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V O L . XXXI. N o . 1 6 . Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York, Oct. 20,1900.
Music Trade Hen and the Sound Money Parade
A meeting of music trade men of this city is called for next Wednesday afternoon,
Uct. 24, at 3 p. m., at the Commercial League Sound Money Rooms, corner of Four-
teenth street and Fifth avenue. It is proposed at that time to conclude arrangements
whereby all branches of the trade will be properly represented in the Sound Money
Parade of Nov. 3.
It should be understood that this is not exclusively a piano manufacturers' affair,
but all the allied trades—supply men, small goods manufacturers, music publishers,
dealers, salesmen—are most cordially invited to take part.
Talking with Mr. Adolpho H. Fischer upon the matter this week, he said that he
believed it possible to easily swing six or seven hundred music trade me,i of New York
in line on that date. Certainly there is enough enthusiasm existing in the trade, so
that it will not be difficult to make an imposing music trade battalion, showing that the
music trade interests of this great city are staunchly on the side of the honest dollar-
Don't forget the place and the hour:
Commercial League Sound Money Rooms, Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue.
Officers will be elected and all suitable arrangements for banners, canes, rrmsic, etc., will
be made, so that the music men of this city will make a formidable showing on Nov. 3.
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American invasion.
OUR CONSUL AT FRANKFORT WRITES OF GER-
MAN EXPORT TRADE IN MUSICAL INSTRU-
MENTS WHAT A GERMAN PAPER SAYS.
Vice and Acting Consul-General Ha-
nauer, at Frankfort, writing to the authori-
ties at Washington, says:
In musical instruments, such as accor-
dions, violins, guitars, zithers, trumpets,
clarinets, etc., (not including pianos and
organs or orchestrions), the exports from
Germany to foreign countries during the
first six months of this year amounted to
6,838,000
;
marks
(about
$1,750,000)
in
value, and exceeded those shipped abroad
in the same period of 1899 by 12.7 per
cent. Of these, England took 16 per cent. ;
Austria-Hungary, 5.9 per cent; Russia,
5.7 per cent. ; France, 5.2. per cent. ; Aus-
er
tralia,
T>-2> P cent.; Argentina, 2.2 per
arrest was printed and circulated in the
The Needham Co. Win
trade papers and circulated among piano cent. ; Brazil, 1.9 per cent. ; etc.
IN THE SUIT BROUGHT AGAINST THEM BY H. manufacturers, it is claimed that Mr. Bur-
In another connection Mr. Hanauer re-
J. BURTIS FOR ALLEGED INJURY
ports
:
tis'
credit
was
damaged
with
the
companies
TO REPUTATION.
A German technical paper says that an
with whom he had been doing business,
The suit of Henry J. Burtis, piano dealer and suitable damages to offset this injury attempt is being made to inundate the
of Trenton, N. J., which came up for trial was prayed for.
German market with American pianos, as
in the Mercer Court that city last week be-
has
been done with melodeons, organs and
The defense held that, as the articles
fore Judge Guraraere, in which damages consigned were still the property of the bicycles. A prominent maker of pianos
were asked for alleged injury to reputa- com|. any consigning them, at any time who was at the Chicago exhibition predict-
tion through arrest on complaint of the after the fifteen days they should be ed this result six years ago. The paper
defendant company on a charge of em- shipped back upon demand. These de- adds that the new German customs tariff
bezzlement, resulted in a victory for the mands had been made of Mr. Burtis re- should guard against this danger.
Needham institution.
peatedly, but the organs had never been
In presenting the case to the jury the shipped until criminal process was resorted
His Fifty-Sixth Anniversary.
lawyer for the plaintiff gave his side as to. In December, Mr. Burtis had written
F. J. Schwankovsky,of Detroit, Mich., the
follows: Early in September the Needham that he would send the organs back on a
Piano & Organ Co. consigned to Mr. Burtis certain day, but instead of shipping them old-time Knabe and Vose representative,
for fifteen days, three organs which he was to the factory, as requested, he shipped celebrated the fifty-sixth anniversary of
to exhibit at the Interstate Fair, and which one to Barnegat and the other to Prince- the foundation of his house in that city
last week. In honor of the event a con-
he was to sell if possible. At the end of ton.
cert was given in Schwankovsky Hall, 248-
that time the organs had not been dis-
It was for this that he had been ar-
posed of, but Mr. Burtis still kept them rested on complaint of the Needham Com- 250 Woodward avenue, in which a number
with the hope of selling them. This went pany, because, the defense claimed, there of eminent artists participated. J. H.
on until the 20th of January when the rep- had been an embezzlement when Mr. Hahn, director of the Detroit Conservatory
resentative of the Needham Co. went to Burtis did not ship back the organs which of Music, was in charge of the musical
Trenton and demanded the organs or the did not belong to him, but shipped them features of the event. The program in-
cluded numbers in which the Knabe grand,
money. He then discovered that one of to some other part of the State.
the Angelus Orchestral, the new scale Vose
the instruments had been shipped to Bar-
After taking all the testimony, Justice upright and the Apollo piano player fig-
negat and another to Princeton and Mr.
Gummere charged the jury to return a ured. Mr. Schwankovsky received con-
Burtis stated that this action was taken
verdict for the defendants.
gratulations galore.
with the hope of selling them.
The Morris, Feild & Rogers Co., of Lis-
Notwithstanding this statement a com-
A Kranich & Bach, Of Course.
plaint of embezzlement was sworn out towell, Ont., have opened a branch ware-
against Mr. Burtis and he was arrested. room in Toronto. It is under the manage-
Rogers & Wilson, music dealers, of
After a number of adjournments the case ment of J. Sidney Smith.
Goshen, to-day received a piano made from
came up for hearing before Justice Mathe-
The Mason & Hamlin organ is being the first mahogany log shipped from the
son, with the result that the case was dis- used at the Metropolitan Opera House in Island of Luzon in the Philippines to the
missed.
the general work of the English Opera United States, says the Indianapolis, Ind.,
Owing to the fact that the news of the Co.
Press.
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