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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
W. HARRIS SELTZER.
HARRIS SELTZER is one of the most enter-
prising music dealers in the city of Philadel-
1
phia, Pa, His warerooms are situated at
1737 Germantown avenue, and are very tastily fitted
up. Mr. Seltzer sells the "Opera" and the " Ivers &
Pond" pianos, and has been very successful in build-
ing up not only a profitable, but a very safe business.
He is cautious in all his business transactions, taking no
risks whatever. He gives his whole time and attention
to pushing the instruments he handles, advertises in a
very careful and judicious manner and has originated
some novel methods of bringing his goods prominently
before the public.
Mr. Seltzer is specially devoting his energies to push-
ing the "Opera" piano manufactured by Peek & Son,
an instrument in which he has entire confidence; and he
will spare no reasonable expense, in endeavoring to
give it all the popularity it deserves.
The customers who deal with this house are of the
best class of Philadelphia and trie surrounding towns.
They demand the best goods, and will have no other.
Mr. Seltzer is fully prepared to supply their wants, as he
has never dealt in cheap or poor grades of goods. Strict
in his methods of doing busines, he has won the confi-
dence of the public. Undoubtedly he is destined to be-
came one of the most popular piano dealers in the city
of " Brotherly Love," and to make the " Opera" piano
familiar as a household word with all music loving
people.
W
KIND WORDS.
me a few of the last issue Music TRADE REVIEW, and
oblige,
Yours truly,
,
HERSCHEL FENTON.
DALLAS, TEXAS, March 23, 1889.
Messrs. BILL & BILL:
DEAR SIRS: Enclosed please find $1.50 which you
will please place to my credit on TRADE REVIEW, and
oblige,
Truly,
M. W. VAUGHAN.
GLASGOW. KY., March 25, 1889.
Messrs. BILL & BILL:
GENTLEMEN: Your excellent trade paper is a welcome
visitor to our house every time. No music dealer can
well do without it. We wish you success, and long life
in which to enjoy it.
Yours truly,
H. D. & N.
FOR SALE.—The editor of t
has $400 worth
of shares in the Spotted Bull j^lyer Mining Company
CATTARAUGUS, N. Y., March 27, 1889.
which he will sell cheap for cash for trade for an all-wool
undershirt. These shares were pres^ted us with the
Messrs. BILL & BILL,
understanding that we should hel
New York.
DEAR SIRS: Please find enclosed check for $6.00 in' suckers. Either the rope is out of o
scarce. The stock has gone down
payment for subscription to Music TRADE REVIEW.
dollar,
and we propose to unload^b
I congratulate you on the success with which you
have met in publishing a fearless, bold, and reliable ment is made. We said an a l l - J
are not going to be too particular ab
music trade journal.
Please continue your journal to me, as I cannot do cotton, minus the buttons or
back, we shall probably make
business without it.
hesitate because you may have
Very truly yours,
proud and haughty. We know w
E. J. BLAKELY.
the top rail.
FITCHBURG, MASS., March 25, 1889.
A CONVICTED LIAR.—The web-
THE ARIZONA "KICKER" AGAIN.
Messrs. Bir.i. & BILL:
GENTLEMEN: Please find enclosed check for $3.00,
subscription for Music TRADE REVIEW one year to
March 20, 1890. I think it will help me live that much
happier indeed, by bringing me in closer connection
with the musical world.
Very truly,
J. F. CHAFFIN.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15, 1889.
Messrs. BILL & BILL:
GENTLEMEN: We enclose herewith Money Order for
$3.00, in payment of bill for THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
for the year ending May 20, 1889.
Yours very truly,
A. L. BANCROFT & Co.
W. C. HAMILTON, Manager.
BRADFORD, PA., March 18, 1889.
To BILL & BILL,
New York.
GENTLEMEN: Enclosed find check for the subscription
of your newsy paper.
Yours, etc.,
DuBois & NEWELL.
We take the following extracts from a late issue of the
Arizona weekly Kicker:
WHAT IT MEANS.—This half sheet is no accident.
We issued it to save our legal notices. Had we had no
legal ads we should have skipped publication entirely.
When it is cold enough in this town to freeze whiskey
within ten feet of a red hot stove there is no call for an
editor to get up and hump himself. Our esteemed con-
temporary down the street calculates to skip two weeks
and get drunk at least four times, and we shall be with
him in spirit. While we aim to publish the greatest
newspaper in the West, we can't fight 27 degrees below
zero worth shucks. Cum dig solis, which means that as
soon as the blizzard lets up we will try and do better.
THE SAMONA AFFAIR.—In case of a war count us in!
We have already arranged in case war breaks out, to
leave the Kicker in good hands or suspend publication
altogether and go to the front. We shall go as a general.
We shall be prepared to part with a liberal quantity of
our blood, devour our share of hard tack and return to
receive the plaudits of the multitude. Let 'er go, Gal-
lagher.
MOLEHILL VS. MOUNTAIN.—There is a disposition on
HARRISBURG, PA., March 19, 1889.
Messrs. BILL & BILL,
New York, N. Y.
GENTLEMEN: Please find enclosed check for $3,00 for
subscription to Music TRADE REVIEW.
Respectfully,
J. H. KURZENKNABE & SONS.
PIQ.UA, OHIO, March 19, 1889.
Messrs. BILL & BILL,
New York.
DEAR SIRS: Enclosed please find order for amount
of bill, $3.00.
Very respectfully yours,
JNO. H. THOMAS.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., March 20, 1889.
Messrs. BILL & BILL:
GENTLEMEN: Enclosed find check on Fishkill L'd'g.
for $3, for subscription to Music TRADE REVIEW for
year ending March 20, i8qo. Please send receipt and
oblige,
Yours,
J. H. HICKOK.
NEW YORK, March 22d, 1889.
Messrs. BILL & BILL,
No. 3 East 14th street, City.
DEAR SIRS: Enclosed find $1.00 for which please send
A CORRECT VERSION.—There are several versions
flying around in regard to the unfortunate affair in the
Red Front Saloon last Friday | night. As we were
present and a witness we will state that when Major
Shamocken came in he was inebriated. Some one laugh-
ingly asked him how he e^aped from Joliet, and the
Major foolishly insisted that his character had been im-
pugned. As we owe him $15 he did not want to harm
us, but passed on to Judge Shooks. The judge was also
far gone with drink and in bad temper, and the two
clinched and rolled upon thetfloorL The stove was up-
set and in its fall the Major was ,s more:
mortally injured,
This is a plain statement
the! case. We all know
that the Major was a horse thief,
he shouldn't have
been so thin-sk'.nned. We all kn
the Judge as an
old bum and corrupt official, ar
ouldn't have been
so ready to fight. Both were
e, and yet neither
could be held culpable.
the part of a few mudsills to magnify the little incident
which occured at the post office last Tuesday evening.
Last week we referred to Colonel Crocker as a thief.
We were wrong. He was arrested in Illinois for arson
and jumped his bail. He met us in the post office and
knocked us down. While down, we explained that we
were in error, and he apologized and helped brush the
dirt off our clothes. That's all there was to it—one of
the trifling incidents of every day life—and that class
who are seeking to exaggerate the facts will make nothing
by it. When we call an incendiary a thief—a robber an
absconder—a bigamist an embezzler, we shall apologize
every time. There is no reason why an editor shouldn't
also be a gentleman.
IN GOOD TIME.—The Howling Hyena, which boasts
of a weekly circulation of 125 copies, and whose jealousy
of the Kicker's success is a matter of public comment,
sneeringly observed last week that we had not yet se-
cured the right to put " Postmaster " after our name.
Don't be in a hurry, gentlemen. We began on the
ground floor and we can't grow nine stories all at once.
We don't want to be Postmaster just at present, being
engaged in conducting a great weekly newspaper, a
grocery, butcher shop and hardware store combined,
but when we get more time we may have something to
say about even the Governorship. The only pang of
sorrow we feel is one for the editor of the Howling
Hyena, who will have filled a drunkard's grave before
our plans are perfected.
hyena who edits the literary cat'
street charges us with trying to 1
munity, because we have occasion
white shirt and 50 cent suspenders,
us best know how humble and lowly we feel, e
having the only paper collar in the crowd vv'
not been turned and sandpapered.
We shall occasionally put on a white shirt—i\ot to
humiliate our fellow citizens or boost ourselves above
the herd, but in order to connect us temporarily with
outside civilization. Now and then we shall replace the
horsehide strap around our waist with the suspenders
spoken of, but it will not be in any spirit of self-aggran-
dizement, such as might justly call for mob violence and
the destruction of our office. As for the old grave-rob-
ber opposite, we have already located him for an Ohio
sheriff, who is expected along daily to take him away.
ACCIDENT.—We regret to learn that Major Jackson,
one of the pioneer residents of our little city, kicked at
his dog last Saturday and drove his big toe back into
his heel by hitting the corner-stone of the new Masonic
Temple.
The Major was our second subscriber, a\jd he never
meets us without asking us to drink. We sympathize
with him in his dark hour of trial, and trust that he may
soon reappear among us. Should his condition become
critical we shall issue daily bulletins from this office.
Go HENCE.—A correspondent wishes us^to explain
the meaning of the term : " From Alpha ttt Omega."
We shan't do it. We have had politics enoulh for one
season, and propose to let up on the machine.^Ve never
heard of Alpha, anyhow, and as for old Omega, may he
be durned '
A NEW music firm, operating under the style of
Dresser & Co., have opened at Worcester, Mass. They
handle the New England organs, and the Woodward &
Brown, Lawrence & Son, and Mason & Hamlin pianos.
SEVENTY-FIVE second-hand pianos were sold by auc-
tion on Saturday last in the warerooms of M. Steinert
Sons, New Haven Conn.
ALFRED DOLGE and Karl Fink have been fifteen
years together.
A PATENT muffler is being introduced by the Keller
Piano Co., at Bridgeport, Conn,, into their upright
pianos.
THE Knabe pianos are now sold in Cleveland, O.,
by Kirsch, King & Co.
THE Astoria Veneer Mills is the name of a new con-
cern formed by Messrs. Williams. Mr. W, H, Will-
Hams is president, Mr. William Thatcher, vice-presi-
dent, and Mr. A. S. Williams, secretary and treasurer.
The capital of the new company is_$ioo,QOQ,