The Washington times., 1913-07-21
MUSIC NOW HEARD
! IN HOUSE OFFICES
Congressman Bartlett InstaIIs
l. Photograph, and Statesmen
Seem to Like Idea.
By THEODORE TILLER.


the tired legislator, or disturbing tn
matter~of-fact statesman who has n
poetry in his soul, now has its place 4
the House office building. It Is welcom
or unwelcone, according to the view
point.
'Tis true that IL is canned music: We
tbs music still In brief. Congressman
Charles L. Bartlett Of Georgia-ant
necessarily Democrat-has installed
phonograph in his Office on the third
noor in the southwest corner of the bis
House ofrice building. Ever and amor
there's a Bartlett concert, and those
within the sound Of the needle-scratched
discs may have anything from the
Midnight Choo-Choo" to the overture
from William Tell"
The House lobby investigating COM
mittee was in executive session an aft
ernoon or SO ago, and a dozen news
paper correspondents mad gathered for
the opening Of the House inquiry. As
they arrived near the lobby committee
room, from afar down the corridor came
the sound OF music. For the first time,
recalled the listeners, ragtime fioated
through the marble corridors Of a build-
Ing supposed to be devoted solely to
heavyweight thoughts, investigations.
conferences, and work.
"A hurdy-gurdy on the outside said
some one
NO. a phonygraft Within" said an
otner. Sounds like it's in Oscar Un-
oerwood's room"
No, Not Underwood's.
Mr.. Underwood had just returned from
Hot Springs. Va. Was It possible that
an agent had broken into his vacation
and sold him a talking machine-what
with all the talking there is in the
House anyway?
Shopping down the corridors III.
music lovers drew near the snot
whence emanated such stirring mel
ooy. 1t wasn't Underwood's office. but
just 10 the left the doors of Con-
sressman Bartlett's sanctum stood
ajar.
Judge Bartlett sat with feet "sort.r
dangling over the arm of his chair
garage bill and a misused piece OF
automobile machinery were on the
desk before him. The Judge frowped
at the bill and the bit of steel onIv
him struck up Il Love a i,sssieS Sind nnd
brought his mind around 70 n1nra
pleasant things. '"0Fe
ne photograph is a great inven-
uon, said Judge Bartlett at soothes
the sanitariums are using them"
II they soothe tired minds. LOT n, |
tenoWs ought to have them who
haven't them" said the judges secre1
PLAY something else, thsrs" ..,d
the Judge. saio
Music Causes commotiou
A new needle war put on, and from
the scores of records piled On a desk
In the Bartlett office selections wer.
made at random. The listeners who
wanted ragtime could ask for a Tango
tune or SO, with now and then a turo
Rohert speh as Waiting for the
Bali; Gentlemen with the pTotrudtns
loreheaos, flowing neckties. and IonS
TTavy hair might ind satisfaction in
Cps Good-oy. or the Pilgrims
al Lammermoor," or "oh, Promisa
ot anything here that will ut the
,onoy Investigations" some one asLa6
uose Bartlett didn't remember
Il will purchase Here Come. TI TIu
DADDY Now" to be played as Col Msr
tin Mulhall enters the room to und.rTo
&C Congressman Bartlett says he has had
Ihe monograph for some time, bnt ari-
oenty ne has been giving II the client T
g lIealment. At any rate, oIite a connron =
Lon was caused In the House Ofhce buiiS
hs 1ae "nen Judge Bartlett opened his L
loors and allowed music to Ioat thro,eS g
sorrdors where tariff tinkers. iohhyis1s Z
,;urrency reformers, other kinds ~ 80
ormers' statesmen. job hunters and
'ourists are wont 70 gather.
May Start Epidemic.
Wnile praising the phonograph, Con- I,
FRESHMAN Bartlett bemoaned the .,-
'eeoins cost OF an automobile. You're =
I"ays paying out something when vou :.
ave an automobile" said the Judge,
What make is it?"
,, II costs" make II u
The visitors bowed themselves out "a
Tg !nrns soqSe TTn started up When Dreams t,
me Barelett innovation may start an n
tySt tSiSueInic OF music on Capitol HiII. =
ma nat the matter with some member
G nd wb, piager:piano into his Office? 4
coteh ancestry import a baCpine or n
o: What reason is there thai Con. II
ressman Jefferson Levy shouldn't az I
re hIiaser In that $50 900 overcoat and NJ
MARCHING
1rough the corridors footing on a hrsEs III
~ IN that stirring sentimental ballad III
monticello, Ny OWN III
No Point of Order. III
II Is not believed that the Bar,Is,, m
,heme for soothing nerves will Increase III
1e supply OF chin music. The output III
READY has reached the limit. III
Ihere is possibility that the anvil III
lorus Will be heard more frequently III
the JUDGES music ever falls upon the III
Lrs OF an unesthetic member ,Sbo III
I LIKE the most soothing thing in the III
ORIG Is the click of a typewriter III
anipulated by an overworked private III
SuiL taken as a whole, the member, M
the Vicinity Of the BartIett offcH III
en- rather to like a little music aIot,, III
IN their afternoon correspondence HI
point OF order has yet been raised III
ainst the Georgian. HI
Z. S.-Judge BRrtletts phonoKranb III
lections do not include that we'll III
own record. entitled ''Marchinr MI
trough Georgia" III
1I ns ~ III