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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
UNUSUAL SUMMER ACTIVITY.
Buegeleisen & Jacobson Doing an Excellent
Volume of Business—Many New Accounts
Opened—Better Class of Goods Demanded.
Summer business with the prominent musical mer-
chandise house of Buegeleisen & Jacobson 113 Uni-
versity place, New York, continues to keep pace
with the business closed the first six months of the
year, in that it is far ahead of last year. By means
of energetic and consistent work, coupled with the
merits of the various lines it handles, this enter-
prising house has succeeded in establishing an all-
the-year-round business that shows no signs of
summer stagnation.
So far this year one of the most noteworthy in-
cidents of the firm's business has been the large
number of new accounts that have been opened
and the satisfactory increase in the size of the
initial orders placed by these new patrons. All of
these new patrons are enthusiastic over the value
and merits of the. Durro line, which is the Bue-
geleisen & Jacobson leader, and orders for the
Durro products show a remarkable increase over
last year, which incidentally was a record breaker.
The better class of goods has also been in heavier
demand this year than ever before, and judging
from reports sent in by the trade throughout the
country dealers are concentrating on the higher-
priced goods, which, in addition to giving them a
better profit, tend to raise the standards of their
individual establishments and' the entire indus-
try. This is particularly true of the violin and
violoncello trade, where quality goods are making
a wonderful advance in popularity with discrimi-
nating and critical music lovers.
Durro violoncellos are among the best sellers
in the entire Durro line, and these popular instru-
ments have a host of friends in all parts of the
country. The Durro Master Violoncellos, which
is one of the most expensive lines featured in
the Buegeleisen & Jacobson catalog, are in con-
stant demand by the firm's dealers because of their
sterling qualities and constructive excellence.
effect, that all goods imported prior to the enact-
Fifteen entire days were spent by the committee
ment of the new law for which no entry had
in Washington, and during this strenuous period
been made should pay duty under the tariff act
they interviewed the President, a number of mem-
of 1909.
bers of the Cabinet and many Senators and mem-
At the close of conferences held by importers bers of the House of Representatives in their ef-
or. Saturday and early this week it was an- forts to explain the necessity of revisions and
nounced that protests against the Sutherland
eliminations in the proposed law. This work was
amendment had been sent to Congress. Importers carried on by each member individually and the
and their lawyers departed for Washington to committee as a whole, and their hard work cer-
put their objections before the committee.
tainly merited the results achieved.
"Should this amendment proposed by Senator
This work of the Merchants' Association of
Sutherland be allowed to become a part of the New York in behalf of importing merchants is but
new law," a lawyer said, "it will be unprecedented one example of the excellent work that this asso-
in the history of American tariff legislation. Im- ciation is doing for its members and the entire
porters had no inkling until Friday that a radical commercial world. No matter how difficult a
'departure was contemplated. The goods were
proposition may appear to the casual observer, the
bought on the other side on the basis largely of
association is always ready to lend its resources,
the reductions proposed in the Underwood bill. time and labor to the furtherance of any cause
Should the importers find themselves obliged to which will benefit its members and the city.
pay duty on the basis of the Aldrich-Payne law
they would stand for heavy losses on the trans-
actions, besides having to pay the warehouse
charges."
Oliver Ditson Company
BOSTON, MASS.
SWEEPING VICTORY WON
Through the Aid of the Merchants' Associa-
tion in Removing Obnoxious Administrative
Features of Tariff Bill in the Senate.
The recent announcement in The Review that
the Senate had yielded to the widespread protests
against the obnoxious administrative features of
the proposed tariff legislation and had decided to
either eliminate or revise these clauses in the
completed tariff bill caused general gratification to
the importers throughout the country. Some of
the proposed administrative features would have
worked absolute hardship on importing merchants,
and it required energetic co-operative efforts on
the part of all those interested to convince the
Senate committee that the proposed provisions
should either be eliminated or considerably
modified.
One of the chief (if not the chief) forces in this
fight against a grave menace to our foreign trade
FIGHT TARIFF AMENDMENT.
was the Merchants' Association of New York,
which by means of its Committee on Customs Ser-
Importers Protest Against Imposing Old Rates vice and Revenue Law did splendid work on behalf
on Goods in Bond.
of the importing merchants and all interested in the
Importers of merchandise in this city who have development of foreign trade. This committee did
been*sending goods to bonded warehouses to ob- not do its work perfunctorily nor in a half-hearted
manner, but on the contrary its members expended
tain the benefit of the lower duties on many
lines of imports provided for in the Simmons- valuable time and labor in pursuance of this vol-
Underwood Tariff Bill are indignant over the ac- untary task.
tion of Senator Sutherland last Friday in pro-
posing an amendment to the bill providing, in
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Incorporated
Manufacturers oj
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