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THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
MORE ABOUT D. F. BEATTY'S DISREPUTABLE METHODS.
QUINCE the publication of our article, in the laat issue of this paper,
O exposing the disreputable methods employed by D. F. Beatty, of
Washington, N. J., in his endeavors to force his goods upon the public, we
have received a number of contributions to the stock of information which
we possess concerning D. F. Beatty, and his manner of transacting business.
It is well known that this man Beatty makes a strong point of what he
maliciously and falsely calls the extortion practised by the agents of leading
piano and organ manufactures. It is a common thing for him to advertise
" Beware of agents," claiming that he never employs agents under any cir-
cumstances.
We give below a copy of one of his "special circulars," which he sends out
to parties through the country, whom he thinks may be able to influence sales
for him. If this circular does not give the lie to his boast that he does not
employ agents to practice extortion upon the public, then we must confess
that we have lost our ability to read the English language correctly. The
circular is as follows:
February 20th, 1881.
TRADE CHAT.
Mr. Wm. Heinekamp, Jr., of Baltimore, was married on Tuesday, Feb.
15th, to Miss Laura V. Riddlemoser, of the same city. The happy pair left
for the north on the afternoon train from Baltimore.
Mrs. A. Scherzer, of 523 Arch street, Philadelphia, who has been the
agent for the Sohmer piano since the death of her husband about a year ago,
feels much encouraged with her success with .the Sohmer piano in Phila-
delphia.
Blasuis, of Philadelphia, is not only holding his own but increasing his
business with the Steinway piano, in spite of the great influx of pianos of
other makers which Philadelphia has experienced during the past few years.
It is reported on excellent authority that over 300 Emerson pianos were
sold in Philadelphia during the past year.
$7.
SPECIAL OFFER.
$15.
There is much talk among the dealers in Philadelphia about the excel-
Bear Sir:—If you can make and forward me a list of the names of relia- lence of the organ which the Burdett Organ Co., of Erie, Penn., are now
ble persons of your acqaintance who may wish to procure an instru- putting on the market.
ment, either piano or organ, I will correspond with them, using my best
A. Hume, of Pittsburgh, Pa., has taken the agency of the Albrecht
endeavors to sell them, and for every piano I succeed in selling to persons piano Mr.
for his locality.
on your list, I will, immediately on completion of sale, forward you $15 in
cash; and for every organ $7 in cash; this commission will, 0/ course, be given Pomplitz, of Baltimore, will furnish the organ to be used by the new
on circular prices only. Please send me a list of reliable persons at once, oratorio society lately organized in Baltimore.
and oblige
DANIEL F. BEATTY,
The report published that Gen. Grant would soon resign his position as
Washington, N. J. President
of the World's Fair Commission, is denied by Col. Fred Grant,
and by Messrs. Algernon S. Sullivan and Thomas McElrath of the directors.
WHAT A NEW JERSEY PAPER THINKS OF THE D. F. BEATTY.
rr^HE Anbury Park Journal has the following in its issue of February 12th.
Trade generally in Philadelphia and Baltimore in musical instruments
_L It will be seen from this that the D. F. Beatty is properly appreciated is dull, and, of course, many theories are rife among manufacturers and
in the neighborhood of his house:
dealers to account for it. The late severe weather has its share of the blame,
the nearness of the late holiday season, during which people are supposed to
THAT MAN OF " CHEEK."
" Last week we published a decidedly " cheeky " letter from one Daniel have spent all they had to spend for at least two months, and the unsatis-
F. Beatty, of Washington, N. J. On Wednesday we received from him a factory financial condition of some parts of the South are all brought forward
as excuses. These, no doubt, all have their weight, but the Philadelphia
catalogue and the following postal:
and Baltimore men have had so much prosperity that they, think if trade
WASHINGTON, N. J., Feb. 7, 1881.
Dear Sir:—Paper with notice at hand, thanks. Come and see me and does not double in volume every year that business is bad.
you will find that I am a live man, come my boy, come.
One of our representatives was in the store of Albrecht & Co., in Phila-
Very Truly Yours,
delphia, a few days since, and asked the firm, in the course of conversation,
DANIEL F. BEATTY.
if they had heard from their advertisement which appeared lately in two
We said that we believed Beatty to be a humbug ; but after examining numbers of this paper. " Why," he said, taking a pile of letters out of a
his catalogue and reading therein what he says of himself, we take it back, pigeon-hole in his desk, " look at these ! I have been exhausting my whole
and say that in our opinion he is a fraud. We would not invest in his al- stock of catalogues in answering these letters that came to me as a result of
leged musical instruments, and advise our readers to pursue the same course." my advertisement in the MUSICAL CEITIC AND TBADE REVIEW. YOU charge
a good price for advertising in your paper, but we have always had the best
PROGRESS OF THE STRIKES.
results from it. The best articles always command the highest prices."
E employes of Behr Bros., piano case manufacturers, had a meeting
What is McCammon using in his upright piano actions which makes the
recently to discuss the situation. Wednesday, February 9th, the firm
of Behr Bros, announced a reduction in the pay for top cleaning from 75 to rats so fond of them? In a Philadelphia store the rats attack the McCam-
40 cents. The top makers then left work. Behr Bros, after waiting about mon upright and don't touch the others. This is a very interesting scien-
a week offered to pay the men $15 a week instead of paying by the piece. tific question, to which we should like a solution; we confess that we are
This proposition was put to vote at the meeting of the men and was unable to solve it, although we have devoted much rat-iocination to the
matter. We have had many theories upon the subject, but, as yet, have
accepted.
The strike at Albert Weber's factory, which was caused about a month been unable to rat-ify them.
ago by an attempt on the part of Mr. Weber to reduce wages ten per cent.,
Rumor has it that a piano manufacturer in Philadelphia has laid off half
is approaching its termination, having probably lasted as long as Mr. Weber his workmen on account of dull business.
intended it should, for we do not suppose that Mr. Weber seriously thought
The junior partner of the firm of Dutton & Son, of Philadelphia, spends
of fighting the trade union alone, and the proper time having arrived to com-
mence work again, Mr. Weber has notified a committee of his workmen that his winter this year in Florida.
he is willing to rescind his order for a ten per cent, reduction, and pay them
Bellak's men were very busy bringing McCammon pianos into the store
at former rates.
in Philadelphia on Monday last; these instruments were in excellent order
The only thing now standing in the way of a resumption of work on the and are giving great satisfaction.
part of the men, is the employment of non-union men or "scabs" by Mr.
What is the matter at J. P. Hale's piano factory; don't the new set of
Weber, and the workmen have had a meeting at which it was decided by vote
not to resume work until the non-union men were discharged. This point men work as well as the old ones, or what other negro is there on the fence
will probably be conceded by Mr. Weber for it would be foolish after swallow- that prevents Mr. Hale's agents from having their orders filled promptly?
Mr. Hale seems to be feeding his agents in homoeopathic doses; yet we read
ing the camel to strain at the gnat.
in one of the so-called "music and trade papers " that " J. P. Hale is making
100,000 more pianos for the trade." It would seem to be necessary to
ADVICE TO A BRASS BAND.
rewrite this announcement and leave off a few of the ciphers.
BRASS band was formed at Groton, to be called the Fort Griswold
A testimonial concert to Mr. F. T. Lilliendahl, organist of the German
band, and Oscar W. Hewett, known as the Pawtucket historian of the
Evangelical Church of Hoboken, N. J., was given on Tuesday evening, Feb.
Providence Journal, addressed to it the following advice:
Gentlemen: You have now entered upon the most serious undertaking 8th. The principal soloists were Mr. F. T. Lilliendahl, Mr. Geo. W. Mor-
of your lives. It is a solemn thing to put the brazen serpent to your lips. gan, and Miss Hegetschweiler. The organ used was one of Messrs. Jardine
It is no idle act to blast a brass viper or to set a pair of cymbals to butting. & Son's celebrated make.
True, there is no harm in gnawing upon a trombone, even after one has his
Lowell (Mass.) Mail says of a Henry F. Miller grand, used in that
cornet, but we repeat that it is a solemn thing to startle the world with sud- city The
recently, that " it was equal to every exaction." We are a little doubt-
den "brass music." Therefore, brethren, we would enjoin care and pains- ful about
this. Does the Mail mean exaction in regard to the price charged
taking. Be ye not puffed up, as are wind instruments of winding brass. for a Miller
piano ; or what ? Please explain.
Temptations bestrew your path. There is always a snare set for the drum-
mer, and no drummer knows when he may become base. To the cymbal
An unworthy knave ! A piano manufacturer engages a newspaper tout
player we would say, "Strike, but hear." Yours is a higher calling than to do his dirty work, and the tout pretends to be enthusiastic in his master's
that of the punster. He plays upon words. You play upon symbols. To services; yet, at the same time, he is divulging to his master's competitors
him who plays upon the brass boa constrictor with a grass-hopper leg the fact that the secret of a strike in his master's factory is due to a reduc-
attachment, you are peculiarly subject to temptation. The temptation is to tion of expenses, made necessary by a notification that a mortgage on the
keep the piston rod ever in motion. It strengthens with years. It becomes factory must be paid on a certain day or it would be foreclosed.
grim habit with practice, so that men operate it by muscular action, merely,
after they are dead. An admonitory word to the young man who has chosen
Jardine & Son are busy with two large organs, one for Cleveland and the
the yellow clarinet. Yellow clarinets tend to melancholy—sometimes other for Manayunk, they are also getting up an "orchestral organ" for
suicide. Either he who plays the yellow clarinet, or his nearest neighbor, Koster & Bial's Concert Hall. Ever since the fine one that was there for a
must commit suicide, otherwise the clarinet is not a yellow one, or it is out year was removed the regular audience have expressed their regrets, so the
of order. Yellow clarinets are not compatible with long life. A man with proprietors have given the order to Jardine & Son to build them a much
an iron constitution may possibly live to 50 years on the flute, but a yellow finer and larger instrument. Mr. F. W. Jardine being now in Paris, has
clarinet is as dangerous as the deadly and anaconda-like accordeon. To him purchased some of the new orchestral stops, in which the' French excel, and
that handles the stupendous and sententious tuba—we mean the brass this coupled with the experience Mr. Jardine has gained from his first organ
monster that gapeth and grinneth like a hippopotamus in the river brakes— for Koster & Bial, will enable him to make the new one a great success. It
think what a wakeful capacity this instrument has! The bellowings of will also form a grand ornament, towering up to the ceiling with its groups
famished thunder are in its brazen bowels, and its expansive mouth uttereth of artistically arranged and decorated pipes and trumpets. It will take
earthquakes. Whisper in her lightly, my boy, and the whole world will be four months to build this superb instrument, and the opening will be cele-
obliged to listen to you! Fair fame and success to the Fort Griswold band! brated by a grand concert.
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