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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Business Started with a Rush.
As an evidence of better times the piano
trade has started again, says the Ft. Wayne,
FACTORIES OPENING UP ALL OVER THE LAND
Ind., "News," in a recent issue. The Kim-
CONFIDENCE INSURES BUSINESS PROSPERITY.
ball Co. sold two pianos yesterday and
another one to-day, besides two organs.
HE sun of prosperity, which has been Let the good work continue. When there
behind the clouds of depression for a is any piano trade at all the Kimball Co. are
length of time, is again soaring into the always in evidence. The reporter found
heavens, and the machinery of industry things humming around at the Kimball
is being set in motion all over the land. headquarters this morning. Mr. Weir
The music trade is feeling the quickened
said, "Haven't time to write an ad." but
pulse, and piano factories which have been
reported the above and the reporter took
closed down, or working on short time, are
notes.
getting right into line; the orders which
Waterloo Organ Co.
they have received since election indicate
THE Waterloo Organ Co., Waterloo, N. Y.,
that a long period of settled confidence and
are
running their piano and organ fac-
prosperity is before us. Last week we pub-
tories
on full time. Orders have been
lished quite a list of factories opening
steadily
increasing during the last two
up, and that the good work still continues
weeks.
is evidenced from the following reports:
The Business Revival.
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Chickering & Sons.
Piano Makers Joining the lnter=
Chickering & Sons' piano factory, Tre-
national Union.
mont street, Boston, has started up again
on full time. McKinley's election did it.
HE International Piano Makers' Union
Five hundred hands are employed.
is organizing branches in all the shops
Pratt, Read & Co.
on the west side which do not belong to
Deep River has felt the industrial boom. the union at present. This week ten
Pratt, Read & Co., manufacturers of piano branches will be organized, and a mass
keys, who have been operating their fac- meeting will be held on Saturday night at
tory on short time, are running eleven 342 West Forty-second street, to hear re-
hours a day. They have re-employed all ports from delegates who have been sent to
the old help. It is rumored the concern has promote organization in other shops.
received one order for goods which will Next week committees will visit the east
keep all hands busy for three months. side shops and organize the employees
there who have asked to be taken into the
One hundred and fifty men are employed.
Union.
Edna Piano and Organ Co.
The Edna Piano and Organ factory, at
A New Piano House.
Monroeville, O., employing sixty men, re-
sumed work last week, after having been
M. JOHNSON has opened one of the
closed down for some time.
largest stocks of pianos, organs and
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Weaver Organ Co.
other musical instruments to be found in
At the Weaver Organ factory, York, Pa., Kansas, in the Matthewson Block, Parsons,
they begin to feel the advance effects of and is handling one of the handsomest and
better times. They expect a tremendous most varied line of pianos and organs ever
boom. There were no contingent contracts offered the public in that section.
at this place with the exception of one for
a piano, which went to a York man. The Catalogue of "Crown" Organs.
full force of men are at work, and the fac-
tory is running sixty hours a week.
EO. P. BENT, Chicago's enterprising
Barckhoff Organ Co.
piano and organ manufacturer, has
just
issued
a very complete organ catalogue
The Barckhoff organ works, at Mendels-
containing
illustrations and descriptions of
sohn, Pa., report some nice contracts re-
some
thirteen
styles of parlor, chapel and
ceived since the election last Tuesday,
piano
cased
organs.
Mr. Bent takes pains
among them one from Grace Lutheran
Church, Washington, D. C. This order to inform the reader that the catalogue con-
tains no short stories or jokes, but is sim-
calls for a fine instrument.
ply "an organ catalogue." Excepting the
liuntington Piano Co.
introductory, it is free from the usual sur-
Business in and about Derby, Conn., con- plus literary adornment and testimonials,
tinues to enjoy a marvelous boom since and is a business-like production.
election day. The Huntington Piano Co.,
of Shelton, began shipment Saturday and
Kroeger Piano Co.
Monday last, of large orders received
months ago conditionally.
HE Kroeger Piano Co., of this city,
The Needham Boom.
have experienced heavy increase of
The Newark, N. J., "Advertiser" says: business since the election. T. La M.
The Needham Organ Works, Washington, Couch, secretary, stated to THE REVIEW on
N. J., are now working on full time, as Tuesday last: "We are rushed to death;
there is a boom in the piano and organ if business keeps up this will be a banner
business now. This factory is one of the month with us; we are working nights and
orders are coming in rapidly."
largest plants of its kind in the world.
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The Fort Wayne Organ Co.'s
Magnificent Exhibit.
THE OI'ENINC; OF THEIR FORT WAYNE RETAIL
WARKROOMS A GREAT SUCCESS.
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HIS afternoon, in the Schmitz block,
corner Calhoun street and Washington
boulevard, occurred the grand opening of
the new music store of the Fort Wayne
Organ Co., for the display of the exquisite
goods of the local factory. This is the first
time in the history of the concern that an
establishment devoted exclusively to the
product of the Packard Piano and Organ
manufactory has been opened to the public,
and the occasion has been one of much local
interest, attracting hundreds of admiring-
visitors.
The display consists of some twenty-five
or thirty beautiful Packard pianos and or-
gans, showing the various grades and ex-
hibiting many tasteful and elegant styles in
cases. One of many charms of the Pack-
ard pianos and organs is the snperiority of
their cases. These, in design and workman-
ship, are unsurpassed, and are wrought out
in all the popular woods, mahogany, walnut,
oak, ash and maple, the carving and orna-
mentation displaying the highest skill of
artistic workmen.
It is unnecessary to speak at length of
the excellence of the Packard organs.
They have won for themselves world-wide
fame, and have a market in every land.
The Packard piano, however, is a compara-
tively new instrument; and hence it is not
a matter of surprise that many Fort Wayne
people have never seen one until to-day.
The Packard piano, as now ready for the
market, is declared by expert instrumental-
ists to be the equal of any high-class piano
made anywhere. It is constructed by
skilled artisans under the personal superin-
tendence of one of the foremost piano
builders of the world. In quality of tone,
delicacy of action and excellence of structure
the Packard piano is unsurpassed.
Messrs. Glenn Mills and Wm. Spiegel
are in charge of the commodious warerooms
and it lias been their pleasure this after-
noon to greet the throngs and display the
merits of the various instruments, incident-
ally giving to each lady a souvenir of the
auspicious occasion.—Ft. Wayne, Ind.,
"News," Nov 14.
F. B Burns.
HE piano scarf specialties carried by F.
B. Burns, of this city, are receiving
considerable recognition among trade pur-
chasers. The designs are simply elegant,
and material of the finest.
F. B. Burns returned on Saturday last
from a successful five days' trip to Boston,
Mass., and Providence, R. I., where he
found business good and prospects elegant.
Mr. Burns left on Tuesday last for a
week's trip to Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington. He will return to New York
on Tuesday next.
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FF.I.IX KRAKMKR, the Kranich & Bach
representative, is now in Mexico.