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Music Trade Review
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VOL. IX. No. 13.
1879.
NEW YORK. FEBRUARY 5 TO 20, 1886.
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the attack was a card published by Mr. Bates, offering
a reward of $50 for information that would lead to
the discovery of the writer of an article which ap-
peared in the Musical Courier of a recent date. Mr.
Bates stated in the advertisement that he proposed
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H. L. SCHREINER ATTACKS J. A. to cow-hide the author of the article. It came to
Mr. Schreiner's ears that Mr. Bates intended that
BATES WITH A COWHIDE.
the allusions in the card should apply to him.
EDITORS AND PBOPBIETOBR.
"Mr. Schreiner stated last night toaiVeios reporter
that he was not responsible for the publications in
ACCORDING TO THE SAVANNAH PAPERS the Musical Courier, and was greatly surprised when
22 EAST 17th STEEET, NEW YOEK.
MR. SCHREINER MISTAKES HIS
he saw the account. 'Messrs. Ludden & Bates claim
SUBSCBIPTIOW (Including postage) United States and Canada,
to have two or three hundred branch houses and
MAN AND RETIRES
$3.00 per year, in advance; Foreign Countries, $4.00.
agencies through the South which come in direct
SECOND BEST.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per insertion;
competition with numbers of other firms. Why, then,
unless inserted upon rates made by special contract.
should I be suspected of writing the article? I am
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Clots Matter.
OR many years past there has been no love lost on good terms with all of the other dealers in my
between H. L. Schreiner and J. A. Bates, the line of goods in the city, and only yesterday I sent
heads of the two leading music houses in Savan- two customers to Ludden & Bates. The parties were
CHARLES W. JORDAN PURCHASES HENRY nah. There has recently appeared articles in the Musi- from the country and wanted credit. As I do not do
MCCAFFREY'S MUSIC BUSINESS.
cal Courier very detrimental to the house of Ludden & a credit business with people outside of Savannah, I
Bates, and in answering these articles Mr. Bates did it sent the parties to Ludden & Bates, who, through
in such a clear way that he exposed the true object of their agencies, do sell on credit to country people.'
MCCAFFREY'S MUSIC STORE, 11 NORTH CHARLES ST.
said
articles, and atthe same time without calling any Mr. Schreiner added that ho regretted the encounter
ESTABLISHED 1852.
very much. It was the first one he ever had, he said,
Having this day purchased the entire stock, fix- names proved pretty conclusively the instigator of and he intimated that it was only to vindicate his
them.
This
seemed
to
raise
the
ire
of
Mr.
Schreiner
tures, etc., of this well known establishment, I shall
name that he engaged in this one.
continue the business at the old stand, under the beyond all bounds and, as they say in the courts
"Mr. Bates pointed to a suspicious looking iittle
"
with
malice
aforethought"
bought
him
a
rawhide
above name.
black spot under his right eye, and said that it and
and
when
he
met
Mr.
Bates
on
the
street
attack-
I respectfully ask the customers of the house, my
a little red speck on one cheek were the only marks
friends, and the public generally, to favor me with ed him. The result will] be seen in the following he received. Mr. Bates was still pugnaciously in-
articles
from
the
Savannah
News,
wnich
we
re-
their continued patronage.
clined, and insinuated that if the fight had kept on
By studying the wants of my customers, and by produce.
about two minutes longer, it would not have been a
"Business
rivalry,
which
for
ten
years
has
been
prompt and careful attention to orders, I shall en-
draw. He remarked that the overcoat which he
growing
more
intense
between
the
well-known
deavor to retain the good will of those trading with
wore prevented him from delivering effective blows.
music
houses
of
H.
L.
Schreiner
and
Ludden
&
the house.
Mr. Schreiner is fifty-four years old, and the oldest
Bates, culminated yesterday afternoon in a personal
Very respectfully,
of the two by several years. Mr. Bates is considera-
encounter
between
heads
of
the
two
firms.
Mr.
J.
CHARLES W. JORDAN,
A. Bates was walking leisurely along the north side bly smaller than his opponent, and says that he has
McCaffrey's Music Store,
of
Taylor street and Bull street, towards Whitaker, been half an invalid for two years. Neither is physi-
11 North Charles street.
when
Mr. Schreiner approached him briskly from cally strong."
BALTIMORE, Jan. 28, 1886.
Whitaker street. The two gentlemen had not spoken
AN EYE WITNESS.
to each other for several years. As they came op
EDITOR MORNING NEWS: AS an eye witness of
Mr. Charles W. Jordan having purchased my en- posite, the representative of the "Great Southern
tire business, I most heartily indorse him as a gen- Music House " was rather surprised when his busi- the encounter between Messrs. Bates and
Schreinor, on Wednesday afternoon, I beg to
tleman of excellent business qualifications, and ness rival asked, icily:
offer a statement: I was passing through
possessing a thorough knowledge of the music busi-
• " I s this Mr. Bates?'
Monterey Square, when I saw the two gentle-
ness, having had many years' experience in New
' " I t is that,' was the reply, and the temperature
York and Baltimore. I recommend him to all my on that side of the street dropped about twenty de- men meet on Taylor street, near Bull; after seve-
ral blows with the flst were exchanged, Mr. Schreiner
friends, and trust they will continue to favor him grees at the cool greetings exchanged by the gentle
pulled a raw hide from under his coat and struck
with their patronage.
men. A second later the air was full of flying fists" Mr. Bates once across the shoulders; before he could
Thanking the generous public for past favors, I re- Mr. Schreiner jerked from under his coat a new raw.
strike a second blow Mr. Bates wrested the raw hide
main, with best wishes,
hide and made the bright red tassel fly through the from his grasp and struck him two or three blows In
Yours very truly,
air so rapidly that, for a moment, passers by thought the face with it. Mr. Shreiner then caught It and
HENRY MCCAFFREY.
there was another of those red sunsets.
endeavored to take it from Mr. Bates, but his grip
N. B. I can still be found as usual at the old
•• Mr. Bates grabbed the cowhide and then the two was good and he held it in his left hand to the end,
stand.
men began struggling for possession of the whip. meanwhile getting in telling blows with his right
McCaffrey's business has been in existence many
Both held on tightly with their right hands, each
years (since 1852). Mr. Jordan, the purchaser, was reaching out occasionally with his left hand at the hand. At one time Mr. Schreiner forced Mr. Bates
formerly with C. H. Ditson & Co., New York, and other's face. Windows were thrown up in the neigh- up against a window grating, and seemed to have the
advantage, but Mr. Bates soon changed front, and
formerly with Otto Sutro & Co., Baltimore.
borhood and on every stoop in the block was one or getting the raw hide fully in his possession, seized
more figures intently watching, if not betting on the Mr. Schrciner by the hair with his left hand, backed
mill, it was several minutes before enough men col- him up against the wall and pounded him severely
ON ACCOUNT OF THE NAME.
lected to part the combatants. Neither was satisfied, with his right hand full in the face; at this point I
and being thoroughly warmed up, wanted to go on interfered, ami with the aasistince of several others
EFFERSON DAVIS BEAUREGARD JESSE D. with round No. 2. Strong arms held them apart and we parted them.
BRIGHT BILL, son of James A. Bill, of Lyme, a third party took the cow-hide. The result was
The raw hide was in Mr. Bates' possession and was
and managing editor of THE MUSIC TRADE RE-
virtually a draw. Both of the pugilists were slightly taken from him by main force by myself and another
VIEW, recently received a letter from General Beaure- punished, but neither very badly. The face and shirt party, after which it passed into Mr. Schreiner's pos-
gard, urging him to make an extended visit to his front of each were bespattered with drops of gore. session.
residence in the South. —New London, Conn., Tele- In the encounter Mr. Schreiner's right eye glass was
EYE WITNESS.
graph.
broken, and the outer corner of his eye was cut by
WHAT MB. BATES THINKS.
The fellow who concocted the above takes the deck the glass or the metal.
as an inventive genius, for there is not one word of
" The affair was the talk of the town the rest of
H. L. Schreiner tried to bolster up a bad case by
truth in it.
the afternoon and at night. The immediate cause of attempting to cowhide me on yesterday. My fighting
PUBLISHED * TWICE + EACH + MONTH.
CHARLES AVERY WELLES
JEFF. DAVIS BILL,
F
J