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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
September amounted to $145,884, against
$156,055 worth imported during" Septem-
ber, 1894. $1,031,566 was the value of the
dutiable imports of sheet music for the nine
months this year, against a total for the
same period last year amounting to $1,162,-
33*-
' The free re-exports of sheet music
amounted in September to $182, as com-
pared with $716 re-exported last September.
The nine months total for this year is $34,-
836, as against $14,169 worth re-exported
last year.
The dutiable re-exports of sheet music
during September was $337 worth, com-
pared with last September, when they
amounted to $735. The nine months' total
this year amounted to $12,772 worth,
against $14,503 worth re-exported last year.
The free imports of animal ivory during
September amounted to 20,312 pounds,
valued at $60,909, against 11,960 pounds
imported last September, valued at $41,-
960. The nine months' total shows 178,804
pounds of animal ivory imported this year
to the value of $495,833, as against 165,669
pounds, valued at $500,727, imported during
the same period of 1894.
The free imports of vegetable ivory dur-
ing the month of September amounted to
1,040,016 pounds, valued at $9,871, as com-
pared with 283,000 pounds, valued at $2,-
659 imported last year. The nine months'
total shows 2,535,982 pounds of vegetable
ivory imported during September, 1894,
to the value of $28,238, as compared with
61853,773 pounds, valued at $80,129, im-
ported during September, 1895.
The free re-exports of animal ivory in
September amounted to 2,241 pounds,
valued at $2,946, against 3,263 pounds,
valued at $5,000, re-exported last Septem-
ber. The nine months' total shows 13,456
pounds of animal ivory, valued at $12,992,
re-exported this year, as compared with
31,949 pounds, valued at $21,440, re-ex-
ported last year.
There were no re-exports of vegetable
ivory this September, but there were 44,986
pounds, valued at $742, re-exported during
September of 1894. The nine months'total
footed lip 281,225 pounds of vegetable
ivory, valued at $5,020, re-exported this
year, as compared with 855,881 pounds re-
exported last year during the same period
and valued at $16,223.
Remaining in the Customs warehouse
during September was sheet music to the
value of $38,928, as compared with $52,568
worth remaining there last September.
No musical instruments nor ivory re-
mained in the warehouse during Septem-
ber, 1894, or 1895.
PHIL STARK has
opened new
store at
Cleveland, O., and is handling the Story &
Clark pianos.
THE
Recent Legal Decisions.
lief had accepted as cash a draft drawn by
the consignor upon the consignee, to which
draft the bill of lading was attached, as was
usual in the course of such transactions.
The court said that under the facts recited
enough information was brought to the
knowledge of the last carrier to put it upon
inquiry as to the fact of prepayment, and
as to the then ownership of the bill of lad-
ing; and if it failed to take the proper steps
to ascertain the real facts and protect
itself accordingly, it could not thereafter
set up a refusal by the innocent holder of
the bill of lading to pay the freight it had
earned and the freight charges it had ad-
vanced as a defense to an action of trover
by such holder for the goods consigned;
and that this was true whether the freight
charges upon the consignment had actually
been prepaid or not.
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PARTNERSHIP — CREDITORS — CONTRIBU-
TION.—The Kentucky Court of Appeals
held, in the recent case of Warring vs.
Arthur, that in order to entitle one of sev-
eral partners to maintain an action against
his co-partners for contribution on account
of sums which he had paid to creditors of
the firm in excess of his proportion of the
partnership indebtedness, he must allege
that there has been a settlement of the part-
nership accounts or an accounting between
the parties showing a balance in his favor;
that in an action in equity by a partner
against his co-partners for contribution, a
settlement of the partnership accounts can-
not be had under a prayer for general re-
lief; that as a general rule, partners must
contribute, ratably to their shares, toward
the losses and debts of their firm; that
while the Court did not decide that this
must be the basis of a recovery in every
such case, yet attention was called to the
absence from the petition in this case of
any allegation as to the respective interests
of the partners among whom the loss was
sought to be apportioned, and that where
a corporation attempted to be organized
under chapter 56 of the General Statutes of
Kentucky, never became a corporation be-
cause of the failure to comply with the re-
quirements of the statute, and one of the
stockholders, in a suit brought by creditors
of the proposed corporation for that pur-
pose, was compelled to pay large sums of
money on account of the venture, the ques-
tion as to the mutual obligations of the
stockholders was an interesting one, but
not necessary to be decided in the case.
CARRIER — SHIPMENT — LIABILITY.— The
Supreme Court of Georgia held, in the re-
cent case of The American National Bank
vs. The Georgia Railroad Co., that where
goods were shipped upon a through con-
tract of shipment over the lines of several
connecting railway companies, and the last
of these companies accepted the goods
from the next preceding carrier, with notice
that the initial carrier had issued to the
consignor a through bill of lading reciting
that the entire freight charges had been
prepaid, although the notice was also to the
effect that this recital was erroneous, yet
where, under these circumstances, such
last connecting carrier paid the freight
charges which had accrued up to the time
it took charge of the consignment, it did so
at its own risk, relatively to the rights of
an innocent person who had taken from the
consignor the bill of lading duly indorsed,
in the belief that the freight had been actu-
ally prepaid, and upon the faith of such be-
CELEBRATED
STEGER
M
The Vocalion Organ.
I
N the Christian Advocate, of Dallas, Tex.,
we find the following pertinent refer-
ence to the celebrated Yocalion Organs,
which the Will A. Watkin Music Co. re-
present in that State:
It is remarkable to those who have not
seen and heard the "Vocalion" Church
Organs how completely these wonderful in-
struments are winning the favor of musi-
cians everywhere. Not only is this the case
in local points somewhat removed from the
leading muscal centers, but it is no less the
case where the Yocalion Organs are in
direct competition with the largest "Pipe"
Organs.
The U. S. Government recently adver-
tised for bids for a large organ to be placed
in the W T est Point Military Academy, and
awarded the contract to the Vocalion Co.
for a large Vocalion.
The Vocalion is the most successful rival
the pipe organ, has ever had. It is so im-
mense in power, so perfect in tone quality,
that neither in appearance nor in tone can
it be told from the regular pipe organ.
Over one thousand churches, a number of
the finest music halls and wealthy homes
are now supplied with these wonderful in-
struments.
With these instruments so
favorably before the public, it would be a
serious mistake for any church about to
purchase a pipe organ not to investigate
the claims of the Yocalion.
Several of the leading churches in Texas
are supplied with them, and an opportunity
will be given church committees and all
interested in the church organs to hear the
Vocalion at the Dallas Exposition.
CLARK WILSON & SONS, piano and organ
dealers, Towanda, Pa., have opened new
store on the corner of Main and Lombard
street.
PIANOS
PATENTED 1892.
are noted for their fine singing quality of
tone and great durability.
The most
profitable Piano for dealers to handle.
STEG-ER & CO., Manufacturers,
Factory, Columbia Heights.
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235 WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO.