The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
PATTI ARRIVES.
She Will Make Her Perennial
Farewell Tour.
She Will Sing Only in COncert-To Appear as
the Colleen Bawn-Rer Hair
is Black.

Especial to TIE HERALD-Examiner Dispatchl
New YORK, Jan. at was 10 o'clock
when the big Inman liner the City Of Paris
steamed up to her dock, pier 43, North
river, yesterday morning. She had taken
Just seven days and twenty three hours in
her passage from Liverpool. Captain Wat
hins says the passage was one of the most
severe he ever experienced. Patti was the
only woman on board the City of Paris
who was not seasick. mot a bit, not the
least little bit of bit," she laughingIy said
to-day when asked il she hadn't felt an oc-
casional quaIm. As for NicoIini-well. he
didn't own up that his stomach went back
on him. No man ever does when the cues
tiou is oae of sea sickness, but as he ex-
pressed it, it was one of the most horrible
voyages he ever experienced. II have
crossed the ocean more times than | care
| to count" she SAID in her parlor at the
| Windsor hotel, where a reporter found her
among heaps of flowers. 81 have earned
my sea legs by long apprenticeship.
! She looked as calm ana young and happy
as though she were safely encOnsed before
! a bright wood nre in Craig Nos castle.
| Prince Ricci lay on the singers lap wrapped
I up In red blanket and sWathed about the
neck as though be had Group or his shrill
vocal organs were as precious a thing as
| PATHS own. He is the sweetest, love-
! lest little dog in the whole world A." muir
INJURED his mistress, as she shoWered his
face with kisses, land 1 had a great deal
rather you would write about him than
! me. | am sure he is far more interesting
| What are my plans:'' Patti added. 'Oh,
you know l am only going to sing in con-
cert this trip. We open here next Thurs
day. We give two Operatic concerts IN
y >,
country. 1t will be very busy time for
me, l am sure, and then when it is all over
l am going back to Craig y Nos again.
have my passage engaged already on the
City of Paris when she makes her trip
across next May. think May is the ex-
act date. l shall sing once more the old
song Next Thursday | am to appear in
the first act of 'Semiramide' old favor
tie of mine. you knOw-and on the 18th
'Iraviata' is down OF the bills. belieVe.'
Nine. Patti was asked if she had been
signing much lately.
"Why, sing half the time" she an
swered IL can't help it. l was asked to
open the season in Paris at the Grand opera
} house, but l had to decline. l sing al
J Craig Nos every day"
And then the sOngstress went into rhaps.
ody about her castle. she called her maid
to bring out photographs of the place and
took special pleasure in dilating on the
beauties OF ner theatre there, which SIS
runs herself without being dependent on
the whims and caprices of operate mana
gers.
~ have sung there often, but ]
am going to attempt something new
when 1 get back. am going
! to appear as an actress in Colleen
, Bawn, '-Boucicauit's CoIleen-and thai
will be droll will it not, to begin as an am
ateur, after so many years of service on
the stageP
In answer to a query about her health
/ Patti said that it was always good, and was
never better than at present. She was
dressed in a soft, loose, clinging dress Of
; gray, with slashes of silver in it and al
> edging of thick gray fur. Magnifcen
2 Jewels flashed from her fingers and gilt
e tered at her throat. Her eyes were bright
!. as ever, and her smile as gay and charming
o as it was in the days of the old academy
: A stiletto of brilliants cleaned in Patti'i
!. hair. which is jet blac6 this trip, as i
3, | ahOUld he