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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
TIDINGS FROM THE TRADE.
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GALVESTON, TEXAS, Feb. 24, 1886.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
In No. 12, vol. 9, we find a matter of large cash in-
terest to us, headed "Don't pay any more license
fees," in which you state : " The Supreme Court has
just decided that the money thus raised is an unjust
tax upon commerce, and that such laws and ordi-
nances are unconstitutional."
Will you please let us know what Supreme Court
rendered this decision, and when it was rendered, and
in what case, by whom, and where it can be found V
Your journal is instructive, and its mechanical ex-
ecution first class.
Yours truly,
THUS. GOGGAN & BROS.
[We have forgotten in what Supreme Court the
decision referred to was rendered. We have lately
had several similar questions asked u9. Can any of
our readers oblige us and the inquirers with the full
information ?—Eds. Music TRADE REVIEW.]
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DETROIT, MICH., March 11, 188G.
MESSRS. WELLES & BILL :
GENTLEMEN : Enclosed please find our check to
balance amount in full. Please reciept bill and re-
turn.
We are very busy, running our factory over time,
and are over a month behind on orders. Business
looks very promising for this year. We will soon be
able to send you a fine catalogue, with new styles,
that we are publishing.
Wishing you abundant success also, this year, we
remain,
Very respectfully,
WHITNEY ORGAN CO.
TELL US THE OLD, OLD STORY.
BOSTON, March 17, 188C.
MESSRS. WLLES & BILL :
GENTLEMEN : By the time this reaches you, you
will no doubt have heard many stories about Guild,
Church & Co., from some of my friends (?) in the
trade. I wish simply to say that G. C. & Co. went
out of business some time ago, and were succeeded
by the Guild Piano Co., who are doing a fine business,
and have a large capital, and are in no way connect-
ed with G. C. & Co. The firm who have for many
years been interested in G. C. &. Co., have been
obliged to make a temporary suspension (very fool-
ishly), and G. C. & Co. have been obliged to follow
suit, but both firms have sufficient assets with which
to meet all their debts, dollar for dollar, and have a
balance left. The whole matter will be fixed up at
once. Please not say anything in your paper unless
you see it in some other paper first. And then give
facts as above. We desire to keep it out. G. C. &
Co., of course, are continuing in business enough to
settle up all their old accounts.
Yours truly,
G. M. GUILD.
MELODEON REEDS WANTED.
OSKHOSH, March 17, 1886.
Music TRADE REVIEW :
Can you tell me where I can get reeds for the old
Taylor & Farley melodeon's, made at Worchester,
Mass.
Yours respectfully,
A. M. FARRAND.
JAMES M. STARR & CO'S BUSINESS GOOD.
RICHMOND, IND., March 11, 1886.
WELLES & BILL :
GENTLEMEN : Our trade is very good, We are be-
hind orders and have been for some time increasing
our force. Trade is very satisfactory; suppose be-
cause we are making a good piano, and selling it for
what it is worth.
Very truly,
JAMES M. STARR & Co.
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DISPATCH dated Halifax, Nova Scotia, March
18, says : The amusing adventures of John H.
W. Cadby, of Hudson, N. Y., since his arrest
here on Friday last for forgery, are attract-
ing much attention. Cadby was a musical in-
strument dealer of Hudson, and in course of large
discounts through the Farmers' National Bank there,
made forgeries of $6,000 or more and decamped.
District Attorney A. B. Gardenier, of Columbia
county, was put on his track and traced him to
Hamilton, Ont., where he was located in a hotel, and
the house was constantly watched until the neces-
sary papers could arrive from Hudson. They ar-
rived, and Gardenier, with Hamilton's chief of police,
went to make the arrest, but found that the bird had
flown some days ago, and no trace of him could be
discovered. Gardenier, happening to be suspicious
of a woman on another charge just then, abandoned
Cadby and followed her to Quebec, where he dis-
covered that he was mistaken in his pursuit of her,
but while getting off the train he spotted Cadby
again getting aboard. He immediately suspected
that he was en route for Halifax, and thence by
steamer for Europe, so he kept on the same train with
him, telegraphing to the Halifax police to meet
and arrest Cadby. Gardenier knew Cadby, but was
unknown by him, and he foilowed without suspicion.
Cadby was accompanied by his son-in-law, Marvin
E Stowe, of Troy, N. Y., who seemed to be steering
the fugitive with plenty of money. A Halifax de-
tective met the train at Windsor Junction, thirteen
miles out of the city, but, after the train had started,
Cadby was found to have got off there. The detect-
ive accordingly got off at the next station, and walk-
ing back on the road, found Cadby in a barroom,
arrested him. and brought him to the city, where he
was held on a special warrant, sworn out before the
County Court Judge for forging the name of M.
Abriel for $60. He was committed to jail until Mon-
day at 10 A. M., for examination. Stowe came on to
the city by train, drove to a newspaper office, and
inquired the name of the leading criminal lawyer,
whom he engaged and paid a $100 retainer.
Chief of Police Stewart, of Hamilton, having been
telegraphed to come right along with the original
warrant, arrived here on Sunday afternoon. He and
Gardenier employed counsel, visited the Judge who
had given the warrant here, and got him to endorse
the original warrant. Their intention was to remove
Cadby at once to Hamilton for extradition, and this
they proceeded to effect, by getting him surrendered
from the jailor and taking the earliest train out of
city on Monday morning. They waited at the Junc-
tion and took the regular train later to Moncton, 183
miles north.
Meantime Stowe and his counsel appeared at the
time set forth for the examination, and were very
mad at the spiriting away of Cadby. They got the
Judge to issuean orderforCadby's return,as he should
not have been released before 10 o'clock. The order
was telegraphed to Stewart at several points before
reaching Moncton, but was ignored. Stewart and
the prisoner, having several hours in Montreal, wait-
ing for the Quebec train, went to the principal hotel,
but were astonished to find that the United States
Consular Agent was the proprietor. They neglected
to register their names, and after a hearty meal stole
quietly away in a team to the station, nine miles
along the railway, where they took their train at 11
o'clock at night. They went to New Castle, eighty
miles, where they were hauled out of their berths by
the police and lodged in jail for for contempt of
court, in not obeying the Halifax Judge's order.
Gardenier was with them, as Stowe was also on the
same train, it having left Halifax late in the after-
noon.
Stewart is the giant Scotchman who engineered
Reil's execution at Regina, and, to prevent Cad by's
escape, shackled him to his own right arm. A
habeas corpus writ having come from Moncton by
special train at Stowe's order, Stewart and Cadby
were returned there by it a few hours later. Gar-
denier was refused passage, but followed by regu
lar train. Other counsel were engaged at Moncton,
and counsel and a detective from Halifax also pro-
ceeded thence on Wednesday.
While argument was proceeding in the court there,
that afternoon, another writ was served on Stewart
requiring him to produce Cadby in St. John, ninety
miles in an opposite direction. He went this morn-
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WHO CAN ANSWER THIS ?
THE WHITNEY OliGAN CO.
J0HN H w CADBYS ADVENTURES
ing, still manacled to his prisoner and followed by
counsel from Moncton, Newcastle and Halifax.
There he was arranged this afternoon and remanded
until to-morrow, when it is anticipated another writ
will order them to the provincial capital, Frederic-
ton, 100 miles up the river. The Canadian Minister
of Justice has telegraph-ed the Judges not to inter-
fere with the extradition arrangements. If counsel
continue to be engaged In each place, there will soon
be a small army in the retinue.
Cadby is a jolly old gentleman, and enjoys his ad-
ventures immensely, living at the best hotels.
IT seems a curious combination for Messrs. Linde-
man & Son, of New York City, to buy out Mr. Grey-
wack, of Troy, N. Y., and then for Messrs. Cluett &
Sons, of Troy and Albany, to buy out Linduman &
Son, and employ Mr. Greywack, as reported. But
we are glad of it, and hope all old scores are wiped
out. " Let us have peace !"
ALFRED DODGE lost two casks of music wire on
the steamer Oregon.
F. W. BAILEY is on a long trip through the South, in
the interests of the Bourne piano and the Bay State
organs, of Boston. He states that business is excel-
lent in nearly all the places he has stopped at, but
that the hotel fare is disreputable. We wonder if he
is the gentleman who the story is told about, who
sat down at the table in the railroad restaurant in the
South. He found that the steak was a regular tough,
and when he complained to the waiter, that digni-
tary replied : " Say, stranger ! see here! you are the
fifth man who has complained about that 'ere steak,
and we ain t going to stand it any longer."
PROF. TOSSO, of Newport, Ky., was one of the
pioneer fiddlers of the West. He claimed to have
been the hero of the adventure in Arkansas out of
which grew the musical absurdity know as "The
Arkansaw Traveler. ' In his palmy days Tosso gave
concerts all through the West and South, and was
rated as an extraordinary violinist. He was eighty-
five years of age.
THE Chicago Cottage Organ Factory, corner of
Ann and Randolph streets, Chicago, was destroyed
by the five on the mowing of the 12th inst. Two
hundred men were thrown out of employment. While
the fire was in progress, a section of the wall of the
burning building tumbled into an alley which was
occupied by the firemen. The men all escaped
without serious injury. The loss on stock, machin-
ery and fixtures is stated at $75,000, on which there
is an insurance of $42,000, placed by the Traders' In-
surance Company. The loss on building is $25,000;
insured. The building was owned by Mrs. Hettie
Green, the New York millionairess.
FROM the dispatches in the papers of the 13th
inst., it seems that there were no less than 18,000
workmen on strike* throughout the country. Labor
should be careful lest it make itself its own worst
oppressor.
PRESIDENT MILLEK presided over a meeting of
commercial travelers in Chicago, on the evening of
the 19th inst., to consider matters relative to in-
creasing the membership of the Travelers' Protec-
tive Association of the United States. Since the last
annual session at Buffalo 5,000 names have been en-
rolled, the association now numbering 10,000. Daw-
son Mayer said he expected that in a few days the
bill before Congress relieving all commercial trave-
lers in any of the States and Territories from paying
a license or mercantile tax would pass. An effort
will now be made to have the railroads allow each
commercial traveler from 300 to 500 pounds of bag-
gage.
MR. A. H. HAMMOND, of Worcester, Mass., has at
last worked his lawyer Stafford for all he was worth,
and now we understand he has given him the G. B.
and taken up as his attorneys House Bishop.
THE Mexican duty charged on pianos and organs
is something outrageous, and ought to be adjusted at
once. Just imagine paying 20% cents per pound on
a piano weighing 1,300 pounds.
WHEN the Mechanical Orguinette Co., New York,
gave their opening in Chicago, they opened wide the
eyes of the Western trade. They displayed in-
struments such as the Aeolian organ, and others
that had never been seen by even the Chicago trade.
JUDGING from the great number of strikers, it
would seem that somebody supposes the iron to be
hot.—Phila. Ledger.
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