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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
PIANO AND ORGAN
FELTINGS
ON the 14th inst. Lyon & Healy's cashier, after draw-
ing $r,5oo from a Chicago bank, was attacked by four
ruffians, who tried to blind him with red pepper. The
cashier bravely stood his ground, drew his revolver, and
peppered into his assailants with leaden peppercorns,
whereupon the scoundrels promptly took leg-bail.
OF EVERT
DESCRIPTION.
A. B. CROCKER & CO.,
31 <& 3 7 A v o n Street,
BOSTON.
ESTABLISHED 1851.
C. M. LooMis.'of New Haven, is having a very satis-
factory trade with the Smith American pianos. Mr.
Loomis is now general agent for the Behning & Son
piano.
T H E main portion of Haines Bros, new factory has
been completed, and a beginning has been made with
the wings. The demand for this firm's pianos con-
stantly increases.
IT is reported that Adam Schaaf, of Chicago, contem-
plates building a piano factory.
MR. GEORGE W. LYON, senior member of the firm of
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, 111., is in this city, and will re-
main here some days. He is in remarkably good health
and spirits.
To a representative of T H E MUSIC TRADE
Vose & Sons Piano-fortes
ARK UNIVERSAL FAVORITES,
They combine Sympathetic, Pure and Rich Tone, Greatest
Power, Elegance and Durability.
COMPETITION BEWILDERED.
CUSTOMERS DELIGHTED.
Reliable Agents Wanted.
REVIEW Mr. Lyon said that all the Chicago music
dealers had enjoyed a fine holiday trade. The business
of his own firm had been especially stirring during the
months of December and the present month, particularly
in the small goods of their own manufactnre. Their
sales of pianos, brass band instruments, guitars, harps,
etc., have greatly increased during the past 12 months.
Mr. Lyon is selecting a large stock of grand and upright
Steinway pianos, and has already, within two days of
his arrival here, dispatched to Chicago twelve of the
former and forty of the latter.
VOSE & SONS, 170Tremont St.,Boston,Mass.
T H E New York World, early in the present month,
published the statement that the Sterling Co., of Derby,
Conn., had reduced the wages of their workmen ten per
cent. This assertion was utterly devoid of truth. On
the contrary, the wages of a number of the Company's
employees have been advanced. It is probable that no
other piano and organ firm in the country pay their
workmen higher wages than the Sterling Co., or use
them in any way better. Nor are there any piano man-
ufacturers who are more respected and believed in by
their employees. It will be well for the alleged corres-
pondent of the World in Derby, Conn., to investigate a
little more thoroughly in future before blundering into
mis-statements calculated to injure the reputation of
honorable, fair-dealing and kindly employers.
STYLE 14.
S. G. CHICKERING & Co. are rejoicing over their
splendid success of last year. They have just moved
down into their new and handsomely decorated ware-
rooms at 158 Tremont street, which present as fine an
appearance as any on " Piano Row." By this removal
the list of piano manufacturing firms occupying first
floors on Tremont street is completed. The retail
trade of this house is of the liveliest and most encour-
aging character.
T H E Henry F. Miller & Sons Piano Co. report that,
though their business operations of last year were con-
ducted upon more than usually conservative principles,
they succeeded in making many new connections. Dur-
ing the present year the trade of this eminent house
will be further developed, some of the largest and ablest
dealers in the country having arranged to push the
Miller piano more energetically, and throughout more
extensive areas, than hitherto. The Co. are more than
satisfied with their prospects for 1889.
R. W; TANNER & SON of Albany, N. Y., write us that
they are extremely busy, and that their prospects for
1889 are of the most encouraging kind.
MR. CHKNEY, SR., of The Comstock, Cheney & Co.,
Ivoryton, Conn., has from considerations of health de-
cided to spend the winter in California, for which state
he recently departed.
THK Springfield, Mass., agency of Kroeger & Sons
has been transferred from Taylor's Music House to
C. N. Stitnpson.
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T H E incorporation at Springfield, 111., of the Brown-
Dinsmore Piano Company, of Chicago, with a capital
of $50,000, is announced. James Dinsmore, Julius N.
Brown, and Frederick W. Keator are the incorporators.
TIHIIE
A. B. CHASE COS
Upright Grand Piano,
I S A MARVEL OP SWEETNESS AND POWER. OP GRACE
BEAUTY AND BRILLIANCY.
EVEEY NOTE IS CLEAE AS A BELL.
EVEEY CHOED IS PEEFECT HAEMONY.
EVEEY PAET EVENLY BALANCED.
THE ACTION IS LIGHT, FIRM, ELASTIC RESPONSIVE.
THE SCALE IS SCIENTIFICALLY CORRECT AND MUSICALLY
PERFECT
THE WORKMENSHIP THE HIGHEST SKILL CAN MAKE THEM
AND MATERIALS ARE THE BEST.
THIS WONDERFUL PIANO IS MEETING WITH A PHENOMENAL
SUCCHSS WHEREVER IT HAS GONE.
THE AGENCY FOR THIS PIANO IS A BONANZA TO ANY ONE.
For Prices, Terms and Territory, address,
ft. B. CP^E
NORWALK, OHIO.
EDITORIAL COMMENTS.
We now take pleasure in announcing that C. Tom
was not the guilty party. He did not even "draw " on
the old man. At the time the latter threw up his hands
and exclaimed : " Boys ! I'm downed. See that my
grave is kept green !" Tom was further down the hill,
chewing away at Col. Socket's left ear, and having all he
could do to hold it. The censurable party is Wildercat
Joe, who left town that same evening for a purer atmos-
phere, while Cinnamon Thomas is as innocent as a
young gopher. We found him behind the bar of the
Red Front saloon yesterday, genial as ever to all comers,
but injured in his finer feelings by our hasty conclusion.
We make this apology of our own free will, and hope it
will reinstate him in the esteem of our citizens."
SUSPENDED.—With this issue we suspend the agricul-
tural department, established five weeks ago. We in-
stituted this feature as an experiment, and to help out a
literary tenderfoot from the East, who was barefooted
and penniless, but who was fertile of suggestions. The
experiment was a failure. The aforesaid ). t-f. was drunk
most of the time, and when sober he didn't know a cac-
tus from a wild lemon. The most valuable suggestion
made by him was that the farmers of Arizona drink less
oats and sow more whiskey.
We have bidden the tenderfoot a permanent and last-
ing adieu, and we now bid farewell to agriculture as a
set thing. We shall occasionally refer to the subject
in a reckless, off-hand way, taking chances on results,
but their will be no further studied attempt to make the
sandy plains get up and hump themselves into fields of
waving corn, and we shan't cover the rocky hillsides
hereabout with vineyards or patches of deceptive buck-
wheat. Good-by, tenderfoot—good-by, agriculture !
Go EASY.—We warn those meddlesome citizens who
are charging us with political treachery to go easy. It
is true that the Kicker has been Democratic at times,
and that we have occasionally had a good word for the
Republican ticket, and that we have at intervals seemed
to be red-hot for Prohibition, but we were sort of feel-
ing around to see what kind of a paper our subscribers
preferred. We didn't propose to break ourselves in two
in the first six months by getting left. We had a Dem-
ocratic and a Republican rooster ready for the election
returns, and we didn't care a cent which way the old
kangaroo jumped. We shall now be a little more Re-
publican than Democratic, as we want the county print-
ing, but when ever we say anything distasteful to the
Democracy we will, as soon as the matter is called to
our attention, turn about and give Harrison a " wipe "
in the next issue. We shall be independent in nothing
and neutral in lots of things, hoping that the Democrats
will get there next time and advising the Republicans
to hang on if it takes a rib. We are heavy on the po-
litical principles of our forefathers, but we have run our
circulation up to 198 copies, and we don't propose to hit
any of our subscribers between the eyes to tickle any
partisan.
NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS.—We cannot return re-
jected manuscripts. If not accompanied by stamps we
use them to light the office fire. If stamps are sent we
use them on our business letters. If the author of "Seven
Buckets of Blood ; or,The Corkscrew's Revenge" will
send her address to this office she will hear of something
to her advantage. We have received a sketch entitled
" Bobtail Bob ; or, The Bobbers of Bobber's Hill," which
we will publish on receipt of the author's check for $50,
We must respectfully decline the stories entitled " Her
Father Booted Me" and "An Adventure With Indians in
France." They seem to have an immoral tone.
Contributors should always send in their right names,
not for publication, but in order that none of our thou-
sand checks shall go to the wrong person.
STEADILY IMPROVING,—Since our last issue Col. Fair-
banks has had 3 rods of beautiful picket fence erected in
front of his abode, and the Gem Saloon has received
three barrels of whiskey and a new bier-glass. We
chronicle these improvements in no boastful spirit, but
simply that outsiders may know that the spirit of pro-
gress is not dead within us. We are going right to the
front as a town.—Arizona Kicker*