Music Trade Review
Issue: 1902 Vol. 34 N. 8 - Page 9
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THE 7VTVSIC TRRDE
NEW YORK AS A PRODUCING CENTER.
While the figures covering the music
trade industry of New York City and State
have not yet been issued, it is interesting to
note the magnitude of the manufacturing
industries of Greater New York as disclosed
in some statistics just made public by the
Census Office.
There were in the consolidated city in
1900, 39,777 establishments, with an aggre-
gate capital of $922,125,581, and producing
goods valued at $1,371,398,468. These es-
tablishments employed wage-earners to the
number of 462,799, who received in wages
$245,031,181. The miscellaneous expenses
amounted to $163,173,243 and the cost of
the materials used was $709,120,137.
The establishments in the city numbered
a little less than half those in the State, but
the value of their product was about 63 per
cent, of that for the State as a whole.
One point brought out by the figures is
that seemingly the value of the products
produced has not increased in the same ratio
with the amount of capital employed. The
capital employed shows an increase of 48
per cent, for the decade, while the value of
the products shows an increase of only 26.4
per cent. The heaviest rate of increase, it
may be noted, is shown in miscellaneous ex-
penses. This seems to connote a tendency
to decline in the rate of the return from cap-
ital invested.
POLISHERS NOT SATISFIED
With the Settlement of the Recent Piano Strike-
Want Increased Wages.
[Special to The Review.]
Toronto, Ont, Feb. 17,1902.
The polishers and rubbers employed by
the Mason & Risch Co. have not been con-
tent with the settlement made by the com-
mittee in the recent general strike in the piano
business, and ever since they were ordered
back to work have been discontented. This
has resulted in their going out for an increase
of ten per cent.
It seems that in some of the shops an in-
crease has been granted and hence the trou-
ble in the West End factory. The polishers
and rubbers are part of the Amalgamated
Society of Woodworkers, and a committee
from that body is seeking to adjust the diffi-
culty. The number of men employed is
twenty-seven.
SAYS AGENT DECEIVED HER.
[Special to The Review.]
Tndianapolis, Ind., Feb. 17, 1902.
Mrs. Florence Schwartz, after purchasing
a piano from the Harding & Miller Music
Co. on installments and executing a chattel
mortgage, yesterday sued the company to
have the mortgage, which she charged had
been fraudulently secured, cancelled. As al-
leged, the representation was made to her
that if she did not execute the mortgage the
firm could sell all her personal property when,
as a matter of fact, she did not know that
the statement was untrue and that she was
entitled to an exemption of personal property
to the amount of $600.
W. F. Booth, of the American Piano Man-
ufacturing Co., was visiting the trade on the
Pacific Coast last week.
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REVIEW
McPHAIL C O . ' S ARTISTIC CREATIONS.
The McPhail Piano Co., of Boston, have
long been noted for the originality and good
taste displayed in the architecture of their
piano creations. They have believed, and
with good reason, that an instrument con-
taining such a satisfactory musical soul as
the McPhail, is worthy of a casing that will
be in sympathy with its interior. The latest
effort of the McPhail Piano Co. demon-
strates this artistic trend most emphatically.
Architecturally it is designated as a "Puritan
Colonial," and as the illustration shows, it
is an instrument of rare attractiveness, the
style being essentially classic. A reproduc-
tion in black and white can hardly do justice
to this instrument. It must be seen on the
rioor to appreciate the beauty of its lines and
the intelligent conception of the designer to
the requirements of piano structure. It is
artistic efforts like these—so fittingly exem-
plified in this design—that tend to empha-
size that the piano industry is essentially al-
lied to art in its most dignified forms.
PADEREWSI^
NEBRASKANS ALL RICH.
Per Capita Bank Deposit Throughout State is
$79.16—Plenty of Money to Buy Pianos.
Composer of " Manru " has Mme. Sembrich, Chas.
H. Steinway and Others as Guests.
[Special to The Review.]
M. Ignace Paderewski, gave at Delmon-
ico's a supper on Saturday night in honor of
Mme. Marcella Sembrich, who took the
leading feminine role in the production of
"Manru" at the Metropolitan Opera House
on Friday night. The supper, which began at
midnight, was served in the white and gold
ballroom and the fifty guests were seated
around an oval table decorated in pink roses
with the initials of the prima donna "M. S."
Mme. Paderewski received the guests in one
of the anterooms. Among the guests were
M. and Mme. Maurice Crau, Augustus (iur-
nee, M. and Mme. de Bandrowski, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Mile. Fritzi Schcff,
David Bispham, Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Ho-
mer, Robert Blass, Edouard de Reszke, Alex-
ander Lambert, M. and Mme. Reuss Belce
and Mr. and Mrs. Charles If. Steinway.
.
.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 18, 1902.
In his annual report, Secretary Royse, of
the State Banking' Board, said Nebraska
never had so much money in her banks as
now.
Deposited in the State and National banks
there is the sum of $87,072,436, an average
of $79.16 for each man, woman and child in
the State. This is more money than Nebras-
ka ever had before.
The amount of money in circulation for
the whole country has increased from $21.10
per capita in 1896 to $28.69 in 1902—and
it is all as "good as gold."
These are doubtless among the reasons
why Nebraska, which gave the Democratic-
Fusion candidate for President a plurality
of 13,576 in 1896, was carried by the Repub-
licans by 7,822 in 1900 and by 12,659 m lyoi-
Prosperity is a great deal pleasanter and
much more popular than Calamity.
ERD CO. FILE REPORT.
The following report has been filed with
the State authorities of Michigan by the Erd
Piano & Harp Co.;' Capital stock, $50,000;
good will, $25,000; paid in, $25,000; cred-
its, $4,813; value of credits, $2,000. The
stockholders are W. A. Brewer, 4,400 shares;
J. T. Wylie, 600.
..;_..
DEATH OF DANIEL S. PILLSBURY.
The death is announced of Daniel Sar-
geant, Pillsbury, which occurred last week
at his home in North Burnham, N. Y. The
deceased made a specialty of collecting rare
brass musical instruments, and probably
owned one of the largest collections in the
world. Only recently he loaned part of his
collection to d i c k e r i n g & Sons for the his-
torical exhibit which thev made in Boston,
THE 7VTVSIC TRRDE
NEW YORK AS A PRODUCING CENTER.
While the figures covering the music
trade industry of New York City and State
have not yet been issued, it is interesting to
note the magnitude of the manufacturing
industries of Greater New York as disclosed
in some statistics just made public by the
Census Office.
There were in the consolidated city in
1900, 39,777 establishments, with an aggre-
gate capital of $922,125,581, and producing
goods valued at $1,371,398,468. These es-
tablishments employed wage-earners to the
number of 462,799, who received in wages
$245,031,181. The miscellaneous expenses
amounted to $163,173,243 and the cost of
the materials used was $709,120,137.
The establishments in the city numbered
a little less than half those in the State, but
the value of their product was about 63 per
cent, of that for the State as a whole.
One point brought out by the figures is
that seemingly the value of the products
produced has not increased in the same ratio
with the amount of capital employed. The
capital employed shows an increase of 48
per cent, for the decade, while the value of
the products shows an increase of only 26.4
per cent. The heaviest rate of increase, it
may be noted, is shown in miscellaneous ex-
penses. This seems to connote a tendency
to decline in the rate of the return from cap-
ital invested.
POLISHERS NOT SATISFIED
With the Settlement of the Recent Piano Strike-
Want Increased Wages.
[Special to The Review.]
Toronto, Ont, Feb. 17,1902.
The polishers and rubbers employed by
the Mason & Risch Co. have not been con-
tent with the settlement made by the com-
mittee in the recent general strike in the piano
business, and ever since they were ordered
back to work have been discontented. This
has resulted in their going out for an increase
of ten per cent.
It seems that in some of the shops an in-
crease has been granted and hence the trou-
ble in the West End factory. The polishers
and rubbers are part of the Amalgamated
Society of Woodworkers, and a committee
from that body is seeking to adjust the diffi-
culty. The number of men employed is
twenty-seven.
SAYS AGENT DECEIVED HER.
[Special to The Review.]
Tndianapolis, Ind., Feb. 17, 1902.
Mrs. Florence Schwartz, after purchasing
a piano from the Harding & Miller Music
Co. on installments and executing a chattel
mortgage, yesterday sued the company to
have the mortgage, which she charged had
been fraudulently secured, cancelled. As al-
leged, the representation was made to her
that if she did not execute the mortgage the
firm could sell all her personal property when,
as a matter of fact, she did not know that
the statement was untrue and that she was
entitled to an exemption of personal property
to the amount of $600.
W. F. Booth, of the American Piano Man-
ufacturing Co., was visiting the trade on the
Pacific Coast last week.
0NE
Q
p j
H E
REVIEW
McPHAIL C O . ' S ARTISTIC CREATIONS.
The McPhail Piano Co., of Boston, have
long been noted for the originality and good
taste displayed in the architecture of their
piano creations. They have believed, and
with good reason, that an instrument con-
taining such a satisfactory musical soul as
the McPhail, is worthy of a casing that will
be in sympathy with its interior. The latest
effort of the McPhail Piano Co. demon-
strates this artistic trend most emphatically.
Architecturally it is designated as a "Puritan
Colonial," and as the illustration shows, it
is an instrument of rare attractiveness, the
style being essentially classic. A reproduc-
tion in black and white can hardly do justice
to this instrument. It must be seen on the
rioor to appreciate the beauty of its lines and
the intelligent conception of the designer to
the requirements of piano structure. It is
artistic efforts like these—so fittingly exem-
plified in this design—that tend to empha-
size that the piano industry is essentially al-
lied to art in its most dignified forms.
PADEREWSI^
NEBRASKANS ALL RICH.
Per Capita Bank Deposit Throughout State is
$79.16—Plenty of Money to Buy Pianos.
Composer of " Manru " has Mme. Sembrich, Chas.
H. Steinway and Others as Guests.
[Special to The Review.]
M. Ignace Paderewski, gave at Delmon-
ico's a supper on Saturday night in honor of
Mme. Marcella Sembrich, who took the
leading feminine role in the production of
"Manru" at the Metropolitan Opera House
on Friday night. The supper, which began at
midnight, was served in the white and gold
ballroom and the fifty guests were seated
around an oval table decorated in pink roses
with the initials of the prima donna "M. S."
Mme. Paderewski received the guests in one
of the anterooms. Among the guests were
M. and Mme. Maurice Crau, Augustus (iur-
nee, M. and Mme. de Bandrowski, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Mile. Fritzi Schcff,
David Bispham, Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Ho-
mer, Robert Blass, Edouard de Reszke, Alex-
ander Lambert, M. and Mme. Reuss Belce
and Mr. and Mrs. Charles If. Steinway.
.
.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 18, 1902.
In his annual report, Secretary Royse, of
the State Banking' Board, said Nebraska
never had so much money in her banks as
now.
Deposited in the State and National banks
there is the sum of $87,072,436, an average
of $79.16 for each man, woman and child in
the State. This is more money than Nebras-
ka ever had before.
The amount of money in circulation for
the whole country has increased from $21.10
per capita in 1896 to $28.69 in 1902—and
it is all as "good as gold."
These are doubtless among the reasons
why Nebraska, which gave the Democratic-
Fusion candidate for President a plurality
of 13,576 in 1896, was carried by the Repub-
licans by 7,822 in 1900 and by 12,659 m lyoi-
Prosperity is a great deal pleasanter and
much more popular than Calamity.
ERD CO. FILE REPORT.
The following report has been filed with
the State authorities of Michigan by the Erd
Piano & Harp Co.;' Capital stock, $50,000;
good will, $25,000; paid in, $25,000; cred-
its, $4,813; value of credits, $2,000. The
stockholders are W. A. Brewer, 4,400 shares;
J. T. Wylie, 600.
..;_..
DEATH OF DANIEL S. PILLSBURY.
The death is announced of Daniel Sar-
geant, Pillsbury, which occurred last week
at his home in North Burnham, N. Y. The
deceased made a specialty of collecting rare
brass musical instruments, and probably
owned one of the largest collections in the
world. Only recently he loaned part of his
collection to d i c k e r i n g & Sons for the his-
torical exhibit which thev made in Boston,
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