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no one on the stage uttering word
and the curtain going down on an
empty stage? They won't have it. So
the managers ideas prevailed, Herne
made the changes and the play failed
to make an Impression. He had talth
in it, however, and later when he was
able to bring it out at the Fifth Ave
nue.. in New York, and to give his
fancy full rein. his genius was recog-
niZed instanter, and since then the
world has been at his feet. Though
his business has not been what he
looked for in Salt Lake (Mr. Burton
says it would be called excellent for
the average attraction), he had greatly
enjoyed himself with old friends, Phil
Margetts and David Mckenzie espec-
tally being in attendance at every per-
Torrance.
At the Grand, "Gwynne's Oath" has
not set the Jordan afire. II is a sort
of New York Ledger tale, with only
two moments out OF the ordinary, one
when Edwards. a capital villain, com
mits the murder, and the other when
Gwynne INDUCES her Somnambulistic
propensities and brings the murder
home to him. Miss Bateman is al
ways capable, virile, magnetic be-
lieve she could hold her audiences with
selections from the compiled laws.
Femaledom received the joyful news
that Governor Wells had signed the
anti-high hat bill, in a sort of stupe-
faction. All of us thought it was
hoax; none of us dreamed that our
headgear could ever really be made
subject for legislation. But it's law
ladies, at least, and everyone-but the
milliners-are singing hosannaS about
it. Now, Messrs.i Burton and Rogers
to enforce it. MARGE.
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TILE LAKE HERALD SUNDAY. FEBRUARY a.

gave the weeks total a very hand
some boost For the coming week
the Grand announces a double bill, in
Gilbert's charming "Sweethearts.' and
Buckstons Married Life" There Will
be eight performances, six nights and
two matinees, the opening being to-
morrow afternoon The casts are as
follows. Agnes Ranken makes her first
bow during this week:
SWEETHEARTS."
Henry Spreadbrow. Howard Kyle
Jenny Northcott. Victory Bateman
Ruth, her maid servant. Jessie Izette
Thirty years elapse between acts
and ?, '.Sweethearts" will be followed
by the screaming farce in three acts,
entitled,
MARRIED LIFE"
Lionel Lynx. Walter Edwards
Frederick Younghusband.. ..
...........Th Thomas w. Ross
George Dismal. Hugh Ford
Henry Dove. H. D. BlakemOre
Samuel Coddle.. Frank 3. Hatch
Mrs. COddle. Jessie izette
Mrs. Dove. Margaret Marshall
Mrs. Dismal. ......-....--AgneS Ranken
Mrs. Younghusband. Victory Bateman
Fully alive to the Importance at
taching TO stage settings and costum-
cry, Fanny Davenport has spared
neither expense nor pains to make the
production of SardouS "Gismonda, u
which she will present at the theater
next week as elaborate as possible from
the scenic point of view.
Each OF the five tableaux has been
carefully prepared from models and
plates made under the actress own su-
pervision, and the costumes were made
from designs of her own idea of the
play By those who have seen it, it
is said to be the most gorgeous pro-
duction ever seen on any stage.
Besides Miss Davenport as GiSmonda,
and Melbourne Mcdowell as Almerio,
the cast includes % speaking charac-
ters and . grand chorus. The story
of the play, it is well TO recall, con-
Germs Gismonda, a widow duchess of
Athens who is ruling as regent during
the minority of her son. Like Penelope
of old. she is surrounded by suitors
for her hand. chief of whom is Fac
caria. a cousin of her dead husband
and an INSCRIPTIONS villain.
Confident of securing the hand of the
duchess, and wishing TO rid himself of
her child. he manages that the boy
shall fall into a tigers den. The
frenzied mother vows that she viii wed
him who saves her son. The bOY is
rescued. not by a noble, but by AL
merio a peasant who has long loved
her in secret.
In the last act Almerio is accused of
killing Zaccaria, and to save the Ouch
ess' name, he confeSses the crime. She,
however, completely conquered by his
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its effect on the audience than it would
have been had it been done in view.
Finally Sykes re-appears, wiping his
bloody arm with a sheet. He stands
alone in the center of the stage, lost
for moment in moody contempla-
ton. when from the side wing a hid
eous, despatched something-one
would not call il human figure-drags
itself on, drags itself to Sykes feet,
and from its lips issues the gasp, kiss
me, Bill; l forgive you" 1t is Nancy,
the breath not quite battered out of
her body-and on her head she has
fixed a raw and bloody beefsteak.
mating her hair over it. The effect
may be imagined. Several women are
said TO have tainted, and the play was
not allowed to be repeated next night
Since those days Herne has been be-
fore the public as both author and
actor. Hearts of Oak" The Minute
Men" and Margaret Fleming" the
latter a bold study of modern social
life that was thought to be too strong
even for New York and Boston So
ciety, and was hence withdrawn-have
all come from his pen, but all have
amounted TO nothing compared with
the success of Shore Acres It is nov
five years since he persuaded the late
Horace McVicker to produce the play
in Chicago. II scored an immediate
failure, due to the fact that Mr.. Nc
Vicker-generally conceded to be an
excellent judge-was not abreast with
Herne's advanced ideas, and that he
insisted on a great many changes be-
ing made in the manuscript. Heavens.
mani" he exclaimed to Herne, do
you think any audience in the world
Will sit still at II o'clock at night
while your play is winding up, with
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that it viii be a question of merit
alone, as to which secures the bust
ness.
The production of the Mascot is an
experiment, and the management in
charge of the new company is making
it thorough one. No opera so ex-
pensive to produce as the Mascot" is
could have been selected, as the cast
is heavy; it requires nearly $50 cos
TUNES, incidental dances have to be
arranged, the orchestra needs enlarg
ing, and in every way the attendant
expenses are beyond the average If
the public patronage is such as to yield
any returns over the outlay, them the
Salt Lake Opera company may be a
permanency; otherwise not. Certainly
at the prices charged, the public must
attend in great numbers TO even bring
back the expenses.
Willard Weihe has musical charge;
Professor Mcclellan will preside at the
piano; the orchestra will consist of II :;
the chorus numbers 40, and the princi-
pals are made up of such well known
singers and actors as ]. d. Spencer, H
S. Goddard, Miss Savage, Miss Levy.
Harry Sherman, George Westervelt,
John Robinson, Alex Campbell, Della
Daynes, Bessie Edmunds, Ella Derr,
Nellie Halliday, f. Graham and John
James. Miss Savage has rare singing
opportunities, appearing first as a
peasant, next as a court lady, next as
a soldier boy, and again as a peasant;
Miss Levy will make her first stage ap-
pearance; her rich voice will have am
pie chance, and being a pronounced
brunette, her disguise as a gypsy in
the last act should suit her admira bly,.
Spencer has the big comedy role, one
that was always a faVorite with Nat
Goodwin. Goddard, the singing part
of Miss Savage'S lover; Sherman, the
tenor role; Westervelt, the companion
part to Spencer and Robinson the sec
ond baritone as the sergeant
The full chorus is made w as fol-
lows:
Sopranos, Della Daynes, Ella Derr,
Lucy Dean, Ardelle Cummings. Sara
Patten, Bessie Edmunds, Lille Bitner,
Ida Pitt, Rose Romney, Ruby Pike,
Mary Price; altos, HERNIA Tyler, Mel
lie Halliday, Anna S. Hughes. Rillie
Naylor, Allie Bitner, Ethel Saville, Ell
sic Barrow. Emma Jorgensen; tenors,
Fred Graham, Frank Foster, Willis
Ames, Max Brodie, r. ]. Thomas. Sam
Spry, Charles Strong, Chester Ames,
Robert Edmunds: basses. John Sharp,
w. G.. Patrick, Charles Lambourne. Jo-
seph Sauer Winslow Smith,. John
James, Alex Campbell, F. Gill.
g 9 .
The total business at the Grand for
the past week would hardly have shown
up well with the Caprice and Bank
er's Daughter weeks but for the adj
vent of FitZsimmons. The probabilities
are that the so per cent of that monster
nights receipts the opera house man
agement are said to have retained,
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generosity and manliness. tells all. and
begs him TO become her husband.
q g e
As this is Miss Davenport's fare
well appearance in the Sardou roles.
there has been a great demand every
where to witness those two strong and
intensely interesting dramatic PLAYS.
Fedora" and La Tosca." and they
will be presented Monday and Tues
day nights. when costly silver souve-
Mrs viii be given to the ladies on
the lower floor as tokens OF remem-
brance of this popular actress farewell
in the Sardou plays. Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday nights and Sat
urday matinee "Gismonda" viii be the
attraction.
The Georgia Graduates played a re-
turn date at the Lyceum last evening.
and were applauded vigorously by their
admirers. the star, Ernest Hogan,
coming in for the principal amount OF
adulation.
Professor Joseph Daynes, organist at
the tabernacle. has arranged. in honor
of President Woodruff, the song My
Fathers Growing Old" as an organ
solo. and it viii be rendered on Sun
day next during the exercises at the
tabernacle in honor of President Wood
rufus birthday. Mr.. Daynes has written
an Introduction to the song and made
four variations on the theme, one of
which is played with the feet The
new solo viii be heard with interest
by everyone.
Mr.. Davnes' ward choir, the Twen-
tieth, has deferred the date of its COZ
cert. owing to the fact that several jf
his leading singers are engaged with
the ..AiaScOt' cOmpanV
g @ g
Herne said farewell TO Salt Lake
before two good audiences yesterday,
the Idaho legislature attending in a
body last evening, with several mem
bers OF the Utah sOlOns. The matinee
attendance was heaviest in the cheaper
sections above, the rates charged being
from 81 down to % cents. Nothing
seen for years approaches the tender
idvll Herne has written in Shore
Acres" it is a powerful moral sermon
in its effects. and it will long be re-
membered and recalled with delight
by the Salt Lake theater- going public.
Monday the company opens in San
Francisco. where it viii do an enor-
nous business.
The Bittner Theatre company is the
next attraction to appear at the Ly-
ceum, opening tomorrow night in The
Fire Patrol" which is the bill for the
first three nights of the week, being
succeeded for the remainder of the
week by Uncle Dan'l, the Messenger
from Jarvis Section" The Bittnef
company is said to be very high class
organization, which has been doing a
tremendous business throughout the
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west this season. They closed a weeks
enga gement last night at ogden, where
they played TO business far in excess
of that ever done by any similar at
traction. The company is headed by
Mr.. w. w. Bittner. who was seen here
last season in Ned Royle's company
He played Major Bugg, in Mexico
and Jacks father, in Friends" and
made a strong impression in those
parts. Bittner is a young man. a
giant in stature. who for several sea-
sons played the leading parts in the
Fourteenth street theatre and Grand
Opera House. New York.
EdisOn's latest and most wonderful
invention. the Telegraph which is
an Improvement on the vitascOpe, Is
carried by this company, and eight
pictures are shown each night. Over
100 views are carried. and many will
be exhibited which have never been
seen here before.
New York. Feb. 2O-Mme. Nordica
arrived in New York yesterday after
her concert tour in the west and is
stopping at the Hotel Waldorf. Maur-
ice Grau met her at the railway sta
ton He has made arrangements for
her TO sing in COVent Garden this
spring. Nine. Nordica will go to Paris
in April and appear at the National
opera house there as Aida, Valentine
ard Elsa singing. Of course, in French.
She Will not appear in opera in New
York before she goes To Europe.
Mr.. Maurice Grau received a cable
from Nine. Melba yesterday in which
she said that ii was not possible for
her 10 sail on Saturday. as she ex-
pected. and that she would in all prob
ability leave on the Majestic next
Wednesday. she added that she hopes
to appear in La Traviata" in Chicago
Monday evening. March s.
The Princess De Chimay has given
MIR. Oscar Hammerstein an option on
her services at the Olympia Music
hall Mr.. Hammerstein has a week in
which to decide whether he viii pay
the salary asked. Since her elOpement
with the Hungarian violinist Rigo there
have been several rumors of her inten-
ton to go on the stage, but they have
all been denied. II seems, however.
that the princess is not altogether
aVerse TO becoming q vaudeville star
provided the salary paid is large
enough. Mr.. Aarons. one of Mr.. Oscar
HammerStein'S business staff. recently
went to Europe to engage artists for
the Olympia Music hall. and especially
to see what kind of a deal he could
make with the Princess De Chimay
He cabled Mr.. Hammsrstein that he
had called on the princess at MOnterle
and that she was willing to appear at
the Olympia for something like 81 900
a week with certain incidental ex-
penses in addition.
Il don't know what I shall do yet"
said Mr. Hammerstein last night. The
Continued on Page 49,
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Salt Lake. Feb. 20. 1ss7.

Dear Hal:
Dear old Jim Hernei For he is get
ting on speaking terms with the sere
and yellow. and there's no denying it
It's a pleasant thing 10 see success
come as a crown to a mans life, when
that life has been one of such toll as
Herne's. The only dread danger is
that it may come too late to be fully
enjoyed, as in the case of the lamented
Mayo. But 1 met Herne on the street
the other day. sauntering about with
Phil. Margetts, and certainly nothing
in his manner indicates that he is not
getting full enjoyment out of his ex-
istence, at the present time at least.
The lines are a little deeper in his
face, il is true, than they were Is years
ago, but his general appearance Il
that Of a very prosperous sOjourner on
Easy street.
Herne talks most entertainingly of
his Old-time experiences in Salt Lake.
He first struck our town in 1868, in re-
turning east from San Francisco, where
he mad been stage manager for Barry
Sullivan. He and Lucille Western
played a long star engagement here.
supported by Phil. Margetts, David
Mckenzie and others of the old notable
Deseret Dramatic company. Caine arb
ClawsOn were the managers of the
house at that time round of sucn
plays as "0liver Twist" THE Child
SteaIer," Foul Play" Rip Van Win
kle" and ''Lucrezia Borgia' was given,
and many old-timers for years re-
garded Herne's Rip as not second even
to 10 JeffersOn's. He always had
leaning towards realism, even in those
days. and his Bill Sykes in oliver
Twist" was one of the most powerful
and terrible OF all stage delineations
Of those times. AS everyone who has
read the book knows, Bill murders
Nancy by beating her head to pieces
Herne to all appearances used to drag
Western off the stage by her hair
Then the thud that was heard outside
as he is supposed to pound her head on
the floor, was vastly more terrible in
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DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.

The coming week will be most in
teresting one, witnessing. as it WILL
ali three places of amusement open at
reduced prices. Tomorrow being a hol-
iday. all three will doubtless do good
business; indeed, the Mascot" after
noon and night houses promise to be
sold out before the performance. After
The evening times., 1897-01-08
COMFORT OF THE PRESIDENT.
Chairman Bell VIII Have a Warm
Platform for Mr.. McKfnIey.


Solicitude about the comfort OF Presi-
dent Mckinley during the hours he will
be on the reviewing stand in front of the
White House, ON March 4, is animating
Executive Chairman Bell, of the inaug-
uration.
Ithas always bee n considered a dangerous
thing for the President 10 remain exposed
to the elements on a bleak March day, but
10 extraordinary effort has ever been made
to protect him.
Mr.. Bell purposes to heat the spot on
which Mr.. Mckinley will stand. he will
do it, perhaps, with peat brick. 1t can
be heated and then placed in a platform.
The warmth radated will continue for
hours.
If the weather should he disagreeable
and the winds boisterous, Mr.. Bell may
provide glass screens to be placed on
either side of the President. These will
not prevent a full view of him, but Will
ward off the danger of catching cold.
Civic ana military. org anizations and Wis
itors are very slow in applying for quarters.
This is causing some uneas sincss az head
quarters In days gone by the rooms, win
dows and balconies registered with the
all rented by this time. Even the hotels
complain that they have had few calls for
rooms The officials are, however, Ger
tain that this Inauguration will be the
grandest of all in point OF numbers, inter-
est and spectacular effects
Mayor Seymour, OF Newark, n. j., has
written that his city viii send the "In-
dian Republican League" the Northern
Republican Club" and the "Garrct A.
Hobart Guards" John w Ellison, Sec
retary Of the HodSon County Delegation,
OF Jersey City and Hoboken, N. j., states
that from 800 to 500 OF his club, with a
band of thirty pieces. win be here.
Quarternaster Nichols, OF the Twelfth
Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard,
has been here To look up quarters for the
officers and men.
The senate District Committee today or
dered favorable reports on two bills rela-
tive to the Inauguration ceremonies. One
permits the railroads Of the District TO Oc-
cupy additional parts OF streets to accom-
modate the travelling public during inaugu-
ration week.
Another bill favorably reported is the
one authorizing the Secretary Of War to
grant peIHhlS 10 IHe ihdugufU eAeCuilNe
committee for the use OF reservations and
public spaces during the week.
This bill was amended by the committee
so as TO permit the Secretaries Of War
and of the Navy to loan flags to the inaugu-
raj committees; authorize the Western Union
Telegraph Company to extend its wires
during the week; permitting the illumina-
ton of streets and erection OF arches; APP
propriating IS, eco to be expended by the
District Commissioners for additional po-
lice force, and to make new police regua-
tions and establish hack fares during the
period of the Inauguration festivities.
The evening times., 1897-01-08
Loss OF LIFE MAY RESULT
Coal Miners in Illinois i'm a Desper-
ate Mood.
Declaring They Have Been Unfairly
Dealt with, They Threaten MUIR
der and Dire Destruction.

i, Ottawa, H., Jan S.-The mining trouble
st Rutland villa ge, which was reported set
sled, broke out afresh and with greater
violence, yesterday afternoon, rioting be-
ing almost continuous late in the day and
all evening.
Sheriff Yockey returned from the scene
with assurances that no trouble was ex-
pected, but last night was notified that
the miners were again upon their feet. He
at once sw ore in Lieut.. Harden and six
teen picked men OF Company c, as special
deputies, armed them with repeating rifles,
and sent them on a train.
The miners, whonumberoveU 900, have
been on a strike against alleged unjust
weights for nearly two months and are in
q starving condition. They threatened
damage on Tuesday, but were pacified with
promises OF settlement by Manager Hakes,
which were not fulfilled.
They again threatened riot Wednesday,
but were put off by promise OF settlement
yesterday This again failed, and several
hundred of them visited saloons, filling up
on whisky. In a state OF intoXication,
they became unmanageahle and made
rush for the mine, being prevented only 10y
the determination OF the village president
and deputy sheriffs under Matt Coulson,
head deputy.
Tie miners threatened to burn the offices
and shaft buildings Of the company and
murder Manager Hakcs and his clerks. who
are keeping unSer cover. Deputies are
guarding the HaBes residence.
Rutland is a village of 800 people, on
the Illinois Central road, in the Pan Handle
of La Sale comfy, Just across the line from
WOodfOrd county. Tie population depends
wholly upon the mines for its support, and
since the opening OF the strike has been
In a destitute condition.
The merchants have either left the town
or are too poor TO move and the scene. as
viewed today iSune Of desolatiOnandmi misery
All OF the miners in the district which en-
braces Streator. La Sale and Spring Val
ley, have passed resolutions Of sympathy
and sent money ana food to the strikers.
II settlement is rot made by the end
OF the week, tits certain that loss oflire will
result.
The evening times., 1897-01-08
DEBATED THE FUNDING BILL
Pacific Roads Measure Is Favored
by Mr.. Patterson.
Reasons for His Action On-OppositiOn
From u Southern Member OF
the House.

Upon request OF Mr.. Turner OF Georgia
a resolution was agreed 70 instructing the
Attorney General to add To his last annual
report full copies of all correspondence and
kilograms between the department and
public officers and all persons relative to
the great railroad strike in Chicago H.
1894. and the action OF the government in
suppreSsing the same.
The House then went into committee OF
the whole to further consider the Pacific
Railroads funding bill.
Mr. Patterson, Of Tennessee, opened tie
days proceedings In a brief speech, sup
porting the till He said he did not sub
scribe TO the theory OF the sentimental siCc
OF the Controversy-that the builders OF
these roads were great pubic bencfactors,
opening up a vast territory TO tie growth
OF the improvement and prosperity Of the
nation.
There was another side, which might be
called the popular side, that held these
men up TO scOrn as public robbers. He did
not subscribe TO that view, either.
But two practical propositions presented
themselves, he said. one contemplated
government ownership and management OF
the railroads; the other, and only, aBerna-
tive was a settlement wIththe owners. To
the first he was unalterably opposed.
IAN my public life Mr.. Patterson
sail. Il have been trying to get the gov
ernment to go out of the banking business,
and most earnestly protest against its
going INTO the railroad business
He indorsed fully the provisions Of the
bill. as constituting just, reasonable and
business-like basis for settlement, in view
OF the earning CIpaajty of the corporations
Mr. Harrison Of Alabama followed in op-
position to the bin He believed that the
time had come for Congress to take ac
ton, but could not support the pending
measure because it was far too favorable
to the companies.
The evening times., 1897-01-08
Poisoned hy Wa shing Soda.

Patrick. j. Colgan, a stranger, from
Brooklyn, y. Y, was sent to the Emergency
Hospital today suffering with stomach
poisoning
Hestopped last night at a lodging house
on b street, between First and Second
streets northwest, and today ordered a
cup of coffee prepared by the landlady.
He was taken violently Ill, and upon in
vestigation it was learned that she had
placed a quantity of washing soda in the
coffee pot TO take off the rust. She forgot
to remove it when she went to make the
coffee
The evening times., 1897-01-08

As bishop assistant DIR. Keane will be
an immediate member OF the pope's house
hold and one OF the attendants on his holi-
ness. The nomination carries with it the
utmost papal confidence in the recipient Of
the hOn0rs, as only those whom the pope
desires especially TO reward have ever been
named. As canon of st. John Lateran
Bishop Keane will be prominently con-
nected with the cath edral Of the same name
in Rome.