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AGAIN TRIUMPHANT.
Che Small Goods trade
ALL WANT THE COLUMBIA ZITHER.
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KUBELIK'S RARE VIOLINS.
Young Jan Kubelik is bringing to these
shores a supply of fiddles which ought to
last him through this season and several
others.
No virtuoso before him ever came
The Review, when visiting the New York
with
so
many.
He has three of great value.
office of the Phonoharp Co. at 450 Broadway
One
is
a
Joseph
Guarnerius given to him
on Monday, saw a long list of orders received
by
Friedrich
Brosche;
the second is a violin
by the morning's mail for Columbia zithers
by
the
same
maker,
for
which he paid the
and phonoharps. Every jobbing house of
importance in the United States and several Crown Prince Kranczowicz in Budapest
of the biggest firms in Europe carry the $4,000, and the third is a splendid specimen
Phonoharp Co.'s products in their catalogues. of the work of Antonio Stradivarius, and
They not only carry them in their current was given to him after his first season in
lists, they sell them steadily all the year London by the family of Walter Palmer,
round. It is no uncommon thing for a job- Jr., the millionaire member of Parliament.
These are the most valuable of the Kube-
bing house to order several dozens of each
lik
violins, and he was fortunate to have
size weekly, sometimes oftener. The Colum-
received
them as gifts; but he has one that
bia zither No. 2 is one of the great favorites
he
values
more than any of the other three.
in the trade. An illustration of this style
This
is
not
the work of a famous maker
is shown on the opposite page.
and
probably
it would not bring more than
In talking with The Review recently as to
a
few
dollars
if it were offered in the mar-
the reasons why the Columbia zither main-
kets,
unless
a
Kubelik
admirer knew its his-
tains its high place in the zither class, Mr.
Pierce, the president of the company, said: tory. It is a rude affair, small and without
"As we state in our advertisement, the rea- grace or beauty. But it was made for Kube-
son why the Columbia leads lies largely in lik when he was a boy by his father, who
the fact that it is attractively finished and could not afford to buy him one. And it is
capable of producing surprising musical re- the instrument on which he took his first
sults. The price, too, an important item, af- lesson.
fords the retail music dealer a handsome
DEATH OF GEO. W. STRATTON.
profit. It pays to handle the Columbia
News has reached Boston of the death in
zither."
Berlin, Germany, on Oct. 14th, of Geo. W.
THE NEW WASHBURN ELITE CARDS. Stratton, formerly of Boston and long an
At last it is possible to get a pure linen importer of and wholesale dealer in musical
playing- card, with illuminated back and gold instruments and like merchandise, and who
edges, fully equal to the cards retailed for once was a publisher of music as well. He
75 cents or $1.00, for a quarter. Lyon & was born in Swanzey, N. H., on Aug. 1st,
Healy have worked this miracle, and every 1830. After engaging in business in Boston,
live music dealer in the country will partici- he composed and published several operettas,
pate in the benefits. These cards are known among them "Lalla," "Genevieve," "Fairy
as the Washburn Elite cards to distinguish Grotto," "Minstrel of Capri," and others,
them from the Washburn Souvenir cards, which have been performed in almost every
which sell for 10 cents, and of which nearly State in the Union. After retiring from
half a million decks have been sold. The mercantile life he traveled extensively, cross-
Washburn Elite cards will carry the adver- ing the Atlantic thirty-five times. His sum-
tisement of the local music dealer in gold on mers were usually spent in Germany, Aus-
the carton. Every dealer should send thir- tria and Switzerland and his winters in South-
teen two-cent stamps to Lyon & Healy for a ern France, in Italy or Egypt. He was ex-
sample deck and ask for full particulars. ceptionally well versed in the art, architec-
Nothing to equal these cards has ever been ture and archaeology of the countries he vis-
seen in the trade, and no up-to-date music ited.
store can afford to be without them.
Orders reaching the Phonoharp Co. would Indicate
this—Not Surprising—The Greatest Value on
the Market.
SCRIBNER'S EUROPEAN TRIP.
Cozie & Mehnert, who recently launched in
the musical case manufacturing business in
Goshen, Ind., are building up quite a nice
trade.
Awarded Gold
riedal at Pan-
American E x -
position.
JOHN C. HAYNES & Co.
451 Washington St.
BOSTON,
SMASS.
Importers and cManufadurers
Frank Scribners trip to Europe is likely
to bring about very beneficial results, so far
as the increase of demand for Weiss products
is concerned. He expects to bring back with
him a number of Weiss novelties. These,
added to the original "Brass Band" harmon-
ica and "Brass Band" clarion, will give the
trade a much greater choice than they have
ever had before.
Mr. Weiss has spent large sums of money
during the past two years in new buildings
and improved machinery. This has enabled
him to increase his output, at the same time
adding to the attractive special features of
the various styles manufactured.
Wm. R. Gratz has returned from a lengthy
business trip in the interests of the several
foreign firms he represents.
The Columbia Phonograph Co. Win in the Court of
Last Resort.
From time to time references are made in
the newspapers of the steps taken by the lo-
cal phonograph companies to enforce their
rights to the exclusive distribution of pho-
nographs and supplies in their respective ter-
ritories which have been disputed by Mr.
Edison's company, the National Phonograph
Co.
Last April, in the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia, the disputed issues
were adjudicated, in a suit brought against
the National Phonograph Co. and its Wash-
ington agents, Whitson Bros., in which the
Columbia Phonograph Co. was triumphant.
As this decision would undoubtedly consti-
tute a controlling precedent for the numer-
ous other trials in which the same questions
are involved, the National people in their
desperation carried the case up and it has
now been passed upon by the Court of Ap-
peals of the District of Columbia with the
result that the decision of the lower court
is fully affirmed and the exclusive rights of
the Columbia Phonograph Co. are even more
absolutely established than before.
The Edison interest was in charge of the
very ablest counsel but the case went
against them on its merits, and this being
the court of last resort, the sale of Edison
products is therefore permanently prohibited
in Maryland, Delaware and the District of
Columbia.
A GREAT "BAY STATE" CATALOGUE.
The new general trade catalogue of "Bay
State" musical instruments just issued by
John C. Haynes & Co., and referred to brief-
ly in last week's issue of The Review, has
since been received. There are 303 pages of
illustrated descriptive matter and it is, without
doubt, one of the most complete productions
of the kind ever issued for the trade by a
musical merchandise house. Every live mu-
sic dealer should have a copy for reference
and record.
In the address to the trade, following the
title page, John C. Haynes & Co. say:
"No increase has been made in the price of
goods of our own manufacture; in fact,
many important improvements have been
made, especially in guitars and mandolins,
and prices have been reduced in several in-
stances. In addition to these improvements,
several new styles have also been added to
the Bay State guitars, mandolins, banjos
and zithers, making them the most complete
as well as the finest line of stringed instru-
ments manufactured.
"An important addition to this catalogue
will be found on page 14, in the new depart-
DID YOl START S S RIGHT?
Waldo
Manufacturing
Company, -> Saginaw, Michigan.