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business channels, he said, laughingly,
Wm. E. Wheelock & Co.
" Burn down Congress and give us a rest
HE schedules of William E. Wheelock
for six or seven years. We have too many
& Co., piano manufacturers at Third
laws and too much legislation. Members
of Congress seem to have little sympathy avenue and 149th street, show liabilities,
$3 6 7>359> o f which $196,669 are contingent;
with the real condition of the country."
nominal assets, $728,744; actual assets,
$266,233. The contingent liabilities are
To the careless observer the drummer is for indorsements on notes of concern? in
a happy-go-lucky fellow with a good salary, Troy, New Haven, Pittsburg, Cincinnati,
fine clothes, a liberal supply of money for Chicago, Denver, Memphis, Portsmouth,
expenses, a large acquaintance among good Va., and other places. The assets consist
$18,184; bills receivable, nominal
people, and an ever-ready smile and joke of cash,
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actual
$8,764; accounts receivable,
for everybody. To outsiders he presents a
nominal
$17,804,
actual $10,615; stock of
jolly picture of unalloyed pleasure, an ob-
piano
materials,
etc.,
at factory, nominal
ject of general envy to the unsuccessful,
$51,270,
actual
$35,036;
pianos on consign-
says Keystone. But let us look behind the
ment,
nominal
$12,430,
actual $8,000;
curtain. The traveling man is employed
pianos
in
warerooms
and
rented,
nominal
expressly to sell goods, and is expected to
$17,460, actual $15,800; real estate, factory
earn a good profit for his house above all
property in 149th street, Brook and St.
expenses. He is almost certain to lose his
Ann's avenues, and thirty lots, nominal
position if he cannot. He must watch the
and actual, $130,000; accounts due from
markets closely and possess a fund of timely
purchasers, nominal $46,584, actual $38,000;
information on all matters connected with
fixtures, nominal $17,652, actual $1,834;
his business. He must be a good judge of shares in five piano companies, nominal
human nature—one who can learn the char- $384,200, actual doubtful. Of these shares,
acter of his customers. The drummer $241,100 are of the Weber Piano Co., of
sacrifices his meals to catch a train. He which Mr. Wheelock is president. Among
arises at daylight and travels all night. He the creditors are H. M. Mason, $50,000;
lays the foundation for rheumatism, culti- John W. Mason, $24,000; M. M. Tilney,
vates dyspepsia, robs himself of a home, $10,000; A. M. Chapman, Si0,000, all of
and is engaged in a ceaseless, tireless Brooklyn; Mount Morris Bank, $10,000;
struggle for trade. He has to hustle and Gansevoort Bank, $5,000; Twenty-third
push in order to sell his goods. He must Ward Bank, $5,000; Fulton Bank, of Brook-
be polite, educated and a gentleman.
lyn, $5,000.
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OUIS LOMBARD, director of the
Utica Conservatory of Music, who has
attained quite some notoriety through
his clever mode of keeping himself in the
public eye through newspapers and books,
has decided to forsake music for finance, and
can now be found in Wall street among the
"bulls and bears."
For some years Mr. Lombard has engaged
in speculation in stocks with profit, it is
said, and he now hopes to accomplish more
satisfactory results, free from the enervat-
ing influence of music. In fact, the rattle
of gold has a greater fascination for him
than manipulating the bow.
Mr. Lombard is a small man, but he
thinks some of his ideas are mighty big,
and he hies to the metropolis to give them
scope. He has written quite a number of
essays bewailing the commerciality of the
American people, and put in a vigorous
plea for their reformation. It is amusing,
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however, to find that he has fallen from his
''high estate" and now becomes a "gold
* Colorado Springs,
Middleton Crawford,of
bug."
Col., has reduced his studies to practical
If he can advertise himself as success- use in the perfection of a process of extract-
fully and as cheaply in his present vocation ing precious metals from their ores, which
as he has during his musical career, he has especial significance at the present
will undoubtedly make a big "hit" on the time, when so many of our music trade
stock exchange, if not in the financial men are actively interested in the gold and
world.
silver mining regions. His peculiar pro-
cess of extraction by chemical lixiviation
also tends to render abandoned and hereto-
Geo. J. Dowling, the popular road rep- fore non-paying mining ventures profitable.
resentative of the Briggs Piano Co., Bos-
ton, passed through New York last Monday
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homeward bound from an extended West-
Prof. Sanborn, of the Tomah School for
ern trip.
" I have been seven weeks on the road," the Winnebago Indians, at Black River
said Mr. Dowling, in a course of conversa- Falls, Wis., has been making an experi-
tion, "and although business is not surpris- ment among his pupils in a musical line,
ingly active, yet I hfve no reason to and the results are highly gratifying. The
complain. The Briggs, as you know, is professor bought thirteen band instruments
exceedingly popular with dealers, and the and hired a teacher to instruct his young
aborigines, all at his own expense. The
new styles especially are in great favor.
thirteen boys composing the band were
"During my travels one thing struck
allowed to choose their instruments, and
me forcibly — that business is not of a
their instructor, C. E. Spencer, of that
steady character. In some cities I found
city, says he never saw better progress
a really brisk condition of business, while
made by any band he ever taught than was
other places which have always been looked
made by the young Winnebagoes.
upon as "lively towns" have been compar-
atively dull.
"Business so far this year shows a slight
W. H. FROST, of Zobo fame, has issued a
improvement over the same period of 1895, very handsomely gotten up edition of the
but the outlook for the year is no brighter. popular "Honeymoon March," arranged
It means that active work will be necessary for the Zobo quartette, by Percy Gaunt.
in order to obtain trade."
It shows the possibilities of the Zobo in a
When Mr. Dowling was asked if he could musical way. Mr. Frost will be pleased to
devise some panacea that would make send dealers a sample copy, post paid, on
some of the money hoarded up flow into receipt of a postal card.
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The Henry F. Miller Piano.
HE Henry F. Miller pianos are essen-
tially the favorites of America's lead-
ing pianists and musicians as well as the
people's. This season they are being used
at the Boston Star Course exclusively, and
at many of the leading musical events in
New England and elsewhere. Last Mon-
day evening the Henry F. Miller grand
was played with signal success by Charles
Denee at a recital at Library Hall, Mont-
pelier, Vt. In this connection we notice
that in a very laudatory criticism of Edward
Baxter Perry's illustrated piano recitals,
John S. Van Cleve says in Music: This
season Mr. Perry is playing the Henry F.
Miller piano, and the glorious sonority of
the rich-voiced instrument in no small
degree helped to realize the artistic pleasure
of the recital.
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Recital in Boston.
GRAND /Eolian concert on the lines
of the one given in this city some
weeks ago, will take place in Boston in the
near future. In this connection Mr. Sund-
strom, manager of the ^Eolian department
in M. Steinert &'Sons Co., Boston, has
been in town during the week completing
arrangements and details.
The ^Eolian is becoming a great favorite
with the music lovers of the " H u b " and
other Eastern cities, and the same excellent
methods of attracting those who can appre-
ciate the special qualities of these instru-
ments, which have been inaugurated in this
city, have been followed with great success
down East.
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