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VOL XXIII.
N o . 21.
Published Every Saturday, it 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York, December 12,1896.
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MACDONALD FOR CONSUL TO AUSTRIA IMPROVEMENT IN BUSINESS ALL i
C. CAMP RESIGNS—HIS SUCCESSOR ELECTED "STEGER" TO BE INCOR-
PORATED LYON & HEALY NEWS IN TOWN.
F the good wishes and efforts of a host of
friends prevail, Chas. H. MacDonald,
the popular Pease representative of this
city, will be our next Consul-General to
Austria. He worked hard for the election
of McKinley, and did so simply on principle.
His friends consider, however, that he is
entitled to some reward, and as his wife
and son are at present residing in the Aus-
trian Capital, it would be particularly pleas-
ing if he could be with them during their
four years' stay in that city. Major
McKinley could not select a more popular
representative, and if good wishes amount
to anything, he will undoubtedly be ap-
pointed.
There is a decided improvement in retail
business in this city. It has been steadily
growing in volume for the past two weeks,
and the indications are for a big trade dur-
ing the holidays. At the warerooms of
Lyon & Healy's, Steger's, Lyon, Potter &
Co.'s, Emersons', Pease Piano Co.'s, Hal-
let & Davis', and the W. W. Kimball Co.'s,
some excellent sales have been made re-
cently. Wholesale business, as far as I
can glean, is not as active as in the retail
line. There is an improvement reported
by the manufacturers, but it is not as pro-
nounced as some predicted a few weeks
ago. The tendency of the wholesale busi-
ness, however, is upward, and it will pre-
vail right up into the new year.
William Carpenter Camp has resigned
from the Estey & Camp Co., and at a re-
cent meeting of the stockholders, Frank C.
Smith, an old employee of the house, was
elected secretary to fill Mr. Camp's place.
William C. Camp's new store is in the
hands of the decorators and , is rapidly
being put in order. It is said that Mr.
Camp will handle a first-class Eastern piano
as leader, but the name is as yet unknown.
The formal incorporation of the town of
Steger will probably occur on Dec. 23d,
when the matter will be heard by Circuit
Judge Carter. As the people at large are
a unit as to the change of name from
^Columbia Heights the new town of Steger
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Another Qorham Suit.
is an assured fact. Letters have already
been received in Columbia Heights ad-
dressed to Steger, 111. This shows that the
post-office authorities recognize the change.
The artistic violin catalogue issued some
time ago by Lyon & Healy is so much in
demand that they have had to print a
second edition. C. N. Post, of the firm, is
making a trip in the West setting forth the
claims of the Washburn goods.
The "Dispatch" of this city has been for
some time trying to combat the improve-
ment manifest in the business world since
McKinley's election, and their editorials
have been of the calamity-howling order.
The Hallet & Davis Co. have been adver-
tisers in the paper, but so offensive has
been the policy of the paper that R. K.
Maynard, treasurer and manager of the
Hallet & Davis Co., wrote the following
letter to the editor, under date of Dec. 2d.
It speaks for itself:
DEAR SIR:—We do
not see how
Some recent visitors to this city were C.
B. Garrettson, of the Kroeger Piano Co.,
E. W. Furbush, of Vose & Son, and James
E. Healy, of Wm. Knabe & Co.
any
paper that is printing the class of editor-
ials which appear in the "Dispatch," in
the nature of calamity howls and breeding
distrust and dissatisfaction and discontent,
can possibly do a business house any good
by publishing its advertisements. If things
were one-tenth part as bad as your paper
sets forth in its editorial pages, there would
be utterly no use of attempting to do any
business. We consider that your editorials
nullify any possible good which an adver-
tisement in your columns might do us.
You may therefore discontinue our adver-
tisement until further orders.
C. H. Webb, brother of R. M. Webb,
the popular supply man of New York, is a
visitor to our city in his brother's interest.
It is probable he will make a lengthy stay.
James F. Eroderick, for a number of
years with the B. Shoninger Co., as travel-
ing salesman, has been engaged by Steger
& Co. to fill a similar position. Another
recent change is Geo. J. Kurzenknabe, from
Estey & Camp to William C. Camp.
The Schaeffer Piano Co. made the first
shipment of instruments since their resump-
tion last week to the Hallet & Davis Co.,
of this city.
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HE Fifth National Bank of New York
has brought suit against Chas. L.
Gorham & Co., piano dealers, Worcester,
Mass., for $1,500 action of contract. This
is one of many smaller suits to recover
upon a draft of the firm of Gorham & Co.,
which the firm accepted and refused to pay
on the ground that Chas. A. Williams
had no authority to accept the same for the
firm.
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Lyon & Healy's "Annual.''
YON & HEALY'S Christmas Annual,
which has just reached us, is replete
with interesting information regarding
the instruments which they handle. The
illustrated cover page is beautifully de-
signed, the inside pages are "lighted up"
with artistic views of the warerooms, while
the typographical work throughout is ad-
mirable. The Annual should prove an ef-
fective trade maker. It is so neatly gotten
up and in keeping with the reputation
which Lyon & Healy command as "artists
in advertising" that it merits not alcne
perusal, but preservation.
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Fraud Charged.
HE Chicago Music Co. and the other
creditors of the Burnett Jewelry Co.,
of St. Joseph, Mo., not in the preferred
class, have filed a suit in the Circuit Court
to set aside the assignment made sometime
ago to Samuel H. Smith, alleging fraud
and a conspiracy to defraud them. On
Nov. 4th, the company made an assign-
ment to Samuel H. Smith, naming a num-
ber of preferred creditors, among them
being J. F. Hartwell, whose claim is for
$13,000, with an additional claim for $2,-
535.25 for diamonds, which is alleged to be
fictitious and fraudulent. It is claimed that
the assets are not sufficient to pay the
debts in the preferred class, and the plain-
tiffs ask that the deed of trust be set aside
and another receiver appointed. The
liabilities are about $35,OGO. '--• . - - —
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