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DOMESTIC
VOL. IV.
-A.3STD E X P O R T
NEW YOEK, JULY 5TH, 1881.
TRADE.
No. 11.
other Waite-Burdett suits; and that our company was organized here, I joining
here, coming from New York, my former residence, in organizing with other gen-
tlemen an entirely new company, having no pecuniary connection with R. Bur-
dett
& Co., of Chicago ; and that E. Burdett came here and joined us in organi-
HEN we published in our last issue (June 20th) an article entitled
the Burdett Organ Company, limited, of Erie, Pa.,"purchasing a certain pecu-
" The Act of a Desperate Man," we knew that it would have an effect zing
its capital stock; and that our only interest as to the Waite-
even on the thick hide of the Hon.! D. F., but we did not suppose that he niary interest in
suits, etc., is in seeing that right, whatever that may bo, or who-
wauld have sense enough to see that his situation was untenable, and to Burdett-Estey
ever it may affect, may be their ultimate result.
give it up within a few days after the publication of the article aforesaid:
Very truly yours,
"Yet," strange to say this has been the case, and D. F. Beatty has issued a
C. C. CONVERSE.
circular to the public in which he states, over his own signature, in regard
The Burdett Organ Company, limited, of Erie, Pa.
to the organ which he was advertising at $60:
" The price was originally made at $60 simply as an advertisement, it being
Albert Porter and wife, of Newark, N. J., musical instruments, have
LESS THAN COST TO MANUFACTURE."
executed a realty mortgage for $300.
This is a full and complete acknowledgment of the statement we made in
A judgment for $1,888, has been entered against Holmes & Passage,
our article of June 20th, in which we said:
'' The very fact that Mr. Beatty offers to sell an elaborately encased dealers in Pianos and Melodeons, of Towanda, Penn.
organ having twenty-seven stops and ten full sets of reeds, with stool, etc.,
Beatty's last effort is an advertisement in the New York Times recently,
etc., thrown in, for $60, is upon the face of it complete evidence of charla-
an organ with 22 stops and 14 octaves reeds for $55. This offer is
tanry, and we have not the slightest idea that he makes such an organ for offering
presumably also made for advertising purposes and will probably be follow-
such a price, or anvthing like it."
ed by another circular stating that it is less than the cost of manufacture.
It is not possible for any sane man to doubt after the perusal of such Would it not be well for the Hon.! D. F. to find out what the cost of manu-
evidence as the above statements afford, that the man is a fraud, for he open- facture is before rushing into print. It looks very much as if he did not know
ly avows it over his own name, acknowledging that his great offer was simply what it costs to make organs, in which case it might be as well for him to
a snide advertising dodge, f
add to all his advertisements the following: " To be followed by a circular
Can any paper having claims to respectability, offer to its constituents, regulating the price as soon as cost of manufacture is ascertained."
through its advertising columns, or in any other way, after this, the goods
Within the past year two directors of the Celluloid Piano Key Com-
of a man who stands openly confessed, over his own signature, a fraud ? It
would have been more sensible, as well as more graceful in the Hon.! D. F., pany, of New York city, have been carried off by death. They were Mr.
as he might have known from what we have said concerning him in the MUSIC- Isaac Crondall and Mr. Abraham Longbottom.
AL CRITIC & TRADE REVIEW, that we had" a rod in the pickle "for him, when-
William Tonk has taken quarters at 47 Maiden Lane, New York
ever he might need it, if he had imitated the conduct of Col. Scott's tradi- city, Mr.
where he acts as an agent for the Bauer piano, Max Tonk's Music
tional coon, and said some time ago: "Don't shoot Colonel, I'll come down." Stools,
and also carries a stock of general musical merchandise.
By doing so he might have saved himself the disgrace of an open confession,
though we doubt if his refraining from this fraudulent advertisement, would
The old story: About this time of the year look out for the customary
have put his bogus stop organ business upon a better footing. As we said rumors, that a well-known and long established piano house is about to
in our last issue, " only give him rope enough, and he is sure to hang him- break up. We hardly think there is any truth in the rumors, for one of the
self," and his last desperate flounder shows that he not only has rope enough, wealthiest men in the piano trade controls the affairs of this firm, and, un-
but is fast becoming entangled in it.
less it is to his interest to wreck it, he will not let it go by the board; and
We also stated in the article referred to above '' that where an individual this, in spite of the fact that when this firm sells a cheap piano in place of
does business on the plan of giving a customer a great deal more than his its own make, it does not tout for its wealthy guardian's instrument, but
money is worth, the individual is either a fraud or a fool;" now Daniel F. recommends those of another manufacturer.
Beatty has long been secretly annoyed by the belief that those who know
Messrs. Steinway & Sons of this city, are fitting up a handsome parlor
him well consider him a good deal of a fool, and in endeavoring to correct furnished
with carpet to resemble a parlor in a private house, where a lady
this impression, he rushes into print with a circular which proves him to be may try a piano
and judge of its quality of tone under the same conditions
both a fool and a fraud.
as if it were in her own house.
There was a man in Washington
A mortgagee's sale of felt making machinery, belonging to L. Gueutal,
And he was wondrous Wise
took place on June 28th in 22d street. The sale was made to satisfy a judg-
He jumped into a bramble bush and scratched out both his eyes.
We give below the text of the D. F.'s proclamation which is issued in ment for $654. Poor Gueutal!
the form of a circular and annexed to his fraudulent "Beethoven" Organ
The Dunham Pianoforte Manufactory, at 155th street and Fourth
advertisement. It seems almost impossible that any sane man could be avenue, this city, is closed for the present from unknown causes, probably,
guilty of so deliberately writing himself down a knave, still we have no labor disputes.
reason to doubt the genuineness of the circular.
Messrs. Crane & Chapuis of 13 University place, this city, the well-
known felt manufacturers, report an active business during the past season.
IMPORTANT!—TAKE NOTICE.
These goods are meeting with sufficient favor to warrant an extension of
On and after July 1st, the price of this Beautiful Organ will be $90. their manufacturing facilities, but they are a conservative firm and do not
The price was originally made at $60, simply as an advertisement, it being consider that the time is ripe yet for such a step.
less than cost to manufacture. It is now put at $90, at which price it pays but
a small profit. Orders have come in at the rate of 50 to 75 a day, and we are
A NATIONAL BANKRUPT LAW.
working over time to fill orders. The price will positively be $90 on and after
July 1st, 1881. All who wish to secure it at $60 must'order at once. Any A LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE
onefamilar with Organs knows that THIS ORGAN CANNOT BE BUILT FOR $60.
JUDICIARY.
Very truly yours,
DANIEL F. BEATTY.
HpHE
Hon.
John
J.
Ingalls,
Chairman
of the Sub-Committee of the Com-
One important question in this connection is, Has Beatty ever made a
JL mittee on the Judiciary, recently addressed the following letter to the
single organ in the style advertised as the " Beethoven " to be sold at $60, editor
of the MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW :
even before July 1st ? It is possible that he has made a few, say fifty, just
to cover himself in case of attack. But if he has made only a few, what is he
U. S. SENATE, WASHINGTON, D. C.
giving in return for the large sums of money that must have been sent him
Sir:—The Senate has authorized its Committee on the Judiciary to sit
on the strength of this fraudulent advertisement ? He must have some
thousands of dollars in his keeping, on the strength of this advertisement during the recess of Congress for the purpose of considering the question of
alone, in which case we do not wonder at his frequent boast of the tremen- establishing uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcy throughout the
dous balance he carries at the Washington (N. J.) bank. Any man could United States.
To aid them in their report to the Senate, the Committee desire to ascer-
do as much with money obtained in such a manner.
Would it not be well for the United States Post Office officials to look tain whether, in the opinion of those most interested and most competent to
judge, the commerce and business of the country require the early enact-
into thisBeatty matter?
ment of a permanent national Bankrupt Act.
In any measure that may be adopted hereafter, as compared with the
R. BURDETT AND THE BURDETT ORGAN COMPANY.
law of 1867:
In connection with the Burdett-Waite matters, Mr. C. C. Converse, of
1. Should the officers be compensated by fixed salaries, or by fees?
the Burdett Organ Co., has written us the following letter:—
2. Should the powers of Registers be increased or diminished?
3. Should the amount of indebtedness authorizing the filing of a petition
OFFICES OF THE BURDETT ORGAN COMPANY,
in voluntary bankruptcy exceed three hundred dollars?
EBIE, PA., 1881.
C. A.WELLES, ESQ., N. Y.:
4. Should composition settlements be continued?
Dear Sir:—In your further history of B. Burdett and Waite matters, please
5. Should the discretionary powers of the Court relative to the granting
state that neither our company as such, nor any of its members, excepting E. of discharges be enlarged?
Burdett, has any pecuniary interest whatever in the Burdett-Estey or any
Your views upon these points, together with practical suggestions upon
ACKNOWLEDGING THE CORN.
THE DESPEBATE MAN'S LATEST ACT.—HE CONFESSES HIMSELF A FRAUD.
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