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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Judgments Entered.
Sued by Jacob Doll.
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Utica, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1899.
Three judgments were entered in the
county clerk's office yesterday against
Frank W. Smith, a piano dealer of Boon-
ville, in favor of Emma N. Smith, for
$2,449.21, $2,092.39 and $987.45.
Mr. Smith formerly conducted a store in
Utica, but removed to Boonville about
nine years ago and since then has been
one of its leading citizens. The news of
his financial difficulties comes as a sur-
prise to all.
Woonsocket, R. I., Sept. 5, 1899.
Sutcliffe N. Widdup, of Providence, R.
I., was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Wilcox
late Thursday afternoon. The writ served
on hinl was an action of trover and conver-
sion for $500 brought against him by Jacob
Doll, of New York. The firm of Aldrich
& Widdup had the agency for the pianos
of Jacob Doll, and after the latter took the
agency away from them he claims that
Widdup refused to give up certain proper-
ty. Widdup failed to obtain bail, and was
taken to Cranston. W. A. Aldrich, who
was in partnership with Mr. Widdup, for-
merly lived in Woonsocket.
And Other Things by One Who
Knows.
(The Letter that went astray).
Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 19, 1899.
Protest Unavailing.
Yesterday I received the stencil pamphlet
Among the property owners and firms
issued by the National Piano Manufactur-
along Fifth avenue, between Twenty-third
ers' Association, and I am sure that there
and Fourteenth streets, who protested
Fire at Madison, O.
was an omission in it which wouldn't have
against the change in the route of the
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occurred had it been printed at my
Dewey Day parade as decided upon by the
Madison, O., Sep. 4, 1899.
establishment. My name or the name of
committee on Wednesday, were Sohmer &
The Wyman block, which is occupied by my paper did not appear in the entire
Co., Wm. Knabe & Co., the Everett Piano the Bates Music Co., was destroyed by work. Now, I know that this must have
Co., Hamilton S. Gordon, the Wilcox & fire on Saturday. The loss to the building occurred through unintentional error, still
White Co., Bradbury Piano Co., Jacob is $6,000 and contents $5,000. The proper- the whole thing made me so warm that I
Doll, Chickering & Sons and the Weber- ty was insured.
had to go and perch on a spur of the Jung-
Wheelock Co.
frau to cool off. I was so warm—hot, I
Chicago's Labor Trouble.
According to present plans the parade
should say—over the whole affair that I
will pass down Fifth avenue to Twenty-
There is practically no change in the melted a large hole in the ice and would
third street, down Broadway, passing along labor situation at the Bush & Gerts Co. 's probably have drowned had not an obliging
the west side of Union Square to Four- factory in Chicago.
attendant rescued me in time to describe
teenth street, down University Place to
The application made by the company my feelings over this sad affair.
Waverly Place thence to Washington for an order of restraint to prevent the
I have enjoyed in my life many triumphs
Square where it will disband.
strikers from interfering with the present since Morris Steinert first brought me up
It is evident that the piano men have not employees was dismissed on a technicality at a round turn some years ago, and I may
as strong a "pull " with the committee as which on its face is so slight as to seem claim without supererogation—by the way,
the hotels on Broadway where windows ridiculous.
I love that word supererogation, and I am
are being sold at enormous figures.
From one of the Chicago papers we clip going to claim that I originated it the same
as the stencil. I say that I do not super-
the following report of the proceedings:
Chicago Incorporation.
"Judge Dunne yesterday dismissed a erogate when I state that I originated the
Chicago Auto-Music Box Company of charge of contempt preferred against the slickest thing on earth. How well I have
Chicago was granted a certificate of incor- members of the Piano and Organ Workers' worked this stencil racket some piano-
poration by the Secretary of State of Il- union No. 1, under an injunction secured makers will tell you. That is, they could
linois on Sept. 5. Capital stock, $2,500; by the Bush & Gerts Piano Company. The tell you if they would.
incorporators, John K. Stevens, Lester W. order of restraint was to prevent the union
Now, in 1884 or thereabouts, I saw what a
Stevens and J. Edwards Fay.
from interfering with the employees of the splendid scheme the manufacture of a stencil
company's plant, where a strike has been piano afforded for the real active, energetic
Cheering Reports.
in progress for several weeks. Judge individual who knew just exactly how to
The cheering condition of trade in Dunne held that the injunction was of no handle the matter, and I think I may
every section of the country is well re- effect, no order for its issuance having claim without supererogation that I have
flected in the reports which are being sent been entered on record when the writ was worked the field financially as well as most
out by the mercantile agencies. Dun's prepared, hence there could be no contempt. men of moderate ability.
and Bradstreet's are most optimistic in The injunction was invalidated because
My early acquaintance was formed with
their review of the situation. The last re- certain formal expressions were omitted, the stencil piano in Baltimore, and ever
port of Dun's opens as follows:
the document bearing the unsupported sig- since then I have possessed a fondness for
" The astonishing feature is the magni- nature of Judge Hanecy."
it. My interest has been focussed upon
tude of demand, notwithstanding prices
This looks like temporizing with a species this particular stencil, and in the mean-
which would ordinarily check it. In prod- of terrorism which has but little place in a while focussed quite a few dollars for many
ucts directly consumed by individuals, country founded on equal rights for all.
years. I am sure that my desire for clean
the larger employment and better wages
A labor organization as an organization journalism is thoroughly understood by
of the working force give explanation. has a right to exist and thrive, but it has the entire trade, and no one will have the
Efforts to meet the demand call for more no right to compel others to join or sub- effrontery to deny my right to figure in
stores, manufacturing work and machinery scribe to its rules, or prevent anyone from stencil history, for I created the w o r d -
and facilities for transportation, as if every working whenever or wherever he chose. that is, I and Webster. I prefer to use my
man's wages were in part diverted to build
When any organization interferes with name first, because it looks better, and I
up the nation's machinery of manufac- liberty of action and practically constitutes am used to it. My intimate acquaintance
turing and distribution."
itself judge and jury it should find little with the stencil manufacturers no one will
favor at the hands of the American people have the boldness to deny, and I can de-
whose traditions are founded on justice
Tracy Recuperating.
monstrate its value to those who desire
and right.
further information upon this important
Daniel F. Treacy left yesterday for a
New subscribers to The Review are matter by exhibiting a chronological table
visit to the Maritime Provinces. It is Col.
in at a rate that convinces us that which will settle without question the
Treacy's usual custom to recuperate a short pouring
our Dewey offer was a decided hit. Orders
time each season in the invigorating climate must be speedily sent in else we shall be whole thing.
of the North Atlantic sea-board.
unable to fill them.
I say this in my aggressive and thorough-