Music Trade Review

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
L. B. CALHOUN, piano dealer, Akron, O.,
reported to have gone out of business.
G. L. SHAW, sheet music, etc., Girard-
ville, Pa., has been succeeded by N. Rich-
ard son.
ERNST
GABLER & BRO. are
circulating a
CAMPBELL & Co., music trade dealers,
Clarksburg, W. Va., reported sold out.
handsome book containing a hundred views
of prominent places and views in New
W. T. DAVIDGE, sheet music, etc., Beau-
York city, on the back cover of which ap- mont, Tex., reported sold out and at-
pears a full page advertisement of their tached.
house. The cuts are unusually good. We
EMILY W. NEI.LIK.AN, music, etc., Calais,
understand that over a hundred thousand
Me.,
reported as having given chattel mort-
of these books will be distributed.
gage for $400.
WM. F. DECKKR, of Decker & Son, was
married last Wednesday to Miss Debevoise.
COMSTOCR, CHENEY & Co. received a large
THE Baltimore agency for the Sohmer
piano has been secured by Hollingshead &
Stultz, one of the progressive young firms
of the ''Monumental City."
shipment of ebony last week. They have
also erected another large lumber shed.
Business with this concern is brisk, and
they are experiencing the activity in trade
now prevalent.
THE Sterling Co., Derby, Conn., has do-
nated for use in the Masonic Home, in
Wailing ford, which was dedicated Wednes-
day of last week, a handsome chapel organ.
It is hard'v necessary to say that the gener-
ous and appropriate gift was highly appre-
ciated by the thankful recipients.
JULIAN W. VOSE, of the Vose & Sons Pi-
ano Co., Boston, returned from his Euro-
pean trip last Saturday.
MARVIN E.
GRISWOLD,
treasurer
of
the
Shaw Piano Co., Erie, Pa., is on a wedding
tour through the West.
MELLOR
&
HOENE,
of
Pittsburg,
Pa.,
have recently taken the agency for the
Singer piano, and quite a shipment of
these pianos has been made. It looks as if
the "Singer" is going to conquer the East.
THE Hazelton piano is being extensively
advertised by Geo. C. Pearson, of Pear-
THE Indicator says that the father of C.
son's Music House, Indianapolis. Last
Curtiss, James Cnrtiss, was Mayor of Chi-
Sunday's Journal of that city contained a
cago for two terms, from 1849 to 1852, a
formidable list of Hazelton purchasers,
fact which is not generally known.
which proves how highly appreciated that
JACOB DOLL expects to make a Western instrument is in that section of the coun-
trip in the near future, and boom up things try.
for the "Doll" and "Baus" pianos in that
THE Apollo harp factory, at Blane's Mill,
section.
is doing an increasing business. Besides
DKNTON, COTTIER & DANIELS, Buffalo,
their new building just completed, they
N. Y.,will handle the Sterling pianos in
are also to occupy the brick mill now in
that city.
use by Newell Bros., who have received
notice
to vacate. Seventy or eight}' hands
A SWINDLER named Hayes Leffler, of
will
then
be employed.- -Register, Pepper-
Kenton, O., has been arrested for operating
ell,
Mass.
on the Hockett Bros.-Puntenney Co., D.
H. Baldwin & Co., and William H. Grubbs,
of Columbus, O.
TWELVE thousand banjos were exported
from Chicago to London last year, says an
exchange.
THE John Church Co. are doing some ex-
cellent advertising in the magazines nowa-
days. In Harper's and Scribiicr' s, partic-
ularly interesting reading and clever illus-
trating bearing on the Everett piano and
he Plectraphone attachment, appear. It
costs money to advertise, but it pays.
H. C. HADLEY, formerly in the music
business at Plainfield, N. J., will reopen
in that place. He will represent the Hallet
& Davis piano.
R. H. I). RIDER has purchased the busi-
ness formerly owned by H. Hague, on
South avenue, Natick, Mass.
G. O'CONOR, 510-12 West Thirty-fifth
street, is quite enthusiastic over the present
aspect of business. His output of piano
legs, carvings, etc., has far exceeded tnatof
the corresponding period of either last year
or the year before.
SAMUEL PIERCE, pipe organ manufac-
turer, died at his home in Reading, Mass.,
Saturday of last week. He was born in
Hebron, N. H., some seventy-six years
ago.
S.
L. BARROWCLOUCJH has severed his
connection with the Winnipeg Music Co.,
Winnipeg, Man., and intends opening up
a business of his own in that city.
A NEW music store will be opened this
week in Fitchburg, Mass., by Messrs. T.
Mauch and C. Austin Whitcomb.
ONE hundred Schubert pianos was the
substantial order received by Mr. Duffy
from the Chicago Cottage Organ Co. dur-
ing his recent Western trip.
THE Briggs Piano Co. are in receipt of
substantial orders from E. W. Furbush,
who is on a Western trip, and Geo. A.
Dowling, who is "doing" New York State.
R. S. BROWN has taken the agency for
the Hallet & Davis pianos for Salem, Mass.
D. PRINCE, of Prince & Son, has been
visiting Baltimore, Washington and other
important cities in the interest of his
house.
BOSTONIANS seem to like the Hazelton.
At least that is what Geo. W. Beardsley
says, who recently took the agency for that
instrument.
BUSINESS with the Electric Self-Playing
Piano Co. is booming right along. Their
Attachment is in such demand that they
have been compelled to rent another floor
in their building, 333-35 West Thirty-sixth
street, in order to fill orders with prompti-
tude. , s
GEO. W. CLARK, the well-known music
trade dealer in Syracuse, N. Y., is improv-
ing his warerooms by putting in a hand-
some new front.
WILLIAM H. and Theodore E., youngest
sons of William Steinway, have returned
from their vacation in Canada, to school
studies.
"WHICH is which?" The Burdett Organ
Co., of Freeport, 111., are making and ex-
hibiting the Burdett pianos, while another
concern recently organized at Erie, Pa ,
are also about to manufacture the Burdett
pianos. Looks as if there will be trouble.
WM. KNABE & Co. have just finished a
handsome grand piano for a prominent so-
AT the exhibit of Sohmer pianos made ciety man in this city, which is valued at
by F. W. Conkling, Newburgh, N. Y., at $2,000 or over. The case is quite artistic
the County Fair recently, many sales and a beautiful sample of gilding and bur-
were effected, and the Sohrr.er grand secur- nishing.
ed first prize, while a special prize was also
A. J. BROOKS, of the Sterling and Hunt-
given to the Sohmer upright for its many- in«ton Companies, is on his way home from
points of excellence.
the West, where he booked a large number
THE entire stock of (). J. Brooks, at Ap- of orders and established several important
pleton, Wis., has been purchased by H. E. agencies.
Pearson, the Estey representative in that
J. N. MERRILL, of the Merrill Piano Co.,
city.
Boston, will visit the Atlanta Exposition in
Roirr. W. WEBIS has returned from his a short time as the guest of his friend, Mr.
European jaunt after having made several King, Mayor of Atlanta.
important deals with the firms which he
represents in this city. Although his trip
was essentially a business one, he managed
also to combine a little pleasure with it.
P. H. POWERS, of the Emerson Piano Co.,
Boston, has been spending a few weeks in
Canada. He is expected home this week.
THE Kroeger Piano Co., 524-32 East 134th
street, are having a great success with their
new piano, style " 4 . " The case is attrac-
tive, and it contains a new fall and full
front swing desk.
. .
A RECENT addition to the wareroom staff
of Hardman, Peck & Co. is Chas. Van Nice.