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D1TS0N BUSINESS VERY ACTIVE
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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
FORM OF ENTRY SHOWN
SMALL GOODS SHIPMENTS DELAYED
Hawaiian Instruments in Special Demand—
Bernard Mather Joins Sales Force
This for Imported Goods Sold Here at a De- Buegeleisen & Jacobson Waiting to Hear From
livered Price
Merchandise on the Other Side
"Our sales during the past few weeks have
been unusually active for this time of the year,"
said H. L. Hunt, manager of the musical mer-
chandise department of C. H. Ditson & Co.,
New York, in a recent chat with The Review.
"Tn all departments our sales totals are well
in advance of last year, but the demand for
Hawaiian instruments is especially noteworthy.
"We have been devoting considerable atten-
tion to this division of our business, and at the
present time are offering our trade a complete
line of all types of Hawaiian instruments. The
majority of people buying these instruments
are amateurs who are attracted by the distinc-
tive spirit of Hawaiian music, but we have also
supplied numerous orchestras with Hawaiian
ukuleles and steel guitars. Many vocal artists
are using these instruments for accompanying
purposes, stating that the results secured by
their use are most satisfying.
"Our harp business is also progressing very
nicely, and we have recently added to our sales
staff Bernard Mather, who will concentrate on
developing the trade in the smaller-sized harps
and Irish harps. The retail situation as a whole
is very encouraging, and we are making prep-
arations for an excellent fall trade."
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Malburn
has answered a letter of inquiry concerning the
form of entry to be made for goods sold in this
country at a specified delivered price, which in-
cludes the duties. A firm referred to as " S. &
Co." has made a specialty of handling such
goods, and the practice has been to ship them
invoiced on the consigned form to the firm for
entry and delivery. The question that arose
was as to the form of declaration to be filed on
entry. On this, Mr. Malburn says:
"The mere fact that S. & Co. are customs
brokers is immaterial. Customs brokers may and
frequently do act as forwarding and distributing
agents. If they elect to assume responsibility
for the truthfulness of the statements in in-
voices and entries, and also to assume liability
for any false statements in such documents,
they are permitted by the regulations to do so.
The invoice must state the name of each pur-
chaser, and the Collector or Appraiser may, if
he deems it necessary, call upon such purchasers
for a statement as to the facts of the trans-
action under Paragraph O of Section 3 of the
existing Tariff act."
S. & Co. are permitted to file the declaration
as ultimate consignee on the form known as
"No news is good news as a rule," said Samuel
Buegeleisen, head of Buegeleisen & Jacobson,
New York, musical merchandise importers, as he
answered negatively to the query, 'any news?'
"In this instance," he said, "no news is bad news
as we have been waiting for a long time for
some news from the other side regarding ship-
ments of musical merchandise. To date, how-
ever, we have received no definite information,
and we cannot even get a promise as to the
early release of our goods.
"During the past few weeks, a number of
well-known out-of-town buyers have visited our
establishment for the purpose of placing the
large proportion of their fall orders. As a mat-
ter of fact, quite a number of buyers and large
dealers have been placing orders for their fall
requirements since last February, and with the
continuance of the war it will certainly be to
the advantage of all dealers to anticipate their
requirements as much as possible."
FOR PATENT PROTECTION
WASHINGTON D. C, May 22.—Senator Smith, of
South Carolina, proposes to introduce a bill to
stop big corporations from acquiring patents
of which the masses should have the benefit.
No. 3,347.
"Here is what often happens," said he to-day:
"A man invents something that will benefit hu-
E. Lepper, a music dealer of Gay, Mich., has
TAIL PIECE_FOR BANJOS
manity and a big concern finds that if that
moved his piano store to a new location on the
WASHINGTON,
D. C , May 22.—Patent No. patent is used its business will be destroyed or
east side of Main street.
1,182,687 for a tail piece for banjos was last injured. The inventor is offered a large sum
week granted to Benjamin V. Kershner, Chi- for his patent. The big concern gets the patent,
cago, 111.
hides it away and keeps going in the same old
The object of this invention is to provide a way—robbing the people out of their rights.
tail piece for a banjo, in which the strings can
"The bill T shall introduce will make impos-
be readily secured at their proper position on sible the elimination of a useful patent by the
the forward end thereof and retained in such pigeon-hole route."
a position without threading them through the
tail piece.
FOREIGN VIOLINSJFOR WURLITZER CO.
Another object of this invention is to provide
CINCINNATI, O., May 22.—The Rudolph Wur-
means for adjusting the tail piece, so that the litzer Co. has completed final arrangements for
forward end can be tilted up or down in respect the handling of a foreign line of violins in this
to the head and at the same time providing country, the deal being closed by G. A. Aerts,
means for adjusting the tail piece to the right head of the foreign department of the Wurlitzer
or left to aline it up with the bridge.
concern, who recently returned from a trip to
Haw Brunswick, N.J.
New York City, where the business was trans-
The Voxola Co. has been organized in Detroit acted. Rudolph Wurlitzer also returned last
to manufacture musical instruments.
week from a ten days' sojourn in New York.
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The Board of. General Appraisers held Tues-
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posed wholly or in chief value of silk, imported
by R. F. Downing & Co., R. F. Lang and C. B.
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