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ings that can overtake us, the spirit of "live and
let live."
ter home in lovely New Rochelle. The Witmark
boys—for as boys they will ever remain in the
eyes
of their countless friends—will as usual
Mariucha Take a Steamboat. Toot! Toot!
Following closely on the heels of George Max- spend the summer at their Arverne house. Isa-
well, of Messrs. Boosey, Walter Eastman, the dor may go to Europe, but as this means added
popular young American representative of Chap- worry attending to the business details of the
& Co., sails this morning with Mrs. Eastman, London and Paris houses of M. Witmark & Sons,
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Editor and Proprietor pell
on the Atlantic Transport Line for London, his brothers will no doubt do all in their power
where he will remain for a month or more. On to dissuade him from taking the trip. Fred
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
Saturday next Fred Day, New York representa- Haviland, that human dynamo, will remain at
J . HAYDEN-CLARENDON, E d i t o r
tive of Francis, Day & Hunter, also makes tracks his home in Pleasantville, Westchester county,
Published Every Saturday at 1 Madison Avenue, New York
for "Home, Sweet Home" per the Minnetonka. running into town daily all the time, giving an
SUBSCRIPTION, (including postage), United States and
He will be accompanied by his sister, Miss Beat- eye to his ever-increasing business, increasing
Mexico, $2.00 per year; Canada, $3.50; all other couii-
rice Day, who lately arrived in New York full because he is running it as a business and not
tries. $4.00.
of
interesting reminiscence, after a trip around as an institution for the encouragement of graft.
Telephones—Numbers 4677 and 4678 Gramercy
Connecting all Departments
the world. Mr. Day is scheduled to return in Albert Wier, who has just started a publishing
four weeks, but as the annual outing of the house of his own, after his noteworthy and suc-
NEW YORK, MAY 9, 1908
employes of the London office of Francis, Day cessful management of the Hinds, Noble &
& Hunter takes place on Saturday, June 27, it Eldredge music department, has no doubt made
is quite likely that he will be persuaded to linger his plans, but resolutely refuses to disclose them.
in the atmosphere of "'Appy 'Ampstead". until However, it is certain that his summer holiday
will not be spent alone, as toward the end of
after that date.
June he will join the Benedict class, of which
Max Silver Goes West.
more anon. Chas. K. Harris shortly starts on a
No doubt taking a leaf from Mr. Remick's western trip, but this cannot be regarded as a
That the summer is upon us is demonstrated notebook, "to travel beyond the Harlem River," holiday jaunt, as he is due in Milwaukee for
by the general exodus, or proposed exodus, of Max Silver, of the F. A. Mills Co., starts this the opening of his new musical production.
the music publishing fraternity from the scenes week on a trip to the Pacific Coast, in which Yes, summer in indeed upon us. Ask the de-
of the season's successes and failures. Strangely he intends to harness business with pleasure. partment stores.
enough, had conditions been different the last There can be no question that he will receive a
Another Shot That Hit.
year would have been one of the most successful hearty welcome wherever he makes up his mind
Would that all the mail reaching this depart-
in publishing annals. More really good songs to stay over, as he is essentially a "good fellow,"
have been written, more avenues for their ex- as wellas a first-class entertainer. Mr. and Mrs. ment were as valuable as the letter which we
ploitation have been opened, more "hits" have Remick are coming East for the summer, having publish herewith, for which our friend, the
been placed on the market, and yet prices, the taken a beautiful little cottage outside Boston, anonymous music publisher who apparently
mainstay of the publishing business, have, where for four days in each week Mr. Remick works while many of his brethren sleep, is re-
through an unfortunate combination of circum- will disport himself in flannels and a sweater. sponsible. It reads: "Dee-lighted to think that
stances, been temporarily ruined. We say tem- The remainder of his time will be spent in New our friends and worthy contemporaries are fast
porarily because it is our firm opinion that the York, where he intends giving attention to the becoming alive to the fact that something should
crisis is at hand, or is past, and that the autumn local business details of his enormous enterprise, and must be done, and we believe that some of
will show a return to normal, and consequently of course paying an occasional visit to "Maria's" them are already up and doing. The revolution
was bound to come sooner or later, and in this
(which is next door to the Remick Theater of
healthy, conditions. Happily with summer days
come summer thoughts. The man who injured Varieties), where he will regale himself with case the sooner the better. This business of ours
us may not be such a bad fellow after all, and real Italian spaghetti and Chianti, and at the had gotten to the point of death. It was and is
perhaps we ourselves were to blame just a little same time improve his Italian dialect. The still so sick, it either had to die or get better,
for his treatment. A wonderful thing is sun- jovial Leo Feist, who has not yet "made his and it really looks to us as though the 'worm
shine, for'• under its influence we somehow see plans for the summer," will no doubt be quite had turned,' and if such is the case, it is a good
things in a different light from that of the content to remain with his charming wife and 'turn' and for the better. It doesn't pay, per-
cdld, cheerless days of winter. We of the pub- the two lovely Feist babies in his delightful home haps, to try too many reforms at one time; the
lishing industry, therefore, welcome summer, for at Pelham Heights, where, by the way, Mrs. professional copy and slide song evils are two of
just now we badly need kind thoughts of each Mignon Ziegfeld, the giiiding hand of the Great the greatest in the business. Let's get those out
other. We need, too, a spirit of give and take, Eastern Publishers, is a close neighbor, in a of the way, and then we will take up this ruinous
and we look forward to the greatest of all bless- residence equally desirable as a summer or win- price question.
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