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VOL.
XXVIII. No. 3.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York, Jan. 21,1899.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES IO CENTS.
In The Pacific Northwest.
Regarding Music by Mail.
Sole Brings Suit for Libel.
PIANOS TO BE HANDLED BY THE EILERS MUSIC
HOUSE, A NEW ESTABLISHMENT.
W. B. Howell, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, has issued the following cir-
cular to collectors and other officers of the
customs: "You are hereby instructed to
keep an accurate record showing name and
address of addressee, titles of publications,
name and address of sender, from whom
received, date of reception and final dispo-
sition of all musical publications received
by mail and held by you for violation of
the copyright laws, under the joint regula-
tions of the Treasury and Post Office De-
partments (Synopsis 19,514), and to report
same to the department on the first day of
each month, beginning on Feb. 1, prox-
imo. "
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Portland, Ore., Jan. 14, 1899.
Preparations have been under way for
some time for the establishment of another
first-class music store at Portland, to be
known as the Eilers Music House, which
will be the Northwestern wholesale and
retail headquarters for the pianos manufac-
tured be three of the foremost Ame-
rican piano manufacturers, the Chickering
of Boston, the Weber of New York, and
the Kimball of Chicago.
Henry Eilers, of the new firm, who is a
former Oregonian, and well known here,
has been prominently connected with
various Eastern piano manufactories for
many years, and during the past seven
years has been one of the general wholesale
traveling agents for the now famous Kim-
ball factories of Chicago, the largest in the
world.
Mr. Eilers is well-known in the trade
from Massachusetts to California, and has
visited every city of prominence in the
United States. He is a close observer and
a careful student of trade conditions, and
firmly believes in the commercial future
and importance of the Pacific Northwest,
and of Portland as its metropolis.
A store has been rented at 107 First
street, which will be supplemented with
warehouse facilities near the freight de-
pots. A force of carpenters and decora-
tors is now at work getting the store in
proper shape.
In addition to representing the Chicker-
ing, Kimball and Weber pianos, this
house will also carry a line of medium-
priced New York and Chicago makes, to-
gether with the well-known and justly
celebrated Kimball reed and pipe organs.
Mr. Eilers spent two days in the city
last week, and left Tuesday night for the
East by way of the Sound. He expects to
return to Portland about the 20th of the
month, at about which time the store will
be opened.
The widely-known Parisian house of
Pleyel, Wolff & Co., has been succeeded
by Pleyel, Wolff, Lyon & Co., through the
addition to the firm of Gustave Lyon, long
connected with the concern as general
manager. The instruments which they
manufacture will be known, as heretofore,
as the " Pleyel."
Columbus, O., Jan. 16, 1899.
John H. Sole has brought suit against
Messrs. D. Simons and Sheatsley, editor
and secretary of the Lutheran Standard,
for $10,000 damages on account, as alleged,
of willfully and maliciously publishing
certain matter.
Mr. Sole is a manufacturer of organs at
Fremont, O., and he claims that some time
after advertising in the publication the
paper published an article stating that it
would not be responsible for any work done
by the plaintiff.
On March 3, 1898, Mr. Sole entered into
a contract with a New Orleans, La., con-
gregation to erect and build a church
organ. The plaintiff says some contro-
The Kimball in Toledo.
versy arose between the church committee
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and
himself, and the committee afterwards
Toledo, O., Jan. 14, 1899.
employed
the publication above referred
The Whitney & Currier Company have
to,
to
publish
the matter. He claims that
absorbed the business of the Kimball
on
account
of
this
article he was damaged
Piano Company in this city. A deal has
in
erecting
an
organ
at Detroit, Mich., the
been effected whereby the business of the
church
people
having
read the New Orleans
Kimball concern in Toledo passes into
article.
It
caused
them
to become dissat-
their hands. This is the district agency of
isfied
and
frightened,
fearing
that the con-
the Kimball Company for the three states.
tract
would
not
be
carried
out
according to
The lease on the present building expires
agreement.
February first.
Sterling Improvements.
The Sterling Piano Co., who have their
wholesale and retail warerooms at 536
Fulton Street, Brooklyn Borough, are
making extensive improvements in their
establishment in order to meet the increas-
ing demands of their patrons. There is in
course of erection, for example, a fine art
room, which, when completed, promises to
be one of the most tempting musical resorts
in this city. The details of this art room
have not been given out, but we can be
safely assured that nothing will be left un-
done to the end that it is perfect and as
complete as it is possible to make it.
While the art room is the most important
detail projected by the Sterling Co. there
are other improvements in prospect which
will be announced later on.
An Omaha Incorporation.
The Secretary of State of Nebraska has
issued a certificate of incorporation to the
Collins Piano Co., whose principal business
is located at Omaha. The authorized ca-
pital is $10,000. The incorporators are C.
C. Peck, W. E. Kincaid and C. J. Collins.
The Chickering Musicale.
The celebrated Dannreuther Quartet will
be the feature of the evening musicale to
be given by Chickering & Sons at Chicker-
ing Hall on the evening of January 26th.
They will play Borodine's Quartette No. 2
in D major, Bazzinni's Theme with Varia-
tions from Quartette in E flat major and
Beethoven's Trio, opus 70, No. 2, in E flat
major. The quartet will be assisted by
Hermann Hans Wetzler at the piano.
A Handsome Catalogue.
One of the handsomest catalogues that
has reached us for some time is from the
Morris, Feild & Rogers Co., of Listowell,
Ont. This concern has been doing the
most effective work in an advertising way
of any of the Canadian concerns that we
can now recall. Mr. R. V. Andrew, who
has the advertising department in charge,
is evidently a man of exceeding taste and
originality.
John Hitchcock, a well-known violin
maker and repairer of Springfield, Mass.,
died at his home in that city on January
nth. He was seventy-four years old.