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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SEVERAL TRADE CHANGES OCCUR IN TWIN CITIES.
RATIFY COMMITTED APPOINTMENTS.
J. Kalscheuer & Co., St. Paul, Retire from Trade After Several Attempts—King Piano Co.
Store in Minneapolis Merged with St. Paul Branch—Lull in Business Reported.
Detroit Music Trade Association Selects Im-
portant Men for Committees—Efforts Being
Made to Enlarge Association Membership.
(Special to The Review.)
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, February 16.—Each
of the Twin Cities lost a piano house last week,
but the losses will not hurt much nor cause any
surprise, as the results have been forecasted for
some time. In St. Paul the house of J. Kalscheuer
& Co., which has made two valiant attempts to go
out of business in the past two years, succeeded in
the third attempt, and on Saturday last closed its
doors for the last time. John Kalscheuer, founder
of the house, has retired from active business some
time ago, and H. M. Kalscheuer, the active head,
will become cashier of the Bank of North St. Paul
Foster & Waldo purchased the Kurtzmann pianos
remaining in the stock.
In Minneapolis the King store closed shop Sat-
urday at.4:3 Eighth street, and the unsold instru-
ments were taken to St. Paul and merged with the
stock of the St. Paul store, which is advertising a
reorganization sale. H. S. Krossin, manager, will
remain in St. Paul, but will maintain an office at
409 Tribune Annex, with Edward Thon in charge
to look after the collections.
Minneapolis has just as many piano stores as be-
fore, for the Watson-Lester Piano Co. opened
during the week all ready for business. This
house will carry a complete line of Packard,
French & Son and Seybold pianos and players.
Odin N. Berkland, head of the O. N. Berkland
Piano Co., contracted a bad cold while doing duty
and his trouble developed symptoms of pneumonia,
requiring him to keep his bed for several days. At
last accounts he was improving.
The less said about business the better, for "there
ain't none." Pianos are being sold, of course, but
the dulness only is paralleled by that of July.
The remarkably mild weather of the past two
PADEREWSKl'SJSWORN DENIAL.
Famous Pianist Sets at Rest Baseless Rumors
Regarding
Anti-Simitic
Tendencies—Re-
sumes Interrupted Concert Tour.
Ignace Jan Paderewski, the Polish pianist, whose
Western tour, in which he has been heard through
the medium of the Steinway piano, has been ham-
pered by threats arising from a rumor, coming no
one knows whence, that he had contributed to the
founding of a Polish newspaper which attacks the
Jews, has been so .much annoyed by the outcome
that he has made an affidavit denying the accusa-
tions.
The affidavit was made at El Paso de Robles,
Cal., on February 5, and is now in the possession
of a friend. Here it is:
"State of California, County of San Luis Obispo,
ss.:
"Ignace Jan Paderewski, being first duly sworn,
deposes and says:
"My home in at Morges, in Switzerland; I am
temporarily sojourning at the Hot Springs of El
Paso de Robles, in California.
"During the last year I have been publicly sub-
jected to many unjust charges, which have caused
many of my friends indignation and concern. For
the satisfaction of those good friends, and for such
use as they may make of this affidavit, and to all
whom it may concern, I hereby swear and de-
clare :
"That I never gave money to any anti-Jewish
newspaper whatsoever;
"That the establishment of the newspaper of which
I am accused of being the founder was absolutely
unknown to me, and, in fact, I only heard of its
existence for the first time some two months after
the date upon which (as I am informed) it was
founded;
"That I never initiated or supported the boycot-
months was succeeded about ten days ago by a
prolonged cold wave, which on two or three days
took the temperature nearly to 20 degrees. It has
been too cold to think of pianos, but even so the
dealers are not disturbed, for they are sure that the
good times are coming as soon as the weather
moderates.
D. F. Cordingley, of the Aeolian Co., was in the
Twin Cities last week on his way to the West.
His main story this trip relates to a visit he paid
to an old customer in Superior, Wis., who has a
Weber grand that he bought more than twenty
years ago. Mr. Cordingley admits that the age
is not so important as the fact that the instrument,
in spite of its age, possesses a remarkable clear
and rich tone.
A committee of bankers and other creditors of
Koehler & Hinrichs is in charge of the business.
This house, which is capitalized at $500,000, deals
in saloon, billiard and bowling supplies, and has an
extensive talking machine trade.
A piano sale consummated over a long-distance
telephone is reported by the R. O. Falk Piano Co.,
St. Paul. In response to mail circular in behalf of
the Baldwin lines, the Falk house received a tele-
phone call Saturday which ended in an order to
ship a piano C.O.D. for the first payment. A piano
went.
William A. Linquist, Minneapolis, and R. O.
Falk, St. Paul, who have been in Chicago for sev-
eral days talking business with the parent houses,
returned to their homes this week.
Among the more notable visitors to the Twin
Cities last week were D. F. Cordingley, Aeolian
Co.; E. M; Paulding, Packard Co.; Chandler W.
Smith, H. F. Miller Sons Co., and W. B. Williams,
of C. Kurtzmann & Co.
ting of the Jewish trade in Poland, being entirely
out of and not taking any part in active politics in
Poland.
(Signed)
I. J. Paderewski."
The matter did not come to public attention while
the pianist was playing here this fall, but reports
have come from various cities on his tour to the
effect that threats of personal violence and organ-
ized boycotts against his concerts were being used
against him.
Michael L. Sullivan has been appointed sales
manager of the Smith & Nixon Co., Louisville, Ky.,
to succeed Charles Vaupel, who resigned recently.
(Special to The Review.)
DETROIT, MICH., February l(i.—The Detroit
Music Trades Association met last Tuesday to
ratify the committee appointments of President
Bayley for the year, and to talk over business mat-
ters of other kinds. There are a number of new
piano firms in the city which have not become
members of the association, and a number of old
ones which have steadily declined to join, or have
resigned after a short experience as members. It
was the sense of the meeting that the new member-
ship committee go after those concerns and try to
get them in.
The standing committees of the association,
named at the Tuesday meeting, are as follows:
Executive—C. A. Grinnell, E. P. Andrew, A. E.
Noble. Grievance—A. E. Trebilcock, J. Fisher,
A. H. Howes. Advertising—S. E. Clark, J. Henry
Ling, Harry Zickel. Membership—F. J. Bayley,
A. H. Howes, E. P. Andrew. Nominating—S. E.
Clark, E. P. Andrew, C. A. Grinnell.
Mr. Fisher is a new member of the association,
having been admitted at the last meeting. He rep-
resents the Detroit Piano Co.
Throughout the local trade it is common gossip
that an effort is being made by former association
members and those dealers who have held aloof
to organize a second music trade association which
will be conducted along different lines than the
present one. Matters have not shaped themselves
to a point where details can be given.
NEW KRANICH & BACH AGENCY.
Henley-Waite Music Co., Kansas City, Mo.,
Makes Arrangements to Handle the Complete
Line of This House in That Territory.
One of the latest of the numerous recent addi-
tions to the list of representatives of the Kranich
& Bach line of pianos and player-pianos is the
Hcnley-Waite Music Co., of Kansas City, Mo.,
which will represent the line in that city and a
large section of Missouri. The deal was closed
by Frederick Grebe, the Kranich & Bach traveler,
on his recent visit to Kansas City. Ned Nowlin is
sales manager for the company, which handles in
addition to the Kranich & Bach the Everett, Chase
& Baker, Apollo and other makes of pianos and
players.
USES BJUR BROS. GOLD PIANO! IN WINDOW DISPLAY.
In the accompanying illustration is shown the
Bjur Bros, gold piano, which was used in an ef-
fective window display by the Chamberlain-John-
played. The Bjur Bros. Co., Whitlock and Leggett
avenues, New York, take special pride in this pi-
ano, the case of which was finished with gold leaf.
son DuBosc Co., Atlanta, Ga. This instrument,
which is a Puritan style Bjur Bros, piano, has at-
tracted much attention wherever it has been dis-
It has been on display in many store windows
throughout the country, where the Bjur Bros, in-
struments are handled.
WINTER & CO.
220 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD, N E W YORK
Manufacturers of
Superior Pianos
and Player Pianos