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sic Trads REVIEW.
The Only Music Trade Paper in America, and the Organ of the Music Trade of this Country.
Founded
VOL. IX. No. 8.
July,
1879.
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 20 TO DECEMBER 5, i885.
PUBLISHED •:• TWICE * EACH * MONTH.
SHORT RAMBLES.
CHARLES AVERY WELLES,
IN THE WEST.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
JEFF. DAVIS BILL,
NUMBER v.
Y
OU SEE the story of my Western trip is not
MANAGER.
finished yet; and here is BILL, whose front
name is JEFF DAVIS, already covering much the same
22 EAST 17th STEEET, NEW YOEK,
ground that I did. It will be some weeks before he
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and Canada,
returns, and during his absence he will have taken
$2.00 per year, in advance ; Foreign Countries, $3.00.
in everything between here and Chicago; will have
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.50 per inch, single column, per insertion ;
gone from Chicago to Quincy, 111., from there to
Unless inserted upon rates made by special contract.
Kansas City, Leavenworth and St. Joe.; will have
Entered at the New York Post Office an Second Class Matter.
taken in Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati and St.
Louis; will have made a descent upon the great
THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.
WORLD'S FAIR at New Orleans, and will have made
life a burden to the members of the music trade in
CLEAR, cloudless day, with the thermometer
not exceeding 74°, was vouchsafed the good the prominent cities along the Atlantic coast.
Mr. BILL has gone off with his little portfolio
people of the Crescent City for the opening of
the North, Central, and South American Exposition, under his arm containing the " dummy" of the issue
at New Orleans on the 10th inst. It was a picnic of the Music TRADE REVIEW for January 5th to 20th,
participated in by 50,000 home people, very few
1886, which is to celebrate the inauguration of the
strangers being in attendance. All the schools, pub-
partnership,
and while he is gone I will tell you some
lic offices, stores and manufactories closed for the
day. The military and civic bodies and the fire de- perfectly true stories about matters and things from
partment formed on Canal street at 9 o'clock, and here to Chicago.
under the Grand Marshal, Major Charles B. Throck-
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morton, Second United States Artillery, after a street
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parade, having the Governor and State officers in
In the two preceding articles one person who de-
charge, moved to the levee and embarked on board
the steamboats there in waiting and steamed up to serves mention has been over looked, and that is
the Exposition grounds. Addresses were made by ANDY, the porter on one of the drawing-room cars for
Bishop Gallagher, of the Episcopal Church ; Director- the AUBURN BRANCH of the CENTRAL,, leaving New
General Glenn, President McConnico, Commissioner- York at 10.30 o'clock A. M. Every man, woman and
General Pitkin, Commissioner Fairall, of Iowa; Gov.
child on the AUBURN BRANCH knows ANDY. Ladies
McEnery, Mayor Guillotte, the Eev. Halsey Weer-
traveling
alone, together or with children try to get
lein, Minister Romero, of Mexico, and Dr. J. J. New-
man (colored). Letters were read from Secretary ANDY'S car going to or from New York. They know
Bayard, Mr. Huntingdon, and others excusing their that they will be shown every attention. I was
absence. The exercises were enlivened with music pleased to see him one night a few weeks ago take
by Prof. Daquin's Band and a chorus of some 500 a sleeping child from its mother's lap when she
voices. Every effort was made to induce the attend-
ance of President Cleveland on this occasion, but he had reached her station, and with the child in his
failed to appear or respond by letter. The transpor- arms assist the woman off the cars with as much
tation facilities between the city and the grounds good will as if he were gettiag a fifty-dollar bill for
proved ample for the day. Some 10,000 people were it. ANDY gets his substantial reward, however, for
carried on the fleet of boats. The steam railroad the male travelers seldom forget his courtesies to
conveyed 20,000 people in quarter-hourly trains, and
their female relatives and friends. I do not wish to
the five lines of street cars handled comfortably
make invidious distinctions—there may be other
10,000 people.
drawing-room and sleeping car porters as obliging
The Horticultural Hall was in splendid condition,
and attentive as ANDY, only I do not know them,
otherwise there was a noticeable lack of complete-
ness. Those in attendance were limited almost en- and I do know him, although he would not remem-
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tirely to home people: even the rural Louisianian ber me.
was not there. He comes in early winter to buy his
Can you imagine anything more hideous In its ex-
outfit and spend some of his year's earnings. But
he is now busy grinding his cane and picking his cot- travagant gorgeousness than the barber shop of the
ton, and not for a month yet will he be spared from PALMER HOUSE, in Chicago. Excruciatingly magnifi-
his plantation, and it is a month or six weeks too cent is the term to apply to it. I have never experi-
early for the average Northern or Western winter enced such suicidal or homicidal tendencies as when
tourist. There was, however, a manifestation of
good feeling on all sides- a feeling of faith and con- I have been obliged to submit myself to the hands
fidence in the Exposition and its grand success. The of a "tonsorial artist " in that place. Its size is
managers are practical business men. They have equal to its gorgeousness. It is probably the largest
paid as they have gone, and the gates opened to-day barber shop in the world, and over thirty persons can
with the concern not only free from debt, but with be shaved, shorn and shampooed in it at one time.
$25,000 in the treasury, while not one dollar has I suppose the place is a treat to the eye of the wild
come from the Government, but has been raised by
westerner, and the cow-boy who has taken his pants
private effort.
A
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES. 10 CENTS.
out of his boot-legs, and come to Chicago to see the
sights, may revel in the appalling outburst of mag-
nificence. I should like to see the man whose taste
led him into such extravagance, an extravagance so
riotous in fact that, not content with decorating his
walls and ceiling, he has had a silver dollar inlaid in
every one of the marble tiles of which the floor is
composed, the total number of which is eight him-
dred.
Think of it, eight hundred dollars embedded in
the floor you are walking over.
It is to be regretted, if things must be done In
this style in Chicago, that the barbers are not sup-
plied with lather brushes, having a large diamond In
the end of each of their handles.
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A contrast to this display of meritricious orna-
mentation is found in the decorations of the new
HOTEL RICHELIEU, which stands on Michigan ave-
nue, facing the lake. No more delightful spot could
be chosen. While it is convenient to the business
parts of the city, to the railroad depots, and to the
other hotels, it has the advantage of an unbroken
view of the majestic expanse of Lake Michigan, and
in summer the cool breezes from this lake make the
location doubly enjoyable.
Mr. W. W. KIMBALL recommended me to inspect
the place, and in the absence of Mr. H. V. BEMIS,
who was in New York at the time, I was most cour-
teously
received by Mr. GEORGE W. CONE, one
of the partners in the enterprise, the third being
Mr. HIRAM CHEESBRO.
I confess that I was im-
mensely pleased with the arrangement of the hotel,
its decorations and its appointments. From "the
windows at the front of the RICHELIEU, one can sit
and watch the elegant equipages, containing the
wealth and fashion of Chicago, as they roll along
Michigan avenue, the " swell" drive of the city. On
the opposite side of the avenue is a grassy park, and
then comes the lake, stretching far beyond the hori-
zon and glowing, on a pleasant day, with rainbow tints
from the sun, which, when it rises out of the water,
as it did one morning when I was in Chicago, like a
ball of fiery, molten metal, tinging the sky from north
to south with rich gold and roseate hues, makes
almost as grand a sight as a sunrise in the mountains
or at sea.
I spent more than an hour in company with Mr.
CONE, inspecting sleeping - rooms, dining, halls,
kitchens, store-rooms, reception-rooms, etc., etc.—
everything perfect, tasteful, luxurious. The heart
of man could not desire more. The ornamentation,
though handsome and elaborate, is by no means
garish, and is distinguished by a pleasing variety.
The RICHELIEU was opened the first of October and
has already made itself famous. If you stop there
the managers and their assistants, Messrs. CLARK D.
FROST and J. W. BOYLE, will use their best efforts
to make you feel at home.
I may have something more to say about the
RICHELIEU at another time.