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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
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ard, manufacturer of the Howard piano, was an-
KOHLER & CHASE CELEBRATE
other Philadelphia visitor this week.
The Lit Bros, report having had a very large The Fifty-fourth Anniversary of the Establish-
Much Gossip About Department Store Moves—
sale lately, brought about through the advertis-
ment of Their Business—Over One Hundred
Heppe Co. Hold Annual Meeting—Estey's
ing
done
on
their
Thayer
Club.
The
firm
only
Employes and Guests Enjoy a Good Dinner,
Large Pipe Organ Business Big Aeolian
had 100 Thayer pianos in this club, and the man-
Speeches and Cordial Felicitations.
Business—Strawbridge & Clothier's Plans—
agement say that they could have sold at least
Thayer Club Proves Popular.
100 more, but they were very careful in sending
(Special to The Review.)
out these pianos at this low rate, letting them go
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 15, 1904.
(Special to The Review.)
only to people who were well able to pay for
Kohler & Chase, the widely known and re-
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 19, 1904. them, having investigated every purchaser before spected piano dealers of this city, celebrated
The piano business in Philadelphia has not the piano was delivered.
their fifty-fourth anniversary with a banquet at
kept up through October as it was expected it
the Occidental Hotel Monday evening. Over 100
would by the excellent business of the early part
employes and guests enjoyed the good things pro-
BRIGGS
CO.
IN
BANKRUPTCY.
of the month. The election evidently is having
vided and speeches which followed the feast.
some effect on the trade, at least that is blamed, Attachments Recently Made Against the Com-
Quincy A. Chase, president of the company,
pany Compelled This Action—Liabilities
together with the continued unseasonable
made the opening speech of the evening, in which
Over Seventeen Hundred Dollars.
weather.
he told of the beginnings of the house and its
There continues to be a great amount of gos-
early efforts to make its way. He traced the
(Special to The Review.)
sip regarding the opening of a piano department
Meriden, Conn., Oct. 17, 1904. growth of the concern from its inception in 1850
by the Strawbridge & Clothier firm. Mr. Butler,
The Briggs Music Co., of this city, have filed a to the present day. An interesting fact in this
the manager selected for the department, refuses petition in bankruptcy at Hartford. The peti- connection is that the house was established in
to say what pianos will be carried, as he says tion shows liabilities of $1,782.52 and assets of the same year that California was admitted to
negotiations have not progressed far enough to $900.
the Union as a State.
warrant giving out such news. He has had any
"Recollections" was the title of a short talk
Recently
attachments
amounting
to
a
large
number of applications for positions, and has a
by Thomas P. Winter, secretary of the company,
sum
were
made
against
the
company
and
it
was
good list of experienced men to sslect from. The
in which he mentioned the old employes of the
contractors have all the partitions already built found necessary to offer a settlement to the cred- house and told little anecdotes of them all.
itors
on
a
compromise
basis.
Manager
J.
F.
to convert the space into ten piano parlors, and
George Q. Chase followed with a few words as
the department will be in the old building in- Briggs offered to settle for twenty-five per cent., to the future of the concern, in which was incor-
but
some
of
the
creditors
held
out
and
the
com-
stead of the new. There will be a grand room,
porated some words of advice to the younger em-
several rooms for uprights, a self-player room, pany is now forced to seek a discharge from its ployes as to the best guides for advancement and
debts.
and several rooms devoted to second-hand instru-
Mr. Briggs has been in business now for sev- preferment. S. M. Barrus, who was to have de-
ments, as well as a completely equipped repair
eral
years and many friends regret that he is livered an address on "Co-operation," was unable
department. The trade are very much at odds :ts
compelled
to go into insolvency. The company to be present, and the toastmaster, R. H. Blake,
to the policy to be pursued, from the fact that
has
been
practically
out of business since the filled his place by giving a few remarks on gen-
by many it is supposed that the house of Heppe
eral topics of interest to those present.
suits
that
were
brought
lately.
are in some way interested in the department.
An orchestra furnished music during the din-
The
store,
which
is
at
56
West
Main
street,
will
Just in what way they cannot decide, but it is
ner,
and also played popular selections between
continue
to
be
run
as
it
is
at
present.
The
Meri-
Kard to convince any of the trade, but that the
Heppes have either rented floor space and will den Music Co. has one part of the place and Mr. speeches. Before dispersing a flashlight picture
conduct the department on the same plan as Mr. Briggs will remain as manager of the Stultz & of the dining-room, with the assembled guests,
was taken, so that those present could have a
Herzberg runs the department at Snellenburgs, Bauer piano business in the same store.
souvenir
of the anniversary.
or that they will be in some way indirectly inter-
GARDNER FILES PETITION
ested.
GUSTAV BEHNING'S LONG TRIP.
The Heppes held their annual meeting and In Bankruptcy, W i t h Liabilities of $28,000 and
Gustav Behning, of the Behning Piano Co., who
election of officers in Camden last week, and all
Assets $14,000.
started recently on a two months' business trip
the officers of last year have been re-elected. A
Special to The Review.
on the Pacific coast, is already sending in sub-
dividend of six per cent, was also declared, and
Watertown, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1904. stantial orders for the New Behning small graud
all the plans of the Heppe factory at Ninth and
A petition in voluntary bankruptcy was filed and the current styles in Behning uprights,
Oxford streets, were gone over and approved. This
yesterday
by Rufus D. Gardner, the dealer of bright and art finish.
factory is busy at work on pianos, and the firm
Chas. Spanier has just returned from a six
expect* the first one to be out before the holidays. this city. His liabilities are $28,222.35, of which
The Estey Co. continue to do a very large the unsecured claims amount to $14,622.35. The weeks' trip. He established several new agencies
business with their pipe organs. They are in assets amount to $15,000. The atock in trade is and received a big batch of orders. His report
receipt, this week, of a letter from Mr. Ralph listed to $5,855, and bills, promissory notes and concerning general trade conditions is to the ef-
Kinder, the well-known organist of this city, as other securities are held in the sum of $6,537.25. fect that there is a decided improvement notice-
able all along the line.
follows: "I had the pleasure and privilege of
ORDERS $6,000 AEOLIAN PIPE ORGAN.
playing one of your organs on Wednesday even-
ing at the -it. George P. E. Church, at 61st and
The Aeolian Co., of New York, through their
MAH0N TO SELL THE BEHNING.
Hazel avenue. I am writing this note so as representatives in Los Angeles—the Southern
Mr. Attridge Mahon, who for the last fouff
to have the satisfaction of telling you and your California Music Co.—have received an order for
company that this organ is one of the, if not the a magnificent pipe organ to cost $6,000 from Max years has been of the retail force of Wm. Knabe
best organ of its size that I have ever played Kuehnrich, who occupies a palatial home in the & Co., has accepted a responsible position in the
sales department of Oliver Yohn & Co., the new
upon. The tone is fine, the action exceptional aristocratic- portion of "the Angel City."
Behning warerooms recently opened at 28 East
and the construction in every way such as to re-
23d
street, New York. Mr. Mahon's past record
flect only the greatest credit on your company.
"BIGGEST VALUE FOR THE MONEY."
in selling presages success in his new venture.
Please don't thank me for this note; it is a pleas-
The Smith & Barnes Piano Co., of Chicago,
ure for me to write it."
MILTON MAKING HEADWAY.
The Estey Co. are this week installing a pipe have received the following communication from
organ in the Methodist Episcopal Church at West D. R. Thomas, piano dealer, of Scranton, Pa., un-
George Bayer, of the Keables & Bayer Piano
Collingswood, N. J., another large organ in the der recent date, which speaks eloquently of the
St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church in Baltimore, instruments which the Smith & Barnes Piano Co., makers of the Milton pianos, 1901-1905 ParJi
avenue, left town on Saturday to visit dealers in
Md., another one in the First M. E. Church of Co. are placing on the market to-day:
"Gentlemen:—Enclosed find settlement for the New York State and Pennsylvania. The Milton,
Beaver Falls, and still another one in the Trin-
two pianos received this month, which I am very under the present administration, is making good'
ity M. E. Church, of Philippsburg, Pa.
j
W. B. Swords, representing the Aeolian Co, proud of and really feel it my duty to express headway in popular esteem.
was a visitor in this city this week. He is vary my appreciation of the improvement made on
Frank H. Fitch will soon locate in Poughkeep-
well satisfied with the way the Heppe company these pianos, without advancing the price. I don't
are pushing his firm's product. Mr. Hillebrand, know as I can contradict your words, 'The big- sie. N. Y., where he will represent Boardman &
Gray, of Albany.
of the Heppe Aeolian department, has had the gest value for the money on the market.' "
biggest October business in the history of the
Pianola in Philadelphia, and he says that the out-
look for the future is most promising. Mr.
Swords was also here in the interests of the
Weber and Wheelock pianos. The Heppes have
already received quite a number of the Weber,
and by the 1st of November they expect to have
29th Street and I Ith Ave., NEW YORK.
a full line of the Wheelock in stock.
Among the visitors in Philadelphia was Nathan
STANDARD OF EXCELI ENCE.
Ford, representing A. B. Chase piano. R. S. How*
TRADE NEWS FROM THE QUAKER CITY.
BEHR BROS. & CO.
PIANOS,