The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-08-01
MUSIC IN The AIR
Pandemonium Of Vocal and
Instrumental Music Makes
Night Hideous on
Belmont Avenue.
MAN WITH PIANOLA
Neighbor With Unmusical
Soul Calls Him Pader-
ewski and Orders
Him to Bed.

"Hi, there, you Paderewski! Go to bed!
Go to bed!s' and simultaneously in went
the night capped head and down went the
window screen with a bang. But Pad
erewski did not go to bed. He had just
bought a new pianola and had invited all
his friends in to hear the instrument. The
night capped head belonged to Mr..
Ruschmore and the pianola to Mr.. Smith
OF No. III Belmont avenue, who lives
across the street from Mr.. Ruschmore
just five doors down.
Now this part of Belmont avenue, be-
tween Bergen avenue and the Boulevard,
is thicllly populated not only with houses
and people, but with pianos. 1t is a par
ticularly musical block in its own way,
and its people own all kinds and condi-
tions of musical instruments from vocal
to automatic, and it seems as though Mr.
Ruschmore is the only person to reside
in the neighborhood unprepared to make
hideous by joining in the musical pande-
monium. For this reason his neighbors
term his soul without music, and are de-
termined to get even.
Hi, there, you Paderewski, go to bed"
and once more the night-capped head ap-
peared at the open screen. Then some one
across the street began to sing because
l Love You, Dear Back came the.
strains from the open screen as if from
a poll, parrot. This caused the baby who
belonged to the singing woman to cry
Justify. The nig'ht-capped head cried just
as Justify, and the pianola played on.
We'll, 1 don't mind having some fun
myself said Miss Brooks, who knows the
Dianola man, and into the house she
dashed.
whats the row?" inquired Miss
Brooks's younger brother, tumbling out
of bed, We'll fix him. So down stairs
he came to play flute Accompaniment
to his sisters piano execution of You're
Not the Only Pebble" "There'H Be Hot
Time and few like choice selections.
By this time the whole neighborhood had
caught the spirit of the air, but it was
too late to do mucn that night and too
hot, so they got their heads together and
determined to make the unmusical neigh
Dor cry for quarter the following evening.
The next day everybody was up by
daylight running up and down the scales
and generally practicing for the evening
performance on every piano in the block.
The man with the pianola did not have
to practice, but he belonged to a musical
club and bought his music by the hun
dred. so he was right in it.
But the man across the street had stolen
a march on them all you know he re-
marked to his wife over his coffee that
morning, and there was twinkle in his
eye, for he is by no means disagreeable
man and loves fun as much as anyone
''You know, it has always been my desire
to learn to play the cornet, but out of
consideration for my neighbors 1 have
never tried it, Now here is my oppor-
tunity. believe in the homeopathic treat
ment,' and that evening he walked home
fondly hugging brand new cornet, war
ranted to reach heaven on high c.
Right after. supper he began. AT first
the was only a little .'toot toot," but it
gradually grew into a screech as he
manipulated the instrument backward and
forward. The neighbors stood aghast and
forgot all about their prearranged pro-
gramme for the time being.
1--WE will have to do something strong
err said they, and the following evening
every child in the neighborhood had been
provided with a fish horn. But once more
the "unmusical soul'' got ahead of them.
He had flown with his wife to parts un-
known for over Sunday. He came back
Monday night, however, and the whole
block was ready for him. Pianola,
pianos, vocal chords and tin horns, all
joined in the serenade, while those un-
provided with any of these instruments of
torture used their hands and feet in loud
applause.
The music pandemonium has been in op-
Grafton just week today. 1t has died
down little since Monday. But. Mr..
Ruschmore has become interested in the
concert despite opposition, and gets up
early every morning, and returns from
business early every might to practice.
The pianola goes peacefully, proudly, gal
lantly on, and the neighbors applaud
both The babies on the block still keep
up the tin horn racket to some extent,
but all else is serene, and things are no
longer yelled across the street. Tt is more
like a summer diversion than row.