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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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SALESMAN HELDjON ARSON CHARGE.
A. D. Mitchell Indicted in Minneapolis Follow-
ing a Suspicious Fire in Basement of Brooks-
Evans Piano Co. Store—Metropolitan Co.
Sustains Third Fire Loss in Tnree Months—
General Lull in Retail Trade Due to Uncer-
tainty—The Live News of the Week.
(Special to The Review.)
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL, MINN., August 10.—•
A. D. Mitchell, somewhat known as a piano sales-
man, is under indictment for arson in Minneapolis
on charges preferred hy the Brooks-Evans Piano
Co., for whom he had been working. Mitchell was
arrested following the outbreak of fire in the base-
ment of tiie Brooks-Evans establishment at Mar-
quette avenue and Eleventh street, Monday eve-
ning, August 3. The fire was extinguished after
damaging a large stock of stools, but had it not
been opportunely discovered, it must have ruined
the house and the stock of pianos. As Mitchell
had been seen about Lhe premises shortly before
the fire, and also was suspected of harboring a
grudge against the company, suspicion was directed
to him and he was arrested. He came to Minne-
apolis from Iowa and had been connected with
several firms in this city.
The Metropolitan Co., through the third fire in
the space of three months in the Medical Block,
sustained a slight water loss August 6. There will
be no fire sale.
Lewis A. Priess, Northwestern manager for the
Adam Schaaf Co., is having a little more than his
share of misfortune. Two months ago he went
under the surgeons' knives for an appendicitis
operation, and on August 8 took Mrs. Priess to a
hospital for a similar operation. She rallied from
the shock and is expected to recover.
Tightness in the money market and an apprehen-
sion that there may be more or less financial dis-
turbance, has had its effect on retail trade and
sales are not as brisk as might have been expected
after the busy season closing the month of July.
But the people are buying pianos, and in spite of
Europe, at least a normal early August business is
being done everywhere. The outlook for a good
fall trade has been enhanced, as it is quite certain
that the grains of the Northwest will command
a much higher price this fall than if there had
been no European hostilities. Millers and cattle
breeders also are likely to have an era of unpre-
cedented prosperity.
Thor. Lundgren, with the Cable Piano Co.'s
St. Paul store, is in northern Minnesota rusticat-
ing and fishing, and with him is a fair dame who
signs herself Mrs. Thor. Lundgren, although a
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the place will be greatly altered.
some time afterward, but before going mortgaged
The new P. A. Starck store in St. Paul will have
the piano to the Whiteside Undertaking Co. Offi-
little resemblance to the old King store when the
cials of the Undertaking Co. were aware that the
carpenters, painters and decorators get through
piano was not fully paid for, but found that the
with it.
Eilers sales agreement had not been recorded and
W. J. Dyer, still is at Hyannisport, Mass., but
depended upon the prompt filing of its own mort-
is expected home by September 1. Vacations gen-
gage to give the undertaking concern prior lien of
erally are drawing to a close, and within a week
the property.
every department will be organized for the big
The Eilers House took the matter to the courts
business.
and the latter decided that the Eilers sales con-
tract, although not recorded, constituted a prior
COURT UPHOLDS^PIANO HOUSE.
lien, awarding the piano house possession of the
instrument in question, rental at three do'lars per
Eilers Piano House Secures Possession of
month for the time the piano was in the hands of
Mortgaged Instrument After Some Sharp
the defendants and also the costs of the action.
Practice by Mortgagee.
The laws of Washington provide that when a
(Special to The Review.)
conditional sale contract is made with the title to
TACOMA, WASH., August 8.—The Eilers Music
the article remaining with the vendor until full
House of this city recently nipped in the bud the payment is made, that title passes to the vendee
plan of a local undertaking concern to retain pos-
as against third parties as creditors unless the con-
session of a piano by what were considered safe
ditional sale contract is recorded within ten days
and shrewd legal means.
of date of making. The defense was based on the
The Eilers House sold a piano on a conditional
interpretation of the law.
CARROLL S. SMYTHE STRICKEN.
Piano Man of Binghamton Becomes Blind as
Result of Eye Paralysis—To Resign Position.
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Carroll G. Smythe, who opened the piano depart-
ment in the store of Fowler, Dick & Walker,
Binghamton, N. Y.. several years ago and has since
acted as manager, has been stricken with blindness
as the result of paralysis of the eyes, although
prominent specialists hold out hope that the afflic-
tion will be only temporary.
It is reported that Mr. Smythe, who is at pres-
ent in the country, will resign his position with
Fowler, Dick & Walker on September 1 and enter
the retail field on his own account.
PRAISE FROM A_PRACTICAL TUNER.
A prominent piano tuner well known in music
trade circles in Ohio in writing recently to the
Price & Teeple Piano Co., Chicago, 111., says:
"I want you to know that I like your pianos as
well as any I know of. In fact, they are the
easiest and best pianos to tune that I have ever
worked on, and I have had in my eighteen years
of practical experience work on almost every make.
Therefore I know the Price & Teeple pianos stay
in tune and hold up as well as any piano made."
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