, 1890-08-17

ing, and gives the playing his general APP
Droyal as 1t goes along.
The programme opened with an over
ture which Is frequently the case at such
times, and was followed by a suite Of
dances by Brull. 1t was from the Ballet
La Champagne, and one could almost i'm
agine that he saw before him the graceful
1.-THE lmbed and giddy shippers of the
legitimate drama. Then came some soft
easygoing waltzes by Gounod, Saint Saens
and other able composers. Alter that
Mr.. Seidl introduced a Hungarian rhap.
sody by the eminent but slightly lecherous
List 1t was No. u of his rhapsodies.
and Mr.. Seidl kept good time to it with
his little Larasol handle. When the music
was completed the applause of the audi
ence mingled with that of the roaring bill
lows outside, and then some more pieces
were played with great success, closing
with a selection by Nessler, called the
"Trumpcter of Skowhegap." if | an not
grossly mistaken. The opera from which
1t was taken, as the ta~utologists have it,
was LAID on the Rhine, where it was after
ward secured and utilized by Mr.. Nessler.
Mr.. Seitiert played the trumpet solo in
this piece, and was recalled at its close by
red message, he being somewhere up
toward the iron pier in order to give his
his music the right distance.
Mr.. Seidl uses only the Chickering
piano at his per formances. He uses it by
standing it in the pit with a large mono
gram tarpaulin over it, bearing the name
in tall, gilt letters. Then at the close of
the season Mr.. Chickering throws off this
horse blanket or sweater together with
halt the price and let's Mr.. Seidl have the
piano.
He also uses the Masan & Hamlin organ
in a similar way.
l lectured once in a large city for the
benefit of the watermelon sufferers of
Georgia, and on the programme L found
that | only used the Chickering, erect,
overstrung piano at all my entertain
but L was not in it, to use n truism from
Socrates.
The time will come when n prima DON
ma may pause between her selections
while the orchestra proceeds with the in
terlude and. slowly but deity removing
her artificial teeth, polish them neatly on
her elbow and call attention to their gen
eral good qualities and biting powers, at
the same time giving the name of the
maker and thus getting AT extra set at the
end of the season.
Mr.. Informal Williams of North avenue
who has practically controlled the pre.zel
market at Pier One for the past season,
has opened a branch at the West End and
last week shipped a whole fish pole full oil
these toothsome v~ictuals.
A hot Frankfurter works at South
Beach, owned by Perley Dinsblatter,
caught on fire last Friday week and was
completely Quilted.
Long Branch looks bright and smiling
this season and along the ocean drive
many new faces are seen. | frequently
saw up enough during the winter 20 stop
over at Long Branch between boats by be-
ing economical.
| like to visit the Branch each summer,
and every one is glad to see me there and
wonders why | cannot stay any longer. 1t
is not because | am ~preiudiced against the
Branch, but because L cannot afford it,
Now. at South Beach / can 20 from my
country seat at Slippery -elmhurst-B ack-of-
the Reservoir -by-the-Sea for five cents.
Carrying my own bathing suit, which
consists of a knitted chemisette, | repair
to some ~uhfrequented portion of the
shore, and after eating n hasty bite of
some pure food, consisting in part OF cold
salt pork held in place by Shaker flannel
cakes and washed down with a beaker of
old Rhenish wine from a secret vineyard
Of mine in the hills OF Kentucky, | dis
robe behind an oar which / stick up in
the sand, and plunge madly with a glad,
gurgling cry into the spray, where 1 snort
about for an hour or so and then return
to my %atelier, where | resume work on
my new almanac for 1891 and do other
literary work till my seething brain warns
me that / must desist or incur the dis
pleasure of the board of health.