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More Conquests.
Freeborn Q. Smith, Sr., Manu=
facturer Bradbury Pianos,
in Baltimore, Md.
* | S | R ' S M I T H l e f t Brooklyn on the limited
~*^ j - express, Saturday, to complete arrange-
ments with Mr. Milton Hughes, corner of
Charles and Fayette streets, one of the best
locations in the city of Baltimore, for the agency
and sale of the " Old Reliable Bradbury " and
his Webster pianos. On his arrival in Balti-
more, telegraphed Mr. Gibson, Secretary of
the Weaver Organ Co., to come to Baltimore at
once to arrange for the agency of the Weaver
organ for that territory.
He then, in his characteristic way of travel-
ing, boarded the next express train for Wash-
ington to spend a day or two with his manager,
Mr. W. P. Van Wickle, at his extensive head-
quarters, 1225 Pennsylvania avenue, N. \V. He
also visited his old friend, Senator A. H. Col-
quitt, of Georgia, and his family.
Despite his sixty-six years, Mr. Smith looks
the very picture of health, and flies around as
rapidly as a young man ; he reports the revival
of his business at home and among his houses
and agents as improving very much.
Mr. Smith expressed no objection to the tariff
bill, provided Congress would tax whiskey, beer,
tobacco, cigarettes and cards, all of which he
considers as luxuries to those who use them,
and those who enjoy these luxuries, he says,
should pay for them ; he considers the income
tax as iniquitous, he thought it just as a war
measure, but thinks it uncalled for now, and
likewise is of the opinion that it will make any
administration unpopular; and he further be-
lieves that the expense necessary to enforce and
collect this tax would consume a very large por-
tion of the income so derived.
He is also giving some attention, while in
Washington, to the upper and lower houses of
Congress, as a few years ago he was a candidate
for Congress'on the Business Men's Temperance
ticket; however, no matter what may be said
regarding Mr. Smith's not "getting there"
politically, it cannot be gainsaid but that he
has reached the highest pinacle in the trade as
a piano manufacturer, for there is no man who,
in the same number of years and with the
limited means he had when commencing busi-
ness, has been more eminently successful.
"THE HIGHEST TYPE."
STUCK
HANDS
DUNHAM & Co., Manufacturers,
MANUFACTURED BT
Factory and Warerooms, 1881 Park avenue, cor.
128th street N. Y.
He Prevented a Panic.
171 AND 173 SO. CANAL STREET,
CHICAGO.
THE
Sterling Company,
.tW REMEMBER once to have seen the role of
^
a hero played with all the spontaneity of
real genius by a poor stage supernumerary, says
a writer. It happened during a battle scene in
Henry V. at a Philadelphia theatre. In a lull
in the firing the audience discovered that a part
of the scenery at the top of the stage was ablaze.
A stampede was imminent. Half the people in
the house were already on their feet. Two men
could be seen aloft, making desperate efforts to
tear away the burning scene. This added to the
consternation. Another instant and a panic
would have ensued, in which many lives would
have been lost.
Such was the situation, when out of the troop
of soldiers on the stage stepped a '' super,'' and
in a roaring "aside," addressed to the trem-
bling audience, he shouted :
" Kape yer sates ! Don't yer see the fire is
in the play ? ''
The effect was magical. Few believed the
statement, but unconsciously everybody dropped
back into his chair and the play went on. A
roar of laugh'ter followed, and though it was
five minutes before the fire extinguishers com-
pleted their work, not a trace of fear reappeared
among the members of the audience.
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1834—Those Interested
Kindly Remember.—1894
© H A T every improvement in that universal
-e> house instrument, the pianoforte, is a
subject of deep interest alike to the critic and
the amateur.
The celebrated firm of Dunham & Co. have
accomplished the desideratum in an upright
piano which, in all essential points proves a
wonderful instrument. It is of the ordinary
size, but in the volume, the power of tone, it is
scarcely below that of the best grand piano. A
phenomenal power of tone in an upright piano
is generally, if not always, gained at the ex-
pense of purity and refinement of tone. If it is
exceptionally loud it is sure to be coarse and un-
sympathetic, in fact abnormal power having
been gained at the expense of quality. Such
instruments should be avoided.
The Dunham upright piano, on the contrary,
while it is grand in power, is pure in quality
and sympathetic in the highest degree. Its
medium power, that which is generally used, is
of a refined and melodious character, admirably
suited to accompanying the voice, while with-
out destroying its pure sympathetic quality in
any portion of the entire scale, the utmost
physical force can be applied to it; the power
produced is extraordinary, and at the same time
it is of that kind which entrances the performer
as well as those that listen, and with a quality
of tone which is almost human in its vocal
beauty.
The manufacturers solicit a thorough exami-
nation of these instruments as to power, quality,
sympathy, brilliancy, touch and workmanship,
when they will be found not only worthy of ad-
miration, but of the serious consideration of all
who are contemplating the purchase of a piano-
forte.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Pianos and Organs,
FACTORY :
DERBY, CONN.
It is admitted by all thai no piano ever put upon the
market has met with such success as THE STERLING
and thousands will testify to their superiority of work-
manship and durability. Why ? Because they are made
just as perfect as a piano can be made.
THE STERLING ORGAN has always taken the lead, and
the improvements made this year puts it far ahead ol
all others. I®" Send for Catalogue.
Hallet & Davis Pianos
The Crown.
The piano and organ of these modern days
Is " The Crown," manufactured by Bent.
For tone and for compass, all musical ways,
It captures the hearer and rivets the gaze
Of thousands, on purchase intent.
These pianos have frame-work of iron, you
know,
Their cases have double veneer,
While the organs have bellows so easy to blow
That strains of rich music spontaneously flow,
Entrancing the listening ear.
Crown pianos and organs by Geo. P. Bent,
Are marvels of exquisite skill:
Their action unequalled, their workmanship
blent
With beauty of finish, by common consent,
Bent's instruments quite fill the bill.
GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT.
Indorsed by Liszt, Gottschalk, Wehli, Bendel, Straus, Soro, Abt,
Paulus, Titiens, Heilbron and Germany's Greatest Masters-
Established over Half a Century.
BOSTON, MASS.