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WENDELL DECLARED BANKRUPT.
Incomplete Schedule of Liabilities
No Assets of Any Moment.
Filed-
(Special to The lievlew.)
Schenectady, N. Y., April 25, 1910.
Hans Wendell, the local piano dealer, who was
forced into bankruptcy after he had disappeared,
has been declared a bankrupt and schedules of his
liabilities have been filed with Referee Scott.
They are incomplete. There are about 70 credi-
tors, including many Schenectady firms and peo-
ple who gave Wendell extensive credit. No assets
have been discovered by the receiver except an
interest in property at 7 McClellan avenue, Sche-
nectady. Wendell is still at large.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
POST OFFICE REVENUES GROW.
Large Receipts, if Ma'ntained, W i l l Wipe Out
Deficit.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, April 25, 1910.
As the result of increased receipts from nearly
every post office in the country, the postal deficit
is rapidly being wiped out. In a day or two the
postmaster-general will be able to sign an order
returning to the general fund of the treasury
$4,000,000 of the amount transferred to the ac-
count of the postal service. This is the firsi
time in many years that the department's re-
ceipts have justified a reduction of its working
capital by the actual return of money to the
treasury. The increases in receipts since July 1
last have been unprecedented.
Since July 1 last, the beginning of the fiscal
Offer Certificates of Rival House for Sale at
year, postal receipts have gained in the 50 largest
Rate of One Cent on Ten Dollars.
post offices approximately $8,500,COO over the pre-
vious year. This is a little more than one-hair
(Special to The Review.)
of the usual deficit, which is between $18,000,000
Gloversville, N. Y.. April 25, 1910.
and $19,000,000. As this increased income is de-
Cluett & Sons, the well-known piano dealers, rived from the 50 largest office';, with thousands
through their branch house in this city, are mak- of other offices to be heard from, it looks now as
ing a strong fight against a contest being con- though the public will make contributions to the
ducted by another local house and are making Post Office Department that will enable it on June
capital of the certificates that have been dis- 30 next to declare that it is self-sustaining for
tributed in great numbers. Several hundred of the first time in many years.
the certificates are displayed in the Cluett &
Sons' show window, which are offered at the fol-
MASON & HAMLINJQRAND AS PRIZE.
lowing rates: 103 dollar certificates for 13 cents;
90 dollar certificates for 9 cents; 77 dollar certifi- Given to Student of New England Conservatory
cates for 7 cents.
of Music Who Won Contest.
Talking Points
on
Piano Actions
CLUETT & SONS ATTACK CONTEST.
SELLS OUT TO CLOUGH & WARREN CO.
On Friday of last week six students of the
New England Conservatory of Music, Boston,
D. G. Jack Disposes of Interest in Century
Mass., took part in a contest for the possession
Piano Co. to Detroit House.
of a style BB Mason & Hamlin grand piano,
valued at $1,150, which is offered as a prize each
(Special to The Review.)
year to the pupil who makes the best showing
Minneapolis, Minn., April 25, 1910.
at. the special prize recital. The jury who award-
D. C. Jack, who has conducted the business of ed the prize consisted of Director Chadwick, of
the Century Piano Co., this city, for a number the conservatory; Max Fiedler, conductor of the
of years past, has entered another field of busi- Bo:ton Symphony Orchestra, and Charles Martin
ness and has sold his interest in that concern to Loeffler, the well-known composer of Boston. The
the Clough & Warren Co., Detroit, Mich. The Cen- recital was held in Jordan Hall and aroused a
tury Co. are now closing out their entire stock great amount of interest in musical circles.
of Adam Schaaf and Lauter pianos, and in the
future will handle only the Clough & Warren in-
A. B. FURLONG CO. INCORPORATED.
struments, a large stock of which is now in the
warerooms.
The A. B. Furlong Piano Co. is the style of
DEALERS INTERESTED IN SUIT
Of Starr Piano Co. and Piano Purchaser—Will
Settle Legal Question of Importance.
The piano dealers of Toledo, Ohio, are much
interested in the case now before the courts of
the Starr Piano Co. against Eleanor M. Stock,
of that city, and which it is believed will settle
the point as to how long a purchaser may keep
a piano before making a claim that it is im-
perfect and having the purchase price returned.
Mrs. Stock had purchased a piano and a piano
player on the instalment plan, and had paid
$530 before she made the claim that the in-
struments were not as represented. In the
lower court Mrs. Stock was awarded a judgment
against the piano company for the amount paid
on the instruments, 'but the piano people ap-
pealed the case. Naturally the piano dealers
are interested in having a legal opinion as to
where their responsibility ends and where that
of the purchaser begins.
GET AGENCY FOR AEOLIAN CO. LINE.
a new concern to file incorporation papers at
Albany, N. Y., the past week, with a capital
stock of $1,000. The incorporators are: Blek
B. Ludvigh, Harry Harris and Henry G. Wiley,
all of New York. The new company, which is
headed by A. B. Furlong, vice-president of the
Universal Piano Co., will manufacture pianos ex-
clusively. The concern will commence manufac-
turing operations next week ;it 144th street and
Whitlock avenue.
ATLANTA HOUSE TO HANDLE ORGANS.
The Cleveland, Manning & Carder Co., who re-
cently opened piano warerooms in Atlanta, Ga.,
handle the John Church Co. line of pianos as
well as the Lindeman player-pianos, and are ne-
gotiating for the agency of a line of reed and
pipe organs, for which they think there is a de-
mand in their territory.
WILL NOT RENT PIANOS TO CAMPERS.
Several of the large piano houses of Omaha.
Neb., have declared that they will not rent pianos
to those occupying bungalows or camps near the
neighboring lake resorts. Besides the smallness
of the amount received for the pianos during
the summer, there is the fact to be considered
that the instruments are generally returned in
very bad condition.
Carter & Logan Bros., the new piano house
of Savannah, Ga., who contemplate opening
numerous branches in the South, and already
have a store in Macon, Ga., have secured the
agency for the. entire Aeolian Co. line of pianos
for all their stores. The company are arranging
Ernest E. Landon. manager of the piano de-
to open a branch in Jacksonville, Fla., at an
partment of Chambers & Megahan department
early date.
store. Williamsport, Pa., recently sold an Auto-
Albert H. Kearns has opened a new piano store piano of special design to the Moose Lodge in
at 5 South Ninth street, Reading, Pa.
that city.
Strauch Bros, have
consistently adhered to
a fixed selling policy
adopted by them at the
inception of their busi-
ness. This policy has
been to sell their piano
actions only to manufac-
turers of pianos of qual-
ity and merit. Making 1
but one grade of action,
and that the best, they
were determined that
the
Strauch
action
should always be identi-
fied with pianos of the
higher grades, and from
tli is course they have
never deviated.
The consequence has
been that the Strauch ac-
tions have been uni-
versally associated with
pianos of accepted worth
in the public mind, and
the use of a Strauch ac-
tion has therefore come
to be accepted as an ad-
ditional guarantee to the
purchaser of the grade of
the instrument.
This
fact is so well known
that the manufacturer
who uses the Strauch ac-
tions thus supplies his
dealers with one of the
strongest selling argu-
ments they can advance
in disposing of his prod-
uct.