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VOL XXIV.
N o . 24.
Published Every Saturday, at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, June 12,1897.
From the City by the Lake.
[Special to The Review.]
Chicago, June 9, 1897.
Arrangements have been consummated
this week whereby Lyon, Potter & Co.
will furnish the Chicago Conservatory with
a complete line of Steinway and A. B.
Chase pianos. The order is a large one,
and as the Institution boasts of some
eminent teachers, the significance of the
deal is apparent.
When last heard from H. D. Cable,
president of the C. C. O. C., was rusticating
in Paris, and will leave there for London,
where he will tarry during the Queen's
Jubilee festivities.
Unless William Carpenter Camp makes
some further change after this is written
the warerooms at 209 Wabash avenue will
be closed this week. It is not unlikely
that Estey & Camp will move their stock
to these warerooms after July 1st, as I
understand they must vacate their present
quarters around thatdate.
E. A. Potter, of Lyon, Potter & Co., is
on a visit to the Nashville Exposition.
A piano which is making good headway
here is that made by the Poole Piano Co.,
of Boston, which is handled by Mr.
Twitchell. It is a handsome looking instru-
ment, well made, and seems to win
admirers—what is better still, purchasers
—rapidly.
Geo. P. Bent has left for the East, and
will probably be in New York ere you
receive this.
Lyon & Healy have just received a new
Knabe upright which is a marvelously
handsome instrument in design, while it is
needless to expatiate on the tone. It is
being much admired.
The majority of the W. W. Kimball Co.
employees are biking fiends. Last Satur-
day they took a run to Milwaukee under the
leadership of T. W. Hedgeland.
The town of Steger, under the presidency
of John V. Steger, is making rapid head-
way. Many important improvements are
in progress which will make Steger a popu-
lous and a popular city.
Among the visitors to town this week
were Lucien Wulsin of D. H. Baldwin
& Co., Cincinnati, and Geo. F. Blake of the
A. M. McPhail Co., Boston.
Annual Convention
OF THE MUSIC PUBLISHERS OF THE UNITED
STATES.
The annual meeting of the Music Pub-
lishers' Association of the United States
took place in this city Tuesday, the 8th
inst, at the Broadway Central Hotel, and
was the most satisfactory and harmonious
meeting of this body in recent years.
The reports of the various officers
showed that the association was in good con-
dition financially and numerically. Seven
more important houses in the trade have
become members during the past year,
and nearly all of the prominent concerns
in the country are now numbered in the
organization.
The members present and the houses
represented were as follows: John C.
Haynes, G. W. Furniss and C. A. Wood-
man, of the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston;
C. H. Ditson, E. S. Cragin and Frank
Gould, of C. H. Ditson & Co., New York;
F. E. Spear of J. E. Ditson &Co., Philadel-
phia; D. L. White and Walter M. Bacon
of White-Smith Co., Boston; L. P. Ma-
guire, of White-Smith & Co., New York;
Theo. Hammel, of Hamilton S. Gordon,
New York; J. F. Bowers, of Lyon & Healy,
Chicago; Nelson Griggs, of Wm. A. Pond &
Co., New York; J. T. Rechten, of E.
Schuberth & Co., New York; H. W. Gray,
of Novello, Ewer & Co., New York and
London, Eng. ; B. F. Wood, of B. F. Wood
Music Co., Boston; C. B. Bayly, of John
F. Ellis & Co., Washington, D. C.; M. D.
Swisher, Philadelphia; Isidor Witmark,
of Witmark & Sons, New York; T. B.
Harms, of T. B. Harms & Co., New York;
Chas. W. Held, Brooklyn, N. Y.; P. J.
Howley, of Howley, Haviland & Co., New
York. Letters were read from many
members who were unable to be present.
G. W. Furniss presented a report show-
ing the seizure of vast quantities of pira-
tical editions of copyright music by the
Government at various points.
The constitution and by-laws of the as-
sociation having been passed upon, a dis-
cussion took place concerning the facts re-
cently brought to light with reference to
alleged wrong-doing on the part of the
"Imperial Music Co." of Toronto, Canada,
and others. It is alleged by members of an
Strauch Bros, are preparing a handsome investigating committee that hundreds of
thousands of copies of sheet music have
catalogue for the fall trade.
.oo PER YEAK
SIN( ^B COPIES, 10 CENTS
been sent to and disposed of in the United
States. So large has been the sale of these
alleged counterfeits that legitimate dealers
have suffered severely. Mr. T. B. Harms,
in expressing his views, said yesterday in
an interview that the Imperial Music Co.
has been the chief offender of late. "They
have no copyrights," he said, "and in issu-
ing this music violate both the postal laws
and the copyright laws."
The questions of department stores and
regulation of trade discounts were leftover
for future consideration.
A resolution of thanks to the trade press
was passed, after which the election of offi-
cers followed with this result:
President—J. F. Bowers, Lyon & Healy,
Chicago; vice president, Chas. W. Held,
Brooklyn, N. Y.; secretary, Chas. B. Bayly,
John F. Ellis & Co., Washington, D. C.;
treasurer, E. S. Cragin, C. H. Ditson &
Co., New York. Executive committee:
Walter M. Bacon; T. B. Harms; Nelson
Griggs; H. W. Gray; G. W. Furniss.
The next annual meeting of the Associa-
tion will take place the second Tuesday in
June, 1898, at the Broadway Central Hotel,
this city.
Chickerings in the "La Tour-
aine."
J. Reed Whipple, proprietor of the ele-
gant new hotel, LaTouraine, erected on the
corner of Boylston and Tremont streets,
Boston, has closed a contract for a number
of Chickering pianos of special design to be
placed in his new hotel. The "La Tour-
aine " is erected on the ground where the
old Steinert Hall was located for which
the hotel syndicate paid a bonus to Stein-
ert & Sons of $100,000 for relinquishing
their lease.
Conditions Do Not Suit.
[Special to The Review.]
New Brunswick, N.J., June 8, 1897.
It is reported that the National Musical
String Co. is greatly displeased over the
way some of the conditions on which the
firm decided to move are being carried out.
When a representative of the concern left
this city yesterday the prospects of the
company locating here were not so bright
as they were a week ago.
James A. Hutchinson, who was fora long
time identified with the Blasius Piano Co.,
died on Wednesday last at his home in
Woodbury, N. J.