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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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Piano Trade's Great Showing in Preparedness Parade
Fourteen Hundred Executives and Employes Form Impressive Regiment in Big
Demonstration Last Saturday—March Like Veterans—Those Who Participated
Those who have accused the piano trade on
the whole of lacking spirit and cohesion, have
been disillusioned, provided, of course, that they
witnessed the turn-out of the trade in the Citi-
zens' Preparedness Parade in New York on
Saturday last, when called upon to demonstrate
its belief in the principles of preparedness and
the patriotism which actuates both executives
and employes.
The daily papers have told in generous space
the general story of the parade. The story of
135,000 marching men in a column that took
over twelve hours to pass a given point, and
representing the greatest parade of civilians
ever seen in this country; the thousands of
American Hags carried by the marchers and the
strong spirit of solemnity and patriotic fervor
that evidenced itself, both among the paraders
and those who lined the streets to watch them.
There was little cheering, for it was serious
business, this demonstration to show to the
Government what business men of New York
thought of the idea of national preparedness.
In the sixty-six divisions there were represented
over 150 distinct trades and professions.
The piano trade made up an entire division
in itself, and although those in charge of the
parade had limited the piano representation to
1,200, there were actually nearly 1,400 men
Seventy-first Regiment band, which headed the
first battalion. The second battalion, lead by
First Battalion, Piano Division, Passing Up Fifth Avenue
L. D. Perry, followed immediately behind the the general line-up of the various companies
music supplied by the Stony Point Fife and were as follows:
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RST BATTALION
Drum Corps, attired in gay uniforms.
Seventy-first Regiment Band, 45 Pieces
Albert Behning, Marshal
Arthur L. Wessell and Max J. de Rochemont, Aides
Company A—Major E. J. Winterroth, Captain, Charles
Jacob, Gustave Behning, Joseph Oktavec, A. H. Kayton,
A. Dalrymple, S. S. Mapes, E. B. Bogart, J. A. Coffin,
Anthony Doll, Alex. Lichtenstein, A. L. Bretzfelder, A.
Vidaud, George Doll, Frederick Doll, Henry Doll, Herman
Irion, George II. Beverley, William Strauch, Albert
Strauch.
Company B—Executives, Kohler & Campbell; Richard
W. Lawrence, Captain.
Company C—J. W. Stevens, Captain, T. L. Floyd Jones,
Mr. Carter, E. M. Vankirk, Wm. Schaff, Albert Staib,
Geo. II. Abendschein, II. Behlen, Peter Pleines, Geo. H.
llouton, F. Bauer, Chas. M. Clark, Howard Freeman,
Geo. Murray. Geo. Reinecke, Robert F. Albin.
Company I)—-Geo. A. Scofield, Captain, Otto M. Ileinz-
Second Battalion, Piano Division, On the March
A five-minute wait in Fifteenth street and the
marching in the division—1,348 men, according
to the count of the New York Times—following piano men swung into Fifth avenue and covered
a large silken banner bearing the words "Piano the route to Fifty-seventh street and through
to Park avenue to the disbanding point at a
fast clip, the marching time over the entire
course of two miles and a half being something
less than a hour. The appearance of the march-
ers as they passed up Fifth avenue by the re-
viewing stand, where Mayor Mitchel, of New
York; General Leonard A. Wood, U. S. A.
Commander of the Department of the East, and
Admiral N. R. Usher, Commandant of the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, and other notables, re-
viewed them, is well set forth in the accom-
panying views snapped by The Review photog-
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Some of The Review Staff Ready to March
Trade of New York," and each man supplied
with a white carnation and an American flag of
generous size.
Marshal Albert Behning, with his aides, Ar-
thur L. Wessell and Max J. DeRochemont,
succeeded in getting the lines at the Union
Square rendezvous into proper shape well be-
fore the time for the start at 12.45 p. m., and
at the signal of the grand marshal's aide,
stepped off to a lively march played by the
piano men as they marched up Fifth avenue.
Those who participated in the parade and
Albert Behning, Marshal Arthur L. Wessell, Aide
man, Chas. W. Bowers, Chas. A. Eyles, Ralph D. Janney,
Geo. II. Bliss, Geo. Holz, Paul Fink, Geo. P. Brand, W. E.
Dean, W. B. Craighead, H. F. Lear, H. J. Kiefer, Al.
Jacob, Jr., H. O. Fox, Jr., Fred Kolber, J. Raymond Bill,
15. B. Wilson, A. J. Timpe, C. Chase, L. M. Robinson,
Wilson D. Bush, H. P. Shearer.
Company E—Aeolian Co., William Fay, Captain.
Company F—Aeolian Co., D. J. Budracco, Captain.
Company G—Aeolian Co., J. C. Gerecki 1 , Captain.
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Company II—Steinway & Sons, Charles Burden, Captain.
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Company I—Steinway & Sons, Harry Low, Captain,
pany of the first division, consisting Of execu-
Schlemmer & Co., Charles
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tives of the various factories, and general views
Howard, Captain.
of both the first and second battalions of the
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rapher.