Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1926, Page 80

4 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, P. €, MARCH 7, 1926—PART 5. Vessel at Cape Horn Is Buried Under Avalanche of Great Combers Suprcme Moment Comes to the Gal- lant Arethusa as She Struggles Val- iantly and Appcars way Under Fierce Buffeting of One In- Gale — Marvelous Strengt}\ in Saving a Life—Waves With cessant a World-Encircling Whirlpool on the Main Deck—"Another Bucket of Water Would Have Finished Us,” Says Lucky Sa Thrashed by wind and wave. the hark Avethusa has. in two preced fng article by Mr. Clements, fonght her way from London on an east erly course o the wes of South America. Steadily, sturdily, #he has climbed the sloping alleys of the sea. at times heating ahead in the face of a head wind others riding out the fury of gale Twice she the roaring wind's like has passed throngh forties, “where the whetted knife.” On one occasion. With sails torn 1o shreds by a mighty with difficulty held By an indomitabie tain and a brave crew. At another the men fluns themselves on the hatches, which they battened down with water swirling over them. It was a ticklish moment. for one big &ea would have sunk the ship and all hands. Now. after shipping a cirgo Arethusa is hom first she must mevere test for the seamanship sailors Horn. gale, she her Viking of a cap- on conrse the ard bound. But earth’s most sailing vessels and and cour of the fearful region of Cape pass BY REX CLEMENTS. HERE is an of that no one has 4 sadior until he nd the Hoen three times. The saving bears ness to the terrors of the Horn, and the grim old headland has not undeservedly won for endless gales and bitter weather, Of all the stormy waters of the globe ssage of the Cape Horn e most to be di it is true, 1t gaunt old sentir und without a sava handling. But such opportunities ave few and far between, and the Warden of the Southern Seas takes good care that few get pust him toll Nor did he in onr cx we neared the southern tip of America fierce wind struck this was only the beginning ression of h 1 gales All the held our way down the “rouring ies” gale followed gale from west. A tremendous sea day and night the bark tabored heavily Solid green cliffs of water thundered down over the focs’le head « Aft in cata is it reputation Sometime: to eatch the and slip ar I8 possible 1 sxleep nis without paving forbear e. As h f tine we for he south up, and ained and Wl surzed But for the | the main deck would have heen passable. As it was, several of hands had very narrow escapes Old Fox, the wiry seaman, near to losing his life through Scooping up of a sea. e and Mac had been sent {0 restow the inner b, which had broken adrift and was dragging over the knightheads 1ay out on the howsprit, which moment was pointing 1o the sky the next dug down to the depths, A =urging sea unshipped Fox hung by one hand to the Then up swept the head, moment he dangled in air he would have gone. If big Mac, who Was on the other side of the howsprit had not reached over and erabhed him by the wrist. How Mac did it acts e-lines im the the B They 1t one and id he stay for ‘a he next jae passes my understanding. but with one heave | of his outstreiched arm he lifted old Fox and swung him clear on top of the howsprit A more magnificent feat of stre h, and done on the spur of the moment, 1 never saw. Rut it passed practically nunnoticed; the sall was made fast, and the two scrambled In a ain, and watching their chance, regained the main deck Such averted mishaps are too common at sea to call f much comment or remark * ko ox FEW fiftieth expectation, the little. Rut our Jast for long. o rise in Jence. It was my that morning of six bells nsual struck n wall of steel and over until the sheerpoles with the water he yose almost a cam lne aloft was rigid 1o the The captain shonted an order to let iy the Ugallant halvards, and Jump to the helm to heave up on the spokes. Even as we hove there sharp 1eport forard, followed by a terrific voar. 1 saw the rush of a falling spar and a wild confusion of rope and canvas For a topmast days later parallel we and, o wind ‘mode good luck was not to The wind soon squalls of beguan Increasing vio. wheel from ten to twelve and just on the a heavier 1 the ship. Ov warning rising straining stroke than she lay from tense wire —over were wind's and st and level note every 1in was moment had gone. It wasx not that however, but the tops’l tie that hs parted. The vard came down with a crash, both Uzallant sheeis parted and the t'gans’] itself up and gone The heavy vard hit the top-mast cup an awful hlow, splftting 1t n two and | smashing the parrel. The sail went to shreds. and in moment the bark | was a howling wreck for'ard, with the foremast a tangle of spars and fluttering canvas 'he devil's wn job us In our disabled heavy sea running, it work to lay aloft at vard was grinding splinter of steel at every roll. The safety of the lower vard was pre. | carfous, while, with the cap split and fis backstavs useless, the whole top maat_stood loose. The old man ws the Arst aloft, and with the nd mate and two or three of the men | temporarily lashed the crazy contrap. tion to the lower mast It took ®ome time to do that, this was only the beginning of it. We were helpless without our foremast and the “hurrah’s nest” aloft had to be made it to carry sail again. For three days ail hands, with brief respites for meals, labored at it. What with the tumbling about of the ship, the bitter cold. the endless hours aloft and the merciless work with stub! wire and steel. we were pretty well | dead heat when the job was finished. | All the rest we got was in our watch | helow at night: cuts and bruises were the lot of every one, but we were driven on by dire necessity, and the ©ld man himself led the w And all the time, endless gale though the wind was, at least it was fair, and every day we drew nearer to the pitch of the Horn. * ok ok % I thought the fore soared wax it meant state, with was dangerous all tops'l heavily, with a for but NE morning at daybreak we | sighted a small bark, outward bound, and were able to thank our 1ucky StArs we were not on board he She was plunging close-hauled into the | salt-soddened to Make No Head- O Feat of Sweep—A Scething ilor. fierce squalls, with only her lower opsls set. Her crowd must have heen having a lively time, for xhe was dig- £ing into the seas as though she were | trying to scoop the South Pacific up and throw it over her shoulder. We ran past her very quickly. She was port-painted, and, 1 should think, by the cut of her, tish. The weather was too had for us to speak and she was soon swallowed up in the mist and spray astern It the “rouring forties” ave becom ing deserted, the Horn ix growing eve more o, Thix plunging, insignificant bark wax the only sign of our fellow men we saw on the way around. Her excepted, the gliding allatroxs were the only fndication of living things near ux. The Horn never bee | exactly populous, and its crowded hour of glovivus life has been bhut u bare and seanty one at the best, The grim and rugged old headland suw its most erowded davs fn the lat half of the ninetenth century Now with the disappearance of sailing <hips and the opening of the | Canal it is ljkely to sink once more into obscurity and keep in silence and solitude its unending watch over the Southern Seus. We were not up to the Horn yvet though the day after passing the po puinted bark we sighted the D Ramirez Iskands the Dagger an s, the sailors call them Unspeakably wild and savage they looked. We saw the loom of « bigger ixland Lehind, and they must have been surrounded by sunken reefs and ledges, for everywhere the sea was breaking white, seething and spouting ina wide field of foam. With the isla Ly pretty well due east, and for days we had terrific weather, cargo didn't trim well, the Was i constant source of a the bark h Plaining her. that followed nwiare in oy ¥ “TWO WAL | the islands. | never moved far away from the helm. wme of the | The remainder of ux were gathered sachments of [on the fore purt of the poop. There they ave. [ was nothing we could do while the fight of it held. ~ The main deck was n wheT-outliers, | seething whirlpool, swept by endiess tiat tuke | tons of green water that made n dash the first brunt of the sew. call vegetu- | forard w matter of life and death tion Lo their wid and in every shelter- | There was no gulley five, and the ed nook and cranuy ave clothed with ' steward vemained perforce in his | trees, thai bind their soil together [ pantry under the poop. He managed | | and Cnabie 1t hane on W boil some water on the mate's oil | It s a lic combat, this ele- | stove and we had u drink of tea aplece mental warfare of tempest-winged | at midday with @ sea biscuit and water and stubborn land, but the |handful of bully beef. former is winning. Countless ages ft | So the day wore on. Drenched to may take, none the the victory | the skin und strained almost to break ix certain, | g point through standing up against | o see the black, forbid lng bastions | that living wall of wind, 1 thought nd when, for a breathing space, | the end of the world had come mul‘ * xow | ptection in the Some little smoking white sen, afford to the enc ocean. dron frugments they are making a ster and all, save the w those grim and naked tu i lexs s wxiern, our course f s he foremst ety vily, il the winds are hushed in the halls of did for us. heaven, one would that neither time nor lightning-stroke could pre against them. To xee those same specter-rocks in the hoil of hite- | lipped hurricane makes one realize | g ieking the ultimute outcome of the conflict | *"HieKIng is sure. |Had iunllu' it nearly and com of wux Just after four bells in the | Tabored very in evel plate heam “ afternoon watch following a | (uall that exceeded all that | while the bark like a « the week or up like a night It xeemed u period of pery U darkiess and the fierce huffeting incessant gale We appeared 1o make no hewdway. Dy and night was an endless round work in ey water on the swirling decks or aldoft in driving squalls of hail and sleet. Iee froze on the yvards and the ropes were conted with [reezing spray. Life under such conditions w but @ combination of darkness and misery our rotten ol halfdeck feet under water the whole Every stitch of bedding and clothing we possessed wax wet through: not a dry shirt had one of us to his name. We vowed it would have heen crue to house a pig in a place. And almost like pigs we lived. Unwashed, | unshaven, never even removing our sean boots, we wolfed our scanty meals anyhow and turned in all-standing. A e k on it I e u of one still s me before, and wory haif-tide | monstrous kR THE trumpet of Michael does not xound first, one distant day the waves of the Sonthern Ocenn wiil ring the voring forties round, with continent athwart their path and only | Kernels of istands wesmother i their | watke To descend from the sublime to the | the A mighty | bark | waters were very he death of | @ gladiater, sore stricken und faint ing, careless of the clamor around We were off the pitch of the Horn | and the uplifted sword of an exultant at the time, and the weight of the | foe. luried deep under w weight of wind rose hurricane force, All | water, there was no life In her. through the previous night we had | Higher and higher the comber rose, | run with only tops'ls set; the coming | With a toppling, concave crest, swiftly of the sullen dawn brought no cess: overtaking the ship. We doubted the tion in the wind, which still rose and | staggering hull would ever rise to it | rose in - blinding, unfaceable hail-|and there was little need for the old | saualls. | mun's hoarse shout: “Hang on alll”| In the forenoon the fore tops’l was | We sprang for stanchion and backstay taken in and the only canvas left |and clung desperately to them. The spread was the slender strip of the | towering gray-beard swept down on main Jower tops’l. Few square feet the ship, came up with her and was of canvas as were left, it was ho unswering rise. hark 10 stagger under. bove the taffrail poles would have heen enough. loomed, and the next Strange it was to look aloft and see | it fell, the reeling spars gleam vellow and| "The naked against the leaden sky. In|above could not place of the sheeted tiers we were | rihle. Rix feet above the poop deck we were burled under a black weight of water. For the space of a few sec onds we know not if the bark still floated or was being forced down to the depths inexorably. Through in- stinct more than exercise of will I hung on, with the strangle-hold of a nightmare upon me and the deadly thunder of water in my ears, 1 felt my shoulders were being wrenched out as demon fingers pluck | ed at me: then the weight of the av he lifted, and I knew the blessed of light and freedom again. It it have lasted for more than the | | spiee of & few seconds, but it suffic me Lo learn the meaning of th thet in eternity a thousand y but + moment The bosun and I had jumped for | the port mizzen rigging and had been clinging o the topmas backatay. A | | the water passed we looked up. The | | great roller that had pooped us swept for'ard and buried the ship deep under a green swirl of water. liven asx we looked, two walls of water rushed in over ihe submerged bulwarks and Collided down the lensth of the ship. | | The hull settled and felt dead be neath our feet . “My God, she's gonel” said the | bosun 1 glanced at the fore t'gallant vard, motionless against the skv. Tt'was the iast thing 1 ever expected fo see Nothing of the ship was visible save the deck of the focs’le head, like a lonely rock. Another bucket of water would have done for us, | * ok % Kk tew seconds stricken ar swoon. An monster was roll- | bhefore it veached wias wallowing ¢ Y vock, thut we saw foanlike breaker rolling up astern, We haud seen many but this wus ceming It pressed like bel glants, unopposable stride. behay i of the hardly that troubled us. heé lay re of W glant wmong with was N those samne nothing cold nearly wis two | time, to such X SPITE of all our discomforts, and a1lithe | et by Bare | High | reet it 40 or mome they e were accentuated hy that wrists through the constant clothing, we he thankful the hoils neck and chafe of | vet had for. The and sea-sores covered the firmament from have been more ter- | fall of something to we lay, FFox s were, | ot white-lipped |ing up astern, but e the gallant old bark seemed to mike @ mighty effort. She quivered | A Tabored heavily up, throwing the | ter from her main deck and lifting streaming bows ! As the roller swung down upon us. | stern rose slowly i, and it \nd under, lifting ihe bark | Ahoulders, spoutlng cataracts i every port The worst was {over: we had come through that and Were ready to face fresh onsiaughts With confidence. { But what havoc it had played with | '\« 1 looked aft 1 sawebig Mac at \wheel and the old man. bare- | hended, at his elbow. The wheel-hox had uiterly gone and the well oiled IS ings stood hare to the spray. “The binnacle still stood. but the cabin fury of the (kylight had gone to matchwood squalis it seemed that bure steel and | “rrons and tons of water had fallen wire itself could hardly stand. The |pelgw, flooding the cabins and filling sea wis a moving mountain range | mem with @ Ntter of wood and splin- of water: & broken expanse of green | hemn Wih & [LS 5 of the laxaretts und white, running true as though | (.q smashed in and the fragments of lald by line, and with ll"{ll]'flrln).’w‘h’ wcuttle held only by a broken swing - hinge. All the poop gratings, the cov- Half the world seemed to heave up | ering hoard and the weather cloth had shouldered some league-long | ering | disappeared utterly. The poop was not a cable’s length could we | swept bare. see when the lls swooped down.; What had happened on the main In the height o asts the crests | deck we couldn’t see. but the flying of the roliers were hlown headlong in | bhridge was smashed and the boat a flurry of spindrift that hung like | jashed on top of the house—a full a mist. | seven feet above the deck—was stove There was no chance to wear or |in and lay, a dejected raffle of boards heave to. To have brought her broad- {and broken edges, held together only side on, if only for a moment, to those | by the lashings in which ft was mighty “following seas would have | swathed meant instant destruction. Like the | Nor had the men escaped. All hands Alexandrian sail of old, the ship “was | were there. but more or less battered. caught and could not hear up into |Severalof them were bleeding: the sec the wind.” There was no alternative ond mate was propping John Nielsen, sea run up into the land. The lofty, | but to let her drive. white-faced and harely consclous, up precipitous coasts have heen hacked | Only our best steersmen were al-|in the companion. The old mate lay and hewn into deep fiords, and archi- [lowed at the wheel. Another man | under the mizzen rizging with his foot p-u?n of multitudinous islands lie | was stationed to leeward to bear & |dsoubled in a tangle of ropes, unable to off thelr seaward outlets. hand with the spokes. The vld man riee, ~ 0 ey n s | from “FOR A MOMENT HE DAN ‘D IN THE AIR." great wenteriien hield true to their] had against. ustomed to. nothing but the wet | o gleam of painted steel and the tense- | e Iy drawn lines of unquivering cord age. Fore and aft no stitch of can vas_ except those rigid. straining tri- angles at the main, To the hail-whipped name and we no headwinds to | contend Our but not beating into the progress wax slow through time lost teeth of the wind. The furious gale kept ever on the qguarter It rose | and rose in successive blasts until the | culminating blow leapt at us like the breath of the hurricane, yet never be. fore the beam And the sen wind It was nificent sight. | was worthy of such a a wonderful, a mag- From horizon to hori- zon the rollers stretched, undulating hills with snowy crests. In those latitudesx the ever a ridge of land Lo check thel Lencircling sweep, nd the majesty of vcean is nowhere | so_prominent. i Small wonder that the apex of the | South American continent ix slowly be- ing worn away before the unceasing ' siege and onslaught of the sea. Those mighty rollers have worn the barrier | thin The western seaboard fretted into a million reefs and isolated rocks. Long tongues of has heen and islands i, Cost of Mal&ing a Success.ffllrilrpianist | cou | higher in New | with | For Vo The steward, cabin, was nearly no escape for height three cabin ze of feet deep swishing waod on BY MISCHA | MONG the the of the pantry drowr wat in th hout top a man who was below 1ed er flap, and saloon with a e nd OF WATER RUSHED IN OVER THE SUBMERGED BULWARKS AND COLLIDED DOWN THE LENGTH OF THE SHIP. in the There was up to the it lay and wreck a reef « them, conning the |weather off the mouth of the River | Plate, where we ran into a “pampe The hinnacle was useless ken for (as the hot violent winds blowing di- all we knew, for the Flinders bars had rectiy off the vast pampas of South | zone with the skvlight. Eye alone had | America are called. The wind rushed to guide the ship now. ai us like a witch on a breomstick, the Night came, and still the old man air grew as black as pitch, and a rat- stood there, and the next day broke | tling volley of thunder cracked and and he hadn't once moved away. He banged above our heads. rarely spoke, hut. with eves ranging | We worked blindly and frantically at to port. to starboard and aloft, direct- the ropes in our effort to snug the ship ed the steering with motions of hand down. With the wind blowing great and arm. The navigators among us |guns, we lay aloft to furl the bellowini were fond of criticizing the old man, canvas and restore the stampedin; bhut that night he silenced ecriticism. [*hip to some sort of peace and order. as far as had weather was concerned, | All that night it raged, but at daylight onee and for all. We should have baen [the pampero sullenly blew itself out. in a bad plight but for his skill and |Then we made sail and resumed the endurance. tenor of our dayv's work. Fortunately. oue sopd There followed several weeks of sail- stood. We carried nothing away aloft |ing in light airs, and then one evening though several {imes we had to las |We sighted the winking light of the out on the yards and secure a sall | Bishop. the farthest-flung outpost of that was in’ danger of being blown | England’s shorex and the beacon light adrift. For the rest, all hands could |of home. Eventually I set foot again only shelter on the peop—sold, hungry |00 English soil, after 16 months at sea, and heavy eyed. walting for a break to | W m‘nm .vh—' et of romance and ad- o wiida venture had drawn me. s A Wherein lies the lure of the ses What constitutes fts superlative charm that has called men down the ages? It is customary to ascribe the growth of the sea habit to the needs of economic development, the desire for riches, or the pressuse of peoples from behind. Perhaps these played a part, but I will never helieve they were sufficient in themselves to impel the first drench- ed barbarian to put off to sea in his hollowed tree trunk. or those old Egvp tians to venture forth in their trussed and girded vesels to the land of Punt Something more than that was need ed: it must have been the irresistible fascination to the spirit of man of the unknown, of what might lie between standing before ship. b tops'l FTHE fury of the gale moderated a little on and we were able to repair the broken skylight and restore the waterlogged cabins to some semblance of order The wind still lessened. and at night fall we shock out both lower tops’ls | and were able to hring the ship to her | course. On the following morning it had dropped to a fresh gale and we set the upper tops’ls. ! The old mate gamely struggled on to the poop and directed the work from there. Tommy coaxed a fire into the galley stove and we had a welcome cup of coffee. Chips was kept hard at work | the tumbling expanse of water and the | hoarding up the skylight, and the can- | empty blue vault above tain spent a long time adjusting the| The sea instinct—the love and under- jeompass as best he could standing of the sea. no less « Mot e It i impossible to describe the might | has heen the main r ason for urging and mafesy of a pe Ha men afloat, as much for that old hero Words are not capable of such a thing. | who “bulted off and on until it should | One is tempted to pile fve o ad: | prsane Gind: to clenr the: f6e™" am foe (he jective and revel in terms that from |jae polar seaman who laid down his | the mouth of rearing Tuphon dropped | jife on the scene of his conquests would seem hyperholes. Of all that salt-scarred host, sea eap. It's all useless. Those who have not| 4ins and seaman, the Horn, it seems He was all{who have need no shake of memory’s | emblem of their exploits and the meas wing. Seen from the deck of a little | yre of their valor. The grim old Cape bark of a thousand tons or so. such a |je tha Valhalla of seamen. Nowhere sea is the high watermark of elemen-| cjce in this old world do the giant tal majesty forces of nature walk with un- After rounding the somber headland. | ahashed and imperative a stride we encountered one streak bad | (Conyright. 19961 the following afterncon | seen | broken glass beneath. night bailing it out. All through that shrieking afternoon, with never a jot of abatement in wind or sea, we ran blindly on our way, two men at the helm and the old man, ! broad - shouldered and bare: headed, May Run Above $35,000, States Expert ny VITZKI. thousinds studying for careers in mu one How terms of nt of xuccess? 1. of conrse from the point and if you mike much should it money-making sty pilanist? 1 must of 1o theme wher ) fantastically, v At by of such questi It e much on doe oney an ta view the ost 1 ation reply wwide ar forever it 1k of question th: figures « result can bhe ing arises: costin get to the principally A planist How rrive at u concert know vary will usual caleu the 1 by Jating on a basis of current costs, ke o suppositi assume that studies in Ameri der why Americ: past have gone se their tuition course, princip Y Iy . tious plani I ) st ople students W st makes his often wons in the much to ISurope for hat bec has use bee of gre of ter prestige of the European teachers fore that thy cheaper., West, for e choice of w Be into both the war, but 1t has also fuct that study A your Ko lin to study, consideration tuitic Now n prices, we price of lessons siderably tha for voice w struction $10 a However, while the age of 17 or studying for seldo or four yvears | fessional work to study as a ch and many begin a went on my first which meant 11 study, and this me werige, So let pil studies tor 11 is well enough bac zet the best instri teacher w less a lesson sons vear, and teacher fur five ve: the tuition bill t probably go for th er priced teache lesson. These th $4.860, and the still another k. whic he will a wes instunce. 1 oof York than in Herlin on the basis of current fore thers e ix no doubt rested somew hat in Kurope is much = if y to migh thit IS firs a th: i New re. it th ing t of pin at ordinary sson 1% m me ild. t conce ay be years ked at ho h cont s, s o 33, rec costi Mal three f the singer and e beginning the planist must begin began 1 In £t t tak an with money from the d hetween York or ke of much e costs are Ameri that the is con of lessons piano in airly high hegins at continues than three pro " no at my case 1 our at 18, vears of preliminary ken for an 8 sy our supposititious pu \d that he He will hey charges He will take thre cones nue Ay 400 ng vears how ye s los. to $780 a with this That runs He will years to a high him $10 a will cost i $8.580, rs he will CHOPIN, THE PIANIST'S INSPL- probably go to a RAT T0N. rity s gone far enough now to need the most expert instruction and he attaches himself Twenty- of reputation lesson and three | much for this bill now is $12,480. wants to specialize in G Bach and who are famous of in pianis pin, sy, or He goes 1o specialists in the posers he desires takes short, inten them. in inte ive to a rpretation, pianist dollars a s A week ix not Three comes (o $3,900, and the to ¥ ars of it 1 tuition The young pianist ts music to nsive cult cou ieg nd Cho- <chumann. the com ivate and ses with This may stand him another $1,000, and the total ix $13.4X0 by the iime he is ready to give his first con- cext. A first recital I loss, usually a hea s nes vy I i always a The begin- ner may play around at various pro- vinclal places, but the real beginning of his_ American career comes with a New York recital, for the purpose of getting metropolitan criticisms a New York recital is expensive. standardized. ' United Stateg rates are pretty well Now Its The rental of a concert hall will come Vto a minimum of $225 A pianist us ually needs even more advertising in| We now can wrife a total in figures the way of circularizing and news- | something like these paper space than a singer. These |suudy previous to items will cost easily $700 or $800. | Firet ve | The recital witogether will cost close |loss on | upon $1.000. A manager, and we can assign a to cover them total of $10,000 | jowski. with whom I studied until was 15, and it cost me not a penny. Then 1 went to Berlin and attended {the Hoffschule. My difficulty there was a matter of age. The rule was they admitted no one into the atory under 18. It was all the for my chances. since my sole | object in going to the Berlin conserva tory to become a pupil of Doh- nanyi. who was one of the instructors there —and Dohnanyi is renowned for having @ violent prejndice azainst in fant prodigies’ I telephoned to him and got an au dience at his house without mention ing my When he saw me in my 1 eginning of career £1:3 48 | unless our beginner | demonstrates an exceptional talent. Will charge him a fee of $4.000 or $£3.000 to build up a concert tour fo him, this covering the expenses of man on the road. and so on. There will be a huge printing of programs, circulars and posters, which for the vear will total an exnenditure of, say. | $1.500. Newspaper and magazine ad vertisements will cost $5,000. Nearly all the concerts will fail to bring into the box office anvthing like enough to cover concert hall rent and the | cost of traveling and living on the road. 1 such losses do not mount to a total of $1.000 for all the concerts the beginner is very lucky. Probably the deficit will be more. 0w, of course, he is still studying | and will continue to study as much #s ever for several vears m He is likely to go in for m specialized and more expensive tuition and will ily run up a cost for the vear equal to that of the vear just previous Thus the first year Will show a net deficit ¢ Now. assuming that our debutant develops the mastership that assures success, we will not he excessive if we give him four years hefore his tours begin to earn a profit. His losses each year will hecome smaller _—m will and it will the beginner of concert Now 1 said in the beginning figures reckoned as the cost of a suc cessful pianistic career will vary fan- tasticallv. All of the above calcula tions may vanish into absurdity with the appearance of one magical fac ghort trousers he was quite indignant, tor—talent. If the pupil has the good | but 1 persuaded him so earnestly that fortune to display an early talent he | he allowed me to play for him. Then may go through his training period 1 revised limit in my case. with next to no cost at all. Of course, | I studied under his o tion at the A pupil may display an early talent | Hoffschule for three year Scholar and never live up to it. or he may dis- | ships were given only to Germans, so play only a small early talent and |1 could not get one and had to pay develop the greatest powers. These | tuition It came to about £100 a year. are things that cannot be reckoned | 1 had a similarly easy time in he on, and they affect most profoundly | ginning my concert work. The the whole question of the cost of a | coming of the war altered my plan of career establishing a Kuropean reputation My hefore returning to America to play I came to New York in 1918 and cave my first recital without delay. 1 lost fome money it. but not much. 1 wasn't able to make any elaborate preparation for it. I had no trouble in placing myself with one of the im por 1t manag My outlay was very small and after the first two or three recitals on the road 1 hegan to make money All of this who is able 1 of talent important stand as an investment, he a good investment if should rise to any kind business, that he ot own will 1 case suffice to horn in Russia. My father, an American citizen, had re turned from America to Russia. where he remained for some vears. I received my first lessons on the piano from a woman of our neighborhood who saw me greatly interested in a piano she had in her parlor and was kind enough teach me a little simple fingering. For a couple of vears after that 1 studied a little at absurdly illus . on concertizing sy, $12.000. i tvpical of the make an early here are any teachers who obviensly gifted pupil for the preetige that his sue will bring to them, and similarly the concert managers will often take such a one with scarcely any outlay to him seeing to it that he wiil hecome paving proposition The “Snow Myth.” INORTHWARD heyond <7 timit the land of eternal snow and Eordite popular pupil display number af will take an and teach him Tardieu’s Influence. (Continued from Second Page.) ratls hook about en he went home to Parliament to which he elected. His voice, ever facts and figures in cles became a terror The peace of Versailles e he wrote a book about it. Mes he was a great aid and probahly comfort to the aged Prime Minister | Clemencezu. who saved the war and made the peace. He wus minister of the liberated provinces, whose devasta- tions had to he repaired With Prime Minister Poincare. who next took up the reine of government, Andre Tardien did not co-opernte, al though it is said that M. Poincare wished him to do so and offered him the post of minister of the interion Today the financial Petit Rleu xeems (o love neither, hrings i) iinst Tardien that old refusal 1o |serve. It says: “If Tardieu had! jworked along with Poincare, things would have changed completely, nt least in their ulterior e« nFequences, Ve should not have been in this pres. ent period of difficulties and muddle, | | wherein we risk our future.” | “Andre Tardi it contnues, “is small # patriot in the exact meaning of the | to play after a fashion word—that ix, a Frenchman fully in-| I was 7 when my f formed of all national questions and back to the United { ot mixing up with his patriotism the | He was very poor and could afford me | 085 24 hours of sunshine. At 10 de Intolerable exaggerations of profes-|ne further study. But a friend of ‘Stees north latitude there are 73 days sional patriots. And above all other whe had some musical standing, , ¥Ith continuous sunshine. unbroken {interests, he will always put his coun-iheard me play and advised my father | $2%€ by clouds. At the pole there interests and the necessary re-|io take me to Dr. Damrosch with the |27 SIX months of continuous daylight IS dEher i ] e Lt " | Several hundred square miles of Arctlc It Is not a foreigner's business to |scholarship in the Institute of Musical | AMerica have more than 30 days of |appreciate such words. But if Andre | Ar | Sl ';'_m-m-r:.,rpflnnes his p‘:!t-o in the | Damrosch us and 1 French Parliament we shall see light | played for him no means an ! P i on many dark things. And if. with his | infant prodisy. I had none of that T - masterful ‘knowledse and power of [weird technical facility that vou see| A TEST f exposition, he does not get into gov-'in many absurdly small children. But “ P lor- ernment, it will be. perhaps, because [that uncanny technique is really not ribed by Prof. John J. B. Mor his ambition is misdirected or lack- an important factor. There ix some. | €an of Northwestern University. It ing—and not by stubbornness like that | (hing in the most simply played phrase | consists in showing the person being {of Mussolini. {that betokens talent. Dr. Damiosch | (psted series of 10 symmetrical Ink | In any case. Andre Tardieu will re.|MUst have perceived just that in the | plots, some with black alone and oth main one of those notable French pub. | % veral little plecex I plaved for him. | are with red, green and vellow inten T men of (N4 war and Afterar who |H Was Very! Kind. 'and ot with the black and asking are remembered A% ‘Americans |Scholar<hip in the Institute 1/ the simple question. “What might | Clemenceau, Viviani. Briand and now | Art. | Lo e S Sialt e A Au Berenger. For all these men renewed | After a little peri «l of study under | ures classes the subject as conven their minds by direct contact with the |preliminary teachers they put me in| tional or of a certain persoraliy the class of the great master Sto- type. : 4 “Amerfea in Arme” France and had heen ready with hiting order to all and sundry so0d the tree is of endless cold, ice—at least belief, and some t But this story eternal ice is an interesting myth. The ftacts of climate are quite differ- ent, savs Tycos The Arctic Winter is ifdeed long dark, cold and stormy. but@he actual number of inches of snowfall is less than in northern Virginia. for exam The cold, therefore dry. air of Arctic regions cannot produce muel rainfall: in many places it is only 10 inches or even less. The rainfall heing lizht, the snow does not get very deep. Believers in the snow-myvih seem never to think of the intense heat of jthe Arctic Summer. when the sun does double duty by shining also at night At 60 degrees north Iatitude the longest day has 1813 hours of sun <hine. At 6 2.3 degrees north latitude, ates with him. |At the Arctic Circle, the longest day ac. to text books still in use. MISCHA LEVITSKIL rates in onr town and learned | hope received . I was by personality has been de