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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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All that Mrs. McEwen asks is that the creditors will
be reasonably lenient in regard to time. This conces-
sion made, she will, she asserts, certainly pay them in
full. As matters now stand it does not seem that any
other method of payment could be suggested, or, at any
rate, enforced.
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WE have been unable to obtain a complete list of
creditors and the amounts due them, but will endeavor
to print such a list in our next issue. Upon personal
lists published in certain
OR ti}8 cause tfeat lacks assistauce,
For li)8 wroag that needs
For % future m 11$ distance, '''
The C. C. McEwen Co. was formed on the 29th Aug.
uit., under the laws of the State of New York. The
majority of the stock is held by Mrs. McEwen.
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FACTS AND FIGURES VERSUS VAPOR-
INGS.
FORWARD!
IN another column will be found letters from firms
connected with the music trade who have, since our
last issue, notified us of their approval of our efforts to
form a Protective Union of the Piano and Organ
Makers of America.
The piano and organ makers who have now made
public their desire to assist in founding such a union as
we have advocated are both numerous and influential.
The time for calling a preliminary meeting of repre-
sentatives of these firms has arrived. We have issued
invitations to such a gathering, which will be held at
Clarendon Hal!, 114 to 118 East 13th street, New York
City, on the 17th inst., afternoon and evening, commenc-
ing at 2 p. m.
We respectfully call upon our friends to fulfill their
engagements, and to appear at the above named ren-
dezvous punctually and in full force.
It now remains for those who have of their own free
will become parties to this important movement to
take such steps as shall result in the firm establishment
of an organization potent to exterminate certain evils
wherewith the music trade of this country is now sore-
ly afflicted.
Come then, friends, from the East, the West, the
North, and the South !
" There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."
The tide is now at the flood. Seize the golden op-
portunity, and glorious will be the result !
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THE McEWEN FAILURE.
THE following is the most reliable statement that
can at present be obtained in regard to the failure of
C. C. McEwen, notice of which was received on August
21st ult.
C. C. McEwen confessed judgment to his mother for
$27,914.43. The business was closed up by the sheriff.
At the sheriff's sale Mrs. McEwen's brother-in-law pur-
chased for her everything that was purchasable. Mrs.
McEwen states that she will pay every creditor in full,
in accordance with the following proposition, viz.: 25c.
on the dollar in cash in three weeks from the present
time, another payment in six months after the first,
and then quarterly payments until the indebtedness
ceases altogether.
The amount of the second and subsequent payments
will depend to some extent upon the mea'sure of success
which may attend the efforts to collect outstanding
bills and money due on leases, etc., but Mrs. McEwen
states that in any case the entire indebtedness will be
paid off within eighteen months.
THE question of circulation has of late received some
attention on the part of music trade editors. Within
the last few days the editor of a music trade paper
has dealt with this subject in a very lofty, though
extremely misleading and unsatisfactory manner. We
had made him a fair and honorable offer, acceptance of
which would have led to a speedy and decisive solution
of the question so far as he was concerned. The offer
will be in the recollection of our readers.
Now, we believe that the editor to whom we allude has
never been known to refuse to make money for himself.
We gave him ample opportunity—always premising
that his claim as to the circulation of his paper was an
honest one—to make just such a sum of money as he
might choose to^ name. He has failed to make the
slightest attempt to secure this money. Instead, he
has sought refuge in a great deal of irrelevant rhetoric,
and in puny and puerile puns upon the names of com-
petitors which no decent or self-respecting school-boy
would condescend to perpetrate. The inference to be
drawn from this wretched, shilly-shallying procedure is
obvious.
On the question at issue we deem it proper to pre-
sent to the trade, and to the proprietors of other music
trade journals, a few statistical facts.
During the week beginning August 20th, the pro-
prietors of THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW distributed,
through the post-office of New York city, nearly 6,000
copies of their publication. We are ready to produce,
in proof of this statement, binders' accounts and post-
office receipts. This number of copies distributed does
not include our circulation in New York city, which
circulation is of itself very large. It is also exclusive
of orders (the receipt of which we are perfectly willing
to verify) varying in number from 25 to several hun-
dred. Can such a statement of dona fide circulation be
truthfully made by the conductors of any other music
trade paper in this country ?
It will not do for our esteemed contemporary to
shuffle out of his difficulty by suggesting some other
test. That is a species of tactics that might be indulged
in forever without satisfactory result. The trade will
agree with us that our challenge, made four weeks ago
and repeated two weeks ago, was a " fair and manly "
one. Our esteemed contemporary has failed to take
up the gajuntlet, when by taking it up he might, if his
assertions are correct, have added a goodly sum to
his banking account. Such failure, as we have said,
admits of but one interpretation. Now let him give
figures and facts in regard to his circulation, as we
have here given them in regard to ours. Should#he
also fail in this, the umpire—/. e., the music trade—
will conclude that he has retired from the field in dis-
order, not to say in disgrace.
UNION !
STILL THEY COME.
FOLLOWING is a list (to date) of voluntary adherents
of the movement set on foot by THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW with the object of establishing a Protective
Union of Amerian Organ and Piano Makers:
Aeolian Organ & Music Co.,
New York City.
Baus & Co.,
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JSehning & Son,
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jhr Bros. & Co.,
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[ardman & Gray
Albany, N. Y.
'•rnhoeft & GoHnik,
New York City.
Boston Piano Co.,
Boston, Mass.
Bourne & Son,
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Burdett Organ Co.,
Erie, Pa.
Bronson, Homer D. Co
Beacon Falls, Conn.
Bridgeport Organ Co.,
Bridgeport, Conn.
Buffalo Piano Mfg. Co
Buffalo, N. Y.
Carpenter, E. P. Co.,
Brattleboro, Vt.
Chase, A. B. Co.,
Norwalk, Ohio.
Chickering, S. G. & Co
Boston, Mass.
Colby Piano Co
Erie, Pa.
Connor, F
New York City.
Conover Bros. Co
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Decker & Son
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Dolge, Alfred,
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Dunham Piano Co., .
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Dusinberre & Co,
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Dyer & Hughes,
Foxcroit, Me.
Estey Piano Co.,
New York City.
Ferris & Rand,
Galesburg, 111.
Guild Piano Mfg. Co.,
Boston, Mass.
Haines Bros
New York City.
Hallett & Davis,
Boston, Mass.
Hastings & Winslow,
Montclair, N. J.
* Hazelton Bros
New York City.
Henning, C. H
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Ivers & Pond
Boston, Mass.
James & Holstrom,
New York City.
Jewett, W. H. & Co
Leominster, Mass.
Keller Piano Co
Bridgeport, Conn.
Kimball, W. W. Co
Chicago, 111.
Kranich & Bach
New York City.
Lawrence Organ Works,
Easton, Pa.
Lester Piano Co.,
Philadelphia. Pa.
McCammon Piano.-Forte Co
Albany, N. Y.
McEwen, C. C. Co.,
New York City.
Mathushek & Son
Mehlin, Paul G. & Sons
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Miller, Henry F. & Sons' Piano Co
Boston, Mass.
Miller Organ Co.,
Lebanon, Pa.
Newby & Evans,
New York City.
New England Organ Co
Boston, Mass.
New England Piano Co.,
. . . New York City.
Newman Bros.,
Chicago, III.
Peek & Son,
New York City.
Prescott Piano & Organ Co.,
Concord, N. H.
Raymond, F. L
Cleveland, Ohio.
Schubert Piano Co.,
New York City.
Smith, C. A. & Co.,
Chicago, 111.
Smith, F. G
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Sohmer & Co.,
New York City.
Starr, James M. & Co.,
Richmond, Ind.
Steinway & Sons,
New York City.
Sterling Co.,
Derby, Conn.
Sturz Bros.,
7.T.
New York City.
Taber Organ Co.,
Worcester, Mass.
Vose & Sons,
Boston, Mass.
Walters, R. M.,
New York City,
Waterloo Organ Co.,
Waterloo, N. Y.
Weaver Organ & Piano Co
York, Pa.
Weber, Albert,
New York City.
Wegman & Co.,
Auburn, N. Y.
Weser Bros
New York City.
Wessell, Charles A.,
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Wilcox & White Organ Co.,
Meriden, Conn.
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Since compiling this list we have received the follow
ing further letters expressive of approval of our efforts:
GLASGOW, KV., August 26, 1889.
MESSRS BILL & BILL,
New York city.
GENTLEMEN: In regard to the formation of a " Piano
and Organ Makers' Protective Union," we think it a
good plan, and believe it will prove to be a great bene-
fit to all manufacturers and jobbers in such goods.