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ter) and broke the hearts of all our girls, nothing
but the thought that he would come like a breath
of sweet mountain air to re-invigorate your tired
souls, consoled Us. [Laughter.]
Simple mountaineers as we are, we are grateful
to you for the occasional glimpses you give us of
New York, in the shape of the fleeting appari-
tions of Mr. Dolge and the others of your com-
pany which we are graciously permitted to see.
[Laughter.] Every now and then a whisper runs
through Dolgeville: "The Boss is coming!"
—and when we all rush to our various tasks and
look for him, Lo! "He has gone back on the
night train !"
Then, too, at rare intervals there comes upon
us that dream of beauty represented by Cavalli
und Liebe.Liebe being the immaculate Carl Fink.
[Laughter and applause.]
Fink appears before us in all the glory of
patent leather shoes and a diamond pin, and
when our muddy boots contrast ill with his
glistening extremities, we derive comfort from
the reflection that he has corns while we have
none. [Laughter.] As for our dear Cavalli,
they say he comes on "wool-business." The
only wool I ever saw him cultivate was the wool
in the pillow on the boss's sofa, where he snored
the snore of the godly and just till the family's
pet poodle sang a duo with him, and aroused
him in time also "to go back on the night
train." [Lau ghter. ]
Then there is our dear friend Widenmann, who
having settled the politics of the country at
least to his own satisfaction, came to Dolgeville
recently with his friend, La Grassa, " t o hunt
rabbits." And now there isn't a rabbit to be
found within fifty miles of Dolgeville. Not that
they shot one, not even one. [Laughter.] But,
you see, Widenmann is a Democrat and La
Grassa a Republican, and they got into such a
heated political discussion and so scared the
rabbits that they all made a bee line for Canada.
[Laughter.] La Grassa damned the dog, Widen-
mann damned the loss of his overcoat, and both
damned the Dolgeville Hotel because they
couldn 't get a quart of whiskey for a quarter !
[Laughter.]
As I told you, you must not expect a set
speech from me, it isn 't in my humor to-night.
Let me see, it is just seventeen years ago,
about this time of the year, that having in the
pursuit of happiness determined on starting a
music trade paper—and I may say with pride
that I was the first to deem the Music Trades
worthy of journalistic representation. [Ap-
plause.] I called on Mr. Alfred Dolge, at the
very store he still occupies. He was one of the
very first to give me encouragement and recog-
nition, and from that day there started a mutual
regard and a personal friendship on his part
that has outlasted all the vicissitudes through
which I have passed, and left me where I was
glad to pack up my belongings and go up into
the mountains to aid him with all my strength
in his great life work, a work which is far be-
yond mere money-getting, or any of the selfish
aims of the ordinary business man; a work
which includes the building up of great indus-
tries, the uplifting of an entire community, and
the possible solution of that greatest of all prob-
lems, the problem between capital and labor.
[Great applause.]
As our acquaintance grew, I can remember
meeting, now and then, his son Rudolf. I was
engrossed in my own affairs and paid not much
attention to the lad, but there was one thing I
did remember, and that was the grasp of his
hand. It was the warm Dolge grasp that meant
something! [Applause.]
Years passed on, and I think—yes it was in
Chicago, some few years ago, that a cheery
voice hailed me, and I found our Rudolf grown
to a fine fellow, full of earnestness and ambi-
tion. [Applause.]
Since then I have known him better, and often
up in Dolgeville have we together discussed the
future, and let me say this for him, that now is
the beginning of the realization of the one dream
of his dawning manhood; to be sufficiently
worthy and able to sustain however small a
part of that great load of care, anxiety and re-
sponsibility that rests upon his father's shoul-
ders. [Great applause.]
It is a noble heritage, this to which he now,
in part, succeeds. Not some young prince's or
noble's heritage of acres and gold, gotten God
knows how or whence, but a heritage of human
industry, of human self-denial where every dol-
lar of result has been won in the open light of
day by integrity, by methods that cannot be
questioned for an instant. [Loud cheers.]
As I stand here, it seems like a romance!
The story of the founding of this great house,
the story of Dolgeville, up there in the moun-
tains.
What an illustration of what can be done
when, under a great leader, men are inspired by
a common spirit, a common cause ! [Applause.]
And to inspire them, what rare qualities are
needed!
How self-denial must go hand in hand with
self-control, how brains must unite with brawn,
how example must be ever constant, unflinching
in its self-imposed duty to the very end !
That Rudolf Dolge will be true, that he will
nobly aid his father, that he will be wise enough
to gather round him such tried souls as his
father did, and be generous enough to hold
them, we all believe. [Applause.]
And we all believe that he will emulate his
father in honor, and in honesty ; in fair dealing
and in breadth of mind, in noble impulse and in
good judgment, in integrity of purpose and in
strength of will. [Applause.]
Here is to Rudolf's health—and as I—as we
all drink it,—let me express the hope—express
it from the heart—that when the hour of trial,
of human weakness, the hour of backsliding
shall come, as come they will, that in those
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hours he may feel around him the influence, the
love, the trust of that noble, good, self-sacri-
ficing mother who bore him, and feeling them,
keep steadfast, his face ever to the light.
[Great applause.]
Gentlemen, with Rudolf's health let us also
drink the health of Mrs. Alfred Dolge ! [Loud
cheers.]
Interesting speeches were made by Mr. Karl
Fink and others, and the occasion proved
itself a memorable one in the annals of the house
of Dolge.
Farrand & Votey Organ Co., Detroit,
Mich., has filed a certificate of increase of capital
stock to $300,000.
A MAN and boy drove up to 385 North street,
Chicago, and stole a $200 piano which was
standing on the sidewalk in front of Charles
Reynold's music store. The boy was caught and
gave his name as John Cunningham. The man
escaped.
W. M. ROBINSON, secretary and manager of
the Goulon Piano Co., has been in Ottawa, 111.,
consulting with the members o.i the Business
Men's Association with a view to bringing the
company's factory, now located at 183 W. Harri-
son street, Chicago, to Ottawa.
AT a recent board of trade meeting, at Fari-
bault, Minn., the committee on piano factory
reported that four gentlemen had raised the re-
quired $20,000 capital and would at once incor-
porate. They asked a bonus of $2,000 with
which to purchase a site and temporary building,
that work might begin at once. The company
intend to erect a large three-story building as
soon as it can be done.
Presbyterian Church of Middletown, N.
Y., will purchase a new pipe organ. They held
a fair recently by which they realized $310
which will go toward the fund for the organ.
ACCORDING to Kuhlow's Review, the value of
exports of musical instruments to the United
States from the district of the United States
Consulate General at Frankfort-on-the-Main and
the Consulates subordinate thereto, for the quar-
ter ending September 30, was ,£14,200. This
looks as if the Germans do business in America,
non obstante M "Kinley.
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