Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-01
CHICAGO BOYS RUN AWAY
 TO SOUTHWEST

The owners of lake steamers should exercise more vigilance enforcing their rules. The sale of intoxicating liquor to minors should be absolutely
 lrohI,ited on lake steamers. All gambling devices should be suppress ed on lake steamers"
 Too Busy to Govern.
 The devotion to business of Chi caqo's prominent citizens and their absorption in 1t is the reason for
 aeks in municipal government and neglect of humans ideals, according to a report to the Board of Trade of London by the labor commission of hat hoard. which recently visited America and devoted especial atten' ton to Chicago. To-day there are signs on all hands that a better or der of things is beginning to dawn for Chicaeo," says the report, "since civic problems have begun to claim the seriops attention of thoughtful and enlightened citizens" The coIn- mission upset the theory long held to be a fact in the United States that a comparison of wages and cost of living showed the American lab bring man and artisan to have vast advantage over those of England. On the contrary, the commission finds
 hat while wages are twice as large as those of artisans in England. in
 America the cost of lying is from 50 to 75 per cent greater than in Eng land. Regarding housing conditions the commission renorts that no gen eral improvements is taking place in Chicago in those sections where there has been ovet-crowding. but 1t does commend the general charac- ter Of houses available for the work ing classes. Chicago is blessed with low retail rrices of food. according to the report, and a list of articles is l given to show how comparatively l cheaply the workingrnan can live there. The history of the city is given and descriptions of It's great business activity and it's immense tuildings apreas The commission was impressed by the sky line oi ihe city and the methods used to feciii . tate business. |
 Writinu Grand Orera.
 The acquisition of grand opera by Chicago has bought to the corn belt brand new opportunities, in the writing of grand oDera, many Amer icans having won honors recently in that field Aspirants from western states are not barred. a fact recent ly conceded bv no less an authority than George Chadwick, composer and director of the New England con servatory of music at Boston, an institution iutrenched by the fact that it is the premier and largest of its kind ir America. The corn telt nav comuete, in fact has cO1pe5ed with success, as witness what has been achieved by Americans whose technical training was as ample IS their musical temperament. Tho sa cred opera Judith" written by Mir. Chadwick. was an immediate success, also his "Tabasco." while the operas of Louis 4. Coerne, 9 German-Apef- fcan and graduate of Harvard. '93. has been performed in the EerliD Royal Opera House. In a review of other American composers, Prof John K. Paine and John r.. Converse are mentioned. The greatest monetary triumph that has yet come tO my of the American school of composers E the award of the St0 Oc0 prize in he Metropolitan Opera contest 10 10 ration Parker, now professor of mus ic at Yale and formerly organiFt of several churches. Such 2 disti1-tiOn has befallen the opera "Mcna. the Ebretto by Byron Hooker of F1rm' ington. Connecticut Bassd on a story of love and war in the days cR Roman rlle of Great Britain the new opera, will in due course be produc- aE eurnntuOuEfV at rho New Yt,si- Ol~ era house and peThars later " the onera companies in other American cities. Insufficient "-a.icai a'~i:'v accounted in part for the aarly fail- ures of American operas. Within rhe past few years so many native com posers have appeared after severe conservatory training that whatever operas any of them have written have been at least distinguished for good music.