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\ O L XXXIV N o . 4 . Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York, Jan. 25,1902.
AN INTERESTING RELIC.
LATEST INCORPORATIONS.
The Hughes & Sons Mfg. Co. have been
An Old Taylor & Farley Piano Cased Melodeon
Exhibited in Window of Whitney & Currier Co.
organized at Foxcroft, Me., for the purpose of
manufacturing pianos and dealing in same,
In the window of the Whitney & Currier
with $75,000 capital stock, of which $75,000
piano house, on Madison street, Toledo, O.,
is paid in. The officers are: president, John
is shown, side by side, an old piano-cased
F. Hughes, of Foxcroft; treasurer, R. W.
six-octave melodeon about forty years old,
Hughes, of Foxcroft.
and a Steinway upright piano of the latest
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style, satin finish and full grand scale.
The Hayes Musical Co., of Toledo, O., was
The two instruments make an interesting incorporated in that State this week with
contrast, not only in appearance, but in show- $15,000 capital stock, to deal in pianos and
ing! the progress in such musical instruments other musical instruments, publish sheet mu-
during the past forty years.
sic, sell talking machines, etc. Incorporators
The little melodeon, still in good condition, are Mae E. Hayes, Anna Ingraham, John A.
was sold by W. H. Currier Sept. 24, 1864, for Dunn, Kathleen Hayes and F. R. Panches.
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$200, but the price paid was in greenbacks—
Bon Ton Manufacturing Co., 588 Newark
then worth but forty cents on the dollar, or avenue, Jersey City, N. J., was incorporated
$80 in gold. In those days everything was in New Jersey this week to manufacture mu-
high—even good money, and many were the sical instruments; capital $20,000. Incor-
square pianos sold at $800 to $1,000—in porators : Richard Gabrielsky, August Klein,
greenbacks—really about $320 to $400 in Herman Horlbeck, Milton Hanna.
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gold.
The
Henry
B.
Harris
Co.,
of
New
York
In 1862 W. W. Whitney sold many Stein-
city,
to
engage
in
musical
and
theatrical
busi-
way square pianos in Toledo for $1,000 or
ness,
was
incorporated
in
Albany
on
Monday
more in greenbacks. And in 1868 W. H.
Currier began selling the Boardman & Gray with a capital of $50,000.
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squares, which brought nearly as much. Up
The
Ottawa
Piano
Co.,
of
Ottawa,
was
in-
to about 1870 no uprights were known. In
corporated
this
week
with
the
Secretary
of
that year the Steinways began shipping small
uprights to Toledo which excited much curi- State of Illinois. Capital stock, $2,500; in-
osity. Not until about 1880 did Boardman corporators, Louis W. Merrifield, Emil J.
Hoffman and Chas. H. Carpenter.
& Gray make any upright pianos.
UNDERSTAND THEIR BUSINESS.
The square is now a relic of the past.
Neither musically nor in point of durability Men who have been Building one Make of Pianos
for Fifty Years.
is it equal to the modern upright. The pres-
Thomas Shaw, the music man, has dis-
ent Steinway upright with full grand scale,
played
in his music store a large group of
costing from $500 upwards, is worth two
thirty-seven
men who have been employed
of the old style squares. No less an improve-
in
the
Weber
piano factory for periods rang-
ment has been made in our money system
ing
from
twenty
to fifty years, says the Wich-
as shown by the comparison of the unstable
ita,
Kans.,
Eagle.
One of the men who turned
currency used in 1864 with present money
out the first Weber piano fifty years ago is
Then one needed a daily bulletin to know
still employed in the factory, and thirty-six
what money was good and what bad. To- others who have been employed in the Weber
day gold, silver, bank notes, greenbacks, cer- facory for periods ranging from twenty to
tificates, all are of equal value and pass cur- forty-eight years, and are still employed in
rent without question.
the factory. These men certainly understand
the piano manufacturing business, as the
The recent occupancy by Chandler W. great success of the Weber piano evidences.
Smith of his new warerooms, 120-122 Boyls- Mr. Shaw handles the Weber piano in Wich-
ton street, Boston, Mass., has been the occa- ita.
sion of some flattering notices in the Boston
M. A. Phillips, the piano man, now has an
papers, in which this gentleman's long ser-
office in the building recently vacated by
vice in the trade is suitably commented on. M. L. Bartholomew in Longview, Tex.
Mr. Smith has now displayed in his ware-
Ludden, Bates & Smith have opened New
rooms a very fine line of new scale Everett York headquarters at 41 East Twenty-first
pianos, as well as Apollo piano-players.
street, with J. A. Bates in charge,
*2.oo PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, xo CB.NTS
W. S PAIN'S VALUABLE PATENT.
[Special to The Review.]
Meriden, Conn., Jan. 20, 1902.
Superintendent Willard S. Pain, of the
iEolian Organ Co., has been recently granted
a patent on a machine for cutting and print-
ing stencil sheets for music rolls, which will
be a valuable piece of machinery for this com-
pany's business, as it is understood the in-
vention means a time and money saving for
the firm.
The new machine is so constructed it can
be operated with little or no skill, yet the re-
sults obtained from it are nearly double that
of the old arrangement for cutting and print-
ing stencils.
The patent was issued from the United
States Patent Office Tuesday, Jan. 14th.
TWENTY-SIX PIANOS FOR SCHOOLS.
An important deal has just been consum-
mated by J. S. Robbins, manager of the J. A.
J. Friedrich Music House, Grand Rapids,
Mich., with Miss Bertha Bradford, superin-
tendent of some twenty-six kindergarten
schools in that city, whereby a piano is to be
placed in each of these establishments. Among
the makers represented in the twenty-six pia-
nos sold are Steinway, Knabe, Fischer, Gab-
ler, Kurtzmann and Wellington. This sale
is considered one of the largest in its way
ever made in Grand Rapids, and Mr. Robbins
well merits the congratulations that are going
his way these days.
ALLEGED EMBEZZLER ARRESTED.
rSpecial to The Review.]
Washington C. H., Ohio, Jan. 20, 1902.
Ed. C. Morris, aged 35, of Wilmington, O.,
has been arrested at Jeffersonville.this county,
by the marshal of that village on a warrant
sworn out by a representative of the Starr
Piano Co., of Richmond, Ind., and a repre-
sentative of a Chicago piano company, charg
ing him with embezzlement. It is claimed
that he has collected notes and appropriated
$800 of the company's money. He was lodged
in the station house to await a preliminary
hearing. Morris has a wife here and has
wealthy relatives at Wilmington.
THE ENGLISH LEAD.
The postoffices of the world annually dis-
tribute 12.000,000,000 letters and of these
8,000,000,000 are addressed in English,
1,200,000,000 in German and 1,000,000,000
in French and all the other languages have
less than 2,000,000,000 between them. Now
wouldn't you like to be the postman?
LENOX