K^rir'c of Revieiffn, IjOfOG. 



GO AHEAD, AUSTRALASIA! 



safety piX)vision of acquainting the drivei- and keep- 

 ing the head out of danger's way. 



The A\>lIington rights of the invention have been 

 s(>cured by the Tramway Company, and it is probable 

 tliat the device will be a'coepted by most tramway com-, 

 pauies throughout the world. Its merit will iiecpst,! 

 tate that. 



Mr. Garnet B Holmes. Mr. Arthur D. Allen. 



The Joint Inventors 01 the Hohnes and Allen .Automalie Non-KoulinK 

 Swivellins; Trolley-Head. 



The voung men whose photographs accompany this 

 are residents of Wellington (N.Z.). Mr. Holmes is 

 the 'on of Mr. John Holmes, so well-known in com- 

 mercial circles in New Zealand. They deserve some 

 public recognition on account of the ingenuity they 

 have manifested, and the hard work they have in- 

 dulged in, in perfecting a trolley-head for electric 

 tram-cars, .\nvbody that has to do with these, both 

 eraplovees and' passengers, knows iierfectly well the 

 trouble which is experienced with ordinary troUey- 

 head«. Their natural instinct, when they leave the 

 wire is to catch cross wires. A fertile imagination is 

 not noede<l to know what is likely to happen when 

 the ami attache<:l to the top of a tramway car fouls 

 in cross wires, when the car is going at a good rate 

 of speed. The invention of these young men makes 

 this danger a thing of the past. Wlien the trolley- 

 head, by anv chance leaves the guiding wire, the head 

 drnp.^. and";i bell is rung; thus giving the double 



Running Position of the 

 Holmes and Allen Auto- 

 matic Non-Fouling Swivel- 

 ling Trolley-Head for Elec- 

 trie Cars. 



Non-Foufing Position after 

 leaving Trolley Wire of the 

 Holmes and Allen Auto- 

 matic Non-Fouling Trolley 

 Head. 



Miss Myrtle Meggy. 



AN AUSTRALIAN PIANISTE. 



Miss Myrtle Meggy, a 

 pupil of the late Mr. Syd- 

 ney Moss, the jvell-knowii 

 conductor and teacher in 

 Sydney, has been creatiui: 

 ■A very favourable impres- 

 sion in the course of a con- 

 cert tour from Newfound- 

 land to Vancouver. On 

 Mr. Moss's death \i\> 

 friends and admirers sub- 

 scribed over £300 to enable 

 Miss Meggy to continue 

 her musical studies, which 

 she has since done under 

 Miss Verne, a famous 

 teacher at South Kensing- 

 ton, London. Shortly after 

 giving her first public re- 

 cital in the metroixilis. 

 which was very liighly praised by the London critics, 

 and especially by the Times, Miss Meggy was offered 

 the position of solo piauiste and accompanists to the 

 " Grand English Concert Company," which was to 

 give a series of 5.5 concerts in Canada. The company 

 comprised, in addition. Mdiiie. Langley. a popular 

 EngUsh violiniste, well known throughout the Do- 

 minion and South Africa; Miss Hope Morgan, a Cana- 

 dian soprano; and Mr. Stanley Adams, baritone, 

 and manager. Such flattering receptions and notices 

 greeted the ooiiipauy from the very commencement 

 of the tour that it was decided to extend it to Winni- 

 peg, the originally proposed terminus, right through 

 to Vancouver. Miss Meggy seems to have ■caught 

 on" from the first, herartistic temperainent. briUiant 

 technique, and masterly style impre-ssiiig the critics 

 all the more on account of her extreme youth. She 

 was generally taken for 16. but she was 18 when tlie 

 tour coiumenced. ■■ Her talent lies not oidy in her 

 technical skill," wrote one critic." "but the true musi- 

 cian is there to give what mere brilliancy cannot 

 accomplish." This was the general tenor of the com- 

 ments, and a brilliant future is predicted for her by 

 universal consent. Writing on February- 20 from the 

 Province of Alberta, on the ea.steni side of tlie 

 Rockies. Miss Meggy refei-s incidentally to the awful 

 castastiophe which overtook the iiniiers and residents 

 of the township below Mount Frank, who were buried 

 beneath a mass of rock which fell from a height of 

 2.500 feet to a distance of about a mile, "Huge rocks 

 remain heaped up where the.v fell," she writes, "and a 

 small town now covers the spot which but a short 

 while ago was the scene of such desolation and death," 

 The compan.v »>xpected to reach Montreal in April, 

 and to !><• back in T/omhoi alxiut tiie end of Mav. 



