THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
TRADE NOTES.
September 5th, 1880
LUMBER TRADE IN MICHIGAN.—The lumber dealers of Michigan are
still favored with an active demand and a firm market for their stocks.
There are not now indications of any decline in prices this season. Desira-
BAY STATE ORGANS.—The latest and one of the most effective styles ble lots are quickly taken. Sales in the Saginaw valley have been very heavy
manufactured by the Bay State Organ Company, of Boston, Mass., is that of late.
called the "Byron."
WILLIAM H. IVERS' FAILURE.
CHICKERING.—The offices of Chickering & Sons' warerooms in this city,
A MEETING of the creditors of William H. Ivers, piano manufacturer, 576 Washing-
have recently been gorgeously frescoed and adorned.
ton street, Boston, was held during the week ending August 28, J. R. Cobb acting as
Hows.—Mr. C. T. Hows has left the service of Chickering & Sons.
chairman, and C. P. Darling as secretary. Mr. Ivers presented a statement of his affairs,
to which the unsecured liabilities are $15,049.27, the total liabilities being
MCPHAIL.—Mr. McPhail, of Boston, places a very neat pedal guard— according
about $20,000. The assets consist of $5,600 in factory and gnounds at Dedham, mort-
his own invention—on his upright pianos.
gaged for $3,500 ; $1,700 in house and lot at Dedham, mortgaged for $1,500 ; $3,150 in
NEW ENGLAND OKGAN CO.—This enterprising concern are putting pianos at the Boston warerooms, incumbered to the amount of $2,576, and $3,379.62 in
stock
the factory. The debtor was not prepared to submit any proposition to the meet-
another story on their manufacturing building, and are also erecting new ing by at way
of settlement, and it was voted that matters should be investigated by a com-
dry-houses. They expect, when these alterations are completed, to have an mittee of creditors,
A. P. Kelley, R. G. Burrell and Amory Fisher being chosen as the
additional capacity of 50 more organs a week, and hope thereby to supply committee. Mr. Ivers' failure was due, in a measure, to three causes : First, his having
their customers more promptly than they did last season.
associated himself in business with Emery C. Daniels, a man whose record does not tend
to inspire public confidence ; second, the paying to Lyman George, a Boston straw mer-
GEO. WOODS & Co.—This firm has been erecting a new five-story factory chant,
extravagant rates of interest ; third, that he had been advanced notes to the sum
in Cambridgeport, Mass.
of about $1,200, by Lewis, his Springfield agent. In this latter case the boot was, as is
SMITH AMEKICAN ORGAN CO.—Mr. S. D. Smith, of this Boston house, re- said, " on the other foot."
ports that they have never been so crowded with orders since they have been in
TEACHER.
business, as at present. They have recently opened a branch house in Atlanta,
Georgia, from which they will supply their Southern trade.
Miss H. J. C. desires a position as teacher of the piano, or as a member of a church
choir. She is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston ; has a
JOLLITIES.—A musical combination will soon start from Boston for the high soprano voice, and can furnish the very best references. Can be addressed at the
purpose of representing an extravaganza, called "Jollities, or an Electrical office of the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW, 849 Broadway, N. Y.
Doll." The plot of the piece is very comical, and the music is very pretty.
Mr. Charles Norris, of Boston, will be the conductor, and Mrs. Norris, for-
A. Br0HASE~0EaAN CO. BURNED OUT.
merly a member of the Boston Museum stock company, will fill the leading
Norwalk, Ohio, was visited on Friday by the most destructive fire it ever knew. The
soprano part.
large factory of the A. B. Chase Organ Company was wholly consumed. A hundred
are thrown out of employment. The fire caught in the paint room. Insured for
HORACE WATERS & Co.—Messrs. Horace Waters & Co. have on exhibi- men
tion, in the window of their store, corner Broadway and 12th street, an ante- $30,000.
diluvian harp-piano, about seven feet high. We presume the ultimate
ORGAN BUILDERS AND ORGAN BUILDING.
destination of this instrument to be the Museum of Art. This firm is doing
No. V.
well with their agency for the Hallett & Davis Piano.
GEOKGE JARDINE & SON.
HORACE WATERS.—Mr. Horace Waters is absent on a two weeks'
THEIR CATHEDRAL ORGAN.
business tour in the Eastern States, to establish agencies.
OBITUARY.—As we passed the corner of Broadway and Prince street a
day or two since, we noticed that the gilt-lettered sign at the entrance of
the office of the late Musical Age, was nearly covered with a large notice,
" To let." While looking at this sign a feeling of sadness came over us,
and a paraphrase of Whittier's lines passed through our mind :
" Of all the sad words uttered yet,
The saddest are these, ' this office to let.' "
IN TOWN.—E. Levy, of E. Witzmann & Co., agents for Gabler, Clough
& Warren, Pease, Peloubet & Co., and Weber, was in town Aug. 26.
FIRE.—The piano-case factory at Leominster, Mass., owned by Steinway
& Sons, of New York, was burned on Thursday morning, Sept. 2. The fire
caught from a stove in which the watchman had kindled a fire. Some of the
workmen saved their tools, and a few unfinished cases were saved, but the
building machinery, some tools, and most of the stock are a total loss, esti-
mated at $15,000 ; insurance $13,000. This fire occurred in the old case
factory occupied by Messrs. Steinway & Sons, but did not injure in any way
their new factory, which is just ready for the roofing-felt, and the fire is of
very little consequence, as far as an interruption of their business is con-
cerned.
STEINWAY.—Mr. William Steinway is expected in New York with his
bride, formely Miss Elizabeth Kanft, of Brooklyn, N. Y., daughter of Kichard
Ranft Esq., of Dresden, Germany, and sister of Mr. Richard Eanft, of No. 7
Washington Place, this city.
BASSOON.—A committee of professors of the Milan Conservatoire, has
issued a favorable report upon a new bassoon made wholly of metal.
NEW PAPERS.—We have it on most excellent authority that at least four
new musical papers will be started in this city next fall. That's right; come
on. The more the merrier. Musical papers are just what the country is cry-
ing for.
KIMDALL.—Mr. W. W. Kimball of Chicago, paid a hurried visit to Boston,
week before last.
HAINES.—Haines Bros, have brought out a new parlor Grand.
HERSHEY SCHOOL OP MUSICAL ART.—We have received a circular for
1880-81, from the Hershey School of Musical Art, 83 & 85 Madison street,
Chicago, 111. H. Clarence Eddy, general director ; Mrs. Sara Hershey
Eddy, vocal director.
JARDINE & SONS' CATHEDRAL ORGAN—EXTERIOR.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR.—Just now they are at work fitting up the
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of Aug. 5, we gave a history of the house of George Jardine &
American Institute building for the fair shortly to be held there.
Son. We now present illustrations representing their large organ in
BOSTON FAILURES.—Who, in the trade, will be next to fail in Boston ? St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York city. One of these illustrations explains
Rumor had it a few days ago that there would be a big failure there by the the working of the interior parts of the organ.
last of this week.
The general arrangement of the various portions of a large organ is rep-
TURNER BROTHERS.—At last accounts the Board of Health had refused resented in the accompanying illustration, which exhibits the grand organ of
the new St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, designed and built by Messrs.
permission to the Turner Brothers to manufacture violin strings from lambs' Jardine
& Son. A is the great organ wind-chest, B is the sound-board, and
entrails in this city.
C the registers or sliders. There are four ranks of keys, connected severally
EMERSON.—An "Anxious Inquirer" writes as follows : An enthusiastic with the different parts of the instrument. Thus the lower range operates
Cincinnati salesman recently said over his firm's signature, " The action in the choir or soft organ, the pipes of which are of sweet intonation, and are
all Emerson pianos are made by the same 'workmen, in the same factory, and voiced more delicately, with less wind-pressure, than those of the others.
out of the same material as the action in Knabe, Weber and Decker The next rank above controls the great organ. These pipes are of large
Brothers' pianos." If this is the case why don't the Emerson pianos com- diameter, and have a rich powerful tone. The swell organ is governed by
mand better prices, or why don't Messrs. Warlitzer, Smith, and Baldwin & the keys of the third rank. The pipes in this are full-toned, and are
inclosed in a swell-box, the vertical shades or shutters of which impede the
Co. come down to Emersonian prices ?"—We give it up.
emission of the sound, and are governed by a balanced pedal. The fourth
PIANO-WOOD.—There seems to be a scarcity in fancy lumber for piano- rank of keys governs the solo organ. In this are placed the trumpet, double
niaking, and dealers are asking higher prices.
trumpet, and other brilliant-sounding pipes, operated by heavy wind-pres-
BEATTY.—The Beatty Veteran Guards is the name of a new military sure. By means of the couplers all four of these subordinate organs can be
company recently organized in Washington, N. J. Hon. Daniel F. Beatty united. Besides the organs operated by the keys, there is the pedal-organ,
was unanimously elected president. Mayor Beatty has spent his vacation the large pipes of which are shown on the right, and which is governed by
the feet of the performer.
this year at Saratoga.
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