Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-11-25
A MUSICAL TREAT.
The Boston Ladies' Symphony Orchestra
Win the Admiration of Barber
County People.

The Boston Ladies' Symphony
Orchestra filled their engagement in
this city last Friday night as previous.
ly advertised. 1t is beyond our limited
power of language to fttingly pay this
company the compliments which their
talents deserve. The entertainment
was so far superior to any musical
treat the city has ever enjoyed that 1t
beggars comparison. The company is
composed Of twenty-five ladies with
Prof. Frank. w. Mckee conductor. A
program of eleven numbers and several
extras were rendered, all of which were
received with such great favor by the
audience that an "encore' was in
vArlably solicited. The solos of Mabel
Mckee, violiDist; Pauline
Glidden, violinist; Edith B. Swan,
trombOnist, and Elizabeth Shipley,
the remarkably child clarinetist, were
all received with such vociferous and
deafening applause that the walls of
the hall fairly trembled.
All the numbers were so we'll played
that it would have been difficult to have
found two In the immense audience
whose choice of selections would have
been the same, but the Index is inclin-
ed to be bit partial to the tenth mum.
Der on the program which portrayed
IAN Afternoon at the Races" The
going to the depot, trains in motion.
the air brakes, the signal for the horses.
the race bell, the starting and lastly the
clatter Of the hoofs on the track were
all 80 viVidly initiated that the best
word picture would utterly fail to de.
scribe, and it is one of the rare marveIs
in the musical profession.
This celebrated company is certainly
entitled to all the elaborate press
notices it has received throughout
the United States. The artists are all
that is claimed for them.
This number costs the Lecture
Course Associa tion 1925. The receipts
lacked little of paying out but they
are not far behind. The opera house
was filled to its utmost capacity and
the Association found it necessary to
provide many extra chairs.
The evenings entertainment was un.
fortunately interrupted after the third
number, and there was considerable
confusion for few minutes. 1t had
no connection with the orchestra. 1t
arose out Of untamiliarity with the
associations rules relative to children.
When the course was organized last
spring rule was adopted barring
children under three years of age
Captain j. N Titus, President of the
association was determined to enforce
thatru as we'll as all others, and
when he discovered babies in the
audience he insisted that their parents
must retire with them. Among those
bringing baby were Mr.. and Mrs.
E. W. Stout and when Captain Titus
heard the child he went to Mrs. Stout
and told her to take it out. In a
few moments MIR. Stout, who was sit
ting few rows in front, came and
took the child and then Captain Titus
called the sheriff to eject them but
Mr.. and Mrs. Stout, after talking few
moments, consented to go out quietly
and there was no further demonstra-
tion. This. of course. threw the
audience into some confusion and had
the effect OF leaving bad blood, and
quite number resented the action
with Kisses while others seemed to on.
dorse it by applause.
There are rumorS OF suit for
damages on account of the trouble but
there has been nothing definite given
TO the public. So far as Captain
Titus is concerned he has no regrets to
express. He maintains that he follow
ed the instructions Of the association
and did right in the premises. He
takes the position that it was his duty
to see that the babies were taken out
or he would have been false to his trust.
It Is claimed by others who occupied
seats near where Mr.. Stout and wife
were seated. that Capt. Titus assisted
IN a djustlng seat irregularity for Mr..
and Mrs. Stout and could hardly have
helped seeing the child before the
music began, but this Captain Titus
denies.
The Index deplores this trouble.