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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
The great compliment paid the Knabe pi-
ano by. its selection for use in the Papal pal-
aces in Rome, as reported in last week's Re-
view, has resulted in many congratulatory
letters being sent Messrs. Knabe & Co. dur-
ing the past week. This honor paid the
Knabe piano is unique, and has never before
been paid a manufacturer in this or any
other country.
Henry L. Mason, who has been sojourning
in Europe for some time, has been making
a number of important connections for his
house. In addition to big export orders for
organs a number of their Mason & Hamlin
grands have been sent abroad as the result of
Mr. Mason's tournee.
Chas. M. Stieff, of the Chas. M. Steiff Co.,
expects to sail for Europe early in July.
Business at the Steiff headquarters as well
as at all the branch houses continues to be
most satisfactory. The factory is working
full time, full force, and the outlook for sum-
mer and fall is of the brightest.
At the meeting of the Board of Trade of
New Rochelle, N. Y., on Friday last, it was
stated that the Kroeger Piano Co., employ-
ing 250 skilled mechanics and paying an-
nually in wages $150,000, were making in-
quiries with the object of locating in that go-
ahead city.
Paul Lieubell, sixteen years old, employed
as an office boy in the W. W. Kimball Co.'s
warerooms, Chicago, has been arrested on
a charge of assault with intent to commit
murder. The complainant, Hans Lehne,
nineteen years old, is a factory hand, and
the trouble arose out of a quarrel on Fri-
day.
Malcolm Love, formerly secretary and
general manager of the Waterloo Organ Co.,
is desirous of forming connections with some
member of the trade who possesses some
capital as well as experience. Mr. Love
states that he has the scales, patterns, name,
trade acquaintances which will be a power-
ful factor in building up a new enterprise.
In consequence of numerous complaints
concerning the annoyance caused by phono-
graphs, graphophones and similar musical
instruments in saloons, the Board of Excise
Commissioners, of Orange, N. J., have adopt-
ed a resolution asking saloonkeepers to re-
move such contrivances.
The Joiner-Kennedy Music Co., the latest
addition to the new stores of Indianapolis,
Incl., opened for business on Saturday last.
As already announced in The Review, they
are handling the Mason & Hamlin pianos
and organs as their leaders and the Hobart
M. Cable instruments. >
• The injunction secured by the next door
neighbors of Wm. Knabe & Co., of Balti-
more, has compelled a temporary postpone-
ment of the rebuilding of their warerooms
in that city. The delay, while annoying, has
been taken advantage of very cleverly by the
Knabe people, who last week published a
bold card in the Baltimore papers containing
in one corner a clipping announcing the issu-
ance of the injunction, and then proceeds in
larger type to inform the public that this will
give them an opportunity of securing a piano
at rebuilding sale prices.
Harry P. Bent, the eldest son of Geo.
P. Bent, the well-known manufacturer of
"Crown" pianos and organs, Chicago, sailed
for Europe by the "Etruria" on Saturday
last. He will be absent several months,
giving much attention to the development
of "Crown" trade abroad.
The O. S. Kelly Co. piano plate founders
of Springfield, O., report a very busy con-
dition of trade in their special line. The
Kelly plates are now in use by prominent
manufacturers East and West, and in all
cases they have given a great deal of sat-
isfaction. Their output to-day is large, and
the demand would indicate that their pres-
ent record will be increased materially before
another year rolls by.
Edwin Jarrett, chief of the office staff of
the Kroeger Piano Co., has sad recollections
of his last trip awheel. While enjoying his
favorite diversion, Mr. Jarrett encountered
the playful dog, with the usual results and
his classic features are now elaborately or-
namented with sundry bruises produced from
a severe and sudden contact with mother
earth.
The Pease Piano Co. are carrying some
very clever advertising in the local daily
papers. Written in a colloquial vein and per-
tinently illustrated, they at once attract the
reader's attention and, of course, are pro-
lific of results.
Part of the block of stock in the Cable Co.
held by Mr. Tewksbury, has been acquired
by Peter Duffy, the balance being taken by
Wm. Deering, the great manufacturer of
reapers and mowers. The figures at which
the stock was purchased afford a splendid in-
dication of the high commercial standing of
this company, which is under the able
management of Fayette S. Cable.
O. C. Hines, who for some time past has
represented Cummings, Shepard & Co., of
Fort Worth, Tex., who carried a small stock
of pianos, organs and small goods in Joshua,
Tex., has disappeared, and Mr. Cummings,
as well as the local officers are carrying on an
investigation anent the reasons for his dis-
appearance.
It would seem from present appearances as
if Estey & Bruce, of Philadelphia, would not
be able to occupy their new building before
the first of next month. The inclemency of
the weather has delayed the contractors and
they have been unable to live up to their con-
tract.
Frank A. Sanford & Co., the Pease repre-
sentatives in Brooklyn, are having a phe-
nomenal demand for this "popular" instru-
ment. In fact, their trade for this year, as
compared with a similar period of last year,
shows a most pronounced increase.
Geo. F. Abendschein, secretary of the
Staib-Abendschein Co., left town on Sunday
for a brief business trip in near-by States.
Great activity prevails at the Staib-Abend-
schein factories.
Frank Scribner continues to receive orders
for the Weiss "Brass Band" harmonica, the
"Brass Band" clarion, and other instruments
of similar character recently placed on the
market. Shipments are being made promptly
from the Weiss factories.
R. S. Howard, general manager for the
Baldwin interests, will enjoy June and July
on the Pacific Coast. His headquarters
will be in San Francisco.
The authorities of_ Brattleboro, Vt, have
increased by $50,000 the valuation of the
property of the Estey Organ Co. in that
city.
The Weaver Organ & Piano Co., York,
Pa., made some large shipments this week
to trade centers in this country and Eu-
rope.
The report in the Vaudeville Extra that
Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago, will han-
dle pianos has been emphatically denied by
Marshall Field, of that house.
Ricca products, with the "Ricca" and the
"Cambridge" are selling well. The new
case designs recently completed find favor
with progressive dealers who believe in
"quick returns."
L. E. Thayer, general traveling represen-
tative of the Starr Piano Co., expects to
take another trip to the Pacifie Coast in the
near future.
W. W. Kimball has fixed June 19th as the
date on which he will leave on his annual
European vacation.
The Wissner Piano Co. of Bridgeport,
Conn., are celebrating the third anniversary
of their business.
The title of the Barrows Music Co., man-
ufacturers of guitars and mandolins, Sag-
inaw, Mich., has been changed to the Waldo
Manufacturing Co.
Work on the foundation of the new five-
story structure to be erected for the Ster-
ling Piano Co., in Brooklyn, has been be-
gun.
A. T. Wittich has been exhibiting the
Crown piano with its various attachments at
Burtis' new piano warerooms, 647 Madison
Ave., Asbury Park, N. J.
Hugo H. Goertz, who was employed in
the Knabe factory in Baltimore for forty-five
years, died in that city on Wednesday last.
The Calenberg piano warerooms in New
Rochelle, N. Y., have been established in the
store, 185 Main street.
E. A. Kimball of the Hallet & Davis Co.,
was in Chicago this week.
J. O. Stamp has opened a music store in
Hammond, Col.
In Chicago on Monday Judge Waterman
again decided that "blacklisting" is legal.
A piano store is to be opened in Owego,
N. Y., by E. N. Crandall.