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Music Trade Review.
The Only Music Trade Paper in America, and the Organ of the Music Trade of this Country.
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VOL. X.
No. 21.
1879.
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NEW YORK, JUNE 5 TO 20, 1887.
The reception, which was the largest and most
succossf ul one the employees have held, is a great
credit to the committees who had the affair in
charge, which were composed as follows :
PUBLISHED * TWICE * EACH + MONTH.
BILL & CARET
OFFICERS:
Charles D. Morrill, President; Edward G. Com-
merford, Vice-President; Charles A. Richardson,
Secretary; John Warwick, Treasurer.
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
All Checkft, Drafts, Money Orders, Postal
Notes and Mail matter sliould be
RECEPTION COMMITTEE :
made to
Frank McElroy, Chairman ; George W. Kerr, Wil-
liam J. Demby, William B. Loane, John H. Ridley,
Louis Woidig, Kaymond F. Cotter, William F .
Martin, Peter J. Linderman, Nathan Lefkowitz,
David Roberts, William A. Campbell.
BILL & CARR,
EDITOBB k PROPRIETORS.
3 EAST 14th STKEET, NEW YOEK.
FLOOR COMMITTEE:
James W. Skilton Chairman; William J. Mc-
Carthy, Thomas A. Donohue, T. Jefferson Lanney,
Christopher T. Ernest, Theodore C. Lorenze, rhilip
M. Cunningham, John F. McGowan, John Ruddy
John H. Hoffman, Stanley N. Bryan, John P. Quirk
John Ford, William F. Madaus, Herbert E. Hutch-
ings, James H. Foley, James A. Curley, William
Hoffmeister, Samuel J. Timpson, C. Hamilton Ray,
Frank L. Kerns.
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THE EXHIBITIONS.
T
HE American Exhibition at South Kensington
is now open, and a list of the exhibitors is
printed in another column. The show is, of
course, limited to the productions of the United
States, and as British manufacturers are, of neces-
sity, excluded from it, the trade in this country were
the exhibition in any way an important one from the
point of view of musical instruments, would hardly
be likely to view it with special favor. An impor-
tant feature of the affair is the " Wild West show" of
"Buffalo Bill," and this will doubtless attract a
large number of visitors.
But considering all the fuss that has been made of
the American Exhibition, it is strange that, after all,
it is so trivial an affair. With one or two brilliant
exceptions—the excellent exhibition of the Estey
Organ Oo. and Mr. Albert Weber, for example—the
leaders of the American trade appear to have declin-
ed to have anything to do with it. A collection of
pianofortes, in which the manufacturers of Messrs.
Steinway & Sons, Messrs. Chickering, Messrs. Decker
Messrs. Steck, Messrs. Augustus Baus, Messrs.
Behning, Messrs. Haines, Messrs. Hazelton, Messrs.
Knabe, Messrs. Sohmer, Messrs. Bradbury, and in-
' deed, almost every great maker, save Messrs. Weber,
have no part, has not the slightest claim to be con-
sidered representative of the American trade. The
organ exhibits are more numerous, but such great
firms as Mason & Ilamlin, Clough & Warren, the
Smith American Organ Co., and many others have
held aloof. Indeed, as there are fewer than a dozen
exhibitors in all, the affair, so far as the music trade
is concerned, is necessarily of a very limited char-
acter. We think that many of those who have not
joined in the exhibition are wise, for there are plenty
of better ways than this of pushing the rapidly in-
creasing American trade in this country.
The Manchester Exhibition is a far more import-
ant affair. As is the practice at these local exhibi-
tions, the various goods are for the most part shown
under the names of local dealers. This is, of course,
fair to the dealers, through whom the public are ex-
pected to buy the goods, specimens of which are
shown, and it also relieves the manufacturers of the
heavy expense of sending assistants specially from
London to look after their stalls. Thus we find rep-
resented in the exhibition pianos by J. & J. Hopkin-
son, Collard & Collard, Challen & Sons, Kirkman &;
Son, Metzler & Co., and others, besides several
COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS :
Horace H. Beebe, Chairman ; William Pidgeon,
Thomas W. Landis, Michael J. Hampson, Thomas
E. Ward, Milo A. Jackson, Marquis L. Collard,
Charles A. Tilton.
The toilettes of the ladies were beautiful and the
brilliancy
of the diamond ornaments were dazzling.
American organs and a large quantity of violins
Both Mr. Dempsey and Mr. Carroll, of th© firm,
concertinas and small goods. Local makers are
represented by Messrs. Locke & Son, Henshaw & were present, doing everything in their power to
Loebel, and others. Messrs. Pleyel, Wolff & Co., entertain those present, and not one of the employees
and one or two other manufacturers exhibit on their showed their pleasure at the success more plainly
own account. Nor will there be any heart-burnings than they did. There were also present many prom-
in the matter of awards. The rule as at first framed inent persons from Brooklyn and Jersey City, as
well as this city, and we must congratulate the em-
stood as follows:
"27.—Should the exhibitors in any class require ployees of Dempsey & Carroll upon numbering
to have the relative merits of their several exhibits among their acquaintances such noted personages.
decided, the executive committee will, upon a requi- If these receptions continue to increase in popular-
sition being made to that effect, appoint a technical ity in the future, as in the past, it will not be long
jury for *uch purpose, whose judgment shall be ab- before the boys will find any park in the city too
solutely final and conclusive."
small to accommodate their friends.
Which if there was to be any competition at all,
would probably have been the best method to adopt.
STORY & CLARK'S ORGAN FACTORY.
But subsequently the executive committee arrived
at the wise decision to rescind the rule, so that now
THE SUCCESS OF THE STORY & CLARK ORGANS SO
no medals or awards of any sort will be granted.
GREAT THAT THE FACTORY CANNOT SUPPLY
The exhibition will, indeed, be used solely as a
ALL ORDERS.
sample exhibition, and also more or less as a mart.
This, we take it, is the only proper use to which
HAVE just returned from a trip West, and while
these local shows can be put, and there is no reason
in Chicago I took the opportunity to visit the
to doubt that the Manchester Exhibition will, in the
factory of Story & Clark. This house has come
matter of sales, fully justify the expectations of the
rapidly
to the front, and there is hardly a city of
local makers and local dealers, and of the London
manufacturers with whom the latter do business.— importance in this country where their instruments
are not represented.
London Music Trades Review.
The factory is a large building, containing fine
machinery and every aid to help the men turn out
good work, and the orders for the organs are coming
RECEPTION OF OUR PRINTERS.
in so rapidly that the books show that Messrs. Story
N Friday evening, June 3d, the employees of & Clark arc several hundred behind.
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Melville C.
Dempsey & Carroll held their fourth annual
reception at Sulzer's Harlem River Park and Clark, who has in recent years done so much in the
Casino. Early in the evening the friends of the em- way of Important and valuable improvements for the
ployees began to arrive, and before nine o'clock there organs, and also Messrs. E. H. Story, C. C. Russell
were over eight thousand people in the park. At ten and D. E. Cauldwell.
All of these gentlemen possess great enterprise,
o'clock the order was given to clear the floor for the
grand march, which was participated in by over one and in the near future I shall publish an account of
thousand couples. From this time forward until a the factory and business, which is now one of the
late hour Saturday morning, good music, good order most successful and prosperous jn the West,—
and fun prevailed.
and Drama,
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