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Wiiuiam H. Dunwoppy by a bequest of three mil- 
lion dollars ought to make Minneapolis famous. An in- 
dustrial school is to be established in that city to train 
young men in the art and science of flour manufactur- 
ing. Today a future is assured any young man willing 
to soil his hands with honest dirt in our industrial pur- 
suits. ‘The industrial education of the next generation 
will do more for the economic independence of America 
than the discovery of any or all the gold mines of the 
last century. The era is well opened and the new age 
will be more progressive than the last. 
Now TuHart the manufacturers of a certain low- 
' priced automobile are to manufacture tires one may 
look for a marked reduction (?) in the price of certain 
size tires. By and by the company will mine its own 
coal and deliver the cars over its own railroads. If an 
automobile trust once gets started it will out-do the 
Standard Oil company, 
- CurtnA Has Mabe an appropriation of twenty mil- 
lion dollars to be used to prevent floods on the Hwai 
River. China, it is evident, has caught the modern 
spirit. 
Tue Repuction of the tariff on Argentine beef has 
not been so destructive to the prices of American pro- 
ducts as was prophesied. It is ever thus! 
FormER AMBASSADOR GUILD advocates a national 
child labor law and a national divorce law, Both of these 
suggestions are admirable. No lasting benefit can be 
accorded child or women laborers until the United 
States Government has codified a law that may be en- 
acted by every state. The variance in the state laws 
on the question of divorce has long been a national dis- 
grace, 
Tue DeatH by his own hands, of the treasurer 
of the State of New York is a tragic culmination of 
events which have been transpiring in that State. Every- 
one knows there are honest men in New York, despite 
the rumors that reach us. 
THE UNVEILING of a memorial monument in honor 
of the women nurses of the Civil War on Monday at 
the State House was an impressive event. ‘These hero- 
ines well deserve the honor. 
Wuo Can BLAME the Secretary of the Navy for 
beiag irritated at Mayor Curley’s “advance knowledge” 
of the certainty of the construction of the new vessel 
being awarded to the Charlestown Navy Yard! 
Now Tuar the Panama Canal is nearly completed 
the Canal Commission is doing a large junk business as 
a side line. 
OPERA IN FRENCH CAPITAL. 
Boston CoMPANY IN PARIS FOR TEN 
WEEKS. 
The Theatre des Champs Elysees, 
aside from the Opera the newest and 
handsomest playhouse in Paris, has 
been leased by the Anglo-American 
eperatic syndicate ;and there,on April 
20 or 27 next, the Boston Opera Com- 
pany under the direction of Henry 
Russell, its managing director, wiil 
inaugurate a ten week season of 
opera in the French capital, ‘The 
backers of the enterprise are men in- 
ternationally famous in the worlds 
of finance and opera,—Otto H. Kahn, 
chairman of the Board of Directors 
of the Metropolitan Opera Company, 
New. York; Eben D. Jordan, founder 
and president of the Boston Opera 
Company ; Sir Ernest Cassel the Lon- 
don banker; Baron d’Erlanger, a com- 
peser of operas as well as a Parisian 
of great wealth; Lord Grimthorpe of 
London, a member of the foreign 
advisory committee: of the Boston 
company: Lord Rothschild, of the 
famous banking family; and Harry 
V. Higgins, director of the Royal 
Opera, Covent Garden, London. 
The Boston company will take over 
its chorus and minor singers but not 
the orchestra, for there, as here, the 
Musician’s union forbids the impor- 
tation of foreign orchestras. The 
principal artists will be drawn from 
the Boston, Covent Garden, Metro- 
politan and Chicago companies, and 
among them will be the following 
vocalists, of world wide fame: Mmes. 
Frances Alda, Maria Barrientos, 
Lina Cavalieri, Emmy Destinn, Louise 
Edvina, Mary Garden, Frieda Hem- 
pel, Nellie Melba, Alice Nielsen, and 
Luisa Tetrazzini, sopranos; Mmes. 
Margarita d’Alvarez and Margarete 
Matzenauer, contraltos; Edoardo 
Ferrari-Fontana and Giovanni Mar- 
tinelli, tenors; Pasquale Amato, 
Vanni Marcoux, and Antonio Scotti, 
baritones, and Andrea de Segurola, 
basso. 
The conductors will be Felix Wein- 
gartner, Roberto Moranzoni and 
Arthur Nikisck. There, as in Boston, 
the stage will be under the super- 
vision of Joseph Urban; and for all 
the works to be produced the mount- 
ings will be taken over intact. 
The repertory will be confined to 
German and Italian operas, such as 
“Die Meistersinger,” “Tristan and 
Isolde,” “Don Giovanni,” “The Secret 
of “Susanna,” “Pagliacci,” ‘‘Madame 
Butterfly,” “Tosca,” “La Boheme,” 
and the new Montemezzi opera 
“T’Amore dei Tre Re,” with which 
it is planned to open the season. 
As the seating capacity of the Paris 
theatre is some 800 less than that of 
the Boston temple of opera, the earn- 
ing power will be correspondingly 
lower; and to offset this loss in rev- 
enue, Director Russell has arranged 
a special schedule of prices which will 
be effective for all important pre- 
mieres and debuts, For these occa- 
sions $10 in American money will be 
asked for places on the orchestra 
floor, ‘but for the regular perfor- 
mances, the best seats will sell at $5, 
as they do in Boston. The Boston 
director and his colleagues have every 
confidence in the success of their en- 
terprise. 
Save when the Metropolitan com- 
pany gave a short season at the 
Chatelet theatre a few years ago, no 
such constellation of operatic stars 
has been gathered together in Paris, 
in any former organization. Several 
of the artists will be entirely new to 
the Frencn public, and others, such 
as Mmes. Melba and Tetrazzini have 
been heard there but rarely of late 
years, and a royal welcome can be as- 
sured them, From a scenic view- 
point, the Boston productions will be 
something of a revelation, and if pre- 
sent plans do not miscarry in some 
unforseen fashion, a season will result 
which not. only will give great pres- 
tige to the Boston Opera Company, 
but to the city of Boston as well. 
In order that sufficient time may be 
given for rest and preparation after 
the Paris engagement, the coming 
season in Boston will be shortened 
from I8 weeks to 12; and instead of 
re-opening in November as in former 
years, Jan. 4, 1915, will be the next 
opening date. 
The Biltmore forest school, estab- 
lished in 1898 and therefore the old- 
est forest school in America, has been 
discontinued. Dr. C, A, Schenck, its 
director, has returned to his home in 
Germany. 
