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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
OUR FOREIGN CUSTOMERS.
DISCHARGE OF BANKRUPTS.
Pianos and Other Musical Instruments Shipped
Abroad from the Port of New York for the
Week Just Ended.
Court Says Six-Year Limit Dates from Filing
of Petitions.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, March 25, 1907.
The following were the exports of musical in-
struments and kindred lines from the port of
New York, for the week just ended:
Algoa Bay—40 cases organs, $1,538; 12 cases
pianos and material, $1,950.
Amsterdam—13 cases organs, $693.
Antwerp—3 cases organs, $500; 1 case music,
$100.
Bremen—3 cases piano players and material,
$320.
Buenos Ayres—7 cases pianos and material,
$1,693; 156 pkgs. talking machines and material,
$10,747; 32 pkgs. talking machines and material,
$456.
Calcutta—4 cases pianos and material, $1,725;
1 case musical instruments, $103.
Cardiff—4 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $200.
Copenhagen—4 cases organs, $250.
Corinto—5 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $150; 3 cases piano players and material,
$995; 3 cases music, $348; 3 pkgs. talking ma-
chines and material, $240.
Gothenburg—3 cases organs, $262.
Hamburg—1 pkg. talking machines and ma-
terial, $100; 30 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $6,000; 3 cases pianos and material, $355.
Havana—9 cases pianos and material, $403;
22 pkgs. talking machines and material, $735;
3 cases piano players and material, $600.
Havre—1 case piano players and material,
$125; 3 pkgs. talking machines and material,
$160; 1 case music, $118.
Limon—6 cases organ material, $500.
Liverpool—23 cases organs, $1,150; 71 cases
organs, $807; 3 cases watches, $1,200; 3 cases
jewelry, $650.
London—38 cases organs and material, $8,592;
276 pkgs. talking machines and material, $7,481;
37 cases piano players and material, $4,540; 6
cases pianos and material, $1,200; 1 case music,
$100.
Para—13 pkgs. talking machines and material,
$646.
Rio—2 cases pianos and material, $470; 20
pkgs. talking machines and material, $1,472.
Trieste—3 cases organs, $156.
Vera Cruz—8 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $125; 1 case pianos and material, $200.
SOME TRADE NOTES FROM SAVANNAH.
(Special to The Keview.)
Savannah, Ga., March 25, 1907.
A. D. McCall and M. H. Alnutt, formerly con-
nected with prominent music houses in this city,
have opened a new piano store at Whitaker and
Taylor streets and will handle Hallet & Davis
pianos.
Phillips & Crew Co. also held a formal open-
ing at their new store at 242 Bull street and en-
tertained nearly one thousand visitors with an
elaborate and pleasing musical program. The
fresh stock of pianos was well set off by floral
decorations. This firm have been in business
here for nearly five years.
THE LTJDWIG IN NEW MEXICO.
H. C. Maxwell, who handles the Ludwig &
Co. pianos in Portales, N. M., reports an excellent
business with that line, and says that he could
have made more sales if he could have obtained
the instruments. Upon a recent trip to New
York Mr. Maxwell arranged for a greatly in-
creased supply during the coming year.
INSTALLED PIANO DEPARTMENT.
The Christ. Schmidt Furniture Co., 157 Spring-
field avenue, Newark, N. J., have installed a
piano department, and at present are handling
the Krakauer and Janssen.
piano men were on the various committees
formed to obtain the appointment of a commis-
sion, and B. S. Conway, vice-president of the
W. W. Kimball Co., was especially energetic in
his efforts in that direction.
Judge Hough, of the United States District
Court, on Friday rendered an important decision
EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES
as to the six years' limit in the discharge of bank-
rupts for the second time, which is the first de- Exceed $700,000,000 a Year—Have Doubled
cision on this point in this district.
in Value in Ten Years.
The bankruptcy act as amended in 1903 says
(Special to The Review.)
that the Judge shall disoharge the applicant un-
Washington, March 25, 1907.
less he has in voluntary proceedings been granted
The United States now ranks third among the
a discharge within six years. There has been
great difference of opinion among the lawyers as world's exporters of manufactures, according to
to whether the six years go back from the date of a monograph on "exports of manufactures from
filing the second petition in bankruptcy, or from the United States and their distribution," issued
the date of application for discharge on the to-day by the Bureau of Statistics of the Depart-
second petition, which might be a year after the ment of Commerce and Labor.
It is shown that not only do the exports of
second petition was filed. The Judge decides that
the six years are measured backward from the manufactures now exceed $700,000,000 per annum,
time of hearing the application for discharge. and have doubled in value in a single decade, but
the share which products of the factory form
The Judge says in part:
"It is to be remembered that prior to the of the total exports is steadily increasing. A
amendment of 1903 there was nothing to prevent comparison shows that in 1880 manufactures
successive petitions being filed by habitual bank- formed only 15 per cent, of the total exports of
rupts within a few months of each other, and domestic products, while in 1906 they formed 40
there is still nothing to prevent such petitions per cent.
In the decade ending with 1905 exports of
being presented. The effect of the Ray amend-
ment was to limit an existing right or privilege, manufactures increased 198 per cent, while those
and while I personally think that the law ought from Germany increased 75 per cent.; from the
to be at least as stringent as that contended for United Kingdom, 40 per cent., and from France,
by the objecting creditors, it appears to me too 25 per cent.
plain for further argument that Congress did not
GIBBONS PIANO CO. OPENS UP.
make the law in that shape. The exception to
the objection is sustained."
The Gibbons Piano Co., Clinton, Mass., whose
The case decided is that of Adolph Haase, shoe
Main
street store was recently destroyed by fire,
dealer of 513 Canal street, who filed his first pe-
tion on Oct. 27, 1900, and was discharged Dec. 19, have reopened not far from the old quarters with
1900. A creditor's petition was filed against him a full line of James & Holmstrom, Opera, Bailey
on Jan. 10, 1906, but the hearing for his discharge and Goetzmann & Co. pianos.
At the fire recently a number of pianos were
did not come up in court until Jan. 14, 1907, when
several creditors opposed his discharge on the covered with water, but owing to the low tem-
ground that he had been discharged before within perature the water froze before i t could pene-
trate the cases of the pianos, and the interiors
six vears.
were therefore uninjured. When the cases were
repolished
the instruments brought good prices.
HOLLENBERG CO.'S PUBLIC RECITALS.
(Special to The Review.)
Little Rock, Ark., March 23, 1907.
Col. F. B. T. Hollenberg, who has been visiting
a number of points in the East on important
business, has returned to the city. The equip-
ment of the new Hollenberg building is now
practically completed; the organ being erected
in the recital hall is nearly ready. It is a strik-
ingly handsome instrument, and is said to be one
of the most complete in both tonal and me-
chanical quality to be found anywhere. I t is
equipped with the latest automatic device, the
"Soloist," which enables the performer to render
the lightest grade of music, as well as the most
pretentious orchestral selections with an accu-
racy heretofore not attained. It is the intention
of the Hollenberg Music Co. to inaugurate soon
a series of public recitals, to fully demonstrate
the possibilities of this organ, for which purpose
they have engaged August Halter, of Chicago,
who is in the pipe organ department.
The William Silver Co. is a new concern in
Johnson City, Tenn., who have secured the
agency for the Aeolian Co.'s line.
W. W. Troutman will shortly open a new music
store in Orange, Tex., and has three carloads of
pianos and organs ready for display.
DISTINCTIVELY HIGH GKADE'
DEATH OF E. C. RICKSECKER.
E. C. Ricksecker, who for forty years had been
engaged in the piano "and music business in
Bethlehem, Pa., died on March 23, aged seventy
years. He was educated at Moravia, N. Y., and
was an accomplished musician, playing the vio-
lin in Gilmore's famous orchestra.
MR. CONWAY'S WORK BEARS FRUIT.
An Inland Waterways Commission which
many prominent men of the Middle West have
been demanding for considerable time was ap-
pointed by President Roosevelt very recently.
The object of the commission, of which Theodore
H. Burton will be chairman, will be chiefly to
develop the transportation facilities of the water-
ways in the Mississippi Valley and thereby re-
lieve the congestion of the railroads in that sec-
tion, besides moving freights more rapidly. Many
S6e CHRISTMAN
STUDIO GRAND
is the greatest success of the day.
It possesses a scale of rare even-
ness, a tone of remarkable sonority
and richness, with a quality that
is highly orchestral. Our latest
Btyles of Grands and Uprights
mark a decided advance in the art
of piano-making. We court inves-
tigation. Some territory still open.
CHRISTNAN SONS, Manufacturer,
FACTORY AND OFFICE:
WAKEItOOMS:
869-873 Eut 137th St.
NEW
35 West 14 YOR.K