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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
YsAYE. A MUSICAL IDOL.

There is no denying that San Francisco is far,
very far, from the madding crowd of musical
celebrities who annually escape from Europe
and spread themselves over the Eastern States.
Many OF these performers are advertised and
sustained by piano and other manufacturers
to play upon their particular brands of instru-
ments and thereby popularize them; but in
this case, when the virtuoso is not quite up to
the mark, the public generally detects the
cloyen hoof OF self-adyertisement and refuses
to accept the performer at the manufacturers
valuation, and the discounted musician retires
whence he came, shaking the dust OF inartistic
America off his feet
Other European artists, however, like Pade-
rewski, are accepted on their own great merits,
and are idolized and raved over in manner
peculiar to America-that is to Eastern Amer
lea, for the Pacific Coast is rarely accorded an
opportunity of hearing an artist who is the
idol OF the hour, and there is little precedent
as to the manner of treatment he would re-
ceive. Virtuosi whose glory has fed often
come to US, it is true. Remenyi, for instance,
who has just departed, once set London on fire,
but that was many years ago, when he was
young and charming. Now, grand old man OF
music that he is, Remenyi is in the scar and
yellow leaf, and it would be a farce for San
Francisco to languish over musical Rip Van
Wrinkle
However we are really to hear at last the
newest celebrity, for Ysaye, the most promi-
nent figure on the artistic horizon in the East
at present, is coming to give Some violin 20
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Judge Dibble is safe from the confidence
man. Yesterday morning as he stepped out OF
the Lick House man passed him and nodded
with familiar air.
al don't know that fellow" said the Judge,
as he looked over his shoulder and followed
the stranger around the corner with his eyes.
at is dangerous thing to let people claim an
acquaintance with you. and it pays to never
acknowledge nod unless you know your man.
The town is full of confidence men, and they
have very little feeling about claiming any
acquaintance which they think will be OF
financial benefit to them"
Suppose the gentleman accosting you really
knows you through some previous meeting?"
"Oh, no. never. That is out of the question.
1 never forget face.''
The Judge shook his head with positive air
and proceeded:
"Suppose you are walking along the street
and an absolute stranger rushes up to you and
says he met you in such-and-such a place or ct
do? l mean in case you never saw him
before?
'fWhat would you do, Judge?"
"Simply say, Il never saw you before, sir.
Why, certainly would 1 have no doubt that
dozens of men misrepresent themselves, and /
believe you could recall cases yourself 1t is
infamous, sir Yes, infamous, sir. Do you not
know that the reach of the confidence man is
without limit? Just think
After brief pause during which the gentle
man addressed thought a little, he proceeded
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

it in embarrassment, is without any rea-
son at all. Suppose, for example, that
by reason of some defect in the process
of levying the annual taxes, the whole of
the revenues of the City for any single
year should fail, and their collection be
found to be impossible after the City had
progressed through some months of its
administration, is it conceivable that the
outstanding bills of the City for its sala-
ries and for its necessaries would be void,
and that during the rest of the year the
wheels of its government should perforce
cease their motion and it's operations and
functions be suspended until the revenue of
the succeeding year began to flow in? 1t
must be apparent that such could never
have been the purpose of those who framed
this section of the constitution nor their
idea as to Its operation and effect.
In a recent case before the Supreme
Court long step was taken toward reliev-
ing the constitution from this harsh and
illogical construction. The court decided
that the salaries of City officials which
are fixed by statute were not intended
to be included within the classical
ton of this section, nor to be linn
tied as to their sources of pay
ment to the revenue of the year within
which the service was performed. The
court expressly limited the scope of the
section to those debts or liabilities which
the City possesses the discretion to incur.
From the reasoning of this decision
it follows naturally that if the salaries
of City officials are to be excepted
from the effect of this section the
necessary supplies for those of its depart
ments which by statute it is bound to
maintain must always be excepted. The
City has no more discretion with reference
to the expenses of its Fire Department
than it has with reference to the salary of
the Chief Engineer of that department. If
it is bound to maintain the department it
stands to reason that it must be bound to
pay the bills necessarily incurred in its
maintenance.
From this reasoning there is no escape,
and there should be none. The City must
be bound in law as it is bound in honor to
pay its debts. There is no use dallying
with this dilemma nor postponing the
settlement of the question because
it happens to be disagreeable, nor
because the City treasury is at present de-
pleted. 1t is due to the merchants who
have already furnished the City with a
large amount of supplies, and who are
expected to continue to do SO without re-
ceiving their money due or about to become
due therefor, that the legal status of their
debts should be established at the earliest
possible time. Let the City officials take
hold of this matter with a firm hand, and
either resolve to honor these obligations as
soon as the condition of the City treasury
will permit, or else take the matter at once
into the court and have the issue decided
as to what the municipal liability may be.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
PERSONAL.

Thomas Maclay of Petaluma is at the Lick
Colonel A. X. Written of San Jose is at the
Lick.
G. C. Freeman, an attorney of Fresno, is at
the Lick.
State Senator E. C. Hart of Sacramento is at
the Grand.
Major L. w. Juilliard of Santa Rosa is guest
at the Lick.
A. Hanson. lumberman of Redwood City, is
at the Lick.
L. Gundelfnger, banker of Fresno, is stay
ing at the Lick
]. B. Stevens, an attorney of Napa is regis
tered at the Lick
DIR. Walter R. Gillette of New York is stop
ping at the Palace
Governor Budd and Mrs Budd registered at
Inc California yesterday.
e. Mem. Ross, mining man of Copperopolis,
| Is guest at the Occidental.
H. T. Stacey, banker OF Minneapolis. regis
tereo at the Grand yesterday.
u M Cass1n, an attorney of Santa Cruz, reg
lstered at the Grand yesterday.
Juoge A. Z. Catlln OF Sacramento came down
yesterday and registered at the Lick
Dr. ). h. Ord OF Pacific Grove and Mrs. Ord
registered at the Occidental yesterday.
John I. Sullivan of the Sea Beach Hotel at
Santa Cruz is stopping at the California.
B. F. Halves, hotel man OF San Andreas. is
| among yesterdays arrivals at the Grand.
Worth E. Ross of the United States ReveDpa
Service is among yesterdays arrivals at the
California.
Judge j. NJ. Murphy of Arizona and Mrs
Murphy arrived in the City yesterday and put
up at the Lick.
W. w. Douglas, Assistant State Controller,
came down from Sacramento yesterday and is
stopping at the Grand.
]. S. Power, the European buyer for Murphy,
Grant & Co., has returned from his annual trip
to Europe and is registered at the Grand.
Mrs. D. ]. Staples is lying dangerously i'll at
her residence. Her condition is such that
hopes of her recovery have been given up.
Colonel D. B. Fairbanks of the Fifth Regi-
ment, banker Of Petaluma, came down yes
terday to attend the University alumni BAN
quet, and registered at the Lick.
Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz left for an ex-
tended Eastern tour yesterday. During her
absence Mrs. Foltz will contribute number of
letters to the columns of the CALL.
John E. Budd, an attorney of Stockton and
brother of Governor Budd, came down yester-
day to attend the banquet of the alumni of the
university. Mr.. Budd graduated in 1874, and
has the honor of having sent the first son of an
alumnus to the university in Harry Berkeley
Budd of the class of '9S.
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citals at the Baldwin in May. Ysaye only came
over from Europe few months ago, but he I'm
mediately filled the aching void that faue
rewski had left in the dilettanti's heart and was
the joy of the matinee girl who split her white
gloves to shreds in applauding him. Inc VII
umphant performer at once crushed MS rlVal
and friend, the famous Caesar Thomson, Walo
had also come over to star. Henri Marteau mas
been no more thought of since he appeared,
and the great Paderewskis memory mas SUM
into temporary oblivion from New York 10
Chicago.
Ysaye is a man of about 35, native OF Llege,
in Belgium, and pupil of Vieuxtemps. one %
his charms is that he is modern and emotlonai
q musical impressionist in fact and his 1oliow'
ers profess to experience whatever feelings he
chooses to evoke in them. There is notnlns
ethereal about Ysaye's appearance. Il ne
were q mere ordinary mortal he might De oe'
scribed as sort of fat boy, but when ne play
his face is as the face of an angel TO MS au'
mirers. AS for his locks, they are notso hun
as Paderewski's, but they are longer, ana Dc nc
fiddles they wave about in rhythm1eal rlpples'
Ysaye is in most respects the foremost man
among the Young violinists, and he has been
more raved over during the last SIX montns
than any other artist, not excepting Paoere"-
ski. ,i
The interesting question now arises, WIZ
~
San Francisco PROSTATE itself before TINS lool
as the East has done, or will it gaze askance al
the long-haired fiddler and give him occasion "
say, in the French vernacular, that the Clty oy
the Golden Gate is a jay town?
The programme for Monday, May TO- VIII III
clude the following numbers:
Concerto mo. g. B minor, Op 81 ...... Salnt-Saens
Allegro non troppo.
Andantno quasi allegretto.
Motto moderate e MaeStoso.
Allegro non troppo.
M. Ysaye and Grand Orchestra.
Concertstuck "eoei
NJ Lachaume, with orchestra
Concerto,
Allegro motto appasionata.
Andante.
Allegro motto vivace.
NJ. Ysaye, with orchestra.
Ballad (B minor. .....Cnopin
NJ. Lachaume.
..Faust, fantastic ..........Wi enawski
NJ Ysaye, with orchestra,
There will be frequent changes OF programme
during the engagement.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
THE VICE OF DEADHEAD1sM.
BY S. H TB1EDIANDER. THEATRICAL MANAGER.

Deadheadism is pernicious vice that per-
yades all classes in every city of the Old World
as we'll as the New, and of late years has become
more and more noticeable and obnoxious
"No pent-up Utica" contracts its powers. Some
managers of theaters have thought the vice
might be restricted if portion OF the audito-
rum, to be known as "Deadhead Row." were
assigned to seat those who do not pay, but the
idea was abandoned, because there were per-
sons who would stand the pillory, as we'll as
the contempt of the honest ticket-buyer, If
they thought they could make nickel by 1T.
Now the Eastern managers, as well as those in
this city, propose to attack the vice in more
radical form, and make an effort to abate, If
not destroy, it altogether. The lowest form OF
"deadheadism" belongs to species OF the
genus "deadbeat," who pays nothing and
makes it the business of his worthless life to
subsist on the honest labor of others. He is
chronic He glories in his scheme. This spe-
cies may be seen around hotels and other in
stitutions of public resort. You can tell him
as easily as gambler tells marked card, or as
a police officer detects sneak thief by the
hang-dog look he wears. He studies to victim
lie the theater, particularly, and when he
succeeds in doing SO loudly boasts of it.
You will see this creature in the auditorium,
seated by and annoying responsible ticket pur-
chasers, and no matter how creditable the per-
Torrance may be he will be sure to decry it as
"a FROST" favorite term with him.
This nuisance works double damage to the
theatrical managers business. First, by i'm
posing his worthless presence on the theater;
and, secondly, by keeping those who would
pay out OF the house by disparaging, in season
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

to tell how Judge de Haven and Surveyor Gem
eral Pratt were both hoaxed by the same man.
sit appears" he said, "that the fellow, who
was young, good-looking and claimed to hail
from Connecticut, walked into Judge de
Ravens office one morning and grasping the
judicial hand of his Honor, laid out the family
history and brought up by announcing that he
was nephew of the Judge. Great was the Joy
of the uncle when he found out that a nephew
fresh from the native heath was in the city.
He was SO boisterous in his delight that he
handed the boy $50 and bought him city
map SO that he could run around town few
moments before going home to dine with the
rest of the family.
"Nephew never came back, and it is stated
that on the same day he dropped in on General
Pratt, and, with burst of good old Down East
information, announced himself first cousin.
This was enough for the Surveyor, and he i'm
mediately left the Office and took his new re-
lation to see the sights, after which he
graciously saw the gentleman for gold loan,
and then telephoned home to gather the clan
of Pratt and welcome the new man. During
the day Mr.. Pratt got separated from his cousin,
and they have never been able 10 find each
9th er since"
Judge Dibble smiled satisfied I-told-you-so
smile, and walk away, remarking that it paid
to be sure.
y. .. TOWely GuIOpedu puyeI lOF murphy,
Grant g. Co., has just returned from an ex-
tended tour of the European markets. He has
taken up his quarters at the Palace, and was
shaking hands with his numerous friends all
of yesterday. He reports business on the i'm
prove, and that trade in England France and
Germany has received considerable impetus
during the last six weeks. In the East the cry
of "dull tines is not SO frequently heard, and
all in all, Mr.. Power is of the opinion that the
volume of trade will be much larger this year
than last
81 am glad to be back home" said Mr.. Power,
as the longer one stays away from California
the more homesick he becomes. We have many
novelties on the way for the summer trade,
and the ladies will go into ecstacies over one or
two particular lines"
Quite number of internal revenue officers
are quartered at the Occidental Several
changes have gone into effect, and engineers
and lieutenants who had nice easy shore duties
will now have to visit Boring Sea. Engineer
castro of the Richard Rush and Engineer
Myers of the Hartley will change places. and
LiaxtAnAat R0d~Ara of th> TLA->ss~ C-....::. ~
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
OUR EXCHANGES.

In referring to the action of the CALL
urging business men to give support and
encouragement to the San Joaquin road by
pledging their business to it the Bishop
Register says: ''This is identically the
same, in intent and motive, as the pledge
the people of Inyo County were asked to
sign when the teaming plan was advanced
several years ago, when such pledge
would have helped the project to success.
The San Joaquin Valley people have not
been scared into a fear of such an agree
ment, as Inyoites were, and the enterprise
will receive encouragement accordingly"
This reference to the experience of Inyo
is one that should not escape the attention
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

A good hint for the people OF San Fran
cisco is found in the recent statement of
the Los Angeles Herald that the price at
which Los Angeles city bonds have been
recently sold, and the eagerness of the
multitude of buyers, would indicate that
there is no lack of money in the country
for those who have the collateral. In fact
there has never been time when COM
munity with good credit could borrow
money SO cheaply as at present, and ac-
cordingly it would be wisdom on our part
to follow the example of those cities that
are borrowing money for municipal I'm
provements. When all the circumstances
are taken into consideration, it will be seen
that the hint given in Los Angeles is not
only good, but it is SO broad there is no
getting around it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

The latter will go out on the Perry when she
sails for the Arctic. The Hartley is the board
ing cutter used in San Francisco Bay, and an
appointment to her is eagerly sought after by
all the revenue officers
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

the Oldest family in Europe. He traces his an
cestry to Quintus Fabius Maximus.
Jorge Isaacs, the celebrated novelist of the
Republic of Colombia and one of the greatest
literary lights of Latin America, is dead.
Major Won Wissman, the famous African ex
plorer, who has been spending the winter at
Naples, proposes to take up his permanent
residence in Berlin
Nine. Dessin, who died in Calais, France,
recently, was famous the landlady of the
Hotel Dessin, where Laurence Sterne wrote his
Sentimental Journey"
Thomas Hardy's novel, "Tess OF the d'Uber-
villes" is to be dramatized with Mrs. Patrick
Campbell in the htle-roll. 1t ought to make
a powerful and enhancing play.
F. J. Williamson, sculptor, has executed 9
bust of the late Lord Tennyson in marble, to
the order of the Queen, TO be placed in the
grand corridor of Windsor Castle.
Since the recent attack on his life Premier
Crispi wears under his shirt, says the Caffero,
a Genoese journal, a light but solid coat of
mail of steel of double thickness over his
heart.
Colonel Waring, the Street-cleaning Commits
sioner of New York, recommends the building
of street lavatories in the city. Charles G.
Wilson, president of the Board of Health, joins
also in the recommendation.
FSaint-Saens has been making an extensive
tour of the far East, and it is likely that he
will give the world some orientalized music
terested in the strange dead cities of Kmer, in
Tndo-China
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

Sixty men are reported to have deserted from
the warship Olympia since she left San Fran
cisco for Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. Here
is a chance for some of the unemployed, but it
is one which few will jump at. Uncle Sam, in
his military and naval service, is an unpopular
employer.-Oakland Enquirer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

The New York company which is build
ing households to rent has set an example
to enterprising San Franciscans.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

The man whose heart is not set afutte1
by sight Of the pretty girls of San Fran.
cisco has need of a physician.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

AS a supervisor of society even Mrs.
Grundy has been accused of being partial
to Doodle.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

HooD's Sarsaparilla is the only true blood puri-
fer. This is the reason for the remarkable cures
which have followed its use in all parts of the
country. Pure blood means good health
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

1t begins to look as though Great Britain
might take extreme measures in her dispute
with Nicaragua. Evidently Lord Rosebery
realizes that James G. Blaine is dead, and that
Walter Q. Gresham reigns in his stead.-Los
Angeles Express.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

1t is better to be high private in the rear
rank of the army of progress than to have a
front seat with mossbacks ana silurians.-Mar-
tinez News.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

Nature provides a reward for all good
ness and never demands that anybody
should be good for nothing.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

The opening of China to less restricted COM
merce with the world leads the way to great
things Tor the Pacific Coast. The opportunity
will soon be ours. 1t remains with us to show
our appreciation of it. and not allow the North
west to derive the most benefit from it by
greater energy and more alert activity.-San
Z afan1 journal
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

Country people may say they come to
San Francisco on business, but they act as
if it were picnic.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

1t appears that woman proposes to con-
tinue extending her sleeves until she gets
even with the wide, wide world.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

In these days of elastic compilations nc
husband should be permitted by his wife
to imagine that he married her too hastily,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

If San Francisco wishes to begin the
work of improvement, every cobblestone
viii afford an opportunity.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

There is an esthetic education for every
body in studying the artistic and pictur-
esque possibilities of San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

No woman should confine her study of
California art to the contemplation of a
mirror.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

If you are not thankful for the beauty
and the delight of San Francisco you have
never yet realized your situation.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

The Marquis of Lorne has just finished writ
ing light opera hbretto, of which the scene is
laid in Scotland. story by this nobleman
appears in the current Pail Mall Magazine,
He seems to be bent on literary fame
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

People who read great deal without
cultiyating taste for the finer forms of
literature are guilty of a dissipation that
weakens some of the best fibers of the
mind
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

An open-hearted woman is one whose
cardiac perforations have been made by
Cupid.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

The influence of q local paper is not limited
to its own circulation or readers. If the arti-
cles have been well prepared come OF them are
extensively copied, and thus, instead of three
or four thousand people reading the items,
they are often perused by hundreds of thou
sands of people.-Oroville Register.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

Good doing is more efficacious than
prayers to secure forgiveness for evil
deeds.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

People who rely upon others to give them
lift never get very high without losing
their balance
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

We have better reason to be proud of
the Spring Exhibition than of the attend
ance on II.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

In counting the sunshine of California
one INDUCES in the most pardonable OF
flirtations.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

True character, like the gIowworm, emits
the strongest light in the darkest situa-
tions.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

If enemies quarreled as often as lovers,
there would never be any peace in the
world.