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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW,
CHOLERA AND TRADE.
was considerably excited over the
news of the arrival at our shores of that dread
Asiatic scourge, the cholera. For the past ten
days this foreign visitor has hammered at our
gates, but has, thus far, been kept from land-
ing. The efficiency of our Board of Health in
preventing the spread of contagion, together
with the President's proclamation, which prac-
tically prohibits emigration, have had the effect
of restoring confidence and of preventing the
serious business panic that would undoubtedly
have resulted had cholera gained a foothold in
New York. The effect on business that would
be the result if the disease became epidemic was
indicated by the decline in the stock market the
very day the steamer was reported pest laden.
NEW YORK
Healy is the head, may be imagined when we
state that last month the house sent a single
order to the firm of J. & C. Fischer, of this city,
for 120 pianos. This fact shows not only the
magnitude of the business of the celebrated
Western firm, but also the great sales of the
popular Fischer piano which it is making.
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PFAFFLIN RESIGNS.
ON September 6th, Mr. Theodore Pfafflin,
who for many months past has had charge of
the wholesale trade of Chickering & Sons, sent
in to the firm his resignation. Mr. Pfafflin is a
man of wide acquaintance and large experi-
ence in the piano trade, both wholesale and
retail.
3 EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK.
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INDUSTRIAL MARCH OF THE SOUTH .
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SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $3.00 per year, in advance; Foreign Countries,
IN the August Forum Mr. Richard H. Ed-
THE President's proclamation compelling
$4 00.
twenty days' quarantine will have rather a monds draws a bright picture of Southern Indus-
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per
insertion; unless inserted upon rates made by special serious effect upon returning European tourists. trial progress and prosperity. It is a picture
contract.
Many in the music trade who have visited full of significance and one on which the whole
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter. Europe during the summer for recuperation and
country may look with pleasure.
A dozen years ago the Southern vegetable
business will, no doubt, suffer keenly from the
delay in quarantine. Among those at present and fruit trade was insignificant. To-day it
delayed are Xaver Scharwenka, who is spend- amounts to fifty million dollars a year, and is
ing his time in the cabin of the Normannia ; E. increasing, with a promise that the South is to
Urchs, who is a salesman at Steinway Hall, is become the market garden of the North. From
on the Rugia; J. N. Merrill and wife are on the Norfolk alone more than five million dollars'
Elbe; Jack Haynes and wife are on the City worth of vegetables and fruits are yearly sent to
of New York ; Hugo Worsch, Sohmer & Co. 's Northern markets. Georgia sends more than
Washington agent, E. P. Mason, President of ten thousand carloads of watermelons, and Flor-
the Mason & Hamlin Piano and Organ Co., are ida from three to four million boxes of oranges.
The yield of cotton, the great Southern staple,
on detained steamers, and Louis Geilfuss is
on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm, which sailed has nearly doubled in ten years, reaching nine
from Bremen August 31st. There are at present million bales in 1891. There has been a mar-
many more members of the music trade in velous advance in the production of rice, sugar
Europe who will probably suffer serious delay and tobacco. The grain product increased dur-
before landing on American shores, and who ing the decade from four hundred to nearly
will be added to the constantly increasing music seven hundred million bushels. The value of
trade colony in quarantine. Since writing the chief agricultural products was nearly two hun-
above the Elbe and City of New York have been dred million dollars greater in 1891 than in
1881.
released from quarantine.
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LEVI K. FULLER, inventor, scientist and
Ten years ago the annual output of coal
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Governor, we salute thee !
JACK HAYNES, whose name appeared on the mines was six million tons ; to-day it is twenty-
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City of New York's list of passengers, was de- three millions. Then less than half a million
THE Piano Manufacturers Association of New tained in London on account of the illness of tons of pig iron were produced ; now the output
York and Vicinity will soon resume their regu- Mrs. Haynes, which occurred on the eve of de- is two millions. Then the capital invested in
lar monthly meetings. The first meeting since parture.
cottonseed oil mills was three and a half mil-
last spring will take place at n o East 14th
lion dollars; now it is thirty millions. In
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street, on Tuesday, September 13.
MR. T. TASSO FISCHER, youngest son of the Southern cotton mills twenty-two thousand
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founder of the great house of J. & C. Fischer, more operatives are employed now than ten
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will be married next Wednesday to Miss Keeler, years ago.
DURING the past month we have secured
In railroad building and traffic, in commerce
a charming young lady of Seabright, N. J.
more orders for special and regular advertising
and
business, corresponding strides have been
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than in any corresponding month for half a
made.
The railroad mileage has been nearly
THE employees of Wessell, Nickel & Gross
score of years. This condition of affairs fur-
doubled.
The rise of exports from Southern
nishes convincing evidence that the trade are hold their annual picnic at Lion Park, this city,
ports amounts to nearly a hundred million
not slow to recognize the merits and increasing to-night. These annual picnics have grown
dollars.
National banks have increased in num-
exceedingly popular with employers and em-
influence of this newspaper institution.
ber
from
two hundred and twenty to six hun-
ployees.
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dred
and
forty, while their capital has risen
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from
forty-five
million to a hundred million
MR. P. J. HEALY and Mr. R. B. Gregory,
W E are very sorry indeed not to oblige our
generous, kindly-meaning contemporaries by of the great Western firm of Lyon & Healy, dollars. In 1881 the assessed value of property
"closing up shop," but we hardly think we can were in town this week. During a conversation in the South was less than three billion dollars ;
accommodate them to that extent. We of course with him Mr. Healy told us that he anticipated in 1891 it was nearly five billions.
These are merely some items of ten years'
regret that they are not pleased with our paper, a magnificent business this fall, unless the
Southern
progress. The resources of the South
threatened
cholera
epidemic
should
interfere
but when we are publishing it for them, we shall
are
boundless.
Its coal and iron deposits, "al-
probably conform to their wishes, and, perhaps therewith. The enormous proportions of the
ways
the
foundation
for the greatest prosperity,
by that time, we might become educated to piano business of the great firm of which Mr.
their standard of blackguardism.