Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-15

Soendag. which expresses the mus
I ines OF Il shePherdess who looks down
I from the mountain pasture OK saeter,
whittier her task has hanished her
/ Tor the summer. and longs for her
home in the Smiling valley when she
7 hears the church bell calling the peo-
| pie 60 sunday service.
/ The design of the villa which ole
I Buli built for himself on the westerly
shore of his island is not So happily
conceived as his other hellishments
of the place are. I'm fact it IS tan-
tastical The house is airy and spaci-
GUS. but why, with the example of the
noble old Norwegian farmhouses of
/ the sixteenth and seventeenth ccntur-
/ les before him ne should have erect
ed ON this Lastness the gingerbread of
LA Moorish palace in pine it is hard 90
understand
Great Music Room Feature.
| But there 1t IS with its towers and
/ IT'S filagree, and its sole eNtenuation
/ is the great music room-the music
/ ham, as the peasants of the resion
! leah it-into which the living rooms OF
1.-THE house open. II is perhaps sixty
/ feet long and half as wide. \ double
IroW OF Moorish pillars, which were
/ cut from pine trees that grew on the
island supports the lofty roof and
! from the roof hang two enormous
/ crystal chandeliers
| Illuminated and filled with guests,
/ who i'm the old days were hidden here
/ from the music centers of Europe, the
apartment must have made q brilliant
show Seen now. without the warm
land commanding personality that
/ once abode there, it seems bizarre
land the first impression il creates p
| that here is the only misguided freak
| of fancy of a man of genius whose
| taste i'm his own art was at once sound
land lofty
An aged housekeeper, who add
Ivanccd from civility to pleased cor
Idiahty when she saw that we were
truly interested In the great memories
iof the place. met us beneath the high
! Moorish porch and led us into the
music hall The family, she said-
meaning the granddaughter Sylvia
/ Bun Vaughn, and her guardian, the
/ American Mr.. Bartlett-were not In
/ Residence this summer. The wal
| had kept them in America
Busts of Music Masters.
The first characteristic objects the
Ieye falls upon as one circles the music
hall are tiny busts OF Beethoven and
! Mozart and papanini which stand on
! the mirrored chimney piece. The
/ bust Of Papanini has special elo-
Iquence because Ole Bulls attitude OF
disciples toward Papanmi was al
hut idolatry The most conspicuou.
iobiects are an old-fashioned grand
IN a.
name OF a Boston maker and another
grand piano. the thoroughly artistic
/ case of which interested us because
the housekeeper said that it was the
! handiWork of Ole Bun himself.
ON a side table was portrait OF
/ Ole Bulls daughter Olea Bull, th'
mother of Sylvia Vaughn who is the
/ mistress of Lysoeen Vases of heath
er stood before the picture and it'
frame had been decked with heather
/ From the opposite side Of the room
| the sad eyes Of Sara Bull, the Ameri
can lady who was the second wife OF
! the musician and the mother of Olea
/ looked huntingly al one.
Empty glass cabinets attracted at
Itention When the family is IN rest
Idence these cabinets are filled viii
| the priceless mementoes of ole BulIj
/ trump s--decorations he received
! from European sovereigns and souve
/ Mrs in gold and gems During thu
absence Of the family these are stored
! in the vaults of Bergen bank.
Souvenirs of Julia Aiar.owc,
/ We climbed winding stairs to thu
second floor Of a tower which open
off the music room On the walls o.
/ the first floor of the tower were sou
venir's of Ole Bulls friendship viii
Julia Marlowe IN the form Of sigue(
portraits Of the actress as Viola anC
| in proper person. on a shelf nearby
stood an edition Of Shakespeare il
English
ON the walls Of the second flooi
lungs portraits Of Longfellow ana Alb
| raham Lincoln and bits Of prints in th'
| festival scenes i'm the life Of Bull
Here and there were pictures of sover
eiPns who had honored themselves II
| honoring him, but i'm the most con
1 spicuous place hung an old eneravinl
1 of the rugged countenance of his frs
teacher, the Morse peasant, Thorgeh
|Audunsfon Of HallingdaL
! The whole house was TO me full o
/ the faint, sad voices of vanished glo
! es-great concerts, stately banquets
royal tributes-all the echoes Of q
/ career of splendor and the mementO'
| of the unnumbered triumphs which
/ had crowned q life that had known
much vioissitude.
/ In Bergen they cherish the tradi
/ ton of one Of the gypsy tours through
England that Ole Bull made In hi'
Iearly youth ana they tell YOU how
when a village mob ieered at him ant
lpelted him for a foreign fiddler, h'
/ laughed the ruffians out of countc
nance, lodging the missiles and so
! licitous only that the violin, which h'
I had behind his back, should not be
| injured.
Given Portrait by Car
! There came n time, though Whel
/ the principal adornmcnt Of room il
/ the foreign fiddler's' house was {
portrait of a Russian car presented
/ to the fiddler by that sovereign him
self The picture is still at Lysoeen
| 1t is a portrait. painted i'm his youth
Of the father Of the present ear, anC
| it hangs in "A large bedroom openinf
off the opposite end OF the music hal
| from the tower room.
At the other end Of the han ont
enters the SHldll beul DOM III WlllNi
/ ole Bull died Is furnishings remair
as they were the day he breathed hii
| last on the little bed in the corner. The
wall by the bedside is covered with q
great tapestry presented to him b,
/ Russian admirers. AZ the head Of th'
4 bed is a large engraving Of tho tragic
scene of Colonel Sinciairs landing a
Romsdalen in 1912 Beyond q porce
! lain stove, a bureau and portrait o
/ ole Bull in his youth there are nc
other conspicuous OF iects In the lit
tile room
Funeral Impressive Pageant