The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-30
CALLS OF WILD ON DISC RECORDS.
Thompson Seton, Famous Naturalist,
Uses Novel Method to Address Boy
SfnIite of Ar,nrica

If perchance you hear the below of
bull moose followed by the hoarseI
bark of a seal and the call of dog
fox emanating from the parlor next door,
don't get excited. Keep your scat--andI
cogitate upon the enterprise of modern,
science; for it will probably be nothing
more, than your neighbor trying out a
new disc record.
There are, in this country alone, over
three hundred thousand boy scouts.
Each scout patrol has its individual call
and most of those calls are based on
the cries of wild animals. Although the
scout manual describes these calls as
well as is possible, "hah' is the nearest
thing you can get to the bark of -
seal, and bah" is the best that can
be done to suggest the call of the moose.I
Obviously, there are some things that
cannot be written on paper Equally
clear, too, that, unless the boys are for
tunate enough to live close to the homes
of game, they have very little chance of
getting these things right.
Ernest Thompson Seton, the famous
naturalist, who is at the head of the
American boy scouts, has a knowledge
such as is possessed by very few men
of the wild life of this country, and
when it was suggested that the disc
record offered the means whereby he
could personally demonstrate the scout
calls to every boy scout in America, he
jumped with eagerness at the opportu-
nifty.
The Columbian Graphophone Co. Of
fered him the facilities OF their record
ing department and he carefully pre-
pared speech not only explaining these
calls, but demonstrating them. He then
made record OF the speech, and it is
easily the most interesting thing in the
July list of new recordings issued by
this company. 1t is a record which is
going to appeal, not only to every boy
scout, but also to all those who have
learned to love the great out doors
and the inhabitants of the wild.
Another important announcement in
this same July list is the first record
issued in the United States by Morgan
Kingston. Kingston is the English coat
miner who made sensation some two
years ago when it was discovered that he
rad voice that rivaled Caruso's. At
hat time he was earning about five
'hillings a day as a coliery foreman.
LAST year he was approached by the
Royal Opera of Covent garden with an
,ffer of a leading role. However. An
treas DIPPED, at that time manager of
he Philadelphia Chicago Opera Co.. SCI
ured him for this country, and he will
make his debut with that operate or
-anization this fall. His first double
Use includes j. L. Molloy's famous Irish
ong, "The Kerry Dance" and con-
emporary English song of widespread
ogue, "Ianthe7
George Barrett, probably the most fa-
aous flute virtuoso in the world to-dsf,
as at last suceumbcd to the lure of
cience and he. too has records in the
urrent list. The flute lends itself par
icularly well to good recording and the,
esuIt is double-dsc of unusual beau.
Y.
There is plenty of operate and in
matter, and the new summer,
include all the latest rag-time
nd Broadway hits.
Bert Williams has also been making
ew records, some of which are issued
lis month.