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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
To celebrate the appearance of the new
Kroeger Style 15, a very handsome and
well-finished product for this fall, the
Kroeger Co. have determined upon a new
and novel method of attracting public at-
A distinct improvement in retail trade tention to its merits. Description will be
is reported on all sides this week. Two deferred until next issue.
Fifth avenue houses informed The Review
Henry Holtzmau, of Henry Holtzman
that they sold more pianos during the past & Sons, manufacturers of piano stools,
six days than for the previous three weeks. scarfs, etc., Columbus, O., speaking this
G. W. Thompson, the genial manager of week of business conditions said: " T h e
Wissner's New York wareroom, returned only trouble with us is that the factory is
this week from Buffalo, where he had been not large enough to fill increasing orders.
in attendance at the Grand Army encamp- Under the present tariff we can buy Amer-
ment. While there he met his father, C. ican plush cheaper and better than we
G. Thompson of Oklahoma, whom he can abroad."
brought on to this city with him, it being
The largest single shipment of pianos
the old veteran's first visit to the East ever known to leave this territory at one
since 1852.
time, says the Boston Advertiser, was for-
Louis Dederick, manager of the Manu- warded from Boston last Friday on the SS.
facturers' Piano Co., Chicago, has joined Delaware of the Clyde Line. The ship-
forces with the business men and property ment consisted of 22 pianos, 20 being con-
owners who are exposing a system of tax signed to Gainesville, Ga., and 2 to Chat-
frauds practised by the assessors of that tanooga, Tenn.
city. The Manufacturers' Co. were assessed
At the Reinwarth string factory business
$3,000 on the books, but an assessor agreed is reported good, improving each week.
to assess the property at $1,500.
Every preparation is being made for a
busy season. "The quality of the Rein-
An elegant apartment, specially arranged
for exhibition of the "Princess," is now in warth products is such," said the manager,
process of completion at the iEolian ware- on Wednesday, "that customers once
rooms. It is situated at the south end of secured are never lost. Prospects with
the fifth floor and is admirably located for us are indeed hopeful."
the purpose. The fittings are unique and
A matter of considerable importance in
tasteful, no pains or expense having been the talking machine world has been settled
spared to make it attractive for visitors.
by a decree just issued by the United
States court for the Southern District of
The Regina Music Box Co., Rah way, New York. This court has issued a perpet-
N. J., suffered some slight damage through ual injunction against Walcott & Leeds on
the flooding of their factory on Tuesday the suit of the American Graphophone Co.
last which was occasioned by the rising of to restrain them from infringing what are
the Rahway River owing to the heavy known as the blank patents owned by the
downpour of rain. This is the second American Graphophone Co. This is the
time this summer they have suffered in first time that the rights under these patents
this way.
have been tested in court.
The Grand Rapids Veneer Works, of
A recent issue of that indispensible little
Grand Rapids, Mich., have at present on magazine, Printers' Ink, contains a reduced
hand an unusually fine assortment of reproduction of an advertisement of ''The
veneers in all the fancy woods which would Piano," which has frequently appeared in
certainly pay manufacturers to look up. The Review. It is characterized as some-
Their general line of woods is extensive what "out of the rut" in the matter of book
and owing to their special facilities and advertisements.
situation they are enabled to quote low
Thos. Goggan & Bro., Galveston, Tex.,
prices.
have sent us three of their latest publica-
The Hallet & Davis warerooms in Boston, tions entitled "Only a Dream of the Past"
which are undergoing extensive renova- by Mina Deane, "Waiting and Thinking
tions, promise to be among the especially of Thee" by Harry C. Sherrod and "I Love
attractive piano homes in the "City of the Girl who Lives by the Sea" by Will
Culture." The decorative as well as light- S. Robards. These songs are of the popu-
ing effects are unique and present a har- lar order and up to the average of many
monious whole that commands more than compositions which have made money for
passing notice. The warerooms will be their publishers.
out of the hands of the workmen in the
In the Minneapolis, Minn., courts this
course of a week or so.
week, Judge Elliott signed an order allow-
Manager Mangold of Krakauer Bros., re- ing creditors six months' time from date
turned Tuesday from a sojourn at Long in which to file intervening complaints in
Branch,N. J. He found that business had the action to enforce the stockholders'
been rather dull in his absence and at once liability in the assignment of the Century
made up his mind to sell a piano to the first Piano Co.
apparent customer who entered, just for
spite. And he did; not for spite exactly, but
for spot cash.
W. C. Fraser's music store at Ortonville,
Minn., was destroyed by fire on Saturday
last.
Keep your eye on the celebrated Haines
Bros, pianos, now that prosperity'scoming
our way. They are just the instruments
to make a record with. At least that is
what dealers say who have made money
handling these pianos. They ought to
know.
Jacob Doll has opened a branch at 482
Westminster street, Providence, R. I., un-
der the management of Messrs. Aldrich &
Widdup. Twenty-four choice Doll pianos
have been shipped within the past few
days.
Comstock, Cheney & Co., the celebrated
manufacturers of piano actions, keys, etc.,
Ivoryton, Conn., have recently laid in an
unusually large stock of maple for their
action department.
A new suit was filed with the clerk of the
Circuit Court, Jacksonville, Fla., on Satur-
day last, by the Wilcox & White Organ
Co., against Charles W. DaCosta.* The
claim was for assumpsit damages in the
sum of $150.
Among the members of the music trade in
town this week was Mr. Taylor of Tay-
lor's Music House, Springfield, Mass., and
J. T. Yinger, Columbia, Pa.
James E. Healy, of Wm. Knabe & Co.,
is expected to reach Baltimore to day from
Mackinac Lake, where he has been spend-
ing his vacation.
James A. Guest, of Burlington, la., has
decided to close out his branch house at
Cedar Rapids, and a sale to end that is now
in progress.
We are pleased to learn that W. J. Mc-
Carter, of the Colby Piano Co., who has
been seriously ill with pneumonia, is on
the road to recovery.
The Prescott Co. will replace the Pres-
cott Piano Co. as the official title of that
concern after September 1st.
A chartered music concern is the latest
addition to Orangeburg's business houses.
It is styled the Glover-Merchant Music Co.
John A. McLaughlin, the new manager
of the Boylston Piano Co., 160 Boylston
street, Boston, has had an experience of
nearly thirty years in the piano business.
He is well known not only to the trade,
but to a wide clientele of piano buyers.
Frank R. Gillis, formerly of Washing-
ton, D. C, and now with J. & C. Fischer
at the Union Square warerooms, has just
placed in the hands of the Chicago Music
Co. his latest composition, entitled the
"Second Battalion March," written for and
dedicated to the Second Naval Battalion,
of Brooklyn, N. Y., which was formed
recently and mustered into service.
Mr. Gillis is well and favorably known
as a composer of marches and dance music.
His "Rope Dance," published in Washing-
ton in 1889, was remarkably successful,
15,000 copies being sold under the com-
poser's copyright before it was placed in
the hands of music publishers for general
sale.