New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-01
DID NOT LIKE PERFUME CONCERT.
AN AUDIENCE. EVIDENTLY PREFERRING
CABBAGE AND ONIONS TO VIOLETs
AND ROSES, INsULTED
INVENTOR.
INVENTOR

= would have been far better for the elderly
German who has spent many years on the perfec-
ton of 2 devise for spreading different perfumes
throughout a house theatre If he had given his
first Perfume Concert at Carnegie Lyceum as
he planned TO do. instead Of making it one Of the
features. and nearly the last feature on the BILL
at z. f R3ce's Sunday night concert at the New
York last evening. a Sunday night audience at the
New-York Theatre can stand much tobacco in the
air and much perfume on their own persons But
from the stage t4ey want coon songs and horse
play and Of fair play for a man who evidently
could not speak Englsh with great ease. but who
had an interesting and novel device to show. they
have 10 conception. So the Perfume Concert OF
poor Eadakichi Hartmann the "Trip to Japan IN
Sixteen Minutes" with smells for travelling We
hicle. never got beyond the second sniff 81 tink
7 haf no more to say" stammered the German in
ver+or. and rushed off the stage. pursued by the
dersive applause Of what part OF the audience re-
manned in their seats.
Hartmann's device or perfume orchestra" con-
sists Of two boxes which placed on the stage.
with their open fronts facing the audience. At the
back Of each box large electric fan in violent
action. Beside each box stood a girl IN japanese
costume Hartmann himself. a curious looking
man. whose father was German and whose
mother was japanese. forth clad in
splendent shirt front and huge yellow chrysan-
themum. In strangely spoken English he n
nounced that he about TO take the audience on
q journey Of several thousand miles. And he de-
clared the vehicle will be perfume lead into
fairy land Cook never took out larger party with
less baggage.
Follow the man with the smells" whispered
somebody
The first odor," he went on. is that OF roses.
given US as the ste1mer leaves the wharf"
Then a horn footed twice in the wings and
into the boxes before the fans the two girls slid
thick slabs of sort. like slides into a magic
lantern In the space OF minute the entire thea
ire from top TO bottom, permeated with the
odor Of roses 1t obliterated the rank smoking
car smell. so long a feature OF the Nev-York it
even killed the scent from the garments of vari-
Gus women in the boxes. But the audience turned
YEARLY in their seats and began to go.
Next reach Germany SAID the Door in
yentor looking wofully at the retreating audience
.'Who does not remember picking violets on a fair
morning along the banks Of the Rhine? The violet
IS Csermany's flower
And then the girls shifted the slides and within
another minute the o6or OF roses completely
driven out. and strong scent OF yiolets per
vaded the air.
But the audience stamped. cheered derisively.
and began 10 pour out Of the theatre. Poor NChry-
looked paler than his shirt front He stammered
something for another instant then fed. The two
girls came 10 the rescue. they shut of the violet
signated the orchestra. and struck into a song
about Ole Japan something Of the sort. AT
any rate. they flung brayely at the backs of the
Mainvhile the remaining slices full Of mystic orr.
entail smells, sat pathetic and unused the floor
beside the boxes.
After all. 'Chrysanthemum's real mistake was
in having ready q corned beef and cabbage
Side. II he had chased" that the audience