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Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at I Madison Ave., New York, Sept, 23, 1905.
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fidence neither from the buying nor the selling
end. But he hangs on from year to year, just
how no one knows.
30,266 Patents Granted—The Receipts $264,-
Big Call for These Various Styles of Instru-
The remarkable part of it is that a man should
667 in Excess of Expenditures.
ments Made by This House.
be so blind to his own interests as to ever get his
(Special to The Review.)
business into such a state; and should be so
( Siiocial to Tlit' Iteview.)
Washington, Sept. 18, 1905.
utterly unable to work it out. The latter is not
Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 18, 1905.
The annual report of the Commissioner of Pat-
C. Kurtzmann & Co., of this city, are among the an easy task. Yet it is not an impossible one.
This picture is not overdrawn in the least. In ents shows that the twelve months ended June 30
busiest piano plants in the East. They have had
all departments working all summer accumulat- every city you will find stores answering both last, was the banner year in the history of the
United States Patent Office. The receipts of the
ing stock, so that they are prepared to meet the descriptions.
office were more than a million and a half dollars
demands made on them this fall and winter. In
and the expenditures were a quarter of a million
their two plants they have more than eighty
BAILEY WITH BALMER=WEBER.
less. The report says:
thousand square feet of manufacturing space,
"There were received in the last fiscal year
which, equipped as it is with all the latest and W. D. Shafer Places Big Orders for These as
52,323 applications for mechanical patents, 749
most improved labor-saving devices, gives them
Well as Other Instruments—Special
Hall
applications for designs, 174 applications for re-
facilities for turning out not only a vast number
For Aeolian Organ.
issues, 1,846 caveats, 11,298 applications for trade
of pianos, but actually making the entire instru-
marks, 1,236 applications for labels and 448 appli-
ment except the action.
During the recent visit to this city of W. D. cations for prints. There were 30,266 patents
In addition to their regular styles, C. Kurtz- Shafer, secretary of the Balmer-Weber Music
granted, including reissues and designs, and
mann & Co. are turning out some very handsome House, St. Louis, he arranged for the represent-
1,426 trade marks, 1,028 labels and 345 prints
art pianos, which have been highly commended ation in his city of the instruments made by the
were registered. The number of patents that ex-
by the Buffalo Art League, composed of leading Bailey Piano Co. The first order will probably
pired was 19,567. The number of allowed appli-
artists of that city. There are few concerns amount to several carloads. He also left sub-
cations which were by operation of law forfeited
where a better organization exists than that of
stantial orders with Strich & Zeidler, Behr Bros., for non-payment of the final fees was 5,154.
Kurtzmann. Roth business and manufacturing and the Schubert Piano Co.
"The total receipts of the office were $1,737,-
ends are in the hands of men of exceptional
While in New York, Mr. Shafer made his head-
ability, and the result is apparent in the grow- quarters at the Aeolian-Weber Co.'s, whose full 334; the total expenditures, $1,472,467, and the
surplus of receipts over expenditures, being the
ing trade.
line will be handled by the Balmer-Weber Co. A amount turned into the Treasury, was $264,667.
special hall, containing a magnificent Aeolian
"The most important event which has occurred
pipe organ is now nearing completion. Recitals
TWO KINDS OF STORES.
in the operation of the Patent Office during the
will be here given weekly, and efforts will be
last year has been taking effect of the new trade
One Succeeds Through Merit and the Other
made to make it the musical center of the former
mark law, which took effect April 1. This new
Just Manages to Get Along.
World's Fair citv.
law, in extending the registration of trade marks
to those employed in interstate commerce and in
There are two kinds of retail establishments
COUNTRY'S AUGUST COMMERCE.
its reduction of the government fee of $25 to $10,
which are always to a very great extent in tne
has stimulated an enormous increase in the
public eye: First—Those which succeed, or ap-
pear to succeed; which grow, thrive and constant- Exports and Imports Largest on Record—Eight trade mark work of the office. The statute also
Months' Showing.
provides for oppositions to the registration of
ly improve. Second—those which do not even
trade marks, which is a new subject of litiga-
possess the appearance of success, but which man-
The Bureau of Statistics Monday pulblished its tion in the business of this office."
age, through one device or another, to hold on to
statement of exports and imports of the United
The Patent Office is one of the few government
life, regardless of all their shortcomings.
The other kinds of stores—some of which last States in August. Exports for the month were bureaus that is self-supporting. Every year for
for a longer, some for a shorter time—we will $25,199,701) above August last year, and imports a long period it has turned a small surplus into
not here consider. We are concerned in ascer- $8,088,0X0 above, both being the largest for the the Treasury.
taining why the one class of enterprise succeeds month on record. The eight months' trade was
and why the other merely succeeds in hanging also the largest for the season in the country's
WEGMAN SECURES FIRST PRIZE.
history, exports showing an increase over the cor-
on.
At the Cortland County P'air last week, the
responding season last year of $115,149,568, and
It is evident that the merchant who succeeds
Wegman style B mahogany, which was exhibited
imports an increase of $103,076,445.
deserves success—possibly not in all ways, but in
through Andrew J. Speich & Co., of Syracuse,
enough ways to carry him through. His store
N. Y., secured the first prize. The Speich Co. also
NEWARK DEALERS MAY ORGANIZE.
is right, its stocks are well selected and kept up
personally secured a prize for having the hand-
to date; his advertising is properly clone; his
The piano dealers of Newark, N. J., are talk- somest booth. This firm are having quite an
help are polite and attentive; his prices are not ing of forming an association for the purpose
enormous trade in Wegman pianos, and intend
higher than they ought to be from the stand- of enforcing the one price system in the trade, as
to make a special showing during the State Fair
point of legitimate trading; his credit is kept well as the inauguration of other reforms which
and Carnival.
high; in fact, ail the elements are present which will dissipate the many abuses which now exist
go to the making of success. So, if he succeeds, and which are injuring the business all along the
LEITER BROS. LATEST PURCHASE.
he dpserves it; and if he fails, it is more likely line. It is only necessary that some active man
Leiter Bros, have purchased the stock of the
lhan not that he is overtrading his capital—a shall take the initiative in order to bring the
St. John-Schmeider Co., of Syracuse, N. Y., who
method which must surely bring him down soon- trade together and achieve the ends aimed at.
announce that they are retiring from business.
er or later.
It is not improbable that Mr. St. John will ally
But the other man? Ten to one you will find
VALOIS & WILLIAMS INCORPORATED.
himself with the Leiier Bros.' forces.
the trouble is himself and his management, says
The improvements which Leiter Bros, are now
The Valois & Williams Co., of New York, was
the Dry Goods Economist. He may not know i t -
may not realize that it is he himself, that is incorporated with the Secretary of State at Al- making in their store in South Salina street will
bany, on Saturday, for the purpose of manufac- cost more than $8,000. Special display rooms
standing in the way of his own success.
turing pianos, with a capital of $5,000. Directors, will be constructed, where the various piano«
His store is all wrong; his stocks, or many of
J. F. Valois, J. E. Williams, of New York, and which they control can be shown to especial ad-
them, are out of date and otherwise undesirable;
vantage.
his methods are bad; he can command public con- F. W. Heinrich. of Brooklyn.
KURTZMANN EXPANSION.
BUSY YEAR IN PATENT OFFICE.