Music Trade Review

October namm.org
5th, 1881.
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ccomplished, knowing as we do the energy of the reliable and dishonest. They agreed through an
managers. It seems a pity though, as Mr. Peirce, agent to give us an organ in payment for their
their treasurer, said to us, that after organizing advertisement, and sent us their due bill for the
and systematizing the whole working of the fac- organ, payable six months from date. When it
SOUTHERN TRADE.
ory so that it was running smoothly, to be oblig- became due, after all the advertising was com-
Finding himself the other day in the neighbor- sd to commence and do that work all over again. pleted, we were coolly informed that we would
hood of Ernst Gabler's piano factory in East 22d We trust that if the Star Parlor Organ Company have to take a higher priced organ, and pay over
street, this city, our reporter could not refrain oncludes to locate again in Washington, N. J., half cash, or wait two years for the organ already
from the pleasure of an interview with the genial that it will insist upon the organization of a pro- due. We prefer to take our pay in free advertis-
proprietor, who, by the way, is feeling very good per fire department in that town, and that it will ing, and to post the Mendelssohn Piano Co. as
over the present condition of his piano business ocate at a sufficient distance from any tinder-box swindlers. This and similar notices will appeal
and the bright prospects for the future. In the factory which the Hon. D. F. B. would be likely from time to time until we have paid ourself, and
course of the conversation the talk turned upon to erect.
we call the attention of the press and public to
Southern trade and our reporter said.
The hundreds of workmen who have been thrown them.—Lapeer Clarion, Lapeer, Mich.
Mr. Gabler do you intend exhibiting your in- out of employment by this fire will, if they are
struments in Atlanta at the Exposition this Fall.
wise, use their votes towards an efficient fire de- A citizen's meeting was held at the Lee House,
Mr. Gabler—No, I do not intend to exhibit.
partment for the future. We understand that on Tuesday evening, to see what could be done to
Reporter—I am surprised to hear that. I should Washington's deficiency in this respect has been induce Beatty to remove his factory here. It will
have supposed that you would have considered it notorious, and the citizens should see to it that an amount to nothing, as Beatty fully intends to re-
an excellent opportunity to bring your instru- immediate reform is effected.
erect his factory at Washington, and is only going
ments before the Southern trade, and that a few
about the country asking offers to get a big adver-
hundred dollars expended in that direction would
tisement for nothing, and to bulldoze the people
THE MENDELSSOHN PIANO COMPANY.
have been one of the best possible advertisements
of Washington into raising large sums of money to
STIGMATIZED AS SWINDLERS.
for you.
get him to remain. Beatty isn't exactly a fool, and
E
wish
to
warn
the
public
against
the
Men-
Mr. Gabler—Well perhaps you were justified in
that in Washington he is a big man, which
delssohn Piano Company, of New York, knows
thinking so, but there are other matters to be con- xtensively
is not likely to be the case anywhere else.— War-
advertised
in
our
exchanges.
We
sidered. My trade is already so large that my know from personal experience that they are un- ren, JV. J., Democrat, Sep. 2'M.
orders call for the entire production of my present
factory and it would not be possible to do anything
more without building another one.
Reporter—Why not build another one then.
There is plenty of space adjoining your present
factory.
Mr. Gabler—The subject is one I have often
thought of, but I am not so young as I was.
Remember I have been making pianos here for
more than a quarter of a century and a new factory
would mean more work, and what with fire and
labor troubles I find that I have already enough to
do with my present factory.
Reporter—Don't you think the Southern States
have accumulated sufficient money since the war
by means of their large cotton crops and their gen-
eral industries to be in a position to spend some
of their surplus in musical instruments.
Mr. Gabler—No doubt they have but the situa-
tion of the trade in pianos there resembles that of
the West a few years ago. The people, excepting
those in the large cities, have not become suffi-
ciently educated musically to appreciate a first-
class piano, and the bulk of the demand south of
the Carolinas is for pianos of the second and third
class; eventually this state of things will change
and first class instruments will be demanded, but
you see from what I have said that I am not pre-
pared to take a practical interest in the question.
TIMELY TALKS ON TIMELY TOPICS
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THE FIRE IN WASHINGTON, N. J.
DESTRUCTION OF THE STAR PARLOR ORGAN FACTORY.
NE of the most disastrous fires which Wash-
ington, N. J., has ever experienced, occurred
O
on Sunday afternoon, September 18th. The citi-
zens of the town had hardly risen from their din-
ner tables on Sunday afternoon when the cry of
fire was heard, and all rushed to the scene of the
conflagration. The fire proved to be at Beatty's
organ works and the many predictions which had
been made by those acquainted with the construc-
tion and working of the Beatty factory were seen
to be verified.
Unfortunately for the Star Parlor Organ Com-
pany, its factory was located only about fifty feet
from the flimsy structure in which Beatty manu-
factures his organs, and the heat from the latter
was so intense that the Star Parlor Organ Com-
pany soon gave up all hope of saving their build-
ing, and commenced a hasty removal of books,
tools, etc., of which they succeeded in saving a
considerable quantity together with a number of
organ cases, but the entire factory building with
most of its valuable contents was completely de-
stroyed, involving a loss of from $40,000 to $50,000,
whioh we understand was insured for about half
that amount.
Occurring as it has at the opening of the busy sea-
son, the fire is a great misfortune to the Star Parlor
Organ Company, and as it has occurred without the
smallest blame attaching to them for want of care-
fulness in the conduct of their factory, but solely
from the lack of such qualities in their immediate
neighborhood, they deserve and no doubt will
have the sympathy of the entire trade in their mis-
fortune, for which they perhaps may find.some
consolation in the reflection, that a stoppage in
production to the amount of SOU organs per month
will have a tendency to make the demand very ac-
tive this Fall.
We understand that the Star Parlor Organ Com-
pany has made arrangements to supply all its
orders for organs until another factory can be ob
tained and Bet to work, which we expect soon to see
IVEUS & PO^D PIANO CO.'S STYLE C.
IVERS & POND PIANO CO.'S STYLE D.