Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-22
xYLoPHoNIsT HOME
 AFTER GLOBE TRoTTiNG.
Jack Murphy, Otherwise Known as
 Murfane, To Visiting Here.

Home in his own land again after a globe encircling tour. Jack Mur- phy, the xylophone king, whose homa Is in Haverhill. and who has appeared before Norwich audiences at the Au- ditortum, is visitor in this city at present, the guest of Mir. and Mrs Edward F: Price of Mckinley avenue. Mir. Murphy reached New York on Tuesday, having come across the con- tinent from San Francisco to which he had come from Sydney in Aus tralia.
 Under tho stnge name of Murfane. the international xyiophone king. Jack vaudeville. playing at one house in Melbourne for i've weeks in succes. sion. Ono Of tho attractive things from performers standpoint about the vaudeville business in Australia is that thero are no mntinoes and nn that nn actor Ia called on to do, while tho pay Ia largo and railroad expensos arc pair which iE different from tho regulations in this country, part of what the players earn in wages Ills tour also took him to England and Africa
 During tho tlnae that aa has been away MT. Murphy has seen much ot European war conditions for he first hI4At@ N0 AAIAl%saa fNf4A WIS GAOlQ " ffartiepoei and Chatham when these | places were bembaraed by inc oss. mans. lie secured a large piece os | HhrapHei as 8 trophy from the bon. haFdment at HaFtiepeei and ne states that the pumeeg ef people killed ran damage was daae thaa the English | have ever been willing to admit. | When he wRa leaving England fai the siE weeks trip ta Australia hy way Of the Sues canal he had semc or the meat nervous moments of his life, Conveys of torpedo craft aocem, panied the ship as 1t left England and as the passengers lay in their berthi
 witheut lights they eeuid feel ths Ehip'a engines suddenly st9h, then gt full sIRed ahead, while the vesssfI mstian showed that 1t was being steeFed a teFtueus course, Then th' passengers knew that they were pass ing through HeAe at the mine fieidl that guard hFitaiR's eeaAt As thes'
 an the ship knew that nada slsEmuRi' tioR for tho naFdenneilea had beer put on board and that up on decl
 was an airship for the same servioi
 they were not particularly comfort
 able to feel that there vas a pessl
 biiity of striking a mine,
 Hut they get through safely ant
 wheE they were away frem the EREllsi
 coast were met by French and Enailsi
 warHhlpa that continued the eonvo.
 duty,
 Warnings of submarines wero nneEn phoned to them from torpedo beat
 that slid aiongRide of them and eau toned them to look out for sub marine flying sails' or "merohan ship flying signals of distreBs." The. were warned to keep away from her and then the torpedo boat dnshe' away.
 At Port Said. along the Suez cane. MT. Murphy saw a large number of tn [ Australian troops who were then oi
 their way to the Dardanelles. Thi
 was Tn January of the present year.
 He expects to return to England. a
 h ehas bookings there, where he say
 the war has affected the vaudevill
 business very little He also has an } other visit to Australia in prospect. . A number of years ago he was . newspaper reporter in Haverhin, bu i he deserted the newspaper field. too e up trap drumming. graduated from ths Q into the xylophone, and now has tn = happy experience of earning as muc 8 per day as he once earned per week t his old newspaper days in Hayerhil