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WAGNER & LEVIEN^ NEW BUILDING.
Steinway Agents in Mexico City to Have Mag-
nificent New Piano Building in Mexico's
Capital City.
(Special to The Review.)
Mexico City, Mexico, May 21, 1910.
Foundation work for the new four-story build-
ing of Wagner & Levien, Sues., agents for Stein-
way & Sons, Zuleta 13, is almost completed and
work on the structure will begin within a few
days. This building, constructed on the lot
which the company has been occupying for sev-
eral years, will be four stories high, constructed
of steel, cement and stone. It will have a four-
teen-meter front and about a thirty-five-meter
depth. In this building is to be located the piano
department of that firm.
The architects have drawn plans for a beauti-
ful front, which will make the building one of
the best looking structures in that part of the
city.
This is one of the very few buildings in this
city to have a cross-steel or floating foundation.
The contractors believe that deep foundations
for this city are not as safe as shallo .v founda-
tions. The plan followed in this building is to
construct a building that will float like a ship.
That is, steel rails are first put down at inter-
vals of about two and a half feet and these cov-
ered with cement. On top of the first coat of
cement is laid another series of steel rails, run-
ning crosswise with the first series. On this
foundation, then, the building is constructed.
The entire building will be completed within
four or five months.
MUSIC TRADE. REVIEW
DEATH OF T. D. BRADFORD.
Pioneer Piano Dealer and School Superintend-
ent Dies at the Age of Eighty-Two.
11
CAHILL MUSIC MACHINERY CO.
Incorporated in New Jersey This Week with
Capital of $500,000—Mr. Cahill Is the In-
ventor of the Telharmonic System.
( SppHnl to The Review )
Kansas City, Mo., May 23, 1910.
T. D. Bradford, 82 years old, one of the first
superintendents of graded schools in Illinois and
Kansas, and a piano dealer for the last thirty-
five years, died yesterday morning at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Oscar Hartge, 3512 Ander-
son avenue. Mr. Bradford was born in Yar-
mouth, Me., in 1828. He was graduated from
Bcwdoin College, and early in life started into
"teaching school. He was soon appointed super-
intendent of schools in Illinois and later in
Kansas. About, thirty-five years ago he started
into the piano business, and for the last few
years had conducted a store in Wyandotte, Kan.
He is survived by a sister, Mrs. H. B. Mc-
Cullen, Portsmouth, Me., and five children, D. C.
Bradford, of Omaha, Neb.; Mrs. F. A. Denison,
Caldwell, Kan.; Mrs. George Bennett, Freeman,
Mo.; Mrs. Lergh Lattimer, Perch, Kan., and Mrs
Oscar Hartge, of this city. Funeral services were
held from the home of his daughter. The burial
was in Mount Washington cemetery.
SELL GRUNEWALD BUILDING.
Well-Known New Orleans Dealers Dispose of
Five Story Building at Handsome Profit—
Will Move to Adjoining Building on Oc-
tober 1—After "Gyp" Dealers—Werlein Con-
test on New Lines.
The Cahill Music Machinery Manufacturing Co.
was incorporated with the Secretary of State
of New York on May 20 for the purpose of man-
ufacturing electric music generating and dis-
tributing machines. The capital is placed at
$500,000, divided into ten thousand of the par
value of $50. The incorporators are: Geo. F.,
Arthur T., Thaddeus Cahill and E. Milton Jack-
son.
Thaddeus Cahill, one of the incorporators, is
the inventor of a means of producing music
synthetically, and his system, widely known as
the Telharmonic, was demonstrated at Thirty-
ninth street and Broadway, where a central sta-
tion for distributing music was conducted for
quite a time.
The Telharmonic is a most remarkable develop-
ment—the building of tones and tone colors being
most wonderful. The great hindrance to its suc-
cess in New York was the inability to interest
sufficient funds to maintain and distribute the
music from the central station.
It is not at all improbable that Mr. Cahill has
since developed the Telharmonic system along
lines where music can be produced at less ex-
pense. But, of this, more later.
1,000 CHARTERS REVOKED IN TEXAS.
On May 14 the Secretary of the State of Texas
announced the forfeiture of the permits to do
New Orleans, May 28, 1910.
business in that State *nd the charters of 1,000
The event of the week in this city was the sale foreign and domestic corporations for failure to
PIANO TO GO 15,000 MILES.
by the L. Grunewald Co., Ltd., of their five-story pay the annual franchise tax to the State. This
building to the F. M. Kirby Co. This 5 and 10 tax was due on May 1.
To Journey on June 1 from St. Louis to
cent store occupies the adjoining building and
Sumatra, Where Its Owner, Miss Kreickhaus,
will combine the two, making more room for their
Will Wed a Childhood Friend.
The Gillaspy Music House has removed from
increasing business. The price paid was $250,- Edinburg to Columbus, Ind., where they are
(Special to The Review.)
000 cash. The Grunewald Co. bought the prop- handling a full line of pianos, player-pianos,
St. Louis, Mo., May 25, 1910.
erty in 1903 for $72,000, so they realized a hand- small goods and sheet music. They report an
How to pack a piano so that it can go 15,000 some profit. They have leased the building on excellent business.
miles to the Island of Sumatra, in the Indian the other side, now occupied by the B. Rosenberg
Ocean, a question over which Miss Ella Kreick- Co., for a term of five years and will move on
haus, a pianist, of 2411 Lemp avenue, has re- October 1. This will put them one door nearer
cently been much concerned, has confirmed the Junius Hart, Dwyer and Werlein.
statement made public recently that she will
The dealers are trying to induce the papers
wed her second cousin and childhood friend, here to refuse the ads of a man and wife who
Karl Kreickhaus. When the report was pub- sport an imposing name and who are conducting
lished two weeks ago Miss Kreickhaus refused a "gyp" business on the "leaving-town" plan—
to admit it. The shipment of the piano con- and selling Schleicher pianos from $125 up. They
One of the distinguished products of
firmed it, and Miss Kreickhaus will leave on were obliged to take out a city license to conduct
American skill and enterprise has received
June 1 to join her intended, who will be unable their business and they occasionally move to At-
the unqualified endorsement of the most
to return to this country for two years.
lanta for a while. Bills of sale for $350, dated
critical trades in this country.
last October, are given with each piano. They
For, what more critical trade is there than
MILWAUKEEANSJVILL TRY AGAIN. are made out by Geo. Schleicher, of New York,
the piano industry, and what line of men
and endorsed over to this party.
better qualified to judge of the essentials
Representatives of the Milwaukee Trade at
of good wire than piano men?
Philip Werlein, Ltd., have another contest on,
Richmond Returned Disappointed but Not
Therefore, when the special products of
calling for the solution of a puzzle and for in-
Disheartened
and Intend
to Plan to
the American Steel & Wire Co., the
formation about prospective summer trips, the
Land the Convention for 1912 in Their City
use of pianos till January 1 and boxes of candy
—Recent Trade Changes.
are the prizes. No certificates, etc., are offered.
(Special to The Rer»ew.>
AND
DOESN'T BELJEVE_IN HOODOO.
Milwaukee, Wls., May 23, 1910.
Disappointed but not disheartened over their Head of Winter & Co. Considers Number 13
failure to land the 1911 convention for their city,
Real
Lucky—Some
of His Happy Ex-
brands of wire have received such endorse-
the Milwaukee delegates to the national conven-
periences.
ment, does it not speak in undisguised
tion at Richmond have returned to their homes
terms of praise?
J.
Winter,
head
of
Winter
&
Co.,
the
New
York
and are already planning a campaign to obtain
The most critical piano men in this coun-
the convention of 1912. The delegates were: piano manufacturers, is a firm believer in the
try have tested these brands of wire, and
they have learned that they possess every
Edmund Gram; Max Richtsteig, secretary of the number thirteen as a lucky proposition and offers
requisite essential.
Gram-Richtsteig Piano Co.; Conrad Kreiter and some strong facts to back up his belief. On
This corporation produces in its factories
Waldemar Kreiter, of the Kreiter Piano Co., and Friday, May 13, a day held in superstitious dread
all wires of whatever nature which are
F. C. Billings, president of the Billings Spring by many, Mr. Winter entered the bank at thirteen
used in pianos and piano-player mechanism.
Brass Flange Co. Upon their return they ex- minutes past 1 o'clock and discounted thirteen
In this plant is perhaps the best factory
pressed themselves as being highly enthusiastic notes from as many dealers. And all the notes
system in the world, and as a result of years
were
all
right.
over the success of the meeting at Richmond.
of close experimental work piano wire has
One day recently the first mail at the Winter
J. L. Gaines has become connected with the
been produced which is steadily growing in
favor with the experts of the music trade.
sales department of the Edmund Gram music factory brought thirteen substantial orders which
could hardly be called an unlucky event.
house.
J. L. Ellery has joined the sales force of the
The Starr Piano Co.'s auditorium in Cleveland,
J. B. Thierv Piano Co.
O., has been the rendezvous recently of the Cleve-
Chicago
New York
Worcester
P. W. Simon, a piano dealer of Union town, land Opera and Oratorio Society, who intend
Denver
San
Francisco
singing "Faust" at the Opera House in that city
has moved from 8 East Lafayette street to 21
Export Representatives, United States Steel
Products Export Co., New York
this week.
West Main street, that city.
(Special t o T b e Kevlew.>
Unequivocal
Endorsement
"PERFECTED"
"CROWN"
American Steel and Wire Co.