The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-07

monopoly. The Staten Islanders have
stoutly resisted the outrage, as they resisted
in the old Quarantine war, and this time
they have law as well as justice on their side.
Not dozen citizens of Richmond county
could be found who would approve Mr..
Blunt's action. 1t is to be hoped that the
courts will restrain him from repetition of
his attempt to destroy private property, and
that the next Legislature will review the
present Pilot Commissioners law and place
the appointment of those officers in the
hands of the Governor Of the State
The Winter Season md the Opera.
1t seems that we are to 90 through this
winter season without an opera troupe. Sing
ing troupes will no doubt come and 90. But
these are not what we need to make the meas
ure of metropolitan life. Concerts will do
well in summer time, when people 90 out
because they cannot stay in the house. and
who do not object to the music if they are
sure of cigar and glass of beer. We do
not think lightly Of beer music, but on the
contrary thank Mr.. Thomas and Mr. Gilmore
for what they did during the summer to edu-
cate the people to an appreciation Of Wagner
and Liszt Culmbacher and Erlanger But
the opera, in some form or another, is almost
necessary condition Of our winter life Con-
certs are about as appropriate as Conestoga
wagons in railroad country. They will do
well for a country town like Peoria or Me-
tuchin. We have grown beyond this taste.
Tho nn1u wintar CON cartc wa yo1r,a ara ba
Philharmonic where we have fine instru-
mentation They grow from year to year in
popular esteem. Just now we have Mile.
Titiens in q concert company. We have had
hundred troupes quite as worthy Of popu-
lar favor. Wachtel is here, solitary ''star. !"
While independent and in competition they
will do at the best moderate business !;
united they would form great attraction.
An opera troupe with Wachtel and Titiens
would have as brilliant a success as any we
have had for years. Therefore it would be
well for Strakosch and Neuendorff to unite
their forces. The failure of last year should
not daunt Mr. Strakosch. Frederick the
Great won his greatest victories after suffer
ing his severest defeats And speaking of
Frederick the Great, why would it not be
well for the alliance to give us season of
German opera? We have had Italian opera
for twenty years. But it has never been else
than an exotic. Its life has been as tender
and frail as that Of an Italian greyhound or a
giraffe, or one of the reform parties which
Mr.. Schurz and other sentimental statesmen
are occasionally establishing Yet New
York is the third German city in the
world. Our German people are music
loving and artistic. German music is q
feature in European life. One Of the noted
successes of music in the past was German
opera The great achievement Of the two
last music seasons were in ".Lohengrin" the
work Of German master. This success has
been repeated in London, where the knight
of the Holy Grail has won honors as crafty
ing and cumulative as when no overcame
Frederick Of Brabant. Let US, then, have
German opera with Titiens and Wachtel
combined.
While these honors await the managers of
Wachtel and Titiens, if they are prompt
enough to seize them, we are promised an
other attraction in the illustrious pianist,
DR.. Won Bllow. One reason why we are
willing to concede the merit of Won Bilow is
that the telegraph has let him alone. We
have had no sensational biographies, no
narratives about the Queen falling into a
fainting fit when he played the national air
and sending him the Order in the
morning, nor about the Emperor of
&c
the curtain and offering him all the
Crown jewels if he would not tear himself
away from his imperial dominions. All of
this has been spared US about Won BHlow.
Nor do we hear that he is to have q Delmon-
leo breakfast and an Irish procession. For
this reason, as well as because of his world
wide fame, we have no doubt that he will
have all the success which true and modest
genius never fails to win in America Won
Bdlow is really one of the greatest artists in
the world and may be said to share the SUI
preme honors of his art with Rubenstein.
In the theatrical way many things are to
be done that will make our winter busy
and pleasant season. Wallack is drilling his
new company in "The Overland Route" and
will give us some of the standard comedies
that are the glory of his house. Daily has
Booth as his winning card, and we are to
have this brilliant actor in his great parts.
Jarrett and Palmer mean to repeat their
Shakesperian success Of Henry ", and to
give us Julius Caesar" with all the wealth of
decoration and with Barrett, Bangs and
Davenport in the cast. This will be worth
seeing, and tho attempt does honor to the
taste and enterprise Of the management.
The rumor that we are TO have Christmas
pantomime, like those at Drury Lane and
Covent Garden, will delight our young
people.
THE NORTH CAROLINA CONSTITUTIONAL Con-