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Wholly Unexpected.— "ls the head c? the tazaV.j in?" asked the agent at the door. The meek little man. with th* slight side whisk- ers, replied at once: "Iam he." Now this answer, violating all tradition, was deemed rarely humor by the ovprh^arers. to whom the unexpected was the soul of wit.—<lndl- anapolla Press. chapel with an ideal, long cherished, rudely 4. stroyed The official concerts of th» Exposition, outsiAj the many given in various parts of the ktou.-kJs k! fin" military bands, take place In th« palace O f th Trocad#ro, one of the monuments left ta Parta one of th- earlier expositions. There ar» «•». orchestral BBS orgfin concerts in the lar^e roa^f which has a capacity of six thousand. aM ch^ ber concerts in tho smaller room. The Sailed F«es Is a striking mostratloa of the elu*!ve E »!! of acoustical laws as applied to building Wv Gamier built tho r.raml Op^ra he travelled all o^T Europe and visited every theatre and eoaE room renowned f or Its acoustic qualities. Wh» a fc. had finish*--!, hi \u25a0 nofes repr*s*nte f| such a Jurr.'W contradictions concerning .-hapes. marorlals \J, proportions that he. threw them all overbear! j^ trusts to chanre. He felt like a man ellr.# n »to a trapezp under a balloon, he says, but wh» n f was don<\ and music resounded in his tror^r^ temple, be was iatlsftad. TVotta! Je sttia &^fl he exclaimed with <leiistht. The Grand O;,*ra i, •\u0084 from perfect a-otjstlcnlly, but better than _ h^j, room of the Trrva<l?ro. which was bijllt on *~;<~, tific llneg and after much expertm*>r.?atlon. Star* '.-.? with thf principle that sound Is refl.-r?o^ a ,i refracted like light, the builders of the Troradfr, palace made a small model In which llsjht* tl*c*& upon the stage acted th« part of ir.ualc. W>»a lines, proportions, planes and surfaces hr»f! all besa adjusted so as to produce the best results, (ij, model was reproducer] on a magnificent sea!» fa the Salle dcs Fe"te S . pm alas f->r the int»gr!ry c* scientific knowledge— the roncert room revf-rb^tei like a drum! Concerts ar* possible in it. >,«• «a the finer eff*.cts4 of muslr- are lost and mo<>ratio" enjoined upon the critic. SAIXT-SAENS'S DTSAPPOINTT.VG MUSIC. The first of the off}-: concerts was opened w*t!j th» cantata composed by Sa!nt-Sa^ns to whicjj allusion haa been made. It had its first ar.d. I fan^y. last performance on this occasion, ur/esj j. Is mail« a recurring feature of the ErxposJt.'ori eo-I certs. Th« performers were the orchestra cf the Conservatoire (about 123 or 130 strong), a chorna o* about 120 voices, an organ and some solo perfona- ers. Including an actor who declaimed the twy thirds of M. Armand Silvestr»'s ode which coulcj not be fitted into the Spanish boots of any k!r.d of musical form. The title of the con3pos!t!on 13 "X^ Feu Celeste" and the poetry Is a gloriS -at'ca ct electricity. First we heard some w!r.ged words about the centuries during which the worM grovelled In darkness because of it 3 - Greece for classical antiquity, and ever ar.i aaca as the actor spoke orchestra ar.d orsjaa mad* scant breathed comments of illustrative character and color Trumpets Rare.l at the announcement of the discovery of electricity, and more ar.4 rsor% the mi!s!r.i; forces entered into the rr.e!!£e. \ soprano solo (sung by Mile. Ackte. of the Grasd Op*ra). apostrophized Phaeton. Icarus and rTocj*. theus as pioneers in the effort to master tia celestial flame, and a final chorus set forth th« present situation in the following sweliins tz& picturesque style: Tar.t d'eclalra Jallliront de l'espace oa nous '"nunsi Dans rimmenslte morne oa leur eclat s'enfuit. Que les Jours Inquiets se dlront que ies homraea I.*-':r ont prla leur clart* pour en parer la nuit! Fit les astro? Jaioux, voyant dans I'ftendue Notre globe roaler dans <*c nimbe verraen, Croiront que. •-iomphan: dans let:r tache Les Ms dv fler Titan font un nouveau soiesi: Despite the theme, there was never an tlectrtc thrill in M. Salnt-Saens's music, which was un- compromisingly of the "occasional" kind. Doubt- less the composer wa3 hampered by the pcet. who wrote without regard to the needs of the musician, but there were opportunities in the classical apes- trophes which might have evoked some tits of b- splred melody. But they did not. Neither did Salnt-Sae"r.s exploit his mastery lr. the learned forms. Once he started a fugue, but fee •I: ! not seem to care to pursue It after be had safely brought in his voices. The final chorus wa3 baldly bomophonl in th* main, with Its .«t!?T strairs colored, embellished and enlivened by the orchestra. H. E. K. /ilneiraL STEEL AGREEMENT CONFIRMED. A * lifornla condor hap been added this week to the Golden Gate I'ark aviary. jt . .. «, Fresno County. This i dture exceeds in eize th<.- true South .-;. "\Wh tbe ex \u25a0•;\u25a0- San J"Si', this Is be- nly California condor in cap- This bird ha? glossy black L.-.V bare, reddish-yellow head. Its - ..* a man's hand, and it June at any vne who approaches its The Southern Padl c Railway Company has ju>'. r for thirty-eight new loco- motives for its lines In this Stat.-. Eighteen \u25a0 \u25a0 \u25a0.- on the C< «fll road •vviii - rby by way of San Jos.'-. Paso Robles and Santa Barbara to I^os Anp--l»-s. Xh ? I be used for freight When the completed it will accommo- :ly all tho tourist travel, leaving; the old iquin Valley for freight. The Rev. Dr. F. M. Bovard hap Y-e-tn chop^n as Editor of "The California Christian Advocate" by the Methodist Commission. He hap preached Intl I r twenty-five years, and has been p P the E] worth I.ea^-ii-'. .\u25a0 \u25a0 111 play, "The Chll- r . r - r \u25a0 was produced hpre for the th Wilton Lackaye in his To ]e- Bco voted the play '•wish playgoers found little H has drawn poor houses, t,. presentation. At the Co- lumbia Henry Miller's company has given "The Tiv \u25a0 \u25a0 that In- cludes Morgan, Miller, Worthing;, Walcot. Sadie Har •\u25a0m. It was a errent per- formance i f the t: \u25a0 st disagreeable play that had '. here in many months. Fanr.ie Kriltrer, niece of the President of Che Trai un suit against her hus- :, Francis E. Newsam, for failure to car.- for In "The Geisha." at tlie TlvolL :*ito prominence by sintr- 3nK talnment given here several \u25a0..•fix of the Boers. ITer .\u25a0 : T '•• Wet and th.- lav Joubert. : PLAMB TO IMPROVE CHINESE QUARTERS —OTHER NEWS OP INTEREST. IBT Ti:i.r.i;UAi'H TO THE tuiiunk.l Pan Francisco. July o.—Since the collapse of tho. bubonic scare there has been much discus- sion of Improving; Chinatown by widening streets, i losing up alleys and constructing mod- ern buildings. Many of the alleys are as foul ajid unsightly as the former section of Five Points and Mulberry Bend of New-York. It require* unceasing vigilance to keep these hovels in sanitary condition, yet tbj rentals obtained from them are so large that the owners will not rebuild. The present quarter Is five blocks long by two blocks wide, and this section occupies one of the choicest parts of San Francisco, lo- cated on hitrh ground, with a noble view of the harbor and sheltered from strong trade winds by the high hills at the summit of Clay, Wash- ington and Jackson sts. The presence of Chi- nese spoils neighboring blocks as a residence district, thus mining one of the fairest quar- ters of the city. Radical measures have been proposed to condemn all buildings in the quar- /ter and widening; the street and moving the Chinese bodily to new quarters, but this cannot be done because of the Influence of the property owners, t'nder the new charter It is even lm- \u25a0possible to abate the nuisance of Chinatown Without the consent of those who have been In- strumental in making it a nuisance. Strong effort is now being made to arouse the property holders in the Chinese quarter to take advantage •of. widening the main streets and securing legiti- 'Znate business houses. The Burlingame Women's Golf tournament, •which Is the annual Fourth of July contest, was won this week by Miss Crock-nt, who defeated Miss Alice Hoffman, of this city, and Mrs. Bowers, of Los Angeles. She secured the Ponia- towskl silver cup, which must be won twice in order to hold it permanently. In tennis George Whitney won the Pacific Coast championship from Sumner Hardy by the ecore of 00 i, o—i.0 i. Both contestants had won the cup twice. Whitney won on nerve and etamina. He now becomes the permanent .owner of the cur*. The match was played at the San Rafael court, and attracted a large audience. Dione, a California bred mare, broke the Coast record this week at Santa Rosa by trot- ting a mile in 2:07 3 She was driven by Charles Jeffries, and made the first quarter in 32 sec- onds, the half in 3 :04, and the third quarter in .'.'A. This v,.\.s in the face of a strong wind, and Jeffries says that under favorable conditions ghe can trJt the mile in -:<\u25ba\u25a0".. She was bred by Adolph Spreckels on his stock farm, and sired by Eros, son of Electioneer, and her dam. Gracie S, by Speculation, son of Rysdyk's Hambleto- nian. FRANK BTUART. V. _ ) is playing the part of Marquis de Baccarat in "The Rotinders." Spur of the Moment": Mr. .-m<l Mrs. Joe I and '(\u0084- Soubrette"; Mile. La Tosca, contortionist; Gorman and Leon- ard, "Human Nature," and the American vita- - Tho seo(in>3 week of Roster & Blal'a Roof of All morrow nlftht. It will be known as German week, and \u25a1 number of distinctively Ie acts will be presented In addition to tho regular bill, which Includes the Fenas brothers, :\u25a0 s, In their "Mi- Theatre"; Elsie Kaii. O. K. Sato, comic ju| Ml Edwards, \ players; Jonephine "ontour brothers, Attio Spencer, In snnif new songs; Al Waltz, ('znrln.i, and St. t'!air eleste, character change artists. A new group has been added f " the wax collec- tion of the Eden Mus*e. It Is entitled "Homeless." A vi ung j--!r'. and hpr still younger brother have •i homo. Although she is ragged, hungry and shivering, her only thought Is of the other she claspa in her arms. Suffering Is pictured in h«-r face, \u25a0 tent nt In thai of the sleeping brother. New moving pictures of th'- war In South Africa and the Paris Exposition are shown afternoons and evenings Moving pictures from Hong Kong, showing tho massing of the as well teristic pictures of i life, are expected within a week or two. The bill of last week will again be presented sit the Venetian Ten len. This tnclu<U's Z«-no, Carl and Zeno, Venezuelan acrobats; the De Foreosts, whirlwind dancers; the two Bonnellls, In id barrel feats; Effle Fay and Mile. Chanton nt; alx-lnch midget of the Rossow brothers' troupe, who will present a n< w repertory of songs. Fifteen acts In all are \u25a0 i, and the performance lasts until mid- night. Wilfred Clarke, the well known comedian, will Is Jeljut in vaudeville at Proctor's Twenty- third Street Theatre this wees} appearing In \u25a0 - Birthday," supported by Theo Carew, Monks, Mabel Roebuck and Clement Hop- kins. Mr. <"lark<- is a son of the late John Sleeper Clarki and a nephew of 1 I Iwin Booth. Adolf Zink the liliputian comedian, will appear In Imper- Other performers ar.- George Wilson. tl .. ml strel i Rixford brothers, Eui \u25a0 j\u25a0 an head balancers; Llttli .nut Pritakow, character vocalists; Furber and Davis, Ingram nnd Jacklln. the Simon brothers, musical clowns ntlnuous concert, from 1:30 tin 10:30 i. in., shows Jinni(- Feamans, "A Surprise Party" company, Cole ami Johnson and their ' '1 Davis, the Brothers Bright, Smith, I '\u25a0•". and ' and I A new feat ire a( Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre this week will bo the debut of Sheridan Block r.nd company. Mr. Block will present the t "Little Mlsb Sherlock Holmes." Others arc Ida Fuller, the spectacular dancer; Wartenberg broth- rothy Novllle, In monologue; THE WOLFSOHN MUSICAL BUREAU 13J EAST J7TH ST., N. Y. HIGH CLASS ARTISTS ONLY. The most reliable Musical Agency in Air erica. GRAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, .'•-\u25a0•B West 57th St.. N»two»n Fr^adwav anil Columbus An. 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PRIMROSE AND DOfKSTADER At Manhattan Beach. PRESIDENT GARY OF FEDERAL COMPANY ISSUES A STATEMENT. The fact that the recent conferences among the presidents (it the leadirg steel and iron companies had resulted in an agreement broadly covering the points of production and price was substantially confirmed yesterday by President Gary of the Fed- eral Steel Company In a statement as follows: The late conferences between the presidents of thn leading ete*?l and iron companies were wholly informaJ. 'Tko questions discusser] relate to the gen- eral condition of the iron Industry, Including sup- ply and demand and present and future prices. The purpose was elmpTy to get information con- cerning I he exact eiluatlon and to exchange views In re^xiru to individual business policies. No concert of action h-'is been contemplated: but. "without exception, the Intercourse has been frank lino friendly. The feeling prevails that as to many products prices have out reached the bottom; and \u25a0although it i? generally believed the price of pig iron and Wllets is at present high in proportion to some of the tininhed products, and should be, re- duced to some t-xtent as food as circumstances will I^rmit, no producer. n>< for as I am informed, has us yt-t publicly announced any reduction. I think i prices will rapidly adjust themselves to the entire 'patlKfaction of the producer and the consumer. The dlsrfsltlon at manufacturer? to consult from time to time with one another, as well as their larger customers thus following the example of the presi- dents of all the lea/ling railroads, should result in Lenefit to all concerned. President Gary was asked about a etatenvnt published In a irade Journal to the effect that tiixrjttwenty Mast furna/v-s, with a total producing <-apftcity of 700,000 tons, had closed in the month of Juiifc. He answered that be knew of only twelve or thin furnaer-s which bad closed, adding that ho thought perhaps a score of others would not ha tblo to operate in ordinary times. TWELFTH .iv.vr.U. COIfVEVTION. PORKEUA i-v a*. TIANIST E. »£«. 2*»£f* V. a-J.ir*-!.. an •! Stetnway * frona. fugi.J .t^epi<*- /"IEORGE LENSOS. Po»ton -London.— Exr<?rt vocal !»- G^truoV'.r i^ifth ynr: tenor: onthMTtaf; cjMOWtt^SHg- «wl.-.« Mrs O«orK« I*BHOB. l>'rrnan prte»ptT«aK la.-JMM- UHI ?l*£. VToin^'. E^t Onrngg. X. J-: "i; CV POnB I~VTTA. oT^n tenor. IWjnjlWl l^* anyone st^r.K ORTON CONSERVATORY. J72 \V. 23J M-— Rial* •trumerts <ur:u-h.-i Sue.-.,» K u .:.\u25a0.".:««. ___ JOHN E. WEBSTER, from LONDON. vTJI) Tiano and Harmon] Un» Sp«ctatt£ > i>uatY 5 West as Sfc New York. .1 £»9 Cartton Ay- Itr^.^'.yn. urMCOODEN rR.\SR- Vooai IrwirDCttoo. o:i rs»**?r s»**? jVI MfthoJ- Studio 3E. uth st Youv. trird *"*\u25a0": "\£«- mmX ' " "SEVERN TKUV 131 Wrt »»•* , MMX. l»i:i.lVV C. rKCKIMM. Sprln« t-rm. SWMWW price*. r: vol.*trial 137 Ea»t Sflth-»t^ >• . SKSHSSSK 'aoST?: K<a k « Inc. Sl* U tl \u25a0-\u25a0 St __- £MO1«M OK) M trotr. cuttur* . P«v--,r,» for «g» and *hurch; r»aa^aabU terma. >Tl 1.0. V- -' - _ JIATTO?rAL LEAGUE OF REPUBLICAN CLUBS TO MEET AT ST. PAUL NEXT WEEK. The twelfth annual convention of the National IVagut- of Republican Clubs will be held at St. T'aul, 'Minn., from July 17 to 19. In this conven- tion thn Republican League of New-Jersey is ex- pocted to take, a prominent part, and arrangements are being made for representation from all the counties In the State. F. F. Meyer, the presi- dent of \u25a0- New-Jem Ix-ugue, said yesterday that the officers of the State organization would leave Jersey City on the Pennsylvania Railroad at 2:14 p. m. on Saturday. July 14. and that they \u25a0would be pleased to hear from any delegates and membrrH who may desire to Join them on the trip. The trnln can be taken at various points in the State on the main line of the Pennsylvania, and flt-eping car rc-servjitlons wtl l^e ma/le for delegates and members If they make application In time. From Chicago th« Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul lias been named a* the official route for the league. Governor Roosevslt and those who accompany him will use this line from Chicago to St. Paul and re- turn. THE SAINT GERVAIS SINGERS. One. of the most picturesque of the monuments reproduced from the mediaeval city in the portion of the Exposition called Vteux Purls Is the church Of Saint Jullen dcs Menetrlers, which was the meeting place of the musical guilds of France at a time when professional musicians throughout Europe were still little better than vagabonds in the eyes of the law. In this picturesque little chapel the Chanteura de Saint Qervala give con- certs of sacred music every afternoon. The con- certs are a singularly serious sort of entertain- ment to offer to the careless visitors to Old Paris, and the contrast between the solemn service within and the motley rout without Is exceedingly strik- ing yet a goodly number of persons generally gather to bear the music, especially on Sundays, and the programmes are lofty and dignified to decree. The A capolla masters of the sixteenth century dominate the lists, but Ituc'i has much consideration, and modern composers are not neglected. The mission of the Chantwurs de lint Qervala Is like that of the Muslc-al Art Society In New -York, and the first motet that 1 heard sung by them was one which la In the repertory of that society. namely, Vlttorl.i's "O magnum mys- tertum." Alas, for the expectations which I had cherished on entering the chapel! The score si men and women who sans were sorry represents tlves. or else the reputation of the Oervuslans is wholly fictitious. Not for a moment did tho choir even suggest the precision, the lovely tone Quality or tho expressiveness of the Musical Art Society. The singing was no better than that of an or- dinary New-York chorus choir, and I left the I paid that I had found evidence of the unmusical character of the French people also In the singing of a crowd at 9t. Cloud. I could not distinguish what the song was about, but It was an aimless, tuneless thing, and of the. hundreds who sang it In obedience to the frantic waving" of their leader's umbrella not one seemed to have the slightest consideration for the key chosen by his neighbor. Such cacophony wouM have driven the listeners mad In a German or Italian town. COT.ONNE'S POPULAR CONCERTS. Put enough of this fault-finding— lt Is more agree- able to look at the generous measure of musical entertainment which has been provided for the visitors to the gay capital. Twice every day, after- noon and evening. Colonne gives a popular orches- tral concert. In which singers and Instrumental virtuosi participate. In the large theatre which Is one of the features of Vteux Paris. Hl9 orchestra numbers one hundred performers and Is an ex- cellent band, notwithstanding that it seems to nave been recruited to some extent from the provinces. Three hundred concerts are promised within the continuance of the Exposition, and the programmes are given an educational value by milking them Illustrative of the various national schools of music tn turn. Concerts are devoted to a composer, a group of French or German composers, or to representatives of various nation- alities simultaneously, as the case may be. In a general way the plan Is almost as broad and comprehensive -.< that which Mr. Thomas laid out for the World's Fair at Chicago in 1533, but which failed miserably for want of popular support. M. Colonne's enterprise has not yet won the measure of patronage which It deserves, the audlen-es seldom exceeding four hundred persons, but there la a vast difference between his payrolls and those of Mr. Thomas. An orchestral musician in the X'nlted Stutes expects to earn from £3 to $40 a \v.-,'k when steadily employed: M Colonne's men and women (I observed three women among the violins) arc satisfied with 10 francs a day for two concerts thut is. Jl per concert. It would not be Juat to compare the playtr.g of the band with that of the best concert organizations In New-Y^rk. Boston and Chicago at their carefully prepared concerts, but considering the drudgery which they have been performing dally for m^re than a month pns*t, the work of the men Is remarkablf for Its vigor and vitality. M. Colonne Is an energetic, conscientious and authoritative leader, and re- freshliiKly free from affectations either of manner or of originality In reading. To Illustrate a point made at the outset of this letter It may he added that two of the concerts last week were devoted to Sulnt-SaPns and Massenet, anii that the music played was the overture to "U PrmcSBBS Jaune." tin prelude to "La D#tasja/* the ballet music from \u25a0•Henri VIII." two movements from the third pianoforte concerto and the "I>:in*e Mr.cabre" by the former, and the overture to "Phedr.- noblest work. I think). "I-e dernier Sommell d»> la Vlerge," tho ballet numbers from ''I.<.- CUT and "Ilerodlade." by the latter. [FROM a STAFF CORRESPONDBXT OF TUB TBIBCXI.] Paris. June 23. France. I fear. is not a musical nation, despite the brave show which It makes In history and the energy with which music 13 cultivated and the generosity with which It is encouraged by the Government. It Is a study of the official and th" popular manifestations which has led to this mournful conclusion on my part. I have attended performances at both of th*> subvention*-)! opera houses, listened to concerts at the Grand Theatre at the Exposition and * t the TrocadeYo, had music dinned Into my ears at Innumerable kiosks and music halls, my drowsy senses roused morning after morning by the aggressive strains of barrel organs and heard a crowd of merrymakers lift their voices In son* at a f£te In St. Cloud. "Faust" Is the burden of the song at the Grand Opera, the soldiers' chorus. Slebel's flower song and the waltz from "Faust" are the essential elements In the repertory of the bands and barrel organs, and when I want to hear what French orchestral music is like at the end of the nineteenth century I am asked to content myself with the overtures and ballet numbers of Saint-Saens and Massenet, which were hackneyed In New- York more than a decade ago. "Faust" is admirable music— we all know that—but for one who has faithfully "as- slated" for sixteen years at opera performances In what Mr. Henderson wittilycalls the "Faust- splelhaua" In New- York there com*"* a time when he may be pardoned for thinking that It la pos- sible to have a little too much of Gounod's lovely opera. It Is one of Mr. Gilbert's philosophical gentlemen. I believe, who compels his brothers in arms to confess that while candy 19 an adorable thins;, with candy for breakfast, candy for luncheon, candy for dinner and candy for tea, even candy might become tiresome. For candy read "Faust," and an American's complaint against one phase of French musical culture may find some Justification at least. Besides, to make an end of the arraignment of the Grand Opera, It Is not inspiriting to listen to performances of the operas which form the bulk of the Metropolitan repertory that look and sound like performances by Mr. Gran's minor forces "on the road." I can think Of no fitter characterization than this of the repre- sentation of "Romeo et Juliette" which I attended. YOUNG MEN NOT HEARD FROM. There was some Interesting talk some months ago of concerts at which the younger French composers were to be exploited: but when it came to the opening of the official Exposition concerts In the Trocadero the Inaugural ode was the com- position of Salnt-Saens It proved to be a bit of commonplace padded with a lot of declamatory bombast hut of that more anon: the point 13 that for a foreign visitor anxious to learn what France is doing for music and In music to-day It would have been more interesting had a newer man than Saint-Saens been intrusted with the commission. Neither Saint-Saens nor Massenet has composed anything eompa-able with their earlier works within the last ten years— nothing, indeed, that Is likely to be heard at the end of the first decade of the new century about to open; It might have been better therefore to have given them a place of distinction In a series of historical concerts, which would do for music what the retrospective Centennial Exhibition (far and away the most Instructive and beautiful feature of the Exposition) Is doing for art. industry and agri- culture, and given an opportunity for some one of the new school to win his spurs. Unhappily the reign of Gounod. Salnt-BaPns. Massenet and Bizet Is as tyrannous In Paris to-day as It was fifteen years ago. If there Is a genius among the young men whose names I hear, but never a note of their music, France will probably not discover the fact until circumstances compel It to set up a new- national hero to check the popularity of the for- eigners, as was done In the case of Berlioz thirty years ago. NOTES ON SOME EXPOSITION CONCERTS-- COLONNE AND TAFFANEIr-THE SING- ERS OF SAINT OKRVAIBK-BAINT- SAENS'S OPENING ODE. A FORTNIG-HT IN PARIS. MUSIC GOULD JEWEL CASE IN SUPREME COURT. Justice McAdoin, In the Supreme Court, yester- day reserved his decision on an application by Charge* William Blair, who was arrested on a clarge of having atotea Jewelry from Mrs. Edwin Gould's apartments at the Hotel Carlton, London, for hi* ralesMS from the Tombs. Magistrate Pools has rf?rr.H.r.'i< d Blair several times In order to allow the Scotland Yard d*ttoJJves to arrive her.- «,i;d Identify the prisoner. His counsel contended that the laet remand was Illegal. Arrielant District Attorney Carr asserted that the Information received from London and the evl- <3t-nce given tx-fora th« Magistrate warranted ->Oair"s detention. PIANOTI&T axy o.mk cas riu-v* rr. O»!> or tnstalm«ata. Redtata <UUy. Ad«* 41 r* «*«. MB ntth, AT«au«. Cor. Ctd BU**t. Fall River. Mass., July 7 (Special).— Brokers re- port another week of quietness in the local print cloth market. The sales were not much In excess 5f thirty thousand pieces, and nearly all were wide odds. The market for regulars was as feeble as it has been for some time past. Many mill men are beginning to question the judgment of the Selling Committee In reducing the price of cloth two weeks ago. It was contended at the time by those who were in favor of fighting the depression until Its real cause was ascertained that the buyers "•\u25a0••"\u25a0 out of the market Just now, that they did not want much cloth at any price, and that those who would purchase for 2% cents would continue to come in as readily If the quotation were main- tained at i;',, cents. The results attained since the cut would Indicate thai the optimists were right. The real reason for the reduction was to create a demand, and it has failed to do bo. The demand Is no stronger to-day than it was before the reduc- tion. A few odds are going in small lots, and there is absolutely do i all for the regulars. Having failed to Improve the condition by cut- ting rates, the manufacturers are going to try cur- tailment, something that several of the wise ones advised before reduction. a paper was pent out this week and a call nuade for the signatures of those who were willing to shut down for a month before September 1. Within twenty-four hours representatives of one hundred thousand spindles bad signed, and curtailment Is assured— ln fact ii has gun. New signers are coming every day and ut noon to-day two mills shut down for two weeks Next week others will be in Hue. There are \u0084,,,,,. mills engaged on contracts that are binding until the end of July, and those mills will shut down all the month of August This action cuts off the accumulation of one hundred thousand pieces of cloth, and will make a difference where Ii will count to advantage In the amount of cloth on hand Jt la generally believed that the curtailment will lead to a reaction that there will be a good de mand before the time agreed upon hits expired and that bettor prices will be secured for the cloth. Tiiu uitu'ket remains ilrm but aulmi at 2%. oenta. MANUKA' TITREItS HOPE CURTAILMENT WILL DO WHAT PRICK RBDDCTIOM FAILED TO. GUEST PLACES REVOLVER MUZZLE IN ITIS MOUTH AND FIRES. Shot through the mouth anr] lying face down- ward In bis room at the Park Avenue Hotel, a m.-i/n who bad registered as Arthur Taylor, of Manches- ter, Vt., was found yesterday afternoon, having committed suicide. Little was known of the man at the hotel where he arrived yesterday forenoon. He was fashiona- bly dressed In s Buit of gray flannel and carried a silk umbrella, but no baggage He w.-.s apparently about forty years old. nearly six feet tall, and weighed about one hundred and eighty pounds. Upon registering at the hotel a room was as- signed him, and he went to If at rune. He was not •;er that, mid the clerk, becoming suspicious, put a boy over the transom. Taylor was found lying fare down or: the fl KM in front of th. mirror. No report of a revolver . ! been heard In the hotel. The man had evidently placed the revolver in his mouth and then Bred That the ad was commit- ted shortly after Taylor went to bis room la evi- dent from the condition of the body. The bed had not been touched. The man was fully dressed with the Kception of bis d< rby hat, which lay on the front of the mirror. The dead man left his name written on the card of a New- York physician. The Vermont address it written on this enrd. however which was takei In charge by the police of the West Thlr- tieth-st. station. XO DEMAND FOR I'UIST CLOTHS. SUICIDE AT PARK AVENUE T7OTEL. Professor C. H. Snow, of the University of New- York, i.; now occupying Klrkslde, the mountain residence of Miss Helen M. Gould, at Roxbury, who, however, Is i xpected to spend part of the summer there later in the season. .1 c Maben of New-York, has a fine summer home on Birch Cre< k. Pine Hill. The Rev. Dr. Mac- Cracken who is summering al I'ii.e Hill, as usual, will occupy the Methodist pulpit there durl s;ay It F. E. Schley of New-York, is again ed with his family In their Pine H1 J V. Hunt and wife, of Mew-York, are at th« Belmont cottage. Asa K. Smith, of Brooklyn, has the Grovesmont cottagi near the T<eU Ayr. The Weingart Institute, at Highmount, has hundred pupils for the season. Tlie Palace Hotel, at Shandaken, hns been leased for a term of years by William O. Krope. who has renamed it the Rip Van Winkle Inn, at the risk of n more confounded than ever among tho houses named after Rip now In existence iliTi . The new observatory on Slide Mountain, that .Tap of the Catskills, and the newly opened bridlepath up the slope will be greatly appre- ciated by tourists there The old path opened years ago by "Jim" luucher, the famous guide, rown over almost completely, and to jj-et l< st on that wild crag was easy enough, with rather disaetl \u25a0 \u25a0 s In store. The new opera house at Cairo, built by Henry 8. Duncan, Is an attractive feature In that popu- lar summer region. Hotel Ulster, at Pine Hill that was. will here- after be known .••.<; the Wellington. Walton Van Loan, the guide and map maker, hns rented his cottage in Catskill and will spend the summer with bis wlf< the various moun- tain resorts. The Mountain Athletic Club of Flelschmanns is scheduled to cr^ss bats with the Star Athletics, of Newark. N. J., this afternoon. Judge Leventriti of New-York, was a guesi at Hunter. Miss E. F. Pell, a New-York artist, lias arrived at her cottage there I Bummer. Mrs. Timmens and family, of New-York, aiso have a pleasant cottage near that quaint old village on the Schoharle. \u25a0 ittei slon oi the t'lster and Delaware from Bloomville to Oneonta is about twenty miles In ]•!•.;;•::. and preparations are being made to run trains there in a week or ten days. This rou save about forty miles In distance between New- York and Cooperstown Henry 1.. Pratt, of Brooklyn, lias taken the Bar- ner cottage on Brooklyn Heiffhts, Stamford. Charles S. Mills Is a guest fDi Bristol at his \u25a0 ; de Navarre. Mrs. Frances M Barr and Miss Ella I. Barr are also there. A new Kolf club hns been organized at Stam- ford, with A. ]> Middleton as president, to be known as the Utsayantha <;olf Club. A new course has been laid nut by A. H. Fcnn. Many of the Kpwnrth league delegates visited Hotel Kaaterskill Id Catpkill Hm- the convention cli Si imford. and mm prise and admiration were manifested at thi liitude and beauty of the great re<~..rt on the moun- tain top. Manager Eder Is having a most auspi- cious opening there. The first hop in the great ball- room I i^ht. Judging by the number of trunks people bring here it would seem that a large proportion of them mean to stay all summer. And this Is a marked feature of the Stamford resorts. Perma- nent guests, rather than transient, Is the order, which certainly speaks well for the place nnd its hotels. People do not come here to see Niagara Vails, nor any other wonderful thing, natural or artificial, but just to enjoy the summer months hi rest among the many pleasant conditions which prevail. It can hardly be that so many excel- lent people are mistaken about these things year afi.r year. Surely their hosts never stop to argue this point with them. Xh< sessions of the Epwortb convention were In- teresting and largely attended. Tho new Assem- bly Hall Is voted a great success, though some think it should have been larger. The new Grant House is presided over by Judge John P. Grant, of Delaware County, who Is the Mr. Grant and family have retun rd for the sununer. Many well known peo- ple have already arrived at this select resort. Churchill Hall is still the great popular hotel here, while the Rexmere caters more especially to those who do not object to the higher i Among those at the Went holm are Mrs. Holland C. Anthony and daughter, Waldo H. Blackwell and Mrs. G. !.. Marshall, all of Brooklyn. A. I>. Middleton at-..', family, of New-York, are in- stall* d In their Grant hurst Park cottage. Miss M. X Treadwell. of Brooklyn, is summer- ing at Churchill Hall, as usual, labi ring » In the Interest of Grace Chapel always. eial survey of Mount Utsayantha has Just ide by a corps of engineers from the United States Geological Survey. VAST CROWDS OF VISITORS OO TO THE MOUNTAINS NOTES OF HOTELS AND COTTAGES. * Stamford. N. V.. July 7 (Special). There hua been some ideal mountain weather this week and vast crowds Of visitors arc pouring in to enjoy it. At many points the number Of guests Is some- what larger than In previous vents for the first week in July. This is true of this charming village up here In the western rim of the range, where every house is already In the midst of X"" 1 ' business. The Bpworth League convention during the early part of the week brought many delegates and friends, though less In number than had been ex- pected or provided for Most of these have now re- turned to their homes, but their places have 1 n doubly filled by new nnd more permanent guests, and to-night the usually quiet streets are resound- ing with summer gayety and life. Train nfter train has been pulling up at the ii'.tl^ station all day with hundreds of eager visitors, nnd there has been n grand hustle to Ret the immense piles of c distributed in time for the evening din- ners and hops. The Casino Roof Garden this week offers I^ottiu <;ii:-"ii, Bam Weston and his two daughters, in a musical comedy act; the three Lane slaters, acro- bats; Carlotta Delmar, Irick cyclist; Burke broth- ers and tii- tr con. leal ntar donkey, Wist Mike- the Gardner trio of brothers, musical comedians and baton manipulators, and Octavle Barbe. in the theatre pan "The Rounders" oontlnuea with Thomtia Q Beabrooke, Phyllis Rankln Joseph llei1,, rt. Madi c I .c-- | ng md Davi l^ewts. The M!i \u25a0 the Chern Blossom Grove, New-York Theatre roof, tin week presento among other ni Marwlg*finew bajlet, "Die Puppen i'e.-" ; tho four CoUni, whirlwind JantfM; A. Baldwin •loane. In "My Rainbow Coon"; Parnham mid beiiuuur, cuiucdy Juniper*. BnUM auU Hueacll, At Proctor's Palace this week the programme will include the farce, "A Surprise Party," by Grace Belasco, Blanche Homana, Lon Sti'vejis and Leonard Walker; th< Bachelor Club, comedians; Cole and Johnson, With the Premoni sisters, in , the brothers Bright, gymnasts; Doty and Coe, musical trio; Wrothe and' Wakefleld, Irish talkers, and the Ramsey sisters. In a musical aci To-day's concert, continuous from 2 til! 10:90 p. m., presents Ralph Stuart nnd company, Nan Lewald, Gun Pntley and company Galetti's moneys and the Wartenberg brothers. Bettina Gerard beads the Mil at the Lion Palace Root Garden this week. The Rio brothers, the Countess yon Hatifeldt, MeWatt ere and Tyson, Dais and Yokes, Nellie Sylvester, the Oralgs, Al w.iiiz the Munroe sisters and De Witt and Burns are also on the programme. In the .vent of ruin rformanci is i irried on in the music ball Sundays there an two concerts, \u25a0 ' I iti.l S3O p m. Happy Fanny Fields the little Dutch Klrl; the Noas family, acrobats; the Crawford sisters, in sour and dance; Flatow and Dun, cakewalkers, and Weat- nd Wren, iur.ti sketch. To-day's continu- ous concert, :'r"tn '_' till ](>:4.*. p. m., includes John Frederick Cooke and Dallas Tyler, the Rixford brothers the Bachelor Club, Viola I foils and Ten- ley and Simonds. The summer residents of Rye-on-the-Sound are arranging to give a fete champetre and vaudeville entertainment on August 10 in aid of the Village Improvement Association. It is to be held at Ed- ward's Beach Hill, overlooking the Sound. In the afternoon refreshments will be served, and there will be a band concert and a children's carnival. In the evening there is to be an exhibition of Gibson pictures and a dance in a large pavilion. More than fifty women of Rye are named as patronesses. The committee consists of Charles p. Cowles, C. Stewart Schenck, Reginald P. Sher- man, Henry Wood worth Cooper, the Rev. Douglass Putnam Birnle, George S. Dearborn, Btuyvesanl Walnwright, Robert F. Mathews; Arthur C. (twynne, Cornelius V. Bewail, F. H. Wiggln. Percy Morgan and Marcellus C Parsons. Mrs. Richard T. Walnwright, Mrs. Arthur Comnock, Miss Mabel Gwynne, Miss Sarah F. Read and Miss Edith Mathewa are the women members of the committee. The largest of this season's social affairs, at Larchmont-on-the-Sound will probably be the fairs of its two churches Nearly a hundred women .ire making the arrangements, and the summer colony of actors has volunteered Its service The fair in aid of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church will begin next Wednesday and continue until Satur- day in the palish house On the following Monday the congregation of St. Augustine's Roman Cath- olic Church will begin Its fair, which is to Ih> held in a large tent, and will lasl a \w-ek The Rev. E. J. Powers, of St. Augustine's, expects to sail for Europe In September, and while abroad will vl.-.1l Rome. SiimmtT sports and festivities in Westchestei County are now lit their height, and nearly every vantage place along, the beach or overlooking the Bound or Hudson River is occupied. The club- houses are overrun with yachtsmen and golfer* At Ryu Mr. and Mrs Simeon Ford are occupy- ing their large summer home at Oakland Beach Henry W. Cooper, secretary of the Apawamla Club, mid Mrs. Cooper have returned from Eu- rope, arid are ngiUn at their h'»m«\ In Purchase- »t. Mrs. John Downey widow of the builder of the Waldorf-Astoria, has taken a place in the Bowerte at Milton Point Henry Gllaey. of the Gllsey House Is also at Milton. Among other newcomers who are occupying cottages are Mr and Mrs. Hurry Center. c. Stewart Schenck. Mrs. Drake Smith. Mr. and Mm. Archibald Duffle, Mr. and Mrs Fan- \u25a0haw. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts and Mrs Harold Btrebetgh. Mrs. Bohlam. the author has chartered the sloop yacht Dutches*, nnd Is spend- ing th« summer on \u25a0 crutso on Long Island Bound Mr. and Mrs. Collia P. Huntingdon have returned to their home at Throg** Neck. Wean-heater Adrian Iselln, Jr.. who recently chartered the nt^aa yacht Ralidna. Ik off with a yurty ot friends on a cruise to Halifax, PREPARING F'>H A VAUDEVILLE ENTERTAIN- MENT AT HVK GOLF AND TACHTTNQ THE CHIEF SPORTS. WESTCHESTERTS SUMMER GAYETY. MANY PRECAUTIONS TO PREVENT THEM— SAND TO QUENCH FLAMES. The terrific fire which wag started by lightning among the tanks of the Standard Oil Company at Constable Hook early Thursday morning, and which for several days filled the sky with black stroke clouds by day and a reddish glow by night, was not the first to furnish such a display to New- Yorkers. Tori years ago oil fires were of frequent occurrence, both in the oil fields and at the refin- eries. The losses, however were seldom large, for the refineries were smaller am did not store any great quantities of oil. Th.re have been many \u25a0:-•\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0"" oil fires, and some in which the loss was more than $500,000. There have been oil fires, too. which have destroyed a great deal of valuable ad- joining property, and others In which the oil found its way to nearby watercourses, doing great dam- age to wharves and vessels. Bui never before, ac- cording to oil men who have been In the business Bll.ce the start, has there been so large a tire as the one which is still smoking at the Hook. The falling off in the number of serious fires of this kind has been chiefly due to greater care In handling the product. Many lessons were learned from fires, and have been applied to the best ad- vantage. The Constable Hook plant, which has Just been destroyed, was considered as well equipped to with- stand tire as any in the country. The fact that It was almost entirely wiped out. In spite of the efforts of hundreds of men, fire engines and tugs, only goes to show the impossibility of doing much With an oil fire after It gets fairly started. The officers Of the Standard Oil Company are firm In their belief that the fire was started by lightning. They no longer fear the explosion of gas in over- heated tanks or the carelessness of employ* One of the most destructive tires the Standard Oil Company ever suffered occurred at Constable Hook almost on tho site of the recently destroyed works This fire started on the nieht of February 10, ISS9, and burned for many hours. Ft was due to the carelessness of a watchman, who dropped a lamp on the tloor of a big warehouse. The tire was kept down by pumping out many of the endangered tanks. Many vessel..- at the wharves were rescued with difficulty. The loss amounted to more than This fire was followed a month later by the de- struction of another of the company's plants at Loner Island City. An oil tank exploded, and the entire plant would have been lost had not many of the tanks been empty. A barge loaded with oil took lire and spread Its blazing cargo over the water. Several Bin vessels were burned. On January 28, 1890. not her lire visited this plant and destroyed 1300.000 worth of property. A fire of peculiar origin Wiped out another of the company's plants at Louisville, Ky.. in July of the me year, A tank car, which had just ar- rived from Cleveland. Ohio, had become heated and exploded, is Its cargo was about to be trans- ferred to a refining vat. The fire spread over the greater part of the works and did $150,000 damage Borne & Scrymser*s large oil plant on Staten Island Bound, a mile below Elizabeth, was de- stroyed by tire on January 26, 1893, caused by the explosion of a barrel of oil on the pier. The loss was $2.V>,ortn. ' In June, 1898, the Standard Oil Company's works at Newark. N. J., suffered a $50,000 tire, which for a time threatened to spread to the city. There have been several fires In the vicinity of this city since, but the loss In every ease was small. Few If any lives have been lost In oil works fires. The sufferers In these fires have been the firemen. Cleveland and Pittsburg have suffered severe fires, but none which did as mu~h damage as this one at Bayonne. Cleveland's most serious oil Ore was in 1888, when tank No. 1 In the Standard Oil Company's yard exploded. Nearly $1,000,000 damage was done. An oil expert of the Standard company said yes- terday to a Tribune reporter: "Tell your people thai th-y missed It If they did not watch this Constable Hook tire. They may never see another, for we are not going to have many more. Compare the oil fire records of the nineties with those of the eighties, and you will .-\u25a0•\u25a0•\u25a0 what I mean. Fin •\u25a0 are becoming more in- frequent every year, and our methods of keeping them In check are rapidly being perfected. Of course, lightning is a hard thing to fight. One of the principal reasons for the falling off in oil tires is the big combination. Th.> number of refineries about the country has been greatly reduced. Why, the Standard lias torn down several plants almost us big as the one it the Hook. Then we know more about fighting oil fires than we used to, Every one knows that water only makes matters worse. Earth is what Is needed, and you'll soon hear of an invention which will throw sand instead i f water. If this invention can be perfected It Will still further reduce the chance of oil fires. "In rebuilding the Bayonne plant several im- provements will be Introduced in the pipe system, and then, if lightning shmili again strike a tank, the fire will not be able to spread over the entire works." OIL FIXES DECREASING. The forty-third annual Worcester Music Festival will be held from Sept. ml., r H to 28. with seven concerts and seven public rehearsals. The princi- pal choral works to be gtven are ('Psar Franck'S "Beatitudes," Brahma's "German Requiem," Verdi's Te Demo and Sullivan's "Golden Legend." The orchestra] -v.irks include Glasunow's sixth pym- phony, Mendelssohn's third (Scotch) and Schu- bert'a Unfinished. The soli. «mmn will be Mom. Llllinn Blauvelt, Mlhs Sara Anderson. Frau Schn- mann-Hetnk, Messrs. Evan Williams, Th.-a V.m Vorx. a. Campanari and Gwllym Miles. George W. Cbadwick will conduct. Ernst yon Dohnanyt, the young Hungarian pian- ist, will open his coming tour In this country late in November with n piano recital In this city. Maud Powell, the violinist, has been enframed to make her reappearance In this country early In January with the New-York Philharmonic Orches- tra. Miss Powell Is at present pl.'iylnß In France. Mrs. Pierre NoSl, a young: American prima donna, who made her debut In London a few seasons ago, will make her first professional appearance In America at the Newport Casino Saturday evening; August 4. After Newport Mrs Noel will visit Saratoga, 1. -ike George and the Thousand Islands. She is the daughter of the late Abraham Wakeman, who was at various times Postmaster and Sur- veyor of the I'ort of New-York, and also member of the xxxivth Congress with Russell Sage. Master Edwin A. Grasse, of this city, who ap- peared here some yean ago as a violinist, Ikls ?»-«-ii studying with C^sar Thomson, of Brussels. At the Conservatory there he re. ently won the first prize with distinction. MUSICAL NOTEB. dnncers and sinners; Josef Adelman. xylophone p>>lolst; Montrell, Murpuerlfo fVirnllle. Everhnnlt. in hi* hoop act; Bam, Clara and Kittle Morton: Nellie O'Nell ;m<! company, Johnson and Dean, and l'olk rui'l KolltnH. Concerts will be given to-nlKht, one in the main theatre and one In the Cherry Hlossom Grove. 'NEW-YOKK? VKTVY TKIKUWSr. ST7ISrDAY. miEY 5. 1900. IDEAL CAT SKILL WEATHER. TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA. .?^ The programme at Tony Pastor's for the coming w<eek presents Monroe and Mark. In "Just Two Darkeys"; Post and Clinton, In comedy grotesque sketch; Miss Frances Curran, the sinking come- dienne: Mile Olive, .hiKßier; ( roorßC C. Davis, "Tho Man Behind the Gun;" Frnnk K. Mortimer nnd .lew.il Darrell, in a bit of travesty; John J. an-l LJlllan Hoover, "In the Vaudeville"; Murphy uinl Nolan, "The Mlckfl with the All Burnt H.ilr"; Morrell and EJvans, Frank and Don, in "<>n the The bill at Keith's for this week Includes Wright Huntlntfton and company. In "The Stolen Kiss"; MarzfilH's birds. Juan Calcado, "kins of the bound- liiK wlr«"; Unnies and Blsson, in "The Marrlnpe ltrok.T"; Mldgely and Carlisle, In "After School"; Moreland, Thompson nnd Roberta, in a new com- edy, by Edmund Day, called \u25a0•Two Black Bheep"; Flood brothers, comedy acrobats; Wall ci\u\ Ar- delle, comedy sketch and eccentric piano playing; the Harbecks, contortion and wire act; Pal and Mattle Rooney, dancing; Volkyra. equilibrist: Fox and Ward, Hark face comedy; Bansone and De- lilah, heavy welghi balancing, and Rossiey and Rostelle, Irish team Th-> btograph will show moving pictures of the Fhlpplntc tiro, tho ruins at Hoboken and the big blame at the Standard oil works ;ii Constable H«.ok. NOTES OF THE STAGE.

TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA. IDEALchroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1900-07-08/ed...Is mail« a recurring feature of the ErxposJt.'ori eo-I certs. Th« performers were the orchestra

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Wholly Unexpected.— "ls the head c? the tazaV.jin?" asked the agent at the door.

The meek little man. with th* slight side whisk-ers, replied at once: "Iam he."

Now this answer, violating all tradition, wasdeemed rarely humor by the ovprh^arers. towhom the unexpected was the soul of wit.—<lndl-anapolla Press.

chapel with an ideal, long cherished, rudely 4.stroyed

The official concerts of th» Exposition, outsiAjthe many given in various parts of the ktou.-kJs k!fin" military bands, take place In th« palace

Of thTrocad#ro, one of the monuments left ta Parta j£one of th- earlier expositions. There ar» «•».orchestral BBS orgfin concerts in the lar^e roa^fwhich has a capacity of six thousand. aM ch^ber concerts in tho smaller room. The SailedF«es Is a striking mostratloa of the elu*!veE»!!of acoustical laws as applied to building WvGamier built tho r.raml Op^ra he travelled all o^TEurope and visited every theatre and eoaEroom renowned for Its acoustic qualities. Wh»a fc.had finish*--!, hi \u25a0 nofes repr*s*ntef|such a Jurr.'Wcontradictions concerning .-hapes. marorlals \J,proportions that he. threw them all overbear! j^trusts to chanre. He felt like a man ellr.#n»toa trapezp under a balloon, he says, but wh»nfwas don<\ and music resounded in his tror^r^temple, be was iatlsftad. TVotta! Je sttia &^flhe exclaimed with <leiistht. The Grand O;,*ra i, •\u0084from perfect a-otjstlcnlly, but better than

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room of the Trrva<l?ro. which was bijllt on *~;<~,tific llneg and after much expertm*>r.?atlon. Star*'.-.? with thf principle that sound Is refl.-r?o^ a,irefracted like light, the builders of the Troradfr,palace made a small model In which llsjht*tl*c*&upon the stage acted th« part of ir.ualc. W>»alines, proportions, planes and surfaces hr»f! all besaadjusted so as to produce the best results, (ij,model was reproducer] on a magnificent sea!» fathe Salle dcs Fe"te S. pm alas f->r the int»gr!ry c*scientific knowledge— the roncert room revf-rb^teilike a drum! Concerts ar* possible in it. >,«• «athe finer eff*.cts4 of muslr- are lost and mo<>ratio"enjoined upon the critic.

SAIXT-SAENS'S DTSAPPOINTT.VG MUSIC.The first of the off}-: concerts was opened w*t!j

th» cantata composed by Sa!nt-Sa^ns to whicjjallusion haa been made. It had its first ar.d. Ifan^y. last performance on this occasion, ur/esj j.Is mail« a recurring feature of the ErxposJt.'ori eo-Icerts. Th« performers were the orchestra cf theConservatoire (about 123 or 130 strong), a chorna o*about 120 voices, an organ and some solo perfona-ers. Including an actor who declaimed the twythirds of M. Armand Silvestr»'s ode which coulcjnot be fitted into the Spanish boots of any k!r.d ofmusical form. The title of the con3pos!t!on 13 "X^Feu Celeste" and the poetry Is a gloriS -at'ca ctelectricity. First we heard some w!r.ged wordsabout the centuries during which the worMgrovelled In darkness because of it3-

Greecefor classical antiquity, and ever ar.i aacaas the actor spoke orchestra ar.d orsjaa mad*scant breathed comments of illustrative characterand color Trumpets Rare.l at the announcementof the discovery of electricity, and more ar.4 rsor%the mi!s!r.i; forces entered into the rr.e!!£e. \soprano solo (sung by Mile. Ackte. of the GrasdOp*ra). apostrophized Phaeton. Icarus and rTocj*.theus as pioneers in the effort to master tiacelestial flame, and a final chorus set forth th«present situation in the following sweliins tz&picturesque style:

Tar.t d'eclalra Jallliront de l'espace oa nous '"nunsiDans rimmenslte morne oa leur eclat s'enfuit.Que les Jours Inquiets se dlront que ies homraeaI.*-':r ont prla leur clart* pour en parer la nuit!Fit les astro? Jaioux, voyant dans I'ftendue

Notre globe roaler dans <*c nimbe verraen,Croiront que. •-iomphan: dans let:r tache

Les Ms dv fler Titan font un nouveau soiesi:Despite the theme, there was never an tlectrtc

thrill in M. Salnt-Saens's music, which was un-compromisingly of the "occasional" kind. Doubt-less the composer wa3 hampered by the pcet. whowrote without regard to the needs of the musician,but there were opportunities in the classical apes-trophes which might have evoked some tits of b-splred melody. But they did not.

Neither did Salnt-Sae"r.s exploit his mastery lr.the learned forms. Once he started a fugue, but fee•I:!not seem to care to pursue It after be hadsafely brought in his voices. The final chorus wa3baldly bomophonl in th*main, with Its .«t!?T strairscolored, embellished and enlivened by the orchestra.

H. E. K.

/ilneiraL

STEEL AGREEMENT CONFIRMED.

A* lifornla condor hap been

added this week to the Golden Gate I'ark aviary.jt. . . «, Fresno County. This i

dture exceeds in eize th<.- true South.-;. "\Wh tbe ex \u25a0•;\u25a0-

• San J"Si', this Is be-nly California condor in cap-

This bird ha? glossy blackL.-.V bare, reddish-yellow head.

Its- • ..*a man's hand, and it

June at any vne who approaches its

The Southern Padl c Railway Company hasju>'. r for thirty-eight new loco-motives for its lines In this Stat.-. Eighteen

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\u25a0 \u25a0.- on the C< «fll road•vviii

-rby by way of San Jos.'-.

Paso Robles and Santa Barbara to I^os Anp--l»-s.

Xh? Ibe used for freight When thecompleted it will accommo-

:ly all tho tourist travel, leaving; the old• iquin Valley for freight.

The Rev. Dr. F. M.Bovard hap Y-e-tn chop^n asEditor of "The California Christian Advocate"by the Methodist Commission. He hap preached

Intl I r twenty-five years, and has beenpP the E] worth I.ea^-ii-'.

.\u25a0 \u25a0 111 play, "The Chll-r.r-

r \u25a0 was produced hpre for theth Wilton Lackaye in his

To]e- Bco voted the play'•wish playgoers found little

H has drawn poor houses,t,. presentation. At the Co-

lumbia Henry Miller's company has given "TheTiv \u25a0

\u25a0 that In-cludes Morgan, Miller, Worthing;, Walcot. SadieHar • •\u25a0m. It was a errent per-formance i f the t: \u25a0 st disagreeable play that had

'. here in many months.

Fanr.ie Kriltrer, niece of the President ofChe Trai un suit against her hus-

:, Francis E. Newsam, for failure to car.- forIn "The Geisha." at tlie

TlvolL :*ito prominence by sintr-3nK talnment given here several

\u25a0..•fix of the Boers. ITer.\u25a0 : T '•• Wet and th.-

lav Joubert.

:PLAMB TO IMPROVE CHINESE QUARTERS—OTHER NEWS OP INTEREST.

IBT Ti:i.r.i;UAi'H TO THE tuiiunk.l

Pan Francisco. July o.—Since the collapse of

tho. bubonic scare there has been much discus-sion of Improving; Chinatown by wideningstreets, i losing up alleys and constructing mod-ern buildings. Many of the alleys are as foulajid unsightly as the former section of FivePoints and Mulberry Bend of New-York. Itrequire* unceasing vigilance to keep these hovelsin sanitary condition, yet tbj rentals obtainedfrom them are so large that the owners will not

rebuild. The present quarter Is five blocks long

by two blocks wide, and this section occupies

one of the choicest parts of San Francisco, lo-

cated on hitrh ground, with a noble view of theharbor and sheltered from strong trade windsby the high hills at the summit of Clay, Wash-ington and Jackson sts. The presence of Chi-

nese spoils neighboring blocks as a residencedistrict, thus mining one of the fairest quar-ters of the city. Radical measures have beenproposed to condemn all buildings in the quar-/ter and widening; the street and moving theChinese bodily to new quarters, but this cannotbe done because of the Influence of the propertyowners, t'nder the new charter It is even lm-

\u25a0possible to abate the nuisance of ChinatownWithout the consent of those who have been In-

strumental in making it a nuisance. Strong

effort is now being made to arouse the property

holders in the Chinese quarter to take advantage

•of. widening the main streets and securing legiti-

'Znate business houses.

The Burlingame Women's Golf tournament,

•which Is the annual Fourth of July contest, waswon this week by Miss Crock-nt, who defeatedMiss Alice Hoffman, of this city, and Mrs.Bowers, of Los Angeles. She secured the Ponia-towskl silver cup, which must be won twice in

order to hold it permanently.In tennis George Whitney won the Pacific

Coast championship from Sumner Hardy by theecore of 00

— —i, o—i.0

—i. Both contestants had

won the cup twice. Whitney won on nerve and

etamina. He now becomes the permanent

.owner of the cur*. The match was played at

the San Rafael court, and attracted a large

audience.Dione, a California bred mare, broke the

Coast record this week at Santa Rosa by trot-tinga mile in 2:07 3 She was driven by CharlesJeffries, and made the first quarter in 32 sec-

onds, the half in 3 :04, and the third quarter in

.'.'A. This v,.\.s in the face of a strong wind, andJeffries says that under favorable conditionsghe can trJt the mile in -:<\u25ba\u25a0".. She was bred byAdolph Spreckels on his stock farm, and siredby Eros, son of Electioneer, and her dam. GracieS, by Speculation, son of Rysdyk's Hambleto-nian.

FRANK BTUART.V.

_) is playing the part of Marquis de Baccarat

in "The Rotinders."

Spur of the Moment": Mr. .-m<l Mrs. JoeI and '(\u0084- Soubrette";

Mile. La Tosca, contortionist; Gorman and Leon-ard, "Human Nature," and the American vita--

Tho seo(in>3 week of Roster & Blal'a Roof of Allmorrow nlftht. It will be known

as German week, and \u25a1 number of distinctively

Ie acts will be presented In addition to thoregular bill, which Includes the Fenas brothers,

:\u25a0 s, In their "Mi-Theatre"; Elsie Kaii. O. K. Sato, comic ju|

Ml Edwards, \ players; Jonephine"ontour brothers, Attio Spencer, In

snnif new songs; Al Waltz, ('znrln.i, and St. t'!aireleste, character change artists.

A new group has been added f" the wax collec-tion of the Eden Mus*e. It Is entitled "Homeless."A viung j--!r'. and hpr still younger brother have

•i homo. Although she is ragged,hungry and shivering, her only thought Is of the

other she claspa in her arms. Suffering Ispictured in h«-r face, \u25a0 tent nt In thai of thesleeping brother. New moving pictures of th'-war In South Africa and the Paris Exposition areshown afternoons and evenings Moving picturesfrom Hong Kong, showing tho massing of the

as well teristic pictures ofi life, are expected within a week or two.

The bill of last week will again be presented sit

the Venetian Ten len. This tnclu<U'sZ«-no, Carl and Zeno, Venezuelan acrobats; the DeForeosts, whirlwind dancers; the two Bonnellls, In

id barrel feats; Effle Fay and Mile. Chantonnt; alx-lnch midget of

the Rossow brothers' troupe, who will present an< w repertory of songs. Fifteen acts In all are

\u25a0 i, and the performance lasts until mid-night.

Wilfred Clarke, the well known comedian, willIs Jeljut in vaudeville at Proctor's Twenty-

third Street Theatre this wees} appearing In\u25a0

-Birthday," supported by Theo Carew,

Monks, Mabel Roebuck and Clement Hop-kins. Mr. <"lark<- is a son of the late John Sleeper

Clarki and a nephew of 1 I Iwin Booth. AdolfZink the liliputian comedian, will appear In Imper-

Other performers ar.- George Wilson.tl.. ml strel i Rixford brothers, Eui \u25a0 j\u25a0 anhead balancers; Llttli .nut Pritakow, charactervocalists; Furber and Davis, Ingram nnd Jacklln.

the Simon brothers, musicalclowns ntlnuous concert, from 1:30tin 10:30 i. in., shows Jinni(- Feamans, "ASurprise Party" company, Cole ami Johnson andtheir ' '1 Davis, the BrothersBright, Smith, I'\u25a0•". and

'and I

A new feat ire a( Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatrethis week will bo the debut of Sheridan Block r.ndcompany. Mr. Block will present the t

"Little Mlsb Sherlock Holmes." Others arc IdaFuller, the spectacular dancer; Wartenberg broth-

rothy Novllle, In monologue;

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PRESIDENT GARY OF FEDERAL COMPANYISSUES A STATEMENT.

The fact that the recent conferences among thepresidents (it the leadirg steel and iron companies

had resulted in an agreement broadly covering thepoints of production and price was substantiallyconfirmed yesterday by President Gary of the Fed-eral Steel Company In a statement as follows:

The late conferences between the presidents ofthn leading ete*?l and iron companies were whollyinformaJ. 'Tko questions discusser] relate to the gen-eral condition of the iron Industry, Including sup-ply and demand and present and future prices.The purpose was elmpTy to get information con-cerning Ihe exact eiluatlon and to exchange viewsInre^xiru to individual business policies.

No concert of action h-'is been contemplated: but."without exception, the Intercourse has been franklino friendly. The feeling prevails that as to manyproducts prices have out reached the bottom; and

\u25a0although it i? generally believed the price of pigiron and Wllets is at present high in proportion tosome of the tininhed products, and should be, re-duced to some t-xtent as food as circumstances willI^rmit, no producer. n>< for as Iam informed, hasus yt-t publicly announced any reduction. Ithink

iprices will rapidly adjust themselves to the entire'patlKfaction of the producer and the consumer. Thedlsrfsltlon at manufacturer? to consult from timeto time with one another, as well as their largercustomers thus following the example of the presi-dents of all the lea/ling railroads, should result inLenefit to all concerned.

President Gary was asked about a etatenvntpublished In a irade Journal to the effect thattiixrjttwenty Mast furna/v-s, with a total producing<-apftcity of 700,000 tons, had closed in the month ofJuiifc. He answered that be knew of only twelveor thin furnaer-s which bad closed, adding thatho thought perhaps a score of others would notha tblo to operate in ordinary times.

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JIATTO?rAL LEAGUE OF REPUBLICAN CLUBS TO

MEET AT ST. PAUL NEXT WEEK.

The twelfth annual convention of the NationalIVagut- of Republican Clubs will be held at St.T'aul, 'Minn., from July 17 to 19. In this conven-tion thn Republican League of New-Jersey is ex-pocted to take, a prominent part, and arrangements

are being made for representation from all thecounties In the State. F. F. Meyer, the presi-

dent of \u25a0- New-Jem Ix-ugue, said yesterdaythat the officers of the State organization wouldleave Jersey City on the Pennsylvania Railroad at

2:14 p. m. on Saturday. July 14. and that they\u25a0would be pleased to hear from any delegates andmembrrH who may desire to Join them on the trip.The trnln can be taken at various points in theState on the main line of the Pennsylvania, andflt-eping car rc-servjitlons wtl l^e ma/le for delegatesand members If they make application In time.From Chicago th« Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paullias been named a* the official route for the league.Governor Roosevslt and those who accompany himwill use this line from Chicago to St. Paul and re-turn.

THE SAINT GERVAIS SINGERS.

One. of the most picturesque of the monumentsreproduced from the mediaeval city in the portion

of the Exposition called Vteux Purls Is the church

Of Saint Jullen dcs Menetrlers, which was themeeting place of the musical guilds of France ata time when professional musicians throughoutEurope were still little better than vagabonds inthe eyes of the law. In this picturesque littlechapel the Chanteura de Saint Qervala give con-certs of sacred music every afternoon. The con-certs are a singularly serious sort of entertain-ment to offer to the careless visitors to Old Paris,

and the contrast between the solemn service withinand the motley rout without Is exceedingly strik-ing yet a goodly number of persons generallygather to bear the music, especially on Sundays,

and the programmes are lofty and dignified to•

decree. The A capolla masters of the sixteenthcentury dominate the lists, but Ituc'i has muchconsideration, and modern composers are notneglected. The mission of the Chantwurs de lintQervala Is like that of the Muslc-al Art Society InNew -York, and the first motet that 1 heard sungby them was one which la In the repertory of thatsociety. namely, Vlttorl.i's "O magnum mys-

tertum." Alas, for the expectations which Ihadcherished on entering the chapel! The score simen and women who sans were sorry represents

tlves. or else the reputation of the Oervuslans is

wholly fictitious. Not for a moment did tho choireven suggest the precision, the lovely tone Quality

or tho expressiveness of the Musical Art Society.The singing was no better than that of an or-dinary New-York chorus choir, and Ileft the

Ipaid that Ihad found evidence of the unmusicalcharacter of the French people also In the singing

of a crowd at 9t. Cloud. Icould not distinguish

what the song was about, but It was an aimless,

tuneless thing, and of the. hundreds who sang it

In obedience to the frantic waving" of their leader's

umbrella not one seemed to have the slightest

consideration for the key chosen by his neighbor.

Such cacophony wouM have driven the listenersmad In a German or Italian town.

COT.ONNE'S POPULAR CONCERTS.Put enough of this fault-finding—lt Is more agree-

able to look at the generous measure of musical

entertainment which has been provided for thevisitors to the gay capital. Twice every day, after-

noon and evening. Colonne gives a popular orches-tral concert. In which singers and Instrumentalvirtuosi participate. In the large theatre which Is

one of the features of Vteux Paris. Hl9 orchestranumbers one hundred performers and Is an ex-cellent band, notwithstanding that it seems to

nave been recruited to some extent from theprovinces. Three hundred concerts are promised

within the continuance of the Exposition, and theprogrammes are given an educational value by

milking them Illustrative of the various national

schools of music tn turn. Concerts are devoted to

a composer, a group of French or Germancomposers, or to representatives of various nation-

alities simultaneously, as the case may be. In ageneral way the plan Is almost as broad andcomprehensive -.< that which Mr. Thomas laid out

for the World's Fair at Chicago in 1533, but whichfailed miserably for want of popular support. M.

Colonne's enterprise has not yet won the measureof patronage which It deserves, the audlen-esseldom exceeding four hundred persons, but there

la a vast difference between his payrolls and those

of Mr. Thomas. An orchestral musician in theX'nlted Stutes expects to earn from £3 to $40 a\v.-,'k when steadily employed: M Colonne's men

and women (I observed three women among theviolins) arc satisfied with 10 francs a day for two

concerts thut is. Jl per concert. It would not be

Juat to compare the playtr.g of the band with that

of the best concert organizations In New-Y^rk.

Boston and Chicago at their carefully preparedconcerts, but considering the drudgery which they

have been performing dally for m^re than a monthpns*t, the work of the men Is remarkablf for Its

vigor and vitality. M. Colonne Is an energetic,

conscientious and authoritative leader, and re-freshliiKly free from affectations either of manneror of originality In reading. To Illustrate a point

made at the outset of this letter It may he addedthat two of the concerts last week were devotedto Sulnt-SaPns and Massenet, anii that the musicplayed was the overture to "U PrmcSBBS Jaune."tin prelude to "La D#tasja/* the ballet music from\u25a0•Henri VIII." two movements from the thirdpianoforte concerto and the "I>:in*e Mr.cabre" by

the former, and the overture to "Phedr.-noblest work. Ithink). "I-e dernier Sommell d»> laVlerge," tho ballet numbers from ''I.<.- CUT and"Ilerodlade." by the latter.

[FROM a STAFF CORRESPONDBXT OF TUB TBIBCXI.]Paris. June 23.

France. Ifear. is not a musical nation, despite

the brave show which It makes In history and

the energy with which music 13 cultivated and thegenerosity with which It is encouraged by the

Government. It Is a study of the official and th"popular manifestations which has led to this

mournful conclusion on my part. Ihave attendedperformances at both of th*> subvention*-)! operahouses, listened to concerts at the Grand Theatreat the Exposition and *t the TrocadeYo, had musicdinned Into my ears at Innumerable kiosks and

music halls, my drowsy senses roused morning

after morning by the aggressive strains of barrelorgans and heard a crowd of merrymakers lifttheir voices In son* at a f£te In St. Cloud. "Faust"Is the burden of the song at the Grand Opera, the

soldiers' chorus. Slebel's flower song and the waltz

from "Faust" are the essential elements In the

repertory of the bands and barrel organs, andwhen Iwant to hear what French orchestralmusic is like at the end of the nineteenth century

Iam asked to content myself with the overturesand ballet numbers of Saint-Saens and Massenet,

which were hackneyed In New- York more than adecade ago. "Faust" is admirable music— we allknow that—but for one who has faithfully "as-

slated" for sixteen years at opera performances

In what Mr. Henderson wittilycalls the "Faust-splelhaua" In New- York there com*"* a time when

he may be pardoned for thinking that It la pos-sible to have a little too much of Gounod's lovely

opera. It Is one of Mr. Gilbert's philosophicalgentlemen. Ibelieve, who compels his brothers in

arms to confess that while candy 19 an adorablethins;, with candy for breakfast, candy forluncheon, candy for dinner and candy for tea,

even candy might become tiresome. For candy

read "Faust," and an American's complaint against

one phase of French musical culture may find some

Justification at least. Besides, to make an end of

the arraignment of the Grand Opera, It Is not

inspiriting to listen to performances of the operas

which form the bulk of the Metropolitan repertory

that look and sound like performances by Mr.

Gran's minor forces "on the road." Ican think Of

no fitter characterization than this of the repre-

sentation of "Romeo et Juliette" which Iattended.

YOUNG MEN NOT HEARD FROM.

There was some Interesting talk some monthsago of concerts at which the younger Frenchcomposers were to be exploited: but when it came

to the opening of the official Exposition concerts

In the Trocadero the Inaugural ode was the com-position of Salnt-Saens It proved to be a bit ofcommonplace padded with a lot of declamatory

bombast hut of that more anon: the point 13

that for a foreign visitor anxious to learn what

France is doing for music and In music to-day

It would have been more interesting had a newerman than Saint-Saens been intrusted with thecommission. Neither Saint-Saens nor Massenethas composed anything eompa-able with their

earlier works within the last ten years— nothing,

indeed, that Is likely to be heard at the end ofthe first decade of the new century about to open;It might have been better therefore to have given

them a place of distinction In a series of historicalconcerts, which would do for music what theretrospective Centennial Exhibition (far and away

the most Instructive and beautiful feature of theExposition) Is doing for art. industry and agri-culture, and given an opportunity for some one of

the new school to win his spurs. Unhappily thereign of Gounod. Salnt-BaPns. Massenet and Bizet

Is as tyrannous In Paris to-day as It was fifteenyears ago. If there Is a genius among the young

men whose names Ihear, but never a note of

their music, France willprobably not discover the

fact until circumstances compel It to set up a new-national hero to check the popularity of the for-eigners, as was done In the case of Berlioz thirty

years ago.

NOTES ON SOME EXPOSITION CONCERTS--

COLONNE AND TAFFANEIr-THE SING-

ERS OF SAINT OKRVAIBK-BAINT-SAENS'S OPENING ODE.

A FORTNIG-HT IN PARIS.

MUSIC

GOULD JEWEL CASE IN SUPREME COURT.Justice McAdoin, In the Supreme Court, yester-

day reserved his decision on an application byCharge* William Blair, who was arrested on aclarge of having atotea Jewelry from Mrs. EdwinGould's apartments at the Hotel Carlton, London,for hi* ralesMS from the Tombs. Magistrate Poolshas rf?rr.H.r.'i< d Blair several times In order to allowthe Scotland Yard d*ttoJJves to arrive her.- «,i;dIdentify the prisoner. His counsel contended thatthe laet remand was Illegal.

Arrielant District Attorney Carr asserted thatthe Information received from London and the evl-<3t-nce given tx-fora th« Magistrate warranted

->Oair"s detention.PIANOTI&T axy o.mk cas riu-v* rr.

O»!> or tnstalm«ata. Redtata <UUy. Ad«* 41r* «*«.

MB ntth, AT«au«. Cor. Ctd BU**t.

Fall River. Mass., July 7 (Special).— Brokers re-port another week of quietness in the local printcloth market. The sales were not much In excess5f thirty thousand pieces, and nearly all were wideodds. The market for regulars was as feeble as ithas been for some time past. Many mill men arebeginning to question the judgment of the SellingCommittee In reducing the price of cloth twoweeks ago. It was contended at the time by thosewho were in favor of fighting the depression untilIts real cause was ascertained that the buyers"•\u25a0••"\u25a0 out of the market Just now, that they didnot want much cloth at any price, and that thosewho would purchase for 2% cents would continueto come in as readily If the quotation were main-tained at i;',, cents. The results attained since thecut would Indicate thai the optimists were right.The real reason for the reduction was to create ademand, and it has failed to do bo. The demand Isno stronger to-day than it was before the reduc-tion. A few odds are going in small lots, andthere is absolutely do iall for the regulars.

Having failed to Improve the condition by cut-ting rates, the manufacturers are going to try cur-tailment, something that several of the wise onesadvised before reduction. a paper was pent outthis week and a call nuade for the signatures ofthose who were willingto shut down for a monthbefore September 1. Within twenty-four hoursrepresentatives of one hundred thousand spindlesbad signed, and curtailment Is assured— ln fact iihas gun. New signers are coming every day andut noon to-day two mills shut down for two weeksNext week others will be in Hue. There are \u0084,,,,,.

mills engaged on contracts that are binding untilthe end of July, and those mills will shut down allthe month of August This action cuts off theaccumulation of one hundred thousand pieces ofcloth, and will make a difference where Ii willcount to advantage In the amount of cloth on handJt la generally believed that the curtailment willlead to a reaction that there willbe a good demand before the time agreed upon hits expired andthat bettor prices will be secured for the cloth.Tiiu uitu'ket remains ilrm but aulmi at 2%. oenta.

MANUKA'TITREItS HOPE CURTAILMENT WILL DO

WHAT PRICK RBDDCTIOM FAILED TO.

GUEST PLACES REVOLVER MUZZLE IN ITIS

MOUTH AND FIRES.

Shot through the mouth anr] lying face down-ward In bis room at the Park Avenue Hotel, a m.-i/nwho bad registered as Arthur Taylor, of Manches-ter, Vt., was found yesterday afternoon, havingcommitted suicide.

Little was known of the man at the hotel wherehe arrived yesterday forenoon. He was fashiona-bly dressed In s Buit of gray flannel and carried asilk umbrella, but no baggage He w.-.s apparentlyabout forty years old. nearly six feet tall, andweighed about one hundred and eighty pounds.Upon registering at the hotel a room was as-signed him, and he went to If at rune. He was not

•;er that, mid the clerk, becoming suspicious,put a boy over the transom.

Taylor was found lying fare down or: the fl KMin front of th. mirror. No report of a revolver.!been heard In the hotel.

The man had evidently placed the revolver in hismouth and then Bred That the ad was commit-ted shortly after Taylor went to bis room la evi-dent from the condition of the body. The bed hadnot been touched. The man was fullydressed withthe • Kception of bis d< rby hat, which lay on thefront of the mirror.

The dead man left his name written on the cardof a New- York physician. The Vermont addressit written on this enrd. however which wastakei In charge by the police of the West Thlr-tieth-st. station.

XO DEMAND FOR I'UIST CLOTHS.

SUICIDE AT PARK AVENUE T7OTEL.

Professor C. H. Snow, of the University of New-York, i.; now occupying Klrkslde, the mountain

residence of Miss Helen M. Gould, at Roxbury,who, however, Is i xpected to spend part of thesummer there later in the season.

.1 c Maben of New-York, has a fine summerhome on Birch Cre< k.Pine Hill. The Rev. Dr. Mac-Cracken who is summering al I'ii.e Hill, as usual,

will occupy the Methodist pulpit there durls;ay It F. E. Schley of New-York, is again

ed with his family In their Pine H1J V. Hunt and wife, of Mew-York, are at

th« Belmont cottage. Asa K. Smith, of Brooklyn,has the Grovesmont cottagi near the T<eU Ayr.The Weingart Institute, at Highmount, has

hundred pupils for the season.Tlie Palace Hotel, at Shandaken, hns been leased

for a term of years by William O. Krope. who hasrenamed it the Rip Van Winkle Inn, at the risk of

n more confounded than ever among thohouses named after Rip now In existence

iliTi.The new observatory on Slide Mountain, that•

.Tap of the Catskills, and the newly openedbridlepath up the slope will be greatly appre-ciated by tourists there The old path openedyears ago by "Jim" luucher, the famous guide,

rown over almost completely, and to jj-etl< st on that wild crag was easy enough, withrather disaetl \u25a0 \u25a0 s In store.

The new opera house at Cairo, built by Henry8. Duncan, Is an attractive feature In that popu-lar summer region.

Hotel Ulster, at Pine Hill that was. will here-after be known .••.<; the Wellington.

Walton Van Loan, the guide and map maker, hnsrented his cottage in Catskill and will spend thesummer with bis wlf< the various moun-tain resorts.

The Mountain Athletic Club of Flelschmanns isscheduled to cr^ss bats with the Star Athletics, ofNewark. N. J., this afternoon.

Judge Leventriti of New-York, was aguesi at Hunter. Miss E. F. Pell, a New-Yorkartist, lias arrived at her cottage there IBummer. Mrs. Timmens and family, of New-York,aiso have a pleasant cottage near that quaint oldvillage on the Schoharle.

\u25a0 ittei slon oi the t'lster and Delaware fromBloomville to Oneonta is about twenty miles In]•!•.;;•::. and preparations are being made to runtrains there in a week or ten days. This rousave about forty miles In distance between New-York and Cooperstown

Henry 1.. Pratt, of Brooklyn, lias taken the Bar-ner cottage on Brooklyn Heiffhts, Stamford.

Charles S. Mills Is a guest fDi Bristol at his\u25a0 ;de Navarre. Mrs. Frances M Barr and

Miss Ella I. Barr are also there.A new Kolf club hns been organized at Stam-

ford, with A. ]> Middleton as president, to beknown as the Utsayantha <;olf Club. A newcourse has been laid nut by A. H. Fcnn.

Many of the Kpwnrth league delegates visitedHotel Kaaterskill Id Catpkill Hm-the convention cli Si imford. and mmprise and admiration were manifested at thiliitude and beauty of the great re<~..rt on the moun-tain top. Manager Eder Is having a most auspi-cious opening there. The first hop in the great ball-room I i^ht.

Judging by the number of trunks people bring

here it would seem that a large proportion of

them mean to stay all summer. And this Is amarked feature of the Stamford resorts. Perma-nent guests, rather than transient, Is the order,

which certainly speaks well for the place nnd its

hotels. People do not come here to see NiagaraVails, nor any other wonderful thing, natural orartificial, but just to enjoy the summer monthshi rest among the many pleasant conditions whichprevail. It can hardly be that so many excel-

lent people are mistaken about these things year

afi.r year. Surely their hosts never stop to argue

this point with them.Xh< sessions of the Epwortb convention were In-

teresting and largely attended. Tho new Assem-bly Hall Is voted a great success, though somethink it should have been larger.

The new Grant House is presided over by Judge

John P. Grant, of Delaware County, who Is theMr. Grant and family have retun

rd for the sununer. Many well known peo-ple have already arrived at this select resort.

Churchill Hall is still the great popular hotelhere, while the Rexmere caters more especially to

those who do not object to the higher i

Among those at the Went holm are Mrs. Holland

C. Anthony and daughter, Waldo H. Blackwell andMrs. G. !.. Marshall, all of Brooklyn.

A. I>. Middleton at-..', family, of New-York, are in-stall* d In their Granthurst Park cottage.

Miss M. X Treadwell. of Brooklyn, is summer-ing at Churchill Hall, as usual, labi ring »In the Interest of Grace Chapel always.

eial survey of Mount Utsayantha has Justide by a corps of engineers from the United

States Geological Survey.

VAST CROWDS OF VISITORS OO TO THE

MOUNTAINS NOTES OF HOTELSAND COTTAGES.

*Stamford. N. V.. July 7 (Special). There hua

been some ideal mountain weather this week andvast crowds Of visitors arc pouring in to enjoy it.

At many points the number Of guests Is some-what larger than In previous vents for the firstweek in July. This is true of this charming villageup here In the western rim of the range, whereevery house is already In the midst of X""1

'business.

The Bpworth League convention during the early

part of the week brought many delegates andfriends, though less In number than had been ex-pected or provided for Most of these have now re-turned to their homes, but their places have 1 n

doubly filled by new nnd more permanent guests,

and to-night the usually quiet streets are resound-ing with summer gayety and life. Train nftertrain has been pulling up at the ii'.tl^ station allday with hundreds of eager visitors, nnd there hasbeen n grand hustle to Ret the immense piles of

c distributed in time for the evening din-ners and hops.

The Casino Roof Garden this week offers I^ottiu<;ii:-"ii, Bam Weston and his two daughters, in amusical comedy act; the three Lane slaters, acro-bats; Carlotta Delmar, Irick cyclist; Burke broth-ers and tii-tr con.leal ntar donkey, Wist Mike-the Gardner trio of brothers, musical comediansand baton manipulators, and Octavle Barbe.

in the theatre pan "The Rounders" oontlnueawith Thomtia Q Beabrooke, Phyllis Rankln Josephllei1,, rt. Madic I.c-- |ng md Davi l^ewts.

The M!i \u25a0 the Chern Blossom Grove, New-YorkTheatre roof, tin week presento among other

ni Marwlg*finew bajlet, "Die Puppen i'e.-";tho four CoUni, whirlwind JantfM; A. Baldwin•loane. In "My Rainbow Coon"; Parnham midbeiiuuur, cuiucdy Juniper*. BnUM auU Hueacll,

At Proctor's Palace this week the programmewill include the farce, "A Surprise Party," byGrace Belasco, Blanche Homana, Lon Sti'vejis andLeonard Walker; th< Bachelor Club, comedians;Cole and Johnson, With the Premoni sisters, in

, the brothers Bright, gymnasts;Doty and Coe, musical trio; Wrothe and'

Wakefleld, Irish talkers, and the Ramsey sisters.In a musical aci To-day's concert, continuousfrom 2 til! 10:90 p. m., presents Ralph Stuart nndcompany, Nan Lewald, Gun Pntley and companyGaletti's moneys and the Wartenberg brothers.

Bettina Gerard beads the Mil at the Lion PalaceRoot Garden this week. The Rio brothers, theCountess yon Hatifeldt, MeWattere and Tyson,Dais and Yokes, Nellie Sylvester, the Oralgs, Alw.iiiz the Munroe sisters and De Witt and Burnsare also on the programme. In the .vent of ruin

rformanci is iirried on in the music ballSundays there an two concerts,\u25a0'

I iti.l S3O p m.

Happy Fanny Fields the little Dutch Klrl; the Noasfamily, acrobats; the Crawford sisters, in sour anddance; Flatow and Dun, cakewalkers, and Weat-

nd Wren, iur.ti sketch. To-day's continu-ous concert, :'r"tn '_' till ](>:4.*. p. m., includes JohnFrederick Cooke and Dallas Tyler, the Rixfordbrothers the Bachelor Club, Viola Ifoils and Ten-ley and Simonds.

The summer residents of Rye-on-the-Sound arearranging to give a fete champetre and vaudevilleentertainment on August 10 in aid of the VillageImprovement Association. It is to be held at Ed-ward's Beach Hill, overlooking the Sound. In theafternoon refreshments will be served, and therewill be a band concert and a children's carnival.In the evening there is to be an exhibition ofGibson pictures and a dance in a large pavilion.More than fifty women of Rye are named aspatronesses. The committee consists of Charlesp. Cowles, C. Stewart Schenck, Reginald P. Sher-man, Henry Wood worth Cooper, the Rev. Douglass

Putnam Birnle, George S. Dearborn, BtuyvesanlWalnwright, Robert F. Mathews; Arthur C.(twynne, Cornelius V. Bewail, F. H. Wiggln. PercyMorgan and Marcellus C Parsons. Mrs. Richard T.Walnwright, Mrs. Arthur Comnock, Miss MabelGwynne, Miss Sarah F. Read and Miss EdithMathewa are the women members of the committee.

The largest of this season's social affairs, atLarchmont-on-the-Sound will probably be the fairsof its two churches Nearly a hundred women .iremaking the arrangements, and the summer colonyof actors has volunteered Its service The fair inaid of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church willbegin next Wednesday and continue until Satur-day in the palish house On the following Mondaythe congregation of St. Augustine's Roman Cath-olic Church will begin Its fair, which is to Ih> heldin a large tent, and will lasl a \w-ek The Rev.E. J. Powers, of St. Augustine's, expects to sailfor Europe In September, and while abroad willvl.-.1l Rome.

SiimmtT sports and festivities in WestchesteiCounty are now lit their height, and nearly everyvantage place along, the beach or overlooking theBound or Hudson River is occupied. The club-houses are overrun with yachtsmen and golfer*

At Ryu Mr. and Mrs Simeon Ford are occupy-ing their large summer home at Oakland BeachHenry W. Cooper, secretary of the ApawamlaClub, mid Mrs. Cooper have returned from Eu-rope, arid are ngiUn at their h'»m«\ In Purchase-»t. Mrs. John Downey widow of the builder of theWaldorf-Astoria, has taken a place in the Bowerteat Milton Point Henry Gllaey. of the Gllsey HouseIs also at Milton. Among other newcomers whoare occupying cottages are Mr and Mrs. HurryCenter. c. Stewart Schenck. Mrs. Drake Smith.Mr. and Mm. Archibald Duffle, Mr. and Mrs Fan-\u25a0haw. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts and MrsHarold Btrebetgh. Mrs. Bohlam. the author haschartered the sloop yacht Dutches*, nnd Is spend-ing th« summer on \u25a0 crutso on Long Island BoundMr. and Mrs. Collia P. Huntingdon have returnedto their home at Throg** Neck. Wean-heaterAdrian Iselln, Jr.. who recently chartered the nt^aayacht Ralidna. Ik off with a yurty ot friends on acruise to Halifax,

PREPARING F'>H A VAUDEVILLE ENTERTAIN-

MENT AT HVK GOLF AND TACHTTNQ

THE CHIEF SPORTS.

WESTCHESTERTS SUMMER GAYETY.

MANY PRECAUTIONS TO PREVENT THEM—SAND TO QUENCH FLAMES.

The terrific fire which wag started by lightningamong the tanks of the Standard Oil Company atConstable Hook early Thursday morning, andwhich for several days filled the sky with blackstroke clouds by day and a reddish glow by night,was not the first to furnish such a display to New-Yorkers. Tori years ago oil fires were of frequentoccurrence, both in the oil fields and at the refin-eries. The losses, however were seldom large, forthe refineries were smaller am did not store anygreat quantities of oil. Th.re have been many\u25a0:-•\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0"" oil fires, and some in which the loss wasmore than $500,000. There have been oil fires, too.which have destroyed a great deal of valuable ad-joining property, and others In which the oil foundits way to nearby watercourses, doing great dam-age to wharves and vessels. Bui never before, ac-cording to oil men who have been In the businessBll.ce the start, has there been so large a tire asthe one which is still smoking at the Hook.

The falling off in the number of serious fires ofthis kind has been chiefly due to greater care Inhandling the product. Many lessons were learnedfrom fires, and have been applied to the best ad-vantage.

The Constable Hook plant, which has Just beendestroyed, was considered as well equipped to with-stand tire as any in the country. The fact that Itwas almost entirely wiped out. In spite of theefforts of hundreds of men, fire engines and tugs,only goes to show the impossibility of doing muchWith an oil fire after It gets fairly started. Theofficers Of the Standard Oil Company are firm Intheir belief that the fire was started by lightning.They no longer fear the explosion of gas in over-heated tanks or the carelessness of employ*

One of the most destructive tires the Standard OilCompany ever suffered occurred at Constable Hookalmost on tho site of the recently destroyed worksThis fire started on the nieht of February 10, ISS9,and burned for many hours. Ft was due to thecarelessness of a watchman, who dropped a lampon the tloor of a big warehouse. The tire was keptdown by pumping out many of the endangeredtanks. Many vessel..- at the wharves were rescuedwith difficulty. The loss amounted to more than

This fire was followed a month later by the de-struction of another of the company's plants atLoner Island City. An oil tank exploded, and theentire plant would have been lost had not many ofthe tanks been empty. A barge loaded with oiltook lire and spread Its blazing cargo over thewater. Several Bin vessels were burned.

On January 28, 1890. not her lire visited this plantand destroyed 1300.000 worth of property.

A fire of peculiar origin Wiped out another of thecompany's plants at Louisville, Ky.. in July ofthe me year, A tank car, which had just ar-rived from Cleveland. Ohio, had become heatedand exploded, is Its cargo was about to be trans-ferred to a refining vat. The fire spread over thegreater part of the works and did $150,000 damage

Borne & Scrymser*s large oil plant on StatenIsland Bound, a mile below Elizabeth, was de-stroyed by tire on January 26, 1893, caused by theexplosion of a barrel of oil on the pier. The losswas $2.V>,ortn. '

In June, 1898, the Standard Oil Company's worksat Newark. N. J., suffered a $50,000 tire, which fora time threatened to spread to the city. Therehave been several fires In the vicinity of this citysince, but the loss In every ease was small.

Few If any lives have been lost In oil worksfires. The sufferers In these fires have been thefiremen.

Cleveland and Pittsburg have suffered severefires, but none which did as mu~h damage as thisone at Bayonne. Cleveland's most serious oil Orewas in 1888, when tank No. 1 In the Standard OilCompany's yard exploded. Nearly $1,000,000 damagewas done.

An oil expert of the Standard company said yes-terday to a Tribune reporter:

"Tell your people thai th-y missed It If they didnot watch this Constable Hook tire. They maynever see another, for we are not going to havemany more. Compare the oil fire records of thenineties with those of the eighties, and you will.-\u25a0•\u25a0•\u25a0 what Imean. Fin •\u25a0 are becoming more in-frequent every year, and our methods of keepingthem In check are rapidly being perfected. Ofcourse, lightning is a hard thing to fight. One ofthe principal reasons for the falling off in oil tiresis the big combination. Th.> number of refineriesabout the country has been greatly reduced. Why,the Standard lias torn down several plants almostus big as the one it the Hook. Then we knowmore about fighting oil fires than we used to,Every one knows that water only makes mattersworse. Earth is what Is needed, and you'll soonhear of an invention which will throw sand insteadi f water. If this invention can be perfected ItWill still further reduce the chance of oil fires.

"In rebuilding the Bayonne plant several im-provements will be Introduced in the pipe system,and then, if lightning shmili again strike a tank,the fire will not be able to spread over the entireworks."

OIL FIXES DECREASING.

The forty-third annual Worcester Music Festivalwill be held from Sept. ml.,r H to 28. with sevenconcerts and seven public rehearsals. The princi-pal choral works to be gtven are ('Psar Franck'S"Beatitudes," Brahma's "German Requiem," Verdi'sTe Demo and Sullivan's "Golden Legend." Theorchestra] -v.irks include Glasunow's sixth pym-phony, Mendelssohn's third (Scotch) and Schu-bert'a Unfinished. The soli. «mmn will be Mom.Llllinn Blauvelt, Mlhs Sara Anderson. Frau Schn-mann-Hetnk, Messrs. Evan Williams, Th.-a V.m

Vorx. a. Campanari and Gwllym Miles. George W.Cbadwick will conduct.

Ernst yon Dohnanyt, the young Hungarian pian-ist, will open his coming tour In this country latein November withn piano recital In this city.

Maud Powell, the violinist, has been enframed to

make her reappearance In this country early InJanuary with the New-York Philharmonic Orches-tra. Miss Powell Is at present pl.'iylnß In France.

Mrs. Pierre NoSl, a young: American prima donna,

who made her debut In London a few seasons ago,will make her first professional appearance InAmerica at the Newport Casino Saturday evening;August 4. After Newport Mrs Noel will visitSaratoga, 1. -ike George and the Thousand Islands.She is the daughter of the late Abraham Wakeman,who was at various times Postmaster and Sur-veyor of the I'ort of New-York, and also memberof the xxxivthCongress with Russell Sage.

Master Edwin A. Grasse, of this city, who ap-peared here some yean ago as a violinist, Ikls ?»-«-iistudying with C^sar Thomson, of Brussels. At theConservatory there he re. ently won the first prizewith distinction.

MUSICAL NOTEB.

dnncers and sinners; Josef Adelman. xylophonep>>lolst; Montrell, Murpuerlfo fVirnllle. Everhnnlt.in hi* hoop act; Bam, Clara and Kittle Morton:Nellie O'Nell ;m<! company, Johnson and Dean, andl'olk rui'l KolltnH. Concerts will be given to-nlKht,one in the main theatre and one In the Cherry

Hlossom Grove.

'NEW-YOKK? VKTVY TKIKUWSr. ST7ISrDAY. miEY 5. 1900.

IDEAL CATSKILL WEATHER.TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.

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The programme at Tony Pastor's for the coming

w<eek presents Monroe and Mark. In "Just TwoDarkeys"; Post and Clinton, In comedy grotesquesketch; Miss Frances Curran, the sinking come-dienne: Mile Olive, .hiKßier; (roorßC C. Davis,

"Tho Man Behind the Gun;" Frnnk K. Mortimernnd .lew.il Darrell, in a bit of travesty; John J.an-l LJlllan Hoover, "In the Vaudeville"; Murphyuinl Nolan, "The Mlckfl with the All Burnt H.ilr";Morrell and EJvans, Frank and Don, in "<>n the

The billat Keith's for this week Includes Wright

Huntlntfton and company. In "The Stolen Kiss";

MarzfilH's birds. Juan Calcado, "kins of the bound-liiK wlr«"; Unnies and Blsson, in "The Marrlnpe

ltrok.T";Mldgely and Carlisle, In "After School";Moreland, Thompson nnd Roberta, in a new com-edy, by Edmund Day, called \u25a0•Two Black Bheep";

Flood brothers, comedy acrobats; Wall ci\u\ Ar-delle, comedy sketch and eccentric piano playing;the Harbecks, contortion and wire act; Pal andMattle Rooney, dancing; Volkyra. equilibrist: Foxand Ward, Hark face comedy; Bansone and De-lilah, heavy welghi balancing, and Rossiey andRostelle, Irish team Th-> btograph will showmoving pictures of the Fhlpplntc tiro, tho ruins at

Hoboken and the big blame at the Standard oilworks ;ii Constable H«.ok.

NOTES OF THE STAGE.