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VOL. XXV. No. 24.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, December 11,1897.
Emerson Literature.
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$3.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE OOPIES, 10 CF.NTS.
A Big Seller-najestic Style B.
SOMK EFFECTIVE WORK
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WHICH MUST AUGMENT EMERSON
l-AME AND TRADE.
Another Emerson booklet has just been
published. Like its predecessors, it has
several attractive features, not the least
among them being specially prepared
notes concerning the merits of good pianos
in general and the Emerson pianos in par-
ticular. They are, each and all, admirably
headed and worthy of reproduction. Here
are a few examples:
Don't Buy an Experiment.
When, a piano purchase is considered let common
sense have full play. You are not buying a piano
for to-day or for lo-morrow, but for a lifetime.
May be an unknown maker of recent growth can
give you a reliable instrument, but the chances
are that he cannot.
The Best of Prophets
for the futifce is the past. During the more than
forty years of its existence over 65,000 people have
purchased and played and praised the Emerson
piano.
The Emerson Piano
makes no false pretenses, claims no intangible
merit. The things everybody wants in a piano are
an artistic case, a full, rich tone, responsive action
and a guarantee of durability. To these features
the Emerson adds that of reasonable price.
The Judgment of Thousands
cannot be gainsaid, especially when it remains
unchanged year after year, and when every one
to whom the subject is properly presented joins in
upholding it.
4,000 Emerson Pianos
are sold every year. Every one of these would
bring a testimonial if it were asked for. Every
one of 4.000 people know each year that the Emer-
son is as near perfection as it is now possible to
make a musical instrument. They know about its
beautiful, lasting tone, its artistic cases, its mod-
erate price. Wouldn't you like to know about
them, too?
The Bothner Action.
Good work and plenty of it is being done
in these days at Geo. Bothner's new action
factory, 131st street and Park avenue.
The Bothner actions have a strong hold in
the trade, and pains are being taken to
strengthen it at every opportunity.
The Montelius Piano Co. of Denver,
Col., secured one cent damages from Mrs.
Houghland in Judge Butler's court this
week. The corporation sued to recover a
piano and $25 for unlawful detention. It
secured the instrument and one cent.
A new Gabler catalogue will be issued
in the course of a few weeks.
This represents one of the quick-selling
styles of Majestic pianos-—Style "B "—a
specialty, made in five woods, prepared
for the 1897-8 trade. From all points of
the compass letters are pouring in to the
Spies warerooms in praise of the instru-
ments shipped since the season began, and
orders are plentiful, this Style B standing
in the front rank as a leader. Henry Spies
says he will be glad to respond promptly—
and he thinks he will be able to do so satis-
factorily—to all inquiries concerning it.
Business Conditions.
but it is bound to be developed and felt
to a larger degree next spring and next fall.
In a great many lines in the commercial
field in this city—in fact in the Eastern
States—there is a tendency to feel some
discouragement in regard to the slow rate
at which the improvement in business is
making itself manifest.
This is the more striking in view of the
encouraging reports which come to us from
the Middle West. One of the daily papers
in that section has made a careful and com-
prehensive canvass of trade conditions and
reports a great activity in all lines—in fact
an activity that has exceeded expectations.
It is not extraordinary that the Eastern
States should not immediately feel the
benefit of the vastly bettered conditions
which result from bountiful crops and
higher prices. The situation to-day is not
far different from the same period in '79.
At that time it took six months before the
full benefit of improved conditions was
felt in New York and the Eastern States.
Of course there has been a tremendous
movement toward good times in the East,
Conn flakes a Stir.
A big crowd of Christmas shoppers in
front of the Conn warerooms impeded
traffic to a considerable extent on Four-
teenth street yesterday. The object of at-
tention was a bandsman in uniform mani-
pulating the immense big tuba or helicon
in the window.
This instrument is one of the largest of
its kind ever made and one would think it
would take a man with an exceptional pair
of lungs to produce a sound from it, but
the Conn instruments are so "easy blow-
ing " that it is not as extraordinary a task
as it seems. There is one thing sure, the
people will know that the Conn headquar-
ters are'located at 23 East Fourteenth
street. That's what Conn is in business
for.
Ramacciotti strings,scrolls and panels are
evidently more popular than ever with
manufacturers. The report this week is,
"Busy all the time—day and night."