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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Complex Petitions
GIVEN A VERY HARD RAP BY JUDGE DEMPSEY.
[Special to The Review.]
Cincinnati, O., Jan. 12, 1901.
Anyone who has made a study of
the absurdly redundant phraseology of
legal documents will agree heartily with
the decision rendered by Judge Dempsey
to strike out portions of the petition in the
case of W. P. Rabenstein against the Chi-
cago Cottage Organ Co. Judge Dempsey
expressed strongly his disapproval of
lengthy and complex pleading. He said
the petition in the case was so long and of
such complexity of averments that it re-
quired the utmost concentration of mental
effort on his part to preserve in his mind
an intelligent connection between the vari-
ous parts of the document. He could not
master it at one sitting, and when he would
go back to it he found he had to go over
the first part again to ascertain what it
was about. He declared it to be the rule
that the Court had the right to protect it-
self from being overwhelmed by a mass of
irrelevant and useless allegation and aver-
ment. Brevity and conciseness would
have made the petition stronger. He
granted the motion to strike out in all its
parts.
Appreciate American Pianos,
Nicholson & Co., the prominent dealers
of Sydney, Australia, have gradually been
replacing their European line of pianos
with American instruments.
Among
those which they at present handle are the
Mason & Hamlin, Everett, Crown, Ster-
ling, McPhail,,as well as the Krell. This
concern is also doing a big business in
American organs and other American
specialties in the small goods line. Aus-
tralia opens up a big field for enterprise
on the part of American manufacturers,
and it only needs careful development to
produce surprisingly good results.
Newman Bros. Change.
The following letter which has been sent
out to the trade speaks for itself:
Chicago, January 1, 1901.
To whom it may concern:
We, the Newman Bros. Co., Chicago,
111., and J. R. England of Dallas, Tex.,
desire to inform you that we have severed
all our business relations satisfactorily and
amicably to each other. Mr. England is
no longer connected with the Newman Bros.
Co. in any capacity whatever. All remit-
tances and collections are hereafter to be
sent to the Newman Bros. Co. at their Chi-
cago office.
The Newman Bros. Co. and J. R. Eng-
land desire to give their many thanks to
you for all past favors, and hope that your
future relations with the Newman Bros.
Co. will be as pleasant as they have been
in the past.
We desire further to announce that Ed.
J. Maybee will hereafter represent the
Newman Bros. Co. and their interests when
he is in Texas, and any favors shown him
will be appreciated by us.
Yours very respectfully,
Newman Bros. Co.
Per Chas. W. Newman,
Sec'y and Treas.
The above is correct and I concur in the
above circular letter. J. R. England,
Dallas, Tex.
That Stein way Move.
The following statement appeared in the
New York Sun of Sunday last:—
Charles H. Steinway said last night that
Steinway & Sons are to abandon their quar-
ters on East Fourteenth street in a short
time. They will take their retail salesroom
to Fifth avenue, above Thirty-fourth street,
and their workmen to the present main
factory on East Fifty-third street. The
men from the Fifty-third street factory will
be transferred to the factory on the East
River in the Steinway section of Astoria,
L. I. Steinway & Sons own 300 acres of
land there, with a mile of river front, and
they are planning large additions to the
buildings already built.
The firm has not yet decided whether a
new Steinway Hall is to be built on Fifth
avenue, to replace the famous landmark
on Fourteenth street, or whether the new
quarters will be confined to the concern's
retail business. This removal of their re-
tail salesroom is due to the progres of busi-
ness northward, the Steinway customers,
Mr. Steinway said last night, seldom com-
ing below Twenty-third street, except to
visit Steinway's and Tiffany. The com-
pany will buy and build on Fifth avenue,
or have some estate build for them on
leasehold. The Fourteenth street property
will be put on the market. It comprises
three city lots on Fourteenth street, front-
ing seventy-five feet on that street and
running back 205 feet to Fifteenth street,
where four lots run 100 feet on that street.
The Stein ways own this property in fee
simple. For some time the firm contem-
plated occupying the new arcade being
built on Fifth avenue, on the site of the
Windsor Hotel, but Mr. Steinway said last
night that this idea had been given up.
With reference to the above, an author-
ized representative of Mr. Steinway said
to The Review on Tuesday, in answer to
queries on this subject: "It is true that
the firm is considering the advisability of
moving the New York headquarters to an
uptown point, but it is not true that Fifth
avenue has been definitely chosen. Nor
is it true that the move will be made 'in a
short time.' The shortest possible time
for such a transfer, even after a decision
has been reached, would be a year.
"When the move takes place, if it does
occur, the men now at work in this build-
ing on Fourteenth street will be taken to
the Park avenue factory. To make room
for them, a part of the force now in the
latter building will be sent to the factories
at Steinway, Astoria. It is the intention
of the firm, at some time in the future, to
make extensive additions to the Astoria
factory buildings and plant."
Asked if the published statement in an-
other local daily to the effect that the
Steinway establishment at Astoria would
be entirely transferred to some other point
in Long Island City, the site having al-
ready been chosen, Mr. Steinway's repre-
sentative declared such statements to be
absolutely without foundation in fact.
Speaking of the reasons of the firm for
contemplating seriously an uptown move,
he said, in response to a direct question;
"One substantial reason is that the firm
have had several good offers for the Four-
teenth street property, and have some of
these now under consideration. As there
are other localities equally, if not more de-
sirable than this one, the selection of a
site higher uptown, bearing in mind the
city's growth, would be quite natural. So
far as the retail business of Steinway &
Son is concerned, the geographical loca-
tion of the warerooms is immaterial."
The A. B. Chase Re-union.
THE STOCKHOLDERS TO GIVE A BANQUET AT
WHICH PRIZES FOR ORIGINAL SUGGES-
TIONS WILL BE GIVEN.
The stockholders of the A. B. Chase Co.
will, on the evening of Jan. 23, tender a
banquet to their employees at the New St.
Charles Hotel, Norwalk, O., on which oc-
casion the annual distribution of prizes
will occur. This novel scheme of encour-
aging and rewarding originality and in-
ventiveness among the men in the differ-
ent departments of the A. B. Chase fac-
tory, and which originated with the heads
of this institution, has been commented on
time and time again most favorably in The
Review. It is a forward step in bridging
the chasm which unfortunately obtains so
generally between employer and employee.
The stockholders of the A. B. Chase Co.,
headed by president Whitney and treas-
urer L. L. Doud, have been always ready
to recognize suggestions made, and, if
feasible, adopting them; hence the plan of
giving prizes to those most worthy—-and
not only giving prizes, but utilizing the
suggestions made, all to the common end
of making the A. B. Chase products better
and stimulating interest among the men in
that connection.
The relations that exist between the ex-
ecutive forces of the A. B. Chase Co. and
their employees are an example of what
can be accomplished by a common-sense
comprehension of the labor situation when
free, partly or entirely, from the dictation
of labor agitators.
The directors of the A. B. Chase Co.
held a meeting Thursday of last week and
declared a good dividend from the profits
of 1900. The year has been a flourishing
one, and a good report will be made to
their stockholders at the approaching an-
nual meeting.
A Lyon & Healy Pipe Organ.
A concert was given at the South Con-
gregational Church, Fortieth street and
Drexel boulevard, Chicago, on the evening
of January 15th, under the auspices of
Lyon & Healy, when the tonal qualities of
the Lyon & Healy pipe organ erected in
that church were displayed by Arthur Dun-
ham, the well-known organist, assisted by
Mme. Guthrie-Moyer, soprano, and Lud-
wig Becker, violinist. The program was
an exceedingly interesting one, and varied
enough to demonstrate that in action
mechanism and voicing, as well as in tonal
volume, this instrument emphasizes the
wonderful strides that American manufac-
turers are making in the domain of pipe-
organ structure.
Bourne Incorporates.
The following certificate of organiza-
tion was filed with the Secretary of State
of Massachusetts this week: "William
Bourne & Sons Piano Co., Boston, capital
$10,000, Charles E. Bourne, president,
Fred W. Peabody, treasurer."