Music Trade Review
Issue: 1896 Vol. 22 N. 6 - Page 10
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
12
Planned to 'Enter" the Chicker-
ing Warerooms.
BURGLARS SNIFFED DANGER AND PLIED THEIR
TRADE ELSEWHERE.
RATHER interesting drama was
enacted at Chickering & Sons' last
Saturday or Sunday night, in which the
Central Office detectives, a massive safe in
the warerooms, and some of the bold, bad
burglars who are holding high carnival in
the city these days, were the leading figures.
It seems that the Detective Bureau re-
ceived information last week that a number
of burglars had planned to enter the estab-
lishment with the object of rifling the big
safe on the main floor in the rear office. It
sometimes contained many thousands of
dollars, but just how the burglars knew
this fact Manager Ferdinand Mayer and
the two or three others of the firm in the
secret are said not to have any idea. The
scheme of the burglars was to do the work
»it whatever hour might seem best, between
the closing time Saturday and the opening
time Monday morning. Four men at least,
and possibly six, were to be concerned in it.
The detectives did not, of course, give
out that they proposed to frustrate the
plans of the burglars. Manager Mayer was
informed of the plot by a confidential
Central Office man last Saturday morning
to his great astonishment and alarm. They
must catch the rascals red-handed, the
sleuth said, and thereby cover the Depart-
A
Examine this
Piano
BEAUTY!
Is it not ?
The only separable Piano on
the market
Saves Honey
Hakes Honey
Write and learn about
Get the Agency
for the . . . .
"Reimers"
Reimers Piano Co.
nc, n. r.
ment with glory. So a counter-plot was
arranged.
The detailed detectives were on the look-
out, for they had three men inside the
warerooms, while twice as many were dis-
tributed about the neighborhood. Every-
thing was in order for the burglars to make
their appearance, but like that famous
letter, immortalized in the song, they never
came. They possibly sniffed danger and
determined to devote their talents to a
building less strongly fortified.
It would have been a big feather in the
cap of the Detective Bureau h'ad the rob-
bers tried to carry out their plans, for they
surely would have been captured.
The most mj^stified man in the entire
transaction was the janitor. When he
arrived Monday morning at the warerooms
he found a litter of cigar stumps and
tobacco around the safe, not agreeable or
pleasing decorations in a piano wareroom;
this was surprising, because he had cleaned
the place out thoroughly on Saturday after-
noon. It was explained to him, however,
that narcotics were quite essential to good
detective work, and his wrath was appeased.
Judging from the notice given the con-
templated burglary in the papers it was of
as much interest as Jameson's recent raid
on the Transvaal.
ALFRED MEINHERG, of Wm. Knabe &
Co. 's wareroom force, who has been ill for
some time, is, we are pleased to say, rap-
idly on the mend, and is able to visit the
warerooms a portion of each day.
Eight Hillion Dollars! Whew!
AMES E. WETMORE, organ builder,
Westfield. Mass., has struck luck. Last
Monday he received information from his
cousin, Jesse L. Wetmore, of Oakland,
Cal., that they are heirs to a fortune of
$8,000,006, which is now in the Bank of
Holland, Amsterdam. A large sum of
money was left by the parents of Mr. Wet-
more's grandmother, which has been
accumulating for nearly a hundred years',
and the Holland courts have sent a commit-
tee to this country to look up the heirs. It
is said that the Wetmores will have no
difficulty in proving their heirship.
J
e
r
flcCammon Happenings.
R. CHAMBERLIN, road represen
tative of the McCammon Piano Co.,
Oneonta, N. Y., has just returned from
one of the most successful trips through
New York State that he ever had, and has
just started on a tour of Pennsylvania. Mr.
Richards, with this company, is having an
excellent success in the Eastern States, and
was one of the numerous members of the
trade in attendance at the funeral of John
N. Merrill last Wednesday. The McCam-
mon Co. have been in receipt of a large
number of mail orders from different parts
of the country during the past week, and
are quite encouraged in regard to the trade
outlook in general.
M
•
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
12
Planned to 'Enter" the Chicker-
ing Warerooms.
BURGLARS SNIFFED DANGER AND PLIED THEIR
TRADE ELSEWHERE.
RATHER interesting drama was
enacted at Chickering & Sons' last
Saturday or Sunday night, in which the
Central Office detectives, a massive safe in
the warerooms, and some of the bold, bad
burglars who are holding high carnival in
the city these days, were the leading figures.
It seems that the Detective Bureau re-
ceived information last week that a number
of burglars had planned to enter the estab-
lishment with the object of rifling the big
safe on the main floor in the rear office. It
sometimes contained many thousands of
dollars, but just how the burglars knew
this fact Manager Ferdinand Mayer and
the two or three others of the firm in the
secret are said not to have any idea. The
scheme of the burglars was to do the work
»it whatever hour might seem best, between
the closing time Saturday and the opening
time Monday morning. Four men at least,
and possibly six, were to be concerned in it.
The detectives did not, of course, give
out that they proposed to frustrate the
plans of the burglars. Manager Mayer was
informed of the plot by a confidential
Central Office man last Saturday morning
to his great astonishment and alarm. They
must catch the rascals red-handed, the
sleuth said, and thereby cover the Depart-
A
Examine this
Piano
BEAUTY!
Is it not ?
The only separable Piano on
the market
Saves Honey
Hakes Honey
Write and learn about
Get the Agency
for the . . . .
"Reimers"
Reimers Piano Co.
nc, n. r.
ment with glory. So a counter-plot was
arranged.
The detailed detectives were on the look-
out, for they had three men inside the
warerooms, while twice as many were dis-
tributed about the neighborhood. Every-
thing was in order for the burglars to make
their appearance, but like that famous
letter, immortalized in the song, they never
came. They possibly sniffed danger and
determined to devote their talents to a
building less strongly fortified.
It would have been a big feather in the
cap of the Detective Bureau h'ad the rob-
bers tried to carry out their plans, for they
surely would have been captured.
The most mj^stified man in the entire
transaction was the janitor. When he
arrived Monday morning at the warerooms
he found a litter of cigar stumps and
tobacco around the safe, not agreeable or
pleasing decorations in a piano wareroom;
this was surprising, because he had cleaned
the place out thoroughly on Saturday after-
noon. It was explained to him, however,
that narcotics were quite essential to good
detective work, and his wrath was appeased.
Judging from the notice given the con-
templated burglary in the papers it was of
as much interest as Jameson's recent raid
on the Transvaal.
ALFRED MEINHERG, of Wm. Knabe &
Co. 's wareroom force, who has been ill for
some time, is, we are pleased to say, rap-
idly on the mend, and is able to visit the
warerooms a portion of each day.
Eight Hillion Dollars! Whew!
AMES E. WETMORE, organ builder,
Westfield. Mass., has struck luck. Last
Monday he received information from his
cousin, Jesse L. Wetmore, of Oakland,
Cal., that they are heirs to a fortune of
$8,000,006, which is now in the Bank of
Holland, Amsterdam. A large sum of
money was left by the parents of Mr. Wet-
more's grandmother, which has been
accumulating for nearly a hundred years',
and the Holland courts have sent a commit-
tee to this country to look up the heirs. It
is said that the Wetmores will have no
difficulty in proving their heirship.
J
e
r
flcCammon Happenings.
R. CHAMBERLIN, road represen
tative of the McCammon Piano Co.,
Oneonta, N. Y., has just returned from
one of the most successful trips through
New York State that he ever had, and has
just started on a tour of Pennsylvania. Mr.
Richards, with this company, is having an
excellent success in the Eastern States, and
was one of the numerous members of the
trade in attendance at the funeral of John
N. Merrill last Wednesday. The McCam-
mon Co. have been in receipt of a large
number of mail orders from different parts
of the country during the past week, and
are quite encouraged in regard to the trade
outlook in general.
M
•
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