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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Dolge's Ideas Indorsed.
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With the Travelers.
" I saw a pathetic instance at Greensboro
of a negro's fidelity," said a traveling man,
the other day. "About ten miles from the
town I saw a grave with a marble slab at
its head. Seated near it was an old negro
with a bunch of flowers, which he was plac-
ing over the mound. I stopped my horse
and spoke to him.
" 'Whose grave is that, uncle?' I asked.
" 'Mars Tom's, boss. I'm his nigga.'
" 'Oh, no; you are no man's nigger now.
Didn't you know that you were free?'
'"Dunno nuffin' 'bout dat, sah. I'se
Mars Tom's nigga, sah, an' he's waitin' foh
me suah up-dah. Dese han'sdone tote him
from dat place dey call Shiloh. an' he died
while I wah a-totin' 'im; jest closed he
eyes an' went to sleep, an' when I comes
ter cross de ribber of johdan he jest hoi'
out his han's, an' he tells de angel at de
gate who I be an' he let me in. I dreamed
'bout it las' night, boss.'
" I was interested in the old fellow, and
wanted to hear his story. The slab at the
grave told me that it was that of 'Col. Tom
Winn, killed at the battle of Shiloh,' and I
Questioned the faithful negro further:
" 'How old are you, uncle?'
" 'Most a hundred, I reckon, sah.'
" 'Were you in the war?'
" 'Went wif Mars Tom, sah. I'se his
nigga, an' he's in heaben. I'se jest a-wait-
in 1 till dese ole bones, weary wid Grabbling
over de road, '11 take me to de ribber, when
Mars Tom'll help his ole nigga ober.'
" 'Were you with him when he was
killed?'
" 'I was right dar, boss. Done pick 'im
up an' toted 'im to dat place dey call
Corinth; den I form' a train, got to de place
dey call Chattanooga; de nex' day we wah
in Atlanta. Mars Tom den in his glory.
Dey buried 'm when I got 'im heah, an'
dis nigga jest lef to ten' his grabe an' keep
de flowers hyab.'
" I found upon inquiry that the story was
true, and for a quarter of a century the
faithful negro has done nothing but attend
the grave of his young master, whose body
he brought from northern Mississippi to
central Georgia."
Miss MARIK LOUISE BAILKV is using the
Conover piano with much success on her
present tour through the South.
R. ALFRED DOLGE is a well-known
manufacturer of felts at Dolgeville,
N. Y., where he employs over 600 men and
women. Here for twenty years he has put
in operation a system of labor insurance
and pension for the support of his employ-
ees in old age, and of the widows and
orphans of those who might die while in
service. At the twenty-sixth annual cele-
bration of his successful enterprise, Mr.
Dolge spoke of the scheme which had been
ridiculed by so many and looked upon by
the business world as an impractical hobby
of a dreamer. Even those for whose bene-
fit it was devised scorned it. This, how-
ever, had no weight with Mr. A. Dolge, for
when earning a living at the bench himself
he had the same distrust of anything offered
by an employer outside of his wages. But
after the test of twenty-six years the sys-
tem has proved to contain the essential ele-
ments of success.
The men who could no
longer work enjoyed the benefits of the
pension funds. From the life insurance
the families of workers had derived bene-
fit. Mr. Dolge has the satisfaction of see-
ing the pensioners enjoying their declining
days, instead of seeing them in the factory
attempting, under painful exertions, to do
a day's work and occupying places which
could be filled so much better by younger
men.
The system has been limited to
Dolgeville, but its benefits would be a
thousandfold greater if it could be intro-
duced into every workshop in the United
States.—New York Ledger.
Gen. Estey Speaks About Trade.
G
EN. JULIUS J. ESTEY, of the Estey
Organ Co., Brattleboro, Vt., visited
Chicago last week, and 111 a talk with the
representative of the Indicator, expressed
himself in part as follows: "The trade out-
look is much brighter. There can be no
return to the poor picking of last year.
There will be an adjustment of trade to the
situation, but there will be no return of the
old time prosperity before the end of two or
three years. Meanwhile, however, there
will be a fair business. Such is the history
of all panics. We are plunged into them
quickly. The recovery from them has been
always slow, just as soon as the capitalists
of the nation are willing to risk their money
in various industries, just so soon will pros-
perity return."
flusical Instruments in Cape
Colony.
T
HE French Consul of Cape Colony, in
his official report to his home Govern-
ment, makes the following reference to
musical instruments: "The number of
French pianos found in this colony shows
that we once had very good clients here,
but we have lost our position, and German
and English pianos are now sold on the
easiest possible terms of payment. All that
is left to France is the supplying of keys
and wires for home-made pianos. Organs
come from America; accordions, concer-
tinas, violins, and the like from Scandi-
navia, Saxony and America."
The French Consul in the Philippine
Islands, has this to say of the music trade
in that country: "The musical disposition
of the natives gives rise to an extensive
trade in musical instruments. The orches-
tras formed in each village comprise a
series of violins, violoncellos, flutes, clario-
nets, etc., which should ensure a profitable
trade to firms importing them."
The 4 'Opera" Piano.
THE grand opera season lasts but a limited
time, and it delights and charms during its
stay in our midst, but the grand opera
piano manufactured by Peek & Son, of New
York, is with us for all time, ready to
charm and delight music lovers who appre-
ciate a good instrument, sold at a medium
price. It is a favorite in the homes of
thousands of our people, and to them it is
an advent of as much joy and pleasure as
the grand opera season is to our million-
aires.
Pipe Organs for Ships.
A
DISPATCH from Philadelphia state
that when the steamships St. Louis
and St. Paul, of the American Line, are
ready for the service, the passengers will be
greeted with an innovation which will take
the form of a magnificent pipe organ on
each ship, and each vessel will be accom-
panied by a professional organist. The in-
struments will be unique. Each will have
fourteen stops, with all the modern appli-
ances for operating the registers without
touching the knobs. The organ will occupy
an elevated space, arched into the dining
saloon. The arch is to be filled with deco-
rated speaking pipes, and a fan of trumpets
will surmount the whole. Brass will be
Important Electrical Invention. substituted for iron to provide against the
damp, air, and the woodwork of the instru-
J. HOG AN, employed in the meehan- ment will have a heavy coating of shellac.
ical department of Yale Scientific The keyboard of the instrument will be
c
School, has invented an apparatus by entirely removed from the organ proper
means of which the use of the motor and placed thirty feet distant on the level
dynamo, invented by Edison, is obviated. of the saloon deck. To operate the organ
The apparatus reduces the voltage of a cur- from this distance an electric action will be
rent without lessening the amperes. A used, which has been perfected to such a
test made to-day reduced an electric light degree that a single storage cell of two
current of 100 volts four amperes, to seven volts' tension is sufficient to operate with
absolute certainty.
volts without affecting the amperes.
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