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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Husic Trade Should Exhibit.
AN UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY OFFERED FOR AN
EXHIBITION OF-MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AT
THE ANNUAL FAIR OF THE NEW YORK
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The Merchants' Association of New
York has been asked by the New York
State Agricultural Society, of which the
Hon. Benj. F. Tracy, Ex-Secretary of the
Navy, is president, to take charge of an
exhibit of manufactured products from the
Greater New York.
The exhibits will be made at the Annual
State Fair to be held at Syracuse during
the last three days of August and the first
three days of September of this year.
Favorable arrangements have been
made with the railroads to transport arti-
cles to be exhibited to the Fairgrounds
and to return them. Those railroads run
directly into the Fair grounds. Favorable
arrangements have also been made for the
transportation of persons to and from the
Fair, who may be sent by exhibitors to
take charge of exhibits.
The members of the music trade indus-
try will be interested to learn that the
committee in charge of the Fair has
agreed to give space to exhibitors from
New York free of all charge, and to look
after such exhibits so that they will be
properly protected.
All details can be
ascertained by sending to, or calling at,
the rooms of The Merchants' Association
on the ground floor of the New York Life
Building, corner Broadway and Leonard
street, New York City.
It is the desire of the Managers of the
Fair to broaden the scope of the Fair, and
to make an effort to bring the people from
the upper part of the State, and the
Manufacturing industries of New York
into closer relations. It is this same de-
sire which animated the Merchants' Asso-
ciation in accepting the responsibility of
arranging for an exhibit.
An Art Exhibition has been arranged
for already; and there will also probably
be a good display of Electrical matters.
Quite a number of persons have an-
nounced their intention to make exhibits
with The Merchants' Association. All
those who desire to take advantage of this
opportunity would better make their appli-
cation as early as possible, so that the
floor space they may desire can be allotted
them.
The buildings have been inspected by
representatives of The Merchants' Associ-
ation. They are in good condition, and
are a credit to the State Fair Committee.
The grounds are beautifully located
near Syracuse, there being several rail-
roads running directly into the grounds,
as well as a trolley road, and a beautiful
boulevard runs along the edge of the lake
from the city to the grounds.
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New Concern Incorporated.
Kimball Enterprise.
[Special to The Review.]
What a wonderful institution is the W.
W. Kimball Co., of Chicago! Time and
time again we have chronicled the growth
of their immense factory plant in Chicago,
which occupies now an entire square, six
stories high, and yet even this immense
hive of industry is not adequate to supply
sufficient instruments to meet their grow-
ing business.
A few weeks since we announced the in-
tention of the Company to erect another
addition to this plant—a structure 80 x 400
feet in dimensions and five stories high.
This building is now in course of con-
struction, and will give much needed ac-
commodations during the coming fall
trade.
When it is known that the new addition
with the present mammoth factories give
the institution no less than eighteen acres
of floor space and afford a capacity of
fifty-five pianos and sixty organs a day,
the extent of the Kimball institution and
the Kimball business may be estimated.
The progress of the Kimball Co. is not
surprising to those who have made a study
of the requisites necessary to success in
this present age. Study the plant, the
methods of manufacture, the men in
charge of the different departments, and
back of all, the giant minds of W. W.
Kimball and his co-workers, Messrs. Cone,
Con way and Kimball, Jr., and it occasions
little wonder that we record the success of
such an institution. It is a logical evolu-
tion, for it is built on advanced lines; it i>s
governed on advanced lines, and it keeps
in touch with the enterprise of the present
year of our Lord 1898.
Factory additions! More of them are
bound to come. They are inevitable, in
view of the Kimballian policy of go-ahead-
eduess.
Evansville, Ind., Aug. 8, 1898.
The Kevekordes Mvisical Company have
filed articles of incorporation in the county
recorder's office, the capital stock being
$5,000, divided into 100 shares at $50 each.
The incorporators are Leo Clements and
Theodore Kevekordes.
Zimmerman's Vagaries
FOUND
VENT IN IMITATING THE SOUNDS OF
VARIOUS INSTRUMENTS.
Carl Zimmerman is believed to be mu-
sic mad.
His sanity is being inquired
into at Bellevue Hospital. He is a maker
of musical instruments and lives in Little
West Twelfth street, this city. He spent
hours every night imitating various musical
instruments by putting his hands to his
mouth.
The neighbors wondered how the pale
young man could play on the violin with-
out a violin, and on the flute without a
flute, and on the trombone without a
trombone. An ambulance drove up to
the house. A crowd followed the surgeon
to Zimmerman's room. Then the mystery
was explained. There sat the pale young
man playing on the trombone by placing
his hands to his mouth in the shape of a
conch.
Another Piano Swindler.
THOMAS C. HOWARD IN J A I L FOR SWINDLING A
LOT OF PEOPLE OUT OF SMALL SUMS
OF MONEY.
[Special to The Review.]
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 8, 1898.
If Thos. E. Howard, an alleged agent
for the Kimball Piano Co., had been a
man of his word nearly every colored fam-
ily in the northeast part of the city would
have a grand piano in its parlor. Mr.
Howard is now in jail for failing to be
truthful.
Howard, a few days ago, made a tour of
the homes of the colored population in the
guise of a piano agent who was fairly giv-
ing pianos away. His alluring speeches
captivated nearly everybody he talked to,
and he completed his work with his pock-
ets bulging with good green dollars, for
which his victims had his receipt.
Howard promised his dupes that on pay-
ment of tw T o dollars he would sell a $200
piano for $100, to be paid for in weekly
payments of two dollars each after the
first six months' trial.
The first six
months nothing was to be paid on the in-
strument, the initial payment of two dol-
lars simply being to defray the expenses
of shipping the piano to the prospective
purchaser's residence. In addition to get-
ting a six months' trial use of the piano, a
music teacher was to be furnished who
was to give free lessons for one year.
Twenty-five people who paid the two
Thimbles made of rubber to be slipped dollars to Howard have thus far been dis-
over the fingers like gloves are the latest covered by the police, but it is believed
fad advocated as a cure for any nervous that this number does not near represent
trouble which may be brought about the total defrauded. Howard was arrested
through incessant piano study.
What yesterday afternoon. Ten of his dupes
filed complaints against him.
next!
, A Novel Piano Contest.
Of all voting contests, perhaps the most
original idea is the one adopted by Perry
Brothers, of Scranton, Pa., who will give
to the school, church, society, hospital or
any other institution receiving the greatest
number of votes up to Jan. 1, 1899, a fine
Ludwig Piano. The novelty lies in the
vote, which will consist of any advertise-
ment or reading notice, unless otherwise
mentioned, which contains the name Perry
Brothers. As Perry Brothers advertise in
all the Scranton papers, no doubt the vote
will be very large and it offers great op-
portunities for all societies, schools, etc.,
to take part with good chances of success.
The prize offered is one of the best Lud-
wig instruments. The contest is open to
any organization in the vicinity.
New Stores Just Opened.
G. J. Rolfstad, Crookston, Minn. ; A. B.
Imme, Greensburg, Pa. ; H. L. Brown,
Ragle Grove, la. ; Mr. Helfrich, Cantar,
S. D. ; Mr. Konzen, Lawler, la. ; J. O.
Loch, Ottumwa, la. ; H. E. Irish, Santa
Cruz, Cal.