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JOSEPH STALLETA, ten years old,
found something wrapped in a
newspaper yesterday on hia father's
truck farm on Rayche?ter Avenue, The
nroRx, which might have been a gen
roua stiel ?? m asses candy, Joseph
applied the infallible test.
It wasn't candy and he took his find
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to his father, who carried it to the
White Plains Avenue police station.
Inspector Owen Eagan, of the bureau
of combustibles, was summoned.
"Dynamite," said Lagan; "where did
you find it?"
Joseph showed him and Eagan found
12* mot.' slicks near by. A few weeks
ago the watchman in a construction
shack was attacked by men who made
off with a stock of dynamite.
WILLIAM H. .ANDERSON, state su
perintendcent of the Anti-Saloon
.League, spoke last night before the
' New York Annual Conference. of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Metro
I poiitan Temple. He said, among other
jthings:
"We have seen an exemplification of
'Job 5:23?'1 have seen the foolish tak
: ing root'?and we shall see the ful
1 filment of Ts;:iah 5:24?'So their root
? shall be as rottenness and their blos?
som shall go up as dust.' The br wer s
say that 2.75 per cent of alcohol in
beer is not intoxicating, but it is
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.at Would
IfourlavelDone ?
The question is really pertinent.
You confronted a similar one in your
own business. You had to choose
between the difficulty of maintaining
a quality standard and the common
practice of compromising with your
principles.
We, for one, refused the compro?
mise. The quality ideal of these
stores is a deep-rooted principle.
Nothing can induce us to abandon it.
* * n
Through all the stress of war mer?
chandising we were steadfast in our
all-wool plan. We're rather proud
of our stand. Especially proud be?
cause the thing wasn't easy to do.
And proud that no one can point a
single exception to our reputation
for reliability.
We carried on our purchases so far
in advance that even to-day we
"own" our woolens below the pre?
vailing market price?which condi?
tion is reflected in the extra value
of our lines.
We're telling you of the past because
of its bearing on the present. We're
beginning to reap the reward. Our
business was never so large.
But to credit the condition entirely
to our rigid observance of merchan?
dising integrity would be a half
truth. There are other reasons, in?
teresting reasons.
There is, for one thing, our style
ideal. We have never toyed with
extremes, believing them unsuited to
the wardrobes of properly groomed
New Yorkers.
The "freak" style carries no creden?
tials. Men who know the principles
of correct attire shun it. We shun
it, for quite the same reason.
There are, after all, but two authori?
tative style sources in the world of
Men's clothing?London and Fifth
Avenue. And every Weber & Heil
broner Suit or Top Coat traces its
lineage directly to those sources.
* * *
Men have come to learn that our
models are Correct. Those who pos?
sess knowledge on the subject recog?
nize the authenticity of the styles.
Those less trained find it exceed?
ingly helpful to be able to choose
from an assortment wholly Correct.
Quite naturally, good fabrics cannot
be developed into Correct style
without the aid of superior tailoring.
And only masterly tailoring talent is
employed in the production of our
clothing.
* * *
We might go still further, touching
upon such details as Linings, find?
ings, etc.?all of which are equally
excellent. But as a layman, we feel
your chief interest lies in right style,
right service and right value.
Five of our stores sell clothing. One
of them is near you. All of them
are at your service. And once you
see their models you will agree that
we "Know our New York."
Spring Suits and Top Coats, Ready to Wear, Correct Styles and Weaves,
$28 to $65.
Weber SO) Heilbroner
Clothier*, Haberdashers and Hatters?Eleven Stores "
?241 Broadway 345 Broadway 775 Broadway *I185 Broadway
*44th and Broadway 1363 Broadway 58 Nassau 150 Nassau
20 Cortlandt *30 Broad ?42nd and Fifth Avenue
?CLOTH1NC VI THESE STORES
enough to smell up the reputation of
a lawyer, no matter how eminent."
'T'HF. current "Columbia Alumni News" .
publishes an overseas letter from
Oscar Myers, of the Columbia Class of
1916, to his mother, Mrs. S. O. Myers,
of 109 South Third Avenue, Mount Ver
non, which reads: "I am having a half
dozen shirts made to measure from the
fine silk fabric wings of my airship."
"Wings of airships into shirts'' rcr
tainly beats "swords into ploughshares"
pears into pruning hooks" all
hollow. Myers is known to Columbia
men as "Obie," and rowed on the Blue
and White 'varsity crew.
While replacing tapers around the casket.
of his son-in-law, r'harles Lever, twenty
four year-.- old, of 530 Ninth Avenue. Hugh
eney, father-in-law of the dead man,
- '?') the draperies around the coffin.
;. ket ?? as charred, hut the flames did
reach thi bodj
1 udge WilHajn ft. Wadhams. who returned
-, ,., ] ranee recently, resumed his seat on
? i bi nch in Part i. General Sessions, yes
day Judge Wwihams went to France in
ember to do social welfare work with
? i V. M. C A.
, University of Pennsylvania Club of;
v York will hold its annual meeting and,
? i ? ion at the Hotel Martinique to-morrow j
? - ing. The nominee for president is
iam L Saunders, former chairman of
. i Navy I ' ni ult Ing Board.
The American Society of Civil Engineers
hoi i a meeting at Its cl ibrooms, 33
t Thirty-ninth Street, to-morrow even
: i' A discu i"ii on "American Highways''
?? .1 take Hace.
Hugh Hainan, twenty-six years old, of '?'?1
' Street!, Brooklyn, convicted of
.h-'.? while on a suspended sentence for
; reviou i similar offence, was sentenced
Judge Dih In the County Court In
Iirooklyn yesterday to ten yearn' Imprison?
ment for the lecond offence and to two and
half to five year* on the fir.a conviction.
1 hree chauffeur?, all charged with man
laughter, will bo tried this week before!
Vernon (vj Davis in ' (H- erim nal
term of the Supreme Court. Adolph Moses,
? i' -two yi ars old, of 389 Eai i Eighth
? ?? wn? placed on trial yesterday. Ha
charged with having run down and killed
U om.mil Charles, o paver, employed by th(
pn iment o) Highways, at Avenue a und
? ?? . '?. fi urth Street, on Novembei 7.
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YOUR TOWN
' SMIK policeman on duty in City Hall
1'ark these spring afternoons has
his work cut out for him. You're
likely to become a witness to his ?
breathless exertions to enforce "law
and order" if you undertake to get j
your shoes shined by one of the ur?
chins who frequent the section with
their foot-stools and blacking brushes.
Also you're apt to have to take your
.-hint- in instalments. The majority
of the tiny merchants have no city
cense s because they are under si:<
teen. It is the policeman's duty to
. tsh at any one of these ho spies ply?
ing his trade. Then the fun begins.
With a shrill, "Wait, mister, I'll be
luck!" the lad will dart away to the
. ther side of the park. The bluecoat
pursues for a distance, but he has yet
to catch one of the gamins. Mean?
while, you lean against the iron railing, ,
I n excited spectator of the race and?
, ventually?get the rest of your shine
when the policeman is out of sight?all I
j or live cents.
!\ew8stands for Cripples
Ketl Cross Seeks IVeferenee for j
Men Disabled in War
Moans of self support for disabled ;
loldiera and sailors and those phyai
cnlly handicapped as a result of accl
dents in civil pursuits will be sought
in an amendment which will be brought
before the Hoard of Aldermen on April
10 by the Red Croas Institute for Crip
? h .1 and Disabled Men.
The committee on nowsdealing priv
leges for the handicapped will en?
deavor to amend a city ordinance so
! ereafter all newsstand licenses within
top lines or under elevated railroad
stations, except renewals already is?
sued, shall be grunted first to honor?
ably discharged disabled soldiers and
ailors, and necond to other physically
handicapped persons. The proposed
.amendment does not interfere with
aille}... died persons already operating
'? land -. but includes only license i
i issued for now locations and old ones j
)that have been revoked. !
Twenty Years of Progress
In the Dissemination of MUSIC
Into the Homes of the People
THE JOHN WANA
MAKER Store seldom
looks back. Its eyes search
the future. It planned yester?
day the service of today. It is
planning now the greater ser?
vice of tomorrow.
But the other day some one
said: "The Piano Store will
be 20 years old on April 15th."
And we involuntarily cast a
mental glance backward.
Memories popped out from
the mind's chambers. The old
years fell into line, holding up
their records. In a flash we
were back at the other end of
the twenty years, silent in
wonderment at the progress
that had been made??
?in instruments;
?in methods of selling;
?in the people's apprecia?
tion of the inspiring influ?
ence of MUSIC in the home.
* ? * *
When the John Wanamaker
Store added pianos to its
lengthening list of merchan?
dise, on April 15, 1899, music
was a luxury. The people
wanted it. But it took years
of patient practising to make
even a mediocre pianist.
And what good was a piano
in the home if one couldn't
play?
So the people went out?
side of their homes for
music. For the heart longs
for music.
"Music and rhyme are among the
earliest, pleasures of the child as they
are of the race," wrote Emerson.
Many are still going out?
side of their homes for
music, but their number is
decreasing every year.
The progress in piano?
forte construction is turn?
ing them back to the
HOME.
* * *
Do you know that the
f?rst pianoforte built is in
New York?
It was built by Cristofori,
of Padua, about 1710. It
is today in the Metropoli?
tan Museum of Art.
Keen minds have been work?
ing through the centuries to
develop a system of combining
musical tones in chords; later,
a form of presenting musical
ideas to the eyes, and then, an
instrument to communicate to
the ears the harmonies that
were born in the soul.
The cultured Greeks knew only the
simple melody. Harmony did not
come for centuries afterwards. It was
not until the 14th century that the
harpsichord and the clavichord were
heard. The first harpsichord was noth?
ing, but a zither or small harp with a
two or three octave key-board added.
Today we have not only the
perfect piano, but the Repro?
ducing piano.
What an amazing advance
from Cristofori's instrument
to the AMPlCOl
# H? *
One year before we opened
our Piano Salons the first prac?
tical player-piano was built.
But it was a very mechanical
instrument. It played musical
compositions. It did not pro?
duce MUSIC, the artist's
touch, the infinite degrees of
dynamics that constitute ex?
pression, the tender caressing
of a melody, the plastic mould?
ing of a phrase.
The A M PI CO does all
these today.
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Some gifted pen will one
day write the epic of MUSIC
that shall tear its way through
the rust the centuries have
wound about the heart, and let
into the spirit that was put
there when the first heart be?
gan to beat, the glorious truth
that MUSIC stands on the
threshold of every home, wait?
ing to be admitted, to give the
comfort that no words can
give, to rest tired minds, pre?
vent misunderstandings, give
fabric to dreams, backbone to
ambition, stimulus to thought
and action.
And when the people open
their doors to music?/
We are happy that it was
given us to help in the devel?
opment of the music-produc?
ing powers of the piano. We
have always discouraged the
mere piano-maker. We have
encouraged the earnest builder
of TONE and of devices for
better musical expression.
* * *
The first day we opened our
piano store not a single in?
strument was sold. But there
came a day in which 295
pianos were sold!
By that time the John
Wanamaker Piano Store was
the most famous?and accord?
ed the honor of being the larg?
est?piano store in the world.
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LINDEMAN. oldest of New
York pianos; CAMPBELL,
BRAMBACH, and the cele?
brated KNABE. Each war?
ranted by its maker and by us.
Each purchasable at a fixed,
fair, cash price, on convenient
terms of periodical payments.
The AMPICO
At the head of the list of
players is the AMPICO Re?
producing piano. In our judg?
ment, it is the finest producer
in the world, so far, of piano?
forte music. The AMPICO is
a mechanism, built into the
CHICKERING and other
pianos, which reproduces with
absolute fidelity the actual
playing of great artistes. Rach?
maninoff and Levitzki, two of
the present seasons sensa?
tions, have both awarded to
the AMPICO the palm of pre?
eminence over all other repro?
ducing pianos. They will con?
fine the recording of their
playing to the AMPICO ex?
clusively.
Godowski. Bauer, Gabrilowitsch,
Buhlig, Ornstein, Copeland, Wynni
Pyle, Arthur Loesscr, Mme. Wino
gradoff, are among the hundred oth?
ers who have played for the AMPICO
and whose interpretations may be en?
joyed today in every home where
there is an AMPICO.
The AMPICO has
opened up a new era in the
history of music, affording
the means of a musical edu?
cation never before possi?
ble, and bringing the joys
of the finest music into
every home it enters.
But how little all the past
seems, as we look toward the
future, with the love of music
in our hearts and the enthusi?
asm of developing plans in our
minds.
# # *
And yet there is one fact of
the past which will never seem
little?the cutting out of the
haggling and unworthy bar?
gaining that, before we opened
our Piano Store, governed
methods of piano-selling in
this city. The Wanamaker
principle of ONE FIXED
FAIR PRICE on pianos?we
were the first to apply it?has
protected the customer and
elevated the pianoforte to its
proper dignity in the merchan?
dising market. Not here alone.
Everywhere.
Twenty years ago we sold
pianos and organs. You had
to produce your own music?
if you could.
Today we sell pianos, player
pianos and Reproducing
pianos. You may call upon a
hundred great artistes to play
for you, whenever you wish,
as often as you wish.
At anytime you have choice,
in our new, beautiful Piano
Salons, of over 70 styles and
sizes of instruments: the in?
comparable CHICKERING,
oldest and grandest of Ameri?
can pianos; SCHOMACKER.
the piano Lincoln loved;
EMERSON, the sweet-toned;
We have not space to
properly dwell upon work
done in the creating and
developing of a finer public
appreciation of music, and
of individual musical tal?
ent, through the Wana?
maker Auditorium. There
are few to whom that story
needs to be told. Here, on
every business day, with few
exceptions, is given some
form of musical recital.
The Recitals
In the Auditorium, at 2:30
each day, this week and next
week, the rounding out of our
twenty years of progress in
the dissemination of music
will be marked by the follow?
ing program:?
TODAY, April 15fh
28th American Composer's Concert;
compositions of FREDERICK W. VAN
DERPOOL; the composer at the piano,
assisted by George Reimherr, tenor, and
Martha Atwood, soprano.
WEDNESDAY. April 16th
Song Recita! by CORA REMING?
TON, soloist of Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church, assisted by the following com?
posers? Milligan, Warford, McKnight,
McKinney.
THURSDAY, April 17th
AMPICO Comparison Recital; Arthur
Loesser, concert pianist, and the Chick
ering-Ampico Reproducing Piano. And
Festival Quartette.
FRIDAY, AP"! 18th
Good Friday Organ Meditation, 2.30
to 3.15.
SATURDAY, April 19th
Easter singing by the Choristers of
St Brigid's Church, Brooklyn (40 men
and boys), under the direction of Will?
iam Moore.
MONDAY, April 21st
Opening a week of six concerts ar?
ranged through the kind co-operation of
eminent publishers, our Third Annual
American Composers' Festival 30
composers and 30 interpreting artists
will appear. An afternoon will be given
each to the publications of Hinds, Hay
cnond and Eldrege, G. Schirmer, Inc.,
Huntzinger & Dilworth, The Boston
Music Co., J. Fischer & Sons and M.
Witmark & Sons. Details will be an?
nounced from day to day.
You are cordiallyjnvited to
attend any or all of these re?
citals. Tickets may be had
upon application at the Mana?
ger's office,' in the Piano
Salons.
Fir?t Gallery, New Building.
JOHN WANAMAKER
Developer and Distributor of Good Pianos?Broadway at Ninth ISew York