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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Receiver Asked For.
Meckel Bros. Co.—They Deny That They are
Insolvent.
WILLIAM KNABE & CO.,
-•$;
PURVEYORS TO T H E POPE.
[Special to The Review.]
Cleveland, O., June 4, 1901.
Application was -made in the Common
Pleas Court here by the Produce Exchange
National Bank for the appointment of a re-
ceiver for the Meckel Bros. Co., piano deal-
ers, 1-18 Euclid avenue. The bank claims
that the piano firm owes it $25,839.25 on
twelve promissory notes and is indebted to
other creditors to the extent of $7,800. The
company's assets will not amount to over
$20,000, says the bank. The bank wants
the firm restrained from selling out and asks
for a receiver, for the purpose of selling the
property and divide the proceeds among the
creditors. O n the other hand, the Meckel
Bros. Co. deny absolutely that they are in-
solvent. Their attorney charges that the
suit for a receiver was not brought in good
faith, and to-day the bank did not appear in
court to further, its request for a receiver,
and the firm are doing business as usual.
That eminent firm of piano manufacturers, Wm.
Knabe & Co., Baltimore, have just received word from
Rome, through Cardinal Mocini, Prefect of the Apostolic
Palaces, that their firm have received the appointment of
Purveyors to His Holiness Pope Leo the XIII, as well as
to the Apostolic Palaces of the Vatican. The greatness of
this tribute paid to American art industry through the
selection of the firm of Wm. Knabe & Co. may be fully
appreciated when we state that this is the first and only
appointment of this nature ever made. This is a great
triumph for the Knabe firm, and for the entire piano in-
LEO XIII.
dustry that the venerated head of the Church of Rome should thus compliment
an American firm. We congratulate Messrs. Knabe & Co.
Strauch's Great Business.
Albert Strauch, of Strauch Bros., respond-
ing to an inquiry from The Review regard-
ing trade conditions, said: "The orders we
now have for the Strauch products assure
Organized in Maine.
us that June will be, with us, one of the best
[Special to The Review.]
months
of the present year. Orders already
Augusta, Me., June 3, 1901.
received
for July delivery far exceed any-
The following-named new corporation has
thing
recorded
on our books tor a corres-
filed a certificate of organization here:
ponding
period
during
any previous year.
The Choralcelo Manufacturing Company,
"We
attribute
this
entirely
to the excel-
organized at Portland, with a capital stock of
lence
of
the
goods
manufactured,
the merits
$1,000,000, of which $60 is paid in, for the
of
which
have
been
recognized
by manu-
manufacture of musical instruments. The
facturers,
and
to
the
policy
we
have
pur-
president is Charles W. Noyes of Melrose,
sued
in
selling
our
goods
to
none
but
man-
Mass., and the treasurer, Wallace H. Jose, of
ufacturers
of
the
highest
grade.
Our
patrons
Dorchester.
appreciate this policy because of the protec-
Export and import Trade.
tion it affords them and the dealers who han-
The export trade of musical instruments dle their products.''
and parts thereof for the month of April
shows an increase of $111,673, and for For Improved Consular Service.
the ten months ending April, an in- National Manufacturers' Association Also Fa-
vors Ship Subsidy and Reciprocity.
crease of $583,028, as compared with
the same period a year ago. Our import
The annual convention of the National
trade shows a decrease for the month of April Association of Manufacturers opened its ses-
of $7,148 and a decrease for the ten months sions in Detroit, Mich., on Wednesday. Pres-
ending April of $157,718, as compared with ident Theodore C. Search in his address
the same period a year ago. Details will strongly advocated the reorganization of the
appear in next week's Review.
consular service of the United States on a
basis free from politics, and also advocated a
Ludwig at Buffalo,
thorough system of commercial reciprocity
John Ludwig, of Ludwig & Co., has been and a ship subsidy bill. A letter was read
at Buffalo for several days supervising the from James Deering, of Chicago, in which he
arrangement of the Ludwig exhibit at the advocated a policy of closer foreign trade
Pan-American Exposition. This exhibit, relations and urged all members of the as-
Mr. Ludwig intends, shall be one of the sociation to work for ratification by the Uni-
most attractive on the grounds.
ted States Senate of the French reciprocity
It includes eleven Ludwig uprights of cur- treaty. A request will be sent to the presi-
rent styles and four Claviolas. None of the dent regarding the improvement of the con-
instruments had been specially designed or sular service.
constructed. This plan has been adopted in
order that the Ludwig exhibit may be truly
The Regina in Cincinnati.
representative of Ludwig factory work.
"Yes, remarked Mr. Furber, of the Regina
Parsons for Europe.
Music Box Co., "it is true that the Wurlitzer
Charles H. Parsons, president of the Co. will no longer handle our boxes in Cin-
Needham Piano & Organ Co., will leave for cinnati. We shall cover that territory en-
Europe on the "Minneapolis," which starts tirely from New York, and should the neces-
on Saturday next. This will be his annual sity arise, we shall establish a branch in that
city."
trip, occupying about six weeks.
The creditors of Rohlfing & Sons. Mil-
waukee, have accepted fifty cents on the
dollar in final settlements of all claims.
A. B. Cameron, of the A. B. Cameron
Co., left town on Monday for a brief tour
in behalf of the A. B. Cameron pianos.
Notes From the Pan-American.
[Special to The Review.7
Buffalo, N. Y., June 4, 1901.
Good progress has been made this week
toward getting the music trade exhibits in
place, and it is only a matter of a very few
days now when visitors can be entertained
at the different booths where the displays
of pianos, piano-players and organs will cer-
tainly prove a source of great interest. The
booths for the music trade exhibits are
among the prettiest in the Exposition
grounds, and although the delay in getting
the building ready for the exhibitors has
occasioned several weeks' waste of time, yet
it is safe to say that nothing has been lost,
for the weather has been so unpropitious
that the Fair may really be said to have
opened only with the fine,clear weather which
came to us this week—to stay, I hope.
I understand that the persons in charge
of the musical features of the Exposition
purpose soon after Sousa arrives for his sea-
son, to combine his band, the Mexican Na-
tional Band, the Royal Bavarian, the Ham-
ilton, Ont., the Elgin, the Sixty-fifth Regi-
ment, the Seventy-fourth Regiment, and all
the Midway Bands into one band of 450
pieces. Ten compositions which are played
by all these organizations will be the pro-
gram for an evening in the Stadium, with
Sousa as leader.
There have been a number of trade vis-
itors in the city this week. Those in the city
included John Ludwig, of Ludwig & Co.,
Messrs. Krakauer and Kochmann, of Krau-
kauer Bros., Adolpho and T. Tasro Fischer,
of J. & C. Fischer, and A. P. Roth, of
Roth & Engelhardt. The attendance at the
Exposition grounds continues to steadily
grow, and from now on the increase will
probably be kept up. The directors have
decided to reduce the price of admission
after 7 o'clock at night to twenty-five cents
for adults and 15 cents for children. The
consent of the bondholders will be necessary,
and the reduction will be ordered as soon as
that is secured.
The meeting of the Riverside Music Co.,
Riverside, Cal., to decide on the proposition
to increase their capital stock from $6,000 to
$20,000, will be held at their store in that city