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HAMILTON SECURES FIRST PRIZE
At the Australian Federal Exhibition—
High Compliment Paid D. H. Baldwin
& Co., of Cincinnati, Manufacturers—
Exhibit Was Made by Mr. Becket, the
Importer, of Melbourne.
The great Australian Federal Exhibition
in Melbourne, Australia, has just closed and
is pronounced eminently successful. It is
interesting to know that a Cincinnati manu-
facturing firm has achieved distinct honors
at this exposition. The importer, A. Becket,
of Melbourne, who represents D. H,. Bald-
win & Co., of Cincinnati, in Australia, ex-
hibited there the Hamilton piano, even with-
out knowledge of the Baldwins. It was
therefore an exceedingly pleasant surprise
when yesterday the news came that the Aus-
tralian Exposition Jury had awarded the
Hamilton piano the first Order of Merit.
This is a most remarkable and important
victory, not only for the Baldwins, but for
the American piano industry. The strug-
gle for supremacy upon the Australian mar-
ket was intense during the last two years
between the piano manufacturers of the
world. English and German manufacturers
were in the lead in this conquest with the
Americans on their heels. The victory of
the Hamilton piano at the most important
Australian exposition gives the American
product an advantage which must not be
underrated. On the other hand, the Austra-
lians are to be congratulated upon their good
taste and keen judgment.. The Hamilton
piano is an exceedingly fine and reliable in-
strument. Expressly built for export, it has
stood this severest of all piano tests in a
thoroughly satisfactory manner and con-
quers the market wherever it goes.
SOHMERS FOR HONOLULU.
There was a Sohmer parade in San Fran-
cisco last week in the nature of a shipment
of ten Sohmer. pianos which were loaded
on so many wagons and appropriately la-
beled "For the Alexander Hotel, Honolulu,
H. I." They paraded through the streets to
the pier attracting considerable attention and
emphasizing the immense trade which Byron
Mauzy transacts with the Islands as well as
the popularity of the Sohmer piano in these
new possessions of ours.
Otto Baab, of Springfield, Mass., read a
very interesting paper on the "One-Price
System" at the banquet of the Hampden
County Music Dealers' Association, which
occurred last week in Springfield.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
$3.00 PER YEAR.
COPYRIGHT IMPROVEMENTS.
LEVIED ON SCHAEFER'S STOCK.
In the last American Law Review is
printed an address, before the Maine State
Bar Association, by Mr. Samuel J. Elder of
Boston, on what he styles' "Our Archaic
Copyright Laws." Mr. Elder points out
many directions in which he believes our
present copyright statutes should be amend-
ed. The substitution of a single term of
protection for the present double term would
do away with the requirement of a second
registration of title and deposit of copies,
and with the resulting opportunities for un-
necessary and delicate complications be-
tween the author and his assignee. A long-
er period of protection, also, is favored.
His conclusions may be thus summarized:
that there is need of revision and simplifi-
cation of the law of literary and artistic
property; that as it is the securing of an ex-
isting right, and not the creating of a new
one, for which the law makes provision, it
should liberally protect and not fetter, ham-
per, or by possibility defeat the right. "The
basis on which our copyright provisions rest
is erroneous. It being true that the author's
right of property results from his labors,
genius, and ingenuity, and that protection
was intended to be secured to him because
of his dedication of his work to the public,
there is no reason why the security itself
should be imperilled by a variety of techni-
calities, or why the value of the work should
be frittered away in litigation or questions
which have nothing to do with the real work
of ownership." Finally, Mr. Elder con-
tends that "the law requires adaptation to
modern conditions. It is no longer possible
to summarize it in a few sections covering
everything copyrightable. It should be re-
vised so that protection to the honest literary
worker, artist, or designer shall be simple
and certain."
[Special to The Review.]
ORDER A. B. CHASE SPECIALS.
During the visit of Calvin Whitney, presi-
dent of the A. B. Chase Co., to Pittsburgh
Pa., last week, Samuel Hamilton, the local
representative, placed an order with him for
ten art grand pianos which are to be ready
early in December next. These instruments
will be finished in mahogany and gold, and
will exemplify the great advance made by
the A. B ( . Chase institution in the production
of special art designs. We may say, by the
way, that there is quite a big demand on the
A. B. Chase Co. for special designs these
days, and the splendid facilities of the or-
ganization enables a class of work being pro-
duced which delights lovers of the beautiful.
Cincinnati, O., May 2, 1903.
Constable Charles Timberlake, of Squire
Dupont's court, yesterday levied on the stock
of George Schaefer, dealer in musical instru-
ments, in East Sixth street. The levy was
made as a result of a judgment against
Schaefer, granted in favor of the Rudolph
Wurlitzer Co., for the sum of $206.75. The
stock was placed in charge of a watchman,
but later released, as it was found that Schae-
fer was not the real owner.
BEGS A PIPE ORGAN.
Governor Yates Has Convinced Legisla-
tors That One is a Necessity in Man-
sion—People to Pay the Freight—Old
Portico to be Turned Into Spacious
Veranda for Use of Military Bands.
A Springfield (111.) dispatch says: An
electric automatic pipe organ to cost $1,300,
marked down from $1,700, is one of the mid-
summer Christmas presents which is expected
from the legislative Santa Claus this year.
Governor Yates has convinced members of
the Senate Appropriation Committee that a
pipe organ is a necessity at the Illinois exe-
cutive mansion and the executive ukase has
gone forth that the old portico of the house
must be torn down to make place for a spa-
cious veranda for the accommodation of mil-
itary bands to vie with the pipe organ.
For the veranda and reconstructing the
driveway leading to the mansion an appro-
priation of $1,900 has been asked, making a
total of $3,000. Care is taken to explain that
the request came from Governor Yates.
Altogether the Senate has voted $20,000
"for improvements and repairs at the execu-
tive mansion."
ORGAN PIPES MADE OF PASTE-
BOARD.
A Paris inventor has just constructed a
church organ of paper. The pipes are paste-
board instead of metal, the other parts of
the organ being made in the ordinary fash-
ion. The sound is said to be more powerful
and sweeter than that from metal pipes.
Perhaps the reason for this is that the regis-
ters close more rapidly, thus rendering the
transition of sounds from "forte" to "piano"
much less abrupt.
The workmen employed by the Brock-
port Piano Mfg. Co. are a musical crowd,
and this is evidenced in the fact that they
have organized a first-class band called
after the popular Capen piano which they
manufacture. The Capen Band and the Ca-
pen piano make an excellent team,