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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
The Stewart Banjo.
BRIEF NEWSLETS.
Chicago, 111.
CHICAGO, III.—Rintelman Piano Co., incor-
porated ; capital $50,000. Anton H. Rintelman,
Morgan H. Cowan and F. W. Hairsine.
Winnebago, Minn.
WINNEBAGO, MINN.—C. C. White has opened
a new music store in the A. C. Dunn Building.
Mr. White comes from Owatonna, and represents
the old and reliable firm of Estey & Camp, of
Chicago.
Canton, 111.
CANTON, I I I . — W . B. Stevens has opened a
new music store on South Main street.
Girard, Kans.
GIRARD, KANS.—Burglars broke into the
music store of P. E. Veatch, but the only articles
missing were a few harps and $3.00 in cash.
Jersey City, N. J.
JERSEY CITY, N. J.—Ernest Houghton, actor,
was fined $10 for disorderly conduct, he having
been arrested on complaint of Geo. E. Holmes,
manager of Bradbury Piano Co., 43 Montgomery
street. Houghton entered the store of Bradbury
Piano Co. and asked for a loan of $10 to $20,
claiming to be a friend of W. P. Van Wickle,
manager of Bradbury Piano Co., of Washington.
Upon Mr. Holmes's request for proof he returned
with a " fake " telegram and was arrested.
New York City.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Judge Ingraham, Supreme
Court, reserved decision in the suit brought by
Hy. W. T. Steinway, to set aside a provision in
the will of his uncle, T. F. Theo. Steinway, who
died in March, 1889. The clause of the will to
which objection is made gave 4,000 shares oi
stock in the corporation of Steinway & Sons to
trustees to hold until 1904 for the benefit of the
children of Theo. Steinway's three sisters and
his brother Charles. Hy. Steinway claims that
the clause should be annulled as there is a sus-
pension of the power of alienation for more than
two lives in being.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
BROOKLYN, N. Y.—A five inch water pipe
connected with a tank on roof of building occu-
pied by Freeborn G. Smith, 772-8 Fulton street,
manufacturer, burst and did damage to extent
ot $io,ooo. The stock of pianos and stools was
valued at $50,000.
Rochester, N. Y.
ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Frank M. Hanse, assignee
of Ropelt Bros., piano manufacturers, filed his
inventory in County Clerk's office. Assets,
$8,527.65; actual value of same, $4,585.50;
liabilities, $3,556. Jno. Ropelt's individual lia-
bilities, $2,151.32; no assets. Geo. M. Ropelt
has neither assets nor liabilities personally.
Scottdale, Pa.
PA.—F. P. Brady, an organ
manufacturer at Scottdale, was closed by the
sheriff at the suit of W. M. Marston & Co., and
was sold out October 6th.
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HERE are few instruments that have won a
higher reputation in their special line than
the banjos manufactured by S. S. Stewart, of
Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Stewart has given the
closest personal attention to the perfection of
this instrument, and the results are apparent in
an unusually fine trade. The Banjo and Guitar
journal, which is edited by Mr. Stewart, is
always a welcome visitor to our desk, and the
number for October and November is, as usual,
full of interest to performers on string instru-
ments. Banjoists should not fail to look up this
interesting journal.
Starr Piano Company Doing a
Remarkable Business.
W& T the Starr Piano Works the hum of indus-
®^s> try can still be heard above the cries of
the masses of the unemployed, coming to us
HE Toronto Globe says: ' • Among the through the press from the labor centers of the
schemes for the extension of Canada's United States. This concern is certainly doing
trade that are now being considered are a fast a remarkable business ; the largest in the history
Atlantic service, a Pacific cable, a fast Australian of the plant. They have just completed an ad-
service, a fast South African service, and a deep dition of another story to the key-shop, and con-
water way to the heart of the continent. Why template the erection of a two-story brick build-
not combine them all, and, by cutting a canal ing 60 x 100 feet just north of the present build-
through to New Westminster, run a belt line ings. Nothing definite will be done before the
service, with corners at Melbourne, Natal, Hali- meeting of the board of directors of the com-
fax and the British Columbian port ? Another pany, which will be held soon, but they hope to
convention should at once be called to consider occupy the building before the snow flies.
the project."
Frank Dennis, of Dennis & Deterling, music
dealers, of Muncie, Ind., was in the city on both
Mr. C. F. Shelland.
business and pleasure this week. He selected
several of the new style Starr pianos before his
. C. F. SHELLAND, of the McCammon return.—Register (Richmond, Ind.), Sept. 30.
Piano Co., is to-day probably one of the
busiest men in the trade. In addition to his
A Useful Book
many private interests which would thoroughly
occupy the time of any average man he finds
i^jOWNING'S UNITED STATES CUS-
time to supervise the McCammon factory in all
TOMS TARIFF, 1894,'' is the title of a
its details. There is probably not a man in the
very
useful
work of some five hundred and thirty
trade that possesses such an extensive knowl-
pages
which
has reached our desk. It contains
edge of the local wants of dealers as regards
a full copy of the customs tariff act of 1894 and
tone and style of case as does Mr. Shelland.
the customs administrative act of 1890, and is
arranged alphabetically in the style of similar
A New Invention.
works issued by this house, which have been the
standard books in use in custom houses and
\fmVlGl GAM BRA, a piano tuntr and repairer commercial communities. In this book are
of Constantinople, has invented a new mentioned over twenty thousand articles by
musical instrument, which has the appearance their trade name with the proper rate of duty,
of a miniature upright piano. The hammers, the paragraph tp the text of the bill, which is
however, which the keys set in motion, are not printed in the front of the bo«k, and a reference
felt or leather bound, but metal-tipped, and to all decisions by the courts and appraisers.
strike, instead of strings, tin plates or tongues The book has been very carefully compiled by
of steel. The sound produced is very pure and many of the best tariff experts and it should meet
delicate, though not very powerful. He calls it with a hearty welcome in the mercantile world—
the " Angelic Voice," and will present it to the particularly from exporters and importers. R.
Sultan of Turkey, in token of gratitude for the F. Downing & Co., Beaver and William streets,
consideration which has been shown him by the this city, are the publishers.
imperial court from the days of Sultan Abdul
Medjid.
To Extend Canada's Trade.
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An Important Decision.
JE^ VERYONE who employs an agent for any
^-^ purpose thereby becomes responsible for
his acts, either to the extent specifically agreed
upon, or, if the agency be general, for every-
thing done within its scope. But the unauthor-
MR. HOENE, of Mellor & Hoene, Pittsburg,
ized acts and contracts ot an agent may be rati-
Pa., returned from Europe, Tuesday of last fied and thus made binding^ on the principal,
week. He was accompanied by his wife and says the Business Law Weekly. The Supreme
son. Mr. Hoene spent three months abroad.
Court of South Dakota (Jewell Nursery Co., v.
IT is expected that a large number of piano State) says that if a principal knowingly appro-
and organ houses will be represented at the com- priates and enjoys the fruits and benefits of an
ing Cotton States and International Exposition agent's acts, he will n<*t afterwards be heard to
which will be held in Atlanta, Ga. The say that the act was unauthorized, but it is
directors are at present in receipt of quite a num- equally true that the principal must have had
ber of applications for space. It is not unlikely full knowledge of the material facts, or that he
that the leading manufacturers will take advant- should have intentionally accepted the benefits
age of this medium of extending their southern without injury ; otherwise the receipt and reten-
tion of the benefits ol the unauthorized act is no
trade.
SCOTTDALE,
ratification of it. Furthermore the principles of
law governing ratification by a principal of the
unauthorized contract of an agent are the same,
whether the principal be a corporation or an in-
dividual, but in neither case will the nonrepudi-
ation by a principal of a contract of which he
never heard be charged against him as a ratifi-
cation of it. There must be, at least, an oppor-
tunity for him to act before his non-action will
make an estoppel against him.
THE BALMER & WEBER CO., St. Louis, Mo.,
have issued a neat little circular containing
many kind words in praise of the famous Steck
piano. It also contains several pieces of music,
which are reduced in size, but complete. The
enterprise of this house exemplifies the wide
spread popularity of the Steck piano, and the
esteem in which it is held throughout the West.
STURZ BROS., piano manufacturers, 142 Lin-
coln avenue, receive quite a complimentary
notice from the Harlem Local Reporter in its
issue of Wednesday, October 3d. That paper is
giving a series of biographical sketches of the
leading manufacturers and prominent business
men of the '' greater New York.''
DENVER, COLO , can boast of possessing a
piano factory. Mr. Andrew Mapel is the
owner. He has just completed his first piano,
and he makes the claim that it is the first piano
ever made in that State.