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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Fayette S. Cable and the Chicago Cottage Organ Co.
Protection
ler for system and by his
thorough organization has
readily assumed the duties
of his brother when he
was absent on business jn
different parts of the coun-
try. For ten years he has
not only familiarized him-
self with the extensive
ramifications of the Chi-
cago Cottage Organ Co.
but he has in a large de-
gree contributed toward
its success, therefore his
present position is only an
advance which might well
be expected upon the re-
tirement by death of his
brother. Thoroughly in
touch and in sympathy
with his brother's plans
he feels now an interest
greater than ever in build-
ing up and extending the
Cable business. His per-
sonality to a large extent
has been kept in the back-
ground, as he is a man of
retiring disposition, but
now that he is at the helm
of the Chicago Cottage
Organ Co.'s affairs we
shall certainly hear more
of
him,
as
his
personality
will become the
Fayette S. Cable, or as he is generally-
guiding
one
of
the
operations
of the
known to the trade, F. S. Cable, as an-
concern
of
which
he
is
now
the
recognized
nounced in The Review last week has
been elected president of the Chicago Cot- head.
Fayette S. Cable will be loyally supported
tage Organ Co., to succeed his brother, the
by his brother officers, who are: Hobart
late H. D. Cable.
Now that the light of publicity has fully M. Cable, vice-president; Daniel G. Keefe,
turned on Fayette S. Cable, and he has secretary, and Geo. W. Tewksbury, treas-
succeeded to one of the most important urer.
places in the industry, it is well that the
With the personality of these men the
trade should know more of the make-up of trade are all familiar with the exception of
this man, who now presides over the des- Mr. Keefe, who for twenty years has been
tinies of the great Chicago concern which, closely identified with the progress of the
in later years, he has assisted in building. Chicago Cottage Organ Co. For years
He was born forty-four years ago, and past he has been superintendent of the
after completing his education at the Dela- factories of the concern.
ware Literary Institute, Franklin, N. Y.,
A Louisville Incorporation.
commenced his business life with A. S.
Barnes & Co., a well-known and popular
Articles of incorporation have been filed
publishing company. For this concern in the office of the Secretary of State of
he traveled extensively in the East, becom- Kentucky, by the Frinzer & Hamil Co., of
ing well acquainted with the book trade. Louisville, who intend to deal in musical
Believing that the West afforded larger instruments and sheet music. The capital
opportunities than the East, he resigned, stock is $4,000. The incorporators are, J.
to assume the management of the Chicago L. Smith, W. R. Hamil and F. W. Frinzer.
branch for Porter & Coates, publishers of
school books. This position he held for
Incorporates Tiffany Co.
some eight years, when he joined his brother
The Tiffany Piano Co., of New York
and became secretary of the Chicago Cottage
City,
were granted a certificate of incorpo-
Organ Co., a position which he has held
ration
by the Secretary of State at Albany,
for ten years.
on
March
15th. The capital stock is $5,000,
To say that he is thoroughly familiar
and
the
incorporators
and directors are W.
with the workings of that great corporation
C.
Tiffany,
S.
C.
Wedgefuth
and J. S. Mac
would be only to emphasize that which all
Evoy,
of
New
York,
and
M.
C. Ready, of
his friends know. Mr. Cable possesses to
Brooklyn.
a marked degree business tact and pru-
dence, and a mass of business matters
The latest up-to-date thief in St. Louis,
melts away upon his desk like a wreath of has disguised himself as a clergyman and
mist before a morning sun. He is a stick- lias attempted to sell a crmrch bell.
With reference to the rights of foreign
exhibitors at the Paris Exposition to pro
tection on designs, Consul Halstead, of
Birmingham, under date of January 9,
1899, sends the following to the Washing-
ton authorities.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Daily Telegraph writes:
As a recent decision of the Paris court
of appeals in a case bearing upon foreign
industrial designs has produced a very
bad impression on your side of the chan-
nel, English manufacturers who intend to
take part in the exhibition of 1900 having
been warned that their own designs may
be copied with impunity by French manu-
facturers if they have not themselves a
manufactory in France, I am glad to be
able to give some completely reassuring
information on this subject. As a matter
of fact, a law for the protection of the for-
eign designs exhibited is invariably passed
before each world's show comes off; and I
am able to state on the highest authority
that at the present date the exhibition
officials and the ministers of commerce
are engaged in drawing up a bill to
this effect.
It is certain that the decision
of the appeal court will be provided against
in the new law. Moreover, a measure for
the extension of protection to industrial
designs in general has lately been adopted
by the Senate, and will be discussed by the
Chambers of Deputies when Parliament
assembles; therefore, there is not the
slightest doubt that designs will be fully
protected at the forthcoming exhibition.
Paris
Now a Pipe Organ Trust.
CONCERNS TO CONSOLIDATE WITH A TOTAL
CAPITAL OF $5O,OOO,OOO.
The professional promoter is now mak-
ing an effort to form the builders of pipe
organs into a combination. The initiative
has been made by Chicago capitalists who
recently visited this city.
Those who
are in favor of the plan are reported to be
the smaller firms, and the larger ones are
not willing to commit themselves. It is
reported that the proposed combination
would have a capital of nearly $50,000,000.
George S. Hutchings, one of the largest
builders in the country, says: " While we
admit that a combination which promises
to be beneficial to the organ building in-
dustry might be possible, the probability
of anything like a general agreement upon
which success would depend is a condition
which we hardly expect ever will be
formed."
Say Wages are in Arrears.
The employees of the Guild Piano Manu-
facturing Co. left work Wednesday giving
as the reason that their wages were in
arrears, says the Worcester, Mass., Tele-
gram. Not many hands were employed at
this time, but those who were left decided
that no pay meant no work. The suits
against the company have not yet been
settled, and the keeper is still in charge.
The residence of C. W. Marvin, the well-
known Detroit dealer, was burglarized last
Saturday, and a rich haul of jewelry and
diamonds made.