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6 mt Call THURSDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1807 JOHN D. SPRECKELS. Proprietor. Address All Communications to VV. S.

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corner Twenty-second unci Kentucky greets; till 9 'clock. BUYING PUBLIC UTILITIES. A CHAPTER submitted to the Charter Convention of One Hundred by the Committee on Public Utilities provides that whenever a petition, signed by a number of the registered electors of the municipality equal to 20 tier cent of the total vote east at the last preceding municipal election shall be presented to the Board of Supervisors, suggesting the acquisition of any specific public utility which the city is un. able to purchase out of its ordinary revenues, the board shall within ninety days submit to a vote of the people the question of incurring a bonded 'indebtedness for the purpose of raising the money. Little or no machinery is provided for handling the funds or purchasing the iroperly after the vote, and evidently the intention of the committee is to cubmitfor consideration the naked proposition of public ownership of local utilities.

This question, outside of its relation to the charter, is worthy of discussion. The Call has on principle no objection to San Francisco owning its streetcar lines, its water works, its electric-light plants or its telephone systems. On the contrary, it anybody can show us that the service now rendered by these "utilities" can be cheapened or made more efficient by public ownership, we do not know but we could be induced to join with the reformers in the Charter Convention of One Hundred and advocate the change. But we respectfully submit that il the convention is going to bring the matter up for critical consideration it should provide us with a complete system of acquiring the properties. If the report cf the committee is adopted as proposed it will produce some such result as this: Whenever a public utility in San Francisco ceases to pay dividends its stockholders will at once orgsirz's to sell it to the city.

A petition containing the names of 12,000 electors may be obtained at any time without difficulty. The average man will sign his own death warrant in the form of a petition. Nor, in the event of an election being called, is it easy to see how the sale of a nonpaying utility to the city could be prevented. Doubtless the political bosses would see to it that all utilities incapable of paying dividends, or which had defaulted in their interest, promptly sold to the people, and that all propositions to those earning dividends and interest were defeated. The prime object of the reformers in the Charter Convention of One Hundred is to thwart the political bosses.

The burden of all their work is an attempt to create a governmental system which will baffle the inpenuity of those individuals. Why, then, leave the door open for them to transact a profitable business in selling streetcar, telephone, water, gas and electr c-hght stock to she city If we were asked to suggest an amendment to the report of the committee on public utilities we would insert somewhere in it a proviso that a condition precedent to the sale of any corporation plant to the city should be a statement of the president that it is paying dividends on its stock, or at least interest on its bonded we understand it, the people have no objection to owning rublic utilities which pay, but we douDt whether they would care to run the risk of adopting a law which would enable the political bosses to at any time foist upon them a "busted" corporation enterprise. We have a tremendous lot of confidence in municipal human nature, but it is so certain that the city would never think of buying anything except a non-paying public utility that we' ere convinced our amendment would be a wis? addition to the committee's report. We say this notwithstanding we entertain less fear of the malign influence of the political bosses than many of the members of the Charter Convention of One Hundred. A GENTLE CRITICISM FROM YUMA.

OUR bright Arizona contemporary, the Yuma Sun, in the course of what it calls "A Gentle Criticism, lets its light shine upon a certain scheme of Tacoma merchants with a degree of effulgence that must be felt by the victims as something of a roast, though it may not Le counted hot in Ar zona. The Tacoma men, it seems, have engaged writers to prepare what are called "Klondike letters," tte object of which is to convince people that Klondike is tie place to go to and Taccmu is the place to outfit for the trip. They are, in fact, trade circular rather than letters from the gold regions and tbe Sun admits that in circulating them Tacoma las shown an "enterprise that Is commendable." It adds, however: These letters, two or more columns in length, absolutely uninteresting except to tnose whom they will directly benefit, the merchants of Tacoma, are being sent broadcast to weekly newspapers of the United States, end the publisher who accepts must in payment for the itter insert a tour-inch advertisement of the Tacoma Mercantile Union, under whose auspices the letters are being sent out That a publisher should plate so little value upon his columns as to arc pt these letters, or for such a consideration publish the advertisement referred to, Is a shame. The Sun is right. It is commendable for the merchants of any locality to advertise their city and attract to it all the trade they can, Dut it is the opposite of commendable to induce an overworked country editor to give advertising space for what he supposes will be new- of rrent interest for his readers and then palm off on him Like letters, are themselves advertisements.

The Sun, of course, was bright enough to penetrate the transparent trick at the first gleam, and now that it has exposed the scheme it is to be hoped no Western paper will be made a victim of it. Country papers can get all tie Klondike news straight and accurate from the columns of The Call without having to give advertising for fake letters. Moreover, there is no reason why any miner in California, Arizona or Nevada should go to Alaska to se gold. If one intends to do sh, however, he should bear in mind that the place to outfit for the trip is San Francisco. Yellow journalism never does an apparent kindness jfrcm any proper motive.

Ordinarily its object is cheap advertising, its medium a series of brass binds, and the result a substantial rake-off. Now that it has gone into a scheme in which the rake-cff is impossible, it is known to ba inspired solely by meanness. Chicago is losing its character for utilitarianism and becoming esthetic. When we read that the stalls at the recent horse show were sprinkled with cologne it becomes easy to imagine the stockyard of the near future equipped with music boxes to drown the dying refrain oi the stiicken porker. Roosevelt has some interesting things about the needs of the navy; but any thoughtful D6r3on knows that a navy with a Roosevelt on active duty cannot bo in need of much.

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1897. HIGH-PRICED STRATEGY THIS. THE strategic argument for annexation has been used with vain and various reiterations. Our Pacific Coast is represented as defenseless unless we have Hawaii, 2000 miles away. Senator Perkins disposed of this argument after the manner of its prior treatment in THE CALL, in his speech in Oakland last week.

He said that sending coal 2000 miles across the water then sending our warships there to get it in order to defend San Francisco was strategy incomprehensible to the common mind, and so it is. He also disposed of the argument that the islands stand right in the path of commerce between this port and Asia, by proving that the shortest path for ships to Japan and China leaves Hawaii 1600 miles to the southward. The pending annexation treaty proposes that the United States shall assume the 000,000 debt of the Dole oligarchy and pay it. That is a high price to pay for such strategy as th? Senator describes for a stepping-stone in the path of commerce that lies 1600 miles out of that path. It is in the day's news that Great Britain is making a show of her war fleet at Esquimalt, to demonstrate the anchorage and maneuvering capacity in the shelter of that Gibraltar of the North.

There she is in touch with the mainland, with coal at hand, with open water and a way to deep water even without using the strait of San Juan de Fuca for an exit. Her power is within striking distance of the coast from San Diego to the passes of the Aleutian Archipelago. She is within steaming distance, out and back, without recoaling, of the real path of our Asiatic commerce. The proper answer of this country to Esquimalt is San Francisco, an impregnable foothold on the mainland, within easier striking distance of the whole coast. The $4,000,000 of Dole's debts we undertake to pay should instead be spent here to plant on the heights overlooking Golden Gate and the sea a system of offensive and defensive works that can keep all fleets beyond shelling distance of our shores and protect always the exit of our own men-of-war to sweep the open water clear of an enemy.

To protect our position in Hawaii will cost $4,000,000 at least, added to paying for Dole's dead horse, and when the whole $8,000,000 is taken from our people the coast, as far as protection is concerned, will be just where it is now. The shadow of Esquimalt will be upon it all, and we will be shivering in its shade. It may be said that there will be no war with England. Let us hope not, but of our four great wars two have been with her. It is neighboring nations that go to war.

A war that would at all disturb us must be one in which we can be invaded by land. The invasion would come from Mexico or the Dominion of Canada, and in either case an invading force would have the co-operation of a fleet. The Goths were safe in Carthage until Belisarius marched an army along the south shore of the Mediterranean Sea, with a fleet keeping step with his legions. With these tactics in action against us what protection would we get from Hawaii 2000 miles away? It is plainly the duty of the members of Congress from these coast States to defeat annexation. Let Dole keep his dead horse indeed, compel him to keep it by warning him that he is within the Monroe hemisphere, and will not be permitted to unload upon any foreign nation.

Itis to our highest interest that Hawaii shall be independent and neutralized, so that this Switzerland of the seas will not have to be defended at our cost, nor become a point of vantage to a possible enemy. THE PIONEERS AND THE JUBILEE. CALIFORNIA'S golden juoilee. whose anniversary day falls on January 24, is to be celebrated in this city under the direction of the California Society of Pioneers. The simple announcement of the fact will awaken not only an eager expectancy, but a spirit of co-operation throughout the community.

All who fell the glow of State pride will gladly join in commemorating so notable an event in the history of the commonwealth, and all who have respect for veteran survivors of great deeds and great days will proudly unite to make this festival of the pioneers an occasion so glorious that its lame will ba continental. While the Society of Pioneers will have the place of honor in the celebration, it will not work alone in preparing for it. It has been already determined that in an activ- and official way the Pioneers will have the co-operati of the Calliornia Association and the Native Sons and Native Daughters of the Golden WesL Such a combinaticn would succeed in making a notable festival even if it had no aid from the Leneral public, and with such aid we have a right to loot forward to a celebration which, while it may have its climax on a particular day, will fill a week with its glory. It is altogether right and lining the day should be celebrated, for while the discovery of gold was an event small in Itself, it set in motion forces that were among the most momentous of the century. The results of that discovery affected the economic condition of the whole world, started one of the largest migrations of men on record, and had a profound influence on the politics of our republic The event, therefore, is not to be huddled over among slight and transient things.

It was a potent force in determining the course of history and was followed and accompan.ed by deeds of daring and adventure that make the epoch of the pioneers ol California the most romantic in American annals. Over and above the significance of the gold discovery which will be the chief feature in the meaning of the celebration for the ou side world, there will be for Californians an opportunity in the day to show once more their veneration for the pioneers who still survive among us. As Pioneer day, it will appeal not only to the Native Sons and Daughters, but to the whole of the Greater West. It will be something more than a San Francisco celebration. The State and all the region of mines and miners can be counted on to take part in it.

It will be a great occasion If we choose make it so, and who can doubt that such will be our choice? When a pervert, guilty of horrible crimes, wr'tes a novel the only decent treatment to be accorded it would be to drop it into the fire. Yellow journalism does not take this view of th matter, but seizes with avidity upon the unclean and unwholesome stuff, even glorying in the triumph of its own instinct to gather garbage and insulting the pub ie by summoning it to a least of offal. Considerable is being said about a young woman who is turning the heads of such notables as the young sprig who married Anna Gould's money. She is said, among other things, to have royal blood in her veins. As the female in question is the of a San Francisco cigar-drummer it is safe to say that the quality of her blood is a recent discovery.

When the murderous hatcbetmen invade the more or less holy precincts of a josshotiso to do their killing, they have reached a stage of desperation suggesting the advisability of catching a few of them. The halchetmen presume too much on their immunity, and show clearly that they are treated with a consideration they do not deserve. It would appear that the people of North Dakota in their impatience at judicial delay have hanged an innocent man, a mistake for which there can be no excuse. However the blame must rest partly upon the coarts, for by occasionally hanging a guilty man they could prevent this sort of error. Tho Fresno wooer who mado a test case when refused a license to marry a woman divorced less than a year has received from the court an adverse decision.

There nothing for him to do but bow respectfully to the law, go three miles from shore and marry the lady where there is no law. The people of this country will be glad to learn that Count Casteliane still has money to burn or employ in any equally sensible fashion and is engaged In doing so. The report that be was getting vulgarly poor had occasioned widespread re- NOVEMBER METEORS. Probably on recount of the presence of the gibbous moon, which glided each night nearer and nearer to the radiant point, tho meteors have not been seen in unusual num- METEOR WITH LONG TRAIL. between the 10th and 17th of this month, the time generally allotted to the earth to cross the meteoric orbit.

The smaller Leonids were invisible ana only the largest were con" spicuous, several of these leaving streaks of luminosity in their track which lasted some It is not yet fully understood by what means the ashes of the fireball retains its light, as on some rare occasions it leaves a trail that lingers in the upper air for a quarter of an hour or more, meanwhile taking fantastic forms according to me aerial currents in Its vicinity. Phosphorescence of the particles bas been suegested. but this is not supported as yet by experimental evidence. As such bodies, which may be hundreds of Serpentine Form of -Meteor. feet in diameter, speed overhead at the rale of twenty miles per second, the sound of the air rushing into the vacuum created by their swift flight often follows their appearance; also, when rent to fragments by the force ot contact with the atmosphere, the noi-e of the explosion is distinctly heard, according to tho testimony of many oDservers.

One of these detonating meteors was seen by some early-morning pedestrians in this city at about 1 on the lGth inst. Mr. Welker of the Postal Telegraph Company describes it us rendering the street almost as bright as in the daytime, and tne illustrations show the atrame serpentine form it gradually assumed before disappearing. As a hissing sound came simultaneously it indicate that the fireball was not very distant, as sound takes quite a measurable time to travel over lew miles. "At about 1 o'clock Tuesday morning," said Mr.

Welker, "while homeward bound, the street on which I was walking, dark in the shadow of tall buildings which shutout the rays of the moon, was suddenly rendered for a moment almost as bright as day. Siroultane. ously there came a hissing sound, quite similar to that made when an elec ric arc-light current is applied. "The flash, of course, was momentary, and I turned and gazed in the direction whence it proceeJed. A star had snot from east to west, and in its wake a long fiery taii, as it were, was described.

I stood charmed by the sight, and marked the changes Closely. "Gradually the long line of flame assumed a wavy shape, like a wrinkle on the brow of iflfiuity. Then both ends of the meteoric be termed a serpentine movement, until the Rounded Form. stretch of light curled upward in what may whole was transformed into a golden disk which grew more and more contracted and dim till it vanished in the azure deep of night. Several minutes must have been consumed from the flash to the disappearance.

Later I saw another display of the same kind, though not so luminous as the first, and between 1 and 2 a m. shooting stars were observed at rather close intervals, although I could not say that I witnessed a real 'shower' of stars." There detonating meteors are sometimes found intensely heated from friction with the air, but more generally are dissipated in the higher regions of the atmosphere. No doubt the meteors described were Leonids, as they passed from an easterly di ectlon, and the swift motion, the brilliant trail large size are characteristic of this swarm. PER ONALS E. B.

Yerlngton of Carson, is in town. Timothy Hopkins of Menlo Park is at the Palace. General Robert M. Clark of Carson, Is staying at tho Grand. S.

Migllavacca, a wine merchant of Napa, is staying at the Baldwin. A. 11. DucKer and wife of San Jose are staying at the Cosmopolitan. Dr.

M. E. Grossman, a leading physician of Honolulu, is now at the Palace. L. ol San Jose, Assessor of Santa Clara County, is now at the Grand.

Frank E. Corbett of Butte, Is at the Palace. He Is a prominent mining man. J. K.

and G. L. Farnum, two leading merchants of Philadelphia, are at the Palace. Judge Alfred S. Hartwell of Honolulu arrived on a late steamer and is now at the Occidental.

R. Harris and Louis Parker of Sacramento are among the recent arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. D. M.

Livingston of San Jose is staying at the R-is House while on a short sojourn ln this city. F. M. Nickell of Los Angel ss, division superintendent of the Southern Pacific Company, is in this city. J.

T. Hawke of Ceylon is at the Baldwin. S. Pye, who is on his way East from China, Is at the same place. BESH F.

O. nihn of Santa Cruz is now at the Occidental. He is extensively engaged in the real, estate business. F. H.

Olyphant of Pittsburg and H. C. Reeser of Oil City, are slaying at the Palace while hereon business ventures. H. Tanaka, an official of the Yokohama Specie Bank of London, is at the Occidental, on his way to London from Japan.

Attorney J. R. Ciark and R. Grey, a merchant, both of Los Angeles, are making the Palace their headquarters while in this city. Mr.

and Mrs. W. H. Nichllson are at tho California anil will soon leave for their home in Erie, Pa. They have just returned from a tour ol the Orient.

H. Stein of St. Louis is staying at the same hotel. He is on his way to Japan as correspondent for the Philadelphia Record and the Louisville Courier-Journal. MSB The Misses Hannah and Kate C.

Woodhull of New York are at the Occidental. Both are members of the American Board Congregational Mission and are now on their nay to Foochow, China. CALIFORMANj IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. Al the St.

Cloud -C L. Sawyer; M. Klrschhoff; 8. Goldstein; Murray L. 1).

Jacks; G. Oxnard; Miss Oxnard; Su Mr. and Mr-. R. Hector.

R. L. Toplltz eft the St. Cloud and sailed on the St. Paul for Southampton.

CaLIFOHNIaN IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Nov. At the Great J. Carey, Ban Francisco. At the W.

F. Bowers, Ban Francisco. At the J. B. t-tani'ord and wife, San Francisco; Wi.lt am Stauton.

Pasadena. CALIFORN.A.xb AoHiNGTON. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. -L.

D. Radgesky and wife, M. K. Patton and Mrs. M.

J. Healy of San Francis OJ are at the Kiggs House. Thomas Vincent of San Francisco Is at tiie National. Mr. and Mrs.

Boomer of Sau Francisco are making a visit In Washington and are at the Cocnran. A STUDY IN SYMBOLS. From blue to red to goid, From gold to gray; So turns the sky, SO fad the light, to ends the day. from eas? to strife, From sir fe to pain, From pain to peace; So life shall wax, So grief decline mi toll shall cense. Clarence Urmy, In Manser's.

RUbKIN. Very little is heard nowadays of John Rnskin, but tne venerable sage is still living in retirement at Brantwood. Ho receives no visitors excepting a few old friends, and these come but rareiy. His hair and long beard are white, but his features scarcely show his greet Stop that cough wiih Low's horehound cough syrup, price 10c, 417 Sansome Serpentine Form. Rounded Form of Meteor.

and the frequency of fireballs or meteors of Rose O'Halloran. MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE. Editor Call: The title of your article in Monday's issue, "Millions for Defense," suggests that tnere arc more lines of defense than one. The defense of our Industries well deserves an expenditure of som; millions just now. The chief local industry of California is the fruit Industry.

The defense it requires at present is some easier and cheaper means of transport to Eu ropeau markets. California's display at Hamburg exposition has well advertised our goods, and were cheap sea transport available an almost indefinite expansion of this industry woud be possible. The construction of the NiciraL.ua canal would Insure this cheap sea transport. It would also largely Increase the effectiveness of our "Whl'e Navy." It would be, in Admiral Beardslee's words, "the making of California." Let the citizens of the Pacific Coast rise as one man and demand that any millions srent for defense be spent in ihls double defense. Edward Berwick.

"Unser Karl," Bret Harte's latest story, will appear in "The Sunday Call." FLASHEs Or FUN. If you wou'd know the vast unknowD, It need but to your lot b.f To meet and talk an hour with The man who thinks he knows it all. Itlchmoud What can heal a uridyl heart? is there minht to smooth that smart? though sadly we may rue it Mod new clothes will sometimes do It. Record. The beautiful young lady looked earnestly at the middle-aged man to whom she had just been Introduced and said: "How strange Your name has a familiar sound, and when I gaze into your face it seems as ii I must have seen it somewhere, in the dim past." "Yes," he replied, "I was your stepfather for nearly a year, Chicago News.

"Farewell he sobbed. The beautiful Miranda, the light of his life, was, alas, another's. However, the same thing was true of the umbrella he managed to grab In the hall as he left her Detroit Journal. The The boys were all in favor of makin' that reward for you "dead or alive," but I talked 'em out of it. Pizen that was mighty kind of you.

The Oh, I dono as they was any pert. ckler kindness about it. You see. BUI, if you was brought in dead I wouldn't git to the county nothin' for your board and wo lldn git no fee ler hanglu' Journal. ANSWERS Civil Service Oregonlan, Portland, Or.

To enter the postal service of the United states under the provisions of the civil service rules the appliciut should address the in his district if there is a civil service commission there; ii there is not he should send his application to the nearest pos office where there la such a commission! The applicant will be furnished with the necessary blanks. P. Oakland, Cal. The following are the component partj of concrete used on Government work: One barrel cement (Roseudale), three of sand and live of broken s. one or brlik cr gravel or oyster-shells or a mixture of two or more ot them.

Another formula is: One ba-rel of cement, one-third barrel of common lime and from three and a hah to four barrels oi sand, measured Still another is for what is known as Portland concrete: One barrel cement (Portland) one barrel of powdered slacked lime, ton barrels of sand and sixteen barrels of broken stone. Circulation-J. M. Pescadero, Cal. As tothe me, nod of estimating the amount of cold in cucuiation the Director of the United Siates Mint in one of his reports on finance says; As hss been stated In previous reports of trie Director of the Mint in determining the mock, of gold coin in tne treasury and (o on June 30.

1872, and '20. 000.000 estimated at thai, date as the amount of clrcu ation in he ct the Pacific Coa-i-a to a. of was taken as me basis bli.ee that ilme the official timaies lav. been compiled by adding tothe Initial the coinage of the mints (net i re.omage.) nd the gain (or by Imto i export as re mate red at the Cus.om-hoases An annual average allowance, however, of has neeii.tstimaied.aa the amount of cold coins tstd in the industrial arts. The method of estimating the outstanding silver is described by the Director ot the Mint as follows: The coinage of aUver dollars since March 1.

and the subsidiary silver coinage sine 1873. Slin 1 lhe frtlrt'a uuiount was Js.Ooo.OoO.touetl.er with the annual gam or loss or Port-after an annua, deductio.i of tor use in the Industrial taken lt)e estimated ock of silver coin lv the United states. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Here are a few of the- greatest artists' opinions of the which our callow critics scoff at, but it would more reasonable to scoff at the interpreters. Patii says: "How many times in my career my thoughts have turned in gratitude toward the author of the opera in which I achieved my first success! Ii is with all my heart I write my name with those who to-day fete the immortal author of Mme.

Sitnbrichj who Is now creating the greatest excitement in New York, says: "Having obtained, In London, at the debut of my career in 'Lucia' success which decided my fortune as an art st I acquired a blind faith in the role. M- talisman is and wherever I am making my debut I appear as the mad bride of Lammermoor." Slgcor Bavclli, writing of the oni- GAETANO DONIZETTI. zetti centennial celebration, adds: "How easy ills to retain in your heart those glorious melodies which the Wagnerian system is striving to dethrone. So powerful in this world are money, force and human stupidity!" From gnor Camnanari: "In regard to writing something about Donizetti what can I say? I don't know. I only say that almost any one can sing we'l the modern music, but Djntzettl's music very few.

It requires something that in our days no longer exists. Once upon a time people talked of but one method of singing and they sang Donizetti. Now they chatter about all sorts of different methods and they can't sing Domzntl." The late celebrations at Bergamo in honor of Donizetti have drawn the greatest musicians from all parts of the worid together to pay homage to the memory of the great composer. The festivities lasted several days and music reigned supreme. Moiba sang the mad scene from "Lucia" as only she' can sing it, and Joachim pla-ed a Brahms rhapsody, and for encore the famous Bach "Chaconne." At the Vienna Opera-house M.

Mahler has just presented to the pub ie "The Magic Flute" In the old version, as it was given In the Theater Anderwein, directed by Mozart himself and mounted by the director-librettist Schikanwder, who loved to take a'l the merit of the success to himself. It is thus they have reinstated the entire score without any cutting and without the usual changes. They have even renewed ihe ancient scenes. Schikaneder had the genii to arrive in a kind of flying machine, an invention which he claimed, although in the operas of the eighteenth and even the seventeenth centuries similar machines had en seen even more complicated, and M. Mahler had ibis machine leconstrucled.

As regards the distribution, the new director did not hesitate to confide even the smallest parts to the first artists of his theater; thus the charming tenor, Schroiter, had to play the role of the comic blackman; M. Rilter, the first barytone, the man bird, Papageno, and the falcon, Mile. Sedlmalr, one of the ladies of the Queen of the Night. The success of Mozart was surprising. It looks as If he soon would become the favorite of the public and as if he might become a serious opponent, to Richard Wagner.

If the revival of "Fideiio," which M. Mahler is actively preparing, obtains a success equal to that of "The Magic Flute" the Viennese Wagnerians will have real cause to disturb themselves. Nothing more will be wanting than the success of "DerF ischuiz," which M. Mahler has also put on the list of his productions. The Musical Standard says that in the south walk of the old cloister of Westminster Abbey ln London there is an old simple gravestone lying flat on the ground, bearing this inscription: "Muzio called the father of the pianoforte; his fame as a musician and composer, acknowledged throughout Europe, procured him the honor of a public interment In this cloister.

Born at Rome, 1752. Died at Evesham, 1832." The wr.ter goes on to say that this tomb, which should be held dear and sacred by every musician, is so worn and dilapidated that the inscription Is difficult to aeciphnr. Thus runs. the world awr.y. The best man living, let him die today, to-morrow may be forgotten and his tombstone soon be cracked and covered with moss.

A very regrettable event is announced from Vienna. It appears that M. Van Dyck is going to quit the Imperial Opera on account of his frequent indispositions, which have had the effect of rousing tha linger of the court and the city against him. Tne crisis, long latent, cuimlnaied a week ago when Van Dyck should have sung "Manon" with Mile. Renard.

Having renewed his asser ion that it would be imposlb for him to sing, an altercation with M. Mahler ensued which end.d by Van Dyck tendering his resignation. Nothing official nas communicated, it the director of the opera has made tne extraordinary announcement that the promised "Manon" could not be given, fot private reasons. Such announcement has neveryet been made by the Imperial Opera and all Vienna Is talking about it. Bignor de Vivo, the veteran opera and concert manager, fs busy fl.itshlng off his book of operatic reminiscences, which will probably be same time next winter The volume ought to be highly interesting for there is no man living who has had a wider experience of opera and opera singers than Signor de Vivo, and he knows the wheat from the chaff, too, which is more than can be assertedof many of our present musical managers.

Signor de Vivo's memory of singers runs back fifty years and his book is likely to be eagerly read by every one at all Interested In the operatic history of America. Among recent musical publications in France Is a book entitled "Le Voyage Artistique a by Albert Lavignac, professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatory It is at once a guide to Biyreuth.and to ner's music. Sixteen of its 584 pages are devoted to a description ol the via Nuremberg. Then and its Ur Urroundings are and the story of Warner's life Is told briefly. The remainder of the book analyzes the poems and tne music of the operas with French acumen and clearness and with an ins.ght into the structure of the scores such as only a professor of harmony would be likely to have.

But M. Lavignac errs when he says that "The Fairies" has never been produced on any stage. It has often been sung at Munich and elsewhere. The artlss of the Vienna Ope ra have presented to their retiring director an address expressing their recognition of his services, and they are going to present him with a cast rerrcsentine the monument of the opera and crown of laurels, each leaf of which bear the title of ono of tne operas that M. Jain has produced at Vienna for the first time.

Not a very agreeable souvenir, for greater part of the works have disappeared a long whilo ago. Very few of them have had the vitality ot "Manon" and "Werther," two of the works which M. Jahii can pride himself on having enriched the repertory of the opera with. Among the artists who have been heard at the Queen's Hall, London, Weingaertner, the young Parisian pianist, has sisna.ly distinguished herself. Her success was so complete in tho carnival of Schumann that she was at once engaged for a concert at the Crystal Palace, where the public again showed its warm appreciation.

Another young girl who triumphed at the same promenade concert is a violoncellist named Elsa Ruegger. Frequently recalled after the execution of "Kol Nldrel" of Max Bruch she played, as an encore, the "Elfentanz" ot Popper, in which she showod an astounding virtuosity for a child of 14 years. The Parson was the adjudicator of the recent Welsh Elstedfodd at Granville, N. the one hundred and fortieth time he has in this capacity at the musical festivals of Ameri- can-Welsh competitions. That the Parson administered exact justice can be learned from this compliment in the Sentinel: Professor Parson Price, as musical adjudicator, is believed to have treated all competitors fairly.

He is numbered among the most noted and best musicians, and is known to all the Welsh citizens from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast and is a very popular adjudicator. M. Saint-Saens has addressed to a French morning paper the following note: "My clear friend, t.ie history of the lyric 'Theodora' is, as far as I am concsrned, ist as true as that of my half blindness which has run through the press in these latter days. Salnt-Saens." Thus tails to tne ground the legend tbat M. Saint- Saens was going to undertake the composition of a lyric Theodora after the beautiful drama of Victorien S.irdou, a transformation that would be operated with the assistance of M.

Phillippe Gille. M. Massenet's name is also mentioned in advance for the same Theodora. When the drama was given at the Porte Martin, M. Massenet was supposed to have ready a small score on this subjict, but he has already the three scores of "iapho," "Griselldis" and "Cinderella" completely finished, without counting the new version of "Thais," and it seems that he now thinks Of taking a much needed rest.

The Menestrel says: "These Italians are truly charming, and each day they make new and intelligent efforts to draw near to France, which the political measures of M. Crisp! have quite alienated. It is thus a young composer, H. Alfred Donizetti, has just executed with great success, at the Social Theater at Varese, a symphonic composition which bears the amiable title, 'The Battle of It would be interesting to hear vt hat our neighbors would say on the day that M. Colonne should offer to his public a musical poem called -The Bittle of or again, 'The Rout of the Italians in "The Boheme" of Leoncavallo has met with a grand success at the Lyric Theater of Milan.

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