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VOL XXI.
No. 16.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, November 9,1895.
In The West.
AN IMPORTANT DKAL BETWEEN THE CHICAGO
COTTAGE ORGAN CO. AND THE HOCKETT
ISROS.-PUNTK.NNKY CO. BUYS OUT MR.
HOCKET r ' s INTEREST THE PROTECTIVE
ASSOCIATION THE " L " LOOP ON WA-
BASH AVENUE BUSINESS SPASMOD-
IC
KIMHALL IN SIOUX CITY.
OTHER NEWS.
HE most important item of news in the
West this week is the deal just con-
summated between the Chicago Cottage
Organ Co. and the Hockett Bros.-Punten-
ney Co., of Cincinnati and Columbus,
whereby the former concern have pur-
chased the interest of I. N. Hockett, and
thus secure complete control of a wide ter-
ritory which has been fairly worked and
well prepared for that development which is
certain to occur under the direction of the
Chicago Cottage Organ Co. The Hockett
Bros.-Puntenney Co. have displayed remark-
able enterprise since they established their
business, and in conjunction with such a giant
corporation as the Chicago Cottage Organ
Co., it is certain that the new combination
will play a most important part in music
trade affairs of that section. One certain
result is that the Conover piano will assume
a leading position which will add to its
prestige throughout the West. But why
enter into details! Anyone acquainted
with the personalities who have made the
Chicago Cottage Organ Co. the great
power it is to-day can easily realize the ex-
tent and nature of the foregoing deal.
President H. D. Cable and his associates
are to be congratulated on this, their latest
move.
T
I understand that I. N. Hockett, whose
interest was purchased by the Chicago
Cottage Organ Co., will embark in the
music business in Southern California, and
will handle the C. C. O. C. line of goods.
The formation of a protective association
is still being discussed, and at a meeting
held last Friday in the Estey & Camp
warerooms, which was largely attended,
action was taken to the effect that a consti-
tution and by-laws be drafted and sub-
mitted to members for their suggestions.
In the meantime a meeting will be held
next Saturday night to take final action,
when it may be assumed the Music Trade
Protective Association will become a real-
ity.
There is much ado about the " L " loop
on Wabash avenue, and Lyon & Healy in
conjunction with C. R. Cummings, the
owner of their building, have secured a
temporary injunction from the courts, re-
straining the company from building the
railroad, on the grounds that their busi-
ness would be damaged by its construction
on that thoroughfare. Different opinions are
held on this " L " loop question; many
members of the trade believe that it will
be an advantage instead of a detriment to
business, as some anticipate. It will tend
to bring many people to the music trade
center who at present rarely visit that part
of the city. In my opinion the noise and
confusion of trains passing to and fro all
day long will make it utterly impossible to
sell or display pianos to advantage, owing
to the dust and noise, and the action taken
by Lyon & Healy is entirely justifiable. A
decision has not been rendered on this in-
junction up to the time of writing.
Business in this city is on the whole
quiet. Warerooms report business as spas-
modic and are earnestly hoping for a steady
condition of trade.
I clip the lo'llowing from the Sioux City
Tribune: The W. W. Kim ball Co. is now
located in its new quarters at 606 Fourth
street. It is unnecessary to say it is one
of the best locations in the city, and with
the elegant show window, the spacious and
tastily arranged warerooms, fine offices,
etc., it is certainly one of the finest, if not
the finest, piano warerooms in the West.
Sioux City is fortunate in having as pro-
gressive a firm as the Kim ball Co. repre-
sented in the city, and Mr. C. A. Elmen-
dorf, the local manager, is to be congratu-
lated on representing a house which en-
courages a rustler of his kind to vent his
ambition. It is unnecessary to wish the
Kimball Co. and Mr. Elmendorf success, as
that is a foregone conclusion.
Manager Price, of the Conover Piano
Co., is well pleased with the business of
his house, and states that it has far ex-
ceeded their expectations.
The local papers report that F. H. Fraz-
ell, of Benton Harbor, has lost property to
the value of $15,000 by fire, which occurred
in the Stevens Block.
The insurance
amounted to $13,000.
SIN
Ij.oo PER YEAR
COPIES, IO CENTS.
Sidney J. Wilson is now acting as travel-
ing representative of the Mason & Hamlin
house of tins city.
C. A. Hyde, of Norris & Hyde, Boston,
is expected in town this week.
Bent in Town and Full of Fight.
BRINGS SUIT FOR $ 1 0 , 0 0 0 AGAINST A. B. DE
FREESE FOR INFRINGEMENT OF PATENT.
POSSIBLY MORE TO FOLLOW.
EO. P. BENT, of "Crown" fame, came
in to see us Thursday. Mr. Bent is
as full of fight as ever, and proposes to
prosecute with unremitting vigor all those
who infringe upon his mandolin attach-
ments. He has just brought suit in the
United States Circuit Court for $10,000
damages and an injunction restraining
alleged infringement upon his patents
against A. B. DeFreese, receiver for the
Aiitomaton Piano Co. and Emil Klaber.
In this Mr. Bent alleges infringement on a
fourth claim of his patent, No. 533,661,
which was granted Feb. 6th, 1895. We
may further* state that Mr. Bent proposes
to proceed legally against any who manu-
facture and sell instruments which contain
mandolin attachments which are infringe-
ments upon his patents.
It may be well to state here the number
and dates at which times his patents have
been granted, and it may be well also for
some to obtain copies of the claims set forth
in order that they may not trespass upon
Mr. Bent's rights. They are Nos. 527,533,
Oct. 16th, 1894; 533,661, Feb. 6th, 1895;
535,190, March 5th, 1895, and another
patent just allowed.
G
ROBT. A. WIDENMANN, of Strich & Zeid-
ler, has returned from his visit to Atlanta
by way of the West.
J. L. MAHAN, well known as a dealer
both in Chicago and Clinton, la., has taken
the agency for the Behr Bros, pianos for
both places. Fourteen pianos was his first
order, and it is safe to say that with such
an excellent instrument he will be com-
pelled to place several new orders before
many moons.
IT is again rumored that Mr. Whitney
has sold his interest in the Whitney-Marvin
Music Co., of Detroit, Mich., to Mr. Mar-
vin.