Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-14

Beatty's Bubble BurSts-ihousands Of
Creditors All Over the Country.
No Money, No Organs, No Pianos-A
Temporary Settlement Effected.
The Beatty Organ No Longer in the
Field-Notice TO The L. >. Post
Office Authorities.


eral months past that Daniel +.
Beatty, the manufacturer OF organs, in
| Washington. \ j., was i'm financial
straits; that he was asking his credit
ors for SO, cial accommodations; that
he WAS unable 20 pay his workmen
promptly-in fact, that he wa5 on the
eve of "a financial collapse. We never
print rumors, and although we were
convinced that sooner or later Beatt
would be obliged to stop we deferred
any mention of these reports, prefer
ring to furnish our readers with sub
stantaI facts about Beatty's contempt
ihle ~ stem and the complaints OF his
victims
During last week the first indica-
iions of trouble We're made public by
the protest of Beatty note of 1900.
rapid Y followed by oIh,r protests, and
nn Sunday the New York TiuIe5 pub
iished the following item:
DANIEL I BEATTY's CREDITORS.
The creditors OF Daniel +. Beatty.
manufacturer of organs, have granted
him an extension 1t is the impress
sion that the liabilities will reach
Sl75, $50; about - 600 have matureh
and been protested, ami iucom NJ
before he, can effect settlement.
Nearly all his creditors Ia any amount
are at Washington, and ON Friday
were accepting - per cent and renew
| ing nt two aud four months for the
balance with the understanding thst
he pays % per cent. as II becomes due
anu renews until the same is paid II
any refuse this offer or bring suit, he
will prefer or secure those who thus
favor him. 1t is expected that all
creditors will grant the extension, n
they wish him to continue. aud say
they will aid INN all they can.
This report Is only partly correct
The creditors that assembled in Wash
ingtou represented chiefly the advrr-
Using agents who helped Beatty To he
come notorious and all OF whom have
made small fortunes out of him. In
fact they received nearly all the money
he collected from the thousands of far
mers country merchants, preachers.
widows, orphans and ely fools.
These advertising agents met and
decide d to help him out, in hope that
his business would continue to net
Them u large sum In the future. In
this they will find Themselves mista-
ken. Beatty credit is gone; he will
NV WI w d'i' ~ up
number of organs again: the firms that
have sold him supplies, and some ot
which ave heavy losers nov, will sell
TO nm for cash only. Beatty has no
bulls receivable and no cash to buy
with. He Will he able to make few
organs and now and then catch a be-
GIFTED individual, but his game"
cannot he repeated.
The Mus ical Courier which has eX-
posed his rotten system for nearly six
months, and which has been circula-
ted 10y The thousands aud tens of thou
; sands all over this country, will con-
linue its work and prevent Il recur-
renee of such practices
Right here / Is apropos TO say Il few
worus to the trade. While the great
majority of manufacturers, agents and
dealers have seconded MS in our Efforts
against Beatty with all their strength.
a limited number have expressed
themselves in peculiar terms about
our course. Some asserted that we
were advertising Beatty. What say
they now? Some said our exposures
Were benefiting him. What say they
nov? AS To the despicable remark
made by one house, that we were in
BeaIty's pay, we will only answer
nnw, that that firm was Judging us
from liz own point of view. Al the
proper time It's name will disappear
f. m the horizon of the music trade
rs sure ~ Beatty's will.
The factory is closed; no organs are
shipped, although money is still com
ing in for organs, sent by idiots who
believe in his advertisements. Who
gets possession of This money? 1t does
not belong to Daniel f Beatty. If he
accepts 10 now he comm fraud, as
he is positively unable 10 " when he
can ship organs ordered now.
We call the special attention of the
postal authorities 10 IN fact. Have
the mails closed AT once against him
He has until now received thousands
OF dollars from persons all over the
country, representing himself as u sue
ctsstul manuiacturer aud owner of the
largest organ factory on the globe. and
under the pretense OF being RESPONSE.
BILE, has duped thousands, while he
| was NJ the same time bankrupt, not
worth dollar, Notwithstanding the
commercial agencies quoted him us
worth 100000. Again, we repeat, the
hist step now To he taken IL to ciose
the mails against him aud protect the
people that ARE blindly sending him
their good cash. All our efforts Will
now be In that direction. We ask deal
ers and agents to have this article re-
printed Ia their local papers, thus no.
flying the public OF the event. Have
all or part Of II reprinted In your local
paper. twill prevent many persons
from sending money TO Washinuton