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Musical Courier 1893-09-27: Vol 27 Iss 707, 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.
12President, MARC A. BLUMENBERG.
13Vice-President, OTTO FLOERSHEIM.
14Secretary and Treasurer, SPENCER T. DRIGGS.
16EDITORS:
17MARC A. BLUMENBERG.
18JAMES G. HUNEKER.
19HUGH CRAIG.
21BUSINESS DEPARTMENT:
22SPENCER T. DRIGGS.
23A. T. KING.
24R. S. MAXWELL.
25FRANK M. STEVENS.
27EUROPEAN BRANCH OFFICE:
28OTTO FLOERSHEIM, 17 Link Str.,
29Berlin, W. Germany.
31CHICAGO OFFICE: 226 Wabash Ave.
32JOHN E. HALL, MANAGER.
33J. E. VAN HORNE, ASSISTANT MANAGER.
35BOSTON OFFICE: 32 West St.
36LEIPSIC, GERMANY: GEBRüDER HUG, Königstrasse 16.
37VIENNA, AUSTRIA, IX Schwarspanier str. 15.
38LONDON: J. B. CRAMER & Co., 201 Regent St.
39PARIS: BRENTANO'S.
41American News Company, New York, General Distributing Agents.
42Western News Company, Chicago, Western Distributing Agents.
44Subscription (including postage) invariably in advance.
45Yearly, $4.00; Foreign, $5.00; Single Copies, Ten Cents.
47RATES FOR ADVERTISING.
48PER INCH.
49Three Months………….$20.00
50Six Months……………..40.00
51Special rates for preferred positions.
52Advertisements for the current week must be handed in by 5 P. M. on Monday.
53All changes in advertisements must reach this office by Friday preceding the issue in which changes are to take effect.
54All remittances for subscriptions or advertising must be made by check, draft or money orders, payable to the MUSICAL COURIER COMPANY.
56ESTABLISHED JANUARY, 1880.
57NO. 707.
59NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1893.
61Telephone —- 1253-18th.
63"THIS week shows great signs of improvement," writes Mr. Crawford, of Crawford, Ebersole & Smith, to THE MUSICAL COURIER. "We have done a great deal more business this week than we did for some time." Good!
65THE pianos that come out of the great factory of Wm. Knabe & Co., Baltimore, are among the most magnificent musical instruments made at the present day. Interior and exterior both are of the highest type of workmanship and reflect the greatest credit upon the makers of these Knabe pianos.
67M. ZOLA, the eminent French journalist and novelist, delivered an address on Friday, in London, before the Institute of Journalists on "Anonymity in Journalism," in which he attributed much of the success of English newspapers to anonymity. The same applies to American newspapers and journalism. Additional reference to this will be found in another column.
69WE notice in our "Want" advertisement a card applying to opportunities for openings in New York State in two cities where piano and music establishments can be acquired by active men who can give good references. We should advise persons contemplating new moves this fall to reply to the advertisement, as there is something "in it." There are two openings in this State, both of which give honest men big chances.
71THERE is a sneaking impression at large that a change is at hand in one of the large Chicago houses, one of the partners being about to retire permanently from the music trade. The subject is discussed considerably in trade circles, and unless the event transpires there will be no further necessity to consider the matter. This, we believe, is apparent.
73CERTAIN parties desire to learn who of the piano judges at the Fair proposed to the jury—or whatever it may be called—to examine the pianos in the State Buildings; instruments that were of course not officially on exhibition. It was Dr. Ziegfeld who took the initiative in this action, but no one can possibly understand what the doctor's motives were. We believe it was merely curiosity.
75THERE is a chance for a smart man who understands the piano and organ business to make a good business connection with a large and solid manufacturing house. He must have a good record and some little capital. It is a great show for the right man. Apply to the trade department of this paper, which is entitled to explain the situation by consent of the house referred to.
77DECKER BROTHERS' mail on Monday morning last brought them substantial evidence of a revival in trade. The letters received from their dealers were more cheerful in tone than those they have been getting for some time past.
79At the factory they are running on partial time only, but said Mr. Decker: "A few more such mails as the one received on Monday and our factory will resume full time and force."
81IN 1887 Dr. S. Austen Pearce wrote an article calling attention to the pitch of organs with reference to temperature, and was ridiculed by organ builders and press critics.
83It seems but just to him to draw attention to the fact that it is now acknowledged that a rise of temperature 10 degrees raises the pitch of a flute 1.5 v.s.; but of a pipe organ 5.04.
85We have already shown that the chromatic scale which he calculated for THE MUSICAL COURIER some years ago agrees exactly with the latest decisions of experts.
87THE total liabilities of all the failures in the piano, organ and music trade outside of New York city in June, July, August and September up to date did not reach $200,000, with a prospect of about 45 cents on the dollar in returns. The totals do not reach the dignity of one respectable assignment; for which let us all be thankful. The music trade did nobly, and it is generally expected to continue to do so. These are hard days, as they constitute the period of liquidation, but the music trade is bound to pull through. Business has an encouraging appearance, but we are too busy to discuss abstract economics at present and shall leave it for duller times.
89THE Hanover, N. H., "Gazette" of September 21 publishes the following item from Lyme Centre:
90It may happen that Melvin & English will open a wholesale yeast cake and harmonica store. Business is on the boom since the repeal of the silver bill.
92There is nothing like getting the news, and the "Gazette" got a "beat" of all papers in this country on the repeal of the silver bill. We are glad it is all over now, so we can go and take a rest. Business at Lyme Centre is on the rise, as is seen in the fact that wholesale yeast cake and harmonica dealers will open up at the Centre. The combination of the two lines is in the interest of economy probably, and will lead to new consolidations, such as matze bakers and tin horn makers and violin repairers and grave diggers.
94THE INJUNCTION CASE.
96THE following dispatch was received by us on Monday afternoon, September 25:
97Musical Courier, New York:
98CHICAGO OFFICE, September 25, 1893.—Case remanded on defendant's motion until 10. Tuesday. Restraining order remains in force. A case on judge's calendar preceding Chase's may take half hour or all day.
99HALL.
101Later.
102Musical Courier, New York:
103CHICAGO, September 26.—12:18 P. M.—Judge Grosscup presides in absence of Judge Seamans. HALL.
105Latest.
106Musical Courier, New York:
107Chicago, Ill., Sept. 26—3:30 P. M.—Injunction dissolved.
108HALL.
110AS we go to press we learn that one of the firms at Reading, Pa., is in financial difficulties. We hear that judgments aggregating over $6,000 have been entered against Lichty.
112EVEN in these days of rare and uncommon pianos an Upright piano made by Messrs. Chickering & Sons to order for Wallace Shillito, of the Cincinnati and New York house of renown, must necessarily arouse the enthusiasm of every connoisseur. The instrument in gold decoration style Louis XVI. is now to be seen and heard at the warerooms on Fifth avenue, and will surprise musicians on account of its extraordinary bass and the general power, volume and brilliancy of its tone. It is a marvelous piano.
114TO E. D.: Sir—Get a first-class lawyer; pay him the fee he demands and tell him to go ahead and bring the thief to justice. You can gain nothing by temporizing. You admit that he has swindled you with the instrument; that it is not as represented, and you admit that the money he borrowed from you cannot be collected because his goods are in his wife's name; and you admit that when he gave you checks that came back marked N. G. he stated that he had the money in the bank. Well, get a good lawyer and put him through. You not only owe it to yourself, you owe it to society to get the rascal out of the way.
116IT must have been interesting news to a Chicago music trade editor to have learned that his one employé charged a certain journalist $20 to take him up to Thacher's office and introduce him to the chairman of the Executive Committee on Awards. The salaries on that paper are cut down to such a beggarly rate that the fellow could not resist the temptation, but that does not reconcile the boss of the sheet to the loss, for he thinks that he himself should have had all, or nearly all of the money made out of the introduction. It was a shock to him when he got the news, but by no means the last shock he has ever had; there are others coming.
118AMONG callers within the past few days was Mr. Otto Sutro, of Baltimore. Mr. Sutro tells us that all through the summer his trade has been normal, and that he has no reasons whatever to complain. Baltimore is soon to begin the erection of a large music hall, which will be built for concerts and festival purposes to accommodate large orchestras and choruses. Mr. Sutro continues to remain as great an enthusiast on musical matters as he has been for years past. His two daughters, who have for some years been studying piano and music in Berlin, will soon make their temporary home in Paris. In our musical department frequent reference has been made to the remarkable ensemble play of these two ladies whose performances on two pianos are the talk of the Berlin musical world.
120—Mr. Sylvester Tower, the action and key manufacturer, Cambridgeport, Mass., writes that he is busy and that his force of men now engaged has reached the normal figure of busy days.
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