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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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PUBLISHED • TWICE * EACH • MONTH
3 EAST 14th STBEET, NEW YOBS.
8UMOBOTIOM (Including postage) United State* and Canada,
13.00 per /ear, In adranoe; Foreign Countries, $4.00.
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BnUred at O« /T«M> TtrkFoH Qfioe « Steond Clou Matter.
publishing the happenings and events trans-
piring within our lines and recording mus-
ical advances in foreign lands, we have also
published a series of articles both historical and
scientific which have aided, entertained and in-
structed our readers in remote places. While
doing this we have held the belief that while it
was the duty of a trade paper to report trade
events, yet it might be made both instructive
and useful in a scientific way. This belief, as
our readers well know, we have carried into
execution. In pursuing our career we have
never found it necessary to descend to disgust-
ing personalities or to filthy attacks upon non-
advertisers.
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To attain our present position it was neces-
sary to secure a strong advertising patronage.
That that patronage has come to us is best evi-
denced by the number of firms represented in
our advertising columns. To them we extend
our hearty thanks, and assure them that their
interests will be guarded as zealously by us in
the future as they have been in the past. We
do not propose to devote time or space to eulo-
gizing ourselves. The trade will judge for them-
selves as to our merits and demerits, virtues and
failings. The present year marks an important
event in the history of this journal, as on the
next regular publication day, August 20th, will
be issued the first weekly publication of THE
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW. From that time forward
its regular publication day will be every Satur-
day. On this new departure we start out well
furnished, and provided with all the necessary
equipments for our announced change. Our
facilities for gaining the news are probably un-
surpassed by those of any other trade publica-
tion in this country.
WEBER PIANO CO.
OUR FOURTEENTH YEAR.
With this issue T H E MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
begins the fourteenth year of its existence. A
journal which has endured the varying condi-
tions to which journalism is exposed and has
reached a period of fourteen years' existence,
surely must be recognized as a permanent in-
stitution. We are pleased and rather proud to
say to-day that the position which THE MUSIC
TRADE REVIEW now
occupies, is one,
we
be-
lieve, which commands the respect of the entire
trade. Our success has been won by integrity
of motive, industry and originality in action.
We have published a journal which has been de-
voted to chronicling the ever advancing pros-
perity of the music trades of this country. We
have been clear, candid and emphatic in our ut-
terances in regard to those things which we
considered detrimental to the best interests of
our constituency. We have always used our
influence and position to further by legitimate
methods the interests of deserving inventors.
We have published all the news in a clean, con-
densed and concise form, the style which the
business man of to-day likes best. Aside from
THE Weber Piano Co., of New York, has been
incorporated with a capital stock of $700,000, of
which $300,000 is preferred. The officers are:
William E. Wheelock, president; Robert F.
Tilney, secretary and treasurer ; Albert Weber,
manager. The directors are: John W. Mason,
David B. Powell, Adam D. Wheelock, Robert
F. Tilney, George W. Kenyon, William E.
Wheelock, Albert Weber, Henry W. Beebe, Rob-
ert P. Vidaud, Charles B. Lawson and Charles
Logan, Jr.
The above is a strong list of names of men
well known in industrial and financial circles,
and with this backing of capital and genius the
grand old Weber name will occupy a higher
position than ever in the musico-commercial
world.
The assets of the estate of Albert Weber will
be transferred to the new company as early in
the present month as all legal formalities can be
complied with. The report of ex-Judge Noah
Davis as referee has been submitted to the Court
and upon its confirmation, in due course, the
property will be taken over by the corporation
and the Weber Piano Co. will be fairly started
on what, it is confidently believed, will be a
highly successful and prosperous career.
TRADE AND WEATHER.
of the music trade in this city and
elsewhere have, during the recent "hot spell,"
been seeking not so much for trade as for cool-
ing influences. Until the present hot wave
swept over us we had a very pleasant season, and
business maintained an excellent showing, but
during the continuance of such torrid episodes
as we have recently endured we can expect
neither business nor enjoyment.
New York, while other parts of the country
were undergoing a stewing process, was fairly
comfortable, and had it not been for the experi-
ences of the past week we should have classed Go-
tham in the front rank as a summer resort. Accord-
ing to the reports New York was the coolest of
the great cities, but whoever has been sojourn-
ing in it recently would not have believed it was
either cool or likely to be cool, for we must ac-
knowledge that, like the inhabitants of the rest
of our great cities, we have been baked, boiled
and roasted, although perhaps we are not quite
so well done and have not become altogether so
brown as some of the settlers in the green, back-
woods districts.
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A BIG DEAL.
MESSRS. BEHR BROS. & Co. have just con-
cluded arrangements whereby the great Texas
house of Thomas Goggan & Bro. will become the
agents for their instruments for the entire State
of Texas. The Goggan firm have several branch
houses throughout Texas and are strong factors
of the Southwestern music trade. This deal will
probably mean a large output for the Behr Bros.'
pianos in the Southwest.
MEMBERS
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FULLER VICTORIOUS.
The recent interference case of Fuller vs. Ham-
mond has been decided in favor of Colonel Ful-
ler. The subject was a matter of keys of musi-
cal instruments as follows: The key of a musi-
cal instrument having a hole in its front end
bored from the under side thereof and not ex-
tending through the top, and the felt block or
blocks secured in said hole.
It was clearly shown that Colonel Fuller was
the first to reduce to practice the invention al-
luded to, and all his acts from the date of his
conception until the filing of his application
were performed by him without any knowledge
or even suspicion that he had a rival. Ham-
mond never reduced the invention to practice
and, as natural, the decision was made in favor
of Colonel Fuller and the priority of invention
awarded to him.
The matter relating to this case is voluminous
and is contained in two large reports from ihe
United States Patent Office.
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THE PUNSTER.
IT is funny, really funny, to see the humor-
ist (?) of the Indicator launch forth into the seas
of sarcasm, thus trying to avoid the plain state-
ment which we made of the deliberate appro-
priation of our cover colors by our funny con-
temporary—a steal which is apparent to all our
readers. The blatant humorist seeks to evade