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Musical Courier 1893-10-18: Vol 27 Iss 710, 1893
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1TO DEALERS.
3It is important to your business interests to have THE MUSICAL COURIER on your desk every week.
5You do not want to depend upon any stray copies or occasional copies, but on the regular paper mailed to you every week.
7Matters of vital consequence to you will be discussed in these columns every issue, and you will lose information and material you need in arguments to make sales if you fail to get this paper.
9Your competitors have it; if not all, at least a large number.
11They will use this paper to make sales and you will be defeated without being able to discover the reason.
13The reason is very simple to your competitor and to us: You are not a subscriber to THE MUSICAL COURIER.
15Send your $4 and get the paper each and every week during the year.
17Our Information Bureau is open free of charge to every subscriber. We can answer any questions pertaining to music, musical instruments and the music trade.
19One answer may pay you more than a hundred times the price of the subscription.
21Have your name entered on our subscription list and enjoy the same benefits your competitors get through us.
23Keller Brothers & Blight and the World's Fair.
25Editors Musical Courier:
27In reply to your inquiry about what we proposed doing concerning the injustice done us by the Jury of Awards we will say that the following facts have been developed and is an answer to your inquiry:
29CHICAGO, Ill., October 5.
31Dr. Folkes, representing "The Presto," the only authorized authority of the Jury of Awards, called at the booth of Keller Brothers & Blight on or about September 18, 1893, and stated to me that he did not think that Keller Brothers & Blight's pianos had much show, as they had not put up any money on it.
33(Signed.) J. A. Kitton.*
35STATE OF ILLINOIS, ss.
36County of Cook.
37Subscribed and sworn to before me this third day of October, 1893.
38E. R. BLANCHARD, Notary Public.
40Then follows the affidavit of this same Dr. Folkes in evidence before the United States Court, stating that E. P. Carpenter had spoken in a prejudicial manner concerning our exhibit, &c.
42After the awards were announced, and we found we were left out in the cold, we made an appeal to John Boyd Thacher, Chairman Executive Committee on Awards, stating fully the grounds upon which we based our claim, and to-day we received the following dated Chicago, October 10, 1893:
44To the Keller Brothers & Blight Company:
45Your complaint filed October 2, 1893, has been duly considered by the executive committee on awards, and the appeal asked for is overruled and disallowed.
47(Signed) JOHN BOYD THACHER,
48Chairman Executive Committee on Awards.
50As the above statement from Mr. Thacher apparently blocks our way to further progress and recognition by the Jury of Awards or Court of Appeals, all we have now to do is to decide in our own minds and ask the trade to judge whether the following prominent musical experts and dealers are a lot of fools and impostors, or whether that term should apply to the Jury of Awards.
52We refer to the following dealers who have been and are now handling our pianos, and if the Jury of Awards could not find any money in them, these parties certainly have, or they would not continue to handle them:
54DEALERS WHO HAVE BEEN AND ARE NOW HANDLING THE KELLER BROTHERS PIANO.
56Emerson Piano Company…………………….Chicago.
57Mason & Hamlin P. & O. Company………….Kansas City.
58The R. Wurlitzer Company………………….Cincinnati.
59Kirsch, Meckel & Co……………………….Cleveland.
60F. Knoll………………………………….Buffalo.
61Bollman Brothers Company………………….St. Louis.
62E. B. Guild……………………………….Topeka, Kan.
63Winteroth & Co…………………………..New York.
64Isaac Doles………………………………..Indianapolis.
65Hughes Brothers…………………………..Philadelphia.
66Hugo Worch & Co…………………………..Washington.
67R. Curtaz & Son…………………………..Baltimore.
68O. W. Lane & Co…………………………..Boston, Mass.
69The Alcott & Maynor Company………………Dallas, Tex.
70Adolph Bruener…………………………….San Francisco.
71E. L. Eddy…………………………………Providence.
72C. W. Marvin………………………………Detroit.
73W. H. Elliott & Son………………………..Manchester, N. H.
74A. W. Brinkerhoff & Son…………………..Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
75C. S. Green………………………………..Fall River, Mass.
76M. A. Jackson……………………………..Chelsea, Mass.
77W. F. Zimmerman……………………………Davenport, Ia.
78E. V. Caulfield…………………………….Hartford, Conn.
79L. A. Young……………………………….Schenectady, N. Y.
80Leonard & Son…………………………….Albany, N. Y.
81J. T. Keenan & Co…………………………Cortland, N. Y.
82C. M. Loomis' Sons………………………..New Haven, Conn.
83R. J. McDowell…………………………….Kingston, Canada.
84M. O. Kelly & Co…………………………..Rutland, Vt.
85G. E. Snedeker & Co……………………….Trenton, N. J.
86W. E. Adair & Co…………………………..Cohocton, N. Y.
87W. J. Lefevre……………………………..Salem, Mass.
88S. V. Harding……………………………..Seymour, Ind.
89A. C. Chandler…………………………….Brockton, Mass.
90R. Leftwich………………………………..Greenville, Ohio.
91Valentine Becht…………………………….New Albany, Ind.
92DeArmund & Williams………………………Greensburg, Ind.
93A. W. Glenn……………………………….Rushville, Neb.
94W. St. Vincent…………………………….Long Branch, N. J.
95F. D. Leonard……………………………..Santa Ana, Cal.
96Dukes & Son……………………………….Peru, Ind.
97J. M. Whitcomb…………………………….Monroe, Wis.
98And others, in all representing 28 States of the Union, who all indorse our pianos as to evenness of scale, singing quality, easy touch, quick responsive action, remarkably good workmanship and material, well proportioned attractive designs.
100W. M. BLIGHT, Secretary and Treasurer,
101The Keller Brothers & Blight Company.
103WANTED.—An honest, competent man who is thoroughly acquainted with the musical artists of New York, Brooklyn and vicinity, and who can also produce reference. Address with record, Stanislaus, care of THE MUSICAL COURIER, 19 Union square, New York.
105Iowa Trade.
106DES MOINES, Ia., October 10, 1893.
107Editors Musical Courier:
109ALTHOUGH Des Moines has withstood the financial test of the stringency in the money market better than any town of its size in the United States there has of late been a decided shaking up of the music business. Last week occurred some radical changes in the different retail houses. W. H. Lehman, handling Estey & Campsline, has reduced his salaried force of traveling men from nine to two. The Chicago Cottage Organ Company has discharged all their force and what few goods they have here are in charge of their State agent, to be consigned to some one if the right party can be found. Geo. Theirs has suspended entirely, Mr. Lucas having in charge the pianos formerly consigned to Mr. Theirs by Manufacturers' Piano Company, of Chicago, except what Mr. Theirs replevined.
111W. E. Sands, handling W. W. Kimball Company's goods, has reduced his force, taking off all his traveling men. Edward H. Jones, who succeeded the Des Moines Piano Company in June last, although not increasing his traveling force from the number he started with, says he finds business what he makes it. He does a large amount of traveling himself leaving his store in charge of his son, Paul Jones, a rising young salesman, and Mr. E. C. Kohn, late secretary of the Des Moines Piano Company. Mr. Jones is a hustler with a big H, with large business experience and abundant capital. A lack of some makes of pianos he handles and the impossibility of getting them as fast as wanted will seriously affect his sales this month. Any manufacturer having a good satisfactory piano and a quantity of them ready for the market would find a ready cash customer in Mr. Jones. No big trade in any line is looked for in Iowa until after the election in November.
113OBSERVER.
115Mr. Steinway on Rapid Transit.
117A REPORTER of THE SUN asked Chairmen William Steinway, of the Rapid Transit Commission, yesterday when the commission was to meet again. Mr. Steinway said he didn't know, but probably not until the Senate has acted on the Silver Repeal bill. Until the Senate has acted, Mr. Steinway said, he thought it would be a waste of time and of the city's money to hold any more meetings, and set engineers to work on plans which no capitalists were prepared in the present state of financial affairs to take hold of. He said that at present it would be almost impossible to get capitalists to furnish any such sum as $30,000,000 to put into a rapid transit road.
119Mr. Steinway still believes in the underground syndicate, about which there has been so much mystery, but he doesn't believe that it will make any proposition to the commissioners until the financial situation improves. The reason the syndicate has not presented its offer, Mr. Steinway says, is because it is waiting for the Senate to pass the Repeal bill.
121Mr. Steinway said he did not know who are the members of the syndicate, but he has no doubt of its ability to furnish the necessary capital, because a solid firm, the name of which he knows, is acting as the representative of the syndicate.—The Sunday "Sun."
123—E. Walter, traveling for the Chicago Cottage Organ Company, has been in town.
125MALCOLM LOVE PIANOS.
126A High Grade Piano, equal to any!
127MANUFACTURED BY
128WATERLOO ORGAN CO., Waterloo, N. Y.
129We invite correspondence from Dealers in localities where we are not represented.
131"CROWN" PIANOS AND ORGANS,
132Made by and Sold to the Trade only by
133GEO. P. BENT,
134323 to 333 So. Canal Street, CHICAGO.
135DEALERS WANTED IN ALL TERRITORY NOT NOW TAKEN.
136CATALOGUE FREE! ASK FOR IT AT ONCE!
138A CENT SENT BENT.
139Manufacturer of "CROWN" Pianos and Organs.
140TRUST, BUT NOT STRANGE! that my business is increasing and from time to time I need piano and organ workmen. If you want position, send your address, on postal, &c. what you can do, salary wanted and give references.
141323 TO 333 SO. CANAL ST., CHICAGO, ILL. (Oct. 1893).
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