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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-31
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The Ladies' Aid Society will give an
entertainment at Good Templars' hall
next Monday evening. Feb. 6. THE
District School at Bluebe-ry Corners
will be presented. A fencing bout be-
tween two Young ladies OF the Panel
Ii Club Of Augusta, readings and music
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-31

will COMPRISE the remainder of the en-
tertainment.
Mrs. Nancy Lee lost "A horse. last
week. He fell dead while they we're
driving him 10 water. q short distance
from the barn. tt-
EAST WINTHROP.
y S"H was born Jan. -. to the wife
of AHsCl Biann.
Mr.. and Mws. Edwin White Of
Presuuc Isl" visited at y. W. Buc het-
dcrs the pa st week
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-21
Nine. EUans-BuyrrW
Resumes Acttpe Work

There will be many of the older TfvolH
goers, as well many other friends of
Nine. Tellula Evans-BurriI, that will be
glad to hear that the singer is again
among us. and after the years rest in
which she has INDUCED now is entering
upon active work again. As Tellula
Evans Nine Eyans-Burrill had a large
following here. and will be remembered
in repertoire that includes almost all the
chief soprano roles in the best of both old
and new comic operas, besides Aida
mariana" Fra DiavoIo," and others
man, had a very successful London expe-
rience and two years in European thea
tiers with hattering results. She is now
singing IN church and is otherwise pre-
pairing to enter upon active work, both as
Singed am teacher.
Mime. Esvans-Burrill had an interesting
experience recently with Rider Haggard,
whom she had the curious privilege of in
forming that his novel She" had been
made into a grand opera here years ago
by William Furst and acted and sung at
the Tivoli. Mr.. Kaggard knew nothing OF
the matter and~was highly interested
The singer was the Ustane of the original
cast, which runs as follows: Ayesha,
Laura Clement; Ustane, Tellala Evans: !:
Delyesha Mamie Taylor; Hflyia. T. Stock
meyer; Leo, w. II. West; job. R. c.
White; Tim. Edwin Stevens; Holly, James
O. Barrows; Billali- M. Cornell; Ma
homed. H W. Frillman; Simboh, A. Mess
mer; Azef. Al K. Feeley; Abdalh, a
Fielding; Achmet, ]. Roberts; W. w
Furst musical director
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stance Of this he once told me story
that happened up in Catskill. He was
eating at the table when he heard a col
ored waiter giving a detailed account Of
the legend of Rip Van Winl1le-
Yes, sah,'' he continued. RIP went
up into de mountains, slep' tor twenty
years. and when he came back hyar in
dis berry town his own folks didn't know
him.
why" said the listener. lyon don't
believe the story is true?
True? Oh course it is and point
ing over TO Jefferson he tragically
whispered, "dat's de berry man
"a Courier Of Fortune" new roman
tie drama by Arthur w. Marchmont and
Ralph Stuart. was produced for the pur-
pose of British copyright. March 80. in
Bath, England at the Theater Royal.
Bath is beautiful and picturesque city.
and the theater is one of the oldest and
most celebrated in England. Its stage
traditions are intimately connected with
the famous period of the British drama
at the time when all that was fashion
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cumstances. necessary. 1t is, indeed. diff
fcut to maintain any longer that it was
a reckless adventure. True. Admiral
Rojestvenslky has been very materially
helped by the singularly elastic concep-
tion of neutrality which prevails at the
DUAL d'Orsay; but even when allowances
is made for the advantages he has en-
Joyed in this respect it must be admitted
that he has accomplished a great. in
deed an unexampled feat
We know little about the condition of
his fleet, but it is certain that it could not
have done what il has done unless it were
we'll disciplined and unless it were COM
manded by sailor of very exceptional
genius If Admiral Rojestvensxy can
fight as well as he can organize. then it IL
beyond question that Admiral Togo has
at last met his match The question
whether the enterprise was worth at
tempting Is really governed by its prac-
ticabinty.
The possibility that the feet may be de-
stroyed has nothing to do with IT Fleets
Ike armies, are made to fight and while
there Is a chance OF employing them sue
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-21
MANCHESTER AGAIN SUBJECT
OF BUSY GOSSEPs IN LONDON

LONDON, May 20.--Socfety has been
gossiping considerably over the an
nouncement from Detroit that the
Duke of Manchester may return to stay
in the United States and work up in
the railway business. The Duke, be-
fore his marriage, was never in society.
and after winning Helena of Cincinnati
and the slowly produced Zimmerman
dollars. made rather a failure when in
troduced with his bride inside the sacred
portals.
His mother. ConsueIo. Duchess OF
Manchester, did a great deal for the
young people Mr. Zimmerman. it ap-
pears. allowed hrs daughter a very ex-
cellent sum of money for herself and
her clothes, but when it came to deal
ing out large amounts to his ducal
son-in-Iaw for the upbuilding of hts
dwindled estates, he retired gracefully
to the rear.
Consuelo was very angry and half
out of downright spite she financed the
young couple to the extent of getting
both Tanderagee and Kimbolton castle
back into ducal use. She gave them
the use of her town house and flung
them at society in a way which only
a Duchess and une chere annie de lie
roi could possibly do
For a time all went we'll Society
is always glad to welcome Americans.
possess both chic and dollars in abund-
ance. But the Americans must really
have money to throw away and must
be well introduced ConsueIo was in
despair. She gave dinner parties, lit
tile dances and a ball. she got up
house party for the shooting at Tan
deragee and had a great list of big
people, including a royal highness, the
Duke of Connaught, but it was no use.
Society would have none of Helena of
Cincinnati and Helena in turn wanted
none of society Her ambitions were the
true German ones of being good house
wife and a good mother. The maternal
part OF her ambitions was soon fulfilled.
And later, when son and heir appeared.
ConsueIo secured Queen Alexandra for
godmotherd-
In the meantime Consuelo had appealed
to Mr.. Zimmerman when she got him
over here on visit to his daughter. She
read the riot act to him, and finally put
the estates in front of him purely as a
business matter. Mr. Zimmerman found
that his son-in-law had 5000 acres. three
castles, a country seat in Huntington
shire and a town house in Portman
square. He agreed to invest" a little
money in this property for his daughter
and her son. He agreed to give dollar
for dollar with Consuelo.
So, as this was absolutely the best he
would do the estates were bolstered I'D
with repairs and new cottages and a
dozen of other requirements and then
they were carefully let. An American
representative re OF Mr.. Zimmerman has
actual charge of the properties. though
nonninally the Dukes estate agent is sup
posed to be in charge. Some of the houses
have only very recently been let
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the Tivoli is able to give the musical
comedy there is every reason to ex-
pect it will find much favor. There is
plenty of real fun in the plot. good
lyrics. spirited ensembles and oppor-
tunities for picturesque setting and
costuming that will be fully taken ad..
vantage of.
Della Fox, the comic opera star, will
appear at the Orpheum this afternoon
in some of her old time successes in
Wang" and other operas. Emmett
Corrigan appears for the last times
this week in pocket edition of
"Jekyll and Hyde" and Charles Burke,
Grace La Rue and the Inky boys are
others of last weeks splendid bill to
the fore.
cleopatra Up to Date" keeps bub-
bling UP at the Chutes and is on with
its 200 children for four afternoons
and evenings this week.
Way Out West will be the bill at
the Grand Opera-house this week, with
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domesticity singing to Ysaye's accompa-
niment at the piano and what WAS her
husband sayingi
81 understand the violin.'' / caught,
"as Rubinstein understood the piano.
To make an impression the instrument
must be absolute servitor of you-you
must not serve the instrument" He
nodded over to madame. who, like a
wife accustomed to the ways of genius,
discreetiy disappeared.
THE Kubeliks?" l ventured slyly.
mo, no, say Ysaye protested. THAT
is what / call irreverently, bluff
Monsieur Ysayer'
..Barnurn business" he clinched it,
comically putting up his hand to silence
the telephone at the other end of the
room, Il mean this-a speciality of tech
niuue is not music To make an impress
sion of that kind is not art. not poetry
say it-Kubelik has no soul. The public
ah, the public is a child!-wiil hear a
Kubehk play something Of Paganini's
They say: How fine! How I should like
to hear him play a Beethoven concerto.
But that, mademoiselle. is most different
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-21
BRITISH NOW HAVE PRAISE
FOR ADMIRAL ROJESTvENSkY
Admire the Ability He Has shown i'm
Taking His Fleet From Baltic
to Pacific.

LONDON, May D.-An military records
have so far been broken by the present
war. No general in history ever dreamed
of battles on the scale Of those which
have been fought in Manchuria during
the past year. M. de Bloch, the famous
peace apostle, contemplated the magni-
tude cf these operations only to use the
prospect as an argument against the
possibility of war. He counted without
the infinite resources of the human mind.
The stupendous naval operations. Of
which we are now witnessing the dra-
matte unfolding. are similar to the land
operations, both in the unexampled scale
on which they are being carried out, and
in the dement, they offer to all the horo-
scopes of the military seers. The i'm
possibility of a feet like that of Admiral
Rojestvenslky being taken from the Bal
tic to the China seas in condition fit
to meet the japanese has been insisted
upon by scores of experts.
If this view has lately been modified
1t is only because the equally positive
opinion has taken its place that even If
the enterprise were possible it was so
foredcomed to failure that to attempt IL
were madness. On both these points the
world has been made to change its
mind. The enterprise is now seen to have
been not only possible. but, in the cir
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-21

The relation OF monarchs TO music, with
Queen Margherita OF Italy, Carmen Syl-
Va, the Emperor of Germany. the King
OF Belgium as Illustrations, the violin
repertoire. personality and Interpretation
the Chicago reporter and his attitude to
the musician. the Kubelik and the mu-
seal Viohn.sts, the public and music
why ! Ike to compose-lnese are the
things Hsaye talked Of last Sunday when
he gave nee the privilege of a chat
Twenty minutes, exactly, he gave me-
and wondered what under the fiddling
SUI would have gone undiscussed had 1
had the usual hour.
Why Z had not was interesting. It was
the managers fault to begin with He
had not arranged the hour with the big
man Ten O'Clock Sunday morning at the
St Francis ] had set and with a fatal
pUnctuality was there. YSaye was still
U5lbreakfasted when I arrived, though
engaged in getting himself fed with more
OF less expedition Win a plea for the
remainder OF his breakfast he sent down
also humble request that he might ar
ray himself IN reception rafDent, the
Steinoorn Orchestra was to be there at
IL to serenade him. Now I wouldn't in
tsrvsew a man before breakfast for ayrv-
thing. Also as It Was a man again 1
said yes" TO the other request And 1
Na4Ueo 1Nensy minutes, thirty minutes,
forty minutes. fifty minutes, and sixty
1 waited. * may be mkfnd TO tell I
have no statistics as 10 the time of dress
ing The results however, were splen-
didiy satisfactory as 1 saw on reaching
his room.
Il am afraid there is no time to talk
now, / began after the introduction
1t Is u O'Clock. your se-enaders are be-
ginning To arrive"
-FOw about this afternoon7'' the man
sEcr suggested
awkward for me- replied
This afternoon exclaimed Ysave
Sunday, and San grzncaScoi We did not
come 70 San Francisco to stay IN to-day
We want TO go TO the Cliff House. the
park, and the violinzst turned from his
heartless manager TO me for support.
Heartily I gave Il. and I suggested that
We Try what could be done while the ser
enaoers gathered themselves together
Had KNOWN my Ysaye I should have
had 10 fear of lack of material. He
plunged into the heart Of things iunme
dlately. The telephone rang unheesed
Srrhe fiddler filed his half yard of rneer-
schaUm without looking at it as he
talked. Nine. Ysaye's piquant. sparkling
face peeped in through the adjoining door
To get only an absorbed nod from her
lcro. The manager, returning to say that
the serenaders were ready. was brushed
aside ike a gnat until the discussion was
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-21

mnsscal. but herself she was most kind,
most charming. All her art was to
make YOU happy. It was with 1er as If
you were at home. Carmen Sylvia is
very musical also. She has now a
little American boy that she edu-
Gates He looked up puzzled for the
name.
''Fiorizel Reuter-" 1 supplied
Cest Reuter-" he said. TT is a
little comical perhaps, Ell? She com
poses Iibretto-is it?-for the boy
There is a sense, taste, gout, what you
call it? of advertisement about that :?
But 1 see you do not understand I
see by your face when you do not
understand My English. abr and
both the Yszye hands went up
l told him it was tremendously pic
turesque"-as st is in the original
He laughed over the picturesque"
and then asked him If he did not him
self compose -1fbretd' and things
so much as possible" Ysaye replied
frankly. Then he turned on his chair
he was sitting at the piano, and
showed me the penciIed score lying
upon the rack. II always compose I
compose when L traveI-this I wrote
on the car. 1t is a string quartet when
you can see it. The real pleasure of
musician is TO be musician I
WrILe, II may De Dad or S00d-bad 1t is,
but it is best to make something And
then the violin literature begins to be
poor. You have so little of great
works
Ten or twelve concertos,'' / began
Ten or twelve concertos," he agreed.
and catalogued:
There is your Beethoven, four or
five arts-but you cannot play two
on programme Mendelsso has
given us one Schubert nothing
Schumann one poor Fantasie, quite no
good. Haydn nothing. 1 play them all
this week but the Goldmark, Brahms
and haikowsky-in one week. TO
find a little riches you have to go far
away, Tartini, CoreHi, vitali But play
one of these, play all. Then to play
them, in a large hall with a large or
chestra, you make 1t nonsense And
then most of your CoreIli things are
for two vfolins"
1t was here that Mime Ysaye polzed her
charming head in at the door Brown
eyed, dark-haired rose and olive skinned,
a heart-bpeaking confection Of lace and
feathers on her head a dainty gown OF
champagne silk and shoed in tiny cham
pagne shoes, she was French from head
to heel They tell me that Nine. Ysaye
mothers a tail boy of II years, besides a
small tribe of other children. You NAV
believe it; couldn't 1t is easy to believe
that she sings. In the photographs she
was pictured among numerous phases Of
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-21
Offerings for Week
at Local THeaters

Tonight Chauncey Oicott will begin
the second week of his engagement at
the Columbia in "A Romance of Ath-
lone" an Irish drama by Augustus Pi-
tou, in which Mr. Olcott was formerly
very successful. The comedy has the
usual Olcott elements of love romance
and attractive Hibernianism. and the
popular comedian Will contribute
among others the following ballads:
"Olcott,s Lullaby" The Irish Swell
and my Wild Irish Rose" Mr.. Olcott's
voice Is at its sweetest and the audi
ences have been good and happy
The California will have a popular
attraction for this and some weeks in
the engagement of the fair and clever
Californian actress. Florence Roberts.
Miss Roberts begins her season to-
night with "The Unwelcome Mrs.
Hatch" in which she won much favor
a season ago at the Alcazar. She will
also repeat the great success of her last
engagement. Marta of the Lowlands. /"
Other plays will be The Country Girl
Peggy Thrift" "Gdoconda," La Tos-
ea," ..The Dolls House. Tess Of
the d'Urberviues," Camille" The Ad-
ventures of Lady Ursula" and "A Suit
of Sable Miss Roberts company in
cludes many well known players.
"a Fool and His Money" as PLAYED
by William Collier with signal success,
will be staged at the Alcazar this
week. The comedy affords excellent
opportunities to the most capable COM
pany the Alcazar now boasts and will
doubtless prove largely popular.
The Tivoli will have a new bill this
week with '-The Tenderfoot." first in
troduced here last season without any
particular furor. With the production
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cessfuily. no nation would refuse to face
the risk Of failure In the present case.
however. Russia's sporting chances are
enormous. If she be defeated her posi-
ton a whole is no worse than it was
last week while il she win she stands
to win practically everything Without
the command of the sea, Japan. with all
her legious and all her land victories.
must be helpless, and Russia viii be in a
position TO retrieve all her reverses. This,
being so, Russia has certainly acted with
wisdom in declining to make peace until
her great naval blow was struck. What
ever the result OF that blow. it will al
ways be ranked in naval history as an
achievement of wonderful audaeity, and
still more wonderful military skill.
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These things of Paganini are played by
| certain formulae Go to the Beethoven
genre and the mere technicians cannot
change the formula. They are lost They
cannot forget the technique. Easy or not,
they must make the things difficult
They cannot play simply" l put it.
Mon dieu, yesv' Ysaye was on his feet
now and playing an imaginary andante of
Beethoven's on an imaginary violin, with
all the tricks and ardor of a Sarasate
gypsy dance. 1T is that way; they no
longer know how to play simply
yet you must have the technique.
..And you must forget it." Ysaye put it.
He careened over to the chair again,
hugely subsided and then began to
chuckle over the following: "I have a
beautiful story. / was in Chicago in 94,
just after Caesar Thomson played there.
A man from one of the papers came to
interview me- He said nothing, l said
nothing"
Impossible I murmured
Ysaye disdained reply and went on:
'sThen to make conversation he begins to
ask me what | think of Caesar Thomson.
1 say how good he was, great, and the
man was so much surprised that | did
not bad speak. He asked me about Thom-
sons technique. Absolute l said. But
you also have great technique said the
man. Then took his arm very proudly, =
Ysaye's face was one unctuous ripple,
land told him that / was the only vio-
linist before the public that played with
out technique
But the manager, who had been await
ing audience for many minutes, said that
the violinist must prepare to meet his
serenade. Sir Henry Heyman was there
to help him, Madame Ysaye, De Befve,
the conductor, and together these went
down to the hall. William Teif' the or
chestra played for overture. and after it,
with a delightful little speech, the Be
gian Consul made madame happy with a
basket of red roses as radiant as her
self. Then NJ Ysaye shook hands mag
| nfficently with Mr.. Steindorff. greeted the
| orchestra and made himself tremendous
" comfortable all round, and the last
thing / saw was, apparently, the whole
hotel going in to lunch with Ysaye.
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Miss Organ will give an exhibition in
the early fall of her recent work.
L. p. Latimer starts in few days for
a sketfhing trip around Guerneville, TAX
ing his class with him-patient chap.
To the lovers of still life and that part
of the public that is hunter as well as
artist, / would commend that they visit
Schusslers, 119 Geary street, and see the
fine things in the line of ducks and dogs
done by r. La Barre Goodwin.
Mr. Goodwin has come to us with
big reputation. having sold to Senator
Stanford his Fox on the Door just
after the picture had been accepted at
the Corcoran gallery.
Not being connoisseur upon ducks
except the roasted variety, done twenty
minutes-I would commend the lover of
the out-of-doors to see these things for
himself
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The artists are at II again-knocking,
knocking, knocking
To be sure. the artistic temperament, .
that safe asylum for the vagaries of Gre
ative folk, permits much of criticism of
Others, but how about the egotism and
jealousy that defles it? Does artistic
temperament" excuse the elements Of di-
minuUve souls2
For time it seemed that generous
spirit was spreading its benignant wings
over the studios. but To- let stranger
OF two come among US. or a wanderer
stray home to his native heath. exhibit
his pictures and invite purchase. And
then the fats IN the fre-the knocsxer
brigade gets busy and reveals to the in
cipient purchaser just where the pictures
are wrong wrong-according to his
preconceived and utterly fnfallible and in
e1sputable notions. Such asxurnntion of
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ended. Completely absorbed. completely
concentrated upon the work of the mo-
ulent, he was. and apparently delighted
to talk of his instrument and music gen.
orally.
1t seemed almost comical to think OF
the tiny fiddle resting on that huge
shoulder, shyiy whispering under those
massive hands. For Ysaye is a great
man in every way. He stands by three
or four inches above the average male
and displaces considerably more space
from all sides. The short, wonanish
chin is curious in the conjunction, curl
ous particularly under the broad brow,
with its black, damp name flowing wetly
back like a uiton's- Still it is rather of
a polar bear-with all respect-that Ysaye
makes one think-huge, massive and
royal. He is a royal kind of person al
together, dominates wherever you place
him You think of him in the royal
term-perhaps il was that that made me
begin:
Il am not going to ask you what you
think OF Emperor Williams musical quail
ificationst'
Some Pittsburg person had, and sub
sequently eadlined the resultant story:
::'Xssye says German Emperor
fool,''
Nor and Ysaye smiled back. -ewen,
a. OCcou HUdl llllK Oh llQl
or what he thinks of me. But, of course.
/ never said that"
Does your own king care for
uaIlsdc2" l asked
No" Ysaye returned, me told me
himself that he did not care for it.
'ChacUn q son metier,' he said you to
your violin, me to this The queen on
the contrary takes much interest She
is always in the eonservatoire and gen
/. orally interests herself
DO you think that 1t has much effect
on the musical taste of the people, her
INTEREST,""
Taste? No" Ysaye shrugged his
big shoulders 1t is good for business
for acknowledgment l doubt if it has
any effect on the peoples taste. May
u"
I could not have resisted Mr.. Ysayes
smile here, but when / saw the great
meerschaum, to pipes what a Stradi-
varius is to vioIins, would simply not
on any account have foregone the
pleasure 1t tucked into the right cor
ner Of his mouth as if it had grown
there He had hooked before like a
hoHdaying burgomaster, in cheerful
gray vest and tie, and the picture was
now complete
He pufred away happily and began
to talk of Queen Margherita. "the old
queen of Italy, the most musical of an
Of them have been to many courts, y
he said; hers was not only the most
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-21
by LAURA BRIDE POWERS

The greatly admired Theodore Wores
exhibition at the Gump galleries will be
continued during the week. after which
the few unsoid canvases will be shown
at the artists studio in the Pheian build
ing, room 313.
These high-color Samoan scenes have
lured lot of picture lovers to the new
galleries on Geary street, where, by the
way, California artists viii be given an
opportunity to show what they can do
This opening of new galleries to Cali
fornia artists shows an awakening to
their capabilities by local dealers.
Lille V. O'Ryan. the distinguished
miniaturist and portrait painter, has
been enjoying \ short vacation after
an arduous winter, but is back in her
studio at 424 Pine street, at work upon
life study in oils that promises to
confirm the reputation she won In New
York as a portrait painter