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Sues N. V., N. H. & H. Railroad.
Industrial Arbitration.
Cornish Co. Incorporated.
[Special to The Review.)
MEMKERS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE AUTHOR-
FOR THE PURPOSE OF TAKING OVER THE BUSI-
NESS OF CORNISH & CO CAPITAL ^COO.OOO.
New Haven, Conn., Feb. 15, 1901.
IZED BY THE NATIONAL CIVIC
FEDERATION.
Attorney Carl A. Mears, of this city, has
brought suit in behalf of himself and his
Chicago, Feb. 18, 1901.
wife against the New Yoik, New Haven
A. C. Bartlett, chairman of the National
and Hartford Railroad to recover $300 Joint Committee on Arbitration and Con-
damages for injuries to a piano during its ciliation in Industrial Affairs, announced
shipment from Waltham, Mass., to this to-day the members of the full committee
city, which the defendant, as common authorized by the conference held in this
carrier, handled for the plaintiffs.
city recently under the auspices of the
The instrument was brought to this city National Civic Federation. According to
via the Boston & Maine road and the New the resolution the committee was to in-
York, New Haven & Hartford road, and clude the twelve members of the first com-
when received by the plaintiffs was badly mittee, which had charge of all the work
injured by water, through the negligence of compiling statistics and other matter
of the defendants. The metal parts were brought out at the conference, and Mr.
badly rusted, the varnish destroyed and Bartlett is therefore ex-officio chairman of
the woodwork warped. The writ is re- the joint committee.
turnable to the Common Pleas Court on
In the make-up of the committee the
the first Tuesday of March.
three elements that made up the recent
conference have representation. Repre-
Will Exhibit at Glasgow.
sentatives of labor as well as capital have
W. M. S:ott, Canadian Commissioner to places, and the general public, which is af-
the Glasgow Exposition, has been visiting fected by industrial disturbances but is not
the piano and organ manufacturers of Can- a first part to them, is represented. Among
ada for the purpose of inducing them to the twenty-seven members of the com-
make a representative exhibit of their mittee are Cardinal Gibbons, Chauncey M.
wares in Glasgow. Among those upon Depew, Seth Low, Samuel Gompers, the
whom he called were the D. W. Karn Co., Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, of New York,
the Thomas Organ and Piano Co., Wood- William H. Sayward, Boston, and S. R.
stock; the Bell Organ and Piano Co., Callaway, New York. Acceptances have
Guelph; the Dominion Co., Bowmanville; been received from all of the members.
the Stanley Piano Co., Ltd., Peterboro,
Made Sixty Years Ago.
and the Evans Bros. Piano Co., Ltd., of
Ingersoll. Several of these manufacturers A PIANO OWNED BY GENERAL GRANT'S MOTH-
have decided to be in evidence at the expo-
ER WAS MADE BY T. A. HEINTZMAN.
sition, and a number of instruments to be
[Special to The Review.]
exhibited are already in process of manufac-
Toronto, Can., Feb. 19, 1901.
ture at the factories.
There is in existence to-day a piano that
was
owned by General Grant's mother,
No Damage to Smith Factory.
some sixty years ago. The instrument, of
[Special to The Review.]
course, is of the old-fashioned kind, but it
Leominster, Mass., Feb. 18, 1901.
is still in good condition, and its solid rose-
An alarm from box 156, the box of the
wood case is bright and polished. It was
F. G. Smith Piano Case Co.'s factory, on
made sixty years ago by T. A. Heintzman,
Granite street, called out all the fire de-
founder of the old firm of Heintzman &
partment apparatus with the ex< eption of
Co., Toronto, who was then engaged in the
hose 1, a few nights ago. The fire was in
manufacture of pianos in Buffalo, N. Y.
the piano case factory, and was put out by
The splendid condition in which it is found
the company's apparatus before the town
to-day, combined with its beauty of tone,
companies got there. The factory is a
is evidence of the fine work that Heintz-
mile and a half from the fire station. The
man & Co. have always put into their
fire caught in the milling room above the
pianos.
boiler room, and the damage to the build-
ing is only slight. It is thought to have
An addition is being built to the Starr
been caused by overheated steam pipes Piano Co.'s store on South Main street,
which ran close to a pile of inflammable Dayton, O., and when completed the store
material. A portion of the 30-inch main will be one of the largest and finest piano
belt was ruined by water.
stores in the State.
The certificate of the Cornish Co. was
filed Monday in the County Clerk's Office
at Newark, with a capital of $300,000, sub-
scribed by the present members of the
firm, Joseph B. Cornish and Senator John-
ston Cornish, with the addition of Alvin F.
Florey, who has been for some years a
member of the executive staff of the busi-
ness.
The purpose of the incorporation, as
stated in the certificate, is to take
over as a going concern the business
heretofore carried on at Washington, N.
J., by Cornish & Co., manufacturers of pi-
anos and organs. In addition to the power
of manufacturing pianos and organs, the
charter expressly provides for the manu-
facture of any other musical instruments
and the sale of the same, both in this coun-
try and abroad.
The firm of Cornish & Co. have been en-
gaged in the piano and organ business for
nearly half a century at Washington, N.
J. The senior member of the firm is
Joseph D. Cornish, and the junior member
of the firm is Johnston Cornish, who is the
present State Senator from Warren Coun-
ty, N . j .
Arrested On Peculiar Charge.
[Special to The Review].
Trenton, N. J., Feb. 18, 1901.
Henry J. Burtis, music dealer, of 6
Southard street, was arrested last week on
a warrant, charging him with stealing
"and carrying" away illuminating gas,
estimated to be about 2,000 cubic feet, the
property of the South Jersey Gas, Electric
and Traction Co. Burtis gave bail for his
appearance. It is thought the matter will
be settled out of court.
Small Loss by Fire.
[Special to The Review.]
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 13, 1901.
The musical instrument factory of Jos.
Conrath, 347 Virginia avenue, was dam-
aged by fire last week. The blaze was ex-
tinguished after a small loss. The cause
is said to have been spontaneous combus-
tion. The building was insured.
Mrs. Krell in Court
Caroline Krell, the widow of the late
Albert Krell, asked Judge Ferris Saturday
to grant leave for the surrender of the lease
on the music store at 118 West Fourth
street, Cincinnati, O., to the Perin estate.