NEWAOnK DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY. APRIL 25. 1909.

Musical. Musical.

GR4NDCONSERV4TORYOF MUSIC57 WEST 931) ST.. BET. CENTRAL PARK WEST ami COLCMBC9 AYE."

THE ONLY MUSIC SCHOOL EMPOWERED BY ACT OF LEGISLATURE to confer regular

UNIVERSITY DEGREESVole- culture and all Instruments ami Musical S.iences: 4.". Frof'-ssors and Instructors.SDecial coots* for Teachers and Professionals. Thorough « ourse for h-Rinners.

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'miKTV-HlT« YEAR. \u25a0 Dr. E. EBERHARP. President, r.7 W.*f !>SI «\u25a0

AFRICAN CHIEFS•UHWELCOME GIFT

'TWAS (fSE OF HIS NUMER-

OUS WIVES.

Returned. She Insisted oh Revudn-

ins xcith Hunting Part*, Which

She Searly Disrupted.

Professional Entertainers.

-Bat what In the name of reason." he ejacu-lated, as hi. eyes swept over our caravan, "haveyou got your boys swaddled up In trousers .or.

Don't you qnow that the quickest and surest way

to km the equatorial African is to put anything

upon his body that will prevent the immediateevaporation of perspiration? I've had a life fight

al.jns that line with the London Board, <** my

predecessor liere-he has just been transferred to

a schoolmastership at Nairobi-nearly came to

Mows with me about it. Half of the people In

the mission were .'.own with galloping consumption

or fever when iarrived, a month ago. and my

predecessor even wanted to put the women into

stockings. His intentions werr good, but Ihope

hr-ll not have to answer for all the deaths his

fanatical a-i<i misplaced modesty has caused. But

here Iin, delaying action with m: talk. Youchaps run- along now and sot your people out of

those olothes as soon as you can." and Iien, his

eye fallingon Li-iiwhere she chared like an over-checked h«>rse In her uncomfortable garb: "My

word! What kind of a torture chamber Is this you

have put that child into? Why this"--

and ho be-

pan impatiently unhooking the stiff collar where. it

had chafed a line or red around her neck—"beatsany tiling my predecessor ever did!"

••It was your predecessor we were prepared for."

that he would esteem It * privl!es« to sell us

everything » needed for the furtherance of our

Journey.

The Woelber Violir.Quartet was one of the feat-

ares of the programme of the lowa New Yorkers

at the Hotel Astor on April16. They will also ap-

pear at a concert at the Waldorf on April 20. The

quartet Is composed of Edward Sanders, Koswcll

Weitzel. Eigmund Gusowski and Franz Dummie.

with Frederick Ahlert as accompanist.

Josephine Swickard, the concert soprano, left

h«re last week on a concert tour of the Middle

West. She sang at Detroit on April 22 with the

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and will appear with

the Indianapolis Mannerchor on April30, besides a

two day's festival at Lima. Ohio, on May 6 and ..Miss Swickard will return in time to sing Judas

Maccabeus" with the Oratorio Society of the BetH-

lehems on May 3).

Josephine Steinbock. contralto and D»

Russell. Pianist, save a sons -.rectalevening ... the Astor Gallery In the Waldorf-As-torisu

The Oratorio Society of Newark. N. -'-- under

direction of Louis Arthur Russell, of Carnegie

Hall. will present Saint-Sacns's "The Deluge" as

tho principal number of the programme for its

instructor, .--! Louis Welnsteln. piano instructor,

will take place at Carnegie Lyceum on Tuesday

evening. April 27- An interesting programme is

promised.

EDMUND lA||M BASSO SOLOIST

ILOISE llHII11 it P*rkhur« * Church.(ONfKRTS. ORATORIO. ««£SJA 1S

-S!"TbPPING BROWH SCHOOL102 WEST 7ITU ST. Tel. 3767 Columbus.

SUIE. llll.lll(.\HI> HOFFMANN qiha £%Orator,.,HKXRY

••..-it'll «ith gj§ MIf/8>J>lmi: ii:mm hoiiikv esA\ IHnltiiU ami Plan.. Inslrmtlnn. Jjfl £3JJ 11

Soloist with x«, y,.ri; Philharmonic IB %#'%#'anil noston Symphony Orchestras. •;'\u25a0-•; '\u25a0-•

_Studios. CARNEGIE and STEINWAT HALLS,

Addrtss 144 E. 150111 *»t., N. Y.

LOUIS I'G SUMMER NORMALARTHUR iKU LS» Lm O MUSIC COURSE

FOR TEACHERS AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS. ADVANCED COl.T.sn.

c^s°eFi^ti?e RUSSELL PROCESSES OF MUSIC STUDYVoice Culture: Slnginn In all oh«*e«; JlMlo^£t%<^if£* ''\u25a0•!»;

.Ad.anml School .u.<l Claaa Work. I»» """•"< h '-* !l'' » 1

•ho Ri-^ioll hooka and nnx-v.- Inquires from a'l pa . ,

norks

"bUt ndvantlg" Circular... Intor^lew^^app;^ -\u25a0\u25a0 :\u25a0• V..rmnl In-fit„!-. s,,it^ SBZ. I3roo«io H-iH

NEW STUDIOS OF

FRANCIS FISCHER POWERSVOICE SPECIALIST

200 WEST 72D STREET.Cor. Broadway. Opp. Swbw&y,

WILLIAM C. CARL,Organ Instruction.

Send for Catalogue. 34 West IZtliSt., N. Y.

EDWIN FARMER i:Gra-lue.te «T Leipzig Coiisf.-^atnry I<W-94.H»it pra.luat« student at Berlin. I!V>C-4

Start!.., 1007 Carnegie Hall. M->n. aril Thor. >Iomla«»Residence. SOI V»>yt lOTth Street. -. T. —

\u25a0*

SI6HT SINGING"method OF TIIE TAXIS CONSERVATORY.

MMEt TROTIN TCESDATS *FRIDATaOt •

i days. l.is. West End Ay». Tel.. 3»H>—

River.

».,. McNEILL HOPCRAFT,VOICE CULTURE, ITALIANMETHOD.

Studios. MS MANHATTAN AYE.. Cor. H»6th.

DR. CARLE, DUFFT,"*

CONCERT. ORATORIO. VOCAL IN.STRCCTIOX.1 E. 40th St.. N. Y. Home. 140 Ist Aye.. Mt VenM«

PLUMB AND SAMPSONENTERTAINMENTS FURNISHED

FOR DRAWING ROOM CHILDREN'S PAnTIES.^LAWN FETES, FAIRS. DINNERS. SOCIAL EVENTS

93-95 NASSAU ST., N. Y.""

M^HENRY UFF ORCHESTRA.Management M. B. Roger*. r» Irving Place. N. T. Tel.8111 Uramercy. New York's Favorite and Most Poruia.Orchestra. Receptions, Weddings. Dinners. Balls, aia

AGNES SUMNER GEERMONOLOGCES AM)CHILD IMPrifiONATION-*

Musicals and ChlldreD'e Pmrtiaa i-'J East 191-h St.

MiLTON BERNARD STVOCAL INSTRirCTION given at studio. 1730 B'v.ay.

Votcea tried Tuesday an.l Friday. 10 to 12 A. M.

—'- WAR FORD

—VOICE mil AND PIANO.

3S EAST 2J.ND ST.

Brookfield Summer School of MusicFor Prospt"ctu» address

11. W. GREENE. 88» Canada Hill. Sssi Tork. .ARTHUR WOODRUFF,

Voice Placlntr. Brtathlnir. Preparation for Choir.Concert and Oratorio. .% Wnt r.Htli St.. New \ork.Uondays and Thursdays. East Orange. N. J.

JllA COFI I TENOR SINGINO in

\u25a0 mA o51LL six iAN«ii \..k

CONCERT SONG KF.riTAIS. r.TC.

TEACHER OF THE ART OK SIEGING.C*rnegln Hall.Studio r,O'J. Wed.. Tnurs

*Sat. Afternoon*.

ARTHUR PHILIPS, baritone.(.'.llM.i.lfBALL. NEW YORK CITY.

VOCAL INSTRUCTION.CONCERTS AND KKfITAI^.

AUGUSTA FARRINGTON OrganistTeacher or I'IANO. ORGAN and HARMONY.

153 EAST 22M) ST. 'Phono 1440 liramercr.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ENJOYING A PILLOW FIGHT ON THE VOYAGE TOMOMBASA.

A smooth and slippery bar has been rigged up horizontally, and Kerm.t Roosevelt iat theright) and a fellow traveller have straddled it. banging each other over the heads withpillows until Kermit has been unhorsed from His precarious seat, evidently to the huge

delight cf his father. Oral

Koiherino iiam m n contralto.sxkkt,HANFuRD sssa i\.s.Vocal Culture (Saeneer method). 201 Went B«th St.

CLARA FARRINGTONCONCERT VIOLINIST.

rnpll< re.eived. 152 K. 22d St. 'shone 1440 Gr—•rcy.

OLIVER UfllnCjJ TKNOK.THOMAS nULUkIi Teacher of .-'insin?

(Lincoln Arcade). ''.'47 Broadway. Stu.lio T>l4.t—-— ~~

\u25a0 ::MPUIIUn ifiuu Teacher of Piano and Voice.

SIumUNiJ Rflnli --v UvrMl SI >. V

B'Ulyn Studio. Tuea. and Krld. S4S Paclflc Bt .Bklvn.

>imi I- IIAAC Dramatic Poprano. Grand OperaMOu'kl.l.l HAflO School. 200 Ka?t I>3J Street.

"\u25a0\u25a0"-"\u25a0' GUMMING Sy.'Ji^-'.VVIiS'K

LILLIAN UClaafs/IDIf S"?™1" '"<"\u25a0•"

SHERWOOD IfCffl\lni\ v?S"hiSli'Italian method. » 1423 Broadway. X.T.* iVt>i» ,^ ? af >lia:. adJreaa, IIMorgan Avenue. NOKU"ILK COW

ak...,,: RUSSELLt XOKMAf.'iXsTiTUTE? CARXEGIg *iii^L°^MARY WAGNER GILBERT. S^r-C«£i

GERRIT SMITH 7"»

PHILLIP MITTELL v.o^stT'nrher of the VIOLIN i-iEnserr.Me Music.

105 EAST 81ND ST. Paona 444?— 70th.-JANE GORDON ~Hf

Successor to Mme. Anna # AI\JKT^U7» Weal 97th St. New York *«•/*i*l\\J VY

"lit:unUITIfiAIIIIuka\dT)phr\PA(ii>F nufcniAnii lingersVOCAX INSTRICTION. Italian anl German ?.-hoo!iSen-1 for circulars. 150 KAST 331H ST.. NEW YOR&.

said .!.. laconlcaJy. a? we hurried "IT to put therelief order into effect upon our perspiring porters

Over after-dinner cigars we toM the story cfour heroic efforts to maintain the "respectability'

of our caravan, and to what end, and the peals oflaughter it evoked from our good old host, as wellas from bis sweet and motherly wife, must havegone a long way toward exorcising any lurking

spirits of the absurd regime of bis predecessor

wiiii-h still lingered about the mission. 1

Five days later we pushed on toward the In-terior without LJ-1L she seemed to take kindly to

her new home, and, during our stay, at least,

precipitated no more such disturbs of domes-FRANK WOELBER VIOLINIST,KecllaN. In.truetloo. Studio 5C5 Park \u0084, n "J s~a

BEATRICE EBERHARDIr.a.rjctlon. Appoißtment by mall onlj. 5T W. Wd st

Conrad Kind ilsli^^Edward Cilmer Powell,t h

BV2i So,;< lst Central B.iot:»t Church.*

Teacher of Mnxinf. E •801 MM Came;!« Halt

;i&*louis sajous i!:;••\u25a0 sc

orY?>cej>'t*c:nz. Opera. Oratorio. e»c. 193 Clareniont are..l'L'4 Orange st.New iJaven.Ct. Phimo 510 Vilorr.:as.

OF'°' DCaMITU7 Volr» Culture. Italian X^fr.nd.DCIiI| t/L

STCPIQ. 503 CARXBBIE HALL

t FRANKLIN RiKER\ olee ar.U Piano Instruction. Coaching;. 17 EL C3:h ft.

Centra! Vocal & Organ SchooL?^ I:s; c^.REGINALD HAKKKTT.I>irei.tor. 11 West «=ad St

IV. J. KITCHENER,Mandolin altar, Banjo. IST West )«lth it.

CLARENCE EDDYTesaataeaM M9 r.iverside.

MBS. CLARENCE EDDY s^Kzj&x*lores

PimrilTO?-*as-e?&SL^:'

What to Expect from a Good Vocal T*acr.tr."

Joseph Joachim School rn r,r,'tt

nrumrai.

GERALDINB UOBOAN, Director. 914 Carnegie Halt

S!k JOHN W.NICHOLSrZ™*^ziSiuJius. iK.40th St. roe*, and Frl. 'F'hor.e s<s.X>— 33tS.

m g««a m mmiimim \nr. | Mandolla.

t\ U a t-arncgle Hall. Guitar andf+ &n? I Instructor of I Harp.

uTinniVri I*lWeal S4th St SU Slntlni.lIAKI-''^^' Violin. Ba.-.jo. Mandolin. Guitar

MCSIC STBDIOS. taught by compties: tethers.

I™* itLIHCBEBO i mo Instruct SSgTg

SAMUEL 1. BALDWIN S£ &?Ts2r?&ALEXANDER MACFADYEN 3^£?Tup!! of Rudolph Gam Mmllo. 134 Eas: 5.1h St.

WALTER QfICC R T MrSI<*Ai" DIRECTOR.

DUU C n IFOLK SONUS A SPECIALTY. 641 ">lii<li»«>n Air.

!HARPIST i.«kk^ta DELONEConcert!. Instruction, on W. 57th st rhone 1341 Col.

.mi HOEGSBROScandinavian music a specialty. Studio. 128 W. 43U S'..

Dr.FRANKLIN LAW SON, TenoriTeacher of Vole*Production lE. <:dSt. Tel. Mr]

—3Sth.

GEORG KRUGER "SST&ESgrX ami '.'2 Carnegie Hall \u25a0'••: 1330 Colnmbtw

KM/.\BKt» PIfTMCUTC RKCITAL OFWILSON ULEifiCnid CHILDSONUSfor chil>lr«-n a^.l groun-ups. 517 Fourth >*(.. Brooklyn.

OLIVEK ni idv Hasso. Concerts. Teacher ofii. uLHnn Slnjflnif. '-'44 Went 34th St.

,UIIIDIPCUlTafC Violinist. c'on.-erts. nccital*. !mAUnIuC nilRE Instru-f.on. 14-' W. U.ith »t.

Gncci nine Baritone. Concerts. Voice Cult-, UCOLUUSO ure. ;'.20~ \V. 40th St .V Y.

m* Dcurrv innn'Q «'i>dlnKs am! Story T«U-MKS.|UA DtnrtT UUUU o tnK. Hotel;Manhattan.

Irtkl Ijff»Jf<Jf!M TENOR. CARNEGIE HALLlONi JAunuUßi Wedneadaya and Frtdaya.

minnilll Conservatory. Big DE LYBOVI. Dircc:or\PUGGINI Select orcheatra furnished IIK. 116 th st?

REN A LAZELLE o"at»"l"'. .-.:<""\v>'»t EmVa"'"'

vincenzo nUVCLLIvm^^rPEVINCENZO lIUWkLLI I{.,Van m*thoa. • \u25a0•,\u25a0\u25a0> of ihe Royal Conservatory. \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0-.•- Italy.

Preparations for concert, opera, oratorio. 35 \u25a0*. 4.'d st.

SOPHIE FERNOW IXSTKCCmOV.References: Yon Iluelow. Kltmlivorth. SrhurweDka.

Stadia -JIU West Beth St. Phone -'""i River.

•innr MIICIH Virtuoso Violin School. Apply Studio

UllUt InUdlß 810 Carnesle-Hatl. Also Summer term.—C p DCUU CT T V«k»I Instruction.S,U. DCnnC II 827 Csrnegto Hall.

CDUADnT Piano an<l Theory Expert.JOSEPH bnliAnlll l')4 West list St.

\u0084,,,. vrAUillA FREDERIC MARINER.

PIANO TECHNiC sp^im z-.*.***

-Z=

—n mi \u25a0> m' ft ai X- &TKIXWATHALL.

BOWMAN m Te! »*»gß«y*

a rinruurmrDDR. H. J. ELSEwHEIMEH

1 m \u25a0\u25a0nprtTAll Instruction. Piano. Er-.sem-M«r*»rct AHQERTQN b"« -Uw. Carnegi* Hall.

\u25a0V-fILLENrWARRENANDRI^SSpVial 10 le,Son_co^ SeJ ilJ»:fa:!_JJ^

m. STRUSELA..K-N.. Munson, j^jgnJgt.

CECILE BEHRENSBROOKLYN."

ETTA HAMILTON MARTIN,bopkaso-con.br

Tone production.'»-- lai-flist .

STRANGE.There waa a lawyer In B whose name waa

Strange, and it was said thai never since he had

started in his profession had he told a He Bui

one day he died, and a collection was raised among

those who knew him for the erection of a memorial

stone After they got it a dispute arose as to what

would be the most suitable Inscription to put on it.They all had something to say except one indi-vidual, who did not seem to take any interest mthe matte:-, but nothing seemed suitable. At lastthe person referred to was asked what he thoughtabout it.

"Well." said be, "I have something short andsweet. How's this: 'Here lies the body of a lawyerwho never told a lie."

""But people won't know who h 1 was,

'they pro-

tested."Well." he said, "when people see the inscription

they will say That's Strange,' and su it Is."—Tit-Btta

In the next period of fi\e years many newreal irea were added Lectures on ftrst aid to in.?

I and lectures In Yiddish and Italian to

newl) arrived Inunigrants were begun, while In

the \u25a0 rtablishment of ne« centres \'n-- characteristics\u0084r eacb community and the needs of Uw people

were carefullj considered.On April "-. 19^1. tha revised charter was enacted,

and In it provision was made for "free lectures

and courses of instruction for the people of New

York/ The lecture-- in Hroolilyn and Other OUt-lying boroughs were centralized In one great sys-

tem. More courses were arranged, local colleges

and universities were called on fur lecturer?, their

leading professors repeating for the public many

Of their collegiate courses.Between 6,680 and fi.OiO lectures will have been de-

livered by nearly 700 lecturers when the present

season will have ended on April 30 in the 1.200 orI.;;.<i public schools and rented lecture halls.

There *ere no alluring llluatral\u25a0 .ompelled to climb

f,ur flights of stairs to the halla in which I \u25a0

ere given. In the ftrst season 186 lectures onthirty-one topics, were delivered, and the aggregate

attendance "as 22,149, an average of 115 for eachlecture.

in t!i« next five 3 -ais the system was more thoroughly organized Prl I »ere used for the

first time, and the lectures, now under the dir c-tion of Dr. Henrj M. Leipalger. were anmore systematically in groups of allied suTo provide a atrong Incentive to reading and origi-

nal thought, printed syllabi ol the lectures weredistributed. At th- close of tbe season of

-tii. number of centres lnd b* in men ased lo thirty.. io • >tures bad beer given, and the asgregate at-

tendance «as 8W.73i, a \u25a0 of 379 fo;•. ture

Remarkable Extension of System inLast Twenty Years.

Twenty years ago— to be exact. In January. \<&s—free public >ctures were begun by the Board ofKiiucation. In six different schoolhousea in themost tlmklycongested districts the work of adulteducation was begun. The titles of the first lect-ures were "Chemistry of What We Eat and Drink.""Illuminating Gas," '.'American Poets "How toStt:uy Science at Home." '/Constitutional Law"and "Human Machine Shop.'* This month theBoard of Education willend its twentieth and most

popular season of sue.i lectures. Whereas the firstseries, in ISU&. was attended by about 25,000 people,

the present season has attracted about 1,230,000.

As the years have parsed by Ilie lecture' system

has been enlarged and has become a people's uni-versity, wherein the workingman and working

woman have been able at the close of their day oftoil to repair to the nearest centre and learn moreabout their work, enjoy tales of travel and de-scriptions of various countries and discussions ofcity and national problems.

FREE rUHLIC LECTURES.

_ -if the failure r the

Bank*ot Vat \ -• week sh< •

i1• . • . • 8 tuthern

c wall and \u25a0

ted i. William H Carlson, a land boomer.

The result of the graft investigation In Los An-

geles is the indictment of only one ex-Chiefof Police Thomas M. Ilroadhead. He is accused oflevying tribute on pro;*»rty owners and dii ekeep-

ers in the "red light" district. Against ex-Mayor

Harper and other officials who were accused thereis said to be no corroborative evidence !»ufflcient to

c«nvlct.

Extension work practically has been sui

on all the Huntlngton lines or steam and \u25a0

railroad B tern California. EL H. Hunt \u25a0

\u25a0• managers here frankly

\u25a0 that h moi •\u25a0 st ngen :y Is t \u25a0\u25a0• ause ••' the

inment of work on the manj projt t<

I Harrlman is pushing work on the vRoad, and !

-l« pourli.

. iroad developn \u25a0

'•'\u25a0

A strlka*

in isu drl ness waa made this week-. m ne, near Allegheny, In

nty. Tbe ore w:i«' lIn what mln-

sra call a "chimney." and was fully on»-half gold.

Onn piece, weighing - ty-flve pounds, contains

$11 000 In gold.

Tl.e Spring Valley Watei Company baa sub

mined three plans to the supervisors to end I?

present trouble between the corporation acity. The plan which the company favora

increase of 25 per cent in rates, with the in

tag of 10 per cent to be used only with the consent

of the supervisors In betterments. The se-ond is

a :• ]-fr cent Increase, which would mean an ad-

oitlon to I!00O.0M gallons dally to the clty'a water

within two years. The third plan I

per < ent Increase with no g'larnntee of addlthe aupi '>

Th*"supervisors have decided to submit to a vote

or the people the project of buying laml to make a

civic centre at Van Ness avenue and Market street.

The estimated cost of the land is $4.000,w0. The

buildings will cost $4,0».060 more. This is part of

the plan which was designed by Buraham, -.hearchitect, after th" Bre, but though it aims to as-semble the city Hall, courtrooms, public library

and other buildings around a central square, many

are opposed to it now because U will add to the

already large bonded indebtedness of the city.

Captain George C. King, who served In Roosevelfs Rough Riders during the Spanish-AmericanWar and was commended by Colonel Rosevelt forbravery, died here this week after a lone illness.

He was forced to give up his law practice Bye

years aso because of Illness.

W. B. Gates, a racehorse once well known onall American tracks, was sold here this week for

$3 75, and was shot later by the Humane Societj

as no longer able to work. He originally belonged

to George C. Bennett, or Memphis, and was red-

ited with winning $40.'.t00 for his owners.

A new clubhouse on the style of Harvard UnionIs proposed fn.- Stanford Campus where the stu-

dents and the faculty may meet. H. C. Hoover,

of '95. started the movement .nd has been electedpresident of the board of directors, which IncludesProfessor K. D. Adams, Trustee <", B. Crothera,

Dm.I/. Wilbur. Charles K. Field and <-. H.

Halle, it fa estimated that the clubhouse w H

cost J. •

Third Anniversary of the Disaster

of April 18, 1006.\u25a0\u25a0» . -

i[By Telegraph to The Tribune.]

San Francisco. April 24.-No formal celebrationwas held this week on the third anniversary of the

great fire of April 18. 1906, but a significant event

was the opening of the new Orpheum Theatre onthe old site in O'Karrell street, between Powelland Stockton streets. This new theatre is said to

he the finest vaudeville house in the world. It is

absolutely fireproof and Is fitted up with all the

latest appliances, including apparatus for changing

the. air even-- ten minutes. The theatre cost $600,000.

Every seat was sold a week before the opening.

This week also saw the opening of a large res-taurant under the Flood Building, at Market and

Powell streets. This place will be noted for res-taurants, as no less than half a down will be sit-

uated on this corner or within a half block of it.

The movement downtown among retail business

men has become general, and confidence in the rapid

rehabilitation of the old business district has grown

much stronger within the last month.

ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE

HYDRAULIC STREET GRADING.Something is certainly going on in the streets

of Seattle, Wash., and people who have been away

from that thriving city of the West will not be

able to recognize some parts of it when they re-turn. Seattle has been growing rapidly; it hasquadrupled its population in less than twenty years,and business blocks and residence sections havespread rapidly back from Pugel Sound up on tothe hills. And that la what has worried Seattle,for the hills and valleys are of such frequencythai the growth of the place was badly hampered.Then it was that science stepped in and decided to

do what nature had not dfne for Seattle. The hillsmust come down, and down they are coming. Morethan $3,0U0,000 Is being spent In this leveling process.

Steam dredges were tried at first, but it was foundthai the work was too slow, and then the urnsprocess was resorted to as is In use in the hydraulicmining places. The hills are now being washeddown, the tills tilled up, and the tide Rats madesuitable for business and residence sections: hun-dreds of houses, churches and places of businesshave bad to be torn down or moved away, formuch of the "making aver" process has had togo forward in the principal part of the town.

Paved streets have been torn up and water mainsand sewers torn out to be replaced by better oneson different grades, and when the work shall havebeen accomplished, 374 blocks In the heart of thecity will have been remodelled. In one place oneof the principal streets has been lowered 167 feet.and several blocks In other parts of the city havegone down forty-six feel and more.

Rapidity characterizes the work, as the streamsor water used have such a high pressure that thehills melt away under them as snow does under adeluge of hoi water. Flumes are arranged to carry

off the disintegrated earth to the tide flats, wherethe level is accordingly raised. Not Infrequentlya house is to be seen perched forty feet or moreabove the street, and in such cases residents ascendto their front doors by means of long ladders untilsteps can be built.— Pathfinder.

WANTED, A TWO-CENT PIECE.A correspondent asks why the United States cur-

rency does not Include a two-cent piece. Probably itwill surprise tint Inquirer to know that there are

23,631.554 two-cent pieces now "In circulation*' In theUnited States. According to the treasury records,

them were 45,000,000 of these coins minted betweenApril '-"-'. 1864. when the two-cent piece was first au-thorized, ami February IS, 1ST;;, when the Issue wasdiscontinued. Only 18,966.448 \u0084f IP com* had beenretired and melted for recotnaga into cents up toJuly last. coinage of the two-cent piece wai dis-Wueu the coinage of the two-cent piece waa dis-

continued in IST3 there was /no P^te? 11^^0^r.-'wls the bandj coin, ntte.l for th

cldental purchases of the peocle. Tn-

by the factwas ontmued till ISSX Bj" iha •';

price standard had chnniceil. Two-oeriJage was in vogue :>•-

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the two-cent rate. Bargain cowrated the two-cent basts pf cut WjST'aKcent r.lece no longer had n mlssioia. Bi..

of resuminfc the coinage of -«:elL, i* c beenthe convenience of the times the neople na\e £ ffcompelled to use two ,-wins for the most ownwand frequent Incidents of exchange. for w{l; frsingle coin should have been provided. -»>•»\u25a0"

Herald-

STUDIO NOTES.

This summer John W. Nichols, tenor, willhave aspecial course In voice culture, and artist • siag-ing for students and teachers who wish to takeadvantage of the summer vacation. For appoint-ment write Mr. Nichols, at No. 2 East 40th street.

Herbert Pollard, tenor, .1 puj.il or Lillian New-kirk. whose studio is at No. 1425 Broadway. in theMetropolitan opera House Building, has been en-gaged m soloist at St. Andrew's Protestant Episco-

pal Church, Stamford, Conn., from May 1.

Mrs. & H. Harding, of the Harding Studios. No.117 West Ssth street, in addition to conducting asight singing class at her studio, is also directressof a similar class at the New Thought Church inCarnegie iia'.i.

Alfred V. Cornell, tenor, and his artist pupil. Mil-dred Graham Reardou. appeared in a recital lastweek at amber Music Hall, in Carnegie Hall.The second recital took place last Friday eveningat the same place, the programme being shared byWilliam St. John, tenor, and Edith E. Frantz. con-tralto.

I^tst Sunday. Milton Bernard, barytone, assistedCarl Deis, pianist, and Bernard Slnshcimer Intheir third sonata evening, which took pause atthe home of Mrs-. Bernard L«evy. Messrs. Dels »ndSinsheimer, who have devott-d their programmes toBeethoven, played the sonata In E Sat major. Op.12, No. •. and the sonata In G major, Op. 30, No. S.

Mrs Dorothea Mansfield, a soprano pupil of Dr.Franklin Lawsoa, the tenor, was the soloist at aconcert given by the New York Beethoven Man-nerchor on April11. Another pupil, Mrs. GertrudeKnov.les. has accepted a position as soprano soloistof the BtoomlngdU Reformed Church of NewYork.

Last Thursday evening Julian Pascal, pianist andteacher, and Beatrice Bowman Flint, ga\e amusical at No. 23 West o7ih street.

A recital ly the pupils of Max YVtrUtelov- vocal

L.-Ll, THE GIFT WIFE.Clad in ie coat of her "intended" husband.

tir balance as her coining to • n haad a "good heart," the mi?

; and ;! "plastic disposition, m .m servant he hail hopes of moulding her into

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There *re few rules that tan l-e positively laid |

fiown for tne guidance under all circumstances of ;tt« iran whr, would go among ravage peoples but

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there is one. and oddly enough \u25a0\u25a0•'\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0

disregarded entirely. It \u25a0'\u25a0 -'" be comprehensivelyexpressed in. "Keep your eyes and your thoughtseff th« native women as far as possible.

' ™ hat-

«ver be his ftardins in 1>.n.30n or sew Tor*. in

•foreign parts." be tb*»- Fiji. Born* or 1.-ganda.

the "masher- is usually the mashed and the "lady

killer" not Infrequently the killed. Ignoring Uns

rule In the South Pacific lias oecn responsible tor

the snapping off or more lives than sharks have.

Mapped off l^gs. and in Africa brought more whites

to frri^f than hay- linns. _There is a r...m1 <^:.I ..f the l.i«od or Greek and

Arabian traders fowi::gi:i the veins of many mem

Inn of the coastal tribes in the vicinity <>f Mosn-*>asa. and many of the quadroon and octoroon girls

ere posr-ossod /,r lw, little beauty of face and tipure,

and even a. certain coquetry and charm of inner.

Such a one was a liclit skinned youngster of heaven

knows what parentage whom a hunting party of

•which Iv.r.s a n:ember was ence compelled to adopt

temporarily whiU- crossing T-ac broad stretch ofdry

velJt of the upper midland section of British East

Africa. IWe were striking off northeasterly from the :

Vjrj.ndß railroad, heading for what we had been

told was an excellent rhinoceros eountrv. the bro-

ten-up desert Mis beyond the outermost station

ofa x»rominent British missionary society- We **""planning «o =:<• first to the mission, where we had

been assured by Zrieuds on the coast that, should

\u25a0we succeed in making :•- good impression, we would

be ai.lc l«» bay chickens and vegetables of much

hotter quality and at lx>t«or prices than would be

possible in trading with ihe natives."But everything J<?r*>?id!= npon th<_ impression you

make" v.t> were repeatedly rationed. -You need

not necessarily he professing Christians, but your

•caravan mast radiate respectability. Confine every-

thing alcoholic to the medicine cliostF, or cache Jt

before you -^rike the mission, and if any of your

borers take th.ir wives with thr:n. see that these

arc snoJestly draped from '.ie:-.<3 to heel."Allof Y.hiih was borne in mind with metlcuious

particularly in making our arrangcmcntf. Only

our hr::drn:iii. :i couple «f Afkaris and half a dozen jof the porters brought th'ir wives v.ilh them, and

for the- latter wo provided voluminous "Mother

Hubterds.' The tents of the married ones wereiet up in :i ....Uthe camp, the women,

-when on the march, were lined up together under ,Tiie special oar? of :m Askari. and as for ourselves, j

no mediaeval monastery was over run withUss de- jpendence on female service than were our personal j<jjart»r^.

HE WAS SO GRATEFUL.Things were poing on swimmingly under this «r- ,

ransenreut, and we had attalneJ to within four '.

Idays <f the mission when, just as we were making

camp c:ir- :: ban-, of Wan.i-robo. proceed-

ing in a"«iirectlon .-.i right angles to our line of

nutrdi straggled h and l.essrd permission to s.iare

the privilei.- s bl our waterhole. Hair an hour after

their arrival the chief o-r the party, a i<ompous.

blustering rtd fcilow. who weighed at least two

hundred pounds was stricken with agonizing

Icramps hi the abdomen. One of our party w:is a ,

graduate of \\io Sydney (Australia) Medical School.

end i.e. with whiskey, pair. UUer. singer ami hot ;compresses, bro^plu the old rellow out of his \u25a0

torture, after a hard fight! and no doubt saved his \u25a0

life. The chiefs gratitude knew no bounds, and jafter Jicarly slaving in l>oor J.s ribs, thumping jfcim on the back hi :• Bpiiitof thankful apprecia-

f tion, he began making us a cumulative s?ries of

presents, beginning vitb rice and chickens andending with his youngest ai.d .most beautiful wife.

recently curcaased on the coast, so he declared.for a hundred pounds of ivory.

The pir! was undeniably a good deal of a beauty,•s beauty R'>es on the East Coast. Though of adistinctly Ethiopian type: evidences of while blood—

possibly a quarter or an eightli—showed In her

chocolate colored skin and straight nose. She had

large, clear brown eyes, fairly scintillating withmischief J.. to whom, of course, she was sent as

a personal present, veakened a bit at the sight of

l:er and muir.hled something about all of us having

nlot of mending that needed doing, an-i how much

It would ch.-cr ihiiißS to have somebody like that

to «et out the meals, but we sternly overruled him. \u25a0

and, much to the old chiefs astonishment and con-fusion, returned tiie girl to him with thanks.

Next morning the Wandorobo were afoot at sun-rise, our own caravan getting ur.der way an hour

later. We covered about twenty mile* that day.

About midnight we were awakened J»y a commo-tion on the outskirts of the camp, ar.d a couple of

minutes later two Askaris cam;? in marching J.syoung woman, whom they had found lurking near,

between them. She had slipped away from her

party, she declared, and we must take her or she

would starve in the* bush. From what developed J•flier* we were forced to the decision that the jold chief had probably connived in her desertion jas the ijesi moans of pacifying his turbulent housej

LI-LILIKE THE CAT.

Of course, the return of U-li—we figured that |this was her version of Lily,a name, no doubt. Jthat sotne Caucasian on the coast had given her

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ebaadxiS as it did just as we were preparing to jmake our big impression at the mission, was most ,lncppcrtune. '...-:• was Impossible to send her jback to t!.e Wandorobo. and equally out of the Iquestion to turn her loose in the dcse-/t. wis were jJorced to tai;e ber on with u<= and hope for the

best regarding the InttrpretStion the missionary jwould put ujwir. her presence. We would simply jturn her ovor to tho chaperonage of the Waswahili I

ladies of the married brigade, we thought, and

that would be the end of it. li^t it turned out to {

£* only ilie DCEinning.U-llivpardt-d us with reproachful eyes when she

found that she was being led from the comparative Iluxury of our quarters to the stuffy tent of the jheadman arsd his wife, but beyond a petulant toss jaf bar fuzzy brown head gave no evidence of a:i-

Stcyance. The rest of the night passed <iui<*ly.!but about sun-up bediam broke loose in tiie mar- !ried quarters, ar.d we rushed out in our pj'Janias ito find on one fide a. foi^r-corncred figi.t between i

the headn.an, two Askaris and a porter, and onthe ot!;cr a trilled attack by four of the women I

en Li-ii. The latter had already lost a good deal |Of liair and cuticle in lie mSlee. and at the mo- jxnent of our Intervention each of four assailants Jbad pinioned a hand or a foot, wliile a fifth was jplyinga whip of faipi»o hide.

There were too many different versions for thereason cf the row to allow us any hope of sifting

"It out successfully, but we v.-crt iillpretty well j*atis£ed that LJ-li was at the bottom of it. At any 1rate, it was plain that she was persona non grata\u25a0with th» Waswahlll ladies and that 'ife with the

Tied division was no longer practicable for her. iso we marrced her apart in silent loneliness dur- ;lnff th» day. and in pitching cump liad a orate jteat set up for her and placed under the guardian- *ship <•? a trusted Aslciri sentry.

Before long we arrived within a short march of !the mission, and then l«ecame acutely ay.-are of the 'Tact that Li-!i had not even a Mother Hubbard iaaid none of the married women would lend her

'one. Nothing remained but for us to levy a toll

*-upon our own wardrobe. and in a close-throated !khaki coat of military cut from J. and a pair

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of riding breeches ar.d som* spiral puttees from :the other fellows L.i-11 was forced to toll per- !•pirinely along across ihe burning veldt. 11 was

'thus modestly garbt-d ihat we marched her into ithe mission compound ois the following evening. IIthad co»>t us much, but the respectability of our jca.ra.van had been maintained in lbs face of ihe imm*! discouraging' odd£.

..iseionar\, a Jolly old boy with a lifetime {ofexperience In African missions behind him, told Ius that our conuiis was expected, and assured us !

B, i. > . K.Iiiii—sai

IN THE BILL.••Doctor." said the shrewd looking man. "how

many feet of gas does it take to kill a person?"That's rather a queer question." replied the

doctor. "Why do you wish to know?""Well, you see, one of the guests at my Hotel

used enough of it to kill himself, and 1 want tofend in a propel bill tv his extcutora."— lllustratedBit*

•THE GOOD OLD COACHING DAYS."The good old coaching days cannot be said to

have started with the pre-Revolutlonary "'stagewagons," as they were called, and our New Eng-land ancestors were prayerfully solicitous for theirfriends and relatives who ventured southward in

them. The '•rolling stock" of 1795 carried morepassengers, but were scarcely more comfortable.They were virtually springless cars, built to carry

twelve persons. Their scats were merely boards,without either cushions or back rests, with noaccommodation for baggage except such as couldbe packed beneath the seat", and only fourteenpounds was allowed ere Light curtains at thesi<ics furnished the only protection In bad weather.

In such a rig, anil over roads thai still twistedaround charred tree stumps and were filled withthe oft-mentioned ''quagmires,"! the learned Presi-dent Quincy of Harvard came on a visit to NewYork toward the end of the century. He wasalways willing to climb out in the mud to assistthe river In rescuing their machine from ruts orbogs; each morning, whether it was fair or stormy,he was aroused at the dreary hour of 3, anddressed by the sleepy light of a horn lantern andfarthing candle; then, with more haste than theirprogress afterward warranted, he had a frugalbreakfast with his fellow passengers and rattledoff again for another day's tl limpingami bumpinguntil 18 o'clock In the evening. When finally athio destination, he wondered "at the ease as wtllas the expedition, with which the joumas> had beeneffected."Ifancy he must have been more thankful that

his Journey was over than impressed with its "easeand expedition.** »

The hardy drivers of these coaches not Infre-quently fortified their endurance by too numerouspotations of courage making dip or \u25a0•kill devilhim" and then in their exuberance of •.igor theybrought coach and passengers with a crash againsta '.•\u25a0 trunk, or by too reckless manoeuvring "overrot" th« who].- in ih.;roadway. From "On the 01.lBoston Post Road." by Stanley M. Arthurs' InSeribr.er's.

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her sopra Mi-

Marjorie Garfoote, ga • \u25a0

recital with Miss Clara Clemens nt the Three Arts\u25a0 iApril \u25a0•'.. Miss Garfoote has be

as soloist \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 •\u25a0 Ing year at the Scotch Pres-

\u25a0 tral Park Wesi

Tl•\u25a0 > '..'. .' .iid I 'oi of Music, !':! ': Ehard, director, is planning f^.r Its thlrty-sevei

c at thithe •\u25a0\u25a0 ter part of Ma; . \m elab-

orate programme la now Inco I reparation.

i;. ige k and 93-c Hall \ 11 give a pianoforte recital on May

7 In Mount Vernon, N. Y. The programme willcomprise compositions of Beethoven, Chopin, Bras-sin, <;•. iel Izky and Liszt

El ..at No. 1432 *P I

Conn., iat the Chi

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of th< -

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thirtieth annual spring festival concert, on Wednes-day evening. May 5. This evening, under Mr. Rus-sell's direction, 1he Memorial <Thoir will sing Men-delssohn's symphony cantata,- "The Hymn ofPraise." Two artist students of Mr Russell. Mrs.Clifford Marshall and Miss Alice Anthony, will ap-

pear.

Miss Elizabeth K. Patters vocalist and teacher,will give on May 12, In lii"chapter room of Car-negie Hal!, a joint recital with Miis Amy Kay.

pianist

The oratorio of "The <"reation." hy Haydn, willbe sung under the direction of William <'. Carli thisevening in tiie Old First Presbyterian Church. Fifthavenue and nth street. Soloists: Cora Kugeuia

Guild, soprano; Edward W. Gray, tenor, and AndreSarto. barytone.

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