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

TETRAZIINTS GREATEST TRIAL.
1T is a somewhat curious fact, says
Madame Tetrazzini in the January
Strand, that the greatest trial OF my
life should at the same time afford
me the greatest amusement. | refer
to my daily correspondence, Every
morning | am inundated with letters
from people L have eve heard OF
before. The least expecting of them
SIMPLY ask me to send them money.
Sometimes they ask for small ann
cunts, and it is occasionally rather
difficult to refuse these, but others
again ask for small fortunes.
Then there are people who write
very charmingly and ask il l can
send them tickets to hear me sing.
MADAME" wrote a correspondent,
u love Il good singer, and you ap-
parently are good. If you viii send
me a season ticket for the opera, /
will go to hear you every time }GG
sing. and applaud as Loudly - I
can
One lady wrote a long poem about
me, and OF course, ! was Greatly
pleased and battered. BIt IT vas
rather dislleartening u ind Ink lc.e
at the end of4til > All IL Hasa&ae
likes the poem. N.fi l.-aso send
the writer some opera ticnets??N
Another lady was rather funny.
She wrote asking for my autograph,
and in a weak moment | scrubbed my
name oh 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-office
at Convent Garden for two seats, but
they would not give them to me on
your card alone. | herewith inclose
card you sent me. Will y9l' pae3se
write. 'Oblige MY good Friend VITA
two seats and we will try;sagain.f,Ms
@o-A7w- AZ.
THE HETCH-HETCHY SfOIl ATfUN'
Minneapolis Journal: President
by approving the Hetch- Hetchy spoil-
alton. A bit OF National park, esti-
mated to be worth fifty sanillions yaes1s
Mrs.shas been turned ovef BY ar p3asl
generous government to San Fran
cisco, to serve the pressing public
needs of the region concerned" when
four other practicable sources of wat
er supply We're available. If this grant
were7essential to supplying the people
about San Francisco Bay with water
it might be borne With more equanim
ity. Butstffere is the suspicion, am-
ounting almost to certainty. that if it
We're not for the right to sell electric
water that is involved, the project
would eve have been seriously urg-
ed.
But the saddest thing about the
transfer of the looted playground to
San Francisco is the precedent it sets.
None of the National parks is safe.
Any city that may want IL slice of the
public reserve for water and power
may now demand it. IL point to
Hetch-Hetchy as justification. In fac1
it 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. i
Just why the government should
destroy what John Muir calls zone OF
the wonders of the world" for the
sake of furnishing watershed to a city
able to buy it's own, is on any
Other hypothesis a mystery. And just
how it will be able to refuse similar
audacious demands hereafter, none
say. The President, to. the dis
may of public-spirited admirers, has
made himself a party to the rape of
this lovely heritage Of the nation.