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APPEARANCE OF DAVID BISPHAM, MARCH
30, WILL BE , IMPORTANT MUSICAL EVENT
This Celebrated Singer to Be Heard at Closing Concert of Portland Symphony Orchestra.
THE announcement of David Bisp
ham as soloist with the Portland
Symphony Orchestra for the con
cert to be given March 30 has aroused
the most enthusiastic Interest in the
concert, and this promises to be the
largest audience the orchestra has ever
played before. The famous baritone
has been singing: to packed houses
throughout the present tour. There
is no question in the minds of those
who are familiar with his attainments
that there is no singer in America or
Kurope capable of such variety of work
In opera, oratorio and song: recital as
Mr. Bispham. The Baltimore News re
cently referred to an appearance of Mr.
Bispham in that city as follows:
"Mr. Bispham sang to a packed house
last night. ' The celebrated baritone
was in his best voice, and the concert
was altogether one of the finest ever
given In this city."
The press notices across the country
have been nothing but accounts of his
triumphs. In San Francisco he sang
to packed houses at four concerts. Mr.
Bispham is actor as well as singer.
In hearing and seeing him the audience
Koems actually to witness the charac
ters whose emotions his marvelous art
portrays. In dainty things his voice
i mellow, sweet and sympathetic, while
in dramatic selections it reveals qual
ities of richness and robustness that
Mi-ouse one to the intensest enthusi
Hsni. He is the artist through and
through, and possesses rare interpreta
tive power and dramatic skill. " One
need only to look ' at his face to see
that he has a fine intellectual mind,
and it is his application of it to his
voice that has placed him in the en
viable position he holds among .concert
ulngers.
Mr. Blspham's programme for Fort
lurid is an unusually interesting one,
including several numbers with which
lils name is always associated. "Ho,
Jolly Jenkln" 'and "The Templar's
Song" from Sullivan's "lvanhoe." he
will sing with orchestra. "Hark, Hark,
the Iark" - (Schubert), "The Frost
Scene" (Purcell). "The Mad Dog" (Liza
Irfhmann), and "Dannyj)eever" are in
preparation.
David Bispham's rich, mellow voice
is always a delight to his audiences
and his excellent musicianship is edu
cational as well as entertaining. In
the San Francisco Examiner Thomas
Nunan wrote: "With voice as rich, as
an old "cello. David Bispham, always a
favorite in San Francisco, sang an all
Knglish programme, and he was wel
romed as though the people thought
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he had been away altogether too long."
This concert will unquestionably
show the orchestra at its best. The
work together under Mr. Rosebrook's
efficient direction is telling in the fin
ish and smoothness. Waidemar Lind
will act as concertmeister, and his abil
ltyin that capacity is well known. The
symphony to be played is Beethoven's
First. In the First Symphony Beethoven
is not as heroic nor as oppressively sad
as in the symphonies he wrote later.
This work is delightful' from beginning
to end. This will be the last concert
to be given by the orchestra this
season.
Definite Plans for Second
Musical Festival Announced
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, With Ten Soloists and Four Great Singers,
to Be Heard April 30 and May 1 and 2.
THE second annual Musical Festival
will be given in this city at the '
Armory the evenings of April 30
nd May 1 and 2, and tha afternoons of
May l and 2, making all told five con
certs. This stupendous affair will com
prise the came two organizations as last
year, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra of
SO musicians and the Portland Festival
Chorus of SOO voices. The orchestra will
be under the direction of the noted con
ductor, Adolph Rosenbeoker, who made
euch a decidedly good impression last
year, and W. H. Boyer. of Portland, will
again be at the directing end of the
baton for ttie Festival Chorus.
Coming with the orchestra from the
Eat will be four celebrated vocal solo
ists, three of whom we are able to an
nounce at the present time, and the
fourth, the tenor soloist, will be made
known In a few days. The soprano will
be the gifted high soprano Aida Hemmi.
who is well known in this city, having
appeared here with operatic organizations
in the past few years. This will be wel
come news to the music-lovers in this
community, as this clever artist Is rated
as one of the most scholarly singers that
ever came to this city. Miss Hemmi has
been accorded the highest praise from the
Eastern musical critics for her excellent
work both in oratorio and grand opera.
The basso will be Frank Arthur Preisch,
recently returned from Europe, where he
sang at Oovent Garden, London, for the
past three years, and of whom many kind
words have been said wherever he has
been heard. The contralto will be Miss
Julia Helnrlch, daughter of the celebrated
musician and composer, whom we will
mention later.
Together with the artists named will be
the world-famous pianist. Myrtle Elvyn,
of whom the East lias heard a great deal,
hut the West only by her splendid repu
tation in tlie musical papers. Included
In the orchestra will be ten instrumental
sulnlsts. among whom Is the sterling fa
vorite of last season, Franz "Wagner, cel
lo soloist, and the gifted artist. Guy
"Woodard, solo violinist and concert mas
ter. The chorus will be heard at every
one of the five concerts. The chorus
numbers at two of the concerts will run
IS or 20 minutes, and the remainder of
the concert will be devoted to the orches
tra and soloists, both instrumental and
vocal. The entire programmes will be
published in a short t'me.
The following numbers will be given by
the combined chorus and orchestra: Sul
livan's "Golden Legend," "Hail, Bright
Abode," from "Wagner's "Tannha'user" ;
Gaul's "Holy City," Rossini's "Stabat
Mater," up to and including the famous
"Inflammatus," and 'The Sanctus," from
Gounod's , "St. Cecilia" mass. The fore
going worlts- together with several sym
phonies by the orchestra and the vocal
and instrumental solos and classical-popular
selections, will go to make the
greatest musical feast the Northwest has
ever had.
Permits for season tickets to the five
concerts are now being sold by the mem
bers of the Festival Chorus and at Edlers
Piano House at $1 each. There are 2000
of these permits to be disposed of In the
following manner: The first cost is $1;
the holder is then entitled to secure Ave
tickets to each of the concerts in the best
$150 seats in either the lower floor or the
balcony by paying an additional $2 for the
five tickets; or Ave of the $1 tickets to
each of the tlve concerts by paying an
additional $1. In other words, the sub
scriber gets J7.50 Worth of tickets for $3
or $5 worth of tickets for J2-. These per
mits will be on exchange at Eilers Piano
House beginning Monday, March 29, and
continuing until April 6, after which no
more season tickets will be sold.
The regular individual concert sale will
open Monday, April 19, at Eilers, at the
regular $1.60 and $1 prices for each con
cert, and one can readily see the advan
tage In securing a permit, not only for
the saving to the subscriber, but because
it will assure the financial success of one
of the greatest benefits that could be
granted the cause of music in the Northwest.
of the May wheat deal. . There is an
other Patten George A.: a brother
who manages to keep himself in retire
ment so far as public notice is con
Crn George Patten furnishes a lot
or the brain that maps out the wheat
campaign. He is younger than his
brother, but what he. does "not know
about the speculative game would not
fill a. very large book. James A. Pat
ten is the cmnmaiiiliir.in.niii .... v-
details are left largely, to his talented
brother. The elder man is content to
be spokesman, who stands between his
business and the public. It is he who
gives out the arirolf i !
"nulates the whys and
wherefores for public consumption. It
with ,.7 : If nacked up
oi i V --a.pl Lai. it takes cap!
tal to engineer a deal like this.
Dunne Becomes Broken Idol.
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Rroir t ... m t0Wn ""J'ed "A
m? oL That t,Ue- use1 Jl a J-
ij5enTt,mi?ht fittingly applied
a ue' ex-Mayor of Chi
cago Mr. Dunne seems to have a
greater faculty than most men of pick-
W oman Suffragists Arm for
Battle of Lives in Illinois
Measure Inserted in New Chicago Charter Man Behind Scenes in Wheat
Deal Joke on Railroads in Standard Case ExMayor
Dunne Is Broken Idol.
BY JONATHAN PALMER.
CHICAGO, March 20. (Special.)
Matters are shaping In Illinois for
a concerted attack by woman suf
fragists on tho State legislature now
in session at Springfield. It is hardly
expected the London melodrama will
be duplicated, but scenes are looked
for quite as lively and picturesque as
those staged at Albany. There are
many aggressive suffragettes in Chi
cago who are primed for the battle of
their lives. The charter convention
which is trying to frame a new or
ganic law for Chicago has laid the
groundwork for the tight, and already
rumbling of resentment come from
Hprlngtield. By a vote of 20 to 11 the
delegates to the convention ha,e ap
proved a bill giving the women of
ChlcHKO the right to vote at muntcipal
elections, the only limitations being
those prescribed by the state consti
1 tution.
This charter convention is composed
or ritlzens who have volunteered to
give their time to debating proposals
and drafting bills. These bills must
bo sent to the legislature, individually
or as parts of a formal charter. The
jtate colons will approve or reject them.
In the former event they must be re
ferred back to the electorate of Chi
rajro for Its verdict. The last Legisla
ture spnrovjd a charter. The people tied
a can to It.
Ileal Battle Is Women's.
Now there are bills to divorce the
-lty courts absolutely from politics, to
grant women the franchise, to give the
voters the right to recall officials who
may be derelict, and others of like
advanced ground. So diverse are the
particular fads of the delegates that to
make progress things have been ap
proved which probably the majority
did not privately indorse. The real
battle will swirl and eddy around the
woman suffrage bill. All the influ
ence and resources of its friends will
be marshaled for the cause, because,
if the wedge be entered in Chicago, the
second city of the Nation, It is be
lieved by many suffragettes that the
task of securing general suffrage will
be simplified. It is this view which
points the promise of lively doings at
the capital.
Patten Is Man of Hour.
"What might be called the other side
of the wheat drama is something the
public hears very little about. The
fireworks displa- takes place on the
floor of the Board of Trade. It is that
the crowd sees and hears, that from
which it gets its thrills and that it
reads about in the papers. ' For weeks
the other side behind the scenes, if
you will-r-has been in the office of the
Pattens. In this ciuiet. m-im. business
like place, where nobody seems to get
ruffled or excited, the daily programme
for the pyrotechnics is made out and
touched off. To go from the pit to this
office is like going from a sawmill into
a country parlor, minus the smell of
must.
Chicago claims airect proprietorship
In one member of the Cabinet and in
direct proprietorship in another, and is,
therefore, somewhat primped up in
spirit, but if the amount of public
talk means anything in setting one
forth as "tue man of the hour." James
A. Patten is that man. He is getting
more local newspaper space than all
the members of the Cabinet put to
gether He takes his notoriety quietlv.
He is used to it. Walk into his office
when pit excitement ts at its height,
when men are transformed into ani
mals and babel comes down, and you
will find him calmly giving directions,
mapping out field maneuvers and act
ing quite as nochalantly as, if he were
ordering a simple breakfast of grape
fruit, bacon and eggs. If he hasn't
the "poker face," he at least has the
poker mien and the steady nerves of
lack of nerves behind it.
As a matter of fact, James A. Patten
Is getting rather more than his pro
portionate or just share of fame out
Ing out a place on the . toboggan that
whirls one down and away from popu
larity. His latest deseension took place
when he refused to attend the Iroquois
Club banquet to Judge Dickinson, the
new Secretary of War. His reason ts
now stale with age so far as the press .
is concerned. Indeed, his fellow Demo- '.
crats of the Iroquois Club thought it
was in Its dotage when it was born. Mr.
Dunne's reason was, in brief, that in ac
cepting a place In a Republican Cabinet
Judge Dickinson was disloyal to hie
party and should be spurned by the
faithful.
Those who attended the banquet say It
was pitiful the ridicule that . was heaped
on the name of Dunne. Every mention
of his letter of refusal to attend the
spread was-greeted with derisive laugh
ter, behind which was tacit comment
that would have humiliated 'most men.
Mr. Dunne has kept silence since that
night, but there is reason to believe he
feels himself a martyr to the cause, of
true Democracy rather than the laughing
stock of his party. That the latter is his
correct status it needs only a little min
gling with Democratic leaders to deter
mine. Joke Is on Railroads.
Behind the scenes of the "second so
called $29,000,000 Standard Oil case, which
was virtually " thrown out of court by
Judge A. B. Anderson with an order to
the Jury for a verdict of not guilty, is
one of the Biggest and most costly jokes
in the corporation history of the coun
try. The joke is on the railroads and the
laugh belongs to the Standard Oil crowd.
In the case in which Judtre Landis
fined the oil corporation S29.24O.OO0. the
verdict was . returned on evidence fur
nished almost entirely by railroad offi
cials. It was the understanding amonc
them that they were to be immune from
prosecution as a result of anything they
line ii t y. jne oianaara un people
were without the charmed circle. They
were the bad boys upon whom alone pun-
isnment should be visited. They got it
on paper. The railroad men chuckled
and supposed it . was the real thing. The
Federal Court of Appeals overruled the
lower court and advised it to try again.
une government attorneys peeled off
their coats' for the second lickinK of
Standard Oil, but Referee Anderson,
otherwise the judge, ruled out one style
of attack after another. Then he de
clared the scrap oft and turned' on the
boys who had "told on" Standard Oil.
These boys are the railroad officials. It
looked to him, he said, as If those boys
were due for a walloping. Therein lies
the joke.
It. was proven" to the satisfaction of the
court that the railroads are not publish
ing "fixed tariff schedules" in accordance
with the law and that Standard Oil had
no means of knowing It was doing wrong
in accepting the rate it enjoyed. It' is
up to the railroads, therefore, to publish
auuii rmts at great expense to tnemseives
and. if they fall - to do so, they can be
punished severely. As a matter of fact
they can be chastened for what they al-
reaay nave tailed to do, says Judge An-
aerson.- ,.
Banker, Politician, Composer.
To be an expert in practical finance, a
politician who knows the finesse of the
game, and a musician who knows how to
construct -a composition with due regard
to rhythm, expression and the other nice
points, is a combination rarely given to
any man. It Is not widely known that
this trinity of accomplishments is per
sonified in Charles G. Dawes, president
of the Central Trust Company .of Chicago
and Controller of the United States cur
rency under President McKlnley. Re
cently Mr. Dawes has been seen fre
quently at one of the leading after-theater
cafes with parties of friends to whom
he sets as host. The orchestra watches
for his coming an'd when the diners are
well on the way with their unread the
conductor gives the word for the playing
oi a "Marcn and Two-step in E-Flat
Major." Mr. Dawes face at once takes
on an aspect of pleased self -conscious
ness and it Is adroitly broken to the
guests at the table that Mr. Dawes com
posed the piece in his leisure moments.
Backed by Mayor Busse, the Civil Serv
ice Commission of Chicago and other au
thorities are determined to put munici
pal affairs on a basis such as well-ordered
business concerns employ. Employes are
to be paid according to their merits, these
merits being determined by what they
do and how they do it. The dead timber
Is to be cleared out. The Civil Service
Commission finds there are 710 Inspectors
on the various pay rolls and that there
are 68 kinds of inspectors. What they
do, in many instances, nobody knows, but
they draw salaries which foot up to the
pretty total of $840,000 a year.
"The sixty-eight varieties" have be
come a byword.
Mayor Busse has bills pending 'in the
Legislature looking to an enlargement of .
the city's bond-issuing rights. He was 4
told the other' day that these bills would
be killed and embalmed If he did not keep
his hands oft the Senatorial fight.
Straightway there was a general exodus
of henchmen from the capital back to j
town.
$5000 SALVE: FOR BEATING
Arthur Osburn Says -He Was Dam
aged That Much by I. H. Borden.
Arthur Osburn, a real estate agent,
wants $5000 from I. H.' Borden,, of the
same calling, in compensation for a
fearful drubbing he says Borden gave
him lately. Suit to recover damages
was filed with the Circuit Court yes
terday. The trouble occurred over rivalry In
the land selling business. In his com
plaint Osburn alleges that Borden ap
proached him in the office of the Ala
meda Land Company, , in the Corbett
building, accused him of taking away
customers and proceeded to chastise
him In a most unladylike fashion. Os
burn sets up that he was terribly beat
en. Besides knocking him down, Bor
den got In a little fancy work foot
work, he says, ' with the result that
Osburn's- head was badly bruised and
marked. This all occurred on March
15, and Osburn says he has been com
pelled to contribute to the doctors
much since then. He figures that $5000
will put him even.
JAPANESE RESENTS CHARGE
Tanaka Says He Didn't Steal Hart's
Wife and Wants $ 10,000.
Ben Tanaka, a Japanese, feels high
ly injured because his countryman, H.
Hari, accused him of stealing Mrs. Harl
some days ago; Tanaka, in a damage
suit filed with the State Circuit Court
yesterday, says that while Mrs. Harl
may have been stolen, he personally
didn't purloin her, and consequently
doesn't like the blame or credit or
whatever .the proper word may be.
Two thousand- dollars is the sum
Tanaka asks of the woman's husband.
Hari spread the report all about that
Tanaka stole the woman, the complaint
alleges. It was- printed in Portland
and Seattle.-- It has upset Tanaka's
dignity and caused him great mental
stress ' The complaint, however, is one
of the shortest yet filed, covering only
half a typewritten sheet.
' Articles of Incorporation.
THE OREGON METALLIZING COMPANY
Incorporators, A. S. Pattullo, F. W. New
ell and H. H. Northup'; capitalisation,
$5000.
I. Ann INVESTMENT COMPANY Incor
porators, W. -M. Ladd. S. B. Llnthlum and
A. E. Qebhardt; capitalization. 500.000
KENTON TRACTION COMPANY Incor
Dorators. C. C. Colt. J. C. Good, George F.
Heuaner and Charles H. Carey; capitalisa
tion.
THE APOL.IV CL.TTB Incorporators. H.
W. HORue, Edward I. Bayley, Sidney G.
Lathrop, F. S. Pierce and Henry Teal; prop
erty valued at $250.
New United Electric Railway
To Harborton. See adv. Page 6. Section
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DIRECTION ADOLPH ROSESBECHER, AND' 60 MUSICIANS. .
Portland Festival Chorus
DIRECTION W. H. BOYER, CONraTCTOR, AND SOO VOICES.
Permits lor Season Tickets are not on sale at EILERS PI4.NO
HOUSE, 853 Washington St., and by members Portland Festival
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