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THE
ORGAN GRINDERS BETTER OFF.
Helped by the Concentration of Population, an
Old Gentleman Finds.
7VIUSIC TRKDE
. B. GHASE PIANOS
In tone, touch, action, durability, and every requisite that goes
In these days of flats and tall tenements
to make up air artistic instrument, there are none superior
with families living on floor above floor tow-
factory and Principal Office
New York Warerooms
ering in the air, the money for the hand-
NORWALK, OHIO
10 EAST 17th STREET
organ man is thrown down to him wrapped
up in paper.
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"I should think," said a benevolent appear-
ORIGINAL
ing old gentleman who was walking along
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effects,
Violin
effects, etc., are brought
an uptown street the other day, to an Italian
into play combined with the PIANO t
organ grinder who could speak English
making a veritable Orchestra. No other
enough to be understood; "I should think
Piano Player like it or will do what the
that the money coming down that way, all
c4NGELUS can.
done up so, would add greatly to the interest
Any one can Play ft.
of the business. You never know just what
Tt Plays any Piano.
you are going to get until you actually open
Endorsed by highest musical authority.
the papers. You might find a cent in one,
Josef Hofmann, Marcella Setnbrich, Jean de
or you might find five dollars. There's a mys-
Reszke, Edouard de Reszke and many other
tery in every package."
of note.
"Notta mucha mystery," said the organ
grinder, smilingly.
He was willing to admit that there was a
certain enjoyment in opening the package—
main Office and factory t
it might contain large money; but he had
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never come across any gold there yet; peo-
ple give the organ grinder now just what
Manufacturer af
nigh-Orad*
they use to give, namely, cents.
"Well, then," said the benevolent old gen-
Grand and Upright
tleman, who appeared to be a man who had
Pianos
time to stand around and talk, "if they don't
for all
give any more than they used to, how can
Occasions
you afford to double up on your plant like
Factorial: Southern Bouterard and Cypresa Av«.
this ? A big expensive organ, and two men
East 133d and 134th Streets
to run it, instead of one."
First Avenue and 30th Street
NEW YORK
Warerooms: 92 Fifth Ave., bet 14th and 15th Sts.
"More people," was the substance of the
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organ man's answer; and, without under-
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taking to reproduce his dialect, what he told
the old gentleman was that in no end of
blocks where there used to be houses with
Manufacturers of the
one family apiece there would now be found,
in flats and apartments, five or ten families; CHASE BROS,, HACKLEY
and that while people might not give indi-
and CARLISLE^
vidually more than they did years ago, there
were ten times as many of them to give. So
MUSKEGON, MICH
that even on small profits the greater volume
Manufacturer of
of business nowadays made it possible to do
SOUNDING BOARDS, BARS, s GUI-
even the hand organ business on the grander
TAR AND MANDOLIN TOPS A N D
MILLS AND O F F I C E : DOLQEVILLE, N. Y.
SOUNDING BOARD LUMBER,
modern scale.
"Ye—es," said the benevolent old gentle-
man, turning as he spoke and wrapping up
a coin in a piece of paper, which, turning
C R . STEVENS, General Manager.
again, he handed to the suave organist, who
smiled again as he opened it.
MANUFACTURERS OF
It was not a great mystery that this pack-
age contained, but it was greater than a cent.
ANfiPI
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Cbc Olilcox * UIMte Co.
JACOB DOLL
Pianos
CHASE-HACKLEY PIANO CO.,
PIANOS
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT
Cbe Stevens Organ and Piano go.
Sevens Carnation Reed-Pipe Organ
MEYERCORD CO. LEADS.
7X OCTAVE. PIANO CASE.
The decalcomania transfers made by the TrtU for catalogue and prices.
Meyercord Co., of Chicago, with branches at
New York and St. Louis, are unquestion-
ably the most satisfactory supplied in this in-
dustry. The work which they have done for
prominent manufacturers have won the high-
est praise. Their transfers for fallboards,
pin blocks, medal and warranty designs are
not only popular with manufacturers in this j
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country and Canada, but many orders have
been filled for Europe. Their window signs SCHUBERT PIANO
are exceptionally meritorious and clever and * . •>„ ROTH
the prices are especially reasonable.
MARIETTA, OHIO.
Embodies the best value for the dealer.
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Attractively gotten u p .
PETER DUFFY, President.
CO., 5th AVE. & J39th STREET, NEW YORk
V. ENOCLHARDT,
UPRIGHT
PIANO ACTIONS » - * - E Z
C. G. Olsen, of New Haven, Conn., has
secured the agency for the Apollo and Apol-
OFFICEi
loette piano players.
Windsor Arcad*, 2 B. 47th St., N. Y.
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