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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
ATTHEW GRISWOLD, JR., and Miss
Jessie Gardner Black were united in
matrimony at Erie, Pa., on the 12th inst. The
groom is a son of Hon. Matthew Griswold, who
' is president of the Shaw Piano Co.
,E regret to learn of the death of the father
of John N. Merrill, of the Merrill Piano
Co., Boston, who died at his home in Nassau,
N. H., Monday morning last. The deceased
was sixty-four years old. Pneumonia and heart-
failure were the immediate cause of his death.
3 EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK.
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RITES a subscriber from Oklahoma: " I
have been a reader of THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW ever since '86. You are constantly
improving it.'' Yes, we strive to improve our
service, and we believe that it is generally ad-
mitted that we haven't loitered by the wayside.
Our march is at all times " by the right flank,
forward."
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
ninth quarterly banquet of the Chicago
Music Trade Association occurred last
Saturday night. A large number of dis-
tinguished guests were present. The Chicago
music trade dinners have been a success from
the start, and have drawn the trade in the West-
ern city closer together in actions of every kind.
Our Mr. Bill regretted exceedingly that he was
compelled to leave the city at a date which pre-
vented him accepting the kind invitation of
President Post to be present at the banquet.
|lf?KN our return from the West it was, indeed,
*H$ pleasant to note the smoke from the fac-
tory chimneys curling upward. It was cheering,
as it meant the return of business activity.
failure of Calenberg & Vaupel, New
York, is a very slight matter. They are
a firm which have had purely local reputation,
and have only been conducting a small trade in
this city.
HERE'S a chance for any young miss to ex-
ercise her skill in combining letters.
The Schubert Piano Co. offer one of their fine
instruments to the girl who will make the
greatest number of words out of the name—
Schubert.
|flf)AUL, PRYIBIL, well known in the piano
Gwv trade as a manufacturer of wood-working
machinery, was a heavy looser by fire on Wed-
nesday night. It is estimated that his loss will
approximate $200,000. His factory was located
at No. 518 West 41st street, New York.
statement made in the daily papers that
the failure of W. G. Metzerott & Co.,
Washington, D. C , was due to the assignment
of Hardman, Peck & Co. is wrong. To find
the real cause of their failure we must go back
further. Our readers will recollect that in the
fall of '91 Metzerott Hall, in Washington, was
destroyed by a cyclone, and their loss ran over
thirty thousand dollars. There are many other
causes which produced the Metzerott assign-
ment, but in these times men seem to be look-
ing for an opportunity to attribute their mis-
fortune to some one else.
& VAUPEL.—The Sheriff has
«*• received an execution for $4,035 against
Calenberg & Vaupel, piano manufacturers, at
Nos. 333 and 335 West 36th street, having sales-
rooms at No. 53 West 42d street, in favor of
Emma R. Merschrod on a demand note dated
January 2, 1892, for money loaned. She notified
the firm on September 9 that she wanted the
note paid, but the firm was unable to meet it.
The partners are Henry S. Calenberg and Adam
Vaupel, who have been in business together
more than thirty years. They formerly claimed
a capital of $40,000, but for the past eighteen
months they have had no capital rating with
commercial agencies, and in the trade were re-
ported to be slow in payments. It is said they
owned the factory building in 36th street on
leased land.
BROS. PIANO CO. have appealed
to the World's Columbian Commission
from their recent injunction, which was thrown
out of Court, objecting to the judges who had
been appointed to act in the musical section.
Whether the National Commission will take any
recognition of the appeal remains to be seen.
Should the Commission dismiss the appeal,
Chase Bros. Co. will have recourse left of ap-
plying to the Circuit Court, which will have
jurisdiction in this matter. The opinion that
this appeal will meet with serious consideration
does not seem to be entertained by many mem-
bers of the trade. It is not believed by many
that there will be a re-examination by a new
judge, and new awards given in the musical
section.
daily press in all sections of the country
rather accentuates the business depression
than by assisting to remove the distrust which
prevails. If a firm fails, startling head-lines
meet the readers' eye, and columns are given
telling why these firms are forced to temporary
retirement. If a factory is closed down we find
the same prominence given to these incidents,
and it is just this course pursued by the daily
press which has deepened the feeling of distrust
which exists among our capitalists. Let a fac-
tory begin operations—start in on full time—
and they only give a line or two to announce
this fact, while their entire paper teems with
startling statements regarding business depres-
sion. This course is entirely wrong, and the
owners and editors of the daily papers should
be fully aware that the depressed situation
means less business for them, that we are all
dependent, in a measure, upon each other, that
the prosperity of all makes up the grand total
of prosperity for the entire country.
3FTER the most violent abuse of Mr. E. P.
Carpenter, regarding his unfitness as
judge in the musical exhibit, the Musical Courier
has to say regarding his qualifications as fol-
lows: " Mr. Carpenter, the mechanical expert,
is unqualifiedly one of the greatest judges of
organ construction in America. His signature
to a diploma means that the goods judged have
had the most rigid and searching examination ;
and an indorsement from him that shows clearly
his amazement, as this diploma does, means
that the goods judged are the best samples of
the reed organ builder's art that ever came un-
der his notice throughout an active mechanical
experience of over a quarter of a century." This
is funny, even for the Musical Courier, that well
known turn-coat, turn-over, turn-under concern,
admitting that Mr. Carpenter " is unqualifiedly
one of the greatest judges of organ constructions
in America ''; also that '' his signature to a
diploma means that the goods have had the
most rigid examination." Should Mr. Carpen-
ter desire stronger words endorsing his ability
than the above he would have to seek some
other language than the English in which to
find them. About the funniest little fellow in
all creation is Blumenberg. Queer duck that
Marc !