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form of note.
Of course there is a saving to the customer.
Goods
are shipped direct from factory and no wareroom overhauling."
We do not know of another case in this country where a large
and important dealer—and Mr. Bailey controls four stores in Ver-
mont and New Hampshire—who conducts his business on the basis
of payment down before the pianos are delivered.
Mr. Bailey has
ciation of the value of the trade press, and its true relation to manu-
facturers.
A DOLPH'O H. FISCHER, than whom no man is more respected
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He is president of a local bank, and he lives absolutely
in this industry remarked recently while discussing trade re-
lations :
"The future tendency of business should be along more aes-
a reputation for the strictest integrity, and no bond is better than
his word.
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thetic lines, each one recognizing that for what he receives he also
is giving full value in return, and as this is fair and just, so should
up to all statements made,
His method of conducting business is indeed a novel one in
the business relations be fair and just and therefore kindly and
friendly.
the piano world.
Kindness and friendship have produced the true aestheti-
cism which simply tends to or rather makes all men gentlemen, and
*T*HE decision rendered by the United States Court of Appeals at
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gentlemen in the true sense elevate a trade no matter how humble
Chicago affirming the decision of the lower court in the case
it may be, for all trades are necessary for human happiness and
of Checkering & Sons vs. Chickering Bros, occasioned no surprise,
human advancement, and what is necessary should not be debased,
for it was believed that the Appellate Division would deny the appeal
but should be uplifted to a common level, which is a higher one.
of Chickering Bros, for a release from the temporary injunction
"Every one should be jealous of the standing of his trade
obtained against them by Chickering & Sons of Boston which pro-
and in order that that standing should be a high one it becomes
hibited them from using the word "Chickering" in connection with
necessary that the trade should have confidence in each other and
their piano business.
be ready to make even a sacrifice if necessary that it should not be
The review of the case was exhaustive and hardly need be
entered into at length.
The mere statement that the higher courl
sustained Chickering & Sons is sufficient..
This decision will prob-
ably be followed by a suit to make the injunction permanent.
lowered.
This confidence can only be engendered by associating
together and the determination that in keeping the whole trade at
a high standard they are raising their own particular part of it,
and each part being smaller than the whole, they are deriving more
In our opinion this case will be frequently cited by lawyers in
benefit from the whole than they give to it."
infringement suits owing to the fact that the restraint placed upon
Chickering Bros, was so sweeping.
This decision of the court, while admitting that every man has
M
R. FISCHER clothed in very beautiful language a noble sen-
timent, a sentiment which should be encouraged by one and
a right to use his own name honestly and fairly in his own busi-
all. And if some of us devoted much time to self-analysis we might;
ness, insists on the other hand he must so use his name as not
find cause for self-condemnation.
to unnecessarily injure another, and must not designate his wares
excessive rejoicing in our little achievements, and find time to lay
in a way calculated to confuse and enable goods to be palmed off
the cause of our failures upon others.
as the product of another.
substitute a change and for the moment adopt the other course.
r*\ ECENTLY at a banquet a noted speaker remarked that every
Suppose we were to blot out what we have done well, remember
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regretfully what we have done ill or what we have failed to do at
editor who desired could lead a certain number of thousands
of men into useful thinking, but not one in twenty makes any
all.
effort to do so.
might become more apparent.
,
While this statement might apply with sweeping force to the
Some of us spend our lives in
Now, it might be well to
Possibly our own lack of a desire for universal betterment
H E article relating to artificial lumber for pianos which ap-
editor of the daily papers, known in the vernacular as the yellow
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journals, we do not think that it would be fitting in the slightest
inquiries regarding this new substitute.
degree to the conductors of trade newspapers, for while the "yel-
to add to what was stated last week, and it seems that with this new
lows" are devoting columns to the exploitation of the follies, foibles
process it is possible to make artificial boards, any size, limited of
and vices of life, the trade newspapers are giving prominence to
course by the available facilities for transporting and handling.
peared in last week's Review has brought forth a number of
There is really but little
the individuals who control great industries, and whose inventions
This new invention is following out a line which is recognized
are of value to the world and dealing generally with the clean and
in great industries, and that is turning what has hitherto been
intellectual side of life.
wasted into a profit.
Trade journalism, too, has shown tremendous advance, and
many bright young men to-day are seeking the profession of class-
journalism, rather than employment on the daily papers.
Possibly it will not be long before the shav-
ings and sawdust in our great factories will be all saved carefully
for utilization in other forms.
This
Certainly it will be following the eternal law of change without
shows how the trade side is steadily advancing both in dignity and
awaiting death and decay for the transformation to take place.
in position.
The trade paper editor is brought into close contact
• with his constituency, and it is manifestly impossible for him to
be as completely removed from sympathy with his readers as th«.-
editor of the daily paper, whose acquaintance extends to none out-
side of a narrow circle of acquaintances.
The trade editor has a right to feel proud of his profession,
/andthere #re many .men in-this prof essioruwha have a keen appre-
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Y the way, how that fellow, Blumen—rather Rottenberg—has
toned down.
Rottenberg's reformation has never been of
sufficient lasting character to cause one to believe in its genuine-
ness.
It is that kind of reformation which improves with the use
of the law and not under ordinary meek usage. The rottenness of
Rottenberg is too deeply imbedded to be easily removed.