The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
LIVE TOPICS ApoUr roKN.

Carl Rosa opera company arc contemplating q
tour In this country. II would BIO interesting
for at least ono season to observe the fato Of
such m attempt, for English opera, as this COM
pany gives II, has not been heard hero In n long
while. Whether or not 1t would be made sue
ccssful Is a question on which very diverse
opinions arc held hero. The company is said to
have been rather unfortunate during recent
seasons, and most Of It's time has been spent in
tho provinces, with the interruption of rather
brief and unsuccessful appeals TO London favor.
The organization Is Of q kind unknown here
since tho days Of the American Opera Company.
The company has a large repertoire, and pro-
fishing more In this respect than the company at
Coveni Carbon; The singers are generally Of a
pany Is superior to that OF any Of the touring
organizations of this country. The list OF wo-
n 1nsp s iinSor' l Is sl,Eny ySo q gsrtbbS Ss iny,d ESoa s%s
il Is q TACT not general. known that Carl koss,'s
country I'D him to form the company which
Rosa, the company, which still bears tho found.
ers name, was organized, and 1t has continued
since SSi that Tine M.'n TR Re"if mpresari no d hestrrs sePer%i
years ago, and since then the affairs Of the COM
p p tSe h singers SeS %hS Sq Pesentis ,S SS g as fSs eS%san 0G IS
Maurice Gran singers. There ARE some per.
sented by good artists is likely to succeed at
prices somewhat lower than those charged by
mend II It exists here. There are plenty. Of nov.
Sltiss always With Il tho rtp o,apa s, Of the Englirh
SBoRemss'' and Goddsrd Ts'Hf { S1 Vivandi HGsi""i in
English. and has for some time past given tho
English.
There is a French hotol uptown which fro
quently shelters Partisan notables whose pres
ence in this city Is never known to anybody
but the proprietor Of tho hotel and those
among his guests who are curious enough to
examine the register. The persons who hap
pen to DO there do not make any attempt to
conceal there whereabouts, but as their visits
here arc limited to only two or three days, tho
fact of their presence never becomes known.
may DO their own. but are not their best
never to DO seen about the hotel for o long.
between trips. and they are exclusively voya.
gers who are taking the Steamship trip merely
these strangers see very little OF New York,
romans a Wilderness to them. Last summer
a woman whose pictures looked from several
asn nyps a Sn s hoSoay knew wSS t II the sh so' sa. for ip t scs
turned on the steamer that brought her with.
WV u N"o hoett W w tALdh u
Of the time she passed in the hotel. There
the little hotel who have sat about the restau.
rant and cafe without being distinguished BY
Of the hotel. One curious Instance that
showed the quality Of these fieeting strangers
e ef iSis hab bM0 6 5ms Of thcm w toid there she ot lhsno tSnt
he had seen a well-known French poet in the
cafe. His companion denied 1t on general prin.
o. the man. The p poet only a short time before before
had read an ode or done something else to got
his picture into the paper, and this was strong
enough evidence to the second man that the
and just at that moment the Frenchman en-.
tered the room. 1t was undoubtedly the same
man, Inquiry, showed that the poet, was in
the hotel,.and had come over for the ocean
! voyage only to take the steamer back on her
return trip.
An account Of tho troubles Of a New Yorker
who was once q millionaire recalls IA story that
was told about him two years ago, when no was,
after a very harassing legal experience, sent to
q hospital to be treated for nervous prostration.
He is a man Of very agreeable personality, and
he rarely fails to become friendly with anybody
with whom no may be thrown in contact. The
was popular with everybody he met there. 1t
was when the time came for him 10 leave that
of the kindness that he had enjoyed, and as he
wanted TO do something which the patients as
Vel hS me uU'IOES uuu nurses ullRnt enjoy, IL
was IA little difficult to decide Just what form the
dem onstration should take. 1t was finally con.
cludcd that tho plan suggested first by the con-
valescing patient was about the most feasible,
and permission was given to buy ice cream
enough for everybody In the place, including
patients who were we'll enough 10 eat 1t. The
evening before his departure came, and with 1t
the ice cream. Great was the gratitude Of the
recipients of this Kindness, and when tho pa
tient left he was more popular than ever. But
to this day the confectioner still makes occa-
sional and hopeless trips to the hospital, and la.
ments with Ms much delicacy as the situation
demands the fatal mistake he made In delivering
the ice cream on the order of a man who had
sbowna far greater capacity for making debts
than for paying them
From the fagpolo on top of a high building
owned by a telegraph company on lower Broad
way u large English flag foated yesterday, and
1t was the only one in sight. 1t attracted as
much attention as did the Chinese flag last
summer when Ii Hung Chang visited this city.
novel a sight. Except around tho shipping,
though those OF every, other frst-class power of
Our French and German citizens have frequent
of Greece and Italy are familiar to tho average
but II seldom rallies around It's nag. Tho tele.
graph company's flag looked lonesome.