Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
8
Stopped the Incorporation
OF HAINES & CO. MR. ARMSTRONG'S STATE-
MENT TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE
ROCHESTER RUMORS EXPLAINED—MR. FOS-
TER SHOULD EXPLAIN HIS POSITION IN
THE MATTER.
A. P. M. A. Special fleeting.
Secretary Kammerer, of the American
Piano Manufacturers' Association, has
issued to the trade notice of a special
meeting of the association to be held at
the Union Square Hotel, next Monday at
As The Review goes to press, the news 3 p. M., for the purpose of considering the
comes that Haines Bros., (incorporated), advisability of joining with other trade
for some time past on the trail of persons associations in receiving and entertaining
and firms who are imitating the example the visiting delegates from Latin America.
A number of other trade associations
of certain defunct corporations in their
attempt to secure custom by the adoption have taken a warm interest in this matter,
of a similar name, have succeeded, just in believing in the possibility of extending
the nick of time, in thwarting a determined trade with the countries which lie south of
effort to place on the market a piano sten- us, through the mediumship of the South
cilled '•'•Haines & Co., incorporated, New American representatives.
York."
Schimmel Starts.
Rumors and indefinite statements have
been floating around for some days to the
[Special to The Review.]
effect that a "Haines & Co." factory was
Fairbault. Minn., May 17, 1897.
to be opened at Rochester, N. Y. As a
Schimmel & Co. start in the manufacture
result, letters and applications of all kinds of pianos in the old Schimmel & Nelson
have been pouring into the office of Haines factory. Fridolin Schimmel was the in-
Bros., asking for contracts to remove ventive head of the old concern, and it is
goods, for patronage of various kinds, and said that he starts under favorable auspices.
for work in connection with the manufac-
ture of pianos. As part of the rumor it
was publicly stated that the Haines factory
would move to Rochester forthwith.
When inquiries were made at the Haines
Bros, factory, it was stated that Mr. Will-
iam Armstrong, secretary of the Foster
Notwithstanding sundry positive state-
Piano Co., made an application at Albany, ments in Western contemporaries to the
on Thursday, for a certificate of incorpor- effect that Albert Strauch, of Strauch
ation under the name of "Haines & Co., Bros., left New York during the week,
New York." For the present it will suffice that gentleman is still here and will not
to say that the application was not gran ted. leave town before the end of this month or
It is understood that when it was made the the beginning of next.
applicant volunteered a positive statement
Gustave A. Brachhausen, of the Regina
to the effect that a Haines & Co. factory actu-
Music
Box Co., Rahway, N. J., secured a
ally exists in New York, which is not true.
patent
this week for a new and original
In fact, judging from present developments
design
of
cover for music boxes.
as stated at the Haines Bros, office, it is in
order for Mr. Armstrong to explain and he
John Evans has been added to the com-
cannot be too prompt about it.
mittee who has charge of the forthcoming
What have Foster & Co. to do with this? banquet of the Piano Manufacturers' Asso-
Let them explain. Does George Foster ciation, instead of Nahum Stetson, who is
seek to manufacture a Haines piano? If unable to serve on account of press of busi-
so, by what right? Come, Mr. Foster, )'our ness.
position calls for an explanation-
F. C. Grobman, Milwaukee, Wis., is
It is understood that the members of the making a splendid display of Chase Bros,
firm of Haines Bros., incorporated, are in and Hackley pianos in his handsome new
possession of all the facts, including some quarters on Grand avenue.
that indicate interesting times ahead.
L. K. Washburn has been engaged to
close out the piano business of D. S. Bing-
ham, of Boston, who died on May 6, in
Prescott Moving Ahead.
that city. Mr. Bingham had been in busi-
ness at 521 Washington street for the past
Dana G. Prescott of the Prescott Piano twenty years.
Co. is making a trip through Massachu-
It is said that D. F. Dunbar, and a bro-
setts and Connecticut and is meeting with ther of J. J. Looschen, the case maker, are
great success in securing substantial orders to manufacture the Dunbar piano in the
for his house. The Prescott Piano Co. 's old Gildemeester & Kroeger factory, this
business for the first four months of '97 is city.
equal to that of the same period of '95. It
Elias Howe Co., manufacturers of the
is impossible to make a comparison with
their business for '96, owing to their fac- Howe-Orme guitars, mandolins and man-
tory being destroyed by fire last year. The dolas, 88 Court street, Boston, have issued
Prescott piano deserves a wide apprecia- a very pretty hanger containing a half-
tion; it is an excellent instrument, con- tone illustration of two pretty^women play-
scientiously made, and a dealer should be ing guitars.
able to make many friends for his house
J. H. Sherrill & Co. have opened a
with such a splendid product.
music store at Franklyn, Tenn.
The Ann Arbor Organ Co. are working
overtime. This speaks for itself.
W. B. Tremaine, of the yEolian Co., has
just returned from a Southern and Western
trip.
M. J. Smith, manager of the Kimball
Piano Co. 's store at Cleveland, was a recent
visitor to his old home in Parkersburg,
W. Va.
Brown, Page & Hillman Co., of Peoria,
111., arranged this week to represent the
Chickering piano in that city and locality.
• H. I. Solomons, formerly of Brenner &
Solomons, and who at one time traveled for
the Stultz & Bauer house in this city, has
opened a music store in Augusta, Ga., in
conjunction with Mr. Zerbe, under the firm
name of Solemons & Zerbe. He will handle
the Stultz, & Bauer piano as his leader, and
will carry a full stock of small goods. Mr.
Solomons is thoroughly equipped by train-
ing and experience to succeed in his new
enterprise.
The Roanoke Music Co. have succeeded
the Richwood Music Co., of Roanoke, Va.
T. J. Washburn, music dealer, 117
South Sixth street, St. Joseph, Mo., has
issued a public notice warning the public
that itinerant tuners are imposing on the
public and representing themselves as be-
ing in his employ.
Frank A. Lee of the John Church Co.
was a visitor to the Metropolis on Monday.
W. H. Leach, who has been connected
with the firm of C. W. Lindsay, Montreal,
for the past eighteen years, has resigned
his position as manager and has established
himself in the piano business at 44 Met-
calfe street that city.
A dispatch from San Francisco says that
Stephen Dewing, of the J. Dewing Co.,
was recently arrested on charges of grand
larceny and battery, the result of some
trouble in connection with the leasing of
pianos on the installment plan.
E. V. Church of Chicago, who has been
spending some days in Boston, left for
home the middle of the week.
Tees & Leonard, music dealers, Detroit,
Mich., filed a chattel mortgage on Wednes-
day last in favor of the Oliver Ditson Co.,
Boston.
The Rev. Dr. Mitchell, senior member
of the firm of Mitchell, Young & Co.,
music dealers, Williamsport, Pa., died re-
cently. Dr. Mitchell retired from the min-
istry in '94 and was in his eightieth year
at the time of his death.
The Singer piano is a special favorite
with H. Kleber & Bro., the well-known
dealers of Pittsburg, Pa. They are selling
an immense number, as the result of their
intelligent and up-to-date pushing of this
instrument.
Hugo Worch, the well-kncwn Washing-
ton, D. C., dealer, has some well founded
complaints to make against the Automaton
Piano Co. of this city, which will possibly
find an outlet in the law courts.
Howard White, of the Wilcox & White
Co., has recently supervised the erection,
at Plainfield, N. J., of a Wilcox & White
Grand Symphony. Business at the Fifth
avenue warerooms is reported good.