New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-08
COMPETITION FOR OPERAS.
WHAT COLONEL MAPLESON PROPOSES.
THE NEW ooMpAxY's CERTIFICATE OF lScoR-

mur NEW COMPANY'S CERTIFICATE OF lNCOR
poRATIox-ALL THE SUBSCRIPTIONS PAID.
The stockholders of the new Metropolitan Opera and
,mprovement Company, thrtyfour In number. yester-
d.v sent their checks for $4,000 each to the treas
urer. George S. Bowdoin. In payment OF their sub
chptions for the stock OF the company Those stock
holders are George G. Haven. Adrian Iseln Elbridge
= Derry Samuel d. Babcock. George F. Baker. ii. &.
rshnestock J. rerpont Morgan, william C. Whitney.
J. Juillard. Edward Cooper George Peabody Wet
mare John Jacob Astor Hebcr r. Bishop. ID. o. Mills.
0~orce 5. Bowdoin. Charles F. Burney. Perry Bel
mont George Henry Warren Thomas Hitchcock W.
reward Cutting. Henry Cews. H. Mex Twombly.
r. Van Ness. W. d. Sloane. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
w,,,i.m X Vanderbilt. Frederick Vanderbilt ". Sew
IA Webb Ogden Goelet, Robert Goelet. X. T. Wilson.
:, Hood Wright, Adrian Iselin. jr., and Luther
Kountze.
me company incorporated at Albany on Mon.
40 and the certificate OF incorporation was filed IN
-. County Clerks Office yesterday. II would appear
m the plans as laid down In the certificate that the
.h.me Of the new company includes not only the
,.udlns anew of the Metropolitan Opera House, but
40 concomitant institutions such buildings for the
y,fyaton Of music. literature and the nrts According
!. sAe certificate the objects OF the company are
~, encouragement and cultivation OF music literature
~ he arts; TO maintain a building buildings In
rheh TO give operate and dramatic representations,
.oueers balls. ETC.. to maintain adjacent bulldogs
which TO operate hotel or apartment house. with
ssauant and other facilities. and TO acquire all the
ri and personal property OF the Metropolitan Opera
House Company OF New-York. limited, and the Met
ropolitAn Improvement Company Of New-York, lin
nel
The capital Of the new company Is 70 be 81 $50 000
In common stock, divided into 10000 shares. 1t is
the evident intention OF the men who are forming the
new company that M undesirable persons shall get
hold Of any Of the stock, and thus make trouble IN
the company To prevent this 1t Is provided In the
articles OF incorporation that there shall not be any
transfer Of stock made, except to persons approved
by the directors OF the company and upon compliance
With its bylaws
The directors mentioned In the certificate are Sam
nd D. BabcOck, George +. Baker. Georee S. BOwdoin,
Robert Coelet, George u. Haven. Adrian lsehn,
Augustus D. Juillard. Luther Kountz. d. q. Mills.
j. Perpont Morgan. william H. Vanderbilt, George
Peabody Wetmore and William G. whitney. meet
ne Of the company will be held on March 20. when
the boxes at the opera house will be allotted to the
stockholders.
The plans for an opera season next winter do not
sesm Just now to be so thoroughly settled they
seemed to be q week ago. Then there was no doubt
that Abbey Schoefel and Grau would receive lease
Of the from the new company. but now Colonei
J. H. Mapleson. with In all probability Sir Augustus
Harris at his back. Is openly In the field as bidder
for the privilege Of giving opera In the reconstructed
ago Is In the best OF health and vgOr and moreover
in sound financial condition. and he Is anxious 10
manage opera. Henry Clews said last night that he
had seen Colonel Mapleson several times since MS
arrival and that he had outlined to him piah
which seemed to him a reasonable and good one.
Colonel Mapleson proposes that he shall receive the
house free OF rent for FIVE years. as Mr. ADbey Was
TO have done for three years. II 1t had not been
burnol. He will pay enough to the company now
aver To cover the taxes OF the part OF the buoihg
he uses and he will pay all the running expenses
ia will not ask the stockholders to pay any rentals
er assessments on their boxes. and he will give AT
last fifty performances Of Italian opera eacn
Tho colonel is ready to guarantee that ne oah
hiring rs good an opera company to THIS country a.
NJ Abbey can. and he says that ne com,io ror'd
services OF several Of the finest singers IN the
II the stockholders dissatisfied with what ne CIV e.
them he offers them the privilege OF n or
rather any Of the first four as II VIII termma , 10
fssH after the fh In fact, he says. the contct ne
Offers is like the handle OF Jug az on onr ue
lie declares that he knows the american peop'sh ="
Veil as any opera manager and that ne knows thrs
rf listen TO no opera but the best II Is tnereloe
for the interest OF any manager VINO gcts
OF the Opera House, as ne Po,nn SI ~. ow nroat
lie tslfs the directors Of the new company tnat '1es
ought net 10 listen any proposal Tor lease the
terms OF which are less favorable 10 themselves IMAM
M Abbey, It Is said wishGs to make II one OF me
conditions OF his proposed five years lease thas eac n
stockhoder shall pay him annual rental OF SsvVo
for his box The company which he Will orIng IL
much the same as that which he had hcie sst ,1 ~
and it Is not easy to see how better one could DC
brought for singing Italian opera Mr. ADDey oi Is
now In Chicago making arrangements for his spectacle
at the Auditorium.