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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
11
WM. TONK & BRO.'S HANDSOME FACTORY WAREROOMS
Tastefully
Decorated in a Color Scheme of Red and Gold—The Lighting
System Is Most Effective for Displaying Instruments.
One of the most attractive factory warerooms in
this city is that in the piano factory of Wm. Tonk
& Bro., Inc., on Tenth avenue, between Thirty-fifth
and Thirty-sixth streets. New York.
by
the
Indirect
IN OPTIMISTIC MOOD.
A. H. Kayton, President of the Milton Piano
Co., Who Returns from Canadian Trip, Sees
Good Times
Ahead—Increased Call
for
Player-Pianos Throughout the Country.
hung at the windows, and the lighting is done by
means of the indirect system, new indirect drop
lights having been installed recently.
One of the optimistic members of the trade is
A complete line of Tonk grand, upright and A. H. Kayton, president of the Milton Piano Co.,
who returned last week from a trip to Canada.
He is of the opinion that conditions, no matter
how they may be temporarily interrupted, are
sound, and that a good fall business is in store
for those who seek it earnestly and handle the
right goods at the right prices. He reports tho
business of the Milton Piano Co. as steadily ex-
panding, with an increased demand for player-
pianos.
J. W. CHAMBERLAIN IMPROVING.
J. W. Chamberlain, the well-known piano man
of Geneva, N. Y., who was operated on recently
for blood poisoning in the local hospital, is im-
proving slowly. His many friends in the trade are
hoping that he will be able to leave the hospital in
a couple of weeks.
TWENTY=FIFTHj\NNUAL PICNIC.
The Foster-Armstrong Division of the Ameri-
can Piano Co., East Rochester, N. Y., will hold
its twenty-fifth annual picnic at Island Cottage on
August 15.
View of the Warerooms of Wm. Tonk & Bro., Inc.
The interior of the wareroom is shown in the ac-
companytng illustration. The ceiling is very hand-
somely frescoed and decorated with designs
symbolic of music, the color scheme of the walls
being red and gold. Heavy maroon curtains are
player-pianos is shown, also the benches and music
cabinets which are handled by this house.
The wareroom makes a most attractive setting
for the type of high-class instruments which are
manufactured by Wm. Tonk & Bro.
THE J. L. HUDSONJtf. EXPOSITION
tion, but which they have not looked over simply
because they did not know exactly where to go in
Detroit to see them, and had postponed looking
them up. It undoubtedly will result in a good
many piano sales, as well as of other things. In
fact, we have made some sales already, and the
exposition is only three days old.
"I think it ought to be tried in other cities, such
as Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis,
Cleveland and others where department stores in-
clude big piano departments."
The Victor talking machines have a place in the
exposition, a show window being devoted to them.
Of Nationally Advertised Goods Is Attracting
Considerable Attention—Exhibits of Ange-
lus, Chickering and Apollo Instruments.
(Special to The Review.)
DETROIT. MICH., July 28.—"Our exposition ol na-
tionally advertised goods has started a good many
piano deals, two or three of which were closed
in short order," said E. P. Andrew, manager of
the piano department of the J. L. Hudson Co.
"As we expected, the announcement of the exposi-
tion as a whole has brought thousands of people
to the store to see everything we have. Our quar-
ter of a hundred show windows all have unusual
exhibits, which attract people in. The deals we
have made, and those we have under way, all are
on high class goods, too."
One of the windows devoted to pianos has the
Angelus exhibit this week. Next week the Chick-
ering exhibit will replace it. The Chickering ex-
hibit was a bit late in arriving. One of .its most
interesting features is a harpsichord. It attracts
a tremendous lot of attention. The first piano
made by Jonas Chickering also is in the Chickering
collection.
Charles E. Howe, of the Melville Clark Piano
Co., is here in charge of the Apollo exhibit. "It's
a grand idea, as well as a new idea," he told The
Review. "We have had people in here looking
over the Apollo who never knew there was such
a thing on earth as hand-played rolls or electric
automatics. People of means, who can buy them,
too. They come because there are interesting things
of all sorts to see ; things that they have read about
for years in the publications of national circula-
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TRADE COMMISSION BILL AMENDED.
Again Our August Senators Try Their
at Regulating Business.
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( Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 27.—An amendment
to the Trade Commission Bill, to meet the objec-
tions urged by Republican Senators, was introduced
to-day by Senator Potnerene, Democrat.
It would empower corporations found by the
commission guilty of unfair competition the right
to court review.
Senator Nelson, Republican, in an amendment
would limit the law to, corporations having capital
stock of more than $1,000,000.
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A new corporation bearing the title, Baldwin
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S. A. Toomey, head tuner for the Starr Piano
Co. in Cleveland, O., and its agent in Willoughby,
is a great booster for the Starr piano, and at-
tracts attention to the instrument by placing an
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one of the principal highways. He sells quite a
number of instruments in his locality.
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