Music Trade Review

Issue: 1892 Vol. 16 N. 8

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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A MUSICAL COMBINATION.
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H E following, in substance, has been going
the rounds of the daily press :
CINCINNATI, September 23d.—A great combi-
nation of music publishing and musical instru-
ment manufacturers has just been consummated
by a syndicate of Cincinnatians, which will
make this city the great center of that business
for the whole country. The capital of the inte-
rests involved will reach five million dollars.
The interests involved are the John Church
Company, of this city ; a New York house at 16
East 14th street; t h e Everett Piano Company,
of Boston; Root & Sons'Music Company, of
Chicago; the Harvard Piano Company, of Bos-
ton, and the Royal Manufacturing Company, of
3 EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK.
this city. These are to be combined under one
management. The men in the new venture are
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $3.00 per year, in advance; Foreign Countries, William N. Hobart, Edward Rawson, A. Howard
$4 00.
Hinkle, Frank A. Lee and William Hooper.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per The last named gentleman is a capitalist. Mr.
insertion; unless inserted upon rates made by special
Lee is vice-president of the John Church Com-
contract.
pany
; Mr. Hobart and Mr. Rawson have been
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
active in the May Musical Festival Association,
and Mr. Hinkle is a retired member of the great
school book publishing house of Van Antwerp,
Bragg & Co. Mr. Hooper will probably be
president of the new company, with Mr. Lee as
general manager.
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Europe we receive the following
communication :
" LONDON, Sept. 21st, 1892.
" E D W A R D LYMAN BILL, ESQ.,
To simmer the whole report down, it means
merely this : A re-organization of the separated
interests controlled by the John Church Co., to
be unified under one general head, the center of
which will be located in the city of Cincinnati,
and will be directed by that distinguished and
intelligent factor of the music trades, Mr. Frank
A. Lee. It is only one of those moves which
show the tendency of the times toward central-
ization, and in that one word may be summed
up the entire move which has gained such wide-
spread notoriety under the head of'' Piano Com-
bines, " " Musical Combinations," " Piano
T r u s t s , " etc. The separated interests of the
John Church Co., and its various branches, will
be classified under one general head, controlled
from the principal offices, which will be located
in Cincinnati.
" Editor T H E MUSIC T R A D E R E V I E W .
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' Her Imperial and Royal Highness the Em-
press of Germany has appointed Mr. C. Bech-
stein to be pianoforte manufacturer to Her
Majesty by special warrant of appointment, Mr.
Bechstein having supplied Her Majesty with
his instruments ever since her marriage to the
Emperor William I I . "
J. HAINES, SR., accompanied
by his youngest son, Albert N., left for a
Western trip last Wednesday evening. His
route will include the principal Western cities
as far as Detroit. He will visit Chicago, and
return by the Southern route, including Cin-
cinnati.
jLBERT KRELL, of the Krell Piano Co.,
Cincinnati, O., was in the metropolis
this week. During an interview Mr. Krell re-
ported business with his firm in splendid con-
dition.
Stevens & Klock Organ Co., Marietta,
O., inform us that they are now comforta-
bly situated, and in a short time will be ready
to supply the trade '' with the best goods money
and skill can produce." This firm is composed
of enterprising men, and we have no doubt of
their future success. Keep your eye on the
Stevens & Klock organs.
jELLER BROS. & BLIGHT, piano manu-
facturers, Bridgeport, Conn., are now
an incorporated concern under the title of the
Keller Bros. & Blight Company. The capital
stock of the concern is $50,000. The officers
and directors of the company are, Joseph Keller,
president ; Charles Keller, vice-president;
William M. Blight, secretary and treasurer ; F.
W. Marsh, of Marsh, Merwin & Lemmon, bank-
ers; Geo. O. Lines, manager of East End Rail-
way Company.
PATRICK S A R S F I E L D GILMORE.
§
Y the death of this renowned musician the
cause of musical progress has lost one of
its ablest promoters, the people have lost a
favorite whom they not only ^admired, b u t
loved, and t h e bereaved wife and daughter of
the deceased have lost a husband and father,
ever devoted, affectionate and tender.
The reputation that Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore
gained by his abilities and his worth, is nation-
al and international. H e needs no extended
eulogy. The people knew him, and they revere
his memory. He delighted them, but he also
instructed them. His band played in rapturous
strains the melodies that were dear to the people's
hearts, and it also revealed to them the glow-
ing treasures of the sublimest music of the past
and present, and gave them the richest melodic
jewels of the harmonic art.
Mr. Gilmore was born a musician, and his
life was given to making humanity happier and
better by ministering to its love of melody.
He trained his band with scrupulous care and
consummate skill, and all the accumulated re-
sources of his thoroughly cultivated musical
nature, of his comprehensive experience, and of
his masterful energies, were devoted to perfect-
ing the great institution—for Gilmore's Band
was a national institution—which he directed
until it became a power capable of fascinating,
developing and uplifting the musical taste of
the American people. He has accomplished a
great work, and the good that he has done will
not die with him, but will keep his memory
green in the national heart forever.
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore was a patriot, and a
man. His love for Ireland, the land of his
nativity, ever glowed within him, but his love
for America, his adopted country, was also deep,
ardent, and sincere. The high honors that he
won at home and abroad never made him super-
cilious or arrogant, he was always affable, unas-
suming and modest. He was a faithful friend,
a loving husband and father, a benefactor of
humanity, and his death is more than a private
sorrow, it is a public calamity.
A P E C U L I A R CONDITION.
POLITICAL mares' nest of alarming pro-
portions has been discovered in Vermont.
It came out in a letter written to National Head-
quarters. Both national committees have held
that directors of national banks are officials
holding " positions of profit and trust " under
the Federal Government, and as such are in-
eligible as presidential electors, and in New
York and several other States candidates for
election who were national bank directors have
been compelled to resign. If the courts hold as
the committees have, that national bank direc-
tors are Federal officials, it will complicate mat-
ters in Vermont, which has this clause in its
Constitution :
'' Nor shall any person holding any office of
profit or trust under the authority of Congress
be eligible to any appointment in the Legisla-
ture or of holding any executive or judiciary
office under the State.''
Col. Levi K. Fuller, Governor-elect of Ver-
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mont, is a director in the First National Bank
of Brattleboro ; F. S. Stranahan, Lieut-Gover-
nor-elect, is vice-president of a bank at St.
Albans.
But there is nothing in it for the Democrats,
as Bradley B. Smalley, who was the defeated
Democratic candidate, is director of a bank in
Burlington, and his running mate, W. B. Viall,
holds a similar position in Ran dell. There were
no third party candidate, no Socialist, Labor
Union or Woman Suffrage candidates, and the
fight must be made, if it is made, by Allen, the
Prohibition candidate. The discovery has not
yet produced any great convulsion at Republi-
can headquarters.
The above, in substance, has gained a wide
notoriety through the Associated Press reports.
The facts in the case are simply these : Col.
Fuller denies that he held an office in a national
bank or an office created by an Act of Congress,
so that these widespread reports have been in-
tended to create, perhaps, a sensational feeling.
Col. Levi K. Fuller was elected Governor of
Vermont by the unanimous vote of the people
of that State. The American people believe in
the justice of a popular vote, and will at all
times stand ready to see the recipient of the
greatest number of votes seated in the office to
which he was elected. Col. Levi K. Fuller will
be the next Governor of Vermont, the office to
which he was elected by the people.
CAPPA MAY GO TO TACOMA.
DESPATCH from Tacoma, Wash., dated
Sept. 27, says Leader Cappa, of the
Seventh Regiment Band, of New York, leaves
for his home in the metropolis next Sunday
night. If plans now under way are carried
through, however, it is probable that he will
soon return to make Tacoma the headquarters
of his famous musical organization.
The scheme is to have a syndicate formed
here with sufficient capital to give the band a
five-years' guarantee for its expenses and salar-
ies. The capital stock of the syndicate, $100,-
000, has already been half subscribed.
A maintained band of sixty-five pieces is to
be provided for, and the idea is to have its sum-
mers spent in Tacoma and in touring along the
Pacific coast. Winters Cappa may spend in
New York or on eastern tours. January 1 is the
date set for the syndicate to be ready for busi-
ness.
THE TUNERS' ASSOCIATION.
HE National Association of Tuners held
their annual meeting for the election of
officers at Royal Arcanum Hall, this city, on
September 28. After the election of officers,
among other matters was considered the pro-
position of Mr. Tourjee, of the New England
Conservatory of Music, to run his "tuning
school " in conjunction with the National Asso-
ciation of Tuners. The members were unani-
mously opposed to accepting Mr. Tourjee's pro-
position, and would not indorse his scheme in
any way. Their reason for this was the belief
that competent tuners could not be turned out
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from any school except the factory and repair
shop. It seems that the Association emphatic-
ally declines to indorse or assist Mr. Tourjee in
establishing his proposed school of tuning in
Chicago in conjunction with the National
Association.
We heartily indorse the Association's action
in this matter, and think they have taken a wise
step. What would prevent Mr. Tourjee adver-
tising such an indorsement broadcast, and gain-
ing pupils by the statement that his institution
was run by practical tuners from the National
Association, and had its indorsement in every
respect ? After gaining his point could he not
then, if he so desired, ignore the Association
altogether ?
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M M O N G the members of the music trades
®^o who called at the Bradbury Piano Ware-
rooms, Washington, D. C, during the late
National G. A. R. encampment were the follow-
ing : Mr. Harvey Wendell, Albany, N. Y. ; Mr.
Otis, late of Bloomfield & Otis, New York ; Mr.
Pheiffelmann, Webster Piano Co., New York ;
Mr. A. J. French and Mr. G. H. Chandler, Leo-
minster, Mass.; Mr. C. I. Watkins, with H. S.
Stevenson, of Auburn, N. Y.; Mr. J. R. Webster,
with Wm. Knabe & Co., of Baltimore, Md. ; Mr.
E- W. Allen, Eau Claire, Wis. ; Mr. J. M.
Birely, Frederick, Md. ; Mr. R. Frank Barr,
Martinsburg, W. Va. ; Mr. Furman, S. Dakota ;
Mr. F. C. Tuller, Piano, 111. ; Mr. C. A. Cook,
Cambridgeport, Mass. ; Mr. John Adair, Cohoc-
ton, N. Y.; Mr. N. B. Payne, Woodhull, N. Y. ;
Mr. S. J. Owens, Lancaster, Pa. ; Mr. Julius A.
<|rp|N October 8th The Musical Courier, in its Bona, Director of the French Opera House, New
**$> concentrated, double-distilled, boiled- Orleans, La. ; Mr. Harold A. Vosseller, New
York ; Mr. Raphael Fassett, with W. W. Kim-
down issue, in which two are combined in one,
ball, of Chicago, 111. ; Col. W. A. Treadwell,
will print about 4 ^ pages of opinions of deal- Jersey City, N. J.
ers regarding the "commission evil." These,
with about a half column of editorial abuse of
rival papers and a few pages of paid matter, will
compose its "special." The American News
have received from Germany the for-
mal announcement of the betrothal of
Co. will return the waste paper in unsold copies
Rudolph Dolge, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs.
to the Courier office.
Alfred Dolge, and Miss Anita Heller, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Heinrich Heller, of Bad Kosen,
and for many years distinguished citizens of
admirer of THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Bogota, South America.
writes: '' Each issue of your paper
The people of Dolgeville, and the thousands of
grows more interesting. We look forward with friends of the Dolge family and firm, will be glad
pleasure to the perusal of each issue. We can't to hear that it is purely a love match, heartily
keep house without T H E MUSIC TRADE R E - approved by both families, and that the young
lady whom Mr. Rudolph is to marry is said to be
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agreeable in person, charming in manner, and
highly educated.
Explanatory Cett^r.
We rejoice that Mr. Rudolph has found so
sweet and congenial a partner in life, and assure
LONDON, ENGLAND,
September 21st, 1892. him of a royal welcome when he brings his
young bride to Dolgeville, where he is a great
EDWARD LYMAN BILL, Esq.,
favorite, because he was always so unassuming,
Proprietor THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW,
so sterling in character, so bright and sunny in
3 East 14th street,
disposition to all.
New York, U. S. A.
The marriage is, we believe, to take place
DEAR SIR : When I had the extreme pleasure
of interviewing your most courteous correspond- early in the spring in this country, and then,
ent (Mr. Daniel Spillane) yesterday, I omitted after a brief honeymoon, the young couple are
to say that fox nearly 20 years I have been in the to make their home with us in Dolgeville.—
service of this eminent firm, and that the very Dolgeville Herald.
best relations exist between employer and em-
ployed throughout all grades of our very large
staff, which is entirely due to the simple fact
that our present principal, Mr. Robert M. Cocks
(grandson of the founder of the firm) is one of
the most generous and enterprising Englishmen
HE Association met Tuesday evening, Sept.
of the day.
28th, at Royal Arcanum Hall, 52 Union
I hope you will clearly mention above facts, Square. The attendance was sufficiently large
and oblige,
Yours very truly,
to elect officers for the ensuing year. Chas. M.
WILLIAM ELLIOTT.
Henry was elected President. He has been with
F. G. Smith (Bradbury) for four years. The
U/illiam
selection of Mr. Henry was a happy one, he
Bro.
being a good parliamentarian, an indefatigable
TONK has just returned from a worker in the cause, and a man who commands
Western trip. During an interview with universal respect. He has never yet missed a
Mr. Tonk he stated that the outlook for the meeting of the Association. For Vice-President
trade was very encouraging, and that he had not Mr. Lowell M. Cook was chosen. He was tuner,
only taken a large number of orders for the voicer and corrector for Mason & Hamlin twenty-
Herrburger-Schwander pianoforte actions, but seven years. Since the introduction of the
the orders he received for musical merchandise, " Vocal ion " organ, he has identified himself
stools, scarfs, etc., surpassed those taken on any with the New York house of Messrs. Mason &
previous trip, thereby indicating that the fall Risch, No. 10 East 16th street. He is a forceful
trade will be brisk. The line of piano stools, speaker, and enthusiastic as to the future of the
scarfs, music desks, etc., carried by the house of Association. As his business takes him fre-
William Tonk & Bro., 26 Warren street, New quently to all the large cities of the United
York, will stand comparison with any other States, his acquaintance is large. His influence
will be felt far and near. Mr. E. E. Todd,
house in the country.
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