Music Trade Review
Issue: 1900 Vol. 30 N. 21 - Page 11
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Of Interest to Visiting Dealers.
THE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
TAKING ACTIVE STEPS TO
DUCED RATES FROM THE
FOR THE FALL BUYING
OF THIS CITY
SECURE RE-
RAILROAD
SEASON.
The Merchants' Association has made
application to all the railway associations
throughout the country for reduced rates
for the summer or for what is known as
the fall buying season. There are six
railway associations covering the differ-
ent geographical sections of the country.
These are the New England, Trunk Lines,
Central Passenger, Southwestern, South-
eastern, and Western. The New England
Passenger Association covers the lines in
New England. The Trunk Line Associa-
tion covers the lines as far west as Buffalo,
Pittsburgh and Wheeling, W. Va., and as
far south as the line of the Ohio River, in-
cluding Baltimore and Washington. The
Central Passenger Association has juris-
diction from the western boundary of the
Trunk Lines to the Mississippi River, in-
cluding Chicago and St. Louis, and as far
south as the Ohio River, including, how-
ever, Northern Kentucky. The South-
western Association takes in all of the ter-
ritory west of the Mississippi River and
southwest of St. Louis, including the great
State of Texas. The Western Passenger
Association covers practically all of the
territory north and west of St. Louis and
Chicago. The Southeastern Association
includes all that section of the country
lying east of the Mississippi River and
south of the Ohio River.
The dates on which reduced rates have
been asked for from these respective terri-
tories are as follows:
New England, Aug. 25—29 inclusive,
and Sept. 1—4 inclusive; Trunk Lines,
the same dates; Central Passenger Associ-
ation, Aug. 4—8 inclusive, and Aug. 25—
29 inclusive; Southwestern Association,
July 14—18 inclusive, and Aug. 4—8 in-
clusive; the Western Passenger Associa-
tion the same as the South-western Asso-
ciation; the South-eastern Association the
same as the Central Passenger Association.
These are the dates on which, if reduced
rates are granted, tickets may be sold from
any point within these respective terri-
tories through to New York at the rate of
one fare and one-third for the round trip.
The return limit on tickets from New Eng-
land and Trunk Line Territories is 15 days.
The return limit on tickets from all other
territories is 30 days, the limitation of
time being from the date on which the
ticket is sold. There are certain con-
ditions governing the sale of these tickets,
technical in character. They are the same
as those which have been in effect hitherto.
The spring rates for what is known as
the spring buying season brought to New
York the largest number of buyers that
ever came to the city within the same
period of time. It is expected that if rates
are granted for the fall season the number
of people availing themselves of them will
be very large.
The Merchants' Association, if the rates
are granted, will prepare a series of circu-
lars, to be sent to all merchants through-
out the country, advising them of the rates
and how they may take advantage of them.
The Association will also send out a series
of circulars, in new and attractive form,
mentioning, the excellences of the New
York market.
Piano or the Cost.
ONLY PIANO CASE ARGUED AT TRIAL TERM AND
THERE WAS NO DEFENSE.
[Special to The Review.]
Albany, N. Y., May 21, 1900.
At the trial term this week only one case
was argued. It was the action of Peter
Carroll against Byington Lord to recover
a piano or its value, $100. No one ap-
peared for the defense and the plaintiff's
testimony was submitted. A verdict was
then ordered for Carroll for $100.
When the Marshall & Wendell Piano Co.
suspended business the accounts were sold
to Peter Carroll for a few dollars. Among
them was the claim against Lord for $100
on a promissory note, he having bought a
piano, agreeing to pay $15 down and $10
monthly. No payments were ever made.
To Visit Europe.
Among the members of the trade sched-
uled to add to the American Colony in Eu-
rope is C. J. Heppe who will sail from this
city on June 7 by the "Barbarossa," ac-
companied by Mrs. Heppe and Miss Heppe.
They will be absent five or six months.
This visit is of peculiar interest inasmuch
as it will be Mr. Heppe's first trip to his
boyhood home in Allendorf, Ger., since he
left it some fifty-four years ago. He will
later visit the Paris Exposition as well as
other leading cities in the old country.
Wessell, Nickel & Gross.
Latest reports from the Wessell, Nickel
& Gross factories are to the effect that
there is no cessation in the demand for the
W. N. & G. actions. Every department
is kept busy, and this condition of affairs
is likely to continue for a long time to
come.
Each year since its establishment the
firm's business has shown a marked in-
crease. The increase of output in 1899
over 1898 was large; that of the first four
months of this year as compared with a
corresponding period in 1899 still larger.
Such a healthy development tells its own
story. It is the best possible indorsement
of the W. N. & G. products.
Miss Geyer and the Weber.
Miss Julie Geyer, the eminent pianist of
this city, who has been making a tour of
the Southern states has augmented her
reputation materially through her splendid
interpretations. On all occasions she has
used the magnificent Weber piano whose
beautiful tone amply demonstrates that
the past reputation of the Weber in the
concert field is more than sustained to-day.
S. W. Jackson, dealer in veneers, De-
troit, Mich., has left for the gold fields of
Cape Nome. He will not close up his bus-
iness, however, until he is quite sure that
prospects up there are sufficient to make it
worth his while to stay.
Automatic Music's Sway.
ITS
EDUCATIONAL VALUE LIES IN TONE
AND HARMONY CONSTRUCTION
WITH
THE DRUDGERY OF DIGITAL GYM-
NASTICS ELIMINATED ONE
MAY STUDY REAL MUSIC
AND SOUND ITS EMO-
TIONAL DEPTHS.
Automatic music making machines have
multiplied at an astonishing rate since the
day of the first music box, and the evolu-
tion of these instruments threatens the old
time music teacher with extinction. With-
in the last ten years these machines have
taken on a new phase, and have gained the
serious attention of musicians and music
lovers. The old-fashioned music box,
playing a limited number of tunes with
tinkling sweetness, developed into the ela-
borate changeable cylinder box, with ex-
tensive repertory and beauty of tone.
Such boxes are still sold, their prices run-
ning into the thousands; but the addition
of a new number to their repertories,
means the preparation of a new cylinder,
and the cost of a cylinder runs from $6 in a
cheap box to $200 in an elaborate and un-
usual box, so variety is an expensive lux-
ury. It was this limitation that led to the
invention of the more modern type of
music box, in which a perforated paper or
metal tune sheet is substituted for the cy-
linder. These tune sheets can be bought
for about 60 cents each, and it is possible
to obtain, for one of the popular boxes,
any piece of music desired. The quality
of tone has also been immeasurably im-
proved; and the only disadvantage of the
new music box, as compared with the old,
is that all its music is, of necessity, played
in one key.
Switzerland has always been the home
of music box manufacture; and, even now,
most of the purely automatic musical ma-
chines are made there; but the best of the
modern boxes is of American invention
and manufacture. Thousands of these
boxes are exported annually; and the de-
mand for them in this country is enormous.
Almost every well equipped yacht has one.
Scores of them have been put into private
cars. Helen Gould and other philanthrop-
ists have given hundreds of them to char-
itable institutions. With slot attachments,
they flourish in all public places, although
the manufacturers have made an effort to
keep their best boxes out of such use, be-
cause it has injured the sale among private
individuals.
But even the best purely automatic
musical instrument isn't the last cry in
mechanical music making. There has al-
ways been among musicians a well-founded
and violent prejudice against music purely
mechanical. To meet this prejudice, the
music box took a long leap, and, now
makes bold to stand upon ground purely
aesthetic. Moreover, a good many compet-
ent judges admit the truth of the assertion
and insist that this new music making ex-
periment marks the beginning of an epoch
in music study.
The market is flooded with semi-auto-
matic instruments which aim to overcome
difficulties, while allowing free
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Of Interest to Visiting Dealers.
THE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
TAKING ACTIVE STEPS TO
DUCED RATES FROM THE
FOR THE FALL BUYING
OF THIS CITY
SECURE RE-
RAILROAD
SEASON.
The Merchants' Association has made
application to all the railway associations
throughout the country for reduced rates
for the summer or for what is known as
the fall buying season. There are six
railway associations covering the differ-
ent geographical sections of the country.
These are the New England, Trunk Lines,
Central Passenger, Southwestern, South-
eastern, and Western. The New England
Passenger Association covers the lines in
New England. The Trunk Line Associa-
tion covers the lines as far west as Buffalo,
Pittsburgh and Wheeling, W. Va., and as
far south as the line of the Ohio River, in-
cluding Baltimore and Washington. The
Central Passenger Association has juris-
diction from the western boundary of the
Trunk Lines to the Mississippi River, in-
cluding Chicago and St. Louis, and as far
south as the Ohio River, including, how-
ever, Northern Kentucky. The South-
western Association takes in all of the ter-
ritory west of the Mississippi River and
southwest of St. Louis, including the great
State of Texas. The Western Passenger
Association covers practically all of the
territory north and west of St. Louis and
Chicago. The Southeastern Association
includes all that section of the country
lying east of the Mississippi River and
south of the Ohio River.
The dates on which reduced rates have
been asked for from these respective terri-
tories are as follows:
New England, Aug. 25—29 inclusive,
and Sept. 1—4 inclusive; Trunk Lines,
the same dates; Central Passenger Associ-
ation, Aug. 4—8 inclusive, and Aug. 25—
29 inclusive; Southwestern Association,
July 14—18 inclusive, and Aug. 4—8 in-
clusive; the Western Passenger Associa-
tion the same as the South-western Asso-
ciation; the South-eastern Association the
same as the Central Passenger Association.
These are the dates on which, if reduced
rates are granted, tickets may be sold from
any point within these respective terri-
tories through to New York at the rate of
one fare and one-third for the round trip.
The return limit on tickets from New Eng-
land and Trunk Line Territories is 15 days.
The return limit on tickets from all other
territories is 30 days, the limitation of
time being from the date on which the
ticket is sold. There are certain con-
ditions governing the sale of these tickets,
technical in character. They are the same
as those which have been in effect hitherto.
The spring rates for what is known as
the spring buying season brought to New
York the largest number of buyers that
ever came to the city within the same
period of time. It is expected that if rates
are granted for the fall season the number
of people availing themselves of them will
be very large.
The Merchants' Association, if the rates
are granted, will prepare a series of circu-
lars, to be sent to all merchants through-
out the country, advising them of the rates
and how they may take advantage of them.
The Association will also send out a series
of circulars, in new and attractive form,
mentioning, the excellences of the New
York market.
Piano or the Cost.
ONLY PIANO CASE ARGUED AT TRIAL TERM AND
THERE WAS NO DEFENSE.
[Special to The Review.]
Albany, N. Y., May 21, 1900.
At the trial term this week only one case
was argued. It was the action of Peter
Carroll against Byington Lord to recover
a piano or its value, $100. No one ap-
peared for the defense and the plaintiff's
testimony was submitted. A verdict was
then ordered for Carroll for $100.
When the Marshall & Wendell Piano Co.
suspended business the accounts were sold
to Peter Carroll for a few dollars. Among
them was the claim against Lord for $100
on a promissory note, he having bought a
piano, agreeing to pay $15 down and $10
monthly. No payments were ever made.
To Visit Europe.
Among the members of the trade sched-
uled to add to the American Colony in Eu-
rope is C. J. Heppe who will sail from this
city on June 7 by the "Barbarossa," ac-
companied by Mrs. Heppe and Miss Heppe.
They will be absent five or six months.
This visit is of peculiar interest inasmuch
as it will be Mr. Heppe's first trip to his
boyhood home in Allendorf, Ger., since he
left it some fifty-four years ago. He will
later visit the Paris Exposition as well as
other leading cities in the old country.
Wessell, Nickel & Gross.
Latest reports from the Wessell, Nickel
& Gross factories are to the effect that
there is no cessation in the demand for the
W. N. & G. actions. Every department
is kept busy, and this condition of affairs
is likely to continue for a long time to
come.
Each year since its establishment the
firm's business has shown a marked in-
crease. The increase of output in 1899
over 1898 was large; that of the first four
months of this year as compared with a
corresponding period in 1899 still larger.
Such a healthy development tells its own
story. It is the best possible indorsement
of the W. N. & G. products.
Miss Geyer and the Weber.
Miss Julie Geyer, the eminent pianist of
this city, who has been making a tour of
the Southern states has augmented her
reputation materially through her splendid
interpretations. On all occasions she has
used the magnificent Weber piano whose
beautiful tone amply demonstrates that
the past reputation of the Weber in the
concert field is more than sustained to-day.
S. W. Jackson, dealer in veneers, De-
troit, Mich., has left for the gold fields of
Cape Nome. He will not close up his bus-
iness, however, until he is quite sure that
prospects up there are sufficient to make it
worth his while to stay.
Automatic Music's Sway.
ITS
EDUCATIONAL VALUE LIES IN TONE
AND HARMONY CONSTRUCTION
WITH
THE DRUDGERY OF DIGITAL GYM-
NASTICS ELIMINATED ONE
MAY STUDY REAL MUSIC
AND SOUND ITS EMO-
TIONAL DEPTHS.
Automatic music making machines have
multiplied at an astonishing rate since the
day of the first music box, and the evolu-
tion of these instruments threatens the old
time music teacher with extinction. With-
in the last ten years these machines have
taken on a new phase, and have gained the
serious attention of musicians and music
lovers. The old-fashioned music box,
playing a limited number of tunes with
tinkling sweetness, developed into the ela-
borate changeable cylinder box, with ex-
tensive repertory and beauty of tone.
Such boxes are still sold, their prices run-
ning into the thousands; but the addition
of a new number to their repertories,
means the preparation of a new cylinder,
and the cost of a cylinder runs from $6 in a
cheap box to $200 in an elaborate and un-
usual box, so variety is an expensive lux-
ury. It was this limitation that led to the
invention of the more modern type of
music box, in which a perforated paper or
metal tune sheet is substituted for the cy-
linder. These tune sheets can be bought
for about 60 cents each, and it is possible
to obtain, for one of the popular boxes,
any piece of music desired. The quality
of tone has also been immeasurably im-
proved; and the only disadvantage of the
new music box, as compared with the old,
is that all its music is, of necessity, played
in one key.
Switzerland has always been the home
of music box manufacture; and, even now,
most of the purely automatic musical ma-
chines are made there; but the best of the
modern boxes is of American invention
and manufacture. Thousands of these
boxes are exported annually; and the de-
mand for them in this country is enormous.
Almost every well equipped yacht has one.
Scores of them have been put into private
cars. Helen Gould and other philanthrop-
ists have given hundreds of them to char-
itable institutions. With slot attachments,
they flourish in all public places, although
the manufacturers have made an effort to
keep their best boxes out of such use, be-
cause it has injured the sale among private
individuals.
But even the best purely automatic
musical instrument isn't the last cry in
mechanical music making. There has al-
ways been among musicians a well-founded
and violent prejudice against music purely
mechanical. To meet this prejudice, the
music box took a long leap, and, now
makes bold to stand upon ground purely
aesthetic. Moreover, a good many compet-
ent judges admit the truth of the assertion
and insist that this new music making ex-
periment marks the beginning of an epoch
in music study.
The market is flooded with semi-auto-
matic instruments which aim to overcome
difficulties, while allowing free
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