The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-07
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 7. 1889.

within the last year, has fiddled with great
success before most of the crowned heads
and other well-known persons in Europe,
was coming to Indianapolis to visit rela-
tivcs here. The famous young viollnlst is
Hoosier having been born in Goshen in this
state, and this made it particularly appro-
PIRATE that she should play before the first
President from Indiana. The idea occurred
to the ladies Of the family of having the
opera company and the violinist call at the
same time and make regular concert
of it.
The opera singers, with a charming dis
regard for the conveniences of hoosier life,
proposed to make their visit at l. 30 o'clock
at night, but they were informed that any
singing they wished to do for the President
elect would have to be done by daylight, so
it was fl ally arrahged that they should
visit the honse at o'clock this afternoon,
and Miss Wickham made her call at the
same time. A few friends Of the family had
been notified Of the visit, and with the
fifteen or twenty members of the company
and orchestra there was a throng present
that quite filled the two parlors of the house.
Judge Woods, of the United States court,
whose family are on intimate terms with
Miss Wickham, the Rev. DR.. Mcleod and
his daughter, Mayor Denny and Mrs. Den
ny, Gen. Lew Wallace and his sister, and
several other well-known persons were
among those present
The concert was an enthusiastic affair all
around. The singers were enthusiastic over
the way In which they were received, the
family and guests were enthusiastic over
tho way the singers sang, and everybody
was enthusiastic over the way Miss Wick
bam iddled. She is tall, graceful brU-
nette, and wore her hair in two long braids
down her back to emphasize her youthful
ness. Upon her breast there was glitter
ing array of medals They included the
Springer medal awarded by the Cincinnati
Conservatory of Music; a round gold medal
given to her by the Emperor Frederick
when she played before him last year, and
which has his photograph in the back an
order of artistic merit awarded to her by
the Duke of Saxe-COburg. Gotha, she being
the first woman to receive the order; a
moonstone set with diamonds, presented to
her by Dom Pedro Of Brazil at Cannes last
| year, and silver medal, which was the
| gift of the Prince of Wales
she stood carelessly before the piano at
| the rear of the two parors and performed
| in the intervals Of tho singing some of the
most difficult and beautiful works Of classic
| music in a manner that Dr. Mcleod, who
says ne has heard all the great violinists,
| declares he has never heard excelled. Miss
| Wickham's great..tribute o as from without
| the house, however. When she fiddled
Ule UUtl2 cUllQron Oh inc nelRnDOrlOOu
| climbed upon the narrow front window
| lodges, and nestled there in the
cold with tn if faces pressed against the
| panes to hear her better, and the
coachmen waiting on the sidewalk were fid-
| died away from their horses and gathered
| in groups at the side windows listening to
the strains of her fiddle from within and
the shivering little wretche at the window
stills forgot that they were not warm, and
! the gruff coachmen neglected to growl so
| long as she fiddied. Once in a while some
one inside would brush curtain aside so
that the outside aud ence could see as well
as hear, and then the children almost fell
| from their various perches in excitement,
and the coachmen hustled each other about
| to get q best view Of har