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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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KOHLER & CAMPBELL NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENTS.
PLANS FOR THE CONVENTIONS.
New Plates Now Ready for Dealers Who Wish to Make Two and Three Column Displays—
Attractively Arranged and Forcefully Worded—Great Aid to the Ambitious Dealer.
1915 Meetings of National Association of Piano
Merchants to Be Held on July 26, 27 and 28
in San Francisco—Golf Tournament on July
23J24—Talking " Machine Jobbers Also to
Meet at Same Time in Exposition City, s
The advertising department of Kohler & Camp-
bell, Inc., Fiftieth street and Eleventh avenue,
New York, has prepared a most comprehensive
series of newspaper advertisements for the use
of those dealers who handle the Kohler & Camp-
bell pianos and player-pianos throughout the
trations of an Alaskan mining camp and then at
the bottom a scene in the tropics tells of the wide
distribution of these instruments. Still another
shows the different phases of amusement which
the Kohler & Campbell may afford in the home.
In a folder sample booklet which the concern
KOHLER &
CAMPBELL
Newspaper
Advertisements
The convention of the National Association of
Piano Merchants in 1915 will, according to official
announcements, be held later in the year than any
previous convention in the history of the associa-
tion, owing to the fact that a majority of the of-
ficials and members of the association have de-
clared their inability to make the trip until late in
July.
The dates set for the convention are July 26,
27 and 28 and, as has been the custom, the tourna-
ment of the Piano Trade Golf Association will be
held on the links at Del Monte, Cal., on the two
days previous to the piano men's convention, July
23 and %l.
It is probable that special trains from New
York, Boston and other Eastern cities and from
Chicago will be arranged for to carry the piano
men to the meetings.
The fact that the National Association of Talk-
ing Machine Jobbers will hold their annual con-
vention in San Francisco at approximately the
same time as the piano men adds interest .to the
event, for many of the jobbers are also piano
merchants.
TO DRUM UPJTRADE FOR U. S .
Commercial
How Kohler & Campbell Aid the Dealer in His Publicity.
country. They are displayed in the form of
double and triple column advertisements. There
is also a series of smaller cuts to be used in single
column publicity. One triple column advertise-
ment treats on the Kohler & Campbell pianos in
conservatories and schools. Another shows illus-
has issued there are twenty of these attractively
designed ads shown, together with cuts of the
different styles of pianos for single and double
column. Something of the style and scope of these
attractive advertisements are shown in the ac-
companying illustration.
Attaches Named fey
of Commerce Redfield.
Secretary
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C , September 29.—The De-
partment of Commerce has announced the per-
sonnel of the corps of commercial attaches pro-
vided for by Congress to nelp drum up business
for the United States and to keep our commercial
interests in touch with all parts of the world.
These are the attaches selected by Secretary
Redfield: A. J. Harrington, of Ohio, for Lima,
Peru; A. H. Baldwin, ex-chief of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, for London;
Dr. Albert Hale, of the Pan-American Union, for
Argentina; Edwin W. Thompson, of North Caro-
lina, for Berlin; J. H. Arnold, at present consul-
general at Hankow, for China; Prof. Lincoln
Hutchinson, of the University of California, for
Rio de Janeiro; C. W. Veditz, of Pennsylvania,
for Paris.
It was stated in the petition that the Farrand
Co. had $250,000 in notes outstanding in the South,
Court Authorizes Original Plan for Liquidating
three-quarters of which are in the rural districts,
Accounts in South in Order to Reduce Col-
and half of which were given by negroes, for
lection Costs—Many Instruments Sold to
pianos and organs of the cheaper grades. The
Negroes Who Have Proven Bad Pay.
experience of the receivers s'hows that it costs 51
per cent, to collect these notes. The receivers
(Special to The Review.)
therefore believe that a considerable saving will
DETROIT, MICH., September 28.—A little inside be effected by accepting cotton in payment.
information in regard to Farrand affairs, and the
The court authorized the receivers to accept
sort of financial methods which sent the Farrand bales of cotton at not more than 10 cents a pound
Co. into bankruptcy, came out in a hearing in in payment of the obligations held by them, when
Circuit Court this week. The Detroit Trust Co. the makers of the notes are residents of the rural
DEATH OF OLIKHME ORGANIST.
entered a petition for permission to take payments districts of the Southern States. The receivers
of outstanding debts of the company in the South are to hold the cotton until it can be sold for cash,
August E. Scharffenberger, organist of St. Peter's
in cotton. Incidentally, it was learned that it was and are authorized to use enough of their funds Roman Catholic Church, in Newark, N. J., for
Joseph A. Bower, vice-president of the Detroit to pay storage until a market is found.
upward of forty years, died recently at his home,
Trust, who is in charge of the Farrand receiver-
Piano men here are commenting upon the reve- 183 Belmont avenue. He was born in Brooklyn
ship, who originated the "Buy-a-Bale-of-Cotton" lation in regard to the class of business which the fifty-eight years ago. Mr. Scharffenberger was at
slogan which is being used to aid the Southern Farrand Co. engaged in. in the South, especially one time director of the American Singing Society.
planters, who have been deprived of their market the fact that more than half the sale price of a
He was also an instructor in music. He is sur-
through the European war. He suggested it when piano must be expended in collecting the total.
vived
in New York not long ago. It soon spread
C. E. Motter is a new piano dealer in Watson-
The Wicks Piano Co. has opened a branch store
throughout the country, and people forgot who
in Perry, la.
town. Pa.
was the originator.
COTTON TAKEN FOR^FARRAND DEBTS
AND
THE "WIDNEY"
NOW!
Patent Mouseproof Pedals
Steel Tails and Mountings—Solid Brass Fronts
The OLD Way
GUARANTEED UNBREAKABLE
Holes Look Bad
The NEW Way
WIDNEY & WIDNEY
Slots DON'T Show
5 So. Wabash Ave.
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