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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
13
VOUQH BUSINESS SATISFACTORY.
ASCHERFELD FOUND GUILTY
CHICKERING AT PORTLAND FAIR.
Secretary Becker Tells of Pleasing Conditions.
And Will be Sentenced Next Monday—Long
Search by Jacob Bros, for a Former Em-
ploye.
One of the Oldest as Well as Most Modern of
These Instruments to be Shown in the
Massachusetts
Building—Henry
Eilers
Found Much Enthusiasm for the Fair in the
East—An Interesting Chat.
(Special to The Review.)
Waterloo, N. Y., June 3, 1905.
Charles D. Becker, secretary of the Vough
Piano Co., expresses himself in enthusiastic
terms regarding the business. He said that May,
1905, had been the banner month in the number
of shipments for the Vough Piano Co. "We are
very well pleased with the outlook at the present
time, and we expect the coming month will be
very nearly as busy for us as was May. It has
been difficult for us to keep in sight of the orders
upon our books. The demand for the 'Vough
Changeable Pitch Pianos' has been greater by a
half than for the same month last year.
"Our sales manager, Mr. Skinner, is now in the
Middle Western States and has sent us some very
gratifying reports. Besides doing a good busi-
ness with old friends there he has given the
Vough agency to some of the best-known dealers
in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, and he
assures us that that section will be strong for the
Vough."
SOME GRUNEWALD PLANS.
Changes in the Warerooms—Big Hotel Which
Will be the Largest in New Orleans.
(Special to The Review.)
New Orleans, June 2, 1905.
The carpenters are now arranging to make
some big alterations on the ground floor of the
present Grunewald establishment. They are go-
ing to have a special department fitted up for
talking machines in these warerooms.
W. N. Grunewald, when seen relative to the
new hotel, said:
"Regarding the Grunewald Hotel Annex, I can
report progress; the old Mechanics' Institute and
other places have been torn down already and
the pile-drivers will soon get busy; there are sev-
eral thousand pilings to be driven 70 feet down;
this will make a magnificent foundation for the
immense structure which is to adorn that sec-
tion; we would like you to be here when we lay
the corner-stone. This will give us nearly 500
more rooms, with modern baths in every suite, a
swimming pool, and Turkish bath with white
marble, onyx, etc., etc. The accommodations in
this fireproof building will be up-to-date in every
respect. We will have rooms from $1.50 a day
up to $25 per day.
"We figure on an expense of $1,000,000; but
perhaps it will not stop at this figure; there are
always additions and extras."
Gustave Ascherfeld, who was extradited and
brought back to Brooklyn to stand trial on the
charge of embezzlement from Jacob Bros., was
up before Judge Aspinall in the Criminal Part
of the County Court in Brooklyn on Monday, and
was found guilty. He will be sentenced on Mon-
day next.
Some seven years ago, as already detailed in
The Review, Ascherfeld was manager for Jacob
Bros.' piano store in Broadway, Brooklyn. Certain
shortages having been discovered, approximating
$1,400, he was arrested. After securing some
people to give bonds for his appearance in court
he disappeared. The bonds, of course, were for-
feited, much to the disappointment and sorrow
of those who had faith in Ascherfeld.
For a time it was almost impossible to get
trace of Ascherfeld, but Jacob Bros, never
dropped the pursuit. They traced him to Europe
and from Europe back to the United States, and
only recently located him in a Western town,
where he was again engaged in the piano busi-
ness.
If firms who have been victimized by rascals
were as persistent as Jacob Bros, in running them
to earth there would be less embezzlements in
the music trade industry.
CANTATA TO BE GIVEN
By the Employes of Strawbridge & Clothier,
Philadelphia—Piano Men to Participate.
(Special to The Review.)
Philadelphia, Pa., June 5, 1905.
Frederick H. Cowen's melodious cantata, "The
Rose Maiden," has never been given under con-
ditions so auspicious and amid such a charming
environment as the prospective open-air produc-
tion by the Strawbridge & Clothier Rose Festival
Chorus, at Willow Grove Park, on the evening of
June 14. The chorus consists of more than one
hundred selected singers from the Strawbridge &
Clothier corps of employes, trained by Herbert J.
Tily, general manager of the store, who has
brought to the task of developing these many
voices into a unified chorus not only the musi-
cian's knowledge and interpretative insight, but
much personal enthusiasm and tireless interest.
The Strawbridge & Clothier Chorus will be as-
sisted by the Victor Herbert Orchestra, and both
will be under the direction of Mr. Tily.
(Special to The Review.)
Portland, Ore., June 2, 1905.
Hy. Eilers, president of Eilers Piano House,
who left for the East the middle of last March,
has just returned to Portland. During this time
he has visited every eastern city of prominence,
and principally the large piano manufacturing
centers. While in Boston, Mr. Eilers attended
the convention of Chickering dealers, which
meets annually at the old time-honored Chicker-
ing factory, the oldest established institution of
its kind in America.
This house will be represented in the Massa-
chusetts building at the Lewis and Clark Fair,
with the first Chickering ever made by them in
1823, and one of their modern grands. Repre-
sentative dealers from every section of the United
States, who were present at the meeting, were
supplied liberally with Lewis and Clark centen-
nial and other Oregon literature, with a result
that a gentleman from Maine, two from Massa-
chusetts, one from Alabama and one from Ohio
stated to Mr. Eilers that they had decided to
spend their vacation at Portland this summer.
Mr. Eilers pointed out that much interest was
being displayed in the Fair by the Eastern pa-
pers, and instanced that the Boston Herald i s
running a great New England school contest in
which the prizes to the teachers are special round
trips to the Lewis and Clark Exposition. He also
noted that the New York Sunday papers have de-
voted considerable space to Portland and the
Fair.
"I am glad to note," continued Mr. Eilers,
"that our people generally are accepting our pres-
ent prosperous conditions and steady growth as
a thoroughly natural one, and one that is not
developed abnormally, and merely temporarily on
account of our exposition, as a good many cal-
amity criers were trying to have us believe sev-
eral months back in their groundless vocifera-
tions to look out for a slump after the Fair. We
must bear in mind," he continued, "that even
the East is growing and developing at a tremen-
dous rate, and the Pacific Coast, on account of
its unique position and its almost numberless ad-
vantages, must naturally be the scene of greatest
activity. It is bound to remain so for years to
come."
E. A. GREEN LEAVES FOR EUROPE.
COMMISSIONER BILL HONORED.
J. B. Chamberlain has joined the forces of the
Jesse French Piano Co., in Birmingham, Ala.
He will take the position of city sales manager
and general representative in the sales depart-
ment for Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.
J. H. Holcombe is the general manager.
E. A. Green, the well-known piano dealer of
Lynn, Mass., left New York on June 7 by the
SS. Oceanic for Europe. He will visit many
points of interest in the old world ere his return
to his home in Lynn.
Leonard Davis has been promoted to manager
of the store of the Poster-Armstrong Co., located
at 263 River street, Troy, N. Y.
The Richardson, Phillips Co., of Seymour, la.,
has been having a large demand for Price &
Teeple pianos.
Edward Lyman Bill, treasurer of the New York
World's Fair Commission, has received a notice
from President David R. Francis, under date of
June 1, that by direction of the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition Co., a commemorative diploma
and a commemorative medal was conferred upon
Commissioner Bill in special recognition of his
active interest and efficient co-operation in the
Universal Exposition of 1904.
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