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Musical Courier 1893-04-12: Vol 26 Iss 684, 1893
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1THE MUSIC TRADE.
3This paper has the Largest Guaranteed Circulation of any Journal in the Music Trade.
5The Musical Courier.
6PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
7BY THE
8MUSICAL COURIER COMPANY.
9(Incorporated under the Laws of the State of New York.)
1019 Union Square W., New York.
11President, MARC A. BLUMENBERG.
12Vice-President, OTTO FLOERSHEIM.
13Secretary and Treasurer, SPENCER T. DRIGGS.
15BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
16MARC A. BLUMENBERG. OTTO FLOERSHEIM.
17JOHN E. HALL. JAMES G. HUNEKER.
18HARRY O. BROWN. SPENCER T. DRIGGS.
20EDITORS:
21MARC A. BLUMENBERG. OTTO FLOERSHEIM.
22JAMES G. HUNEKER. HARRY O. BROWN.
23HUGH CRAIG.
25BUSINESS DEPARTMENT:
26SPENCER T. DRIGGS. R. S. MAXWELL.
27A. T. KING. FRANK M. STEVENS.
29EUROPEAN BRANCH OFFICE:
30OTTO FLOERSHEIM, 17 Link Str.,
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50Advertisements for the current week must be handed in by 5 P. M. on Monday.
51All changes in advertisements must reach this office by Friday preceding the issue in which changes are to take effect.
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54ESTABLISHED JANUARY, 1880.
55NO. 684.
56NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1893.
57Telephone — 1253-18th.
59UP to the time of our going to press this week there is no authorized list of officeholders and stockholders in the newly organized Mehlin Piano Company, of Minneapolis, ready for publication. We expect to be able to give the full particulars of the transaction in our issue of April 19.
61THE Musical Instrument Department of the World's Columbian Exposition will not be in readiness on the opening day of the Fair. It will be impossible to have the booths completed and the exhibits in position between to-day and the next 18 days. It will take at least one month to shape things in the Musical Instrument Department.
63MR. JOHN EVANS, of Newby & Evans, New York piano manufacturers of a well established reputation, is on a six weeks' Western business trip. The Newby & Evans piano is well established, and the fairness, honesty and general reputation of the firm give it a favorable position in the estimation of the trade. People who deal with Newby & Evans are sure to receive proper treatment on a strict commercial basis, and to become identified with the piano signifies a profitable return from the investment.
65MR. HAWXHURST, the representative of the Bradbury, Webster and Henning pianos in Chicago, has developed a business which, even without its Eastern connections, would be considered a valuable commercial property. Everyone who knows Mr. Hawxhurst will be pleased to hear of this.
67INFORMATION from very reliable sources at Faribault, Minn., states that the Schimmel & Nelson Piano Company expect to have pianos "ready for the market in June," and "we think them a strong concern." "Donald Grant, C. H. Wagner and H. C. Theopold are the principal owners and are strong financially," says our report.
69WE acknowledge with thanks an invitation from the Emerson Piano Company to attend the formal opening of their new Boston warerooms at 116 Boylston street, on April 8. We are also indebted to the Emerson branch at 92 Fifth avenue, New York, for an excellent photograph of that tastefully fitted up wareroom, in which are embraced some excellent likenesses of the employés.
71THE Ann Arbor Organ Company has, according to the "Times" of that place, issued its new stock, about which information has already been published in these columns, and much of it has been taken by the former stockholders, who in view of the success of the enterprise are anxious to increase their holdings. The company expects to begin work on the new factory building within a very short time.
73THE Brown & Simpson Piano Company, of Worcester, Mass., has arranged a regular retail system penetrating several counties of the State and adjoining States to convince people that home manufactures have merit. The system in fact is about a year old, and has resulted in the sale of about 300 Brown & Simpson pianos at excellent figures to people who pay. There is nothing the matter with that, is there?
75A question in typography we should like to ask why so many daily papers in the United States continue to use at the head line of all piano advertisements a diminutive representation of a square piano. Of course this is still done in Philadelphia, and we can understand that; but the great Chicago papers, such as the "Tribune," keep up the old practice and print innumerable squatly little bloches that one would not identify as a piano were it not for the accompanying reading matter. The time is not far off when the square will become obsolete and the little cuts may be used with equal effect as representing billiard tables; but why not in the meantime strike off something that will in some manner resemble an upright?
77IN a letter dated April 5 the Anderson Piano Company, of Rockford, Ill., write: "We appreciate very much the little good notice you gave in regard to our photos. It shows that your paper is read all over the country, for we have had inquiries for photos from all parts of the country and we can keep our photographer busy for several days to make same. We are opening up a new local showroom here," &c. The same mail brings a letter from J. C. White, of Newton, Kan., in which he says: "We inclose $4 for one more year's acquaintance, which makes now about the tenth year. And very pleasant the association has been, we assure you. THE MUSICAL COURIER has ever been cosmopolitan, but its cosmos is enlarging each year and no careful reader of its pages can fail to become musically intelligent."
78These are but samples of letters that flow into this office all the time, but it is not necessary to reproduce all of them, since every reader of THE MUSICAL COURIER would but find in them a mere expression of his own opinion.
80A VERY IMPORTANT DEAL.
82MEMBERS of the firm of the Jesse French Piano and Organ Company have purchased a one-half interest in the firm of James M. Starr & Co., of Richmond, Ind. They have applied for a charter under the name of Starr Piano Company.
83These are the meagre particulars received of a transaction which will include the Jesse French Piano & Organ Company in the list of dealers who have decided to manufacture certain grades of their own goods.
84In next week's issue will be found a detailed account of the transfer.
86REPORTS from the Estey & Camp houses in Chicago, St. Louis and Des Moines all confirm a decidedly active trade in Decker Brothers pianos.
88MR. BLUMENBERG, of THE MUSICAL COURIER, is in Chicago on World's Fair and other matters of interest to the music trade. Full and latest particulars on the interesting subjects now calling for attention in the music trade will be found, as usual in these columns, and special efforts will henceforth be made to give detailed reports on the rapidly chrysalizing movements associated with the great fair.
90A MEMBER of the Chicago trade, who is universally popular among all of its members, is the Hon. Thomas Floyd Jones, the representative in that city of Haines Brothers' pianos. We say the honorable, for all his dealings and his conduct have been characterized by honorable principles and features, and he believes in doing what is right to his fellow man, besides pushing the Haines piano without any especial blow or noise, merely to sell the goods and get payment. The Hon. Thomas Floyd Jones is a broad man who does not pretend to compete with small men, because to beat a small man is no particular credit. He looks upon the competitors in Chicago as big men, and no one has ever heard that he has underestimated their business acumen or their personal character. Probably that is one reason why he has managed to pull through his scheme, which, compared with others in Chicago, has certainly been operated under disadvantages.
92IT is in the very nature of things gratifying for men in the same pursuit to have the commendation of their fellow craftsmen. If you are a piano maker and you hear of words of praise concerning your product coming from the mouth of another piano man you are pleased with it beyond what you would be with the ordinary expression of opinion coming from a layman. And you would be justified in assuming that such notice was of actual value to you; that you could turn it to account in urging your claims before a prospective customer.
93By the same token THE MUSICAL COURIER is pleased to call attention to the fact that since March 29 it has been quoted in no less than 227 papers in all parts of the country, in which credit was given, to say nothing of the very many quotations published in daily papers as original matter. It must be borne in mind that it is almost impossible to keep track of all papers in which is mentioned THE MUSICAL COURIER, and that we have gathered the above figures from our exchanges alone, without taking into account the numerous publications of lesser importance that are not embraced in our list.
94In order to be quoted it is necessary that a paper should be read, and for a paper to be read by other newspaper men and quoted by them is the highest compliment it can receive.
95That THE MUSICAL COURIER receives in this way the commendation of the newspaper fraternity is as good evidence as need be placed before its patrons of its value and worth as the representative journal of its class.
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