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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
REVIVAL OF ACTIVITY IN SAN FRANCISCO TRADE
Following Holidays and Outings—The General Outlook Is Most Satisfactory in Every Way—
Crop Conditions Make an Excellent Showing—The News of the Week.
(Special to The Review.)
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.J July 11.—Following the
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Crop Conditions Better Than Supposed.
George R. Hughes, assistant manager of the
Wiley B. Allen Co., has been averaging up the re-
ports that have recently come in from outside
agents and managers, as well as from outside trav-
elers and vacationists as to California conditions,
and the result is that he finds that crop conditions
in the country appear to be much better than they
were supposed to be, and that, contrary to the gen-
eral belief there is still considerable money in cir-
culation even in the dryest portions of the State.
He believes that if the country at large and the
world can mend its financial manners and leave
the Coast alone, the piano trade here will have a
very good fall and winter trade.
Personals.
Clarence Jellison, well known in the local trade,
who has been spending a few days here visiting
friends in the trade, has now returned to his home
in Los Angeles.
Percy S. Foster, secretary of the National As-
sociation of Piano Manufacturers, is now on his
way to the Coast and is due in San Francisco very
shortly.
George Wilkins, of Atlanta, Ga., the Cable Com-
pany's representative in Georgia, who paid the
local trade a visit a few days since, has now left
for his destination, the Canadian Rockies, where
he will spend his annual outing.
Clark Wise & Co., who recently reopened at 51
Geary street, are getting ready for the fall resump-
tion of business.
R. Madsen, a dealer of Klamath Falls in South-
ern Oregon, is taking a short vacation in the moun-
tainous regions of Northern California and South-
ern Oregon.
George Anderson, a piano man of Sacramento,
is a visitor in San Francisco this week.
$50,000 for Pipe Organ.
John D. Spreckles, of San Francisco and San
Diego, who has presented the latter city with the
funds for the construction of a reinforced concrete
Greek temple in the City Park, has set aside the
sum of $50,000 for a pipe organ to be placed in the
temple when the latter is completed.
ticular moment at Portland, San Francisco or Los
Angeles, or somewhere between these places. On
holidays of last week, business has come back in
July 4 he came out with a two-page advertisement
good shape. The hot weather throughout the great of a big Kimbali-Acmelodic sale (incident to the
interior valley and in Southern California has pre- arrival of twenty-eight carloads of these players),
cipitated the vacation movement from the country
in a San Francisco morning paper, but was on his
to the cooler regions in and about San Francisco, way to Portland before the paper was off the press.
and at this date the movement to the city is con- During the illness of Manager Heidinger, of the
siderably greater in volume than the movement
Spokane store, he is exercising a telegraphic super-
away from it. The country schools do not open
vision there, and recently found time to get largely
until the latter part of August or the early part of
and interestingly interviewed at Sacramento. In
September, and from now till the reopening of the view of these signs of activity, it appears that it is
interior schools there will be a steady procession hardly a question of Mr. Eilers getting a little
of visitors from the interior. The visitors include leisure before he is too old to enjoy it as much as
all the more prosperous classes—'merchants, pro- it is of keeping busy until he is old enough to en-
fessional people and farmers—who are accustomed joy leisure.
to take a little outing here before the fall and
In order that its player department might not get
winter activity begins; and in recent years this lost among so many "Important Announcements"
movement has come to be of sufficient importance
of agency changes, the Los Angeles house is out
to cause an appreciable influence on local busi- with a similar announcement: "The Angelus
ness.
agency, most sought after among all player-
Vacations Order of the Day.
pianos, remains with us for the entire Pacific Coast,
San Francisco's own vacation season does not as it has for years." Along with this announce-
end until the first of July, but from now on more ment comes a special notice of a clean-up sale of
vacationists are returning than going, so that there used pianos and player-pianos.
may be said to be a favorable balance after the
Arnold Somlyo on the Coast.
Fourth of July. In the piano trade most of the
Arnold Somlyo, Eastern manager for the Bald-
"higher-ups" are already back, and the selling and
win Co., and Mrs. Soml>o, who are making
office forces are having their regular rotation. a pleasure tour of the Pacific Coast, arrived
With the inside people the usual plan is to give in San Francisco this week. After spending some
each a week at full pay and another week without time at various California points, the visitors will
pay if the latter is desired. A good many sales- go north to Oregon and Washington, and will con-
men are taking along a piano or two, and are thus clude their outing with a trip through the Yellow-
able to do a little business wthout hurting the va- stone National Park, returning to the east in the
cation.
early part of August.
Byron Mauzy's Mountain Outing.
Will Locate Permanently.
Byron Mauzy has just returned from a pleasant
C. E. Key, who has been representing Sherman,
outing in the mountains of Northern California,
Clay & Co. in San Luis Obispo County for some
which are in particularly fine condition this year.
time, will, according to report, locate permanently
The dry season has rather improved the northern
in the town of San Luis.
mountains from a pleasure seeking point of view.
Mr. Mauzy made the trip from Eureka on the
northern coast to Redding at the head of the Sacra-
mento Valley, and was more than pleased with the Famous Pianist Writes Interesting Letter After Its Receipt in Which He Compliments the Man-
experience. He is expecting a good, busy fall,
ufacturers on Its Perfect Tune, Nothwithstanding Journey Across Atlantic.
though under present financial conditions through-
out the country it is perhaps too much to antici-
William Knabe & Co. received a letter last week Witli my wannest thanks, I remain, Most faith-
pate a real rushing season. A. A. Batkin, Mr. from Leopold Godowsky, the celebrated pianist, fully yours. (Signed) Leopold Godowsky."
Mauzy's secretary, is now away for a short outing, that is certainly entitled to a premier position in
Aside from this strong testimonial on the merits
but will be back shortly after the middle of the the realm of sincere and valuable letters of praise of the Knabe concert grand, this eminent pianist
month.
from recognized world-famous artists. Godowsky's
high regard for the Knabe piano is a matter of
Hy. Ellers "Right on the Job."
Hy. Filers' friends are enjoying a little quiet common knowledge, but in this letter written from
amusement connected with his recent announcement his home in Austria, he expressed in a few words
in the Portland, Ore., papers that he proposed to a sentiment that leaves nothing to be asked for in
get rid of a portion of the Eilers Music Co. busi- the matter of sincerity, warmth and feeling.
Addressed to William Knabe & Co., under date
ness as rapidly as opportunity offered and to take
life a little easier before getting too old to enjoy of June 26, this letter reads as follow : "The con-
leisure. As far as his friends in the trade can ob- cert grand has just arrived. It is in perfect tune
serve there never was a time when he was more and altogether admirable in every way. I congratu-
active in business than right now. While half his late myself on having such a magnificent instru-
ment .at ray house and congratulate you, gentle-
managers are ill or away on vacations, he himself
is eveywhere, and it would take rather more than men, in being able to manufacture pianos which
a good guesser to say whether he is at any par- need not fear the antagonism of any competitors.
NEW KNABE GRAND FOR GODOWSKY'S EUROPEAN HOME.
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F. E. COLE, 3 Appleton Street, Boston, Mass.
Leopold Godowsky.
addressed a personal letter to Berthold Neuer,
manager of the New York Knabe retail ware-
rooms, in which he referred particularly to the fact
that the Knabe grand he received was in absolutely
perfect tune, notwithstanding the length and char-
acter of the journey across the Atlantic. Godowsky
was so interested in the arrival of his new Kmabe
grand that he had postponed his regular summer
vacation until it arrived.
His entire satisfaction with the instrument in
every particular is discussed at length in*this per-
sonal letter to Mr. Neuer, and in conclusion this
famous pianist remarks that he looks forward with
great pleasure to his next tour of this country in
the fall of this year, when he will again use the
Knabe grand exclusively in his concerts,