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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT EXPORTS.
PACKARD ORGANS GO ABROAD.
SALE OF BALDWIN STOCK.
Interesting Figures Showing the Exports of Pianos
From 1826 up to 1902—The Monthly Summary
of Commerce and Finance Just Issued Is a Pub-
lication of Extraordinary Value to All Inter-
ested in Our Industrial Advance.
[Special to The Review.]
Ratified by the Stockholders—The Business of
the Company will be Continued by the New
Owners Along the Same Progressive and Ad-
vanced Lines as Heretofore—Capital Increased.
Ft. Wayne, Ind., June 8, 1903.
The Packard Piano Co. made two very
good shipments of the productions of their
factory to foreign countries this week, via
The April number of the Monthly Sum- the Pennsylvania lines. One consignment,
mary of Commerce and Finance just issued consisting of twelve reed organs, was
abounds in interesting 1 matter. It contains .shipped to Launceston, Tasmania, which
the first detailed analysis of our exportation is a British colony located in Oceanica.
of manufactures and their distribution ever The other shipment contained eight reed
presented by this bureau, and shows the des- organs and was consigned to E. Hirsh &
tination of every manufactured article ex- Co., of Liverpool, England. The business
ported, country by country, in each year dur- of the Packard Piano company with firms
ing the past decade and the total value of in foreign lands, as judged by the ship-
each manufactured article or class of articles ments, is constantly increasing because the
exported in each year from 1790 to 1902, and shipments grow in number as well as in
incidentally the growth of manufacturing in volume.
the United States and the share which manu-
CHAS. N. TUTTLE MARRIED.
factures have formed of our total exports in
The
Rev.
E. P. England stopped for a
each year from 1796 down to date.
social call on his friend, Charles N. Tuttle,
O. P. Austin, chief of the bureau, with his
secretary and treasurer of the Beethoven
competent staff, have devoted more than a
Piano and Org-an Co., at his home in
year of careful labor and study in the prepar-
Washington, N. J., Saturday evening.
ation of this monograph. The volume and its
They are old friends and soent some time
contents will be found invaluable to the man-
talking on church and lay questions, the
ufacturer, the editor and the economist in
family and Miss Pauline Pfenning, Mr.
determining what sections of the world are
Tuttle's stenographer, joining in the dis-
our best customers.
cussion. The clergyman got up to say
The figures relating to the exports of musi- his adieu about ten o'clock.
cal instruments from 1826 to 1902 which ap-
"Wait a minute, doctor," said Tuttle. He
pear therein will doubtless prove of interest
whispered long and earnestly to Miss
to our readers.
L ienning. First she grew serious, then
It was in 1826 that the first exports of
smiled and blushed, and Tuttle led her by
musical instruments were placed on record,
the hand to the wondering minister.
their value being $5,157. From that year up
"We want to get married," he said. The
to the- present the value of instruments ex-
room-full of relatives and the minister
ported in each respective year was as follows:
gasped.
j
1827, $14,844; 1828, $10,011; 1829, $8,868;
In a jifty the bride had promised to love,
1830, $10,261; 1831, $10,906; 1832, $4,952;
honor and obey, and the larder was being
1833, $5,400; 1834, $6,269; 1835, $8,627;
searched for materials for a wedding feast.
1836, $7,174; 1837, $4,857; 1838, $8,604;
The minister, in replying to a toast, spoke
1839, $7,413; 1840, $12,199; 1841, $16,119;
of the efficacy of parochial calls.
1842, $16,253; 1843, $6,684; 1844, $17,050;
Mr. Tuttle is brother of Mrs. Garret A.
1845, $18,309; 1846, $25,375; 1847, $i6,997;
Hobart,
widow of the late Vice-President,
1848, $38,508; 1849, $23,713; 1850, $21,634;
and
is
wealthy.
His bride has long been a
1851, $55,700; 1852, $67,733; 1853, $52,397;
friend
of
the
family.
1854, $126,062; 1855, $106,857; ^856, $133,-
PIANO FELL THROUGH WINDOW.
517; 1857, $127,748; 1858, $99,775; 1859,
$155,101; i860, $129,653; 1861, $150,974;
A large plate glass window at the piano
1862, $152,026; 1863, $149,103; 1864, $172,- store of Browning & Browning, 613 Madi-
587; 1865, $272,422; 1866, $157,768; 1867, son street, Toledo, ()., was broken a few
$181,328; 1868, $173,341; 1869, $206,826; days ago by a piano in crate falling
1870, $267,400; 1871, $294,092; 1872, $401,- through it. The piano had just been un-
194; 1873, $461,477; 1874, $550,327; 1875, loaded from a Depenthal truck and was
$628,987; 1876; $815,933; 1877, $921,679; being taken in the entrance way when the
1878, $756,477; 1879, $785,707; 1880, $812,- men lost control of it. Tipping over, it
i n ; 1881, $974,982; 1882, $1,267,450; 1883, crashed through the window onto another
$1,203,612; 1884, $1,079,118; 1885, $941,- piano, seriously marring its finish and
344; 1886, $871,446; 1887, $831,837; 1888, damaging a number of the keys.
$908,540; 1899, $998,068; 1890, $1,105,134;
The Victor Talking Machine Co. have
1891, $1,326,389; 1892, $1,164,656; 1893,
declared
their regular semi-annual divi-
l8
$1,824,107; 1894, $972,59o; 95- $i,ii5,-
dend
of
$3.00
on the common stock, and
2 6
I
72y; 1896; $1,271,161; 1897, ^, 7 >7 7'f
$3.50
on
the
preferred
stock, payable June
1898, $1,383,867; 1899, $1,791,843; 1900,
10th.
$1,958,779; 1901, $2,780,796; 1902, $3,694,-
H3-
The Review extends congratulations to
Mr. Austin on the splendid work which he
and his assistants have accomplished. No
other Government in the world or no other
bureau could furnish a volume so exhaustive
and so complete as this.
[Special to The Review.]
Cincinnati, O., June 10, 1903.
The stockholders of the Baldwin Co.
held a meeting here yesterdav afternoon
for the purpose of taking action regarding
the purchase of the interests of the late
D. H. Baldwin by Messrs. Lucien Wulsin
and Geo. W. Armstrong, Jr., the surviving
partners. As already referred to, the Pro-
bate Court last week ordered the sale of
the Baldwin interests and this meeting
was called to approve the transaction.
The intention of the latter was to bring
the firm of D. H . Baldwin & Co. and
their great business into the closest alliance
with the corporation—the Baldwin Com-
pany.
This latter already control the
manufacturing corporations, the Baldwin
Piano Company and the Ellington Piano
Company, of Cincinnati, and the Hamilton
Organ Company, Chicago. The intention
now is to continue the business of the firm
of D. H. Baldwin & Co. as a distributing
factor of the great piano and organ factor-
ies of the Baldwin Company.
Quite a number of the representatives of
the firm and of the Baldwin Company
came from a distance to attend the meet-
ing, among whom were A. A. Van Buren,
Boston, Mass.; H. C Dickinson, Chicago,
111.; J. A. Marshall, Terre Haute and Den-
ver; C. H. Marshall, Terre Haute. Ind.; C.
M. Robertson, Louisville, Ky.; E. G.
Hereth, Indianapolis, Ind.; O. S. Boyd, St.
Louis, Mo.; A. J. Sorrensen, Chicago
Heights, 111. The stockholders approved
the action of the directors and increased
the capital stock of the Baldwin Company
from $1,250,000 to $1,800,000.
BOYD BROS'. PLANS SUCCESSFUL.
[Special to The Review.]
Toledo, O., June 9, 1903.
Boyd Brothers, the patentees of the
petite piano described in The Review a
few weeks ago, have met with success in
financing a factory to be established in
Toledo. The proposed $100,000 capital
stock has been raised, and every subscriber
is a Toledoan. Articles of incorporation
will be filed at Columbus this week, and
as soon as the papers are returned the
stockholders will meet and elect directors.
Plans for the establishment of the factory
are yet in a formative state, but will be
taken up by the first board of directors, as
soon as elected.
The J. E. Davis Mfg. Co., who recently
engaged in the manufacture of piano backs
and cases in Cortland, N. Y., are now in-
stalling an electric light plant.
BEHR BROS. & CO.
J. W. Wright, who has been tuning
pianos for the Moore Music Co.. of Dan-
ville, Va., died suddenly last week at Fall
Creek.
PIANOS,
29th Street and 11th Ave., NEW YORK.
HIGHEST STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE.