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VOL. XVIII. No. 27.
published Euery Saturday.
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flew Voi% January 27, 1894.
Mr. I. N. Rice is recently back from a trip to
the banana belt of Winnipeg, whether he went
on business.
Mr. E. H. Furbush, of the Vose Piano Com-
pany, stopped over here a few days on his way
to the Pacific Coast.
Yours, etc.,
HARRY MANNING.
CHICAGO.
CHICAGO,
January 24th, 1894.
EDITOR MUSIC TRADE REVIEW :
A steady and constantly augmenting business
is extant, and the year starts out very au-
spiciously.
The Mason & Hamlin Company finds need of
more commodious and conveniently accessible
quarters to meet the growing demands of its
business. They are now negotiating for more
eligible rooms, and will soon leave their aerial
warerooms for ground floor space in the very
heart of the musical quarter on Wabash avenue.
The old J. H. Walker & Co. store on the
south-west corner of Wabash avenue and Adams
street, shortly to be the new home of Lyon &
Healy, is being fitted up in the most lavish
style for the early coming of its new tenants.
The Chase Bros. Piano Company held its an-
nual meeting at Muskegon, Mich., a few days
ago. All the old officers were reelected, and the
business will go on under the same auspices
that have made it so successful and well known
heretofore. Among the new arrivals in their
Chicago warerooms are an upright and a grand
in light mahogany which attract special atten-
tion and favorable comment. They are indeed
triumphs of the piano makers' art.
Mr. Hollyer, manager of the Mason & Ham-
lin Company, left a few days ago for Kansas
City en route to California. It is pretty well
understood in the trade here that this company
will start a branch house in Omaha, probably
before spring.
Messrs. F. W. & F. E. Miles, formerly in the
R. Dorman & Co. concern, have started a busi-
ness in Nashville, Tenn., to be known as the
Nashville Music Company, and will handle the
lines of the Chicago Cottage Organ Company
for that portion of the South.
Charles H. MacDonald, of the Popular Pease
Piano Company, is back again at business seek-
ing new worlds to conquer in the piano trade.
Mr. J. R. Foulks, of Malvern, la., Geo. C.
Cox, of Smith & Nixon, Cincinnati, J. A. Mor-
ris, of Gildenieester & Kroeger, N. Y., are
among the trade, buying, selling and discussing
other matters of moment to their respective con-
stituencies.
Mr. Charles Jacob has just returned from an
extended trip through Indiana, Ohio and Penn-
sylvania. He found business good and brought
back a very encouraging batch of orders.
THE music store of H. Simon, 520 Milwaukee
avenue, Chicago, 111., was entered by burglars a
few days ago and a number of musical instru-
ments taken. The thieves have been captured.
J. H. WINGER'S music store, 257 West Indi-
ana street, Chicago, 111., was entered by burglars,
the same as referred to above, and $200 worth of
musical instruments taken.
THE action of Otto Iy. Braumuller, President
of the Braumuller Piano Co., New York, for an
absolute divorce from his wife L,uetta, who has
an artists' material store at 97 Fifth avenue, has
resulted in the jury rendering a verdict in favor
of Mrs. Braumuller.
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THE Steinway Council No. 78, A. L. of H.,
New York, has elected Chas. E. Burden their
commander. The Council is composed of the
employees of Messrs, Steinway & Sons.
MACKIE
PIANO,
ORGAN AND MUSIC
CO.,
Rochester, N. Y., has issued its annual report.
Capital stock $100,000, all issued; debts $12,-
000; assets $90,000.
THE mill of Nutley Mfg. Co., Franklin, N. J.,
has been sold, and the owner, P. L. Sondheim,
has become a member of Hardman, Peck & Co.,
piano manufacturers of New York City.
BUSINESS at the Bond factory, Charleston, N.
H., is picking up in encouraging fashion, hav-
ing received within the last ten days orders for
250 dozen musical instrument cases.
JOHN A. LANG, Meredith, N. H., who died
last week, was widely known as a manufacturer
of piano cases.
W. BENIT, Guttenburg, N. J., has opened a
piano wareroom at Bull's Ferry.
JULIUS HOFFMAN, music dealer, of 13 Bergen -
line avenue, Union Hill, W. Hoboken, N. J.,
has been missing from his home for over a week.
He leaves a wife and two children penniless. It
is believed that Hoffman is in New York, though
his wife thinks he is in Germany.
AT the annual meeting of the stockholders of
Carpenter Organ Co., Brattleboro, Vt., Geo. E.
Crowell was elected President, C. H. Davenport,
Treasurer, and M. Austen, Jr., Secretary.
THE piano firm of Taunton & Spence, L,os
$3 00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
Angeles, Cal., first fell out, then into bank-
ruptcy, and finally landed each other in the law
courts. The plaintiff in the action of Taunton
vs. Spence alleges that Harold C. E. Spence and
Jno. Spence have possession of the books, pro-
perty, accounts, etc., belonging to late partner-
ship. The defendant moves for a dismissal of
the case on ground that plaintiff disposed and
appropriated to his own use various articles be-
longing to late partnership valued at $1,325.
ANNUAL report of the Nelson Piano Co., Mus-
kegon, Mich., shows the capital stock to be
$200,000. C. L. Barrell, President; H. A. Wolff,
Treasurer and Vice-President; J. E. Barrell, Sec-
retary.
E. JONES, the alleged piano swindler, of Dela-
ware, O., has been held in the sum of $500 o'n
charge of obtaining money under false pre-
tences. He is also wanted by the Tiffin autho-
rities on the same charge.
PROF. GEO. H. VINCENT, a well known musi-
cian, died at his home in Butler, Pa., of heart
trouble. He was 40 years old, and leaves a wife
and two children.
SHERIFF FAHRENBACH has closed the music
store of Joel S. Unger, dealer in musical instru-
ments, 27 and 29 North 5th street, Reading, Pa.,
on a number of executions aggregating $3,234.57.
Mr. Unger has one of the finest music stores in
the city, and claims that his assets are sufficient
to pay his liabilities, but owing to hard times
was unable to collect money due him. Mr.
Unger was publisher of Musical News, a monthly
journal due this week, and arrangements will be
made to get out the number.
MR. NATHAN FORD, of the Nathan Ford Com-
pany, St. Paul, Minn., visited our sanctum dur-
ing the week.
WILLIAM HARPER, a salesman in Chase Bros.'
Chicago warerooms, was arrested January 13th
for stealing a diamond ring valued at $100 from
Miss Carrie Gottfredsen, of Kenosha, Wis. Har-
per, who is a very plausible conversationalist,
got into the good graces of Miss Gottfredsen,
and was rewarded by being allowed to admire
this valuable ring which he afterwards pawned.
It is evident that Mr. Harper will not sell pianos
for some time to come.
GEO. STECK & Co. held their annual meeting
January 18th. The former officers were re-
elected, viz. : Geo. Nembach, President; Robt.
Katnmerer, Secretary and Treasurer, and Frederic
Dietz, factory superintendent. The general con-
dition of business for the past year has been
satisfactory, and they report a surplus on the
right side of the ledger.
THE absorption of the entire stock and ac-
counts of the well known house of Winter &
Harper and S. W. Fisher by the Wiley B. Allen
Company, of Portland, Ore., portend quite a
few changes in piano agencies in the Pacific
Coast. The Wiley B. Allen Company have
placed. Mr. George A. Heidinger in charge of
the piano and organ departments of both stores.