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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Stockholders Want a Change.
[Special to The Review.]
Shipment to New Zealand.
Mason & Hamlin have recently made a
Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1899.
big shipment to New Zealand. Among
John H. Madden, a stockholder in the callers at the Mason & Hamlin warerooms
Keyboard Harp Company, made applica- within the past few days were C. H.
tion to Justice Hooker in the special Sweezy, Middletown, N. Y., and Peter
term of the supreme court this morning Olsen, Perth Amboy, N. J.
for the appointment of a receiver of the
corporation, for the removal of the direc-
Fischer Travelers.
tors and for an order making permanent
Adolph H. Fischer, of J. & C. Fischer,
the injunction recently secured restraining
leaves
to-day for Hot Springs, Va. Ber-
the stockholders from disposing of their
nardo
F. Fischer expects to start on the
stock, pending the determination of an
same
date
for a trip to Havana, returning
action brought by Madden against the di-
after
the
holidays.
rectors.
This company was organized last July
With James & Holmstrom.
with a capital stock of $60,000, for the
Seymour H. Rosenberg, recently of the
purpose of manufacturing a device by
Emerson
forces, has allied his interests
which a harp can be played with a key-
with
those
of James & Holmstrom, making
board, which device was invented by Ed-
his
headquarters
in the office of that firm.
win R. Norcross.
Madden's complaint asks for the remov-
Joins /Eolian Staff.
al of James S. Nelson, James L. Bradley
J. R. Hartpence, formerly connected with
and Albert D. Garretson, the directors,
and to compel them to make an account- the Emerson retail department, is now
ing of their acts; and also to have de- attached to the ^Eolian staff at the ^Eolian
clared void a large number of shares of warerooms in this city.
stock alleged to have been illegally issued
Awarded a Diploma.
and taken up by the defendant stockhold-
The Imperial Symphonion has been
ers and other stockholders for the pur-
pose of giving them a controlling interest awarded a diploma at the exposition of the
in the company. Madden also alleges Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco.
that the company has given up the harp
Mr. Palle's Affliction.
business and is engaged illegally in the
manufacture of bicycle parts.
Mrs. Palle, wife of August Palle, the
United States and Canadian agent for the
Deaths in the Trade.
Schwander action, died on Wednesday
Among the recent deaths in the retail morning after a lingering illness. The
trade were C. F. Junger, president of the funeral took place yesterday from the
Junger & Gass Co., Mobile, Ala., who Palle residence, 139th street and Willis
passed away Dec. 2 in his sixty-fifth year; avenue. The Review joins with a host of
Frances Lamplugh, Grand Rapids, agent friends in extending condolences.
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for S. B. Smith & Co. of Detroit, Mich. ;
Orders by Telephone.
C. G. Van Plahen, piano dealer, Petosky,
Mich., in his seventy-first year, and Chas.
The Ricca Piano Co. received a tele-
A. Shailer, at one time in the piano busi- phone order from Boston on Wednesday
ness in Boston, who died lasi week in Deep for forty-eight pianos. The basement and
River, Conn., in his eighty-second year. main floor of the Ricca factory, recently
injured by fire, have been repaired, and
The Bradbury Display.
work has been resumed in all departments.
The display of Bradbury pianos at the
Presented a Chickering.
new Bradbury warerooms, 142 Fifth av-
A dispatch from Olivet, Mich., says:
enue, is now one of the principal attrac-
F. A. Steuart, of Marshall, has presented
tions on that busy thoroughfare.
The Bradbury "Cottage Upright" to the college a new piano, which was
Model, Style 5, the Bradbury "Boudoir placed in the chapel to-day. The piano
Upright" Model, Style 6, the Bradbury is a fine upright, which was built express-
New "Grand Upright" Models, Styles 8, ly for the Whitney Opera House, of De-
and 12, and the Bradbury "Salon Upright troit, by Chickering & Sons at their Boston
Grand," also known as " The Columbian," factory. Ten months were required for its
construction and its cost was $1,000. By
are each shown in several woods.
The Bradbury "Baby Grand" Model, special arrangements with the manufactur-
Style 20, occupies a conspicuous position ers and the manager of the Opera House,
in the new warerooms, and shows to great the piano was secured for the college and
advantage. This has been a year of great another will be built for use at Detroit. It
activity in all of the Freeborn G. Smith is, without doubt, one of the finest pianos
in this part of the country, and will make
piano strongholds.
a welcome addition to the musical depart-
Theo. Wenzlik, the well-known com- ment.
poser and jobber of sheet music, 75 West
Twenty-ninth street, this city, suffered a
There is no change in business condi-
peculiarly sad affliction this week in the tions at the Behr Bros, factory. The en-
death of his young son, which was caused
through a mistake on his part by admin- ergies of the firm are devoted to the filling
istering a dose of carbolic acid instead of of orders, many of them being for the
cough mixture to the child.
new Behr Colonial.
Steck Activity.
Everywhere there has been a marked
improvement in the demand for high-
grade instruments. One fact alone de-
monstrates the return of prosperity, for
when the American people have money
they desire to expend it in meritorious
articles of home adornment. There is the
"old reliable" Steck. Orders have been com-
ing in from dealers all over America as thick
as leaves in Valombrosa. Old agents have
exhibited renewed faith in the Steck and
new ones are constantly being added to
the list. Up in the Pacific Northwest
there is the firm of G. A. Heidinger & Co.,
with headquarters at Portland, Ore. They
have had phenomenal success with the
Steck since securing the agency and have
recently expressed themselves in the warm-
est terms over a carload of pianos shipped
them. They write that their trade is ex-
cellent and that in the very near future
they will desire another carload of the fa-
mous Stecks.
Substitute for Celluloid.
Consul Liefeld writes from Freiburg of
a new substance closely resembling cellu-
loid, which is described in a short article
in a recent issue of a Black Forest paper,
the translation of which is as follows:
In London, a new substance has been
produced by the boiling of un tanned
leather in oil, which has first of all the
property of being a good electrical insula-
tor, but beside this can be used for piano
keys and manifold purposes.
This new material, to which the inventor
has given the name "marloid/' can be pol-
ished on both sides, and in i'.i structure re-
sembles horn, and can be pressed or worked
into any form whatsoever, c iher directly
after the boiling process or l~ter, after the
hardened hide has been made soft and elas-
tic by being dipped into a salt or alumbath.
By means of polishing, this material can
be made almost transparent, and it can
also be given different degrees of hardness,
so that a substance is obtained which can
be kneaded, embossed, stamped, pressed,
drawn, and twisted into any desired shape,
style, or design.
From this description, it is evident that
out of marloid any and all articles can be
manufactured which up to this time have
been made from ivory, celluloid, horn, or
similar material.
Willis & Co. of Montreal are advertising
the Knabe piano in a very liberal fashion
and selling quite a number of them. They
recently placed some big orders with the
Knabe house.
J. W. Guernsey, Scranton, Pa., one of
the Sohmer veterans in his State, was
among the visitors this week at the Soh-
mer warerooms.
At Chickering Hall, the retail trade this
weak has been excellent. On Thursday,
within a couple of hours, three uprights and
one grand were sold.
A. P. Roth, of Roth & Engelhardt, left
town on Wednesday for a brief Western
trip. He expects to be away about ten days.