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REVIEW
VOL. XXVI.
N o . 5.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, January 29,1898.
Wickham, Chapman & Co.
BIG
DEMAND FOR THEIR WARES
FIRMS FALL IN LINE.
EASTERN
Wickham, Chapman & Co., the celebrated
manufacturers of piano plates, Springfield,
O., are experiencing a tremendous demand
for their wares in all sections of the country.
Apart from their growing trade in the West,
they have recently added a number of impor-
tant Eastern firms to their big roster of cus-
tomers, and an enlargement of their plant has
been rendered necessary. We constantly
hear of the Wickham, Chapman plates being
highly praised. The greatest care is exer-
cised in their manufacture and finish, and it
is this attention to details and courtesy in
business dealings that is winning them such
an army of supporters.
Vibration of Violin Strings.
A violin string, like every sonorous body,
vibrates not only as a whole, but also in
each of its several fractions or aliquot parts,
one-half, one-third, one-fourth, one-fifth, etc.
Each of these parts gives a separate note, the
half strings yielding just the octave of the
open string; the one-third strings giving the
fifth above the octave: the one-fourth strings
giving the double octave; the one-sixth
strings giving the fifth above the double
octave, etc.
These harmonic tones are
brought out on stringed instruments by
lightly touching the strings at the nodes or
divisions of its aliquot parts,—one-half, one-
third, one-fourth, one-fifth, etc., so as to pre-
vent the string from vibrating as a whole,
while allowing it to vibrate in its several
parts.
Colby Piano Co.'s Recital.
[Special to The Review.]
Erie, Pa., Jan. 24, 1898.
The Colby Piano Co.'s recitals, which were
discontinued during the holiday season, were
resumed Friday afternoon. The following
persons participated in the program: Piano
solos, Misses Eva Giddings*, Myrtle Douthitt;
vocal solos, Misses Bessie Davis, Annie Ab-
bott; piano duet, Misses Olive and Ida
Wuerntz; mandolin duet, Misses Bertha
Koch and Dora Menz. The musical numbers
were interspersed with recitations by Misses
Ella McCarthy, Rosebud Therese, Mazie St.
John,
Haines Bros. vs. Blumenberg.
Last Wednesday summons was served on
Marc A. Blumenberg by Haines Bros.' attor-
neys in a damage suit to be brought by them
for $25,000 against the Musical Courier and
Marc A. Blumenberg for alleged damage
done that corporation by the publication of
an unauthorized advertisement occupying two
pages in the Courier Trade Extra on Jan. 15,
the substance of which was that Haines Bros,
had used the signatures of the piano manu-
facturers given to them in their suit for in-
junction against Haines & Co. as a piano tes-
timonial.
Orders Balance Paid.
[Special to The Review.]
Columbus, O., Jan. 26, 1898.
The Probate Court yesterday made an
order in the matter of the Longstreth-Schmidt
Co., authorizing the payment by James Kil-
bourne to Ernest Urchs & Co. a certain bal-
ance due upon pianos sold him by the Long-
streth-Schmidt Co. as their agents.
Wegman Co.'s Fine Showing.
[Special to The Review.]
Auburn, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1898.
The annual report of the Wegman Piano
Co. was filed at the county clerk's office this
afternoon. The amount of capital stock
authorized is $125,000; the amount of capi-
tal stock issued is $116,000; the assets are
stated as $188,153.36 and the debts $6,489. n .
It Is signed by Julia Wegman, Warren
Crocker and W. C. Burgess, directors.
American Varnish Superior.
"Foreign varnish makers do not now cut
much of a figure in the American market,"
said a manufacturer recently to the American
Economist. Formerly a considerable quantity
of foreign varnishes were imported, but since
the manufacture in this country has reached
its present high stage of development the
annual importation does not exceed 60,000
gallons. It need not even reach that relatively
small figure, for in point of fact American
varnishes are the best in the world. They
are made to stand the rigors of the American
climate, the severest of all climates in its
effects upon color and gloss, and they prove
themselves to be superior to any varnishes
produced in Europe.
Jj.ooPRR YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
Prominent Cincinnatians in
Town.
Frank A. Lee and Geo.W. Armstrong, Jr.,
delegates to the convention of the National
Manufacturers' Association, have been in
town this week. These gentlemen have taken
a warm interest in the organization, which
now embraces all o'f the industries in America,
which had its origin in Cincinnati. It was
purely Association interests which brought
these gentlemen East.
They have been
stopping at the Waldorf-Astoria.
When asked Thursday afternoon as to the
condition of Mr. D. H. Baldwin, the hon-
ored head of the D. H. Baldwin concern, who
is now seriously ill, Mr. Armstrong said, " I
have heard nothing to-day, and in this case
no news is good news."
What the flerchants' Association
Is Doing.
The Merchants' Association of New York is
to be congratulated on the success of its
efforts to foster and expand the trade and
commerce of this city. They have made
ample and judicious use of "printer's ink"
and the circularizing which was so effective
last year will, we understand, be continued
this year even on a broader and more liberal
scale. Through these announcements thou-
sands of merchants have come to study the
comparative merits of the various markets,
with the result that New York trade has been
the gainer by hundreds of thousands of dol-
lars.
The Merchants' Association have just issued
another well written and timely circular
" About Holding Home Trade." It has been
mailed to 150,000 merchants throughout the
entire United States outside the city of
Greater New York. It cannot fail to have a
potent influence in directing attention to New
York as the greatest trade center of the na-
tion. The efforts of the association must
unquestionably result in a big augumentation
of the trade of this city during 1898.
The General Electric Company, of Boston,
is wiring the Estey Organ works,Brattleboro,
Vt., for electric lights. The company will
put in a 500-light dynamo.
Dealers will find Geo. P. Bent's advertise-
ment, which appears elsewhere in this issue,
rather interesting reading.