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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
qf the income tax law we would say it
would be well for them, and others in-
Dolge's Solution of the Labor
Problem
terested, to proceed with care and take no
steps save with the advice of competent
counsel.
"COMMENDS ITSELF
This is a matter that should not
be overlooked.
T
THOUGHTFUL
TORONTO, O N T . , Feb.
• • • • • • • • • • • •
HE
TO EVERY
STUDENT. "
13, 1895.
EDITOR MUSIC TRADE REVIEW:
representative business men of
Having read Mr. Alfred Dolge's speech
in your paper recently, I beg leave to add
the bill now before the Legislature to my hearty endorsement of it. I think Mr.
take extortion out of telephone charges Dolge's explanation of the labor problem,
after a practical test of his theory ex-
in this city and State. Legislation on this
tending over twenty-four years, commends
important matter affects every business
itself to every thoughtful student of polit-
man, for the telephone has come to be a ical economy. Many have pointed out the
necessity in commercial life. At present evils of the present relations between labor
the telephone charges are 50 per cent, and capital, but it remained for Alfred
higher than they should be—in fact, higher Dolge to solve the problem in the face of
many difficulties.
Wishing Mr. Alfred
here than in any country in the world. A
Dolge many more years of usefulness, and
monopoly has imposed charges that are an
that he may see his method universally
abuse of the franchises and public priv- adopted,
ileges bestowed by this State, and the
I remain, sincerely yours,
justice of the proposed regulation of
J. F. ABERCROMKIE.
this city are actively interested in
charges is obvious.
There is every reason
to think that this bill will meet with the
approbation of our legislators.
It is not a
question of party but of public necessity.^
T
HE several piano makers' unions have
evidently decided to take an interest
in the question of cheap pianos.
Jer-
emiah Sullivan, president of the English
branch of the Piano Makers' Union, has
been expounding his views of the matter to
a Tribune reporter.
He says:
"These
unions, which are all open unions, have
come together with the hope that we shall
be able to better our situation next fall,
when the busy time comes.
During the
last eighteen months our wages have de-
creased greatly.
It is not a combination
against the manufacturers.
with the dealers.
Our quarrel is
HP HE one and only Mirabeau helped to
I
make a few pages of French history
when chopping off heads was in vogue in
Paris. His namesake, a legal luminary in
the City of Churches, is evidently destined
to make contemporary history.' This gen-
tleman, Mirabeau L. Towns, has achieved
no small measure of fame, and all through
the composition and filing of a common-
place legal document, which, according to
the best authorities, stands unmatched in
Supreme Court records.
Mr. Towns has a horror of the medi-
ocre. Stereotyped legal phraseology is in-
William Steinway Wins.
adequate to bring before the world the
wealth of intellectuality which lies hidden
THE SUIT OF HENRY W. T. STEINWAY IS DIS-
in his well-developed cranium. A splendid
MISSED.
opportunity of showing the metal he is
USTICE STOVER, in the Supreme made of was afforded him a few weeks ago
Court last Monday, handed down a when he was asked to prepare an affidavit
decision dismissing the complaint on the praying for an injunction on behalf of Otto
merits in the suit brought against William Wissner against Steinway & Sons, in con-
Steinway and Steinway & Co. by his nection with a recital given by Mme. Paur,
nephew, Henry W. T. Steinway. The suit in Brooklyn, and to which we referred last
was for an accounting of transactions be- week. Mr. Towns' ability and originality
tween the Steinway piano concern in this are revealed in the following extracts from
city and the Steinway Fabrik of Hamburg. this unique document:
The court holds that no improper or
"That, aided by scientific investigation
illegal transactions were introduced in evi- and by the possession of a most sensitive
dence, although the younger Steinway ear for tone, and by years of research and
alleged them, going so far as to allege that application in the mechanical art of piano-
pianos were sold to the foreign house at making, deponent has succeeded in pro-
cost and then sold back at a profit, which ducing an instrument which, for fullness
the London branch got.
of tone, perfect expression, singing quali-
J
They prefer to sell a
rattle-trap piano, on which they can make
200 per cent., to a good one, on which they
only make 50 per cent.
If the public would
only learn how they are being fooled by
these dealers we should be all right."
The piano makers' unions are apparently
broadening their scope.
We were under
the impression that they cared little what
class of piano the dealers sold, as long as
Will Not Hake a Lower Grade.
C
ALVIN WHITNEY, President of the
A. B. Chase Co., Norwalk, O., writes
us as follows: " I see the Indicator reports
that we are contemplating making a lower
grade of piano for the accommodation of
our dealers. I write this note to say there
is not a word of truth in it. The A. B.
Chase Co. have no such purpose."
they got the stipulated union wages at the
end of each week.
What if they should
send out the "walking delegate" to educate
the dealers on this live question of "cheap
pianos?"
Great scheme, that!
THE Emerson Piano Co., Boston, shipped
fourteen pianos to the Pacific slope during
the past week.
R. TERHUNE has purchased the stock of
Starr & Co., of Sing Sing, who recently
failed, and will continue the business.
Chickering <& Son's Annual
fleeting
The annual meeting of the corporation
of Chickering & Sons was held at Chicker-
ing Hall, this city, last Saturday. The
officers elected were Geo. H. Chickering,
president; Geo. H. Nichols, vice-president;
C. H. W. Foster, secretary and treasurer
The following directors were elected: Geo.
H. Chickering, Geo. H. Nichols, C. H. W.
Foster, Geo. L. Silsby and Mr. Rantoul.
ties, flute-like notes and perfect action of
its mechanical parts, surpasses all instru-
ments produced by man, and puts under
the manipulation of artists a piano which
gives them the power of excelling the
fabled notes of Orpheus' lute, which moved
all nature, animate and inanimate, while
the instruments of perfect tone produced
by deponent enthrall and melt by their
harmonies the cold, irresponsive and re-
frigerated men and women of the nine-
teenth century's end. That artists delight
to use them in their concerts because they
insure success and extort praise from the
press and the public."
Now the deponent pays his respects to
the artist:
"That among the artists now delighting
the music-loving audiences of the day is
Mme. Paur, a talented, beautiful, graceful
and magnetic mistress of harmony, resident
of Boston, and the esteemed coadjutor of
Herr Emil Paur, the idolized symphony
orchestra leader of Boston."
Then the deponent passes a few remarks