Music Trade Review
Issue: 1894 Vol. 19 N. 16 - Page 2
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
issue. They are highly interesting and give an
excellent idea of the condition of business in the
route traversed. Mr. Janssen is a keen observer
of men and things, and the records of his jour-
ney ings prove that he can wield his pen in this
way as cleverly as he can write a popular song
or compose a dance composition.
piIBIJSJJED
3 EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK.
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $3.00 per year, in .'vance; Foreign Countries,
$4 00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per
insertion; unless inserted upon rates made by special
contract.
iMONG the Congressional candidates who
were buried in the great landslide last
Tuesday, we noticed the names of Mr. Johnston
Cornish, organ manufacturer, Washington, N.
J.; Thos. Dunn English, another Jerseyite, the
composer of " Ben Bolt," which has been given
a new life recently through Du Maurier's
"Trilby," and our friend, Freeborn G. Smithy
of Brooklyn, who was a candidate on the Prohi-
bition ticket. Mr. Smith did not expect to be
elected, however, but believed in standing for
the principles of his party.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
S
S
[E regret to announce the death of Mr. John
C. Warren, Secretary of the A. M. Mc-
Phail Piano Company, Boston, which occurred
at his home, Roxbury, Mass., November 5th.
Mr. Warren was a musician of some note and an
esteemed member of the McPhail Company. He
was in his 49th year.
Needham Piano and Organ Company's
fall catalogue has reached us. It is
tastefully gotten up, and its reading matter is
clear and to the point. The methods of con-
struction and the several attractive styles of
Needham pianos shown, will give dealers and
others an excellent idea of the class of instru-
ments turned out by this house. A picture of
Mr. Elias Parkman Needham is given, also
biography. This excellent catalogue should
make many friends for the Needham piano.
J^
of a landslide that struck us
$&* i a s t Tuesday, was it not ? It cut a wide
swath from one end of the country to the other.
It certainly was one of the most extraordinary
political revolutions that we have ever witnessed.
It is certain that a vast majority of our people
believe in a protective tariff—never so many and
never so strongly as now. They may disagree
as to rates and schedules, but not as to the prin-
ciples. Gov. Jackson of Iowa, in reviewing
the sweeping elections of last Tuesday, said
the following, which is the most expressive of
any statement that we have read upon the
subject: " I think this election is a verdict of
the American people in favor of doing business
at home, and buying American made goods in-
stead of going abroad for them."
We may now confidently look forward to
bettered conditions in business. This was em-
phasized last Wednesday when stocks were
tremendously stiffened in this city. Now that
politics are settled for awhile we expect a speedy
resumption of business in all trades. There will
be less fluctuations in prices, values will be
fixed and a general stiffening of the trade back-
business announcement in T H E MUSIC TRADE bone everywhere. The great manufacturing in-
dustries of this country have been reduced by
REVIEW that the Baus Piano Company are
located at 402-408 East 30th Street, this city. reason of legislative indifference and incapacity.
Possibly there may be interesting developments The people have given their condemnation
of such methods as have characterized national
regarding the use of the Baus name.
legislation during the past eighteen months.
When the next Congress shall have been con-
HE announcement is made that one of the vened, we may expect to see at the head of the
most popular piano manufacturers has re- most important committee a man who is in
tired from the field ; but this does not remove touch with the great industries of America, and
the piano which he has manufactured. We refer not a man from a Southern village, where the
to James F. Cumston, who is said to have dis- chief industry is sitting on a rail fence squirting
posed of the right to manufacture the Hallett & tobacco juice at a mark.
Cumston piano to Thos. F. Scanlan. It has
been an open secret in the trade that Mr. Cum-
gOTHING is surer than that the tireless,
ston intended retiring from the piano business
persistent advertiser will secure the bene-
about the first of January. He has large outside
fits expected. Business is bound to reward him
interests, and is rated as a very wealthy man.
who keeps his name and goods or products con-
The piano trade will miss him, however, because
stantly before the community, in good or bad
there is only one "Jim " Cumston. This move
times. When business does revive, says the
will make Thos. F. Scanlan manufacturer of the
Fourth Estate, those firms which are well known
New England, Woodward & Brown and Hallett
reap the harvest. It is then the customers which
& Cumston pianos.
the advertisements have been preparing for the
good day will show themselves in multitudes.
pianos manufactured by the old and Whoever drops out of the advertising columns
reliable house of Decker & Son, 971-973 of the newspapers during several years of de-
East One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, have pression becomes a stranger to the community.
a special claim on the patronage of the musical When business has revived he has to start again
public. They are instruments which are care- almost with the disadvantages of a newcomer.
fully built on modern lines, and they are up-to- Instead of reaping the harvest he has to spend
date in satisfying the demands of the most ex- several years in making himself known once
acting critic or musician. The Decker & Son again to the people. It is amazing how quickly
uprights and baby grands are conceded to be the public forget any business house as soon as
instruments fit to rank with the leading pianos its name ceases to be familiar in the advertising
of the day. It is gratifying to state that there pages of the papers. In times like these it pays
is an active demand for the products of this richly for a business man to keep a standing
house. Their Fall trade so far is good, and the advertisement, even though he may be certain
HE Musical Times of Chicago announces
that the Baus piano will hereafter be manu-
factured in Terre Haute, Ind., that arrangements
to that effect have just been consummated, that
Augustus Baus and Otto Lestina have formed a
partnership for the perpetuation of the Baus
name on the piano. It seems to us that a ques-
tion will be raised here, as there is at present a
celebrated '' Sohmer '' pianos have taken
first premium at the Dixie Inter-State
Fair, held at Macon, Ga., for the best piano and
for the best display of pianos.
outlook is very bright. It is hardly necessary
to commend these instruments to the considera-
tion of dealers—they are too well known to the
trade—yet new comers who are not acquainted
with them will find it beneficial to themselves
to look them up.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
issue. They are highly interesting and give an
excellent idea of the condition of business in the
route traversed. Mr. Janssen is a keen observer
of men and things, and the records of his jour-
ney ings prove that he can wield his pen in this
way as cleverly as he can write a popular song
or compose a dance composition.
piIBIJSJJED
3 EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK.
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, $3.00 per year, in .'vance; Foreign Countries,
$4 00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per
insertion; unless inserted upon rates made by special
contract.
iMONG the Congressional candidates who
were buried in the great landslide last
Tuesday, we noticed the names of Mr. Johnston
Cornish, organ manufacturer, Washington, N.
J.; Thos. Dunn English, another Jerseyite, the
composer of " Ben Bolt," which has been given
a new life recently through Du Maurier's
"Trilby," and our friend, Freeborn G. Smithy
of Brooklyn, who was a candidate on the Prohi-
bition ticket. Mr. Smith did not expect to be
elected, however, but believed in standing for
the principles of his party.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
S
S
[E regret to announce the death of Mr. John
C. Warren, Secretary of the A. M. Mc-
Phail Piano Company, Boston, which occurred
at his home, Roxbury, Mass., November 5th.
Mr. Warren was a musician of some note and an
esteemed member of the McPhail Company. He
was in his 49th year.
Needham Piano and Organ Company's
fall catalogue has reached us. It is
tastefully gotten up, and its reading matter is
clear and to the point. The methods of con-
struction and the several attractive styles of
Needham pianos shown, will give dealers and
others an excellent idea of the class of instru-
ments turned out by this house. A picture of
Mr. Elias Parkman Needham is given, also
biography. This excellent catalogue should
make many friends for the Needham piano.
J^
of a landslide that struck us
$&* i a s t Tuesday, was it not ? It cut a wide
swath from one end of the country to the other.
It certainly was one of the most extraordinary
political revolutions that we have ever witnessed.
It is certain that a vast majority of our people
believe in a protective tariff—never so many and
never so strongly as now. They may disagree
as to rates and schedules, but not as to the prin-
ciples. Gov. Jackson of Iowa, in reviewing
the sweeping elections of last Tuesday, said
the following, which is the most expressive of
any statement that we have read upon the
subject: " I think this election is a verdict of
the American people in favor of doing business
at home, and buying American made goods in-
stead of going abroad for them."
We may now confidently look forward to
bettered conditions in business. This was em-
phasized last Wednesday when stocks were
tremendously stiffened in this city. Now that
politics are settled for awhile we expect a speedy
resumption of business in all trades. There will
be less fluctuations in prices, values will be
fixed and a general stiffening of the trade back-
business announcement in T H E MUSIC TRADE bone everywhere. The great manufacturing in-
dustries of this country have been reduced by
REVIEW that the Baus Piano Company are
located at 402-408 East 30th Street, this city. reason of legislative indifference and incapacity.
Possibly there may be interesting developments The people have given their condemnation
of such methods as have characterized national
regarding the use of the Baus name.
legislation during the past eighteen months.
When the next Congress shall have been con-
HE announcement is made that one of the vened, we may expect to see at the head of the
most popular piano manufacturers has re- most important committee a man who is in
tired from the field ; but this does not remove touch with the great industries of America, and
the piano which he has manufactured. We refer not a man from a Southern village, where the
to James F. Cumston, who is said to have dis- chief industry is sitting on a rail fence squirting
posed of the right to manufacture the Hallett & tobacco juice at a mark.
Cumston piano to Thos. F. Scanlan. It has
been an open secret in the trade that Mr. Cum-
gOTHING is surer than that the tireless,
ston intended retiring from the piano business
persistent advertiser will secure the bene-
about the first of January. He has large outside
fits expected. Business is bound to reward him
interests, and is rated as a very wealthy man.
who keeps his name and goods or products con-
The piano trade will miss him, however, because
stantly before the community, in good or bad
there is only one "Jim " Cumston. This move
times. When business does revive, says the
will make Thos. F. Scanlan manufacturer of the
Fourth Estate, those firms which are well known
New England, Woodward & Brown and Hallett
reap the harvest. It is then the customers which
& Cumston pianos.
the advertisements have been preparing for the
good day will show themselves in multitudes.
pianos manufactured by the old and Whoever drops out of the advertising columns
reliable house of Decker & Son, 971-973 of the newspapers during several years of de-
East One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, have pression becomes a stranger to the community.
a special claim on the patronage of the musical When business has revived he has to start again
public. They are instruments which are care- almost with the disadvantages of a newcomer.
fully built on modern lines, and they are up-to- Instead of reaping the harvest he has to spend
date in satisfying the demands of the most ex- several years in making himself known once
acting critic or musician. The Decker & Son again to the people. It is amazing how quickly
uprights and baby grands are conceded to be the public forget any business house as soon as
instruments fit to rank with the leading pianos its name ceases to be familiar in the advertising
of the day. It is gratifying to state that there pages of the papers. In times like these it pays
is an active demand for the products of this richly for a business man to keep a standing
house. Their Fall trade so far is good, and the advertisement, even though he may be certain
HE Musical Times of Chicago announces
that the Baus piano will hereafter be manu-
factured in Terre Haute, Ind., that arrangements
to that effect have just been consummated, that
Augustus Baus and Otto Lestina have formed a
partnership for the perpetuation of the Baus
name on the piano. It seems to us that a ques-
tion will be raised here, as there is at present a
celebrated '' Sohmer '' pianos have taken
first premium at the Dixie Inter-State
Fair, held at Macon, Ga., for the best piano and
for the best display of pianos.
outlook is very bright. It is hardly necessary
to commend these instruments to the considera-
tion of dealers—they are too well known to the
trade—yet new comers who are not acquainted
with them will find it beneficial to themselves
to look them up.
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