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to persist When the harmonious adjnst
jnent is destroyed the man diet, and the
atoms seek other relations.
Regards tiro at Indestructible.
"I cannot regard the odor of decay but as
the result of the efforts of the atoms to dis
sociate themselves; they want to get away
and make new combinations. Man, there
fore, may be regarded in some sort as a
microcosm of atoms agreeing to constitute
his life as Ions as order and discipline can
be maintained. But, of course, there is dis
affection, rebellion and anarchy, leading
eventually to death, and through death to
new forms of life. For life I regard as in
destructible. That is, if matter is inde
structible. "All matter lives and everything that lives
possesses intelligence. Consider growing
corn, for example. An atom of oxygen comes
flying along the air. It seeks combination
with other atoms and goes to the corn, not
by chance, but by intention. It is seized by
other atoms that need oxygen and is packed
away in the corn where it can do its work.
Xow carbon, hydrogen and oxygen enter
Into the composition of every organio sub
stance in one form of arrangement or an
other. The formula Cho, in fact, is almost
universal. Very well, then, why does a
free atom of carbon select anyparticularone
out of 50,000 or more possible positions un
less it wants to? I cannot see how we can
deny intelligence to this act of volition on
the part of the atom.
IZsch Atom llai TTO1 Power.
"To say that one atom has an affinity for
another is Eimply to use a big word. The
atom is conscious if man is conscious, is in
telligent if man is intelligent, exercises will
power if man does, is, in its own little way,
ell that man is. AVc are told by geologists
that in the earliest periods no form of life
could exi".t on the earth.
"How do they know that? A crystal is
devoid of this vital principle they say, and
yet certain kinds of atoms invariably ar
range themselves in a particular way to
form a crystal. They did that in geological
periods antedating the appearance of any
form of life and have been doing it ever
since in precisely the same way. Some
crystals form in branches like a fern. "Why
is there not life in the growth of a crystal?
"Was the vital principle specially created at
some particular period of the earth's his
tory, or did it exist and control every atom
of matter when the earth was molten? I
cannot avoid the conclusion that all matter
is composed of intelligent atoms and that
life and mind are merely synonyms for the
aggregation of atomic intelligence.
"Of course there is a source of energy.
Mature is a perpetual notion machine, and
perpetual motion implies a sustaining and
impelling force.
Solving the Problem of Ufc.
"When I was in Berlin I met Du Bois
Eeyniond, and wagging the end of my
fnger, I said to him: "What is that? What
moves that finger?' He said he didn't
know: that investigators have for 25 years
been trying to find out. If anybody could tell
him what wagged this finger the problem of
life would be solved.
"There are many forms of energy resulting
from the combustion of coal under a boiler.
Seme of these forms we know something
tbout in a practical way, but there may be
many others we don't know anything about.
"Perhaps electricity will itself be super
seded in time, who knows? Sow a beef
steak in the human stomach is equivalent
to coal under a boiler. By oxidization it
excites exergy that does work, but what
form of energy is it? It is not steam press
ure. It acts throuqh the nerve cells, per
forms work that can be measured In loot
pounds, and can be transformed into elec
tricity, but the actual nature of this force
which produces this work which makes
effeciual the mandate of the will is un
known. Vital Energy 3Iay Be Electrical.
"It is not magnetism, it doesn't attract
Iron. It is not electricity at least not
such a form of electricity as we are familiar
with. Still, here it is necessary to be
guarded, because so many different forms of
electricity are known to science that it
would be rash to say positively that we
shall not classify vital energy as a form of
electrical energy. We cannot argue any
thing from uillertnce in speed. Nerveforce
may travel as last as electricity, once it gets
started. The apparent slowness may be in
the brain. It may take an appreciable time
for the brain to fc't the force going.
"I made an experiment with a frog's leg
that indicates something of the kind. I
took a leg that was susceptible to galvanic
current. The vibration produced a note as
high as a piccolo. While the leg was alive
it responded to the electrical current; when
it was dead it would not respond. After
the frog's leg had been lying in the Iabora-
xory inree cays JL couldn't make it squeal.
rhe
uniunu was conclusive as to tnis
point: the vital force in the nerves of the
leg was capable of acting with speed enough
to induce the vibration of the diaphragm
necessary to produce sound.
Closely Belated to Electricity.
"Certainly this rate of speed is much
greater than physiologists appear to allow,
and it seems reasonable that there is a close
affinity between vital energy and electricity.
I do not say they are identical; on the con
trary, I say they are very like. If one
could learn to make vital'cnergv directlv
without fuel, that is without beeistcak in
the stomach, and in such manner that the
human Fystcin could appropriate it, the
elixir of hie would no longer be a dream of
alchemy. But we have not yet learned to
make electricity directly, without the aid
of iucl nnu steam.
"I believe this is possible; indeed, I have
been ext,crimcntiiig in this direction for
i-ome time past. But nntil we can learn to
make electricity, like nature, out ot dis
turbed air, I am afraid the more delicate task
of manufacturing vital energy so that it can
be bottl'-d and sold at the 'family grocery
store will have to be deferred.
The Supposition of Either.
"Electricity, by the way, is properly
merely form of energy and "not a fluid. As
for the ether which speculative science sup
poses to erist, I don't know anything about
it. Uocody has discovered anything of the
kind. In order to make their theories hold
together thev have, it seems to me, created
the ether. But the ether imagined by them
is unthinkable tc me. I don't say I disagree
with them, because I don't pretend to havo
any theories of that kind and am not com
petent to dispute with speculative scientists.
All 1 can say is, my mind is unable to ac
cept the theory. The ether, they say, is as
rigid as steel and as soft as butter. 1 can't
catch on to that idea.
"I bcliete that there are only two things
in the universe matter and enery. Matter
I can understand to be intelligent, for man
himself I regard as so much matter. Energy
I know can take various forms and manifest
itself in diflerent ways. I can understand
also that it works not only upon, but
through matter. What this matter is, what
this energy is, I do not know.
"However, it is possible that it is simply
matter and energy, and that any desire to
know too much about the whole question
should be diagnosed as a disease; such a
disease as German doctors are said to have
discovered among the students of their uni
versities the disease of asking questions."
VIEWS OF OTHER GREAT MEN.
Scientists nnd Theologians Give a Resume
or Their Researches.
The theological point of view, represented
by Dr. It Heber Xewton, runs along
parallel lines with 3Ir. Edison. Does the
rector of All Souls' Church profess to solve
the question? Oh, no. He declares it un
solved and, as it appears to him, uhsolvable.
We have not, says he, even a hint from
anything around us in the past or future
that will help us to the solution. The
Greatest scientific men of to-day who might
e expected to assist us only confuse us the
more. All our roads lead out into myster
ies. Science, so far from exhausting this
mystery, has only deepened, broadened and
neichfened it. I will not denv that we have
had a vast light shed upon the problem of
Hie. But 1 do say that when we nave au
this light we still' have a larger and denser
circumference ot darkness. In fact, the
more yon study the question the more of a
mystery it becomes.
I have watched throueh a microscope the
blood corpuscles circulating through the
fins of a fish, and been filled with wonder
at the thought of how life commenced and
ceased. Tinv cells of life, if you please,
yet. each cell carrying in itself the sub
stance of all that is law, order and exist
ence. If we knew what is life then would we
know all things. However, this much is to
be said: Wherever life is there is God.
That, at least, is the poetic view of the
question, if we can believe Lord Tenny
son: Flower in the crannied wall:
I pluck vou ont of the crannteij
Ilold you here, root and all in my Hand,
Little flower but If I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
The theory of the English scientist
Clodd, that death is not a necessary event,
is, it seems to me, not promising or practi
cal. There is a certain natural limit to the
life of all organized beings. A tree springs
up, withers and dies; an animal is born and
in the course of time passes awav. Such by
analogy, it seems to me, must be the case
with man. He may be able to live a greater
number of years than he does at present;
but that number, I think, will not be greatly
ciicuueu, anu lie must eventually (lie. jji
fact, I don't see anything around me to
show that at the present day, with all our
advanced medical knowledge, we are living
to any greater age than did our forefathers.
If men were to live forever the world
would soon be full, but I don't think that
their condition would be improved. It
would certainly not make an earthly para
dise of the world at least for those who
come into it The struggle for existence is
hard enough already without having any
more competitors.
Has the 'Warrant of Philosophy.
Dr. James H. Hyslop, professor of phi
losophy, ethics and psychology in Columbia
College, says:
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subject of life. However, this I should
say: Mr. i.aison s views are not without
the warrant of philosophy. The great Ger
man philosopher, Loetze, for instance, holds
that all atoms are conscious and of a spirit
ual nature. In this way he undertakes to
account for the soul. What we call soul is,
according to his theory, only a dominant
atom. This view is reconcilable with the
laws of evolution on the hypothesis that
the strongest atoms survive, or more cor
rectly, perhaps, that they control the weaker
atoms. The difficulty, of course, arises
when we begin to select words with which
to express so abstiact an idea s life. What
ever form of expression is adopted it is not
likely to mean the same thing to all men.
An atom we understand occupies some
space. But is not the first principle im
measurably illimitable? But anything that
occupies space cannot be the first principle.
Loetze, holding that the so-called facts of
life can be explained by mechanical forces,
eliminates the term life or vital force and
believes onlv in soaL Loetze must believe
that the sou! can come into mechanical rela
tions. This consciousness of atoms he ex
tends resolutely to all material objects, even
to crystals. However, the atoms, he con
tends, have no distinct existence,but are all
purely dependent upon the soul, which is
God.
Neither Chemical Nor Magnetic.
Dr. William Thompson, professor of phys
iology in the University of the City of New
York, says:
AU the analogies of physiologv are quite
consistent with Jlr. Edison's views. The
time it takes to send a message from tho
brain to the muscle which is to work has
been measured. Therefore we own we have
some definite nerve force with which to
draw. What that nerve force is we do not
know. We know what it is not It is not
chemical; it is not magnetic, there ismuch
that is very suggestive with regard to Mr.
Edison's proposition that all matter is con
scious. Man wc know is not a simple or
ganism. He indulges in what physiologists
call "conscious and subconscious cerebra
tion." We are pleased to call this subcon
scious cerebration automatic But although
our higher consciousness is unaware of what
our lower consciousness is doing this does
not altei the fact that the latter may be just
as conscious as the former, although a wall
keeps the two centers of volition from ex
changing confidences.
If, then, we admit his much, the hypoth
esis that each individual protoplasm and
each individual atom contributing that pro
toplasm is conscious is certainly quite
reasonable, although from the point of view
of physiology there is no life properly bo
called without protoplasm.
The Explanation Tbeosophy Offers.
Mrs. Anna Besant puts forward the ex
planation of theosophy, and says:
The whole universe'is a manifestation of
central life which is present in every atom
of matter. What we speak of as a thing
living or dead is simply arrangements of
matter which vary the manifestations of
life. Even in a biological sense death in
volves ne.v life. Doctors may be able to
settle that any given body is dead quite to
the satisfaction of a coroner's jurv, but thev
dont even profess to know anything about
the soul, and this is well. lam afraid their
determinations would not be satisfactory to
everybody. Xo, I cannot concede that there
is one absolute principle; at least this is not
conceivable. There can be no life without
love; no love without a positive and neea
tive in fact, no thought or consciousness
without this antithesis, this contrast, this
comparison. j -
Besides, if science and philosophy will
talk of an absolute principle, why not have
two absolute principles? Itis just as easy
or as hard; you can take your choice.
Appetite and Interest.
Walter L. Hervey, dean of the School of
Pedagogy of the University of the City of
2few York, says:
Between the conditions of physical and
mental life there exist these analogies:
Appetite in the one corresponds to interest
in the other.
"We can well afford to devote half our
time to creating an interest," says Horace
Mann, "and the other half to satisfying it"
Indeed, if civilization had not largely done
this for us we would be at the zero point of
existence. For without at least some in
terest in life there can be no life. Any
thing that increases this interest of life in
creases life itself.
Crystals Certainly Lire.
Prof. T. Sterry Hunt, mineralogist and
mine engineer, says:
Mr. Edison's hypothesis has nothing to
fear from the physicist Crystals certainly
live. When it is considered that it is
demonstrated that these stone plants are
affected by light it can be realized that they
are not so insensible as popularly supposed.
The life of crystals is a diflerent kind of
life than than that of plants, but, if I un
derstand the term, they live in their own
way quite as decidedly as do plants and ani
mals. A Mystery We Make,
liillie Devereaux Blake, president of the
Kew York City Woman's Suffrage League,
says:
Life to the student of phvchology orphys
iology is a m; stery deep and impenetrable.
Life to you or me is what we make it Life
is Jove in all its relations lore of home,
children and humanity.
Smart Men, Such at Ingersoll.
Colonel Robert J. Ingersoll says:
Life is something I know nothinc nhmit
.It is something that no one knows anything
ouuul cAcept me ministers. i.ney know all
about it; the other smart men save it up
long ago, . r
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BRICKS FROM HILLS.
How the Manufacturers Are Helping
to Level Down the City.
THEY GRIND UP THE SHALE BOCK.
The Brickwork of the Jail Kepresenb the
Clay of Grant's HilL
SOKE 'PACTS ABOUT THE BC8TKESS
IWXmE! FOB TBI DISPATCH.!
- HEBE is a class of
industrial squatters
In Pittsburg, famil
iar enough to most
people, but upon
whom a second
thought is seldom
bestowed. They are
the brickmakers
who plant their
ramshackleshanties
in the heart of some
scraggy mass of
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by he opening of new streets in the hill
districts, or prop them up on the summits of
such dizzy heiehts as Bovd'i HilL The
rough, ragged timbers of these buildings are
in keeping with the ugly barren snrfaee of
the hillsides, and they do not form an invit
ing appearance to strangers.
The migratory habits of the Pittsburg
brickmatrer entitle him to the term "squat
ter." If a new thoroughfare is being
opened in your neighborhood, and if it
leaves embankments on .either side any
where from 20 to CO feet high, just yon
watch and see if a brick works is not erected
on top of one of those embankments within
11 year. Its machinery will begin grinding
that "hump" away, and in a few years the
street will have level ground on both
sides.
They Ground Up the Rock.
"Bnt a hill which is in our neighborhood
would be of no use to a brick manufact
urer," you may say. "It is not clay. It is
nothing but rock a worthless shale."
That makes no difference. Pittsburg has
adapted its brick-mating machinery to her
geological necessities. She makes brick out
of rock as readily as out of native clay. It
is perhaps not generally known that the
ancient hill upon which the old jail-tood
is still there, though the new jail
stands upon the level of Boss and Diamond
At a Brick Press.
streets. Or, to be strictly correct, I should
say that the old hill is there in a diflerent
form. Formerly a pair of steep steps
ascended it from Fifth avenue. The huge
embankment was cut down by Booth &
Flinn when they removed the remnants of
the old bastile after the fire. The dirt and
shale rock which they excavated was all
carted out to their brickworks on Forbes
street, and one week after each wagonload
reached there it was returned to the site of
the jail in fhe shape of beautiful, clean and
smooth red brick. "Every bit of that old
time landmark known from Indian times
down to that day as the top of Grant's Hill
was turned into bricks, and those bricks
were used in the construction of the new
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The Brick, for a. Bl(j Sower."
One of the largest municipal improve
ments ever undertaken by the city was the
building of the big Thirty-third street sewer
a few years ago. It was to be built under
neath the bed of Two Mile run, which was
the natural drainage basin of a large por
tion of Lawrenceville and Bloomfield. " In
the construction of the sewer 6,000,000
brick would be required. Evan Jones got
the contract, and he at once stuck up a lot
ol onck machinery in the hill which throws
out two high embankments along Liberty
avenue between Thirty-fourth and Thirtv
sixth streets, and which is a veritable
mountain when seen from the cars of the
Pennsylvania Railroad across the Two Mile
run gully.
The hill was all shale, but Jones set his
crushers and plug mills to grinding, and he
will keep on grinding until Liberty avenue
between the two streets named has nothing
but level ground on either side, which the
real estate agents will at once throw upon
iijc umriwfc ua guuu, eiigiuie uuiiuing jois.
Out of that hill of rock every one of the
6,000,000 brick which went into the big
Thirty-third street sewer was made. Out
ot the same hill have come the brick which
have gone into the walU of more than one
handsome business warehouse in Pittsburg.
Before and After Taking.
One of the photographs accompanying this
article shows some workmen with their
picks on one corner of this Liberty avenue
embankment It would' have required no
stretch of imagination for the artist in re
producing this photograph to have placed
beside it the picture of an imposing eight
story business block on some of the down
town avenues, labeling the drawing of the
rocky hill, "Before" Attacking,""and the
sketch of the building "After Attacking."
That is precisely what happens in Pitts
burg every year some disfiguring bit of
hill disappearing and going into brick walls
that inclose a business of many hundred's of
thousands of dollars per year, perhaps.
Obviously the community reaps a three
fold advantage from the peculiar habits of
the squatter brickmaker. First, he levels
on ground lor the real estate market Sec
ond, he is gradually beautifying the city.
A brick works is now running on that hill
of rock on Locust street, which I wrote
about in last Sunday's Dispatch, and it is
going to grind the bulky mass of lighter
rock out of sight Third, he prevents waste
gutting the hills for materials to throw into
the construction of new buildings thus
adding to the material wealth of Pittsburg
by the highest possible type of economy.
How Bricks Are Manufactured.
How does he do it? Who ever heard of
bricks made out ofjock? To make bricks
without straws was imposed upon the Israel
ites as a severe and hard task. To make
bricks out of rock might be regarded as a
stiU more laborious task in these latterdavs.
But it is quite an easy matter. The shale
rock and dirt from the hill are roughly di
vided, the dirt being thrown into ohe wheel
barrow and the shale into .another. The
dirt is wheeled upon an elevator which car
ries it up a tower 50 or 60 feet high. There
it is dumped upon a screen, the finer pro
duct passing down through a chute to a
lower story, where a finer sifting is met
oyer another screen and a second chute car
ries it aown still lower, where the
Pftrfli
in its finest quality passes over a final sieve
into the pug mill, water here innrnnn;..
it into wet clay, and discharging it in n
muddy stream into the brick press on the
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ground floor below. The gravel that had
been screened out is thrown in with the
shale rock, which in the second wheelbar
row, is taken direct from the hill to the
man at the "crasher." He shovels it into
the powerful machine, which, revolving
constantly, reduces the material to a finely
pulverized clav. Shale rock is a sort of
clay which when turned back to its original
state is denser than the ordinary substance
nsed by brick makers generally, and for
that reason produces a stronger brick.
Five Bricks Each Impression.
This pulverized clay is shoveled into the
pug mill and passes quickly in the brick
press. At each impression of this press
five bricks are stamped out, and it will aver
age probably five impressions per minute.
This makes the capacity of brickyards in
Pittsburg from 10,000 to 40,000 brick per
day, according to the demand. From the
press the bricks are wheeled into the dry
ing house, where a cemented floor, heated
Leveling Down a Shale HBZ.
by steam, will dry them in one night From
the drying floor 'the next day they are
changed to the kilns, where they remain
from 8 to 12 davs for burning and rnnlinw
These kilns are commodious enough to hold
from 150,000 to 500,000 brick at a time.
Here is a novel wav to demonstrate the
growth of Pittsburg: Twenty years ago the
factories which made brick by'hand turned
ont from 3,300 to 15,000 per dav. These
were sun baked. She brick maker was
placed under the 6ame restrictions that na
ture imposes upon the photographer viz.,
if there was cood sunlight his hriMr wnnld
bake comparatively soon; if the weather
was cloudy, four, five or six days might he
have to wait far his bricks to dry.
Too Slow for Pittsburg.
'If the brickmakers of 20 Tears ago were
called upon to-day to supply Pittsbnrg with
brick they could not fill the demand," said
the foreman of one of the modern brick
yards to me. "By their wooden molds and
primitive apparatus they could not use any
thing else than genuine clay, nor could the
time wasted in waiting for the sun to bake
the brick be tolerated in this busy citv.
Up the Hudson river, however, and in
other parts of the country the hand pro-
cessive is still used.
Possibly the brickmaker of 20 years ago
in Pittsburg had not considered the ques
tion of turning shale rook into bricks, and
certainly he did not have heavy enough
machinery to do it with. For two reasons
shale has become a popular brick material
here: First, because there arose a pressing
need for more room lo build homes upon,
and the consequent removal of such hillocks
as Ihave described; second, because build
ing increased with such rapidity as to mako
it a serious question how to get enousrh
clar within easy distance from building op
erations to make all the bricks required
with reasonable nrice. Eeini? now able to
use this hard substance the modern brick
makers need not go without a radius of four
miles of the Court House for many years
yet because of scarcity.
Different Kinds of Brick.
There is some -variety in brick. Bath
brick is made at Bridgwater, England, of a
fine silicions sand found in the river Parret
and used for polishing metallic utensils.
Bristol brick is the namo given this brick,
in the United States. Concave bricks are
those used in making arches or curves,
Dutch bricks are those of a dirty, brim
stone color used in floors of stable yards.
The feather-edged brick is of a prismatic
form much desired in the construction of
vaults, arches, etc. The Flanders brick is
a soft brick nsed for cleaning knives and
cutlery and but little known in the United
States. The Flemish brick is a species of
hard, yellow brick useful in paving. Float
ing bricks are made of a light, silicious
earth called fossil meal, remarkable for
floating on water and for their infusibility
and as non-conductors of heat They were
maae Dy the ancients, and the process
was rediscovered in Italy in 171)1. Pow
der magazines have been made of
them experimentally with success.
Gaged bricks are made in the
shape of a wedge, to conform to the radius
of the soft of an arch. Hollow brick are
made with perforations for heating or for
ventilation, or to prevent moisture from
penetrating a walL The stone brick is a
remarkably hard article made at Neath, in
Wales, which possesses great powers of re
sisting heat. Besides all these there are the
beautiful enameled brick, the handsome
pressed brick and the pretty salmon brick,
well known in American architecture.
And, now, after all this explanation, this
list would be incomplete unless there be
added to it the words: "Bock bricks, made
at Pittsourg, etc" It conveys sufficient
idea of strength and skill of workmanship
to merit the adoption of Fletcher's lines as
a sort of trade mark, viz:
Brick me into that wall there for chimney
piece,
And say that I was one o' the Csesars, done
by the seal cutter.
L. E. Ktowtht.,
Do Ton Eat?
Notwithstanding the fact that the price
on all grades of flour has gone up the same
old figures will prevail for the dext week
at least, and as long after as our present
stock may hold out. Don't wait, you
can't go wrong at present low prices.
Call or send your order, you can't be de
ceived, as every article must be first-class,
if not, your money will be refunded.
10 lbs California .runes. $1 00
7 cans California black cherries. 1 00
11 lbs evaporated apricots 100
1 gallon New Orleans molasses 29
16 lbs Valencia raisins 1 00
22 lbs whole codfish i on
30 cans sardines in oik i 00
4 sacks good grade family flour 4 90
4 sacks best Minnesota flour..... 5 80
Scans California apricots l 00
5 lbs tea (in all varieties) l 00
3 lbs 50c tea (all varieties) l 00
8 lbs best California prunes l 00
15 lbs good raisins i 00
3 lbs liio Coffee. go
7 lbs roasted coffee (fresh ground) 1 00
4 lbs chewing tobacco i 00
4 lbs Weyman's tobacco i 00
8 lbs white clover honey (strained).... l 00
50 bars family soap j oo
Weigh your goods family scales l gj
30 bars soap (5 cents size) i 00
8 lbs dessicated cocoanut l 00
35 lbs rolled oats i oo
10-lbkit lake herring. 49
6-foot step ladder, complete 98
1 clothes horse (4 wing's, 6 feet) 85
Sugar-cured hams, per pound 10
2-lb can best baking powder in United
States for..' , 20
Goods delivered to all parts of two cities.
To parties living out of the city will prepay
freight on all orders of 810 and upwari
Send for price list before ordering.
Jas. J. Weldoh-,
No. 201 Market street, corner Second ave
nue, Pittsburg.
Pianos and Organs Sold at A action Prices.
In order to reduce our present stock of
pianos and organs so as to enable the work
men to push the rebuilding more rapidly,
all instruments will be sold for the next lew
days at cost This is no bogus sale, but a
genuine sacrifice on our part We wish to
complete our building belore the holidays,
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THE MUSIC WORLD.
How Hascagni's New Opera, Friend
Fritz, Was Received at Rome.
CONCERT SEASON IN ALLEGHENY
To Open With an Engagement of Mr. Walter
Damrosch's Orchestra.
CUEEBXT COMHEXT FOE AET I07EES-
So "Cavalleria Eusticana" was not an
accident, after all. All accounts agree that
Mascagni's second opera, "L'Amico Fritz,"
produced at Rome October 31, was received
with the utmost delight by the remarkably
representative audience, which included
many connoisseurs from other lands. Until
the sober judgment of the critics has been
heard, we must depend upon the cabled re
ports, from which the following is com
piled: It mav be said at once the opera was re
ceived with the utmost enthusiasm. Many
numbers were encored, the audience cheer
ing with excitement. AflowersongbyiS'uzeJ
in the first act was a charming piece of
melody, one of the best in the opera, and set
tho keynote of success. A lovely violin air
with variations met with immediate favor
and was given apaia In response to a deter
mined encore. The arrangement was ad
mirable for Its tenderness of concep
tion and sympathetic execntlon, and
will make one of the chief instrnmenal
features of the opera. The remntuder of tho
nrst act passed offsmoothly It is lull of
line w ork peculiarly appropriate to comedy
of the most refined character, combining
delicacy with dignity. The scenic effect at
the cloe of the act, where the vlllaee is
visible from the windows of Fritz's dining
room hy the light of the setting sun, was in
harmony with the music. Mascagni was
again called out by the delighted audience
us ttie curtain dropped, anu received an
Ita Han ovation.
Tlio opening of the second act discloses
the exterior of an Alsatian farm house and a
terraco in front adorned with cherry trees
and shrubbery. It is morning, ushered in
by an oboe solo of penetrating sweetness.
To this succeeds a chorus of young women,
a Joyful Alsatian melody. Suzel enters and
sings one of the principal airs of her role,
which, however, was not regarded equal to
her first song and was received rather coldly
by comparison. The chorus lollows with a
piquant love song. Fritz comes on the scene,
whereupon tho choius alsappeais and
the two lovers sing a duct, which was
listened to with rapt attention until
Suzel reached the last phrase of the bird
song with which it closes, when the audience,
unable to restrain its admiration, broke in
upon it with tumultuous applause. The
silence maintained during the duet and the
outburst at the end are the hiahest praise
that can be accorded to this noble number,
which U worthy to rank with the works of
tho masters of music. David, the Rabbi,
and other friends arrive and this was the
signal for a very marked orchestral move
ment following Mascagni's peculiar style
and summarizing the entire tone nnd sentl
timent of tho onera. It is an allegro vivoce.
which is maintained until the beginning of
the fourth scene, and stirred the house to
the livlicst enthusiasm. To this succeeded
a duet between Svzel nnd David, wherein
they relate to Fritz the story of Ucbecca aiid
Isaac. Tho number, which Is somewhat re
ligious in character, was serious in tone and
did not meet with readv appreciation.
The third act, of which tho scene was the
same as in the first, opened with a Bvmph
onio introduction, in which was reproduced
the violin variations heard early in the
opera. The effect of the clever pieco of
reminiscence was tremendous. The audience
was taken by surprise, and its manifesta
tions of delight wero boundless. The third
act sealed the success of tho opera, which
here works to a climax. Fritz's aria tTamore
culminates in a superb love scene, the whole
of which was eagerly redemanded nnd re
peated. The dnetsongby Suzel and Fritzat
thi point is probably the finest in the
opera.
As the curtain descended on the last act
there was a prolonged storm of applause,
heightened by the repeated recalls and ap
pearances of the comnoser. The theatrical
success of the opera Is assured. In dramatio
effects it is inferior to "Cavalleria Knsti
cana." but the musical work is more fin
ished. In "Fritz," while the execution was
somewhat defective, the score revealed
musical genius of the first order.
Critics agiee that the woi k is full of true
idyllic melody, but is deficient in Alsatian
character and devoid of local color. The
general opinion of musicians is that the
music is original and the orchestra perfect.
The whole opera breathes the spirit which
animates "Cavalleria Rusticana."
Concerts at Cyclorama HalL
The Allegheny Musical Association has,
during the past week, completed arrange
ments that enable it to announce definitely
its first two concerts of the coming season,
Its third. They will be given January 5 and
6 in the Cyclorama Hall, which will scat
about 3,000 people. These will be the most
Important concerts yet given by the asso
ciation by leason of tho appearance In I hem
for the first time here of the New York
Symphony Orchestra under Mr. Walter
U.imrosch.
The first evening will be taken up by the
orchestra and two soloists, tenor and
soprano, accompanying its. tour. For the
second evening, Benedict's cantata "St.
Cecilia" is to be repeated from tho verv first
programme of this choral society: it will be
tollowed by a brief miscellaneous pro
gramme. A guarantee fund or over $3,000 Is
behind the local organization in tills ei-
fensivo enterprise, and all efforts are mak
ng to assure success commensurate with the
musical importance of the occasion.
As the reader will remember, the New
York Symphony Orchestra is Just starting
on anew epoch, one of assured permanency
with a guarantee of $50,000 a year Irom Mr.
Carnegie nd other men of wealth willing to
emulate Mr. Higginson's generosity to the
Boston b.ind. Rehearsals of the new body
(which includes such men as Brodsky, the
famous Leipzig violinist, and Heckking, the
former 'cellist of the Boston Symphony Or
chestra,) began a week ago and it will have
its first public hearing in New York on Fri
duv of this week.
There will be three other concerts given
bv the Allegheny chorus this season, at one
of which Smart's "Bride of Dnnkerron" will
bo per ormed. Conductor W. A. Lafferty
now leads about 120 singers, a gradual in
ciease having been made in membership.
There aro now about 300 associate, or sus
taining, members, and the list is expected to
bo largely augmented, now that the orches-
tial engagement is made sure.
Musical Allegheny is looking up.
An Important Musical Publication.
With the Novembernnmber has begun the
new Boston Musical Herald, of which Mr.
Geoige H. Wilson, well known to readers of
this department, is editor and publisher.
With him, as associate editors,are five of the
very best musical critics and litterateurs of
the country: Messrs. Louis C. L'lson. Philip
Hale and Benjamin Cutter, of Boston;
Messrs. Henry E. Crehbiel and William J.
Henderson, of New York. With such an
editorial list and being independent of any
trado or business .Interest, this venture oc
cupies an unique and most desirable posi
tions among the class Journals. The ex
cellence of the first number amply warrants
the claims of Mr. Wilson's salutatory,
from which the following paragraphs are
taken:
"I hope to make thenew Journal useful and
'necessary to the thousands of the cultivated
in musio in this country who for the most
part, at present, draw on the dally and
wp.pklv naners and thi; nrc.islnnftl ninv.5.fn
article for their stimulus. Tho high critical
quality of the musical departments of the
lew newspapers .n the country whose le
viewers are competent, is not appreciated
by their readeis; tho r daily critique is bnt
the matter of a moment and is lorgotten
when the paper Itself is dropped.' This
ought not to bo, for nowhere in the world is
there better criticism on musio Mian in the
daily press 01' the United States. It is not
w ltii the expectation of improving on what
now exists, but to place .the curieut article
where it will loe its transient character,
that I ask attention to the enlargement of
the paper, and an outline of what it will at
tempt. "The Herald will aim so take that position
in music in this country that the yation and
the Critic hold in literature. It will be digni
fied and interesting: honest, authentic and
tolerant. It is not beholden to anyone and
it will countenance neither diatribe nor
puffery. While not primarily a newHpaper,
the news of the world will be recorded; but
there will be no room in it for the inanities
of personal Journalism."
Testing Organs in France.
Mr. William C. Carl, who is studying organ
playing with Guilmant, in Paris, writes to
the Musical Courier aa account of the French
method of testing new organs. It would be
a good thing for this department of the art
If some snch plan were adopted over here,
where organs are generally accepted from
the builder with, at most a hasty aud nee-
essarily imperfect examination by a single
expert. Mr. Carl writes:
'The organ firm of Merklln i'Co. gave a re
ception to test the new organs bnilt by
them for the cathedral at Gaudalajara,
Mexico, on the 16th, which is a custom that
would seem somewhat strange In America.
A Jury of 10 were selected to Judge the
merits of the instruments, and Mr. Alexan
der Gnilmant chosen President. The grand
organ was thoroughly examined and com
mented upon in regard to its construction,
the mechanism, workmanship, etc., after
which Mr. Guilman gave an im
provisation on each stop , separ
ately and each criticised in tnrn ny
thejury present and the notes recorded by
the flpprftf-nrr". nnd t ho i.niiHara Instructed
to make the necessary corrections, some of
which I do not think would have been ac
cepted with pleasure by our builders of
America. This is an old custom in France,
and certainly is a benefit to every instru-
inenc.
Thejury was one of the most remarkable
ever selected in Paris, as in addition to Mr.
Guilmant there were present Mr. Dubois,
organist of the Madeleine: Mr. Glgontonran
ist of St. Augustine; Mr. Dallier, organist of
St. Eusticlie, and others of note, with the
correspondent of the Musical Courier.
An Indian Pantomime Ballet.
According to the London Illustrated Sport
ing and Dramatic Xeics.ot October 17, "The
Sioux," announced as an'lndian pantomime
ballet divertissment. by Charles Lauri, with
music composed and arranged by Walter
Slaughter; incidental dances arranged by
Francis Wagner; costumes by M. and Mdlle.
Alias," was produced on Monday last at the
Alliambra, and was received with great
favor by a largo andience. Mr. Slaughter
has furnished some well-written and char
acteristic music, and has specially suc
ceeded in the "War Dance," performed by
Sioux Indians, male and female, who make
a descent on the settlement of a "Wild West
settler" (Mr. H. Panlo), and are ultimately
defeated by the "settler," assisted by his
son, who arrives in naval nniform, bringing
with him a negro slavo (Mr. H. Ewins) and
Charlie, a wonderfully gifted monkey (Mr.
Charles Lauri).
One would have thought the Hon. William
F. Cody had taught the Britishers a moro
correct impression of the "Wild West" of
our country. In the pantomime it Is the
phenomenon of a fighting monkey that
routs the Indians, but a Sioux brave would
be Just as much taken aback at the, to him,
strange sigh torn negro slave or of a naval
uniform or of a nquaw venturing into the
war dance at his side.
Since Antonln Dvorak has declared him
self ready to write an opera on an Indian
subject, it is fortunate that he is soon com
ing to America out of leach of the British
librettist
.
America's Important Acquisition.
Dvorak, it would seem, has determined to
signalize the close of his European career
by a remarkable period of creative energy.
The Musical Courier says: "In addition to the
beautiful requiem produced only a few
weeks ago at Birmingham we now hear of
an Important orchestral work in three move
ments, each in overtnre form and cnpable of
being played separately. The first, of pas
toral character. Is entitled 'Nature:' the sec-
ond, which has apparently much to do with
w. carnival, is caueu -mie,' ana tne imru is
headed 'Love,' tho latter of a kind to which
Jealousy would seem no stranger. Then we
are told of a woik for piano, violin and
violincelloinsixmovcments, of the kind the
Bohemian master has already given us so
many fine specimens of."
In the opinion of the London Athenaeum
critic, Dvorak's new Requiem Mass under
taken by the composer, it is said, upon hear
ingof the death ot Cardinal Newman is "one
of the noblest and most beautiful tributes to
the dead that ever proceeded from the hand
of a musician." The Dies Irae. for Instance,
though "remarkably simple in plan," is de
claied to be of "stupendous effect,
never surpassed In any setting of
the same words." In summing np, this critic
says of the work cs a whole: "Its faults are
those of genius unenrbed by discipline, and
It owes absolutely nothing to any other com
poser. Dvorak himself speaks through every
line."
The immigration of one such a musician to
our country, not to speak of the others of
prominence now casting their lot with us, is
of vast significance for the future of muslo
in America.
Crotchets and Quavers.
Miss Acocsta Holmes, the English woman
whose muslo has been so warmly received In
Paris, Is writing an opera, "La Montagne
Noir," intended for the Grand Opera there.
Paris will hear "Cavalleria Rusticana" at
the Opera Comique this month. Miss La
Calve will be the Santuzza, leaving Rome
after the first few performances of "L'Aml
Fritz."
The largely adapted version of the French
success, "Miss Heylett," scored a popular
hit In New York last week. The musio by
Andran, while pot his most important work,
is said to be airy and tuneful.
Axoiro yesterday's London cables Is this
mi sicdl scrap: Pattl sang in admirable
voice to a crowded audience In the big
Albert Hall, Kensington, last night. She has
taken the best state rooms on the City of
Paris nnd leaves for New York on the 23 of
December.
Eesist de Muitck, the violoncellist, after
concerting all over the world since his 13th
year (he is now 51) has settled down as pro
fessor of his favorite Instrument at the
Guildhall School of Music, London. His ap
piaruncc here during the TO's, with his wife,
cariotta i'aui. wiu oe rememuerea.
Despite tho overorowding of the New York
musical season, the Boston Symphony Or
chestra is able to go there and draw a
crowded house. Mr. Nikisch's band filled
Chickenng Hall on election night and won
irom the leading critics a renewed and
unanimous concession of its supremacy,
especially in the string department.
A scheme Gaillard, the outgoing director
of the Paris Opeia, aided by Mr.Lamoureux
and backed by a syndicate of wealthy men,
is to bnild a theater at Versailles on the
model of the Bayreuth Theater. It is the
intention of Mr. Gaillard and his associates
to use the new theater for the production of
Wagner's operas and for the presentation of
the Oberammergau Passion Play.
HA3T3 Richter has declined, a flattering
offer to come to England and remain per
manently. Mr. Richter, in thanking his En
glish admirers, says that he intends to le
main in Vienna for about three years longer,
so as to entitle him to a pension, and that he
then hopes to be able to accept the invita
tion to return to England, and. in addition,
the long-standing invitation to visit the
United States.
Ma. E. A. MacDowell's new orchestral
suite in A minor, recently produced by Mr.
Nlkisch in Boston, occasions the following
from Mr. Phillip G. Hale'in the Post: "Hore
is an American composer, a young man, who
is notan echo. Ho lias a voico of his own.
Although he has evidently studied all the
means of expression, he conceals his studies
in the apparent spontaneity and freedom of
bis art. His melodies ate fiesh; his har
monies are olten exquisite, often striking;
and his command of the resources of the
orchestra is sure. Indeed, the instrumenta
tion is thoroughly; delightful throughout."
The five hundredth performance of "Car
men" at the Opera Comique occurred last
night (October 21) with Barnolt in the cast,
it being his five hundredth appearance in
this opera as well. Tho original cast in
cluded Mrs. Galli, Marie and Lberie. Bouhy
and Barnolt, when produced bote. At the
Opera the centenary of the birth of Meyer
beer will occur November 11, with a pro
gramme composed of the fourth act of each
of the following operas: "Les Huguenots,"
"Le Prophcte," "Robert ie Diable" and
"L'Atracalne," "Lohengrin" continues at the
Opera with the houses filled at each per
formance, the first six presentations bring
ing in 206,931 francs. Paris Letter.
New Obleass, although not looked upon
as a "musical center of America," Is again to
enjoy a season of operatio performances
during the winter months that would be
very acceptable hereabouts, say s the Boston
Herald. Manager Mange has completed his
plans, and, in addition to the usual reper
toire, "Ernani" and "Bal Mnsque" of Verdi
will be reproduced, and. Reyer's "Sigurd"
and Massenet's i'Herodiade" will be sung
for the first time in that city. Manager
Mange has also concluded to cater to the
tastes of the Sunday night audiences, and
will present the comic opera "Ficolino," by
Mr. Guiraud, a New Orleans composer;
"Fatinitza," "Donna Jaanita"nnd the like.
All these operas will be produced in fine
form, new scenery and paraphernalia hav
ing been obtained lor that purpose.
Ighacb Jeait Padebewsex, the "second
Rubinstein," whose advent has been so
much heralded, will inaugurate his Ameri
can campaign with three concerts to be
given Novemb r 17, 19 and 21, at the Musfo
Hall, New York, with the aid of. the Sym
phony Orchestra under Walter Damrosch.
Each programme comprises two great con
certos: The first, Sain t-Saens in G minor and
Padeiewskl'spwn first concerto, op. 17, with
a set of Chopin pieces; the t-ecoud,
Beethoven's concerto in E fljt nnd Schu
mann's in A minor, besides Liszt's Hun
garian Fantasia; the third, Chonin's E
minor concerto and Rubinstein's in D minor,
with a set of small pieces by the player.
himself, raderewskl is also booked for a
series of pianoforte recitals in New York,
beginning a little later. He will be heard in
Pittsburg later in the season.
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Spanish floods continue.
Education will be compuljory In Hol
land. The engineers strike at Keweastle-on-Tyne
has bee,n settled.
Iowa Democrats are booming Governor
Boles for the Presidency.
Tho Delamater creditors have given np
all hope of getting anything.
Weslev Harris bntcbered Steven Brown
In Jail at Wharton, Tex., Friday. Both men
wero prisoners.
The returns of the London Board of
Trado show that both British exports and
imports are decreasing.
Tile German Government hum fHsmfaaert
another Alsatian magistrate who attended
the banquet to M. Jules Ferry.
Four men were mortally wounded by the
explosion of six boxes of blasting caps at
Last Chance mine, Wardner, Idaho, Friday
night
The Arabs are becomlngmorerageressive
at Ueandi, Africa, and Protestants and
Roman Catholics continue to dispute for
supremacy.
Tho United States grand Jury at St.
Joseph, Mo., has retnmed six indictments
in connection with the Ho well Lumber Com
pany failure.
The noted Russian refugee, Edward Pal
lvkofski, has committed suicide in Alaska,
He had been exiled to Russia, whence he
had escaped.
Evangelist Morgan Mortrans at McKees-
port predicts the end of the world In 1973
and the conquest of Palestine by the He
brews in 1897.
Jonathan Wright, an aged Pottsvflle,
lawyer, fell down stairs with a lighted lamp
yesterday morning. The lamp exploded and
he burned to death.
The Continental Union Club held a mass
meeting :it Woodslee, Ont., Friday night, at
which a branch was formed and a number
of annexation speeches were made.
A. Downer, of Morencl, Mich., will start
November 10 In an effort to drive 100 miles
In ten honrs. The humane agent at Detroit
may endeavor to stop the exhibition.
The barley syndicate of Chicago has
secured 230,000 acres In North Dakota, where
German fanners will be settled who will
make it their business to grow barley for
malt pnrposes.
There is a sort of White Cap organiza
tion in Mnnich.Germany, calling themselves
Habermeisters. The authorities are deter
mined to break np the society and have
made three arrests.
The bail of Thomas Dana, of the broken
Maverick Bank. lias been reunced to$i0,C00
from $75,000. Charles A. Brownlnsr, ofBoston,
testified that he. was worth $100,000, and he
was accepted as bondsman.
English authorities In Ireland have an
other Fenian scare. American detectives
in British employ have informed them of a
coming influx- of Irish-Americans. The
Parnellites are being watched.
Miss Maggie Don'zer, a consnmptlve at
ShelbyviUe, Ind.. by the advice of her physi
cian, will diet herself exclusively on fat dog
flesh. That sort of meat is claimed to as
similate into a sort of curative lymph.
By an explosion in the Giant Powder
Works at Clipper Gap Friday three men
were killed, a boy injured and "the building
blown to atoms. Of one Chinaman only his
queue was found, and of one white man only
a linger.
At meetlnsrs held by the sophomore and
freshmen classes of the University of Penn
sylvania, college department. It was unan
imously reolved to abolish the annual cane
rush, and substitute in its place legitimate
athletic contests.
The anniversary of the execntlon of the
Chicago Anarchists occurs next Wednesday.
The occasion will be observed by a street
parade to-day and a mass meeting Wednes
day. Prince Eranotkin will address a mass
meeting in New York Wednesday.
Dr. Briggs' friends will make another ef
fort at tho meeting of the Presbytery Mon
day to have the Committee of Prosecution
discharged. The complexion of the lay
element will be slightly different from
what it was Wednesday when the trial was
had.
Prof. Mendenhall says that he has not
looked into the report that if Ohio's claim is
correct. Indiana may nsk for a slice of
land 12 miles wide off the Eastern portion of
Illinois including the $25,000,000 stockvards
as well as the present site tor the World's
Fair.
A locomotive drawing a cattle train on
Edwardsville Hill, near New Albany, Ind.,
yesterday became unmanageable and ended
its earthy career by first knocking a yard
engine off the track an then plunging into
another. One of its airbrake cylinders was
out 01 oraer.
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placing of tho company in successful opera
tion. Pittsburgers are well aware of the large
amount of money that has been made in this
business. The tronble heretofoie has been
tfiat the man of moderate means has not
had an opportunity to invest on the ground
floor, and, taking into consideration the fact
that the lands of this company have been
purchased at prices far below the cost of
those In which our Pittsburg millionaires
have made their money, we feel Justified In
anticipating that this stock will be quickly
subscribed for by careful investors.
The company will issue 0,000 shares at ths
par value of $5 per share, and subscriptions
for same will be taken at the office of Morris
Aisbitt, No. 78 Diamond street, Pitt3burg,
Pa., payable as follows:
SI PER SHARE ON APPI.IOATI02T.
81 PER SHARE DECE3IBKB 1, 1891.
81 PER SHAKE JANUARY 3, 1893.
81 PER SHARE FEBRUARY 1, 1891
81 PER SHARE MARCH 1, 1S93.
Subscribers have the option of paying In
full for their stock at time of subscription.
In which case interest on the anticipated
payments will be allowed at the rate of Sper
cent per annum.
We invite subscriptions from capitalists,
business and professional men, clerks, sales
men and the publio generally. The shares
are unassessable, devoid of risk and profit
able returns reasonably sure.
The subscription list will open Monday,
October 28. 1891, and close as soon as all tho
stock has been subscribed.
Mr. Walter Morri3, of our firm, has visited
the Fairmont coal fleld, made a personal ex
amination of the property of the Pittsburg
Gas, Coal and Coke Company, compared It
with other property in that fleld, has also in
vestigated the methods under whloh the
company proposes operating,and as a result
feels Justified in recommending subscrip
tions to their capital stock,
MORRIS & AISBITT,
78 Diamond St., Pittsburg, Pa.
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