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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05
WIRELESS AND NAVIGATION.


bonds which had hamed and made bold 1t made
cireumnavigatn the globe But
of longitude certain and simple that navigation became either
From that this mechanism with occasional dis
de
The the cable the
simple of certainty the longitude places
throughout the whole circumference of the globe.
wireless practicable
accurately STILL
alone determining longitude
meeting of the Academy of
Science utilize wireless tegphy His
tegraphy has reached the development make the application
practicable NJ de
the infinitely radius
of
the electric overland lines submarine cables
longitude He simply that telegraph stations
wherever located SHALL Greenwich time
that Every provided with and
within wireless
of
entirely with.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05
BRYAN's GROWING STRENGTH.

William will strength
than he displayed either 1896 1900 With the
President
unuy accused of stealing Byans thunder
friends and he really formidable leader
following which has outside politics
eeung moral and religious with which
conviction and this has the despite oppo
of its politicians
the country Hard always help opposition candidate
States and unless prosperity should
will be reinforced the financially apphense
elements in the other parties.
So the candidacy Bryan twice defeated
be laughed down the wind This he will
in
1t will all of President ROoseve organiza
on, and plenty of
That would be the
should run--the two popular Republican aspans.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05
THE YACHT HAWAII.

of proud well of the
Pedro bring home the tanspacifc
mbodi the pride the people of Hawaii
building
the Irrational
of Territory
all dstincty Hawaiian This feeling has
building which
thing that happened annexation have the people of H
building yacht
TO he about be raced for
list hundred and companies published here
partial representation of those who have helped
possibility entertainments exhibitions have been
which whose do
appear who subscribed
many hundre o individual stockholders
building the yacht Hawaii the old textn
union s strength
behind
hasb
counts
building of
this community
the development of
the sport n
the best boat be the Hawaii!
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05
THE LATE PRINCE DAVID.

Prince David KawanankOa of
during the life of the monarchy the apparent
nephew of Kapioan of
of
David the
spirit
against Robert Wilcox Republican
In Wlcoxw won
Though baked in his political ambition of
fell
surrounded by all the that
health 10 of a
he
the
Kaakaua had
the of change
In sudden shock bereavement
whites alike will be with and her children
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05
ROAD ENGINEER NEEDED.

for road supervisor
blu
before he to America knows
the the
in district of Honolulu
the and
than outside
would certainly iproportd policy
to a unaor a politician
of Good Roads the Department
of building
John' be practicable indeed,
build
of
al %
to
while
body be a Tammany
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
Extract From Governor Hanlys Speech the Republican
State Convention at Indianapolis.

evils traffic
waste much its physical
mental blight heartache.
its hypocrisy
greed
politics
corrupting I
country
public I disregard o
situations back;
I
potters
planted men,
sarves their SOULS
hopes deferred the sangled aspirations its
heartless
helpless; the children
montrous injustice to bameless little
hate virtue hates truth hates righteousness
hates hates liberty tyranny
hates oppression.
hate Abraham Lincoln hated
prophetic vision the slavery and the
when the should fall slave all the republic
times seem to the of this uhOy traffic the coming
whep wholly
beneath Old Glory's stainless stars
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

The effective
of
sympathy well San Francisco
learned
the lesson has been lost Honolulu
nnseized of unpro
teeted children and while waiting
people who believe charity something for the Salvation
only to keep Salvation ben between
little n starvation
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

If the Hawaii Promotion Committee
freight charges products which viii
all it tell about the available lands a
snare.-StaT
AS settlers three
and tobacco and having charges
should of
Isn't it time that that ancient DOGGY of the put
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

Colonel Samuel Johnson
unstable
public The
itself
politicians; he
which of
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

General Sir Redvers Butler of the
reputation This not due of
generals the the Civil
TOO much OF HIM with the
Tor the finish
Butler did, like what Generals Mcclellan Hooker
should be fought But the
by the the whom the long fight
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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

Three vigorous business with really
needed the fleet
part of the Hawaii
of
thing to
There should be small the
easily
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

Hammond likely
for Vice President His connection with
the p and the
artoonl When Hammond begged emency
Jameson raid old
the
stick to the Guggenheims 1t will than politics
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

Wake island is not cheerful place casaway
twenty mned there that the Benjamin
too late
the business of which will
islands looking for pwreeked
of humanity with practical esuIts
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

Secretary Garfield will not lack hospitality Secretary
he Will of
may politicians into The
and leading
case OF Secretary Sau there will be public private
the
good breeding of the town.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

The Advertiser this
Naval Appropriation bill which of
BILL which killed in
Better send marked He
of the death of the bill
President.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

If the First Infantry would of
frear for the detail of regular
be aeeedd to- Schools get such officers
government looks for HELM in the defense
of its fortified
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

The Advertiser
is made to
1t must caim all such relations the pending
tentn has been Indictment
that ends the Advertiser interest in it, purvey the news
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

The Republican party commonly pictured elephant
beast which capable bearing quite considerable burden ut
the local g. o. to be getting even an elephant
should be asked carry.-Sar
Its mahouts load enough for Jumbo
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

Twelve will do well
that would be desirable parade
the japanese to abana
he would probably he point.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05


Prince
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

Who is "oiver" P Norton had diving
York; The of Indiana died
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

still daily the yealery 1t looks iae
nfamed Try lac Toes ave
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

The Civic Federation declining to stand sponsor for
the arrests which followed boxing contes
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

Honolulu refOm plenty against vice and crime but they
will very little against sports
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

The most dangerous politics is the fanatic
amuck in its support.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05

law being again violated by white visitor. to this y
New-York tribune., 1908-07-12

There was one performance with mixed pro-
gramrne. Fl. T. x.
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composer had written the rondo-gavotte, In Veoer
Pamata stanza" taking its melody from the
entr'acte music preceding the SECOND acD, was
also member of Mr.. Abbey's company, but Nine
scalchi who could wear mans attire and walk in
tights more gracefully than any woman who ever
appeared on the American operatic stage within my
memory, too popular in the part TO oe set
aside for the sake of a newcomer, and Nine Ire-
beIli had wait until December before getting
a hearing in opera Meanwhile she sang INDUS
triorsly in concerts The changes which had taken
place in Nine Nilsson's person and voice during
the dozen years between her first appearance as
Mignon and the under consideration might
naturally have been expected TO affect her per-
fornance Of the part. Many were ready TO per-
ceve the loss of some of the charms OF youfhful
freshness and grace which indssolubly con-
nected with any conception Of this sInost poetcai
Of C.oe+be's creatures The result fulfilled their
authorizations in a measure, for Nine Nllsson's I'M
personation was more remarkable for its deep
feeling in the dramatic portions than for hghtness
end -erarefuiness in the lyric This loss brought
with It a compensation, however Many protests
have been felt. when not expressed, against the
tendency of singers to make Mignon mere wilful.
pettish silly young woman. The poets IDEAL was
sufficiently despoiled by the uncomfortable French
,.t,o.+,s. ,,itbo,t this further desecration which
erectually dispelled the last glimer OF the poeu-
eel light that ought always to shine ABOUT tnis
strange child OF the South. Too much OF tropical
passion too much Of underlined longing, too nuch
ne tenderness the part could hardly be invested
with but 1t is easily made silly by over-actins in
che very place where the tendency TO do so Is
strongest The whole opera is one that must either
he represented- with extreme in avoiding ex-
travagant expression all effort 10 approach even
dstantly the ideals Of the poet must be abandoned
and the niece be given II Goethe had never
lived and Wilhelm Meister" had never been
written.
Perhaps the latter plan would be the better one.
for It is hard to think Of Goethe during the per-
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fornance Of the opera without taking violent offence.
and IL would only be relief to have all thought
Of him studiously kept out Of mind. Yet we would
not willingly lose the pleasure which Ambrose
Thomas provided in this his best opera. 1t is TO
his credit that he felt the embarrassments which
his subject caused. AT time he thought seri-
ously of permitting the heroine 10 go the way Of
Coethe's "Mignon'' and of Offering the opera
the Theatre Lyrique instead of the Opera Conique,
for which he had undertaken TO write 1t. He did
not carry out the plan. however but instead
sought TO silence the carplng Of the Germans by
composing a second conclusion den0ueHent dsIG-
,nande in which Mignon falls dead while listening
Phnes polacca in the last scene. A trat;ic
end a piece treated IN the comedy manner
throughout was too ridiculous. however, and the
Germans would have none Of the denOneneft ollie
mdHde They raised hue and cry against the
OPERA then heard IL for the sake OF its music, and
ended by sdmiring its admirable parts without
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ball; in the fourth the calls OF passing gondoiers
break in upon Gioconda's soliloQuies, which nave
for their subject suicide, murder and se-sacrlnce
The device is Of tissue. but 1t Is OF the
opera operatic and II is now more familiar than IL
was when first disclosed TO the patrons OF the Met
ronolitan Opera House, twenty-five years ago
Is it were necessary might look for the source
of this device of contrast in the literature 10 winch
Verdi directed attention when he turned MS
thoughts to Victor Hugo and composed "Ernanf'
and ''RigoIetto." Hugo was the prince or those
novests and dramatists who utilized glaring con-
trasts and unnatural contradictions to give
piouancy to their creations and compel sympathy
for monsters by uniting monumental Wlckedness
with the most aTnable of moral qualities Inc
story OF La Gioconda' is drawn from angelo,
Tyrane de Padoue" IN transforming this tragedy
into an opera the ibrettist removed the scene from
Padua to Venice changed wealthy actress into
moor street singer, and made the blind mother, who
is barely mentioned in the play, into prominent
and moving character There can be no question
but that Boito ('"Tobia Gorria' is but an anasra-
matte nom de plume of Arrfgo Boito) was highly
successful In remodeling the tragedy for operatic
nurnoses but he did not palIiate its moral gross
ness or succeed in inviting compassionate feel
inss for any entitled to them The only per-
scnages who in this opera escape disaster
pair Of lovers whose sufferings depicted or in
terred cannot be said to have refined the guilt out
of their passion We might infer that once the at
tachment of EMO and Laura pure and lovely,
but all that of 1T is fauntngly criminal and
doubly wicked. The happiness Of EMO. who to
elope with another mans wife cruelty breaks faith
with q woman whose love for him is strong that
she gives her life TO his. is hardly consum-
nation that ought be set down justifying so
many blotches and blains pimpes and pustules.
the face of human nature. Laura's treachery is TO
Gioconda we'll as to her husband, and has no re-
deeming trait. In fact, the blind woman is the
only character in the opera who has moral health.
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and TrebeIi as Marta and Pantalis. Nilsson had
fixed the ideal OF Helen in Europe and New York.
and It is she, believe. who started the question
able practice of having performer impersonate
both Marguerite and the classic Queen Boito has
given US little of Goethe's Gretchen in his de-
lightfui but sketchy opera that II does not make
much difference how the part is acted: but Helen
is a character that seemed cut to the very form of
Nilsson-regal in beauty and carriage. moving
in voice, serene in pose and gesture. She fitted
perfectly into the fairest picture that lover of
ancient Greek life could conjure up, and moved
through the classic act like veritabe Hellenic
queen. The beauty. ma testy the puissant charm OF
a perfect woman of the antique type-all were hers
Canpanini Who like Nilsson had been seen in the
opera before the Metropolitan Opera House. entered
the lists sang on this evening with peculiar enthu
siasrn: and with reason. Not only had he been in
strunental in giving the opera TO the people Of
London and New York but, on this occasion. he
was singing under the baton of his young brother
Cleofonte, then modest maestro di cembaIo trying
his prentice hand at conducting. now the redoubt
able leader of Mr.. Hammcrsteips forces at the
Manhattan Four years later Cleofonte Campanini
came again TO New York conductor OF his
brothers company organized for the production Of
Verifs "Oteo.'
On December 20 the real novelty OF Mr.
Abbeys list had production. 1t Ponchiellrs
La Gioconda.' with the following distribution of
parts: La Gioconda, Nine Nilsson; Laura Adorno
Nine Fursch- Madi; La Cieca, Nine. Scalchi EMO
Gr1mAldo, Ssnor Stasnos barnaDa, SiSnor Del
Puente; Alvise Badero. signor Novara Ponchiellfs
opera had been the principal novelty Of the Lon
don season in the summer OF 1889. where 1t was
brought out by Mr. Gye On this occasion it was
performed with sorgeousness of stage appoint
ments and a strength OF ensemble which spoke vol
umss for the earnestness of the effort which Mr.
Abbey was making TO give grand opera in style
worthy of the American metropolis. and the recep
ton which the public gave TO the work afforded
convincing proof OF the eagerness for change
from the stale list which had long constituted it's
operatio pabulum. The house crowded from
floor to ceiling. and the audience. having assembled
for the enjoyment Of unusual pleasure was
soon wrought into extremely mpressionabss
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Chapters of Opera
Copyright. 1905. by H. ,E. Krehbielo
CHAPTER III.

Metronolitan public on the third night of the sea-
son. october IS when I'll Trovatore'' was brought
forward This the tenor Signor Stagno,
stockly built, heavy, self-conscious man. OF GOOD
stage feature and bad stage manners When his
voice was first heard from behind the scenes II
sounded throaty, squeeZed-out, constrained tone'
but later when Manrico's display pieces came.
II rang out full and vibrant a trumpet. 1t de-
veloped at once that he a singer OF the side-
show kind with whom the be-all and end-all OF
his part and lay in the high tones. So little OF
a musician he that being enthusiastically re-
called after the "Di quella pira," he was unable
10 keep the key OF major in his head In spite OF
his stentorian proclamation OF It's tonic rev
seconds before. and could not begin the repetition
till the concert master had plucked the first note
of the air on his violin. A short time before 1
heard Nine Patti perform the feat of beginning the
trin which accompanies the melody by the orches-
ira in the middle of the dance song in Dinoran
without a suggestive tone or chord after q hupouo
and gladsome tumult that seemed TO have lasted
several minutes new bass, Signor Mirabela,
appeared in II Puritani' October ga musical
singer with voice Of large volume and ample
range and f-possessed, easy and effective stage
presence.
On her second appearance Nine Nilsson was seen
in a part with which she was intimately as
sociated in the popular mind than other singer
in New York London The opera was Mignon'
the date October 81 Ambrose Thomas's opera
had its first American performance at the Acad-
envy of Music under the management OF Maurfce
Strakosch. on November o. 1871. With Nine Nils
son. that occasion as on this, was associated
NJ Capoul, the most ardent and fascinating lover
known to opera in America, who not long before
had risen from the ranks of French opera boufe
Nine. Trebelli. who had created the part Of Fred
erick in London. where, as in New York, Nine.
Nilsson was the original Mignon. and for whom the
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.,,.. which the st:4kins pictures. excited action

stat. which, the st1king pictures, excited action
and ingenious music intensified with every ACT
t. score Of LA C.ioconda'' is full of ngeniousiy
applied harnoncaI and orchestral devices. but they
ars au such as were learned from Ponehieihs
~-.at nrsdecessor and successor, Verdi As mat
tse of fact Ponchielli. though he has peen ols
covered as the father Of the young vernist schoo.
of Italy which seems already 10 nave sAha"oe
itself was less original than Boito, VINO mas ols
t,nu,ished himself above ali the rout OF FeroTs
+roducers and followers (for a space the category
included the same names) by confluence ana SELL
criticism As 1 write moro than two decades nave
elapsed since he became known In Ne" fork' anu
In the interim have seen the rise anu al9o "io
considerable fall of such imitators as Masca2ni'
Leoncavao and their superior. ,Puccini- we are
now moro able TO see than We were twenty-H'e
years ago how much Ponchelli and all ms tiDe
owe to Verdi. and also how much ruder ana iess
Attentive to real beauty they were. Then we couid
h.ar besides his voice that of Verdi In his music
M, ~. can hear also tones which awaken echoes
IN Mascagni Ieoncavallo and Puccini- OF some
times mooted Wagnerian influence there Is ohly
30 much in this score as Is TO be lound IN az
scores German ard French and Italian since lhe
,hackles of instrumental form were cast on ron
chiel makes a little use OF recurring n'e.ouIo
nbrass from La Cieca's "Voce df DONNA Dut he
nursues the device even less consistently thah
Verdi and in a manner that Is older thah heEeI-
beer In melody ne is wholly Italian ana OF "as-
ners use of typical phrases La Gioconda Is as
.,,utlsss as PergoIesi's "Serva padrona'
What Is admirable to the popular appreciation OF
to-day is the hot vigor OF the drama ana the qucA
cooperation OF music In its cmacteric moments
This corporation is most obvious In the employ
ment of the device Of contrast which dominates the
work and seems to have been the feature whlch
has been most effectively seized upon by Poncnl-
ellis pupils. It marks every climax In the opera
and becomes almost tresome in its reteration In
the first act the blind woanis prayer is set against
background composed of a gambling chorus and
the Wild wl1ir OF the fGrl1no, which ends abruptly
with organ peals and a pious cantcie-an erect re-
n..taa since In "Cavalleria Rustcana and
| "Tosca" In tho second act, in the twinking OF
an eve Gioconda is transformed from murderous
devil into a protecting saint; in the third Lauras
accents of mortal conrningle with the SOUNDS
of a. serenade in the distance. and the disclosure
- . .,,nnosed murder is made at the climax Of q
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changing their minds about tho desecraton OF their
great poet.
1t is no wonder that the opera book was made.
Such scruples as distressed the Germans never
trouble French Hbrettists and the characters which
Care and Barber found in Goethe's romance are
as If born for the stage What lyric possibilities 90
not lie in the Harper? Was ever more perfect
musical couuette dreamed of than Philne? have
not Mignon's songs drawn forth music from nearly
every composer of emnence since Beethoven! Inc
hlling In parts the surface OF the story
and the character of their music could not be mis-
conceived Wilhelm Meister himself in his charac-
ter OF strong player had only to sacrifice mis-
habit Of reflection to be dashing tenor The
temptation was certainly strong; the sacrlege was
committed and the verbal skeleton constructed out
of things which were dearest In German literature.
was tricked out with piquant music and ear-ickhng
-orIIades by the man who not awed even oy
Shakespeare. Think of LIE ssonge dune Nult
dEte"! With such character the play is easily
acted and the music never fails to fascinate
Tia Traviata' the next opera produced on
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and she seems to have been brought in only that
her sufferings may intensity the bloody character
OF Barnaba. the spy. Even Gioconda. a character
that has latent within 1t many effective elements is
sacrificed by the lbrettist to the end-sensa-
ttonai effect through contrast and contradiction
Nowhere does she illustrate the spirit OF btheness
which Is put forth by her name. and only does
she allude 20 IT, FROM the moment Of her entrance
till death she is filled with torturing passion
and conflicting emotions. Not la Gioconda She but
la Dolorosa-except for the book makers desire for
dramaticsparadox. Against the desire to sympa-
thize with her is thrust the revelation that her
rival is saved from death at her hands be-
cause OF any repugnance OF hers to murder. She
would kill in instant II that her venge-
fulness is overcome by gratitude to the bene-
factress of her mother. So II that the
strongest feeling excited by the heroine who dies a
sacrifice to iia affection and passionate love-
OF simple plty-a feeling that Is never absent from
tender hearts matter how depraved the victim OF
misfortune.
But opera in the estate illustrated by La Clio
conda" scarcely justihes even elementary moral
disquisition. Moreover, what Ponchielli provoked
is so much worse than what he himself did that
his condemnation go further than purEa-
toriaI nres. It Is In the operas Of his pupils and