Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-08-26
MONSTER AUDIENCE GREETS
KRYL'S BAND WEDNESDAY
Famous Band Leader fleases Splen-
did Crowd With Magnificent
Concert in Afternoon.

Kryl and his band played TO the
largest audience of the Chautauqua
this afternoon. Kryl. with sousa and
Pryor the great triumvirate Of band
masters in this country, delighted his
auditors. He win give another con-
cert this evening.
Today at Chautauqua was Kryl's
day. With eight clarinets, six cornets,
three French horns, three slide from
bones, one euphonium, two double B
bass horns, one string bass, oboe,
flute, piccolo, bass drum and nest
Of traps, together with fine harp, a
xylophone and about three octaves of
cathedral pipes, Bohumir Kryl filed
the big tent and the city with his
music. His two concerts made pro-
found impression upon the music low
ers Of Mexico for he is great favor
ite. Kryl does not need his mop Of
bushy hair to mark his artistic tenn
perament for his face tells the story
Of the artist before Superintendent
Graham puts the audience next to the
romance of the great bandmaster's
life. The Tannahauser Overture,
Kings Shepherds in the Alps, Web
er's Festival Overture, the second
Hungarian Rhapsodie and the spec
tacular finale ofthe evening program,
Michaelis' The Village Blacksmith
these stand out as mountain peaks in
two programs rich with the best clas-
sical music. Many in the two huge
audiences compared Kryl with last
years Quintano. Both bands are
superb. Kryl's cornet places him in
a class by himself. Quintano's band is
the larger, but critics note in Kryl GER
tain finer touches which they apprec-
late. Quintano often forces his BRASS
es into tornado Of harmonious sound.
Kryl never. Kryl's cornet solos charm
ed all who heard, and his band will be
more than welcome should it ever
come this way again.
Victor Murdoch Of Kansas, deliver
ed the lecture in the big tent last night
TO a capacity audience. His subject of
course was Reform, for he could not
talk about anything else. Victor Muir
dock comes from Kansas, the origin
ator Of reform ideas, and he is the
very best sort Of Kansas cyclone.
! He talks with his face, on which broad
Expansive smiles come and go, illun-
mating the speakers serious purpose.
Without the aid of any other gesture
Victor Murdock's face is dramatic.
His smiles and his frowns are contag-
ious, and his expansive laugh shows
a double row Of teeth Of which "the
interests" had better beware. From
the first Victor Murdoch captured his
audience bag and baggage. Wit and
lhumor, more Of the latter than of the
former, play upon serious subjects
while Mr.. Murdock speaks. He does
not aim to entertain, but few platform
men entertain as much as he does the
while he gets his serious message into
the heart of his audience.
Mr.. Murdoch won loud applause
when he said that it was the business
of every man and woman to see to it
that his country keeps out of the Eur
opean war. He talked about the new
enemies of liberty, and found them to
be privilege and avarice. In speaking
of "the interests" he said that the
new generation Of American wealthy
families was different from the found
ers Of our Big Houses. The wealth Of
these houses was not dissipating, it
was accommodating at dangerous rates
along hard, narrow and bitter lines.
The speaker took tremendous fall
out Of the archaic customs of the
senate, and he told graphically his
experience in saving five million dol
lars annually from the postal freight
bill. 1t was this work that brought
fame to Congressman Murdoch, and
he had an abundance Of inside infor-
nation to impart Indeed, his adj
dress almost seemed like the perusal
of secret document Of European
court. He paid strong compliment
to President Roosevelt, who won for
Murdoek his fight on postal freight
weights when Congress had defeat
ed his measure. In conclusion, Mr..
Murdoch said that we ought to COR
rect certain bad habits, foremost
among which was the habit Of the
partisan mind, and the other habit
Of taking things for granted. He
finished a very fine and attractive
adJ.asc ~, tha pnta of human hroth-