New-York tribune., 1902-02-08
THE PASSING TARONG

Lord Thurlow. of England. is at the Waldorf
Astoria He has been spending the last year in
California in the interest OF Eng
TO OPEN lfsh investors. investigating the
A NEW best ;airoad route from Eureka
COUNTRY. TO Redding, and thence on to join
the Northern Pacific This road.
he announces will soon be built The capital will
be furnished, half by English and half by Ameri-
can investors. roughly speaking. Naturally" he
route consistent with the easiest grades and the
Igas6 eTPenSiye & engln9eTing works with opening
mineral belts. Several routes We're proposed. and
been selected. 1t is impossible TO disclose II at
locate and p9tent mineral rEhts along the line as
the land will at once 60 up Ave times in value.
The rush into Oklahoma will be but joke COM
power. for it can negotiate steeper grades and
hence make the road shorter by half. but stand
constructed forthwith; The country is rich in min
ON Re sea ea beach is go ay m he found so
and climate are equally good. The timber you
land and you may then sell at an enormous profit
With salmon, deer: rich soil redwood timber and
adse waiting its Adam and Eve"
turned from Europe, where he attended the August
festival at Bayreuth After read
THINKS ing of the agitation for an exten-
AMERICA sion of the "Parsifar' copyright.
NO PLACE led by Charles Dowdeswell. Of this
FOR THE city. he said at the Murray Hill
'PARSIFAL." Hotel: "'ParsfaT must never
leave Bayreuth. II must never
come to place where applause is permitted and
boxholders are double loaded in the programme. 1t
is simply the Lords Supper set to music. and de-
mands prepared audience. The Bayreuth com
munity is the most highly specialized in the world
The audiences there for the sake of the music
alone. The singers never star The emphasis or
the lmelight is not permitted. Each singer con-
tributes to the total effect and much attention
is paid the orchestral prelude as thrice
about the modern drama and it's system of starring
Is never true, that the part is greater than the
out between the acts, and the curtain waits aver
age hour in length while the whole audience ad-
from the opera house. All the tables are grouped
about great central table, where sit all the Was
tyranny Bayreuth and all Bavaria is absolute
a woman with eagle profile; the two daughters
of the master. and Siegfried about whom discus
sion RACES through all Germany as to whether or
not his wardrobe includes the mantle of Richard
Another word from Cuba still further emphasiz-
ing the deplorable condition of the island.
spoken at the Hoten Gritfou last
DEPICTS night by Charles NJ Robinson. who
CUBA'S has just returned from Havana.
PLIGHT Take as an example the railroad
from Havana 10 Cfenfuegos,
which travelled" he said. "A rail a good rail
long as II will keep the train it, no matter how
badly it is or iattened at the joints broken
down at switches Much that is nothing but scrap
Where new rails to come from? revival OF
industry and export trade to the United States
money into the treasury of the railroad The
United States Government should do something at
once 10 better the condition of the island com
mercialy II all of its railroads are not 10 become
scrap iron