vas the first time she had ever sung in public. Says Miss Gluck in telling her story: "My sister brought me, an orphan, from Roumania, when P was 6. From the time I was a little girl, I was crazy to study music, but my sister said 'no'. "For one thing, she could-not afford lessons for me; for another thing, she thought a musical ca reer meant going straight to the devil. "I graduated from the high school when I was 15, and, as I could not study music, I began to study law. I went to work in a law office, studying both in and out of Office hours. Before I was 17, 1 had matriculated at the New York law school. Soon afterward I married, Bernard Gluck. "Marriage ended my legal career, and began a very happy home life. My little girl, Abigail, came, and for nearly four years so filled my existence that I thought of little else. "All the time, however, at the back of my mind, was the desire to be a singer. I cherishecHt, and 'bided my time, doing what seem ed best and wisest from day to day. "Four years ago, wh"en Abigail was 4 years old and the baby stage past, I spoke to my hus band about my ambition. He was as anxious for me to do some thing great, to make something of myself, as I was myself T went to study under Buzzi-Peccia, and for two years I was his pupil. "One day Buzzi-Peccia said he wanted me to sing for some peo ple. He did not say whom. I, went to his studio, and there were Mr. and Mrs. Arturo' Toscanini, Mr. and Mrs. Amato, and other leading lights -of the Metropoli tan. I sang for them. "As a result Toscanini sent me to sing or Gatti-Casazza, and he engaged meiat once for the Met ropolitan. "They asked me what part I wanted to sing first, and I said Sophie, in "Werther" had always been my great desire. So my firt appearance, two years ago. was as Sophie, and it was the first time in my life I had ever sung in public When the burst of .applause came, at the end of my first solo, I was frightened for a moment. I had never heard applause before except when seated among the applaffders." Miss Gluck's husband is an in surance man, and laughingly ad mits belonging to the 'Vnly- Their-Husbands' " club, which has a large membership in this' city. Abigail is in a boarding" school, as her mother's concert tours, added to her operatic ap pearances render it impossible for her to give the little girl tfie home life which alone' would jus tify keeping her in the city. Seems to be finally established that the Maine was "blown up from the outside, and the party; outside was surely Spain. Wickershanr roareth like the lion, and compromiseth with the, robber plumbing trust of the Pa cific coast, by-a civil suit, 0