PERFUME CONCERT FAILS. Scoffers Spoil It with Tobacco Smoke and Facetious. Remarks — Esthetes and Deaf- Dense clouds of tobacco smoke and the hilarity of the unbelievers. who could not imagine that there might be such a thing as a perfumery concert, put an end last night to the chief attraction offered at the benefit entertainment for E. E. Rice In the New York Theatre, ‘The place was crowded, and with patrons not often seen in a vaudeville house. There | Sas « little colony of-deaf-mutes who were all eagerness for a concert. They had never heard one and were busy through the acts preceding the number in which they Were most interested signaling to one an- other how great wculd be the pleasure if 1 should prove possible for them to enjoy a recital where suggestions of music would come to them through their olfactory nerves. Near by them was a man with a decided Cyrano de Bergeraz nose. who was all eagerness for the entertainment. He went so far as to hiss the other performers that they might be short in their encores, and he be enabled to share in the delights of a perfume concert through his splendid- iy developed organ of smell. Not far away was a group of ptople who have been accustomed to flee to the mountains by fore the flowers begin to bloom, that the dune roses may not bring on the dreaded hay fever, In addition there were quite 2 number of people of aesthetic tastes eager to experience-a new and presumably deligh ful sensation. The others of the dience had come to ye amused with hors play, ragtime, dancing, and singing sou- breties. They ‘had no faith In the perfume recital. and they chlefly contributed to its failure, It had been anncunced that Sadakichi Hartmann, who styles himself on the play pin" Chrysanthemum.” in honor of his birthplace, would conduct the recital, which he called * A’ Journey to Japan.” Two boxes about the size of beehives were placed on thé stage. Behind. themwere powerful electric fars, and the con- ductor was going t¢ put in the boxes linen saturated with perfumes. the extracts of the flowers of the nattons. The air cur- rents were to drive the odors out into the theatre. He appeared, a lean Htfle man, with the undeniable mark of enthusiastic belief in his power to please and an aesthetic joy at his chance to show that he could do sa. The currents were thrown on and had power enough to blow back the tobacco smoke in dense clouds from the pit of the house and into the galleries and the boxes. The people of delicate eusceptihilities and the longing for the new sensation ap- plauded. The man with the big nose shout- ed bravo. The deaf-mutes stamped their ?eet and slapped their hands. All might have been well if a man in the gallery had nat interrupted the conductor, as he was telling the audience of the journey he was going to take them on. The interpre- ter at the conclusion of the speaker's re- quest that the audience.lend him their imaginations, shouted: ““Taint necessary, I smell it now, and its Barren Island: * Hartmann was deep- Iy distressed at the laughter which fol- towed. He told about the steamer geiting under way. when. another irreverent per- son shouted that he did not like the smell of the scuppers and that there were too many aboard who were sea sick. Hart- mann grew visibly nervous. He announced that he had his voyagers in England where they could smell the wild rose. The theatre was rapldly filling with the pleasant aroma when some one shouted: “Hey. Professor! There is a discord in that: perfume melody. You struck a jar- ring note. which reminds me of the time the Bas meter leaked."' ube nan bene bhted ee Cea. ea. a in teen ne = ee ““Hartm. tre! “with sorrow and con- fternation, He said that the voyagers were in Germany as they could tell by the per- ' fume of the violet. The odor was quite dis- tinct and very agreeable. One of the ob- jJectofs said that he recognized a lost cord. or a broken E string. He was sure that the plumber was trying the peppermint test on the sewer pipes. Hartmann could not go on. He howed, and with his face filled- with very real pain, sald in a broken voice that he would have to be excused: he could not give the con- cert under such conditions. Two geisha girls. who had been assisting in the per- formance faced the storm of disapproval and won favor with a dance. The deaf-mutes filed out, with thefr fin- gers busy telling their disgust with the audience and sympathy for the performer. The man with the big nose shoved his way through the crowd. whom he termed ‘“pigs.” and the esthetic people and the hay-fever crowd scattered like frightened sheep caught nibbling in the flower beds.