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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1894 Vol. 19 N. 16

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
<»T* experiences on the road appears in this
issue. They are highly interesting and give an
excellent idea of the condition of business in the
route traversed. Mr. Janssen is a keen observer
of men and things, and the records of his jour-
ney ings prove that he can wield his pen in this
way as cleverly as he can write a popular song
or compose a dance composition.
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contract.
iMONG the Congressional candidates who
were buried in the great landslide last
Tuesday, we noticed the names of Mr. Johnston
Cornish, organ manufacturer, Washington, N.
J.; Thos. Dunn English, another Jerseyite, the
composer of " Ben Bolt," which has been given
a new life recently through Du Maurier's
"Trilby," and our friend, Freeborn G. Smithy
of Brooklyn, who was a candidate on the Prohi-
bition ticket. Mr. Smith did not expect to be
elected, however, but believed in standing for
the principles of his party.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
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[E regret to announce the death of Mr. John
C. Warren, Secretary of the A. M. Mc-
Phail Piano Company, Boston, which occurred
at his home, Roxbury, Mass., November 5th.
Mr. Warren was a musician of some note and an
esteemed member of the McPhail Company. He
was in his 49th year.
Needham Piano and Organ Company's
fall catalogue has reached us. It is
tastefully gotten up, and its reading matter is
clear and to the point. The methods of con-
struction and the several attractive styles of
Needham pianos shown, will give dealers and
others an excellent idea of the class of instru-
ments turned out by this house. A picture of
Mr. Elias Parkman Needham is given, also
biography. This excellent catalogue should
make many friends for the Needham piano.
J^
of a landslide that struck us
$&* i a s t Tuesday, was it not ? It cut a wide
swath from one end of the country to the other.
It certainly was one of the most extraordinary
political revolutions that we have ever witnessed.
It is certain that a vast majority of our people
believe in a protective tariff—never so many and
never so strongly as now. They may disagree
as to rates and schedules, but not as to the prin-
ciples. Gov. Jackson of Iowa, in reviewing
the sweeping elections of last Tuesday, said
the following, which is the most expressive of
any statement that we have read upon the
subject: " I think this election is a verdict of
the American people in favor of doing business
at home, and buying American made goods in-
stead of going abroad for them."
We may now confidently look forward to
bettered conditions in business. This was em-
phasized last Wednesday when stocks were
tremendously stiffened in this city. Now that
politics are settled for awhile we expect a speedy
resumption of business in all trades. There will
be less fluctuations in prices, values will be
fixed and a general stiffening of the trade back-
business announcement in T H E MUSIC TRADE bone everywhere. The great manufacturing in-
dustries of this country have been reduced by
REVIEW that the Baus Piano Company are
located at 402-408 East 30th Street, this city. reason of legislative indifference and incapacity.
Possibly there may be interesting developments The people have given their condemnation
of such methods as have characterized national
regarding the use of the Baus name.
legislation during the past eighteen months.
When the next Congress shall have been con-
HE announcement is made that one of the vened, we may expect to see at the head of the
most popular piano manufacturers has re- most important committee a man who is in
tired from the field ; but this does not remove touch with the great industries of America, and
the piano which he has manufactured. We refer not a man from a Southern village, where the
to James F. Cumston, who is said to have dis- chief industry is sitting on a rail fence squirting
posed of the right to manufacture the Hallett & tobacco juice at a mark.
Cumston piano to Thos. F. Scanlan. It has
been an open secret in the trade that Mr. Cum-
gOTHING is surer than that the tireless,
ston intended retiring from the piano business
persistent advertiser will secure the bene-
about the first of January. He has large outside
fits expected. Business is bound to reward him
interests, and is rated as a very wealthy man.
who keeps his name and goods or products con-
The piano trade will miss him, however, because
stantly before the community, in good or bad
there is only one "Jim " Cumston. This move
times. When business does revive, says the
will make Thos. F. Scanlan manufacturer of the
Fourth Estate, those firms which are well known
New England, Woodward & Brown and Hallett
reap the harvest. It is then the customers which
& Cumston pianos.
the advertisements have been preparing for the
good day will show themselves in multitudes.
pianos manufactured by the old and Whoever drops out of the advertising columns
reliable house of Decker & Son, 971-973 of the newspapers during several years of de-
East One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, have pression becomes a stranger to the community.
a special claim on the patronage of the musical When business has revived he has to start again
public. They are instruments which are care- almost with the disadvantages of a newcomer.
fully built on modern lines, and they are up-to- Instead of reaping the harvest he has to spend
date in satisfying the demands of the most ex- several years in making himself known once
acting critic or musician. The Decker & Son again to the people. It is amazing how quickly
uprights and baby grands are conceded to be the public forget any business house as soon as
instruments fit to rank with the leading pianos its name ceases to be familiar in the advertising
of the day. It is gratifying to state that there pages of the papers. In times like these it pays
is an active demand for the products of this richly for a business man to keep a standing
house. Their Fall trade so far is good, and the advertisement, even though he may be certain
HE Musical Times of Chicago announces
that the Baus piano will hereafter be manu-
factured in Terre Haute, Ind., that arrangements
to that effect have just been consummated, that
Augustus Baus and Otto Lestina have formed a
partnership for the perpetuation of the Baus
name on the piano. It seems to us that a ques-
tion will be raised here, as there is at present a
celebrated '' Sohmer '' pianos have taken
first premium at the Dixie Inter-State
Fair, held at Macon, Ga., for the best piano and
for the best display of pianos.
outlook is very bright. It is hardly necessary
to commend these instruments to the considera-
tion of dealers—they are too well known to the
trade—yet new comers who are not acquainted
with them will find it beneficial to themselves
to look them up.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
that not a single customer came into his place
of business as a direct result of that advertising
during such a year as we have just passed.
Thousands have become familiar with his name
and with his goods, and when they get money
to spend for such goods he will stand more than
an even chance to get a portion of it.
Driftwood
Floating From all Parts of the
Country.
Brewston, Ala.
BREWSTON, ALA.—Buck & Co., musical in-
struments, closing out stock with a view to
change of business.
Camden, N . J .
CAMDEN, N. J.—Adolph Segel has just been
granted building permit to erect a piano manu-
factory, corner Delaware and 2d streets. The
factory will be a two-story brick structure, 80 by
200 feet.
Bath, fie.
BATH, ME.—J. G i Washburn, music dealer,
Centre street, small fire loss.
Springfield, 111.
SPRINGFIELD, III.—Needham Piano and Or-
gan Co. took an appeal to higher court in the
Assumpsit suit against R. L,. Berry.
Cincinnati, O.
CINCINNATI, O.—The James L. Haven Com-
pany, manufacturers piano stools, music cabin-
ets, etc., have increased the capacity of their
plant by adding new and improved machinery,
enabling them to reduce prices considerably, still
maintaining the quality of their goods.
Richmond, Va.
RICHMOND, VA.—Walter D. Moses & Co.,
pianos and organs, at 1005 Main street ; Walter
D. Moses purchased the entire interest of George
Davis, retiring partner.
Akron, O.
AKRON, O.—Lucius McBride, pianos and or-
gans, 569 West Market street, fire loss of $2,500.
Fire of incendiary origin.
Chicago, 111.
CHICAGO, III.—Becker & Mack, musical in-
struments, reported as having confessed judg-
ment for $4,859.
Roanoke, Va.
ROANOKE, VA.—M. L. Smith, pianos, organs,
etc., sheriff in possession of store.
Camden, N. Y.
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CAMDEN, N. Y.—J. L. Nichols has opened
new music store at 11 South Park street.
Clinton, Mass.
CLINTON,
MASS.—Austin Gibbons, pianos,
musical instruments, etc., Union street, closed
out by the New England Piano Company of Bos-
ton and the Estey Organ Company. The Wor-
cester Organ Company have removed their goods,
which, for some time past, have been consigned
to Gibbons for sale.
Chicago, 111.
CHICAGO, III.—Lyon & Healy, two em-
ployees of the sheet music department, Albert
Marquardt and George Bolker, arrested, charged
with stealing a quantity of sheet music. H. C.
Bredfield, music dealer, at 370 Austin avenue,
was also arrested for receiving the stolen goods.
Carlisle, Pa.
CARLISLE, PA.—A company is reported organ-
izing, looking to the establishment of a piano
factory.
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New York City.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Krakauer Bros., piano
manufacturers, East 126th street, have adjusted
the grievances of striking workmen.
Toronto Junction, Ont.
TORONTO JUNCTION, ONT.—Wagner, Zeidler
& Co., manufacturers piano keys and showcases,
reported dissolved.
Duluth, Minn.
DULUTH, MINN.— Pilkey & Hall Music Com-
pany, pianos, judgment for $148, reported
against James Pilkey.
East Cambridge, Mass.
EAST CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—I. W. Butler, church
organ manufacturer, factory to be removed to
Pembroke.
Charleston, W. Va.
CHARLESTON, W. VA.—The G.
L. Spence
Music Company, T. L. Long, member of the
company, defaulter for $5,000. The company
has gone into receiver's hands.
Springfield, Mo.
SPRINGFIELD, MO.—R. W. Stewart, music,
piano, etc., reported realty mortgage for $2,000.
Chicago, 111.
CHICAGO, III.—Smith & Barnes, piano man-
ufacturers, having plans drawn for two story
and basement addition to piano factory. New
structure will cost $4,000, and will be built of
brick, 29 by 75 feet.
Saginaw, Mich.
SAGINAW, MICH.—The Erd
Harp Factory
commenced operations in the old quarters of the
Erd Piano Company. Inquiries for catalogues
have been received from all over the country.
junction to stop the sale of a portion of the pro-
perty in the possession of the Glen Echo Co. to
pay for the great organ in the amphitheatre.
The property was advertised for sale some weeks
ago, but the sale was stopped by the injunction
that has been dissolved.
Hutchinson, Minn.
HUTCHINSON, MINN.—Dr. McArthur will open
up a music store in Hutchinson.
Spring Grove, Minn.
SPRING GROVE, MINN.—Mr. S. Bowlby, gene-
ral agent for W. W. Kimball Co., has opened up
a music store in Spring Grove.
W h a t Cheer, la.
WHAT CHEER, I A.—Mr. B. Tout has bought
out Richard Trumbull's interest in their music
business, and the former will continue the busi-
ness.
Honesdale, Pa.
HONESDALE, PA.—Mr. W. H. Williams, of
Honesdale, opened a music store on Wyoming
avenue November 1st.
Camden, N. J.
CAMDEN, N. J.—Adolph Segal will erect a two
story brick structure at the Delaware river and
2d street, to be 80 x 200 feet. The building,
when completed, will be used for a piano manu-
factory.
Interesting Facts About Woods.
GEORGETOWN, D. C.—The injunction in the
strongest wood which grows within the
limits of the United States is that known
as " nutmeg " hickory, which flourishes in the
lower Arkansas River. The most elastic is tama-
rack, the black, or shellbark, standing not far be-
low. The wood with the least elasticity and low-
est specific gravity is the Ficus aurea. The wood
of the highest specific gravity is the blue wood of
Texas and Mexico. The heaviest of the foreign
woods are the pomegranate and the lignum vitae I
the lightest, cork. The tensile strength of the
best known woods is set forth in the following :
Ash, 14,000 pounds; beech, 11,500; cedar, 11,-
400; chestnut, 10,500; cypress, 6,ooo; elm, 13,-
400 ; fir, 12,000 ; maple, 10,500 ; American white
oak, 11,500; pear, 9,800; pitch pine, 12,000;
larch, 9,500; poplar, 7,000; spruce, 10,290;
teak, 14,000; walnut, 7,800; willow, 13,000;
lance, 23,000; lignum vit;e, 11,800; locust, 20,-
500; mahogany, 21,000; maple, 10,500. The
weight in pounds per square foot (without frac-
tions) of the well-known woods (dry) is as fol.
lows: Butternut, 25 ; cedar, 35 ; cherry, 44;
chestnut, 38; cork, 15; dogwood, 47; ebony,
83; box elder, 43; elm, 41 ; blue gum, 52 ;
water gum, 62 ; white hickory, 49; shellbark
hickory, 43 ; holly, 47 ; juniper, 35 ; lance wood,
45 ; larch, 34 ; basswood or linn, 37 ; mahogany,
66 ; hard maple, 46 ; white maple, 34 ; mulberry,
35 ; white oak, 53 ; persimmon, 44 ; pear, 41 ;
pitch pine, 41 ; red pine, 36 ; white pine, 34 ;
yellow pine, 33 : plum, 49 ; poplar, 33 ; quince,
44; rosewood, 45; sassafras, 30; spruce, 31;
sycamore, 38; tamarack, 23 ; black walnut, 41 ;
white walnut, 32 ; the willows, from 30 to 36 ;
and the yew, 49. Four hundred and thirteen
different species of trees grow in the various
States and territories, and of this number 16,
when perfectly seasoned, will sink in water.
These woods of high specific gravity grow
mostly in the arid regions of New Mexico, Ari-
zona and Nevada.
case of the Glen Echo Chautauqua Co. against
the Carl Barschoff Organ Co. has been dissolved
by an order of the Montgomery County Court.
The case originated in the procuring of an in-
THE Mason & Hamlin piano will be played by
Mr. Marti nus Sieveking on his coming tour
through the State of Indiana.
Rockford, 111.
ROCKFORD, I I I . — W . A. Van Mester & Co.,
pianos and organs, have opened new store at
515 West State street. L. Phillip will be in
charge, and with him will be associated E. M.
Bohnell.
Peoria, 111.
PEORIA, I I I . — W . G. Wood, traveling music
and musical instrument salesman, died suddenly
of apoplexy, aged 45.
Chicago, 111.
CHICAGO, III.—Story & Clark Organ Com-
pany, No. 699 South Canal street, warrant sworn
out by factory inspector for arrest of Melville
Clark, vice-president of the company, accused
of employing child labor.
Tallmans, N. Y.
TALLMANS, N. Y.—Mr. Geo. Relth has ac-
cepted the agency for a large New York music
house.
Plainfield, N. J.
PLAINFIELD, N. J.—Mr. Frederick Durand,
late with F. M. Hulett, music dealer, will have
charge of the branch office of the Hallet & Davis
Piano Co.
Newark, N. J.
NEWARK, N. J.—Martin G. Nells, of Glenwood
avenue, Bloomfield, N.J., has begun suit against
Jas. T. Lee, of Watsessing, to recover the value
of an advertising piano box which S. D. Lauter
& Co., music dealers, Newark, had placed on
Lee's property and which the piano firm had
given Nells an order to get. Mrs. Lee would
not allow Nells to take it until the ground rent
had been paid, and after some words Mr. Lee
cut the box into kindling wood.
Georgetown, D. C.

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