The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-23

known professionally. HIS nrSt ap-
pearance in public took place March 20,
1889, at the Twentieth ward school
house when Oscar EliaSon, in COM
pany with Paul Hammer, jr., +. Nal
tese and several others banded them
selves together under the title of NAL
tese & Hammers Minstrels. Here Mr..
Eliason performed several feats of
legerdemain and illusion which so as
tonished and delighted all who saw
them that after some time ne was
finally persuaded to adopt legerdemain
as a following In so doing he did not
make a mistake, for he seems to have
been gifted with peculiar powers that
serve him well in his chosen profes-
sion 1t is not another instance OF the
frequent experience of men Who nave
found themselves to have chosen oadly
in settling upon life pursuit oscar
enjoys performing Illusion as much as
his audience enjoy to be deluded, and
some of the happiest weeks Of his NE
have been those spent in the endeaVor
to master some new fantasy.
Only a few years ago, young stu
dent in this profession would have
thought it proper to surround h1mSelI
with evidences of his black and mys-
FERROUS pursuit He would have
adopted some thrilling eastern title
suggestive of the abracadabra of India
or Egypt. He would have worn a
fierce black moustache and pointed
goatee, would have dressed oddly, ap-
peared distracted and done wierd and
uncanny things at all times ana under
all circumstances. How different is
Oscar Eliason in his fin de steele
methods. He is exceptionally I'M
affected, direct and frank, dresses
neatly, without the slightest approach
to loudness, and until his recent re-
turn from the frozen north, where he
seems to have discovered something
like King Solomon's mines, he wore no
diamonds whatever.
A few centuries ago, a young man
with such gifts would have found his
pathway beSet with grave difficulties.
If he had escaped burning at the
stake, he would certainly have been
accused of being in league with satan
Churches would have been closed
against. him, young people would nave
viewed him askance and he would have
been generally avoided after dark by all
sorts and conditions of people. That
the world do move" is shown by Os-
cars case. for he is permitted to pur-
sue the even tenor of his calling and
mingles freely with all classes as a
highly respectable young man, ad-
mired for his talents, and one whose
many friends wish him unbounded
success.
NJ. Eugene Ysaye sailed for Europe
Thursday in the Normania. While NJ.
Ysaye was in San Francisco he was
visited by a number of fvealthy citf-
zens of Oakland. Cal. who wish to
form a national conservatory of music
there, and desire NJ. Ysaye to head the
faculty. This was agreed to by NJ.
Ysaye, if in return they would guaran-
tee him five years at 100000 a year.
No settlement has been arrived at yet
awhile. The tour of this great violin
list was in every way a highly salts
factory one. He came to America
with the idea of giving forty concerts;
he gave 104. NJ. Ysaye has refused all
propositions to return to the United
States neXE season, but expresses his
intention of coming back in about two
years time with an entirely new re-
pertory, which will include the con-
certos of Dindy, Dvorak, I.alo,
Brahms. Faure, Goldmark, and the
third of Bruch.