The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-11


ing lies in the declaration of the English
Government that England will mainta in
her policy. What policy? The Triple ALI
ance, tie paper continues, has not wanted,
nor does it now want war, and Russia and
France would not go very far merely to
help Armenia. The situation in Eastern
Asia has also to be considered, and in view
of that situation England ought least OF
all to be disposed to drift into war. Her
ultimate fate, therefore, must be to choose
allies.
The Emperor has been shooting on the
estate of Count Won Wedel-Piesdorf, chief
of the imperial household. at Piesdorf;
and Prince Henry of Prussia and his wife,
Princess Irene, it is announced, will spend
the winter in Italy. Consequently they
will not be able to appear at court this
season.
AS the rumors of discord between the
Emperor and his brother are likely to be
revived because of the latter's absence, it is
given out that the reason for his absence is
the delicate state of health of the Princess,
which statement is partly true. The EN-
peror viii review the naval recruits at Kiel
about the middle of December, and has
promised to go to Buda-Pesth to be present
at the Hopved millennial celebrations.
The projected international exhibition in
Berlin in 1896 has been found impossible,
because of the project of the German Ma
tional Exhibition, which the managers
thereof endeavored to substitute for the
international exposition.
The scheme, however, is also failing, and
has so far dwindled into mere Berlin
trades and art treasury exhibition. A
squabble has now arisen over the site OF
the exhibition, one clique wanting to have
it located at Charlottenburg and another
in Treptow Park, on the Spree. The latter
clique has gained the day under the infu-
ence of pressure brought to bear upon the
committee by the Government in repre-
sensations that the working people ought
to be primarily benefited by the exhibit
ton. The signers of the guarantee fund
III the meantime refuse to provide lights
for the exhibition; ana it will consequently
have to be closed after dark, unless some
sagacious spectators benefit themselves
and the public by arranging to put in an
electric light plant.
The head of the management of Royal
Opera-house has always been regarded as
a high court official, but it appears that
the incum bent, Count Won Hochberg, is
not.
The post is a desirable one to a fiuical
aristocrat, as the dictum of the incumbent
is absolute in dealing with rows between
actors, actresses, singers and others, and
therefore the manager is regarded by him
self and everybody else as a mighty per-
sonage. The actual management of the
opera-house has of late drifted into the
hands of the director. Herr Pierson, who
IS an energetic and refined gentleman and
a good musician. 1t is announced that
Count Won Hochberg is about to be ap-
pointed the successor of Count Won Wedel-
Piesdorf as Minister of the Imperial
Household, and that Baron Won Hiolsen,
now manager of the Royal Theater at
Wiesbaden, will succeed Count Won Hoch
berg, taking the active management of the
Royal Opera-house in Berlin. Outsiders
may think that these changes amount to
very little, but they have no idea of the
interest and importance which aristo-
cratic circles attach to them.
The delay of the telegraph in supplying
Berlin with good reports of Lord Sails
bury's speech at the Mansion House ban
quet in London last night has seriously
retarded the publication of press COM
ments. Several special correspondents
were able to furnish their papers with
summaries of the speech, but they are not
sufficiently comprehensive to serve as the
bases of elaborate editorials. In official
circles, however, the statement of the
British Premier is regarded as being as
explicit as the situation will permit and is
generally considered satisfactory and re-
assuring.
Great interest has been centered in the
progress of trial which occupied the at
tention of the courts in Munich last week.
The defendants were several well-known
dealers in high-class pictures, who were
accused of receiving and selling stolen
pictures from the brush of the celebrated
German portrait painter, Franz Lenbach
The courtroom was crowded with promi-
nent society people, artists, ETC., who fol-
lowed the case with great attention, and a
large number of witnesses were examined.
One witness, tailor named StendaI, swore
that he was an amateur painter and had
devoted his leisure hours to painting imi-
tatlons OF Lenpach's portraits of Prince
Bismarck, Count Won Capriyi and other
notable persons. One of his pictures of
General Caprivi he had seen sold in the
shop OF well-known and reputable dealer
as a genuine Lenbach. The prosecution
was unable to prove that any of the por-
traits figuring IN the case were stolen pic
lures, and the jury last evening brought
in verdict of mot guilty" When the
verdict was announced the spectators, led
by the artists, cheered the accused picture
dealers and the cheers were taken up by
the public outside as the acquitted dealers
left the court.
disastrous fire occurred at Ottensen, a
suburb of Hamburg, last night, when
Dietz' machine works and the Steinle
Company's tar works were destroyed. The
loss is placed at 100000 marks.