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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
tained until the question of his sanity was
settled.
Our "Specialty Talk" this week is with
Mr. Otto Braumuller, a gentleman whose
wide acquaintance and experience in the
piano domain of America, causes his utter-
ances on any subject to be read with in-
terest.
The influx of dealers into town during
the last week in September proves plainly
that the trade barometer is steadily going
up. Some of these men have bought spar-
ingly, others have placed goodly orders.
In other words, trade all along the line
seems to brighten. It looks as if October
will give a good account of itself.
The suit of Strich & Zeidler against
Albert Stemert, which came up for hear-
ing on Wednesday last in the Court of
Common Pleas in Providence, R. I., has
been postponed until next week.
Will Sell Pianos.
HE Capital Music Co., of Albany, N.
Y., who have hitherto run a publish-
ing business, have decided to add a piano
department to their business. They will
handle the Mehlin as leader.
T
J. E. Healy Hopeful.
AS. E. HEALY, of William Knabe
& Co., Baltimore, is in town for a
few days. Mr. Healy states that trade
has materially improved of late and he con-
siders the general outlook decidedly hope-
ful.
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An ^Eolian flasterpiece.
C. C. BEEDLE is now "at home" in his
new warerooms in the Kingsbury's Block,
Keene, N. H.
WILLIAM KNABE of William Knabe &
Co., Baltimore, is making a tour of the
New England States in the interest of his
house.
WE are glad to say that Mr. Louis P.
Bach yesterday passed a critical stage in
his illness, and his condition is materially
improved.
FREEBORN G. SMITH has been on a trip to
his Philadelphia and Washington stores,
and speaks encouragingly of trade condi-
tions there.
CHARLES F. TRETBAR, of Steinway &
Sons, is back from his European trip vast-
ly improved in health.
H. B. TREMAINE, of the /Eolian Co., re-
sumed his duties on Monday last. Mr.
Tremaine is feeling considerably benefited
by his prolonged rest.
A. SLOMOSKV, manager of the Doll ware-
rooms, has started out to change the
firm's stereotyped advertising in the
daily papers. The following up-to-date ad.
appeared in the papers during the past
week:
JACOB DOLL, M'N'F'R.
GOLD, SILVER OR GREENBACKS.
A small amount of either one will BL T Y or
RENT our celebrated PIANOS. Compare
our SALES and Rental System with others
and see who will BENEFIT you the most.
Inspect and visit our spacious warerooms
at 113 East 14th st. JACOB DOLL.
JACOB DOLL.
WE are sorry to learn that Ex-Governor
Levi K. Fuller is far from being a well
man.
A FIRE which broke out in the factory
building at Second avenue and Twenty-first
street, last Tuesday night, did some dam-
age to Muller & Abel, pipe organ manu-
facturers, who occupy the third floor of
the building.
THE Newburyport, Mass. /'Herald" com-
pliments P. F. McDonald, the gentleman-
ly autoharp representative of Alfred Dolge
& Son, who is visiting that city. It says:
"Mr. McDonald is a musician of much
ability, and in an impromptu concert given
at this office brought forth melodious
strains by his skillful manipulation of the
strings of the instrument."
JAMES H. HUMPHREY, music dealer and
prominent business man of Ionia, Mich.,
died of typhoid fever at his home on
Pleasant street last Saturday, after an ill-
ness of three weeks. Mr. Humphrey has
been in the music business here for about
twenty years.
THE New York "World's" poll by secret
ballot of the wage-earners this week shows
a big gain for Major McKinley. Among
the places visited on Wednesday was the
New York office of the Davenport &
Treacy Co. The vote stood: For McKin-
ley, six; for Bryan, two; for Palmer, one.
JOHN^BOYD THACHER has, after all, more
sense than we gave him credit for. He
knew when to get out.
J. W. GARDNER, of the Gardner & Zell-
ner Co., Los Angeles, Cal., was a visitor
to New York this week.
E. R. PERKINS, of the yEolian Co., New
J. MANN, of Mann & Eccles, Provi-
ROM the ornate recital parlor of the dence, R. I., was a visitor at Strich & Zeid- York, will take a week's vacation from
^Eolian Co. to the sacred precincts of dler's factory during the week, looking lit- Monday next.
the Vatican is a transition of some import- tle the worse for his recent illness.
ance. The iEolian Co., of New York,
JOHN PRINCE, of Bainbridge, N. Y., has
CRESSEY, JONES & ALLEN'S new ware- invented and patented an attachment to a
have on exhibition a superb vEolian grand
which is shortly to be presented to Pope rooms in the new Baxter Block, Congress guitar, by which the player is enabled with
Leo by no less a personage than Cardinal street, Portland, Me., were formally a move of the thumb to throw the instru-
Satolli, of Washington, who leaves the opened to the public Monday afternoon ment into flats or sharps as desired.
end of the month to assume his new duties and evening. Gilbert's orchestra fur-
nished a fine program. The store is spa-
at the Vatican.
JOSEPH FLANNER, the popular music
The ^Eolian grand, now in the possession cious and beautifully decorated, and there dealer of Milwaukee, Wis., captured the
of the Pope, will become the property of is a superb line of pianos, with the re- first, second and third prizes at the State
Cardinal Satolli, and is to be replaced by nowned Chickering, for which this firm Fair held last week, for the best display of
recently took the agency, at their head. sheet music and music books. It was con-
the later effort of the ^Eolian Co.
The instrument is superbly designed There was quite a large attendance on the sidered the finest exhibit ever made at any
and elaborately finished ; it contains twenty- opening day, and the proprietors were Fair.
two speaking stops and is made of light warmly congratulated upon their great
success.
THE plant of the Alvord & Spear Manu-
mahogany.
facturing Co., Torrington, Conn., which
It bears the following inscription, artist-
GIBBONS & STONE, music trade dealers,
ically designed and painted by h?nd on Rochester, N. Y., will soon occupy new lately went into the hands of a receiver,
was sold at auction Tuesday of last week.
white satin:
and enlarged quarters on East Main street. It included a wooden factory, engine house,
LEONI XIII. P. M.
SOCIETAS AVCTRIX.
W. L. BUSH, Secretary and Manager of etc., and machinery for manufacturing
the
Bush & Gerts Piano Co., Chicago, is piano stools, extension tables, etc. There
J^OLIAN RECENS MIRUMQUE OPUS FACILE USU.
preparing for a trip to the Dallas, Tex., was a mortgage of $8,800 on the property.
State Fair, where an exhibit of Bush & It was bid off by F. F. Fuessenich, secre-
NUMERO MODOQUE FIDELI QUAMLIBET HAR-
MONIAM RESONAT.
Gerts pianos will be made through their tary and treasurer of the Hendey Manufac-
It is further embellished by the Papal State representatives, the Wray Bros., who turing Co., for $5,000. Of course he as-^
sumes the mortgage.
a.re located at that point,
coat-of-arms.
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