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THE MUSIC TRflDE REVIEW.
MR. A. HOWARD HINKLE, treasurer of the
John Church Company, arrived last week from
Europe on the " Fuerst Bismarck " with Mr.
George Nembach, of Geo. Steck & Co. It is not
unlikely that Mr. Hinkle will be elected presi-
dent of the John Church Company, in place of
the late Mr. William Hooper, at the next meet-
ing of the Board of Directors.
MR. B. A. POTTER, of Lyon, Potter & Co.,
Chicago, is spending his vacation with a party
of friends on a trip to Buffalo through the lakes.
From Buffalo Mr. Potter will leave for Maine.
The entire trip will occupy three weeks.
WHAT'S in a name ?
A great deal apparent-
ly, when it is the name of " Sohtner," which is
honored at home and abroad. We learn that a
favorite resort near Montreal has recently been
named " Sobmer Park and Zoological Gardens."
The proprietors, Messrs. Ernest L. Lavigne and
L. J. Lajoie, were the agents for the Sohmer
piano in that city before they embarked in their
present enterprise. They conclude, possibly,
that as the '' Sohmer '' piano brought them such
good luck and fame heretofore, the name
" Sohmer " in their new undertaking should
prove just as successful. And it undoubtedly
will.
W E beg to acknowledge receipt of a handsome
catalogue of the Waldo Banjeux from the Bar-
I. E. PERLEY, a prominent music trade dealer,
rows Music Company, Saginaw, Mich. We
shall have something further to say of this cata- of Emporia, Kansas, was accidentally drowned
recently. He was a very popular man, and
logue in a future issue.
highly esteemed by all circles in that town.
MR. R. C. KAMMERER, of Geo. Steck & Co.,
LYON & HEALY are doing some '' catchy ''
is having a royal time at Travers Island this
advertising
in the daily papers of Chicago in
week. He is quite a patron of acquatic sports.
connection with their midsummer clearing sale.
THE Little Falls (N. Y.) Courier says: J. C. If it is possible to arouse interest in business
Livingston & Co. will soon commence the through the newspapers Lyon & Healy are bound
manufacture of piano backs. This will give to do so, and they will succeed, because " print-
employment to about twenty more men than are ers' ink " never fails to bring in a satisfactory
now working in the concern. This new depar- return. The Lyon & Healy " ads. " are cleverly
ture is highly appreciated.
written and attractive to those who usually
avoid the advertising pages of the newspaper.
MR. FERDINAND MAYER, retail manager for
BUSINESS with the Chase Bros. Piano Co.,
Chickering & Sons, is spending a few weeks
Muskegon, Mich., is very fair. They are work-
vacation at Amityville, N. Y.
ing full time, and, like the majority, are looking
A. F. TRONSO, of Rockford, la., has been ar- forward to better times. They report that their
rested on the charge of embezzling the funds of retail trade in Chicago has been unusually satis-
a Chicago music house, of which he was local factory during the past month, and compares
agent. He was held for examination.
favorably with previous years.
MR. WILLIAM R. GRATZ, a well known im-
THE CHARLES L. BAKER PIANO AND ORGAN
porter of this city, Mr. C. Bruno, of this city, C. COMPANY, of Waco, Tex., has been incorporated ;
F. Albert and wife, of Philadelphia, are among capital stock $20,000. Directors, John P. Massey,
the American visitors to Markneukirchen, Ger- W. E. Lednum, D. A. Spencer, R. W. Andrews
many.
and C. L. Barker, all of Waco.
IT is satisfying to know that there will be no
O. L. KILBOR'S music store at Marshall, 111.,
international trouble over the losses sustained was damaged by fire to the extent of $1,200
by the French exhibitors through the fire which Tuesday of last week. There is an insurance of
destroyed their goods at the World's Fair Build- $1,000.
ings. The Federal Government has set aside
MR. MASON P. CURRIER will leave this week
seventy thousand dollars for the purpose of satis- for a two month's trip on the road in the inter-
fying this claim, which, as far as can be learned, est of the Estey Piano Company.
is a just one.
A MARKED improvement is noticeable in the
JOHN BRITTING, head of the firm of John B.
region of the Decker & Son's piano factory, 971-
Britting, 72-76 Canal street, Cincinnati, attempt- 973 East 135th street. A fine pavement is
ed to murder his wife by shooting, Thursday being laid in front of the factory ; an improve-
evening of last week. Britting's crime was due ment that will be hailed with satisfaction by
to a combination of drink and jealousy. Poor visitors to this very complete building.
marksmanship averted murder, and Mrs. Brit-
IT pays better to be a song writer nowadays
ting is suffering from a severe wound. Her than a piano manufacturer. We learn that the
recovery is still in doubt. Both Mr. and Mrs. genial Ben. F. Jansen, manager of the Mathu-
Britting are very wealthy ; the latter recently shek & Son Piano Company, has netted nearly
received a legacy of about $70,000 from her two thousand dollars from one of his recent
father's estate. The name of Britting has been compositions, " Pleasures of Paris." Mr. Jan-
associated with the piano trade in Cincinnati sen 's compositions of the comic order are widely
since the opening of the century.
known the world over.
MR. C. O. HILLSTROM, of C. O. Hillstrom &
Co., Chesterton, Ind., who has been on the sick
list for some time past, is, we are glad to say,
on the road to recovery. Mr. Hillstrom is too
valuable a member of the trade to lose.
MR. C. G. CONN, who has recently been im-
mortalized by the New York Sun, will deliver
an address in Washington, D. C , during the
National Encampment of the Knights of Pythias.
P. LAWSON and wife are sojourn-
ing for the summer at Lake Geneva, Wis.
MR. CHAS.
W. A. WHITE, formerly with Dill & Co., has
secured the Steinway agency for western Michi-
gan. His headquarters will be at Kalamazoo.
THE Steinway pianos are on exhibition in
Paris in the handsome warerooms of E. Moulle,
1 Rue Blanche, and the excellent trade trans-
acted is a strong indication of the popularity of
these instruments among the critical Parisians.
THE Hardman piano is meeting with much
success in Washington. E. F. Droop & Sons
are pushing this excellent instrument.
JOHN W. REED, of the progressive house of
A. Reed & Sons, Chicago, has been specially
honored by the Columbian Exposition officials
as an inventor of valuable improvements in the
manufacture of pianofortes. He has received a
diploma of honorable mention, which, it is
needless to say, Mr. Reed prizes. It is always
pleasing to see marked ability fittingly honored.
THE Honorable Levi K. Fuller, Governor of
Vermont, visited Essex, Conn., Monday of last
week. We assume he did not fail to visit the
well-known piano supply houses in that neigh-
borhood.
G. B. MILLER, Rochester, N. Y., is doing a
splendid trade with a line of Sohmer, Weber,
Briggs, Newby & Evans and Mason & Hamlin
pianos, and Wilcox & White, Mason & Hamlin
and Packard organs. With such a fine line of
instruments it is no wonder that Mr. Miller is
able to command the trade of the leaders of
social and musical life in the " Flour City."
THE Canadian Musician, Toronto, Ont.,
advises the public, especially proprietors of
papers, and music people in general, to com-
municate with them before engaging a W. H.
Catford, who was recently heard of as in Detroit.
MR. JOHN D. PEASE, of the Pease Piano Co.,
returned recently from a prolonged vacation
spent in Massachusetts, the home of his boy-
hood. Mr. Pease has been much benefited by
his vacation, and is fully prepared to enter the
fight for better trade this fall, which, by the
way, he thinks will be good, provided the Wil-
son bill is killed.
Two very strong letters in commendation of
the Mason & Hamlin pianos have been received
by the Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Co.,
from Herman P. Chelius, director of the Boston
Conservatory of Music, and Ferdinand Dewey,
who is at present with William H. Sherwood, at
Chautauqua. Mr. Chelius says : " I have used
your parlor grands for several years, from eight
to ten hours a day, giving them a wear that is
tremendous. Despite all, one tuning sufficed
for a whole year. Conscientiously I can say,
from a long experience, that the action answers
all demands ; it is highly sensitive, firm and
elastic. Whatever the touch employed it re-
ceives the response The tone is rich and fall,
which can be graduated to all degrees of light
and shade. It is sympathetic and capable of
remarkable sonority. The tone has breadth, as
well as great refinement, and in all respects
your instruments are equal to any piano before
the public.
Timber Lands of Maine.
is no possibility of a famine in tim-
ber, that is evident. A Maine lumberman
says the wild lands of his State would make thir-
teen States as large as Rhode Island, two as
large as New Hampshire and Vermont, and one
twice as large as Massachusetts. These lands
are located in the following counties : Aroostook,
2,836,618 acres ; Franklin, 589,962 acres; Han-
cock, 362,893 acres; Oxford, 553,654 acres;
Penobscot, 827,604 acres; Piscataquis, 2,000,444
acres; Somerset, 1,735,838 acres; Washington,
624,123 acres. The spruce timber lands of Maine
are worth more to-day than the pine lands fifty
years ago. This statement is based on the opin-
ion of lumbermen who have been engaged in the
business for forty years. The value of these
spruce lands has been greatly enhanced by the
enormous demand for pulp wood.