by Dave Bartholomew
I've had an interest in the Chubb-Steinberg Orchestra for many years. My best friend's uncle, Bert Allen, or BURT as Brian Rust calls him, was first cornet. Bert claimed he played King Oliver to Wild Bill's Louis Armstrong, giving him on-the-job training. Bert and Bill were lifelong buddies. "Ray Evan" in the sax section is Otis Neirouter, who was in the car with Wild Bill and Frank Teschemacher the night Tesch died. Art Hicks was the leader of the Chubb-Steinberg Orchestra. Pianist Jack Saatkamp, was a bandleader in his own right and was later a staff member of WLW radio in Cincinnati for many years. The band was sponsored by the Chubb-Steinberg Radio and Music Store on Sixth Street in Cincinnati. In about 1930, Chubb went into the public address system business but Ely Steinberg built the company into a chain of appliance stores that went out of business only a few years ago.

Click here to see an additional photo of the Chubb-Steinberg Orchestra of Cincinnati at Jeff's Garden in Hamilton, Ohio.