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MUSIC TRADE:
EXHIBITS AT DALLAS FAIR.
Jesse French Co., John Church Co. and Bush
& Gerts Co. Make Fine Showing of Pianos.
(Special to The Review.)
Dallas, Tex., Oct. 31, 1908.
The Dallas Fair, held last week, was a decided
success as far as the piano trade was concerned.
The exhibits of pianos were very interesting,
and included the Steinway, Starr and Richmond
pianos, shown by the Jesse French Piano &
Organ Co.; Everett, Harvard, Dayton and John
Church pianos, shown by the John Church Co.,
and Bush & Gerts pianos, shown by that com-
pany. Most of the instruments were shipped
direct from the factories for exhibition at the
fair, and were handsome to a degree, attracting
much attention from the many visitors. While
the exhib'tors said actual sales were scarce, the
"prospects" were numerous. Concerts at the
Jesse French Co. booth, at which the best of
local talent appeared, helped to enliven matters.
Those houses who did not exhibit at the fair,
including the Will A. Watkin Co., had their
show windows and waierooms specially deco-
rated and arranged for the reception of visitors
during the week.
The piano houses gave away appropriate sou-
venirs to the fair visitors. The Jesse French
Co., of which J. C. Phelps is manager in Texas,
Oklahoma and Indian Territory, gave away at-
tractive stick-pins with the Starr trade-mark
thereon, a celluloid reproduction of the "Lone
Star" flag with ad. on the back, and a dainty
little hand mirror with convex surface to show
the entire face. There was a big demand for
all the souvenirs, especially the mirror, and the
scheme proved to be an excellent advertising
feature.
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STEINWAYS FOR MADERIA SCHOOL.
The Madeira School, the newest educational
institution in Washington, D. C, has been
equipped with Steinway pianos by E. F. Droop &
Sons Co.
C. J. Cronin has opened a piano store at 400
Varick street, Utica, N. Y.
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LABOR TROUBLES AVERTED.
heavy overcoat saved him from anything worse
than a bad shaking up.
Arbitration Takes Place of Strike at Bush &
Gerts Factory—Agreement
Reached for a
Year—W. L. Bush Discusses Business Plans.
PROHIBITION HELPS PIANO SALES.
According to piano dealers who have interests
in those States that have adopted prohibition,
Chicago, 111., Nov. 2, 1908.
the temperance movement will eventually mean
The threatened strike and labor trouble in the more business in all legitimate lines, although
Bush & Gerts factory in this city has been the present react ion has hurt trade to a certain
averted, thanks to the arbitration clause in their degree. With the thousands of dollars formerly
contracts. After several discussions and meet- spent for liquor diverted into other channels, the
ings the arbitration committee reached a final music dealers should certainly get their share,
agreement on Friday night which holds good for music naturally taking the place, as an enter-
one year. Had this agreement not been reached taining feature, of the phantom menageries col-
by arbitration the Bush & Gerts Piano Co. would lected through an over-indulgence in certain
be facing the same crisis precisely that they faced brands of liquors.
in 1898 and 1899, as a strike would certainly have
been precipitated during the first really active
W. J. WELSH A BENEDICT.
business period that they have experienced in the
last ten months.
Walter J. Welsh, vice-president of the Lewis-
In a chat with W. L. Bush, treasurer of the Welsh Piano Co., Cleveland, O., was married last
Bush & Gerts Piano Co., Saturday, he said: week to Miss Theresa Janet Cassidy. The couple
"Business has been steadily improving, and we are now on their honeymoon in the East, and
have been increasing our output since the first will make their home in Cleveland after Nov. 15.
of August until we are now running full time and The bride proved herself a real heroine last
full force, and expect to continue doing so until summer by rescuing a young lady who had
the end of the year. I shall leave for Texas to- fallen overboard from a boat, risking her own
morrow night, and make a general trip through- life in the work.
out the Southwest. I expect, on this trip, to have
a meeting with E. E. Forbes, to mutually con-
KNOCK-OUT FOR PRIZE CONTESTS.
sider the interests of the Bush & Gerts piano in
Prize contests in Pittsburg received a rather
the various Forbes' stores throughout the South.
The only drawback or restriction that has bad "knock" recently when, upon a woman pre-
affected this somewhat extensive deal up to the senting a "certificate" to the firm who issued it
present time, has. been our inability to fill orders, she was informed that all the pianos upon which
but we have received some very fine and compli- credits were allowed had been sold, the sales-
mentary letters from a number of the Forbes' man at the same time endeavoring to sell her a
salesmen and employes regarding the sample higher-priced piano without the discount called
pianos we have already shipped to the various for by the certificate. The woman was natu-
stores, and the Bush & Gerts piano will gain ad- rally very angry and was not at all backward
ditional strength throughout the Southern States in making her experience public. Such conduct
where it has always occupied a most prominent is going to help that particular piano house a
position. We are also getting encouraging re- whole lot when they run their next "prize" con-
test.
ports from the Northwest from C. R. Stone."
(Special to The Keview.)
YOUNG & McHUGH REMOVE.
ELECTRIC ORGAN.
Young & MiHugh, who handle the Hazelton
and other pianos in Washington, D. C, have re-
moved from 421 Eleventh street, N. W., to larger
Electricity has entered a new field and now quarters at 708 Twelfth street, N. W., where they
threatens to supplant one more of the old "stand- will occupy two large floors.
bys," says a Philadelphia paper. Through the
genius of a Pennsylvania man we now have the
SCHMOLLER & MUELLER'S SALE.
electric organ, in which a series of vibrators take
the place of the reeds that have been used for
The Schmoller & Mueller Music Co., Omaha,
so many years. These vibrators are tuned in Neb., have been conducting an extensive sale of
perfect harmony, and so far as sound goes can- pianos, giving as a reason that they ordered too
not be told from the reeds. Series of switches many instruments to be delivered this year and
and magnets, which may be worked separately find themselves overstocked, but rather than re-
or in concert operate the whole. The organ is pudiate contracts will sell the pianos at reduced
played as in any of the old-style instruments, prices. The sale does not include the Steinway,
but the stops simply set a certain number of
which, the firm say, admits of no reduction, being
electric vibrations into operation.
Fold at one price the world over.
Vibrators
Take
Place of the
Heretofore.
Reeds
Used
BUSY TIMES WITH BOARDMAN & GRAY.
Boardman & Gray, the piano manufacturers
of Albany, N. Y., report a highly satisfactory
business, both wholesale and retail, with con-
stant improvement noted. The firm have just
added several new agencies in the Middle West
and have also been kept busy shipping pianos to
near-by cities—Troy, Schenectady, etc., for retail
customers.
The Boardman & Gray player-piano was used
at two musicales given at Barney's department
store, Schnectady, last week, and was highly
praised by the audience.
The Orange Book and Music Store, Orange,
Cal., have greatly increased their floor space and
added a line of pianos and organs.
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Morris Steinert, head of the Steinertone Co.,
New Haven, Conn., had a narrow escape from
serious injury last week when an ice wagon ran
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off, throwing Mr. Steinert out on the roadway.
The horse started to bolt, but Mr. Steinert clung
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