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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
excepting for a short time when he first
started in, when he was located in the Troy
Building, he has had rooms in the building
now owned and occupied by the McWhirr
Co. He has been uniformly successful.
Most of the large halls of the city and
many of the schools have pianos supplied
by him. The fact that the State of Rhode
Island has purchased of him some ten or-
gans for use in its district schools in this
vicinity is good evidence of his name out-
side. Mr. Greene's many friends wish him
continued and increased prosperity in his
new quarters.
Interview With H. H. Cable.
HIS VIEWS ON THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
HE Chicago Cottage Organ Co. and its
ramifications is the greatest musical
manufacturing concern in the world.
With its headquarters at Chicago it is ac-
tuated by the push and bustle of the great
Western metropolis, but its branches
throughout the world make it thoroughly
cosmopolitan. Being such it must have
the highest degree of merit as well as the
greatest amount of push and money. It
has been tried all along the lines and found
fully up to the standard of the progressive
West and the fastidious East.
The Times, this morning, was pleased to
have an interview with the leading spirit
of the great concern, Mr. H. M. Cable, who
is here on business with H. T. Hamner, 63
Baltimore street. Mr. Cable has been en-
joying a much needed vacation in the East,
and is now en route to Chicago. Apart
from his ability as a business man, he
seems a careful student of political
economy.
In discussing the probable action of the
Chicago Convention, he expressed himself
as certain of the adoption of a sound money
plank if the two-thirds rule was sustained ;
without it, under the free silver attempt to
force a bare majority rule, there was al-
most a certainty of disaster to the country
and ruin for the party. In the East he had
found business men and prominent politi-
cians getting ready for the battle at Chica-
go, and he could not think that with such
an opportunity before it, the Democratic
party would make the mistake of repudia-
tion of honest debts.
Mr. Cable left this afternoon on the Bal-
timore and Ohio train for Chicago.—Cum-
berland, Md., Times, June 22.
T
C. S. GREENE.
C. S. Greene's Opening.
A HANDSOME WAREROOM.
AST Saturday Mr. C. S. Greene opened
one of the finest piano and organ
show and salerooms in Fall River, Mass.
The room is on the ground floor of the
Freelove Building, 163 South Main street,
next north of the McWhirr Building, in
which Mr. Greene has been located for
many years. His new store is nearly 100
feet deep and 20 feet wide. When he took
it he had a heavy task before him in mak-
ing presentable quarters, and he has suc-
ceeded not only in making it presentable
but has made a very handsome room of it.
The walls and ceiling are handsomely deco-
rated. The effect is rich and in good taste.
The floor is of hard wood, and handsome
rugs are scattered over it. For the open-
ing some fifty palms and ornamental plants
were placed about the room, and an or-
chestra was adding to the natural attrac-
tions of the opening. Mr. Greene has a
private office about midway down the store,
and next to it is the bookkeeper's office.
There is a basement about 75 feet long,
giving ample room for storage.
The two show windows are neatly set
out with instruments and plants. On the
left entering is a great cabinet in which is
kept a big stock of music in sheets and
books. All the standard works, foreign
and domestic, and all the novelties are to
be found there. To the right is a large
case extending to the ceiling in which is
kept a fine assortment of smaller musical
instruments. The remainder of the big
room is given up to pianos and organs.
Mr. Greene carries ten makes, of which
the Hallet & Davis, Ivers & Pond, Vose &
Sons and Kimball are particularly well
known.
Mr. Greene has been in the piano and
organ business for about twenty years, and
L
ASSIGNEE D.
D.
WOODMANSEE, of
the
Smith & Nixon concern, was authorized by
the courts to advertise for bids for the stock
of pianos and musical instruments. In the
meantime he is carrying on an assignee
sale at retail, which will close July 10th.
Pianos are being offered at "special bar-
gains."
H. J. SHANK, a representative of the
Weaver Organ and Piano Co., was a visitor
to the factory Thursday of last week. Mr.
Shank is enlarging his place of business in
Harrisburg to provide for the increased
business of the company.
G. W. VINAL & Co. have succeeded the
Peterboro Manufacturing Co., manufac-
turers of piano stools, Peterboro, N. H.
VAN WAGONER'S music store, 184-186
Woodward avenue, Detroit, Mich., was
visited by burglars June 23. The store is
being remodeled, and it is impossible to
tell what was stolen.
FRED B. STERLING, formerly of Keene,
N. H., has charge of the music department
at Houghton & Dutton's, Boston.
SOME time since we stated that a new
pipe organ company was about to be
opened in Indianapolis, Ind. We now
learn that the parties interested are W. S.
Coburn and H. E. Harris, who were for-
merly connected with the organ house of
Geo. S. Hutchings, of Boston, Mr. Coburn
being superintendent of the factory.
SMITH & WEISENBORN, of Cincinnati, are
highly pleased with the splendid assort-
ment of Vose pianos which they are exhib-
iting in their warerooms, for which they
recently secured the agency.
P. J. MINDERHOUT, of Minderhout &
Nichols, Montgomery, Ala., will be married
July 7th to Miss L. E. Wade, of Mont-
gomery.
THE value of the exports of musical in-
struments from the port of New York for
the week ending June 24th, amounted to
$11,118. Great Britain was the largest
purchaser, instruments to the value of $3,-
350 having been shipped.
THE Chase Bros. Piano Co. has filed its
declaration in the Circuit Court in its suit
for damages against Sheriff W. A. Garner,
growing out of the seizure of a piano in
possession of Mrs. Frances E. Russell.—
Journal, Flint, Mich.
THE Bedells' Furnishing Co. (Ltd.) has
been incorporated with a capital stock of
$35,000 to carry on business in pianos,
house furnishings, etc., at Toronto, Ont.,
by G. W. Bedells, A. K. Roy, Mrs. Bedells,
Mrs. Roy, J. A. Cooper and R. F. Spence,
all of Toronto.
THE International Piano Makers' Union
has won its case against the United Piano
Makers. A former officer of the latter,
which is now partly or wholly disbanded,
sued the Internationals for pay for services
performed for the United order, the plain-
tiff claiming that the International Union
had agreed to assume all the liabilities of
the United organization, provided it would
join the Internationals. The claim was
disputed. Justice Roesch decided for the
defendants.
THE Weaver Organ and Piano Co. made
a shipment of organs to Rotterdam, Hol-
land, last week.