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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
The Future of Dolgeville.
THE SALE OF THE FELT MILL, WHICH WILL TAKE
PLACE AUG. 3 , ANXIOUSLY AWAITED
SOME INDUSTRIES THAT ARE
PROSPEROUS.
Dolgeville, July i.
The residents of Dolgeville now await
anxiously the sale of the Dolge felt mill
which will take place on August 3. When
this is done, says the Utica Herald, it is
confidently expected that the property
holders and others of the village will be
able to judge more accurately as to what
the future of the metropolis of the
Adirondacks will be. Whether, as is
hoped, Mr. Dolge will bid in the property
himself, or whether it will fall into the
possession of outside capitalists, is a
question that can not now be answered.
Most of the Dolgeville people, however,
seem to prefer that Alfred Dolge himself
should regain complete control of the
property. In that case, affairs would
undoubtedly continue as before the
assignment, everybody would be prosper-
ous and Dolgeville would again proceed in
the path of advancement it has followed
for so many years. The fact that since
Mr. Dolge's assignment there has been but
one merchant to fail and that Norris W.
Burrows for whom E. H. White was made
assignee Wednesday, shows on how sound
a basis the business men of the village
have always conducted themselves.
Work in the shoe shop and felt factory
still continues but with the amount com-
paring unfavorably with what was being
done a year ago. Many employees of both
industries can be found on the streets or
at their homes with little or nothing to do.
Others, though busy at their different
positions, are by no means certain that
they will be able to hold them for a long
time. Those employed spend much of
their time in gardening, fishing, reading
war news, discussing national issues, play-
ing base ball, and so on. It speaks well
for the residents of the locality that, as too
often happens at such times, in no case
whatever have there been any deeds having
the least semblance of disorder. In fact,
arrests have been fewer since Mr. Dolge's
failure than for some months previous.
In the autoharp factory, very few hands
are employed and work continues uneven-
ly. The piano case factory is running in
about the same manner, and a voluntary
dissolution of the once prosperous com-
pany will probably soon occur. The fu-
ture existence of the American Glove Co.
is also at present very doubtful.
The
greatest signs of prosperity, on the other
hand, are shown in the operations of the
Auskerada Box and Lumber Co. and the
R. W. Tanner iron manufacturing firm.
The plant of the former, of which H. M.
Buch is the proprietor, is taxed to its ut-
most to supply outside demands and sev-
eral new hands have recently been en-
gaged. A. L. Ebbels, the efficient agent
of the Tanner company, has just returned
from a visit through the central states to
such cities as Chicago, Fort Wayne, Cleve-
land, etc., with a well filled order book.
A KRELL BLAZE.
THE KRELL PIANO FACTORY THE SCENE OF
ANOTHER FIRE.
[Special to The Review.]
Cincinnati, O., July 3, 1898.
A fire which threatened to assume seri-
ous proportions started in the boiler room
of the Krell Piano Manufacturing Co., a
few minutes before four o'clock yesterday
afternoon. An alarm was turned in from
Box 493, and a few minutes later a ten-
blow was sounded. .
The cause of the fire has not yet been
determined, but it was probably caused by
the spontaneous combustion of a bundle of
waste. The factory closed at noon yester-
day, and no one was in the building ex-
cept the watchman, Albert Wachs, who
was in one of the upper floors making his
rounds. The fire was discovered by two
boys, who notified the watchman.
The firemen went to work quickly, and
soon had the flames under control. Ad-
joining the boiler room was the varnish
and paint storeroom, separated by a tin
wall. It was a hard fight to keep the fire
from spreading to that room, and, had the
firemen not known the danger threaten-
ing, the entire building would undoubted-
ly have been destroyed. The damage is
estimated at about $2,000, nearly half of
which is on the building. The repair and
fitting rooms were inundated and several
valuable piano parts were water soaked.
Case Fell Through.
[Special to The Review.]
New Bedford, Mass., July 11, 1898.
The case of Albert W. Slocum, the
piano dealer of Middleboro, who is
charged with being an itinerant vender
and held in court a few weeks ago, came
up in the Superior Court Thursday. After
two witnesses had been heard, the case
fell through, as the government testimony
was so weak, that District Attorney Harris
for the prosecution did not care to ask for a
verdict. The jury were instructed to ren-
der a verdict without retiring, and it was
not guilty.
Will A. Watkin, the well known dealer
of Dallas, Tex., will visit New York the
last of the month.
John Summers, who has been doing ex-
cellent work for the Capen piano on the
road, was in town Thursday.
Geo. Nembach Grass, who has recently
undergone an operation for appendicitis
has gotten on splendidly. He left town
Thursday for further recuperation in the
mountains of New Hampshire.
The Krell stock of pianos at the Fifth
Avenue warerooms at this time, is a highly
representative one, including, in both
grands and uprights, some of the most
tasteful and elegantly finished instruments
to be found in New York City. The stock
is effectively arranged and faultlessly kept.
W. F. Boothe is spending his vacation
at Seabright, N. J.
Stultz & Bauer report retail business
active, and orders from out of town agents
frequent. Mr. Golden is expected home
to-day from his three months' tour.
The delegates to the Convention of the
Illinois Music Teachers' Association which
was held in Handel Hall were invited by
the W. W. Kimball Co. to visit their fac-
tory. An invitation was extended to a
luncheon on Friday afternoon at the Great
Northern Hotel.
Henry L. Mason, of Mason & Hamlin,
left the city yesterday for a four or five
weeks' vacation—the first vacation he has
taken in several years. Most of the time
will be spent at Falmouth, on the Massa-
chusetts coast.
A dispatch from Columbus, O., says
that parties from Indianapolis and Rich-
mond are looking for a location for a
piano factory, and that they will probably
locate in Columbus.
When The Review called at the Knabe
Ernest Knabe called on Mr. Mayer at the warerooms on Wednesday for news, there
were conspicuous indications of effective
Knabe warerooms yesterday.
There is great activity at the Behr fac- work on the part of Mr. Mayer. Two
tory. The coming fall will find Behr Bros, grands and three uprights were marked
well to the fore with attractive 1898 styles " sold " and were being prepared for ship-
in several woods. Present business condi- ment. With one exception, the sales were
for cash.
tions are reported as satisfactory.
Wilcox & White interests are developing
Mr. Rosenberg, of the Emerson ware-
rapidly. Factory advices show big organ rooms, after devoting many days and
shipments this week; one order, to a big hours to the renovating and re-decorating
dealer having several branches, aggre- of the main exhibit hall, has at last
gating 103 instruments.
achieved the success he contemplated.
Mason & Hamlin callers this week in-
By closely following the dictates of good
cluded James C. Lawrence, Sag Harbor, taste in the blending of colors and proper
N. Y. ; Peder Ohlsen, Perth Amboy, N. J., distribution of artistic auxiliaries, an
and William H. Pine, Asbury Park, N. J. extremely pleasing result is shown. To
Each left orders. The export shipments describe the transformation would require
of Mason & Hamlin this week include much space. Those who are interested in
organs and pianos to Sydney, N. S. W., the proper decoration of piano warerooms
Port Natal, Honolulu, U. S. A., and should pay Mr. Rosenberg's headquarters
Madras.
a visit.