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V O L . XXXIII. N o . 1 3 . Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York, Sept. 28,1901. SINGLE
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NEW YORK AT ITS BEST.
WANT A SECRETARY OF COMMERCE.
KNABE AGENCY TRANSFERRED
City Crowded with Buyers from All Parts of the
Universe—Piano Houses Well Represented.
Merchants Ask for a New Department of the
Government.
Few more accurate gauges of prosperity
are found than the hotels of New York.
When times are dull and money scarce, travel
is discouraged, and even the buyers for the
mercantile houses either remain at home al-
together or content themselves with visiting
the nearest market. At the present moment
the rush of visitors to the metropolis is of
unprecedented proportions, and the piano
trade is fairly well represented. The hotels
are simply jammed, many guests being ob-
liged, to occupy cots in the parlors, while in
many cases applicants for rooms are reluct-
antly turned away. Buyers are here in
shoals, frequently accompanied by one or
more members of their families, while the
number of arrivals on pleasure bent is every
day very large. This is the time of the year
when New York is at its best—just awak-
ening from summer quietude and making
ready for the round of gaiety made possi-
ble by cool weather. And the country at
large is evidently fully aware of the attrac-
tiveness of the metropolis at this season.
The directors of the Merchants' Associa-
tion at a special meeting held in this city on
Monday unanimously adopted a resolution
in favor of "the immediate establishment,
as a part of the Federal Government, of a
department of commerce, the secretary of
which shall be appointed by the President
and shall be a member of his Cabinet and the
duties and scope of which shall be along lines
similar to the duties and scope of the other
departments in relation to their respective
subjects." A copy of this resolution was
transmitted to President Roosevelt.
President LeRoy Dresser, of the Associ-
ation, was authorized to appoint a delegation
to represent it at the Pan-American Exposi-
tion on Merchants' Association Day, Oct.
15th, and an invitation to be represented at
the State Commerce Convention at Buffalo
on Oct. 16th was accepted.
To a New Concern in Milwaukee—Ross, Scheft &
Co. Start Out Under Favorable Auspices—
Have Also the A. B. Chase and the Brau-
muller Pianos.
SMITH & NIXON LITERATURE.
The Smith & Nixon Co., of Cincinnati,
O., have recently issued some interesting lit-
erature bearing upon the merits of the in-
struments which they manufacture. In a
booklet entitled "The Story of the Ebersole,"
the many points of excellence embodied in
these pianos, particularly as to workmanship
and their worth as sellers, is emphasized.
In the introductory they say in part:
"A few years ago a piano was an expensive
luxury that only the rich could enjoy. It
was beyond the reach of the average family.
To-day no home is complete without a piano.
Some people buy pianos as mere articles of
furniture. But this is the exception, not the
rule. The great majority of people place
pianos in their homes to satisfy their musical
and artistic tastes. The result of this wide-
spread popularity of the pianoforte has led
to a. great development. In no other branch
of the manufacturing arts has there been
such an expenditure of energy and ideas.
The progress of each day has simply been an
onward step to more and better things.
"The Ebersole is a strictly modern piano,
and embodies the highest development at-
tained in modern piano construction."
Lucien Wulsin, of D. H. Baldwin & Co.,
was a member of the committee representing
various commercial organizations which had
charge of the memorial exercises held in
Cincinnati on Thursday of last week in re-
speck to the late President McKinley,
R. C. KOCH'S CHEERY REPORT.
This Year the Best Since the Business was Found-
ed Forty Years Ago—The Reinwarth Strings
Popularity.
Rudolph C. Koch, successor to Charles
Reinwarth, continues to prosper. The Re-
view, on calling at the Koch factory on Fri-
day, received a most encouraging report
which was amply verified by the evident ac-
tivity in every working room. "So far,"
said Mr.- Koch, "the books show that this
has been the best year since the Reinwarth
business was established forty years ago."
Asked how it was that, in the face of for-
midable competition, he managed to hold all
of his old customers and add others to the
list, Mr. Koch said: "It is the grade of the
Reinwarth strings that tells. I use exclu-
sively the Felton-Guillaume steel wire,
known the world over to be the best for bass
strings. That fact alone, though, would not
be enough to maintain my business. The
'grade' is established and kept up by using
the best wire in the best way. Our processes
for producing the best heavy bass strings
are not only patented, but have proved to
be away ahead of all others in securing per-
fect results.
"So long as I am able to give the very
best results, together with prompt service,
reasonable price and all other things that go
toward the maintenance of a successful bus-
iness, there will be no need for anxiety.
Shrewd, first-class business men want the
very best and are willing to pay a fair, honest
price for i t "
[Special to The Review.]
Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 23, 1901.
The ranks of the music trade men of Mil-
waukee have been augmented by another firm
which starts out under the most favorable
auspices.
The new concern will be known by the
name of Ross, Scheft & Co. and will have
headquarters on Milwaukee avenue.
The concern is incorporated for $25,000,
fully paid in. Mr. Scheft has been for a term
of years with the Rohlfing house, and is well
known in this city in musical circles. Mr.
Ross was Secretary of the Port under Cleve-
land, and is owner of an important publi-
cation in this city.
P. J. Gildemeester was here last week
and transferred the local Knabe agency to
the new concern from Thiery. A large ini-
tial order for Knabe pianos has been placed.
The A. B. Chase concern has also given
the new house the agency for their instru-
ments. Otto Braumuller was early on the
field and a snug shipment of Braumuller
pianos is on the way from New York.
THE CHARLESTON EXPOSITION.
Will Illustrate the Progress of the New South in
a Most Emphatic Way—Ten Southern States
Will Participate.
In less than two months' time the Pan-
American Exposition, now being held at
Buffalo, will be a thing of the past, and the
nearness of the date set for its close, Oct.
31st, brings to mind the fact that the South
Carolina Interstate and West Indian Ex-
position at Charleston will be opened the
next day, Nov. 1st. Needless to say, the ob-
ject of the Charleston Exposition is to illus-
trate the progress of the new South in mat-
ters material. Ten of the Southern States
—an empire—have consented to participate
in making the exposition a representative
one. As industrial factors these Southern
States are certainly entitled to recognition,
as their mineral products aggregate in value
$100,000,000 and over yearly, while their
forests bring forth products valued at $130,-
000,000, and their farms and plantations
yield $575,000,000; their factories, mills
and other work shops add upward of $1,000,-
000,000 to the total. As the West Indian
islands are to participate in the Exposition,
Charleston should prove a center of attrac-
tion this November for those desiring" closer
trade relations with those islands. The ex-
hibition will probably draw a goodly "num-
ber from the North, as the season during
which it is to be held is just the time of
year best calculated to induce people in the
North to turn their thoughts to the climate
of the sunny South.