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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
MR. A. G. CLEMMER, who was Hallet &
Davis' representative at the World's Fair, has
been appointed manager of the Cleveland branch
of the house of Hallet & Davis.
BICKING & Co., of Evansville, Ind., who
recently sold their business to the G. W. Warren
Co., have offered their creditors a settlement of
33^ cents on the dollar. The offer was not ac-
cepted, on the grounds that they appropriated
the proceeds of the sale of their business, and
concealed part of the assets. Steck & Co.,
Julius Bauer & Co., and Lyon & Healy figure
among the creditors.
CHASE BROS. COMPANY are getting some hard
knocks from the German trade paper, Instru-
menten Zeitung, for their reflections on juror
Max Schiedmayer.
GEO. C. PEABSON, of Indianapolis, agent for
the Hazieton pianos, recently sold one of these
celebrated instruments to Hon. Samuel B. Morse,
United States Consul-General at Paris. They
also filled an order for a Hazleton upright from
Senator Turpie.
JOHN H. STECKER, of Stecker & Son, music
dealers, Milwaukee, is dead.
MCLAREN & BEAU, Macomb, 111., have bought
the music store formerly owned by Wm. B.
Morgan.
The Keynote for December has been received
and is a very handsome number. Besides many
articles on music, literature and art, it contains
the waltz song "Day Dawn," which alone is
worth many times the cost of the magazine. E.
Lyman Bill, 3 East 14th street, New York, is
the publisher.—Guil/ord Echo, Bradford, Conn.,
December 23d.
CUSTOM HOUSE, BOSTON,
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Collector's Office, December 13, 1893. j
Exportations of Musical Instruments from the
Port of Boston, Month ending Nov. 30, 1893.
To Germany:
Twenty-six (26) organs
-
-
$1,200
To Netherlands :
Ten (10) organs
-
-
-
-
510
To England :
Two hundred and thirty (230)
organs
-
-
-
$13,613
All other and parts ot
-
300
Jos. ROGER, JR., drum and banjo head manu-
facturer, Highview, N. Y., has shipped a large
To Scotland :
order of goods to a music house in Melbourne,
One (1) organ -
45
Australia.
To Nova Scotia, etc. :
MR. WM. G. TWOMBLY, for many years a
Four (4) organs
- $320
music dealer in Portland, Me., was robbed the
Two (2) Pianos
475
other day of $75 and a gold watch. Mr. Twombly,
All other and parts of
239
who is 87 years old, fell several weeks ago and
broke his hip, and while alone in his rooms at
-
$16,702
Total -
122yi Exchange street, a man entered his room
Countries
:
and stole his pocketbook and watch. A detect-
France
-
- 735
ive is at present working upon the case.
-
2,683
Germany -
WM. F. HUBBARD, music dealer, of Lyons, N.
-
68
England
-
Y., has been sentenced to the Auburn prison for
Total
- $3,486
seven years for forgery.
LETTERS from Florida give the good tidings
that Geo. W. Lyon, of Lyon, Potter & Co., is
reaping substantial benefits from his Southern
trip.
IT is said that the leading musical merchan-
dise importers have raised the sum of $5,000 for
THE following appeared in the South Norwalk,
the purpose of establishing a " ways and means "
Conn.,
Sentinel a few days ago : '' Dear Editor :
of enabling them to have the tariff on musical
A
statement
made by the Caflin Piano Co., in
instruments and parts thereof reduced to 25 per
your
issue
of
the 19th, stating that I procured
cent.
and paid for Mr. R. Vogler's statement advising
MILTON R. SLOCUM is now the popular road-
his friends and pupils not to purchase a Claflin
man for the Starck & Strack piano.
piano, is false, as I never asked Mr. Vogler for
such statement or paid for it. This is all I will
MR. J. R. BROWN, who is road representative
say
now, or in the future ; but will let my past
of the Colby Piano Co., has increased the
record
for fifteen years in the piano business,
;imount of capital he holds in the Colby Com-
pany to $25,000. He purchased the stock and my future dealings with the public, answer
formerly held by Mr. Jacob Christie, who has for all injuries and insults that may be cast up-
on me. Yours respectfully, J. W. STUDWELL,
decided to enter business on his own account.
N. B.—I hereby certify that the above is correct
OTTO WISSNER is doing some clever advertis-
RICHARD VOGLKR."
ing work in the daily papers in the interests of
the Wissner grand.
As a sequel to the suit of C. F. Buck against
J. L. Smith, both piano dealers, of Louisville,
Ky., Mr. Smith desired judgment for $150, de-
claring that Mr. Buck sold a piano while in his
employ for $150 and failed to account to the
firm for the money.
A MUSIC store will soon be opened up in
Schultz's corner building, Naperville, 111.
The Record of Philadelphia states that a Stradi-
varius violin sold for $16,000.
WE are sorry to say that Mr. Geo. Bothner,
the well-known action maker, is not entirely
recovered from his protracted attack of illness.
CARTER & HUMMEK, of Lewistown, 111., will
shortly open a music store at Rushville, 111.
A LONG ISLAND customer of Mr. Mylius, a
dealer on Union square, has refused to make the
fiual payment on a piano purchased by him, on
the grounds that Mylius is not the manufacturer
of the instrument that bears his name. Mr.
Mylius denies that he ever claimed he was the
manufacturer, and the question of "stencil"
will drift into the law courts to be finally de-
cided upon.
THE new Dolge autoharp will surprise and de-
light dealers.
THE Starr Piano Co., of Richmond, Ind., have
secured the services of Mr. De Volney Everett,
whose engagement with Sohmer & Co. expires
to-day.
IT is said that.Jacob Christie, at one time of
the Christie Piano Company, of this city, but
lately with the Colby Piano Company, of Erie,
Pa., is about to start a piano factory in the old
Shaw factory on Peach street, Erie. It is sup-
posed that the firm will assume the title of the
Christie Piano Co., or Christie & Brown, as the
latter is supplying the necessary capital.
NEW YORK.
SB FIFTH AVENUE- I 817 BROADSTREET.
1226 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. I 257 WABASH AVENUE.
KANSAS CITY, MO.,
1OOO WALNUT STREET.
ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO PRINCIPAL OFFICES, 774 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN, N . Y.