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AN EXCURSION THAT WOULD MEAN
A N excursion from the middle west to San Francisco, so timed
/ \ that the participants will arrive here on April 18 next, is
j[ Jl being agitated by railroad men. Its object is to give the
* people in the east the opportunity of paying* us a visit on
cheap terms to see what Californians have accomplished iri the way,
of rebuilding in the space of two years. Railroad men who have been
cast bring back the information that many on the Atlantic seaboard
and elsewhere refuse to put faith in our statements, and go further
by saying that in these days of successful photography anything can
be done with h. picture. It is with the view of correcting this im
pression that the matter has been taken up. The railroad companies
are willing to put *i a low rate from the east, provided they receive
the co-operation of our business men.
This is a sensible scheme for the better advertising of San Fran
cisco, and money could not be better expended than by entertaining
those who may make the journey across the continent. A low fare
has always proved attractive to the easterner, and there is no doubt
that if the transportation companies put in a one way return rate
from Chicago they would have no difficulty in filling many trains.
By next April San Francisco will be in a position to take care
of many strangers. New hotels will be running by that time, and so
will many lodging houses. Restaurants are being opened daily, and
there will be no difficulty experienced in the way of feeding and
housing the pilgrims. Each stranger in the city means so mfcch money
left here. There is not a shop that does not benefit by his presence,
and every dollar left in the city makes the city so much the richer.
This proposition should not be left to languish. It should be taken
up and every assistance to make it a success be given. .
Our greatest need is population, and this can only be achieved
by showing the stranger what we have to offer. The most indifferent
of visitors will not fail to be impressed by what we have accom
plished. He will see a street, like Market, lined with magnificent
buildings which two years ago was in the grip of desolation. He
will note that the class of buildings being erected are worthy of a
great metropolis. He will be entertained at hotels which compare
favorably with any in the large cities of the east. He can, within a
few hours distance from San Francisco, be taken through a country
fragrant with blossoms, and he will be able to judge for himself
whether all that he has heard and read about California is true.
The experiment seems worth while. San Francisco's character
as an enterprising city would be more than firmly established through
an excursion such as described by Paul Shoup. Each man that
returns home will be a walking advertisement for California. His
example will be thought worthy of following and we would have
scattered throughout the length and breadth of the country hundreds
of boomers of San Francisco, who will avail themselves of the firft
opportunity presented to visit the growing city of the west.
NOT BEING A MIND READER
AA interesting refinement of criminal law comes up in connec
tion with the Cartwright act against trusts. A police judge
in Los Angeles sloughs off responsibility for enforcing the
law by resort to the plea that he does not know whether a
conviction under its provisions would be felony or misdemeanor.
The act provides a year's imprisonment for violations, but does not
say whether in jail or penitentiary. If the legislature meant a year
in jail it is misdemeanor, but a year in the penitentiary would make
it felony and take it outside the jurisdiction of a police judge except
as committing magistrate. Senator Cartwright, being asked by the
Fresno Republican what his law meant in this regard, frankly 1
answered that he did not know, because he is not a. criminal lawyer.
In copying the Ohio law I changed it, as little as possible. In regard
to imprisonment I followed the Ohio law. It seems their form of criminal
law is different from ours. I have known for some time of the point
raised in Los Angeles and I am satisfied it will" not invalidate, the act.
Ihe courts will hold that it is one thing or the other — I don't know which!
The legislature propounds the riddle. The courts, answer in
various keys. It is the very comedy of jurisprudence that the man
who drew the law does not know the answer. He modestly says
that not being a "criminal lawyer," he dares not hazard a guess, but
he has an abiding faith that they will answer, it either way — which
way he does not know. #
CONFUSED PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS
POLITICAL gossip. at the east finds a deep significance in the
selection of Chicago as the place of meeting for the republican
national convention. It is regarded as a distinct setback for
the Taft boom and at the same time. the selection is regarded
as evidence of successful activity on the part of the Cortelyou fol
lowing. Mr. Cortelyou has undoubtedly come into greater promi
nence in the past month by reason of his important part in relieving
the financial stringency. lie has had a vast .volume of advertising
and yet it is not at all certain that on sober second thought his part
in the events of the past month will gain the full approval of (lie
people. Doubtless he did what circumstances compelled and precedent
had warranted, but people will ask whether it was necessary to bor
row enormous sums while the treasury was full and overflowing.
Xo one will attribute to Mr. Cortelyou anything, but the^best inten
tions, but it may be that lie was carried off his feet by the^clambr and
insistence of interested financiers. It now seems to be conceded that
the .Panama loan and the proposal to issue $100JO(X),000 in govern
ment certificates were unnecessary. /
In all this phase of politics the relations of Roosevelt to the Taft
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EDITORIAL PAGE
Vicious Methods of the Bank Commissioh
PEOPLE are asking everjrwhere," What
are the uses of a state- bank commission?
and the answer is not apparent from the
practice of that body. Governor Gillett
intimates that the commission has not . done its
duty, and this seems to be a very moderate way
of putting it. The revelations connected with the
insolvency of the California safe deposit and trust
company are evidence of astounding dereliction of
duty by the commissioners.
Here was a; bank,' carrying a vast line of de
posits, engaged for all practical purposes in finan
cing half -a- dozen or more speculative industrial
enterprises without exacting as security for the
loans such collateral as bankers recognize as ade
quate. Large loans appear to have been made
without any security other than the personal notes
of the borrowers. The Call knows nothing more
than common report of the status of the industrial
concerns financed by the insolvent bank, but their
stocks are not legitimate banking collateral. They
are not listed on the exchanges and have : ho es
tablished market value. Banking of that sort, in
volving the savings, of thousands of depositors, is
no less than criminal.
,The single purpose and final cause of the bank
commission is to prevent or stop such practices.
It is the first duty of the* commissioners to (pass
on the adequacy and commercial value of collateral
security for loans. That duty was wholly neg
lected by the bank commissioners in the case of
the insolvent bank. The result is disaster.
It is impossible to escape the conclusion that
the commissioners or' some of them knew what
was doing behind the doors of the California safe
deposit and trust company. What inducements
were extended to secure this tolerance for vicious
banking may be left to surmise.
This is not the first time in state history that
the bank commission has grossly failed of its duty.
Equally scandalous disclosures of the commis
sion's methods were made in 1893 in connection
with the failure of Dr. R. H. McDonald's banking
enterprises.- The of that day knew
and Cortelyou booms appear to be obscure. They are both members
of the cabinet and presumably loyal to their chief. It will scarcely be
denied that the American people generally accept Taft as more
closely representative of Roosevelt's general policies than Cortelyou.
Indeed very little is known about Mr. Cortelyou. Heis not given to
speech making. He does not wear his heart upon his sleeve. It may
be doubted whether he has the magnetic quality that endears a
candidate to the popular sense and sentiment. If Corteiyou is
seriously meant the public would like to know more of his per
sonality and his affiliations. At present he is the unknown quantity in
politics. -Conceding Mr. Cortelyou's distinguished qualities, it is
doubtful whether he is quite up to presidential size arid it is quite pos
sible that the effect and result' vof' air these confused politics may be
to compel the nomination of Roosevelt fpr/a third- term, unless -tlie
convention should decide to take up a man like; Governor Hughes of
New York, who is in no respect mixed up with the prevalent political
scheming.
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THE winter influx of .unattached tourists is haying certain un
welcome results in the , southern part of the state. Los Angeles,
for instance, is afflicted v with an unprecedented epidemic of
crime and lawlessness. The town, owes its existence to tourists
df one sort, but the same attractions that drew the well provided
winter resorter are equally potent with another and less desirable
variety of travelers. The consequence is that the Los Angeles city
prison is bulging with delinquents, a ragged army that -can fill a jail
without much derogation from previous conditions. The trouble is
that the municipal accommodations will not hold them all and if
they cannot break into jail they must break in somewhere else.
In this embarrassing situation Los Angeles is excitedly dis
cussing a "stockade" as > a means of entertainment for unwelcome
guests. In • less polite, neighborhoods an institution of that kind
would be called the "bullpen." The situation in Los Angeles has
got beyond the academic preaching of penologists and reformers and
has attained the stage of imperative demand that something be
done. Thus the Express :
The citizens of Los Angeles demand that a stockade, or some form
of additional city prison, be at once provided. They are not interested in
any quarrel or personal controversy as to where it shall be located. The
city owns available land along the Chanez ravine and the river bed, and
thcre^ is no serious objection to either section. Ally that" the -city asks* is
immediate action by the council and quick construction of the prison.
We extend sympathy to Los Angeles, afflicted with a swarm of
tramps and footpads. It is become headquarters for Coxey's army,
which gains recruits day by day. The conditions interest all Cali
fornia more^or less and are likely to grow worse rather than better
as the years pass. It is the penalty of a good;climate and will call
for. some remedy more efficacious than stockades!
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Woodrow Wilson says that every
time Roosevelt thinks he talks. What
a contrast to" the numerous politicians
who merely talk! •
Cord Roseberry claims to have
found a cure for insomnia in the swash
of the sea waves.r The records of ship
wrecks bristle with proof of this.
A Mr. Spender and a Miss Money
were married ! in Butte, : Mont., recent
ly. The question that suggests itself
is,, will he be allowed to spend^'er
money?.
, WALNUTS — Subscriber, California.
On the subject of hulling walnuts John
Isaac, secretary to the state commis
sioner of ; horticulture, ; says:. ."Walnuts
are usually left on the; trees; until they
drop :of their - own \acCord,.' arid the
"greater part ."'will ., ' hull ;.r themselves;
That' is r the : hull spl i ts so r that the , nut
drops out ot its own accord.: or Is easily
taken 'out : by.- hand;', in cases 'Where -the
hull \u25a0 adheres. ''There ;is> ho ; other - pro
cess but :that ! of hulling by. 1 hand."
POTTERS' " FIELD— H. G. .r ,W., '} Ci ty.
Aceldama/. i."the£, model '-of ;?• blood," co
monly called potters' field, 1 the name ap
plied in i modern: ciyea to ; a ' burial '• place
for. the ;lntermenf ; of the Indigent dead
and stranger dead, has its origln'at "'the'
A BULLPEN FOR LOS ANGELES
NOTE AND COMMENT
-The Oakland wife who got a di
vorce .because her husband called her
a,. barnacle (disproved the epithet by
refusing tO'cling.^ v
There are so many changes in the
police department 'nowadays, that the
members: of the force shudder when
they hear a streetcar conductor say
"transfer." .:\u25a0/;-.
- The editor of the Los Angeles News
dernqnstrates-lthat JheVis not in the
dishoncsjtly successful Jclass by assert-T
ing that: the 'president's message is
conservative.
Answers 1b Queries
time Judas sold -the master for 30 pieces
°f-;sllver. It was so "called -because
bought with '• the' price of : blood accord
ing- to Matthew; xxvii:6-8 andbecause it
was , the;: scene /of 'retribution * In.: kind;
the . bloodi-,which -Judas 5 caused to be
shed- being: avenged by." his own -blood j
according: to \u25a0 -Acts; 1:19, Revelation
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NATIONAL . . : \u25a0 CEMETERIES— A. S..
City. " National cemeteries for the burial
of; soldiers | of J the .United :- States army
and /: of .".the^na-vyj originated in ,-1850,
when in 'it hat ? year; there • was"' included
in c the* army >; appropriation -bill* $10,000
for; the purchase of: a ; ; lot' near \ the; City
of ; Mexico s for Jithe of
States tsold iers who • fell ; near? that place
during the Mexican war.
of the insolvency of the. McDonald banks at least
six months before the, crash. :
Insolvency does not steal upon a bank like a
thief in the night or come by accident. There
is no business in the world so safe or so profitable
'as banking done on legitimate lines, but when
bankers become speculators they are far more
dangerous than the highwayman who steals your
purse. When the footpad is caught he is likely to
go to prison for 50 years. The speculating banker
robs thousands and reduces them to misery. The
footpad may have some excuse. The banker has
none.
It was to stop this kind of. robbery that the
bank commission was created. In practice we find
the commissioners in league with criminal bank
ers and doubtless' sharing profits. A commission
of that character is far worse than useless. It be
comes a public danger. *
We are unable to say how far these remarks
apply to the present commissioners. Some of
them are new. in- this office and the mischief may
have been done before their incumbency. But
the fact is that this body has always been made
the football of politics. It was a fat plum in the
hands of the governor, with which he -paid his
political debts without the slightest sens» of fit
ness or qualification for the office. The two most
recent appointments to the commission are con
spicuous examples of the accepted practice. One
of them ; is a professional politician, notorious as
William F. Herrin's first lieutenant. The other is
a lawyer who has been in politics most of his life.
If the banks and banking methods are to be
investigated by a legislative committee it seems'
that a beginning might be made with the bank
commission. But the. fact is that no political
body inspires or merits public confidence in this
regard. The bankers of San Francisco will be
compelled in self-defense to create similar machin
ery to that which works so well in Chicago,
where a committee of the clearing house examines
and certifies the condition of all banks in the as
sociation. •
By The Call's Jester
WAR REFINED
The Japanese are now killing off the
Formosan head hunters by driving
them Into, stockades and against wires
heavily charged with electricity.
There was a time, so long ago \*
That spectacled historians
And even grave folklorians .
The date do not exactly know.
When man killed off his hated foe
By using- what first came to hand.
.'Sometim'esthe act of killing
'\u0084 The victim all unwilling
Was done by simple clubbing, and
Sometimes a" stone instead would land.
As man advanced, refinement came, \u25a0.
Which was, indeed, a blessing,
For clubbing is distressing —
Although it must be said with shame
That burial followed just the same.
Bows came %ylth arrows; then one day
A Chinese made gunpowder,
More potent, far. and louder; ' N
And bullets sang a merry lay
To which souls sped upon their way.
But comes the latest from Japan *
In way of skillful killing h
With absence of blood spilling.
From war has been removed the ban
Of gore that once in rivers ran.
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W. J. W.
Women's Clubs Great factors in Civic and Social Reforms
. -T » T OMEN'S clubs have -worked
.\/\7 so marked a change for the
Y y better in. our cities, .villages
1 * and towns," says a great
Philadelphia. daily, '.'that it Is undoubt
edly only a matter of time when the
government will depend upon them for
certain civic and social reforms and
make an, Appropriation for their sup
port." If ; this is true of the eastern
states, where condition's have been nor
mal, how much more could be saidof
California's club'women, who have faced
with unfailing courage and resource In
the last two -years and are' still facing
somo of >the greatest crises that the
world has ever known?
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The Cacdmon, club, ore of tlv? most
advanced of , the city's, literary or
ganizations, has .invited ; members and
'friends' to a lecture tomorrow after
noon. ; It; will be'glven by the Very
Rev. T. V.Moore, C.S..F.. of St. Thomas
hall,: Berkeley, whose 'subject will be
"The"/ Catholic Movement at the Uni
versities.";, The lecture will take. placo
in' the "home of Mrs.. J. M. Driscoll in
Broadway. .': The directors of tht3; club
are: ; Mrs. "Clinton Jones, Mrs. Garret
McEnerney, Mrs. • D. "W. Ncsfleld, Mrs. , J.
2VL Driscoll, Mrs. Eleanor Martin. Miss
Florence Murphy. Mrs. AV.G. Hitchcock
Mrs. M. J. Fottrell, ' Miss Louise.
Sprague. Mrs. Francis', Sullivan and
Mrs. Margaret, Deane.
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-The San 'Francisco Musical club had
another liour or; tvvo of , delightful
music on Thursdaj', morning.last," which
was .Vvvell attended by the music loving
women of the city. The program had
beeri arranged entirely of; selections in
syinphonir. form, especially Illustrated
by , the ; German leader. Mrs. ; J. ' E"
Birmingham, sang delightfully -Lizst's
VMIgnon's. sorig.V. and -four short
by. ;- Brahms. .which were: "So"
"Vy'IHst du ": dos • -,'Armen," "Die Maln
acht," -"An N'achtingaU" and
"Melne iLIebe^IstVGruen.'.V-; Mrs Oscar
Gushing and Mrs.- Toby. Schussler. played
a -piano- duet.'; Brahms Symphonic • in P
majdr, ; four, mo vements.- f or; two pianos,
andvflve ! short^songs by ; Mrs. Birming- .
ham <:losed : the .'program.;? These were
Wolfs ; "Alle Glngen, Herz." ••Elfenlied,"
and>VHelmweh,V ,?and Strauss'. r "Traum
Durch die Dammerung'; and "Heimliche
Auforderung." : ; : --;- 'i -. ;
,• At ir o'clock, on morning'
of. this week, the : civic section? of the 1
California club wlir hold; an important
Treat in Store for Music Lovers When
St. Dominic's Installs New Organ
MANY. musical memories aro asso
ciated with St. Dominic's church,
which crumbled to the ground
, during a certain April. For
many years it had been in the front of
the movement for proper, conslstant
and genuine church music. Its beauti
ful organ was a model of, its kind,
architecturally and beautifully voiced.
Franklin Palmer., organist and musi
cian, was tho musical leader therefor
years. His monthly recitals attracted
wide attendance, and he produced nov
elties about which local musicians had
rend, but which they otherwise- would
not have heard. Perosl's ecclesiastical
music was, sung: Dubois" setting 1 of
"The Seven' Last Words" was presented
and other important musical events
occurred .under his regime. Follow
ing him, James Hamilton Howe was
organist for a short tjme, and continued
tho monthly recitals, giving way to Dr.
H.J. Stewart, who until the spring dis
aster interfered was the church's able
organist and choir master.
The dust had not settled on the ruina
of the church before plans for a new
structure w"ere being discussed. The
litter ofdebrl3 which was once a fine
organ had not been cleared away be- >
fore a finer one was being arranged
for. It is now nearly completed, and
until the permanent church is built
will occupy the organ loft in the tem
porary structure in Pierce street be
tween Bush and Pine, back of the
ruined building. Dr. Stewart will con
tinue as organist.
The builders of the new organ say It
will 'be. the largest on the coast, and
th?y believe it will be the finest. It
will cost $20,000 and will be equipped
with the latest mechanical contrivances
which have revolutionized organ build
ins and playing 1 .
A veritable forest of pjpes .Is -being
installed. There will be about 4.000 of
them, and Jesse TV'oodberry, who is
himself, superintending the work, says
that Christmas day, when the organ is
"opened," the entire complicated piece
of musical mechanism will be com
pleted, voiced and In perfect order.
Dr. Stewart says that ife-will be a reve
lation in organ tone.
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Here are ' the specifications of the
new organ: Great organ — 61 pipes In
each atop; double open diapason. 1-6
feet; double melodia, 16 feet; first op.
diapason. 8 feetj second op. diapason,
3 feet; gemshorn, 8 feet; viola di gamba,
8 feet: flute harmonique, 8 feet; doppel
flote, 8 feet; octave. 4 feet; gambette.
4 feet; hohlflote, 4 feet; octave quinte,
2 2-3 feet; super octave. 2 feet; mixture,
4 ,r«nd 5 ranks; ophecliede, 16 feet:
trumpet. 8 feet; clarion. 4 feet. Swell
organ, 72 pipes — Bourdon, 16 feet; open
diapason, 8 feet; spitzflote. 8 feet; sali
cional. 8 feet; aeoline, 8 feet; voix
celestis, 8 feet; clcrabella, 8 feet;
stopped -diapason, 8 feet; octave, 4 feet;
salicet, 4 feet; flauto traverso. 4 feet:
flageolet (conical), 2 f feet; cornet. 4
ranks; contra fagotto, "l 6 feet; vox hu
mana, S feet; cornopean, 8 feet; oboe,
8 feet; clarion, 4 feet. Choir organ, 61
pipes — Contra salicional, 16 feet; open
diapason, 8 feet; viola, 8 feet; dolce, 8
feet; hohlflote, 8 feet; concert flute, 8
feet, quintadena, 8 feet; fugara, 4 feet;
flute (harmonique). 4 feet; dolce cor
net, 3- ranks; piccolo harmonique, 2
feet: clarinet, 8 feet. Pedal organ, 30
pipes— Open diapason, 16 feet; violone.
16 feet;-dulclana, 16 feet; bourdon. 16
feot; quinte," giving 32 foot effect. 10 2-3
feef.yflute,' 8 -feet; violoncello. 8 feet:
trombone,':l6^feet. Couplers— Swell to
great, choir to great, swell to . choir,
swell super octave (on itself), great to
pedal, swell to pedal, choir to -pedal,
swell to great (super octave}, choir to
grefit (sub octave)., pedal octave (on lt«
self). .-:,;.\u25a0.
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No community establishes a perma
nent symphony orchestra in a single
season and it will not surprise local
music lovers to learn that the sym
phony orchestra which played under
the direction of J. Fred "Wolle in the
Greek amphitheater, has become dis
organized and its members scattered.
Boston's symphony orchestra and the
i Pittsburg orchestra only became fea
tures In American musical life through
assistance which has not as yet been
given in San Francisco. "We will have
no similar orchestra without • similar
help. :v ; :y-'r>\: y-'r>\
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For more than 50 years In Boston
the work of preparation was going on
for a permanent organization to play
the highest forms of instrumental ex
Kathleen Thompson
:, meeting, to discuss the question of the
, care of dependent children in a large
city. Dr. Minora E. Klbbe will pre
side and has secured as speakers Mr.
• Gates of the State Bureau of Charities
and Corrections, and Mr. White of the
Society of Prevention df Cruelty to
Children. Both of these are well quali
fied to make this topic interesting, and
both will treat it In an extremely prac
tical way. The civic department of
the big club takes a very, active inter
est in matters of this' sort, and has
already accomplished much good. The
public is cordially invited to this meet
ing.
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The musiq section of the California
club has bidden members and friends
to an afternoon. of especially fine mu
sic on Thursday next. It will be in
charge of Miss Juliet Greninger. Dr.
Humphrey Stewart will give a short
talkon.Ffrancgon Davies' recent book .
•The Singing of the Future," after
which Miss Louise Smith. Miss Rene
Bird. Miss Hortenso Gilmore and Miss
Viola Van.Orden will sing Rubinstein's
•'Wanderer's Night Song" and Arne's
"Under the Greenwood Tree," both ar
ranged for four voices by Liynes. Mrs
Carolyn Crew Rasor will sing the reci
.tatlve aria, "Piano — Piano." from "Der
Freischuetz." by Yon Weber, and Mrs
Josephine Aylwin will sing the aria.
"Lieto . Signor," .from Meyerbeer's
"Huguenots. 1 - Miss Rene Bird will sing
Batten's . "Woodland Madrigal." Two
songs by the quartet will finish the
program. ."' Rubinstein's "Angel" and
Arne's "Lass With a Delicate Air."
These two songs, were also arranged by
Lyties.' ' '. \u25a0"...; . ...
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Before the members and' guests of
the dramatic section of the California
club last Thursday Miss Lenore-
Croudace read the manuscript of her
- latest, play, "The Gauntlet of Death "
iMiss Croudace, who has already proved
claim toj literary laurels, showed that
she is a delightful reader as well as a
clever writer, j and the afternoon was
oneof, the most sutoessful yet given by
this flourishing branchiof the big club
The To Kalon club /was highly fa
vored atits December meeting in hav
ing Charles H. Page of the Fritzi Scheff
company 'as its "guest.- 1 Mr.' Page sansr'
several delightful barytone solos durin
the afternoon. A . feature of the shori
i program was Rev. Mr. Haar's talk on
the industries of ' Nurnberg. the great
center of toy making:. The topic proved
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pression. From IS3O. when, under the
pa?r«nag» of Harvard, orchestral »•>
concerts were given In Boston, till lssi.
when Henry Lee Hlgglnscm. thw:».
turned from Berlin with his head full
of real music, put a fortune behind
the enterprise for art's sake, the evo
lution of Boston's orchestra was going
on Its genealogy comprises the best
of' Boston's best, and the first con
cert, given in the fall of ISSI. was
the beginning of the orchestras real
career, which from that time till now
has been a career In music, not., to
commerce.
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Fan Francisco's effort to have an
orchestra In Berkeley has been char
acterized by a circumstance like that
of Boston's. George Henshel was tn«
first director under the Hlgglnsrm
regime, lie was a famous singer and
writer of songs; a thorough musician
of keen temperament and high tdeais,
but utterly without experience In han
dling orchestral forces. He knew mu
sic but not the orchestra. He did ex
cellent pioneer work for three year*
and then resigned In favor of Wllhelm^
Gericke. who was a real orchestral j
leader — one of the greatest In Ger
many. Ho was an organizer no less
than musician, and proceeded to placa
the Boston symphony orchestra on a,
high plane of real art and music whicn
was the wonder of America and tha
admiration of Europe. The organiza
tion still bears the impress of hla work.
• • •
Wolle was brought from Bethlehem,
Pa to occupy the professorship o£
music in the University of California.
Hi 3 fame in the east rests upon his
superb direction of the Bach choral
society which he organized in 1830. H»
was a pupil of Warren, with whom h*
studied organ. Itheinberger tausht
him harmony and counterpoint. Hla
highest achievements were in the In
terpretation of Bach's immortal passion
music, masses, and his festival cho
rals To these he brought deep de
votion, rich musical feeling and fervor.
His 'efforts In Berkeley to play on an
orchestra were practice lessons for
him; and worthy of more attention than
they received, particularly In view or
the crudities he found among his play
ers whose dally bread was earned In
theater, cafe and hotel concerts of pop
ular music
• • •
But If San Francisco Is to have a*
permanent symphony orchestra It must
have a director whose experience has
been orchestral rather than choral; la
must have the backing of a capitalise
to place It beyond the need of commer
cial exploitation, or it must be bacTted.
like the Pittsburg orchestra, by a num
ber of wealthy musical patrons, who
will guarantee its expenses. Then. Jjfr
stead of two rehearsals — which was pk~:
the local orchestra could afford — for a
great symphony. w« may listen to
bandsmen who have been thoroughly
drilled in the work and whose time will
not be taken up by playing popular
music In the cafes, which, however de-j
lightful to eat to, cannot be said to be
good training for symphony.
Remember, we had Edgar Stlllman I
Kelly "in our midst" once. This Is what \
a German friend told me was the sub
stance of a recent criticism published
In, the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger about
Kelly's piano, quintet:
. "The composition by Edgar Stlllman
Kelly, the American composer who has
made Berlin his home, made a deep
impression. It discloses a musical per
sonality of depth and Individuality.
Besides being original the music ... rich
In suggestion and imagination; there
are brilliant colors in .the score, which
is^ yet renn«*d. In form and expres
sion the work is worthy of imitation.'*
That is almost as high praise as wa
shower on German composers living in
America.
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The Catholic oratorio society of New
York, onder the management of Mme.
Selma Kronold. is preparing to give H.
J. Stewart's oratorio, "Nativity," next
February at Carnegie hall. The worlc
will be presented by a chorus of 200
voices, besides soloists and orchestra.
Mme. Kronold will be remembered as
one of Grau's "Wagnerlan singers.
Another work by the local composer
which Is receiving eastern attention is
Stewart's Mass In D minor, which Is be
ing published by "a Boston firm. The
work was first sung from manuscript*
at the dedication of St. Dominic' &
church after the fire. It fs being prtnte^
In two forms, one f«vr mtxed and on»
for male voices, both with orchestra
and organ parts.
a most interesting one. and Mr. Haar
made it additionally so. by the quiet
humor and flashes of fun with which '
he interlarded dates and facts. Some
of the figures were surprising. Mr.
Haar. stated that 40.0C0 tons of toys
come to America yearly, for which Un
cle Sam pays no less than $18,000,0 M.
Other numbers on the program wera
selections on the zither by Mrs. Maar
and Mrs. Stcrcii.
• • •
On' Wednesday. December IS. thm
Forum club will hold a meeting, tho
monthly current topic day, with Mrs.
John T. Dare as leader. Several of.
the interesting questions of th© day
will be discussed, and. as usual, the
open meeting will be a spirited and in
teresting one. There will be music,
which is in charge of Mme. Tojetti and
Mrs. D. Hirschler., On th? last day of
the year the presidents annual recep
tion takes place, and will bean occa
sion for especially handsome decora
tions and gowns and many guests.
Mrs. 11. H. Mayhew is president of th»
will be locial day In tfca
hospitable Cap and Bells club and a
hundred or more women will gather to
enjoy an exceptionally good musical
program. It will open with "Mariposa."
- .» yev c Cap and Be »3 orchestra, which
will be followed by three of Ftnden's
eerie Indian love songs, sung by Miss
Grace- Marshall. These are: "Far
Across the Desert Sands," "Where the
Abana Hows" and "Many a Lonely
Caravan. ' Miss Elna Miller will play
a violin solo. Godard's serenade, and
Miss Greta Augustine will alng "The
Restless River' and Yon FelltzV'Thlne
Eyes." Thr program will end with a
clever httle play, "Mrs. Oakley's Tele
phone.' in which Miss Elsie D. Tounjr
Mrs. W. A. Carroll. Mrs. William Pardy
and Mrs. W. W. Wyrnore will take part.
• • •
- The Laurel hall club held a largely
attended meeting on.December 4. which/
was attended by many of the city'/
prominent clubwomen. The program
consisted. of two splendid numbers, the
£3!.»-? f T. hlch was Mm *- Emilia
*\, ?* lk on Da nte Gabriel Kos
settl. Mme.. Tojetti spoke of the gr«at
poet s work 1 and of the glimpses of hla
own character that he revealed In his
writing, and every club , women went
home determined to read or reread Ro
settt s works. Mrs. Horace : Russtfl
then, read Rossetti'9 "Blessed DamomSl"
in a delightfully sympathetic and '*•*-
iiS*;?^"*''.*" 11 c meetln S closed
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