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THE
MUSIC TRADE
13
REVIEW
voted to the. exhibition of individual lines of by a covered bridge across the intervening alley.
pianos and player-pianos.
The side gluers, action finishers and fly finishers,
.The J. W. Greene Co. have been leading piano the grand piano department, and the offices are all
Many Prominent Members of the Trade Attend
dealers here for many years, being almost the old- located in the new addition. The offices are com-
the Formal Opening of. the Handsome New
est Vose agents in this country. They have sold modious and beautifully fitted up with a fifty-foot
Quarters of the J. W. Greene Co. in the
Vose pianos for thirty years continuously, and second-story window frontage on Winnebago
Pythian Temple—Local
Music Lovers in
have built up an immense reputation for these fine street. It gives them ample space to display the
Attendance—The Excellent Line of Pianos
instruments. They have also pushed the Chicker- full line apart from the hum and noise of the
Carried—Recital by C Arthur Longwell.
ing, the Kranich & Bach, and the A. B. Chase factory.
with great success, and have made many warm
(Special to The Review.)
Speaking of grands reminds one that Max
friends for the A. B. Chase Artistano. The ware- Richtsteig is now completing the scale for a new
Toledo, O., Oct. 28, 191 J.
The J. W. Greene Co., of this city, agents for rooms occupy three floors of the Pythian Temple. "semi-concert" grand. It will be 7 feet 2 inches
the Vose, Chickering, Kranich & Bach, A. B. Large crowds of Toledo music lovers have filled in length, and judging from the tonal quality
Chase, Stultz & Bauer, Kohler & Campbell, and the Greene warerooms during the celebration, and achieved in the Gram-Richtsteig small grands, will
other lines, celebrated the fall opening of their many sales were made as a result. Thf whole be a wonder. The new grand will be ready about
very beautiful store in the Pythian Temple with a force were kept at work constantly from morning the first of the year.
festival covering three days. The program of to night, and at times even the visiting piano men
events began yesterday, when two recitals were had to turn in and help. All in all, the affair was
MEHLIN WITH THE FLEET.
held by local pianists, violinists and singers. On a decided success and reflects much credit on W.
Friday afternoon and evening C. Arthur Long- W. Smith and his assistants, P. D. Brown and A Handsome Example of Mehlin Piano Work-
well, the well-known Artistanist, gave two recitals, others, who planned and executed it.
manship on the Battleship "Minnesota."
assisted by local singers, using the A. B. Chase
A Mehlin piano is aboard the battleship "Minne-
Artistano grand. His programs included numbers
PIANOS AT THE ISTHMUS.
sota," which is one of the fleet of one hundred
by Chopin, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Moszkow-
ski. Large crowds attended all the programs, and A Suggestion That a Permanent Exposition Be and two ships of the United States Navy now on
the Artistano recitals were especially the center
Maintained in Panama When the Big Ditch
of attraction. The festival ends to-night with a
Is Completed—Would Open Big Trade Possi-
final recital.
bilities for Pianos in the Countries South
of Us, which is Now Neglected.
Many piano men came to Toledo especially to
be in time for the celebration. Among these were
Speaking of expositions. How would a perma-
D. D. Luxton, of the Vose Piano Co.; Joseph
Bauer, of Stultz & Bauer; C. Arthur Long- nent piano exposition at Panama strike American
manufacturers?
well, of the A. B. Chase Co.; Louis P. Bach, of
Would it pay better than national exhibits at the
Kranich & Bach, and William Braid White, of The
Music Trade Review. L. H. Clement, of the Piano Marchants' Convention?
Our Consul. at P.anama thinks a show of our
Whitney-Currier Co.. and other local piano men
goods would catch South American trade. Mr.
were also visitors.
U. S. S. MINNESOTA.
W. W. Smith, of the J. W. Greene Co., enter- Snyder has been in the service many years, and
display
in
the
Hudson River. This Mehlin was
before
going
to
Panama
in
1909
took
care
of
this
tained a party of piano men, including most of
sold to the ship in December, 1907, and is giving
those mentioned above, as well as the entire staff Government's business at Buenos Ayres.
"Col. Goethals,' T said the Consul, "is the one big the greatest of satisfaction to the officers and crew,
of the Greene store, at the Hotel Secor on Thurs-
man down in Panama. His one idea is to get the as penned to the company in a recent letter.
day night.
Recent alterations and decorations have vastly canal finished in 1913 and so make good President
Do you wish to make five dollars.' Then send
improved the physical appearance of the Greene Taft's claim that it would be open on that date. It
warerooms, which are now as nearly perfect as is impossible to describe the magnitude of this your ideas upon leading trade topics, embodied
ingenuity can make them. A feature of the ar- marvelous work. Only the eye can give any idea in two hundred and fifty words, to The Review.
rangement is the use of many small parlors de- of what is being done by human hands. Men on You will find full particulars elsewhere in this
the job look like ants, and when the big landslides issue.
come whole mountains of earth fall, putting the
work back weeks at a time.
"The popular idea that Panama is to be a center
<>f activity when the canal opens is incorrect, for
the big bonded warehouses and storage places will
TH£Yj
be at Balboa, about three or four miles away.
This is the actual mouth of the canal, and it is
COST
there that the transshipments of all merchandise
fiom up and down the Pacific Const, both North
MORE
and South America, will be made. The local busi-
ness of Panama remains about as it has been for a
number of years, but the opening of the canal is
That is the term which a celebrated piano
going to mean big business for this country, when
manufacturer used recently when referring
the South American merchants from the Pacific
Coast pass up and down through the canal.
to a product which has won a high position
"Tn this way they will get in touch with Ameri-
in the piano world.
can goods, even though most of them are headed
We refer, to the brands of piano wire
for Europe. At present these merchants go to
known as the
Europe direct from South America, but after the
canal opens they will come up the Pacific and
across the Isthmus and over this way. What we
need at Panama is a permanent exhibit of Ameri-
can goods, a sort of manufacturers' association
AND
which will put before these big buyers our goods.
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I have had this in mind for several years and have
called the Government's attention to it officially in
THEY'RE
my reports to Washington and to Congress. It
WORTH
Steadily these products have advanced in
means winning the business of Western South
the estimation of the most critical.
IT
America, and the business is vast."
They are used by some of the most cele-
brated piano' makers in the world.
To the manufacturer who
SETTLED IN NEW ADDITION.
values his reputation, and to
Now, what is good enough for the lead-
Gram-Richtsteig Piano Co. Occupying New
the dealer who wants his cus-
ers of an industry should interest the rank
tomer's confidence, demand
Quarters Which Give Them Needed Manu-
them in the pianos you han-
and file!
facturing Facilities—Working on New Semi-
CELEBRATE OPENING IN TOLEDO.
"THE HIGHEST
SCIENTIFIC
DEVELOPMENT"
" PERFECTED "
CROWN "
Concert Grand—Ready First of the Year.
American Steel & Wire Co.
Chicago
New York
Worcester
Denver
San Francisco
United States Steel Products Go.
Export Representative
30 Church St., NEW YORK
(Special to The Review.)
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 26, 1911.
The Gram-Richtsteig Piano Co. are now nicely
settled in the new addition to their factory. It is
a two-story building at the corner of Winnebago
and Eleventh streets, and is connected with the
five-story main building at 416-420 Eleventh street
dle—especially in the players
—made of superior German
felt.
401-424 E. 163d St., New York
Chicago Office: Republic Bldg.