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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

'sMe and Jack" as put on by Lester and
Williams gave great satisfaction, and
packed houses were the rule all through
the week. Lizzie and Vinie DAILY were the
stars of the performance and their. char
acter songs and dances were greatly ad,
mired. 'sMe and Jack" will be continued
for another week with the following new
specialties added: The Novelty -Four in a
character change act Leoni, aerialist; the
Almonts, musical artists, and Miss Villa
Sayne, the vocalist, in new songs. The
musical burletta, 1.-THE Sea Queen" is
announced for the week commencing
April l.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
SIR ARTHUR,s PINAFORE."

Will Be Revived at the Tivoli Opera-House
Tomorrow Night.
The Tlvoli announces for next week
big production of Gilbert and Sullivan
"Pinafore.' This opera was given last at
this house about four years ago, and on
that occasion Tillie Salinger made her
first operate appearance in America. The
present production will be headed by
Miss Salinger, and will also witness the
temperance of an old-time Tivoh
favorite, Arthur Messmer, who has been
especially engaged for the part OF Ralph
Rackstraw
The piece will be handsomely staged.
and the efficient cast should make the
production good one. Ferris Hartman
as Sir Joseph Porter and John Rafael as
the captain should be very entertaining.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24


Leonard Grover. He has succeeded dur
ing his half years lease in making the
theater extremely popular, and he has
made hosts of friends by his geniality and
kindness in giving his patrons the plays
they desired. Through the kindness of
his associate managers the companies at
all the important theaters i'll the city have
volunteered their services. Fred G. Whit
ney, manager of the Fencing Master Opera
Company, telegraphed from New York,
placing his opera company at Mr.. Growers
disposal for the occasion. Mrs. Ernestine
Kreling will offer the Tivoi Opera Com
pany, Walter Morosco has granted the
favor OF the appearance of the members of
his stock company and William Gleason
has volunteered his services to act as stage
manager. The orchestra of the Tivoli
Opera-house has volunteered it's services
The Alcazar Theater Company, under the
direction of Charles Riggs, will also appear.
At the Wigwam.
The rac f
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
STOCKWELL'S LAST DAYS.
Grover Will Close His Season With "Cad the
Tnmhnuu and RanaHt

Grover Will Close His Season With "Csd the
Tomboy" and Benefit.
Manager Grover has announced the last
attraction which he will present at Stock
wells Theater under his management, and
when that is over Stockwell's Theater will
be rechristened and start out anew. Com
mencing with tomorrow evening Mr..
Growers favorite comedy-drama, "Cad the
Tomboy," will be given every night except
Friday. "Cad the Tomboy" has been
found to be the most popular with San
Francisco audiences. AT its last produc-
ton nearly 1000 people were turned away.
This weeks production will be the most
elaborate which the play has yet received.
Leonard Grover Jr. will appear as Tom
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
THE COLUMBIA,
Preparations Being Made to Open the New
Theater With Good People.

Managers Friedlander and Gottlob are
busily engaged in making the preparations
for thorough overhauling of Stockwell's
Theater, which will be named the Columbi
when they assume charge of it. The
electric wiring, the decorations, the stage,
the offices and the whole of the exterior
and interior will be remodeIed and reno
waited. Offers have been made to them by
several attractions to open the house at
once, but they have firmly decided not to
open excepting with first-class attraction
The opening week will be about the middle
of April
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

her quiet manner very well; David Tor
renee, who acts the part of Fortunio with
all the gusto of a thwarted knight, and
who sings his music admirably, and vii
liam Stephens, who can send soulful
TENOR SOLO up TO the easement of his lady
The Fencing Master will be heard to.
night and every night during the week.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

Willard Newell, Alice Condor, Helen
Henry, Julia Blanc, Kitty Kerwin and
Julia Forbes
Next Tuesday evening will be the ami,
TWersary OF the reopening, OF the Grand
people shook their heads over his venture
year ago, but among the forty-nine pieces
produced since then not one has been a
failure in any theatrical way. Mr.. Morosco
Will celebrate the event in his own quiet
manner
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
Burglars That Failed.

An unsuccessful attempt to burglarize the
office of Game Commissioner Emeric was made
early yesterday morning. A few dollars in
change was secured, but the attack on the safe
failed. The burglars got in through the Jack
son-street entrance and succeeded in springing
piece of wire. They had gathered up a consd-
cradle quantity of odds and ends which they
intended moving, but were evidently
frightened aWay
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

people for this weeks programme. Some
of the performers come direct from Paris,
and the remainder from New York City
On the new list are Mazuz and Abacco,
acrobatic com edians; Lind and Vani, an
eccentric comedy duo; the Nawns, Irish
character artists, and Kalkasa, a celebrated
comic iuggler.
The new people come highly recon-
mended, and the management draws
special attention to the programme as
being one of the strongest yet presented.
Indeed, the high standard of the attrac-
tions at the Orpheum for the past year has
made it difficult to secure stronger
features from the entire vaudeville world
than those which have already been pre-
seDted
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
The Macdonough Theater.

The next attractions at the Macdonough
Theater, Oakland, will be the Whitney
Opera Company in 1.-THE Fencing Master"
1t will be presented for two nights, COM
mencing April 1, and will be followed by
Marie Burroughs on Wednesday, April 3.
Then comes Emily Bancker for three
nights, commencing Thursday, April A.
Miss Bancker will present ''Our Flat"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
Death of a Week.

The Health Office report shows that there
were 155 deaths in this city during the
week ending at noon Saturday. The main
causes We're: Consumption 25, Pneumonia 81,
bronchitis 5, cancer z, heart disease ID, old
age g.. During the corresponding week of last
year the number of deaths was %
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
1.-THE FENCING MASTER

With Dorothy Morton 1t Has Pleased the
Baldwin Theater Audiences.
Little Miss Dorothy Morton strobe to the
edge of the stage at the Baldwin Theater
on Monday night and stood silent and smil-
ing. She took from her head the cap of the
Venetians, and with sweep of her arms
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
Miss Fannie Liddiard of the Tivoli
Opera Company.

Oracle Plaisted will be the Little Buttercup
and Phil Branson' the boatswain.
After "Pinafore" comes w. w. Furst's
New York success, princess Nicotine"
which will be given a perfect production
at the TivoH. The New York critics are
unanimous in their praise OF Mr.. Fursts
music.
Little Robinson Crusoe," the latest
local burlesque, by Messrs. Wilson and
Hirschbach, will follow.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
AT THE 0RPHEUM.
Seven New Speciality People will Be Intr
duced This Week,

IMLF0-
duoed This Week.
The Orpheum has been crowded every
night during the past week, and the new
bill proved a strong drawing card The
features of the programme were John A.
Coleman and Bruet and Riviere. The
dancing, singing and inimitable walk of
the former and the clever vocal limitations
of the last named made them prime
favorites.
Manager Walter announces seven new
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
her LETTER
TELLS A WOMAN'S STORY.
Written for Eyes of Other Women.
ESPECIAL TO OUR LADY READERS. !

ESPECIAL TO OUR LADY READERs.J
There is inestimable pleasure in doing
good to others, and JOY in grateful rec
ignition of the act.
On the old York Road, Huntington
Park, Philadelphia, dwells Miss M
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

!aa2ssSyass-xc:y,~ IS " %C
Charles H. Hoyt is contemplating comic
opera.
Henry Irving will be seen at the Baldwin in
September.
Ethel Brandon will start out on starring
tour in a few weeks.
Miss Dorothy Morton was originally a
soprano in q choir.
Lottie Collins has gone back to singing
"Ta-rara boom-de-ay."
Stuart Robson, the sprightly comedian. passed
into his sixtieth year last week.
Eben Plympton has been engaged to play
prominent part in Gossip" with Mrs. Langtry.
The first anniversary of Morosco's Grand
opera-house will take place on Tuesday night.
After next Sunday night the Baldwin will
close for four weeks and the California for two.
Arthur Messmer will return to the Tivoli to-
morrow night Ralph Rackstraw in Pima
FORE
Eugene Garfield will, it is said, appear with
the American Extravaganza Company in New
YORK.
the press agent OF the Broadway Theater in
that city.
The Lilliputians are coming to the Baldwin
Theater in a few months with their latest sue
cess, "Humpty-Dumpty Up-to-Date."
Oscar Wilde's new play, "The Importance of
Being Earnest" is a rafting farce, in which he
throws all his dramatic theories to the wind.
Miss Georgia Cayvan has been quite i'll in
Paris and is now in London. 1t is believed
that she will not "star' as soon as she intended.
Peter F. Daley, supported by an excellent
farce-comedy company, will present ga Coun-
try Sport" at the California Theater in a few
weeks.
Miss Emily Bancker has been given the
credit for doing more work in the second act
OF "Our Flat" than any other actress ever did
in single production.
Mrs. Cora Urquhart Potter's production of
"Charlotte Corday' is the talk of the Eastern
cities The New York critic Metzler says that
she is the Bernhard of America.
William ferris and Jessie Millward, known
here through their conspicuousness in Henry
Irving's companies, are to be the hero and hero
inc in the London production of "The Girl Left
Behind Ne" next month.
The story of princess Nicotine" is laid in
Cuba and is very simple. The governor of
bacco-planter and sets his wits TO trap her. but
by q series of comical misadyentures he fails,
and in the end the tables are turned on him.
Jacob Lift has taken under consideration q
play, the authors OF which were W. F. Henley,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
At the Wigwam.

The past week has been most success
tul one for burlesque at the Wigwam.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

Mrs. Cora Urquhart Potter's production of
"Charlotte Corday' is the talk of the Eastern
cities The New York critic Metzler says that
she is the Bernhard OF America
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

William ferris and Jessie Millward, known
here through their conspicuousness in Henry
Irving's companies, are to be the hero and hero
inc in the London production of "The Girl LET
Behind Ne" next month
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

Miss Emily Bancker has been given the
credit for doing more work in the second act
OF "Our Flat than any other actress ever did
in single production.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

the English poet, and Robert Louis Stevenson,
whose death occurred some time since in
Samoa. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote alto
gether three plays for the stage; two of them
were failures and the third has never been
produced
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

Peter F. Daley, supported by an excellent
farce-comedy company, will present ga Coun-
try Sport" at the California Theater in a few
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

Oscar Wilde's new play, "The Importance of
Being Earnest" is a rafting farce, in which he
throws all his dramatic theories TO the wind.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

Miss Georgia Cayvan has been quite i'll in
Paris and is now in London. 1t is believed
that she will not "star as soon as she intended.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

The Llliputians are coming to the Baldwin
Theater in a few months with their latest sue
cess, "Humpty-Dumpty Up-to-Date."
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

Eugene Garfield will, it is said, appear with
the American Extravaganza Company in New
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

A. Oakley Hall, ex-Ntayor of New York, is now
the press agent OF the Broadway Theater in
that city.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

Arthur Messmer win return to the Tivoli to-
morrow night as Ralph Rackstraw in pima
The Washington times., 1895-05-12

imaginable. Their petticOats are of the
coarsest jute bagging and the waists are
nondescript, somtineS OF oil CLOTH and
sometimes crazy quilting OF rags and not
many OF those at that. Their headgear
is OF course a very dead match to the in
congruity of the rest OF their clothes.
The fisherwouen of Paris who marched to
Versailles or the women who get their fame
r. from BilliDgsgate fish market were not a
Circumstance to these female slashers
and rippers OF Potomac herring. They are
dangerously expert with these knives. A
woman who laughs and jokes or sings
snatcbeS of plantation songs, takes
up quivering herring in her left hand de-
captateS him. and. with continuous down
ward cash, rips off the prominence of his
stomach.
With another deft and deXterous motion,
a mere twist OF her wrist, she scoops out
his entrailS and in the next Instant thn, cut
herring is in the tub with a splash which
dashes the spray into the faces Of her COM
panions. All of the women are doing the
came thing at the same time in kind OF
butchering symphony. They are all
equalyexpert and hefish dropintotbe water
like hail on a tin roof
But there is another pile that increases
with every fresh herring that is to be salted
After the work of an hour or SO, the
women, who are careless in the disposition
OF the refuse, are ankle deep in the steaming
viScera OF the fish, and they move about in
il as unconceruedly as if they were tread
ing the greensward OF Chevy Chase
II as a q, C.GrC.y ''la,iE foOkiill; and too
suggestive s'fht, tut they tell you that
it is all right when you get used TO it.
The Washington times., 1895-05-12

lessons nd Just about completed the course
They do not own but one wheel, so when
two wish 10 go out, they hire one from the
school.
The British ambassador and his daugh-
teFs are good riders. The two girls
now at home, like all English women,
are fond OF out-of-doors and horseback rid
ing, and such amusements always find
favor in their eyes Sir Julian can bowl
along in spite of his exalted dignity, and
the girls are fast riders. One received
at Christmas a present of a handsome
wheel
Alice Belknap, the pretty daughter Of
one of Gen. Grants Cabinet Officers. is
an expert on the wheel, ami makes an
attractive picture when out for a run.
The Misses Letter took lessons all win
ter, and when the groom, the Hon. George
Curzon, reached town he was initiated
in the art of riding. Every day the party
of noble Britishers would go out 10 the
school for lessons, and no doubt but that
the Hon. George VIII ride an American
wheel around his beautiful estates in old
England
Miss Field, step-daughter of the famous
author, Thomas Nelson Page, is an ex-
cellent rider of the wheel and is equally at
home on horses back or handling the
ribbons over spanking young thoroughbred.
In word, though only about fifteen, 5 he
is an expert at all such healthful amuse-
ments.
Mrs. Truxten Beale, formerly Miss Hattie
Blaine, is devoted - wheeling and has a
pretty cos TUNE all of tan for her excursions
Miss Boardman is good rider and so Is
Miss Biddle, the young heiress on y street
Perhaps the fastest amongst the lady riders
is Miss Brownell, who can make mile in
about three or four minutes Miss Ella
Pierce is also a rapid rider
The Washington times., 1895-05-12

her from falling and also guides the ma
chine
1t is hard work at first to preserve ones
balance. ard even harder Cn the teacher,
who is always a Colored man. For hour
after hour lie trots around the track until
it seems that he covers more ground than
the average ferd:c horse. But he seems
indefatigable.
After four or five lessons a woman has
generally learned TO held herself on the
wheel, ard tEen she gets the head-teacher
to go out on the street with her for a
whirl after sCEool hours. or course these
private lessons are expensive, but as most
ofthe ladies' are rich. this is nc consideration
The lesson at the school lasts about half an
hour, AID fer outside lessons the charge
is dollar an hour.
The favorite place for exercising is
just back OF the White House in lot known
as the White Lot, and here on any after
noon between 4 and tie read is full OF
fIyiug wheels, of fair maidens and of various
costumes.
Many of the rdeTs have discarded the
conventional skirt ard appear i'll the dress
known as "blCCmerS''- dIess winch the
reformers have in vain attempted to in
troduce, aud which Las ior tie last fifty
years been the subject OF SO much criticism
aud r.diCule.
For several years past it has been the cry
that women should adopt a rational style
of dress, a style that would leave her free
play for her limbs. But no woman could
get up the courage to make her appearance
in such a dress, no matter how much she
would approve of its utility. But the
bicycle has done the work, and now the
ladies come in boomers to the school, or
appear in this costume on the street with
out exciting any comment at all.
In fact, it would astouiSb some or the
The Washington times., 1895-05-12

head, which line the wharf and crowd
OF colored women and other people, most
of whom are local buyers or purchasers,
who come for wagon loads from the in
terror.
When the ships come in, this wharf is
the Alexandria Stock Exchange If the
boats come in loaded TO the gunwales
they say on Change that Fish is cheap"
or that the bottom has dropped out Of
Potomac steak" When the supply is
small, fish jump lively" and it takes
stiff figure TO buy a block of thousand
or this kind OF stock. OWING 10 THESE
conditions, the price Of herring varies
from six, to five, to four, to three, to two,
dollars TO seventy-five cents per thousand,
all this depending upon the traditional
fisherman's luck.
By the way, when all the fishermen are
lucky it is a mighty unlucky thing for the
disposition OF the fish. So 1t is that fish
may sell in the morning for four dollars
thousand, and in the evening for two dol
lars a thousand Sometimes boat load
comes to the wharf when the price is very
low down. The fisherman then declines
to trea with the bears, and sails away to
Washington TO try his luck for O better
sale.
The Washington times., 1895-05-12

ures would make the total about 10 900 :
600. The value of these at the average
price. would he about $40 900, but very
large proportion is sold at a higher price,
in the cured and picked state, so that
the value in money Of the recorded product
isabout SEQ 900.
OF The herring fisheries Of the Potomac
and the export market at Alexandria, most
people have only a vague, or at best a
general idea; yet, there is nothing in it or
about ii that is not exceedingly interest
ing
The family roe herrings'' are quite
familiar 20 all Washingtonians but the
story Of their development in the Potomac
aud the way they reach the last analysis
OF the table, are not so well known 10 all
consumers.
A day ortwo ago The Times made a visit
to the herring boat wharf at Alexandria,
a puncent yhiff OF which occasionally
reaches the tourists down the Potomac
when the wind is off-shOre This is quite
an interesting point of obse lYatIOn for the
study OF herring. dead or alive. and in the
season when these blUe-backed foreigners
are running is, from March up to
about he 10th of May-there is not live
lier spot, day or night, on the Potomac
The Washington times., 1895-05-12
AHoME-MADE AvIARY.
Any woman who Loves Birds G

Any Woman Who Loves Birds Can
Rear Them al Small Expense.
1t is in the manner OF keeping pets, par
ticularly OF the feathered kind. that the
foreigners greatly excel Americans.
French and German women shelter their
bull.inches and canaries in cages that are
/ ragnly, decorative little bird houses. built
1,of thin ground glass, wood and wire pro-
'Ylded with syphol water cups. self1lean-
ing seed boxes and spacious enough to keep
the small prisoner content and healthy.
S5ch cages, however must be specially i'm
ported, and whoever may wish to keep a
half dozen birds happy, hearty and seet-
voiced can as easily as not bald for them
Il ayiary at small outlay.
The person who proved how easily and
/ inexpensively this might be done devoted
The Washington times., 1895-05-12

probably hundred principal fishers who
control the minor fishermen and their
catch. Some of the seines which are piled
on the lower shores are very extensive
things. One of those belonging TO Mr. T
Ballinger is four miles long, and there
are quite number from four hundred to six
hundred fathoms in length.
People who do not know will be sur
prised TO be- told that in a seine belonging
to Mr. Withers Waller this sea
son there was ole haul which
took 125, 900 herring Another took in
$4,000 at one haul, and third $4,000
A fourth Seine caught 80 600 herring and
$500 shad at one drawing. The gill net
The Washington times., 1895-05-12

now of Durham. ". H, has been appointed
chief AT So 500 year.
The object of the division is to collect
and disseminate Information about the
dairy industry of the country aud The organ
iEation probably viii be effected un July l,
with force comprising an assistant chief,
at 81 $50 per anuum, bookkeeper aud
accountant aud a stenographer and type
writer. For its work S25, 300 will be
available lanndauy.
Major AlVoTd is an ex-army officer,
native OF Massachusetts, n former resident
resident OF both New York and Virginia
and ex-president of the Maryland Agri-
cultural College.