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how nobly the Steinway stood the test.
Great is Paderewski, and great is the Stein-
Yes,
that is about the size of it.
This
delay in the delivery of the medals has all
along been puzzling, and we are pleased to
way grand.
learn something about the matter, even if
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Cottage Organ Co. have assumed an interest
in the Hockett Bros.-Puntenney Co., and
the present tariff
The information
which appears elsewhere that the Chicago
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HERE is apparently no let-up in the
increase of imports of musical instru-
ments, which has been so apparent since
law became operative.
thereby secured a large and well developed
The latest report on this subject, which ap-
territory in the leading cities of Ohio for
pears elsewhere in this paper, shows that
the instruments which they manufacture,
during September of this year $137,771
means that some fine day we will wake up
worth
and perhaps find a branch of the W. W.
ported, as compared with $70,822 worth
Entered at th* New York Post Office as Second Cla. > Matter. Kimball Co., or the concern engineered by
those brainy, energetic
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facturers of the West.
Editor and Proprietor.
we have to go to Copenhagen for it.
Eastward, those progressive manu-
and
progressive
Cable Brothers, right here in our midst.
musical instruments were im-
imported September of last year.
The nine
months' total shows the formidable sum of
$888,157, against $384,532, which was the
value of the instruments imported during
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of
AST Tuesday's elections brought vic-
tory to the standard bearers of the
the same period of '94.
These figures afford
food for study to American manufacturers.
the
It means that an enormous sum of money
Our neighbor across the river—
has been spent in Europe for goods which in
New Jersey—and such rock-ribbed strong-
former years were purchased at home, and
holds of the Democratic party as Maryland
the most extraordinary thing in connection
and Kentucky, turned over a new leaf and
with the growth of imports is that the Gov-
surprised everyone by the size of their ma-
ernment seems unable to provide sufficient
Republican party in all sections of
Union.
jorities for the Republican candidates.
To
our minds this remarkable revolution is an
income from the duties to cover the ex-
penditures which they have made.
indication of the independence of the voters
to the dominancy of section and party.
The manufacturing
and laboring classes
feel that the present Administration has
not enforced a policy conducive to their in-
terests, and they have visited the sins of
the Administration on the party.
A CCORDING to a London paper, a
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pronounced hostility to everything
English is rapidly spreading like an epi-
demic
throughout
Central
America—a
hostility which threatens to combat the
commercial supremacy of Great Britain in
the South and .Central American markets.
N
OTWITHSTANDING the temporary
interference
with
business
this
A
N exhibitor at the World's Fair from
Copenhagen, has written a letter to
This paper says: It behooves our exporters
to awaken
now or never to the actual
week, November has made a good start
the "Politiken,"-a prominent newspaper in
seriousness of the situation, and to be up
both in retail and wholesale lines, and the
that city, to the effect that he was awarded
and doing if they would combat successfully
trade looks forward to a marked increase in
a first prize in his class of exhibits, and
this powerful sentiment of "America for
business for this month as compared with
understood that an official
the Americans"—or the Monroe doctrine
October.
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HE statement of Government receipts
and expenditures issued last Saturday
named
John
Boyd Thacher was to issue medals and
applied
diplomas, and requests to be informed "if
growing.
this official really existed, or if he is a
of our trade in the Spanish-American mar-
myth."
kets that is threatened, but the entire vol-
day shows that the expenditures for the
He further says he is getting old, and
month of October will exceed receipts by
may not live to receive the medal, and
over six million dollars.
commercially—which
is
rapidly
It is no longer a small fraction
ume of it, which everybody concerned in
the foreign trade knows to be enormous.
Thus the good
would like to make some arrangement in
The writer of the foregoing lays all the
work goes on under the present Adminis-
his will to present the diploma, if it ever
blame for this condition of things at the
tration.
should
be issued,
to the
Danish
Riks
Museum.
door of the United States traders, who, in
his opinion, are strengthening their cam-
paign against British interests in an insid-
NYONE desirous of hearing a thor-
Our Copenhagen contemporary informs
ough test of a piano should have
his correspondent that as far as it is aware
ious manner.
been present at Paderewski's first concert
John Boyd Thacher is a living person, but
would be fatuous to continue blind to the
in Carnegie Hall last Monday night.
The
that the exhibitors ought not to expect a
true state of affairs, to underestimate the
Steinway grand piano was never before dis-
medal and diploma to be issued under a
magnitude of the menace launched against
played
Democratic Administration in the United
us.
seemed to make this instrument an orches-
States, as the present Government has no
cloud no bigger than a man's hand, may,
tra in the fullest sense of the word.
gold to spare for the making of medals, and
sooner than we wot of, expand and cover
almost thrilling, the majesty, individuality
that in a future age it will be a most inter-
the horizon.
and artistic finish of his rendition.
esting relic for the Riks Museum.
A
to such advantage.
Paderewski
It was
And
He ends up by saying: It
The shadow which is now like a small
Well, well.
We are afraid
our Brit-