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VOL XXIV.
N o . 16.
Published Every Saturday, at 3 East Fourteenth StratiXNew York,' JRPU 17,1897.
From the City by the Lake.
Chicago, April 14, 1897.
Nothing remarkably startling in news
items in this locality this week. There is
a slight improvement in business. The
Kimball Co. are doing unusually well, and
the Chicago Cottage Organ Co. report a
decided betterment in their retail and
wholesale trade.
An important Weber move is the deal
consummated this week by Mr. Dederick,
whereby Jason W. Wait, of St. Paul, who
is about opening a new piano warerooms in
the Grand Opera House Building, will be-
come agents for the Weber-Wheelockjine
of instruments for that city and adjacent
territory.
Among the incorporation items this week
I notice the following: "The Massop-
Busch Co., Chicago, capital stock $5,000;
to manufacture pianos, organs, and musical
instruments; incorporators, N. H. Han-
chette, Benjamin Levering, Howard Sat-
terlee."
Plans are now under way in the office of
William Strippelman for a large addition
to the big piano and organ factory of the
W. W. Kimball Co., at Twenty-sixth and
Rockwell streets. The new structure will
be five stories in height, covering an area
of 350 by 50 feet, and will be built of brick
and stone, with interior of mill construc-
tion, at an expenditure of about $100,000.
The Chase Bros. Piano Co. are moving
leisurely in the matter of securing a local
branch house. They are in no hurry, how-
ever, and have their pick of several suit-
able quarters.
The most important sale of real estate
this week was that of the property at 250
and 252 Wabash avenue for $175,000. The
sale was made by Fessenden & High, in
connection with George P. Everhart for
Isadora Blodgett, to the estate of Simon
Reid. The lot is 40 by go feet, improved
with a five-story building leased to the Ma-
son & Hamlin Organ Co. for a term of years.
The property has changed owners four
times since 1883. In the latter year, with
inferior improvements, it sold for $73,604.
In 1890, with the present improvements, it
sold for $140,000, and in November, 1895,
it was sold by Hiram B. Peabody to Isadora
Blodgett, the present seller, for $192,000.
The Thompson Music Co. have rented
the Shoninger warerooms and will handle
the Shoninger as a leader in this city.
Among the records of the numei
iness leases just closed is the foil}
E. C. Vehmeyer to Shaff Brothers
Co., factory building n7-119 North
ria street, for a term of years, annual rent!
$3,000.
Thos. Whitworth has succeeded J. G. Ed-
monds as manager of the Piano and Organ
Supply Co., this city.
There is at present a fine display of in-
struments at Steinway Hall. Business is
reported as fair.
Wm. Carpenter Camp has been receiving
considerable attention from the trade pa-
pers. It is evident that he has not, as yet,
made up his mind as to his future business
policy.
Prosperous Poole.
The Poole pianos are steadily growing in
popularity. Although comparatively new
claimants for trade honors, they have made
wondrous strides in popularity during the
past few months. W. H. Poole, who has
had an extended experience as a traveler,
understands fully the needs of the trade in
regard to pianos, and anticipates their
wants to a certain extent, as is indisputably
evidenced in the product which bears his
name.
Mr. Poole has a right to feel proud of the
uninterrupted progress which he has made
since his advent as a piano manufacturer.
He leaves next week for a trip West to call
upon the dealers in that section. We shall
hear more of the Poole pianos.
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Hence manufacturers must be on their
guard.
Behr Bros. & Co.
At the Behr factory, Twenty-ninth street
and Eleventh avenue, there are good evi-
dences of active work and progress. All the
indications tend to show that the Behr pro-
ducts are rapidly gaining ground in public
favor.
Hulett in Charge.
Frank M. Hulett, who, in time past, has
been doing good road work for Jacob Doll,
has now taken the management of Mr.
Doll's retail warerooms on Fourteenth
street.
Taylor's Loss Adjusted.
The Singer Piano of Chicago.
Taylor's Music House, which was located
in the Opera Building at Springfield,
which was partially destroyed by fire last
week, have adjusted their loss with the
various insurance companies. The arrange-
ment
terminated
satisfactory. Emil
Wander of Hartford and Franklin Shaw of
Boston acted as appraisers, the final ad-
justment being made Wednesday. Tay-
lor's Music House in the meanwhile is lo-
cated at 480 Main street. They hope to be
reinstated in their old quarters within the
next six weeks.
Dealers who find it necessary to meet
competition with goods that, by reason of
price and merit, will bring, hold, and
satisfy trade should investigate the Singer
piano, manufactured by the Singer Piano
Co., of Chicago. It is safe to say at the
price there are few pianos on the market
to-day that can excel it, whether as to tone,
appearance, ox finish, and back of this is
an absolutely reliable and responsible firm
of manufacturers, who will guarantee
everything they say and sustain the dealer
in all the claims made.
The Singer has already won its way into
popularity, and the dealers handling it are
its greatest admirers and supporters. This
should pave the way for the dealers who
are not acquainted with this money-making
product. Too much time should not be
lost in securing territory.
Steinway in Detroit.
Grinnell Bros, of Detroit, Mich., have
secured the agency of the Steinway pianos,
formerly held by the late S. E. Clark Co.
and before that by C. J. Whitney.