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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
HOLDEN (FOR THE WEBER ESTATE) Y .
ABBEY AND GRAU.
OUR CORRESPONDENT REPLIES TO MR.
MONTELIUS.
LIVELY litigation has sprung up between Mr.
Holden, trustee of the Weber estate, and Messrs,
Henry E. Abbey and Maurice Grau, the well-
known managers.
It appears that in 18S7, when Messrs. Abbey & Grau
were arranging for the tours of the Gerster Concert
Company and of "procigy " Hofmann, they submitted
that a fine opportunity had arisen for advertisement of
the Weber piano. Negotiations were thereupon entered
into, the Weber Company agreeing to furnish one
grand piano for the Gerster Company for the season of
1887-8 ; to keep said piano in tune ; to provide two
grands for the Hofmann tour ; to furnish both the
Gerster Company and Hofmann with an accompanist ;
to pay the salaries, expenses, and hotel bills of the two
accompanists ; and, further, to pay $10,000 to Abbey &
Grau for the privilege of advertising on programmes,
etc. The agreement also provided that, if failure
should overtake the Gerster tour, the arrangement
should be carried cut in regard to Hofmann alone; that
if the " prodigy's " tour ended before he had appeared
in eighty concerts a proportionate amount of the
$10,000 should be returned to the Weber estate, and
thai if the number of concerts given exceeded four score
no payment beyond the §10,000 should be made to
Abbey & Grau.
The Gerster tour was undoubtedly a failure, and Mr.
Holden claims that that of Hofmann was abandoned by
reason of the boy pianist's strength being over-taxed. In
reply, the two managers assert that the contract was an-
nulled before the H ofmann tour was necessarily given up,
for the rea«on that payment on one of the notes given to
secure the $10,000 was refused.
The matter came before the Supreme Court on Tues-
day last, Justice Van Brunt presiding. Mr. Annable,
the associate of De Lancey Nicoll, appeared for the de-
fence, and moved for a bill of particulars. Mr. Holden
was repre-ented by Redfield & Lydecker.
While denying the motion as a whole, the judge de-
cided that informal ion concerning the number of con-
certs given during Hofmann's tour must be furnished.
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INCORPORATION OF THE UNION SQUARE
BANK.
HE incorporation of the Union Square Bank oc-
curred on the 23rd of January last. The follow-
ing are among the share holders:—Louis Steck-
ler, Henry Kischoff, Joseph J. Kettel, R. Rodriguez,
George A. Steinway, P. G. Duffy, Charles Steckler, John
Reilly, P. Henry Dugro, Francis A. Dugro, Paul K.
Ames, Edward Uhl, Isaac Fromme, Robert Currie, John
J. Gibbons, Frederick Smythe, Henry H. Ries, and Aug-
ust F. Ottman. The new Bank has a capital of $200,
000, which may be increased to $r,000,000
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A CORRECTION.
NEW YORK, February 21st, 1889.
EDITORS " Music TRADE REVIEW,"
3 East 14th street,
New York.
DEAR SIRS : In your notice of Mr. Braumuller in
connection with this Co., in your issue of 20th inst.,you
make an error which we request you to correct in your
next. You say Mr. Braumuller OF the Schubert Piano
Co., and we desire to have it understood as being, the
fact, that Mr. Braumuller is WITH the Schubert Piano
Co., and not OF it.
Trusting you will bear this in mind in future referen-
ces to the Schubert Piano Co.. we are, dear sirs,
Yours respectfully,
C. H. HENNING.
EALERS will find it greatly to their advantage to
visit the new piano factory recently opened at
DENVER, COL., February 27, 1889.
No. 341 East Eleventh street, New York city, by
I have just returned home from a two week's jaunt in
Utah and Arizona Territories, and in consequence am Mr. C. H. Henning. Mr. Henning is not new to the
at a loss for news in the musical line. There is one piano trade, having been identifed therewith for thirty
thing, however, that I am desirous of writing about, and years. During twenty years he worked with distin-
that is regarding a correction which attracted my atten- guished success as a journeyman, and for the remaining
ten he has been a manufacturer on his own account.
in the last issue of THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Several weeks ago in one of my letters, I said the fol- He is widely known as a man of great mechanical in-
genuity and originality, and also possesses a highly hon-
lowing:
orable reputation commercially.
" One of the most surprising events of the month
The Henning pianos contain many valuable improve-
among the Denver,
Col.
trade,
has
been
the
retirement
of the firm of W T . W. Montelius & Company. The inde- ments. They are constructed upon thoroughly scienti-
fatigable efforts of one of its members to run things fic principles, by employes who have gained ripe experi-
properly were counteracted by the other, who did just ence in the best factories of New York city, and will un-
the reverse. W. W. Montelius has been seriously think-
jng for some time past of bringing the establishment to doubtedly prove acceptable to dealers throughout the
a close, and of engaging hereafter in real estate pursuits, country. Mr. Henning's entire record is of such a na-
which he believes will in the end prove most profitable." ture as to inspire the utmost confidence in himself and
Now if there is anything I dislike it is to waste my in the outcome of his new venture. He has facilities
time as well as the space of a reputable paper in en ileavor- for meeting with promptitude every reasonable require-
ing to place myself in a right light; but since Mr. W. W. ment of the dealing fraternity, whether as regards
Montelius has seen fit to deny the assertions made, I quality, quantity or price.
would reiterate what I have previously written in toto,
and would further state that had not Mr. Montelius told
THE TRADE IN CHICAGO.
me in person the words stated in my statement, it
would not have ever appeared in print.
DVICES from the best authority on the subject
Business is exceedingly quiet just now; in my next
announce that during the past week or two the
letter will endeavor to give a lengthy review.
retail piano trade of Chicago has been some-
Trusting that by this time Mr. Montelius will have
found out that he alone is to blame for the statement, what dull. Wholesale business, however, remains firm;
and, on the whole, the dealers of the windy city are
etc., etc.
not yet suicidally inclined.
JACOB S. HIRSH.
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A
CURIOUS INSTANCE OF HUMAN STUPIDITY.
E stupidity of some people is altogether incom-
prehensible. Behr Bros. & Co., the renowned
-*-
New York pianoforte constructors, were recently,
to a small extent, the victims of a peculiar kind of hu-
man denseness and dunderheadedness. After fitting up
their factory and offices as explained in another column,
it occurred to them, sensibly enough, to add to the
bright and lively appearance of their walls by hanging
thereon a large sign of one of the steamship companies
by whom many of their pianos are transported. They
accordingly wrote to such a company, politely request-
ing the loan of one of their pictorial advertisements,
which they would consider a suitable ornament. A re-
ply to the effect that the desired article awaited their
pleasure at the offices of the steamship company was
received. Behr Bros. & Co. thereupon dispatched a
drayman, who returned with a small, insignificant pla-
card, enclosed in a very cheap, shoddy species of frame,
and consisting of a diminutive portrait of a steamship
that was made almost invisible by a surrounding sea of
advertisements. The thing looked as ridiculous on
Messrs. Behr's office wall as would a marmoset on
horseback, or the editor of the London Times after Pig-
ott's flight, and was at once presented to the drayman,
who has since nailed it up in his woodhouse. It would
seem to an ordinarily intelligent person that a steam-
ship company carrying hundreds of pianos every year
might have had the sense to contribute something a
little more consistent with the courteous request made
to them,
KIND WORDS.
SEATTLE, WASH, TKR., Feb. 13, 1889.
MESSRS. BILL & BILL,
New York.
GENTLEMEN : Enclosed we hand you N. Y. Exch.
three dollars ($3.00), which please pass to our credit in
account and acknowledge receipt to
Yours truly,
LOWMAN & HANKORD
Stationery and Printing Co.
CINCINNATI, O., February 19, 1889.
MESSRS, BILL & BILL,
New York City.
DKAR SIRS : Enclosed find N. Y. Ex. for three dol-
lars ($3.00), subscription to the Music TRADE REVIEW,
year ending Feb. 5th, 1889.
Please receipt the enclosed bill.
Yours truly,
D. H. BALDWIN & Co.
NEW YORK, February 23d, 1889.
MESSRS. BILL & BILL:
DEAR SIRS : Allow me to offer my sincere thanks
for the flattering recognition of my victory in the Prior
storage matter, so favorably mentioned in your issue
of Feb. 20th, all of which is duly appreciated.
Yours truly,
R. M. WALTERS.
ATLANTA, GA., February 20th, 1889.
MESSRS. BILL & BILL,
3 East 14th street,
New York.
GENTLEMEN : Enclosed please find your bill for
N elegantly gotten-up and beautifully printed
little work is the catalogue just issued by the subscription to Music TRADE REVIEW for year ending
manufacturers of the Herrburger-Schwander February 20th, 1890, and Atlanta Nat. No. C28,352 on
Pianoforte Actions, who are represented in New York 4th Nat., N. Y., for $3.00 to cover same.
Please receipt and return the bill, and oblige
city by William Tonk & Bro., 26 Warren street. It
Yours respectfully,
contains descriptions and well executed illustrations of
ESTEY ORGAN COMPANY,
SCHUBERT PIANO CO.
the French firm's factories, saw mills and lumber yards;
Atlanta.
PETER DUFFY, Pres.
an account of the lumber seasoning process; a list of
inventions and improvements, with clear and accurate
Speaking of the stops to an organ reminds us that
THE supplementary catalogue of the Boston Piano illustrations of the new patent damper-block for upright
Co., Boston, Mass., contains splendidly executed illus- pianos, the patent action rail, improved actions and there is only one to a hand-organ, and that's when
trations of their styles 1. 3, 51-2, and 7 in rosewood, hammer rails, improved hammer-butt spring, and of a you smash it to pieces with an axe. Then, and then
jet finish, English oak, mahogany, French walnut ban- section of the Schwander action showing the following only, it stops.—Dansvllle Breeze.
yan and satinvvood cases. These styles are fitted with improvements, viz.: patented damper-block, tubular
DON'T judge a man by the clothes he wears. God
full iron plate, patent swinging duet desk, patent re- hammer-rail, metal covered spring-rail, metal flange- made one and the tailor the other. Don't judge him
peating'action with nickel rail and brackets, new and rail, metal centre or action-rail, and tubular regulating by his family, for Cain belonged to a good family.
graceful hand-covered and fretted panels, first quality rail.
Don't judge a man by his failure in life, for many a
German felt hammers, and ivory keys. Three unisons.
man fails because he is too honest to succeed. Don't
7J/3 octaves. Each style is warranted for eight years.
Vocalists are not always oppressed with care, but judge a man by the house he lives in, for the lizard
We recommend dealers to send for this useful supple- the well known tenor frequently looks upon his solo and the rat often inhabit the grander structures.—
mental work.
Wharton, Texas, Independent.
as a C-rious undertaking.—Boston Budget,
SCHWANDER PIANO-FORTE ACTIONS.
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