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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
NEW WEBSTER FACTORY
To be Built
in Leominster, Mass., For Free-
born G. Smith.
(Special to The Review.)
Leominster, Mass., May 23, 1905.
A. E. Lyons has been awarded the contract for
building the new factory that F. G. Smith is to
erect west of the other large factories on West
street, where more than 100 more men will be em-
ployed. The Brooklyn factory is to be moved to
Leominster this fall, and pianos will be made
in the new factory.
Nathan Crosby, the superintendent of the busi-
ness, has been largely instrumental in getting
the new shop and business for Leominster. The
company will make the Webster pianos complete
in Leominster after the middle of August or Sept.
1, when it is expected the new quarters will be
completed.
The new shop is 150 feet long, according to the
plans, and 50 feet wide, and four stories high.
The shop where the Webster pianos were made
in Brooklyn was burned two years ago, and since
that time the company has hired a shop. The
lease of this factory expires in July, and the firm
cannot re-lease it again, though it has been grant-
ed the privilege of having it till the new Leomin-
ster shop is finished.
POPULAR WITH THE DEALERS.
The Boudoir Sextine Is a Piano Which Has
Met With a Big Demand—A Talk With
Manager Lindenberg.
The Columbus Piano Co., Columbus, O., are
manufacturing a unique product and have been
quietly pushing it along trade avenues of distribu-
tion until they have developed a surprisingly
good trade. The illustrations, which have given
a comprehensive idea of the instruments manu-
factured by this company, have appeared in the
various issues of The Review, and in a recent
chat, Paul Lindenberg, the secretary and man-
ager of the company, said: "We are happy to say
that our pianos, especially the 'Boudoir Sextine,'
have made a very favorable impression upon the
trade, and as a result we find ourselves filled with
orders for some time ahead." There are excel-
lent reasons for this, for the Boudoir Sextine
pianos are something wholly different from other
pianos, and their principal attractive feature to
the dealer in this difference is the fact that they
fit in a place not now occupied by any other
make of instrument. The Boudoir Sextine is a
very excellent piano in a 4 foot 4 inch case, hand-
somely finished, which a dealer can afford to sell
at less than $150 and still make a generous profit
on his investment. The demand from people of
moderate means for a really good, serviceable
piano at an extremely moderate price, has really
a much larger demand, in my opinion, than that
for any other kind of instrument, and the field
for the sale of such an instrument, provided only
that it is a good, serviceable and satisfactory
product, should appeal to the dealers in a very
forceful way."
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WINNER IN PEASE CONTEST.
E. W. Curtis Makes 431 Words out of the Ten
Letters Contained in the Words "Pease
Piano Company."
The Pease Piano Co., G57 and 659 Fulton street,
Brooklyn, have awarded the $500 grand upright
piano offered as a prize to the person making the
GORDON PIANO CO. INCORPORATED.
greatest number of words out of the ten different
letters in "Pease Piano Company" to E. W. Cur-
The Gordon Piano Co., of New York, was in- tis, of 65 Pineapple street, who submitted the re-
corporated with the Secretary of the State at markable total of 431 words.
Albany this week with a capital of $25,000. The
The contest was announced several weeks ago
directors are: Chas. Marcell, New York, W. I. and closed on May 19. During that time 1,398 dif-
Burgess, Coitesville, N. Y., and B. A. Gordon, East ferent lists of words were compiled by as many
Orange, N. J.
contestants.
The conditions of the contest were simple. Any
GRIGGS MUSIC HOUSE OPENS BRANCH.
vvord now in use in the English language, using
Webster as authority, was accepted. The same
The Griggs Music House, with piano stores in letter was not to be used more than once in a
Davenport and Kewanee, have opened up a first- word, and words of plural meaning were to ba
class store in Moline, 111., where they are having used once only. Proper nouns and plurals were
a fine line of Conover, Cable, Kingsbury, and Wel- excluded from the Ksts.
lington pianos. W. T. Worth, a well known piano
The winning of the prize entailed many hours
salesman, will have charge.
of patient labor, and it is understood that the suc-
cessful contestant was able- to compile the 431
AT WORK ON WILLIG HOME,
words only by a perusal of every word in the dic-
tionary, beginning with tho letters in the contest
Geo. Willig & Co., the well-known dealers of
phrase.
Baltimore, Md., have commenced work, or at
In addition to the first prize, certificates en-
least the contractors have, on their future home titling the holders to a $100 rebate on a piano
at 218-220 West Franklin street. This property the counterpart of the prize instrument were
was recently purchased by the firm. The altera- awarded to the next twenty-five contestants.
tions include a three-story addition which will ha Three hundred $50 and $25 certificates were also
20 x 44 feet.
given as rewards. The total valuation of the
prizes amounted to $13,000.
A CUSTOMER TO ENTHUSE OVER.
Lee Bunch, a wealthy mining man of Garden
City, la., last week purchased an Aeolian orches-
trelle, a metrostyle pianola, and a Weber piano
from the Eilers piano house, of Portland, Ore.
Theae instruments were delivered in one ship-
ment to Mr. Bunch's home and called for a sixty-
mile trip on a wagon over mountain roads. Not
a bad sale to one man.
DEATH OF MRS. CHAS. W. HELD.
Chas. W. Held, of the Chandler & Held Co.,
Brooklyn, is receiving the sympathy of a host of
friends on the sad and unexpected death of his
wife, which occurred in Ridgewood, N. J., on Fri-
day night of last week, from injuries received
by being struck by a train at the station there.
She had been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ecker-
son, at that place, and was returning to the sta-
tion. Hearing the whistle of the engine, she ran
FREDERICK STEINWAY RETURNS.
across the track with companions, but was struck
Frederick Steinway, of Steinway & Sons, ac- by the locomotive and instantly killed. Mrs. Held
companied by Mrs. Steinway, returned last week was born at West Point about fifty years ago.
from an extensive trip of the Old World. They She is survived by a husband and two children,
visited Egypt, taking in all the points of Biblical Mrs. Harry Eckerson and Carl S. Held. The
interest, such as the Holy Land, the Pyramids, funeral services occurred on Monday night at her
Cairo, and other historic points. Both Mr. and late home, 404 Classon avenue, Brooklyn.
Mrs. Steinway are enjoying splendid health.
The Darrow-Stanclift Music Co., of Tulsa, I. T.,
The Montana Music Co., of Butte, have secured are making a great showing of Kimball pianos,
the representation of the Steck piano. This con- the agency of which they control for the Indian
cern now handle the entire Aeolian-Weber line. Territory.
TO EXCITE YOUR CURIOSITY
Is what we are aiming for. Once you investigate and
give our goods a half-way chance, we have no doubt
as to the result.
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WINTER & CO.
1014-1020 Southern Boulevard
New York