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THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
NOVEMBER 2, 1918
MICHAEL E. SCHOENING'S WILL
NEW HARP ROOM AT DITSON STORE
HEARING ON BAND INSTRUMENTS
Musical Merchandise Man Who Recently Died
Leaves Big Fortune to Twenty Institutions—
$100,000 to Relatives, Employes and Friends
Well Equipped Department to Be Opened Soon
Under Management of Miss Anna Welsh—
Recitals to Be Given During the Season
War Industries Board to Provide Band Instru-
ment Makers With Sufficient Material to Take
Care of Government Orders
Twenty charitable institutions will share in
an estate of several hundred thousand dollars
left by the late Michael Emil Schoening, for
years an importer and dealer in musical instru-
ments at 26 East Twenty-second street, whose
will has been filed for probate. Thirteen of
the institutions are designated as residuary
legatees, the others receiving direct bequests.
The residuary legatees are the Church of St.
Vincent de Paul, the St. Vincent de Paul So-
ciety, the Association for the Relief of Re-
spectable Aged and Indigent Females in the
City of New York, St. John's Guild, Little Mis-
sionary's Day Nursery of -93 St. Mark's place,
Little Mothers' Aid Association, Home for the
Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor, New
York Association for Improving the Condition
of the Poor, New York Association for the Blind,
the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum of New
York, the New York Society for the Relief of
Ruptured and Crippled, New York Association
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and
Bellevue and Allied Hospitals for the Relief of
Convalescent Patients.
The direct bequests are: German Hospital
of New, York, $5,000; the Presbyterian Hospital,
the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, St. Vincent
de Paul Society, American Female Guardian
Society, Home for the Friendless and the Asso-
ciation for the Relief of Respectable Aged and
Indigent Females, $1,500 each. About $100,000
is left to former employes, relatives and friends.
The harp room which has recently been added
to the headquarters of C. H. Ditson & Co., 8
East Thirty-fourth street, is rapidly nearing
completion, and full plans for the conducting
of this department have been worked out and
have been announced by H. L. Hunt, manager
of the musical merchandise department.
The active management of the harp room has
been placed in the hands of Miss Anna Welsh,
who is reputed to be one of the most talented
of the younger harpists in New York City. Miss
Welsh has a charming personality, and is not
only skilled in the playing of the harp, but has
remarkable ability in keeping the instruments in
order and performing the delicate adjustments
necessary in keeping the instruments in their
best form.
The room will house not only a full exhibit
of the Lyon & Healy harps, but there will also
be installed a number of exceptionally fine an-
tique harps as well as a $10,000 Lyon & Healy
harp. The piano department has also loaned a
beautiful Lyon & Healy baby grand for the
concert work which is planned.
During the season there will be a number of
invitation recitals at which prominent artists
will appear. At these recitals it has been
planned to introduce piano solos and to occa-
sionally have some high-class artist render some
of the most popular Ditson publications. Dur-
ing the course some special attention is to be
given to juvenile concerts. There are many tal-
ented harpists among the children throughout
the city, and it is Mr. Hunt's plan to devote sev-
eral concerts to these younger harpists.
Associated with Mr. Hunt will be B. B. Halle,
who is also connected with the piano depart-
ment, and Charles Rouse. Mr. Halle will devote
much of his time to the outside work, and Mr.
Rouse, who knows harps from A to Z, and
whose wife is a talented harpist, will devote his
time to rentals.
George W. Pound, general counsel of the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, ap-
peared before the War Industries Board in
Washington on Monday in behalf of the band in-
strument manufacturers, who, as a result of the
conference, have been assured of sufficient sup-
plies of metals and other materials to take care
of Government orders at least. General Per-
shing has called persistently from France for
more music, and in addition to asking that the
size of existing bands be increased, "has re-
quested the formation of something over one
hundred new bands. This fact was empha-
sized before the authorities at Washington, and
arrangements were made whereby Government
orders for instruments can be taken care of, al-
though the production of band instruments for
civilian needs must be curtailed for a time.
ATTACHMENT FOR BASS DRUMS
WASHINGTON, D. C, October 28.—Tom Wilson,
Chicago, III., was last week granted Patent No.
1,281,465 for an attachment for bass drums,
which he has assigned to the Wilson-Jacobs
Drum Mfg. Co., same place. The purpose of
this invention is to provide an improved ap-
paratus for sounding the drum and the cymbal
carried thereby by a single movement of the
operator's foot. The principal object is to pro-
Consult the universal Want Directory of
vide an apparatus of the kind referred to in The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
which the beater will strike the drumhead at a free of charge for men who desire positions.
point adapted to produce the best tone. An-
other object is to provide means for sounding
the cj r mbal carried by the drum at the same in-
siant that the beater strikes the drumhead, and
further to provide means whereby said cymbal
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striking member may be readily thrown into in-
operative position.
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RULES ON SKIN IMPORTATIONS
The War Trade Hoard have, by a new ruling,
modified the earlier restriction upon the impor-
tation of goatskins and sheepskins from India,
as follows:
1. The hide, leather and leather goods division
of the War Industries Board must certify that
the skins in question were bought or contracted
for by the American importer prior to June 15,
1918, and that title has actually passed or the
importer has become irrevocably bound for the
payment of the purchase price.
2. Said division of the War Industries Board
must certify as nearly as possible the order in
which the various shipments proposed to be
licensed were purchased.
3. The licenses shall contain the following
provisions:
A. Provided the bill of lading is indorsed to
the Tanners' Council if for goatskins, and to
the Textile Alliance, Inc., if for sheepskins.
B. Provided shipment is made on an Allied-
controlled vessel.
C. All skins imported under such license are
to be subject to allocation by the Bureau of Im-
ports of the War Trade Board acting in con-
junction with the hide, leather and leather goods
division of the War Industries Board.
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