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HEALTH BOARD GUILTY OF A PUBLIC OUTRAGE Emergency Hospitals Closed to Aid a Shameful Raid. Political Doctors Prey Upon the Fears of Citizens to Force the Board of Supervisors to Provide for Political Rascals. The Board of Health has gone as far ns it dares in its threats to injure the city, to jeopardize the health of Its peo- pie and to force the Supervisors to pro- I vide out of the public treasury for the motley and disreputable herd of Burns campaigners. When the Board of Health took office the members shamelessly appointed men utterly unqualified for the positions to which they had been chosen. Gamblers, roustabouts, tenderloin loafers and political parasites were placed in positions where they could render no public service and.

would feed upon public bounty. Feople of city were Justly Indignant, but the Board of Health Impudently replied that the public had no choice and the city must pay for the gang of blackguards chosen to administer affairs of life and death. The board threatened that if it did not re- ceive carte blanche in the way of funds every health department in the city would be crippled to such a degree that the Supervisors would be forced to appropriate ail the money that was necessary for the outrageous raid. It I as even insinuated that if necessary the political highwaymen, who stood behind the shoulders of the Board of Health at the doors of the city treasury, would declare an epidemic and fierce teen the treasury for even greater thefts. It was shown that the people of the city would become parg alyzed with fright and San Francisco would be dealt a blow from which it would not recover in years.

Frantic endeavors were made to prove that the bubonic plague had entered this port, and that other frightful maladies were likely to follow In wake. The Board of Health was determined to accomplish its raid. As predicted in The Call on Sunday, it has now gone as far as it dares in its shameful schemes. In order to force the Board of Supervisors to open the treasury, the Board of Health has closed ail the receiving hospitals that which is located in the City Hall, the one on the water front and the third I In Golden Gate Park. The bureau of vaccination has been abolished, the department of food inspection has been wiped out, the bacteriological annex, which made itself ridiculous in its efforts to find the bubonic plague where it did not exist, has reached an inglorious end.

Assistants in other departments have been removed and every possible effort has been made to demoralize the administration of health affairs in this city. The board has been utterly unscrup- i ulous in its daring efforts to accom- I plish the loot of the treasury, as it was shameless and impudent in its appointment of political ruffians to public office. The entire scheme has no other motive than this. 4 Perhaps the most outrageous action of the Board of Health in this direction is in closing the Receiving Hospital at the City Hall. The members of the Board of Health believe that they have the city by the throat and they intend to choke it into submission.

Utterly without cause they have closed its main receiving hospital upon the absurd ground that it is in an unsanitary con- dition. A prearranged report in reference to the condition of the hospital was submitted by the Plumbing In- spector. The board had no shadow of excuse for closing the hospital except upon the lame ground that it was un- sanitary. As far as emergency cases are concerned, the hospital is in a bet- I ter condition than it has been in years, I but the Board of Health is determined to frighten the people of the to the last degree. This was illustrated In an almost horrifying manner after midnight this morning.

The board had decided that I the hospital should close at midnight. I notwithstanding the fact that the Board of Supervisors had during the afternoon transferred to the health fund to be used in making the improvements and repairs which Health Officer I Lawlor had declared to be Imperative. These repairs will cost no more than this sum. and they can be made without haste within two days. The Board of Health said, however, that the hospital must close, and at midnight the doors were locked.

One of the attendants, Dr. Morrison, however, remained on duty. Shortly after midnight Officer McGee brought a patient in ail haste to the hospital. This patient was Martin Riley, a soldier In the casual detachment at the CONTRACTORS IN A LIVELY WAR OVER QUARRIES Gray Brothers Shut Out Their Rivals. 4, Two rival contracting companies and their laborers came within an ace of becoming tangled in the throes of fierce cimb'at at the foot of Telegraph Hill yesterday forenoon, and had it not been for the timely appearance of Sergeant Christianson and a squad of police there might have been urgent need for the ambulance and perhaps the Morgue wagon.

The quarrel that has been waged long nnd bitterly between Gray Brothers and the Cushing-Wetmore Company reached a climax' and the laborers of both companies reported for duty yesterday morning armed to the teeth and thirsting for gore. Gray Brothers and the Cushing-Wetmore Company have been busily engaged for the last few years tearing big holes In the rocky sides of Telegraph Hill. Their quarries at the base of the hill between Lombard and Winthrop streets are adjoining, and the boundary line has been a bone of bitter contention. About a week ago Gray Brothers blasted the extreme western end of their quarry and the falling rocks and debris blocked a road which was used by the teams of the Cushing-Wetmore Company traveling In and out of their quarry from Lombard street. This move on the part of Gray Brothers forced their rivals to use Winthrop street as a thoroughfare to their (uarry.

Under the provisions of an ordinance passed by the Board of Supervisors on July .1, Gray Brothers were granted permission to lay a sixty-foot sidewalk on Winthrop street. Gray Brothers took advantage Presidio. Riley was taken from Abbott's saloon on Grant avenue, a popular resort for thieves of both sexes and one of the most disreputable places in San Francisco or anywhere else. Riley had been skylarking with one of the women of the place and thrust his hand I trfrough a glass door. The wrist was frightfully lacerated and blood Issued In spurts from an artery.

The patrol wagon was hastily summonded and, serving as an ambulance, sped in all haste with Riley and Officer McGee to the Receiving Hospital at the City Hall. When the wounded soldier arrived 1 there Dr. Morrison insolently refused to attend him. The physician declared i that the Receiving Hospital had been I closed officially at midnight and no pa- I i tlents, emergency or otherwise, would i be received. The Board of Health is taking desperate measures to force open the doors of the treasury.

The soldier's wrist was still bleeding profusely. He was becoming weak from loss of blood, but Dr. Morrison stood haughtily on his officialism and declined to render aid. Efforts were made to secure by telephone permission from some member of the Board of Health to allow the soldier to be treat- cd. Nothing, however, could be done, i The hospital was officially closed and i the soldier might die on the step.

This climax of outrage indicates to what length the Board of Health is deter- mined to go in its efforts to obey the commands of Its political master. There is absolutely no sincerity in I the action of the board in dismissing I the employes and paralyzing the ser- vice. This was shown clearly by the I fact that the Chief Food Inspector and i his assistants have determined to serve without pay until the question Is deter- mined in the courts. This means that the Chief Food Inspector and his as- i sistants wish to add a little buncombe to the blusters of their superiors. As announced in The Call on Sunday, the board met yesterday in secret session I and adopted the following resolutions: Whereas The Board of Supervisors have failed to appropriate an amount sufficient I to the proper conduct of the Health Department of the city and county of San Francisco, and have only allowed sufficient to pay the officers especially designated by the statutes; be It hereby Resolved.

That on and after the first day of August. the following positions under the control of this board be declared vacant: Assistant police Morrison, Thompson, Hopper, Dorr and Robinson; food inspectors. Devoto, Murray, Breeze, Sullivan. Erkson, Thomas, Lahaney and Ryan: health inspectors, Crowe and Smith; bacteriologist. William F.

Barbat; vaccinator, George E. MePherson; chemist, A. C. Bothe; assistant chemist, R. A.

Gould: statistician, E. B. Carroll; clerk of vital statistics, F. C. Boeckman; bakery inspector, J.

T. Washington; surgeon. I. W. O'Rourke; plumbing inspectors, Nolan, Kelly and Connolly; garbage inspectors.

Gregg and Coneo; clerk to health officer R. M. Jones; assistant market Inspector, He-lilngsworth; ambulance drivers, Kelly, Pendergast. Kaplan and Lilly; Janitors. Berliner and Tyrrlll: matrons, Reel, Swett.

Wynne and Eddy; captain of launch, P. McGowan; engineer, Cousins: deckhand, Johnson, and messenger, John 'Wilkins, Be it further Resolved, That the public be hereby notified that on and after the first day of August 1899, the free vaccination office at the City Hall will be closed until further notice: also that the Harbor and Park Receiving Hospitals will be closed until further notice; that no chemical or bacteriological examinations will be made until further notice. While this board regrets exceedingly to be obliged to close to the public these very important departments, and feels that It will nececsarHy leave the community without proper sanitary protection, and possibly jeopardize the lives of Its citizens by closing the Receiving Hospitals, we cannot ask our employes to serve without compensa- tion. The outrageous action of the Board of Health in closing the Receiving Hospital practically paralyzed last night the work of the Police Department. Emergency cases that would not be accepted at the Receiving Hospital had to be taken to the City and County Hospital on Potrero avenue and Twen- ty-second street.

If the honorable mem- bers of the Board of Health could so complacently violate the first oath of their profession and permit people to die under their very eyes, the police could not. They therefore used their patrol wagons to hurry sufferers out to the City and County Hospital. This as a matter of course clogged the admin- istration of the Police Department In other directions. Offenders were held at patrol boxes sometimes for an hour at a time waiting for a conveyance to the central or branch prisons. This led I to the additional outrage of leaving the i city unprotected and at the mercy of whatever malefactors cared to operate.

The Board of Health has begun a desperate and a dangerous campaign to raid the city treasury. of this permission with a venge- ance, and on Sunday morning when the representatives of the Cushing-Wetmore Company were sleeping soundly Grays' men were busily engaged in laying the sidewalk, which would virtually block the Cushing-Wetmore Company's only access and egress to Chestnut street. At each end of the sidewalk three stout piles were driven Into the sidewalk to prevent teams passing over the sidewalk. When Cushlng-Wetmore's laborers ar- rived yesterday morning they attempted to tear away the sidewalk, and Grays' men stood hard by to prevent their rivals from undoing their work. Harsh words were passed and some angry threats made, but Sergeant Christianson and his squad soon quelled the disturbance.

The matter will be taken into court. Patrolmen McGovern, Freel, Connor and Peshon were detailed to protect the prop- erty of both firms and keep the peace until the matter is decided by the courts. Bate yesterday afternoon the Gushing- Wetmore Company's laborers tore up the objectionable sidewalk on authority fur- I nished them by a written order from i Mayor Phelan. The work of removing the obstruction was carried on under the surveillance of the squad of police in at- tendance, and no resistance was offered i by Gray's men. A representative of the i Cushing-Wetmore Company stated last night that to-day they would enter suit against Gray Brothers for $25,000 damages.

THE KENTUCKY LOTTERY. MONTREAL. July The regular monthly drawing for July of tho Canadian Royal Art Union, by which the winning numbers of the Kentucky Lottery are decided, was held here to-day. The first six winning numbers are: 17992, 82G61. $4000; 07326.

$2000; 92942, $1000; 42445. $500; 55999, $500. In the Divoroe Court. Judge Bahrs has granted Laura E.Nash a divorce from James E. Nash on the ground of neglect.

Suits for divorce have been filed by Julia H. Allen against John Allen, for failure to Grlswold against James Grlswold, for bigamy: John B. Frick against Etta R. Frick. for desertion; Matilda Gore against William Gore, for failure to provide; Max Bernstein against Etta L.

Bernstein, for cruelty; Dora M. Koopmann against Louis Koopmann, for desertion, and Louis Fredrich against Adoiph Fredrich, for cruelty. Ocean Water Tub Baths. 101 Seventh street, corner Mission. Salt water direct from the ocean.

THE SAN FBANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1899. A RUSH OF WORK ON TRANSPORTS AND MAIL DOCK All Wharves Crowded With Shipping. ACCIDENT ON MORGAN CITY HERBERT GLADSTONE BURNED WITH GASOLINE. Barges for the Sacramento Wheat Trade Rear Admiral Kautz Transfers His Flag to the Philadelphia. It was a question as to which were the busier yesterday, the Mall dock or the i transport wharf.

Both were worked to their full capacity, and any person who had to visit either pier was compelled to keep a bright lookout In order to avoid being run over. At the Government wharf are the transports Hancock. Indiana and Morgan City; while at the Mail dock there are the City of Peking, City of Sydney, San Bias and Gaelic. All the baggage of the Nebraska volunteers was taken off the Hancock during the morn- I ing and sent out to the Presidio. Freight and supplies were being rushed Into the Indiana and Morgan City, while gangs of workmen were engaged on all three yes- I sels fixing up for another voyage.

The Indiana is to sail to-day with TOO recruits and the Morgan City Is expected to sail on Thursday with about 500 recruits. At the Mail dock double gangs will work night and day on the City of Peking until she is discharged. She will then go on the drydock for an overhauling, and if all goes well she will be loaded and away again for the Orient by Saturday after- noon. The Peking is six days behind time owing to being quarantined in Nagasaid, but she is expected to mako up the time before she gets back to San Fran- Cisco. The work of discharging the Gaelic will not be rushed until after fhe Peking is out of the way.

She is scheduled to sail on the 9th so there will be plenty of time to discharge and load her before that. The City of Sydney will be unloaded as quickly as possible and will then be overhauled and turned over to the Government. Her place on the Panama run will be taken by the San Bias. Captain E. M.

Freeman, the well-known pilot, returned from a visit to the East yesterday. He was gone a month and visited his brother in Baltimore and his two brothers in Boston. The captain was kept busy all yesterday morning shaking hands with friends, and early in the af- ternoon went home in order to keep his' faithful "right" from being shaken off. Herbert Gladstone, a young plumber, met with a peculiar accident on the transport Morgan City yesterday. He was engaged in fixing up some piping and bad a cup of gasoline on a table close by him.

He was using a candle to Bee where the defects in the pipe were when Foreman Wilson came along and asked him for the candle to light his cigar. When the candle was passed back Wilson and Gladstone talked for a few moments, and the latter, passed the lighted candle back without looking where he was putting It. The flames came in contact with the gasoline and there was an explosion that seriously burned both of Gladstone's hands. He was taken to the Harbor Receiving Hospital, where Drs. Dorr and Hlmmelsbach attended to his wounds.

The battleship lowa went to the Union Iron Works yesterday afternoon to take her armament aboard again. When she was getting ready to go on the drydock at Port Orchard considerable heavy equip- ment was put ashore at the iron works. It is now to.be replaced. During the afternoon Rear Admiral Kautz hauled down his flag aboard the lowa and raised it i again on the Philadelphia. The change was duly noted on both vessels and a sa- lute of thirteen guns fired.

The steamer Novo arrived from Fort Bragg yesterday with the barge Chester A In tow. The latter is a wheat carrier built for the Sacramento River trade, i She is 198 feet long and 38 feet broad. She will carry 10,000 sacks of wheat or 12,000 of barley. The Chester A has been built by Scammell Ruddell to run in conjunction with the steamer Pride of the Yukon. There is an enormous grain crop In the Sacramento Valley this year, and both vessels will be kept busy all through the season.

A sister barge to the Chester A Is now being built. She will be named the Admiral Dewey. Scammell Ruddell expect that there will be plenty of business on the river for the barges all the year round. Captain Johnson of the "Noyo was very sick with rheumatism when the vessel reached port. He was taken to the German Hospital by the mate as soon as the vessel docked.

The old bark Colorado has been turned into a barge and is shortly to be towed from Departure Bay to San Francisco laden with coal. The tug Pilot will tow her down and the trip is expected to be made quickly and easily. LAST REPORT OF THE SURGEON GENERAL REORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, N. G. 0.

Dr. John Gallwey Tells of the Increased Efficiency of This Branch of the State Service. Dr. John Gallwey, surgeon general of the National Guard of California, has forwarded to General John Dickinson a report of the medical department of the Guard since its reorganization. When Dr.

Gallwey left for Europe recently he was too ill to complete the report before his departure. In the document the surgeon general reviews the condition of his department prior to the appropriation by the State Legislature for its improvement, and his comments indicate that tho medical and surgical branch and the equipment and supplies were anything but good. The bill, which appropriated 13000, also provided for the creation of a sanitary corps as a staff department, a surgeon general as an executive head, medical examining hoards and for transference and enlistment of men into the corps, and all to be properly equipped. Tne reorganization was duly effected, as heretofore published, and the numeral strength of the corps, including naval militia, now consists of 29 commissioned officers, 17 non-commissioned officers and 121 privates. By the exercise of much ingenuity the purchase of equipment was made to come within the limit of the appropriation.

Dr. Gallwey in his report highly praises the Red Cross Society and says that at the outbreak of the Spanish War the society gave to the Sanitary Corps, X. G. a sum of money for the purpose of equiping'the medical department of the California regiments with everything necessary for active field service. This money was judiciously expended, and in obedience to an order from the commander in chief the entire equipment was turned over to the Gevernment for the use of the United States Volunteer service, and Dr.

Gallwey adds: "I can safely assert from personal observation that no volunteer regiment at San Francisco possessed an equipment equal to that of the California Volunteer regiments. In a report to the surgeon general. United States army. Colonel Mlddleton made special mention of the virtues of the above-described equipment." Special mention 13 made of the various camps of Instruction held in 1897, where the corps received much practical knowledge and some experience fn the line of field and hospital service. In the work of reorganization much credit is due to the many executive officers of the National Guard for advice and assistance, and though the reorganization has borne good fruits, there ls still much to be done.

In concluding his report Dr. Gallwey states that professional not social qualifications must be the test upon which commissions should be issued, and that "the discharge of social and political debts should not De permitted to disturb the officers of proved ability in the medical department." Ladles' tailor-made suits, fur capes, cloaks. Credit. M. Rothschild.

324 Post st ANOTHER JULIET AND A NEW AIDA CHARM Miss Roberts Makes a Hit as Shakespeare's Tender Heroine. London years ago, when Mrs. Bellamy played Juliet to Garrick's Romeo, and at a rival theater Barry was the Montague to Mrs. Gibber's Capulet, the play had the unprecedented run of twelve nights at one theater and thir- I teen at the other, Garrick's desire to speak last o'erleaping his terror of the mystic thirteen. Stupendous revivals, with magnificent scenery, correct costumes and all-star casts, are the only ones nowadays billed, for what is common enough with us, the season's run.

However, It applause is an indication of I popular approval, "Romeo and Juliet" is a success sturdy enough to reach at least its thirteenth birthday, and need not, to i make good its announcements, die on the seventh night. It is a most pretentious I production. New scenery has been painted, some new people engaged and, where the principals are in question, gorgeous i Hermann gowns and costumes are worn, I absolutely correct to the period, of course, for Hermann would scarce lend his sounding name to anything less. Miss Roberts has spared neither pains nor expense on her Juliet wardrobe and the result is a Joy to the beholder. Even I her wig, a perfect Venetian red, is a I work of art, made by a local wig maker, too, after days of patient search for just the tint.

Mr. Whittlesey's costume symphony in red is simply when one considers the prices at this theater one can but be thankful i that the artistic sense is so great a part of some natures that no handicap is con- sidered when its demands are making. As the shadows close about Romeo's life I his costumes grow somber; brilliant red, i thoughtful gray, sorrowful black. Mr. 1 Whittlesey's make-up was correctly and handsomely Italian.

The stage manager has made a success of his scenery. The set for the balcony scene, with its vine- clad walls, its hangings and its street distances is well thought out and carried one into the atmosphere of the times. I The Alcazar lias reason to be proud of I the result of its efforts. But "the play 1 is the thing," and the players, The Juliets of the stage, past and present, are, after all, not numerous; for to I act Juliet well the actress must have so many years of experience that she ceases to look Juliet. Miss Roberts comes to the part with both youth and experience, for she was little more than a child when she made her professional debut.

She is a day and of how many Juliets can this be said. They have been stately and tragic, amorous, tender, eloquent, seductive, impassioned, and even, i as in the case of Mrs. Slddons, terrific and sublime. Miss Roberts brings to the early scenes a spirit of perfect innocence and purity. Her childish coquetry in the dance when her eyes ever seek out Romeo is so openly without guile that girlhood is patent.

She plays the balcony scene for comedy, and plays it charmingly so. But before this, in the words "My only love sprung from my only hate, too early seen unknown, and known too late," a certain undertone of the tragic, the shadow of Impending doom, which many critics con- I sider the keynote of the part, makes Itself vaguely felt. She is weighted with a handicap in her scenes with the nurse, for Miss Leavy lacks real lacks decision; and not to know just how one is to be met somewhat blunts one's intentions. Miss Roberts' Impatience and winning playfulness met with but little response. With the first touch of sorrow she ages and becomes the heroine, and comedy is left behind forever.

The potion scene i will grow with experience in the part. Even now the latter half is very strong i and in places done with a subtle insight that brings the corse of Tybalt painfully our eyes. In no place does she overact, and perhaps the fear of this ter, rible fault accounts for the repression in first part. Miss Roberts has the strength and undoubtedly the work here will become what she has the power to I make it. Her love scenes were all beautii ful from the ingenuousness of the girl to the passionate ardor of the woman, and her death in the tomb a quiet heartbreak to all.

But we have one more Juliet to love and are happy. Mr. Whittlesey as a lover Is always worthy of being loved. So ably did he plead that, as some one has said before, Juliet might have forgotten her modesty and come down to him. Apart from the love scenes, his best work is done where he slays Tybalt and In the tomb.

In the cell with Friar Lawrence he is strong but somewhat overwrought. But the I parting with Juliet and the tomb scene follow, and then in the satisfaction of I these what did not quite please us is forgotten. Mr. Dennithorne's Mercutio was very good, as were the Benvollo of Mr. Halifax and the Paris of Mr.

Moore. The other parts were satisfactory, but not of exceptional merit. But what of this? Juliet and Romeo, they are the play and they have won our hearts. Besides, if one sets about it he can find fault with anything. Pepys.

he of the diary, said of the tragedy, "It Is a play of It- I self the worst I have seen." Still, if I remember aright, he saw a version so im- I proved as to save the life of both Romeo and Juliet. Miss Roberts and Mr. Whit! tlaf-ey almost make us wish they had known that version, so unhappy do we I feel that their lovo is for so brief a sea- I son. We expected much of both these artists, I and we have not been disappointed. The most unstinted praise is due them both.

The advance sale for the week is so large that an extended run is probable. CHARLOTTE THOMPSON. Orpheum. There was "standing room only" at the Orpheum long before 8 o'clock last night. The Nebraska boys to the number of nearly GOO were the guests of honor and the people turned out by thousands' to applaud with them the splendid programme presented by the management.

The Eldrldges, "past masters of colored comedy," set the ball rolling. They served i as a splendid introduction to the evening's amusement and nearly convulsed the audience with some of their clever skits. They were followed by Herr yon Palm. As a lightning painter in oils he excels, and some of his pictures were so true to life that they evoked storms of i applause. Dave Meier gave a most interesting exhibition of bag punching.

His skill at this kind of exercise Is simply marvelous and he at once established himself as a favorite with the Nebraska boys. La Fafalla and the others repeated their successes of last week, and all In all the programme left nothing to be desired. The Junior Sagamore. William G. Harrison, great junior sagamore of the Great Council of the United States, Improved Order of Red Men, arrived in this city last night from' Indianapolis.

The visitor, who is a very prominent member of the order, will be here during the session of the Great Council cf California. Tivoli Grand Opera Season Has a Brilliant Opening Night. OTWTTHSTANDING the fact that -j San Francisco has been surfeited with grand opera this year, the I Tivoli Opera-house was almost too small to accommodate the monster i audience that awaited anxiously the rise of the curtain in order to revel once more in the Imperial melodies of a master. i Assuredly the management could not have made a wiser choice for the inaug- uration of Its operatic season than Verdi's not merely because this grand musical structure enables an introduction of every strong artist, but because its grandeur and grandiloquent airs invest it with a solemnity especially in accord with the festive sentiment that accompa- nles an opening performance. It did not require long to discover the character of the impression made upon the audience by this initiatory perform- ance.

Hardly had Avadano concluded his grand aria in the first act when the house began to tremble beneath the applause that issued forth from the enthusiastic assemblage. Time and again the artist bowed, deeply moved by this immense ovation; but the applause would not sub- side until the tenor consented to repeat the last few lines. This applause was honestly merited. A tenor of such crys- talline clarity and mellow tone quality, tinged with splendid dramatic timbre, is certainly very rare, and by appreciating such a voice the people merely proved their fine powers of discrimination. Ava- dano simply plays with the most dim- cult technical parts, and his high notes are as delicious as a kiss.

Salassa, in the role of Amonasro, dv- plicated his former success. To possess i a barytone of such flexibility and power ls to be endowed with one of the richest gifts that nature can bestow, but to De so intelligent as to make proper use of such a marvelous organ is the acme of sublime art, and applause is but a weak tribute to such talent. In the duet In the Nile scene especially, Mr. Salassa did not hesitate to drain the last drop In the gob- let of music. Imperious and imposing, the solemn tones dropped from his lips, his phrasing was exquisite; his modulation was sublime.

Would that there were many more artists like Salassa. Mary Linck no doubt is always heard at i her best as Amneris. Her big contralto 1 has full sway in this role and her dra- i matic temperament has a fine chance to assert itself. Miss Linck is an artist. But the Interest of the audience was centered I in Miss Ella Prossnitz.

the prima donna, who has just arrived from Milan and in- i troduced herself as Aida. Miss Proas- i nitz possesses a dramatic soprano of a mellow quality. Her upper notes were elegant and were brought out clear and ringing. Her lower notes were uttered with some difficulty, no doubt owing to a severe cold contracted after a day stay in San Francisco. Her histrionic accom- 1 plishments are great.

The Aida of Miss Prossnitz must be pronounced asldealand, as far as one can see from last night, the lady controls a soprano that will prove a marvel ere the season is passed. Chorus and orchestra did some praiseworthy work and Mr. Hirschf deserves much credit for Infusing life and snap in both. No fault can be found with his direction; it was exemplary. George Lask, the stage manager, deserves also a share when praise is distributed.

The mounting 1 Not fesa than six curtain calls were after the fourth act, which shows i the success of the season. This evening "Lucia" will be given with Anna Lichter as Lucia. Barron Berthold as Lord Edgar, and William Mertens as Henry Ashton. It will be an California. Bronson Howard's four-act comedy, "One of Our which was produced at the California last night, would not bo a success in Paris.

It is one of the most caustic satires on the marriage da convenance and marriage in high life in the land of the Gaul that has ever been presented on the stage. The first act is somewhat disappointing; it is smothered in sermons and Dr. Girodet becomes almost a bore. The second act is a decided improvement and the third is truly Judged'from the severely artistic point of view there are but two people in the cast two people who hold the attention of the audience by an exhibition of splendid acting from the start to the Blanche Bates as Kate Shipley, tho American heiress, and Augustus Cook as the Count Flortan de Crebil on: the first the type of the American girl as we like to se? her, the other the Parisian man of the world with all the vices of the atmosphere in which he moves, with the courage of the successful duellist, and that sense of honor which arises from the pride of station. T.

Daniel Frawley had but little more than a walking gentleman's role as Captain Gregory of the Irish Lancers, who, unlike the Irish captain that one reads about, is a little bashful and a good deal woodenv. But that Is the fault of the author, not of the actor. Hope Ross was a pretty and interesting French wife in love with somebody else than her husband, and the audience really sympathized with the giddy little the unhappy victim of a false education. Charles King had a good make-up as Foublanque, and Mrs. Bates as the madame played up to her usual mark of excellence.

"One of Our Girls" will be repeated tonight and Wednesday and Thursday evenings and at a special matinee on Wednesday. The remainder of the week, including the Saturday matinee and Sunday evening production, will be defoted to "Mme. Sans Gene." Grand Opera-House. Seldom has the Grand Opera-house contained such a delighted audience au the one last night, when Yon Suppe'a comic opera, "Boccaccio," with Its sparkling music, was produced. William Wolff as the grocer, Arthur Wooley as the cooper and Wlnfred Goff as the barber kept up the fun, and many times audience was convlused with laughter by their broad and catchy humor.

The trio In the first act was encored six or seven times. Arthur Wooley's song with the coopers' chorus was also repeated several times. Edith Mason as Boccaccio, Julie Cotte as Fiametta. Hattie Belle Ladd as Leonetto and Bertha Rlcci as Peronella were In excellent voice and Thomas H. Persse as Pietro was as usual pleasing.

Georgie Cooper made her first appearance as Isabella and was the recipient of numerous bouquets. The choruses were well rendered and the evolutions of the chorus girls In the last act called forth loud applause. The opera went with a swing and there should be crowded houses during the week. Chutes. The new bill at the Chutes theater atracted a goodly audience last night, and Soe Matthews, a coon song singer who institutes a very favorable comparison with jizzle Raymond, made an immense hit.

-he was recalled three times. Rand, and Rand, an eccentric trio, sang lome of the craziest songs heard here for i long time and did some wonderfully unny knockabout work, Hallett and Caroil gave a clever German sketch, which ntroduced some good Tyrolean warbling, md Violet Dale continued her buck and vine dancing. The rest of the bill was mod and the moving pictures unusually nteresting. The fat ladles' bicycle race vill be repeated on Thursday, amateur and on Saturday a big Cakewalk will take place. Columbia.

"Heartsease," with Its romantic epilodes set to soul-stirring music, opened a second week at the Columbia ast evening. Henry Miller, Miss Anglin md the others of the excellent supportng company still take hold of the comnonplace roles of -the play in a way that ifts the ordinary to the unusual and deudes the auditor in imagining the mixture of hackneyed anecdotes and timerled scenes a work of merit. Last evening marked the fiftieth representation of the star and his company, md in honor of the event photos of Miller the player scene of "Hamlet" were as souvenirs of the pleasant occasion. "Heartsease" holds the boards until rhursday evening, when an elaborate production of "Hamlet" will fill the bill for the balance of the week. 7 Electricity for Weak Men.

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Orchestra, 35c and 50c: Family Circle, loc. Dress Circle. 25c; Gallery. 10c. At the Saturday Matinee the Best Seat in the House, 25c.

Branch Box Office Just Inside of Main En- trance Emporium. 21-EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN STARS-21 IDALENE COTTON and NICK LONG, In the Original Protean Comedietta, "Man- agerial Troubles." JOSEPH ADELMAN. DAVE MEIER. HERR YON PALM. LAURA JOYCE BELL AND CO.

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MISS BLANCHE BATES HER EXCELLENT COMPANY. PRESENTED BY T. DANIEL FRAWLEY, In Bronson Howard's Great Comedy ONE OFTUR GIRLS. ONE OF OUR GIRLS. REMEMBER THE SPECIAL MATINEE TO-MORROW AFTERNOON AT 2:15.

In Consideration For the Thousands Who Were Unable to Get Seats to See SAINS GENE" This Magnificent Play Will Be Given COMMENCING WITH FRIDAY NIGHT, AND CONTINUING UNTIL Sunday Night, Including Saturday Mat. MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7. First Production on Any Stage of Clinton Stuart's Fantastic Comedy. -'THE FAIRY GODMOTHER." COLUMBIAJTHEATER. HENRY MILLER SEASON.

TO-NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY EVENINGS. SPECIAL MATINEE WED-, POSITIVELY LAST TIMES. HEARTSEASE, BEGINNING THURSDAY, 3 NIGHTS and SATURDAY MATINEE ONLY CHARLES FROHMAN'S II Ift 1 1 pf SECOND GREAT A IVI LM I SHAKESPEAREAN ll IVI I I REVIVAL. HENRY MILLER AS HAMLET. Miss Anglin as Ophelia; Mr.

Stevens as the King; Mr. Standing as Laertes; Mr. Walcot as the Ghost: Mrs. Bouclcault as the Queen; Miss Dale as player queen; Mr. Allen as Polonious; Mr.

Lamb as first grave digger, etc. SEATS NOW SELLING. Next "BROTHER OFFICERS." TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. ENORMOUS SUCCESS OF THE GRAND OPERA SEASON! EVERY SEAT SOLD LAST NIGHT! TO-NIGHT, Superb Rendition of Donizetti's Great Opera, I "Lucia" Repeated on Thursday and Sunday Evenings and Saturday Matinee. TO-MORROW EVENING, I "AIDA" Repeated on Friday and Saturday Evenings.

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