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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
some of the spoils of the fray. The latest from the
seat of war is as follows, and is a letter addressed to
us by Messrs. LUDDEN & BATES :
SAVANNAH, March 3, '86.
EDITORS MUSIC TRADK REVIEW :
GENTLEMEN : It would not trouble us in the least
to controvert the statements made in your last by
Mr. H. L. Schreliier, but it's really not worth out-
while. Suffice it to say that his statements some-
times combine fiction with facts, and in rather un-
equal proportions, and as an illustration we will refer
to a case in point, viz.
go-as-you-please system is working a great wrong to
both authors and publishers.
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In some places business is afraid to revive for fear
of being hit with a strike.
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About the most interesting matter in the papers
to some men is their own names.
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THOSE TWO ORGAN CUSTOMERS SENT US BY H. L.
The country is everywhere agitated by strikes.
SCHREINER.
Workmen are feverish and excitable, and there is no
The Savannah Morning Newsoi Thursday, January
28, states that Mr. H. L. Schreiner made to its re- knowing where trouble will break out, or where it
porter the following statement:
will end when once begun.
" 1 am on good terms with all of the other dealers
in my line of goods in the city, and only yesterday I
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sent two customers to Ludden & Bates. The parties
were from the country, and wanted credit. As I do
The wind during the late big blow traveled at the
not do a credit business with people outsideof Savan-
nah, I sent the parties to Ludden & Bates, who, rate of eighty-six miles an hour, but when some
through their agencies, do sell on credit to country parties in the music trade undertake to blow they can
people."
It's too bad to spoil so pretty a story, but we shall beat that record by about seventy-five miles.
have to do it. The facts are that the two parties
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from the country, alluded to by Mr. Schreiner, were in
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our place on the day mentioned, and told us that
they had seen at Mr. Schreiner's an organ that was
Buffet cars now run on all the main lines from New
offered them at $50, on exactly the long eredit they de-
sired, but, as it looked like a second hand instrument, York to Chicago without change of liquor. Travel-
they did not want it.
ing salesmen please take notice.
This did not tally with Bro. Schroiner's remarks to
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the reporter, and to make sure of the matter, we
ust wrote to the parties, asking if Mr. Schreiner had
Young men who play the flute or clarinet in Santa
jreally stint them to our store, as he claimed. Their
Barbara, Cal., are ruthlessly fined by the local
reply, just received, we give below verbatim.
authorities.
Serves them right too, and if we could
Feby. 2, '8(!.
LUDDEN & BATES SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE :
only have laws that would impose severe penalties
GENTLEMEN : To the best of our recollection, Mr.
Schreiner did not send us to any house, for he did not upon gifted idiots who play the piano, organ, or
tell us of any music house. This is what we will violin after ten o'clock at night, we should work a
both testify to.
Very respectfully,
much needed reformation.
QUERY: If Mr. Sehieiner could be so mistaken
in a plain matter of fact case like the above,
may he not have been laboring under a kindred hal-
lucination in the preparation of his letter of Feb-
ruary 11?
As a writer of fiction who possesses a most vivid
imagination, wewill concede thathe takes high rank,
but it is patent to all in this part of the world, that he
is afflicted with a terribly bad recollection, which
quite unfits him from presenting facts exactly as the}'
are.
L. & B. S. M. H.
Messrs. LUDDKN & BATES came near getting into
hot water, through their agents in Montgomery Ala.
with the flrtn of MATHUSHEK & SON, of New York
city, and Mr. HUGO MATHUSHEK of this firm started
recently for the South, with the serious determination
of raising Sheol with them, he claiming that they
stated that his firm manufactured bogus pianos. In
justice to Messrs. MATHUSHEK & SON I mustsaysuch
a statement is without foundation in fact, for MATHU-
SHEK & SON are, as far as I know, doing a fair and
legitimate business, working hard to build up an
honorable name as manufacturers, and are preparing
to push their enterprise with as much vigor as excel-
lent goods, abundant energy, and a sufficient amount
of capital will permit. Mr. V. HUGO MATHUSHEK
went to New Orieans and other southern cities for
this purpose. Messers Ludden & Bates write me
that they are really not posted in the matter, as
their agents in Montgomery, Ala., acted entirely on
their own responsibility and without giving them the
facts. In another column will be found some inter,
esting letters on this subject.
TID-BITS.
Since WILLIAM TREMAINE, of the MECHANICAL
ORGUINETTE Co., has been to London he has become
an Anglomaniac, and insists that he was borne across
the water. See? It is a great thing to be able to
prevaricate without resorting to falsehood.
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It is the " propah capah " nowadays to write on
rough, unruled, Irish linen paper, with a " stub " pen.
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All the best known writers of the country are
strongly in favor of an international copyright law,
and, indeed, what sensible man is not? Our present
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We have in many respects an excellent postal
system, but there are sometimes incongruities and
unjust discriminations. A bill lately introduced
into the United States Senate by the Hon. JAMES F.
WILSON, of Iowa, seeks to double the rates of postage
on fourth-class matter, which includes labels, pat-
terns, photographs, playing cards, visiting cards,
address tags, paper sacks, wrapping paper, and blot-
ting pads with or without printed advertisements
thereon, bill-heads, letter heads, envelopes with
printed addresses thereon, ornamented paper, and
all other matter of the same general character, the
printing upon which is not designed to instruct,
amuse, cultivate the mind or taste, or impart general
information. This class also includes merchandise
and sample* of merchandise, samples of ores, metals,
minerals, seeds, etc., and any other matter not included
in the first, second, or third classes, and which is not in
its form or nature liable to destroy, deface, or other-
wise damage the contents of the mail bags, or harm
the person. The rate on such matter is one cent an
ounce, and the limit is four pounds. The proposed
law would raise the rate to two cents an ounce, the
same as letter postage. Such a law would be most un-
just, for the parcel postage of this country is already
much greater than that of any other nation. Every
man, woman, and child would be affected by it, and
merchants would find it exceeding obnoxious. What
is the matter with WILSON of Iowa, anyhow ? Does
he think he has been put in Congress just to make
himself odious.
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A most unjust discrimination is that which, while
allowing a paper like the Music TRADE REVIEW to be
sent from New York City to another city, where there
is a letter carrier delivery at pound rates, transport-
ation as well as carrier delivery included, mind you,
will not permit it to be delivered in New York city,
without transportation, except at the rate of one cent
for each paper.
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I am glad to note that the NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN
AND HARTFORD RAILROAD has at last put its dining
car arrangements into the hands of people capable
of furnishing a first class meal for the first-claes
price of one dollar. These dining care, put on and
taken off at New Haven and Worcester each way
on the 4 :30 P. M. trains between Boston and New
York, should supply travelers with a dinner varied,
of good quality, well cooked and well served. When
they began running they did fairly well, but soon
dropped to such a pitch of inferiority that I for one
never though of entering them. Now, if there is
any place where a man who is in the habit of taking
his hearty meal at night wants a palatable dinner, it
is on these 4:30 P. M. trains. They leave either city
too early and arrive too late, 10 :30,for a regular dinner
except on the cars, and many are the growls I have
heard from hungry passengers who could only stay
their stomachs with a hasty bite at Springfield or
New Haven. Going east with OTTO WESSELL, a few
days ago, I saw on the printed slips distributed in
the drawing-room cars that SETH MOSELEY, of the
NEW HAVEN HOUSE, was supplying the needs of the
hungry in the dining cars. Having faith in MR. MOSE-
LEY, by reason of experience gained at his hotel, and
also at his restaurant in the depot at New Haven, we
decided to patronize the dining car once more, and
were served with a meal which we thoroughly enjoyed
Travelers may now venture into the dining cars with-
out actual risk to their lives.
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It may be remembered that in the statement of the
affairs of the HAINES & WHITNEY CO., in Chicago,
recently given by us, the following item appeared :
" Rent, etc., $80,500." The question that now agi-
tates the Chicago music trade i s : After the rent
(about $14,000), is deducted from the above amount,
what about the remainder? I always knew that
" Sundries" was an expensive item, but had no idea
before of the extreme costliness of " Etc.," for which
nearly $70,000 was paid, in something less than two
years. Another question of interest is, How did the
firm of ERNEST GAULER & BROTHER receive the sum
of $3,500 from the HAINES & WHITNEY CO.? M R .
HAINES says that it did, but do ERNEST GAIJLER &
BROTHER admit it. There needs to be a good deal
of light thrown upon this interesting concern, known
as the HAINES & WHITNEY CO., which proposed to
take the City of Chicago by storm, and show the wild
Westerners how the music business should be con-
ducted.
CHARLES AVERY WELLES.
SOMETHING NICE FOR TRAVELLERS.
NEW invention, now being put on the market,
is a head-rest for travellers. It consists of a
plush cushion hung upon strong white wires,
and so made that it fits over the top of the seat back.
Upon this soft, shapely cushion th^ tired traveler
may rest his weary head without getting cramps in
his bones, and stopping the circulation in his veins,
as is invariably the case when a man "Scrooges"
down into a car seat in order to rest the back of his
head upon the upholstering. The contrivance can be-
taken apart in half a minute and packed away in a
grip or a coat pocket. By its use every traveler
may carry his bed with him, and that without paying
two or three good dollars to a sleeping-car company
for the privilege of breathing the bad air of their
coaches, and dreaming of his mother's feather pillows
during a few unhappy hours of the night.
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TIDINGS FROM THE TRADE.
WM. TONK & BRO., AND PARIS ACTIONS.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.
MESSRS. WELLES & BILL :
Our Mr. William Tonk met your Mr. Welles In
Boston, who appeared interested to know what we
were doing with the Herrburger-Schwander action iu
the "Hub."