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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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5j? HE subject of our sketch is too well known
~$ to the music trade of the United States
and Canada to need an introduction, but we are
pleased to present the above cut of that very
popular salesman, N. M. Crosby, who two years
ago became a member of the Webster Piano Co.
of New York city, and whose position with the
company is that of superintendent of agencies.
While calling at the office of Freeborn G.
Smith, in Brooklyn, a few days ago, we had the
pleasure of renewing our acquaintance with Mr.
Crosby, formed some years ago while he was
with the New England Organ Co. of Boston.
It was when representing this organ and during
his calls on Mr. Smith that the acquaintance
grew into an intimacy that ended in his present
business relations with the Webster Co. Freeborn
G. Smith, is a careful, discerning buyer, and he
no doubt asked himself if Crosby could always
sell him the New England organs, why could he
not be equally successful selling other goods.
The answer to this question has been satisfac-
torily given, and Mr. Smith is not only satisfied
with what he has done with the Bradbury and
Webster among the trade, but tells us that if an
instrument is to be sold at retail he will risk it
with Mr. Crosby every time. Ask George
Mclaughlin to name some of the best salesmen
to-day that he ever had, and among the first he
will mention will be the subject of our sketch.
He will tell you that during the twelve years he
employed Mr. Crosby he never once had occasion
to question any transaction entrusted to his
care, and that if a complicated matter presented
itself for adjustment he would leave it all with
Mr. Crosby, knowing that a correct and clear
settlement would be the result.
There are very few men, indeed, who are more
methodical than Mr. Crosby, and when asked
the particulars of any transaction with which
he has been connected during the past thirteen
years, he can turn to a written record of it and
give you day and date of the same. Being a
practical bookkeeper and ready correspondent,
he fills a place in a business house that but few
traveling men can fill. Adding to this his intui-
tion for advertising and special taste in prepar-
ing matter for that purpose, it must at once be
seen that he becomes quite an important factor
to any house with which he is associated.
It was while with the New England Organ
Co. that Mr. Crosby copyrighted a book known
as a " Piano and Organ Lease Record.'' This
book was received with much favor by the
dealers and is now in use among the trade.
We understand that the author is at present
working upon another book that will excel the
above work. Being a natural mechanic and of
a cultivated mind, Mr. CroSby not only under-
stands the line of goods he represents but pos-
sesses a fund of general information that at once
renders him an interesting and pleasant person
to meet. He has won the reputation of being
quite a success at story telling, and is equally
at home in any dialect. If, after having done
his best to sell you a bill of goods, he should not
succeed, ask him what he has new in the shape
of a story and he will leave with you not only
memories of a pleasant visit, but will, perhaps,
obtain from you a signed order for either a
sample Webster or Bradbury piano. In a word,
we'cheerfully recommend Mr. Crosby, and he
will come as near to keeping all his promises as
any man in the music business can come. Try
the Webster or Henning pianos, both of which
he represents, and we know that with their new
scale, improved action and handsome cases, you
will have found an instrument that will pay you
to carry in stock. If Mr. Crosby does not call
on you send for him and you will find that all
we tell you of him is true.
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BANK—CHECK—ELECTION BET.
The Supreme Court of California held, in the
recent case of McCord vs. California National
Bank of San Diego, that a bank may not refuse
to cash a check though it knows that it was
drawn in payment of a bet made in violation of
law on the result of an election, and that in case
a check was so cashed the drawer could not
recover the money from the bank.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW—TAKING PROPERTY.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota held, in the
recent case of The Duluth Transfer Railway
Company vs. Martin et al., that the commence-
ment and pendency of proceedings according to
the statute for the appropriation of private pro-
perty to public use does not deprive the owner
of the right of alienation, and does not consti-
tute a taking of property for which, under the
constitution, compensation must be " first paid
or secured."
FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE—CREDITORS.
The Supreme Court of Indiana held, in the
recent case of Winstandley vs. Stipp et al., that
a party who assails a conveyance as in fraud of
creditors must aver that the grantor had no pro-
perty subject to execution at the time the execu-
tion was issued as well as at the time the con-
veyance was, and that possession of an officer to
real estate under a writ of attachment issued at
the suit of a creditor is not adverse so as to make
a conveyance of the owner during the officer's
possession a conveyance by a grantor out of
possession.
and negotiate it for a particular purpose, and he
violates the confidence reposed in him and
negotiates it for his own use, a party taking it
will be protected, and the fact that the negotiator
signed his name as a payor will not relieve the
signer from liability.
EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY—MACHINERY.
The Supreme Court of Georgia held, in the
recent case of Richmond & Danville Railroad
vs. Dickey, that there is no negligence in the
construction of machinery which, when properly
used in the ordinary manner, is safe under all
conditions which will probably arise in any and
every instance of such use, and that hence,
although it may have a defect, yet if that defect
be one which does not interfere with its safe and
proper use with reference to the purpose for
which it was constructed, an injury to an em-
ployee's hand while accidentally in contact with
the defective part of the machinery, but which
was very unlikely to occur, cannot be attributed
to negligence on the part of the company in the
construction of the machinery.
CHATTEL MORTGAGE—PRIORITY.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota held, in the
recent case of Wright vs. Barson et al., that in
order to entitle the holder of a second chattel
mortgage to a preference over a prior mortgage,
which has not been filed, it is incumbent on him
to prove that he took his mortgage '' in good
faith ; " that is, for a valuable consideration
and without notice of prior mortgage, but that
want of notice may be inferred from the fact
that he took it for a valuable consideration and
in the ordinary course of business.
MERCANTILE AGENCY—LIABILITY—CONTRACT.
In the case of Xiques vs. The Bradstreet Com-
pany, which was an action for alleged negli-
gence in furnishing information in answer to an
inquiry, Judge Andrews, of the New York Su-
preme Court, held that the contract of the plain-
tiff with the company was a perfect bar to re-
covery ; that the company did not guarantee
the correctness of the information, and that
apart from this the company could not be held
liable where it was shown that goods were sent
to one address and that delivery was made at
another, by reason of which a swindler secured
the goods.
FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE—CREDITORS.
In an action to enforce an alleged trust in
favor of creditors in land, the consideration for
which had been paid by the debtor, but the
conveyance made to his wife, the evidence was
that the debtor owned 200 acres of land, 80 of
which were exempt as a homestead ; that the
land was subject to indebtedness considerably
in excess of the non-exempt 120 acres, and that
the debtor exchanged the entire tract, subject
to incumbrances (which the purchaser assumed),
for the land in suit. The Supreme Court of
Minnesota held (Blake vs. Roisjoli et al.) that
the evidence justified the court in finding that
the statutory presumption of fraudulent intent
had been disproved.—Bradstreets.
USURY—LOAN—SERVICES.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota held, in the
recent case of Swenstrom vs. Balstad et al., that
upon a loan of money the retaining by the
lender with the assent of the borrower of a sum
out of the amount loaned for services rendered
by the lender to the borrower, and not for the
use of the money, did not make the transaction
usurious.
NOTE—SIGNATURE IN BLANK.
The Supreme Court of Indiana held, in the
recent case of Geddes et al. vs. Blackmore, that
where one signs a note in blank and intrusts it
to another with authority to fill up the blanks
Musical attachment, No. 487,165, H. C.
Straley.
Organ, No. 487,222, R. Hunter.
Piano sounding-board, No. 487,060, K. Stroud.
Piano action, No. 487,625, H. & C. Keller.
Center pin fastening for piano action, No.
487,483, H. & C. Keller.