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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
vironments which we may create.
vSuch a
number is of great benefit to the music
pected for some time to come.
This is
about as definite an answer as Dr. Bosse
trades of this country; not only to New could give, judging from the many prom-
York, but to the trade in every other sec- ises made during the past twelve months
by the officials in Washington.
tion.
fairly
one satisfaction: if these medals are value-
demonstrated its ability in the past to pose
less in a business way they will be price-
as a live purveyor of news and a strictly
less as " curiosities " to numismatists—sou-
first-class trade publication.
venirs of the incapacity of the Bureau hav-
THE
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Editor and Proprietor.
PUBLISHED
EVERY
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MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
has
It has also
proven during the past year its right to
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"THE BUSINESS MAN'S PAPER."
typo-lithographic field. It has also shown
its ability to map out entirely new and
original lines.
It has been the aim of the
management of THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
to make it a paper which should serve hon-
We did not
as to what we proposed to do, but worked
ahead with definite ideas as to what we de-
sired to accomplish.
The result—a produc-
tion of a paper of one hundred pages,
artistically arranged and compiled, and an
edition of over 10,000 copies.
Perhaps the best journalistic feature of
the whole matter was that such a gigantic
edition, costing thousands of dollars, only
There was one matter, further, however,
any special display of egotism, and that is,
The increase in imports has helped to in-
fully refer advertisers to the announcement
has been enabled to purchase at lower rates
made on the opposite page.
than usual and sell to his customers at
',,.-,-
The dealer
lower prices, thereby stimulating a demand
T is satisfactory to learn that manufac-
for these goods.
But four hundred thous-
turers and jobbers report a decided im-
and odd dollars is a mighty big increase in
provement in collections during the past
eight months, and each month records a
week.
marked increase over the same period last
For over a month there has been a
Farmers
have
held
It is to be
year.
There can be found plenty of broad-
minded manufacturers who claim that the
greater part of that amount of money might
have been spent at home if the tariff was
kept at its original figures.
On the other hand our exports have not
hoped that the improvement now reported
shown a similar growth.
will be permanent.
crease, it is true, biit it is miserably small.
There is an in-
There can be no question but foreign
W
HAT'S the matter with business?
asks the editor of one of our es-
vantages of the foreign market than we are
can be attributed to their activity in this di-
Nothing at all, my dear sir.
Business is satisfactory with those in
dividuals who are up and alive, and who
spend their time in "making" business in
stead of bewailing the times.
manufacturers are more alert to the ad-
and act accordingly. Much of their success
teemed contemporaries.
There are
no fortunes made nowadays in the piano
trade, but there is trade for those who seek
it in the proper way, and that way, well—
that is a matter of opinion.
rection,
American inventiveness and in-
genuity, aided by unsurpassed facilities and
able mechanics, should enable American
manufacturers to combat with the world.
If the American market for small goods
is to be captured exclusively by foreigners,
American manufacturers will have to wake
up and turn out a class of goods whereby
they will be enabled to meet their rivals in
domestic and foreign markets.
told of the industries of a single State.
that we think we may emphasize without
matter of opinion.
crease competition, it is true.
"New York Number" of THE
previously indulge in wordy pyrotechnics
this de-
which we have made, and would respect-
least the circulation of money.
unheralded—unannounced.
Whether
mand or simply an unhealthy boom, is a
to curtail the volume of business—or at
It came
instruments
amounts to $418,671.
them for higher prices and thereby helped
genuine sensation in the trade.
of musical
cided increase is due to an enlarged de-
ing of the crops.
a
imports
that industrial art for which America has
tions, due to unusual delay in the market-
created
For the eight
and enthusiastically in the promotion of
standing complaint in this matter of collec-
REWIEW
is startlingly revealed in the latest bulletin
of exports and imports.
months of the fiscal year the increase in du-
I
TRADE
tariff duties on musical instruments
tiable
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MUSIC
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terests of this country—to work loyally
documentary evidence claims or assertions
T
NE of the results of the reduction in
orably and creditably the music trade in-
We always prefer to substantiate by
HE
ing the issuance of the medals in charge.
pose as a promoter of artistic work in the
become justly celebrated.
A TRIUMPH OF TRADE JOURNALISM.
There is
T
HE German exhibitors at the World's
Columbian
Exposition
The "sur-
vival of the fittest " will be the issue then.
are justly
complaining of the unpardonable delay in
It is gratifying to learn that the demand
for reed organs shows a marked increase.
During the present season manufacturers
out the delay of a single hour. That fact we the matter to the attention of Dr. Rosse, are giving more attention to this branch of
take especial pride in, as it shows forcibly to the Minister of Public Instruction. He has their business than heretofore, and the re-
the trade that our facilities are adequate to just issued a letter in reply thereto, in sults are just as predicted in an article in
any emergency which may arise or any en- which he states that medals are not be ex- this paper a few weeks ago.
that a paper of such magnitude was de- distributing the prize medals awarded
livered to our readers and subscribers with- them two years ago, and recently brought