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THE: MUSIC
TRADE:
REIVIEIW
PIANO LOSS IN KANSAS FLOODS.
FAYETTE S^CABLE BUYS
The Lakeside and Sweetland Business—Has Assumed Charge and Will at Once Inaugurate a Vigorous
Policy—Has a Six-Story Factory With a Capacity of Over 3,000 Pianos a Year.
[Special to The Review.]
Kansas City, Mo., June 16, 1903.
After an investigation it is now safe to
[Special to The Review.]
assert that more than 500 pianos were to-
Chicago, 111., June 16, 1903.
with the untiring energy of Fayette S. tally ruined in the recent floods in this
Fayette S. Cable proposes to be a live Cable back of it, the factory output will be city. The local piano houses are busy tear-
factor in the Chicago trade, and will not materially augmented.
ing apart the watersoaked instruments,
The factory building is 50x150 feet, six saving some of the hardware, and sending
transfer his affections to the East as has
been rumored. He considers Chicago as stories in height, and has therefore a ca- the polished wood to the kindling heaps.
the best place in the United States to man- pacity of nearly ten pianos a day.
"There is no salvage to a soaked piano,"
Mr. Cable took charge yesterday morn- said a prominent piano man a few days
ufacture and sell pianos, and backs his be-
lief by a big purchase which includes the ing, and has nothing special to say regard- ago. "When they get wet up to the keys
Lakeside Piano Co., also the E. Sweetland ing his purchase beyond the fact that he they are ruined. There were probably 250
Piano Co., 374-376 Fulton street, this city. proposes to increase the business, that al- pianos floating about in the flooded dis-
The Sweetland and Lakeside pianos ready has fair impetus, to magnificent pro- tricts of Kansas City last week."
have an excellent reputation wherever they portions.
The J. W. Jenkins Music Company lost
have been sold. It has been the desire of
Fayette S. Cable is a tireless worker, two carloads of new pianos that had not
Mr. Sweetland not to pose as the largest and with the ownership of such a business been unloaded from the cars. They were
manufacturer, but to make the matter of as the Lakeside and Sweetland, he has a soaked and rendered useless in the boxes
quality rather than quantity his motto, property which will unquestionably grow in which they came from the factory.
therefore Mr. Cable has a factory whose under his able direction. He has the best Then there were approximately 350 rented
product has an excellent reputation, and wishes of the trade in his venture.
pianos in the flood. These are a total loss
to the dealers who had placed them jn the
various homes.
MARSHALL & WENDELL CATALOGUE.
MUNSON MUSIC CO. REORGANIZE.
A piano is made up of very delicate
[Special to The Review.]
Old Established Concern Presents New Styles
parts. One fine looking instrument which
Zanesville, O., June 16, 1903.
Which Are Attractive.
The
Munson
Music Company have re- had apparently fared well in the immer-
The Marshall & Wendell Piano Co., whose
sion was all in pieces at the workshop of
factories are at 241-251 Water street, corner organized by the election of Charles E. the Jenkins Music Company yesterday. It
Munson, J. M. Brelsford, H. A. Munson,
of Center avenue, Rochester, N. Y., have just
J. T. Miller, E. W. Stockdale and E. A. did not look to be a ruin, good only for
issued a new catalogue. The accomplish-
Oldham as directors, and the directors or- the scrap heap, but that was its announced
ments of the company are stated in modest
ganized by electing the following officers: condition. The polish on the outer sur-
language, and the fact that the instruments
Charles E. Munson, president; J. M. Brels- faces was as fine as ever. All the interior
bearing the name of Marshall & Wendell
ford, treasurer; J. T. Miller, vice-president mechanism was in apparently good shape.
have been before the public for more than and general manager; E. W. Stockdale, as- But there were faintly preceptible warp-
four decades are especially emphasized.
sistant general manager; E. A. Oldham, ings and a trace of rust on the metal. The
On the following pages is shown four secretary. This reorganization was made keys had become swollen and warped un-
styles of Marshall & Wendell pianos accom- necessary by the death of H. D. Munson, til they were immovable.
panied by minute descriptions. A number of who had been the president of the com-
It is the intention of the companies who
pages are then devoted to the presentation of pany.
have damaged pianos to make some ex-
endorsements which these instruments have
This concern was founded in 1851. It periments with the better ones in an effort
received from individuals, professional is the intention of the new company to en- to find out whether it be possible to reju-
musicians, dealers and institutions of learn- large and extend this business, increasing venate the instruments. But everv piano
capital as necessary and keeping as ever
ing.
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not only fully abreast but a little ahead of house in the city has announced that it will
never send out for sale or hire any of the
the times.
STRIKE AT OTTAWA CALLED OFF.
instruments that have been flooded.
[Special to The Review.]
PRESENTED WITH A LUDWIG PIANO.
The collection of damaged pianos in the
Ottawa, 111., June 15, 1903.
[Special to The Review.]
Kansas City warehouses embraces instru-
The strike at the Western Cottage Piano
Springfield, Mass., June 15, 1903.
ments from the aristocratic $1,500 sym-
and Organ Company, upon the suggestion
The Ludwig & Co. piano which has been phony in mahogany to the humble $150
of the officers of the National Association presented to Mrs. Bonner M. Lamb by the
of Piano and Organ Workers, has been de- citizens of Greenfield and the Ludwig kind in imitation of something which it is
clared, off, and a number of the workmen Piano Company, was shipped to Mrs. Bon- not. And they are all valueless. The sal-
who remained out during the months of ner M. Lamb (< at Brantford, Ont., yester- vage is not worth more than the cost of
day. For several days the instrument has
the strike are now asking to be placed back been on exhibition in the window of a va- taking the instruments to pieces.
"The hardware in them," said one of the
in their old positions.
cant store on Main street, and attracted men at work wrecking pianos in the ware-
This strike, which was organized nearly considerable attention.
rooms of F. G. Smith, "is all that can be
six months ago, has been one that has re-
saved. It is worth about 50 cents in each
J. HARRY ESTEY GOES TO EUROPE.
sulted disastrously to the local union and
instrument."
The value of pianos destroyed in the
has occasioned considerable loss to the J. Harry Estey, of the Estey Piano Co.,
Western Cottage Piano and Organ Co. left for Europe on Tuesday as a passenger on Kansas City Hood exceeds $200,000.
through having to hire inexperienced men. the "Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse." He is
Callers at the Ludwig factory this week
making
a
business
trip
and
will
probably
be
included
Nicholas Schneider, Albany, N. Y.,
SOME CECILIAN VISITORS.
away several weeks. A. Dalrymple, Estey and Mr. Putnam, of H. M. Brainard & Co.,
Among recent visitors to the factory of traveler, is now in the Middle West.
Cleveland, both Ludwig agents.
the Farrand Organ Co., Detroit, Mich.,
were Clarence Gennett, general retail man-
ager of the Starr Piano Co., Frank E. Gale,
the Toledo manager, and Herman J. Spain,
manager of the Indianapolis branch of the
same institution. These gentlemen are en-
thusiastic admirers of the Cecilian and
were, naturally, deeply interested in how
29th Street and 11th Ave., NEW YORK.
this instrument is manufactured. All
speak optimistically of the Cecilian outlook
HIGHEST STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE.
in their respective localities.
BEHR BROS. & CO.
PIANOS,