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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
Lock Box 492.
TRADERS' BUILDING, CHICAGO,
January 1, 1887.
The holidays are over and the trade has been more
than was looked for by the leading piano and organ
houses. December started in slow, improved about
the middle of the month, and went with a rush, for a
week or ten days before Christmas. We called upon
Lyon and Healy, Kstey and Camp, Kimball Co., B.
Shoninger Co. They are all busy. The last named
lirm, Shoninger Co., had actually sold every medium
size pitino of their make, every second hand piano,
and only had a few of their largest size uprights left.
They had a -big stock, and of course they feel very
much encouraged. Wabash Avenue dealers did not
seem to bo so elated at their state as competitors, as
a class, except Steger and Sauber, Sohmer agents,
t he Sterling Co. and .1. Bauer & Co. they had a big
trade. It did not seem so cheerful or so busy at the
other houses on this Avenue. The manufacturers
have all been drove with more orders than they
could fill. Story A Clark, the organ builders of
Chicago, C. A. Smith and Bush & Co., Piano manu-
facturers, all are working overtime trying to catch
up. The Story & Clark new organ catalogue is out,
and it is printed in colors and neatly outlined in
bronze. The paper is first class, and the catalogue
is a credit to them.
G. H. Robinson, piano and organ dealer, Waterloo
la., has gone out of business.
Mr. W. E. Hinman, formerly Kimball Co. agent
at Lincoln, Neb., has been sent to State penitentiary
for ten years for fraud. The Kimball Co. looses
considerable through him.
Bush & Gertz, Piano manufacturers, Chicago
have got out a new catalogue.
The Co-operative Organ Co., Mendota, 111 , use an
adjustable slide panel, so that at any time they can
insert a new panel, and in the place of the old or de-
fective one.
Keed & Sons are now agents for Decker & Son.
The N. A. Cross & Co have been handling them up
to the change.
Thos. Floyd Jones has returned from New York,
looking hearty. He is bound to make the Hnines
Bros, pianos go in Chicago and the Webt.
H. B. Williams, of Centervllle, la., bought a big
stock of Story & Clark organs while in Chicago last
month.
Stern & Son, Millwaukie, Wls., will have the
Steck pianos for their leaders and will carry a stock
of the Guild & Co. and Altun makes. We notice the
following travelling men in town : C. M. Cady, Kim-
ball Co.; E. F. Greenwood, Shoninger Co.; C. Sisson,
Steck.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year,
I remain yours,
OWEN.
be determined by vote. Quite a numbor of candidates
were voted for, but Mr. Blake le I all competitors
from the start. The most gratifying feature of the
contest, no doubt, to Mr. Blake was the intense in-
terest taken by his friends and employees, who stood
b<" with plonty of money and a manifest determina-
tion that, whatever it might cost, their favorite
should not be distanced in the race. The greatest
enthusiasm wasshown when the vote was announced
at the appointed hour for closing the polls. Mr.
Blake had 689 votes and the combined vote of all
against him was 401.—Derby, Conn., Transcript.
IT GOES TO R. W. BLAKE, THE POPULAR MANAGER
OF THE STEULING COMPANY.
W
E ilesire to congratulate our fellow-townsman,
It. W. Blake, the popular head of the Sterling
Company, who was the recipient of the hand-
some gold headed cane at the close of the Kellogg
Post Fair, on Saturday evening, at the Opera House.
The cane was offered by the G. A. It. Commiitee as a
prize to tho most popular man in town, the matter to
J. H. BOBBINS &, SON, Portland, Oregon; J. H.
Robbing gives deed for $6,000.
D. B. HORTON, Calliope, Iowa, real estate mort-
gage. $100.
INGRAHAM & MORRIS, Beatrice, Neb., succeeded
by Irvin Ingraham.
W. K." ADAMS & SON, Providence, R. I.; C. W.
Adams, chattel mortgage for $2,500.
PHILE PIERCE, Boone, Iowa, chattel mortgage,
$20.
SINGING IN THE FAMILY.
C. C. HEINTZMANN & Co., Providence, 11. I., as-
ULTIVATE singing in your family. Begin
when the child is not yet three years old. The
songs and hymns your childoood sang-bring
them back to your memory and teach them to your
little ones ; mix them all together, to meet the simi-
lar moods, as in after life they come over us so mys-
teriously sometimes. Many a time and oft, in the
very whirl of business, in the sunshine and gaiety of
Fifth avenue, amid the splendor of the drive in Cen-
tral Park, some little things wake up in the memo-
ries of early youth - the old mill, the cool spring, the
shade tree by the little school-house—and the next
instant we almost see again the ruddy cheeks, the
smiling faces, and the merry eyes of the school-
mates, some gray headed now ; most "lie mouldering
in the grave." And anon, " t h e song my mother
sang" springs unbidden to the lips, and soothes and
sweetens all these memories. At other times, among
the crushing mishaps of business, a merry ditty of
the older time pops out its little head, breaks in
upon the ugly train of thought, throws the mind into
another channel; light breaks from the cloud in the
sky, and a new courage is given to us. The honest
man goes singing to \us work ; and when the day's
labor is done, his tools aside, and he is on his way
home, where wife and tidy table and cheery fireside
await him, he cannot help whistle or sing. The burg-
lar never sings. Moody silence, not the merry song,
weighs down the dishonest tradesman, the perfidious
clerk, the unfaithful servant, the perjured partner.
C
—Hall's
signed.
KIND WORDS.
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REVIEW of New York, edited by Bill and Carr. It is
noteworthy for its size and interesting contents.—
Troy Daily Times.
HARRISBURG, PA., Dec. 22, 1886.
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Very truly yours,
J. H . KURZEN^VABE &-SONS.
BosTo8;-Dec. 29, 1886.
EDITORS MUSIC TRADE REVIEW :
GENTLEMEN : We are in receipt of your Christmas
number, and the writer wishes tirexpress his thanks
for the pleasure derived in reading it. I must con-
gratulate you in producing one «f the most interest-
ing numbers you ever issued —full of readable matter
from first to last pages.
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Wishing you a prosperous ana happy New Year,
We are, yours respectfully,
THE SMITH AM. ORGAN CO.
Geo L. McGlaughlin.
Journal.
ALBANY, N. Y , Jan. 4. 1««7.
GAZETTE.
MESSRS. BILL & CARR, N. Y.:
WOODWARD & BROWN, Boston, Mass.-, a signed.
ALEERT J. HALL, Cliftondale, Mass , real estate
mortgage, $2,100.
WM. BLASIUS, Philadelphia, Pa., admitted Joseph
N. Baker under style of Wm. Blasius & Co.
BROWN & SMITH, Charles City, Iowa, chattel mort-
gage for $639.
E. S. CLOYER, Oelwein, Iowa, chattel mortgage,
$100.
G. W. HARBAUGH, Beloit, Kansas, real estate
mortgage, $861.
THAT GOLD HEADED CANE.
JAMES OUTWATER, Cass City, Mich., succeeded by
Outwater & Hopkins.
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son and an increased business* during tho year 1887,
we remain,
Truly yours, p
NEW ENGLAND ORGAN CO.
C. A. SMITH & CO.,
Wholesale Manufacturers of
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CHICAGO.
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