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VOL XXIII.
No. ii
Published Every Saturday, at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, October 3,1896.
In The West.
THE
DIVISION OF ESTEY & CAMP ESTEYS TAKE ST. LOUIS WHILE THE CAMPS
CHICAGO THE WICK ORGAN FAILURE—WHAT JOHN D. PEASE SAYS
BUSH & GERTS OPENING—OTHER SHOTS.
T
HE announcement that the Estey and
Camp families have parted company,
although not unexpected, as can be seen
from my last letter, is certainly an import-
ant trade item. Papers were signed this
week, whereby the interests of the Estey
company in the Estey & Camp corpora-
tion, in this city, were exchanged for the
interests of the Camp concern in the St.
Louis house. The latter will be run as a
branch of the Estey company with the
present manager in charge. The Chicago
concern being an incorporated company,
the name of Estey & Camp will be re-
tained; the three principal stockholders
being the officers who were elected at the
meeting held last Monday with the fol-
lowing result: E. N. Camp, president;
Marvin A. Farr, vice-president and treas-
urer; and William C. Camp, secretary. It
may be remarked that Mr. Farr is a bro-
ther-in-law of the Camp brothers. I un-
derstand that the Estey line of goods will
be carried in the Chicago house; in fact,
there is little change outside of an official
separation of interests. The best of feel-
ings exist, and doubtless will exist be-
tween these two very important houses in
the music trade.
The Wick Organ Co., a small concern
doing business at 488 Carroll street, have
made an assignment to Frederick S. Whea-
ton. The assets are placed at from $1,000
to $1,200 and the liabilities at about
$5,000.
John D. Pease, treasurer of the Pease
Piano Co., has been a visitor to town this
week consulting with Mr. MacDonald
anent the fall campaign. In a talk about
trade conditions with "The Indicator"
man he made a good point which is worth
emphasizing.
He said: " I am quite
sure that matters will come out all right.
A great many people, in my opinion,
would be buying pianos now if they did
not have a sort of anxiety over the out-
come of the election. There are lots of
people who are able to buy pianos, and are
thinking of buying them, but who are hold-
PER YEAR-
OPIES, io CENTS
Hason & Ha
HOLD
A NEW INCORPORATION TO
TAIL
TRADE.
ing off on account of this uncertain feeling.
When the matter is definitely settled I
HE Chandler W. Smith Co. is the
look for a decided improvement."
name of a new incorporation which is
The Olson Comstock Co. have increased about to be formed in Boston to handle the
their capital stock from $40,000 to $48,000. Mason & Hamlin instruments at retail.
Incorporation papers have been forward- They will occupy the first floor and base-
ed to Springfield for the organization of the ment of the present Mason & Hamlin
J. A. Norris Piano Co., details of which building on Boylston street. Edward P.
appeared last week. Two other makes of Mason will be president, Henry L. Mason,
pianos will be handled besides the Mason vice-president, and Chandler W. Smith
Mr.
& Hamlin, but nothing definite will be de- treasurer and general manager.
cided upon until Mr. Mason's arrival the Smith's business will be incorporated with
the new concern, but in the meantime, the
latter part of the week.
The formal opening of Bush & Gerts' Masons will hold a controlling interest.
handsome new warerooms at North Clark If everything runs smoothly the new
street occurred last Thursday evening and company will be ready to commence busi-
was a great success. About 1,300 people ness about the 20th of October.
were present; in fact the hall was packed.
The Mason & Hamlin Co.'s wholesale
The program was of unusual excellence business will now receive the closest atten-
and the Bush & Gerts piano was displayed tion, and headquarters will be located on
to immense advantage by Sig. Gore. The the upper floors of their present building.
musicians present complimented the man-
The Mason & Hamlin Co. have now
ufacturers on this successful test of their three important retail outlets: The J. A.
piano. The Bush & Gerts Piano Co. are Norris Co., of Chicago; the Chandler W.
to be congratulated upon their new quar- Smith Co., of Boston; the St. Louis cor-
ters and the handsome line of instruments poration, and the local branch house.
which they have on exhibition therein.
With prosperous times, this means the
The W. W. Kimball Co. will soon open handling, through their own stores, of a
a branch store in Minneapolis, Minn. It large number of pianos and enables the
will be under the management of E. A. company to pay more attention to general
Elmendorf, formerly of Sioux City, la.
• wholesale trade.
Charles H. Eddy, of Chickering & Sons,
We understand that Mr. Trowbridge,
Boston, spent two or three days in town who formerly gave his attention to the re-
the closing days of last week.
tail department, will devote his entire en-
A big time is expected in this city on ergies henceforth to the wholesale trade.
Chicago Day, Oct. 9th. The music trade
section will be handsomely decorated and
quite a good showing of piano men is ex- Pease Pianos Produce Prosperity.
pected to be in line in the immense pa-
rade, which will number, it is said, a hun-
HE advertisement of the Pease Piano
dred thousand men.
Co. elsewhere in this issue, is just
The American Cabinet Organ Co., whose right to the point. The alliteration of
incorporation was reported some time "Patriotism, Protection, Prosperity," is
since, will not commence manufacturing full of meaning to the dealers who are go-
until after election.
ing to aid in the return of better times.
The "corner-stone" of prosperity can be
MR. JOHNSON, the expert piano salesman found right in the "popular Pease pianos."
for Cluett & Sons, Troy, visited New York Just the material for wide-awake dealers to
bank on.
during the past week.,
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