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MUSIC TRADE
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DEATH OF LLEWELLYN SMITH.
OPENING OF HELLER'S NEW STORE
PIANOS FOR NEW HOTELS.
One of Founders of Smith & Nixon Co. in Cin-
cinnati and Louisville and for Many Years
Prominent in the Piano Trade, Dies at
Atlantic City After Long Illness.
In Milwaukee Occurred Last Week—Has Spe-
cial Player and Talking Machine Quarters—
Soon to Erect Another Addition.
Instruments for Both Hotel McAlpin and New
Vanderbilt Hotel to Be Suppiled by Wana-
maker Piano Department.
(Special to The Review.)
The Hotel McAlpin, now being completed at
34th street and Broadway, and which will be the
largest hotel in New York, and the Vanderbilt
Hotel, recently opened on the same street, at the
corner of Fourth avenue, will, according to Man-
ager Chapman, be supplied with pianos by the
piano department of the John Wanamaker store.
The instruments furnished the hotels will probably
be of the Schomacker make.
It is expected that the McAlpin will require
considerably over a hundred pianos, including art
pianos for the parlors, while 'fewer will be neces-
sary in the Vanderbilt Hotel.
(Special to The Review.)
Louisville, Ky., Nov. 4, 1912.
Llewellyn Smith, organizer of the Smith & Nixon
Co., the prominent piano house of this city, and
prominent in business circles generally until he re-
tired some time ago, died in Atlantic City on
Thursday from paralysis, which attacked him about
a year ago and grew steadily worse until Septem-
ber, when he was confined to his bed. The body
has been sent to Cincinnati for cremation.
Mr. Smith was a native of Cincinnati and was
48 years of age. Some years after his father organ-
ized the Smith & Nixon Co., of Cincinnati, the
son came to Louisville and started the local house.
At the death of his parent in 1886 he, with two
other men, operated both branches. In 1896 Mr.
Smith acquired control of the Louisville house and
relinquished his holdings in the major branch.
(He was the sole owner of the Louisville house
for some years, but in 1906 he retired as president
and gave up his business cares, although later he
financed a Cincinnati music house and had other
interests.
Mr. Smith married Miss Ethel Crippen, of this
city, in 1890. Mrs. Smith, prior to her marriage,
was a leader in musical circles in Louisville, being
.president of the Musical Art Society. At her death,
in 1902, Mr. Smith presented Calvary Methodist
Episcopal Church, which both attended,- a pipe or-
gan valued at $10,000.
Mr. Smith was a member of the Louisville Coun-
• try Club, and until recently was a member of the
Tavern Club. He is survived by a brother, William
Rose Smith, of Cincinnati, and a sister, Mrs. Edgar
Hodge, of San Diego, Cal.
The Stone Piano Co., Fargo, N. D., has opened
a branch store in Bismarck, N. D., with Charles
Kaiser as manager.
Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 6, 1912.
The new store of the Heller Piano Co., 616
Grand avenue, representative of the H. P. Nelson,
Hobart M. Cable, Lester, Price & Teeple,
Gerhard, Cote, Krell pianos, was formally opened
to the trade on October 31. The company recently
leased an adjoining store, removed the intervening
wall and remodeled the entire establishment, mak-
ing it one of the largest piano stores on Grand
avenue. Although the Heller concern now has
more than 12,000 square feet of floor space, it is
understood that it will soon erect an addition to
the rear of its store. New fixtures have been in-
stalled and special player and talking machine
quarters and a large demonstration player roll
library are among the special features of the new
store. The window display facilities are unusu-
ally large. Louis Leo, general manager, announces
that business during the first few days of the
opening exceeded expectations
J. L. Ogle, engaged in the talking machine busi-
ness for several years at 439 National avenue, has
been made manager of the new Victor talking ma-
chine department now maintained by the Heller Co.
SOHMER GRAND_FOR ELKS' HOME.
A style 9-B Sohmer & Co. grand piano is to be
installed in the new $60,000 Elks building in
Keokuk, la. The sale was made by the F. W.
Lowenstein Co., Sohmer agents in Keokuk.
NEW AGENCIES_FOR DROOPS.
E. F. Droop & Sons Co., Washington, D. C, has
secured the agency for the lines of the Laffargue
Co., New York, and the Haddorff Piano Co.,
Rockford, 111., which, it is announced, will com-
plete the line to be carried by that house.
STARR CONCERT GRAND USED.
By Edward Baxter Perry in Lecture-Recitals
Under the Auspices of Mu Phi Epsilon
Sorority—To Be Heard in Many Cities.
(Special to The Review.)
Detroit, Mich., Nov. 6, 1912.
The Mu Phi Epsilon Sorority gave a piano lec-
ture-recital last Monday, at which a Starr concert
grand and Edward Baxter Perry were the fea-
tures. For the remainder of the week the concert
is appearing at different smaller cities in the State,
a Starr grand being shipped from place to place
with the musical artists. The itinerary takes in
Owosso, Adrian, Lansing, Hillsdale and Tecumseh.
With the pianoforte numbers by Mr. Perry, there
are six songs on the program. Miss Elizabeth
Moore is the soprano and Miss Marjorie Cleland
the accompanist.
DEATH OF ARJCANSAS DEALER.
E. R. Packard, who handled the Cable and
other makes of pianos in Warren, Ark., for over
twenty years, died in that place recently.
MANUFACTURING EFFICIENCY
is w h a t m a k e s possible the
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piano values. In just a few years
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strength of quality—quality and
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based on the e c o n o m i e s of
modern scientific manufacture.
It's a line that hundreds of dealers
are winning out with and you can
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CABLErNELSON PIANO COMPANY
Republic Building, CHICAGO
Factory: SOUTH HAVEN, MICH.