Music Trade Review
Issue: 1896 Vol. 23 N. 4 - Page 10
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
12
The Experiment Tried.
week. Mr. Kuehl is now in full enjoyment
of a handsome souvenir made by his friends
of the Garrick Club.
AN OBJECT LESSON FOR THE FREE SILVER HOWLERS HOW CORN AND WHEAT WERE MAIN-
TAINED AT A PARITY HOW THINGS WOULD BE IN THIS COUNTRY IF THE UNITED
STATES BECAME THE DUMPING GROUND FOR THE SILVER OF THE WORLD.
A. STILLWELL has prepared a leaf-
let purporting to give a history of
#
certain events occurring near the close of
the 19th century. It was declared to be a
period of depression, during which it oc-
curred to the wise men of Kansas that they
could legislate themselves into affluence.
The Governor assembled the wise men and
said:
A Kansas policy for Kansans is the need
of the hour. Wheat is hard to raise, and
the yield is light and uncertain; but we are
great on corn. Make ye, therefore, a law
in accordance with which sovereign and
august statute corn shall be put upon a par
with wheat. They shall be interchange-
able, and the price of corn shall be the same
as the price of wheat.
The wise men passed the law as the Gov-
ernor had advised, and all the people of the
State rejoiced, for their cribs were full of
corn. They could hardly contain them-
selves till the Governor had signed the
bill which raised the price of Kansas corn
from fifteen cents to forty-five cents a bush-
el. All the people now felt rich. They
bought many luxuries, and the most of
them went in debt. Then the farmers from
other States began hauling their corn to
Kansas. It seemed as if the country was
all corn, and it was all headed for Kansas.
The people of Kansas took their medi-
cine, that is, they took the corn and gave
up their wheat.
The farmers from the other States thought
the Kansas people were queer, but they
kept bringing them their corn. Corn came
in and wheat went out.
When the other States saw this vast ac-
cumulation the price of corn began to de-
cline till it could be purchased anywhere
except in Kansas for ten cents a bushel.
In Kansas the price was still forty-five
cents, which was the price of wheat, but
there were no buyers. When the autumn
came the Kansas people did not have any
wheat for seed. Then they sent to the
neighboring States and implored the farm-
ers to exchange wheat at a parity with corn.
But the farmers said: "We will exchange
one bushel of wheat for four and one-half
bushel of corn." "Our law," replied the
Kansas people, "puts corn and wheat at a
parity. They are equal, for our wise men
said they should be." And the farmers
replied: "Your wise men are asses; let
them eat your corn." So the Kansans
went back home, and all the people were in
despair.
Then the Governor again assembled the
wise men and said to them, "Most consum-
mate, picturesque and glittering goll-darned
fools. There is but one bigger fool than
yourselves. It is he who addresses you.
"We thought we could bluff the ever-
lasting law of supply and demand with our
F
statute. We thought we could legislate
value into a thing and make our people rich
by a law. We thought we were patriotic.
We were idiotic. Let us honestly acknowl-
edge our asininity, repeal our fool law. get
back into line with the other States, and
imagine no more that we are wiser than
the whole world. Do this, and may we live
long enough to know that the other States
have ceased laughing at our folly and that
our own State has ceased cursing us for it. "
Then the wise men repealed the law,
but it was many years before the people re-
covered from the effects of the corn scare.
Presentation to Kuehl.
AN
J
ENJOYABLE VACATION FOR THE POPULAR
STEINWAV SALESMAN PRESENTATION
OF A HANDSOME WATCH.
OHN G. W. KUEHL with Steinway &
Sons, accompanied by Mrs. Kuehl, re-
turned on the 1 oth inst. from an extended va-
cation trip. Mr. Kuehl is enthusiastic over
the many interesting spots which he visited
while away. His itinerary included a most
delightful tour of some historical and in-
tensely interesting points.
After visiting Portland he ran over to Old
Orchard Beach, which is a famous sea-side
resort of Maine, and down to the White
Mountains, afterwards visiting the historic
city of Quebec, from which point he took a
steamer down the romantic Saguenay riv-
er. Returning he visited Montreal, from
thence across to Lake Champlain, where a
journey across the lake to the famous Au-
sable Chasm was made; thence to Lake
George and home via Saratoga Springs.
Mr. Kuehl has fairly won his spurs as
one of the rising men of the younger gen-
eration of piano salesmen. He has an
agreeable personality, which has won for
him many friends in trade and musical
circles.
His ability as a salesman is first-class,
like the piano with which he has been so
long associated.
He is one of the prominent members of
the Garrick Club, and has been instrumen-
tal through his wide acquaintance among
artists and musicians to make the entertain-
ments of the Garrick Club memorable on
many occasions by securing for club en-
tertainments artists of such renown as Tam-
agno, Friedheim, Scharwenka, and many
others.
Mr. Kuehl's efforts in behalf of the Gar-
rick Club have been so highly appreciated
that a number of the members desired to
show their appreciation of his efforts in
behalf of club entertainments by present-
ing him with a handsomely engraved gold
watch. The presentation occurred this
Tells of His Plans.
N article appeared in a recent issue of
THE REVIEW relative to a proposed
piano factory at Corfu, N. Y., concerning
which Mr. D. A. Ward, the promoter, writes
us the following:
To the Editor of THK MUSIC TRADE REVIEW:
Dear Sir—Re "ad." in REVIEW, July 25.
A couple of the daily papers of Buffalo
published a ridiculous rhyme about me
which I see in a meddlesome sheet here in
St. Catharine's also. I ignored these, but
when THE REVIEW reproduces it, placing it
under the eye of the trade, I feel called
upon to give the facts, which are as follows:
I am a small dealer in pianos and have
been on the road for nineteen years. Five
years ago I conceived the idea to overcome
the fault in the piano of to-day by invent-
ing a new tuning pin. After three years
hard work I got it, and it is the most per-
fect and simple thing yet produced.
Some time ago I was looking for a loca-
tion in which to manufacture pianos in the
United States. A couple of places offered me
a plant and $1,000 to defray moving expen-
ses, and now our factory, a three-story
stone building, is all done, except to put in
the elevator machinery, etc., at a cost of
$17,000. They do not give me $1,000 to
move, but they furnish twenty-five years
free of charge fifty horse power of electric-
ity. I am getting some piano men of the
United States interested with me and in a
couple of months I expect to see a good
strong stock company organized.
Yours truly,
A
D. F. WARD.
St. Catharine's, Ont., Aug. 6, 1896.
J. B. BRADFORD, the well-known Milwau-
kee dealer, who had been visiting Boston,
was in New York, accompanied by his fam-
ily, on Monday last. Mr. Bradford left that
day for home.
MR. GUERNSEY, of Guernsey Bros., New
Haven, was in New York on Monday last.
Is afforded the dealer and mu-
sician who sells or plays that
modern and artistic creation, the
Henry F. Hiller
Piano —
It is one of the best examples of
all that is latest and best in the
r e a l m of piano construction.
That's the reason wide-awake
dealers should handle it.
Henry F.miller^ sons Piano Co.
88 BOYLSTON STREET
BOSTON, MASS.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
12
The Experiment Tried.
week. Mr. Kuehl is now in full enjoyment
of a handsome souvenir made by his friends
of the Garrick Club.
AN OBJECT LESSON FOR THE FREE SILVER HOWLERS HOW CORN AND WHEAT WERE MAIN-
TAINED AT A PARITY HOW THINGS WOULD BE IN THIS COUNTRY IF THE UNITED
STATES BECAME THE DUMPING GROUND FOR THE SILVER OF THE WORLD.
A. STILLWELL has prepared a leaf-
let purporting to give a history of
#
certain events occurring near the close of
the 19th century. It was declared to be a
period of depression, during which it oc-
curred to the wise men of Kansas that they
could legislate themselves into affluence.
The Governor assembled the wise men and
said:
A Kansas policy for Kansans is the need
of the hour. Wheat is hard to raise, and
the yield is light and uncertain; but we are
great on corn. Make ye, therefore, a law
in accordance with which sovereign and
august statute corn shall be put upon a par
with wheat. They shall be interchange-
able, and the price of corn shall be the same
as the price of wheat.
The wise men passed the law as the Gov-
ernor had advised, and all the people of the
State rejoiced, for their cribs were full of
corn. They could hardly contain them-
selves till the Governor had signed the
bill which raised the price of Kansas corn
from fifteen cents to forty-five cents a bush-
el. All the people now felt rich. They
bought many luxuries, and the most of
them went in debt. Then the farmers from
other States began hauling their corn to
Kansas. It seemed as if the country was
all corn, and it was all headed for Kansas.
The people of Kansas took their medi-
cine, that is, they took the corn and gave
up their wheat.
The farmers from the other States thought
the Kansas people were queer, but they
kept bringing them their corn. Corn came
in and wheat went out.
When the other States saw this vast ac-
cumulation the price of corn began to de-
cline till it could be purchased anywhere
except in Kansas for ten cents a bushel.
In Kansas the price was still forty-five
cents, which was the price of wheat, but
there were no buyers. When the autumn
came the Kansas people did not have any
wheat for seed. Then they sent to the
neighboring States and implored the farm-
ers to exchange wheat at a parity with corn.
But the farmers said: "We will exchange
one bushel of wheat for four and one-half
bushel of corn." "Our law," replied the
Kansas people, "puts corn and wheat at a
parity. They are equal, for our wise men
said they should be." And the farmers
replied: "Your wise men are asses; let
them eat your corn." So the Kansans
went back home, and all the people were in
despair.
Then the Governor again assembled the
wise men and said to them, "Most consum-
mate, picturesque and glittering goll-darned
fools. There is but one bigger fool than
yourselves. It is he who addresses you.
"We thought we could bluff the ever-
lasting law of supply and demand with our
F
statute. We thought we could legislate
value into a thing and make our people rich
by a law. We thought we were patriotic.
We were idiotic. Let us honestly acknowl-
edge our asininity, repeal our fool law. get
back into line with the other States, and
imagine no more that we are wiser than
the whole world. Do this, and may we live
long enough to know that the other States
have ceased laughing at our folly and that
our own State has ceased cursing us for it. "
Then the wise men repealed the law,
but it was many years before the people re-
covered from the effects of the corn scare.
Presentation to Kuehl.
AN
J
ENJOYABLE VACATION FOR THE POPULAR
STEINWAV SALESMAN PRESENTATION
OF A HANDSOME WATCH.
OHN G. W. KUEHL with Steinway &
Sons, accompanied by Mrs. Kuehl, re-
turned on the 1 oth inst. from an extended va-
cation trip. Mr. Kuehl is enthusiastic over
the many interesting spots which he visited
while away. His itinerary included a most
delightful tour of some historical and in-
tensely interesting points.
After visiting Portland he ran over to Old
Orchard Beach, which is a famous sea-side
resort of Maine, and down to the White
Mountains, afterwards visiting the historic
city of Quebec, from which point he took a
steamer down the romantic Saguenay riv-
er. Returning he visited Montreal, from
thence across to Lake Champlain, where a
journey across the lake to the famous Au-
sable Chasm was made; thence to Lake
George and home via Saratoga Springs.
Mr. Kuehl has fairly won his spurs as
one of the rising men of the younger gen-
eration of piano salesmen. He has an
agreeable personality, which has won for
him many friends in trade and musical
circles.
His ability as a salesman is first-class,
like the piano with which he has been so
long associated.
He is one of the prominent members of
the Garrick Club, and has been instrumen-
tal through his wide acquaintance among
artists and musicians to make the entertain-
ments of the Garrick Club memorable on
many occasions by securing for club en-
tertainments artists of such renown as Tam-
agno, Friedheim, Scharwenka, and many
others.
Mr. Kuehl's efforts in behalf of the Gar-
rick Club have been so highly appreciated
that a number of the members desired to
show their appreciation of his efforts in
behalf of club entertainments by present-
ing him with a handsomely engraved gold
watch. The presentation occurred this
Tells of His Plans.
N article appeared in a recent issue of
THE REVIEW relative to a proposed
piano factory at Corfu, N. Y., concerning
which Mr. D. A. Ward, the promoter, writes
us the following:
To the Editor of THK MUSIC TRADE REVIEW:
Dear Sir—Re "ad." in REVIEW, July 25.
A couple of the daily papers of Buffalo
published a ridiculous rhyme about me
which I see in a meddlesome sheet here in
St. Catharine's also. I ignored these, but
when THE REVIEW reproduces it, placing it
under the eye of the trade, I feel called
upon to give the facts, which are as follows:
I am a small dealer in pianos and have
been on the road for nineteen years. Five
years ago I conceived the idea to overcome
the fault in the piano of to-day by invent-
ing a new tuning pin. After three years
hard work I got it, and it is the most per-
fect and simple thing yet produced.
Some time ago I was looking for a loca-
tion in which to manufacture pianos in the
United States. A couple of places offered me
a plant and $1,000 to defray moving expen-
ses, and now our factory, a three-story
stone building, is all done, except to put in
the elevator machinery, etc., at a cost of
$17,000. They do not give me $1,000 to
move, but they furnish twenty-five years
free of charge fifty horse power of electric-
ity. I am getting some piano men of the
United States interested with me and in a
couple of months I expect to see a good
strong stock company organized.
Yours truly,
A
D. F. WARD.
St. Catharine's, Ont., Aug. 6, 1896.
J. B. BRADFORD, the well-known Milwau-
kee dealer, who had been visiting Boston,
was in New York, accompanied by his fam-
ily, on Monday last. Mr. Bradford left that
day for home.
MR. GUERNSEY, of Guernsey Bros., New
Haven, was in New York on Monday last.
Is afforded the dealer and mu-
sician who sells or plays that
modern and artistic creation, the
Henry F. Hiller
Piano —
It is one of the best examples of
all that is latest and best in the
r e a l m of piano construction.
That's the reason wide-awake
dealers should handle it.
Henry F.miller^ sons Piano Co.
88 BOYLSTON STREET
BOSTON, MASS.
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