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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
THE "SMALL GOODS" TRADE
The Apollo Harp for Holiday Trade
It looks as if the coming- Holiday season
will be an unusually busy one, judging
from the orders which are flowing in on
the small goods people these days. At
Frank Scribner's there is a big call for the
Apollo harp and Regent zithers as well as
for the Brass Band Harmonicas and other
lines which he is handling. When The
Review called on Wednesday several
orders for unusually large shipments were
shown and these are coming in by every
mail. Mr. Scribner is as busy as he can
be. He has made certain promises about
the delivery of his goods and he is seeing
to it that his customers will not be disap-
pointed. If there is any one secret of pop-
ular Frank Scribner's success it is his ful-
fillment of promises. The members of the
trade understand that when an order is
placed with him, it is sure to be filled on
the day promised.
The unprecedented demand for the Conn
instruments during the last few months
has been nothing short of phenomenal.
The establishing of the store at No. 23
East 14th st., this city, for the sale of the
Conn instruments converted nearly every
professional musician in the metropolis
into an advocate of their use, for this
enterprise accorded the musicians in and
about New York an opportunity to com-
pare their old-time favorites, the Besson,
Courtois, etc., with the product of the
Conn factory, the Wonder and the Ameri-
can Model instruments, and the result is
that all the best musicians of the band and
orchestra fraternity of this city have sup-
plied themselves with the Conn instru-
Bodiesof beautifully engraved aluminum. Sound-boards
Beauty, Durability.
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ALUMINUM MUSICAL 1NST. CO, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
How the Graphophone Amused.
A GRAPHOPHONE, THREE NEW YORKERS, THE
MOON AND A BEAUTIFUL SEA DOWN
FLORIDA WAY.
They all Patronize C. Q. Conn.
of selected spruce 7 o n e
ments.
The soloists of the celebrated
bands, Sousa's, Liberates, Innes', Victor
Herbert's, Fanciulli's 71st Regiment Band,
Neyer's 7th Regiment Band, Bayne's 69th
Regiment Band, Conterno's, and the Chic-
ago Marine Band, are for. the most part
using the Wonder instruments, and a large
majority of the accompaniment and chorus
instruments are of the same celebrated
make. It is a well-known fact that the
directors of these famous bands regard the
increasing number of Conn instruments in
their organizations with the greatest com-
placency ; several of them recommend that
the Conn instruments be used in prefer-
ence to any others, for their perfect tune,
flexibility of tone, reliable mechanism, and
handsome models and finish appeal to the
senses and the artistic tastes of the musi-
cians and of their audiences.
There is nothing in the beauties of na-
ture and the joys of seaside life to compen-
sate a New Yorker for being far away from
the Bowery. One night recently, when
the harvest moon was assuming the re-
sponsibility of innumerable flirtations,
when even the athletic girl felt sentimen-
tal, and the hearts of staid and elderly
married couples waxed soft within them,
the patrons of a noted Florida seaside
hotel nocked out into the moonlight. To
speak more exactly, they flocked into quiet
and shadowy nooks from which they could
look out at the moonlit sea, without being
conspicuous themselves.
The high bank along the ocean was dot-
ted with figures in the order in which the
animals entered the ark. A murmur of
voices made an accompaniment to the mur-
mur of the waves. All the women who
were not flirting were talking sentimental-
ly about the beauty of the sea and the
deep happiness gained from true commu-
nion with nature far from the artificiality
of the city. The men were saying, "Yes,
yes."
Three young men came out of the hotel
and walked down to the landing of a flight
of steps leading to the sea. They had ar-
rived only that day, and the hotel register
verified the feminine verdict, based on
clothes, that the strangers were from New
York. As they walked toward the beach
the persons they passed noticed that one
of the men carried something big and
The Famous
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black, and they wondered in a listless way
what the thing might be.
The New York men settled themselves
comfortably on the steps and lighted
cigars. Evidently they, too, were about
to give themselves up to the mystery and
beauty of the night. Then suddenly on
the hushed air floated strains of music—
not the moonlight sonata, not a dreamy
serenade, but a popular vaudeville air,
with a clicking of clogs for chorus. The
women all said " How dreadful," biit the
men cheered up and chuckled " By Jove,
it's a graphophone."
A monologue followed the song, and a
May Irwin coon song came next. Then
two Irish comedians cackled old time jokes
into the moonlight, and a French singer of
catchy chansons did her stunt. Most of
the men moved nearer the steps. The
younger girls shamelessly followed, and
the wives naturally went with their hus*
bands. Only flirtations that were very
serious went on undisturbed, and only the
poet who had been sitting alone, and,
presumably, composing an immortal ode,
rose and retired in disgust, muttering
wrath fully something about sacrilege.
The graphophone was an unqualified
success. The moon was forced to take a
back seat. Even the waves deserted her,
and took advantage of high tide to creep
nearer the steps and chuckle over the
naughty jokes. When the New York men
finally picked up their graphophone and
sauntered off to bed a murmur of regret
went up from the crowd, and one of the
men Avho, earlier in the evening, had been
reduced to talking sentiment with his own
wife, said with a sigh:
" Don't you think we might go back to
the city by the last of the week, dear ? "
The » Bay State " Wares.
The extensive line of wares made by
John C. Haynes & Co., of Boston, and en-
titled the "Bay State," has attained a rep-
utation in the trade and in the musical
world for individual features of worth that
JOHN G HAYNES & CO.
MAKERS
These five instruments have been awarded 27 medals.
Musical Instruments of all kinds. Talking Machines,
Music Boxes, etc.
Brass Bonds, Drum Corps, and Orchestras Outfitted.
. S. S t e w a r t
MARVELOUS Geo.
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Bauer
Stewart Books, Music and JOURNAL.
S T E W A R T & BAUER, 1016 Chestnut St., ttdfioor). Philadelphia, Pa.
OF
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GUITARS, MANDOLINS, BANJOS,
ZITHERS, AND FLUTES.
Cluitar
Musical Instruments Repaired and Parts Supplied.
JOHN C. HAYNES & CO.,
453-459 Washington Street, Boston.