gan in Mr. White's home.

Mr. White argued that the Swell Organ should be full of violin tone and
be, as the strings in the orchestra, the foundation of accompaniment as
well as complete in themselves. He lent to Hope-Jones some of his
"string" pipes to copy in Worcester Cathedral, whence practically all
the development of string tone in organs has come. Mr. White further
urged that the whole organ should be in swell boxes.

It is extraordinary that an outsider like Mr. White, a man busy in so
many other lines of endeavor, should exert such marked influence on the
art of organ building, but it remains a fact that but for his artistic
discernment and for the encouragement so freely given, the organ would
not to-day be supplanting the orchestra in theatres and hotels, nor be
what it is in the churches and halls.

Mr. White has for nearly thirty years helped, enthused and encouraged,
not only artistic organ-builders like Casson, Thynne, Hope-Jones and
Compton, but also the more progressive of the prominent organists.

All honor to Martin White!

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In the spring of 1903 Hope-Jones visited this country. At the
instigation of Mr. R. P. Elliot, the organizer, Vice-President and
Secretary of the Austin Organ Company, of Hartford, Conn., he decided
to remain here and join that corporation, taking the office of
Vice-president. Subsequently a new firm--Hope-Jones & Harrison--was
tentatively formed at Bloomfield, N. J., in July, 1904, but as
sufficient capital could not be obtained, Hope-Jones and his corps of
skilled employees joined the Ernest M. Skinner Company, of Boston,
Hope-Jones taking the office of Vice-president, in 1905. Working in
connection with the Skinner Company, Hope-Jones constructed and placed
a fine organ in Park Church, Elmira, N. Y., erected in memory of the
late Thomas K. Beecher. He there met, as chairman of the committee,
Mr. Jervis Langdon (Treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce, Elmira).
That gentleman secured the industry for his city by organizing a
corporation to build exclusively Hope-Jones organs.

This "Hope-Jones Organ Company" was established in February, 1907, the
year of the financial panic. It failed to secure the capital it sought
and was seriously embarrassed throughout its three years' existence.
It built about forty organs, the best known being the one erected in
the great auditorium at Ocean Grove, N. J.

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