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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
11
The general organizer is staying a few days
in Logansport, Ind., the guest of L. P. Reinhardt,
of the Guild.
Jt is expected that a Northern Indiana branch
will shortly be organized, with headquarters in
Girard Piano Co. Now in Control of Remodeled Quarters in Oakland, Cal.—Autopiano Exploi-
Fort Wayne. Southern Ohio will also come in
tation—Conn Band Line with Fitzgerald—Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co. in Seattle—A Re-
for attention, and organization work will shortly
cent Incorporation—Business Situation Shows Improvement in All Lines—Doll Player-
begin there, centering in Cincinnati and Columbus.
Pianos Being Pushed by the Girard Piano Co.—Other News of Interest. .
Later, the general organizer expects to make St.
Louis, and thence take in Kansas and Colorado,
With the Wiley B. Allen People.
(.Special to The Review.)
returning East through the chain of branches al-
The
Wiley
B.
Allen
Co.
continue
to
do
a
good
San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 25, 1911.
The Girard Piano Co. on Broadway, near Fif- business with the several high class lines carried. ready established in Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, In-
diana and Ohio.
teenth street, Oakland, Cal., are now in their com- Mr. Boyd speaks highly of the Sacramento Valiey
Recent applications for membership include H.
pletely remodeled store, and report an excellent business, which has been especially encouraging
P. Gurney, O. W. Newman, R. C. Ohls, Q. Vinson,
fall business in this suburb of San Francisco. A this summer, high grade players coming in heavily
H. S. Webster, R. A. Hill, A. H. Melde, of To-
large line of Jacob Doll players and uprights has in tiie aggregate of business in that section. George
just been ordered from Ernest Huller, traveling Hughes has returned from a fishing trip in the ledo, O.; F. H. Beds, Norfolk, Neb.; H. G. Bell,
F. W. Dierdorf, V. P. MeDertnid, H. E. Weier,
representative of the Jacob Doll & Sons, and the Feather River region after a short put pleasant
R. N. Henry, J. R. Wallace, H. J. Weiler, J. R.
company will specialize on the Doll players as outing. Frank Anrys is now visiting the southern
Heim, F. R. Hale, D. H. Craft, of Indianapolis.
branches
of
the
company.
The
Oakland
force
well as on the Henry & S. G. Lindeman players.
Most of these have already been examined and ap-
The company plan to advertise the Haddorff line has recently been augmented by the addition of
proved.
during the coining fall. Zura Bells announces that C. A. Houseman, a former Allen salesman, who
a talking machine department will undoubtedly has lately been with the city store of Kohler &
CORPORATION SECRETS KEPT.
be installed during the course of the next few Chase. C. W. Harvey, manager of the Fresno
store, is in the city for a short time, and states
weeks. Rental business in Oakland has been of
the most flourishing kind for some time, and at the that business in the San Joaquin Valley has been Incomes of Private Companies Not Given to
Rivals, Says MacVeagh.
present time this house has over 200 instruments very good this year.
Approaching Completion.
out.
(Special to The Review.)
Demonstrating the Autopiano.
Kohler & Chase's new Oakland store is fast
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 29, 1911.
Tile Eilers Music House is continuing its daily being completed, and will present an attractive
Owing to complaints that the returns of annual
demonstration of the Autopiano, from which a appearance in a few days. The store is located in net income made to the Treasury Department un-
good number of sales result every week. A. H. the Bacon block on the Twelfth street side, and
der the new corporation law were being sought
Eilers, of the Portland house, who has been spend- has been extremely good window display facilities, by business competitors and others with the view
ing a few days with the San Francisco office, has being next to the long arcade. Manager Hill ex- of injuring the concerns who in good faith com-
now returned to the home institution. Many spe- pects that this will prove of considerable benefit, as plied with the law, Congressman J. Hampton
cial sales are being held by this house in the the arcade' is quite a thoroughfare. The base- Moore, of this city, recently took up the question
Northwestern cities, Seattle and Spokane being ment, which gives a great amount of floor space, with Secretary MacVeagh.
among the more prominent in these special sales. is being paneled in rich wood, and is subdivided
After making careful inquiry the Secretary in-
into several rooms for the various makes handled' formed the Congressman, the latter announced to-
Fitzgerald Has Conn Agency.
The Fitzgerald Music Co., of 523 South Broad- by the firm. Additional floor space is at hand when
day, that the apprehensions of his constituents
way, Los Angeles, has been appointed Pacific needed by this branch, both on the main floor and were unfounded. The secretary in his letter said
in the basement. George Q. Chase, of this com- that such applications as had been made for ac-
Coast representative for the C. G. Conn band and
cess to the returns had been immediately refused,
orchestra instruments made in Elkhart, hid. pany, is now in Spokane on his tour of inspection
and added:
Agencies will be established in other cities, but all of the northern agencies.
To Open Retail Store in Seattle.
shipments will be made from Los Angeles. The
"The Secretary of the Treasury and the Com-
The Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co. have an- missioner of Internal Revenue have, ever since the
Fitzgerald Co. will begin extensive alterations on
the first floor of the building now occupied to nounced iheir intention of opening retail piano passage of the corporation tax law, been stren-
rooms in Seattle. The new branch will be in the uously opposed to the publicity of tax returns of
arrange for the wholesale and retail supply of
Henry building, under the management of D. W. any and all corporations which may properly be
small instruments!
Thomas.
called private, and which do not make publicity
Report Improvement in Trade.
necessary by reason of the fact that their securi-
New House in Beaumont.
J. T. Bovvers & Son report that the latter part
J. C. Beekens will open a music store in Beau- ties are dealt in by the public."
of this month shows considerable improvement
over the first half, and find the fall business open- mont, a suburb of Riverside, Cal., in the Adams
ing up with great promise. The Post street store block on Egan avenue.
GOLDEN WITH NEEDHAM PIANO CO.
is now well filled with a large line of goods for
Bowers-McNabb Co. Incorporated.
the fall trade, and Mr. Bowers states that things
R. E. Bowers, Sidney McNabb and J. C. Bcnton The Former Manufacturer and Traveler Joins
Forces of This Concern—Will Represent
are pointing to a good business from now on. are the incorporators of the Bowers-McNabb
House on the Road.
Though the player end of the business is not Music Co., of San Diego, Cal. The capital stock
being specialized upon to any extent by this com- is $20,000.
W. C. Golden, formerly of the firm of Golden &
pany, yet the firm are placing quite a number of
J. A. Roach a Visitor.
Co.,
has signed with the Needham Piano Co., 449
players.
J. A. Roach, traveling man for Hinds, Noble &
Some Recent Visitors.
Eldredge, recently paid a visit of a few days to West Fifty-third street, and will enter upon his
duties Monday next. Mr. Golden will travel on
Jesse French, president of the Krell-French Co., the local trade.
the road, and he has a wide acquaintance in the
is stopping at the St. Francis with Mrs. French,
rot;
while on a short visit in San Francisco.
CENTRAL INDIANA BRANCH
Frank Millner, of the Kimball Organ Co., who
has been visiting the trade in this city, has left
MAKES AUTOMOBILE RECORD.
Of the American Guild of Piano Tuners Or-
for the Northwest on his way Fast.
ganized with Headquarters at Indianapolis.
. Securing Large Orders for Music Rolls.
George Jackson, Pacific Coast representative of
the American Piano Co., has left for a three weeks'
trip to Portland and nearby cities. Since his re-
turn from the Northwest a few days ago Mr.
Jackson has been busy filling California orders
for the American Piano Co.'s roll music, some
good shipments having been sent to the southern
part of the State. A large shipment of roll music
is soon to be received by the local branch, which
has been doing an excellent Coast business since
the establishment of a distributing bureau for this
class of goods some months ago.
Another branch has been formed of the Ameri-
can Guild of Piano Tuners, this time known as the
Central Indiana branch, with headquarters at In-
dianapolis. Thf new branch has jurisdiction over
all the central Indiana counties, and was installed
by the general organizer last week, during his
visit to that city.
The central Indiana officers are: Chairman,
Robert N. Henry, of the Baldwin Co., Indianapo-
lis ; John Rhoades Wallace, Indianapolis, vice-
chairman, and Harry E. Weier, of the Baldwin
Co., Indianapolis, secretary.
WINTER & CO.
220 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD, NEW YORK
Manufacturers of
F. O. Evans, Des Moines Piano Man, Travels
5,703 Miles in Fifty-One Days.
5,703 miles by automobile in fifty-one days is
the record made by F. O. Evans, the piano denier
of Des Moines, la., during his recent trip through
the East and he claims the record to stand as
the high water mark for an endurance run. An
average of 112 miles per day for fifty-one days
is certainly some traveling.
M. J. Slason, who formerly conducted a piano
store in Malone, N. Y., has joined the forces of
H. Tracy Balcom, Buffalo, N. Y., as manager.
Superior Pianos
and Player Pianos