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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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Will A. Watkin, the well-known dealer
of Dallas, Tex., has been spending a few
days in town. He will return during the
early days of next week.
While on his way home on Saturday
evening Chas. Newman of the Newman
Bros. Co., the well-known piano and organ
manufacturers, Chicago, fell from a car
and was badly hurt. His injuries, how-
ever, are not of a very serious nature.
The demand for the Kroeger products
continues to develop so persistently that
the necessity for more working space has
already driven the office force into a corner
in the main floor and has absorbed all the
area formerly occupied as warerooms for
the Kroeger exhibit.
On a warrant from Stockton, Cal., A. C.
Adams has been arrested on an alleged
charge of embezzlement and of obtaining
money under false pretenses. He was em-
ployed for several months by Kohler &
Chase and is said to have sold a number of
pianos on installments to various people
and failed to account for the cash.
The Montelius Piano Co., Denver and
Pueblo, Col., are booming the Hallet &
Davis pianos in telling fashion in the local
papers. In a recent issue of the Pueblo
Chieftain they quote the opinions of a long
line of eminent authorities certifying to
the superior musical attributes of this fam-
ous Boston instrument.
A. B. Cameron, of the A. B. Cameron
Piano Co., left town on Tuesday. He will
visit Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington
and several Western cities in connection
with the firm interests before his return.
J. Gray Estey, accompanied by his wife,
left for Europe last week. He will tour
the European cities, making an extended
stay at the Paris Exposition.
The Kelso Piano Co. have just issued
illustrated descriptions of several new
styles. Mr. Kelso, reporting trade condi-
tions during a call by The Review at the
factory, said: " W e are getting our share
Post Check Honey.
of patronage and, I believe, will continue
to do so. Our customers stand by us, and,
A bill is now before Congress, intro-
through them, we get others.
duced in the Senate by Senator McMillan,
"We make no special claim, except that of Michigan, and in the House of Repre-
we endeavor to give the best values pos- sentatives by Congressman Lentz, of Ohio,
sible. And we must be making this claim which provides for a system of post checks
good, otherwise we could not hold our to cover the transmission of small amounts
own. That we are not only holding our of money by mail. It is generally ad-
own, but gaining ground, is the best proof mitted that the paper currency in use dur-
of appreciation."
ing and following the Civil War was the
Mr. Winte roth, who is an officer of the most convenient small money we ever had
Ninth Regiment, offered a piano as a so long as it remained comparatively clean.
prize to the member of the Regiment mak- As soon as the fractional currency was
ing the highest number of points in the abolished it became a somewhat difficult
shooting at the Creedmoor range this week. matter to transmit fractions of a dollar by
In the Adam Schaaf factory on West mail. The postal note system has met
Monroe street, Chicago, Monday, a boiler this difficulty to some extent, but it is not
exploded causing considerable damage to entirely convenient. Congress has now
the building. Fortunately no one was in- been asked to authorize an issue of $50,-
000,000 in fractional bills of the post check
jured.
form, payable at post offices, in denomina-
Notwithstanding the several labor trouble tions of 5, 10, 15, 25 and 50 cents, and $1
setbacks at the Schubert factory at the be- to $5, in place of that amount of large
ginning of the season, a good record has notes now in circulation. This fractional
been made in the matter of output. Under currency is to pass current from hand to
the personal supervision of Peter Duffy hand when left with the blank spaces
everything now runs smoothly. The unfilled. These blank spaces can, by fill-
"Schubert" is gaining ground in public ing in a name, be transformed into
estimation, and the president of the Schu- checks payable to the payee, and will
bert Co. is proportionately happy.
require a 1 cent postage stamp on
"Jack" Spies, son of Henry Spies of the amounts under $1 and a 2 cent stamp
"Majestic" piano, goes to camp at Peeks- over $1, for the Government fee so trans-
kill with the 12th Regiment on June 9. formed. The currency is thus instantly
This will be his last season in camp.
converted into safe exchange for transmis-
Prof. Johnson of Greenport, L. I., has sion through the mails. A strong effort
removed his stock of pianos and musical is being made to have this bill passed
instruments into attractive and spacious through Congress in the interest of many
quarters in the Stirling Hall Building, that classes of business in which the transmis-
sion of small amounts of money is a neces-
city.
Activity prevails at the Behr Bros, fac- sary element. Samples of post checks are
tory, as usual, there being but few indica- now being distributed, which show the
tions of any cessation in the general de- proposed design to be ornamental, and the
proposition appears to be a very sensible
mand.
one.
Robt. L. Loud, the enterprising dealer
of Buffalo, N. Y., is now settled in his new
quarters in that city. He seems well
Among dealers in town this week was
pleased with business conditions.
George S. Beech wood of the Geo. S. Beech-
This week's report at the factory of the wood Co., Utica, N. Y.
"Majestic" piano is to the effect that just
A. B. Smith, of Akron, O., has secured
as fast as instruments are completed they
are shipped to customers who quickly dis- the agency for the Lindeman & Sons
pose of them and ask for more.
piano.
AUCTION SALE.
UndCr$igltCd, as assignee of Alfred Dolge, will offer for sale at public auction at the Girvan
House in the city of Little Falls, N, Y., on Thursday, June 7th, 1900, at JI o'clock A. M., all the right,
title and interest which the said Alfred Dolge had at the time of the making of his general assignment for
the benefit of his creditors, in and under some thirty or more Letters Patent, issued by the United States
Government and about fifteen Letters Patent issued by foreign nations to said Dolge, either as inventor or
as assignee of inventor of divers devices and improvements in the manufacture of felt and felted products
and notably in the manufacture of pianoforte hammers and other pianoforte attachments.
desiring further details can address the undersigned, at Devereux Block, Utica, N. Y.
WALTER N. KERNAN, Assignee of Alfred Dolge.