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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
one can. I'm giving you this straight and said Day, "whatever 'Gen'l' Dodge says
know what I'm talking about. There's been a them's my sentiments."
lot of talk about my coming up here, but I 'm
Here I must stop, Col. Chas. " Midway Plais-
here to stay and am building a $14,000 house to ance " Stocking has called, and I'm off for a
prove that fact.
dinner and then to the theatre.
B. H. JANSSBN.
Ed. Gram.
"Mr. Janssen, business is very quiet. I
should, to use a nautical term, call it 'puny.'
Handsome Piano Stools.
We have done a little, but it has only been a
little."
-E are in receipt of a pretty miniature
J. B. Bradford.
piano stool from Mr. M. F. Masters, 95
Here the manager informed me that altogether Fifth avenue, agent for the wares turned out by
trade is very fair. He only complained of his the Chas. Parker Piano Stool Co., Meriden,
competitors for selling so low and on such long Conn. Mr. Masters carries a line of goods in
time payments.
CHICAGO.
Always the same great, bustling city ; smokier
than ever, though a remarkable city; the only
one of its kind that I know of, wonderful in
everything. I know of no city whose inhabit-
ants are so proud of it, so jealous of their city's
name and position. Then only one thing that
strikes an outsider as peculiar, no one ever claims
it as " the place where I was born." They must
either have a pile of money or else the whole
community is mortgaged.
Business in Chicago is absolutely dull, not
alone in the piano trade but in every line. There stock which are exceedingly artistic, being made
may be a few establishments that are busy, such up in fancy woods and in a variety of styles.
as Kimball, Lyon & Healy, and the Chicago Manufacturers and dealers should not fail to
Cottage, but they are not doing what they give Mr. Masters a call when desiring anything
in his line.
could do.
Lyon & Healy.
Fred. J. Mabon Harried.
Mr. Post said they were holding their own.
The retail trade was quiet, but their wholesale j ^ .
MABON, road representative for the
trade quite satisfactory. Their piano sales were ^
Mehlin house, is a sly fellow. He went
a little ahead of last year; their small goods and got married on October 3d, and actually
trade much better, especially on Washburn goods. never said a word about it to "the boys." The
Mr. Bowers, the genial and always smiling happy event took place in Kankakee, 111., and
manager of the sheet music department, in- the bride was Miss Delia Mellanson, a school
formed me that they were very busy, and never mate. Mr. and Mrs. Mabon have been making
in his recollection were there so many '' hits '' a wedding tour through Canada, and have just
out as to-day.
returned to New York. They will reside in
fleyer <& Weber.
Brooklyn.
This house certainly has an enviable reputa-
Of Absorbing Interest.
tion in the Chicago trade, because everybody
speaks so highly of both its members, and with
cause, too, for more courteous and modest gentle- " JjfHE LAST OF THE DANVERS," the
-S story of a fatalist, by Edward Lyman
men cannot be found. I met them both, and
they were very much of the same opinion as the Bill, is just issued by the Keynote Publishing
other dealers, that trade was dull. As Meyer Co., 3 East 14th street, New York. It is a story
remarked, '' I believe in telling just how matters of atrip across the prairies of absorbing interest.
stand. No use saying trade is good when it's —Ohio State Journal, Columbus, O.
bad, or saying it's bad when it's good. Better
tell the truth about it; your enemies won't be-
David H. Schmidt.
lieve you, either way; your friends only admire
you the more.''
H. SCHMIDT, the piano hammer
Kimball.
coverer, 312 East 22d street, is feeling the
Here I was told that the retail and wholesale Improved condition of business now prevalent.
trade was good—the latter, "bang up." Mr. He has a full complement of men at work, and
Kimball was expected every day, and they were as many orders as he can handle. Mr. Schmidt
preparing for a big campaign through the Fall is a very careful workman, and has won an ex-
and Winter. What a great house this is, cellent reputation throughout the trade.
though, you feel it as soon as you enter the
door.
A Story of Army Life.
Chase Bros. Co.
My old and handsome friend, '' General''
HE LAST OF THE DANVERS," by Ed-
Dodge, extended the same hearty greeting as of
ward Lyman Bill, is a story of army life
yore, and told me he was sorry to say that no on the Western plains, mingling pleasantly the
very great improvement was noticeable as yet, real with the imaginary, and illustrated with
but it looks brighter, and that's some comfort, numerous reproductions from photographs.— The
at least. Ask Day if I'm not right. " O. K., " Recorder, N. Y.
THE
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CELEBRATED
STEGER
II
A Western Combination.
MONTELIUS COMPANY has recently
been organized at Denver, Colo., with a
capital stock of $30,000. This new combination
is composed of the Sterling Company, Derby,
Conn., and the Hallet & Davis Company, Bos-
ton. The products of these houses will be push-
ed in that section, and the new concern will
undoubtedly become one of the important houses
of the West.
A Story of Adventure.
HE LAST OF THE DANVERS " is a
story of adventure and tragedy in the
Northwest, by Edward Lyman Bill. Danvers
was a young Southerner who fought for the
Union, and afterward led an expedition from St.
Cloud through North Dakota into Montana, and
was slain in a fight with Indians. The story is
very well told.— Minneapolis Journal, Minne-
apolis, Minn.
From Over the Water.
•E are in recept of a charming composition
entitled "The Cottager's Lullaby," and
" Lucy," a couplet from Wordsworth, which Mr.
Ernest Airier!, editor of the Piano, Organ &
Music Trades Journal, of London, has set to
music. The melodies of the two songs are very
pretty, well suited to the charming verse, and
the arrangement is effective throughout. We
trust that Mr. Alfieri's composition will meet
with the popularity it merits.
....
Weird and Fascinating.
•^ DWARD LYMAN BILL, a Lyme boy has
ci£^ written a novel. The title of the book is
'' The Last of the Danvers." It is a story
abounding in historical situations scarcely ever
before touched on and the weird and fascinating
word-pictures that are painted maintain the
readers closest attention from the opening chap-
ter. Mr. Bill, in this volume, has displayed a
keen observation of the varied peculiarities of
people in widely different parts of the country of
which the volume treats and of which he is per-
fectly familiar. He illustrates the book with
thirteen views taken by his brother on the West-
ern plains in 1865, long before the days of rail-
roads there.—Sound Breeze, Lyme, Conn.
The Antiquity of Wire.
wire was known to the ancients there
§ HAT
can be no doubt, for we read in Exodus
xxxix, 3, "And they did beat the gold into thin
plates, and cut it into wires to work it in the
blue, and the purple, and in the scarlet, and in
the fine linen, in cunning work," in making the
sacerdotal drees of Aaron, the high priest of
Israel, while wire, probably of similar style, it
is recorded, has been discovered dating as far
back as 1700 B. C. In the Kensington Museum
there is a specimen of wire made by the Nine-
vites some 800 years before Christ. But all this
wire was not produced as at the present time,
the practice being to beat the metal into finely
hammered sheets and cut it up into fine strips
or threads, and, as far as can be gathered, this
must have been the mode until toward the end
of the fourteenth century.
are noted for their fine singing quality of
tone and great durability. The most
profitable Piano for dealers to handle.
PIANOS
M STEG-ER & CO., Manufacturers,
PATENTED 1092.
Factory, Columbia Height*,
235 WABASH AYR, CHICAGO.