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flUJIC TIRADE
VOL. XXXIX.
No. 5.
PnMUiii Eyery Sat, ty Edwari Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Aye., NevYort, Jnly 16,1904.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
CROP AVERAGES ARE HIGH.
APPRECIATION OF TONE QUALITY.
CALVIN WHITNEY RETURNS.
There Will Be Abundant Money to Buy Pianos,
for Wheat, Corn and Rye MaKe Good Show-
ing in Comparison with 1903.
As Demonstrated in the Grand the Subject of
a Booklet Issued by Checkering & Sons.
Back from Europe Much Rested — Enjoyed
London and Paris—Left Geo. H. Campbell
Much Improved in Health—Visited the
Tomb of Napoleon—Indorses Fairbanks.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, July 12, 1904.
Piano manufacturers and dealers doubtless will
be pleased to learn that the crop outlook is ex-
ceedingly satisfactory. Preliminary returns to
the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the De-
partment of Agriculture show the acreage of corn
planted to be about 91,930,000, an increase of
about 2,130,000 acres, or 2.4 per cent., on the area
planted last year, as revised in December.
The average condition of the growing crop on
July 1 was 86.4, as compared with 79.4 on July 1,
1903; 87.5 at the corresponding date in 1902, and
a ten-year average of 88.4.
The average condition of winter wheat on July
1 was 78.7, as compared with 77.7 last month;
78.8 on July 1, 1903; 77 at the corresponding date
in 1902, and a ten-year average of 78.3.
The average condition of spring wheat on July
1 was 93.7, as compared with 93.4 last month;
82.5 on July 1, 1903; 92.4 at the corresponding
date in 1902, and a ten-year average of 86.8.
The average condition on July 1 of spring and
winter wheat combined was 84.5, as compared
with 80 on July 1, 1903, and 82.9 at the corre-
sponding date in 1902.
The amount of wheat remaining in the hands
of farmers on July 1 is estimated at about 36,-
630,000 bushels, equivalent to about 5.7 per cent,
of the crop last year.
The average condition of the oat crop on July
1 was 89.8, as compared with 89.2 last month, 84.3
on July 1, 1903, 92.1 at the corresponding date in
1902, and a ten-year average of 87.3.
The average condition of barley on July 1 was
88.5, against 90.5 one month ago, 86.8 on July 1,
1903, 93.7 at the corresponding date in 1902, and a
ten-year average of 87.1.
The average condition of winter rye on July 1
was 88, as compared with 90.2 on July 1, 1903,
91.2 at the corresponding date in 1902, and a ten-
year average of 89.7.
The average condition of spring rye on July 1
was 90.8, as compared with 88.3 on July 1, 1903,
91.2 at the corresponding date in 1902, and a ten-
year average of 87.4.
A despatch from Tacoma says that the banner
wheat crop of the Pacific Northwest is now being
harvested in the wheat districts of Washington,
Oregon and Idaho. The winter wheat yield is
larger than was expected. Spring wheat is look-
ing fine and will produce an immense crop, pro-
viding hot winds do not shrivel it in the next two
weeks. Late rains have filled the ground with
moisture, almost insuring safety. Washington
will produce nearly 30,000,000 bushels, with 10,-
000,000 bushels more in the Potlach country of
Idaho and Umatilla County, Ore.
CALDWELL WITH CABLE COMPANY.
Chas. N. Caldwell, who for many years has
been connected with the sales forces of the Forbes
Piano Co., Birmingham, Ala., has joined the staff
of the Cable Company in that city, and has been
honored with a responsible position,
Chickering & Sons, of Boston, Mass., have re-
cently issued a very interesting booklet upon the
importance of the proper appreciation of the
quality of tone. It covers the subject so ad-
mirably that it makes good reading for the
dealer or salesman interested in this topic. We
take the liberty of quoting therefrom:
"The contention is often advanced that chil-
dren who are pursuing their early studies in
music do not require an especially good instru-
ment. How often does one hear the remark, 'As
soon as my children are more advanced, I mean
to get for them a new piano.' The fact that
while the child is attaining proficiency in tech-
nique, its ear is also being educated, is one too
often lost sight of, unwisely so, however, for
there is no time more important to the proper
education of the ear, that is, in bringing it to
an intelligent appreciation of quality of tone,
than that spent on the first lesson.
"In almost every criticism of the work of a
great pianist, especial mention is made of his
good or bad tone, and it lies very much in the
hands of the artist to produce this according to
his appreciation of what it should be. It becomes
clear, then, that no child should be allowed to
practice even its early exercises upon a worn or
inferior pianoforte.
"The upright, the result of our modern con-
densed conditions, is in every way an admirable
instrument on which to begin, but it is not the
truly artistic pianoforte that the grand is. Now
that the latter has been produced in a very small
size, the Chickering Quarter-Grand, occupying
as it does but little more space than an upright,
why not begin at once with the best piano ob-
tainable for the purpose? The price of these in-
struments has been put at a very moderate fig-
ure, enabling almost every one now the owner of
an upright, perhaps worn or not of the best make,
to become the possessor of a grand pianoforte.
"These quarter-grands may be seen at our
warerooms, or full information concerning them
will be sent upon application."
A PATRIOTIC WINDOW DISPLAY.
A very pretty and attractive window display at
J. P. Caulfield & Co.'s piano warerooms, 222 N.
Howard street, Baltimore, Md., attracted consid-
erable attention all last week. At the background
of the window was an army tent, by the side of
which was arranged a stack of muskets used in
the Revolutionary war. In the foreground was
a large brass cannon, to the left of which was a
Davenport & Treacy piano, upon which a lady
and gentleman, representing George and Martha
Washington, in court costume, played and sang
patriotic songs at intervals during the day. The
window in every part was gayly decorated with
the national colors. The walls had the pictures
of George and Martha Washington and a uniform
of the Continental army, also a sword of General
Washington's.
The Messrs. Caulfleld have received many con-
gratulations on the very handsome effect of their
window,
Bronzed by an ocean voyage, Calvin Whitney
reached New York on the steamer "Pretoria"
Saturday.
While discussing the events of his trip with
The Review, Mr. Whitney said: "The trip over
was most restful, and Geo. Campbell, of Denver,
who was with us, said to me that he wished the
voyage might last ten days longer, so much was
he benefited by the bracing sea air.
"Through the courtesy of Charles H. Stein-
way, of Steinway & Sons, New York (who has
crossed the Atlantic 57 times and who is well ac-
quainted with the officers of the Hamburg-Amer-
ican Line), we found that we were assigned seats
at the captain's table in advance of our sailing,
all of which was very pleasant and much appre-
ciated by our party.
"We enjoyed our visit to London and Paris,
and when I left Mr. Campbell he was a new man.
He had lost all of the fatigue and all trace of
sickness with which he was threatened at the
time of our departure.
"My tarry in London was enjoyable. Judge
Wickham and I called upon Ambassador Choate,
who provided us with tickets which admitted us
to the English Parliament. They have a livelier
time there in some respects than we do in our
Congress, and it was nearly midnight when we
left the session.
"We were also gracefully entertained by Con-
sul-General Evans, who, by the way, is an old
friend of Judge Wickham's. They were in Con-
gress together. While in London we lunched by
invitation at the Caf6 Royal with Chas. H. Wag-
ener, vice-president of the Apollo Co., and who
also holds the same office in the Melville Clark
Piano Co., of Chicago.
"Westminster Abbey to me was particularly full
of interest, and I refreshed all of my early Eng-
lish history by visiting noted spots which were
familiar to me through youthful reading. I may
add that as Americans we were handsomely re-
ceived everywhere. The Louvre, Paris, of course
was full of interest, and every American should
visit the Invalides, where the great Emperor
sleeps, surrounded by his marshalls.
"In Paris I met Mr. Harry Williams, of I. T.
Williams & Sons, the veneer men of New York.
"I was glad to learn that Senator Fairbanks
was nominated for the Vice-Presidency. He is a
good man, and I have known him personally for
a number of years in connection with educational
affairs in Ohio," and Mr. Whitney showed a per-
sonal letter which the Senator had sent in re-
sponse to Mr. Whitney's cablegram congratulat-
ing him upon his nomination.
Mr. Whitney left Monday night for Boston and
will visit a number of cities before his return
to Norwalk.
Andrew J. Schleicher, head of Schleicher &
Sons, piano manufacturers, died on Sunday last
at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was forty-
five years old.