Music Trade Review

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
the export of foreign-made goods has, how-
ever, largely decreased.
"The increase in our imports is again
considerable, and we now nearly approach
a total musical import of a million a year.
The bulk of it is due to Germany, although
EDWARD L\MAN BILL +£§—•
American trade is rapidly advancing, and
Editor and Proprietor.
the United States have, next to Germany,
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
ANUFACTURERS who talk cheer- become our heaviest importers. The Ger-
3 East 14th St., New York
fully about "a great business the man and Dutch total of imports of musical
coming fall,' should bear in mind that instruments has reached the very high
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $3.00 per year; Foreign Countries, $4.00.
there will be no flood tide of prosperity. figure of over 640,000/., higher, of course,
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per
insertion. On quarterly or yearly contracts , special dis-
Trade rather will flow in slowly but than it has ever before been in the his-
count is allowed.
REMITTANCES, in other than currency for**:, should
steadily, and it can only be secured by the tory of the music trades. The fact that
bo made payable to Edward Lyman Bill.
adoption of progiessive business methods. ,£894,084 worth of foreign and colonial
Entered at th* New York Post Office as Second' CYu • Matter.
The manufacturer who is content to rest musical goods were actually sold and dis-
upon his laurels or upon the chances of re- posed of in this country speaks for itself."
'THE BUSINESS MAN'S PAPER."
Indeed, the figures are not encouraging
ceiving his share of the expected trade
without making an effort to get it will find from an English standpoint.
large number of dealers visiting and plac-
ing orders with manufacturers. The fall
season, however, will not actually open up
before the middle of the month; in the
meantime manufacturers are pushing
things along with vigor, and everything
portends great activity.
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himself somewhat disappointed at the end
of the season.
T seems to be a Steinert year all round.
Boston, as well as New York, has fall-
en into line.
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HIS paper is not The Music Trades
Review, or The Musical Trade Re-
view, but THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
It
does seem as if our contemporaries overlook
this in their quotations from and references
to this paper.
NEW "sky-scraper" is going to be
erected on Union Square, but it is
safe to say it cannot eclipse the magnifi-
cent Decker Bros. Building, which will con-
tinue to tower above all—a monument to
the energy and progressiveness of this old
established institution.
A
HE tide of summer travel which has
been flowing away to seashore and
mountains, has begun to flow back again,
and this week manufacturers and sales-
men are to be found at their desks plan-
ning out the fall campaign. During the
past week there has been a perceptible im-
provement in wholesale and retail trade in
this city, and there has been an unusually
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At no time was it so necessary to get up
and hustle as now.
All manufacturers are looking for busi-
ness this fall, but those who will get the
most are the ones found ready with an
ample stock of attractive designs of instru-
ments, and who have made them known to
the trade at large through the recognized
mediums of the day—namely, the trade
press and the traveling men.
Some there are so short-sighted as to be
unable to read the "handwriting on the
wall," and prefer to see good times here
before they take action. Such conservatism
ma} 7 be politic from one standpoint, but it
is a pretty poor policy for a business man
to adopt.
This is an era of "push," and such a
policy will inevitably crush the house that
advocates it to the wall.
This is the
eternal law of progress.
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PEAKING of "Our Reviving Busi-
ness" in the current issue of the
North American Review, the Hon. fames
H. Eckels, Comptroller of the Currency,
has the following, among other things, to
say on this subject:
"All the many evidences of the new pros-
perity to be everywhere seen bear proof of
the recuperative powers of our people and
the abundance of their resources. After
more than two years of continuous financial
depression and business stagnation, the
summer months of the present year have
been notable for the volume of trade which,
as compared with similar seasons in other
years, has characterized them. This un-
usual activity has not been confined to a
single line of. business or to but one class
of manufactures. It has been manifest in
all, and almost uniform in degree. The
iron and steel industries, which appear to
outstrip all others, are enabled to do so
only because prosperity is coming to all.
OMMENTING on the statistics re- The railroad conditions of the country are
cently published of British import improving, not alone because of the enor-
and export trade in musical instruments mous crop of corn and other agricultural
for the past year, the London and Provincial produce to be freighted, but because of the
Music Trades Review is disposed to be un- increase in the general carrying trade.
usually pessimistic. It says: "Our exports The voluntary raising of the wages of mere
have considerably fallen off, a matter to be than a million laborers in mill, factory and
regretted. Indeed, the reasons why British mine, within a few months, has seldom if
trade to our colonies and foreign countries ever before been witnessed even in times
is dropping off deserve to be fully investi- of acknowledged and uninterrupted pros-
gated. Ten years ago our exports were perity. This advance to the laborers has
over 265,000/., while last year they dropped directly and indirectly benefited so many
down to 149,000/. odd.
To the United others who are engaged in trade, individu-
States, and almost all other foreign coun- ally small, but aggregating many millions
tries, our musical exports dropped consid- of capital, that it is impossible to say just
erably, although it is satisfactory to find who of all our people has not gained from
that the trade with Australasia slightly in- the improved condition of the laboring
creased, thereby, we hope, showing that classes. "
the depression which has affected Austra-
Mr. Eckels' opinions are not in any way
lian trade for the last year or two is gradu- new, nevertheless, a good story is always
ally passing away. To nearly every colony worth repeating.
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