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The Hobbie Piano Co.
Zobo Brass Band on Wheels.
A NEW ORGANIZATION COMPOSED OF WELL-
JKNOWN CITIZENS.
POINTS FOR DEALERS HANDLING ZOBOS—HOW
THEY CAN MAKE MONEY THE COMING
SUMMER AND FALL.
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HE recently organized Hobbie Piano
Co. is composed of men of fine busi-
ness qualifications and of the highest stand-
ing in this community, and this new con-
cern starts out under very favorable au-
spices. J. D. Hobbie, the president, has
been in the piano business in Virginia for
fifteen ) 7 ears, ana he is well known for his
fair dealing, strict business integrity and
ability. D. W. Meadows, the vice-presi-
dent, is a cousin of Tyler Meadows, assist-
ant cashier of the First National Bank, and
he is well known in business circles in this
city as a fine business man and a most up-
right gentleman. He has had many years
experience in the piano business.
Warren Wellford, the secretary and
treasurer, has been in Roanoke for a num-
ber of years, and among the younger busi-
ness men of this city, few if any, are more
favorably known. He is especially well
qualified for the management of the ac-
counting department.
These officers, with J. P. Woods and W.
B. Buddo, constitute the board of directors.
Mr. Wuods is a member of the law firm
of Moomaw & Woods, and a brother of
Judge John W. Woods, of the Hustings
Court. He is a man of high standing as a
citizen, and in his profession.
Mr. Buddo is a polished gentleman and
a pianist of great merit. He is especially
popular among the local musicians, and his
connection with the Hobbie Piano Co. is an
element of strength for that organization.
The World takes great pleasure in en-
dorsing and commending this organization
to the public.—Evening World, Roanoke,
Va., April 6.
The Brambach Pianos.
A PIANO THAT DEALERS SHOULD BECOME AC-
QUAINTED WITH.
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N instrument which has gained in
prestige and popularity during the
past year is tnat manufactured by the Bram-
bach Piano Co., Dolge ville, N. Y. Im-
provements of value have been embodied,
and there are few instruments that can com-
pare with it for volume and purity of tone,
reliability of construction, and beauty of ap-
pearance, when the price is considered.
Charlie Becht is looking after the road
interests of thishoiise, and is doing so most
effectively. A week hardly passes that some
new agency is not effected, and the general
report—wherever the "Brambach" is sold
—is that it gives the utmost satisfaction.
This is what anyone would expect who has
thoroughly examined this instrument.
Now that spring trade is opening up,
dealers who have not become acquainted
with the "Brambach" should make it a
point to communicate with the manufact-
urers, who are progressive piano people
with whom it is a pleasure to transact bu-
siness.
• T H E Zobo Brass Band instruments seem
j[ to have struck a popular vein. In
fact, the different styles are getting more
popular every day. This is evidenced by
the degree of bustle prevalent at Zobo head-
quarters. In a talk recently with W. H.
Frost, the manufacturer, 123 Liberty street,
he said: " I have been behind in my orders
for brass band instruments for over a
month, and it is the dull season in most
lines.
" I am advised by the director of the
Oberlin College Glee Club that the hit of
their concert recently given was the Zobo
band. They have put in sixteen of these
brass instruments, which fitted out the en-
tire glee club. Then I have also equipped
quartets in the glee clubs of Yale, Harvard
and Cornell. So you see they are proving
very successful in that field."
Wide-awake dealers handling the Zobo
instruments should make it a point to en-
courage the formation of bicycle brass
bands. If properly pushed they would be-
come "all the rage." These instruments
can be carried in one hand, easily played
and slung over the back when not in use.
There is absolutely no such thing as a
brass band on wheels, and the novelty of
the scheme proposed will commend it.
Again, dealers should make it a point to
be on the lookout for campaign clubs.
The Zobo is destined to be indispensable
during the campaign, and dealers can work
up a big trade by looking up the voters
as well as the bike.
To Tax Street Pianos in Wash-
ington.
HE Commissioners of the District of
Columbia have prepared and sent to
Congress a bill designed to impose a tax
on street pianos and itinerant musicians.
The Commissioners recommend that their
bill be substituted for House bill 3,731,
which was supposed to cover the needed
legislation, but which does not suit the
Commissioners.
In commenting on the new bill, Maj.
Moore says street pianos and street musi-
cians are now required to have simply a
permit from him, and that it would be
highly desirable to make them pay a license
of $12 a year, as proposed in the bill. He
suggests that when these musicians are
licensed the police have authority to pre-
vent them playing in a neighborhood where
there is illness.
The bill, as submitted to Congress, pro-
vides that the Assessor shall issue the
licenses in June of each year, and that he
may have the power to reject any applicant
or refuse to transfer a license from one
man to another. The musicians cannot
play within two squares of a school,
church, hospital, or residence of a sick per-
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son. Violations of any provision of the
act are punishable by fines and imprison-
ment. The carousal is included in all the
provisions of the act.
Wickham, Chapman & Co,
THE
ENTERPRISING AND GO-AHEAD PIANO
PLATE FOUNDERS OF THE WEST.
ICKHAM, CHAPMAN & CO., piano
plate founders, Springfield, O., are
among the enterprising and go-ahead firms
of the West. From a small beginning
they have built up a large and prosperous
business in all sections of the country. To
have attained such a standing in the face
of the depressed commercial conditions of
the country demonstrates above all that
their wares are meritorious, and in every
respect satisfactory. The Wickham, Chap-
man & Co. plant is the largest devoted to
piano plate castings in the West. They
employ reliable men in all departments,
and their plates are free from imperfections,
and are models both in soundness and
finish.
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Husic Publisher Robbed.
HEODORE WINSLICK, a music pub-
lisher at 875 Broadway, this city, has
known for several weeks that some one was
robbing him. He heard that some of his
music was being sold on the East Side, and
he reported the fact at the Elizabeth
Street station.
While Winslick was still in the station
house, Wardman Coyle brought in a man
who described himself as George Myers, of
158 Canal street. This is a saloon where
he was found selling the music. He sold
music for 7 ^ cents which cost 19 cents to
print. Winslick says he has been robbed
of $500 worth of music. Myers was subse-
quently discharged, there being no evi-
dence against him.
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The Outlook for the Pease.
NLESS we are greatly mistaken, this
is going to be a "popular Pease"
year. There are two reasons for this
opinion: First, the company were never in
a better condition than now to cope with
their constantly enlarging trade. Plans
have been perfected, both in the East and
West, which when fully developed, will im-
press the merits of these instruments on
the trade in an unmistakable manner.
Second, the Pease pianos are constantly
being made more attractive architecturally,
and the latest styles are really beautiful
specimens of up-to-date piano making.
The case structure meanwhile is not the
only attractive feature about the Pease
pianos. Their tone is equal to all de-
mands, and this is conceded by authorities
who have expressed themselves in un-
equivocal terms in this connection. The
dealers who will "get in line" under the
Pease banner will be taking a wise step.
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