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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
On the following day a salesman wa's£m •
ployed by the firm at $5,000 a year. He
had received a straight tip from the inside.
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Hannibal I. Kimball, who died in Brook-
line the other day, brought about the re-
moval of the Georgia capital from Milledge-
yille to Atlanta late in the '60s. After per-
suading the city government to buy from
him an uncompleted opera house and offer-
ing it free of cost for ten years to the State
as a capitol, Mr. Kimball went on the stump
and carried the people with him in favor of
the project.
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Here's a breezy paragraph from the wild
and war-whoopy West:
No compromise; up and at them; war
to the knife hilt; silver men never sur-
render; give them h—1 and commence at
home.—Arizona Miner.
Hunt Cannot Get Bail.
SF.CRETARY JOHN HUNT,
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Brother Fox, of TJic Indicator, says edi-
torially :
" I t is very amusing to note the number of
people who were going to .mop the earth
with, yes, literally annihilate Marc Blumen-
berg on sight. One man once said in our
presence: 'I am going a thousand miles
to New York to put that man in such a con-
dition that his mother will never again recog
nize him. Just wait,' he said, 'until I get
to New York and you will have something
to write about for months.' It is needless
to say that the man did go to New York on
business, but not on the errand promised,
and when he met Mr. Blumenberg, in the
presence of several other gentlemen, he
was as dove-like and as serene when he
shook hands with the senior editor as a
kitten after a hearty meal. And Blumen-
berg still lives."
Brother Fox lives in Chicago, which is in
the neighborhood of a thousand miles from
New York. He has been previously some-
what particular in his selection of words
when mentioning Mr. Blumenberg in his
columns, always using choice adjectives—
and he has just returned from New York,
where he was on business bent.
Musical
$3,000.
The Braumuller Piano Co.
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Pending the opening of hostilities it will
be remembered that contributions were in
order from the gold bug East to sustain
soup houses among the uncompromising
knife plungers of the canyon countries.
of the
Mutual Protective Union of this city, is in
the Tombs in default of $3,000 bail. His
examination on the charge of embezzle-
ment will be held on May 13, at 2 p. M.
Experts have discovered a shortage of
$5,950.
Hunt is accused of embezzling
"I've seena good many funny snaps in
the way of plays and play-actors in my
time," said the advance agent, "but one I
struck out in Milwaukee the other day was
by far the best of anything I have ever been
up against. It was in one of the museums
there.
The museum has a stock company
in its theatre, and its great specialty is
border drama.
Every week they give a
new drama of the wild and woolly West.
"This play that I saw was a blood-curd -
ler of that character, and at the time I ar-
rived at the theatre the stage was pitch
dark, and two men were fighting a duel. I
could hear the knives clash together and
hear the men stumble around the stage, but
I could but faintly distinguish the forms of
the actors. After a while there was a thump
on the floor, and the villain (I knew it was
the villain by his accent) hissed:
" 'Ah ha! Rudolph Tegherington, I have
you now, and no one nigh to see me do the
deed!'
"Then the drummer hit the bass-drum a
belt, and the calcium man turned on the
light, and away up on the top of a rocky
pass a woman (the heroine) was seen stand-
ing.
" 'Coward!' she shouted, 'me and Heaven
is here!' "
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AST Tuesday the Braumuller Piano Co.
promptly paid the last notes of their
indebtedness, which became due on that
day. This leaves the present company free
of all the old obligations. Too much praise
cannot be given to the Braumuller Co. for
the way in which they have met their notes
notwithstanding the unusually dull condi-
tion of business for the past twelve months.
This company are in splendid condition
now to cater to the demands of the trade
for instruments that are reliable in make
and attractive in appearance.
Mancinelli Compliments the
" Steinway."
M
ESSRS. vSTEINWAY & SONS re-
ceived the following letter from L.
Mancinelli, director of the orchestra at the
Metropolitan Opera House during the late
season of grand opera:
"Gentlemen. — It gives me great pleasure
to acknowledge the receipt of the invoice
for the Steinway grand piano which I lately
selected for my wife, together with the wel-
come information that it has been forwarded
by the steamship Normannia to my home
in Genoa.
' ' I beg to inclose my check for the amount
specified, with thanks.
fir. Chas. Steinway Victorious.
"Wherever music is loved, in Italy as in
America, the name of your honored house
The piano trade men who frequent Aug.
HE amateur billiard stars of the Lied-
represents the highest perfection of the art
Luchow's on East Fourteenth street for
erkranz Club wound up an entertain-
of piano making.
lunch, had a narrow escape of being
ing month of tournament games last night
"All connoisseurs agree in praising the
"ordered out" by the walking delegate of
at the big club house in East Fifty-eighth
exquisite quality and magnificent volume
the Cabinet Makers' Union one day during
street, with the jolliest sort of a banquet
of the Steinway tone, and the responsive
the past week. It seems that Mr. Luchov%
and distribution of prizes. There were ten
and sympathetic touch which awakens it.
desirous of adding to the attractiveness of
contestants all told at straight rail billiards.
" I have chosen and selected by prefer-
his place, purchased new fixtures without
The games were handicap, Charles Stein-
ence your piano from the instruments of
making inquiries as to when and by whom
way, the club favorite, playing scratch at
other manufacturers, as it is the only one
they were made.
He also was unwise
250, and the weakest player at 100. Stein-
which fully satisfies the artistic feeling of
enough—under the impression that this
way, despite his handicap, came out vic-
the true musician, the only one that affords
was a free country—not to call into consul-
torious, and was the star of the evening.
him the means of complete musical ex-
tation the carpenters or cabinet makers of
At the banquet which followed the tour-
pression.
this city before he made his seleciton and
nament, Mr. Steinway and three other bil-
purchase.
" I t is a glorious instrument. "
liard leaders were presented with expen-
He has paid for his independence and ig- sive "loving cups."
norance of the sovereignty of the "walking
ROBT. M. WKBB'S new hammer-covering
delegate" by being notified by the Cabinet
factory, at Rockville Centre, L. I., is now
Makers' Union that his new fixtures were
in full running order, and is splendidly
An Autoharp Catalogue.
made by non-union men, and an explanation
equipped to meet the increasing demand
was demanded or
. Like a sensible
ALFRED DOLGE & SON, general selling for his wares. Mr. Webb reports an excel-
man, fully impressed with the power and
majesty of his autocratical highness, the agents for the autoharp, are preparing a lent business in all departments of his busi-
"walking delegate," he wrote the Union very handsome autoharp catalogue. Judg- ness.
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and promised that in future he will do all
in his power to satisfy the demands of or-
ganized labor.
Great country, this 1
ing from the artistic advertising appearing
in connection with this instrument in the
magazines, we can look for something un-
usuallv attractive.
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D. W. KARN,
of D. W. Karn
& Co.,
Woodstock, Ont., accompanied by his wife
and daughter, were in New York this week
C>n their way to Europe,