Music Trade Review
Issue: 1913 Vol. 57 N. 19 - Page 10
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
10
ORGAN FOR NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL.
M. P. Moller Gets Commission for Board of
Education of New York to Install a Three
Manual Electric Pipe Organ in Washington
Irving High School in Manhattan.
M. P. Moller, of Hagerstown, Md., who some
time ago supplied the Board of Education of New
York with Moller pipe organs for the Brooklyn
Training School for Teachers and the Erasmus
Hall High School, has been commissioned to
build and install a large three manual electric in-
strument in the Washington Irving High School
in the Borough of Manhattan. This beautiful in-
strument will not only be used to accompany the
singing of the pupils, but to make them ac-
quainted with the best music that has been writ-
ten for the organ, and it is expected that the free
course of instructive lectures furnished by the
Board of Education will be enriched by organ
recitals.
The Washington Irving High School in New
York is distinctive in many respects. It is not
only the largest High School in the world, and
the most thoroughly equipped, but it represents
the greatest advancement in public school educa-
tion.
The organ for this school will represent the
highest attainments of the organ builders' pro-
fession musically and mechanically, and it will be
one of the largest and most complete instruments
used in the world for public instruction.
This week, by the way, Mr. Moller is shipping
from his factory a four manual electric instru-
ment (with one hundred and seven speaking stops)
for Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, which will be one
of the largest organs in America, containing many
features that have never before been attempted
in a church organ.
Mr. Moller has shipped from his factory since
January 1, 1913, 140 pipe organs, and received
contracts for 150, a record of which to be proud.
ASK THAT TREATING BE STOPPED.
Such Is Request Made by Out-of-Town Con-
cern to New York House This Week—Want
No Gratuities or Favors Extended.
One of the New York jobbing houses last
week received a letter concerning "graft" for buy-
ers. It came from a well-known retail dry goods
store in the Middle West, and said:
"We have read with interest in the New York
papers reports of a recent case of giving graft
to a buyer in that city. We would ask, apropos
of this matter, that you notify your salesmen and
department heads that we do not wish gratuities
of any kind to be extended to our buyers when
they are in New York. We give them expense
accounts liberal enough to cover necessary ex-
penses and a fair amount of amusement. Even
ir. cases where business acquaintance has grown
into personal friendship, we ask that no invitations
or presents be given. We believe you will ap-
preciate the justice of this request and act ac-
cordingly."
In trade opinion, the firm taking this stand is
to be commended, says the New York Times. It
was saki that letters of this sort from other houses
would soon minimize the evil.
LACKED CLOTHING BUT HAD MUSIC.
Despite Neglects of Physical Needs of Children
Milwaukee Family Were Well Provided for
in the Matter of Music.
(Special to The Review.)
MILWAUKEE, WIS., November 4.—Although their
home is ill-kept and seven children, ranging in age
from twelve years to one month, have scarcely
any clothes, the family of Mrs. Mary Ross, South
Milwaukee, have a $350 piano, a $40 graphophone,
guitar and several other musical instruments.
John Ross, the father of the family, earns $8 a
week.
The four oldest children were sent by Judge
Echweiler to the detention home for three weeks,
but will be allowed to go home if the conditions
there are changed by that time.
FREIGHT RATE ADVANCE IS OFF.
Interstate Commerce Board to Suspend Sched-
ule in East—Hearings to Be Held.
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 3.—There will
be no immediate relief from the Interstate Com-
merce Commission for the Eastern railroads in
the matter of increased freight rates.
It became known Saturday that the commission
has decided to suspend all of the proposed in-
ci eases in freight rates recently filed by the rail-
roads in the territory east of the Mississippi and
ncrth of the Potomac and Ohio rivers. The order
of suspension is now being prepared and will be
promulgated later in the week.
The so-called 5 per cent, horizontal increases in
freight rates were to have become effective No-
vember 15, but the decision of the commission
means that all of these schedules will be held in
abeyance until the commission can take testimony
and hold hearings. This decision foreshadows one
of the most comprehensive freight rate investiga-
tions ever undertaken by the commission.
While the railroads did not expect the commis-
sion to accept all of their schedules without a
thorough inquiry, they did hope that the need for
increased revenues would be so apparent that cer-
tain of the advances would be allowed without sus-
pension and the necessity of prolonged hearings,
which may drag on till spring.
The commission's experts who have been com-
paring the proposed advances with the old rates
are said to have discovered that while the plan of
the railroads was for a 5 per cent, advance many
of the increases amount to as mucji as 16 per
cent., while some are as high as 40 per cent.
It is understood that it is this comparison which
has led to the suspension.
INCREASES CAPITAL.
The Detroit Piano Co., Detroit, Mich., has in-
creased its capital stock from $10,000 to $15,000 in
order to expand its business.
IT. W. Hart, formerly manager for the M. Son-
nenberg Piano Co. store in Bridgeport, Conn., has
opened a store (if liis own in that city.
WE ARE AFTER MORE DEALERS
Our
plan
is one
that will
Create Trade
for all who
carry
to come
w i t h us
and enjoy
Big Piano Sales
this Fall
and
Winter
POOLE' PIANO
That
Stands
Supreme
for Merit
and Makes
Every Customer
a Permanent
Friend
PLACE
The
Piano
of Quality
at the
Right
Price
YOUR ORDER NOW
POOLE PIANO COMPANY
Sidney Street, Cambridge A Branch, Boston, Mass.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
10
ORGAN FOR NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL.
M. P. Moller Gets Commission for Board of
Education of New York to Install a Three
Manual Electric Pipe Organ in Washington
Irving High School in Manhattan.
M. P. Moller, of Hagerstown, Md., who some
time ago supplied the Board of Education of New
York with Moller pipe organs for the Brooklyn
Training School for Teachers and the Erasmus
Hall High School, has been commissioned to
build and install a large three manual electric in-
strument in the Washington Irving High School
in the Borough of Manhattan. This beautiful in-
strument will not only be used to accompany the
singing of the pupils, but to make them ac-
quainted with the best music that has been writ-
ten for the organ, and it is expected that the free
course of instructive lectures furnished by the
Board of Education will be enriched by organ
recitals.
The Washington Irving High School in New
York is distinctive in many respects. It is not
only the largest High School in the world, and
the most thoroughly equipped, but it represents
the greatest advancement in public school educa-
tion.
The organ for this school will represent the
highest attainments of the organ builders' pro-
fession musically and mechanically, and it will be
one of the largest and most complete instruments
used in the world for public instruction.
This week, by the way, Mr. Moller is shipping
from his factory a four manual electric instru-
ment (with one hundred and seven speaking stops)
for Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, which will be one
of the largest organs in America, containing many
features that have never before been attempted
in a church organ.
Mr. Moller has shipped from his factory since
January 1, 1913, 140 pipe organs, and received
contracts for 150, a record of which to be proud.
ASK THAT TREATING BE STOPPED.
Such Is Request Made by Out-of-Town Con-
cern to New York House This Week—Want
No Gratuities or Favors Extended.
One of the New York jobbing houses last
week received a letter concerning "graft" for buy-
ers. It came from a well-known retail dry goods
store in the Middle West, and said:
"We have read with interest in the New York
papers reports of a recent case of giving graft
to a buyer in that city. We would ask, apropos
of this matter, that you notify your salesmen and
department heads that we do not wish gratuities
of any kind to be extended to our buyers when
they are in New York. We give them expense
accounts liberal enough to cover necessary ex-
penses and a fair amount of amusement. Even
ir. cases where business acquaintance has grown
into personal friendship, we ask that no invitations
or presents be given. We believe you will ap-
preciate the justice of this request and act ac-
cordingly."
In trade opinion, the firm taking this stand is
to be commended, says the New York Times. It
was saki that letters of this sort from other houses
would soon minimize the evil.
LACKED CLOTHING BUT HAD MUSIC.
Despite Neglects of Physical Needs of Children
Milwaukee Family Were Well Provided for
in the Matter of Music.
(Special to The Review.)
MILWAUKEE, WIS., November 4.—Although their
home is ill-kept and seven children, ranging in age
from twelve years to one month, have scarcely
any clothes, the family of Mrs. Mary Ross, South
Milwaukee, have a $350 piano, a $40 graphophone,
guitar and several other musical instruments.
John Ross, the father of the family, earns $8 a
week.
The four oldest children were sent by Judge
Echweiler to the detention home for three weeks,
but will be allowed to go home if the conditions
there are changed by that time.
FREIGHT RATE ADVANCE IS OFF.
Interstate Commerce Board to Suspend Sched-
ule in East—Hearings to Be Held.
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 3.—There will
be no immediate relief from the Interstate Com-
merce Commission for the Eastern railroads in
the matter of increased freight rates.
It became known Saturday that the commission
has decided to suspend all of the proposed in-
ci eases in freight rates recently filed by the rail-
roads in the territory east of the Mississippi and
ncrth of the Potomac and Ohio rivers. The order
of suspension is now being prepared and will be
promulgated later in the week.
The so-called 5 per cent, horizontal increases in
freight rates were to have become effective No-
vember 15, but the decision of the commission
means that all of these schedules will be held in
abeyance until the commission can take testimony
and hold hearings. This decision foreshadows one
of the most comprehensive freight rate investiga-
tions ever undertaken by the commission.
While the railroads did not expect the commis-
sion to accept all of their schedules without a
thorough inquiry, they did hope that the need for
increased revenues would be so apparent that cer-
tain of the advances would be allowed without sus-
pension and the necessity of prolonged hearings,
which may drag on till spring.
The commission's experts who have been com-
paring the proposed advances with the old rates
are said to have discovered that while the plan of
the railroads was for a 5 per cent, advance many
of the increases amount to as mucji as 16 per
cent., while some are as high as 40 per cent.
It is understood that it is this comparison which
has led to the suspension.
INCREASES CAPITAL.
The Detroit Piano Co., Detroit, Mich., has in-
creased its capital stock from $10,000 to $15,000 in
order to expand its business.
IT. W. Hart, formerly manager for the M. Son-
nenberg Piano Co. store in Bridgeport, Conn., has
opened a store (if liis own in that city.
WE ARE AFTER MORE DEALERS
Our
plan
is one
that will
Create Trade
for all who
carry
to come
w i t h us
and enjoy
Big Piano Sales
this Fall
and
Winter
POOLE' PIANO
That
Stands
Supreme
for Merit
and Makes
Every Customer
a Permanent
Friend
PLACE
The
Piano
of Quality
at the
Right
Price
YOUR ORDER NOW
POOLE PIANO COMPANY
Sidney Street, Cambridge A Branch, Boston, Mass.
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