Music Trade Review
Issue: 1905 Vol. 41 N. 3 - Page 6
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MEW
EDWARD LYMAN DILL.
E d i t o r a n d Proprietor,
J. B. SPILLANE, Manatflnrf Edlt.r.
EXECVTIVE AND REPORTORIAL STAFF:
GBO. B. KELLER,
WM. B. WHITE,
W. N. TYLER,
EMILIB FRANCIS BAUER,
W. L. WILLIAMS,
A. J. NICKLIN,
GEO. W. QUERIFEL.
BOSTON OFFICE:
ERNEST L. WAITT, 255 Washington St.
PHILADELPHIA OFFICE:
R. W. KAUFFMAN.
CMICAOO OFFICE
E. P. VAN HARLINGEN, 1362 Monadnock Block.
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL:
E. C. TORRET.
5T. LOU 15 OFFICE
CHAS. N. VAN BUKEN.
. . _ . . . SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE: ALFRED METZGER, 425-427 Front. St.
Published Every Saturday at 1 Nadiion Avenue, New York.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION (Including postage), United States, Mexico and Canada, $2.00 pet-
Tear; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount is allowed. Advertising Pages, $50.00; opposite
reading matter, $75.00.
REMIT rANCES, in other than currency form, should be made payable to Edward
Lyman B11L
On the first Saturday of each month The Review contains in its
THE ARTISTS' "Artists' Department" all the current musical news. This is effected
without in any way trespassing on the size or service of the trade
DEPARTMENT section of the paper. It has a special circulation, and therefore
augments materially the value of The Review to advertisers.
DUtrCTORY «f PIANO l h e d i r e c t o r y o f P^no manufacturing firms and corporations
"V^TT/I v i : * riAMU f 0Un( j o n another page will be of great value, as a reference
MANVFACTUR.ER.S
f or dealers and others.
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE-NUMBER 1745 GRAMERCY.
NEW YORK, JULY 22. 19O5.
W
HOLESALE trade has kept up surprisingly well. There
has been no half time work and there is but little com-
pleted stock on hand in few factories. Edmund R. Wanckel,
of the American Felt Co., recently remarked while discussing trade
conditions, that a busy July was something which was unexpected.
Mr. Wanckel did not hesitate to say that such music trade activity
during the summer months was unusual, and it demonstrated one
thing more than all else, and that was that piano manufacturers must
be having a steady demand for their products, or else they were
endeavoring to accumulate stock for early fall shipment. The lat-
ter, however, he did not believe, and Mr. Wanckel, with others, an-
ticipates a fall trade of tremendous proportions.
S
UCH remarks coming from Mr. Wanckel, who is a director in
a great supply institution, whose interests extend all over the
country, must carry great weight, and we may say that in the opin-
ion of other eminent members of the industry, there is a settled be-
lief that there will be such an unprecedented demand for pianos this
fall that it will be practically impossible to supply orders with a
satisfactory degree of promptness.
Of course, in the larger cities, retail trade is absolutely flat
during the summer months, but in the smaller towns—and there
are many of them scattered throughout the country—there is a
good deal of life in music trade circles during the outing season.
I
T is the belief of many that the total business for the year will
exceed that of any previous year since the industry began to
grow into proportions worthy of special note. The total sale of
pianos and organs during the year will probably run into enormous
figures, even for a country where we are used to handling pretty
large propositions.
Americans are becoming so accustomed to hearing figures of
such large denominations used in connection with various business
enterprises, that nothing appalls them ; but the total sales of pianos
for 1905 will run into a good many millions. It will be interesting
to approximate the actual total of pianos and organs sold during the
year. It is, of course, impossible to obtain exact figures, and we
must approximate the total.
L
AST year, pianos amounting to several millions were sold in
New York alone, so that taking this city as a standard it
would mean that the aggregate for the entire country would be
extremely large. Colossal figures are inviting subjects for con-
templation and comparison. Chas. M. Harvey gives some figures
in Pearson's for July, showing the magnitude of the Pennsylvania
Railroad's operation: He furnishes a most interesting array of com-
parative figures which show how the revenue of one railroad com-
pany surpasses the Government receipts of important countries.
The gross earnings of that company in the calendar year 1904 he
places at $118,000,000, and he truly says: "This sum is too great to
be grasped by the ordinary comprehension." Only the large nations
exceed in revenue these figures. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany, he proceeds, has twice the income of the Dominion of Canada,
which has 7,000,000 inhabitants and an area greater than that of
the United States. Mexico, with a population of 14,000,000, has an
annual revenue of but $75,000,000. Except the United States, the
only country in the Western Hemisphere which has as large a
revenue as the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is Brazil. Its earn-
ings are greater than the treasury receipts of the Netherlands and
Sweden and Norway combined. They are much greater than the
revenue of Turkey and its old enemy, Greece. They are greater
than that of all the Balkan States—Roumania, Servia, Bulgaria, and
Montenegro—taken together. Japan's army and navy, says this
writer, have been filling the trump of fame for over a year, yet the
income of the Government of the 46,000,000 Japanese in the fiscal
year 1903-1904 was approximately the same as that of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company.
' T P H E S E comparisons have their value in enabling one to coni-
X
prehend, to some extent at least, the enormous volume of
business transacted by single corporations of the present day.
In taking his figures, however, the author referred to has com-
mitted a singular oversight, as he only gave the earnings for the
Pennsylvania lines east of Pittsburgh and Erie. The total earnings
for the entire Pennsylvania system in 1904 were $238,242,402, while
in 1903, the maximum year, they were $242,517,758. A comparison
based upon these huge figures would have been very much more
striking. Proceeding still further on this line of thought, if the
earnings of the United States Steel Corporation had been taken as a
test the showing made for the business done under a single manage-
ment would have been vastly more impressive. That Colossus of
modern trade developments earned in the calendar year 1904 a sum
immensely greater than that of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany, its total receipts being stated at $444,405,431. This is below
the amount earned in 1902, when the corporation reported its total
sales at $560,510,479. These figures come up to the United States
Government class. Our national revenues for the year ended June
30, 1905, aggregated $543,423,859, which is considerably under the
corporation's earnings in 1902. The revenues of Austria and Spain
united do not quite equal those of the United States Steel Corpora-
tion. The only countries in the world whose national income is
larger than that of the corporation are Russia, Great Britain, Ger-
many and France.
N view of these enormous earnings, it does seem as if the rail-
road concerns could give more suitable accommodations for the
traveling public during the summer months. Surely they cannot
make poverty as the plea for not supplying more seasonable sur-
roundings. On all of the roads we have the same heavy upholstered
seats in the day coaches, drawing room cars and sleepers which are
comfortable during zero weather. Of course, there are occasional
linen covers, but it would be a very simple matter to install cool,
cane-seated furniture in the cars for the summer months. The only
change that is made from the winter equipments is a few light dra-
peries for the Pullman sleeping coaches, otherwise there is the same
heaviness and oppressiveness everywhere.
I
T is worth a man's life to endure a night on a sleeping car during
the summer, and in day travel what is tViere more uncomfortable
than to lean back in a heavy, cumbersome velvet cushion, which in
height reaches one's neck? It is absolutely impossible to obtain
any comfort under such conditions when the thermometer during
the warm months reaches up into the nineties. It seems that with
such princely revenues we should have better accommodations. W e
I
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MEW
EDWARD LYMAN DILL.
E d i t o r a n d Proprietor,
J. B. SPILLANE, Manatflnrf Edlt.r.
EXECVTIVE AND REPORTORIAL STAFF:
GBO. B. KELLER,
WM. B. WHITE,
W. N. TYLER,
EMILIB FRANCIS BAUER,
W. L. WILLIAMS,
A. J. NICKLIN,
GEO. W. QUERIFEL.
BOSTON OFFICE:
ERNEST L. WAITT, 255 Washington St.
PHILADELPHIA OFFICE:
R. W. KAUFFMAN.
CMICAOO OFFICE
E. P. VAN HARLINGEN, 1362 Monadnock Block.
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL:
E. C. TORRET.
5T. LOU 15 OFFICE
CHAS. N. VAN BUKEN.
. . _ . . . SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE: ALFRED METZGER, 425-427 Front. St.
Published Every Saturday at 1 Nadiion Avenue, New York.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION (Including postage), United States, Mexico and Canada, $2.00 pet-
Tear; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount is allowed. Advertising Pages, $50.00; opposite
reading matter, $75.00.
REMIT rANCES, in other than currency form, should be made payable to Edward
Lyman B11L
On the first Saturday of each month The Review contains in its
THE ARTISTS' "Artists' Department" all the current musical news. This is effected
without in any way trespassing on the size or service of the trade
DEPARTMENT section of the paper. It has a special circulation, and therefore
augments materially the value of The Review to advertisers.
DUtrCTORY «f PIANO l h e d i r e c t o r y o f P^no manufacturing firms and corporations
"V^TT/I v i : * riAMU f 0Un( j o n another page will be of great value, as a reference
MANVFACTUR.ER.S
f or dealers and others.
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE-NUMBER 1745 GRAMERCY.
NEW YORK, JULY 22. 19O5.
W
HOLESALE trade has kept up surprisingly well. There
has been no half time work and there is but little com-
pleted stock on hand in few factories. Edmund R. Wanckel,
of the American Felt Co., recently remarked while discussing trade
conditions, that a busy July was something which was unexpected.
Mr. Wanckel did not hesitate to say that such music trade activity
during the summer months was unusual, and it demonstrated one
thing more than all else, and that was that piano manufacturers must
be having a steady demand for their products, or else they were
endeavoring to accumulate stock for early fall shipment. The lat-
ter, however, he did not believe, and Mr. Wanckel, with others, an-
ticipates a fall trade of tremendous proportions.
S
UCH remarks coming from Mr. Wanckel, who is a director in
a great supply institution, whose interests extend all over the
country, must carry great weight, and we may say that in the opin-
ion of other eminent members of the industry, there is a settled be-
lief that there will be such an unprecedented demand for pianos this
fall that it will be practically impossible to supply orders with a
satisfactory degree of promptness.
Of course, in the larger cities, retail trade is absolutely flat
during the summer months, but in the smaller towns—and there
are many of them scattered throughout the country—there is a
good deal of life in music trade circles during the outing season.
I
T is the belief of many that the total business for the year will
exceed that of any previous year since the industry began to
grow into proportions worthy of special note. The total sale of
pianos and organs during the year will probably run into enormous
figures, even for a country where we are used to handling pretty
large propositions.
Americans are becoming so accustomed to hearing figures of
such large denominations used in connection with various business
enterprises, that nothing appalls them ; but the total sales of pianos
for 1905 will run into a good many millions. It will be interesting
to approximate the actual total of pianos and organs sold during the
year. It is, of course, impossible to obtain exact figures, and we
must approximate the total.
L
AST year, pianos amounting to several millions were sold in
New York alone, so that taking this city as a standard it
would mean that the aggregate for the entire country would be
extremely large. Colossal figures are inviting subjects for con-
templation and comparison. Chas. M. Harvey gives some figures
in Pearson's for July, showing the magnitude of the Pennsylvania
Railroad's operation: He furnishes a most interesting array of com-
parative figures which show how the revenue of one railroad com-
pany surpasses the Government receipts of important countries.
The gross earnings of that company in the calendar year 1904 he
places at $118,000,000, and he truly says: "This sum is too great to
be grasped by the ordinary comprehension." Only the large nations
exceed in revenue these figures. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany, he proceeds, has twice the income of the Dominion of Canada,
which has 7,000,000 inhabitants and an area greater than that of
the United States. Mexico, with a population of 14,000,000, has an
annual revenue of but $75,000,000. Except the United States, the
only country in the Western Hemisphere which has as large a
revenue as the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is Brazil. Its earn-
ings are greater than the treasury receipts of the Netherlands and
Sweden and Norway combined. They are much greater than the
revenue of Turkey and its old enemy, Greece. They are greater
than that of all the Balkan States—Roumania, Servia, Bulgaria, and
Montenegro—taken together. Japan's army and navy, says this
writer, have been filling the trump of fame for over a year, yet the
income of the Government of the 46,000,000 Japanese in the fiscal
year 1903-1904 was approximately the same as that of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company.
' T P H E S E comparisons have their value in enabling one to coni-
X
prehend, to some extent at least, the enormous volume of
business transacted by single corporations of the present day.
In taking his figures, however, the author referred to has com-
mitted a singular oversight, as he only gave the earnings for the
Pennsylvania lines east of Pittsburgh and Erie. The total earnings
for the entire Pennsylvania system in 1904 were $238,242,402, while
in 1903, the maximum year, they were $242,517,758. A comparison
based upon these huge figures would have been very much more
striking. Proceeding still further on this line of thought, if the
earnings of the United States Steel Corporation had been taken as a
test the showing made for the business done under a single manage-
ment would have been vastly more impressive. That Colossus of
modern trade developments earned in the calendar year 1904 a sum
immensely greater than that of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany, its total receipts being stated at $444,405,431. This is below
the amount earned in 1902, when the corporation reported its total
sales at $560,510,479. These figures come up to the United States
Government class. Our national revenues for the year ended June
30, 1905, aggregated $543,423,859, which is considerably under the
corporation's earnings in 1902. The revenues of Austria and Spain
united do not quite equal those of the United States Steel Corpora-
tion. The only countries in the world whose national income is
larger than that of the corporation are Russia, Great Britain, Ger-
many and France.
N view of these enormous earnings, it does seem as if the rail-
road concerns could give more suitable accommodations for the
traveling public during the summer months. Surely they cannot
make poverty as the plea for not supplying more seasonable sur-
roundings. On all of the roads we have the same heavy upholstered
seats in the day coaches, drawing room cars and sleepers which are
comfortable during zero weather. Of course, there are occasional
linen covers, but it would be a very simple matter to install cool,
cane-seated furniture in the cars for the summer months. The only
change that is made from the winter equipments is a few light dra-
peries for the Pullman sleeping coaches, otherwise there is the same
heaviness and oppressiveness everywhere.
I
T is worth a man's life to endure a night on a sleeping car during
the summer, and in day travel what is tViere more uncomfortable
than to lean back in a heavy, cumbersome velvet cushion, which in
height reaches one's neck? It is absolutely impossible to obtain
any comfort under such conditions when the thermometer during
the warm months reaches up into the nineties. It seems that with
such princely revenues we should have better accommodations. W e
I
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