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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Association Notes.
The nominating and membership com-
mittee of the National Piano Manufactur-
ers' Association of America, consisting of
Geo. A. Gibson, Wm. Dalliba Dutton and
Robt. Proddow, have, in accordance with
the constitution, made the following nom-
inations for officers to be elected at the
next annual meeting which meets in Wash-
ington on April 12th.
PRESIDKNT,
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A.
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT,
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT,
SECRETARY,
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TREASURER,
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H. Fischer, New York.
Handel Pond, Boston.
Geo. P. Bent, Chicago.
L. P. Bach, New York.
Geo. F. Blake, Boston.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
Henry F. Miller, Boston.
E. S. Conway, Chicago.
N. Stetson, New York.
C. H. Parsons, New York.
Calvin Whitney, Norwalk, O.
Fred. P. Stieff, Baltimore.
COMMITTEE ON GRIEVANCES:
Wm. E. Wheelock, New York.
Leopold Peck, New York.
John Evans, New York.
The selection of Mr. Adolpho H. Fischer
for president is an admirable one. Mr.
Fischer is a man well qualified by ability
and experience to fill with dignity and in-
telligence the office of chief executive of
the Association.
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Some of our contemporaries seem very
much exercised over the possibility of
being excluded from the business session
of the National Piano Manufacturers' As-
sociation. If the Association follows the
usual lines adopted by other organizations,
it will exclude all members of the press
from its business meetings, inasmuch as
the presence of newspaper men will neces-
sarily limit arguments through fear on the
part of some of being misquoted in their
statements, this possibly to their outside
injury.
We would respectfully make the sugges-
tion that there be an official Association
stenographer whose duty it would be to
take down all speeches and utterances
which occur at the business session. These
stenographic reports should be edited by a
press committee of the Association, who
in turn would hand duplicates to each
paper desirous of obtaining them.
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The plans for the meeting of the Nation-
al Piano Manufacturers' Association so far
matured are that through special arrange-
ments with the proprietor of the Hotel Ar-
lington all members will put up at that
hostelry.
The business meeting of the Association
will commence at 9 A. M. There will be
an adjournment at noon, and business will
be resumed again at half past two, closing
that evening with the banquet for which
each firm member will receive one extra
ticket; outside of that the dinner will cost
$8.00 a plate. Dealers as well as other
guests will be welcome.
At the business meeting the officers for
the ensuing year as well as the executive
committee and committee on complaints
and grievances will be elected. Reports
will be presented by the different commit-
tees and action taken thereon.
It is understood that the retail dealers of
Washington are preparing to entertain the
visiting manufacturers with a trip to Mt.
Vernon and other places of interest near
the Capitol City.
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It is believed that President McKinley
will be one of the Association guests at the
Banquet in Washington. Calvin Whitney,
who is close to the President, will undoubt-
edly use his influence to have the chief
magistrate present at the trade banquet.
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The Boston Music Trade Association
dinner has been postponed, as is announced
in another part of this paper. There has
been a great deal of sickness in the Boston
trade, and owing to the fact that a number
of the prominent members were incapaci-
tated by reason of illness, it was thought
best to postpone this event until some
later date.
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Where Will It End?
Another varnish combination, or trust,
made its appearance among the daily trust
crop on Thursday, the capital of which is
$30,000,000. There is already a rival var-
nish trust incorporated with capital of
$36,000,000, and still there are a number
of large concerns not affiliated with either
—in fact, only one of a number of Newark
concerns is included. The two trusts have
been engineered respectively by Mr. Flint
and Mr. Perkins.
Some one evidently has made a "good
thing" out of this respectable "gold brick"
scheme.
When it is known that the amount of
business done by the varnish manufacturers
in this country has never exceeded $13,-
000,000 in one year, it is pertinent to ask
where is the profit coming in for those who
have pooled issues in these total capital-
ized concerns of $66,000,000?
Of course we are told that the "trust "
is part of the great scheme of modern
civilization (God save the mark!) which
will land us in an Eldorado and so forth.
The riehlin Advance.
But shelving theory and facing fact, where
STEADY AUGMENTATION OF BUSINESS PROOF
in the name of our plutocratic gods will
THAT THE PURCHASING PUBLIC APPRE-
this system of financing land those who be-
CIATE GOOD VALUES.
come part of the scheme just referred to?
And yet apparently sensible men snap
This week's visit of The Review to the
at
the bait held out by the promoter.
Mehlin warerooms disclosed the fact that
They
seem to think that certificates of stock
retail business has been active enough to
will,
by
some process of legerdemain, turn
take for shipment nearly all of the instru-
in
due
time
into government bonds.
ments recently on exhibition, including
This
trust
mania is the most remarkable
several Colonial Grands, new style V.
form
of
epidemic
that has visited this
H. Paul Mehlin, asked for his report on
country
in
a
generation.
The people seem
trade conditions, announced that whole-
to
have
lost
their
heads
and
yet it needs
sale business at present is active, even be-
only
the
inoculation
of
the
virus
of common
yond expectations. The full Mehlin force
sense
to
restore
normal
conditions,
which
is hard at work, under Paul G. Mehlin's
are
bound
to
come
ere
long.
supervision, completing orders.
This would seem to indicate that piano
buyers in these prosperous days prefer, Hal let & Davis at Home and
Abroad.
when able, to pay a fair price for high-
standard products, rather than a small
The Hallet & Davis piano moves stead-
price for instruments of lesser durability ily on to greater conquests. This old-time
and grade. The growth of Mehlin busi- favorite is winning new admirers every
ness this season has been one of the most day. Hotel Somerset, Boston's new and
hopeful signs of the times, and must be elegant hostelry, has nothing but Hallet &
highly gratifying to the firm members and Davis pianos in all of its parlors.
their friends.
We may add also that in Uncle Sam's
The new Mehlin catalogue, referred to new possessions the Hallet & Davis piano
at length in The Review of March 11, tells bids fair to be as great a favorite as in the
its own story of Mehlin progress. Dealers mother country. A large shipment of
who are interested in the maintenance of Hallet & Davis pianos was made this week
a high trade standard, should, when con- to Honolulu.
sulting catalogues, examine the latest
Mehlin book. It is likely to be of service,
C. H. W. Foster Returns.
if the statements made therein are duly
C. H. W. Foster is back again in Boston
noted.
after a journey West to Chicago, where he
attended the annual meeting of the Clay-
Carnegie's Gift.
ton F. Summy Co. Mr. Foster says busi-
Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate, has ness conditions in the West are brighten-
notified the officials of Braddock, Pa., that ing and that Mr. Summy reports an in-
he has donated $12,000 for a pipe organ to creased demand for better grade instru-
be placed in the Carnegie auditorium at ments.
that place. The instrument must be ready
Nothing New to Report.
for use by June 1st. It is the intention to
Rumors continue to multiply regarding
give free organ recitals weekly.
the alliance of important firms with de-
partment stores, but as a matter of fact
The W. W. W. W.
there is nothing to report regarding any-
Will tell their story in our next issue,
new deals,