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Issue: 1911 Vol. 53 N. 24

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THE MD^iC TRADE REVIEW
PIANO CLUB'S BEEFSTEAK DINNER.
cup, a replica of the wooden cup won by the Moore, J. M. Simons, A. T. Plabey, A. Hahn, Wm.
Supply Men's Baseball Team at the outing H. Fischer, Dr. George Kosmak, James Davis,
this past summer. The cup, which is beautifully and Hon. James J. Hoey, Assemblyman of Bronx
wrought, was designed by L. D. Perry, of district.
Ludwig & Co. The cup was accepted for
the club by E. Rouvet, captain of the win-
FAILURES IN NOVEMBER.
ning team, and after a few pleasantries as to the
Number of Insolvencies and Liabilities Largest
prowess of the Piano Manufacturers Team ( ? )
Since 1908.
challenged them to play a return game next season.
He also said his team would like to play a game
The month of November continued October's
of football, and added that his team banked on bad record for failures of commercial establish-
. The second annual beeksteak dinner of the Piano winning both battles.
ments in this country. R. G. Dun & Co.'s figures,
Club of New York, which took place Saturday
The following gentlemen proved a most efficient just published, show the highest number of ind#
evening last, proved a delightful affair and both
entertainment committee, and at the close were vidual concerns going to the wall in November
members and t\jeir guests had a jolly time of it.
congratulated on the success of the evening: Al- since 1908. When it comes to the total of liabili-
The vaudeville program was of the highest order
bert Behning, chairman; J. R. A. Lang, W. I. ties, only the panic month of November, 1907,
and' the menu par excellence. Over 140 sat around
Mapes, George Holz, Alexander Lichtenstein and and the corresponding month of 1903 exceeded the
the festive board and enjoyed the following viands,
Joseph Oktavec.
big amount rolled up in the month just closed.
which were served in abundance: Oyster cocktail,
In number the increase in failures compared with
The following were in attendance: F. H. Abend-
broiled steak, table celery, broiled chicken, lamb
schein, G. F. Abendschein, Staib-Abendschein Co.; last year was the greatest among retail stores and
chops, cream ale, draught beer, White Rock,
Theo. P. Anderson, Murphy Varnish Co., Newark, trading establishments. In liabilities the manufac-
soda, etc. A string orchestra played popular airs
N. J.; Geo. L. Bantor, Ault & Wiborg Co.; Albert turers showed the greatest increase in losses. The
during the serving of the several courses, and
Behning, Behning & Limbach; Gus Behning, Henry large number of grocers, butchers and keepers of
when artist William Logan sang popular songs
Behning, Behning Piano Co.; E. B. Bogart, Bogart general stores obliged to suspend indicates either
all joined in the chorus, and it may be said that
Piano Co.; A. M. Bollerman, Bollerman & Son; that ultimate consumption is cut down somewhat
this added to the pleasure of the evening. After
I. E. Bretzfelder, Krakauer Bros.; T. F. Cheva- over the country or that the extreme conserva-
cigars the following program proved highly enter-
lier, George Chevalier, Chevalier Bros., Brooklyn; tism of purchasing at wholesale by many of these,
taining :
John Christman, Christman Piano Co.; G. A. Clark, with resulting depletion of stocks, is resulting in
Musical Comedian
M. Huehn
Hirsh, Stein & Co.; A. Conrow, Connorized Music an increase of the business of mail-order houses.
Singing Comedienne
Miss Mabel Burke
Co.; Adolph Doll, Anthony Doll, Jr., Wasle &
1. "You'll Do the Same Thing Over Again."
2. "Sing Me a Good Old Irish Song."
BIO PRIZES BEING OFFERED.
Co.; Wm. II. Dykes, Music Trade Review;
3. "Silver Threads Among the Gold."
John A. Engers, the Ault & Wiborg Co.; S. B. A $4,000 pipe-organ, two player-pianos and
4. "If I Had the World to Give You."
Eggleston, Matawan Steel & Iron Co., Matawan, six pianos are among the prizes offered in a
Songs and Dances
Miss Nellie Lynton
N. J.; Robt. Bruce Gillie, B. A. & N. G. Williams; contest now being conducted by the Dallas (Tex.)
Topical Song
Miss May Morning
Monologist
• •
Harry Elmer
Walter Goepel, C. F. Goepel & Co.; J. S. Harris, Democrat, a weekly paper. The prizes are all
Broadway Hits
William Logan
De Rivas & Harris; Louis Haas, Henry Haas & to go to churches, lodges and schools in Dallas
Comedy Magician
Fred Dunworth
Son; G. Heller, Winter & Co.; G. W. Hoffman,
This was Mr. Dunworth's second appearance Flood & Conklin Co., Newark, N. J.; George and surrounding territory, and the instruments
at the club, and as usual, made a hit. His tricks Holz, S. S. Mapes; Chas. F. Howard, Hammacher, were all purchased from the Leyhe Piano Co., of
that city.
were most mystifying.
Schlemmer & Co.; Eugene T. Harrington, -B. A. &
Joe Harris and John A. Engers, club members, G. N. Williams; L. M. Ide, the Laffargue Co.;
also took an active part in the program, ably as-
sisting Miss Burke and Miss Lynton in their B. H. Janssen, poet laureate; Robert L. Kapp,
Zeph Cory, the oldest piano man in Providence,
C. A. Kapp, Harry A. Kapp, F. Cornell, R. I., and who retired from the business a decade
dances.
At the close of the program Albert Behning, with Robert L. Kapp; Geo. E. Keeler, J. ago owing to poor health, is again in a position to
chairman of the entertainment committee, pre- Davenport Co., Stamford, Conn.; Charles Jacob take up active business and has again opened
sented to the club, in behalf of the C. D. Potter and C. Albert Jacob, Jacob Bros.; J. R. A. Lang, piano warerooms in that city, where he is handling
Co., of Stamford, Conn., a handsome bronze loving Estey Piano Co.; Alex. Lichtenstein, Mansfield a piano of New York manufacture.
Piano Co.; J. W. Looschen, Looschen Piano Case
Co., Paterson, N. J.; S. S. Mapes, W. Irving
Mapes, S. S. Mapes; Fred'k Mathesius, Jr., Fred'k
Mathesius, Jr.; Percy McFeeley, Chase, Roberts
& Co.; L. S. Macomber, Strich & Zeidler; Joseph
A SUPERIOR ACTION
Oktavec, the Laffargue Co.; C. D. Potter, C. D.
IS THE HEART OF A
Potter Co., Stamford, Conn.; C. O. B. Peuss,
SUPERIOR PIANO.
Cleveland Varnish Co.; Philip W. Parker, B. A.
& G. N. Williams; William M. Plaisted, Bogard
A SUPERIOR HAMMER
Piano Co.; Russell C. Price, F. W. Devoe & C. T.
Reynolds Co.; G. A. Rosenau, Isley & Held Co.;
IS THE HEART OF A
E. Rouvet, Wasle & Co.; R. H. Schroeder, C. F.
SUPERIOR
ACTION.
Goepel & Co.; Louis F. Schutte, Schencke Piano
Co.; A. V. W. Setley, Estey Piano Co.; Adolph
Stern, David T. Schmidt; Wm. Strich, Strich &
Zeidler; F. Von Schuckmann, Peter Cooper's Glue
Co.; Paul M. Zeidler, Strich & Zeidler.
Second Annual Affair of New York Piano Men's
Organization Proves Most Successful—Ex-
cellent Entertainment Provided for the Many
Guests—Supply Men Make Presentation of
Loving Cup to Club—Congratulations for En-
tertainment Committee Upon the Success of
Their
Efforts—Complete
List
of Those
Present, Both Members and Guests.
GETTING BACK INTO HARNESS.
A satisfied customer
is a real profit maker
-—the best salesman a
piano dealer can possibly
have
Every Packard owner is a Packard
booster. He is more than satis-
fied—for he has received more
than "full value" for his money
That's the reason Packard pianos
are easy to sell—and thaVs the
reason you will find profit and
pleasure in selling them. Also it's
the reason why we are finding it
easy ,to get the better d,ealers
everywhere to handle them. Write
The Packard Company, Fort
Wayne, Indiana—to-day. If we
are not already represented in
your territory, we may be glad
to make agency arrangements
with you—and it may mean for
you the one big opportunity.
Among other guests were: Col. W. A. Lytle,
on the Governor's staff of Massachusetts, guest of
Wm. M. Plaisted; George G. Foster, American
Piano Co.; Eugene A. Schmidt, with Hardman,
Peck & Co.; C. Logan, with Aeolian Co.; H. S.
Beckwith, with Henry Haas & Son; Henry Kuem-
mel, with Henry & S. G. Lindeman; C. H. A.
Bungart, with Chas. Roberts & Co.; J. B. Brouck,
B. B. Buckingham and J. H. Shanley, with Pratt
& Lambert; Henry Sandlas and C. P. Vogt, with
William Knabe & Co., Baltimore, Md.; Leonard
Foerschauer and William Schott, with Wasle &
Co.; Fred Lohr, of Hardman, Peck & Co.; Geo.
L. Bouton, with the Ault & Wiborg Co., Cincin-
nati, O.; R. Keiffer, with the Laffargue Co.; Will-
iam Heller, with Winter & Co.; H. W. Eschen-
brenner, with Krakauer Bros.; H. J. Becker, with
Kranich & Bach; Frank Fechteler, of Palm, Fech-
teler & Co.; Paul G. Mehlin, of Paul G. Mehlin
& Sons; James E. Jonas, Frank L. Simonton and
Edward I. Choate, with Illsley & Held Co.; Rich-
ard Wade, Thomas Moore, A. C. Fiske Hupfauf,
J. W. Schmidt, D. H. Schmidt, Fred W. Schmidt,
L. Munch, G. L. Bouton, A. Hahn, Mitchell May,
George G. Holz, W. J. Colihan, Joseph Wenner,
John H. Campbell, A. Kenyon, A. C. Fiske, Thomas
When you find this ham-
mer in a piano, you know
it is a superior piano.
It is the hall-mark of piano
superiority, and the life of
the music.
Ma e of superior German
felt.
ASK FOR THEM
401-424 E. 163d St., New York
Chicago Office: Republic Bldg.
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CHANGE IN NEW AEOLIAN BUILDING.
Upper Floors to Be Given Over to Lofts In-
stead of Offices and Another Story Added—
Concert
Hall to Be Retained—Several
Leases Already Signed by Musical Concerns.
By the filing of substitute plans this week for the
new Aeolian Co.'s building, now being erected
on 42d street, opposite Bryant Park, several
changes were disclosed from the designs as origi-
nally filed by the architects, Warren & Wetmore.
Instead of being primarily an office building, the
floors will be laid out as lofts and an extra story
will be added, making the structure seventeen
instead of sixteen stories in height. The exterior
design will not be altered, and while the cost of
the building, with the new arrangements of the
floors, is placed at the original estimate, $900,000,
it is understood that the total cost of this largest
addition to the mercantile development of the
Times Square region will be over $1,000,000.
The concert hall and auditorium, planned as one
of the special features, will be retained, as it is
intended by this means to make the building a
center for concerts and musical entertainments
which depend for their success upon a moderately
small hall. Now that Mendelssohn Hall on 40th
street has been devoted to other purposes, no
suitable structure remains below Carnegie Hall for
the large number of musical and vocal concerts
formerly held in the Mendelssohn building.
Pease & Elliman, the agents for the Aeolian
building, report that several leases have already
been made to musical concerns, and the building
will evidently establish a permanent center in 42d
street for the musical trade and profession.
FRAMING INCORPORATION BILL.
Representative Roberts Following Gary's and
Perkins' Suggestions-
(Special to The Review.)
ter, another well-known piano man of that city,
was made a member of the Committee on Chari-
ties and Corrections.
TO CLOSE DESJIOINES STORE.
Guest Piano Co. to Reopen When Suitable Lo-
cation Is Found—O. G. Swanitz to Travel
for Krell-French Co. in South and West.
The Guest Piano Co., of Burlington, la., an-
nounce that they will close their store in Des
Moines, owing to the fact that they have been
unable to secure satisfactory quarters in that city.
The company will not abandon the field in Des
Moines, but expect to open one of the finest piano
stores in that section of the country within the
next year. O. G. Swanitz, who has been manager
of the Des Moines store for the past ten years
and who is well and favorably known throughout
that section of the country, has handed in his
resignation, to become effective on January 1, and
New Castle, Ind.
will then cover the South and West for the whole-
sale department of the Krell-French Piano Co.,
SECURE IMPORTANT AGENCIES.
Both G. W . Brassfield and His Son Have Had
Much Experience in the Trade.
G. W. Brassfield & Sons Music Co., who re-
cently opened a store in St. Mary's, Kan., have
secured the agency for the Knabe, Packard, Kim-
ball, Crown, Price & Teeple, Smith & Barnes,
Poole and Howard pianos, and have commenced
on a lively campaign for business. G. W. Brass-
field, head of the company, was at one time a
railroad man, but has had several years of suc-
cessful experience in the selling of pianos for dif-
ferent houses and under various conditions. With
him is associated his son, who for the past five
years has been connected with the small goods de-
partment of the Olney Music Co. branch in Sa-
lina, Kan.
Washington, D. C, Dec. 9, 1911.
A Federal incorporation law designed to extend
the jurisdiction and more clearly define authority
of the Bureau of Corporations of the Department
of Commerce and Labor is being prepared by Special Rates Offered Where Fastest Service
Is Not Essential.
Representative E. W. Roberts, Republican, of
Massachusetts. The bill would classify the ac-
In order to encourage the use of the cable for
tivities of corporations engaged in inter-State
commerce and, in some respects, would carry out transferring important messages to and from Eu-
ideas advanced by E. H. Gary, George W. Perkins rope which previously, owing to the high rates,
and other financiers before the Senate Committee had been sent by mail, the Western Union Tele-
graph Co. have announced special new cable let-
on Interstate Commerce.
ter rates as follows: Day cable letter, $1.50 for
The bill would give the Bureau of Corporations
twenty words; week-end letter, $1.50 for thirty
sufficient authority to provide effective regulation
words. There is also introduced a deferred press
and supervision of corporations. One provision
rate of five cents per word. The new rates are
would hold directors of inter-State corporations
offered in an effort to supplement rather than re-
criminally liable for violations of their charters.
place the present cable service and for the pur-
pose of putting the use of the cables within the
TO REMODEL STORE.
reach of all, especially where the matter is of
sufficient importance to justify its being sent by
Graves Music Co., Spokane, Wash., Plan to
cable at a moderate rate, buf- where expedited
Have One of the Finest Music Stores in
cable service is not absolutely essential. The new
the Northwest—Will Start Work Jan 1.
rates went into effect on Sunday last.
CABLE LETTERS^ THE LATEST.
(Special to The Review.')
Spokane, Wash., Dec. 7, 1911.
The Graves Music Co., 7 Post street, have made
arrangements for the entire remodeling of their
store, work upon which is to begin soon after
the first of the year. Manager Goodwin states
that after the changes are made, at an expense
of several thousand dollars, the company will have
one of the finest stores in the Northwest. The
plans include a balcony around the entire store
and a complete new front.
The Graves Co. have also just closed a lease
on the first floor and basement of a large ware-
house at 810 Second avenue.
PIANO MEN IN BOARD OF TRADE.
E. H. Droop, head of the E. F. Droop & Sons
Co., Washington, D. C, was recently elected treas-
urer of the Washington Board of Trade and was
also given a place on the Committee on Indus-
trial Matters of that organization. Percy' S. Fos-
NEW CONCERN IN FOND DU LAC, WIS.
(Special to The Review.)
Fond du Lac, Wis., Dec. 9, 1911.
The A. A. Haack Piano Co. are the latest en-
trants into the local retail piano field, having taken
over the store of the Kreuter Piano Co., of She-
boygan, in this city. A. A. Haack, head of the
new concern, is a thoroughly experienced piano
man, a firm believer in honest selling methods,
and an enemy of the puzzle contest system of sell
ing pianos.
The Lion Furniture Co., Columbia, S. C, have
recently added a large line of pianos to their stock
and in the future will give much attention to that
branch of their business.
We propose to give five dollars a week for a
short, chatty expression of views upon interesting
topics. Consult our special announcement else-
where.
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The Victor - Victrola
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It is not only the
g r e a t e s t of talking-
machines, but the great-
est of all musical instru-
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Its wonderful tone,
its handsome appear-
ance, its all-around com-
pleteness, have earned
for it the place it oc-
cupies at the head of
the musical instrument
industry.
No other instrument
ever achieved such a suc-
cess, but then no other
instrument begins to
compare with the Victor-
Victrola in any way.
The success of the
Victor-Victrola has been
the success of dealers
everywhere.
And as the Victor-
Victrola demand grows
larger every day, more
and more prestige and
profit are brought to the
dealers who are alive to
the opportunity and
making the most of it.
Victor Talking Machine Co.
Camden, N. J., U. S. A.
Berliner Gramophone Co., Montreal,
Canadian Distributor!.
Always use Victor Records played with Vlctot
Needles—there is no other way to get the un-
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