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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
,HAT funny things we read ! A would-be
journalist, who never could conduct suc-
cessfully any kind of business larger than a
peanut stand, telling successful manufacturers
how to run their credits. Amusing? Well,
rather!
during the past summer, and, as their trade is
beginning to look up considerably for the holi-
days, they expect to get out their usual output
for the holiday trade.
cheerful advices from a num-
°q? ber of leading Southern trade centres, re-
ports of a very large distribution at Chicago as
the outcome of the immense World's Fair at-
tendance, and an improved demand at several
points west of the Mississippi, as a result of
cooler weather, are among the most favorable
features revealed by telegrams to Bradstreet's
this week. Large sales and better prices for
cotton have encouraged country buying at the
South, and business at New Orleans, Dallas,
Memphis, Atlanta, Richmond and Mobile has
improved. The new Louisiana sugar crop will
be large. Rice is active and higher. Of course
pianos will also fall in line
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from the recent magnificent issue
(Si/ of the Courier, that '' fun '' which the
splenetic egotist who writes '' myself and Mr.
Blumenberg," has not yet commenced. Per-
haps the story of the "Lady of Niger" is not
inappropriate.
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M. WALTERS, the popular piano manu-
facturer, is absorbing the wonders of
the beautiful White City at Chicago. Mr.
Walters while there will be the guest of Mr.
John T. Shayne, the great Chicago furrier, and
will be entertained by his host at the Union
League Club.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
is true that Nero fiddled while Rome was
burning, but Nero knew how to extract
music from the violin. The chin-music which
United States Senators are indulging in while
business is going to the dogs cannot plead the
compensatory claim which might be set up in
defense of Nero's strains.
-EFORE placing orders, manufacturers re-
quiring electro bronze or art work, would
do well to consult the catalogue of the Homer
D. Bronson Co., of Beacon Falls, Conn. Their
factories are filled with every appliance for pro-
ducing work in the highest style of the art, and
the variety of their production in bronze or brass
is practically limitless.
Senators from the mining camps are
making up in pig-headedness what they
loose in pig silver.
Jen HE award received by the old and time
fft* honored house of Fischer, at the World's
Fair, was richly deserved, and all of the agents
.of this firm hail the news with pleasure.
fflHB successful journal of to-day must be
ST» independent in order to be strong. It can
not be the mouth-piece of any firm or clique,
and hope to win power.
you seen the Muhelfeld piano, manu-
factured by the rising young firm, F.
Muhelfeld & Co., New York ? No; well you
should write them for a catalogue. Their work
will interest you.
GEORGE MAXWELL, manager ot
the New York branch of Boosey & Co.,
has recently returned from a trip through the
West as far as St. Paul. Mr. Maxwell found
trade conditions improving everywhere.
. J. B. SPILLANE will succeed his
brother, Daniel Spillane, deceased, as
editor of The Keynote, and will also become con-
nected with the staff of this paper. Mr. Spillane
has had a varied, musical and journalistic ex-
perience, and therefore is amply fitted by train-
ing to fill with ability the important position to
which he is appointed.
I t S SHONINGER COMPANY are making a
GJW m hit with their "Columbian." This
piano is in the colonial style and finish, and was
originally made for the World's Fair, but its
artistic appearance, combined with remarkable
tone qualities, made such an impression on the
many visitors to their warerooms that the firm
decided to adopt it as a " regular '' style and
embody it in their Shoninger catalogue.
WALTER D. MOSES & CO., Richmond,
Va., have been liquidating their affairs
for about four months past with the object in
view of retiring from business. The managing
partner, Walter D. Moses, will connect himself
with the great Chicago house of Lyon & Healy.
The retirement from business of a prominent
and perfectly solvent concern, in as well known
Southern city as Richmond, is a matter of trade
interest. Walter D. Moses & Co. occupy a high
position there, and have the agency for the best
known pianos in this country. In the opinion
of Mr. Moses, the capital of the late confederacy
does not hold out alluring prospects for the
piano dealer.
our mail yesterday, we found the
following from a well-known Western
dealer: " I like THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
best, because it is not only the business man's
paper but the busy man's paper.'' That is the
kind of message which is encouraging. We
claim to be specialists in our line, and believe
that the business man of to-day does not care to
peruse long drawn out articles, when the sub-
stance of the same can be given in a few words.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW is always on time,
accurate in its reports, reliable in its utterances,
condensed in its news items. That is why it
has won the respect of the business element.
^USIC trade, like all other class journalism,
is a power. That power is strengthened
by the honesty of purpose of its conductors.
Because there are men devoid of principle en-
gaged in music trade journalism, that should
not condemn the profession. No occupation is
free from black sheep and adventurers. That
GJMT R. BOND, treasurer of the Weaver Organ fact alone should act as an onward spur to the
JjSFi and Piano Company of York, Pa., is now honest men engaged in that line. We say,
taking in the World's Fair until its close. He stand up for the honor of your calling in spite
will see some of the company's agents and of all that may be related to you of the abuse of
dealers in Weaver organs on his way home next others, who have disgraced it. Simply see that
week, and hopes to receive orders for a number you are first-class in the prosecution of the
of instruments. The Weaver people have been business you have chosen, and you can both
running right along without any shut down feel and talk for it.