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THE
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.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, August 17, 1908.
The following were the exports of musical in-
struments and kindred lines from the port of
New York for the week just ended:
Antwerp—1 case pianos and material, $250.
Abo—4 cases pianos, $510.
Berlin—3 pkgs. phonograph goods, $122; 7
cases pianos and material, $1,400.
Bremen—1 case piano material, $265.
Brussels—1 case piano players and material,
$219.
Buenos Ayres—11 cases pianos and material,
$1,343; 2 cases piano players and material, $238;
4 cases pianos and material, $411; 59 pkgs. talk-
ing machines and material, $5,483.
Callao—5 pkgs. talking machines and material,
$110; 5 pkgs. phonograph goods, $556.
Chemulpo—1 case pianos and material, $300.
Colombo—31 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $708.
Colon—8 pkgs. phonograph goods, $354.
Constantinople—8 cases organ material, $1,500.
Delagoa Bay—27 cases organs and material,
$1,468.
Hamburg—26 cases organs and material, $1,-
4)01; 3 cases pianos and material, $380.
Havre—1 case piano players and material,
$100; 11 pkgs. phonograph goods, $622.
Hong Kong—4 cases music, $285.
Kingston—2 cases pianos and material, $255;
5 pkgs. talking machines and material, $127.
Leeds—1 case music goods, $103.
Liverpool—2 cases music rolls, $166.
London—7 cases pianos and material, $1,228;
11 cases piano players and material, $2,960; 15
cases organ material, $631; 3 pkgs. talking ma-
chines and material, $134; 15 cases organs and
material, $3,000; 3 pkgs. talking machines and
material, $1,047.
Melbourne—7 cases pianos and material, $1,-
095; 118 pkgs. talking machines and material,
$3,440; 2 cases organs and material, $215; 1 case
pianos and material, $720; 31 cases piano play-
ers and material, $1,929.
Milan—24 pkgs. phonograph goods, $704.
Mollendo—8 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $1,140.
Montevideo—1 case pianos and material, $123.
Parma—16 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $1,561.
Peraeus—2 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $260.
Puerto Barrios—6 pkgs. talking machines and
material, $786.
Puerto Cabello—2 cases pianos and material,
$720.
Quitta—2 cases organs and material, $114.
Rio de Janeiro—6 cases music, $445; 3 cases
pianos and material, $820; 5 pkgs. talking ma-
chines and material, $790.
Savanilla—5 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $125.
Shanghai—1 case pianos and material, $800;
5 pkgs. talking machines and material, $125.
Stockholm—14 cases organs and material, $749;
1 case piano players, $219.
Tampico—9 cases pianos and material, $1,889.
Trinidad—7 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $204; 2 cases musical instruments, $129.
Vera Cruz—61 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $1,103.
Yokohama—1 case organs and material, $100;
17 pkgs. talking machines and material, $400.
MESSERSMITH SELLING STOCK TO PUBLIC.
Henry Messersmith & Son, Buffalo, N. Y., who
recently incorporated with capital stock of $500.-
000, announce their intention of selling shares in
the company to the public at $10 each. The
stock is divided into preferred and common, the
former guaranteeing 6 per cent, dividend. The
plan is as follows: No more than ten shares
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are to be sold to one party, who is allowed 5 per
cent, discount on all purchases. Each stock-
holder is also given checks to be distributed
among his friends, and which entitle them to the
same discount. On all such sales the stockholder
is allowed 2 per cent, commission. The com-
pany have two stores in Buffalo and one in
Niagara Falls, and handle the Story & Clark,
Needham and Schultz pianos.
WM. A. PONDJTO REMOVE.
Have Leased Building at 18 W. 37th Street,
to Which They Will Remove.
Wm, A. Pond & Co., the well known music
publishers and retailers as well as dealers in
pianos and other musical instruments, who have
been so long located on Fifth avenue, have leased
the building at 18 West 37th street for a long
term of years, and will occupy it at an early date.
STEINERT HALLDECORATIONS
In Honor of the Visit to Boston of the Knights
of Pythias Much Admired and Commended.
Steinert Hall, Boston, Mass., was handsomely
decorated recently in honor of the Pythian con-
vention, and the decorations were the basis of
a two-column illustrated story in the Boston
Journal, reading in part as follows:
"It gives you a peculiar homelike feeling when
you come to a strange town to see displayed the
name of a business the products of which you
have been used to see in your own home for
many years, or perhaps even from childhood. It
is with a feeling of this sort that the Pythian
visitors gaze upon the store of M. Steinert & Sons
Co., the largest piano house in New England, and
probably the best known dealers in musical in-
struments in the whole country.
"It gives them an additional satisfaction to see
that the firm has recognized the national charac-
ter of the order of the visiting Knights of
Pythias, and have gone to great expense to deco-
rate their beautiful building, facing the Com-
mons, in the national colors, as well as in those
of the town's guests.
"American flags and red, gold and blue bunt-
ings and streamers are lavishly displayed on the
entire height and length of the building; graceful
folds of the Stars and Stripes are surmounted
by rosettes and bowknots of immense proportions
in red and gold and blue. The whole has an
imposing as well as a pleasing effect. On a day
when every corner cigar store riots in color, it
is refreshing to have arranged something that is
both novel and artistic."
It often pays to decorate piano stores on special
occasions, owing to the amount of free publicity
generally accorded such progressive spirit by the
local press.
FALK REPUDIATES SEVERAL NOTES.
(Special to The Review.)
Asheville, N. C, August 17, 1908.
The internal affairs of the Asheville Music Co.
have reached a point where C. Falk, said to be
the "angel" or financial backer of the concern,
has repudiated several notes for large amounts
in the following notice recently printed in the
local papers:
"Notice is hereby given to all whom it may
concern that certain notes executed by the under-
signed, C. Falk, are invalid and void, and in no
way impose any obligation on the undersigned to
pay the same, to wit: One note for $3,100, pay-
able 30 days after date; one other note for $5,900,
payable 90 days after date; one other note for
$2,000, payable 3 years after date; and four other
notes of $500 each, made payable to the Stan-
Piano Co., of Richmond, Ind., in one, two, three
and four months.
"The undersigned never received any consider-
ation for the said notes, and the transaction be-
tween him and the said Asheville Music Co., in
which the said notes are signed by the under-
signed was never completed, the Asheville Music
Co. having failed to comply with the terms of the
contract under which the said notes were to be-
come binding on the undersigned as the property
of said Asheville Music Co., and the whole matter
is now in litigation in the Superior Court of
Buncombe county, in the State of North Caro-
lina."
Further developments are being awaited with
interest in various quarters.
WHAT RAISE IN FREIGHT RATES
Means to the Public—Vice-President Brown, of
New York Central, Issues Pamphlet for Cir-
culation Among Merchants.
W. C. Brown, senior vice-president of the New
York Central Lines, issued a booklet on Monday
which he calls "The Freight Rate Primer." The
booklet consists of twenty pages of the "A B C of
freight matters from A to Z."
Mr. Brown quotes from President Roosevelt's
address at Indianapolis, May 30, 1907, in which
the President said there had been too much
"wild talk over the overcapitalization of the rail-
roads." "The X Y Z of the situation," Mr. Brown
writes, "is that 1,500,000 men are employed by
the railroads in the United States and that the
average freight charge is 40 per cent, less than
in any country in the world, while the roads pay
50 per cent, higher wages."
Mr. Brown has divided his primer into lessons
showing how much each person will have to pay
if freight rates are increased 10 per cent., and
the additional cost of commodities consumed by
each is shown to be ridiculously small.
The final lesson shows a dismal picture of fac-
tories and stores closed because business is at a
standstill, while a picture of booming factories
is sure to become real, Mr. Brown declares, If
the rates are increased.
Mr. Brown is mailing 10,000 copies of his book-
let to merchants throughout the country.
IMPORTANT PATENT RULING.
The right of a patentee or assignee to let the
patent lie dormant in a pigeon-hole during its
life and at the same time protect it against
infringement was upheld recently in a decision
handed down by Justice McKenna, in the .Su-
preme Court of the United States, in the suit of
the Eastern Paper Bag Co. against the Conti-
nental Paper Bag Co. According to the decision,
an inventor receives nothing from the law that
he did not already possess. A patent operates
merely to restrain others from making and using
for a limited period what he has invented. If
he so chooses, an inventor may keep his dis-
covery to himself. He is given a monopoly by
patent in order that he may be induced to dis-
close it. The franchise which a patent grants
consists altogether in the right to exclude every-
one from making, using, or vending the thing
patented without the permission of the patentee.
If the patentee sees fit not to use his device, he
has but suppressed his own. His title is exclu-
sive. He is no more compelled to work his
patent than the owner of a piece of real estate
is compelled to build a house upon it.
STEINWAY SALES IN LIMA, 0.
D. M. Blaine, manager for the Whitney &
Currier Co., in Lima, O., recently sold a Stein-
way art grand to Henry Wernmer, and a Stein-
way style A grand to Henry Deisel. The gentle-
men are partners in a large business, and both
own palatial homes.
CONTRACTS FOR ESTEY PIPE ORGANS.
The Estey Organ Co. have secured the con-
tracts for the organs to be installed in the Bel-
mont Avenue Baptist Church, West Philadelphia,
and the Central Baptist Church, in Philadelphia,
the organs to cost $3,500 and $3,000, respectively.
The organs will be ready for use in three months.
The Stevenson Piano Co., Hamilton, O., have
arranged to occupy one of the rooms of the
Schwartz building on North Third street as aoon
as the remodeling is finished.