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MUSIC TRADE
NEW FIRM IN COLUMBIA, S. C.
ECKMAN'S PIANO LINE.
TO BUILD NEWJIOME IN HOUSTON
Jamestown Dealer Doing Well with the Mehlin,
Davenport-Treacy, and R. S. Howard Pianos
—An Accomplished Musician.
To House the Bush & Gerts Piano Co. and
Take Care of Growing Business.
Wilmoth & Nolen Secure Agency for Baldwin
Co. Line in That City.
REVIEW
(Special to The Review.)
Columbia, S. C, March 17, 1913.
C. H. Wilmoth and C. E. Nolen have formed a
copartnership and will enter the business in Colum-
bia. They have secured the agency for the line
of the Baldwin Piano Co. and will sell Baldwin
pianos, the Ellington piano and the Manualo
player-piano.
Mr. Wilmoth until recently was the manager of
the Charlotte branch of the Stieff Piano Co. and
Mr. Nolen for years was his Columbia representa-
tive, traveling a good portion of South Carolina.
They are both, therefore, thoroughly familiar
with the piano business and, with the line of
pianos which they say they have secured, they are
confident that they will get a good share of the
South Carolina trade. They have not yet secured
a storeroom, but Mr. Nolen is handling the busi-
ness from his residence. This is only temporary,
however, and future plans are now being de-
veloped.
Jamestown, N. Y., is an important city in the
western part of New York. It has several impor-
tant dealers, among them being J. A. Eckman,
whose portrait herewith appears. Mr. Eckman
has been in the piano business for ten years, being
successful from the start. It is natural for him
to be musical, as the largest Swedish church in
America—the First Lutheran Church of James-
town—has had Mr. Eckman as organist for twenty
(Special to The Review.)
J. A. Eckman.
years. And Mr. Eckman continues this post to-
day, except when away from the city.
In addition to his successful career as organist
and 'piano dealer, Mr. Eckman is president of the
Eckman Furniture Co., a corporation engaged in
manufacturing furniture. So he rather enjoys the
three sides of it—the artistic, the retail and the
manufacturing.
Mr. Eckman is the distributor of Mehlin, Daven-
port-Treacy, R. S. Howard and other pianos. He
sells Victor talking machines and records, sheet
music and musical merchandise. At the present
time Mr. Eckman is sojourning in Florida for a
few weeks, which affords testimony of his achieve-
ments in the commercial field.
Conklin's, Incorporated, is the title of a music
trade concern doing business in Newburgh, N. Y.,
NEW COMMERCE RECORD.
which was incorporated in Albany last week with
a capital stock of $15,000, for the purpose of car- Exports and Imports in February Reached
rying on a general sales business in musical in-
Total of $343,595,130.
struments. Those interested are: Priscilla Conk-
lin, Wm. F. Conklin, Roscoe Conklin, all of
(Special to The Review.)
Yonkers.
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Washington, D. C, March 17, 1913.
A February record for American foreign com-
MAYOR AT PIANOJAN'S FUNERAL. merce was established last month, when the total
exports and imports amounted to $343,595,130.
At the funeral of Henry J. Votteler, the well-
There was a balance of trade in favor of the
known piano man of Cleveland, O., whose death
was reported in last weed's Review, Mayor Baker, United States of $44,456,702 for the month. Ex-
ports amounted to $194,025,910; imports, $149,-
who was a friend of Mr. Votteler, made a short
569,214.
talk. The body was cremated.
For the eight months ending with February the
combined export and import trade amounted to
$2,966,714,617, with a balance of trade in 'favor
of the United States amounting to $474,606,655.
The exports amounted to $1,720,660,036; the im-
ports to $1,246,053,981.
American iron and steel manufactures are being
sent abroad at the rate of $1,000,000 worth a day.
M. Schulz C o .
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MADE SPECIAL DISPLAYS.
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The piano and talking machine dealers of Los
Angeles, Cal., took advantage of the opportunity
to make special displays of instruments in their
lines during the recent Los Angeles Fashion Show,
conducted under the auspices of the prominent
department stores and dry goods merchants of the
city for the purpose of acquainting the public
with the latest spring styles in ladies' dress.
CHICAGO
Wholesale Branchet Atlanta, G«.
Houston, Tex., March 15, 1913.
W. H. Wray, manager of the Bush & Gerts
Piano Co., announces that owing to the success
with which his branch in Houston has met, he will
arrange to build a new home for the company in
Houston, to be as large and handsome as the
headquarters of the company in Dallas.
Mr. Wray came to Houston to attend the con-
vention of Odd Fellows, and has remained here to
secure a location for the new building. He says
that he will either lease property for a long term
and build or will lease a suitable building from
owners.
The company established a branch store in
Houston two years ago. It has three other stores
in Texas. The business in Houston has been so
successful that it is planned to make this city one
of its most important distributing points in tne
State.
City Fathers of Waterloo, III., do Not Wait
for State to Take Preventative Action.
Government Will Give Back Excess Paid by
Corporation.
CONKLIN'S INCORPORATED.
(Special to The Review.)
ORDINANCE TO STOP FAKE SALES.
$500,000 REFUND OF TAX.
Washington, D. C , March 17, 1913.
One-half million dollars will be surrendered by
the Federal Treasury to corporations which dur-
ing the past three years have been penalized for
failure to make corporation tax returns within
the limit of time prescribed by law. Congress
authorized the refunding of such penalties in ex-
cess of $100, provided the delay in submitting re-
turns was due solely to neglect.
The new law also authorizes such refunding in
the future and, it is said, will virtually reduce to
$100 the maximum penalty which will be assessed
against corporations for failure to make reports
by March 1 of each year of earnings upon which
the tax is assessed. Royal E. Cabell, Commis-
sioner of Internal Revenue, to-day announced that
claims for refund should be filed with the collector
who made the original assessment.
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The French & Sons Piano Co. has opened a
new branch store in White Hall, 111., with C. W.
Sandusky in charge.
While the legislators of various States are busy
considering bills to prevent misleading advertising
and associations of piano and advertising men are
trying to have similar bills introduced into the
Legislatures of other States, the city fathers of
Waterloo, 111., have taken the bull by the horns
and passed an ordinance that places the city clerk
in the position of censor of special advertising of
merchants in all lines of trade. Under the new
ordinance no bankrupt, factory-to-home, closing
out, receiver's or similar sale will be permitted to
be advertised. This is truly a progressive move—
one that interests.
Pearmon & Lefskofsky are now occupying very
handsome quarters in the large building recently
completed by T. R. Lewellen in Smiley, Tex.