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V O L . X X X I V . N o . 7 . Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York, Feb. 15,19Q2.
PIANO MAKING IN MARYLAND.
Some Interesting Figures Taken From the Census
Report Showing the Extent of the Industry
in that State.
[Special to The Review.]
Washington, D. C , Feb. i i , 1902.
Some interesting facts regarding the music
trade industry in the State of Maryland, are
revealed in the report of the manufacturing
and mechanical industries of that State, just
transmitted to \Ym. R. Merriam, director
of the census, by S. N. D. North, the chief
statistician. The points covered are based
upon inquiries solicited according to the pro-
visions of section 7 of the act of March 3,
1890, which provides that the inquiry shall
embrace the name and location of each estab-
lishment ; character of organization, whether
individual or co-operative, or other forms;
date of commencement of operations; char-
acter of business or kind of goods manu-
factured; amount of capital invested; num-
ber of proprietors, firm members, partners,
or officers, and the amount of their salaries;
number of employees, and the amount of
their wages; quantity and cost of materials
used in manufacturers; amount of miscel-
laneous expenses; quantity and value of pro-
ducts ; time in operation during the census
year; character and quantity of power used
and character and number of machines em-
ployed.
Under the caption of Musical Instru-
ments, pianos and materials, the report
shows that there are four establishments,
having a total capital of $1,184,650, the
uilue of the land being $91,342; that of
the buildings, $166,000. The machinery, tools
and implements are valued at $76,635, with
cash and sundries placed at $850,673.
Thirty-one salaried officials and clerks
were employed, with salaries amounting to
$41,980. Wage earners numbered 447, with
total wages paid $222,748.
Male wage earners over sixteen years of
age were 444, with wages estimated at $222,-
410.
The miscellaneous expenses of these four
establishments amounted to $83,697, of
which $450 was for rent of works; $12,280
for taxes not including internal revenue, and
$70,967 for rent of offices, interest, etc.
The total cost of material used by these
establishments was placed at $358,630, of
which $354,618 represented principal ma-
terials, including mill supplies and freight:
and $4,OT2 was for fuel and rent of power
and heat. The value of the products of
these four establishments is placed at $827,-
371-
Under the heading of Musical Instru-
ments, organs and materials, five establish-
ments reported having a total capital of $68,-
100, the value of land being that of build-
ings $9,000. The machinery, tools and im-
plements were valued at $9,650, with cash
and sundries placed at $33,450.
These five establishments were owned by
six proprietors and firm members, and the
salaried officials and clerks numbered ten,
with salaries amounting to $5,462.
The average number of wage earners was
seventy-six, and the total wages paid was
$40,608. Male wage earners over sixteen
years of age employed numbered seventy-
six, with wages estimated at $40,608.
The miscellaneous expenses of these five
establishments amounted to $4,829, of which
$1,150 was for rent of works; $454 for
taxes, not including internal revenue; $2,-
975 f° r r c n t °f offices, interest, etc., and
$250 was for contract work.
The total cost of material used in these
establishments was placed at $45,251, of
which $44,540 represented principal ma-
terials, including mill supplies and freights;
and $711 was for fuel and for rent of power
and heat. The value of the products of these
five establishments amounted to $114,916.
DEATtfOF JOS. D. WHITNEY.
An Old Time Manufacturer who Sold out to the
Estey Co. Some Years Ago.
Josiah D. Whitney, a former manufacturer
of organs and organ reeds, died in Brattle-
boro, V t , Feb. 5th, after a long illness.
Mr. Whitney was once engaged in the
manufacture of church organs in Brattle-
boro with his father, Jonas P. Whitney, but
afterwards moved to Springfield, Mass.,
where he engaged in the manufacture of me-
lodians, pianos and church organs. Later
he invented a set of reed-making machinery
and began making reeds in Fitchburg, Mass.
In 1865 he sold his business to J. Estey &
Co., now the Estey Organ Co. In 1876 he
made new machinery and engaged in making
reeds independently, making practically the
entire supply of the Wilcox & White Organ
Co., of Meriden, Conn. He had patented a
process of attaching the reeds to the reed
blocks, which is used by the Estey Co.
The deceased, who was in his eighty-fourth
year, leaves a widow, a son, Edwin D. Whit-
ney, and a daughter, Miss Jennie Whitnev,
all of Brattleboro.
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C. H. HACKLEY'S LATEST GIFT.
(has. 11. Ilackley, president of the Chaso-
liackley I'iano Co., is again to the front
with a generous donation of $100,000, to
be applied to the endowment fund of the
Hackley Training School, of Muskegon,
Mich. As mentioned frequently in The Re-
view, Mr. Hackley has given a,way prac-
tically a fortune to his city for various pur-
poses pertaining to the educational advance-
ment of the younger generation. It fact, it
is his intention to make his total gift to the
endowment fund $500,000.
On decoration day, Mr. llackley's magni-
ficent gift to Muskegon, of a statute of the
late President McKinley will be formally un-
veiled. This is one of six other similar
statues of eminent soldiers and statesmen do-
nated by Mr. Ilackley, which now adorn the
City of Muskegon.
We doff our hat to Mr. Hackley. He is an
honor, not only to his city, but to the music
trade industrv of the United States.
KIMBALL GETS ORGAN CONTRACT.
LSpecial to The Review.]
Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1902.
After considering bids from nine other
firms, Very Rev. Father Hickey, rector of
St. Patrick's Cathedral, has awarded to the
W. W. Kimball Company, of Chicago, the
contract for the new organ which, at a cost
of $8,000, will be installed in the church.
When in June the instrument will bo
ready to take its part in the service of the
Cathedral, it will be the peer of any now in
use in this city. Next to the organ in First
Baptist Church it will be the costliest instru-
ment in Rochester. It will be three-man-
naled with pedal registration of CC to C4.
with the scale of the same ranging from
CCC to F, with thirty notes. The average
number of pipes will be 61, except in the
pedal organ, where there will be thirty.
It is proposed by Father Hickey to have
the organ played for the first time in June,
when special services will be held at the
Cathedral to commemorate the elevation of
Bishop McQuaid to the bishopric.
KRELL PIANO WITH HEINE CO.
During the recent visit of C. L. Anient, of
the Krell Piano Co., to San Francisco, he
closed a big deal with the Heine Piano Co.,
whereby this firm will hereafter handle the
Krell as one of their leaders. A big order
was placed for Krell grands and uprights.
Frank Sohmre left town last week for
a two-weeks trip in the Sohmcr interests.