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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
REDUCTION IN FREIGHT RATES.
HOBBIE BROS. CO. INCORPORATED.
Old Rate of $2.00 Per Hundred Pounds to Pa-
c fie Coast Restored—Shipments Can Be
Mixed—Rates on Music Rolls Also Reduced.
To Start in Business in Roanoke on September
10, with Capital Stock of $20,000—The Of-
ficers Elected—Prominent Stockholders.
E. A. Leveille, freight traffic manager of the Na-
tional Piano Manufacturers' Association, with head-
quarters in Chicago, has sent out the following let-
ter to the members:
"As you are doubtless aware, the commodity
rate on pianos, crated, to Pacific Coast points was
increased November 15, 1914, from $2 to $2.50 per
hundred pounds, subject to 12,000 pounds minimum.
"[ take pleasure in advising that the old rate of
$2 per 100 pounds has been restored, to become
effective October 18, 1915, following which date
pianos may be shipped in carloads, crated according
to the classification rules, at $2 per 100 pounds, the
same as the rate that prior to November 15 last had
been in force for the past eight or ten years.
"Furthermore, the privilege of including stools,
benches and boxed pianos with crated pianos at the
$2 rate is restored. At present stools, benches and
boxed pianos shipped in mixed carloads with crated
pianos are chargeable at the L. C. L. rate. Corre-
sponding reductions are noted to interior and in-
termediate territory.
"The rates on perforated music rolls, boxed, are
also reduced, effective October 18, 1915, to $-3 less
than carloads and $1.50 carloads, subject to a mini-
mum weight of 30,000 pounds. The present rate on
music rolls from Chicago is $3.40 and from New
York $3.70, either carloads or less.
"Respectfully,
E. A. LEVEILLE."
FIRM CHANGE IN LEBANON.
(Special to The Review.)
LEBANON, PA., September 7.—The Miller Organ
& Piano Co., of this city, has announced its retire-
ment from the retail business, the Miller music
store on Cumberland street having been sold to the
Miller Music Co., consisting of Grant L. Miller and
his sister, Mrs. Clyde J. Saylor, the wife of a local
physician. Mr. Miller, who has been general man-
ager of the store since it was established, will con-
tinue in that capacky, and there will be no change
in the policy of the store. The office of the Miller
Organ & Piano Co. has bem removed to the fac-
tory.
MINNESOTA FAIR DRAWS CROWDS.
Several Piano Houses Have Displays at State
Fair and Secure Excellent Results—Frank
O. Moren to Retire from Piano Trade.
(Special to The Review.)
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, MINN., September
THE LEADING LINE
YORK PIANOS
LIVINGSTON PIANOS
J. M. Watts will shortly open a piano store in
Pontotoc, Miss., in conjunction with his general
merchandise business.
If your competitor does not already have this
line, go after it at once.
Weaver Organ & Piano Go.
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(Special to The Review.)
ROANOKE, VA V September 7.—Hobbie Bros. Co.,
Inc., a new firm recently formed in this city to con-
duct a piano and player business, was granted a
charter on Friday by the State Corporation Commis-
sion. The new concern lias a capital stock of $20,000.
It expects to open its doors for business at 9 Church
avenue on or about September 10. The officers
are: J. Dexter Hobbie, Jr., president; William N.
Hobbie, secretary, and T. Duncan llobart, treasurer.
The firm will be exclusive agent for Chiekering,
Packard and Marshall & Wendell pianos.
J. Dexter Hobbie, Jr., the president, is a piano
man of wide experience, having been in the busi-
ness the past ten years, during which time he has
served as salesman and sales manager. He is a
graduate of the Roanoke High School and an
alumnus of Washington and Lee University. W.
X. Hobbie is an alumnus of the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, and Iras had four years' experience in the
business. He and Dexter Hobbie are well known
in this section of the State as business men of effi-
ciency.
The stockholders in the new company represent
some of Roanoke's leading business and profes-
sional men. Among them are E. R. Johnson, R. H.
Angell, D. D. Hull, Jr., James P. Woods, G. G.
Gooch, W. W. Boxley, David W. Flickwir and
George W. Chaney.
13.—Piano dealers in Minneapolis and St. Paul are
so busy that they have no time for gossip. Be-
tween sales they talk crops, the State Fair crowds,
and possibly the Speedway race, which has caused
the Twin Cities to boil over with surplus people.
It is many years since the downtown sections and
the hotels harbored more visitors. There is soin'
business in the crowd as well.
The displays at the Minnesota Fair, which is ex-
IN CHARGE OF MARYSVILLE STORE. pected to draw a half million people, will be limited
to those of the Cable and Kimball companies, both
Th,? Ellas Marx Music Co. is stocking up its of which have booths with a complete line of their
Marysville, Cal., store with a very complete line of special lines. Emphasis is placed on the player-
pianos, player-pianos and Edison diamond disc piano, particularly by the Cable Company, with its
phonographs. This store will be under the man- new and marvelous Carola instruments, which have
agement of J. A. Marx and J. L. Francis, who it is been much admired.
expected will make an excellent record.
It is something of a mysteiy why more dealers
do not exhibit at the fair. While it is possible
INCORPORATED.
that the number of actual sales may not compensate
The Douglas Music Co., Douglas, Ariz., has for the work, worry and expense, there ought to be
been incorporated with a capital stock of $20,000 an advertising value in the display alone as a sale
and has taken over the business of the music store proposition. But it's none df our duty to advise old
located at 533 Eleventh street, that city. Ralph II. tradesmen on how to advertise their wares.
Caughlan is the manager.
Frank O. Moren, long a partner in the Brooks-
Evans Piano Co., will retire about November 1. A
general sale, largely for the clearance of second-
hand and shopworn instruments, started Monday
and will continue for several weeks. It is under-
stood that Mr. Moren will not engage in the piano
trade, but will devote himself to his tailor business.
WEAVER PIANOS
Elmer A. Brooks, manager of the company, took a
Grands, Uprights
Hying trip through southern Minnesota last week
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and sold some Everett pianos while the home staff
was selling a number.
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