The Newtown bee., 1906-01-19
ever did anything with the brush.

Nature had very kindly given me great love for and perhaps a little tai ent in the line of, music. Oh! is it so? he remarked promptly as he withdrew some portions of a newspaper from thu outer pocket of negligee coat consti tuting part of knickerbocker suit which later l learned was his usua work-a-day attire. This paper con ta1ned an account of recent render ing of his compositions, and of tht high favor with which they had beer received by the audience of that even ing. Oh! it was glorious,' he said as he unconsciously struck an attitude ir which he seemed again to be listening to the hearty applause of the two thousand or more who were present or that occasion. Thus he stood for sev eral seconds, then he suddenly recalled himself from his revery by an evident effort as he remarked with a sigh, I have the fever.' While it is the rule rather than the exception that artists of the brush or pencil are very profc. ient in some branch of music, it is req sonably certain that no musical achievements of this noted man can ever add to the obligation under which he has placed the art-loving portion of the civilized world who have derived so great measure of enjoyment from his incOmparable art. The enjoyment of the brief half hour spent under his me-"
 "I spent the Sunday afternoon and evening following at the home of Charles A. Moody, 1 formerly of New Haven, who has been resident of Los Angeles for several years past, being at present part owner and one of the editors of the magazine called "Out West, heretofore known as the "Land midway between Los Angeles and Pas adena, at which point are gathered to- gether in modest little colony sever- al literary and artistic people, among them the celebrated artist, Fernand Lungran, whose skill in portraying the cowboy of the Southwest has placed him in the front rank of American ar tists. His ''cottage" stands but a few feet from MT Moody's, and I was fortunate in finding him at home, and during brief call on him with MT Moody, had the pleasure of seeing sew eral of his canvases. Later visited one of the local galleries in Los Ange- les where quite number of MT Lun- this was certainly a rare treat"
 "The early part of the week was spent sin visiting property in Kern County near the head waters of the Kern river, and the trip, a portion of which was by stage, was interes ting in many ways. The day following my re- turn to Los Angeles, I went south to San Diego, whence l took steamer the same evening for Ensenada, L. O., Mex, enroute to what will soon be- come one of the most famous mining camps on the American continent, now known as "Alame," L. 0. This camp is seventy miles from the sea- coast, and two days were required to struck the camp about 2 p. m., Satur- day, and the day being fortunately clear, was enabled to getla number of very satisfactory photographs of the large power and milling plant then wellnigh completed, and which is now in very successful operation at that point.'
 About ten the next morning saw me on my twO-day return trip to the seacoast. The fourth and last day of this trip by wagon was about the perience. We were riding in two- which we were driving, the only one obtainable for the trip in Ensenada, was in such poor condition as to ren- der it more 6han likely that we might be at any moment compelled to leave them by the roadside and complete our journey on foot. We had man. aged to get through the previous three days without any such mishap, but the weakness shown py one of the horses SooE after we started on our final day waS' extremely diSquieting. Hence it was that when alighted at the hotel in Ensenada at seven that tered, it was with a sigh of devOut thankfulness that had not been con- pelled to face a tramp of anywhere up to twenty-five miles through the rain and mud in order to catch the steamer at eight o'clock that evening for San Diego. I realized then, as l have many times in the past and undOubt- edly shall have occasion to now and again in the future, that conditions are seldom so bad but that they might be worse."'
 After hasty supper, lost no time in getting on board the steamer St Denis, which landed me at seven the next morning in San Diego on my re turn to Los Angeles"
 "I left Los Angeles at noon on Sun. | uoys ANO'OAAoSA A<s, AoA III 0oo, ASA' reaching there the next afternoon The American Mining Congress, tC which had been appointed dele gate by our governor, began its eighth annual session at ten o'clock the neX1 morning, the sessions continuing fol the balance of the week. l met many prominent people identified in ont
 way or another with the mining in
 dustry, and gained from them an(
 from the proceedings of the Congress
 a vast amount of information whicl
 will prove of sgreat future benefit t,
 me and my customers"
 "Through the courtesy of Phelps
 Dodge & Co.,, who are operating tn
 Copper Queen" at Bisbee, Ariz.. ant
 who have very extensive interests il
 other portions of Southern Arizon
 and the adjoining state of Senora Mex, the delegates to the Congres were furnished a special train for tn purpose of visiting the Copper Queen
 smelter at Douglas, Ariz., two hu1 7 dred and sixteen miles west of Ell Pa
 so. About two hundred and fifty c } us left Ell PaSo at 7.3O on Sunda morning and reached Douglas at l l m., where we found an elegant Lunch . con spread for us in the large samplin works attached to the shelter. w ] were then "personally conducted l through what is probably the fines 3 private shelter in the United State = and were thus afforded an opportunit for studying the practical side of tn branch of mining. We left Dougls