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THE:
FAVOR SHIP SUBSIDY BILL
Committee Report Says It Will Give Us the
Best Service to South America.
MUSIC TRADE:
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verbal description, the prospect asked for a pic-
ture of the piano, and made the purchase after
seeing Mr. Buckpitt's sketch. It's the wise sales-
man who immediately arranges for a course of
free-hand drawing.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C , Feb. 21, 1910.
The report of the Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries on the Administration's
ship subsidy bill, introduced by Representative
Humphrey, of Washington, was presented to the
House to-day.
"This legislation," says the report, "will, if
enacted, give to the United States the very best
ocean mail and fast freight service in American
ships to South America instead of the present
worse service in foreign ships. It will defeat the
effort of the Anglo-Japanese alliance to drive the
American merchant flag off the Pacific Ocean.
The compensation given under the conditions of
this bill is not merely subsidy but actual pay
for important public service rendered."
THE CENTRAL TRAFFIC BUREAU.
To be Organized Shortly for the Protection of
Eastern Shippers in the Matter of Freight
Rates, Etc.—To Embrace Trade Bodies of
Larger Cities from Boston to Richmond.
Arrangements have been consummated for the
formation of the Central Traffic Bureau, with
headquarters in New York, and which will em-
brace the various leading trade organizations of
New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Richmond, Va., and which will endeavor to secure
eastern freight rates that will compare favorably
with those of the West, and to counteract the
present advantages enjoyed by western shippers.
The new bureau will look after the business
interests of the entire East and will be composed
The development of the subsidy bill, as out- of ten members, five representing the presidents
lined above, will afford much satisfaction to the of the leading organizations in the respective
members of the Musical Industry Merchant Ma- cities and five traffic managers from the same
rine League, who hare labored so tirelessly and bodies. The success attained by such a bureau
so effectually in its behalf. It is now up to the identified with western cities in securing from
trade at large to act, by writing their Senators the railroads concessions that eastern shippers
and their Representatives in Congress to support were denied was responsible for bringing about
the measure in its passage through the two legis- its establishment.
lative chambers.
CHERISHED PIANO TO BE BURNED.
The Aged Mother of Percy G. Williams Made
That Wish Before Her Death—A Clever Mu-
sician and Accomplished Woman.
CHANGES BANKRUPTCY LAW.
Bill Reported in the Houses Limits Expendi-
tures in Bankruptcy Cases.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, Feb. 23, 1910.
Mrs. Sarah Garnett Williams, the mother of
Bankruptcy proceedings will be materially
Percy G. Williams, the vaudeville theater man- changed and regulated if a bill introduced by
ager, and the widow of Dr. John B. Williams, Representative Sherley and formally reported
died at her home, 220 Bergen street, Brooklyn, by the House Judiciary Committee becomes a
on Sunday. She had been ill a week suffering law.
from the grippe. Mrs. Williams was 80 years old,
It provides that any person may become a vol-
and up to the time of her last illness she enjoyed untary bankrupt except a municipal, railroad, in-
the best of health.
surance or banking corporation. It also desig-
It was said that one of her last requests to her nates the kinds of property which are required
son, Percy Williams, was to see that a piano to be listed in bankruptcy proceedings and defin-
which she greatly cherished should be burned. itely fixes the fees and charges in that connec-
She was a talented musician, and frequently tion. The limiting of expenditures in bank
played the instrument at her home for the de- ruptcy proceedings is considered highly import-
light of her friends. The piano is said to be a ant, as it will make impossible the dissipation ol
valuable one, but Mrs. Williams did not want any the property of a bankrupt through legal
one else to play it after she died, and her son will charges.
see that her last wish is respected.
The committee also reported favorably amend-
Mrs. Williams was born in Dublin, Ireland, in ments to the employers! liability law granting
1829. She came to this city with her parents concurrent jurisdiction in such cases to State and
when she was 18 years old. She was the young- Federal courts, and providing that in cases of
est of four sisters, two of whom survive her. death of injured parties who have begun suits
One of them, Margaret, who is 83 years old, lives the next of kin may continue the action.
at Boulogne, France, and the other, Katherine,
86 years old, is living in Sydney, Australia. She
BANKRUPTCY PETITION DISMISSED.
leaves two sons, Percy G. and Reginald G. Wil-
Judge Holt has dismissed the petition in bank-
liams.
ruptcy filed on Nov. 12, 1908, against the Art
H. T. RAYNER TO OPEN WAREROOMS Organ Co., manufacturer of organs at 109 East
Fourteenth street. Fritz W. Haubner, the presi-
Plans to Open in Cleveland—Negotiating for
dent, stated that all creditors had either been
Knabe Agency.
paid in full or had consented to the dismissal of
the proceedings. There were 21 creditors.
It is announced that Harry T. Rayner, formerly
manager of the Washington store of Wm. Knabe
NEW PIANO HOUSE MAKES GOOD.
& Co., and later traveler for that company and
for the American Piano Co., will open warerooms
Griffin & Bailey, who recently opened piano
in Cleveland, O., when a suitable location is warerooms at 86 Clinton avenue, North, Roches-
found, and is negotiating for the Knabe agency. ter, N. Y., and slightly out of the main business
district, have found that their choice of location
was a wise one. They handle Kimball, Crown,
SOLD PIANO THROUGH SKETCH.
Newman Bros. Co., Lyon & Healy and other
Made Free-Hand Drawing of Instrument t o
makes of pianos very successfully, and have re-
cently been stimulating business through the me-
Show Customers the Design.
dium of a picture puzzle contest.
Claude Buckpitt, a piano dealer of Elmira,
N. Y., claims the. distinction of being the only
KIMBALL ORGAN FOR COLLEGE.
dealer to close a sale by making a free-hand
sketch of the instrument offered, to illustrate its
Belmont College, Nashville, Tenn., the well-
design. Mr. Buckpitt had a second-hand upright known school for young women, will shortly
and succeeded in interesting a prospect who had have a $10,000 Kimball pipe organ. The organ
never seen the instrument. Not satisfied with a is now being built by the W. W. Kimball Co.
Hammers
and the
Piano
Seale
It is generally con-
ceded t h a t w h a t e v e r
Strauch Bros., manufac-
turers of actions, keys and
hammers, New York,
have produced has always
had attached to it the hall
mark of merit.
That word merit has
been the watchword in
the Strauch business.
It is quality in all of
their departments which
has made the name of
Strauch a synonym for
worth.
Quality in their ham-
mer making has been
clearly emphasized for it
has been the same quality
standard incorporated in
t h e m a n u f a c t u r e of
Strauch hammers which
has delighted customers.
Besides the features of
the best materials—the
best workmanship and
the best finish is added
a careful study of the re-
quirements of each scale
for which they furnish
hammers.
This enables them to
produce a hammer meet-
ing the requirements of
each individual scale, thus
enabling the piano man-
ufacturer to p r o d u c e
from his piano its fullest
possibilities in tone qual-
ity so far as the hammer
is concerned.