St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-19
The Ovation to Nevada by the Public and
the Opposition by the Man
agement.
Chicago's Best Mayor Hasn't the
Slightest Idea of Yielding Up His
Power as Mayor.
The Fascinating Dr.. Mary Walker and
Her Success as a Dime Museum
Lecturer.
Special to the Globe.

Iul opera season cdn ellSclioCl, oiiO oPPie'uoO
which is so generously heaped upon the song
birds at the Exposition building does not
flag and the echoes will hardly die away
before Mapleson and his people are safely
ensconced in New York. The festival has
been even greater success than even its
most enthusiastic friends could have hoped
month ago: and the sponsors for the safe
outcome OF the project are whole in pocket
and happy in mind, while the aver
age Chicagoan is unsteady an inch
| taller and is prone to look towards st.
| Louis and her bridge with even more dis
dain, if possible than before the fruitlon OF
Silas Pratt's pet project.
| Nine years ago | first met Pratt, then
Just back from Europe, where he had spent
year and half studying Wagner. He
| had returned with the idea that Wagner
! and Pratt-were to shape
| THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE.
Pratt was noticeable wherever he went,
for his appearance would attract attention
| if he never said a word. An exquisite
dandy. he wore his hair long, and carried a
presence about with him which for p0mpos
! ity would have done credit to a Spanish
don, but that it had a musical turn to it.
He vibrated between the Eastern cities and
| Chicago. wrote ''Zenobia," brought it out
here with the financial aid of few admir-
erS who have money and liked to be known
as admirers of amateur musical enterprises
of that sort, and finally, year and half
ago. conceived the idea of a Chicago opera
festival, went to work at it, and received
the financial backing necessary to secure
the managers against loss. The result your
readers know, and Chicago is just trife
proud of this new feather in her cap, and is
willing to forgive Pratt's oddities, and
will
LIoNIZE HIM JUST LITTLE.
To-night's performance was undoubtedly
| the climax of the festival Faust, given as it
has never been possible to give it before.
| The First and Second regiments appeared in
the soldiers chorus, and their scenic and
chorus effects have never been equaled
here. Scalchi was as much a fav0rite as on
the first night of her appearance, and
shared equally with Patti the hOnOrs Of the
evening. Thursday nights performance
was second ovation to Nevada, who was
applauded to the echo, but she would not
respond to a demand for ''Home, Sweet
Home" Monday night she was able to have
her own way in the end, and sang the bal
lad which Patti always gives when she has
an encore, but last night Arditi with his
baton was immOvable. and at last
THE SAGE-BRUSH LINNET
had to retire without gratifying her friends.
At the close of the second act, Thursday
night the First regiment sent her magniti
cent floral harp, and the au-
dence fairly loaded her with
flowers, but the Italian crowd, both in the
orchestra and behind the scenes, were the
power behind the throne, and would not
IL Il
spond with second number. However,
the passages alarms of Monday and last
night have made host of friends for Ne
vada and brought about just what her jeal-
Gus rivals were endeavoring to crush out of
public notice.
The total receipts of the two weeks fes-
tival will be not far from $3.50. 900, which
is enough to reimburse the elaborate outlay
of the building and satisfy Col. Mapleson
and his cashier, besides giving them good
big margin of confidence for next years fes-
tival.
WILL CARTER RESIGN?
This conundrum has been propounded by
an Associated Press correspondent, while
coming the prospective canvass of Chica-
COS recent vote for mayor and the afOre-
said correspondent put it that ''Chicago's
which are thrust upon him as the
political head of this municipality,
and wants rest from the cares of office.
But opine that the correspondent is either
a little too previous, or else does not know
his man. You may rest assured that if the
canvass of the vote for mayor shows that
Carter Harrison is elected mayor of Chicago
he will fill the Office whether his Republi-
can adverSarieS want him to or not The
fact of the matter is that, except for the
mere name of the office. the asoralty of
this city will rank alongside the governor
ship of Illinois in point of practical poll
| ties. When one considers that as much
money is expended in carrying on the mll-
nicipal government of Chicago as in con-
Quoting the affairs of the whole state, it is
easy to understand that the practical infu-
| ence of the mayors Office is of no small
concern, and Harrison is too good Demo-
crat to let his old-time political enemies
have another chance to govern Chicago.
THE FASCINATING OLD DUDE,
| DR.. Mary Walker, has struck her level at
| last. She is lecturing on woman's rights
from 10 a. m. to 10 p. III. daily. in a dime
museum in this city. and evidently enjoys be-
ing stared at by the motley crowds of sight
seerS who are interested in anything GU
rious; be it 10 10, the dog-faced boy, Krao,
the horned man. or an eldery female in
mans attire, who wears her short hair
parted in the middle and sports an ogler in
her left eye. Mary can wear tooth-pick
with ease and grace, and twirls her dainty
| cane with dexterity that would not disgrace
| the Washers in the Columbia theater foyer:
but one thing she cannot do. for / saw her
try it. She can't expectorate without MAX
h.a,.s lr,;,
She might as well lay aside her masculine
togS and wear ''bloomer:" hear she has
already grown tired of masquerading as a
PANTALooNED CHAMPION OF HER CA USE,
and would rejoin Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and others of the buStle-wearing coterie.
but that she fears the newspapers would
make fun of her, and say she had been fig
uratively shaken out of her clothes by the
perennial paragrapher. She is pugnacious
and plucky if she is dude But what a
lot of fun it must be to see her hustling
around TO find nail to fasten her galluses.
or down on her knees in search of recall
citrant collar button that refuses to come
from under the bureau. / suppose she has
such difficulties as do all
MEN WHO HAVE NO WIVES.
but she is Fortunate in that she knows how
10 piace d pm 10 niue the gap MADE by
missing button without having the thing
stick into fellows flesh at the most inop-
perfume moment. To see her on the street
one would not suppose her woman until
close scrutiny shows the thin. careworn face
is bearileSs and not closely shaven. At her
hotel she attracts much attention. but she
either fails to note the curiosity her appear
ance causes, or else she is hardened and
GoaS,,.t care Nav no after oil sha o,oo,>.-
it as adulatiOn. But, as remarked before.
she is dude from top to toe. and she
doesn't care who knows it. CHENEY.