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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
THE FUNERAL OF PAUL G. MEHL1N
JOSEPH G. ESTEY IN EUROPE
NAMES TRAVELERS' COMMITTEES
Many Members of Piano Industry Pay Last
Tribute to Deceased Piano Manufacturer at
Two Services—School Children View Body as
It Lies in State at the Mehlin Factory
Son of Col. J. Gray Estey Joins Amherst Unit
of American Ambulance Service
President Krumme Gives List of Those in
Charge of Various Association Activities
Among
will soon
is Joseph
president
President John A. Krumme, Jr., of the National
Piano Travelers' Association, has announced the
following committees to act during the year:
Grievance Committee: G. C. Kavanagh, chair-
man, Foster-Armstrong Co., East Rochester,
X. Y.; Gustave Ad. Anderson, Ludwig & Co.,
New York; Warren C. Whitney, A. B. Chase
Co., Norwalk, Ohio.
Hotel Committee: Frank E. Edgar, chairman,
Wilcox & White Co., Meriden, Conn.; Elmon
Armstrong, Kroeger Piano Co., Republic Build-
ing Chicago, 111.; Gordon Laughead, Melville
Clark Piano Co., 410 Fine Arts Building, Chi-
cago, 111.
Railroad Committee: E. N. Paulding, chair-
man, Packard Piano Co., Fort Wayne, Ind.;*
Charles Grundy, Emerson Piano Co., 560 Harri-
son street, Boston, Mass.; Horace E. Toms,
Behning Piano Co., 306 East 133d street, New
York; Ava W. Poole, Poole Piano Co., 84 Sid-
ney street, Cambridge, Mass.; W. B. Williams,
C. Kurtzmann & Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Educational Committee: Geo. W. Gittins,
chairman, Estey Piano Co., 112 Lincoln avenue,
New York; Sidney N. Mayer, J. & C. Fischer,
417 West Twenty-eighth street, New York;
J. Harry Shale, American Piano Co., 437 Fifth
avenue, New York; Paul J. Stroup, Aeolian Co.,
29 West Forty-second street, New York; B. H.-
Janssen, 82 Brown place, New York; Richard
W. Lawrence, Autopiano Co., 645 West Fifty-
first street, New York.
The funeral services of the late Paul G.
Mehlin, the veteran head of Paul G. Mehlin &
Sons, who passed away last week, were held
at the factory wareroom of the Mehlin & Sons
plant, Twentieth street and Broadway, West
New York, N. J., on Thursday evening last,
and were largely attended by the members of
several German societies to which the deceased
belonged, the employes at the factory, mem-
bers of the piano industry and a host of friends.
The services were conducted by the Rev. A.
W. Hopper, of the Second Reformed Church of
West New York, who delivered a splendid ser-
mon telling of the useful life which the deceased
had led. Capt. John P. Heintz of the Twentieth
Turner Reg : ment, New York, of which Mr.
Mehlin was a first lieutenant at the time of the
Civil War, eulogized his old comrade and told
of his being the seventeenth man who signed
his name when the regiment was formed and
of his being appointed bugler by Col. Max
Webber.
At the termination of his eulogy, Mr. Heintz,
drawing a small silk flag from his coat, said:
"In the name of this great republic, I place
this flag that you so honorably defended on
your breast. Good-by, Paul, good-by!"
Eulogy in German was recited by Mrs. Or-
flellia Girth, eighty-three years of age, of Fort
Lee, who is called the "Daughter of the Twen-
tieth Regiment" because she made a flag and
presented it to the regiment as it was leaving
for the front. She also formed the Women's
Guild of the regiment which made clothing for
the soldiers.
Another eulogy in German was rendered by
A. Scholer, a boyhood friend of Mr. Mehlin,
while members of the West New York Maen-
nerchor sang.
The casket, draped in an American flag, was
placed at one end of the wareroom, and the body
lay in state during the day. As Mr. Mehlin
was a great friend of the school children, the
schools were closed earlier than usual in the
afternoon and about 200 children passed by the
casket.
Among the members of the piano industry
present at the Thursday evening service were
F. A. Wessell, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Wessell, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Nickel, F. Steinbrenner, E. R.
Wanckel, E. E. Vidaud, G. L. Koenig, C. D. Pot-
ter, D. R. Potter, B. B. Buckingham, M. Swan-
wick, and Carleton Chace.
The interment service was held at 2.30 on
Friday afternoon at the New York and New
Jersey Crematory, North Bergen, N. J., after
the funeral procession had passed from the fac-
tory, past Mr. Mehlin's late home and through
Sixteenth street, West New York, where it was
reviewed at the Municipal Building. The services
at the crematory were also conducted by the
Rev. Hopper, there also being music by a string
trio and singing. The funeral procession was
escorted by a detail of police and firemen, in
which departments Mr. Mehlin had always
shown a keen interest, and whose members held
him in high esteem.
Among those present at the services on Fri-
day were: Francis Connor, William Tonk, Ru-
dolph C. Koch, Charles Jacob, Richard W.
Lawrence, W. J. Keeley, J. A. Coffin, George
W. Gittins, Albert Behning, Frank C. Decker,
Alexander McDonald, W. Stager, F. Steinbren-
ner, W. E. Baldwin, Carleton Chace, and others.
The pallbearers were the department heads at
the factory.
the sons of piano manufacturers who
be found on the firing line in Europe
G. Estey, son of Col. J. Gray Estey,
of the Estey Piano Co., 133d street
HELPED MAKE AFFAIR A SUCCESS
C. A. Laurino, as Official Referee, Contributed
Materially to the Success of Recent Aeolian
Employes' Association Outing
Joseph G. Estey
and Lincoln avenue, New York. Mr. Estey
has enlisted in the American Ambulance Field
One of the contributing factors to the success
Service and has sailed for "Somewhere in
France" for active duty on the firing line. At of the recent Aeolian outing held at Bear Moun-
the time the United States entered the World tain was the careful consideration given every
War, young Mr. Estey was a student at Am- detail of the athletic games by C. A. Laurino,
herst College, and was immediately inspired to
put himself in a position to do something worth
while for his country. Being too young to go
to the training camps, and not subject to con-
scription, he decided to join the American Am-
bulance Field Service and has gone with the
ambulance unit from his alma mater. This unit
is composed of twenty-five men and their work
is to act as drivers of auto ambulances from
the field dressing station to the field hospital.
The Review joins the trade in wishing Mr.
C. A. Laurino in the "Jordan"
Estey Godspeed.
official referee. Mr. Laurino worked indefatig-
ably to make the games a success, and well de-
PAYMENT PRECEDES ORDER
serves the praise which he received from the
members of the Aeolian Employes' Association.
Unique Experience of the Lauter Co., Newark,
Not realizing how much work could be in-
With a South American House
cluded in his position as official referee Mr.
Laurino induced one of his friends to loan him
NEWARK, N. J., June 18.—The millennium may
not be here, but it must be fast approaching, a "Jordan" seven-passenger "Luxury" car, be-
to judge from an experience of the Lauter Co., lieving that he would have plenty of time to
of this city. Recently the company received tour the country surrounding Bear Mountain.
from a dealer in Uruguay, South America, a The nearest he came to this, however, was a
draft of large proportion. There was no ex- short trip around the ball field of the athletic
planation or anything else to indicate just what grounds where the accompanying photograph
the draft was for. There was nothing to do but was snapped by one of his co-workers.
put the draft in the bank and wait for further
COMMITTEES ON RESOLUTIONS
instructions. Up to the present time the order
for Lauter pianos and Lauter-Humanas, which
Two committees were appointed last week by
the draft was undoubtedly meant to cover, has George Gittins, president of the New York
not arrived.
Piano Manufacturers' Association, to draw up
This unusual system of sending the money resolutions on the deaths of the late John Weser
first and the order afterwards would doubtless and the late Paul G. Mehlin. The committte on
prove satisfactory if generally adopted, and per- the former consists of B. H. Janssen, Charles
haps our South American neighbors are giving Jacob, and William Tonk, and for the latter
us a gentle hint on the right way to do business. Mr. Janssen, Francis Connor and F. C. Decker.
WINTER & CO.
220 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD, NEW YORK
Manufacturers of
Superior Pianos
and Player Pianos