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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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. F. H. CLARK, president oftheTaber
Organ Co., Worcester, Mass., has just
returned from a trip through Pennsylvania,
where he succeeded in effecting some satisfactory
business for his house. The Taber organ is
adding to its popularity day after day.
last issue of the Musical Courier is a
very interesting number. Apart from its
literary features, it contains four illustrated
supplements showing the offices, the home and
foreign staff, and the correspondents. They
are elaborately gotten up, artistically arranged,
and reflect much credit on the enterprise of the
Musical Courier.
splendid art creations of Chickering &
Sons are now shown off to great advantage
in the new warerooms where, by the way, the
very capable staff of this house are now Aitirely
at home. During the past week the war*x>oms
have been admired by many visitors and Mends.
The handsome and complete appointmems of
the different salesrooms help in no small me*ure
| g H E PEASE PIANO COMPANY report a
ST 5 " rn .irked improvement in business for May
over tli it of March and April. They find that the
depression so universal in the mercantile world
has K-iicli. d its lowest mark, and things are now
on tin mend. This is a cheering condition of
affnirs. and entirely what we would expect
when the Popular Pease Pianos are concerned.
Wheuver sold, they are a synonym for "pro-
gress," and dealers find it pays to handle these
instruments.
notice that the enterprising firm of
Wessell, Nickel & Gross were among
the many representative business houses who,
regardless of party affiliations, signed the call
for the monster meeting held last evening at
Carnegie Music Hall for the purpose of protest-
ing against the Income Tax, and the dilatory
action of the Senate on the Tariff bill. Too
many meetings cannot be held to denounce the
outrageous indifference of the Senate to best
interests of the country.
EVER since the Chicago change the Hallet
& Davis Company are branching out in
their Western trade. Their recent Western con-
nections are proving eminently satisfactory and
the amount of business transacted so far assures
them of their good judgment. Their latest
Western move is the selection of Carl Hoffman,
of Leavenworth, Kansas, as agent for that city
and territory. Mr. Hoffman is an active and
progressive dealer, and he will do much to ex-
tend the popularity of the Hallet & Davis piano.
And yet the task is not a difficult one, for the
Hallet & Davis instruments invariably sell
themselves.
it was announced some two weeks
ago that Mr. G. R. Turnbull had bought
in the business of Beiir Bros. &. Co., we pre-
dicted that the business would possibly be turned
over to the Behr brothers, and that the Behr
Bros. & Co. pianos would again be manu-
factured. These assumptions are now facts,
and papers incorporating the new concern of
Behr Bros. & Co. are now in Albany, and as
soon as the receivers are formally discharged
manufacturing will be commenced. Mr. Her-
man Behr, who is reputed to be wealthy, will
be connected with the new concern. They will
devote themselves entirely to the wholesale
trade.
)T the very successful concert of the Auto-
harp Club, which was reported in our
columns last week, and at which the Autoharp
achieved such a decided success, we were pleased
to hear another instrument which is just as sur-
prising in its possibilities. We refer to the
" Symphony " organ manufactured by Wilcox
& White. One of the numbers 01 the program
was the internn/./.o from "Cavaik-ria Rusti-
cana," which was played so effectively and with
such expression that it clearly demonstrated the
value of this instrument for concert purposes.
The " Symphony " is growing in popularity
week after week, both in this country and
Europe, and it is not surprising, for it easily
leads among the self-playing instruments.
JHEN it comes to enterprise the West can't
be beat. Just look at the opening of
L,yon & Healy's new store last Monday, and
realize that twenty thousand people received
handsomely engraved invitations bidding them
welcome between the hours of 9 A. M. and 6 p.
M. for a week. And the twenty thousand came.
They could not help it. And they found the
visit worth the trouble, for it is truly a wonder-
ful establishment. Not only are its six great
floors large and well stocked, but they are set
off with that discrimination and good taste
which makes the whole building a thing of
beauty, and one of the sights of the Western
metropolis.
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HE condition of trade with the Emerson
Piano Co., of Boston, is unusually good—
the times considered. One of their recent hits
is a new style E 7>4 octave piano, which has
made quite a favorable impression among their
numerous agents, and has won the encomiums
of buyers and the trade in general. The branch
houses of the Emerson Piano Co., both in this
city and Chicago, report a very satisfactory
business, and when the volume of trade trans-
acted by them is considered, it demonstrates
that the Emerson piano is growing more and
more in popular esteem every day. During the
recent trip of Mr. O. A. Kimball to the far
West he booked some heavy orders which are
keeping the factory busily occupied.
jFTER taking all the evidence he could
find Assistant Fire Marshal Robert F.
Rice, of Brooklyn i made his report to Fire
Commissioner Wurster Wednesday last upon
the cause and origin of the fire that destroyed
the Brooklyn Tabernacle and the Hotel Regent,
Sunday, May 13th. He takes no stock in the
theory of incendiarism, and thinks that Organist
Brown was mistaken when he fancied he heard
footsteps in the organ loft during the service.
The Marshal is satisfied that the fire caught
from a candle left burning in the organ that
morning by Edward White or his assistant,
organ tuners, sent by Jardine & Son to inspect
the organ during the Sunday morning services.
He recommends that an ordinance be passed
compelling organ tuners to use lanterns instead
of candles while working in large organs.
<»t» Thursday last, has been received with
regret by the trade. All who know the facts
are fully cognizant of the strenuous efforts which
they made to meet the arrangements entered