Mr. Stuart Kolbinson,
KINDERSLEY, SASK.

Dear Mr. Kolbinson:-

Glad to hear from you and to learn that your organ turned out to be such a success. From the various parts of its make-up which you enumerated it must be somewhat of a hybrid, but the results are what really count. We must remember too that some of the finest things in botany (and in agriculture) are hybrids, so take comfort in that thought.

Yes! The C.F.L. Company started a branch business in St. Hyacinthe. They rented the upper floor of a flimsy building which was constructed a few years ago for chicken raising. The upper floor was only about five feet high at the sides and a little higher in the centre conforming to the shape of the roof. It was so flimsily built in wood that no insurance company would insure it against fire.

They built a casting bench and a furnace for melting on this flimsy floor and about ten days ago the weight of this fell through and, with fire under the pot, the whole affair went up in flames in less than an hour. It was situated near a corner of our lumber yard and, luckily for us, the wind carried the flames and flying embers away from our yard. Otherwise, we would have had a conflagration. The men who were there, including Walcker, lost all their tools. What C.F.L. intended to do, we have no idea because he could not build an organ, even a small one, in a hen coop. He may have been going to make pipes and have Walcker as a voicer.

So Chandos Dix talks a lot eh? Well, I saw what he did in the Cathedral at Victoria, B.C. and he certainly should not boast of being a Willis man. No man of that fine old firm would ever have done the things I saw
there.

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Note: The letterhead is "Casavant Brothers Limited"