The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-12-22

T Tksans, l80pounds.
mayer 900
Lang, IFS
Tuckerman, 919 g.
Wilcox 1872
Morgan, 945
Total, 225 8.
When IN the grand crescendo passages these
SIX organsts ros" simultaneously from their seats.
and recededa couple of PAGES, rushed forward in
line, throwing their collective weight of over
lively hundred pounds upon the pedals, the mu
steal expIosion-tor by no other name can it be
designated-was teri bly, grand
Through inadyertance the trap doors of the
M uslc Hall had not been raised, and the first de-.
tonation of sound was to lift the heavy tin roof
from the waIl-sockets some fifteen feet into the
air, holding 1t suspended there until the immense
volume OF sound mad forced passage beneath it.
1t is proposed 10 avert similar accidents bv
placing an immense souud-escape chimney over
the Music Hall, after the style of the draugat
chimney to furnace but DR.. Holmes. who
has given much attention to acoustics, suggests
perhaps net altogether seriously -that the
condensed sound thus vented may fall upon the
city IN SOLID chunks, doing damage.
Outside the building the effects were quite as
remarkable. IL was noticed that the spires of the
different churches in the city vibrated over an arc
Of several degrees, the weather-vanes upon them
dipping and oscillatn, in the most singular man
Ler, from the same cause. TIE walls of houses
throughout the city were sinsbly shaken, furn-
slrs displaced, &c, causing many timld persons
to rush to the street, thinking it an earthquake.
In the towns Immediately adjoing Boston the
| conclusion also was supposed to be an earth
quake. AT Newburyport it was thought that the
sound indicated heavy naval engagement off
harh A., SoI
and report was experienced, resembling in sound
heavy burden'train paseing over a treste-work
bridge. At Jamaica Plains it was thought that
it proceeded from thunder storm in the direc-
ton of Boston, and, curiously enough, the baron
eter fell several degrees at that point ; and the
same fact was noticed at Natick, Lynn, and as far
distant as Taunton.
The water receded from Boston harbor in
wave of considerable magnitude, and in it's retro
grade and return swamped, stranded and keeled
over several vessels doing no little damage to
the commercial interests.
"Gold fish in globes, and fish of all kinds in
aquara were instantly killed and what, for a
time, wac unexpaInable, was the fact that they
sank Immediately, until it was ascertained by Dr.
| Holmes that their badders had been burst by the
| concussloni when. OF course, being minus their
floating appar 'tus they went down like lead. DIR.
Holmes states also the remarkable fact that nu-
merous dead bodies of drowned persons were
brought TO the surface in the harbor and in Charles
river by the same conclusion. A singular effect
was produced by the pulsation OF sound from the
| crescendo detonatlon passing along the telegraph
lines from Boston in various directions and which
travelled a distance of from one hundred anC
fifty to Two hundred miles over some wires, OF
until considerable bodies of running water were
encountered, over which, from some unexplaina
bic cause III acoustics, the Eolian toDe-vhicb i,
described as wild, uncanny wail-would in nc
instance pass. DR.. Holmes humorously notes
that the same fact is recorded of witches-i e.
that they canno pass over streams OF running
water Another curious feature of this phenome
non was the fact that musical tone sweIIed an(
contracted IN regular crescendoes and dimuendo
at equal Intervals along the wires Thus at w or
cester, which is forty five miles from Boston, tn
sound was barely pc. cepubie, while at Springfield
just double the distance, the tone approached /,
Shrek IN volume.
" DIR. Holmes thus expleins this interesting
fact. 1t is well known among musicians that tn,
vibrations upon the strings of violin, harp o.
any srlnged instrument, do not take the shape 0
a single pusaon with its maximum expansion
the centre OF the string, but are divided along III,
string, IN numerous smaller pulsatlons or Crescen
dos, crossing each other at regular dminuendo in
tervas, at which latter points the string is nearly
or quite motlonIess. The knowledge of this curl
Gus law of vibration readily affords solution, say
! DR.. Holmes, to the mystery of the telegraph
crescendo freaks noticed.
DIR. Holmes, who, in company with Mayo
Lincoln, delegation Of the Boston city COUNCILS
( and body of leading Swans Of the Harvard PEI
suasion, made an interesting pedestrian tou
through some eight or ten miles of the mai
) pipes of the monster organ before it was set W
bias written 4 graphic description of tie trip. an
} of the organ u whole. The party found n
difficulty IN walking quite erect through at leas
! six miles Of the major pipes, and got throggh tn
smaller Eoian tubes quite comfortably ON the
4 hands and knees. Ii description of tie gre5
e instrument has appeared in book form under Ii
dprOpos title of Soundngs from the Atlantic.