Music Trade Review
Issue: 1903 Vol. 36 N. 24 - Page 15
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THE:
WHERE WE WILL LAND
In 1920—A Humorous View by the Furniture World
of the Labor Unions a Few Years Hence—The
Luxury Enjoyed by the Walking Delegate.
"What unreasonable persons the manufac-
turing classes are!" growled the handsomely
dressed labor leader,blowing a cloud of smoke
to the ceiling from his fragrant Havana, as he
tilted his chair back in his sumptuously fur-
nished office at the Labor Union headquarters
one morning in the spring of 1920.
"I see by the morning papers that the Man-
ufacturers' organization claims that the dif-
ferent.manufacturers in the United States are
receiving so little work now in return for the
wages they are paying their employees that
they are not able to properly support them-
selves and their families, owing to the greatly
increased cost of living of late, and they
threaten to strike."
"So I have noticed," testily exclaimed the
secretary of the Labor L T nion. "While I be-
lieve that an employer is worthy of receiving
service in return for his money, I have no
sympathy for them in this instance. Why,
our men are working six hours a day for
them. What do they expect for their money ?
I hold that any sober, industrious manufac-
turing man should be able to support his fam-
ily comfortably on the service our men are
rendering them. Of course, we don't expect
them to be able to own yachts and automo-
biles, such as we wealthy laboring men have,
or to live in Fifth avenue mansions such as
ours, but they should be able to get along
respectably—and what more should they
want ?"
"My opinion, exactly. They don't seem to
know when they are well off. They are mak-
ing a great kick at our forcing them to pur-
chase only raw materials that have the union
label on them, claiming that they can buy the
same materials much cheaper from independ-
ent producers."
"What ingratitude!"
"Yes; and they even go so far as to assert
that we are making it so expensive for them
to manufacture things that the market is be-
ing flooded with cheap, common, foreign
manufactured articles, that they only see ruin
and bankruptcy staring them in the face.
There is to be an Unemployed Capitalists'
parade to-morrow of employers who own
manufacturing plants that are shut down."
"Poppycock! We have got their walking
delegates and capital agitators to thank for
all this!" exclaimed the secretary, savagely.
"Men who never so much as manufactured a
single article or managed a coal mint a day
in their lives go about exciting discontent
among the guileless manufacturers and cap-
italists. You would think that an intelligent
manufacturing man ought to see through
their talk, but he doesn't."
"Let's see, what do they demand?" asked
the labor leader, anxiously. "I was so dis-
gusted when I saw the heading 'The Manu-
facturers' Organization to Strike' in the
morning paper that I couldn't read the article
intelligently."
"First and foremost," responded the labor
secretary, "they demand that the laboring
men do 10 per cent, more work a day; sec-
ond, that they be allowed to purchase raw
manufacturing materials wherever they
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
choose; third, that a day's pay shall consist
of only $11, instead of $13.75, a s now; and,
fourth, that the laboring men shall work only
for the Manufacturers' organization manu-
factories."
"Preposterous!"
"Certainly. They would take away a union
laboring man's inalienable right to work for
whatever mine or manufacturing 1 company he
pleases. What is this free country of ours
coming to, I should like to know ?"
VOUGH CO. SECURE PLANT
Formerly Owned and Run by Waterloo Organ Co.—
Gives Them Splendid Facilities for the Manu-
facture of the Vough Piano.
[Special to The Review.]
Waterloo, N. Y., June 8, 1903.
The Vough Piano Co., which was recently
organized in this village and incorporated
with a capital stock of $50,000, with John
Becker, Chauncey L. Becker and William C.
Vough named as directors, have purchased
the plant and all propertv pertaining thereto
formerly operated by the Waterloo Organ
Co., which has lately been owned and oper-
ated by the First National Bank of Waterloo,
as trustees for the bondholders who pur-
chased the same at the bankruptcy sale.
The new company took possession of the
business on Monday morning and the direc-
tors have elected the following officers: Pres-
ident, William C. Vough; vice-president,
John Becker; secretary and treasurer, Chas.
D. Becker, all of Waterloo. For the past
fourteen years Mr. Vough has been superin-
tendent of the Waterloo Organ Co. and the
new owners have retained all of the em-
ployes of the old company.
Several Vough pianos, containing the
patent reversible action which changes the
pitch from standard to concert, and vice
versa, are on exhibition in the warerooms at
the factory. All who have examined them
sper 1 : very highly of their excellence.
WULSIN AND ARMSTRONG PURCHASE
The Interests of the Late D. H. Baldwin in D. H.
Baldwin & Co.—An Important Business Trans-
action Involving a Consideration of $380,000.
[Special to The Review.]
Cincinnati, O., June 8, 1903.
Through the filing of a court entry of sale,
subject, of course, to the approval of Probate
Judge Nippert, Lucien Wulsin and George
W. Armstrong, Jr., become owners of the in-
terests of the late D. H. Baldwin in the piano
company which he founded and which still
bears his name. From the documents it ap-
pears that Messrs. Wulsin and Armstrong
agree to pay for the Baldwin interests $380,-
000 and 5 per cent, interest on this amount
from Jan. 1 to July 1, 1903, the interest to
be paid within thirty days after the accept-
ance of the offer.
The payment of this amount is to be made
as follows: $30,000 cash within thirty days
of acceptance of offer; $105,000 on or be-
fore July 1, 1903. The balance of the pur-
chase price is to be paid in negotiable notes
bearing the endorsement of D. H. Baldwin
& Co. and Messrs. Wulsin and Armstrong as
follows: $145,000 on or before Jan. 1, 1904;
$100,000 on or before Jan. 1, 1905, with in-
terest.
The present offer of Messrs. Wulsin and
Armstrong was made in view of the near
approach of the expiration of the original ar-
ticles of partnership made in 1898, in which
there were interested Messrs. Baldwin, Wul-
sin, Van Buren and Armstrong, and in which
it was agreed that notwithstanding the death
of any partner the partnership should not ex-
pire before the first day of July, 1903.
The book value of D. H. Baldwin's inter-
ests in the firm on July 1, 1899, was $466,-
460.37. In August of that year, after his
death, an appraisement placed the value at
$306,460.37. The present book value is $505,-
580.11.
PIANO TUNER'S LIABILITIES $6,652.
C. F. HANSON & CO.'S 25TH ANNIVERSARY.
[Special to The Review.]
C. F. Hanson & Co., piano dealers of Wor-
cester, Mass., will to-day celebrate the twen-
ty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of
their business. The Hanson concern has been
identified with the Sohmer piano for a long
period of years and there are few more en-
thusiastic admirers of the musical merits of
this instrument than Mr. Hanson. The Re-
view extends congratulations to the Hanson
house on this their silver anniversary and
trust that they will live to enjoy their golden
feast.
Pittsburg, Pa., June 8, 1903.
In the United States District Court a peti-
tion in bankruptcy was filed yesterday by
Paul E. Cerutti, a piano tuner, of Evans
City, Butler county. His liabilities are given
as $6,652.08, and assets as $100, which is
claimed to be exempt. The principal credi-
tors are the First National Bank, of Mason
City, la., and C. H. McNider, who have a
claim of $4,000 for money advanced and due
on notes.
INCORPORATE WITH $100,000 CAPITAL.
Among the incorporations filed with the
Secretary of State at Albany, N. Y., on Sat-
urday last, was that of the Standard Piano
Hammer & Felt Co., whose offices and fac-
tory are at 1945 Park avenue, New York.
The capital stock is $100,000, and the direc-
tors Elbert Crandall, F. S. Zabriskie and A.
P. Windolph, all of New York.
Manager Edmund T. Wolf is quite enthus-
iastic over the business outlook for this com-
pany, and he has scores of letters from man-
ufacturers in which their products are highly
spoken of. This concern manufacture on a
new principle, to which reference will be
made more fully in later issues of The Re-
view,
ADMIRE THE BEHR PIANO.
During his recent trip, Horace F. Brown,
of Behr Bros. & Co., achieved most success-
ful results in the Northwest. The latest Behr
styles have made a tremendous "hit" with the
representatives of this house, who recognize
the infinite care and pains which are taken by
Henry Behr and his associates to turn out a
high grade, artistic instrument which makes
the dealer proud to handle it and the pur-
chaser equally proud to possess it.
The Hobart M. Cable Co. have now on
the press a new piano catalogue which will
in every way reflect the spirit of this institu-
tion, which is identified with the best.
THE:
WHERE WE WILL LAND
In 1920—A Humorous View by the Furniture World
of the Labor Unions a Few Years Hence—The
Luxury Enjoyed by the Walking Delegate.
"What unreasonable persons the manufac-
turing classes are!" growled the handsomely
dressed labor leader,blowing a cloud of smoke
to the ceiling from his fragrant Havana, as he
tilted his chair back in his sumptuously fur-
nished office at the Labor Union headquarters
one morning in the spring of 1920.
"I see by the morning papers that the Man-
ufacturers' organization claims that the dif-
ferent.manufacturers in the United States are
receiving so little work now in return for the
wages they are paying their employees that
they are not able to properly support them-
selves and their families, owing to the greatly
increased cost of living of late, and they
threaten to strike."
"So I have noticed," testily exclaimed the
secretary of the Labor L T nion. "While I be-
lieve that an employer is worthy of receiving
service in return for his money, I have no
sympathy for them in this instance. Why,
our men are working six hours a day for
them. What do they expect for their money ?
I hold that any sober, industrious manufac-
turing man should be able to support his fam-
ily comfortably on the service our men are
rendering them. Of course, we don't expect
them to be able to own yachts and automo-
biles, such as we wealthy laboring men have,
or to live in Fifth avenue mansions such as
ours, but they should be able to get along
respectably—and what more should they
want ?"
"My opinion, exactly. They don't seem to
know when they are well off. They are mak-
ing a great kick at our forcing them to pur-
chase only raw materials that have the union
label on them, claiming that they can buy the
same materials much cheaper from independ-
ent producers."
"What ingratitude!"
"Yes; and they even go so far as to assert
that we are making it so expensive for them
to manufacture things that the market is be-
ing flooded with cheap, common, foreign
manufactured articles, that they only see ruin
and bankruptcy staring them in the face.
There is to be an Unemployed Capitalists'
parade to-morrow of employers who own
manufacturing plants that are shut down."
"Poppycock! We have got their walking
delegates and capital agitators to thank for
all this!" exclaimed the secretary, savagely.
"Men who never so much as manufactured a
single article or managed a coal mint a day
in their lives go about exciting discontent
among the guileless manufacturers and cap-
italists. You would think that an intelligent
manufacturing man ought to see through
their talk, but he doesn't."
"Let's see, what do they demand?" asked
the labor leader, anxiously. "I was so dis-
gusted when I saw the heading 'The Manu-
facturers' Organization to Strike' in the
morning paper that I couldn't read the article
intelligently."
"First and foremost," responded the labor
secretary, "they demand that the laboring
men do 10 per cent, more work a day; sec-
ond, that they be allowed to purchase raw
manufacturing materials wherever they
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
choose; third, that a day's pay shall consist
of only $11, instead of $13.75, a s now; and,
fourth, that the laboring men shall work only
for the Manufacturers' organization manu-
factories."
"Preposterous!"
"Certainly. They would take away a union
laboring man's inalienable right to work for
whatever mine or manufacturing 1 company he
pleases. What is this free country of ours
coming to, I should like to know ?"
VOUGH CO. SECURE PLANT
Formerly Owned and Run by Waterloo Organ Co.—
Gives Them Splendid Facilities for the Manu-
facture of the Vough Piano.
[Special to The Review.]
Waterloo, N. Y., June 8, 1903.
The Vough Piano Co., which was recently
organized in this village and incorporated
with a capital stock of $50,000, with John
Becker, Chauncey L. Becker and William C.
Vough named as directors, have purchased
the plant and all propertv pertaining thereto
formerly operated by the Waterloo Organ
Co., which has lately been owned and oper-
ated by the First National Bank of Waterloo,
as trustees for the bondholders who pur-
chased the same at the bankruptcy sale.
The new company took possession of the
business on Monday morning and the direc-
tors have elected the following officers: Pres-
ident, William C. Vough; vice-president,
John Becker; secretary and treasurer, Chas.
D. Becker, all of Waterloo. For the past
fourteen years Mr. Vough has been superin-
tendent of the Waterloo Organ Co. and the
new owners have retained all of the em-
ployes of the old company.
Several Vough pianos, containing the
patent reversible action which changes the
pitch from standard to concert, and vice
versa, are on exhibition in the warerooms at
the factory. All who have examined them
sper 1 : very highly of their excellence.
WULSIN AND ARMSTRONG PURCHASE
The Interests of the Late D. H. Baldwin in D. H.
Baldwin & Co.—An Important Business Trans-
action Involving a Consideration of $380,000.
[Special to The Review.]
Cincinnati, O., June 8, 1903.
Through the filing of a court entry of sale,
subject, of course, to the approval of Probate
Judge Nippert, Lucien Wulsin and George
W. Armstrong, Jr., become owners of the in-
terests of the late D. H. Baldwin in the piano
company which he founded and which still
bears his name. From the documents it ap-
pears that Messrs. Wulsin and Armstrong
agree to pay for the Baldwin interests $380,-
000 and 5 per cent, interest on this amount
from Jan. 1 to July 1, 1903, the interest to
be paid within thirty days after the accept-
ance of the offer.
The payment of this amount is to be made
as follows: $30,000 cash within thirty days
of acceptance of offer; $105,000 on or be-
fore July 1, 1903. The balance of the pur-
chase price is to be paid in negotiable notes
bearing the endorsement of D. H. Baldwin
& Co. and Messrs. Wulsin and Armstrong as
follows: $145,000 on or before Jan. 1, 1904;
$100,000 on or before Jan. 1, 1905, with in-
terest.
The present offer of Messrs. Wulsin and
Armstrong was made in view of the near
approach of the expiration of the original ar-
ticles of partnership made in 1898, in which
there were interested Messrs. Baldwin, Wul-
sin, Van Buren and Armstrong, and in which
it was agreed that notwithstanding the death
of any partner the partnership should not ex-
pire before the first day of July, 1903.
The book value of D. H. Baldwin's inter-
ests in the firm on July 1, 1899, was $466,-
460.37. In August of that year, after his
death, an appraisement placed the value at
$306,460.37. The present book value is $505,-
580.11.
PIANO TUNER'S LIABILITIES $6,652.
C. F. HANSON & CO.'S 25TH ANNIVERSARY.
[Special to The Review.]
C. F. Hanson & Co., piano dealers of Wor-
cester, Mass., will to-day celebrate the twen-
ty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of
their business. The Hanson concern has been
identified with the Sohmer piano for a long
period of years and there are few more en-
thusiastic admirers of the musical merits of
this instrument than Mr. Hanson. The Re-
view extends congratulations to the Hanson
house on this their silver anniversary and
trust that they will live to enjoy their golden
feast.
Pittsburg, Pa., June 8, 1903.
In the United States District Court a peti-
tion in bankruptcy was filed yesterday by
Paul E. Cerutti, a piano tuner, of Evans
City, Butler county. His liabilities are given
as $6,652.08, and assets as $100, which is
claimed to be exempt. The principal credi-
tors are the First National Bank, of Mason
City, la., and C. H. McNider, who have a
claim of $4,000 for money advanced and due
on notes.
INCORPORATE WITH $100,000 CAPITAL.
Among the incorporations filed with the
Secretary of State at Albany, N. Y., on Sat-
urday last, was that of the Standard Piano
Hammer & Felt Co., whose offices and fac-
tory are at 1945 Park avenue, New York.
The capital stock is $100,000, and the direc-
tors Elbert Crandall, F. S. Zabriskie and A.
P. Windolph, all of New York.
Manager Edmund T. Wolf is quite enthus-
iastic over the business outlook for this com-
pany, and he has scores of letters from man-
ufacturers in which their products are highly
spoken of. This concern manufacture on a
new principle, to which reference will be
made more fully in later issues of The Re-
view,
ADMIRE THE BEHR PIANO.
During his recent trip, Horace F. Brown,
of Behr Bros. & Co., achieved most success-
ful results in the Northwest. The latest Behr
styles have made a tremendous "hit" with the
representatives of this house, who recognize
the infinite care and pains which are taken by
Henry Behr and his associates to turn out a
high grade, artistic instrument which makes
the dealer proud to handle it and the pur-
chaser equally proud to possess it.
The Hobart M. Cable Co. have now on
the press a new piano catalogue which will
in every way reflect the spirit of this institu-
tion, which is identified with the best.
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