Music Trade Review
Issue: 1921 Vol. 72 N. 20 - Page 157
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MAY
THE
14, 1921
149
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
USINESS is good with the dealer who carries stock that is called for.
Order a supply of these today from us or your jobber..
'HESE SONGS
, THE PUBLIC
WANT
Song and Piano Solo
1 9tVi ^trppf PQ
±LJLLL
For all Talking Machines and Player-Pianos
kJ t l CC L X l a
T rvt7/2k?* Song—A Wonderful Seller-For all
V \t
Player-Pianos and Talking Machines
JLJO
This
is the
f avorite
waltz
°f
all'prominent orchestra leaders
Published by
DEAF MUTES WIN SUCCESS
Members of Firm of Gott & Henderson, Chicago
Music Publishers, Succeeding in Their Chosen
Field Despite Big Physical Handicaps
CHICAGO, I I I . , May 9.—-The increasing number
of people familiar with the very excellent music
and lyric of "When I Dream That Auld Erin
Is Free" will be both interested and surprised to
know that members of the firm publishing the
song, Gott & Henderson, are deaf mutes. Both
of these men are fine fellows and thoroughly
alive to the great world of affairs around them
and evidence an inimitable spirit both in what
they have accomplished and what they are plan-
ning to do.
The author of the words of the song men-
Co.
1015 Walnut Street
Kansas City, Mo.
tioned and also of all the Gott & Henderson and spent one Winter as a mine watchman in
numbers was born twenty-five years ago in the the Ophir district. He occasionally wrote little
San Juan silver district of Colorado. He was scraps of poetry, but tore them up. It was
raised in an environment of six-shooters, sheriffs in this stage that Colin Mcintosh, the Salt Lake.
and coyotes. His mother died when he was City mining engineer, discovered Henderson
two years old and his father, after placing him in dreaming dreams and washing dishes. This man
charge of a relative, disappeared into the Klon- befriended him, and with his aid he was given
dike or the Philippines. Finally, young Hender- an opportunity to gain an education.
son also ran away, going to Wyoming with a
After repeated but unsuccessful efforts to get
string of race horses. It was while breaking his song lyrics accepted by publishers he joined
horses on the Western plains that he received hands with H. J. Gott, also a deaf mute, and
a fall which made him deaf for life. He after- formed the firm of Gott & Henderson. At first
wards received a little education in the Colo- they devoted themselves to publishing and sell-
rado School for Deaf and Blind and then worked ing booklets especially written for deaf mutes.
in a frontier printing office. For ten years he Finally they perfected the plans which they had
wandered endlessly through the West, worked entertained from the beginning and engaged as
as dish washer in various mining camps, car- music publishers. The music for "When I
ried mail on snowshoes in the Needle Mountains Dream That Auld Erin Is Free" was written by
Leo Friedman, well-known composer of "Meet
Me To-night in Dreamland." It was soon
brought to the attention of John McCormack
and the famous Irish tenor included it in his
repertoire.
Mr. Gott, who is the business manager of
Gott & Henderson, is also an exceedingly in-
teresting character. He was born in Fond du
Lac, Wis., in 1882 and lost his hearing as a re-
sult of an attack of spinal meningitis when he
was nine years old. He came to Chicago when
a boy and attended the School for the Deaf and
afterwards the Illinois Institution. He started
boxing when he was eighteen years old and for
a while followed the profession, being known in
sporting circles as "Dummy Gott." During his
fighting career he was known as one of the
gamest men in the middle-weight class. He has
the reputation of having never suffered a knock-
out. In 1910 he started in the selling game and
"built up a mail-order business of his own. His
methods of selling, while effective, have of neces-
sity differed from that of the ordinary sales-
man, for a steel pencil, a writing pad and an
alert brain constitute his tools of trade.
RAGE
fr^i k:
WILLIAMS
CONTINENTS
^ALDUBIIW
HENRY SCHARF
TO MUSIC DEALERS
WE ARE JOBBERS
OF MUSIC
Popular, Classic, Music
Books and Studies
SPUING
FOX
TROT
ALDVDIN -
HERBERT WEISE
WILLIAM F.CAESAR
M.WITMARK 6 SOHS • NEW YORK
Our price! on all classes of music -will average the
loweft. Located in the center of the country and
carrying the tremendous itock that we do we are
in a position to supply all your wants at a SAVING
TO YOU OF TIME, MONEY AND EXPRESS
CHARGES.
All orders shipped the day .we get them.
GIVE US A TRIAL ORDER
MCKINLEY MUSIC CO.
1501-1513 E. 55th S t r e e t
CHICAGO
MAY
THE
14, 1921
149
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
USINESS is good with the dealer who carries stock that is called for.
Order a supply of these today from us or your jobber..
'HESE SONGS
, THE PUBLIC
WANT
Song and Piano Solo
1 9tVi ^trppf PQ
±LJLLL
For all Talking Machines and Player-Pianos
kJ t l CC L X l a
T rvt7/2k?* Song—A Wonderful Seller-For all
V \t
Player-Pianos and Talking Machines
JLJO
This
is the
f avorite
waltz
°f
all'prominent orchestra leaders
Published by
DEAF MUTES WIN SUCCESS
Members of Firm of Gott & Henderson, Chicago
Music Publishers, Succeeding in Their Chosen
Field Despite Big Physical Handicaps
CHICAGO, I I I . , May 9.—-The increasing number
of people familiar with the very excellent music
and lyric of "When I Dream That Auld Erin
Is Free" will be both interested and surprised to
know that members of the firm publishing the
song, Gott & Henderson, are deaf mutes. Both
of these men are fine fellows and thoroughly
alive to the great world of affairs around them
and evidence an inimitable spirit both in what
they have accomplished and what they are plan-
ning to do.
The author of the words of the song men-
Co.
1015 Walnut Street
Kansas City, Mo.
tioned and also of all the Gott & Henderson and spent one Winter as a mine watchman in
numbers was born twenty-five years ago in the the Ophir district. He occasionally wrote little
San Juan silver district of Colorado. He was scraps of poetry, but tore them up. It was
raised in an environment of six-shooters, sheriffs in this stage that Colin Mcintosh, the Salt Lake.
and coyotes. His mother died when he was City mining engineer, discovered Henderson
two years old and his father, after placing him in dreaming dreams and washing dishes. This man
charge of a relative, disappeared into the Klon- befriended him, and with his aid he was given
dike or the Philippines. Finally, young Hender- an opportunity to gain an education.
son also ran away, going to Wyoming with a
After repeated but unsuccessful efforts to get
string of race horses. It was while breaking his song lyrics accepted by publishers he joined
horses on the Western plains that he received hands with H. J. Gott, also a deaf mute, and
a fall which made him deaf for life. He after- formed the firm of Gott & Henderson. At first
wards received a little education in the Colo- they devoted themselves to publishing and sell-
rado School for Deaf and Blind and then worked ing booklets especially written for deaf mutes.
in a frontier printing office. For ten years he Finally they perfected the plans which they had
wandered endlessly through the West, worked entertained from the beginning and engaged as
as dish washer in various mining camps, car- music publishers. The music for "When I
ried mail on snowshoes in the Needle Mountains Dream That Auld Erin Is Free" was written by
Leo Friedman, well-known composer of "Meet
Me To-night in Dreamland." It was soon
brought to the attention of John McCormack
and the famous Irish tenor included it in his
repertoire.
Mr. Gott, who is the business manager of
Gott & Henderson, is also an exceedingly in-
teresting character. He was born in Fond du
Lac, Wis., in 1882 and lost his hearing as a re-
sult of an attack of spinal meningitis when he
was nine years old. He came to Chicago when
a boy and attended the School for the Deaf and
afterwards the Illinois Institution. He started
boxing when he was eighteen years old and for
a while followed the profession, being known in
sporting circles as "Dummy Gott." During his
fighting career he was known as one of the
gamest men in the middle-weight class. He has
the reputation of having never suffered a knock-
out. In 1910 he started in the selling game and
"built up a mail-order business of his own. His
methods of selling, while effective, have of neces-
sity differed from that of the ordinary sales-
man, for a steel pencil, a writing pad and an
alert brain constitute his tools of trade.
RAGE
fr^i k:
WILLIAMS
CONTINENTS
^ALDUBIIW
HENRY SCHARF
TO MUSIC DEALERS
WE ARE JOBBERS
OF MUSIC
Popular, Classic, Music
Books and Studies
SPUING
FOX
TROT
ALDVDIN -
HERBERT WEISE
WILLIAM F.CAESAR
M.WITMARK 6 SOHS • NEW YORK
Our price! on all classes of music -will average the
loweft. Located in the center of the country and
carrying the tremendous itock that we do we are
in a position to supply all your wants at a SAVING
TO YOU OF TIME, MONEY AND EXPRESS
CHARGES.
All orders shipped the day .we get them.
GIVE US A TRIAL ORDER
MCKINLEY MUSIC CO.
1501-1513 E. 55th S t r e e t
CHICAGO
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