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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
is a catalogue that will be read from cover
to cover by dealers and purchasers, and
after all, that is the secret of a good
catalogue.
The cover is beautifully embossed and
designed, and the reading matter right
through the book is set forth with a mar-
gin of two and a half inches on each page
—illustrations of the exteriors and interiors
of the three "Packard" styles appearing
therewith. The effect is original and high-
ly pleasing.
The topics of interest throughout the
catalogue are treated under the following
captions:
"The Good Piano:" " T h e
Strong Piano;" "Scale Perfectly Bal-
anced;" " Durability of Construction;"
"Tone Sympathetic, Pure and Rich,
Combined with Greatest Power;" "Quick
Repeating Action;" "Elegant in Design
and Finish;" "Good Pianos are for Ar-
tists;" "Pianos with Fads for Fakirs."
In the closing page the Ft. Wayne
Organ Co. announce that they have in pro-
cess of construction another style of "Pack-
ard" piano which will contain a scale that
will be two and a half inches larger than
those illustrated and now so generally pop-
ular. It is drawn on the same lines as the
others and will be in every way as good.
In the next catalogue, which will be issued
in about three or four months, the cut of
this piano will appear.
At some future time we hope to repro-
duce part of the contents of this volume;
it may help to explain, in a measure, why
the "Packard" piano has attained such a
large degree of popularity with discrimina-
ting dealers and purchasers.
Lew H. Clement Resigns
FROM THE ANN ARBOR CO. TO ACCEPT A
POSITION WITH THE F. W. 13AUMER
COMPANY.
L
EW H. CLEMENT has tendered his
resignation as manager of the Ann
Arbor Organ Co. to take place August i.
He does this to accept the position as man-
ager of the F. W. Baumer Co., of Wheeling,
W. Va., the largest music establishment
in that State. Mr. Baumer, the head of this
company, desires to retire from active busi-
ness and travel extensively, and some
weeks ago made Mr. Clement such an ex-
ceptional offer in the way of salary and an
interest in the business that Mr. Clement
felt that he could not refuse.
Mr. Clement went to Ann Arbor from
Chicago ten years ago and started in the
retail music business in that city. Three
years later he consolidated his business
with the Ann Arbor Organ Co. and soon
after was elected secretary and general
manager. The growth of this company is
due very largely to his enterprise, push and
hard work. Mr. Clement is a good sales-
man, a very successful advertiser and a
careful, systematic business man.
The company has not yet secured a man
to take Mr. Clement's place, but we under-
stand they have the matter under consider-
ation.
CABLE Car No. 526, northbound, collided
with the pole of a truck bearing the name
of the New England Piano Company, Fifth
avenue and Fifteenth street, last Tuesday
evening on Lexington avenue and 107th
street. The pole crashed through the
THEODORE PFAFFLIN, of Chickering &
double sash and door in the front of the car
Sons, New York house, accompanied by his and one of the horses was thrown to the
wife, leaves to-day for Swatara, Pa., on a pavement. The motorman
threw his
visit to his recently married daughter.
weight on the brake and the car was
E. S. VOTEY, of Farrand & Votey, De- brought to a standstill quickly. Fortun-
troit, Mich., was in New York the middle of ately nobody was injured.
the week; J. T. Rider, with the M. V.
IN connection with the report of an at-
Sprague Music Co., Chatham, N. Y., has
tachment being granted against A. L. Ban-
been in the city during the week.
croft, of San Francisco, it must be stated
P. J. HEALY, of Lyon & Healy, has been that that gentleman is in no way connected
in New York for some days; he left for with the house of A. L. Bancroft & Co.
Baltimore, Md., yesterday afternoon.
Incorporated.
B. TREMAINE,
of the ^Eolian Co., who
has been staying in the neighborhood of
Quogue, L. I., recently, for the benefit of
his health, is still far from well. Mr. Tre-
maine has been spending a couple of days
in New York, and leaves to-day for White
Lake.
S. M. BARNES, of Wm. Knabe & Co.'s
New York house, leaves to-day for Asbury
Park, N. J., on a two weeks' vacation.
Walter Holmes, of Bradbury fame, and J.
M. Elliott, a well known New York orches-
tral conductor, wall be in the neighborhood
at the same time. The three gentlemen
are duly equipped with a divine conception
in up-to date bathing attire, and expect to
play havoc among the goddesses of fashion
in that salubrious quarter.
JOHN MCKUNE, piano dealer of Kenosha,
Wis., has announced himself as a candidate
for sheriff on the Republican ticket.
DANA G. PRESCOTT, of the Prescott Piano
Co., Concord, N. H., was in town. Wednes-
day. Mr. Prescott is full of hope for the
future of the Prescott piano. The com-
pany are now located in their new factory
where they have splendid manufacturing
facilities.
EDWARD H. STORY of Story
& Clark,
Chicago, was in town last week.
EDMUND GRAMM, the well known dealer
of Milwaukee, Wis., who by the way is a
great admirer of the Steck piano, is passing
a few days in the Metropolis; while here he
is under the direct chaperonage of that past
master of entertainment, Geo. N. Grass.
J. FRED METCALF, music dealer of Essex,
Coun., has recently enlarged his business
facilities by securing additional wareroom
space.
H. G. HUNT, music dealer, Montreal,
Can., is under arrest at St. Thomas, Ont.,
charged with reusing once used postage
stamps. Other like charges are pending.
The music business must be pretty tough
in Canada when they have to cut out
stamps and use them over again.
JUDGMENT for a small amount has been
recorded against Victor Flechter, dealer in
violins, at the instance of Messrs. Pollack
and Goldstone. Flechter will be examined
in supplementary proceedings as soon as he
returns from Cincinnati,
RUFUS W. BLAKE, president of the Sterl-
ing Co., Derby, Conn., was in town Thurs-
day.
Louis P. DEDERICK, receiver of the Man-
ufacturers' Company, Chicago, visited New
York this week for the purpose of seeing
his wife and family off to Europe.
AMONG the visitors to the Metropolis dur-
ing the week was W. A. White, with Blas-
ius & Sons, who ran up from Philadelphia
on Thursday.
THE W. W. Kimball Co.'s branch store in
Dayton, O., which has just been opened, is
under the charge of J. M. Zimmermann.
F. S. PETRIE, an employee of the Chase
Bros. Piano Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., com-
mitted suicide last week by drinking a con-
siderable quantity of wood alcohol.
IT is said that the B. Shoninger Co., who
had contemplated making a second piano
to be called the "Yale," have, after due con-
sideration, determined to make only one
grade as heretofore—and that the Shonin-
ger.
ASSIGNEE D. D. Woodmansee, of Smith
& Nixon, has received bids for the stock in
Cincinnati and elsewhere, which will be
passed upon Monday in the Insolvency
court.
CHECKS, drafts, etc., "for collection" or
containing any other writing than name
will not be accepted by the associated
banks of New York. This rule went in
force last week.
JOHN F. LORFNZ, son of the former pro-
prietor of the vSt. Paul Pipe Organ Manufact-
ory, died at St. Paul, Minn., last Sunday,
at the age of twenty-five years. A widow
survives him.
THE Hagerstown Organ Co., whose or-
ganization was reported in last week's RE-
VIEW, will begin operations at once. The
factory will be located in the old agricul-
tural works, East Washington street, and
pipe and reed organs will be manufactured.
The directors of the company are all prac-
tical men.