Music Trade Review
Issue: 1882 Vol. 5 N. 15 - Page 3
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VOL. V.
NEW YOKK, MARCH 5TH, 1882.
No. 15.
ability." I am by nature and by principle an un- You have heard of the term chevalier d'industrie.
mitigated and unscrupulous liar. I lie so fast and Do you see its application?
—OF A—
so extravagantly that the ordinary man has not Now, let me in a few words state how and why
the time, even if he has the ability, to follow me. I have made, and am able to make, what these
MUSICAL JOURNALIST.
I do not think it would be possible for me to talk shallow brained people call the "finest musical
for ten consecutive minute* without telling ten paper in the world."
BY JACOB C. F R — — D .
consecutive lies. Indeed, it is almost impossible Can they not for a moment realize that all the
for me to tell the truth, even where the truth will show is made on the strength of other people's
'.*
No. I I .
best serve my purpose; and, when in an unguarded money, and that their superficial endorsements of
moment I am betrayed into speaking the truth, I me and my methods is exactly what I want, to
How TO START AN OVERPOWERING MUSICAL PAPER
am sure I feel as many inward pricks and stings bring more fools into my net?
A MAGNIFICENT LIAR—LAYING THE BLAME
as would a thoroughly upright, conscientious per- With the competition that exists in the printing
ON OTHER SHOULDERS—WHAT IS A
son who, in an unguarded moment, might be led and paper business in New York city, it is an easy
' ' CHEVALIER D'INDUSTRIE?''—
matter to get a sufficient amount of credit to bring
into uttering a falsehood.
THE CAPITAL OF CHEEK.
With my capacity for lying is mingled an un- out the first two or three numbers of a paper.
limited capacity for brag" and display, which, Then, as there are always a number of hack news-
OU tell me that the first installment of my although the world is no longer young, and men paper men equally capable of writing musical crit-
only true confessions, published in your are supposed to have cut their wisdom teeth, is icisms, lists of bogus pianos and organs, journal-
last issue, has attracted universal attention. I still wonderfully effective.
istic confessions, musical correspondence from
am glad of that. I have done so little good in
With all these attributes there is combined London, Paris, and Vienna, etc., etc., in sufficient
this world up to the present time, that if I can another, which consists in my ability to lay all my quantities to give an overwhelming appearance to
serve your readers by posting them concerning burdens on some one else's shoulders.
the paper, and as these men can be picked up for
the tricks of men like myself, who do not hesi- I do not think I ever did a mean, dirty, or from fifteen to twenty dollars a week apiece,
tate to abuse and fleece them, I shall feel that I wicked thing in my life that I did not shift the whilst I would pay them—in promises—fifty dol-
have not lived in vain.
lars a week, but in cash an average of ten dollars
responsibility on some one else.
I promised to tell how I could conduct a musical One instance at the present moment is sufficient. a week—you will see that the actual capital, ex-
paper, and give it the appearance of enormous When, about a year ago, I returned to New York cept cheek, required for such an enterprise is not
success when there was very little to back it up, city, after a wretched existence in the West, I extensive.
»
using it for the purpose of draining my unsophis- gave as my version of the affair that I only went The next thing to be done, you will say, is to
ticated friends' pockets.
away from New York city because I needed rest and secure a good circulation and a solid advertising
You may know that I have many times been recuperation, after having built up such a splendid list.
credited with making "the finest musical paper paper, and that the two men whom I left in charge, Yes, to be sure, from your standpoint, but not
the world ever saw;" with having given it each each separately concocted the nefarious scheme of necessarily from mine. Why should I devote a
issue an unlimited number of pages, covered with throwing my business into confusion, for the pur- great amount of time to securing a few thousand
such a display of type that it seemed as though at pose of becoming possessed of the paper; but, as dollars a year by such means, when simply by
least half a dozen of your New York city printing they were plotting against each other, the scheme making a good show with the paper, I could use
houses must have been exhausted in the effort to fell through, and the paper went to the dogs be- it as a means of borrowing unlimited sums from
get out a single number for me. You will remem- tween them.
people whom I could impress with the idea that
ber that money appeared to be no object; that Perhaps you would like to hear what these two it was a property paying enormous profits.
there was regular correspondence from all over men have to say in reply to this charge.
this country and every other country; that there But I would not.
were criticisms and leading articles from the high- Perhaps you think that I am soiling the fair Will you just excuse me for one moment, if you
est-priced and ablest writers that could be found, pages of your paper with such statements; but please. I have heard a peremjJtory knocking at
and that all the while, in addition to the enormous you hare asked me to give yeu the truth, and I am my outer door for the last ten minutes, and my
expenses of my paper, I was living at the rate of giving you the truth, the whole truth, and noth- heart has been in my mouth and my hand has
been shaking all that time. I suppose, of course,
about #20,000 or more a year.
i»g but the truth.
it is only some one whom I have beaten out of
Of course, the person who did not understand
I feel like a guilty wretch in telling the truth, money; and yet, do you know that I never receive
newspaper matters might be induced to believe
but I have made up my mind to do it, and will do such a summons without associating it in my
that I was receiving an adequate, legitimate return
for all this outlay; but to the man who was versed it, if I never have the pleasure of telling another mind with the pale face and tearful eyes of a poor
child whose money and whose virtue were both
in the ways of newspaper making, it must have lie in my life.
; but I
been a mystery how I managed to get all this I would not think of starting a musical paper sacrificed to gratify the sensuality of a
money out of a paper that could not have cost me with the idea of developing it into a good paying- cannot proceed further on this theme. I know
less than a $1,000 an issue, while it was not aver- business, the legitimate profits of which would well enough that the summons cannot be from
aging more than $800 an issue, at the very highest afford me a sure and steady income. I suppose, her; but why cannot the fellow stop his infernal
in this connection, I might as well admit that it racket, and why cannot I stop this thump, thump,
calculation.
It looks now as if I was about to confess some- would be impossible for me to engage in any form thump upon my heart.
of business with such a straightforward, humdrum
thing with a vengeance, doesn't it? '
You will understand before I go much further object in view.
It was as I thought. It was only a man from
that I must have bad a pretty strong "pull"—as In the first place, 1 am not in any sense a busi- the barber-shop under the Everett House, who
the vulgar term it—on some people, to have suc- ness man. I am simply a borrower of other peo- has called to remind me that my little indebted-
ple's money—a man who preys upon his fellow- ness—standing some two years or more—for per-
ceeded as I did.
And where I did not have any "pull," you can creatures; a man who depends for his success fumes, cosmetiques, etc., had never yet been dis-
imagine how I must have cajoled and brow-beaten upon the weaknesses and follies of poor humanity; charged.
people, and have impressed them with the "ex- a man who has no calling, no country, no true I shall not write any more to-day. I am all
pansiveness of my manner," as Mr. James Stube friends—not even an apology for a friend—except knocked out of time by that infernal racket at the
Mackye would call it, and the solidity of my busi- in the persons of those who may look to me to door and at my heart.
divide with them at times the spoils I obtain—in
ness affairs.
JACOB C. FR
r>.
First of all, let me explain to you how it was other words, the jackals I employ to smell out the
(To be continued.)
that many men came to give me credit for "great game for me.
THE ONLY
Y
TRUE
CONFESSIONS
VOL. V.
NEW YOKK, MARCH 5TH, 1882.
No. 15.
ability." I am by nature and by principle an un- You have heard of the term chevalier d'industrie.
mitigated and unscrupulous liar. I lie so fast and Do you see its application?
—OF A—
so extravagantly that the ordinary man has not Now, let me in a few words state how and why
the time, even if he has the ability, to follow me. I have made, and am able to make, what these
MUSICAL JOURNALIST.
I do not think it would be possible for me to talk shallow brained people call the "finest musical
for ten consecutive minute* without telling ten paper in the world."
BY JACOB C. F R — — D .
consecutive lies. Indeed, it is almost impossible Can they not for a moment realize that all the
for me to tell the truth, even where the truth will show is made on the strength of other people's
'.*
No. I I .
best serve my purpose; and, when in an unguarded money, and that their superficial endorsements of
moment I am betrayed into speaking the truth, I me and my methods is exactly what I want, to
How TO START AN OVERPOWERING MUSICAL PAPER
am sure I feel as many inward pricks and stings bring more fools into my net?
A MAGNIFICENT LIAR—LAYING THE BLAME
as would a thoroughly upright, conscientious per- With the competition that exists in the printing
ON OTHER SHOULDERS—WHAT IS A
son who, in an unguarded moment, might be led and paper business in New York city, it is an easy
' ' CHEVALIER D'INDUSTRIE?''—
matter to get a sufficient amount of credit to bring
into uttering a falsehood.
THE CAPITAL OF CHEEK.
With my capacity for lying is mingled an un- out the first two or three numbers of a paper.
limited capacity for brag" and display, which, Then, as there are always a number of hack news-
OU tell me that the first installment of my although the world is no longer young, and men paper men equally capable of writing musical crit-
only true confessions, published in your are supposed to have cut their wisdom teeth, is icisms, lists of bogus pianos and organs, journal-
last issue, has attracted universal attention. I still wonderfully effective.
istic confessions, musical correspondence from
am glad of that. I have done so little good in
With all these attributes there is combined London, Paris, and Vienna, etc., etc., in sufficient
this world up to the present time, that if I can another, which consists in my ability to lay all my quantities to give an overwhelming appearance to
serve your readers by posting them concerning burdens on some one else's shoulders.
the paper, and as these men can be picked up for
the tricks of men like myself, who do not hesi- I do not think I ever did a mean, dirty, or from fifteen to twenty dollars a week apiece,
tate to abuse and fleece them, I shall feel that I wicked thing in my life that I did not shift the whilst I would pay them—in promises—fifty dol-
have not lived in vain.
lars a week, but in cash an average of ten dollars
responsibility on some one else.
I promised to tell how I could conduct a musical One instance at the present moment is sufficient. a week—you will see that the actual capital, ex-
paper, and give it the appearance of enormous When, about a year ago, I returned to New York cept cheek, required for such an enterprise is not
success when there was very little to back it up, city, after a wretched existence in the West, I extensive.
»
using it for the purpose of draining my unsophis- gave as my version of the affair that I only went The next thing to be done, you will say, is to
ticated friends' pockets.
away from New York city because I needed rest and secure a good circulation and a solid advertising
You may know that I have many times been recuperation, after having built up such a splendid list.
credited with making "the finest musical paper paper, and that the two men whom I left in charge, Yes, to be sure, from your standpoint, but not
the world ever saw;" with having given it each each separately concocted the nefarious scheme of necessarily from mine. Why should I devote a
issue an unlimited number of pages, covered with throwing my business into confusion, for the pur- great amount of time to securing a few thousand
such a display of type that it seemed as though at pose of becoming possessed of the paper; but, as dollars a year by such means, when simply by
least half a dozen of your New York city printing they were plotting against each other, the scheme making a good show with the paper, I could use
houses must have been exhausted in the effort to fell through, and the paper went to the dogs be- it as a means of borrowing unlimited sums from
get out a single number for me. You will remem- tween them.
people whom I could impress with the idea that
ber that money appeared to be no object; that Perhaps you would like to hear what these two it was a property paying enormous profits.
there was regular correspondence from all over men have to say in reply to this charge.
this country and every other country; that there But I would not.
were criticisms and leading articles from the high- Perhaps you think that I am soiling the fair Will you just excuse me for one moment, if you
est-priced and ablest writers that could be found, pages of your paper with such statements; but please. I have heard a peremjJtory knocking at
and that all the while, in addition to the enormous you hare asked me to give yeu the truth, and I am my outer door for the last ten minutes, and my
expenses of my paper, I was living at the rate of giving you the truth, the whole truth, and noth- heart has been in my mouth and my hand has
been shaking all that time. I suppose, of course,
about #20,000 or more a year.
i»g but the truth.
it is only some one whom I have beaten out of
Of course, the person who did not understand
I feel like a guilty wretch in telling the truth, money; and yet, do you know that I never receive
newspaper matters might be induced to believe
but I have made up my mind to do it, and will do such a summons without associating it in my
that I was receiving an adequate, legitimate return
for all this outlay; but to the man who was versed it, if I never have the pleasure of telling another mind with the pale face and tearful eyes of a poor
child whose money and whose virtue were both
in the ways of newspaper making, it must have lie in my life.
; but I
been a mystery how I managed to get all this I would not think of starting a musical paper sacrificed to gratify the sensuality of a
money out of a paper that could not have cost me with the idea of developing it into a good paying- cannot proceed further on this theme. I know
less than a $1,000 an issue, while it was not aver- business, the legitimate profits of which would well enough that the summons cannot be from
aging more than $800 an issue, at the very highest afford me a sure and steady income. I suppose, her; but why cannot the fellow stop his infernal
in this connection, I might as well admit that it racket, and why cannot I stop this thump, thump,
calculation.
It looks now as if I was about to confess some- would be impossible for me to engage in any form thump upon my heart.
of business with such a straightforward, humdrum
thing with a vengeance, doesn't it? '
You will understand before I go much further object in view.
It was as I thought. It was only a man from
that I must have bad a pretty strong "pull"—as In the first place, 1 am not in any sense a busi- the barber-shop under the Everett House, who
the vulgar term it—on some people, to have suc- ness man. I am simply a borrower of other peo- has called to remind me that my little indebted-
ple's money—a man who preys upon his fellow- ness—standing some two years or more—for per-
ceeded as I did.
And where I did not have any "pull," you can creatures; a man who depends for his success fumes, cosmetiques, etc., had never yet been dis-
imagine how I must have cajoled and brow-beaten upon the weaknesses and follies of poor humanity; charged.
people, and have impressed them with the "ex- a man who has no calling, no country, no true I shall not write any more to-day. I am all
pansiveness of my manner," as Mr. James Stube friends—not even an apology for a friend—except knocked out of time by that infernal racket at the
Mackye would call it, and the solidity of my busi- in the persons of those who may look to me to door and at my heart.
divide with them at times the spoils I obtain—in
ness affairs.
JACOB C. FR
r>.
First of all, let me explain to you how it was other words, the jackals I employ to smell out the
(To be continued.)
that many men came to give me credit for "great game for me.
THE ONLY
Y
TRUE
CONFESSIONS
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