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THE ST. PAUL GLOBE
MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1898.
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MONDAY'S WEATHEK.
Fair: Variable Winds.
By the United States Weather Bureau.
MINNESOTA — Fair; northerly winds, btcojp
tng variable.
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portions; variable winds, becoming scuti
erly.
BOUTH DAKOTA— Fair and warmer.
MONTANA — Fair; warmer ln eastern por
tions; southerly winds.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES.
The Northwest.
St. Paul 56 Battleford 46
Duluth S8 Prince Albert 42
Huron „ 54 Calgary 68
Bismarck 50 Swift Current 50
WUIUtOJO 5.i Qu'Appelle 44
Havre 02 Minnedosa 44
Helena us Winnipeg 40
Edmonton 60i
Boston 46-48|Cheyenne 56-58
Chicago 44-45 Cincinnati 54-54
Montreal 68- 58 ' New Orleans .. ..76-83
New York 52-64 Pittsburg 58-60
Buffalo 54-58J
DAILY MEANS.
Barometer 30.08
Mean temperature 5)
Relative humidity 46
Wind at 8 p. m Southeast
Weather Partly cloudy
Maximum temperature 6J)
Minimum temperature 41
Dally Hinge 19
Am unt of precipitation (rain and m;lted
snow) in last twenty-four hours 0
RIVER AT S A. M.
Danger Gauge Change in
Station. Line. Reading. 24 Hours
St Paul H 3.4 —0.1
LaCrosse 10 4.7 0.0
—Fall.
Note— Barometer corrected for temperature
*nd elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer.
ATLANTIC LINERS.
HAVRE— Arrived: La Gascogne, New York
OI'EEXSTOWN-SaUed: Lmania (from Livl
erpool). New York.
NEW YORK— Arrived: Umbria, Liverpool.
TODAY'S EVENTS.
METROPOLITAN — Roland Reed in "The
Wrong .Vr. Wright," 8:15 PM.
GRAND— Marie Wainwright in "Shall We
Forgive Her?" 8:15 PM.
Chamber of Commerce. St. Paul Fire and
Marine building, 9 AM.
Sons of Veterans' rally. Central hall. Sixth
and Seventh streets, 8 PM.
State Historical Society, capitol, 8 PM.
Crusaders' T. A. society anniversary Cre in
hall. 8 PM.
Ministers' meeting, St. Paul Commons, 10
AM.
Democrat-Citizens' mass meeting Francis
and Forest streets, 8 PM.
Eastertide meeting. Church club, Ryan hotel
7:30 PM.
Annual ball Liberty Council J. O. U. A M
Greenwood and State, 8 PM.
Democrat-Citizens' meeting, Jarosz's hII
Eighth ward, 8 PM.
—If "Old Glory" were running for
mayor of St. Paul, it would win in a
walk.
—The St. Paul base ball artists drop
ped from flrst to fourth place yester
day without breaking a bone.
—Morro castle is 400 years old. When
the modern Sampson levels its walls
they will probably never rise again.
—As Sousa is the acknowledged
march king, why not place him at the
head of the soldier boys now marching
thn, ugh Dixie?
— An Indianapolis man of 117 wants
to join the volunteers to fight Spain.
Se has wheels enough to start a bi
cycle store without buying a cog.
—Gen. Wade was probably put in
ci-mmand well to the front because
his name suggests that he could get
tram Tampa to Havana without having
to swim.
. —Senator Allen, of Nebraska, will
have something to regret the remain
der of his days. He only talked fif
teen minutes and ten seconds on the
Spanish war resolution.
—The hotel beat is a cunning fellow.
He now registers from "Dawson City,
N. W. T.," stays two weeks, has every
thing from hot birds to cold bottles,
and disappears in the night.
—The red man now arises to prove
that the only good Indian is the dead
Indian. The troops no sooner move
from Western forts than the savage
begins to get ready to massacre de
fer.seh ss settlers.
—Oh, well, Spain, if you get too gay,
we'll tat up a republic with headquar
ters at Madrid, establishing a protec-
torate only so long as it shall be neces
sary to get the Spanish Republican*
into the knack of running things.
An Auspicious Coincidence.
The flrst marine prize captured In
the existing Spanish-American war
goes to the credit of the crew of the
gunboat Nashville; and her command
er, Washburn Maynard, is, it appears,
a resident of the city of Knoxville. in
the same state of which Nashville, the
city for which the vessel was origin
ally named. Is the capital. This is a
pleasing coincidence, and no patriot
to the northward will regret its oc
currence.
The geographical location of Ten
nessee, as well as its sentimental re
lation to the divided sections of the
country during the War of the Re
bellion, is well known and remem
bered. This war Is one of union as
against a foreign foe; and the firing
of the flrst shot in the present con
flict, from the deck of a war vessel
bearing the name of the capital city
of a central state of the Union, itself
at one time divided in its relationship
to that Union, and commanded by a
naval officer himself a resident of that
commonwealth, ought to resound, echo
upon echo, as the assuring voice of
peace between the Northern and South
ern sections of this country and as a
guarantee that that union Is real.
The unanimity with which, in this
crisis, the representatives of the North
and South have stood together in con
gress, barring the introduction of some
unfortunate, but inevitable, personal
and extreme partisan incidents com
mon to the heat of debate, for which
both sides are to blame, affords an in
teresting and a gratifying spectacle.
The Stars and Stripes constitute the
banner under which leadership in the
pending contest is to be undertaken;
and it is a source of Joy to the Ameri
can heart, as a whole, to realize that
this standard can as safely be en
trusted to the hands of the Southern
suldler, who, for sentimental reasons,
lovingly hugs to his bosom the ashes
bf the crumbling emblem of the lost
cause of the Confederacy, as to the
sentinel in the blue uniform of the
Northern hero who opposed him a gen
eration age. This war with Spain
will not prove profitless as a patriotic
object lesson, at any rate.
"Better lo Op.n lhe nilis."
"It is better to open the mills than
the mints," sententiously declared Mr.
McKinley to the admiring crowd that
filled the Canton lawn one day during
the summer of '96. And the epigram
was taken up and became one of the
shibboleths of that campaign. In the
same vein was the constant compari
son of the year 1892, when "the high
tide of Republican prosperity" was
reached, and just before "Democratic
free trade" brought on the "Demo
cratic hard times." Tnen everything
was prosperous; then the mills were in
full blast if the mints were silent; then
there was work for every one.
The New York Tribune discusses the
conditions of iron manufacture at
the present time and compares them
with the conditions existing in 1890.
The present conditions make grim com
ment on that opening of the mills.
Then there were 437 furnaces in blast;
now, of the 443 in existence, 178 are in
operation and 165 are silent. That num
ber includes only the anthracite, bi
tuminous and coke furnaces. Of the
charcoal furnaces there were then 146
in the country, of which 69 were pro
ducing; now there are but 17. In eight
years 40 per cent of the one and 75 per
cent of the other mills producing iron
have gone out of operation.
As Dingleyism has not opened these
mills, so Gormanism did not close them,
though the claim that the latter did
was a "good enough Morgan" in 1836
"until after election." The cause is due
to that concentration that is the dis
tinguishing industrial feature of this
end of the century- The fewer mills
are making more iron than did the
greater number eight years ago. The
average weekly product of the 178 in
blast is 1,293 tons, as against 556 each
for the 231 in blast In 1890. The evolu
tion in that industry is equally marked
when we note that the average capac
ity of the 165 now out of blast is 591
tons, but 35 tons more than was the
average product of the 231 mills at work
in 1890. These facts show that there
are forces at work that brook no tar
tiffs, and that there, as everywhere, the
fittest survive.
Continues to Be Silly.
The Minneapolis Tribune attributes
the absence this year of Pingree po
tato patches in its city to what it ls
pleased to call the "McKinley pros
perity" that sets the mills to running
and provides work for those who work
ed the patches while out of employ
ment to gain sustenance for th*r
families. What the Tribune means by
"McKinley prosperity" is the displace
ment of the Gorman tariff with the
Dingley act, the former, according to
this veracious organ, having been the
cause of the panic of 1593 and the en
suing depression, and the latter hav
ing "restored prosperity."
If this reasoning is sound, it i 3 be
cause like causes always produce like
effects, that prosperity depends upon
the degree of taxation, and that a
lowering of the rates Drtngs disaster
while their increase brings prosperity.
If this is true at all, it is true every
where. It is as true across the imag
inary line that divides the Dominion
from the United States as it is within
the borders of either. Economic law
recognizes none of the artificial
boundary lines established by com
munities. The same motives move men
there as here;. the same conditions af
fect them alike whichever side of the
border they are.
And yet fiscal policies ln the two
countries have been moving on direct
ly opposite lines. For over twenty
years Canada trailed after the United
States in the policy of protection. Two
years ago, at the moment when pro
tection was being restored in this
country in all its virility, Canada took
the opposite direction. Laurier, with
a policy whose avowed end Is free
trade, came into power. Parliament
began the Introduction of the free trade
policy there by large reductions of
taxation. It made a preferential re
duction to countries admitting Can
adian products of one-eighth, to bo
increased in July of this year to one
fourth. Surely, if the contention of
our protectionists is sound, if their
charges of the financial distress upon
the reductions apprehended after 1892
and made in 1894 were true, there
should have fallen upon the Dominion
dire industrial distress. Instead, we
hear of an increase of prosperity, a
development of industries, a growth of
trade beside which, proportionally,
ours is insignificant.
Conditions have been mending with
us ever since the first shock of the
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE MONDAY APRII, 25, i 893.
collapse was felt and the process of
recuperation set In. It was accelerat
ed by the reductions made by the act
of 1594. Under lt our exports of manu
factures leaped upwards. Improve
ment has gone on ln pplte of the hand
icap of the Dingley act. The energies
and industry of our people cannot be
suppressed by any burden. But what
utter childishness it is to insist,
in the face of the Canadian refutation
of the doctrine, that prosperity de
pends upon increase of taxation,
and that what measure of pros
perity we enjoy is due to the increase
made in 1897. The contention that the
moon is but a great, green cheese is
quite as sensible.
Joy for ths Bibulous.
"During the past two months, according
to statements made by large distillers,"
says an exchange, "there has been an un
precedented demand for all liquors, and
this is attributed to the continued excite
ment and uncertainty over the situation ln
Cuba, which induces many people to drink
more freely than usual."
A good many ingenious excuses have
been invented for over-stimulation In
the past; but the above is the most
novel as well as comprehensive excuse
ever devised. As the uncertainty refer
red to is likely to continue for a consid
erable time to come, convivial stay-at
home fighters have a perfect carnival
of dissipation before them, coupled
with a degree of domestic clemency
rarely falling to the lot of man. Here
after, on going home unsteady and
overloaded, they will need only to ex
plain that their condition is due to
"the uncertainty over the situation in
Cuba;" for the assignment of so pa
triotic a reason cannot fail to secure
forgiveness by any really loving wife.
Next to Senator Mason's eloquence, the
invention of this excuse is the most
brilliant outcome of the Spanish-Amer
ican controversy, thus far.
The Reversal of a Theory.
"The best laid plans o' mice and men
gang aft agley." The laws men frame
to regulate human conduct fail to reg
ulate as intended and regulate in a
manner wholly unintended. The com
pass by which the course of the ship
of state is to be sailed feels the divert
ing pull of occult forces and sends the
ship on a different course. The fathers
frame a constitution according to the
best light of tlie wisdom of their day
to meet the exigencies of the future,
and the silent, resistless forces of so
ciological development begin to bend
the iron frame where it will yield and
break it where it is too rigid. And so
silently is the work done that neither
its progress nor its accomplishment is
sensed until a comparison is made with
what was designed and what is accom
plished.
Among the reversals of theory that
the development of a century has
worked in the designs of the framers of
the constitution, none is more marked
than is the function of the senate.
There prevailed a profound distrust of
the capacity of the people for self-con
trol. The precedent of the growth of
government in England had made it
essential that there be one branch of
our government in which the people
should be directly represented, but in
order to put a restraint upon the prone
r.ess of the mass to yield to passion,
to prejudice; in order to guard against
the dangers of imprudent action incit
ed by appeals of demagogues, it was
thought to be imperative that a coun
terbalancing branch be formed, the se
lection of whose members should be
removed as far as possible from the
body of the people, thereby insuring
the presence of a conservative body,
uninfluenced by popular clamor, irre
sponsible to the electorate, chosen for
their eminent wisdom. Hence the sen
ate of the United States, designed to
act as a governor, preventing an ac
cumulated head of steam from driving
the machinery at a rate of speed that
would destroy it.
We are witnessing today, as we have
frequently seen in recent years, how
completely this theory has been re
versed in the development of the cen
tury of practice. For twenty-five years
it is the house that has been the con
servative body, and it is the sen
ate that has been the seat of rad
icalism. Time and again has the house
checked the impetuosity of the senate,
as it has just now in preventing that
body from invading the presidential do
main and arrogating to congress one
of its most important functions, the
recognition of the establishment of for
eign governments. This action is all
the more creditable that it was one of
self-denial, for the house would have
shared with the senate the prerogative
of which it had helped to rob the presi
dential offlce.
—The statement of receipts and ex
penditures for March brings no encour
agement to those who have been fond
ly contemplating Mr. Dingley's meas
ure as a producer of revenue. The lit
tle spasm of exultation over the di
minutive surplus of February ends in
a groan as the familiar face of the
old deficit reappears in the summary
for March. It wa s the $3,651,500 paid in
on account of the sale of the Kansas
Pacific road that prevented the deficit
from being plainly seen. The receipts
from customs, internal revenue and
miscellaneous sources, other than the
Pacific road sale, were $29,307,250, and
the expenditures were $31,882,444, leav
ing a deficiency of over $2,500,000. The
Dingley act made no changes in the
internal revenue taxes, and they show,
for the nine months of the fiscal year',
a gain of over $12,500,000 as compared
with the same period of the prior year,
while the duties, that were changed to
insure a prompt increase of revenue
and obliterate that abhorred, deficiency,
show a decrease of nearly $5,800,000
when compared with receipts from the
same source for the same time under
the former law. The increase in ex
penditure is almost wholly in the de
partments of war and navy, those for
the former for the nine months almost
exactly equaling those for tb« entire
fiscal year 1896-7, and those for the
navy about equaling those for the
fiscal year 1895-6. The announced de
termination of tire ways and means
committee to impose additional taxes
to meet war expenses gets confirma
tion from this view of the productive
ness of the present revenue law.
—The Pioneer Press yesterday print
ed on Its flrst page a very good repro
duction of the New York Press' alio
.gorlcal picture, "War;" but it would
have been journalistic courtesy, to say
the least, to -have given t|ie Press
credit for it.
— Dear Blanco, you may as well un
derstand first as last that the North
Atlantio squadron cannot be scared by
plain bluffing. You'll have to burn a
lot of gunpowder behind well-directed
bullets to make Unci* Sam's soldier
boys respect you.
"Mort" ls having some repairs put on him
self at St. Joseph's hospital. Nearly every
body ln any way coft_ected with public affairs
knows "Mort" and is familiar with his cyni
cal humor. He ls one of the oldest reporters
ln the town and was John Clark's secretary.
Ho went to the hospital a week ago, and will
be there for a week, or two yet.
People who have had occasion to call on
friends laid up ln the hospital will remember
that one of the features of the hospital room
Is the tab that lies on the table and upon
which a record is kept of the patients' con
dition from hour to hour. The pulse, temper
ature, nourishment taken, and that sort of
thing are recorded. "Mort" was presented
with a nice new tab when he came from the
operating room the othor day, and tho story
of his life ls written thereon. A friend called
on "Mort" Friday..
"How do you feel?" asked the friend.
"Well, I'll tell you," said "Mort," "you had
better not ask me, for I think I feci rotten.
Just take a look at the tab there and you'll
see how I feel according to science. The doc
tor comes In here and asks me how I am.
I'm full of pains and I tell him so. That ls,
if I have strength enough to speak. He feels
my pulso, looks at my tongue, takes a rubber
at the bulletin board there and says 'You're
all right.' Personally I'm convinced that I
have about three mluutes to live, but that
doesn't seem to cut any figure. While I'm
here I nm not as I feel but as I look on
paper. You take a pipe at the bulletin there,
if you're rea.ly looking for information."
About two weeks ago a man went Into a
Seventh street pawnbroker's place and asked
to look at some diamonds. The proprietor
was out and the shop was ln charge of a boy
of 15 or thereabouts. The man talked to the
boy a while and went out. During the fol
lowing ten days the same man put In an ap
pearance a half-dozen times, and had estab
lished quite an intimacy with the shop boy,
for he never happened to arrive when the
pawnbroker himseif was in. The other morn
ing he arrived rather early and looked at
some unmounted stones and some rings. He
picked out a ring and said to the boy:
--"Look here; I want this ring, but I don't
want to pay the price. I'll tell you what I'll
do." Ycu can nip the ring easy enough, and
the old man'll think that somebody stole It
out of the tray. You bring it to me and I'll
give you twenty and say nothing." The boy
asked where he could meet him and the man
gave an address ar.d went cut.
When ths proprietor came in the boy told
him about how a strange man had trtei to
seduce him from the path of rectitude. The
old man thought a minu'.e.
"He said he'd gif 'you'dwendy, did he?" he
remarked. "Veil, vy don'd you do bitzness
vid him? I'll fix id!" lie took the stone out
of the ring and put in a Rhinestone that
looked very much like, .it. "Tage him dat,"
he said. The boy grinned, and In a few min
utes he was back with the twenty.
"Vot did he say?"* asked the boss.
"He said that if. I ;could cop another I
could do some more business with him."
"Veil, if he gome>!ii}: bere again you sell
him one of dem gelid ' .ijjjd's for eight hucner
tollar. (t does me : fcoo4i Ikey, to sell a gold
brick to a grook." .;
Gus Pixley, the "gjjhislling tramp," ls some
thing of a joker, and na one who knows him
the least bit will hate anything to do with
him on a serious basis. One of his good
things ls to have a spool of thread In his
pocket and have the end of the thread poked
through a hole in his ccat. so that it lies
along the cloth and invites the friendly hand
to remove it The friendiy one generally buys
after he has pulled out a yard or two.
He also carries a watch chain that is a
good thing. It is endless; it Is passad through
the ring of his watch, then through a hole in
the pocket of his vest and through the but
tonhoie. It is massive, and a "dip" easily
picks Pixley out a block away.
When Gus was here, the week before last,
he spent a good deal of his time between this
town and Minneapoi ; -s t _nd_pne afternoon
when he was cominp over he landed in a
car seat with a seedy-looking person, who
was enjoying the effects of a lovely "pack
age." He saw Pixley's watch chain and cov
eted it. It looked like the real thing, and
Gus looked "soft." The crook got into con
versation with the ac'.or, and Pixley gave him
all the rope he wanted. Presently the siran
ger saw the end of the. thread on Gus' coat
and proceeded to pick it off. He had got sev
eral feet of thread roiled up before Pixiey
stopped him with the remark:
"Cheese; you're unraveling my shirt."
That made the crook think that perhaps the
man with the chain that was a good thing was
wise, but Pixley gave him the chance he was
looking for by going to sleep after a little.
And In a minute Mr. Crook had hold of tho
watch chain and started to pull on It. It
slipped through the pocket easily, and the
fellow thought it must be worth something If
It was on the square and that long. But the
watch didn't come, anS the crook got on pres
ently. He got up disgusted and Gus came to.
"Don't hurry away," said Gus. "I've got a
lovely line of spring style goid bricks, If you'd
care to look at them."
The passengers had caught on by this time,
and the "dip" didn't wait for the car to stop.
He swung himseif over the gate 3.
—The Pbillst ne.
DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL.
METROPOLITAN.
Soasons come and sea-sons go, and "The
Devil's Auction" is quite as Inevitable as
the changes In the year. It was at the Met
ropolitan last night for a single performance.
Mr. Yale ls not a-great originator, but he
keeps his show up to a good standard. There
are a number of clevor peop'e In the com
pany this year, and the specialties are better
than the average. Some of them are exceed
ingly good. The spectacular portions of the
piece are eorseous. The ballet is not very
large, but the people composing It are cap
able, and it Is a great divertisement instead
of a bore. The dancing was unusually good.
Harry M. Brown Is versatile and entertain
ing ln his specialty with Mabel Harrison.
Messrs. Colby and De Witt do a couple of
clever turns, their acrobatic work being novel
and daring. Alexander Decca does a bur
lesque trick bicycle turn that is commendably
good. Among the ladies in the company, Miss
Mayme Mayo anc" Signorina Chitlen were not
ably good In their specialties.
GRAND.
To take Marie Wainwright out of the set
ting of the .past, and frame her In the con
ventions of modern melodrama Is no easy
task, but the fault ls not hers. One cannot
divest the actress of memories of a captiva
ting Viola and an effective Rosalind, nor think
of her without at least a passing regret for a
succession of heroines ranging from Shake
speare to Dumas. And yet, seeing her ln
even so pronounced a melodrama as "Shall
We Forgive Her," presented last evening at
the Grand, one would not perhaps wish her
other than she ls. „ ' .
"Shall We Forgivp Her," it will be remem
bered, was one of, 'a series of plays given
trial productions at?' the Grand about a year
ago. It Is the onjy one that has been a
very pronounced success. Only the adequate
manner in which lt has been produced can
account for this. As r**.w material It pre
sents but little that 1*( above the level of
mediocrity. The -story Is neither unusually
novel nor unduly trite. There is a hero who
ls an insufferable moral cad and a heroine
who, while not thel colcarleas creation of the
average melodrama, has little of opportunity
beyond the emotional distress without which
the play would not} b-e true to type. There
are the inevitable juvenile lovera, a vigorous
parson, who ls the only real man In the
story, and the necessary! vllllan, quite as Im
possible in one way as Is the clergyman ln
another. Two characters only are out of the
ordinary— a plotting woman masking under
the cloak of religion, Involving a number ot
unnecessary slurs at the things most people
hold sacred, and o motherly old person quite
as likable as the other ls trying.
Out of this slender material, commonplace,
where lt la not below the level, either ln a
negative or a positive way, competent treat
meat alone has produced a result that Is
worthy serious consideration.
Miss Wainwright as tbe heroine, a woman
who haa sinned rather through Innocence
thaa through latent and who has attoned by
the noble effort of an honest life, gives to the
part a womanliness that, by Its ability ln
art, robs ths rols of Its characteristic com
monplaceness. Edward Mawson, as the hero,
handicapped as he ls by tho author, lends to
the part all the manliness and vigor that the
lines and story will allow to even decided
ability. Gertrude Whltty, aa the plotting
Joanna, can hope to reap only tlie scorn of
the gallery as a reward for a strong and
consistent creation, and that the harvest ls
abundant may be taken as proof that her
labor ls not in vain. Mrs. Gonzales, as the
motherly Aunt Martha; Nestor Lennon, aa
the parson, and G. B. Post, as Stapleton, the
friend of the hero, all fill their roles ln a
more than acceptable manner.
The efforts of Miss Wainwright and tho
supporting company are proof that a poor
play may he made acceptable if adequate
care ls given -to Its presentation. One can
not quarrel with the story of a melodrama.
Its Impossibilities and Its oddities must be
accepted. When one is willing to do this ln
the caso of "Shall We Forgive Her," and re
member only that it ls presented by a com
petent cast, It may be set down. In a word,
as one of the best productions of Its kind
that St. Paul has seen In many days.
"ShalJ We Forgive Her" will be at the
Grand during the week.
DANZ CONCERT.
Mr. Danz's concert yesterday afternoon at
the Metropolitan was a musical treat. The
audience was fairly large and obviously dis
criminating. The programme was essen
tially one that would only appeal to the cul
tivated taste, and lt was generously applaud
ed. It was worthy of note that the audience
was actually enthusiastic only when Mr.
Danz directed his men through the national
anthem at the close of the regular pro
gramme. With the exception of this and the
flrst number the programme was foreign and
classical to a degree.
A march by Mrs. Ida Groff, a St. Paul
composer of considerable gifts, was the flrst
number, and was heard for the flrst time In
public. It ls very effective, musiclanly In
its rhythmic accentuation, and with plenty of
spirit. It was finely rendered and made a dis
tinct hit with a body of people who are prone
to regard marches as a necessary sop to the
uninitiated ln music.
The Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 was given with
that precision and expression which is pe
culiar to Mr. Danz's orchestra — at least In
this part of the country. It was beautifully
done, and was heartily applauded.
Liszt's "Rhapsodic No. 2" was perhaps the
most gratifying to the ear of anything on
the programme. It ls tuneful, melodic, snd
has nothing of the pedantic in music about
it. It relieved the somewhat heavy pro
gramme to a marked extent.
The "Carmen" suite might have been re
ceived with more warmth but for the dis
tinctly Spanish character of the flrst part.
It Is by far the prettiest part of the suite,
but the audience was not in the mood to
applaud anything so thoroughly Spanish.
A Wagnerian transcription from "Lohen
grin," by Dupont, furnished undoubted pleas
ure to the Wagnerian devotees— and there
were evidently plenty of them ln the house.
It was given with great spirit and effect
The Tschalkowsky overture "Sollenelle,"
with which the programme closed, was re
markable in its coloring, and demonstrated
the capacity of the orchestra in producing
those effects that may be considered the
climax of musical attainment in tone blend
ing. It was a revelation to many of the
audience not familiar with the work of Mr.
Danz's orchestra.
The sole attempt at characteristically pop
ular music was the playing of "America"
at the close. The full programme follows:
March— "St. Paul Dispatch" Ida Groff
Overture— "Festival"— (On German
Folk Songs) Lessen
"Peer Gynt. Suite No. 2".. Grieg
a. Abduction of the Bride.
b. Arabian Dance.
c. Return of Peer Gynt.
d. Solvejg's Songs.
"Rhapscdie No. 2" Liszt
Suite — "Carmen"— No. 2 Bizet
a. Habanera.
b. Nocturno.
c. Finale (Danse Boheme).
a. "Whispering Flowers" F. yon Blon
■• b. "Ach Bltte Noch Elnen Walzer"—
Ellenberg
(String Orchestra.)
"Lohengrin"— Transcription Sym
phonlque Wagner-Dupont
Concert Waltz— "Village Swallows"—
_ Strauss
Overture Sollenelle— "1812". ..Tschalkowsky
Orchestra, Organ, Chimes and Drum Corps.
Previous jVssaults on Havana.
From the Chicago Record.
The prospect that Havana may soon be
under bombardment recalls the fact that the
city has suffered several similar attacks since
it was founded in 1519. As early as 1538 the
town underwent its flrst siege, and was re
duced to ashes by a French privateer. Eigh
teen years later tho French again attacked
the town and almost destroyed it. So long
ago as 1600 the Spanish government thought
it necessary to erect the Morro castle and
Punta fortresses, which are still in existence.
French, English and Dutch alike menaced
the city, and there was no little danger from
pirates. About the middle of the seventeenth
century it was determined to build the walls
which still answer for the fortifications of the
island. But the first actual investment and
capture of Havana by the landing of troops
occurred in 1762, when a British fleet under
Lord Albemarle took possession of the city.
There were fuily 200 vessels in the attacking
fleets, and these carried an army of 14,000
men, as against the Spanish army o£ 27,000.
After the payment of a large sum the island
was restored to the Spaniards in the follow
ing year.
If Havana is to be taken again it will be
but a repetition, therefore, of three previous
capitulations, the capture effected by the
British in 1762 being by far the most Im
portant. The destruction at that time was
by no means so severe, in proportion, as that
in the earlier assaults under the French,
when the town was practically annihilated.
There was a stubborn defense, however, and
the city finally surrendered only after mili
tary operation lasting from June 6 to July 30.
But both the town and its fortifications still
stood at the time of capitulation. The guns
and the naval equipments of that time, of
course, were mere toys as compared with the
enormously destructive weapons of modern
Jlmes.
Leaves a Danxer in the Rear.
From the Philadelphia Record.
While it is a matter of congratulation and
pride that the government can swing the
United States troops from Arizona and New
Mexico to the Atlantic seaboard in a few
days, the cattle raisers in those regions are
not delighted with the prospect. In Ntw
Mexico alone there are 38,000 Apaches, most
of whom have grievances against the settlers;
and the latter would be at their mercy shouid
the troops be called away. The cattlemen
have accordingly laid the matter before the
war department. The contingency had ap
parently not been thought of ln Washington;
but It is one which the government will have
to face, and for which it will have to make
provision.
Lee at Grant's Funeral.
From the New York Times.
Without doubt Fitzhugh Lee ls.a very typi
cal Virginian, and even more clearly he is'
the popular Idol of the hour. He was a gal
lant soldier, and It would be hard to say
that Virginia has had a better governor since
the war. But his national popularity dates
from his appearance in New York at the
funeral of Gen. Grant fifteen years ago. As
the only member of Gen. Hancock's staff ln
civilian's dress he was necessarily a conspic
uous figure in that memorable procession,
( ,and he was "conspicuous also by his impres
sive presence and his masterly horsemanship.
It was the chivalrous impulse that had led
the nephew of Robert E. Lee to appear ln
person to pay the last honors to the vic
torious commander of the Union army that
touched the popular Imagination and made
his election the same year to the governor
ship of Virginia a matter of national con
gratulation.
Tliis Yarn Has Scales on It.
From the Nobles County Democrat.
As an Illustration of one of the peculiari
ties of the civil service laws It is stated that
a man who had successful y managed a large
mercantile business and acquired therein a
fortune, was turned down in the examination
because he wrote "sox" for sacks, and when
his attention was called to the error changed
lt by writing "soxes."
He's "a Injla Rubber Ijtot."
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
The friends of Cuban independence ar* now
singing:
Rubens, Rubens, we've been thinking.
What a fins world this would be.
If the focls were ail transported
Far beyond the Northern sa*.
BEAT CREW TO QUARTERS
EXCITING INCIDENT ON THE
NEW YOKK
Chose of a War Vessel "Which It Was
Believed Waa the Vlzcaya, bnt
Proved to Be the Italian Giovanni
Bausan Rear Admiral Su.up
won Gets Ills First Salute From
a Foreigner.
Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.
ON BOARD THE FLAGSHIP NEW
YORK, OFF HAVANA, April 23, 2 p.
m. (Filed Key West, midnight, April
23.)— The Puritan, Nashville, Marble
head and Ericsson arrived from Key
West this morning. The Ericsson al
most lmimediately returned to Key
West with dispatches. At 10 o'clock
this morning the monitor Puritan, the
cruiser Cincinnati, the gunboats Ma
chias, Nashville, Oastine and Newport
and the torpedo boats Foote and Win
slow left the squadron to blockade Ma
tanzas, Mariel and Cardenas. They
formed separate divisions, and after
they had passed out of sight the re
mainder of the fleet took up a regular
formation, having drifted some fifteen
miles from Morro Castle. The general
advance was made at half speed. Capt.
Evans, not quite certain of the position
he was entitled to take with the lowa,
caught up abreast of the flagship, and
shouted through the megaphone: "How
near may I go?" Rear Admiral Samp
son, who was standing on the after
bridge, replied: "As near as yovk. can
without drawing the Are of the bat
teries."
"All right," Capt. Evans shouted
back in tones that expressed the keen
est disappointment. The lowa then
went ahead.
About half an hour after the squad
ron was well under way, the cruiser
Cincinnati was seen on the Eastern
horizon, the smoke pouring from her
funnels. She had been headed for Ma
tanzas and evidently had turned back
HAVANA BLOCKADING SQUADRON, W. T. SAMPSON, COMMANDING.
Officers
Ship. Cass. Armament. and
men.
lowa Ist class battleship 4 12-lnch and 28 500
_^ ' smaller guns.
Indiana Ist class battleship 4 13 -'nch and 30 465
smaller guns.
Amphltrite " * W-»nch i__l _^~
monltor - smaller guns.
Mlantonomah * »»
monltor - smaller guns.
New York Armored, cruiser. 6 8-inch and 28 56S
I smaller guns.
Cincinnati Protected Cruiser. 10 5-lnch and 13 312
smaller guns.
Montgomery Cruiser. 9 5 - ln ch and 10 274
smaller guns.
Castlne Gunboat 8 4 " inch and 10 154
smaller guns.
Machias Gunboat 8 4-inch and 8 152
smaller guns.
Vesuvius Dynamite cruiser. 3 15 -' nch dynamite 70
■■ guns. 3 3-pounders.
Dupont Torpedo boat. 4 *-"■■*«■ and 3 16
torpedo tubes.
Foote Torpedo boat, 3 i-Pounders and 3 20
torpedo tubes.
Porter Torpedo beat. 4 1-pounders and 3 20
torpedo tubes.
Winslow Torpedo boat. 3 --"Pounders and 3 Tfl
torpedo tubes.
Mayflower Torpedo boat destroyer 15 °
— I pedo tubes.
to chase some vessel. The object of
her pursuit was soon made out, stand
ing well in toward the coast. The flag
ship, the cruiser Marblehead and the
gunboat Wilmington immediately turn
ed out of course to head the warship
off. The remainder of the squadron
proceeded to the westward. Smoke
poured from our ships. The flagship
xvas making eighteen knots, the whole
vessel throbbing with the vibrations cf
her twin screws. The little Wilming
ton st-?amed up in splendid style and
the fast cruiser Marblehead kept near
ly abreast. The formidable trio bore
down upon the warship. Then a shout
went up:
"She Is a Spaniard."
For the next ten minutes the ex
citement was terrific. The distance
which separated the vessels rendered it
impossible to make out the warship's
Identity. She was thought to be the
Vizcaya or the Almirante Oauend-v
heading hard for Havana.
The men at the guns shouted with
glee. The stokers off duty below
cheered vociferously and begged to be
allowed to go on deck to help shoot
at the first armed enemy met. The
officers crowded on the quarter deck,
as elated as the men, though under
better control. The bugler blew "gen
eral quarters." All hands flew to their
posts. Down came the shrouds with a
rattle. The life lines vanished from
the deck. Rear Admiral Sampson,
standing on the bridge, said deliberate
ly to Capt. Chadwick, "Yes, the
Oquendo or the "Vizcaya," and then
added: "I should like to bag them
both."
Then it was seen that the chase was
flying an Italian flag. But this was no
proof that behind her still invisible
guns Spaniards were not concyaled,
ready to shoot under advantage of
subterfuge. All the guns on the New
York's port side and in the forward
and after turrets were trained on the
stranger. A few minutes later, wh?n
about 1.500 yards separated the New-
York from her target, the American
flag was run up by the warship, and
then it was known she was not a Span
iard.
First Salute.
A puff of smoke issued from her
sides, and the boom of a gun sounded
across the waters. It was only a sa
lute, but at first many on board
thought Rear Admiral Sampson had
been deceived.
But the warship flred fifteen guns
as a salute, which was returned by the
flagship, whiah also flew an Italian
flag. The stranger was then made out
to be the Giovanni Bausan, a powerful
cruiser. Without further formalities,
she pursued her course and entered
Havana harbor.
Thus an exciting incident ended in
disappointment, but it served to show
how anxious all hands are for a real
fight, and how splendid the discipline
is when a contingency seems imminent
The salute of the Giovanni Bausan
had scarcely been returned before a
schooner was seen on the coast. The
torpedo boat Porter, which had been
following close to the flagship, was dis
patched to capture her. The Porter
fairly flew through tihe water, and,
after a few shots flred from her one
pounder, the schooner Mathilde hove
to. Capt. Fremont did his work well
and quickly. When he towed the Ma
thilde back to the flagship, it was
found she was from Sierra Morena,
east of Cardenas, and bound for Ha
vana, laden with sugar and manned
by Spanish naval reserve men, thus
proving quite a good prize. The cap
tain^ of the schooner was brought on
board, and the Mathilde was towed
back to Key West by the Dauntless.
The New York, later in the afternoon,
rejoined the squadron, and a vigilant
patrol was kept up at a distance of
from six to ten miles from El Morro.
The castle and the surrounding forti
fications could be plainly seen, without
glasses, from the flagship while the
capture of the schooner and the prepa
rations for fight were ln progress..
The monitor Terror arrived from Key
West this afternoon.
Spanish Ironclad Sail*.
TOULON, France, April 24.— The old Span
ish ironclad Numancla, which has been un
der repairs for months past at the Laseyne
shipyards, started yesterday for Barcelona
under sealed orders. Her repairs not being
completed, she was towed by the Spanish
steamer Cabonao from Marseilles, starting ln
the darkness In order to escape observation.
CONDKMVATION OF PRIZES.
Method of Procedure Beinjg Thor
oughly Looked I ,-.
WASHINGTON, April 24.— Secretary
Long has received from Admiral Samp
son dispatches telling of the capture of
several Spanish merchantmen which
are to be held as prizes and to
be disposed of according to law, if
the protests made against such seizures
are held to be without ground. Judge
Advocate General Lemley, the law of
ficer of the navy department, has been
looking up the statutes on the subject
and ls prepared to assist the secretary
ln any way necessary.
The law provides* that the condem
nation proceedings in the matter of
prize vessels shall be conducted under
the supervision of the district courts.
It is made the duty of the command
ing officer of the vessel making a cap
ture to secure the documents of the
ship and cargo and send them, to
gether with certain witnesses from the
captured vessel to the district court in
which the proceedings for the distribu
tion of the prize money are to be
had. The attorney for the United States
is to promptly flle a libel against the
prize property and take other proceed
ings necessary. The evidence Is to be
taken by prize commissaries, not ex
ceeding three in number, one of whom
is to be a retired naval officer, and at
least one of the others a member of
the bar of the court, of not less than
three years' standing, and acquainted
with the taking of depositions.
If the sale of the prize is ordered
the gross proceeds are to be deposited
with the assistant treasurer of th«
SS lm i t S - at the place nearest to
the sale subject to the order of the
court The court is to make a decree
of distribution determining wLtvel!
fv-li^ 1 " 6 \Z Share in the P"ze, and
whether the prize was of superior
equal or inferior force to the vessel 0 .
vessels making the capture. The net
nrf.Tlf n f a „ _«>»«** condemned H
prize shall, when the prize was of su
™«°? ° r Ual force to the vessel or
vessels making the capture, be decreed
to the captors. This provision was evi
dently put in the law with a view to
encouraging vessel captains to exert
their greatest effort when meeting a
foe of superior or of equal strength
as the same section of the law provides
that when the prize vessel was of
inferior force to the captors, one-half
of the net proceeds Is to be decreed to
the L nited States and the other half
to the captors. In cases where the
amount in controversy exceeds $2 000
appeals may be taken to the supreme
court.
NEW YORK AND ST. LOUIS IN.
Present Crews Signed for War Duty
Neither ot the Boat* lo De Ar
mored.
NEW YORK. April 21.-The Ameri
can line steamship New York arrived
today, but she brought neither pas
sengers, mail nor cargo. The New York
experienced heavy weather through
out, but otherwise had an uneventful
voyage. Her officers and crew at no
time feared being intercepted by any
Spanish war vessels. She carries a.
crew of about 400, all told, including
Capt. Passow and Chief Officer Brad
shaw. As soon as the ocean liner was
moored alongside her pier, all hands
were paid off. Capt. Passow, his of
ficers and such of the other members
of the crew as desired to serve on the
ship under the new conditions \v*-re
signed immediately by Deputy I'nited
States Shipping Commissioner Baer
Each of the men signed articles with
the American line company, and not
with "Uncle Sam." These articles w**re
twelve months' term, to go anywhere
or everywhere. The wages agreed upon
were the current merchant marine
rate paid by the International Navi
gation company, but the latter orally
agree to pay each officer, engineer fire
man, seaman, etc., a bonus of 50 per
cent 'for good conduct at the termi
nation of the period signed for."
All but ten members of the crew
signed, and these ten wanted higher
wages.
"The crew will wear the American
line uniform," said Manager Griscom,
"and neither the New York nor St.
Louis is to be altered, so far as i
know.
"I believe that neither the New
York, St. Louis nor Paris is to be ar
mored for protection, nor, so far as I
can learn, are they to be heavily armed
but this is mere conjecture on my
part"
Out of the 420 officers and men com
prising the crew of the American liner
St. Louis, which arrived here last
night, only seven refused to sign arti
cles when requested to do so when
they were paid off. Deputy United
States Shipping Commissioner Baer
said today that 413 men have signed
articles for twelve months with the
American line to sail "anywhere and
everywhere and no place in particu
lar," as the commissioner expressed it.
The company agrees to pay a bonus of
50 per cent for good conduct, in addi
tion to the regular wages, at the expi
ration of the contracts.
Not All the French With Spnlu.
PARIS, April 24.— At the instance of Michael
Davitt. member of the British parliament for
South Mayo, Henri Rochefort has cabled to
John T. Morgan, United States senator from
Alabama, declaring that the assertion that
all Frenchmen and the entire French press
•re on the side of Spain Is erroneous.
On the contrary, the editor ot L'lntransl
geant asserts that all the French Republicans
sympathize with the Cubans and their liber
ate r»