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thousand feet of metal tubing connecting the
key-desk with the chests,
The "stops" are replaced by an abridged key-
Plan Discussed to Start One Here When Hud-
board over the swell manual. The depression of
son Tercentenary Begins.
a white key opens the register, while the depres-
sion of the corresponding black key closes it.
About 200 business and professional men of
The usual open wind chest is not found on this
New York gathered at Carnegie Lyceum Friday
night to formulate plans for a permanent expo- instrument. Each stop stands on a separate
sition in New York, to begin in 1909, when the "stop-chest," whose wind supply is absolutely un-
affected by the others, and which can be removed
three hundredth anniversary of the discovery of
separately. It can have the tremulant applied to
the Hudson River is to be commemorated.
The meeting, presided over by John R. Van it or not, according to the organist's will.
The scale and treatment of all the stops are
Wormer, president of the Lincoln Trust Co., de-
specially adapted to the acoustics of a church,
cided to appoint an executive committee of fifteen
and they are all regulated with the utmost care
to investigate the project. George N. Kingsbury
directed attention to the fact that there are 200,- in the building.
There are twelve flutes, differing vastly in
000 strangers in New York every day from whom
support might be secured. Dr. E. Parmley timbre, volume and pitch. The gross flute is an
Brown said that J. P. Morgan & Co. would act excellent example of the stop, while the flauto
as treasurer of a fund to be raised, and that Miss traverso is most pleasing. There are six stops of
Helen Gould and others of prominence would distinctly string tone, including the echo aeoline,
serve upon committees. The idea of the exposi- and the exquisite vox celestis.
The reed stops include the trumpet and corno-
tion is contained in this extract from the resolu-
pean of large and powerful quality. The clari-
tions adopted:
"The proposed celebration should take the form onet is one of the smoothest and most imitative
of a permanent international exposition, to be ever made. The oboe, however, is one of the
opened in 1909 and to continue annually there- lately invented metal flue pipes, without any
after, not a mere ephemeral world's fair, but a reed, but of most peculiar structure and voicing.
permanent and significant enterprise, which shall It suggests the charming timbre of the orchestral
offer such a panoramic registry of the world's oboe to a degree never before attained.
There are 10 couplers and 11 combination pis-
progress in all directions as to make it the ob-
ject of continual pilgrimage from all parts of the tons and pedals, with two balanced swell pedals
world, and a perpetual stimulus to inventors, dis- and the crescendo pedal.
There is not a single borrowed or augmented
coverers, scientific research, and all industrial,
stop on the organ. All basses are full length.
economic, intellectual and moral progress."
The organ was built under the direct super-
General Horace Porter, ex-Ambassador to
France, presided at Saturday's meeting of the vision of Mr. William E. Haskell, superintendent
Hendrik Hudson Tercentenary Committee in the of the Estey Pipe Organ Department.
The stops are: Great organ, double open diapa-
Governors' Room at City Hall. The Committee
on Permanent Organization reported a list of of- son, pitch, 16 feet; open diapason, 8; gamba, 8;
ficers who will be voted on at the next meeting. clarabella, 8; gross flute, 8; octave, 4; flute har-
The report recommended General Stewart L. monic, 4; fifteenth, 2; trumpet, 8.
Swell organ, bourdon treble, bourdon bass, 16;
Woodford for president, Robert B. Roosevelt, Levi
P. Morton, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew D. White, open diapason, 8; salicional, 8; stopped diapason,
8; aeoline, 8; flauto traverso, 4; flautina, 2;
Morris K. Jesup, William Rockefeller, General
Frederick D. Grant and William B. Van Rens- cornet, 111 ranks; cornopean, 8; oboe, 8; vox
selaer as vice-presidents; J. Pierpont Morgan as celeste, 8; vox Humana, 8.
Choir organ, lieblich gedackt, 16; violin open
treasurer, Colonel Henry W. Sackett as secre-
tary, and Edward Hagaman Hall as assistant diapason, 8; viol d'orchestre, 8; concert flute,
8; flute d'amour, 4; piccolo, 2; clarionet, 8.
secretary.
Pedal organ, open diapason, 16; bourdon, 16;
dulciana, 16; flute, 8.
A PERMANENT EXPOSITION.
LARGEST ESTEY ORGAN IN NEW YORK
Built for the North Presbyterian Church, Dedi-
cated Last Week—Greatly Admired for Its
Many Individual Merits—Adds Further
Laurels to Estey Fame.
" ' The "inaugural" of the great pipe organ con-
structed by the Estey Organ Co., of Brattleboro,
Vt, for the North Presbyterian Church, at 525
West 155th street, New York, which occurred on
the evening of November 24, was a revelation to
the lovers of organ music. Under the delicate
touch of Mary Adelaide Liscona, the organist and
choir director of that church, and William C.
Carl, the organist of "Old First" Presbyterian
Church, and director of the Guilmant Organ
School of this city, its melody filled the great
edifice, and its wonderful purity of tone was an
agreeable surprise to all. This is the largest or-
gan ever erected by the Estey Co. in this city,
and embodies all of the latest features in organ
building. The following is a full description of
the tonal scheme on which this organ was
planned. It contains three manuals and pedals,
the compass of the latter being 32 notes. The
action of the organ is tubular pneumatic through-
out, the key-desk being removed and placed on'
the choir platform. There are more than eight
.PRAISES JAMES & HOLMSTROM PIANOS.
Miss Olive North, popular with New York Hip-
podrome audiences as "The Princess" in "A Yan-
kee Circus on Mars," and as "Virginia Calhoun"
in "The Raiders," writes James & Holmstrom re-
garding a piano of theirs she is using, as follows:
"New York, Nov. 11, 1905.
"James & Holmstrom:
"Gentlemen—It is with pleasure that I write
you to state how pleased I am with the piano of
your make that I am using. Under all conditions
of usage I find it most satisfying. When re-
quirements demand it, its tone is alike massive
in volume or soft as a whisper, and is of ines-
timable assistance to the vocalist, the purity of
whose notes is too often marred by the responses
from a poor piano. I predict a brilliant future
for your pianos among vocalists and professional
pianists, with whom, above all others, purity of
tone is indispensable.
"Sincerely yours,
ERNEST A.
TONK
PIANO
Bumper Crops Have Made Them Prosperous
Brokers and Money Lenders—Value of Crops
Exceeds $6,415,000,000.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, Nov. 27, 1905.
The annual report of the Secretary of Agri-
culture, James Wilson, which has just been is-
sued, gives some substantial facts which ac-
count for the great prosperity among the farm-
ers and their ability to buy expensive pianos and
other musical concomitants. According to Secre-
tary Wilson, we have just closed one of the
greatest years that has come to the farmers of
any country in the annals of the world's agricul-
ture. Production has been unequaled, and its
value has reached the highest figure yet attained
—$6,415,000,000. Every day American farms are
increasing $3,400,000 in value.
Corn reached its highest production, 2,708,-
000,000 bushels, valued at $1,216,000,000. "King
Cotton" was dethroned by the hay crop, which
took second place in the list of crops.
The farmer, the Secretary says, has changed
the nation from a borrower into a lender, and has
saved more money than the banks know what to
do with. The farm value of the crops of the
United States for 1905 is thus estimated:
Value.
Corn
2,708,000,000 bush. $1,216,000,000
Hay
605,000,000
Cotton
575,000,000
Wheat
084,000,000 bush.
525,000,000
Oats
939,000,000 "
282,000,000
Potatoes
138,000,000
Barley
133,000,000 bush.
58,000,000
Tobacco
52,000,000
Sugar cane and sugar beats
50,000,000
Rice
637,000.000lbs..
14,000,000
The aggregate production of cereals in 1905
has been 4,521,000,000 bushels, with a farm value
of $2,123,000,000, an increase of $145,000,000 over
1904. Butter and milk, worth to the farmer $665,-
000,000, have been produced.
The American hens have laid 20,000,000,000
eggs. The hen, the Secretary tells President
Roosevelt, has become the worthy companion of
the farmer's cow.
The 20,000,000,000 eggs were worth to the farm-
er $500,000,000. According to Secretary Wilson's
figures, every man, woman and child in the Unit-
ed estates is entitled to eighteen and one-quarter
dozen eggs a year, and if paid for at 40 cents a
dozen, the market price, the per capita contribu-
tion to the hen would be $7.30.
The "farmer's hen," as Secretary Wilson de-
lights in calling her, is crowding the former great
staple crops for first place. It is nip and tuck
with the chicken and the wheat crop, with only
a paltry $25,000,000 standing between.
MUSIC IN DEPARTMENT STORES.
Last Sunday's Sun contained a lengthy article
devoted to music in department stores, and the
point was made that between seventy-five thou-
sand and one hundred thousand dollars Ls spent
every winter by the proprietors of ten or a dozen
department stores in treating their customers to
free vocal and instrumental concerts. Several of
these stores include a regular music room, or con-
cert hall. The custom of providing music in de-
partment stores as far as can be learned is re-
stricted to this country and to New York. Even
in the most popular of the London and Paris de-
partment stores there is no free music.
OLIVE JNOETH."
A. L. Barnes, of Barnes & Bahl, Utica, N. Y.,
has been selected as appraiser for the insurance
companies in the adjustment of the loss by fire
of St. John's Church organ at Troy.
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WHY FARMERS CAN BUY PIANOS.
Jan van Beers, the Belgian painter, has one of
the finest grand pianos in the world. It is of the
most superb construction throughout and has
panels painted by the artist himself. It is stated
to be worth $25,000.
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