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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
During the present month, May, the
Steinway piano will be used in thirty-nine
concerts in London. During April it was
in evidence at twenty-one concerts in the
same city, the majority of which were of a
most distinguished character.
Three designs of pianos, recently placed
on the market by the Smith & Barnes Piano
Co., Chicago, entitled Styles A, C and F,
are attracting considerable attention and
praise from dealers to whom they have
been shipped. They are of the Colonial
style of architecture, well balanced and
tastefully finished. There is certain to be
a big demand for these instruments during
the season.
Steger & Co. have just closed a contract
for three million feet of stock lumber to be
used in the manufacture of cases, etc. This
company expect to employ a largely in-
creased force of men as soon as the new
factory now in process of erection is com-
pleted.
"Jack" Spies started off on Tuesday for
a month's tour through the Eastern states
in behalf of the "Majestic" piano. Con-
sidering the excellent reputation already
won by the "Majestic," he ought to be
well received at every stopping place.
Geo. Schleiffarth, the well-known com-
poser, and a member of the retail staff of
the W. W. Kim ball Co., Chicago, celebrates
his fiftieth anniversary on May 13th. Mr.
Schleiffarth has a host of friends in the
trade who extend to him congratulations
on this aiispicious occasion.
The Baldwin concert grand played by
Geo. Schneider at the music rooms con-
nected with the Baldwin warerooms in Cin-
cinnati last Saturday, achieved a great
artistic success.
J. E. Whitehead, who for eight years
has been connected with the Girard Piano
Co., Oakland, Cal. has severed his connec-
tion with that firm, and has accepted the
management of the Bruenn Piano Co. of
San Francisco.
Easman & Co., who represent the cele-
brated Sohmer, Hazelton and Newby &
Evans pianos, and the Angelus Orchestral
in Newburgh, N. Y., are now settled in
new and larger quarters at 30 Water Street.
The enterprise of the L. Grrmewald Co.
and Mr. Rene Grunewald, is the subject of
a deservedly flattering article in " E l
Comerciante y Agricultor," a new paper
printed in the Spanish language and pub-
lished in New Orleans with the object of
covering all the South American countries.
A slight fire in the factory of the Ray-
more Piano Co., Albany, N. Y., on Satur-
day night, was extinguished by the fire
department without any damage to build-
ing or stock.
Chris. Garritson, president of the Kroeger
Piano Co., and Thos. La M. Couch, secre-
tary of the firm, have nearly recovered
from their indisposition and are now at the
factory attending to business.
The suit of Morse, William & Co. vs.
Jared J. Looschen, the piano case manu-
facturer, for $300, the balance of a bill for
putting an elevator in the defendants' fac-
tory came up this week. The defendant
did not dispute the debt, and asked for a
non suit proving to the satisfaction of
the court that the elevator was not entirely
completed. The non suit was granted.
E. Edwin Long, one of the McPhail road
ambassadors, was a visitor to The Review
sanctum this week. Mr. Long covers
part of the Eastern territory and reports
an unusually active condition of business
at the McPhail factory as also with the
dealers handling the McPhail piano.
The Farwell Music Co. opened up this
week at 354 St. Peter street, St. Paul,
Minn., with a fine line of pianos embracing
the Mason & Hamlin, the Behr, the A. B.
Chase, the Kurtzmann and others.
The city council of Trenton, N. J., this
week put in effect an ordinance which com-
pels piano and organ dealers to pay an an-
nual license fee of five dollars. The de-
pleted condition of the treasury is the ex-
cuse for this tax.
Billhorn Bros, is the name of a new firm
of organ manufacturers who have opened
up offices at 156 Fifth avenue, Chicago,
with a factory at 276 North Hoyne avenue.
P. P. Billhorn, the founder of the concern,
is well known as a singing evangelist and
a composer.
C. O. Carpenter has taken the agency for
the Russell-Lane piano for the State of
Iowa. He intends to work that territory
in a very thorough manner.
The piano dealers of St. Louis have sub-
scribed very liberally, the majority giving
a thousand dollars each, toward the World's
Fair to be held in that city in 1903. The
fund for this purpose has now reached over
n
O. H. Unger, of O. H. Unger & Son,
Reading, Pa., and J. A. Brown, Ellenville,
N. Y., both Mason & Hamlin represent-
atives, have visited the Mason & Hamlin
warerooms this week and left orders.
An important shipment of Mason &
Hamlin instruments has been made this
week to South Africa.
-Stultz & Bauer are very bus}\ Mr. Gold-
en returned on Friday evening last, hav-
ing made a trip extending over three
months.
Kranich & Bach business is active. Mr.
Kraemer is now traveling in Texas. Mr.
O'Brien is on tour in the New England
States.
Wilcox & White are gaining many friends
for their Angelus Orchestral. A number
of important sales have been made this
week.
Robt. A. Widenmann returned this week
from a successful trip in the Strich & Zeid-
ler interest.
Attached the Violin.
In the vault at the jail reposes in its
ample case, with a purple velvet scarf ly-
ing on it, a violin, which is the property of
J. W. L. Van Oordt, the celebrated young
violin virtuoso, late of Holland. It repre-
sents the results of an attachment for
$1,250 issued at noon yesterday, in the
Superior court, in the suit of Francis
Knowles, Charles De Groat, J. W. L. Van
Oordt and Dr. A. R. F. Grob. Deputy
Sheriff Charles Robinson attached the
property at 12 :3o at the residence of Mr.
Van Oordt, 519 Jackson. The deputy
sheriff was instructed to bring with him
Van Oordt's $6,000 Stradivarius, but it was
not to be found, and so he took the fiddle
which is now in the jail vault, which the
owner said was worth $1,200, and seventy-
$3,000,000.
five years old. He declared that he bought
At the recent semi-annual meeting of it for $800 six years ago. Inside the in-
the directors of the Jesse French Piano & strument is a card bearing these words :
Organ Co., the report rendered showed a "George Winterling, Hamburg, 1891."
condition of business far in excess of that —Milwaukee, Wis., Sentinel.
of any similar period.
H. L. Goodnow & Co. have started in
Novel Libel Suit.
business at 219 South Third street, Grand
A special to the New York Commercial
Rapids, Mich. They will handle a full
from Toledo, O., says:—In the Federal
line of pianos, organs and small goods.
L. Avisus, who is well and favorably Cotirt here the Weber-Wheelock Co., of
known as a maker of high-grade pianos, is New York, has sued the Lima Times-
now settled in his new factory at 332-340 Democrat for $25,000 for alleged libel.
The point raised is of great interest to
North Wood street, Chicago.
newspaper
and business men. The peti-
Schleicher & Sons have moved from
tioners
assert
that a local firm advertised
their old quarters in Mt. Vernon to a new
in
the
Democrat
and referred to their
building on Wilson Place near the New
pianos
in
a
malicious
and defamatory
Haven Railroad.
manner. They seek to hold the publishers
J. Button and I. T. Barnhart, have been for alleged libel.
arrested in Kansas City, Mo., on a charge
of stealing a number of band instruments
Aluminum Still Popular.
from the band organization of South Mc-
Alester, I. T., with which they were
The Aluminum Musical Instrument Co.'s
formerly connected.
factory at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., reports an
J. W. Shaw, the well-known piano dealer excellent condition of trade. This concern
of Montreal, Can., has taken the manage- are getting out a line of specialties which,
ment of Windsor Hall in that city, and in wherever they are used, are becoming bet-
future all arrangements for concerts, enter- ter liked. The aluminum goods are novel-
tainments, etc., will be made at his music ties in every respect and many dealers
l;aye found them to be most salable,
warerooms, St Catherine street,