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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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souvenir of the official program we
notice that the music houses of Milwaukee
are fairly represented. The S. A. Mond-
schein Piano Co., Joseph Flanner and
Edmund Gram each have display an-
nouncements.
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" I can see the troops a-marching.
Slowly, slowly.
As they near, the pale leaves tremble at the coming of that
band;
There is neither sound nor footfall, neither bugle-blast nor drum-
call,
A silent host they pass from sight into a silent land."
Nay, I hear the bugle calling,
Calling, calling !
Oh, the footsteps of my soldier, I can count them as they fall;
As I time mine to the echo, over hill and over valley,
I am marching, marching ever, to that unseen bugle's call !
TTHERE will be a red hot time next Mon-
* day, one of the good old time Fourth of
Julys that we used to experience when we
were diminutive little chaps.
With hardly a question, judging from the
present outlook, this is to be the fireworks
year of the century. Such a Fourth of July
as will be celebrated this country has never
yet seen. Not only every city, but every
little town and hamlet will be bright that
night with colored fire of every variety, and
will resound with the popping of rockets
and the boom of bombs, while there will be
unprecedented display of set pieces—pieces
this year, of course, of a military or a naval
character. The noise of crackers, large and
small, will be prodigious, and no locality
will be free from deafening sounds.
The manufacturers have been endeavor-
ing to prepare for this, and production has
been increased to its utmost ever since the
news of war came late in April, but it is not
expected the demand can be met. The con-
cerns in the trade avow frankly that they
will not be able to fill the orders that are
soon to come in. They have some inkling
of what the demand is to be, and they know
that the supply will fall far short, for every-
where there are indications that displays,
civic and individual, will be made on a most
extensive scale.
Then let the eagle scream.
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With a step as swingy and elastic as a
man of twenty-five, P. J. Healy came into
the office last Monday. Mr. Healy will be
back in Chicago in time to celebrate the
Fourth.
In conversation he remarked: " Busi-
ness in Chicago is much better than dur-
ing the same period of '97, and I antici-
pate a good business for the fall."
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They are having a big time up in Mil-
waukee from June 27th to July 3d, cele-
brating the semi-centennial of Wisconsin.
Joseph Flanner is one of the directors of
the Carnival Association, and on the
POOLE
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It is said that Bryan's admirers have
presented him with a sword of such ex-
ceeding length that he is liable to trip
over it when he goes into action. The
blade is silver with a gold handle arranged
in the proportion of sixteen to one. The
jewel of consistency shines brightly before
the Bryan eyes.
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The Review was the first music trade
paper to pay special attention to Spanish-
American trade, and it was the first paper,
I may add, to publish an edition in the
Spanish tongue circulating throughout all
of Latin-America.
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The Government is distributing a mil-
lion dollars a day. A large amount of this
money goes to the clothing manufacturers
and the makers of war materials. The
music trade is only getting a few thousand
directly, but, of course, as the money per-
colates through the various channels of
trade it benefits all lines of industry.
John Wanamaker's contract with the
Government amounts to nearly a million
dollars, nearly all of which is for clothing.
The following is the list of musical in-
strument makers, and the arffount of con-
tracts which they have with the Govern-
ment :
H. E. Wurlitzer, Cincinnati, 500 drums,
$5.65 each
$2,825.00
Excelsior Drum Works, Philadelphia, 100
drums, $4.89 each
$489.00
Excelsior Drum Works, Philadelphia, 2,000
drums, $4.32 each
$8,640.00
H. E. Wurlitzer, Cincinnati, 500 trumpets,
$3.11 each
$i,555-°°
H. E. Wurlitzer, Cincinnati, 250 trumpets,
$2.89 each
$722.50
E. Coleman, Philadelphia, 250 trumpets,
$2.95 each
$737-5°
H. E. Wurlitzer, Cincinnati, 100 bugles,
$2.18 each
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$218.00
Total. . . .-
$15,187.00
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I clip this from a German exchange:
"The United States of America, that
country which, in the recent literature of
the world, has produced a humorist like
Mark Twain, a story teller like Bret Harte
and a poet like Longfellow—that same
United States is now destined in all things
to create what is great and original. Its
streams are broader, its mountains are
higher, its earth is more productive and
its cities grow more rapidly than those of
Europe. The New World is not an imita-
tor. It creates out of nothing and what is
PIANOS
produced assumes unusual proportions.
Only the plastic arts have not attained
growth and prosperity in that country.
The beauties of artistic forms, the charms
of lines and colors, have not found devel-
opment in the land of the Yankees. One
can find in the United States telephones
and phonographs, but no Rafael Madonna
or a Venus of Milo."
No, but we have our Roosevelt Rough
Riders.
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Philip Kompff, who was buried June
26th, from the house of his son-in-law, H.
Rompel, at 609 Eleventh street, Brooklyn^
was one of the founders of the Germ
Liederkranz Society of New York
was born in Germany, seventy-two
ago, and came to this country in
Mr. Kompff was a prominent music
lisher in New York. He was a past mas-
ter of the German Union Lodge of Free
Masons. His death which occurred on
Thursday, was due to spinal trouble, for
which he had been treated in the Long
Island Hospital for seven weeks. The in-
terment was at Greenwood.
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Here is what a critic wrote concerning
Puccini's opera " Manon Lescaut ":
" I never heard anything so bad—so
hellishly, so comically bad. Mexicans and
Italians playing by ear a complicated
score, th-e leader and prompter driving
tandem, and a chorus which for hideous-
ness has itever been heard—you can imag-
ine the rest! Alas, there was no rest!
Sometimes the rests were not counted,
and I remember one place where the string
quartet exploded in mid-air. But it is
useless to attempt a description of the
cacophonous horrors of this band."
A Scorcher truly.
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Facts illustrative of the improved con-
dition of things industrial, are continually
coming to the surface. For example, the
New York State Factory Inspector's last
report shows that since January 1, 1898,
not less than 1390 new manufacturing con-
cerns Save begun operations, while 1560
old firms which had suspended work for
one cause or another, have resumed. In
addition, 400 factories have applied to the
department for permission to run their
plants overtime on certain days of the
week. Finally, in the occupations con-
sidered it is found that 40,000 more per-
sons are employed that at the same time
last year. Such figures prove the fallacy
of conceding to this war a general paralyz-
ing effect upon industry. They make
manifest a confidence in the business world
that the war will be followed by an un-
usual activity in consumption. They in-
dicate, moreover, that the era of prosper-
ity assured with the inauguration of Presi-
dent McKinley is not to be turned back by
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