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THURSDAY JUNE 6, 1895
Long heads and long purses are friends.
People assist crime by thinking about it.
Even Corbett's wife has wearied of his
oratory.
Insanity is the logical end of Oscar
Wilde's career.
The Pioneers are as ardent for progress
in '95 as they were in '49.
No man ever accuses a pretty woman of
having too long a tongue.
Enterprise is argus-eyed in picking out
promising localities in California.
There is no political economy that
teaches politicians to be sparing of words.
If we could only get Europe to burst that
war cloud the future would be full of sun
shine.
Some people are so sensitive that they
mistake an ailing liver for an outraged con
science.
It is about time to notify the State that
everybody is invited to our Fourth of July
celebration.
By the time 1896 gets here there will be
a general stampede to get on the platform
of bimetallism.
The talk of progressive men for any pub
lic enterprise is sooner or later emphasized
as a popular demand.
The wheels of progress and industry
have begun to move fast enough for every
body to hear them hum.
When some men are weary of the bur
dens of life they commit suicide, but most
of them commit them to their wives.
Hunger may be the best sauce, but it is
one of those condiments which we prefer to
seek rather than have it thrust upon us.
It is said to be impossible to make a mir
ror so perfect it will not to some extent dis
tort the proportions of the face it reflects.
The proposition that the sovereigns of
the world do a becoming thing by travel
ing has set President Cleveland to think
ing.
It is a happy circumstance that when
the strawberry reaches the fullness of a
royal luxury it consents to accept a demo
cratic price.
If more of the literary school of which
Oscar AVilde is an exemplar were in the
penitentiary the morals of the reading
world would be healthier.
If the Eastern people were wise they
would drop the exciting silver debate
during the hot weather and leave it to the
West for arbitration in 1896.
The vacancy in the Cabinet has given
many an old, half-forgotten Democratic
warhorse a chance to prance out on the
track again as if he was in the race.
It is purely by logic one arrives at the
conclusion that when there is a murder
there must be a murderer, for the fact is
rarely ever proven in law in this country.
The latest war prophet predicts that
within two years France and Russia will
combine and drive England not only out
of Egypt but clean oat of the Mediterranean
altogether.
The latest novelty suggested for the Paris
Exposition is to turn the garden of the
Tuileries into a paradise of children and
fit it up with everything for childhood' 9
play known to the world.
Just before Gresham died, it appeared
that Cleveland didn't have a political
friend in the country, but as soon as there
was a vacancy in the Cabinet, the voice of
the cuckoo was heard in every bailiwick.
It is a happy consolation for a San Fran
ciscan that whenever he lifts his eyes from
the cobblestones he sees the bay or the
soaring hills and knows that his City is
beautiful however rough its ways may be.
Optimistic orchardists in the East are
rejoicing that the late frosts killed the in
sects as well as the young fruit, and it is
now believed that Eastern orchards are
freer from pests than they have been for
many years.
Oroville has a new paper in the Morning
Times, established by Robb & Sefton, and
the community may be congratulated on
the appearance of the new champion which
Bhows bo much promise of promoting its
interests and welfare.
This is evidently a good time to borrow
money for public improvements, for Pitts
burg bonds for $5,625,000 at 4 per cent for
eighteen years were recently bought by
local capitalists for $6,115,500, being a pre
mium of $490,500 or 8.72 per cent.
After the National convention of State
Railroad Commissioners, called for the
purpose of regulating interstate transpor
tation, it might prove advisable for the
railroad presidents to hold a National con
vention for the purpose of regulating the
Commissioners.
It is not surprising that the residents of
San Francisco should be regarded as the
best-dressed people in the country, for
if they were not they would be showing a
small appreciation for the tailoring skill
which Nature displays in adorning her
plants and landscapes in California.
A mathematician who has nothing else
to do has calculated that there are 17,000
newspapers printed in the English lan
guage, and that, the useless letters in our
mode of spelling cost these journals annu
ally $7,000,000 in time and work of writing
end $15,000,000 in paper, space and printing.
Had the Southern Pacific long ago paid
as much attention to the development of
California industries by imposing encour
aging tariffs, as to charging all that it
could collect, the tariffs would have ad
justed themselves with as great profit to
the owners, and with much less need of
oil to reduce friction with the public.
A SEEIOUS SITUATION.
The address made by Major Charles E.
Pearce before the Chamber of Commerce
last Tuesday states one of the most serious
problems that concern the prosperity of
this country. As a large St. Louis manu
facturer of jute fabrics he felt a pressure
that threatened to crush his business, and
in order to inform himself and seek for a
better place in which to pursue his busi
ness he visited India and Japan, and has
now formed the decision to remove his
immense plant to Japan.
He announces that we can hardly men
tion a product but that it can be imported
from Japan and sold below the prices
which we can afford. The two reasons for
this are that in that country wages are
extremely low, and that our present free
trade tai iff affords altogether inadequate
protection of American industries. He de
clares that by reason of England's free
trade policy the jute manufacturers of
Dundee and the cotton manufacturers of
Manchester are unaWe to compete with the
products of India, where labor is only 6
cents a day. He remarked incidentally
that the closing of the Indian mints to the
free coinage of silver has given the East
Indian manufacturer an additional advan-
tage by affecting the relative values of
Indian coins. Thus he makes it clear that
the manufacturers of both England and
America are forced to move their
machinery to India and Japan and there
pursue their industries in order to save
the money which they have invested.
Undoubtedly Japan is our most danger
ous rival, and it is but natural that China
should follow in her footsteps to control
with India the manufacturing of the world.
The dense population of these three coun
tries makes the struggle for existence ex
ceedingly keen and the rate of wages
correspondingly low. Under the hard
necessities which there prevail the science
of economical living is carried to a length
which even the poorest peasants of Europe
cannot comprehend. As enforced frugality
and tne necessity for constant application
are the surest enemies of sniftlessness and
dissipation, the labor of the Orient is as
steady, methodical and reliable as a ma
chine. Although in point of development
the Orientals are not admitted by the
white races to be their equate in intellect
ual alertness and physical vigor, and
although unremitting application to labor
and the absence of abundant nourishing
food make a drain upon the vital forces,
Major Pearce declares that the efficiency
of Oriental skilled labor falls only 15 per
cent below that of white labor, while its
wages are 90 per cent less.
The whole situation is disheartening. It
is absurd to say that we must come to ac
cept a condition in which we shall appear
as the producers and the Orient as the
manufacturers. This cannot be defended
even on the spreading belief that the law
of specialization is universal — that if the
Orient can manufacture more cheaply
than we, we have a monopoly of produc
tion from unlimited resources, and that
there is no violation of economic principles
in making one group of nations producers
and another manufacturers. It would be
better for the United States to close all its
ports and erect a wall around it as high as
the heavens than surrender its individual
ity and place itself at the mercy of a de
grading competition.
If ever there was an eloquent plea for
the maintenance of our National integrity
it lies in this ruin or migration that our
manufacturers have to contemplate. The
transference of our factories to the Orient
would be a confession of governmental in
capacity that no civilized country can be
so shameless as to make. The Federal ac
knowledgment of our right to exclude Ori
ental labor with which it would degrade
civilized men to compete would find even
a higher and broader application in a pol
icy which would make home manufactur
ing possible by the imposition of a pro
tective tariff.
DEPARTMENT STOEES.
An astonishing report has been made by
the Illinois Senate Committee appointed
to investigate the department stores of
Chicago. The report condemned these
stores and recommended that they be
placed, under stringent regulations, in the
absence of which the smaller concerns of
the city will be driven out of existence.
Thereupon two bills were presented, one
declaring such stores a nuisance and de
manding their abolition, and the other pro
viding for " cumulative license charges"
on stores dealing in more than one class of
goods.
While it is not at all likely that the first
of these bills will become a law the sec
ond is more rational; in any event it may
be profitable to glance at the idea which
the department store represents, for it
illustrates some of the broadest principles
of business.
The Bon Marche in Paris and Wana
maker's establishment in Philadelphia
were the inspiration of this idea on the
two continents. It has not spread so
rapidly in Europe as in the United States,
for in this country the department store is
becoming a feature of all the leading
cities. The idea which it represents is
that which has been manifested in the
thousand ways by which the varied busi
ness capabilities of a person, firm or cor
poration may be expressed in diversity of
application. The department store bears
no relation whatever to trusts, it is not a
monopoly and does not operate in re
straint of trade, and it enjoys no priv
ileges except those which its intrinsic
worth has created.
It is revolutionary in that it omits the
jobber and buys directly from the manu
facturer, being enabled by its large capital
thus to proceed. For this reason and for
the further reason that its conduct is much
less expensive than would be the aggregate
cost of conducting its various lines under
separate ownership and management and
under many roofs, it is enabled to sell
goods at retail at a lower price than the
ordinary dealer can afford. A conspicuous
illustration of this is seen in the case of
books, which the department stores can
retail at a price lower than that which
publishers offer to their ordinary retail
customers.
The department store therefore repre
sents co-operation in one of its most suc
cessful forms, and not the least successful
because the co-operation is among husi
nesses instead of individuals. The success
ought to be a hint to smaller dealers; they
cocld easily combine, and under one roof
and one general management conduct a
department store that would be limited in
size and variety only by the number of
partners representing different lines of
trade.
WINE TO NEW ORLEANS.
The determination of the Wholesale Gro
cers' Association of New Orleans to estab
lish a line of steamers between that city
and San Francisco by way of Panama, in
order that the wines of California may be
transported more cheaply thither, is a
piece of news that will delight the wine
makers of this State. The first steamer is
already loading to leave New Orleans.
This action is taken for two reasons. One
is that there is a heavy consumption of
ordinary wines in New Orleans, and the
other is that by reason of the diecrinxina
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1895.
tion practiced by the Southern Pacific Com
pany it is cheaper to ship wines from Cali
fornia to New Orleans by way of New York
than over the direct Sunset route. That
is, the rate to New Orleans is 7 cents a gal
lon, to New York 5 cents, and from New
York to New Orleans 1% cents. The same
facts hold with regard to shipments by the
Pacific Mail. In the first case, the wine
passes through New Orleans on its way to
New York.
The large French laboring population of
New Orleans consumes from 5000 to 6000
barrels of ordinary claret a month, and
the dealers are content with a profit of 2
cents a gallon. It would seem to a person
of ordinary understanding that if the
Southern Pacific, by the adoption of a
reasonably low tariff, should encourage
the use of California wines, it would be
the ultimate gainer in making the wine
industry of California more profitable and
extensive. But the inscrutable wisdom of
the great corporation chooses its own
methods of expression. A few years ago,
when the City of Mexico decided to ex
pend $3,000,000 in improving its streets, it
sent an agent to California to examine our
asphalt and bituminous rock. He found
them perfectly suitable and was anxious
to secure them, but was unable to make
any arrangements with Mr. Huntington'a
roads in the United States and Mexico for
the transportation of the material at a
reasonable figure. As a consequence this
$3,000,000 was invested in pavements made
of Trinidad asphalt. For the same and
for no other reason, Mexico, which is a
large consumer of light wines, and which
would infinitely prefer the product of
the California vineyards, is compelled to
draw her supply from Spain.
The danger which our wines will en
counter in the heat of the tropics surely
cannot be very formidable in view of the
fact that the Pacific Mail annually carries
70,000 barrels. Even a small reduction in
the cost of transportation would greatly
increase the competition, as the French,
though a thrifty race, are wise and shrewd,
and understand the art of drinking better
than any other race in the world, and the fact
that they prefer the ordinary wines of Cali
fornia is sufficient proof that our vineyard
products are honest and wholesome. The
whole Gulf region is thickly peopled by
them, and if we could lay down wines at
New Orleans for 2 or 3 cents a gallon less
than the present fieure — if we had even the
advantage at New Orleans that New York
enjoys — the consumption would likely be
more than doubled, and would cover the
whole region from Pensacola to the Sabine
River.
The one doubtful element of the new
shipping enterprise is the uncertainty of
westbound cargoes. If there is any way
in which our people can assist in the solu
tion by preferring Louisiana products to
those originating elsewhere, it is clearly
proper that they adopt it.
MONOPOLIES AffD PATENTS.
The decision of the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals affirming the validity of
the Berliner patent, thereby giving the
Bell Telephone Company a monopoly of
the microphone until 1908, has aroused a
storm of angry criticism that may go far
toward bringing about a change in our
patent laws. Indeed some of the more in
fluential journals in the East advocate the
abolition of patent rights altogether as
being opposed to public welfare and in no
wise beneficial to inventors.
The facts of the Berliner case are suffi
cient to justify indignation. The inven
tion followed very closely after that of the
telephone itself and made long-distance
telephony possible. The Bell Company
bought and used the invention, but did not
patent it until the Bell patent was about
to run out. It was claimed by rival tele
phone companies that the patent was void
because it had been illegally delayed, and
this claim was sustained by a decision of
the Circuit Court, which has been over
ruled by the Court of Appeals. As a con
sequence the Bell Company, which had a
monopoly of the telephone for many years
nnder the Bell patent, now continues a
monopoly of long-distance telephoning
under the patent which they succeeded in
obtaining upon an invention which has
long been in use.
It is clear that this is a perversion of the
real intent of our patent laws. When Con
press undertook to promote the increase of
labor-saving appliances by securing to the
inventor the profits arising from his inven
tion for a limited number or years, it was
not foreseen that combinations of capital
ists would buy up every widely useful in
vention and thereby establish a monopoly
injurious to the public welfare. Still less
wa3 it foreseen that by securing the title to
improvements made upon the original in
vention and delaying the issuing of a pat
ent for them, it would be practicable to
continue the monopoly almost indefinitely.
This, however, is what has come about in
recent years, and while the trick of the
Bell Telephone Company is the most fla
grant example of the kind, it does not
stand alone or without a precedent in our
recent history.
That the inventor should derive some
benefit from the success of his work is be
yond question. It is evident, however,
that our patent laws should be amended so
as to prevent inventions from falling into
the hands of a monopoly, especially if the
invention is of a kind that affects the pub
lic at large.
There are abundant reasons for believing
that the formation of such monopolies acts
as a restriction upon the progress of the
world in the direction of useful invention.
Frequently they prevent improvements
being made in the appliances under their
control because the adoption of such im
provements would entail a loss of a part
of the plant already established, and ia
other instances they render the cost of the
invention so high that it cannot come into
general use and be of benefit to the poorer
as well as the richer classes of the com
munity. These objectionable features have
now become so common it is time some
remedy should be provided, and it would
seem the Berliner case may prove the occa
sion of arousing Congress to action at its
next session.
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Mrs. Snifkins— On, no. I traveled in Africa.—
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Temperance lecturer — how can we
stop tne sale of liquor?
. Inebriate (in the rear of the hall)— Give it
away. — Tid Bits. * "-' .- ~v
'• She— l heard such a good joke to-day. I have
been hugging myself about it ever since.
He— You must be tired. Let me assist you.—
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
"John McCullough, the actor, was not a
great actor, but his master, Edwin Forrest,
was," said Mr. Frank C. Bangs in the Palace
dining-room yesterday, after he had let the
fourth match burn out against his fingers
without lighting his cigar. "He was a good
actor and possessed a magnificent personality
to carry him forever in the hearts of the people.
There was a magnetism about the man which
made him irresistible to all those who came in
contact with him, but the one fact still re
mains, that he was not the great actor many
people supposed him to be. Certainly that fact
is conceded."
"How is it then, Mr. Bangs," queried a gen
tleman near, "that he came so near being a
counterpart of Forrest in his acting?"
"Ah, my good fellow," exclaimed Mr. Bangs,
"that is the one issue upon which my state
ment finds its supreme strength. I do not
make that statement altogether personally,
FBANK C. BANGS TALKS OF M'CULLOUGH.
{Sketched from life for the "Vail" by A'auMvell.]
but as I said before it is admitted. Do you not
understand that in 1865, when Forrest was
touring through the Eastern States, there were
no stock companies such as there are now, and
in consequence it was necessary for some com
petent member of the company to constantly
rehearse the subordinates. Well, Forrest was
in ill health and McCullough, his leading man,
was the only available person who could at
tend to this. Mind you there were times when
Forrest did it and naturally his individuality
prevailed, being the stronger of the two. It
was in this way that McCullough came to use
the Forrest gesture, the Forrest style, the For
rest inflection and the Forrest method. He
tried to, and in a great measure succeeded in
clothing himself in Forrest robes, but in his
best moods, in his finest acting, there was con
stantly above him the sublimity and grandeur
of the master. He had reached his topmost
rung, yet the invincible tutor was beyond
him."
"Would not time have placed him beside
Forrest had ho not been unfortunate?"
"No. He had gone as far as he was able.
There was nothing more for him to do. His
early education barred the possibility of fur
ther progress iv his oid age. He was but good
in the parts where his master was great.
"When Forrest died in England in eighteen
—let me see— eighteen sixty-nine, I believe it
was, it makes no difference a year or two
either side, McCullough was the only available
man to step into his shoes. I havQ no doubt
he was one of the most available men there
was at that time, but nevertheless what I have
said of him is true. Poor John, the last years
of his life were spent in playing to phantom
audiences from a 6cenelcss stage. lam indeed
sorry for him."
Mr. Bangs looked as though he meant just
what he said.
Out of the entire State of Virginia, frpm
which sculptors, poets, artists, musicians,
statesmen, novelists and journalists have
sprung, there has been bnt one actor, and that
actor was Frank Bangs. He has been on the
boards for over fifty years, and was a warm
friend of the lamented McCullough.
Louis A. Garnett, a mining and financial
expert whose article in the January Forum on
the monetary controversy has roused the rabid
resentment of Mr. Harvey, the autnor of the
unique publication, "Coin's Financial School,"
was the organizer and president of the old Am
ador Mining Company. He tells the following
story of how Alvinza Hayward, owner of the
mine, got his start in life, which as an illustra
tion of the pluck and depth of tee ling that
characterized the pioneers is not easily sur
passed':
"Back in the '50's Hayward and a man named
Chamberlin were partners in a little mine in
El Dorado County, and Chamberlin, growing
disgusted with the outlook, sold out and in
vested in a small farm. Hayward went over
into Amador County, got possession of the un
developed mine and proceeded to sink for the
ore he felt convinced was there. He worked
in the face of no end of discouragement, such
as lack of means, the growing discon
tent of his men, and, above all, the
apparent worthlessness of the Prop
erty; but he kept right on with the dogged
perseverance that has had much to do with
his subsequent success. Two hundred, three
hundred feet were sunk, and no ore in sight.
The situation was becoming desperate. He
was employing a large force of men, was $120,
--000 in debt, and had got down to his last sack
of flour, but still he was game. Going over to
the store one day he asked for more provisions,
but the proprietor's patience was exhausted.
•"I know, Hayward,' was the polite reply,
'you're honest, and will pay when you can, but
really, sir, I can't give you any more credit.'
" 'Well,' says Hayward, 'let me have one more
sack, and if 1 don't strike ore when that's out,
1 won't ask lor more.'
"On those conditions he got the sack, and
went af ler the ore again. But it was no use,
the sack was exhausted and yet no ore insight.
"Hayward didn't say much about it— he isn't
a man of words— but he quietly mounted his
horse one day, rode over toChamberlin's ranch
and laid the situation before his former part
ner. Chamberlin heard hiia out wit'aout com
ment or sign of any kind, and when he had
finished the tale rose uuietly and motioned
him to follow. Going out behind the house, he
took a pitchfork standing there and scratched
away some straw that lay on the ground near
by. From a small hole thus disclosed he took
out a bag and without a word handed It over
to Hayward. The bag contained $6000. No
scratch of the pen was wasted, no more words
were exchanged. Men acted in those days.
Hayward rode back to his mine, paid off his
men and quietly went to work again. At a
depth of 500 feet ore was struck, and a ricl.
lead it was. In a few months a sixty-stamp
mill was erected and the mine paying hand
somely. When about thirty thousand a month
was coming in Hayward had the property
divided into three equal parts, a deed made
out for one of them and sent without comment
over to Chamberlin's little farm in El Dorado
County."
A. 8. Garretson of the Union Stockyards
Company at Rodeo has been at the Grand
Hotel several days, on business for his concern.
He 6ays that the killing of sheep and cattle by
the Harris Company, on the Union Stockyards
Company's premises, has been going on since
last September, and that some lowa packers
have been out within the past two weeks ne
gotiating for fpfilities for pork packing.
"Pork-packers here," he said, "can make a
good profit after paying the same prices that
prevail along the Missouri, and they can get all
the hogs they want at those rates. This is one
of the best markets for their products. There is
taken here over $7,000,000 worth annually,
and there is no reason why it should not all be
produced here. The raising of hogs is con
tinuous the year round in California on ac
count of your cMmatic conditions.
"In lowa, Nebraska, Kansas and all that great
hog country six months out of the twelve it is
impossible to care for the little pigs on account
of the cold weather. Then California is en
tirely free from the hog cholera, and that is
the cause of the loss of 25 per cent of the pigs
that are born in the States along the Missouri.
Then you have here an abundance of good
food for fattening hogs in alfalfa, wheat, fruit
and other things. With the incoming of the
pork-packers the hog-grower of California to
day has a most inviting market. It will be
many years before as much pork will be pro
duced in this State as is consumed, and until
then prices for hogs will be high. The prices
now are higher and steadier than they were
in the past, when the fresh-beef trade con
trolled the prices. In fact there has never
been any market here for hogs except what the
fresh-meat men would make ior them."
PERSONAL.
Judge J. C. Ball of Yolo ie at the Lick.
Dr. J. J. Sims of Nevada City is a guest at the
Grand.
W . H. Scott, a mining man of Denver, is at
the Russ.
M. A. Sawyer, a merchant of Ukiah, is staying
at the Russ.
E. McGettigan of Vallejo registered yester
day at the Russ.
P. A. Buell of Stockton registered at the
Grand yesterday.
H. M. Keyes, a merchant of Healdsburg, is
staying at the Russ.
L. Johnson, a lumberman of Guerneville, Is
staying at the Russ.
C. D. Woodworth, a merchant of Portland, is
staying at the California.
F. W. Johnson, a merchant of Marysville, is
a guest at the California.
G. S. Easton of Stockton was one of yester
day's arrivals at the Russ.
R. H. Brown, a prominent land-owner of
Pescadero, is staying at the Lick.
James A. Harding, a prominent cattleman of
Santa Rosa, is a guest at the Russ.
I. L. Delano, a quarryman of Rocklin, was
one of yesterday's arrivals at the Lick.
D. S. O'Callaghan, an insurance man of Santa
Cruz, registered yesterday at the Lick.
B. S. Hirsch, a merchant of Ukiah, was one
of yesterday's arrivals at the California.
W. P. Faul, Deputy Collector of Internal Rev
enue at Ukiah, is a guest at the Grand.
H. W. Posthelwait, a prominent fruit-grower
of Saratoga, is staying at the Occidental.
Thomas H. Thompson, & real estate man of
Tulare, registered yesterday at the Lick.
Aaron Smith, a railroad man of Los Angeles,
was one of yesterday's arrivals at the Grand.
H. R. Bernard, secretary of the Preston Re
form School at lone, is staying at the Grand.
A. W. Simpson, a leading lumberman of
Stockton, registered at the Occidental yester
day.
Charles K. McClatchyof the Sacramento Bee
came down yesterday and registered at the
Grand.
W. X. Sellar, a well-known mining man,
registered at the Palace yesterday from Los
Angeles.
E. S. Churchill, a banker of Napa, and Mrs.
Churchill, came down yesterday and registered
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Ex-Sheriff J. M. Standley of Mendocino
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registered at the Russ.
L. T. Hatfield, member of the Assembly and
an attorney of Sacramento, was one of yester
day's arrivals at the Lick.
Professor Maxwell Somraerville of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania has returned to the
City from a trip to the Yosemite, and is regis
tered at the Palace.
W. B. Gilbert, United States Circuit Judge,
arrived from Portland yesterday to sit in a rail
road case in the Circuit Court here and is reg
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James MeNaught of New York, chief counsel
of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and Jay H.
Adams, counsel of the same road at Seattle,
arrived here yesterday, and registered at the
Palace. ____^___^___
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
California fruits have been more favorably
received in the New York markets this season
than eyer before, and while the opportunity
for making this good Impression upon Eastern
buyers may be from the fact that there have
not been many Florida products in competi
tion, Mill it is now conceded that the fruits
from this State have gained such a firm foot
hold with all classes of consumers that it is
doubtful if they can ever again be supplanted.
— San Diego Union.
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oak trees; to come in for the dew of the morn
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the day; to wander without hindrance about
the beautiful flowery paths and fruitful gar
dens of Templeton.— Templeton Advance.
The efforts made by Canada to extend her
trade on this coast by improving harbors, estab
lishing shipyards, lighthouses and the like are
bound to stir up our slow-moving Government
(slow ak to this coast) into doing like things on
a mighty scale out here. -Salem (Or.) States
man.
The Democratic papers will talk and talk,
but in the "show down" will support the single
gold standard and State bank scheme of the
gold bugs.— Albuquerque (N. M.) Citizen.
It is gratifying to note that Mr. Carlisle's
financial speeches are warmly indorsed by all
the Southern papers which are edited by Post
masters.—Arizona .Republican.
A voting machine is spoken of as a novelty.
And yet there are a great many voting ma
chines in every State in the Union.— San Ber
nardino Times-Index.
Those who cannot give a subscription toward
the Fourth can make It up in patriotism. —
Benicia New Era.
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General Yon Hanneken, who has played so
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Ex-Mayor Hewitt is quietly enjoying himself
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large salary by Charles Wyndham. Lord Ross
lyn has long been regarded as one of the best
amateur actors in England.
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Music and
Musicians.
The recent triumphant revival of "Tann
hauser" at the Paris Grand Opera-house must
have given great satisfaction to the Princess de
Metternich, Wagner's generous protectress, who
persuaded the Emperor to have the work pro
duced thirty-four years ago. The three per
formances that were given there were inter
rupted by hissing and the theater was the
scene of a perfect tumult on each occasion.
Berlioi tells how the Emperor, who was pres
ent at the second representation, turned in the
midst of the uproar toward the box of the
Princess Metternich and saluted her with a
gesture of resignation which seemed to say,
"You see, I have done all I could ; it is useless
to attempt more." It is said that the Princess
broke her fan with rage and disappointment
when the Storm of hissing began. She was one
of the few who believed thoroughly in Wagner,
and after all her planning and scheming to get
his work produced by imperial order it was a
great sorrow to her to see the Parisian public
absolutely refuse to give it a hearing. The
Princess, who lives in seclusion, has shown her
satisfaction at the Parisian success of "Tann
hauser" after the interval of thirty-four years
by supplying Le Temps with the following
hitherto unpublished letter, which Wagnsr
wrote her after the fiasco of his opera:
"Princess : For the last few stormy days I
have not been able personally to offer
you the homage of my respect. To-day
an invisible force urges me to express
to you the sentiments that fill my heart.
What I have suffered lately is of little
importance; it is thrown in the shade by the
sentiment of pride and gratitude that springs
from the knowledge that your Highness pities
me. I have never yet brought happiness to
anyone; indeed, trouble has overtaken every
one who has shown me good will, so, Princess,
I can promise you no recompense for your pro
tection. But perhaps when I die my works
will survive me. You are in the prime of life,
and will live much longer than I. When I
shall be no more my music will tell you the
profound gratitude of a soul and heart that
are devoted to your Highness.
"Richard Wagner."
"The melancholy wish of Wagner is amply
realized," adds Le Temps. "His works have
survived, and will continue to do so, and on
Monday evening, at the triumphant perform
ance of 'Tannhauser,' the Princess de Metter
nlch must surely have recalled with pride the
evening in 1861 when the opera was flascoed.
It was she who was right after all."
For the first time on record an opera by an
English composer, in the English language, is
to be produced in London during what is
FEED H. COWBN.
known as the "grand" season. The work is F.
H. Cowen's "Harold." It is historical and spec
tacular. Harold himself cuts rather a despica
ble figure, for although in love with Edith the
Saxon, he for political reasons allows the an-
nouncement of his betrothal to the Princess
Adele to go forth to the world, and likewise
takes the oath of fealty to William, Duke of
Normandy. Edith therefore becomes a nun;
in the third act sees a vision of Harold slain on
the battle-field, and in the last act finds his
corpse among those killed at the battle of
Hastings. One of the characters Is Malet, an
ancestor of the present British Embassador at
Berlin.
People on the inside track of musical hap
penings in this City are laughing at a terrible
plot which is being hatched by two dis
gruntled musicians. One of these individ
uals is an orchestra leader and the other a
music-teacher, and they are suffering from
lack of appreciation at the hands of the musi
cal critics of the big dailies. Lately they have
breathed threatenings of a scheme for wither
ing up these offending critics which, if child
ish, is certainly original. One is local cor
respondent for a German and the other for an
Italian paper, and they have intimated that a
scorching "roast" of San Franciscan musical
journalism will be their next contribution in
the form of correspondence to those foreign
journals. Presently they hope to receive
copies of the same, which they intimate they
intend to translate and have printed as an
unbiased criticism by foreigners of the un
couthness of wild and woolly Western journal
ism. Unfortunately lor themselves they have
boasted about their plans and now their pros
pective victims only smile in expectation of
the threatened onslaught.
A new opera, "Der Evangelmann," has just
had an astonishing success at the Royal Opera
house, Berlin, its composer, Dr. William
Kienzl, being recalled ten times In succession.
Dr. Kienzl is the leader of tne orchestra of the
opera-house at Hamburg. He has already pro
duced two music dramas, one on an Indian
theme called "Urvasi," and the latter a Scan
dinavian one, called "Heilmar." These two
dramas gave little promise of a brilliant future,
and the "Evangelmann" is probably not the
masterpiece that the good Berliners, in their
anxiety for a successor to Wagner, imagine it
to be. It is full of melodious songs and prayers
and love duos— all embroidered on a religious
theme. Of course there are intermezzi In it;
since the "Cavalleria Kusticana" there must
be an intermezzo in every opera. One critic
says that "Der Evangelmann" is as cleverly
made up to suit the day and hour, and the
taste thereof in Germany, as carefully and
cleverly as Pinero made up his second Mrs.
Tanqueray to suit the London public.
Emma Calve is known to be intensely super
stitious, and recently when she retired from
the cast of the new opera, "Guernica," some
of the French papers circulated the report that
It was because a spirit had told her not to go
on with the rehearsals. On reading this the
diva sent the following 6harp letter to Le Fig.
aro: "I have just returned from my country
place at Aveyron, where I read the paragraph
that several papers have consecrated to me
The idea is a droll one, but it has no founda
tion in fact. The spirit which, according to re
port, counseled me not to sing in 'Guernica'
took the guise of a painful sore throat, which,
to my profound regret, hindered me from cre
ating the title role of a delicious work. The
same spirit will be stupefied at my heroism
when it hears that I have signed with Harris
for the Covent Garden 6eason. Yours, etc.
Emma Calve."
Musical students ought to "read, mark, learn
and inwardly digest" a piece of advice which
is crivcn by Sir Charles Halle in a recent article.
"The theory so widely held that 'a few lessons'
will do all that is necessary is a very miscel
laneous one, and cuts at the root of all genuine
musicianship. Indeed, it would be a much
sounder maxim to propound that the more
musical aptitude a pupil shows the greater is
his need of thoroughly drastic training. Fa
cility is the veritable pitf;dl of many would-be
musicians. They learn easily and are satisfied
with mediocrity. Only those who ere patient
enough to sit with patience at the feet of the
great masters and endeavor with infinite labor
to wrest from them their secrets can ever hope
to become artists themselves."
A pretty tribute was paid to a dead composer
the other day by two singers at the Opera Com
ique. It is not known whether Victor Masse
was born at Lorient in France, but a few yeara
ago a statue was erected to him in one of the
squares of that city. Victor Masses opera,
"The Wedding of Jean and Jeannette," re
ceived its thousandth performance at the
Opera Comique recently. Shortly afterward a
superb floral tribute, sent by the two artists
who actually interpreted the roles of Jean and
Jeannette on the occasion, was deposited at
the foot of the composer's statue. It bore the
inscription: "Jean and Jeannette to Victor
Masse, tor the millennium of their wedding at
the Opera Comique."
"Le Masque de Fer," one of the most saturnine
jokers in French journalism, makes the follow
ing comment on the fad for German music:
(Coming out of the opera-house, on the night
of the revival of "Tannhauser.") She— What a
success! He— Yes, indeed. One did not even
dream of listening to the music; all one
thought of was applauding.
A noted French critic, however, says of the
ovations on the revival of "Tannhauser":
"It seemed as if Paris wished with all its
heart to efface the souvenir of the fashion in
which it received Richard Wagner's work, 34
years ago."
Estelle Clayton's comic opera, "The Viking,"
was recently produced for the benefit of the
Actors' Fund, at Palmer's Theater. One New
York newspaper sums up its criticism thus;
" Everybody seemed bored, there was faint ap
plause, and during the only wait— for the
opera was only two acts— the audience went
out on Broadway and roasted itself— and the
piece."
Rumor states that Gilbert and Sullivan have
buried the hatchet, and that Sir Arthur will
probably set Gilbert's new libretto to music.
The book was partly written during a recent
trip to Jamaica, but Gilbert states that his
libretto has no Jamaica coloring.
The Banish composer, J. P. E. Hartmann,
has just celebrated his ninety-second birthday,
and great honors were tendered to him on tha
occasion in Copenhagen. Hartmann is sup
posed to be the oldest living European com
poser.
Esther Palliscr, an American singer whe is
very popular in London, is going to give a
vocal recital there on the 13th inst., in which
she will confine herself entirely to music by
modern women composers.
Itissaidthat Wolfson, the well-known im
presario, hats made an offer to Lilli Lenman for
an American spring tour in 1896, which offer
will probably be accepted.
On the occasion of Mascagni's first produc
tion of "Ratclifi" at Naples the composer, who
directed, was called out twenty-seven times by
the enthusiastic audience.
Miss Mattie Walton Hess, daughter of the
well-known operatic manager, C. D. Hess, hag
made a successful debut in Planquette's comio
opera, « ( Rip Van Winkle."
The ntw Theater Adrian and four adjoining
houses, in Rome, Italy, were recently burned to
the ground. It is believed the theater waa
fired by anarchists.
There are indications that the harp is likely \\
once more to become a fashionable instrument.
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