Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-01

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 grants Attend Dance and Exner,o,o.
 Musical Surprise.
 On St. Patrick's day. 1894 ero through trains, bound both to the east ward and westward of the Oregon Short Allhe or the Union Pacific, were tied mn ae Glenns Ferry, Ida. They had beep caught between two serious washonts one at Poeatello and the other at indian Ofeek, three days before, and had to wait at Glenns Ferry for track repairo along the line before they could proceed Glenns Ferry is bleak little railroad and sheep herders' town of 800 or 400 lnhaoltants, situate on saeehrnsb plun overlooking the unspeakablv dark and dreary Snake river.
 The five stalled trains carried sOo passengers of as miscellaneous a eharao. ter as could be gotten together at a carefully selected congress of types There were emigrants and millionairos. soldiers on the move; dainty women in palace cars and women bound for Creede and Cripple Creek in day coaches: min. CTS who killed time during the wait in shooting magpies eircling over the snake river; Shoshone Indians travel. ing to the limits of their reservation; well behaved and quiet people, noisy and tumultuous people. But all were stuck alike, and they made the best of 1t.
 Llnes Of social demarcation were for the time erased. All hands mingled easily on the little station platform and In the little station waiting room. The supply of food on the dining cars gave out the frst day of the hitch, and every. body was fed, and well fed, too, in the station eating room. They sat down at the tables in relays and patiently awaited their turns.
 The railroad employees and their wives were to give dance at the little town hall on St. Patrick's night. The swltehman who had been customarily employed to fiddle for them had been switched to another division. In auan. dary, the dance committee toured the trains and station to ascertain if any of the stalled passengers happened to be carrying a violin and was capable of producing music on it. In one of the sleeping cars they came across an artistic looking man, with very long hair 8 seraphic, oleaginous countenanoe and exceedingly baggy clothes. They were looking for fiddler. they said. Did he know Of any on the train? We'll. he didn't know Gin outrageously bad Eng lish); he played little himself once in awhile, and had rather fair fiddle with him. The long haired man accent ed the fiddle" rather curiously. But the railroad men were oyerjoyed. Would he play for them to dance with their wives and sweethearts? Certainlyl Did he know dance music? We'll, some.
 All of the stalled passengers were in. vited to the dance. and they all went. A good many Cf them could not get in. The baggily clothed fiddler turned up in good time. The pianist was waiting for him. So was the railroad dance committee, ono of the members of which slipped $8 in one dollar bills into the fiddler's hand as payment ill advance for the evenings work. It was smiling ly accepted. The dance began. The fireman'a wife, who played the piano, produced an old bethumbed violin and piano tune book and turned to the Ian cers. Sho told the fiddler, at the end of the first dance, that he did pretty we'll, only he went too fast. Then there was a waltz. The fiddler was informed by his aceompanist that he was getting along fiaely, and everybody ill the room began to prick up his ears at the sweet ness cf the violin music. although the dances were common enough and tawdry enough.
 Another waltz-the Beautiful Blue Danube. " All of the dancers on the floor stopped dead at the first bar, and the travellers with cultivated musical ears moved close to the piano. The pi' ailist ceased. She wished to listen. The violin music was miraculous The play CT swnyed from side to side as he phras- ed ue appeared to be oblivious of his surroundings. He improvised variations of inspiring tenderness. He out-Strauss- cd Strauss His violin sang, throbbed with passion. When the last note died away, the people in the hall appeared to b0 in dream--all but one.
 "AI. Ysaye. said Charley Fair. the son of the late United States Senator Fair, stepping from the throng. wont you play that lively, rattling thing you gave us at the Bohemian club in San Francisco the other night5 It's beeh running in my head ever since.
 NJ. Ysaye played Berlioa's "Pizzi- cato'' as he perhaps never played 1t b" fote Washington Star.