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VOL. XLVI. No. 2 5 . Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, June 20, 1908.
ton, W. Va.; and points on and north of the
Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River,
Estimated That the Crop of 1908 Will be Worth
and south of a line from Keokuk, la., to Chicago,
$8,000,000,000, Thus Giving the Railroads . 111., including Cincinnati, Louisville, all towns in
Plenty of Business and the Farmers Abun-
Kentucky on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway,
dance of Wealth to Buy Pianos.
St. Louis, Keokuk, Chicago, Southern Peninsula
of Michigan, and Canadian towns on the Michigan
Chief Statistician Clark, of the Agricultural Central Railroad and Wabash Railroad.
Department, estimates that the ninth successive
Within a few days the circular giving full in-
good harvest is practically assured to the Ameri- formation as to the fall rates will be sent to press.
can farmer and that the crops of 1908 will be While copies of the circular will be mailed by the
worth nearly $8,000,000,000.
association within the next three to four weeks
Eight billion dollars would pay the net inter- to the retail merchants in the sections from
est-bearing national debt nine times over. Or it which the special fares apply, on request a quan-
would pay the net national debt and leave enough tity of the circulars will be supplied to such
to buy at par the stock of all the railroads in the resident members of the association as desire to
country. It would nearly pay off the entire forward the announcement direct to their cus-
bonded debt of every American railroad. At as- tomers.
sessed valuations it would buy every acre of land
in New York City and replace every building in
it, with a little remnant over equaling the com-
bined assessed valuations of Chicago, New Or- A Handsome Publication Worthy of High
leans, St. Louis, Seattle and San Francisco.
Praise—Many New Styles Illustrated.
Corn does not travel far from the place where
it is raised, which is lucky, as there are not rail-
Laffargue & Co. have just issued their new
roads enough to carry it. A crop of 2,700,000,000 (atalog, which is one of the most effective ex-
bushels should load 2,520,000 thirty-ton cars, amples of fine printing, both typographically and
540,C00 more freight cars than there are in the pictorially, which has been sent out in this trade
country of every sort. The freight cars of all the in many days. The color effects throughout are
world would not carry our wher.t and corn. If
light brown and black, and the whole "lay-out" is
there were cars enough and if the wheat and mcst artistic. There is a pleasing absence of
corn were loaded into thirty-ton cars, forty to a that flamboyancy of statement to be found in so
train, and trains were run at two-mile intervals many publications devoted to pianos. The intro-
at a speed, including stops, of thirty miles an ductory is a modest effort, but most convincing
hour night and day, it would take nearly six because of that very thing.
months for the procession to pass a reviewing
Among the pianos illustrated and described
stand. A bin built the size of a city block, 600 are: Style A, style 5, style R,' style 7, style M
feet by 200, would need to be more than six
(mission), style C, style D; style 8, and the
miles high to hold this wheat and corn alone. Laff argue player-piano, both closed and open,
The hay and cotton crops and the stupendous which has won so many compliments from users
annual egg yield of the American hen are in bulk by reason of its individual features of excellence.
and value equally amazing.
The opening page of the catalog contains a very
There is little in these facts to justify pessi- excellent picture of the office, factory and ware-
mism. If there are rats in the nation's granary rooms of the Laffargue Co., 134th street and
it is the nation's business to drive them out and Southern Boulevard, New York, while the cover
keep them out, but the material basis of pros- is a neatly embossed piece of. work in gold and
perity is broad and firm in the matchless abun- brown.
dance of nature.
Laffargue & Co. are to be congratulated on this
publication, which in the hands of their agents
must be productive of excellent results. The
SPECIAL RATES FOR DEALERS
designs of pianos shown are most attractive and
Visiting New York Over the Territory of the
are admirably depicted in the catalog—in fact,
Central Passenger Association.
the printing is of unusual excellence and shows
cff the various pianos to the best advantage.
On July 25-29, inclusive, and again on August
15-19, inclusive, merchants' rates will be in effect
G. P. PHELPS GOT THE PRIZE
to New \ o r k City.from the territory of the Cen-
tral Passenger Association. This announcement For Securing the Greatest Number of New
is made Tuesday by the Merchants' Association of
Members for the National Association of
New York, on whose application the concession
Piano Dealers.
is authorized. The special rate will be a fare and
i Supplied by Chairman of Press- Committee.)
one-half for the round trip, granted under the
Through haste in preparation of the reports
certificate plan. The return limit will be 30
of the convention it was announced that M. S.
days, as heretofore.
Central Passenger Association railroads trav- Phelps, of Rochester, N. Y., received the prize
erse territory roughly described as follows: for securing the greatest number of new mem-
Points west of (but not including) Buffalo, Niag- bers for the National Association of Piano
ara Palls, Suspension Bridge and Salamanca, Dealers of America during the past year. This
N. Y.; Pittsburg and Allegheny, Pa..; Bellaire and honor was really conferred upon G. P. Phelps,
Marietta, O.; Wheeling, Charleston and. Hunting- traveling man. for the Brockport Piano Manu-
SING
^°PER S VEAR CENTS -
facturing Co., Brockport, N. Y. The similarity
in the names was the cause of the error. G. P.
Phelps is a great hustler and promises to eclipse
his record of last year before the Detroit con-
vention. All persons making application for
membership through Mr. Phelps will undoubt-
edly have the pleasure of utilizing his prize gold
pen in filling out the blank.
BIG CROP INSURES BIG TRADE.
PREACHING PROSPERITY.
The Commercial Travelers Plan a Great Cam-
paign for Fall Trade.
LAFFARGUE & CO/S NEW CATALOG.
About one thousand delegates from all parts of
the country, including fifty more from Manhat-
tan and Brooklyn, were present at a convention
of the United Commercial Travelers of America
in Utica, N. Y., last week. Among the many
matters discussed by the delegates in secret ses-
sion were plans for carrying on the campaign of
prosperity which was begun in St.. Louis a short
time ago. With the .50,000 men belonging to this
association working together and preaching opti-
mism, good cheer and sunshine to their cus-
tomers, there can be no question but that good
will result.
The delegates were impressed with the im-
portance of the meeting of the Commercial Trav-
elers' Interstate Congress on Aug. 14 and 15 in
this city, to boom prosperity. Leading merchants
of the city have given assurances of hearty sup-
port to the August congress, one large concern
in this city promising an appropriation of $2,500
to defray the expenses of a banquet to the dele-
gates.
TO OPEN BRANCH STORE IN MINOT.
G. W. Getts, the piano dealer of Grand Forks,
N. D., will shortly open a branch store in Minot,
that State. Mr. Getts handles the Kimball, Cable,
and Foster-Armstrong lines of pianos, as well as
the Weber, Fischer and other makes. He also
carries a complete stock of player-pianos, piano
players, and organs.
SETTLED IN THEIR NEW ftUAttTERS.
The Knight-Locke Music Co., Denver, Col., are
now comfortably settled in the handsome new
quarters. The store is well fitted up with sepa-
rate rooms for the display of the various lines
of pianos, player-pianos and talking machines,
the rooms being furnished with comfortable
chairs and rich rugs and hangings. The com-
pany have recently placed Conover pianos in two
of the largest local amusement parks.
KRANICH & BACH ENTERTAIN DEALERS.
On Tuesday of last week L. P. Bach and Fred
Kranich, of Kranich & Bach, took six of their
dealers, who were in town for the conventions,
for an automobile trip, ending with dinner at the
Claremont, on Riverside Drive. The courtesy
was greatly enjoyed by the guests, who were E. E.
Forbes, Birmingham, Ala.; George Keller, Easton,
Pa.; Mr. Stevens, Marietta, O.; H. Hertzberg,
Philadelphia; G. Clay Cox, Rochester, N. Y., and
V. W. O'Brien. Bay City, Mich.