Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-11-24
4 FIDDLER WANT BID
us WAS FAMED AND Ar DANCE MUSIC
DID VERY WELL.


Eon Snort Line GllIionaires aad Eznmi-
grants Attend q Dance aud Experience
y Musical surPrise.
On ST. Patricks day, 1894, fra
through trains, bound both 70 the east
ward and westward Of the Oregon Short
Line e the Union Pacific. were tied mp
at Glenna Ferry, Ida They had been
caught between two serious washouta
one at Pocateilo and the other 81 Indian
Greek, three days before, and had to
wait at Glenns Ferry for track repairs
along the line before they could proceed.
Glenns Ferry is bleak little railroad
and sheep herderss town Of 500 or 400
inhabitants. situate On q sagebrush
bluff overlooking the unspeakably dark
and dreary Snake river.
The I've stalled trains carried 600
passengers Of as miscellaneous q chsrao.
ter as could be gotten together at 8
carefully selected congress Of types
There were emigrants and millionaireat
soldiers on the move; dainty women in
palace cars and women bound for Creede
and Cripple Creek III day coaches; min
ers who killed timo during tbs wait in
shooting magpies oircliHg over the
Snake river; 6boshCne Indians travel
ing to the limits Of their reservations
well behaved and quiet people, noisy
and tunu1tuous people But all were
stuck alike, ana they made the best Of it
Lines Of social demarcation were foz
the time erased All hands mingled
easily On the little station platform and
in tho little station waiting room. This
supply Of food on the dining ears gave
out the first day Of the hitch, and every
body was fed, and well fed, too, in tbs
station eating room. They sat down al
the tables in relays and patiently
awaited their t7rns.
The railro&d employees and theis
wives were 10 give dance at the little
town hall On ST. Patriek'a night The
sWitchman who had been Customarily
employed to fiddle for them had been
switched to anather division. Inaaaaa
Diary tho dance committee toured the
trains and station TO ascertain Il any Of
the stalled passengers happened TO be
carrying q 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, q
/ Seraphio, oleaginoas countenanoe and
/ exceedingly baggy olothea They were
/ looking for a fiddler, they said Did he
5 know Of eny ca the trainY Well. be
didn't know lin oHtrageously bad Eng
lishl; ho played a little himself once In
awhile, and had rather fair fiddle
with him. The long haired man Gocent-
ed the fiddle rather curiously But
therailr0ad men were oYerjoyed. Would
he play fer them 70 dance with theiR
wives and aweethearts? Certainly Did
he know dance music? Wen, some
All OF the stalled passengers were in.
yited to the dance. and they ell vent
| A good many Of them could not get in.
Tho baggily clothed fiddler turned Up
in good time, The pianist was waiting
fer him. So was the railroad dance
committee, one Of che members C which
slipped SO in one dollar bills into the
fddler's hand as payment in advance
for the evening" work. Il was smiling
/ y accepted. The dance began. The
freman'g wife, who played the piano,
/ produced ga old bethumbed violin and
piano tune book and turned to the Ian
GERS. She ted the fiddler, at the end Of
the first dance, chat he did pretty we'll.
! only be went too fast. Then there was
walta Tho fiddler Waa informed by
! his accompanies that he was getting
along finely, and everybody in the room
, began to prick mp his cars at the sweet
ness "a the violin music, although the
dance5 were common enough and tawdry
enough
Another waltz-tho Beautiful Blus
Danube All Of tho dancers on the
floor stopped dead at the first bar. and
the travellers with cultivated musical
ears moved close to Che piano The pl-
Ruist ceased. She wished 70 listen. The
violin music was miraculous The play.
er swnyed from side to side as he phraa.
ed. ae appeared TO be oblivious Of his
surroundings. 60 improvlsod variations
Of inapiring tenderness. He out-StYauss~
cd Strauss His violin sang, throbbed
with passion. When the last note died
away, the people in the hall appeared
TO bo in q dream-all but one.
IN. Ysaye, said Charley Fair. ths
son Of the late United States Senator
Fair. stepping from the throng, "won'g
you play that lively, rafting thing you
gave as at tho Bohemian club In Sac
Francisco the other night2 It's been
running in my heRd ever since I"
II. Ysaye played Berlioz's tPizzi
oatos as he perhaps never played it b
fore. ~ Washington Star.
The Du nTaurier woman.
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