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Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org VOL. XIX. No. 6. published Euery Saturday. * ffeu/ Yorl(, September i, 1894. first saw the light at Amsterdam. He went to San Francisco with his parents when he was very young. His genius was hidden for a time while he acted as book-keeper in a haberdasher's shop in 'Frisco. One lucky day he went on a How the Inspiration Came to holiday to San Diego. On his return to 'Frisco by boat, it happened that '' Chris '' Buckley Him. was his fellow-passenger. Mr. Buckley was then at the height of his power. He controlled Song. 6. A mere trifle. Something of little or no value, as " I bought it for a song."(Colloq.) The Cen- Democratic politics in San Francisco as absotury Dictionary. lutely as ever did Richard Croker in New York. There are songs and songs. Some songs have Mr. Buckley heard Raymon Moore sing, and precious little value. But '' Sweet Marie '' is was drawn to him by the sweetness of his tenor not one of them. " Sweet Marie" is the song voice. The blind political leader made him his that all the organs are grinding out; that the secretary at a salary of $150 a month. He filled messenger boys are whistling ; that the young that position with great credit for two years, and woman with the shrieky voice in the next flat then resigned to become a member of Emerson's to you is singing at 7 o'clock in the morning. minstrels. As such he has become known and But that all proves that " Sweet Marie " is Im- popular all over the country. mensely popular, and that is to say it is imMr. Moore not only composes the music, but mensely valuable. writes the words of all his songs. He thinks '' Sweet Marie '' has already brought in $13,000 that " Eilen Aroon," a song he has just finto the man who wrote both its words and music, ished, is the best he ever wrote. Another very Raymon Moore. And he confidently expects to successful song of his is " My Fair Colleen." make $20,000 out of the song after the returns Mr. Moore has not yet published one of his best from all the back counties are in. Mr. Moore efforts, " Don't Quite Forget Old Dad." He is receives eight cents royalty on each copy of the rather surprised by the vast popularity of song that is sold. So 162,500 copies have already " Sweet Marie." been sold. If the composer makes $20,000, 250,000 copies will have been sold. There is a Will the Conn Factory be great responsibility in adding 250,000 "Sweet Engulfed ? Maries " to the population of this song-loving country. But Mr. Moore accepts the responsibility and is happy in the certainty that they M T Elkhart, Ind., the home of the Conn have been welcomed from Portland, Ore., to ©=s band instrument works, a singular phePortland, Me. nomenon has been witnessed during the past Mr. Moore composed "Sweet Marie" last week. It was noticed last Thursday, says the September. He was on his way across the con- Sun, that a crack, about three inches wide, had tinent from San Francisco with W. H. Cronk- started back from the south bank of the St. hite, John Coleman, the dancer, and Otis Har- Joseph River, and that it extended to a conland, the leading man in Hoyt's new play, " A siderable depth. Nothing was thought of the Black Sheep.'' To relieve the tedium of the matter until it was observed that the crack was journey, these four played poker. It had cost rapidly increasing both in depth and width. At Mr. Moore $300 or $400 to relieve the tedium, this time it is between 50 and 60 feet in depth and he was beginning to feel slightly wearied, and 3 feet wide, and is still growing. In length when he picked up a hand, and lo ! there were it is 400 feet. three nines in it. A portion of the foundation of the stone botMr. Moore, with great promptness, raised the tling works building has fallen into the fissure. ante to come in, and everybody came in. He If it continues its course for any length of time drew one card and, on careful inspection, found great damage must result to property, as that four nines in his five cards. The train was then part of the city is thickly built up. No one has just east of Denver, and Mr. Moore mentally de- ever known anything of that kind to occur there before, and some attempt to explain it on the termined to bet that hand as far as Chicago. theory that an underground stream branches off The other man called. "Four nines," said Mr. Moore, reaching for from the river at that point. the money. 41 A Home for Old Musicians. Four tens," said the other man, taking the money. Mr. Moore, quite naturally, felt rather sad and Musicial Mutual Protective Union of pensive after that. It was then that the inspiraNew York city will give a summer night's tion came to him from which sprung "Sweet festival at the Old Homestead, Ninety-first street Marie." He jotted down the music and elabor- and Third avenue, on the afternoon and evening ated the words, " Sweet Marie " was born. of Monday, Sept. 10, the first of a series for the Mr. Moore is twenty-eight years old, and New purpose of raising a fund to establish a home for York State claims the honor of his birth, for he old musicians in New York. $3 00 PER YEAR. SINGLE COPIES. 10 CENTS. The Man Who Wrote "Sweet riarie." FREDERICK T. STEINWAY returned yesterday morning to American shores on the steamer "Fuerst Bismarck." GENIAL " Tom " Evans, who for the past ten years has been a prominent figure in metropolitan newspaperdom, has resigned his position as Eastern manager of The San Francisco Chronicle and Chicago Tribune and has entered the insurance business, as special representative of Equitable Life Assurance Co. " Tom " leaves behind a brilliant record as a newspaper man, and it is certain that a man of his restless energy will achieve a mighty big success among insurance men. THE business of the Alcott & Maynor Co., of Dallas, Tex., is in the hands of the sheriff. They handled the Shaw and Gabler pianos, and the Chicago Cottage Organ Co. 's goods up to a recent date. THE Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Co., Lyon & Healy and Joseph Bohmann, of Chicago, are the three American exhibitors of musical instruments at the Antwerp Exposition. W E are pleased to learn that Mr. C. J. Heppe, Philadelphia, who has been seriously ill, is now greatly improved in health. If this change for the better continues, it is expected that he will return to his city home from the seaside this week. MR. H. D. CABLE and wife, of Chicago, and Mr. Lew H. Clement of the Ann Arbor Organ Co., will return from Europe next week. IT is said that the houses of Williamson Brothers and Exton & Cist of Los Angeles, Cal., have been consolidated. THE importations of goods from England to the United States for the year of 1893 was $560, 345. in 1887 they amounted to $330,000. The highest point in importations was reached in 1891 when they were estimated at $971,425. It it not at all improbable that this year the imports will equal if not excel 1891 ; chiefly on account of the new tariff law. MR. WILLIAM E. KAPS, piano manufacturer of Dresden, Germany, sailed for home last Thursday. Mr. Kaps has been in this country for the past eight months, getting a knowledge of the American system of pianoforte manufacturing. MR. ROBERT M. WEBB, who had intended sailing for Europe last Satnrday, postponed doing so until Wednesday, when he left by the " New York '' of the American line.