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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
is stung by one then a sting from another
will neutralize the poison of the first.
It may be that it is a lack of gray matter
on our part that does not permit of our
discovering any logic whatsoever in the
argument made by Presto. If it were true
it would indeed be a sad commentary upon
existing conditions in this trade and upon
the strength of the other trade journals.
Seriously, affairs of ancient history have
nothing whatsoever to do with the trade
paper battle ground of to-day. We must
judge papers by their merits of the pres-
ent year and not of many years past. This
is the only proper, just, and equitable rule
to apply.
In days agone we have broken many a
lance, not all of which have been in friend-
ly tilt, with John C. Freund. With Marc
A. Blumenberg we have always occupied
antipodal relations, inasmuch as Mr.
Blumenberg embodies a crystallization, as
it were, of principles for which we have
an utter abhorrence, and with which there
pan be no armistice declared even tempo-
rarily. However, be that as it may,
Presto has made direct and emphatic, as
well as criminal allegations—allegations
which our contemporary will be unable to
prove.
Passing our contemporaries in review,
there is none in which we recognize a
stronger or more active opponent than the
Music Trades, edited by John C. Freund.
It is an energetic, wide-awake, forceful
journal, and, moreover, we believe it gives
excellent value to its advertisers. If there
is a taint of dishonor upon its operations
we are unaware of it. Mr. Freund has
consistently upheld the interests of the
trade, and against tremendous obstacles
has worked up a valuable newspaper prop-
erty.
As Presto seems desirous of turning the
tide of sympathy Blumenbergward, and
as we say the fight should be made on the
issues of to-day, we would ask what it says
of the Annex's attack upon the Knabes,
upon the Esteys, the publication of filthy
poetry, attacks upon Krell, the defaming
of the dead, the slurs upon the Kroeger
Piano Co., it's insolent reference to Alfred
Dolge, to the late William Steinway as
well—who probably poured more money
into the Courier lap than any other man—
sneeringly, as "William, the Steinway."
But why continue to particularize? The
list is endless. And these are conditions
which confront us to-day, and not dead
and buried issues of the years gone by.
Mason Returns
FROM A JAUNT WEST.
J. R. Mason, secretary of the Sterling
Co., who has been absent on a Western
trip, reached New York Tuesday night.
When seen by The Review regarding mat-
ters in the West he said:
" I visited the Omaha Exposition, and,
of course, you cannot compare it in any
way with the Chicago Fair, yet it is very
creditable indeed from every standpoint,
and is deserving of a much greater patron-
age than it appears to be receiving. The
buildings are very good, and the exhibits
as well. Of course, the war has interfered
seriously with the number of visitors, and
J. R. MASON.
it is getting along too late now to hope
for a great daily attendance. There is
business, too, in Omaha, among the music
houses. In the far West things are rather
quiet as yet. In Colorado, matters are
perhaps not as lively in a business way as
farther East, yet everything on the whole
points to a very excellent business for the
fall. We all expect it, and I feel confident
it will come."
Kendall Attempts Suicide.
[Special to The Review.]
Joliet, 111., Aug. 9, 1898.
Clinton C. Kendall, a music dealer and
representative business man of Joliet, cut
his throat at noon to-day and will die.
Kendall had been accused of eloping
and leaving a wife and three daughters.
Chicago wholesale piano dealers had
him arrested on his return to the city to-
day. While he was on the way to the
police station he slashed his throat with a
knife before the officers could interfere.
Big Government Order.
Leon Du Chattelier, manager for the
Jerome Thibouville-Lamy products, has
just received an order from the United
States Government for 2,000 trumpets and
2,000 crooks for use in the army. This
concern
have practically supplied the band
F. S. Cable, of the Chicago Cottage
instruments
for the French army for a
Organ Co., who has been spending his va-
long
term
of
years,
and their instruments
cation at his old home, is back again at
are
celebrated
the
world
over.
his desk much benefited by his rest.
T H E old Behr warerooms at 81 Fifth
avenue, where a modest fortune was
expended in decorating, are now the abid-.
ing place of the Decorative Plant Co. This
concern imports perpetuated natural
palms, ferns, grasses, flowers, etc. While
there are a number of concerns which
make the perpetuated plants—petrified, as
some call them—yet I want to say that the
Decorative Plant Co. do by far the best
work in this line that I have ever seen, in
fact, the effect of their plants is true to
nature, and they are difficult to distinguish
from the natural plants. They have none
of the artificial look so common in pre-
pared plants.
I wonder the dealers do not make their
warerooms more attractive by placing a
few plants about them. An aesthetic and
attractive appearance can be secured by
an arrangement of a few palms and a rug
or two. If you take the perpetuated plants
there is no further expense, no care
needed.
The Decorative Co., of which Herman
Hetzer is president do marvelous work in
this line.
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A MONUMENT to Francis Scott Key,
**• author of " T h e Star Spangled Ban-
ner" was unveiled last Tuesday afternoon
in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Md.
The ceremonies were elaborate and were
preceded by a parade made up of a bat-
talion of the Fourth Maryland Regiment,
societies, patriotic orders, grand army
posts, etc., headed by the Sixth U. S. Ar-
tillery Band. Henry Watterson, of Ken-
tucky, delivered the chief oration, and an
address was also delivered by Mrs. Donald
McLean, Regent of the N. Y. Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Mrs. Folger McKinsey, of Baltimore, read
an appropriate ode, and a monster chorus
sang " The Star Spangled Banner." The
act of unveiling was performed by Miss
Julia McHenry Howard, of Baltimore, a
great-granddaughter of Key.
The monument is the work of Mr. Alex-
ander Doyle of New York, and the fund
for its purchase was raised by the Key
Monument Association of Frederick. A
bronze statue of Key, 9 feet high, stands
on a 16-foot pedestal of Massachusetts
granite. Key is represented on shipboard.
Upon the band that girdles the pedestal
beneath his feet is the inscription, " 'Tis
the Star Spangled Banner." The attitude
of the figure is one of exultation. With
his right hand Key is represented as
pointing to the flag and with the other
holding aloft the hat that he had just
snatched from his head in reverential
salute.