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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
melting and moulding of the blanks which
Southern Roads Raise Rates.
store up the melodious harmonies repro-
duced by the instruments, the making of
The Southern Classification Committee,
the records themselves and many other which makes the freight rates for the roads
unique operations.
in the territory south of the Ohio River and
As they were about to leave, these gen- east of the Mississippi River,has followed the
tlemen each dictated into the Graphophone course of the lines north of the Ohio and
grand impressions of his visit, all agreeing east of the Mississippi in making a change
that they previously had no conception of in their freight schedules which amounts
the immensity of the plant nor the magni- to a very pronounced increase of rates for
tude of the industry. They expressed their freight going into Southern territory. This
amazement that so many buildings, so new classification went into effect on Feb-
much machinery, such a large number of ruary I St.
men and women should be required in or-
It affects very seriously a number of
der to turn out sufficient product to meet commodities shipped from this section of
the market demand for these instruments. the country into the South.
The plant of the American Graphophone
The Merchants' Association has filed a
Co. is the largest manufactory of talking protest against this new classification. The
machines in the world. It is located at Association has also asked the Southern
Bridgeport, Conn., the principal manufac- Classification Committee to meet repre-
turing city in Connecticut, where skilled sentatives of the Merchants' Association
labor is plentiful. Over 1,000 men and and other shippers for the purpose of dis-
women are employed. Four acres of floor cussing the general situation, suggesting
space are occupied in buildings each 400 that the meeting be called for Feb. 15, and
feet long and 60 feet wide. From this fac- be held either in this city or at Old Point
tory graphophones are sent out to all por- Comfort, the latter as a place mid-way be-
tions of this hemisphere, as well as to Eu- tween the Southern lines and the Northern
rope, Asia and Africa, and every quarter of shippers, and therefore convenient to both.
the globe.
The Trunk Lines held a meeting of this
character
in this city, Jan. 22, at which
E. N. Martin, who is making a leading
specialty of piano and organ stools and shippers voiced their complaints, and it is
benches, finds that his new catalogue is suggested by the Merchants' Association
bringing good results from all quarters. to the Southern lines that this meeting
He challenges comparison with any in the might be taken as a basis for the meeting
to be called.
matter of styles and of prices.
Mehlin
Pianos
Factory, 461 to 467 West 40th St.,
New York.
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