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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1894 Vol. 18 N. 44

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
into some four years ago. The times, and the
number of losses sustained by failures of their
dealers—as illustrated in the case of C. F.
Schmidt & Co., of Kvansville, Ind., where they
lost twelve thousand dollars—brought about the
present situation. Behning & Sons have, how-
ever, fought manfully for the last two years to
pay off the old accounts, but the task was no
light one. The outcome is to be regretted.
The Behning boys are earnest and conscientious
workers, and very popular with the trade, and
the Behning piano has always been well liked.
Even at this late day it is to be hoped the name
will not drop out of the trade and that the manu-
facture of the Behning piano is a possibility of
the near future.
At the sale on Thursday, Mr. Peter Duffy and
John A. Weser were the principal purchasers of
the unfinished stock.
BRADBURY PIANOS are deriving
no small share of notoriety and free ad-
vertising from the scheme inaugurated by their
Washington agent to give the most popular
school teacher a free trip to Europe. Sixty-five
teachers are now in the race and over 100,000
votes have already been cast. In fact the
Washington Star says : " If ballots were bullets
the Bradbury Piano Company would have
enough of these little leaden pellets to dose
Xerxes' army."
Some have questioned this mode of advertis-
ing—terming it more sensational than effective.
It may seem so, but nevertheless the fact re-
mains that the Bradbury piano and the Brad-
bury house at Washington are talked about by
r00,000 or more individuals, and incidentally
the merits and reputation of the piano become
known to thousands who were unacquainted
with the instrument, or the fact that it was the
"Administration Piano," and that Freeborn G.
Smith was its prophet. The benefit may not be
immediate, but it will materialize later on.
LAW has just been passed by the New
Jersey legislature which provides that
on and after the first day of July no corporation
not organized under the law of that State, other
than banking, insurance and railroad corpora-
tions, shall transact business in the State until
it shall have filed in the Department of State an
attested copy of its charter or certificate of or-
ganization, together with a statement setting
forth the total amount of the capital stock it is
authorized to issue, the amount issued, and the
nature of its business, and designating a citizen
or corporation of New Jersey as its agent upon
whom legal process against it may be served.
Upon filing these papers the Secretary of State
will issue a certificate authorizing the corporation
to transact business in the State. The law pro-
vides, furthermore, that when by the laws of any
State or nation any taxes, fees, penalties, licenses,
fines or other obligations or requirements are
imposed upon corporations of New Jersey doing
business in such other state or country, or upon
their agents therein, the same taxes, penalties,
obligations or requirements of whatever kind
will be imposed upon all such foreign corpora-
tions doing business in the State of New Jersey,
and upon their agents there.
BRIEF NEWSLETS.
WORLD'S FAIR MEDALS.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND.—J. A. Gilbert has
opened his new music store in the Y. M. C. A.
block.
. . . !
GOOD deal of disturbance has been created
and some scolding has been indulged in
by those who in the competitive exhibit of their
goods at the World's Columbian Exposition
won medals or diplomas and who now find
that by a strict construction of the law under
which the prizes were awarded they are liable to
imprisonment in the penitentiary if for the in-
formation of the public they publish pictures of
the diplomas or medals which they have won.
The law as it stands was drawn at the sug-
gestion of Director-General Davis, says the
Chicago Record, and he had no other idea in
making the suggestion than the preventing of
exhibitors who had won no distinction by their
exhibits from claiming medals or diplomas and
thus deceiving the public. He had not a
thought of depriving any honest and successful
exhibitor of the full use and publicity in his ad-
vertisements of the medals and diplomas which
the merit of his wares had gained.
But in drawing the law the mistake was made
of depriving the prize-winner of whatever benefit
his diploma might be to him in advertising his
manufactures. He can have his diploma framed
and hung up in his parlor and can keep his
medal locked up in his safe to show to his
friends, but nothing more. Such is, at least,
the construction the Attorney-General puts on
the law.
It is outrageous to impute any criminal in-
tent to those who have used for advertising pur-
poses the recognition their goods have won.
Such use has followed each exposition that
has been held, and it is right and proper that
the public should know whose goods entitled
their maker to such recognition. The crime, if
there be any, is only the technical violation of a
clause in a law which was put there through an
error. Mr. Geo. R. Davis, Director-General of
the World's Fair, is now in Washington for
the purpose of getting the law amended so that
those who won prizes may let the world know
it, giving such evidence of the fact as may fairly
be demanded.
Mr. F. A. WINTER, the popular piano dealer
of Altoona, Pa., reached the half century mark
May 23. In this connection the Altoona Mirror
says : " During the last quarter century Mr.
Winter has placed many fine instruments in the
homes of our people and furnished hosts of
bright and catchy sheets of music to learners
and professors of music. Possessing the con-
fidence of this and adjoining communities, his
house bids fair to increase its output of music
and musical instruments, particularly as it con-
trols the exclusive agency of several of the best
makes. Mr. Winter not only deals in music
but often gives vent to the music in his soul by
dotting it upon paper. His latest is a duet,
entitled " Something Still to Do," which was
finely rendered at the Methodist concert last
evening and highly spoken of. The many
warm friends of the gentleman express the wish
that he may reach the full hundred and increase
in stock, store and happiness."
OMAHA, NUB.—In the suit of the Natl. Bank
Bldg. Co. against Ford & Charlton, a corpora-
tion, the music men, a receiver has been asked.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.— Mrs. Will Henniger,
well-known music dealer, has bought a half in-
terest in the fancy goods business, 419 Main
street, and the firm is now Henniger & New-
comb.
FULTON, IA.—It is likely that a piano factory
will be established here.
PORT HURON, MICH.—J. G. Carter, the Water
street piano dealer, has sold out his business to
S. E. Clark & Co., of Detroit, who will continue
the business. Mr. Carter will engage in other
business in this city.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Kroeger Piano Co. has
been incorporated with $15,000 capital. Direct-
ors, Albert W. Kroeger, Thos. L. Couch, B.
Kroeger.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Herman Rippe secured a
judgment of $5,000 May 28th, in the Supreme
Court, against Edward Siegel by default. Both
were employed in Steinway's piano factory in
the fall of 1893. They quarrelled and Siegel
assaulted Rippe.
OTTUMWA, IA.—The Eggleston Music Co. will
move to Macon, Mo., where they have had a
store for 25 years.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The German Singing So-
cieties are arranging for a novel and gorgeous
inauguration of the musical festival which is to
be held in Madison Square Garden from June
23d to 25th inclusive.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Saml. Springer, 29 years
old, of St. Paul, Minn., who claimed to be a
buyer for Palmer & Co., dealers in musical in-
struments, 2240 Third avenue, is said to have
purchased goods from Butler Bros., No. 495
Broadway, Bruno & Sons, 356 Broadway, and
other firms, and had the bills charged to Palmer
& Co. On complaint of Butler Bros. Springer
was held in Jefferson Market Court, May 28th.
He pleaded not guilty.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—I. N. Le Mar, who keeps
a banjo store at 693 Sixth avenue, planned a
little excursion to Bensonhurst May 27th with
his partner, a man named Taylor, and four or
five other friends. On the way home, all feeling
pretty lively, Mrs. Le Mar proposed a dance
and while dancing with Taylor they both fell
overboard, Mrs. Le Mar being drowned. The
whole party was locked up.
WHEELING, W. VA.—The members of the
Seal Glass Mandolin Co. have applied for a
charter under the laws of West Virginia with a
capital stock of $100,000, $500 of which is paid
in.
W. J. ALLEN of San Antonia, Tex., is retiring
from the music business.
THE CONOVER is as popular in Kentucky as
in other parts of the country. The sales of the
Conover in Louisville for the month of April
were surprisingly large.
W. H. BUSH, of the Bush & Gerts Piano Co.,
Chicago, has left for an extended sojourn in
California.
THE REEDER PIANO & ORGAN CO., of Peoria,
111., was incorporated last week by J. L. Reeder,
Clarence Owen and H. W. McCoy. The capital
stock is $5,000.
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THE " Christman piano," manufactured by
John Christman, 54 East 13th street, this city,
is growing in favor among dealers. It is rare-
fully constructed, nothing but the best materials
used and sold at a reasonable price. Mr. Christ-
man is a practical man being a graduate of the
'' Weber '' house.
THE
NEW TEMPLE MUSIC CO., of Chicago,
was incorporated last week with a capital stock
of $15,000 by Major McGregor, Homer Abbott
and Henry L. Wallace.
JAMES H. WILSON, who has been connected
with the house of Lyon & Healy for the past
seven years, as domestic buyer, has decided to
start in business for himself. On his departure
his old colleagues presented him with a hand-
some oak office desk.
THE house of Ford & Charlton, of Omaha,
Neb., has gone into the hands of a receiver.
IT is said that Mr. Wm. E. Wheelock will be
one of the guests at the Chicago Music Trade
dinner, June 16th.
MR. IRVING L. HOLT, well known to visitors
to the W. W. Kimball booth at the World's
Fair, is now located at Bloomington, 111., where
he represents the Kimball House.
A SPECULATOR who makes it his business to
attend auctions for the purpose of buying up bad
debts was in evidence at the Behr sale week be-
fore last. He managed to secure uncollectable
accounts amounting to $19,518.50 for $200. In
the hands of this shrewd man the investment
will undoubtedly be made to pay.
MASON & HAMLIN have just placed upon the
market a new and very handsome style of organ
which is attracting attention. The case is of
oak, beautifully carved, with a revolving mirror
in front.
T H E ANN ARBOR ORGAN CO. were very much
in evidence with an attractive advertisement in
the Festival Journal, gotten out in connection
with the music festival held in that city week
before last.
WM. P. OWEN the music dealer of Joplin,
Mo., is the inventor of a new adjustable bridge
and tail piece for guitars. It is especially
claimed for this invention that it will produce a
better tone and prevent the instrument from
warping and splitting.
MRS. TURNER, mother of Mr. Otto Bramuller,
was presented with an elegant silver pitcher by
the employees of the Bramuller Co. last Satur-
day, in commemoration of the twenty-fifth an-
niversary of her wedding. Mr. E. Jarett made
the presentation and Mr. Turner done the
honors by ordering refreshments and asking Mr.
Bramuller's leave for a half holiday for the em-
ployees.
NOT long since a well-dressed man rented a
piano from the H. M. Brainard Company. The
instrument was sent to No. 202 Lake street.
When the time for which the piano had been
rented expired a representative of the company
went to the house where it had been left, only
to learn that the piano had been removed. Also
missing was the man to whom it had been
rented. Since the matter was reported to the
police Detective Lawrence has been searching
for the piano, and on Monday his efforts were
successful. He found the instrument in a house
in Wycombe place, where it had been purchased
by a woman for $125, she having paid $75 down
and given her note for $50. Her description of
the man of whom she made the purchase tallies
with that of the man who rented the piano from
the Brainard Company.—Cleveland Leader,
May 15th.
of the New York branch
of the Emerson Piano Co., who was seriously
ill, is back again at his old post.
MR. MENDENHALL.
MR. MASON CURRIER is now connected with
the Estey Piano Company.
BY the will of Gottleib F. Votteler, the South
Side organ builder, an estate of $22,000 is dis-
tributed. The provision is inserted that if
Henry B. Votteler, a son of the devisor, will
continue the business of manufacturing organs
he shall have the plant on Jennings avenue;
but should young Votteler follow other pursuits
he shall receive $150 and the manufacturing
plant shall be divided among all the heirs.
The major portion of the personal property and
real estate of Mr. Votteler is left to his widow,
Anna M. Votteler. At the death of the widow
the entire estate is to be divided among the three
children, Henry, Gustave and Clara Pauline.—
Cleveland Plaindealer.
THE employees of Roth & Englehardt, St.
Johnsville, held a reception on the evening of
the 23d inst. in the new factory built to take
the place of the one destroyed by fire. Among
those present were many invited guests from
Dolgeville, Fort Plain. Little Falls, and other
points in the Mohawk Valley. The evening
was passed most enjoyably, the members of the
firm contributing in large measure to the
pleasure of employees as well as visitors. The
hearty good feeling between employers and em-
ployees in the St. Johnsville piano works is
equalled only in Dolgeville.—Dolgeville Herald,
May 31st.
W E regret to announce the death of G. F.
Votteler, the well-known organ manufacturer,
who died on Saturday last at his home, 72 Jen-
nings avenue, Brooklyn Village, Ohio.
W E are in receipt of S. S. Stewart's Banjo and
Guitar Journal for June and July. It is full of
interesting and chatty news, and should be in
the hands of all lovers of the banjo and guitar.
We notice two strong endorsements of the
Stewart banjos from G. W. Gregory, of New
York, and A. A. Farland, of Pittsburg, Pa.,
both celebrated banjoists, in its columns.
THE RUSSELL PIANO COMPANY, of Chicago,
are out with a new and attractive catalogue of
their latest styles of instruments.
IT is rumored that R. M. Hutchinson, super-
intendent of the Boston Piano Company,
Wooster, Ohio, is organizing a piano company
in Mansfield, Ohio. The local papers speak of
the erection of a factory as having commenced.
MR. HORACE F. BROWN, well-known as Behr
Bros. & Co.'s representative at their booth at
the World's Fair, will go on the road for the new
and reconstructed Behr Bros. & Co. after July 1st.
THE music publishing house of H. B. Stevens
& Co. have effected a settlement with their
creditors and will resume business at 212
Boylston street.
MR. DANIEL F. TREACY is back in town after
a successful Western trip.
As receivers for Behr Bros. & Co. Messrs.
Henry Behr and Martin W. Brett have filed in
the United States Circuit Court a statement
showing that they realized $26,279.43 from the
sale of stock of that company. The Court con-
firmed the repoit.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY.
Wife : " I have made two hundred dollars thi s
afternoon." Husband: "Phew! " Wife: "You
paid only three hundred for that old piano,
didn't
y o u ? " Husband: " Y e s . "
Wife:
MESSRS. GRANT AND WAYNE HALLENBECK
have purchased the music business of R. T. '• Well, I have sold it for five hundred. " Hus-
band : " M y ! my ! What are you going to do
MR. WM. E. WHKELOCK purchased eight
Stansbury, Bath, N. Y.
wilh the money?" Wife: "There isn't any
pianos at the recent sale at Behr Bros. & Co. 's
MR. A. D. HUTCHINSON, of Allentown, Pa.,
money." Husband: " E h ? " Wife: " I sold
warerooms. Mr. James E. Healy, of Lyon &
Healy, was also among the purchasers, having is having great success with McCammon pianos it to a dealer. He gives me a new piano for a
and Miller organs. These lead in popularity in thousand dollars, and allows me five hundred
one knocked down to him.
the very wide territory covered by Mr. Hutch- dollars for the old one. If you'd stay at home
ARTICLES of incorporation have been filed
irtson.
and let me go to your office and attend to your
with the Governor of Florida by the A. B.
business, you'd soon be rich. Just think ! Two
MR. RUDOLPH GROSS, of Wessell, Nickel &
Campbell Company, who propose carrying on a
hundred dollars a day is seventy-three thousand
Gross,
was
57
years
old
Wednesday
of
last
week,
general retail manufacturing business in musi-
a year."
cal instruments and merchandise at Jackson- and he paid due deference to the occasion by in-
ville, Fla, The capital stock will be $110,000, viting his co-workers, Commodore Wessell and
to be divided into ten hundred shares of $100 Adam Nickel, the assistants of the firm, and a
Here is a Chance for Music Houses !
each. A. B. Campbell, B. F. Manier, Jr., and J. goodly company of friends to an elaborate repast
RIGHT, wide-awake man, possessing a thorough
W. Lane, of Jacksonville, Fla., are the incorpor- atShur's. After the good things had been done
knowledge of the music and piano business,
justice to, oratory was in order, and the Commo-
wants position with progressive concern who
ators.
dore led off with one of his clever and happy can appreciate ability and worth. Ten years practical
MR. JOHN EVANS, of Newby & Evans, is on
creations in proposing a toast to his honored experience as tuner and repairer of pianos and organs
—reed and pipe. Wilh one Company seven years.
the road visiting agents of his house.
partner. Other gentlemen tested their oratori- Served through all departments from shipping room
office. A 1 book-keeper and typewriter. Can give
J. H. HANCOCK & Co., of Alton, 111., suffered cal abilities in his honor, and the occasion was to
the best of recommendations, and if necessary, bond
in
every
respect
a
thoroughly
enjoyable
one,
and
a loss of $3,000 by fire on the 21st inst. There
for $10,000,
Address, S. B. Care Music TRADE
a tribute to Mr. Gross's popularity.
RKVIKW.
was an insurance of $2,000.
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