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May 20th 1881.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
-A.ISTID E X P O R T
VOL. IV.
127
TRADE.
No. 8.
NEW YORK, MAY 20TH, 1881.
which attempts to prevent men outside of its ranks from learning a business,
or resists the introduction of labor saving machinery into factories, where its
HE following program has been circulated in Boston :
j members are employed, can be permanently successful in a free country ;
Grand concert by eminent artists, assisted by the Miller Grand. Herr nor can such an organization succeed when it departs from its legitimate ob-
Richard Wagner will conduct the Miller Grand.
ject, which should be resistance to organized effort on the part of the manu-
The Miller Grand has been re-vaccinated and will be accompanied by facturers to unjustly reduce wages, to dictate to the manufacturers what
T. P. Ryder, the only person at present who has perfect control over it.
methods they shall employ in conducting their business. If the organiza-
The' piano used at this concert is from the celebrated house of J. P. tion thinks it has brains enough to carry on the piano business, why, instead
Hale, of New York.
of taxing its members to uphold ill-advised strikes, does it not devote itself
to the accumulation of sufficient funds and undertake the manufacture of
PROGRAM.
pianos on its own account ? It would probably come to understand after a
PART I.
short experience in that direction, that something more is required to carry
1. Miller Grand Quintette
0. D. BLAKE. on a manufacturing business than a full purse, combined with main strength
DB. FRANZ LISZT at the Piano.
and stupidity.
2. " Mazeppa,"
C. A. WHITE.
aside, the trade union has demonstrated its incapacity to under-
1
Two horse act by MR. and MRS. SHERWOOD, assisted by the Miller Grand. stand Jesting
the situation, and we do not see that any great harm will result to the
3. Violin solo on a fine tooth comb
BEETHOVEW. workmen from its dissolution. In ordinary cases where there is a combina-
HERB JOACHIM.
tion among the manufacturers, the workmen need a combination also for
By request of Mr. Joachim, the Hale Piano will be use in this number. self-protection, but at present there is no combination among the manufac-
4. " The Maiden's Prayer,"
BLIND TOM. turers, nor is there likely to be one in the future, as far as we can see.
ERNEST PBRABO.
Whether the result of this last strike be a break up of the union or not, we
This number will be omitted, as for some unexplained reason, Mr. think the piano trade has seen its last strike, for this year, at any rate.
Perabo declines to appear.
Intermission of one hour. To allow the Miller Grand to be taken to
the factory for repairs.
A PROPOSED BOSTON CONCERT.
T
TRADE
PART rr.
5. Song, " Have you Heard the Wobblings of the Miller Grand."
ADEIilNA PATTI.
Chorus by the entire Miller family.
6. Soap Grease Polka
Dedicated to H. F. Miller, Jr.
SAINT-SAENS.
HERR VON BULOW, assisted by the Miller Grand.
7. Grand Trio
BACH.
Orchestration by Berlioz, for two Organetts and Brass Drum. For the left
hand alone,
HERB CABLYLE PETERSILEA.
One minute will be allowed Mr. Miller to tell ALL he knows about pianos.
8. Finale. Grand Tableaux.
The curtain rises. The entire Miller Family are seen in the distance,
surrounded by Bengal lights, blue fire, rockets, etc., etc., and posed upon a
pedestal composed entirely of Piano materials, each member of the Family
holding in his hands an elephant's tusk of large dimensions, each tusk sup-
posed to be worth $1,000,000.
r
GABLER'S VICTORY OVER THE TRADE UNION.
I ''HE strike of the piano makers emnlovprl in TYiv v ruio >
PBISiliii
bers of the trade union durmg the earlier part of thf s 5 e
6
We understand that this charge against M r G a b l e d f c n a i -
in fact, the arrests for disorderly conduct on the ™rt!S'th ?°'"""Ration,
been made by the police without any specMIrequesUrornMr C«hT' "!,"«
» part of their usual duty in supposing ^ Z o r d e r t v condtf' S tnt 6
particular case, wherein a charee was mado ft™ « , / ? u ° 1 • a0tory
. ™
charge was not made by 7 Mr. GrtlerZnSelf tat h
^K""
- the
whom the strikers were threatening
T M ' f c S t
jJSS^^ZS^S^.
up^esent^
f
Ln or at any rate leadjo a d J ^ ' t o t t g i S t e ? * ^ ^ , t 0 ' f , ^ aTtt
head of the trade union h,.ve shown very little capacity to Tnde?stand Jhe
proper aims of a legitimate organization of this kind, nor h a v X ? r method
been of a nature to be ultimately successful. No organizationothSsort
CHAT.
Among the objects at the approaching Milan Exhibition will be a collec-
tion of models, moulds, and other objects formerly belonging to Stradi-
varius.
The twenty-third annual report of the Chamber of Commerce has beeu
issued by Mr. Geo. Wilson, the Secretary of the Chamber. In the annual
review of the condition of business the report says among other things:
" Of the total foreign trade, imports and exports (with foreign exports,
•$19,487,331, added), amounting to $1,613,770,633, for the year ending June
30, 1880, against $1,202,708,609, New York received $944,229,124, against
$665,342,293 the previous year, or 58^ per cent. The total New York trade,
imports and exports of merchandise and precious metals, amounted in 1880
to the sum of $964,579,875 against $795,235,732 in 1879, an increase of $169,-
344,143. The year 1880 will be ever memorable as that in which the foreign
trade of the commercial metropolis of the country reached the sum of nearly
one thousand millions of dollars.
" In the last report the extent of the balance of trade, or the excess of
the aggregate value of exports over imports for the two calendar years 1878
and 1879, was shown to be
$556,757,105
Add to this the balance for 1880, viz.:
Exports of merchandise
$889,680,149
Less imports merchandise
696,805,867—192,874,282
Balance of trade in favor of the United States for the three
years ending December 31, 1880
:
$749,631,387
When we compare the condition of the country after the collapse of
1873, stripped of its coin and distrustful of even its own destinies, with its
present almost plethoric prosperity, the change in less than a decade defies
comprehension. Yet this immense movement seems to be but the harbinger
of an advance yet more rapid and startling. Already the present season
there is a certainty that a half million of people will land upon our shores,
bringing to us their energies, their skill and their hopes. How long this
flood will continue, where or when it will be stayed, no eye can forsee. On
this vast continent there is room for all, and the basin of the Mississippi
alone has the capacity to hold and supply the entire population of Europe
better than it has been fed hitherto."
Francis W. Robertson bought a piano last January at the warerooms of
Albert Weber, at Fifth avenue and Sixteenth street, for $350, agreeing to
make two payments at sixty and ninety days. He gave as a reference Cudney
& Co., dealers in chandeliers and lamps, at No. 765 Broadway. The piano
was delivered at No. 107 Magnolia street, Brooklyn. Robertson did not pay
and it was found at No. 107 Magnolia street that the piano had been re-
moved. Mr. Weber engaged Detective Fuller to search for Robertson.
On the afternoon of the 10th instant, Robertson was found in Chatham
square by a detective and a man connected with a chair company. Robert-
son promised to pay the bill if he could only get up town. At Thirteenth
street and University place he went into a saloon and in the absence of the
detective ran into the street. His creditor followed and caught him at
Twelfth street and Fifth avenue. By appealing to the crowd for protection
on the ground that he was being kidnapped Robertson managed to get away.
He ran to Sixth avenue and Thirteenth street, where he was caught again,
this time by Detective Fuller. The crowd which gathered filled the street
and stopped the horse-cars. Robertson resisted, and the crowd sympathized
with him. A big Irishman, however, who had been told that Robertson was
a swindler, offered to assist Fuller and stood by him until Officer Carpenter
arrived. When Robertson was taken to the Jefferson Market Police Court
yesterday, representatives of the firms he had swindled made complaints
against him. He was remanded. It is expected that other arrests will be
made.
May 20th 1881.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
-A.ISTID E X P O R T
VOL. IV.
127
TRADE.
No. 8.
NEW YORK, MAY 20TH, 1881.
which attempts to prevent men outside of its ranks from learning a business,
or resists the introduction of labor saving machinery into factories, where its
HE following program has been circulated in Boston :
j members are employed, can be permanently successful in a free country ;
Grand concert by eminent artists, assisted by the Miller Grand. Herr nor can such an organization succeed when it departs from its legitimate ob-
Richard Wagner will conduct the Miller Grand.
ject, which should be resistance to organized effort on the part of the manu-
The Miller Grand has been re-vaccinated and will be accompanied by facturers to unjustly reduce wages, to dictate to the manufacturers what
T. P. Ryder, the only person at present who has perfect control over it.
methods they shall employ in conducting their business. If the organiza-
The' piano used at this concert is from the celebrated house of J. P. tion thinks it has brains enough to carry on the piano business, why, instead
Hale, of New York.
of taxing its members to uphold ill-advised strikes, does it not devote itself
to the accumulation of sufficient funds and undertake the manufacture of
PROGRAM.
pianos on its own account ? It would probably come to understand after a
PART I.
short experience in that direction, that something more is required to carry
1. Miller Grand Quintette
0. D. BLAKE. on a manufacturing business than a full purse, combined with main strength
DB. FRANZ LISZT at the Piano.
and stupidity.
2. " Mazeppa,"
C. A. WHITE.
aside, the trade union has demonstrated its incapacity to under-
1
Two horse act by MR. and MRS. SHERWOOD, assisted by the Miller Grand. stand Jesting
the situation, and we do not see that any great harm will result to the
3. Violin solo on a fine tooth comb
BEETHOVEW. workmen from its dissolution. In ordinary cases where there is a combina-
HERB JOACHIM.
tion among the manufacturers, the workmen need a combination also for
By request of Mr. Joachim, the Hale Piano will be use in this number. self-protection, but at present there is no combination among the manufac-
4. " The Maiden's Prayer,"
BLIND TOM. turers, nor is there likely to be one in the future, as far as we can see.
ERNEST PBRABO.
Whether the result of this last strike be a break up of the union or not, we
This number will be omitted, as for some unexplained reason, Mr. think the piano trade has seen its last strike, for this year, at any rate.
Perabo declines to appear.
Intermission of one hour. To allow the Miller Grand to be taken to
the factory for repairs.
A PROPOSED BOSTON CONCERT.
T
TRADE
PART rr.
5. Song, " Have you Heard the Wobblings of the Miller Grand."
ADEIilNA PATTI.
Chorus by the entire Miller family.
6. Soap Grease Polka
Dedicated to H. F. Miller, Jr.
SAINT-SAENS.
HERR VON BULOW, assisted by the Miller Grand.
7. Grand Trio
BACH.
Orchestration by Berlioz, for two Organetts and Brass Drum. For the left
hand alone,
HERB CABLYLE PETERSILEA.
One minute will be allowed Mr. Miller to tell ALL he knows about pianos.
8. Finale. Grand Tableaux.
The curtain rises. The entire Miller Family are seen in the distance,
surrounded by Bengal lights, blue fire, rockets, etc., etc., and posed upon a
pedestal composed entirely of Piano materials, each member of the Family
holding in his hands an elephant's tusk of large dimensions, each tusk sup-
posed to be worth $1,000,000.
r
GABLER'S VICTORY OVER THE TRADE UNION.
I ''HE strike of the piano makers emnlovprl in TYiv v ruio >
PBISiliii
bers of the trade union durmg the earlier part of thf s 5 e
6
We understand that this charge against M r G a b l e d f c n a i -
in fact, the arrests for disorderly conduct on the ™rt!S'th ?°'"""Ration,
been made by the police without any specMIrequesUrornMr C«hT' "!,"«
» part of their usual duty in supposing ^ Z o r d e r t v condtf' S tnt 6
particular case, wherein a charee was mado ft™ « , / ? u ° 1 • a0tory
. ™
charge was not made by 7 Mr. GrtlerZnSelf tat h
^K""
- the
whom the strikers were threatening
T M ' f c S t
jJSS^^ZS^S^.
up^esent^
f
Ln or at any rate leadjo a d J ^ ' t o t t g i S t e ? * ^ ^ , t 0 ' f , ^ aTtt
head of the trade union h,.ve shown very little capacity to Tnde?stand Jhe
proper aims of a legitimate organization of this kind, nor h a v X ? r method
been of a nature to be ultimately successful. No organizationothSsort
CHAT.
Among the objects at the approaching Milan Exhibition will be a collec-
tion of models, moulds, and other objects formerly belonging to Stradi-
varius.
The twenty-third annual report of the Chamber of Commerce has beeu
issued by Mr. Geo. Wilson, the Secretary of the Chamber. In the annual
review of the condition of business the report says among other things:
" Of the total foreign trade, imports and exports (with foreign exports,
•$19,487,331, added), amounting to $1,613,770,633, for the year ending June
30, 1880, against $1,202,708,609, New York received $944,229,124, against
$665,342,293 the previous year, or 58^ per cent. The total New York trade,
imports and exports of merchandise and precious metals, amounted in 1880
to the sum of $964,579,875 against $795,235,732 in 1879, an increase of $169,-
344,143. The year 1880 will be ever memorable as that in which the foreign
trade of the commercial metropolis of the country reached the sum of nearly
one thousand millions of dollars.
" In the last report the extent of the balance of trade, or the excess of
the aggregate value of exports over imports for the two calendar years 1878
and 1879, was shown to be
$556,757,105
Add to this the balance for 1880, viz.:
Exports of merchandise
$889,680,149
Less imports merchandise
696,805,867—192,874,282
Balance of trade in favor of the United States for the three
years ending December 31, 1880
:
$749,631,387
When we compare the condition of the country after the collapse of
1873, stripped of its coin and distrustful of even its own destinies, with its
present almost plethoric prosperity, the change in less than a decade defies
comprehension. Yet this immense movement seems to be but the harbinger
of an advance yet more rapid and startling. Already the present season
there is a certainty that a half million of people will land upon our shores,
bringing to us their energies, their skill and their hopes. How long this
flood will continue, where or when it will be stayed, no eye can forsee. On
this vast continent there is room for all, and the basin of the Mississippi
alone has the capacity to hold and supply the entire population of Europe
better than it has been fed hitherto."
Francis W. Robertson bought a piano last January at the warerooms of
Albert Weber, at Fifth avenue and Sixteenth street, for $350, agreeing to
make two payments at sixty and ninety days. He gave as a reference Cudney
& Co., dealers in chandeliers and lamps, at No. 765 Broadway. The piano
was delivered at No. 107 Magnolia street, Brooklyn. Robertson did not pay
and it was found at No. 107 Magnolia street that the piano had been re-
moved. Mr. Weber engaged Detective Fuller to search for Robertson.
On the afternoon of the 10th instant, Robertson was found in Chatham
square by a detective and a man connected with a chair company. Robert-
son promised to pay the bill if he could only get up town. At Thirteenth
street and University place he went into a saloon and in the absence of the
detective ran into the street. His creditor followed and caught him at
Twelfth street and Fifth avenue. By appealing to the crowd for protection
on the ground that he was being kidnapped Robertson managed to get away.
He ran to Sixth avenue and Thirteenth street, where he was caught again,
this time by Detective Fuller. The crowd which gathered filled the street
and stopped the horse-cars. Robertson resisted, and the crowd sympathized
with him. A big Irishman, however, who had been told that Robertson was
a swindler, offered to assist Fuller and stood by him until Officer Carpenter
arrived. When Robertson was taken to the Jefferson Market Police Court
yesterday, representatives of the firms he had swindled made complaints
against him. He was remanded. It is expected that other arrests will be
made.
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