PAGE L . THE FIDDLERS' CONVENTION " The Center of Summer Golf 99 Equinox House Manchester-in-the-Mountains Yermont Important additions and improvements since last season On theIdeal Tour GEORGE ORVIS A. E. MARTIN, Manager, of Bon Air, Augusta, Ga. The Lorraine Fifth Avenue at Forty-Fifth Street New York City Apartments furnished and unfurnished for the season and yearly rentals Suites and rooms with bath transiently GEORGE C. HOWE GEORGE ORVIS PINEHURST PHARMACY A COMPLETE LINE OF Drugs, Sundries, Toilet Articles Confections, Stationery, Etc. Dot anb Golb Soba - Cigars ! Prescriptions Compounded by a Registered Pharmacist The Pinehurst Outlook, Newspapers and Magazines Department Store Building S. S. PIERCE GO'S IMPORTED HAVANA CIGARS fs bOSIuOD0 18 Sold at the Leading Hotels Your Summer Tour Will be incomplete, without nlY. ... . (..-.-l, a run through picturesque LJI A. VlL.LZ. NOTCrl You will find there the best service and homelike comfort ; and a well equipped garage. Write for interesting illustrated booklet. IIX VILLE WOTC1I.THE BALSAMS,He BaupiHln Philadelphia Office : 60S Perry Bldg., 16th and Chestnut Sts. Season's Ha rest Treat Announced lor Tuesday Evening: Next TUESDAY evening next, March 25, is the Date, Carolina Music Hall the Place, and the annual Convention of Native Fiddlers and Banjo Pickers the Event; the rarest treat of all the year, f From good old Scotland the custom has been handed down, and as redolent with the spirit of the Highlands it is today as it was in distant 1700. In this connection interesting histor ical facts concerning the people and the section and the convention itself were read by Mr. Leonard Tufts last year, which are especially apropos in this ad vance announcement. 1 The battle of Culloden in Scotland, in 1746, was the decisive battle in the long struggle be tween the reigDing House of Hanover and the House of Stuart, and in this battle the Scotch who fought for Prince Charles Stuart were completely routed and large numbers of them emigrated to this country. King George II of Eng land was anxious to capture Prince Charles Stuart, but Flora McDonald, a young Scotch woman, disguised him a3 her servant, and embarked with him to France. Afterward she returned to Scotland, was arrested and placed in the tower of London. On being asked by his majesty why she aided his enemy, she replied, " I did for him, sire, no more than I would do for you, if you needed my help." His majesty was so pleased that he liberated her, and soon she mar ried Allen McDonald and they joined their Highland friends who had settled in this section. The different sections of North Caro lina were settled by emigrants from dif ferent countries, and the boundaries of these are nearly as distinct today as they were one hundred years ago. The peo ple of this section were and are almost entirely Scotch, and the customs they brought from their native country have been handed down from father to son. As they did not travel, and as they fought every outsider who tried to settle here, the customs have changed but little, and it is said that one can get a better idea of what Scotland was in 1750 here than by visiting Scotland. Gaelic is still spoken by a few old men in this section, and only fifty years ago the ser vice was preached in Gaelic. The hand loom and spinning wheel are still used and some of the old people still adhere to the quaint customs of the Highlands. One of the customs that was brought over is the Fiddlers' Convention, which is a contest to see which is the best fid dler of the section. The method of hold ing the instrument is the same as was used in Scotland by the men who fiddled for reels. And when you consider that it is necessary to make the music loud enough to be heard above the noise of thirty or forty heavy boots executing a reel, and that these continued for hours, you can readily understand that the method of holding the instrument, we are familiar with, would take the strength and endurance of a Sandow. The airs are mostly music used for dancing the old Scotch reels, and many of them are un questionably the same as were played in the Highlands of Scotland in 1700. Each generation has taught the next and very few of the airs have ever been written, and probably none of the players can read music written for a violin. It is customary to open the Convention by all playing the same air, "The Missis sippi Sawyer," and then each player in turn plays a piece and is judged as to his ability. The name of each contestant and the piece he selects will be an nounced by the judges before each num ber. Each contestant will be limited to five minutes, and the judges will be al lowed to call on each as many times as they desire. While the judges are mak ing their decisions some of the fiddlers have volunteered to play duets and dance. Each player will be paid one dollar and there will be three prizes for the fiddlers of five dollars, three dollars and two dollars, and two for the banjo pickers of three dollars and two dollars. Arrangements have been made for sev eral banjo players which is a more mod ern instrument and is now usually intro duced into a Fiddlers' Convention. The object of the collection to be taken is to aid the Public School, which is doing such good work among the children. in iioxor of st. Patrick (Concluded from page one) dler; Frank Courtney, Hod Carrier; Gerald Sylvester, " Coon" ; James Aus tin, Mexican Gentleman; G. W. Scott, Tin Whistle Golfer; Wm. Jordan, Par cels Post. The list of prize winners included the following : Firsts William Jordan, An drew Amazeen, Luella Smith, May Kelleher, Mabel Hutchinson, Goldie Davis, Catherine Murphy, Elizabeth Murray, Beatrice Joyce, May Hopkins, Catherine McAnney, Margaret Folger, Alice Bland, Belle Breslin, Carl Nelson, George Scott, Charles Morrissey. Seconds James Austin, John Gilli gan, Mary Breslin, Mary Gaughan, Celia Walsh, Inez Stewart, Lizzie Carter, Annie Rollins, II. J. Fiske, Catherine Kennedy, Lewis Warren, Nellie Aldrich, Maude Mullen, Mae Burke, Lillian Mc Anney, Marjorie McAnney, ilenry Piper, John Moylan, Ilenry liuell, Gladys Gar dyne, Annie Devine, Loretta Watters. Thirds Edna Gardyne, Eliza Hutch inson, Delia Burke, Mary Murphy, Madge Smith, Anna Ilildreth, Dora Crull, Katherine Kelley, William Moy lan, William Downing, Frank Courtney, Carrie Egan, Delia Conroy, Laura Wil liamson, Mary Walsh, Beatrice Reynolds, Katherine Elvin, Katherine McDonald, Annie Wright and Edith Marsh. Get the Habit: Send The Outlook to Friends. "It Saves Letter Writing.' y A

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