The sun., 1897-04-25

me 70 let him wait for the m9sninE train but
not to lose a days work.
wildly remember that evening with horror;
tho night train: have regretted ever since that
al about nidnitiht, i heard about a railroad
wreck on the Erie road, and ! ran to the telc
oTo e sorror S@' Mas tSe %
which Mayer had started. / tainted on the
spot when the operator told mo that II
many years. II was at Ashiebua. Scores
had been burned to death, drowned and
good good friend Mayer ircmSined, with the opera
for until o'clock TO find out about Mayer In
spins % was injured % and he he was % being well cared
for at the Buffalo Hospital There he remained
about I'VE II 1S9 p for ns ,a
fully. complaining after many years of great
pain in the spine. He killed himself about eight
II Grau had not annulled in timo the order for
me to go to Rochester. Imust thank God that.
of 10000 miles miles Tor so over YER thirty years,
have never met with q serious accident. | loft
Cincinnati in the third week OF DeGember for
hour after my arrival there called on the Gov
lie was glad TO see mo back 30 soon. and said:
Now, Senior dc vivo. the plague is decrcas.
nf s%y "n% and 6S deS
write TO Ristori that a month from now the
cholera win have disappeared. She can safely
AS soon as loft tho Governor cabled to Grau
the encouraging news, and asked him to get
ready for the departure OF the company. On
Jan. l began to advertise the Rstori season
of forty nights, and opened the subscription list.
In tho first week the sale was about$lO ,OO0worth.
In the second week It was only SO. 900 worth. In
the third and fourth weeks the subscription
ran up TO $4,000. which sum. under such un,
favorable circumstances was more than had
expected. I was convinced that as soon as Ris.
tori arrived she would raise big boom, and. in
fact, on her arrival she was received by the Gov
ernor and suite and thousands Of others at tho
pier. On the following day tho newspaper pub
Madrid, Barcelona, Seville. and Lisbon, as well
as her successes in the United States.
RstoT made y, her debut on Feb or & as Me Me-
quet to gallery. She received an ovation. Her
success was complete. The Spanish audience
went wild over her acting, having never seen
such an artist before Aftor each act she was
cried out: Vipa "a Reina dc q tragedta,,, On
the second night she played MARY Stuart y and and
Hn he Ep
ono memorable night mob OF students took tho
horses from her carriaee and drew her around
the Plaza del Prato to the Hotel dingelterra.
where they serenaced her.
The season was long series OF SUCCESSES. inS % ON
@ and ee reoeiVed rs presents OF money. Se%ery dia,
worth nearly $1,000; On thai night, too; a
ESfs + 'ai as's SFlaas 4
eight nights in Matanz@s to oyerdowins
houses went to Puerto Principe TO raj raise e.,
$4,000 found out that black smallpox was
epidemic there, gave back the money, and went
As soon as arrived in Havana Grau told me
that he was going back to New York to lease the
travel He wished to settle in New York and
engage a new French opera company to replace
that OF Mr.. Bateman. who had been SO success
Duohesse." This was Grau's fatal mistake,
that checked his successful career. / tried my
the Marquis also begged him NOT to go. and ad.
Fochter. with whom they thought a good
take their advice. and he sailed for New York.
leaving the company entirely in my charge,
II Fechter had come here under the manage
ment of Grau, 1 am quite sure that he would
have been n financial success. and big one; one
success, but little money was made. owing TO
his eccentricities.
tori and Grau cleared over S6O,O00 Ristori re-
appeared at the Fourteenth Street Theatre on
M"s AND ao ana on
day and Saturday matinees in j" Senr Teresa. !"
The following week she played in Boston and
for the American Dramatic Fund. The day
after she gave private entertainment, aided
woman Of this city, Her farewell appearance
ia or eHk at se on oTno
made the following speech:
The end is GOMEZ the last words must be spoken;
But never. never can the spell be broken;
Her memory take and leave my heart.
On the following day she sailed for Europe.
DIEGO DE VIvo.