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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
M. SCHULZ CO. CLOSING OUT RETAIL STOCK IN MINNEAPOLIS
Company to Confine Itself to Wholesale Business in Twin Cities—A Handsome Everett Grand
— M. W. Welte a Visitor—General Business Good rn Northwest,
(Special to The Review.)
St. Paul and Minneapolis, Oct. 29, 1912.
The M. Schulz Co., of Chicago, is advertising a
closing out sale of the retail department of its
Northwestern branch in Minneapolis. William A.
Linquist, manager of the branch, announces thai
it is the company's intention to devote the greater
part of its efforts in the Northwest to the whole-
Sale end, as this has been found the most profit-
able.
The company will retain its present splen-
did quarters at Ninth street and First avenue
south, and the big sales room will be used as a
wholesale wareroom. The staff will be kept and the
only difference w T ill be that the wholesale end will
be cultivated more than the retail end. The sale
is proving highly successful, the sales, according
to Mr. Linquist, 'having been fully twice as largt
as had been anticipated.
An exceptionally handsome Everett grand last
week reached the warerooms of the Brooks-Evans
Piano Co., where it will be on exhibition for sev-
eral days. It is an instrument made after special
design for Luther Farrington, a wholesale grocer,
and is a real beaut}, attracting the unstinted praise
of piano men.
(Special to The Review.)
M. W. Welte, of the Welte-Mignon fame, was
Chicago, 111, Oct. 28, 1912.
in the Twin Cities during the past week sojourn-
The rotund and happy gentleman standing at the
ing principally with the house of W. J. Dyer &
left of the accompanying picture is George W.
Bro. and the Metropolitan Music Co. He is the Allen, Eastern representative for the Cable-Nelson
happiest man alive, as his wonderful instrument is
Piano Co., while to his right is Wylie Thomas,
winning all the success its excellent qualities merit.
Fred Grebe, of Kranich & Bach, called on his
trade friends in the Twin Cities with the usual
good success.
The new store of the S. W. Raudenbush Piano
Co. in St. Paul is nearly ready for occupancy,
and in the meantime the removal sale is making
the problem of transporting the stock an easy one.
At the Raudenbush factory work is being done
on two new styles, which will be placed on the
market after the first of the year.
Trade has been uniformly good with the piano
dealers, and the larger houses in particular are
having most satisfactory sales. It is likely that
the October sales will hold up well with former
October records and some houses will surpass
their best.
FOREIGN TRADE SOARS.
PIANO CO. MUSTj>AY ALIMONY.
This Year's Imports and Exports Promise to
Reach High Records.
Fined for Refusal to Obey Court Order as to
Bonds.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, Oct. 29, 1912.
The foreign commerce of the United States in
1912 promises to establish high records in both
imports and exports, according to a statement is-
sued to-day by the Bureau of Foreign and Do-
mestic Commerce for the nine months ending
with September.
The imports in that period amounted to $1,-
333,109,727, an increase of $200,250,000 over the
first nine months of 1911. The record year for
imports was 1910, with $1,557,000,000 for the en-
tire twelve months. September of the current
year brought in $144,906,493, an increase of $19,-
735,000 as compared with September, 1911.
Exports this year up to the end of September
amounted to $1,616,160,269, an increase of $160,-
658,935 over the corresponding period last year.
In 1911 exports for the first time exceeded $2,-
000,000,000. September exports this year were
valued at $199,678,062, an increase of $3,879,000.
Increases in both imports and exports this year
were largely in manufactured articles.
CONVENIENT FOR DEALERS.
The Davenport-Treacy Piano Co., 1907 Park ave-
nue, New York, is mailing to the trade a series of
post cards, each bearing a photograph of one style
of Davenport-Treacy piano. These come in very
handy for the Davenport-Treacy dealer to send
out to his clientele.
THE CABLE-NELSON BOOSTER.
George W. Allen Caught in the Act of Piloting
a Virginian and Friend of the Cable-Nelson
Piano on a Visit to the Company's Plant.
The Appellate Division Friday directed that the
Schomacker Piano Manufacturing Co. be punished
for contempt of court for refusing to aid Mrs.
Lillian I. Garden to collect alimony due her from
Alfred L. Garden, who sued her for divorce in
1883 and who was directed to pay her $12 a week
pending the trial.
Garden went to France and has lived there ever
since. There is now $17,000 due Mrs. Garden,
which she has been trying tor some years to col-
lect. She had a receiver appointed for Garden's
property and the receiver learned that Garden
owned $13,000 worth of bonds of the piano com-
pany. The receiver got a court order restraining
the piano companj from paying the income on the
bonds to any one other than the plaintiff, but the
company has refused.
The court decided that the piano company had
no reason to refuse to obey the order because the
company was a "mere stakeholder." The company
was fined $780, the amount now due from the
bonds, and if the fine is not paid proceedings will
be taken to send the officers of the company to
jail.—New York Sun.
ENLARGING WAREROOMS.
The addition to Kirk Johnson & Co.'s piano
warerooms in Lebanon, Pa., is neating completion.
The new addition is about 75 by 30 feet, 100 feet
deep, and will give them -much needed convenience
to meet the demands of their business.
George Allen and Wylie Thomas.
of the piano department of the Roanoke Furniture
Co., of Roanoke, Va., who are large handlers of
the Cable-Nelson pianos. George found the young
Virginian in Chicago on one of his trips here this
summer, and of course took him over to the
factory at South Haven. The photo was taken on
one of the lake boats. Mr. Thomas wears an ex-
pression of the most pleasant anticipation, one cer-
tainly warranted on the part of anjone en yoyage
to the big factory. Allen declares that if he can't
convert a dealer any other way he is certain to
cinch him if he once visits the plant. It is cer-
tainly one of the model factories of the West, and
its perfections are reflected in the high quality of
the Cable-Nelson product.
FORMED WITH CAPITAL OF $200,000.
The Mendelssohn Piano Mfg. Co. Incorporated
in New Jersey This Week.
Among the incorporations filed with the secre-
tary of the State of New Jersey on Monday was
that of the Mendelssohn Piano Manufacturing Co.,
of Trenton, with a capital stock of $200,000, for
the purpose of manufacturing musical instruments.
The incorporators named are: M. J. Gardner, Lee
A. Gardner and Frederick R. Brace.
TO ENCOURAGEJ)RGAN BUILDING.
Among the incorporations filed with the Secre-
tary of the State of Illinois this week was that of
the National Association of Organists of Amer-
ica, organized to encourage development in organ
building, organ music and organ playing. The in-
corporators are: Walter Keller, G. Gordon We-
dertz and Nicholas DeVore.
BUYS OUT WINN]PEG CONCERN. .
The Mason & Risch Piano Co., prominent
throughout the Canadian trade, has purchased the
business of Soulis & Co., Winnipeg, Man, who
for some time past has handled the Martin-Orms
pianos and player-pianos. Mr. Soulis, head of the
company, has been in the piano business for over
thirty years.
Among the many visitors this week at the hand-
some Mason & Hamlin warerooms, 305 Fifth ave-
nue, were Joseph T. Leimert, of the retail depart-
ment of the Cable Company, Chicago, and H. H.
Crowther, Eastern traveling representative for the
same company.