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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SAN FRANCISCO DEALERS PROMOTING PUBLIC FUNCTIONS
ANNUAL KINDLER & COLLINS OUTING
Taking Much Interest in Various Civic Organizations—Rumored Strike Influences Business—
Frank Weems Aids Police—New Headquarters for Fotoplayer Completed—Other News
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., September 2.—While San break-neck speed until the robber jumped from
Francisco was not disposed to believe that the his machine and made for a park, where he was
threatened railroad strike would really take captured later. Mr. Weems was then allowed
place, local dealers found that the piano buy- to finish his journey in peace.
Visit Sherman, Clay & Co. Branches
ing public was quite generally postponing its
Mr. De Hart and C. Arthur Longwell, of
purchases until after the strike danger was
over. Salesmen found that it became very the Aeolian Co., have just completed a three
hard to bring prospects to the actual buying weeks' trip of the Coast in which they visited
point; and the sticking point was usually the all the branch houses of Sherman, Clay & Co.,
danger of a strike and the unsettling of all Coast representatives of the Aeolian Co.'s
lines. Mr. De Hart has since left for the
lines of business.
East; but Mr. Longwell is still here.
Public Spirited Piano Men
Messrs. Clay and McCarthy After Deer
Between various public and semi-public
functions, a few extra vacation jaunts and two
P. T. Clay and A. G. McCarthy, of Sherman,
holidays booked for next week, piano dealers Clay & Co., arc preparing to steal away into
are not giving the same zealous attention to the country for a few days next week. They
business that is their habit. It begins to look will visit the ranch of Leon F. Douglass, of
as though the piano dealers are the most pub- the Victor Talking Machine Co., in Marin
lic spirited business men in town. Fred R. County, Cal., where last year Mr. Clay was
Sherman, of Sherman, Clay & Co., and George fortunate enough to bring down a fine deer.
Q. Chase, of Kohler & Chase, are giving a gen- He hopes that both he and Mr. McCarthy may
erous share of their time to the promotion have a like success.
campaign of the Chamber of Commerce. Byron
Give Up Music Roll Library
Mauzy is at the head of the Down Town As-
The Bartlett Music Co., of Los Angeles, has
sociation, which is to pull off the "Path of given up the music roll library idea, and will
Gold" carnival late in September; and Phil T. hereafter carry its rolls on a straight sale
Clay, of Sherman, Clay & Co., owing to his basis. The demand for rolls shows signs of
successful promotion of the Portola festival of improvement as the season advances.
some years ago, has been pressed into the work
To Hold Piano Sale in Arizona
of managing the event.
C. S. Crawford, of the Zellner Piano Co., of
Heavy Demand for Fotoplayers
Los Angeles, has gone to Bisbee, Ariz., to
Local Manager Barron, of the American conduct a sale which the company will hold
Photo Player Sales Co., reports a mighty nice there during the next week or two. The com-
business in the American Fotoplayer. The new pany is closing out the stock of the Southwest
movie demonstration room is crowded all day Piano Co. Arizona is reported in good condi-
long with moving picture men who come from tion owing to the mining boom that has re-
all parts of the State and Coast to see the big sulted from the European war; and if this sale
instrument in actual action at a moving picture turns out well other towns may be visited.
show. The company is still putting the finish
Mr. Wilkinson, traveling representative of the
on some of the rooms at the new establishment, Bush & Lane Piano Co., spent the latter part
but in the main the place has about reached of August in southern Oregon. While at
completion.
General Manager Werner will Baker City he placed the Bush & Lane agency
have one of the finest offices in town. A. L. with Leroy Tibbals, of Tibbals Piano House
Abrams, of the company, left for the East of Baker City.
Monday on an extended trip to visit various
The Logan Music Co., of Twin Falls, Idaho,
branches and agencies.
has moved into new quarters in that town.
Frank Weems Has Exciting Trip
H. S. Gutermute, a well known dealer of
Frank Weems, the well known player-piano Petoluma, Cal., has opened a branch store at
salesman and demonstrator, had a rapid and Ukiah, Cal., with E. J. Carson in charge. He
exciting finish to a commonplace jitney ride has bought out the Ukiah store of the Eilers
Wednesday afternoon. With two others he Music House and will consolidate the stock with
happened to be in a jitney bus out in the his own.
Mission district when a bold highway-
To Represent J. & C. Fischer
man robbed the Mission branch of the
E. C. Wood, formerly local manager for tho
Anglo-California Dank of all the gold he could Baldwin Co., and more recently in charge of
carry. A few revolver shots told Mr. Weems the Northwestern wholesale business of Kohler
that something was up; and a moment later a & Chase, but who recently connected himself
policeman jumped aboard the jitney with or- with the American Photo-Player Sales Co., of
ders to the driver to set off in pursuit of the this city, will also look after the Coast inter-
robber, who had also boarded an automobile. ests of J. & C. Fischer. He will cover a vast
The two machines tore through the streets at territory, including twelve Western States. His
office in this city will be with the American
Photo-Player Sales Co. in the Film Exchange
Building.
Personal Items of Interest
Fred R. Sherman, of Sherman, Clay & Co.,
got back to San Francisco from his Kings River
Canyon trip just in time to escape the only se-
vere electrical storm that California has had in
a generation.
"Music as Actually Played"
George J. Jackson, of the American Piano
Co., reports a fair amount of stock on hand,
record rolls repre-
but has several cars of special stuff on the road
sent a true, scientific re-
which he would not like to have held up by a
production of piano playing
strike.
as performed by e m i n e n t
Ernest Urchs, of Steinway & Sons, has re-
artists. Made with a respect to
turned to New York after a stay of several
weeks here and in other parts of California.
the ideals of past and present
Manager Groskopf, of the Eilers Music-
composers. Artempo rolls sell
House, has completed a tour of the company's
on a merit basis only.
California branches, and is now laying plans
Your proof is in our sample
for the fall business in this city. Arrange-
box at $2.00. Ask for it today.
ments have been completed for the holding
of a series of recitals in Eilers Hall, where a
BENNETT & WHITE, Inc.
$20,000 Johnson pipe organ has now been in-
67-71 Gobel St., NEWARK, N. J.
stalled.
Employes of Piano House Spend Day on Deep
Sea Fishing Trip and Get Results
Arfrmjro
Record Rolls
The annual outing of the employes of Kind-
ler & Collins, Inc., this year took the form of
a fishing trip and an excursion held last Sat-
urday. The employes and their friends to the
number of sixty or more gathered at the Bat-
tery shortly before 8 o'clock and set sail on the
"Casanova" for the Deep Sea Fishing Banks.
It turned out to be an ideal day at sea, and the
excursionists returned with some fluke and sea
bass, many fish stories and all the other de-
tails that go to make a successful fishing trip
among friends. Those in charge of the outing
were G. Coldewey, captain; F. Miller, mate,
and John Henning, secretary and treasurer.
STILL IN THEJMANO BUSINESS
R. W. Bridge, formerly a member of the old
firm of S. M. Bridge & Son, Oshkosh, Wis.,
which was in the piano business in that city for
thirty years until the death of the founder of
the business, S. M. Bridge, last year, is still
in the piano business, and is handling pianos
in a small way from his home.
Henry H. Baer, formerly in charge of the
music department of Stcinhauser & Eaton, at
Watsonville, Cal., has abandoned the music
business for the automobile trade.
This is a micro-photo-
graph showing a longitu-
dinal section of
No. 18 Perfected
Piano Wire
after the following test:
Placed under a constant, uniform ten-
sion of 165 lb. for a period of eight
months; vibrated at frequent inter-
vals by means of electro magnet and
felt hammer; energy applied equal to
that required for about six years ordi-
nary use in a player-piano.
RESULT
Tensile strength increase—500 lb.
per sq. in.
Elongation decrease .1% in 10 in.
Amplitude of Vibration increased
1%. -
The micro-structure shows that
no abnormal conditions were
developed.
American Steel & Wire Company
Chicago, New York, Worcester, Cleveland, Pitts-
burgh, Denver. Export representative: U. S. Steel
Products Co., New York, Pacific Coast representa-
tive: U. S. Steel Products Co., San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Portland, Seattle.