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Violin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      For some time prior to the late Republican convention there were spasmodic attempts on the part of certain papers to \u201cboom\u201d Joseph W. Drexel, formerly and familiarly known as \u201cJoe\u201d Drexel, of Madison avenue, as the Republican candidate for Governor of the State of New York. This Drexel boom has now been put in its little bed, but they tell a good story of Drexel himself which ought not to be forgotten. Joe originally hailed, like all the Drexels, from Philadelphia, which is, like Stephen A. Douglas used to say of Vermont, \u201cone of the best places to get away from,\u201d and his early days are still remembered in Philadelphia, where they never forget anybody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His chief hobby was music. He had a good ear for melody and he fancied himself and inspired maestro. He made it a point to \u201cgo for\u201d all the \u201cmusical people\u201d who ever got into Philadelphia, and as he had a good deal of money and gave good suppers at Bob Harmer’s, Petrie\u2019s, and elsewhere, he was always well received in musical circles. It would have been a wonder if he hadn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joseph W. Drexel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      At first he thought he had a tenor voice, but his friends didn’t agree with him on that point, and he wisely changed his mind. But he really could play the fiddle, and he played it for all it was worth. He bought a superb old instrument, a genuine Stradivarius, and used to go visitin\u2019 in the evenin\u2019, carryin\u2019 the fiddle under his arm, in an elaborately carved case. Drexel and his fiddle got to be inseparable Institutions among the girls. One was never seen without the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One of the ex-sheriffs of Philadelphia then lived in Marshall street, and he had three pretty daughters; one of \u2018em\u2013the youngest, of course\u2013being a positive beauty. With this young lady Joseph fell desperately in love, and attempted to fiddle himself into her affections\u2013with a tolerable degree of success. But Joseph had a rival\u2013the son of a jeweler\u2013a musical rival, too, but not a rival fiddler; for the jeweler’s son played upon an even more familiar and harrowin\u2019 musical instrument\u2013the pianoforte. If the fiddle, like Saul, has slain its thousands, the piano, like David, has slain its tens of thousands. So you can imagine the condition of the young lady who had to endure \u2018em both. There was no Bergh in those days\u2013no society for the prevention of cruelty to animals\u2013so the pretty young daughter of the ex-sheriff had no redress, no alleviation of her evenin\u2019 agonies\u2013fiddle, piano\u2013piano, fiddle. What with the young man who played on the one and the young man who played on the other, her life became a burden at eighteen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Nor did she suffer alone\u2013none of us do\u2013her sisters had to suffer with her, and the old folks, too, had to agonize. That is, the old lady had to\u2013in her attempt to matronize her daughters in her parlor\u2013but, with the man’s usual luck, the ex-sheriff could, and did, escape both fiddle and piano by the simple expedient of attendin\u2019 two and three times a week a \u201cprimary meetin\u2019.\u201d It is a blessed thing sometimes to be a politician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The neighbors of the ex-sheriff, too, had to take their share of the musical plethora. For both Drexel and his rival played their instruments so earnestly and fervently, as if to prove by their instrumentation their affection, that families living on the side of the block would and did enjoy (!) the piano and the fiddle almost as much as the fair but fated cause of all this harmony herself\u2013especially in the warm months (and about seven months of the twelve are \u201cwarm\u201d in Philadelphia), when the windows are open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Piano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      But time brings its own remedy for everythin\u2019, and at last the ex-sheriff’s daughter not only got able to endure here music (!) but got able to partly modify and control it. For, in the course of time, by a sort of tacit agreement, it got to be agreed, between the rival musicians, that whoever got to the ex-sheriff’s hospitable mansion first in the evenin\u2019 should have the full benefit of his enterprise for that evenin\u2019. It was the early bird that was to catch the fair worm for the evenin\u2019. It was arranged that whoever called first should at once proceed to play upon his favorite instrument of torture and thus give notice of his havin\u2019 taken possession to his \u201chated rival\u201d who, hearin\u2019 the sound that indicated his rival\u2019s triumph, would take the hint and reframe from callin\u2019 that particular evenin\u2019. This arrangement worked pretty well for the young lady, as it limited her to one kind of misery per night, but it was hard on the rivals, for in order to get the advantage of each other they each got through their supper (they take \u201cdinner\u201d in the middle of the day in Philadelphia) as soon as possible and hurried to the ex-sheriff’s abode as eagerly as if they were expectin\u2019 to be appointed a deputy under him. And, as Joe Drexel was always lazy, even in love, it almost always happened that the jeweler’s son got inside of the house before him, leaving Joe with his fiddle case, which was as heavy as it was handsome, on the outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cJoe\u201d stood this sort of thing two or three weeks or so. He even took the trouble on several distinct occasions to get his supper an hour earlier than was customary. Once he did without his supper altogether, and on another occasion he even, in the most sprightly and undignified manner, ran right after supper to the ex-sheriff\u2019s. But he couldn’t, and wouldn’t, have stood this sort of thing long\u2013not even for the ex-sheriff\u2019s daughter. At the same time he resolved to come out first best. So he, with characteristic shrewdness, \u201cput up a job\u201d and carried it out successfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      For two or three weeks every night, no matter how early he reached the neighborhood of the ex-sheriff\u2019s, the jeweler’s son heard the fiddle bein\u2019 played within the mansion as a sign \u201cthat blanked Drexel\u201d was inside. He manfully kept to his implied compact and walked away each time; but still he wondered how on earth it was that Drexel had got so wide awake, and had evinced so much activity as thus constantly and persistently to get ahead of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One evenin\u2019 the jeweler’s son determined to make a sure thing of it and circumvent the fiddler, so he didn’t go home at all, didn’t take any supper, but hung around the ex-sheriff’s house till the family had barely finished \u201ctea.\u201d When, just as in the proud consciousness of gettin\u2019 ahead for once, and, perfectly certain that this time, at least, Drexel was not inside, he pulled the doorbell, he heard the sound of a fiddle. Great Scott! could Drexel have been stayin\u2019 to tea? At any rate there was the confounded signal of his presence, there was the fiddle\u2013there was no mistakin\u2019 that. There was no help for it, and with a weary sigh the discomfited pianist was walkin\u2019 away, when, to his utter amazement, lookin\u2019 up, he saw Drexel, Joe Drexel, his rival, not in the house, but on the street\u2013approachin\u2019 him and with his fiddle case under his arm. He could hardly believe his senses. Like old Frank Brower, the negro minstrel, he felt tempted to exclaim,  \u201cDo my ears deceive my eyesight?\u201d He had just heard Joe Drexel with his fiddle inside, yet here he saw Joe Drexel with his fiddle outside. Which was the true and bona fide Joseph, or were there two Drexels, or had the one and only Joseph Drexel been playin\u2019 a trick on him? Light began to break upon the jeweler’s son, and he determined to penetrate the mystery. He accompanied\u2013he insisted on accompanyin\u2019 his rival to his lady love\u2019s. Here the mystery came out. The young son of the ex-sheriff, the only brother of the three young ladies, \u201cher\u201d pet brother, who had been coaxed and bribed by the lazy but ingenious Joe to represent him, was found playin\u2019 on a fiddle \u201cwith intent to deceive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There was a little scene and a slight explosion but all is fair in love, war and fiddlin\u2019, and the jeweler’s son never played the piano again in the mansion of the ex-sheriff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Editor’s notes: Joseph W. Drexel (1833-1888) was still alive when this column was published, and never bothered to confirm or dent the anecdote, so there is a chance it might be true–although it is not repeated in any other source I’ve been able to find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drexel amassed a huge collection of musical instruments, which he donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Had also had a large library of works on music, that eventually found a home at the New York Public Library.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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