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THE MUSTC TRADE REVIEW
Growth of Chicago Trade.
The Indicator in a recent issue says:
The importance of Chicago as a piano-
making center and its gradual growth
from the year 1888, when Chicago-made
pianos first appeared on the market, is
shown in the following table of piano pro-
duction :
Deaths During 1898.
SOME OF
THE
PROMINENT
AWAY DURING
THE
MEN
WHO
PASSED
YEAR JUST CLOSED.
Jan.'18th—John H. Schoener, Reading,
Pa.
Feb. 4 t h Eli M. Bruce, of Estey &
Bruce, Philadelphia, Pa.
Feb. nth—Chas. F. Escher, Philadelphia,
1888 . . . .
6,000
Pa.
1889
7,500
Feb. 17th—C. H. Henning, of Henning
1890
9,coo
Piano
Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.
1891
12,000
Mar.
1st—Chas. Dieckman, connected
1892
14,000
with
Decker
Bros., Bremen, Germany.
1893
12,000
Mar.
12th—Samuel
S. Wright, organ
1894
15,000
builder,
Philadelphia,
Pa.
1895
20,000
Mar. 30th—Geo. H. Zincke, Brooklyn,
1896
TI,5OO
N.
Y.
1897
25,000
2
April
4th—C. G. Ericsson, father of C.
1898
3'- 5°
A.
Ericsson
of Ludwig & Co., New York.
Here is a substantial growth, indeed,
April
6th—S.
S. Stewart, of Stewart &
and one that is based on a foundation so
Bauer,
Philadelphia,
Pa.
solid that it cannot be shaken by any un-
April
25th—Prof.
Wm. Andrew, music-
toward circumstance that may arise. In
dealer,
Austin,
Minn.
1888 there were 6,000 pianos produced in
April 30th—Geo. W. Rose, piano tuner,
Chicago; in 1898, 10 years distant, there
Westfield,
Mass.
were about 30,000 pianos produced in this
April
30th—John
Lumsden, President of
city, an increase of 500 per cent. Can
vStarr
Piano
Co.,
St.
Louis, Mo.
anyone, in the face of this statement, ques-
May
24th—W.
C.
Antisell,
piano manu-
tion the importance of the town as a cen-
facturer,
San
Francisco,
Cal.
ter of the piano-making industry?
June 25th-—James Lewis, Springfield,
. In the manufacture of organs Chicago
Mass.
also occupies an enviable position, and the
July 30th—Rodolph Gross, of Wessell,
ratio of progress in the organ manufacture
Nickel
& Gross, New York.
has been quite as gratifying as it has been
vSept.
13th — Weston P. Wingate, for
in the piano line. The production of or-
many
years
agent for Geo. P. Bent, Kan-
gans fluctuates more than the production
sas
City,
Mo.
of pianos, because the latter has a more
Sept. 27th—Francis F. Capen, President
steady demand than the organ. The fol-
of
Brockport Piano Co., Brockport, N. Y.
lowing table will show that the Chicago
Oct. 13th—Hugh Hardman, founder of
organ output for 1898 is extremely satis-
factory, and while it proves that the organ Hard man, Peck & Co., New York.
Oct. 22nd—C. F. Zimmerman, inventor
is yet a very live factor in the musical life
of the nation, it also proves that Chicago, of the Autoharp, Philadelphia, Pa.
Nov. 23d—James K. M. Gill, vice-presi-
as an organ-producing center, .is the fore-
most city in the United States. It is a dent of the Straube Piano Co., Chicago,
fact that no other state, to say nothing 111.
about any other city, can show the number,
Dec. 9th—John Abbott, Newark, N. J.
or anything like the number, of organs
Dec. 23—Henry E. Hempstead, Kasson,
that the organ manufacturers of Chicago Minn.
place upon the market annually. The or-
Dec. 28—F. W. Zeidler, father of Paul
gan production for the io years from 1888 M. Zeidler of Strich & Zeidler, New York.
is shown herewith:
i838
20,000
1889 . . . . :
25,000
1890
1891
18
" .
2
9
• ••
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
. 40,000
50,000
55>°°°
40,000
35,000
40,000
30,000
50,000
62,500
Columbia Piano Co.'s Papers.
[Special to The Review.]
Albany, Dec. 28, 1898.
The Secretary of State received to-day
from New York a certificate of incorpora-
tion of the Columbia Piano Company so
damaged by fire that it could not be filed.
It was accompanied by a letter from the
postmaster saying that it had been damaged
while being transmitted through a postal
tube.
Trade Hark Rights.
No person can gain a right to use a
trade-mark, except by being the first to use
it, or by getting permission of the person
who was the first. The original right
arises wholly from priority of use. Regis-
tering the trade-mark does not strengthen
his right, nor can it confer the right upon
any person not previously entitled to it.
Registration simply furnishes the owner of
a trade-mark with a convenient means of
warning other people of his title, and with
a new source of evidence if his claims are
disputed. When he applies for registration
his application must be accompanied by a
written declaration to the effect that he has
at the time " a right to the use of the
trade-mark sought to be registered,
and that no other person, firm or cor-
poration has the right to such use,
either in the identical form or in
any such near resemblance thereto as
might be calculated to deceive." If a
person has registered a trade-mark, suppos-
ing that he had title to it by virtue of pri-
ority of use, but afterwards discovers that
he was mistaken in his supposition, his
clear legal duty is to abandon the trade-
mark. The real owner, he who was first
to use the mark, need not make applica-
tion anywhere in order to perfect his title,
but he may go into court and prevent any
other person from using his mark upon
the same kind of goods, whether the latter
has registered the trade-mark or not.
The business of Allstrom & Co., Red
Bank, N. J., has been purchased for
$17,000 by Frank C. Storch, formerly with
Sohmer & Co., who will continue it.
OPPORTUNITY FOR SALESMAN^"
An excellent position awaits a young man of
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field in which he will operate is New York
and vicinity. Gotham Warcrooms, care of The
Review, 3 East 14th Street, New York.
ACCOMPLISHED TRAVELER
A young man who has had an extended acquaintance
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A SPLENDID FACTORY
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A CT1VE SOLICITORS WANTED EVERYWHERE FOR
xA."The Story of the Philippines" by Murat Halstead, com-
missioned by the Government as Official Historian to the War
Depariment. The book was written in army camps at San
Francisco, on the Pacific with General Merritt, in the hospitals
at Honolulu, in Hong Kong, in the American trenches at
Manila, in the insurgent camps with Aguinaldo, on the deck of
the Olympia with Dewey, and in the roar of battle at the fall of
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all trashy unofficial war books. Outfit free. Address, F. T.
Barber, Sec'y., Star Insurance Bldg., Chicago.
Mehlin
Pianos
Factory, 461 to 467 West 40th St.,
New York.
'A Leader
among
Leaders."
Main Office and Warerooms :
27 Union Square,