The record-union., 1895-09-07
THE KIMBALL PIANO FACTORY.
Plant Unequaled in ALI the World BY
Any Other of Its Kind.

A Plant Unequa1ed in All the World by
Any Other of Its Kind.
We live In an age of great commercial,
manufacturing and building enterprises.
The man with new ideas, new inven-
tons and vast capital comes TO the front
and demands recognition as a competitor
in his line, but il is always denied him by
all predecessors in the same business,
and not until the man of progress has LETT
the old one far behind and the intelligent,
progressive age recognizes and acknowl-
edges his productions not only equal, but
vastly superior, will the old fellow admit
that they are worthy of even favorable
mention.
There is probably no grander illustra-
ton of the above on record than in the
case OF the Kimball piano and organ fac
tories in Chicago. Whom the kImball
Company began building large piano
factory seven years ago, the old piano
| makers in the last laughed 10 themselves
and hooted the idea of a Western made
piano ever having any general acceptance
with the American musical public; and
they talked of the great failure they
would see the Kiinba Company make
in their attempt to make pianos. Their
first pianos were put on the market in Sep
tember, 'SS. They mot with immediate
and great favor among the music trade
every where, and in less than Two years
Eastern manufacturers began TO realize
that the kimball piano had captured
much of their business. They saw the
UNQUALIFIED Endorsement of the music
profession, including testimonials from
the most eminent and celebrated musi-
clans in all the world. and when at the
Worlds Fair in Chicago the Kimball
Company carried off more high honors
than any other piano and organ makers,
the old men stood aghast at what the new
man had done.
Year after year the kimball Company
have been forced to build additional fac
tories IN order to supply the rapidly in
creasing demand for their instruments.
The dealers everywhere want them; the
leading pianists OF America are playing
them in grand concert in the great musi-
cal centers, such as New ork, Brook klyn,
Washington, Chicago, ETC., and the popu-
larity of the piano Is without parallel in
piano history.
The factory and lumDer-houses cover
eight acres of land in the heart OF the city,
accessible by rail and water. There are
forty-nine hundred pianos in course of
construction at the factory at this time.
The daily output is thirty pianos of most
elegant designs and finish and sixty reed
organs, to say nothing OF the porta bic
and stationary pipe organs for parlors,
churches, music halls, etc. The kimbal
pipe organs Iuo6t Will tuiIU0DS6 ldNOr De-
cause of their valuable Improvements
superior qualities and very reasonable
prices.
Notwithstanding this phenomenal pro-
duc;ion, the factory is to-day over four
hundred pianos behind orders, and this,
in the face of the fact that many others are
either shut down or running on half-time
with little demand for their INSTRUMENTS
speaks in unmistakable terms for the
excellence and popularity OF the Kimball
goods.
The great sale of kimball pianos and
organs at $50 j street began yesterday
morning. and will last only few days,
bout four carloads of new and elegant
instruments will be sold at factory
prices.
NATIVE Sons and Daughters, you are
cordially invited and thrice welcomed to
spend few leisure minutes viewing our
display ofa first-class market. Christian
son & Co, Seventh and j.
ANDERSON IL JOHNSON, the leading
taiors OF town, never made poor suit.
They are now offering bargains, too.
BE sure and get your shady seats in the