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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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P. BENT, the only "Crown"
*¥*» maker in America, will be in this city
next week.
CALL yesterday at the Post Graduate
Hospital, where Henry Wegman is lying
seriously ill, elicited the information that his
condition had considerably improved, since his
removal to this city.
daily papers report that the Social Cul-
ture Club of this city, at their meeting
last Tuesday night, after listening to an address
on "Music and Musical Composers," indorsed
Dr. Parkhurst. Talk about the abruptness of
Wagnerian transitions after that!
than ordinary business activity has
prevailed at Steinway Hall during the
present week. We are unable at present to give
the exact figures of the sales, but it is probable
that they will exceed the sales of any previous
week during the history of the house. Truly a
forcible argument in favor of the popularity of
the Steinway instruments.
j|OW Prof. Herrmann the noted prestidigi- Drought the matter to the attention of the mem-
tator stopped the bullets that were fired |bers present, and upon his suggestion, a com-
littee composed of Messrs. Lyon, Gouttlere,
at him by United States soldiers at the benefit
ird, Kriegelstein, Thibout and Faivre, were
performance given in the Metropolitan Opera
House not long ago has since been a subject of ippointed for the purpose of compelling the
mystery, and it has been debated pro and con in f'senior editor "to rectify these errors, and do
the daily press without arriving at a solution. The Justice to our Parisian friends.
It is very possible, however, that the '' senior
mystery, however, has been solved at last, and
litor '' felt disappointed at his reception in
it has come to our ears, privately of course, that
^aris, or his inability to procure the expected
his ability to withstand the bullets of Uncle Sam's
soldiers was due to the fact that he was clad
ads " for his "special, " and this probably in-
in a suit of the celebrated Dolge blue felt. We luenced his pen. Anyhow it will be well for
give the story for what it is worth. It is signifi-
pm to avoid Paris on his homeward journey,
cant inasmuch as Sig. Cavalli has not been
lless he is well versed in the '' code.'' And
heard to deny it.
Hiile '' the pen may be mightier than the
sword," figuratively speaking, yet, unless the
' • senior editor " is an expert with the latter, he
may
suffer serious damage. This is something
men have been so much sought after
by the daily papers as Mr. Steinway, for to be avoided, for we cannot well spare him
the purpose of getting his opinion upon affairs
municipal and political. This is hardly surpris-
ing when it is known that Mr. Steinway is a
THE TRADE PAPER LIMITATION
taxpayer in New York city on about two million
REPEALED.
dollars' worth of real estate. Last Sunday's
T the last meeting of the Piano Manufact-
Herald published a symposium of opinions from
urers' Association of New York, held at
eminent men on "What if you were Mayor ? "
the Union Square Hotel, on October 10, there
From a lengthy interview with Mr. Steinway
was repealed an act of great importance to the
we quote the following, which, we venture to
local trade papers.
say, the entire people, irrespective of politics,
We refer to the agreement made and passed by
will agree with : " What we need in this city is
the
Association, whereby members agreed to
a man who will not be so much swayed by par-
limit
their patronage of the local trade papers to
tisanship as to lose sight of New York's true
interest, who will not be afraid to stamp out two.
That was repealed by an unanimous vote oi
wrong doing for fear that it will injure his party,
the
members present last Tuesday. This agree-
his political organization or his friends.''
ment was entered into by the members of the
Association to take effect in January, 1892.
Although there are many who have openly dis-
were honored during the past week with claimed that it was the intention of the Associa-
a visit from Mr. Geo. B. Armstrong, tion in entering upon this agreement, to cut
associate editor of The Indicator, who has been down the number of trade papers, yet it has
making the acquaintance of the trade in the been generally accepted, that such was the in-
East for the past few weeks. During his stay tention as well as to curtail and regulate the
in New York Mr. Armstrong was made to feel alleged abuses of which some journals were di-
" a t home " by the trade at large, and while his rectly accused.
allegiance to the Capitol of the West has not
If such were the results hoped for by the
wavered, yet New York has won no small place
Association, they have not materialized. There
in his esteem.
are to-day just the same number of papers in
Mr. Armstrong is a charming conversational-
existence that were published in '91—owned by
ist, a brilliant writer, and to use the colloquial
the same men. Immediately after the collapse
phrase, an "all-round good fellow," and the
of the American Musician, John C. Freund
hearty reception accorded him is a well deserved
commenced the publication of the Music Trades.
tribute to Mr. Armstrong personally, and to his
This he abandoned, stating at the time of his
co-editor, Mr. O. L. Fox, who is publishing a
departure for other fields, that it was on acconnt
dignified and representative trade paper that is a
of the limitation placed upon the trade papers
credit to Chicago and to the interests it so ably
that caused him to abandon the field where he
represents.
had always been an eccentric figure. He has
again entered the race, and if we may be per-
AFTER HIS SCALP. ,
mitted to judge from appearance, has succeeded
a letter recently to the Musical Courier, fairly well during the past year. Harry E.
its '' senior editor '' gave his impressions Freund also entered another field of journalism,
of piano manufacturers and piano manufacturing but only temporarily. He came back again and
in Paris. According to our Parisian contempo- started Freund's Weekly. Mr. Nickerson's Free
rary, Le Monde Musical, just to hand, these Press was transplanted to Chicago, and has
'' impressions '' contain numerous mis-state- blossomed out anew under the name of the
ments, and our Gallic friends are on the '' war Chicago Times. With the other papers there
has been no change, either in name or pro-
path " after the "senior editor's " scalp.
At the meeting of the "Chambre Syndicale des prietorship.
Instruments de Musique," held in Paris, Sep-
tember 18th, the president M. Thibouville-Lamy
It must be conceded that notwithstanding the
restriction placed upon them, that the trade