Music Trade Review
Issue: 1898 Vol. 26 N. 12 - Page 6
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
vated road too was ablaze and the scene was
indescribable. Through the gallant efforts of
the firemen the fire was checked and the
damage to Lyon & Healy was very slight,
a few goods dampened.
Across t h e
street, however, there was much damage
done. The plate glass in all the windows
cracked and fell in, while the same condition
extended to the upper stories.
The music stores damaged were Clayton
F. Summy's and Julius Bauer's. Fire broke
out several times in the Summy building and I
should estimate considerable damage done by
heat and smoke. When I passed the dead
line and looked into the store it was filled
with smoke, while the stock was badly mixed.
In Bauer's the same state of affairs existed.
The whole street is black with smoke and a
close "dead line" is maintained by the
police. To-morrow I have no doubt many
bodies will be taken from the ruins.
F. W. Teeples was reported among the dead
in an afternoon paper. I saw him only a few
minutes ago, so I know that he is all ready to
sell Conover pianos to-morrow. A high com-
pliment was paid Mr. Teeples and Manager
Price by the press for their heroic efforts in
assisting men and women from the blazing
building.
The coolest man in Chicago was H. D. Cable.
I saw him ten minutes after the fire and his
countenance was unruffled and serene. Won-
derful nerve, iron nerve, and just across the
street lay a pile of blazing ruins, which a few
minutes before represented hundreds of pianos
and the perfect paraphernalia of an up-to-date
business. It was presence of mind that saved
the Chicago Cottage Organ Co. from enormous
loss. The instant the explosions came Mr.
Cable commanded each of his fifty attache's
to at once place in safe and vault all
papers. This was done, the leases and papers
representing millions were placed in the im-
mense steel receptacles prepared for them,
not a minute too soon, either. Had there
been a delay to investigate it would have been
too late to have placed all of the valuable
documents in a place of safety. It was cool
judgment that saved the day. I will hold
this open a moment to gain later news. It is
all smoke and confusion. The heat was so
intense that the windows in the Wellington
cracked.
I have just seen Mr. Cable. He said:
"We shall sell pianos to-morrow. We have
an option on three suitable wareroom sites
until to-morrow at twelve. We shall decide
to-night and to-morrow have a stock down
from the factory. We can produce thirty
pianos and sixty organs per day, but of
course we shall be short of stock for a while.
I am confident that all of our papers are safe
in the steel vaults. The instruments that
were burned were fully covered by insurance."
Four hundred pianos and all the accessories
for the conduct of a great business cleaned
out! A wareroom and a new business to-
morrow! There's Chicago grit and Cable
grit combined for you.
I will send more particulars later of this,
the quickest, the hottest fire Chicago has seen
for many a day.
Mr. Northrup has just now stated to me
that all the Emerson leases and valuable
papers are within the big steel safe and that
his stock was well insured. Probably the
Emerson may have new quarters to-morrow.
Orrin A. Kimball is here.
I should say that between six and seven
hundred pianos have been injured and des-
troyed.
Latest from Chicago.
[Special by wire to The Review.]
Chicago, March 17, 1898.
Chicago Cottage Organ Co. have leased
Weber-Wheelock Building; stock in for busi-
ness to-day; Manager Deitrick leaves for
New York to-night; Emerson Co. have tempor-
ary quarters at 207 Wabash; Bryant moved be-
fore fire to 146; Twitchell has quarters in ad-
joining building.
Edward Lyman Bill.
Of Course We Shake.
The following telegram reached this office
yesterday:
" Music Trade Review, New York:
Were not injured by fire. Stock and store
intact. Are open for congratulations. Shake.
Lyon & Healy."
Waldecker Retires.
Max Waldecker, superintendent of the
Marshall & Wendell Pianoforte Manufactur-
ing Co., has resigned his position with that
concern and is now open for an engagement.
flason & Hamlin Sales.
Several important sales have been consum-
mated this* week at the Mason & Hamlin
warerooms, including three of the large
3-manual organs, one of which was sent to
the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, and the
others to churches. The two leading 1898
Mason & Hamlin pianos—the "Puritan Mod-
el" and style "E"—have been very success-
ful. Some unusually fine examples are now
on exhibition.
Among the callers this week at the Mason
& Hamlin warerooms were O. H. Unger, of
Reading, Pa., who left a good order for
Mason & Hamlin instruments, and George
A. Smith, of Flushing, L. I.
Carr's Opening.
F. D. Carr, agent in Nashville, Tenn., fo
the Steck, Krell, Schubert, Story & Clark
pianos and Estey organs, had a formal and
successful opening of his new salesrooms at
210 North Summers street, last Monday,
March 14th. The fine lines of instruments
on exhibition were much admired,
That jolly, good nattired and shrewd piano
man Mr. F. Knoll, of Buffalo, was a caller to
The Review sanctum this week. He reports
business as excellent. He had just come
from the Symphony warerooms, where he had
heard the new Wilcox & White Angelus or-
chestral attachment, and was most enthusi-
astic in praise of this unique invention.
Nathan Ford and E. N.Maine have opened
up a new piano establishment in Des Moines,
la., under the title of Ford & Maine. They
have not yet decided upon the line of instru-
ment which they will handle.
J. C. Frampton, claiming to be a piano
agent of Columbus, O., was arrested in To-
ledo, O., last Tuesday night on suspicion.
He is charged with having attempted to take
a room at the St. Charles, and also at the
New York House, without having the money
to pay for them. He will probably be re-
leased.
Frank Burns' stock of stools and scarfs is
becoming so extensive that he will soon re-
quire another floor for the display of his wares.
His manager, Mr. Gottschalk, reports business
active. Mr. Burns left town again on Sunday
for a four-weeks' trip. Already several big
orders have been received from him.
"Mr. Golden is still on the road, sending
in good reports; orders are plentiful from
other sources, and our force is working full
time," was the report when The Review
called at the Stultz & Bauer factory yester-
day.
"Majestic" pianos are largely in vogue
throughout the territory where their merits
have been made known. Henry Spies is
doing good missionary work during his ex-
tended trip.
G. R.Furguson, of Augusta, Ga., is the in-
ventor of a combination parlor and reading
lamp, music rack and work table combined in
one.
E. A. Keiselhorst, the well-known St.
Louis dealer, will remove to his new store at
914 Olive street, on April 1st.
Geo. W. Tewksbury, of the Chicago Cot-
tage Organ Co., is on a pleasure trip to the
land of the Montezumas.
Ehrhard & Hagen report business good
and orders plentiful.
Sturz Bros.
RETAIL AND WHOLESALE DEPARTMENTS BUSY.
During a brief talk with Hugo Sturz, of
Sturz Bros, on Wednesday, he said, in re-
sponse to a query, that the retail business of
the firm, particularly in Greater New York, is
large and continually growing. The whole-
sale business is good in this and neighboring
States, also in the middle West.
The Sturz instruments are well and favor-
ably known for reliability of tone, durability
of construction, attractiveness of style and
a neatness and exactness of finish indicative
of thorough and painstaking workmanship.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
vated road too was ablaze and the scene was
indescribable. Through the gallant efforts of
the firemen the fire was checked and the
damage to Lyon & Healy was very slight,
a few goods dampened.
Across t h e
street, however, there was much damage
done. The plate glass in all the windows
cracked and fell in, while the same condition
extended to the upper stories.
The music stores damaged were Clayton
F. Summy's and Julius Bauer's. Fire broke
out several times in the Summy building and I
should estimate considerable damage done by
heat and smoke. When I passed the dead
line and looked into the store it was filled
with smoke, while the stock was badly mixed.
In Bauer's the same state of affairs existed.
The whole street is black with smoke and a
close "dead line" is maintained by the
police. To-morrow I have no doubt many
bodies will be taken from the ruins.
F. W. Teeples was reported among the dead
in an afternoon paper. I saw him only a few
minutes ago, so I know that he is all ready to
sell Conover pianos to-morrow. A high com-
pliment was paid Mr. Teeples and Manager
Price by the press for their heroic efforts in
assisting men and women from the blazing
building.
The coolest man in Chicago was H. D. Cable.
I saw him ten minutes after the fire and his
countenance was unruffled and serene. Won-
derful nerve, iron nerve, and just across the
street lay a pile of blazing ruins, which a few
minutes before represented hundreds of pianos
and the perfect paraphernalia of an up-to-date
business. It was presence of mind that saved
the Chicago Cottage Organ Co. from enormous
loss. The instant the explosions came Mr.
Cable commanded each of his fifty attache's
to at once place in safe and vault all
papers. This was done, the leases and papers
representing millions were placed in the im-
mense steel receptacles prepared for them,
not a minute too soon, either. Had there
been a delay to investigate it would have been
too late to have placed all of the valuable
documents in a place of safety. It was cool
judgment that saved the day. I will hold
this open a moment to gain later news. It is
all smoke and confusion. The heat was so
intense that the windows in the Wellington
cracked.
I have just seen Mr. Cable. He said:
"We shall sell pianos to-morrow. We have
an option on three suitable wareroom sites
until to-morrow at twelve. We shall decide
to-night and to-morrow have a stock down
from the factory. We can produce thirty
pianos and sixty organs per day, but of
course we shall be short of stock for a while.
I am confident that all of our papers are safe
in the steel vaults. The instruments that
were burned were fully covered by insurance."
Four hundred pianos and all the accessories
for the conduct of a great business cleaned
out! A wareroom and a new business to-
morrow! There's Chicago grit and Cable
grit combined for you.
I will send more particulars later of this,
the quickest, the hottest fire Chicago has seen
for many a day.
Mr. Northrup has just now stated to me
that all the Emerson leases and valuable
papers are within the big steel safe and that
his stock was well insured. Probably the
Emerson may have new quarters to-morrow.
Orrin A. Kimball is here.
I should say that between six and seven
hundred pianos have been injured and des-
troyed.
Latest from Chicago.
[Special by wire to The Review.]
Chicago, March 17, 1898.
Chicago Cottage Organ Co. have leased
Weber-Wheelock Building; stock in for busi-
ness to-day; Manager Deitrick leaves for
New York to-night; Emerson Co. have tempor-
ary quarters at 207 Wabash; Bryant moved be-
fore fire to 146; Twitchell has quarters in ad-
joining building.
Edward Lyman Bill.
Of Course We Shake.
The following telegram reached this office
yesterday:
" Music Trade Review, New York:
Were not injured by fire. Stock and store
intact. Are open for congratulations. Shake.
Lyon & Healy."
Waldecker Retires.
Max Waldecker, superintendent of the
Marshall & Wendell Pianoforte Manufactur-
ing Co., has resigned his position with that
concern and is now open for an engagement.
flason & Hamlin Sales.
Several important sales have been consum-
mated this* week at the Mason & Hamlin
warerooms, including three of the large
3-manual organs, one of which was sent to
the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, and the
others to churches. The two leading 1898
Mason & Hamlin pianos—the "Puritan Mod-
el" and style "E"—have been very success-
ful. Some unusually fine examples are now
on exhibition.
Among the callers this week at the Mason
& Hamlin warerooms were O. H. Unger, of
Reading, Pa., who left a good order for
Mason & Hamlin instruments, and George
A. Smith, of Flushing, L. I.
Carr's Opening.
F. D. Carr, agent in Nashville, Tenn., fo
the Steck, Krell, Schubert, Story & Clark
pianos and Estey organs, had a formal and
successful opening of his new salesrooms at
210 North Summers street, last Monday,
March 14th. The fine lines of instruments
on exhibition were much admired,
That jolly, good nattired and shrewd piano
man Mr. F. Knoll, of Buffalo, was a caller to
The Review sanctum this week. He reports
business as excellent. He had just come
from the Symphony warerooms, where he had
heard the new Wilcox & White Angelus or-
chestral attachment, and was most enthusi-
astic in praise of this unique invention.
Nathan Ford and E. N.Maine have opened
up a new piano establishment in Des Moines,
la., under the title of Ford & Maine. They
have not yet decided upon the line of instru-
ment which they will handle.
J. C. Frampton, claiming to be a piano
agent of Columbus, O., was arrested in To-
ledo, O., last Tuesday night on suspicion.
He is charged with having attempted to take
a room at the St. Charles, and also at the
New York House, without having the money
to pay for them. He will probably be re-
leased.
Frank Burns' stock of stools and scarfs is
becoming so extensive that he will soon re-
quire another floor for the display of his wares.
His manager, Mr. Gottschalk, reports business
active. Mr. Burns left town again on Sunday
for a four-weeks' trip. Already several big
orders have been received from him.
"Mr. Golden is still on the road, sending
in good reports; orders are plentiful from
other sources, and our force is working full
time," was the report when The Review
called at the Stultz & Bauer factory yester-
day.
"Majestic" pianos are largely in vogue
throughout the territory where their merits
have been made known. Henry Spies is
doing good missionary work during his ex-
tended trip.
G. R.Furguson, of Augusta, Ga., is the in-
ventor of a combination parlor and reading
lamp, music rack and work table combined in
one.
E. A. Keiselhorst, the well-known St.
Louis dealer, will remove to his new store at
914 Olive street, on April 1st.
Geo. W. Tewksbury, of the Chicago Cot-
tage Organ Co., is on a pleasure trip to the
land of the Montezumas.
Ehrhard & Hagen report business good
and orders plentiful.
Sturz Bros.
RETAIL AND WHOLESALE DEPARTMENTS BUSY.
During a brief talk with Hugo Sturz, of
Sturz Bros, on Wednesday, he said, in re-
sponse to a query, that the retail business of
the firm, particularly in Greater New York, is
large and continually growing. The whole-
sale business is good in this and neighboring
States, also in the middle West.
The Sturz instruments are well and favor-
ably known for reliability of tone, durability
of construction, attractiveness of style and
a neatness and exactness of finish indicative
of thorough and painstaking workmanship.
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