Music Trade Review
Issue: 1895 Vol. 20 N. 10 - Page 4
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
still further to economy of production.
The manufacture of 'Viscose' is proceed-
ing simultaneously with this country in
America, where, as we have recently men-
tioned, the authors of the discovery were
awarded the John Scott Medal and Pre-
mium of the Franklin Institute.''
*
Ernest Alfieri, editor of the Piano, Organ
and Music Trades -Journal, of London,
Eng., is blossoming out as a composer of
some really meritorious ballads. A short
time ago we had the pleasure of saying
a few words about some compositions of his,
and we are again in receipt of two of his
latest songs, entitled "Waiting for You"
and "Sleep, my Treasure." The words of
both are from the Pall Mall Gazette, and to
them Mr. Alfieri has wedded unusually
pretty melodies. The arrangements are
effective and display a thorough knowledge
of harmony. Both ballads are above the
average in merit and of sufficient originality
to commend them to good singers. We
wish our esteemed confrere much success
in the field of composition.
* *
To all interested in the currency ques-
tion—which is occupying such a large share
of attention just now—the series of pam-
phlets being issued by the Sound Currency
Committee of the Reform Club, 52 William
street, are simply invaluable. Among the
latest are "The Canadian Bank Note Cur-
rency," "The New York Bank Currency"
and "The Currency Famine of '93."
These publications give the reader an
amount of invaluable information on these
subjects that has heretofore been scattered
and largely inaccessible. These pamphlets
are of peculiar value.
* *
In order to make the tariff bill intelli-
gible, the defunct Congress devoted a por-
tion of its time last Monday to rectifying
over sixty mistakes, which were recently
discovered in the bill. They were brought
to its attention by Secretary Carlisle.
Truly, what a record of incapacity!
THE
MASON & HAMLIN CO., Boston, sold
recently a very handsome grand piano to
Emil Mollenhauer, director of the Boston
Festival Orchestra and of the Germania
Orchestra. This gentleman is one of the
leading musicians of Boston and an excellent
judge of a good piano.
R. O. BURGESS is making a Southern trip
for the Wegman Piano Co.. Auburn, N.
Y. The Wegman concern are pretty busy.
MRS.
J. A. KIESELHORST, wife
of
J. A.
Kieselhorst, the well known dealer of St.
Louis, died last Monday.
this is something to gloat over when the
times are considered.
ALDIS J. GERY, autoharp soloist, will play
with Gilmore's band at a grand concert
under the direction of Victor Herbert, at the
Columbia Theatre, Brooklyn, to-morrow
night.
THE important deal whereby Lyon, Pot-
ter & Co. become leaseholders of the hand-
some new building on Van Buren street,
between Wabash and Michigan avenues,
Chicago, is referred to at length in our
Western letter.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Piano Manu-
facturers' Association of New York and
Vicinity, was held at the Union Square
Hotel at 4.30 p. M. yesterday for the
purpose of taking action on the forthcoming
dinner, and admitting new members.
IT is rumored that Mr. John Haines is
considering an offer made him to enter into
the manufacture of pianos. It is said that
Mr. Haines can secure the old agents of the
Haines house, and thus start out with an
assured trade.
IN our Mexican letter last week a typo-
graphical mistake gave the population of
the City of Mexico as 3,000—it should have
been 300,000.
"COUNT" CAVALLI predicts a great boom
WE are pleased to learn that William M.
Blight, of Keller Bros. & Blight, is rapidly
recovering from his recent illness.
ALFRED DOLGE & SON have secured judg-
ment for $1,511 against Haines Bros, for
supplies furnished.
HARVEY WENDELL,
of
the
Marshall &
Wendell Piano Co., visited the West last
week.
VERNON BROS., agents for
the Chicago
Cottage Organ Co., at Salina, Kan., suffered
through a big fire in that city last Monday
G. P. BENJAMIN is now connected with
the Emerson Piano Co. 's New York branch
as outside salesman. He occupied a similar
position up to a recent date with J. & C.
Ficher.
AT the annual meeting of the Brambach
Piano Co., Dolgeville, N. Y., held recently,
Alois Brambach was re-elected president
and treasurer and J. F. Boyd secretary.
J. N. MERRILL, of the Merrill Piano Co.,
Boston, says that February has been a very
for blue felt now that Congress has ad-
busy month with his house. The trade
journed. Congress, he says, has had such a
transacted was unusually large, considering
corner on everything blue that its melan-
the quietness prevalent in trade circles.
choly effect was felt all over the country.
Now there will be another kind of blue felt
C. C. CURTIS and A. M. Wright, who
all over the country.
were in town for the purpose of attending
AT the dinner of the music trade
men of Boston, to take place the latter part
of this month, the price per plate has been
placed at $6. This is rather steep, but it
includes everything except champagne.
The use of this beverage is not compulsory.
Some of the members of the trade may wish
to economize, particularly after the dull
season.
IN our next issue we will give an illus-
tration and description of a very important
patent—or improvement on a recent patent
—granted this week to Geo. P. Bent, of
Chicago.
A RADIANT smile illuminated the coun-
tenance of Mr. John Christman, manufac-
turer of the Christman piano, 54 East
Thirteenth street, last Tuesday. On inquir-
ing the secret of his happiness, he said:
" I have just sold a splendid mahogany
Christman upright for spot cash." Indeed
the Manufacturers' Piano Co.'s meeting,
left for home the early part of the week.
Differential Freight Rates to Be
Abolished.
A
N important meeting of the Board of
Presidents of the Trunk Line Asso-
ciation was held last Thursday in the build-
ing of the New Jersey Central Railroad.
It was determined that the differential rates
on freight for the West that have hereto-
fore been in use by the Erie, Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western, New York and
Ontario, and the West Shore Railroads, be,
after April 1 next, abolished, and that a
uniform rate be charged by all trunk lines.
A telegram was read from Mr. Blanchard,
Commissioner of the Central Traffic Asso-
ciation of Chicago, promising to sustain the
present rates of freight from the West.
Established
1840 . . .
THE
THE ARTISTIC PIANO
(Sranb
J. & C FISCHER,
OF AHERICA
HIGHEST STANDARD OF
GENERAL EXCELLENCE
110 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
still further to economy of production.
The manufacture of 'Viscose' is proceed-
ing simultaneously with this country in
America, where, as we have recently men-
tioned, the authors of the discovery were
awarded the John Scott Medal and Pre-
mium of the Franklin Institute.''
*
Ernest Alfieri, editor of the Piano, Organ
and Music Trades -Journal, of London,
Eng., is blossoming out as a composer of
some really meritorious ballads. A short
time ago we had the pleasure of saying
a few words about some compositions of his,
and we are again in receipt of two of his
latest songs, entitled "Waiting for You"
and "Sleep, my Treasure." The words of
both are from the Pall Mall Gazette, and to
them Mr. Alfieri has wedded unusually
pretty melodies. The arrangements are
effective and display a thorough knowledge
of harmony. Both ballads are above the
average in merit and of sufficient originality
to commend them to good singers. We
wish our esteemed confrere much success
in the field of composition.
* *
To all interested in the currency ques-
tion—which is occupying such a large share
of attention just now—the series of pam-
phlets being issued by the Sound Currency
Committee of the Reform Club, 52 William
street, are simply invaluable. Among the
latest are "The Canadian Bank Note Cur-
rency," "The New York Bank Currency"
and "The Currency Famine of '93."
These publications give the reader an
amount of invaluable information on these
subjects that has heretofore been scattered
and largely inaccessible. These pamphlets
are of peculiar value.
* *
In order to make the tariff bill intelli-
gible, the defunct Congress devoted a por-
tion of its time last Monday to rectifying
over sixty mistakes, which were recently
discovered in the bill. They were brought
to its attention by Secretary Carlisle.
Truly, what a record of incapacity!
THE
MASON & HAMLIN CO., Boston, sold
recently a very handsome grand piano to
Emil Mollenhauer, director of the Boston
Festival Orchestra and of the Germania
Orchestra. This gentleman is one of the
leading musicians of Boston and an excellent
judge of a good piano.
R. O. BURGESS is making a Southern trip
for the Wegman Piano Co.. Auburn, N.
Y. The Wegman concern are pretty busy.
MRS.
J. A. KIESELHORST, wife
of
J. A.
Kieselhorst, the well known dealer of St.
Louis, died last Monday.
this is something to gloat over when the
times are considered.
ALDIS J. GERY, autoharp soloist, will play
with Gilmore's band at a grand concert
under the direction of Victor Herbert, at the
Columbia Theatre, Brooklyn, to-morrow
night.
THE important deal whereby Lyon, Pot-
ter & Co. become leaseholders of the hand-
some new building on Van Buren street,
between Wabash and Michigan avenues,
Chicago, is referred to at length in our
Western letter.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Piano Manu-
facturers' Association of New York and
Vicinity, was held at the Union Square
Hotel at 4.30 p. M. yesterday for the
purpose of taking action on the forthcoming
dinner, and admitting new members.
IT is rumored that Mr. John Haines is
considering an offer made him to enter into
the manufacture of pianos. It is said that
Mr. Haines can secure the old agents of the
Haines house, and thus start out with an
assured trade.
IN our Mexican letter last week a typo-
graphical mistake gave the population of
the City of Mexico as 3,000—it should have
been 300,000.
"COUNT" CAVALLI predicts a great boom
WE are pleased to learn that William M.
Blight, of Keller Bros. & Blight, is rapidly
recovering from his recent illness.
ALFRED DOLGE & SON have secured judg-
ment for $1,511 against Haines Bros, for
supplies furnished.
HARVEY WENDELL,
of
the
Marshall &
Wendell Piano Co., visited the West last
week.
VERNON BROS., agents for
the Chicago
Cottage Organ Co., at Salina, Kan., suffered
through a big fire in that city last Monday
G. P. BENJAMIN is now connected with
the Emerson Piano Co. 's New York branch
as outside salesman. He occupied a similar
position up to a recent date with J. & C.
Ficher.
AT the annual meeting of the Brambach
Piano Co., Dolgeville, N. Y., held recently,
Alois Brambach was re-elected president
and treasurer and J. F. Boyd secretary.
J. N. MERRILL, of the Merrill Piano Co.,
Boston, says that February has been a very
for blue felt now that Congress has ad-
busy month with his house. The trade
journed. Congress, he says, has had such a
transacted was unusually large, considering
corner on everything blue that its melan-
the quietness prevalent in trade circles.
choly effect was felt all over the country.
Now there will be another kind of blue felt
C. C. CURTIS and A. M. Wright, who
all over the country.
were in town for the purpose of attending
AT the dinner of the music trade
men of Boston, to take place the latter part
of this month, the price per plate has been
placed at $6. This is rather steep, but it
includes everything except champagne.
The use of this beverage is not compulsory.
Some of the members of the trade may wish
to economize, particularly after the dull
season.
IN our next issue we will give an illus-
tration and description of a very important
patent—or improvement on a recent patent
—granted this week to Geo. P. Bent, of
Chicago.
A RADIANT smile illuminated the coun-
tenance of Mr. John Christman, manufac-
turer of the Christman piano, 54 East
Thirteenth street, last Tuesday. On inquir-
ing the secret of his happiness, he said:
" I have just sold a splendid mahogany
Christman upright for spot cash." Indeed
the Manufacturers' Piano Co.'s meeting,
left for home the early part of the week.
Differential Freight Rates to Be
Abolished.
A
N important meeting of the Board of
Presidents of the Trunk Line Asso-
ciation was held last Thursday in the build-
ing of the New Jersey Central Railroad.
It was determined that the differential rates
on freight for the West that have hereto-
fore been in use by the Erie, Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western, New York and
Ontario, and the West Shore Railroads, be,
after April 1 next, abolished, and that a
uniform rate be charged by all trunk lines.
A telegram was read from Mr. Blanchard,
Commissioner of the Central Traffic Asso-
ciation of Chicago, promising to sustain the
present rates of freight from the West.
Established
1840 . . .
THE
THE ARTISTIC PIANO
(Sranb
J. & C FISCHER,
OF AHERICA
HIGHEST STANDARD OF
GENERAL EXCELLENCE
110 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
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