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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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Weber With Harvey.
N last Saturday arrangements were
concluded whereby the Weber piano
will, on Jan. 1st., assume the leading posi-
tion in the warerooms of that well-known
Boston firm, C. C. Harvey & Co. It has
been rumored for some time that this deal
was pending, and yet it was not by any
means assured just what piano this firm
would handle as their leader, as several
makes were considered. The Harvey firm
for many years have controlled the Boston
trade for Chickering pianos, this until the
Chickering firm assumed themselves the
control of their pianos for that city. The
Messrs. Harvey & Co. have splendid facili-
ties for the conduct of retail business, and
without doubt this move presages well
for the future of the Weber piano in
Boston.
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CALVIN WHITNEY, president of the A. B.
Chase Co., is in town.
CREECY & DILL, Norfolk, Va., assigned
last week. It is said that their affairs may
make a very fair showing.
J. C. JONES, of the firm of Jones Bros.,
music trade dealers, Altoona, Pa., is con-
fined to his home through a serious accident
caused by a fall which occurred last Satur-
day.
THE North American Review, of this
city, devotes considerable space to a de-
scription of the W. W. Kimball Co.'s busi-
ness.
W. H. FROST, of Zobo fame, is on a two
weeks' business trip to Chicago.
BARR & CAZLEY, music trade dealers,
Butler, O., have dissolved partnership.
OSCAR CURTAZ has disposed of his inter-
est in the firm of B. Curtaz & Sons, San
Francisco, to his brothers, Henry J. Curtaz
and Benjamin Curtaz, who will continue
the business on those progressive lines
which have made this firm so well known
on the Pacific Slope.
pipe organ dealer, Chicago,
died in that city last week. He was about
sixty years old.
KRANICH & BACH have recently been in
receipt of a number of letters from leading
musicians speaking in very favorable terms
of the Kranich & Bach pianos.
THE Hallet & Davis Co. have purchased
the business of Clem Crawford, of South
IRA BASSETT,
Bend, Ind.
E. T. BLUM, surviving partner of L. &
E. T. Blum, music trade dealers, Salem, N.
C., died recently.
WE are glad to notice that the war scare
is dying out, and a firmer feeling prevails
in commercial circles. It's bad enough
to have the President "on our hands,"
without a war scare or a "real" war.
F. G. Smith and His Different
Enterprises.
T
HE Bradbury piano counts among its
patrons some of the most distinguished
men in public life in this country, but the
stronghold of the Bradbury piano is among
the masses of the American people. This
is apparent from the splendid business
transacted by F. G. Smith in his factories
in Brooklyn, and hi« fifteen branch houses
throughout the United States.
The Webster, Henning and Rogers Bros,
pianos, which Mr. Smith manufactures,
are running a good second in popularity to
the Bradbury. The constant application
and tireless energy of Mr. Smith and his
able lieutenants have helped to make this
quartet of instruments known in all sections
of the country—in fact, the demand has
been such that the factories have been run-
ning day and night in order to fill orders.
It is safe to assert that the splendid re-
cord made by. Mr. Smith during the past
year will be accentuated during the year
1896.
Pfafflin Goes With Chickering.
HEODORE PFAFFLIN, one of the
best known retail piano salesmen in
this country will, on Jan. 1st, be connected
with the retail warerooms of Chickering &
Sons, in New York. Mr. Pfafflin occupies
at present the post of chief salesman with
Smith & Nixon, of Cincinnati. When last
in New York he was with Wm. Knabe &
Co.
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& Co. transacted a very satisfac-
tory holiday business, while their wholesale
trade continues to be exceedingly brisk.
H. A. HERSEY has joined Mr. Ward, a
well-known dealer, at 258 Columbus avenue,
Boston, and the business will be contimied
at that address under the firm name of
Ward & Hersey. They will handle the
Dyer & Hughes and Needham & Bailey
The Excelsior Band Instruments.
pianos.
SOHMER
THE Kroeger Piano Co., 524-32 East 134th
street, shipped a consignment of pianos to
Honolulu, H. I., last week.
THE A. H. Andrews Co., of Chicago,
whose assignment was recently chronicled
in these columns, have resumed business.
They manufacture a patent piano chair in
addition to their line of furniture.
W
ANTA CLAUS and the Autoharp have
been synonymous terms, as Alfred
Dolge & Son have been doing some clever
pictorial advertising, showing Santa Clans
using the Autoharp as a Christmas present.
On last Tuesday a little girl came down to
the Autoharp studio, 38 East Nineteenth
street, and said:
"Is Santa Claus here?"
The one to whom the question was ad-
dressed looked up in surprise, and the little
girl continued:
" I saw the announcement in last Sun-
day's Herald that Santa Claus was giving
away Autoharps and making his head-
quarters here, so I thought I'd come down
and get mine, and if Santa Claus is in,
please just tell him I'll take mine now and
save him the trouble of bringing it around.''
The little girl left with the Autoharp.
Santa was "in."
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An Important Suit.
VERY important suit, of interest to
the trade, was decided last Saturday
in the Superior Court at Wilmington, Del.,
in the case of E. G. Bradford against the
Town Council of Newark. Mr. Bradford
was the purchaser of the Knauff organ
works, upon which, on account of not being
in operation, the assessor of the Town
Council of Newark made an assessment and
levied a tax of $157. Mr. Bradford refused
to pay the tax on the ground that, by legis-
lative enactment, the buildings were ex-
empt for a period of ten years after their
erection.
He, therefore, brought suit
against the Town Council for trespass in
making levy. Mr. Bradford was awarded
six cents damages and costs.
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Kirk Johnson Accused of Con-
spiracy.
DISPATCH from Lancaster, Pa.,
under date of Dec. 24th, says warrants
were issued to-day for the arrest of Kirk
Johnson, the musical instrument dealer
(whose failure is recorded elsewhere in
this paper) and F. O. Wilson, his book-
keeper, on a charge of conspiracy preferred
by H. B. Thatcher, manager of the Western
Union Telegraph Co., this city, who says
he lost several thousand dollars by Johnson.
Charges of embezzlement and false pre-
tense were also brought against Johnson.
The latter is sick, and the warrant could
not be served.
A
E are in receipt of the newly revised
illustrated catalogue of the Ameri-
can Excelsior (formerly Missenharter) Band
Instruments, from the manufacturing house
of Harry Coleman, Philadelphia. The
catalogue is neatly gotten up, and contains
FREEBORN G. SMITH, JR., returned on
much of interest to dealers in band instru- Tuesday last from an extended and success-
ments and bandsmen in general.
ful Western trip.