Music Trade Review

Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
tion which he has furnished to some of the
members whom he has interviewed has not
been at all times convincing. While it has
shown on his part considerable knowledge
of the inner workings of business institu-
tions, it has also given rise to the belief
that a man who seeks so assiduously to pry
into the affairs of others is hardly the man
with whom to treat in great and important
transactions. Somehow Mr. Blumenberg
cannot remove that cheap-broker taint
which hangs about him. The belief that is
rapidly gaining ground, that the move
lacks the element of success, and that there
are only three or four men who have actu-
ally agreed to the proposals made, is due
more to Mr. Blumenberg's avaricious bom-
bast than to any other known cause. The
statement that some of the leading men
have agreed to enter the combine is made,
some think, to influence others, when really
there are names used—members of which
firms are really opposed to sinking their
individuality in a trust.
Times look squally ahead.
And if that waterspout reaches us,
Marc Blumenberg will get mighty wet
and will be out his percentages as well.
There will be a hot time in town.
C. C. O. Co.'s Extensions.
SECURED PERMIT TO ERECT ANOTHER ADDI-
TION TO THEIR FACTORY — MOVING
RIGHT AHEAD.
Wm. Knabe & Co.
Business Success and Failure.
LATEST NEWS ITEMS—DRIGGS & SMITH TO OC-
CUPY NEW QUARTERS—A SPECIAL GRAND
FOR MRS. COL. TYLER A HANDSOMK
INSTRUMENT ON EXHIBITION.
AN INTERESTING TOPIC DISCUSSED INTEGRITY
AND PROMPTNESS THE KEY
TO SUCCESS.
Several important news items were
gathered yesterday at the Knabe ware-
rooms. ]. A. Kaiser, secretary and treas-
urer of the Driggs & Smith Co., Water-
bury, Conn., was a caller during the week.
The firm's warerooms are about to be
moved to much larger quarters. Eight
Knabe pianos, including two grands, have
been shipped from the Knabe factory for
the opening.
William Knabe & Co. are making to
order a magnificent Concert Grand for
Mrs. Colonel A. C. Tyler, of Washington,
D. C., and New London, Conn. The in-
strument will exhibit several special fea-
tures, and in addition to being one of the
most costly pianos ever made, will prob-
ably be the most elaborately decorated in-
strument of its class in existence. .
At the Knabe warerooms there is nowo n
exhibition a very handsome piano in Eng-
lish oak, with a memorial inscription inlaid
in wood marquetry. It has been ordered
fora memorial church at Lenox, Mass.
Everett News.
The New York representatives of the
John Church Co. interests, in response to
a call for news yesterday, made good re-
ports. A. M. Wright was away at the
Boston factory during the week. Trade
is active at that end of the line. Callers
at the Everett piano warerooms are fre-
quent. Mr. Adams, of the music and
musical merchandise department, has re-
turned from a short trip. As usual, re-
sults were satisfactory-
Factory extensions are the order of the
day with the Chicago Cottage Organ Co.
During the past six months their vast busi-
ness has compelled not only a full force of
workmen in all departments working over
time, but, as announced in The Review,
Going Out of Business.
an enlargement of factory quarters was
necessary, and now again we have to
Manchester & Robinson, the firm who have
record another. On Saturday last they been handling pianos in the Kendall block
secured a permit for the erection of a have decided to go out of business on ac-
three-story rear addition to their factory count of sickness of one of the firm. A spe-
at 706 to 714 West Twenty-second street. cial representative of the Kimball Piano Co.
The dimensions of the addition will be is here arranging to take the firm's pianos
100x32 feet. The construction will be of off their hands. They will be shipped to a
brick and the cost $12,000.
Huntington dealer. Manchester & Robin-
What better proof of the immense output son go back to Rome.—Portsmouth Times.
of this concern and of the bettering condi-
tion of business throughout the country?
All Bids Rejected.
Will Play the
Knabe. '
Miss Mary Wood Chase will play the
Knabe piano during the coming season in
recitals throughout the prominent cities of
the West. Miss Chase is a graduate of
Oscar Reif's school in Berlin, and the
critics place her among the best pianists in
Chicago.
[Special to The Review.]
Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 22, 1897.
Judge McGee has rejected all bids for
the remaining assets of the Century Piano
Co., assignee Regan having stated that
he thought better amounts could be se-
cured than were offered.
Freeborn G. Smith, Jr., accompanied by
his wife arrived in Chicago last Sunday.
The second of Chickering & Sons'grand They ate their Thanksgiving dinner with
orchestral concerts, Anton Seidl, director, James M. Hawxhurst, manager of the
will be given on the evening of December Bradbury warerooms in that city. Mr.
7, when Xaver Scharwenka will play the Smith will visit several of the Western
Chickering piano. The program promises cities before his return to town some few
to be an interesting one.
weeks hence.
Every man who embarks in business does
so with the expectation of figuring among
the small percentage of really successful
men, ignoring the chances against him and
the lessons afforded by the failures of many
older, more experienced and maybe more
able men who have been carried off their
feet in the maelstrom of disaster.
If the causes of the downfall of most of
these men were revealed a large percentage
could be attributed to lack of integrity and
promptness. A prominent merchant who
has been "through the mill" claims that a
dealer of any kind who would succeed in
his business should begin by establishing
a character for integrity and promptness.
There are fair arts of trade that it is not
necessary to exclude from business, but
whatever may smack of deception and lead
purchasers to believe they are buying a
quality of goods far superior to what is
really being delivered to them is an open-
ing to the highway of bankruptcy. This
rule applies with equal force to the higher
life and the great international commerce
of the world.
And yet there are houses in the music
trade which trangress this rule and thrive
—at least for the time being. For how
long, however?
Abraham Lincoln said, " You may fool
all the people some of the time, and some
of the people all of the time, but you can't
fool all the people all the time." Any
man who does not firmly establish and
honestly merit a character for truth and
honesty at his first setting out to conduct
either his own or some one else's business
may bluff, impose and deceive the whole
or part of the community for awhile,
but eventually will become as chaff before
the wind.
It has been said, " A young liar will be
an old one; a young schemer or knave will
only be a greater one as he grows older."
If you desire a noble character you must be
the builder. The world generally knows
whether your foundation is rock or quick-
sand. If you build on quicksand it is only
a matter of waiting until the high winds
blow and down comes your character with
crushing force on your own head.
When business becomes a plaything it is
the most frail toy you can handle and is
liable to become useless on your hands any
moment. Don't trifle with business. Be
up and doing, without procrastination, and
you will find the present the most profit-
able and convenient season for business.
"Business that is worth doing at all is
worth doing well." Obstacles or difficul-
ties that may appear in your way should
never deter you. Rather let them animate
your enterprise. Business once begun
should be pushed through. If one method
fails, there are others. Try them all if
need be. Be active, upright, pleasant and
persevering and success is assured.