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Haines Bros., piano manufacturers, New York,
died July 18th, at the age of 61 years.
shaft broke while the car was standing at the
third floor, and elevator and piano went crash-
ing into the cellar. The covers were in position
KING ORGAN MFG. CO., Harrisburg, Pa., has over the hatchways on the lower floors, but the
received the contract for the placing of a $1,900 " lift " smashed them like egg shells, and sev-
organ in the Westminster Presbyterian Church. eral plate-glass windows were broken by flying
fragments of wood. When the elevator struck
JOHN R. SMITH and wife, Bath, N. Y., have
the ground floor the legs of the instrument
sailed for England to be gone a couple of
were driven through the tough ash floor of the
months. Mr. Smith is the proprietor of the
car. Several hundred dollars damage resulted.
jewsharp tactory on 4th street, Bath, which is
No one was hurt. The piano was uninjured,
said to be the only jewsharp factory in the
save slight damage to the legs.
United States.
factory for the manufacture of
pianos has been started in Belfast, Me.
ANOTHER
THE Caribou Cornet Band Association has
been organized at Caribou, Me.
THE Ditson Building, 867, 869, 871 Broadway,
has been damaged by fire to the extent of be-
tween $100,000 and $200,000. C. H. Ditson Co.
are the heaviest losers, they being the owners
of the building.
DIETRO LINHAM, 21 years old, piano maker,
339 East 47th street, New York, has been taken
to Bellevue Hospital, being declared insane.
MR. OSCAR BI^YER, aged 60, piano maker,
has been despondent for some time, and his
body was found floating in the Harlem River,
July 18th, by Albert E. Weiss, 684 Park avenue,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
THE music store of Peter Hein, of 105 Bank
street, Ishpeming, Mich., was closed Monday
by P. B. McGinty on a chattel mortgage for
$1,000. Hein's other liabilities are not yet as-
certained.
MEARS & PITCHER, the new manufacturers,
of Belfast, Me., will have one of their pianos
used at the coming Chautauqua meeting at
Northport Camp Ground. They have six more
instruments in the shop, which will be finished
as soon as possible.
W E notice in the Review of Reviews for July
a handsome and realistic photograph of Edison's
phonograph room in his Laboratory at Orange,
SAYS the North Troy Palladium of the 13th
THE International Piano Makers' Union met N. J. What particularly caught our eye was
at 203 E. 56th street, New York, July 23d, and the grand, which stands well out in the picture inst. : " O. W. Fowler & Son have suspended
elected the General Executive Board. The with the words "Weber, New York,"boldly operations at their piano sounding board man-
ufactory for a month or six weeks, and will
organization invited Lodges 4, 6 and 10, which discernible.
make some necessary and extensive improve-
are at loggerheads with the National Union, to
ACCORDING to the Baltimore Herald of July ments.
attend the meeting, and a free discussion on all
19th, the large freight elevator at Stieff's piano
matters took place.
warehouse, 9 North Liberty street, fell about
THE entire plant of the 18th street branch of
EX-SCHOOIV COMMISSIONER HUGH P. LA- 9.30 on the preceding morning, doing consider- the telephone exchange, at 867 to 871 Broad-
VELLE, of 83>£ India street, Greenpoint, N. Y., able damage. A piano weighing 850 pounds way, was destroyed by fire on Friday, July
who up to his appointment, about a year ago, was on the elevator at the time. The accident 21st. Loss $120,000. Charles H. Ditson & Co.,
as Custodian of Records in the County Clerk's was caused by the breaking of the main shaft. who own the building and occupy the ground
office, has been employed for thirty years by The elevator had been in use 24 years. The floor, lose $20,000.
SCBD
A NAME NOTED IN MUSICAL HISTORY.
A Name Noted in Modern Piano Making.
In the Schubert Piano of to-day are incorporated inventions
which give it a distinct individuality.
The " Triple Bearing Bridge"
is an advance in piano construction.
The Schubert Piano alone
contains it.
SCHUBERT PIANO COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS.
(PETER DUFFY, President.)
535, 537, 539 AND 541 EAST 134th STREET,