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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
sible friends may come forward to assist him,
but things look very sombre, and Widdup may
expatiate his acts, with leisure for reflection, in
one of the local lock-ups.
MRS. SARAH A. JEWETT, music dealer, of
Saugerties, N. Y., who came to grief recently,
has not, as yet, made any satisfactory arrange-
ment with her creditors. An attempt is being
made to continue the business with L. H. Jewett
as successor.
S. N. GRIFFIN & Co., pianos, etc., of Wheel-
ing, W. Va., have recently been closed out.
ALEXANDER H. REVELL & Co., of Chicago,
have made arrangements whereby a piano de-
partment will be added to their establishment.
Mr. A. H. Rintelman, formerly connected with
the Hardman branch in that city, will assume
charge.
ON the judgement of Dr. A. C. Mackenzie, F.
Corder and Battison Haynes, the prize of $500
offered by a firm of Scotch music publishers for
a cantata for solo, chorus and orchestra, was
awarded to Dr. F. J. Sawyer, conductor of the
Brighton & Hove Choral Society, Boston, Mass.
It is entitled " Orpheus. "
J. T. ADAMS, of Bloomington, 111., is again in
GEO. BROWN, 123 Jackson avenue, Long Island
some hot water, and it might not be inadvisable City, has secured a patent on a piano attach-
for creditors to look to their interests.
ment, on which he has been at work for some
SAM S. FALK, of Texarkana, Texas, who re- time, and expects his patent papers soon.
cently made an assignment, is the same party
GEO. E. SPANGLER, Gettysburg, Pa., has
who, about a year ago, caused a receiver to be bought the interest of Mr. Eicholtz in the music
appointed by his partner, one Hoffman, then store of J. W. Eicholtz & Co.
doing business with Falk under the style of S.
THE Journeymen Church Organ Builders'
S. Falk & Co. Hoffman retired, finally, a con-
Association, New York, has elected F. H.
A WESTERN exchange says that after the first siderable loser.
of the year the firm name of N. A. North & Co.,
Symmes, president; G. F. Wedner, vice-pres-
J. B. PAYNE, a dealer in musical goods at ident; J. J. Smith, secretary.
Philadelphia, will be dropped and the Lester
Waco, Texas, is reported to have committed
Piano Co. serve for both institutions.
ON the petition of C. H. Farrell & Co., a war-
suicide at his residence in that city, on the
rant in insolvency was ordered against the estate
MR. H. D. CABLE, President of the Chicago
morning of December 23d. Failing health,
of Jos. H. Manson, piano case maker, 19 Ware-
Cottage Organ Co., is vice-president of the
combined with the present depressed condition
ham street, Boston, Mass.
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Collins & Armstrong Co., the leading music
of business and his inability to meet payments,
trade house at Fort Worth, Texas.
OTTO SUTRO & Co., Baltimore, Md., music
have been assigned as the causes which con-
J. W. PEPPER, the Philadelphia band and tributed to this act. He was a careful man, of dealers, were among the firms who preferred
orchestra instrument manufacturer, has leased good habits, and his sad end has caused a gloom charges of forgery against Frank C. Davis, Wm.
H. Herbert, Ed. W. Dollaver, Albert J. Foley
warerooms at 1,004 Chestnut street, that city, in the circle of his acquaintance.
and Thos. A. McGinnoss. The accused were
and will do his retail business from that point.
The Keynote for December is as attractive as charged with getting up a business directory in
M. FERRELL has opened a music store at Elk- ever and musical matters of the past month are Baltimore and charging $2 for insertion of an
ton, Md.
discussed in an interesting manner. The notes advertisement, and then raise the charge to $25.
about
musicians are bright and newsy. The The court decided that the alleged forgery had
IT is said that Mr. Hylsted, the celebrated
concert pianist, will shortly pay us a visit from foreign news is well served up. Three articles not been proven, and the accused were acquitted.
the West. He will play the magnificent Hallet of interest to musicians are one on " Guiseppe
THE music store of S. W. Tyler, Clinton,
& Davis grand, and we can feel assured this Verdi," the composer ; "Japanese Music" and
Mass.,
was damaged to the extent of $100 by
noted artist will display its many points of " Pieces as Studies," by W. S. B. Matthews.
fire.
An
article
on
''
Songs
of
the
Birds
''
will
be
superiority to the greatest advantage.
found instructive. The dramatic and art de-
SILVER-PLATED instruments will be furnished
THE "fake " dealers are at it again, endea- partments are well filled. The music is "Day
to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band of New
voring to work unsuspecting members of the Dawn," a waltz song, by Luigi Arditi.—Satur-
York by the Ladies' Sewing Society of the
trade. W. O. Gilman, of Adams, N. Y., who day Evening Spectator, Minneapolis, Minn.
asylum
at a cost of $1,000.
has been at his old tricks, sent an order re-
I. SUCKLING & SONS, prominent and old-
cently to a Chicago house for a piano to be
Miss MAY BARROWCLIFF, a popular music
shipped immediately. Telegraphic inquiry at teacher of Jersey City, was murderously assault- established music dealers, at Toronto, Ont.,
the Watertown, N. Y., Union National Bank, ed December 28th. There is no clew to the per- have decided to go into liquidation. They claim
on which the check was drawn, gave the infor- pelra'.or of the crime.
their assets will largely exceed liabilities.
mation that the distinguished gentleman had
no account there. The bank authorities have
issued an invitation to Mr. Gilman to call and
accept of State hospitality for a limited period.
Another of these visionary millionaires is C. H.
Badlatn—an appropriate name, for he is truly a
bad lamb—who has endeavored to catch many
dealers by ordering pianos with a request to
draw on him.
J. B. THIERV, a valued employee of the
W. W. Kimball Co., Chicago, sails to-day by
the North German Lloyd steamer for Germany.
He will combine business with pleasure, for
besides visiting his parents in Germany, he will
look after the Kimball interests in England.
Mr. Thiery expects to be gone about three
months.
MR.
WALTER D. MOSES is looking around for a
purchaser for music store at Richmond, Va.
THE Knabe interests in the Northwest will be
represented by W. J. Dyer & Bro., of St. Paul,
Minn. It is needless to say in such hands the
Knabe will be assured of a splendid representa-
tion throughout that territory.
S. N. WIDDUP, music dealer of Niagara Falls,
N. Y., is in a heap of trouble. His methods, to
say the best of it, have been peculiar, and he
has been arrested at Buffalo, whence he fled, and
brought back to Niagara Falls, where he must
explain his conduct. Piano leases were executed
by domestic servants et hoc genus. Some parties
to whom he has given " collateral," in the form
of leases, ascertained that the pianos supposed
to be represented on paper, have been again ob-
tained by Widdup and are not to be found, while
in other cases the leases are disputed. It is pos-
NEW YORK,
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