New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-06
A NEW TANNHAUSER.
HOW ADJUTANT LUDGATE BROKE THE
RECORD
~ GAN" fiFTf-NiNE SONGS IN LESS TIA,
FFrY-EiGHr MINUTES AND DID
NOT TURN A uArp

ooi"ewhere to hide his diminished head Tam
.-.user according to all existing evidence. com
""iy sang at about the average Wagneran
paoe- IL may have been a habit that he con-
uacted among the immortals of tho aforesaid
e vi venus. but at any rate he always sings
- /" time were nothing at all to him and eter-
my ho'hing to speak of. Adjutant Joseph c.
Iuosate. OF the Salvation Army, sings with a
Aoh appreciation OF the value Of time in r.
modern world
iann hauser and his friend Wolfram who
o,o"eo an almost equal contempt for hours and
." MS singing. sang a song apiece and
'"e TWO songs occupied the most of the time
"hiie Elizabeth went home from the valley
iaiied In health. died. was prepared for burial
and was brought down again to whore tbev
STOOD Then they realized that something wa,
sung on In the world besides their songs and
"n'iuser thereupon died What would have
zen 'heir emotions. or what would have been
.nose OF any OF their fellows in that battle
In which they the chief contestant. q,
some prophet could have told then, thai ~.
'e "ouio come when a man would stand he
puohc audience and fight through fifty
nine songs in less than as many minutes,
aye. those were slow old DAYS There ,vas M
'''ioh OF time at all then. The kind of song
was the question. At first sigh, that No., 80
more dignifed. but consider it. Each comics.
't.u 10 sing a song Of his own. and some
'"e requirement was that he should make
.p u" .he spot How many men who could
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se' 'oeether probably. to say nothing OF men
who could make good ones as they went o,o,
s'Artins on at any moment when II came their
'u'" IN such a contest the most of the songs
mus really nave been Indifferent stuff and the
occasion itself would certainly be iudyea hor
py modern taste. The contests Of ,ha N.,,ou
'"seiS oi nuremberg must have been eouallv
80 In those the point was to avoid breot;rc
certain more or less arbitrary laws of verse
what must have been the result
"a sung making when the only object was to
keep from breaking rules? For tho arsw.r q,
this the reader is referred to the songs n, ,ha
Mastersingers themselves and no r,or. -
e"' Is necessary 1t Is possible that the ancient
"e'sn f.isteddfod was little more spirited but
s'"i renamed Tor Adjutant Joseph c. Lud-
gate. or the Salvation Army to fight q "sipc,r,
battle that should have about 1t all the excite
ment OF a horse race. or an express train ,r,,n
10 beat the record between distant po,rt. ~
An ocean steamer trying % get to Sandy Hook
quicker than ever before.
NO ONE TO SING AGAINST HIM
Ihere Is only one active contestant in Adm
'0"' Loosates battle. unless Time is to he re-
eueu as acuVe. as In sense it is and that
one Is the Adtutant himself. No other singer IN |
the world probably would dare to stand IN and
try to beat Adtutant Ludgate So NJ, tho, ~ go
40 Is 10 sing against time and try to beat b,s
own record That was what he did last wednes
nay night at the barracks OF the Salvation
Army in Fourteenth-st.
AoJutant Ludgate does not strive tn mako
better songs than anybody else or to make any
ne recognizes that good songs are not made
oiten ard that the way to have a good nro |
sramme Is to make it up of the good songs tha, !
nave been composed from time to time in the !
worlds history. What he tries to do and what |
ne does do Is to sing more of them than any,
BODY else ever sang in the same time I'm IN !
tnat great battle of last Wednesday evening his
record was hfty-six songs in one hour Tba.
record was made short time ago in Chicago |
winch Is a comparatively small and slow place |
and when he got to New York he saw that some
thing more would have 20 be done
Ihe AdJutant was modest about It, He did not
say that he was going to do this that or the
other great thing. He only said that he was go
ing TO try to beat his record. He did not even
put down songs enough his programme to
beat his record with The printed card had the
titles or only fifty songs. which, IL he should
sing them all within the hour, would still leave
MIN i've songs behind his best previous time
But let doubters beware OF Adjutant JOSEPH, g
Ludgate OF the Salvation Army. The dangerous
nan to jump against is the man who can lump
farther than he ever has jumped.
AS the exercises at the barracks went on that
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