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VOL. XXVII.
17.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, Oct. 22,1898.
65 Sterlings for Australia.
[Special to The Review.]
Derby, Conn., Oct. 18, 1898.
Among the many important orders re-
ceived by the Sterling Co. this morning
was one from Australia for sixty-five of
their latest and best style organs, to be
shipped as soon as possible to Adelaide.
The demand for Sterling pianos and or-
gans is now so brisk that the immense fac-
tory plants of the company are working
over time.
Ditson Building.
Boylston street, Boston, has become the
home of many distinguished piano con-
cerns. One of the artistic and ornate build-
ings of that piano thorougf are is the Oliver
Ditson Building in which is conducted the
piano department of that distinguished
concern. Evidence of aesthetic taste and
refinement is found in the fittings of the
rooms which were made imder the direct
supervision of Mr. E. W. Tyler, the veteran
and respected member of the Boston music
The Miller Organs Abroad.
Speaking about these excellent instru-
ments made by the Miller Organ Co., of
Lebanon, Pa., which are represented in
London by the enterprising house of L. •
Blankenstein & Co., one of the leading
trade papers of that city says:
" T h e Miller American organs have
acquired an established reputation in this
country for reliability and excellent con-
struction and for the pleasing and chaste
designs of the cases. They are made in
various styles to suit the pockets of all
purchasers. We were much impressed
with the excellence of the Miller two
manual organ, which Messrs. Blankenstein
& Co. have now in stock, which we under-
stand is put upon the market at a lower
price than any similar instrument produced
by other American manufacturers. In the
wind supply particularly this instrument
can be safely recommended, and for tone
and volume is all that can be desired.
" The leads this year surpass all others.
Styles 36 o/s and 35 o/s are unapproached
for price; and style 322, as illustrated, is
the prettiest and most effective organ for trade, who for a term of years has occupied
the important position of manager of the
1898-9."
piano business of the Ditson concern. This
business, it should be understood, is not
Will Sue the Railroad.
alone confined to Boston, but Mr. Tyler
James Duncan, music dealer, of Denver, has under his management a number
Col., and a number of other merchants who of branches located at important points
were "burned out" in the fire of Oct. 1st, throughout Massachusetts.
held a meeting in that city this week for
the purpose of taking legal action against
the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. It is
claimed that the railroad violated the city
ordinance by bringing into Denver a car of
powder which ignited and resulted in the
destruction of a number of stores on Huer-
f ano street, whereby more than one hundred
merchants suffered losses through fire.
Mr. Duncan's loss was about $1,000.
Henry Behning Recuperating.
Henry Behning, of the Behning Piano
Co., who recently passed through a serious
attack of illness, partially the result of
over-work during the summer months, is
again indisposed and has gone to the
mountain district to recuperate. He ex-
pects to be at his post again early in No-
vember.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS.
Krakauer Advancement
COMPELS THE CONSIDERATION OF A
FACTORY PLANT BUSINESS EX-
CEEDINGLY ACTIVE.
NEW
This week's visit of The Review to the
Krakauer factory found every member of
the firm actively engaged in aiding opera-
tions for rapid dispatch of pianos. Nu-
merous dealers are anxiously awaiting the
arrival of instruments.
The prosperity of this firm is advancing
by leaps and bounds. Results of the ac-
tive summer campaign inaugurated by
Maurice Krakauer are now becoming ap-
parent in the shape of orders and applica-
tions for territory.
Referring to the imperative demand for
greater factory facilities, Maurice Krakauer
said in response to a direct question as to
future plans: " We are arranging to secure
facilities for doubling the present output.
Our limit now is from 1,200 to 1,300 in-
struments per annum. It should and will
be 2,500. Architects are completing plans
and estimates for a new factory building.
"This one, which we now occupy as our
main building, is in the market. Unless
we are able to dispose of it before the new
structure is erected, it will be kept partly
in use as supplemental until rented, to-
gether with one other supplemental build-
ing.
The site for the new factory has not
yet been fixed. Several have been offered
but the matter is still in abeyance."
A number of Krakauer "Specials" are
in course of construction at the factory, in-
cluding several for the homes of Krakauer
representatives. These Specials are fre-
quently in white mahogany, of Colonial
style.
The present condition of wholesale busi-
ness may be judged from the fact that, on
Wednesday, the number of actual orders
to be shipped exceeded 200 with more com-
ing in by every mail.
Reinhard Kochmann is making a brief
Eastern trip.
Our New Possessions,
CHANCES AWAIT THE PHILIPPINE
EXPLORER.
The larger of the fourteen hundred is-
lands composing the Phillipines have
never been explored, and during three
centuries of Spanish rule their resources
have remained unknown. The splendid
resources of the Kimball piano are known
and recognized throughout the world.