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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
The announcement made that Steinway
& Sons have concluded arrangements
whereby they will handle the Fink piano-
player in Europe is unauthorized as well
as incorrect. Up to the present time
Steinway & Sons have entered into no
agreement along these lines.
Among callers this week at the Weber
warexoorns were Henry Lester, of Lester
Bros., Syracuse, N. Y. ; Huson Moak of
Buckingham & Moak, Utica, N. Y. ; and
Mr. Barrett of Barrett Bros., Binghamton,
N. Y. These gentlemen are all Weber
representatives and each is conducting an
aggressive and effective campaign in the
Weber interest.
The Schumann Piano Co., Chicago, have
been compelled, owing to the growth of
their trade, to take in the basement of their
factory building on La Salle avenue for
manufacturing purposes. This will give
them an addition of over six thousand
square feet. Recent Schumann styles are
winning general praise from the trade.
Business is unusually good with the
Piano & Organ Supply Co. and this applies
to all departments of their business.
John Wanamaker is doing some superb
piano advertising. He has full pages in
some of the leading magazines, such as the
Century and Scribner's, quarter pages in
the Youth's Companion, in all of which the
Chickering pianos are presented in a strik-
ingly artistic form.
^.mong the music trade members within
our gates this week was Howard Wurlit-
zer, of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., Cincin-
nati. In all departments of the Wurlitzer
business activity and prosperity prevail.
They are entering upon the new century
with prospects that are most encouraging.
Miss Beatrice Stetson, the charming
young daughter of Nahum Stetson, has
given evidence of possessing surprising
musical talent for one of her years. Last
Monday at Mrs. Phipps, 562 Park avenue,
she delighted an audience by some superb
renditions from MacDowell's compositions
which she played wholly from memory.
At the wareroomsof Held & Co., Brook-
lyn, on Saturday last, Adelina Domingo, a
Spanish violinist, made her debut in Amer-
ica. There was a large attendance who
displayed much enthusiasm over this art-
ist's playing. The Kranich & Bach piano
was used.
The new piano warerooms and private
offices of Hardman, Peck & Co., on Fifth
avenue, are now being prepared for early
occupation. It is believed that they will
be ready at the beginning of January.
They will be equipped with every modern
appliance and convenience, and are admir-
ably adapted for the purposes intended.
William J. Keeley, of the Wilcox &
White Co., paid a short visit this week to
the factories of the firm at Meriden. A
number of important sales of the Angelus
and Angelus Orchestral have been made
this week.
The latest addition to the piano store
of Los Angeles, Cal., is entitled the New
Century Piano Co., and is located at 229
West Third street. L. R. Darrow is mana-
ger of this establishment and the Sohmer
is being handled as the leader.
W. C. Golden, Stultz & Bauer represen-
tative, is expected home to day from a
two-months trip. He has met with grati-
fying success all along the line. There is
great activity, as usual, at the Stultz &
Bauer factory.
Edwin M. Boothe, of the Milton Piano
Co., made a business trip to Philadelphia
this week. The week's report at the Mil-
ton establishment is satisfactory. There
is a steady increase in the demand for
Milton products.
P. H. Powers, C. C. Briggs and H. J.
Gardner, have been selected as a com-
mittee to nominate officers of the Boston
Music Trade Association for the ensuing
year. The annual meeting for election
wili take place on Jan. 12, 1901.
Clark, Wise & Co., the Weber and Krell
agents in San Francisco, Cal., have opened
a branch house in Honolulu, Hawaiian Is-
lands. Thus the empire of the music
trade wends its way towards the far East.
Peter Olsen, Perth Amboy, N. J., and
W. H. Price, of Asbury Park, N. J., both
Mason & Hamlin representatives, were in
town this week and left orders for a num-
ber of the choicest Mason & Hamlin prod-
ucts.
J. H. Hill has been sentenced to fifteen
months imprisonment for the burglary of
the store of the Swanson Music Co.,
Omaha, Neb.
The recent Western trip of Van R. Liv-
ingston in the A. B. Chase interests was
unusually successful. Another short trip
before the end of the year to that section
will close a great A. B. Chase year's busi-
ness.
At Baltimore on Wednesday Frank L.
Jordan was sentenced to ten months in
jail for embezzlement from Wm. Knabe &
Co. The court was asx:ed to deal merciful-
ly with the prisoner by Mr. Ernest Knabe.
Fire damaged the premises of Wm. Mc-
Fadden, ' band instrument manufacturer,
401-405 So. Clinton street, Syracuse, N. Y.,
on Dec. 3d.
The recent additions to the Kimball line
of agents include F. H. Lewis, Water bury,
Conn., and the Smith & Nixon Co., of
Louisville, Ky.
Edward Lyman Bill is a member of the
press committee for the Centennial Cele-
bration of the Founding of the Capitol at
Washington which occurs next Monday.
O. A. Kimball, of the Emerson Piano
Co., has left for the South on a combined
pleasure and business trip.
"Angelus" Literature.
From the Wilcox & White Co. has just
been received a handsome booklet in the
highest form of the bookmaker's art, de-
scriptive of the "Angelus." It will be
treated of in the next issue of The Review.
In the meantime, congratulations are ex-
tended.
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The /Eolian in Australia.
William B. Tremaine, of the yEolian
Co., who leaves for Australia about the
middle of the month, will establish a big
^Eolian branch, controlled direct from New
York, at Sydney. The stock of the >Eolian
products for this branch has already been
shipped.
It is intended that the iEolian establish-
ment at Sydney shall be a representative
exhibit worthy of the United States and of
the music industry. No expense will be
spared to bring about this result. Mr.
Tremaine will probably be absent six or
eight months.
Siegling's New Store.
Henry Siegling held a formal "opening"
of his piano emporium in Charleston, S.
C, on Monday. A large addition has
been made to the premises which have also
undergone a complete metamorphosis in a
decorative way, making it not only the
oldest (being established by his father in
1819), but one of the best appointed in the
South. This store to-day is a credit to
Charleston, and to the respected gentleman
whose name it bears. Mr. Siegling's line
of pianos includes the Fischer, Hazelton,
Board man & Gray, Shoninger and Lud-
wig and the Farrand & Votey and Putnam
organs. At the opening on Monday there
was a splendid representation of Charles-
ton's leading people in attendance
Piano Tuner Wants $7,000.
A. F. Hinzie, piano tuner and inventor,
of Humboldt, Kan., has brought suit
against the city of Iola for $7,000 damages
which he considers a proper compensation
for loss sustained through a wrenched wrist
caused by a fall on the sidewalk in April
of last year. In this petition he claims that
his piano tuning receipts for the two
months between the accident and the bring-
ing of the suit should have brought him
$500. Tuners out in that section evidently
make a pretty nice income.
Chase Complimented.
[Special to The Review.]
Meriden, Conn., Dec. 4, 1900.
A very graceful and thoughtful act on
the part of the employees of the yEolian
Co. occurred a few days since, when the re-
tiring superintendent, J. Herbert Chase,
was presented with a handsome diamond
ring as a token of the esteem in which he
is held. The presentation was made by
the new superintendent, Willard S. Pain.
The ring is of solid gold, with a setting of
diamonds and garnets.
On Saturday Mr. Chase closed eighteen
years' service with the yEolian Co. and
leaves their employ as well as the city of
Meriden with the best wishes of a host of
friends. As already announced Mr. Chase
has joined forces with Geo. Baker of Chi-
cago under the firm name of the Chase-
Baker Co. and intends to manufacture
self-playing pianos in Buffalo, N. Y.
American manufacturers and merchants
should note the necessity for registering
United States trade marks and patents, so
far as they have been extended to Cuba,
in the Mercantile Register kept in that
island. A penalty of $25 was fixed for
failure to register within eight days of the
extension of the patent or trade mark
right to Cuba, but for patents and trade
marks already Sfcte^d.^> grade was * «