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the Morning, Afternoon, or Sunday stand in Washington, in suburban will confer a favor by notifying Tenth and Washington, D. C. TIME FOR AN INVESTIGATION. For a long time it has been charged that the people of the District of Columbia have borne more than their share of the expenses which, under the organic compact with the General Government, should have been apportioned equally. It is gratifying to note that Senator Stewart has taken action to have the matter cleared up.

At this juncture. when Washingtonians are entering upon an era of expansion and beautification that necessitate the provision of large sums of money. it i is most proper will that there should be an investigation of the financial relations of the District and the General Government. And if it be discovered that the Government owes the District money, there is no better time for its payment. There can be no legitimate objection to Senator Stewart's resolution calling for an inquiry.

Congress, we should think, would be glad to have the question settled. The people of the Capital are more than anxious to know just where they stand under the law of 1878. If it is discovered that the Government has paid its just share of the money for the support of this governmental headquarters, well and good. intelligent report on the question will at least clarify a situation and put an end to a controversy that has caused considerable irritation. THEIR FEELINGS ARE HURT.

The news from Prussia is heartrending. Junkerdom has been wounded In its tenderest spot, and by no less a person than him who was once known as Prussia's foremost Junker, King William 11. German Emperor. The hardshell. moss-back aristocracy of the kingdom cries out aloud over the condescension, even friendly consideration--nay, the ostentatious hospitalityshown by the Kaiser to the German "captains of industry." He has had them as his guests on his recent pleasure cruise; he has dined and wined them, and cracked jokes with them as well as nuts.

And all this time the poor Junker wasn't visible to the naked eye in the entourage of his august sovereign. Is it to be wondered at that Junkerdom feels. outraged, trampled upon, despised, and forsaken? -Of course not. In order to appreciate the state of mind of these gentry it must be borne in mind that they have been wont to regard themselves as the very elect of the human race. Outside of their circle they saw only creatures who were put into the world to minister to their physical wants mere hewers of wood and drawers of water.

Merchants were there to buy from and owe to; bankers to borrow from and be paid when it suited the pleasure of the borrower; peasants to till the fields for the benefit and profit of the titled proprietor, who probably squandered the wealth thus gained while the poor peasant had barely the commonest necessities for himself and his family. There are exceptions, of course, but as a whole the picture is not overdrawn. And now the lord and master of them all. horribile dietu, has caused the light of his countenance to shine upon this "plebs vulgus;" has permitted the despised plebeians to bask in the glory of his presence: has called a plain, everyday American "Bill," and done sundry and diverse other things to carry grief to the innermost depths of the Junker heart. It is dreadful.

It is pitiful. It is too terrible to contemplate without a real shudder. ADULTERATION OF FOODSTUFFS. The adulteration of food is a matter with which it is pre-eminently fit that Congress should deal. It is not a question which can be settled by State Legislatures or private effort, even when the latter is well organized.

It is a thing for Federal legislation. If these adulterations are prohibited in only a part of the United States there will be hundreds of devices for evading the law. It was once said, in explanation of the text "He that breaketh one commandment, the same is guilty of that the commandments were like a fence, and when one-tenth was broken the fence might as well not be there. However this may apply to poor human nature in dealing with the Decalogue, it certainly does apply with great force to laws against food adulteration. It will not do to leave a loophole anywhere, either in the framing of the law or its enforcement, and though the task of enforcing general legislation on this matter may not be easy, it will be entirely possible to make the businees of the adulterators so uncomfortable and unprofitable that they will abandon it and turn their inventive genius into more legitimate channels.

It is probable that if as much thought had been given to the cheap ufacture of good coffee, and flour, and tinned meats as has been given to the foisting of an inferior quality on the public the pure goods could have been made about as cheaply as the inferior product now is. It costs something to put together even an unhealthy compound. However that may be, it is entirely clear that the public cannot safely eat bread made of flour which is largely made of white earth, or drink coffee which is not coffee, or indulge in tinned meats which are spoiled or poisoned by badly made cans. It is quite time that something was done about this by Congress, and that Congress should keep at the problem until it is finally and satisfactorily solved. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

Cause and Effect. Syracuse Evening Herald--The price of roast beef sandwiches was raised 5 cents in the Senate and House restaurants at Washington the other day, and yesterday Congress was asked to investigate the increase in the price of meats. Of coursc, it may be only a coincidence. The Kaiser and the Junkers. Pittsburg Dispatch--The aristocracy of Germany intend to remind the Emperor that their claims to precedence over the were moneymakers rest upon the same basis as his own right to rule.

Possibly he had overlooked that when be adopted the American idea of placing the captains of industry in the front rank. Sauce for the Gander. Pittsburg Chronicle- army are not permitted to talk back, Senators should refrain from calling them The Limit. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune -The Beef Trust may separate the mint from the lamb, but it is ineffective to Injure the manufacture and consumption of the fragrant julep. Political Contagion.

Los Angeles Express--With General Miles looking to the Presidency, General Brocke aspiring to the governorship of Pentaylvania, and General Shafter making -goo eyes at the executive position of California, it seems that 1 military politics may become epidemic. Properly Classified. Chicago Tribune--When Congressman Cushman sprang suddenly into promisence the public waited for the announcement that be was born in Iowa--and it THE TIMES, WASHINGTON, MONDAY. APRIL. 28.

1902. THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF FIRES IN THE DISTRICT. By ROBERT W. DUTTON, Chief of the Fire Department. The greater number of fires in the District are caused by carelessness.

The easiest way to prevent conflagrations is to be more careful. To be more explicit: If the people of the District were very much more careful in the care of their premises the number of fires during the year would be materially less. A great many people are prone to leave waste paper and rubbish in many places, thinking it out of the way, and dust is allowed to accumulate in many places to such an extent that i it becomes a menace to property because of the danger of spontaneous combustion. The greater amount of such trash that is removed from houses with frequency as a natural sequence largely decreases the liability of fires. The establishment of a public crematory for the burning of waste and rubbish has, I am satisfied, decreased in no small way the liability from fires.

Now that the winter has gone and there are not so many fires kept burning in the houses, another cause for danger has been removed. Many householders have a habit of putting hot ashes in wooden receptacles, and this has caused much damage. This has been avoided to a large extent by the regulation requiring metal ash cans, but there is still room for improvement. Fully 15 per cent of the fires during the past year have been caused by the use of gasoline. The use of this as fuel in the summer time particularly is increasing yearly and the traffic in it grows correspondingly.

It is admitted to be one of the most treacherous of inflammable oils, it being contended that its explosive power is double that of gunpowder. Every dealer that sells gasoline should furnish a printed set of instructions to every purchaser, describing just how it should be used, and even under these conditions I would strongly urge, if fires are to be vented, that as little of it be used as possible. TARIFF SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM BEEF IF IT IS SCARCE. By Senator CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, of New York.

The advance in the price of meats works a great hardship upon the working classes of cur country. To them meat is among the necessaries of life, not a luxury, as among the poorer classes of Europe. It is contended that the advance is due to scarcity and not to the manipulations of a trade combination. If that contention is correct, then the tariff should immediately be removed from all meats. It is my conviction that food products should be made as plentiful and as cheap as possible, and relief from the objectionable conditions should be found at once and in any direction which would offer a prompt solution.

I have heard many explanations of the advance in meat prices, but am not prepared to express any opinion at present other than that I would advocate the removal of tariff restrictions on the importations of meats if scarcity exists. UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME. Brother Against Brother. There are prospects of an interesting campaign this fall the First Congressional district Maryland, where off the indications are that brother will be pitted against brother for the honor of representing the Eastern Shore constituency. The present representative is Hon.

W. H. Jackson, who is again to be a candidate on the Republican ticket, and it is predicted that his opponent will be his brother, ex-Gov. E. E.

Jackson. Under normal conditions the district is close, and it is said that this year, owing to the conditions which prevail, the former governor will have somewhat the advantage of his brother. Representative Jackson was himself once a Democrat, but went over to. the Republican fold several years ago, and his new political associates honored him with a seat in Congress. Two years ago it is said Governor Jackson might have had the Democratic nomination, but he preferred not to run against his brother.

Now he is believed to have put aside that frateral feeling sufficient to cross swords in political combat with Representative Jackson. Both men are wealthy and popular in their district, and in case they are rivals for Congressional honors there is promise of a lively campaign. Always Ready to Oblige. When Gen. Joe Wheeler of Alabama was in Congress, and he could have been in in Congress it was said of him that he personally nearly every voter his district.

Futhermore. there was no more popular man in the State of Alabama than the doughty little general. One reason for his great personal hold on his constituents was the fact that he never neglected to answer promptly a letter from the most humble voter in his district, and the farmers were never neglected when it came to the distribution of seeds and public documents. And this applies with full force to Representative D. Linn Gooch, of the Sixth Congressional district of Kentucky.

Mr. Gooch has by far the hearlest mail of any member of the Kentucky delegation, and in order to keep up with his correspondence, and send out seeds and public documents, he requires the assistance of two clerks and stenographers, in addition to his private secretary. The member from the Sixth Kentucky district never allows the documents issued from time to time to accumulate in the docu- The Revival of Lace-Making. The making of Irish lace was revived a few years ago by a titled Englishwoman, Just in time to save it from becoming utterly lost. When the lady sought for teachers of the art she could find only a few old peasant women who knew the intricate crochet stitches, and she immediately engaged them to teach some bright young Irish girls all that they knew.

She then established a depot for the product of their industry, and made it known among her friends that genuIne Irish lace could be obtained there. The demand has grown until it exceeds the supply. If the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one was before is a benefactor to the human race, surely the woman who saves a valuable art from extinction is much more of a benefactor. If there is one thing which is badly needed in these days of consolidation and machinery, it is a market for handiwork of a semiartistic order. The great disadvantage of machine work, from a broadly economic point of view, is that it is apt to degrade the intelligence of the worker.

Nobody can repeat the same motion day after day, month after month, year after year, for the greater part of his waking hours, and not deteriorate in mental capacity, unless he has some outside interest to relieve the monotony. Hence the unions are right in demanding short hours for such work, that the laborer may have time and strength for developing himself outside the factory. In hand work of the old-time kind the same objection does not exist 1n 50 great a degree. There 18 more variety in It, and it can be done home, where other interests and thoughts are combined with those of labor. La lace- making, basket -making, embroidery, and such work, there is also a field for the designer.

Such arte should be preserved whenever and wherever it -is possible to do it. DOINGS IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY. The Admiral of the Navy and Mrs. Dewey to Spend the Summer at Hot Springs, Va. Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh to Entertain at Dinner in Honor of the French Ambassador ador-Col. and Mrs. Clarence Edwards Sail for Europe- Assistant Secretary of State Hill Entertains at Dinner.

Admiral and Mrs. Dewey. Word comes from Hot Springs, that the Admiral of the Navy and Mrs. Dewey will arrive there in May to spend the summer at one of the hotel cottages. Dinner in Honor of M.

Cambon. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, who will sail for Europe on May 22, will give a dinner in honor of the French ambassador and Mme.

Cambon, on May 7. Sailed for Europe. Col. and Mrs. Clarence R.

Edwards sailed for Europe Saturday to spend the summer at one of the German resorts in the hope of restoring the former's health. Quiet Home Wedding. Luella Farmer, of Palo Alto, and Mr. Bristow Adams, of this city, were married last Wednesday at the home of the groom's mother, Mrs. A.

G. Adams. 947 Rhode Island Avenue. Mr. Elmer Farmer.

of Pittsfleld, gave his sister away. Mr. Wallace Adams acted as best man and Miss Edith Adams, in white mull over pink, was the attendant maid. The wedding gown was of white silk mull with belt and stock of white panne. Mr.

and Mrs. Adams will be at home to friends after May 15, at the Mariboro, Le Droit Park. Gone to Los Angeles. Mrs. Mary S.

Lockwood left on Friday morning for Los Angeles. to attend the meeting of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Mra. Lockwood 1s a m.ember of the exccutive board and chairman of the charter committee. Entertained at Dinner.

The dinner guests entertained by the Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs. and Mrs. minister from Hill were Justice Saturday, evening. Brazil and Mme. Assis-Brasil, the Arst secretary of the Mexican embassy and Mme.

Godoy, Senator and Mrs. Gallinger, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Bell, Mr.

and Mrs. George Whitfield Brown, Dr. and Mrs. Chatard, Mr. and Mrs.

Clifford Walton, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Walcott. Amateur Comedy Club.

Child Labor in Factories. The governor of New Jersey has had his attention called to the fact that children of tender years are working in glass factories, against the law and very much against the interests of the home, and it is refreshing to find that he intends to stop this practice if it is a possible thing. He says that he means that every child in the State shall go to school at least a part of the time, and that the conditions in question shall be investigated at the earliest possible day. The trouble seems to be that most of the people who thus condemn their children to long hours of labor and to future illiteracy are foreigners, and desperately poor. It is hard for them to do without the extra money which tl.

child brings in. There is nothing abhorrent to them in the practice, and it is difficult to explain to them wherein they are doing their children harm. This question of the labor of women and children in factories is one which will have to be settled for good before long. The fight over the same problem occurred in England some seventy-five years ago, and settled it for all time there. Now we are encountering almost exactly the same conditions, with a few complications, in this country.

Though the two are usually bracketed together, from the fact that both compete with men's labor, women's work and that of children come under different heads. The objection to women's work in various departments of industry will probably hare to be overcome unless the whole factory system is to be destroyed. Women, except those who are married and have small children needing their care, are likely to form a permanent factor in the industrial world, as. in fact, they lave always done. The difference is that a hundred years ago a woman could engage in a variety of manufactures at home and thereby earn or save some money, and now she cannot.

Her work pays better nowadays when done outside the home: it used to pay better when done in the home. Almost all the former home industries have disappeared, and they are going to stay disappeared, unless there should be a reactionary movement tending to the distribution of work prepared in the factory to be done at home. Child labor is an entirely different matter. A factory girl of from sixteen to twenty-five fills a definite place in the social economy; she is self-supporting, as she could not be at home: she learns business habits and the care of money; and she generally marries quite as soon as her sister in the more sheltered life, and on the whole. perhaps, as well.

But in the case of children under sixteen demoralization takes place. Their physical growth 1s stunted; they contract various diseases, moral and physical; they are deprived of education, and thereby become the dangerous factor which illiteracy always is in the State, and they compete with the labor of adults, so that wages are lowered and the work cheapened in quality, for it stands to reason that a child of ten does not give as intelligent service as a boy of eighteen or twenty. The whole business is wrong, and there is dire need of legislation on the subject. The laws should be so framed by raising the age limit that they cannot be evaded. At present children of ten are in the factory, the parents declaring them twelve.

If the age limit were sixteen the child would have a chance to get its growth, and unless remarkably mature could not be foisted upon the inspectors at the age of thirteen or fourteen. Above all, Inspection should be rigid and the laws should be strictly enforced. Ocean Steamship Movements. NEW YORK, April St. Louis, Southampton; Umbria, Liverpool; Ryndam, Rotterdam; British Empire, Antwerp.

Arrived out: Friedrich der Grosse, from New York, at Cherbourg, A brilliant audience assembled Saturday night at National Rifles Armory Hall to witness the performance by the Amateur Comedy Club of New York, who came here in the interest of the Girls' Friendly Holiday House, which is supported by many of the most prominent restdents and society leaders here. Miss Satterlee, daughter of the Bishop of Washington; Miss Feraker, Miss Glover, and Miss Ashton are the committee in charge, and the patronesses were Lady Pauncefote, Mrs. Satterlee, Mrs. Elkins, Mrs. Lodge, Mrs.

Foraker, Mrs. Wetmore, Miss Kean, Mrs. Boardman, and Mrs. Richard Townsend. The performance of the Comedy Club, which met with enthusiastic applause, consisted of a comedietta from the French, "A Game of Cards;" a dramatic episode, "Colonel Carteret," and a oneact comedy, "Withered Leaves." Those taking part were Mr.

Evert Jansen Wendell. Mr. Jacob Wendell, Mr. Morris Underhill, Mr. F.

E. Camp, Mr. J. T. Conover, Miss Pauline Cory, and Miss Marie Livingstone.

GOSSIP AND CHAT HEARD IN WASHINGTON HOTEL LOBBIES ment room, but as soon as they are placed to his credit he draws them and forwards them to such of his constituents who have written him on the subject, or whom he thinks would want this or that particular publication. He takes a keen interest in this work and derives much pleasure from it. No constituent has ever written him for a public document but that it went out in the next mail. It was just such work as this that made Gen. Joe Wheeler invincible in his district while in Congress.

And Mr. Gooch is doing the same thing for himself. Ice Cream Half a Century Old. other day while walking up Ninth Street I saw a sign that at once arrested my remarked Representative James MeAndrews of Illinois, yesterday. sign read: 'Blank's ice cream; since of it! Ice cream a half century old! I was tempted to go in and buy some, just for the novelty.

I never knew before that you could keep ice cream in a condition to eat for more than twentyhours, but it seems I've been mistaken. I'll bet the owner has a patent on the process. He ought to make an exhibit of that ice cream at the St. Louis Exposition. I do not believe it a good scheme to advertise the age of anything to eat, especially ice cream, and if I had been ignorant of that fact I would have no doubt made a purchase." Representative Pearre a "Fan." Representative Pearre of Maryland has never lost his enthusiasm for baseball, and he is today as fond of the great national game as he was more than twenty years ago, when he was regarded as one of the best collegiate players in the country.

He was for two seasons the crack pitcher of the Princeton team, and WOR fame for himself and old Nassau by his very effective work in the box. It is even said that he thought of entering the professional field, but this idea did not remain with him long, if he ever gave it serious consideration, for he entered upon a law course and was admitted to the bar soon after he left college. His hands even to this day bear the scars and bumps which he received upon the diamond. Whenerer his official duties will permit him, Mr. Pearre makes it a point to witness the professional games in Washington and sometimes in Baltimore.

Ye Old Time Poet's Corner. By Eugene F. Ware, Commissioner of Pensions. 1 see the spire, I see the throng, I hear the choir, I hear the song; listen to the anthem while It pours its volume down the aisle; I listen to the splendid rhyme That with a melody sublime Tells of some far -off, fadeless climeOf man and his finality, Of hope and immortality. 0, theme of themes! Are men mistaught? Are hopes 1 like dreams, To come to naught? Is all the beautiful and good Delusive and misunderstood? And has the soul no forward reach? And do, indeed, the facts impeach The theories the teachers teach? And is this immortality Delusion or reality? What hope reveals Mind tries to clasp, But soon it reels With broken grasp.

No chain yet forged on anvil's brink Was stronger than its weakest link; And do not arguments maintain That many links along the chain Cannot resist a reason strain? is not immortality The child of ideality? And yet-at timesWe get advice That seems like chimes From paradise; The soul doth sometimes seem to be In sunshine which it cannot see; At times the spirit seems to roam Beyond the land, above the foam, Back to some half forgotten home. Perhaps--this immortality May be, indeed, reality. Lord Kelvin's Qualifications. I "I notice that Lord Kelvin does not take stock in the practicability of M. Santos' airship theories," said Prof.

J. N. Upton, of Chicago at the Raleigh. do not know what the future may develop in the way of aerial navigation, but I have a profound respect for any opinion advanced by Lord Kelvin. He 1s one of the first scientists of the world, and is both a philosopher and an inventor.

which is a rare combination. Generally speaking, men who have dis-, tinguished themselves by deep study of the underlying principles of nature are but little developed on the utilitarian side, or show but little mechanical ingenuity. the other hand, those who are cleverest in devising mechanical appliances seldom are heard of among those who engage in theoretical research. Lord Kelvin, however, is famous in both departments. In the practical line he has overcome great obstacles in submarine telegraphy, shown how to measure electrical currents, built a machine for measuring the tides, made an improvement in the mariner's compass, and found a better way of taking deep-sea soundings." Holland for the Boers.

"The people of Holland," said Mr. C. H. Laan. a tourist from Amsterdam, at the Arlington, "are greatly concerned about the war in South Africa.

Our sympathies go out to the gallant Boers, who are making as brave a fight for liberty as is 'recorded in history. We only wish powerful Government, the United States, would cease allowing England to use it as a base of supplies for its armies in the Transvaal. "But even if this cannot be stopped, the Boers will never be vanquished. They have right and justice on their side, and sooner or later England will have to recognize that they are unconquerable. Hollanders do not dislike the English people, but it is the government of England that they detest for its cruelties and injustice.

"We are greatly devoted to our young Queen. She is a woman of many admirable qualities, and her knowledge of state affairs is profound. I can tell you that the stories of domestic infelicity between her and the prince consort are without foundation in truth. They are as happy married pair as can be found." Bears Defeat Philosophically. Congressman Dudley Wooten, of the Dallas (Tex.) district, has returned to Washington after several weeks' absence at home.

He went to his district to make A fight a second term in the House, but though he carried his own county, one of the largest and wealthiest in the State, his opponent WAS able to defeat him in other counties, and consequently Mr. Wooten will pot be a member of the next House. He bears his defeat with philosophy, I particularly as he does not expect his retirement from public life will be permanent. "I announced the very day that the result was known," said he to a Times reporter, "that I would be a candidate two years hence. If I live until that time I expect to be returned to Washington." Prohibition the Platform in Georgia.

"One of our gubernatorial candidates in Georgia is trying to win votes by advocating prohibition for the entire State." said Mr. E. F. Blodgett, one of Atlanta's prominent citizens, at the Raleigh. "I hardly think he will secure the nomination by such tactics, though he will have the assistance of the noted revivalist, Sam Jones, and other prominent temperance men.

The truth is that nearly all the counties of Georgia are 'dry' counties by reason of the local option law. Our people have the right to say whether liquor shall be sold locally, and that seems to be a very satisfactory condition. "Atlanta has the best regulated traffic in spirituous liquors of any city of its size. I should say, in the United States. In the first place, saloons are restricted to the business area of the city, and as tax is $1,000 a year, the places are in the hands of a set of men who are interested in maintaining orderly establishments.

They cannot open their houses before 6 o'clock in the morning and must close promptly at 10 at night. There is no such thing as selling drinks Sunday. The saloonkeepers obey the law to the letter because a second conviction means the sure revocation of their li- cense." Anglo-Japanese Treaty. "Though England, in the opinion of her statesmen. did a wise act in making an alliance with Japan, on the continent of Europe a great many people are doubtful of the wisdom of that policy," said Mr.

E. Beckler, of Berlin, at the Shoreham. "I know that in Germany a great deal of adverse comment on the alliance has been indulged in. The sentimental side of the affair is that a white race should never have gone into such a partnership with a race that, no matter how ambitious it may be, and how rapid its progress of late, is, after all, of different stock and accustomed to be considered for centuries as distinctly inferior to the other party to the agreement. This, of course, obtrudes the color question, but after all mankind is largely swayed by sentiment.

"In the next place, the Japanese are inclined to aggressiveness. They had as soon get in a fight as not. If they should engage in a war with any European power and be successful, there would be no limit to their bumptiousness, and England would find on its hands an ally that might give untold trouble." A Regular Frost. Detroit Free Press--A fall within twenty-four hours must have made election day Mr. Tuesday, A Tip on the Races.

of fifty degrees in Nebraska seem like an Nashville American-The wise man and his money will not be parted if the ubiquitous tout is avoided. Personal Notes About Washington People. Justice and Mrs. Peckham will leave shortly for their cottage, which they have leased the summer at Saranac Lake. Mr.

W. E. Riddle, of Colorado Springs, is in the city, called here by the serious illness of his father, William Riddie, who is with his daughters, Mrs. Whyte and Mrs. McMillan, at 1329 Street.

Mr. Richard P. Shackney is seriously ill at the home of his sister, Mrs. Alice H. Johnson, 1219 Kenesaw Avenue, with whom be resides.

Mr. Gerome Desio has returned from three months' visit to the South. Dr. Albert Scott Harden, who has just returned from abroad and has accepted a position as assietant resident physician in J. Pierpont Morgan's hospital in New York, is visiting his mother, Mrs.

Richard Chew. Mr. Howard S. Nyman is rapidly recuperating at Atlantic City. Capt.

Hiram Jobnsen, of the Weather Bureau, has returned from two months' absence in Pheonix, Aris. His SoB whose Illness was the cause of his trip, is very much better, PATTI'S FIRST CONCERT Impresario Gave Her One Pound of Candy for Her Performance. "I paid Adelina Patti a pound of candy for singing at her first concert," said Herman Grau, the oldest operatic manager in America. "Little Miss Patti was at that time seven years of age, and her concert was beld in Willard's Hall, Washington, D. C.

"I was well acquainted with her parents. They lived at that time on Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. They were very poor until the little prima donna's singing brought them In $100 a week. "Her singing was regarded as marvelous for a child; but no one imagined that she would afterward receive $18,000 for three concerts, as she did in 1893, when singing at Madison Square Garden." Hermann Grau, who is to receive a beneft at the Grand Opera House this afternoon, is a hale and vigorous old gentleman, over eighty years of age. He was personal acquaintance of Liszt and Ernst, and has known almost every great operatic star for the past sixty years.

"Liszt and I were born in the same little village of Bregmoravia, twenty miles from Vienna," said the old impresario. "The most perfect music I have ever heard was an impromptu duet by Liszt, the piano and Ernst on the violin The two--each the greatest master in -were playing one evening at Erica sIne home, and the music attracted a crowd. "I have heard thousands of concerts since, but not one like that duet. Nohing could equal it. That was 61 yeag ago.

"My Arst theater was in Richmond, Va had a stock company, which included Carl Formes, one of the greateit bassos the world ever knew: William Castle, tenor, who created the 'Abbot kiss': 'Sher' Campbell, baritone, and Matilda Toedt, the cleverest violinist of er time. "Afterward I went to Washigton, D. brought Carl Auchutz, A upil of Beethoven, from Germany, and ave the first presentation of 'Faust' ancLohengrin' ever given in America. Minterest In grand opera dates back to 18- when, as a boy, in Vienna, I spent all timoney that I could get my hands on to ar the music of Lanner and Strauss. The were musicians worth circling the wid to hear---greater, as I remember, tharny of the present day.".