May 10, 1895, San Francisco Call, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

PRINCE OF BATTENBERG
This Scion of a Noble Family Comes En Route Around the World.
HE WRITES ON AGRICULTURE.
The Nephew of the Empress of Russia on Cable-Cars and In Chinatown.

Prince Franz Josef of Battenberg came on the Mariposa yesterday from the Hawaiian Islands on his trip around the world, accompanied only by Colonel Townshend of the British army and a valet. The Prince put up at the Occidental Hotel and in the afternoon took a democratic ride on the cable-cars and in the evening paid a visit to Chinatown. He is a courteous, affable young man of very pleasant and unassuming manners. He is rather good-looking, wears a full dark brown beard, and is nearly 6 feet tall.

Prince Franz Josef is the youngest of the five children of Prince Alexander of Hesse, a brother of the Empress of Russia, who contracted a morganatic marriage with a daughter of Count Hauke, who was given the title of Princess Julia von Battenberg, the children taking her title.

These were Princess Marie and Princes Ludwig, Alexander, Heinrich and Franz Josef. Princess Marie married Count Gustaf yon Erbach Schonberg. Prince Ludwig, who is a commander in the British navy, married Princess Victoria of Hesse, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Prince Henry is the son-in-law of the Queen, having married in 1885 Princess Beatrice, the youngest of the English ruler's children. Prince Alexander was elected Prince of Bulgaria in 1879 and ruled over that principality until 1886, when he resigned, after which he assumed the title of Count Hartenan and became a general in the Austrian army. He died in 1893.

Prince Franz Josef was born October 24, 1861, is a doctor of philosophy, is unmarried and has written a book on the agricultural development of Bulgaria from 1879 to 1891. He will remain in this City but a few days and will probably take in Yosemite Valley and Yellowstone Park on his way East and home.

Funeral of Ludwig Van Beethoven in Vienna.
March 29, 1827.

Salomon Sulzer

Austrian cantor and composer born at Hohenems, Tyrol, March 30, 1804; died at Vienna Jan. 17, 1890. Sulzer was train in cantorial singing, studying in Austria and Switzerland and traveling in France. In he was appointed cantor at Hohenems, where he modernized the ritual, and introduced a choir. At the instance of Rabbi Mannheimer of Vienna he was called to the Austrian capital as chief cantor in 1826. There he reorganized the song service of the synagogue, retaining the traditional chants and melodies, but harmonizing them in accordance with modern views.

Sulzer's "Shir Zion" (2 vols., Vienna, 1840-66) established models for the various sections of the musical service the recitative of the cantor, the choral of the choir, and the responses of the congregation and it contained music for Sabbaths, festivals, weddings, and funerals which has been introduced into nearly all the synagogues of the world. In the compilation of this work he was assisted by some of the best musical composers of Vienna. Sulzer published also a small volume of songs for the Sabbath-school, entitled "Duda'im;" and a number of separate compositions, both secular and sacred. His responses are tuneful, and though more melodious than the choral chant of the Catholic Church, show a strong resemblance to it. In all his compositions strict attention is paid to the Hebrew text; and a scrupulous adherence to syntactic construction is observed throughout. The collection "Zwanzig Gesonge for den Israelitischen Gottesdienst" (Vienna, 1892) was printed posthumously. Universally recognized as the regenerator of synagogal music, he has been called the "father of the modern cantorate."

1899. World's Fleet. Boston Daily Globe

Lloyds Register of Shipping gives the entire fleet of the world as 28,180 steamers and sailing vessels, with a total tonnage of 27,673,628, of which 39 perent are British.

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