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THE
MUSIC
THE KING OF PIANO PLAYERS
OAR D MAN
MRS. R. W. BLAKE TO MARRY.
Mrs.. Rufus W. Blake, widow of the for-
mer president of the Sterling Co., will he
married to Paul Schabert, a member of a
noble family and connected by marriage with
many of the titled families in Northern Ger-
Pronounced by experts, who have given if the many at the Hotel Manhattan on Jan. 26.
most complete tests, to be the perfect player. The wedding will be a quiet one, only rela-
fy Territorial allotment Is being rapidly made to tives and close friends will be present.
agents.
This will mark the ending of a romance
which began when the bride was studying
Hamburg ten years ago. Mr. Schabert's
Melville Clark Piano Co., in wooing
at that lime was in vain. During
Manufacturers of the
her visit to Europe last summer Mrs. Blake
A polio and Orpheus Piano Player*
again met Mr. Schabert, whose attentions
and the Melville Clark Pianos
were renewed. He soon followed her to
factory &nd Warerooms:
399-405 W. Madison St., Chicago, HL this country, where he pressed his sivt with
ardor and with success.
New York s The Apollo Co., JOJ Fifth Ave.
After the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Schabert
will visit Palm Beach, Fla,, after which they
W. B. CRAIGHEAD, Pres.
E. M. BOOTHK, Treas will journey to Hamburg and later to
China and Japan. Mrs. Blake is an exceed-
MANUFACTURERS OF
ingly wealthy woman and an enthusiastic au-
toist. While she will reside, after her mar-
riage, in Germany, she will not dispose of
her
holdings in the Sterling and Hunting-
Office, Warerooms and Factory,
ton piano companies, as she intends to live
1881 and 1883 PARK AVENUE
in Derby six months of every year. Mrs.
Cor. 138th Street
NEW YORK Blake's interests in the future, as in the past,
Dealers securing t< rritory will be protected.
will be looked after by J. R. Mason, pres-
ident of the Sterling Co., who has labored
so successfully in the up-building of the
Organ Stop Knobs and Stems,
great Sterling institution.
64 and *6 Court Strmmt, New Haven, C»an.
tfGRAY
Apollo
PIANOS
ESTABLISHED—IN—1837.
Mad* upon Honor for 6a years.
Have no Superior
New, "Up-to-date," Attractive Style*.
SEND FOR MBIT CATALOGUM.
Factory and Warerooms t
543 to 549 BROADWAY, (opposite Depot)
RUDOLPH C.KOCH
Cbe Ittilton Piano Company
MANUFACTURER OF
INWCMARKIT
Upright Pianos
The Victor Piano and
Organ Company
A WAGNER FESTIVAL.
A lu-llmn. of »tx>M Trade M»rk appnri on w^ppei ol evtry t n o( "Reinwirth" S
NEWMAN BROS. CO., — • » - - " '
•£- Pianos +*""&* Organs.
JtnlUSlAUERTCOu
Chicago Ave. and Dix St., CHICAGO. J* J*
M.m.tour.r. of
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H g g h
On Feb. 15 the anniversary of the death Wareroom—350 & 25a Wabash A Ave.,
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CHICAGO*
An up-to-date piano proposition, sterlingly of Richard Wagner, Wm. Knabe & Co. will Factory—1025-1035 Dunning St.,
successful, incorporating the best methods,
e4rt in 'Piano Construction
substantial materials and good workmanship give an invitation iEolian recital at the Col- is clearly evidenced in
at popular prices. The new Victor factory umbia Theatre in Washington, D. C, in
has a capacity of rive thousand pianos per an- which the works of Wagner will be inter-
The
num, and will manufacture pianos for the
trade in quantities.
preted through the medium of the fir'.oUan.
Story <& Clark
Car-load-lot shipment*, a specialty.
Herbert Higginbottom will play the full score
General Offices ( 1 1 7 - 1 1 9 Kinzit S t . , Chicago
of "Die Meistersinger" on the iEolian while
They are in advance in point of
Frank Claudy will lecture on this great work
tonal effect and case architecture.
The occasion will be one of importance ina- STORY & CLARK.
Factories. CHICAGO.
Is the Finest and Best much as all the prominent people in the offi-
Organ made.
Sold all cial, musical and social worlds have been
N. Y. Cooperative
over the World on Its
invited.
rierlts alone.
No traveling salesmen re-
quired to sell our entire
product.
This extraordinary fact
speaks volumes for the
quality of our instruments.
It's the "Old Reliable niller
Organ '' all the time.
Write for Catalogue and Prices
MILLER ORGAN CO..
LEBANON, P A .
Schumann Pianos
TltB SCHUMANN IS THB GREATEST VAUfll
FOR TUB MONBV flADB.
Correspondence
Solicited
Schumann Piano €o.
26 LaSalle Avenua, Chicago* HI.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Merchants' Association of New York,
held Jan. 16 at the office of the Association,
the following officers were elected for the
ensuing year:
Clarence Whitman, of Clarence Whitman
& Co., president; Gustav H. Schwab, of the
North German Lloyd S.S, Co., first vice-
president ; John C. Eames, of the H. B.
Claflin Co., second vice-president; W. A.
Marble, of the R. & G. Corset Co., secretary,
and Geo. L. Duval, of Beeche, Duval & Co.,
treasurer,
THE CHICKERING QUARTER GRAND.
fianufactured by
CHAS. A. WESSELL,
222-224 Eart 37th Street*
MERCHANTS ELECT OFFICERS.
NEW YORK.
THE
JANSSEN
RIGHT IN EVERY WAV
BHJANSSEN 166 E. 129 ST.NY.
The Chickering quarter grand which has
been displayed in the windows of the Kranz-
Smith warerooms in Washington, D. C, has
attracted much attention. Dealers and pur-
chasers everywhere are a unit in declaring
this to be one of the most successful and sal-
able pianos ever placed on the market.
Schmoller & Mueller, of Omaha, state
that their trade for 1902 exceeded that of
1901 by about twenty per cent.
Piano String Co.
MANUFACTURERS OP
f - Da$$ Strings
312, 316 East 95th Street.
NEW YORK.
The most satisfactory
piano ever manufac-
tured at a nominal
price
A leader in its class.
Qampbell
Factories:
nth Ave. & 50th St.
New York.
Piano Keys and Cases
T h e M e w Y o r k P i a n o K e y C o . i» not only maintaining Ita r*p*
las of making the best Piano and Pipe Oriran Kaya In thl* country, but bava
to thatr plant a fint-ciua p i a n o C u t M a k i n g D e p a r t m e n t .
I*, to furalab tn. rwy b*tl of c m work at tba lowait (