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The Mission Park and also the zoo will
be just the right things if we can get them
in the right way.
To many of the Christian Endeavorers
the Oakland sandwich seems to have been
as pleasant as the San Francisco sermon.
The dentists are not making as much
public talk about their convention as the
Endeavorers did, but all the same they
have a pull.
We are promised that work on the Hall
of Justice will be hurried up a little, and
it will not take much hurrying to improve
on the present speed.
Melba's voice having undergone repairs
is said to be better than ever, and now the
madam is trying to prove the fact to the
public by singing the praise of her doctor.
In passing an ordinance levying a tax
of $1 on bicycles in that city the Chicago
Councilmen have given the Mayor a
chance to make a ten-strike by one blow
of the veto ax.
The Parliamentary commission ap
pointed to investigate the raid on the
Transvaal has laid the blame on Cecil
Rhodes' back when it should have given
it to him in the neck.
The Trans- Mississippi Commercial Con
gress will of course listen to Mr. Bryan
when he arrives, but before and after the
dose, it is to be hoped, it will attend to
business instead of politics.
In many of the interior towns of the
State our Eastern visitors will not only
be made to feel themselves at home, but
to feel also that it would be good for them
to settle down and stay there.
Had the coal-miners of the East waited
Until the protective tariff set the mills
working the increased demand for coal
would have enabled them to get better
wages without having to strike for them.
The revival of the Panama canal scheme
may be intended to embarrass the Nica
ragua plan or to make a profitable deal in
Panama stock at the expense of credulous
people, but there are no evidences in it of
true business.
The engineers' strike in England is tar
worse in its effects on business than the
miners' strike in this country, and, in
fact, it has hit so hard that if it had been
delivered a little earlier it would have
knocked cut the jubilee.
The statement of Senator Butler that
the armor-plate of the Oregon is so spongy
that the ship is unfit for warfare Is inter
esting only as an illustration of what
funny things a statesman can say after
the silly season {rets well started.
The story that Gomez is willing to com
promise with Spain for the purpose of
putting an end to the war has been con
tradicted by himself. He stands out for
complete independence, and seeing vic
tory in sight will accept nothing les3.
A movement has been started in Ohio
to form a new party with a new set of
principles, and while it does not seem to
be urgently called for it may yet fill the
long-felt want of some man who has no
hope of office in any other combination.
i In giving an account of the attempt at
arbitration of the strike in Pennsylvania
the news column, of the Examiner said
yesterday "the arbitrators hve prclclly
roonott. A and the arbitrators have practi
cally dropped it." Is it any wonder they
dropped it?
' If the meaning of Secretary Sherman's
letter to Embassador Hay were trans
lated from the language of diplomacy to
that of the street it would read: "Tell
John Bull to quit bloviating over the jubi
lee and get in and protect those seals ac
cording to contract,"
Although this is an off year in politics
the annual convention of the National
League of Republican Clubs has been well
attended, and all the proceedings show
that the party ranks are firmly united and
ready for action in any contest that comes
either in State or Nation.
It will be noted that the only act of vio
lence on the part of the striking miners
bo far was committed by foreigners. That
is one of the bad results which have come
to this country from the importation of
cheap labor from countries where law is
maintained only by the exercise of force.
The events of the miners' strike shows
that one of the defects of all schemes of
arbitration is that neither side will accept
it as long as it sees a chance to win, and
when either side shows a willingness to
resort to it the other regards that as an
evidence of weakness and fights harder
than ever. 7.7 s.
The Government will pay $425 per ton
for armor-plate for the three warships
now under construction, but it will hardly
do so again, lt would be cheaper and
more convenient foi the Government to
establish a plant on the Atlantic Coast
and another en the Pacific and make its
own armor.
THE HALL OP JUSTICE.
The North End Improvement Club has
conferred a benefit upon the City by .the
protest made before the Buildings Com
mittee of the Board of Supervisors against
the slack and negligent manner in which
the work of constructing the Hall of Jus
tice is being carried on. As was repre
sented by the club, the work is virtually
at a standstill, and has been so for a long
time past.
The Call directed public attention some
time ago to the unnecessary delay in con
structing this building. We attempted at
that time to discover on whose shoulders
should rest the biame, but found only that
each person having any authority in the
matter shifted the responsibility upon
some one else. The same evasion was
made at the investigation of the Build
ings Committee on Tuesday, and it is not
clear yet who is to be condemned for a
neglect which is rapidly assuming the
proportions of a public scandal.
Tbe people will not care to discover the
cause of the delay in the past, nor seek to
throw all the blame upon either the archi
tect, the contractor or the sub-contractors
singly, if they can arrange among them
selves some means of getting to work at
once. This arrangement, it seems, is in a
fair way of being provided. The contrac
tor is reported to have said at the meeting
that the construction had been retarded
by the necessity of preliminary work on
contiguous buildings, but that in a few
days it would be prosecuted vigorously.
From the general tone of the proceed
ings before the committee of Supervisors
it seems evident the North End Improve
ment Club has achieved something by
its protest. It has brought the subject
before the public and has drawn from
the architect and contractors an explana
tion of the delay in the past. It has
also impressed upon those gentlemen that
it will be well for them to set aside ex
cuses hereafter and give prompt work in
stead.
Every day that sees the Hall of Jus
tice uncompleted entails just so much loss
upon the public. It is just so much time
more during which money provided fur the
construction of the building will lie idle
in the treasury instead of circulating and
promoting business in the channels of
trade. It will be just so much added to
the public venience of having thai
portion of Kearny-street pavement virtu
ally closed to the people. It will entail
just so much additional loss to the busi
ness of merchants in the nelgborhood.
Tbe prompt prosecution of the work,
therefore, it will be seen, is a matter in
which many interests are involved, and it
is to be hoped there will be no further
cause of complaint by reason of delay
hereafter.
REPUBLICAN CLUBS.
The annual convention of the National
League of Republican Clubs has been
attended by delegations sufficiently strong
from all parts of the Union to give ample
demonstration that the workers of the
Republican party are not resting in idle
ness since the great victory of last Novem
ber, but are holding themselves in readi
ness for the contest of the future.
The convention has been held at an op
portune time, since it gives occasion to Re
publicans to express anew their confi
dence in the administration and to coun
teract the effect of the complaining and
depressing oratory of : Democrats and
Populists by giving utterance to words
of hope and cheer, which will materially
aid in bringing about a return of better
times by confirming the sanguine expec
tations of business men.
The president of the league, D. D. Wood
mansee, In his opening address struck the
keynote of the situation and expressed the
convictions of the great majority of the
American people in saying:
The Republican party is light upon the
great questions that concern the masses of
our people and, being right, it Is sure to win.
Those who have been incredulous will allow
the incredulity to melt away in the glow of
promises that have been faithfully kept. The
marts of trade will assume the busy air of bet
ter times. The merchant will be happy with
his increasing revenue, the laborer and me
chanic with higher wages, and, indeed, all
classes and conditions of men will be lifted
up into an atmosphere that breathes content
ment, the very safeguard oi our free institu
tions.
The sentiment of these words is some
thing more than the rallying cry of a
political party. It is a platlorm which,
appeals to the business and industrial in
stincts and intelligence of the people, as
well as to the political aspirations of Re
publicans. Patience with existing con
ditions can be easily practiced at this
time, since it is well known to every man
that as soon as the protective tariff is put
into operation we shall be freed from one
of the most injurious factors that brought
about hard times. In a little while we
shall see not merely evidences of return
ing prosperity, for they can be seen on
every side to-day, but we shall see pros
perity itself and realize its benefits.
THE BOGUS BRANDT CASE.
The letter recently received by Presi
dent Kerr of the Manufacturers' and Pro-
ducers* Association from the United States
Treasury Department concerning the
adulterated liquor shipped from this City
under the label of California brandy is a
matter for mingled regret and congratula
tion. It is to be regretted that the depart
ment is so hampered by red tape as to be
powerless to prevent the perpetration ot
an outrageous fraud, and it is some con
solation to be told that .1 proposition is
being considered to so alter the regula
tions as to make such practices under pro
tection of the Federal Government im
possible in the future.
The letter is naturally not pleasing to
the association, and it will be .displeasing
to the whole State, especially to those
people who are striving to build up a
market for unadulterated California
products. It is difficult for outsiders to
understand the strength of the restrictions
under which the officials of the Treasury
Department must act, and those who have
upon them the responsibility of official
acts must often appear to move with
tediously fettered lootsteps. We must
try to give these gentlemen credit for per
forming their duties conscientiously and
for going as far in sympathy for Califor
nia as tbeir strings would allow them.
The reason given for non-interference
with the fraud is that "there is no statute
under which tho cancellation of the ex
port permit may be authorized." And,
while this is no doubt true, it seems alio
true that the shipment was made with
gross irregularity. While the irregu ari
ties may have been such as not to be
challenged if accompanying an honest
transaction, it seems a pity that in this
case they could not have been used as a
ground for stopping the adulterated stuff
from going out of the country under a
name calculated to cheat the foreigner
and to give the State's products a bad
reputation. ; If technicalities must rule,
one technicality might here have been
employed to offset another. .-..'
The remedy proposed by the Treasury
Department, "to modify the regulations
given to the bonded warehouses so as to
require that shipments therefrom be
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY Jo, 1897.
marked in strict conformity to the formula
filed by the proprietor of such warehouse,"
should be hastened, and other remedies
added to it if it is not amply sufficient to
protect our people from further evasions
of the pure food laws of the State. It is
a travesty on government if a good State
law is to be antagon zsd by Federal
authority — the two powers should in all
good regulations strengthen and assist
each other. • >7 77
PANAMA AGAIN.
The report from Washington of the new
attempt to revive the Panama canal
scheme by arranging for a combination
of capitalists In the United States, Great
Britain and France will go lar to renew
public interest in that undertaking. It is
not easy to estimate to what extent the
new attempt is supported, and therefore
it is impossible to say whether it marl:,
the beginning of a serious effort to com
plete the work, or is only designed to
boom the stock of the company and make
n profitable deal for those who have
bought it at low figures.
The scheme as outlined in the dis
patches is sufficiently vast to excite ad
miration. A combination of capitalists
proposes to get the governments of the
three nations behind them, and they
justly claim that such an alliance would
be the most powerful the world has ever
seen. By way of giving an appearance at
least of realism to the dispatch, it was
announced that the promoters desire to
add Germany to the combination, but
that she refused or rather delayed her as
sent owing to complications resulting from
the Grreco- Turkish war.
As further evidence of the truth of the
story it fs said the scheme of the
grand alliance had its inception "in the
brain of the house of Rothschild." For
several years, it is asserted, the stocks
and bonds of the Panama Canal Company
have been depressed to so low a figure that
they actually represent a tangible value
in the work already done upon the canal.
It is then estimated that the work can be
completed at a sum not to exceed $100,
--000,000, and it is significant either of the
extraordinary wealth of tne combination
or of the untrammeled freedom of the
boomer of the scheme that this vast sum
is spoken of as of comparatively little im
portance in the general plan ot the enter
prise.
We have seen such great combinations
of capital in recent times that we cannot
dismiss this project of a grand alliance of
nations and capitalists as an impossibil
ity. Nevertheless, the American neonle
will put but little trust in it as a business
proposition. It seems to have been de
signed either to boom stocks in Paris, to
embarrass the Nicaragua Canal Company
or to make a sensational story for the
midsummer season.
It is not likely the United States Gov
ernment consent to become a partner
in the deal as outlined, nor will many
American capitalists take stock in the
movement. From all appearances, the
Panama canal project is as dead as the
man who started it and as discredited as
those ho plundered the stockholders.
Nothing can revive it, and the only fair
prospect for a waterway across the isth
mus is that of Nicaragua under the direct
and exclusive control of the United States.
A LONG-FELT WANT.
There are few wants of the American
people having their origin at any very re
mote date which have not been fully or
partially aatifieJ long ago. As a conse
quence the "long- felt want" is one ol the
rarest features of American life, and about
the only thing rarer is the supply needed
to fulfill the demand.
News comes to us, however, . from
Glouster, Ohio, that certain gentlemen
have discovered in that section of the
country a long-felt want for a new politi
cal party anil have promptly set about to
satisfy it, They propose the establish
ment of a political organization to be
known as the Union party, which is to
serve the interests of the working classes,
and estabii-h in the United States a pros
perity that will withstand all the shocks
of time and circumstance.
The Union party has a platform ot but
three planks, and these are stated by the
Glonster Press to be (1) Restriction of im
migration. (2) Discontinuance of the use
of such improved machinery as caused
three or more person . to be deprived of
employment in branches of industry that
are not materially dependent upon aid
of this character. (3) Solution of
disputed issues in speedy, practical ways.
The first of these planks is not orig
inal, and will draw no voters from the old
parties. The second will appeal to men
who are dissatisfied with the existing order
of civilization, and will therefore attract
a sufficient number of voters to form a
fairly good nucleus for a ward meeting,
providing they can all be gathered from
the various sections of the Union into a
single ward. The third plank, however,
is the one on which the party will proba
bly base its hopes of success. There is
hardly an American politician who will
undertake to make a campaign against
the "solution of disputed issues in speedy,
practical ways."
The Glouster Pres. in publishing the
manifesto of the new party gave It a cor
dial and enthusiastic support, and went
so far as to say, "In starting this new
party its founders had a good idea of its
future. It is not likely to die a-borning."
It adds, however, that if success is to be
obtained it must.be attained swiftly, as
ten years more of the old parties will ruin
the country. A more forcible appeal was
never made to the American people. It
puts an end to all tendency toward doubt,,
hesitation and delay, and gives the voter
fair notice that he must support the
Union party now or be forever losU
WITH YOUR COFFEE.
Book Agent— Can I show you a new edition
of the "Great American Conflict?"
Alderman— the charge?
Book Agent— Bound in this elaborate style
It is worth $20.
Alderman— dollars. Great Scots.
That's all I paid to see the real thing itself at
Carson City. Do you want the earth?— Ch
icago Tribune.
"Doctor," said the physician's wife, "why
don't you take a good long rest? Go away
somewhere, and enjoy yourself. You're
working yourself into your grave. You
haven't been out of town lor five years."
"Mv dear," the celebrated practitioner said,
"I do not dare to leave. If ( I ; did so most of
my patients would discover that they could
get along just as well without me, and my
practice would be ruined."— Leader.
Hlgginton— Come up and see us some time.
Htenpcrby— sorry, but I shßll bo en
gaged on that occasion.— Boston Transcript.
In the great throneroom of peripatetic and
irresponsible opinion a deep hush fell as a
hoary gray beard b advanced boldly and
stretched his arm toward the scepter of rule.
"i," he announced, "am the "Rumor-ot-thc-ap
proaching-End-of-the-World."
Belore the majesty of his age the vast con
course fell upon their faces. .
| All save one, who, on shaking limbs, tot
tered to the front. As he walked his hoary
head shook with the palsy of second childhood.
••I," he drooled, "am the Rumor-ot-the-Abdlca
tlon-of-Victoria - in -favor- of - the- Prince -of
Wales." -■.f'fyfy^-fffff-ffyffy'
With the shack of Impotent rage the Ru-
mor-of-the Approaching - End - of - the- World
crawled into a crack in the floor and disap
peared.—New York Press. •.
PERSONAL.
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N. C. Hair of Spokane Is here. •
Rev. G. A. Ottman of St. Louis is in town.
Charles Knepper of Fresno is a late arrival
here.
The Baron Fritz Norff of Germany is at the
Palace.
Mrs. J. M. Robbins of Sacramento is at the
Cosmopolitan. _ 1- ?-.%'"_. -.'■-. ■.
Thomas R. Minturn of Minturn is registered
at tho Occidental. ' .Üb?
Ex-Judge John D. Bickneil of Los Angeles is
here on a business trip.
John L. Truslow of Santa Barbara Is among
the arrivals in the City. -.;
H. B. Gillis came down from Yreka yester
day and is at the Grand.
W. Kendall and E. Sharre of Portland, Or.,
are at the Cosmopolitan.;- Vjb.b.
E. M. Smith and wife of Chambersburg, Pa.,
are at the Cosmopolitan.
E. P. McGonlgle, a lumber manufacturer of
Flagstaff, Ariz., is in the City.
F. M. Divlny, a prominent young attorney of
Sacramento, is at the Cosmopolitan.
Colonel J. B. Hughes of New York, who owns
mining properties in El Dorado County, is in
the City.
Lieutenant C. A. Clark of the United States
steamship Thetis is among the arrivals at the
Occidental.
T. J. McCauley of Angels, and who ls en
gaged in mining there, is in the City. He is
at the Russ.
F. J. H. Bowker of Darwin City, in the Klon
dyke gold district, is among the arrivals at
the Occidental.
A party consisting of J. Parker Whitney,
Parker Whitney and Vincent Whitney, all of
Boston, arrived here yesterday.
Among the arrivals at the Palace Is R. E.
Hyde, the rich banker and land-owner of
Visalia. He is here to remain several days.
John B. Farish, George E. Farish and F. H.
Minaro of Denver, all prominently known in
mining throughout the West, were among the
arrivals here yesterday. Tbey are at the Pal
ace. J. B. Farish was here several months
ago. He Is in the City on mining business.
Wilbur G. Zeigler is in the City of Mexico on
legal business connected with $110,000 life In
surance on Douglass Crosbie. a young English
man who died in Mexico rive years ago. One
policy of $50,000 has been paid, but the com
pany holding the larger one alluded to has re
fused on the ground of suicide, one of the
theories advanced for his death, the others
being accident and murder.
Ex-Senator Charles N. Felton has returned
from Washington, D. C, and Maine, where he
has been for a number of months past. His
son, Charles N. Felton Jr., and several friends
from Philadelphia are with him. The ex-
Senator was at the Palace last evening, hut
met only a few of his friends. He was at his
home at Menlo for two or three days prior to
coming to the City. The ex-Senator is looking
well and said he might De here for some little
time.
W. A. Clark, the owner of the famous copper
mines at Jerome, Ariz., and for many years
heavily interested in mining, banking, smelt
ing and other industries in Montana, was ln
this City for a few hours yesterday. Mr. Clark,
because of his vast enterprises, has offices in
many different States, lie has recently come
from New York, and was taking a look at his
railroad and mines in Arizona, and at an
enormous sugar factory which he has com
pleted in Orange County, near Santa Ana.
Mr, Clark left in the evening for Butte, Mont.
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, N.Y., July 14.— At the Plaza,
J. Lew; Imperial, J. P. Dunne and J. R. How
ell; Asior, J, K. Mackenzie; Grand Union, M.
Fitzgerald ; Manhattan, Mrs. A. Skee and Miss
Skee; Astor, S. J. Lubin.
HER CUNNING TRICK.
••I would I were the ribbon that she ties beneath
her chin,'' *--;-':.:•
He said, while gazlnj on the maid, so Innocent,
so fair;. • -i -.y yr.y> .
"How gladly 1 would be the bow she twists the
streamers In:
What bii's to touch ber damns- throat and
coyly nestle there!"
Ah, fate had willed it otherwise! No ribbon
might he be
To nestle, there against her neck, so soft and
white and slim:
But oft she wound those streamers round her
fingers, and was free.
When so Inclined, to do the same sweet little
nick with him I —Cleveland Leader.
FIRST UNITED STATES CENT.
The Fuglo. were the earliest coins issued by
the United States and examples of them are
now exceedingly rare. The illustration and
description is here reproduced from the New
York Times. b ff']
First American Cent— Reverse
It wag in April, 1787, that the Congress of
these United States authorized the Board of
Treasury to contract for 300 tons of copper
coin of the Federal standard.
It is presumed that this copper coinage con
tract was made as directed, for on Friday, July
G, 1787, the Congress adopted this resolution:
'That the Board of Treasury direct the con
tractor for the copper coinage to stamp on one
side of each piece the following device, .viz.;
thirteen olrclos linked together, a small circle
in the middle, with the words 'United States'
around it; and in the center the words 'We
are one. ' On the other side of the same piece
the following device, viz., a dial with the
First American Cent— Obverse.
hours expressed on tho face of it; a meridian
sun above, on one side of which is to be the
word 'Fnglo' and on the other tne year in fig
ures, '1787'; below the dial the words 'Mind
Your Business.' " 7,- y> - — '-.-.,.
SH A very large number of these coins were
made, ana although they all bear the date
1787 it is probable that they were coined each
year after their first i.sue up to the establish
ment of the Government mint In 1793. That
many different dies were used in the coining
is plain evidence, impressions of no less
than twenty-seven obverse and twenty-four
reverse dies being known. These dies differ
in most instances very slightly. The most
prominent points of variation are to be found
in the order of the words 'United States"
which are often transposed to "States United."
In one die. from which but three Impressions
are known, "United" Is above : and "States"
below. * Lyman H. Low, the expert in coins
and medals, says that some of these Fuglo
coins are very rare and -. exceedingly valuable.
THE DIFFERENCE.
The Senior finds a most surprising change.
When for ttie world he leaves bis college hall.
In college he had always oo much work,
- Bui now be sees he can't find work at all. 39*?
—Vale Record.
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS
Xavier Scharwenta, the Polish pianist com
poser, has several times been billed for a tour
of the Pacific Coast during the last few years,
but so far he has always disappointed us.
itis now announced that he will certainly
come here to give a series of recitals in Octo
ber. Considerable interest will attach to his
appearance, largely because of the familiarity
of the pianoforte, playing public with tiis
compositions. Xavier Scharwenka has won
considerable fame as a pianist, but the field of
composition has had irresistible charms for
him, and the list of his works to-day embraces
over seventy-six numbers, among them a
symphony which was performed by Theodore
Thomas with the Philharmonic Society of
New York, .and an opera, "Mataswlntba,"
which was performed at the Metropolitan
XAVIER SCHARWENKA. Who Will Give a Series of Recitals Here in October.
Opera-house last April by Damrosch's com
pany. The pianist, however, is much more
generally known by his minor compositions,
such as his "Polish Dances," which are very
p pular with pianoforte players. Schar
weuka's home is in New York, where he took
up his abode in 1891.
Mme. Marches!, the professor of singing who
is so much affected by American students in
Paris; is to cross the Atlantic this winter, with
an eye to American dollars. The lady's project
is certainly original, though to any one who
understands the serious study necessary to be
come a vocalist it must savor of charlatanism.
Mme. Marchesi intends to make a tour of the
United States, giving lectures en route, in or
der to initiate professors and pupils into her
"marvelous" vocal method. This "singing
taught while you wail style of teaching may
line Mme. Marchesi's pockets heavily with
gold, but it is hard to telieve that a teacher of
her experience can refrain from smiling in her
sleeve at the Idea of initiating auy one into
the "marvelous" art oi singing in the course
of a lecture. Le Menestrel, in commenting on
Mme. Mb rchesi's coming departure, remarks:
"Encore une idee nouvelle de la libre Amer
iquel" Decidedly the idea is new, but it can
scarcely be commended. A few stray ideas
may possibly be gleaned from the Marchesi
lectures, but the pupil or professor who at
tempts to put them into practice will probably
get the "marvelous" Marchesi method hope
lessly jumbled up, and his last state will be
worse than his first. Mme. Marchesi, who
owes a great part of her success to a complete
knowledge of the gentle art of self-advertise
ment, has certainly taught many celebrated
singers, but many of them went to her with
all the foundations already laid. On the other
hand, she is accredited with overstraining and
ruining a great many voices. Her reputation
rests largely on an American foundation.
The Paris justices have laid it down that
you cannot keep a piano with impunity.
Mme. Bertram!, whose pupils are well known
at Coven t Garden and in the Carl Rosa Opera
Company, started a training-school in the
neighborhood of the Pare Monceau. A gentle
man of gentle habits took the flat beneath
her. From morning till night he heard only
the ladder-cllmDiug of the voice which began
at a "Ta" and after sixty-one vibrations would
end at a "Ra"— or something of the kind— if
Mme. Bertram! did not stamp her foot and
make the future De Re.zkes begin all over
again. It broke the man's heart and he sued
both his landlord and Mine. B.rtrami. He
won. <
The fortieth anniversary of the Handel festi
val- has just been celebrated at , the Crystal
Palace, London. It was In 1857 that the first
festival took place, with the assistance of UOOO
executants, and it excited general admiration,
for never before had people teen'' so many
musicians j assembled in a concert-hall. The
festivals have taken place regularly from that
date, and at present the number of singers is
2500, with an orchestra of 500 executants.
The conductor of the first festival. Sir Michael
Costa, has been dead since 1884, and among
the soloists the only survivors are ihe eternal
tenor, Sims Reeves, and the celebrated so
prano, Clara Novello, who has Jus. entered her
eightieth year.
The celebrated Carl Rosa Opera Company,
founded by the husband of Parepa Rosa, has.
b.en entirely reorganized in view of lis next
season, which will begin at Liverpool, England,
on August 10. Mme. Thea Dorre, the Chicago
prima donna, has been engaged as one of the
leading stars. The troupe, which is greatly es
teemed in England, is to play several works
quite unknown in that country, among others
Ambroise Thomas' "Son ge dune Nult d'ete"
("Midsummer Night's Dream"), which Beathie
Kingston has adapted into English, making,
it is said, a version- quite different from the
original. ' In order that the opera may not be
con fust d with Shakespeare's celebrated work
it has been renamed "A Poet's Dream."
An imposing musical performance was re
cently given in the antique Greek theater of
ancient Syracuse, a building which is in an
admirable state of preservation and can con
tain 20 000 spectator*. The grand chorus of
the '"Tor lures," by Eschylus, was given by a
superb body of voire.. This work was first
executed in the seventy-eighth Olympiad,,
that is to say, 525 years B. C. The majesty of
this admirable musical monument is said to
have produce! a deep and lasting impression
on those present. - '
The congress of German musicians, held at
Mannheim, has decided to publish a com
plete edition of the works of Franz Liszt.
As these works do not become public property
till 1916 . the publishing-houses jof BreiiKopf
and Ilaertol have been requested to treat with
Liszt's different publishers in order to arrange
lor a sumptuous edition of the Weimar mas
tier's works. The association has pledged itself
to purchase 200 copies: of the edition, which
it intends to distribute gratuitously to the
musicians who have contributed to tho propa
gation of Liszt's works. I
An interesting instrument was exhibited
for' the first time at the Music Teachers' Na
tional Association in New York. ':■ It ' was -a
piano,, the case of which "was made of the
wood ;of the famous Charter Oak. 'f When the
tree was uprooted by a storm in August, 1856,
the owner of the land In Hartford upon which
it stood had the wood preserved and caused a
piano-case to be made of it.
Sigraund Beel, who was present at the
jubilee, has been playing with great success
at a number of fashionable private musicales
in London. He has also appeared at several
concerts With Mme. Blanche Marches!, daugh
ter of the Paris teacher. Mme. Blanche is
quite the most popular singer in London this
season. \ '
Mme. Nordica, having quarreled with Grau
and the De Reszkes, and failed in Paris, seems
to have decided that there is more money
in concertizing in America than in chas
ing operatic engagements in Europe. She
has signed tor a tour of forty concerts in this
country to begin in October under the man
agement of R. E. Johnstone.
Stavenhagan, who toured this country some
years ago as a pianist, has been appointed con
ductor of the Royal Opera of Munich, the post
which the celebrated Wagnerian chef d'or
chestra, Hermann Levi, was compelled to re
sign on accountof growing mental infirmities.
The friends of Massenet and Reyer are com
plaining in the French press that during the
seasons of French opera in New Orleans, San
Francisco and Mexico no royalties were paid
French composers for the rights of producing
any of the cperas. . - •.'■-. \ -';.'
Nicolini, the husband of Adellna Pattl, is so
seriously ill that the diva has abandoned all
her engagements in London and has gone to
nurse him at her Castle of Craig-y-Nos.
Augusta Cottlow, the 17-year-old American
planiat, has created a sensation in Germany,
where she has been Invited to play before
Kaiser Wilhelm.
Mascngni's eight-year-old son ls a clever
violinist.
MEN AND WOMEN.
Since he entered his 93d year James
Martineau has publicly stated that his tavor
ite recreations are "rowing and walking."
Prince de Jolnville is spoken of in Paris as
the probable successor of his brother, the late
Due d'Aumale, in the French Academy. The
Prince is 79 years of age, and has been stone
deaf for some time. _
General Lew Wallace says that after a dili
gent search for a short name for the hero of
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