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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1898 Vol. 27 N. 7

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Knabe Picnic.
The sixty-first annual picnic of the em-
ployees of Win. Knabe & Co. was held at
Loudon Park, Baltimore, last Saturday.
Ernest and William Knabe were present
with their families and several invited
guests, and aided in making the affair a
complete success. The workmen of every
department with their wives and children
spent a most enjoyable day, and the men
were highly gratified with the efforts of
the firm to show appreciation of their
labors during the past twelve months.
One and all entered heartily into the
games and pastimes.
The New York interests of Wm. Knabe
& Co. were represented by Ferdinand
Mayer, of the firm, who was accompanied
by Mrs. Mayer. Mr. Mayer and other
members of the firm took part in several
of the bowling, shooting and other con-
tests.
Krell to Succeed Crane Co.
Arrangements are under way for trans-
fer of the Geo. C. Crane Co. interests, 174
Fifth avenue, this city, to the Krell Piano
Co., under which name business will be
conducted. Mr. Crane will continue as
the Eastern traveling representative of
the Krell Co.
Paul G. Mehlin & Sons.
The artistic transformation effects at the
Mehlin warerooms are nearing completion.
It is gratifying to note that the steady in-
crease in the Mehlin output in grands and
uprights continues, with every indication
of big business, wholesale and retail,
throughout the fall.
Behning Piano Co.
The Review met Gustave Behning at
the Behning factory on Thursday and
learned that during his recent three-
months' tour in the West a vigorous cam-
paign was carried on in the interest of the
Behning products.
The already strong hold of this firm's
pianos has been much strengthened of
late by active work, and the fall prospects
are reported to be excellent. Charles
Spanier, the eastern traveling representa-
tive, is now making a brief tour among
eastern states.
Among recent special orders received at
the factory was one from Isaac A. Hoffer,
the well-known New York contractor. He
purchased a Behning piano twelve years
ago and thought so highly of the instru-
ment that he was reluctant to part with it,
even for renovation. He decided, finally,
to give a special order for a Behning of
1898 in white mahogany. This is now in
course of preparation, and, when finished,
will be a good example of Behning art and
workmanship.
Henry Behning, Jr., has suffered some-
what severely of late from heat and over-
work. He is taking a brief rest.
A. E. Benary, importer of musical in-
struments, New York, has recently made
arrangements to open up a Chicago
branch.
Thomas E. Fisher, piano maker, resid-
ing at 555 W. Forty-first Street, died
suddenly in a saloon at 764 Tenth Avenue,
Among the visitors to the metropolis this city, last Wednesday. The doctors
this week was W. B. Williams, who has state that death was caused by '' tobacco
helped to make the Sterling piano better heart" which was brought about through
known through the Western territory. excessive smoking of cigarettes.
Mr. Moak, of Buckingham, Moak &
Mr. Williams spoke enthusiastically about
Marklove,
Utica, N. Y., ran down to in-
the Sterling business in the West during
spect
fall
styles
Thursday.
the past six months, and is optimistic over
A. H. Young, manager of the business
fall prospects.
P. J. Gildemeester will take a short trip department of Chickering Hall, is spend-
East next week, after which he will start ing his vacation in Stamford, N. Y. He
on one of his long Western jaunts, possi- will return about the 20th.
E. Devereaux, the road representative
bly running as far as St. Louis and Den-
of Kurtzmann & Co., of Buffalo, reached
ver.
Geo. N. Grass, looking in splendid con- New York yesterday morning.
The hustling Californian, S. B. Bart-
dition, is again at his post in Steck Hall.
Mr. Grass has entirely recovered from the lett, of Bartlett Bros., Los Angeles, has
recent operation which he has undergone, been tarrying within our gates.
aud he is brimful of energy for fall trade.
J. Llewelyn Smith, of the Smith & Nixon
firm
of Louisville, Ky., has been enjoying
Frank Burns has secured an elegant fall
the
delights
of New York this week.
stock of scarfs, stools, etc., and is pleased
with the outlook for a big trade, beginning
John Christman, of Christman & Son,
in September. He has purchased several 19 East Fourteenth street, is spending his
special bargains in scarfs, and announces vacation at Asbury Park, N. J.
his willingness to send samples on memo-
randum.
Piano-banging vs. Sleep.
Wm. P. Daniels, of Mason & Hamlin,
A man and a woman in St. Louis, being
left town on Saturday for a brief vacation madly addicted to the piano habit and
in the neighborhood of East Hampton, finding the midhours of these summer days
Long Island.
too hot for such violent exercise, took to
indulging
themselves between 4.30 and
Alfred Leigh Glassell, of Gardner &
6.30
A.
M.
The neighbors reasoned and
Glassell, San Francisco, Cal., one of the
threatened
in
vain and at last appealed to
most progressive of the firms having the
the
courts.
interests of the Krakauer products at
Each party to the suit based his plea
heart, was presented with a son and heir
upon personal liberty. " We have a right
on July 8.
Joseph W. Sturtevant, who ranks next to to do as we please in our own house," said
Clifford Cox in the salesmen's staff at the piano-players. "We have a right to
Steinway Hall, has just returned from his sleep," said the neighbors.
The Judge, as might be expected of one
vacation, which was passed among the
chosen
for judicial office in such a citadel
Berkshire Hills.
of
civilization
as St. Louis, decided for the
Early in the week, Mason & Hamlin re-
neighbors,
assessed
a heavy fine upon the
ceived at the New York headquarters a
sleep
and
peace
disturbers,
and remitted it
big order for organs, to be shipped at an
on,ly
on
condition
that
they
should move
early date for Port Natal.
away and should promise to assault their
J. Burns Brown, of Chickering Hall, neighborhood only when it was dressed
will leave Aug. 20th on a much needed and could fly through the streets to a place
vacation, which he will spend with his of safety.
family on the Connecticut Coast.
Christopher Werschmidt, sixty years THE ROTARY
old, formerly a piano maker in the employ
NEOSTYLE DUPLICATOR.
of Steinway & Sons, was found dying
Thursday night in his room on the sec-
ond floor of 555 West Twenty-ninth street.
He was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
Myron A. Decker paid a brief visit this
week to the Decker factory and ware-
rooms. He is in excellent health and as
is the latest device for duplicating hand- and type-
cheerful as ever.
writing.
Any boy or girl can operate the machine and
Among this week's visitors at the Wil- print
30 copies per minute.
3,000 can be taken from one original.
cox & White warerooms was George E.
For issuing circular letters this machine has no
Bradnack, of the Bradnack Music House, equal.
The copies produced look like ordinary hand-
Middletown, N. Y. Mr. Bradnack is one
writing or typewriting and are more effective, as
of the progressive men of the trade.
well as cheaper, than printing.
Write for particulars.
Chas. Pabst, the well-known dealer of
CHURCH ST.,
Wilkesbarre, Pa., was in town this week.
NEOSTYLE CO.,
NEW YORK.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
A Progressive Firm.
JACOB BROS.' WARES AND BUSINESS METHODS
FIND FAVOR WITH THE TRADE.
Among the progressive institutions of
this great metropolis can be included that
of Jacob Bros. Their great factories in
New York and Leominster, Mass., and
multitudinous retail branch establishments
in and near New York, as well as the
volume of business transacted annually,
are undoubtedly the best and most con-
vincing evidence of their enterprise.
Jacob Bros, have unquestionably solved
one of the secrets of success by placing no
superfluous valuation on their products,
but rather selling them at correct values.
This straight-forward business course has
won them the esteem of dealers, and it
would be hard to find a more loyal or en-
thusiastic army of men than is enrolled
under the Jacob Bros, banner.
That success should accompany the ca-
reer of Charles and Albert Jacob is not
surprising to those who have followed the
history of the firm, and noted the strik-
ing manner in which these young men of
ability, strong will and upright character,
have succeeded in winning enviable posi-
tions in their chosen field of operations.
It has ever been the policy of Jacob
Bros, to conduct business on businesslike
lines—to make no claims for their pro-
ducts that coiild not be substantiated, to
give always the best of values, and to sell
at a fair price. These factors have been
powerful ones in building up Jacob Bros.'
reputation and business, and they have at-
tracted the attention of some of the larg-
est buyers in the trade.
With such a career of progressiveness to
their credit in the past, may we not predict
a more glorious and more successful
career for the future? During the coming
fall we expect Jacob Bros, to become a
still more important factor in the trade,
and as a matter of course, to win a larger
share than ever of the patronage which
comes to those who work for and deserve
to get it.
Trading on Prominent Names.
Chickering Hall Improvements.
When music lovers gather at Chickering
Hall the coming fall they will hardly
know it. This famous rendezvous is un-
dergoing a thorough renovation under the
direction of J. Burns Brown. Painters
and gilders have been at work, and a pleas-
ing addition to the interior beauty of the
Hall is the placing over the stage of a
handsome bust of Jonas Chickering on a
beautifully carved pedestal right under
the Legion of Honor medal.
Another innovation in connection with
the stage is the transformation effected in
the screen at the rear. The old sombre
color has been replaced by beautiful panel-
ing of cream and gold, thus adding ma-
terially to the general attractiveness of the
ensemble. There are innumerable changes,
many of a minor, but more of an impor-
tant character, which will surprise visitors
the coming musical season. Mr. Brown is
to be congratulated on his good taste and
energetic efforts.
A Ludwig Patent.
John H. Ludwig, of Ludwig & Co., al-
ways a tireless worker, is again in evi-
dence as an inventor of a valuable and
useful improvement in pianofortes. The
patent which was granted on Aug. 9th,
bearing number 608,693, relates especially
to the scale bridge-bar of the piano. Its
object is to provide a new and improved
adjustable scale bridge-bar which extends
across the strings on the sides at which
the hammers are located, and which bridge-
Trouble for John N. Pattison.
John N. Pattison, living at 1659 Madi-
son Avenue, and who for many years con-
ducted a music store at 237 Fourth
Avenue, was arraigned in the Yorkville
Police Court on Wednesday last on a
charge of grand larceny preferred by Miss
Louisa Lyman. The larceny, according
to the complainant, consisted in the reten-
tion of four violins and four valuable oil
paintings of the aggregate value of $2,500
which were given to Pattison, it is al-
leged, to find a purchaser.
Pattison acknowledged having received
the property from Miss Lyman to sell on
commission, and declared that three years
later a fire in his store destroyed all the
musical instruments and damaged the
paintings. He couldn't give back the in-
struments, but said he was ready to re-
turn the paintings on payment of $460 for
storage. He admitted that the paintings
were hanging in his apartments. He was
held in $2,000 bail for trial.
NOTICE OF SALE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the undersigned, together with A. M. Mills, receiver
of Alfred Dolge & Son, will sell a large number of machines and machinery, office
and mill furniture, now in the felt mill, in the village of Dolgeville, New York,
at the front door of said felt mill, at public auction, on the 18th day of August, 1898,
at 12 o'clock noon.
The property to be sold is about 250 machines, consisting of washing machines,
sizers, cards, garnet machines, breakers, finishers, pickers, dusters, presses, engine,
lathes, hammer-presses, felt-cutters, fans, motors, felt-shears, saws, grinders, and
numerous other machines which are used in the manufacture of felt and other
fabrics, and hammers for pianos.
We hope that our readers are fully alive
to the abjectness of the attempts to trade
on honorable names in the pianoforte
trade, says Music, London. The law has
just punished with severity a conspiracy
to defraud by trading on the good nam.e of
Brinsmead.
But as the saying goes,
there are others. A name—or is it not
rather a reputation?—that suggests all kind
of variants, is the great name of Steinway.
We advise readers to be extremely cauti-
ous in accepting pianos stencilled with
names closely resembling Steinway, such
as Steinmetz, Steinmeyer, Steinberg, or
closely resembling them to the eye if not
to the ear, such as Shumway & Sons. It is
needless to point out that a dirtier means
of obtaining trade than that of colorably
imitating a great name was never devised.
Caveat actor et caveat emptor!
bar is adjustable as to its bearing upon
the strings, thus permitting of adjusting
or regulating the pressure of the bridge-
bar on the strings and thereby the pres-
sure of the strings on the wooden bridge
on the sounding-board, and thereby per-
mitting of restoring to the sounding-board
its full vibratory power at all times and
rendering the tone fuller, rounder, less
metallic, and of more beauty than has
been possible in the pianos as constructed
heretofore.
etc., used in the mill.
Together with office furniture and tables, chairs,
All the machines are movable, and are in good repair, having
been until very recently in use at the said felt factory, at Dolgeville.
Inventories of the property to be sold can be seen at the felt factory, in Dolge-
ville, N. Y., at the office of the undersigned, Devereux Block, Utica, N. Y., at the
office of A. M. Mills, Little Falls, N. Y., and at n o East 13th Street, New York
City.
Inspection of the same and of the property, and correspondence are invited.
Terms of sale reasonable.
A. M. Mills, receiver of the firm of Alfred Dolge & Son, will join in above sale,
and any questions as to the ownership of said property, as between him and the
undersigned, will be transferred to the fund realized thereon, and both he and the
undersigned will join in said sale, so there will be no question as to the title of the
property sold.
Dated, Utica, N. Y., August 9th, 1898.
WALTER N. KERNAN,
Assignee of Alfred Dolge, for the benefit of creditors^

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