Music Trade Review
Issue: 1893 Vol. 18 N. 10 - Page 4
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
went forth, determined on victory. The dogs
went in and came out again, just as they did
heretofore, but their masters went on.
" A s they began to get near the place the
sounds came from they were all pretty near
scared to death, but they were afraid to turn
back lest the thing, ostrich or whatever it was,
might run after them and catch them. So on
they went, gentlemen, and pretty soon they
came to a little cabin in a gully, and there they
found a-setting out in front of it an old fellow
named Jim Botts a-sawing away for dear life
and trying to play, 'Maryland, My Maryland,'
on a big hoss fiddle.
"What did they do with him? Why, they
hung him, of course," and the cigars were
passed around at this time.
MR. C. FivECHTKR KING is making a trip
through the Southern States in the interest of
Jack Haynes.
JAMES W. GUERNSEY, Scranton, Pa., was in
town this week laying in a fresh stock of pianos
and other musical merchandise.
MR. C. A. REED, dealer in pianos and organs,
Anderson, S. C , was counted among Gotham's
sight-seers this week.
MR. FRANK JONES, Orange, N. J., was visit-
ing the factories in town this week.
E. C. ERBSLOCH, of the well known London
house of Erbsloch & Co., tarried a few days in
Gotham, on his return from the World's Fair.
R. E. WOOLLARD, of Amesbury, Mass., dealer
in pianos, &c, has made an assignment to
Adam Scott. A meeting of his creditors will be
held Sept. 30th.
MR. JAS. E. WING, the absconding piano
dealer, Lynn, Mass., has raised money to pay
his debts and the warrant against him has been
withdrawn. Mr. Riddle, Boston piano dealer,
is the largest creditor.
MR. HORACE E. WINN, piano maker, of Bos-
ton, Mass., committed suicide by shooting him-
self in the head. He was despondent over
domestic troubles.
KURZENKNABE & SONS, Harrisburg,
Pa.,
dealers in musical instruments, have opened up
a new store at 22 North 2d street.
Chicago, 111., dealer in
pianos and organs at 208 State street, has made
an assignment to Danl. Branch as assignee.
SMITH & NIXON, Louisville, Ky., have sued
Erastus D. Foree to recover $150, alleged to be
a balance due on a Chickering piano sold the
defendant.
HORACE BRANCH,
"
W. H. MCGARRY, Cincinnati, O., representa-
tive of Krell Piano Co., of Cincinnati, at Park-
ersburg, W. Va., who is a witness in the case of
Krell Piano Co. against G. L- Kent, who is in-
dicted for felony, has been arrested on a charge
of perjury. Mr. McGarry's attorney states that
there is nothing in the charge.
MICHAEL O'BRIEN, New Britain, Conn., the
music dealer, has taken a trip to the World's
Fair.
•WASHINGTON, D. C , is to have a new musi-
cal organization to be known as the National
Festival and Oratorio Society. The chorus will
number about 1,000 voices.
Horace Branch, dealer in pianos and organs,
208 State street, Chicago, 111., has made an as-
signment to Daniel Branch. Assets, $12,000.
Liabilities estimated to about $7,000.
The Wright Organ Factory, Franklin, N. J.,
is rapidly nearing completion.
The Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. is expected
to start up on Monday next after a shut down
of seven weeks.
A fire was discovered in the basement of
Ferguson's music store, Lincoln, Neb., but was
extinguished before any damage was done.
WITH THE:
TRAV£L£R6,
f
HE apocryphal leaves in Vallambrosa were
never as numerous as the stories with
which the veteran traveler Charlie Sisson's
memory is stocked. They seem to ooze out of
him at all times and upon all occasions, without
further effort on his part than the mere recount-
ing of them.
"Speaking of noises," remarked Charlie,
recently, when he was called upon to relate one
of his early experiences, "reminds me of a
thing that occurred down in Henderson County,
Texas, when I was there in early days.
1
' Right near Maxwell was a wild sort of place,
inhabited with about 400,000,000 black wolves,
and the edge of it was pretty thickly settled.
A stranger going to one of the settler's houses
never could sleep because the wolves made such
a noise, but the natives never minded them a
bit, and even their dogs stopped taking any
notice of 'em.
" Suddenly the people began to get worried.
Sounds began to come out of that wilderness
such as no human ear had ever listened to be-
fore. The howls of the wolves were as the
voices of the cherubim and the seraphim along-
side of it. Every night it continued growing
worse and worse, until it became downright
soul-terrifying. Grown folks would get white
and the children's teeth would chatter, while
all the cattle would come around the house and
try to get comfort from being near folks.
'' Pretty soon the people concluded it was a
Bengal tiger or a lion that had got out of some
circus, and they made up their minds to hunt it
down so they could get some sleep again. So
a big party raided the woods and sent in the
dogs. Pretty soon back came the dogs with
their eyes bigger and brighter than electric
lights, and their hair all standing up, and their
tails between their legs, and they didn't stop
when their masters called 'em, but kept right
on for home as hard as they could go. The
people concluded the thing, whatever it was,
must be something pretty terrible when a
Texas dog wouldn t tackle it, so they drew off
their forces.
" That only made the noise at night more in-
fernal than ever. It was indescribable. All
the souls in torment seemed to be moaning and
crying and shrieking and carrying on together.
At last a fellow came along who said he had
been in Arabia, and that the noise was nothing
in the world but the night song of an ostrich.
" The people felt sort of ashamed that they
had been frightened by anything that wore
feathers, so they made up their minds to start
in after it again and let nothing stop them. So
one night about 100 of them, armed to the teeth,
CUSTOM HOUSE, BOSTON,
>
Collector's Office, September 20, 1893. J
Exportations of Musical Instruments from the
Port of Boston, Month ending Aug. 31, 1893.
To Germany :
Sixteen (t6) organs
.
.
.
$910
To England :
One hundred and sixty-five
(165) organs
-
-
- $9,278
All other and parts of
- - 1.955
11,233
To Nova Scotia, etc. :
Four (4) organs
$447
1,610
Six (6) pianos -
All other and parts of
673
2.;
To Newfoundland :
Three (3) organs -
One (1) piano
$250
- 75
325
To British West Indies :
One (1) organ
Total -
$15,248
Importations of Musical Instruments into the
Port of Boston, Month of August, 1893.
Countries :
France
.
.
.
.
.
.
$2,427
Germany -
-
-
-
-
-
2,683
England
-
-
.
-
-
- 413
Total
>.5 2 3
Hostess (who has just sat upon the Count's
Hat)—" Oh, Count, what have I done! Will
you ever forgive m e ? " The Count—" Forgeef,
ma'moiselle, forgeef? Ah ? ze gain iteesmine,
for my frainds haf zey not told me it ees in zees
country ze fashion to haf ze belle on ze hat?"- -
Raymond's Monthly.
Small Son—'' I know what I '11 be when I grow
up. I'm goin 1 to be a great inventor." Papa—
" That's encouraging, certainly. What makes
you think you have inventive genius ?" Small
Son—" Why, I wanted to take a screw out, and
I couldn't find any screwdriver, and so I un-
screwed it out with your razor."—Good News.
Wife—" Well, talk about mean men, here's
the meanest I ever heard of. After the minister
had married him, he paid the good man for his
services with a bogus check." Husband—"I
wish I'd done the same ; perhaps I might have
gotten even with the one that married me."—
Harvard Lampoon.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
went forth, determined on victory. The dogs
went in and came out again, just as they did
heretofore, but their masters went on.
" A s they began to get near the place the
sounds came from they were all pretty near
scared to death, but they were afraid to turn
back lest the thing, ostrich or whatever it was,
might run after them and catch them. So on
they went, gentlemen, and pretty soon they
came to a little cabin in a gully, and there they
found a-setting out in front of it an old fellow
named Jim Botts a-sawing away for dear life
and trying to play, 'Maryland, My Maryland,'
on a big hoss fiddle.
"What did they do with him? Why, they
hung him, of course," and the cigars were
passed around at this time.
MR. C. FivECHTKR KING is making a trip
through the Southern States in the interest of
Jack Haynes.
JAMES W. GUERNSEY, Scranton, Pa., was in
town this week laying in a fresh stock of pianos
and other musical merchandise.
MR. C. A. REED, dealer in pianos and organs,
Anderson, S. C , was counted among Gotham's
sight-seers this week.
MR. FRANK JONES, Orange, N. J., was visit-
ing the factories in town this week.
E. C. ERBSLOCH, of the well known London
house of Erbsloch & Co., tarried a few days in
Gotham, on his return from the World's Fair.
R. E. WOOLLARD, of Amesbury, Mass., dealer
in pianos, &c, has made an assignment to
Adam Scott. A meeting of his creditors will be
held Sept. 30th.
MR. JAS. E. WING, the absconding piano
dealer, Lynn, Mass., has raised money to pay
his debts and the warrant against him has been
withdrawn. Mr. Riddle, Boston piano dealer,
is the largest creditor.
MR. HORACE E. WINN, piano maker, of Bos-
ton, Mass., committed suicide by shooting him-
self in the head. He was despondent over
domestic troubles.
KURZENKNABE & SONS, Harrisburg,
Pa.,
dealers in musical instruments, have opened up
a new store at 22 North 2d street.
Chicago, 111., dealer in
pianos and organs at 208 State street, has made
an assignment to Danl. Branch as assignee.
SMITH & NIXON, Louisville, Ky., have sued
Erastus D. Foree to recover $150, alleged to be
a balance due on a Chickering piano sold the
defendant.
HORACE BRANCH,
"
W. H. MCGARRY, Cincinnati, O., representa-
tive of Krell Piano Co., of Cincinnati, at Park-
ersburg, W. Va., who is a witness in the case of
Krell Piano Co. against G. L- Kent, who is in-
dicted for felony, has been arrested on a charge
of perjury. Mr. McGarry's attorney states that
there is nothing in the charge.
MICHAEL O'BRIEN, New Britain, Conn., the
music dealer, has taken a trip to the World's
Fair.
•WASHINGTON, D. C , is to have a new musi-
cal organization to be known as the National
Festival and Oratorio Society. The chorus will
number about 1,000 voices.
Horace Branch, dealer in pianos and organs,
208 State street, Chicago, 111., has made an as-
signment to Daniel Branch. Assets, $12,000.
Liabilities estimated to about $7,000.
The Wright Organ Factory, Franklin, N. J.,
is rapidly nearing completion.
The Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. is expected
to start up on Monday next after a shut down
of seven weeks.
A fire was discovered in the basement of
Ferguson's music store, Lincoln, Neb., but was
extinguished before any damage was done.
WITH THE:
TRAV£L£R6,
f
HE apocryphal leaves in Vallambrosa were
never as numerous as the stories with
which the veteran traveler Charlie Sisson's
memory is stocked. They seem to ooze out of
him at all times and upon all occasions, without
further effort on his part than the mere recount-
ing of them.
"Speaking of noises," remarked Charlie,
recently, when he was called upon to relate one
of his early experiences, "reminds me of a
thing that occurred down in Henderson County,
Texas, when I was there in early days.
1
' Right near Maxwell was a wild sort of place,
inhabited with about 400,000,000 black wolves,
and the edge of it was pretty thickly settled.
A stranger going to one of the settler's houses
never could sleep because the wolves made such
a noise, but the natives never minded them a
bit, and even their dogs stopped taking any
notice of 'em.
" Suddenly the people began to get worried.
Sounds began to come out of that wilderness
such as no human ear had ever listened to be-
fore. The howls of the wolves were as the
voices of the cherubim and the seraphim along-
side of it. Every night it continued growing
worse and worse, until it became downright
soul-terrifying. Grown folks would get white
and the children's teeth would chatter, while
all the cattle would come around the house and
try to get comfort from being near folks.
'' Pretty soon the people concluded it was a
Bengal tiger or a lion that had got out of some
circus, and they made up their minds to hunt it
down so they could get some sleep again. So
a big party raided the woods and sent in the
dogs. Pretty soon back came the dogs with
their eyes bigger and brighter than electric
lights, and their hair all standing up, and their
tails between their legs, and they didn't stop
when their masters called 'em, but kept right
on for home as hard as they could go. The
people concluded the thing, whatever it was,
must be something pretty terrible when a
Texas dog wouldn t tackle it, so they drew off
their forces.
" That only made the noise at night more in-
fernal than ever. It was indescribable. All
the souls in torment seemed to be moaning and
crying and shrieking and carrying on together.
At last a fellow came along who said he had
been in Arabia, and that the noise was nothing
in the world but the night song of an ostrich.
" The people felt sort of ashamed that they
had been frightened by anything that wore
feathers, so they made up their minds to start
in after it again and let nothing stop them. So
one night about 100 of them, armed to the teeth,
CUSTOM HOUSE, BOSTON,
>
Collector's Office, September 20, 1893. J
Exportations of Musical Instruments from the
Port of Boston, Month ending Aug. 31, 1893.
To Germany :
Sixteen (t6) organs
.
.
.
$910
To England :
One hundred and sixty-five
(165) organs
-
-
- $9,278
All other and parts of
- - 1.955
11,233
To Nova Scotia, etc. :
Four (4) organs
$447
1,610
Six (6) pianos -
All other and parts of
673
2.;
To Newfoundland :
Three (3) organs -
One (1) piano
$250
- 75
325
To British West Indies :
One (1) organ
Total -
$15,248
Importations of Musical Instruments into the
Port of Boston, Month of August, 1893.
Countries :
France
.
.
.
.
.
.
$2,427
Germany -
-
-
-
-
-
2,683
England
-
-
.
-
-
- 413
Total
>.5 2 3
Hostess (who has just sat upon the Count's
Hat)—" Oh, Count, what have I done! Will
you ever forgive m e ? " The Count—" Forgeef,
ma'moiselle, forgeef? Ah ? ze gain iteesmine,
for my frainds haf zey not told me it ees in zees
country ze fashion to haf ze belle on ze hat?"- -
Raymond's Monthly.
Small Son—'' I know what I '11 be when I grow
up. I'm goin 1 to be a great inventor." Papa—
" That's encouraging, certainly. What makes
you think you have inventive genius ?" Small
Son—" Why, I wanted to take a screw out, and
I couldn't find any screwdriver, and so I un-
screwed it out with your razor."—Good News.
Wife—" Well, talk about mean men, here's
the meanest I ever heard of. After the minister
had married him, he paid the good man for his
services with a bogus check." Husband—"I
wish I'd done the same ; perhaps I might have
gotten even with the one that married me."—
Harvard Lampoon.
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