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Musical Courier 1896-12-16: Vol 33 Iss 876, 1896
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1his ruling principle it will signify business for the Weber-Wheelock Company.
3The following advertisements appeared in the morning papers yesterday:
5RECEIVER'S SALE.—Supreme Court.—In the matter of the application of the majority of the directors of Weber Piano Company, a domestic corporation, for a voluntary dissolution of said corporation.
7Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, William Foster, as receiver of the Weber Piano Company, will sell at public auction, under the direction of Marlin F. Hatch, auctioneer, at the Weber piano factory, Nos. 115 to 121 Seventh avenue, corner of Seventeenth street, in the City, County and State of New York, on the 30th day of December, 1896, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of that day, all the wood working machinery and fixtures, except engine, boilers, shafting, belting, pulleys and hangers in said factory, and also all unfinished pianos and merchandise stock at said factory, including pianos in process of manufacture and parts thereof, piano cases, veneered and unveneered; piano keys and parts thereof, piano backs, sounding boards, panels, plates, bridges, tops and strings, stools and cords, veneers, lumber, glue, shellac, pots, lumber, moldings, horses and carts, &c.
9WILLIAM FOSTER, Receiver.
11HAVENS & BEEBE,
12Attorneys for Receiver,
1318 Wall street, New York city.
15RECEIVER'S SALE.—Supreme Court, City and County of New York.—In the matter of the application of a majority of the directors of Weber Piano Company, a domestic corporation, for a voluntary dissolution of said corporation. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, William Foster, as receiver of the Weber Piano Company, will sell at public auction, under the direction of James L. Wells, Esq., auctioneer at the Real Estate Exchange Salesrooms, No. 111 Broadway, New York city, N.Y., on Tuesday, the 29th day of December, 1896, at 12:30 o'clock in the afternoon, all the uncollected accounts and bills receivable of said Weber Piano Company, and also all chattel mortgages, leases of pianos, rented pianos and rent accounts, agreements for conditional sales, consignment accounts, pianos on consignment, pianos on rental, trade, name, good will, and any and all contracts for the use of the name Weber and Albert Weber, in the manufacture of pianos, &c.: 110 shares of the capital stock of Haverstraw Light and Fuel Company, par value $10 each; 10 shares of the capital stock of Manufacturers Piano Company, of Chicago, par value, $100 each. All right, title and interest of said receiver in lots 38, 39 and 40 in block 3, and lots 5, 6, 7 and 21 in block 8, and the south half of lot 12 in block 1, and the south half of lot 28 in block 3, in Queen Anne, 2nd addition of the City of Seattle, Washington, and the south half of lot 3 in block 34 in the 2nd addition to that part of the said City of Seattle laid off by William U. Bell and A. A. Denny, commonly called Bell & Denny's 2nd addition of the City of Seattle; subject to all mortgages or liens upon said premises.
17Dated New York, December 12, 1896.
19WILLIAM FOSTER, Receiver.
21HAVENS & BEEBE,
22Attorneys for Receiver,
2318 Wall street, New York city.
25RECEIVER'S SALE.—Supreme Court.—In the matter of the application of a majority of the directors of Weber Piano Company, a domestic corporation, for a voluntary dissolution of said corporation. Take notice that the undersigned, William Foster, as receiver of the Weber Piano Company, will sell at public auction, under the direction of James L. Wells, Esq., auctioneer, at the Real Estate Exchange Salesrooms, No. 111 Broadway, in the City, County and State of New York, on Tuesday, the 29th day of December, 1896, at 12 o'clock noon of that date:
27I. All right, title and interest of said receiver as lessee of premises No. 108 Fifth avenue, in the City of New York, under a lease dated July 30, 1894, made by Augusta U. von Klenck, Laura J. D. L. d'Avenel, Nina A. de La Tournelle and Mary L. Meinel to Weber Piano Company for six years from May 1, 1895, at a yearly rental of $5,500, payable quarterly on the first days of August, November, February and May, with privilege of a renewal of five years from May 1, 1901, at a yearly rental of $5,750 payable quarterly. The lessee or its assigns to pay all annual taxes and charges for water rates. Landlord cannot be compelled to accept silver coins or silver certificates in payment of rent or other charges; including fixtures, safes and office furniture in said premises, and, also,
29II. And that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Sixteenth Ward of the City of New York, and known by the street numbers 117, 119, 121, 123 and 125 Seventh avenue, and 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163 and 165 West Seventeenth street, in said city, as the same are now in possession, and bounded as follows: Beginning at the northeasterly corner of Seventh avenue and West Seventeenth street, running thence northerly along Seventh avenue, one hundred and three (103) feet; thence easterly, parallel with West Seventeenth street, one hundred (100) feet; thence southerly, parallel with Seventh avenue, fifty-one (51) feet and six inches; thence easterly, along land formerly of Abraham Brinkerhoff, one hundred and eight (108) feet and one-quarter of an inch to a point distant fifty-three (53) feet ten (10) inches northerly from the northerly side of West Seventeenth street, on a line drawn at right angles to said northerly line of said West Seventeenth street; thence northerly eight (8) inches, thence westerly one (1) foot; thence northerly or parallel or nearly so with Seventh avenue, thirty-seven (37) feet six (6) inches; thence easterly, parallel with West Seventeenth street and along the centre line of the block between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets, forty-six (46) feet three (3) inches; thence southerly, ninety-two (92) feet and one-half of an inch to the northerly side of West Seventeenth street, and thence westerly along Seventeenth street, two hundred and fifty-six (256) feet, to the place of beginning.
31It being the intention hereof to convey the same premises conveyed to Albert Weber, Sr., by Henry T. Anthony by deed dated November 18, 1865, and recorded in the office of the Register of the City and County of New York, in Liber 946 of Conveyances, at page 539, and by Mary McCann by deed dated June 1, 1870, and recorded in said Register's office, in Liber 1145 of Conveyances, at page 507, and by Cynthia S. Campbell and others, by deed dated November 28, 1871, and recorded in said Register's office in Liber 1198 of Conveyances, at page 188, and by the College of St. Francis Xavier, by deed dated September 28, 1871, and recorded in the office of the Register of the City and County of New York, in Liber 1184 of Conveyances, at page 539, including engine and boiler, shafting, belting, pulleys and hangers. Subject to mortgage of $200,000 due August 31, 1902, bearing interest at 5 per cent. payable semi-annually on March 1 and September 1.
33WILLIAM FOSTER, Receiver.
35HAVENS & BEEBE,
36Attorneys for Receiver,
3718 Wall street, New York city.
39IT would be well to bear in mind that however full a wareroom may seem room should be made for some of those latest style Needham pianos. They are suitable for the holiday trade.
41UNIVERSITY PLACE below Eleventh street is getting to be pretty far down town for a man to be seen at night, but the neighborhood is made more cheerful this week by the illumination of the Hazelton Brothers factory, where the men are working in some departments up to 9 o'clock to keep up or to catch up with the orders to be finished before Christmas.
43AUGUST GEMÜNDER & SONS are making a specialty of a German violin, which for a commercial article is equal to anything in the market in that line, and they are proving to be instruments of musical worth. The Gemünder art violins (their own make) are of course the choice instruments of this establishment, and no superior among violins of modern make can be found.
45HOLIDAY shoppers are not forgetting those splendid Behr pianos. Reports received from all their agents by Behr Brothers & Co. clearly prove this. The Behr piano is in the swim, as it deserves to be through intrinsic merit, and as it must be through the excellent business policy of the house. That "nothing succeeds like success" is illustrated in the Behr piano.
47NO advance has been announced in the reported rumors that perhaps, maybe, if it could be done, the business of Decker Brothers might be incorporated. This does not necessarily mean that the matter has fallen through, but all parties interested, or reported or rumored or suspected of being interested, are keeping their own counsel, so the public must continue to wait until relieved by a definite story, one way or the other, which may come out before the first of the year or may not, or may never come, and everybody in the piano business is interested to know what young Wm. F. Decker will decide to do.
49MR. L. E. THAYER, of the Fort Wayne Organ Company, passed through New York on Monday last on a short New England trip that will permit of his returning home in time for Christmas. The Packard piano, according to Mr. Thayer, is a substantial success, with which this always conservative company is making steady, sure progress. The piano has kept the factory busy even in the dull months of summer, and as soon as business brightens more and stronger efforts will be made to force it to the fore, an undertaking that should be not difficult, for the very name Packard has been so long and so honorably known in the trade that it is in itself a surety of an article that will amply substantiate all claims made for it.
51WITH one or two exceptional exceptions the retail business in New York city for the week ending December 12 was unusually flat, with hopes of a revival commencing Monday last—the beginning of the last few days before Christmas. The Sunday papers of the 13th announced the Weber auction sale, referred to in another column, and away flew the hopes of the day before. The Weber sale is not an ordinary one, wherein an accumulated stock of undesirable shop worn goods is hustled out of the way, but the catalogue, which will be ready this day, contains brand new goods of all styles and sizes and wood, which everyone—at least the general public—thinks may go at a low price, and nowadays the public does so love a low price that it will wait for the auction, to the dismay of the salesmen working for holiday records.
53Heppe Not Dying.
55C. J. HEPPE, the well-known Philadelphia dealer, was reported in New York Monday night as being in a dying condition.
57The following telegram disproves this rumor:
59PHILADELPHIA, December 18, 1896.
61Editors The Musical Courier:
62C. J. Heppe's condition very much improved to-day. Instead of being in a dying condition yesterday he was sitting up. He will doubtless be out in a few weeks.
64Drastic Copyright Law Passed.
66WASHINGTON, D. C., December 10.
68WITHOUT hesitation and by an overwhelming majority the House passed one of the most drastic copyright laws ever put on the statute books. It came from the Senate, where it was passed in May last, and as the amendments were only verbal it will probably go to the President for his signature.
70It concerns only dramatic and musical compositions, but the provisions of the new law are unusually severe. In the first place it is provided that any person publicly performing or representing without the consent of the author any copyrighted dramatic or musical composition shall be liable for damages of not less than $100 for the first and $50 for every subsequent performance. It is also provided that any performance which is shown to be willful and for profit shall make the person or persons responsible therefor guilty of a misdemeanor, the punishment for which shall be imprisonment for a period of not exceeding one year. There is not even the alternative of a fine, and imprisonment is made the only penalty.
72It is further provided that any injunction granted by a Federal Circuit Court judge shall hold good anywhere within the territory of the United States, and Circuit courts and judges are given special jurisdiction to enforce the injunction or to hear and determine a motion to dissolve it as fully as if the action was pending or brought in the circuit in which the motion is made.
74Every effort made in the House this afternoon to amend the bill in the slightest particular was voted down. Mr. Lacey, of Iowa, proposed an amendment on the theory that when a piece of music or a play was publicly offered for sale the right of representation or performance should be part of the purchase, but this proposition was beaten, as was also another amendment exempting from the severe provisions of the law performances for charitable purposes.
76As the matter now stands, if the new measure goes into effect through the signature of the President a person who should go to a music store in Chicago, buy a copyrighted piece of music, and sing it at a church fair to which an admission was charged would be liable to imprisonment not to exceed one year.
78It is almost an unheard-of thing to make a violation of a copyright or a patent property right a criminal offense, but this is exactly what the House did this afternoon. If a man infringes a patent he is liable to pay damages, but if a man infringes upon a copyright in a musical or dramatic production he is liable to land in jail.
80The curious thing about all this is that no one has to prove originality in the slightest degree to secure a copyright. A man might take a section of the New Testament, put a title page to it, send in $1 to the Librarian of Congress and he would immediately secure an unassailable copyright. In attempting to collect damages for a violation of the same, the court would of course require him to establish the fact that the matter was original, but under this new law the mere fact of the copyright having been granted without the slightest examination or test as to originality gives its owner the privilege of sending to the common jail any man who may willfully perform his dramatic composition.
82It is doubtful if many members of Congress realize the serious character of the law they passed this afternoon. Not a third of the members were in their seats, there was no yeas or nays taken, and on the division the total vote of the House was less than 50. Mr. Lacey promptly made the point of no quorum, but subsequently withdrew it in deference to the little clique of New York members which was interested in the passage of the bill.
84It is believed that when the attention of President Cleveland is called to the provisions of this bill, which was slipped through the House in such a careless manner, he will veto it. Most of the members of Congress are in favor of legislation which will prevent the pirating of plays and songs, but it is doubtful if a legitimate majority could have been obtained for a measure which, like this, not only protects the author in his copyright, but prevents any public performance of a play or song openly sold and which punishes infringement by giving damages to the author and imprisoning the offender.—Chicago Tribune, December 11.
86EXPERIENCED and reliable tuner and repairer desires position at once; A No. 1 work guaranteed. Address Tuner, care of THE MUSICAL COURIER.
88WANTED—Experienced piano tuner desires situation with well-established house in city of at least 75,000 inhabitants. Best credentials as to character and ability. Address "Ability," care of THE MUSICAL COURIER.
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