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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Following the Dolge Failure.
THE DOLGEVILLE PIANO CASE COMPANY ARE
EMBARRASSED.
[Special to The Review.!
Utica, N. Y., April 23, 1898.
In Justice Scripture's Court at Rome this
morning, before the Maggie Kerr breach of
promise case was resumed, application was
made for the dissolution of the Piano Case
Co., of Dolgeville, and the appointment of
Henry Stultz as receiver. The application
was granted.
Mr. Stultz was business
manager of the company.
On the petition of John M. Shelskey and
Max Wolf, directors of the Dolgeville Piano
Case Company, for the voluntary dissolution
of the corporation, an order was also made
by Judge Scripture appointing Thomas
Ward of Little Falls referee in the action
commenced for dissolution. The petition
shows that the assets of the corporation are
$25,000 and the liabilities $39,000.
The manufacture of piano cases was at
one time conducted by the firm of A. Dolge
& Son. Under Messrs. Dolge Julius Breck-
woldt was at the head. The lumber depart-
ment was divided into two distinct branches,
known as the case department. About two
years ago the sounding-board department
was purchased by Julius Breckwoldt, and
the case department had grown to such pro-
portions that it was deemed advisable to
have the company incorporated and i«un
under a separate head. The Dolgeville
Piano Case Company then came into ex-
istence with a capitalized stock of $20,000.
The officers of the corporation are Henry
Stultz, president, and John M. Shelskey,
secretary and treasurer. The firm occupy
part of the Brambach Piano Company plant,
and employment is given to fifty or sixty
operatives. The piano case company is
practically a new industry in Dolgeville, and
was growing rapidly. The firm have done a
paying business up to the present time, but
like the other Dolgeville corporations, were
closely intertwined with the parent firm of
Alfred Dolge & Son, and the failure of the
latter firm made the financial collapse of the
case company a necessity.
A New Piano House.
A LEADING LOS ANGELES FIRM OPEN
BRANCH IN SAN DIEGO, CAL.
The celebrated piano and music house of
Bartlett Bros., Los Angeles, one of the lead-
ing concerns of the kind on this coast, be-
lieves there is a field in San Diego for a
first-class music store and piano warehouse,
and has accordingly rented the large store,
1025 Fifth street, opposite the Grant block,
and are shipping into this city a splendid
assortment of new pianos.
The Bartlett Music House, of South
Spring street, Los Angeles, has quite a
number of branches in the large cities of
Southern California and Arizona, and is by
many years the oldest established music
house in Southern California. During its
business career of nearly twenty-five years,
it has gained the highest reputation for ab-
solute reliability and fair dealing. With the
wide and varied experience of the especial
requirements of the western trade, and after
a careful and long-continued study of the
piano markets, they have gradually selected
a line of pianos and organs that is said to
be vastly superior in every respect to the
instruments handled by any other western
concern, including, as it does, the world-
famous Steinway & Sons, the equally re-
nowned Weber, and the now universally
celebrated new scale Kimball pianos. Of
course they also carry a large assortment of
medium-grade instruments. — San Diego,
Cal., Tribune.
Remove to San Francisco.
LSpecial to The Review.j
Oakland, Cal., April 23, 1898.
Mr. Clark Wise, who has presided over
the destinies of the music firm of Clark
Wise & Co for so many years, is busy these
days receiving both the congratulations and
regrets of many friends; congratulations
over the transfer of his firm to a wider field,
and regrets over their departure from Oak-
land. The firm have rented the commodious
store at the corner of Geary street and Grant
avenue, San Francisco. May 1st will find the
firm at their new establishment.
A music store plays a most important part
in the music affairs of a city, and Clark
Wise & Co. have been for years a most im-
portant factor in the musical life of Oak-
land. Of friends and well-wishers there are
many, all of whom predict unlimited success
for this enterprising firm in their new field.
The Everett Concert Grand.
These superb artistic instruments—the new
Everett Concert Grands, continue to win
tributes of praise anent their remarkable
tonal qualities and general excellence,
couched in forcible and unequivocal terms.
The criticisms of these instruments which
have appeared in The Review from time to
time, have been substantiated by experts
who agree in the opinion expressed that the
new scale Everett Grand is one of the great
instruments of the trade to day—a creation
that is fully worthy of, and substantially
verifies in itself, all the encomiums that
have been showered upon it.
The Everett Grand has already caused a
sensation in musical circles, which is bound
to be accentuated when brought still more
prominently into public view. This is in-
evitable and logical, owing to the fact that
this instrument marks an epoch in grand
production in this country. It also com-
pels the abandonment of many old theories
regarding the building of grands, for the
fact stands that here we have practically a
young, but progressive, and financially
healthy institution turning out artistic in-
struments that under the fingers of a Pad-
erewski, or Rosenthal should become world-
famous.
Prof. Andrew Dead.
[Special to The Review.]
Austin, Minn., April 26, 1898.
Prof.
William
Andrew, an old and re-
Seidl's Last Program.
spected resident, died at his home in this
city yesterday. He was born in Cornwall,
New York, April 25, 1898.
England, in April, 1829. He has been a
Editor, Music Trade Review.
Dear Sir: In your issue of April 23d, you teacher of music and dealer in musical in-
state that the last program written by the struments in this city for about twenty years.
late Anton Seidl is in the possession of Mr,
Brown, of Chickering Hall. This is incor-
Receiver Appointed.
rect. At about ten o'clock on the day of his
Thomas B. Odell has been appointed re-
death, Mr. Seidl made out programs for the
tour of the Seidl Orchestra, just closed ceiver for the firm of Schwab & Lindau,
(which he was to have conducted), and dealers in music and musical instruments,
handed them to me. He went from me direct at 724 Tremont Avenue, Tremont, by Justice
to Fleischman's, where he said he would re- Daly, of the Supreme Court, this city,
main until five and then he would stop at Monday, on the application of Leonore C.
Mr. Bernstein's, on his way home, requesting Lindau, against her partner, Josef Schwab,
me to have Mr. Colby to call at either place for the dissolution of the firm. Mrs.
as he wished to see him. The programs Lindau started the business in December
1895, and the present partnership was
are now in the possession of Mrs. King.
formed in August last.
Very respectfully, F. H. King.
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BRATTLEBORO, VT.