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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
and agricultural interests have been pros- Hart, which concern is conducted by the
trated, and the people here have had quite widow of Mr. Hart, without change of
The manager of Ludden & Bates'
enough of the free trade principles. The name
omnipresent fear of negro domination will branch, Mr. Davis, tells me that they have
cause them to hold to the faith ot their met with success since the establishment of
TRADE IN TEXAS
DAMACK DUNK BY SNOW.
fathers on local issues, but on national mat- their store. I notice that they are adver-
THE EFFECT OF THK SUGAR BOUNTY ON
ters I believe the South will come out tising the Ludden & Bates piano largely in
BUSINESS
NEW
ORLEANS
AIJI.OW.
squarely for protection. To-day, from what the daily papers. 1 saw the autograph of
POLITICS IN THK SOUTH — D k l F T -
I have heard, 1 deduce the following: That Edward Am buhl in the register at the
McKinleyism is the doctrine which is stead- Grunewald, and later on met him. Mr.
IN(1 TOWARD
PROTECTION
ily gaining ground in the old slave-holding Ambuhl has just returned from a long trip
THK SOLID SOUTH NO MORE.
States.
The progressive, the industrial through the Pacific-Northwest via San
BUSINESS IN THK CRES-
South is not the South of the sixties. There Francisco. Probably ere this he will have
CENT
CITY
L.
is at the head of affairs now men who have visited Chicago.
GRUNKWALD CO.
discarded the old theories of Calhoun, and
A BUSY CONCERN—RENE CRUNKWALIt's
MAN-
The Davenport & Treacy Co.
are willing to follow out the political lines
DOLIN FACTORY
PHILIP WERI.EIN — THK
which have brought such wealth in the
LUDDKN & HATES PIANO —EDWARD
THE Davenport & Treacy Co., Avenue D
North. They are willing to let by-gones and Eleventh street, New York, the dis-
AM HUH I. HACK FROM THK COAST.
be by-gones, and henceforth the issues are tinguished firm of piano plate makers, are
not of the past, but of the present with a very busy. The demand for their products
HE music trade in Texas has wise consideration of the future.
seems to be on the increase every week.
not been in a flourishing con-
Manufacturing is steadily gaining. Com- Their plates are appreciated by all who
dition, and what applies to pare the number of factories and smelting value a most important requisite in a good
Texas will also apply to mills here to-day with ten years ago, and piano.
nearly every section that I the comparison is startling.
Income Tax Ruling.
have visited during the past
The capital invested in factories and in-
six weeks.
Since the passage of the dustrial enterprises is stupendous, and is DIVIDENDS FROM FOREIGN CORPORATIONS MUST
sugar bounty act, however, business in becoming steadily augmented by Northern
HE INCLUDED.
Louisiana and Texas has improved greatly, and European investors. It takes time for
'HE Treasury officials have made an
and the outlook is now excellent for bettered a people who for generations have been an
important ruling in respect to the
conditions in the sugar-growing sections.
agricultural people to cast aside old tradi- liability under the Income Tax law of divi-
I wrote you about the snow and the con- tions and accept new, but the age is icono- dends received from corporations. It is
sequent suffering wrought thereby in the clastic, and the demolition of the old ideas held that dividends received by a resident
far South.
The snow not only entailed is going steadily on, and the light of pro- of the United States from corporations,
great suffering, but the protracted cold tection is surely dawning on the Southland. foreign orY)therwise, doing business wholly
Trade in New Orleans is very promising without the United States, and having
spell has resulted in much pecuniary loss to
the ranchers and stock growers as well. just now, and the large firms arc transact- principal offices and property out of the
All along the line of the railroad in South- ing a very satisfactory volume of trade. United States, must be returned as income.
ern Texas I saw the carcasses of hundreds At the warerooms of the L. Grunewald Co.
Such corporation not being liable on its
of cattle that had perished in the recent unusual activity prevailed. W. N. Grune- net profits, the dividend must be returned
snow and cold. The heavy losses will be wald told me that there were no dull times as income by the persons receiving ihe
felt seriously by the people in this section, with his house, and I should judge there same.
and will naturally effect business of all were not from the crowd which I saw
Ann Arbor Organs Abroad.
thronging the Grunewald warerooms at all
kinds.
Rene Grunewald is doing splen-
At New Orleans the city was aglow with hours.
'HE Ann Arbor Organ Co., Ann Arbor,
enthusiasm over the joyful news from didly with his mandolin factory. He is
Mich., have received the following
Washington. To them the bounty of five now supplying a number of Southern deal- letter from their London agents, Messrs.
millions means very much; it gives an im- ers, and is constantly extending his trade. Henry Klein & Co., H4 Oxford street, W.,
petus to business which means many times He has a large and well appointed factory, in relation to the consignment of Ann Arbor
rive millions in trade. The planters in which was constructed specially for the organs shipped to them a short time ago:
Louisiana were in mighty bad shape finan- manufacture of mandolins. Prominent New
"The organs arrived in good condition,
cially, and a gloom had settled over the Orleans musicians have written strongly save one or two little scratches, which I can
country, but now that has been dispelled. commendatory letters regarding the Grune- easily put right. I am well pleased with
I saw three pianos sold in New Orleans to wald mandolins. In the near future it is the appearance, finisli and tone of the
customers who said, "would not have pur- possible that Mr. Grunewald will manufact- organs. The wind supply is excellent; the
chased them but for the sugar bounty." 1 ure guitars and other musical instruments. several stops very fine, and the cabinet
will interject here a word about the South The founder of the Grunewald house in work is far superior to any I have ever seen.
politically. I think the Solid South is of New Orleans, Mr. Louis Grunewald, de- The organ, style 458, is very handsome;—I
the past now. 1 have talked with some votes his entire time, in conjunction with fear too handsome and too finished to be
of the best known politicians in this section, his son Theodore, to the management of appreciated by the country dealer. I have
and they seem to agree on one thing, and Hotel Grunewald. This hostelry is most shown the organs to about a dozen cus-
that is on national issues. The South will popular.
tomers, and they all like them."
stand squarely for protection. They have
Philip Werlein has no reason to com-
The Ann Arbor Organ Co. have every
seen the North grow rich and prosperous plain over business conditions; he has a
reason to feel pleased with this epistle. It
under the beneficent laws of protection, and strong clientele of purchasers. The same
shows that the Ann Arbor organs are highly
they want some of it. The lumber, mining would also apply to the business of funius
esteemed by our English cousins.
From A Traveler's
Note Book.
T
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Manufacture: s of
Tue
FARIBAULT, MINN.
High
Grade
Pianos
SKM) FOR
CATALOGUE
THE Farmers' and Mechanics' Insurance
Co., of Alexandria, Pa., are looking for
wide-awake canvassers, and in order to>
secure them are offering a piece of music
worth 40 cents, and one worth 75 cents, to
any person who will send them the names
of thirty individuals likely to act in that
capacity. This is something new. What
next ?