Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-02-28

fourth page.
CLEVELAND Boys ABRoAD-The following in
teresting account of one of our Cleveland boys
formerly carrier boy for the Leader, who is
known to nearly all our citizens, is taken from 8
letter of A. W. T. to Dwights Journal. Thelettel
is dated at Berlin =
In 1888, a good lady of Cincinnati, instead oI
waiting until Christmas or New Year, on the Fourth
of July made her husband present of another
boy Whether owing to the extraordinary amount
of good music % which is always and everywhere
to be heard on that particular anniversary, or to
some other of the various causes which might be
studied out time permitting the history saith not
but the entire musical talent of the family centered
in the little celebration Of Independence The fam
lily afterward settled in Cleveland; but when, upon
a visit to Cincinnati, which the boy made when
some fourteen years Of age he received from kind
friend, of all presents in this world, the right one
a violin OF course father and mother did not wish
young Independence to turn out q fiddler What
parent could Still they had no objection to his
amusing himself that way-better than Ioafing with
bad bows. He, however, had somehow become i'm
pressed with the idea that tiddling for amusement
was not enough, that he ought to study the violin,
which is q very different matter. How to accom-
plish this7 Yes, how He was now ffteen-a
little fellow, but with the right material in him.
His father published one of the Cleveland papers,
and the carriers could earn 81, ,50per week Good!
Young Independence, through all ore long dreary
winter rose every morning at four O'Clock, fol ed
his papers, and started of on his round through
The city, facing old Boreas, who used TO como
sweeping down from the icebergs of Hudson Bay
across the frozen plains of Upper Canada, sharpen.
ing his frosty breath by q little dampness as he
skinned the surface Of Lake Erie, and then, as if
maddened by the sudden resistance to his course
which the high lake shore presented, rushed with
all his fury into the still silent streets of the city,
and vented his ire upon the few solitary indiyidu.
ais he found-newspaper boys, and milkmen, and
the like. Sometimes the cold wind amused itself
by heaping the snow upoa the steps and thresholds
Of the houses, and the boy had TO spend the long
weary morning in brushing it away, door after
door, at least so far as to admit of thrastlng his
paper beneath, and so he earned his 81 so per
week
The money went Immediately TO German who
gave him two lessons a week upon the violin, and
for the remainder, some instruction in the German
language All of this time the boy spent his six
hours daily in the public school, without neglect
ing his studies. By the time he was seventeen, he
had proved that his taste for the violin was not
mere childish, transient passion, but that real de
votion which is one at east Of the proofs Of true
vocation. The boy, too, had made such progress
as to play in concert, with Il supposel 'tremen-
dous applause"
He was already a victim of the German mania
but the means for its cure were wanting His old
Cincinnati friend, he of tire violin gift had not for
gotten him, and now came forward with pIopo
sition 10 send him to Leipzig, TO David, for three
years. Many were the pros and cons about send
ing the youth 1900 miles away among strangers,
foreigners, temptations, and all that. But wise
counsels prevailed and the decision was to let the
instinct # his nature determine his profession.
In New York, where he came to take ship, he
visited Ole Bull, and played to him, who encour-
his head, ''s all right" and this, pointing to his
heart; ''but you play sbockingly," and so on; and
gave him iotter 70 David 10 September 1855
he reached Leipzig, and the next month entered
the conservatory.
or the three years since, one was lost by a Sc
we're attack Of disease, but the other two have been
nobly employed. The young man has been with
US for few days, and has let US hear him in Soma
tas, by Beethoven and Bach, and in show pieces
by De Beroit and Yieux temps. Last evening he
played at Gov. Wrights, our Minister, making a
very marked impression. His tone is superb, his
execution fine, but above all is the feeling with
which he plays. An adagio by Beethoven was
given with exquisite tenderness, and at another
period in the evening, Vieux-temps' Yankee Doc
die be-deVied with such comic effect that the au-
dience might have sat for daguerreotype Of
Broad Grins."
Moral. Howard Vaughan is now just in the po-
sition OF a Cambridge law student, who having won
high honors and taken his degree, finds it neces-
sary TO go into Office for year or two, to get
the practical knowledge Of his profession. So this
yOnng violinist, having gone through his regu ar
course, needs one more year to make up for that
which was lost, in which to gain that musical ex
perience to enjoy and benefit by those observations
of performers, to hear and study all styles Of mu-
sic, and to practice himself in composition which
are offered him nowhere on such terms. and in such
profusion, as in the German cities He should spend
some months in Berlin, visit Prague and Vienna
in short, it would be well could he make the grand
tour. This is, however, not in his power, and
hence at present, his gleat aim is to spend year
here Studying with Laub, and improving the daily
opportunities offered of perfecting his musical edu
cation in the highest sense of the term. His taste
is for the best musc-not despising, however, that
of more SNOWY character, il good of It's kind
The impression left upon all his auditors last eve
ming, is, that we have in him young man Of very
high promise, one who, We may reasonably hope
will prove an American artist, Of whom we may
yet be proud. If my testimony is of any value tC
him in his struggle to gain yet another year of in
strumental and contrapuntal study in the best Of al
schools, give it cheerfully, gladly and of my OWL
motion"