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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
It Is Now "/Eolian.'
After some opposition, the Central Rail-
road of New Jersey have changed the name
of their station at Garwood to ^Eolian, in
accordance with the agreement made when
the ^Eolian Co., located their factories
there. The citizens will fight the effort
to make an official change in the post of-
fice name.
Knabe—Past and Present.
The artistic advertisement of Wra,
Knabe & Co. which appears elsewhere in
this paper may be termed a history with-
out words. The record of the Knabe in
the past century—exemplified in the quaint
square of years agone, right up to the open-
ing of the twentieth century which
"the Knabe of to-day will outlive"—is il-
lustrated in this artistic conception of past
and present. The mind is at once taken
back to the early days of Wm. Knabe the
first, when his tireless experiments in the
domain of piano making made possible the
improvements which followed, culminating
in the remarkable creations which have
brought honor on the American piano and
the American people of today.
It is a great and glorious history of piano
progress, that of Knabe. From the foun-
der to the grandsons who control the des-
tinies of this house to-day, the name has
been actively associated with the produc-
tion of pianos, and each generation of
Knabe has kept in touch with the progres-
sive demands of the times, for they all
gloried in the fact that they were practical.
To them there were no "mysteries" in
piano making, for they had all been solved
by investigation and experiment.
Combined with this practical knowledge
the members of the Knabe firm to-day are
blessed with marked business talents, so
that they possess those qualifications which
predicate the growth of their institution
not only commercially but artistically.
An Association Dinner.
The Piano Manufacturers Association of
New York, will give a banquet on Wed-
nesday, Feb. 6, at August Luchow's. It
is to be a purely informal affair. Robt. C.
Kammerer is chairman of the committee
of arrangements; associated with him will
be A. H. Fisher, S. L. White and Chas. H.
Parsons.
Inventory of Bahnsen Estate.
[Special to The Review. |
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 23, 1901.
An inventory of the estate of Timothy
Bahnsen was filed in the Probate Court
yesterday. The estate consists of stocks
in the T. Bahnsen Piano Manufacturing
Co. amounting to $23,000, and an account
of $920 against the same company.
Bollman Bros. Meeting.
Oscar H. Bollman is in town for the pur-
pose of attending the annual meeting of
the Bollman Bros. Co., which will occur
to-day {at Steinway Hall. Mr. Yunge is
vice-president of this company and Albert
JSturke, director.
Conciliation Committee fleets.
As a result of the conference on Con-
ciliation and Arbitration held recently in
Chicago, a meeting took place last week at
the Grand Pacific Hotel for the purpose of
carrying out the idea proposed by the Na-
tional Civic Federation to end forever the
disastrous uprisings between capital and
labor.
It is proposed to select a National Board
of Arbitration, whose duty it will be to
adjust matters so far as it is agreeable be-
tween those concerned, and the plan is ex-
pected to bring into closer touch the inter-
ests of the employer and employed. Sev-
eral of the members of the committee were
absent, and for this reason permanent or-
ganization could not be effected, but those
who were there suggested plans and out-
lined a system of procedure which prob-
ably will meet the approval of the other
members.
After the choice of A. C. Bartlett, of the
firm of Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co.,
for temporary chairman, and Ralph M.
Easley of the National Civic Federation
for temporary secretary, those of the com-
mittee who were present got down to work.
Representatives of capital and labor worked
in harmony in an effort to outline the com-
mittee's work. It was the unanimous
opinion that both labor and capital must be
organized on lines of less friction.
In order that the great mass of laboring
men and capitalists who are interested in
the deliberations of the committee may be
apprised of the work being done and also
that they may have a chance to make sug-
gestions from time to time, it is proposed
to have a bureau of education and public-
ity. A monthly pamphlet will be issued.
Besides a synopsis of the progress made,
the publication will contain a set of ques-
tions to be answered by interested parties
not members of the committee. Herman
Justi, Commissioner of the Illinois Coal
Operators' Association; Frederick Driscoll,
Commissioner of the American Newspaper
Association, and Daniel Keefe, president
of the International Longshoremen's Un-
ion, were appointed to take this work in
charge.
Arrangements will be made at once by
Secretary Easley to have printed 20,000
of these pamphlets, to be forwarded to
hundreds of employers throughout the
country and to the 600 or more labor or-
ganizations. In addition to the pamphlet
it was the sentiment of those at the meet-
ing that each should notify his associates
in business and the labor world of the pro-
posed plans of the committee and its ideas
on arbitration.
The members of the committee deem it
best that no force should be used to com-
pel arbitration. If a national board is se-
lected, only such cases are to be taken for
it as are previously agreed upon by the
employers and labor men interested, and
then the decision is not to be binding un-
less this also shall have been previously
agreed to.
At the arbitration and conciliation meet-
ing in December both the Jabpr men and
employers were requested to forward a set
of queries to men engaged in their lines of
trade, with the idea in view of gaining
some general idea as to the best plan of
choosing.members of a National Board of
Arbitration.
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Death of William A. Johnson.
William A. Johnson, a respected and
old-time resident of Westfield, Mass., who
founded the Johnson organ business,
which grew to be one of the leading church
organ concerns of the country, occurred on
Sunday last at the home of his son in that
city.
Mr. Johnson was born at Nassau, N.
Y., Oct. 27, 1816. He became interested
in organ making in 1843, when the Metho-
dist church in Westfield was completed. He
assisted in setting up the organ. The fol-
lowing winter he procured a set of tools
and without machinery or any personal
aid, succeeded in making an organ. It
was a small instrument, but proved sal-
able and the next winter he built two
others and one the next year. The
fourth year he built three and the ensuing
fall entered the business as an organ build-
er. That was the beginning of the John-
son organ, which has made the builder
famous all over the United States. Since
1871, up to 1898, his son, William H.
Johnson, was associated with his father in
the manufacture of church organs, but in
1898, the business was closed out, and the
good will of the concern has since been
transferred to Emmons Howard.
Mr. Johnson is survived by a widow, a
brother, three sisters and one son.
Newby & Evans.
On page 10 of this issue will be found a
clear-cut, concise statement of facts con-
cerning the Newby & Evans piano. It is
well worth reading and every live dealer
ought to read it. Furthermore, it is well
worth consideration and investigation.
The reputation of Newby & Evans is
deservedly high as the makers of creditable
pianos and as desirable people to do business
with. The Review, during a recent visit to
the factory, took occasion to note the cur-
rent Newby & Evans styles in uprights.
They are admirable examples of good work-
manship, and in every particular are well
calculated to reflect credit on those who
handle them.
Mr. flayer Convalescent.
Ferdinand Mayer, of William Knabe &
Co., who has been somewhat severely in-
disposed of late, but is now recovering,
leaves on Thursday for Bermuda where he
will probably remain a few days.
To meet the demands of their growing
business, Mehlin & Sons have secured ad-
ditional factory quarters. On Feb. 1st
they will occupy the spacious four-story
building, corner Forty-fourth street and
Tenth avenue.
L. A. Bertolette, president of the Robe-
Ion Piano Co., Wilmington, Del., met with
a rather serious accident on Sunday through
a fall.
W. S. Jenkins, of Phoenix, Ariz., has
been bought out by A. Redewell & Spn,