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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
terial, $1,936; 2 cases music, $190; 8 cases or- Jury on the charge of making a false statement
gans, $4,379; 50 cases piano players and ma- to a commercial agency. While a detective was
Kohler & Campbell Piano Selected as First Prize
terial, $11,042; 50 cases piano material, $5,500; on his way to Indianapolis with a warrant, Levin
in Wheelman's Annual Road Race—Cool
522 pkgs. talking machines and material, $9,530; was "tipped off" and fled. Later in the year he
Weather
Injures
Business—Starr Co.'s
1 case music, $125.
surrendered, and promised to make a confession
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Display
Signs—Exploiting The-
Manchester—11 pkgs. talking machines and ma- and restitution. Negotiations, however, fell
'' modist Piano—Other Items.
terial, $458.
through.
Naples—4 cases pianos and material, $800.
Two more indictments were found against him,
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(Special to The Review.)
Rio de Janeiro—2 cases organs and material, and he was released under $5,000 bail. When
Detroit, Mich., May 27, 1907.
$275.
the case was called on May 10, 1905, Levin failed
Twenty-one leading Detroit bicycle dealers paid
Savanilla—4 pkgs. talking machines and ma- to appear. He was found in Baltimore, brought
a tribute to the Kohler & Campbell pianos, terial, $126; 1 case pianos and material, $296.
back, tried, convicted and sentenced to not less
handled in this city by the F. J. Bayley music
Southampton—1 case pianos and material, than three years in State prison. He got a stay
house, when they selected one of these instru- $250; 2 cases musical instruments, $145.
on appeal in April.
ments, style H, to offer for first prize at the De-
Sydney—5 cases music, $704; 33 cases organs,
troit Wheelman's annual road race at Belle Isle $3,239; 6 cases pianos and material, $1,100; 22
"CRESCENT^CIJY" NOTES.
park on Memorial Day, May 30. The piano is on cases piano players and material, $4,576.
Trade Rather Quiet Owing to Unfavorable
display in the show window of the Bayley music
Tampico—13 cases pianos and material, $3,672;
Weather—The Cotton Crop Below the Aver-
house.
10 cases music, $914.
age—The New Junius Hart Building—Will
Weather conditions the last few weeks have
Trinidad—3 cases organs, $106.
be a Palatial Structure—Ready in October.
been very discouraging to piano dealers here.
Valparaiso—6 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
When all that is needed to make trade hum is a terial, $859; 4 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
(Special (o The Review.)
stretch of warm weather the cold winds persist terial, $139; 2 cases organs, $5,010.
New Orleans, La., May 25, 1907.
in blowing and the sky remains cloudy. Farmers
Vienna—7 pkgs. talking machines and ma- Trade here since spring opened up has been
throughout the State are behind with their crops terial, $261.
quiet; in fact, we have had almost no spring at
and this is having a decided tendency to make
Vera Cruz—2 cases music, $430.
all, as January and February were really as
trade backward.
Wellington—7 cases organs and material, $256. warm as it is now. That started the crops go-
The Starr Piano Co.'s Michigan branch house
ing, and then we had our winter in March and
here is distributing to dealers throughout the
BANKRUPT
VERDICT
STANDS.
April, which set them a!l back. If we have a
State novel electrical display signs, which have
good season from now on our cotton crop will
been manufactured for the Richmond, Ind., con Conviction of Levin for Commercial Fraud Af- not run over 75 per cent., but if the weather con-
cern. It is an attractive display for the interior
firmed by Appellate
Division—Conviction
tinues like it has been for the last few weeks,
of any piano store. The electric illumination
First of Kind in This Country.
crops down here will not be over 50 per cent, of
works in flashes, making the sign one that will
the average. Money is tight, collections are slow,
attract instantaneous notice.
Piano manufacturers as well as others will be and business generally is not what it ought to be.
' F. J. Schwankovsky's music house is advertis- interested to know that the Appellate Division However, if there comes a great stringency in
ing a sale of pianos at wholesale prices.
of the Supreme Court has just affirmed unani- the money market throughout the country, the
iGrinnell Bros, are using considerable news- mously the conviction of Louis Levin, thereby South will be in as good shape to stand it as
paper space to exploit the Themodist piano, of recording, in the opinion of a number of large any other section of the United States.
which they recently obtained the agency for the commercial houses and bankers, a very important
The new building which is being erected for
Sgjate. C. A. Grinnell predicts a successful fu- chapter in the history of the prosecution of com- the Junius Hart Piano House, Ltd., on the cor-
tftre for the instrument.
mercial fraud.
ner of University piace and. Canal street, is a
H. T. Schmidt made a tour of the State
Several years ago Levin was convicted of large four-story structure, running from the cor-
branches of the Cable Company last week. He grand larceny committed by means of a false ner back to the one million dollar annex of the
says he found business conditions more encour- commercial statement to a commercial agency. Grunewald Hotel. The annex is going to be
aging in the State than in Detroit.
The conviction was the first of the kind in made the main entrance to the hotel, and the
Jerome H. Remick & Co., music publishers, are the country. Prior to Levin's trial it was as- Junius Hart Piano House will have the only
exploiting a new march two-step, "Curly," writ- sumed that grand larceny could not be committed store between it and Canal street, which makes
ten by Miss Charlotte Blake. The piece has just in such a case unless the statement was signed by the location one especially desirable.
come off the press.
the defendant and given directly to the creditor.
It is worthy of note that this is the first re-
Levin's swindle was one of the sensations of moval that the Junius Hart House has ever un-
the day in business circles, and it took two years dertaken, inasmuch as they now occupy the same
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OUR FOREIGNJ^JSTOMERS.
to obtain the evidence and to prepare the case building in which the business was first estab-
Pianos and Other Musical Instruments Shipped
against him. After defrauding creditors, he took lished by Mr. Hart in the early seventies. In
|;from the Port of New York for the Week.
the goods and proceeds to another city and the new building they will have eleven parlors
started in business again.
beside two general warerooms and music hall,
(Special to The Review.)
Levin, up to June, 1903, was an underwear also several studios for prominent teachers' use.
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Washington, D. C, May 27, 1907.
manufacturer at 119 Bleecker street. In Decem- A part of the building will be occupied by the
The following were the exports of musical in- ber, 1902, he went to a commercial agency and Ashton Music Co., Ltd., of this city, which is con-
struments and kindred lines from the Port of made a statement of his affairs. His liabilities trolled by J. P. Simmons, president and general
New York for the week just ended:
he declared amounted to $16,000, and he owed manager of the Junius Hart Piano House, Ltd.,
Acajutla—1 case piano material, $323.
$8.,000 to banks besides. His assets, however, and Paul T. Ashton, who was with the Werlein
Alexandria—4 pkgs. ta'king machines and ma- amounted to $69,000, he said.
house for twenty years. Small goods, sheet mu-
terial, $104.
In the six months following the giving out of sic and talking machines will be handled by this
Berlin—24 pkgs. talking machines and ma- this statement, he.bought goods on credit, cau- company.
terial, $1,641; 2 cases piano players and ma- tiously and gradually. He told the credit man of
In a chat with Mr. Simmons, he stated that he
terial, $450; 101 pkgs. talking machine and ma- business houses that his statement to the com- expected to be fully equipped and ready for
terial, $460.
mercial agency was correct to the least detail. He business about the first of October.
Bristol—29 pkgs. talking machines and ma- got goods readily, and by the end of June, 1903,
terial, $163.
had received consignments valued at $65,000.
Buenos Ayres—4 cases pianos and material, Then, on June 27, he disappeared.
$634.
A petition of involuntary bankruptcy was filed
ii ^Calcutta—9 cases organs, $300.
against him, but when Receiver Addison S. Platt
THE BEST IN THE WORLD
" Callao—6 pkgs. talking machines and material, went to Levin's place of business there were no
Simple, Durable and Absolutely Noiseless
$2,904.
goods to be found, and the fixtures had been
NOT AFFECTED BY CLIMATE
Guayaquil—7 pkgs. talking machines and ma- mortgaged to a woman money lender.
terial, $531.
The creditors organized a committee, with
The
Hamburg—4 cases pianos and material, $437; Julius Henry Cohen and McFarland, Taylor &
15, cases pianos and material, $1,064; 7 cases Costello as its counsel. They soon found that
pikno players and material, $1,550.
he had misrepresented his affairs in every direc-
!|Havana—6 pkgs. talking' machines- and ma- tion. He owed $29,304 instead of $8,000 to banks,
terial, $603; 45 pkgs. talking machines and ma- and his other liabilities were $55,000 instead of
Annoyance and Expense
terial, $993; 3 cases music, $121.
$16,000. Nothing could be learned about his
Saved Dealer and Purchaser
Havre—53 pkgs. talking machines and material, assets, as he took his books away with him.
$875; 3 pkgs. music rolls, $123.
After a lot of detective work, it was found that
Manufactured and aold only by
Kingston—2 cases pianos and material, $214.
he had shipped the goods in cases to San Fran-
La Guaira—9 pkgs. talking machines and ma cisco, Chicago and Indianapolis. Forty-three
terial, $1,278.
cases went to Indianapolis. Two days after he
CLIFTON H. NORRIS
ALBERT F. NORRIS
Lausanne—1 case pianos, $2,000.
reached the latter city he opened a business as
London—45 pkgs. talking machines and ma- the Western Undergarment Co.
3 Appleton Street, Boston, Mass.
terial, $1,945; 8 cases piano players and ma- On September 23 he was indicted by the Grand
TRADE HAPPENINGS IN DETROIT.
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