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The San Francisco call., 1898-06-12

Chilean battle-ship Blanco Encalada, which was guarded by every known protection, but was blown to fragments during the night by the fourth torpedo, three having missed fire.
 Torpedo boat destroyers, however. are very much more effective than the tor pedo boats-which, by the way, the British Government has for six years ceased to build. For one thing. being larger than the torpedo boat the de- stroyer can attain a higher speed Then, again, 1t carries torpedoes and does all the work of the torpedo boat; and, in addition, being armed with heavy guns, 1t can overtake and de- stroy the enemy's torpedo craft.
 Skobeleff understood his men and considered that their courage throve best in an atmosphere Of daredevil gaiety, which he was always at great pains to create. Men actuated by strong religious principles, when they can be got to fight, generally do it effectually with little or no fear apparent, but this is in a measure owing to the fact that there is not room in the human mind for more than one powerful emotion to operate at a time; fear cannot enter because the demon of fighting has the floor.
 After all danger is not so much dis concerting because it may result in pain
 
 port and something unusual. Many man will display more trepidation on the day of his wedding than on the first occasion he is called upon to face dan ger where there is no time for premedi- tation It may be true, as some one recently observed, that our brave fore fathers went to battle with stouter hearts than we take to the dentist, but they went to battle two or three times a month and we to the dentist once quarter Hotspur of the North-"he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands and says to his wife: 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work be longs to type and an age in which cowardice was considered not only dis graceful but eccentric.
 Johnson frankly admitted that he feared death. and what comes after, though he was a virtuous man and physically courageous. Villon specially and pathetically dreaded the gallows, and reasonably, considering his habits; whereas Gordon Pasha feared the Mahdi less than he did dinner party, for which he appears to have had an almost malignant antipathy.
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MAUD WINTER

of stage representation, and have sufh- cient literary judgment to be able to recognize good play in manuscript form. More than this, he must be we'll informed concerning the best authori ties on matters of architecture, orna- mentation, furniture and costume, and on the artistic use of light and color in stage pictures. He must, in short, be the possessor of a vast fund of general and special information as well as of great executive ability and tact. How many of our managers are there who can boast of all or of any of those quail ifications?"
 To which question Mr. Towse fur nishes his own answer. In the whole country, he says, there are not more than three, and MT. Daly stands at the head of the list.
 Mir. Frawley Is not Daily. If he were he would not be identified with
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pany will naturally be an incentive to and an attraction for young local act ors, who now take Horace Greeley's ad- vice reversed-as most things are in stageland, and go East.
 For San Francisco's sake as well as for his own MT. Frawley should aim high. He should not be content merely with financial success; which, of course, was the first thing to be considered when he formed his first company and came down to San Francisco prepared for a Waterloo, but prepared also to battle against theatrical annfhilation. He is in position to cut the Gordian knot of our stage difficulties. due to isolation on the lonesome edge of the continent. With a little enterprise he could bring out to us the star and her leading man, or the star and his lead ing lady, and use his own company to support them; and in this way he
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The Chutes.

Henri Maurice Cannon, the overgrown man from Switzerland, who weighs 613 pounds, has been the sensation at the Chutes since last Sunday He is as good natured and full of fun as he Is big and has made friends of his thousands of visitors. He will continue to receive every afternoon and evening for short season.
 The bill for the Free Theater next week includes Charles and May Stanley in their sketch, Mrs. O'Gradys Washday," Uno, the Arabian juggler; Webster, Bo- vino, Orc and Bell. and the strange little barytone. Minnie Berlin The ami matoscope has some new views of Camp Merritt. large collection of snakes has just been added to the zoo.
 The Chutes Is the only place of amuse- ment in San Francisco where soldiers are admitted free, and as a consequence the Hatght-street grounds are crowded with military men every afternoon and even- ing
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competition among the different mine owners was ruinous, and the business could not be carried on at a profit to anybody.
 Quicksilver, which is unique among metals in being fluid at ordinary tenn | peratures, is put up and shipped in faskS, containing seventy-Six and a half pounds each. The price Is now 59 cents a pound, or $43 50 flask. when in quantities of from twenty-five to a hundred f1asks. In larger lots, of over a hundred f1asks, it is $43 a flask. This is about $S higher than at the begin ming of the war.
 The respective quantities produced in California and in Spain may be ascer- l tained from a comparison of the fol- lowing figures: Last year California produced 26,079 flasks, and in 1896 29863 hasks.
 Since practically all of the Spanish quicksilver ~oes to London, the figures of the imports there may be taken as about the same as the output of the | Spanish mines. Tn the year which end ed on October 31. 1897, there had been sent to London from Spain 46,577 f1asks, and in the corresponding period of 1896, 40, 999 fiasks.
 It will thus be seen that the Spanish mines produce much more abundantly than those in California. They are ap- parently inexhaustible, for they are | supposed to have been first worked i over two thousand five hundred years ago, and still reveal rich masses of un- . touched ore in their depths. They are situated near the town of Almaden or Almaden del Azogue (the mines of | quicksilver), in the south central part of Spain, flf+--five miles southwest of the city of Ciudad Real, and about one hundred and fifty miles northeast of Cadiz.
 According to Pliny, they were worked In 700 B. C., and Tn his time sent an- nuallv 10000 pounds of cinnabar (the ore of mercury) to Rome. The mines have now been excavated to a depth of nearly thousand feet below the surface and the richness of the ore in- 1 creases with each lower level.
 The ten successive floors or levels upon which the mines are worked are nearly hundred feet apart. Masonry and pillars of the ore itself are used as supports for the roofs of the levels.
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 FRAW1EY 60 6HE RESCUE.


he will produce "A Celebrated Case" the thrilling drama in which he created the character of the Count de Mornay. The father, Jean Renaud, by his infant daughter of the crime of murdering her mother while on a stolen leave of ab- sence from the army to see his wife and child.
 It concludes with the meeting of the father and daughter twelve years later, he as the galley slave and she as the adopted daughter of the Duchess d'Au- beterre, when Renaud's innocence Is es- tablished and the real criminal discov- cred
 "The National Defender" a strong pa- triotic play depicting scenes and incl dents In the present war with Spain, will follow "A Celebrated Case.''
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A E use luG iIlOTc COII1IlOu Il6TCdH-
 Ns tile term, has been rising in
 price, not rapidly but steadily,
 since the outbreak of hostili-
 ties between this country and Spain, and it's rise Is due directly to the war, although in a curious way
 Spain produces more quicksilver than any other country in the world. Un- til three or four years ago thousands or pounds were annually imported from that country into the United States.
 The next largest quicksilver yielding mines are in California, and have been worked for years, but while the metal could be brought from Spain free of duty the California product was not able to compete largely with the for eign. Since the Wilson tariff bill of 1894 .8ut duty of ' cents a pound upon quicksilver Ga rate unchanged by the Dingley tariff) practically all importa- tion has ceased, and consumers have bought the California mercury. Hence the apparent strangeness of the fact that, although we import no quicksilver from Spain, but produce our own, nevertheless the war has sent up the price of the article here just as 1t has in. Europe.
 The fact Is that the American prices are ruled entirely by foreign prices, and are kept at figures just below the cost of importation. The great Spanish quicksilver mines at Almaden are con- trolled by the Rothschilds, who are said to have taken them some time ago as security for the Spanish bonds which they hold. Since the beginning of the war they have raised the prices, be- cause of the riots in Spain and the gen. erally unsettled conditions among the laboring classes.
 Now, the California mines are also controlled by one firm, the California Quicksilver Agency-it does not like to be called "syndicate!" Immediately on an advance In foreign prices this California agency, ruling the American product, raises it's figures, correspond ingly, and consumers have no choice but to submit.
 It is stated by competent authorities that one central control of the Cali fornia mines was made necessary by the fact that under the old regime the
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The Olumpia.

The Biograph, with it's thrilling war scenes, Is likely to become a permanent feature at the Olympia Music Hall. Each week new subjects of interest are put on as the owners of the Biograph have their machines for taking the life seen es at every point where United States troops are to be found. The variety olio con tains several strong speciality acts and the bill is replete with songs, dances and novelties. The Olympia Ladies Orches- tra is also a feature. Matinee to-day.
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The Columbia.

It is a new Frawley company that makes its debut as an organization to- morrow night at the Columbia, though members of 1t have been seen here with various companies. Madeleine Bouton. who retained her own name when she left Reno, New, to go upon the stage, was here with A M. Palmers company that included Julia Arthur, Wilton Lackaye, and others She Is most favorably known in the East through her creation of the title role in "The Tarrytown Widow" which will be presented here later by the Frawley company. She has played all sorts of roles, from Lefty Fletcher in Saints and Sinners to Myra Birthstone in "The Globe Trotter." Edward M. Bell was here last with the same Palmer com pany Miss Bouton played with, During Marshal Lefebyre, in Madame Sans emor9 Gena 9 afffd a adma Roberfs played the Indian chief when 'The Girl I Left Behind Me was here. He was the villain in The Heart of Maryland" when cessful play here. Cora Tinnte San Fran cisco met in Hoyt's "Trip to Chinatown" '" Maude Winter, the ingenue, is an Oak land girl, who made her debut with the Coghlan-DiXey Xey-Barrymore combination at the Columbia a few years ago. Eleanor Carey was with Richard Mansfields com pany on thelr last VlsIL to Ihls coast an chon Campbell was out here with Neil Burgess County Fair" and she played Flavia in the Frohmans' production of "The Prisoner of Zenda" in the East. Sam Edwards is comedian in chief, and Fred Williams, who Is the father of his famous son, and who was Frohman's s stage manager for many years, will direct the Frawley performances.
 Misses Carey, Bouton, Campbell and Winter and Messrs. Bell. Frawley Ed wards, Roberts. Burke and Conger will appear tomorrow night in Number Nine, or the Lady of Ostend."
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comedians. The Sa Vans, comedy aero an entirely new act This week W wifi be the last opportunity to see Ezra Kendall in this city, for he returns direct to New York to join Primrose & Vests new show: Katie Rooney, assisted by John Harding, will appear in a new act, intro ducing new songs and dances and new impersonations. The Musical Johnstons have change of repertoire. Others on the bill are the La Mont family Wills and Loretto. with new songs and dances, and Alburtus and Bartram, champion club swingers. Matinees Wednesday, Sat urday and Sunday.
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-12

A gang of thieves organized to prey upon thieves has been discovered In Paris. Their plan was to watch for shoplifters in the department stores like the Louvre and the Bon Marche, to follow them home, and then enter un- der pretense of being police inspectors to search the apartments for stolen goods. which they carry off, with no fear of complaint being made.
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The Orpheum.

Miss Fanny Wentworth. direct from London, is one of the new features at the Orpheum for this week. She is a pianist of renown and will appear at the Orphe- um in an act which she calls An Up-to- Date at Home" which Is interspersed with piano recitals, songs and character Representations. She is very clever and comes with the most hattering English press notices. Carlin and Clark are the new comedy features. They are German
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The Tivoli.

"An American Hero" with it's patriotic songs, stirring music, elaborate costumes and good cast, has made a success at the Tivoii Opera House. Edwin Stevens and Edith Hall are the life of the opera. Frank McGlynn is the pompous Major MacFarlane, Louis Royce's voice Is a very good one, and Helen Merrill makes the prayer to Saint Anne pretty and an attractive picture. It is one of the best productions the Tivoli has ever given.
 Ali Baba," a new burlesque on an old theme follows
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l. Daniel FraWley has secured the rights to some very clever curtain-rais- won'ts" and 'Po' White Trash.
 In Lisbon during Duse's engagement special newspaper was published in her honor, called La Duse. It contained only most celebrated authors in Portugal, and marble tablet was placed in the theater
 to record the date of her appearance there.
 Sydney Rosenfeld writes from Vienna to
 concluded ''' an iti agreement aGe N@sf With Mark Twain, who is residing in Vienna, where
 by he and are to work conjointly on
 the rough draft of the play as 1t bAs emerged from his foundry. It will prob
 ably be with this play that MT. Sire and
 l will begin operations together in busi-
 ness way"
 Jean de Reszke vowed when he left New York that he never would sing purely sentimental parts again, that he was done with Faust and Romeo" for all time. In his recent tour of Russia he produced Wagner operas exclusively, none of which
 was favored by the Czar's presence But when De Reszke's manager waited upon the Little Father" with an invitation the Czar accepted, choosing for the first opera
 Faust" and for the second Romeo and
 Juliet"
 James Hamilton Howe and Joseph NJ. Willard, who was concert master or the I organize for next season. The orchestra will include fifty or sixty instruments. A few preliminary rehearsals will be held during the summer, the regular work be- ginning about August. Classical over
 lures, easier symphonies, entr' actes, bal
 let music, symphonic poems and pro- gramme music will be taken up for re- hearsal and for public rendition. Ovide Musin, violinist and director of the Superior Violin Class at the Royal Conservatory of Music at Liege, Belgium,
 will return to this country about the 1st of August to open a violin school, which will be conducted on the same principle
 as the Liege Conservatory. This school
 Mir. Muslin; he will be assisted by several violinists of international reputation, all
 graduates of the Liege Conservatory.
 The attempt to abolish the "claque'' at the Vienna Opera-house, says the London Chronicle, has been followed by some
 lively times. An instant result was that each performer provided band of pri- vate supporters Not content with ap- plauding their employers, these hirelings thought it necessary to hiss all rival
 most as lively place as the Reichsrath. Accordingly, the administration posted up | a notice forbidding any applause what ever.
 From a preface to volume of drawings by Mime. Yvette Guilbert 1t appears that
 point Is not insisted upon, the writer add ing: This requires investigation. It can- not give Yvette's age: Yvette has no age She has eternal youth. Yvette,s mother daughter was apprenticed to a working dressmaker, but her natural bent for the stage asserted itself and overcame many obstacles. The apprentice dressmaker is now wealthy woman, with fine house in Paris and a chateau in the country, and an American husband.
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-12
DAILY PERILS AGAINST LIFE
 ON A T0RPED0-B0AT

who has made the torpedo realize life that continually threaten the The following gives faint idea of the dangers
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would overcome the old difficulty of company.
 At any rate 1t is to be hoped that Mr. Frawley will take advantage of his popularity-for he and his company have a place in the theatrical affections of San Francisco which few managers have known how to conquer-to teach people here what good stage work is and to raise standards instead of ca- tering to cheaper taste. That he has ideals, no one can doubt There Is no reason why they shouldn't be realized. And above all, he is really Moses our only one-who may lead us out of a theatrical wilderness.
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WAR IS BOOMING CALIFORNIA'S
 QUICKSILVER MINES

Since the declared Great Almaden quicksilver mines Spain been gradually closing The has jumped and the famous mines the world reaping the full benefit
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The California.

The California will reopen Sunday, June 19, with "The Prodigal FaLher," a farce comedy which has been here twice before and was successful both times.
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The Baldwin.

The Passion Play has been revived at the Baldwin and Is being presented every afternoon and evening.
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The Alcazar.

Lewis Morrison will prolong his en- gagement. which has proven most suc- cessful, at the Alcazar Tomorrow night
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Clay Clement will give his final protray- al of Baron von Hohenstauffen In "The New Dominion" at the Columbia Theater fn- oicyh
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Stage Gossip.

"Aristocracy" will be the second play produced by the Frawley company at the Columbia.
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-12

Toby Knockitt retired pugilist. MT. Roberts will make up to resemble James I
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Mansfield will produce the French play "Cyrano de Bergerac" this autumn in New York
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Martha Morton is writing a play for Sol Smith Russell.
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T. Daniel Frawley has secured the rights to some very clever curtain-rais- CTS, among them being "A Woman's Won'ts" and "Po' White Trash
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''Trilby" continues to be hissed wher- ever it is played in Italy. No one under stands it, neither public nor actors.
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The elder Salvini is playing "Saul'' in Rome, in which he made his first success forty wears ago.
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Richard Mansfield has secured from Messrs. Scribner exclusive rights In this country for the dramatization of Steven SonS "St Ives"
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-12

ERCURY, or quicksilver, to use the more common mercan-
 tile term, has been rising in price, not rapidly but steadily, since the outbreak of hostili-
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Forty per cent of the heat of an or dinary fire goes up the chimney.
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BALDWIN THEATER.

REyIyAI-Exactly as given at Oberam- roergau. the novelty of the age, THE PAS SION FLAX Every afternoon at and night at S:so Sunday included. Seats 25c
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OLYMPIA

A Great New Bill. 7 War Scenes; the GRE SISTERS, ENYVELL, LA MONT, VILLA Show. Admission Free.
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In Lisbon during Duse's engagement special newspaper was published in her honor, called La Duse. It contained only articles on herself, written by all the most celebrated authors in Portugal, and a marble tablet was placed in the theater there.
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In the Frawley production of Number Nine" Theodore Roberts will be seen as
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-05-02
AMERICAN LINER PARIS.

Spanish war vessel would catch his
fleet steamer after she got sea room,
but it was thought possible that some
craft of the enemy might be lurking in
vicinity Of the channel, or in the neigh.
borhood of the Irish coast to waylay
tho American craft. At night every
light on board of the Paris was extin.
guished, and dead lights were GOV.
cred. Strict watch was maintained to
detect the approach of vessels.
The Paris brought Ii cases of mum.
tons of wal and a small quantity of
miscellaneous merchandise. The Paris
entered the Narrows through the field
Of mines and torpedoes 1T $50 a. M.
and was saluted by steam whistles of
passing craft as she went to her dock.
1t is expected that the Paris will dis.
charge her cargo and will be received
by the naval authorities at once, when
her name will be changed to Yale.
The Paris has a crew of 2s9 and two
mail clerks. She also brought two
c-n1ro.-,ys
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-05-02
SHIELDED EN-
Admiral SIMPSONS Flagship New
York Sends a Reply to
Nolley
Fired 10y a Detachment OF Span
ish CavaIry---The Firing
Ceased,
But Whether Any Casualties Re-
suited to the Spanialds Is
Not Known.

On Flagship New York, of Havana,
VIA Key West, Fla, May 2.-ln an.
swer to volley fire from Spanish cav.
airy on shore at Cabanas, So miles
west Of Havana, the New York sent ii
shells in the direction Of the Spaniards.
The enemy's fire was silenced after the
first shot from the New York. Whether
u Spaniards killed or wounded not
ascertained. Spanish bullets were not
observed to come anywhere in the
vicinity Of the flagship, which at once
returned to her station off Moro. The
Spaniards would never have been fired
upon had they not provoked the attack.
KEY WEST, Fla, May 2~.-Incoming
boats say that the firing by the flagship
New York was on Cabanas, a small fort
about ten miles west of Mariel. The
torpedo boats Porter and Ericsson We're
scouting close to the coast when a
small battery opened fire on them with
rapid fire guns. The torpedo boats
quickly withdrew and notified the flag.
ship. which was cruising slowly IN a
westerly direction. The New York
promptly returned the fire. sending in,
1t is said, about II shells from her + and
S.lnch guns. The batteries ashore made
no response. The firing was by no
means in the nature OF q bombardment.