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The sun., 1919-04-14
BAPTISTS PREPARE
FOR UNION IN NORTH
DenUer Convention May Form
Legislative Body.

Capitalization of the work OF Baptist
churches north of Mason and Dixon s
line by the formation OF house of
representatives or board of finance and
promotion with full legislative powers.
is proposed in a report which will be
presented to the Baptist convention in
Denver. beginning May 81. 1t was an
nounced last night. To this body,
representing 100000 members of the
faith. would be assigned the duty Of
considering the work of the denomina-
ton. defining policy and approving
a budget for each ensuing year.
Formation OF the assembly, com
prised OF members from all bodies,
would mark the culmination OF a hun
dred years OF agitation among the alb
solutely Independent Baptist churches,
State associations and national associa-
tions," the statement declared, adding
that the rising tide OF intelligence and
of democratic feeling in the Baptist de-
nomination rightly demands a real legts-
lative assembly"
The former rivalry has largely given
way TO friendly cooperation which has
prepared the path for coordination and
unifcation." 1t was added.
The committee appointed to formulate
the report at the request OF the Baptist
convention, which met In Atlantic City
last May. includes Prof Il. D. Burton
of Chicago University, r. w. Aver,
president OF the convention. and Dr.
Fred p. Haggard. director OF the Ma
tional Committee OF Baptist Laymen.
The sun., 1919-04-14
POSTAL MAN INSISTS
BURLESON IS WRONG
Says His Line Does More u. S.
Business Than Stated.

William J. Deesan, secretary of the
Postal Telegraph Company, made public
last night abatement replying to the
recent statement OF Postmaster General
Burleson's wire control committee. He
takes particular exception 10 Mr.. Burle-
sons assertion that the Postal carries
only one-twelfth OF the Government
business.
I'VE don't believe that proportion is
true" said Mr.. Deegan. we carry all
the Government business that is offered
to us. giving It precedence over all other
vice possible. We know that by reason
Of our superior service the Government
departments at Washington and else
where prefer our service, and in fact
tho Post Office Department itself has
stated to US that our service Is superior
TO that Of the Western Union. and It has
also stated that II gave us more than
our proportion Of the Government bust
ress for that reason.
AS a matter OF fact we have favored
the Government much more than the
Western Union has done. We turned
over one OF our invaluabls cables across
the Atlantic to the Government last fall
at the request OF the State Department
We turned over to the Government a
wire from Washington TO enable tho
Government to have fast cable service
to Panama and South America and re-
ceived a cordial letter OF appreciation
from the Secretary OF State
"All this talk OF Burelson's Is mere
pretence In an EFFORT to Justify his posi-
ton, which cannot be justified"
The sun., 1919-04-14
CASH PRIZES GO WITH
MANTLE OF o. HENRY
Short Story Contest Memorial
to Gifted Author.

All that myriad army OF gifted writ
Ing folk who are sure they are meant
whenever any one talks about the man
tie OF the late O. Henry falling on the
shoulders Of a new writer will have a
chance row to prove that the mantle Ats
their shoulders The Society OF Arts and
Sciences at dinner recently appointed
a committee TO provide a memorial to
the late Sidney Porter. who was known
throughout the land by his pen name OF
o. Henry.
The committee reported yesterday that
the memorial finally decided on has
taken the form OF IAN award by the So
ciety Of Arts and Sciences of two prizes
one OF $500 and the other of $3.50, to
the best and second best short story
written by an American and published
In America In the year 1919" A com
mittee OF Judges who will make the
awards has been selected and consists OF
Blanche Cotton Williams, Phi. n. OF
Hunter College: Edward J. Wheeler,
editor OF Current Opinion: Ethel Watts
Mumford, Prof Robert Wilson Neal or
Amherst and the Rev. DR.. Merle ST.
Croix Wright.
Announcement OF the prize winners
will be made on January J. An ad-
visory committee numbering many dis
tinguished authors will assist the com
mittee OF judges in making the award.
The sun., 1919-04-14
MYSTERIOUS SHOTS
KILL MAN AND BOY
Police Seek Clue to Pedes-
TRANS Deaths in Hester St.

Domlnik Calitro. .. of III Mulberry
street. WAS hurrying through the big
Sunday crowd In Hester street. between
Mott and Mulberry. at o'clock last
night happy in the fact that his plea aiding
had won from his father handful of
pennies with which the lad was on his
way TO a candy store in Hester street.
AS the hoy approached the corner OF
Mott street he heard a revolver shot and
saw most OF those in the crowd dodge to
cover. Before he had n chance to follow
their example another shot sounded and
the bullet pierced his forehead. The boy
dropped and nearly every one appeared
afraid TO step into the open TO aid him.
A moment later Policeman William
Donnelly OF the Elizabeth street station.
hurrying 10 see what the trouble was.
stumbled across the unconscious body OF
Albert Gianni 81 a salesman. OF l24
Baxter street, Glanni was lying on the
sidewalk in Hester street only few
yards from where young Calitro had
fallen.
The policeman sent a call for an am
hulance to St. Nircent's Hospital. DR..
England pronounced the boy dead and
hurried off to the hospital with Gianni.
who died an hour later without regain
ing consciousness. lie was shot in the
abdomen.
Although score OF detectives from
the Elizabeth street station and the
Detective Bureau swarmed over the
neighborhood for the following two hours
they were unable to find any one who
would admit having seen the shots fired,
Shrugs OF the shoulders were the only
information the cops were able TO
gather, but they think that a fight oc-
CURED In a house in Hester street and
that the bullets came through an open
window or door.
The sun., 1919-04-14
PLEA FOR FRENCH CHURCHES
MA urfce Barres sends Letter to
Help Raise Fund.

Maurice Barres, a member OF the
French Academy, has written his obser-
vations on the destruction OF churches
in Lorraine. the Champagne and in
northern France By the Germans. in an
appeal for the society headed by Morgan
]. O'Brien which is raising funds TO put
Up temporary churches until the recon-
struction is fully under way.
The estimate in February, 1917, was
that over $500 churches had been de-
stroyed, including those In the diocese
Of Amiens. in which the villages of AL
bert. Niners, Rfeteonnau. Montdidier
and Peronne have been wiped out. THE
diocese has become a desert" Mr.. Bsrres
wrote. "and 100000 inhabitants have
evacuated their homes" The churches
in each OF these towns were mark for
German shells, situated near the popus-
ton centres in most cases, Mr.. Barres
said. and by bombing them the enemy
could be sure OF causing heavy NOR
tality He reCited several instances Of
the care the inhabitants had taken to
preserve the church ornaments. moving
them to whatever buildings we're stand
ing for continued observance OF church
service.
The sun., 1919-04-14
CONEY BLOSSOMS OUT
AS FASHION RESORT
Spring Styles Paraded-SfratU
Hats Also Appear.

Spring styles were on parade at
Coney Island yesterday along with the
thousands who simply couldn't get by a
Sunday without trying TO beat the new
season to the tape. A number OF dap
per gentlemen appeared in straw hats.
attracting considerable attention TO
themselves, but the women claimed most
OF the honors The record OF the last
three Sundays has already set the at
tendance mark we'll along and conces-
sionaires are slimpsing golden visions
OF the greatest year ever.
Steeplechase will open next Saturday
TO run week ends until the weather
definitely gets into torrid habits, and
Luna Park will open May II. Hender-
sons. practically the only large restau-
rant that was not open yesterday. will
start it's season Saturday.
A few bathers overcams computations
aroused by the cool wind and lowering
skys, but the real fun was for the
promenaders and for the women who
had been forethoughtful enough to do
their Easter shopping early and had
gathered to show their niftiest bonnets.
The sun., 1919-04-14
MAN FOUND SLAIN
IN SALOON HALLWAY
Empty Wallet Picked Up in
Washroom.

The body OF a tail. powerfully built
man OF 40. later Identified as william
T.. Atwood, a steamHtter Of 337 West
Forty-ninth street. was found in a hall
way adjoining saloon at the corner
OF Sixty-sixth street and Amsterdam
avenue by patrolman yesterday morn
ing. His brain had been pierced by a
bullet which entered the cheek.
On suspicion OF murder two men vera
examined. but denied all KNOWLEDGE OF
the matter. The police said they found
bloodstains on the oilcioth I'm a rear
room OF the cafe and an empty wallet
in the Mushroom. The proprietor, VIII
lam Smith. said he had not been In the
place since Saturday ard could give no
light on the possible killing
In the same saloon, according TO police
records. Arnold Grunge. then proprietor.
was murdered last October. Albert Gar.
guillo, head of a band OF holdup men
was sentenced to twenty years in Sing
Sing for the crime. John Hughes Of
2O43 Webster avenue, The Bronx. identi-
fed the body OF Atwood.
The sun., 1919-04-14

put there when the first heart
began to beat, the glorious
truth that MUSIC stands on
the threshold of every home,
waiting to be admitted, to give
the comfort that no words can
give, to rest tired minds, pre-
vent misunderstanding, 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 build
err of TONE, and of devices
for better musical expression.
The first day we opened our
piano store, not a single in
str-ument 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.
The sun., 1919-04-14
FRENCH FIGHT PROHIBITION.
League Here to Begin Campo igr
for individual Liberty.

Representatives OF French societies
meeting here yesterday at 50 West
Twenty-sixth street voted to call gem
eral assembly on May rs to complete
the organization Of the Franco Ameri-
can League for the Protection OF Indi-
vidual Liberty. This body has already
Joined with the Association Opposed to
Prohibition. It was stated by Clement
Ruefr, in a campaign for the mainte-
nance OF constitutional rights. The en-
forcement Of national prohibition will
be opposed. Capt Blum of the Lafay-
cite Guards said that every French SO
ciety In the country Is in sympathy with
the formation OF the Franco-American
league.
Reports were received that many
French, Italian and Belgian citizens are
leaving the country because OF the en-
sctment OF national prohibition, which
they regard as a menace to their rights
The French league win invite the Latin
American associations to join the move
inent.
The sun., 1919-04-14
RABBI RAKES BOLSHEvISM.
DIR. siIverman DwelIs Upon Com
pers's Cond m ma ton of Reds.

Rabbi Joseph Silverman. in a sermon
at Temple Emanuel yesterday. declared
that Samuel Gompers's condemnation Of
Bolshevism announced on his return
from Paris would go far to convince the
American people of the futilty OF the
Peace Conferences efforts to treat with
that Government
The opposition of labor to the move
ment Is significant. he declared. revealing
the fallacy in the Bolshevist programme
for obtaining control OF industry. Mr..
Gompers realizes. DR.. Silverman said.
that even though this control we're OBJ
tanned those who seized II would find
themselves IN such a disordered state
that they would not be able 10 enjoy the
fruits OF their labor. Trotzky and I.e-
nine have grown rich out OF thar mis-
management of Russia. he said. bat the
country has been Impoverished.
The sun., 1919-04-14
SCHOOL TO TRAIN ATHLETES.
DR.. James f. Tough of v. Y. u
Makes Announcements.

The present shortage OF expert teach
ers OF physical training in the schools
OF the city and State will be further in
creased. according TO statement issued
yesterday by Or. James +. Tough. d.
rector OF the New York University Sum-
mer School. II plan now In the max
Ing at Albany to substitute school mil
itary training for physical training is
carried through
Dr. Lough said that in an effort to
try to help out the shortage of physical
training teachers the summer session of
the universities department OF physical
education Will be held this year at
Chodikee Lake. in the Catsliills. Here
the school Will have 300 acres, with
plenty OF rooms and equipment for ont
door sports and games and facilities for
water sports on the lake. III connection
with the department the university also
VIII conduct model camp for girls.
The sun., 1919-04-14
ADDRESSES LOYAL LEGION.
DR.. Lyman T.. Powell Says Organ
nations Ala Is Needed.

The Rev. DR.. Lyman P. Powell deiv-
cred the annual address before the Loyal
Legion OF the United states when mem
bere of the organization filled the
Church OF the Incarnation yesterday af-
ternoon for service in celebration OF
world peace. DR.. Powell told the con-
gregation that II ever time had come
when the Loyal Legion could help a
troubled civilization that time now was
here.
I'VE should feed our enemies" said
Dr. Powell, "if for no other reason than
that Bolshevism springs out OF an empty
stomach" We cannot forgive them.
however. until they are penitent. for for
giveness. added the speaker. is an act OF
reciprocity. Our enemies hope for a
break in time between America and
England. but the English speaking peo-
piles. predicted DR.. Powell will once
more fool the birds OF I'll omen"
The sun., 1919-04-14
Speakers for sphin. Club Feast.

Senator Chamberlain. retiring chair
man of the Senate Committee on Mil,
tary Affairs Brig. Gen. Frank r. Hines
chief OF the embark,tion service Col
Henry w. Hodge, who built railroa dis
at the front. and the Rev Percy Stickney
Grant viii speak at a dinner OF the
Sphinx Club In the Waldo< Astoria 10.
morrow evening. Charles 8. Whitman.
Judge Ebert II. Gary. Major-Gen,
Thomas II. Barry and Sir Charles Henry
will be among the invited guests. Flee
ton OF OFFICERS viii De heid.
The sun., 1919-04-14
shooting I'm City Hall Park.

Several shots were fred in CITY Hall
Park yesterday morning In a police chase
after John Slcor OF 39s Water street
who was wanted for a restaurant holdup
that was committed Tuesday. Detectives
Rowan, Kenny and Gorcvan were stand
ing IN doorway on Nassau street when
they saw S'cor passing. They called 10
him 10 stop. but the man took 10 his
heels. making for City Hall. None OF the
shots fred after him took effect, but at
the welcome arch at the foot of CITY
Han steps the detectives closed in and
sicor gave up further attempts TO escape
The sun., 1919-04-14
Italians Close War Mission Here.

Lieut.. NincenZo Ludov,ci. who as n
member OF the Italian mission has heon
in America since 1915 for the purchase
OF munitions and supplies. has c'osed
his office in the Metropolitan Life Build
Ing and will leave soon for Italy. He
IL an attorney at Abruzzi and a candi-
date for member OF Parliament from the
province OF that name Lieut.. IN,doyicl
has several times engaged in Spea king
tours in Italian interest and has become
well known from that work.
The sun., 1919-04-14
Three Hurt In Motor Collision.

The chauffeurs Of two cars that h7l
a collision at 7S3 Eighth avenue yester-
day were injured and George Alton. IL.
who was OH the sidewalk. was cut alour
the head and body when the machines
rammed third car standing at the
curb and drove II upon the sidewalk
into an outdoor showcase. John A. Nc
Keen, one OF the drivers, received a
fractured leg The others we're attended
and WeD AsmA
The sun., 1919-04-14
The AMPICO

IN Il AAVA - -
AT the head of the list of
players is the AMPICO Repro
ducing piano. In our judg-
ment, it is the finest producer
in the world, so far, of piano.
forte music. The AMPICO is
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 sensations,
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 exclu-
sively. /
Godowski, Bauer, Gabrilowftsch,
Buhlig, Ornstein, Copeland, Wynni
Pyle, Arthur Loesser, Nine. Vino
gradoff, are among the hundred
others who have played for the
AMPICO, and whose interpretations
may be enjoyed today in every home
where there is an AMPICO.
The AMPICO has opened
up new era in the history
Of music, affording the
means of a musical educa-
ton never before possible,
and bringing the joys of the
finest music into every
home it enters.
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 tai
ent, through the Wanna
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 re-
cital.
The sun., 1919-04-14

But how little all the past
seems, as we look toward the
future, with the love of music
in our hearts, and the enthu-
siasm 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
bargaining that, before we
opened our Piano Store, gov
erned 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 pro-
tected the customer and ele-
waited the pianoforte to it's
proper dignity in the mer-
chandising 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, play
er-pianos and Reproducing
pianos. You may call upon
hundred great artistes to play
for you, whenever you wish,
as often as you wish.
At any time you have choice,
in our new, beautiful Piano
Salons, of over 70 styles and
sizes Of instruments: the
incompatible CHICKERING,
oldest and grandest of Ameri-
can pianos, SCHUMACHER,
the piano Lincoln loved, EN-
ERSON, the sWeet-tOned
The sun., 1919-04-14

row.
But the other day, some one
said, "The Piano Store will be
30 years old on April 18TH"
And we involuntarily cast a
mental glance backward.
Memories popped out from
the minds 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 peoples apprecia-
ton of the inspiring influ-
ence of MUSIC in the home.
When the John Wanamaker
Store added pianos to its
lengthening list of merchan-
disc on April Is, 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
os 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
first pianoforte built is in
New York?
1t was built by Cristofori,
of Padua. about ITO. 1t
is today in the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art.
Keen minds have been work.
ing through the centuries
to develop a system Of COM
bining musical tones in
chords; later, form of pre-
senting 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. 1t
was not until the 14th century that
the harpsichord and the clavichord
were heard The first harpsichord was
nothing but either 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 AMPICO!
One year before we opened
our Piano Salons the first prac-
teal player-piano was built.
But it was a very mechanical
instrument. 1t played musical
compositions. 1t did not pro-
duce MUSIC, the artists
touch, the infinite degrees of
dynamics that constitute eX-
preston, the tender caressing
of a melody, the plastic mould
ing of a phrase.
The AMPICO does all these
today.
Some gifted pen will one
day write the epic of MUSIC,
that shall tear its way through
the rust the centuries have
,.,o,,,od oho,,t tba boo,,t oo1
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ReCitaIS

In the Auditorium at 2:30
each day during the next two
weeks, April IA to 18th, inclu-
slve, the rounding out of our
twenty years of progress in
the dissemination of music will
be marked by the following
program
MONDAY, April 18th
AMIGO Comparison Recital; Nine.
Minogradof. concert pianist, and the
Chickering-Ampico Reproducing Piano,
And Festival Quartette.
TUESDAY, April 18th
18th American COMPOSERS Concer+.
COMPOSITIONS of FREDERICK w. VAN,
DERPOOL; the composer at the piano.
assisted by George Reimherr, tenor. and
Martha Atwood, soprano,
WEDNESDAY, April 18th
song Recital by CORA REMING
TON, soloist of Fifth Avenue Bantist
Church, assisted by the following com
posers-Milligan, Warford, Mcknight.
Mckinney. "''
THURSDAY. April 17th
AMPlCO Comparison Recital; Arthur
-"eSsei' concert pianist, and the Chick
erlng-Ampico Reproducing Piano. And
Festival Quartette.
FRIDAY, April 18th
Good Friday Organ Meditation. , an
to 315. ''0
SATURDAY, April 10Th
Easter singing by the Choristers Of
st, Brigid's Church, Brooklyn (4O mon
and boys) under the direction Of Will.
lam Moore.
MONDAY, April 2l.t
Opening week of six concerts mr.
ranged through the kind cooperation Of
eminent publishers, our Third Annual
American Composers Festival. 40
composers and 80 interpreting artists
will appear. An afternoon will be giyen
each to the publications of Kinds. Hav.
den and Eldrege. G.. Schi-mer. Inc
Huntzlnger e Dilworth, The Boston
Music Co., j. Fischer & Sons and N
Whitmark g. Sons. Details will be an.
nounced from day to day.
You are cordially invited to at
tend any or all of these recitals
Tickets may be had upon applica-
ton at the Managers office, in tbo
Piano Salons.
First Gallery, New Building.
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Twenty Years of Pr0gre>
In the Dissemination of MUSIC
Into the Homes of the People

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 con-
venient terms of periodical
DaVynonts