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THE.
MUSIC TRADE
OFFICERS MEETING IN BOSTON.
Interesting Sessions Will Be Held at the Hotel
Somerset, Boston, January 17th, 18th and
19th—Large Attendance Anticipated.
(.Supplied by Chairman of Tress Committee.]
REVIEW
Later Mr. Ordway bought out Mr. Sechrist's in- ployes. Two prizes offered by the firm for the
terest and conducted the business under his own largest cash sales and new business were won
name. The firm have been known as A. M. Ord- liy W. B. Cridlin.
way & Co. since January, 1909, when C. E. Shenk
was admitted to partnership.
BALTIMORE MERCHANTS PROTEST
NEW ADDITIONTO STARR PLANT.
Nearly every officer, committeeman and state
Fine New Office Building to be Erected—Ready
commissioner of the National Association of
About A p r i l 1—More Room in Factory.
Piano Dealers of America will attend the offi-
cers' meetings, to be held in Boston, at the Hotel
The Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind., have com-
Somerset, January 17th, 18th and 19th.
The Boston Music Trades Association has pleted plans for the erection of a two-story ad-
made extensive pieparations for the entertain- ministration building adjoining their factory.
ment of the National Association officers and on The building will be of glazed brick and rein-
Tuesday evening, the 18th, a banquet will be forced concrete, ICO x 85 feet in dimensions, and
given them. On Monday evening, the 17th, a will be handsomely finished in mahogany and
number of small dinners and other means of en- oak. The cost is estimated at $25,000, and it
will be ready for occupancy about April ] .
tertainment will be provided.
At the first session of the meetings, to be With a separate building for the offices con-
held Monday morning, January 17th, the order siderable space will be gained in the main fac-
of business will be reading reports of the presi- tory for manufacturing purposes, and which is
dent, secretary, treasurer, chairman of commit- badly needed.
tees and state commissioners.
. LUDWIG VS^JULJDWIG SUIT.
A meeting of the executive committee will be
called to order Monday afternoon, January 17th, Argument to Make Injunction Permanent
at 2 o'clock, to consider matters referred to the
Heard and Decision Reserved.
Board by the Eighth Annual Convention and to
consider any further business which may be
The case of Ludwig & Co. vs. John H. Ludwig.
brought before the meeting.
to have a temporary injunction made permanent
The third and fourth session will be held restraining John H. Ludwig from using the
on Tuesday morning and afternoon, and possibly
name Ludwig or Ludwig & Co. on pianos or
a fifth session on Wednesday morning. Full player-pianos, was heard before Judge O'Gorman
notice of these sessions will be given at the first in Special Term, Part 6, of the Supreme Court
gathering on Monday morning.
Monday last. Arguments were closed on Wed-
The chairmen of committees and state com- nesday. Decision was reserved. S. F. Moran
missioners who cannot be present are urgently and R. H. Barnett represented John II. Ludwig,
requested to have their reports in the hands of and John J. O'Connell Ludwig & Co.
the secretary not later than January 14th.
A special meeting of the exhibition committee
NEW MANAGER IN ROCHESTER.
will be held in New York city on Saturday morn
ing, January 15th, permitting members of the
Harvey B. Gay is the new manager of the
committee to meet and confer with Charles H. piano department of the Duffy-Mclnnerney Co.,
Green, who has been appointed general manager. Rochester, N. Y. He was formerly with the
Mr. Green will accompany the members of the Chas. M. Stieff branch in Scranton, Pa., as man-
committee to Boston.
ager. In the Duffy-Mclnnerney department are
handled the Chickering, Emerson, Haines Bros.,
Marshall & Wendell, Shoninger pianos and the
DEATH OF A. M. ORDWAY.
Lauter-Humana, and no changes in the present
line are contemplated.
Well-Known Maryland Dealer Passes Away
Suddenly—An Active Career.
A. M. Ordway, head of A. M. Ordway & Co.,
Hagerstown, Md., and one of the oldest piano
houses in western Maryland, died recently at his
home in that city in his fifty-seventh year. Mr.
Ordway was born in Norwich, Vt, and in the
early seventies opened a music store in Burling-
ton, Vt., selling out and going to Hagerstown a
few years later, where he entered into partner-
ship with Isaac Sechrist in the music business.
GIVE DINNER TO MANAGER SLAUGHTER.
(Special to The Review.)
Against New Rates on Import Tariffs Adopted
by the Railroads—A Strong Letter.
The merchants of Baltimore, Md., are up in
arms against the new rates on import tariff
adopted by the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and
Ohio railroads, and which became effective on
January 1. The various trade organizations of
Baltimore have united in registering their pro-
tests against the new rates in the following let-
ter sent to both railroad companies:
"These local trade bodies respectfully, but
most earnestly, protest against the import tariff
wiiich has been announced by the railroads rep-
resented by you to become effective January 1,
1910.
That tariff, in substance and effect, re-
verses long established policies and amounts to
a deprivation of rights which have existed from
the beginning of transportation from the At-
lantic seaboard to the west.
"Baltimore is, of all the Atlantic ports, the
nearest and most convenient, and therefore the
natural gateway of the west.
"In March last the Boston and Maine Railroad
Co. reduced the rate on west-bound traffic.
Promptly thereafter your roads, in recognition
of their obligations, also diminished rates suffi-
ciently to enable Baltimore and Philadelphia to
retain their differentials, respectively, on import
traffic west-bound. Several successive reductions
were thereafter made by the Boston and Maine
Railroad, and every one was closely followed by
correspondingly lower rates on the part of your
roads, with the avowed purpose of preserving
traffic by the established differentials, and there-
by also doing justice to the trade of Baltimore
and Philadelphia.
"By the new tariffs, effective January 1, 1910,
the trunk lines have reversed this policy, which
has heretofore been consistently followed, and
(your roads actively concurring) have indicated
their purpose to unite with the Boston and
Maine Railroad Co. in a new policy, and if per-
sisted in will have as its inevitable result a
great and immediate increase of the import traf-
fic west-bound through the port of Boston and
the rapid diminution and early destruction of
the import traffic of Baltimore and Philadelphia.
"Thereby our own roads have now established
unheard-of-rates, which are absurd and out-
rageous upon their face; have officially published
them, to become almost immediately effective, in
active concert and necessarily in agreement with
the Boston and Maine Railroad Co."
Richmond, Va., Jan. 10, 1910.
Manager L. B. Slaughter, of the local Charles
M. Stieff branch, was given a surprise Saturday
night, when the employes of the branch invited
him to the Jefferson Hotel and entertained him
at a dinner. Following the dinner there were
several brief speeches, and a handsome clock was
Thomas Goggan & Bros, have opened a sample
presented to Mr. Slaughter by his force of em- room for pianos in Live Oak street, Dallas, Tex.
Constant and Rapid Progress
have placed
Winter & Co. Pianos
on a higher level than has previously been achieved in generations
WINTER & CO.
220 Southern Boulevard
New York City