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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
The Mason & Hamlin Co.
Colorado To Kill Trusts.
LEGISLATURE ACTS FAVORABLY ON A MES-
SAGE FROM GOV. THOMAS URGING DRASTIC
LAW COMBINE MAGNATES DENOUNCED.
Denver, Col., Feb. 21, 1899.
Gov. Thomas to-day sent a message to
the Legislature calling attention to the
trusts now forming in this State. He said:
"An enactment whereby forfeiture and
dissolution shall follow the direct or in-
direct merger of any home corporation into
a general combination of kindred interests
in other States, by whatever name such
combination shall be known, is urgently
demanded. If the remedy suggested be
severe, it must be remembered that the
disease is desperate.
" Many of our sister commonwealths are
helpless in the presence of creatures
they have brought into being but can no
longer control. Let us profit by their
mournful example."
In conclusion Gov. Thomas says :
" No land can prosper or be free whose
property is congested, whose earnings are
not diffused, and whose wage earners are
dependent upon the pleasure of artificial
creations officered and controlled by strang-
ers familiar only with terms of profit and
loss.
"The pen that signs a check for the erec-
tion of a church or a library is the same
that approves the vouchers of the lobbyist.
The hand that gives freely to the cause of
temperance in New York is the hand that
regulates the output of Kentucky distiller-
ies. The influence that deplores the deca-
dence of public morality is frequently the
same which tempts the public servant to
his downfall.
" It is not true that legislation designed
to protect independent effort and com-
petition will discourage investments. On
the contrary it invites them. Capital goes
where it is needed and where profit attends
its investment."
The State Senate to-day with but one
dissenting vote passed the Phelps anti-
trust bill carrying out the suggestions in
the Governor's message. It now goes to
the House, where it is assured an over-
whelming majority.
Gould & Co. of London, who recently
purchased the copyright of the famous
song "For All Eternity," are advertising
it liberally in the English capital by means
of a sandwich man. This, in the opinion of
our esteemed contemporary, Music, is
probably the first time this method of
advertising has been adopted in the music
trades.
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THEIR GREAT FACTORIES AT CAMBRIDGE AMONG THE BEST EQUIPPED IN THE COUNTRY
RAPID EXPANSION OF THEIR TRADE WILL TEST THEIR RESOURCES THIS
YEAR—SOME MASON & HAMLIN TESTIMONY.
The Mason & Hamlin factories, an il-
lustration of which appears on this page,
are at Cambridge, Mass. They occupy
about 75,000 square feet of land and in-
clude twelve buildings. The main build-
ing embraces two wings of five great floors
each. A new building has recently been
erected for the piano department. Each of
the buildings is provided throughout with
the most modern machinery. Up-to-date
methods prevail in all departments.
THE
testimony as to the merits of the Mason &
Hamlin products is coming in continuously.
One of the latest is from J. Frank Dona-
hoe, the eminent organist of Boston, re-
cently organist of the Catholic Cathedral,
and one of Boston's leading organ teachers.
Here is the letter:
Boston, Jan. 31, 1899.
Mason & Hamlin Co.
Gentlemen:—I am using the Mason &
Hamlin Liszt organ (with Pedal Bass) for
my organ teaching, and consider it an ideal
jftrf-
For varnishing, photography, wood carv-
ing, and other branches of the general
work, there are separate buildings. Near-
ly all of these structures are of brick, the
total amount of floor-space occupied being
116,656 square feet. A track of the Boston &
Albany R. R. runs into the factory yards.
There is a plentiful supply of fire pumps,
reservoirs, hydrants, hose carriages and
other modern conveniences and safeguards.
The main engine is a Brown & Corliss.
There are also several smaller engines,
giving, in the aggregate, seven hundred
horse power.
From the above it is plainly to be seen
that the facilities at the Mason & Hamlin
factories will enable the firm to meet a big
demand this year—a demand, by the way,
that is already very much in evidence.
The wholesale business in pianos and or-
gans is increasing with rapid strides at
home and abroad; the retail trade is ex-
panding in every direction and convincing
instrument tor the purpose, and also excel-
lent for organ practice. The Manuals and
Pedals are of the proper scale, and the
registers are logically arranged and prop-
erly labeled (a very important feature and
one heretofore overlooked by the builders
of reed organs). In short, an instrument
fit for an Organist's use in every par-
ticular.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) J. Frank Donahoe.
Another letter just received from Joseph
Joachim, director of the Berlin Royal High
School of Music and founder of the
Joachim String Quartet, furnishes a strong
indorsement. Joachim writes as follows:
"The Mason & Hamlin organs, which
are being used in the Royal High School
of Music, are distinguished for their
extraordinary pureness and fullness of
tone, as well as for their quick response
and elastic touch. They are of exception-
al value in the drawing-room, as well as in
the concert hall, and can well take the
place of the pipe-organ. Without hesi-
tation, I count them the very best pro-
duced in reed-organ manufacture."
THE PIANO AND ORGAN SUPPLY CO.,
93-125 RACINE AVE., CHICAGO.
Manufacturers of
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