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THE
MUSIC TRADE
Pacific-Panama Exposition Leading Topic of Discussion—Healthy Undercurrent in Trade—
After Fifteen Months' Absence Henry Eilers is in the City—His Exposition Views—Pri-
vate House Saleswoman Arrested—Fred Sherman Returns—Geo. J. Birkel Co. Opening
Store in Pasadena—A Budget of News from Pacific Coast Points.
(Special to the Review.)
San Francisco, Cal., July 28, 1911.
Little is talked about at present but the decision
of the precise location of the Panama-Pacific Ex-
position, which has been delayed from time to time
for nearly six months past. It has been thought
that the delay in making this announcement has
tended to prevent the business revival which was
expected in San Francisco, and now that the mat-
ter is settled it is believed that the fall season will
open with a considerable increase of business. Ac-
cording to the plan announced, the entire city is
to be beautified and improved in many ways for
exposition purposes, and the fair itself will be held
in the Golden Gate Park and Harbor View sites,
giving a wide area and an opportunity for a
World's Fair that will be something out of the
ordinary.
It may yet be some time before actual work
is started on the exposition grounds and buildings,
but the necessary improvements are to be com-
menced at the earliest possible moment, and this
alone will bring about an accelerated circulation
of money which cannot fail to react beneficially
on the trade. The definite location of the site
also ends the hesitation of many who are inter-
ested in building on their own account, and there
is no longer any doubt that work will be more
plentiful here during the coming fall than at any
time for several years past.
Some Improvement
in Trade.
There has been some improvement in the trade
this week, due mainly to the opening of the city
schools, which has brought many vacationists back
to the city, and is already calling out a large
amount of rented stock. Many sales are also being
closed with prospective buyers who have been away
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member of the Board of Directors of the exposi-
tion. He expresses himself as delighted at the
outcome of the last meeting, when the site was
settled. Mr. Clay has been appointed on one of
the committees to get things started at once, and
finds the day too short for his various duties,
especially as he "commutes" over eighty miles a
day.
Brieflets.
George Jackson, coast representative of the
for a few weeks, and altogether the month is clos-
American Piano Co., is expected to return to this
ing in much better shape than it began. The pres-
city in a few days after several weeks in the
ent improvement is considered little more than a
Northwest. Frank Weems, the demonstrator of
temporary spurt, and it will probably be a month this branch, is making a short business trip out of
more before the summer dulness really comes to town.
an end.
J. M. Liebert, a local wholesaler who has his
Hy Eilers in the City.
headquarters at 45 Kearny street, has been spend-
Hy Eilers, head of the Eilers Music House,
ing much of the time out of town of late, but is
arrived in this city last week on his first visit in
again in the city for a few days. Mr. Liebert is
over fifteen months. Before turning his attention
planning a trip through the Northwest in the near
to the business of the firm Mr. Eilers made a
future.
trip to San Diego to attend the exercises marking
The Hauschildt Music Co. have added to their
the commencement of work for the exposition
force G. Maxon, who has had much experience
which will be held in that city in 1915. A large in the piano business, having been with the Bush
delegation of local merchants made the trip to & Lane house in Portland since its opening. The
San Diego, including Mr. Hardee, of the Eilers
company is expecting a shipment of Kranich &
store in San Francisco. Mr. Eilers is again at the Bach pianos.
San Francisco office, and expresses his satisfac-
A new store is to be opened by the George J.
tion at general conditions in this city. He regards
Birkel Co., of Los Angeles, at Pasadena, CaT.,
San Francisco as the financial backbone of the Pa- where a building has been leased at 185 East Colo-
cific coast, and says that the present financial con- rado street. The new branch is being put in readi-
dition of the city is entirely sound. Mr. Eilers ness for the opening, which will take place within
is a member of the Ways and Means Committee a short time.
of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and in that
connection he says: "The public at large cannot
"VETERANSJOF^ INDUSTRY."
realize what a stupendous task confronted the Berger's Bill Provides Pension for All Over
Board of Fair Directors. The advocates of dif-
60 Years Old.
ferent locations were clamoring for their respect-
(Special to the Review.)
ive selections. In the present selection the fair will
Washington, July ;J1, 1911.
suit everyone. It could not have been better placed.
A bill authorizing the payment of pensions to
From now on there will be no question of what
"veterans of industry" was introduced in the House
city is supreme on the Pacific coast."
to-day by Representative Gerger, the Milwaukee
W. S. Gannon, manager of the California
Socialist. It provides for a basic pension of $4
branches of the Eilers Music House, has just re-
a month for every man and woman over (JO years
turned from the San Jose store, which has been
holding a sale for some time preparatory to mov- of age. The bill contains a clause forbidding the
United States Supreme Court passing on the valid-
ing into new quarters.
ity of the proposed law.
Arrest May Result in Developments.
Mrs. Pearl Bank, a prepossessing young woman
about 20 years of age, was arrested in this city
Thursday on a charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses. She has been advertising a piano
for sale at a sacrifice, describing it as worth $500,
but offering it at $175 on the ground that the
owner was going to Europe. About a week ago
a woman who had bought a piano as a result of
this advertisement complained to the police, stat-
ing that the piano was not worth the cost of haul-
ing. The ad. was continued, and a detective called,
receiving an offer of a similar piano on the same
terms. Incidentally a bill of sale was shown from
In the p r o d u c t i o n of
the Oakland Piano Company, which seems to have
no existence. The arrest followed, and the woman
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Player Trade Active.
Sherman, Clay.& Co. have been doing extremely
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more expensive class of instruments and reports
the sale of a grand and an upright Steinway
pianola during the last few days. Frank Grannis,
head of this department, is at present in southern
California, where he is visiting agencies of the
firm. The Saturday afternoon Pianola concerts are
being conducted in his absence by George Hilde-
brant, formerly with the San Francisco store, now
in the player department of the Oakland branch.
A shipment of Steinway grands is looked for in
a short time.
Fred Sherman Returns.
Fred Sherman, who has been away about seven
weeks in the East, has returned to the main store
of the company. After attending the convention
Mr. Sherman-visited-the-factories of companies
represented by the house. The trip was a bene-
ficial one to Mr. Sherman, although he encount-
ered some extremely hot weather.- Phil Clay is a
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