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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
the}- will take action without consultation
lief that we know something about it, even
with the editors of any music trade papers.
though we were not present at its birth.
If they consider that it is advantageous
Should the memory of the compiler of
to their interests to immediately wind up
newspaper history need refreshing during
the business, we have no doubt that they
the period when THE REVIEW wore swad-
will do it.
dling clothes, we might be able to interject
If, on the other hand, they con-
sider the offer which Mr. Maynard and his a few revivifiers in the shape of some il-
confreres have made as the best thing un- lustrations and reproductions which would
der the circumstances for them to accept,
prove, if not pleasing, somewhat interest-
then we have no hesitation in expressing
ing.
our opinion that they will soon be in line
for acceptance.
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By all means read the article appearing
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on another page entitled "The Experiment
Tried." It is really one of the best illustra-
In an extended article dealing with the
history of the "Musical Courier" and other
tions of the silver policy that we have yet
seen printed.
papers, "The Music Trades" of Aug. 8th
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says:
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Our "Specialty Talk " this week is with
In 1879 Mr. Welles suddenly left, and
Mr.
F. B. Burns, who talks from the stand-
two weeks later published a music trade
paper of his own under the title of THE point of a manufacturer of stools and scarfs.
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, which was the title
of Mr. Freund's original enterprise, started
in '75, and which title he had discarded,
when in '78 he changed it to the "Musical
Times," and later, in '79, to the "Musical
and Dramatic Times."
It is this paper of Mr. Welles', which he
started in '79, which subsequently came in-
to the hands of the Bills.
Now when one juggles with history a mod-
erate amount of truth should be injected in-
to published statements,
Mr. Burns is a man of wide experience,
and his talk will be read with interest.
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the well-known New
ERNEST URCHS, manager for the Cincin-
nati branch of Steinway & Sons, came to
New York Wednesday.
HERMAN LEONARD came to town Thurs-
day morning.
GEO C. CRANE, Eastern manager of the
Krell Piano Co., is still confined at his
home, Clifton, N. J., with a severe attack
of cholera morbus. Mr. Crane was taken
sick Friday week last.
WM. H. MCGARRY, who has occupied the
position of bookkeeper with the Krell Piano
Co., Cincinnati, O., for some five years,
died of consumption on Saturday last.
A BIG fire occurred yesterday morning at
the Manhansett House, Shelter Island, L.
Zeidler, has again been granted another I. Damages estimated at $200,000. There
patent. Mr. Zeidler possesses one of the were two Chickering grand pianos and two
uprights of the same make in the hotel, the
inventive minds of this trade.
safety of which had not been reported at
the time of going to press.
that is, if the
floffat Locked Up.
terpretation placed upon his utterances.
The facts in the case are these:
When
this paper was originally published in 1879
it was known as the "Music Trade Jour-
Root & Tinker were its publishers
and proprietors.
F. HASSE,
We notice that Paul Zeidler, of Strich &
writer is desirous of having a truthful in-
nal."
WM.
York music dealer and importer, who has
just returned from Europe, says activity
prevails in all the factories on the Conti-
nent; that in every trade mart that he
visited business was magnificent.
On Aug. 28th, 1880, it
became the " Musical Critic and Trade Re-
view, " and on March 20th, 1885, on the
editorial page, the following announcement
was made:
"This is no*, a musical or theatrical paper
F
RANK S. MOFFAT, who is charged
with selling pianos to people in New-
ark and other places under false pretenses,
was committed to jail on August 6tr. at
Paterson, N. J., on complaint of Miss
Jennie Lynch, who charges that on May 6th
Moffat sold her a piano for $60.00, and after
the money was paid she learned that the
piano was the property of Henry Hall.
Moffat pleaded not guilty, and was held for
the Grand Jury.
MR. FULLER, with D. H. Baldwin & Co.,
Indianapolis, was in town the early part of
the week.
H. B. TREMAINE,
of the /Eolian Co.,
has been in town for a few days this week.
He returned to White Lake, Sullivan Co.,
to-day. Mr. Tremaine is slowly recover-
ing from his recent severe indisposition.
J. BURNS BROWN, of Chickering & Sons,
New York, left to-day for a two weeks va-
cation at Orient Point, L. I., where his
family has been located for some week s
past.
CHAS. H. MACDONALD, vice-president of
with a trade attachment, but devotes its
the Pease Piano Co., who came East to
entire energies and space to the trade.
Chris. G. Sieger.
witness the departure for Europe'of his
From to-day it will be known by its con-
wife and son, left Thursday afternoon for
densed title, THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW."
HRIS. G. STEGER, son of J. V. Ste- Chicago. Young Wilbur MacDonald will
We would commend the writer in the
ger, of Chicago, arrived in town remain three years in Vienna under the
" Music Trades" to the above and would Wednesday. Young Mr. Steger is a popu- instruction of the great master Leschetizky.
say that our statements can be substanti- lar member of the trade. His trip East is' Mrs. MacDonald will spend a part of the
time abroad with her son.
ated by the files of the paper, which we a combination of business and pleasure.
THE Mathushek Piano Co., whose fact-
have complete and open for inspection However, the young man has all the busi-
ness instincts of his father, and we have no ory is at West Haven, Conn., after shutting
from July, 1879, to August, 1896.
doubt but that the Steger and Singer busi- down for five weeks started last week, but
We haven't the slightest interest in the ness will be considerably augmented by after running three days it stopped again,
extended list of headstones in the cemetery reason of C. G.'s Eastern pilgrimage.
this time indefinitely.
of buried newspaper hopes that has distin-
MINIUN BROS., of Carlisle, Pa., have sold
C
guished the career of John Freund. We
Erd Unroofed.
care less whether the number is increased
be subsequent burials or not.
Whether the inscriptions are written in
Chinese or Volapiik, our interest is like-
wise.
Rut
when it comes to a history of
this paper we have a sort of a lingering be-
DISPATCH from Saginaw, Mich.,
under date of Aug. n t h , states that
damage to the extent of $100,000 was done
by storm in Saginaw. Several factories were
unroofed, among which was the Erd piano
factory.
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their music store in that town to John A.
Beltzhoover, of Boiling Springs, Pa.
J. FRED METCALF, music dealer, Essex,
Conn., has moved into his new quarters.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS is erecting an exten-
sive organ factory at Brockton, Mass.
P. J. GILDRMEESTER returned last Tiies*
day from an extended Western trip.