The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-28

a model or tools or pencil and paper
TO help HIM, he brooded over his plans
for twenty-five months. Then he had
conceived every detail clearly in his
mind. had computed the exact proper
tons of each Of the $4,000 parts, and
had assembled these parts mentally.
When his cogitations had evolved the
organ he dropped a note to the warden
in one of the various letter boxes the
warden has placed about the prison
grounds. He wrote. he said in this
note, to ask for permission to illustrate
on paper the ideas he had on building
an organ for one of the chapels. The
warden sent for the would-be builder,
and was so impressed with the mans
intelligence and earnestness that he
told him to go ahead; that he should
have pencil and paper and all the
drawing instruments he needed. He
had never made a sketch in his life.
but he soon made a hundred intelligible
illustrations that made it possible for
others to see what before had been
visible to him only.
The warden sent these drawings to
organ builders in New York, and asked
for expert opinions. Both critics re-
piled that the designs were excellent
and practical, with the exception of
one point. They doubted if reed could
be made to give the tone produced by
the siXteenfoot organ pipe. They be-
Heved eight feet was the limit for
reeds.
The genius said that if the warden
W0lId llt him On ahaad he Il.
the manufacturers how easily it could
be done. The warden said "All right"
and the result is the two splendid or
CANS that attract so much attention in
the prison chapels.
The one in the Catholic chanel is the
largest reed instrument in the world
and has a tone that even an expert
listening at little distance would be-
neve came from a pipe organ Organ
lists have remarked the rich, deep, full
pipe tone time anil again. This in
strument has 73l rotes. All Of them
are true, from the voiX celeste-the
impossible" sixteen-foot pipe tone-to
the highest the human ear appreciates.
There are three manuals and four COM
plete keyboards. The player can cou-
pie the swell, the choir or the great
organ with the pedals, or he can give
a pedal solo, not using his hands at
all. There are $4,000 separate pieces
In this instrument; $50 of these are
small shutters which open or close by
pulling or pushing balance swell ned.
al stop. The pressure necessary to
put down key is three ounces. and
THIS three-ounce pressure moves 600
pieces OF the mechanism. The bellows
are about eight feet long, and hold an
air supply OF lis seconds, so the or
ganist can play for nearly two minutes
with one breath.
Another genius whom the warden's
art school has discovered would be
driving cabs to-day If he had behaved
| himself. Under IL e head of previous
i occupation he is down on the prison
list as "coachman, butler, colored."
lie Is still colored, but 1t is not probable
that he will ever drive or wait on doors
or dinner tables again. Instead of meat
he will carve wood, and his attention to
doors and tables will be with a view to
ornament. He is the chief star in the
art school galaxy, and does exquisite
work.
Genius Rewarded.
To the son of Yorkshire carpenter
is due one Of the most useful inven-
tions of the last century, and for the
first accurate chronometer-his fourth
attempt-he received the reward Of
500, 900 offered by the Board of Lonsi-
tude.
Chinese Weight.
"Catty" is a weight still in use in the
treaty ports OF China. When the
Chinese first sold tea to the Europeans
they Enclosed 1t in little lacquer cases
which each weighed a "catty" and in
due time were called tea catties. and
at last tea caddles.
Gardening is generally considered
one of the healthiest Of occupations,
but the German Gardeners Association
has issued warniI g to those who in
tend entering the Industry. They cite
the fact that during the years 1889 to
1897 of the POI members OF the asso-
citation who died in Germany no fewer
than 142 succumbtd to consumption
ap6 nther affectiOun nf tho luuUe