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THE MUSIC TRKDE REVIEW
C. G. CONN ARRIVES ON HIS YACHT.
Che Small Goods trade
HOW A CLEVER SCHEME WAS FOILED.
[Special to The Review.]
THE GORDON GUITAR.
C. G. Conn arrived in New York from Eu-
rope on Saturday and left again on the same
day for Elkhart, Ind. He expects to return
to New York within two weeks. His new
yacht, the "Speedy," on which he made his
passage of the Atlantic on this trip over, is
now anchored at the foot of Twenty-third
street, Brooklyn. Mr. Conn went across
to England especially to purchase this boat,
and was delighted with her performance dur-
ing the homeward journey.
One of the most successful of Hamilton
Quincy, 111., June 23d, 1902.
S. Gordon's specialties in string instruments
The police have eight mandolins and are is the Gordon guitar. It is made in several
holding them until they can discover whether styles, a favorite with expert musicians being
or not any one has been swindled. If no style 5 x /2, as shown in the illustration. The
one claims them they will be forwarded to body is of solid magnolia wood, having a
the owner, who is now on the way to Tope-
ka, Kan.
MOORE HELD FOR THE GRAND JURY.
Therein lies a story.
At Jersey City, N. J., Judge Murphy put
Three days ago R. Wagner and his wife
George Moore, formerly a salesman for Otto
and five agents came to Quincy from Des
& Sons, manufacturers of musical novelties,
Moines, la. They wanted to start a man-
under $200 bail to answer to a charge of em-.
dolin school, and the six men and one woman
bezzlement preferred by the Otto concern.
started out to canvass the town. The plan
It is alleged that Moore was short in his
was to give 35 lessons for $18. The pupil
accounts and fled from the city to escape ar-
would pay $2 down, and would then be pre-
rest.
sented with a mandolin, and thereafter would
pay 50 cents a lesson until the term of 36
THE VICTOR ROYAL.
was complete.
Among the many choice styles of Victor
They found they could not secure enough
talking
machines now on the market, the
pupils to form a profitable class, and then
"Victor
Royal" is one of the greatest fav-
set about getting out of town. One of the
orites.
The
standard selling price is $15.
pupils was Mrs. Mary Schulte of 318 South
The
cabinet
is
of quartered oak with orna-
Tenth street, another was Mrs. Thomas Fitz-
mental
metal
corners.
The outfit includes
gerald of 304 South Eighth, and others were
motor,
turn-table,
sound
box. horn and 200
Mrs. Schatsick of Washington, between
needles.
Sixth and Seventh, and Mrs. Neuhaus of
317 South Seventh.
FUREY THE VIOLIN MAKER.
Yesterday agents called on Mrs. Schulte
William Furey, Coldwater's (Mich.) old
and Mrs. Fitzgerald, and started to give them
violin maker, is now past eighty years of
lessons. In the midst of it a string of the
a
ge, yet he still occasionally turns out one
mandolin broke, and the agent said he would
of those instruments that produce such de-
have to take the instrument to Giles Bros.'
lightful melody in the hands of a master or
music store and have it fixed. The story was
such torture when the novice is at the bow.
identical in each case. In that way they
Born in Londonderry, Ireland, in April,
secured possession of the mandolins, and
1822, Mr. Furey came to Philadelphia when
got them out of the house. The women be-
only eighteen, but not before he had acquired
came suspicious, and called at the music
that fine "ear" that has served him so well
store, where they were told that they had
during the more than sixty years that Amer-
been victimized, as no mandolins had been
ica has been his home. So accurate was he,
brought there.
that instead of taking the pitch from a tuning
Then the police were called on. Officers
fork for his vocal class, his old music teacher
found the whole outfit at the St. James
used to say, "William, sound A / ' and Wil-
hotel, with everything packed up ready to
liam never failed to give the key at just the
leave town. Mrs. Schulte and Mrs. Fitz-
right pitch.
gerald did not want to prosecute; all they
He played the violin from boyhood and be-
wanted was the mandolins. They were each
gan making them when twenty-two.
presented with one. The other pupils had
No timber is perfectly suitable for the
no complaint to make, as they had not paid
making of a fine violin, it is said, until it is
anything. Wagner and his agents were de-
at least half a century old. A friend of Mr.
tained for several hours, and were then al-
Furey's in San Francisco got his eye on an
lowed to go. They took the first train for
old
house that had stood there seventy-eight
Topeka. They had about fifteen mandolins
years,
and bought it for the sole purpose of
with them, and the police held eight of them
rich
natural
grain.
The
sound
hole
is
elab-
securing
pieces of spruce for violin tops,
to see if any other complaints came in.
orately inlaid with colored wood, the inside which, by the way, are worth $40 apiece in
The employees of the Starr Piano Co., edge being bound with celluloid. The neck
Richmond, Ind., are arranging for their an- is of mahogany. The fingerboard is of rose-
nual picnic, which this year will take the form wood with pearl position ornaments. The
of a barbecue.
frets are of German silver, the bridge of
Mandolins
rosewood, and the head of the machine brass.
Guitars
Styles 8 and Q have two rings of ornamental
Banjeaux
inlaying around the sound hole. Styles TO
SECURf YOUR TERRITORY
and II have three rings. The fotir latter
FOR THE
Guitars, Mandolins,
styles vary in ornamental elaboration.
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Selling
Line of Goods on the Market
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You cinnot afford to be in the Muiic builneu
Warner S. Foote, of W. S. Foote & Co.,
without thi WALDO
John C. Haynes&Co.
Lowell,
Mass.,
died
in
that
city
last
week
in
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his sixty-seventh year. Mr. Foote was prom-
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SAOINAW, MICHIGAN
inent in musical as well as trade circles. Two
daughters survive him.
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