The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-12

right, but as 1 was making the turn
the main support of the rudder broke
and the rudder of course became use
less.
"There was then nothing to do but
to drift with the wind and 1 finally
landed in a tree near Tenth avenue
and Lincoln street, so they tell me. 1t
wasn't a minute before a crowd of sew
eral hundred people had gathered and
the people assisted in getting the ship
down. The boys helped me get it back
to the grounds"
The big crowd. as the airship was
pushed out of the tent before the as
cent was made, surveyed the craft with
keen interest contrasting it with the
| "Skylark'' in which Mars made his SEN
sational fight on the Taylor tract last
June.
When the five horsepower Indian mo-
tor was put into action the people be-
came all excitement. AS the airship
began to move forward there was mad
scramble to get out of dangers road
The balloon rose slowly in the air
but soon tilted to what seemed to be
| spectators to be dangerous angle,
| but the aeronaut by shifting his posi-
| ton righted the craft.
| The throngS stood intently watching
the swaying balloon in its restless flight
| in northwesterly direction, but it was
presently lost to view behind the trees.
| The first impulse was to chase after the
departing aeronaut.
Ladies' Band Pleased People.
No one anticipated as big a crowd
| as attended the concert given by the
American Ladies' Grand Concert band
| Sunday afternoon. There were 5000
paid admissions, which including the
small army of persons who were at
work putting the exhibits in place and
| those who had passes, means that there
were at least 5000 persons on the
grounds.
And the band, we'll, it was everything
that the advance notices claimed it to
| be. 1t wasn't a regulation show noise
| dispensing organization, but a company
| of real musicians.
| The program consisted mainly of ma
| tional airs, marches, and sacred music,
and particularly the solo work was en-
joyed.
The real stars of the band are the
Kansas girls. Miss Nettie Reiter, of
Kansas City, and Miss Sally Ellis of
| Efffngham.
The latter in "a Whispered Vow"
made a big hit. She has a high clear
soprano voice which carries well.
"She was a girl prodigy" said the
leader of the musical organization,
Helen May Butler. "She attracted
later studied in Chicago. She is do
ing ballad work, and the press no
tices everywhere have been most fiat
| tering. She isone of the comparatively
| few girls who start out in music and
really reach an advanced stage in the
art.
LAS to Miss Reiter, the soloist, she
can play any music written There
can't be too much said in praise OF
her. Miss Clara Reiter, her sister, is
a clarinet soloist in the band"
When asked whether she had the
( n tn he
! leaders of ,lale bands have of having
their musicians in an intoxicated state
half of the time when they are of
duty and some of the time while on
| duty, Miss Butler said:
mo, indeed, I strike ladies that are
| ladies. and in my eleven years expert
ence 1 have seen only two drunks
among women-and they weren't mine
and one of these was the daughter OF
a millionaire.
my girls are mostly Americans, but
have one full blooded Swedish gir
and three or four Germans Yor
know that the Germans have the repu-
tation of being better musicians thar
the Americans. but this is not the
| case.
1.-The difference is that in Germans
the laws require that every child II
school spend at least three years mas
tering the playing of some musical in
strument. If we had the same laws
| in this country we would have a:
many concert musicians.
THE majority of the girls who star
in with band work do not stick very
long. There are a great many ladies
bands springing up all the time also
which have but a short existence
There are some of the girls in thi
band, though who have stuck TO
lyears. 1t usually takes four years fo
| a girl to fit herself to become mem
bers of the organization
I'VE have just come from Riverviev
Exposition park, near Chicago, wher
for five days out of seven, we played t
at least $4,000 people,
Weather Indications.