The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-01
LIMOUSINE AND
MUSICAL HORN
Story of Novelty Seen or
Heard Occasionally
in Brattleboro
MRS. MARION SWAN
OF ORANGE OWNER
Pride of Her Heart as She Has Seen
None Like it. in Her Travels in the
United States and Canada-Story
Told in Springfield Republican.


Told in Springfield Republican.
big Limousine with musical horn
is sometimes seen or heard or both onl
the Brattleboro streets and it always
attracts the attention of everybody
within sight or hearing. The ear and |
horn are the property of Mrs. Marion
Wheeler Swan of Orange, Mass, and |
the story of the song horn is told as
follows in the Springfield Republican: |
Did you ever take off your hat toll
the strains of The Star Spangled Ban |
ner Just as Il big limousine went down |
| Springfield Main street and then
looked around feeling foolish and
wondering where that music was, any
way? Or have you waited on a
crowded street corner to the strong,
reedy accompaniment of The Old Oaken
Bucket when ypu could swear there
WASH t musician in sight?
If YOU have, Mrs. Marion Wheeler
Swan. of Orange has come to town
again, as she does almost every week,
to do some shopping and see the MOVIES.
| Sometimes she brings her BOTHER. Mrs.
Il Elmira +. Thompson, and her cousin,
Mrs Alice Hart, but she always rides
through the street playing her musi-
cal horn, which she thinks is the ME-
est part of her limousine. The ear 5
/ exhaust runs it.
Mrs Swan always finished the tune
she is playing, even when the car stops,
5 and she says she can play 45 tunes on
/ . ~ ,og ha l.,4
: people misunderstood the meaning of
G the thin elderly hand, thrust outside
5 the door of the car, as the hotel bell-
hop did the other. day wien he opened
+ the door and seized her hand right in
: the middle Of the tune, thinking she
! wanted to be helped out. When he
c understood the situation he apologized,
and she told him.. ''That all right;
5 my hand has been held before.
: She is a restless little body who
7 moves about continually when She talks
: and emphasizes her sentences with de
/ eidedly.s-or ginaIe,ges tures. She likes
I 1.-THE fuIl-length mirrors which the
, closet doors boast of in her fayorite
; hotel here in Springfield, and she likes
u Theda Bara, although she admits Theda
would be too strong for a steady diet
The Wheeler family which she has
helped to distinguish made IFS meney
in sewing machines up in Orange aHt
; there is plenty TO 70 around so that
Mrs. Thompson can present her daugh
ter, the hornist, with a limousine, "a
she did two years ago, or with 4 road
d ster, as she is going to iii few weeks
whenever she feels like it.
The musical horn is the pride of he
heart because in all her travels Owe
b, he United States and Canada She Ia
N never heard one like il since she hear,
ii in demonstrated out in Detroit, oil,
.r home week, about four years age. Il
i. i, made Just like little pipe organ,
,s she explained. s'They tried awful,
st hard to put the keyboard inside but i
:. eouldn I be done. 1t cost $3.50 for tn
ar. thing itself and $50 for u man to com
all the way from Buffalo to put it il
d. And nobody else, except my chauffeu
er knows how it goes. | brought it dow
Id to an organ place here to be eleane
as and they couldn t put it back togethe
80 so Fred had to do it.
le She always seeks appropriateness i
ne her musical renderngs, often stoppin
before country schoolhouses at recess
be she met a travelling man in Bangor VIII
nd was cussing prohibition, she immediate
PIP ~ PLAYED. How Dry | Am.
he my land, I d 60 crazy if | couldn
n 20 all around, She said. She use
u to drive a pair Of horses, but she think
IS it is not a woman s job to drive a mo
no or ear She has had lots of letters frol
he people who want her and her horn |
Il
les peace celebration, but she prefers to z
around aud amuse people ON her own il
az itiative
'at Their home is the Wheeler mansio
I'm in Orange, can awfully big place fl
- three old women and dog to live in,
'ei but she delights in the elevator, Il
81 IL fireplaees and the is electric ligh
= IN the dining room. because most pc
9 pie think you can t have anything 0,
- i'm the country.
=, The two women were badly smash,
~ into in their limousine about two yea
~ ago and have never gotten over the nc
=. vousness which the shock caused thei
- A New York ear crashed into then al
- practically ruined the car. but by
III miracle the beloved horn was untor cht
, so that it could be removed and put
the new ear which ma gave h
daughter.
Once in Il while they 90 TO B, ST.
to relax but they like Springfield lu'
= better Mrs Swan says the traffic c,
ne here gives her the right of way !;
he ways and she gIesscs they like i
nd horn. Some cops hearing about til
is. smiled, We'll, been a-wonderin -
err began one yesterday. He said lIol
re- but not for publications.
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