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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
KEEN AFTER FRAUDULENT ADVERTISING IN CINCINNATI.
Another Investigation by the Ohio Association of Piano Merchants—Dealers Report Betterment
in Business—Visitors at the Bald-win Plant—Death of John Britting—News of the Week.
(Special to The Review.)
CINCINNATI, O., September 7.—Another case of
alleged fraudulent advertising is about to be in-
vestigated by the Ohio Association of Piano Mer-
chants. The offender i» doing business but a shovt
distance from Cincinnati and from evidence gath-
ered by a responsible merchant of this city there
will be no lack of persons willing to give testimony
of having been the victims of misrepresentation.
The doings of the offender was brought to the
attention of the member of the association solely
through a puncture in an automobile tire. And it
so happened that the bust happened in the town
in question. Several friends of the unfortunate
piano .merchant gathered about the machine, watch-
ing the repair work. Local business conditions were
discussed and during the course of the conversa-
tion the methods of the new piano house in that
city were mentioned. The merchant immediately
became a vigilant and secured a promise from his
friends to reduce in writing what they had stated
verbally. This was agreed to and in the mean-
time the situation has been brought to the attention
of the association.
Bradstreet, in its report covering the Cincin-
nati territory for August, issued Saturday, makes
the claim that there is a gradual betterment in the
tone of business in this part of the country, and
the views of this corporation are also held by the
piano merchants. E. E. Roberts, of the Baldwin
Co., this morning stated that August was decidedly
better than the same month last year and the first
few days of this month were a "crackerjack." Otto
Grau makes the same report. At the John Church
Co. the statement was made Saturday that the
branch houses are reporting increased business and
wholesale orders are showing a gain. Collections,
generally speaking, are not good.
Part of the population of Urbana, O., was in
town Friday and was shown the Baldwin plant,
where lunch was served. This is the first week-
day excursion to be run into Cincinnati in more
than a year and was sort of an experiment.
Wet weather, however, reduced the attendance
more than 50 per cent. If the opposition is not
too great from merchants in the near-by commu-
nities more will be run later in the season. While
at the Baldwin plant the visitors were given sou-
venirs in the shape of small paper weights, with a
background of bronze and a surface plate of sil-
ver, the latter bearing the shield of the House of
Baldwin. These were also given to the ladies
who attended the fire chiefs' convention in this
city during the past week. The Baldwin Co. enter-
tained the ladies in groups.
Tohn Britting, for years engaged in the piano
and organ business at 1125 Walnut street, died at
his home, 140 Mason street, Mt. Auburn, early
Thursday, after a lingering illness. He was sixty-
five years of age. The funeral took place Sat-
urday afternoon, interment being private.
George T. Peters, a dealer of Huntington,
W. Va., was a caller at the John Church Co. Sat-
urday.
Cincinnati friends of Leopold Godowsky,
prominent pianist, were much interested in the re-
port from New York City Saturday, relative to
his having been among the missing since last Wed-
nesday.
Divisional Manager Wells, of Steinway & Sons,
spent Saturday and Sunday at the bedside of his
father at Nashville, Tenn.
Edgar IT. Flagler, Western Coast representative
of the John Church Co., has arrived home for the
wedding of his daughter, Miss Margaret, to How-
ard R. Adae, who has charge of the Buffalo office
of the Proctor & Gamble Co. The event will take
place to-morrow. Mr. Adae is a noted swimmer.
Mr. Flagler reports business quiet on the Pacific
Coast, due to the Exposition, which causes people,
he claims, to be in a continual flutter of excite-
ment.
O. W. Williams, of the Packard Piano Co., was a
caller at the Otto Grau Piano Co. the past week.
Manager De Vine, of the Aeolian Co., arrived
this morning, ending his vacation with a motor trip
from Detroit.
Wholesale Representative Summey, of the Cable
Piano Co., returned Saturday from a satisfactory
trip through West Virginia and the northern part
of Ohio.
GROWING TRADE IN OMAHA.
Burgess-Nash Co. Arranges for More Wareroom
Space—Sells Eight Pianos to School.
(Special to The Review.)
OMAHA, NEB., September 7.—The Burgess-Nash
Co., which handles the Chickering, Haines Bros,
and several other prominent makes of pianos and
players in this city and with great and increasing
success, has found it necessary to remodel a large
section of its warerooms to allow more space for
displaying the instruments necessary to handle its
growing trade. One of the big sales recently
recorded by Edgar S. Beale, manager of the com-
pany, was that of one Chickering grand and seven
Haines Bros, uprights to St. Angela's Institute,
Carroll, la. The cases of the instruments are to
be finished to special order to harmonize with the
interior decoration of the school arid deliveries will
be made in about two months.
BIG PIANO ORDER FOR SCHOOL.
Four Steinways and Two Kohler & Campbells
for Science Hill Academy.
The Louisville, Ky., store of Steinway & Sons,
under the management of A. W. Scheu, recently
landed a most pleasing order for delivering six
pianos, three Steinway uprights, one grand of the
same make and two Kohler & Campbell uprights,
to the Science Hill Academy, a school for girls at
Shelbyville, Ky., one of the oldest institutions of
its kind in the State, and which already has two
Steinway pianos in use. Not the least interesting
part of tlie order was that the payment was in cash.
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