Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-12-13

more bottles of this medicine have
been sold through the influence of
Towards sweet voice in Only a Pansy
Blossom than were ever disposed Of
by peripatetic medicine vendor.
Not Il little of the success achieved
by EDWARD Harrigan upon the stage
was due primarily to his rendition Of
the celebrated Mulligan Guards song.
in which they "shouldered guns and
marched and marched away. from
Baxter street way up to avenue A,
the drums and flies did Sweetly.
sWeetly play, as we marched, marched,
marched with the Mulligan Guards"
As Mark Twain will be remembered
for his story of the jumping frog of
the Calaveras and the incident in Tom
Sawyer'S career when he whitewashed
the fence, so will Ned Harrisan's
name be remembered in years to come
with the rollicking, jolly music of the
Mulligan Guards. The sound of it
even now is enough to set the listeners
feet in motion
VINO does not remember that gentle.
pathetically melodious little ballad.
Empty is the Cradle. Baby's Gomez
The author Of this tender gem was
Harry Kennedy, who now lies under
the sod. But in future years. when
the name of this favorite song writer
Shall be recalled in tender reminis-
cence, Empty is the Cradle will al
ways be associated with it upon the
walls of memory
Gradually coming down through the
years toward the present, Rrannigan's
Band suggests the name of the come
dian, Tony Hart; and William Sean
ian, with his Peek-a-boo. will ALWAYS
be intimately associated in the minds
or the lovers of popular songs
A consideration of songs which have
been written and sung in the last de-
cade brings to mind Stick to Your
Mother, Tom, sung by Maude Bever-
ley. For several years this vocalist
had been singing in concert halls and
earning a precarious existence, at
tracing no special attention. But
through the success attained by her
singing of Stick to Your Mother, Tom.
she quickly arose to the 500 week
class, and her prosperity continued for
a long time
At about the same time May How
ard attained international fame in the
manner she sang The Letter That
Never Came, which was also true of
Banks Winters, who inflicted upon q
grooming public that well-known chest
nut, White Wings. Equally success
full was the Philadelphia minstrel, J.
L.. CarncrOSS, with See That NV
Graves Kept Green. 1t is mainly due
to Mr.. Carncross' sweet voice that the
grave has been kept green ever since,
even if paint had to be used to achieve
this laudable object
Lolita was first individ,lalized with
her singing of the then famous darby
melody In the Morning by the Bright
Light, while the late Annie Pixley was
universally associated with The Cows
Are in the Corn. Then came ]. X. EN-
met with his celebrated lullaby, Go
to Sleep, My Baby, the fame of which
has been kept alive by several imi-
tations since his death.
r. J. Jose had been singing for
comparatively small salary an Dock
stader's MINISTRIES, until he aroused his
audiences to enthusiastic applause by
his rendering With All Her Faults I
Love Her Still. Within a week his sal
airy was doubled, and even to the pres
ent day he falls back upon this song
as one of the most attractive features
of his extensive repertory, invariably
n,o1t cyti
A review of the more recent in
stances of men and women who have
attracted universal attention in the
field of popular song calls up Maggie
Cline. Mary Ann Kchoe walked into
publicity when Maggie first trotted
Miss Kehoe out upon the stage, with it's
suggestions of domestic servitude.
But perhaps the greater part of Miss
Cline's fame depends upon her graphic
description Of the fight between "Mc-
Closkey and the Nagur."
AS is well known. the song that
brought Lottie Collins to the public
notice was Ta-Ra-Ra. Boom-de-Ay.
which yielded her 1000 a week. The
same may be said Of Joe Flynn. whose
Down Went McGinty carried him into
fame from a vaudeville singer to
"star" within six months; and Lew
Dockstader was lifted into greater de-
mand solely from his excellent inter-
probation of the song We've Both Been
There Many Time.
William Hoey is as much indebted
for his present celebrity to singing
The Man Who Broke the Bank at
Monte Carlo as anything he ever sang
while Comrades has caused the name
of Helene Mora to be a byword with
managers all over the United States.
Katie Lawrence, the English vocalist,
jumped from comparative obscurity
into the full glare of popularity
through the bicycle song, Daisy Bell
Two at the present time enjoying
popular favor as ballad singers are J.
Aldrich LiObey, and Raymond Moore.
The former is approaching the favor
and the money which came from his
Introduction of the song After the
Ball, which netted him thousands OF
dollars. while the latter has earned
more than $1,000 in royalties through
the sentimental ballad Sweet Marie.