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Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-17
HEBBER TSBURG

K. r. Smith filled his regular ap-
pointment at New Home Sunday
ID. E. Smith was in Crab Orchard
Saturday on BUSINESS.
Miss Estella Farmer visited home
folks from Friday until Sunday
MIR. and Mrs. !. r. Handy and chill
dren were guests at Charlie Hamby's
Sunday.
Misses Georgia Wilma Hamby and
Ada Smith were guests of Miss Hettie
Davis Sunday.
/. K. Handy was in Crab Orchard
one day last week.
r. S. Handy has been visiting
friends and relatives near CatoOsa.
L. r.. Farmer was in Grab Orchard
Friday.
Bob Crage, of Pleasant Dale was in
this vacinity Friday on business.
Quite a crowd gathered TO the box
supper Friday night and raised the
neat little sum of S60.25.
School is progressing nicely with
Miss Helen Dixon as teacher.
Sept. 13. Maybe.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-17
CRESTON

Sam Walker and daughter and Mr..
and Mrs. 7. &. Walker, of Plkeville,
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. II. l..
Parsons part of East week.
Miss Nancy Morrow arrived home
a few days ago from Washington u.
G. for a visit with home folks.
Mrs. b. l.. Duncan and son visited
her brother, Chas. Smith, at Crowford
last week.
Mrs A. L. Tabor left Sunday morn
ing for st. Louis for two weeks visit
with her parents.
Mrs. Silas Randolph and children,
of Clinton, are here visiting ner par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Mack Lowe.
Mrs. Jimmie Tanner, who is teach
ing here psent the weekend with home
folks at Pleasant Hill.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-17

they want to 60 or not. "
81 don't think that is nice, said
Ruth.
mot very, replied Uncle Ted. "Now
here is what the railroad men want
our Congress in Washington to do.
They want a law passed that was
written by one of their own men,
man named Glenn E. Plumb, that
would cause a new company to be
formed to run all the railroads in the
United States. 1t is called the Plumb
plan because Mr.. Plumb wrote 1t.
They want the Governmental buy the
railroads and then turn them over to
the railroadmen to run. They say that
half of the money made by running the
roads under this new plan would go IN
to the Treasury at Washington. which
means it would go to the people of the
country, and the other half would go
to the railroad men themselves. JUST
think of that. There are 100000. 600
people in the United States and it such
law were passed one-halt of the pro-
fits from the railroads would have to
be divided among 100,O00,OOO people
while the other half would go to the
railroads men, and there are only
about 5000, 900 of them, even when
you count each railroad man as repres-
enting a family of five people,"
"You mean.', asid Jack, "that the
railroad men would run the railroads
with Government NJ oney and that they
would get half of the money made and
that all the people of the country
whose money would help buy the roads
would have to divide up the other
half?'
That's it exactly 1t. And because
there are one hundred million people IN
the United States and only five million
railroad people you see how unfair the
plan is. Why if such plan were
allow ed to exist each man belonging to
the Railroad BrotherhoCds would get
twenty times more of the net earn
ings than any other citizen besides
getting his share as one of the 100, ,0OO,-
600 citizens. The railroad men might
have some excuse for such pain if
they were paying for the roads but
they demand that the Government buy
them at once and then let each one of
them make twenty times more money
out of them than any other citizen.
And they say that if Congress doesn't
pass this law they wilt stop work and
fix it so the trains can't run at all.
"Do you think our Congress will let
such thing happen?" asked Jack.
NO." answered Uncle Ted. "Mr.
Plumb has been telling many of the
men in Washington about his plan,
but none of them thinks it fair and |
don't believe they will let the law
pass. If such a law were passed it
would start the same kind of things in
this country that are happening IN
Russia where that dreaded monster,
Bolsnevisl, runs the country. The
plan of the Railroad Brothrhoods is
not fair and American, so if | were
you Jack, I'd wait and see if these
men are going to act like patriotic
citizens before deciding to be a rail
road man.
II guess l will wait, answered Jack,
because | don't think these railroad
men should act that way.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-17

W. c. Keyes, Of Crossvllle, was the
guest of Mrs. Mary Linder Sunday.
Misses Gaudie Baisley and Florence
Taylor visited friends at Pomona Road
from Friday until Sunday.
Charles Under spent part Of last
week with his mother, Mrs. Mary
Linder.
Mrs. Mary Pew, of Montana. is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. H. l.. Parsons.
Sept. 6 Violet.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-17
CARD OF THANKS S

Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Dickerson, of
Crab Orchard, desire to thank their
friends and neighpors, for the many
kind deeds and courtesy shown them
during the long illness and death of
their baby, Vivian B, and for their
many beautiful floral tributes.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-17

War Savings Stamps-a loan to
Uncle Sam, who returns your money
at the end Of five years plus four per-
cent interest compounded quarterly.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-09-17

At the Chronicle Office liorary paste
IN and l6 ounce jars, having double
water we'll and brush.
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Tenor Says He Has Al His Ambitions
and Will Not StopUntil He No Longer
Feels Like Work Says Self-Confi-
dence Only Brought Him Success

Then said Maestro Versine, I tell
you, Enrico, why take this money;
It is because IN two, four years you
will sing no more. AS you are using
1t you will shortly lose your voice. You
are the wind which blows past our
windows and Is gone. Adde'S, pow
erello.'
at is because he prophesied thus
that tell you this story. The years
pass and I am singing still Stpl !
am good for two appearances each
week in the long season Of opera; still
| am good to learn a role as long as
| lie Prophete.' in which I debuted in
February OF last year. l have sung
seventy roles. more than seventy, for
sing many OF them in two languages.
French and italian. Six months 1t
took me to learn this orle in lie
Prophete.' where as a young man
should have done II in two. but
learned 1t and still I am good to
learn any role that suits my voice"
These roles We're learned as the
| tenor pursued his now aspiring career
at La Scala, in South America. Monte
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cAeys1 WITH MS MEz on the RECENT SGeA sn7H..

they were disappointed by commiser-
ating me. Poor boy they said, hi
has o sympathetic voice, but 1t Is not
great And 1t proved to be what was
always said as l continued to sing
whenever could get engaged. After
q time I earned by my suppressed
singing and my avoidance Of forte The
soubriQuet Of the Broken Tenor
Another Quasi Debut.
Later I had another quasi debut,
this time as Faust In Boito's 'Mephis-
tophele,' and in this role. because
departed from my maestroS counsel,
earned more success. Vergine was
disguised and predicted for me a long
silence II I persisted against his advice.
However. he took-his 20 per cent. from
my earnings as usual
I'm 1895 the directors OF opera at
Salerno. a small city thirty miles
southeast Of Naples, decided to pro-
6uce 4 Puritani and engaged the great
lombard to conduct the orchestra. AT
the last moment their tenor fell Ill and
they were perplexed. There was, they
said, no tenor to sing the role In Ma
pies and the expense Of bringing one
down from Milan would be enormous
Said lombard. But there Is a tenor
in Naples who can sing the role.
Who IL hep 'Enrico Caruso.'
"The directors laughed and shouted
In derision. The broken tepor!' But
Lombard convinced them that 1t would
not be necessary to hire Caruso and
they might safely try him.
lombard sent for me and never
shall / forget the first question he
put to me: MY boy said he, ARE you
STUPID? replied that 1 did not
think so and he proceeded to dem
onstrate TO me that I was singing in
a stupid manner. You are a mechanic;
then draw me locomotive II you can
I drew n rude picture Of a railway en-.
CINE, with boiler, smokastacls, wheels,
pistohs. &c. He took II In hitT hand
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Carlo. London, New York. 1t Is his
way, he said, to study first the motif
Of the opera; TO endeavor to get into
the confidence OF the composer before
he studies text or music of his own
role. Then comes the music study and
last the words, To the suggestion that
words might he neglected. as some
French dramatic singers theorize
Caruso shook his head. such study
is not conscientious" said he: 1.-THE
words OF my partition are as sacred
as the notes"
And have you a choice OF roles
II so what is your favoritef"
mo" replied the singer. "a role
Is my work y sing 1t as work to be
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on from the contract asked nothing
better. for my heart ached for the poor
maestro, Notwithstanding his stupid
II was In Milan and l asked how Yer
CINE could spare the expense OF travel.
lie is here said the friend. We met
and said, 4 am sorry, Maestro, for
sur long disagreement but the fault
rs not.mine. What can l do to satisfy
you" What will you do?' asked the
lawyer friend. I drew from desk
10000 lire bills. Not enough said
Nergihe, I will take twenty $50 he
II replied 'five more in two years
md Ave in four years 1t was settled
and signed, for they had the agree
Inent all ready.
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| CARUSO,S SKETCH OF
| HIMSELF As HE LOOKED
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO


and said: If you continue to sing like
this you will lose your voice; you must
learn to sing correctly. shall intro
duce you to a gentleman who will take
an interest He did, and II was so,
through a young man who became my
life friend and who followed me TO
New York Che Is dead now. that was
taken to Vergine.
AT once he pronounced my aspira-
tons hopeless The maestro agreed
with my father that should never be
able to sing, but would we wise to keep
on earning my 2 lire Gao cents) a day
as mechanic in my fathers shop in
Napol. There is no voice. cried YER
CINE. and mark with what effort he
sings. The voice should issue without
forte; forte is the bane Of music and
stress is Its decease. No, 1 shall not
teach him.
But my dear friend did not accept
this verdict and urged tho maestro to
hear me again. The second time he
was more hopeful, and 7 became his
pupil after he had carefully bound me
to a contract for five years by which
he was to receive 25 per cent. of all
moneys should get from any source
for singing.
Training Against the Grain.
Then he proceeded to cramp me, to
bind my voice in chains, 10 restrain my
inclination to color a note, to deprive
me Of the power Of emphasis. It was
like this: (Caruso demonstrated the
ms act pn nj nf
! scale as he had been required. It was
more than expressionless. 1t was life
less.) And so for three years studied
against my grain. REFRESHING whatever
nature told me In order to be a Vergine
product.
Game the moment when could
test what I had learned before an au-
dience. was engaged for 10 lire a
night to sing In new opera by AL
berto Franchetti. author Of Asraer
and 'Germania.'
"He was a rich Neapolitan whose
mother used to say, My son is a musi-
cal composer, but not OF necessity
and his first opera, .L'Amico Fran
cesco.' In which l appeared as an old
carpenter with beard. ran one night
II sang my role In tho vergine
method, but despite all drawbacks the
people were kind to me. My voice.
held in as ! had been taught, still pos
sessed, they told me, something of it's
former contralto color, and II was
fresh. yes. virginia.. They did not hiss
me when delivered my high notes
Enthusiastically and without the con-
demned forte. but they showed that
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and asked me what made the wheels
go round. l explained that by firing
the engine steam was generated. life
was given to the rods and the wheels
turned. Said he. placing his hand on
my forehead, This, your mind is fired
In the same way, this the diaphragm,
Is the bellows and sends the air TO
your cords. This, your heart, colors
the air as 1t passes . do its work, do
you see the analogy?' NO. Maestro
replied sorrowfully.
lombard shook his head sadly.
Let us try again said he, and this
time draw me n picture of a correo de
Taurus.' drew bull ring with the
doors for the admission of the bandit
leros and q single door for the en-
trance OF the bull. 'Ah, the bull enters
and lunges toward you. What are you
going to do? Rum NO / said, L
Will put myself III an attitude OF de-
fence, so, With my hand clenched. l
shall attack in turn Good cried
LOMBARD. and in singing it is the
same: you shall put yourself in read-
ness Tor the attack and you shall sing
with all that is in you when the right
moment comes. II means your life
or death as an artist
CarusO Secs the Light.
And then ! understood. l was not
to stand cold and statuesque, singing
pretty notes with no distinction among
them, but was to attack and to de-
fend. A great light shone on me and
never again did sing against nature,
nut always with all the voice / had
when the right moment came and al
ways with the color that my heart
told me should envelop my poets
words. It was an illumination never
afterward to wholly go out. I sang
I Puritani' and with success for SO
young a singer From that night on
l was never again called the broken
tenor
AN engagement in Milan followed
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done as we'll as l. can do It have
no choice"
"In broader sense though, perhsps
you prefer the dramatic 10 the lyric
roles, especially now in the time cf
your maturity" .,.. ..-.
| But Caruso repeated his negative;
a role was a role. and If it suited his
voice he wodld sing II with all that
was in him, still modestly calling II
, work that he tried to do well.
Mature is rich and frequently gives
much; sometimes she gives in such
measure that the public calls IT genius
I call 1t success due TO real work alors
| fine, less work the indifferent singer;
laziness in preparatory work an
| nounces the failure"
"work.''His Advice to sfnsssA
And II were a young man"
, began his persistent listener.
You are" interposed Caruso su1ti-
lnsly, thus winning the listeners hear.
! and you are about TO ask me what
I should advise IL you were a young
singer and sought my counsel
would repeat that one word-work."
"WhereP Here or In Italy?'
What matters the place." Caruso
asked You have intelligence; you
have ears: perhaps you have frineds
who without necessarily being nusi-
clans yet possess the musical ear.
! They will tell you il you sing in your
diaphragm: they will tell you If you
sing in your nose. Your own ear will
tell you II you listen and II you exert
your intelligence you will correct your
| faults"
"Is II possible you doubt the truth
Of a prevailing opinion that in q few
renowned teachers lies the wonderful
secret Of voice plaoing?"
| Caruso answered this pointed query
sententiously and could not he In
duced to add more: II have told you
that had but one voice teacher"
| Roster OF Caruso's Roles.
The roster of the roles Caruso has
sung. covering wide fields of operatio
composition, add weight to what no
says OF personal and intelligent study.
They-te,l more than twenty. Ave wears
of hard work, OF at least a musician
can 1ed in them food for thought art
|
phatically declared that he never as
sumed role that was not suited 10
his voice. Look them over and SEQ
II every ones opinion will agree with
his. Although his judgment should
be best It IL likely to stand alone.
The first list is that of the thirty
eight roles that he has sung In his
htteen successive seasons at the Net
ropolitar. in fourteen of which he sang
Tor the entire season: "RigoIetto," the
opera In which he debuted in New
York in November, 1903, and also the
one In which he sang in London for
the first time In May, 1902 In both
deouts he had the role of the Duke,
CaValleria Rustican." Faust" "Bo-
RENE" Aida, "Africaine." "Favorita. 4"
sonnambular" "Traviata," Tho
Huguenots," Fedora" "Adrienne Le
Couvreur, "Armida," "Paeliacci 4"
Julien" (this ultramodern opera took
the most time for him TO learn 81
any,, Carmen" "L'Amore del tire Re ;.
Samson ana Delilah." Masked Bali -
The Prophet" "I,odeletta," Ia Fora
del DestinU," Martha" "Eusir
d'Amore," "Manon" "Nanon Lescau.. I.
"Madama Butterfly Girl OF the
Golden West" lucia de Lammor-
moor. LA Clcconla," "Mephisto-
|. phele," ''rrovatorc ;" Don Giovanni, Z"
'Gernlania. ''"iris.' "Lucretla Borsia :"
Pearl Fishers" and "Tosca."
The operas OF his earlier Italian
period and OF the South American
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Talks of the Past
and Present and
Draws Pictures of
Both in Connec-
ton With 18th
Anniversary
BY WILLIS STEEL

A RECEIPT for handsome amount
~ Of money in lire, signed by Bea-
I = trice Vergine of Naples. Italy, is
tangible evidence that Enrico Caruso
intended to celebrate individually the
tweuty-flfth anniversary OF his opera
career before II was decided by the
directors OF tho Metropolitan Opera
House to give, on the night Of March
, 30 by by q special performance there,
an official eclat to the event.
The tenors generosity to the widow
q his first and only singing teacher
may be taken as a delicate but sub
startial proof of his continuing graft
. tude or as an act Of dilatory getting
even" and. either way it may be taken,
: involved in the gift are SO many
. "reminiscences OF the tenor's early days
that 1t deserves to be the thread on
, which to hang them.
Many stories Of these early days have
hurried into print and two Of them
have obtained general credence. In
/; fortunately these two contradict one
. another and both might be thought
legendary for this reason. Uncertainty
q. also arises from the fact that Caruso
/. ordinarily does not lend himself grace
fuIlv tn an interview. ne dislikes the
ordeal. ms he calls Il hecausa too often
the result has nut him in the wrong.
Csruso Talks OF the Past.
But when a man. even an artist, has
arrived at the dignified age OF 46 years
he wisely takes thought OF his obituary
. notice In so far at least as to eliminate
! the silly stories that accrete to a per-
: sonality, and Caruso. great artist
though he be. is not different in this
, from common men. He entered that
: obscure corridor. the past. the other
. day with eaeerness and what appeared
, to be ENJOYMENT. It was no longer a
. drawing out of reluctant admissions
hut a free and full flow of memory. Z
.Three years four years were needed
W Oo"'pieo ne 'ia' nav BUN 'hihs
: me from amateur to professional in a
F, day." said the great tenor. "I began
: IN change nv life. TO care for NV
habits. to stay IN nights. to cultivate
NV mind az we'll as INV voice was
= never a had bov-my poor mother
often said r was the best OF her chill
dren-but these three wears from IS
IN ~ made me consciously live the
artists life. And what was II con-
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and my salary was 1000 lire per
month, out of which / honorably paid
500 lire to Nergine each month. But
began to notice that my fellow singers
wore better clothes than l did, wore
silk chdusscc and in a word lived more
luxuriously. How could not l, young
as was emulate them in ;hea ex-
travagances?
There came one month when l de-
faulted 90 lire to my maestro. but /
wrote him that would send this with
the succeeding payment. lie wrote
back, OH such bad words! They made
me sick and he began a process
against me to gain his 90 lire. II was
not that I was a dishonest boy. I
sprung from father, poor II is true,
but an upright ouvrier. ! went about
with long face; ! suffered
''Then said the proprietor of my
boarding house, who was himself a
musician. 'Enrico, what hurts your
| and to him confided the whole story.
'Aha!' cried he. you are but % now
and you were but IS when you signed
this foolish contract; 1t is not valid
80 I did not pay and the case was
brought to trial In Napoli, where the
Judge was about to give a decision in
my favor, but that Verglne's counsel
produced a postal card signed by me
to my maestro. He had written long
before but when had already reached
my majority to ask If had forgotten
my contract. NO, maestro ] had re-
piled on the unlucky postcard. There
fore the claim was allowed.
He settles with Vergfne.
"But we appealed and for three years
the case dragged on. For mo It mat
tered no more than flea bite. +.
thank God, kept going up and up, but
for Vergine it was terrible; the ex-
penses Of the lawyer and litigation
drew too heavily on his poor resources.
AT last mutual friend came 10 me
to propose that should buy myself
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contianed on EiohtA Pas.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-30
RICHMOND TIMEsD1sPATCH SUNDAY NOVEMBER 30. 1918

Hanger. NEPHEW OF the groom. OF Am
hcrst: Hampton Brown, Of Washing
ton, u. G.. and Andrew Pcrrow. OF
The bride is the daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. W. i. Dafran, Of Morrisvillc. She
is a graduate OF the Frederick sburc
( 'hrce years has been one OF the faculty
of the Remington High school
The groom who is n native OF Au-
Gusta COUNTY, but more recently, OF
years the principal or tho Remington
High School.
:, Among the out -of:town guests were
NJ NJ; and Mrs; G.; w; ". Hanger. OF
hcrst: Mr. and AIRS. w. s ChcsIcy and
Mrs. Francis Rove. of FrcdcricksburG
Miss Louise Harry. OF Hatcsville: Miss
Roberta Walker. OF Eatna: Miss Mar
garct Rodgers and Miss Moore. Of
WashinGton. ID. G.; Mr.: aud Mrs. j. A.
of Morrisville; Mr.. and Mrs. II. T. Cox
of Midland.
Saturday Wedding.
Gg,s'; eui nrG,y woddnf Was Vas
home OF the bride. when Miss Ruby
Evelyn. daughter of MIR. and Mrs. DIV
er Nelson Rockingham, was united III
marriage to Frederick Coleman Hays
The ceremony. which was witnessed
by only the intimate friends and inn
mediate families was performed by the
Monument NJ T.. Church.
The parlor was decorated with can
dies. which threw :. SOFT Zig ut on an
improviscd altar of palms, ferns and
pink chrysanthemums.
The bride wore smart suit OF
brown Pcachbloom. with seal trim
mmgs. and a close citing. hat OF gold
brocadc with touches Of seal. Her
corsagc was OF orchids;
Professor Reginald Walker played
the bridal marches from LohenErin and
Mcndclssohn. and The Hour that Gave
Nc You" during the ceremony.
tended southern trip. which Will in
cludc South Carolina, Georgia. Florida.
Alabama and Louisiana. After Janu-
airy ! they Will be at home at 200?
stuart Avenue.
Linen Shower.
Among the smart affairs Of tho past
week. was. the linen shower, given, At
charles Tiliycr. for Miss Ruhy Evelyn
Nottingham. whose marriage to Fred
."rick Coleman Hays. Of 81. Louis. Mo-.
took place saturday. The color scheme
ried out in the refreshments.
An attractive feature was the air.
plane. from which the bride elect was
Showercd.
prominent Virginia families, and her
marriage is Of interest throughout the
state,
hurried in Richmond.
Mrs. lIydcnia Rosa DcnZier. daughter
nc Mrs. y. Il. Cosby. OF Louisa County.
was married to Il. r Woodson. Of 2214
Jefferson street. Richmond. Wednesday
night. at tho homo Of Rev. II. i. Will
liams. of Third Presbyterian Church.
Engagement Announced.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Il. Kccscc, OF
Mar;insville. announced tn" engage
mcnt OF their niece Miss Nancy Lee