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V O L . XXX. No. 2 0 .
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, May 19,1900.
Keeping up the Record.
OUR EXPORT TRADE FOR APRIL REACHES THE
$ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 MARK EVERY BRANCH OF
INDUSTRY LENDS ITS AID.
[Special to The Review.l
Washington, D. C., May 18, 1900.
The fiscal year 1900 continues to break
all records in the matter of expectations.
April is an example of this fact. The
total exports in April, as just announced
by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, are
$118,926,507, which is $20,000,000 more
than in any preceding year, $30,000,000
more than April of last year and double
that of April 1893. Never before has
April, which is usually alight export month,
reached the $100,000,000 mark in its ex-
ports.
Every branch of industry including mu-
sical instruments, lends its aid to this in-
crease. The total figures for the month of
April, have not yet been sufficiently an-
alyzed to show the exact increase in each
class, but an analysis of those for the month
of March shows that agricultural exports in
that month were $18,000,000 greater than
in the corresponding month of last year,
that manufactures were $8,000,000 in ex-
cess of the corresponding month of the
preceding year; that products of the mine
were nearly 50 per cent, in excess of those
of the corresponding month of 1899, while
products of the forests, the fisheries, and
those grouped as miscellaneous all showed
an increase. The advance in prices of
cotton, corn, oats, wheat and provisions
accounts in part for the increase in the
value of agricultural exports, while there
is also an increase in quantity exported,
especially in cotton, and the advance in
values also accounts in part for the great
increase in exports of manufactures.
It is now apparent that in all the great
classes of our exports the record of the
year 1900 will exceed that of any earlier
year.
In the nine months ending with
March exports of agricultural products
were $18,000,000 greater than those of the
corresponding months of 1899; manufac-
tures were $70,000,000 greater than those
of the same months of the preceding fiscal
year; products of the mine exceeded those
of the corresponding months of 1899 by 33
per cent. ; those of the forest showed a
like increase; and fisheries and miscellane-
ous also showed a gain over the corres-
ponding months of the preceding fiscal
year, and with the phenomenal increase of
$30,000,000 in April, 1900, as compared
with April, 1899, it is quite apparent that
the record of the year which ends less than
sixty days hence will exceed that of any
earlier year in our history.
The following shows the value of the
exports in April of each year from 1890 to
1900:—1890, $63,495,791;
976; 1892, $75,954,962;
1891, $70,906,-
1893, $59,873,346;
1894, $64,124,812; 1895, $65,255,845; 1896,
$71,089,665; 1897, $77,648,786; 1898, $99,-
314,816; 1899, $88,794,873; 1900, $118,926,-
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An American flusic System.
[Special to The Review.l
Springfield, Mass., May 15, 1900.
A. W. Richardson has bought out the
music department of the King-Richardson
Co., of this city, and joined it with two
school-book houses, the H. P. Smith Pub-
lishing Co., of New York, and the Frank-
lin Publishing Co., of New York and Chi-
cago. Mr. Richardson is president of the
new concern, which is known as Richard-
son, Smith & Co., with headquarters at
135 Fifth avenue, New York city. The
other officers are: first vice president, H.
P. Smith; second vice-president, J. F.
Ahearn; secretary, V. M. Allen; treasurer,
H. D. Harrower. The section of the King-
Richardson business which Mr. Richardson
has secured is the American music system,
which has gained a foothold in many of
the large cities of the country, although
one of the latest of the systems of this
kind. Mr. Richardson retains his interest
in the King-Richardson Co. and will con-
tinue to make this city his home.
Off for Paris.
William R. Gratz, president of the Sym-
phonion Co., has made all arrangements
for a start en route to Europe on the "Au-
gusta Victoria," which leaves here on Wed-
nesday next. He informed The Review,
during a brief talk at the warerooms on
Tuesday, that the factory plant, etc., of the
Symphonion Co. will be transferred from
this city to Asbury Park not later than
July 1. The offices'and warerooms will re-
main here for convenience in the transac-
tion of business.
Baldwin Enterprise.
The Baldwin Piano Co. will exhibit dur-
ing the summer duplicates of the pianos
which they have sent to the Paris Expo-
sition. At their branch house in Indiana-
polis, there is now on display a handsome
Baldwin upright in satin wood case special-
ly designed by Horace Moran of New
York. It is a veritable replica of one of
the instruments now in Paris.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS
Visit the Weaver Plant.
This week the first Municipal Conven-
tion, consisting of delegates from cities of
the third class in the State of Pennsylva-
nia, met in York. There were about sixty
delegates in attendance, consisting of may-
ors and other city officials from every part
of the state. Mr. M. B. Gibson, president
of the Weaver Organ & Piano Co., is a
member of Select Council in York and
served on the entertainment committee.
After interchanging views and discuss-
ing various topics pertaining to the better
government of municipalities, the dele-
gates were taken out in an elegant train of
vehicles to see the historic town of York
and a few of the principal and busiest in-
dustries of the city. The first place to
claim their attention was the large and
thoroughly equipped factory of the Weaver
Organ & Piano Co. This factory was
running to its fullest capacity, as it has
been for years.
The delegates were received by Mr. W.
S. Bond, the secretary and treasurer, and
their genial office force, and all voted this
plant one that any city of the third class
or any other class might well feel proud of.
The delegates expressed great satisfac-
tion with the privilege of seeing where the
famous Weaver pianos and organs are pro-
duced with which they were all familiar
owing to their great popularity throughout
the great Keystone State.
It was decided to hold annual meetings
and the next Municipal Convention of the
State of Pennsylvania will be held in Erie,
when the musical industries of that city
will no doubt receive the attention of the
delegates.
Hallet & Davis File Answer.
[Special to The Review.]
Akron, O., May 14, 1900.
The Hallet & Davis Piano Company
have filed an answer to the petition of A.
B. Smith, who sues for $5,000 for alleged
libel. He claimed that his reputation had
been injured by reason of a letter written
by the defendant to Justice P. H. Hoff-
man. The company say that the letter
was in answer to a dunning communica-
tion from Squire Hoffman and that it was
a privileged communication.
The Henry Keller & Sons products are
in steady demand. The force at the Rider
avenue factory is kept busy on current
orders, including each of the 1900 styles,
all of which are selling well.