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PIERCE MET WITH ACCIDENT.
GREAT REGINA TRADE.
Run into by a team while driving with his wife
in Prospect Park, Brooklyn—Mrs. Pierce bad-
ly injured.
Excellent reports concerning the sale of
the Regina music boxes are being continually
received at the Regina headquarters, Regina
Building, East Twenty-second street, near
Broadway. For the fall season there is a
big array of styles, in all sizes. Most con-
spicuous of all are the Regina Coronas, with
automatic interchangeable discs. Since their
introduction, thousands of these mechanical
musical marvels have been made and sold.
They are to be found in the homes of a host
of our wealthy merchants and progressive
people.
The smaller sizes, with horizontal discs,
are much in vogue for wedding and birth-
day presents, particularly those in handsome-
ly hand-carved cases. At the Wanamaker
store in this city, where the Regina boxes
are sold exclusively at retail, they have
proved to be a great attraction to visitors,
a large percentage of whom ultimately be-
come purchasers.
J, Leverett Pierce, of the Phonoharp Co.,
met with a severe accident on Saturday
while out driving in Prospect Park, Brook-
lyn. Fortunately, he escaped almost with-
out injury. Mrs. Pierce, however, w;ho was
with her husband, is suffering from several
painful bruises on the head and body, and
may not be able to leave her room for several
days.
Mr. Pierce, who is a good whip and horse-
man, was driving at an easy pace in his
buggy along one of the main park avenues
about four o'clock on Saturday afternoon,
when, on coming to a bend in the road, where
two avenues converge, he was run into by
a team approaching in the opposite direc-
tion. The two vehicles met almost at right
angles. As it happened, neither horse was
going very fast. Under less favorable condi-
tions, the chances are that the accident would
have resulted fatally.
Mr. Pierce's carriage was overthrown, both
occupants being pitched almost headforemost
to the asphalt pavement. Mrs. Pierce's head
came directly in contact with the ground,
inflicting a cut of several inches. Mr. Pierce
held on to the reins and was dragged some
ten or twelve feet, finally relaxing his hold
in order to save his own life. The horse
took fright and, pulling the buggy after him,
made for the woods.
The horse of the colliding carriage was
thrown by the shock. Only the prompt ac-
tion of passers-by prevented a second run-
away and disaster. The occupants of that
carriage were a mother and child. Ambu-
lances were summoned, but Mr. and Mrs.
Pierce accepted the tender of conveyance
from others who were driving and were taken
home. Mr. Pierce's horse, when found, was
uninjured, but the carriage had been smashed
into splinters. The coachman of the collid-
ing team was blamed by all witnesses for
gross carelessness and for deliberately vio-
lating the right of way.
Notwithstanding the severe shock caused
by the affair, Mr. Pierce was on hand and
hard at work on current correspondence
when The Review called this week. Only
by the merest chance did it happen that de-
tails of the affair became known.
Phonographs are to be placed in the Vienna
railway stations, to call out the places at
which the train about to start will stop.
flutes, Piccolos,
Guitars,
mandolins, Banjos, Zithers
Had €wry Instrument
that'* musical • •
JOHN C HAYNES & CO,
Importer* and Manufacturers,
451 Washington St., Barton, Mast.
THE
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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
METALLOCHORD A WINNER.
J. W. Mackintosh, of the Metallochord
Co., was a visitor this week at Frank Scrib-
ner's headquarters. Mr. Scribner is the man-
ufacturer's sole agent for this ingenious nov-
elty and already has secured a large number
of orders from first-class houses.
Replying to a question as to trade condi-
tions, when speaking with The Review on
Tuesday, Mr. Mackintosh said: "The Metal-
lodhord has only been on the market a short
time, yet already we find our factory too
small and must enlarge it. The addition
will be made within three weeks, so that we
shall be able to meet all orders promptly."
MARVELOUS MUSICAL TOYS.
Some wonderful and beautiful musical toys
are to be seen in the displays made by some
of the leading importers and jobbers. One
recently seen was in the form of a snuff box
of gold filagree. This box has, indeed, a
compartment made to carry snuff in if its
owner should so desire to use it, but the
greater part of the space is given up to the
delicate mechanism of the toy.
In the top of the beautifully wrought lit-
tle box there is set an oval, embossed, silver
plate, which turns out to be a lid. The box
is wound up with a key, and it has at one
end of it a tiny switch, by which it is set in
operation. Wound up, and the switch down,
and put down again upon the table, the box
appears for the moment just the same beau-
tiful little gold box, and nothing more, but
in an instant up flies the little silver lid and
out pops the most beautiful little bird that
ever was seen. The silver lid closes behind
it as quickly as it opened and the little bird
stands there on the box, and sings away,
gayly; or seems to sing, for the bird-like
notes that the music-box produces are made
within the box itself.
But the little bird is none the less a real
wonder. It is not more than three-quarters
of on inch in length from the tip of its beak
to the tip of its tail, but still it is perfect in
every detail. It stands there on the top
of that box, and flaps its little wings and
opens and shuts its little beak, the tiniest
of tiny bird beaks, and sings away to the
very limit of its strength, in clear, strong,
bird-like notes, in dead earnest clear to the
end; and then, when it has finished its song,
in a minute up flies the silver lid and down
drops the little bird inside the box, and down
snaps the lid over him again, and all this so
suddenly that you scarcely realize the move-
ment at all till you see them before you
once more, just nothing but * the little gold
box.
A musical snuff box like the one de-
scribed costs $110; similar boxes of a little
less costly material and less elaborateness of
finish cost $90 and $100 each.
CLAIMS PAGANINI VIOLIN.
The Paganini violin, now in the possession
of the City of Genoa, Italy, which Lyon &
Healy are trying to purchase for a Chicago
customer, is claimed by William Lamond,
who resides at 63 Emerson street, Chicago,
as rightfully his property, and he threatens
to bring suit for the violin in the near fu-
ture. Lamond says that he is a great-grand-
son of Paganini, and that he and his sister,
Mary Kennedy, of Sydney, Australia, are
the sole Paganini heirs living. The violin,
according to his story, was purchased by
Paganini in Edinburgh for 36 cents, and
after his death, was lost. What next?
VAL
SCHEHL A SPECIALIST.
When The Review called at the factories
of Val Sohehl on Monday, ample evidence
of prosperity and progress were at hand.
Mr. Schehl, whose establishment is at 278-
282 Siegel street, Brooklyn, manufactures
calf and sheep banjo, drum and tambo heads,
also raw-hide snares. He has made a spe-
cialty of these features of his general work
for some time past and finds it appreciated.
The purchasers of the Val Schehl heads
and snares now include nearly all who use
those commodities, and the steady growth
of the business indicates that the remainder
will come into line before long. Mr. Schehl
prides himself on being able to get, from ex-
clusive sources, the best skins. His methods
of dressing are the most improved, and his
employees are all well-trained men.
THE
BRASS BAND CLARION.
There is no doubt whatever as to the suc-
cess of the latest Weiss harmonica products.
Chief among the favorites is the "Brass
Band Clarion," which seems to have cap-
tured the hearts of the musical boy popu-