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V O L X X X I V . N o . 13. Published Every Saturday bj Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York, March 29,1902.
OUR MANUFACTURING GROWTH.
A Splendid Showing Made in the Returns Issued
by the Census Department—Interesting Details.
The census returns of manufactures is-
sued at the beginning of the week should be
gratifying to those who wish to see this
country become industrially preeminent.
The gross value of products of all manu-
facturing and mechanical industries in 1900
was $13,040,013,638, a gain of $3,667,576,-
355' o r 39- l P e r c e n t - o v e r t n e gross value
in 1890. The gross value in the latter year
was $9,372,437,283, and in 1880 the value
was $5,369,579,191, the increase in the latter
decade being $4,002,858,092, or 74.5 per cent.
The increase in the decade from 1890 to
1900, though less relatively than in the ten
years previous, represents a greater volume
or quantity of products than is indicated by
the value in dollars, because it is well known
that the tendency of manufacturing has been
to cheapen cost greatly in the past ten years.
The capital employed, the increase in the
number of wage earners and in the amount
of wages paid showed the heaviest increases
in the decade ending with 1890. It is to be
kept in mind, of course, that there is a ten-
dency to duplicate the values owing to the
fact that the finished products of many
manufacturing establishments become the
raw materials of others, but the claim is made
that the gross value here given represents the
commercial transactions involved in these en-
terprises in the same way that the bank-clear-
ing transactions represent the banking busi-
ness of a city. If, however, the value of ma-
terials purchased in a partially manufactured
form, $4,641,717,228, is deducted the net
value of the product is $8,388,409,055. This
total may be further subdivided into $2,393,-
836,629, the sum paid for crude materials of
manufacture, $322,669,636 for fuel and
freight and $5,671,902,790 the value added to
materials by the processes of manufacture. It
is further shown, says Bradstreet's, that the
value of product per wage earner increased
from $1,065 m ^ 5 0 to $2,451 in 1900, a ratio
of increase not as great as that given in the
amount of capital or the products of industry.
ORDERS FOR 600 PIANOS.
During a recent visit to Eastern trade
points, K. T. Cassell, proprietor of the Col-
umbia Music Co., of Denver, Col., contracted
for six hundred pianos to be shipped be-
tween now and the end of the year. They
recently took the agency for the Victor
piano, and the first shipment which they just
received has given them immense satisfac-
tion.
MUSIC DEALERS SEEK DAMAGES.
S I NG LE
THE MUSIC TRADE OF WISCONSIN.
[Special to The Review.]
[Special to The Review.]
San Francisco, Cal., March 22, 1902.
Wright & Kochman, who conduct a store
at 250 Turk street, brought suit against
Chester F. Wright and David S. Jacobs yes-
terday for $7,000 damages. They allege
that the defendants took from their store 75,-
000 sheets of music, valued at $7,000, on
February 19, and have refused to return
them.
Washington, D. C , March 24, 1902.
According to figures filed by the Census
Office there are 3 establishments in Wiscon-
sin devoted to the manufacture of organs and
materials employing a total capital of $24,-
825, of which $11,200 is in cash and sundries,
$3,475 in machinery, tools and implements,
$7,250 in buildings and $2,900 in land. Fif-
teen earners are employed and the total
wages paid in 1900 amounted to $6,508.
Miscellaneous expenses in that year amount-
ed to $2,032, while the cost of materials used
reached a total of $5,781. The value of the
products in the census year was $18,488.
In the manufacture of musical instruments
and materials not specified 4 concerns are
listed in the returns of the Census Office.
Capital to the amount of $15,665 is employed,
of which the major portion, $11,435, is in
cash and sundries. The wage-earners in
1900 numbered 7 and they received wages
to the amount of $4,488. Miscellaneous ex-
penses during the census year amounted to
$769, while the cost of materials used dur-
ing that year totaled $1,977. The value of
the output was $9,740.
THE "BELL BRAND" STRINGS.
The National Musical String Co., whose
"Bell Brand" strings are known in all parts
of Europe, Australia and South America, as
well as in the United States, have been com-
pelled to get out a number of their price
lists in foreign languages.
They are now working on a Spanish edi-
tion for the trade in South America, where
their strings are in great demand, and ex-
ceedingly popular. The growth of the for-
eign business of this institution would Ix?
remarkable were it not for the fact that it
is a logical evolution based upon the giving
of the highest possible values in the string
field. The National Musical String Co.
have made a study of foreign countries and
their requirements as far as it applies to the
matter of strings-, and they have produced a
better class of goods and are putting them
up in a neater form than those made abroad,
with the result that they are winning trade
on this basis.
The list of jobbers who are handling the
"Bell Brand" strings in Europe as well as
in this country, is a formidable one, and em-
braces every concern of note. These great
firms would not be identified with anything
but the best, and the best is tHe "Bell Brand."
Business at the factory of the National
Musical String Co., in New Brunswick, N.
J., is, needless to say, very brisk, and the
outlook in both domestic and foreign fields
could hardlv be better.
LIGHT FINGERED PIANO TUNER.
The police are hot on the trail of John
Harris, a piano tuner, who is wanted in
Erie, Pa., for theft. Harris is said to be a
sport and is a hanger-on at music halls.
In Erie, it is said, he managed to get
away with several gold rings and diamond
pins, a lady's gold watch, a gold bangle and
$85 in cash. It is asserted that he is a des-
perate character, and the police will have
some trouble when they attempt to capture
him.
TO MANUFACTURE ORGANS.
[Special to The Review.]
Wabash, Ind., March 24, 1902.
The Butler Organ Co. opened a new fac-
tory at Lafontaine, this county, to-day, em-
ploying at the outset fifty men. This force
will be largely increased. The first organs
will be turned out April 15th.
A RARE PIANO.
Mrs. J. C. Frawley, of No. 35 Cedar
street, Hornellsville, N. Y., is in possession
of a piano of which only eighteen were ever
manufactured. It is a Linden & Fritz, and
was made in New York in 1852. Mrs. O.
E. Livingston, of Campville, N. Y., has one,
and there is one in Albany. Mrs. Frawley's
and Mrs. Livingston's are both in a fair
state of preservation.
SMITH & YOUNG PURCHASE.
The entire stock and goodwill of Gibson,
Glaser & Co., Baltimore, Md., who recently
went into bankruptcy, have been purchased
from the receiver by Smith & Young, of
Washington, D. C. They will continue this
business in addition to their Washington
house. Both Mr. Smith and Mr. Young are
young men who have made quite a success
in Washington, which they are destined to
duplicate in Baltimore.