| Show electrical MUSIC FROM A MAMMOTH WELL OF HARMONY HA 0 NY A london company supplies sunday concerts by telephone to a scattered clientele london july 16 although tho the invention of the iho telephone opened up a most extensive odd field for conjectures na as to tile the uses to which this electrical moans means of long distance conversational communication could be ba put it required ft a very imaginative gu gaaser aser to predict that ono one day it bould be made a means mcana of stern ba tarlan decrees tile the church autocrats hero here have ruled that sunday shall be a day on oil which concerts or in fix fact anything that smacks or of the amusement line shall be systematically repressed pressed ruled out as ono one of tho the deadly sins and the guardians of the law ato aro instructed to keep their most watchful membris on post ft here any breach of sunday observance rules are likely to be committed jn ili striking about for some means of 0 spicing their literature with till stories that would seem 1 vividly liepos impossible able anti and marvelously sensational tho the novel it writers have given us ua fiction intended to be prophetical in which a scene is pictured of a collection of mu sic lovers lovera gathered gral hered behind locked doors with fill a guard pill outride to 10 give warning oc the to approach of the enemy while they listened with till tearful fearful pleasure to 10 the strains of delightful music that that camo came to them by electric wires from various centers in which the music talent of the age were engaged in singing or playing classical melodies melolle 8 just no na ume some novel ideas of 0 jules verne that were once thought to be wildly fanciful have proven to be practical so BO ham haa tills this idea of an electric center for telephone concerts con ceris been beeh realized bcd not only st so but a regular comp company aily has haa been organized to furnish those lovers of music vi alio lie at aia a unable to indulge their fancy olne to the strict rules of tile sabbath or their inability to go out or their elsh to stay at home with concerts of the highest type provided by means of nirve I 1 to the berlied center ta name of tills this company Is tho the compary company and li bt lieng that killer loan lean re abets would like to learn all about such an attractive in novation I 1 accept accepted ett recently an imitation from the managing manac ln director mr 11 S 3 J to visit the urs of harm harmony telling an incredulous american friend that I 1 was ging fining to tako take him to 1 hear car a sunday conceit oil elt alch is tantamount larno on the sabbath in london chael to saying sayin ff let us go EO and have a chat aith queen Vic victoria torla I 1 injured hill to lo orne om elong as ho he expressed it see the joke out oui there nero it no signs of I 1 a teeming tt multi stol mini mIng the I 1 I 1 doors as aa we ineater the of the com compardy parly anil and my friend smiled sardonically as he remark I 1 that the concert lie had evidently failed as a card but surely music and song son were coming from that upper nonn florin A private party parly nit io a public conert concert C walk fit n and see sec we hook hands nith mr it booth the untiring I 1 za ln director dt rector and then remarked remained upon bf eb charni ani of tho the music A ah I 1 acs CH our nir sunday concert my I 1 incredulous ereau friend bald that he had no idda that tile company pos sed se d a con ort hall nor to do they mr MP booth him what a mystery ter y 1 A concert yet no lie concert hall T then I 1 to 1 e here at aie a tire llo audi aud lAnco aice th they y are invisible said mr air hooth booth this this is ling cc come me said the marial durec or up p a ifert of stairs then sharp to the rig h t anser on lips opens it a door noiselessly anti and you on cn 1 cpr r A Ap plain liln almost almont unfurnished od room quite small fill vulla aalf but for A a print io 0 or r two aa in the center of it sit s som in and the 1 are playing aay bui effect but to ethy tho rho Wi Is 13 partly g I 1 hy the bill sunday concert Con corl in fit your own wn Ho irto ifie and the problem Is totally solved olve by it a weird instrument in the corner mr baith drops now and conling us outside explains ho anted wonted to deliver the final blow at tile tho I 1 lit 0 APP N 0 11 it 10 10 pa W I 1 IWO the director general ot of the electric concert company with the re ke ce calvers I 1 ver a through which queen victoria heard her subjects loyal songs on her last birthday unsupportable table old sunday thus these concerts con cerla transmitted over whis athes to hundreds of homes eliere without stirring from comforting iota or arm hair the cary may listen to tire tho st veteR of 0 kneet strains it Is tho the without doubt that has settled the sunil ay iy question nuton tvr for the Lon londoners doners many may still have an ail objection to attending A public place of amusement but none ean can complain of 9 concert brought to jhc thc r orin on n house to their very boil bed it i they wish it Is an excellent idea parried out ut 1 I X N 14 U rim 7 f lit fill n T r 5 V the concert company whose swett sweet music discoursed in a little room boom from which electric wires travel in fit all directions spreads beautiful melodies to gladden tile tho lives of gloomy Britis hers on the purt puri tannic sabbath when secular tunes are ajo under it a ban |
