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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
VOSE PIANOS FOR CONSERVATORY.
NEW HOME FOR_CHAS. J. ORTH.
FORMS THE J J E . DAVIS, INC.
Otto Malek, Virtuoso and Principal of the
Malek School of Music Indorses the Vose
Pianos—Purchases the Famous Boston Prod-
uct for Noted Grand Rapids Conservatory.
The Well-Known Milwaukee Piano Dealer Will
Move to Second Floor Quarters at 274 West
Water Street—Will Have Twenty-five Hun-
dred Feet of Floor Space for Pianos.
Former Head of J. E. Davis Manufacturing Co.,
Cortland, N. Y., Who Purchased Stock of
Stultz Bros., to Manufacture Pianos Under
His Own Name at 93 Southern Boulevard.
(Special to The Review.)
J. E. Davis, former head of the J. E. Davis
Manufacturing Co., Cortland, N. Y., whose factory
was burned out some years ago and who recently
bought at auction the stock and good will of
Stultz Bros., bankrupt, announced this week that he
would manufacture the J. E. Davis piano, and as
has already been published, has engaged a factory
ac 93 Southern Boulevard, New York.
Mr. Davis, who was busy directing the renovating
of the interior of the factory, when seen this week
by a representative of The Review stated: "We
will soon be ready to manufacture pianos. I have
assumed entire charge of this plant, and the name
of the firm will be J. E. Davis, Inc. We shall
manufacture the J. E. Davis piano. We will com-
mence operating just as soon as the factory is in
condition, which I hope will be within a few days."
(Special to The Review.)
RAPIDS, MICH., January
MILWAUKEE, WIS., January 19.—The Winter &
GRAND
18.—Vose &
Co., Strich & Zeidler and Homer pianos will be dis-
Sons pianos, while found in many institutions of
learning throughout the country, owing to their played in new and attractive quarters after Feb-
excellent wearing qualities for school use, are ruary 1, when Charles J. Orth, enterprising
gaining in favor with music faculties in many representative of these lines, will move to second
prominent institutions. The latest acquisition is floor quarters at 274 West Water street. Mr.
the Malek School of Muse, of this city, a con- Orth will have 2,500 square feet of floor space and
servatory of the highest class, which has purchased will have an opportunity to arrange handsome
a shipment of Vose pianos. Where these pianos parlors. Mr. Orth does not believe that it is neces-
are used it is an extraordinary testimonial to the sary for a piano store to be located on the main
business street of a city, but that it is more im-
Vose because of the fact that the instruments are
portant to secure the confidence of the trade in
purchased for permanent use. While an institu-
regard to business methods and in the reputation
tion renting or obtaining the free use of pianos
of pianos carried.
is in itself commendable to the piano used, yet it
Mr. Orth, who is a composer of merit, has just
is doubly commendable and significant when prom-
arranged a new overature, which will be given its
inent musicians of high rank or schools buy the
premiere rendition at an entertainment to be given
pianos outright, as has the Malek School of Music,
by the Milwaukee Chapter of the American Insti-
oi this city.
tute of Bank Clerks.
The Herrick Piano Co., the active Vose repre-
sentative of Grand Rapids, consummated the sale
MAY REOROANIZE_THE BUSINESS.
and delivered the pianos to the school, and takes
Louis Lowenstein, Representing Creditors of
just pride in the fact that the Vose was the final
Wegman Piano Co., Visits Auburn to Look
choice after many other pianos had been consid-
Into Affairs of Concern and if Possible Strive
ered. H. O. Igelman, salesman and impresario,
Toward Putting It on Its Feet.
transacted the business for the Herrick Piano Co.,
and C. H. Hoffman, treasurer and general man-
(Special to The Review.)
ager of tne Herrick Co., states that Mr. Malek,
AUBURN, N. Y., January 16.—Louis Lowenstein,
the Vose & Sons Piano Co. and his firm are all of the law firm of Wentworth, Lowenstein & Stern,
to be congratulated for the endorsement given the attorneys for Amphion Player Action Co. and other
musical qualities of the Vose grand and upright creditors of Wegman Piano Co., has been in town
pianos, which are being used by the leading musi- several days in consultation with Receiver Knapp
cians and faculty of this noted school of music.
and Wm. Payne, receiver's attorney.
Mr. Lowenstein stated to a representative of The
W. A. WATKIN CO. ELECTS OFFICERS. Review that the object of his visit was to look into
the situation generally with a view of reorganizing
President Watkin Congratulated on Successful
the company.
Year's Business Just Closed.
(Special to The Review.)
DALLAS, TEX., January 18.—At the ninth annual
meeting of the stockholders of the Will A. Watkin
Co., held at the offices in this city Saturday, the
following directors were elected for the coming
year: A. Ragland, M. II. Wolfe, Rhodes S. Baker,
Will A. Watkin and Robert N. Watkin. Will A.
Watkin was elected president and general manager
for the coming year and was congratulated by the
directors on the showing made during the past
year. The management decided to continue han-
dling the same line of instruments, including the
A. B. Chase, Baldwin and McPhail pianos, and the
Hillgreen, Lane pipe organ.
MAKING TOURJ)F FLORIDA.
Ross P. Curtice, head of the Ross P. Curtice
Co., Lincoln, Neb., accompanied by Mrs. Curtice
and several friends is at present making an auto-
mobile tour of Florida.
BILLINGS & SONS CO. INCORPORATE.
( Special to '1 he Review.)
MILWAUKEE, WIS., January 19.—The Billings &
Sons Piano Co., 504 Grand avenue, handling the
Mehlin, Cable-Nelson, Holland, Peerless and Bill-
ings & Sons lines, has incorporated with a capital
stock of $25,000. The incorporators are F. C.
Billings, well-known inventor of the Billings brass
flange and other action appliances, and two of his
sons, H. C. and H. T. Billings. The Billings con-
cern was launched several months ago and has
been meeting with a brisk trade, especially since it
located in its present handsome quarters in the new
Miller building.
STOCK DAMAGED BY WATER.
The stock of the Coney Piano Co., Oskaloosa,
la., was damaged to some extent when a leaky
valve in a water pipe caused the floor above the
store to become flooded and some of the water to
leak through onto the pianos.
The Wetenkamp Music Co. has arranged to open
handsome and well stocked piano warerooms in
the Triangle building, Palestine, Tex.
THE NEW PIANO STORE OF THE J. L. HUDSON CO. IN DETROIT
Will Be Designed Along Distinctly Individual Lines and Promises to Be One of the Handsomest
and Best Equipped in the Central West—Many Sales of Chickerings.
(Special tu The Review.)
DETROIT, MICH., January 18.—The new home of
principal address was made by Mr. Fiske, the
director in salesmanship instruction of the big
the J. L. Hudson Co.'s piano store will be finer store. He is thoroughly conversant with such a
than any piano store in the country, aside from subject.
the great and elegant ones of New York and
At the New Year's distribution of bonuses by
Philadelphia, according to .E. P. Andrew, man- the company, all of the employes of the piano and
MAY DISCUSS STENCIL QUESTION.
ager of the piano department, who, with his son, talking machine departments received from $10
Society of American Musicians Want Piano
E. K. Andrew, manager of the talking machine to $30 in gold, the amounts being a certain per-
Manufacturers to Take Up Matter at Com-
department, returned this week from a trip through centage of their salaries.
ing Meeting of the Executive Committee.
the East. They visited Chicago, Toledo, Pitts-
Mr. Andrew has just received a special order
burgh, Philadelphia, Camden and New York, call- Chickering grand, which is one of the finest pianos
Among the matters that will come up before the ing at the best piano houses in each city to absorb
that ever came to Detroit. It is for J. D. Redfield,
mid-winter meeting of the executive committee of good ideas for embodiment in the new Hudson
a wealthy resident of Grosse Pointe. The case is
the National Piano Manufacturers' Association to store. Some of the stores, notably Aeolian Hall,
in walnut, dull finished and hand carved, from
be held in New York next Monday will be the Lord & Taylor and the Knabe store in New York,
special designs made by an artist employed for the
resolution adopted by the Society of American and Wanamaker's in Philadelphia, are too large
purpose. The front panels are in three colors of
Musicians against the stencil piano. The musicians and grand to be imitated in a city the size of
walnut, inlaid, with an ebony outline. The design
are seeking to interest the piano manufacturers in Detroit. But some of their good features can be
is of the Jacobean period. The piano cost $1,650,
their campaign to do away with the cheap stencil utilized. Mr. Andrew believes that in making any-
and a bench, hand carved, to match it, cost $80
piano, which, they claim, is a fraud upon the public thing new, it is poor policy to use any but the
at wholesale. The purchaser made three trips to
;iii(l an injury to the industry.
most up-to-the-minute ideas and innovations, the Chickering factory during the course of the
ence his statement that the Detroit home of the construction of the piano to be certain that the
OPENS NEW DEPARTMENT.
Chickering, Apollo, Angelus and several other details met his approval.
Another elegant piano sold by the Hudson Co.
The Pasadena Furniture Co., which recently oc- good pianos will beat all but the greatest in the
cupied a new eight-story building in Pasadena, East in the matter of thoroughness and elegance. this week was a special order early English oak
The company tendered a banquet Monday eve- Chickering to G. A. Black. The case cost $100
Cal., has installed a piano department on the mez-
zanine floor of the store, with Mr. and Mrs. Robert ning to the salesmen of the piano and talking ma- more than the mahogany variety. The purchaser
chine departments, sixteen being present. The expressed his satisfaction with design and tone.
Witte in charge.
POOLE
PIANOS
Appeal to cultivated tastes. They are
marvels off beauty and form at once a
valuable accessory to any piano store.
SIDNEY ST., Cambridge A. Branoh, BOSTON, MASS.