Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1902 — Scheel’s Prompt Reply. [ARTICLE]

Scheel’s Prompt Reply.

Fritz Scheel, director of the Philadelphia orchestra, has a fondness for American slang and colloquialisms that its fpir in excess of his aptness in acquiring the exact words and sense. When he first came to Philadelphia in the summer of 1899, he was struck by the expression “out of sight” spoken with fine heartiness to indicate pleasure and satisfaction with the general order of things. Scheel determined to make use of it at the first opportunity and to that end repeated it over and over to himself, always keeping in mind the circumstances under which it should be uttered. Mr. Elias met the musician one afternoon when the latter was playing at Woodside park and cheerily called out: “How are you, Fritz?” “You don’t see me!” was Scheel’s prompt and amazing reply.—Philadelphia Times.