The evening world., 1894-09-11
A lONG-D|sTANCE PIANIST.
Prof, Sohlusselburg Is Training at
a Coney Island Road-House.
Preparing for a San Francisco Match
of ~ Hours Duration.

For an assortment OF ghosts and
things spiritual and spirituous. Coney
Island and Its contiguous territory have
long been famous. There have been
awe-inspiring bogies OF nearly every
conceivable shape and OF a good many
shapes beyond conception. there have
been haunted houses too plentiful to
be enumerated Therefore when a noe
turnal disturbance of unusual proper
tons and nature makes it's presence
felt, or rather heard. 1t attracts some
comment
Most of these manifestations have
been reduced by cold. calculating inves-
tigatlon to easy explanation and have
been traced to anything but spiritual
origin. This fate has also come to the
latest apparently supernatural peace
disturber.
For several days and nights. diners
on the Coney Island Boulevard have
had their auricular organs assailcd by
the MISUNDERSTANDING OF plane. seem
house. There was nothing particularly
strange. about this. for most road
houses have the piano habit in more
form but the popularity of II was that
no matter at what time OF day or night
the, spot was reached. there still re.
yerSeTIted snstche n, from ,,MIgnop :.
Wedding Bells" Say Az ''' Revoir rs
"Cavalleria Rusticana." and host OF
other more or less classic strains.
traction by music that originates from
an uncertain point, even where blue
monkeys and pink alllgators fail. Henry
Eyg a. in Ths Bells shTWs Just what
lingering chime that emanates no.
where. But this sound did originate
somewhere, and an Evening World''
Prof. Fred Schlusselburg Is the origi-
nal long-distance pianist, and pro-
claims himself the endurance champion.
6ors zig fs 1ortyeight
feats. He can tackle an able bodied
piano, fresh from the builders hands,
and knock the everlasting stufflng out
Of It in one protracted round. Then
he is ready to serve a new music pro-
Queer the same way and to continue II
strolling Italian, does not perform with
crank. but uses his digits in all his
encounters.
Well. the long and short Of It is that
two-hour contest in San Francisco, to
take place somewhere near Christmas
and Is In active training for the "go" al
Mills's hosiery. Just why he doesn',
coast. instead Of here in the effete East
does not appear. Unlimited quantities
Of advice have been poured in upon
him. chiefly from the neighbors, telling
him how he ought to 20 and get &C.
climated. Some OF the nearer dwellers
have suggested that he might go to d
climate which can give the Pacific
coast cards and spades in everything
but rain.
But schlusselburg is undaunted, and
continues to pound up piano week
and the air resounds with musical
fragments as the debris Is scattered
through space witt a versatility only
equalled by the volume OF sound.
Schlusselburg eats his meals with one
hand while he keeps up his merry
"trum- bump-ting." and takes his Liquid
refreshment through hose, withou
letting up with either hand. He ha.
eclipsed his previous public performance
Of forty-eight hours without a break
and is working up to the seventy-two
hour limit with confidence and every in
dication of victory.
1t is said that two local sporting mel
are backing him. and buying pianos TO
the contest Their names are not given
out Of Difference to their families.