Show sliT LAKE is IS INVADED BY A NOISE ANOISE PRODUCER THAT THAI RIVALS A CALlIOPE There is something new in street pianos this season and this something isn't a popular song It is Ia much w worse worse It If this statement seems so impossible that you cant can't r understand it just wait and decide for fur yourself Some mornIng If you are awakened from the he l la lai t stages of a late n nap p by the strains of Dolly Gray swelling from the pavement pavement pave pave- ment below with that soothing melodious effect characteristic of the street organ rind and nd ou appen to note a shatter nerve-shatter- Ing ng jarring car ar J rolling accompaniment sounding like Uke thunder i in a realistic nelo melodrama melo- melo melodrama drama dont don't get frightened Dont Don't imagine either that a circus has slipped into nto town without plastering the bill bill- boards This Is simply the something new In irs street pianos pianos' in practical operation operation opera opera- tion Enterprising and mercenary street ma- ma ns have hit upon a unique plan to attract the attention of persons living on the he top floors floora of apartment h They have lave arranged an attachment for street pianos that is more assertive than anything anything anything any any- I thing ever before attempted in this line Popular songs done up in rols rol's and ground out by b the yard were once considered sufficient to inform the public that the street musician was on earth but fashions fash ash ions change e n with the these e people as with i m l ats at's atsa others it In different lines and that Is why a novelty is in store this season sift The of novel a drum addition d attachment a to street e with pianos a capacity capaci capaci- p consists consists con con- ty for noise that seems to be unlimited and unsurpassed The head of the drum is so arranged that at certain intervals Ina in ina ina a selection it comes into contact with automatic automatic automatic au au- au- au sticks which move rapidly and produce almost as good a roll as the most expert drummer I could draw out of the hollow Instrument This serves as an accompaniment accompaniment ac ac- acI I to the piping strains of the I piano o and n when worked to the fullest ie extent ex cx- f tent can be nn heard a for six blocks l or more The drum does not necessarily keep time with the music and for this reason there is no particular harmony Inthe in hr inthe the effect but so far as mere sound is concerned the combination would be hard haid to beat One of these Improved pianos already has baa been put Into use and ha has attracted a good deal of attention especially among persons who sleep late in the morning In once Instance an enterprising organ- organ grinder with wilh one of these patented Instruments in instruments In- In has begun to make the rounds regularly every mo morning ning and his drum attachment has hat proved a a moneymaker People throw money at him to get him to move on The other morning he was enthusiasticallY enthusiastically enthusiastically cally grinding out Mamie Hamie with both hands and scanning windows of a Brigham Brigham Brigham Brig- Brig ham street house eagerly His piano was working overtime and the drum attachment attachment attachment attach attach- ment was groaning and rolling in mechanIcal mechanical ical heal fashion What That do you h have ve the drum for a passerby asked Just then then- the head and shoulders of a aman aman aman man apparently in night attire popped through one of the thc windows on the top floor and in another Instant a coin came tumbling down to- to the pavement The Italian reached for it and then looked at atthe atthe atthe the qU questioner and knowingly shrugged his shoulders He evidently knew his business After pocketing the coin he Ire backed into the shafts and pulled his piano down the street treet to another tall tail I building |