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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
NEW PIANO HOUSE IN MILWAUKEE.
NEW MEHLIN AGENT APPOINTED.
F. H. Hochmuth, Well Known in Musical Mer-
chandise Field, Opens Sept. 15 at 347 Third
Street with the Hazelton, Bond, the Haddorff
Line and Other Pianos—New Quarters Hand-
somely Fitted—Occupying Three Floors.
Dunkerley & Co., of Passaic, N. J., to Handle
the
Mehlin
as
Leader — Handsomely
Equipped Quarters Just Opened—A Strong
Mehlin Contingent in New Jersey.
( Special to The Review.)
MILWAUKEE, WIS., September 8.—Another new
piano house will soon make its debut in the Mil-
waukee field, arrangements having been completed
by F. H. Hochmuth, the well-known musical mer-
chandise dealer, for opening a handsome new
store about September 15, when a full line of
pianos will be carried.
Mr. Hochmuth will carry the Hazelton and
Bond pianos and players, as well as an instru-
ment manufactured by the Haddorff Piano Co.
Mr. Hochmuth has been engaged in the music
business in Milwaukee for many years at 311
Chestnut street, where he has built up a big busi-
ness in general musical goods, so he ought to meet
with success in his new field.
The new Hochmuth store is located at 347 Third
street, just around the corner from the former es-
tablishment, and will occupy all three stories of
the building, which Mr. Hochmuth purchased some
time ago and has now remodeled extensively.
More than $10,000 has been expended on the build-
ing and fixtures. General piano and talking ma-
chine display quarters, the extensive musical mer-
chandise department and offices will be located on
the first floor. Piano and player parlors and spe-
cial Victor talking machine booths will be located
on the second floor. Warerooms and shops will
take up most of the space on the third floor. The
store is 20x150 feet in dimensions.
Mr. Hochmuth recently secured the agency for
the Victor machines and records and expects to
meet with a big business in this line.
The Hazelton pianos and players, which will be
featured by Mr. Hochmuth, were formerly carried
by the Ross, Schefft & Weinman Piano Co., and
are well and favorably known in Milwaukee. The
Bond is equally well known and was formerly
carried by Gimbel Bros.
HANDSOME NEWJ5TARR PIANOS.
Latest Case Designs Make Strong Impression
on Dealers Throughout the Country.
Dealers all over the country who have received
some of the latest styles of Starr pianos from the
factory of the Starr Piano Co., Richmond, are most
enthusiastic regarding the beauty of the cases which
are, for the most part, of plain and simple design
but decidedly artistic. Straight lines prevail with
a minimum of carving, but the designers have suc-
ceeded in securing effects that are distinctly origi-
nal in piano case work and withal highly desirable.
C. A. GRINNELL ARRIVES IN NEW YORK
(Special to The Review.)
DETROIT, MICH., September 8.—A telegram was
Charles Mehlin, of Paul G. Mehlin & ' Sons,
has just announced that arrangements have
been concluded whereby Dunkerley & Co., which
opened this week attractive piano warerooms in
Passaic, N. J., will feature exclusively the com-
plete line of Mehlin products. The new store is
well located in the heart of the retail district, and
special parlors for demonstrating make it one of
the most attractive piano showrooms in the vicinity
of Passaic, N. J. A handsome gold sign bearing
the words "Mehlin & Sons" and electrically il-
luminated at night, adorns the front of the new
building.
A large assortment of Mehlin grands, inverted
grands and the new style Mehlin player-pianos
have already gone forward, and with the Zabriskie
Military Band of forty-five men to enliven the oc-
casion, the opening on Monday was largely at-
tended.
With Hahne & Co. in Newark, L. & M. Kirsinger
in Paterson and Dunkerley & Co. in Passaic all
aggressively advertising and pushing the sale of
the Mehlin as their leader, Paul G. Mehlin & Sons
have a trio of hustling and active and loyal deal-
ers covering their metropolitan New Jersey dis-
trict.
PACKARD WHOLESALE BRANCH
Opened in Portland, Ore., with G. F. Johnson
in General Charge.
The Packard Co., Fort Wayne, Ind., has opened
a new wholesale branch in the Selling building,
Portland, Ore., where a complete stock of Packard,
Bond and other pianos will be placed on display.
The affairs of the new branch will be looked after
by G. F. Johnson, well known in the trade on the
Pacific Coast and formerly Northwest manager for
Sherman, Clay & Co., though a local manager will
be appointed later.
HENRY & S. GrLINDEMAN SCHEDULES.
Liabilities of Concern Given as $430,438 and
Assets of $337,933—The Detailed Figures.
Schedules in bankruptcy filed by Henry & S. G.
Lindeman, the piano manufacturers of New York,
show liabilities of $430,438, represented by secured
claims, $80,824; unsecured claims, $106,040; notes
and bills, $216,266; accommodation paper, $26,963,
and assets of $337,933, consisting of real estate,
$10,000; bills, etc., $60,608; stock, $15,000; car-
riages, etc., $2,500; machinery and tools, $14,500;
patents, etc., $25,000; personal property, $100,000;
debts due on open account, $79,076, and money in
bank, $1,006. Among the largest creditors are the
Commercial Security Co., Chicago, $140,000; J. D.
Leehy, $28,210; Grace R. Lindeman, $26,103.
received by Grinnell Brothers on Saturday from
C. A. Grinnell, dated New York, announcing that
he and his family had arrived from London on
TRADE OPPORTUNITY IN CALLAO.
the "Alauretania," and that their enforced so-
journ in the war zone had caused them no damage
In an article in the September 2 issue of the
and but little inconvenience. It is expected that
Daily Consular and Trade Reports, entitled "Com-
they will arrive in Detroit about September 7
mercial and Industrial Progress in Peru," Consul
or 8.
General W. W. Handley, stationed at Callao, calls
They have been abroad since May, had
attention to the imports of Peru for the year 1911
traveled over most of Europe by August first and
and the opportunities for trade with that prosper-
were in Paris when war broke out. They got to ous country. The imports of musical instruments
London without trouble, but were obliged to aban-
for 1911 totaled $137,532, a tremendous increase
don their baggage. They found no opportunity to over 1910, when the figures only reached $36,109.
sail for home until the "Mauretania" left Liver-
The United States, however, only sent $30,532
pool August 29.
worth of musical instruments to Peru in 1911, while
The Bush & Lane Piano Co. has added to its Germany more than doubled this figure, sending to
sales staff A. J. Warford, formerly of Jackson,
Peru in 1911 musical instruments valued at $75,960.
Tenn., a piano salesman of considerable experi-
John E. Hunt, head of Hunt's Leading Music
ence and ability.
House, the lively music emporium in White
J. B. McCrackin, of the Racine Stool & Scarf
Plains, N. Y., was chairman of the press com-
Co., was the only traveler who divulged his pres-
mittee in connection with the formal opening of
ence to the piano trade this week.
the new "White Way" of the village last week.
Evan Evans has arranged to open a new piano A lengthy parade was one of the features of the
celebration.
store in New Castle, Pa.
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