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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
this year and lead to a like result upon his men-
tal and physical make-up. Because he has
been pursuing certain methods for a series of
years, although' they may not have led to the
most desirable results, is a powerful incentive
to him to continue them.
Those who are willing to subject themselves
to the necessary discipline to rise above the
average are the ones who become known as
great manufacturers and merchants, or as ex-
celling' in whatever other vocation to which
they may devote their attention, is the opinion
of an authority. It requires, undoubtedly,
more than average effort, and when they enter
into this upper sphere they find themselves in
a considerable measure isolated. If they ask
advice, they are almost certain to receive an
" average " answer. They must also be will-
ing to endure sharp criticism from those who,
laboring on a lower plane, cannot understand
the reasons which actuate them in the course
they pursue.
It is worth noting, however, that he who
comes up to a fair average in his achievements
has undoubtedly considerable cause for feel-
ing at least a reasonable degree of satisfaction.
CREDIT—Is it too Cheap ?
When a manufacturer can fail with liabili-
ties thirty-three times his entire possessions,
and when a dealer can, by an investment of
less than $40,000, obtain goods to the value of
over half a million dollars, it would certainly
seem that credit is entirely too cheap, and
that the course pursued by the creditor is al-
most inevitably suicidal. .
The retail dealers, as a rule, can easily ob-
tain on credit five times as many goods as they
can pay for. There are so many manufact-
urers who are anxious for a larger trade that
a goodly proportion of them will tumble over
each other in their endeavor to book an order.
We recently heard of a manufacturer, says the
" Recorder," who took and rilled orders on
what, with dating ahead and time for payment,
amounted to seventeen months' credit. No
reliable house needs such extended time in
which to pay its bills, and no manufacturer is
justified in extending such a credit.
And the same thing pertains to the supplies
furnished the manufacturer, who frequently
gets much greater credit than he is entitled to
on his financial standing and ability.
A. H. Stuart & Co., of Boston, Mass., an-
nounce that A. E. Pennell has become asso-
ciated with them in the manufacture and sale
of the Stuart piano. He will have charge of
the wholesale trade for New England. Mr.
Pennell formerly represented the interests of
the Estey Organ Co.
William Bell, of the Bell Organ Co.,
Cuelph', Ont, was probably fatally injured
while returning to his home in Toronto last
week. He was found lving unconscious near
the railway track near Guelph, with severe
wounds on his head.
The Montelius Piano Co., Denver. Col.,
are having a big demand for the Huntington
pianos. They are booming them right mer-
rilv in the local papers and sending in sub-
stantial orders to the Huntington people at
Shelton, Conn.
Gleanings at the Golden Gate.
THE STEINWAY EFFECTIVELY ADVERTISED
REMOVES TEMPORARILY
KEENE
MAUZY IN THE EAST
THE WHEELOCK AGENTS MOVE TO
LARGER QUARTERS
THE MUSIC
TRADE INDUSTRY IN
SAN FRANCISCO.
San Francisco, January 22, 1897.
The town has been music-mad this week;
at least, so one might judge from the crowded
houses and unstinted enthusiasm which have
greeted Mine. Lillian Nordica and her goodly
company. They appeared in four concerts
and carried the town by storm. Messrs. Sher-
man, Clay & Co., always with an eye to the
opportunity, took advantage of the use of the
Steinway piano in these concerts to do some
effective advertising for that instrument in
the leading daily papers.
An evidence of the revival of interest in mu-
sical matters is found in the promised organi-
zation of the San Francisco Symphony Soci-
ety, practically a reorganization of the old
Philharmonic Society. There are already up-
ward of one hundred members in the societv,
and an orchestra of fifty-five pieces. Gustav
Hinrichs has been chosen conductor, and
Sig. Beel will be concert master. This might
be changed should Fritz Scheel return, as is
rumored. A series of six musical entertain-
ments are planned to be given at the Columbia
Theatre,
C. C. Keene, one of the oldest dealers in
small goods in the city, has temporarily moved
from his stand in the Nucleus Building to 58
Third Street. The building is being remod-
elled, and when the work is completed Mr.
Keene will return.
Byron Mauzy left for New York last Sun-
day on a three-weeks' business trip. The
Sohmer piano is to be used February 3d at a
concert to be given in the Y. M. C. A. audi-
torium to Prof. James Hamilton Howe by the
San Francisco Oratorio Society.
A young man, representing to be a son of
Liebes, the cloak merchant, succeeded in de-
ceiving Manager Stedman, of the Zeno Mau-
vais Co., and secured two mandolins without
paying for them. Mr. Stedman discovered
the fraud after the fellow had pawned the in-
struments, and at this writing the case is be-
ing tried in the police courts.
The Zeno Mauvais Co. has a new march
by Merzbach in press. It is named Zadeeka,
and is said to be a fine composition.
A paper at Dunsmuir, Cal., announces the
arrival of R. Madsen, representing Sherman,
Clay & Co., in that place, and says that he
sold four pianos.
The Girard Piano Co., in Oakland, Cal.,
agents for the Wheelock pianos, have moved
from the Central Bank Building to 11x2
Broadway.
A recently published review of San Fran-
cisco's industries says that piano and organ
making has attracted considerable attention
during the last few years, and the annual pro-
duct constitutes quite a factor in San Fran-
cisco manufactures. Much of the work in
piano-making is in putting together the parts
made elsewhere. The first piano made in
San Francisco was a six-octave square by
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Jacob Zech, in 1856, and the first upright was
made in 1865 by G. Rudolph. In 1870 there
were five local makers, and the number has
increased since that time. C. Stencke is stated
to have been the first maker of violins and gui-
tars. The industry at present employs sev-
eral hundred men, and San Francisco made
pianos find a ready market all over the Pacific
Coast.
Leiter Bros, and W. W. Kimball
Co. Burned Out.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT SYRACUSE CLEANS OUT THE
PIANO STOCK OF TWO WELL-KNOWN FIRMS.
Syracuse, N. Y., January 26, 1897.
On the site of the Dillaye and Vann block,
in South Salina Street, between the Butler
and Pine blocks, one of the oldest business
centres of Syracuse, is a smoldering mass of
fuins, the result of the most serious conflagra-
tion that this city has witnessed in the past
six years. At 7:05 o'clock last evening
fire broke out in the New York cloak house
and before midnight fully $250,000 damage
had been done. The old Pike block, a land-
mark of Syracuse, with its dingy halls and
narrow stairways, is also badly damaged by
fire and water, while the Butler block at the
south also suffered a considerable loss. Thou-
sands and thousands of dollars' worth of prop-
erty were consumed, and the year of 1897 will
be marked for having one of the largest fires
in the history of Syracuse.
What was at first supposed to be but a small
blaze soon arose to the size of a mountain, and
in a few small hours had left destruction and
ruin in its trail. The W. W. Kimball Co.'s
store, with its valuable stock of musical in-
struments, Leiter Bros.' jewelry and music
store, and a host of others were totally de-
stroyed or fearfully damaged by the fire of
last night. Persons living above the business
places were turned homeless into the streets
and stood sorrowfully by to watch the de-
struction of their homes. How the blaze first
started is unknown, but it is thought it orig-
inated from the large dynamo in the cellar
of the New York cloak house.
The loss to the W. W. Kimball Company
will be heavy, as the entire stock, consisting
of organs, pianos, and musical instruments,
were consumed. The exact valuation of the
property and amount of insurance and loss
could not be ascertained last light, owing to
the absence in Chicago of William D. Crane,
who acts as agent for the companv. Leiter
Bros.' loss will likewise be heavy. The stock
was valued at $so,ooo or $60,000, and was in-
sured in several companies for about $30,000.
Frank X). Glcason, who suffered the loss of
the fingers of one of his hands while in the
emplov of F. G. Smith, in his case factory at
Leominster, Mass., has brought suit for dam-
ages against Mr. Smith on the ground that
the machine was not properly guarded.
The McCammon Piano Co., Oneonta,
N. Y., held their annual meeting on January
nth, when the old officers and directors were
re-elected.
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