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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Keenan Incorporates.
' The J. T. Keenan Company, incorpo-
rated in 1897, has gone out of existence
and is reincorporating in New Jersey un-
der the name of the Keenan Investment
and Improvement Company, with a capital
of $50,000. They are to do a loan business,
manufacture and sell pianos and engage in
the purchase and improvement of real es-
tate. The capital of the retired company,
$10,000, was inadequate for the business
they were required to do. Mr. J. T.
Keenan is a well-known music dealer of
Elmira, N. Y., and was many years ago
associated with Wegman & Henning, piano
manufacturers, Auburn, N. Y.
FACTS FROM MR. FOSTER
CONCERNING THE
CHICKERING-WANAHAKER DEAL
Boston, Mass., Jan. 17, 1899.
Mr. Edward Lyman Bill,
Editor of The Music Trade Review,
3 East 14th St., New York, N. Y.
Dear Sir:—In order that your readers may have the
facts regarding our connection with the Department Store
J. J. Herbert & Co. Closed Up,
question, as represented in the Wanamaker-Chickering
[Special to The Review.]
Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 16, 1899.
deal, please publish this letter in your next issue. These
The music store of J. J. Herbert & Co.
on East Eighth street has been closed on points occur to us as likely to bear upon the subject.
an attachment from chancery court. The
1 st. That we intend to spare neither time, pains nor
attachment was issued by the clerk and
master on a judgment obtained against Mr. expense to make the Chickering Piano the best in the
Herbert by D. H. Baldwin & Co. There
are several cases in court against Mr. Her- world and to keep its reputation the highest. Our success
bert which have been hanging fire for
some time. However, the whole contro- will be limited only by our ability.
versy arises over the settlement of an old
2nd. That we believe in and are practicing the one-
account, both parties having claims in the
matter. Deputy Sheriff T. P. McMahon price system in all places that we control.
has Mr. Herbert's stock of pianos adver-
3d. That Mr. Wanamaker has given us his personal
tised for sale on January 23.
assurance that he will maintain our Boston and New York
Henschel's Attachment.
basis of price and one-price system.
Georg Henschel, the celebrated com-
poser and singer of England, has jaist in-
4th. That Mr. Wanamaker's establishment is not a
vented an attachment to the piano the
object of which is to enable singers to ac- Department Store in respect to the common notion that
company themselves in standing position such stores are the home of job lot purchases and sales.
while practicing. It may also be used with
equal advantage in recital work, and would His policy, as we understand it, is to make each branch of
be of special value to lecturers. This in-
genious contrivance consists of a row of his establishment a perfect store in itself, all of the highest
keys arranged above the key-board of the standard of the different kinds and grades of goods rep-
piano; each, when depressed by means of
an independent action, lowers the corres- resented.
ponding key beneath. The key-board is
5th. That Mr. Wanamaker has definite territory for
thus raised to a height that permits the
singer to perform his accompaniment with the sale of the Chickering Piano the same as any other
ease in a perfectly upright position. As
each key must have a corresponding action representative, and acts for us under the same conditions
in order to raise it to its normal position,
the weight of touch is slightly increased. and terms as any other representative, mutually speaking
at will.
Virgil Practice Clavier Co. At=
6th. That Mr Wanamaker is one of the largest and
tached.
Deputy Sheriff Sullivan has received an best advertisers in this country in papers that go all over
execution for $5,534 against the Virgil
t h e worlcL
Practice Clavier Company, manufacturers
of a soundless piano for practice, at No.
26 West Fifteenth street, in favor of George
E. Mariner, on two notes of the company
dated February 3, 1898, payable twelve
months after date, with interest quarterly,
the interest due October 31 having been
R. C. Koch a Winner.
demanded and not paid. The company
was incorporated in 1889, with a capital
Rudolph C. Koch, successor to Chas.
stock of $30,000, which was increased in Reinwarth, will undoubtedly make a great
1893 to $100,000. Frederick Mariner was success with the business. For over seven-
the treasurer.
teen years Mr. Koch has been connected
Yours truly,
CHICKERING & SONS.
C. H. W. FOSTER, Treas.
with the manufacture of Reinwarth wire,
and for the last ten has been manager of
the business. He has many warm friends
i n the trade.
Geo. P. Bent is about to undertake a
trip as far West as the Pacific Coast.