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THE
BALTIMORE TRADE OUIET.
Normal Conditions Expected After Election—
New Electric Lines to Help Business—Wm.
Knabe & Co. News—Stieff Pianos for New
England
Conservatory—Other
Interesting
Items.
(Special to The Review.)
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
makes a total of 146 pianos which this house has
shipped to that institution since September, 1905.
Manager Williams will spend several days this
week on a business trip, winding up in New
York, where he will attend the conventions of
the manufacturers and dealers. G. W. Stieff will
also be present.
Manager Emil Levy, of the Gilbert Smith
Piano Co., local agents for the Kimball and
Kranich & Bach pianos, was one of the interesting
entertainers at the reorganized Journalists'Club's
first house warming in their new house, 522
North Charles street, last Wednesday evening.
J. P. Caulfield, of the firm of J. P. Caulfield &
Co., agents for the Sohmer, Stultz & Bauer, Pease
and other pianos, and the Mason & Hamlin
organs, has just returned from a business trip.
The announcement was made at Sanders &
Stayman, that the sales of Weber pianos have
been very satisfactory.
This firm, as well as a number of others
throughout the city, started their summer sched-
ule to-day of closing at 5 o'clock in the evening
on week days and at 1 o'clock on Saturday after-
neons.
Baltimore, Md., June 1, 1908.
The quietness which has characterized the
condition of the trade in this city for the last
two weeks of May is still in evidence. The
dealers, in fact, do not look for any material
boom now until after the warm weather passes.
They predict the usual betterment of trade dur-
ing the first part of the fall, but the real return
to normal conditions is not anticipated until
after the Presidential election.
It is the earnest belief of some of the dealers
that the new electric line between Baltimore and
Washington and Annapolis will eventually prove
a good thing for the trade in this city. Already
many more visitors from the two cities and
points along the line are noticed in Baltimore
than heretofore, and many of them have made it
a point to visit the piano stores, as well as the
other business houses here. The dealers believe
ENGELHARDT AMBASSADORS
that many of these visitors, and more of them Make Gcod Reports—O. L. Wright Visited
before long, will become buyers direct at the
Canada—Mr. Peck Toured Cuba and the
local stores.
South—Messrs. Engelhardt at Convention.
It was stated at William Knabe & Co.'s that
O. L. Wright and Ben C. Peck, who so ably
business, both wholesale and retail, has been fair
represent F. Engelhardt & Sons, 47th street and
for the week. Charles Keidel, Jr., manager of
the company, has taken advantage of the last Fifth avenue, returned Monday last from a six
few balmy days by going on a fishing trip along weeks' trip and both were well satisfied with
the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. His friends their pilgrimages. Mr. Wright toured Canada,
expect him to return in a few days rather sun- the Middle West, and en route home the impor-
tant points in the Empire State. Mr. Peck made
burnt and with a big catch of the finny tribe.
Charles McHenry, head salesman for the his second trip through Cuba and the South, and
Knabe house, has returned from Onancock, Va., came back via Cincinnati, Cleveland and Key-
and other points in Maryland after having com- stone State, and both are incidentally ready for
the national conventions.
pleted a most successful business trip.
F. Engelhardt and Walter L. Engelhardt will
Manager J. H. Williams, of the Charles M.
leave St. Johnsville, N. Y., Sunday morning in
Stieff concern, reports the sale of a carload of
Stieff pianos during the week to the New Eng- their automobile for New York, and expect to
land Conservatory of Music at Boston, Mass. This arrive in time for the dealers' convention, which
convenes Monday morning, June 8, at 9 o'clock.
It will be a record trip. The firm will have two
touring cars in commission during the dealers'
conclave.
BEROEN TROOP CELEBRATES
Memorial Day by Participating in Notable
Events—Well
Known
Piano
Men Are
Members of This Organization.
Bergen Troop, of which Henry Nickel, of Wes-
sell, Nickel & Gross is captain, and Charles
Mehlin, of Paul G. Mehlin Sons, is quartermaster-
lieutenant, took an important part in the Memo-
rial Day parade at Hackensack, N. J., 30th ult.
The troop was escort to Major Engel, of the
National Guard, at both the unveiling of two guns
in Hackensack Square, and in the parade which
followed. The guns noted were relics of the
Revolutionary war and were presented to the
Hackensack municipality by the United States
government. Following memorial services, Ber-
gen Troop were guests of Major Engel and staff
at a dinner in the Fifth Regiment Armory.
Bergen Troop is one of the strongest and best
equipped organizations in the State of New Jer-
sey, and both Captain Nickel and Lieutenant
Mehlin are extremely proud of its record.
STRIKES HURT PIANO TRADE.
The piano houses of Cleveland, O., as well as
all other business interests, have suffered greatly
through the prolonged and violent strike of the
street railway men in that city. Only those com-
pelled by actual necessity to do so ride on the
cars, and it is next to impossible to get prospects
from outlying districts into the stores. The
Bailey Co., whose piano department is in charge
of B. B. Goodman, solved the problem by sending
automobiles for prospects, thus making a number
of good sales. Other dealers have also adopted
this idea, and find it pays.
C. A. Krahmer has opened a new music store
in Fairmont, Minn.
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Of Interest to Visiting Dealers
A cordial invitation is extended to visiting dealers to call at the Behning piano factory
and inspect there the
BEHNING PLAYER PIANO
which is different from any other player on the market and many do not hesitate to say
it is better.
It has many individual features which can be best seen when examining and testing the
instruments. Do not overlook the examination of the Behning if you are interested in
player pianos.
The Behning factory occupies the block running from
131st to 132nd Street on Park
Avenue
and can be easily reached either by trolley, by train from the Grand Central Station
or by the "L"
Behning Piano Player Co
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