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THE new factory of Mathushek & Son is located at
Nos. 242 and 244 East 122d street and is four stories
high. The building has every modern convenience,
POLLARD & TUTTLE, Sioux City, Iowa, have re-
paired the damages to their store recently caused by being heated by steam and lighted by electricity It
contains a 150 horse power engine and the boilers are
fire and are now in good shape again.
non-explosive, a new invention used at present in but
HENRY JOSEPH CUBTAZ son of B. Curtaz, San
few factories. It has taken the firm some time to
Franoisco, was married on May 9 to Miss Bessie move into their new factory, but now they are com-
Graham.
fortably settled and ready to fill orders promptly. Ow-
WE dropped in on Mr. Gould, the genial and hand- ing to their removal they are a little short of pianos
some manager of Behr Bros. 1 Fourteenth street ware- for their new warerooms. These new warerooms, at
room, one day last week and found that gentleman 108 and 110 East 125th street, are on the ground floor
patiently mopping the perspiration from his brow of the Horton Building and will be found hard to sur-
and, as he remarked himself, "waiting for more cus- pass by any in the city. The rooms are 100 x 30 feet,
tomers to turn up." "How does the Behr Bros, muf- well lighted and to hear the Harlem people talk one
fler take here in the city?" "It takes so well that I would imagine there is nothing like the Mathushek.
cannot sell a piano without a ' muffler ' in it. The
AN inventor at Stuttgart is said to have perfected
firm will have its hands full in the future if New York a machine for deadening the sound of a piano. It
trade is any criterion."
will not be a success. The only sure way to keep a
FRANK W. THOMAS, who recently opened an ele-
piano quiet is to deaden the pianist.—Rare Bits.
gant wareroom in Albany at No. 15 North Peart St.,
Clever, but we guess Rare Bits has not heard of
is having marked success with the Steck pianos. Mr. the now famous Behr Bros, piano muffler.
Thomas also handles the Sterling and New England
A STRINGED instrument holder has been patented by
pianos. Mr. Thomas is a piano man in every sense Mr. Eodolphus T. Fiorini, of New York city. It is
of the word and we wish him continued prosperity.
an internally threaded socket adapted to be fixed to
the bottom of the instrument case, with a standard
KBANICH & BACH are having a good wholesale and
a particularly good retail trade. Mr. Soloman, their having a fork adapted to receive the neck of the in-
travelling salesman, is now on a Western trip and is strument, and a clamping device for holding the
same, being especially calculated for holding violins,
turning in large orders.
guitars, etc., and upon music stands used in orches-
ALVIN KRANICH, of Kranich & Bach, will start for
Germany the 1st of June to study pianoforte. Mr. tras.
Kranich expects to be absent about two years. His
HENRY GEORGE deplores the wrongs of labor at $75
musical education already is far advanced, to which a night—a sum for which thousands of laborers do
several very clever pianoforte compositions can tes- not get for working a month. There are a good many
tify. We predict that he will return a finished pian- other *'reformers" who advocate reform on a "cash
basis."— The American.
ist us his talent in that direction is unquestioned.
A CURIOUS result of the boom in beef cattle is that
DEALERS and persons desiring a gem of a piano
should see and examine the new style III Dunham all Mason Valley is becoming filled up with pianos.
upright piano at Wm. Folks & Co.'s manufactory. It Every houpe has a piano, and in some houses their
are two, one for the kitchen and another for the par-
is a daisy and the price is just right.
lor. A man who came in from that section yester-
COMPTON, MCMASTER & Co., of Lockport, N. Y.,
agents for the Behr Bros, pianos, have recently open- day, having gone over there to look after a small lot
of beef cattle, says that he came near not getting to
ed a fin© wareroom at Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Hawthorne in time for the train on account of being
A BOW for musical instruments has been patented delayed at the house of the rancher with whom he
by Mr. Daniel Nettekoven, of Fort Shaw, Montana. was stopping. The woman of the house hammered
The invention covers a tapering pocket in which are out several tunes for him in the parlor while he was
placed the ends of the hair, and a wedge fitting into supposed to be waiting for his supper. When she
the pocket, with other novel features, whereby the got through he was still obliged to wait nearly an
hair can be quickly removed and replaced and is not hour because the help were having a concert ia the
liable to become loose in its fastenings.
kitchen.—Virginia, Nev., Enterprise.
EDHOLM & AKIN, Omaha, are doing a large busi-
ness.
JOHN H. WABDWELL, who had become notorious
through his connection in the Miser Paine case, died
at Bristol, R. I., May 6th.
BEHNINO & SON, N. Y., are very busy. Their trade
is constantly increasing and they are building up a
business that will last.
COLBY*
T H E H A L L B T & DAVIS CO., Boston, have recently
completed a white mahogany concert grand piano for
Col. E. W. Cole, Nashville, Tenn., the millionaire
railroad king of the South. The name-board has Mrs.
Cole's name inlaid in mother of pearl and the name
of Hallet & Davis Co. is on a silver plate in the frame.
Mre. Cole is so delighted with the instrument that
she has arranged to have a musical soiree to show up
the piano. Wo will venture to say that no piano ever
went to Nashville that has received the recognition
that this one has.
THE Miller Organ Co., Lebanon, Pa., continue to
be crowded with orders.
VOSE & SONS, Boston, are having a very large busi-
ness. In fact they cannot manufacture pianos fat-t
enough to meet the demands of their dealers. They
have commenced work on an additional factory
which will be pushed forward with all possible haste,
so as to be ready for their fall trade which is sure to
be very large.
MR. CREW, of Phillips & Crew, Atlanta, Ga., is ex-
pected in town in a few days. The firm have recent-
ly placed several large orders with Behning & Son.
MR. REINHARD KOCHMANN, the genial traveller
for Behning & Son, returned last week from a six"
teen weeks' trip among the trade. He extended his
trip as far West as San Francisco; South to New
Orleans, and North to Minneapolis. In the West Mr.
Kochmann found general business good, but In the
South it is very dull owing probably to the long
drouth. Mr. Kochmann formed ten new agencies and
sold one hundred and seventeen pianos, mostly of
the highest grade. We congratulate Mr. Eochmann
upon his good success as it is no easy thing to go out
on the road nowadays and sell high grade goods
against the cheap trash that is flooding the market.
C F. JUNOER, Mobile, Ala., has sold outhis business
to Ed. O. Bagley, a very promising young man. Mr.
Junger will oontinue with Mr. Bagley for a time and
aid him in getting started. Mr. Bagley will continue
to sell the same line of goods.
EEINHABD KOCHMANN AND WIFE leave for Europe
on the steamer "Aller" June 1st, returning about
Sept. 1st. Mr. Koohmann is one of the most popular
and hard working travelers in the trade. He has just
returned from a four months' trip on the road and is
deserving of a good long vacation. We certainly
wish him and his most estimable wife a plasant trip
and safe return.
GEORGE W. STROPE, Kansas City, Mo., has just
ordered twenty-two Behning pianos and still the re-
port continues to be circulated that he wants to sell
out.
IT is said that a number of irresponsible music
houses are springing up in the West endeavoring to
buy on credit of Eastern manufacturers. Beware of
them.
THE revival of Gasparone at the Standard Theatre
has met with unqualified success. The principal
parts are well sustained. Miss Lillian Russell looks
and acts charmingly. The chorus is excellent and
the miee en scene, as Is always the case in Mr. Duff's
performance, handsome and appropriate.
THE Modern Ideal, an elegant parlor organ, made
by Story & Clark, conquers wherever it is seen. It
is a beauty.
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SINCE our last issue the following gentlemen have
visited this city : H. M. Brainard, of Cleveland, who
handles the Steinway and Hazleton Bros, pianos;
N. J. Stone, manager of History Company, San Fran-
cisco; George W. Lyon, of Lyon & Healy, Chicago;
Gilbert Carter, of Birmingham, Ala.; Louis Grune-
wald, New Orleans.
SAXE & ROBERTSON have taken the agency of the
Estey organs and pianos for the territory of Colum-
bia and Westchestor counties, in this State.
518, 520, 522, 524 and 526 WEST 48th ST., N. Y.
THE
STORY & CLARK ORGAN FACTORY
Canal and 16th Streets, Chicago, Illinois, U. S. A.
begt equipped fReed Organ.
its own patents, (which)
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cannot be purchased) it produces an.
deographical situation, for distri-
action perfect, a tone correct, rich,
bution, and products used unpar-
smooth and sweet, arjd cages ever
alleled.
new and elegant.
Manufactory in thje world.
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