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V O L XXXII. No. 12. PiWUW Even satordaT l j Mwart Ljman Bill at 3 Bast FonrteenUi Stmt, Now York, Marc! 23,1901.
months ending with February were $522,-
960,380, against $555> 2 53>574 i n the eight
[Special to The Review.]
months of the preceding fiscal year, and
Washington, D. C, March 19, 1901.
$541,194,833
in the eight months ending with
Exports from the United States continue
February,
1896.
Thus the imports of the
to increase, and the fiscal year 1901 seems
eight
months'
period
show in the five years
destined not only to break all records, but
a
decrease
of
about
$20,000,000,
while the
perhaps touch the billion-and-a-half dollar
exports
show
an
increase
of
over
$400,000,-
line. For the twelve months ending with
February the total is $1,490,194,985, and for 000, comparing the eight months ending
the eight months of the fiscal year is $1,015,- with February, 1901, with the eight months
1
85'374- Thus the record presented by the ending with February, 1896.
February statement of the Treasury Bureau
Ann Arbors for Glasgow.
of Statistics at least suggests a billion-and-a-
[Special to The Review.]
half record for the fiscal year 1901, since the
Ann Arbor, Mich., March 19, 1901.
twelve months ending with February are
The Ann Arbor Organ Co. made a large
less than $10,000,000 below that sum, and the shipment of organs to Glasgow, Scotland,
eight months of the fiscal year are $15,000,000 last week. Orders for some special designs
above the proportion which the eight months have been received, the goods to be placed
of the twelve included in the fiscal year would on exhibition at an industrial fair which
be called upon to furnish of a $1,500,000,000 opens in Glasgow in May. The popularity
total.
of the Ann Arbor organs abroad is destined
No eight months' period in the history of to be augmented to a very large degree
our export trade shows as large a total of through this exposition.
exports as the eight months ending with Feb-
Fire in Lansing, Mich.
ruary, 1901. The total exports during that
[Special to The Review.]
period are, as above indicated, $1,015,185,-
Lansing, Mich., March 18, 1901.
374, against $919,473,471 in the correspond-
Geo. D. Armstrong, piano dealer, sustained
ing months of last year, and $602,666,873 in considerable loss by smoke and water through
eight months of the fiscal year 1896, having a fire caused by the explosion of a furnace
thus increased more than fifty per cent, in in the basement of the store of the Lansing
Book and Paper Co., which adjoins his prem-
five years.
ises. There is, however, an ample insur-
The favorable balance of trade, or excess ance, and there will be no interference with
of exports over imports, shows an even business.
greater increase, being $492,224,994 for the
eight months ending with February, against Wants Qarwood Called /Eolian.
[Special to The Review.]
$364,219,897 in the same months of the pre-
Westfield, N. J., March 19, 1901.
ceding fiscal year, and $61,472,040 in eight
The Central Railroad station at Garwood
months of the fiscal year 1896. No eight continues to bear two signs. On the West-
months' period in the history of our export field township end is the name "Garwood"
trade has shown as large exports or as large and on the Cranford end is that of "^Eolian."
an excess of exports over imports as those The imaginary dividing line between the
ending with February, 1901, and no twelve townships runs through the station.
The large manufactories in Westfield ob-
months' period ending with February shows ject very strongly to a change of name and
as large exports or as large an excess of ex- the iEolian Co. claim that when they agreed
ports over imports as does the twelve months to settle in Garwood they were promised that
the name of the place would be changed to
period ending with February, 1901.
On the import side the figures are also sat- zEolian.
The railway company seems to be content
isfactory. The imports of February, 1901, to adopt a middle-of-the-road course and let
are nearly $5,000,000 less than those of Feb- each party call their part of the place to suit
ruary, 1900, and those for the eight months themselves.
ending with February, 1901, are also slightly
Twenty-eight Pianos Per Day.
those of the corresponding months of the pre-
The Foster-Haines-Martin combination, of
ceding year, while those of the twelve months
Rochester, N. Y., are now turning twenty-
ending with February, 1901, are also slightly eight pianos out a day, and yet they are con-
below the twelve months ending with Feb- siderably behind in the filling of orders.
ruary, 1900. The total imports in the eight Looks like business!
Looks Like a Record Breaker.
fa.oo PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES io CENTS
Installment Men Oppose This Bill.
Nearly a score of lawyers appeared Monday
before Mayor Van Wyck to oppose a bill in-
tended to prevent imprisonment for debt.
They represented East Side installment deal-
ers. The bill on which the Mayor gave a
hearing repeals the law that permits the issue
of body executions where judgments are
obtained in cases of installment sales. The
Mayor did not intimate what action he would
take.
Talk of Locating in Kingston.
[Special to The Review.]
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., March 18, 1901.
The latest prospective enterprise for
Kingston is a piano factory. At least a syn-
dicate of out-of-town capitalists is talking
of locating in that place. The memory of
the piano factory in Poughkeepsie is still
present with many of our people.
A Relic of the Past.
Not many people now living can have
heard the "recorder," an instrument of the
flute pattern, well known in Shakespeare's
time, but now quite obsolete, says the Lon-
don Truth. One belonging to the seven-
teenth century was shown some years ago
at the loan exhibition at South Kensington.
It is said, however, that only two complete
sets are know to exist, one of them at Nu-
remberg and the other at Chester, where they
belong to the local Archaeological Society.
Lent by that learned institution, four record-
ers were brought to London last week by
Dr. J. C. Bridge, of Chester Cathedral, and
he, with Mr. Radcliffe and two other ntodern
flute-players, gave upon them an old tune
which, it was rather unkindly explained, used
to be played by the waits. The effect was ex-
tremely curious, so much so, in fact, that
there seems to be a general consensus of
opinion that the instrument is never likely
again to come into fashion. Indeed, what
with Bach Choir trumpets, oboi di caccia,
and recorders, the ears of our forefathers
must have had a trying time.
Noticed at Length.
The celebration of the seventieth birthday
of Morris Steinert was noticed at great
• length in all the New Haven papers and other
publications throughout the country. Sev-
eral New Haven papers had lengthy editorial
notices, in which Mr. Steinert's services in
a public and musical way were referred to
eulogistically.