New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-07
FAILING TO MEET NINE. PATTI.
THE SIXTEEN TUGS NOT ON HAND.
THE pP1uA DONNA GOES TO HER HOTEL ALMOST
USATTENDED-A CHAT WITH HER.


THE pprNA DONNA GOES TO HER HOTEL ALMOST
UsAITENDED-A CHAT WITH HER.
Mr. Mapleson was unhappy yesterday and
uodame Patti was mad. Mr.. MaplesOn's programme
for the reception of his trump card" has already
been published in THE TRIBUNE, and though ne
Affected Sds rather to despse tho sixteen tugs, the
steamer with accommodations for 2,5O0, the
orchestra and Arditis hymn, there is no
much pleasure the arrival of the hour when
he would show his rivals how a prlma
donna ought to be received. His antlclpatOnS
were rather dashed with gloom when he learned
that instead of the twenty hundred carrying
steamer. he was to have the old familiar Blackbrd,
but Monday night he retired to rest SECURE IN %he
consciousness that the arrival of the Galia of Fire
Island was TO be telegraphed to him immediately
At half-past o'clock yesterday morning, then,
when Western Union Telegraph boy handed HIM
a dispatch as he stood in the lobby of the New York
Hotel he gave his shiny bat an imperceptbe tip TO
one side, tOyed with the flower in his buttonhoe;
stepping into coupe told the driver to take him to
the fwenty-secOnd Street wharf. When ne arrived
there, however, there was, no Blackbird,
nor was any such Ornithological craft IN
sight Instead thereof he found Arditi hid
ing behind a coil of rope to get out OF the Wlnd,
and the mem bers of the chorus and orchestra DONG
their best to catch cold and freeze the tune out OF
their instruments The manager was IN sore traVali
especially not even one out of the promised neeI
OF sixteen tugs was 10 De seen anu and ne crmisne Off,
when q meditative mariner volunteered In9 re-
mark that if it was "the Caller he was a-lOoklhg
fur" she was safe in her dock at that moment
Mr. Mapleson paed, and in a bound was IN ms
coupe and driving with break-necK speeu III tLio
direction indicated by jerk or the mariner
thumb Sure enough, the Gallia was there ana
SO were her passengers with the exception OF
Madame Patti Twenty-one Custom House 9incers
So Magom I Patti had dsembarked so after
another minute search of the ship, extend
ing as far as the tunnels and the engne-ro0m, MT:
MaplesOn resigned himself to the SITUATION. ana
sadly drove up to the Windsor Hotel. Here he
found the object of his search and here also she was
seen i'm the afternoon by a TRIBUNE reporter, Ma
dame Patti looked precisely the same as she looked
when she sand goOd-by TO America, IN the spring
She was dressed in close fitting cloth dress, and
had iaunty little hat on her head, which, as she
explained, she had not had time TO remove SO ouSy
had she been with the reception OF her TRENDS.
lis il not too bad?" she exclaimed, with Comlca
expression Of annoyance. 1t Is wonder ha' Il
was il was by the meTeSt chance that one Oh my
friends Glanced to come down to the dOc K, and
luckily espied me as wandered ABOUT 5 uy ras w.
think Mr.. MaplesOn might have sent some one down
on the chance of his elaborate arrangements ialng
through Not that wanted to come mp the bay on
The Biackbird. am tired of the Blackblrd-aIways
that detestabe color. Why not let me have white
bird fora change9 However it's all over now, ana
here am as comfortable and happy as If twenty
boats had come down 10 meet me. l suppose II IS
quite the usual and regular thing to say one is gad
10 he hack but in my case i really am, 1Of
| have made many dear friends in this country
in which sang when was only so high. ana she
held shapely hand at abont the height OF heT char
from the floor. This will be my twenty-fourth
season, but then, you know, sang almost before
cOuld talk" s 80.
thereS" ,.,. ,..so.o =
sailed: and one in Birmingham and another III Man
chester the week before They were a great success
and enioved them immensely, as had such nice
fellow artists. There was AntOinette Stirling, Mr.
MaybTick and young Sims Reeves, VINO sings very
nicely, but of course has no voice to be compared
TO his fathers"
You had pleasant summer IN Wales, 1 sup
posei" ,..-,, e.,.,o, III t,,o ir,,,ro,o.
ments on my property, and it is almost perfect now.
We fishcd-Oh, how we did fish! We caught nearly
four hundred salmon in seven weeks, and caught
one that weighed thirty pounds; and such a
struggle had to. land him! We fish IN the | SIX,
home we give the fish to the poor people living
around, and il is so interesting"
you appear in a new part on Friday, do you
mott" -,
'Gazza Ladra, which was the piece De rctlsance IN
London last season. Then | sing IN lfaVlata
ON Monday, and later on shall appearin Romeo and
Juliet Riccl's, 'Crispno la COmare. ana pos
sibly Aida, which you know ! created
alt has been reported that you had signed with the
Gives for next year, and also that you were gong TO
Australia with Mr.. Mapleson."
Neither of those reports is true. The two eyes
came TO Liverpool to see me off, but | did not care
10 make any contract so far ahead; so | refused
their offers liberal though they were As to going
TO Australia that is ont of the question. may 60
as far as San Francisco if Mr.. MaplesOn thinks 1t
"What do you think of the so-called operate war
heref"
lis it not pity hear discouragng reports
about both houses, and am sorry to hear the new
house has had to reduce its prices. 1t looks like
weakening, doesn't it'll After all, the old Academy
is not such bad place"