Music Trade Review
Issue: 1895 Vol. 21 N. 13 - Page 7
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
of the business of the J. H. Snow Piano
Co., is one of the oldest members of the
music trade fraternity in the South—he is
now in the "eighties."
W. V. CONKLING, music trade dealer,
A. REDWILL, music dealer, Phoenix, Port Jervis, has sold his business and taken
Ariz., is reported to have conveyed real es- a position with his uncle, W. F. Conkling,
who carries on a music business in that
tate for $6,000.
town.
CLARK WISE, musical instrument dealer,
THE Westfield Music Co. is the title of a
Oakland, Cal., is preparing to enlarge and
improve his warerooms. He has recently new corporation which has purchased the
been appointed agent for the Conover piano' business of Mrs. Waterman, of Westfield,
and has received a carload of these instru- Mass. They intend to enlarge this business
and erect a new store.
ments.
LEE F. BOYD, dealer in musical instru-
ments and musical merchandise, Marion,
Ind., has been succeeded by Geo. D. Cole.
BELL & WILLIAMS, musical instruments,
Cedar Falls, have dissolved co-partnership,
Geo. M. Bell succeeding.
RAMSEY & BARNEY, sheet music, etc.,
have commenced business at Little Rock,
Ark.
GEO. H. SHARP, pianos and organs, West-
field, Mass., reported sold out to the West-
field Music Co., which will open business
on Elm street.
EDWARDS & SIGIER, music trade dealers,
Harrisburg, Pa., have dissolved co-partner-
ship. Succeeded by C. M. Sigier.
HOLMES & PASSAGE, pianos and organs,
Towanda, Pa., judgment for $6,314 entered
against C. D. Passage.
CANADA PIANO CO., Montreal, Que., re-
ported to have dissolved partnership.
J. H. MCKANNON, of McKannon Bros. &
Co., Burlington, Vt., was in town the early
part of the week.
AMONG the visitors to Dolgeville during
the past week, were J. N. Merrill and
George H. Ash, of the Merrill Piano Co.,
Boston, who were the guests of Karl Fink.
MESSRS. WADDINGTON & SONS, of Leeds,
who recently secured the sole agency in
England for the Hamilton organs, manu-
factured by the Hamilton Organ Co., of
Chicago, are circulating catalogues of these
instruments throughout the United King-
dom.
W. C. NEWBY, of Newby & Evans, has
left on a Southern and Western trip in the
interest of his house.
THE music business of Lee Boyd, on
South Washington street, Mat ion, Ind., has
been purchased by Geo. D. Cole.
A RECENT addition to the wareroom
forces of the Tway Piano Co., this city, is
Thos. S. Knight, who was formerly con-
nected with the Cunningham Piano Co.,
Philadelphia.
A MUSIC store will be opened in the Wood-
ward Building, Alma, Mich., by G. W.
McCarthy.
THE entire stock of the J. H. Snow Piano
Co., of Mobile, Ala., has been purchased
by the Junger & Gass Co., Dauphin street,
that city, and they announce a sale of every-
thing at a discount. Mr. Snow, the founder
THE D. H. Baldwin Piano Co., Cincin-
nati, O., are manufacturing'some new style
pianos of antique design which are destined
to win considerable notice and praise from
the lovers of the artistic.
THE Gabler pianos will be much in evi-
dence at several important musicales to be
given in Brooklyn this season by the Mol-
lenhauer College of Music.
THE Estey Organ Co.'s branch house, 55
Peachtree street, Atlanta, are selling the
Kranich & Bach pianos in that city.
A NEAT little booklet containing pertinent
and effective points on the ^Eolian and its
music, has been issued by the ^Eolian Co.,
18 West Twenty-third street.
L. SOULE, music trade dealer, Taunton
Mass., has issued a statement relative to
his insolvency, which he says is due to hard
FELIX KRAEMER, traveling representative
times and a "wicked and oppressive board
of directors which has by a careful estimate for Kranich & Bach, is at the present time
made $10,000 difference to me in the last in Texas, and judging from the orders sent
four years." He also announces that he in to the home office, is doing well. His
has made arrangements with the Mason & itinerary includes the prominent cities in
Hamlin Co. to supply him with goods, and the West, and it will be a couple of months
he hopes in a few years to cancel all obliga- •before he reaches New York.
tions.
MR. BAREUTHER has returned from a
J. W. STEVENS, of Peek & Son, visited highly satisfactory trip in the interest of
Washington last week in the interest of the Ernest Gabler & Bro.
"Opera," which is sold by Mr. Grimes, of
WE had a call from A. J. Brooks, of the
that city, with great success.
Sterling Co., Derby, Conn., the closing day
JUDGMENT for $1,196,375 has been con- of last week. He had just returned from a
fessed by J. F. Sluyter, music trade dealer Western trip, and was quite optimistic
at Rockford, in favor of A. L. Hizer and M. about business prospects. He has every
Hallenbeck.
reason to be, judging from the good-sized
book of orders he secured on his tour.
ACCORDING to the local papers, Beaver
Falls, Pa., is to have a new piano factory
DANIEL F. TREACY, of Davenport &
which will make a start in the old brick Treacy, expects to leave this week or next
factory. A. R. Leyda is the principal for a business trip, taking in the New York
party interested, and he promises particu- and New England States.
lars for publication in a week or so.
DAVID H. SCHMIDT, piano hammer cov-
THE old Smith warerooms at Erie, Pa., erer, 163d street and Melrose avenue, has
are now under the management of D. E. been a victim to jury duty the past week.
Harvey, and a fine line of the Smith & Mr. Schmidt*doesn'trelish this compulsory
Nixon goods are carried in stock.
neglect of his business, and we don't blame
him.
Louis DITAK, music trade dealer, Canton,
O., recently moved to a fine new store at 13
THE Gilbert Music House, Crawford,
North Market street.
Ind., have moved from their old quarters
IT is said that the New England Piano to the premises formerly occupied by
Co. will erect a new building on the site TWnsley & Co., in the Hall Block.
now occupied by the Seaver House, at 253-
THE Helena, Mont., Independent, of Oct.
63 Tremont street, Boston, which has a 1st, contained some very complimentary
frontage of 150 feet.
remarks anent Messrs. D. B. Howe & Son,
C. H. WALLINGFORD has opened piano
warerooms in Augusta, 111.
A NEW music store will be opened in
Mendon, Mich., by F. H. Sweetman.
L. W. TANNER is the head of a new firm
which is about to be opened in Detroit,
Mich. They will carry a large line of in-
struments, and will start in wich plenty of
capital.
C. H. DEVINE, formerly in business at
Buffalo, is now associated with Denton,
Cottier & Daniels, of that city, as salesman.
A NEW music store has been opened at
New Carlisle, Ind., by Mrs. O. W. Fox.
DENTON, COTTIER & DANIELS, Buffalo,
are handling the Sterling pianos in Buffalo.
agents in that city for the Kimball pianos.
The latter were not overlooked in this
merited notice.
GEO. C. ADAMS has left the West and is
now touring the South in the interest of
the McCammon Piano Co. He is turning
in some good orders—this might be expected
when Mr. Adams is around.
HOWARD KELSEY, of Comstock, Cheney
& Co., Ivoryton, Conn., was married re-
cently in Newburgh, N. Y. Mrs. Kelsey
was formerly Miss Ada L. Jacobs.
THE Piano Manufacturers' Association in
New York and vicinity, at its last meeting,
passed appropriate resolutions of regret at
the death of Henry Kroeger, of Gilde-
meester & Kroeger.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
of the business of the J. H. Snow Piano
Co., is one of the oldest members of the
music trade fraternity in the South—he is
now in the "eighties."
W. V. CONKLING, music trade dealer,
A. REDWILL, music dealer, Phoenix, Port Jervis, has sold his business and taken
Ariz., is reported to have conveyed real es- a position with his uncle, W. F. Conkling,
who carries on a music business in that
tate for $6,000.
town.
CLARK WISE, musical instrument dealer,
THE Westfield Music Co. is the title of a
Oakland, Cal., is preparing to enlarge and
improve his warerooms. He has recently new corporation which has purchased the
been appointed agent for the Conover piano' business of Mrs. Waterman, of Westfield,
and has received a carload of these instru- Mass. They intend to enlarge this business
and erect a new store.
ments.
LEE F. BOYD, dealer in musical instru-
ments and musical merchandise, Marion,
Ind., has been succeeded by Geo. D. Cole.
BELL & WILLIAMS, musical instruments,
Cedar Falls, have dissolved co-partnership,
Geo. M. Bell succeeding.
RAMSEY & BARNEY, sheet music, etc.,
have commenced business at Little Rock,
Ark.
GEO. H. SHARP, pianos and organs, West-
field, Mass., reported sold out to the West-
field Music Co., which will open business
on Elm street.
EDWARDS & SIGIER, music trade dealers,
Harrisburg, Pa., have dissolved co-partner-
ship. Succeeded by C. M. Sigier.
HOLMES & PASSAGE, pianos and organs,
Towanda, Pa., judgment for $6,314 entered
against C. D. Passage.
CANADA PIANO CO., Montreal, Que., re-
ported to have dissolved partnership.
J. H. MCKANNON, of McKannon Bros. &
Co., Burlington, Vt., was in town the early
part of the week.
AMONG the visitors to Dolgeville during
the past week, were J. N. Merrill and
George H. Ash, of the Merrill Piano Co.,
Boston, who were the guests of Karl Fink.
MESSRS. WADDINGTON & SONS, of Leeds,
who recently secured the sole agency in
England for the Hamilton organs, manu-
factured by the Hamilton Organ Co., of
Chicago, are circulating catalogues of these
instruments throughout the United King-
dom.
W. C. NEWBY, of Newby & Evans, has
left on a Southern and Western trip in the
interest of his house.
THE music business of Lee Boyd, on
South Washington street, Mat ion, Ind., has
been purchased by Geo. D. Cole.
A RECENT addition to the wareroom
forces of the Tway Piano Co., this city, is
Thos. S. Knight, who was formerly con-
nected with the Cunningham Piano Co.,
Philadelphia.
A MUSIC store will be opened in the Wood-
ward Building, Alma, Mich., by G. W.
McCarthy.
THE entire stock of the J. H. Snow Piano
Co., of Mobile, Ala., has been purchased
by the Junger & Gass Co., Dauphin street,
that city, and they announce a sale of every-
thing at a discount. Mr. Snow, the founder
THE D. H. Baldwin Piano Co., Cincin-
nati, O., are manufacturing'some new style
pianos of antique design which are destined
to win considerable notice and praise from
the lovers of the artistic.
THE Gabler pianos will be much in evi-
dence at several important musicales to be
given in Brooklyn this season by the Mol-
lenhauer College of Music.
THE Estey Organ Co.'s branch house, 55
Peachtree street, Atlanta, are selling the
Kranich & Bach pianos in that city.
A NEAT little booklet containing pertinent
and effective points on the ^Eolian and its
music, has been issued by the ^Eolian Co.,
18 West Twenty-third street.
L. SOULE, music trade dealer, Taunton
Mass., has issued a statement relative to
his insolvency, which he says is due to hard
FELIX KRAEMER, traveling representative
times and a "wicked and oppressive board
of directors which has by a careful estimate for Kranich & Bach, is at the present time
made $10,000 difference to me in the last in Texas, and judging from the orders sent
four years." He also announces that he in to the home office, is doing well. His
has made arrangements with the Mason & itinerary includes the prominent cities in
Hamlin Co. to supply him with goods, and the West, and it will be a couple of months
he hopes in a few years to cancel all obliga- •before he reaches New York.
tions.
MR. BAREUTHER has returned from a
J. W. STEVENS, of Peek & Son, visited highly satisfactory trip in the interest of
Washington last week in the interest of the Ernest Gabler & Bro.
"Opera," which is sold by Mr. Grimes, of
WE had a call from A. J. Brooks, of the
that city, with great success.
Sterling Co., Derby, Conn., the closing day
JUDGMENT for $1,196,375 has been con- of last week. He had just returned from a
fessed by J. F. Sluyter, music trade dealer Western trip, and was quite optimistic
at Rockford, in favor of A. L. Hizer and M. about business prospects. He has every
Hallenbeck.
reason to be, judging from the good-sized
book of orders he secured on his tour.
ACCORDING to the local papers, Beaver
Falls, Pa., is to have a new piano factory
DANIEL F. TREACY, of Davenport &
which will make a start in the old brick Treacy, expects to leave this week or next
factory. A. R. Leyda is the principal for a business trip, taking in the New York
party interested, and he promises particu- and New England States.
lars for publication in a week or so.
DAVID H. SCHMIDT, piano hammer cov-
THE old Smith warerooms at Erie, Pa., erer, 163d street and Melrose avenue, has
are now under the management of D. E. been a victim to jury duty the past week.
Harvey, and a fine line of the Smith & Mr. Schmidt*doesn'trelish this compulsory
Nixon goods are carried in stock.
neglect of his business, and we don't blame
him.
Louis DITAK, music trade dealer, Canton,
O., recently moved to a fine new store at 13
THE Gilbert Music House, Crawford,
North Market street.
Ind., have moved from their old quarters
IT is said that the New England Piano to the premises formerly occupied by
Co. will erect a new building on the site TWnsley & Co., in the Hall Block.
now occupied by the Seaver House, at 253-
THE Helena, Mont., Independent, of Oct.
63 Tremont street, Boston, which has a 1st, contained some very complimentary
frontage of 150 feet.
remarks anent Messrs. D. B. Howe & Son,
C. H. WALLINGFORD has opened piano
warerooms in Augusta, 111.
A NEW music store will be opened in
Mendon, Mich., by F. H. Sweetman.
L. W. TANNER is the head of a new firm
which is about to be opened in Detroit,
Mich. They will carry a large line of in-
struments, and will start in wich plenty of
capital.
C. H. DEVINE, formerly in business at
Buffalo, is now associated with Denton,
Cottier & Daniels, of that city, as salesman.
A NEW music store has been opened at
New Carlisle, Ind., by Mrs. O. W. Fox.
DENTON, COTTIER & DANIELS, Buffalo,
are handling the Sterling pianos in Buffalo.
agents in that city for the Kimball pianos.
The latter were not overlooked in this
merited notice.
GEO. C. ADAMS has left the West and is
now touring the South in the interest of
the McCammon Piano Co. He is turning
in some good orders—this might be expected
when Mr. Adams is around.
HOWARD KELSEY, of Comstock, Cheney
& Co., Ivoryton, Conn., was married re-
cently in Newburgh, N. Y. Mrs. Kelsey
was formerly Miss Ada L. Jacobs.
THE Piano Manufacturers' Association in
New York and vicinity, at its last meeting,
passed appropriate resolutions of regret at
the death of Henry Kroeger, of Gilde-
meester & Kroeger.
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