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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
full chapters of the Constitution as well as
extracts from the essays of the great men
who occupied prominent niches in the Pan-
theon of American fame, such as Hamil-
ton, Washington, Lincoln and all the rest
of that good old sort.
With a country so keenly educated, it
seems to us that after all this campaign
will leave an indelible imprint upon the
memory of Americans as vvell as to prove
of incalculable benefit to them in that they
are to-day more alert, more progressive and
eager to extend their business lines every-
where.
The comatose conditions of the past
three years will be speedily replaced by
accelerated trade life.
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No trade-paper bulldozing.
No advertising payments in
advance.
No monetary loans to support
newspaper mendicancy.
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John Boyd Thacher has already proved
himself to be as big a failure as a guber-
natorial nominee as he was chairman of
the Bureau of Awards at the World's Fair.
Although presumably giving his consent to
run on a silver platform, it took him a
week or more to know his own mind. He
displayed the same peculiar weakness dur-
ing his connection with the now historic
medals. John Boyd Thacher is hardly fit
or worthy to succeed the present executive
in Albany.
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As we expected from the start, the prop-
osition made the creditors of the Emerson
Piano Co. at the meeting held in Boston
last Saturday, to pay their indebtedness in
12, 15, 18, 21 and 24 months—five equal
payments of twenty per cent, each with
six per cent, interest—was accepted without
hesitation.
The details of the assets and liabilities
which we gave in our last issue proved that
the affairs of the concern were in a perfectly
solvent and healthy condition, and their
assignment, as we have always maintained,
was simply the result of the injurious effect
of the Chicago nominations on the commer-
cial world, compelling the banks to be un-
duly conservative in their dealings with
customers.
The Emerson Piano Co. have always
been a"hundred cent house" and therefore
will pay one hundred cents on the dollar.
Without more ado they will continue oc-
cupying their old place in the estimation of
their agents and the trade generally.
Their course since the assignment has
been above board and in line with the
reputation which they have always en-
joyed, and the sympathy of the trade,
which has been theirs during their tempo-
rary trouble, will follow them in that pros-
perity which is destined to come their way
with the arrival of improved times.
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If. the statement that the John Church
Co. will soon open piano warerooms on
Fifth avenue, this city, is correct—although
it yet lacks official corroboration—they
will have certainly placed their interests in
charge of a thoroughly competent and ac-
complished gentleman in the person of Mr.
A. M. Wright, formerly president of the
Manufacturers' Co., Chicago. He is a first-
class piano man, energetic, able and widely
esteemed, and he cannot fail to make him-
self felt in New York.
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This week Mr. J. P. Byrne, secretary of
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, furnishes us with
a "Specialty Talk. " Mr. Byrne, by virtue
of his active connection with one of the lead-
ing houses in the music trade industry, his
wide experience and close study of music
trade affairs, is especially well fitted to ex-
press intelligent and valuable opinions on
the topics presented.
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We understand that all the creditors of
the Hallet & Davis Co., Boston, including
the banks, have this week accepted the pro-
position presented them by Mr. E. N.
Kimball, and the matter of adjustment is
now a question of days; hence the speedy
resumption of this old-time concern under
the same management is assured.
It is certainly a matter of congratulation,
not only for the parties concerned, but the
entire trade, to be able to report a definite
settlement this week of the Hallet & Davis
Co. as well as the Emerson Piano Co.'s
affairs.
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The Palmer & Embury Mfg. Co., of this
city, have recently placed on the market
a very desirable line of novelties in music
furniture, particulars of which may be
found in another part of this issue. We
have examined the goods in question and
can testify to their beauty and utility.
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T occurred to me that I had not seen Wil-
liam Steinway looking better for years
than he appeared this week when I saw
him in Steinway Hall. His cheeks had
that tinge of red which betokens good
health; this supplemented by a keen sparkle
of the eye from underneath his over hang-
ing brows caused me to think that hard
work is a tonic to the head of Steinway &
Sons. Where will you find a harder worker
than William Steinway in this music trade ?
His duties are manifold aside from his over-
sight of the great musical business of
which he is the head. When I asked him
about politics, there was a quiet twinkle in
his eye as he said: "Well, you know,
there are always surprises in politics."
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Robt. A. Widenmann covered himself
with glory at the great Palmer and Buckner
sound money meeting at the Madison
Square Garden last Tuesday night. In in-
troducing Ex-Governor Flower as chair-
man he uttered the following earnest words
which at once caught the house, and at their
close the applause may be termed an ova-
tion. He said: "We have rescued the ship
of Democracy from the hands of the
pirates. She has come through Scylla
and Charybdis, and the currents of popular
opinion have scraped her bottom and her
sides of the barnacles that have covered
them for the last thirty years. We took her
into dry dock in Indiana. We ripped
out the rotten planks; we riveted her afresh,
from stem to stern, from top to bottom, and
have placed her in charge of competent and
trusted commanders."
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I learn with extreme regret of the be-
reavement which has recently befallen Mr.
Carl Neuendorffer, chief of staff of Wessell,
Nickel & Gross. Mr. Neuendorffer's young
son Alfred C. died on Sunday last at North
Spring, N. Y. Young Mr. Neuendorffer
was only eighteen years of age and had been
carefully trained with a view of entering on
the career of civil engineer. He recently
secured an appointment in the United States
Geological Survey in the Adirondacks.
Owing to exposure he contracted a cold
More Haines Bros.
which developed into a serious fever result-
A. GUTTENBERGER & CO., piano ing in his death.
dealers of Macon, Ga., have just sold
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to the Georgia Normal College atMilledge-
Col. H. W. Hall came in to see me Thurs-
ville, Ga., four Haines Bros, pianos of the
same style as were purchased by the Wes- day. The Colonel takes an optimistic view
leyan College at Macon. This live South- of the business situation, and tells me that
ern firm are pushing the Haines Bros, pi- trade in Burlington and vicinity is bright-
ening up materially. As manager of Bail-
anos with much success.
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