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though every precaution is used to prevent
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as he does is little short of remarkable, be-
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to print, to steer through the dangerous
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that shall be independent, clean, dignified,
newsy and up-to-date, is not an easy task.
We may say, however, that the chief criti-
cism of this publication comes from its con-
temporaries, a fact which makes us very
sad—but we hope, in time, if they read The
Review as closely as they have in the past,
that they may become converted. In the
meanwhile, we regret that the success of
this publication has created that tired feel-
ing on the part of some of our non-progress-
ive friends who have evidently watched the
growth of this journal with jealous eyes.
' N. L GEBHARDT TO RESIGN
As A. B. Chase Road Representative—Will Take
a Vacation —" Hustling " Twenty-eight Years.
N. L. Gebhardt who in April next will
have been twelve years with the A. B. Chase
Co. in the capacity of traveling salesman, has
tendered his resignation to take effect on that
date. Since the death of his wife, Mr. Geb-
hardt has been anxious to get out of business
harness, and in the course of a chat in The
Review sanctum on Monday, said: "I in-
tend, to take a long vacation, covering more
than a year. In May I expect to visit Porto
Rico with some friends, and after sojourning
there will go to California, staying with my
brother for a lengthy period. Later I shall
journey to Oklahoma, where my nephew is
located and who has been most anxious that
I should visit him.
"I have been twenty-eight years in the pia-
no business, starting with Taylor & Farley
Co., and in all that time I have never had a
vacation. I believe I have earned one and
believe it is now or never. I have the high-
est regard for the A. B. Chase people; our
relations have been extremely cordial at all
times, and I believe there is not a better or
a more artistic piano made in this country."
Mr. Gebhardt, who has been visiting a
number of Southern points, left on Tuesday
for Norwalk, O. He reports the greatest ac-
tivity at the A. B. Chase factory. In fact,
they are having the hardest kind of work to
supply the demand which is coming their
way these days so generously.
BALDWIN CO. INCREASE CAPITAL STOCK TO $1,250,000
This week the usual legal steps were taken occasion surprise. The great victories which
by the Baldwin Co. to increase their capital they won at the Paris Exposition, as well
stock to $1,250,000 for the purpose of taking as the strenuous policy which has been pur-
over and managing the business of the fol- sued in making their instruments known at
lowing corporations: the Baldwin Piano Co., home and abroad, have given them a merited
the Ellington Piano Co., the Valley Gem
prominence in the trade sphere as among the
Piano Co. and the Hamilton Organ Co.
great producing institutions of America.
To those who have kept in close touch
with the expansion of the Baldwin interests The new Baldwin policy is obviously along
under the capable administration of Lucien those lines of concentration which great cor-
Wulsin and his associates during the past porations have found so effective in devel-
few years, the news above recorded will not oping large enterprises.
vices of such a man for what I want. The
Apollo is more nearly human than anything
So says Mr. Kellogg of the Apollo piano player—Uses I can imagine, and I use it back of a screen
this important instrument in connecfion with his
where it never fails to elicit scores of inquir-
lectures with marvelous results.
ies as to identity of the marvelous artist.
The Apollo Piano Player has come into a Indeed the Apollo is the greatest attainment
remarkable amount of prominence in a most of the day, it is wonderful."
peculiar way and in a way which was won by
STRATTON INCORPORATES.
its merits solely.
A gentleman purchased an Apollo at the
The Stratton Piano Manufacturing Co.,
local warerooms, as do very many more gen- Ltd., has been incorporated in New Orleans,
tlemen. He did not say what he wished to
La., for the purpose of manufacturing pianos
do with the instrument nor did he say who
and other musical instruments, with a capital
he was, but from time to time Mr. Pfafflin
stock of $50,000 divided into 1,000 shares of
received inquiries for the Apollo from sec-
$50 each. The incorporators and the pro-
tions where he knew of the presence of no
jected officers of the new concern are: Wil-
Apollo which could have elicited such volleys
liam Zetzmann, Albert H. Stratton and
of praise.
Adolph Baumgartner, of which William
The mystery was solved by a chance meet-
Zetzmann shall be president; Albert H. Strat-
ing with the gentleman" who had purchased
ton, vice-president and general manager, and
the Apollo and after learning who he was
Adolph Baumgartner, secretary and treas-
and how he used the instrument the matter
urer.
was cleared up in a manner hugely satisfac-
The business will take over the interests
tory to Mr. Pfafflin. Charles Dennison
of
Mr. Stratton, who has been manufacturing
Kellogg is the possessor of a peculiar talent;
it is more than a talent, it would be a genius, in a small way in New Orleans.
were it not a gift of nature. He is not a
whistler, he is not a singer, he is not a warb-
ler—in the sense of the yodler. But he is a
warbler if that is what a bird is, for he has
the most wonderful ability of imitating all
creatures of the feathery tribe. Mr. Kellogg, as
may be well understood, has had offers be-
yond count to take this talent into vaudeville,
but as in addition to the talent he has a sci-
entific turn of mind and he is cultured and
refined in the extreme, he uses his powers
to give lectures on the same lines as those
followed by Ernest Seton Thompson, the
lecturer and writer upon animals. The
great advantage which Mr. Kellogg has over
Mr. Thompson is that he can give the calls
of all birds, and through his powers he has
been enabled to procure wonderful photo-
graphs at the closest possible range, having
attracted them by his calls.
In his lectures Mr. Kellogg appears before
educational institutions, clubs, and before
large audiences using these photographs in
stereopticon and illustrating bird-life and
language by his warbling, to open the even-
ing and to introduce incidental interest. Mr.
Kellogg warbles obligatos to the piano.
The piano-player is the Apollo, and this is
what Mr. Kellogg said about it: "You see I
had to have a faultless technician, and at a
speed hardly possible to a human being. A
pianist who could serve my purpose must be
a Rosenthal or a Paderewski in technic, and
you know that no money could buy the ser-
Only 350 organ grinders are to be licensed
in this town—at least, the City Fathers so
voted yesterday. Councilman Stewart M.
Brice wanted the annual fee set at $1,000.
His colleagues compromised on $2 a year.
But think of it, only 350 hand organs! There
used to be a million!
Che Pianophonc
"Von Don't fiavc to Pump it"
Manufactured by
Che Pianopbone Company,
ORANGE, N . T.
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Manufacturers
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Perforated music
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Other Self-playing
Attachments.