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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
FOREIGN TRADE MARK REGISTRY.
GRETSCH MFG. CO. TO MAKE PIANOS.
Its Importance Emphasized in a Recent De-
cision in Cape Colony.
The Enterprising Manufacturers of Small In-
struments Will Devote 20,000 Square Feet of
Floor Space in Magnificent New Factory to
This Purpose—Has Secured a Competent
Superintendent and Intends to Make a First
Class Piano.
Members of the music trade industry should
make note of the importance of registering a
trade-mark in foreign countries as emphasized by
a recent decision giving to the Dr. William's
Medicine Co., the sole right to use the name
"Pink Pills" in Cape Colony. The court admitted
that the words were a descriptive term, but in-
asmuch as the company had been shrewd enough
to get their trade-mark registered in the country,
so long as the trade-mark stood the court was
bound to keep the fact in view. Thus the early
registration was the means of securing to the
company rights which but for their diligence in
seeking the shelter of the registration laws they
would never have been able to obtain. There is
a lesson in this for all manufacturers.
DOING WELL IN MIDDLETO WN, N. Y.
(Special to The Review.)
Middletown, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1906.
The New York Pianoforte Co., located at 21-25
Railroad avenue, are prospering, and, owing to
their rapidly increasing business, are adding new
machinery and an extra number of employes.
The members of the company, Messrs. Charles
Hagen and John Reufer, are gentlemen who
"know their book" thoroughly, and any business
with which they might be connected would be
sure to succeed.
WEGMAN BUSINESS IS VERY GOOD.
(Sped?' to The Review.)
Auburn, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1906.
In speaking of business conditions, General
Manager W. C. Burgess, of the Wegman Piano
Co., said that he looked for a year of generally
prosperous conditions. There was nothing to in-
dicate a slump in any of the great lines. The
Wegman business for the past twelve months
has been excellent.
Henry Wegman will take a short trip West,
being absent about two weeks, during which
time he will call upon a number of Wegman
agents.
RENOVATED THE PIANO.
In the living room of an eminent artist's coun-
try home stood an old piano, sweet in tone, and
useful for the children's practice hours, but ex-
tremely shabby and battered from long service.
The artist's wife, also an artist, conceived the
billiant idea of painting the piano. She had it
scraped ana herself applied two coats of moss
green paint, the color toning well with the pre-
vailing color in the room. The piano is now a
much admired object.
ORGAN PLANT DAMAGED IN MILWAUKEE.
(Special to The Review.)
Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 22, 1906.
Plant of the Hann-Waugerin-Weickhart Co.,
114-22 Burrell street, manufacturers of pipe or-
gans and church specialties, has been badly dam-
aged by fire, which started in rear of south wing.
Loss, $10,000 on stock and $2,000 on building.
Fully insured. Cause unknown, supposed to be
spontaneous combustion. Damage chiefly due to
water. Two pipe organs, and another one in
course of construction, ruined by water.
SEARCHLIGHT HORN CO. ORGANIZED.
The Searchlight Horn Co. ha,ve been chartered
by the Secretary of the State to make and sell
musical instruments with a capital of $1,000, di-
vided into shares of $25 each. The directors are
Paul B. T. Berner, Charles B. Bogart and G. W.
Miner, of Brooklyn.
MEMBER OF BALL COMMITTEE.
Robert C. Kammerer, secretary of the Steck
Piano Co., was a member of the committee in
charge of the sixteenth annual German charity
ball, which was held .last Thursday evening at
the Waldorf-Astoria for the benefit of the vari-
ous German charity organizations. This affair is
always one of the greatest social functions of the
season, and, of course, "Bob" Kammerer is al-
ways in request when "the good cause" needs
helping along.
MR. AND MRS. C. A. HOUSE ENTERTAIN.
Mr. and Mrs, C. A. House, of Wheeling, W.
Va., recently entertained the employes of the
The Estey organ was the subject of a recent ad- C. A. House Co., at a very charming banquet
vertisement of William H. Keller & Son, of and reception at their home. Some thirty were
Easton, Pa., who have long been identified with in attendance, and the affair was most enjoyable
these instruments. They said: "No instrument in every way.
could have won and maintained the position con-
ceded to the Estey organ without that impelling
A POPULAR SEYBOLD ORGAN STYLE.
force known as quality—that fine degree of qual-
ity sought by experts. Fifty-eight years a leader.
The Seybold Organ Co., of Elgin, 111., are hav-
It was quality which first called the attention of
ing a special call these days for their pipe toned,
experts to the Estey products, and it is that rigid cathedral style E, which is a marvelous instru-
adherence to quality which has made the Estey
ment, suitable |for churches or music halls,
for nearly six decades the leader among organs lodges, schools; in fact, wherever a small pipe
of America."
organ is necessary.
ESTEY ORGAN PRESTIGE.
'USED MAILS TO DEFRAUD."
Richtor Held for Grand Jury on This Alleged
Charge—Accused of Buying a Piano from F.
G. Smith Co. for $300 and Disposing of I t
for $75.00 Cash—Post Office people Claim
That Richtor Has Been Operating Exten-
sively.
(Special to The Review.)
The Fred Gretsch Manufacturing Co., 104 South
Fourth street, Brooklyn, N. Y., who are well-
known as manufacturers of banjos, guitars, man-
dolins, drum heads, have decided to enter into
the manufacture of high grade pianos, and in this
connection they have secured as superintendent
the services of a first-class piano man, who has
been connected with prominent institutions in the
trade.
Two floors of their magnificent new fire-proof
building, which is immediately back of their pres-
ent factory, will be devoted to pianos. This
building is conveniently located near the New East
River Bridge. This floor space will consist of
twenty thousand square feet, and will give them
splendid facilities for their piano business. These
floors will be equipped with the most modern
machinery, and nothing will be overlooked to turn
out a piano that will be a credit to the Gretsch
Co., whose products have always been esteemed
lor their worth.
All preparations have been made for manufac-
turing at a very early date, and they expect to
have pianos on the market before May 1. Two
grades will be turned out. The piano fraternity
will welcome to its ranks such an enterprising
house as the Fred Gretsch Manufacturing Co.
MATTATUCK PIANO CO.'S REPORT.
The annual report of the Mattatuck Piano Co.,
24 East Main street, Waterbury, Conn., has been
filed with the town clerk, and shows the officers
to be the following: President, George W. Lewis:
treasurer, F. H. Lewis; secretary, Helen T. Lewis.
Directors: George W. F. H. and Helen E. Lewis,
all of Waterbury.
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Springfield, Mo., Jan. 20, 1906.
H. D. Richtor, a merchant, living at Ira, Lac-
lf.de County, Mo., who was arrested Saturday by
United States Postal Inspector Spofford on a
charge of using the mails to defraud, received
a preliminary hearing before United States Com-
missioner Pepperdine, here a few days ago, and
was bound over to the Federal Grand Jury under
$1,000 bond.
In Inspector Spofford's report to Chief Inspec-
tor Robert H. Fulton, Richtor is alleged to have
secured pianos, soothing syrup, harrows and
many manufactured articles through misrepre-
sentation. It is said that he secured catalogues
from all of the wholesale houses, and then corre-
sponded with the concerns, representing himself
to be a merchant, druggist and hardware man.
All deliveries were shipped to Lebanon, and
from there delivered to Richtor at Ira, Mo., in a
wagon. When he received the goods, it is al-
leged, he disposed of them at great bargains and
confiscated the money.
The F. G. Smith Piano Co., of St. Louis, sold
Richtor a piano for $300, on credit, and, according
to the postal authorities, Richtor disposed of it to
a man in Lebanon for $75 cash. A large quantity
of soothing syrup from one of the local houses,
and dozens of harrows were also sold to farmers.
it is alleged.
Inspector Fulton said yesterday that he be-
lieved Richtor had gotten goods valued at many
thousand dollars from St. Louis concerns. Dur-
ing his six months' operation he never visted St.
Louis, but made all of his purchases through the
United States mails.
APPROACH THREE BILLION DOLLAR POINT
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, Jan. 25, 1906.
The foreign commerce of the United States ap-
proaches surprisingly near to the three-billion-
dollar point in the calendar year 1905. The
total imports and exports of merchandise, as
shown by the Department of Commerce and
Labor through its Bureau of Statistics, is 2,806
million dollars, against 2,307 millions in 1900,
an average increase of 100 millions a year in
the five-year period. If to the 2,806 millions of
foreign commerce in 1905 were added the fig-
ures of trade with Hawaii and Porto Rico,
formerly foreign territory and included in our
statements of foreign trade prior to 1901, the
total would approximate 2,900 million dollars, or
about 600 millions more than five years ago, and
1,200 millions more than ten years ago.
THE VOUGH PIANO STYLE A LIKED.
(Special to The Review.)
Waterloo, N. Y., Jan. 27, 1906.
Early this month, the Vough Piano Co. began
the sale of their new style A, Vough changeable
pitch piano. The new style is of pleasing design,
with just enough carving upon the case to make
it very attractive. Quite a number of this style
have been shipped to dealers, and many are the
good letters that have been written the company
about it. The praise of new style A given by
dealers, and the acceptance which it has met thus
far, gives assurance that 1906 will make it one
of the most successful Vough styles.
MEXICANS FAVOR MUSIC.
It is a common thing in Mexico to find a high-
grade piano and several high-class musical in-
struments in a Mexican home where there are no
carpets on the floor and where the furniture of
the house is of the most ordinary kind.
E. L. Chase, piano dealer of Los Gatos, Cal.,
has moved to larger quarters in that city.