The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-01-01
TETRAzziNI's GREATEST TRIAL.

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Madame Tetrazzini in the January
Strand, that the greatest trial of my
life should at the same time afford
me the greatest amusement. | refar
to my daily correspondence. Every
morning ] am inundated with letters
from people | have never heard OF
before. The least expecting OF them
SIMPLY ask me to send them money.
Sometimes they ask for small anu
cunts, and it is occasionally rather
difficult to refuse these, out others
again ask for small fortunes.
Then there are people who write
very charmingly and ask if | can
send them tickets to hear me sing.
"Madame,'' wrote a correspondent,
n love a good singer, and you APP
~parently are good. III you viii send
me "A season ticket for the opera, |
will go to hear You every tfate 20
sing, and applaud Us Loudly ~
can
one lady wrote a long poem about
me, and OF course. ! wGa greatly
pleased and ilattered. Bat II var
rather disheartcning to f,Ra THIS Aoae
at the end OF atil, .AseiA NJ ~ala4aiae
~ WY PpOiiif Nf-li .fH $3.50 ~ -
the writer some opera tiahets?"
Another lady was rather funny,
She wrote asking for nay autograph
and in a weak moment | scrubbed my
name on a visiting card and sent it To
her. A. day OF two later she wrote to
me again. Dear MADAME have
presented your card at the boX-otfice
at Govent Garden for two seats, bul
they would o give them to me on
your card alone. | herewith inclose
card o sent nae. Will yp1t' pae3sY
write, 'Oblige my good flsiend WIFE
two seats and we will try;sagain.sf al
-=o-4r= as wwMl
THE HETCH-HETCHY SfUIiATfON
Minneapolis journal: Presiden,
Wilson has disappointed the touptrs
by approving the Hetch- Hetchy spoil.
alton. A bit OF National park, est
iWated to be worth fifty milioMs ~asa4
lars. has been turned ovef by an WXyaE
generous government to San Fran
cisco, to serve the pressing pabfi,
needs of the region concerned wlle,
four other practicable sources of wat
Ell supply were available. If this gran
Were7essential to supplying the people
about II Francisco Bay with water
it might be borne with more equanin
ity. Dutethere is the suspicion, am
~ounting almost to certainty, that ii i
We're not for the right to sell electric
water that is Involved, the projec'
would never have been seriously urg
ed. s
But the snddest thing about tbs
transfer OF the looted playground te
San Francisco is the precedent it sets
None of the National parks is safe
Any city that may van a slice of the
public reserve for water and power
may now demand it, Inc point tc
Hetch-Hetchy as justification. In facl
1t was the combination in Congress OF
those selfishly interested in oppor-
tunities for similar spoliation here
after that made the passage of the
bill possible.
Just why the government should
destroy what John Muir calls lone OF
the wonders of the world for tbs
sake of furnishing watershed to a city
amply able to buy it's own, is on any
other hypothesis a mystery. And Just
how it will be able 10 refuse similar
audacious demands hereafter. non
can say. The President. to, the dis
may OF philosophical admirers, has
made himself a party to the rape OF
this lovely heritage of the nation,