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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
for the touring trips are not materializing.
The great big contracts for 1897 are not
forthcoming. Manufacturers object to fill-
ing the pockets of eleemosynary editors;
they have grown tired of the old-time
tricks. The steady, unceasing blows which
THE REVIEW has been aiming at the class
of trade journalists who beg for money for
tours and coax advertisers into payments in
advance to keep their unstable crafts afloat,
is having effect. Our slogan has been
No trade=paper bulldozing.
No advertising payments in
advance.
No monetary loans to support
newspaper mendicancy.
And we propose to keep right on in the
same lines. These fellows who are bar-
nacled with gall and loaded down with debts
are beginning to twist. Their paehyder-
mic hides are found to be vulnerable, and
the free lance of THE REVIEW finds the
opening. There seems to be no way at
hand to stop the rapid escape of gas from
these inflated wind bags. We may look
for frequent outbursts of abuse but they
can't recross the troclia. Abuse never has
or never will deter us from making a
fight for clean journalism, and to remove
music trade journalism from beyond the
pale of mendicancy and intrigue. The
fight is on. They are at ihe last ditch,
and it occurs to us, the last fight.
A Peculiar Transaction.
UGUST V. KIRKEBY won his suit
against Anderson & Co., the Brook-
lyn piano dealers, Thursday in the Supreme
Court, that city, before Justice Smith.
During February, 1893, Kirkeby purchased
a piano from the firm for $275 cash. Three
years later, becoming embarrassed, he bor-
rowed $75 on the piano from the company,
and signed a paper which on its face ap-
peared to be a bill of sale to them foi $75.
Kirkeby was to retain possession of the in-
strument and pay a rental of $4 a month.
After paying $100, the rent for twenty-five
months, Mr. Kirkeby thought he had paid
sufficient, and wanted the account settled.
He insisted that the $75 borrowed was a
loan to him, and that he had paid to them
more than the legal rate of interest.
Anderson & Co. claimed that the trans-
action between them was an absolute sale,
and caused the sheriff to remove the piano
from Kirkeby's flat. Thos. E. Pearsall and
Isaac M. M. Kapper took up the case on
Kirkeby's behalf, and gave a bond to have
the piano taken from the sheriff and re-
turned to its owner.
The jury returned a verdict that Kirkeby
had never sold the piano to Anderson &
Co. The $75 had simply been borrowed
from the firm. The payment of $4 a
month, amounting to $100 during twenty-
five months, was more than the repayment
of the loan.
A
Impromptu Vaudeville at Gabler's
HETHER Joe Bareuther is going into
the show business or not remains to
be proven; in any case, he was very busy
superintending a little vaudeville act at E.
Gabler & Bros.' warerooms on Thursday
Chickering & Sons.
evening last.
HEODORE PFAFFLIN, of the local
Two aspirants to "muscular develop-
house of Chickering & Sons, reports a ment" fame—Messrs. Rolando and Titus—
continuation of good business and intimated who shortly propose to make their vaude-
that not having an)' calls from their agents ville debut, were indulging in a little re-
during the week, he presumed business hearsal whereby one of the team carries a
with them was sufficiently excellent to keep 1,000 pound Gabler upright grand on his
them at home.
back and the other executes a Chopin noc-
On being questioned as to the truth of turne with considerable effect.
the reported enlargement of the Chickering
The team will probably appear before
representation in Chicago, Mr. Pfafflin long at one of the leading music halls in
stated: " I really do not know whether this city, and if the services of handsome
there is any truth in the rumor or not; as Joe Bareuther are engaged as "barker" we
you are aware, Mr. Clayton F. Summy is predict for them an enormous success.
one of the most successful and prominent
sheet music men in the country; since en-
Webb Better.
gaging in the piano business he has met
with excellent success, and so far as the
M. WEBB, the well-known supply
Chickering is concerned, has served us ad-
man of this city, returned to his
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mirably ; he has fully maintained the Chick- desk on Friday last fully recovered from
ering reputation ; he has kept up prices, his recent illness.
and has worked on lines entirely conform-
Mr. Webb was erroneously reported as
ing with our own. If Mr. Summy should suffering from an optical ailment. This
secure additional capital and branch out in time, however, it was an internal trouble,
his piano department, I should not be at for which an operation was necessary. We
all surprised."
are pleased to report his speedy recovery.
W
T
R
J. DOWLING, general road represen-
tative of the Everett Piano Co., was a.
visitor to the city yesterday en route to
Boston.
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GEO.
C. H. Webb, for five years with R. M., is
now located in Chicago looking after his
brother's interests. He is recognized in
the trade as a bright and promising young
.man; jse.wish.him_gQ.qd.success,
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Hardman & La Grassa Discon-
tinue Business.
D
URING the past week Salvadore La
Grassa relinquished to Hardman,
Peck & Co., manufacturers of the "Hard-
man" piano, all claim or title, and what-
ever privilege or rights he had to the name
of "Hardman" which he obtained through
his business association with Hugh Hard-
man. Hardman, Peck & Co. also pur-
chased unworked material, cases, etc.,
contained in the Hardman & La Grassa
factory.
By this move any possible danger of
playing on the credulity of the public
with the name of "Hardman" is re-
moved. It further emphasizes the fact
that there has been and is only one "Hard-
man" piano, and that is the instrument
manufactured by the firm of Hardman,
Peck & Co., of this city. "All's well that
ends well."
Mr. La Grassa's future movements are
at present unannounced.
Carreno Sails.
ERDINAND MAYER, manager of
Knabe & Co.'s New York house,
states that Madame Carreno sails from
Bremen by S.S. Aller, North German Lloyd
line,Dec. 22d, due to arrive Dec.30th.
Mr. Mayer is very enthusiastic over Car-
reno's approaching tourne'e, and speaks in
the warmest terms of her marvelous tem-
perament, splendid technic and matchless
art.
In the matter of business, Mr. Mayer
stated: "Business has warranted our tak-
ing on more men in each department; we
anticipate a greatly increased business next
year, and I feel sure our new scale instru-
ments will appeal to the trade and public
in the light of a revelation."
F
F. B. Burns.
B. BURNS, scarf manufacturer, of
this city, made a flying trip to Bos-
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ton during the week. Speaking of trade
in Boston, he said: " I found the factories
busy and in most cases blocked with orders.
The Merrill Piano Co., Emerson Piano
Co., Hallet &.Davis, Ivers & Pond, all ap-
peared to be doing a rushing business;
Mason & Hamlin were 400 instruments be-
hind in their orders."
F
H. P. ECKER has appealed the cases
brought against him by the Carl Barckhoff
Organ Co. to the Supreme Court. The
verdicts against him aggregate $1,851.75.
W. F. BUTLER has joined forces with T.
J. Butler, the enterprising music trade
dealer of Auburn, N. Y., and hereafter the
firm will be known as Butler Bros. No-
where in central New York can be found a
larger and better stock of pianos, organs
and small goods than in this establishment.
AN exceptionally beautiful New Year's
calendar has reached this office from the
Miller Organ Co., Lebanon, Pa. It cannot
fail to find a prominent and permanent
place in every office.