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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
TO GREET SOUTH AMERICANS.
PIANO CLUB MEETING MAY 21.
CANADIANS INDORSE SATIN FINISH.
Representatives of Commercial Organizations
in New York Plan for Entertainment of Dele-
gates from South American Republics Who
Will Attend the Foreign Trade Conference.
Date Set for Special Consideration of Changes
in By-laws Which Will Be Suggested by Com-
mittee Appointed at Annual Meeting.
Toronto Retail Piano Dealers' Association Takes
Favorable Action at Annual Meeting Held
Recently—New Officers Elected.
Plans for the entertainment of the delegates from
the republics of Central and South America to the
Foreign Trade Conference, which is to be held in
Washington during the last week of May, are being
considered iby representatives of various commer-
cial and financial organizations and exchanges in
New York City.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has ap-
pointed a committee to receive, on behalf of the
Treasury Department, the delegates from the
various Central and South American countries as
they arrive in this city, and to extend to them such
courtesies and attent : ons as may be possible during
their stay in New York prior to their departure
for the conference in Washington.
Delegates from the Central and South American
republics have already begun to arrive. The ses-
sions of the conference will be held in the Hall of
the Americas of the Pan-American Union building,
Washington. It is probable that the delegates will
be welcomed on May 24 with speeches by President
Wilson, Secretary Bryan and Secretary McAdoo.
A reception will be held in the Pan-American
building in the evening to permit the delegates to
become acquainted with one another.
After the adjournment of the conference the
delegates will be invited to visit some of the prin-
cipal financial and commercial centers of this coun-
try, and they may possibly be escorted in a special
train to the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San
Francisco.
Several cities have already expressed a desire to
entertain the delegates.
The special meeting of the members of the Piano
Club of New York, which has been called by Presi-
dent L. D. Perry, will be held at the club rooms,
137th street and Third avenue, at 1 o'clock on Fri-
day, May 21.
As stated in The Review last "week, the purpose
of the meeting will be to hear the report of the
comnrttee which was appointed at t'/ie last annual
meeting to revise the constitution and by-laws.
Several suggestions will be made, and it is hoped
that there will be a large attendance, so that as
many members as possible will have a voice in this
important matter.
The committee is composed of H. O. Fox, 1. E.
Bretzfelder and E. B. Bogart.
(Special to The Review.)
TORONTO, ONT., April 26.—At the annual meeting
of the Toronto Retail Piano Dealers' Associat on,
held at the Prince George Hotel recently, the fol-
lowing resolution was unanimously adopted: "Hav-
ing learned that the Canadian Piano and Organ
Manufacturers' Association contemplates making
a special showing at the forthcoming national ex-
hibition at Toronto of instruments exclusively or
largely manufactured in 'satin' finish, this associa-
tion expresses its approval and desires to ask the
piano manufacturers at the forthcoming exhibition
to display only 'satin' finished instruments on their
outside stands, and if any exhibitor feels it desir-
able to have in his exhibit any instruments in pol-
ished cases that these instruments be shown only
in the rooms at the back of the booths." At the
HENRY B. WALTERS IN BANKRUPTCY. annual
meeting referred to officers were elected as
Echo of Stultz Bros. Failure in Petition of
follows: President, H. G. Stanton, of the R. S.
New York Piano Manufacturer.
Williams & Sons Co., Ltd., re-elected; vice-presi-
dent, E. C. Scythes, of the Nordheimer Piano &
Henry B. Walters, a piano manufacturer of 87
Music Co.. Ltd.; secretary, A. A. Beemer, of Mason
Southern Boulevard, New York, has filed a peti-
& Risch, Ltd.; executive committee, the above of-
tion in bankruptcy with liabilities of $14,700 and
ficers and H. H. Mason, of Mason & Risch, Ltd.,
assets of $5,000 in accounts. Among the creditors
and Paul Hahn, of Mason & Hamlin; nominating
are the Matawan Steel & Iron Co., Comstock,
committee, William Lon.g, of the William Long
Cheney & Co., and Valet M. Smith. Most of the
Piano Co.; R. F. Wilks and C. A. Bender, of
liabilities were for the accommodation of Stultz
Heintzman & Co.
Bros, (corporation), piano manufacturers of New
York, against which corporation a petition in
bankruptcy was filed on October 8, 1914.
LOOKING FOR AMERICAN PIANOS.
HUGE INCREASE IN EXPORTS.
(Special to The Review.)
VANCOUVER, B. C, April 26.—William Thompson,
the well-known music dealer of Vancouver, B. C,
Excess Over Imports for Nine Months Was
and who is rated as the most extensive piano mer-
$719,803,737—A Remarkable Showing.
chant in Scotland, has returned to Glasgow. Ac-
TORONTO'S "PIANO_ROW" GROWING.
companied by Mrs. Thompson, who has crossed the
(Special to The Review.)
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 26.—March imports Atlantic many times with Mr. Thompson, and their
TORONTO, ONT., April 26.—On May 1 Frank Stan- were $158,040,216, the Commerce Department an- daughter, he spent some days in Chicago and in
ley, Toronto, removes his retail salesrooms and nounced to-day, against $182,555,304 in 1914. Ex- New York before sailing from the latter city. Mr.
offices from his .building at 14 Temperance street to ports were $299,009,563, a March record.
Thompson investigated American instruments with
the new building at 241 Yonge street, purchased by
For the nine months ending with March imports a view to securing pianos as a substitute for pianos
him last year. With the Nordheimer Piano & were $1,213,671,834; in 1913-14, $1,398,352,578; ex- formerly bought in Germany. While Mr. Thomp-
son has been at his Vancouver home the parent
Music Co., Ltd., moving to its new home and Will- ports, $1,933,475,580, another record.
iam Long moving from Queen street West to his
It was reckoned that the year's export record business in Glasgow has been in the charge of
William Thompson, Jr.
new store, all the downtown music houses will be might reach $2,750,000,000.
on Yonge street, with the exception of Gerhard
March's export excess over imports was $140,-
Heintzman, Ltd., opposite the City Hall on Queen 969,347; nine months' excess, $719,803,737.
Babcock & Kuhnes is the name of a new pi mo
and furniture firm at Rockwell, la.
street.
MELODIGRAND CO. INCORPORATED.
The Melodigrand Co., of New York, has been
incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000 to
engage in the manufacture of musical instruments,
accessories, etc., the incorporators being M.
Schwarz, N. M. Kaplan and H. L. Geller. With
the incorporation of the Melodigrand Co. the
Melodigrand Piano Co., recently incorporated by
the same people, has returned its charter and dis-
solved.
The Holley Bros., of Sioux City, la., have
opened a branch piano store at Sac City, la.
RUDOLF
PIANOS
are conscientiously made,
good instruments; in other
words, the sweetest things out.
RUDOLF PIANO CO.
f S Bart 117th St.
NEW YORK
R. W. LAWRENCE ON COMMITTEE
Appointed by Mayor Mitchel of New York to
Help Entertain Officers of Fleet During Stay
in New York City During Month of May.
Richard W. Lawrence, president of the Auto-
piano Co., Fifty-first street and Twelfth avenue,
New York, has been appointed iby Mayor Mitchel,
of New York, a member of the Citizens' Committee
which will entertain the officers and crews of the
United States Atlantic Fleet, which will arrive in
New York harbor May 8 and remain until May 18.
During that time President Wilson will review the
fleet, and also review the land parade which will be
a feature of the stay of the fleet in this vicinity.
Coincident with the fact that Mr. Lawrence has
been appointed to this committee is the fact that on
many of the warships which will be anchored in the
Hudson River are Autopianos, there now be:ng
considerably over 100 of these instruments on ves-
sels in the United States Navy.
NEW CONCERNJN QUINCY, ILL.
The Brenner-Singer Co. is a new concern
which have started in business in Quincy, 111., and
have a large stock of pianos in their new location
at Fourth and Hampshire streets. J. J. Brenner,
of the company, has for a long time been a piano
dealer, and S. J. Singer was engaged in the furni-
ture business in Quincy.
The Kohler & Chase Piano Co., of San Frnn-
cisco, Cal., has opened a branch store at Baker,
Ore.
The Christman
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