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March 5th, i88r.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
faced out with any degree of success, he sneaks out of it in a measure by
BEATTY AND HIS NEWSPAPER VALET.
in a corner of his advertisement, that he means $150. This last
FEW days ago Mr. P. T. Locke, a dealer in Des Moines, la., wrote as stating,
statement also is false, as we showed in our issue of February 5th, when we
follows to the editor of the Washington, N. J. Star:
said that many reputable manufacturers will sell a better organ than this man
DES MOINES, la., Feb. 19, 1881.
Beatty at as low a price as any he offers.
Editor " Washington Star,"
Beatty also advertises that agents are monopolists, and that he has no
Please send me a copy of your paper, wherein you expose Bealty's agents. Here again he states what he knows to be false, as we have shown
statement of having thousands of dollars worth of your city bonds in his pos-
before this, and as we shall show again in a much severer manner, if he does
session, published, I think, about a year ago.
not mend his ways.
Very respectfully,
P. T. LOCKE.
We see that the New York Times' is publishing an advertisement of
In reply he received merely his own note, at the bottom of which was Beatty's since our exposure of him appeared, obliged the humbugging D. F.
scrawled in that peculiar style of chirography, which affords such excellent to strike out all expressions that would be offensive to reputable and actual
proof of this man, Beatty's, ignorance and asininity, these words:
manufacturers of pianos and organs. This wise plan has not been followed
" Can't I sell you an organ ' my boy'? What do you want of them? by certain publications, which still continue to permit their columns to be
You had better be careful what you circlate about myself.
BEATTY."
defiled by Beatty's false and malicious statements.
This showed that Beatty's trusty valet, the editor of the Washington
We will take it as a favor if our readers will forward to us all news-
Star, had handed the note over to his master, just as the editor of an alleged papers, magazines or other periodicals which contain such statements by
art paper in this city did a few weeks ago, when he was sent a communication Beatty, so that we can publish the list with this object in view, that reputa-
concerning Beatty, which communication he used to dicker with Beatty ble and genuine makers'of pianos and organs may refuse their advertise-
for a small amount of advertising.
ments to publications that will allow a hypocrite and a man of "snide"
Now the cream of all this is that D. F. Beatty of Washington, N. J. methods to build himself up in their columns, by the wholesale detraction
has attained a world-wide fame as a thoroughly unscrupulous liar, which term
of one of the worthiest and most honorable classes of men in the
we use advisedly as no other will do the subject justice, and no one has community.
taken more pains to prove him a liar than this same Washington Star, which
We warn the public for its own good, against a belief in the man
to-day serves him in such a menial capacity. As we desire that our words Beatty, or his misrepresentations.
shall always bear the stamp of truth, we reprint an article from the Star of
Sept. 12th, 1880, in which Mr. Beatty is shown to be a liar. As this is the
very article that Mr. Locke enquired for, it will possess additional interest
THE INFLUENCE OF THE LAST STRIKE.
for our readers. It was headed :—
r~T^HE two strikes which were in progress when we last went to press have
" OUR BOKOUGH DEBT."
JL ended. One, that of Behr's, was comparatively unimportant, and was
settled by what is considered a compromise; the other, Weber's, ended by a
And ran as follows:—
" It was recently announced in Daniel F. Beatty's musical advertising complete submission on the part of the employer to the demands of his strik-
journal, that he was ' worthy of public confidence ' because the people of ing workmen.
In the last case the employer inflicted an injury on the whole piano
Washiugton had elected him Mayor of the borough, and had ' entrusted him
with their city bonds, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars.' The trade in this city, from whatever point of view his action is regarded; if he
announcement was intended as au advertisement to push his business, but it really thought that his men were receiving excessively high wages, and
has had another effect which we are charitable enough to suppose was not honestly intended to make an effort to reduce them, his action was impul-
included in the list of probabilities by the man who has prostituted his office sive and childish, as he must have realized the impossibility of righting such
to advertising purposes. ' City bonds' indicate citv debt, and if there are a compact organization as the Trade Union single handed and with no pros-
'hundreds of thousands of dollars of city bonds of Washington,' it follows pect of assistance from any other members of the trade; if, on the other hand,
that there must be that amount of city debt on Washington. The statement his object was to stop work for a time in, order to accumulate funds for a
has damaged the borough, just as the statement of heavy indebtedness would special purpose, this method of accomplishing his object was a bad one for
damage any firm or any individual, and business men, both inside and out- the trade because it enabled the Trade Union to record another triumph over
side the borough, are inquiring about this wonderful debt. If the report is the manufacturers, the effect of which on both employers and employed is
true, money would not flow freely into a borough groaning under debt and demoralizing, although financially speaking, the Trade Union is worse off by
wasting away under taxes, and we have investigated the affair to discover some $7,000 than it was when the strike commenced. This amount, how-
whether there is any truth, or semblance of truth, in the representation ever, will no doubt be made up by the organization when the proper time
made to the public about the ' city bonds,' or whether it was a lie made out comes to recoup themselves for this outlay, at which time the entire piano
of the whole cloth. We give below the solution of the question, by pub- trade will probably be requested to make good the amount which the Union
lishing the exact financial standing of the borough, as reported by two of has. been obliged to spend to support its members during the time that they
have been fighting Albert Weber.
our town officials:
"WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 1879.
In spite of all the fine writing which has been done concerning the rela-
" Report of the financial condition of the Borough of Washington to tions of capital and labor by political economists, the entire question seems
to be, as far as our experience has gone, one of pure selfishness, and will no
April 1, 1879, inclusive:
doubt continue to be so until the millenium arrives. The end of nearly
School Bonds
$14,095.00
every strike on record has been a victory for the strongest side, and such
Building Loan Notes and Costs
1,064.00
action as we have above alluded to only has the effect of weakening one side
Borough Notes
2,300.00
and making the other stronger.
Borough Drafts
710.32
The whole matter might have been avoided if Albert Weber had pos-
§18,169.32
sessed sufficient moral courage to have "laid-off" his workmen instead of
Cash in hands of the Treasurer
$867.71
867.71 causing them to strike by reducing their wages.
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Total Borough Debt
JOHN HORNBAKER,
$17,301.61
Collector.
CHRISTIE & CO. PUSHING AHEAD.
MONG the manufacturers of medium priced pianos, are Messrs. Christie
If any one can torture that statement into showing a city debt of " hun-
& Co., of West 36th street. Their pianos, both upright and square,
dreds of thousands of dollars " on Washington, his arithmetic and his imag- are increasing in popularity, and the low prices at which they are sold is a
ination must equal in enormity the brazen impudence and wonderfully dis- strong inducement to a large class of buyers.
torted methods of the man who flaunts such a shameless lie in the eyes of
The factory of Messrs. Christie & Co. consists of a brick building in the
the world. The borough of Washington is a prosperous one, and we do not rear of Nos. 215 to 233 West 36th street, having dimensions of 175 x 40 feet,
propose to allow its good name abroad to be tarnished by outrageous lies and containing all the usual appliances for the successful manufacture of
like the one we quote from Beatty's Advertiser. Every citizen of the com- pianos; they have a considerable number of workmen employed in their
munity has a direct interest in the matter, and we speak for every man or factory, most of whom have been in the employment of the firm for a
woman who has a cent invested in it, and whose property is being depreci- number of years, and are thoroughly proficient in their occupation.
ated by such misrepresentations.
Mr. Christie, the senior partner, is a practical piano maker and
It may be asked : "Had Daniel F. Beatty no excuse for making the mis- thoroughly posted in his line of business; he gives his undivided attention
representation?" We answer that we see no excuse that would be taken by to the factory and its requirements. Mr. Peck, the junior, manages the
any sane or honest man as sufficient to warrant the statement he made. The office and the sales, but is also well acquainted with the practical part of the
surety bonds of the borough officials, amounting to less than forty thousand business, and is the inventor of an improved Pedal Guard, which is applied
dollars, not worth the snap of the finger or a senseless lie to Mr. Beatty or to all the pianos turned out by their house, and is used as well, by several
any one else, papers that cannot be realized upon by him or any one else, prominent piano manufacturers in this country.
are in his safe, because the borough has no safe in which to keep them.
This Pedal Guard is quite a neat affair; it is heavily nickel plated and
These bonds are just as much real basis for his monstrous misstatement as not only serves, as its name implies, to guard the polished wood near the
would be so many blank sheets of brown wrapping paper. We make this pedals of the piano from being scratched by the feet when the instrument is
showing in the interest of property holders in the borough, and if Daniel F. played upon, but is, in addition, an ornament to the instrument. Mr. Peck
Beatty considers it a "big ad." he is welcome to use it as much and as is pushing the sales of this Pedal Guard all over the country and substantial
often as may suit him."
results are beginning to come in from it.
Messrs. Christie & Co. state that their business showed a remarkable
D. F. BEATTY'S DISREPUTABLE PRACTICES.
increase in the number of pianos sold during the past year, and the signs
INCE our exposure in the issue of February 5th of the MUSICAL CRITIC are that the present year will be equally, if not more, prosperous than the
AND TRADE REVIEW, of D. F. Beatty's disreputable manner of palming last. The concern is an enterprising one, and cannot, if they continue to
off his goods upon the public, he has hauled in his horns somewhat in his pay as close attention to their business in the future as they have done in the
blatant advertisements. Still we have found cases in which he continues to past, fail to make their mark in the trade.
advertise his malicious and false statements.
We have one now lying before us, in which he says "A 0450 SEVENTEEN
THE GAZETTE.
STOP CABINET OR PARLOR ORGAN FOB ONJUY $85 cash." A little after this, in
Frederick
Schaefer,
Pekin,
111.,
books and musical instruments, has assigned
the same advertisement, he says—though in very fine type, while the first
all his real and personal property to the v\ idow Smith, for whom he was
statement is in large type—that' "Such an instrument would range from $150
agent, and managed her estate. He represents that he will be able to
to $450," if oii'ered by any other party than himself.
pay his creditors in full. He lias been in business many years, had a
So this man Beutty attempts to catch the public eye by pretending that
stock formerly valued at $18,000, and his real estate was considered
he is offering for $85 as good an organ as the agents of reputable manufac-
worth at least $12,000. He had a branch store at Peoria.
turers sell for $450; but being aware that this is too bold a falsehood to be
J. C. WELLER, Clerk."
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