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they have an exclusive claim, The houses
built for the production Of grand opera In
the past have not taken into account any
but this one patronage.
THAT is why. little by little, those who
have had their fingers on the pulse Of pnb-
lie feeling have noticed a gradual decline
in its popularity. believe that the opera
houses Of the future,will not be mere arohi-
tectural abortions; they will have less show
and more merit. In them a consideration
for the clientele Of the common people will
be manifested.
1t is the belief Of mine that ell classes
should receive an equal amount OF consid-
Grafton that has been one Of the elements OF
my success. | am devoted TO the interests
Of every one who Is connected with me even
in the lowest capacity. and in return get
their devotion. The one condition is a sure
result Of the other
Since the night that the Manhattan
Opera House was first thrown open TO the
public | have never witnessed perform
ance either from the auditorium or box.
II YOU should want 20 find me any time
YOU won't find me there but in back, In the
rush Of things, among my people-if you
like 10 call them my people. l think that
is the place for a director il he wants TO
keep in touch with the working order OF
things
Il have never missed performance
there. but fatter myself perhaps unduly,
that am not obtrIsye. do not 60 about
speaking loudly I do not try in an ofen-
sive manner to pump my ideas into any
body else's heal.
II YOU have ever tried 10 do that you
will agree with the that it il an undertaking
only to be approached after fasting and
prryer not rtrcnuousy, have exerted a
greet influence, but it has been subtle one.
+ The mrn who carries a piece OF scenery
from one part Of the stage 10 the other, the
/ chorus Cirl. the conductor. all and each
have triei, by the quiet force Of example,
10 make feel the spirit OF the performance
/ And have succeeded. The nights we
! have given The Cobbler and the Fairy,
/ that old fashioned rolicking comedy every
body has been in hilarious frame OF mind
Jokes and laughter are plentiful, Ocoa-
sionally you will hear a whistle from one OF
the workmen The stage manager is In a
good humor; so is the chorus
This has a direct relation TO the stage
performance. Everybody entering 30 heart
ily into the spirit Of it gives it 90, without
which the entire performance might be a
fat failure. lacking just that indescrbsbl,
sparkle that makes for a successful produc
tion,
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mortgage that is, an hope you'll new
have one.
well, your farm has done pretty v.
: by you, says !.
Farm nothing says he. splitting col
temDtuouslv over the dashboard aud ran
ming the paper down in his pocket. Far
nothing. paid that mortgage with blac
walnut
Why, says /. 1 didn't know there vi
any timber to speak oton your place
They hain't says he Iwisht they va
II II was all black walnut I'd own Bergs
county 10y this time
Nope. TWAS piece o. luck. the VA
an Il only shows how easy il is "a make
success il mans only got gump enough
take "A holt Of chanst when it's put rgf
under his nose. built a little chlcae
house out there, and had to buy plrl mel
lumber for il.
We'll when went into the lumber ott
10 pay up, | heard tho clerk talkiu' 10 h
boss over the telephone, The old ma
was sick an the young feller was tcIlIn hl
what was in the mail.
-EHere's a letter from So-and-So' say
he, 'and they want to know about hAc
walnut. Nhat?, No. they want 70 hll
They want black walnut trees .tanim
anil pay any kind Of fair price Tor a
and do the cuttin' themselves, proyiiet u
trees Is big enough to saw up gooi.
That was enough for me ! paid %
bill an got out. Iput up my hoss in san
sons stable an took the fust tu,n ] col
catch for the city just as was hunts
up that lumber firm over on the West SI1'
an 80 inferred in an says =,
Is they any market for black walnut
guess so, the Teller says.
kin git you all you want mos'9'
says but you'll have 10 cut H..
SIS We want 10 out it. y SAYS he.
Before ] quit I'd signed an agresme
70 give them first chance on all the WalI'
! could find, an the figure suite ne !.
l knew where there was a lot Of oI1 ue'
seattered around tine country.
Next day | hitched up ar siaTe
Sell emf or course, all the farmers
sell EN-, and glad to git the money, 4
had to do was 10 pay down . 1o.lAi
bind the bargain and git a bill OF SAFE a1
then spend two cents now and than Il"
stamp. u
Il tell you kept 'em busy, an ] a'ol
care whether | got my corn an ro'a'.
IN or not. The boys can look dN'r
farm now, I've got better h'-- al
/ little spare money, an I'm goin, pr's1e,...,
Ter black walnut. BY the time 81 lhro44'
| they won't be a walnut tree leii Na'u'
this side Of the Great Lakes Odan'
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vi a ~ /.
'0n the contrary, when 'Polless and Nell
sande' has been given the atmosphere OF the
wings is entirely changed, There is feel
ing Of sadness, Of gloom. People 60 about
without speaking TO each other, sadly
quietly. Sombrely.
There 10 never a laugh heard even from
Miss Garden, who laughs easily. Every
body is In dead earnest. Everybody 10
absorbed by the tragedy Of thousand
details and by the tragedy Of the climax OF
those details.
i do not want 20 assume 10 myself the
responsibility Of producing that atmosphere
but my presence there in back, always In
harmony nth the scene 10 he depicted,
oertainly has its direct result on the tempera-
ments Of the singers. That is what II means
70 be leader. That is why aman becomes
a director. because he has that Inherent
power within him 10 impress his thought on
others, He is a keynote
Il try always 10 make everybody feel that
he or she Is directly responsible for the
success Of the undertaking. ] do not de-
tract from anybody's work, nor do et-
tempt 10 seize all the laurel wreaths that are
waiting 10 be claimed. / am not waiting
poIsed ON one toe for some one 10 call me
out in front Of the footlights,
'OnIy whom an exceptional circumstance
warrants IL do / answer the kindly applause
that shows my efforts are appreciated
make my public Acknowledgements when n
new opera has been produced, when star
has appeared for the first time.
4 want the other people TO have the credit
for their work They deservelt The CON
duotor Of the orchsstra, the stage manager,
need all the encouragement that they can
get. After one Of the operas this winter
made the chorus master 20 out and bow
A great deal Of the success Of the work
was due 10 him. .,. r "a,
Make others smile and you will smile
yourself. Remember that 60. 20.
'When heard 'Pelleas and .Melisaude
the first time In Paris 1 said, 70 myself. at
the end Of the second act There is nothing
In this 10 bother about. am glad 10 have
seen II because the matter is settled. II is
mere music, without melody. that ii all,
Then with my mind perfectly at rest sat
back and listened TO the third act and the
| fourth. ..r. -
'Then l vas not 90 sure. will hear 1t
again, said. There s certainly won
derful story there, wonderfully interpreted
by the music heard II the second time,
the third and the fourth.
by that time had decided that the New
York public was going to have an oppor-
tunty to give its opinion. What the opinion
would be / had absolutely no idea. You
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You grow with your ideas and yor can't
help II, because you and II are all p lrts OF
some wonderful scheme Of thing whose
secret you have not unrayelled
That is why successful men make such
bad husbands, not bad necessarily, bit
negleotful, Indifferent selfish. They are
selt-absorbed. sslf-centred, and the thou
sand details Of family life are impossible
to them. People hound them to their
homes; and il they do not, ideas do. and
they are just as subyersive to family peace
as the presence Of human intruder.
When | commenced 10 give grand opera
20 the New York public II had come 10 be
looked at as an antique form OF entertain
ment, given at a place which believe
used to exist at-where was it?-oh. yes,
Fortieth street and Broadway II is a
place with which had slight, very slight
friction when il really existed. Now that
it does not, don't let's talk about IT,
Grand opera is really only in its infancy.
| expect to live to see the time when every
city Of considerable size in the United
States will have an opera house Of its own,
where they will have the best singers and
the best operas 10 be procured Tomorrow
| expect a delegation here from Denver.
who are coming 10 New York especially to
ash my opinions regarding some project
Of that kind on foot know any sugges-
tion regarding grand opera that any one
will make to Boston will receive grateful
attention
Il believe that these opera houses should
be built with some regard 10 the needs and
desires OF the common people. When
Mozart. Gl1ck. many other composers
wrote operas. they wrote in the firm belief
that they would only be listened TO by the
wealthy. cultured classes
THE Governments that subsdize most
of the opera houses in Europe certainly
had that idea. and the spirit Of decay that
was attacking grand opera in New York
was partly due to the faulty col ruction
of an opera house which tNlk a. much
note Of snowy architecture and too little
of the comfort of the great mass Of people
who sh ult l,r considered
Take th.se European opera houses, with
their showy agades and inside tier after
tier Of boxes each designed to hold -four
people, who are supposed in majority OF
cases u wear their eyes IN the side Of their
faces, certainly not where nature put them
Then the common people are showed up
into some lofty gallery.
Even a moderate income will not help
matters when the best places in a house
are secured season after season by the
class who have been allowed to beliey,
that grand opera is something on which
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BLACK WALNUT PRIzED AGAIN.
Civil War Tine Furniture Ripped Apart 10
supply the New Demand.

supply the New Demand. s.
II isn't alone Santo Domingo mahogany
that's getting so rare that a decent piece
Of II will make All old furniture sharps
eyes sparkle. The humble black walnut
has come into its own at last and furniture
builders who are making single reproduc-
tions Of old Italian and Spanish antiques
are buying up some Of the heavy and ar
tistically atrocious wardTobes and tables
and sideboards Of thirty or forty years
ago just for the wood, +
They tear the things apart, and when
the walnut reappears II is in a design worthy
Of its quality. Some Of the handsomest
and purest furniture now produced is
made up from numbering arks which, just
after the civil war. we're installed to give
the final touch Of grand and dismal un-
sightliness to houses which commemorate
the worst stage Of American taste.
Good. walnut, said a Fifth avenue
furniture maker, lis worth more to me
than mahogany. We can fake the mahog-
any but not the walnut. - &c.. go
And the walnut trees about the country,
that used to be chopped down and con-
verted into wood for, the kitchen stove,
fetch all kinds OF money. l know man
who has a little hillside farm over in north
ern Jersey who for years staggered along
trying TO feed big family and a small
mortgage at the same time,
The family grew steadily thinner and
more poorly clad, but the mortgage seemed
to gain in health with every succeeding
year. BY and by noticed that conditions
we're changing, and one day met the man
on the road, He was whistling as he logged
along in his cutter
''You seem pretty good natured to-day.
Rowley. says |.
Good reason, says he. He unbuttoned
his overcoat and fished a paper out Of his
inside pochet.
That damn thing. he said, shaking il
At me, has been taking the sleep on my
eyes and the hair on my head and the clothes
on my back and the victuals out Of my
mouth for years, but now II won't do il any
longer, for I'm goin 70 burn h up in my
kitchen stove tonight and celebrate with a
square meal for the hull family, That's .
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swinging doors one secs a multiplicity
Of cooks oonfusedly preparing before a
long open stove the dinners ordered by
the patrons. Further forward in the rooms
overlooking the Toledo are the majority
OF the tables
There is no elegance about this place,
but the tables are clean and the food ex-
cellent. Some Of the tables are filed with
parties Of six or seven who seem to COM
prise an entire family that has come out to
dinner These and many middle aged
couples give the place look Of domesticity,
which is not its principal characteristic.
however, as there are many tables at which
only men are seated. Naturally no man is
allowed 20 keep table 10 himself The
tables at which they sit are not supposed
TO be filed until every place is taken.
The floors are uncarpeted and the walls
adorned with nothing more artistic than
posters of vermouth and other aperitives.
But the food il as good as it is cheap. Few
dishes cost more than a lira and quarter,
which is 25 cents, or a Ira and half, which
Ia 30. Spring chicken in its various
forms 10 one OF the dishes likely 70 be more
expenAye. VI course with every dish
costing these prices, the diner is not likely
10 get out under four or five lras. But that
Ia not expensive TO have the privilege oi
eating well in the restaurant that Naples
considers it's best. One may also have
the privilege Of feeding the cats for this
price. They wander about the restaurant
and in spite Of the prevailing tendency
to stuff them they appear perpetually
starved.
II the diner shows tho least hesitation
as to what he wants 10 eat the waiter i'm
mediately brings out q plate containing
specimens Of every Kind Of fish on the
menu. OF course they are uncoo ked
There are always red mullet the polpi OF
small octopi or devil fish served in some
OF the Italian restaurants here, and usually
the classic spigiola, considered the most
delicate OF all the fishes Of the Mediterra-
mean. These are boiled OF roasted, and az
spigiola is a delicate fish It has none oi
the strong Italian favors in its preparation
The sauce is a harmless compound OF melted
butter, parsley chopped up and slices OF
lemon. The little octopi, which are such a
characteristic feature OF the fish market
in Naples. are stewed in a species OF cas-.
! serole along with oil, tomatoes, chill ano
red wine. They must cook for long time
too. else they win taste more than usually
like long strips of tender leather. They
are we'll saturated with the flavor Of the
sauce as an oiled paper 10 placed between
the pot and the lid 30 that none Of this
savory brew escapes into the outer air.
Characteristic Of this restaurant and Of
Naples is the veal outlet or sntreoote ala
PiI5aiold, which IL placed In the oven,
covered with potatoes, garlic and thyme
and allowed to cook 70 a degree which
in the case OF the beef Is sometimes toe
we'll done for an American palate. PiIsd
ala PiSSdioid. which is 10 place Of an entreo
or the truly mysterious frito MISC. II ar
unsweetened pudding served With grated
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can tell nothing about a New York audience.
1t will receive you with open arms or a
cenched fist. one or the other which one
you cannot tell.
'Of course | received lots Of advice on
the subject, but any one who Offers me
advice usually does so at the cost Of my
friendship. am perfectly willing to listen
to arguments, but not TO advice. Success
means that you have dared to do some
thing that no one else dared TO do advice
means that people are trying 10 make you
walk in the beaten track r.
1t was chance, Of course but when a
man has taken the chance of million
dollars worth Of contracts for a season and
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NATIVE DISHES OF ITALY
DIVERSION FOR THE TRAVELLER
IN HUNTING FOR THEN.

Not 70 Re Found IN the TOuriN Hotels The
Famous Fish Restaurant OF Rome
--Favorite Dishes OF Naples-Tuscan
Cooking e. IL Is Found In Florence.
Few Of the passengers who are now
Crowding the steamers TO Italy will make
any further acquaintance with the cuisine
Of the country than the various hotels
offer, and that Is likely to be very much
the same at the North Cape or in Sicily.
The traveller who cares to take the trouble
10 seek the restaurants inwhich Italians
eat will find his effort worth while.
The average Italian voyager at this
season Of the year makes his acquaintance
with the country at Naples. II he has crossed
on an Italian ship he has been In the at
mosphere OF that country during the twelve
or fifteen or even sixteen days Of the voy-
age. He has already acquired SOME educa-
tion in the peclliahties OF Italian food and
drink, and there are many chances in favor
of his complete capitulation TO the delights
n both. II IL ia an English or German
steamer that has brought him 10 Italy,
however. the voyage has revealed TO him no
traits Of the country.
There can be no doubt Of the excellence
II many Of the Naples hotels, and their
dinner will be up TO the average OF any
offered In Europe. But 1t will not be
reapolitAn. There may be few Germans
At the table. The majority Of guests how
ever. viii be English and American. The
time has passed when II used TO be re-
garded as an adventure 10 leave the hotel
for dinner. but there are few persons
still anxious enough 10 see all there is OF
town 10 trouble themselves enough towander
into its eating houses. There are many Of
these IN Naples that are we'll worth in
vestigatng.
Most Of these places are eentred about
the GalleriA Umberto Primo and the Toledo,
which Ia the principal street Of Naples,
The most popular Of those on tho Toledo
"A tho Glardini di Torino, and from O'Clock
until 10 Il is not easy TO 6nd a seat there.
Although the balconies Of the restaurant
overlook the Toledo the entrance is on q
side street. Ono walks perhaps twenty
feet up the Woo Re Ire, charaoterstcally
dirty Naples thoroughfare. and enters
through Q rather unsavory court. Up
nne flight Of steps is the restaurant. Ad-
Joining the main entrance, at which the
host is always standing 10 welcome guests,
u the kitchen, Through lie continually
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HlMaERSTEIN TELLS ABOUT #
GRlND OPERI iND THE IDEiS
THAr UON'T LEy HIN SLEEP.

Niidnieht Thoughts MStCFlanJed Into
Patents Also Into an Opera House
Also IN the Philosophy Of Middle
Life Methods Behind the Scene salts.
ned with His success? Not Net Opera
for the Common People u Stlll 10 Come.
II q sense Of humor ia a necessary quail
kcston TO greatness, ;hen any detraotors
- Oscar Hammerstein had better here
after hold their peace, for this last touch
NJ iroth on the omeet souiiie OF success
Ia certainly his,
He proves II in the beginning Of the inter-
view by leading the way solemnly via the
elevator and an awed lift boy to his big
room upstairs In the Manhattan Opera
House where he can talk unmolested. He
has had a sleeping room, bath and dressing
room arranged in connection with this
room but has never courted the wary god
dess there. preferring to bunk up at the
Victoria, whore there Ia tiny berth in
which he can hear the roosters on the Ham
mersten roof garden Growing in the early
dawn,
He hands the interviewer for The SuN
Q yellow tinted pencil with which he has
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assist the single weak point in Nature
outfit.
by an effort Of the will you can close yoI
eyelids aud shut out the world. You Cd
avoid hearing by stopping up your eai
You can close your mouth and stop taki1
at least some people can; but you oant
try as hard as you will, you can't sd
thinking, and 80 ii behooves all Of us TO
sure that the thinking process is carried d
along the night lines. otherwise coma
shipwreck, and when the shipwreck com1
don't sit around and say that you've hs
bad luck.
"You haven't. You've missed the tara.
by your own foolish laundering You'd
run on the shoals on account Of your 4
ability to steer clearly.
And II you want TO keep your mend
powers fairly clear, don't think Of yoI
self all the time. Think of othors'
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Capello Nero. Then there are eating shops
unknown TO the average traveller where he
can find the scam pea a fresh water fish not
unlike very small crab, and peculiarly
OF Venice the fish soup made Of the little
Dc)ci. not unlike the same shell fish that
we're served at Naples and Rome by BoCi,
and above all the large eels from Com
machio, which are broiled, stewed or fried
In bav leaves az the guest may select,
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FTV" I'VE "aVHe totWt '"N'' A.
When the editor starts to run n hT' ., ,Hs
and runs into a tree In the middle ot 'h" "'s
boards ny up and brulse his shn- comes NJ :,
den step on from eight 10 ten uchrN ".
blm spravling into pond ot vote ''o
where sidewalk ought TO h. stnw''' o,'I
sudden raise In The walk. falls and ''''lo
nose on broken board and then spraln' NJ ~,
by stepping IN hole where board un a'o'''
70 wake up and tlks interest
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teau he produced packet of soiled let
tiers. One by one he read them aloud,
though he WINGED at the remembrance
of the agony his mother must have en-
dured as she experienced each rebuff
from Lady Morland and her husbands
solicitors.
Yet he persevered to the end
II wanted a model for a brief COM
munication to Messrs. Sharpe e. Smith,"
he said. bitterly. Il think the general
purport of their correspondence will
serve my needs admirably
As he closed the Gladstone bag his
stern mood vanished.
do you know" he said, that this
odd-looking portmanteau. always locked
and always reposing in a safe, has
puzzled my Wallets considerably? One
man got it out and tried to open it. 1
caught him in the act honestly be-
lieve both he and the others We're un-
der the impression that kept my dia-
monds In it.
/, BY the way, that reminds me Of q
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my dressing room with me for a mo-
ment, will you?"
In corner of the spacious apart
ment to which he led his guest stood
a large safe. Philip opened it. Within
were number of books and documents,
but in a large compartment at the bot
tom stood a peculiar object for such a
repository-an ordinary, leather port
manteau. He lifted it onto a couch and
took key from drawer in the safe.
safe
This is one of my treasures which
you have never SEEM" he said. with a
sorrowfuI smile. TT has not been in
the light for many years."
He revealed to his friends wondering
eyes the tattered suit, the slipshod
boots, the ragged shirt and cap, the
rusty doorkey. associated with that
wonderful month of March of q decade
earlier. He reverently unfoided some
of his mothers garments and his eyes
were misty as he surveyed them.
But from the pocket Of the portman-