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Show BOOTBLACKS MAKE MUSIC AS THEY 'SHINE" One of the new and amusing stones of real life Is told concerning a musical musi-cal bootblack stand, by Paul Beemer. , j traveling representative of the Lion Coal company. Mr Beemer is well known in Ogden, j which is his home town as he was for many years the local passengar agent for the Union Pacific Railroad com-, Ipany, leaving that position when the! office was abolished by the govern ' I ment last year The musical bootblack stand is In Omaha, Nebraska, and the stand is not only a bootblack stand where boots are blacked by black bootblacks, but there is a musical rythm in the swish and brushes and cloths that keep the air filled with popular melodies. Beemer on his travels happened into a shoe shining parlor in the packing j house city and noted that the boss was la Greek, but the employes "cullad gen-1 I tlemen." This Greek business man, with a 8i DBS of commercialism that long ago 1 ad outgrown the banana stand, pick' J up a few tuneful bootblacks and in--lalled them in this shining parlor. 1 I As the customers came in the boys j became accustomed to slapping out a jtune with the brushes and cloths, each attempting to play a better tune than his brothers And finally they had evolved B shining" orchestra, "for as Ithe polish was laid on a tune was Hit ard. And w ith a number of patrons getting service at one time the blacK boya learned to present the various parts of a wMl organized orchestra. One seat would represent the cello, another traps, another the claron.'t and so on Now that this orchestra is fully organized it is drawing man.' (customers and the Greek owner and director is happy H s not expected thai the orchestra will go into valid ville and be known a the "Bootblacks' orchestra" because ther is a constant , trickle of dimes brought to the till at the present stand. |