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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
GREAT PIANO DISPLAY IN BUFFALO.
Exhibit of Denton, Cottier & Daniels at the
Buffalo Industrial Show Attracted Consider-
able Attention—Most Attractively Presented.
NEW TAX FIGURES HIT TRADE.
Corporations in t h e Music T r a d e I n d u s t r y As-
sessed a t Increases of M a n y H u n d r e d s P e r
C e n t . — T h e Figures A r e A s t o n i s h i n g .
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Local corporations are keenly interested in the | |
new tax figures announced by the municipal
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BUFFALO, N. Y., October 4.—Most prominent
authorities this week. On August 1 a tentative g"
among the many exhibits at the ten-day Buffalo
corporation tax list had been prepared, with prac-
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Industrial Show, which closed with a total at-
tically few changes from the preceding year, but g
tendance of 100,000 persons late last week, was
during the past ten weeks the tax officials have
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that of Denton, Cottier & Daniels. The space
been busily engaged in sharpening their pencils
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taken by the firm at the Auditorium big show was
for the benefit of the city, and the result is a {§
780 square feet, of which seventy-eight feet was
sweeping increase in corporation tax assessments
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frontage.
which is unparalleled in the history of the city.
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Fifteen models of pianos and players were
Assessments have been increased many hun- g
shown, including the Steinway, Sohmer, Vose,
dred per cent, in a great number of instances, and g_
Krakauer, Shoninger and Brinkerhoff products, as
the new figures are almost staggering in their
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well as smaller instruments. One of the special
enormity. Following are some of the corpora- §j
features was an extensive display of Pianola-
tions in the local music trade assessed at $500,000
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pianos, Victrolas and Estey organs.
or more, according to the latest tax books. The g
The Denton, Cottier & Daniels booth was one
astonishing increase between August 1, when the g
of the most artistic in the big hall. The ceilings
assessment was made, and as revised after that
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and wall:; of the seven spaces were hung with
date, will be noted, the first figure being the for- g
Oriental rugs of rich beauty. Every one of the
mer rate and the second one the new rate :
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sub-divisions of the booth was graced with ar-
Weber Piano Co., $5,000 to $1,000,0(10; George
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tistic tables and art lamps. Several thousand dol-
Steck
&
Co.,
$35,000
to
$500,000;
Steinway
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lars were spent in embellishing the display, to
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say nothing of the amount expended in the con- Sons, $00,000 to $1,000,000; Leo Feist, Inc.,
$4,000
to
$.500,000;
Hardman,
Peck
&
Co.,
$100,000
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struction of the booth.
to $850,000; Stuyvesant Piano Co., $10,000 to
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Continuous recitals were featured each evening
$500,000; Uptegrove & Beckwith, $50,000 to $500,-
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in the popular Mecca of the professional musi-
000; Robert Teller, Sons & Dorner, $20,000 to
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cians as well as the laymen. Often an orchestra
$500,000; New York Talking Machine Co., $75,000
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was organized among the professional visitors,
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and when The Review repesentative dropped in to $500,000; Carter Piano Co., $5,000 to $500,000;
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the group were coaxing melody from a piano, Wessell, Nickel & Gross, $15,000 to $500,000; C. H.
Ditson & Co., $2,500 to $500,000; Mathushek Piano
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harp, cornet and violin.
Co., $40,000 to $500,000.
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Steinway instruments have been requested by
Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter of
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President Wilson, for her Buffalo concert, Octo- AFFAIRS OF HENRY_& S. G. LINDEMAN.
Trustee's
Report
Filed
This
Week
Shows
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ber 12, and her appearance at Erie Pa., October
on Hand of $34,157.81 to Meet r l a i m s of
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15. Denton, Cottier & Daniels will furnish the
Over $300,000—Attorney Explains Why No
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grands. Other Steinways to be loaned by the
Dividend Has Yet Been Paid.
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house are for Miss Kitty Cheatham's concert at
Erie, Pa., October 8, and for Amato's appearance
Went worth, Lowenstein & Stern, attorneys for g"
on November 6.
Charles B. Lawson, trustee in bankruptcy of Henry g_
R. O. Burgess, representing Winter & Co., New
& S. G. Lindeman, have filed the trustee's report
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York, was in town during the week. He reported
with Hon. Seaman Miller, referee in bankruptcy. g
business improving and the future glowing for a
The report shows that the trustee has on deposit jj
big season.
$34,157.81, as follows: With Metropolitan Bank, j j
Among the visitors to the city this week were:
$28,842.22; with the National Park Bank, $5,315.59,
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R. C. Rogers, representing Krakauer Bros., New
making a total of $34,157.81. Although more than
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York; F. C. Harlow, representing Vose & Sons,
a year has elapsed, no dividend has as yet been g
oi Boston, and J. A. Taylor, of the Webster
declared in this estate.
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Piano Co., Brooklyn.
A reporter of this paper called at the office of g
the attorneys for the trustee for the purpose of ]}
TIBBOTT HAILED A HERO.
ascertaining why no dividend had been declared j j
and obtained the following statement from Bertram
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His Great Work for Princeton at the Princeton-
L. Marks, a member of the
firm:
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Rutgers Game Last Saturday Wins High
"'The claims filed against the estate amount to m
Praise from Press and Public.
over $300,000. Many of the claims are based upon
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"Touchdown, T.bbott; goal from touchdown,
the notes of third persons, upon which the bankrupt M
Tibbott; goal from field, Tibbott, is how the
is liable as indorser. Of course if these notes are
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summary for the Princeton-Rutgers game, played
paid the claim filed by the creditor holding the note g
at Princeton on Saturday, reads. In other words,
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Princeton, or Tibbott, as a matter of fact, de-
the note. These notes, for the most part, had over g
feated Rutgers by a score of 10 to 0. Princeton
a year to run—then, again, the trustee intends to g
men are to-night hailing Tibbott as a hero." This
object to a number of oilier claims for various g
is part of the New York World's story of last
reasons. Until the actual amount due to the cred-
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Saturday's game, and it is rather early in the sea- itors is ascertained no dividend can be declared."
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son for such remarkable work; but David Tibbott,
who is a son of E. F. Tibbott, secretary and treas-
J. W. CARTERJO RETIRE.
urer of the Lindeman & Sons Piano Co., New
(Special to The Review.)
York, is an unusual and remarkable football
HOUSTON, TEX., October 4.—J. W. Carter,
player, and from all indications will be a domi-
founder and head of the J. W. Carter Music Co.,
nating factor in the Princeton-Yale and Prince- this city, and actively connected with the trade
ton-Harvard games next month. Mr. Tibbott also
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for over thirty-eight years, has arranged to retire H
played on the Princeton varsity eleven last
from the business, which has been developed to
season, where he startled the football and sporting
most substantial proportions, and will turn over
worlds with his all-around playing ability. If he
the control of affairs to his two sons, James R.
should ever enter the piano business and work
Carter and William H. Carter, both of whom
along the same lines as he conducts his football
"have been connected with him for some time past.
Chicago Office and Wareroom,
activit'es, the Lindeman output would necessarily The company handles the Steinway, Vose & Sons, I
be quadrupled in a year's time.
where a complete stock of the
Shoninger and Schaeffer pianos and player-pianos, g
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output can be seen :
and also Victrolas and records.
The Tacoma Music Co., recently organized in Ta-
Republic Building
coma, Wash., where it took over the business of
J. H. Cooley has been appointed agent for the I
Corner of Adams and State Sts.
the McCord Music Co., has moved to the quarters
Denver Music Co. in Trinidad, Col., where he rep- II
formerly occupied by the Eilers Music House in resented another Denver house for over thirty
that city.
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years.
(Special to The Review.)
is the
Satisfied Customer
What a hard busi-
ness it is when every
sale must be made
out of the blue sky.
How much easier
when pianos previous-
ly sold are making
friends every day, and
these friends are send-
ing customers into
your store by reason of
the excellence of the
pianos themselves.
This is a big part of
the value of
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The instruments
comprising it, whether
the Hardman Piano,
the Hardman Auto-
tone, the Harrington
Piano, the Autotone,
the Playotone or the
Hensel Piano, satisfy
the most artistic re-
quirements of their
owners, and create a
desire for possession
on the part of every
one who sees and
hears them.
Inquiries concerning
information and terri-
tory invited.
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