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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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seems to be that it will soon make money more
plentiful locally.
War Conditions in Europe Have Little Effect on Business Men—Farmers- Feel Prosperous-
Music Roll Concern Adds Departments.
Travelers Getting Orders—Excellent Reports from Branch Store in the Interior.
The Pacific Music Roll Co., which was recently
incorporated in San Francisco, now has a large
(Special to The Review.)
Several Recent Fires.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., August 13.—According to
Several small fires are reported in the California stock of rolls on hand. The company has added
the talk in most of the piano stores the close of the trade this week. The most serious was that in the departments for talking machines and records and
for sheet music. The company is making deliveries
vacation season is having its regular effect in in- roll factory of G. C. Lederer at Los Angeles,
free by parcel post to outside points.
creasing sales. The interest in European affairs still where the loss is reported at upwards of $5,000.
holds public attention, though piano buying is going J. J. Falkenstein, of Fresno, was also a lofeer by
on more freely than last week. The wholesale de- fire, but the damage is not thought to have been D. Z. PHILLIPS "SEEING NEW YORK."
partments are a little interested to know just what very heavy.
Denver Piano Man Very Optimistic Regarding
effect the holding up of shipping will have on the
the Business Outlook in the West—Linde-
W. B. Ragland, manager of Kohler & Chase, has
country trade. So far as prospects are concerned returned from his summer vacation and is now
man & Sons Travelers Ready for the Fray.
the war has made the farmers all feel more pros- busy with plans for fall.
perous, as higher prices for grain, fruit, cattle,
E. P. Tucker, Los Angeles manager for the . D. Z. Phillips, of the Hext Music Co., Denver.
wool, hops, sugar beets, honey and about every- Wiley B. Allen Co., has been in San Francisco Col., has been touring New York during the past
week in company with Charles Grundy and E. E.
thing that the Pacific Coast produces are con- this week for a short visit at headquarters. He
fidently predicted. The temporary stoppage of
reports that the outlook in the South is for a good Vidaud, of Lindeman & Sons Piano Co., Forty-
fifth street and Eleventh avenue, New York, and
shipping, however, may hold up business to a cer- fall and winter business.
it is safe to say that nothing of importance in this
tain extent while it lasts, though no checking move-
Supplied Music for Elk's Special.
ment in the country piano business has yet been
The Southern California Music Co. supplied a busy metropolis escaped his observation. Mr. Phil-
reported.
player-piano and a big stock of music for the lips is a very optimistic piano man, for in his sec-
Opening for Coin-Operated Instruments.
special train which carried the Los Angeles dele- tion of the country the condition of the crops de-
The action of the San Francisco Board of
gation of Elks to the national convention in Den- termines the business conditions. No crops mean
no. business, while bumper crops, such as Mr.
Supervisors in instructing the police to be a little ver.
Phillips said exist, indicate that the piano business
more lenient in allowing dancing at hotels and
Outlook Good for Behning Line.
cafes has been favorably received by the dealers
Otto Gressing, of the Behning Piano Co., has will be at its best this fall. He left for Pittsburgh
in coin-operated and other automatic pianos and been in San Francisco this week talking over fall last Friday, where Mr. Phillips will visit relatives,
organs. The trade in these instruments has not prospects with Clark Wise & Co. He believes that concluding his journey by going direct to Denver.
Charles Grundy is doping out maps and railroad
been so good in California this summer as was California is in good shape to take a lot of Behn-
schedules, planning his customary fall trip, on
hoped for earlier, the trouble being the more or
ing players this winter.
less repressive legislation of the cities and the
Manager Tibbals, of Tibbals' Piano House, which he will leave shortly. Not that Brother
threatened passage of a State-wide prohibition
Baker City, Ore., has been spending the week at Grundy needs maps for his territory, for he knows
every inch of it, but he likes to maneuvre on them.
amendment to the State constitution. If the Portland, Ore., arranging for fall shipments of
During the absence of L. W. P. Norris, who is
amendment is defeated next November it is held
pianos and talking machines.
that there will be a splendid business in electric
Byron Mauzy has returned from his short out- on his vacation, the general offices of the company
are under the charge o.f E. E. Vidaud.
pianos and orchestrions during the remaining ing at Bohemian Grove, where he attended the
months of the year.
Bohemian Club "Jinks." He reports a very suc-
DEATH O^CHAS. NOON.
Sherman, Clay & Co. Staff Enjoys Outing.
cessful gathering. Mr. Mauzy is congratulating
Sherman, Clay & Co. celebrated the close of
himself on having secured his importations for
C. B. Noon, manager of the piano department
the vacation season and the re-opening of the fall his wholesale small goods department before the of Hahne & Co., Newark, N. J., is receiving the
activity with the annual outing and picnic at
war broke out.
sympathy of his associates in the trade over the
Waldo Point in Marin County. There was a full
Increase in Baldwin Co. Business.
death of his father, Chas. Noon, a prominent busi-
attendance, fine weather, plenty of dancing, boat-
The San Francisco branch of the Baldwin Piano ness man of Hempstead, L. I., who passed away
ing and other diversions. The occasion set a new Co. has made a good start for the early fall trade, recently in his sixty-eighth year.
high grade for these occasions.
there having been a noticeable increase since the
C. A. Longwell Still on the Coast.
first of August. M. P. Thompson, Pacific Coast
C. Arthur Longwell, the Aeolian and Pianola
manager for the Baldwin Co., is now on his way
demonstrator, is still in the San Francisco territory
West from Cincinnati and is expected to reach
visiting the various Sherman, Clay & Co. branches.
this city within a few days.
He will spend the latter half of the month with
Enlarge Piano Department.
the Geo. J. Birkel Co., of Los Angeles, San Diego
E. E. Taylor & Co., of Olympia, Wash., are
and elsewhere in southern California.
enlarging their piano department and are strength-
FALL TRADE BEGINNING TO SHOW ON PACIFIC COAST.
ening their lines considerably. They announce
that they have taken the agency for the Chickering,
the Kimball, Smith & Barnes, Haddorff, Brinker-
hoff and some other lines. They are opening the
fall campaign with a club sale.
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R. Zellner, of the Zellner Piano Co., of Los
Angeles and other points in southern California.
is now making a tour for business and pleasure
through Arizona. He has done some selling at
Douglas, Nogales and elsewhere in that State, and
reports the outlook good for still more later on.
Frank Belles, of Fresno, Cal., is holding a spe-
c ; al sale of goods damaged in the fire of a few
days ago.
T. Cooper is opening a music store at Inde-
pendence, Ore.
The Madera Piano House was opened at
Madera, Cal., on August 1 by B. H. Wood. He
wiU carry the Baldwin lines in that district.
G. Vargas, head salesman for the San Francisco
store of Kohler & Chase, is back at his place after
an illness of about a week, which for a time
threatened to be serious. He reports that he is
now in fine trim for the fall rush of business.
General Business Improvement Noted.
The Wiley B. Allen Co. is receiving good re-
ports from its outside branches, and though there
is no great rush on at any point, there seems to
be a general improvement at practically all points.
There will naturally be a little holding up until
the effects of the war in Europe become apparent,
but nobody seems to feel that the European
trouble can have any permanent adverse effect on
the Pacific Coast trade. In fact, the general idea
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