The Minneapolis journal. [volume], January 28, 1906, Part I, News Section, Page 12, Image 12

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Special Correspondence of The Journal.
Paris, Jan. 14.When the quadrille
ceases in an apocalyptic crash of that
gigantic orchestra when fr.om every
side come shrieks and squeals, and
bursts of laughter rise above the deep
!hum of the mighty multitude, the tour
,ist can say he has seen and heard a
memorable specialty of Paris.
It is the orchestra of the masked balls
of the Paris opera. The balls them
selves date from the year 1715, in the
luxurious epoch of the regency but the
orchestra, as a special cause of wonder,
owes its composition to the famous
Musard, called the king of the quad
rille rin the time of Louis Philippe.
Musard put twenty-four violins on
each side of him, making forty-eight
and on each side they were sustained
by ten altos and ten double-basses. The
brass instruments weTe rgpTesented by
fourteen cornets,/ twelve trombones,
twelve French horns, eight trumpets,
ten big basses and ten alto-horns, with
which he obtained effects of sonority
undreamed of at the time and probably
not heard, even today, outside of these
masked balls. The necessary reed in-
UNITED COMMERCIA
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Note/*qj?
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We Road-
TOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDEE." agitation along this
reached the northwest.
The grand executive committee for
the- northwestern jurisdiction of the
TJ. C. T. has laid the foundation for
legislation to secure reasonable protec
tion of hotel guests from fire in the way
of fire escapes, and safe-guards. It de
velops that the present law in this
state is practically in'operative, and
that the state hotel inspector receives
such ridiculous pecuniary remuneration
that his. services are practically volun
tary. A bill will be prepared which
w remedy these defects and similar
steps are to be taken in North and
South Dakota. In the meantime com
mercial travelers can accomplish much
individually by moral suasion. They
can? refuse to pationize hotels that
jeopardize the lives of their guests, and
-they can influence city councils to pass
ordinances for fire protection,
4* 4*
The Minneapolis city council has ap
pointed a committee that is making an
inspection of hotels in a leisurely sort
of way. -The inquest on the West hotel
fire'is also making desultory progress.
It might be conjectured that such a
catastrophe might lead to a little more
activity on the part of authorities.
City .officials as a rule, however, do not
liWa hotels, and unless commercial
travelers and'others interest themselves,
the present "negligence and neglect of
hotel proprietors can be expected to
continue.
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Another hotel horror illustrates the
dangers that should be guarded against,
even in the smaller hotels. The Rich
ardson hotel at Lowell, Mass., a four
gtcngr structure, was burned yesterday
inotffting, three lives were lost and five
pe^lns injured. There were only forty
guests in the house, tn still the fact,
thaX there was not greater loss of life
was,due to the energy of somevmen-who
rushed to the rescue of guests* and not
bera&se the hoteT Management had pro-
viM
escapes,^
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^Tlfe state senate of the Ohio legisla
ture has passed the bill introduced for
a -flat ,2'cent mileage rate. This fur
nishes a "little" encouragement for the
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GENERAL VIEW OF THE AUDITORIUM OF THE OPERA.
"When the Quadrille Ceases In a Crash."
struments, kettledrums, bassdrums and
the rest, brought up his orchestra to
nearly two hundred pieces and Musard
had the ingenuity to heighten their cli
maxes by all sorts of eccentricities, such
as letting fifteen chairs fall from the
flies and break with a terrific crash
and bringing on the final galop by the
firing of a cannon!
Wonderful Effects.
Musard's orchestra continues, tho
Musard exists no more and they have
even found ways to increase its diaboli
cal effects. The Grand opera's.thunder
making machineunique of its kind,
got up at great expense for a Wagnerian
production-*-works at the right moment
when the great auditorium darkens
amid lightning flashes. It is an excru
ciating moment when the giant "basses
growl in the dark then chirps and trills
and strains of melody as sweet as syrup
usher in the dawn of light and love
that terminates in the terrific galop.
It is something to see and hear. Only
the Parisians, grown blase by posses
sion of a thing so rare, could let their
opera balls go down and languish, as'
line that has
4* 4* 4*
TJ. C. T. memorial day occurs April
8, and the new manual for the observ
ance of the day will soon be distrib
uted to subordinate councils so that the
service this year should be practically
uniform thruout the country.
4* 4* 4*
It is reported thru the bureau of in
formation that the social session fea
ture is being widely developed, and
from all sections come enthusiastic re
ports of successful meetings and good
times in which the families of members
participate.
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The grand executive committee has
filled vacancies occasioned by the re
moval of Grand Conductor J,. A. Mac
pherson of Grand "Forks, by advancing
C. A. Vandever Of Minneapolis from
grand page to conductor C. W. Sutton
of Duluth from sentinel to page, and
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i THE LATE A. B. HUSBANDS.
He Was a Prominent Member of the
V. 0. X.
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they did five years ago, until the munici
pality actually withdrew its time-hon
ored subvention, and then it was sol
emnly announced to the world that -the
masked -balls of the Paris Opera were
over.
That was enough for the Parisianst
Like a man whose wife goes to her
mother, they longed for the dear de
parted so that when this present win
ter Monsieur Gailhard, the director of
the opera, organized, without subven
tion, one such ball to learn how the
Parisian wind was blowing, its success
was beyond all expectations.
Where else will you see such a spe
cial attraction as the grand entrance of
the ladies of the corps de ballet of the
Paris Opera?
vThe ballet of ^the Paris Opera 3s still
an institution* o Which one should speak
with reverence. There are two others,
one at Milan anyone at Vienna. They
are three homes of the dance as a great
ait. They recruit little girls at 7
years of age. And so the ladies of the
corps de ballet grow up in the artistic
atmosphere of the grand opera.
It is midnight. In a sudden lull the
making F. J. C. Cox of Winnipeg grand
sentinel, his place on the grand com
mittee to be taken by James E. Ells of
Minneapolis.
A. B. HUSBANDS' DEATH
He Was a TJ. C. T. Veteran Wno Will
Be Affectionately Remembered.
The funeral of A. B. Husbands, who
died Friday after a year's illness, takes
place tomorrow afternoon from the res
idence, 3144 Pleasant avenue, and mem
bers of the TJ. C. T. are invited to at
tend.
Mr. Husbands had lived in Minneapo
lis for twenty-five years, being engaged
in the yeast business for twenty years
of that period. He was an active mem
ber of the TJ. C. T. and served as treas
urer of Minnehaha council for several
years. He was also prominent in the
City Salesmen's association. Mr. Hus
bands possessed a personality that won
him many friends. He was a striking
ly handsome man, and had a charm of
manner that was unusual. The sincer
ity of the friendships he formed is
evinced by the genuine regret with
which the news of his death has been
received. He was 58 years old
and leaves a wife and two sons.-
-ON THE ROAD.
"No. 63" contributes this: The
merchant, who had ignored the commer
cial traveler's presence while he looked
over a bunch of circulars as if it were
important mail, looked up with a scowl
calculated to inspire fear and growled
out, "Well, what can I do for you?"
The salesman in reply presented his
card and asked, Anything in my
line?"
The merchatn deliberately tore the
arcl to bits and threw it on the floor.
eiExcuse me," said the salesman,
"but those cards cost money."
The merchant took a nickel from his
pocket and shoved it toward thevisi
tor!
The salesman looked at the nickel,
then handed another card to the mer
chatn with the remark, We are selling
I them two for a nickel today.'' He got
an order.
A traveling man who made a small
country town regularly for some time i
was in the habit of seating himself at
a table presided over by a waitress
who understood his whims. This time
his wife was with jiim on his trip and
they were being waited upon by an
other girl. Everything went smoothly
until he missed the honey and biscuits
he was in the/habit of. always ordering.
"Where's my honey?" he asked the
girl, savagely.
'She don't work here no more," was i
the unexpected reply.
He is still trying to explain to his
wif.e T4 H. G. W.
TJ. G. T. Personal-Mention.^.
There was a good turn out at the
monthly meeting last nigtft of Minne-'
haha council, which included quite a
good representation of members of No.
3 council, who returned the compliment
of No. 141's turnout at No. 63 's an
nual love feast.
E. B. Berman,of No. 63, with Clem
ent Dranger & Co. of Sti Paul, is hust-
multitude stands struck" to silence,
counting the strokes of the deep cathe
dral bell behind the scenes, put in thirty
years ago for a revival of Eobert the
Devil," and still unsurpassed for shiv
ery sonority, as #t strikes the hour
when churchyaxds^yawn.
Nine! Ten!
The multitude has stepped back, leav
ing a great central promenade.
Eleven, twelve!
The orchestra bursts into a great'
melody, the instruments in unison
linked sweetness, long drawn out.
Who are those Queens advancing?
There is severity jn their smileyet
their eyes are gracious. They balance
themselves on thefrjhips, with dignity.
They are jajl there^Mie stars, the^ starry
firmamenff^Kt^sfiillf the stard^stf^^
der as ten ,v)|k?a"of
and white%au$eLSa$ ,r
two, with gre&, wide-open, solemn eyes.
It is a sight to see, the whole force of
the opera/" ballet, ift an Amazonian
march which has the gravity anct rever
ence of a religious'j^te.
It has been said that no one dances
the nebulae,
ist is as ten-
^p.'in white tights
fcppwalking two by
ling round in South Dakota this week.
George A. Belding, who four months'
ago opened a Minneapolis branch of the
Canton Steel Roof company, has gone
on a week's .visit to the factory.
C. A. Lambert, "The Count" of No.
50, with the -Stockman Food" company of
St. Paul, is selling many a barrel of
"Snow Flake" to the trade in South
Dakota.
F. C. Campbell of'No. 63, with the
Bergstrom Store company of Neenah,
Wis., called on the western Minnesota
and South Dakota trade, was regis
tered at the Arcade, Watertown, S. D.,
this week.
G. L. Wertman, "Gentleman George,"
member of No. 6Sn'^representing the
Grandin-Wertman Iifllement company,
was in Brookings^ D., Thursday,
making a great hustlk'to get home for
Saturday. v
Harry- N. Christian, for many years
with N. K. Fairbanks Soap company,
has recently acceptefl a position with
M. J. Brandenstein, Co., coffee and
teas, San Francisco^Cal.
J. W. McClatchie/, with the speed
usually characteristie^of his movements,
started for a few days' business trip
to Nome, N. D., Friday evening. Broth
er McClatchie is certainly a hustler,''
and this fact, together with his upright
dealings, have their reward, for he re
cently became a member of the well
known grain firm, E. L. Welch & Co.
A. L. Heisserer of No. 63, with Eddy
& Eddy, St. Louis, altho a young man
in years, has already proven himself
a hustler for orders. He is circulating
around thro South Dakota this week,
and incidentally took in the general
merchants' convention at Mitchell.
0. J- Straw, better known as "Joe,"
has had headquarters in Sioux Falls
at the opera balls. The same thing
was alleged in the year 1725, when the
multitude was accused of crowding,
mixing and pushing. Yet there is a
dancing section.
This dancing section is another unique
curiosity of the masked balls. A hun
dred and eighty years ago, when they
found that the paying public would not
dance with regularity, but after a turn
now and then preferred to romp and
seek adventures, this extraordinary sec
tion of the balls came into being. To
day, there are artisans and sewing girls
of the He Saint Louis and the Fau
bourg St. Antoine, whose parents,
grandparents and great-grandparents,
back five or six generations, scarcely
ever missed a masked ballon the free
list!
They are families who 'jhave been
deadheads thruout two centuriefc. The
qualification is a kind of hereditary
liveliness and genius for the wearing of
a costume. In particular the dancing
of the great quadrille comes to these
as by nature. In Paris it is known there
are a thousand such of each sexin
deed, the direction of the opera has
their names upon its lists, and it could
for seVeral years, representing an east*
ern paper company. He looks as young
as he did years ago in Minneapolis, ex
cept that he parts his hair further
back than of yore.
Hayward Marshall, representing the
Minneapolis Iron IStore company, is at
home" in Sioux Falls. He has taken
to himself a helpmeet, and his domesti"
city is above reproach.
J. B. Veitch, the manager of the Ra
cine Sattly company at Sioux Falls,
cast the smile of his genial countenance
on the trade and his many friends this
week at Mitchell and other South Da
kota points.
Council No. 63 is in receipt of a New
Year's greeting from Mr. and Mrs. R.
I. Herriek, Riga, Russia, which, altho
several weeks on the road, was still
warm on arrival.
The funeral of the veteran TJ. C. T.
Brother L. A. Perkins, occ^red at
Sioux Falls, S. D., Saturday, Jan. 20.
Council No. 100 of that city attended
in a body, and marching in open order,
led the procession to the cemetery.
Brother Perkins died on Jan. 17 from
pneumonia, after a short illness. He
was a father in Israel and was beloved
by all who knew him.
R. H. Turner, one of No. 141's new
.members is skating in fast company
but is doing it on the ice.
J. W. Daugherty, Past C. of No. 291,
who was seriously injured in the wreck
at Burnes, S. D., is rapidly recovering.
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go back to the lists of fifty years ago
and find the same names, and then fifty
years more back and find them still.
They have in body and brain the
masked ball genius.
They live apart, and yet they know
each other by a subtle sympathy when
they meet half a dozen times a year in
the effulgence and the luxury of the
opera. Thruout the year they are
skilled workmen, artisans, flower
makers, sewing girls, pursuing a dull
round, yet when the winter has ad
vanced to January they are ready, their
feet tap at any dance strain.
The Free List.
One by one they come to the direc
tion. Regularly their errand is known
and their faces. Oftentimes an ol1e
person brings a younger to be put upon
the list.
."Your costume?" the direction asks,
for simple dominoes, monks, nuns,
Pierrots and the like are tabooed on the
free list.
"Garde-Royale, Louis XV."
"Good." "Crasette of 1868!"
"Good!" Billy Weed is on the road and it's a
safe bet that when he got the news of
the narrow escape ^Friday night of the
Elks' hall from destruction by fire he
exclaimed, "Oh, Marguerite."
B. C. Bueson, formerly of 63, is now
the senior councillor of Watertown,
S. D.j Council 291, is living at Water
town and represents the Northwestern
Thresher company of Stillwater.
J. R. Pollock and A. W. Kunzman,
with the Grimsrud Shoe, company "be-
long. They joined No: 141 last night.
H. T. Bearman of No. 63, with the
Bearman Fruit company of Minneapo
lis, was in Watertown, S. D., this week,
at the Kampeska hotel nursing an ab
ces in his ear.
J. C. McCune is about again with a
new line of advertising specialtiesa
sure sign of spring.
R. E. Samson of No. 50, representing
the West Publishing company of St.
Paul, is hustling western Minnesota
and South Dakota trade this week.
It transpires that Plymouth church
had been previously engaged by a con
cert company for Friday evening, Feb.
2, which necessitates postponing the
Welfar illustrated lecture of the Na
tional Cash Register for members of
the TJ. C. Tv their families and their
friends to the following Monday even
ing.
H. E. Dahl, "the genial," formerly
of No. 63, now of Watertown, S. D.,
council, is firmly intrenched in Water-
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"Clodocnel" "Good!" So the tiekets are made out. The
management is tranquil. It knows its
true adepts by their cut and mode of
speech. They will be all there on the
dance floor prompt at 10 p.m. to start
the dancing, brisk and experienced,
while the paying public straggles in and
gets at once a good impression.
The men of the paying public come in
dress suits, bring ladies in ball gowns
and little half-masks of black satin or
velvet. It goes in for all kinds of ad
ventures and a saucy style of conversa
tion.
"Take your false face off, monsieur,
that I may see you.'' (When the mon
sieur has his own face simply.)
"Pour me a glass, Sarah, dear."
"You mistake the name, marquis it
was Rebecca who watered the camels.''*
1'I came as I am."
i'So I Bee where is Saint Anthony V"
(St. Anthony is always represented
with his pig.) Sterling Heilig.
The volunteer force at Shanghai, which assist
ed in Quelling the recent antiforeigE riots, con
sists of about 1,000 well drilled, well-equipped
men- Most of them are British.
town in the agricultural line- and has
quit the road.
A. E. Doyle is another No. 63 boy
who has transferred his allegiance to
Watertown council and now smiles thru
a plate glass window at the merry travT
eling man. He has charge of the Crane
& Ordway house at Watertown, S. J).
MEN'S CLUB MEETS
The Men's club of Trinity Baptist
ehurch held its first regular meeting
Friday night, over fifty being present.
Dr. L. A. Crandall stated, in brief, the
purpose of the organization, "to do all
the good we can in all the ways we
can." The club will use its influence
in humane affairs, matters of public
charity, civic improvement, endeavor
ing to inform its members in these mat
ters that intelligent and united action
may result. Religious interests will be
a leading feature of the club's work.
After lunch, served by ladies of the
church, Dr. Crandall read, by request,
an elaborate and interesting paper on
the "Witehes of New England.*'" An
opportunity was given for the enroll
ment of new members and many names
were added to the list.
Billy Newton's Cartoon Advance Cards.
Send 25 cents, money or stamps, for
25 cards, all different subjects. Suitable
for the use of any commercial traveler.
In quantities of 100, $1 500, $3.50
1,000, $6. Address Billy Newton, Red
Wing, Minn.
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