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VOL XXL
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, November 2,1895.
No. 15.
In The West.
THE
BANQUET OF THE MUSIC TRADES ASSO-
CIATION—A GRAND SUCCESS
ADDRESSES
MADE BY SENATOR CULLOM, POST-
MASTER HESING, GEO. B. ARM-
STRONG AND OTHERS.
THE
SALESMEN'S
ASSOCIATION
WILL DIS-
SOLVE—THE CHICAGO COTTAGE OR-
GAN
CO. BUSY
OTHER
NEWS.
HE fourteenth banquet of the Music
Trade Association of this city, which
took place last Saturday night in the Audi-
torium Hotel, was in every way a grand
success. The banquet hall was artistically
decorated, and the main table, which was
in the form of a grand piano, running the
entire length of the hall, was much ad-
mired. President Reed presided, and on his
right and left sat Senator Shelby M. Cul-
lom and Postmaster Hesing. Other guests
and speakers were : E. S. Conway, Geo. B.
Armstrong, P. J. Healy, J. W. Northrop,
John C. Freund, E. V. Church and J. O.
Twitchell. Over seventy members of the
Association were in attendance.
After the excellent menu had been at-
tended to, letters and telegrams regret-
ting enforced absence, were read from
Nahum Stetson, L. P. Bach, A. M. Wright,
C. Fischer, M. A. Blumenberg, H. E.
Freund and Edward Lyman Bill. Presi-
dent Reed then took the rostrum and after
a well-chosen opening address, introduced
Senator Cullom, who spoke on the "Senate
of the United States," and his brilliant and
patriotic address was greeted with enthusi-
asm. He was succeeded by Postmaster
Hesing, who in the course of an entertain-
ng address, made the following remarks
about the music trade industry in Chicago:
T
While the number of pianos made and sold in
Chicago per annum is 15,000, the number sold in
Chicago but made elsewhere is about the same, so
that this city annually sells 30,000 pianos. The
number of organs made and sold in Chicago is 33,-
000, and the number sold in Chicago but made
elsewhere 5,000. Thus the total sale of organs is
38,000 per annum. Seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars represents the volume of business
per annum in sheet music and music books in
Chicago, while $2,000,000 is the amount paid for
$3.00 PER YEAR-
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
small goods of all kinds ; $10,000,000 is invested
in the music bnsiness in Chicago, the annual sales
other countries are concerned. In addition
to this their domestic trade is [unusually
of which equal $12,000,000.
satisfactory. Is it necessary to ask if the
William L. Bush, treasurer of the associa- Chicago Cottage Organ Co. are busy?
The only actual business transacted at
tion, entertained the assemblage with some
capital stories which were told in his inimit- the dinner of the Music Trades Association
able style, and John C. Freund also spoke. was the resolution offered by E. S. Con-
The speech of the evening—the one that way, permitting employees or members of
appealed to the hearts of its hearers—was music trades to membership in the Asso-
that delivered by Geo. B. Armstrong, who ciation, which was unanimously adopted.
took the late Dr. Root for his subject. It This means that the Salesmen's Association
was clear that this subject was one of the will be dissolved.
heart. He waxed eloquent in his touching
tribute to Dr. Root as a man, a composer
and a patriot, and closed his magnificent
George C. Adams Retires.
address as follows:
EO. C. ADAMS, of the McCammon
Piano Co.. was in town yesterday,
on his way to New Orleans, where he hopes
to regain his health. Mr. Adams suffered
from a serious illness while at Davenport,
la., last summer, which resulted in typhoid
fever. His health is much shattered, and
it is under the advice of his physicians
that he takes an entire relaxation from
business cares. He has retired from busi-
A resolution was offered by Mr. Arm- ness connection with the McCammon Piano
strong that some plan be devised to honor Company, and will spend the winter in the
the memory of Dr. Root, and a committee South, where it is to be hoped that he will
consisting of O. L. Fox, P. J. Healy, L. N. quickly regain his lost health.
Camp, E. vS. Conway and and E. V. Church
were appointed to take action. Resolutions
of respect for the memory of the late Milo
r\r. Hyde's Journeyings.
J. Chase and Dr. Root were also adopted.
After the the visual vote of thanks to the
A. HYDE, of the Norris & Hyde
speakers the fourteenth banquet of the
% Co., Boston, was in town Friday
Music Trades Association ended with the arranging for the sale of his pianos in New
singing of "America."
York. Sunday night he will leave for a
A recent agency made by Newman Bros. several weeks' trip through the West, jour-
Co. is Hamilton & Noll, who will handle neying as far as Kansas City. Dealers
their instruments in Deep Water, Mo.
who have not investigated the transposing
Business is not startlingly brisk this device which the Norris & Hyde Co. are
week, at least in retail lines, but manufac- manufacturing would do well to look it up.
turers report business above the average. Some of the largest firms in the country
The Chieago Cottage Organ Co. report a have secured the agency for the Norris &
magnificent foreign trade.
In South Hyde wares. In Boston they are handled
America, Switzerland, as well as England, by the Oliver Ditson Co.
there is a marked growth in the demand
for C. C, O. C. Organs. Their London
agents, Barrett, Samuels & Son, have sent
A SPECIALLY designed upright case in
in some heavy orders recently, amounting, white mahogany with gilt carvings, in the
I believe, to 400 instruments, which they Greek renaissance style, was sold by Chick -
are at present shipping as fast as they get ering & Sons to occupy the post of honor in
them from the factory. The same condi- the Hotel Albemarle. The instrument at-
tion of things can be reported as far as tracted much admiration in ChickeringHall.
Dr. Root's songs are one of the corner stones of
the new and greater republic. He, in his modest
way, contributed to rear a grander political struc-
ture than had existed. His work was not icono-
clastic, but uprearing.
The gnawing tooth of time may disintegrate the
hardest granite and it may eat into the hardest
bronze, but time cannot destroy the work of Geo.
F. Root in behalf of the unification of the American
nation, nor can time dim the lustre of a name that
belongs to the Society of the Immortals!
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