Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
To Locate in Kenosha.
THE
J.
D. EARHUFF PIANO COMPANY MAY
BUILD ITS FACTORY THERE.
Another industry is knocking at the
doors of Kenosha. This morning the rep-
resentatives of the J. D. Earhuff Piano
Company of North St. Paul were here look-
ing for a place to locate the factory. They
ask that capital to the sum of $40,000 be
raised in Kenosha to assist in constructing
the buildings for the company. The pro-
position has been taken under considera-
tion by the Business Men's Association.
Action will be taken at once. The Ear-
huff Company has a capital stock of $150,-
000 and employs about 175 men.—"Wis-
consin," Milwaukee, Wis.
Pianos at the Maine State Fair.
man, is looking after the business end of
the exhibit. Mr. Percy Moulton and Miss
Gertrude Stevenson are the pianists, and
Mr. Charlie Cobb has lent his rich tenor to
the entertainment of those who have gath-
ered in this part of the building.
In the north wing on the second floor is
the piano exhibit of Staple, Smith & Moody
of Augusta. They have the Ludwig,
Haines, and Stuart. Mr. E. L. Staple of
the firm is here and Mr. H. A. Day. Miss
Evie Morrell, the talented Oakland pianist,
is the one who presides over the instru-
ments and her playing has caused many
pleasant compliments.
W. L. Lothrop has one of the finest dis-
plays of pianos to be found in the hall.
The Knabe, which is his leader, has been
much admired while his general line of in-
struments are attractive. Visitors to his
booth have been numerous.
[Special to The Review.]
Lewiston, Me., Sept. 11, 1899.
The Maine State Fair, which opened here
last week, is admitted by every one to be
the most successful ever held in this city,
and the superior of similar gatherings held
in any other State in the Union. On some
days there have been over ten thousand
people on the grounds. There is a good
showing of music houses represented, and
they are not letting the pianos rest during
the fair. Vocalists have been engaged,
and turn which way you will the notes of
the warblers are to be heard, interspersed
with the tinkle of the piano.
F. E. Tainter, of Lewiston, has the whole
central section of the north wing, double
his usual space, and he has kept the air
filled with melody. Both Mr. Tainter and
his brother, Mr. F. V. Tainter, are present
to give the public pointers. They have the
Chickering, the McPhail and the Hunting-
ton pianos, and the Angelus.
The latter has made a great hit, for it is
its first appearance at the Maine State Fair.
It is an attachment, made by the Wilcox &
White Co., which fits on to any piano, and
plays automatically but sympathetically
the music which is fed into it in perforated
rolls. It is a wonder of mechanical perfec-
tion and the person who cannot play need
no longer go without piano music if he can
find the price of an Angelus.
Mr. Tainter has had the assistance of
Mrs. Susie Jewett and Miss Hattie Curtis
as pianists, Mr. Philip Le Cassiere on the
mandolin, and many well-known vocalists.
In the east wing of the second floor is
the display from the music rooms of Mr.
E. M. Heath, of Lewiston. Mr. Heath is
there in person and he has been shaking
hands constantly ever since the fair opened.
"I never knew before,"he said Tuesday
night, as he hunted for the witch-hazel
bottle, "what it was to have too many
friends. If this thing keeps on I shall be
borrowing a pair of motorman's gloves, or
writing a letter of sympathy and condo-
lence to the President after one of his pub-
lic receptions. I know how to pity Mac,
now."
Mr. Heath has four makes of pianos this
year, the Kranich & Bach, the Jacob
Brothers, the Bradford and the Opera.
Mr, George E. Bird, the firm's head sales-
Piano Traveler a Suicide.
H. H. OLNEY, OF KANSAS CITY, KAS., KILLS
HIMSELF AT NEVADA, MO.
(Special to The Review.)
Kansas City, Sept. 9, 1899.
Information received from Nevada, Mo.,
says that H. H. Olney, traveling salesman
for the Schaff Bros. Co., of Chicago, has
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head in a room in the Richard-
son hotel.
Olney was very well known among piano
men of Kansas City. His family lives at
909 Minnesota avenue. He worked for
years for the W. W. Kimball Co., of this
city. He lost his position there and for a
year he was salesman for F. G. Smith, at
1000 Walnut street. He had not worked
in Kansas City for nearly two years before
his latest employment.
Olney was about forty-five years old and
leaves a family of grown up sons and
daughters.
Olney had been on the road for the Chi-
cago firm for about a year and his Kansas
City friends had about lost track of him.
His friends are at a loss to know why he
killed himself.
How We Gain Subscribers.
Read the announcement on page 13. It
will show you how we propose to gain five
hundred new subscribers to whom we shall
give the largest value ever offered by any
publication.
Ann Arbor Co.'s Prosperity.
Few concerns in the trade are expe-
riencing such a rise in the barometer of
prosperity as the Ann Arbor Organ Co., of
Ain Arbor, Mich. Uncbr the able man-
agement of Mr. J. C. Henderson, the out-
put of this institution has grown steadily
until to-day they are shipping over three
hundred organs a month, just six times the
output of six years ago. These figures in
themselves tell the story of intelligent and
unceasing effort in manufacturing and
business departments.
Dealers have come to realize that the
members of the Ann Arbor Co. are wide-
awake hustlers who are giving the best
possible values at a fair price—a price
which allows the dealer and themselves a
fair margin of profit. They note with
pleasure the constant improvement which
has been made in the different styles in
the matter of case-work and other essentials
which tend to make them more popular
with purchasers.
It is this attention to details and study
of the dealers' interests which has enabled
the Ann Arbor Organ Co. to report a
degree of prosperity which a few years ago
was thought unattainable. Mr. Henderson
must inleed be gratified at the success
which has attended his indefatigable labors.
He has traversed every section of the
country and enlisted under the Ann Arbor
banner some of the largest and most enter-
prising dealers of the country. It is such
campaigns, well planned out, that are des-
tined to add still further to the immense
output of the Ann Arbor Or"gan Co.
Steinertones for Europe.
Two grand pianos are being fitted with
Steinertones for the famous Erard house
of London and Paris. They will soon be
forwarded, and judging from the critical
praises that have been bestowed by emi-
nent musicians in Boston, will win an un-
animous verdict of approval from our mu-
sical friends across the big pond.
Alexander Steinert, returned last week
from a short vacation to Beverly Farms,
and is in splendid trim for an active fall
campaign. This, by the way, was his first
vacation in eight years.
A Musical Curiosity.
Frank Dennis, director of the Augusta,
(Me.) Cadet Band has just come into pos-
Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 9, 1899.
session of a rare old ophicleide which is of
The display which is being made by
great historical value. The instrument is
Wm. Rohlfing & Sons at the Industrial
something like the saxaphone, standing
Exposition in this city has been commented
forty inches, with keys like a clarinet.
on very favorably by the local papers.
This ophicleide was made by Gautrot,
Their stand is superbly decorated, and the
but the date of manufacture is unknown.
exhibition of pianos includes some mag-
It is in a fair state of preservation and
nificent Steinways and Hazeltons. One of
when repaired and polished will look al-
the Steinway special grands, beautifully
most as good as new. It belonged to the
hand-painted and decorated, rests in the
family which was made famous by the
center of the booth, set off with a halo of
playing of Ned Kendall, who was probably
incandescent lights. The display is one of
the greatest musician who used the bugle
the most artistic ever made in the piano
and its family. He was famous over fifty
line. It reflects the greatest credit on the
years ago, so the instrument is antiquated.
Rohlfing house, and the gentlemen espe-
cially concerned in the erection and deco-
Geo. H. Washburn is now in charge of
ration of this stand.
the Boston store of Jacob Doll,
Rohlfing's Fine Display.