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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
J. W. WHEELER BANQUETED.
C. C. HAWES CLOSING OUT STORE.
City Sales Manager of the Starr Piano Co. Re-
signs to Go West and His Fellow Employes
Give Him Pleasing Send-off—A. J. Wathy
Assumes Mr. Wheeler's Position.
Weil-Known Portland, Me., Dealer to Enter
M a n u f a c t u r i n g End of the Business.
(Special to The Review.)
DETROIT, MICH., February 9.—J. W. Wheeler, for
prietor of the Hawes Music Store, in this city, and
who handles the Emerson, Hallet & Davis, Lud-
wig and other makes of pianos, is closing out the
business and will become connected with a piano
manufacturing company in Rochester, N. Y.
Mr. Hawes has conducted the store here for
several years, having taken it over from his
father, who was one of the most prominent piano
dealers in the State at one time.
two years city sales manager of the Detroit branch
of the Starr Piano Co., and for ten years with the
company in other stores, has resigned to go West.
His action is due to the failing 'health of Mrs.
Wheeler. Mr. Wheeler has been succeeded as city
sales manager by A. W. Wathy, a member of the
sales force ever since the Starr retail store was
opened here.
On the evening of February 5 the sales force
of the Starr store, numbering about fifteen, ten-
dered Mr. Wheeler a farewell banquet, at which
Manager Huttie, on behalf of those present, pre-
sented him with a traveling bag as a token of
regard.
The Starr store is undergoing an early spring
housecleaning in preparation for large shipments
of stock now on the way. Business is steadily
increasing.
FALL BOARD F0RJ3RAND PIANOS.
The Subject of a Patent Just Granted to Charles
Mehlin—Its Essential Features.
WASHINGTON,
(Special to The Review.")
D. C, February 8.—Patent No.
1,085,927 for a fall board for grand pianos was
granted to Charles Mehlin, of Fort Lee, N. J., and
which is particularly adapted to be used on grand
pianos. In constructions hitherto employed it has
been found that when a piano is played the finger
nails of the performer strike the fall board above
the black keys with the result that the fall board
is marred and quickly becomes unsightly by rea-
son of scratches thereon for a distance about three
inches above the keys, and the performer's move-
ments are accordingly interfered with.
It is an object of this invention to provide a
fall board such that the finger nails of the per-
former cannot strike the same when the piano is
in use.
In accordance with the invention the lower or
rear portion of the fall board, when the latter is
in open position, is inclined rearwardly from a line
about three inches above the keys leaving a con-
siderable space to the rear of the black keys, so
that the fall board itself is not struck and marred
by the nails of the performer. In this position
the upper or front portion of the fall board stands
in a substantially vertical position, as usual. The
exposed portion of the keys in the open space
between the black keys and the lower edge of the
fall board may be covered by a key rail of at-
tractive appearance which may be formed in the
shape of a convenient rack for pencils, etc., so that
it combines the qualities of ornamentation and
utility, besides performing its usual function of
limiting the upward movement of the keys.
A further object of the invention is to provide
a fall board which may readily be secured to or
removed from the end boards which support the
same, and that too, without removing the key
blocks at the end of the keyboard as is necessary
in constructions now employed.
YACHT "BOHEMIAN" WRECKED.
Trim Craft Owned by J. P. Simmons, Former
Piano Man of New Orleans and Well Known
to Many Piano Men, a Total Loss.
(Special to The Review.)
NEW ORLEANS, LA., February 7.—The hand-
some power yacht "Bohemian," well known to
many piano men who have enjoyed pleasant hours
on the trim craft as the guests of J. P. Simmons,
who recently retired as president of the Junius
Hart Piano House, was completely destroyed last
week while being taken through the channels to
the Mississippi River preparatory to a cruise.
The engineer and captain of the yacht both es-
caped with slight injuries, but the boat was a total
loss. The boat was valued at $6,000.
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(Special to The Review.)
PORTLAND, ME., February 9.—C. C. Hawes, pro-
LOWER EXPRESS RATES ON PIANOS.
Lyon & Healy Succeed in Securing Lower
Classification for Concert Grand Pianos.
The petition filed on March 1, 1913, with the In-
terstate Commerce Commission by Lyon & Healy,
Chicago, to have the express rates on concert
grand pianos reduced from one and one-half the
merchandise rate to the single merchandise rate,
has been successful in that the express companies
have agreed to lower the classification of the in-
struments, the new ruling taking effect on Feb-
ruary 1. The new classification and consequently
lower rates apply to all sections of the country,
and means a saving of 33% per cent.
FOUR DEALERS IN ONE BUILDING
In Detroit, Which Is Known as the University
Building, Is Becoming Quite a Piano Center.
DETROIT,
(.Special to The Review.)
MICH., February 9.—The
University
Building is becoming known as a good deal of a
piano center. The opening of the Stanley & Sons
store there makes the fourth institution of the
kind- with headquarters there.
The Clough & Warren Piano Co. has the third
floor for its Detroit branch house; the Stanley
house is on the fourth floor; directly above it is
C. W. Marvin, representing the Kranich & Bach,
and on the sixth floor is E. L. Spencer, handling
the Chase-Hackley Co. line. A fifth piano dealer
applied for space there a few days ago, but there
i;, not a bit of room unoccupied.
SHOULD WATCH LETTERS
Sent to South America and Foreign Countries
for Deficient Postage—Warning from Post-
master-General Burleson Is Timely.
Time and time again reference has been made in
The Review to the complaints which are reaching
the Post-Office Department at Washington re-
garding deficient postage on letters and mail mat-
ter generally, sent to Central and South America.
Postmaster-General Burleson Monday sent out
a warning to postmasters to give widest publicity to
rates of postage and conditions applicable to let-
ters and other articles of Central and South Ameri-
ca and other foreign countries.
Also to regulations requiring collection on de-
livery of short-paid articles of double the amount
of deficient postage.
OTT PIANO CO. IFTNEW QUARTERS.
(Special to The Review.)
AKRON, O., February 9.—The Ott Piano Co.
moved recently into its handsome new quarters
at 190 West Market street, where it has leased
the entire dwelling at that number. The
lower floor of the house has been given over to
attractive piano and player-piano parlors and an
entire new stock of instruments has been in-
stalled.
INCORPORATED. ** ? ^ :
The Storage House Exchange, Chicago, has
been incorporated, with' capital stock of $10,000, to
deal in musical instruments, furniture and other
merchandise. The incorporators are: H. H. Van
Sweringen, IX J. McElherne and J. H. Lewis.
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