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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
cess goes, we cannot concur with our es- an opportune time in which to extend
teemed contemporaries, who have selected thanks to our friends and supporters who
warerooms, arranged the preliminaries for
have made our success possible.
the arrival of our Western friends, whom
our thanks to honest critics, who through
we have thought quite able to manage their
their suggestions have caused us to im-
own affairs without the advice or interces-
sion of newspaper men.
This is quite a town we have here.
It has many things of interest, and it is
quite broad enough to contain, besides its
Extend
THE pipe organs manufactured by the W.
W. Kimball Co., Chicago, are in great
who have always encouraged us. We ex- vogue. They have now in process of con-
tend thanks to one and all. Greeting.
struction six organs for churches in and
Renewed prosperity and better things around Chicago. • . . . • . • - •
prove our departments.
To our readers
for the year yet unborn.
own manufacturers and dealers, a hearty
sprinkling of Westerners.
Death of an Old Piano Man.
Our present Mayor is a Western man.
H
ENRY J. NEWTON, the noted spirit-
ualist, was run over and instantly
Advertising, too, has been more carefully
killed by a Lexington avenue cable car, on
studied during the year now closing by the Broadway and Twenty-third street, last
piano trade than ever before.
Monday evening. Mr. Newton was seven-
ty-two
years old, and in the years agone,
This we affirm as experts who make a
about
1848,
was one of the founders of the
careful study of the art of advertising.
firm of Lighte & Newton, which subse-
We say that piano trade has placed more
quently became Lighte, Newton & Brad-
intelligently and in a more comprehensive bury. For the past thirty years he has not
manner, notices of their manufactures be- been connected with the piano trade. He
fore the trade and before the public than at was rated as a millionaire. A widow and
one son survive him.
any time heretofore.
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This is the age of new ideas in business
advertising, and those who keep in close
A Christmas Greeting.
touch with the press will certainly stand in
line to reap a benefit for their outlay.
Those who make their ads readable and
speak the truth boldly, people will appreci-
ate more than those who mislead.
The reward of the faithful advertiser is
certain.
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The trade press, too, has improved won-
derfully.
The music trade to-day has papers of
which it has a right to feel proud.
T
HE Keller Bros. & Blight Co., Bridge-
port, Conn., have always been noted
for their artistic advertisements and litera-
ture, and the neat and timely Christmas
greeting which we have just received in
the form of an eight page folder is in touch
with everything emanating from this
house. Its cover contains a floral relief,
and in the inside pages appear cuts of their
new styles of uprights and "Hearty Greet-
ings and Good Wishes, a Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year from the Keller
Bros. & Blight Co. " We cordially recipro-
cate this kindly greeting.
They give better service in every way
PROF. J. WEIGAND has been joined by his
son, J. Weigand, in promoting the interests
of the Kranich & Bach piano in Augusta,
Ga.
RETAIL trade with mostly all the ware-
rooms was unusually brisk Monday and
Tuesday of this week. The majority of
sales were for cash.
F. J. SCHWANKOVSKY, of Detroit, Mich.,
has taken the agency for the Norris & Hyde
transposing keyboard piano. This ener-
getic dealer will make a "big thing" with
this instrument.
THE Huntington Piano Co.'s new factory
at Huntington, Conn., will soon be ready
for occupancy.
C. F. BURCHARD, of Behr Bros. Co., spent
the closing days of last week in the West
on business connected with his house. His
special point of destination was Detroit.
THE Behning piano is sold in Boston by
the new firm of Gardner & Osgood.
IT is said that I. N. Hockett, of Hockett
Bros.-Puntenney Co., Columbus, O., who
left that city recently for the purpose of
opening a store in Los Angeles, Cal., has
disposed of his entire stock, which is worth
about $10,000, to Gardner & Zellner, of
that city.
THE shipments from the factory of Chick-
ering & Sons, Boston, for the past month
have averaged more than fifty pianos a
week.
THE demand for the Gabler pianos shows
an upward and onward growth. This pleas-
Mrs. Sutro Much Grieved.
While we hear some men grumble about
ing condition of things has been helped
the number of music trade papers, yet if
by the production of instruments which
RS. THEODORE SUTRO, who has
are carefully constructed, and meritorious
they glance over the list to-day they will
been so prominently identified with
find the number has not been augmented the work of women in music and law in from a musical standpoint.
THE new style Vose upright, with the
during the past six or eight years.
this State for the Woman's Exhibit at
rainbow
panel, is one of the greatest suc-
In the matter of trade papers we do not Atlanta, is not pleased with the way the
cesses
of
this house. It has won instant
wish to be personal, but we can take some exhibit has been handled, and expresses
favor
with
the trade.
herself as being very much grieved at its
pride and satisfaction in the work of THE
not being catalogued. In fact, part of the
THE Fall River (Mass.) branch store of
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW for the past year.
exhibit has been locked up in cabinets to Geo. H. Champlin & Co. will be under the
As a trade paper is to a large degree a which the public had no access. Among
management of Josiah Emery, who has
reflex of that trade of which it is an ex- the exhibits which Mrs. Sutro collected been connected with this house for over
ponent, then THE MUSIC TRADE RKVIEW as were 1,400 musical compositions, seventy-
ten years.
a representative trade paper reflects through six printed books relating to music written
THE business men of Chicago are making
by women, a large variety of musical in-
its advertising, editorial, and reportorial
strenuous efforts to have a reduction made
struments, together with the photographs
in the freight rates between that city and
columns a good healthy condition of the of violinists and other musicians.
Southern points. The rates from this city
trade.
are 32 cents per hundred lower than from
Its news service never was better.
IN the San Antonio (Tex.) Express of re- Chicago.
It always fights fair.
cent date there appears a long article on the
THE holiday opening of Robt. L. Loud's
It aims to be right.
popular and reliable firm of Thos. Goggan new warerooms in Buffalo, on Dec. 17th,
It aims to be just.
& Bro., of Galveston, Tex., and the import- was a great success. Some ten thousand
While casting a glance backward over ant part which they have played in the re- people visited the warerooms, which were
our work for the past year, we consider it tail musical instrument trade in Texas.
beautifully decorated.
than heretofore.
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