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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^