The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-18
MAGYAR. NVIOIIN.VIRTUOS
4 THE SIX. DAYS' WONDER OF FRISCO
His Irish Brogue and Desire to Fight Broke Up Concert
i to Make. Box Receipts Equal Pocket
book Of j. Pierpont Morgan.
Lie I. e.
the New YORK

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windows that didn't ever seem to be look
ing anywhere in particular, so abstracted
was their Eaze. His full beard made him
a puzzler as to his age, but | charted
him as q thirty-year-old or something
like that had a bunch that he wouldn I
b. able to spin English, and / felt sorry
for the hunch because 1 had little
buslness that wanted to talk over with
him. He went right on coddling the
strings in har1nonics up around the brldee
that sounded like forest leaves Just
laughing on a, sunny spring morning, ana
so squatted on the edge of his BUNK 10
wait until he had got to the last chord
of his trance. When he wound up Win
a miraculous melodic crash that seemed
to take in all of the strings at once, ne
rested the violin on his knees. mopped
his forehead with a piece of cotton that
looked as if it might have a part OF ore
OF the skirts Of a disused shirt, and
smiled upon me amiably, without saying
a. word.
'.When I asked him. all OF a sudden.
just to be saying something. whether he
parley wood English, the Mick broke INTO
a basso roar that would have Jolted the
plaster from the walls IL thered oeen
any plaster left on 'en.
.Oi think Sthct it's shtringin me We
are. my bhoy! said he, when he mad
recovered himself, with Tara-go-bro-
que that YOU could have sawed and spit
with a dull bolo-a brogue SO full ana
rich and fine upon the ear that 1t seemed
almost part of the music OF ms VloLn
Never before had I come so near 70 ran
ing down and writing on WOOD liooi
as did when that swarthy, 1ushy- nearo-
ed fiddle-hugger of the garnet openeo iiis
trap and thus overwhelmingly rev -
had him all marked down as son1eth'ns
in the two-legged line from the lanc
whence the Czardo-music comes ne
longer I stared at him the more ne
chuckled.
Then i pulled myself together and
proceeded to get busy with him.
How would you like said to him
in an off-hand kind of way, to clean up
a few million pounds sterling In the
course of the next month or so?
For about half minute 1 thought ne
was going to poke his head Gut OF the
window and yell down to the street below
for the watch From the way tnat u.
stared at me, it was perfectly plain that
he had me all doped out for pug.
lust a few million sovereigns ster-
ling YOU know I went on, matter-of-
facf-like, Just as if I'd been talking about
bushels of sage-brush, or prairie-dogs-o SON
the-hoof. or any old cheap thing Be
cause went on. as he continued 10
stare at me, if that's about what you
think you'd like. all you've got to do is
to scribble me a bit of power-of-at-
torney as your concert manager, and H.
within thirty days. you haven't got vel
low discs to throw at the Cliff ROCK
seals, I'll camp out on sandlot unoer
a rubber poncho for the balance or my
life
..Well, e swung along with me tne11'
and let me have the how and the why
of his case. He was a gifted and dis
sclute Turk. this fiddler. and 1T seemed
to be a whole lot the same 10 him whe-
Their ne was up against it or not He was
a Dublin Mulligan Of quality. TRINITY
nan who had gone to Germany to get
his vic.in education. In addition 10 thar
he had picked lp a swift method OF push
ing in a patrimony in Germany. SO tiat
by the time he mad got his violin tanned
50 that he could make it do any Old thlnS
he asked of it, he found that he'd have
to use the thing as tool wherewith 10
make a living. He didn't know how good
he vas as a bowman-being the only viz
tuoso that ever met up with that dldn
hive elephantiasis of the lid-and he had
no more business head than SnoW-pl1o.
So he had hitched up with a Hungarian
or chestra that was about to come to the
States, getting the billet of concertmast.
or or first violinist The orchestra OF
Euns had gone on the crags in San
Francisco after a sad, sad tour or the
country, and then the orchestra had been
hired at DAYS wages to furnish music IN
the eat-room of a big San Francisco no.
EEL About two weeks before / came
across the Magyar with the flowing green
dialect the hotel had burned down. and
that left the orchestra. with not even an
A-tent under which to crawl upon the
falling of night, the sable goddess. AND
here was a solo violinst who could pro-
duce music that would make a long
shcreman feel like writing letters to the
folks back llome-here he was perched
ru in a one-spot-the-seven days lott, let
ting his instrument Groom to him, and
not caring much, at that.
'Uh-huh. Tzingorjik. said I to him
when he had got through-he gave a start
at the name I handed to him. but dld
not mind that-'so here You are. m
your manager now, you know, and here
is how it is all TO come about. You are,
as I say, Tzingorjik, the famous dumb
Hungarian violinist. pupil of Remenyl.
ana YOU arrived in San Francisco on the
steamer Warimoo. from Sydney, Austria
lid, day before yesterday. For the past
six months you have been touring Austria
liza to standing room only and throwing
emotional persons in the antipodes into
Mysteries ard commissions. You're be-
ginning your tour of the United States
IN San Francisco-thisl tickle the San
Franciscans, for they'll always pick up
and run away with anything they get
a hack at before the East gets it. You're
dumb for the reason that If you ever
opened that facial ori!ice and sprung any
of that Erin-go- Bragh patois the game
uti be up in the air. You were sud
denly stricken dumb in ST. Petersburg
three years ago while saving the life OF
the Car from an attack by Nihil!st-
the excitement and shock deprived you
of the power of speech. you know, al
though you were almost compensated for
that by the estate of 5000 900 acres which
TIL. Car gave you. with his gratitude, for
yorr bravery You are going to give
YOUR first concert in San Francisco at
the Music Hall two weeks from Monday
night You cop out unto yourself one
half the net receipts. and the other half
is nine Tomorrow morning you are
going to get real close shave and wear
a smooth map FOR business purposes, and
you're going to have that long black
hemp chopped off suddenly where it hits
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