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VOL XXIV.
No. i
Published Every Saturday, at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, Marcty27 M 1897.
Brief Items from the West.
Chicago, March 24 1897.
Although it has not been verified at the
time of writing it is certain that the Clay-
ton F. Summy Co.'s new warerooms in this
city will be on Wabash avenue and
Jackson street. The location is an admira-
ble one. It is the intention of the Chicker-
ing house to inaugurate a Chickering boom
in the West and this will be the first step
in that direction.
The new trustee of the business of Estey
& Camp, Mr. J. B. Wilbur, President of
the Royal Trust Co., is now in charge. It
is expected that it will take a couple of
years to liquidate the business. Whether
the corporation will continue in their pre-
sent location or remove has not been de-
cided upon. Much will depend upon what
arrangements can be made with the land-
lord of the present quarters.
Albert T. Strauch of Strauch Bros, was
a recent visitor to town.
General Estey of the Estey Organ Co. is
expected in town next week, and it would
not be surprising were arrangements con-
summated whereby his firm as well as the
Estey Piano Co. will be represented here
anew.
J. O. Twitchell, the Haines and Steck
advocate, has had his warerooms hand-
somely decorated and they now present a
very attractive appearance.
Things are rushing at the Shaeffer Co.'s
factory. They have hard work to catch up
with the amount of orders on hand.
Traveler Gill is turning in immense orders
for the Shaeffer.
Geo. Kurzenknabe, who up to last week
was connected with the warerooms of W.
C. Camp, has purchased the musical instru-
ment case business of J. A. Hoffman. Mr.
Kurzenknabe will remove the factory from
Ravenswood to this city.
T. H. Hahn, a salesman employed by the
Chicago Music Company, has identified the
remains of the girl who Saturday night
committed suicide at the Adams Hotel, 64
Adams street, Chicago, as those of his
daughter Anna. Immediately after the
identification an inquest was held over the
remains, and a verdict was returned de-
claring that the girl committed suicide
while temporal ily insane.
The dead girl had many peculiar charac-
teristics, her father says, which resulted in
family troubles, and,although she wasgiven
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many privileges and a good education, she
"& Co. Fail.
was not satisfied,and frequently complained
H. P. Ecker & Co., music dealers, of
that her allowances were not large enough.
She was an accomplished musician, and Fifth avenue, Pittsburg, Pa., have con-
for a long time had been a student at the fessed judgment for $10,500 and a trustee
is now in charge. The Ecker house hand-
Metropolitan Conservatory of Music.
led the Hazeltcn, Hallet & Davis, Wilcox
& White, Jacob Doll, New England and
Estey <5c Saxe Affairs.
Mathushek instruments. Mr. Ecker ex-
Within the last few days there has been pects to be able to make arrangements
a reorganization of the affairs of Estey & with his creditors whereby he can continue
Saxe, 5 East Fourteenth street, New York. in business. The liabilities are not stated
Herbert K. Saxe retains the entire interest but are considered to be large.
of his father, the late Geo. G. Saxe, while
George L. Wietz, who has long been asso-
ciated with the Estey & Saxe interests, has Will It Be a National Association ?
become a partner in the concern. The
Robt. C. Kammerer, secretary of the
Estey interests remain the same as hereto- American Piano Manufacturers' Associ-
fore.
ation, sent out this week one hundred let-
ters to the piano manufacturers of the
Worcester's Export Trade.
United States, asking that they submit
their
views on the feasibility of organizing
THE TABER ORGAN CO. S SPLENDID SHOWING.
a national piano manufacturers' association.
Worcester, Mass., is a large manufactur- This action was taken as a result of a meet-
ing center for the music trade, when one ing of the association held at the Union
comes to think about it, and is also quite Square Hotel last Tuesday afternoon. If
an extensive export center for musical in- the replies indicate a desire to form an as-
struments. As a matter of fact, England, sociation on the lines proposed, a meeting
northern Europe, South Africa, and Aus- will be held some time in June.
tralia buy a great many Worcester-made
organs in the course of the year.
The riason & Hamlin Co.
Probably one of the most extensive or-
gan exporters in the country is the Taber
It is put forward by the Mason & Ham-
Organ Co. Within five months, they say, lin Co., and quite justly, that the superior-
they have filled twenty-five large foreign ity of the instruments bearing their name
orders. Four hundred reed organs have —whether pianos or organs—is derived
been sent to England alone, since Sept. 1, not only from peculiar skill in construction
1896.
Within that time, fifty organs have and extraordinary excellence of material
gone to South Africa—East London, Port and workmanship employed and the posses-
Elizabeth and Delagoa Bay being the chief sion of the most expensive and complete
consignment points. There are foreign machinery and facilities for manufacture
orders on the books now for fifty organs— in the world, but also from the exclusive
half for London, Eng., and half for Mel- use of important inventions, which have
bourne, Australia. The London consignee been originated by the house and which
distributes the instruments among thirteen make the Mason & Hamlin products
branch stores within the United Kingdom, peculiarly individual.
for the benefit of iron workers, miners,
cotton mill operatives and cutlers, who
The Metropolitan Permanent Orchestra
seem to have acquired the American reed
will give a concert at the Montauk Theatre
organ mania in an acute and chronic form.
to-morrow evening, and will use the Weber
The Taber shop has been running on full
concert grand exclusively.
time since the middle of last August.
Mr. Harry B. Tremaine, of the ^Eolian
The local branch of C. G. Conn's mam-
mothband instrument worksat Elkhart,Ind. Co., 18 West Twenty-third street, is still in
does not aspire to the export trade. New the West, but is expected in town the mid-
England is its chief field. S. R. Leland dle of next week.
& Son, however, are gladdened by an oc-
The Estey house have made arrange-
casional foreign order, and not long ago
sent a consignment of cornet wide-rim ments to handle the Brambach piano in
mouth-pieces to Scotland.
all of their branches.