Music Trade Review
Issue: 1881 Vol. 5 N. 9 - Page 14
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124
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
December 5th, 1881.
any advautage they may gain by striking will be teen or more pianos per week. Mr. Guild reports nates of the Normal School to learn how to
only temporary, and if their employers fail in try- Boston trade very brisk.
manufacture pianos. With the number of skilled
ing to meet their excessive demands they will cer-
The strikers speak
in complimentary
trade increased, manufao-
p
p
p y terms of artisans in the piano
tainly be worse off than if they had continued to their treatment b
h i
&
S
turers will not be put to the inconvenience some-
by Messrs. Chickering
& Sons,
work at the old rate. We sympathize with work- Mr. Frank Chickering treated them courteously, | times caused as at present by unexpected strikes.
ing-men who are underpaid, but who shall decide and
them whenever a committee of the league \
this question? The way is certainly not for the came told
ALL ABOUT A PIANO.
him in the same straightforward, manly
workingman to constitute himself sole arbiter of spirit to
he would be glad to receive them and do all ^ p H E o w n e r s h i p of a Steinway piano, No. 41,-
the situation. When his services are in greater
decided in 'the courts. The
demand than now he will receive higher wages he could for them. Chicktrmg & Sons have re- J[ M 7 i s b e i
p i a n o w a s l e f t a t c M Maxwell's warerooms in
for he will go where he is paid best. Then the cently granted an advance to their men in their Thirteenth
street, by a Mr. Bomaine, on storage,
other manufacturers will come into line and pay factory
A M McPhail of McPhail ct Company, said a m l M r M a x w e l l ^ e n t t o Messrs. Steinway &
the advanced rate. Workingmen should remem-
a g a l l rf M
T h e number o n
ber that the piano makers of Boston are not coin- that he has never had a strike in his own factory t g h ( e m 8 i t a o n g o e w e i h f i o i t h w W
a s i n t h e t h i r t v .
ing as much money as iu former years although and not apprehending one he had not been excited t h o n 1 R a n d b u t o n M r a o n f e u r p i n r g i f - ? t h o t w their
books that
their employees may fancy that enormous profits over the reports from other establishments, ^o m i m b e r w a g f o u m l t o b e ft s q u a r e p i a n o . T l l i s d i s .
far as he understood the merits of the controversy
are annually coming in.
he
to regard d the
as quite ; c o
i
h •
m a d e t h h e
iftUO
wag - t a k k
e n t o iecejJ
h was disposed
dd
h workmen
k
Boston trade in pianos and organs has differed justihedm their position and his sympathy was ! ftnd ^ r e a f number, No. 41,517, was discovered
from New York trade, but is rapidly assuming the decidedly with them. While deprecating strikes ftnd t ] m t ifc h a d b e e n g o l d t o K r o e g e r & S o n s . M r
character of the latter city. Boston is beginning as usually disastrous alike to both parties involved, Kroeger says the piano was rented to a man named
to spread its pianos all over the country as New he thought the strikers were not always in the J.
K. Porter in Brooklyn. It appeares that Mr.
York has done for years. But this requires the wrong. Mr. McPhail said that one man should Kroeger
inserted in his contract for rental a
intervention of the middleman or dealer, and the roll in luxury while any of the two or three hund- previlege had
to
purchase the instrument. Messrs.
workingman who simply notes that his employer red workmen, whose toil has procured it for him, Steinway & Sons
sold the instrument to Mr. Kroe-
makes fifty pianos whore he made five in former go home to pinched and ill-conditioned families, ger about a year ago
and as a matter of courtesy
years, forgets that the profits may not be any was repugnant, to all ideas of justice.
informed him of their discovery. Mr. Kroeger is
larger, nor so large, on account of the dealer who
" If you quote meat all," said Mr. McPhail, trying to recover the instrument which is now in
sells the instruments. Boston has been largely " quote me as sympathizing with the underdog Mr. Maxwell's warerooms.
dependent upon local patronage, but now she has in the fight."
to contend also against the competition of New Messrs. 0. C Briggs
York manufacturers who have their agents here.
not fear a strike in their factory, claiming that they
^T^HE
manufacture
of pianoforte actions and
The truth is, Boston manufacturers must organ- pay their workmen good wages. They say trade
ize on a different basis. While they are trying is unusually good, and that they hope to get back J, dampers has become an extensive industry,
to do that, however, workingmen strike and throw to their old quarters about Jan. 1st, when they will requiring capital, skill and business ability. The
increase in the number of piano and organ fac-
them behindhand in all their plans. Fortunate- probably occupy the entire building.
tories and the constant demand for the instru-
ly the general business of the country is good,
ments have, as a matter of course, tended towards
and what bad effect may be engendered by the pres-
BOSTON
TRADE
CHAT.
an inoreased production of all the various parts
ent tendency of workingmen to strike niay pos-
sibly in a few months be counteracted.
As we go to press we learn that Messrs. Chick- that go together to make tho instruments. The
The piano men, about 70 men in number, a part ering & Sons have received one gold and two silver action requires the most delicate measurements
of the Emerson Pianoforte Company force of men, medals at the Mechanics' Charitable Fair at Boston, and a close attention to detail. Messrs. Dippel
public meeting of the Land League of Mass. The different departments of piano manufacture. They and 96 Clinton street, New York, started their
meeting was called to order by an employee of H. have also been awarded a gold medal at a Connec- present business in 1864 and have succeeded in
F. Miller's. The chaplain offered up a blessing and ticut Fair and at the California State Fair held at building up a large and prosperous trade. This
firm intends soon to remove to larger quarters on
at the close the band played a few national airs. Sacramento.
the West side probably. They manufacture
The strikers voted to remove the benches out of
The
directors
of
the
suspended
Pacific
National
the Emerson factory and on Thursday they de-
actions for square, grand and upright pianos and
Bank,
of
Boston,
met
on
November
19
and
decided
parted and hired a shoemaker's shop and hold
also for organs, having lately received large orders
to
turn
its
affairs
over
to
the
Bank
Examiner,
who
their meetings there. The boys are all good-
for actions for the latter instrument. Iu answer
natured about it and say that it will be a good has since been making a thorough examination to to a question by a reporter of THE MUSICAL CRITIC
while before the Emerson Piano Co. will be able determine the exact condition. The balance of AND TRADE REVIEW, Mr. Dippel stated that the
to get so large and so good-looking set of boys the Pacific Bank in the hands of its New York orders for upright actions had doubled in one
correspondent, the National Park Bank, has been
again.
attached by the Market National Bank of New year.
The machinery used for the purpose of cutting,
NEW ENGLAND ORGAN COMPANY.
York, which holds five certificates of deposit, ag-
shaping and polishing, as well as finishing the
A member of the New England Organ Company gregating $24,300. The story was printed that various parts of the action is complicated and in-
the bank was "carrying" a large piano firm,
said:
genious, and requires constant watchfulness and
" With the exception of the Emerson Piano which assistance helped to bring about the disas- attention. Both members of the firm being prac-
ter.
'I
he
Hallet
A
:
Davis
Piano
Company
was
Company all is quiet. Affairs have shown but lit-
tical mechanics, they superintend the manufacture
tle change from the first. Both sides appear to probably meant. This firm was a depositor at personally. The indications point to a continued
maintain the same attitude and neither appears the bauk and is said to have borrowed from it gen- increase of orders for actions of all kinds and there
willing to give in. What the final result will be erously. The company, however, is said to be is no doubt that the factories will continue to be
is uncertain.
solvent.
busy. The same answer was given by Messrs.
i
' The condition of the trade generally is very
Just as we are going to press our representative Dippel & Schmidt, that we heard in all depart-
satisfactory. Our own trade is excellent and or- learns that Col. Win. Mo..re, formerly connected j ments of piano and organ manufacture, " O u r
ders continue pouring in faster than we can till with the Emerson Piano Company, was on his
orders are way ahead of our capacity."
them. As far as we know, everybody is very busy way
Boston. Some parties in the trade here
and there are no symptoms of strikes or other dis- seem to to
connect Col. Moore's return with the
ATLANTA, GA.
turbances to mar the general good outlook for the strike in the
Emerson factory, as though he were
ATLANTA, NOV, 22d.
holiday trade."
still connected with the concern in spite of asser-
CONCERT took place here to-day at the
tions to the contrary. Mercer, the Emerson Com-
STRIKES NOT IJPIDEMIC.
Judges' Hall which was filled to overflowing
pany's old foreman in their varnishing department,
Mr. S. D. Smith, of the Smith American Organ who was discharged some time since has just been with a large audience of strangers. Tho two Bal-
Company, said that he knew nothing in regard to taken on again.
timore piano manufactories of Wm. Knabe
and Charles M. Stieff each contributed a piano for
Our representative called on the Hallet & Davis the occasion. The concert opened with a tran-
newspapers, but that he had no idea that strikes
were to become general.
Company in regard to the strike, but they do not i scription for the piano of "Maryland my Mary-
J. W. Vose, of Vose
the Emerson Piano Company. Mr. Carter, he said, tional Bank.
Miss Haynes, a soprano singer of ability, sang
informed him that they were tilling the places of
Mr. Silvester Tower, of Cambridgeport, Mass., "Flower Paths; " Miss Mimms sang the " Hunts-
the strikers,rapidly with piano makers, and that advanced his keyrnakers' wages twenty per cent, man's Horn;" Prof. E. A. Schultze, rendered De
the delay in their business would be only a small during the week ending Nov. 19.
Berriot's second concerto on the violin in excellent
matter.
style; Mr. J. Frank Supplee sang " The Heart
The Hallett & Davis Company is doing a good Bowed Down;" Mrs. E. Von Der Hoya-Schultze
George M. Guild obtained the following state-
ment from a loading striker among the former em- business. The Emerson Piano Compauy is running played Wagner's " Tannhauser " March, Liszt's
ployees of the Emerson Piano Company : '' About smoothly and is turning out sixty-five pianos a Transcription; and li. Panse sang "Non e Ver,"
one hundred men are out and have removed their week.
by Mattei.
benches. About thirty men are at work, mostly
Mr. Ernest Knabe is here representing the in-
TRADE SCHOOLS.
varnishers. The men are determined to hold out
terests of his house, while Messrs. Stieff' have Mr.
until their demands are granted if it takes all
HE organization of trade schools in different A. E. Marsteller doing the honors in their behalf.
Winter. The men complain that the prices paid
parts of the country will in time prove val- The Exposition thus far is a great success.
by the Company are far below those of other Bos- uable to the musical trade. A trade school has
EMELINO.
ton piano makers. They say that the Company been started in New -_
will not be able under the circumstances to employ York, but has not yet
HOHACE WATERS <& CO.,
skilled workmen, but may be able to hire the bov established any depart-
Manufacturers ami - Dealer)
iu
boys -m—^ .
graduates from the grammar school, for they adver- ment for training boys
.
^—«
tised for them "
Mr. Guild said that his own men belonged to
SIX YKAHS.
pany
« I T * R » V T K K I » *•«
VK*R«.
C ^
"
the Union, but were thoroughly satisfied. He advertises iu The Boston
Tho Largest stuck iu America. Agents wanted.
anticipates no trouble whatever. Ho has all the Herald of N o v e m b e r
aSTCorreBpontlence Solicited. Illustrated Catalogue Mailed Free.
A
T
anv ir l a n o s
orders lie can attend to and is trying to finish six- 25th for twenty grad- WAREKOOMS,
arid
Organs,
No. 8 2 6 BROADWAY, NEW
YORK.
124
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
December 5th, 1881.
any advautage they may gain by striking will be teen or more pianos per week. Mr. Guild reports nates of the Normal School to learn how to
only temporary, and if their employers fail in try- Boston trade very brisk.
manufacture pianos. With the number of skilled
ing to meet their excessive demands they will cer-
The strikers speak
in complimentary
trade increased, manufao-
p
p
p y terms of artisans in the piano
tainly be worse off than if they had continued to their treatment b
h i
&
S
turers will not be put to the inconvenience some-
by Messrs. Chickering
& Sons,
work at the old rate. We sympathize with work- Mr. Frank Chickering treated them courteously, | times caused as at present by unexpected strikes.
ing-men who are underpaid, but who shall decide and
them whenever a committee of the league \
this question? The way is certainly not for the came told
ALL ABOUT A PIANO.
him in the same straightforward, manly
workingman to constitute himself sole arbiter of spirit to
he would be glad to receive them and do all ^ p H E o w n e r s h i p of a Steinway piano, No. 41,-
the situation. When his services are in greater
decided in 'the courts. The
demand than now he will receive higher wages he could for them. Chicktrmg & Sons have re- J[ M 7 i s b e i
p i a n o w a s l e f t a t c M Maxwell's warerooms in
for he will go where he is paid best. Then the cently granted an advance to their men in their Thirteenth
street, by a Mr. Bomaine, on storage,
other manufacturers will come into line and pay factory
A M McPhail of McPhail ct Company, said a m l M r M a x w e l l ^ e n t t o Messrs. Steinway &
the advanced rate. Workingmen should remem-
a g a l l rf M
T h e number o n
ber that the piano makers of Boston are not coin- that he has never had a strike in his own factory t g h ( e m 8 i t a o n g o e w e i h f i o i t h w W
a s i n t h e t h i r t v .
ing as much money as iu former years although and not apprehending one he had not been excited t h o n 1 R a n d b u t o n M r a o n f e u r p i n r g i f - ? t h o t w their
books that
their employees may fancy that enormous profits over the reports from other establishments, ^o m i m b e r w a g f o u m l t o b e ft s q u a r e p i a n o . T l l i s d i s .
far as he understood the merits of the controversy
are annually coming in.
he
to regard d the
as quite ; c o
i
h •
m a d e t h h e
iftUO
wag - t a k k
e n t o iecejJ
h was disposed
dd
h workmen
k
Boston trade in pianos and organs has differed justihedm their position and his sympathy was ! ftnd ^ r e a f number, No. 41,517, was discovered
from New York trade, but is rapidly assuming the decidedly with them. While deprecating strikes ftnd t ] m t ifc h a d b e e n g o l d t o K r o e g e r & S o n s . M r
character of the latter city. Boston is beginning as usually disastrous alike to both parties involved, Kroeger says the piano was rented to a man named
to spread its pianos all over the country as New he thought the strikers were not always in the J.
K. Porter in Brooklyn. It appeares that Mr.
York has done for years. But this requires the wrong. Mr. McPhail said that one man should Kroeger
inserted in his contract for rental a
intervention of the middleman or dealer, and the roll in luxury while any of the two or three hund- previlege had
to
purchase the instrument. Messrs.
workingman who simply notes that his employer red workmen, whose toil has procured it for him, Steinway & Sons
sold the instrument to Mr. Kroe-
makes fifty pianos whore he made five in former go home to pinched and ill-conditioned families, ger about a year ago
and as a matter of courtesy
years, forgets that the profits may not be any was repugnant, to all ideas of justice.
informed him of their discovery. Mr. Kroeger is
larger, nor so large, on account of the dealer who
" If you quote meat all," said Mr. McPhail, trying to recover the instrument which is now in
sells the instruments. Boston has been largely " quote me as sympathizing with the underdog Mr. Maxwell's warerooms.
dependent upon local patronage, but now she has in the fight."
to contend also against the competition of New Messrs. 0. C Briggs
York manufacturers who have their agents here.
not fear a strike in their factory, claiming that they
^T^HE
manufacture
of pianoforte actions and
The truth is, Boston manufacturers must organ- pay their workmen good wages. They say trade
ize on a different basis. While they are trying is unusually good, and that they hope to get back J, dampers has become an extensive industry,
to do that, however, workingmen strike and throw to their old quarters about Jan. 1st, when they will requiring capital, skill and business ability. The
increase in the number of piano and organ fac-
them behindhand in all their plans. Fortunate- probably occupy the entire building.
tories and the constant demand for the instru-
ly the general business of the country is good,
ments have, as a matter of course, tended towards
and what bad effect may be engendered by the pres-
BOSTON
TRADE
CHAT.
an inoreased production of all the various parts
ent tendency of workingmen to strike niay pos-
sibly in a few months be counteracted.
As we go to press we learn that Messrs. Chick- that go together to make tho instruments. The
The piano men, about 70 men in number, a part ering & Sons have received one gold and two silver action requires the most delicate measurements
of the Emerson Pianoforte Company force of men, medals at the Mechanics' Charitable Fair at Boston, and a close attention to detail. Messrs. Dippel
public meeting of the Land League of Mass. The different departments of piano manufacture. They and 96 Clinton street, New York, started their
meeting was called to order by an employee of H. have also been awarded a gold medal at a Connec- present business in 1864 and have succeeded in
F. Miller's. The chaplain offered up a blessing and ticut Fair and at the California State Fair held at building up a large and prosperous trade. This
firm intends soon to remove to larger quarters on
at the close the band played a few national airs. Sacramento.
the West side probably. They manufacture
The strikers voted to remove the benches out of
The
directors
of
the
suspended
Pacific
National
the Emerson factory and on Thursday they de-
actions for square, grand and upright pianos and
Bank,
of
Boston,
met
on
November
19
and
decided
parted and hired a shoemaker's shop and hold
also for organs, having lately received large orders
to
turn
its
affairs
over
to
the
Bank
Examiner,
who
their meetings there. The boys are all good-
for actions for the latter instrument. Iu answer
natured about it and say that it will be a good has since been making a thorough examination to to a question by a reporter of THE MUSICAL CRITIC
while before the Emerson Piano Co. will be able determine the exact condition. The balance of AND TRADE REVIEW, Mr. Dippel stated that the
to get so large and so good-looking set of boys the Pacific Bank in the hands of its New York orders for upright actions had doubled in one
correspondent, the National Park Bank, has been
again.
attached by the Market National Bank of New year.
The machinery used for the purpose of cutting,
NEW ENGLAND ORGAN COMPANY.
York, which holds five certificates of deposit, ag-
shaping and polishing, as well as finishing the
A member of the New England Organ Company gregating $24,300. The story was printed that various parts of the action is complicated and in-
the bank was "carrying" a large piano firm,
said:
genious, and requires constant watchfulness and
" With the exception of the Emerson Piano which assistance helped to bring about the disas- attention. Both members of the firm being prac-
ter.
'I
he
Hallet
A
:
Davis
Piano
Company
was
Company all is quiet. Affairs have shown but lit-
tical mechanics, they superintend the manufacture
tle change from the first. Both sides appear to probably meant. This firm was a depositor at personally. The indications point to a continued
maintain the same attitude and neither appears the bauk and is said to have borrowed from it gen- increase of orders for actions of all kinds and there
willing to give in. What the final result will be erously. The company, however, is said to be is no doubt that the factories will continue to be
is uncertain.
solvent.
busy. The same answer was given by Messrs.
i
' The condition of the trade generally is very
Just as we are going to press our representative Dippel & Schmidt, that we heard in all depart-
satisfactory. Our own trade is excellent and or- learns that Col. Win. Mo..re, formerly connected j ments of piano and organ manufacture, " O u r
ders continue pouring in faster than we can till with the Emerson Piano Company, was on his
orders are way ahead of our capacity."
them. As far as we know, everybody is very busy way
Boston. Some parties in the trade here
and there are no symptoms of strikes or other dis- seem to to
connect Col. Moore's return with the
ATLANTA, GA.
turbances to mar the general good outlook for the strike in the
Emerson factory, as though he were
ATLANTA, NOV, 22d.
holiday trade."
still connected with the concern in spite of asser-
CONCERT took place here to-day at the
tions to the contrary. Mercer, the Emerson Com-
STRIKES NOT IJPIDEMIC.
Judges' Hall which was filled to overflowing
pany's old foreman in their varnishing department,
Mr. S. D. Smith, of the Smith American Organ who was discharged some time since has just been with a large audience of strangers. Tho two Bal-
Company, said that he knew nothing in regard to taken on again.
timore piano manufactories of Wm. Knabe
and Charles M. Stieff each contributed a piano for
Our representative called on the Hallet & Davis the occasion. The concert opened with a tran-
newspapers, but that he had no idea that strikes
were to become general.
Company in regard to the strike, but they do not i scription for the piano of "Maryland my Mary-
J. W. Vose, of Vose
the Emerson Piano Company. Mr. Carter, he said, tional Bank.
Miss Haynes, a soprano singer of ability, sang
informed him that they were tilling the places of
Mr. Silvester Tower, of Cambridgeport, Mass., "Flower Paths; " Miss Mimms sang the " Hunts-
the strikers,rapidly with piano makers, and that advanced his keyrnakers' wages twenty per cent, man's Horn;" Prof. E. A. Schultze, rendered De
the delay in their business would be only a small during the week ending Nov. 19.
Berriot's second concerto on the violin in excellent
matter.
style; Mr. J. Frank Supplee sang " The Heart
The Hallett & Davis Company is doing a good Bowed Down;" Mrs. E. Von Der Hoya-Schultze
George M. Guild obtained the following state-
ment from a loading striker among the former em- business. The Emerson Piano Compauy is running played Wagner's " Tannhauser " March, Liszt's
ployees of the Emerson Piano Company : '' About smoothly and is turning out sixty-five pianos a Transcription; and li. Panse sang "Non e Ver,"
one hundred men are out and have removed their week.
by Mattei.
benches. About thirty men are at work, mostly
Mr. Ernest Knabe is here representing the in-
TRADE SCHOOLS.
varnishers. The men are determined to hold out
terests of his house, while Messrs. Stieff' have Mr.
until their demands are granted if it takes all
HE organization of trade schools in different A. E. Marsteller doing the honors in their behalf.
Winter. The men complain that the prices paid
parts of the country will in time prove val- The Exposition thus far is a great success.
by the Company are far below those of other Bos- uable to the musical trade. A trade school has
EMELINO.
ton piano makers. They say that the Company been started in New -_
will not be able under the circumstances to employ York, but has not yet
HOHACE WATERS <& CO.,
skilled workmen, but may be able to hire the bov established any depart-
Manufacturers ami - Dealer)
iu
boys -m—^ .
graduates from the grammar school, for they adver- ment for training boys
.
^—«
tised for them "
Mr. Guild said that his own men belonged to
SIX YKAHS.
pany
« I T * R » V T K K I » *•«
VK*R«.
C ^
"
the Union, but were thoroughly satisfied. He advertises iu The Boston
Tho Largest stuck iu America. Agents wanted.
anticipates no trouble whatever. Ho has all the Herald of N o v e m b e r
aSTCorreBpontlence Solicited. Illustrated Catalogue Mailed Free.
A
T
anv ir l a n o s
orders lie can attend to and is trying to finish six- 25th for twenty grad- WAREKOOMS,
arid
Organs,
No. 8 2 6 BROADWAY, NEW
YORK.
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