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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Communications of interest to the music trade are so- what money he could on small goods, notes & c , be-
licited. All Western correspondence will receive prompt fore he disappeared. The Sterling Co. have taken
charge of the pianos and organs that was left.
attention by addressing Lock Box 492, Chicago, III.
J. K Henry, of Okalossa, la., has skipped out, leav-
ing a number of creditors. Principal one was the
Whitney & Holmes organ manufacturers. He was
their agent.
Philo Pierce, of Boone, la., was an agent for the
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
W. W. Kimball Co., embezzled about $1,200 from
them. He has been arr«sted, tried and convicted
Lock Box 492. TRADERS' BUII/DINO, CHICAGO, )
April 15th. Sentence suspended pending motion for
May 1,1887.
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new trial. He will get there all the same.
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.
The music trade for the past month has been very
encouraging both in the wholesale and retail. Our
maaufacturers, both in the piano and organ line, are
away behind and are doing all they can to fill orders.
Even working extra hours don't seem to help matters
much. There is an Increase of 35 to 40 per cent, over
same month last year.
The retail is not rushing like the wholesale. Still
the dealers all feel better to see the improvement in
trade and the increased number of sales.
In the musical instrument line, Lyon & Healy have
done an immense trade. They do the largest business
in this line in the West.
Reed & Sons have sold more Knabe pianos in April
than any month since December.
When Mr. James Shoninger went East April 8th,
he had the B. Shoninger Co.'s store crowded full of
pianos, having rushed in two months' stock to save the
increase fc in freight rates likely to take place on ac-
count of the Inter-State law going into force. He re-
turned April 17th to find there was plenty of room to
walk around in and that Tony Anguera had been
running the goods out, and the bank account up at a
very lively rate. Mr. Anguera is never so happy as
when he has a store full of customers.
Mr. Henry Drummond, the gentlemanly salesman
for the Weber house, says their retail business has
been very satisfactory the past month.
Albert Weber was here one day, April 17th ; came
in the morning and left at night. Well pleased with
everything about his branch house.
April has been a good month for the celebrated
Decker Bros, pianos, Estey & Camp having sold
quite a number of them.
Barclay & Cooper, organ dealers of Evansville,
Ind., bought two car loads of Newman Bros, organs.
The W. W. Kimball Co. paid $75,000 for 333 feet of
ground S. E. corner 2Gth st. and Wastenaw avenue.
H. J. Baker, for many years one of the best sales-
men we ever had in the musical merchandise line,
has gone out of the music business to accept the
position of secretary of the Standard Light and Heat
Co. He was connected with the old house of Root &
Cady, before and after the great fire, and for past five.
years with J. Howard Foote. He will be missed from
the music business, and a host of friends wish him
success In his new venture.
Anton H. Rintelman has taken part of Brainard
Sons' store and will keep a full stock of Behning
pianos. Mr. R. was formerly a salesman with Julius
Bauer & Co. and is well spoken of. Mr. Henry Behn-
ing, Jr., has been here, and is well satisfied with the
new arrangements for the sale of their pianos.
The Sterling piano and organ agent at South Bend,
Ind., George W. Reiser, has left for parts unknown,
leaving a number of creditors and a wife. He raised
Oh, Canada, dear Canada, the land for the free,
To thy hospitable shores with my all will I flee.
W. S. Crouse, piano and organ dealer, Mitchel,
Dak., has given a mortgage for $85.
Barclay & Cooper, Evansville, Ind., speak in high
praise of the Newman Bros.' organs.
J. W. York & Sons, music publishers, Grand Rap-
ids, Mich., have moved into their fine new rooms,
the increase in their business demanding more space,
Story & Clark have had to draw in several of their
travelling men, as they can't begin to fill their or-
ders, although they are turning out nearly 800 organs
a week.
Max Elser, dealer in pianos and organs, sheet mu-
sic and general musical merchandise, has been
elected cashier of the City Nat. Bank of Fort Worth,
Tex., and in consequence wishes to close out his en-
tir© business, which has been established eleven
years, and has been a very successful and profitable
enterprise. The sales aggregate $250,000 annually.
This is a rare chance for a live man to step into a
splendid business. Population 30,000, which is an
increase of 15,000 since 1877, and will more than
double in next ten years.
W. W. Kimball has returned from the East.
TheTheo. Pfaflin Co., Indianapolis, Ind., who lately
took the agency for the Steinway piano, are meeting
with fine success in the sale of these famous instru-
ments.
I. N. Eppstein, of Le Mars, la., will push the piano
and organ business in Northern Iowa for James A.
Guest, of Burlington, la., who has engaged his ser-
vices. We notice that Eppatein has given another
chattel mortgage for $312.25
Wm. Bates, musical instrument dealer, Blooming-
ton, 111., has given a chattel mortgage, $150.
F. W. Bailey, of the Lake Piano Co., is in town;
also Mr. Illidge, of the Guild Co. Both report trade
good with them.
A. L. Ludwig, of St. Louis, Mo., musical instru-
ment dealer, has sold out. John L. Colrue, Wau-
paca, Wis., is closing out his musioal instrument
business.
Lyon & Snyder, Topeka, Kans., dealers in pianos
and organs, has dissolved. Mr. Lyen will continue
the business.
The greatest success in the manufacturing of pianos
in Chicago has been the constantly increasing busi-
ness of W. H. Bush & Co. Their instruments, fine
in appearance and honestly made, well deserve the
great success they are meeting with.
W. W. Eimball Co. have opened a branch house at
Fort Wayne, Ind., S. D. Roberson, manager. John
G. Earhuff Piano and Organ Co. have got out a new
and attractive catalogue. Their factory is at Nos.
51 and 55 Pearson St., Chicago.
Tryber & Sweetland, manufacturers of the Lake-
side organ, have moved into their new factory, cor-
ner Lake and Peoria sts., Chicago.
The following dealers and travelling men have
been in town lately: Mrs. Willis, dealer, Hannibal,
Mo.; J. W. Beistel, dealer, Buchanan, Mich.; J. C.
Schuett, dealer, Evanston, 111.; Mr. Zimmerman
(Zimmerman Bros), dealer, La Salle, 111.; M. Drou-
let, dealer, St. Ann, 111.; J. H. Rheem, dealer, Ot-
tumwa, l a . ; F. E. Russell, travelling man, Kimball
Co.; W. T. Crosby, manager, Roosevelt Organ Co.;
Mr. Illidge, manager, Guild Piano Co.; F. W. Bailey,
manager, Lake Piano Co.; H. Behning, Jr., Behning
& Son.
Yours,
OWEN.
PREFERENCES AMONG CREDITORS.
ANY of the frauds in commercial life are due
to the practice of making preferences by dis-
solvent debtors. The law justly exempts a
certain small amount of property from seizure for
debt, basing this exemption on the fact that the debt-
or, however poor, la entitled to live, and to at least
the means necessary for him to use in earning sup-
port for himself and family. The poor debtor having
a wife and children is entitled to larger exemptions
than he could claim as a single man. The prefer-
ence of the laborer for wages due is also based on
sound reason, for it is to be presumed that such
wages up to a moderate amount are needed for his
own support and that of his family until he can ob-
tain employment elsewhere. It is not the intention
of the law that a debtor's property shall be taken
from him so as to leave either himself, his family or
his employes to be dependent upon public charity.
That would be to take from the poor to give to the
wealthy creditor, only that the latter may be taxed
for the support of the debtor or his employes by
charity at public cost. But outside the legal prefer-
ences there is no reason whatever that any should be
made. Let the creditors all stand on equal footing
and divide equitably what the law does not allow the
debtor to retain. In practice it is nearly always true
that the preferences made by debtors to certain
creditors are either fraudulent or are secured by the
worst Shylock's who have longbled their unfortunate
victim by usurious interest, and who keep the closest
watch when their time comes to seize the pound of
ilesh, and thus defraud others far more deserving
than themselves.—Manufacturers' Gazette.
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PRAISE FOR THE STEINWAY FROM INDIA.
SUBATHEB, PANJAB, INDIA, Maroh 15,1887.
MESSRS. STEINWAY & SONS, N. Y. U.S.A.:
DEAR SIRS : I feel that I ought to tell you how
much we prize your piano. It has been tuned but once
since we came to this country in 1883, and, so far as
I can see, is just as good as when we got it in 187G. 1
would not take $1,000 for it if I could not get another
like it. All my daughters play and would hardly
know what to do without it. You are doing grand
work in giving such grand instruments to the music-
loving world. Wishing you still greater success,
Yours very truly,
B. D. WYCKOFF.
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