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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
CLARENCE A. WOODMAN PRESIDENT.
Elected to Head the Boston Music Publishers'
Association—Other Officers Chosen at Annual
Meeting—Mayor's Representative a Guest.
(Special to The Review.)
BOSTON, MASS. February 16.—The annual meet-
ing of the Hoston Music Publishers' Association
Clarence A. Woodman.
was held tins evening at the Parker House, with
an attendance of about thirty members. Routine
business occupied practically all of the evening,
and the officers elected were the following named:
President, Clarence A. Woodman, of the Oliver
Ditson Co., succeeding Dr. James M. Reilly, of the
McLaughlin & Reilly Music Publishing Co.; vice-
president, C. W. Homeyer, of Charles W. Homeyef
the trade, dominated the meeting, even though
& Co.; secretary and treasurer, Herbert F. Odell, there was considerable long-winded discussion re-
of Herbert F. Odell & Co. The specially invited
garding the adoption of the constitution and by-
guest was Mayor Curley, who was represented by laws as offered by the committee. Although it was
Councillor W. II. Woods, who made a short ad-
felt that the articles of government were some-
dress. Several association members also spoke.
what lengthy and complicated for the organization
Mr. Woodman, the new president, is one of the
its present form, they were accepted in the ex-
most popular men in the local music publishing
pectation that the future development of that body
trade and his friends are legion. He is a native 'vould make them neessary. The meeting ratified
of Braintree, and associated himself with the Oliver the election of the officers selected at the first session
Ditson Co. as far back as 1874, going there first
including: W. G. Coghill, president; Ted Snyder,
in the humble capacity of office boy. The interests of vice-president; J. T. Roach, secretary; J. I 1 ".
his employers and faithfulness to all duties, great
(ilassniachef, treasurer, and Michael Keane, Wal-
and small, quickly won the approval and com- ter F. Fischer and Edward D. Marks, members of
mendation of those above him, and his promotion
t'le board of governors, to which board were also
was such that to-day he is practically recognized
elected Julius P. Witmark and George Fischer.
as the manager of this large establishment. Mr.
After the business of the meeting had been dis-
Woodman is a firm believer in the value of co-
posed of practically everyone present hal a few
operation among employes and employers, and it
remarks to make, generally in indorsement of the
s his conviction that success is assured when there association and its objects, and if the spirit of com-
s a fine spirit of mutual interest pervading an es- raderie in evidence at the session continues to
tablishment, which is peculiarly true of the Oliver
prevail the success of the body as a social organ-
Ditson Co. The Get-Together Club of the Ditson
ization would seem to be assured. It affords
o. is the outcome of this sentiment, and it was
friends and competitors in the trade an unusual
not surprising that when first organized Mr. Wood- opportunity of getting together and knowing each
man should very naturally be selected as its head.
other better without fear of being compelled to
listen to long, and at times, distasteful, arguments
on
business subjects, for business is barred.
MEETING OF NEW YORK ASSOCIATION.
The next dinner and meeting of the association
Second Dinner of Music Publishers' and Deal-
will be held at the Hotel Breslin on May 18, and
ers' Association of Greater New York Indi-
special efforts will be made to have present a
cates a Growing Interest in the Movement.
strong representation of dealers in addition to the
publishers and other members of the trade.
Furtyriiine members of the various brandies ol
the music trade—publishers, dealers, printers and
newspaper men—seated in perfect harmony around
the dinner table, and the indorsement of eight or
nine prominent publishers who were unable to be
present personally, was the result of the call sent
out for the second meeting of the Music Publishers
and Dealers' Association of Greater New York,
which was tentatively organized at a meeting in the
same hotel on January 19.
The announced object of the association, the
promotion of friendliness and good fellowship in
NOTED FRENCH_COMPOSER DEAD.
Emile Charles Waldteufel, a noted French com-
poser, leader of the orchestra at the Court of Na-
poleon III, and pianist to the Empress Eugenie in
1865, died on Tuesday at his home, 37 Rue St.
Georges, Paris, in his seventy-eighth year. Mr.
Waldteufel organized the Court balls of Napoleon
FIT, and also the soirees at Compeigne and Biar-
ritz. His works which consist of waltzes, polkas
and mazurkas, were popular everywhere.
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