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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW. '
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H ! This is the point in the season when
good trade comes forth and smiles, and
stagnancy sulks in the underbrush.
Don't
tread as softly as if there were crape on the door
of your business hopes. There isn't. Just get
up and bend your shoulder a moment to the
wheel of prosperity, and it will spin. Now,
altogether !
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Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter,
)T the big Midwinter International Expo-
sition to be held in San Francisco, there
will be a number of manufacturers of musical
instruments who will make a very fine exhibit.
We understand that a number of firms who have
exhibited at Chicago intend shipping their
booths and a part of their exhibit to San Fran-
cisco.
go-ahead firm of George R.
Fleming & Co., of 1229 Chestnut street,
Philadelphia, have secured the celebrated
Sohmer piano as '' leader '' for their handsome
Chestnut street store. In this fashionable quar-
ter the many qualities that have made the
Sohmer piano a World's Fair prize winner, and
a winner in universal popularity, cannot fail to
be favorably noticed and its success further
emphasized.
G. A. AMSDEN, Detroit, Mich., has
just completed four new pianos, made
under his personal supervision in this city.
Mr. Amsden is very enthusiastic over the merits
of his instruments, and states to us that they
are perfect in every detail. It is understood
that Mr. Amsden has ample capital at his com-
mand, and that a company will be formed in
the near future to manufacture the Amsden
pianos in large quantities.
cholera. M. Tschaikowsky's death following
so close on that of the great French master,
Gounod, almost revives faith in the fatalistic
doctrine that such events occur in cycles. Last
year, in the local musical field, the c'eath of P.
S. Gilmore was unexpectedly followed by C. A.
Cappa, and the disappearance of many great
minds in the commercial and literary world, in
the same order, gave rise to no end of opinions
on this subject at the time.
^REEBORN G. SMITH, the millionaire
piano manufacturer, accompanied by his
son, called at our sanctum yesterday, just
long enough to say: " I have just returned from
Leominster; very busy up there; we are getting
out some very tasty designs in cases. New
orders coming in? Yes ; business looks well,
orders are flowing right along for Bradbury's,
Webster's and Henning's. Col. Bacon ? He is
all right." And out he stepped as sprightly as
a boy of twenty. Truly all seasons are active
with Mr. Smith.
desire to call special attention of readers
to an article written by our Washington
correspondent appearing in this issue. It con-
tains much of interest regarding the testimony
of Mr. Ranft in Washington, which should be
read by everyone in the trade. One point
which we particularly desire to emphasize is
that Mr. Ranft admits that there has been no
increase in the price of domestic felt since the
enactment of the McKinley tariff. It appears to
us that Mr. Ranft has made some statements
which are decidedly ridiculous. Perhaps there
may have been errors in transcribing his testi-
mony.
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FTER all, a government of the people, by
the people and for the people still clings
to earth with considerable tenacity,
now Leopold Peck will be good
<&vv enough to whisper a few consoling words
to the whining pack. His triumph is a blow
to the tender heart of John (See?), likewise it
knocks out a groan from the rest of the small
fry.
pDVERTISING for a situation, a man ex-
plains : " Work is not so much an object
as good wages.''—Ex.
This brings to mind a man who applied to us
for work, and being asked what he could do,
replied that he '' would do anything so long as
we did not frighten him.''
now appears that there will be an oppor-
tunity for all the trade papers to secure a
diploma at the California Midwinter Interna-
tional Exposition. The chief of the department
of Publicity and Promotion says, '' A diploma
of collaboration will be awarded to each news-
paper participating in the Exposition."
HE BRAUMULLER COMPANY, piano
manufacturers, at Nos. 402 to 410 West
RECENTLY, a leading church in the fash-
14th
street,
with salesrooms at No. 97 Fifth
ionable suburb of E
, Chicago, invited
applicants for the position of leading soprano. avenue, New York, made an assignment Thurs-
It was stipulated that each candidate present- day, to Meyer Foster, the stockholders having
ing herself for trial should sing a sacred song or met and authorized the assignment. The com-
solo. There were eighty-five aspirants for the pany was incorporated under New York State
post, and, strange to say, more than one-half laws in May, 1889, with a capital stock of
of that number presented the same song as $15,000, but it is said that since then theactual
their piece de resistance, namely: '' The Holy amount paid in is $30,000. Otto L. Braumuller
is president and W. H. Turner treasurer. The
City, " by Stephen Adams.
Braumuller Company last spring enlarged their
facilities by additional factory space and pre-
5LFRED DOLGE & SON will be in evi- pared for a large trade. They based their opera-
dence at the Midwinter Exposition to be tions upon big Western contracts, but the
held in San Francisco, with an extensive ex- stagnancy of trade found them with a greatly
hibit of their now celebrated autoharps. Since reduced output and expenses considerably aug-
Mr. Rudolf Dolge took charge of this branch mented. O. L. Braumuller has been in the
of his father's business he has displayed piano trade North and South, and has many
push and enterprise that somehow demon- warm friends in both sections who will learn
strates the influence of heredity. S. Singleton with regret of his business misfortunes.
and Chas. Sunier will be in charge of the ex-
hibit and expect to score as great a success in
the '' golden gate city '' as was accomplished in
THE HARDMAN MATTER.
Chicago.
another portion of this paper we present
TSCHAIKOWSKY, Russia's most
celebrated composer, died in St. Peters-
burg last Monday night. His death was due to
the latest news regarding the affairs of
Hardman, Peck & Co. It is certainly a matter
of trade congratulation that Mr. Peck has made
the most extraordinary termination of an assign-