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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
11
BALTIMORE DEALERS WELL PLEASED WITH CONDITIONS
Business Is Good, and Collections Are Better Than Ever—Stieff Branches Report Excellent Trade
—Knabe Doing Big Suburban Business—Trade Mourns Passing of G. W. Nichols
of the business. Mr. Noon, who is also man-
BALTIMORE, MD., July 3.—Piano dealers of Balti-
more are now realizing on their optimism, for ager for the music department of Hecht Bros.
business conditions for the past week proved & Co., reports that his assistant, John Slock-
to be very satisfactory with most of them. Of bauer, is doing a fine piano business at that
course, the volume of business being done is store.
not literally walking into the stores and "buy-
Joseph M. Mann, of the Mann Piano Co.,
ing," but firms are doing business because they Cable Company representatives, reports business
are out and getting it.
and collections both as holding up well through-
One dealer summed up the situation very out June.
clearly when he said that the man who for a
Piano business is reported fair with Cohen &
long time had only made a small salary and Hughes. I. Son Cohen, of the firm, is spending
could not afford pianos or diamonds, is now a few days at Atlantic City, and will not return
buying them, while the people of wealth are until after the Fourth.
watching their money closer.
The Maryland Piano Co., Inc., which opened
Everywhere collections are reported to be for business a few weeks ago, reports trading
holding up better than any of the dealers very satisfactory. Rox Powers, manager of the
thought possible. Usually at this time of the store, is ill suffering from "poison oak," and
year they are a little off, but reports up to the Ambrose J. Lingler is in charge.
past week show them to be better than any of
Eddie Rosenstein, for the National Piano Co.,
the forecasters believed possible.
reports good piano business. Sol Rosenstein,
S. P. Walker, general manager for Charles for the Rosenstein Piano Co., reports better
M. Stieff, Inc., reports another big week's busi- trading in pianos and players than in talking
ness by the sixteen Stieff branches throughout machines.
the country. Mr. Walker says that the past
Mr. Hammann, of Hammann-Levin, reports
week even eclipsed the previous week, which business picking up very good. Mr. Hammann
was a record one, and he believes that business suffered the loss of his mother during the past
is now here to stay. R. E. Smith, manager of week.
the Lynchburg, Va., store for Stieff, stopped in
I. C. Rosenstein, of the Hub Piano Co., Smith
at headquarters to-day on his way to Atlantic. & Barnes and Milton representatives, says busi-
City to spend the Fourth. Mr. Smith says ness is satisfactory.
business is fine, and he looks for it to continue.
J G. Schnepfe, general auditor of the com- PIANO MEN SHOWJ>ATRIOT1C SPIRIT
pany, visited Hagerstown during the week, and
is much pleased with the firm's new headquar- Keboch & Meyers, Allentown, Pa., Supply Piano
Without Charge for Use at Camp of the
ters there. Frederick P. Stieff, Jr., left to-day
United States Ambulance Corps
on a trip that will include besides Chicago, Cin-
cinnati and Louisville, many of the Western
ALLENTOWN, PA., July 2.—When a delegation
cities.
of recruits from Section 70 of the U. S. Ambu-
B. L. Anderson, manager for William Knabe lance Corps went to Keboch & Meyers, music
& Co., reports business holding its own and a dealers at 103 North Sixth street, to pur-
continuance of the fine business being done in chase a piano for use at the camp the members
the country district of Virginia. R. K. Payn- of the firm refused to accept the money but
ter, vice-president of William Knabe & Co., is offered them the use of the $150 piano which
expected to spend several days in Baltimore they had selected while they remain in camp
during the present week.
here.
Deep regret is felt throughout piano trade
Placing the piano on one of the Government's
circles here generally over the recent death of big trucks the happy crowd paraded through the
G. Wright Nicols, who died at his home here streets. One of their number played popular
from heart trouble, as reported in The Review airs while the other members sang.
of June 23. Mr. Nicols was at one time presi-
The piano house was highly commended for
dent of Sanders & Stayman, from which office the patriotic spirit it displayed in providing en-
he retired in 1913. In addition to his activity tertainment for the recruits and the resultant
in the piano trade, he was an accomplished publicity was of the sort that pays dividends.
musician himself and numbered among his
friends many of the great musicians of the
TAKING WELL DESERVED VACATION
world. He was also a golf enthusiast, and on
the Saturday preceding his death he won a S. B. Mambert, Vice-President, Thos. A. Edson,
match at the Baltimore Country Club, playing
Inc., Enjoying Trip Through New England
against a field of fifty entries.
S. B. Mambert, vice-president and financial
He is survived by a widow and two brothers.
The funeral was held from St. Michael and All executive of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., started
Angels' Church, and the interment was in Druid on his vacation a few days ago, the first in five
years. It will take him away from his desk
Ridge Cemetery.
June proved to be a much better month for as long as he thinks it will be necessary to get
the music department of The Hub, according to completely rested, said Mr. Mambert. That
C. B. Noon, manager, than he anticipated. Mr. is the way he put it last week in an inter-
Noon has practically recovered from his illness view which he gave while busily engaged clear-
and is now able to look after all of the details ing up matters that needed personal attention.
Two years ago Mr. Mambert had planned to
take a vacation, but the heavy work before him
kept him at the plant. Last summer he found
he could not spare the time.
Mr. Mambert is spending his vacation on a
leisurely auto trip through New England, ac-
companied by Mrs. Mambert, rambling as fancy
dictates and spending a few days here and there
when the surroundings prove inviting.
Awarded first prize in many world compe-
titions during the past sixty years, the
Schomacker Piano is now daily receiving
first prizes of preference won by its superb
tone, wonderful breadth of expression and
structural beauty.
SCHOMACKER PIANO CO.
23d and Chestnut Sts.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
ARTEMPO TRAVELER A=FISHING
F. R. Hopkins, salesman for Bennett & White,
Inc., Newark, N. J., left on a fishing trip to
Canada. He will leave Buffalo in a motor boat
and will go through the St. Lawrence River.
Mr. Hopkins is a popular traveler for Artempo
record rolls through Pennsylvania, Ohio ana
New York.
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PROOF
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OPERATORS
PIANO CO.
Louis M. Severson, Pres.
Clybourn Ave. and Osgood Street
CHICAGO, ILL.