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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1903 Vol. 36 N. 10

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THE
fflJJIC TIRADE
VOL.
XXXV1. No. 10
PntlisM Ever? Sat. bv Edward Lvman Bill at 1 Madison Ate., New Tort Mar. 7,1903.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
TAKING ACTION AGAINST BAD BILLS
HARRY MITTENTHAL ARRESTED.
CAPITAL NOW HALF A MILLION.
Introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature -The
Boston Trade Association's Timely Action.
Didn't Pay Joseph M. Mann $500 for His Work
on the Mascagni Tour.
The Boston Music Trade Association is
taking vigorous steps, through its executive
council, to kill two bills which have been re-
cently introduced in the Massachusetts House
of Representatives and which are now be-
fore the legislative committee. The first of
these bills, "Relative to the Removal or Sale
of Merchandise or Personal Property Bought
on Instalments or Leased Sales" is as fol-
lows:
The FarrandOrgan Co. Issue $200,000 PreTerred
Stock—Increase in Business Makes This Step
Necessary.
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Harry Mittenthal, of Mittenthal Bros.,
The Farrand Organ Co., of Detroit, Mich.,
New York, was arrested in Providence, R. I.,
who
have just closed a very successful year,
last Saturday night in a civil action brought
have
decided-to increase their capital stock
by Jos. M. Mann for $1,000. Mr. Mann
to
$500,000,
by adding $200,000 seven per
was the local agent for Mascagni when .the
cent,
cumulative
preferred stock. This stock
latter appeared there and he sent his bill for
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will
be
offered
to holders of the common
$500 to Mittenthal Bros v "He failed'to're-
stock
in
amounts
pro rata to their; holdings.
ceive a remittance, ana when Mr. Mittenthal
The
common
stock
was increased by a""stock,
appeared in" Providence with a theatrical
dividend
from
$231,000
to $300,000 on Jan.
company which he is managing, Mr. Mann
had him arrested. It looked for a time as '• 1903-
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though Mr. Mittenthal would have tp go to
"Our business has grown so fast," said
jail, but Col. Wendelschaefer, the manager Wi R. .Farrand on'Friday,.'"that' it .has r be-'
of the local theatre, went on his bond and -come necessary for us to take this step to
Mr. Mittenthal was released.
take care of it. Our output has doubled in
the last three years, and we have. ad3efr over
WM. HEINEKAMP DEAD.
150 hands to our establishment within a year.
.Wm. Heinekamp, a retired piano manu- The last return I had from the pay roll
facturer, died on Feb. 25th at his home in showed that we employ upward of 450 hands
Baltimore, Md. The deceased was born in at work. We have an office in London that
the town of Lippe Detmold, Prussia, seventy- will do a business this year in the British
seven years ago. He journeyed to Baltimore Isles alone, of fully $100,000. Over half
when twenty-one years of age,, and in 1861 of the $200,000 preferred stock has already
estabushed himself in business. He retired been taken by our stockholders, and they
ten years ago, since which time the business have yet a couple of weeks in which to come
in."'
has been conducted by his son.
The growth of this business emphasizes
FAKE TUNERS IN MANCHESTER.
anew the extent of the piano player trade in
this country to-day. The Cecilian, made by
Fake piano tuners, claiming to be connect-
this company, has become an universal fav-
ed with the house of Chickering & Sons, have
orite with the dealers and musicians of '•his
been swindling people in Manchester, N. H.,
country, while in Europe its popularity is
and locality. They have not only collected
steadily on the up-grade. Tha news above
quite a little money, but damaged a number
recorded is the inevitable and logical trend
of instruments. Piper & Mclntire, the Chick-
of healthy expansion.
ering representatives in Manchester, N. H.,
are endeavoring to run down the rascals, KNABE BUILDING IN WASHINGTON.
which it is hoped they will succeed in doing.
Manager Keidel is receiving congratula-
tions
in connection with the leasing of hand-
TO MAKE PIANO BACKS.
some new warerooms at 1218-1220 F street,
Ed Davis, who was formerly connected N. W., Washington, D. C , which was re-
with the Washington Mfg. Co., in Washing- ferred to in last week's Review. The build-
ton, N. J., has been visiting Binghamton, ing is six stories in height with basement,
N. Y., and Williamsport, Pa., for the pur- and is of modern construction in every re-
pose of looking over locations for a factory spect. When alterations are completed it will
to be devoted to the manufacture of piano give Wm. Knabe & Co. one of the finest es-
backs. While nothing definite has been de- tablishments devoted to instruments in the
cided upon, it appears that Williamsport is Capital city. They expect to take possession
of their new quarters on April 1.
at present preferred.
Section i. Whoever buys any merchandise
or personal property upon instalments or
leased sales, shall upon payment of sixty per
centum of the total cost of said property,
have a right to move said property without
giving notice to seller or lessors, and shall
also have a right to pledge, pawn or sell said
property.
Section 2. The lessor or seller of personal
property upon leased or instalment property
shall recover the value of their property by
civil action.
The other bill entitled "To Regulate and
Provide for the Recording of Conditional
Sales of Personal Property" is as follows:
Section 1. No agreement that personal
property bargained and delivered to another
shall remain the property of the seller till
paid for is valid, unless the same is in writ-
ing and signed by the person to be bound
thereby. And when so made and signed,
whether said agreement is, or is called a note,
lease, conditional sale, purchase on instal-
ments, or by any other name and in what-
ever form it may be, it shall not be valid
except as between the original parties there-
to, unless it is recorded in the same manner
as is provided for the recording of mortgages
or personal property, The fee for recording
the same shall be the same as that for record-
ing mortgages of personal property. All
said agreements, whether recorded or not,
shall be subject to redemption; but the title
may be foreclosed in the same manner as is
provided for mortgages of personal property.
As soon as these bills come up for consid-
eration a committee, of which Edwin C. Mil-
ler, of the Henry F. Miller & Sons Piano Co.
is chairman, will make a formal protest
against a favorable report. Such arguments
will be presented as will go to show that
these measures would be injurious to the best
interests of the trade in Massachusetts.
These bills are decidedly objectionable to
piano dealers and all who sell on instalments,
and it is the general opinion, should a stren-
uous protest be made, that they cannot be
passed.
J. Geo. Laffargue, of Laffargue & Co.,
has been receiving a royal reception from
dealers in various cities which he has so far
visited. He has been receiving generous or-
ders throughout his trip, which will extend
as faf as the Pacific Coast,
BRIGGS SELLS OUT.
Claud Briggs, piano dealer of North Yaki-
ma, Wash., has sold his interests in that place
to the Allen & Gilbert-Ramaker Co., of Seat-
tle and Portland, and hereafter he will be the
new firm's general manager in Central Wash-
r
ington.
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THE MUSIC TRADE
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REVIEW
EDWARD
LYMAN
BILL,
entirely different.
J . B. S P I L L A N E , MANAGING EDITOR
See how many new institutions have been
started within the past decade, all of which shows the American
workmen are not satisfied with present conditions.
We say work-
men, for we are all workmen, some more advanced than others.
It is the same in any line.
Boldt, the proprietor of the leading
hyphenated hotel in this town, used to be a steward in a Philadel-
phia club.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
He impressed Astor as being a man of intelligence,
and Boldt did not remain forever in his old position.
EXECUTIVE STAFF :
THOS. CAMPBELL-COPELAND
WALDO E. LADD
GEO. B. KELLER
perfectly content with surroundings, but here in this country it is
EMILIE FRANCES BAUER
GEO. W. QUER1PEL
A. J. NICKLIN
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Lyman Bill.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
He was
capable of larger things, and in his line he has scored the biggest
kind of a success.
HPHIS is a country of great ambition, and it is therefore the
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country of bitter disappointments, but if we are all satisfied
with our present conditions and accepted paternalism complacently
we would probably become frayed and run down at the heels, so
to speak.
NEW YORK, MARCH 7, J903.
Most of us are desirous of getting all we can.
The man with a little piano store takes a Kimball, or a Healy,
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or a Cable as his pattern and hopes way down in his heart to own
THE
On the first Saturday of each month The Review contains In Its
ARTISTS*
"Artists' Department" all the current musical news. This is
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effected without In any way trespassing on the sl»e or service
DEPARTMENT of the trade section of the paper. It has a special circulation, and
therefore augments materially the value of The Review to advertisers.
DIRECTORY
The directory of piano manufacturing firms and corpora-
te- • i i u A
tlons found on page 37 will be of great value as a reference for
OF PIANO
dealers and others.
MANUFACTURERS
a big establishment some day. It is that ambition which helps
him to close some mighty good piano sales.
This industry has been a fertile ground for energetic men
and we have plenty of the younger generation who are coming
on, who will strive for greater things.
They are not satisfied to
be salesmen, for they wish to become proprietors.
All of us cannot occupy the first place, but the Nation is the
EDITORIAL
gainer by personal ambition.
NUMBER of capitalists who have been developing model
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towns in America have been bitterly disappointed at the re-
sults.
They allege that the men fail to appreciate their work—
we all strive as hard as we can, and while some of us are less
swift and less able than others, the general music trade profession
is moving along rapidly and is making wonderful progress.
But to remain satisfied—no.
in fact, even show inguatitude in return for the benefits given them.
Passiveness in business means business degeneracy.
The trouble is, the American workman rebels at what may
be termed the spirit of paternalism.
have succeeded in America.
None cf these model towns
The workmen do not wish to receive
We all run as fast as we can, and
' T W E R E is no question but that the ethics of retailing have
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country of bitter risappointments, but if we are all content
more the necessity of having what the people desire.
these special favors from the hands of their employers.
A model industrial plant at Dayton, O., perhaps the most
The wide-
awake piano merchant keeps in the closest possible touch with the
striking in many respects in the world, was closed by a strike which
demands of the people, and he carries "what they wish.
was precipitated because the towels which were furnished
merchant is up-to-date unless his line is complete in every par-
free
in the lavatory by the proprietor, were not washed by union laun-
drymen.
ticular, from the highest grade down to the cheap piano.
There are plenty of people of limited means whose resources
But the matter of unionism we will not discuss here.
American workmen do not wish to accept anything free.
It may
No piano
only permit of their purchasing cheap pianos, but they are en-
please in old Europe, but workmen here reject the spirit of
titled to just as good value as the man with the longer purse who
paternalism as fostered by some industrial institutions.
can purchase one of the leaders.
There is no evil in selling cheap pianos, provided they are
sold in their proper class as cheap pianos, and not at prices which
should entitle the purchaser to become the owner of a high-grade
piano.
W
E are too active here, and conditions change too rapidly to
go plodding along on any model town scheme perfectly
satisfied with conditions.
In this the workmen are right, for to
be supinely satisfied even means decay and degeneracy.
It is be-
cause we are not content with present conditions that spurs us
on with ambitious desires to win a larger and more pronounced
success.
T ^ H E example of what other men have done is always before
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the young American. A piano maker working at his bench
is figuring on the time he can start a piano factory and begin busi-
ness on his own account. It was from such ambitious workmen as the
Chickerings, the Steinways, the Knabes that great enterprises have
been built.
In the English and German factories they plod on
CLIENT of ours has recently asked our opinion whether or
not the standing of a high-grade piano was injured in the
estimation of the trade, nationally or locally, by the acquisition of
another leader by the same dealer.
We would say, most emphatically, no. There is a great deal
of imaginary loss of prestige which is permitted to go unchal-
lenged. The reputation of no high-grade piano can be materially
affected by the proximity of good neighbors. The only trouble is
the dealer is apt to divide his energies, and perhaps not score the
success which both of the leading manufacturers whom fre rep-
resents should, desire,
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