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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Destinn, Messrs. Caruso, Slezak, Renaud, etc.
The firm, therefore, in planning this new building
decided to introduce a reception room on the
Secure Control of 433 Fifth Avenue, New York, and Will Erect Unique and Costly Building to
ground floor where artists may find at their dis-
be Known as the Hardman House—Is Right in the Heart of the Finest Retail District—
posal every convenience in case they wish to
Will Be Devoted Exclusively to the Sale of Pianos—Will Be Handsomely Equipped.
write letters or make it a meeting place with
friends.
An interpreter who speaks German,
Monday Hardman, Peck & Co., New York, ground floor entrance will be particularly impres-
French, Italian, as well as English, will always
sive
with
large
bronze
candle
sticks
at
the
signed a lease for twenty-one years at an aggre-
be on hand. The firm will also probably serve
gate rental of $750,000 for the premises 433 entrance and the show window will be set in a
tea in this room in the afternoons to customers
border
of
white
marble
elaborately
carved.
The
Fifth avenue, and will erect thereon the most
and visitors who may, at the same time, have the
unique showrooms in New York. This building, walls and ceiling of the entire ground floor will
opportunity in this way of becoming acquainted
between Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streets, be built of Caen stone. The ceilings will be
arched and elaborately carved in stone and a with the world's most prominent artists. The
will be located in what is known as the heart of
remainder of the first floor will be devoted to the
exhibition of a half a dozen art pianos in various
designs of cases. No selling will be done on the
ground floor.
The second floor will be entirely devoted to
the sale and exhibition of grand pianos. On the
third floor will be exhibited a full line of Hard-
man upright pianos; the fourth floor to Harring-
ton uprights. The fifth and sixth floors will be
given over to the sale and exhibition of the
Autotone. These instruments will be displayed
in sound-proof rooms. There will also be private
rooms in which to try perforated music rolls.
Besides this, there will be on almost every floor
a room decorated in some period design, such as
Louis XV, Louis XVI, Mission, Colonial, Adams,
Sheraton, etc., each containing only one piano
to match the particular style of decoration of the
room. This is being done so that a prospective
purchaser may see how the piano case will match
the style of decoration which he may want to
introduce in his own home. The rooms and
pianos will be designed by one of New York's
foremost decorators and will, each of them, be
a work of art in its particular style. It is stated
that one of these rooms will cost about $20,000
to decorate. The basement will be occupied by
second-hand pianos and shipping rooms.
The building will be finished about April 1,
1911.
Alfred L. Peck, president of the firm,
stated to The Review that the dedication of this
new piano palace will take place about March 1
next and. that many of the most prominent opera
singers have promised to be present and lend
their assistance to make the occasion a memor-
able one.
HARDMAN, PECK & CO.'S NEW FIFTH AVE. HOME.
TO ARBITRATE FREIGHT RATES.
Interstate Commission Will Act on Appeal of
Eastern Trunk Lines.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, May 14, 1910.
At a conference with representatives of the
Eastern trunk line railways and commercial
bodies in Boston, New York, Baltimore and Phil-
adelphia to-day, the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission agreed to arbitrate the import traffic
question, which has resulted in a rate war
among the Eastern railroads.
The matter has been thrashed out thoroughly
by the railroads and commercial bodies, but no
arrangement of the controversy appeared possi-
ble until the suggestion was made that the com-
mission be requested to arbitrate. In no other
way could the questions be brought before the
commission.
The commission agreed to arbitrate, but in-
timated that nothing could be done until next
autumn, a temporary arrangement governing the
rates until the commission shall act.
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HARDMAN, PECK & CO.'S PALATIAL HOME ON FIFTH
the finest retail district, between the new depot
of the Pennsylvania Railroad and that of the
New York Central, one of the finest piano loca-
tions in the city.
The building will be designed by the architects,
Francis G. Stewart and Harry Allen Jacobs. The
exterior will be in Italian style, built in white
marble with a colonade on the second floor,
separated by columns of Pavanavva marble. Be-
tween these columns will stand large, carved
marble boxes filled with flowers. The back of the
colonade will be of xFrench plate glass. The
AVENUE.
circular marble stairway, which will be one of
the features of the building, will run up to the
second floor. Over this stairway will be a dome
of leaded glass which will shed light into the
rear of the show rooms. This is the first time
that a salesroom has been built entirely of Caen
stone. It was usually used only in private
houses on account of its costliness.
The Hardman warerooms have lately become a
rendezvous for the great musicians visiting New
York. It is no uncommon thing to meet there on
an afternoon Madame Tetrazzini or Madame
INCORPORATE WITH CAPITAL OF $200,000.
The Knight-Brinkerhoff Piano Co., whose fac-
tory is located at Brazil, Ind., has been incor-
porated in that State with a capital stock of
$200,000. C. Y. McClure, who was formerly as-
sociated with Mr. Knight in the piano business
in Denver, is the new treasurer.
Geo. R. Rewbridge has been appointed man-
ager of the F. W. Fredericks piano store in Pitts-
burg, Pa. This is a well deserved promotion, as
Mr. Rewbridge was for several years cashier of
the company.