Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-07-13 | Page 1 | Lack of Sheet Music No Bar to Naval Band

LACK DFSHEET MUSIC TJO BAR TO NAVAL BAND RequeU to PUy 'iowa" Soon Complied ' WitE Alter . Leader Heart Parte of Song KETCH IK A K, Alaaka, Jutr (By Mall to A. P.) The aonsr Iowa," popular mnalo playad at tha racant tSlinn eon van t ion In Waahlnfton, haa bean Introduced by Prasldant Hardinva party In almoat avary a tat a travaraad ainca It lait Waah In r ton, and today waa earrlad Into thka ALaakan salty for tha first ttma by soma of tha tngina; mam bars of tha presidential croup. It waa applauded ap-plauded by tha people of Ketchikan who baard It, and probably It will be paaaad along the Alaakaa trails to tha far north. On tba erenlna of the flrat day aboard the-naTml transport Henderson, Hender-son, en route from Tacoma, Waah, to Alaaka. the United Htatee navy band, temporarily stationed en tha Henderson, waa requested to play "Iowa. The bandmaster waa unable un-able to comply. Ha had not tha music nor had ha heard tha aona. and there was gloom aplenty for tha time bains. But ha waa not Ions; unprepared. At tha concert on the following" morning- tha thirty musicians had the musle bafora them and have not failed to play the air at any aucceedlng concert. PICK UP PIECES. Thla was how the tnuato waa written and tha orchestration of It made possible. Bandmaster Charlea Banter heard parts of tha eong i ringing1 from one ef tha cablne that night, Hla attention waa caught by ! the word Iowa." Boon ha had aome of hla mpra1eorg about Mm and all were listening outside the I deer. Bow aeoka they . -wasu-amd began playing, putting what they bad heard of the eong Into no taa ef their various Instruments. Wnen ; the ether muslclane appeared In the morning tw.ch waa handed hia part of tha eong and tha request of the evening before waa compiled with. Irlttle details Ilka playing tha chorus again and again with a to-, tal absence of versa In the atmi manner as tha musicians had heard the cabin aarenadiajs made no dif- I ference la the applauae and thai president's party thundered oat when the band concluded Its first playing of "Jowa,M The musicians of the nary are not tha only Ingenious branch. Tha second day out from Tacoma waa quite cold and the chill winds sweeping down from the enow topped mountains were most uncomfortable un-comfortable for a correspondent for a New York newspaper, who brought with him only the lightest of summer suits. AlLMAKtR'e SUIT. A aearch of tha ship waa made for a-heavier suit, but be waa of afYbut hi 1 1 Irl and autne s-aiiM Hat found. Finally the ahip'a eaJImaker volunteered to make him a ault of navy eerge. Button, were obtained from an old auit found on the ahlp and ellpplnge from sail canvaa were uaed for aboulder padding. Every poaalbla effort waa made by navy authorltlea on tha Hendereon Hender-eon to provide for the comfort of Prealdent and Mrs. Harding aa well aa other mcmbera of the party accompanying ac-companying them to Alaska. Ius to tba .thoughtfulneea of ona officer, offi-cer, the chief executive and the flrat lady were a pa red the neceealty of climbing tha laddere whan they left tha tranaport for the amallar boata tq go ashore at Metlakatla. The shlp'a carpenter waa Instructed In-structed to build a platform with railing aurroundlng It and Incloaed with canvaa. Thla waa attached by cablea to the crane which awlnga tha b mailer boat a from tha decks Into tha water, and thua an elevator ele-vator waa made. Tha cage or platform plat-form dropped from tha top aecg on which the prealdent and Mrs. Harding have their cabina to the water'a surface, where they Mapped from It Into the email boat and on returning to the Henderson) found tha lift waiting to place them again on the deck mora than thirty feat above tha water. "Why. thla la aa warm aa It la in Waahlngton," were Mra. Harding'e flrat worda on Alaakan eoll, epokeo Just after aha had atepped ashore at Metlakatla.