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Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, January 18,1896.
VOL XXI. No. 26.
In The West.
THE
KIMBALL
MEETING
TO LICENSE
CIANS— NEWS ABOUT THE "CROWN"
& SEIGLER
MUSI-
SPIES
SUING—SMITH & NIXON BUY
OUT WOOLEY—STORY & CLARK IN LON-
DON—GRUBBS BURNED OUT—INJUNC-
TION AGAINST THE " L " ROAD
DICKINSON RETURNS
MR.
GENERAL
NEWS.
T
HERE is not an over-abundance of trade
news in Chicago these days, but it
may be as the old saw has it, *'a calm be-
fore the storm"—let us hope a storm of
busy times.
The W. W. Kimball Co. held their an.
nual meeting Monday, and Kimball, Con-
way and Cone passed a vote of confidence
in each other. Mr. Kimball still retains
his title as president, E. S. Conway as sec-
retary, and A. G. Cone, treasurer. Long-
may they reign.
A bill imposing a license on itinerant mu-
sicians in Washington has been sent to Con-
gress by the District Commissioners. The
bill provides that any person playing a pi-
ano or any other musical instrument in the
streets shall pay a license of $12 per year.
For playing in the streets without a license
they may be fined from $5 to $25,' or im-
prisoned in the workhouse for thirty days.
One of the characteristic types of the
genus "hustler" is Geo. P. Bent. He is
ever on tap with new ideas, new schemes to
develop his trade at home and abroad. He
has just sent Primer on a lengthy tour of
the South American continent. He is adding
several more new style pianos to those
recently brought out. They are a radical
departure in case work, and will create
much talk in trade circles. Last Tuesday
Mr. Bent invited the press men of this city
to an exhibition of the orchestral attachment
to the "Crown" piano. It was a clever
stroke and succeeded in attracting quite a
large number of gentlemen who were en-
thusiastic about Mr. Bent's pianos as well
as the attachment. Bent is certainly a
genius.
Spies & Seigler, Cleveland, O., are
suing Kansas City, Mo., saloon keepers for
breach of contract in failing to remit $2
per month on music boxes, each saloon man
being held accountable for $250. The
saloon keepers claim they did not sign con-
tracts and will contest the suits. An ordin-
ance prohibits music in a saloon.
Smith & Nixon, of Cincinnati, O., have
purchased the extensive piano and musical
establishment of C. J. Wooley, one of the
oldest concerns in Toledo, O. The Stein-
way, Smith & Nixon, Kurtzmann and Mar-
tin pianos and Wilcox & White organs are
handled by this establishment. Mr. Wooley
will continue with the new concern. C. A.
Ament will be general manager.
I learn from the Story & Clark Com-
pany that their London branch has made
an important deal with the German piano
manufacturers, F. Kaim & Sohn, whereby
the instruments of that house will be sold
in London and the business will be con-
ducted under a new name combining both
titles.
There was quite a fire in the music store,
at 44 High street, Columbus, O., occupied
by W. H. Grubbs, piano dealer, Friday of
last week. The loss amounted to $25,000.
Henry Goldsmith's stock of sheet music in
the same building was seriously damaged
by fire. Mr. Grubbs handled the Knabe,
Hallet & Davis and Blasius pianos.
The owner of the building occupied by
the Chase Bros. Piano Co. has secured
an injunction restraining the Elevated road
from building its structure in front of the
property on Wabash avenue and Congress
street. The Elevated Road corporation
have so far seemed to be able to over-ride
injunctions and will probably succeed in
this case.
Mr. Dickinson, of the Hamilton Organ
Co., has returned from his European trip,
which was a portentous one for the com-
pany with which he is connected. Mr.
Dickinson is looking to an enlarged Eng-
lish trade this year, owing to the fact that
Waddington & Sons, their London repre-
sentatives, have concluded to augment their
trade throughout Great Britain and the
Continent.
The music store of Howard, Farwell &
Co., at 48 Seventh street, South, Minnea-
polis, Minn., was broken into on the 12th,
and a large number of musical instruments,
including guitars, mandolins and violins,
were stolen.
Leepold Peck, of Hardman, Peck & Co.,
New York, spent some days in town re-
cently.
Harry M- Lay has taken charge of Geo.
P. Bent's accounts and collections. Mr.
Lay was recently with the Pease Piano Co.
$3.00 PER YEAR
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
The Piano Makers' Association.
ELECT
OFFICERS
FOR
THE ENSUING
YEAR.
I P H E Piano Manufacturers' Association
^ of New York and Vicinity held their
regular annual meeting last Tuesday, at
the Union Square Hotel, for the purpose of
electing officers for the ensuing year. The
nominating committee composed of Nahum
Stetson, John Evans, Amos C. James, F.
G. Smith, Sr., and Samuel Hazelton re-
commended for election the following
ticket : President, A. H. Fischer ; First
Vice-President, Samuel Hazelton ; Second
Vice-President, Nahum Stetson ; Secre-
tary, Robt. C. Kammerer ; Treasurer,
John Evans. These gentlemen were unan-
imously elected as well as the following Ex-
ecutive Committee : William Steinway, L.
P. Bach, Robt. Proddow, F. G. Smith, Sr.,
Leopold Peck, William F. Decker, Wil-
liam E. Wheelock and Amos C. James.
The Needham Piano & Organ Co. were ad-
mitted to membership.
C. F. T. Steinway's Property.
REFEREE FRELINGHUYSEN ANNOUNCES THE
AMOUNTS FOR DISTRIBUTION TO HEIRS.
JUSTICE INGRAHAM some time ago
^J declared invalid a trust made under
the will of the late] C. F. Theodore Stein-
way, one of the big piano manufacturers,
in a suit to set it aside brought by his
nephew, H. W. T. Steinway, and G. G.
Frelinghuysen was appointed as referee to
pass upon the accounts of the executors.
The trust consisted.of stock to the value of
$1,000,000 in the Steinway corporation.
The referee reported Tuesday that the
executors have received in dividends on the
trust $384,000, of which, when the execu-
tors shall have been paid, there remains for
distribution $329,417.52. This is to be dis-
tributed as follows:
To William Steinway and Doretta Zieg-
ler, a brother and sister of the deceased,
each, $109,805.78, and to Henry W. T., the
plaintiff, Charles H. and Frederick F.
Steinway, each, $36,601.92.
When we called William Steinway's at-
tention to the above, asking his confirma-
tion of the statement, he replied: 1 "In
substance it is correct; to enter into details
is a long story. Briefly, the main points
as relating to the amount of the property are
" embodied in the above report."