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THE MUSIC TRADE
Martin Piano Co. for $6,508.61. The judg-
ments were taken on notes of the Cincin
nati firm of Smith & Nixon, on which the
local firm were endorsers.
GIVEN & LITTLEFIELD
THKRK is nothing new to add this week
to the extended and only correct account of
the affairs of Keller Bros. & Blight, which
appeared in our last issue.
WAGNER & STARR have engaged in the
manufacture of guitars at Danbury, Conn.
Both members of the firm are practical
musicians.
They are starting out in a
modest way.
THE Rochester Box and Lumber Co., of
Rochester, N. Y., has been incorporated to
manufacture piano and other boxes, with a
capital stock of $30,000. The directors are
William W. Webb, S. E. Clarke and L. At-
water. The latter two were members of the
recently assigned firm of Atwater, Arm-
strong & Clarke.
ROBT. HIGGINS, JR., has opened a piano
wareroom at 1115 Columbia avenue, Phila-
delphia, and will catry a full line of Estey
pianos and organs, and Ludwig pianos.
W. H. FRY, of the Bradbury warerooms,
this city, will take charge of the Brooklyn
branch at 304 Fulton street.
THE store of Levering & Bro., Dubuque,
la., was damaged by fire last week to the
extent of $3,000.
L. RICCA, manufacturer of mandolins,
guitars and other musical instruments, who
recently moved into his new factory, at
886-8 East 134th street, will retain the
present retail warerooms at 163 West
Twenty-third street.
PROF. AL. MOREHEAD has accepted a po-
sition with the Hockett Bros. Co., a large
musical supply house, of Cincinnati. Much
of Mr. Morehead's work will be selling
goods on the road, and he will make occa-
sional calls in this city.—Richmond, Ind.,
Telegram.
WORK, on the Cherry street extension of
the Regina Music Box Co.'s plant at Rah-
way, N. J., was begun last Tuesday. The
building to be erected will be like the main
one, first-class in every respect, three-
storied with substantial brick walls, and a
sub-story beneath the cellar to be cemented
and finished in asbestos. The structure
will be 102x30 feet.
M. C. PERKINS & Co., music dealers,
Rockland, Mass., are enlarging
their
quarters in Paysdn Block by an addition in
the rear.
TH^ International Piano Makers' Union
has settled its differences with the Pease
Piano Co.
have
opened
a
music store on Main street, Old Town,
Me., where they will carry a stock of
pianos, organs and all kinds of musical in-
struments, sheet music, etc.
ANNIE
KRIVAN,
the
fifteen-year-old
daughter of John Krivan, of Clarenceville,
was accused before Justice Charles Lauer,
in Woodhaven, L. I., last Friday of steal-
ing a number of musical instruments from
Paul Hampe, of Ozone Park. Three music
boxes, one guitar, one violin, three man-
dolins, two accordions and other instru-
ments are alleged to have been taken by
her. The theft occurred in December.
DAVID C. HASKIN, a salesman in the em-
ploy of R. D. Gardner, piano and music
dealer, Watertown, N. Y., disappeared
from that city in a mysterious manner on
Monday of last week, leaving a wife to
mourn his departure.
been our pleasure to commend his composi-
tions. We have been favored with a new
song from his pen entitled "Listen, Those
are Angels' Wings."
The melody is
smooth and pleasing, the arrangement
effective and the words by the composer
are especially expressive. The song is in
common time, with a catchy waltz refrain.
This ballad should prove as popular as
"Diamonds and Roses,'' by the same com-
poser, of which sixteen thousand copies
have been sold. The Standard Music Co.,
Danville, Va., are the publishers.
BRASS bands are being organized in Uion
and Verona, N. Y.
THE New England Piano Co. have leased
the large four-story building, 601-Washing-
ton street, Boston, which they will occupy
as retail quarters.
THE case of Victor Flechter, who was
sentenced Friday of last week to one year
in the Penitentiary, has been appealed to
the Supreme Court. Lawyer House says
he will take the case to the Court of Ap-
peals if necessary.
GEORGE WILSON, an employee of the Fort
Wayne Organ Co., had his hand caught in
a machine while at work, and the member
was severely lacerated.
WILLIAM O. HOYT, music dealer,
Dan
bury, Conn., has begun suit against Moses
C. Johnson, of that city, to recover $10,000
damages for the alleged alienation of the
affections of his wife, Josephine A. Hoyt.
A. E. WERKHEISER, Lena, 111., has moved
his music store across the street i;;to the
Distlemeyer Building.
A FIRM of London manufacturers has
just constructed a musical perambulator to
the order of a native Indian prince. By an
arrangement in the body of the vehicle as
the wheels revolve strains of music are
ground out. To suit the Oriental passion
for display, the lining is made exceedingly
gorgeous, and the wheels and springs are
gold plated.
THE Estey Organ Co., Brattleboro, Vt.,
have sold the Ctntreville factory to the
National Contract and Supply Co., the con-
cern having an option to buy the property
within a year.
A BRANCH store for the sale of pianos,
organs and musical merchandise has been
opened in Passaic, N. J., by the enterpris-
ing firm of Ruckstuhl Bros., of Rutherfordj
N. J.
A. D. SISK, Madisonville, Ky., has de-
cided to add a line of sheet music and small
musical merchandise to his general stock
of stationery.
ALEX. ROSS, music trade dealer, Alle-
gheny, Pa., has opened a branch store at
New Castle, Pa.
THE exports of musical instruments for
the week ending May 20th amounted in
value to $9,630. Great Britain was our
largest purchaser, the value of exports to
that country amounting to $6,515.
Two judgments growing out of recent
failures were filed in County Clerk's office,
at Rochester, N. Y., early this week. Both
were in favor of Comstock, Cheney & Co.
C. H. ADDISON is not only a prolific, but
One was against Atwater, Armstrong & Co.
clever
writer of songs. It has frequently
for $4,600, and the other against the
The Crown Pianos.
WHY DEALERS SHOULD HANDLE THEM WHY
GEO. P. BENT'S BUSINESS IS BOOMING.
w
E should like to
say
something
to our readers about
these remarkable spe-
cimens of piano build-
ing, manufactured by
that'go-ahead representative of Western en-
terprise, Geo. P. Bent, popularly known as
the "Crown," but much of our "thunder"
is appropriated, and set forth clearly, ably,
and convincingly in the advertisement in
another part of this paper; therefore, we
can only ask our readers to study and di-
gest this announcement.
It is a plain
statement of facts.
To a certain class of dealers, who neglect
to keep pace with the times, it may seem
that Mr. Bent is making claims which he
cannot live up to.
To those thinking so, we would suggest
an investigation of the "Crown" instru-
ment or a trial order, and we guarantee
they will be convinced that there is a
"princely profit in the 'Crown' piano,"
and beside the mere pecuniary recompense
there is the satisfaction of handling and
selling an instrument that is thoroughly re-
putable and satisfactory in all its essen-
tials.
There is a particularly promising future
for the "Crown" piano. Trade conditions
are such that it maintains a certain—a
peculiarly pre-eminent place.
The extension of Geo. P. Bent's trade is
the logical result of an intelligent conduct
of business on modern and advanced lines.
He has faith in his business, faith in his
pianos, and as the Good Book says, "Faith
moves mountains."
It makes success.
Back of all this faith, however, is merit,
and merit wins.