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tlAGAZIIflS SECTION THREE MAG AZttre SECTION THREE . PORTLAND, pREGON,: .' SUNDAY " MORNING,': JUlE'.- 2,v: J;. v.'.-.. .:..' , f - , - ,i"'Ojh .. - " f' 'n J a. if? A1 A? with the words '5 P,,3I.' agaunt them; thea I obserred that this prodigious program, was an all-day on, divided into twenty-lour k sec tions anawering to the hours.. ; ' .? i . ; . , . "She : made me sit down comfortably, and,-crossing the room, so far as I could see, i merely touched one or two screws, and at ' .s once the room-was filled with the musio of a grand organ anthem; filled, not flooded, for, , by some means, the volume of the melody had been perfectly graduated to the size of the apartment , . ' . ' -.i 's ' .7 " 'Grand I" I cried,"" 'Bach must be at the keys of that organ; but where is the ' organ!' -.v.- ' ' : ' v ; ' " 'Wait a moment, please,' said Edith, 1 want to have you listen to this waltz be fore you ask any questions.' And as she spoke the sound of violins filled the room with the witchery of a summer night. '"When this had also ceased, she said J 'There is ' nothing in the least mysterious about the music, as you seem to imagine. It is sot made by fairies or genii, but by good, honest and exceedingly clever hands. We have simply carried the ide,a of labor-saving by co-operation into our musical service as, into' everything else. ' "'There are on that card for today, as you will see, ';,' distinct program o. s 99 I . jT l rjTlO MAKE perfect music vAlh elec ' 'I . trie currents for tones; tol antici pate, for aught we may know, the flawless strains of melodies celestial; to serve this pure stuff in any desired form to whole Communities far -more j easily jhan milk is now served thcse jr&a few of the " truly remarkable feature cf-'a wonderful instrument inverted by pflxThaddeus Ca hill, an Ohioan, and now being put to prac- ileal, everyday use in New York city. Stranger than any dream yet dreamt by man is this monster musical instrument, which may, at the will of the player, be made to reproduce perfectly the sound of . any or all knowk instruments. More fairy-like than any tale of elves and goblins is the manner in which its prod uct is carried miles upon miles and deliv ered to the purchaser. More revolution- 7 "' 'Sl". 3" ; V 1 lilllrftERl if IP - III 1 ' lift. . '- -SssJ X 1 .mP-'(r.v'v ftim iMttAavra aYi a ' v)a a VIM - VVUVVt f VMVU fl UAMVAOUW V4VWM , Vf .. ' T music 'from the others, being now simulta-l: : - neously performed,' and any one of the fout pieces now going on you can hear by mereljf -' pressing: the. button which will connect youa, ' house-wire with the hall where it is being- ' ' . performed.' ; ' .. ' - ' Iid J. understand you' rightly ..T.ia) " quired,' 'that this musical program coven the ' ' entire twenty-four hours! It seems to, but 1 -who is there to listen to musio between, say, midnight and morning!', ', 'Oh, many,', Edith repliecL' 'Our people keep all hours: but if the musio were pro-t vided f rom midnight to morning for no oth ers it still would be for the sleepless; the sick,' and the dying. All our bedchambers have a telephone attachment at the head of the bed! by which any person who may be sleepless' can command musio at pleasure, of the sort suited to the mood.' " Now, one afternoon not long since, I sat in a large room on the busiest street in New. York. and heard this musio. of the future,' thus antedating Bellamys dream by ninety- three years, and aided in so doing by ' ' method as far in advance of that he vuioned , which was the playing of pianos, organs and orchestras into huge telephone receivers as was his vision deemed in advance of the year 1887. :' --- - fr, - - . : ; --V t .'Seated in the preaenceiof two human ' . beings whose "good, honest and exceedingly clever hands" roved at will over an enormous keyboard, I underwent the very sensation "Mr West" describes. " - JJ 9 r . 1L JjiYeiwy: Jolcojtat tiieJteypoard., an in the realm of melody, and sound than j&S the introduction of the piano, perhaps, it has not 'come upon us entirely unherald edj however, . V -'; :Xy ::. : S For in a famous book written by an M , thought of his marvelous machine, this new system of music wai f described f'X 7' " vf. f n Si - v.. YV - V- SCli I jirsH . - rfe If vk. r-. v iff l - - Jm:- i &M ( -.- " - V 7r t; 'c-K- Cft i f 1: u: S r 0 By Leigh Mitchell Hodges . Section. &fJwitcl 2oard Contcoltinsf Currents. 1 Not from the keyboard, but from gTace; ful Qrecian urn at my right, floated notes more . pure and perfect than anything you can imagine, " filling the room with what might be called the; full sunlight of flawless sound.' Now it was the clarified essence of piano . misic. The players made a move' or two on the board, and there came the crystal piping-' of a flute interlaced with the appealing call of . the violoncello. Then the source of' the musio .. was changed. By the turn of a lever on a , - switchboard, the melody was made to issue ; . from a great ball of flowers hanging from the ceiling. ... Out of that flowery mass floated the opening .. bars of "William TelL" this time the solo being that ' of a marvelouSly true 'oboe, with ; flute ; . obligate. Apotlier turn J; at tho switchboard. From a giant hydrangea bush near , the door burst the -call of - the French horn softest of . brasses,1 and wiih it the deep, majestio growl- ing of the tuba. , , , All this i rom 'ono- keyboard, mind tou. anil t all thU being heard at that ' very time by two - other' audiences,' ,one . in! a ; theater half s mile ' ( a j nam, suuuKt . ui ;imviuivra ; V1UV vwlCV , either might have been in ainly, All AHOTIIMA 4l.A Ml 1(1.1. ' t A.. ; . And since I ain about to describe a preBent dj Tt aj.vxj - jumnn in x o - imuvua ' uwn, jn many (Oopyrtght, , WT, ,y - Leigh MltcheU- Hodgea, -.j"-',.-.;..,.. 1 . , rights reserved.) 11 1 - r !AA'K,-rA-,'r.ij'..- v-,vs,-"r-' sway ana, anotner , in., a , J -r,: ;.-v-, , : rrxtj vm-a -tr t,.,. 4cwai5?i'v "-t "tvv.;.fl;a, far- distant and eithei Vivis- .- ypf:r v ? ; '.MlbtorandJjesrd it as pi - ' . - -' -'.. 1 ' - --' "-(.. (-- . j,-- .-. 1 f .-,.- ..r yi, -. .-' v-.v .' .iv.-t ' '':.:-! , (. .-v - .--ii.-'"-.! c.'. . . u nis.. ana. g i r -y -"ff rw , v . : - jm. n em tass jusi accepiea an umtauon v -riease : loot at, todays .muwc,: . sue said, o ind ace I am ftbout. to describe a present-- ifrom his hdst'sdaughteto listen jto some musio. "handing me a card, 'arid tell me Tfhat ybu would A practical reality, in. ausic-making.-wlnch. He .relates1 his -e prefer r ' ''- ' - " ;. " .'i--v-'.-'--4,---.'.-,-';l jny- waysisan 'absolute fulfilmentof' his J foUowod.iierinto anpartment; fimshedi. . . "The card 'ioreVtheE d CTe At flnl fnnrA a V.a :ilr.vWestihaa just sccepted an-invitation i MHease-;pok .todsy's -nosie,M-slie 'SidL-';i: ontsp st-;sny;hour of day or night in thou- asanas ox nomes,.-ciut)3, cotels nospitals tn l talis in JXew.Xork and vicinity within a fi-.v ,:week and soon thereafter in all ; t!io 1 n- - contained -the .longest 'iprogrom cities of the world and their environ. Seen, s ' T - I remained' au tms to soon make, it fo-iLIo f r , , more fairy-like or improbable than that c-remed: jj,;.' ,tnan Mit.Witjr. be conceived as sueh.F -h ,' f,,i .wti-of-it, where several lekctio roigious lisi ' until Edith'3 t turn the pointer on a littlo dial m particular section lekctions were'-br acke t o l. . bMroom '' wl)fT vmi . rn 1 5n , :.. co:;tikct:o k i-.--