Music Trade Review
Issue: 1908 Vol. 47 N. 8 - Page 4
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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Editor and Proprietor
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
Executive and Reportoiial Stall:
W. H. DYKES,
F. H. THOMPSON,
J. HATDEN CLARBNDON,
B. BRITTAIN WILSON,
L. J. CHAMBERLIN,
A. J. NICKLIN.
Quo. B. KELLKR,
L. B. BOWERS,
BOSTON OFFICE:
CHICAGO OFFICE
BJRNBST L. WAITT, 100 Boylston St.B. P. VAN HARLINGEN, Room 806, 156 Wabash Ave.
PHILADELPHIA:
R. W. KAUFFMAN.
Telephone, Central 414.
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL:
ST. LOUIS:
ADOLF EDSTEN.
CHAS. N. VAN BDRBN.
SAN FRANCISCO: S. H. GRAY, 2407 Sacramento St.
CINCINNATI, O.: BERNARD C BOWEN.
BALTIMORE, MD.: A. ROBERT FRENCH.
LONDON, ENGLAND: 69 Raslngnall St., B. C.
W. LIONEL STURDI, Manager.
Published Every Saturday at 1 Madison Avenue, New York
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION, (including postage), United States and Mexico, $2.00 per year;
Canada, $8.50; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS. $2,00 per Inch, single column, per Insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount la allowed. Advertising Pages, $60.00; opposite
reading matter, $75.00.
REMITTANCES, In other than currency form, should b« made payable to Edward
Lyman Bill.
Music Publishers*
An interesting feature of this publication Is a special depart-
Department T* V ment devoted exclusively to the world of music publishing.
Exposition Honors Won by The Review
Grand Prix
ParlB Exposition, 1900 Silver Medal. Charleston Exposition, 1902
Diploma. Pan-American Exposition, 1901 Gold Medal. ...St. Louis Exposition, 1904
Gold Medal
Lewis-Clark Exposition, 1905.
REVIEW
honest and fairly conducted, and we believe will be in future. Tell
them not to condemn one hundred per cent, of the railroads because
ten per cent, of them have been guilty of sharp practice or crooked
work. Tell them not to 'burn down their barns trying to smoke out
a few rats.' Tell them that the railroads have gone abroad and
borrowed money at low rates, taken it into new states and non-de-
veloped territories, and built roads there which have resulted in
building up, in a wonderfully rapid manner, what was a most unim-
portant and almost unknown section of our country."
O
N the subject of rate increase, which is one of interest to piano
men as a whole, Mr. Simmons said: "Just a word on the
subject of advance in freight rates. We are opposed to that at
present. We believe the time is inopportune. All interests have
suffered alike—manufacturing, jobbing, general distributing, and
railroad interests. It is no more than fair to ask that they bear with
us these burdens brought on by the panic for a while longer. We
would think it only fair that they should wait until about December
1 to test this question. There are just three horns to this dilemma,
to help the unfortunate condition that the railroads are now in. The
first is to have such an increase in business that they would again,
within sixty or ninety days, have a car shortage instead of having
four hundred thousand cars on the side tracks, as was the case three
months ago. The second is to advance rates somewhere between
5 and 10 per cent. Third is to reduce wages. We hope and confi-
dently believe that the first of these three will prevail, and if it does
not by December 1 then we shall certainly be quite willing that there
be an advance in freight rates—believing that that is the better plan,
rather than anv reduction in wages."
G
ATHERINGS like these have a most pronounced influence in
all branches of industry, and the piano trade is no exception.
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES-PLUMBERS 4677 and 4678 GRAMERCY
No
one
can overlook the tremendous work which has been done, and
Connecting a l l Departments.
is
being
accomplished every day by the traveling men in the interest
Cable a d d r e s s : "ElbllL N e w York."
of manufacturers. They are the great trade builders, and, like the
NEW YORK, AUGUST 2 2 , 1908
railroads, work up new and undeveloped territories. They always
follow the flag and the railroad, and are in every respect sni generis.
The traveling man is by nature optimistic, and the assembled cheer-
fulness of a convention composed of such men should produce an
EDITORIAL
optimistic thought-wave capable of dispelling the last lingering
clouds of business gloom. We doff our hats to the trade ambassa-
EW people have done so much to promote confidence and re- dors of the United States.
store prosperity in the country as those trade ambassadors
commonly known as commercial travelers. In close touch with
N The Review recently we published a decision of exceeding in-
every line of trade in every section of the nation they have kept their.
terest to merchants and manufacturers who are in the habit of
hand, so to speak, on the business pulse, and through their wise making joint shipments of freight, either by arrangement among
counsels manufacturers have been able to gauge conditions and
themselves, or through the medium of a forwarding agency. The
come through the trying times of the past nine months in a highly
decision which was handed down by the Interstate Commerce Com-
satisfactory way. The traveling men gave prosperity another boost
mission was based on a complaint brought by the California Com-
last Friday and Saturday when the United Commercial Travelers of
mercial Association against Wells. Fargo & Co., the well known
America and the Travelers' Protective Association met in a joint
express people, who refused to apply their quantity rates to certain
session in New York, and by their encouraging reports and enthu-
shipments, which consisted of a combination of packages of various
siastic words spread more broadcast the optimistic wave which is
ownership, tendered at one time and one place by a single consignor
destined to bring to us old-time trade conditions the coming fall.
and consigned to a single consignee under one bill of lading. The
The meetings, which were held on Friday at the rooms of the Mer- Commission holds that the ownership of property tendered for ship-
chants' Association and in the afternoon in the great Metropolitan
ment cannot be made a test as to the applicability of a carrier's rates.
Building, where the Review offices are located, were well attended.
Discrimination between shippers is forbidden by the Interstate Com-
There was a wide variety of addresses, representing the views of merce law, say the Commission, and the fact that one shipper tenders
various prosperity experts, including Henry Clews, George Fred
a bulked shipment made up of property of various ownership, con-
Williams, of Boston, and a host of other speakers not noted so much
solidated before delivery to the carrier, will not justify the carrier in
for their oratorv as for their hard commonsense.
making a different charge than he would for a shipment of similar
character tendered by a shipper who is the sole owner. The opinion
NE of the speakers who was listened to with great interest was
was further expressed that the enforcement of a rule preventing the
E. C. Simmons, the St. Louis manufacturer and founder
combination of packages belonging to various owners into one ship-
of the prosperity movement, who gave his hearers a message to
ment would so affect transportation practices as to be nothing short
carry to the people they met in their travels around the country.
of revolutionary, would bring disaster upon thousands of the smaller
Among other things he wanted their help in getting a square deal
industries and would more surely establish the dominance of the
for the railroads, and said: "Tell the people you meet that the rail-
greater industrial and commercial interests.
roads are the greatest buyers on the face of the earth. Tell them
that they purchased 35 per cent, of all the manufactured products of
A REVIEW subscriber, writing under date of August 15, says:
iron and steel last year and 25 per cent, of all the lumber that was
±~\ "For many years in addition to pianos I have handled small
cut, and that out of every dollar they received in the way of earn-
musical instruments and sheet music, and have built up an excellent
ings they paid out 43 cents in the way of wages to their employes.
trade in the two latter departments. Within the last year a local
Tell them that the railroads are the greatest friends of the laboring
department store has gone into these same lines and has taken from
man—and especially are they the greatest friends of the farmer
me a lot of my customers. In looking over my books for the first
there are in the world, Tel] them that the railroads as a whole are six months of 1908 I find that the falling off in these two depart-
F
O
I
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Editor and Proprietor
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
Executive and Reportoiial Stall:
W. H. DYKES,
F. H. THOMPSON,
J. HATDEN CLARBNDON,
B. BRITTAIN WILSON,
L. J. CHAMBERLIN,
A. J. NICKLIN.
Quo. B. KELLKR,
L. B. BOWERS,
BOSTON OFFICE:
CHICAGO OFFICE
BJRNBST L. WAITT, 100 Boylston St.B. P. VAN HARLINGEN, Room 806, 156 Wabash Ave.
PHILADELPHIA:
R. W. KAUFFMAN.
Telephone, Central 414.
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL:
ST. LOUIS:
ADOLF EDSTEN.
CHAS. N. VAN BDRBN.
SAN FRANCISCO: S. H. GRAY, 2407 Sacramento St.
CINCINNATI, O.: BERNARD C BOWEN.
BALTIMORE, MD.: A. ROBERT FRENCH.
LONDON, ENGLAND: 69 Raslngnall St., B. C.
W. LIONEL STURDI, Manager.
Published Every Saturday at 1 Madison Avenue, New York
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION, (including postage), United States and Mexico, $2.00 per year;
Canada, $8.50; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS. $2,00 per Inch, single column, per Insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount la allowed. Advertising Pages, $60.00; opposite
reading matter, $75.00.
REMITTANCES, In other than currency form, should b« made payable to Edward
Lyman Bill.
Music Publishers*
An interesting feature of this publication Is a special depart-
Department T* V ment devoted exclusively to the world of music publishing.
Exposition Honors Won by The Review
Grand Prix
ParlB Exposition, 1900 Silver Medal. Charleston Exposition, 1902
Diploma. Pan-American Exposition, 1901 Gold Medal. ...St. Louis Exposition, 1904
Gold Medal
Lewis-Clark Exposition, 1905.
REVIEW
honest and fairly conducted, and we believe will be in future. Tell
them not to condemn one hundred per cent, of the railroads because
ten per cent, of them have been guilty of sharp practice or crooked
work. Tell them not to 'burn down their barns trying to smoke out
a few rats.' Tell them that the railroads have gone abroad and
borrowed money at low rates, taken it into new states and non-de-
veloped territories, and built roads there which have resulted in
building up, in a wonderfully rapid manner, what was a most unim-
portant and almost unknown section of our country."
O
N the subject of rate increase, which is one of interest to piano
men as a whole, Mr. Simmons said: "Just a word on the
subject of advance in freight rates. We are opposed to that at
present. We believe the time is inopportune. All interests have
suffered alike—manufacturing, jobbing, general distributing, and
railroad interests. It is no more than fair to ask that they bear with
us these burdens brought on by the panic for a while longer. We
would think it only fair that they should wait until about December
1 to test this question. There are just three horns to this dilemma,
to help the unfortunate condition that the railroads are now in. The
first is to have such an increase in business that they would again,
within sixty or ninety days, have a car shortage instead of having
four hundred thousand cars on the side tracks, as was the case three
months ago. The second is to advance rates somewhere between
5 and 10 per cent. Third is to reduce wages. We hope and confi-
dently believe that the first of these three will prevail, and if it does
not by December 1 then we shall certainly be quite willing that there
be an advance in freight rates—believing that that is the better plan,
rather than anv reduction in wages."
G
ATHERINGS like these have a most pronounced influence in
all branches of industry, and the piano trade is no exception.
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES-PLUMBERS 4677 and 4678 GRAMERCY
No
one
can overlook the tremendous work which has been done, and
Connecting a l l Departments.
is
being
accomplished every day by the traveling men in the interest
Cable a d d r e s s : "ElbllL N e w York."
of manufacturers. They are the great trade builders, and, like the
NEW YORK, AUGUST 2 2 , 1908
railroads, work up new and undeveloped territories. They always
follow the flag and the railroad, and are in every respect sni generis.
The traveling man is by nature optimistic, and the assembled cheer-
fulness of a convention composed of such men should produce an
EDITORIAL
optimistic thought-wave capable of dispelling the last lingering
clouds of business gloom. We doff our hats to the trade ambassa-
EW people have done so much to promote confidence and re- dors of the United States.
store prosperity in the country as those trade ambassadors
commonly known as commercial travelers. In close touch with
N The Review recently we published a decision of exceeding in-
every line of trade in every section of the nation they have kept their.
terest to merchants and manufacturers who are in the habit of
hand, so to speak, on the business pulse, and through their wise making joint shipments of freight, either by arrangement among
counsels manufacturers have been able to gauge conditions and
themselves, or through the medium of a forwarding agency. The
come through the trying times of the past nine months in a highly
decision which was handed down by the Interstate Commerce Com-
satisfactory way. The traveling men gave prosperity another boost
mission was based on a complaint brought by the California Com-
last Friday and Saturday when the United Commercial Travelers of
mercial Association against Wells. Fargo & Co., the well known
America and the Travelers' Protective Association met in a joint
express people, who refused to apply their quantity rates to certain
session in New York, and by their encouraging reports and enthu-
shipments, which consisted of a combination of packages of various
siastic words spread more broadcast the optimistic wave which is
ownership, tendered at one time and one place by a single consignor
destined to bring to us old-time trade conditions the coming fall.
and consigned to a single consignee under one bill of lading. The
The meetings, which were held on Friday at the rooms of the Mer- Commission holds that the ownership of property tendered for ship-
chants' Association and in the afternoon in the great Metropolitan
ment cannot be made a test as to the applicability of a carrier's rates.
Building, where the Review offices are located, were well attended.
Discrimination between shippers is forbidden by the Interstate Com-
There was a wide variety of addresses, representing the views of merce law, say the Commission, and the fact that one shipper tenders
various prosperity experts, including Henry Clews, George Fred
a bulked shipment made up of property of various ownership, con-
Williams, of Boston, and a host of other speakers not noted so much
solidated before delivery to the carrier, will not justify the carrier in
for their oratorv as for their hard commonsense.
making a different charge than he would for a shipment of similar
character tendered by a shipper who is the sole owner. The opinion
NE of the speakers who was listened to with great interest was
was further expressed that the enforcement of a rule preventing the
E. C. Simmons, the St. Louis manufacturer and founder
combination of packages belonging to various owners into one ship-
of the prosperity movement, who gave his hearers a message to
ment would so affect transportation practices as to be nothing short
carry to the people they met in their travels around the country.
of revolutionary, would bring disaster upon thousands of the smaller
Among other things he wanted their help in getting a square deal
industries and would more surely establish the dominance of the
for the railroads, and said: "Tell the people you meet that the rail-
greater industrial and commercial interests.
roads are the greatest buyers on the face of the earth. Tell them
that they purchased 35 per cent, of all the manufactured products of
A REVIEW subscriber, writing under date of August 15, says:
iron and steel last year and 25 per cent, of all the lumber that was
±~\ "For many years in addition to pianos I have handled small
cut, and that out of every dollar they received in the way of earn-
musical instruments and sheet music, and have built up an excellent
ings they paid out 43 cents in the way of wages to their employes.
trade in the two latter departments. Within the last year a local
Tell them that the railroads are the greatest friends of the laboring
department store has gone into these same lines and has taken from
man—and especially are they the greatest friends of the farmer
me a lot of my customers. In looking over my books for the first
there are in the world, Tel] them that the railroads as a whole are six months of 1908 I find that the falling off in these two depart-
F
O
I
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