Music Trade Review

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
N
EW YORK has been favored this
week with the presence of two of
Mexico's enterprising music trade men in
the persons of Mr. Enrique Heuer, of E.
Heuer & Co., of Mexico City, and Arthur
Schmidt, of A. Schmidt & Co., Laredo.
Mr. Heuer is one of the most enterprising
of the younger generation of music dealers
in the Mexican Republic, and has done
much toward furthering the sale and adding
to the popularity of American instruments
in that country. He handles the Hardman,
Sterling, Peek & Son pianos, and recently
acquired the agency for the "Crown"
goods, made by Geo. P. Bent, of Chicago.
In organs he sells the Estey, Wilcox &
White and the Mason & Risch vocalions.
tleman, who has the happy knack of making
friends and holding them. He has a wide
circle of acquaintances in social and musi-
cal circles in that city. During his stay in
this city he has visited mostly all the
houses whose instruments he handles in
Mexico, and has been warmly received.
Mr. Arthur Schmidt, who accompanies
Mr. Heuer, journeyed North for business
and pleasure, and has spent the most ot the
week at the Knights Templars Convention
in Boston. Mr. Schmidt has a very fine
business at Laredo, and he purposes open-
ing a branch store or stores in other cities
in the near future.
It is indeed a pleasure to come across two
such representative members of the music
trade at Messrs. Heuer and Schmidt. They
are endowed with that push and enterprise
which invariably brings success in any
country,
Mr. Heuer was so much impressed with
that marvelous invention—the electric
self-playing attachment, manufactured at
335 West Thirty-sixth street— that he at
once secured the agency for the Mexican
Republic. Last Tuesday he took a trip to
Derby to inspect the great Sterling fac-
tories, under the guidance of A. J. Brooks.
He will leave early next week for Chicago,
where he will meet George P. Bent of
"Crown" fame.
The current sent out is an alternating one,
and before it can be used in the making of
aluminum it must be transformed to a
direct current. This is done by passing
through four of the largest rotary trans-
formers ever built. These are 2,100 horse-
power each, and three of them are running.
Everything was found to work perfectly,
and great satisfaction was expressed by the
officers.
With electrical power so convenient it
seems to me that Buffalo is destined to be-
come the great manufacturing center of
this State. The question arises, what piano
firm will be the first to locate in that sec-
tion ?
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Some notion of the amount of lumber
being cut in Minnesota forests is had from
the fact that one day last week there was a
jam of logs in the upper Mississippi above
St. Cloud, which was estimated to contain
250,000,000 feet of lumber; and a little
further up the river was another jam, which
extended for almost twenty miles.
The Needham Piano .Organ Co. have
at last received a satisfactory settlement of
the insurance due them since the fire some
two months ago. Samuel Hazelton, of
Hazelton Bros., acted as appraiser in their
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behalf,
and it was through his energetic
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efforts that the matter was finally arranged.
Whether the bicycle is working an injury The insurance company, as usual, endeav-
to the piano trade or not, remains an open ored to make little of the loss, but Mr.
and disputed question. At all events the Hazelton put his foot down and demanded
number of bicycles marketed during the fair treatment; and got it. It seems re-
past twelve months is enormous. A recent markable that insurance companies cannot
inquiry places the increase at 560,000! act in a more liberal and broader spirit.
Assuming these figures to be anywhere Fires in piano warerooms are not mere
near the truth, some curious consequences pastimes. No matter how great the in-
appear to flow. If 500,000 bicycles hive surance, there is a loss of time and an out-
been sold at the average price of $75 each, lay for which there is no recompense.
it follows that the surprising total of $37,-
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500,000 has been invested by the public in
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these interesting vehicles. The cost of pro-
At the celebration of the one hundred
ducing a bicycle, according to quality and and twenty-fifth anniversary of the com-
completeness of. manufacturing equipment, pletion of the old German Lutheran
has been reported as varying from $25 to Church, at Palatine, N. Y., Thursday of
$35. Taking the average at $30, it appears last week, Mr. Alfred Dolge delivered a
ENRIQUE HEUER.
that an average profit of $45 on each ma- magnificent address, wherein he drew a
During his present visit North he has been chine has been divided between manu- vivid picture of the habits and manners of
appointed sole agent for the Knabe pianos facturers and middlemen. This figure the Germans as a sociable, liberty-loving
in Mexico, and there can be no question reaches the respectable total of more than and valuable element in our population.
but he will build up a splendid trade for $20,000,000.
Mr. Dolge's speech was given without any
these instruments in that section.
Thirty-seven million! Whew! This is a lengthy preparation, and on that account
Mr. Heuer is what we Northerners would pretty large sum. Why talk of hard times was the more remarkable. He displayed a
term a "rmstler," and he looks forward in this country when the people can afford thorough knowledge of the early history
of this State and its settlers, and treated
confidently to the future greatness of the to spend such an amount as that?
the subject in a manner that drew forth
Mexican Republic. In his optimistic views
much enthusiasm. In District Attorney
of the musical future of that country he is
not alone, for the indications are over-
I notice that, after almost five years of Klock's address later, he referred to Mr.
whelming, and are shared in by all who work and the expenditure of over $3,000,- Dolge as follows:
have traveled through that favored land. 000, Niagara has finally been harnessed,
"With the power of logic and the true
Mr. Heuer is progressing with the times, and the power generated by the monster force of eloquence he has laid before us,
and within a recent date has moved into 5,000 horse-power dynamos of the Cataract step by step, the assimilation of this great
one of the finest music stores in the City of Construction Co. are now sending out the people in our American life. Mr. Dolge
Mexico. It is located in San Francisco electricity for commercial use.
by his genius and enterprise, by his broad
street—one of the best centers—and is
The first power was transmitted to the and generous culture, by his vigorous and
known as "Music Hall." Here he is en- works of the Pittsburg Reduction Co. last stalwart Americanism, has wrought for
abled to make a very fine display of the Monday morning, which a few moments himself a permanent place, not only in the
different instruments handled by his house later opened for business. The power from hearts of the dwellers in this valley, but
to decided advantage.
the power house is sent over copper cables throughout the great Republic from sea to
Mr. Heuer is a genial and cultured gen- laid in a conduit to the aluminum works. sea."