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Musical Courier 1892-08-03: Vol 25 Iss 649, 1892
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1contains two white mahogany uprights and one red mahogany grand of the Chase Brothers' manufacture, all elegant instruments, and a white enameled and a white mahogany Chickering grand, in addition to which is a mahogany Style F Chickering upright labeled as follows:
3Q. A. R.
4Double Quick.
6This style piano is presented by Chickering & Sons, Boston, Mass., as the first prize one mile "double quick" contest, open to all members of the Grand Army of the Republic at the National Encampment, to be held at Washington, D. C., September 21, 1892.
8The Manufacturers Piano Company wind up the second year's business to day with much increased results. Their last two months' business has been very large and consequently very satisfactory. It may surprise the trade to know that the business of this company in pianos, which is the only line of goods handled, is probably not surpassed by more than one house in this city.
10Mr. Charles C. Russell is now the secretary of the Story & Clark Organ Company, and takes the place of Mr. M. E. Strack, resigned. Mr. Russell was already a director, and Mr. O. J. Tyler has been made a director.
12Messrs. Tryber & Sweetland report this month as the best in the year. So far this house has been very successful and can show a balance sheet astonishingly advantageous.
14Mr. John R. Brown, representing the Colby Piano Company, has started on a flying trip through the Northwest. Every time one goes the rounds in this city he finds progress. Now it is Messrs. C. B. Clemons & Co. who have produced a new style of case which is a credit to their enterprise and taste. Of the two which were in the ware- rooms one was a natural colored mahogany and the other a fancy birch, and both showed the genuine wood in every detail, even to the trusses. They are round cornered, with one large carved panel and a double molding around the top, carved pilasters and trusses, and handsome enough to be both sold. The material in the Clemons piano is first class.
16Mr. C. S. Hartman, of Grand Rapids, Mich., is reported to have given a chattel mortgage for $26,000. Mr. Hartman succeeded Messrs. Herrick, Allen & Morehead, and Mr. Herrick was manager for Mr. Hartman.
18Lyon & Healy have just got in an importation of over 400 old violins.
20Messrs. Thayer & Gustin, of Bay City, Mich., are appealing to the trade for assistance for the sufferers in the recent fire which devastated that town.
22Lyon & Healy recently received a remittance from Laconia, N. H., on a letter head, of which the following is a copy:
24STOP AT
25THE (picture of an eagle and American flag)
26HOTEL.
27My wife and I proprietors. The only second-class house in the United States that charges everybody first-class prices. No special rates to preachers, shows or drummers.
29Knauff Organ Case.
31A argument was heard on the application of a judgment creditor of the Knauff Organ Company, who had made a levy on the assets of the company previous to the appointment of the present receivers. He asked through counsel that certain moneys obtained on sales by the receivers be paid to him. The court asked that a more complete account be handed in by the receivers of the sums realized. Return to be made August 1. The receivers, John Pilling and Frederick William Curtis, were present, as was also the creditor, John L. B. Sherrick, of Philadelphia, Vandegrift and Byrne appeared for the judgment creditor.—Wilmington, Del., "Every Evening," July 22.
33FOR SALE—In one of the best of locations, one-half interest in a retail piano and organ establishment doing a business of about $20,000 a year. Fine line of instruments represented. Reason for selling. Partner has other business requiring his entire attention. Address "New Scale," care Musical Courier.
35Kansas City.
36Kansas City, July 26, 1892.
37Editors Musical Courier:
38WHILE in Kansas City the writer took occasion to look up trade matters in that interesting burg. As a whole there was but little complaint to be found among the dealers, either as to the past, present or future outlook.
40Naturally the July and August depressions are felt in Kansas City alike as elsewhere.
42The country trade has proved unusually good, and farming anticipations bid fair to rival, if not surpass, the past harvest, which naturally means an increase of trade orders among the piano and organ dealers of the entire West.
44Legg Brothers are climbing to the fore, giving the satisfaction as is naturally expected from two such fellows as S. A. and E. N. Legg.
46Sil. seldom permits an opportunity to slip by to ship a case or so out, and this happens with a frequency that looks pretty nice on the round up.
48To take a peep into the house of J. W. Jenkins' Sons is a good old-fashioned pleasure.
50When the boys moved to their elegant building it was thought on the side that they had bitten a trifle more than would be pleasant, but a single glance suffices to show that their chewing, like their hustling, proclivities are very substantial.
52The way John rustles out Decker Brothers and Vose & Sons instruments is a caution. We all know that to get ahead of J. W., Jr., requires an early riser, and the chances are if he gets on he will be up all night.
54If anyone thinks that G. W. Strope is in the piano business for the fun of it and love for carrying his large stock, just let him drop in there some fine large afternoon and notice the activity, as indicated within the confines of his large and complete warerooms on Ninth street.
56Brother George is a hustler from way back and keeps 'em all on the lookout, and it is easy to see that even though absent from the trade circles a long time he has lost none of his cunning of yore.
58Martin & Snyder are to be found on Eleventh and Walnut. Kranich & Bach, Conover Brothers, &c., are pretty well aware of this from the number of instruments billed to that point, and while their warerooms are large and roomy they can't accommodate by a large majority the number of cases that are hauled up that way. Their books indicate a healthy country trade and they are not unwilling to show up on city matters.
60Though THE MUSICAL COURIER has not printed so very much on Kansas City items the different factories that are represented in that burg along the banks of the Kaw are pretty well satisfied; in fact, I judge there is "no kick comin'" at either end.
62In another letter a few more items of interest may be found. Just wait.
64BROADWELL.
66To Whom It May Concern.
67THE COLBY PIANO COMPANY,
68Factories and Main Offices, Erie, Pa.
69CHICAGO, Ill., July 30, 1892.
71DEAR SIR—We beg to invite your attention to the advantages now offered the Western trade by the Colby Piano Company, especially those who have depended upon Chicago dealers for supplies. Heretofore these houses have controlled the sale of the Colby piano for nearly the entire West, charging of course the usual jobbers' advances, thus increasing prices to the local trade 25 per cent. or more.
73All this is changed. The company now deal direct with the local trade, giving lowest wholesale prices and ample protection in territory, the Chicago house being for retailing purposes, and incidentally to aid the wholesale business, serving as a depot for the mutual accommodation of Western dealers and the company.
75We undertake to handle a full line of the different styles of both the Colby and Erie pianos, so that they can be seen here at all times. We also fill emergency orders for the company at an advance of the freight charges to Chicago and cartridge over regular prices.
77We would be pleased to have a call from you when next in the city, in the meantime, to give any information in regard to the Colby or Erie pianos. We write you at the suggestion of the Colby Piano Company, and would be pleased to hear from you in return. As you are probably aware the Colby has always been a great seller, but the recent changes in the piano, particularly their full metal frame, with improved pin block, and their new style grand front cases, render it one of the best, if not the very best, money maker in the market.
79Our Chicago trade (retail) increases at the rate of 100 per cent. a month, and the Colby is our only leader, the Erie serving as an A1 running mate. It will be well worth your while to investigate the Colby and Erie pianos before arranging for your fall and winter stock, or, better still, order samples at once.
81Wishing you success, we are
83Yours very truly,
84THE JULIUS N. BROWN COMPANY,
85Western Agency the Colby Piano Company.
87250,000.
89The Production of an Estey Organ Bearing This Number to be Duly Celebrated.
91AN event is down for August 17 which promises to be notable in the annals of Brattleboro. For a year or more it has been known by friends of the Estey Organ Company that the time was rapidly approaching when the 250,000th organ made by that company would be manufactured, marking an important event in the remarkable progress of the concern, and that the occasion would be celebrated in a suitable way. As when the 100,000th organ was produced a new organ of special design was issued, so a leading feature of this celebration will be the introduction to the organ trade and the public of an instrument of special scope and design.
93It is the plan of the company to hold the celebration on the grounds of Col. J. J. Estey. While the exercises will, as a matter of course, be largely of a musical nature the presence of men of prominence who will address the audience is hoped for. The invitations will include the Governor and staff, and all other State officers. Prof. S. B. Whitney, the celebrated organist of the Church of the Advent, Boston, has promised to attend. It is hoped also that Mrs. Lavin will consent to sing, although a definite announcement which has been made to this effect is premature. The First Regiment Band is under engagement to put itself in the best possible shape for this event, and some of the finest music which the band has ever rendered may therefore be expected. A collation will be served at a suitable hour. In the evening the Estey factories will be brilliantly illuminated, and there will be a fine display of fireworks from the meadow in front of the shops. This celebration, it is hardly necessary to say, will undoubtedly attract more attention to Brattleboro from the country at large than any which has ever been held here.—Brattleboro "Phoenix."
95Trade Notes.
97—E. A. Mayor, of Carthage, Mo., has removed to new and handsome quarters.
98—John Ball, music dealer, Ne'son, Neb., has opened a branch at Superior, Neb.
99—in 1890 Germany exported 406 pianos to Sweden and imported three Swedish pianos.
100—J. D. Bowden, ex-missionary worker, has opened a music store at Berkeley, Va. Hymn tunes a specialty.
101—F. M. Hooper & Co., formerly of Titusville, Pa., will open at Jamestown, N. Y., with the Chickering piano as leader.
102—Noble & Cooley's drum factory at Granville, Mass., has been enlarged by the addition of a three story building.
103—Young & Elder, piano and organ dealers, Lincoln, Neb., have failed. Liabilities, $10,000; assets, $5,000; creditors nothing.
104—J. E. Nelms, Jr., traveling piano salesman for Collins & Armstrong, Fort Worth, Tex., recently made an attempt at suicide.
105—Mr. Malcolm Love, of Waterloo, N. Y., who was in town last week, informs us that his firm is selling every piano they can turn out and that thus far there has been no abatement in their business.
106—F. A. McLauthlin, employed by the B. Shoninger Company, of New Haven, has engaged himself with the Koerber Piano Company, of St. Louis, and will assume his new duties on August 20.
107—A man named Liberty, at Easthampton, Mass., has invented an attachment to drums by which anywhere from two to a dozen sticks can be used. The sticks are worked by keys something on the plan of a piano.
108—Mr. Brown intends to build a big $10,000 organ for the Chicago world's fair, where it can be heard in contrast to Roosevelt's $23,000 organ, which the latter proposes to build for the same purpose.—Wilmington, Del., "Star."
109—A fire on the roof of F. E. Smith's Bradbury piano rooms at 1225 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D. C., on Thursday last, came near becoming a serious conflagration. The activity of the fire department prevented any great damage.
110—The Duke of Edinburgh will exhibit at the Columbian Fair some of the almost invaluable collection of ancient musical instruments he possesses. A part of the collection is now on exhibition at the International Music and Art Exhibition at Vienna, where it attracts much attention.
111—Workmen from the factory of Jardine & Sons, the celebrated organ manufacturers, are now erecting a beautiful new pipe organ in Nelson Memorial, Kingston, for Wyoming Seminary. The instrument will be a very powerful one, with all the latest improvements, and will supply a long needed addition to the musical appliances of Wyoming Seminary. It will cost something over $3,000.—Wilkesbarre "Record."
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