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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
EDWARD L\MAN
Editor and Proprietor,
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EVERY
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"THE BUSINESS MAN'S PAPER."
IMPERIAL NEW YORK.
HIS issue of THE Music TRADE REVIEW
will show to the world something of
the musical industries of the Empire State.
It will give the reader a fair, although not
a complete, idea of the resources of New
York in our musico-industrial line.
It will show more—as it gives a fair an-
alysis and showing up of the different per-
sonalities who have contributed in a force-
ful manner toward the development and
extension of the musical affairs of the nation
and of the world.
It will show not alone manufacturers,
but portraits of dealers as well.
The New York Number certainly takes
pre-eminence as a trade journal, and it is in
many respects one of the most remarkable
trade publications ever issued.
It closes a most notable series. A series
which have been educational as well as inter-
esting—a series which have been the means
of bringing the trade in widely separated
sections of the country into closer acquaint-
ance.
It was more than a year ago that we
commenced with the California Number—
then the Western—the Canadian—the New
England—the Southern, and now the New
York Number.
T
Hundreds of portraits of dealers and
manufacturers have been published, and
copies of the papers have been scattered
throughout the world. They have been
preserved as volumes of reference, as in
each number there has been much valuable
historical data. They have been read with
as much interest in other parts as in the
particular section of which they were de-
scriptive. The New York Number is the
greatest journalistic triumph of the series,
in that we have relied only upon a single
State for such a great issue. This, we be-
lieve, has never been attempted before in
journalism, but THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
maps out original lines—it does not adhere
to the old beaten paths.
The management of this paper has not
sought patronage outside of the limits of
the Empire State. Not one firm in any
other section of the country has been solic-
ited, directly or indirectly, for an advertise,
ment, and yet, through the New York
Number of THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, the
whole world learns of the music trade in-
dustries of this imperial State. The men
who have made this issue possib'e will re-
ceive their reward in the widely diffused
knowledge of their wares.
Some idea of the great work necessary in
the preparation and successful publication
of such a journal, may be estimated when
we say that a number exceeding ten thou-
sand of this edition has been printed. We
would refer to the specially designed covers,
the beautiful art display and arrangement
of the advertising pages. The printing and
typography of the paper must compel ad-
miration from all readers.
As a trade paper is to a large degree a
reflex of that trade, then such a publication
as this dignifies the music trade of this
great State before the world. It also fur-
nishes conclusive evidence that New York
is well maintaining her supremacy as the
leading State of the Union in the particular
field of which this paper is an exponent.
To enter into detail as to the number of
establishments, the value of leased property,
direct investment, miscellaneous expenses,
number of employees, total annual wages,
cost of materials used, value of products and
all that, belongs to a statistical report and
which very few men care to go over in its
dry details. Sufficient is it to say that the
number of men and capital employed in the
sale and manufacture of musical instruments
in the Empire State exceed several times
the amount invested in any other State.
We can, however, in a general way, say a
few words about New York city, which
will serve to show the tremendous force
which this great metropolis exercises upon
the nation and upon the world.
There are over 25,000 manufacturing es-
tablishments in this city alone, which spend
every year over $60,000,000 for their mis-
cellaneous expenses. They pay out over
$370,000,000 for the materials used in their
manufactures. They pay out over $250,-
000,000 in wages every year. In fact, the
total value of products from the different
industries in New York in 1890 approxi-
mated $800,000,000. The total trade of New
York, covering export and import trade
as well as the value of local manufactures,
amounts to 3 1 »7 2 9>248,190, of which, less
than $1,000,000,000 represents our foreign
trade, over $770,000,000 representing the
value of our local manufactures in one year.
We can, however, more properly appre-
ciate the extent of this vast amount of com-
merce by pointing out that it means a com-
bined foreign and domestic trade exceeding
over $144,000,000 every month in the year.
That it means a combined foreign and
domestic trade exceeding $33,250,000 every
week in the year, and that it means an ag-
gregate of business exceeding $5,500,000
each and every business day in the year.
Great as New York is to-day, it will be
greater a few years hence, and we look for-
ward with interest, with pride and with
pleasure to the growth of that Greater New
York which will make the imperial city of
the Empire State the largest and most im-
portant commercial center in the universe.
Think of what the growth and expansion
of the music trade manufactures of this
city and of tne great commonwealth of
New York will mean a quarter of a century
hence. At that time THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW may be publishing, weekly, such
gigantic editions as we present to our read-
ers to-day.
New York is proud of her past, enthusi-
astic over her present, and carefully guard-
ing her glorious future. Small wonder
that the manufacturers in other great com-
mercial centers turn with longing eyes to-
ward the great purchasing power and the
enormous wealth of the Empire State's six
and a half million of people.
No State furnishes such a field for com-
mercial development, and thus it will
always remain. New York city stands at
the gateway of the new world, gladly and
hospitably receiving the thousands from
over-crowded Europe as they are borne up
the beautiful Narrows past the majestic
Statue of Liberty. She knows her strength,
can afford to be generous and recognize all
other commercial centers, all other great
States as equals in every sense in their ex-
ercise of independence in the sisterhood of
States, but, after all, there is but one im-
perial New York, and upon her brow she
wears the crown of glory.
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