Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-03-13
A FIDDLER WANTED HE WAS FAMED AND AT DANCE MUSIC
 DID VERY WE'LL

Fun and Froiic In washout on the o..
 gon Short Line-Millionaires and rm,a,
 grants Attend a Dance and Experiana
 Musical Surprise.
 On St. Patrick's day, 1894 an
 through trains. bound both to the east
 ward and westward of the Oregon sbost
 Line of the Union Pacific, were fled ~
 at GIenns Ferry, Ida They had boei'
 caught betweon two se9 5aus washonta
 one ct Pocatello and the other at Ind;as
 Greek, three days before, and had to
 wait ct Glenna Ferry for track rena;ra
 along tho line before they could proceed
 alenns Ferry is bleak little railroad 1 and sheep herdeTs' town of 300 or 4Oe
 inhabitants, situate on sagehrnet
 bluff overlooking tho unspeakably dayL and droary Snake river.
 The five stalled trains carried eon
 passengers of as miscellaneous a ohorac.
 ter as could Dc gotten together at .
 carefully selected congress of tvneo
 There were emigrants and millionaires. soldiers on the move; dainty women in palace oars and women bound for Creeda and Cripple Creek in day coaches; min. CTS who killed time during tho wait in shooting magpies eircling over tho 8nako river; Shoehone Indians travel. ing to the limits of their reservation. we'll behaved and quiet people. noisy and tumultuous people. But all were stuck alike, and they made the best of it.
 Lines Of social demaroation were for the time erased. All hands mingled easily on the little station platform and Tn the little station waiting room. The supply of food on the dining cars gaze 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.
 The railroad employees and their wives were to giye a dance at the little town hall on St. Paniek's night. The eYitohman who had been customarilv employed to f7ddlo for them had been sWltehesi t9 .--t.--se5 r-sion. Inaquan dafy, the dance committee toured the trains and station to ascertainsif any of the stalled passengers happened to be 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. seraphio, oleaginous countenanoe and baggy clothes. They were looking for fiddler. they said. Did he know of any on the train? Well. he didn't know Gin outrageously bad Eng. lish); ho played littlo himself once in awhile, and had rather fair fiddle with him. The long haired man accent. ed tue fiddle" rather euriouslv. Bnt the railroad men were oyerjoyed. Would he play for them to dance with their wives and sweethearts? Certainlyl Did he know dance music? Well, some.
 All of the stalled passengers were in. vited to the dance, and they all went. 4 good many of them could not get in. The baggilg clothed fiddler turned m in good time. The pianist was waiting for him. So was the railroad dance one of the members of which slipped S6 in ono dollar bills into the fiddler's hand as payment in advance AeA ssisl " AA4As4f3 @ fFAA As Lb M0S BIHliliiR- ly acoopsed The dance began. The froman'a wife. who played tbe piano. produced en old bethumbed violin and piano tune book and turned tu the lan- oera. Sae told the fiddler, at tho end of the first dance, that he did pretty we'll, only h9 went too fast. Then there was a waltl. The fiddler was informed by his aco0mpanist that he was getting along faoly, and everybody in the room began to prick up his ears at the sweet ness cf tho violin music, although the dances wero common enough md tawdry enough.
 Another waltz-the Beautiful Blua Danube. All of the dancers on tho floor stopped dead at tho first bar, and Inc travellers with cultivated musical ears rloyod close to the piano. The pi. aHis5 ceased She wished to listen. The violin music was miraculous. The play T swayed from side to side as he phras- d. flo appeared to be oblivious of his He improvlsed variations If inspiring tenderness. He out Strauss. d Slrauss. His violin sang, throbbed with passion. When the last note died 'waT, the people in the hall appeared Q b0 in q dream-all but ono.
 ii. Yaaye, said Charley Fair. the Ion of the late United States Senator Fair, stepping from the throng. wont ,ou play Chat lively, rattling thing yon ave us at tho Bohemian club in San Francisco the other night? It's been unnfng in my head ever since.
 M Ysaye played Berlioz's 'Pizai 'at9' aa he perhaps never played it h' ora -,- XToet3..c,tc,, ctar