| Show i I JOSEPH H RIDGES v ESTERDAY I TE RDA Y onN Salt Lake n 1 t I I L i made a discovery dl very It found the mil m who woo made tilt thc great Teat tabor abet tabernacle J nacle organ Since 1869 the people of at ati e i Salt Like Lake have been listening to the IIi mighty ml ty harmonies of the monumental 11 masterpiece It hoe has become b e the pride 14 to IY and end boast of f the city Thousands have nn sat spellbound beneath the enchant enchantment ve ment of its lofty strains until admira admiration admiraal p a al tion grew to 10 veneration Iid hd ii All this time the man who Wh made it 1 If ft was us as forgotten No one asked d who I IM 4 r designed and perfected this wonderful L I instrument He was a modest modeM t retiring It C man and did CUd not hove himself into BI 8 I I public notice He had done his hi work J o v nobly and well and be he found his re rew reit it 1 s I w Ward ard in occasionally mingling with the e ei gil i crowds that listened l to the music it k I poured forth or in sometimes affection affectionately n nd d he be But no noone nop noI p I e one took n e 0 of dl hint him or pointed him H out as aa t origin of those beautiful Il harmonies There Was wag a time when c c at t 1 the organ maker and end the organ were one There used to be an n old poetic J 1 that the organ o n made but butone ut 8 are one great organ just as a the beH bell maker i mi made nade but one perfectly toned fe ll Into Int re n that organ entered his soul The I Lei tiel I purity the sweetness and nd the grandeur il r of o its Ita strains were the echoes of his hisa a 1 spIritual being tal In fl the tui case of If the tb tal tabernacle organ orsan f all U this to have h teen been forgotten until yesterday morning Then sud and suddenly sudhir hir 4 denly the spell pell of apathy was broken rot lot I It happened at the New Year services 1 tor lu Several thousand people had bM teen been teene be e I drinking the beautiful tenderness of II Andantino played on the organ by Professor McClellan As the last tone 4 died cIted away amid a profound hush hushi i Angus M Cannon rose and introduced to the tle audience the organs maker rr T 1 i r Joseph H Ridges A ripple of applause e started stated among the choir and 51 grew ew in inT L T f lume until a storm tOrm of swept over the house bouse The venerable w V organ builder bulkier rose and bowed tears I hued filled its Ills eyes his voice was wan choked I 1 with and he could say aay nothing w v 9 r i 1 It Ii is i certainly o a s late iato tiny day flY to begin be ln giving km tion to the man who has 1 h Ii done so much to spread the fame of 1 1 e Salt Lake It is not to Salt Lakes k Jt credit that this man has been allowed II Iii 11 i I to live here in unrecognized unrecognised obscurity t at 1 so Co many years Amends can be made I by b only a prompt and spontaneous show f appreciation p n It h n sUg g that a s tes nal be offered Mr J I t 1 I Ii in the way of a musical t a I fete in the Beyond a doubt 1 C every y musician end and musical o 10 I o would assist in such sueh an 1 J entertainment and the music lovers of o Tr I cl Salt Lake can ean an be counted on to turn 4 jut by thousands Ands to do homage to the theman theE u man who has done so 80 much for them E 1 f lamp Having Havins completed a other ar arrangements arrangements arrangements the artist stepped to a cabinet concealed by a large palm He opened a sliding door took something out that the dim light made obscure and passed behind the screen In a moment he returned to the tho center of the and took up a violin With the first notes of the snake dance music Christine glided in barefoot noiseless noiselessness ness to the tiger skin and began the dance The Jim light took somewhat from outlines but was as strong enough to see seeby seeby seeby by quite distinctly Beads were en entwined entwined n twined In the tile jet black hair and the baubles festooned from the forehead I hung in loops about her ears and neck Wide ide golden circlets were clasped around her arms midway between shoulder er and elbow Her fingers were bare of jewelry but large circles of a aI small gold wire pierced her ears She was nude to the waist displaying a I beauty that many a chisel and brush ve ye copied From her hei hips fell a gauze slack lack lace with jet trimmings s L hed at the sick id that no play pla of ofin I mi m in ocle ide might mi ht be checked And then In hi her hands and high I above her head it was seen she bhe held helda a large la Albino boa constrictor whose shining coils fell teU about her bare white arms anus Softly came tho first violin notes and gracefully the dancer dipped to the music every eve gesture in harmony with the soft chords The snake twined around her arms in caressing fashion and the dancer A words of endear endearment endearment endearment ment to it The snake circled about her waist or her throat as she willed and as she swayed to the tones of the violin described many sinuous curves about her body The rhythm of the music became more pronounced It developed Into the giving of a Strauss waltz and the dancers quickened steps followed every note She held the boa to her bosom clasped it lovingly around her neck or held it out at arms length In that position the spectators for the first time could appreciate the snakes size It was as large around as the dancers arm at the biceps bleeps and its Ito length was greater than her height The climax of the weird music was a aloud loud loude passage age that ended abruptly Above her head as she had begun the dancer held the snake then brought its list flat head and beady bead eyes so close down downto to her cheek that its darting tongue met her lips Christine sank to the floor with a cry as the music ceased Then rhen the artist loosened the snake from her embrace and returned it to I I its cabinet |
