Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
12
THE DEALERS ASSOCIATION.
A Local Organization For New York Names of
the Officers of This National Organization.
Already booklets of convenient size have
been issued containing the constitution and
by-laws of the National Association of piano
dealers. The issuance of this matter only a
little over a month since the first meeting
shows that a spirit of enterprise is being
manifested by the men who have this matter
in charge.
The executive board have exhibited good
taste in not entering into any long-winded
declaration of the object of the Association.
The only reference made to this is the fol-
lowing :
The object of this Association shall be
the mutual elevation of trade interests.
This constitution may be altered or amend-
ed by a two-thirds vote of the^ members of
the Association present at any stated or
special meeting in the call for which twenty
days' notice shall have been given of a pro-
posed amendment or alteration of the consti-
tution, or by the written consent of two-
thirds of the members at any time and twen-
ty days' notice having been given.
ARTICLE
II.
The election of officers shall take place
each year at the annual meeting to be held
at such time and place as may be agreed
upon and shall immediately precede the an-
nual meeting. The President, Vice-Presi-
dents, Secretary and Treasurer shall be re-
spectively elected and the members of the
Executive Committee and Nominating Com-
mittee shall be elected on respectively com-
mon ballots and all shall hold office until the
adjournment of the regular annual meeting
of the following year and until their suc-
cessors are elected and have qualified.
Next week the dealers of New York and
Brooklyn propose to hold a meeting at Man-
hattan Beach at which time they will or-
ganize a local Association.
To help the
move along a dinner will be given at 6.30
on July 2nd at the Manhattan Beach Hotel.
Invitations have been extended to members
of the trade to be present.
Already we have reported a number of
local associations which have been formed
in various cities. This move is bound to
continue all alone the line, until local asso-
ciations exist in all of the principal cities.
In our own opinion the National organiza-
tion will, after awhile, become the upper
house or senate of the retail department of
the industry. In other words, matters of
vital interest will be threshed out by the local
organization and finally settled by the na-
tional.
There is no question that the organization
idea is growing constantly, and D. G.
Pfeiffer, secretary, is receiving a good deal of
correspondence in relation to this matter.
The complete list of the officers of the
National Dealers Organization up to date
is as follows:
President, Chandler W. Smith, Boston,
Mass.
1st Vice-President, P. J. Healy,
Chicago, 111. 2<\ Vice-President, F. B. T.
Hollenberg, Little Rock, Ark.
3rd Vice-
President, H. Dreher, Cleveland, Ohio. 4th
Vice-President, Philip Werlein, New Or-
leans, La. Secretary, D. G. Pfeiffer, 929
F street, Washington, D. C.
Treasurer,
F. P. Anderson, 470 Fulton street, Brook-
lyn, N. Y. Executive Committee, Jas. C.
Miller, Philadelphia, Pa., F. A. Leland,
Worcester, Mass., G. Wright Nicols, Balti-
more, Md., Robert L. Loud, Buffalo, N. Y.
Nominating and Membership Committee:
W. H. Currier, Toledo, Ohio, Theodore
Pfafflin, New York, Geo. H. Campbell, Den-
ver, Colo.
Advisory Committee: A. C. Grinnell,
Detroit, Mich., F. E. Me Arthur, Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn., C. H. Lichty, Reading, Pa., Carl
Hoffman, Kansas City, Mo., Will A. Wat-
kin, Dallas, Texas.
Press Committee: C. A. Elmendorf, Min-
neapolis, Minn., Harry Curtaz, San Fran-
cisco, Cal., Geo. E. Bradnack, New York.
LEGAL TROUBLES
Between Roth & Engelhardt and the American
Piano Manufacturing Co.—Mr. Boothe States
the Position of Roth & Engelhardt is Unjus-
tified—Mr. Roth Replies.
Deputy Sheriff Strauss received an at-
tachment Monday which was granted by
Judge Nisbet, of Montgomery County, N.
Y., against the American Piano Manufactur-
ing Co., Fifth avenue and Forty-second
street, for $18,365, in favor of Roth & En-
gelhardt, manufacturers of piano actions,
for balance due on goods delivered and for
alleged breach of contract for non-acceptance
of a quantity of "Harmonists," manufac-
tured under contract. The attachment was
granted on the ground that the company
is a New Jersey corporation. It is said to
he a disputed matter.
When The Review saw Wm. F. Boothe
general manager of the American Piano
Manufacturing Co., in reference to this legal
quarrel, he said : "This matter will be thor-
oughly explained in the court later on. We
expect on Tuesday to have the attachment
vacated; therefore, it will cause no serious
interruption to our shipments. We have
pushed the 'Harmonist' intelligently and
persistently, have paid this concern thou-
sands of dollars per month, and feel that
this action on their part is uncalled for, and
is not justified by the existing conditions.
This in no way affects the financial standing
of our concern. We stand ready to pay all
obligations, but we do not propose to do
more than we agreed to. The attachment
could not have been obtained only upon the
grounds that we were a foreign corporation.
We should have given bond immediately,
but that might be construed into a semi-
acknowledgment of the claim, which we do
not for one moment propose to admit."
Alfred Roth, of Roth & Engelhardt, said:
"We desire to obtain what we believe to be
our rights and have endeavored to secure
them amicably but failed, and now we have
appealed to the courts."
A BUSH SOUVENIR.
A very handsome souvenir of the laying
of the cornerstone of the Bush Temple of
Music has just been issued. It contains a
beautiful frontispiece in colors of the
completed Bush Temple of Music, with
a portrait of the founder, William H.
H. Bush, and an interesting story of the
man, his achievements and his bequests.
The book is further illustrated with portraits
of the present members of the Bush & Gerts
Co., as well as interior views of the new
Temple, with much interesting data.
CAUSES OF WESTERN ACTIVITY.
The Growing Demand for Musical Instruments in
the West Continues Unabated—This Must Be
Ascribed to the Satisfactory Agricultural Out-
look—A Review of the Situation.
The Western music trade owes much of
its recent activity to the encouraging agri-
cultural prospects for the coming crop sea-
son. The spring and early summer have
been remarkably free from crop scares, and
few alarming reports have been sent out.
Nature has been kind to the agriculturist in
bestowing upon him a long period of favor-
able weather for the season, free from va-
garies. Consequently, farmers are looking
forward to good crops and are free buyers
not only of all kinds of merchandise, such
luxuries, or we may call necessities, as pi-
anos, organs and other musical instru-
ments. In fact, the sales made by dealers
have been much larger than anticipated.
Manufacturers and dealers are being stim-
ulated by the excellent prospect for crops to
make much more extensive preparations for
supplying fall demands. And in this they
are wise. There are many reasons why it
will pay to place orders ahead.
Farmers are free buyers of miscellaneous
luxuries when good crop prospects free
them from the necessity of pinching econ-
omy, and their liberal purchases are shown
in the great activity now prevailing in the
West. The movement of manufactured prod-
ucts Westward is on a big scale, and rail-
roads are crowded with traffic in both direc-
tions, instead of Eastward only, as is often
the case at this time of the year. Prospects
for the railroads are consequently of the most
encouraging character. Their earnings will
be kept up to the high plane of the recent
past, and they will be enabled to continue
making improvements as well as paying bet-
ter dividends to their stockholders. From
present appearances nothing short of some
very great calamity can seriously impair the
business outlook, from a Western viewpoint.
NEWELL-HIGEL ADVANCE.
[Special to The Review.]
Toronto, Can., June 24, 1901.
The history of the music trade industry
of Canada does not afford a better illustra-
tion of the splendid business success only in
a few years than is evidenced in the pres-
ent position of the Newell-Higel Co. This
company, as has already been announced in
The Review, manufacture actions, keys and
hammers, and the Higel action to-day is
being used by the most representative con-
cerns of the Dominion. The new factory,
which they will shortly occupy, is one of the
most imposing to be found in any city on
the Continent. It is splendidly located and
easy of access to the visiting trade. In a
later issue, The Review will be afforded an
opportunity to present late illustrations of
the Newell-Higel plant up to date.
THE DETROIT BI-CENTENARY.
Business men are showing great interest
in the celebration of the bi-centennial anni-
versary of the founding of Detroit. Among
the fifty-one business houses and organiza-
tions which have applied for space in the
Bi-centenary parade, the names of a num-
ber of music dealers figure.