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VOL. XXXV1. No. 12
FDtliM Erery Sat. liy Ei?art Lyman BUI at 1 Madison Aye., Hew Tort, Mar. 21,1903.
VISITORS TO MASON & HAMLIN'S.
FRED P. STIEFF HONORED.
Among the artists who have recently vis-
ited the.Mason & Hamlin piano factory may
be mentioned: Harold Bauer, Mme. Antoin-
ette Szumowska-Adamowski, Thomas Whit-
ney Surette, Felix Fox, Miss Anna Jansen,
Edward Burlingame Hill, Mrs. Minnie Little
Longley, Geo. W. Proctor, Lucien Howe,
John Behr, Miss Alice Cummings, Henry
Goodrich, Jas. J. McLaughlin, Jr., Miss Ma-
rie A. Treat, Carlo Buonamici, Miss Ellen
Yerrington, Warren E. Locke, Miss Anna
Stovall, Robert Eilenberg, Arthur J. Bassett,
Joshua Phippen, John A. O'Shea, A. W.
Locke, Frederic Lamond, Ernest R. Kroeger,
John C. Manning, Carl Stansy, Geo. W.
Chadwick, Mme. Elsa von Grave-Jonas, Josef
Adamowski, Win. R. Chapman, August Spa-
nuth, Eugene Gruenberg, Sol Marcosson,
Charles Dennee, Richard Steele, H. S. Wild-
er, Clifford Sprunt, Bogea Oumiroff, Mme.
Adele Lewing, Herman P. Chelius, S. B.
Whitney, Heinrich Gebhardt, James M. Mc-
Laughlin, Ernest Hutcheson, Arthur Whit-
ing, Mrs. Ella Backus-Behr, Miss Jessie Da-
vis, Alfred De Voto, Emil Mollenhauer,
Jacques Hoffmann, Louis Bachner, Arthur
Farwell, Edwin H. Lemare, Miss Edith
Mann, C. A. Marks, Augusto Rotoli, Ru-
dolph Wertime, Miss Hermine Liiders, Prof.
John K. Paine, Clayton Johns, Arthur E.
Johnstone, Thos. P. Currier, Miss Suza
Doane, Mrs. Langdon Frothingham, R. W.
Lanigan.
Among the several members of the com-
mission just appointed by Governor John
W r alter Smith to represent the State of Mary-
land at the 'St. Louis Exposition, w r e are
pleased to notice the name of Fred. P. Stieff,
of the Chas. M. Stieff piano house, Balti-
more. His selection is a decided compli-
ment not only in a personal way, but to the
music trade industry. The State of Mary-
land has already appropriated $25,000 for
an exhibit which the commission will seek
to have increased at the next meeting of the
Legislature.
N. B. SPENCER ELECTED MAYOR.
N. B. Spencer, the enterprising piano deal-
er of Honesdale, Pa., has been elected Mayor
of that progressive city by a majority—
lousing enough to afford an excellent idea
of his popularity and standing in the commu-
nity. Mr. Spencer is the representative of
the Mehlin piano, which he has sold for many
\ears and of which he is an ardent and en-
thusiastic admirer. The Review congratu-
lates Mr. Spencer on the honor which has
come his way and feels sure he will do credit
to the office and to the industry of which he
is a worthv member.
BARCKHOFF ORGAN IN BALTIMORE.
The Barckhoff Church Organ Co., of Pom-
eroy, O., have received the highest praise
from leading organists as well as critical mu-
sicians for the magnificent instrument which
they have erected in the Broadway Methodist
Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Md. The in-
strument, architecturally and musically, has
given the utmost satisfaction.
THE "SPECIAL PIANO ROOM" IDEA.
The special room idea as applied to piano
display is becoming quite the vogue through-
out the country. All the leading establish-
ments now boast of special rooms, admirably
decorated and furnished, in which certain pia-
nos are shown off to decided advantage. We
notice among others who have fallen into
line recently the J. W. Jenkins Sons Music
Co., of Kansas City. They have just gone
through a remodelling and thorough redec-
orating of the greater part of their store and
have completed three rooms, two in green
decorations and one in blue. The ceilings and
walls are beautifully relieved with floral dec-
orations and doors and windows are hung
with silk plush to match the decorations.
DID BUSINESS OF TWO MILLIONS.
At the annual meeting of the M. Steinert
& Sons Co., held in New Haven last week,
the report showed that the past year was
one of the most successful in the history of
this house. They did a business of over two
millions of dollars in their various branches,
and connections, which is an unparalleled
record. The meeting was attended by Alex.
Steinert, of Boston, Mass.; Albert Stein-
ert, of Providence, R. I., and Fred.
Steinert, of New York. Plans were out-
lined for the business this year which insure
a still greater expansion of Steinert enter-
prise. It is only fair to say that since this
business came under the management and
direction of Alexander Steinert he has eclipsed
the remarkable record made by his father in
its up-building.
Austin Gibbons expects to open his new
warerooms at 145 Main street, Worcester,
Mass., about the latter part of March. Mr.
Gibbons, who was formerly located at Clin-
ton, Mass., handles the James & Holmstrom
and Opera pianos and will add several other
instruments.
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RESUMING ITS NORMAL CONDITIONS.
[Specially Prepared for The Review.]
Washington, D. C, March 20, 1903.
The export trade of the Linked States is
rapidly resuming its normal conditions. Feb-
ruary figures of the Bureau of Statistics show
the largest exports of any February in the
history of our commerce, and also show that
the exports of the three months ending with
February were larger than those of the cor-
responding period of any earlier year. On
thr import side, the figures also show a con-
tinuation of the growth which has charac-
terized the last two years, and the figures of
the eight months ending with February sug-
gest that the imports of the United States
in the fiscal year 1903 may exceed a billion
dollars, while the export figures seem likely
to exceed one billion, four hundred millions.
In the short month of February alone the
exports amounted to $125,502,105, which is
twelve millions in excess of any preceding
February, and more than double the figures
of February, 1893, in which month the total
exports were $59,931,984. Taking the three
months ending with February, 1903, the to-
tal exports are $407,526,200, against $215,-
151,471 in the three months ending with
February, 1893. Thus, considering either the
month of February or the three months end-
ing with Feburary, 1903, the total exports
are not only larger than in that period of
any preceding year, but practically double
those of a decade ago.
CHASE & BAKER AS FIRST PRIZE.
The manager of the Castle Square The-
atre in Boston recently selected the Chase &
Baker piano player as first prize to the wo-
man who should guess the nearest to the
total in attendance at the theatre during the
month of February. Mrs. H. B. Rogers, of
Medford, was the lucky winner, having
guessed number 83,583.
SECURE THE MASON & HAMLIN LINE.
F. M. Boult, representing the Mason &
Hamlin Co., and who has been traveling since
Hie first of the year, is now visiting the trade
on the Pacific Coast. He has made a num-
ber of important connections for his house,
notably placing the Mason & Hamlin goods
with the Allen & Gilbert-Ramaker Co. He
has taken some big orders for both pianos
and organs.
Horace P. Montgomery, the old-time deal-
er of Portsmouth, N. H., has secured the
representation of the Chickering piano, which
he will handle as his leader.