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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
PIANO TRAVELERS TAKE NOTICE
R0AT CO. OPENS NEW STORE
STEINWAY HOLDINGS INCREASED
Wm. J. Kecley, the Newly Elected President of
the National Piano Travelers' Association,
Will Be in Chicago Next Week
Successor to Emmons Music Co. Opens Hand-
some New Headquarters in Albion, Mich.
Additional Building on Fifty-eighth Street Pur-
chased to Provide Shipping Facilities
ALBION, MICH., July 17.—The formal opening of
the Charles E. Roat Music Co., of 102 Erie
street, East, took place last week. This con-
cern is the successor of the A. M. Emmons
Music Co., and prior to the opening of the
store extensive improvements and alterations
were made, and a representative new line of
pianos, players, Victor Victrolas, band and or-
chestra instruments and sheet music was in-
stalled. The opening was attended by throngs
of people who were entertained by an inter-
esting program of special music rendered by
FACTORIES JN^TATE BUSY
the Roat orchestra.
Attractive souvenirs of
Activity, Measured by Wages, Considerably the occasion were presented to everyone who
Greater Than for Two Years
attended the opening. The company reports
ALBANY, N. Y., July 17.—Activity in 1,400 fac- that the prospects for future business are very
tories employing 500,000 hands in this State was bright indeed.
greater in June, measured by the amount of
wages paid, than in any month in two years, VASTBINDER PUSHES BALDWIN LINE
according to statistics gathered by the State In- Piano Dealer of Corning, N. Y., Reports Good
dustrial Commission.
Demand for Baldwin Pianos and Players
The total number of employes was only
CORNING, N. Y., July 17.—N. H. Vastbinder, of
slightly less than in April, which holds the
record for the two years. Had it not been for 6 East Pultney street, reports a very great suc-
the strike in the women's clothing industry and cess with the Baldwin line of pianos and players.
minor labor troubles, both the total wages paid
and the total number of employes would have
established a new high record for the month.
The aggregate of the employes was 16 per cent,
greater last month than in June, 1915, and 13
per cent, larger than in June, 1914. As in the
preceding months of last year, the total amount
of wages continues to increase faster than the
total number of employes.
Wm. J. Keeley, the newly-elected president
of the National Piano Travelers' Association,
will be in Chicago next week, and would be
pleased to get in touch with all the Chicago
members of the national association during his
stay there, to discuss the various phases of as-
sociation work and to have a visit generally.
Mr. Keeley will make his headquarters at room
920. North American Building, Chicago, 111.
TO DEVELOP FOREIGN TRADE
Corporation Formed to Increase Trade With
South America—Joseph Coler the Head
For the purpose of developing closer friendly
commercial and political relations between
South America and the United States, a group
of financiers, headed by Joseph Coler, president
of the Fifth Avenue Bond & Mortgage Co., has
organized the Internations Commercial Cor-
poration, and enlisted support by large busi-
ness and banking interests throughout Europe,
the Orient, Australasia and South America.
Senor F. A. Pezet, ex-Minister of Peru to
this country, and one of the vice-presidents of
the corporation, will have charge of the devel-
opment of foreign enterprises, and William
Murray Seaton, of London, another vice-presi-
dent, will be in charge of general merchandise.
Mr. Coler will be president and chairman of
the new corporation. Other vice-presidents will
be elected shortly, and several executive offi-
cers will go immediately to foreign ports.
The export trade of the United States with
foreign countries is increasing daily, and the
organizers believe they have made such ar-
rangements as will insure to it a large propor-
tion of the new trade.
MEMENTO FOR_OLNEY DAVIES
NASHVILLE, TENN., July 17.—Olney Davies, who
recently announced his retirement as vice-presi-
dent and general manager of the O. K. Houck
Music Co., was presented with a handsome dia-
mond Shriner's pin by the staff of the con-
cern as a testimonial of appreciation for his
services to the firm during the past twelve
years. The presentation was made by John
Tanksley, cashier, who expressed the deep es-
teem which overy member of the staff had for
the former manager of the store. The presen-
tation was a complete surprise to Mr. Davies,
who was deeply moved by the staff's action.
N. H. Vastbinder
He has established a reputation throughout this
section of the State, and has built up in the
last two years a very valuable list of cus-
tomers. He also handles the Columbia Graph-
onola line and has had much success with the
HEARING ONJ>TEPHENS BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 17.—The American
Fair Trade League has just issued a complete
resume of the hearing before the Interstate and
Foreign Commerce Committee on the Stephens
bill, which transpired May 30 and 31. At this
hearing Prof. Paul H. Nystrom presented a very
able argument in favor of price maintenance,
and J. Newcomb Blackman, president of the
Blackman Talking Machine Co., of New York,
followed with some very pertinent facts as to
the benefit which the consumer would derive
from the passage of the bill. Both speeches have
appeared in previous issues of The Review.
JOSEPH 0KTAVEC_AT PLATTSBURG
Joseph Oktavec, president of the Laffargue
Co., is at Plattsburg, N. Y., where he recently
joined the Business Men's Military Camp. He
expects to stay there for a month, learning the
rudiments of soldiering.
Steinway & Sons, who recently purchased the
buildings at 109-113 West Fifty-seventh street
and 114 West Fifty-eighth street, New York,
for the purpose of erecting a new ten-story
building to house their executive and sales of-
fices, have increased their holdings in this sec-
tion by the purchase of the building at 112 West
Fifty-eighth street. The Fifty-seventh street
property has a frontage of sixty-three feet and
the Fifty-eighth street, with this purchase, forty
feet.
This additional building will enable Steinway
& Sons to transact their shipping, delivery, etc.,
on Fifty-eighth street, similar to the arrange-
ment now in existence at Steinway Hall, where
all such matters are handled at the Fifteenth
street entrance, with the Steinway Hall head-
quarters on Fourteenth street.
MUSICAL IMPORTS FOR BRAZIL
Some Interesting Statistics Showing the Value
of Musical Instruments Imported During 1913
and 1915—Decrease Caused by the War
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 17.—The Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce has recently
published some statistics showing the imports
of musical instruments into Brazil for the years
1913 and 1915, in order to show the effect of the
war on this particular line of merchandise. In
1913 pianos to the value of $634,898 were im-
ported into the country, the imports for 1915
amounting to only $69,133. In 1913, the United
States supplied $89,133 worth of pianos, France
contributed $75,641, while Germany sent $439,481.
In 1915, one year after war had been declared,
the supply from Germany amounted to only
$15,687, the French exporting but $10,951, while
the United States sent $32,960 worth into Brazil.
The total value of talking machines and acces-
sories imported by Brazil in 1913 amounted to
$149,414, of which $95,043 came from Germany,
and $45,010 came from the United States. The
1915 imports fell off to $15,884, of which $8,947
came from the United States, while only 4,513
came from Germany. While these figures show
material decrease in the tota,l amount of im-
ported goods, they also show that the per-
centage of goods supplied by the United States
was materially increased in proportion to the
said total.
MARR & COLTON TO ENLARGE
WARSAW, N. Y., July 17.—Plans for a new
building for the Marr & Colton Organ Co.
have been completed, the present factory being
too cramped to give the concern the needed
facilities for the manufacture of motion picture
players and orchestral organs. Sales Manager
Rice reports many sales of instruments to mo-
tion picture theatres in this territory recently.
SHEARER PIANO CO. OUTING
The first annual outing of the Shearer Piano
Co., 137th street and Park avenue, New York,
will be held on Saturday, August 5, at Talla-
poosa Inn, Pelham Bay Park. There will be
a baseball game, tug of war and races of various
descriptions. The tickets also call for a dinner,
lunch and wet goods.
INCORPORATED
A certificate of incorporation was issued this
DEATH OF ARTHUR BAINT0N
week to Dehle Kerr & Co., of Niagara Falls,
Arthur Bainton, a dealer in musical • instru- manufacturers of pianos, organs and musical
ments, passed away at his home in Providence, instruments. The capitalization of the concern
R. I., last week, aged seventy-five years. He is is $25,000, the incorporators being M. E. and
Otto T. Dehle, and R. W. Kerr.
survived by a widow and six children.
WINTER & CO.
220 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD, NEW YORK
Manufacturers of
Superior Pianos
and Player Pianos