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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-03
FOR ALEXANDRIA.

Leave Washington, from the corner OF
Pennsylvania avenue and 1915 street, week
days, 6 80. 7 O5 (expressl, 7 35, 8 90 lex.
press), s 30 (express), 8 90, 8 SO, 10 20
(express), II 90 and IL As a. m. II %
iexpress) - 20 1 Is, 45, 2 O5 (express),
= 40, 3 90 (express), 3 30, 90 (express,,
AS (express). 4 45, 5 O5, 20 (expressl,
5 40. 05 (express), 6 %. 90, W, oo,
10 90, IL 20 and II SO D. m.
Sundays 90, 8 90, 10 90, 1O3O, II 90,
II go and II 90 a. m, ID 80 90, 30,
200, 2 80, 800. 8 80, A 20, 4 80: 90,
. 80, 90, 6 30, 90, 8 90, 8 90. 10 90 and
II 20 p. N.
Leave Alexandria for Mount Vernon and
way stations, daily except Sunday. at OF,
30, l 80 a. IN. and - 30, l AT, 81,
3 26, 4 43 M. To Dyke and Riverside
7 80 and s 30 p, m.
Leave Alexandria for Mount Vernon Sum
day only at 7 so, 8 30, II 80 a. M. and
2 30 and 43 p. u.
Leave Arlington Junction for Arlington
and Rosslyn hourly.
Baggage carried and checked at King and
Royal streets, Alexandria, and 1914 and
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, free. Bi.
cycle tickets now on sale.
Communication tickets are sold at the offices
of the Mt. Vernon Railroad, Royal and King
strets at the following rates:
Fare, Alexandria to Washington, 10 cents
round.trip. % cents. Communication rates
Quarterly tickets, $1256; monthly tickets,
S4.65; school tickets $50; family trip
tickets, So. 20; package tickets. so cents. AT
ter 7 90 D m. to Riverside 10 cents round
trip
6. E. ABBOT. GEO. B. PHILLIPS,
General Manager. General Passenger Agt
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Of all articles sold by druggists at prices as low
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gists' Fancy Gov1s and Specialties.
Wholesale ageLts in Northern Virginia 70.
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Tinted Gloss and Prepared PaiAts, &c.
Manufacturers Of standard Pharmaceutical
Preparations.
We have made large additions to our stock
and are buying leadh.x Proprietary Articles,
Chemicals, &C., direct fr,m the manufacturers.
We are therefore enabled to supply the trade
with sll goods usually carried by well-ap-
pointed WHOLESALE DRUG HOUSE at
prices as low as those given by the best houses
in larger cities. All goods forwarded by first
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A Cure tor Bilious Collie.

RESOURCE, Schreveu Co, Gal have
been subject to attacks of bilious colo
for several years. Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is the
only sure relief. 1t acts like charm;
Que dose of it gives relief when all
other remedies fail.-G. D. SHARP
For sale by J. H. Janney, Druggist, 7Ol
King street.
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HalfRates for Labor Day.

On account of Labor Day. September 9th,
the southern Railway Company will sell
tickets from Washington and Alexandria at
one fare Tor the round trip to Orange. H"r-
risonburg, Round Hill and intermediate sta
tions. Tickets on sale September 4th, Eth
and 9Th, good for return until Tuesday, sep-
TENDER 7th.
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S1Oto Niagara Falls and Return.

$40 to Niagara Falls and Return.
Special train via Pennsylvania Railroad
with parlor cars and day coaches will leave
Washington at 7:3O a. m. September 4th and
18th and October 18th, arriving at Niagara
Falls at 1850 m Tickets good for ten
days and vslil for stop of at Buffalo, Roch-
ester and Watkins Glen returning.
'~- aug24 cot oct9
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ad2T t.
NoTloE.
sALEoF DESIRABLE PROPERTY.

If not sold at private sale before sATUR.
DAY, September 4, the following prof. erty
will on that day be sod at 10 a. IN. at public
auction. All bids subject to the approval Of
the owner. Terms $1,000 cash tho bal.
ance on reasonable time. secured by first trust
on the property, the deferred payments bear
ing six per cent. interest.
PROPERTY:
NO. COS PRINCE STREET. Lot Dix
1907. Loo ton excellent, being between
It. Asaph and Washington streets, north side.
ROBT. ELLIOTT.
B al Estate Agent, 523 King ST..
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Leave Alexandria.
Leave Washington.

NIB. Same schedule Sundays, commencing
9 30 a. m.
POTOMAC RIVER NDINGS-STEAM-
ER WAKEFIELD leaves Washington Mon
dsys at 7 90 q. M, and Alexandria at 3 w
a. M, for landings as far as Nomini and on
Wednesdays and Saturdays at same hours for
ct. Clements Bay and Leonardtown.
G. W. RIDLEY, General Manager.
JOHN r PADGETT, Agent
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Don't neglect cough because the weather e,
is pleasant; before the next storm rolls
around it may develop into serious difficulty
beyond repair. One Minute Cough Cure Is
EASY to take and will do what its name im'
niles. Charles g. Lennon.
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S5 Excursions to the Seashorc.

On Friday and Saturday, September
3rd and 4th, tickets will be sold ioi
the II q. m. and 12:45 p. m trains via
Pennsylvania railroad to Atlantic City, Cape
May, Ocean City ard Sea Isle City, good to
RETURN until The following Tuesday, allowing
Monday, Labor Day, to be spent by the sea.
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S2--Washington to Atlantic City and
Return.

Special trains via the Pennsylvania Bail
road will leave Washington at 4 and 10 p. m
Saturday, September 4th, and at q. m. sun.
day, September 5th, and run through to At
lantic City, via Delaware Bridge, without
change of cars. Returning, special trains
will leave Atlantic City at p. n. Sunday,
September 9th, and Monday. September 9th,
allowing Labor Day at Atlantic City, 81
round trip.
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ARNoLD's BRoMo-CELERY. Try this
unrivaled remedy for Headaches, Neuralgia.
gleepleespesa 10 cants.
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Prince William County Horsemen'
Show, Manassas, september 9TH
and 9Th.
For the above occasion the Southern Bail
way Company announces rate of one fare
for tho round trip from Washington, Char
luttesville, Wsrrenton, Harrisonburg, Bound
Hill and intermediate stations to Manassas.
Tickets on sale September 7th and 9Th Good
returning until September 9th, inclusive.
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STEAMERS.

STEAMERS.
WASHINGTON STEAMBOAT COM.
w PANY (LIMITED.)
CHEAP AND PLEASANT EXCURSIONS.
Bound Trip Is Cents.
On and after June 18th, 1897, and until
further notice the following ferry schedule
will be in force
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Personally Conducted Tour to Crcs-
son springs.
Round trip tickets via the Pennsylvania
railroad from Washington, good going on
1850 a. m. train August 2Sth and valid for
return wishin ten days, including one days
board at Mountain House, IS.
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To Cure a Cold in One Day

To Cure q Cold IN One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. al
Druggists refund the money if it fails to
oure 25 cents Sold by CHARLES G. l ENNoN
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S1.25--Washington to Baltimore and
Heturn---S1.25.

Tickets will be sold via the Pennsylvania
Railroad Saturday and Sunday, September
4th and 9th, valid for return passage until
Monday, September 9th Labor Day.. GOOD
on any train.
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RAILROADS.
WASHINGTON, ALEXANDRIA AND
w MOUNT VERNON RAILROAD.
FOR WASHINGTON

Leave Alexandria, corner King and Royal
streets. also stops at King and Washington,
King snd Payne streets, and King and Spring
Park, week days, at 5 SO, 6 20, 6 55, Z 20
,expressj, 7 45 (express),S 90, 8 20 (expressl
s so express), 900, 8 30, 1000, II 90
IL AZ a. m. (express), and II 25, 1 90 lex
press), OF, 2 90, . 40, 3 06 (express), 90,
4 25, 45 (express), 3 90. 30 lexpress),
5 40, 10 (express). 20, 7 90. 10 lex
press, is, Is, 10 Is and II 10 p M.
Sundays g 90, 915, 1915. IL 10, II 40
Il. m. u Is, u 40, 15, 1 As, 2 Is, 45,
315, As, a Is, A 45, 5 Is, 8 As, E 10,
6 As, 715, As, s Is, 8 Is, 10 10 and
II Is p. ID.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

happy in this world. My friend, can
write no more
You will never again see the friend:
1 no more will see my son; and art will
no more see the artist.
oh, the injustice of natureI
Tell to friends and acquaintance this
saddest of news. / rest assured they
will not remain Indifferent to my ire
mediable misfortune.
Your affectionate,
TOMASO SALVINI.
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The successor of the late Alexander
Hermann, the we'll known magician,
is to be Leon Hermann. nephew of
the master of legerdemain. Leon Herr
mann was in Paris when his uncle
died, and obeying a call from Mrs.
Hermann, came to this country to
take the place left vacant by the
death of her husband in the COM
pany. Mrs. Hermann gave recep-
other night, at which Leon Hermann
was formally introduced. He is a
young man and resembles the late
Professor Hermann. He is a master
of about all the tricks and illusions
which his uncle made use of, and,
Furthermore, has many additional
tricks. Young Hermann scored a
pleasant impression; Madame Herr
mann performed the clever trick Origf-
mated by her husband of allowing a.
file of soldiers to shoot at her and re-
ceiving the bullets on a China plate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
Stage Whispers.

Heart of Maryland is a great hit in
Chicago. 1t comes TO Salt Lake next
fall.
Robert Downing has left the stage
and gone to teaching. His wife, Eu-
genie Blair, is still out as a star.
Modjeska's reopening in San Francis
co last Monday night was a great
success. The season is only limited
TO four weeks.
Charles Hoyt has instructed his at
torneys to begin instant prosecution Of
all individuals pirating his plays. A
WOuld-be pirate arranged to play "A
Trip to Chinatown in the provinces
about Chicago, but was frightened Off
by warning from the playwright. =
Annie Russell will be released in
March by Charles Frohman from her
engagement in the Sue company, in
order to begin a starring tour in a new
three-act farce, The Mysterious Mr..
Bugle," by Madeleine Lucette Ryley.
Contracts for Miss Russells stellar
venture are closed
Fired by her success as Teresa in
In Mexico" Jessie Bartlett Davis is
devoting much of her leisure to the
study of Carmen, a role which is
eminently suited to her style and tenn
permanent. 1t is not generally known
that the music of Carmen is written
for a contraltO or mezzo-sOpranO, as
it was Nine. CALI Marie who created
the part in Paris.
Fanny Davenport believes that Amer
lea is too young a nation to draw
from our own history any dramatic
tragedies. I'VE must still rely for in
spiration upon the myths of ancient
history" declares the famous actress.
Besides. we are not a tragic-lived
people. Restless, energetic and i'm
mersed in business pursuits wearing
upon brain and muscle all day. we at
tend the theater at night for recreation
at best, but in most cases for 1augh-
ing purposes only. The stage in Amer
lea is not a public instructor"
One of the interesting dramatic
events of the season Will be the pro-
ductiOn on March by Minnie Maddern
Fiske of a strong dramatizatiOn of
Thomas Hardy's great novel, Tess of
the D'Urbervilles." BY the terms of
the contract, just closed Between Mrs.
F'iske and Mr.. Hardy, through the
Harper Brothers, the production must
be made on or before the above date,
and this will necessitate the closing of
Mrs. FiSke'S present season the first
week in February.-Mirror
Alfred Ayres says in the Mirror: He
that would find fault with the manner
in which Edwin Milton Royle's comedy
drama, Captain Impudence," is staged
Continued on Page 49,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Professor 'Weihe said: I'VE have a
carefully selected chorus of 40; the
principals will be Miss Savage, Miss
Levy, Mr.. Spencer, Mr.. Goddard, Mr..
Young, Mr.. Sherman, Mr. Robinson,
Mr. Westervelt and Mr.. Campbell,
total of 40: the orchestra will be en-
larged by the addition of Professor
Mcclellan and another first violin;
Miss Della DayneS Miss Bessie Ed
munds and Miss Ella Derr have been
cast for the three peasant girls, While
the pretty roles of the eight pages Will
be assumed by Miss Ardelle Cummings.
Miss Rose Romney, Miss Lulu Bitner,
Miss Allie Bitner. Miss Ida Pitt, Miss
Ruby Pike, Miss Elsie Barrow, Miss
Emma Jorgensen. l do not well see
how we could have improved on our
cast. The costumes for the whole COM
pany will be engaged from Goldstein
& Co., the San Francisco costumers,
who furnish the Tivoli Opera House"
Under the auspices of the Free Kim
dergartens association, at the theatre,
Lydia NJ V. Finklestein (Madame
Mountford) noted as a dramatic and
vocal impersonator of Biblical oriental
isms. will give four entertainments.
The programme is as follows:
Thursday, Feb. 4-"Bedouins of the
Desert" 81 characters alfred in ORR
entail costumes.
Palestine; or the Home and Haunts of
Monday. Feb. s-"City Life in Jeru-
salem Among the Four Hundred
Tuesday, Feb. 9-"Ecce Homo; or
from Bethlehem to Calvary
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J. S. Devlin, advance representative
of Katie Putnam's company, is in
town arranging for the appearance
here of his star on Friday and Satur-
day evenings and Saturday afternoon.
1t goes without saying that Harry
Emery, who in private life is Miss
Putnam's better half, will be along,
appearing in his old parts. Mr.. Dew
lin gives the pleasant news that Miss
Putnam's business in Helena and
Butte has been very heavy and he feels
confident of drawing the usual heavy
patronage here. The bills are as fol-
lows: Friday evening. '"The Old Lime
Kiln" Saturday afternoon, ''Erma, the
Elf' and Saturday night, 1.-THE Old
Curiosity Shop"
The Grand closed UP another light
week last night with by Proxy"
which cannot be numbered with the
houses big successes. Last night saw
the farewell of Miss Valleau, w no takes
this mornings train back to New
York. She will be pleasantly remem-
bered by many people, who, while they
couldn't accept her methods as an
actress, were oft times charmed with
her beautiful dresses and the evident
hard work she put into all her roles.
Tomorrow night Victory Bateman
makes her re-entry in Caprice" Mr..
Kyle plays the part of her father, and
with that exception all the cast will be
new to their roles. The full list of
characters is as follows:
Jethro Baxter, a farmer, Mercy's
Idlnel- HOWARD AYE
Jack Henderson, a young artist.
Observation-Disclosures. Walter Edwards
Philander Potts, an Inventor 1870.
......................H H. D. Blakemore
Harry Woodthorpe, Jacks friend....
.....................C Charles Wyngate
Wally Henderson, Jacks BROTHER.
.................T Thomas W. Ross
Jerome Henderson, Jacks father.
...---.... duSn fOrQ
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
Jan. 80.
Dear Hal:

Dear Hal:
The epistle this week must be dis
r-inguished for its brevity; not that
there has been nothing going on, but
that there has been so very much that
1 am left stunned by the conclusion.
The town is still echoing with the raw
ings over divine Nordica, and her
liquid, enhancing ecstatic-oh for one
big all comprehending adjective-notes
still ring through every corridor of
my bewildered brain. 1t was a concert
of a life time, and as a musical event
it must take its place high up among
those lofty red letter dates in our an
mails such as the Patti visit and the
Gerster performance of Lucia" Seal
chi is but a Renaissance, it IL true.
but she is a powerful one; while we lis
tened TO her, she made US forget her
face. What higher praise could I ut
ter? Dempsey, the baritone, was
charming. Berthald. the tenor, too evil
IDENTIFY infatuated with himself, but ex-
cellent in the divinely rendered Rigo-
letto quartette for all that.
1t did me good to see the public
startled into recognizing Stephens
great choir. The Rusticana selection
set the house in an uproar of enthusi-
assn. and we'll it might Why on earth
the same public did not rise to its feet
and split its lungs after Nordica, the
choir and the organ wound up the In
1lammatus" is still a mystery to me.
1t was positively electrifying, and to
the whole body Of singers from the
humblest alto boy up to the gentleman
who sits through every concert with
a red bandana over his bald spot, I
tender my most ardent and sincere
homage.
We said goodbye to little Valleau
at the Grand last night. I wish there
had been something more ambitious
for her to use as a medium of leave
Waking, than the rather dreary and
aimless By Proxy" Miss Valleau has
given US a long succession of blonde
heroines, in which her hair-I suppose
it's hers-her gowns, her face, and her
sweet personality have never been
without a certain charm; but as for
acting, she has never yet known what
it was to convince her Iudience-at
least in Salt Lake. May her lines fall
in pleasanter places is the wish of
MARGE
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Here is a poor father with a broken
heart, who announces to you the death
of his poor son. AlesSandrO. which oc-
CURED at o'clock this morning. His
last breath was drawn with his family
about him, and with the benediction
and the kiss of his father, as tranquil
and calm as a martyr. And this ter
rible martyrdom he bore for four long
months and a half, poor soul, in which
he suffered physically and mentally
almost beyond endurance; and perhaps
for this God willed him to die in peace,
with no more torture to fill the last
few moments of his life.
oh, my friend, my heart is breaking
as L write to you, What grief is mine,
Everything is vanished and lost for
ever. He leaves his wife, his brothers
and sisters and this poor father dis
consulate.
Farewell youth, farewell hope, fare
well glory. farewell all my sacrifices
for thy dear sake. farewell all my af-
lection and counsel, all farewell,
At 80 years, not yet finished, to re-
nounce life, glory, the love and joy of
his family. JOY? What say L? What
joy can his loved ones now know?
There is for them no more content
No, no! 1t is only the selfish that are
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

at the Grand, though it had been a
great disappointment to her to find Mr..
EdesOn gone: she had known finn
long time; had often played under his
direction, having many times acted
Lillian in The Bankers Daughter
10 his George Washington Phipps; he
had beer a sort of second father to
her, and she had looked forward with
the keenest anticipations to meeting
him here. She added that FRANK
Hatch, who is to succeed Edeson as
stage manager, and who will arrive
here Tuesday from San Francisco, is
a very capable man, and that he had
made many hits as an actor in the east.
Miss Bateman said that her profess
sional life in San Francisco had been
very hard, as at the Grand Opera House,
where she had been engaged since last
August they put on nine performances
a week, seven nights and matineeS
both Saturday and Sunday. She had,
too, taken all sorts of parts, and some
Of them had been very uncongenial to
her. Her health had suffered during
the past two or three months, and she
had felt compelled to resign, though
the Moroscos had shown her every
consideration. and held her place in
the company open till the last moment
She said she found all the company
here charming, and expected they
would give a good performance of Ca
price" The next bill, she understood.
would be The Bankers Daughter"
Miss Bateman." asked The Herald
representative, do you desire to say
anything to the public regarding Mr.
Kyle's card published in The Herald
Friday, or the other newspaper state
ments- made in San Francisco"
L would greatly prefer to say moth
ing ON that topic" was the answer Il
have been wounded, misjudged, mis-
quoted; 1 care to say nothing more
Miss BateHan in private life is Mrs.
Clarke she has been separated from
her husband a number of years, but
there has been no divorce In her ref
erence to NJ. Clarke yesterday, she
spoke of him with the greatest respect,
and said it had been doubly painful to
her to have his name dragged into
sensational newspaper articles
The month of February will be more
than usually active at the theater, and
from this week on there will only be a
few nights on which the house will be
closed. The oriental lectures. and
Katie Putnam take up this week; the
always welcome Frawley company
put in four nights, opening the 10th,
and Frawley, Clarke, Miss Bates, Miss
Cooke and the other favorites will re-
ceive a welcome that will warm their
hearts. The week of the 22nd, Wash
ingtOn's birthday, will witness the ad-
vent of the new Salt Lake Opera COM
rany in the Mascot" under Professor
Weihe, when it will be demonstrated
whether the town wants the best anna
teur opera the clever Salt Lake sing
ers and actors can give at 50-cent
prices of admission.
Speaking of the company yesterday,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
lake Baxter. Mercx,s hrothe,

Jake Baxter, Mercy's brother.
George w. Penrose
Williams, butler at the Hendersons'
Fired Smith
Mercy Baxter. Victory Bateman
Lucy Ashton. Victory Bateman
Edith Henderson, Jacks sister
- eSSie lZette
Emma Watson, a widow
.......---.-........M Margaret Marshall
Mile Evans, a camper.
Mamie Dupont
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1t was with some surprise that peo-
pie learned the old-time actor, Joe
Murphy, was not to appear at the
Salt Lake theatre. There was a hitch
in the arrangements somewhere, and
the pioneer Irish comedian is to ap-
pear at the Lyceum Wednesday even
ing. Murphy has not been seen in
Salt Lake for many years. Old-timers,
however, will remember him as the
Murphy of Murphy & Macks min
strels, the first minstrel organiza ton
that ever struck Salt Lake, and the
one that introduced Ben Cotton and
his famous song Love Among the
Roses
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

the box Office receipts over $4,000. Nine.
Nordica. said that his earnings were
$4,000 a night, and on one occasion, she
declared, he received $1,000. Our
widows calculations in this, as in
other matters. were wrong. M. Jean
seldom, if ever, earns more than $500
a night, and his income varies between
that amount and $4,000. The friends
of Nine. Nordica have been raising an
outcry over the receipts of the tenor.
But he earns all the money paid to
him. 1t is much more profitable to
give Jean de Reszke $500 and have a
crowded house than to put on Ceppi,
Salignac or Cremonini at $500 and have
empty chairs. Generally considered,
NJ. jeans name on the bills holds
chairs at a premium, while one of the
lesser tenors must have a great prima
donna in order to make the perform
ance profitable. 1t costs the manage
ment, on an average, $4,000 a night to
produce opera. Jean de Reszke will
draw a $4,000 house.
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One of the most pathetic things pos
sible to conceive is the letter written
by the aged actor, Salvini, to a friend
in this country. announcing the death
of his son. a translation of the letter
is as follows:
Firenze, Dec. Is, 1S96-Dear Civolari:
Here is a man inconsoiable with grief