Music Trade Review
Issue: 1898 Vol. 26 N. 8 - Page 11
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Bates Sues Hoyt.
> The New Scale Everett Concert Grand,
ASKS DAMAGES IN BOSTON AS A RESULT OF
A WORD WAR.
[Special to The Review.]
Boston, Mass., Feb. 16, 1898.
The trial of a suit for $10,000 damages
against Charles H. Hoyt, playwright, and ex-
member of the New Hampshire Legislature,
was begun before Judge Sherman and a jury
in the Second Session of the Suffolk Superior
Court this afternoon.
The suit is brought by Edwin G. Bates, a
member of the firm of Bates & Bendix, music
publishers, for alleged injuries to character
and reputation. Mr. Bates is also musical
director of the Castle Square Theatre. Mr.
Bates alleges in his bill that in the Park
Theatre one night Mr. Hoyt called him a liar
and in an uncontrollable fit of passion added
a boisterous, loud, and blasphemous tirade of
words. He adds that this took place before
a large concourse of people and in the pres-
ence of ladies, and that Mr. Hoyt after ex-
hausting his vocabulary spit upon him.
It was alleged that Mr. Hoyt continued his
talk at the bar of the Hotel Reynolds when
Mr. Bates was not present. Mr. Bates says
that he has been greatly injured in his feel-
ings and put to great mental suffering, and
asks $10,000 damages.
The trouble grew out of a controversy
over the song "Sweet Daisy Stokes," which
was sung by Otis Harlan in the play "The
Black Sheep."
Mr. Hoyt says that any words spoken to
the plaintiff were not publicly uttered or pub-
lished, and were justified and proper, in that
they were true.
Buying Estey Organs.
[Special to The Review.]
Louisville, Ky., Feb. 14, 1898.
J. Harry Estey, of Brattleboro, Vt., Secre-
tary and Treasurer of the Estey Organ Co.,
was at the Gait House the past few days.
Mr. Estey is on his way to Atlanta, where his
company have a branch office. He is visiting
Mr. Charles Chase, his brother-in-law, in this
city. In speaking of the organ business to a
representative of a local paper he said:
"The greatest organ business is done with
the farmers of the West. Comparatively few
people in the cities in the East buy them.
They want pianos. Our business can be
taken as a good index of the condition of the
West. As soon as wheat began to move a
few months ago at a dollar and more a bushel,
we felt the demand for organs and have been
making heavy shipments in consequence.
"You may not know it," he continued,
"but American organs are shipped to every
country on the globe. They are sent from
South Africa to Labrador and we have a very
large trade in Australia."
The new scale Everett concert grand, of
which an illustration appears above, has un-
questionably made one of the greatest " hits "
ever recorded in the trade and musical worlds.
Gracefully and accurately proportioned archi-
tecturally, superbly finished in all details and
possessing tonal attributes practically un-
limited for all artistic effects, it takes rank as
one of the leading concert pianos of the
present day.
The consensus of critical
opinion is that the Everett Piano Co. have
secured in this instrument the fullest develop-
ment in tonal volume, a quality that revels in
color, and a touch that permits of the most
delicate shadings and a sonority that will suc-
cessfully compete with any of our great or-
chestral organizations. The Everett Concert
Grand is a superb creation, and its merits
become more apparent as acquaintance
grows.
Musical Instruments and Toys.
did not think any musician would try to play
on a metallophone, for those instruments
were made only for children to play with. It
was the same with mouth harmonicons. Any
musician, the importer thought, would be
ashamed to perform on a child's toy.
Mr. Strauss, of Adolph Strauss & Co., ex-
hibited a number of jew's-harps, large and
small, and insisted that they could serve no
other purpose than as toys for children.
"Are not these jew's-harps used for produc-
ing musical sounds?" inquired Mr. Gibson.
"They are made to produce peculiar
sounds," answered the witness. " I don't
know whether anybody could call such sounds
music."
" B u t there are people who can make
music on a jew's-harp ?" said Mr. Gibson,
insinuatingly.
"Very few," replied Mr. ^Strauss, with a
determined shake of the head. Samples were
submitted in all of the musical instrument
cases, and the board will announce the de-
cisions in due time.
BOARD OF CUSTOMS AND IMPORTERS DISPUTE
OVER LINE OF DISTINCTION.
Jew's-harps and mouth harmonicons were
spread out in varied profusion before the
Customs Board of Classification Tuesday and
importers endeavored to controvert the
theory of the Government Appraisers that
such articles were musical instruments. Re-
presentatives of the firms of George Borg-
feldt & Co., B. Illfelder & Co., and Adolph
Strauss & Co. insisted that jew's-harps and
mouth harmonicons were toys and not musi-
cal instruments. The customs authorities at
this port, put them in the latter class, and as-
sessed an ad valorem duty of forty-five per
cent, on them. An appeal was taken to the
General Appraisers, on the ground that as
toys, jew's-harps, harmonicons, and similar
cheap instruments of sound were dutiable at
thirty-five per cent.
The protest of Borgfeldt & Co. included
both harmonicons and metallophones, the lat-
ter being a long instrument strung with wires,
Another Offer.
which are made to produce sounds by being
The Votey Organ Co. has again received beaten with little hammers. Mr. W. J. Gib-
an offer of a site in Detroit. The buildings son, counsel for the Government, asked the
already on the ground, valued at $70,000, are importers if metallophones were not used by
believed to be suitable, and the owner pro- adults as musical instruments and occasion-
poses to take $25,000 worth of stock in the ally, like xylophones, used in orchestras.
company as part payment.
Mr. Borgfeldt's representative replied that he
The J. H. Lockey Piano Case Co.,Leomin-
ster, Mass., are to build an addition to their
main factory.
Charles Godfrey, of Atlantic City, N. J.,
had quite an auspicious opening of his new
music store at 2408 Atlantic avenue last Sat-
urday evening.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Bates Sues Hoyt.
> The New Scale Everett Concert Grand,
ASKS DAMAGES IN BOSTON AS A RESULT OF
A WORD WAR.
[Special to The Review.]
Boston, Mass., Feb. 16, 1898.
The trial of a suit for $10,000 damages
against Charles H. Hoyt, playwright, and ex-
member of the New Hampshire Legislature,
was begun before Judge Sherman and a jury
in the Second Session of the Suffolk Superior
Court this afternoon.
The suit is brought by Edwin G. Bates, a
member of the firm of Bates & Bendix, music
publishers, for alleged injuries to character
and reputation. Mr. Bates is also musical
director of the Castle Square Theatre. Mr.
Bates alleges in his bill that in the Park
Theatre one night Mr. Hoyt called him a liar
and in an uncontrollable fit of passion added
a boisterous, loud, and blasphemous tirade of
words. He adds that this took place before
a large concourse of people and in the pres-
ence of ladies, and that Mr. Hoyt after ex-
hausting his vocabulary spit upon him.
It was alleged that Mr. Hoyt continued his
talk at the bar of the Hotel Reynolds when
Mr. Bates was not present. Mr. Bates says
that he has been greatly injured in his feel-
ings and put to great mental suffering, and
asks $10,000 damages.
The trouble grew out of a controversy
over the song "Sweet Daisy Stokes," which
was sung by Otis Harlan in the play "The
Black Sheep."
Mr. Hoyt says that any words spoken to
the plaintiff were not publicly uttered or pub-
lished, and were justified and proper, in that
they were true.
Buying Estey Organs.
[Special to The Review.]
Louisville, Ky., Feb. 14, 1898.
J. Harry Estey, of Brattleboro, Vt., Secre-
tary and Treasurer of the Estey Organ Co.,
was at the Gait House the past few days.
Mr. Estey is on his way to Atlanta, where his
company have a branch office. He is visiting
Mr. Charles Chase, his brother-in-law, in this
city. In speaking of the organ business to a
representative of a local paper he said:
"The greatest organ business is done with
the farmers of the West. Comparatively few
people in the cities in the East buy them.
They want pianos. Our business can be
taken as a good index of the condition of the
West. As soon as wheat began to move a
few months ago at a dollar and more a bushel,
we felt the demand for organs and have been
making heavy shipments in consequence.
"You may not know it," he continued,
"but American organs are shipped to every
country on the globe. They are sent from
South Africa to Labrador and we have a very
large trade in Australia."
The new scale Everett concert grand, of
which an illustration appears above, has un-
questionably made one of the greatest " hits "
ever recorded in the trade and musical worlds.
Gracefully and accurately proportioned archi-
tecturally, superbly finished in all details and
possessing tonal attributes practically un-
limited for all artistic effects, it takes rank as
one of the leading concert pianos of the
present day.
The consensus of critical
opinion is that the Everett Piano Co. have
secured in this instrument the fullest develop-
ment in tonal volume, a quality that revels in
color, and a touch that permits of the most
delicate shadings and a sonority that will suc-
cessfully compete with any of our great or-
chestral organizations. The Everett Concert
Grand is a superb creation, and its merits
become more apparent as acquaintance
grows.
Musical Instruments and Toys.
did not think any musician would try to play
on a metallophone, for those instruments
were made only for children to play with. It
was the same with mouth harmonicons. Any
musician, the importer thought, would be
ashamed to perform on a child's toy.
Mr. Strauss, of Adolph Strauss & Co., ex-
hibited a number of jew's-harps, large and
small, and insisted that they could serve no
other purpose than as toys for children.
"Are not these jew's-harps used for produc-
ing musical sounds?" inquired Mr. Gibson.
"They are made to produce peculiar
sounds," answered the witness. " I don't
know whether anybody could call such sounds
music."
" B u t there are people who can make
music on a jew's-harp ?" said Mr. Gibson,
insinuatingly.
"Very few," replied Mr. ^Strauss, with a
determined shake of the head. Samples were
submitted in all of the musical instrument
cases, and the board will announce the de-
cisions in due time.
BOARD OF CUSTOMS AND IMPORTERS DISPUTE
OVER LINE OF DISTINCTION.
Jew's-harps and mouth harmonicons were
spread out in varied profusion before the
Customs Board of Classification Tuesday and
importers endeavored to controvert the
theory of the Government Appraisers that
such articles were musical instruments. Re-
presentatives of the firms of George Borg-
feldt & Co., B. Illfelder & Co., and Adolph
Strauss & Co. insisted that jew's-harps and
mouth harmonicons were toys and not musi-
cal instruments. The customs authorities at
this port, put them in the latter class, and as-
sessed an ad valorem duty of forty-five per
cent, on them. An appeal was taken to the
General Appraisers, on the ground that as
toys, jew's-harps, harmonicons, and similar
cheap instruments of sound were dutiable at
thirty-five per cent.
The protest of Borgfeldt & Co. included
both harmonicons and metallophones, the lat-
ter being a long instrument strung with wires,
Another Offer.
which are made to produce sounds by being
The Votey Organ Co. has again received beaten with little hammers. Mr. W. J. Gib-
an offer of a site in Detroit. The buildings son, counsel for the Government, asked the
already on the ground, valued at $70,000, are importers if metallophones were not used by
believed to be suitable, and the owner pro- adults as musical instruments and occasion-
poses to take $25,000 worth of stock in the ally, like xylophones, used in orchestras.
company as part payment.
Mr. Borgfeldt's representative replied that he
The J. H. Lockey Piano Case Co.,Leomin-
ster, Mass., are to build an addition to their
main factory.
Charles Godfrey, of Atlantic City, N. J.,
had quite an auspicious opening of his new
music store at 2408 Atlantic avenue last Sat-
urday evening.
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