Music Trade Review
Issue: 1894 Vol. 18 N. 50 - Page 2
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
schools of Mt. Vernon, New York, have
recently been furnished with Chickering
pianos, an honor, certainly to Chickering &
Sons, and an evidence of the discriminating
judgment of the trustees of the Mt. Vernon
Schools.
fejAYS a well known journal : " Advertising
fci§P is the coupling-pin that unites persistence
and success." That is all right, but Dictator
Debs has knocked out the coupling-pin that
connects us with everything to be desired—
even advertising for the present.
3 EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK.
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $3.00 per year, in advance; Foreign Countries,
$4 00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per
insertion; unless inserted upon rates made by special
contract.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
tie cause qauscks assista**,
*•
Krell piano is rapidly making friends
in the East as well as the West. Under the
management of Mr. Geo. C. Crane a good busi-
ness is being built up in New York, and the
metits of the Krell piano are being recognized
by critical buyers and musicians.
IVIDENTLY Brother Harger of The Musical
Times has not familiarized himself with
the affairs of the effete East, otherwise he would
not be in ignorance of the meaning of the word
Pantata—a word of recent coinage—but, then,
the music trade has no Pantata.
jy^HERE are few better evidences of the healthy
Gi* condition of trade throughout the country
than the comparatively slight influence which
the labor disturbances of the past two weeks
have had in the commercial world. There has
been no appearance of fear or panic apparent,
and that good sense and faith in everything
turning out right, so characteristic of American
business men, have enabled the country to pass
successfully through what might have been a
very serious hindrance to Fall business.
place; and already a temporary warehouse has
been taken at 53 City Road, Finsbury, near to
Moorgate street."
ALTHOUGH business is generally quiet
throughout the trade and the industrial
horizon somewhat clouded, yet manufacturers in
this city are not closing their eyes to the fact
that better times are coming, and they are not
relaxing efforts to meet the active fall trade,
which is sure to result after the Tariff Bill is
passed and the famous " Debs " is relegated to
oblivion. There is an optimistic spirit abroad
which is thoroughly American-like, and is high-
ly creditable to those who have been largely af-
fected by the present condition of things. This
is the spirit which is bound to bring success and
brighter days.
. HUGO SOHMER, unlike a large num-
ber of the trade who are spending the
vast profits (?) accumulated during the past sea-
son " d o i n g " the European Continent, is en-
tirely content with his modest New Jersey sum-
mer home. He manages to run in to business
every day, and if a piano is to be sold Mr.
Sohmer is right on deck, ready to lend a hand,
seemingly impervious to the midsummer tem-
perature. As a matter of course, a man of Mr.
Sohmer's sunny disposition, is not troubled by
the weather. Worriment is unknown to him,
hence, he is incidentally an example of the wis-
dom of the conventional advice of medical men
in the Summer time : "Keep a level head and
keep cool! "
\~E would call the attention of the trade to
our regular monthly report of exports
and imports of musical iustruments, which ap-
pears on another page of this paper, and which
has been compiled specially, from official
sources, for THE MUSIC TRADE; REVIEW.
NEMBACH will leave Hamburg
on the 23d inst., on the steamer Fuerst
Bismarck on his return voyage.
a hearing before Judge Cook, at Provi-
dence, R. I., last Tuesday, Mr. Cory, of
Cory Brothers, that city, was held for the Grand
Jury, on charges preferred by Jacob Brothers, of
this city.
like old times," said handsome
Walter Holmes. " One day this week
we sold four Bradbury pianos. Notwithstanding
strikes, the people must have the Bradbury,
you know."
L,OOKS
JR. CHARLES H. PARSONS, President of
the Needham Piano-Organ Co., arrived
from Europe last Wednesday, by the steamship
" Lahn " of the North German-Lloyd line. Mr.
Parsons' visit was \ery britf. He has come
back primed with a superabundance of vitality,
and a vigorous business campaign in the Fall
can be expected.
fflHE turbulent condition of affairs prevalent
(ST* in the West for the past week has inter-
fered seriously with the shipment of pianos and
other musical merchandise from this city and
other eastern points. Railroads have refused to
handle goods except at owners' risk, and it is
needless to say but few manufacturers care to
take the risk. It is a much safer and wiser
policy to await developments and hold instru-
ments in factories than take chances of having
them burned or wrecked. Riot and insurrection
afford convenient legal loopholes to corporation
lawyers, and are hazardous grounds upon which
to hold railroads accountable for loss sustained.
ipSPEAKING of the great fire which recently
a&> destroyed Story & Clark's factory building
in London, the Musical Opinion of that city
says : " However, ' It's an ill wind that blows
nobody any good.' It was the intention of the
Company to issue the new list to the English
trade in the coming autumn, but not previously.
But as all the old stock has been destroyed,
dealers will now be enabled to see the fresh pat-
terns sooner than was anticipated. Mr. Wagener
assures us that no stoppage of business will take
The
extraordinary shrinkage, both in exports and
imports, as evidenced in this report, is certainly
remarkable, and throws considerable light on
the condition of business throughout the
country.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW is the only paper
which has placed these important figures before
the trade in this interesting form, from month
to month, and it is a pleasure to know that they
have been widely read, not only in this country
but abroad. The German and English papers
have given these articles serious consideration
in their editorial columns, and have made them
the basis of some very pertinent and interesting
conclusions bearing upon the business depres-
sion which has affected the European Continent
as well as our own for the past twelve months.
these days, when depression in trade is
rampant, it is a pleasure to record the con-
tinued progress of the house of Strauch Brothers.
The spirit of enterprise which has always char-
acterized this firm, and enabled them to attain
their present high standing as manufacturers of
piano actions of a superior grade, has been
illustrated recently by the addition of key mak-
ing to their action business, and the erection of
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
schools of Mt. Vernon, New York, have
recently been furnished with Chickering
pianos, an honor, certainly to Chickering &
Sons, and an evidence of the discriminating
judgment of the trustees of the Mt. Vernon
Schools.
fejAYS a well known journal : " Advertising
fci§P is the coupling-pin that unites persistence
and success." That is all right, but Dictator
Debs has knocked out the coupling-pin that
connects us with everything to be desired—
even advertising for the present.
3 EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK.
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $3.00 per year, in advance; Foreign Countries,
$4 00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per
insertion; unless inserted upon rates made by special
contract.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
tie cause qauscks assista**,
*•
Krell piano is rapidly making friends
in the East as well as the West. Under the
management of Mr. Geo. C. Crane a good busi-
ness is being built up in New York, and the
metits of the Krell piano are being recognized
by critical buyers and musicians.
IVIDENTLY Brother Harger of The Musical
Times has not familiarized himself with
the affairs of the effete East, otherwise he would
not be in ignorance of the meaning of the word
Pantata—a word of recent coinage—but, then,
the music trade has no Pantata.
jy^HERE are few better evidences of the healthy
Gi* condition of trade throughout the country
than the comparatively slight influence which
the labor disturbances of the past two weeks
have had in the commercial world. There has
been no appearance of fear or panic apparent,
and that good sense and faith in everything
turning out right, so characteristic of American
business men, have enabled the country to pass
successfully through what might have been a
very serious hindrance to Fall business.
place; and already a temporary warehouse has
been taken at 53 City Road, Finsbury, near to
Moorgate street."
ALTHOUGH business is generally quiet
throughout the trade and the industrial
horizon somewhat clouded, yet manufacturers in
this city are not closing their eyes to the fact
that better times are coming, and they are not
relaxing efforts to meet the active fall trade,
which is sure to result after the Tariff Bill is
passed and the famous " Debs " is relegated to
oblivion. There is an optimistic spirit abroad
which is thoroughly American-like, and is high-
ly creditable to those who have been largely af-
fected by the present condition of things. This
is the spirit which is bound to bring success and
brighter days.
. HUGO SOHMER, unlike a large num-
ber of the trade who are spending the
vast profits (?) accumulated during the past sea-
son " d o i n g " the European Continent, is en-
tirely content with his modest New Jersey sum-
mer home. He manages to run in to business
every day, and if a piano is to be sold Mr.
Sohmer is right on deck, ready to lend a hand,
seemingly impervious to the midsummer tem-
perature. As a matter of course, a man of Mr.
Sohmer's sunny disposition, is not troubled by
the weather. Worriment is unknown to him,
hence, he is incidentally an example of the wis-
dom of the conventional advice of medical men
in the Summer time : "Keep a level head and
keep cool! "
\~E would call the attention of the trade to
our regular monthly report of exports
and imports of musical iustruments, which ap-
pears on another page of this paper, and which
has been compiled specially, from official
sources, for THE MUSIC TRADE; REVIEW.
NEMBACH will leave Hamburg
on the 23d inst., on the steamer Fuerst
Bismarck on his return voyage.
a hearing before Judge Cook, at Provi-
dence, R. I., last Tuesday, Mr. Cory, of
Cory Brothers, that city, was held for the Grand
Jury, on charges preferred by Jacob Brothers, of
this city.
like old times," said handsome
Walter Holmes. " One day this week
we sold four Bradbury pianos. Notwithstanding
strikes, the people must have the Bradbury,
you know."
L,OOKS
JR. CHARLES H. PARSONS, President of
the Needham Piano-Organ Co., arrived
from Europe last Wednesday, by the steamship
" Lahn " of the North German-Lloyd line. Mr.
Parsons' visit was \ery britf. He has come
back primed with a superabundance of vitality,
and a vigorous business campaign in the Fall
can be expected.
fflHE turbulent condition of affairs prevalent
(ST* in the West for the past week has inter-
fered seriously with the shipment of pianos and
other musical merchandise from this city and
other eastern points. Railroads have refused to
handle goods except at owners' risk, and it is
needless to say but few manufacturers care to
take the risk. It is a much safer and wiser
policy to await developments and hold instru-
ments in factories than take chances of having
them burned or wrecked. Riot and insurrection
afford convenient legal loopholes to corporation
lawyers, and are hazardous grounds upon which
to hold railroads accountable for loss sustained.
ipSPEAKING of the great fire which recently
a&> destroyed Story & Clark's factory building
in London, the Musical Opinion of that city
says : " However, ' It's an ill wind that blows
nobody any good.' It was the intention of the
Company to issue the new list to the English
trade in the coming autumn, but not previously.
But as all the old stock has been destroyed,
dealers will now be enabled to see the fresh pat-
terns sooner than was anticipated. Mr. Wagener
assures us that no stoppage of business will take
The
extraordinary shrinkage, both in exports and
imports, as evidenced in this report, is certainly
remarkable, and throws considerable light on
the condition of business throughout the
country.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW is the only paper
which has placed these important figures before
the trade in this interesting form, from month
to month, and it is a pleasure to know that they
have been widely read, not only in this country
but abroad. The German and English papers
have given these articles serious consideration
in their editorial columns, and have made them
the basis of some very pertinent and interesting
conclusions bearing upon the business depres-
sion which has affected the European Continent
as well as our own for the past twelve months.
these days, when depression in trade is
rampant, it is a pleasure to record the con-
tinued progress of the house of Strauch Brothers.
The spirit of enterprise which has always char-
acterized this firm, and enabled them to attain
their present high standing as manufacturers of
piano actions of a superior grade, has been
illustrated recently by the addition of key mak-
ing to their action business, and the erection of
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