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OUR FOREIGN CUSTOMERS.
Pianos and Other Musical Instruments Shipped
Abroad from the Port of New York for the
Week Just Ended—An Interesting Array of
Musical Specialties for Foreign Countries.
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(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, May 4, 1908.
' The following were the exports of musical in-
struments and kindred lines from the port of
New York for the week just ended:
Alexandria—8 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $375.
Barcelona—2 cases organs, $300.
Berlin—43 cases piano players and material,
$11,950.
Buenos Ayres—273 pkgs. talking machines and
material, $7,667; 2 cases organs and material.
$205.
Cologne—4 cases organs and material, $186.
Colon—10 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial $322; 1 case organs and material, $100; 3
cases pianos and material, $980.
Corinto—8 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $144.
Hamilton—1 case pianos and material, $110.
Havana—2 cases piano players and ma-
terial, $400; 9 cases pianos and material, $1,050:
2 pkgs. talking machines and material, $136; 2
cases musical goods, $350.
Havre—3 pkgs. talking machines and material,
$504.
Hull—4 cases organs and material, $400.
Kingston—5 cases organs and material, $113;
6 pkgs. talking machines and material, $195; 1
pase piano player and material, $520.
Limon—7 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, 100.
Liverpool—4 cases organs and material, $210;
3 cases pianos and material, $165; 1 pkg. talking
machines and material, $145; 3 cases pianos and
material, $1,000.
London—3 cases organs and material, $108; 5
cases pianos and material, $1,327; 4 cases or-
gans and material, $150.
Madrid—2 cases piano players and material.
$450.
Melbourne—24 pkgs. talking machines and
.material, $924. '
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Montevideo—23 pkgs. talking machines and
material, $2,305.
I Naples—1 case organ material, $100.
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New Castle—3 cases pianos and material, $110.
! Nuevitas—2 cases piano material, $210.
\ Para—13 pkgs. talking machines and material,
\ Penang—27 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $1,042.
1 Port Natal—2 cases organs, $1,095.
] Rio de Janeiro—2 cases pianos and material,
$350; 19 cases piano players and material,
;$2,394.
Rotterdam—4 cases organs and material, $370.
' Santos—4 cases piano players and material,
$336.
! Trinidad—21 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
iterial, $726; 1 pkg. talking machines and ma-
terial, $736.
i Vera Cruz—16 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
|terlal, $384.
; Valparaiso—137 pkgs. talking machines and
^material, $1,250; 12 cases organ material, $275.
! Zurich—1 case organs and material, $125.
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PIANOS IN VAUDEVILLE.
Artist Applies to Harlem Manufacturer for
Piano That Could be Split in Half—Advised
to Buy Second Hand Instrument.
We have noted from time to time the many
novel musical instruments used by vaudeville
'artists, but nothing can eclipse the latest freak
that is to be brought into play at an early date.
Last week a well-known manufacturer in the
Bronx received an order for a piano that could
•jbe split in half; in other words, one that could
>DQ pulled apart to conform with the outlined act,
leaving the upper register in the hands of one
of the artists to play.
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After a quarrel ensues (in the act) one of the
artists will attempt to move the piano from the
stage, and as planned the instrument will part
in twain, but one of the team will continue to
perform as if nothing had happened. The manu-
facturer advised the artist to secure a second-
hand piano to meet his requirements, and this
advice was taken. The instrument will be re-
modeled to suit in a few days.
FOR PUBLIC TRADE SCHOOLS.
Committee of Prominent Educators to Devise
a Comprehensive System.
The National Society for the Promotion of In-
dustrial Education has appointed a Committee
of Ten to work out an adequate arrangement of
trade schools to become a co-ordinate part of the
present public school system. The chairman is
Dr. Henry D. Pritchett, of this city, president
of the Carnegie Foundation. William H. Max-
well and Thomas Balliet, Dean of the School of
Pedagogy at New York University, are members
of the committee. The others are Dr. Paul
Hanus, of Harvard University; Elmer B. Brown,
head of the Bureau of Education, Washington,
D. C ; Charles S. Howe, president of the Case
School of Applied Science; Leslie W. Miller,
principal of the Philadelphia School of Industrial
Arts; E. J. James, of Illinois University; L. D.
Harvey, superintendent of schools, Wisconsin,
and M. W. Alexander, president of the General
Electric Co.
The committee feels that the industrial train-
ing should be started as soon as the children are
able to hold tools in their hands, say at about
nine years. By fourteen, when the average boy
leaves school, he would have gained a good deal
of practice in handling the tools of several trades.
Besides this, the committee thinks there should
be free industrial high schools open at night for
the further instruction of the boys who have
graduated from the primary schools.
Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard
University, expresses still more radical views on
the subject. "This ought to mean trade schools,"
he says. "That is, schools directed primarily
and expressly to the preparation of young men
and women for trades. These trade schools will
require that children be kept under the observa-
tion of the community up to the seventeenth or
eighteenth year, a later age than we have been
accustomed to."
The cause of this great need for industrial
education is the decay of the apprenticeship sys-
tem, says Dr. Eliot. The most radical of all Dr.
Eliot's statements are those concerning the choice
of a trade for the boy, or whether he shall go
into the regular high schools. The president of
Harvard believes that this duty will fall largely
upon the teachers, who will "sort, their children."
The most interesting experiment in industrial
education is that now under way in the engi-
neering course of the University of Cincinnati.
Here a six years' course has been opened, in
which the students pay their way by shop work.
Applicants for the course are admitted into the
shops in July. By September the foremen of the
shops decide which are the most promising work-
men, and these are set to work in the theoretical,
courses. They are paid 10 cents an hour for
shop work for the first six months, with the
rise of a cent an hour for each following half-
year in the six-year course. Alternate weeks
are spent in the shops and in the classrooms.
There are now fifty students working under these
conditions.
DEVELOPING TRADE WITH COLON.
Consul James C. Kellogg states in a recent
report that, in order to assist in promoting trade
at the port of Colon with the United States, he
has carried out the following plans: "As far as
commerce can be aided through catalogs and
price lists, which are, at best, poor substitutes
for intelligent and up-to-date traveling salesmen,
this office has fitted up a part of the record and
file room, the latter measuring 12 by 12 feet,
with divided shelves and a four-drawer file cabi-
net. At the present time there are indexed ac-
cording to subject and kept on file 25 trade jour-"
nals, 20 trade indexes, and numerous catalogs
and price lists of 'American goods. The local
merchants and importers have been invited
through the columns of the press and by per-
sonal invitation to visit the file room and ex-
amine the journals and catalogs, and to consult
with me on subjects relating to American goods
which might be of interest to them. The addi-
tion and improvement in the file room has found
favor with the Colon merchants, which is evi-
denced by their frequent calls at the office to
examine the files."
E. E. FORBESj\ VISITOR.
Chats of Southern Conditions While Visiting
the Offices of F. Engelhardt & Sons—In New
York to Buy Stock—May and June Bulle-
tins of Music Rolls for Harmonist and Peer-
less Players Now Ready.
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E. E. Forbes, president of the Forbes Piano
Co., Birmingham, Ala., was a visitor to the:
salesroom of F. Engelhardt & Sons, Fifth avenue-
and 47th street, the fore part of the week. MrJ
Forbes, who came North to buy supplies, stated'
to a Review representative that business had
improved in the South and that with the general*
resumption of a large number of industries, both r
manufacturers and dealers looked forward to ai
fair volume of busines3 during the summer and;
fall.
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Frederick Engelhardt, who spent the week end
at the local salesrooms, stated to The Review
that the May and June bulletins of music rolls
for the "Harmonist" piano and for style D M:
and No. 44 automatic "Peerless" piano were out,
and advised dealers to send for them forthwith."
The new editions embrace all the popular and
classic compositions, as well as selections from-
the latest Broadway success, all of which are
destined to prove big sellers. Bulletins and fur-
ther particulars will be furnished dealers upon
application.
BREWER-PRYOR PIANO CO. AFFAIRS.
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(Special to The Review.)
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Binghamton, N. Y., May 6, 1908. :
Referee in Bankruptcy Benjamin B. Baker ad-
judicated the Brewer-Pryor Piano Co. in bank-
ruptcy, the matter having been referred to htm
in the absence of Judge George W. Ray from the
district. The application of the creditors t o
have the concern adjudicated was filed on April'
(I. No date for a meeting of the creditors haa
been fixed.
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W. GOODRICH JONES HONORED.
W, Goodrich Jones,: president of the Temple
Book Concern, has been appointed by Gov. Camp-
bell of Texas as one of the three delegates from
the state of Texas to accompany him to the
"Governors' Natural Resources Convention," to
be held at Washington, May 13-14-15, 1908. The
Temple Book Concern handle for Central Texas
the following pianos: Baldwin, Hobart M. Ga-
ble, Crown, Kimball, Estey, Hamilton, M. Schulz
product, Stultz & Bauer, Melville Clark Player-'
Piano, Columbus Baby pianos, Kimball, Crown,
Hamilton, Schulz organs, Edison phonographs
and a large line of every variety of musical in-
strument.
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