Music Trade Review
Issue: 1900 Vol. 30 N. 20 - Page 9
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
From the City by the Lake.
Paderewski and Knabe Sail.
[Special to The Review.]
Paderewski, accompanied by his wife
and business manager, sailed for Liver-
pool by the "Oceanic" on Wednesday.
He carried away $170,000 earned since
last December by his American tour. He
travelled 23,000 miles. Paderewski said
before sailing that he had found no lack of
appreciation as compared with former
years and was financially satisfied.
On reaching Europe Paderewski will go
to his villa near Lausanne to complete his
opera, "Manru," which is to be produced
next November in Dresden under Capell-
meister von Schuch's direction. Previous-
ly he will appear five times in London at
the London Philharmonics and twice at
musicales of William Waldorf Astor.
Among the other distinguished people
who sailed by this steamer, was William
Knabe, treasurer of Win. Knabe & Co.,
who left for a five months' stay in Europe.
Among those who saw him off were
Ernest Knabe, F. F. Peard, P. J. Gilde-
meester and B. F. Owens.
Chicago, 111., May 16, 1900.
Palatial piano warerooms continue to
multiply in this city. The Bush & Gerts
Co. have had plans prepared for a modern
office building to be erected on the site of
their present warerooms corner of North
Clark street and Chicago avenue. Apart
from handsome warerooms and offices there
will be a spacious recital hall with studios
and offices. It will be impossible to com-
mence building operations until the labor
difficulties are at an end.
Witnesses in Judge Brentano's Court
this week have made things pretty dark
for Chas. Dold, and four of his compatriots
in the Piano Makers Union who are on
trial for conspiracy to injure the business
of Geo. P. Bent and assault on his employ-
ees during the recent strike in this city.
The case is still on at time of writing.
John Anderson, superintendent of the
Everett piano factory in Boston, has been
in this city this week as the guest of E. V.
Church. He visited Cincinnati and Day-
ton, Ky., where the Harvard factory is
located, and expressed himself as much
pleased with the very complete facilities of
this institution.
Frank W. Teeple, the world-famous am-
bassador of the Cable Co., has returned
from his European trip. During his stay
abroad he made a number of important
agencies in leading European centers for
the products of the Cable Co. and seems
well pleased with the result of his opera-
tions.
A small fire which started in an annex
of the Cable Co. 's factory soon after the
employees had gone to work last Thursday
morning caused damage, principally to
unfinished lumber, amounting to about
$3,000. The blaze was extinguished by
aid of the private fire protective system.
I. N. Rice and his brother Jud. Rice
have joined forces for the purpose of dis-
posing of the outfit of the Schiller Piano
Co., of Oregon, 111. They have offices in
this city, and will handle in addition the
Needham and probably one other instru-
ment.
fir. Ricca Traveling.
Hugo Ricca, representing the Ricca
Piano Co., left town on Tuesday. He will
make a brief Eastern trip, probably re-
turning within two weeks. Hugo Ricca
is the only authorized representative of the
Ricca Piano Co., whose products are the
" Ricca " and " Arlington " pianos.
In Town.
Among dealers in town this week were
Messrs. Charles Powell, Whittemore,
Smith and Chandler of L. B. Powell &
Co., Scranton, Pa.; John W. Bergstrom,
of the Bergstrom Music Co., Limited,
Honolulu; E. C. Burtis, of John N. Bur-
tis, Asbury Park, N. J., and Jno. J. Pole,
Geneva, N. Y.
The report of Behr Bros, for the week
includes the shipment of several important
orders to distant points, and the active
preparation of a special order of Behr
"Colonials."
At the Paris Exposition.
As might be expected, our Paris con-
temporary, Le Monde Musicale devotes
considerable attention to the display of
musical instruments at the Exposition in
its latest issue to hand this week. The
French manufacturers, in all departments
of the industry, make a magnificent show-
ing. There are 133 exhibitors and they
occupy three thousand square metres of
space apart from some special displays
going to illustrate the development of the
musical instrument industry in France,
for the past century. The French exhibit
is situated near the entrance to the palace of
Liberal Arts.
Editor Mangeot pays a well-deserved
compliment to Gustave Lyon, head of Paris
Association of Manufacturers and president
of the committee having in charge the in-
stallation of instruments in this depart-
ment. In the course of some remarks on
the foreign section he laments the absence
of such notable houses as Stein way, of
New York, and Beckstein, of Berlin, as
well as several other institutions who have
been identified in a broad way with the
perfection of the modern piano, and says:
"It would be wrong to attribute their de-
fection to any political causes, it must be
considered that their reasons for non-par-
ticipation are purely commercial and per-
sonal."
Mr. Mangeot speaks very enthusiastical-
ly about Russia's showing, which, in con-
nection with other matters, is referred to
by Mr. Abbott in The Presto supplement
issued in connection with the same edition
of Le Monde Musical as follows:
The space occupied by the Russian in-
struments and that of the United States
are, each, about equal in amount; but the
furnishings and general appearance of the
American exhibit seems to be finer and to
attract more attention. The houses of J.
Becker, (M. Bietepage, proprietor), and of
Diedrichs, both make fine displays. The
house of M. Schroeder does not exhibit.
These three exhibits, France, Russia
U
and the United States, are in close prox-
imity to each other. Austria, further to
the south, will show one or two pianos;
Spain two; two or three from Switzerland
and a like number from Belgium. Messrs.
Ocvius Newcombe & Co., represent, to all
appearances, the entire British Empire, as,
so far as we can observe there are no indi-
cations of any other pianos or organs from
England or its colonies or possessions.
Hungary is making a showing of pianos
that will be a surprise and one most credit-
able to the little country that we are hear-
ing more and more of nowadays. The
Austrian exhibit is away behind; not a
box having been opened thus far.
Although the last in our mention of ex-
hibitors, Germany is not the least. Unfor-
tunately, however, it seems to us, the Ger-
man section is in one of the galleries, a
gallery which is just over the back part of
the United States musical instruments.
There they have a room quite by them-
selves, but rather isolated from the other
displays in class 17. It will be remem-
bered that the Germans were similarly sit-
uated in the Manufacturers' Building at
Chicago; they occupy a corresponding po-
sition here. The principal exhibit of Ger-
man pianos is that of J. Bluethner, Leip-
zig, who has a full line of grands and up-
rights. The other houses are J. Roenisch,
of Dresden; F. Adam, Krefeld; Rittmuel-
ler, Goettingen; and Dr. Moser's patent
"ribless" piano.
The musical instrument exhibitors, as a
rule, are as well along with their displays
as those in other sections. But there is
the tendency to not make any show or dis-
play for some time yet. The Baldwin ex-
hibit, which consists of about ten uprights
(Baldwin and Hamilton), ten grands (Bald-
win), and a line of Hamilton, organs, was
all uncovered and displayed on the open-
ing day of the exposition, being, we be-
lieve, the only exhibit of pianos or organs
that was in complete readiness. Mr. John
Ludwig has experienced numerous diffi-
culties in the delays which have met him
on every hand.
He has now three
pianos on exhibition, but was obliged
to cable, immediately after his arrival
here, to New York, to hold the Self-
player there because he found that
no provision had been made for compressed
air here which, according to his contract,
should have been provided. He has, there-
fore been obliged to <>rd»r special changes
to be made in the self-player before it
leaves New York. He expects to also have
a second instrument forwarded here which
will be fitted with such power as may be
found practicable after it arrives. It will
probably be as late as the 15th to the 20th
of May, therefore, before the entire Lud-
wig exhibit is installed, but when the new
self-player arrives and is placed in work-
ing order it will attract unusual attention.
Mr. Ludwig will remain in Paris through
the month of May, and intends also to visit
Germany and England before returning
home.
In the announcements last week of G.
H. Beverly's start on a short Eastern trip,
a typographical error made the paragraph
to read: "of the Lindeman & Son Piano
Co." It should have been: "of the Lin-
deman & Sons Piano Co,"
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
From the City by the Lake.
Paderewski and Knabe Sail.
[Special to The Review.]
Paderewski, accompanied by his wife
and business manager, sailed for Liver-
pool by the "Oceanic" on Wednesday.
He carried away $170,000 earned since
last December by his American tour. He
travelled 23,000 miles. Paderewski said
before sailing that he had found no lack of
appreciation as compared with former
years and was financially satisfied.
On reaching Europe Paderewski will go
to his villa near Lausanne to complete his
opera, "Manru," which is to be produced
next November in Dresden under Capell-
meister von Schuch's direction. Previous-
ly he will appear five times in London at
the London Philharmonics and twice at
musicales of William Waldorf Astor.
Among the other distinguished people
who sailed by this steamer, was William
Knabe, treasurer of Win. Knabe & Co.,
who left for a five months' stay in Europe.
Among those who saw him off were
Ernest Knabe, F. F. Peard, P. J. Gilde-
meester and B. F. Owens.
Chicago, 111., May 16, 1900.
Palatial piano warerooms continue to
multiply in this city. The Bush & Gerts
Co. have had plans prepared for a modern
office building to be erected on the site of
their present warerooms corner of North
Clark street and Chicago avenue. Apart
from handsome warerooms and offices there
will be a spacious recital hall with studios
and offices. It will be impossible to com-
mence building operations until the labor
difficulties are at an end.
Witnesses in Judge Brentano's Court
this week have made things pretty dark
for Chas. Dold, and four of his compatriots
in the Piano Makers Union who are on
trial for conspiracy to injure the business
of Geo. P. Bent and assault on his employ-
ees during the recent strike in this city.
The case is still on at time of writing.
John Anderson, superintendent of the
Everett piano factory in Boston, has been
in this city this week as the guest of E. V.
Church. He visited Cincinnati and Day-
ton, Ky., where the Harvard factory is
located, and expressed himself as much
pleased with the very complete facilities of
this institution.
Frank W. Teeple, the world-famous am-
bassador of the Cable Co., has returned
from his European trip. During his stay
abroad he made a number of important
agencies in leading European centers for
the products of the Cable Co. and seems
well pleased with the result of his opera-
tions.
A small fire which started in an annex
of the Cable Co. 's factory soon after the
employees had gone to work last Thursday
morning caused damage, principally to
unfinished lumber, amounting to about
$3,000. The blaze was extinguished by
aid of the private fire protective system.
I. N. Rice and his brother Jud. Rice
have joined forces for the purpose of dis-
posing of the outfit of the Schiller Piano
Co., of Oregon, 111. They have offices in
this city, and will handle in addition the
Needham and probably one other instru-
ment.
fir. Ricca Traveling.
Hugo Ricca, representing the Ricca
Piano Co., left town on Tuesday. He will
make a brief Eastern trip, probably re-
turning within two weeks. Hugo Ricca
is the only authorized representative of the
Ricca Piano Co., whose products are the
" Ricca " and " Arlington " pianos.
In Town.
Among dealers in town this week were
Messrs. Charles Powell, Whittemore,
Smith and Chandler of L. B. Powell &
Co., Scranton, Pa.; John W. Bergstrom,
of the Bergstrom Music Co., Limited,
Honolulu; E. C. Burtis, of John N. Bur-
tis, Asbury Park, N. J., and Jno. J. Pole,
Geneva, N. Y.
The report of Behr Bros, for the week
includes the shipment of several important
orders to distant points, and the active
preparation of a special order of Behr
"Colonials."
At the Paris Exposition.
As might be expected, our Paris con-
temporary, Le Monde Musicale devotes
considerable attention to the display of
musical instruments at the Exposition in
its latest issue to hand this week. The
French manufacturers, in all departments
of the industry, make a magnificent show-
ing. There are 133 exhibitors and they
occupy three thousand square metres of
space apart from some special displays
going to illustrate the development of the
musical instrument industry in France,
for the past century. The French exhibit
is situated near the entrance to the palace of
Liberal Arts.
Editor Mangeot pays a well-deserved
compliment to Gustave Lyon, head of Paris
Association of Manufacturers and president
of the committee having in charge the in-
stallation of instruments in this depart-
ment. In the course of some remarks on
the foreign section he laments the absence
of such notable houses as Stein way, of
New York, and Beckstein, of Berlin, as
well as several other institutions who have
been identified in a broad way with the
perfection of the modern piano, and says:
"It would be wrong to attribute their de-
fection to any political causes, it must be
considered that their reasons for non-par-
ticipation are purely commercial and per-
sonal."
Mr. Mangeot speaks very enthusiastical-
ly about Russia's showing, which, in con-
nection with other matters, is referred to
by Mr. Abbott in The Presto supplement
issued in connection with the same edition
of Le Monde Musical as follows:
The space occupied by the Russian in-
struments and that of the United States
are, each, about equal in amount; but the
furnishings and general appearance of the
American exhibit seems to be finer and to
attract more attention. The houses of J.
Becker, (M. Bietepage, proprietor), and of
Diedrichs, both make fine displays. The
house of M. Schroeder does not exhibit.
These three exhibits, France, Russia
U
and the United States, are in close prox-
imity to each other. Austria, further to
the south, will show one or two pianos;
Spain two; two or three from Switzerland
and a like number from Belgium. Messrs.
Ocvius Newcombe & Co., represent, to all
appearances, the entire British Empire, as,
so far as we can observe there are no indi-
cations of any other pianos or organs from
England or its colonies or possessions.
Hungary is making a showing of pianos
that will be a surprise and one most credit-
able to the little country that we are hear-
ing more and more of nowadays. The
Austrian exhibit is away behind; not a
box having been opened thus far.
Although the last in our mention of ex-
hibitors, Germany is not the least. Unfor-
tunately, however, it seems to us, the Ger-
man section is in one of the galleries, a
gallery which is just over the back part of
the United States musical instruments.
There they have a room quite by them-
selves, but rather isolated from the other
displays in class 17. It will be remem-
bered that the Germans were similarly sit-
uated in the Manufacturers' Building at
Chicago; they occupy a corresponding po-
sition here. The principal exhibit of Ger-
man pianos is that of J. Bluethner, Leip-
zig, who has a full line of grands and up-
rights. The other houses are J. Roenisch,
of Dresden; F. Adam, Krefeld; Rittmuel-
ler, Goettingen; and Dr. Moser's patent
"ribless" piano.
The musical instrument exhibitors, as a
rule, are as well along with their displays
as those in other sections. But there is
the tendency to not make any show or dis-
play for some time yet. The Baldwin ex-
hibit, which consists of about ten uprights
(Baldwin and Hamilton), ten grands (Bald-
win), and a line of Hamilton, organs, was
all uncovered and displayed on the open-
ing day of the exposition, being, we be-
lieve, the only exhibit of pianos or organs
that was in complete readiness. Mr. John
Ludwig has experienced numerous diffi-
culties in the delays which have met him
on every hand.
He has now three
pianos on exhibition, but was obliged
to cable, immediately after his arrival
here, to New York, to hold the Self-
player there because he found that
no provision had been made for compressed
air here which, according to his contract,
should have been provided. He has, there-
fore been obliged to <>rd»r special changes
to be made in the self-player before it
leaves New York. He expects to also have
a second instrument forwarded here which
will be fitted with such power as may be
found practicable after it arrives. It will
probably be as late as the 15th to the 20th
of May, therefore, before the entire Lud-
wig exhibit is installed, but when the new
self-player arrives and is placed in work-
ing order it will attract unusual attention.
Mr. Ludwig will remain in Paris through
the month of May, and intends also to visit
Germany and England before returning
home.
In the announcements last week of G.
H. Beverly's start on a short Eastern trip,
a typographical error made the paragraph
to read: "of the Lindeman & Son Piano
Co." It should have been: "of the Lin-
deman & Sons Piano Co,"
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