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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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MURAL PAINTING FOR STAGE OF STEINERT HALL.
QRAM=RICHTSTEIQ ^O.'S NEW MOVE.
This Handsome Hall Well Suited for the Giving of High-Class Musical Affairs—Handsome Paint-
ing Backing Up the Entire Stage an Attractive Feature.
Milwaukee Concern Incorporates with Capital
Stock of $125,000—Edmund Gram, President
and Treasurer; Max Richtsteig, Vice-Presi-
dent—To Increase Manufacturing Facilities.
iSpecial to The Review.)
BOSTON, MASS., November 3.—One of the most at-
tractive features of the Steinert Hall, this city, at
the present time, is the handsome new mural paint-
ing that adorns the back of the stage from which
the Steinway piano has been heard on so many
floating clouds of warm gray, and the four sym-
bolic figures in the foreground are dressed in
white. They represent the four arts, namely:
music, painting, poetry and drama, or the spoken
word. They are placed two on each side of the
doorway and there is an element of the primitive
Showing Mural Painting Back of Stage in Steinert Hall.
notable occasions. The painting covers the entire to the standing figures, though the drawing being
space over and back of the platform, and is the purposely stiff, which places them in the style of
work of Charles A. Aiken, who enjoys an ex- the early Italian school of decorative painting.
tensive reputation for that class of painting. The Music holds a lyre, painting a palette; poetry a
landscape of the painting, as shown in the accom- scroll, and drama advances with outstretched arms
panying illustration, is in pale green. Above the and is the only figure of the four in motion. The
landscape rises a handsome blue summer sky, with decoration has been highly praised by critics.
STREET CAR STRIKE HURTS TRADE
In Indianapolis the Past Week—Has Assumed
Serious Dimensions at Last Report.
(Special to The Review.)
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., November 3.—Indianapolis
i.; in the throes of a serious street car strike. Piano
and talking machine dealers are feeling the effects
of the strike and are not expecting much busi-
ness until the difficulties between the strikers and
the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Co. have
been adjusted.
The strike was called by the Amalgamated As-
sociation of Street and Electric Railway Men Fri-
day night at 11 o'clock. The company made efforts
to operate its cars but finally was forced to aban-
don this attempt Saturday morning. Large crowds
of strikers and strike-sympathizers stopped cars
and pulled the conductors and motormen from
them. Saturday afternoon a skirmish between the
strikers and the police ocurred in front of the Clay-
pool hotel at Illinois and Washington streets.
There was talk of asking the Governor to call
out the militia to conserve order.
WLWAUKEEJUNER DIES.
MILWAUKEE,
(Special to The Review.)
WIS., November 4.—Dela
K.
Korik, one of Milwaukee's best known tuners and
manufacturer of the Korik player piano, died on
October 28 at the age of fifty-four years. Mr.
Korik has been assembling a player at his shop at
452 Broadway for several years.
DEPARTMENTSJAFF DINES.
(Special to The Review.)
MILWAUKEE, WIS., November 4.—The Gram-
Richtsteig Piano Co,, formally launched five years
ago as a co-partnership piano manufacturing busi-
ness of Edmund Gram and Max Richtsteig, has
just been incorporated with a paid up capital stock
of $125,000. Papers were filed with Secretary of
State John Donald last Thursday after the final
details had been worked out by Mr. Gram, Mr.
Richtsteig and Mr. Sullivan, their attorney, at a
meeting held in Chicago.
Officers of the reorganized company have been
elected as follows: President and treasurer, Ed-
mund Gram; vice-president, Max Richtsteig, who
will continue to act as superintendent and general
manager until such time as the metal frame action
business launched by the Gram-Richtsteig interests
in Chicago, needs his entire attention; Secretary
Otto R. Stiehm is credit manager of the Edmund
Gram Music House.
The incorporation of the company effectively
"downs" the rumors which have been afloat that
Mr. Gram and Mr. Richtsteig were thinking of
abandoning their piano manufacturing business
and devote all their attention to the new metal
frame action business in Chicago. At no time
have they considered giving up their piano fac-
tory. During the five years that it has been in
operation, business has shown wonderful increase
and orders have been coming in faster than it
was possible to handle them. The increase of
capital stock will now give the company an op-
portunity to take care of the expanding business.
The factory at Winnebago and Eleventh streets is
now operating at full capacity, turning out up-
rights, grands and player-pianos. No immediate
changes are to be made in the way of enlarging
the Gram-Richtsteig plant, although steps along
this line will be taken later.
The business of the Billings Spring Brass Flange
Co., purchased by the Gram-Richtsteig interests
some time ago is still being conducted by them.
NEW UTAH CORPORATION.
Robinson Bros. & Barton Co. to Take Over
Business of Two Going Concerns.
The Robinson Bros. & Barton Co. has been in-
corporated in Provo, Utah, for the purpose of
taking over the business of Robinson Bros. Music
Co., of Springfield, and the Barton & Blake Fur-
niture Co., of Provo. The officers of the new
company are: President, George E. Barton; vice-
president, Herbert Robinson, and secretary and
treasurer, Walter Robinson. The foregoing, with
W. D. Lewis and Fred Robinson, form the board
of directors of the company.
The members of the staff of the piano depart-
ment of Lord & Gage, Reading, Pa., were recently
entertained at an elaborate dinner given under the
direction of W. H. Poling, who was recently ap-
pointed manager of the department. J. C. Mac-
Lachlan, manager of the store, and other officials
John W. Calder is tne piuprietor of the Calder
n>ade short addresses, after which each member Music Shop, which has been opened recently at 930
o* the force was called upon for a few remarks.
Chapel street, New Haven, Conn.
TO ENFORCE LAW AGAINST MISLEADING T ADS. IN DETROIT.
C. A. Grinnell, a Member of the Committee of the Detroit Board of Commerce, to Look Out for
Violations of New Law—Clean Publicity in Piano Field.
(Special to The Review.)
DETROIT, MICH V November 3.—C. A. Grinnell, to
whose activities was largely due the enactment by
the last Michigan Legislature of a law prohibiting
fraudulent or misleading advertising, has been ap-
pointed chairman of a committee of the Detroit
Board of Commerce which will have a good deal
to do with the enforcement of the law. Mr. Grin-
nell is a member of the executive committee of
the Board of Commerce and last winter organized
a delegation of members of the board to go to
Lansing to work for the passage of the law. The
law went into effect on October 15, so if, at any
time hereafter, those piano houses which did so
much to injure the business by advertising false
values resume that policy, they can be prosecuted.
One of the principal duties of the Board of Com-
merce committee will be to call upon the business
managers of the Detroit daily papers and make
representations regarding the duty of said news-
papers to assist in cleansing their columns of
fraudulent advertising, not only of pianos, but of
all other lines of merchandise.
"As far as the piano business is concerned it is
a very opportune time for us to act," said Mr.
Grinnell. "There is none of that sort of advertis-
ing running in the newspaper here now, though an
attempt was made a few weeks ago to revive it.
If we visit the newspaper managers now, we can-
not be suspected of looking out for our individual
interests instead of advocating a plan for whole-
semeness in business. Then, if the newspapers
accept our representations properly, the piano
houses who might try to resume the old style of
c'dvertising in some manner calculated to evade the
law will find themselves checkmated at the outset."