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MININGf|§pJ<OURNAL.
,T. HENSON ODER, Editor.
FROSTBURG, MD. AUGUST 10,1912
A PRESENT DUTY.
Two boys came near losing- their
lives on Broadway on a recent
“crowded day.”
They were somewhat blameable,
but the chauffeur more so, his speed
certainly exceeding “ten miles an
hour,” the limit stated by the only
town regulation in the Code.
The incident arouses the inquiry—
should there not be an Ordinance—
not only supplementing the “10-mile
an-hour limit,” but providing the
police with a method of determining
the limit?
Should it not also make compulsory
the duty of automobilists to sound
their horns when people or an in
dividual man, woman or child, is in
the way? And when, also, they are
about rounding the sharp street-cor
ners?
Should it not also compel auto
mobilists to equip their machines with
lights, fore and aft, especially fore?
There are vital reasons for the en
actment of an Ordinance like this.
With the only regulation in force, a
policeman cannot advisedly arrest a
runner for exceeding the speed limit,
because he cannot make oath to some
thing he does not know. The chauf
feur, on the inside, has his speed
ometer, but what has the policeman, on
the outside?
The policeman may be able to note
that a chauffeur has not sounded his
approach to a corner, but without an
Ordinance requiring this precaution,
what authority has a policeman to
make arrest for neglect?
And so concerning the lights which
should be carried at night for the peo
ple’s protection.
It is probable that the State has
done more for the people in these re
spects than the towns, but town of
ficers are not authorized to execute
State police powers. This duty is in
vested in the sheriff and constables,
who, on the other hand, do not feel
authorized to usurp municipal powers.
The thing for the Mayor and Coun
cil to do, therefore, is to formulate and
adopt an Ordinance, re-stating the
speed limit and providing a method
of determining it; requiring horns and
lights as advance signals, and what
ever else is indispensable to the com
pletest safety of the people.
For it is in the interest of the peo
ple that the Journai, pleads —not at
all in behalf of the police or any other
segregation.
In view of the fact that the town of
Frostburg is soon to have at least
eight days and nights of street festival
and crowds—home people, home
comers and strangers, and that, more
than ever, the automobile will Hit
here and there, this Ordinance should
be written and adopted at once!
There will be provision of extra
policemen to maintain order in other
directions, and the standing body at
least should be empowered to compel
automobiles to behave.
Seems Strange.
Fact was recalled last Monday that
the convention in Chicago, billed for
assembly at 12, noon, didn’t meet un
til it was 1 p. m. here.
But that sort of thing goes on until,
away out in lhe Pacific ocean, a
change comes which puts this coun
try apparently a day ahead of all the
rest of the world.
When the Fmperor of Japan, there
fore, died one day last week, it trans
pired that the event was published in
the United States the day before it
occurred!
Married.
At Grace M. F. Church parsonage
Saturday afternoon, August 3, 1912,
by Rev. Fred. F- Allison, Miss Dollie
Spiker, of Grantsville, Md., to Mr.
John Crowe, of Avilton, Md.
Sudden Death.
The family and friends of Miss Mar
garet V. Clarke, 21-year old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Clark, of
this place, were suddenly stricken
Monday morning with the intelli
gence that the } r oung lady was mor
tally ill in Mercy Hospital, Baltimore.
The telegram also urged that Miss
Clark’s mother come at once.
Miss Clark was a student-nurse, ex
pecting to graduate next spring-, and
was very popular with all associated
with her.
She was stricken Monday with acute
Bright’s disease and, despite all that
the foremost physicians and nurses
could do, she passed away within 20
hours.
Mrs. Clark —mother, and Miss Agnes
• —sister, left here quickly as prac
ticable, reaching Baltimore about 6
o’clock, nearly three hours after Miss
Margaret’s death.
The bodj' reached here at 8 o’clock
Tuesday morning; funeral yesterday
(Friday) afternoon at 2 o’clock from
Presbyterian Church, Rev. J. N. Beall,
pastor, officiating.
Other members of the family be
reaved are Mrs. Russell Hamilton and
Miss Nellie Clark—sisters, and two
brothers —Messrs. James and John, all
of this place.
A Home-Cotniug Souvenir Worth
Having.
The book compiled and published by
the Mining Journal Publishing Com
pany, entitled “Historical and Bio
graphical Sketch of Frostburg, Main
land, and It’s Citizens—Old and New,”
and “Dedicated to Home-Comers and
Their Relatives and Friends,” is in
the hands of the printers and will be
completed within a week or ten days.
It will be profusely and handsomely
illustrated throughout with engravings
of Frostburg’s churches, public build
ings, street scenes, other features of
interest, views in and about the mines,
and portraits of over 100 business and
professional men and women, accom
panied by brief biographical sketches
of their lives, and will contain also a
Director} 1 of All Invited Home-Comers.
The book will treat of Frostburg-’s
history during the last hundred years ;
its growth, present conditions, pros
pects and future possibilities.
The price will be 25 cents—very low
for a souvenir so elegantly commem
orating the Home-Coming.
Fine Art of Giving.
“If one waits to find perfection In
his friend he will probably wait long,
and live and die unfriended at last.
The fine art of living, indeed, is to
draw from each person his best.”—
Lilian Whiting.
The Paper Wedding.
The “paper wedding” marks the
completion of the second year of
married life, and is sometimes the
first one celebrated, since the cotton
anniversary seems to offer very few
possibilities in the way of unique en
tertainment. For the paper wedding
we can decorate our rooms and table
with some of the beautiful paper
flowers that are now being modeled
most exquisitely after the natural
flowers. —Harper’s Bazar.
SUITED TO A TEE.
■ Wuv v. S-. •'
Fox (to bear) —Come over tomor
row and we’ll play a game of golf on
the links.
Bear —All right. I don’t know what
the game is, but if there’s any job
you can put up on the lynx I'm in
with you.
i
Acknowledgments.
A postal-card reproduction of the
“Organ and Chimes, Caverns of
Luray, Va.,” was received this week
i from Floyd L. Shaffer, a member of
the “Oueen City Auto Club,” now en
joying its annual outing. The picture
represents Floyd as striking a key of
' the organ (9th from the right,) while
-a chum is off testing the stone of the
Caverns to determine whether it is
! lime, sand, brown or blonde. Floyd
is a good fellow—one who never for
■ gets his friends, and the Journai.
- doubts not that at least one other resi-
I dent of Frostburg also received a
card.
Prof. F. F. Fammert was in Rome,
Italy, about two weeks ago, a card
from him, mailed in that city, stating
- that he had “driven about 5 miles over
. the old ‘Appian Way,’ built 2,224
years ago, is still in excellent condi
tion.” The card pictures the section
of the road where it passes the “Tomb
: of Cecilia Metella, ” a massive
- structure.
Later —Another card, dated July
, 29th, arrived yesterday from Florence,
Italy, stating—“l am in the ‘sunny’
t Italialand—the most interesting of any
l I have visited.”
C. B. Ryan, of New York, went to
■ Atlantic City last Sunday and “the
t crowd that met him” was an overflow.
I At least, that is what a card pictured.
He commends the resort as “a nice
place—but then, there’s Frostburg —
l so, what’s the use?”
“Best regards from Broadway to the
t Mining Journai, staff,” writes Joe
I Bindauer from the grand replica of the
Fouis XVI Salon, New York city.
Brevities.
Twelve automobilists were arrested
in Schellsburg, Pa., last Saturday for
over-speeding and 10 paid a fine of sl6
each. Two will fight the case in
court, when, no doubt, the question of
’ “what is over-speed?” will be debated.
A lady on Orman street, unable to
■ get painters, undertook the job her
self and a contractor who knows the
- business says “it is a good job.”
1 A Fine Time.
The graduating class of the State
Normal, 1911, held a re-union in Alle
gany Grove Tuesday. All present of
the 13 except 2, who were too far
: away. “A splendid time” was the
, unanimous report.
Another Hike.
Messrs. Moses Sapiro and Karl
Spitznas, young athletes, left town
Tuesday morning afoot for Wheeling,
. W. Va., 120 miles. They expect to
. reach their destination this (Saturday)
: evening and take a Sunday train
\ home.
Scholastic.
Miss Emma Goehringer, a graduate
> of the Frostburg State Normal School,
was appointed an assistant of the
- Friendsville High School, Garrett
I county.
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Not Coming.
Nick Boyns, a former resident, now
. living in Kansas City, Kansas, asked —
I “Are You Coming Home?” humorous
ly replied—“ The Walking is Awful
. Bad.” Without meaning it, Nick fur
. nished another unanswerable argu
; ment for a nation-built trans-conti
. nental Appian Way.
Reminiscence.
Fifty years ago the battle of Cedar
Mountain, in Virginia, was fought.
First collision between Stonewall
Jackson and Gen. John Pope, the lat
ter’s first defeat. It was a fierce fight.
’ Corrections.
The report published in the Jour
nai, last week that “eight chickens
had been stolen from Gus. Wm. Zel
ler” was untrue. The Journai, is
glad to make the correction.
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Returned Home.
Charles Zinkan and family, residents
of Harrisonburg, Va., about a year,
have returned to resume residence in
Frostburg. *
The Sick.
Wesley Foar, sr., is reported ill at
1 Maplehurst, his son—Wesley’s farm,
; south-east of town.
Mrs. Joseph G. Dennison, an aged
I lady, is ill.
' j Mrs. Olin Gerlach, wife of the con
-1 ! tractor, is a patient in the Church
■ | Home and Infirmary, Baltimore.
Miss Ruth Smith, Orman street, is
’ taking treatment for rheumatism at
1 . Berkley Springs, W. Va.
Miss Vera Williams, of this place,
, is a patient of the Church Home and
•Infirmary, Baltimore, for a slight
I trouble which affects one of her limbs. I
Don’t Delay.
A pretty souvenir of the Home-
Coming function is the unique invi
tation-booklet.
Everybody ought to have one to keep
—the young people particularly!
Only a few comparatively for sale,
and buyers should at once secure them
at one of four business, places, as
follows:
Thomas & Brown’s Book-Store.
Mining Journal Publishing Com
pany’s Office.
The H. B. Shaffer Company’s De
partment Store,
J. W. Shea’s Drug Store.
Died.
Mrs. Mary F. France, wife of Rev.
H. S. France, D. D., died yesterday
(Friday) morning at the Hotel Majes
tic, Ocean Grove, N. J., after a pro
tracted illness. Funeral Monday
afternoon from Trinity Church, Wash
ington, D. C., of which her husband
is pastor. One daughter—Miss Mary,
is also bereaved. The deceased lady
lived several years in Frostburg while
her husband was pastor of First M.
F. Church, and was most highly es
teemed by the entire community.
Card of Thanks.
Having sustained the loss of a por
tion of the farm buildings on my farm
Wednesday, August 7th, by fire, and
at the same time, through the efforts
of my neighbors and friends, being
enabled to prevent a greater loss, I
feel deeply grateful for the assistance
rendered, and hereby publicly express
my thanks to the Frostburg Fire De
partment and all others who came to
my aid from Frostburg, Grahamton
and elsewhere, and especially my
neighbors, whose help meant so much
to me. Very gratefully,
John N. Dayman.
Concerning Correct Dance Time.
Frostburg, Md., August 6, 1912.
To All Who Are Interested :
Replying to the large number of in
quiries from ladies and gentlemen
concerning dance time, as rendered
by orchestras in Frostburg, I wish to
make the following statement:
None of the orchestras furnishing
dance music in Frostburg plays cor
rect dance time.
While talking to leaders of various
orchestras in town concerning this im
portant matter, I discovered that none
of them knew what tempo he was play
ing for the waltz, nor what tempo
ought to be played, nor whether there
is a given tempo for the various dances.
This clearly shows total ignorance
on the part of musicians of what is
right and wrong in dance time.
Dance music, as far as tempo is con
cerned, is the most particular of all,
because it affects the dancers in their
execution of dance movements.
Many persons imagine they are fit
ted to play for dancing because they
have more or less ability to play a
• musical instrument, and they start in
to create a condition of their own by
trying to oblige all dancers to dance
to their time.
Such musicians are ignorant of the
fact that a dance, in itself, is the crea
tor of the tempo for that dance, and
that the music must be played accord
ing to that tempo, or it is wrong.
All such musicians are in error, be
cause they start at the music-end in
stead of the dance-end.
In other words, the music must be
played for the dance, whatever the
dance may be, and it must be played
according to the tempo for that partic
ular dance, whether it be a waltz,
schottische, two-step or quadrille.
In my talks to these orchestra lead
ers and members of various orchestras
I failed to discover any knowledge
whatever along these lines', and yet
these musicians are furnishing music
for dancing.
The whole truth is—it is simply a
game of guessing what to do.
CorreH dancing and correll dance
time are as clearly and positively de
. fined as any law that was ever enacted.
Not wishing to be selfish, I informed
all of those with whom I talked as to
what is the correct tempo for waltz,
with its limits for “slow” and “fast,”
according to knowledge based upon
what is-strictly adhered to by the best
authorities in the world, and which is
established universally.
In music for dancing as well as in
dancing, individual preferences, and
all likes or dislikes must be ignored.
Musicians and dancers alike must
abide by what is correct in dance time,
because, if everyone’s taste, fancy or
whim, is to be gratified, there would
be no harmony—music’s first and last
indispensable element.
To be plain, all dance-music must
be played correct tempo. Music for
the waltz must be played tempo di
valse.
So, too, all dance-music must be
played tempo di ballo.
Orchestras—the leaders especially,
and individuals playing for dancing,
ought to inform themselves concerning
this important matter. “Guessing”
will not do in dance-time, because the
tempo either makes or destroys both
dancing and music.
In conclusion, I mention one other
consideration—incorrect tempo robs
all dances, particularly the waltz, of
the rhythm which is properly an in
separable feature of dancing,land it is
an infallible proof that the orchestra
leader, or individual playing for danc
ing, is merely guessing at something
of which he has no knowledge.
The main object of this letter is to
spread as much as possible a knowl
edge of what is correct, and I trust
that as a reply it will answer all in
quiries, and that it will tend to im
prove conditions in the really beauti
ful domain of dance-time.
WItUAM J. DAII.EY,
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