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CAUSED NO STIR.
Arrival of Senatorial Committee IN
Havana a Frost

1NVNilN a NfO8t.
HAVANA, March 19.-The arrival Of
the senatorial committee who will in
guire into the needs of Cuba has caused
out little local comment, the afternoon
papers today barely aliuding TO their pres
ence. Senators Platt, Aldrich and Teller
landed this morning from the United
States dispatch boat Dolphin and had a
long interview with Gov. Gen. Wood.
subsequently they met the members of
the cabinet.
After lunching with Cen Wood, they
drove around the city and then dined
on board the Dolphin. Tomorrow thew
will visit the province Of Pnal del Rio
to view the tobacco region. AS Vet thew
have formed no other definite plans. They
have declined numerous invitations of a
social character on the ground that thei.
trip is not one for pleasure.
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FINAL WARNING.
Prohibited tobacco Articles VIII BE
Seized After April 20.

WASHINGTON. March 19.-The collect
or of internal revenue has notified all col
lectors of internal revenue that the pro-
visions IF section 10 of the tariff act pro-
hibiting the placing of any article than
the manufacturers labels or shippers on
packages Of smoking, chewing or flne-
cut tobacco or cigarettes must be observ-
ed, and all packages of tobacco of this
kind containing the prohibited articles
will be seized and all stamps Cancelled
after April 20 next. This date is an ex-
tension of time.
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THE UVE STOCK MARKETS
FAIR HOG RECEIPTS. WITH PRICES
WEAK TO SHADE
LOWER
GOOD CATTLE SELL STEADY
Offerings Were Largely Light stock
Stuff That Sold Readily
Sheep and Lambs Sell
Steady.

SOUTH ST. PAUL. March 19.-The re-
ce1pts at the Union stock yards today les
timateO were: Cattle. $50; calves, $50;
hogs, 300; sheep 100; horses. 800: cars, 80.
The official receipts Saturday were: Cat
tie, 70; calves, 8: hogs. lob; sheep. IS;
horses, 200; cars, 27.
The following table shows the roads
over which Saturdays receipts came In
and the number of loads hauled by each:
Cattle Hogs. Sheep. Mixed.
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The receipts thus far In 1900, compared
With the same period in 1899, are as fol-
*I4oss.
HOGS.

Comparative receipts:
Total for today (estimated) .......... 900
week ago ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 7S0
n Sell et5O 4Jl
Quotations: Mixed and butchers, 81 925b
Q4.9l12; light. $49O@4.G5; rough heavy $500
Q4;SO; stays and boars, $204.25; pigs and
sllips, $4@4.25.
Receipts We're almost double the CORE
spending day a year ago The market
opened steady at Saturdays prices, but
closed weak Mixed and butchers sold at
$49213@49713, and light at $49OQ495. Rep
reSentatiVe sales:
md T01,to
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.*Ex-dividend, American Steel and Wire.
~ per cent; American Steel and Wire
preferred, ~
Total sales. 491. 70i
MINNEAPOLIS MONEY-Minneapol
March 19.-New York exchange Monday:
Buying rate par, selling rate soc premi-
I'm; Chicago exchange. buying rate Csc
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GOVERNMENT SEED CONTRACT.
Award Is Made 30 the New York
Bidders.

WASHINGTON. March 19-secretary
Wilson today awarded the contract for
supplying the United States department
Of agriculture with garden, field and flow
er seed for the year 1901 to the New York
Market Gardeners association, of New
York, at their bid Of $66,S71, The otfer
bidders were the Ullathorne Seed COM
pany, Of Memphis. Tenn, SGT, 500; Chasles
Parker Santa Clara, Cal, SIS 600; the
Henry Phillips Seed and Implement COM
pany, TOI. do, o.. $T,696; J. M Tho. burn
& Co., New York, $9409S. and Oscar H.
VIII 81 Co, Bismarck, N. D, $13l,504 The
bid of the claiborne company was with
drawn and the contract was made to the
lowest bidder The total number of pack
ages required is 1886, 96S. Of this number
lS,9S6O 600 are vegetable seeds, $50, 400 ieid
and lawn grass seeds, and 10O0,56 flower
Seeds
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ers. "a. 1905, Is; good to choice heavy, s.. 05
g5:!5; rough heavy. $4,000: light, 81 $50
OWE; bulk Of sales $5Q5.075a. Sheep-Re-
celpts, IS,GGO; steady to a shade lower:
lambs l9Q15c lower; good to choice weth-
ers. 50. 69Qy5.S 80; fair TO choice mixed. s. %
GO 70; Western sheep. $5.356g5 90; yearlings
S5.9OqG.5G; native lambs, $55OG5f5; Vest
ern lambs, S64715
SIOUX CITY. To-. March 19.-Cattle-
Receipts, 2,100; Saturday. 1876; shipments,
l9S; market active. strong. Sales: 2
COWS, aV 500, 81 .15; 20 COWS, av l,12O. 81. 80:
stock hcifers, av SIT. $3.50; % stock
heiters, av 1858. 81 .l5; bulls av 1920, So:
z bulls, av 1,235, So. Is; 2 bulls, av go So IS:
~ stockers and feeders. av 800. 81: Is
st0ckers and feeders, av 757, $50; &c
calves, ay S2S. 81; 80; Il calves. ,av 3O5. LIS;
yearllngs. ay GS6. 81; % yearlngs av sos.
1889; shipments, 1875: market opened
steady. closed weak, selling 81. S56I4 .95:
bulk of sales, $4.S5@4.90
SOUTH OMAHA, March 19-Cattle-Re-
ceipts, 200; steady; native steers, S4a
80: cows and heifers, s.. 250425; stockers
and feeders, $375GG5. Hogs-Receipts, s.
400; market sc lower; heavy. $4.9Ol54 IS:
mixed, $4.S712Q4S0; light, S4S0d4SO; pigs,
S4qt4 SIS; bulk of sales, $3.50. Sheep--Re-
ceipts, S,4G0; market stronger; muttons.
S5.4GlG5.80; lambs. $6Q7
KANSAS CITY, March 19-Cattle-Re-
ceipts. $500; steady to strong; native
steers, S3Q4.75; Texas steers. $3.5OG4. so:
COWS and heifers. $2ll4.25; stociers and
feeders, sS50Gl5.25. Hogs-Receipts, 1900
steady; shade higher; bulk of sales.
$4.S5W4S 1A. Sheep-Receipts, 1000: strong
lambs, $5.60Q7; muttons. Si96.
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Other Grains-No. corn, IL; No. corn,
4; No. oats, 7; no grade oats, L; No. 2
1 flax. s; rejected flax, |; no grade fax, /.
Cars Inspected Out-Wheat-No. 1 hard.
I; No. l northern. 55; No northern. &c;
No. s. T. rejected, 4: No. 3 corn, /; No. 3
oats. 6; No, rye, 5; No. / barley, 1: No.
l a1lx, 2; rejected flax, 3.
Receipts-Wheat SOS cars, 551, 42O bu;
corn, 3071O bu: oats, $3.50 bu; barley, $500
bu: rye, 1920 bu fax, 1890 bu; -four. $50
bbls; millstuffs, 81 tons; hay. 80 tons.
Shipments-Wheat, 43 cars, IS $50 blu; corn.
!; oats, $3.50 bu; barley. $3.50 bu; rye.
900 blu; fax u $50 bu; flour, So 285 bbIs
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For Omaha, Denver and CRIifornig
There Is no line equal to the Minneapo
lis & St. Louis. the New Short Line t.
Omaha. Time only u hours and IS min
utes Leave St Paul q. m. and p. m
Superb equipment. Parlor cars, coaches
Palace Sleepers and Buffet Library cars
Depot, Broadway and Fourth streets
Ticket Ofice. No 396 Robert street
phona Col
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c. P. WILL FIGHT.
Is Determined to Resist the Anti
Commission Rule

CLEVELAND, o., March 19-In tho Of
flee of the Canadian Pacific railway at
Toronto. it is an open secret that that
road will make fight on the antI-com-
mission agreement. The road is In po-
sition to make it interesting with It's i'm
mense rolling stock, and its gateways IN
Cleveland. st. Paul and Buffalo. The In
tention of the company has caused a
great deal of discussion.
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MIR. sUL2ER INsEsTENT.
He Wants to Know What Great
Britain Is Doing.

Britain Is Doing.
WASHINGTON. March 19-Rcpresen-
tative Sulzer, New York, today renewed
his efforts before the house committee on
military affairs to secure action on his
resolution calling for information from
the war department as to whether Great
Britain was erecting Notifications along
the northern boundary of the United
States The resolution went over to Sc.
cure information as to whether the de.
sired information could properly be furn-
ished by the executive officers
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U; 3. rs. reg. .l0dhN. J; g: gen. 6s. l2s
40 So reg....1!O IN. G. IS ........12T
90 Ss, coup. ITO IN. G. 4s........ .106
no new As, reg .134A N. p. gen. Ss... 66k
do new 4s coup134%T do prior As 1851
do old As, reg 115 IN.YC & 81 4s1O8
do old Is. coup116 N g. w. con. As. 69%
90 os, reg. .1l4R do gen. Is. 1873
90 Ss; coup. -.114h Or. Nav. lists. .108
~: OF =. 8 los. .lI9 do as ......... .102H
Atch. gen. As. .101MO. s. L. Is 129
do aft. 4s...... 63Mf do con. 5s.....113
Can So. DDS. 1861 Reading Gen As 85H
Z. q .. 419s..... STIR. G. w. lists. 100
90 5S ......... .119A H5t.L. e. I'M c5s112
=. & n Con. 7s.14 Bt.L. & ST. &. 6s120
90 :. f. d: 5s.1N St. Paul Con-. 1863
Chi. Term. 4s 94lh St C. g. P.1sts1i9lh
-. & r. G. lists 1857 do 5s 1868
e, 90 no As 9818 SO. Ry. 5s..... .110ss
Ely 81 G.1sts102 IS r. & 7. 6s.. Is
fSrle Gen As. ). 72AITenn n. S. 3s.. IS
w q DC:lst. 70 r.. & P lists. .1141k
G., II. & S.,A 6s1OS IJ. p. 4s...106
do A DDS 49, lO8 WABASH lists III
III. q /. Z. So. .110h do Eds ......... 80
10 con. 6s.. Ito wv. 8. 49,. iii
Iowa Cent. lists ia Wis. Cent. lists 81
K.C.,P. e G.1sts HIVa. Centuries 90
L. & N. uni. as. 98% do deferred g
M, K. & It. Eds 65% Co! So 4s..... 83n
\, 90 Is ..:....... $3.50. Pac. As. 49,. 834
-. / =. 1Sts.. LILO lSo. Pac. 4s...... S3A
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discount. selling rate 25c premium: Lon
don, 60-day sterling. $4S2
BONDS
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NEW YORK MINING sHARRs


WALL STREET GOSSIP-New York
STOCK gossip, reported by II. Hoibert &.
son, bankers and brokers, 341 Robert
S,7t. National German-American Bank
building 1oti,o n.y. 81; Paul-Strong, Sturgis & Co.
wire US: we have to report a rather
irregular market. Strong as to the better
class OF railroads, but uncertain on some
OF the industrials and fractions We can
not out think that some good effect must
come from the refunding Of the United
states loan so far as the market is con-
cerned for good bonds and investment
stocks. Much of the heavy expansion Of
bank loans during the last month has
been due to this, and the loss of reserve
may be assigned in part also to the
changes In the investment market When
TINS disturbing element has worked out
us influence money should grow more
easy and change should be IN order
we look during April for an increased in
Vestment demand, but not for much spec
ulatlve strength. Baltimore s. Ohio pre-
ferred, Atchison preferred and that class
or STOCK will go higher during the spring.
but we feel that so many comDlications
may arise during the presidential excite
ment, caused by labor and social questions,
that a general bull market is doubtful
We presume that Third Avenue shares
Will be football for some time to come.
Yet we hesitate to express an opinion.
1t Is suggested by the fluctuations Of the
last hour that the Metropolitan company
may acquire the Third Avenue company"
Following furnished by Edwards & Be
dell, ITO Endicott Arcade, St Paul, MINI. {:
The market will probably start up
actively and prices will show a material
appreciation before the end of the week.
There will be just sufficient reactions to
encourage the bears to continue to sell
it short. The general list is a purchase.
This is the time to buy for a very sub
stantial advance. The general industri-
ais, as well as the railroad list, will have
q big rise
FOREIGN FINANCIAL-New York
March 19.-The Commercial Advertisers
London financial cablegram says: The
markets here were brisker and good in
tone on the crumbling of the opposition
In the Free State. Consols were up 70
on the war loan premium. Americans
strong, but quiet, till in the street, when
they spurted on New York buying of B.
& O.. and Atchison pfd. Coppers were
good"
TREASURY sTATEMENT-was hing-
ton, March 19.-Today's statement of the
treasury balance in the general fund, ex-
elusive OF the 100000 coo gold in the di-
vision of redemption, shows: Available
cash balance $158 446, 729; gold. S97, 099 1884.
NEW YORK MONEY-New York,
March 19-Money on call firm at 415 per
cent; last loan 4. Prime mercantile pa
per 5q63@ per cent. Sterling exchange
steady, with actual business in bankers
bills at 81 .S55s for demand. and at "a 50
for sixty days; posted rates, 81 8313@4. 81;
commercial bills, $4.S7GI4. S7%. Silver GER
tificates, 60A@61Xc. Bar silver, Coo Mex
lean dollars, 47%c.
BANK CLEARINGS.
st. Paul, S67G, 1929
Minneapolis, 81 .53OS 7i
Chicago, $21.871. 1870
Boston, 81, 95S, 90S
New York, $102, 690.S55.
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W. M. CAMPBELL
COMMISSION COMPANY
Live Stock Commission Merchants.
Union Stock Yards,
SOUTH ST. PAUL.

ConEignments and correspondents So
hcited. Market reports furnished on APP
plication.
We do strictly commission business
NO live stock bought or sold on our own
account.
References-Stock Yards bank, South
81 Paul; Security bank, Zumbrota: Hon.
A. T. Koerner, state treasurer, Capitol
building, st. Paul; A. c. Anderson, cash
Ter gt. Paul National bank. ST. Paul.
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Totals

The receipts thus far In March, COM
pared with the same prlod In March. 1899,
are as follows:
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No hard, cars, &C.
No. 1 hard, cars, 671hc.
No. l northern, II cars, 66hc
No. l northern, SO cars, SIC. ,>.--
No. l northern, Is cars, 66Ac.
No. northern, 5 cars, 652lc
No. ] northern, 600 bu, to arrive 66Mc
No. i northern, eco bu, to arrive, CSC.
no. 1 northern, 5000 blu, to arrive, 66Ac.
No. 1 northern, 1000 bu, to arrive, sc.
No. 1 northern, 2 cars, to arrive, 66Hc.
No. l northern, cars, to arrive, 6S34c.
No. 2 northern, 16 cars, csc.
No. northern, II cars, 645sc
No. northern, IA cars, 65Ac
No. 2 northern, so cars, 641%c.
no. northern, 2 cars, SIC.
No. 2 northern, ! car, G434c.
No. 2 northern, cars 64Ac.
STATE GRAIN INSPECTION.
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iirlned up to 661s@66Ac. declined to $3.50
by 11:40, and at noon held at 65bc
May wheat closed at 64AQ649ac, and
July at 651Ic per bu.
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sheep, So .256D4; feeders, s.. 1904; fat lambs,
Sc .5OG97; yearlings. S.. 25GD5. rs; stock and
feeding lambs, So. 5016 80 buck lambs, 500
$50; bucks, 81. 50614
Receipts were light. with a fair demand
and prices steady at the advance Of
ferings were only fat sheep.
REPRESENTATIVE sales:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09
SHOES FROM LEATHER sCBAps.

Next winter you'll be wearing shoes with soles
made from leather scraps" said the manager of
a Massachusetts shoe factory who spent last week
at an uptown hotel mo. they won't be pieced
together il that's what you mean by asking IL
such soles won't be rough looking. The leather
will be made much after the process that turns
wood pulp into paper. only the pulp will be made
from leather Some genius has invented ma
chinery which Will take a pulp made of leather
scraps, press and mould it into a solid mass and
run 1t out at the other end a continuous strip Of
shoe sole You Will soon be able buy sole leather
by the yard and at a price that will make going
barefoot positive crime
Sole leather has been costing us from Is IN 20
cents a pound for years There is q great deal o.
waste, and practically no for the scraps A
small quantity is used in making dyes and the
manufacturers of casehaTdened steel find use for
little more but the bulk OF IL is thrown away
This new process will use all the scraps which can
DC secured and viii bring the price Of sole leather
down to cents a pound. The leather manufact-
ured in this way will have no plies and for that
reason will turn water better. II should make n
shoes"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09
STREET F4KIRs HAVE NOVELTIES.

II wish II was this time last year, said the street
fakir who has been selling wOolly white rabbits
with a rubber tube attachment which makes them
jump.
II don't see that you've got any cause % con-
plain" said the man who carried a tray OF ne
chanica mice Your rabbits sell twice good as
these bloomin' mice. People don't want mice even
at cent
But just think OF the money made last Sep
TENDER and October. II makes me sick 10 think
of how We Will probably never have another Ad-
miral who Will come home as Dig a hero a Dewey
Then the yacht races came at the same time
Across the Sea badges, They were a mint. l lad
a friend who sold the Dewey whistle and made
regular steamboat siren. After Dewey passed along
had that long run on the Shamrock and the
Columbia novelties You remember the wind was
I'm Irish, and made stake selling Shamrock
badges because could throw little brOgue into
@Of course street trade in New-York will always
be good There is not a better place IN the COua-
getting faxed but they rather like IT, and the worse
the fake the better they Ike IL. I'm not going 70
try 10 sell campaign buttons this year New-I0rk
people are not going 20 get very excited over TINS
election and most people are tired OF wearing but
OF course, there Will be lots OF them sold tut
there Is not the money IN II there used 20 BE-
The best thing that's been out lately IS the
whisJling pig. the bladder affair that is shriekng
YOU from every corner There has been more
month. People buy them for their children and
are sorry for II until the things are blown up TOO
start whole block saying things that wouldn't
look we'll IN print, and when hundred boys have
noise is awful The fall is going 10 see rush Tor
pneumatic animals The rabbits are going Ike
wiidfre. and there viii be other sorts our soon
YOU'D better take a rabbit home 20 the BABY,
madam he said. turning 10 a prospective Gus
toner IneN are harmless perfectly harmless
and Will keep the little ones quiet for hours"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09
NEW COMPRESSED AIR CARS.
SYSTEM TRIED SUCCESSFULLY IN CHICAGO
TO BE USED IN THIS CITY.

Chicago's record Cor wind and hot air is about to
receive another testimonial. this time from the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company, Of this city.
The style CT compressed air motors tried success
fully in the Windy City. being substituted for
those in use in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty
ninth SITS. crosstown lines. New cars have been
fitted out and in for more han a week
About three years ago the Metropolitan company
decided 10 try compressed air adopted the sys-
TEN OF the Compressed Air Power Company. The
Hoadley motors were introduced The Third Ave
1afroad Company began using the Hardy
motor. made by the General Compressed Air Com
pany, its One-hundred-and-twe nty -ffth-st line
The result more satisfactory and the Met
rOpOitan company effected consolidation of the
interests Of the two air companies, forming the
American Air Power Company
In the mean time Robert Hardy, the inventor,
had gone 10 Chicago in the interests Of the Com
pressed Air Motor Company, and a :system OF com
pLesSeo ar cars was esta 9Shed The motors gave
TO use the Chicago system in New-York. AS a re-
organized from the American Air Power Company
and the Compressed Air Motor Company.
In the system to be used mere the cars Will
carry fourteen reservoirs the truck and one I'M
der each seat, having aggregate capacity of
air passes from the reservoirs into a common
header. and from the header into pipe running to
troll Of the motorman regulates the flow of air
Inc air passes through reducing valve and comes
out al a working pressure OF 80 pounds II then
passes into the reheating tank, which is placed In
the middle OF the truck and contains 800 bounds OF
hot water, varying in temperature from 22O to nc
degrees The air passes into the bottom OF this
forated pipe The air Is heated to the psI
q the water, ana is then drawn off az the ton
valve Of the motor and thence 70 the t valve r cbes
OF the engine IN the same way steam in a
steam engine The cars fitted with air brakes
The Comprising station at West twenty
81 snc the e., a0oSon Alyef which was built for
has capacity Of So 725 cubic feet of free air pc,
square inch ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09
May the gentle rain from heaven
Freshen thee, my precious flower;
To thee happiness be given,
Grace and love in all their power.
New Years sun the sky suffuses
While this off'ring bring my muses.
Ian 1890

One of the much mooted questions concerning
Da Ponte that of his origin Lorenzo Da Ponte
was an assumed name. The real name of him who
made il celebrated is unknown. He was the son
of a Hebrew leather dealer in Ceneda a small town
OF the Venetian republic Until his fourteenth
he brought up a Jew, but having attracted
the attention of the Roman Catholic bishop of
Ceneda Lorenzo Da Ponte, by his precocious tai
ents, the latter gave him education and his
name" Thus wrote The Tribune in 1887, and i'm
mediately there outcry in Europe against
the statement that the poet was a Jew. There was
no mention Of the fact in his 'Memorie." and he
was styled an able. The Tribune accepted the
evidence of Michael Kelly 0he Irish singer. who
sang at the first performance of lie Nozze di FL
CARO- in Prague, and caricatured Da Ponte in one
of his own operas in Vienna) and Henry T. Tuck
erman who knew the old poet and wrote highly
appreciative account Of him In 'Putnams Maya
zine, for November 1865 Professor Marchesan's
first paragraph confirms the report. His father
was Jew named jeremiah Conegliano, his mother
a Jewess named Rachel Pincherle. His real name
was Emanuel Conegliano. and he had two broth
ers Baruch and Ananias. On August 20 1863 (the
noet having been born in 174S), the entire family
received Christian baptism and adopted the name
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

of Da Ponte. the father becoming Gasparo Da
Ponte. Emanuel Lorenzo Baruch Girolamo and
Ananias Luigi Professor Marchesan reproduces
the record from the register of the Cathedral of
Ceneda.
Again have news OF Boito's Nero" the COM
pletion of which announced at least fifteen
years ago It is said that the opera will be
performed at Milan in the coming season 1t is In
four acts and Boito. usual his librettist
has followed Suetonius in his story Unlike Rubin
STEM Boito makes of the dramatic death
of the Roman Emperor. but permits him TO
fall lifeless to the ground while fleeing from Rome
in flames. There four acts. The first act plays
in the house of the magician Simon. who after an
incarnation scene attempts fly. but falls to his
death. and Neros imperial mantle Is daubed with
his blood-an evil omen. The other three acts play
in the camp at Anzio, from which the spectacle OF
burning Rome is visible. Poppea. the wife whom
Nero killed with kick. does appear IN the opera
the principal female characters being the vestal
virgin Rubia and hetara. The book is said 10 be
4 masterpiece, and musicians who have seen the
score say that the opera is much superior TO
'Mefstohle." At the first performance Boito Is
to conduct the work. Tamagno is to take the part
OF Nero and the barytone Giraldoni that OF Simon.
Great care is TO be bestowed upon historical ac-
curacy in the stage furnishings and Tamagno will
take the famous portrait bust OF Nero In the
Captone Museum for his model. 1t is said that
IT was Verdi who succeeded In persuading the COM
poser to give the opera to the public. Boito has
had at least seven predecessors as the composer
of opera the subject OF Nero Handel pro-
duced German Nero at Hamburg In 1908; an
Italian, Pallavicino. brought out n 'Nerone" In
Venice In 1879. Orlandini one In the same city In
1921, Duni In Rome in $780, Perti one In Bo-
logna in 1898. Rubnstein a German Nero, (the
text originally French by Jules Barbier) at Ham,