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f HE MUSfC f RADE REVIEW
Carroll in Custody Again.
CHICAGO POLICE GET HOLD OF THE PIANO
SWINDLER AND WILL RETURN HIM TO
OMAHA.
Orders for 62 Pease Pianos
IN ONE DAY INDICATE THAT THE " P. P. P.
ARE RIGHT IN IT RETAIL TRADE
ALSO ACTIVE.
[Special to The Review.]
This week's report at the headquarters
Omaha, Neb., Nov. 22, 1898.
of the " Popular Pease " is very satisfactory
The police were notified yesterday that and will be gratifying to the many good
W. J. Carroll, alias A. M. Dell, who, last friends of the firm who are located in every
August, rented an $800 piano of Schmoller part of the Union, from Maine to Cal-
& Mueller, the piano dealers, which he ifornia.
surreptitiously removed from the city and
When The Review called on Wednesday
sold in Kansas, was under arrest in Chicago the head of the firm was, as usual, in ex-
for the same offense. Carroll will be brought cellent humor. Asked for his report on
to Omaha. Requisition papers will be pre- trade conditions, he said: "We are doing
pared this afternoon. Besides the Schmoller very well at present; sixty-two pianos
& Mueller charge, Carroll will have to have been ordered to-day, for example, and
answer to one of the same character made there is every appearance of good times
by Joseph Hayden of this city. Septem- ahead."
ber last, a month after he had victimized
These orders were from out-of-town rep-
Schmoller & Mueller, he obtained a piano resentatives. Mr. Pottle, speaking for the
from Hayden, which he removed to St. retail department, said that sales have been
Joseph, Mo., and sold.
quite active of late. The best proof of
Carroll was arrested in Kansas City last this was seen in the retail warerooms,
September for the theft of Schmoller & from which a number of the choicest up-
Mueller's piano, and was brought to Oma- rights have been shipped since Saturday.
ha. He was released on bonds of $600, The "Popular Pease" is making a great
signed by J. Gardiner. He then disap- record.
peared from the city. The bond was de-
clared forfeited. The Chicago police will
Foulkes & Co. Assign.
surrender the prisoner, as they believe the
WELL-KNOWN MUSIC HOUSE GOES TO THE
local police have the strongest case against
WALL.
him.
C. Q. Conn in Town.
C. G. Conn, the celebrated band instru-
ment manufacturer, arrived in town
Wednesday. He reports business at his
factories in Elkhart as unusually active.
The tremendous demand from the Govern-
ment and other sources for instruments
during the Spanish-American war com-
pletely cleaned out everything on hand,
and ever since forces have been working
night and day to manufacture sufficient
stock to meet all calls.
A Bill Dismissed.
The action brought by Alexander Mc-
Tammany and the Regina Music Box Co.,
against Alfred E. Paillard for alleged in-
fringement of "a device for feeding, wind-
ing and guiding the perforated music sheet
in an automatic musical instrument " was
dismissed by Judge Coxe in the United
States Circuit Court last week. It is un-
derstood the case involves about twenty
similar suits brought by the same plaintiffs.
In his opinion, Judge Coxe says: " T h e
argument to prove infringement is most
ingenious, but it is based upon the
erroneous assumption that the patentee
preceded all other makers of automatic
musical instruments, and hit upon a com-
bination so fundamentally novel as to sub-
ject to tribute all those who subsequently
entered the field. What he did do was
very far from this. The bill is dismissed."
[Special to The Review.]
Salt Lake City, Nov. 21, 1898.
Friday the firm of J. E. Foulkes & Co.,
music and stationery dealers, filed a deed
of assignment with the county recorder,
naming Lee Gibson as assignee. The lia-
bilities are listed at about $3,500, and the
assets at $5,463.25, consisting of stock and
fixtures, with the exception of $131.75
book accounts, and $2.50 cash.
Of the creditors, J. C. Nye, C. N. Stre-
vell, Alice Foulkes, John E. Bagley and
Ella M. Foulkes are listed as preferred,
their claims aggregating $1,522.19.
The "Steger" and its Maker.
New Royal Styles Coming.
Nine times out of ten, a thirty minutes'
talk with a manufacturer will disclose to a
close observer just the quality of goods he
manufactures and whether or not he mar-
kets them in a legitimate manner. If Mr.
J. V. Steger manufactured buggies his
vehicles would be among the best; if he
manufactured bicycles they would be fa-
mous for sterling qualities; he does manu-
facture pianos and they are purchased by
dealers knowing that the statements of
the makers regarding them can be relied
upon. Mr. Steger has ideas of his own as
to how pianos should be marketed and his
methods can be safely copied with no fear
of having to employ any but straightfor-
ward and business-like ones. The Steger
factory runs every night until 9:30 and
they have orders for delivery from now
until May. Such is the result of following
the proper policy.—The Presto.
The progressive policy of the Krell Piano
Co., has once more been made plainly man-
ifest. More new styles in "Royals" are
now on the way from the Krell factory and
will be on exhibition at the warerooms
early in the week.
Wm. Knabe & Co. expect to move to
their handsome new warerooms at the
northwest corner of Fifth avenue and Twen-
tieth street. There will not be any "formal"
opening until after the Holidays.
The Qraphophone Grand.
AN EXHIBITION OF A MARVELOUS INVENTION
THE GRAND MARKS THE REMARKABLE
ADVANCE MADE IN SOUND RE-
PRODUCTION.
On the afternoon of Nov. 23d, a private
exhibition was given by the American
Graphophone Co. to a few newspaper
men and scientists in the Bowling Green
Building. A new graphophone grand, a
marvelous invention, which embodies a
new discovery in acoustics, was the reason
for the assembling.
Some introductory remarks were made
by the Graphophone Co. 's representative.
The essential feature of the graphophone,
the principle of engraving records on a
wax-like cylinder, which principle was de-
veloped by Alexander Graham Bell and
Charles S. Tainter, is retained in the new
machine, but there are embodied in it also
certain devices invented by T. H. Mc-
Donald, manager of the company's fac-
tory at Bridgeport, Conn., which make
the new invention a marvel in the realm
of sound reproduction.
In the new grand—which by the way is
a most appropriate name—the Grapho-
phone Co. have accomplished results which
were hitherto considered unattainable.
First the exhibitor gave a test of an ordi-
nary phonograph. It was followed imme-
diately by the grand. The qualities of
this new instrument are marvelous. With
the graphophone grand it is possible to fill
the Metropolitan Opera House or the Madi-
son Square Garden. The sound coming from
the horn is perfectly clear and distinct and
has great penetrating force. One hundred
feet away from the horn the tunes were
marvelously distinct, though the acoustic
properties of the room were not favorable
for the transmission of sound.
The possibilities which this new inven-
tion opens up seem almost limitless. A
record was made before the audience, Vess
L. Ossman, the well-known banjoist, mak-
ing the record which was afterwards repro-
duced, and it was almost impossible to dis-
tinguish the real player's effect and that
made by the reproduction of the grapho-
phone grand. It is the first machine of
the kind ever constructed, and there is
none for sale, nor will there be for some
time to come. The exhibition was given
to thoroughly establish in the minds of
those interested in the art what a phenom-
enal advance has been made in the devel-
opment of sound reproduction.
Business at Webers.
Theo. Pfafflin was busy arranging some
special advertising matter when The Re-
view dropped in to exchange salutations
with him yesterday. " I t is surprising,
and at the same time most gratifying,"
said Mr. Pfafflin, " to see how our business
has kept up. You see," he added, "how
depleted we are in wareroom stock just
now. Retail business has been excellent
with us, and the wholesale trade has in-
creased at a phenomenal rate."