Music Trade Review
Issue: 1907 Vol. 44 N. 13 - Page 4
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THE MUSIC TRADE
EDWARD LYMAN BILL, - Editor and Proprietor
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
Executive and Reportorlal Staff:
QBO. B. ir»T.T.m»
W. N. TTLBB.
F. H. THOMPSON.
HiriLia FKANCKS BAUBB.
L. B. BOWERS. B. BRITTAIN WILSON, WK. B. WHITB. L. J. CHAMBDHLIN. A. J. NICKLIN.
BOSTON OFFICE:
CHICAGO OFFICE:
B. P. TAN HABLINQDN, 185-187 Wabasb AT«.
TELEPHONES : Central 414 ; Automatic 8643
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL:
ST. LOUIS:
L. WAITT, 278A Tremont St.
PHILADELPHIA:
R. W. KAUFFMAN.
A. W. SHAW.
CHAB. N. VAN BUBBN.
SAN FRANCISCO: S. H. GRAY, 2407 Sacramento St.
CINCINNATI. O.: NINA PUQH-SMITH.
BALTIMORE, MD.: PAUL T. LOCKWOOD.
LONDON. ENGLAND:
69 Baslnghall St., B. C.
W. Lionel Sturdy, Manager.
Published Every Saturday at 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
Entered at the New Y$rk Post Office ms Second Class Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION.(Including pottage), United States, Mexico, and Canada, $2.00 per
year; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS. $2.00 per Inch, tingle column, per Insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount Is allowed. Advertising Pages, $60.00; opposite
reading matter, ?76.00.
REMITTANCES, in other than currency form, should be made payable to Bdward
yyman Bill.
Directory ol Plaao The directory of piano manufacturing firms and corporation*
M-«
•__•....
found on another page will be of great yalue, as a reference
M a n u f a c t u r e r s . f o r d e a l e r , a n d others.
Exposition Honors Won by The Review
ttfdnd Prim
Paris Exposition, 1000 Silver Medal.Charleston Exposition, 1802
Diploma.Pan-American Exposition, 1901 Gold Medal. .St. Louis Exposition, 1804
Gold Medal.l*w\B Clark Exposition, 1805
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE—NUMBER 1745 GRAMERCY
Cable address: "ElbiU N e w York."
NEW YORK, MARCH 30, 1907
EDITORIAL
A PROMINENT piano manufacturer, while discussing the sub-
x x ject of industrial schools, put the question: "Will not the
general introduction of industrial or trade schools usher in a new
era, helping to solve many of the vexed problems of capital and
labor?" Hard to answer, but it will make life more worth living
to many thousands of workingmen who are naturally ambitious to
make their work effective and to acquire success in their trade by
placing within their reach the means of acquiring a thorough knowl-
edge of their trade or craft? And is it not a fact that the intelli-
gent, competent workman, who is satisfied with the outlook which
his efficiency is winning for him, is the one who attends strictly to
the work he has in hand and who has neither the inclination nor the
time to spend in preaching the gospel of discontent and warfare
against those who are really desirous of bettering their condition?
The view is not at all Utopian which looks forward to the industrial
or trade schools of the future as a prime factor in ushering in a new
era of industrial peace and bringing about a better understanding
between employer and employe, replacing the present atmosphere
of unrest and dissatisfaction with one in which a mutual confidence
and respect will exist, thus giving our country the assurance of a
long period of prosperity in which the wage-earner will participate.
The time is coming, not so far distant either, when employers as
well as intelligent American labor will demand the establishment of
trade schools, and that a part of the public school money be ex-
pended for training of workmen, and the efficiency which these
trade schools shall promote, added to the American genius for
production, invention and the use of machinery, combined with
business enterprise and method, will render invincible the industrial
power of this country and give assurance of its continued com-
mercial supremacy.
r
I ''HERE is no doubt but that the industrial schools will play a
A very important part in the future development of this country,
and, in our opinion, some of the millions expended for libraries
throughout the country would be productive of better results if
they were devoted to industrial and technical schools. The late
REVIEW
Charles Hackley, president of the Chase-Hackley Piano Co., of
Muskegon, Mich., was a philanthropist in the truest sense, and he
founded one of the best equipped technical schools in the world.
A clear-headed, farsighted business man, he saw the advantage of
a school of this kind to the young men of his city, and he generously
gave of his great wealth to help them to acquire a technical educa-
tion. It would be easy, indeed, to establish a department of piano
building as a feature in one of these schools. And this reminds us,
by the way, that the Young Men's Christian Association of New
York is now discussing the question of opening a school of piano
making, along the lines of the classes now devoted to spreading a
knowledge of several other industries and which have done so much
for the advancement in position and knowledge of the young men
of New York. Then there is the Society of Mechanics & Trades-
men, of which William E. Strauch, of Strauch Bros., the eminent
piano action manufacturers, is president. It would not be a bad
idea were this famous society, which has done so much to help
along the ambitious young workmen of New York, to take up this
matter of piano construction in its entirety. Where are the piano
makers of the future—that is, the skilled men, the creative brains—
to come from, unless trained at some special school or under the
personal direction of some of the leaders of our times?
RE we willing to admit that the piano has reached a point
from which it is impossible to make further development?
We hardly think so, because that is not the American method. We
never concede that we have reached a point beyond which it is not
possible to go. It may be that as far as volume of tone goes we
have reached the limit, but as far as quality and other essentials
in this connection are concerned, there is still much to be accom-
plished, and surely higher results will not be won by the average
piano workman who, to-day, under our specialized factory system,
has but a knowledge of one part of piano making. Working in one
department, he has no accurate knowledge of any of the other
closely relating branches of the industry, and he can never be a
piano maker from the standpoint of the old manufacturers, who
were always proud to wear their white aprons at their daily tasks
and were prouder still of their knowledge of scale draughting and
acoustics.
A
"T? VERY piano man in the Empire State is interested in the
J—l/ financial resources of this great Commonwealth, and here
are some figures that will interest. According to the annual re-
port of the New York savings banks the number of depositors is
now 2,753,295, and the total of their deposits is over $1,400,000,000,
an amount greater than the bonded debt of the United States.
These depositors, who outnumber the inhabitants of Manhattan
Island, are to be commended for their wisdom. If all men of small
means were to follow their example the community as a whole
would be much better off. There was not one savings bank failure
in the past year. There is not a single savings bank now whose
report is not creditable to its management and whose solvency is
not beyond question.
In these days of get-rich-quick schemes, of mining stocks, of
speculation in bucket-shops, poolrooms, on the curb and in the
Stock Exchange, it is most timely to turn to the savings banks and
to point out the superiority to every man of small earnings and
limited means of depositing a definite surplus regularly at interest.
For a rich man to speculate is one thing. He can afford to
lose some money. He has time for personal investigation of the
risk and he has the power to enforce his legal rights. He may
win or he may lose, but in either case the transfer of wealth is not
a vital matter.
To all men who work for wages or on salaries their only hope
for a peaceful old age and for a life free from racking money cares
is to provide beforehand for the future. They should take no risk.
When they speculate they stake their family's future and their own
peace of mind against a few dollars. Even were the chances equal
—and in the case of a small man the odds are always against him—
the risk which he takes is vastly disproportionate to any possible
gain.
HIS piling up of money in the savings banks will be a splendid
power to offset that great depression which some of our
leading financiers, like James J. Hill and others, are predicting is
about to come upon us. Few men ever heard of progressive com-
T
THE MUSIC TRADE
EDWARD LYMAN BILL, - Editor and Proprietor
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
Executive and Reportorlal Staff:
QBO. B. ir»T.T.m»
W. N. TTLBB.
F. H. THOMPSON.
HiriLia FKANCKS BAUBB.
L. B. BOWERS. B. BRITTAIN WILSON, WK. B. WHITB. L. J. CHAMBDHLIN. A. J. NICKLIN.
BOSTON OFFICE:
CHICAGO OFFICE:
B. P. TAN HABLINQDN, 185-187 Wabasb AT«.
TELEPHONES : Central 414 ; Automatic 8643
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL:
ST. LOUIS:
L. WAITT, 278A Tremont St.
PHILADELPHIA:
R. W. KAUFFMAN.
A. W. SHAW.
CHAB. N. VAN BUBBN.
SAN FRANCISCO: S. H. GRAY, 2407 Sacramento St.
CINCINNATI. O.: NINA PUQH-SMITH.
BALTIMORE, MD.: PAUL T. LOCKWOOD.
LONDON. ENGLAND:
69 Baslnghall St., B. C.
W. Lionel Sturdy, Manager.
Published Every Saturday at 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
Entered at the New Y$rk Post Office ms Second Class Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION.(Including pottage), United States, Mexico, and Canada, $2.00 per
year; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS. $2.00 per Inch, tingle column, per Insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount Is allowed. Advertising Pages, $60.00; opposite
reading matter, ?76.00.
REMITTANCES, in other than currency form, should be made payable to Bdward
yyman Bill.
Directory ol Plaao The directory of piano manufacturing firms and corporation*
M-«
•__•....
found on another page will be of great yalue, as a reference
M a n u f a c t u r e r s . f o r d e a l e r , a n d others.
Exposition Honors Won by The Review
ttfdnd Prim
Paris Exposition, 1000 Silver Medal.Charleston Exposition, 1802
Diploma.Pan-American Exposition, 1901 Gold Medal. .St. Louis Exposition, 1804
Gold Medal.l*w\B Clark Exposition, 1805
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE—NUMBER 1745 GRAMERCY
Cable address: "ElbiU N e w York."
NEW YORK, MARCH 30, 1907
EDITORIAL
A PROMINENT piano manufacturer, while discussing the sub-
x x ject of industrial schools, put the question: "Will not the
general introduction of industrial or trade schools usher in a new
era, helping to solve many of the vexed problems of capital and
labor?" Hard to answer, but it will make life more worth living
to many thousands of workingmen who are naturally ambitious to
make their work effective and to acquire success in their trade by
placing within their reach the means of acquiring a thorough knowl-
edge of their trade or craft? And is it not a fact that the intelli-
gent, competent workman, who is satisfied with the outlook which
his efficiency is winning for him, is the one who attends strictly to
the work he has in hand and who has neither the inclination nor the
time to spend in preaching the gospel of discontent and warfare
against those who are really desirous of bettering their condition?
The view is not at all Utopian which looks forward to the industrial
or trade schools of the future as a prime factor in ushering in a new
era of industrial peace and bringing about a better understanding
between employer and employe, replacing the present atmosphere
of unrest and dissatisfaction with one in which a mutual confidence
and respect will exist, thus giving our country the assurance of a
long period of prosperity in which the wage-earner will participate.
The time is coming, not so far distant either, when employers as
well as intelligent American labor will demand the establishment of
trade schools, and that a part of the public school money be ex-
pended for training of workmen, and the efficiency which these
trade schools shall promote, added to the American genius for
production, invention and the use of machinery, combined with
business enterprise and method, will render invincible the industrial
power of this country and give assurance of its continued com-
mercial supremacy.
r
I ''HERE is no doubt but that the industrial schools will play a
A very important part in the future development of this country,
and, in our opinion, some of the millions expended for libraries
throughout the country would be productive of better results if
they were devoted to industrial and technical schools. The late
REVIEW
Charles Hackley, president of the Chase-Hackley Piano Co., of
Muskegon, Mich., was a philanthropist in the truest sense, and he
founded one of the best equipped technical schools in the world.
A clear-headed, farsighted business man, he saw the advantage of
a school of this kind to the young men of his city, and he generously
gave of his great wealth to help them to acquire a technical educa-
tion. It would be easy, indeed, to establish a department of piano
building as a feature in one of these schools. And this reminds us,
by the way, that the Young Men's Christian Association of New
York is now discussing the question of opening a school of piano
making, along the lines of the classes now devoted to spreading a
knowledge of several other industries and which have done so much
for the advancement in position and knowledge of the young men
of New York. Then there is the Society of Mechanics & Trades-
men, of which William E. Strauch, of Strauch Bros., the eminent
piano action manufacturers, is president. It would not be a bad
idea were this famous society, which has done so much to help
along the ambitious young workmen of New York, to take up this
matter of piano construction in its entirety. Where are the piano
makers of the future—that is, the skilled men, the creative brains—
to come from, unless trained at some special school or under the
personal direction of some of the leaders of our times?
RE we willing to admit that the piano has reached a point
from which it is impossible to make further development?
We hardly think so, because that is not the American method. We
never concede that we have reached a point beyond which it is not
possible to go. It may be that as far as volume of tone goes we
have reached the limit, but as far as quality and other essentials
in this connection are concerned, there is still much to be accom-
plished, and surely higher results will not be won by the average
piano workman who, to-day, under our specialized factory system,
has but a knowledge of one part of piano making. Working in one
department, he has no accurate knowledge of any of the other
closely relating branches of the industry, and he can never be a
piano maker from the standpoint of the old manufacturers, who
were always proud to wear their white aprons at their daily tasks
and were prouder still of their knowledge of scale draughting and
acoustics.
A
"T? VERY piano man in the Empire State is interested in the
J—l/ financial resources of this great Commonwealth, and here
are some figures that will interest. According to the annual re-
port of the New York savings banks the number of depositors is
now 2,753,295, and the total of their deposits is over $1,400,000,000,
an amount greater than the bonded debt of the United States.
These depositors, who outnumber the inhabitants of Manhattan
Island, are to be commended for their wisdom. If all men of small
means were to follow their example the community as a whole
would be much better off. There was not one savings bank failure
in the past year. There is not a single savings bank now whose
report is not creditable to its management and whose solvency is
not beyond question.
In these days of get-rich-quick schemes, of mining stocks, of
speculation in bucket-shops, poolrooms, on the curb and in the
Stock Exchange, it is most timely to turn to the savings banks and
to point out the superiority to every man of small earnings and
limited means of depositing a definite surplus regularly at interest.
For a rich man to speculate is one thing. He can afford to
lose some money. He has time for personal investigation of the
risk and he has the power to enforce his legal rights. He may
win or he may lose, but in either case the transfer of wealth is not
a vital matter.
To all men who work for wages or on salaries their only hope
for a peaceful old age and for a life free from racking money cares
is to provide beforehand for the future. They should take no risk.
When they speculate they stake their family's future and their own
peace of mind against a few dollars. Even were the chances equal
—and in the case of a small man the odds are always against him—
the risk which he takes is vastly disproportionate to any possible
gain.
HIS piling up of money in the savings banks will be a splendid
power to offset that great depression which some of our
leading financiers, like James J. Hill and others, are predicting is
about to come upon us. Few men ever heard of progressive com-
T
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