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VOL XXII.
N o . 19.
Publisbed Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, May 30,1896,
In The^West.
Attended the flusic Festival.
EMERSON IN THEIR NEW QUARTERS—W. W.
CROCKER IN TOWN LUCKY P. P. GIBUS.
LYON & HEALY'S ORGAN TRADE KIM-
BALL BUSY LIKEWISE STEGER.
GENERAL NEWS.
PROPOS of Mr. Nahum Stetson's
recent visit to Cincinnati, there is a
very clever little story.
A well-known musical critic, while talking
with Nahum Stetson before the May
Music Festival, expressed himself as desir-
ous of meeting him in Cincinnati. Mr.
Stetson replied by saying that he was go-
ing out there to attend a festival, and no
doubt should have the pleasure of seeing
him.
The Music Festival had closed, and Mr.
Stetson met the critic on the street, who
accosted him with the remark:
"Why, Mr. Stetson, I have been looking
all over for you, and I could not find your
seat. You have attended the Festival,
surely?"
Mr. Stetson replied by saying:
"Yes, but the Festival I have attended
was not the one conducted by Theodore
Thomas; it was a May Festival, just the
same; but my seat has been over herein
the hotel in the telegraph office most of the
ime. "
T
HE Emerson Piano Co. are moving into
their new warerooms this week.
They have been beautifully decorated and
furnished under manager Northrop's direc-
tions, and they present a very attractive
appearance. When the pianos are all in
place and set off to advantage, these ware-
rooms will be equal in the way of beauty
to any in the city.
W. W. Crocker, of the Freyer & Bradley
Music Co., Atlanta,Ga., was a visitor to the
city this week. He is an enthusiastic ad-
mirer of the "Conover," and has sold quite
a number in his section. He is not over
sanguine about business, just at present, but
is quite hopeful of the future.
Platt P. Gibbs is in luck. The music
trade employees have determined to pie-
sent him with a diamond stud or pin in
appreciation of his efforts to secure for
Lyon & Healy state that their organ
them the weekly half holiday,
trade, especially in ^Eolians, is quite ac-
tive. They have a big display of music in
their windows this week, and they seem de-
termined to fight the department stores
who are really selling sheet music lower
than it can be procured for at wholesale.
The W. W. Kimball Co. report an excel-
lent retail and wholesale trade, both in
pianos and organs. Notwithstanding the
talk about dull times, business so far this
year is in advance of last. It is cheering
to a man these days to hear such a report.
Steger & Co. is another firm who have
reason to be optimists. J. V. Steger's
business, both in Steger and Singer pianos,
is constantly on the increase, and his
agents everywhere speak enthusiastically
of the merits and selling qualities of these
instruments.
Thomas F. Scanlan, of Boston, was in
town several days this week.
Estey & Camp have secured the services
of Mr. Hammond, who was formerly with
the Mason & Hamlin Co.
E. S. Conway has. been visiting Ohio on
one of his customary business vacations.
Quite a number of the music trade men
are making arrangements to move to their
country homes for the summer.
W. C. Camp will spend his spare time
and entertain his friends on his steam yacht
at Lake Geneva, Wis., which he has fitted
up sumptuously.
Bush & Gerts made a good move when
they opened salesrooms at their factory.
They are building up a nice retail trade.
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Hasse Goes to Europe.
M. F. HASSE, the well-known piano
stool and scarf man, of Fourteenth
street, sails for Southampton to-day on the
"Aller." Mr. Hasse will visit London,
Antwerp and Brussels, thence to the music
trade industries of Saxony, where he will
meet a number of music trade people,
among whom will be Wm. R. Gratz. He
will purchase his fall stock during his ab-
sence. He will return to New York about
the 20th of July.
St. Louis Cyclone.
ST.
LOUIS, MO., May
29,
1896.
OTWITHSTANDING the fact that
hardly a business block in the city is
without its share of broken windows, in
many cases every pane of glass having been
removed as cleanly as though at the hands
of a glazier, the music trade seems to have
been comparatively uninjured. The San-
ders Musical Co., Nos. 125-9 South
Eleventh street, reported damaged by un-
roofed building. The wind in its capers
of smashing glass seemed in many cases
not to care about anything else. Screens
in the windows of the Planters' Hotel were
not even bent, while the quarter inch plate
glass behind them was smashed to atoms.
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Will Give Awav 10.000 Glasses.
ANN & ECCLES, the enterprising
piano dealers, of Providence, R. I.,
have hit upon a novel scheme to make
known to their fellow citizens that they are
very much alive. They have made arrange-
ments with the local druggists, Hall &
Lyon, to dispense two thousand glasses of
soda on each day for five days, commencing
July 6th, to the school children of Rhode
Island.
M
W
Strauch Bros.
$3.00 PER YEAR-
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS
The Guild Pianoforte Co.
PECIAL invitations were issued last
week by the directors of the Guild
Pianoforte Co. to the musical public of
Lynn, Mass., and vicinity, to visit and in-
spect their handsome new factory located
at 215-17 Market street. Consequently
over three hundred guests were in attend-
ance on Monday. They were entertained
with an excellent program, given an oppor-
tunity of witnessing the modus opcrandi of
piano making, and served with refresh-
ments. President Guild was tireless in his
efforts to make every one at home, and the
entire affair was most enjoyable. We shall
speak of the factory building in a future
issue.
S
fcfr'T'HERE is no volume of trade," said
I Mr. Peter D. Strauch, of Strauch
Bros., to THE REVIEW, yesterday morning,
"but we are doing a snug business right
along. When everybody is suffering from
SOME large shipments of organs were
general depression, it is foolish and mis-
leading for any house to indulge in blow- made recently by the Ft. Wayne Organ Co.
ing. We are, however, working full force, to South America, and also to South Africa.
five days a week, and orders are satisfac- Their foreign trade in organs is especially
tory. ''
good.