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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
The " Grunewald " Hotel.
Mr. Louis Grunewald, Sr., president of
the L. Gnmewald Co., Ltd., New Orleans,
and owner of the magnificent hotel bearing
his name, has just completed a five story
brick annex in the rear of the hotel, facing
University place and adjoining Erlanger's
two new theatres.
The annex is part of the hotel proper,
connected by interior corridors and exterior
galleries all along the court yard. It con-
tains one hundred rooms and a number of
large sample rooms, specially designed and
built for the commercial tourists. The ap-
pointments, furnishing, gas, electricity
and sanitary plumbing are all of the latest
and most improved pattern and the most
fastidious Knight of the Grip will have no
cause to kick or grumble.
Perhaps the most elegant and artistically
decorated dining-roon in the South is at-
tached to the hotel, also a cafe and restau-
rant, which enjoy great popularity by the
musical and dramatic profession, as well of
traveling and local merchants.
Mr. Grunewald takes a personal interest
in the management and looks after the
smallest detail with the same energy of
olden times, as many in the trade will
gladly recall.
Most all the musical drummers make
the "Grunewald" their headquarters;
they are always sure of a hearty welcome.
Members of the trade and musical pro-
fession intending to visit the Crescent City
can not do better than enjoy the hospital-
ities of the " Grunewald."
Demand for Walnut Timber.
An extraordinary demand for walnut
timber at present prevails in Eastern Penn-
sylvania. More than $75,000 has been
paid out by farmers in this section within the
past five years for walnut trees. This tim-
ber has been bought from them by agents
and shipped to Germany. In many sec-
tions of this country the walnut tree is
practically extinct, so great have been the
demands for this timber by agents of for-
eign firms.
Some of the trees cut down within the
past five or six weeks were more than 200
years old and were as stately and fine as
any that stud the earth. The logs are ex-
tremely heavy and hard to handle. They
are always hewn square before shipment.
In the vicinity of Ephrata it is estimated
that no less than 75,000 feet of walnut
lumber has been cut since the first of last
month. The logs are being prepared for
shipment to Liverpool and other Europe-
an points. An agent for a European house
bought a load of twenty-nine walnut logs
at Honeybrook a day or two ago and paid
$240 for the lot. These logs will be sent
direct to Hamburg.
Husic in Court.
IMANO CASE CAUSES LAWYER AND JUDGE TO
SWAP MUSICAL TERMS.
I. P. Campbell, attorney for defendant,
was before Judge Dale yesterday trying to
get a new trial of the case of the Kansas
City Piano Co. vs. J. D. McRea. It is a
plain case of replevin, but it has been in the
courts a great deal. While getting ready
to argue the motion for a new trial yester-
day Mr. Campbell facetiously remarked to
Judge Dale: "Yes, judge, we want to get
to work on this thing, for there's going to
be music in it."
" Well, be grinding it out, then," said the
judge. So Campbell began his argument
on the piano, and it is said the "rhythm "
of his effort was perfect, his "touch" and
" technique " superb, and his "glides " and
" r u n s " executed with the facility of a
master's art. Judge Dale gave him a new
trial.—Wichita, Kans., Eagle.
Geo. M. Woodford, traveling represen-
tative of the Weber-Wheelock Co., is at
present making an extended trip in the in-
terests of his house. He is journeying
southward, from there to the Pacific Coast,
taking the northern trip home.
Mehlin
Pianos
Factory, 461 to 467 West 40th St.,
New York.
'A Leader
among
Leaders."
Main Office and Warerooms :
27 Union Square.
ESTABLISHED 1862.
THE KROEGER PIANO CO.,
Manufacturers of the RENOWNED
Qildemeester & Kroeger
And the CELEBRATED
Kroeger Pianos.
orfic
i32d St. and Alexander Ave., NEW YORK.
His Check Was No Good.
[Special to The Review].
St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 6, 1899.
The issuance of a warrant against T.
Francis Stecher, of Newstead and Elmbach
avenues, charging him with obtaining
goods under false pretenses, reveals a
queer state of affairs in which a church is
mixed.
About four months ago, Stecher, who is
a member of the Holy Rosary Church at
Newstead and Margaretta avenues, pre-
sented that edifice with an organ valued at
$3,000. The instrument was made by
John G. Pfeffer & Sons, of 1005 Marion
street, and when the bill was presented to
Stecher he gave in payment a check for
$3,000 on the Third National Bank.
When Mr. E. A. Pfeffer, of the firm,
presented the check at the bank it is said
he was refused payment. Mr. Pfeffer
then called on Father Daniel J. Lavery,
pastor of the Holy Rosary Church, and ex-
plained the situation to him. The two men
visited the Four Courts and Detectives
Brady and Ziegler were placed on the
case. They called at the Third National
Bank and reported back to headquarters
that Stecher had no account with that
bank. Mr. Pfeffer then swore to the in-
formation for the warrant.
Stecher, who is forty years of age, was
recently married to the widow of Dr. Cre-
cius, who died about a year ago. It is
claimed that she is possessed of consider-
able money, but that Stecher has nothing.
Stecher was formerly in business on Olive
street near Third.
Chooses a Sterling.
BANDMASTER SORRENTINO HAS ONE PLACEI*
IN HIS CAR.
The Sterling Co., manufacturers of the
world renowned Sterling piano, will, to-
day, place in the private car of the Banda
Rossa, one of its finest pianos, to be used
by Eugene Sorrentino, the leader of the
band, during the remainder of its trip
through this country, says the Ansonia T
Conn., Sentinel. The Sterling is well-
known to the Italian bandmaster and has
been highly endorsed by him. That he
fully appreciates its merits is evident from
his favoring it above all other pianos of
American make for his own private use.
The Banda Rossa travels in a sumptuous
palace car and Mr. Sorrentino's music room
aboard the car is said to be a most charm-
ing one. The doors of the car are said to
be but twenty-two inches in width and, as
a piano at the keyboard is about twenty-
eight inches wide, the keyboard of the in-
strument will have to be taken off in order
to get it through the door.
Annual Report.
Among the annual corporation reports
filed with the Secretary of State last week
was the following:
The Brockport Piano Manufacturing
Company—Capital stock, $50,000; stock is-
sued, $46,000; debts, $21,420.55; assets,
$5°>975- I 9-