The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-21
SOMEBODY'S DARLING.
First Published by r. l. schreinel
Music Publishing in the eos.

I First Published by h L schreiner.
Music Publishing in the COS.
When Dir. H L Schreiner read in Tues
days MORNING News biographical sketch
/ Of the Habersham brothers, who were
J killed rear Atlanta. his eyes fell upon the
title Of the Old song Somebody's Darling"
"SOmeb7dy's Darlingr 1t was familiar
| to him. He began to think, and he remem-
bered that he and his father first published
| the song. He called one Of his clerks and
asked him to 60 upstairs aud look among
| the SIS in an old pile Of music which had
| been stored away since the war. The music
was brought down, and the identical piece,
Somebody's Darli e. vas in the pile.
Mr. Schreiner related a bit OF history
| c0nnec ed with the public alton Of the song
to a MORNING NEWS reporter yesterday.
Miss Marie La G ste was the author of
| the poem. Mr.. Sclreiner was at that time
| conducting a music house here, and his
| father was running music house in Macon.
and the two, with John II. Hewitt, were
carrying on a business in Augusta. Tue
auUhOress brought the poem to Mr..
| Schreiner in Savannah and asked him to set
it to music. He sent it over to Augusta to
Mr.. Hewitt, who was composing a good
deal about that time, and the poem was
set to music. The song was a beautiful one,
and the demand upon Schreiner s. Son for
the music largely exceeded the supply.
The house was the only music house in the
south, and all the music published south #
Mason q Dixon's line was sent out from
Savannah and Macon.
Prior to 1862, New Orleans had the only
music house in the south, and all southern
orders went to them. When Gen. Butler
took New Orleans in April of 49, Mr.. L.
Schreiner was there making purchase Of
music. When he come back TO Macon with
q
of affairs In New Orleans, and
the outlook for the music bust
ness, his father was puzzled to know
what TO do. The son, sure of the success of
plan of his own for es ablishing a print
ing and music publishing house of
their own, told his father to wait a
little and they would come out ali right.
He put his pistol Ia his pocket, and started
off with leather sachel. He went to Gin
cinnati, and from the agents OF johnson &
Co., of New York, he purchased enough
music type TO start with. The agents
believed, evidently, that he was an
Ohioan and was going into business
there, but the young man made his way,
with his leather bag, to Nashville. AS he
was coming south from that city
he met Gen. Bragg's army and
was taken prisoner. His pistol was
taken from him, but the soldiers let the
type go. After a day and night with the
men, IN some way he was allowed to go,
and he went across to Huntsville, Ala.
Thence he went to Columbus and to Macon.
From that time on Schriener 81 Son pub
lished all the music for the south
Mr.. Schreiner produced a good many
pieces, among them ''Beauregard's
Charleston Quickstep," which were very
popular Gen. Beauregard sent Mr.
Schrelner his photograph, and accompanied
it with complimentary letter. During
his visit to Savannah be frequently visited
the music house of Mr.. Schrener, where
Doyle's grocery now is, and listened to Mr..
Schreiner perform on the piano.
Mr.. Schreiner also composed the
"E npire State Grand March," dedicated
to Gov. Joseph f. Brown and Gen Mer-
GERS Grand March," Among other muslo
composed by him were "Gen. Lees Grand
March," "Stonewal Jackson's Grand
March," and Nobody Hurt March"
Somebody's Darling" was in every sense
Georgia production. The composers were
town, and the paper upon which it was
printed was manuf ictured in Georgia.
AT the burning of Tysons press during
the war, Mr.. Schreiner bought up $50 bales
of damaged cotton and sent it to the Athens
paper mill to be made into paper. The
amount of paper made from the $50 bales
enabled the music house to run two years.
All of the music published by the firm was on
the Georgia paper. Mr.. Schreiner has large
number of old songs which were printed
during the war. He has preserved the let
ters which he received from Gen. Lee
Beauregard, and other officers, and prizes
them as relics of the days when music pub
| lisher's life was not as easy as it is now.