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V O L . XXIX. No. 12. Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, September 16,1899.
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Its Fame is World Wide.
Appraisers' Ruling.
Piano Business Rushing.
PACKARD PIANO AS POPULAR ON THE PACIFIC
COAST AS IN INDIANA, AND IT MEETS
ITS RIVALS ON THE KEENEST MAR-
KET IN THE WORLD.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO. UPHELD IN
THEIR CONTENTION REGARDING AN IM-
PORTATION OF PIANO HAMMERS.
NAUGATUCK VALLEY FIRMS UNABLE TO KEEP
ABREAST OF THEIR ORDERS.
Mr. Ansel J. Brooks, of the Sterling
The Board of Classification of the Board
Company and of the Huntington Piano
"Albert S. Bond, through his representa- of General Appraisers handed down the
Company, Derby, spent two hours in the
tive, Will B. Lane, received telegraphic following decision Monday:
city to-day, says the New Haven, Conn.,
orders yesterday to ship a carload of
The protest of Hammacher, Schlemmer
Register.
Packard pianos to Los Angeles, and an- & Co. is sustained. The goods are piano-
"I can't stop long," said he; "business
other carload to San Francisco.
forte hammers, composed of wool, felt and
is
rushing.
I must hustle home and keep
"This simply shows the popularity of the wood; felt chief value. They were as-
at
work.
I
never
knew business so good
Packard piano, and it is a pleasure to say sessed for duty at 44 cents per pound and
before.
Orders
are
coming in so fast we
55 per cent., under paragraph 366, act of
that its fame began at home.
can't
fill
them.
We
are turning out and
The importers claimed the articles
"The Packard is the finest piano made in 1897.
shipping
128
pianos
a
week.
We have had
the world to-day, and it proves its worth to be dutiable at 45 per cent., under para-
to
call
in
all
our
agents
from
the
road be-
in competition, it proves its superiority at graph 453, of the same act, as parts of mu-
cause
of
our
inability
to
fill
orders.
We
home and abroad, that is what no other in- sical instruments. The Board held that
shall
send
out
almost
no
drummers
this
the provisions for cases for musical instru-
strument in the world can boast of."
fall because of the rush of business. We
We clip the foregoing from a Ft. Wayne ments would cover piano cases, piano are behind in our orders and struggling to
paper. It only tells the story of another of strings and parts of pianos other than ac- keep up with them."
the many conquests which the Packard tions only. The Board therefore ruled
products are making in all parts of America that these hammers are parts of musical
Good Enough for Dewey.
instruments.
as in Europe.
What is good enough for Dewey should
The Packard fame is based on artistic
Attempt to Destroy by Fire.
satisfy ordinary mortals. The great Ad-
values, and the individuals behind the
Packard institution possess capital, brains
A special from De Soto, Mo., to the St. miral wears a souvenir made from historic
and intelligence, whereby its reputation is Louis Post-Despatch says: "An attempt metal. An opportunity to secure a fac-
augmented month after month.
was made this morning to burn the build- simile of the watch which Dewey wears is
There is no halting by the wayside of ing occcupied by the Baldwin Piano Co., now afforded. Full particulars on page 13.
progress with the Packard. It is ever in on Easton street, directly across from
The Grau Piano Co.
the front of the industrial fight, pointing the post office and opera house and in the
the way to new victories wherever music is busiest part of the city. It is a two-story
The business of Otto Grau & Co., Cin-
loved and musical instruments built along brick; the upper floor is used as a dwelling cinnati, O., has been succeeded by the
flat and the lower floor is occupied by the Grau Piano Co., a new concern incorpor-
artistic lines appreciated.
The latest move of the Packard Co., Baldwin Piano Co., for a sale and store ated this week with a capital stock of $25,-
reference to which is made in their adver- room. Smoke was discovered coming from 000 and in which Messrs. Grau, Steincke,
tisement elsewhere in this paper, is a most the lower floor by some furniture men who Sander and Henry Hoffman are inter-
commendable one, and will tend to empha- were moving a family in the upper floor.
ested.
size the value of the Packard name.
"A. R. Baldwin, manager of the piano
As announced in The Review some time
It seems like a stereotyped story to add store here, went to St. Louis on an early since, the Grau Co. are now the Steinway
that the Packard Co. are as busy as they train and no one was left in charge of the representatives in Cincinnati and also han-
can be in every department of their vast place. The police have taken charge of dle the Kranich & Bach, Lindeman, Kurtz-
factories. Large shipments of organs and the house."
man and Ludwig pianos. They have just
pianos are being made abroad, while the
enlarged their salesrooms and intend to
Large Consignment
domestic trade gives every promise of be-
branch out in a much larger scale than
ing a tremendous one from now to the first OF THE CELEBRATED COLBY PIANOS SENT TO heretofore so as to give the pianos which
OHIO WESLEYAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC.
of the year.
they represent the showing which they
Under the above caption the following merit in this important territory.
To Double Capital Stock.
appears in one of this week's Erie, Pa.,
[Special to The Review.1
papers:
Longstreet Commits Suicide.
Great Barrington, Mass., Sept. n , 1899.
'' A shipment of six splendid Colby
[Special to The Review.]
At a meeting of the stockholders of the pianos to the Ohio Wesleyan School of
Elmira, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1899.
Stanley Instrument Co., held Wednesday Music was made yesterday.
Manager
William H. Longstreet, one of the oldest
afternoon, it was voted to double the capi- George F. Diehl was greatly pleased with
tal stock and begin the erection of a brick the order, as it is the second received from business men of Elmira, committed suicide
same conservatory and demonstrates
building 25x100 feet and two stories high. the
the superiority of the instrument. Orders Saturday in a room over his music store on
The capital stock by Wednesday's action are coming in so rapidly at the factory that Baldwin street. He stabbed himself in the
has been increased from $75,000 to the force employed will have to be materi- neck with a pocket knife. Ill health had
ally increased,"
unbalanced his mind.
$150,000.