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THE; Chicago Cottage Organ Co. have issued
a very convenient little work which is exceed-
ingly useful to the musical profession, in the
form of " A Music Dealer's Pocket Record,"
which is being distributed among teachers. It
will not only prove useful to the recipients, but
will act as an effective means of advertising the
merits of the C. C. O. C. wares.
A. A. REED & SONS, manufacturers at Dick-
son, 111., have just completed a new scale piano
which will be known as style " D . " It Is the
work of Mr. Chas. Stanley, superintendent of
the factory, and those who have examined this
instrument speak of it very favorably.
THE Conover grand piano was in evidence on
the occasion of the Fourth Annual Concert given
by the Ottumwa Conservatory of Music, Ott-
umwa, la., Friday evening of last week.
F. W. TEEPLES, of the Chicago Cottage Organ
Co., has returned from an extended southern
trip in the interest of that house. He says that
business in the South is brisk just now.
MR. HARRY COLEMAN the well known manu-
facturer, importer and publisher of Philadelphia,
Pa., has returned from an extended European
trip.
RUSSELL
(Successors to STARK & STRACK.)
PIANOS
MANUFACTURED BY
Nos. 171 and 173 South Canal Street,
CHICAGO.
MR. RENE GRUNEWALD's guitar and mando-
lin factory, which was recently established by
that gentleman in New Orleans, La., gets a
lengthy notice in the Sept. 28th issue of the
Jewish Times, a New Orleans publication. The
entire process of manufacture is explained and
many kind things said of Mr. Grunewald and
his enterprise. A portrait of Mr. Grunewald
accompanies the article.
THE
Sterling Company,
An actor was one time playing in a provincial
town, and observed in the front row an old lady
moved to tears. Highly flattered, he sent an
attendant to say he would like to see her after
the performance. When they met he was
graciousness itself. "Madame." he said, " I
perceive that my acting touched you."
" I t did that, sir," said the old woman.
" You see, sir, I've got a son myself play-actin
somewhere, who I ain't seen for a longtime;
an' it broke me all up to think that mebbe he
warn't no better at it than you are ! "
When Sarah Bernhardt first went to America
the papers were full of references to her extreme
slenderness. And the story was told of a Boston
man who met a friend one day, and he began
speaking of Bernhardt.
" Do you want to see her ? " asked his friend.
" Yes, " was the delighted reply.
"Well, go down past that carriage and look
in, and you'll see her. "
The man walked past the carriage, glanced in,
and came back.
•' Did you see her ? '' asked his friend.
" I looked in, but I saw nothing."
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' That's she ! " was the reply.
Growth of Co=operation.
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HE American Ma?iufarturer (Pittsburgh)
says: "The latest statistics on co-opera-
tion show that its growth in Great Britain has
been wonderful. During the last fifty years the
THE Regina music boxes are being handled
twenty-eight men who started co-operation have
in Chicago byl,yon, Potter & Co. These instru-
increased to an army of 1,240,013, or about one-
ments are becoming very popular throughout
seventh
of the adult population of the United
the country—being cheap in price and meritori-
Kingdom.
The sum of ,£28 with which the
ous from a musical standpoint.
originators of co-operation began business has
gro'wn into ,£14,013,687, while the annual trade
THE Prescott Piano Co., of Concord, N. H.,
amounts to ^50.300,000. An English journal,
have been exhibiting very largely at the various
commenting upon this fact, expresses doubt as
State Fairs for the past couple of months, in
to whether any but the English race could have
each case coming off with honors and increased
achieved similar results under like conditions.
reputation.
Co-operation, the same journal remarks, is, after
MANUFACTURERS OF
MR. STEPHEN BRAMBACH, of the Estey Piano
all, only a form of self-help ; but as it exists to-
Co., is journeying as far west as the Pacific
day it represents a social and economic revolu-
Coast.
tion quietly brought about by the people for the
A NEW musk store is to be opened up at
people. It has conferred vast benefits on the
working classes. Its advantages are by no
Earlington, Ky., by H. M. Smith, of Madison,
means confined to the members of the societies,
Ky.
though if they were they would be of immense
DERBY, CONN.
THE Snedeker Manufacturing Company is the
importance. The system has had a far wider
name of a firm recently formed in Winchester,
It is admitted by all that no piano ever put upon the influence, and its influence has been wholly in
Ind., by O. N. Snedeker and W. L. Hadley. It market has met with such success as THE STEKLING
favor of the masses. If it did nothing more than
is their intention to manufacture high grade
and thousands will testify to their superiority of work- it has already done, the institution would have
American guitars.
manship and durability. Why ? Because they are made fully justified its existence. The actual money
worth of co-operation to the artisan population
just as perfect as a piano can be made.
Harry : " Bill, who's this great duffer coming
THE STERLING ORGAK has always taken the lead, and is enormous, but its value is by no means limited
that all the swell set are raising their hats to ? " the improvements made this year puts it far ahead oi to the sum which every year it puts into their
pockets. It has had a marked formative effect
Bill: " Don't know him ? Why, he's the stage all others. 3Sf~Send for Catalogue.
on character.''
doorkeeper at the Casino. "
Pianos and Organs,
Hallet £ Davis Pianos
GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT.
Indorsed by Liszt, Gottschalk, Wehli, Bendel, Straus, Soro, Abt,
Paulus, Titiens, Heilbron and Germany's Greatest Masters.
Established over Half a Century.
BOSTON, MASS.