Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
The Liquor Question From the Choir Loft
Style in Eseorting Lady and Having
Her Cons Your Head-A Story of Adam


Forepaugh.
TFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT ~
New YoRK, June 6-"There is not unfre-
quently decided milk punch flavor in the
organ loft" said professional church choir
singer. Professional people, as rule, do
not enter into the sacred spirit of worship
just because they are filling an engagement
in church. Why should they be expected
to do so? Here in New York the paid singer
is the rule, and some of these church singers
are pretty well paid, too 1t is q business,
and from the singers point of view has but
a shadowy connection with religion or re-
ligious worship. know a clerk who gets SIS
week in an express -sffice and $500 year
for Sunday work in a church choir. There
are many young men and women who thus
exc out small salaries by profitable choir
singing. Where l Sing there is a good
Fellow with first rate voice
who usually shows the effect of
having been out with the BOYS late Saturday
night In the morning service his voice has
peculiarly rich, penitential favor, that
goes wa1ling and signing among the arches,
and probably finds silent echo in every SIN
1ul heart below that has had to be braced up
for church with brandy and soda. His nerv-
GUS physical condition gives o sweetly
tremulous tone and his work is very ef-
fectiye.
"If he were singing on the stage he would
be certain of vigorous encore. (There are
marks of appreciation in a church congrega-
tlon, however, that are quite as distinctive
are cenm;,,s a,G aoat app.ausSIi anu ,.ot
he manmfactnro a. ~ i,e amoy ser,ice
the same singer will take on more buoyant,
even exultant tone. He may find it conven-
lent to steady himself a trifie by the rail, but
the effect is tremendous. There is q magnet-
ism about some singers that captures an
audience at once, while the scientifically
~ ae nTSSs ,sa VI announcer w VIII Iaif coiuy ~
course tbara a am - uno " 'Ie lur ~ -. ~.
w Aio" 1nis ohe'
DecepuVe s"ioch-Iaoie'
tHhHE Is d very easily WORKING sWisch-
saple on 'he oroau"ay trah"ay aS ahirty-
loursn street, ~nere Two or three INES OF
oats euih ihto anu OUT Oh tne iasser ss.ee'
auu up anu uo"n oiAeh avenue. Inc uriVe.
eaioiuiy suioes tne proper morse on H. anu
Peso' ~ is ousy CORNER ior DUH cars'
"asonS anu pedestrians anu the iatser are
vontpeneu w SKIP rlsht IVeiy 10 save NE OF
ImD ana preserve good clothes from the
splashing mud. This particular turnover
table is directly in the Broadway foot-cross-
ing. Everybody has experienced that sud-
den sinking sensation in stepping down
couple of inches from the level unexpect-
edly. When a nervous person, dodging
vehicles, inadvertently steps on the iron
leaves of this table there Is gasp of sur
prise, followed by a quick recovery and
rss is That of nr
manhole into the sewer. The dull, hollow,
iron clang of the shifting plate is calculated
to neg hIen the impression.
of from three to four feet st, and aiivht IN the
mud with an exclamation of fear and aston
1shment. The feeling of solicitude at the
pssl p1ssssnDit1sy ny OF being run over and that OF
by the after consciousness - of beinp the snb. e
iect of merriment on the mart Of drivers and
others There is O species of cruelty in this
latter form of amusement akin to that Of
laughing at the other fellow chasing his hat.
Too Many Theaters just Now.
THEATRICAL managers will have to adopt
the stock system to protect themselves"
said Manager jacob Lift. 81 am taking a
stronp stock comnanv be,ded NV Ion;s
Ion,oo -, =, - a. N..,s. - a ,,, -,
o""oo' up nv 'no aoisn"ee. anu ",i Phay
1t in my theaters. 1t is the first stock COM
pany established in the West. You see,
there are SO many theaters now that they
have great dificultv in getting their tfne
nroneEIv fiIled .TGat is tha fbeatars ' are
fbickar tbon GOOD nomtina t;cns Ens this
rea son every manaoer 1nuat ,,nt q, a LOT ~
hn shows dnrina tbe " II oo1 .os he %
theater every now and then. i don't know
a Door attraction. Roth iniure n tbeater
There are two weII-located and welI-known
Broadwav theaters that have been nrscti
9hnwl N
nany will oo there If II can nossihiS e1o;d r.
Soia ralia pca ,Iaon the co1n h;na ti1n s1sta,. -,
has done this. shail work both systems the
coming season. 0
The Story of q. Kew.
irDo Won see that kevap asked Mr. I Frnn,r
Herman drawing a bunch at the end of a doo
chain from his hin pockets and disnIavfny q
necuI;ar long fat notched niece of steei
rbere was no trouble about SEEING n ~Tba
Of tho famous Roodle Alderman triaIs waa
y. 49, Sto,,d 90 tha II.,.,1s ,..-,n,.,,
PuS on .no oS"L % .se.-t. - ~. 'Si NJ
had ootaineo tne information tnat led to
the exposure of that infamous deal. 1t was
we'll known that the doors were locked and
tte,o wa a mo nes rer comuunicati tion With the
.IS,. .t,o-,,her thor tb,o,,,, 49, -
AiderInan , anro TIE n,nnt;S SunoSn smo sets
oi Hoar ta ntiol renort ~ the Scane thDn
in enacted could find its way into the col
umns Of the Herald. Inere was great fut-
yer IN tne court fEor Sl t ~, .ne ciever coun-
wb}ch tbev had led me by the usnai 6egrees
When pulled this key and declared IL the
opener Of the cloakroom door the excite
ment was intense.
~ was asheu tter ba Sa'Id ie,anu, Will
ou III ,,nnted to the CIerI ~ th ro,,, ne
mon Council who sat within the rail. He
was put ON the stand and admitted the truth
of my statement. The key had been
furnished me so long before that everybody
had forgotten it. You know the result. /
of money-more in fact, then 1t then took to
buy an Alderman"
Ho1d;ne tn a Girys Erbov
w ~
THE young man VINO hits MS girl along by
her elbow is to be seen every few yards on
broadway. Nor is this style of locomotion
confined to any particular class. 1t is one of
Cohnnoo W "nS Pc. ". o oo VI