pianos, with great success." Lindeman & Sons had come under the control of Wanamaker's department store, which also owned controlling interests in piano manufacturers Schomacker of Philadelphia and Emerson of Boston, and held agencies for American Piano Company brands including Chickering & Sons and Wm. Knabe & Co. Lindeman & Sons was located at 461 West 40th street and its directors were James B. Woodford, Everard F. Tibbot, and Paul V. Bunn. Wanamaker's Henry & S. G. Lindeman went bankrupt in 1914. The Piano Magazine reported it was "said that their failure was due to investments in the retail business preceding the continued tightness in the money market." A petition for bankruptcy was filed soon afterwards against the company's affiliate Jameson-Allen Piano Company of Philadelphia, while the Melodigrand trademark was taken over by Long in exchange for relinquishing part of his claims against the estate. J. & C. Fischer also purchased a patent subject to a suit that they claimed infringed a patent held by them. An auction was announced for late November to sell the stock in trade and goodwill and use of the name Henry & S. G. Lindeman and all of the firm's assets were sold for $27,000 to George W. Gittens, president of piano manufacturer Kohler & Cambell, Inc., of New York. Gittens immediately sold the property to the Lindeman & Sons Piano Company, then still controlled by Wanamaker's—a reversal of fortunes according to an article in The Piano Magazine and Music Industry which reported that in better times Henry & S. G. Lindeman had seriously considered purchasing Lindeman & Sons. The article also reported that Henry Lindeman apparently would be employed indefinitely by the new owners. The Frank B. Long Melodigrand Company discontinued in late 1915 or early 1916 when Long removed to Sacramento, and his entire Los Angeles stock, including Melodigrand and Frank B. Long pianos, was purchased by the Zellner Piano Co., of Los Angeles. L. W. P. Norris retired as vice president from Lindeman & Sons in 1916. Jefferson Piano Company, Melodigrand Co. Within three months of the failure Henry and Samuel G. Lindeman were reported to have organized the Jefferson Piano Company, of New York, and to have leased space in part of their old factory to manufacture pianos. By 1917, however, along with Gillis R. Lindeman they controlled the Melodigrand Co., of New York. The 1918-1919 Trow New York Copartnership