The morning call., 1894-10-22
SSHEEL - BEINEFlI
Fifteen Thousand People
Attended 1t.
AT THE NEW SUTRO BATHS.
The Building Proved Too Large
for an Orchestra.
THE CONDUCTOR APPLAUDED.
The Concert Was a Promenade One.
Disgraceful Car-ServiCe AC-
COmmodatiOn.
IT THE NEW SUTRO BATHS.
THE CONDUCTOR APPLAUDED

The great popularity of Fritz Scheel.
added to the desire to see the new Sutro
baths, drew nearly $1,000 people cut to the
musical conductors benefit there yester-
day afternoon.
The great size of the building prevented
a striuged orchestra from doing itself any
thing like justice. The sounds wandered
away into the iron glrders, and lost them
selves in the maze of passages and bath
rooms. but even the most far-away OF the
audience could recognize what was being
played, and Scheeps popularity did the
rest, for wave of applause that We'd
with the booming of the breakers outside,
greeted the conclusion of each number.
The first part of the programme con-
sisted of Grand Festival March" the
"Jubal Overture" "On the Beautiful
Blue Danube" and Masseners Scenes
Napoiitaines.'' While the music had been
proceeding few swimmers had sided
gracefully from considerable altitude
and had dispOrted themselves In the water
10 the great admiration of the multitude.
who appeared prepared to enter thor
oughly into the spirit of the swimming
competitions announced in the pro-
gramme.
When the exciting Massenet music was
ended and the musicians were mOpplng the
sweat of toll from their brOws. fountain
at the north end of the great tank began
TO play. After few minutes its example
was followed with laudable pOljteness by
a fountain at the south end, and baud OF
swimmers appeared on the platform and
de scendeu into the water. None of the
behoders, however. could positively de-
eide whether they really entered into
race or were only swimming idly about for
I hot
interest in the swimmers soon tagged,
and, although during the second part of
! the programme there was something which
| an onlOoker possessed of some magma
! tiOn might have mistaken for race, tne
people in the building paid little heed to 1t,
! and continued to promenade and listen to
the distant strains OF The music.
\ fantasia on Carmen" was a musi-
! cal selection that appeared to hit the pop
ular taste. 1t was greeted with great
| applause, which had scarcely subsidized
! wnen Adolph SntrO stepped upon the plat
| form near the musicians. and, after bow
/ ing in answer TO the greeting he received,
! proceeded to harangue the multitude.
| What he said must forever remain "a secret
unless he or the orchestra Immediately
| below him choose some day to divulge ii.
| Mr.. SutrO made a number OF graceful
| gestures and smiled encouraginly several
! times at the thousands OF people who were
straiuiug their ears in vain to catch a
! single word Those close at hand saw the
smiles and those at distance had the
! benefi of the gestures, but the building
was far too vast for the sound of a human
voice 10 be heari iu it at any distance.
Even the trombone solo. which that pow
erful instrument performed In the last
/ part OF the programme, sounded scarcely
as loud as a mild and sentimental flute
does in a hall of ordinary sizs. 1t would
take military band, a couple of hundred
1 ~ To no 10 Of
! the salt water baths ring.
After DIR. Sutro retired, amid consider
able applause, the audience resumed
promenadng, while the orchestra broke
into IAN Afternoon on the Midway Plais-
ance of the Worlds Fair" When this was
concluded the crowds OF people began
| to go.
One of the unpleasant features of the
! dedication of the baths was the impOs-
tion Of the Market-Street Railway on the
/ people who went out on the coast road
! from the western terminus of the CalifOT-
nia-slreet cars, and it must have made the
thousands Of passengers who suffered the
unjust treatment of the monopoly think
| seriously of subscribing to the stock neces-
sary to build competing road TO the Cliff
House and ocean beach.
For some lime past-since the Powell
street system passed into the control of
the Market street consolidation - that
| monopoly has operated Cliff trains only
from Sixth avenue. and passengers
have been compelled to take the park
trains and transfer al the curve when going
to The ocean beach.
Yesterday this system was followed
until 2 O'clock or thereabOutS, when such
crowds had assembled at the end of the
CalifOrnia-sireet line, and also at the curve,
| that train was reluctantly made up and
run through To the Cliff, but still cars were
allowed to stand idle IN the carhouse while
a crowd of people were compelled to await
| the departure of q late outbound train.
The fact that one train could 60 through
and that available cars were on hand
clearly demons Strated TO everybody that
nothing Inlerfered with uninterrupted
traffic and the accommodation OF the pub
lie which put up its money for good ser
vice but the simple plg-headed policy oi
the monopoly.
Passengers returning from the concert
at the baths suffered even greater lDdig-
mites than In going out. Something like
four or flve cars were run on the ocean
beach trains and every one was crowded TO
its utmost capacity. When the curve al
Sixth avenue was reached these people
were told to transfer TO the park train OF
take the SacrameDto-street cars. The
park train comprised three cars nearly
filled with passengers returning from the
park. ana into these loaded cars the pas
sengers of four OF five Cliff cars were tuld
the platform and men hung on to the steps
in order to get to the CalifOruia.street cars
while crowds stood aimlesSly al the june.
lion wondering if the dummy road wa:
minus superintendent or what was the
trouble.
Only those who were familiar with the
"policy" of the Market-street monopoly
understood that it was ruse to cOmpe
people to take the Sacramento-slreet cars
and she'll out their nickels, for some o1
those who were carried 10 Central avenue
would take the Caltornia-street cars, be
cause those cars took them nearer ther
homes and the monopoly would lose {
number of Scent pieces. which would bt
poor business tact.
The crowds that attempted to return
home from the Cliff House by the beacf
line proved too much for the old engine es
The quar-, er to ) train broke down abou
half way on its journey. and the engine
from the O'Clock train. after going to it:
rescue ana pushing 1t up the grade, sue
cumbed itself, after making frantic bu
futile efforts to make some headway
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