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AFTER THE HORSE SHOW SOCIETY ATTENDS THE OPERA. Big Money Paid for Opera Boxes—some Opera Details—Pinnaciel Figures Some Other Very Interesting Pacts About the Great City. (Special to the Press.) __ .New York, Nov. 28, 102. William ©. Rieck of the Herald is the special confident of his employer who recently invited him to Paris both for business and recreation. This is Bennett's method with his favor ites of whom Rieck is chief, for though his position is city editor he is really Bennett's utility man. The Ledger Monthly has again changed owners and George R. Knapp is now editor in place of John Elderkin. Frederick S. Randall its new presi dent and also business manager, is from Leroy and held the office of Dis trict Attorney of Genesee County. Under its new management the Led ger will enjoy better prosperity by them at any time since it superceded the w@@kly. Robert Bonner made the latter’s wonderful success, but the present rivalry was not then even dreamed off and it is doubtful if even Bonne could now reach the same grand result. HOMER AND EVERETT. Wenge: being then viewed as a trash editor it was considered rather “oy’ to ask Edward Everett to write for the Ledger and he never would have succeeded had he not played the Mount Vernon rackett in a very adroit manner Everett was deeply interested in the purchase of Mount Vernon and for that purpose was delivering his grand ovation on Washington wherever he could get a paying audience. Bonner sent him a special agent with the offer of a $10,000 contribution to the Mount Ver non fund on condition that he furnish a weekly article for a year. This was such a handsome benefit to Everett's great work that it silenced all objec tions and Bonner's engagement of the greatest Bostonian did more for the Ledger than any other of his best hits. It may be added that Everett delivered his Washington oration 110 times for the benefit of the Mount Vernon fund the aggregate cash being over $100,000 to which was added the $10,000 from the Ledger. It was certainly a remark able feat for Bonner to thus capture a man who had been preacher, college professor, author, editor, college president, foreign ambassador, U. S Senator and Secretary of State and had distinction in every field of service. ANOTHER MONTHLY: The field seems really full and yet another monthly is announced, the title being the Book Lover's Maga zine edited by Seymour Eaton. At the same time several magazines are for sale and a shareholder in one of the most attractive dime monthlies informs me that he gets no dividends. This does not give much encourage ment to beginners, but in all such projecte hope tells a ‘' flattering tale.'’ SUDDEN DEATH. The sudden and tragic death of Nelsom Merech, editor of the Sunday World, by the upsetting of his car riage, is not the only calamity of the kind that has befallen the magnates of journalism. Hugh Hastings, form er proprietor of the Commercial Ad vertiser, was also the victim of a sim ilar calamity. While driving for re creation, a collision took place and he never recovered from the injury. Frederick Hudson, formerly manager of the Herald also lost his life by a cellist8h while taking a pleasure drive. Hersch had made his mark on all the leading New York papers and had won his position as editor of the Sandry World by arduous labor. Hence his sudden death is a blow to the profession as well as to his family. Another calamity which has befallen the World is the severe illness of William Van Bennthuysen, its editoral manager, but Pulitzer proves equal to every emergency FINANCIAL FIGURES. The high standard which the credit of this city has reached is shown by the fact that fifty-one bids were re ceived for the $7,500,000 issue of 6 per cent. bonds. The premiume var ied but the award of the entire lot was made to one house at 105. It may be added that the financial de partmmn of this city is of far greater importance than the general estimate, as ite receipts and disbursements now aggregate five hundred + millions a year. One of its features is the necessity of borrowing seventy-five millions as a temporary supply until the first of October when the taxes begin to come in and when the loan is repaid. The Comptroller indeed is at the head of what some would call a financial empire. Apropos to loans, the Seaman’s Savings Bank has an nounced its reduction of interest on deposits from four per cent to three and a half. Last January, when most of the Savings banks wade this re duction, the Seaman's held aloof and no doubt attracted a large increase in age it joine the more seeable new aepositors find them selves disappointed, DRAMATIC TASTE. The culture of dramatic taste is a prominent feature in social life and the Shakespeare Club recently held a reading of Much Ado About Nothing, followed by a general discussion which as this is one of Shakespeare's wittiest plays was unusually lively The Avon Club recently held a read ing and discussion, the subject being Richard Third. What a contrast be tween these two plays and it seems indeed strange that they should have been written by the same author. Another very interesting reunion of similar character was the meeting of the Shakespeare Club on which occa sion one of the members read a paper on ‘'Cleopatra from a Man’s Point of View.’’ Whatever may be the point of View it is evident that Shakespeare gives in Cleopatra his highest con ception of the woman of that day.— pride and love and ambition battling with adversity and exclaiming over the corpse of Antonov: “We'll bury him, and then what's brave, what's noble Let's do it after the high Roman fashion And make Death proud to take us. OTHER WOMAN'S MOVEMENTS The drama is also to be brought in to the service of charity and an ama teur performance of a comic opera en titled the Sign of the Clock is to be given as a benefit to the Madison Avenue Temple Sisterhood, which is devoted to beneficence. Amateur theatricals are certainly one of the most innocent forms of amusement and those of the sex that prefer deep er themes, can be gratified by the meetings of the Society for Political Study. At the next meeting of this city two members (Mrs. Harrison and Viele) will read articles on President Roosevelt and also Emperor William and other brainy women will join in the discussion, DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL, After the Horse Show the opera but never before have they been in such close succession. And what after all to the fashionable world is the differ ence between them! Society women flocked to the former not because they cared for fine horses but simply to see and be seen—to display elegant costumes and engage in the rivalry of fashion. And for what else do they attend the opera! Certainly it is not for the music for that requires a cul ture of taste such as few possess. No. It is merely to hold a place in the fashionable world and to make a dis play which will = proclaim = one's wealth. To be an object for the lorgnette as well as to use it, this and this only makes the opera endurable to the larger part of its patrons. And if the latter like musical taste they have a compensation in the satisfac tion of riches for only the moneyed class can own boxes. Big money too for $20,000 has been refused for an opera box. Yes, the whole atmos phere is redolent of wealth and fash ion and under such circumstances the opera bore becomes endurable even though it last five weary hours, OTHER DRAMATIC GLINTS. This is a stirring week at the the atres and while more than a score is in full blast, another has just been opened entitled the ‘‘Circle’’ and perhaps it may find support. It is certainly a great week for woman's talent and what an array of stars, including Mrs. Fiske in Mary of Mag dala, Mary Mannnering in Geraldine, Viola Allen in the Eternal City, Vir ginia Harned in Iris, Eleanor Robson in Audrey, also Ethel Barrymore, Madame LeMoyne, Anna Held, and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Then to cap the climax there is Mrs. Leslie Car ter in DuBarry, that terrible tragedy which horrifies the audience so that some faint in their seats. Yes, this is a great week for woman on the stage. Thanksgiving too brings a harvest pot only to the drama but to all other entertainments and it will be indeed a poor theatre that does not make this a paying week. SOME OPERA DETAILS. The opera season will last seventeen weeks and will include the finest works of the great masters. Verdi whose Otello opened the season, was noted for his admiration of Shakes peare whose Macbeth and Lear he also produced in opera. Verdi is fol lowed by Rossini whose Barber of Seville has retained its popularity for nearly a century. It was the first op era ever rendered in America which occurred at Park Theatre seventy years ago with Madame Garcia as prima donna. Manager Grau will produce more than thirty operas and thus the public will have a rich var iety rendered by the most brilliant troupe in the world including such stars as Sendrich, Madame Eames, Story and Edouard DeReszke. These stars are not guests of any one hotel. No, they are too important to live all under one roof and Madame Eames-Story is at the Savoy while DeReszke prefers the Gilsey House, so they are scattered among the best hotels and only meet during the nightly performance. MORE ATTRACTIONS, Not only the opera but concerts and recitals offer almost rewildering at traction Daniel Frohman's grand concert included the People’s Choral Union, numbering one thousand and this was followed by the Bostonians, better known as the Kneisel Quar tette, which holds the highest rank. Next was the performance of the Philadelphia Orchestra and then came Frank Damrosch's Symphony Con cert. Such indeed is the pressure to improve the season that five concerts and recitals were given last Tuesday night, and tonight several others will be rendered. Among the most im portant of this week's concerts is the one given by the Manuscript Society whose object is to encourage hom talent and hence an invitation is giv en to all composers whose offerings receive due consideration. To return to the opera, Manager Grau is of course the hero of the fashionable world and indeed a man who can spend a fortune searching all Europe for a troupe and having brought it hither starts the season at an expense of $10,000 a night—why that man must be a sort of a musical hero, A CONTRAST. Turning from the charms of music to the cold realities of law what a strange contrast is found in the liti gation now before the courts, a liti gation which is startling both for its immensity and also for the gravity of its accusations. Here for instance is the contest over the John I. Blair es tate of thirty millions. Worse than this is the action brought against the ©. P. Huntington estate including other builders of the first Pacific Railroad and based on the charge of fraud amounting to one hundred mil lions or more. Here is work for the lawyer with fees that make each case a fortune. Lawyers however must live as well as opera stars and if Edouard DeReszke is paid $800 a night why should not a lawyer have corresponding fee? Such at least is the view from the lawyer's stand point. Seriously however, those who think lawyers charge too much should avoid litigation, an example being shown by James A. Bradley the magnate of Asbury Park—whom to avoid such trouble offered to sell to the public hie ocean front and plank walk at a low valuation. Hradley is in some points a remarkable man. I re member him in my early days as ‘Jim,’ the foreman in Furnald’s brush factory and sometimes when I had business there ‘'Jim’’ represented his employer. I saw at once his busi ness ability and he told me then how he was getting on and had already saved enough to buy a lot up town. I knew that ‘Jim’? would not long stay in that position and soon he had a store of his own and made money enough to found Asbury Park and thus became a millionaire. He has helped others make money also and indeed such a fine specimen of the American mechanic certainly deserves a notice from THE ROSICRUCIAN. Poisoned by Patent Medicine, A Monticello woman neglected to shake the bottle containing arsenic and took an overdose as a result. For several weeks past Miss Lizzie Norris, daughter of William Norris, has used a well known patent mec cine. The directions were to shake well before using and gradually in crease the dose to a teaspoonful. The most important part of the instruc tions was disregarded and as a result spoonful after spoonful of sweetened water was taken from the top and the dangerous part remained. Last week she got down to the kill or cure por tion of the bottle and it came near proving the former. She was uncon scious for some time. Little Girl BRooke Both arms, Sarah W., the eight year old daugh ter of Howard St. John, fell off a high stoop at her home corner West Main Stret, and Monhagen Avenue, Satur day afternoon. She broke both fore arms and received severe injuries to other parts of her body. She was taken to Thrail Hospital where Saturday night, Dr. Preston set both arms and dressed her injuries. She is doing nicely today. Her father is employed at the power house of the Consumers’ Light Company.
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