The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-08

his pipe" was hundreds of years ago,
before your telegraphs and railroad
cars come over here, ye see."
The Concert Tour Extended.
Abertillery, Oct. 15.-Today we started
out early in the afternoon for Abertil-
lery,where we gave very well-attended
concert tonight. The journey consumed
the whole halliday, but was quite an
interesting one, nevertheless. We were
met at Newport by Miss Driscoll, who
will be remembered by many Wilkes
Barreans as the star contralto of Mrs.
Davies organization, and who made
many devoted friends during her short
stay in that city last autumn. We
were Informed today, too, that we
have also a concert at Newport, which.
by the way, will extend the tour to the
twenty-hfth instead of the twenty
fourth as before arranged. AS this
will positively be our last concert of
the series, it Is to be very fine one, and
we are all going to perform the most
elaborate numbers wear our pretti-st
gowns, and have the American flag
printed upon the programme and the
posters. The American consul at Car
diff, Mr. Howells, and also Mr.. Heard,
the American consul at Newport, are
expected to honor the event with their
presence-quite an appropriate pair Of
auditors for our farewell concert In
Wales Oh, yes, and the one big gran
dee of this part of the country, Lord
Tredeger, has promised to come also, |
and that will insure very fashionable
audience, of course. We passed today |
through his estate on our way here on |
the Great Western, and / had the
happiness of seeing oh, great number |
of real live deer. feeding in one of his |
parks! Some of them had great large |
antlers, and really were the most beau
tiful and graceful animals / ever saw,
while the little fawns feeding around |
on the grass and running about, fairly |
made one laugh with delight
We had very nice opera house to |
sing in tonight, and lovely Bech- |
stein grand piano for it, too. Some |
pianos which we find around in concert |
halls and opera houses are not always |
of the finest, we find, so you may be |
sure we enjoyed singing with this more |
than usual. We had an audience of |
about 800, while the Mendelssohn Parry |
company, which performed here not |
| long ago, were blessed with only about |
| twenty or thirty in the audience. All |
of our numbers were very well received, |
many of us being forced to respond to
encores, but cannot think of anything
unusual to say about the concert, be-
| tl,n., nr,,.tI
| just the same as the preceding ones,
and we are becoming so accustomed to
| concert-giving night after night that |
fear we are in danger of growing rather
blase about it.
The Crumlin Viaduct.
Cardigan, Oct. live are now at the
| other end of Wales having taken q
considerable railroad jump yesterday.
We left Abertillery in the morning and
travelled all day across the country
catching glimpses of many points of
interest on the way. We had a fine
view of the famous Crumlin viaduct an
| Illustration of which appeared in the
| Scientific American some years ago,
during process of construction. 1t cer-
tainly is wonderful piece of work, and
one looks at this fairy-like piece of
iron work rather breathlessly when
they see 1t For the first time, spanning
a valley $50 feet deep, and Of consider
able width, too. from hill to hill. AS
we flew along we caught the best view
we have had, so far, of the country
home and estates of Lord Aberdare,
the greatest man in Wales today on ac-
count of the many changes he has
wrought here for the good of the com
mon people He Is honored all over
the country, and enjoys the reputation
of having done more for the cause Of
higher education in Wales than any
other man in the Kingdom. Further
on we saw Meath abbey, an old ruin at
Meath, where we are to hold forth one
night next week, | believe Oystw-
mouth castle of the time of Cromwell,
claimed momentary attention as we
few past it, as also did the Kidwelly
castle and some more. 1t is surprising
how many different appellations people
bestow upon this country, as the much
churched country, the land of song,
the land of hills, and so forth; and it
| must be acknowledged that when one
travels from end to end of 1t, seeing alb
beys, palaces, all thousands of years
old and fallen to decay, he is moved to
say 1t Is the land of ruins, or the land of
old things, and so on. One of our party
iokingly says England and Wales is
the land of Mazawattee tea" because
Of the innumerable signs scattered all
over the Kingdom and advertising this
beverage, and by the way the manner
in which the merits of all soaps, coffes,
teas, etc, are placarded and thrust upon
ones tired notice over here strikes us
as very Yankee1ied and very enter
prising. The entrances and exits to
the railway stations are invariably all
advertised up, and we are so used to it
now that when we pull into a station
we know only too well that we shall
now be informed of the peculiar ad-
vantages of using Hudson's soap, or
admonished to drink only Mazawattee
tea and coffee, or that Pears soap is
"matchless for the hands and COM
pleXion." OF course 1t can be imagined
that, otter reading that little message
of Madame PATHS to us, In the backs of
the magazines, for these last ten years
we cannot be blamed for feeling rather
bored, to say the least, wher' over here
it stares us in the face at every turn
How often wish she had never washed
her hands and complexion with it, nor
grown so fond of 1t that she had to let
1t advertise her so.
Admired by the Gentry.
We sang in Newcastle Emlyn last
night, a town about twelve miles from
here, to very fine house, composed
mostly of the gentry from the sur
rounding country. They were mostly
in evening dress, the audience present
ing an extremely fashionable and bril-
liant appearance. our reception was
very cordial, some of the people whom
we met after the concert speaking of it
In an exceedingly congratulatory way,
We perform tonight here at Cardigan