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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Behr Bros. & Co
HILE according THE REVIEW repre-
sentative a hearty welcome, Mr. C.
L. Burchard, of Behr Bros. & Co., had not
much news to impart. "Mr. Edward Behr
writes from Utica, N. Y., in a letter re-
ceived this morning: Hops are selling 5
cents a bushel, and they cost 10 cents to
pick, consequently the farmers are not feel-
ing over joyous." Here Mr. Burchard,
with a knowing smile, made a passing re-
ference to the Raines bill.
Mr. Henry Behr is in the neighborhood
of Tacoma, Wash., drumming up business
and meeting with good success in the
Northwest. He is working East from the
Pacific Coast, and is due back about April
10. Mr. Edward Behr is expected to re-
turn in about ten days.
With the Travelers.
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A New Pittsburg Store.
NEW music trade establishment has
been opened in Pittsburg, Pa., by
Chas. H. Cramp, who held a confidential
position with Samuel Hamilton for a
number of years. Mr. Cramp will locate
at 607 Smithfield street, and has not yet de-
cided on the line of instruments he will
carry.
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Kranich & Bach.
USINESS with Kranich & Bach is
keeping up nicely. Mr. Louis P.
Bach is meeting with good success on his
Western trip, and Mr. Felix Kraemer is
hard at work pulling in fish one day and
orders the next in the neighborhood of Pen-
sacola, Fla. Mr. Kraemer will spend a
month in California, and is not expected
baiJc from his extended trip before the lat-
ter fart of June.
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Wants His Taxes Reduced
F. GREENWOOD, of Detroit, Mich.,
asked the City Council, at their
meeting last Monday, to assess his stock of
pianos at only $3,000, instead of $7,000, as
it now appears on the rolls. The excuse for
this plea is that most of the stock belongs
to the W. W. Kimball Co., a foreign corpo-
ration. The city's legal department will
try to help the Council Committee on
Taxes out in deciding this point.
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$50,000 Incorporation.
HE Secretary of State for Ohio has
issued certificate of "incorporation to
The Anderson & Newton Piano Co., Van
Wert, capital stock, $50,000.
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A PIANO recital and lecture to show the
benefit of new and modern methods of teach-
ing, will be given at Carnegie Lyceum,
this city, on the evening of March 16th, by
the pupils of the Virgil Piano School. C.
S. Virgil will speak on the "Clavier Idea."
THE business of Otto Sutro & Co., of
Baltimore, will, it is said, be under the
management of Walter D. Moses, Mrs.
Sutro retaining her husband's interest in
the firm.
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HAT an amazing line of personal
experiences you must have had
in your time," said THE REVIEW man to the
popular Tommy Atkins, as we discussed the
probabilities of another blizzard at lunch.
"Yes," said Tommy, " I am old veteran,
and have encountered some mighty pecu-
liar experiences in my dey."
"Well, it looks that way," said THE RE-
VIEW man.
"You seem to be quite at
home in speaking of occultism in India, the
jungles of Africa, the mysteries of Paris,
the fogs of London, the woolly West or the
political situation in the'land of the free.' "
"Well, now," said Tommy, "you are lay-
ing it on heavy. I will, however, confess
that 'the world is my country,' as Paine
would put it. By the way, your remark
about India puts me in mind of a snake
story which was told me by one of the na-
tives during a visit to that country some
years ago."
"A snake story? You are not aware,
perhaps, that the Government has placed a
big tariff on these 'products?' "
"That may be so," said Tommy, as he
took a whiff at his perfecto, "but this
story is not made in a 'sweat-shop,' it is a
work of art, and free of duty. Moreover,
it must be a true one, for the man who un-
derwent the experience was a good church
goer and swore by Mohammed.
" I t seems my Indian friend was lunch-
ing one day while sitting on the banks of
one of those beautiful creeks which abound
in that ancient country, and on account of
the usual disparity between the meat and
bread in his sandwich, he threw the re-
dundant piece into the water. Immediately
a swarm of yellow fish bubbled around it,
fighting for the mouthful. The man
searched his pockets for fishing tackle, but
all in vain, and he was just beginning to
die of despair, when his eye lighted on a
blacksnake. At that moment he remem-
bered how his father used to tell him that
blacksnakes were expert in catching fish.
He therefore grabbed the reptile by the
tail, carried it to the river, and held it over
the struggling fish. The snake proved it-
self a born angler, and in the course of an
hour the man had captured forty fiine fish.
"A few days later, as he was walking in
the same place, he felt something rub
against his leg, and, looking down, he saw
his friend, the blacksnake, eager for mor
sport."
"Not so bad," said THE REVIEW man, as
we indulged in a parting "smile." "You
won't mind my giving that recipe to Dan
Treacy ?"
"Not in the least," said Tommy. "It is
a good thing, push it along."
Otto L. BRAUMULLER, president of the
Braumuller Co., returned to town on Wed-
nesday last from his recent Western trip,
extending from Duluth to St. Louis, and
was successful in placing some big deals
and establishing some valuable connections.
"Guess we have taken on enough business
to keep busy for some time to come," said
Mr. Braumuller.
GEORGE C. CRANE, Eastern representa-
tive of the Krell Piano Co., Cincinnati, O.,
left town on Wednesday last for a week's
trip among the New York State agents.
THE Pease Piano Co. report fair trade.
Mr. H. D. Pease was apparently not in a
specially hopeful vein when THE REVIEW
man called during the week, but stated:
"Doing a little business all the time; busi-
ness is not good, but we are doing some-
thing."
THE Centennial of the City of Cleveland,
O., will be celebrated in July and August,
and we notice among the different com-
mittees named to do honor to the occasion,
the names of such music trade men as
Henry Dreher, G. T. Wamelink, H. E.
McMillin and A. D. Coe.
E. W. FURBUSH as returned from a four
weeks' trip in the interest of the Briggs
Piano Co. He reports business as "look-
ing up," and is not at all inclined to join
the army of pessimists who seem to be so
numerous these days.
THE Weaver Organ and Piano Co., York,
Pa., received an export order for twelve
organs last Saturday, to be shipped to New
Zealand, and another order for eighteen to
be shipped in this country.
F. X. BERNARD, music dealer, St. John
street, Quebec, Can., has assigned at the
demand of Mr. O. Newcombe, of Toronto.
He has placed his affairs ^in the hands of
Mr. Burroughs as provisional guardian. A
meeting of creditors will shortly be called.
AMONG the members of the trade in town
during the week were: Charles Keidel, of
William Knabe & Co., Baltimore, Md.; Mr.
Gourlay, of Gourlay, Winter & Leeming,
Toronto, Canada; H. M. Steinert, of Phila-
delphia, Pa.; S. E. Clark, of Detroit,
Mioh.; Mr, Johnson, of Cluett & Sons,
Troy; A. T. Curtin, of Helena, Mont.; Mr.
Fleming, of Philadelphia, Pa.; W. J. Dyer,
of St. Paul, Minn.; J. E. Hunt, Pawling,
N. Y.; W. H. Keller. Easton, Pa
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