
The Music Trade Review wrote, ".it is intended by the Hobart M. That same year, Cable purchased the Burdett reed organ company, including its factory in Freeport, Illinois, which was making about 5,000 organs a year. Cable is a dignified gentleman, who has won the respect of the trade," Music Trade Review wrote in August 1901. This term is applied in no spirit of levity, for Hobart M. Cable, in music trade circles, is frequently termed 'Carload' Cable. Bolstered by Hobart Cable's reputation at Chicago Cottage, sales were brisk by year's end, the company was sending boxcars full of pianos as far as California. In 1901, the company began making pianos at a factory at 500-510 Clybourn Avenue in Chicago. Morenus would work for three decades at the company, rising to vice-president and sales director. Morenus, who had married Hobart's daughter Martha Strong Cable in 1893 and in 1900 was running The Cable Company's store in Atlanta. Armstrong, filed papers of incorporation with the Illinois Secretary of State for Hobart M. On December 8, 1900, Hobart Cable, along with his son Hobart M. In 1899, Herman died the next year, Hobart left to start his own eponymous piano-manufacturing firm. Cable, they built the company into one of the country's leading manufacturers of reed organs, pianos, and player pianos. Later in the decade, Hobart's brother Herman Cable invited him to Chicago, where he became vice-president of the Chicago Cottage Organ Company. Cable then moved to Boston, and served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1880. He was a school teacher for several years before becoming school commissioner of Delaware County, New York.

Cable was born to Silas and Mary Goodrich Cable on March 3, 1842, in Walton, New York.
