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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
per which carries among its advertisers dis-
tinguished business concerns, it is hardly to
be expected. If such methods obtain in this
trade, then surely decency is sidetracked for
baseness.
The man who will stoop to malignant, base,
premeditated injury to an honorable manufac-
turer, is not fit to be mentioned in the same
week as the respectable trade journalist. Such
doings are unprincipled, and the amazing part
of it is that manufacturers whose methods are
honorable, can countenance such work by
supporting the man who stands at the head of
the institution spreading such leprous spots
upon the fair escutcheon of the trade. If
such methods are to win, then good bye to
decency, to honor, to self-respect, to every-
thing which makes a man and makes an in-
dustry.
If brains are to be supplanted by brass, if
highwaymen methods are to replace legitimate
journalism, then it is high time that we par-
aded under another garb.
A thief in the night follows a more
honorable pursuit than a man who masque-
rades under the fair title of journalism and
plots to stab a legitimate business to its
heart.
And you will call this brains?
If it be so, then thank God the rest of us
have less brains.
Q N next Wednesday evening, Jan. 26th,
Chickering & Sons will tender a magnifi-
cent reception to Professor Franz Rummel
and wife at Chickering Hall. This reception
will be a notable one. The hall will be
decorated in honor of the distinguished
visitors to our shores. Sebrecht, the well-
known florist, will have charge of the florai
decorations, while Sherry will cater to the
more substantial wants of the guests and
Lander's famous orchestra will discourse
sweet music for the occasion.
The Rummel reception will be a great af-
fair. In the meanwhile J. Burns Brown, who
has complete management of the recep-
tion, is working day and night to make it one
of the most notable social functions ever giv-
en in recognition of art in the history of the
metropolis. The list of guests who will be
present on that occasion' will, of course, in-
clude the elite of our city.
AN extended account is given in another
portion of this paper of the ceremonies
which occurred at the starting of the great
electric plant at Dolgeville. That deep in-
terest is manifested in the harnessing of
natural forces, so that they may be controlled
by the will of man, is evidenced in the fact
that extended reports of the Dolgeville cele-
bration appeared in all of the leading papers
in New York City and elsewhere. It was
considered of enough importance as an in-
dustrial enterprise for the Associated Press to
handle the matter as a leading news item.
Q U T in Denver there has been recently a
peculiar battle. All of the department
stores organized and agreed not to patronize
the local press of Denver unless the publish-
ers lowered their advertising rates thirty per
cent.
The papers combined and refused to accede
to the demands of the merchants, claiming
if they permitted them to dictate in such a
matter, there would be no end to their de-
mands, and that the papers themselves would
lose their independence, and be a sort of an
appendage to the department stores.
To the glory of newspaper men it may be
said that the Denver publishers saw the ad-
vertisements of every department store dis-
appear from their columns, and refused to
knuckle to the merchants' arbitrary wishes.
The tide soon turned their way, the sympa-
thy of the people was aroused to such an ex-
tent that they refused to patronize the de^
partment stores, and in a short time the
stores were occupied solely by the employees
of the establishment.
Eastern wholesale houses then began to show
their interest in the matter as they carried
large accounts with the Denver merchants,
and the result was, instead of the newspaper
men being forced to capitulate to the de-
mands of the merchants, the latter were
mighty glad to get representation in the col-
umns of the press at the old rates.
It doesn't do to monkey with a buzz saw,
and it doesn't pay to attempt to dictate too
strongly as to the editorial or business policy
of newspaper institutions.
The men behind
them usually have ideas of their own.
T H E R E is a great deal of real news in this
issue of The Review. There is in every
issue for that matter, because The Review
is every sense a purveyor of news and
not of rumors. The Review's hand is on the
trade pulse in every section of the Union, and
its beatings are carefully noted.
In fact
truthfulness and accuracy have been the cor-
nerstones of Review success.
T H E R E was a little music introduced at the
Harlem Philharmonic last Thursday, which
was not quite harmonious. Just a little piano
war at the concert at which Mr. and Mrs.
Henschel appeared. Harry Fleck won, how-
ever, and the Everett piano was played.
T H E C. C. Mellor Co., successors to Mellor
& Hoene, Pittsburg, Pa., have large ads in
the Pittsburg papers announcing a " Grand
Dissolution Sale." As will be seen by an an-
nouncement in another part of this paper,
this concern has been fortunate enough to
secure the agency for the Steinway for Pitts-
burg.
T H I S is from the Musical Age, and as an
example of newspaper enterprise, it is un-
paralleled in the annals of this trade.
In a column and a half of descriptive mat-
ter, all of which bears upon "a personal
test" of the new "baby grand" Everett, and
speaks of its "amazing, silver and crystal-
like quality," the Musical Age among other
things says:
At the invitation of Mr. A. M. Wright,
manager of the Everett warerooms in New
York, and Mr. Melbourne A. Marks, super-
intendent of the Everett factory in Boston,
we called on Tuesday of this week at the
Fifth avenue warerooms and examined the
new Everett "baby grand," which had just
been received
The same remarkable evenness of scale
that so distinguished the Everett concert
grand was immediately apparent in that new
seeker for public favor, the Everett "baby
grand."
The richness of this article lies in the fact
that the Everett "baby grand" has not as yet
been located in the warerooms of the Everett
Company, and it is hardly necessary to say
that Mr. Wright would not send out invita-
tions to inspect something which is not yet
in evidence. Hence the remarkable enter-
prise of our contemporary.
DENT, yclept Geo. P., the only and origi-
nal, is fertile in resources, and it is a
mighty cold day, with the wind blowing
violently as well, when he doesn't turn a point
to his own advantage, and the augmentation
of the "Crown" fame. A thoroughly wide-
awake business man and a brilliant of
Kohinoor magnitude is Geo. P. Bent.
IF Senator Grady's revision of the Ellsworth
Bill relating to newspapers should go on
the statutes—in which immunity from the law
is given to any person who should chastise
the libeler with a club for being libeled and
then apologizes for it—it is believed that
Marc Blumenberg will immediately purchase
an eiderdown couch in order that he may rest
easy.
P VERY point that can be studied in the me-
chanical department of a paper to improve
its typographical appearance is always amove
in advance. The Review is improved some-
what this week by an entirely new dress of
type.
There was quite a gathering of Steinway
agents at the Hall this week—Otto Wagner,
of Mexico City; Ernest Urchs, of Cincinnati;
Wm. Grinnell, of Detroit, and Ollie K.
Houck, of Memphis.