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INDIANS GROWING MUSICAL.
A Demand for Pianos Among Tribes in the North-
west Demonstrates This Most Pronouncedly.
A despatch from Lincoln, Neb., says: "A
score of years ago it would have been diffi-
cult to convince a Westerner familiar with
the stiff-legged dance of the Indian and his
monotonous Ho-ya! Ho-ya! thai the red
folks would ever become musicians. And yet
that is what is happening.
"Pianos are appearing in the homes not
only of the Oklahoma and Indian Territory
Indians, who have money for almost any old
luxury, but also in those of the Sioux and
Blackfeet and Crows. A Lincoln wholesaler
has in the past six months sold no fewer than
twenty-five pianos, averaging in price more
than $400 apiece, to families of the Northern
Indians.
"Indian schools in the East and West are
responsible for this novelty. The returning
musicians must have their pianos, and their
orders for good music are on file with dealers
all the time.
"Many of the Sioux have become good
musicians, largely through the admixture of
French blood. The old fur traders of St.
Paul were French, and a not inconsiderable
number of Frenchmen trapped through this
region fifty years ago and settled down with
squaws as wives."
BEAUTIFUL WINDOW CARDS.
The yearly calendars issued by the Na-
tional Musical String Company, of New
Brunswick, N. J., have in the past been much
sought after by dealers and musicians be-
cause of their unusual artistic merit.
This company have just issued two beauti-
ful and unique examples of window cards,
for the purpose of distribution amongst deal-
ers handling their well-known lines of musi-
cal strings, "Black Diamond" and "Bell
Brand."
The "Black Diamond" card is a represen-
tation of a dark-eyed Spanish senorita play-
ing a mandolin, while in the corner is a repre-
sentation of a box of "Black Diamond"
strings.
The "Bell Brand" card represents two
handsome American girls in ball cos-
tume seated in a church belfry which is cov-
ered with ivy, while in the distance the spires
and houses of a city are seen.
These cards are beautifully colored and
artistically finished and will unquestionably
be in great demand by dealers and collectors.
They can be obtained free of cost from
any wholesale dealer of musical merchandise
or'direct from the National Musical String
Co.
SINGLE COPIES. 10 CENTS.
$3.00 PER YEAR.
MOLLER BREAKS RECORDS.
CASEMAKERS ASSIGN.
[Special to The Review.]
Troubles Caused by Condemnation of Their Factory
by the Dock Department.
Hagerstown, Md., May 18, 1903.
M. P. Moller, the celebrated pipe organ
builder of Hagerstown, Md., has within the
past three weeks received orders for nineteen
large pipe organs, almost an average of one
a day including Sundays, a record never be-
fore made by this house, and we doubt if
equalled by any other builder.
In all Mr. Moller has on hand at this time
orders for more than forty large two-manual
and three-manual pipe organs, not including
seven now being erected in the churches for
which they were built. One of these organs
which deserves more than mere mention is
the large three-manual instrument now being
erected in St. Thomas's Reformed Church,
Reading, Pa. This instrument was donated
to the church by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, and
when completed will rank second to no organ
in the State for completeness. The organ
contains 28 speaking stops, 15 couplers, 8 ad-
justable combinations, 2 fixed combinations
and 5 pedal movements. The action is tubu-
lar pneumatic throughout including couplers
and stop action.
Another instrument which has just been
shipped from the Moller factory and will be
placed in the Masonic Temple at Omaha,
Neb., contains in addition to all the appli-
ances of a modern pneumatic organ, "The
Symphonist," a self-playing device which is
operated automatically by electricity and so
arranged that it can be attached or detached
in an instant by simply drawing a stop.
INCORPORATED.
Among the incorporations filed with the
Secretary of State of Illinois was that of the
Fred J. Hamill Music Co. with a capital
stock of $25,000. The incorporators are:
Fred J. Hamill, Wm. Wilhartz and A. L.
Louer.
A TRIP AROUND THE HORN.
Eugene C. Wamelink, of the J. T. Wame-
link & Sons Piano Co., Cleveland, O., sailed
on May 4th from this city for San Francisco
and Portland. The trip was made on a Cape
Horn Liner for his health and stops will be
made at a number of South American ports.
A r. Wamelink is the guest of the owner of
the boat. He expects to reach the Pacific
Coast about July 4.
Before his return to Omaha, Neb., from
the Convention at Buffalo, Mr. Mueller, of
Schmoller & Mueller, placed orders with
Eastern factories for twelve carloads of
musical instruments.
William Dielmann and George Lincks,
composing the firm of Dielmann & Lincks,
manufacturers of piano cases, formerly at
151 to 157 Eleventh avenue, made an assign-
ment Monday to Isaac N. Goodhue. They
have been in business 20 years. In April,
1900, they filed a petition in bankruptcy,
with liabilities $71,346 and assets $18,674,
and were discharged in October, 1900.
Charles T. Terry, their attorney, said Mon-
day that the assignment was precipitated by
the condemnation of their factory building,
on Eleventh avenue, by the Dock Depart-
ment a few months ago. They could not
get another place, their source of income was
cut off for three months, and they had no
money to go on again. The liabilities are
$20,000 and nominal assets about the same.
After the assignment was made a petition
in bankruptcy was filed against them by
Marshall S. Hagar, representing the follow-
ing creditors: George Cromwell, $919;
George B. Clark, $990; David R. Taber, $3,
and Benjamin H. Shepard, $3. Judge Holt,
of the United States District Court, appoint-
ed Senator N. A. Elsberg receiver of the as-
sets. A large part of the machinery and ma-
terials, it was stated, has been removed to
Hoboken, and part of the stock to 654 West
Thirtieth street, all of which was valued at
$15,000.
H. G. WILSON IS PROMOTED.
[Special to The Review.]
Bloomington, 111., May 18, 1903.
H. G. Wilson, local manager of the D. H.
Baldwin Piano Co., has left to take charge of
their extensive business in the Rocky Moun-
tain district, which comprises five States with
a general office at Denver, Col. This is one
of the seven important divisions of the Fjald-
win business, and the selection of Mr. Wil-
son as manager is quite a compliment. The
day before his departure the employees of the
local establishment gave Mr. Wilson a dia-
mond pin as an expression of their feeling
toward him. The presentation was made by
O. J. Eyles, of Wheeling, W. Va., who suc-
ceeds Mr. Wilson, and he very eloquently
descanted on the ability of Mr. Wilson as
well as the esteem in which he is held by
those who surrounded him.
Walter F. Jones has resigned as secretary
of the D. M. White Piano Co., Brockton,
Mass., to take a position as traveling sales-
man with a Boston piano firm.