Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-27


IE%"1 : titioner in the city of
IE:.:::::;: New York, and he, had
not earned 10 per cent Of
his expenses, which were very mod
crate.
he was throat specialist, but his
earnings thus far had come from his
own throat and not from the threats
OF hisNpatients. He had supported
himself since his youth and had paid
for an expensive professional educa-
ton by singing. l have heard good
judges say that Deane might have tax
en- rank among the few great tenors
OF the time and have made money by
the bushel, but he disliked singing for
pay. and he especially, fervently, IA
natically. disliked notoriety, anything
whatever that could be called adver-
Using. He had sung chiefly in church
choirs and very select concerts and
had marvelously succeeded in conceal
Ing the fact that he was one Of the
favorite children Of Apollo.
Upon his return from Germany he
went to his native town of Eddington.
In Connecticut, where he remained
three years. He got few patients,
but his salary as tenor in a New Haven
church choir constituted more than
half his income.
The Kendalls were among the few
people in Eddington who had any
money, but they never had throat trou-
bles. These seemed to occur among
the poor only. Elsa Kendall was called
the prettiest girl in the town. and she
was the heiress also. TO pay court to
her was perhaps the only worldly wise
thing that Sydney Deane did in his
three years residence in Eddington.
but Elsa Kendall grew from eighteen
to twenty-one. seeing Deane almost
daily except for her own brief alb
sences from the town, and she never
knew the nature of his sentiments to-
ward her.
In the early days she fanciod herself
in love with him. Then she was his
friend. adoring only his voice, and at
last she came to despise him just lit
tie as a weak man, finical in his devo-
ton to the proprieties and incapable of
dealing with the world. Relentlessly
she forced Deane into the battle. 1t
was her energy that propelled him in
to the larger field. When he was gone
she missed him very much and shed
some tears.
In New York Deane made some very
nice acquaintance among the doctors.
but got no patients.
Deane's stock Of money began to run
low. His voice was earning him moth
ing except the admiration Of his neigh
bors and of the wayfarers who paused
outside his windows, but he felt that
the day was at hand when he must
sing for hire. This thought was a
thorn in his flesh, and there was an
other that was even sharper He had
neglected one Of Elsa's most urgent
admonitions. Worse, he was deceiving
her about it. "Look up my uncle, DR..
Kendall, the very first thing" she had
said to him. ''IIe will help you"
Deane had Cooked him up" as the
phrase is understood in New York.
and had not been satisfied with the re-
suit.
To nut it mildly DR.. Kendall was a
man who did not avoid nOtoriety. His
name was constantly before the pub
lie. Interviews with DR.. Kendall II
cut from the daily press and pasted
end to end would reach to the planet
Neptune and tie in double bowknot.
So said doctor whom Deane ventured
to interrogate upon the subject. and be
added:
"xendall IS in good standing. of
course. and he's an able man. prob
ably one Of the best men on the throat
that we have. but he advertises him.
self out of all reason. He has great