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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Fuller & Currens have just sold a Strich & Zeid- gium studying under the masters Marteau and
ler grand to Byron L. Dowse, president of the G. Ysaye. She intends to take a brief rest before
Trade in Healthy Condition—Prospects Good
and ,T. Rubber Tire Co. The following were announcing her plans which will include a series
—Success of Pearson Window Display—
callers at the Fuller & Currens store: Mr. Lehr, of concerts in Indianapolis.
King Co. Activity—Many Trade Callers at
of the Lehr Piano Co.; E. H. Holland, of the A. B.
Fuller & Currens Store—Wfll Carlin Busy—
Chase Co.; A. E. Petri, of the Premier Co.; F. E.
FAILURES INJ5EPTEMBER.
Other Trade Items of General Interest.
Rowe, of the Kimball Co.; Mr. Jarrett, of the
Strich & Zeidler Co.; H. W. Jarrow, of the Cable Record of Business Mortality Last Month and
(Special to The Review.)
Company; Mr. Wessell, of the Playola Co., and
Thus Far in 1908.
Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 3, 1908.
For the last two weeks the piano business in Mr. Hickam, of the Kimball pipe organ depart-
Last month contained the smallest number of
Indianapolis has been quiet. The fact that a ment.
great many people were moving and that in the
Will Carlin, of Carlin & Lennox sold two Koh- business failures in the United States since the
country the dust was deep and the crops were ler & Campbell pianos in one day last week and panic of October last year. They were, naturally,
suffering for want of rain caused the slump in then to make his work complete he delivered still considerably heavier than in the correspond-
the trade. Several things however have stimu- them on the same day. Carlin & Lennox are hav- ing month a year ago, both in number and in
lated business recently. A special session of
ing a good, demand for the Kohler & Campbell amount of liabilities involved, but comparison
the legislature has brought more country people line, which they displayed in a handsome booth with earlier months of the current year showed in
every case a heavy decline.
into the city than at any time since the state at the state fair.
fair early in the month. A good rain also a few
For the nine completed months of the year,
H. W. Upham and George W. Wise were callers
days ago had a beneficial effect. Dealers now arc last week at the store of Joseph Joiner. Mr. however, the comparison is altogether unfavor-
expecting a fairly good fall trade. They belie\e Joiner has just sold a French & Sons player-piano able. Since the opening of the year 10,691 busi-
however, that the best trade will not come until to I. N. Richie, one of the leading real estate ness concerns have gone to the wall, their lia-
after tax-paying time and until after the coal dealers of Indianapolis. He had considerable bilities reaching $244,835,000. This was an in-
has been laid in for the winter. Collections are competition to meet in making the sale. This crease of 55 per cent, in number and of 110 per
good.
piano is manufactured by French & Sons of New- cent, in liabilities over the corresponding period
of 1907. Only twice in the past twenty-six years
The George C. Pearson house this week re- castle.
Mr. Fitzmaurice, of the Schaeffer Piano Mfg. in 1896 and 1893, was there a larger number of
moved a display from its window which had been
In since the state fair. It had attracted more Co., and R. O. Burgess, of the Wegman Co., were failures reported, and only once in the country's
attention perhaps than any window ever put. callers at the store of Carlin & Lennox. A. T. entire history, 1893, have the liabilities of fail-
Rapp, head bookkeeper for Carlin & Lennox, ing concerns exceeded those reported this year.
in in Indianapolis. It was a representation of
As additional evidence of the strain of the pres-
an old mill run by water power. In one corner has just returned from a vacation in Michigan.
was a Kurtzmann piano all surrounded with
The Electrelle in the show window of the Starr ent year, it is pointed out by Bradstreet's, who
sheaves of wheat and with the placard "As Good Piano Co., is attracting considerable attention. have compiled the figures, that the percentage of
as Old Wheat in the Mill." The window was de-
Fuller & Currens have just received a new style assets to liabilities in the elapsed portion of the
signed by Mr. Secord of the Pearson store.
Kimball piano, which is attracting considerable present year was 58.5 per cent., as against 55.1
H. C. Jackson, manager of the King store, has attention. It is in a mahogany case, is sub- per cent, in 1907. In 1896 the proportion of
assets to liabilities was 58 per cent., in 1893 it
received excellent reports from Bluffton, the stantially built and possesses a splendid scale.
home of the King Co., where a big street fair is
A search is being made by the police for a man was 70, so that it may be said that there was a
in progress. Two King pianos were given away formerly employed in an Indianapolis piano larger percentage of otherwise solvent concerns
suspending this year than in any but one of the
to the persons guessing nearest the length of time house. The charge is passing bad checks.
which a long time piano player would play. He
After studying the violin in Europe during the past twenty-six.
had a record of 18 hours. Arthur King was in last two years, Miss Vera Verbarg has returned
the city recently. He was well pleased with to her home in Indianapolis. Miss Verbarg be-
C. S. Yetter. formerly manager for the Math-
trade here. During the state fair, the King Co. fore she left for Europe was a pupil in the Metro- ushek & Son Piano Co., in New Brunswick, N. J.,
gave away 10,000 copies of sheet music and 500 politan School of Music of Indianapolis. She will shortly open a piano store in Wilkes-Barre,
souvenir pictures of Arthur King.
spent most of her time in Switzerland and Bel-
PP..
INDIANAPOLIS BUDGET OF NEWS.
HE DECKER piano is moving steadily ahead in the estimation of
those best qualified to judge of the true merits of pianos. Since
1856 it has been manufactured under the personal supervision of members
of the Decker family and in this connection we may say that three genera-
tions of Deckers have contributed to the development of instruments
bearing the name of
T
It has never been the aim of the Deckers to produce the greatest
number of pianos manufactured by one concern, but they have held
steadfastly to the quality, preferring to produce instruments of true
musical worth rather than to be identified with a purely quantity product.
DECKER CgL SON
7O1 East 135th Street
NEW
YORK