Music Trade Review
Issue: 1915 Vol. 61 N. 3 - Page 41
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
STRICTER WITH IMPORTS.
DECISION OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Lessened Quantity Allows More Time for
A decision of interest to musical merchandise im-
Examination These Days by the New York porters was handed down this week by Judge
Customs Authorities—More Time at Dis- White, of the Board of General Appraisers, when
posal Now to Be Exacting.
he decided that 'the mere citation of a previous de-
cision does not, in the absence of any offer anew of
Importers are finding that the customs examina-
the record in the former case, establish that the
tion of merchandise entered at this port is much
facts are the same in each. The case before the
more thorough than has been the case heretofore board was a protest by M. Furuya & Co., Port
in the recollection of the oldest members of the Townsend; the merchandise, invoiced as salted
trade. More cases out of shipments consigned to ginger, was assessed as a prepared vegetable at the
a single firm are being sent to the public stores rate of 40 per cent, ad valorem under the old tariff,
than ever before, and altogether imports here are
and was claimed to be duty free as ginger root.
going through a very fine "combing" process, with
At the hearing the importers submitted their
the result that there is not much chance of decep-
case, merely citing the ruling of the board in an
tion as regards the character of merchandise.
earlier case, which they thought favorable to their
This unusually close supervision of imports at
contention. Their protest was overruled.
the country's chief port of entry is possible owing
to the lessened volume of imports on account of
COLLECTION OF RARE VIOLINS.
the war. Appraiser Sague said this week that he
In the matter of violins, Eddy Brown, who comes
estimated that at the present time merchandise im-
for his first American tour next season, is par-
ports here are between 60 and 70 per cent, below
ticularly fortunate. The young violinist has ac-
normal, compared with what they were just a year
quired quite a collection of instruments in the com-
ago, when peace conditions prevailed.
"The falling off in imports," said the appraiser, paratively few years he has been before the public,
"make? it possible to concentrate attention on the but, as usual, there is one that is an especial favor-
ite. This is a violin that his father bought from
goods that do come in. They are being examined
more carefully than ever before. This is not be- Franz von Vecsey—an Amati, valued at 12,000
gulden. More recently another instrument was
cause we are looking for fraudulent entries, but
because the force at my disposal has more time to purchased in London—a Joseph Guenarius, valued
give to the goods. The war has made less work at 8,000 gulden.
to do, and so in the past twelve months I have
PLAYED "HELLJ)N WABASH/'
dropped 125 men of different classes no longer re-
quired.
Tune Wins Prize for Fiddlers—100 Entries,
and Some Old Timers Heard.
"In normal times this office appraises something
like $800,000,000 worth of foreign goods in a year,
(Special to The Review.)
but, of course, that record is not maintained now,
DECATUR. I I I . , July. 12.—The sixth annual De-
owing to the war conditions. Although men have
Kalb County fiddlers' contest was held in the State
been dropped where not required, I have managed
Armory, this city. There were 100 entries, rang-
to have the salaries of 350 persons connected with
the office raised within the fiscal year just closed. ing in age from ten to ninety-five years. Local
merchants gave the prizes. The opening was "The
In the interest of the public business, it is better
Irish Washerwoman" by the entire company ot
to have fewer employes well paid than a great
100.
number of unnecessary men about owing their jobs
David Weddell, of Formosa, Kan., won the long-
to political influence. My endeavor is to bring the
office up to a high state of efficiency, so that it may
the better serve the Government and the great im-
porting business of the port."
Incorporated
Manufacturers of
Th« Famous
•eat* and Market Mm**,
9AMDWM, X.9.
PEACE HATHJTS HORRORS.
At a party Miss Brown had sung "It's a Long
way to Tipperary," and for days after she was
singing or humming it to herself.
"It seems to haunt me," she said to a friend who
had also been at the party.
"No wonder," said the friend. "Look at the way
you murdered it."
The oldest aivd
largest musical
merchandise house
in America —
C.Druno & Soiunc
393 Broadway
New York
351-53 ^F Ave. Newark
Manufacturers, Importers
Publishers. Largest and
most complete stock of
Musical Merchan-
dise in t h e
trade.
THE WORLD'S BEST
A. *>. SOXSTMAJT, Tloe-Vres. and Oen. Manafm.
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 12.—Thomas L. Jack-
son, Cincinnati, O., was last week granted Patent
No. 1,145,145 for a trombone, which he has as-
signed to Frank Holton & Co., Chicago, 111. It
provides a trombone which shall have improved
means for tuning and for varying 'the pitch of the
instrument.
CH. WEISS
Black Diamond
Strings
others.
•xo«l«lor drams coat more because they are
worth more. Cost more to make.
We could make them cost less by using* cheaper
material, use less oare In maklnr them, and dis-
pense with the new patented tmproTements.
XT we did, however, Hxoelslor Drums would not
be the Standard as they are to-day. Write tot
oatalofue.
EXCELSIOR DRUM WORKS
PATENTS IMPROVED TROMBONE.
are Popular the
World Over
1010 Ckcttnnt St.. Philadelphia. Pa.
EXCELSIOR
DRUMS ™ STANDARD
8om« d«»l«M may » y that tk«y eort mon than
Two-cent letter postage goes into effect between
the United States and the Dutch West Indies on
July 1. The agreement includes Aruba, Bonaire,
Curacao, Saba, St. Eustatius and the Dutch part
of St. Martins. The governments of almost half
of the Caribbean Islands have accepted the pro-
posals of the United States and have adopted the
two-cent letter rate with this country. British
Honduras, the Bahamas, Barbadoes and the Lee-
ward Islands, all British dependencies, recently en-
tered into two-cent agreements.
Metallas
Flutas
Weymann Mandolutes and
"Keystone State" Instruments
New Brunswlok, N. J .
TWO CENT POSTAGE AREAS.
WEISS
Harmonicas
WEYMANN&SON
lational Musical Sfriag Co.
distance prize, $12,56. Quay Fowler, seventy-eight
years old, won the tallest fiddler's prize, being 6
feet 6% inches in height. Harry Bates won the
mouth harp prize while standing on his head.
Lyman Drake won the best old fiddler prize by
his version of "Hell on the Wabash." The "boys"
played such pieces as "Money Musk," "King's
Head," "Old Zip Coon," "Rory O'Moore," "Leather
Breeches" and "Arkansaw Traveler"—all of them
have the flavor of old days.
ATTRACTIVE
SPECIALTIES
Mod.ro
Service
AUGUST MULLER
and J. HEBERLE1N, VIO-
LINS, VIOLAS AND CELLOS
MITTENWALD VIOLIN STRINGS
SEND FOR COMPLETE CATALOG
UEGELEISEN
& JACOBSON
113 - 115 University Place
NEW YORK
MUSICAL
Merchandise
Cincinnati
Chicago
Largest Jobbers in America of
M
ODERN
USICAL
ERCHANDISE
J^WRITE FORJ^EW,CATALO.G^
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
STRICTER WITH IMPORTS.
DECISION OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Lessened Quantity Allows More Time for
A decision of interest to musical merchandise im-
Examination These Days by the New York porters was handed down this week by Judge
Customs Authorities—More Time at Dis- White, of the Board of General Appraisers, when
posal Now to Be Exacting.
he decided that 'the mere citation of a previous de-
cision does not, in the absence of any offer anew of
Importers are finding that the customs examina-
the record in the former case, establish that the
tion of merchandise entered at this port is much
facts are the same in each. The case before the
more thorough than has been the case heretofore board was a protest by M. Furuya & Co., Port
in the recollection of the oldest members of the Townsend; the merchandise, invoiced as salted
trade. More cases out of shipments consigned to ginger, was assessed as a prepared vegetable at the
a single firm are being sent to the public stores rate of 40 per cent, ad valorem under the old tariff,
than ever before, and altogether imports here are
and was claimed to be duty free as ginger root.
going through a very fine "combing" process, with
At the hearing the importers submitted their
the result that there is not much chance of decep-
case, merely citing the ruling of the board in an
tion as regards the character of merchandise.
earlier case, which they thought favorable to their
This unusually close supervision of imports at
contention. Their protest was overruled.
the country's chief port of entry is possible owing
to the lessened volume of imports on account of
COLLECTION OF RARE VIOLINS.
the war. Appraiser Sague said this week that he
In the matter of violins, Eddy Brown, who comes
estimated that at the present time merchandise im-
for his first American tour next season, is par-
ports here are between 60 and 70 per cent, below
ticularly fortunate. The young violinist has ac-
normal, compared with what they were just a year
quired quite a collection of instruments in the com-
ago, when peace conditions prevailed.
"The falling off in imports," said the appraiser, paratively few years he has been before the public,
"make? it possible to concentrate attention on the but, as usual, there is one that is an especial favor-
ite. This is a violin that his father bought from
goods that do come in. They are being examined
more carefully than ever before. This is not be- Franz von Vecsey—an Amati, valued at 12,000
gulden. More recently another instrument was
cause we are looking for fraudulent entries, but
because the force at my disposal has more time to purchased in London—a Joseph Guenarius, valued
give to the goods. The war has made less work at 8,000 gulden.
to do, and so in the past twelve months I have
PLAYED "HELLJ)N WABASH/'
dropped 125 men of different classes no longer re-
quired.
Tune Wins Prize for Fiddlers—100 Entries,
and Some Old Timers Heard.
"In normal times this office appraises something
like $800,000,000 worth of foreign goods in a year,
(Special to The Review.)
but, of course, that record is not maintained now,
DECATUR. I I I . , July. 12.—The sixth annual De-
owing to the war conditions. Although men have
Kalb County fiddlers' contest was held in the State
been dropped where not required, I have managed
Armory, this city. There were 100 entries, rang-
to have the salaries of 350 persons connected with
the office raised within the fiscal year just closed. ing in age from ten to ninety-five years. Local
merchants gave the prizes. The opening was "The
In the interest of the public business, it is better
Irish Washerwoman" by the entire company ot
to have fewer employes well paid than a great
100.
number of unnecessary men about owing their jobs
David Weddell, of Formosa, Kan., won the long-
to political influence. My endeavor is to bring the
office up to a high state of efficiency, so that it may
the better serve the Government and the great im-
porting business of the port."
Incorporated
Manufacturers of
Th« Famous
•eat* and Market Mm**,
9AMDWM, X.9.
PEACE HATHJTS HORRORS.
At a party Miss Brown had sung "It's a Long
way to Tipperary," and for days after she was
singing or humming it to herself.
"It seems to haunt me," she said to a friend who
had also been at the party.
"No wonder," said the friend. "Look at the way
you murdered it."
The oldest aivd
largest musical
merchandise house
in America —
C.Druno & Soiunc
393 Broadway
New York
351-53 ^F Ave. Newark
Manufacturers, Importers
Publishers. Largest and
most complete stock of
Musical Merchan-
dise in t h e
trade.
THE WORLD'S BEST
A. *>. SOXSTMAJT, Tloe-Vres. and Oen. Manafm.
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 12.—Thomas L. Jack-
son, Cincinnati, O., was last week granted Patent
No. 1,145,145 for a trombone, which he has as-
signed to Frank Holton & Co., Chicago, 111. It
provides a trombone which shall have improved
means for tuning and for varying 'the pitch of the
instrument.
CH. WEISS
Black Diamond
Strings
others.
•xo«l«lor drams coat more because they are
worth more. Cost more to make.
We could make them cost less by using* cheaper
material, use less oare In maklnr them, and dis-
pense with the new patented tmproTements.
XT we did, however, Hxoelslor Drums would not
be the Standard as they are to-day. Write tot
oatalofue.
EXCELSIOR DRUM WORKS
PATENTS IMPROVED TROMBONE.
are Popular the
World Over
1010 Ckcttnnt St.. Philadelphia. Pa.
EXCELSIOR
DRUMS ™ STANDARD
8om« d«»l«M may » y that tk«y eort mon than
Two-cent letter postage goes into effect between
the United States and the Dutch West Indies on
July 1. The agreement includes Aruba, Bonaire,
Curacao, Saba, St. Eustatius and the Dutch part
of St. Martins. The governments of almost half
of the Caribbean Islands have accepted the pro-
posals of the United States and have adopted the
two-cent letter rate with this country. British
Honduras, the Bahamas, Barbadoes and the Lee-
ward Islands, all British dependencies, recently en-
tered into two-cent agreements.
Metallas
Flutas
Weymann Mandolutes and
"Keystone State" Instruments
New Brunswlok, N. J .
TWO CENT POSTAGE AREAS.
WEISS
Harmonicas
WEYMANN&SON
lational Musical Sfriag Co.
distance prize, $12,56. Quay Fowler, seventy-eight
years old, won the tallest fiddler's prize, being 6
feet 6% inches in height. Harry Bates won the
mouth harp prize while standing on his head.
Lyman Drake won the best old fiddler prize by
his version of "Hell on the Wabash." The "boys"
played such pieces as "Money Musk," "King's
Head," "Old Zip Coon," "Rory O'Moore," "Leather
Breeches" and "Arkansaw Traveler"—all of them
have the flavor of old days.
ATTRACTIVE
SPECIALTIES
Mod.ro
Service
AUGUST MULLER
and J. HEBERLE1N, VIO-
LINS, VIOLAS AND CELLOS
MITTENWALD VIOLIN STRINGS
SEND FOR COMPLETE CATALOG
UEGELEISEN
& JACOBSON
113 - 115 University Place
NEW YORK
MUSICAL
Merchandise
Cincinnati
Chicago
Largest Jobbers in America of
M
ODERN
USICAL
ERCHANDISE
J^WRITE FORJ^EW,CATALO.G^
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