Music Trade Review

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
The directors of the Waterloo Piano Co.
to mingle their sounds henceforth with the
held a meeting Tuesday evening for the
dashings of the Oregon.
Thomas W. Henry, one of America's purpose of making preparations for rebuild-
noted cornet players, die - at Boston last ing their factory, which was destroyed by
fire on Saturday evening.
Saturday, in his forty-fifth year.
It is announced that the Piercy Co.,
The F. G. Smith branch store in Jersey
music
dealers at 22 Third street, Troy, N.
City will remove on or about April 15th
Y.,
will
go out of business about April 1.
from its present location on Montgomery
street to larger and more modern quarters
Cella B. Clark pleaded guilty to the lar-
near the business center.
ceny of a piano before Judge Kennely at
The Weaver Organ and Piano Co. have Pittsburg, Pa., last week in a suit brought
removed from 11 North yueen street to by Hoffman & Co., from whom the piano
4 West King street in Lancaster, Pa. In was purchased on the installment plan.
their new establishment they have one of The Clark woman sold the piano without
the handsomest music stores in the State. authority. The Judge imposed a sentence
In addition to a full line of small goods, of thirty days in jail and costs.
a full line of Weaver organs and Henry F.
The Wiley B. Allen Co., Portland, Ore-
Miller and other pianos are being handled. gon, have located an uptown music store
The Manufacturers' Piano Co., of Chi- in the Imperial Hotel Building on Wash-
cago, propose to make the Weber concert ington street. It is fitted up in elegant
grand piano better known to the public of style and is one of the handsomest stores
Chicago by a series of recitals in the new on the Coast. O. E. Pettis is in charge.
Weber recital hall in their building. The
Lots of homes and valuable property
first will take place next Monday evening. have been ruined by the great floods in the
Chas. H. Parsons, president, and C. W. Westduring the past couple of weeks. Afine
Hutchins, manager of the Hutchins Manu- piano which had passed through the waters
facturing Co., Springfield, Mass., have several miles and had not even been
been in attendance this week at the Sports- scratched was saved by some parties at
men's Exposition, where their products, Redbank, O.
the aluminum mandolins, are being dis-
The Strich & Zeidler piano was played
played.
by Miss G. Moore at the song recital given
It is a pleasure to record the fact that by Mrs. C. L. Blauvelt at the Yonkers
Mr. J. H. Procter's success as a traveling College of Music, Yonkers, N. Y., on the
representative of the Braumuller products evening of March 12. The Strich & Zeid-
continues right along. He finds patrons ler piano is used exclusively at all the
and makes converts for these excellent in- recitals at the Yonkers College of Music,
struments at nearly every stopping place. and has given the greatest satisfaction.
Mr. Schimmel, of the Schimmel & Nelson
Piano Co., Faribault, Minn., has been con-
ferring with business men of La Crosse,
Wis., with the object of removing his busi-
ness to that city.
The Luxton & Black Co., of Buffalo, N.
Y., who recently failed, are trying to effect
a settlement with their creditors on the
basis of forty cents on the dollar.
The directors of the School Board of Los
Angeles, Cal., have advertised for bids for
twenty-nine pianos for the schools of that
city. Among the bidders were the W. W.
Kimball Co., of Chicago. As one of the
directors of the School Board is the local
agent for the Kimball piano, there is quite
• a rumpus on the tapis.
F. Osser & Co. of Fort Lee, N. J., have
removed from that place to Philadelphia,
Pa., where they will handle the Spielman
piano.
The ^Eolian seems to be steadily growing
in popularity throughout the West. In
Cleveland, (.)., particularly, it is highly
esteemed by the musical public. This was
evidenced at an ^olian recital given in the
Pilgrim church that city last week. The
edifice was crowded to the doors.
The Meckel Bros. Co. of Cleveland, O.,
will remove to new warerooms at 118-20
Euclid avenue about April 1st.
The Mason & Hamlin Co. made ship-
ments of organs to Columbia, S. A., and
Madras, India, this week.
The Phelps & Lyddon Co., piano case
The Newman Bros. Co., Chicago, are
makers of Rochester, N. Y., are quite busy.
preparing a catalogue of their pianos and
Orders seem to be steadily coming their
organs.
way; in fact they have sufficient on hand at
The Menzenhauer Guitar - Zither Co.
the present time to keep them busy right
have
been compelled to add to their factory
up to summer.
facilities, so large has been the demand for
J. F. Broderick, traveling representa- their instruments. In addition to their
tive for the Steger and Singer pianos, has present quarters at 911 Lincoln street,
just returned to Chicago from an unusually Jersey City Heights, they have taken an-
successful trip through the East and South.
other factory at 202-4 Cambridge avenue.
These instruments are gaining steadily in
popularity in all sections of the country.
The Armstrong vs. Steinert case will be
argued
in the Courts at Providence, R. I.,
The Prescott Piano Co., Concord, N. H.,
to-day.
The motion is for a new trial.
will have a number of new styles ready
for the market in the course of a few
Jamison, Shawcross & Pauley is the
weeks.
name of a new firm who recently organized
at La Fayette, Ind., for the purpose of
conducting a general music business.
They will handle a full line of the W. W.
Kimball Co.'s goods.
Geo. C. Crane is going to live on crackers
and cheese and do penance for his sins for
the balance of the year. He bet a goodly
number of Uncle Sam's greenbacks on Cor-
bett, and he "doesn't know how it hap-
pened." Mr. Crane is inured to being on
the wrong side in politics, and he will no
doubt survive his present "affliction."
The /Eolian Company will shortly be
represented in St. Louis.
F. J. Woodbury, of the Jewett Piano Co.,
Leominster, Mass., secured some big orders
during his visit to the West last week.
H. B. Tremaine, of the iEolian Co., is
at present making a trip in the South.
E. S. Conway, of the Kimball Co., has
returned to Chicago from his Eastern trip.
The concert of the Metropolitan Perma-
nent Orchestra, under the leadership of
Adolph Neuendorff,on Sunday evening last,
was a great success. The Weber piano was
used exclusively. Signor de Macchi, the
well-known pianist, displayed its admirable
qualities to splendid advantage.
John A. Weser, of Weser Bros., who has
been enjoying a brief vacation, is expected
back to-day.
Mr. Chapman, of S. E. Clark & Co., De-
troit, Mich., has been visiting the metro-
polis.
Daniel F. Treacy, of Davenport & Trea-
cy, left on Tuesday on a Western business
tour.
John Ludwig, of Ludwig & Co., South-
ern boulevard, has returned and was hard
at work, when seen on Wednesday, total-
ling up the number of orders yet to be
filled and the length of time necessary to
fill them.
A wood seat burst at the Parker Piano
Stool factory, Meriden, Conn., a few days
ago, and a portion of it struck William
Bennett in the eye, cutting the eyeball.
The Knoxville Band and the Tennessee
University Band will both be heard at the
Tennessee Centennial Exposition which
opens May 1st, at Nashville.
The recovery and return to business of
Mr. Henry Spies, of the Spies Piano Co.,
has not been quite so rapid as anticipated.
He is still somewhat "under the weather."
A. Slomosky, lately with Jacob Doll's
retail warerooms, 1T3 East Fourteenth
street, is back again with Hardman, Peck
& Co.
Mr. Strich, of Strich & Zeidler, has had
quite a severe attack of tonsilitis, but
is now recovering.
A Mr. Williams has made a proposition
to locate a piano factory in Columbia, Pa.
The " Oswego Advertiser" of Sunday
last contained a clever write up of O. C.
Klock's music store in that city.