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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1912 Vol. 54 N. 24

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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
excess premium on the ground that the goods
would have been safely delivered anyway.
This situation is called to the attention of the
All Practical, Experienced Men, Thoroughly Acquainted with Every Detail of the Business and
members of this association in order that they
Trained by the Founders of the Institution for the Important Offices Which They Now
may be informed of the liability they are assuming
Occupy—Charles Muhlenfels' Long Service Suitably Recognized by His Associates.
when making shipments by express without de-
claring the true value if it exceeds $50 or more
They have been brought up to carry on the than 50 cents per pound if the shipment weighs
• In last week's Review appeared an announce-
ment of changes made in the directorate of the business established by their fathers.
more than 100 pounds.
They naturally take pride in the history of tho
corporation of Wessell, Nickel & Gross caused by
In the event of loss of a package of greater
business and reputation justly earned for the value than that assumed by the express companies
Wessell, Nickel & Gross product.
in their ordinary form of receipt, the shipper
The recognition in the directorate accorded would be liable for failure to declare the proper
Chas. Muhlenfels is a tribute to a man who has value, thereby placing his customer in a position
labored long and faithfully in behalf of the in- where he could not recover the full amount of the
terests of this great corporation.
invoice; and this would hold even if the goods
Mr. Muhlenfels commenced with the business were sold f. o. b. shipping point; for unless the
nearly a quarter of a century ago, and 'by his de- shipper has instructions from the consignee to
votion to the enterprise has won a position of great
use the ordinary form of receipt, without declaring
i esponsibility, having had charge of the office de- any extra value, in the-event «f its being greater
tail.
than that assumed by the express companies, if
The new honor which he has won is a splendid lost or damaged, the consignee would undoubtedly
with very good reason set up the defense that the
shipper's act alone prevented him from recover-
ing from the carrier. Court decisions support
such a contention.
If the merchant's customer objects to paying
the premium for the excess value, the merchant
should at once inform the customer of the situa-
tion, and ask for specific authority to send all
future shipments without declaration of the true
value. When this has been done, the shipper
has recourse against the customer in the case of
loss, while the customer can collect no more than
Fernando A. Wessell, President, W . , , N . & G.
the liability assumed by the express company in
its receipt.
the death of Adam Nickel, who was the last of
Wherever the method of doing business is
the founders of this great piano action enterprise
such
that the shipping department does not know
to pass away.
the
value
of a shipment at the time it goes for-
The men who will now guide the destinies of the
ward, arrangements can be made for insuring on
corporation have long been officers of the com-
an open policy. A number of insurance com-
pany and have been associated with it from thei"
panies make a feature of writing such policies,
earliest manhood.
and the premium is about the same as that charged
Fernando A. Wessell, who is the new president,
by the express companies when insured on the re-
has been the hustling head of the business for a
ceipt.
long time.
One instance of loss called to the attention of
Mr. Wessell is a keenly practical man and is
the
Traffic Bureau where the customer set up
well equipped to fill the duties incident to his of-
fice with credit and ability.
The other officers, Arthur L. Wessell, who is
now vice-president; Henry A. Nickel, treasurer,
and Chas. Muhlenfels, secretary, have been con- Arthur L. Wessell, Vice-President, W., N. & G.
nected with the enterprise since they began active
tribute to his ability and to his faithful perform-
business.
ance of his duties for many years past.
Fernando A. Wessell, Arthur L. Wessell and
Henry A. Nickel are sons of the founders of the
ANENT SHIPPER^ LIABILITY.
industrv.
NEW OFFICERS OF WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS.
Some Valuable Suggestions Made by the Traffic
Bureau of the Merchants' Association in
Relation to Liability for Express Shipments.
Henry A. Nickel, Treasurer, W., N. & G.
A subject of interest to mediants generally
came up last week in an application made to the
t"affic bureau of the Merchants' Association of
New York for information regarding a shipper's
liability for goods sold f. o. b. shipping point when
forwarded to a customer by express.
The case in point covered articles valued at
more than $50 (or more than 50 cents per pound
when weighing over 100 pounds) which were
^o!d f. o. b. New York, and forwarded by express
without declaration of the excess value. On sev-
eral such shipments which were lost by the express
companies, the companies refused to pay the ship-
pc, for the reason that the shipper had failed to
declare the true value of the shipment, and the
consignees were thereby estopped from collecting
the full value of the goods from the express com-
pany.
Tn another case which was just the reverse of
the above, the shipper had declared the actual
value of a number of shipments, but the consignee
had refused to pay the insurance rate demanded
by the express company, and had charged the
amount of the extra premium to the shipper.
The shipper in such cases is "between two
ires": if he does not declare the value the cus-
tomer deducts for any loss caused by such failure
to declare, and if he does declare it and the goods
arrive safely the customer refuses to pay the
Charles Muhlenfels, Secretary, W., N. & G.
the defense that he had been estopped from col-
lecting his claim for a lost shipment which was
not insured for its face value, was sufficient to
pay for $100,0.00 worth of excess insurance.
If you desire a man for any department of
your service, either for your factory or for
your selling department, forward your adver-
tisement to The Review and it will be inserted
free of charge.
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THE
Changes in Milner Musical Co. Location—
—High-Class Talking Machine Store Looked
For—Interest Shown in H. C. Kibbey's Suit
Against the Piano Player Mfg. Co.—A Dis-
couraging Experience in "Exporting"—Per-
sonal Items of General Interest—Trade News
of the Week Carefully Summarized.
(Special to The Review.)
Cincinnati, O., June 11, 1912.
A high-class talking machine store will take the
place of the Milner Musical Co., on Sixth avenue,
near Vine street. This appears to be the situation
ar this writing. It is believed that the Lyric Piano
Co., of Race street, will take over the piano line
of the former house.
Tentative plans along the line indicated have
been mapped out, and if these go through it is
certain that Raymond Stodler, now manager of
the Sixth avenue store, will become the head of
the new business. The names of those who are
interested in the new venture cannot be obtained
at this time. All the principals seem to be against
committing themselves to a definite statement until
the entire situation is cleared up. There is good
reason to believe that the hase will be extended
and a bang-up talkirg machine business launched
in Cincinnati.
The suit of the Piano Player Mfg. Co.'s former
manager, H. C. Kibbey, a former resident of Chi-
cago, against that corporation, may bring forth
some startling developments. Kibbey cannot be
reached, and James J. McCourt and his associates,
who invested money in this business, may have
some interesting news for the trade when the case
is called. The sheriff has not yet served papers
upon McCourt, and consequently the latter is not
talking for publication.
Kibbey, in his suit for the recovery of stock,
alleges that the shares, worth about $7,000, were
placed in the safe of the company for safekeeping,
and that when lie demanded them on*June 1 he
was unable to secure same. The riling of the suit
followed. It is practically admitted that the stock
was there and that a fight would be made against
returning the paper to Kibbey. It is claimed that
there was something wrong about the sale of a
rewind invention to the company; that its patent
papers were not all that these were cracked up to
be, and that this fact will be brought out in the
hearing, as well as the information that Kibbey or
Christman Grand Pianos
Christman Upright Players
Grand Pianos, Upright
Pianos and Player Actions
That can be installed
in all the different
makes of pianos :: ::
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th Street
New York City
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
a company in which he was interested at Chi-
cago, filed bankruptcy proceedings in the Windy
City in January, 1911. It is intimated that Kibbey
at that -time had assets which were not made- a
part of the court records and that there has been
no final discharge from these proceedings. The
Cincinnati company makes player and electric ac-
tions for the trade. McCourt, the principal owner,
was formerly in the piano retail business.
The Piano & Heavy Box Truck Mfg. Co., To-
ledo, with a capitalization of $20,0(10, has been in-
corporated by A. T. Raynor, W. F. Runkle, Henry
Hoppenburg, E. M. Hoppenburg and James Long.
Dr. Ernest Kunwald, the new conductor of the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, arrived in the
city the latter part of last week and was given
an enthusiastic reception. On Saturday afternoon
the Musicians' Club entertained the visitor at their
summer home, Mt. Lookout, in Kentucky. Among
the trade representatives were Howard Wurlitzer,
Secretary Van Court, of the Otto Grau Piano Co.;
Manager Summey, of the Cable Piano Co., and
Mr. Bsinkamp, of the Church-Beinkamp Co. The
latter took part in a game of baseball and distin-
guished himself with several "Cy" stunts. The
teams were in charge of Edwin Glover and Philip
Werthner. While Dr. Kunwald was being enter-
tained in Cincinnati his predecessor, Leopold Sto-
kowski, was being offered the conductorship of
the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Herman Thuman, prominent as a musical critic,
became a Benedict on Thursday.
The Otto Zimmerman & Sons Co., music print-
ers, this city, incorporated for $5,000 under the laws
of Kentucky on Saturday. None of the stock will
be offered for sale.
Recently the R. Wurlitzer Co. decided to make
an effort to reach the South American trade with
its automatic line of goods, and Edmond D. Girar-
dot, a foreigner, who appeared to have exception-
ally good qualifications for such an undertaking,
was engaged and started for Cuba. Things did
not appear just right and when he returned to the
city last Thursday and engaged a suite of rooms
at the Sinton Hotel at $35 a day—his weekly com-
pensation being $25—an investigation followed.
This resulted in his being arrested on a charge
of embezzling $1,100, although the sum taken is
said to be considerably more, tie was arrested
and taken from a train while en route to New
York City. Since then he has been in jail, unable
to find a bondsman.
Manager Ed. Roberts, of the Baldwin Co., will
sail from New York City's harbor this morning
for a trip to Europe. His friends contributed ma-
terially toward the comforts of a traveler.
E. G. Hereth, of Indianapolis, and H. C. Dickin-
son, of Chicago, were in town last week.
Geo. B. Jennings, who sold his music store about
two years ago in order to join with the Willis
Music Co., has severed his connection with that
company and on July 1 will open up a similar
business at his old location with the W. G. Wood-
rr.ansee Co. Jennings is now in New York City
arranging for his stock.
No vice-president of the Krell Piano Co. has
been selected as yet.
President Frank A. Lee, of the John Church
Co., made a flying trip to Chicago last week.
Thomas P. Clancy, now in charge of the auto-
matic department of the R. Wurlitzer Co. at Chi-
cago, has been made sales manager of all- auto-
matic branches and .will make Cincinnati his head-
quarters.' He will be succeeded by C. Waiss.
NOW WITH CHASE & BAKER CO.
Charles de Ved Passage, Jr., formerly, with the
Passage Music House, Towanda, Pa., is now travel-
ing for the Chase & Baker Co., Buffalo, N. Y., and
has already closed some excellent business for that
house in northern New Yi>rk State.
. A. S. SHONINGER MARRIED.
The many friends of Alexander S. Shoninger, of
the B. Shoninger Co., have -received announcements
of his marriage to Miss Mabelle Clarke in-Ports-,
mouth, Va., recently. The couple spent their honey-
moon in the South.
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Victor-Victrola
Music dealers have
seen the Victor-Victrola
take f o r e m o s t place
among the world's
musical instruments.
They have seen pres-
tige and profits come
to dealers from their
a s s o c i a t i o n with this
greatest of all musical
instruments.
They have seen the
Victor -Victrola elevate
t h i s b r a n c h of t h e
musical industry from
comparative i n s i g n i fi-
cance to a position of
dignity and refinement,
and become the most
profitable part of the
entire retail music trade.
And backed by the
tremendous resources of
the Victor organization,
t h e influence of t h e
Victor -Victrola g r o w s
bigger every day, con-
stantly e n l a r g i n g the
field a n d profits of
dealers everywhere.
Victor Talking Machine Co.
Camden, N. J., U. S. A.
Berliner Gramophone Co., Montreal,
Canadian Distributors.
Always use Victor Records played with Victor
Needles—there is no other wty to get the un-
equaled Victor tone.

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