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THE
REVIEW
flUJIC TIRADE
VOL.
x x x v i No. 11
pnhiisM Every Sat, liy Eflvarfl Lyman Bill at 1 Maflison Aye,, New Tort Mar, 14,1903.
LONDON'S MUSIC TRADE EXHIBITION.
THE WILLNER ARTISTIC CARVINGS.
SINGL
^? O P I P E E S R Y°E£I NTS -
CAUSES OF BUSINESS FAILURES
Will Cover a Wide Field, and Attract a Multitude
of People—Tht American Commissioner Invi-
tine the Co-operation of our Manufacturers.
" O u r P l a n t i s rushed with orders," re- Figured Out Very Interestingly by Bradstreet's—
marked Mr. Willner, of the Willner Wood
What They are Due to—It Appears That In-
Co., ^2 Wall street New York the other
competence and Lack of Capital are the two
The InternationafPianoforte and Music
Trades Exhibition which will be held at the
Crystal Palace, London, Eng., from June 13
to Tilly 2K 1003, under distinguished patron-
age comprises amon ff its exhibits: piano-
fortes (all kinds) church organs, American
organs harmoniums piano players, electric
pianos,' automatic musical instruments, vio-
lin and other stringed instruments, brass band
instruments, accordions, concertinas, etc., or-
gan blowing apparatus, organ pipes and
da
.
,
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c a in
y- " T h e P i a n o manufacturers certainly
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appreciate our artistic carvings, for we make
Bradstrect's has just published its review
a
specialty of panels, and by our process, of commercial failures in the United States
which is neither embossing nor applique in 1902, in which it analyzes causes for the
work, we produce a line of beautiful designs year's business disasters. Its showing, based
even
superior to the general run of so-called on examination and report by its agents, is
n n e nan
d carving, and in a matter of price interesting. Presented statistically, this is
there is n o
comparison. The quality of work what it has to say:
is a
revelation to the progressive piano maker
Failures due to
No. 1902. No. IOOJ NO. 1900.
2
who knows a good thing when he sees it."
£ S p 5 S ? .7.7.7/.7.." 2 f 2 \
'£g ll7 $
FRANK P. ANDERSON WRATHY.
Lack of capital
...3,048
3,223 3,168
u-
reeds, phonographs and talking machines,
metronomes, musical boxes, pianoforte ac-
tions, piano frames, pianoforte ironmongery,
sconces, etc., music wire, organ and piano-
forte keys, music stands, music stools, cab-
inets, canterburys, etc., timber, veneers, etc.,
marqueterie panels, incisings and gildings,
varnishes, polishes, etc., tools for music
trades, name tablets and transfers, music and
music printing.
-
The directors have decided upon this date
in view of the fact that the Triennial Handel
Festival will be held at the Crystal Palace
at the same time. This festival is attended
by an immense concourse of musical people
from all parts of Great Britain and the Con-
tinent and will therefore bring under the
notice of these people the latest and best of
everything connected with music and musi-
cal instruments. Another feature will be a
loan collection from early periods which, ex-
hibited side by side with present day instru-
ments, will show the rapid strides made in
all phases of the profession.
The Crystal Palace where the exhibition
will be held is admirably situated for such
affairs, and has long been noted for the high-
class character of the concerts and musical
performances which occur there. The attrac-
tions at the Palace during the summer are
numerous and varied, and thousands of vis-
itors are always in attendance. On more
than one occasion during the past year the
attendance has been from sixtv to one htm-
dred thousand
'
Alfred Chassaud, United States Commis-
sioner, is interesting American manufactur-
ers in the exposition, and holds that no such
favorable opportunity has ever before been
presented for manufacturers of pianos and
all other kinds of musical instruments to
reach buyers from every important center.
Those who may be interested in the exposi-
tion may address him at the St. James Build-
ing, 1133 Broadway, New York City.
A reward of
Frank R
$ 10 ° h a s
bee
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otfered
^
Unwise credits
278
37b
Failures r>f others
271
2^0 201
Extra^glf^.!".! 7.!
T 7
S?
291
I5
Anderson, of Anderson & Co pia- £eglect
305
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™ d e a l e r s > B r o o k l y n > f o r t h e a r r e s t a n d c o n " SgSte^t^'WW" J S
ijg
1%
v l c t l o n o f t h e
l
P erson o r P ersons w h o P ulled R a t i o n
™ T ]f A
T £
d
™ n the fence recently erected around the Fraud
w
^ 4 i_M
building at 370 Fulton street which is being
Totals
9,973
10,648 9,912
remodeled to suit the business purposes of
Commenting on these figures, Bradstreet's
t h e firm M r
-
' Anderson leased the building r e c o r d r e m a r k s : "When comparison is made
for ten
^ e a r s f r o m C h a r I e s Genung. They w i t h s u c h y e a r s as 1894, when 25.9 per cent.
were
informed at the Building Department o f t h e failures were due to specific conditions,
t h a t [t w o u l d b e
necessary to erect a fence t h e percentage of 17.7 per cent, now shown
about the
P r e m l s e s to protect pedestrians i s a comparatively small one. The failures
while the
O r a t i o n s were in progress.
d u e t 0 fraud fail to show any specific ten-
T h e fence w a s erected
- O n lt w a s a S 1 £ n dency over a period of years. Never in the
statm
S t h a t Anderson & Co. would occupy p a s t d e c a d e h a v e the failures due to this
the
building after May 1. Some time Friday c a u s e f a l l e n b e i o w ; . 5 p e r c e n t., and, on the
ni ht the fence w a s taken d o w n a n d the
§
other hand, they have never risen above 11.5
boards thrown into the store. Mr. Ander- p e r c e n t Incompetence, as already pointed
son has
notified the police of the occurrence, o u t j w hi c h claimed one-fifth of the victims in
a n d sa s t h a t h e wil1
y
P a y $ I ' OO ° i f necessary I Q O 2 j h a s s h o w n a perceptible increase in de-
t o find t h e u i l t
g y persons. He believes that strU ctive power of late years. In 1895, for
the
destruction of the fence was prompted i n s t a n ce, the percentage due to those causes
b malice
y
- " lt m a y h a v e been spite work on w a s o n i y I 3 7 p e r cent., or a little over one-
the
art o f
P
business rivals, or it may not," e i g h t h o f all> w h e reas now one-fifth of all
h e added
- " A t a n y rate > l m e a n t 0 P u n i s h failures are attributable to it.
whoever did it, if I have to spend $1,000."
Despite the theory that with the expansion
in
FOR KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS FAIR.
business the tendency has been to unduly
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increase credits, it might be noted that the
When Fred W
" H e l b l ^ ' o f , Washington, f a i l u r e g d u e t Q u n w i s e c r e d i t s i n igQ2 w e r e
D C w a s in N e w Y o r k recent1
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^ " \ a d d l r t l 0 n only 2.8 per cent, of all. This is the smallest
lr
sh
als
e r t e d bimse lf
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° ^
^ n percentage given for at least a decade past,
f
behalf of t h e K
s
P thiaS
r
be
^
° y
f " ' * > f In the years from 1892 to 1896, in fact, the
h d d next month
' A s c h a n " m a n o f t h e . K - o f percentage ranged in excess of 4 per cent,
R Music Committee wlth a
'
P r opo s i t i o n t o Speculation outside of the regular business
create
something novel and of more than - s ^
^ c a u s e w h ich fails to rise or fall
passing attractiveness in the form of a rau- n o t a b i V ) a n d hangs in the neighborhood of
sical section, Mr. Helbig lost no time in solic- J p e f c e n t t h r o u g h a l l t h e y e a r S ) a n d e xtrav-
iting the aid of metropolitan houses, with a g a n c e (personal) also claims about the same
proportion of victims every year.
t j i e r e s u i t that some one donated a piano,
, „ R
cninnrinne Riipo-pleicpn
w
T
Wm. lonk & Bro., a solophone, Buegeleisen
W i l l i a m Schnaekel, late of the McLeod-
& Jacobson a Durro violin outfit, and per- Schnaekel Piano Co., Detroit, Mich., who rc-
haps August Pollman an orchestrion, with c e n t ly disposed of his interests to his partner,
others yet to hear from.
has opened a piano store in Janesville, Wis.