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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
to manufacturing and to buy in the open
A New Texas Concern.
Sohmer Visitors.
market; in other words, to be a free lance.
[Special to The Review.]
Theodore Hoffman, of J. M. Hoffman
& Co., Sohmer representatives at Pitts-
burg, Pa., was in town this week and se-
lected stock. The name of Hoffman has
been intimately associated with the prog-
ress of the Sohmer piano in Pittsburg for
many years—in fact, ever since the Sohmer
firm was first established.
The Hoffman firm are among the strong-
est and most steadfast of Sohmer cham-
pions. They are hearty indorsers of the
merits of the Sohmer products. The large
number of Sohmer pianos now in use with-
in their territory is incontrovertible proof
of this.
H. C. Sherrod, of H. C. Sherrod & Co.,
recently incorporated at Houston, Texas,
was also a visitor at the Sohmer ware-
rooms this week. The Sherrod firm have
started out under very favorable auspices.-
They will handle the Sohmer.
There is no indication that Wanamaker
will change his front completely in the
near future.
He has manufactured
for
him special wares which he sells under his
own trademark.
It may be possible that
the
piano will
Wanamaker
be sold in
the near future, but even that is not defi-
nite.
But Wanamaker is not to manufac-
ture pianos.
""THERE has been
considerable
com-
plaints among the various exhibitors
at
Paris regarding
the seemingly par-
simonious action of the French Govern-
ment in its treatment of exhibitors as far
as the awards are concerned.
Every exhibitor is called upon to pay
for the medals, varying in price from the
bronze medals, $25.00 to gold as high as
$35.00.
It was supposed that there was
one firm designated by the Government
to supply these medals.
We have re-
ceived letters from no less than
three
Paris firms offering to supply us with vari-
ous medals, gold as low as $25.00 and as
high as $35.00.
For the Grand Prix which
The Review received there is no medal but
merely a diploma awarded, and we have
Houston, Tex., Jan. 15, 1901.
R. W. Banta & Son, of Crowley, La.,
have purchased the Oliver Music House
stock, stand and good will and will open
a large music house in this city. The
style of the firm will be "The South
Texas Piano Co.," W. R. Banta, president,
and R. C. Banta, secretary and treasurer.
A full line of pianos, organs, musical mer-
chandise and sheet music will be carried.
The Kimball and other leading makes of
pianos will be handled by the new firm.
They have retained C. E. Oliver as one of
their salesmen.
Opening of Chickering Hall.
The opening concert of the new Chicker-
ing Hall, Boston, is to take place on the
evening of Feb. 8, at half-past eight. The
program includes Madame Szumowtka,
M. Plancon and the Kneisel Quartet.
Chickering & Sons with their usual thought-
fulness have arranged to give the proceeds
of this concert to the well-known Boston
charity,—Brooke House, a place where
shop girls whose wages are less than $6.00
per week may secure a comfortable home
at a nominal price. We will give fur-
ther details in regard to the program, at
a later date. It will be a menu of mu-
sical viands that will satisfy the appetites
of epicures.
word from Paris that one firm is to bring
out a model for exhibitors who have been
awarded this merit.
Gabler Incorporates.
The Gabler Piano Manufacturing Co.
filed articles of incorporation on Monday
in the County Clerk's office in Newark,
N. J. It is the purpose of this company
to conduct the manufacture and sale of pi-
anos. The capital stock is one million dol-
lars.
The incorporators are: Emil E.
Gabler, Joseph Bareuther, Wm. F. Rohlffs
and Paul E. Alberti of New York and
Nathan E. S. Giffin of Newark. The Jer-
sey office will be at 763 Broad street.
Another Benedictian.
Harry E. Flather, president of the Mer-
rill Piano Co., Boston, has assumed the
Benedictian role, his bride being one of
New York's accomplished and charming
belles. The ceremony took place at the
residence of the bride's father, James P.
Heath, 56 East Seventy-seventh street,
and was performed by the uncle of the
bride, Rev. C. Heath. The maid of honor
was Miss Lilian Link, the bridesmaids, the
Misses Heath, Flather, Reid and Schurch-
ardt, and the best man, Mr. Alexander, a
cousin of the groom. The ushers were
Messrs. Gorham, H. Heath, D'Arcy and J.
Heath. The honeymoon is being spent in
the South. The Review extends congrat-
ulations.
Visitors to Chicago.
Among the visitors to Chicago this week
were R. T. Cassell, of the Columbia Music
Co., Denver; J. W. Groves, Madison, Wis. ;
E. S. Wilson, Oshkosh, Wis. ; Albert Lind-
holm, Sioux City, la. ; Mr. Bassett, of the
French-Bassett C , Duluth, and C. A. El-
mendorf, Minneapolis.
Fire in flaine.
[Special to The Review.]
Calais, Me., Jan. 15, 1901.
A fire which broke out in Eaton's Block,
this city, burned the building to the
ground. Among the sufferers was H. F.
Eaton & Sons, owners and well-known pi-
ano dealers, who estimate their loss at
1,000 with an insurance of $4,000.
Foster- Brinckerhof f.
Geo. G. Foster, the piano magnate of
Rochester, N. Y., has been receiving con-
gratulations from his friends, and they are
legion, over his approaching marriage to
Miss Brinckerhoff of Fishkill, N. Y. The
event will occur on March 6.
A Coast Hustler.
We have received a number of papers
from the West, exploiting the announce-
ment of the Wiley B. Allen Co. of "a gi-
gantic piano and organ syndicate." Wiley
B. Allen is a man of large ideas and his
removal to San Francisco is undoubtedly
an upward point in his distinguished ca-
reer, for he has not lost his grip in the
Pacific northwest and he has already
reached out in his combinations as far as
Salt Lake and as far South as lower Cali-
fornia.
The Grand Rapids Furniture Association
has declared war on the mail order houses,
and at a recent meeting appointed a com-
mittee to formulate a plan whereby the
trade might be relieved of this incubus.
E. W. Furbush, the Vose ambassador,
is on a new century trip west.
No Danger of Lumber Famine.
" T h e Lumber Trade of the United
States" is the title of a monograph just
issued by the Treasury Bureau of Statis-
tics. The lumber industry and trade, it
finds, has within quite recent years changed
from a small scale of production to one in
which machinery, a large outlay of capital
and a far-sighted policy of development of
properties are becoming controlling fact-
ors.
This change is due partly to the
growth of domestic demand and partly to
the tear of prematurely exhausting our
timber resources. The existence of sur-
plus capital looking for new fields of in-
vestment has had a tendency to eliminate
the small-scale lumberman; and the policy
of European states in rigidly limiting the
annual cut of lumber to something like the
rate of increase in the growth of torest has
forced lumber-consuming interests to come
to the United States and Canada, especial-
ly for hard woods and lumber for building
purposes. As a result, the foreign lumber
trade of the United States has grown enor-
mously. Within quite recent years it has
developed from a local to a world-wide
commercial movement.
In the foreign trade, the Atlantic ports,
the Gulf ports and those on the Northern
Pacific coast have shared most liberally.
More lumber is now being shipped fiom
these ports and from the country as a
whole than at any previous time in the
history of the country. The total exports
of timber, lumber and manufactured wood
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900,
amounted to $50,598,416. Imports of cor-
responding products, however, amounted
to $20,591,908, showing a balance of al-
most exactly $30,000,000 of exports of this
class over imports. About half of these
imports come from Canada, consisting
mainly of planks, boards, legs and shingles
as the four principal items.
Another
principal feature in our timber imports is
the tropical timber, including Cuban ma-
hogany and cedar, Mexican mahogany and
cedar, and mahogany from Central and
South America and Africa.
It is clear that the writer of this report,
who has made an exhaustive study of the
situation, does not share the view that the
country is in danger of a timber famine.
It takes the view that as soon as the level
of timber land values rises to the level of
lumber prices indiscriminate cutting will
be largely abandoned ; the more far-sight-
ed policy of scientific forestry will prevail
and forest fires will be systematically pre-
vented or controlled.