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THE MUSIC TRADE
Steinway Agency Withdrawn
from Smith & Nixon.
Important Changes.
The Hazelton name and the Hazelton
reputation was never so prominent or more
honored than to-day—convincing testimony
MR. GREENWOOD RESIGNS AND TAKES HIS
DETROIT, Mich., May
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The latest developments
in Smith &
Nixon affairs, as reported elsewhere in this
paper, can hardly be termed surprising.
Steinway & Sons have been more than
liberal to this concern, and they have been
compelled to make this change in order to
protect their own interests.
In a conversation with Mr. Nahum Stet-
son yesterday, he said: "There is really
nothing new to add to the particulars of
which you are in possession.
Steinway &
Sons will conduct an independent business
in Cincinnati hereafter, and I expect to
leave on Sunday for that city to look over
the field myself."
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We have frequently had occasion to refer
to the remarkable qualities of the music
boxes manufactured by the Regina Music
Box Co., Rahway,
N. J.
The special
Having
highly
recommend
them
as being
1896.
OPENED,
WITH
MR. WM. STEINWAY'S plans for the sum-
mer, although not fully matured, indicate
that he will rusticate at his country home
at Steinway, L. I., the greater part of the
warm spell.
L. E. THAVER, of the Fort Wayne Organ
Co., manufacturers of the "Packard" piano,
Fort Wayne, Ind., left on Wednesday last
for a trip West to Omaha, Lincoln, Kansas
City and other points.
GEO. C. CRANE, Eastern representative of
the Krell Piano Co., Cincinnati, left the
city on Wednesday evening last for a ten
days' business trip in New York State.
SMITH
& NIXON
PRETTY
HARD.
ASSIGNEE'S REPORT NOT YET FILED.
CINCINNATI, O.,
May
13,
1896.
T
HE official announcement made last
Monday by the local representatives
of Steinway & Sons, that the Steinway
agency had been withdrawn from the firm
of Smith & Nixon, has provoked consider-
able surprise and much comment in local
trade circles.
It was expected that some compromise
would be effected whereby the claims would
be adjusted and the agency continued, but
Mr. F. E. Rowe, formerly manager for it seems the more the affairs of Crawford,
the Kohler & Chase music house, of San Ebersole & Smith are investigated, the
Francisco, and who is now with the Kim- more entangled and mixed up they appear.
Warerooms have been rented at 132 West
ball Co., takes charge of the house, the
management of which was assumed by him Fourth, between Race and Elm streets, and
the place is being renovated and fitted up
yesterday.
Mr. Rowe has the reputation of being an to make a fitting and artistic home for the
At the present time Mr.
able man in his line, and will, no doubt, "Steinway."
make his presence felt among the piano Ernest Urchs is officiating as manager, and
will be assisted by Mr. Chas. Jones, who
fraternity in Detroit.
was formerly connected with the Smith &
Nixon establishment.
The Hartin Piano Co.
RECEIVER APPOINTED AND ANOTHER SALE
HELD.
L
EONARD H. BENNETT was ap-
pointed receiver of the Mfirtin Piano
tation.
Co., Rochester, N. Y., by Justice bmwell,
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last Monday. Bennett has acted as agent
for
the company since its failure, and will
It is said that Edward P. Mason will seek
have charge of the remaining assets, con-
a rest in Europe. Undoubtedly he may
sisting of the book accounts, the value of
find repose there in some spot where the which it is difficult to determine, because
music trade papers entereth not. The cor- they include the indebtedness of Smith &
dial treatment which he has been receiving Nixon, the Cincinnati wholesale firm,
at the hands of some of the editors who in whose failure drove the concern to the wall.
Under-Sheriff Bailey and Deputy Haw-
flush times receive a large patronage from
ley sold the balance of the company's avail-
his hands, is entertaining perhaps to
able assets Monday morning, previous to
others, but not to Mr. Mason.
Mr. Bennett's appointment. This sale was
held to satisfy a claim of the Commercial
MR. HUGOSOHMER, who, with his family, Bank for $773.45, and that institution
arrived in Paris May i, writes from the offered the only bid. The judgment of
"city of pleasure" that he experienced a John C. Barnard for $949.25, which came
most pleasant voyage on his recent trip, next in order, remains entirely unsatisfied,
and his extended vacation promises to be as do those of the other creditors.
most enjoyable.
thoroughly worthy of the "Regina" repu-
HJTS
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recently inspected their latest styles, we
can
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R. E. F. GREENWOOD, for the past
two years manager of the W. W.
Kim ball Co.'s branch piano house, at 25
Monroe avenue, this city, has resigned his
position as manager of the Detroit house,
and left for Chicago to-night for the pur-
pose of resuming his former position with
the company as general wholesale agent on
the road, a position for which he is most
ably adapted, and which he held with the
company for many years prior to his assum-
ing charge of the local Detroit house two
years ago.
merits of these instruments have been wide-
ly and authoritatively endorsed.
WAREROOMS
ERNEST URCHS IN CHARGE—THE CHANGE
and the intelligence of the trade.
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INDEPENDENT
FORMER POSITION ON THE ROAD.
of the common sense of the musical public
The Chickerii g in Demand.
• *y"~"\NE thing that particularly im-
\_y
presses me, with regard to the
Chickering business," said Mr. Theodore
Pfaniin, recently, to THE REVIEW, "is the
large number of applications the house
receive from dealers, relative to the
handling of the Chickering instruments.
As a house, we are conservative in the
matter of appointing new agencies, but it
is, nevertheless, highly gratifying to us
that the Chickering pianos are so much
sought after by the very people who are the
most fitted to judge of their intrinsic
merits."
Preparations are being made to remove
the stock of Steinway instruments now on
consignment at Smith & Nixon's, and I
learn that a big supply of pianos will
reach here in a few days from New York.
Local dealers are much interested as to
whether the new establishment will be con
ducted under the name of Steinway &
Sons. Many seem to think- that a local
company on the lines of Lyon, Potter & Co.,
Chicago, or N. Stetson Co., Philadelphia,
will be formed, but this is problematical.
The daily papers contain showy announce-
ments of the change of agency, and the
consensus of opinion here is that the Smith
& Nixon people have been hit pretty hard
by the Steinway move.
The local counsel for Steinway & Sons,
Judge Thomas A. McDougal, will now, I
understand, take vigorous steps to protect
the interests of his clients, and some start-
ling developments will undoubtedly result
before many days.
There is nothing new to report relative
to the Smith & Nixon affairs. The ac-
countants are hard at work on the books,
and they will have their report ready for
filing in a few days. The innumerable de-
tails in connection with the inventory and
schedule of liabilities makes the examina-
tion of the books a very tedious and pains-
taking task.
GENERAL JULIUS J.
ESTEY, of the
Estey
Organ Co., Brattleboro, Vt., was a visitor
to Greater New York during the week.
Miss KATHLEEN HOEKSTRA has withdrawn
from the firm of Hoekstra & Poehl, Roch-
ester, N. Y. Miss Hoekstra was caught
in the Smith & Nixon failure to the extent
of $1,000, notes which were individually
endorsed by herself.