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THE
REVIEW
J1USIC TIRADE
V O L . XLIII. N o . 1 1 . Published Every Saturday by Edward LymanBill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, September J5,1906. SINGL $!.OO°P P EIPVEAR ENTS -
OUR FOREIGN CUSTOMERS.
"Well, you better not tell any one about this,
has been removed, and a new front, consisting
Pianos and Other Musical Instruments Shipped
Abroad from New York for the Past Week.
It won't do you any good. Yours, John."
The
Police have little hope of capturing the
'> un co man.
of one large show window, with entrances on
the side, has been substituted for the old style.
This gives the Griggs' house a front show win-
dow on a level with the floor, which makes it
(Sp«-iai to Tbe Ueview..
Washington, D. C, September 10, 1906.
The following were the exports of musical in-
struments and kindred lines from the Port of
New York for the week just ended:
Abergavenny—1 case organs and material,
$300.
Alexandria—16 pkgs. talking machines and
material, $254.
Bombay—38 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $250.
Bremen—1 case pianos and material, $300.
Bristol—1 case organs and material, $120.
THIRD GENERATION OF DECKERS.
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tion. The business was established in 1856 by
Dunedin—35 cases organs and material, $302.
PIANO MFN "STIINfi" RY HID fiAMF
PIANU MbN MU1NU_ BY ULU UAlYlfc.
all members of
practical piano
their craft, and
associated with
.
He admitted his error, and taking the $20
bill, placed it apparently, in an envelope, asking
her to keep it until he went and secured another
dollar. Some time elapsed and as he did not re-
appear the envelope was opened. Instead of the
$20 note was found one bearing this message:
The
basement
has been
remodeled throughout
well-lighted and thoroughly
ventilated salesroom, which will be used as a
talking machine and record room.
The
entire establishment will be redecorated
in an
artistic and thoroughly modern manner,
making it one of the handsomest store rooms in
t n e citv
- T h e w o r k l s n o w w e l 1 under way, and
w i n be
completed in a few days in time for
t h e e a r l v fal1 trade
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NEW YORK A WONDERFUL STATE.
T h 7 Manufactured Goods
state _ About
Two .
Thirds of the Total Output of the State
Made in New York City
Enormous
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One-sixth of the $15,000,000,000 worth of manu-
A NOVELTY IN ORGANS
factured goods produced in the United States
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last year was turned out by mills, shops and
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factories in the State of New York. About two-
orated
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thirds of the total output of the State was made
(Special to The Review.)
in the city of New York. From this city alone
Houston, Tex., September 10, 1906.
there came about 11 per cent, of all the manu-
An organ factory is to be built in this city, and factured products of the country, estimating the
it is to turn out a kind of musical instrument output on a basis of value.
tbe world has never yet seen, save in one single
The manufacturing industries of both the
model. This model is a diminutive of what the State and the city have more than doubled with-
real organ is to be and is on exhibition in this in the last twenty-five years. The increase and
city.
the rate of increase for the State are as follows:
it is the invention of J. R. England, of Dallas.
Value of Output
Yesterday at Austin the company was chartered iggo
$1,080 696 590
to manufacture Mr. England's novel invention. jg9Q
1,711577,671
The name of the company is the England Organ jgoo
2 175 726 900
&. Piano Co., of Houston, capital stock, $50,000, 1905
2'488345'579
and the incorporators are J. R. England, of Dal-
las; Hyman Levy, James A. Baker, Jr.. T. W.
1 ^ ™ ^ as the report for 1905 does not take
in a
House and A. S. Vandervoort, of Houston.
considerable number of small establishments
With reference to the invention Hyman Levy w h i c h j t h a s b e e n ^ t e r n a r y to include in the
said: "The instrument of which we have a model regular decennial census returns the comparison
is O ne of the most wonderful I have seen, and i s s o m e w h a t f a u l t y - On a basis of the usual full
also one of the most melodious. Instead of r e t u r n ' t h e figures f o r 1 9 0 5 w o u l d P«*ably b e
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used. The effect is most pleasing. The music is
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Short Change Dodge Successfully Worked on
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strument will find a ready place and a warm wel-
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come in homes. The instruments will not be
The short change game was worked success- SQ l a r g e a g t h e p r e s e n t o r g a n S ) a n d w i ] 1 b e m o r e
fully on a woman clerk in George R. Cassidy & o r n a m e n t a l "
Co.'s music store on State street, Schenectady,
but
Mr
E n g ] a n d w a s in the city this w e e k
N. Y., recently. A stranger of pleasing address ] e f t ] a g t n i g h t f o r D a l l a g H e h a g h a d & m o d e l
and speech entered the store and asked the clerk u f h i s
t o n e x h i b i t i o n t o t h o s e i n t e rested in
if she would give him a $20 bill for some of h I g c o m p a n y . P l a n s o f t h e c o m p a n y a r e to
smaller denomination. He was handed the note e r e c t a f a c t Q r y a n ( J t Q b e g l n m a n u f a c t u r i n g t h e
he desired, and gave the clerk a roll of bills, n e w s { , e d o r g a n g b y t h e flrgt Qf n e x t y e a r
which he said contained $20. She could only
count $19.
most convenient for the display of pianos.
and converted
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Frank C. Decker, head of Decker & Son, has
now associated with him his son, Frank C. Deck-
er, Jr., a sturdy young man, who commenced
last Monday in the factory to learn every de-
partment of piano making under the skilful
guidance of his father.
Young Frank Decker is the third generation
of Deckers to take up piano making as a voca-
Buenos Ayres-8 cases piano players and ma- the late Myron A. Decker, and
terial, $844.
. the Decker family have been
Calcutta—2 cases pianos and material, $715.
makers who have taken pride in
Christiania—1 case pianos, $159.
have loved to have their names
Copenhagen—1 case organs, $150.
high-grade instruments.
Corinto—1 case pianos and material, $445.
Hamburg-10 cases organ material, $403
Havana—25 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $416; 3 cases pianos and material, $389;
7 pkgs. talking machines and material, $264.
Havre—9 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $352.
Kingston—6 cases organs and material, $522;
1 case pianos and material, $116.
Liverpool—11 cases organs and material, $550.
Milan—33 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $353.
Montevideo—5 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $542.
Naples—1 case pianos and material, $200.
Nassau—2 cases organs and material, $125.
Rotterdam—1 case organs and material, $200.
St. Johns, N. F.—9 pkgs. talking machines and
material, $197; 6 cases organs and material, $147.
Tampico-1 pkg. talking machines and ma-
terial, $243; 4 cases pianos and material, $725;
10 cases musical instruments, $222; 4 cases
pianos and material, $720.
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GRIGGS' MUSIC HOUSE.
Griggs' Music House, in the North Putnam
Building, 210 Brady street, Davenport, la., is un-
dergoing extensive improvements at the hands
of the managers of the Putnam estate. The
partition which cut off the rear part of the room
i n c r e a s e d a b 0 U t 10 p e r c e n t
Unless the country
experiences an economic setback it is probable
that the thirteenth census (1910) will show the
State
of
New
$3,000,000,000
York
worth
as
the
producer
of
some
manufactured goods.
T h a t is a b o u t t h e v a l u e of t h e
manufactured
P r o d u c t s o f the entire country at the close of the
civil war.
About one million of the people of the State
are direct]
y ^S^ed
in the production of this
merchandise. In 1880 the number similarly en-
g a g e d w a s 5 3 1 > 5 0 0 a n d i n 1 8 9 0 752 000
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talization has increased from $514,246,575 in 1880
to more than $2,000,000,000 in 1905. As the New
York Sun says, this is a very pretty contribution
for a single State to make to national develop-
ment and national
of
wealth.
The Wissner warerooms in Newark, N. J., have
been entirely renovated and are now most at-
tractive in appearance. A sale kept the floor
from being overcrowded with stock during the
alterations.