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VOL. XL. No. 16.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at I Madison Ave., New York, April 22, 1905.
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LESSENING FIRE RISK.
THIRD DIVIDEND DECLARED
GOOD SALES IN DENVER.
The Maintenance of a Fire Brigade Such as
Lyon & Healy's Should Lessen Insurance
Rates—Something of the Organization.
On A. B. Cameron Mfg. Co., Bankrupt, Estate—
53 Per Cent. Paid So Far—The Remaining
Assets Imply Another Dividend.
Kimball Pipe Organ Sold by Knight-Campbell
Co.—Denver Music Co.'s Big Weber Trade—
Hext Co. Sell a Chickering a Day—The
Behning a Favorite.
(Special to The Review.)
Chicago, 111., April 18, 1905.
Readers of The Review may be interested to
know something of the Lyon & Healy Fire Brig-
ade, whose efficiency was tested about a month
ago, when they extinguished a very ugly fire
that had started in one of the show windows.
This fire, it will be remembered, the home fire-
men handled with the greatest skill, having put
it out twelve minutes before the city fire engines
arrived. The brigade is divided into nine com-
panies, as follows: Company A, basement; Com-
pany B, first floor; Company C, second floor;
Company D, third floor;Company E, fourth floor;
Company F, fifth floor; Company G, sixth floor;
Company H, noon hour, 12 to 1; Company I, noon
hour, 1 to 2. The officers consist of a chief, who
has full charge and supervision of the brigade
and all properties of the different companies,
with a captain, first lieutenant and second lieu-
tenant in charge of each company.
Each company is complete in itself, and is
expected to handle its own fire without any as-
sistance, and must drill separately at least once
a week without notice. A record book must be
kept showing the date and hour of each drill,
as well as what members of the company re-
sponded or were absent at the time. The books
must be sent to W. H. Wade every Saturday
morning for inspection and O. K. The members
of the company are compelled to be familiar with
the location of the nearest city fire alarm boxes,
must keep all passageways unobstructed, and
must not leave the building, except for lunch, or
at closing time.
A book giving the general rules governing the
fire brigade has just been issued by Lyon &
Healy. It contains much of interest concerning
the duties of the officers and men, and by its
perusal one is able to get an idea of the thor-
oughness which permeates every company in this
establishment.
There is one thought which occurs to the writer
in connection with the Lyon & Healy fire brigade,
and it is that fire insurance companies could
well afford to make a marked reduction in rates
wherever a house fire brigade of acknowledged
efficiency is maintained. There can be no ques-
tion but that the Lyon & Healy fire brigade has
lessened fire risk one-half in the Lyon & Healy
establishment. Isn't this a matter that insurance
companies should take into consideration?
Henry L. Rubino, trustee for the A. B. Cam-
eron Mfg. Co., bankrupt, has sent to the creditors
a third dividend of 8 per cent, declared on claims
against this estate. A first dividend of 30 per
cent, was paid on Aug. 31, 1903, and a second
dividend of 15 per cent, was paid on May 31,
1904, thus making the total paid up to date 53
per cent. The trustee's statement shows a bal-
ance of cash on hand of $529.69, after all dis-
bursements to date.
The trustee states that the remaining assets
in the estate are as follows: " 1 . Uncollected book
accounts in the sum of $2,744.26. The collectibil-
ity of the greater portion of these accounts is
very doubtful, as many of the debtors have been
found financially irresponsible. 2. Approxi-
mately sixty outstanding leases, most of which
had been assigned by the bankrupt to the C. B.
Turton Co., of 18 Exchange place, New York
City, to secure a loan of $5,000. I have been mak-
ing the collections on these leases and have so
far turned over to the Turton Co. the sum of
$2,302.20, leaving a balance due them at this
time of $1,251.68. The collections over a*hd above
this amount belong to the estate, and I estimate
the said equity to be approximately $2,000. In
view of thn fact that the title in these various
pianos remains vested in this estate until its
claims are paid in full, I consider all these claims
collectible."
This estate will yield a further dividend, the
amount of which, however, at the present time,
the trustee says, it is impossible to estimate.
TIRED OF $10,000 ORGAN.
Allegheny
to
Ask Mr. Carnegie for a More
Elaborate One.
(Special to The Review.)
Denver, Col., April 15, 1905.
The Knight-Campbell Music Co. have just made
the sale of a large Kimball pipe organ to the
First Universalist Church of Denver. The organ
was a gift of Andrew Carnegie, of New York.
The committee has arranged for a concert Fri-
day evening, April 14, when the organ will be
officially installed. It will cost $2,000.
The Knight-Campbell Music Co. seem to be
doing a splendid business, in spite of the con-
tinued bad weather, having some very good sales
to their credit.
The Denver Music Co. have placed a large
Weber concert grand piano at the Orpheum. They
have a very prominent placard on the piano, set-
ting forth its merits and superiority. This card
draws many thousands of eyes upon it, and as a
result will no doubt be of great benefit to its
agents. They are advertising the Weber piano
quite extensively, having placed large posters
throughout the city and State. This firm have
just received a carload of Smith & Barnes
pianos. They present a fine appearance in their
artistic parlor and window displays. Special at-
tention is being given this week to the sale of
the large stock of Steck pianos which were re-
cently transferred from the Knight-Locke Piano
Co.
The Hext Music Co. are doing an elegant busi-
ness in the absence of Mr. Hext. The manager
reports the sale of four Chickering pianos in as
many days, among them being a baby grand. Mr.
Hext, who is now in the East, attended the meet-
ing of dealers who celebrated the 82d anniver-
sary of Chickering & Sons in Boston on Friday,
April 14.
Mr. Mabel, of the Mabel Music Co., says that
business is better this year than he has ever
known it to be before. He states that the Behn-
ing piano is rapidly becoming a favorite in
Denver.
F. H. Frazelle, representing Paul G. Mehlin
& Sons Co., was in town this week.
F. Q. Evans, of the Story & Clark Piano Co., is
in Denver.
Allegheny, Pa., wants a new pipe organ. It is
hinted that Allegheny is jealous of Pittsburg
with her fine new Carnegie organ, and, though
the $10,000 organ which Mr. Carnegie gave to
Allegheny not so many years ago is still used
each and every day, it is estimated that it will
cost $6,000 to bring it up to date, and Mr. Car-
negie therefore is to be asked to give the north
side another and more elaborate instrument.
BUSY TIMES WITH BREWER-PRYOR CO.
E. J. Mcllvaine, Director of Public Works, has
been delegated by the City Council to visit New
(Special to The Review.)
York and lay the matter before Mr. Carnegie. It
Binghamton, N. Y., April 17, 1905.
will be explained among other things that the
Three hundred pianos are in course of con-
town organist has to sit so high when perform-
ing in the Music Hall that he must needs be an struction at the new plant of the Brewer-Pryor
CLARENCE GENNETT IMPROVING.
acrobat in order to get to the different keyboards. Piano Mfg. Co., at the foot of Carroll street, and
the industry has already taken its place among
Clarence Gennett, secretary and treasurer of
the leading concerns of the city. As none but
Falkenstein
Bros.,
of
Hanford,
Cal.,
have
pur-
the Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind., who was
operated on for appendicitis last week, has with- chased the sheet music stock of J. H. Hull. W. P. skilled workmen are employed the wages are
Gillett will have charge of the piano and musi,^ necessarily high and the employes form an un-
stood the shock most satisfactorily, we are glad
usually desirable class of citizens. Representa-
to say, and is steadily improving. Few of the department of this business.
tives of the concern are soon to go on the road
younger generation in the piano trade have more
The Security Piano Co., Bowling Green, Ky., for the purpose of soliciting orders, and It will
friends than Mr. Gennett. and it is the earnest
which is under the management of H. D. Sofge, only be a question of a short time when the ca-
wish of one and all, including The Review, that
pacity of the plant will be increased.
are handling the Krell and Royal pianos.
his convalescence will be rapid,