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VOL
XXII.
The
No. 23.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, June 27, 1896.
Burdett Piano Co.'s New
Factory.
An
$3.00 PER YEAR
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS
Important Suit.
OTTO ORAU 4 CO. VS. LINDEMAN
PIANO CO.
PRESIDENT BROWN BUYS THE KEYSTONE SHOE
CO.
BUILDING FOR IMMEDIATE USE.
AN IMPORTANT
J
DEAL.
OHN R. BROWN, president of the Bur-
dett Piano Co., Erie, Pa., has pur-
chased the Keystone Boot and Shoe Co.'s
building, a conspicuous structure which
stands between Nagle and Twelfth streets
and Payne and Hess avenues. The sale
was closed up Saturday, and comprises the
building and an acre of ground. • The
building was erected in 1872 for the use of
the Keystone Boot and Shoe Co., is n o
feet in length and 40 feet in width. It is
a model building of substantial construc-
tion. Its offices are handsome and large, its
four stories are high, and reached by broad
stairways and a good elevator. Its floors
are double, and the large windows flood the
building with light and air, making it ad-
mirably suited for its future use. The
boilers and engine are in excellent condi-
tion. The property is in first-class repair,
the grounds are ample for additional build-
ings, and a fifteen-inch sewer extending
from Tenth to Twelfth street, 1,000 feet
in length and connecting with the Metric
Metal Works lake sewer, gives it sewage
and drainage. The property represents a
value of between $30,000 and $40,000.
O
TTO GRAU & CO-, sole agents for
the Lindeman & Sons pianos of
this city, in Cincinnati, O., have sued to
enjoin H. Lindeman & Sons, of that city,
who do business as The Lindeman Piano
Co., from claiming that they are the agents
E are in receipt of a tasty two-colored
of the New York firm or are members of
type-written circular, from the Aut-
that firm. Damages to the amount of $1,-
oharp
department
of Alfred Dolge & Son,
000 are claimed.
from which we take the following:
W
"Replying to your favor of recent date,
we send under separate cover our pamphlet,
'How the Autoharp Captured the Family,'
descriptive of the various styles of Auto-
•"FHE condition of the Muehlfeld-Haynes harp.
We hope same will interest you.
1
matters has not materially changed The Autoharp is so easy to play, and yet
since last week. Wm. F. Boothe, the as- so thoroughly musical, that it commends it-
self to all lovers of nmsic. It will be found
signee of the company, issued a call for the
a delightful companion with which to while
creditors to meet him at the office of the away an idle hour. The Autoharp pleases
factory last Wednesday. A number re- all the members of the family, and can be
sponded, and the result of the meeting was played satisfactorily with a few hours'
virtually this: That a number of the largest practice. We guarantee satisfaction. If
any further information is desired, we will
merchandise creditors objected, through
be pleased to furnish it."
Mr. Rudolf Dolge, to confirming the
It is gratifying to note the extreme
actions which have already been taken, so
thoroughness that pervades ever)' detail in
it seems that the official appointment of an
connection with the Autoharp manage-
assignee must still drag for some time until
ment; their generosity in the matter of
adjusted by the courts.
wide advertising is a matter of history, and
Regarding the statement of the com-
the perfected ideas carried out in all Auto-
pany's condition, it has not changed great-
harp affairs, naturally tend to make the in-
ly from the figures first published in THE
strument a very desirable one to handle, in-
Mr. Brown's Burdett piano factory, REVIEW. Liabilities have increased slight-
asmuch as the ground has been so thorough-
which had its inception in the old National ly, approximating $37,000, while the assets
ly well prepared as to make the harvest a
Hotel building, at Eighteenth and Peach have been reduced to about $15,000.
sure thing. This, without any reference
streets, will be moved to the shoe factory
to the splendid musical attributes of the
building as fast as the work now in hand
AMONG the new Illinois corporations this Autoharp, which it is impossible to over-
can be finished up and the machinery week appears the "Chicago Cabinet Organ
rate.
transferred.
Co.; capital stock, $2,500; incorporators,
Mr. Rudolf Dolge reports a very gratify-
The other officers of the Burdett Co. are H. D. Cable, F. S. Cable and George W.
ing Autoharp trade for the present month;
George A. Webb, treasurer, and John F. Tewksbury." The members of this con-
the neat circulars issued to dealers setting
Brown, secretary. The company has been cern are officers of the Chicago Cottage
forth the merits of the Autoharp as a vaca-
manufacturing four pianos a week for the Organ Co., and the incorporation is merely
tion instrument, have met with a hearty re-
first year, and the instrument has been effected as a name protection.
sponse, and there has been a heavy demand
well received by Erie musicians. The re-
A. H. HAMMOND, of the Hammond Reed for Autoharp Carrying Cases. Autoharp
moval of the plant to the new quarters
Co., Worcester, Mass., was in town on No. 6 is remarkably popular, the demand
means an increase of forces and an enlarged
Thursday last for the purpose of wishing foi same being so heavy as to suggest the
output.
his daughter bon voyage. Miss Hammond advisability of dealers ordering well ahead
The property is within a short distance
is en route to Italy for the purpose of pur- of this particular instrument.
of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
suing her art studies; she has already
Mr. Dolge states that the revival of trade
Railroad, and in the midst of one of Erie's
given considerable promise as a sculptress. last week was such as to indicate almost a
most thrifty'suburban precincts.
return to prosperity during the coming fall.
W. H. TURNER, treasurer of the Brau-
Muehlfeld-Haynes Matters.
THE Henry F. Miller & Sons Co., Bos- muller Co., New York, accompanied by his
E. W. FURBUSH stopped over in town
ton, have opened a branch store in Green- wife, left to-day for a three weeks' vacation
yesterday
on his return from the West.
at Gettysburg, Pa.
field, Mass.