The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-02-10
Random Observations.
SchHmann.l lIelnk-- k--Sp"kane's Silver
Fog Chamber sof Commerce
DInner-Prolix Speakers-United
Efforts Show Results.
BY Frank M. 1jallam. sr

l
The other evening We had the salts
faction, the rare pleasure, of sitting
ava, Mauame Scnuaiiann~iIeinn. IN,
reason We were IN JuAiapus.i,cn u tne
.o.. VI Ile I.uy wan a.; si.sc: ,oi.,
VAS LIlat Al securing t.c..et, ai,iiou1i
.pptyins eari! aiter ,.ie aInJun.r
.icLt VI ler in.enueu cD'r;:r., IL Mar
AAscu'ereu Lna. every sea, IN me
| IOuSe u;iu been reserved .Accp- ..di;
i :. dozen IN d Ioye Inlliie.i.t.s,y nI.aeI
lie s.suee, rom whence ol. ml,4l an
I..,eraee reit.n couiu sII;i.t III, ,iluS VITA
Lie pcrIOrlnor II mat irae3uy sdiItt.
.,Un we're perMlsslDie. 1ne concert
sas sIven Al tne iarees, s,lo" no"se
.ion vi "a nackneyed phrase 10 say lax. |
I ne large auditorium wAs iili.L IRON,
pit to uOme. Not oniy WIS every avail
.tD1e seat occupied, Dut sonieLniag !lhe
,wO nun0reu people were niasse.. Up
on the sage wnlie "a fringe Oh 10y ia
/
stress occupied the standing room,
only" space, manifesting tnat this
wizard OF vOcalization has lost none
Of her popularity with accumulated
years. Neirner has age stalled the
IiexiDility or that marvellous voice,
ior those who have heard her in the
neyday OF her glorious career upon
the stage declare that the melody OF
ler tones have not been affected by
the flight Of time. If in her PALMER
| days that voice possessed more
| cnarming appeal to the tylnpanum,
SITE sound conveys an ecstacy OF de-
4lsht 10 the human soul, tnen indeeo
40 we envy those VINO had the priv
iiege OF experiencing that enJOymen.
not being an authority on the science
Of harmOnical sounds either through
fence through opportunity to hear and
compare voices, We are not in posi-
ZION to give an expert view OF the
concert, and oHr taste. III .ae,ody may
be somewhat plebian. but one would
vote himself a dub OF the nth degree
if he were not enthralled by the mag
ic of the voice of this mistress of the
art Of song.
AS we sat under the refulgent lights
gazing over the sea of eXpectant
faces, before our gaze and attention
was centered upon the stage, We could
not refrain from comparing the
guiding and the size OF tue audience
Win conditions OF the same block
and the number OF people habitlng
SPOKANE kalls some Az years ago. Al
most as many people faced the per-
former as the total population OF the
embryo city OF the olden days, and
where stands the vast brick block, OF
which the Auditorium is a part. stood
the small two room caliDOOse that
acid a number of criminals charged
with the high crime Of murder dur
ing its brief existence for at that time
life was held rather cheaply, for there
was an element here that did not
think they were in full attire without
gun within easy reach scattered
somewhere about their person. To us
the comparison emphasized the fact
that time, and very short time at
that, has worked great wonders on
the site now covered with a large city
which is destined to be more than
double its present size by the time an
other forty years rolls around.
For long years sunny Spokane has
been a theme of song and story. 1t has
been the boast of boomers, it has glib
ly rolled off the tongues of loyal cit
izens, it has filled the role of head
zines in the press. The refrain has
Deen worked in season and out of
season until a stranger to climatic
conditions in this immediate vicin
| ity would suppose that Spokanites
had gone Saul a few better and made
the sun stand still immediately over
the city. Those who have known SpO-
kane for a number of years can read
| ly understand the pertinence of this
claim of sunny Spokane, but the
stranger who has sOjourned within its
SiLttS uuTIuS Tie Liohtu VI JdhuoAy
would rather be inclined to feel that
the slogan is hardly applicable in the
face of what the clerk Of the weather
has been dealing out Of climatic ma
ture with disgusting regularity. II the
sun makes its daily rounds there has
been little evidence of that promenade
in this locality since the new year
came into existence. True, uncongen-
ial rays have occasionally pierced the
dark banks of fog for very limited
periods of time, but there was little
cheer in the periodical exposures, and
nothing in the way of brightness that
: could be designated as sunny" by
the most vivid imagination. Every day
during January, the city has been
enveloped in dense, murky fog. The
exhaltation from the river that BIZ
sects the city provided the fog. and
the murkiness is provided by the
clouds of coal smoke that are vomited
! from heating plants. industrial plants
/ and private homes. This combination
Of smoke and fog creates grimy
darkness through which even electric
lights look hazy, and artificial lights
are needed even in the middle of the
day In most of the buildings. It may
be added in passing that this farrago
Of smut and uist has disagreeable