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pleased. So Fair joined the party and
showed them through the mine.
"When they returned to the top of the
shaft and went into the office, Modjeska
suggested: 'Mr. Davis, let me pay the
guide for his trouble.'
" 'Well, you might give him 50 cents,'
suggested Davis, and he chuckled at the
prospect.
"Modjeska laid a 50-cent piece on the
counter, and thanked him for his services.
Fair looked at her in blank astonishment.
It was such a remarkable proceeding that
he was perfectly dumfounded, and stared
at her in silence. Modjeska was equally
puzzled, but Davis came to her relief. 'I
guess he wants more,' he said. *You had
Speaking of newspaper enterprise, there better make it a dollar.' Modjeska laid
is an excellent example in the West—in another half-dollar piece on the counter,
the city of Detroit. It is known as the and then walked out of the office.
Song Journal, and it sings twelve times a
"The next day they were offering odds
year; sometimes late, but it sings just the in the poolrooms in Virginia City that Fair
same. Let me illustrate: During the sum- took the dollar."
mer month of June—the 26-28, I believe—
there was held in the city of Ypsilanti,
Prosperous New Yorkers.
Mich., a State Music Teachers' Conven-
tion. This sweet singer is the official or-
HE report just issued by Superintend-
gan of that body, and lo! the middle of
ent Preston, of the State Banking De-
August, or thereabouts, this beautiful but
partment,
shows that the total resources of
belated songster is out with "a full report"
the
Savings
Banks of this State increased
of the convention. Now it occurs to me
$40,693,338
during
the past year. This is
that enterprise of that character is deserv-
a
splendid
showing,
and in the face of so-
ing of success, and the name of the Song
called
"hard
times,"
seems somewhat mar-
Journal should go cavorting down the cor-
vellous.
ridors of time in a sort of an iconoclastic
whirl.
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The "Kimball" in London.
ive "ad." Light dawned, however, and
the secret was revealed. The "showy"
sign was held in its elevated position by an
immense balloon, and the illumination was
supplied by an electric light wire, the en-
tire affair being anchored in the locality of
Thirty-eighth street. This latest "wrinkle"
in advertising is simply great, and beats
anything I have seen so far. Just imagine
the"Autoharp," the "vSteinway" or "Hard-
man" pianos, or the "Wonderful Weber
Tone" advertised in this way. Why, it
would be the talk of the town. It throws
stereopticon or roof advertising in the
shade.
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"One of the most interesting reminis-
E got an encouraging reply from Mr.
cences told of Senator Fair," remarked a
R. M. Marples to our inquiry re-
prominent San Francisco miner at the
specting
trade in the Kimball organs dur-
Waldorf yesterday, "is concerning an inci-
ing
the
past
month, says the Piano, Organ
dent that happened up on the Comstock**
and
Music
Trade Journal, of London.
many years ago. Modjeska had come up
Things
are
plainly
looking up, he tells us.
to Virginia City, and wanted to see a Corn-
His
travelers
have
resumed
the road, and
stock mine. Sam Davis, the publisher of
find
a
far
more
hopeful
feeling
among the
the Appeal, undertook to show the actress
dealers
than
they
found
on
their
previous
the workings of a mine. Armed with the
journey.
Some
styles
in
satin
walnut—
proper authority, they descended the shaft
to the 600-foot level, and there ran across which has much the appearance of oak—
are selling especially well. As regards new
Fair.
styles for the approaching season, the Kim-
"Now Modjeska didn't know the first ball Co. are carrying out suggestions of Mr.
thing about a mine, though she was not Marples. It is too early as yet, however,
entirely devoid of information concerning to say more of the new instruments than
the owners of the Comstock. The name that they are expected to meet with the
of James G. Fair w T as as familiar to her as trade's warm approbation.
to almost any Californian, although she had
never met the bonanza king. She had im-
agined that a man of his millions must be
A New Style Vocalion.
a dignified sort of personage, scrupulously
attired, and rather inclined to stand aloof
HE warerooms of the Mason & Risch
from the men whom he employed. So it
Vocalion Co., 10 East Sixteenth street,
didn't occur to her for a moment that the have been made further attractive by the
man in the grizzled beard and canvas over- addition of a new style ZZ Vocalion. It
alls whom she met on the 600-foot level was is a magnificent instrument in every re-
James G. Fair, though Davis distinctly in- spect. The tone effects are beautiful, both
troduced him to the actress as 'Mr. Fair.' as to purity and accuracy. Such instru-
" 'So you want to see the mine?' inquired ments as the Vocalion Co. are at present
Fair.
manufacturing, are bound to win wide rec-
"Mme. Modjeska replied that such was ognition. The musician, or indeed the
the object of her visit.
business man, would be indifferent to
" 'Well, might I have the pleasure of es- truthfulness were they to ignore the claims
corting you through?' he asked.
of this instrument as compared with ex-
'.'Modjeska replied that she would be pensive pipe organs.
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To flanufacture Automatic flusN
cal Instruments.
HE Alek Manufacturing Co. is the name
of a new concern to whom articles of
incorporation were issued at Albany last
Saturday, August 10. They purpose manu-
facturing automatic musical instruments
and electrical novelties in New York city.
The capital stock is placed at $10,000.
The directors are Emile Klaber, Jacob
Greenberg and Eugene F. Croew, 13 Astor
place, New York. Mr. Klaber is at pres-
ent connected with the Automaton Piano
Co. in the capacity of general manager.
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George B. Baird.
EORGE B. BAIRD, president of the
McCammon Piano Co., dropped in
to see us last week. Mr. Baird, accom-
panied by his wife, will tarry a few days at
Newport and other points on the New
England coast, as far as Bar Harbor, from
whence they w T ill return to Oneonta in
about three weeks. Business with the Mc-
Cammon Co. continues excellent. They
have shipped nearly twice as many pianos
this year as they sent out during the cor-
responding months of the past year.
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Carpenter's Award Souvenir.
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P. CARPENTER, of World's Fair
fame, was in town the first of the
week. He is securing patronage foi an
official World's Fair Award Souvenir, which
he proposes to publish during the near
future. It is probable that manufacturers
will care more about gazing upon medals
than they will upon souvenirs, just at this
particular time in the country's histoiy.
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Will Eat Clams.
HE employees of Keller Bros. & Blight
Co., piano manufacturers, of Bridge-
port, Conn., will hold their annual "clam
bake" on Monday next, August 19th, in
the grove back of the factory, on Bruce
avenue. Sports and general merry-mak-
ing will whet the appetite for the "bake,"
which the people up that way say "is the
finest thing of the kind along the New
England coast."
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Mayor Sutro's Gift.
DOLPH SUTRO, Mayor of San Fran-
cisco, has offered the State Univer-
sity regents thirteen acres of land within
the city limits, on which to erect buildings
for the affiliated colleges of the university.
In addition to this he will deed to the
trustee of the city thirteen acres adjoining,
as a site for the Sutro Library of over 200,-
000 volumes.
The gift is valued at $150,000, and will
be worth $2,000,000 when the contemplated
improvements are made. Mayor Sutro is
of the famous Sutro family, being a brother
of Otto Sutro, the well-known music dealer
of Baltimore.
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