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ward the success of this new organization.
Hitherto
various
trades
and
industries
have worked apart, but with partial suc-
cess; united, they become a power, and can
generate an influence
that
will
be
be able to go into details regarding the rea-
sons for the "special offer" in prices which
he has made to dealers. To those who are
interested, the explanation might prove in-
teresting.
felt
throughout the country, tending to the ben-
efit of manufacturer and creditor.
T
WO weeks'ago I asked what ingenious
Yankee would be the first to invent a
bicycle piano. The nearest step in that di-
rection is a musical bicycle, invented by
Mr. Brachhausen, who is connected, I be-
lieve, with the Regina Music Co., and John
Paoli. This novelty made its "first ap-
pearance" in Rahway, N. J., last week, and
when ridden plays all the latest popular airs.
In fact, the number of tunes that can be pro-
duced at the will of the rider is unlimited,
as all that is necessary is a change of the
disk in the music box attached to the up-
right in front of the rider.
The airs are punctured on the smooth sur-
face of metal disks, each note with mathe-
matical precision, the tone being produced
by the circular ridge, brought out in per-
foration on the reverse side of the disk com-
ing in contact with a steel comb of seven
octaves.
p'The music box is operated by a steel fan,
similar to a windmill, that is placed in the
center of the handle bar in front of the
rider, and works just as a pinwheel does
when carried by a running boy.
Oh, dear! Oh, dear! again the same old
story! Now it is understood that owing to
the stereotyped "unexpected and unavoida-
ble" delays the World's Fair diplomas and
medals will not be ready before the first of
the year. If the Government officials un-
derstood how utterly valueless these medals
are to the exhibitors at this late day,
they would make no further efforts to
"hurry" them.
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I would specially refer Mr. Emil Klaber
to the article illustrative and descriptive of
Mr. Davis patents, which appears in anoth-
er portion of this paper. It will be pleas-
ant reading for him, and possibly may be
instructive as well. Protected by patents
as Mr. Davis is, it occurs to me that Mr.
^laber may as well withdraw his notices
that he will sue persons who handle Mr.
Davis' attachment. Mr. Klaber is such an
adept at "explaining" that possibly he may
I have arranged matters with that next
door neighbor and nuisance who starts his
piano at 7 A. M. and keeps it thumping till
midnight, says a chatty writer in the Press.
A friend noticing my complaint in this
column the other day, sent up one of his
self-playing instruments, and I set it going
as the clock struck the hour of midnight.
At half-past one there was a knock at my
door, and a request from the nuisance that
I cease for the night so that all might sleep.
I promised to do so at once, but didn't. An
hour later there was another request. To
this I replied that the instrument had got-
ten out of order, and I had found it impos-
sible to stop it. The key or button, or
something, had slipped out of place, and
the owner who had sent it up for trial kept
the works locked so that I could not get at
them. Well, that thing played on all night,
all the next day and the next night, the
same old tune. When the nuisance called
for the tenth time, I impressed upon him
the dread every sensitive person has of lis-
tening to a piano, any piano, all day, and
he seemed to think I was hinting at his.
He said so. I said so, too. Then we came
to terms. His piano now goes to work two
hours later in the morning, and knocks off
much earlier, and the tunes are sometimes
changed.
Have you seen those handsome Hazelton
pianos in French walnut, which are now on
exhibition in the warerooms of Hazelton
Bros. ? If not, you should. They are cer-
tainly beauties, and as handsome in design
as they are beautiful in tone. The Hazel-
ton is always a good instrument in any sort
of case, but those in fancy woods are proof
positive that this house are alive to the de-
mands of the trade for artistic piano cases.
A Credit Men's Association.
T
HE New York Credit Men's Associa-
tion was organized at the Broadway
Central Hotel, Thursday of last week.
There was upward of a hundred business
men present, and the meeting throughout
was a great success. The following offi-
cers were elected: M. E. Bannin, presi-
dent; F. R. Boocock, vice-president, and
Wm. Naumberg, treasurer. An executive
committee was also elected, and constitu
tion and by-laws adopted. Mr, Bannin,
the president, is head of the credit depart-
ment of Converse, Stanton & Cullen, com-
mission merchants, 83 Worth street.
THE Wilcox & White Organ Co., Meri-
den, Conn., have closed the store of J. L.
L. Travis, Lackawanna avenue, Scranton,
Pa., on an execution for $6,998.37.
GEO. N. GRASS' Western friends will be
pleased to learn that he will leave the ear»y
part of next week for a six or eight weeks'
tour of that section in the interest of the
Steck piano.
THE Lincoln, Neb., branch of the Estey
& Camp concern has been closed out.
A NEW music trade establishment which
we mentioned in our paper last week would
be opened at Watertown, Wis., is now a fait
accompli. B. S. and F. L. Hawley are the
proprietors, and the well-known Kimball
pianos and organs will be the principal
goods handled.
THE Estey Organ Co.'s warerooms in At-
lanta, Ga., were the headquarters of Gov-
ernor Wood bury and his staff, of Vermont,
during a visit last week to the Atlanta Ex-
position.
IT speaks well for the popularity of the
Steck pianos when five grands and uprights
were sold at retail one of these record-
breaking hot days of last week.
D. D. LUXTON, of Luxton & Black, who
represents the Colby piano in Buffalo, was
in town this week.
S. W. KNEPPER & Co.,
Carthage,
Mo.,
have rented floors in the Miller Building in
that city, owing to increased business.
A. E. MCEACHREN, formerly bookkeeper
at the Bell Organ and Piano Co. s store in
London, Ont., has been charged with steal-
ing $1,000 from that company. In the Po-
lice Court the prisoner was committed in
default of $2,000 bail.
THE Snedeker Guitar and Mandolin Co.
are building a new factory at Muncie, Ind.
As soon as finished they wall remove from
their present quarters in Winchester.
THE stock of J. C. Blackwood, music
dealer, in Erin, Ont., was damaged to the
amount of several thousand dollars by fire
which occurred last week.
C. R. BURNETT has been admitted special
partner into the business of J. H. Tompkins
& Co., music trade dealers, Richmond,
Ind.
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THE Hallet & Davis piano secured the
first premium at the fair held at Troy, Pa.,
recently. The exhibition was made through
B. P. Leonard, the local agent.
WM. G. BURBECK, with the Vose & Sons
Piano Co., Boston, is spending a short va-
cation in the South.
J. R. CHUTE, bookkeeper for the Century
Piano Co., Minneapolis, Minn., was injured
by being knocked off his bicycle by a trol-
ley car in that city last week. He narrow-
ly escaped being seriously hurt.
M. P. CURTICE, the popular dealer of Lin
coin, Neb., is, we regret to say, seriously
ill.