Chicago

Hitherto it has been impossible, it is said, to make successful gramaphone records of organ music, but the other day in a Chicago laboratory the feat was accomplished, by means of a device invented by Orlando R. Marsh. Pietro A. Yon played his organ composition Jesu Bambino for the records, and the reproduction is described as excellent. Mr. Yon is the organist of a Jesuit church in New York. This accomplishment seems to open a new field for the phonograph.

With the final notes of the season, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra technically ceased to exist. The musicians would not renew their contracts because the trustees refused a wage increase. They demanded $67.50 per week instead of $60. In 1916, they received $35.