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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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TOPICS OF THE WEEK
JACK HAYNES will in future find traveling
unnecessary. He has placed a long distance
telephone in his wareroorns, and whenever he
wants a quiet talk on business, or other topics,
he has simply to Hello ! Hello ! Don't fail to
ring him up.
F. DECKER, of Decker Bros , sailed
for Europe by the " Spree " last Tuesday. He
will be gone probably four months.
WILLIAM
OUR sanctum was graced, during the week,
by the presence of the genial and popular John
N. Merrill, of Boston. He is taking a" flyer,"
and finds a steady and growing demand for the
new style Merrill pianos.
THE handsome building on Fifth avenue to
which Hamilton S. Gordon will move about
May 1st, is rapidly approaching completion. It
will afford him magnificent quarters, and the
location could not be better.
THROUGH the carelessness of some workmen
a water tap was left open on the top floor of the
Chickering warerooms, on Fifth avenue, Thurs-
day night of last week. That portion of the
building which is undergoing alterations was
saturated with water. Fortunately the side of
the building containing instruments was not
damaged.
THERE is no truth in the reported change of
the St. Paul agency of the Decker Bros, piano.
ALBERT WERER has returned from an ex-
tended trip through Canada and Michigan, and
is very well pleased with the result. He reports
a general improvement of trade in the different
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cities he visited.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & Co., 209 Bowery,
will have their new catalogue ready for distri-
bution about the first week in April. It will be
very comprehensive and worthy the attention
of the trade.
BLUMENSTIEL & HIRSCH have issued exe-
cution to the sheriff in Brooklyn against the
THE co-partnership heretofore existing be-
property there of Henry Rosenberger, who did
tween M. A. Malone & Bro., 130 Main street,
business in this city as C. Rosenberger & Son,
Columbia, S. C , has been dissolved by mutual
importers of musical instruments, at No. 108
consent. M. A. Malone succeeds to the busi-
Chambers street, on a judgment for $431 in
ness and assumes all liabilities to the firm.
favor of August Durrschmidt, of Markneukir-
MR. GEORGE C. CRANE, of the Geo. C. Crane
sheriff has
MANLY B. RAMOS & Co., of Richmond, Va.,
Co., was one of the seventy passengers in the chen, Saxony, for goods sold, but the
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will in future represent the Krell piano.
recent wreck on the Richmond and Norfolk R. not yet made his return. A few w eeks ago Mr.
Rosenberger gave a bill of sale of the business
THE plant of the Columbian Organ & Piano R. He had a narrow escape, which did not un- for $3,985 to Dora Hampe, who Is said to be his
Co., Chicago, which, as we announced, was to nerve him in the least, for he managed to mother-in-law. The attorneys said they would
be sold on March 15th, has been postponed until transact some good business in Richmond.
probably take proceedings to test the validity of
the 26th. The offers made were unsatisfactor5',
THE Automaton Piano Co. will be located in the bill of sale. The house is one of the oldest
but it is hoped that a reasonable price will be new warerooms at 1199 Broadway about May in the musical instrument line in the city, having
received by that date.
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been established in 1852 by Charles Rosenberger,
MESSRS. BOND, SR., and THAYER, of the Ft.
DANIEL F. BEATTY, of Washington, N. J., who withdrew from the firm on January 1st, 1888.
Wayne Organ Co., have returned from Europe, will be arraigned for trial in the U. S. Circuit The son had been a partner for several years
where they placed the agency of the '' Packard '' CouTt at Windsor, Vt., on May 15th, on the previous.—Herald.
organs for Great Britain with Hirsch & Co. in charge for using the mails for fraudulent pur-
THE genial " Charlie " Sisson was in town
I^ondon. In the hands of Hirsch & Co. they poses. Beatty was indicted there fir selling an
last
week. He returned from a two months'run
expect a new popularity for the " Packard " organ to N. E. Sawyer, of Felchville, Vt., for
through
the South. He seemed well satisfied
organs.
which he paid $50. According to the stat ments with the condition of business with the Farrand
MR. E. A. POTTER, of Lyon, Potter & Co., made by Beatty the organ was to possess thirty-
& Votey agents. He will cover Pennsylvania
displayed a clever bit of enterprise by placing four stops, ar.d contain all the noted improve- and a few other States on his way home.
Steinway pianos in the rooms of the principal ments of the age. It was to be gold plated, sil-
THE Henry F. Miller & Sons Artists' Grand
artists of the Abbey & Grau Grand Opera Com- ver mounted, copper bottomed ad i?ifinitum.
pany for their use during their stay in Chicago. The instrument which Sawyer received, how- piano has lately been used very largely at con-
This move cannot fail to be productive of good ever, had but eight stops, and six of these were cert recitals in the "city of culture " and the
results, both to the house bf Lyon, Potter & dummies, and the two stops operated on the suburban towns. At a concert given by Mary
same reeds. The instrument was probably Howe, the noted prirna donna, at Greenfield,
Co. and the Steinway piano.
worth ten or twelve dollars. When Mr. Beatty Mass., the merits of the Miller Artists' Grand
The handsome rooms of the Central Phono- gets through with this charge he will have to
were favorably commented on by the local press.
graph Company in Washington, D. C , are face several more on the same ground.
It was used the night after at North Adams,
adorned by some Kimball pianos, which have
Mass., where it shared the honors of the
been placed there by Mr. W. B. Price, the ener-
THE Standard Music Company, with Mr^ evening.
getic representative of that house. They are Albert Eastman, a well-known music teachtr,
THE Chicago music houses are making much
being used in making records of music selections as manager, has opened a music store in the
ado about the proposed elevated road which is
for the Phonograph Company.
Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio.
to be built on Wabash avenue, the great music
GOVERNOR LEVI K. FULLER received con-
THE music store of J. M. Kellogg was opened trade thoroughfare of that city. The feeling of
siderable notice from the press of San Francisco again to-day, says the Waterbury, Conn., the trade on the matter is pretty well expressed
during his visit to that city. His opinions, Ameticati, HS the result of an arrangement with in the woidsof P. J. Healy, who recently said
political and otherwise, have been duly chron- creditors, and business will be continued there in a Western exchange that " if the double
icled.
as formerly. Several of the piano houses wilh track elevated road is built on Wabash avenue
whom
Mr. Kellogg has don** business for several there will not be a music trale house left on
CARL FISCHER is making extensive additions
to his warerooms. He has leased the new store years have expressed thtir confidence in him, that thoioughfare in ten years. "
and one of them, Jacob Bos., sent him a check
adjoining his present quarters, 8 4th avenue.
for $100 to help him out.
AT a recent meeting of teachers of music in
WANTED.
GEO. N. GRASS, of G.o. Steok&Co., is taking
Berlin an examination was made of a new de-
A GOOD TRAVELING SALESMAN, for a Musical
vice for muting the sound of a piano. It al- a short run through Pennsylvania, part of New
Mdse. House. A good opening for an experi-
lows the sound to be damped without making a Yoik State and Cana
difference in the touch or expression. It can be so far leads the house to believe that the trade
Address Musical Mdse.,
outlook is exceedingly bright.
Care of " The Music Trade Review."
attached to any piano,
to hand from dealers and travelers
in the South bespeak an improved condition of
trade in that section of the country. Business
in organs, particularly, seems to be bttter in
the South than in the West.
REPORTS