Music Trade Review
Issue: 1895 Vol. 20 N. 11 - Page 1
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VOL. XX.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, March 16,1895.
No. n
In The West.
THK STORY & CLARK PIANO CO. INCORPORATED.
THKIR
NKW FACTORY
JAUVERTISED
STEINWAY
HALL
HANS BALATKA COMPLI-
MENTED—'EDWARD LYMAN BILL
IN CHICAGO
SHAW
WILL
REPRESENT CHASE BROS.'
CO.
..
:
. t'jf'
IN THE EAST.
THE
COLBY
PIANO CO.
l.YON & HEALY
BUSY
THE SINGER PIANO
A SUCCESS—KIMBALL SOUTH
ALBERT
STRAUCH IN TOWN.
O
NE of the most important items of a
rather quiet week in Chicago, was the
incorporation of the Story & Clark Piano
Co., Chicago, with a capital stock of $100,-
000. The incorporators are Edward H.
Story, Melville Clark and Ralph H. Smith.
They have secured a factory building on
the corner of Jefferson and Sixteenth
streets, two blocks from their present organ
factory, and will have pianos ready for the
market in a couple of months. The Story
& Clark Organ Co. have been interested for
the past couple of years in a piano factory
in Germany, and have sold the German in-
strument in their London branch establish-
ment. Whether they will send the Amer-
ican instrument to London has not yet been
decided upon. The new company is com-
posed of energetic men, who have a thor-
ough knowledge of the piano field, and they
will doubtless make as great a record with
the Story & Clark piano as they have with
the Story & Clark organ.
Messrs. Healy & Conway interested
members of the music trade] last week in a
testimonial fund which was presented to
the veteran director, Mr. Hans Balatka.
The amount raised was a very handsome
one, indeed, and the popular musician was
surprised and delighted at this practical
token of admiration and respect from his
fellow citizens.
I had the pleasure of greeting Edward
Lyman Bill, of your paper, at the famous
hostelry, the "Wellington," the early part
of the week. He was en route from his so-
journ in Mexico. His numerous friends
here were delighted to meet him. His let-
ters to THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, particu-
larly those bearing on trade with Mexico,
have been commented on very largely in
trade circles. He left for the East Tues-
day evening.
I am informed that the Chase Bros.' Co.,
of Muskegon, Mich., will be represented in
the East hereafter by W. M. Shaw, who
has been connected with the company for
some time. He will have headquarters in
New York city, and will look after their in-
terests in the Eastern States from that
centre.
Wholesale headquarters for the Colby
piano have not as yet been secured. As
you know, the Junius N. Brown Co., who
handle the Colby piano, will give up their
warerooms here by May ist.
At Lyon & Healy's establishment I
learned that they have experienced a marked
improvement in business in all depart-
ments, wholesale and retail.
The Singer Piano Co. continue to receive
orders
for their instruments from all sec-
Lyon, Potter & Co. have been advertising
tions
of
the country. The "Singer" seems
the new Steinway Hall pretty extensively
to
be
a
favorite,
and the manufacturers are
in the daily papers here during the past
to
be
congratulated
on their success.
week. There can be no question as to the
W.
W.
Kimball
is
on a short vacation to
wisdom of purchasing this splendid build-
Florida.
ing. It gives the Steinway piano a head-
Chas. H. MacDonald, Western represent-
quarters in Chicago, and a pre-eminence, so
ative
of the Pease Piano Co., made a short
to speak, which has always obtained in
trip
this
week to St. Louis, Mo., and De-
New York and London. There has been
troit,
Mich.
some talk about its being out of the exact
I missed meeting Albert I). Strauch, of
piano centre, but that is absurd.
It is
Strauch
Bros., who is in town. I learn that
simply a few steps from Wabash avenue,
he
has
booked
quite some substantial orders.
and purchasers looking for a Steinway piano
will have no difficulty in finding Steinway
Hall. Mr. E. A. Potter, who has been
SILAS M. WAITE, at one time a member
down in Florida, was, I learned, in New of the Estey Co., Brattleboro, Vt., and later
York when I called at the warerooms here interested in the organ factory of R. Bur-
yesterday. Business with Lyon, Potter & dett & Co., Chicago, up to 1871, died March
Co. is fair. Nothing to boast of, but a 8th, at Omaha, Neb. He was seventy
steady trade.
years of age.
$3.00 PER YEAR-
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
Haines Bros.' Creditors Uneasy.
D
EPUTY SHERIFF McGIVNEY has
received several executions against
Napoleon J. Haines, doing business as
Haines Bros., piano manufacturers, at
Alexander avenue and 133d street, on judg-
ments obtained by various creditors, the
largest being in favor of the Commercial
Bank of Rochester, N. Y., $3,917; Alfred
Dolge & Co., $2,6]8; J. & J. C. Abbott,
$626. The Sheriff has been unable to col-
lect the claims, as Haines recently put two
chattel mortgages for $45,000 on all the per-
sonal property in the factory.
Haines has been under an extension for
a year past from his merchandise creditors.
— World, March 15.
Assignment of R, C. Burton.
R
C. BURTON, a well-known dealer at
Utica, N. Y., made an assignment
last Monday to Charles Tuttle, of Rome,
and Theodore H. Schulze, of Utica, N. Y.
Mr. Burton has for several years been in
business, conducting a retail music store,
and more recently the Utica School of Music
in addition. After the statutory provisions,
providing for wages due employees, etc.,
there is a preference of $1,901.05 in favor
of M. J. Dewey, of Oneida. There is also
a bill of sale by which Mr. Burton trans-
ferred to Mr. Tuttle his effects for $1,750.
The assignment was brought about by
the hard times and the inability of the con-
cern to make collections. It is not thought
that there will be any suspension of busi-
ness.
,
Another Good Idea.
L
EW. H. CLEMENT, of the Ann Arbor
Organ Co., Ann Arbor, Mich., is al-
ways "on tap" with some new idea for
keeping the Ann Arbor organs and the
company of which he is such a brilliant
member, before the public. The latest is
a special premium to the school which
shows the most proficiency in singing, the
contest to take place at the annual Wash-
tenaw County Agricultural Fair, to be held
at Ann Arbor, Mich., next September. The
object in offering this premium on the part
of the Ann Arbor Organ Co. is to awaken
and stimulate an interest in the study of
sight-singing in schools.
VOL. XX.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, March 16,1895.
No. n
In The West.
THK STORY & CLARK PIANO CO. INCORPORATED.
THKIR
NKW FACTORY
JAUVERTISED
STEINWAY
HALL
HANS BALATKA COMPLI-
MENTED—'EDWARD LYMAN BILL
IN CHICAGO
SHAW
WILL
REPRESENT CHASE BROS.'
CO.
..
:
. t'jf'
IN THE EAST.
THE
COLBY
PIANO CO.
l.YON & HEALY
BUSY
THE SINGER PIANO
A SUCCESS—KIMBALL SOUTH
ALBERT
STRAUCH IN TOWN.
O
NE of the most important items of a
rather quiet week in Chicago, was the
incorporation of the Story & Clark Piano
Co., Chicago, with a capital stock of $100,-
000. The incorporators are Edward H.
Story, Melville Clark and Ralph H. Smith.
They have secured a factory building on
the corner of Jefferson and Sixteenth
streets, two blocks from their present organ
factory, and will have pianos ready for the
market in a couple of months. The Story
& Clark Organ Co. have been interested for
the past couple of years in a piano factory
in Germany, and have sold the German in-
strument in their London branch establish-
ment. Whether they will send the Amer-
ican instrument to London has not yet been
decided upon. The new company is com-
posed of energetic men, who have a thor-
ough knowledge of the piano field, and they
will doubtless make as great a record with
the Story & Clark piano as they have with
the Story & Clark organ.
Messrs. Healy & Conway interested
members of the music trade] last week in a
testimonial fund which was presented to
the veteran director, Mr. Hans Balatka.
The amount raised was a very handsome
one, indeed, and the popular musician was
surprised and delighted at this practical
token of admiration and respect from his
fellow citizens.
I had the pleasure of greeting Edward
Lyman Bill, of your paper, at the famous
hostelry, the "Wellington," the early part
of the week. He was en route from his so-
journ in Mexico. His numerous friends
here were delighted to meet him. His let-
ters to THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, particu-
larly those bearing on trade with Mexico,
have been commented on very largely in
trade circles. He left for the East Tues-
day evening.
I am informed that the Chase Bros.' Co.,
of Muskegon, Mich., will be represented in
the East hereafter by W. M. Shaw, who
has been connected with the company for
some time. He will have headquarters in
New York city, and will look after their in-
terests in the Eastern States from that
centre.
Wholesale headquarters for the Colby
piano have not as yet been secured. As
you know, the Junius N. Brown Co., who
handle the Colby piano, will give up their
warerooms here by May ist.
At Lyon & Healy's establishment I
learned that they have experienced a marked
improvement in business in all depart-
ments, wholesale and retail.
The Singer Piano Co. continue to receive
orders
for their instruments from all sec-
Lyon, Potter & Co. have been advertising
tions
of
the country. The "Singer" seems
the new Steinway Hall pretty extensively
to
be
a
favorite,
and the manufacturers are
in the daily papers here during the past
to
be
congratulated
on their success.
week. There can be no question as to the
W.
W.
Kimball
is
on a short vacation to
wisdom of purchasing this splendid build-
Florida.
ing. It gives the Steinway piano a head-
Chas. H. MacDonald, Western represent-
quarters in Chicago, and a pre-eminence, so
ative
of the Pease Piano Co., made a short
to speak, which has always obtained in
trip
this
week to St. Louis, Mo., and De-
New York and London. There has been
troit,
Mich.
some talk about its being out of the exact
I missed meeting Albert I). Strauch, of
piano centre, but that is absurd.
It is
Strauch
Bros., who is in town. I learn that
simply a few steps from Wabash avenue,
he
has
booked
quite some substantial orders.
and purchasers looking for a Steinway piano
will have no difficulty in finding Steinway
Hall. Mr. E. A. Potter, who has been
SILAS M. WAITE, at one time a member
down in Florida, was, I learned, in New of the Estey Co., Brattleboro, Vt., and later
York when I called at the warerooms here interested in the organ factory of R. Bur-
yesterday. Business with Lyon, Potter & dett & Co., Chicago, up to 1871, died March
Co. is fair. Nothing to boast of, but a 8th, at Omaha, Neb. He was seventy
steady trade.
years of age.
$3.00 PER YEAR-
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
Haines Bros.' Creditors Uneasy.
D
EPUTY SHERIFF McGIVNEY has
received several executions against
Napoleon J. Haines, doing business as
Haines Bros., piano manufacturers, at
Alexander avenue and 133d street, on judg-
ments obtained by various creditors, the
largest being in favor of the Commercial
Bank of Rochester, N. Y., $3,917; Alfred
Dolge & Co., $2,6]8; J. & J. C. Abbott,
$626. The Sheriff has been unable to col-
lect the claims, as Haines recently put two
chattel mortgages for $45,000 on all the per-
sonal property in the factory.
Haines has been under an extension for
a year past from his merchandise creditors.
— World, March 15.
Assignment of R, C. Burton.
R
C. BURTON, a well-known dealer at
Utica, N. Y., made an assignment
last Monday to Charles Tuttle, of Rome,
and Theodore H. Schulze, of Utica, N. Y.
Mr. Burton has for several years been in
business, conducting a retail music store,
and more recently the Utica School of Music
in addition. After the statutory provisions,
providing for wages due employees, etc.,
there is a preference of $1,901.05 in favor
of M. J. Dewey, of Oneida. There is also
a bill of sale by which Mr. Burton trans-
ferred to Mr. Tuttle his effects for $1,750.
The assignment was brought about by
the hard times and the inability of the con-
cern to make collections. It is not thought
that there will be any suspension of busi-
ness.
,
Another Good Idea.
L
EW. H. CLEMENT, of the Ann Arbor
Organ Co., Ann Arbor, Mich., is al-
ways "on tap" with some new idea for
keeping the Ann Arbor organs and the
company of which he is such a brilliant
member, before the public. The latest is
a special premium to the school which
shows the most proficiency in singing, the
contest to take place at the annual Wash-
tenaw County Agricultural Fair, to be held
at Ann Arbor, Mich., next September. The
object in offering this premium on the part
of the Ann Arbor Organ Co. is to awaken
and stimulate an interest in the study of
sight-singing in schools.
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