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THE
Muehlfeld & Haynes Complica=
tions.
T
HE creditors of the Muehlfeld & Hay-
nes Piano Co. held a meeting at the
office of the receiver, John H. Spellman,
109-11 Park Row, this city, last Monday.
From the receiver's report it is evident
that the business of the firm has been
managed in a very peculiar, if not ques-
tionable way. It is alleged that goods
were sold to individual stock-holders at less
than cost and that the only capital invested
in the company was $3,200 put in by Oliver
Peck, of Oswego, N. Y. In the meantime,
the two principal figures in the firm drew
salaries of $3,000 a year each, while the
company managed to run into debt to the
extent of $40,000. A committee composed
of Alfred Dolge, Wm. Comstock and Mr.
Wasle were appointed to advise with the
receiver.
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
mental piogram has been arranged, Mr.
Richard Hoffman appearing as pianist.
The concerts will be held monthly up to
April next. The typographical excellence
of the program is worthy of notice.
Berthold Otto.
M
R. B E R T H O L D OTTO, who is a
brother of W. H. Otto, the well-
known musical instrument manufacturer of
Markneukirchen, Saxony, has been stop-
ping a few days in the metropolis. Mr.
Otto intends visiting Mexico, where he
will study the business situation, and if he
feels that the right opening is afforded him
there, he will enter into the music and im-
porting business in the City of Mexico.
A Piano Thief.
HENRY COLLINS WILL ANSWER AN OLD CHARGE.
DISPATCH from Detroit, Mich.,
rinder date of Nov. 16th, says:
Henry Collins, alias Charles Williams,
was brought here to-day from Michigan
City, Ind., where he has just completed a
term of eighteen months for swindling.
Collins is a professional piano thief, who,
previous to his arrest in Indianapolis, was
a resident of this city. He rented several
pianos from different firms under assumed
names and sold them for what they would
bring. Among the dealers who were roped
in at the time were Grinnell Bros, and
the S. E. Clark Co. He fled to Indianapo-
lis, where he repeated the same swindle and
was caught. He will now be tried on the
old charges.
Collins was arraigned in the police court
to-day. He waived examination and was
held to the recorders' court for trial.
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Ann Arbor Output.
LYMAN BILL,
Editor, Music
TRADE REVIEW.
notice in your last issue
a little item referring to our output for the
month of October. We thank you for this
article, but wish to state that you are in
error as to the number of our output. Our
pretensions are about 2,500 organs a year,
and as this would make it only 1,200, we
would thank you in your next issue to cor-
rect it. Our actual output in October was
a little over 300 organs.
Very truly yours,
DEAR SIR:—We
T H E ANN ARHOR ORGAN CO.,
J. C. Henderson, Manager.
Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 17, 1896.
Chickering flatinee flusicales.
T
HE first
tation
season, will
Nov. 24th.
of the Chickering & Sons invi-
matinee musicales for this
be held in Chickering Hall,
An elaborate vocal and instru-
W. YV. KIMHALL, the piano magnate of
Chicago, is in town, and registered at the
Holland House.
WM. H. RIDER of Wm. H. Rider & Co.,
Kingston, N. Y., and Messrs. Edwin and
Fred Cluett, of Troy and Albany, were
among the trade visitors of the week.
" R E T A I L trade is a little quiet," stated
Mr. William Dalliba Dutton, of Hardman,
Peck & Co., to T H E REVIEW yesterday; our
wholesale business, however, especially in
the West, is excellent; Pacific Coast trade
also is good. "
A HANDSOME style F Chickering & Son,
in English oak, adorns the Chickering &
Sons wareroom this city. The instrument
has been made specially to order for Com-
pany D, of the Ninth Regiment, and is em-
bellished with the insignia of this noted
regiment artistically carved on the desk.
RECENT improvements made in the
Apollo Harp have brought that instrument
into strong prominence among musicians,
who have expressed themselves in compli-
mentary termsregarding the musical quali-
ties of this comparatively new aspirant for
trade honors.
R. S. HOWARD, traveling representative
for ]. & C. Fischer, left on a trip through
the South and West in the interest of his
house.
THE Krell Piano Co. are making arrange-
ments to enlarge their factory in Cincin-
nati. They report a big demand for Krell
instruments as well as their second piano,
the "Royal. "
THE Century Piano Co., of Minneapolis,
Minn., have appointed G. W. Thompson
manager. Mr. Thompson comes from
Denver, Col.
MARTINUS SIEVEKING, the Dutch pianist,
played at the Damrosch concert last Sun-
day evening at Carnegie Hall. He used
the Mason & Hamlin grand and achieved
quite a success.
E. W. FURBUSH is touring the West in
the interest of Vose & Sons.
MANAGER HARTPENCE, of the local branch
of the Emerson Piano Co.'s warerooms,
informed T H E REVIEW yesterday that he
has experienced a steady improvement in
trade since McKinley's election. " T h i s
week so far has been a little dull," he
added, " b u t nevertheless, up to Thursday
we made seven excellent sales." Mr.
Hartpence made a brief visit to Pennsyl-
vania customers the early part of the week.
JULIO JOSEPH,
of
Monterey,
Mex.,
has
taken the agency for the Kranich & Bach
pianos.
MR.
of the Hume-Minor Co.,
Va., was in town last week and
large order with W. C. Burgess,
of the Wegman Piano Co., Au
Y.
MINOR,
Norfolk,
placed a
manager
burn, N.
BY a natural gas explosion last Saturday
night, Nov. 14th, the front of Braboy's music
store in Kokomo, Ind., was wrecked, and
in the fire that followed, it was damaged
$1,000. The explosion was from hunting
a gas leak with a light.
THIEVES broke into the music store of
Robert C. Krutchman, 136 North Ninth
street, Philadelphia, Pa., last Monday
night and carried away a number of musi-
cal instruments, valued at about $70. En-
trance to the store was gained by forcing
a second-story window in the rear of the
building.
CHARLES W. STUMPF, music dealer at
277 Ro> al street, New Orleans, La., swore
out an affidavit last Saturday in the Second
Recorders' Court against vSidney Baron
Boisfontaine, alias Sidney Baron, for em-
bezzlement. In the affidavit Stumpf claims
that while employed at his store, during the
time from last April to the present, Bois-
fontaine had embezzled $120. He was ar-
rested and placed under a $500 appearance
bond.
THOMAS FLOYD-JONES, president of Haines
Bros, incorporated, is expected back from
his recent Western trip to-day. He has
visited, among other cities, Cleveland,
Buffalo, Indianapolis, Pittsburg and Cin-
cinnati, and reports business good, backed
up by lively orders.
R. M. HENDRICK, of Rochester, N. Y.,
confessed judgment Nov. 12th, to the
Waterloo Organ Co., Waterloo, N. Y., for
$140. This is a reminder of the Derrick
failure. Hendrick gave his note to Derrick
but failed to meet it when due.
G. F. ABENDSCHEIN, secretary of*the Staib
Piano Action Manufacturing Co., has been
visiting the Canadian trade. He secured
quite some orders.
THE Boston Music Trade Association
will give a trade dinner in December, and
H. P. Miller, E. P. Mason and Alex. Stein-
ert have been appointed a committee of ar-
rangements.
HAINES BROS, incorporated have this
week shipped a first order for instruments
to their newly appoined agent, Alex. V.
Grimes, of Washington, D. C.