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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
corresponding month of last year, but also
have been given a chance to make a little
over March and the first week of April of
money.
this year.
It is best to look on the bright side of
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The most reassuring feature of these re-
things, however.
Everything is on the up-
ports, as far as the music trade industry is
ward grade; nothing of a "boom," but a
concerned, is the prevailing tendency to
sure, steady growth which is sure to lead us
advance wages in almost every line of in-
to the good, old prosperous times.
dustry.
this let's hope.
Musical instruments are no longer
For
ACCORDING
classes are largely the buyers to-
day, and the enlargement of employment in
increase of wages reported, will enable these : '.
people to indulge in several luxuries which
have denied themselves
and their
families for the past two years— the pleas-
ure
and solace of music in the home,
whether in the form of piano or organ, will
again be possible.
Byron W. Holt, an authority on tariff re-
form and currency matters, has compiled a
partial itemized list of wage advances dur-
ing
April,
Herald
which was published in the
last week,
and he shows that
fully three hundred thousand men are now
enjoying the benefits of higher wages they
did not enjoy six weeks ago, and the rising
tide of prosperity did not stop in April, for
the percentage was higher during the first
week of this month.
Commenting on these
figures, the Herald says:
"Manufacturing
establishments from Maine to Minnesota,
dealing with a great variety of industries,
are shown to have either restored the wages
that prevailed in 1892 or to have raised
the rate from 5 to 25 per cent. While some
of these increases have been made upon the
request of the employees, most of them
the
Youngstown.
O..
THE Freyer & Bradley Music Co. will
have a formal opening of their Chattanooga
branch house next Monday. May 20th.
factories, mills and manufactories, and the
they
to
papers, the Colby Piano Co. have begun'
suit against Walter F. Flint to recover
judgment for $267 due on promissory note,
the prerogatives of the very wealthy; the
laboring
of that magnitude requires a goodly outlay
of time and energy, and in the case of the
Indicator shows a handsome support from
the manufacturers. A leading feature of
the paper is a printed list of dealers in the
Western and Southern States, which alone
makes the paper valuable as a work of refer-
ence..
GEORGE and Otto Doll, two sons of Jacob
Doll, are being trained in the piano busi-
ness. The former is now being initiated
into the mysteries of piano making, and
the latter is connected with the wareroom
on Fourteenth street. Mr. Doll is building
up a big trade for the "Doll" and "Baus"
pianos—a trade that is remarkable when
the times are considered.
HENRY KOERBER,
1108 Olive street, St.
Louis, Mo., has been appointed agent for
the Singer piano.
HORACE BROWN,
traveling
representa-
tive for Behr Bros. & Co., is visiting the
far West, and doing some good work for
his house.
GEO. I. BADGER, music trade dealer, La
Porte, Ind., has taken the agency for the
Reed & Sons piano.
AMONG the energetic and enthusiastic ad-
vocates of the Sohmer pianos are J. M.
Hoffman & Bro., of Pittsburg, Pa. They
are building up a fine business with the
splendid instruments manufactured by
Sohmer & Co. This house also sell the
Bush & Gerts pianos.
MESSRS. PAUDEN & MARTOCCIO,
dealers
in musical merchandise, have assigned for
the benefit of their creditors.
Assets,
$1,682.97 ; liabilities about $1,300.
R.
W.
TANNER & SON MANUFACTURING
Co., of Dolgeville, N. Y., have been incor-
porated to manufacture and sell musical
merchandise and do a general foundry busi-
ness, with a capital of $50,000. The di-
rectors and their holdings of stock are,
Richard W. Tanner, $15,000; William F.
Tanner, $10,000; James M. Pearson, of
New York, $4,000; Theodore H. Roth,
$500, and W. S. Armstrong, $500.
THE Philadelphia Press has purchased a
beautiful piano from the Lester Piano Co.,
of that city, and is offering it as a prize to
the organization of wheelmen voted to be
the most popular. It is now on exhibition
at F. A. North & Co.'s warerooms, 1308
Chestnut street.
THE officers of the Hallet & Davis Co.,
of Illinois, are as follows: President, Geo.
Cook; vice-president, Carlos H. Blackman;
treasurer, R. K. Maynard; secretary, H.
J. Strong.
IT is now definitely settled that the lead
which
existed between the Pease Piano Co.
have been made voluntarily by the employ- ness as above the average. They are work-
and
the
Mason & Hamlin Co., whereby the
ers to stimulate their workmen to make a ing full time and with a full force of em-
latter
were
to have the representation of
The Wessell, Nickel & Gross ac-
greater output at a less relative cost, in ployees.
the
Pease
pianos
in several cities, is at an
order to be ready to supply the growing tions continue to grow in popularity, and
end
as
far
as
the
West is concerned—and
there is a strong demand for them among
demand for goods. "
perhaps
the
East.
The Pease Piano Co.
manufacturers in all parts of the country.
Such a revival of activity and the larger
will immediately occupy the premises 248
LAST Wednesday's papers contained flat- Wabash avenue, Chicago, of which they
circulation of money among the wage earn-
tering notices of Harry Mook's excellent hold a lease, and under the management of
ers cannot fail to reach the music trade in-
work as the "Duke of Dunstable," in the Chas. H. MacDonald, a complete line of
dustry in due time.
The depression is amateur performance of "Patience," given
instruments for the wholesale and retail
over, and the period of convalescence is by the Metropolitan Amateur Opera Club. trade will be carried in stock in this estab-
rapidly shortening; in fact all signs point The Evening Sun said Mr. Mook "particu- lishment.
to an era of great prosperity in the early larly distinguished himself."
THE Weaver Organ and Piano Co., of
fall.
HERBERT L. EDDY, of Providence, R. I.,
York, Pa., have just sent a large shipment
There is one black cloud on the horizon will in future act as sole agent for the of organs to London for their exhibit at the
of better times, and that is a recurrence of Briggs piano in the State of Rhode Island. International Music Trades Exposition, to
W. C. NEWBY, of Newby & Evans, is be held at that place in June. The Weaver
"strikes" in some sections of the country,
organs have a reputation that extends to
but it is to be hoped the better sense of the making a trip West.
every civilized country on the globe. In
AT a recent meeting of the stockholders
wage earners will prevail, or that the
the last five weeks they have received
of
the Lawrence Organ Co., W.J.Daub was
differences will be amicably adjusted.
orders from Great Britain,Germany,France,
elected president; L. E. Bixler, vice-presi-
Meanwhile recognized authorities claim
South Africa, New Zealand and Jamaica,
dent, and H. A. Rothwell, secretary and
as well as from every corner of our own
that strikes, much as they are to be con-
treasurer.
great country.
demned, are, in many instances, an evi-
C. E. DANIEL, of The Presto, L Chicago,
THESE are great imposing advertisements
dence of progress toward better times. One
is in town.
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of the Gabler piano to be found around
would think wage earners had had a surfeit
A SUCCESS was scored by the Indicator town. That they are effective is obvious
of enforced idleness for some time past with-
last Saturday by the production of a paper from the number who stand and scrutinize
out courting another spell now when they
of one hundred pages. To produce a paper them.
. WESSELL,
NICKEL & GROSS report
busi-