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Musical Courier 1893-06-07: Vol 26 Iss 692, 1893
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1CHICAGO OFFICE MUSICAL COURIER,
2226 WABASH AVENUE,
3CHICAGO, June 8, 1888.
5Non-Exhibiting Western Manufacturers.
6SO much has been written about the World's Fair and the Chicago manufacturers exhibiting that the attention of the trade has been given to those firms who are not participating. Chicago has "done herself proud" in the Fair, but a great many of her manufacturers decided to stay out. These gentlemen are in sympathy with the Exposition, but for various reasons they decided to hold a little World's Fair in their own factory. The visiting dealers should give these gentlemen due attention, as their goods rank high. A list of these firms follows, supplemented with the names of other Western houses who are not exhibiting:
8Clemons, C. B. & Co. (pianos).
9House & Davis Piano Company.
10Hamilton Organ Company.
11Harmony Company (small goods).
12Kaiser & Polensky (pianos).
13Steger & Co. (pianos).
14Schaaf, Adam (pianos).
15Smith & Barnes Piano Company (pianos).
16Schaff Brothers' Company (pianos).
17Stone & Son (pianos).
18Tryber & Sweetland (organs).
19Zscherpe & Co. (pianos).
21In Towns Surrounding Chicago.
22Anderson Piano Company, Rockford, Ill.
23Ann Arbor Organ Company, Ann Arbor, Mich.
24Edna Organ and Piano Company, Monroeville, Ohio.
25Schiller Piano Company, Oregon, Ill.
27About Faribault.
28The city of Faribault, Minn., is very proud of her manufacturing industries, which consist of furniture, rattan ware, boots and shoes, flour, and more recently a piano manufactory, and claims that everything that goes from Faribault is a first-class article. In addition to these manufacturing industries there are located there several large schools, including the State schools for imbeciles, for the deaf and dumb, for the blind, and several private institutions of a high degree of excellence. This really entitles the town to be called the Athens of the West.
30Naturally the new concern, Messrs. Schimmel & Nelson, desire to keep up the reputation of the place. They therefore determined upon producing a piano which would meet the criticism of the most captious musician. They have introduced some patents into this new instrument; for instance, a patent agraffe bar, which compels a uniform pressure; also a patent music rack, which is said to be a very excellent and practical device, one particular feature of which is that it does not interfere with the fall board when either opened or closed.
32They are using a first-class action, and all the material used in this instrument is likewise of the best quality.
34The capital stock of this new concern is placed at $100,000, but I am assured that if necessary the capital is practically unlimited.
36The officers of the company are: Donald Grant, president; C. H. Wagner, vice-president and business manager; H. C. Theopold is the secretary and treasurer, while both Mr. Schimmel and Mr. Nelson are jointly the superintendents of the establishment.
38Wegman in Chicago.
39Mr. John A. Bryant, though still a young man, is an old and experienced dealer in this city, and in the course of his business career has handled a great variety of instruments. Whatever piano he has been interested in has always received a generous representation. It is nothing new to the trade to say that Mr. Bryant has been eminently successful in his business enterprises; this is partly accounted for by a keen, conservative business sense and a large circle of friends and acquaintances in this neighborhood. The piano which Mr. Bryant is interesting himself mostly in is the Wegman, and in speaking of it he is always very enthusiastic; the styles of the cases and its unique tuning device are unqualifiedly endorsed by him, and as this instrument has been his main reliance for quite a lengthy period of time his opinion must naturally bear with it considerable weight. Mr. Bryant has lately assumed the agency for the Needham piano, which, so far as his experience goes, he is also greatly pleased with.
41Rice-Macy.
42Mr. J. G. Ebersole was in town yesterday. He has just returned from a trip to Oregon, Ill., where it will be remembered the Schaeffer factory is situated. The citizens' committee of that town who have the destinies of the above mentioned factory in charge have made overtures to the Smith & Nixon concern which will probably be very favorably considered by Messrs. Smith & Nixon. Before such a step can be consummated the claim of the Citizens' Bank, of Des Moines, Ia.,—which, by the way, seems to have a very poor foundation—and Mr. Tower's suit in attachment must necessarily be cleared off. Mr. Ebersole says that his house has no intention at the present time of running a retail business in the city of Chicago.
44Mr. Twichell and the Spectatorium.
45Mr. J. O. Twichell is mentioned as one of the stockholders of the now defunct Spectatorium scheme. This is probably a permanent investment, and Mr. Twichell is fortunate in not responding to another request for an additional subscription. From the accounts in the papers it would appear that the ground upon which the unfinished building stands is worth less than it would be as a vacant lot. It is easy enough to see now that it was a wild scheme at the best, and it is hard to understand why sound business men could not have seen through it in the first place.
47Heavy Suit Against Conn.
48The following is a telegram which was published in the "Inter Ocean," of this city, and explains itself:
50ELKHART, Ind. Special telegram.—Eugene Vanderbergen, of Philadelphia, and Marie Wertz, of Chicago, heirs of Eugene Dupont, the inventor, who died in 1885 at Washington, D. C., brought suit yesterday in the United States District Court to recover damages to the amount of $75,000 from Congressman C. G. Conn, of Elkhart, manufacturer of musical instruments. The complaint states that since the death of their father, Eugene Dupont, Conn has failed to pay the royalty he agreed to pay on a certain patent which their father held and which Conn has been using in the manufacture of his instruments.
52Notes.
53THE A. L. KINDLER PIANO COMPANY, CHICAGO; capital stock, $250,000; incorporators, Louis A. Kindler, F. B. S. Morgan and Henry McKay.
55The above incorporation was granted this week. No one in the trade here knows of the gentlemen, and their names do not appear in the directory.
57Mr. C. C. McClurg has resigned from the Manufacturers Piano Company, and can now be found playing the Vose & Sons piano on the Fair grounds, where he will be of material assistance to Mr. Dowling.
59Mr. R. Schreiber, of London, England, has left the city and will spend sometime in Boston.
61Mr. Wiley B. Allen, of Portland, Ore., combined business with pleasure this trip by arranging for the agency of the Chicago Cottage Organ Company's goods in his section of the country.
63Myers & Early, dealers at Fort Dodge, Ia., have dissolved partnership, Mr. Early continuing the business. Mr. S. K. Myers, the retiring partner, was in town this week, but can give no definite information regarding his future plans. He will doubtless locate somewhere and continue business.
65Mr. Albert H. Smith, the young gentleman who sits at the desk near the door of the W. W. Kimball Company, is about to make a change. He will join the Hardman forces next week, taking charge of their booth on the Fair grounds. In making this selection for an important post Mr. Dutton has secured one of the brightest of the young men around Chicago warerooms. Mr. Smith is courteous, obliging and withal a model of gentlemanly conduct. He will do Hardman, Peck & Co. some good work. I congratulate all parties to the transaction.
67Visiting Visitors.
68Albert Strauch, of Strauch Brothers; John C. Schleicher, of Schleicher & Sons Piano Company, New York; F. E. Rowe, manager for Kohler & Chase, Seattle, Wash.; F. J. Mabon, representative of P. G. Mehlin & Son, New York; H. Kleber, Pittsburg; A. J. Hinds, Santa Cruz, Cal.; Jack Haynes and Charles Jacobs, New York; C. T. Sisson, representative of Farrand & Votey; D. L. White, W. C. Bacon, of White-Smith Publishing Company, Boston; Solomon Dill, Kalamazoo, Mich.; J. C. Emahizer, Oberlin, Kan.; H. Sharples, Blackburn, England; Wiley B. Allen, Portland, Ore.; J. F. Corl, of Schiller Piano Company, Oregon, Ill.; N. M. Crosby, Brooklyn, N. Y.; H. W. Crawford and J. G. Ebersole, Cincinnati, Ohio; A. H. Fischer, of J. & C. Fischer, New York; E. Gariel, Saltillo, Mexico; William Seybold and J. W. Trainer, of the Fort Wayne Organ Company; G. R. Fleming, Philadelphia; Alex. Steinhert, Boston; G. B. Foulks, Malvern, Ia.; W. C. Taylor, Springfield, Mass.; F. Haseman and H. H. Dennison, Elgin, Ill.; Chas. Keller, of Keller Brothers & Blight, Bridgeport, Conn.; C. W. Spingler, Weedsport, N. Y.; L. Fisher, of Lester Piano Company, Philadelphia; W. F. Zimmerman, Davenport, Ia.; C. F. Crane, of Decker Brothers, New York; W. B. Stevens, of Pratt Reed & Co., Deep River, Conn.; Adolf Schiedmayer, of Schiedmayer & Sohne, Stuttgart, Germany; John Anderson, of the Anderson Piano Company, Rockford, Ill.; C. H. Wagner, of Schimmel & Nelson Piano Company, Faribault, Minn.; Geo. F. Thiers, Des Moines, Ia.; Mr. Rohlfing, of Rohlfing Brothers, Osnabrueck, Germany; Samuel Nordheimer, Toronto, Canada; Karl Fink, of Alfred Dolge & Son, New York; Mr. Sherman, of Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, Cal.; Mr. Farwell, of the Dominion Piano Company, Canada; S. B. Ford, Galesburg, Ill.; O. F. Remmers, Red Oak, Ia.; D. Coulter, Salt Lake City, Utah; C. H. Williams, representative of Story & Clark; G. A. Sheldon, representing Mason & Hamlin, Boston; Mr. Roesner, Berlin, Germany; H. D. Bentley, Freeport, Ill.; B. L. Curtis, representing Estey & Camp, Chicago; Max Schiedmayer, of Stuttgart, Germany.
70—T. J. Stansil, who will put in a music store at this place in the near future, made a business trip to Oklahoma City this week.—Hennessey, O. T., "Democrat."
72—The assignee of Messrs. Stettner & Koch, music dealers, who failed recently at Columbus, Ohio, has asked for an order of court to sell two lots in Sinks & Hardy's addition to that city to pay creditors.
74—The Knauff Organ Factory at Newark, Del., is to be sold at public sale by the receivers on June 17. The property includes 6 acres of land, a large brick building and all the machinery.
76—The Honey Grove Music Company has been organized at Honey Grove, Tex. The officers are: President and treasurer, L. E. Van Landingham; secretary, E. M. Newton, and P. P. Phillips, manager.
78—Mr. A. B. Clark, of this city, maker and repairer of violins, has a reputation that ere long will become national. He exhibits some work at his shop, No. 426 Main street, that are beautiful specimens of the violin maker's art. He has numerous testimonials from all parts of the country, which speak much for his ability as a repairer of violins. It would be a decided treat to a connoisseur to visit his establishment and see the collection of rare old instruments, the property of some of the best artists of the country, strewn about the place in course of repair, or tucked away in some corner awaiting the final coat of varnish before shipping. One instrument in particular that looked so dilapidated that the casual observer would not deem it of value for any other purpose than kindling a fire, upon investigation proved to be a genuine Nicholas Amati, made in 1642, now the property of Prof. M. N. Plummer, of the Fort Wayne Conservatory of Music, and is valued at over $1,000. When repairs are finished it will be a triumph for Mr. Clark, and will show beyond a question that it has been in the hands of one who is a master in his profession.—Richmond, Ind., "Independent."
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