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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
will, in all probability, take legal steps to avoid a by taking the adjoining rooms, No. 7 West Four-
teenth Street. No larger stock of organs can be
repetition of the infliction of this kind of literature,
if the terrible abuse of the English language as pre- seen in any other warerooms in this city. Messrs.
sented In that circular can even sarcastically be McEwen & Co. have six salesmen on the floor."
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termed literature.
"If Mr. Hammond has anything to say against Mr.
"Mr.
McEwen
is
a
gentleman."
M E R C E N A R Y MARC.
Carpenter, he should make specific and detailed
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FOR several weeks past, MARC A. BLUMENBERG,one charges, and if he cannot make them he should hold
" Mr. McEwen never did and never could have
his peace.
uttered such sentiments."
of the editors of the unsavory little paper styled the
"Mr. Carpenter's friends have implicit confidence in
his
assertions
and
statements.
When
he
first
ar-
Now that MR. MCEWEN does not advertize with
Muxical Courier, has amused himself by writing little
ranged matters with Hammond he was a mere boy,
MARC,
he is a very bad man.
squibs in an underhanded way, regarding the stand- not an old, experienced business man; he is still
a
young,
very
young
man,
and
it
cannot
be
presumed
Next
we have the firm of HAINES it Co., who do
ing of the Music TRADE REVIEW, and reflecting upon
that under the keen and lynx-eyed observation of the
not
advertise
in the Courier. They also control the
astute
A.
H.
Hammond,
he
could
carry
on
a
system
the reputation of the people connected with it. MARC
of business that would injure Hammond, and at the DUNHAM piano, and sell GROVESTEEN & FULLER
ANTHONY, has not the courage or gentlemanly instinct same time escape detection.
pianos, both of which are not represented In that
to come out in a straightforward way, and state about
" No, no ; it will never do.
" Differences between business men are usually set- paper.
whom ho is writing. We have refrained from tled
in courts, or by arbitration, and the testimony
WESER BROTHERS are another firm which BLUMEN-
publicly noticing these unmanly attacks, as newspa- in such cases is credited ; but simple, broad charges,
under the influence of disappointment, chagrin BERG has hauled over the coals, when they refused
per fights are not creditable at any time. However, made
and excitement, and replete with venom, malice,
to pay for their advertisement after it was ordered
these attacks have lately become so pertinent that it poor English, and vulgarity, cannot stand.
"Mr. Carpenter, as the saying is, is 'all right.' out.
becomes our duty to once for all show up the charac- The
Carpenter organs are also 'all right.' Address,
SWICK & Co. are the next on our list. Soon after
ter of this editor of the Musical Courier in its true Foxcroft, Me."
light.
Bear in mind the above was published when MR. they started to manufacture pianos, MR. SWICK in-
Let us start by giving some of the firms in our CARPENTER'S advertisement was in MARC'S paper. forms us that he received a visit from one of the
minds upon whom BLUMENBERG has heaped all man- The following, in his own handwriting, which we Courier's representatives, soliciting their patronage.
ner of abuse, and then we will try to show his rea- have in our possession, was also written when he This was refused, and then the attacks commenced.
TflE FREE LfflTCE.
sons for so doing. They are as follows :
E. P. Carpenter,
.
.
Brattleboro, Vt.
E. H. McEwen,
.
.
.
New York.
Haines & Co.,
.
.
.
.
Weser Bros.,
«<
was friendly with MR. CARPENTER.
" NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 1884.
" FRIEND CARPENTER :
'' Please send me a letter to this effect: That I never
bought an organ from you in my life, and that I
never sold an organ for you in my life; that you
never paid me a commission, and that we never had
S w i c k & C o . ,
.
.
.
.
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commercial transaction. That the only transac-
Vose & Sons,
.
.
.
Boston, Mass. a tions
we ever had, were for advertising in a direct
manner—so much advertising for so much money.
Geo. W. Carter, of Grovesteen & Fuller
"You know the organ business was made with
Piano Co..
.
.
New York. Welles, not with me. As this is all so, you can at
once
send me the letter. It has been said to certain
There are many others whom we could add to the
firms that I used to sell organs for you; therefore, I
list, but these are more than enough for us to clearly want the letter.
" I see some of the papers are again going for you.
prove this Editor's motives.
Send me the latest trade note for next issue, and see
Not one of the above named parties advertise in the account is fixed up.
the Musical Courier. Strange, but true. Now we
" Yours,
" BLUMENBERG."
will take the list in order, and go through with them,
showing the treatment that they have received, and
In regard to the above letter, let us say right
leave our readers to form their own conclusions.
here, that if MR CARPENTER had complied with the
MR. CARPENTER at one time was an extensive adver- requests of MARC ANTHONY he would have been
tiser with MARC, and the following is what appeared committing a falsehood. MR. CARPENTER had a
in his paper March 21, 1883, at the time the adver- standing advertisement in the MTJSIC TRADE R E -
tisement was running:
VIEW, for which he paid cash. As our MR. BILL
" Trade opened up since the first week in March
with the brightest kind of prospects with E. P. Car-
penter, of Worcester. We looked through his order
book on March 17th, and added up the number of or-
ders received from the 5th to the 17th, and they
amounted to 374 organs, and twenty for foreign ship-
ment, making a total of 394 organs ordered. This
means business.
" The ' Expression indicator' has been a great suc-
cess. As a guide in the use of the pump-pedal and
the swells, it has a great advantage, especially for
persons inexperienced in the use of the reed organ.
"The attachment is comparatively simple, consist-
ing of a graduated dial, provided with the dynamic
terms and signs used on sheet music, to guide the
player in the proper expression of the composition
that is played. Two index hands, connected and
operated by the wind pressure, Indicate the exact
condition at every moment.
"Mr.Carpenter has made many sales on the strength
of the " Expression Indicator," and there is no doubt
that this attachment helps the dealer to make sales."
Here is another article, printed September 5, 1883,
in which MARC says MR. CARPENTER and the organ
he makes is all right:
"The friends and patrons of Mr. E. P. Carpenter,
formerly of Worcester, Mass., will be pleased to
know that he has completed arrangements to con-
tinue the manufacture of organs at Foxcroft, Me. A
stock company has been formed, known as the E. P.
Carpenter Organ Company, which will manufacture
the "Carpenter" organ in the future. There is not
the slightest doubt that the organ, which has be-
come very popular, will be ordered in large quanti-
ties by the dealers and agents Mr. Carpenter has been
successful in securing during his stay in Worcester.
"And now, as to Mr. A. H. Hammond's savage circu-
lar mailed from Worcester last week. Mr. Hammond
has lost his temper, and, like other persons in the
same condition, lost his judgment. Calling Mr. Car-
penter vulgar names, does not disprove anything.
In fact, the last circular we refer to, has aroused the
sympathy of many persons in favor of Mr. Carpen-
ter, as there is not one specific charge made, and an
abundance of mud-throwing indulged in by Mr. Ham-
mond. The circular is not alone vulgar and inde-
cent, but libelous in the extreme, and Mr. Carpenter
and BLUMENBERG had expressed a desire to pur-
VOSE & SONS at one time paid BLUMENBERG con-
siderable money for a good-sized advertisement, and
during that time was constantly receiving such
squibs as this:
"Vose & Sons, Boston, are continuing manufac-
turing on the same large scale as before and during
the holidays. The factory is running on full time."
Now comes MR. GEO. W. CARTER, who has been
the means of furnishing BLUMENBERG with more
ready cash than any of the others; yet, now that he
has shut off, is abused beyond measure. When MR.
CARTER was connected with the EMERSON PIANO
Co., he was the means of BLUMENBERG receiving the
same advertisement of the company that he now
carries, and then he was a glorious fellow, judging
from the tone of many notices he received after the
style of the following:
"Mr. George W. Carter and Mr. P. H. Powers are
the kind of men that push the piano business ahead."
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" Mr. Carter is a bright man, full of vigor, and
commanding a business power gained by long experi-
ence, which is undoubtedly of value to him or to
whoever he may in the near future associate with."
chase an organ, an arrangement was made for a cer-
BLUMENBERG pretended to be an excellent friend
tain amount of extra advertising for two organs. of CARTER'S until he was publicly told by M». CAR-
One MR. BILL sent to his home, in Lyme, Conn., TER that he had no use for him or his paper. Then,
and the other MARC sent to his mother, in Balti- of course, the tirade began.
more, Md., and paid for same. If any one doubts
We could go on for weeks and show up BLUMEN-
the above statement, we are ready at any time to BERG'S efforts to obtain money in this way, but this
prove it, and show the charge on our ledger.
is enough, and having a great deal to say in another
Now comes the point. In a recent issue, MARC direction, will make a change.
The firms which we have above mentioned.with one
states that the CARPENTER organ is a cheap and
comparatively worthless instrument. If this is true, exception, MARC charges as doing a stencil business,
what kind of a human being must BLUMENBERG be and therefore must be condemned by him. If he is
sincere in his efforts to stop the stencilling of pianos,
to palm it off on his own mother.
About the time MARC wrote the above letter, MR. why does he not say something about the fifteen
CARPENTER became convinced of the unsavory char- firms who do a large stencil business, but at the
acter of the Courier, and ordered the advertisement same time advertise with him. Can any of our read-
out; yet it was kept in, and efforts made to collect ers fail to "catch on " to this point?
Several months ago, when BLUMENBERO was red-
for same by writing letters with insinuations, as
hot on the stencil racket, a prominent dealer in one
follows:
of the Connecticut towns wrote him a letter, stating
" It will be to your interest to continue the above
that as he was so anxious to expose the stencil
advertisement in the ' Courier. 1 "
The italics are his, and not ours. Well, enough system, would he not please look into the matter of
about MR. CARPENTER, and we will take up the next a prominent Fifth Avenue firm, and see if they were
not making a piano and putting a Brooklyn dealer's
on the list.
MR. E. H. MCEWEN once upon a time advertised name on It. BLUMENBERG took no notice of this
largelj in the Courier, and during that period, when letter until some time after it was written—until the
MARC was short of funds, he would often go to time of the car strikes here in the city. Then he
MCEWEN for a loan, which would be almost invari- thought he had a good excuse, and wrote the dealer
ably returned by extras. During the time that MR. that communication was blocked between New York
MOEWEN'S advertisement was In the Courier, we find and Brooklyn, but as soon as traffic was restored
again he would look into the case. It is now about
such puffs as these:
four months since "traffic has been restored," but
"The Sterling Organ Company, E. H. McEwen &
Co., managers, have enlarged their wareroom space the dealer has heard nothing from BLUMENBEBG,