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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1895 Vol. 20 N. 11

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VOL. XX.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, March 16,1895.
No. n
In The West.
THK STORY & CLARK PIANO CO. INCORPORATED.
THKIR
NKW FACTORY
JAUVERTISED
STEINWAY
HALL
HANS BALATKA COMPLI-
MENTED—'EDWARD LYMAN BILL
IN CHICAGO
SHAW
WILL
REPRESENT CHASE BROS.'
CO.
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IN THE EAST.
THE
COLBY
PIANO CO.
l.YON & HEALY
BUSY
THE SINGER PIANO
A SUCCESS—KIMBALL SOUTH
ALBERT
STRAUCH IN TOWN.
O
NE of the most important items of a
rather quiet week in Chicago, was the
incorporation of the Story & Clark Piano
Co., Chicago, with a capital stock of $100,-
000. The incorporators are Edward H.
Story, Melville Clark and Ralph H. Smith.
They have secured a factory building on
the corner of Jefferson and Sixteenth
streets, two blocks from their present organ
factory, and will have pianos ready for the
market in a couple of months. The Story
& Clark Organ Co. have been interested for
the past couple of years in a piano factory
in Germany, and have sold the German in-
strument in their London branch establish-
ment. Whether they will send the Amer-
ican instrument to London has not yet been
decided upon. The new company is com-
posed of energetic men, who have a thor-
ough knowledge of the piano field, and they
will doubtless make as great a record with
the Story & Clark piano as they have with
the Story & Clark organ.
Messrs. Healy & Conway interested
members of the music trade] last week in a
testimonial fund which was presented to
the veteran director, Mr. Hans Balatka.
The amount raised was a very handsome
one, indeed, and the popular musician was
surprised and delighted at this practical
token of admiration and respect from his
fellow citizens.
I had the pleasure of greeting Edward
Lyman Bill, of your paper, at the famous
hostelry, the "Wellington," the early part
of the week. He was en route from his so-
journ in Mexico. His numerous friends
here were delighted to meet him. His let-
ters to THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, particu-
larly those bearing on trade with Mexico,
have been commented on very largely in
trade circles. He left for the East Tues-
day evening.
I am informed that the Chase Bros.' Co.,
of Muskegon, Mich., will be represented in
the East hereafter by W. M. Shaw, who
has been connected with the company for
some time. He will have headquarters in
New York city, and will look after their in-
terests in the Eastern States from that
centre.
Wholesale headquarters for the Colby
piano have not as yet been secured. As
you know, the Junius N. Brown Co., who
handle the Colby piano, will give up their
warerooms here by May ist.
At Lyon & Healy's establishment I
learned that they have experienced a marked
improvement in business in all depart-
ments, wholesale and retail.
The Singer Piano Co. continue to receive
orders
for their instruments from all sec-
Lyon, Potter & Co. have been advertising
tions
of
the country. The "Singer" seems
the new Steinway Hall pretty extensively
to
be
a
favorite,
and the manufacturers are
in the daily papers here during the past
to
be
congratulated
on their success.
week. There can be no question as to the
W.
W.
Kimball
is
on a short vacation to
wisdom of purchasing this splendid build-
Florida.
ing. It gives the Steinway piano a head-
Chas. H. MacDonald, Western represent-
quarters in Chicago, and a pre-eminence, so
ative
of the Pease Piano Co., made a short
to speak, which has always obtained in
trip
this
week to St. Louis, Mo., and De-
New York and London. There has been
troit,
Mich.
some talk about its being out of the exact
I missed meeting Albert I). Strauch, of
piano centre, but that is absurd.
It is
Strauch
Bros., who is in town. I learn that
simply a few steps from Wabash avenue,
he
has
booked
quite some substantial orders.
and purchasers looking for a Steinway piano
will have no difficulty in finding Steinway
Hall. Mr. E. A. Potter, who has been
SILAS M. WAITE, at one time a member
down in Florida, was, I learned, in New of the Estey Co., Brattleboro, Vt., and later
York when I called at the warerooms here interested in the organ factory of R. Bur-
yesterday. Business with Lyon, Potter & dett & Co., Chicago, up to 1871, died March
Co. is fair. Nothing to boast of, but a 8th, at Omaha, Neb. He was seventy
steady trade.
years of age.
$3.00 PER YEAR-
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
Haines Bros.' Creditors Uneasy.
D
EPUTY SHERIFF McGIVNEY has
received several executions against
Napoleon J. Haines, doing business as
Haines Bros., piano manufacturers, at
Alexander avenue and 133d street, on judg-
ments obtained by various creditors, the
largest being in favor of the Commercial
Bank of Rochester, N. Y., $3,917; Alfred
Dolge & Co., $2,6]8; J. & J. C. Abbott,
$626. The Sheriff has been unable to col-
lect the claims, as Haines recently put two
chattel mortgages for $45,000 on all the per-
sonal property in the factory.
Haines has been under an extension for
a year past from his merchandise creditors.
— World, March 15.
Assignment of R, C. Burton.
R
C. BURTON, a well-known dealer at
Utica, N. Y., made an assignment
last Monday to Charles Tuttle, of Rome,
and Theodore H. Schulze, of Utica, N. Y.
Mr. Burton has for several years been in
business, conducting a retail music store,
and more recently the Utica School of Music
in addition. After the statutory provisions,
providing for wages due employees, etc.,
there is a preference of $1,901.05 in favor
of M. J. Dewey, of Oneida. There is also
a bill of sale by which Mr. Burton trans-
ferred to Mr. Tuttle his effects for $1,750.
The assignment was brought about by
the hard times and the inability of the con-
cern to make collections. It is not thought
that there will be any suspension of busi-
ness.
,
Another Good Idea.
L
EW. H. CLEMENT, of the Ann Arbor
Organ Co., Ann Arbor, Mich., is al-
ways "on tap" with some new idea for
keeping the Ann Arbor organs and the
company of which he is such a brilliant
member, before the public. The latest is
a special premium to the school which
shows the most proficiency in singing, the
contest to take place at the annual Wash-
tenaw County Agricultural Fair, to be held
at Ann Arbor, Mich., next September. The
object in offering this premium on the part
of the Ann Arbor Organ Co. is to awaken
and stimulate an interest in the study of
sight-singing in schools.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
^ E D W A R D LYMAN BILL
Editor and Proprietor.
PUBLISHED
EVERY
SATURDAY
3 East 14th St., New York
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $3.00 per year; Foreign Countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per
insertion. On quarterly or yearly contracts a special dis-
count is allowed.
REMITTANCES, in other than currency form, should
be made payable to Edward Lyman Bill.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second- Class Matter.
"THE BUSINESS MAN'S
PAPER."
will disclose all departments manned by a
full complement of employees filling the
large number of orders on hand. This old
and popular supply house has a wide
clientele of customers which is being add-
ed to every season. Their wares have
given satisfaction to all who have used
them, and this to a iarge extent accounts
for the agreeable condition of things pre-
valent in their factory these days.
T
HE way they move pianos in Mexico
is rather unique. In our Mr. Bill's
letter, which appears elsewhere in this
paper, he describes a scene witnessed by
him in Mexico City. It is certainly inter-
esting as well as amusing. What a novel
sight it would be to see four Indians—not
Union Square Indians, but Simon-pure
Mexican Indians—carrying an upright
piano after the Mexican style, say up Fifth
avenue. And what a great advertising
scheme it would be if this antiquated mode
of conveyance were introduced to fin-dc-
siecle New York.
• • • • • • • • • • • •
OR trie cajsy thai lack
For tlic wroag tbat aesds
For li?e future n the ''^ V
UR Western correspondent sends us
news of the incorporation of the
Story & Clark Piano Co., of Chicago. With
ample capital and a name of international
worth, this concern is bound to be an active
factor in the piano trade field in the West.
O
MONG those who have accepted in-
vitations to speak at the trade din-
ner to be held at the Hotel Waldorf, March 28,
areChauncey M. Depew, Alfred Dolge, Wil-
liam Steinway and H. E. Krehbiehl. Other
names will be announced later.
A
HERE are many beautiful pianos made
nowadays—instruments that would
be a revelation to the members of the trade
ten or fifteen years ago—and among them
the new style Hazelton Brothers' pianos are
worthy of taking first rank. And it is not
alone in case work they are beautiful, but
the tone is of an unusually fine quality. All
who have seen them speak of them in words
of praise.
T
ULLNESS in trade has not inter-
fered to any material extent with
the energetic house of Pratt, Read & Co.,
Deep River, Conn. A visit to their factory
D
GAIN the medals. The Director of
the Mint stated during the past week
that the medals which were awarded exhibi-
tors at the World's Columbian Exposition
would be ready about June 1st, and the
Superintendent of the Bureau of Engrav-
ing says that the diplomas will be finished
about the 1st of April. These statements
must be taken with a "grain of salt. " The
date for the distribution of these medals
and awards has been fixed time and time
again, but they failed to materialize.
Things may be different this time.
A
VERY interesting article upon the
industrial growth of Dolgeville ap-
peared in last Wednesday's Dolgeville
Herald. Among other things, it says: " I t
has been said that Alfred Dolge is respon-
sible for the Americanization of the piano.
It is really true. When he left the bench
as a workman twenty-seven years ago, al-
most every part of a piano was imported
from England, France and Germany. He
was the pioneer in making hammer-felt and
sounding-boards in the United States, and
it was through his influence that the Gieses
started the manufacture of piano wire here.
Now, the only parts imported are the
ivories and pearls for the keys."
A
Yes, and it is a fact that is often over-
looked. The wise policy of fostering
home manufactures in preference to those
of other countries has made this very agree-
able condition of things possible. This is
the policy that has made our country, com-
mercially, what it is to-day. In a quarter
of a century the music trade industry of this
country has become a tremendous power
from every standpoint, and American mu-
sical instruments lead the world. As the
Herald says, Alfred Dolge has done more
than a man's share to bring this about.
T
HE condition of business for the past
week makes the trade outlook encour-
aging- The commercial agencies report
that there has been a decided improvement in
the business of the country. There has been
a marked gain in all sections, and the dis-
tribution of merchandise has shown a dis-
tinct increase. The railways in their traffic
returns also afford evidence of a revival in
trade. Another encouraging sign is the
large number of out-of-town buyers in this
city.
As far as the piano business is concerned,
the wholesale trade during the past week
has shown a slight improvement and the
number of orders received have been suf-
ficiently large to make manufacturers feel
hopeful that spring trade has actually open-
ed up.
As far as we can learn, manufacturers in
this city are not expecting a startlingly large
spring trade, but they are confident that it
will be considerably in excess of last year.
There is no exporting of gold at present,
and money is fairly plentiful. Yet specu-
lation and trading is quiet. The business
world seems to be unusually conservative
just now, but this is bound to disappear,
and one thing that will make it disappear
is the absence of danger from reckless legis-
lation. This bugbear disappeared with the
late Congress. Once the business world
regains a portion of its old-time confidence
and hope, better times should dawn, and we
feel that they are at hand.
OME decisions have lately been made
by the Treasury Department that
will be found of general interest.
According to the Department's view,
stockholders of corporations cannot under
the law deduct from their income, as busi-
ness expenses or otherwise, assessments
paid by them to the corporations to make
good deficiencies in the capital stock for
the reserve funds thereof. Profits realized
from the sale of stocks or other personal
property made prior to the year 1894, and
profits from all business transactions made
prior to that year, are not to be treated as
taxable income without reference to time of
payment. Losses sustained by exchanges
of real estate are in all instances to be esti-
mated, as losses while the property remains
in the hands of the original parties, and are
therefore not deductible from income. No
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