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TO REPRESENT BUSH & GERTS.
F. A. Leland Will Travel the Eastern Territory
for This Popular Piano.
Frederick A. Leland, for the past four years
general Eastern traveling representative of the
Regina Co., resigned his position with that com-
pany on December 31 to accept the general East-
ern traveling representation of the Bush & Gerts
piano of Chicago.
Mr. Leland came into the music trade four
years ago, having previously for eighteen years
been connected with the firm of A. G. Spalding
years he has made an extensive acquaintance
among the piano dealers of the East, having been
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scription for the urn were Mrs. Walston H.
Brown, Mrs. Robert G. Ingersoll, Mrs. William
Loomis, Mrs. Charles E. Manniere, Mrs. Charles
H. Ditson, Mrs. R. W. Gilder, Miss Lucia Purdy
and Mrs. Gilbert E. Jones.
George Gray Barnard, sculptor of the urn, gave
his work as a tribute to the genius of Anton
Seidl. It is cut in ovoid form from a block of
white marble, and stands on a roughly hewn
base. Two figures on one side represent the mys-
tery of life, while on the other the two figures
are symbolic of music. The urn will be sent to
Fresh Pond.
MOLLER PIPE ORGAN DEDICATED.
(Special to The Review.)
Hanover, Pa., Jan. 6, 1906.
The Redeemer's Reformed Church, Littlestown,
has lately, been remodeled, newly frescoed, the
chancel newly furnished with richly carved ma-
hogany furniture, and a new $2,000 pipe organ
purchased from the Moller Pipe Organ Co. placed
to the right of the chancel. On the evening of
January 1, 1906, J. Frank Frysinger, organist of
Emmanuel Reformed Church, of this place, gave
an organ recital on this new organ. The large
church, seating four hundred persons, was
crowded. Miss Augusta Feistel, leader of Trin-
ity Reformed choir, of York, sang several classi-
cal sacred solos. The programme rendered by
Mr. Frysinger was selected from the most cele-
brated musical composers, in which the most
difficult pedal work is required. Mr. Frysinger
was selected to display the power of the organ as
well as to prove its sweetness of tone, and to
bring out the variety of combinations. After the
recital, the committee at once decided the organ
to be entirely satisfactory.
ROBERT L. LOUD ENTERTAINS.
F. A. I.KI.AM).
closely identified with the sales of Regina Co.,
both at New York and Rahway, besides covering
all territory from Canada to Florida and east of
Ohio in their interests.
Mr. Leland's well-known energy, courtesy and
common sense, will be important factors in de-
veloping piano business throughout the East. Mr.
Leland will continue to make New York head-
quarters when not traveling, and will reside as
formerly at Newark, N. J.
SEIDL MEMORIAL URN
Presented to His Widow to Receive His Ashes
at Fresh Pond.
The marble urn in which the ashes of Anton
Seidl are to rest was dedicated Monday morning
in Steinway Hall, where it has been on view for
the last week.
Mme. Isordica, who made her first appearance
as Isolde under the baton of Seidl and studied
other Wagner roles with him, came to inspect the
urn before the ceremonies began. About the urn
were laurel wreaths from Mrs. William Loomis,
Mrs. Anton Seidl and Mrs. Robert G. Ingersoll.
Richard Watson Gilder presented the urn to
Mrs. Seidl on behalf of the committee. Mrs.
Seidl, who was in deep mourning, sat in the
center of a group of her husband's old friends
and admirers.
"There goes with this memorial," Mr. Gilder
said in his speech, "admiration and love for the
high and noble art of music and love and grati-
tude for the master, too early removed, who, in
the old world and the new, brought freshly and
powerfully to the minds and hearts, to the com-
prehension and intense enjoyment of a multitude
of music lovers, through what has been called
his creative interpretations, the wonderful crea-
tions of the chief of all the composers of the
nineteenth century."
Miss Natalie Curtis spoke of the delight with
which Anton Seidl was received when he re-
turned to Bayreuth to conduct "Parsifal" the year
before his death. The women who raised the sub-
On the closing day of last year Robert L. Loud,
the well-known dealer of Buffalo, entertained his
employes at a smoker and banquet in the private
dining rooms of the Genesee Hotel. The entire
affair was informal and most enjoyable, and the
staff displayed remarkable musical ability; in
fact, Mr. Loud is himself a pianist of recognized
skill, and his efforts were an inspiration to
others. During the evening Mr. Loud was pre-
sented with a handsome silver cigarette case by
R. C. Schermerhorn on behalf of the staff, which
he accepted with a graceful speech. Among those
in attendance at the dinner were Robert L. Loud,
Edward Smith, E. L. Brown, A. Wood, Alvin
Strohacker, E. Fred Colber, Richard Nevills, W.
A. Slaght, James Travers, W. H. Kumpf, Joseph
P. McNulty, William Janich, Fred H. Roosa,
Arthur Carpenter and R. C. Schermerhorn. The
Autopiano Co. evidently had a tip regarding the
dinner, for Mr. Loud and his guests received a
fine box of cigars with the compliments of. this
company.
BIG FIRE IN KANSAS CITY.
$500,000
Damage
Done in Heart
Quarter.
of Retail
(Special to The Review.)
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 6, 1906.
Fire last night caused $500,000 damage in the
heart of Kansas City's retail quarter, destroying
two buildings and burning out a third. The
flames started in the three-story building of the
Columbus Buggy Co., a t Walnut and Tenth
streets, destroyed that building, and also one oc-
cupied by the Kimball Piano Co. and Hettinger
Bros. The Commerce building, occupied partly
by the National Bank of Commerce, one of the
finest structures in Kansas City, was so greatly
damaged that it may have to be razed. The
money vaults, containing $3,000,000, were not
harmed.
COMPANIES WILL CONSOLIDATE.
Matthews
Piano Co. Find I t Expedient to
Combine Stock.
(Special to The Review.)
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 6, 1906.
The Matthews Piano Co., whose store at 513
North 24th street is well known, announce their
intention to remove their local store to their big
store, 1513-15 Harney street, and satisfy South
Omaha patrons through this store. Manager F.
H. Guthrie says:
"We have had a magnificent business here, and
it is purely a matter of expediency with us. We
find it more satisfactory to conduct our business
from one big store in this section, and we believe
it can best be done at the Omaha store. I shall
continue to reside in South Omaha, where I have
always lived, but will have charge of the Omaha
store."
Mr. Guthrie expressed his thorough apprecia-
tion of the patronage his company have received
in South Omaha. He declared it was simply a
proposition of concentrating the business. He
said the Matthews Piano Co. are making their
Omaha store the largest in the West.
MR. JOHNSON A GUEST
With Other Representatives at a Dinner to
Representatives of the Kirk Johnson Co.
(Special to The Review.)
Lebanon, Pa., Jan. 6, 1906.
E. L. Johnson, manager of the local store at
24 North Ninth street, of the Kirk Johnson Piano
Co., was at Lancaster new years, the guest of
the company at a banquet to its sixty-five repre-
sentatives scattered throughout various cities in
Pennsylvania. The spread was an elaborate af-
fair, and many prominent Lancasterians were
also guests of the company on the occasion.
DEATH OF MRS. E. W. PARSONS.
DEATH OF ARTHUR C. HENRICKS.
Mrs. E. W. Parsons, mother of Charles H. Par-
sons, president of the Needham Piano & Organ
Co., New York, died last week in Hartford, Conn.,
in her ninetieth year. From her youth Mrs. Par-
sons had been a prominent figure in the musical
life of Connecticut, and for twenty-seven years
was the soprano soloist in the Center Church in
that city. Mrs. Parsons was the daughter of
Jonathan C. Stebbins, a prominent New England
musician, and her talents as a musician are in-
herited by Mr. Parsons, who is a well-known or-
ganist. The passing of Mrs. Parsons will be
widely regretted by a host of friends in all parts
of the country. She was a woman of many
charming traits of character and highly esteemed.
(Special to The Review.)
Pittsburg, Jan. 7, 1906.
Arthur C. Henricks, eighteen years old, son
of John D. Henricks, a piano dealer, was killed
last night at Leedsdale by a train. The young
man, with other players of the Superior Juniors'
basketball team, was crossing the tracks to board
another train. Henricks was thrown twenty-five
feet, and his body hit Mrs. Mary Alstein, of
Leedsdale, knocking her down. She fainted oil
seeing what had happened.
CHASE-HACKLEY ADVANCE.
The Chase-Hackley Piano Co., of Muskegon,
Mich., made a magnificent record during 1905. The
Oscar Brambach, superintendent of the Need- demand for their small grands has exceeded all
ham piano factory, at Washington, N. J., was expectations, and they have received the most
presented with a handsome gold watch as a flattering opinions from purchasers regarding
their uprights; in fact, the Chase-Hackley line to-
Christmas gift by the employes of the factory.
day occupies an impregnable position. Their in-
The Scott-Curtaz Piano Co., San Francisco, struments have given the greatest satisfaction,
Cal., have recently finished the erection of a mag- and the growth of the business is such that they
nificent building on Taylor and O'Farrell streets, will be compelled to enlarge next year to cope
with it.
to which they will move in the near future.