Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-06-17
REMIN1sCENCE OF NED KENDALL.

TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
REMINISCENCE OF NED KENDALL.
News has been received of the death Of
James R. Kendall, the once celebrated Boston
musician, in San Francisco. Jim and Ned
Kendall will be we'll remembered by old Bos'
tonians as the founders of the old Boston Bri.
gade Band, the rival of the no less celebrated
Boston Brass Band.
James Kendall was noted as clarionet
PLAYER, while Ned was celebrated as per-
former on the bugle. His execution Of favor
ite airs, with extra touches, variations, dell
cate shades and sweet tones was something
marvellous in those days, and on the occasion
of the visit of the Prince de Joinville to Bos-
ton and the grand ball given to that scion OF
nobility at Faneuil Hall, one Of the great
features announced was the grand orchestra
which would discourse sweet harmony, with
notes from
"Kendall's bugle floating over ALL"
as poet of the day expressed it.
An old story told of Ned Kendall, when at
the height of his popularity, nearly forty
years ago, will be new to many at this time.
1t appears that celebrated New York bugle-
player had heard so much of Kendalls play
ing, and had had comparison of his own exc
cution so frequently made with that of the
Bostonian, and to the favor of the latter, that
he naturally had a great desire to meet the
rival performer, and accordingly visited Bos.
ton for that purpose On the very first day
of his arrival, which was at the height Of the
sleighing season, he was invited to join a
sleighing party, which he did.
Arriving, after glorious ride, at one ofthe
then popular out-oftown resorts, "Ihe Punch
bowl" old "Phenix," or Brighton" the
party found that the ballroom of the place
was lighted up, and grand dance was to take
place by a large party who had arrived from
Boston. Our New York musician, finding
the bar.room crammed with gentlemen par
taking of various warm and stimulating fluids,
stepped into side parlor to wait better
chance to do likewise, and to warm himseltat
the fire, before which sat three individuals,
who courteously made room for him. On the
table near by lay bugle, evidently just ia
ken from its case, which laid near.
"Ahw said the New Yorker, having warmed
his fingers into Aexibility, as he leaned his
hand opon the table and toyed with the keys
of the instrument "Any one OF you play
on this?"
eyes, do little" said somewhat thick.
set, dark.complexioned man at the fire.
"Play for parties, suppose
"Now and then, when get a job," said the
other, his eyes twinkling; "do you?"
90, do little in my way" said the New
Yorker, with assumed Indifference, and seiz-
ing the bugle he ran over the scale, gave half
dozen strains and pretty snatches Of melody
that brought dozen or two listeners to the
halfopen door ~
The dark man opened his eyes wider. "You
are an excellent player" said he.
20, only 50 so," was the grati6ed and some
what pompous reply; "Isuppose you don't go
into much except dance music ?"
"Well, yes, little; I'm pretty good at i'm
itating anything that hear played once or
twice )" and he took up the instrument, and
played the same strains the other had per-
formed, awkwardly, and with halfa.dozen
bitches and omissions.
"Pretty good" said the New York bugler;
"but you want practice and accent especially
in solo playing"
"No doubt Of il" said the dark man.
"Now even in dance music there can be a
vast deal of ornamentation," said the New
Yorker, warming up with desire to show off
his skill before what he thought an inferior
player, and the gathering group that the notes
of the instrument had already attracted.
"Now the Fishers Hornpipe' is lively tune,
but see what can be done with it" and he
took up the bugle and put the country dance
through series of variations that made the
nerves of every foot, whose owner was within
hearing, tingle with electric thrills.
"You can hardly follow that as we'll as the
scales, suppose?" said the performer, laying
down the instrument amid buzz Of applause
from his now augmented audience.
"Well, don't know about following any
body, but I may give you my idea Of it," said
the dark-complexioned man, as he took up
the instrument.
If the first bar made the other player start,
the succeeding ones trans6xed him, as the
performer executed strains with correctness,
skill and beauty that he never heard extracted
from bugle before. The variations, trills,
tones and, melody of the familiar old dance
were rendered into electric poetry as never
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bell of the instrument, and beneath the skill
full mapipulatons and never failing wind of
the performer, who at the conclusion of his
performance, amid roar Of applause, re-
marked, with thesame sly twinkle in his dark
eye.
"What do you think now?"
"Think !" said the other, as he stood with
his eyes distended with astonisment "Think!
Why, that no living man could have done
that you must be either the devil or Ned
Kendall"
"Ned Kendall, and no devil" said the
player, as he grasped the others hand ex-
tended to him. Commercial Bulletin.
SAVING IS WEALrH.-One great cause Of
the present day, wisely says an exchange, is
failure of our common people to appreciate
small things. They do not realize how adaily
addition, be it ever so small, will soon make
large pile. If the young men and women
of to-day will only begin, and begin now, to
save little from their earnings, and weekly
or monthly add their mite, they will wear a
happy smile of competence when they reach
middle life. Not only the desire but the
ability to increase it will also grow. Let
clerk and tradesmen, laborer and artisan,
make, now and at once, beginning. Store
up some of your youthful force for future con-
tingeDcy. Let parents teach their children