New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-22
on THE WAY TO COVENT GARDEN.
MIR. GRAU AND MEMBERS OF THE OPERA
COMPANY SAIL, ON THE NETWORK.

MIR. GRAIJ AND MEMBERS OF THE OPERA
COMPANY SAIL ON THE NETWORK
The singers who sang out the opera season at
tho Metropolitan on Tuesday night are on their
way to Covent Garden, where they are 10 SING
new season in. A large number or them saiieo u"
the Ncw-York, with Maurice Grau, the director
A large party OF friends was at the pier to see
the departure and there were the usual LAVISH eX-
press,ons OF wishes for a prosperous voyage ana
spcedv return Mr.. Grau said that he himself
might come back next season. though ne oid no.
EXPECT to bring any opera company, nut ne thoush'
hero would probably be opera OF some SORT AT the
Metropolitan.
Anton Sedl was member Of the party lie Is
10 conduct some OF the operas AT CoVent "arue'
nd NO is 70 conduct "Parsfal" at Bayreuth.
Everybody was asking for the De Reszkes, but
for n long time nothing was seen OF them JUST
nc the warning came for those who were not GONG
To sea to go ashore Edouard came up the gang
nlank, He could scarcely make his way to the
saloon the air all around him was so thick with
hands that he had to shake. He assured every
body that he would come back as soon as posi-
hic and everybody assured him that there wouli
he no real happiness in America I'LL ne did. Jean
managed 10 keep himself pretty well out OF sight
till the ship backed out of the dock, and then he
WAS seen leaning on the rail- with the Others or
the company. and he had IFS iuh sHai" Vi '"0
cheers and salutes.
When II was neary time for the steamer to start
the assembled friends Of the opera company vert
on board n tug. to accompany the ship as FAR as
the boat could keep UP. Several members or the
orchestra were board the tug and played more
or less appropriate selections. They performer
somethi which or two though that they
recognized az belonging to "Siegfried.' ana then
they played Hail. Columbian There were two or
three selections "hich nobody recognized put thty
sounded sad. and finally they gave Mamie. Come
Kiss Your Honey Boy" BY that time the emo
lions of all present had become so highly wrought
that they regarded anything az appropriate, ana
this selection did just well as The Mnstrel BOY
10 the War Has Cone would have done.
II this brief chronicle crosses the ocean ana
meets the eyes OF any of the opera company, LEI
II assure them that the persons on the tug were not
laughing at them the steamer backed out INTO
the river They were laughing at n little man. so
fat that he was all but absolutely globular. VINO
ST God on one leg the deck directly under the
singers and waved his hand franticaly, seeming TO
think that the whole demonstration the crowd. the
band and ALL we're intended for him. When the
ship turened and started down the river the tug
kept alongside for short distance and there were
great cheering and waving of hats and handker-
chiefs and then the steamer gained, and the people
on the tug the last of the Abbey, SchoeHei *
Crau Opera Company In America.
Besides Mr.. Grau. Mr.. Seidl and the De ResZkeS,
already mentioned there were in the party on the
shin Mile Bauerneiser Jacque Bars. Enrlco
Bevignani A. Ceppi Miss Marie Enge, Nine Lit
WINE Ilonal Mapleson, Nine Olltzka. Willy
Schultz Louis Saar and Thomas SaliSnac. There
were fifty members Of the chorus In tho second
abin