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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
factors to insure success in Great Britain
or Germany as in South America are
covered by the very points referred to in a
previous paragraph, namely, that the
tastes of the people must be studied. If
these are catered to there is no reason,
when the general all round excellence of
our instruments is compared with those
in Europe, why our manufacturers should
not build up a large market for their
products.
Thq changing conditions render it a
necessity that the American manufacturer
must hustle—not that he has not always
hustled in his way—but his way up to
date has not been the best way, as far as
the capture of foreign markets is con-
cerned.
Every student of present day conditions
must admit that domestic trade, undevel-
oped though it may be, is not sufficient to
keep busy the fast increasing plants, capa-
ble of gigantic outputs, which are in evi-
dence in all industries and in all sections
of our land. The foreign market is a
necessity, and it should not—and we feel
sure will not—be overlooked by the enter-
prising manufacturers in the music trade
industry.
'T'HE latest developments in Haines
Bros, affairs are to the effect that
some of the creditors are not in sympathy
with the course adopted by the assignee
in offering the contents of the factory for
sale, and are contemplating applying to
the courts for an order restraining the
assignee from taking this course, on the
grounds that it would conduce more to the
interest of the creditors and insure the re-
ceipt of a larger percentage of the moneys
due them, if the business were continued
temporarily, and the stock on hand
worked up and sold. The matter may
come before the courts next week, but
in the meantime a definite statement as to
what course will be pursued is not forth-
coming at the time of writing.
'"THE question who shall pay the war tax,
the merchants or the express com-
panies, is now ready for the Supreme
Court to decide. James B. Dill, counsel
for the Merchants' Association, has, in
co-operation with Joseph H. Choate,
special counsel, prepared the complaint in
the test case of William Crawford, of the
firm of Simpson, Crawford & Simpson,
against the Adams Express Company.
A package was taken to the express of-
fice in this city, addressed to a man in
Danbury, Conn. The company refused
to take it unless it bore a war stamp.
Hence the suit.
The argument for the injunction against
the express company will be made next
week. Mr. Choate will participate, and
the matter will be pushed rapidly.
The express companies are evidently
uneasy about the matter. They have
written the Attorney General seeking a
ruling on this question, and in reply have
received a communication in which it is
explained that the stamp question is a
matter entirely between the shipper and
the company; that the government is only
interested to know that the lawful tax is
paid, and has no concern in the contro-
versies between shippers and companies.
M E W YORK is en fete to-day in honor
of the arrival of our war ships which
so magnificently upheld American naval
traditions by vanquishing the pride of
Spain's navy in Santiago. Their achieve-
ment following that of Dewey's at Manila,
enforced from all nations of the world ad-
miration for the navy, and a greater
respect for the nation and the flag, and
unquestionably contributed to the early
conclusion of the war.
It is a great event we are celebrating to-
day, and New York does well to display
its appreciation of the remarkable work
accomplished by our navy. It is eminently
proper to make clear to the officers as well
as " the men behind the guns " that New
Yorkers are proud of their'triumphs and
gladly take an opportunity of paying
them the homage which is their due.
TTENRY B. FISCHER is always an in-
teresting talker, because he has
something interesting to say. A keen stu-
dent of affairs in the commercial and polit-
ical world, his opinions are of value and
worthy of especial consideration. In an
interview elsewhere in this paper he ex-
presses some views on the business outlook
as well as the enlargement of our national
domain that are well worth perusing.
n r H E Consolidated Steel & Wire Co.,
the name under which a number of
wire manufacturers combined in the form
of a trust some short time since, are not
having everything their own way. As is
customary, they started out by reducing
the wages of their employees twenty-five
per cent. The men, of course, objected,
quit work and at once inaugurated a live-
ly anti-trust campaign. Now the Attorney
General of Ohio, in which state the head-
quarters of the trust is located, is contem-
plating bringing a suit to compel the com-
pany to dissolve until he has positive
proof that the corporation is not a trust.
Evidently the trusts have troubles of their
own.
|\JEW YORK has been full of visitors
this week—visitors who are extreme-
ly welcome in the business sections of our
city. They come not alone for pleasure,
but also to purchase stock for the fall.
While the music trade is not as largely
represented among this army of enterpris-
ing merchants as we would wish, yet it is
a bright augury for the fall that the pur-
chases in the dry goods and other lines
are away above the average for this period
of the year. These merchants come from
various sections of the country, and it is
particularly noteworthy that they are all
unanimous about the good showing of the
crops in their respective localities and the
bright prospects for enlarged trade.
A Baldwin Purchase.
[Special to The Review.]
Cincinnati, O., Aug. 15, 1898.
President Julius Dexter of the Sinking
Fund Trustees, sold on Thursday nine
lots belonging to the city, and located
back of the Baldwin Piano Co. 's plant on
Gilbert avenue, to the Baldwin Co. The
price was a reasonable one, owing to the
fact that there were no other bidders be-
side the Baldwin Co.
Will
Retail Twenty-five Hun-
dred Pianos.
W. B. Price, manager of the retail de-
partment of the Cable Piano Co., Chicago,
in conversation with the Musical Times rep-
resentative a few days ago said: "Judg-
ing from the past year's retail trade I think
it probable that if general business revives,
as it apparently will, we will retail twenty-
five hundred pianos from our warerooms."
The Guild Piano.
[Special to The Review.]
Lynn, Mass., Aug. 15, 1898.
The Guild Piano Manufacturing Co.
have shipped the first carload of machinery
and material for Worcester, and will con-
tinue to forward from day to day until the
entire business, now located in this city,
has been moved to their new plant at 380
Chandler street. Worcester.
Fischers for a flaryland College.
The directors of the Western Maryland
Female College have ordered nine Fischer
uprights for early delivery. The order
was secured by Sanders & Stayman, of
Baltimore, the Fischer representatives in
that city.
Two Mason & Hamlin organs, style E,
have been ordered for the "St. Louis" and
the "St. Paul," of the American line,
which are about to be re-commissioned as
passenger ve.ssels. These ocean grey-
hounds have been in use during the war
as auxiliary cruisers, and gave a good ac-
count of themselves.