Music Trade Review
Issue: 1885 Vol. 9 N. 7 - Page 6
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
handsome patented water-filter, which it would take
me too long to describe in detail, but which, when
put on the market, will, I think, be a success. They
also make various nickel-plated patented appliances
of their own design for canoes.
* *
Mr. E. J. FLINN, who used to be with E. MCCAM-
MON, in Albany, and is now with the NEW ENGLAND
PIANO CO., of Boston, was to have started on his first
trip west and south about three weeks ago. I hope
he is selling lots of pianos.
•
SHORT RAMBLES.
*
Mr. TANNER, of Albany, says that if he had only
consulted the "Black List" of the Music TRADE
REVIEW before sending a case of goods to BADLAM,
of Ogdensburg, N. Y., he would have been saved quite
a little sum of money.
* *
Manufacturers must be very careful about carrying
snide dealers in New York State.
*
*
NO. IV.
When in Cleveland I heard that Mr. CHARLES BRAIN -
ARD, of S. BRAINARDS Sons, was so ill with inflam-
mation of the brain that it was not thought possible
IN THE WEST,
WA8 running into short notes when I left off in he could live. I have heard nothing further of his
ray last issue, and I think I may as well continue condition, but trust he is improving. It would be
bad for his business if he should die.
them.
1
* *
For one thing I was more than ever assured that
The
WILCOX
&
WHITE
organ makes a fine show in
the Music TRADE REVIEW had a greater hold upon
the trade than any of the musical or musical and the corner show-window of LYON & HEALET'S hand-
dramatic papers with trade attachments, however some warerooms in Chicago.
* *
good they may be. This is natural, for this paper is
he only purely music trade pai>er published in the United H. M. BRAINARD & Co., of Cleveland, told me they
States, covers more ground with its circulation, has more were doing a splendid business. They say that the
influence, and its representatives do more traveling into man who has the agency for the Steinway piano, and
every corner, THAN ALL THE OTHER PAPERS PUT TO- handles it properly, has a fortune in his hands.
GETHER. This is not mere talk. I can verify these
statements; and the majority of the trade, even
some of those who from some matter of pique or
spite do not patronize the paper, are almost as well
aware of these facts as I am. Speaking of not
patronizing the paper on account of spite, it is an
actual fact that I have known large concerns who
were a good deal under the Influence of certain clerks
to withdraw their advertisements because those
clerks did not think that they received sufficient per-
sonal mention in the Music TRADE REVIEW.
*
*
*
Mr. A. H. SIMMONS, of Albany, had on exhibition
in his wareroom windows a handsome piano made by
JOSEPH KELLER, of Bridgeport.
Mr. SIMMONS will
carry a full line of musical goods, including sheet-
music. His only trouble seems to be that he can't
get pianos fast enough,
All along my route I heard regrets expressed that
my libel case with FREUND, which of course would
be likely to encourage others to sue (my printers in
all probability, not me), should have caused me for
the present, and on account of my printers, to take
" T h e Black List" and "Complaints Entered
Against " out of my paper. They said the lists were
a great benefit to the trade. Well, as I have said be-
fore I shall find some way of conveying the same in-
formation in the paper. Think what a benefit it
might have been to several parties if I could have
kept in the names of PAULL & HAMILTON, of Lan-
caster, Pa.
*
•
E. W. TANNER & SON,
of Albany, are doing an immense quantity of work
for the trade, and must be making money. Every-
body I ever heard speak of them speaks well of them.
Besides their work for the trade, they make a host
of other things in nickel, japan, enamel, etc. One
great affair they have on hand now is a new and very
*
*
The "Same" Club has recently been organized in
Chicago by O. L. Fox of the Indicator, Maj. HINMAN
of the Inter-Ocean, and CHARLES AVERT WELLES.
eral years. He and his family are now living in Chi-
cago, and I can assure you I was delighted to see
him. I hope the next time I am in Chicago to see
more of him.
»
* *
I met Mr. H. K. WHITE, of WILCOX & W H I T I ,
Meriden, Conn., and Mr. H. B. FISCHEB, of J. & C.
FISCHER, New York, while in Chicago. Mr. WHITE
was taking a combined business and pleasure trip
with Mr. HORACE WHITE, whose health, all his
friends will be glad to hear, is perceptibly improving.
Mr. WHITE was on the war-path after something new,
which will be made public in the course of time. Mr.
FISCHER had been away from home since the first of
August, and was elated over the success of his trip,
and the prospect of being home so soon. He had
been into Arizona, New Mexico, California, etc., and
said that business had been exceptionally fine. With
H. B. " it is a cold day "—you know the rest.
The MECHANICAL ORGUINETTE COMPANY, of New
York, have a thriving branch store in Chicago.
No man in the Garden City pays closer attention
to business than Mr. R. H. RHODDA, of the STERLING
ORGAN COMPANY'S branch. He says the STERLING
pianos will take well there, and he is delighted with
the taste which Mr. BLAKE has shown in construct-
ing them. No man minds his own business more
strictly than Mr. RHODDA, yet he is not lacking in
push. Mr. H. C. PLYMPTON is the traveling repre-
sentative of the Chicago branch.
/
.
•
•
>
.
.
'
•
«
,
.
.
•
.
•
»
•
*
Fox and Mrs. Fox showed me every attention while
I was in Chicago. Who Fox doesn't know isn't worth
knowing. And how did I return their kindness and
hospitality? By one of the meanest acts that a man
can be guilty of—I read an original play to them.
*
*
*
I told Fox a story about detectives which tickled
The badge will be a gold policeman's billy with a
him almost to death, and that night, a few hours be-
gold chestnut hanging from it, and the words : "The
fore I was to leave for the East, he introduced me to
Same," meaning the same old story or joke, engraved
two of these gentlemen, with many of whose profes-
upon the chestnut. The object of the club is the
sion I am acquainted in New York. I only remember
moral and mental reformation of confirmed story-
the names of one of these detectives, and that was
tellers. There will be a system of initiation to this
J. A. MCDONALD, of the CENTRAL POLICE STATION.
club, with grips, signs and pass-words, and penalties
I believe he used to hold a similar position in New
for the violation of the rules for story-telling. Many
York. He and I had a long talk over New York
members are now being brought in, and it is expected
police matters and police captaina and detectives." I
that the club will have a wide popularity.
had a shrewd suspicion that Fox had been instigating
* *
them to what is vulgarly known as "giving me a
The CHICAGO EXPOSITION, recently closed, made roost" before I got out of town. If I had not left
quite a large display of musical instruments. One that Saturday night, I do not believe that I would be
of the novelties was the WOODWARD combined organ alive to-day.
and piano. Why in the name of common sense any-
I have to thank Mr. MCDONALD for a very pressing
one should want a combined organ and piano, I can't
invitation
to spend one more Sunday in Chicago. He
imagine; but it seemed to work very nicely, and may
said
that
if
I would stay he would have a carriage for
be a fairly marketable instrument. These pianos
me
at
the
CENTRAL
POLICE STATION, and would show
are made at Marseilles, 111., and may be had there or
me
all
about
the
Chicago
police system, besides every-
from SAFFORD & SONS, 708 Washington Boulevard,
thing else that was worth seeing in the town. It
Chicago.
would really have been an unique experience, and I
* *
STOREY & CLABK, the well-known organ builders, would like to have gone through with it, for it would
of Chicago, shut down for a day about two weeks ago have been genuine sight-seeing, no make-believe about
to put in new boilers and complete a fine new dry- it, and no "racket." I can only say that if Mr. MC-
house. They say there shall be no better organ fac- DONALD, or his friend, ever come to New York I
tory in the country than theirs, and that their busi- will endeavor to entertain them to the best of my
ability, as a slight return for their kind Invitations.
ness is rapidly extending.
•_.:.__
* *
I was surprised to meet an old friend in Chicago
that I had not seen in years. It was Mr. WILLIAM
T. BALDWIN, who is now the GENERAL PASSENGER
AGENT of the LOUISVILLE, NEW ALBANY AND CHI-
CAGO RAILROAD. When I last knew him he had but
recently married, and was living in New York—in
fact, boarding in the same house that I did for sev-
*
•
I met Mr. BATIMGARTEN, who is really HERTER
BROS., the house-decorators of this city, whose celeb-
rity is world-wide, while I was in Chicago. Mr.
BAUMGARTEN has decorated POTTER PALMER'S house
at Lincoln Park to the extent of one hundred thou-
sand dollars, and may decorate some of the import-
(Continued on page M.)
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
handsome patented water-filter, which it would take
me too long to describe in detail, but which, when
put on the market, will, I think, be a success. They
also make various nickel-plated patented appliances
of their own design for canoes.
* *
Mr. E. J. FLINN, who used to be with E. MCCAM-
MON, in Albany, and is now with the NEW ENGLAND
PIANO CO., of Boston, was to have started on his first
trip west and south about three weeks ago. I hope
he is selling lots of pianos.
•
SHORT RAMBLES.
*
Mr. TANNER, of Albany, says that if he had only
consulted the "Black List" of the Music TRADE
REVIEW before sending a case of goods to BADLAM,
of Ogdensburg, N. Y., he would have been saved quite
a little sum of money.
* *
Manufacturers must be very careful about carrying
snide dealers in New York State.
*
*
NO. IV.
When in Cleveland I heard that Mr. CHARLES BRAIN -
ARD, of S. BRAINARDS Sons, was so ill with inflam-
mation of the brain that it was not thought possible
IN THE WEST,
WA8 running into short notes when I left off in he could live. I have heard nothing further of his
ray last issue, and I think I may as well continue condition, but trust he is improving. It would be
bad for his business if he should die.
them.
1
* *
For one thing I was more than ever assured that
The
WILCOX
&
WHITE
organ makes a fine show in
the Music TRADE REVIEW had a greater hold upon
the trade than any of the musical or musical and the corner show-window of LYON & HEALET'S hand-
dramatic papers with trade attachments, however some warerooms in Chicago.
* *
good they may be. This is natural, for this paper is
he only purely music trade pai>er published in the United H. M. BRAINARD & Co., of Cleveland, told me they
States, covers more ground with its circulation, has more were doing a splendid business. They say that the
influence, and its representatives do more traveling into man who has the agency for the Steinway piano, and
every corner, THAN ALL THE OTHER PAPERS PUT TO- handles it properly, has a fortune in his hands.
GETHER. This is not mere talk. I can verify these
statements; and the majority of the trade, even
some of those who from some matter of pique or
spite do not patronize the paper, are almost as well
aware of these facts as I am. Speaking of not
patronizing the paper on account of spite, it is an
actual fact that I have known large concerns who
were a good deal under the Influence of certain clerks
to withdraw their advertisements because those
clerks did not think that they received sufficient per-
sonal mention in the Music TRADE REVIEW.
*
*
*
Mr. A. H. SIMMONS, of Albany, had on exhibition
in his wareroom windows a handsome piano made by
JOSEPH KELLER, of Bridgeport.
Mr. SIMMONS will
carry a full line of musical goods, including sheet-
music. His only trouble seems to be that he can't
get pianos fast enough,
All along my route I heard regrets expressed that
my libel case with FREUND, which of course would
be likely to encourage others to sue (my printers in
all probability, not me), should have caused me for
the present, and on account of my printers, to take
" T h e Black List" and "Complaints Entered
Against " out of my paper. They said the lists were
a great benefit to the trade. Well, as I have said be-
fore I shall find some way of conveying the same in-
formation in the paper. Think what a benefit it
might have been to several parties if I could have
kept in the names of PAULL & HAMILTON, of Lan-
caster, Pa.
*
•
E. W. TANNER & SON,
of Albany, are doing an immense quantity of work
for the trade, and must be making money. Every-
body I ever heard speak of them speaks well of them.
Besides their work for the trade, they make a host
of other things in nickel, japan, enamel, etc. One
great affair they have on hand now is a new and very
*
*
The "Same" Club has recently been organized in
Chicago by O. L. Fox of the Indicator, Maj. HINMAN
of the Inter-Ocean, and CHARLES AVERT WELLES.
eral years. He and his family are now living in Chi-
cago, and I can assure you I was delighted to see
him. I hope the next time I am in Chicago to see
more of him.
»
* *
I met Mr. H. K. WHITE, of WILCOX & W H I T I ,
Meriden, Conn., and Mr. H. B. FISCHEB, of J. & C.
FISCHER, New York, while in Chicago. Mr. WHITE
was taking a combined business and pleasure trip
with Mr. HORACE WHITE, whose health, all his
friends will be glad to hear, is perceptibly improving.
Mr. WHITE was on the war-path after something new,
which will be made public in the course of time. Mr.
FISCHER had been away from home since the first of
August, and was elated over the success of his trip,
and the prospect of being home so soon. He had
been into Arizona, New Mexico, California, etc., and
said that business had been exceptionally fine. With
H. B. " it is a cold day "—you know the rest.
The MECHANICAL ORGUINETTE COMPANY, of New
York, have a thriving branch store in Chicago.
No man in the Garden City pays closer attention
to business than Mr. R. H. RHODDA, of the STERLING
ORGAN COMPANY'S branch. He says the STERLING
pianos will take well there, and he is delighted with
the taste which Mr. BLAKE has shown in construct-
ing them. No man minds his own business more
strictly than Mr. RHODDA, yet he is not lacking in
push. Mr. H. C. PLYMPTON is the traveling repre-
sentative of the Chicago branch.
/
.
•
•
>
.
.
'
•
«
,
.
.
•
.
•
»
•
*
Fox and Mrs. Fox showed me every attention while
I was in Chicago. Who Fox doesn't know isn't worth
knowing. And how did I return their kindness and
hospitality? By one of the meanest acts that a man
can be guilty of—I read an original play to them.
*
*
*
I told Fox a story about detectives which tickled
The badge will be a gold policeman's billy with a
him almost to death, and that night, a few hours be-
gold chestnut hanging from it, and the words : "The
fore I was to leave for the East, he introduced me to
Same," meaning the same old story or joke, engraved
two of these gentlemen, with many of whose profes-
upon the chestnut. The object of the club is the
sion I am acquainted in New York. I only remember
moral and mental reformation of confirmed story-
the names of one of these detectives, and that was
tellers. There will be a system of initiation to this
J. A. MCDONALD, of the CENTRAL POLICE STATION.
club, with grips, signs and pass-words, and penalties
I believe he used to hold a similar position in New
for the violation of the rules for story-telling. Many
York. He and I had a long talk over New York
members are now being brought in, and it is expected
police matters and police captaina and detectives." I
that the club will have a wide popularity.
had a shrewd suspicion that Fox had been instigating
* *
them to what is vulgarly known as "giving me a
The CHICAGO EXPOSITION, recently closed, made roost" before I got out of town. If I had not left
quite a large display of musical instruments. One that Saturday night, I do not believe that I would be
of the novelties was the WOODWARD combined organ alive to-day.
and piano. Why in the name of common sense any-
I have to thank Mr. MCDONALD for a very pressing
one should want a combined organ and piano, I can't
invitation
to spend one more Sunday in Chicago. He
imagine; but it seemed to work very nicely, and may
said
that
if
I would stay he would have a carriage for
be a fairly marketable instrument. These pianos
me
at
the
CENTRAL
POLICE STATION, and would show
are made at Marseilles, 111., and may be had there or
me
all
about
the
Chicago
police system, besides every-
from SAFFORD & SONS, 708 Washington Boulevard,
thing else that was worth seeing in the town. It
Chicago.
would really have been an unique experience, and I
* *
STOREY & CLABK, the well-known organ builders, would like to have gone through with it, for it would
of Chicago, shut down for a day about two weeks ago have been genuine sight-seeing, no make-believe about
to put in new boilers and complete a fine new dry- it, and no "racket." I can only say that if Mr. MC-
house. They say there shall be no better organ fac- DONALD, or his friend, ever come to New York I
tory in the country than theirs, and that their busi- will endeavor to entertain them to the best of my
ability, as a slight return for their kind Invitations.
ness is rapidly extending.
•_.:.__
* *
I was surprised to meet an old friend in Chicago
that I had not seen in years. It was Mr. WILLIAM
T. BALDWIN, who is now the GENERAL PASSENGER
AGENT of the LOUISVILLE, NEW ALBANY AND CHI-
CAGO RAILROAD. When I last knew him he had but
recently married, and was living in New York—in
fact, boarding in the same house that I did for sev-
*
•
I met Mr. BATIMGARTEN, who is really HERTER
BROS., the house-decorators of this city, whose celeb-
rity is world-wide, while I was in Chicago. Mr.
BAUMGARTEN has decorated POTTER PALMER'S house
at Lincoln Park to the extent of one hundred thou-
sand dollars, and may decorate some of the import-
(Continued on page M.)
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