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THE
REVIEW
flUJIC TIRADE
V O L X X X I l l . N o . 2 6 Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York, Dec. 28,1901
BRANDOW IS CONVICTED.
Of Embezzlement
of Money From His Former
Employers.
[Special to The Review.]
Detroit, Mich., Dec. 21, 1901.
The trial of Eli Brandow, charged with
embezzlement of the funds of the dough
& Waren Piano Company, of Detroit, has
resulted in a verdict of guilty. Brandow
was accused of taking $235 belonging to the
company as a result of the sale of a piano
to Frank Cook, register of deeds. He dis-
posed of it for an organ, a horse and a note
for $125. The organ and horse he turned
into cash and the note he discounted. After
being arrested here he gave bail and then
fled. He was recaptured in Chicago. He
was sentenced to serve three and one-half
years in Ionia Prison.
THE TRAVELING MAN'S TROUBLES.
The traveling man is "up against it" these
days. The trusts were bad enough, but now
comes along a man who claims to have in-
vented a machine that will enable people to
see each other through the telephone, no mat-
ter how great the distance. In the near fu-
ture instead of sending out a traveling man
or a sample piano, all the manufacturer will
have to do is to call up the dealer on the tel-
ephonoscope and ask him to look at his latest
style—and there you are.
In fact, there are innumerable possibili-
ties in a humorous way whereby the new
invention can be utilized in the piano trade.
For instance, the dealer might employ the
telephonoscope to sell pianos, showing the
styles, doing the talking and keeping the
wires red hot until he had closed the sale.
Then it might enable some of the curious to
discover how vacuous and inane are the
claims made by the editor of the Annex re-
garding those " subterranean rumblings
which will end in the disruption of the piano
trade " unless they see things from his point
of view and act accordingly. So much per—
don't you know!
TROUBLES ADJUSTED.
As a result of the conference between the
piano manufacturers of Toronto, Can., and
the committee representing the employees, a
practical basis of settlement has been reached
in the matter of wages and hours of labor,
which were in dispute. The employers have
agreed to certain concessions as regards the
hours of labor and the wage scale will be
revised in some particulars.
tioo PER YEAR.
.5TNGLE COPIES 10 CENTS
FARRAND ORGAN CO. PRIZES.
WITH /EOLIAN ACCOMPANIMENT.
Frank Draper Proved to be Champion Advice-Giver.
In almost every city of the English speak-
ing world a public performance of Handel's
oratorio, "The Messiah," is included in the
regular observance of the Christmas season.
This oratorio has, in the course of its cen-
tury and a half of existence, established
its place.
Yesterday at their Brooklyn warerooms,
500 Fulton street, the ^olian Company,
with the assistance of a quartet of New
York's representative oratorio singers, pre-
sented such portions of this work -as can be
given within the time limits set for its re-
citals, and employed its own instruments,
the iEolian Pipe Organ and the iEolian
Orchestrelle, in rendering the accompani-
ments and orchestral music. The present
performance was but one of the long series
to be given by the iEolian Company, which
include musical works of all schools and of
all degrees of difficulty. These concerts
constitute an extremely interesting object
lesson.
The factory board of the Farrand Organ
Co., of Detroit, annually awards cash prizes
to the employees making; the best sugges-
tions regarding the conduct of the factory.
Saturday the distribution for 1901 took
place. Forty-nine suggestions had been
handed in, as against eighteen in 1900. The
winners are: Frank Draper, $35; Miss A.
Baily, $25 ; A. Angstman, $20; H. Heathers,
$15 ; Frank Draper, $10; J. Rose, $5 ; C. W.
Spurgeon, $5; Frank Draper, $5; W. J.
Kurtzworth, $5. W. R. Farrand distribu-
ted the prizes; Rev Dr. W. B. Jennings,
of the First Presbyterian church, delivered an
address. The Farrand Organ Co. orchestra
and others contributed to a delightful pro-
gramme.
AN ILL NOIS INCORPORATION.
The Hobbard Piano Company, which will
operate in connection with the East Rock-
ford Mantel Company, at Rockford, 111., was
incorporated this week, with a capital stock
of $50,000. The incorporators are C. G.
Peterson, A. E. Johnson and AI. C. Abram-
son.
THE CH1CKERING EXHIBITION.
The beautiful poster which Will Bradley
designed for the historical exhibition of
instruments to be given by Chickering &
TO BRIDGE THE CHASM.
Sons, in Boston, made its appearance yes-
terday.
Like all the work from the hands
The conference between the leaders of
of this artist, it is an unique effort which
labor and. capital, to which reference was
will come in for no small share of applause.
made editorially last week, closed with a de-
This poster design will be used in a smaller
cision to give the plan to harmonize their
form for catalogue and other purposes.
divergent interests a practical test. A com-
The list of old instruments to be placed
mittee drawn from representative public
on exhibition is increasing all the time, and
men, from the ranks of capitalists and from
Chickering & Sons are overwhelmed with
leaders in the field of labor, numbering thirty-
correspondence in this connection. The
six, was named to perfect details of the plan display is much talked about in artistic cir-
and officers were appointed with Senator cles, and no doubt will attract a great many
Mark Hanna as president. In all lines of visitors.
industrial effort the new move has been re-
INCORPORATED.
ceived with applause as a wise step toward a
means of bridging the chasm of differences
Among the incorporations filed with the
between labor and capital.
Secretary of State at Albany this week was
that of The Manhattan Musical Supply Com-
THE LAW ON "HIRING "~IN FRANCE. pany of New York City. Capital $15,000
and directors: F. E. Pollard and H. W.
Some interesting developments have taken Gardner, of New York City, and F. G. Kent,
place in regard to the hire system in France, of Brooklyn.
says our London contemporary Music Trades
Review. The French Government seems to
SYSTEMATIZERS GET GOOD PAY.
be as antagonistic to the system as some of
is the name of a profession
our own officials apparently are. At any that "Systematizer"
has sprung into use of late years, and the
rate, the courts have decided that, according pay is said to be larger than that of any trav-
to the present law, a hirer in France is at eling professional man known. A "system-
liberty to sell the goods directly he receives atizer" is an expert who goes from city to
them, and long before he has paid for them. city taking temporary charge of large busi-
A good deal, however, would, we should ness establishments, and placing them on a
imagine, depend upon the exact wording of systematic basis. One of these experts is said
the hire contract.
to have made $100 a day.