The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-07-02
lie hath written his name,
In bright letters of fame.

An agitation has commenced for q peo-
Plies day at the Worlds Fair. This is in
terpreted as day when the price of ad-
mission is 25 cents instead of so. 1t is n OF
all twaddle, as the management would
find out A charge of 30 cents is consid-
cradle tax on workingman with a fam
lily. taking into account the further fact
that days refreshments cost at least as
much as the price of admission for the
most economical visitors. Chicago has
contributed S5,0OO.OO0 to the fair, and the
working population may expect some re-
turn. 1t probably would be found that on
a Sunday three times the ordinary num-
Der of visitors would attend If the adj
mission were lowered. The management
might also gain by lowering the terms to
excursion parties buying for each person a
number of admission tickets. Thus. five
admissions for 81 so would tempt many
who are forced to ecOnomiZe, especially if
the tickets could be purchased along with
single-fare tickets by railway. To see the
exhibition properly requires many visits,
and half-dollar charges have to be pom
dered by the multitude.
A German painter of celebrity, Adolph
Won Mechel, has just committed suicide be-
cause one of five pictures has been rejected
by the jury in Berlin. His chagrin is a
trife inexplicable to the business man who
knows how hard world 1t Is when money
is stringent. But an artist is lowered in
reputation by the Sights Of his fellows. and
the public who buy by reputation and
often get good deal of trash for their
pains are as chary of supporting man WI 10
has fallen off as they are Of appreciating
a young painter. The fault lies a little in
having academies of any kind. Academi-
clans are the judges and they judge approx
ingly the works which reflect the inf1u-
ence OF their own genius and frOwn upon
Innovations Human nature is so cOnsti-
tuted especially in the criticism of poetry
and painting. The fairest system of judg-
ing pictures would be to abolish academies
and let the artists annually elect at full
representative meeting those they consider
competent to act as juries Fossils would
be excluded and Ithe best men generally
selected.
Only Texan cows could be capable OF
race to the Worlds Fair in harness and
MIXED by the way. The milk is TO be
churned and the butter weighed, and the
cow that is last may be first according to
the yield. Eccentricity can probably be
carried further If stakes of $4,000 are as
abundant as plans. A match might be
mduo Will DlIIy gOatS IrOm Dan FRANCISCO,
or alligators from Florida. and some
regions where porkers are abundant might
try conclusions with hogs, taking care to
keep the destination secret from the
animals.
Covent Garden is to have an opera night
such as it has long been stranger to. in
point OF magnificence, as a pendant to the
wedding Of the Prince of Wales son and
the Princess May. The thealer is to be
taken possession OF by royalties and the
fashionable world of the titled and wealthy
terms by no means synonymous in Lon
don. Romeo and Juliet" has appropri-
ately been chosen. and it is no want of
compliment that the first warbler of her
time. MEe. Patti, is not in the cast. The
music, superb as it may be. will not be the