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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
When I asked Geo. W. Peek this week as
to business conditions he said: "Our re-
tail trade is something superb. One night
this week we sold seven pianos after eight
o'clock. We are open evenings, and since
election we have enjoyed a trade which
has not only been surprising in its extent,
but gratifying in the results attained."
vases containing the objects immersed in
turpentine were put outside, when, to the
great surprise of the operator, it was found
that not only had the smell disappeared from
the bones, but also that the latter had be-
come exceedingly white.
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T
HOS. FLOYD-JONES, president of Haines
Bros, incorporated, returned Saturday
from a Western trip. During a chat this
week, he told me that he had con-
cluded a very successful jaunt. He jour-
neyed as far West as St. Louis, "visiting
many cities en route. He secured orders
in all places, some of which have been du-
plicated since his return. He said: " I
had a very pleasant call on Samuel Hamil-
ton at Pittsburg and it seemed to me
while there a big business wave had struck
his establishment. Mr. Hamilton was
busy, likewise all his staff, including his
son, in making sales on the floor." "I tell
you," continued Mr. Floyd-Jones, "that
vSamuel Hamilton is a clean-cut business
man straight through, and what is more, he
is doing a magnificent trade-."
I notice from a Mexican exchange that
Felix Kraerr.er, the well-known representa-
tive of Kranich & Bach, who is now in
Mexico, has taken a trip with Enrique
Heuer, the well-known Mexican dealer, to
Cordova and Vera Cruz. They traveled
over the Interoceanic and Vera Cruz roads.
I'll wager that when I see my friend
Kraemer again that he will agree with me
that in traveling over those two roads he
has viewed scenery unsurpassed on this
continent. The Denver & Rio Grande,
Northern Pacific and other roads in this
country cannot show the superbly pictur-
esque and strangely contrasted scenery
which is afforded the traveler over those
lines. Having traveled over all the roads
of note, I must say that those which im-
pressed me most favorably, as far as scenic
effects, was the Vera Cruz and Inter-
oceanic lines.
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The theft of securities worth $64,000
from the Metropolitan National Bank by
the missing Richard D. V. Wood recalls
the story of the miser, Paine. He was a
descendant of Robert Treat Paine, one of
the signers of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence. He lived in retirement and almost
squalor in this city, and when he died
Frank Chickering was made administrator
of his estate. It was supposed that the old
miser had a few thousand dollars, but Mr.
Chickering was astonished to find $400,000
in Metropolitan Bank notes and securities
in an old stove in his room. Some of the
notes were old and the bank tried to escape
payment, but after a long litigation was
compelled to pay all, with interest.
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The New York "Herald" has declared
war against the hand organs, and entitles
them a legal nuisance. It suggests that the
city ordinances be made more stringent so
as to afford relief. It proceeds: Let us
sweep away once for all the sentimental ob-
jection. The hand organs are run on com-
mercial principles. They are owned mostly
by wealthy padroni on the lower east side,
some of whom have as many as two or
three hundred. They are hired out at so
much a day to the actual grinder, who also,
despite his squalid appearance, is generally
well off. The rags and haggard looks are
mere "make-up," as the actors say. The
children and the sick mothers are part of
IN the thirteenth annual report of the
the stock in trade, and the trade is, in its
New
York State Bureau of Statistics of
essentials, an organized imposition on the
Labor,
just issued, which contains tables
public which should be sternly dealt with
showing
the rates of wages and the hours of
by those responsible for the public comfort
labor
of
members of labor organizations
and health.
during the second part of 1894 and down to
July, 1895,the following reference is made
One of the latest adaptations of the tricycle to the piano industry: "Piano-makers
to affairs of trade is in the line of the street have suffered during the dull times, and
piano. The value of these instruments as many have been out of work. Their wages
money makers and for popularizing new varied between $1.33 J4 and $2,331/. per
music has already been pointed out. Out of day."
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respect to geographical distances they have
The
process
for
bleaching
ivory was dis-
seldom strayed far from metropolitan cen-
covered
in
a
curious
way.
M.
Cloez, being
ters. Therefore, they are sure to be a reve-
lation in backwood districts. An Italian consulted by a friend and colleague of the
with advanced ideas has become impressed Jardin des Plantes in Paris, M. Gratiolet,
with this fact, and has given an order to on the means of removing the disagreeable
a piano manufacturing firm in New York odor emanating from skeletons, recom-
for a tricycle street piano. He intends to mended the use of the solvents of fatty mat-
stick to the unworked country districts, ters, and especially advised an experiment
traveling from village to village and from with turpentine. As the'smell of this latter
was not agreeable in_the room, the glass
town to town.
HENRY SPIES, president of the Spies
Piano Manufacturing Co., accompanied by
his wife, will leave about Jan. 1st for an
extended Western trip. It is probable that
Mr. Spies will journey as far as San Fran-
cisco. Trade, by the way, with this con-
cern is magnificent. They have not only
been working full time, but have been
compelled to run their forces well into the
night. The "Majestic" piano seems to
have been caught in a popular whirl which
is carrying it on with great success.
FRANK BURNS is now on the road. He
has been through Pennsylvania this week,
where he succeeded in doing a magnificent
business. Mr. Burns' wares seem steadily
growing in trade popularity.
SOHMER & Co. are in receipt of a goodly
number of wholesale orders from their
agents all over the country, all of which
goes to show that Sohmer & Co. are enjoy-
ing a good holiday trade both wholesale as
well as retail.
FRANK JACKSON, alias Chas. Alexander,
who is "wanted" for stealing "thecontents
of a music store" in Minneapolis, has been
arrested in Butte, Mont., where he was
caught again indulging in the peculator's
art.
MIDDLESBORO, TENN., is making big ef-
forts to procure the factory wherein will be
manufactured the Socin piano, which is at
present made in Knoxville, Tenn.
THE John Church Co. are about ready to
place the Maelzel Metronome, which they
are manufacturing, on the market. It is
equal, if not superior to anything in its line
imported.
WILLIAM FOSTER, receiver for the Weber
Piano Co., has issued a formal notice re-
questing that all those who owe accounts,
or have accounts due the company, to de-
liver their respective statements to him by
the 4th of January, 1897.
THE Chickering & Sons matinee musicale
given last Tuesday afternoon, was at-
tended by a select and fashionable audience
that crowded the hall.
SUSAN STRONC, the well-known prima
donna, has written a very enthusiastic letter
to Sohmer & Co. anent their piano, which
she praises highly.