The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-09
PLAY FOR PENNIES
SEASON FOR THE ORGAN GRINDER
is FAST COMING AROUND
AGAIN
MUSICAL NEWS OF THE CITY
What ST. PauPs Prominent Musi-
clans Are Planning and Where
They Are Going-TOday's
Programmes.

The season is fast approaching when
indoor. concert and recital must give
| place to the music of the band out of
| doors and to the music of the various
street hand@rgans and street pianos
| manipulated by dark-skinned, pathetic
| eyed owners. It is understood that the
| Royal Italian band is to play at Lake
| Harriet this summer, although no of1-
| cial announcement has been made, and,
| of course, there will be the usual con-
| certs by some local band at Lake Como.
| Naturally, no set programme is an
nounced for the various forms of street
music that will be in our midst as soon
| as the buds begin to appear on the
| trees. Where this street music is stored
during the winter nobody knows. They
suddenly appear from their Information
these poor little apologies for musicians
ready for the pennies that liberation or
pity drops into their outstretched hands.
Today 1t is cold, the wind whistles
around the corner and there is a sus-
picion of snow in the air, but tomorrow
IL Will be warm and the very afr will
pc glad with the gladness of spring
time. And from somewhere round the
corner there will come dancing a little
group of happy children ley by the or
gan grinder man and his music II does
III
Two Little Girls in Blue" that is be-
ing gayly ground out or the despairing
prison song of I'll Trovatore," for it is
all alike to them and they dance as
gayly to the sad as to the blythe songs.
And the tunes that mean SO much 70
you alone,
vulgar tunes that make you choke and
blow your nose
common tunes that bring the Iaugh-that
DrlnS the grOan''
these will the rgan-grinder man
grind out for a few pennies 1t is odd
how many important events in an aver
age persons life may be detailed with
the description, And from somewhere
down the street an old street organ was
grinding out Because 1 Love You" or
Whatever the particular air may be-
Ot course, the organ-grinder man is a
nuisance Everybody agrees on this
point except, Of course, the little children
he Is a nuisance when one is trying to
sleep an extra hour in the morning. He
is nuisance when one is trying to steal
nap in the afternoon. Most of all is
ne is nuisance when in the long sum-
mer twilight, part of which day toilers
must devote to sleep, he trudges wearEy
up the street grinding out some mournful
refrain and looking for pennies There
- 10y Gnu oeNeIe oIulIlanceS against
the organ-grinder man, and he does not
stand high in public opinion He has two
redeeming points, however this soft
voiced son of Italy. He is picturesque
and for many people he is subtly con
nected with some sentimental episode in
their lives.
There are plenty of painfully neat in
divuals who would sweep the streets
clear of picturesque hanging signs; who
would prescribe for all, if they could, dun
colors; who would Danish the organ
grinder man from the citys streets. But
one wonders if nerves would not be as
severely taxed by monotony as by va
rfety, and if we would be any better
Off surrounded by painful neatness and
encompassed with obtrusive noiseIess ness
than we are in the picturesque and noisy
disorder of today. Sometimes one feels
glad that the millennium is quite a ways
off, and the world still possible to live
in.