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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1895 Vol. 20 N. 18

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Publisbei Every Satariay at 3 Eist FjJitotli Straat. New York, May 4, 1333.
V O L . X X . N o . 18.
In The West.
THE
HALLET & DAVIS INCORPORATION
VA-
CANCIES IN THE TRADE—THE COLHY PIANO
WITH
ING
THOMPSON
MAY
MOVING
OK STKINWAY HALL
MANN PURCHASES
TORY
HERE
WESTERN
OPEN-
CARL HOFF-
THECONOVER FAC-
AND
THERE
METROPOLIS
IN
THE
STE-
GER'S SUCCESS.
T
HE most important item of trade news
during the week has been the incor-
poration of the Hallet & Davis Co., of Chi-
cago, with a capital stock of $150,000. This
deal will give the Hallet & Davis piano
and the Schaeffer piano, in which instru-
ment the Hallet & Davis Co. are interested,
a new and enlarged prominence in this city.
With such an able trio of piano men as B.
K. Maynard, H. D. French and H. J.
Strong, who have been connected with the
Estey & Camp house for many years, to
look after the different departments of the
business in this city, there can be no question
as to the future of the new company. Mr.
Geo. Cook, of the Hallet & Davis Co., Bos-
ton, came to town last Monday and has
been negotiating for warerooms. At the
time of writing no place has as yet been se-
cured. It is thought, however, that either
the Weber Hal 1 property, the lease of which
is held by Lyon, Potter & Co., or the build-
ing lately occupied by the Manufacturers'
Piano Co., will be selected.
Meanwhile—
there are others. Much credit is due I. N.
Rice for his able engineering of this deal.
As to the personnel of the new company it
is thought that Mr. Geo. Cook will be presi-
dent, and Mr. Maynard treasurer and man-
ager, with Messrs. French and Strong in
charge of the retail department.
The formation of the new Hallet & Davis
Co. has played havoc with the Estey & Camp
forces, and there will undoubtedly be many
changes among the piano men in order to
fill the positions vacated. Lyon & Healy
will also have to select a successor to the
Hallet & Davis piano which they, as a mat-
ter of course, have relinquished.
The Colby piano, which is popular in this
city, will in future be handled by the
Thompson Music Co. This agency should,
I imagine, prove a valuable one if properly
worked up.
This has been on old-time moving week
in the piano trade of this city. The Chase
Bros. Piano Co., and the B. Shoninger Co.
are fairly well settled in their new quarters,
the former at 319-321 Wabash avenue, and
the latter concern at 267 and 269 on the same
avenue. The Chicago Cottage Organ Co. \s
new quarters on the ground floor of their
building, will not be ready for occupancy
before the middle of the month.
Lyon, Potter & Co. are making prepara-
tions for removal to Steinway Hall, and
will be quite "at home" there by the mid-
dle of next week. The regular opening will
occur next Friday and Saturday.
The
Thomas orchestra and Mme. Bloomfield-
Zeisler will play, and the guests and visitors
will be looked after by Mr. Potter and an
able staff of assistants. I understand that
Mr. Stetson will be here next week, and
other representatives of the Eastern trade
are expected.
The Mason & Hamlin Co. have relin-
quished their branch house in Kansas
City, and Carl Hoffman has become the
purchaser. He will represent the Mason &
Hamlin Co. in that city, and in addition to
handling their line of goods will carry the
Chickering, Emerson, Sterling and Hunt-
ington pianos. This new move of Mr. Hoff-
man's will in no way effect his Leaven worth
house, which will continue as usual. Mr.
Detrick, who had charge of this store for
Mason & Hamlin, will in future be con-
nected with their local house here.
The Conover piano will henceforth be
manufactured in their new factory, to which
they have been moving all week. The new
factory is one of the most complete and
best equipped from a manufacturing stand-
point there is in the city. It is convenient
to the immense plant of the Chicago Cot-
tage Organ Co., and also to the different
street railways.
T. G. Fischel, who has been manager of
the retail department of the Chicago Cottage
Organ Co. in this city, has left for St. Paul,
Minn., to assume the position of secretary
and general manager of the Nathan Ford
Music Co. Mr. Fischel is a stockholder in
that concern, and is an energetic music
trade man, who is bound to boom things in
the Northwest.
I understand that the retail business of
the Chicago Cottage Organ Co. will be run
under the name of the "Conover Piano Co. "
W. B. Price is a busy man these days, and
he is going to make the new Conover ware-
$<.oo PER YEAR
SINGLE COPIES, io CENTS.
rooms as attractive and as elegant as can be
found in this city.
The selection of the Briggs piano by
Lyon, Potter & Co. is a well merited com-
pliment to a good piano. It speaks well for
Mr. Potter'4 business discernment and Mr.
Furbush's energetic labors in behalf of the •
' ' Briggs. "
...
Clayton P. Summy Co., the Chfckering
agents, have selected the Gabler piano to
run as second.
J. V. vSteger, of Steger & Co., may erect
a new factory building, convenient to his , '•
plant at Columbia Heights.'*" Business with "**;
this concern is gi»owing so rapidly that this
will become necessary.
A. G. Cone, of the Kimball, Co., returned^
from a Californian visit last week. His
trip was purely one of pleasure.
Albert Weber, of the Weber Piano Co.,
passed through this city recently, and ex-
pressed himself as pleased with his trip.
Herman Leonard, Alfred Dolge's repre-
sentative, has closed his stay in Chicago,
and leaves to-day for the East.
The Briggs in Chicago.
L
YON, POTTER & CO., of Chicago,
have assumed the agency for the
Briggs piano, and in their handsome new
home in Steinway Hall, will carry a full
stock of the different styles of these popular
instruments. The Briggs Piano Co. have
reason to feel pleased with this new deal.
It will give them a splendid Western rep-
resentation, and is bound to increase their
output, while Lyon, Potter & Co. have in
the Briggs piano an instrument they can
safely sell on its merits.
, ...
Escape from Fire.
THE Miller Organ Co.'s factory at Leb-
anon, Pa., had a narrow escape from des-
truction through fire Wednesday of last
week. The fire occurred in the planing mill
next door to the factory, and it was only
through great efforts on the part of the em-
ployees of the Miller Organ Co. that the
fire was prevented from communicating
with the factory.
C. F. GROHMAN & SON, music trade dealers
at Milwaukee, Wis., have moved from 293
Third street into handsome new quarters at
432 Broadway.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
their quarters, we can hardly hope to
be able to chronicle any "removal sales"
among the music trade of this city. In the
meantime Chicago has had a monopoly of
"removals" this year—just to even up
things. •
EDWARD LYMAN BILL
Editor and Proprietor.
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••THE BUSINESS MAN'S PAPER "
PIANO HOUSES DECORATE.
N expectation of the proposed dedication
of the Washington Arch last Tuesday,
many of the piano stores on Fifth avenue
were decked in national colors. Hamilton
S. Gordon's establishment was especially
attractive, the front of the building being
draped with the stars and stripes, while the
window was appropriately dressed in honor
of the day. Should the weather to-day
prove more favorable for the postponed cele-
bration, the piano houses will do our popu-
lar Governor and his "gold-laced staff" due
honor by a plentiful display of the red,
white and blue.
I
H
ON. H. I. KIMBALL, of Atlanta,
Ga., who died at Brookline, Mass.,
last Saturday, was a brother of Mr. E. N.
Kimball, of The Hallet & Davis Co., Bos-
ton. The deceased was a man who had
achieved a notable place in the industrial
world. For many years he had been promi-
nently identified with the industrial pro-
gress of the South, and to him more than
any one man Atlanta is indebted for the
rapid strides which she has made in manu-
factures since the close-of the war. By the
investment of large sums in industrial en-
terprises he showed what possibilities the
South possessed in that line, and that he
had confidence in her future. He built the
Kimball House, in Atlanta, since burned
and rebuilt by himself. The funeral of the
deceased took place at his brother's resi-
dence last Monday.
N
AHUM STETSON, of Steinway &
Sons, leaves to-day for Chicago to
assist at the formal opening of the new
E are indebted to a Washington Steinway Hall, Friday and Saturday of
paper for periodic statements next week. Judging from the program in
about the long-looked-for medals and preparation, this will be an event to be re-
awards promised exhibitors at the World's membered in musical and trade circles.
The occupancy of this building will mark
Fair. It is now announced that the medals
a
new
era in the history of the house of
and diplomas will materialize in sixty days,
and about twenty-four thousand will be Lyon, Potter & Co. Their standing and in-
issued at that time. This report, how- fluence is no longer local; it is national.
ever, must be taken with a grain of They demonstrate what may be achieved by
salt. Such promises have been made be- a proper study of these commercial condi-
fore, but have not been lived up to. Our tions which lead to advancement and trade
Washington contemporary is actuated no expansion.
The palatial new home of the '' Steinway''
doubt by the best possible motives—a desire
in
Chicago will undoubtedly be one of the
to keep alive the spark of hope which has
about expired—and must get due credit in handsomest emporiums in this country.
It will be the musical centre of Chicago,
this connection.
and will exercise the same beneficent in-
fluence on the artistic and musical life of
that city that similar institutions, with the
HE Mayor and the Board of Aldermen
Steinway flag flying over them, have been
want to develop the social side of the
noted for in this city and in London.
City Hall on the lines of the receptions
The celebrated Madame Brema, of Ger-
given by the Governor at Albany and the
man opera fame, has been engaged for both
President at the White House. Music would
the concerts. Clarence Eddy will preside
undoubtedly be a great factor in this con-
at the organ. Other distinguished artists
nection, and the piano manufacturer who will
have already been announced. The society
avail himself of what might be termed a
"400" of Chicago, have manifested great
coveted opportunity to present a piano to the
interest in this event, and the only disap-
city for use on these occasions, will be able
pointment which may arise will be from the
to place the following after his name on his
limited seating capacity of the hall.
business stationery and on the fall-board of
his pianos: "Manufacturers by special ap-
pointment to the City of New York, His
THE COPYRIGHT DECISION.
Honor the Mayor and the Board of Alder-
N another part of this paper we print the
men. " This would "knock spots" out of
decision in full rendered recently by
all the letters patent ever issued by the the Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston in
effete European monarchs.
the now celebrated copyright case of Novel-
Who will be first to take advantage of this lo, Ewer & Co., through Alfred Littleton,
versus the Oliver Ditson Co. As will be
suggestion? . . .
. .
seen, the last ruling in this friendly suit,
Now then, one at a time.
W
W
ASHINGTON—first in war, first in
peace, first in the Arch of his coun-
trymen. So say we all as we witness to-
day the ceremonies incident to the formal
handing- over to our city of the memorial
arch dedicated to the hero of the ne'er-to-
be-forgotten cherry-tree tale.
• - • • • • • • • • • •
T
HE newly organized Hallet & Davis Co.
of Chicago, have leased from Lyon,
Potter & Co. the basement, first and second
stories of the building known as Weber Hall,
corner Wabash avenue and Jackson street,
Chicago. This move will give the concern
a prominent place among the music estab-
lishments of the Western metropolis.
• • • • • • • • • • • •
M
AY Day this year has been notable
for the marked absence of "re-
movals" in the piano trade of this city.
The different houses seem quite content
with their present establishments, and until
business changes so pronouncedly for the
better that they will be compelled to en-
T
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