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HHE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
. . . SOME DEALERS WHOM WE KNOW . . .
GLANCES AT SOME OF THE MEN WHO HAVE MADE MUSIC TRADE HISTORY IN THE FAR WEST.
Beers Bros. Assign.
[Special to The Review.1
Rome, N. Y., June 13, 1899.
Papers
were
filed in the office of the
four floors for the storage, display and sale of
D. O. CALDER'S SONS, Salt Lake City,
county
clerk
yesterday
certifying the
musical
instruments.
The
office
is
located
Utah.
general assignment of the firm of Beers
on
the
first
floor
together
with
the
piano
- One of the historic music establishments
Bros, of Waterville, dealers in musical in-
of the far West is that of D. O. Calder's stock. Also on either side are glass
struments and proprietors of a general store.
cases
containing
a
well
assorted
line
of
Sons, Salt Lake City, Utah. The business
The assignee is John W. Edwards of
was established in i860 by D. O. Calder, musical instruments. Sheet music is also
Waterville. The following preferences
carried
in
endless
variety.
father of the present proprietors. The
are named: T. Frank Moore, $446.28; Ed-
David
G.
Calder
is
the
manager
of
the
senior Calder was a man of superb busi-
ward Riley, $10; T. A. Meyers, $23.71;
ness qualifications and possessed musical business assisted by his brother, S. H.
Calder. The Calder business extends David Jones, $3.64; Reuben Tower, holder
throughout Utah, Wyoming and New of a note, $1,333.34. The firm is com-
Mexico and even touching points as far posed of Garry P. Beers and Norman S.
Beers.
away as Montana and Nevada.
The people who have patronized the
Undiminished Activity.
Calder institution have found whatever
The business situation for the past week
was told them regarding certain wares
proved absolutely correct, as the members is thus summed up by Bradstreet's: "Ex-
of that concern abhor deception in any ceptional firmness in prices at the highest
level as regards general staple values yet
form.
David G. Calder is a splendid type of the received, a seasonably small rate of busi-
far Western merchant; ambitious, reliable ness mortality, undiminished industrial
and hustling, he takes exceeding pleasure in activity, perhaps most manifest in all
presiding over and extending the operations branches of trade in which iron, steel and
of the business established by his father. 01 her metals enter, and large bank clearings
He has recently been paying a visit East reflecting to some extent the improved tone
purchasing stock for fall trade. He is of stocks, but likewise large payments on
now on his return, and probably will previous profitable business are among the
features not necessarily new but still note-
reach Chicago Monday.
For many years this concern has had the worthy, reflected in trade advices."
agency of the Steinway, Steck, and Mason
DAVID G. CALDER.
& Hamlin pianos. I may add that Mr. Adjudged Voluntary Bankrupts.
[Special to the Review.]
ability of a high order. For a long time Calder is also one of the oldest Kimball
Rochester, N. Y., June 14, 1899.
he was organist of the Mormon Tabernacle agents in the country, being, I believe, the
I. N. Easterbrook and D. S. Cook, of
and directed all the musical affairs of the third wholesale agent established by the
Church. It was Mr. Calder who brought great Chicago concern. They have handled Corning, who under the firm name of Eas-
terbrook & Cook several years ago con-
Patti to Utah where she sang in the Taber-
ducted a large music store in Corning, and
nacle, and when she drove down to this
failed in 1891, have been adjudged volun-
unique structure with Mr. Calder to test
tary bankrupts, upon their petition. The
the acoustics of the place before the con-
liabilities of Easterbrook & Cook exceeded
cert, she was as delighted as a child at the
$35,000 with no assets. They have over
surprising acoustic qualities of the huge
one hundred creditors, who will meet and
structure, designed and built by Brigham
choose a trustee at the law office of their
Young.
attorneys in Corning on the 23d inst.
The Tabernacle is the wonder of all
The case of Easterbrook & Cook makes
tourists, and I recollect last Spring when
the one thousand, one hundred and fifty-
I was at Salt Lake, Mr. D. G. Calder and I
third case in the district, which shows the
visited the Tabernacle where we stood some
extent of bankruptcy business and how
two hundred feet away from the platform
debtors are taking advantage of the law.
while one of the attendants dropped a pin
upon the railing. We could hear the sound
Red-Letter Behning Year.
with perfect distinctness over two hundred
feet from the point where the small object
The season 1898-99 has been a red-letter
was dropped.
period in the history of the Behning Co.
Salt Lake City was a very different place
The demand has far exceeded the firm's
in the early sixties from the Western Met-
most sanguine expectations, and there
ropolis which we find to-day. All of the
seems to be little prospect of any falling
instruments from '60 to '68 were conveyed
S. H. CALDER.
off even during the heated term.
on wagons from the Missouri River over the Mason & Hamlin organs for many
The full Behning force is kept hard at
the vast expanse of territory which was years; in fact, I believe the Mason & work, and there is still considerable bus-
necessary to travel before reaching Salt Hamlin organ was the first instrument to iness on the books in the shape of orders
Lake.
now in course of completion. With the
be transported across the Plains.
As an incident showing the great ex-
Behning reputation, and an attractive
pense connected with the music business in Will Pay Dividends of Nearly array of new styles as a basis, Augustus
Salt Lake in those early days I may state
Thirty-Six Per Cent.
Behning and Charles Spanier have done
that it cost $270 for the transportation of the
much
towards securing the phenomenal
Daniel F, Treacy will pay the creditors
piano and something less than $100 for an of the Braumuller Co. a dividend of nearly success now placed on record for the season.
organ. As the business grew and prospered thirty-six per cent., instead of thirty as
Mr. Calder made several enlargements to his was stated last week. Receiver Treacy
A certificate for the voluntary dissolu-
establishment until in 1883 he erected Cal- certainly deserves great credit for the busi- tion of the National Gramaphone Co. was
der's Music Palace, No. 45-47 First South ness-like administration of the Braumuller filed on Wednesday, in the County Clerk's
street. Thisis abuildirfg 30x100 feet having affairs.
office, White Plains, N. Y.