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Published Every Saturday at 3 Bast Fourteenth Street. New York, July 11,1896.
VOL XXII. No.
In The West.
CHICAGO AT THE MERCY OF SILVERITES
WILL
WIN
OTHER
THE
ROOT
GOLD
CONCERTS
INCORPORATION
DEATH
AN-
OF
THOS. RICHARDS—HOWE, HAHN&
CO. DISSOLVE—THE "PEASE. "
GENERAL NEWS.
HICAGO this week is at the mercy of
the free silver advocates, who are so
enthusiastic about their cause that the con-
tagion seems catching, evil and wrong
though it is. At the Convention they seem
to have everything in their hands, and the
issue this fall will undoubtedly be a square
fight between an honest standard and a de-
bauched currency. As to the result it is
certain that as soon as passions calm, and
the people do some hard thinking, the
dominant feeling in the West will undergo
a marked change before election day.
There is a strong conservative element in
the great West which will not support a
party that proposes that the Government
should be a party to dishonesty and dis-
honor. Gold will win, but it is going to
be a mighty big fight; there is no mistak-
ing that.
This week the American Cabinet Organ
Co. was incorporated to do business in this
city with a capital stock of $1,500. Incor-
porators—Homo Faber, Joseph Dobbs and
Thomas D. Steward.
The concerts given for the benefit of the
Dr. Geo. F. Root monument fund on the
afternoon and evening of July 4th, were
great successes. The oratory and music
were, to use a technical expression, "high
grade," and seemed to satisfy the large au-
diences present.
Geo. Nembach, head of the house, of Geo.
Steck & Co., made a stop over at Chicago
the closing days of last week.
I understand that the Mickel Bros. Co.,
of Cleveland, who purchased the A. D. Coe
stock, have also taken up the bank loans, in
this way securing the collateral. The
Colby Piano Co. and Brown & Simpson are
determined to give the Mickel Bros. Co. a
pretty stiff fight.
The death is announced of Thomas
Richards, a very estimable gentleman, who
was formerly with the Everett Co.
The concern of Howe, Hahn & Co., who
ecently opened up on Wabash avenue, and
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who were selling a stencil piano which
bore on its fall-board "Decker Piano Co.,"
have dissolved. T. H. Farrell, who is the
leading man of the firm, could not agree
with Mr. Hahn's policy in this matter, and
the business will be run in future under
his own name. Mr. Howe, however, will
remain. Mr. Farrell is determined to work
up a trade on legitimate lines, and there
will be no more stencil business.
E. T. Root & Son have removed from
their old place on State street to 307
Wabash avenue, where they have spacious
warerooms.
It is hardly necessary to say that busi-
ness is dull in all departments. Even in
the best of times things are quiet around
July and August.
A. G. Cone, of the W. W. Kimball Co.,
and H. I). Cable, of the C. C. O. C , have
been under the weather recently. Mr.
Cone in particular has had a three weeks'
attack of illness, but is now on the road to
recovery, and is expected at the warerooms
every day.
C. H. MacDonald, manager of the Pease
branch, is well pleased with the volume of
business transacted during June, and so far
this month he has received sufficient en-
couragement to entitle him to be cheery
about July.
The Henning Piano Co.
D
I3.00 PER YEAR-
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS
Farrand <& Vote Or ans in Europe
OHN W. HINES, manager of the Far-
rand & Votey Organ Co.'s works in
this city, sailed for Europe last Wednesday
by the steamship "Germanic" in the inter-
est of his house. While abroad he will
superintend the erection of a magnificent
Farrand & Votey organ with electric at-
tachment in Manchester, England. This is
significant of the increasing appreciation
in Europe of American advancement in
church organ manufacture.
J
liaines Bros.
' * ! 7E have received orders for pianos
y y every day this week, so far,"
said Mr. T. Floyd-Jones to THE REVIEW
on Thursday last, "and for the time of
year have no great cause for complaint."
Haines Bros, are beginning to prepare for
the fall campaign by a judicious admixture
of paint and varnish applied to the main
entrance, Southern Boulevard, and this
part of .he factor)' from an external stand-
point is beginning to assume a very spick
and span appearance.
Ready to Fill All Orders.
ENE GRUNEWALD, New Orleans,
La., manufacturer of man ! olins and
guitars, and direct importer of mahogany
and Spanish cedar woods for guitar and
mandolin necks, has experienced such a de-
mand for the latter specialties from manu-
facturers that he has been actually unable
to fill orders since the end of June. This
week, however, he received a large cargo
of logs, and is now well prepared to fill or-
ders for mahogany or cedar necks in any
quantity at the shortest possible notice.
R
URING a call this week at the factory
of the Henning Piano Co., Raymond
and Willoughby streets, Brooklyn, we were
pleased to find an activity that testified to
the satisfactory condition of business with
them. Some very handsome instruments
were being prepared for shipment to South
America,-and the general business outlook,
according to Mr. Henning, is not at all dis-
couraging. As a matter of course, they
could do more, but judging from their busy
factory, they are certainly justified in hold-
THE Brockport Piano Co., of Brockport,
ing an optimistic view about the present N. Y., have made some heavy shipments
and future of the piano business.
recently, notwithstanding the humidity and
hard times. A recent order from Worces-
ter, Mass., was for a carload of instru-
Hagerstown Organ Co.
ments, which was filled last week.
HE Hagerstown Organ Mfg. Co., Hag- GEORGE M. BLUMNER, of the Geo. P. Bent
erstown, Md. was organized July traveling staff, is making an extended
7th, with L. M. Watkins, president; Daniel Eastern trip. He was in New York the
Bragunier, treasurer, and John W. Feld- early part of the week, and left for Penn-
man, secretary. The capital stock is fixed sylvania, thence through the New England
at $5,000, to be increased when necessary. States.
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