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THE WEAVER 50,000TH ORGAN.
Interesting Description of the Creation of
Which the Firm and Employes Are Justly
Proud—Two Personalities Who Have Helped
to Make the Weaver Co. the Success It Is.
Several weeks ago we referred at length to the
great celebration and banquet held at York, Pa.,
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and W. S. Bond, secretary and treasurer of the WHY MORE PIANOS ARE BEING SOLD.
company. We are now able to give our readers
an idea of the appearance of this Weaver organ, J. M. Root Says More People Are Getting Mar-
whose completion was so conspicuously honored.
ried and Prosperity Prevails Everywhere.
The employes in the action department were anx-
ious that the organ should in some way illus-
"Because more young people are getting mar-
trate the word "Weaver," and they conceived the ried, more pianos are being sold in the homes
idea of constructing a silk spider web over the of the United States than ever before," remarked
front of the organ, and manufactured quite a Julius M. Root, of the Haddorff Piano Co., of
large spider, which they put in the web, and Rockford, 111., in the course of a chat during his
this spider they designated as the Busy Weaver. recent visit to the convention and to New York.
The spider carries a banner on which 50,000 is He added:
written.
"I have just returned from a trip along the
The men were as proud of the triumph in fin- Pacific Coast and in the Rockies, just missing
ishing the manufacture of 50,000 Weaver or- the San Francisco disaster and escaping a rail-
gans, and the sale of them up to this time, as road wreck in Montana by one train. Every-
were the Weaver Co., and they were equally as where there is great prosperity. The people have
proud of the quality of the organs, as well as of plenty of money. The great sweep of emigration
the fact that the demand for "Weaver organs is across the country has not ended, and thousands
greater to-day than it ever was before. Indeed, of persons are settling all over the West this year,
as a member of the firm aptly said: "If there is especially in California. This is affecting the so-
such a thing as doing it, the next 50,000 Weaver cial status of the people. Years ago, when we
organs will be even better than the last 50,000." had the severe panic, marriage was somewhat
Of the two gentlemen whose portraits appear restricted because of the lack of the wherewithal.
herewith little need be said. The success which There were too many young men out of a job and
they have achieved in building up a great and others earning small salaries but to-day condi-
growing business, such as the Weaver Organ & tions have changed, so that they are making up
Piano Co., is the best possible evidence of their for lost time. When they get a home they want
ability and broad-mindedness. They have won music. The South has taken up this idea, and
an enviable position not only in their home city more instruments are being sold there this year
but throughout the trade for perspicacity and than ever before."
j;rogressiveness.
FUEHR & STEMMER CATALOGUE.
INSTALLING KIMBALL PIPE ORGAN.
Fuehr & Stemmer Piano Co., with a factory at
(Special to The Review.)
641-647
Northern Boulevard, Chicago, have just
Jacksonville, Fla., May 19, 1906.
The beautiful new Kimball pipe organ, which issued a catalogue of their pianos. The book is
is being installed in the First Christian Church illustrated, and the matter well written, the de-
by Richard Grunthal, of the Ludden-Campbell- sire being to appeal to the intelligent dealer.
Smith Co. and H. M. Hansey, of the Kimball Co.,
NEW DEALER IN SAN FRANCISCO.
is just about completed and will be ready for use
in a day or two.
F. J. Christophe has announced the opening of
The organ is the very latest duplex tubular
the
New 'Frisco Music House, at 1193 Valencia
pneumatic action, and is in a class of its own.
It makes a very handsome appearance, the large street. This is the first new piano business started
in San Francisco since the fire, and the results
open diapason decorated pipes forming a half
circle in Ihe arch in the back of the altar, and are being watched with interest by the estab-
the console away from the organ down in front. lished trade.
The position of the console, being built entirely
MORE STORE ROOM FOR HOSPE CO.
away from the organ to itself, places the organ-
ist so as to have a full view of the choir. The
The Hospe Piano Co., Omaha, Neb., have taken
power is of the latest type electric motor. Mr.
a lease on the Linder block, located at 1207
Grunthal and Mr. Hansey are more than pleased
Doug'as street. The building is a four-story brick
with the work they have accomplished, and can
structure, and will be used as a warehouse and
safely say that the congregation will be proud
for general storage purposes.
of their new Kimball organ.
D. H. BALDWIN & CO. MUSIC ALE.
(Special to The Review.)
Denver, Col., May 19, 1906.
The musicale given at the piano warerooms of
the D. H. Baldwin Co. last week was successful
in attracting a very large and appreciative au-
dience. Several talented singers rendered vari-
PRESIDENT M. B. GIBSON.
ous selections, accompanied by Senor Aquabella,
by the employes and officers of the Weaver Organ who presided at the piano. The instrument used
& Piano Co. in honor of the manufacture of the was one of the artistic Baldwin productions that
50,000th Weaver organ, at which some notable won the grand prize at St. Louis.
addresses were made by M. B. Gibson, president,
H. H. HALE OPENS STORE IN ATLANTA, GA.
(Special to The Review.)
Atlanta, Ga., May 21, 1906.
H. H. Hale, who has been in the piano busi-
ness in Georgia about 20 years, recently bought
the factory exhibit of the Raymond Piano Co.,
and is located at 165 Peachtree street, where he
has established a first-class music store. Mr.
Hale announces that the Raymond piano will be
his leader, though his stock will include several
other high-grade lines of pianos.
This stock, which has been on exhibition for
several weeks, has attracted wide and favorable
comment among Atlanta musicians.
SECRETARY AND TREASURER w. S. BOND.
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PIANO EXCHANGE CO. INCORPORATED.
The Piano Exchange Co., of Pittsburg, Pa., has
applied for a charter to the authorities of Penn-
sylvania to conduct a store or stores for the pur-
pose of dealing at retail in pianos, organs, musi-
cal instruments and supplies.
PLANNING FOR EXHIBITION AT ATLANTA.
Among those who subscribed liberally to the
sum being raised in order to guarantee the great
exposition planned for Atlanta, Ga., in 1910, were
the Cable Company and Phillips & Crew Co. B.
L. Crew, of the latter firm, is at the head of sev-
eral sub-committees to perfect plans in connec-
tion with the exposition.
AN AMERICAN INVENTION VIA ENGLAND.
According to one of our English contempora-
ries, S. M. King, an American, has invented a tool
for the repair man, whereby it is a simple mat-
ter to polish and clean rust off tuning pins and
that portion of the strings coiled about same.
The exact nature of the tool is not stated.
The booklet by Annie S. Baxter, entitled "The
Romance of Say," issued by the Colby Piano Co.,
The Carstensen & Anson Co., Salt Lake City, Erie, Pa., and noticed some time ago in The Re-
Utah, bought up several carloads of pianos en view, is proving a big favorite In its pages
route for San Francisco, at the request of the testmonials regarding the merits of Colby pianos
manufacturers, and succeeded in selling a large are interspersed with choice quotations from the
works of Robert Burns.
number of them at reduced prices,