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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
MR. ERNEST URCHS, of Steinway & Sons,
who was chairman of the music committee of the
great National Saengerfest which was held in
this city the early part of the week, contributed
in a great measure to the success of that im-
portant event.
MR. S. MENNIG has been engaged as factory
superintendent of the McCammon Piano Co.,
Oneonta N. Y. Mr. Mennig has made a life
long study of piano making, and is thoroughly
competent to fill his new position with much
credit to himself and the concern who engaged
his services.
THE Hotel Grunewald, which has become the
favorite rendezvous for musicians visiting New
Orleans, can now boast of a roof garden cover-
ing an area of 25,000 square feet. On the open-
ing night a large number of the prominent
people of the city were present and a splendid
band, composed of selected musicians, inaugu-
rated what is proving and will prove to be a
successful and profitable piece of enterprise.
Three elevators and two large stairways lead to
the roof. Visiting music trade men can enjoy
an excellent cuisine accompanied by refreshing
breezes at this excellent hostelry.
WE have received a very neatly printed cata-
logue of the different styles of pianos turned out
by the Lindeman & Sons Piano Company, 727-737
East 147th street. The many instruments shown
in this catalogue are certainly very beautiful,
and they cannot fail to attract considerable at-
tention throughout the trade. The Linde-
man piano has an old and worthy reputation
and, as they say in their catalogue, "consider-
ing the actual cost of the material and labor em-
ployed in the construction of the Lindeman
pianos the prices are lower than those of any
other first-class house.''
THE Henry F. Miller artists' grand piano won
a new success, so to speak, at the Connecticut
State Music Teachers' Convention, which was
held in New Haven last week. Mrs. Rosabelle
Fraushour-Lines, the distinguished pianist, dis-
played its beautiful tone to the best possible ad-
vantage. The musicians present spoke highly
in praise of its musical qualities.
IN Tioga county, Pa., there is a farmer with
such a love for melody that he has rigged up a
music box on the order of a hand organ, which
he has attached to his wheel plow. The gear-
ing is so fixed that by moving a lever the organ
is played automatically, and the farmer regales
himself with all the popular operatic airs while
in the field.
MR.
S. ELLIOTT KRAMER, principal of
the
Smallwood School, Washington, D. C , is the
winner of the prize offertd by Mr. W. P. Van
Wickle, the Washington representative of the
Bradbury pianos, for the most popular school
teacher. It embraces a thirty-days' trip to Europe
with all expenses paid. The ticket covers round
trip ocean passage, all railway fares, hotel
charges, carriage drives, etc., from Washington
to Europe and back, visiting all the principal
cities on the continent. The number of votes
cast for Mr. Kramer reached nearly a hundred
thousand.
MR. J. M. HAWXHURST, manager of the Chi-
cago branch of the F. G. Smith house, is taking
a trip through Northern Michigan.
THE Marshall & Wendell Piano Co., of Albany,
N. Y., have favored us with a clever engraving
representing an octave of puppies accompanied
by these lines:
An octave full of puppies here we see,
All members of one happy family ;
As uniform as they, but sweeter far,
Marshall & Wendell's famous OCTAVES are.
For their melodious, liquid, soothing notes
Have hushed the angry growl in savage throats!
The poet's truthfulness is here confessed;
1
' Music hath charms to soothe the savage
breast."
THE Lebanon (Ind.) Herald of June 16th gives
the following account of another one of these
swindles which are becoming so very common
throughout the country and which might be
avoided if farmers had more intelligence and
more faith in the wares of the local dealers :
Ernest Dukes, a wealthy old farmer who re-
sides ten miles west of here, has been swindled
by representatives of a Chicago piano company
out of $500. Recently D. S. Latimer called
on Mr. Dukes and opened the way for his
confederates, G. Vanderhool and a Mr. Long,
by placing a piano in the Dukes domicile.
The condition of the agreement was that Dukes
became an agent in the neighborhood and was
to receive $100 on each piano sold up to four,
which would pay for his piano ; should there
be no sales the piano in Mr. Dukes' house was to
be taken back without any loss to him.
Vanderhool obtained Dukes' notes for $180
and $390 on a very different contract, as it simply
promised a commission of $180 on each of four
piano sales, with no provisions for taking the
piano back or giving up the notes should there
be no sales. Dukes found his notes in a Frank-
fort bank and will have to pay them. The piano
is worth about $60.
FREEBORN G. SMITH, it is stated has aband-
oned his protracted European trip.
MR. OTTO SUTRO, the well known representa-
tive of the Steinway piano in Baltimore, left for
Europe last week. Mr. Sutro has taken into
partnership Mr. R. C. Gibson, his head book-
keeper, and Mr. Chas. Glaser, manager of the
sheet music department. These gentlemen have
been actively associated with the house of Otto
Sutro & Co. for many years.
THE Colby piano still continues to make a
record. Mr. Julius N. Brown succeeded in dis-
posing of four of these instruments recently to a
new conservatory of mvisic which is to be estab-
lished in Chicago.
MR. A. J. HOLDEN, salesman for Checkering
& Sons, has resigned his position with that
house.
an execution for $8,315
against John J. Swick and George W. Weser,
piano manufacturers, formerly of i32d street and
Lincoln avenue, in favor of Louis Haas, on June
27th.
THE
SHERIFF received
RAPID progress is being made on the Com-
mercial Block, corner of Genesee avenue and
Clinton street, Saginaw, Mich., which is to be
occupied as a factory for the manufacture of the
Erd piano. The building is a large and capa-
cious one, well supplied with elevators and other
conveniences which render every part of the
building easy of access. The building is three
stories in height and comprises four stores.
When completed it will be one of the finest fac-
tories in the West.
IN compliance with a resolution adopted by
the Southern Industrial Congress held recently
at Augusta, Ga., Senator Walsh, of Georgia, has
introduced a bill in the Senate which provides
for the establishment of a national hall for the
exhibit of the products of States and Territories
at Washington. Provision is made for the ap-
pointment of a commission to consist of the
Postmaster-General, the Secretary of the Interior
and the Secretary of Agriculture, to report to
Congress as early as practicable a plan for
the establishment and maintenance of the expo-
sition and the erection of a suitable building.
The committee is directed to advertise for plans
for the building, and they are to be reported to
Congress with a recommendation as to the site.
Seven thousand dollars is to be appropriated for
the expenses of the commission.
THE Sterling Co., Derby, Conn., report a
marked improvement in their foreign trade for
the past month. Shipments to England and
Germany, particularly, show a marked inerease.
HARRY RICHARDS, who, by the way, is a rela-
tive of the piano manufacturing concern of Lon-
don, of the same name, has recently retired from
the superintendency of the McCammon Piano
factory at Oneonta.
About Mason & Hamlin.
letter was received by Mason
§ HE & following
Hamlin from the manager of Mr.
Keith's new theatre in Boston:
BOSTON, June 13th, 1894.
MESSRS. MASON & HAMLIN,
Boston.
: Since the opening of my new
theatre we have had, and used several hours
daily, one of your big concert grand pianos. In
fact, in my theatre the piano takes the place of
the oichestra. It gives me great pleasure to
state to you that your piano has not only proved
itself entirely worthy the confidence I put in it,
but that it has stood remarkably the great test,
and has answer* d every artistic desire of the
several pianists who have used the same. You
are to be congratulated on such a magnificent
product from your manufactory.
I am yours very truly,
GENTLEMEN
E. F. ALBEE,
Gen. Manager for Mr. Keith.
This theatre was recently opened and it is a
magnificent structure, being the largest theatre
in America and one of the largest in the world.
There is a complete telephone system in the
theatre, there being fifty-two stations or more,
so that communication may be had from any
one part of the house to another. The whole
building is modeled on a correspondingly broad
space. It is very significent as to the worth
of the instrument and gratifying to the house of
Mason & Hamlin that Mr. Keith should select
one of their pianos for his theatre.
NOTTINGHAM, PA.—A charter has been
granted to the Nottingham Silver Cornet Band :
E. J. Kirk, W. S. Roberts, J. F. Anderson and
others members.
DUQUESNE, PA.— Etnil Haberkorn, well known
musician and leader of Duquesne Theatre since
1890, died at Los Angeles, Cal., where he had
gone for his health, as he was suffering from
consumption. Mr. Haberkorn was married and
subsequently divorced from Margaret Mather,
the actress, whom he married about seven years
ago. He leaves a wife and infant child, being
married to his second wife about a year. He
was 35 years old.
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