Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-01-13
ENHANCED BY MUSIC.
Remarkable Effect of a Dam rosch Concert on a Youth.
WANDERED A WEEK IN A TRANCE.
DeIuded With the Sudden Idea That He Was a Great Musician, He Went to Bos- ton-He Finally Returns Home to Tell a RnmblIpg Story.

Deluded With the Sudden Idea That He
 Was a Great Musician, He Went to Bos-
 ton-He Finally Returns Home to Tell a
 Rambling Story.
 ELIZABETH, N. J., Jan. 13.-Walter Per ry Smith, the 16-year-o old boy who disap- peared after leaving the Damrosch concert in the Carnegie Music hall in New York on Friday of last week, has returned to his home at South Second street, Elizabeth. He left the Elizabeth high school on Fri day at noon alone, intending to celebrate his sixteenth birthday by attending the Concert in the Carnegie Music hall. He was to take dinner in the evening with his uncle, c. D. Smith of the firm of Baker, Smith & Co.,, who lives in Fifty-seventh street near Ninth avenue, New York, but he never reached the house.
 His disappearance was reported to Su- perintendent Byrnes, but all efforts to find any trace of the missing boy after he left the music hall proved fruitless. w. O. Smith, his father, who is cashier of the Elizabethport Banking company, had about given his son up for lost when Percy returned.
 The Music Overcame Him.
 The young man at first refused to say anything about his strange disappearance. He said that he had been advised not to talk of it. But he finally told how he had gone to the Carnegie fall and had been completely overcome by the music It was music such as he had never heard be- fore.
 q don't know how it was" said he, but as sat there and listened I seemed to for get everything but the music i don't re- member anything for a long time except listening to that music. I remember vaguely of getting up and going out when the crowd went. When I got on the street, with all the brilliant carriages around me, l came to my senses in way, but in a very queer way. I was filled with great longing to be musician and lead an or chestra and make name for myself.
 When think of it, 1 must have been half crazy, for believed that was a great musician and that all had to do was to begin for myself have given good deal of time to music, as far as 1 could in this little town, and the great Symphony or chestra was a wonderful revelation. un- derstood that Boston was where all the great musicians came from, and thought that all had to do to be great musician was to go to Boston. So, instead of going to my uncle's for dinner, 1 went down to the place where the boats leave and got on a Norwich boat. So went to Boston,"
 Then the young man told a rambling story of how he tried to get position in the orchestra at the Globe theater and at several other places before Ae found that he was not the great musician he thought he was. He had only S4 when he left New York. That was about enough to pay his way to Boston.
 Went to Boston In a Dream.
 He said he was in a sort of dream all the | Gs kl..Al l. and out all night, and that he met some people who were very nice to him, and who finally put him on the Fall River line, by which he got into New York early yester- day morning. He had faint idea that some one had gone to Boston with him, who kept urging him not to go back home, | but to persevere in his attempt to become I a great musician.
 II don't know what to think of it." said l Cashier Smith. T know the boy didn't | have more than S4 with him when he left home. He has been studying hard and was never very strong. I think the trouble is all here'-pointing to his head. ''In his extremely sensitive condition of mind he may have been led into sort of dazed state | by the music, of which he is passionately fond. That is what the doctor thinks. | know of no other reason why he should | have gone off in such a strange way He had no trouble here. He says he didn't go away for any reason in particular, only that he took it into his head to do it. ] have not pressed him to tell anything, nor will do so.'
 The doctor who is attending Percy says that it is perfectly plausible that he was driven out of his proper mind by the ecstasy resulting from the music which so enrap- tured him and that he wandered off in q sort of dream. The church people and hali the town besides were in the home of Cash. fer Smith last night giving thanks for the return of the wandering son.