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V O L . XXIX. No. 2.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, July 8,1899.
Trade in Southern California.
[Special to The Review.]
Los Angeles, Cal., June 28, 1899.
The prominent business men of this city
have just been interviewed anent the busi-
ness situation by a representative of the
Herald. The following may be taken as a
fair general summary of the results se-
cured, with occasional exceptions:
Trade, on the whole, is better than it
was last year. In some instances there
has been quite a material advance.
People are buying a better class of goods
than they were last season, which would
indicate that money is easier, and that
more people are at work. One notable
exception cited—in the piano trade—is
rather to be regarded as a favorable indi-
cation than otherwise. There is an in-
creased demand for the cheaper grade of
pianos. This because people in moderate
circumstances, who could not indulge in the
luxury of a piano a year ago, are buying
instruments now. This class cannot af-
ford the more expensive grade.
The Herald reporter was impressed by
the apparent conservatism of the business
men interviewed. It was fully recognized
that the conditions are not what they should
be, and that Los Angeles is not enjoying,
by reason of the prolonged drouth and
recent local causes, a fair measure of gen-
eral prosperity such as is claimed—but not,
by any means, always substantiated—for
the remainder of the country. There was
no disposition to acknowledge defeat in the
battle of business existence; where there
was not the greatest measure of confidence
there was grit and determination. It was
universally declared that a good rainy
season next winter would put Los Angeles
and Southern California where, by reason
of their resources and enterprise, they
rightfully belong.
Reference to conditions in the piano
trade is based on the following statement
of Mr. Fitzgerald, of the Fitzgerald Music
Co., who said: "Our business for the first
six months of this year has been far in ex-
cess of that for the same period last year.
There is a larger demand for cheaper goods
than there was at that time. This condi-
tion is really encouraging, although on its
face the opposite might seem to be true.
As I interpret it, the increased demand for
cheaper goods—pianos for instance—means
that the people in moderate circumstances,
who could not afford to buy pianos last
year are able to indulge in that luxury
now. They cannot afford to buy high-
priced pianos and so take the cheaper
grade, hence the increased demand. The
call for high-priced goods in our line re-
mains about the same as last year. I look
for a good summer trade."
The Royal Courts.
The Royal Courts of Europe, the homes
of nearly all prominent Americans and the
studios of master musicians, are furnished
with the self-playing yEolian (home or-
chestra) for artistic music that they desire
faultlessly rendered.
Without musical knowledge you are
absolute master of it.
You render the music just as you think
it should be played. You control every
slightest change of tone and tempo by the
simple use of "stops." You play just
what you want to hear and just when you
want to hear it. Over 10,000 selections.
Everything, classic or popular.
Taste and culture were the motherly
necessity that produced the ^Eolian; taste
and culture are its chief patrons. One-
fourth of the subscribers to the Philadel-
phia Grand Opera own Heppe ./Eolians.
Its technic is perfect beyond improve-
ment. The soul of music depends" en-
tirely on yourself. By a simple shifting
of the music roll you can have whatever
you like.
Wagnerian operas, with all the orchestral
effects, are yours at will. The tempo, the
lights and shades of music, the violins,
'cello, clarionets, the flute.s and what not,
are governed by the player.
He is
prompted by "expression marks" on
each roll.
Or, if you want the soft melodies of
long-gone days; if you want the capering
roll, the hornpipe, the schottische, the
waltz, the quadrille; if you want the sacred
anthems of religion; if you want the entire
repertoire of Rubinstein or Paderewski,
you may have them with all the heartflood-
ing grandeur of their original performance,
in your own home, at your fireside.
By the simplest sort of a contrivance,
merely by stops, you regulate the pause,
the crescendo and the retard; while the
instrument executes the notes.
People of musical culture, people of
high refinement, know how shortcoming is
human ability. It is among such people
that the Heppes sell the ^Colians especially.
—Philadelphia Press.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES m CENTS
Where Church Organs May be
Sold.
The following list of churches to be built,
each of which must be furnished with an
organ, will be of interest to manufacturers.
Correspondence is in order:—George H.
Grove, 213 Walnut street, Harrisburg, Pa.,
has plans about ready for bids for a church
and parsonage for the United Brethren and
Christ Church, Abraham Staeffer, Secre-
tary, Palmyra, Pa.
$10,000.—Edw. J.
Poulsen, church for the Englewood on the
Hill Baptist Congregation, Chicago, 111.—
Jas. B. Barnet has the contract for a me-
morial chapel for Mrs. Dr. Horatio N.
May. $30,000.—Haug & Scheurman, Sag-
inaw, Mich., have prepared plans for a
chapel for Forest Lawn Cemetery. $ 1 o, 000.
—Chas. Crapsey, Seventh and Race streets,
Cincinnati, O., Presbyterian church for
Norwood. $6,000.—C. F. Parker, Wash-
ington C. H., O., has prepared plans for a
M. E. church at Staunton, O. $8,000.—
C. Howard Lloyd, 15 S. Second street,
Harrisburg, Pa., chapel and nursery for
the Tressler Orphans' Home, Loysville,
Pa. $20,000.—A. A. Ritcher has prepared
plans for a one-story church for St. Paul's
United Evangelical Congregation, Le-
banon, Pa. $8,000.—Benj. Davey, Ben-
nett Building, Wilkesbarre, Pa., church
for the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran
Trinity Church Society.
$6,000.—Isaac
Pursell, 119 South Fourth street, Philadel-
phia, has plans for a church for the First
Presbyterian Congregation, Bristol, Pa.—
Martin C. Miller, Mutual Life Building,
Buffalo, N. Y., has plans for the Church of
the Covenant.
$12,000.—The Church of
the Visitation on Moreland street, Buffalo,
N. Y., will build new structure to cost
$25,000.—W. S. Knapp, extensive changes
in Trinity Church, South Norwalk, Conn.
$10,000. S. C. Palmer is a member of the
committee in charge.—Field & Medary,
144 South Penn Square, Philadelphia, Pa.,
church for the Summerfield M. E. Congre-
gation at Tulip and Dauphin street, 60 feet
square, with a seating capacity of 700
persons. $25,000.
Among the Hazelton enthusiasts of the
West is W. H. Elmer, the Winona, Minn.,
piano dealer. He carries this instrument
as his leader, and has placed a large num-
ber of Hazeltons among the best families
in that section of the country. As might
be expected, they have, given the best of
satisfaction.