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LIBRARY.
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FOUNDATIONS.
V O L . XXXI. No. 15. Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, October 13,1900.
Three Steinway Art Pianos
EXHIBITED BY WILLIAM ROHLFING & SONS AT
THE LOCAL EXPOSITION.
The Everett with C. W. Smith.
THE
WELL-KNOWN RETAILER SECURES THE
CELEBRATED EVERETT FOR BOSTON
AND VICINITY.
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 9, 1900.
Chandler W. Smith is now the duly ac-
William Rohlfing & Sons have on exhibit
at the Exposition this year three beautiful credited representative of the Everett
pianos of Steinway manufacture, known as Piano Co. for Boston and vicinity. Ne-
Steinway Art Pianos, which are considered gotiations with Mr. Smith were practically
by music-loving people and artists the finest concluded early in the summer, but the de-
and best instruments ever seen in this city. livery of stock was deferred until the fall.
They are built of the best material money The Everett exhibit at Boston is now
can buy. One, the "Colonial Grand," is open and includes perfect examples of the
made of fancy mahogany inlaid with satin Everett products, both grands and up-
wood, and another is of white mahogany rights.
Mr. Smith has visited the Everett fac-
with hand painted decorations, which only
an artist of the highest order can produce.
There is not the palace of a king, or a
mansion of a millionaire where one of
these instruments would not be a welcome
decoration. The "Colonial Grand" is an
adaptation of the best English harpsichord
model to the modern pianoforte. Its chief
charm lies in the beauty of the architecture
and the properly arranged decoration.
The old maxim "You may ornament con-
struction, but may not construct ornament"
was never more happily applied.
The one built of white mahogany, a par-
lor grand, hand-painted, called "La Mu-
sique,"is a charming instrument which
deserves notice both on account of the
novelty of its color scheme and the deli-
cacy of its decoration. The body of the
piano displays four cartouches in tints
which suggest carved ivory plaques rep-
resenting children at their games. On
the cover appears Music drawn in her
CHANDLER W. SMITH.
shell by cupids who pull the car with gar-
tory
at
Boston,
has obtained a thorough
lands, while the Graces accompany them
knowledge
of
the
Everett methods of con-
in their airy flight.
struction, and is fully in sympathy with
The third one is a Venetian upright, oak the firm's aims and interests. Throughout
piano, hand-painted. It is decorated in his long career in the retail piano busi-
Italian style with elaborate designs on ness, Mr. Smith has been connected with
the name board and the front and lower first-class houses only, and by nature and
panels.
education is thoroughly well adapted and
qualified as the representative of an artis-
Levassor Affairs.
tic piano like the Everett. There is every
D. D. Woodmansee, assignee of the reason to believe that, in his hands, the
Levassor Piano Co., has filed an account Everett interests in and around Boston—a
of the affairs of that concern in the Insol- large and important field—will be well
vency Court in Cincinnati. He has in his cared for.
possession for the benefit of creditors about
George Pabst, a dealer in music at 17
$3,500 which he will distribute Nov. 1st in East Sixteenth St., this city, attempted sui-
the form of a twenty per cent, dividend. cide on Saturday afternoon by shooting
There are considerable bills yet outstand- himself twice in the breast with a revolver.
ing and it is expected that the creditors He was removed to the New York Hospi-
where it was found he was not fatally
will be paid a total dividend of about fifty tal
injured. Despondency on account of ill
per cent, while the preferred creditors will health was assigned as the cause for this
come out without loss.
attempt on his life.
fe.oo PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS
Fake Tuner Arrested.
A well dressed young man and plausible
talker who has been victimizing the resi-
dents of Tarrytown and vicinity, was ar-
rested on Tuesday, after he had, in the
guise of a tuner, taken Ira Becker's piano
apart, put it bunglingly together again
and received pay for same. Strange to
say, he worked the same scheme in several
houses before being caught.
A scoundrel like this, who has done so
much to damage the reputation of reputa-
ble tuners, should be sent to Sing Sing and
made to work out a sentence of two or
three years at hard labor. It seems to us
that the Piano Manufacturers' National
Association should offer a reward for the
prosecution of such men.
Story & Clark Literature.
The Story & Clark piano forms the sub-
ject of an interesting volume or catalogue,
superbly illustrated, which has just been
issued by the Story & Clark Piano Co.,
Chicago. The four upright styles—H, K,
B, and D—are interspersed in pages il-
luminated with portraits of leading artists
in the musical world who speak flatteringly
of the merits of these instruments. The
book is handsomely produced and has the
merit of brevity, the facts relating to the
Story & Clark achievements being cov-
ered in a short, but effectively written in-
troductory. Counterfeit presentments of
the factory and retail warerooms in Chi-
cago, Kansas City and London close the
volume, the cover of which, after the
Beardsley style, is very attractive.
Petition in Bankruptcy.
Albert E. Pennell, piano dealer of Bos-
ton, Mass., is a bankruptcy petitioner.
His schedules show liabilities of $5,430.15
of which $3,570 are secured. Assets are
stated to be $3,015 consisting of mortgage
leases on pianos.
Wants McKinley and Prosperity.
According to the Chicago Post, R. Alden
of Waukegan, 111., intends enlarging his
organ shop factory if McKinley is elected.
If Bryan wins he does not expect to need
any more room.
S. W. Bernard expects to open a music
store in Cincinnati, O., about the middle
of the month. He was formerly with the
Groene Music Co. and has a wide circle of
friends in that city.