Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-25


 zen shos5 alt.o #7iilIonaires and finini- gra..t3 hsta,d Banee and Experience B fzus!cas eprprgse.
 On St farcA's day, 1894, five through trat.s, hound both to tho east ward a@d VestHufd cf tke Oregon Short Lino of t5e Onion Pacific, were tied up at Glcnna Ferry, Ida. They had been caught between two 6erious washouts, one at PoeaseI.9 a!a the other tt Indian Greek, three days before, and had to wait at GIQaas Ferry for track repairs along the ligo before they could proceed. Glenna Ferry ia bleak little railroad and sheep herdeYs' town Of 300 or 400 inhabitants, sitHBEa ca sagobrush bluff overlooking the unspoakably dark and droary Snake river.
 The five stalled trains carried 600 passengers Of as miscellaneous & oharao- ter as could be gotten together at g carefully selected congress of types. Thero were emigraBts and millionaires; soldiers on ,1e move; dainty women ill 1 palace caIs and women bound for Creede and Cripple Creek jn day coaches; min CTS who killed time during the wait in shooting nagpies ejrciing over the Snake river: Shoahone Indians travel ing to the limits of their reservation; well behaved and quiet people, noisy and tuuultpous people. But all were stuck alike, and they made the best of it.
 Limos of social demarcation wero for tho timo erased All hands mingled easily on the little station platform and in tho littie station waiting room. The supply of fGod On tho dining cars gave | out the first 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.
 Tho railroad employees and their wives were to givo dance at the little town hall on St, Patrick's E night. The sWitchman who had been eustomarily employed to fiddle for them had been 1 switched to another division In Quan- diary, the daaee committee toured the trains and ggeti0n to ascertain if any of the stalled passengers happened to be 1 carrying 6 violin and Wes capable of l producing music on it. In one of the sleeping cars they came ncross Gn artistic 1 looking man, with very long hair, seraphio oleRginous countenanoe and exceedingly baggy clothes. They were 1 looking for fiddler. they said. Did he 1 know of Gny on the train? Well, he didn't know Gin outrageously bad Eng lishl ho played little himself once in awhile, and had rather fair fiddle with him. Tho long haired man accent cd tho ''fddle'' rather curiously. But the railroad men were overjoyed. Would he play fer thom to dance with their wives md aweethearts? Certainlyi Did ho know dance music? Well, some.
 All Of tho stalled passengers were in- vited to tta dance, and they all went. A good many of them could not get in. The baggilg ci1tssd fiddler turned up in good time. TLo pianist was waiting for him. So W&a the railroad dance committee, enc of the members of which | slipped s in one dollar bills into the hddler's hand as payment in advance for &he evening g work. It was smiling ly aooePtea The dance began. The fireman u r.iGe, who played the piano, produced an old bethumbed violin and piano tune beck and turned to the lan- cers. She fold the 1daler, at the end of tho first dance, that he did pretty we'll, 1 only he went Soo fast Then there was 0 waltz. Tho Gddlar was informed by his aeoompGnist that he was getting along finely, and everybody in the room began to prick up his e0r8 at the sweet ness of 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- anist ceased. She wished to listen. The violin music was miraculous. The play CT swRyed from side to side IS he phras- ed. flo appeared to be obliyious of his surroundings. lie improvlFea variations of inspiring tenderness. He cat Strauss cd Strauss His violin sang throbbed with passion. When the last note died away. tho people in the hail appeared to bo in a dream--all but ono.
 'M. Ysaye, said Charley Fair. the son of tho late United States Senator Fair, stepping from the throne. won't you play that lively, ratsling thing you gave Ee at the Dohemian club in San Francisco tho Other night? It's been runalaa n my head ever since.
 Nj. Yss.yo played Bcrlioz'a "Pizzi cato'' 0s he pcFhaps never played it h0- fore. " Washington Star
 
 The Du Saaurssr Women.
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