The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-13

with the high @ on the T. string.
Say, look here" said one of the Eiks
standing in the doorway. you fellows in
there are not going to have all this to
yourselves. Bring the man out into the
car, SOS we can oil have hack at that
music It's the best 6ddling I've heard
In a coon's age"
He was backed up in his demand by
others of the FGlks standing in the door
way
Hey. come on out and Toxic one of the
chairs, Tchamkowsky, or What-d'ye-call-
en- said the young man with the jag
10 the musician. give che whole bunch
a chance"
The musician smiled in his chldlike
way picked up his case and violin and
headed the procession 20 the main body
of the car. followed by the young man
with the jag and all OF the Elks He sat
down In one OF the chairs, tuned up the
instrument again and by the time he was
ready to play the word had been passed
back through all of the cars that there
was fiddler of lot of skill playing
in the forward car. and the car became
crowded with Ell1s in cheerful frame
of mind.
wat l play?" once more inquired the
foreign looking chap. looking around at
his vastly widened circle.
ANY old thing chorused the Elks who
had been listening to him in the smoking
compartment. Y OuNe got II uOWn all
right You can't put 'em over TOO swift
for us
Whats the matter with some of that
d. {. Hungarian stun" put in the young
man with the shrewd gray eyes and the
jag. That's wild and devilish enough
to make man feel like walking nine
miles through snow knee-deep to bite his
little sister"
"Ah" said the musicians, and be began
to play czardas. He seemed TO be partic-
ularly at home al this sort of music. and
he had every man in the car swaying in
no lime. He was vociferously applauded
by the crowded car at the end of each
composition and he was still playing
away with remarkab BILE effect when the
young man with the jag looked out of the
window.
Were butting into Camden" he an
nounced, looking at his gun-metal watch,
land this Guinea's made the ride seem like
a ten-minute trip on the trolley, hey2"
looking up al the Elks who sat and stood
around the musician, many of them with
far-away expressions in their eyes. II
guess It's up to us to make dig for him,
eh?' and he took of his Alpine straw hat.
pulled solitary two-dollar bill out OF his
waistcoat pocket. and threw 1t into the
hat.
Just then the musician ceased playing.
after executing some brilliant pyrotech-
nltS on tne r. aHu \ stTiHBs up dFOuHu tuc
bridge. The Eks came to and began to
reach for their rolls. Few of than
stripped off bills smaller than twos to
throw into the hat that the young man
with the jag was passing around They all
smiled at the spectacle Of the young man
with the jag passing the hat around for
the benefit of fiddler. but they all threw
their paper contributions into the straw
Alpine. Many OF them, in fact, crowded
through and jostled one another In order
TO put their money into the hat
OF the young man with the jag. There
could scarcely have been less than SIS OF
500 In the bottom of the hat when the
young man with the jag walked back to
where the musician was strappng his vio-
lin case. and turned his hat upside down
In the foreign-looking, chaps lap. The
musician looked stupefied at the sight of
so much money, and then his eyes seemed
TO all, and he pasesd his Persian-fgured
handkerchief across them.
"Thatn keep you In coffee and sinkers
for day or so. anyhow" said the young
man with the jag TO the musician and
then he went unsteadiy forward 10 the
smoking compartment 10 get his suit case.
The Elks all dispersed to get their traps
together, for the train was pulling into the
Camden station.
This same performance, Identical In
almost every detail, was gone through
with IN a chair car of train that left
Philadelphia for New York on the follow
Ing afternoon. The young man with the
jag worked up interest In the musician
after getting into talk with the well-to-do
travellers in the smoking compartment,
the musician played for about an hour
the young man with the jag took up the
collection In his Alpine straw hat. and tho
carful of well-to-do travellers Clipped in
literally. The eyes of the musician seem
ed to MI again when the young man with