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• THE PEASE PIANO CO/S GREATEST TRADE "HIT." .
CREDITS AND THEI C0NTR0L
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In all industries the matter of credits has
become a crucial one. The music trade has
its quota of disreputable men who trade on
the confidence of manufacturers to the in-
jury of the legitimate and honest man who
endeavors to pay his bills promptly. This
apropos the formation this week in Chicago
of a National Credit Bureau by the whole-
sale clothing merchants of Chicago, New
York and other Eastern cities. The office
of a so-called actuary will be opened in Chi-
cago probably on Dec. 1st. There are thirty-
three wholesale clothing houses in Chicago,
and twenty-eight have joined. Associated
with them are the houses of New York,
Rochester, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Syracuse,
Utica and*Buffalo. This leaves in the whole-
sale, clothing market of the United States
only Cincinnati and St. Louis, and both of
these cities, it is said, will be brought into the
bureau within the next six months.
The bureau admits that a plan to prevent
discounts has been under consideration. A
scheme, however, has been devised to ferret
out thousands of swindlers who have been
systematically robbing manufacturers and
jobbers year after year.
The members of the music trade industry
will watch the progress of their brethren
in the clothing field with some interest.
GOSLIN IN THE PIANO FIELD.
The new Pease baby grand, style B, as
shown above, is a magnificent instrument,
admirable in every detail and answering
every possible requirement of a twentieth
century parlor piano. In length it is 5 feet,
2 inches. The width is 4 feet, 10 inches.
Figured mahogany is the favorite wood, al-
though it is being made to order in any of
the other woods. Dealers who are anxious
to secure the agency for a quick-selling baby
grand, certain to enhance their reputation,
should, during their investigations, get all
the facts about the Pease new style B.
THE APOLLO GRAND PIANO-PLAYER.
ORTH'S WONDERFUL ACT.
The 82-note Apollo grand piano-player,
made by the Melville Clark Piano Co., of
Chicago, has caught the - fancy of the pub-
lic. Its neat tonal resources, so thoroughly
orchestral in their effects, have impressed
its musical worth upon the people. Its in-
structive merits commend it to all who want
the highest class of music in their homes.
To such the 82-note Apollo appeals as being
far superior to anything else of the kind.
Kyrle Bellew, the eminent actor, called
at the Apollo retail war-erooms a few days
ago, and after giving the Apollo grand a
thorough test, he ordered one sent to his
home in the East. Mr. Bellew is an expert
performer on piano-players and knows the
merits and demerits of them all. He de-
clares that the Apollo is his ideal of a piano-
player and that the 82-note Apollo grand
stands unrivaled.
The Knights of Pythias of Milwaukee,
Wis., are going to give a monster, or, as they
put it, a "mastodon minstrel show" at the
Pabst Theatre on the evening of Dec. 6th.
In this connection they have gotten out some
announcements that would do credit to the
press agent of "the greatest show on earth."
We learn that a company of unrivalled artists,
under the immediate and guaranteed per-
sonal direction of the eminent composer and
world-famed director, Charles J. Orth, who
will positively appear in his wonderful dual
act of directing the entire company and or-
chestra with one hand and playing the great
and renowned Strich & Zeidler piano with
the other. Nothing like it has ever been seen
and may never happen again.
Mr. Orth is the enterprising representa-
tive of the Strich & Zeidler piano in Mil-
waukee, and he is doing his part to make
known the merits of that instrument to the
twenty-eight hundred Knights of Pythias of
Milwaukee and the small army who live ad-
jacent, and who will be in evidence at this
show.
The A. Wessels Co. has just ready the
second edition, revised and enlarged, of John
F. Runciman's "Old Scores and New Read-
ings." The author has added an essay on
William Byrde and his Mass, and carefully
revised the entire series of essays. No re-
cent volume of discussions on music and mu-
C. F. Zoller, who has been handling small
sicians has received such praise as this vol- goods at Mount Morris, 111., has branched
out into the piano and organ field.
ume.
Alfred R. Goslin, the promoter and much-
advertised financier who has figured so prom-
inently in the E. S. Dean Co. swindle, the
Franklin Syndicate of Brooklyn, and other
transactions, purchased a piano from Schlei-
cher & Sons over a year ago, a note being
given and accepted, but nothing paid.
Schleicher secured a judgment on the note
and this week the sheriff seized the piano at
Goslin's residence, 677 West End avenue.
Goslin declared that he will fight to regain
possession of the instrument.
Six hundred employees of Chickering &
Sons were vaccinated on Saturday last.
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