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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
SAML. LAPIN, owner of musical instrument
store, 1452 Light street, Baltimore, Md., pur-
chased a violin from a countryman a few days
ago for a very low price and afterwards dis-
covered that it was a genuine Guarnerius-
Cremona. Its value is said to be great.
TURNER,
DICKINSON & Co , piano-plate
founders, of Chicago, who failed some time ago,
have resumed business.
ALBERT G. WEIGAND will leave Monday for
an extended trip West in the interest of the
Braumuller piano. This statement gives grati-
fying evidence of the final adjustment of the
Braumuller matter.
MR. THEO. PFAFFLIN, with Wtn. Knabe &
Co., Fifth avenue, has resigned from that firm.
It is said that Mr. Pfafflin will connect himself
with a well-known Western house.
CHARLES P. CUMMINGS, the hustling young
piano manufacturer of Boston, will leave
shortly on a business trip throughout the West.
OF late the friends of the one and only Karl
Fink have been somewhat mystified as to the
real cause of Karl's thoughtful and studious
demeanor. The secret is out at last, and in the
inner circle it is quietly known that the fertile
brain of Fink has evolved the micro phographo-
phone—capable of producing wonderful and
hitherto unknown effects. It is of Lilliputian
proportions and can be easily carried in one's
vest pocket—that is in Karl's vest pocket.
IN the case of the Madison Square Bank Di-
rectors it is stated that the Directors author-
ized and approved loans amounting to thousands
of dollars to Ernil Klaber, of the Automaton
Piano Co.
W. E. D. STOKES, owner of the house at 242
West 76th street, has brought suit against
Richard A. Saalfield, music publisher, to recover
$1,901.84, which he claims Saalfield, who leased
the house from him, owes him for leaving the
house in bad condition and for staying several
days beyond the expiration of the lease. Saal-
field makes a general denial and puts in a
counter claim for $1,200 for necessary repairs.
HANDSOME residence at Kensington Place,
Lancaster, Pa., belonging to Kirk Johnson,
dealer in musical instruments, has been dam-
aged to extent of $3,000 by fire.
ED IRVIN and W. R. French have purchased
the music business formerly known as Baldwin
& Colvert and have moved in the Meifeld
Building at corner of Main and Walnut streets,
Frankfort, Mo.
LAST week we announced that Mr. John Sum-
mers, late of Chase & Smith, Syracuse, N. Y.,
would associate himself with Mrs. Z. Smith, of
Erie, Pa. Upon investigation Mr. Summers
found the business outlook was not such as he
was lead to believe, and he withdrew. Mr.
Summers is a most capable outside man, and he
should be connected with one of our New York
houses.
S. G. CHICKERING, of S. G. Chickering &
Co., Boston, will leave next week for Florida,
where he will remain about a month. The trip
will be a combination one of business and
pleasure, as while he is inspecting the festive
alligator he proposes to get in good work for
his piano.
AT a Grand Army of the Republic installation
service held recently at Walpole, Mass., Colonel
Wm. Moore, of the Everett Piano Co., Boston,
delivered one of his very able and attractive ad-
dresses.
THE A. B. Chase piano and organ factory, Nor-
walk, O., has resumed work again after a shut
down of a week.
JOHN W. KELLOGG, of Waterbury, Conn.,
agent for Treat & Shepard, music dealers of
New Haven, who was arrested about a month
ago charged with embezzling between $6,000
and $7,000 from his employers, and who was
subsequently released on bonds furnished by his
brother-in-law, has been surrendered by his
bondsmen and is now languishing in the county
jail at New Haven. Kellogg is an ex-Congre-
gational minister.
CHAS. P. NELSON has retired from the music
firm of Frield Miller & Co., 120 North Vermil-
lion street, Danville, III., and the business will
henceforth be conducted by Mr. Frield Miller
MR. JAS. BLACK will start a music store at
Beatrice, Neb.
ROTH & ENGLEHART'S piano factory, St.
BENJ. G. LONG, Rutland, Vt., who disap- Johnsville, N. Y., has been destroyed by fire.
peared some time ago while on his way to the Loss $50,000. Insured. About 100 hands were
World's Fair has returned. His friends have employed in the factory.
compromised with his creditors and he will re-
MCHAFFIE BROS., music store,
Missoula,
sume business.
Mont., was damaged to the extent of $2,500 by
C. A. AHLSTROM, piano manufacturer, Janies- fire.
towu, N. Y., who was arrested for selling instru-
A COMPANION novelty to the happy looking
ments in Bradford, Pa., will have to pay a fine
'nigger," which we received from Wm. Tonk
of $25 and costs and pay the license, which is
& Bro., is the handsomely lithographed
$40.
"hanger" from the same house, showing a
HANS VON BULOW, the distinguished pianist young man accompanying his fair one on one
died in Egypt Feb. 13th. He was born Jan. 8, of their " Edwin " guitars. Testimonials are re-
1830.
produced from Lillian Russell and Marie Tem-
pest, who consider the " Edwin " simply per-
JACOB GREENER, piano manufacturer, Elniira,
N. Y., has brought suit against Miss Nellie fection.
Burton, formerly of Elniira but now of Roches-
M. E. WOLF'S music store at 577 Eighth av-
ter, for the purpose of recovering money for a enue, this city, was entered by burglars for the
piano now claimed by Miss Burton. The piano second time last Sunday who cleaned out a large
was rented for Miss Burton by a gentleman, now show case of $100 worth of musical instruments.
deceased, and as the rent for same was never The burglars were captured and proved to be
paid Mr. Greene is trying to recover the pay or five juniors from 12 to 14 years old, who were
his piano which Miss Burton refuses to give up. committed to the reformatory.
Mr. DETRECK, who was connected for many
years with the Kimball company, Chicago, and
later with A. H. Whitney Co., Kansas City, is
now connected with the Chicago house of the
Mason & Hatnlin Orga,n and Piano Co. He
will have charge of the wholesale trade in the
territory controlled by the Chicago branch.
THE Cleveland, O., Press, says that the busi-
ness men of Geneva, O., are raising a fund of
$5 000 to start the manufacture of pianos under
the Brett patents.
MR. J. M. RICHARDS is doing some good work
on the road for the Briggs Piano Company,
WILLIAM KRAMER, of the Atlantic Garden,
has bought an orchestrion which is the biggest in
the world. It was on exhibition at the World's
Fair and there was awarded the first prize. Mr.
Kramer is said to have paid $50,000 for it. The
old orchestrion, which has furnished music for
so many years, has been taken down and
shipped back to Germany.
THE American piano and organ houses will
be practically unrepresented at the coming Ant-
werp Exposition. Mr. E. H. Story, of Story &
Clark Organ Company, who on a recent Euro-
pean visit, " took soundings," found there was
little to encourage an outlay in that direction.
The benefits that might accrue to exhibitors
would be actually nil, while the expense can be
put to best possible advantage stimulating and
extending the home market.
LYON, POTTER & Co., Chicago, managed to
dispose of 79 Steinway grand pianos at retail
for the year ending Jan. 31. This is not doing
badly, taking democratic times into considera-
tion.
MR. H. L. MASON, of the Mason & Hamlin
Organ and Piano Co., is in Havana recuperating
from a protracted indisposition.
THE probate of Geo. W. Lyons' will shows
that he was a richer man than was generally
supposed. The total amount foots up close on
half a million—$234,000 in real estate and $200,-
000 in personal property. After a few small be-
quests the will provides $25,000 for the use of
George W. Lyon, Jr. until he is of age, when he
gets the principal. A like amount is for the
use of Mary A. Lyon until she is 18 years of
age, when she will get the principal. An annu-
ity is provided a sister of Mr. Lyon residing in
Massachusetts The residue of the estate, in-
cluding stocks, bonds and real estate goes to his
widow for life. At her death the children suc-
ceed to the estate.
THE following appears in Invention, a London
technical journal ; " To Prevent the Discolora-
tion of Pianoforte Keys. It is well known that
the process of discoloration in ivory proceeds
more rapidly when it is excluded from light and
air than when exposed. This invention is to
prevent the discoloration of the keys, and con-
sists essentially in so constructing the casing
that the keys shall always be exposed to the
light and atmosphere, having silvered glass to
reflect the light on to the keyboard and fret-
work, through which the air cm have free
access ; the pianoforte being handsomer and far
superior to any hitherto known. Patented in
England and abroad. Model can be seen in
London."
Ox the recent visit of a representative of the
McCainmon Piano Company, Oneonta, N. Y., to
the South he made a contract with one firm in-
volving several hundred instruments. The Mc-
Cammon piano will in future be better known
in Texas and the extreme Southern States. It
will undoubtedly become a favorite.