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October
5th, 188*.
THE
CRITIC AND TRADE
REVIEW.
OFFICE
STAR PARLOR ORGAN CO
WASHINGTON, N. J.
TO T H E TRADE :—Our factory, with entire stock of Organs and material, was completely destroyed by fire on
the afternoon of Sunday, September 18th.
We have made such arrangements as will enable us to fill all orders promptly, having secured ample room and
facilities to continue our business, and have already commenced operations.
We have in press circular containing cuts of entirely new styles and lull description of the various combinations,
which will be forwarded with price list as soon as perfect impressions can be taken.
Thanking our patrons for the favors they have extended us, and asking for their continuance, assuring them that
the same standard of excellence that the Star Parlor Organs have heretofore attained will be continued, we are,
Very truly Yours,
STAR PARLOR ORGAN CO.
she will not consent to have it removed from their that one has been copied from the other there
rooms at the International. By the way, this is can, however, not be the slightest doubt.—Lon-
not one of the popular pianos by the above name- don and Provincial Music Trades Review.
An exhibition has been opened at Adelaide.
Messrs. Metzler & Co., of London, announce but it is a boy; weight eight pounds. All are do
A few instruments have been sent on from Mel-
that they have entered into arrangements with the ing well.—Daily Telegraph, Kalamazoo, Mich.
American London Celluloid Pianoforte Key Com- Capt. Frederick Grote, the ivory merchant, died bourne, but Messrs. Brinsmead and most of the
pany to undertake the entire agency for Great on Monday, Sept. 26th, at his home, in Tremont. other English firms have taken no part in it.
Britain and Ireland, and the Colonies, for the sup- He was in his 63d year. He was born in Hamburg, They have probably had enough of exhibitions.
ply of celluloid—a material which is rapidly super- and came to.this city in 1844. He was the founder The long expected revival of trade in England
seding ivory in the manufacture of pianoforte, of the firm of F. Grote & Co. He was twice elect- seems at last to have come. Nearly all the London
organ, and harmonium keys. In the United States ed a supervisor in Westchester County, and was an manufacturers are busy, the tide of prosperity
alone, some 300,000 sets of keys have been sold ex-Captain of the Fifth Regiment.
having apparently set in in favor of both great and
within the last four years, and it is confidently
The export trade seems to be particularly
anticipated that as the peculiar merits of the cellu- Mr. Knabe, the well-known piano manufacturer small.
healthy.
loid are more widely disseminated, its adoption for of Baltimore, was in Milwaukee on Sept. 25th.
the above purposes will become universal. The George H. Callum, aged 21, a book-keeper, of
Mr. Harry Sanders, of the firm of Sanders &
celluloid is made in sheets—an arrangement that No. 326 Broome street, was arrested Sept. 28th, by Stayman, of Baltimore, Md., is lying very ill at
saves a vast amount of labor hitherto incurred in Central Office Detectives Lanthier and O'Connor. his residence in the above city with typhoid fever.
the matching, glueing, and polishing of ivory.— He was employed in Jonas G. Goldsmith's piano- Mr. Sanders' wound, received during the war of
London Paper.
forte warehouse, No. 103 West Fourteenth street, the rebellion, is troubling him again and fears are
and the week before he absconded with $100. entertained that an abscess is forming in his
Messrs. Lowe & Son, of London, announce in Then his accounts were examined, and they stomach.
the English papers that they are now prepared to showed a deficit of about $400. To vicious habits
A re-issue of Patent No. 211,635, dated Jan.
supply the pianoforte trade with celluloid keys.
and bad companions he ascribes his downfall.
28th, 1879, for a Mechanical Musical Instrument,
Schirmer's establishment on Union Square is At noon on Sept. 29th all the sub-committees of to Mason J. Matthews, New York, assignor of two-
one of the handsomest and best fitted sheet music the Committee of Twenty-eight, engaged upon the thirds to James Morgan, Brooklyn, and John
stores on the globe. The arrangements are as consideration of the World's Fair project, met at Nichol, New York, (Jane Matthews, New York,
near to perfection as can be reached and the im- the
of the Boston Board of Trade. Reports Executrix, and James Morgan, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
mense stock on hand is thoroughly controlled for upon rooms
the site, expenses, and income, co-operation Executor, of Mason J. Matthews, deceased), has
any contingency. You hardly call for a composi- of other New England cities, management and re- been made. Present No , 9,876. Filed Aug. 5th,
tion before it is delivered to you.
sult of the Philadelphia Exposition, and permanent 1880.
A. E. Virgil, Conservatory of Music, Peoria, HI., organization were presented and carefully con- Are-issue of Patent No. 197,048, for a Mechani-
sidered, but no decision was reached which can be
has given a chattel mortgage for $4,000.
given to the public at present. Two weeks will cal Musical Instrument, to Elias P. Needham,
George Towle, of Northboro', Mass., piano key be taken for the consideration of these reports and New York, assignor, by mesne assignment to
J. Matthews and John Nichol, of New York
manufacturer, has had a mortgage foreclosed.
all possible information as to the popular support Mason
city, and James Morgan, of Brooklyn, N. Y.;
will
be
gathered
by
the
committee.
Two
weeks
F. W. Helmick, of Cincinnati, has made an hence the Committee of 28 will meet again, and a (Jane Matthews, New York, Executrix, and James
Brooklyn, N. Y., Executor, of Mason J.
assignment to William E. Cramer.
final decision will be reached as to the expediency Morgan,
Matthews, deceased), has been made. Present
At the Worcester Fair on Sept. 7th, the Loring of holding a World's Fair.
No., 9,877. Re-issue No., 8,451,4ated Oct. 15th,
& Blake Organ Company had one of the finest
1878, No. 8,976, dated Nov. 18th, 1879.
The London and Provincial Music Trades Review
collections of organs in the building. Messrs. S.
says:
"Doubts
are,
it
appears,
thrown
on
the
R. Leland & Co., made a good show of upright
Edwin P. Carpenter, of Worcester, Mass., has
pianos, among others, those of Chickeiing, Hallett, correctness of the New York census figures, so far patented a design for an Organ Case. No. of De-
as
regards
the
music
trade,
printed
from
the
offi-
Davis & Co. and Knabe. Charles M. Steiff, of
sign, 12,454. Application filed July 30th, 1881.
Baltimore, exhibited a square and a "baby cial papers in our last issue. As it so frequently Term of Patent, 7 years.
happens
in
this
country,
several
worthy
men,
who
grand." The Taylor & Farley Organ Co. exhibited
eleven organs although they did not compete for are only dealers or repairers, have put themselves Gustavus W. Ingalls, of Worcester, Mass., has
patented an Octave Coupler. No. of Patent, 246,-
an award. The Taber Organ Co. showed some down as pianoforte or organ manufacturers.
fine cases of ebony, and burl walnut. C. H. The death is announced on August 12th, at his 886. Application filed June 4th, 1881.
Bowker & Co., of Worcester, made a fine display residence, 6, Grosvenor Terrace, Glasgow, of Mr.
Edwin P. Carpenter, of Worcester, Mass., has
of band instruments, gold and silver plated.
a Reed Organ. No. of Patent, 246,864.
John Walker Paterson, senior member of the firm patented
Application filed April 30th, 1881.
of
Paterson
&
Co.,
of
Edinburgh,
Glasgow,
and
Mr. E. E. Jones, Secretary of the Mechanical
Mr. Paterson was 56 and a bachelor. His Albert K. Hebard and John L. Given, of Cam-
Orguinette Co., of 831 Broadway, this city, has Ayr.
bridge, Mass., have patented a Pianoforte Action.
been and is still confined to his house by a severe firm was founded in 1868.
No. of Patent, 247,345. Application filed Feb.
nervous attack, occasioned by overwork.
Mr. Barnes has just started the " London Piano 15th, 1881.
Company," This organization will supply
Mr. Bates, of the firm of Ludden & Bates, Savan- Van
Frank E. King, of West Lebanon, N. H., has
vans, will remove or deliver instruments in Lon- patented
nah, Ga., is in the city.
a Piano Tuning Pin. No. of Patent,
don at any hour, and will pack musical goods to 247,363. Application
filed Jan. 3d, 1881.
The Mechanical Orguinette Co., of this city, all parts of the world. Customers will have gratis
Moses B. Rogers, of Holden, Maine, has patented
have sold to Judge Hilton, a combination organ, boards to be shown on both sides of the van.
and a mechanical piano, the price paid for the two A very pretty little newspaper war might be a Violin. No. of Patent, 246,911. Application
filed June 13th, 1881.
instruments being $1,000.
made out of the resemblance between the " baby
Reuben Nicholls, of Philadelphia, Pa, has
Mr. J. J. Gbrres, lately of Savannah, Ga., re- grands" of Decker & Son and Albert Weber patented a Feeder for Organ Bellows. No. of
moved to Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 29th. He has a respectively. In the details of the carving of the Patent, 246,971. Application filed April 28th,
large music store at 110 State street, and is the legs, in the fret music desk, and in the lyre and 1881.
pedals, in all that can be seen of the interior, the
agent for Messrs. Steinway & Sons' pianos.
Carl G. Buttkereit, of Des Moines, Iowa, has
two instruments are exactly alike, The shape of
Chas. W. Pattison, the popular dealer in pianos the lid and the sides are different, but the exact patented a Bell Piano. No. of Patent, 247,009.
and organs, was presented this morning with a fine resemblance of other parts is extraordinary ; the Application filed May 25th, 1881.
baby grand that will be more prized by him more so as two different artists have, according to Lorenzo B. Norton, of New Haven, Conn., has
than all the Steinways or Webers ever produced. the signatures to the cuts, been employed to draw patented a Valve Tremolo for Reed Organs. No.
It will not, however, be on exhibition at his music them. The two cuts are printed one over the other of Patent, 247,099. Application filed Jan. 11th,
rooms, as Mrs. P. is so much engaged with it that in THE MUSICAL CKITIO AND TBADE REVIEW, and 1881.
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