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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
hammer covering department of his new Brook-
lyn factory. Mr. Wolf acted in like capacity
for Sohmer & Co. for the past eight years.
ALFRED DOLGE is a grandfather, and Ru-
dolf is a proud papa. It is a boy, a lusty one,
and makes sweeter music than the autoharp,
which is a great deal for Rudolf to admit. Suc-
cess to the youngest scion of the house of Dolge.
MR. C. R. STRONG, of Jamestown, Pa., has
made a general assignment of the stock in his
store to the Chatauqua National Bank, upon a
chattel mortgage, given October 18th.
OF the thousands of piano makers in this city,
only about 1,200 are at work, and the Central
Labor Federation yesterday appointed a special
committee with instructions to submit a plan,
according to which the unemployed piano
makers may be relieved.
KEELER & HOLDRIDGE, Cazenovia, N. Y.,
have organized a full orchestra, under the musi-
cal direction of Prof. A. S. Thompson.
THE Musical Art Society of New York has
been incorporated by Frank Damrosch, Clem-
ence S. B. Fish, Mary Harriman and others.
L. M. AivDRiCH, the prosperous young dealer
of Philadelphia, N. Y., was in town this week
selecting a stock of Sohmer pianos.
JOHN M. TERREIX, of Elkton, Md., has open-
ed a music store in the store room of Marshbank
& Son. He is agent for Otto Sutro & Co., and
will handle their instruments.
G. W. LANE, of Gloucester, Mass., has open-
ed a music store at 99 Main street. He has
added to his stock that of the late Theo. Parsons.
ADOLPH RACHALS, of F. M. Rachals & Co.,
Hamburg, Germany, piano manufacturers, who
has been on a short visit to Dolgeville, N. Y.,
sailed Dec. 12th for Hamburg.
C. G. CONN, musical instrument manufac-
turer of Elkhart, Ind., whose instruments are
used by the K. P. band at Yankton, S. D., has
presented the band with a fine drum major's
baton.
" C. F. BUCK, of the firm of Buck & Sim-
mons, yesterday filed a $10,000 damage suit
against J. L. Smith, of the firm of Smith &
Nixon.
Both of the above named firms are
4th street piano dealers. The Messrs. Buck &
Simmons were employes of the firm of Smith &
Nixon before embarking in business for them-
selves. The plaintiff alleges that Mr. Smith
has said to divers persons and on divers occa-
sions: ' I brand Mr. Buck as a thief, a liar and
a scoundrel, and would willingly put it down in
black and white.' Mr. Buck claims to have
been greatly injured in reputation and business
by these utterances, and has brought suit for
$10,000 in consequence. Mr. Buck will be re-
presented in court by Messrs. Kinney & Kinney
and O'Neal, Phelps & Pryor."—Commercial,
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 13th.
MR. S. T. OSBORNE, of Mineral Point, Wis.,
will in future represent the wholesale interests
of the Chicago Cottage Organ Company for the
State of Wisconsin.
MR. WM. J. SCHUI/TZ, who has had an exten-
sive experience as salesman with several Chi-
cago houses, will open a retail store at 259 Madi-
son street, Chicago, January 1st, 1894.
MR. W. D. SWISHER has opened a music
store at 1237 Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
ROBT. M. WEBB has secured the services of
Mr. Edward T. Wolf to take charge of the
MR. JOSEPH GROSS, with Behr Bros. & Co., was
married to Miss Josie Seebach, December 20th.
Miss Seebach is a well known singer and
teacher in Orange, N. J. We extend congratu-
lations.
BLASIUS & SON are about to make extensive
alterations in their warerooms 1101-1103 Chest-
nut street, Philadelphia.
Miss EDITH PRATT, alias Russell, was ar-
rested at Aberdeen, Minn., on a charge of hav-
ing disposed of a piano loaned her by Mrs.
Penfield, dealer in musical instruments, St.
Paul, Minn. The piano was found in a house
on Locust street, East Minneapolis.
A VIENNESE instrument maker, Ignatz Lutz,
has invented two new musical instruments which
he calls '' claviature zither '' and '' claviature
harp." Their peculiarity consists in the appli-
cation of a pianoforte keyboard to a zither and
to a harp. The latter instrument is considered
of especial value, as good harp players are rare,
and the keyboard harp enables any good pianist
to play the harp part, which is becoming more
and more customary to add to orchestra scores.
JACOT & SON have opened up very attractive
warerooms at 39 Union Square for the holidays.
MESSRS. NEWBY & EVANS have favored us
with a tasty and appropriate New Year's gift in
the shape of a calendar for 1894.
THE piano on which Liszt practised as a boy
has been presented to the Museum of the Oeden-
burg Musical Society. It was manufactured by
Johann Schanz, of Vienna.
AN interesting Christmas concert was given
at Byron Mauzy's piano warerooms, 303-314
Post street, San Francisco, December 14th. A
splendid program served to show off the excel-
lent tone qualities of the Sohmer piano.
THE management of the new Hotel Grune-
wald, New Orleans, recently built by the old
established music house of L. Grunewald Co.,
has been assumed by Mr. W. W. Howd, well
known as the manager of the Palmer and the
Louisiana Mansion during the Exposition. He
is a most popular man, and is bound to make
the " Grunewald " a rendezvous for many mem-
bers of the trade. The building is absolutely
fireproof.
NEWMAN BROTHERS have quite a demand for
their six octave organs. They will shortly
place several new styles on the market. The
handsome antique, hand-carved, oak church
organ which was on exhibition at the World's
Fair has been presented to Mr. Jack Haynes. It
is a magnificent instrument.
The Keynote is the title of a publication issued
in New York city, which has for its motto,
" The Keynote is Home." It is in its 16th vol-
ume, and devoted to art, literature, music and
drama. So far as we can judge it is a most ex-
cellent periodical and at the low figure of $1 50
per year commends itself to all. One of iis
special features will be advocating the works of
American composers. It will be an educator in
the highest sense of the word along all these
lines.—Beebe, (Ark.,) Current Topics.
THE music store of J. M. Kellogg, Waterbury,
Conn., has been closed, an attachment having
been made in a suit of $10,000. Kellogg's body
was also attached in a suit of $7,000 for em-
bezzlement. Bonds were furnished and he was
released. The Treat & Shepard Co., of New
Haven, Conn., whose agent Kellogg was, found
his account short $5,000. Kellogg says he has
stock enough in pianos and organs to cover his
indebtedness. He says that the hard times
have caused the trouble.
THE Church of the Sacred Heart, East Boston,
Mass., will dedicate its new organ on Christmas.
It is a large two manual instrument built by the
Hook & Hastings Co. It has a massive quartered
oak exterior, showing large 16 foot open metal
pipes in the front. It has two manuals, 30
registers, and is blown by a water motor.
MR. CLEMENT BEITEL, of Easton, Pa., who
commenced the manufacture of guitars at Easton
recently, will locate there permanently, having
formerly lived in Nazareth.
FISHER & OGDEN, dealers in musical instru
ments, of Oneonta, N. Y., are now located in
Windsor Block on Chestnut street.
WM. KNABE & Co., of Baltimore, Md., have
commenced suit against Rice-Macy & Co., oi
Des Moines, la., for $6,852.
THE music store of A. R. Bacon, on West
Market streeet, Wilkesbarre, Pa., has been
closed by the sheriff.
GIOVANNI CONTERNO, the young bandmasttr
of Brooklyn, N. Y., has taken a trip to London.
Two executions were issued against Chas. H.
Lichty, dealer in pianos and organs in Read-
ing, Pa., one by I. W. Levan, in trust for Mrs
Clara H. Lichty, for $2,441.25, and one by
Henry Wegman and Warren Crocker, trading
as Wegman & Co., for $5,940.70. The execu-
tions were issued for the purpose of securing
the amounts by the sale of his real estate.
One of the strongest newspaper properties in
this country is that owned by Edward Lyman Bill,
New York. It includes The Music Trade Review,
the business man's paper, and The Keynote, a
paper of the highest class of literary merit. A
combination of trade and ruurie must commend
itself both to the class and general advertiser.—
Editorial, Branford Opinion, Branford, Conn., Nov.
?% 1893.
5l?e \ie\n lr}stallrn
'HE Supreme Court of Connecticut has,
in a test case, rendered a very import-
ant decision, overthrowing a new law requiring
sales of goods on the installment plan to be re-
corded in the offices of the town clerks. The
court decides that the seller's lien continues on
such property until full payment is made, and
that the sale is not an absolute one, as the new
law provides in case of failure to put the sale on
record. The law, if enforced, would have been
a great burden to Connecticut dealers, who sell
millions of dollars' worth of property a year on
the installment plan."—Evening Post, N. Y.
December 14th.
Burnin' Gas
Every night now—so very
busy. Sounds strange,
doesn't it? Good reason for
it—orders coining daily for
the popular Clafiin Piano.
Heard of it? No? Then
ask about it. Write
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