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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Mr. A. A. Cowles, secretary and treas-
urer of the Ansonia Brass and Copper
Rudolf Dolge, of Alfred Dolge & Works.
Son, who has been sojourning in Caracas,
On Monday afternoon four Wissner up-
Venezuela, for the past six months, arrived rights were sold at the same warerooms.
in town this week for the purpose of meet- The grand sold to Mr. Cowles is the second
ing his wife, who returned from a stay in of the same style ordered at Mr. Pottle's
Europe. Mr. Dolge's legion of friends headquarters within the past two weeks.
will be glad to learn that his health has Two things are very evident from the
been materially improved by his sojourn above. First, people have money to spend
in the South. During the week he visited and are spending it. Secondly, they don't
Dolgeville. After a short stay in the me- hesitate to climb a flight of [steps jwhen
tropolis Mr. Dolge, accompanied by Mrs. they get ready to do business.
Dolge, will sail for Caracas. Judging from
the benefits which have resulted from Mr. License for Foreign Drummers.
Dolge's short stay South, his complete
restoration to old-time health and vigor is
A bill introduced in Congress by Repre-
only a question of a very short time.
sentative Fischer, of this State, requires
that every salesman representing a foreign
Asked to Assign Claims.
firm and drumming in the United States
shall procure a license from the collector
Messrs. Furlong & White, attorneys, of each internal revenue district in which
New York, have issued a circular letter to he does business. The license is fixed at
the creditors of Prince & Co., asking that $500, with a penalty of $1,000 for omitting
they assign their claims to Milton Weil of to comply with the law.
Music Trades. In the letter they state,
there is still a chance for the creditors to
Will Add Small Goods.
recover the full amount and that they, as
attorneys, only will accept a limited num-
Herman Krell, President of the Geo C.
ber of the creditors.
Crane Co., when seen by The Review yester-
In the same communication the actual day at the new Krell warerooms, said: " Ar-
assets of Prince & Co. are scheduled as rangements are now in progress for the es-
$1,136, while the debts and liabilities are tablishment of a department for first-class
musical instruments, as distinct from
Just how Furlong & White propose with pianos. They will include the Jacot mu-
Weil's help to get full payment of claims sical boxes, Martin guitars and mando-
lins. Violins will also be made a special
with such a showing is not clear.
feature of the small goods exhibit. The
The Bourne Failure.
work of fitting up the new warerooms is
being pushed. They will probably be
Wm. Bourne & Son, who were com- completed within two weeks."
pelled to make an assignment last week, are
one of the old time firms in the trade and
their present embarrassment is regretted
by the members of the industry at large.
Mr. Chas. E. Bourne, who has been man-
aging the business for some time, is highly
esteemed, and the creditors are reported to
A chattel deed of trust was filed May i
have a very friendly feeling for the house.
by
James Ellicock, music dealer of St.
Particulars as to the action of the credit-
Louis,
Mo., to B. D. Kribben, trustee for
ors, however, is not to hand at the time of
Arthur
E. Ellicock and other creditors.
writing.
The
assets
consist of a stock of music, etc.,
On account of the Bourne failure, F. H.
at
1019
Olive
street, valued at $2328.
Kilbourne, a small dealer, was also forced
The Saturday half-holiday rule will go
to assign.
into effect in all Dolgeville factories Satur-
Orders a $1450 Wissner Grand. day, May 8th. Commencing next Monday
the employees will work ten hours daily
BIG SALES AT THE LOCAL WISSNER WARE-
and
on Saturdays until 1 P. M.
ROOMS.
Rudolf Dolge in Town.
Is business picking up? Well, instances
like the following speak for themselves and
furnish a complete and reliable answer. 'A
music lover of this city and one, too, who
does not accept pianos—or anything else,
for that matter—on mere hearsay, called
at the Wissner warerooms on East Four-
teenth street early in the week and, after a
prolonged session of investigation, oral
and otherwise, ordered a Wissner Concert
Grand, to be made in oak and delivered
within four months. Before leaving, the
sum of $1,000 was handed over on account,
the balance, of $450, to be paid on delivery
of the instrument. The purchaser was
Among the members of the trade in town
this week were W. Bohne, the well-known
piano hammer manufacturer of Toronto,
Can., Florence Heppe, Philadelphia, and
Geo. B. Baird, ofOneonta.
Mr. Messier of Jacksonville, Fla., F. A.
Bemis, Secretary of the Wilcox & Whit e
Co.
Gustave L. Otto, a young man employed
as a clerk by Gustave Bolz, New Haven,
Conn., has mysteriously disappeared. In-
vestigation reveals that his books are all
right. The police have been assigned to the
case and are trying to locate the missing
clerk.
C. W. Hutchins, general manager of the
Hutchins Manufacturing Co., Springfield,
Mass., manufacturers of the all-aluminum
mandolins, etc., was in town this week.
He will journey towards the West, and he
will visit the trade in New York State, and
probably Pennsylvania, before his return.
Mr. Hutchins is placing goodly orders for
the aluminum mandolins at every point he
visits.
The S. E. Clark Co. of Detroit, Mich.,
has completed arrangements to continue
its piano business, and have secured ware-
rooms at 213 Woodward avenue, Valpey
building, retaining most of the agencies
which were formerly represented.
Sophronia Chamberlain of Denver, Col.,
filed suit this week in the district court
against Sheriff Webb and the New England
Piano Co. for taking away, as alleged, a
$350 piano. She alleges there was no
warrant for the seizure. She wants $350
damages.
A. M. Wright, manager of the local
branch of the John Church Co., has been
in Boston since Monday last. He is ex-
pected to return to-day.
Burglars broke the plate glass window of
Carlin & Lenox's music store on Market
street, Indianapolis, last Monday night,
and stole a number of musical instruments.
The Brooklyn Disciplinary Training
School for boys are advertising for sealed
bids for the furnishing of a Chickering or
Steinway baby grand piano or the equal of
either of these makes. Bids will be receiv-
ed not plater than Tuesday, May n , at
twelve noon.
Frederick Bauer, of the firm of Stultz
& Bauer, New York, manufacturers of
pianos, has been the guest of Prof. H. I.
Solomons since Monday evening. Mr.
Bauer was favorably impressed with
Augusta.—Augusta, Ga.,Chronicle, May 1.
Chas. M. StiefFs new warerooms in Nor-
folk, Va., which are under the manage-
ment of Henry MacLachlan, are already
giving evidence of success. A splendid
business is being built up.
In the cargo of the steamship "Ameri-
ca" of the West India and Pacific Steam-
ship Co.'s fleet—one of the largest cargo
carriers in the world—which sailed from
this port for Capetown, South Africa, on
Wednesday last, a large number of pianos
and organs were included. Nearly three
thousand shippers were represented in the
cargo of twelve thousand tons,the value of
which is estimated at $2,000,000.
Music leaves can be turned automatically
either backward or forward by a new device
consisting of two cylinders placed on op-
posite sides of the music rack and connected
with tubes running to two sets of bellows
near the pedals, pressure on either set of
bellows moving the piston rod on that side
to operate the finger engaging the top sheet
of music.
Stedman & Millard, of Boone, la., have
made an assignment to L. M. Meyers for
the benefit of their creditors. The liabili-
ties are estimated at $3,500 with assets ap-
proximating $3,900.