i2iS5iSkk3s2IS335b2S3 p? THE PnTSBURQ DISPATCH. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER ST, 1893. M aPSTOT-JKPgg 4 ORIGIN OFTHE IDEAS "Which. HaTe Started Great IiiTeEtors on the Path to Enduring Fame. SOME QUEER INCIDENTS. The Birth of the Bapid-Fire Gatlin?, Uarim and Brown Guns. COST OP THE FIRBT SLEEPING OAR. Iriceson'g Monitor, tha Ed.ison,PfloiitSTph and the Air Brake, KEKAEKABLE EESULTS FROM TKITLES rCOSRESrOSDECE Or THIBISPATOItl Kew Yoek, Nov. 25. A white-haired, white-bearded old man of striking pretence end nervous manners it a familiar and fre quent figure at one of the uptown hotels. His name is Richard J. Gatling, an he is the inventor of the Gatling gun, which has played in modern warfare a larger and more effective part than any other instru ment of destruction. Dr. Gatling has been a great traveler as well as a close and care ful observer, and is a delightful and in structive companion. "While chatting with him the other evening he told me the curi ous and interesting story of the origin of the Gatling gun. Dr. Gatling was born in Eouth Carolina, and received his medical training here in New York. "In 1SG1," said he, "I was living in In dianapolis. My residence was near the depot, and I often taw troops of volunteers leaving for the front, or when the dead bodies were brought homo for burial. I was surprised to note that the number of men killed by sickness was far greater than those killed by ball or actual battle. One day I observed that of nineteen corpses which arrived at the depot only three had been killed in battle. Then the thought struct me that if a gun could be constructed capable of doing the work of a hundred men and requiring but two or three to oper ate it, the horrors and the duration of war would be wonderfully lessened. I set to work at once, and in a few months com pleted the first Gatling gun. My first guns were built in Cincinnati, end were able to fire from 150 to 250 shots per minute. Difficulties That Were Overcome. Siz had been completed when the factory burned down and the guns were destroyed. Following- this accident I had 13 guns made Bt what is now the type foundry in Cincin nati, nnd those I sent on by my partner, a Captain John Ericsson. wealthy merrhant of Cincinnati, to Wash ington to persuade the Government to in troduce them. He took them to Baltimore, where he left 12, and went with the other to Washington. The Chiel of the Ord nance Department at the time was an old fogy. He received him coldly, told him he had no faith in his gun, and that he be lieved flint-lock muskets were, on the whole, the best weapons for warfare. In short, he would have nothing to do with him. Mv partner then left Washington and returned to Baltimore. Ben Butler was there with his troops. He had heard of the guns, and he risked to see them work. "As soon as he had done ro he said he would buy them on his own responsibility and did so, giiing his voucher for 512,000 lor them. My partner had this cashed, but st this time there was a great fall in pork, and 50,000 hogs which he had packed in Chicago with the expectation of a rise had to be sold. In a word, the break in the market ruined him, and mv money went with him. So, for the first 20, guns I had made at a great cost to myself, I received nothing. Ben Butler took the guns he had bought with him to the battle of Peters burg and fired them himself upon the rebels. They created great consternation and slaugh ter, and the news of them went all over the world. Now they are used by all the leading Governments of Europe and also in Asia and Africa. They en abled the Prussians to conquer Austria xSf George M. Pullman. though the Austrian had the larger forces, and they shortened the war by Ger many and France so that it practically lasted but a few days. The Gatling guns are now made in Hartford, in this country, and in Europe at Newcastle-on-the-Tyne. We sMl only to Governments and the United States uses many of my guns. They now take part in all wars." Origin of the Maxim Gun. Equally curious and equally interesting was the origin of the Maxim gun, in rapid itv of fire and destructive qualities the roost formidable rival of the Gatling gun. Hiram S. Maxim, from whose brain it sprang, is one of the greatest of living in ventors, a man of splendid intellect and superabundant energy. Long before he be came famous as a gun inventor he had achieved discretion as an electrician and it Is well known that he was narrowly antici pated by Edison in the perfecting of the Incandescent light. "When I went South as a soldier In the ranks many years ago, said Air. jaaxim not long sin "and fired my first musket the cou cnoocea me down, .trer since was a boy I had experimented with tool uu wooa in mating nine cannon, an wuen x tell down a new Idea came to me. :t - iw wondered if I could not put that vigorous recoil to some use. When I went to Lon don I experimented a long while and my gun is ttie result. The principle is simple. The cartridges are fixed on a long strip of canvas, whichSiasses at right angles through the gun. 1 preis a button, the tricger is re leased, and the first shot is fired. The recoil of the gun is all spent in pushing the lock piece back against a spring and pulling the canvas strip so that another cartridge falls into its place. As soon as the lock piece touches the spring it is re leased again. Another shot is fired and the recoil pushes it back again, and so :t keeps up as long as I hold my finger on the button, or as long as there is a single cartridge in the strip. Of course, there are manv details of mechanism, but that is the principle of the thing. There are 333 rounds on each canvas strip, and the gun firesat the rate of ten a second, or about 600 a min ute. The Russian army has 1,000 rounds on a strip." Mr. Maxim has secured a TTTOHAS ALVA EDISOT. princely fortune from the profits of his sev eral inventions, and is cow at work upon what he calls a kite of war, and which ho believes will solve the problem of aerial navigation. The First Sleeping; Car. No single thing has contributed more to the comfort of modern life than the Pull man car. Its inventor, George M. Pullman, wo'rked out the details of his invention while a merchant in Colorado, in 1859. In 186i he carried his idea to Chicago, and em ployed a master car builder of the Alton road at a salary of 5100 per month to su perintend the construction ot a model car. The inventor was determined that it should be the handsomest car in all respects that had ever been made in the country. He came on to New York and here happened to meet the artist who had just decorated the house ot Samuel J. Tilden. He at once closed with this artist, took him West, and stt him at work decorating the car. When the "Pioneer" was finished it had cost the extraordinary sum of $18,000, a large price even now lor a sleeping car. It was a wonder to everybody. It was just as Mr. Pullman had expected. The beauty of the finish and the marvelous innovation he had made were advertised far and near by the newspapers and by railroad men, and some of the latter began to believe that the ideas of the inventor, after all, were prac ticable. The "Pioneer" was in process of building for a whole year. The assassina tion of Lincoln occurring at this time, it was suggested that the "Pioneer" be used in the funeral train, and it was run from Springfield to Chicago on the Alton road. As had been predicted when the car was built, it was too wide to rnn on the roads as then constructed. It was necessary for the Alton road to send along its line and cut off the platforms that projected, and to make numerous changes at stations so that the car, with its width of an additional foot, could pass. Thus the railroads had to make way for the improvements that the convenience of the traveling public demanded. Everywhere the beauty of the "Pioneer" was talked of, and it was not strange that soon after, when General Grant came home, the nse of the car was asked to convey the great hero from Detroit to Galena. The Michigan Central Railroad was compelled to do pre cisely what the Alton road did cut its platforms and in other ways make way for the car and from this time on the railroads prepared themselves for the new palace car. The Inventor of the Street Car. The street -car is now an indispensable part of everydavlife, but its inventor, John btephenson, still lives at a green old age, respected and honored by all men. Born in this city, in the early part of the centurv, of sturdy Scotch-Irish parentage, Stephen- 8ua uau Bcrviru uia umiicuucesuip ana set up in business for himself as a Carriage builder when the first street railroad com pany was organized-in 183L It was known as the New York and Harlem Bailroad; its President was John Mason, of the Chemical National Bank, and the other officers were equally well-known men. John Stephenson was employed bv the company to design and construct a vehicle of nn" entirely original type, calculated purely for'street car work. Mr. StepheuEon's car, the first street car ever built, when completed was accepted bv the company and used when the road was opened November C, 1832. Por this car Mr. Stephenson received a patent signnd by Andrew Jackson. For 60 years Mr. Stephenon "has been engaged in the 'construction of street cars. His fac tory in this city now gives emplovment to 500 men and turns out 21 cars a week. The inventor has received scores of patents for Improvements in the street car. With the extension of the street car idea from Amer ica to other countries Stephenson's can hare gone with It, and for "many yean he has furnished ean for almost the whole world. Even the street can for London . erf? Siram S. Maxim. used to be furnished by him, and cars of his matte are running to-day in almost every civilized country. What is known as the cold-rolled process has worked a revolution in the manufacture of steel, but, strange to say, its invention was largely the result of an accident. Its inventor. Bernard Lauth. who is now livine in retirement at Howard, Pa,, is a native of Germany, bom in 1820. When he was about 11 years old his parents came to this country, settling in Pittsburg, where he found employment in a rolling mill. He started at ihc lowest position in the mill and worked his way through, all the differ ent grades to that of boss roller. With the money that he had saved as a boss roller, in company with seven working companions he built a small iron works at Zanesville, O., but in 1852 returned to Pittsburg and opened the establishment, which has since grown into one of the great est steel plants in the world. The firm same was then Jones and Lauth. Mr. Lauth one day In examining some steel, which it was supposed had been spoiled in the rolling, discovered, greatly to his sur prise, that it was ot a superior quality and finish. He began a quiet investigation, and as a result perfected what is known as the cold-rolled process. The invention yielded the inventor and those who were interested with him millions of dollars. After Bernard Lauth, George Westing house is probably the best known of Pitts burg inventors. "Fame and fortune came to Mr. Westinghouse through the invention of the airbrake, westinghouse was born in the central part of this State and after re ceiving a common school education served an apprenticeship in bis father's, machine shop. One day he heard that splendid op portunities awauea urigui ana energetic young men at Pittsburg, and set out for that city. On the way' the train in which he was riding was wrecked and a number of the passengers were killed. Inquiring the cause of the accident, he was told told that it had resulted from a failure of the brakes to work properly. This set him to think ing, and he resolved to construct a brake that would respond instantly to the de mands made upon it. After two or three years of labor and investigation he com pleted the now famous Westinghouse air brake. The Most Famous of AIL A hundred electrical inventions have made Thomas Alva Edison the' most cele brated inventor of his time. His phono graph is the wonder of the world, and one of the few inventions which envious nnd disappointed rivals have not charged Edi aon with having stolen. In fact, even his bitterest competitors for fame, all of whom appear to harbor the idea that it is their due to detract from his reputation for genius and honesty, as a rule concede that Edison did really invent the phonograph. How he came to invent it is a most inter esting story. Here it is as it was told to me by a well-known electrician not long ago. "Many years aso," said my informant, "when Edison was still at Menlo Park and working night and day for fame he devoted months to perfecting the telephone, and un doubtedly did more than any other in ventor to make it practical by introducing the carbon plate into the' transmitter. "While experimenting on diaphragms for the telephone Edison had constructed -a number of small sheepskin drum heads to test their value as diaphragms as compared with metal ami other substances To some of these sheepskin diaphragms he had at tached a small metal needle, which was in tended to project toward the magnet and assisj. in conveying the vibration caused by the human voice. The sheepskin diaphragms did not fulfil Edison's expectations and he discarded them, and, as usual with appliances he de cides to be useless, they were thrown aside to be removed with "other rubbish. His Samuel F. B. Mors. assistants soon discovered that by holding the sheepskin diaphragms in front of their mouths and emitting a guttural sound be tween the lips a peculiar noise approaching music could be produced. It was some thing similar to the alleged music produced by covering a comb with thin paper and humming a tune on it. Partly the Besult of an Accident. "In passing one of theamen engaged in' piaymg on a diaphragm one aayj .Edison playfully attempted to stop the noise by touching the projecting metal pin with his finger, and no sooner Bad he done so than he gave one of his peculiar starts. 'Eh, what's that?' said he, whleh so astonished the performer that he dropped the dia phragm. "Do that arala said the Wiz ard,' and It was repeated, and again his fin ger tonehed the pin, to hit evident delight. He went about forsome time asking one after another of bit assistants to hum e gW (irW f r 'ing against the diaphragm, and finally he got them to talking asaihst it, he all the time touching the pin lightly with his fin ger. 'I have it,' said be, finally, and he retired to his den and commenced drawing diaphragms for new machin ery, which his assistants speedily made, and a few days later the .first phonograph was put together. It was a crude affair, the pin making an impression on wax, and it talked imperfeotly; but it did well enough to show Edison that he was on the right track, and he rapidly improved it until now it is very near perfection. A hundred men might have felt the vibration of that pin at tached to the piece of sheepskin, but it took an Edison to instantly realize that the vibrations might be made to indent a soft substance, and be .susceptible of repro ducing the exact soundi of the human voice" that caused the different vibrations. The phonograph was regarded as a tov at first, but later it sold for 51,000,000." A Monto Crlsto Romance. Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone have been synonymous terms for a dozen years or more. Bell's career presents one of the most remarkable Monte Cristo ro mances in this country of rapid fortune makine. Bell .was a penniless boy in Edin burgh 30 vears ago. He came to this coun try in 1S72 nnd fiffallv became a .teacher in a deaf and dumb school in Boston. From boy hood the idea of speech transmission had been an undercurrent of thought with him, and he has frequently said that long before 1870 we would one day speak by telegraph. The telephone was the result of years of patient labor and investigation. It was completed in 1876, exhibited at the Centennial held in Philadelphia in that year, and in August of 1876 speech was transmitted over a tele graph line. The telephone was at first looked upon as an ingenious plaything, but its money-making qualities quickly devel oped, and Bell is now worth millions, while he has spent hundreds of thousands in the legal defense of his patents. It cost Bell enough to make an ordinary man rich to get rid of Drawbaugh alone. When the idea of the telegraph was first suggested to Samuel F. B. Morse he was a popular and successful painter, yet he abandoned his art and for years endured the greatest hardship in order to develop and perfect the idea which had come to him. Tho Creation of the Monitor. ,When the history of American invention is written it will coutain no more interest ing chapter than that which will tell of the origin and perfection of Ericsson's "Moni tor." The idea of the Monitor had long been working in the mind of Captain Ericsson when the Civil War broke out Then he found in John F. Winslow, John A. Griswold and C S. Bushnell men who had faith in his. idea and the money he needed to put it ts the test. A naval board reported against the scheme, but Winslow, a man of great energy and determination, resolved to bring the whole matter to the attention of President Lincoln. An inter view was arranged with the President, to whom were displayed the plans of Captain Ericsson and their details fully explained. The President's interest increased as the conference progressed, and when it was fin ished he said: "Well, gentlemen, why do you bring this matter to me? Why not take it to the department having these things in charge?" "It has already been taken to the Naval Department," Mr. Winslow replied, "and there met with a renulse, and we now oome with it to you, Mr. President, to secure your influence. We are here, not simply as business men, but as lovers of our coun try, and we believe most thoroughly that here is something upon which we can enter which will be a vast benefit to the United States." When Mr. Winslow had finished speak ing Mr. Lincoln said, in his inimitable manner: "Well, I do not know much about 4- r ('far John Hamilton Brown. ships, though I once contrived a canal boat, the model of which is down in the Patent Office, and the great excellence of which was that it could run where there was no water. I will tell you what I will do; I will meet you to-morrow at 10 o'clock at the office of Commodore Smitb, head of the Naval Bureau, and we will talk it all over. " Next morning the meeting took place ac cording to appointment, and beside the President and Secretary Wells, there were present many of the most able and influen tial officers of the navy. Mr. Winslow at once entered with enthusiasm into an ex position of Captain Ericsson's invention, and before he was through it was apparent that he had made a profound impression upon his audience. When Mr. Winslow had finished the President turned to Com modore Smith and said: "Well, Commo dore, what do you think of it?" The Com modore's reply was general and non-committal, whereupon the President,- rising from the box upon which he had been sit sing, added, "Well, I think there is some thing in it, as the giri said when she put ner leg in tne stocKing. uood morning, gentlemen." As a result of this interview a contract was signed for a vessel built upon Erics son's plans, to be put in the hands of the navy within a hundred days, at a cost of 5275,000. How well this contract was kept and with what beneficent and sweeping re sults to the nation and the world is known toalL ' No invention has played a larger part in our history than the cotton gin, whioh was the work of Eli Whitney. Whitney was the son of a poor Massachusetts farmer and worked his way through college with out assistance,- Soon after the Revolution he settled in Georgia and became a teacher to the children of Mrs. Nathaniel Greene, widow of the famous General Greene. On: day when a company of planters were assembled at Mrs. Greene's house near Savannah, the depressed condition of the Southern States came up for discussion, and it was generally agreed that the chief cause of the existing condition of affairs was the difficulty ot raising cotton with profit, owing to the great labor of sepa rating the fibers of the cotton from the seed. Ho Conld Blake Anything. One of the planters suggested that per haps this work coula be done with a ma chine, and this prompted Mrs. Greene to reman:, "uentienien, apply to my young friend, Mr. Whitney. He can make any thing." Whitney.was sent for and the sit uation explained to him. He -told the planters he had never seen a pod of cotton in his lite, but he would try what he could do. Next day he procured some unclean cottou, shut himself up in his room and setr to work to invent.the machine required. , hrom eariy Doynoou ne naa exhibited won derful skill in mechanics, and this aptitude was of the greatest assistance to him in his present task. He was compelled to make the tools and the wire with which he worked, but before the winte'r had ended ha L had completed his machine. Then he set it up in a snea and Invited a number of planters to come and see it work. The delight of his visitors at what they saw was unbounded. Whitney's engine could olean as much ootton in one day as a man could clean in a whole winter, and while before it had required the constant labor of 100 hands for several months to senarate the r seed from the cotton grown on a Urge plan tation, it coma now do none in a lew days. It was in this wayvthat the cotton-gin came later the world, Jtam S. Wrxsoir. C F.urther details regarding the musical plans of Calvary P. E. Church confirm the opinion expressed last week ns to the im portance of this movement, .Here is the list of the works tojie given in the special series of Sunday afternoon services: Decembor 11 Schubert: Mass in F. January 6 Handel: Messiah. Part I. February 12 Beethoven: Mountof Olives. March 12 Rossini: Stabat Mater. April 10-Gounod: St. Cecilia. JfayH-Mendelssohnt na'U. June 1 11 Beethoven: Mass in C. Ootober 16 Ilaydn: Imporial Mass, No vom her 12 Mozart: Mass No. 12. December 12 Gaul: The Holy City. It Is the intention of Mr. Carl Better, the organist and choir-master (whose name assures the standard of performance), to augment the regular choir to about 60 voices for these performances. An ade quate orchestra will also be engaged and nothing left undone to make the interpreta tions worthy of the music chosen. How good that is need not be dwelt on. The list speaks for itself. In further, explanation of the plan and its objects, Calvary's broad-gnage rector. Dr. George Hodges," writes as follows: To provide against the overcrowding of the church admission will be by ticket. Tho tickets may bo had of any pew holder, or of Mr. Better or mo. The services are, of course, free, but there will be an offering at each service, and it Is hoped that tho people or Pittsburg will give us generous assist ance. It seems to" me that this series Is a matter or interest; to the city. Wo are working alone the lines of tho Art Society and the MozaitCtubin an endeavor to uplift peo pled ideas, to piovido things worth think ing afcaut, to help the jrrowtn of everything good. It seems to me that this movement is also a demonstration of the light uses of a church. The church is for tho good of the people in all directions. It ought not sim ply to he open for an. hour or two In the morning and evening of Sunday and locked up ail the lest of tho time. Nor are pray iue and preaching all the uses to which I can be put. That Dr. Hodees' progrestlve musical ideas are not limited to the work of his own choir has been seen in the past and will be again shown by the elaborate service to be sung at Calvary this (Advent Sunday) afternoon at 3 o'clock by the Ringwalt Choir. This choir is maintained by its director, Mr. Henry L. Eingwalt, without connection with any particular church, alter the manner of the Leslie and other London choirs. To-day it will be aided by an orchestra of 14 players and these solo singers: Miss Irene L. Sample, Miss Ella Semple, Mr. Dan E. Nuttall and Mr. Harry M. Mays. After a brief choral service, Spohr's oratorio, "The Last Judg ment," will be sung. A special feature will be the offertory music, Dr. A. C Mac kenzie's Benedictti9, arranged for small orchestra by the composer. Calvary Church h making a record for herself as one of Pittsburg's most useful musical institutions. . Another enterprise ot signal importance is Mr. Homer Moore's series of six lecture concerts that opened last Wednesday at Old City Hall in the presence of over a thousand auditors. For the .last three of the series, in which the themes will be Church Music, The Oratorio and The Opera, a chorus is being formed and Mr. Moore has just determined to engage an or chestra, too. for the last one. Before turning to the technical topic set for discussion on Wednesday evening, Mr. Moore explained his intentions in giving this service (wholly at his own expense, with no charge for admission) in language somewhat as follows: The primary object of these concerts was to afford an opportunity for my pupils to test the principles and practice obtained at their lessons by appealing beloro each other and their triends, but upon suggestion it was deemed advisable to enlarge tneir scope and to place them before nllwho weio interested in tho work: Before proceeding to a consid eration of the technical principles or singing I wish to say a few words about Pittsburg's music. I believe that Pittsburg is geographically so situated and in population so constituted, that sue can become one of tho great musi cal centers of these United State?. She con tains abundant resources in the form of enerey, enterprise, brains, money, general culture nnd mnstcal talent. A centraliza tion of these resources, those forces, is nec essary to give this city the place It ought to occupy in the musical history of the coun try. Vhen I came to Pittsburg it was for the purpose of organizins a sones of orchestral concerts'in which education and entertain ment shoul l be blended. The programmes were to be constructed to show the history or music in goner.u, and esnecially the his tory of the orchestra. Each number was to have been explained, analyzed and illus trated before it was performed, and the principal themes played by the instruments to which they wert, intrusted by the com poser in his score. Lions appealed, natur ally enough, in the path of so great an un dei taking, nnd, ns a result, it was laid by for a tlme.but neither abandoned nor forgot ten. These concerts are to be conducted along similar lines to those proposed for the orchestral concerts and will in so much afford you an opportunity of Judging of tho original plan. so cordially leceived by any other city in I urn a believer In nttsburg. I was never which I have lived, ana I am only too, glad to open wiue tnosu aoors to nil wno are in terested in this work, for I look upon it as an opportunity to pay back in a small way the uodc or gratituuo wuicu l owe to you. X feel that your piesenco hero is also a token that vou have the musical development and standing or this great city at heart, and are in sympathy with us and with every honest effort to develop to the utmost our homo talent. Who could do otherwise than give a hearty Godspeed to such a plan so well be gun? Those who were able to be present on the opening night say it was a thor oughly enjoyable and highly instructive evening. , The American tour of Johannes Wolff, violinist, and Joseph Hollman, 'cellist, who are to make their New York debut December 9 at Chickering Hall, promises to be an important feature of the current season. Both artists were born in Holland, have long made Paris their headquarters and enjoy a very high European reputation. The comparative scarcity of great 'cellists helps Mr. Hollman- to a particularly lofty Tank among the masters ot that instrument. . Apropos, the Musical Courier says: "Mrs. Kate Bolla, an American soprano who has appeared in Italian and French grand opera at many of the leading opera houses in Europe during, the last six years, hasar rived In this city and will make her Ameri can debut -at the Wolff and Hollman per formances." Mrs. Bolla is known as Mrs. Kate Wheat Bammelsbnrg, of Wheeling, W. Va., to manv of the readers of this paper, who will be glad to learn of the auspicious conditions under which her reappearance (not strictly a debut.) in her native land is to be enccted. Here are two other items from the same musical paper that local readers are inter ested in. Mr. Addison F. Andrens, in his chatty column of "Gotham Gossip," write: Ethelbert Novin, of Boston, will be Just 30 on Friday of this week. Publishers tell me that Nevin'u songs havo a larger salo at the present tlmo than those or any other Amer ican writer, With De Koven's u cioso second. That phrase, "of Boston," ought to stick in a Pittsburger's throat. Our town pro duced, in Stephen O. Foster, the most artis tic writer of popular songs America ha3 known; now another Pittsburg lad is the most popular writer of artistic songi Dur ing all the yean since Foster died in New York, musical Pittsburg has not advanced far enough to keep Nevin at home. Still, it does seem that, at last, a better era is dawning for matters musical and artistio in Pittsburg. Let us all urge It ont The other Item referred to is this reminis cent paragraph from Mr. W. Waugh Landers Chicago letter: TfeJWk Xa say day at Ielpslo (1873-779 (t) w nad Helen Hopekirk, Gilbert and David Ferrier, of Edinburgh (now promlnont teachers in tnat city of beauty), Wallace (violinist), Macbeth (Allan), a theorist of ability, Mag nus Peterson (lecturer on ransic In Auld Eeekie). Behien (of Dublin). Sawyer (now Dr. Sawver. ouite famous). Vincent (cathe dral orginiit), Jack Keid (Aberdeen), Park fof InVflrtiR.aV RffA Prnden nnd Jessie 1 'laylor (or Banff), Davies (the Welshman of ' vocal Jamo), Khte Ockleston (pianist of .note), Thoney (of Manchester), and with i others who have made" their mark wo mado ajovial colony, and how wo would all love to know what has become of our old chums. And the "Kate Ocklestone, pianist of note" here mentioned is, of course, she who is well known as a local pianist, organist, composer and teacher unoer her present name, Ms; Kate Ocklestone-Lippa. Yet another bit trom the very full col umns of last week's Musical Courier demands attention from one who knows the facts. Mr. Henry Hubert Haas, in an egotistic effusion a column long, explaining that he is not to be confounded with Mr. Henry Holden Huss (no, not for long!) and telling why so illustrious a personage is buried in the wilds of Virginia, says: I have deliberately chosen "Old Vlrginny," nnd resided there ever since 1863, with the exception of ono year, 1S00-J, in Woostier, Ohio, which year I wish I could obliterate Irom my memory a well as from my teaching record, where I went a suc cessor to the late lamented Carl Merz, while on earth, now (as they told mo in Wooster, apdas-the Musical World and the Elude hud it, which must be right) a "saint" In heavon. This-is the third or fourth time at least that Mr. Had! has emerged from his "de liberately chosen" obscurity with a pub lished letter into which he' has laboriously inserted some kind of a sneering allusion to Karl Merz and the authorities ot the Uni versity of Wooster. It is time for him to stop. With all his inevitable 'prominence as a leader in the musical thoueht and-life of the Middle States and the practical results of his life-work will be felt in that wide section for a generation to come Karl Merz was a man of singular modesty and whole-hearted devotion to his art. His noble character was in accord with the ideals sought to be impressed upon the 700 or 800 students of that religiously founded and conducted institution. It was not at all strange that, after such a predecessor and in such an atmosphere, Mr. Haas should feel out of his element. And .when, just before the Commencement con cert, this faithful head of the musical de partment stole silently out ot the town without a word of explanation, the Uni versity authorities heaved a sigh of relief at his departure even at that critical time. It is to the credit of Mr. Haas that he now says ot that year: "I wish I could obliter ate (it) from my memory as well as from my teaching record." The dullest con science pricks at times. It is proper that this explanation of the animus behind these uncalled-for and re peated attacks should be exposed (by one who knows and is solely responsible for saying so) in Pittsburg, where provision has been made to keep Karl Merz's mem ory perpetually green in connection with the fine musical library that he collected and we possess. ' These items for musical readen weTe among The Dispatch's London cable grams last night: The Wagner Society will give no per formance at Bayreuth in 1893. The society some time since appointed a committee to raise money for the purpose 'of securing relics and souvenirs of the great master to form a Wagner Museum at Vienna. Many such relics and souvenirs were obtained. It is now rumored that they are about to be sold to persons in the United States. At the Trafalgar Square Theater to-night the comic opera "Dorothy" wjjl be re vived. It will be presented by a very strong company, and a good run is ap parently assured. "Dorothy," a full de scription ot which has appeared in previous letters of this series, is one of the most successful comic operas on record. In fact, it disputes with "The Chimes of Nor mandy" the title of being the most suc cessful work of the kind on record at least in England.- Paderewski will sail on the Havel for New York on December li. He. has de layed his departure in order to fulfill en gagements here tnarwere postponed owing to his recent illness. He has Written a new Polish Bhapsody for the pianoforte and or chestra for the Norwich Music Festival next year, where he will play a solo part. Things begin to look more lively ahead, and the local musical season of 1892-3 will not have to take a back seat after all. Be side the two extended series spoken of nbove, there will be several sincle events of tut: urai. iiupui,uui;c. One will be the first Symphony Concert ever given by the Mozart Club, now set for about January 20. The orchestra will be enlarged to at least 45 men, and Director McCollum promises a high-class programme. This event is of prime interest as a har binger of better things in the sadly neglected local orchestral field. Mr. Carl Better authorizes the first an nouncement that he has engaged the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Theodore Thomas, conductor, for a concert the last week in April. The reader already knows the standard to whicb Mr. Thomas always ad heres and has heard how faithfully he has been pursuing it in Chicago, with larger re sources than he ever had at command be fore. It is likely, from the correspondence, that Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony Orchestra will also be here afoni in February, and the Boston Sym phony Orchestra, under Mr. Nikisch, is'ex- Lpected to wind up the Mozart Club's season as usual. Symphony concerts by each of the three best orchestras in the country and by one of our own, tool Pittsburg ill hardly know herselt in the glass if this keeps on. C. W. S. TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION By Order of the Consignors Who "Want Their Goods Turned Into Cash at Once The Remaining Overcoats and Salts Saved Trom the 1't Wayne "Wreck "Wil Be Sold at Public Auction to the High est Bidder at 305 SmlthQeld Street Sale Starts Monday Horning at O O'clock Having failed to dispose of nil the goods saved Irom the Ft. Woyne wieck, as was our Intention, wo have orders fioni the con signors of the fine clothing stock.toive the Pittsburg -public a sale, the equal of which has never been knowir in the history of tuis city. Commencing Monday mornini; at 9 o'clock tho goods that e still have on hand will be sold at publio auction to the highest bidder. It has never been tho good fortune of tho people or I'lttsuurs ana tne surrounaing country to have a sale of this kind, so we invite special attention of the enterprising community to this auction sale of flue suits, overcoats and punts ns a golden opportunity and a sale that should receive the attention of everybody who wants to lmy clothing. Commencing Monday morning at 305 Smith field street this srest auction sale will start piomptly at 9 o'clock and continue all uay and until the entire stock is disposed of. The public will Una this without exception tho largest and handsomest stock of clothing ever sold at auction and a better assorted stock than can be found at any leuil houso in this vicinity. The stock consists or men's suits or tho finest Imported and American worsteds, unoviots, meltons and caasimercs in squaro cuts, sacks and cutaways, also Prince 'Alberts and 5,000 overcoats and ul steis of the finest chinchillas, Irish frieze, fur beaver, Montagnacs, choyiots, Carr's melton, in all tho most fashionable styles manufactured, all to be sold sit public unc tion to tne inquest uiuaer, I commencing Monday morning i 9 o'clock! at 303 Smith field 3tieet. In older that every purchaser shall be satisfied wo will nave a number of experienced clothing inon on hand to see that every article you buy fits perfectly, fcalo starts at 9 a. Jt. and will, continue until 9 o'clock at night, 305 Smitbfield street. Itlebers Pianos In tho liearf. Buyers Prefer to Deal at Klebers'. Torenty-flvo pianos anil organs sold al ready (Stcinwaj's, Cnnoven, Operas) for Christmas sifts at Klebers'. fcave money and buy at Klebers', 50ti yV'ood street. Don't forset sco Wood street.. KixaALi, Fiasos. Indorsed by greatest artists, if or casn or uvieasy paymeus pian, at ilellor & iioenes, u jrntn avenue. VoTHzxa who wish ko dress their boya fashionably should seel our Una of reefers. Nowhere In the land la the assortment or styles aa large at at oiraon A Hubaa'a. PERHAPS HYPNOTISM. Alexander full's Explanation of the Power of Bis Father, OLE BULL, THE 0REAT VIOLINIST. Eli Remarkable Strength and How It Was an Aid to His Art. HE WAS CFADLED IN A 'CELLO CASE WRITTEN TOR TOTS DlSPjlICn.1 I think one of the great sources of my father's power was his magnetic influence. After long years of familiarity with his playing I am almost persuaded that he ex ercised a species of hypnotism with his vio lin. There is a tradition that very few people could hear him render such'a piece, for instance, as "Home, Sweet Home," or his own composition entitled "A Mother's Prayer," without being moved to tears. Keenly as he felt the ravishment of thronging audiences .and great as was bis power upon the platform I do not think that he was ever at his best outside his own home. I remember during his intervals of rest from professional labor he used frequently retire with bis family to Yalestrand, our old family country seat in rural Xorway, near Bergen. Here, under his own roof and in the midst of his family, his soul seemed to gather peculiar inspiration. Often in the gray twilight I have sat and listened with Ole Butt at S3. a rapture I shall never forget to the strains that he alone could draw from his favorite instrument, while we who listened were carried away to higher spheres. At times his lofty flights of thought and passion stirred me so deeply that before I knew it the sound of my own sobbing awoke me to my senses. Philosophers may "attempt to account for this extraordinary power with learned theories, but to me it was delight ful hypnotism. Proofs of His Magnetism. There was a woman in Spain who, during one of his performances, fell so completely under his mastery as to betray all the out ward signs of mesmerism. My father was a man of immense physical strength, and from this I have no doubt his magnetism proceeded. He had a very deep chest and long, sinewy arms and a nerve not easily disturbed. Ou one occasion, while he was playing in Madrid, he was visited by a newspaper writer who had basely misrepresented him in the public prints. My father requested him to retract what he had written. He refused to do so. Whereupon my father seized him by the collar, and, throwing open the window, held him outside at arm's length. It is needless to say that he very soon changed his mind. Owing to his peculiar build he had a method of holding his violin and also of handling his bow which cannot be success fully imitated by ordinary players. His bridge was so nearly flat and hi bow so heavy that when occasion required'he could play continuously upon four strings of the lmtrnment at once or upon any of them. Thi ronnired a nicety and rjrecision of ex ecution possible only to a mau possessed of great muscular power and extreme steadi ness of nerve. 3Iany Early Disappointment. When he was in England during his early life an Incident occurred which illustrates this remarkable strength with which God had blessed him. Malibran was to sing at a great festival in Liverpool. Shortly before its occurrence, however, she OU Bull at SO. died, and the management sent in great haste for my father to take her place as the star of the'occasion. He was unwilling to go, being on a professional tour. But as an emolument of 800 was offered he post poned his engagement and nndertook to ap pear. So vast was the auditorium and so great the audience that he found it ex tremely difficult to make himself heard. The ph'ysical strain upon him was so great that when he had finished the blood flowed from beneath his finger nails and from his mouth for some moments after his perform ance. I think, also, that a great deal of my father's power carao from sutTering. "While he was a very young man he went to Paris to make bis way with his violin. There he met with many'and great disappointments, as is the case with nearly every great artist at some period of his life. What privations ho suffered it has never been my privilege to know. Vidocq, the great French detect ive in Paris, said to him one day, "You look very sad, voung man. What is the matter with you?" My father's answer was that he had "everything "stolen from him, even his violin. Then Vidocq asked him if he had a five franc piece. He then told me to g5 to Prascati's and to lay his waeer upon .the red color, and that he woqld win. He did so and won 800 francs. A lady was about to draw it in when the man at the counter said, "No, .it does not belong to you, madam, it belongs to this pale young man," and off he went with his 800 francs in his pooket and was hanpy. This sum was at that time 'a large one la Paris, and It was of great service to my father. The Becalpt of Sa News. mile he was playlnr lnBmwia the sad - - -- t.1. -V' JUatf, Mtt. 4.hfML TnM night the favored peele of Bt, Petert- illliii?MllPril 1 N bure heard him play as he had rarely played before. The sod intelligence impressed him deeply and seemed to give him anewin spiration. He was a spiritualist and he had the conviction that his father's spirit had descended upon his own and reinforced itj native power. Years afterward when ha AUxander Bull - Mm himielf. he littered most lm nressive words. The mornins of his death! he sent for the daughter of his dearest -nn.. frionrl. "Well, my dear," he said,1 "thpy tell me I am going to die, andlguessj the time has come. I am going to thesplrit land, and there I shall meet your dear, fatherandbringhima lresh greeting from you." Mv father was a born violinist. As child he imitated the motions of a fiddler, with two sticks, accompanying his move-J ments of humming the air that was passing; in his mind. Later he began to take IeW sous on the violin during his visits to his uncle's house. My great uncle played tha' violoncello, and while he performed, my, father, then a little boy, used to lie in the great cello case and listen. His first instruc tor was a gentleman who was as muchde-J voted to the flask as to the violin. He used to play in quartets at the house of my; father's uncle. One evening he had been. Imbibing too freelv, and my father, half la jest, was invited to take his part, which ho did, to the great amusement ot the audience;) upon which his uncle cave him a new violia as a reward for his skill. An Incident Kelatlnc; to Booth. Over 20 years ago, when father rlayed fa the New York Philharmonic Society, afte, the presentation of a silk flag combining ths Norwegian and American emblems, a mac-' nificent emerald ring waj sent by Mr. A- win Booth to be returned to the one he es teemed to be the rightful owner, Ole BulLi The ring had been given to Mr. Booth,' after a performance ot "Hamlet lby a lawyer, who said he had received it from. Mr. Ole Ball. . , . , . After accepting the ring from his dear, beloved friend. Prof. K. .Olden .Doremuv the President of the PhilharmonicSociety.j father narrated the history of tne ring, which he had received 30 years before in St.', Petersburg. . ,- t.. - I Early Sunday mornmgfollowing the eon-1 cert he called on Prof. Doremus. and in , most enthusiastic manner asked now1 would do for him to offer to play for Mr, , Booth at his theater between the ae.s; I At the following Philharmonic concert Mr. Edwin Booth read Byron s "M at the Academy of Music The large orchestra of over 100 performers played. SSggPs5 OleBuU'i Home at Taleisrand, and Tom Schumann's music, and the Liederkrana So1 ciety and various artists-sang. The society offered to repeat the musls at Mr. Booth's theater. ProC Doremua) learned that father was in Cincinnati g!v- ing concerts, and a telegram was sent to him asking if be could arrange to play afcl this performance of "Manfred." I The replv stated that he was on a concert tour and would not return to New Yorlo for two months. It was signed by his lm- piesario. , An hour later another telegram wMre eeived, saying: - "I will be there. Ole Bum." He broke up his concert tour to acconv, plish the desire of his generous heart and, to reciprocate the favor or Mr. Edwlal Booth. rtT.KTATTOEB BtTIA. MUSICAL MATTERS. CARL STABAT, SOIOIST, AT THE STStX. FHOXY COSOEET. Another Instance In Which the Artist Grand Henry F. JOIHer Piano DIvldt the Honors With a Great Fiardjt auV the World-Benowned Boston Symphonj, Orchestra. j Bostox, Oct. S3, 189i-D!reetor JTIHieM gave tho synmhouy ooncert patrons ampla food for thought last evening as ha preW sented a programme of three works, all ofl whichere unfamiliar to local musioians. The overture to Belnecke's opera, "Man! fred," opened the -Drogramme, and had a) first hearing here. It is certainly an excel lent composition in tho modern style, whioh, does not bear the imprint of Wagnerian tendencies, the Ideas having in some waya tho characteristics or Schumann in his clear est and most melodions mood, whiia th scoring Is of the iIendelsohn style. Tha piano concerts (or, more properly, fantasl with orchestra) by Saint saens, No-, In. O minor, was the wore selected by Mr. Carl Stasny for hi first appearance here with, orchestra, and tho remarkable success at tending his performance Justified his choice of It. In his playing Mr. Stasny was aided,' in his efforts by a fino "Miller Grand," and, firoved hlmseli a singularly clear and Intel-i Igent interpreter or this brilliant French; composer. lie has a clear, clean and sym-j pathetic touch, with ample and well-con-j trolled power, hi3 technical attainments ar equal to the most Intricate difficulties of tha modern school and the artistic manner la which he performed the piano score of thai concerto instantly arrested attention and. gave the player an audience in sympathy with his method. In brincing forward tns Tscbalfcowsky Symphony So. 5, in i. minor, ns one of the early novelties of the season on this occasion. Conductor Nifcisch added a most notable work to the orchestra s reperi toiro. and one which is worthy of moro thaai a single hearing. The piano o much ad-l mired in the svmDhony concerts is ono pt the Henry F. Miller make, represented In) Pittsbunr by W. C Whitelull. and all intend lng purchasers, as well as the mu-ic-lovlnsrl publio in general, aro cordially Invited tov call and examine these wonderful lnstra, ments, shown in the elezant and artistln' display of tho Henry F. Miller pianos at WJ C WhitehiH's music parlor, M8 Third yi nue, opposite the postoffice. rOE COM SXAFS. Solomon & Itaben Hare the finest line of fur capsta the Uji Men's college and driving In eooney, Canada sable. Oraaron seal and cenrnna Alaska seal from Mo to (13. Men' fur florae' In cooner. renoine Aiaixa seal ana Dev and otter, from fJ npto Jdds. from, TSo to 8. Menl 4tms .ueai tki gloves, from Mo to tt eft. wSSw & 1 4r &M&M&Ge&to iffiffiffrWr.m nrnitiiim-iiTiiiMir.'iiiriiiif .!
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