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NEW YORK RAISES MONEY BY BENEFITS
BLANCHE BATES BREAKS DOWN WHILE MAKING SPEECH ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO
SUFFERERS THOUSANDS ATTEND PERFORMANCE AT METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE .
EW YORK, May 7. (Special corre
spondence.) Benefit concerts and
theatrical performances for the
San Francisco sufferers continue to be
the principal topics of interest in the
world of amusement. Indeed, the pall
fell so heavily upon everyone that In or
der to keep up any degree of attention
In the theater it had to be accomplished
that way. Perhaps one of the most in
teresting even outside of the inherent
attractions of the performance, was the
production of "The Girl of the Golden
West," because one felt strongly that
Blanche Bates was in It with her whole
spirit and her warmest sympathy. Of the
play I have written before, and the only
addition made was the appearance of
David Warfleld who was offered as a
special attraction. His entrance was ef
fected by means of the "academy boys"
in the notable schoolroom scene where
"the girl", teaches her boys for the last
time. A new' pupil is announced, and
when ' urged forward "the girl" asked
'What Is your name?" the new pupil
answers. "Dave Warfieid." "Where are
you from?" Is the next question. "Prom
San Francisco." answered Warfleld. At
this the teacher gives utterance to the
heartiest sort of a hearty, "Glad you're
herel" which promises to become either
a by-word or a slang, as you choose to
call It, since you hear It on all sides. To
return, however, to Warfleld and his
specialty act." He was then asked to
recite, and he did. James Whltcomb
Riley has never been heard as he was
upon this occasion. Of course, the fa
vorite was recalled time and again, and
as third encore gave "Good-bye, Jim,
Take Care of Yourself." Between the
third and fourth acts, after the great
poker-game scene, where "the girl"
plays the Sheriff for the life- of the
road agent. Miss Bates, called before the
curtain, took the opportunity to address
the enormous audience on the subject of
the San Francisco disaster. She broke
down completely and sobbed aloud. She
said In part. "I want to thank you for
responding so readily to the needs of the
poor sufferers In San Francisco. You
don't know what It means, you can't
know what It means, but I do, because I
am one of them, and nothing that can
ever be built again will be that dear old
beautiful San Francisco, every inch of
which wo Westerners love so devotedly.
There stood the Cliff House. Many of
us never went there, perhaps few of the
real San Francisco people ever went out,
but we knew If was there and we loved
It because it was there, and Chinatown
with its dirty, nasty, smelly streets and
slleys. didn't we love every corner of It.
lust the same, and weren't we proud of
its plctureaqueness?
"Oh. it Is not possible to believe that
that is all gone, and the warm-hearted,
whole-souled peorle who have always
given so willingly and so freely are now
thrown upon the mercy of the country!
But how nobly the whole country has
responded."
Upon this Miss Bates drew fflpm some
hidden recesa of her dress the poker
hand used on the night of the first pro
Suction of the "Girl From the Golden
West." and explaining that while she was
not superstitious, she had kept It for
good luck, adding at the same time that
actors never were superstitious, but if
rou were to go through their accessories
rou would find any number of old horso
thoes and things inexplicable In the pos
session of a sane person who Is not su-
perstitlous.
Miss Bates then proceeded to auction
tach card, the hand consisting of three
aces and a pair, and to make It more In-
teresting, she promised to autograph
! them. When the ace of diamonds brought
i $60 she was so delighted that Bhe waved
her hands wildly and said:
"Oh! Oh! You may have a great, big
autographed picture of me thrown in!"
The hand brought $77, and Miss Bates
said:
"Never mind,- I'll put in the rest, and
we will make It $100."
Perhaps the climax In the auctioneer's
department occurred when Robert Hill
lard made his appearance before the cur
tain carrying a tiny silk bag, out of
which protruded the head of a beautiful
fox terrier, which Mr. Milliard offered at
25 cents a chance, the only request being
that the winner should name it "The
Girl," notwithstanding the fact that it
wasn't "that kind of a dog."
The dog was then placed in charge of
Mrs. Bates, who, by the way, had the
personal direction of the bazaar, which
furnished as much entertainment as the
performance itself.
What Mrs. Bates does not know about
dogs may be understood from the fact
that as the crowd filed out she called
from the elevated platform in the lobby:
"Won't you please take a chance on this
dear, little Boston bull?"
Being proud of my own understanding
of dogs, I exclaimed in desperation: "I
am sure. Mrs. Bates, the pedigree will
show that this Boston bull's ancestors
were fox terriers as far back as you can
trace."
She looked terribly grieved and said:
"I guess so, but although Blanche has
nine. I don't know one dog from an
other." Those who assisted Mrs. Bates In sell
ing flowers, candy, programmes, auto
graphed photograph picture postals and
the music used in the play, which were
the old songs of '49, were Relna Belasco.
Augusta Belasco, Katberlne Grey, Ada
Lewis, Minnie Dupree, Mrs.. David War
flekt. Olive Flammer, Mrs. A. B. Sloane,
Adelaide Manola. Edith Schmitt, Jessie
Oliver. .- Vlolette - Wren Collins, Frances
Keenan, Madge West, Mrs. James Picken,
May Buckley, Ruby . Robs, Helen Ross,
Miss Jacobson, Marjorie Knowles, B.
Chandon. Miss Frost, Maude Langdon
and others. The performance netted $aXK).
Thursday afternoon a benefit, perform
ance was (riven of the '"Music Master"
without the basaar. although photographs
of Mr. WTarfleld and programmes were
sold between the acts. It Is Impossible
to see this extremely beautiful play with
out realizing in It Charles Klein reached
his height. It seems a pity to pick flaws,
and in the "Music Master" there Is but
one, but it Is to a thoughtful mind a glar
ing one. The plot has been told so often
that it Is too well known to require a
reminder, and WarBeld's characterisa
tion of the part is, beyond doubt, the
most remarkable work, not only of this
season, but perhaps of any season at any
time In any country- When he Is teach
ing music to what the audience knows
to be his own child, a young girl, upon
that day 19. who had been accustomed to
most cultured soclet- and who could not
have been utterly and absolutely devoid
of the slightest musical talent with such
a father, her apparent stupidity at the
piano grates very disagreeably.
No stagecraft need call for such treat
ment to bring a laugh, because it is
overbalanced by the logical fact that
blood must count or something, end
while we meet In every run of life chil
dren who do not Inherit the talents of
parents they are not to such an extent
entirely Ignorant of time, rhythm and
everything musical. For the sake of va
riety and additional - attraction Blanche
Bates appeared in one of the minor parts
and was greeted by showers of applause.
The occasion called for her making
adieus to everyone in the drawing-room,
and when Bhe said good-bye to the "Mu
sic Master" her spirit of mischief could
not be suppressed, and as a return of
compliment, taking his hand, she said,
"Good-bye, Jim; take care of yourself."
The way It was received proved that
many were there who had been at the
matinee "on Tuesday afternoon, and saw
the point.
Probably the most gigantic performance
ever seen in this country was the benefit
given under the auspices of the combined
theater managers of Greater New York,
which lasted from 11 o'clock In the morn
ing until 12 o'clock at night.
That this performance netted . $33,000
proves that tickets were sold with the In
tention of dividing the performance Into
two sections, but when 6 o'clock came a
very large number who had been In their
seats from 11 In. the morning absolutely
refused to leave to make room for the
thousands who were surging outside wait
ing for entrance. All seats were $1 and
so this probably represented the greatest
value in theatrical history.
The managers attempted to clear the
house; that falling, a squad ADf policemen,
captain, sergeant and men attempted It
with very little better results. They
turned down the lights, all to no avail,
while 10,000 people In the street were
stamping and foaming at the mouth to
get in. Almost to an Individual they
kept their seats until the . lights were
turned on again at 7 o'clock.
This was a repetition of the "Parsifal"
excitement, e-en to grips and "dress-suit
cases containing lunch, everything from
pickles to hard-boiled eggs. And . the
crumbs! And the eggshells! The Metro
politan Opera-House turned into plcnlo
ground. Impossible to conceive.
When the doors were thrown open for
the evening performance the people
trooped in by thousands and those who
were in retained their seats. . There were
mothers with babies who held the little
ones hour after hour and children peeled
oranges and bananas over the Vanderbllt
and Plerpont Morgan boxes. In the boxes
refreshments were served by well-known
actresses, who found ready customers for
sandwiches tea, chocolate, and the price
paid depended upon the popularity of the
actress. Amelia Bingham sold sandwiches
and Lillian Russell sold programmes as
fast as she could hand them out. Emma
Eames. who was standing in the lobby,
was recognised, and, emboldened by the
general atmosphere, one woman who rec
ognised her asked for her autograph. This
set Madame Eames up In business, and
she autographed 20 at $1 apiece. John
Drew dropped in to see the performance,
but he proved too valuable an asset in the
autograph business, so he was put to work
and was kept busy until he was compelled
to leave without seeing the performance.
This was also the case with Ethel Barry
more. . Bijou Fernandes and Emma Frohman
old all the photographs-they could handle
for $6. Verona Jarbeau sold Ices for 50
cents and took a deposit for the spoons.
Conditions became very serious in the
evening because there was an Immense
number of people who had bought tickets
and could not get In on account of those
who refused to leave.
Nearly all the other theaters of the city
opened their doors to the holders of the
benefit performance tickets who could not
get In. The Empire, across the street,
took the greater part of the overflow. The
most Interesting event of the evening was
the auctioning of a programme containing
autographs of all the star performers.
Charles Burnham acted in the caapcity
of auctioneer. After it reached $200 It
Jumped by $50 leaps to $550. At this point
a woman in one of the boxes called: "I
will give $1000 for it." The buyer was
Lotta Crabtree, for whom the Lotta foun
tain, in San Francisco, was named.
One of the most striking events of the
evening was the singing of "The Star
Spangled Banner" to the orchestra accom
paniment, with Victor Herbert conducting.
The entire house arose in a body and
there were few who realized that the tre
mendous voice heard above them all was
that of Madam Schumann-Heink, who
was standing, ready to leave, with a black
lace scarf over her head and an enormous
buuch of American Beauties in her arm.
When she caught the first strains she
rushed forward to join the singers and
waved her roses instead of the flag which
she has Just adopted.
Another souvenir of the evening was a
pair of long white kid gloves belonging
to Bijou Fernandez, which had the auto
graphs of most of the stars written all
over them. Seven hundred and fifty dol
lars was refused for them. Miss Fer
nandez, who had charge of the sales de
partment, took in $1200 from the sale of
flowers, photographs and programmes
alone. ;
Following the overture the Kitafuka
Troupe, Gus Edwards Messenger Boys,
Julius Tannen, Yvette Gullbert, Hoey and
Lee, and Fred Niblo appeared In order.
Then came a presentation of the first act
of Sousa's new comic opera, the "Free
Lance," which was In turn succeeded by
Elsie Janls, Otis Harlan, with the Con
stantino Sisters and chorus from "The
Vanderbllt Cup," the Four Mortons, Ves
ta Victoria, a turn entitled "Wanted:
One' Thousand Milliners for the Klondike
Gold Diggings"; Blartche Ring, Mme. Jo
sephine Jacoby, Florence Roberts in the
"Ballad of Despair," a sketch from "The
Rollicking Girl," by Sam Bernard ; . Hat
tie Williams, Willard Simms, and Viney
Daly, Minnie Maddern Flske. Georgia
Caine, and the third act of "Mr. Hop
klnson." After the Intermission these artists ap
peared: Carroll Johnson, Kitty Gordon
and her "English Girls," the Military Oc
tet, the Four Fprds. Vesta Til ley, George
Cohan, Lillian Russell and Clifton Craw
ford. Mrs. Balllngton Booth delivered an
address.
In the evening a special musical pro
gramme was provided. This was followed
by Ethel Barrymore In "Carrots," Dazle,
the girl with the "Red Domino," and the
Kaufman Troupe.
The overture of the musical programme
was Wagner's "Rlenzl." played by Vlctur
Herbert's orchestra. Miss Carrie Bride
well then sang an aria from "Samson and
Delilah," and Miss Aus der Ohe played
Liszt's Hungarian Fantasle. David Bis
pham gave two of. his familiar selections,
and Emma Eames sang "Cherry Ripe"
and George Henschel's "Spring." She was
accompanied by Isidore Luckstone.
Miss Maude Powell played Ernst's
"Fantasle d'Otello." Mme. Lillian Blau
velt sang the Brahms "Lullaby," a Mos
kowski selection from "The Nations"
and the waits song from "Romeo and
Juliet.'' Rafael Joseffy played Chopin's
Chant Polonaise and Liszt's Hungarian
Rhapsody. Mme. Schumann-Helnk sang
"Die Allmacht," and Victor Herbert and
his orchestra concluded the programme,
with the "Grand American Fantasie."
Talking Machine Beat.
-Lipplncott's.
At an entertainment one evening,
young Mr. Taney was introduced to a
woman whose friends always spoke of
as being a "splendid conversational
ist," "Talks some, doesn't she?" asked an
admiring friend half an hour later.
"She does,' assented the victim.
"She only gave jne time to say "yes
sura,' and when we quit I was about
sixty- 'yessums' behind,"
SIX YEARS IN UNITED STATES SENATE
Personal Recollections of Judge George H. Williams. No. XXIII George
Bancroft's Estimate of Abraham Lincoln.
CONGRESS passed a concurrent reso
lution designating the 12th of Febru
ary, 1S66, for memorial exercises on
account of the death of President Lin
coln, who was assassinated by John
Wilkes Booth on the 14th of April, 1865.
Hon. Edwin M. Stanton was appointed
orator for the occasion, but declined the
appointment, presumably on account of
ill health. George Bancroft, the his
torian, was then selected. On that day
the President, the heads of the depart
ments, the Justices of Ihe Supreme Court
and other officials, with the Senate, as
sembled In the hall of the House of Rep
resentatives and the exercises were
opened by a long prayer by Rev. C. B.
Boynton, chaplain of the House. He
prayed for everybody, from the President
all the way down through officialdom, in
cluding the Army and Navy, and while I
reverently listened, I was reminded of
what a fellow said about a prayer he
heard in a Boston church. He said he
thought it was the most eloquent prayer
ever offered up to a congregation.
Mr. Bancroft was then introduced in
an appropriate speech by Speaker Colfax,
Mr. Bancroft was the author of the his
tory of the United States from the dis
covery of America to the Inauguration
of President Washington, and In my
Judgment it is one of the most fascinating
and at the same time one of the most
reliable histories ever written. Mr. Ban
croft was Secretary of the Navy In the
administration -of President Polk, and by
him was appointed Minister to Great
Britain. He was appointed Minister to
Germany by President Johnson and re
mained there during the administration
of General Grant, and was greatly In
strumental in securing a decision favor
able to the United States by the Emperor
of Germany, who was the arbiter be
tween Great Britain and the United
States under the Treaty of Washington
for the settlement of the Alabama claims.
I was one of a dinner party at the
residence of Secretary Seward in Wash
ington one evening, and had the pleasure
of sitting at the table next to. Mr. Ban
croft. During our conversation I said to
him: "Mr. Bancroft, you are acquainted
with all the distinguished men in Europe
and the United States; whom of all the
men you have known, do you consider
the greatest man?" and he answered
without hesitation. "Bismarck."
I have thought that some extracts from
the memorial address of Mr. Bancroft
would be interesting to the readers of
The Sunday Oregonlan. Everybody en
Joys reading anything that has been said
authoritatively about the ' history and
characteristics of Mr. Lincoln. His ad
dress was scholarly, like all the produc
tions of his pen, and among other things
he said: "The choice of America fell on
a man born west or the Alleghenles In
the cabin of poor people of Hardin Coun
ty, Kentucky. His mother could reed
but could not write; his father could do
neither, but his parents sent him with
an old spelling book to school, and he
learned in his childhood to do both. When
S years old he floated down the Ohio
with his father on a raft, which bore
the family and all their possessions to
the shore of Indiana, and child as he
was he gave help as they tolled through
dense forests to the Interior of Spencer
county. There in the land of free labor
he grew up In a log cabin with the
solemn solitude as his teacher In his
meditative hours; of Asiatic literature
he knew only the Bible; of Greek, Latin
and mediaeval, no more than the trans
lation of 'Aesop's Fables ;' of English.
John Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress.' The.
traditions of George Fox and William
Penn passed to him dimly along the lines
of two centuries through his ancestors,
who were Quakers. Otherwise his edu
cation was altogether American. The
Declaration of Independence was his
compendium of political wisdom; the life
of Washington his constant study, and
something of Jefferson and Madison
reached him .through Henry Clay, whom
he honored from boyhood. For the rest,
from day to day he lived the life of the
American people, walked In Its light, rea
soned with its reason, thought with its
power of thought, felt the beatings of
Its mighty heart, and so in every way
was a child of nature, a child of the
West, a child of America. ...
"This is no time to say that human
glory Is but 'dust and ashes, that we
mortals are no more than shadows in
pursuit of shadows. How mean a thing
were man if there were not that within
him which is higher than himself, If he
could not master the Illusions of' sense
and discern the connection of events by
a superior light which comes from God.
He so shares the divine Impulses that he
has power to subject interested passions
to love of country and personal ambition
to the ennoblement of his kind. Not in
vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped
to make this Republican an example of
Justice with no caste but the caste of
humanity. The heroes who led our ar
mies and ships into battle Lyon, Mc
pherson, Reynolds, Sedgwick, Wadsworth,
Foote, Ward and fell in the service did
not die in vain; they and the myriads of
nameless martyrs and he, the chief mar
tyr, died willingly 'tha the government
of the people, by the people and for the
people shall not perish from the
earth.' ... - -
- "In his character, Lincoln was through
and through an American. He is the first
native of the region west oi the Alle
ghenles to attain to the highest station
and how happy It is that the man who
was brought forward as the natural out
growth and first fruits of that region
should have been of unblemished purity
in private life, a good son, a kind hus
band and a most affectionate father, and,
as a man. so gentle to all. As to integ
rity, Douglas, his rival, said of him:
'Lincoln 1s the honestest man I ever
knew.' The habits of his mind were those
of meditation and Inward thought. He
excelled In logical statement more than
In executive ability. He reasoned clearly,
his reflective Judgment was good and his
purposes were fixed, but, like the Hamlet
of his only poet, his will was tardy In
action, and for this reason and not from
humility or tenderness of feeling, he
sometimes deplored that the duty which
devolved on him had not fallen to the
lot of another. He was skillful In analy
sts, discussed with precision the central
Idea upon which a question turned, and
knew how to disengage it and present it
by Itself In a few homely, strong, old'
English words that would be Intelligible
to all.' He delighted to express his opin
ions by an apothegm. Illustrate them by
a parable and drive them home with a
story. ...
"Lincoln was one of the most unassum
ing of men. In time of success he gave
credit for it to those whom he employed;
to the people and to providence of God.
He did not know what ostentation is;
when he became President he was sad
dened rather than elated, and his con
duct and manner showed more than ever
his belief that all men are born equal.
;ie was no respecter of persons, and
neither rank nor reputation, nor services
overawed him. In judging of character
pointments were sometimes bad, but he
. .. . . I 1
appointing tne neaa oi me ariiues e
followed the manifest preference of Con
gress. ... It was the nature of Lin
coln to forgive. When hostilities ceased
he who had always sent forth the flag
with every one of Its stars in the field,
was eager to receive back his returning
countrymen and meditated some new
announcement to the South. The amend
ment of the Constitution abolishing sla
very had his most earnest and unwearied
support. During the rage of the war we
aet a glimpse of his soul from his pri
vately suggesting to Louisiana that In
defining the franchise some of the col
ored people might be let In, saying: 'They
would probably help in some trying time
to come, to keep the Jewel of liberty In
the family of freedom.' . .... .
"Lincoln gained a name by discussing
questions which of all others led to fanat
icism, but he was never carried away by
enthusiastic zeal, never Indulged In ex
travagant lnnguage, never hurried to
support extreme measures, never allowed
himself to be controlled by sudden im
pulses. During the progress of the elec
tion at which he was chosen President,
he expressed no opinion that went be
yond the Jefferson "proviso of 1784. T.Ike
Jefferson and La Fayette, he had faith
In the Intuitions of the people and read
those intuitions with rare sagacity. He
knew how to bide his time, and was
less apt to run ahead of public opinion
than to lag behind. He never sought to
electrify the public by taking an ad
vanced position with a banner of a sec
tion, but rather studied to move forward
compactly, exposing no detachment In
front or rear, so that the course of his
administration might have been ex
plained as the calculating policy of a
shrewd and watchful politician, had there
not been seen behind it a fixedness of
principle which from the first determined
his purpose and grew more Intense with
every year, consuming his life by its
energy. ...
"The last days of his life beamed with
sunshine, and he sent to the Speaker ot
the House his friendly greetings to ths
men of the Rocky Mountains, and the
Pacific Slope, as he contemplated the re
turn of hundreds of thousands of sol
diers to fruitful Industry, as he wel
comed in advance hundreds of thousands
of emigrants from Europe, as his eye
kindled with enthusiasm at the coming
wealth of the nation, and so with those
thoughts for his country he was removed
from the tolls and temptations of this
life and was at peace. . . . As the
.nm nf sit . fhA tinnri nf TJnrrtln TAtaerf
the flag, the American people were the
heroes of the war. and therefore the re
sult Is a new era of republicanism. The
disturbances of the country grew not
out of anything republican, but of
elavery. which is a, part of the system
of hereditary wrong, and the expulsion
of this domestic anomaly opens to the
renovated nation a career of unthought
of dignity and glory. Henceforth our
country has a moral unity as the land of
free labor. The party tor slavery and
the -party against slavery are no more,
and are merged in the party of union
and freedom. The States which would
have left us are not brought back as con
quered States, for then we could hold
them only so long as that conquest could
be maintained; they come to their right
ful places under the Constitution as orig
inal, necessary and Inseparable members
of the Union, and we build monuments to
the dead, but no monuments of victory.
We respect the example of the Romans,
who never even In conquered lands raised
emblems of triumph, and our General
are not to be classed In the herd of vul
gar conquerors; they have used their
swords only to give peace to their coun
trv and restore her to her place in the
great assembly of nations."
GEO. 11. WILLIAMS.
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