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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
BUFFALO TALKING MACHINE DEALERS HOLD OUTING.
Large Number of Members and Their Friends Enjoy Festival at Olcott Beach—Program
Elaborate One and Participants Well Pleased in Every Way.
(Special to The Review.)
BUFFALO, N. Y., August lo.—"No post mor-
tems!"
That was the rule at the first annual outing of
the Talking Machine Dealers' Association held at
Olcott Beach on the wind-swept shores of Lake
Ontario on Wednesday last. All business chatter
was muffled and any live-wire who wanted to re-
hearse some minor business misfortune got the "no
post mortem" treatment.
Two big yellow special cars carried more than
125 members of the association, their friends and
relatives to the scene of the festivities. The fun-
gatherers bereft of all work-a-day cares landed
at the Beach primed for a day of sport, and thanks
to Chairman W. J. Bruehl, of the arrangement
committee, they got it in special doses. The Neal,
Clark & Neal manager, with the help of several
other enthusiastic members, assembled a list of
entertainment events that kept all alert from noon
until almost midnight.
Every talking machine dealer in Buffalo closed
up his department Wednesday and all the man-
agers, clerks, special salesmen, stenographers, re-
pairmen, collectors, etc., were there with their
wives, children, sweethearts and friends. Con-
geniality glowed as bright as did the Niagara
County sun and accounted to a great degree for
the success of t he outing.
The first evu at on the program was a buffet
luncheon in tr (. Olcott Beach Hotel. After the
two-hour car ride all were ready to "fill up" and
the delicacies disappeared in fine style.
The main events of the day opened at 130
o'clock, when the entire party doffed coats, collars
and other such clothing and scattered it on the
Olcott Beach athletic field lawns that they might
join in the ball game and other athletic events
scheduled.
Chairman Bruehl called the slugging match at
1.45 o'clock, with Dr. C. A. Woodworth, of Neal,
Clark & Neal, as manager of the married men
and L. Melzer administrator for the single men.
It was one wonderful afternoon, one that will be
long remembered. All got tanned. Many were
applauded so m ttch that they acquired new bumps
of conceit, wl ile others shamefacedly admitted
they never pretended to be Ty Cobbs. Ed Burley,
of Burley & Biesinger, was right there at short-
stop and the way he leaned on the sphere was
quite enthralling. His team, the married men, lost
out, 6 to 2, but it wasn't Ed's fault. Harry Klingen-
der, of Neal's, showed he could catch like a vet-
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MORE HONOR FOR HENRY DREHER.
an
eran, while T. A. Rick, a Main street dealer, more
than exhibited his prowess as a left fielder. Ches-
ter Kasper, of the J. N. Adam Co., at first base
(Special to The Review.)
got a number of long drives that made him ex-
CLEVELAND, O., August 1G.—Henry Dreher,
tremely popular with the galleries of fair damsels,
prominent local piano merchant and president of
of which there were a score or so. The youthful the B. Dreher's Sons Co, just received a sou-
trio of Deshecker, Fiscus and Towne was much venir medal, or advisory badge as it is called by
to blame for the single men winning. Mike Gowan
the San Francisco committee. Percy Foster,
acted as umpire, and he was good at that.
who is secretary of the national association and
At the conclusion of the seven-inning game B. president of the Foster Piano Co., Washington.
E. Neal, of the firm of Neal, Clark & Neal, was D. C, awarded this medal at the banquet recently
designated director of the track and field sports. held in San Francisco. The following lines ex-
The tug-o'-war was the first event, with two picked press poetic sentiment concerning one of the jury
teams hauling away at either end. Mr. Bruehl was members :
the anchor for one end and his side won after a
The exposition people tried,
To do the best they could;
lengthy struggle.
To get a jury qualified
To
tell the bad from good.
The three-legged race was the fun-maker of
the day inasmuch as several competitors spilled all
The piano jury, night and day,
Worked hard—now this is true,
over the turf. A. Macum, of the William Hen-
They had to try to earn their pay—
The exhibitors were but two,
gerer talking machine department, with Charles
Wright, of the W. D. Andrews retail department,
So a medal to each one they gave,
The jury wis a bear;
as partner, romped off with the first honors. Bur-
Kach one worked harder than a slave,
ley and Kaepple were second, with Morris and
The hardest Henry Dreher.
Kraft a close third.
Business with the B. Dreher's Sons Co. has
There was a big field at the tape when Starter been very good during the past week, since two
Emmons, manager of the W. D. Andrews talking sales, one for a Steinway Pianola at $2,100 and a
machine department, emptied the pistol. Myrtle high-priced Weber Pianola, were consummated.
Robert Jones, who is manager of the player-
Beland, of the Neal, Clark & Neal office force, beat
the fair sprinters out with ease. Mr. Emmons piano department, leaves for New York on a two
won the fat man's race with a final spurt from W. weeks' vacation. In the course of his trip he
F. Goold, with I. Melzer a close third. Jack An- expects to visit the Catskill Mountains, Aeolian
dres, of C. Kurtzman & Co., copped the prize in Hall, Krakauer Bros, and Steinway Hall, New
the lean man's race, with Gus Blanck tagging a York.
Oscar Dreher and family are taking a months'
few inches behind him. This event was carried
tour of the Western States. Thus far Mr. Dreher
out in two heats.
Directly after the games a banquet was featured has visited St. Paul, Fargo, N. D.; Cheyenne, Den-
in the main dining hall of the Olcott Beach Hotel. ver and expects to stop at all the important cities
It was an informal affair, with plenty of music on his way to the Coast.
Henry Dreher is a golf enthusiast, having gained
and a few "kidding" addresses. Dancing fol-
lowed until a late hour, after which the party re- renown by defeating Tyrus Raymond Cobb, "the
Georgia peach," on the latter's home grounds in
turned to Buffalo.
Georgia last winter. Mr. Dreher is scheduled to
Between the various events there was plenty of
time for bathing in Lake Ontario, boating and play the fleet-footed wonder in Cleveland this
automobiling. The shade of the hundreds of high week and expects to repeat his former feat.
pines coaxed many of the dealers and the members
LORD & TAYLOITVACATION NOTES.
got better acquainted.
The smile of President Wade H. Poling was
E. M. Wheailey, manager of the piano depart-
missing, he having left Buffalo for Cleveland. A
ment
of Lord & Taylor, Thirty-eighth street and
new head will be elected next September, when
Fifth
avenue, New York, returned to his desk
the association resumes meetings after the sum-
Monday,
ready for the exigencies of fall and win-
mer vacation.
ter business, after a six weeks' stay at his summer
These were a few of the Buffalo dealers who
home in Brookfield, Vt.
were at the outing: B. E. Neal, W. J. Bruehl, Dr.
William E. Flint, floor man of the Lord & Tay-
C. A. Woodworth, Harry Klingender, H. Dia-
mond, B. J. Markle and others of Neal, Clark & lor department, is spending a few weeks at Lake
Mahopac, N. Y.
Neal; Manager Emmons, Charles Logan, Henry
Henry Repp, head of the department's outside
Hermansdorfer and others of the W. D. Andrews
sales
staff, is also vacationing, following his usual
store; T. A. Goold, Martin Kaepple, of the Kaepple
Piano Co.; H. G. Towne, of Robert L. Loud; Paul custom of making short trips to near-by points.
Kuehn, Jack Andres, of Kurtzman's; Edward R
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