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V O L . XXIX. No. 2 0 .
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, NOY. 11,1899.
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the manufacturing department as well as
W. L. Bush's Views.
dry houses having a capacity of 300,000
[Special to The Review.]
Speaking of business conditions with
feet of lumber per month in addition to
Leominster, Mass., Nov. 6, 1899.
the Bush & Gerts Co., Chicago, W. L.
large
store
houses
and
lumber
sheds,
the
All the piano case factories in this city-
Bush, secretary and general manager says:
are over-crowded with orders. If their whole covering an area of about four acres. "You may well imagine the relief it is to
From
150
to
200
people
find
constant
and
capacity were double that of the present
those connected with the management of
time they would have trouble in filling remunerative employment, both in the our business, to be in a position to once
mills
and
outside.
The
output
from
the
their orders. There is simply an unpre-
concern is shipped not only to the more prosecute with vigor the sale and ad-
cedented demand for piano cases.
leading
piano manufacturers throughout vancement of the Bush & Gerts piano,
The affairs of the Jewett Piano Co. re-
after having confronted for four months
main about the same. There is still hope the United States, but extensive shipments a condition of affairs which temporarily
of a reorganization of this concern with are also made to all the principal cities of paralyzed every branch of the system
F. J. Woodbury as general manager. His Europe as the sounding boards and other which we have established in our business,
friends in the trade will rejoice to see him products from this factory have a world- which has grown to proportions in which
wide reputation as the best manufactured.
at the head of the concern.
we took a great deal of pride, and always
J. H. Platt, who was so long associated The history of the concern is one to be proud endeavored not only to maintain, but in-
with the Chicago Music Co., at the head of of. Less careful pilots have seen their crease.
their small goods department, has closed ships of finance wrecked during the past
"The strike, which we contested so bit-
up his home for the winter in Chicago and few years, but this concern has made the
voyage
a
success
and
more
than
doubled
terly
as a matter of principle, in our de-
taken his family to Leominster, where in
an
already
extensive
business
and
they
termination
to run our own business, and
April last he purchased an equal interest
feel
more
encouraged
than
at
any
time
dur-
control
absolutely
every feature of our
with A. W. Colburn, the long established
ing
their
business
career,
for
the
outlook
business,
which
necessarily
should be in
manufacturer of appurtenances relative to
is
far
better.
The
copartners
are
of
our
the
control
of
those
who
furnish
the capi-
musical instruments of every description.
most
progressive
and
enterprising
men
tal
and
the
brains
with
which
to
conduct
Mr. Platt also bought a one-third interest
and
the
success
which
has
attended
their
the
business,
will
probably
go
down
in the
with Colburn & Stewart in the Horn and
past
efforts
is
but
an
earnest
of
still
great-
piano
history,
as
the
most
tenaciously
main-
Celluloid Comb and Hair-Pin industry.
er
achievements
in
the
future.
tained
battle
against
Organized
Labor,
that
He says that he would be pleased to see
has
ever
taken
place
in
the
piano
trade,
any of his old musical friends who might
although the outcome has not been entirely
Steinertone Success.
be in the East at any time.
DEMONSTRATED IN BOSTON LEASE OF FAC- what we had hoped for or looked for, owing
to the exceptional strength gained by the
TORY QUARTERS SIGNED.
Julius Breckwoldt & Co.
Word received here yesterday by Mr. Union in the past couple of years, and the
apparent lack of organized movement on
It must be a matter of pride or at Morris Steinert, congratulated him heart- the part of the manufacturers, who are
least excusable self-congratulation for Mr. ily on the success of his new instru- jointly interested, and who will each in
Julius Breckwoldt to look back over his ment, the Steinertone, at its first pub- turn, or as a body, associated together for
career, starting, as he did, in a small way lic exhibition before a Boston audi- mutual protection, have to meet the same
but a few years ago, and working his way ence, by Gebhardt, with the Boston issue which confronted us. What the ulti-
up to realize that to-day the firm of Julius Symphony orchestra, on Thursday even- mate outcome will be, it is hard to predict,
Breckwoldt & Co. stands among the largest ing. The concert was given in the but we, the Bush & Gerts Piano Co., under
of the piano supply trade in the United Saunders Theater, Cambridge. The re- the present existing conditions, and with
States, says the Dolgeville Republican. port given is that the musical qualities the great majority of expert, skilled work-
In April, 1896, Mr. Breckwoldt purchased of the Steinertone were beautifully dis- men, undoubtedly holding membership in
the business for the manufacture of sound- played by Mr. Gebhardt, and that the the Union, feel that we have reached the
ing boards, bars, guitar and mandolin tops, audience was very appreciative. A lease only successful conclusion of the struggle,
from Alfred Dolge, for whom he worked for of the five-story factory building on Park without absolutely discontinuing our bus-
twenty years. This business was enlarged street, where the assembling of the action iness.
from time to time, facilities extended, parts has so far been carried on, has been
"We are pleased to state that the dealers
and scope of trade operations widened. In signed by Mr. Steinert for a term of five all over the country are sending us in
years,
and
the
work
of
fitting
instruments
the spring of this year Mr. Hermann Giese
letters of sympathy, and many of them
and Mr. Breckwoldt joined forces, adding with the new action will be carried on consider our present adjustment of matters
extensively.—New
Haven,
Conn.,
Pal-
the Giese wire mills to the concern and
a virtual victory for the Bush & Gerts
thereby controlling the celebrated Westig ladium.
Piano Co."
wire for this country and Canada, they
Frank L. Youse, the well-known repre-
being the American representatives of the sentative of the Baldwin Piano Company,
Business is booming at the piano action
great Giese wire mills. The firm also of Indianapolis, Ind., and who has a large factory of Grubb & Kosegarten, Nassau,
of friends in Peoria, was united in
utilize the extensive building formerly number
marriage at Muncie, Ind., on Oct. 17, to N. Y. In several departments they are
operated by the Tanner Manufacturing Mrs. Grace Morrison, of Salt Lake City, obliged to labor nights in order to keep up
Co., occupying four immense buildings for Utah.
with the work.
Leominster News.