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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
to this disreputable system, which has been
allowed to prosper, apparently, through in-
IT IS IN THE WORDING that the worth difference. Messrs. Sohmer & Co. are to
be complimented for the steps which they
of a diploma depends. Read on the oppo- have taken in advising the public; it should
site page what is said concerning the be the beginning of an active campaign on
••Crown" pianos.
the part of all the manufacturers.
It is the strongest of any given to a This matter is entirely within the scope
of the Manufacturers' Association, and they
manufacturer.
should by every means aid furniture houses
and auctioneers in their commendable en-
deavor to put an end to these fraudulent
private and public auction sales.
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Story & Clark and Wagener pianos, as well
as the products of F. Kaim & Sohn, Ltd.
The Estey Organ Co. will present a number
of their popular styles, including the "Pho-
norium." The Chicago Cottage Organ
Co. will be suitably represented in B.
Samuel & Sons' magnificent display. The
Miller organs will be on view in L. Blank-
enstein & Co. 's booth. Among other
houses who will be represented are the
Needham Piano and Organ Co., the
Weaver Organ and Piano Co., the Bridge-
port Organ Co., the Karn Organ Co., the
Bell Organ Co., the Doherty Organ Co.
The Lyon & Healy small goods and the
The Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau failure is Zimmerman Autoharp will be displayed
now a thing of the past, and opera will be by the London agents, Thos. Dawkins &
given as though such an affair never hap- Co.
This list, however, is not entirely com-
pened. At a meeting of the directors of
the Metropolitan Opera House on Tuesday, plete, but it is sufficient to indicate that
complete arrangements were effected for American products, particularly in the or-
the re-leasing of the house to the new gan line, will be fairly represented at this
music trade show.
Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau Co.
Ninety-six per cent, of the firm's creditors
HE sales of cheap rattle-boxes, so-called have consented to the readjustment just
pianos, at private sales and mock arranged. The remaining 4 per cent, is
A. D. Coe Sale.
auctions, is a growing evil in this city, and composed of small tradesmen, whose bills
I am pleased to notice that reputable auc- range from $50 to $200, and aggregate not REPLEVIN SUITS INVOLVING $ 1 5 , 0 0 0 WORTH
tioneers have begun a campaign to put an more than $10,000. The mode of settle-
OF PIANOS HAVE BEEN BEGUN BEFORE
end to them. Evidence is being collected ment agreed upon is the issuing of stock in
JUSTICE HITCHENS—MECKEL BROS.
against a number of men, and last week shares for large amounts, and these small
COMPANY'S VICTORY.
David Lindenborn was arraigned before creditors will, therefore, have to be satisfied
Judge Cowing charged with conducting with a trust fund.
HTHE dissatisfied creditors of A. D. Coe
one of these mock sales. He was accused
^ were made still more dissatisfied by
The new company starts without a dollar
of selling pianos, chinaware, rugs and other
of debt. The aggregate salaries paid to a decision made by Probate Judge Henry
household furniture for fictitious indi-
Messrs. Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau wiil be White last Saturday. Attorneys represent-
viduals or people who had no existence.
$20,000 a year. The same employees will ing the Colby Piano Co. and two other con-
He was held for trial.
be retained and the same artists as usual cerns, the other day filed motions to have
Similar proceedings are now to be begun will appear. There will be no outside ven- the sale of the property set aside, claiming
against a number of other fake auctioneers, tures, the only interests of the firm being that it was not for the benefit of the credi-
and it is to be hoped that this disreputable the opera house and the Tremont Theatre, tors; that more money could have been
system of fooling the public will be Boston.
procured at a former time, and that
seriously interfered with, if not totall)'
William Steinway, as chairman of the certain parties were unlawfully prevented
eradicated.
Readjustment Committee, has worked in- from bidding. Judge White held that the
Some time ago THE REVIEW published defatigably and well. P. W. Fowler and sale was perfectly valid, and confirmed it.
an article showing the extent of this evil, Robert Dunlap were his fellow-committee- This is a victory for the Meckel Bros. Co.,
and recommended some action on the part men.
the purchasers of the stock. This firm
of the Manufacturers' Association.
Mr. Steinway said yesterday that Mme. bought the entire stock on June 226. for
The private sales of pianos in this city Nordica had given her consent to the reor- $33,35°-
may not be overwhelmingly large, but the ganizationjfor her $5,000 claim, and Jean de
The legal proceedings growing out of the
principle is bad, and it should be denounced. Reszke for his $7,000, and on Saturday assignee's sale of the stock were further
Again, every piano sold in this question- Mme. Melba's $8,000 claim was settled by complicated Friday forenoon, when the
able manner is a sale lost by manufact- cable on the same basis.
Colby Piano Co., of Erie, Pa., and the firm
urers of acknowledged eminence.
of Brown & Simpson, of Worcester, Mass.,
Men who conduct these sales do not con-
through their attorneys, Billman & Bill-
fine themselves to second-hand instruments;
American organs will be fairly repre- man, began replevin proceedings in Justice
on the contrary, they find it a better plan sented at the Music Trade Exhibition to Hitchens' court to recover one hundred
to buy the rattle-boxes right from the fac- be held at the Royal Agricultural Hall, and ten pianos of the stock of A. D. Coe.
tory, and palm them off as the manufacture London, from July 10th to 20th inclusive. The proceedings are brought against An-
of celebrated makers, in this way injuring This year again a number of the leading toinette Muhlhauser, assignee of A. D.
the character of reputable instruments.
English houses have refrained from taking Coe; Frank Meckel, and the Meckel Bros.
This evil has gone so far that the house part, nevertheless, there promises to be a Co.
of Sohmer & Co. have been compelled to very imposing display of instruments,
The Colby Piano Co. seek to replevin
insert the following advertisement in the which cannot fail to be of benefit to the ex- seventy-four pianos, of which they claim
daily papers:
hibitors.
they are the lawful owners. Brown &
Simpson wish to replevin thirty-six pianos,
From
my
English
exchanges
I
learn
that
BEWARE of "fake" private house sales.
among the American houses to be repre- of which the3^ claim to be the lawful owners.
THE GENUINE SOHMER PIANO
sented directly or through their English Both firms allege that this property is
FOR SALE ONLY at 149-155 East 14th street.
agents, are the Ft. Wayne Organ Co. wrongfully detained from them by Antoi-
Be sure to spell the name correctly—
Messrs. E. Hirsch & Co., their London nette Muhlhauser, assignee; F r a n k
representatives,
will display a number of Meckel and the Meckel-Bros. Co. Friday
S-O-H-M-E-R
Packard organs which embrace two of their noon Constable White took posssession of
Other houses will be compelled to take late and most popular styles. Story & the pianos in question, the aggregate value
similar action unless an end is speedily put Clark will exhibit a full line of organs, of which is about $15,000.
THE "CROWN" DIPLOMA.
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