The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-27

From OR o,sn Correspondent

MUSICAL TramperNs
The wandering musicians OF this city can
scarcely be called an outcrop of the hot weather,
but they abound in such p~rofusion as to seem to
owe their growth to no other reason. When
the pavement bakes into brittle flakes the mud
splashed upon Ii, and causes the accidental drop
of water to hiss and sputter like o kettle boiling
over, musical hampers abound and bask and
devote themselves to their beautiful art. With
such q sun beating down upon them, no wonder
their strains are melting. If it were true-as
some one says it is-that Gothic architecture is
music frozen, / should not expect to see an
Episcopal church spire remaining in New
York. But the vagrant musician is a phe-
nomenon who defes the most strategic combi-
nations of the thermometer, and, under an
aggravating semblance of GOODNESS, blows his
instrument and eats his bread in the sweat, not
of his own, but of everybody else's face. From
morning until midnight he haunts the neighbor-
hood of business offices and private residences,
fortunes you, while perpetually requesting you
not to 'bodder" him, with his melodious adjura-
ton of q familiar household insect inseparably
blent, in common parlance, with the prefix
''shoo;' and, while you are eating the most inn
portant meal of the day, informs you, in a
musical refrain, of the remarkable diet upon
which Captain Jinks, that veterinarian of the
marines, put his horses. 1t is a great pity that
the evil of street musicians, since it cannot be
suppressed, is not regulated by law, as an evil
of q somewhat more vicious type is in st. Louis.
1t is exasperating to know that a strict excise
law prevents hard drinkers making beasts of
themselves after midnight and on Sun
days, while no similar regulation binders hard
workers from becoming victims to curbstone
organ-grinders, hideous tamborine girls, and
reeking performers on the harp and cornet-a-
piston. When, commencing on your soup or
fish, a cap smelling of the gutter is stretched
toward you from the basement window, and the
shadow of q muddy-faced Italian boy in tatters
is thrown across the table-cloth, You find your
self doubling the existence of a perfectly wise
and good Superintendent of Police, and empty
ing your pockets of their change, you thrust it
upon the suppliant, and calculate, with o voice
husky with emotion, and a face red with half
swallowed soup, 500! and ne'er approach me
with that strain again."
/ have studied these street musicians, and
believe them to be thoroughly unprincipled. 1
have watched them pounce upon pavements
when the thick layers of tan proclaimed the fact
that invalids in the second-story front needed
only q touch or two of Cup in q Balloon (exe-
euted with variations upon the hand-organ) to
be sent down among the dead men.
Sometimes street musicians, especially when
several travel together, and one of them
performs upon the piccolo or some other plea
SAINT ear-piercing instrument, have a neat taste
FOR the satirical, and l have heard a band of this
nature play Crock me to Sleep, Mother" just
one hour after midnight. If you can imagine
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup being set to
music and sung as a lullaby to a baby with the
collie, you can form some faint idea of the effect
OF that lyric upon the neighborhood.
Amusements.
Much of what purports to be fact in regard to
autumn amusements is merely conjecture. The
little that may reasonably be relied upon may
be found in the following items: Nilsson gives
her first concert in America at Steinway Hail
On the evening of Monday, Sept. 10, seven weeks
from next Monday. Her agents take their
OATH that the six-column biography which ap-
peared last Sunday in one of the New York
papers was Mr.. Benefits gratuitous tribute to
her genius, although it was worth $4,000 to them.
Madame Marie Seebach, the German TRACE
dienne, will make her first appearance in Anne
RIGA at the French Theatre on the evening of
Monday, Sept. IL. Her support will consist of
Mad1le Veneta, Madlle Antonio Bessinger,
Madlle Marguerite Won Ziegler, Madlle Elvira
Bardenheur, Herr Heinrich ~Jautsch, Herr Her
mann Harry, Herr Hugo Edward, and Herr Luz
dovic Geiger. The first piece presented will
probably be Faust, in order to allow Madame
seebach to appear as Marguerite, in
which she is said to be astonishingly
cut MI cSlOiSoh Is Y D"J tlP th
Winkle' for an indefinite number of months at
Booths, Saturday night, however, being set
apart for The Lady of the Lake The Olympic
will open in a few weeks with Mr.. Fox in a new
p~antomime. Wallack's will probably present
School during the first week of the new season,
and "stick to the legitimate" during the greater
part of the term. Niblo's is in the hands of
cunning woIkmen who gild and fresco, and
when it opens its doors will base its attractions
upon q play by Bret Harte, the California origi-
nality. 1t is rumored that Mr.. DAILY, as lessee of
the Fifth Avenue Theatre, intends to ~galvanize
Moliere, in a style similar to that in which he
unwound the winding sheets of oblivion from
The -Natu'ed Man. Janauschek intends
to appear in English, though when is more
than / can say; and it is pretty well understood
that Madame Lanner, the magnificent pantomi-
mist and dancer, will dance at the Grand
Opera House until the beginning of autumn,
when an opera boUte company will arrive. 1t
is thought that Nilsson will be the fashion and
sensation of the winter, and that the entire
season will be unusually brilliant.
The Case of John Real.
John Real, who is sentenced to be hanged on
the 9Th of August for killing Officer Smedick,
has made one last desperate struggle for life,
Under the advice of his counsel, eX-Judge
Stuart, he has published what purports to be
a detailed aud truthful account of the circum,
stances under which the fatal pistol was fired,
He declares in the most solemn manner thai
the most violent and merciless manner; thai
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