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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
tables show clearly some of the many advantages deriv- of wooded land in Arkansas, on which will be felled and
ed by the workers under Mr. Dolge's method of labor-re- prepared material for many thousands of pianos and
muneration. One of the principal of these is the pension organs ; I shall be a mighty factor in the growth and
fund. These tables also show the amount of life insur- development of American industry, and shall assist in
His Profit Sharing System Illus- ance
and the bank deposits for those rejected bv the in- placing the glorious wreath of art upon fair Columbia's
trated at the Exposition.
surance company. They give information relating to brow." AH this he has accomplished.
the Mutual Aid Association, established in 1880, and the
The rise and progress of the W. W. Kimball Company
FRENCHMEN MARVEL AT HIS SUCCESS AND THE School Society, also founded in 1SS6. Among other would furnish material for many books of the size of
benefits conferred are the club house and library; and TUB Music TRADE REVIEW. This vast concern is a
FRENCH PRESS UNANIMOUS IN EULOGIZING
the public parks, the latter estimated at 141 acres. For triumph of perseverance and superb management. The
THE LIFE WORK OF THIS MAN.
such a good work for the benefit of the working classes, trade done by them in organs made in their own
all true sympathisers will join in wishing increased suc- factories is stupendous, yet it is rapidly being approached
A name well known for the good work with which all cess and prosperity.
by their piano trade. The new Kimball piano, for the
its hearers connect it, is that of Alfred Dolge of Dolge-
This exhibit of Mr. Dolge is not the only means taken manufacture of which a large and splendidly equipped
ville. It was to see the exhibit of this prominent to make known this great industrial triumph; there has factory was some time ago erected by the W. W. Kim-
member of a branch of the piano trade that your cor- been printed and published for the "Participation du ball Co. adjacent to their organ factory, has made a
respondent went to that part of the exposition situated Persoml dans les Benefices" an illustrated volume of decided " hit." Its musical qualities, coupled with the
on the Place des Invalides, which is about a mile from nearly a hundred pages, in the three most spoken lan- elegance and grace of its exterior construction, have
the main part of the Paris Universelle, along the bank guages of the world—English, French and German. acquired for it a phenomenal demand in all sections, and
of the Seine, through the numerous buildings that con- This gives an account of the work accomplished by Mr. have also materially added to the fame and glory of
tain the food products and agricultural machinery of all Dolge in such a short time that Frenchmen wonder how the great Chicago house.
exhibiting nations. In this agricultural section the it could have come to pass that a man who has not
Great as are the abilities and powers of the chief of
States are well represented and the starry banner gaily made "self" the chief and only aim of his life should this firm, they are hardly sufficient to cope with the ne-
floats over some very good exhibits. Arriving at the have such a record to show. They forget when so cessities of so tremendous a concern
Consequently,
Place des Invalides, among the many small buildings wondering, that the truest self-help is to help others to with rare discrimination and good judgment, Mr. Kim-
and pavilions which mainly contain the French colonial help themselves. This volume will be, and indeed has ball has associated with himself Mr. A. G. Cone and Mr.
exhibits, with native attendants, after some searching been, read by many thousands with the interest that E. S. Conway, who act respectively as Treasurer and Sec-
an erection with Societe Social on the facade is seen, and always attaches to the work of a mun who has done retary of the W. W. Kimbail Company. The keen busi-
immediately on entering it the stand of Alfred Dolge more for those around him than many mighty con- ness instincts of these two gentlemen are supplemented
comes into view. It may be mentioned that this build- querors would have attempted to do, and with a suc- by a persona] frankness and a courtesy unexceeded in the
ing is devoted, as its name implies, to the display of cess so great that it must reach the highest expecta- music trade or any other trade. By the united power
matter connected with the various economical societies tion of the founder.
and charm of Kimball, Conway and Cone, the Company
and trade unions, and giving results of their exertions
The French and all other European editors are unan- has risen to an altitude of renown at which it attracts
in tables, pamphlets, circulars, cards, &c. Of course the
imous in praise of what this book contains ; to many it the wondering, admiring, and respectful gaze of man-
largest number of these concern the various French
must have been quite a revelation. The opinion of the kind.
trades-unions, of which most send some particular dis-
two leading economical papers of Paris, 'Le Bulletin de
plays. Turning to the exhibit that is most interesting
la Participation"' and" Le Bulli tin dt V Economic Sociale,"
A WONDERFUL TABLE TOP.
to the visitor from the States we find a compact stand,
is of especial value, and should be read by all interested
with a square, flat top of glass, having drawers and a
in the great question of capital and labor.
ARTISTIC EVIDENCE OF ENGINEER BURLINGHAM'S
cupboard door beneath. Above this are hung the tables
REMARKABLE PATIENCE.
One
of
the
representative
French
musical
journals,
of "participation remuneration," framed and printed in
"Le
Monde
Musical,"
devotes
more
than
two
long
col-
French as well as English, and above these tables can
NGINEER Burlingham, whose picturesque pres-
be seen a view of Mr. Dolge's factory. It is a pity the umns to the life work of this friend of workers. They
ence is familiar to all frequenters cf our printers'
quote
as
being
worthy
of
especial
reading
some
re-
tables had to be hung so high, as they cannot be easily
machine room in University place, New York
marks
made
in
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
upon
this
'read, and the engraving of the works is quite " skyed."
fills
up
his "corners of time" in a highly praiseworthy
The glass-covered case is filled with what may be pam- subject. What seems to very especially strike all manner. Not satisfied with worthily spending the
writers
in
these
European
journals
is
the
fact
of
the
phlets, tied in bundles with tricolored tape. On the
perfect trust and esteem with which Mr. Dolge is re- greater portion of his life amid the whirr, and din, and
inside of the glass is stuck a paper which, in French
garded
by all his workers; this convinces many that the general uproar of engines and printing presses, he always
gives the information that Alfred Dolge is a piano-felt
manages to occupy his spare moments in riding some
manufacturer of Dolgeville, State of New York. This plan pursued at Dolgeville must be the right one for very pretty hobby. The latest of his exploits in this
the
promotion
of
right
feeling
between
employer
and
is the onJy thing that connects the stand with the tables
line has resulted in the production of a very remarkable
above, except a plan, hung in front, of a workman's employed, making lockouts or strikes impossible, as table-top, of circular form, and measuring about twenty-
house on a capital principle, and doubtless such as are the interest of the master instead of being antagonistic three inches in diameter. This table-top is fashioned of
built by Mr. Dolge for his own workers. Your corres- to that of the worker becomes identical with it.
a hundred and fifty strips or pieces of some fifty differ-
ANITA LILIAN KING.
pondent when in this section one morning was unable
ent kinds of wood, varying in width from three-quarters
to see any attendant or obtain a circular, so slipped a
of an inch to one sixty-fourth of an inch. All these
Music TKADE REVIEW card into the glass case, inquir-
slender strips are screwed together in such a manner
THE W. W. KIMBALL CO.
ing if the attendant would say at what hour he could be
as to show no trace of any screw, and are planed
found at the exhibit ; but a visit one afternoon some ONE OF THE GREAT LUMINARIES OF THE MUSIC TRADE. and polished so neatly and perfectly as almost to con-
three weeks later revealed the card still in the same
vey the idea that they constitute a single block. The
NE of the most remarkable men in the music trade woods used include white maple, Californian redwood,
place, seeming to show that there is no attendant here,
is Mr. W. W. Kimball, of Chicago. In him are tulip wood, black ebony, apple-tree wood, curly maple,
and at the same time no circulars or hand-bills to be
mingled the shrewdness and clear-headedness of East India walnut, amaranth, satin wood, Irish bog oak,
obtained. Doubtless Mr. Dolge has some good reason
for this and thinks no further information necessary the typical New Englander and the energy and enter- white holly, Sicilian black walnut, English boxwood,
When we beef wood, amboyne, green ebony, partridge wood,
than is contained in the tables, which speak for them- prize of the representative Westerner.
selves in a great measure ; but being hung so high they remember that he is also a cultured and kindly gentle- blood wood, Cuban mahogany, American oak, silver
are not generally read, and the grand work which Mr, man, we shall not be disposed to wonder at his great maple, Spanish mahogany, black walnut, red cedar, teak,
Dolge has been quietly carrying on for some years, popularity and his immense commercial success.
hickory, green heart, turtle wood, blood red amaranth,
with a su-cess that must reach his highest expectation,
Mr. Kimball might very appropriately assume as his lancevvood, grey ebony, cherry wood, violet wood,
will not become so generally well known to the visit- family motto, " Small Beginnings, and The Way to Get sycamore, leopard wood, snake wood, camphor wood,
ors at the Exposition as for the good of mankind it On ;" for he is a living exemplification of all the virtues sandal wood, cocabola, zebra-wood, rosewood, chestnut,
should be. Visitors will often take a circular and read the expression whereof is involved in that homely but ash, Hungarian ash, bash-a-barra, camino, olive, Span-
it who would not stop to read the tables here shown.
pithy phrase. His start in life was indeed unpreten- ish oak, prima vara, or white mahogany, and other
tious ; but with genuine pluck and caution he fought specimens, one of which, a peculiar oak-like wood, has
A great number of philanthropic schemes for the through one difficulty after another, even in the most up to the present time successfully defied the efforts of
benefit of the toilers of the earth can be studied in this tempestuous financial weather making his little craft experts and ordinary individuals to discover its proper
section, but after making the round of all it may be answer unerringly to her helm, and never shipwrecking name. Each specimen retains its natural color, and is
safely said—there is no one that has a better foundation his own interests or those of any other man.
secured to its neighbor with a skill and an accuracy that
than this one. S6 many, while really helping the work-
" What do you wish to become?" was asked young reflect the highest credit upon the patient and painstak-
er, do it as a charity, the toiler feels this and it under- D'Israeli, soon after the appearance of his first novel, ing joiner. Narrow as most of the strips are, their
mines his independence and spoils the appreciation of " Vivian Gray." " I want to be Prime Minister," was distinctive characteristics are plainly visible.
the proper value of labor. In Alfred Dolge's system the lad's audacious though wondrously prophetic answer.
This beautiful specimen of the wood-worker's art,
this feeling is not known, for it does not say : " Mind, I And we can well imagine that if the young Kimball, fresh
give this to you as a charity," but Jets the laborer feel from the rustic simplicity of his native Maine village, had though not the product of an artisan in that branch of
that his employer is willing that his labor should receive been asked the same question forty years ago in his little industry, may prove of exceptional interest to the piano-
its full and just return, making him more energetic, wooden shanty store in the then infant Chicago, he would case maker, who may, possibly, obtain from it some
pains-taking, and a better craftsman in every way than have replied, in much the same confident spirit of pro- ideas anent the construction of cases in woods that
he would be without the knowledge that what he earns phecy, " I wish to become a main pillar of the mighty have not hitherto found their way into his workshops.
he will receive in full ; and that when his day for work commercial emporium which Chicago is destined to be ;
is over he will not be dependent on charity;a thing that I shall own vast factories and warehouses whence the
MR. W. C. CARPENTER, of The E. P. Carpenter Com-
most of the world's workers dread more than those who charms of music shall be disseminated throughout a
do not understand their position can imagine. The boundless occidental empire ; I shall possess vast tracts pany, of Battleboro, Vt., started last week on a trip
through Pennsylvania and Ohio.
DOLGE IN PARIS.
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