|yiaces, bringing wreckers from those matic plane all its own. Last night he| places. to compete , | in no way lessened the flawless picture| Morris Sacics, a acrap tron | of the shambling, crafty dwart which | of, Maiden lane Bee Ene, he has taught New Yorkers to recog-| Siding dynamhos. nize as a masterpiece, Tt is sald Von Rooy was a sonorous, dignied | remove, the , ; reg | have ninety Wanderer, and rose to exceptional | have ninety deve heights in his third act scene with| rhe city bought the Staats Zeltung! Erda, ‘The Alberich of Goritz and] Building and site last summer for $-,-| Biass's Fafner were thoroughly well] 650,00. “The site wus needed for the bridge terminal and loop it 1s Intended | | done to batld on the land acquired In the Mme. Fremstadt, as Brunnhilde|jmmediate vicinity of the Manhattan (though always wholly the “woman’'|termnal. A skyscraper muntetpal build-| which wi Ing {s to be erected, art be for city’ offices. {nd never the fallen “koddess"), gave a strong, satisfying portrayal of the emotional part. She was in goo briet Ging'iwas, moreover aa always a Joy.to the eye, Mme. Kirkby-Lunn was A POPULAR SONG HIT. tic, if not especially gh a dram ticg Alten's “Forest Bia Ny role in wht Se Nees re ea ay: the] In “The Girl Behind the Counter,” made mom : Yours aao than anyone cares to remain: | Lew Fields's musical comedy, at the ber) was etent! x Cthereal | Herald Square, they sing “If You'll Walk HARRIET HOSMER ILL, With Me.” It is the hit of the thew the end, keeps away trom the bedside. KING PETER INSURED. Melisande dies absolutely alone, Amd| BELGRADE, Feb. 20.—King Peter has what has become of Genevieve, mother is life for $200,000 in a New of Golaud and Pelieas, who, naturally, company, BOSTON, Mass., Fob. 20.—Miss Har. | It is given In the Magazine Section of soulptress, whose viet Hote, 2. "4g in the Brities | next Sunday’s World—words and music, tl ural tow-head Mrs. Shive dented al the charges. She} gaid that she did shake her rugs, but was forced to do s0 of necessity. S! said she never spoke to Mrs, McIntosh, | and would not know hor from a crow. | She said that two of her dead hushand’s friends hoarded in her apartment, and that they could vouch for the truthful- ness of her statements, ——————__. DUCHESS D’UZES LEAVES SUDDENLY. | Sister-in-Law of the Former Mis Shonts Summoned to Paris by Illness of Her Son. The Duchess d'Uzes, sister-in-law the Duc de Chaulnes, and Prince Gatit zin, his uncle, who came to New York to attend the de Chaulnes-Shonts wed- ding, sailed for France to-day on the liner La Bretagne. The plans of the Duchess called for a stay in New York until next Saturday, but disquieting ad- vices concerning her son, who ts til {in Paris, prompted her to hasten her, return. | The Duc and Duchess de Chaulnes,) Mrs, Shonts, Marguerite Shonts, Baron de ia Boullilere, the best man’ at the Wedding, and Baron Cande, accom- punted the Duchess d'Uzes to’ the pler. Piuron de la Boullilere and Baron Cande are having such a good time In New York that they cannot tear themselves way. “ithe yolatile Duchess says she en- joyed her brief visit’ tmmensely and from death by gas, only to die himself from the eff While neither se Was reported to the police or Coroner, it 1s aa!d the boy attempted suicide. He is @ son of Mrs, Sophia Lawson, and was @ victim of overstudy. Monday he attempted to buy rope at A nen~dy store, saying something about Killing himself. Later hiv mother and Sister found the hall filled with gas, nd the boy's door locked. O'Rourke was called in, broke the door And was alrnost overcome before he could shut off the gas and carry out the boy. He returned home, was ap- parently recovering, but on Tuesday was found dead in his bed by his wife, The boy recovered. 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