Music Trade Review
Issue: 1911 Vol. 53 N. 22 - Page 4
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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Editor and Proprietor
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
Executive and Reportorial Stall:
GLAD. HENDERSON, EUGENE C. MAYER, H. E. JAMASON B. BRITTAIN WILSON, W. H. DYKES,
A. J. NICKLIN,
AUGUST J. '1'IMPE,
W M . B. WHITE,
L. E. BOWERS.
CHICAGO OFFICE:
E. P. VAN HARLINGEN, 37 South Wabash Ave.
Telephone, Central 414.
Telephone, Main 6950.
Room 806.
PHILADELPHIA:
MINNEAPOLIS a n d ST. PAUL:
ST. LOUIS:
BOSTON OFFICE:
JOHN H. WILSON, 824 Washington St.
R. W. KAUFFMAN.
ADOLF EDSTEN.
SAN FRANCISCO:
CLYDE JENNJNGS.
S. H. GRAY, 88 First Street.
CINCINNATI, O.: JACOB W. WALTERS.
BALTIMORE, MD.i A. ROBERT FRENCH.
LONDON, ENGLAND: 1 Gresham Buildings, Basinghall St., E. C.
VV. LIONEL STURDY, 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; Can-
ada, $3.50; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.50 per inch, single column, per insertion.
On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount is allowed. Advertising Pages, $75.00.
REMITTANCES,
in other than currency fontis, should be made payable to Edward
Lyman Bill.
^ n important feature of this publication is a complete ser-
tion devoted to the interests of music publishers and dealers.
HllA
allU
Departments conducted by an expert wherein all ques-
tions of a technical nature relating to the tuning, reg-
tc
ulating and repairing of pianos and player-pianos are
l e U l l l l l d l V e p d n i l r c l l l S . d e a l t with, will be found in another section of this
paper. We also publish a number of reliable technical works, information concerning
which will be cheerfully given upon request.
Exposition Honors Won by The Review
Grand Prix
Paris Exposition, 1900
Silver Medal.. .Charleston Exposition, 1902
Diploma
Pan-American Exposition, 1901
Gold Medal
St. Louis Exposition, 1904
Gold Medal. ...Lewis-Clark Exposition, 1905
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES-NUMBERS 4677 and 4678 GRAMERCY
Connecting all Departments.
Cable address: "Elbill, New York."
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 2 , 1911
EDITORIAL
R
EPORTS regarding trade conditions throughout the country
continue to be most satisfactory. There are no signs of
recession from the recent improvement reported by Review corre-
spondents. The turn over of merchandise of last week, as noted
by the total of bank clearings, appears to exceed that for the same
period last year, and even that of 1909.
Piano merchants, like other business men, have not been carry-
ing surplus stock, and in fact are not now stocking very far ahead,
hence the fact that they are now ordering liberally indicates that
buyers of and inquiries for pianos are much in evidence.
Despite the present trend it is not expected that there is going to
be any radical change from the conservative course that has been
pursued in all lines of trade for the past twelve months. The
cautious or waiting policy prevails. This will undoubtedly continue
until the political situation clears.
Everyone admits that there is a good undertone to trade and
that the fundamental conditions are sound, still people have in
mind the fact that within a few weeks Congress will assemble and
there is always danger of politicians making trouble. A great deal
of this fear, however, is discounted, and business men are not look-
ing for any legislation of a revolutionary character. In a broad
way people seem to have become more or less calloused as to the
political disturbances. They feel as if conditions could not very
well be worse and that, therefore, any change must be for the better.
A notable feature of the trade this fall is the call for player-
pianos. There is a marked increase in the demand as compared
with the same period of last year, and it now looks as if the total
output of player-pianos for the year will assume proportions far
in excess of that predicted at the opening of 1911,
REVIEW
A
NATION-WIDE canvass of business men to learn their atti-
tude toward the Sherman law and President Taft's policy of
wholesale prosecutions under its provisions is being inaugurated by
the New York Board of Trade and Transportation. If sentiment
is generally against it and the President's policy, as the officials of
the board believe it is, a campaign will be undertaken for the repeal
or amendmenUof the Sherman law and the substitution of a statute
which will make legally possible the conduct of business in line with
the tenets of modern economics.
Two years ago the Board of Trade and Transportation ap-
pointed a committee to learn the effects on business of the Sherman
law, but it was then decided to wait until the Supreme Court had
made an interpretation of the statute in the Standard Oil and Ameri-
can Tobacco cases.
A quorum of the twelve members of the committee got to-
gether in executive session last Friday and decided to push their
canvass. Although the meeting was secret it is understood that the
sentiment of the committee was strongly against the Sherman law
and President Taft's announced intention of continuing prosecutions.
It was decided that the Sherman law should be amended or repealed.
The committee of the Board of Trade and Transportation was
selected chiefly with the idea of having it representative of the
average business sentiment of the country rather than that of the big
interests. This is evident from the makeup of the committee, which
is headed by Charles H. Steinway, of Steinway & Sons, representing
the piano trade; Charles U. Carpenter, chairman, Fireproof Furni-
ture and Construction Co.; Charles A. Moore, president Manning,
Maxwell & Moore; Philip T. Dodge, president Mergenthaler Lino-
type Co.; Edward Meyer, vice-president Russell & Erwin Manu-
facturing Co.; Joseph W. Lantry, president William H. Jackson Co.;
George C. Boldt, president Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Co.; William
McCarroll, Public Service Commission; Emil Kohler, American
Encaustic Tiling Co.; Charles A. Schieren, of Charles A. Schieren
& Co.; Charles Rohe, of Rohe & Bro., and Frank Brainard, of Brain-
ard Bros., president Board of Trade and Transportation.
It has not yet been decided what method will be adopted to
gather the opinions of the business community at large, but the com-
mittee may formulate a set of questions which will also draw out the
average opinion of what form new statutes relating to business
should take.
Another possibility is that carefully drawn up resolutions ex-
pressing the ideas of the New York Board of Trade and Transpor-
tation will be adopted and circulated for the concurrence of other
bodies of business men all over the country.
The committee believes that their views are those generally held
by the average manufacturer and merchant, and if such proves to be
the case they will endeavor to bring the pressure of the country's
entire business interests, as represented by organized bodies of busi-
ness iren all over the country, to bear on the Administration. In
order to adopt a course which will be as nearly unanimous as possible
a meeting of the committee has been called for December 4.
A
CCORDING to the bulletin of the United States Trade-mark
Association a recent proceeding in the Japanese Patent
Office is of special interest to owners of trade-marks in the United
States—it will, indeed, give them quite a new idea of conditions
in Japan. The proceeding in question had to do with the cancella-
tion of a mark that was claimed to be an infringement upon a
well-known American mark. The mark of the American firm
had been registered in the United States Patent Office in the year
1896, but was never registered in Japan. Tn 1902 the defendant,
a Japanese, registered in Japan a mark similar in all respects to
that of the American firm and for the same class of goods. The
registration was canceled upon the application of the American
firm, and an appeal was taken by the Japanese, the result of which
was an affirmance of the decree of cancellation. The proceeding
was decided under the provision of the present trade-mark law of
Japan, forbidding'the registration of marks identical with or
similar to other marks well known to the public. The American
firm submitted in evidence of the widespread public knowledge of
their trade-mark various documents showing the extent of the
business carried on by them in Japan from 1896 to the present time.
They maintained that it was absurd to believe that anyone could
have exactly copied their mark as a mere accident and without
being familiar with it. The court approved of this view.
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Editor and Proprietor
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
Executive and Reportorial Stall:
GLAD. HENDERSON, EUGENE C. MAYER, H. E. JAMASON B. BRITTAIN WILSON, W. H. DYKES,
A. J. NICKLIN,
AUGUST J. '1'IMPE,
W M . B. WHITE,
L. E. BOWERS.
CHICAGO OFFICE:
E. P. VAN HARLINGEN, 37 South Wabash Ave.
Telephone, Central 414.
Telephone, Main 6950.
Room 806.
PHILADELPHIA:
MINNEAPOLIS a n d ST. PAUL:
ST. LOUIS:
BOSTON OFFICE:
JOHN H. WILSON, 824 Washington St.
R. W. KAUFFMAN.
ADOLF EDSTEN.
SAN FRANCISCO:
CLYDE JENNJNGS.
S. H. GRAY, 88 First Street.
CINCINNATI, O.: JACOB W. WALTERS.
BALTIMORE, MD.i A. ROBERT FRENCH.
LONDON, ENGLAND: 1 Gresham Buildings, Basinghall St., E. C.
VV. LIONEL STURDY, 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; Can-
ada, $3.50; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.50 per inch, single column, per insertion.
On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount is allowed. Advertising Pages, $75.00.
REMITTANCES,
in other than currency fontis, should be made payable to Edward
Lyman Bill.
^ n important feature of this publication is a complete ser-
tion devoted to the interests of music publishers and dealers.
HllA
allU
Departments conducted by an expert wherein all ques-
tions of a technical nature relating to the tuning, reg-
tc
ulating and repairing of pianos and player-pianos are
l e U l l l l l d l V e p d n i l r c l l l S . d e a l t with, will be found in another section of this
paper. We also publish a number of reliable technical works, information concerning
which will be cheerfully given upon request.
Exposition Honors Won by The Review
Grand Prix
Paris Exposition, 1900
Silver Medal.. .Charleston Exposition, 1902
Diploma
Pan-American Exposition, 1901
Gold Medal
St. Louis Exposition, 1904
Gold Medal. ...Lewis-Clark Exposition, 1905
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES-NUMBERS 4677 and 4678 GRAMERCY
Connecting all Departments.
Cable address: "Elbill, New York."
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 2 , 1911
EDITORIAL
R
EPORTS regarding trade conditions throughout the country
continue to be most satisfactory. There are no signs of
recession from the recent improvement reported by Review corre-
spondents. The turn over of merchandise of last week, as noted
by the total of bank clearings, appears to exceed that for the same
period last year, and even that of 1909.
Piano merchants, like other business men, have not been carry-
ing surplus stock, and in fact are not now stocking very far ahead,
hence the fact that they are now ordering liberally indicates that
buyers of and inquiries for pianos are much in evidence.
Despite the present trend it is not expected that there is going to
be any radical change from the conservative course that has been
pursued in all lines of trade for the past twelve months. The
cautious or waiting policy prevails. This will undoubtedly continue
until the political situation clears.
Everyone admits that there is a good undertone to trade and
that the fundamental conditions are sound, still people have in
mind the fact that within a few weeks Congress will assemble and
there is always danger of politicians making trouble. A great deal
of this fear, however, is discounted, and business men are not look-
ing for any legislation of a revolutionary character. In a broad
way people seem to have become more or less calloused as to the
political disturbances. They feel as if conditions could not very
well be worse and that, therefore, any change must be for the better.
A notable feature of the trade this fall is the call for player-
pianos. There is a marked increase in the demand as compared
with the same period of last year, and it now looks as if the total
output of player-pianos for the year will assume proportions far
in excess of that predicted at the opening of 1911,
REVIEW
A
NATION-WIDE canvass of business men to learn their atti-
tude toward the Sherman law and President Taft's policy of
wholesale prosecutions under its provisions is being inaugurated by
the New York Board of Trade and Transportation. If sentiment
is generally against it and the President's policy, as the officials of
the board believe it is, a campaign will be undertaken for the repeal
or amendmenUof the Sherman law and the substitution of a statute
which will make legally possible the conduct of business in line with
the tenets of modern economics.
Two years ago the Board of Trade and Transportation ap-
pointed a committee to learn the effects on business of the Sherman
law, but it was then decided to wait until the Supreme Court had
made an interpretation of the statute in the Standard Oil and Ameri-
can Tobacco cases.
A quorum of the twelve members of the committee got to-
gether in executive session last Friday and decided to push their
canvass. Although the meeting was secret it is understood that the
sentiment of the committee was strongly against the Sherman law
and President Taft's announced intention of continuing prosecutions.
It was decided that the Sherman law should be amended or repealed.
The committee of the Board of Trade and Transportation was
selected chiefly with the idea of having it representative of the
average business sentiment of the country rather than that of the big
interests. This is evident from the makeup of the committee, which
is headed by Charles H. Steinway, of Steinway & Sons, representing
the piano trade; Charles U. Carpenter, chairman, Fireproof Furni-
ture and Construction Co.; Charles A. Moore, president Manning,
Maxwell & Moore; Philip T. Dodge, president Mergenthaler Lino-
type Co.; Edward Meyer, vice-president Russell & Erwin Manu-
facturing Co.; Joseph W. Lantry, president William H. Jackson Co.;
George C. Boldt, president Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Co.; William
McCarroll, Public Service Commission; Emil Kohler, American
Encaustic Tiling Co.; Charles A. Schieren, of Charles A. Schieren
& Co.; Charles Rohe, of Rohe & Bro., and Frank Brainard, of Brain-
ard Bros., president Board of Trade and Transportation.
It has not yet been decided what method will be adopted to
gather the opinions of the business community at large, but the com-
mittee may formulate a set of questions which will also draw out the
average opinion of what form new statutes relating to business
should take.
Another possibility is that carefully drawn up resolutions ex-
pressing the ideas of the New York Board of Trade and Transpor-
tation will be adopted and circulated for the concurrence of other
bodies of business men all over the country.
The committee believes that their views are those generally held
by the average manufacturer and merchant, and if such proves to be
the case they will endeavor to bring the pressure of the country's
entire business interests, as represented by organized bodies of busi-
ness iren all over the country, to bear on the Administration. In
order to adopt a course which will be as nearly unanimous as possible
a meeting of the committee has been called for December 4.
A
CCORDING to the bulletin of the United States Trade-mark
Association a recent proceeding in the Japanese Patent
Office is of special interest to owners of trade-marks in the United
States—it will, indeed, give them quite a new idea of conditions
in Japan. The proceeding in question had to do with the cancella-
tion of a mark that was claimed to be an infringement upon a
well-known American mark. The mark of the American firm
had been registered in the United States Patent Office in the year
1896, but was never registered in Japan. Tn 1902 the defendant,
a Japanese, registered in Japan a mark similar in all respects to
that of the American firm and for the same class of goods. The
registration was canceled upon the application of the American
firm, and an appeal was taken by the Japanese, the result of which
was an affirmance of the decree of cancellation. The proceeding
was decided under the provision of the present trade-mark law of
Japan, forbidding'the registration of marks identical with or
similar to other marks well known to the public. The American
firm submitted in evidence of the widespread public knowledge of
their trade-mark various documents showing the extent of the
business carried on by them in Japan from 1896 to the present time.
They maintained that it was absurd to believe that anyone could
have exactly copied their mark as a mere accident and without
being familiar with it. The court approved of this view.
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