New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-05
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
ADELINA PATHS PLANS.


row cur spFxT yEsrERDAY-HER INTENTION Nv
pvr,pp FROM TUE sTAGE-A TALK Win
.'TRIBUNE" REPORTER. do,
Aaelina Patti spent the greater par % Sbere She
In her room at the Fifth Avenue IoIh,, ofIernoOn
received great many ariye in Central Park and
sh e the principal uptown streets returning "
the hotel a. about DTbere in particular" she said
last svsning TO a TRIBUNE reporter, out Just volu
The driver to let me see some OF Ihe I tbcv
1 i1 to see the Park because you KNOW tncy
80 inst beginning TO improve 1t when ielI helci
was very much charmed with my rlde' t Rough
would rather have waiksd 9n' "S5 1t don't
like these ebe,nins de fer-what do yon cali them l.
on the streets They darken all the shops ana max
snch a dreadful noisei And then thlnk. Oh tne
pretty girls riding III them and getting their races
al covered with the smoke and SCOT ltsredliS 'oo
bad MANY oon. already. have
you mott A" said the reporter. :, NJ, - ola
"Oh so many and among them MI Blal an paF
friend of mine from Berlin. lie used 70 t De 1 bi
d'orchesre there, you know. and I've sung lor hiiI
often. sang at his benefit when he left Berhn. 1
hope he's doing well; he's such nice feuow' anu
You find few of the places familiar to your
childhood as yon left them, suppose" . Won
VERY few but am delighted to he here 1ou
know have been on the point OF coming seVe. al
times but [ never could arrange It, Maurice
Strakosch's forfeits on my OLD contract Wlth nm
for this country are about touch 400 900 francs
You know the contract was that should come mere
upder his management, couldn't DO that ana SO
mai
sing will have TO pay him 10000 francs more
an1er another condition of the contract when pro
vided that was not to sing IN AmerGa I eAt ~
under his management Blu. I'd great deal rathgI
pay the $4,000 francs than have anything 10 10
"lth hun. -, $500, ..o,,o ,,is +;,Do Madame
The truth is we had almost abandoned all hope o1
hearing you here, and were "A little sorry that you
made so much money in Europe as TO DC abe 10 pay
OH came this time because am going to quit
singing IL public soon
i" Now you are not serious"
"Oh' yes / am don't intend to sing more than
two wears longer | want to stop before my voice Is
gone, be regretted 5te ana pom The onb fd to
see it it's really the most beautiful pIace ID Ine
world, way up in the mountains ana RESI-, LOT We
worked very hard. Besides it VIII be so pleasant TO
he able 10 sing for charities occasionally, and that
khould like to do. Now we have no chance to do
thing like that SO long as we are under fnTd engagement
90 And you would change what seems TO US your
present enchanted existence, and surrender ne
pleasures of the theatre, the great popular ruphs
and all that, and retire to qmet lie III your
say" @Wby. of course would and gladly like the
people near me- and the castle and mountains as l
told you, and could sing for my own pleasure
Or go down to London and hear the new SINGERS II
they good enough" ,e,
why could you not sing at the music festivals
here and in Cincinnati and Chicago IN that
THAT would be impossible What would Gye
Early in May Bat you win hear Materna,
and you'll Ike ber s Sge fr mas Iooing TOO too
tween thirty and forty years - $500 e-.+
Have you arranged the programme of your first
Not yet but shall sing the caystina from
'Traviata' and the shadow song from DlnoIah'
THE PRODUCE EXCHANGE BUILDING.
The Q. 700 members of the Produce Exchange still
N
new building. The Conference committee, recently
appointed to meet the Board OF Managers ana tne
President Parker submits that thTee pfoposltlOIs
present themselves: an assessment upon each
promises made, and will not be enter
tanned except as a last resource; the erection
OF an inferior building, aud limitation OF
membership to 5000, leaving 800 seats 70 De
taken at 81 500 each. he thinks. II the MEMBER
ship were limited the 800 extra seats would be
taken promptly. This would leave an lndeDteu-
ness of ST. $50 900 only for which 1t would be nee
essary to issue bonds. He would then leave 1t to
The Judgment If the members at what time 1t
Wouid be advisable to increase the membership
TwO-hundred and fifty additional memOers-lnIee
years hence. at 5000 EACH would clear OH the
debt entirely He thinks also that the income from
rentals wOuld then be sufficient TO pay the running
expenses and the members would not be called upon
for annual dues. , -,
Board has submitted proposition, novel In itself,
which meets with much favor. lie proposes mat
the Exchange shall issue to each member building
certificate, of the nominal value CT SIOOO, tor
winch $500 shall be paid. The holder Of the GER
tifcate shall not he assessed for any purposes the
owner is 10 receive dividend out of the surplus OF
the receipts of the Exchange, including the annual
dues of $50, SO long as the revenue exceeds lhe
total expenses nut such dividend to be limited TO
$40 year, and not to be- cumulative. The
Exchange is TO be permitted TO redeem
as many of its certificates at par 10
be drawn by lot, as it may be able
10 after paying a dividend of $40 upon all out
standing certificates. The Exchange may also
eeve two of the certificates, at any tine thew may
be rendered in lieu Of the regular imitation fee.
Each member of the Exchange Is to be permi ted to
subscribe for his certificate at any time before De
cenber l. and all not applied for by that date
b be- sold to the highest bidder and above
$500 each The fund so raised Is to be used for the
erection of the new building, proposed and
recommended by the committee, to be limited to an
expenditure OF 81, 0OO exclusive 81 cost OF site
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