Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
'4
Aside from musical instruments his stock in-
cludes nearly everything in the music line. In
pianos he carries the Hazelton, Decker Bros.,
Emerson and Kimball, and Kimball organs.
Tames M. and Walter S. Orton, his younger
BYRON MAUZY.
brothers, were for a number of years assistants
in his store, but a few months ago were made
partners, and the firm name changed to that of
Orton Bros.
SHERMAN MUSIC CO.,
Butte City, Mont.
Mr. E. H. Sherman, whose portrait we pre-
sent, was born in Iowa in 1867. He had a
varied experience in Iowa, afterwards went to
Omaha, Neb., where he worked in a furniture
store. He came to Montana in 1886, where he
has remained ever since, most of the time in the
music business. His concern has lately been
incorporated as the Sherman Music Co., Mr.
Sherman, president and treasurer. They are
agents for the Weber, Decker Bros, and Estey
pianos and Estey organs. They have a large,
well appointed wareroom, and work their trade
in Montana and Idaho and part of Washington.
The principal stock-holders in the concern are
Mr. Sherman and J. M. Bowes.
BYRON MAUZY,
San Francisco, Cal.
One of the best known of the younger genera-
tion of music dealers on the Pacific Slope is
Byron Mauzy. Young, affable and popular, he
has won many warm friends since he turned his
footsteps toward the Golden Gate. Mr. Mauzy
was born in Indiana, in i860, moved to Cali-
fornia in 1875, and in 1877 commenced, as a boy,
with one of the leading houses (Kohler & Chase);
after four years with that firm he worked for A.
Bruenn for three years. He then decided to
launch his own bark on the commercial sea, and
early in 1884 started in business for himself.
This year just completes his tenth year in busi-
ness. He has sold the Sohmer & Company
and Peek & Son pianos since he started, and the
Newby & Evans pianos since January, 1887.
He has also handled the Taber organ, Worces-
ter, Mass., and the Peloubet church organs,
L,yon & Healy makers, Chicago. In November,
1887, he moved to his present warerooms, 308,
310, 312, 314 Post street, Pacific-Union Club
Building, which is opposite Union Square, and
is decidedly the largest and finest on the Coast.
In April, 1891, Mr. Mauzy was married to Miss
Ellen Schroth, second daughter of Chas. Schroth,
Esq., one of the leading and influential citizens,
and has one child, a boy. Mr. Mauzy writes
of the fair : '' The Midwinter Fair is going to
be a great success. I intend to exhibit the Gold
Sohmer piano in a new and interesting manner."
In this connection it may be well to state that
Mr. Mauzy has met with wonderful success with
the Sohmer piano, and through his indefatigable
efforts it has become one of the most popular
instruments on the Slope. This success could
not have been accomplished had it not been that
the Sohmer instruments possessed all the attri-
butes necessary to make a '' leader.''
ness of Kohler & Chase prospered, and in 1857
they built a brick store on Washington street
and entered into importing extensively. Mr.
Kohler died on March 5th, 1885. The firm to-
day is incorporated, and Mr. Quincy A. Chase
ZENO MAUVAIS.
is president; T. P. Winter, secretary. Mr.
Chase is the surviving partner of the old firm,
and was born in Maine. They carry the Decker
Bros , A. B. Chase, Fischer and Mason & Hamlin
pianos. In organs, iEolian, A. B. Chase, Kim-
ball, and Mason & Ilamlin.
ZENO MAUVAIS MUSIC CO.,
San Francisco, Cal.
This concern was founded by Zeno Mauvais,
who began the music business in Oakland in
1877.
In 1883 he transferred his business to San
Francisco and opened a store at 769 Market street.
The transfer proved immediately beneficial, and
business steadily increased until June 1st, 1889,
when he moved to more commodious quarters at
769 Market street, where the business has since
been carried on. Mr. Mauvais was a business
man of tremendous energy, strictly scrupulous in
financial matters, and strong in his devotion to
his friends. These qualities had their legiti-
KOHLER & CHASE,
San Francisco, Cal.
J. T. FITZGERALD.
This firm have large and elegant quarters at
Nos. 26-30 O'Farrell street, San Francisco, with
branches at Oakland, California, and Portland,
Oregon. Established in 1850 by Andrew Koh-
ler, who had a tedious voyage from Boston
around Cape Horn, started in business on Stock-
ton street. Mr. Quincy A. Chase, connected with
the firm, began in 1853, and at that time there
was but one other music dealer in San Francisco,
Joseph A twill, on Washington street. The busi-
F. W. BLANCHARD.