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MUSIC TRADE -- REVIEW.
A perusal of MR. BILL'S western correspondence
will be found interesting. He reports trade in the
West as healthy and cash business increasing.
the test the names of either make, but without an
exception all pronounced the Sterling piano ae pos-
sessing superior tone to the New York piano. When
they were shown the name of the New York make,
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THE Americau Art Journal recently stated that they were indeed surprised.
The Sterling piano is certainly an excellent piano,
thousands of Chickering & Sons' pianos are to be
and
we do not hesitate to say that it has a brilliant
found in every town on the east and west banks of
future
before it, provided the manufacturers con-
the Hudson, this side of Albany.
tinue
to
make it equal iu quality to what it is at pres-
The Art Journal probably ment shad, but then this
ent.
is not shad season.
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EVERETT & GILES, Quincy, 111., advertise in the
WE LEARN that the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- papers that they are the only exclusive music store in
pany are building three new trains entire, to run as Quincy. Now such statements as this are entirely
limited trains between New York and Chicago, in false, and the above-named firm will find it to their
place of the present equipments, which are now
among the best run in the country. The company
propose to make these new trains the handsomest
and most comfortable coaches in every particular in
the world. We trust that some of the other roads
will follow the good example of the Pennsylvania
Co., and improve upon their equipments. For
instance, the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern,
which at preRent have very poor rolling stock. It
seems as though this last named company, as well
MANUFACTURERS OF
as many others we could mention, do not look to the
comfort of their patrons, but only care to make
money, and unless they soon follow in the footsteps
of the Pennsylvania there will be a large dropping
off in their passenger traffic.
HIGHEST GRADE
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DURING our constant travels among the dealers
in the different parts of the country, we hear nothing
but the highest words of praise for the New England
organ. It makes no difference if the dealer does not
hold the agency, he always speaks well of this or-
gan, and when an agent says that an instrument that
his competitor handles is a good one, it must cer-
tainly contain remarkable qualities.
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"WE HAVE made arrangements whereby our readers
will hereafter be presented with a Western letter
every issue, stating as nearly as possible the true
condition of the trade in Chicago and the Western
towns. This letter will not contain idle rumors, as
•we have not appointed a "committee on rumors,"
but be confined strictly to facts and notes of interest
And value to the trade.
^ . 1ST ID
PARLOR AND CHAPEL
Best of Workmanship and Quality of
Goods Guaranteed.
Correspondence Solicited.
ADDR3SS,
A.+B.KHASE+COMPANY,
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MR. E. H. STORY, of the firm of Story & Clark,
the large organ manufacturers in Chicago, told us a
few days ago that he never calls upon a dealer but
what he finds they have the Music TRADE REVIEW.
It is very gratifying to us, during our constant travels
all over the coudtry, to note the great interest man-
ifested by the trade in our paper. We have yet to
meet the manufacturer or dealer who is not well
pleased with the policy we are pursuing. Well, when
the time comes that we cannot make a living by pub-
lishing the Music TRADE REVIEW, without resorting
to subterfuge and blackmail, then we will close our
doors and migrate to some country town and take
up farming for a livelihood.
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WE recently saw one of the latest style Sterling
upright pianos tested side by side with a New York
make which has gained considerable renown. Dur-
ing the test there were a party of gentlemen present
who we believe to be excellent musicians and thor-
oughly qualified to pass judgment upon the qualities
i o r a piano. These gentlemen did not know during
A GAME OF BLUFF.
, N. Y., Nov. 27, 1886.
PROPRIETORS OF MUSIC TRADE REVIEW,
New York:
GENTLEMEN : I notice in your issue of this week
an article in relation to myself which is false in every
respect. Now I give you due notice that if you do
not contradict that which you have published, and
do so in your next issue, I shall commence a suit
against you for damages. I know who your infor-
mer is in this city and if you do not make him con-
tradict what he has told you, you must take the con-
sequence.
Yours respectfully,
E MCCAMMON.
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THE COMMITTEE ON RUMORS of the Musical Courier
has, without an exception, proved to be a committee
on errors. We would advise the Courier to discharge
this committee at once, select a new one, and per-
haps it will meet with better success.
DANIEL F. BBATTY is out with another circular
calculating to catch those who are not aware of his
fraudulent methods. This latest achievement of
Beatty's is a circular addressed to bankers, in which
he proposes to sell them his beautiful (?) upright
piano-forte, cabinet or parlor organ, for $45.00; the
regular price of which, he claims, is $245. Beatty
also in this circular prints the cut of pipe organ No.
1,111, which he deliberately stole from the catalogue
of E. P. Carpenter Co., the fac-simile of which we
published in our paper not many months ago. Cer-
tainly Carpenter did not give Beatty this cut, and the
only place that it could be obtained is in Worcester,
Mass. Perhaps Beatty will enlighten us as to the
methods used to obtain this cut.
19 Whittlesey Ave.,
NORWALK, OHIO.
Below we give the article referred to by Mr
MCCAMMON which appeared in our last issue:
Ed. McCammon's latest effort is to get his credit-
ors interested in his Stock Company scheme. As I
learn it, his idea is as follows : Suppose he owes one
of his supply men $:i,000, he (the supply man) to put
In $1,000, making $4,000 in all, and then he is to take
4,000 in stock. This is quite a nice idea, but I fear
It will not work. I believe he tried it on his action
maker and represented to him that Mr. Ranft, the
felt manufacturer, had agreed to it. I believe Mr.
Ranft has more sense than to do anything like this
and shall endeavor to give his views on this Stook
Company in our next issue. There was a referee's
sale, a short time ago, of the McCammon concern,
and the stock was purchased by the Albany County
Bank.
The above article contains nothing but the truth
and Mr. McCammon knows it to be such, and there-
fore his threat to bring suit has no terror in it for us.
The Music TRADE REVIEW has more than once
been threatened with suits from just such people as
Mr. McCammon, and Indeed it has actuwily had suits
brought against it, but thus far it has come out un-
scathed, for the suits have been brought invariably
by people who did not do business in a business-like
or legitimate way. The policy of this paper is to
expose fraud wherever it exists and to protect the
legitimate trade, and It will carry out this policy
without fear or favor. If Mr. McCammon seriously
contemplates bringing suit against us he, perhaps,
may change his mind when the following letter
comes to his attention :
NASSAU, N. Y., NOV. 25, 1886.
credit to'stop such nonsense at once. There are two EDITORS MUSIC TRADE REVIEW :
other music houses in Quincy, both of which have
GENTLEMEN : Your favor at hand. In reply would
been established for a good many years, and they are say that McCammon is making desperate efforts
also doing an honorable business, which cannot be and using all kinds of tricks to establish his stock
said of Everett & Giles, so long as they indulge in company. So far as I know, he has not met with
success yet; his word and promises don't amount to
the s yle of advertising they do. The two other much, at least towards me. So far as I am concerned,
firms we refer to are the Whitney & Holmes Organ if he pays my judgment of $3,400, or makes some kind
Co. and R. E. Letton. The Whitney & Holmes of a satisfactory settlement with me like an honest
Organ Co. have been manufacturing organs, and man, I and some friends of mine may talk buying
have had the agency for a large western territory some of his stock. He has been trying to get me into It,
claiming that others of his creditors had agreed to
for leading pianos for the past eighteen or twenty come in, but upon inquiry I find that such is not the
years. Their agents are established all over the truth.. I will never take my judgment back until
Yours truly,
West and their dealings have always been unques- fully satisfied.
F. FRICKINOER.
tionable. Mr. Letton, although doing a smaller bus-
iness, does not indulge in anything but honorable
And we have more proof, Mr. McCammon, If you
means to sell his goods.
desire it.