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VOL XXIII.
N o . 15.
Published Every Saturday, at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, October 31,1896.
In The West.
THE CLOSING DAYS OF THE CAMPAIGN EFFECT ON BUSINESS KIMHALL CO. TO DISPLAY
RETURNS — DOWLING WITH THE JOHN CHURCH CO. MANAGER WRIGHT THE M ' K I N L E Y
MUSIC CO. A NEW PIANO STOOL—T. E. FISCHEL .RESIGNS—AFFAIRS IN ST.
PAUL MUCH MUDDLED THE HAZELTON IN CHICAGO ECCENTRIC
LAWYER COLLIER—MANAGER M'DONALD's BEAUTIFUL
VOICE WINS VOTES FOR M ' K I N L E Y .
T
HE closing days of an exciting cam-
paign in this city have been rendered
doubly so by the arrival this week of candi-
date Bryan, who is touring around town
like an up-to-date Caesar. If noise and en-
thusiasm amount to anything, Bryan has
certainly a legion of friends among the
working people of this big town.
In the face of the situation it is hardly
necessary to say that business is practically
at a standstill. A condition of tension and
uncertainty prevails which indicates how
deeply interested are the people in the re-
sult of this campaign. We are all hoping
for the best and feel confident that Illinois
will be found in the McKinley column by
a substantial majority, but, mark you, it
will be no walk-over. Some splendid edu-
cational work has been done during the
campaign, but it would seem that the work-
ing classes are governed, in their opinions,
more by sentiment than by logic.
The W. W. Kimball Co. will keep their
warerooms open on the night of election,
and the aid of a stereopticon will be utilized
to enable the general public to get a know-
ledge of the election returns. In the
meantime a fine musical program will help
keep the assemblage in good humor.
I learn that Mr. Geo. J. Dowling, who
has been in town during the week, will join
the forces of the John Church Co., travel-
ing for them through the New England
States. The Eastern headquarters of the
John Church Co. will be in New York
under the management of A. M. Wright,
as you have already hinted at. With two
such capable and efficient men looking after
the Eastern territory of this notable house,
it is safe to predict that the Everett piano
will become a more prominent factor in the
Eastern trade, and that in New York Mr.
Wright's ability as a salesman will be felt
materially in the local trade.
The Secretary of State has licensed the
incorporation of the McKinley Music Co.,
at Chicago, with a capital stock of $15,000,
to print music and deal in musical instru-
ments. The incorporators are: William
McKinley, Charles H. Wells and Lester
Coffeen.
Albert L. White, of the Moore Organ
Co., this city, has patented a pneumatic
piano stool which is notable for the novelty
and simplicity of its construction. The
principle is original. A sample stool is
being displayed in a store on Van Buren
street, across from Steinway Hall.
Theo. E. Fischel, manager of the Con-
over Music Co., St. Paul, Minn., has re-
signed and S. T. Osborne is now in charge.
This change of management was brought
about after an investigation of the affairs
of the company by H. B. Morenus, the gen-
eral auditor of the Chicago Cottage Organ
Co., the principal owner of the Conover
Music Co. It seems the safe was robbed
on Oct. 12th, and money belonging to
the company as well as to Mr. Fischel per-
sonally, was stolen. Mr. Robinson, a
former manager, has been arrested and
Jacob A. Fischel, a brother of T. E. Fis-
chel, who is also charged with the robbery,
has decamped. The entire affair is much
jumbled up and it will take time before
things are unraveled.
As you assumed last week, the Hazelton
piano will in future be handled as a second
instrument by Lyon, Potter & Co., of this
city. They expect to have a fine display
of these instruments in stock during the
week. This move gives the Hazelton a
decided pre-eminence in all the Steinway
branches, and is a marked compliment to
this well-known and meritorious product.
Among the members of the trade in town
during the week were Joseph J. Daynes,
Jr., of Daynes & Coalter, Salt Lake City,
Utah; F. J. Woodbury, of the Jewett Piano
Co., and C. L. Ament, the Krell man.
I regret to learn of the death of Louis
Heerwagen, brother of Leo Heerwagen,
I3.00 PER YEAR-
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS
the Farrand & Votey representative, which
occurred last week at his home in Little
Rock.
An eccentric lawyer named Frank Collier
was arrested one day last week on a charge
of thrusting his boot through a plate glass
window in the West Side store of the Con-
over Music Co. The cause of this peculiar
conduct was the salesman's refusal to sell
him a piano. The insurance company will
replace the plate glass window and Collier
will have to answer for a personal assault.
Chas. H. MacDonald, the popular Pease
man, is as good a vocalist as he is a talker;
he has done some splendid work for sound
money during the past few weeks. With
the Weber quartette he visited Canion on
Illinois Day and won all the laurels as a
soloist. When McKinley gets in, it would
not surprise me if he remembered Father
Mac by giving one of these handsome Pease
pianos the place of honor in the White
House.
Vose in Chicago.
HEADQUARTERS DECIDED UPON THEY WILL
BE IN A POSITION TO CATER ESPECIALLY
TO THE WESTERN WHOLESALE TRADE.
HERE has been considerable specula-
tion as to the location of the Western
headquarters of Vose & Sons. The matter
is now definitely settled. The great Boston
firm, in being unable to procure just exact-
ly the wareroom facilities in that city which
they were desirous of obtaining, have ar-
ranged with the J. A. Norris Co., located
at 250 Wabash avenue, Chicago, for whole-
sale headquarters in their building.
There they will carry at all times a com-
plete line of Vose pianos open for the in-
spection rt the visiting trade.
A representative of Vose & Sons will be
located in that city in order that the firm
may pay especial attention to the wholesale
trade. In this way they will have excellent
facilities for catering to this branch of their
business in the West. The retail business in
Chicago and vicinity will be carried on by
the Norris Co.
T
THE local lodges of Piano Makers' Inter-
national Union are voting on a proposition
to amalgamate. The object is to have
only one lodge of the craft in this city and
another in Astoria.