Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-17
Chicago Journal.
w. w. Kimball's Crest Piano
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w. w. Kimball's Crest Piano
House.
Fifteen years ago the piano trade 81
Chicago was nothing to speak Of.
Two or three small retail stores sold
pianos to citizens, and it was no uncons-r
mon circumstance for the purchaser to
| wait till the instrument could be order
ed from the Eastern manufacturer.
There were no palatial piano stores car
ryinS hundreds of pianos in stock at
that time The little handful Of wears
intervening has worked out its mira
| cles and marvels, and little, unpretend-
irg shops have deem touched with the
magic wand Of the enchantress and
transformed into elittering palaces.
Fifteen years ago, W. W. kimall.
the pioneer piano dealer of Chicago,
occupied small store. III the Harmon
Block. A little later he moved into
better quarters, occupying one-half' Of
narrow store on Lake street. The
other half WIS occupied by we'll
known jewelry house. In the coarse Of
few years Mr. kimball took POSSESS
ion of an elegant and capacious sales
room in Crosby's Opera House, where
lis business extended until it reached
enormous proportions. The great Are
did not spare him, but it taught Inn
how to bring dormant faculties into
play and to surmoant obstacles appear
entity insurmountab To coin word,
he Phenixed. In few weeks he was
re-establislf5d on Wabash avenue with
a very large stock Of pianos. His sales
since the fire exceed million of dollars.
Vow he has moved into perfect pal
ace on State street, corner Of Adams,
a mamoth marble building FIVE octaves
high. His salesroom has a frontage OK
seveny-fve feet on State stretches.
l05-7-9-and ever so many On Adams
street. Scores of pianos and organs
are here displayed, while in floors
above hundreds are stored, ready for
shipment to the trade all over the West.
Mr. Kinlball's specialities are the
Hallet, Davis & Co., the Union and
the Kimball pianos. and Smith Amer
lean organs. The Hailet, Davis & Co.
pianos are known all over the world,
and have been pronounced superior to
all others, by some Of the most cele-
bratea musicians living. The new Or
chestral grand of this make has created
a .furore among pianists, the like Of
which has never been known While all
Of the varieties produced ~ The man.
ufacturers are vastly popular with the
musical public. Durability, beauty
and a tone, combining, to remarkable
degree, the rare qualities of strength
and sweetness, are the marked charac-'
teristics Of Hallet, Davis & Co.. s pie
amos.
Smiths American organs are greatly
admired everywhere. No richer-yoic-
ed instrument exists, and the sales
reach an enormous figure.
Messrs Philleo & Co., are agents for
the instruments mentioned, as they arc
also, for the Schumacher Piano. Call
and see them.
The Northeastern says that on
Friday last, some of Seth Green's men
under directions from the government,
deposited in the lower Fox river, just
above the dams at Appleton, fifty
thousand shad and four thousand eels}
The slad were only four days old; and
about as large as pin-heads. The cells
were about two inches in length. The
fish were brought direct from Seth
Green's breeding pond in New York,
in fifteen tin cans. Iii expected that
these young shad will work up stream
and eventually stock Lake Winnebago.
"A teaspoonful of liquid ammonia
In one gallon warm water will often re-
store the color of carpets, even if pro-
duced by acid or alkali. Ii ceiling has
been whitewashed with carpet down,
and few drops are visible, this will re-
move it. Or, after the carpet is we'll
beaten and brushed, scour with OK gall,
which will not only extract grease but
fieshen the colors-1 pint Of gall in 3
gallons warm water will do large carr
pet Table foor-ctoths may be thus
washed. The suds left from wash,
where ammonia is used, even if almost
cold, clcanses these new floor cloths
we'll