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VOL XXIII. No. 3.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, August 8,1896.
In The West.
HALLET & DAVIS MEETING
DISTRIBUTION
OF THE CAMP ESTATE THE ROOT FUND
BRECKWOLDT IN TOWN VAN MATRE
& STRAUBE DISSOLVE—FAILURE
OF THE GARDEN CITY FOUNDRY
CO.—
BUSINESS CONDITIONS
—OUT OF TOWN.
T
HE creditors of the Chicago house of
the Hallet & Davis Co. held a meeting
at the warerooms last Tuesday to devise
ways and means to settle affairs. The
views of the creditors were invited, so
that the shareholders may later be enabled
to take suitable action in the premises.
According to the distribution of the es-
tate ot the late Isaac N. Camp, ordered by
Judge Puterbaugh, of the Probate Court,
last Monday, Edward N. Camp receives i,-
000 shares of Estey & Camp, worth $100,-
000; 150 shares Estey Piano Co.,worth $7,-
500, and an interest in Camp & Co., New
York, to the extent of $10,000. Wm. C.
Camp receives 900 shares, worth $90,000,
in the Estey & Camp concern, and Mrs.
Farr, his daughter, also receives 900 shares
in the same firm.
The Root Monument Fund was not sub-
stantially increased by the 4th of July con-
certs, and the outlook for the erection of a
suitable memorial to the popular song
writer is not over bright just at the present
time.
Julius Breckwoldt, of Dolgeville, N. Y.,
has been spending some days in town, be-
coming acquainted with his many custo-
mers in this section. Mr. Breckwoldt's
sounding boards are first-class in every re-
spect, thoroughly reliable, and manufact-
urers speak very highly of them. He has
booked quite a few good orders.
Van Matre & Straube have dissolved part-
nership, Mr. Straube having purchased the
interest of Van Matre. I understand he
will continue the business under his own
name.
The failure last week* of the Garden City
Foundry Co., formerly Turner, Dickinson
& Co., occasioned little surprise. They man-
ufactured piano plates, but never seemed to
make headway in the trade. The assets
are said to be $52,000, with liabilities of
$20,000—not a bad showing. It is not un-
likely that the assignee will carry on the
business.
Business is not absolutely dead in this
city, as some music trade men would have
me believe. July has compared very favor-
ably with the same month for the last two
years. The average of sales is not exactly
what it should be, but the situation, on the
whole, is not disheartening. Take the first
week of August, and Lyon, Potter & Co.,
and perhaps three other houses, will tell you
that some days they have made a "record"
in the way of sales for this time of the year.
The demand is not steady, nor is the volume
of sales startling. What I wish to empha-
size meanwhile is that there is some busi-
ness being done, even in this torrid weather.
Chas. H. MacDonald has left for your
city.
James H. Hawxhurst, of the Bradbury
house, will also spend some weeks in the
East.
Burglars rifled the flat of G. B. Brigham,
manager of Estey & Camp's retail depart-
ment, last Friday, and stole a lot of valu-
ables, many of them prized heirlooms.
C. C. Curtis, formerly of the Manufac-
turers' Co., is preparing to erect a large
twelve story building at 171-5 Michigan
Ave., to contain two music halls. He has
had great success in securing tenants in ad-
vance for the structure.
Becht's Change.
fj.oo PER YEAR-
SIN GLE COPIES, 10 CENTS
Sues for $10 ooo.
T
HE Brown & Simpson Co., Boston,
have begun suit to recover $10,000
from Antoinette Muhhauser, assignee of A.
D.Coe; Frank Meckel, and the Meckel Bros.
Company, Cleveland, O. Last April A. D.
Coe made an assignment. It is now
claimed that a large number of the pianos
sold on June 22 were really the property of
the Brown & Simpson Company, and were
not part of the estate of A. D. Coe. The
suit is to recover their value.
Decided for the Cincinnati Linde=
mans.
T
HE application in the suit of OttoGrau,
the agent of the Lindeman Piano Co.
in Cincinnati, to restrain the Lindeman Co.
of that city from selling pianos made by
the latter company as the make of the New
York company, was heard before Judge
Wilson last Saturday. Evidence was heard
but the Court held that it was not sufficient
to prove "intent to deceive," or that the
piano sold the witness was represented as
the^make of the New York company.
C. H. EDDY of Chickering & Sons was in
town the middle of the week and left on
Thursday last for a two weeks' Western
trip extending to Chicago.
URING the past week "Charlie" Becht
MUSICAL instruments to the value of
has concluded arrangements with the $8,861 were shipped from the port of New
Smith & Barnes Co., Chicago, whereby York for the week ending July 29th.
after August 15th he will represent that
THERE is no truth in the statement that
company on the road. It is interesting to
note that this concern was Charlie's first Camp & Co. are to discontinue the manu-
one so to speak, as years ago he began his facture of the Camp piano—at least no steps
traveling career with C. A. Smith. It is have yet been taken that would indicate
complimentary to his ability, after years of this step.
separation, to again renew his former re-
The fact is not generally known that
lations.
Cuba possesses some of the densest and
most impenetrable forests in the world.
AMONG the page of suggestions for small They contain a great deal of hard wood
inventions which appeared recently in the such as is used in pianos, organs and fine
"National Recorder," Washington, D. C , furniture. Mahogany, walnut, and ebony
and which " may make a fortune," we notice abound. The entire area of the forests of
the following : "A piano or organ stool that Cuba is estimated at 12,000,000 acres.
can be quickly and easily convertible into a
NAHUM STETSON returned on Thursday
single or double seat, and raised or lowered
by as simple but quicker and more conven- from the Isle of Shoals, where he was so-
ient way than turning it round and round." journing with his family for over a week.
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