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TO RESUME ORGAN BUILDING.
E, W . Lane Installing Machinery in Waltham,
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Mass., Factory for That Purpose.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
MAY NOT SELL "STAR" PIANO.
Starr
Piano Co. Secures Enjoining
Against Weatherholt Piano Co.
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any authority from the foreign .owners to do so;
he then brought an action against the legal repre-
sentative of the mark and sought to deter him
from selling the goods.
The court non-suited the plaintiff on the ground
that he was not the original owner of the mark>
nor had he any authority to register same.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 15, 1912.
The Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind., last week
secured a restraining order against the Weather-
STIEFF EMPLOYES DINE.
holt Piano Co., this city, under the terms of which
Staff
of
Norfolk, Va., Branch Holds Annual Ban-
the latter company is restrained from disposing
quet—Prizes for Best Records.
of two pianos at present in its possession and
bearing the name "Star" in letters similar to those
The employes of the Norfolk, Va., branch of the
used on the fall board of the complainant's pianos.
Chas. M. Stieff house, which is under the man-
The Starr Piano Co. in its prayer for an injunction
agement of Leon C. Steele, recently held their an-
against the Weatherholt Co. filed a lengthy bill of
complaint outlining its rights to the exclusive nual banquet, at "which two local ministers were
use of the Starr name, and stating, in part, that among the speakers. In the distribution of prizes
the "complainant further shows that the trade name for the best results during the year just closed,
S. R. Coley, of Wilmington, N. C. received the
'Starr is solely indicative of origin and manufac-
prize for the greatest volume of business while
ture of complainant's pianos, and is not a word of
R. B. Gamble, Durham, N. C, received the prize
description indicating kind, quality and materials
for the highest cash sales.
of pianos or musical instruments." The Weather-
holt Piano Co. in answer to a fetter of protest
AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY.
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED.
from the Starr Co. is alleged to have stated that
it had bought the pianos in question in the open
First Sterling Piano Sold by Detroit House
At the annual meeting of the Caldwell Piano
market, and that the question of their discontinu-
Found in Philadelphia.
ance came within the province of the manufacturer. Co., Cleveland, O., held recently, Claus Greves was
elected president to succeed E. T. Caldwell; Louis
W. B. Williams, the well-known traveler for Many interesting points were raised in connection
Greves, vice-president, and J. O. Roeder, secretary
the Sterling Co., Derby, Conn., while in the store with the case.
and treasurer. The officers named, with Oscar and
of the N. Snellenburg Co., Philadelphia, recently,
Henry Dreher, make up the board of directors.
discovered among the used pianos on the floor the
PROTECTION FOR EXPORTERS.
The sales department of the business will be under
first Sterling piano purchased by Grinnell Bros.,
Detroit, upon their entering the piano business a Argentine Court Prevents Attempted Usurpa- the management of James Campton and J. F.
Quinn, both of whom have been in the employ of
quarter of a century ago and for which they had
tion of Trade-mark Rights.
the company for some time past.
made an earnest search when celebrating their
A decision of importance to all those manufac-
twenty-fifth business anniversary not long ago.
The piano had been purchased originally by a De- turers at present exporting or who intend to export
DEATH CF CHARLES A. GREGORY.
troit man in 1886, and when the purchaser moved trade-marked goods to South American countries
was recently handed down by the commercial
to Philadelphia he took the piano with him.
Charles A. Gregory, a piano tuner, who for the
courts in the Argentine Republic in connection with
past twenty years had been in the employ of Jacob
Bros., died at his home in Brooklyn recently. Mr.
Fire in the Odd Fellows building, Sedalia, Mo., the registration of trade-marks in that country.
It appears that the plaintiff in the case had regis-
Gregory was also an organist of ability, and was
last week caused damage amounting to $6,000 to
the organist for St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church
pianos belonging to the Jesse French Piano Co. tered the trade-mark of a well-known European
musical instrument under his own name without
for a number of years.
in that city.
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Waltham, Mass., Jan. 15, 1912.
Ex-Alderman Emory W. Lane is to resume
church organ building in his former factory on
Upper Main street. The Hutchings Organ Co. oc-
cupied the building for several years, securing the
business from Mr. Lane, but is now located in a
temporary building at Clematis Brook, where it is
erecting a large concrete building. Since the
Hutchings Co. vacated his premises Mr. Lane has
been busy fitting them up for the resumption of
business under his old management. Mr. Lane is
already employing several men, an electric motor
has been installed and other equipment is being
put up as fast as possible. There is every indica-
tion that the actual manufacture of organs will
begin in a short time.
A well-known name; a well-
known piano, sold by well-
known dealers.
It is a well-known fact, too,
that the Davenport-Treacy
piano is built under the U. S.
Coinage System— 100 cents
to the dollar value.
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building musical and financial
reputations with our pianos,
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