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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
a record breaking amount of business for the
month of May, the firm tendered them a banquet
at the Hotel Rensselaer, that city, last month.
Harvey B. Gay, the manager, presided, and the
Business Good for June—Early Spring Buying Injured by the Automobile Trade—Wanamaker entire staff was present. The good business of
Department Getting Into Shape—Woodford-Crouse Progress—C. H. Fischer Leaves for the store extends right through the Foster-Arm-
Chicago—Trade Interested in the Schomacker-Wanamaker Deal—Weymann in New Quar- strong Co.'s lines.
ters— H. C. Pressey, the Lester Ambassador, Leaves Next Week for Pacific Coast—Business
With This Company Wery Satisfactory—Other Items of Interest.
owned $100 worth of shares he could dispose of a
Philadelphia, Pa., July 3, 1907.
portion to one party and a portion to the other.
The piano business in Philadelphia has been If he could not get full price for them he could
very good during June, and one of the men best accept a discount and sell them for what he
able to speak of the situation gave it as his chose. These shares could be offered for sale in
opinion that for the remainder of the summer the classified column of the newspapers. In that
business was going to be better than the normal, case it might be well to advertise in this man-
and that he anticipated a very good business ner:
'Due bill on a first-class piano house
this fall. He attributes the poor business of the
for the amount of $50 will be sold for
spring and early summer to the weather and to
$30. Address 000 Jones street'
the great spurt in automobile buying. This lat-
"These stock certificates will be received by us
ter, he says, has affected all lines of the trade,
and the piano men have suffered with the rest. any time within 90 days from this date, but not
Not necessarily that the piano purchaser bought later. Will you kindly write us an expression of
an automobile instead, but he has spent so much your opinion of the plan? Let us state that this
money on automobiles that he has little money firm is on a solid footing, and extends to all its
to make general purchases through the deple- customers all the benefits that lie within the
tion of his pocket book in keeping up repairs and province of a first-class house to bestow.
expenses on his machine. Thus the general Hoping to hear from you, we are, yours very
WOODFORD-CROUSE PIANO CO."
tradesman has suffered, and the piano dealer in truly,
The time limit has expired for an objection to
consequence.
They are rapidly getting the piano department be raised to the sale of the Schomacker Piano
at Wanamaker's finished, and the effect already Co., but the courts are still delaying the taking
shown is m,ost beautiful. The entire decoration of the company out of bankruptcy. In the
of the department is a scheme worked out sev- course of next week this will undoubtedly occur,
eral years ago by J. B. Woodford, the manager. and in that time pianos will no doubt be on
It is Egyptian in effect and design, and will un- sale at the Wanamaker store in this city. There
doubtedly be the finest thing in the country. The is sufficient stock in the factory to make a
entire one-third of the third floor of the new splendid display, and there are more than fifty
pianos upon which the finishing touches can be
Wanamaker building will be given over to the placed in a very short time. There are an equal
piano department, and it is to cost considerably number already well started, and material in the
more than any piano dealer ever thought would factory to carry the business along for some
be spent on any single piano department in any time.
store.
The Wanamaker house has received requests
The Woodford-Crouse Piano Co. have been
from
all over the country for. the Schomacker,
going ahead rapidly, and thus far their busi-
ness has been most satisfactory. Their sales and undoubtedly they can sell every instrument
have been large and has shown a most healthy they can make, and it is naturally to be expected,
growth in the last few weeks. J. V. Steger, of under such conditions, that they will leave
Chicago, was here this week and expressed him- nothing undone to run the output up to high
self as well satisfied with his Philadelphia rep- figures before the year is out.
J. B. Woodford, who has been examining into
resentatives. He went from here to New York
and sailed from there for Europe, to be gone the question, does not hesitate in affirming that
he never had an idea that the Schomacker Co.
several months.
Charles H. Fischer has gone to Chicago, where, turned out as fine a piano as they did, and he
it is said, he has taken a position with the does not believe there is a piano in the country
Steger house, and expects to make that city his that requires more money to manufacture.
H. A. Weymann & Son moved to their new
home for the present. For the first time in the
last fifty years the name of Fischer is not con- home on Chestnut street last week, just east of
the Blasius & Sons warerooms, and they have
nected with any local piano establishment.
The Woodford-Crouse Co. have sent out the one of the finest stores in the city. They will
following enticing proposition to the holders of pay more attention in future to their piano de-
preferred stock in the recent Charles H. partment. They are also going to have an ex-
cellent sheet music department.
Fischer Co.:
H. C. Pressey will leave next week on his sum-
"TO HOLDERS OF PREFERRED STOCK OF CHARLES H .
mer
trip to the Pacific Coast for the Lester
FISCHER CO.:
Piano
Co. He is anticipating an excellent busi-
"We have a proposition to make to the holders
ness; and says that he can start with much better
of preferred stock of the Charles H. Fischer Co. prospects ahead of him than on the previous
While we realize the uncertain value of this trips, for the reason that he can assure his
stock, we recognize that it will be good business trade that the factory will be able to supply any
for us to secure the co-operation of the vast num- orders they may give him. With the new power
ber of stockholders in the selling of Steger recently installed the Lester factory is in a
pianos. As we are not the successors of the splendid condition, and the firm expect to have
Charles H. Fischer Co., having had at no time easy sailing through the year. George Miller
any connection whatsoever .with that firm, but has taken his family to their cottage at Point
are instead an entirely new company, we are not Pleasant and has spent considerable time with
responsible in any way for the shortcomings or them during the past ten days.
obligations of the former concern. This is oui
proposition:
DOING WELL WITH THE EVERETT.
"We will accept shares of the preferred stock
The
M. F. Shea Piano Co., Nashville, Tenn.,
of the Charles H. Fischer Co., at their face value,
to the amount of not more than $50 in part are doing an excellent business in all their lines,
payment on any new Steger grand piano, or $40 the Everett being their lead^gt One day's sales
worth of shares on any new Steger upright recently totaled eight pianos, consisting of the
piano, or $30 worth of shares in part payment Everett, Harvard and Dayton pianos. A pleas-
of any new Reed & Sons' piano, or $20 worth of ing feature of this big business is the large pro-
shares in part payment of any new Singer piano, portion of cash sales.
pianos to be sold at the regular marked price.
FOSTER PIANO CO. EMPLOYES DINED.
"Stockholders who are not in the market for
instruments for their own use can dispose of their
In appreciation of the efforts of the force of
shares to those who are, viz.: If a stockholder the Foster Piano Co., at Troy, N, Y., in securing
DEATH OF GEO. H. CHAMPLIN.
(Special to The Revie^.l •
The Veteran Piano Dealer of Boston Passes
Away at His Home in Brookline on Sunday
—Had Been Engaged in the Piano Business
for More Than Thirty Years.
(Special to The Review.)
Boston, Mass., July 1, 1907.
George H. Champlin, head of the retail piano
firm of George H. Champlin & Co., which he
founded over 20 years ago, died at his home in
Brookline yesterday after a long illness, the re-
sult of a tumor.
Mr. Champlin had not been able to come to
the warerooms for over six months, and had
been to a number of resorts in an effort to regain
his health, but without success. For several
months he had been confined to his bed.
Mr. Champlin was one of Brookline's oldest
and wealthiest citizens. He was born in Col-
chester, Conn., Oct. 5, 1840, and was educated in
the public schools of that town. He entered the
piano business 30 years ago and was highly re-
spected by the entire trade.
He was a great lover of fast horses, and up
to. a few years ago owned some of the fastest
trotters around Boston. He was for many years
a familiar figure on the road during the racing
season. Of late years, however, he had given
his attention to fast automobiles. He was at
one time proprietor of the old Marlborough Ho-
tel. His residence in Brookline is one of the
most beautiful in the town. Mr. Champlin is
survived by a widow.
The funeral services were held on Wednesday
afternoon at his late residence, and a large rep-
resentation of the local piano men were there.
Burial was in Walnut Hill cemetery. The two
stores of the Champlin Co. were closed during
the day.
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W. E. Hall, representing the Pease Piano Co.,
left Wednesday for Stamford in the Catskills,
where he expects to spend the month of July
with his family.
"DISTINCTIVELY HIGH GRADE"
Ghe CHRISTMAN
STUDIO GRAND
is the greatest success of the day.
It possesses a scale of rare ever;
ness, a tone of remarkable sonority
and richness, with a quality that
is highly orchestral; Our latest \
styles of Grands and Uprights
mark a decided advance in the art
of piano-making. We court inves-
tigation. Some territory still open.
CHRISTMAN SONS, M>nuf,,c
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