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Show FEW STREET ORGANS HEARD "Talking Machines" Have Largely Displaced the Peripatetic Musician Musi-cian Once So Popular. I The street orpin, like tho hnnsom I cob nnd the frock coat, Is knocking on I the door lnbeled obsolete. Where and I why did tli? music on wheels vanish? I Some say the war took back to Italy I all the "organ-grinders." Others con- I tend that high wages ennbled the ven- I ders of popular tunes to make more I money elsewhere. I But n mnn who sells talking ma- I chines gives me a different reason, "Glrn'rd" writes In tho Philadelphia Press. "Everybody now has canned music In his own homo nnd wants nono thrown nt him from tho Btrec-t. People Peo-ple stopped giving money to tho organ-grinders organ-grinders and ,tlysy wero starved Into other fields of nctlvlty." Judging from the sounds one hears pulsating from the windows nnd doors of our -100,000 homes these summer days, I fancy the tnlklng machine man knows his facts. Anyhow, music, as It Is labeled, Is one of the most plentiful plenti-ful things "whnt Is," so that the disappearing dis-appearing hand-piano has not yet Increased In-creased the demand for crepe. |