Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-26
A FIDDLER KYANl ED.
HE WAS FAMED AND AT DANCE MUSIC
 DID VERY WELL.

snn and EroiIo In washout on the Ore
 son short Line -Miilionaires and 1nni.
 grants Attend Dance md Experience
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 On ST. Pat1iok's day, 1894 five through trains, bound both to the east. ward and westward of the Oregon Short Line of the Union Pacific, were tied up at Glenns Ferry, Ida. They had been caught between two serious washouts. one at Pocatello and the other at Indian Greek, three days before. and had to wait at Glenns Ferry for track repairs along the line before they could proceed. ealenns Ferry is bleak little railroad and sheep herders' town of 300 or 400 inhabitants, situate OH a sagebrush blnn overlooking the unspeakably dark and areary Snake river.
 The five stalled trains carried 600 passengers of ss miscellaneous charae. ter ss could be gotten together at q carefully selected congress of types. There were emigrants and millionaires; 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 eireling over the Snake river; Shoshone Indians travel. ing to the limits Of their reservation; we'll behaved and quiet people, noisy and tpmultuous people But all were stuck alike, and they made the best of 1t.
 Lines Of social demarcation were foE 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 che first day of the hitch, and every. body was fed, and well fed, too, in the station eating room. They sat down St tue tables in relays and patiently awaited their t7rns.
 The railrossd employees and their wives Were to giyo dance at tho little town hall on ST. Patrick s night The eWitchman who had been customarily employed to fiddle for them had been switched to another division. In quan diary, the danes committee toured tha A4AAAlo tRA4AA tB s4sEG4 tG4Ll IL the stalled passengers happened to be carrying 6 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, 3 seraphio, oleaginous countenance and exceedingly baggy clothes. They were looking for fiddler. they said Did he know Of any OH the train? Well. he didn't know Gin outrageously bad Eng iishJ he played little himself once in awhile, and had rather 8 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? Certainly! Did la know dance music? We'll, some.
 All of the stalled passengers were in. xited to the dance. and they all went. 4 good many Of them could not get ill. The baggily clothed fiddler turned up in good tlEae. The pianist was waiting for him. So was the railroad danes committee, one of the members Uf which slipped a in one dollar bills into the fiddler hand as pa3 eil 9t il advance for th9 evenings work. It was smiling ly accepted. The dance began. Inc fifeman's wife, who played the piano, produced Rn old bethumbed violin and piano tune book and turned to the Ian. cers. She told the fiddler, at the end of the first dame, that he did pretty well, only ha went too fast. Then there was 2 waltx The fiddler was informed by his aecompapist that he WAS getting along finely, and everybody in the room began to prick up his ears at the sweet ness es the violin music, although ths danoes were cemmcn enough and tawdry enough.
 Another waltz--the Beautiful Blus Dsnuie. 'i All of tho dancers on ths floor stopped dead at the first bar, and the travellers with cultivated musical ears Moyed close to the piano. The pl. snist ceased. She wished to listen. Ths violin music was miraculous. The play. CT swayed from side to side az he phras. ed. Ge appeared fo De ebliyious of lis surroundings. He improvlsed variations of inspiring tenderness. He cnt-Strauss. cd Strauss. Ais violin sang. throbbed with passion. When the last note died away, the people in tho hail anpearea to ho in dream--ali but one.
 4iN. Ysaye," said Charley Fair. tn, son of the late Unitod States Senator FaiF. stepping from the throng, wont you play that lively, rsttling thing you gave us at the Bohemian club in San Francisco the other night? It's beer running in my lead ever since. '"
 n. Ysaye played Berlioz's 'Pigsi cato" as he perhaps never played it l'- fore. --W s&higgton Star.
 
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