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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
F. W. BAILEY, the representative of Bourne &
Son and C. B. Hunt & Co., Boston, writes as follows:
"There is no use in denying the fact that business is
dull all through the South. The coast States are in
the be3t shape (as far south as Georgia). Ludden &
Bates are pushing business, and I have renewed our
deal with them on • Bay State' organs, of which they
are selling [a great many. In Florida things are in
bad shape. The cold weather early in winter did
great damage, notwithstanding reports to the con-
trary, and the outlook is very bad. Not only was a
large part of the orange crop spoiled, but in many
orchards the trees were killed. This was especially
the case in the eastern part of the State, and up the
St. John River. In New Orleans I found business
very bad. The Exposition has been almost a com-
plete failure, and the crowd at Mardi Gras smaller
than for many years. The cold weather has kept
people away from the South, and made merchants
very unhappy. Charleston, Mobile, and Montgomery
are dead, and Atlanta fair. Birmingham, Ala., which
is bound to be one of the best cities in the South, is
having a regular old-fashioned 'boom; 1 foundries
and mills are in full blast, new ones going up, and
the iron interests will surely make a large place of
the city. I have had a fair trade, and am getting
the Bourne piano well introduced and securing some
very good agencies. Have had splendid weather
during my trip, and for that reason am a little
reluctant to leaving the ' sunny South.' "
THE Grovesteen & Fuller Piano Co., New_York,
have presented the Washington Light Infantry with
a Cabinet Boudoir grand upright piano.
cision. We are now able to suite to our readers the
case, and if they desire to obtain the full decision,
they can no doubt do so by applying to the clerk of
the Supreme Court. The following letter from !Mr.
MB. JUNIUS HART, of New Orleans, is now the M. J. Nolley, one of the principal workers of the Trav-
agent in that city for the Whitney Organ Co., of ellers' Protective Association, explains the state of
Detroit.
affairs up to the present time.
THE Sohmer piano was selected by the California
Fruit Growers' Association, for the exhibition at Bat-
tery " D , " Chicago, III.
MESSBS. POTTER & SNELL, formerly with Pratt,
Read & Co., Deep Elver, have bought out the busi-
ness of the J. A. Smith Mfg. Co., of the same place.
Both these gentlemen are young, and will, no doubt,
meet with good success in their new business.
WE are pleased to state that Mr. P. J. Gildemeester,
who has been ill for the past few weeks, is able to
attend to business again. There is no gentleman in
the trade that attends more strictly to business than
he does, nor none more deserving and in need of a
vacation than him.
BALTIMORE, April 2, 1880.
CHAS. FAHB, of Sohmer & Co., N. Y., has recently
purchased an elegant residence at, Jersey Heights,
N. J.
MESSBS. WELLES & BILL :
GENTLEMEN : Yours of 1st received, and would say
that the late decision of the Supreme Court was^in the
J. H. CHBISTIE, Stamford, Conn., had his ware" case of Walling vs. State of Michigan. We have bills
rooms and stock of Baus pianos damaged by fire now pending before Congress for the relief of com-
on the night of March 30th. The stock was fully mercial travellers, abrogating all license laws in the
insured.
States and Territories, which we thinkjwill be acted
JAMES CUMSTON, of Hallett & Cumston, Boston, upon favorably. In the meanwhile, it is unsafe to
has returned from his Western trip. As we pre- attempt to do business without a license, in the states
dicted, when he started, his trip has proved a very requiring it.
Yours respectfully,
successful one.
HUGO SOHMER has been presented with a bouncing
baby boy.
M. J. NOLLEY.
23 Hanover street.
CARL HOFFMAN, Leavenworth, Kan., expects soon
to open a branch house in St. Joseph, Mo.
THE END.
COBY BROS., Providence, R. I., are doing business
now with consigned goods.
SAVANNAH, GA., March 29, 1886.
Editors Music TBADK REVIEW.
A NEW house has been started in Mobile, Ala.,
under the firm name of Zadek & Morton Piano and
Organ Co.
DEAR S I R : We don't blame you for saying, " A
plague on both of us," but, inasmuch as you opened
your columns to Mr. Schreiner to attack us, you
should not close them to us until we have fully
defended ourselves. Hence we ask you to pub-
lish this, with the understanding that it will be the
last.
The affidavits presented by Mr. Schreiner seem to
show that he actually did send two countrymen to
our place on February 27th. And we ask what the
said ailidavits have to do with the case we presented.
Mr. Schreiner's statement to the Morning News Re-
porter was made January 27
to have sent us the two organ customers on the day
previous—January 26th. Now he trots out affidavits
to show what happened on February 27th !
What does it all mean? Is Mr. Schreiner's mem-
ory, and also that of his four employees, so far gone
that they can't tell whether one thing happened two
weeks or six weeks previous? Or is he trying to
blind the public by manufacturing affidavits, which
have no reference whatever to the case in question?
If these credible (?) witnesses are all mistaken In
their dates, and really mean what they testify to
have happened on January 26th instead of February
27th, and do not refer to two entirely different organ
customers from those which Mr. Schreiner originally
claimed to have sent us on January 26th, let them
say so, under oath, and we will then take the trouble
to explode their affidavits !
And that's all! except to say that during the past
ten years, and up to this very week, we have sent
hundreds of customers to Mr. Schreiner's store, but
we make no pretence of doing this out of good-will
for him. It's a mighty mean man that will not
direct a customer where to find what he wants, even
if in so doing he does throw trade into a competitor's
hands. " We try to keep above such littleness."
Very truly yours,
L. & B. S. M. H.
[As Messrs. Ludlow & Bates' Southern Music
House seem to feel so aggrieved, we have published
the above, and take their word that it will be the
last from their pen regarding this disgusting sub-
WM.TREMAIXE, the general manager of the Mechan-
ical Orguinette Co., New York, has been confined to
his home for a few days past, by sickness. He is now
much better and we trust will rapidly recover.
THE Hintennister Organ and Piano Co. are the
SEVERAL commercial travelers wore recently ar-
successors to the Buffalo Organ and Piano Co.,
rested in Baltimore, and each fined $25 and costs, for
Buffalo, New York.
not paying the " drummer tax." Those who escaped
SEAUURY & SPITZ, New York, have dissolved. R. jumped the town pretty lively. The Legislature is
now debating the law and will probably abolish it.
J. Spitz will continue the business.
THE Brand manufacturing Co., New Britain, Conn.,
are very busy. They have all the orders they can
possibly fill by working their factory to its fullest
extent. Their trade is by no means confined to the
United States, but reaches largely into Canada and
England. The concern have lately been furnishing
hardware to firms outside of the piano trade, such
as the Hexagon Postal Box Co., Norwalk, Ohio, to
whom they furnish all the hardware for their busi-
ness.
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RATES from New York to Chicago, at present are
$29.50.
HENRY BEHR, of Behr Brother's & Co., New York,
has just returned from a trip to New Orleans.
MR. JOHN B. DUNHAM, one of the members of the old
house of Dunham & Sons, and now of Wm. Folks &
Co., of New York City, who are manufacturing the
world renowned Dunham pianos, says they cannot
complain of hard times, as the demand for the im-
proved scale, which they are using in their uprights,
and the great satisfaction they have given to dealers,
shows that their present factory is not large enough
for their business.
Mr. J. F. Isham, of the firm of H. M. Brainard &
Co., Cleveland, is said to be one of the most success-
ful piano salesmen in the West. Of fine address and
urbane manner, he rarely fails to effect a sale when he
C. M. TREMAINE, the manager of the Eighth
Avenue branch of the Mechanical Orguinette Co.,
died on April 2d of pneumonia. Mr. Tremaine had
a host of friends who will sincerely mourn his
death.
THE Richey piano cover, made by Mrs. S. E.
Richey, Chicago, is rapidly gaining favor among the
THE Ammoniaphone Company have asked their
trade. Applications for the agency in different sec-
tions of the country are becoming numerous, and it creditors for an extension of ninety days in the
will not be long before this cover will be thoroughly settlement of their claims. They have removed
their offices to 31 East 17th Street, so as to curtail
introduced.
expense.
DEOKEB & SON, New York, tell us that their trade
JACK HAYNES returned a few days ago'from a long
for March has been all they ask for, and has kept
them very busy. Mr. Myron A. Decker, the senior trip through the West. As is always the case, he
member of the firm, will soon take a trip to San was very successful, and introduced the Baus piano
Into many new quarters and established many solid
Francisco.
agencies.
WE are pleased to state that the announcement In
MBS. P. A. FOLLETT, Sandusky, Ohio, ha».recently
our last Issue of the death of the President of Pratt,
removed to new warerooms.
Read & Co., Deep River, was a mistake.
ject.—Editors Music TRADE REVIEW.]
FRAUD ON BANK.—LIABILITY OF UNITED STATES.
—Where, by the connivance of a clerk in the office
of an Assistant Treasurer of the United States, a
person unlawfully obtains from that office money be-
longing to the United States, and to replace it pays
to the clerk money which he obtains by fraud from
a bank, the clerk having no knowledge of the means
by which the latter's money was obtained, the United
States is not liable to refund the money to the bank,
according to the decision of the United States Su-
preme Court, in the case of the State National Bank
of Boston vs. the United States.
THE Rice Music Co., Des Moines, Iowa, report
THE B. Shonlnger Organ and Piano Co., New Ha.
ven, Conn., are making arrangements to push their business excellent.
business this year more than ever before.
J. H. CHBISTIE, Stamford, Conn., has^moved into
A NEW piano concern has been incorporated in this a new and elegant store.
city, with a subscribed capital of $40,000. It Is called
PRATT & GRISWOLD, Hartford, Conn., have secured
the Stuyvesant Piano Co., and its purpose will be to the agency for the Baus piano.
STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION—BUSINESS OR VOCA-
manufacture a medium-priced piano. The trustees
TION.—In construing a statute prohibiting the em-
are John W. Mason, A. D. Wheelock, S. Hubbard,
ployment of children in a "business or occupation
Charles B. Lawson, R. P. Vidaud, R. F. Tilney, and
dangerous to life or limb," the New York Court of
THE DRUMMERS' LICENSE.
Appeals recently said (Hickey vs. Taafe): We think
Wm. E. Wheelock. The factory is located at 204 and
that "business or vocation," to be within the pur-
206 East One Hundred and Seventh street.
INCE the recent publication in the Music TRADE view of the statute, must be an employment either
vicious in itself or one which partakes of the character
JAMES T. BRODEBICK, for a long time with Julius
REVIEW, that the Supreme Court had decided of
an amusement, and that it has no application to
Bauer & Co., Chicago, has gone with the Mason &
that the "Drummers' Tax " is unconstitutional, productive industries or useful or necessary business
Hamlin branch house in that city,
we have received many inquiries regarding the de- or occupation.
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