The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-01

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.o,,tation was given on June % and the
,onond one to-day. There will be nine
performances during the months of July
and August. The play is presented in an
immense wooden structure, part of which
is roofess. It. has a seating capacity OF
100. The performance is given with
single scene, which is lighted with electric
lamps. The orchestra, soloists and chorus
are invisible, as they are IN the Balreuth
Wagnerian theater, being placed IN hol-
low between the stage and the audience:
The play opens with chorus recitihg
how the world emerged from chaos ao-
companied by an ingenious arrangement
of scenic transparencies illustrating 'ne
days occupied in the creation 1hese are
followed by series of taoleauA showing
Adam and Eve in the garden tne sacIin1e
Of Isaac by Abraham ana oIner Dioie
stories leading up to the annunclatlon ana
incidents in the life of Christ until the
Golpotha ascension. There are altogether
fifty tableaux.
Persons who have seen the play declare
= - he. most remarkable in execution,
riv,1;ng in interest the Oberammergau
production.
cowboy called Texas Jack, who has
hoo, axbiI;ting a "wild west" show in
tbo snosII German towns, abandoned his
trorne ~ Graz few days ago, leaving the
members Of the company without money.
Tbev accordingly seized all of the horses
ond ether animals, tents, etc., and sold
them for their own benefit
w G. Hamilton and wife, recently mar
r;od in America, are here on a honeymoon
tr;n Leaving here they will go TO Russia.
" NJ. Dixon and wife of New York are
also here en- route for st. Petersburg. ]. B.
Toc-sop secretary of the United States
embassy. will resume his duties here to-
morrow after a two months leave of ab-
sence. Mrs. Squire, wife of the second
secretary of the American embassy, is
living very Ill at her residence. She is suf-
fering from the effects of premature con-
.fnement.
The long-pending scandal connected
with Baron Won Hammerstein's manage
ment of the Kreuz Zeitung newspaper has
ended in his resignation from the paper.
DIR. Kropatschek, a member of the
Reichstag, has been appointed director of
the Kreuz Zeitung to succeed him. Baron
Won Hammerstein has threatened to prose-
cute the Kleine Journal for libel in conse-
duence of its criticisms of his management
of the Kreuz Zeitung, but he has not as
yet ventured to begin proceedings.
The Imperial Treasury authorities are
about to begin legal proceedings against
certain members of the Reichstag and
of the press for their fragrant
: flo 70 ho fafo
with which they were furnished under
specific restrictions. Each member of the
Reichstag had the privilege of taking with
him one personal attendant, and each
member of the press was permitted to have
with him one assistant. Instead of COM
plying with this regulation many of them
palmed off their personal friends as per-
sonal attendants and assistants, and had
them boarded and lodged at the EXPENSE
of the IRE asurv.
It is alieeeabthst EErr Zimmerman,
member of the Reiehstag, and editor Of
Deutsche Wacht, published in Dresden,
brought with him as a personal
attendant, Louis Kohler, an enormously
wealthy man, and the owner of the
famous Schiller restaurant in Dresden.
Rector Ahlwardt, the notorious Jew
batter, is accused of having with him as
his assistant the wealthy hotel-keeper,
Bodek, who is the financial hacker of Ahl-
wardts paper. the Volksrecht. The Koel-
nische Zeitung denounces these acts as
public scandals, the perpetrators of which,
it declares, ought to be punished with the
utmost severity permitted by law.
King Leopold of Belgium is at Wies-
baden, undergoing treatment Tor his eyes
at the hands of the famous oculist, DR.. Pa
genstecher King Christian of Denmark
is expected to arrive in Wiesbaden shortly
and remain three weeks for treatment.
The police of Altoona, in Holstein, ar
rested yesterday saddler named Nichse-
wisk, living in Uetersen, upon the charge
of setting fire to houses. He was one of
the most active members OF the volunteer
fire brigade and was always one of the first,
if not the first, to reach the scene of the
numerous fires which have recently oc-
CURED in his vicinity. 1t is alleged, as the
result of investigation, that he set fire to
twenty-five houses in Uetersen and its en-
virons for the sole purpose of being first on
the scene and thereby obtaining salvage.
The Berlin Hand elsgese1lschaft and the
Vienna Landesbank have concluded loan
Of $50, ,0O0,0 900 marks for Servia, which is
secured by monopoly OF the custom
duties upon tobacco, salt, petroleum and
the tax upon alcohol.
A direct line of cotton steamers between
Trieste, Austro- Hungary, and New Orleans
will be started in September. The Aneri-
can cotton, hitherto imported into Austria
via Bremen and Hamburg, will be carried
direct by the new line. Austria has
agreed to grant a suhvention to each
steamer in the gulf cotton trade of $17,500
4 year.
The annual harvest in Hungary began
on Saturday. 1t is reported that the crop
of wheat and other cereals is below the
average in quantity and very bad in quail
ity Rye is especially bad, and the yield
Of corn is uncertain. The crop of beet root
is the only yield that is good.
The dikes of the Rhine and Ems canal
gave way yesterday, flooding the district
Of Lingen, in Hanover, and doing a great
deal of damage to property.